Speaker 1: Welcome to kt r H Garden Line with Skip Ricord.
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Speaker 5: All right, good morning, good morning, and welcome to Garden Line.
Speaker 2: We are ready to go here on the start of
Speaker 2: a new show. You know we're here every Saturday morning
Speaker 2: six am. Obviously you know that you wouldn't be listening.
Speaker 2: Those that don't know that aren't listening. We also here
Speaker 2: tomorrow morning at six am. We go to ten every
Speaker 2: day each day on the weekend, and we're here to
Speaker 2: answer your gardening questions. So if you have any kind
Speaker 2: of a question something we can help you with, help
Speaker 2: you have success, just give us a call seven one
Speaker 2: three two to one two kt r H seven one
Speaker 2: three two one two kt r H. I. I've got
Speaker 2: a number of things that I'd like to cover today,
Speaker 2: things that are seasonal stuff that we need to be
Speaker 2: getting done or we could be getting done out there
Speaker 2: in the landscape and the garden and even some inside
Speaker 2: the house. This has been kind of a wet ish
Speaker 2: off and on and definitely a cold past few days
Speaker 2: that we've had. It's going to be a good week
Speaker 2: coming up. A little bit on the chilly side, but
Speaker 2: basically we got sunshine and which is a good thing.
Speaker 2: I've got some decent highs for the days we can
Speaker 2: get outside and get a few things done. And I
Speaker 2: need my soil to dry out just a little bit,
Speaker 2: because I've got quite a bit that I've caught the storms.
Speaker 2: It seems like they've wherever they rain, they made sure
Speaker 2: and come to my house and did a little of that.
Speaker 2: So it's nice and moist out there. I'm not going
Speaker 2: to complain in that. But at the same time, I've
Speaker 2: got to move a garden fence post. Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 2: I put a patio in and now my entrance to
Speaker 2: the garden is in a different spot, so I have
Speaker 2: to move a fence post, move the gate, and so
Speaker 2: digging in clay soil when it is wet is a challenge.
Speaker 2: You would never want to dig your garden soil when
Speaker 2: it's wet. I'll tell you why in just a moment.
Speaker 2: But when it comes to moving a fence post, it's
Speaker 2: still okay. It's just kind of hard to tamp them
Speaker 2: in and get a nice, good, straight, sturdy post that way,
Speaker 2: So why not move mix or mess with garden soil
Speaker 2: when it's wet, when I dig it rototill, it's spaded well.
Speaker 2: Soil has structure. Structure is the way the little clumps
Speaker 2: of soil grouped together. The reason that a heavy, gooey
Speaker 2: clay is so massive and sticky like that doesn't have
Speaker 2: good oxygen, water doesn't move in it very fast. It
Speaker 2: is because the structure has been destroyed and the type
Speaker 2: of clay just doesn't allow that. So it's kind of
Speaker 2: like modeling clay. If you remember playing with modeling clay
Speaker 2: when you were a kid. That is a clay with
Speaker 2: no structure, no decent structure. As we add organic matter,
Speaker 2: as roots go through it, as organic acids some of
Speaker 2: the we'd always talk about humus and humic acid and
Speaker 2: things like that. That all helps contribute to good structure.
Speaker 2: So it gets looser. It's still a clay, but it's
Speaker 2: more crumbly. So if you take a criminal massive Houston
Speaker 2: black clay, that's the name of the clay along here
Speaker 2: along this part of the Gulf coast, Houston black clay
Speaker 2: the primary clay, and you let it dry out, it's
Speaker 2: like concrete. But if it had good structure to it
Speaker 2: if you'd added compost, and if you had all the
Speaker 2: biological activity doing what microbes and roots and everything else
Speaker 2: is doing. You grab that dry clay and squeeze it
Speaker 2: and it would crumble apart in your hand. And from
Speaker 2: a soil scientists import they call that friable soil. It
Speaker 2: breaks apart in your hand. That's what we're going for.
Speaker 2: And if you have a nice friable clay and you
Speaker 2: mess with it when it's too wet, you're gonna end
Speaker 2: up destroying some of that very important structure that helps
Speaker 2: plants thrive. Plants can thrive in clay, A lot of
Speaker 2: plants can if it drains adequately well, So we don't
Speaker 2: walk on our garden beds. When you're making garden beds,
Speaker 2: make the bed and then you never set a foot
Speaker 2: on it after that. When we were doing beds and
Speaker 2: community gardens and from some school gardens, I always advise
Speaker 2: people don't make that bed any longer that the most
Speaker 2: sixteen feet. That's a long way, because what's going to
Speaker 2: happen as kiddos are gonna be on one side and
Speaker 2: want to get the other side, and how they're going
Speaker 2: to get there. They're going trapes right through the middle
Speaker 2: of that bed. And we don't want to walk on
Speaker 2: our beds, so if you make them short enough, people
Speaker 2: walk around the ends that are trying to jump a anyway,
Speaker 2: don't mess with your soil when it's too wet. So
Speaker 2: whenever the soil is moist is the best time to
Speaker 2: work it. When it's dry, hard to work dry soil.
Speaker 2: It's like concrete, especially clay. But when it's too wet,
Speaker 2: you're destroying structure. So you find that sweet spot. And
Speaker 2: that's why it's important to take advantage of those moments
Speaker 2: when we do have good moderate soil moisture to get
Speaker 2: out there and improve your soil. All right, Well, that
Speaker 2: was a lot of information there about improving soil, but
Speaker 2: that's the important thing. And by the way, when you're
Speaker 2: going to improve your soil, you want to make sure
Speaker 2: and get a quality compost product, not something that's been
Speaker 2: rushed through real fast, not something the composting process, Not
Speaker 2: something that is basically a bunch of chunks of wood.
Speaker 2: You want a well composted, well screened compost mixed for
Speaker 2: the soil. Now, chunks of wood are great for the
Speaker 2: top of the soil. You know, when you look at
Speaker 2: screened compost. When you look at stuff like our shredded
Speaker 2: hardwood composts and other things like that, that's good for
Speaker 2: the top. That's called malch in the soil. We want
Speaker 2: a good quality compost, and you know you can you
Speaker 2: can find that. Somebody asked me the O today, where
Speaker 2: can I get some good composts? And they're a little
Speaker 2: down south of town, and I said, Cianamulchamult is the place.
Speaker 2: They're out there on ear road sharing. It's on FM
Speaker 2: five twenty one. You can go to the website. I
Speaker 2: can give you days and hours and times and places,
Speaker 2: and just go to the website Sienna Maltch dot com,
Speaker 2: CNA malts dot com. When you go there, you get
Speaker 2: a choice, you get to purchase. If you like landscapers
Speaker 2: Pride black velvet, they've got that. If you like products
Speaker 2: from excuse me, airloom soils, they've got those. They have
Speaker 2: their their veggiane herb mix there. If you need to
Speaker 2: add nutrients to the soil fertilizer in other words, from
Speaker 2: nitrophoss or from nelson or azemite for micros or microlife
Speaker 2: or an organic source, they've got all of that there.
Speaker 2: And they have Medina too, by the way, as well,
Speaker 2: so anything you know, you always hear me say brown
Speaker 2: stuff before green stuff. Well, brown stuff is a soil.
Speaker 2: Green stuff is the plants. If you want to go
Speaker 2: to a place where you get anything you need regarding
Speaker 2: brown stuff, regarding making that soil the best it can be,
Speaker 2: so you can have success with that, I would send
Speaker 2: you to see an a mulch down there. They they
Speaker 2: know what they're doing. They have quality stuff. And by
Speaker 2: the way, why are you're done there? You can get
Speaker 2: mulch as well. You can get landscaped stones and rock.
Speaker 2: I mean, it's it's a great place, all right. Well,
Speaker 2: bottom line is take care of the soil. They say,
Speaker 2: make hay while the sun shines. I would say, yeah,
Speaker 2: you also improve your soil while the sunshines. In other words,
Speaker 2: the sun's coming out this week. We may get a
Speaker 2: little soil work done. Time for me to take a break.
Speaker 2: I'll be right back with your questions at seven one
Speaker 2: three two one two ktrhy.
Speaker 5: Good morning, good Saturday morning.
Speaker 2: This is a good morning to be inside listening to
Speaker 2: garden line. That is for sure. We we love being outside.
Speaker 2: And I alwould say, hey, put your phone in your pocket,
Speaker 2: turn upside down, turn the speaker on, get some gardening
Speaker 2: work done while you listen to garden line. I think
Speaker 2: that's a good plan. That's something I do. I love
Speaker 2: to take my phone out with me when I'm when
Speaker 2: I'm out and about working in the garden and things
Speaker 2: like that. Makes it makes it real easy. Well, uh,
Speaker 2: there is a we have, we have some good weather coming,
Speaker 2: but there's always you know, there's always the next freeze
Speaker 2: that we're going to deal with. And I think, oh gosh,
Speaker 2: it was last week or two weeks ago. Even I
Speaker 2: was talking about the fact that East Hardware has so
Speaker 2: many freeze protection products, and so what kinds of things
Speaker 2: am I talking about? What I'm talking about the the
Speaker 2: little clamp on lights where you put them underneath the
Speaker 2: plant that you've covered and it adds a little bit
Speaker 2: of heat under there. Talking about the covers, the various
Speaker 2: kinds of frost blanket, different different things you cover a
Speaker 2: plant with. And they also have those little things you
Speaker 2: screw on to your outdoor faucets that allow for the
Speaker 2: water to trickle out when it gets cold. They don't
Speaker 2: run all the time. You know, what I've always done
Speaker 2: is let my faucet run on a trickle. It's kind
Speaker 2: of hard getting it just right when you do that,
Speaker 2: you know, But when you have those little attachments, it
Speaker 2: doesn't run until it gets cold, and when it starts freezing,
Speaker 2: that's when it starts to trickle out and keep that
Speaker 2: faucet from freezing up. I think it's a great way
Speaker 2: to go, a really cool way to go. They also
Speaker 2: have the faucet covers. By the way. That that thing
Speaker 2: you screw on up it's talking about is called a
Speaker 2: freeze miser. Freeze miser. They have everything like that. Now,
Speaker 2: we just went through a little freeze, but one off,
Speaker 2: a bigger ones come in. You know, they come, and
Speaker 2: you know when they come, you're never ready for it.
Speaker 2: You got to run out there and grab stuff. And
Speaker 2: everybody else has already been out in shop. Will that'd
Speaker 2: be a good time to get stocked up on those
Speaker 2: kind of things.
Speaker 6: You know.
Speaker 2: You get you some freeze misers, some passet covers, and
Speaker 2: then you got them when the next freeze rise, you
Speaker 2: got your clamp on lights and the bulbs to go
Speaker 2: in them to provide a little bit of heat under there.
Speaker 2: You're ready to go when the freeze comes. Now, Ace
Speaker 2: Hardware is all over the place, easy to find them.
Speaker 2: There's ACE Hardware up in Willis called All Seasons Ace
Speaker 2: up there in Willis, up in Cypress, We've got Cypress Ace.
Speaker 2: We've got J and R Ace in Porter, and Kilgour
Speaker 2: Lumber down in Claire Lake. Those are just four examples
Speaker 2: of a lot of different ACE options. You can go
Speaker 2: to Ace Hardware dot com, find the store locator, find
Speaker 2: the one near you. But the main thing is, hey,
Speaker 2: why not get ready for a bigger freeze because they
Speaker 2: can come. And I can't tell you if it will
Speaker 2: or won't. We just know that absolutely we have to
Speaker 2: deal with that, and so we might as well be
Speaker 2: ready to go for it because it will happen all right.
Speaker 2: By the way, the Chris Ace is stocking up too,
Speaker 2: for we're hitting the point where we're in spring cleaning
Speaker 2: right now. Uh, so you get you know, you got
Speaker 2: to get everything order. They have all kinds of spring
Speaker 2: cleaning supplies, storage toads. I was just putting the still
Speaker 2: putting up some stuff from the Christmas holidays and things,
Speaker 2: and uh, you know, we're how are you gonna pack
Speaker 2: it up? How are you gonna get stored for next year,
Speaker 2: ACE Sketch covered on all of that kind of thing.
Speaker 2: If you're going to get your garage and order shelving units,
Speaker 2: which is something I'm also doing right now, having to
Speaker 2: put in some new shelves in the garage and things.
Speaker 2: They've got good options for that as well. Uh, it's
Speaker 2: just a it's just a place to go for everything.
Speaker 2: They say ACE is the place, and it really is.
Speaker 2: While you're there, by the way, you need to sign
Speaker 2: up online for the ACE Rewards program and I belong
Speaker 2: to it. And every time you buy something, you you
Speaker 2: build up your points and things for discounts and special offers,
Speaker 2: and their special offer is only available to ACE Rewards customers.
Speaker 2: They get emailed directly to you. So why not you're
Speaker 2: already shopping, just go on to East hardbroad Dock, come
Speaker 2: sign up for ACE Rewards and it does pay off,
Speaker 2: It absolutely does. Alrighty, let's see here. I was gonna
Speaker 2: talk a little bit this morning about some vegetable gardening
Speaker 2: things that we need to be aware of. The cool
Speaker 2: season here in the Greater Houston area is relatively mild.
Speaker 2: We don't have to deal with really difficult cold. We don't.
Speaker 2: We're fortunate in that way, but occasionally, you know, we
Speaker 2: get some doozies, but in general we're okay. So we
Speaker 2: can grow. We can garden all through the cool Seasoncoli
Speaker 2: our broccoli right now, we're still harvesting it is doing good.
Speaker 2: Our freeze freeze wasn't bad enough to hurt it, and
Speaker 2: so we're good. Uh, It's time for me to get
Speaker 2: out and plant some more cool season greens. I love
Speaker 2: cool season greens. At number one, there's some of the
Speaker 2: most nutrient packed vegetables that we can grow, things like
Speaker 2: kale and spinach. A lot of folks like to plant lettuce.
Speaker 2: By the way, if you're going to grow lettuce, the
Speaker 2: bib lettuce or the leaf types of lettuce are much
Speaker 2: more successful here than head lettuce. I'm not saying you
Speaker 2: can't grow lettushead. I'm just saying the bib and leaf types.
Speaker 2: I think they're more attractive. Also in a salad, but
Speaker 2: you can grow romain and I know that is a
Speaker 2: heading type of lettuce, and I love it for the
Speaker 2: crunchiness of it. You can't have a caesar shallad without it, right,
Speaker 2: But you can get out and plant those things. Now.
Speaker 2: Some of the things like carrots can go in the
Speaker 2: ground still. Now we can continue to plant those through
Speaker 2: the cool season. It's still good to be if you
Speaker 2: haven't planted the blue leaf vegetables. Also, those things have
Speaker 2: more names than a criminal on the run. They're called
Speaker 2: blue le vegetables. They're called coal crops, colle coal crops.
Speaker 2: They're called cruciferous vegetables because of the shape of the
Speaker 2: blooms being in across did you know that? In fact?
Speaker 2: And they're they're loaded with good, good things, not just
Speaker 2: vitamins and things, but things like nutrients as well, and
Speaker 2: those can all be planted. Now let me head over
Speaker 2: to the phones though. We're going to go to Cypress,
Speaker 2: Texas and talk to Steve. Hey, Steve, Welcome to garden Line. Hello, Hello,
Speaker 2: you there, Steve.
Speaker 7: Yes, I am, good morning.
Speaker 2: All right, how can we help this morning? Good morning?
Speaker 7: Yeah, good morning.
Speaker 8: The question I have is I planted a number of
Speaker 8: trees this fall. I've got an oak tree that I planted,
Speaker 8: I planted a Chinese pistache. Is it beneficial to continue
Speaker 8: to hit those things with roots stimulator once a month
Speaker 8: through the winter.
Speaker 2: Well, roots can grow through the winter and a new
Speaker 2: established tree. Anything you do to help the root development
Speaker 2: is okay. You just would have to get it down
Speaker 2: to where the roots are, and it takes a volume
Speaker 2: Once you plant a tree. It's one thing when you're
Speaker 2: planning it and watering it in and soaking the root
Speaker 2: ball and everything, but once you planted it, it takes
Speaker 2: a considerable amount of water to get the liquid down
Speaker 2: in there. You know, you put a gallon of water
Speaker 2: on and it may not soak all the way down
Speaker 2: in there. So just be ready to do the stimulator
Speaker 2: and enough volume of water to get it down in
Speaker 2: where the roots actually are. But there's no problem with that.
Speaker 2: Certainly wouldn't hurt anything. You know, as to how much
Speaker 2: it helps, you know, well that that kind of depends
Speaker 2: on a lot of factors. But yeah, right.
Speaker 8: Right, What about do you recommend I've seen where they
Speaker 8: put pbc in the ground it flow with gravel so
Speaker 8: the fluid of it gets straight to the roots.
Speaker 6: Is that a recommendation.
Speaker 2: Of even an established giant trees roots system is in
Speaker 2: the top foot of soil. So a lot of people
Speaker 2: put pipes down, you know, a twenty four inches or whatever,
Speaker 2: and it just that's too deep. Now, I would say,
Speaker 2: rather than that, what you want to do is you
Speaker 2: want to wed a large area. So if depending on
Speaker 2: the bed you're in and you've got a couple of options.
Speaker 2: If it's a new tree, there's little gadgets that are
Speaker 2: bags that you put around the tree. You fill them
Speaker 2: with water and they slowly leak out of the bottom
Speaker 2: of the bag. Get it. If you're out in the
Speaker 2: country and you don't care what it looks like, you
Speaker 2: can do that by putting a five gallon bucket beside
Speaker 2: the tree, drilling little tiny holes in it and then
Speaker 2: filling it with water and that way all the water
Speaker 2: goes down. In a larger area, I like to use
Speaker 2: a berm of soil, a doughnut, a ring maybe four
Speaker 2: feet across around that tree and soaking it down. So
Speaker 2: however you want to go about it is good. But
Speaker 2: I wouldn't do I wouldn't do the tube of PVC
Speaker 2: for watering the tree.
Speaker 9: Okay, got it?
Speaker 10: All right?
Speaker 8: Well, I definitely appreciate the information.
Speaker 2: All right, man, thanks for call. Take care, stay warm,
Speaker 2: all right. Well, yeah, you know, we see a lot
Speaker 2: of things done horticulturally as practices, and I've even seen
Speaker 2: diagrams where there's a pipe in the ground and it
Speaker 2: shows water going out down the pipe and going out
Speaker 2: in all directions and stuff. Well, it's gonna wet that area,
Speaker 2: but it's better to be able to wet it a
Speaker 2: little bit deeper. I mean from the surface down deep,
Speaker 2: not to start the wedding down deep. The tree roots
Speaker 2: are not way way down there. There's a few sinker routes,
Speaker 2: but not a lot. When I lived up in Willis, Texas,
Speaker 2: just north of Conroe, we put in a peach orchard,
Speaker 2: and in doing so we had to push out a
Speaker 2: bunch of brush and things, and there was trees in it,
Speaker 2: and it's tough to clear the land for the orchard.
Speaker 2: And I was struck by the fact that a giant
Speaker 2: pine tree had this big tap root going down, but
Speaker 2: all the feeder roots were going sideways in the soil.
Speaker 2: It would it just I took picture of it. I
Speaker 2: can't show you a picture on the radio, but it
Speaker 2: was really striking as to just how much those roots
Speaker 2: are in the surface. And if you if you have
Speaker 2: trouble believing me there, it's because you've seen these diagrams
Speaker 2: where you see a tree sticking up above the ground.
Speaker 2: You know that the branches and the trunk and branches
Speaker 2: and all that going up and then below ground. It's
Speaker 2: like a mirror image of the roots going down and out.
Speaker 2: That is not how a tree grows. If you, if
Speaker 2: you don't believe me, do a search for Morton arboretom
Speaker 2: Morton like Morton salt Morton arboretum tree root diagram or
Speaker 2: something like that, and it'll surprise you. There are drop roots,
Speaker 2: there are tap There can be a tap root depending
Speaker 2: on the species. There can be roots that drop down
Speaker 2: from that root system to anchor and to reach down
Speaker 2: to get water from down deep when it's too dry
Speaker 2: up the top. But by and large, go sideways if
Speaker 2: you want to. If you want to better diagram than
Speaker 2: that mirror image diagram, take a pancake and set it
Speaker 2: on the table. Take a stalk of broccoli and put
Speaker 2: it in the middle of the pancake. That's a tree.
Speaker 2: The BROCCOLI's the above ground. The pancake is the root
Speaker 2: system below ground. Go sideways. I'm pausing to let you
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Speaker 2: take a little bit of a break. If you'd like
Speaker 2: to call Jonathan get on the board for the next segment.
Speaker 2: Seven one three two one two kt r H. All right,
Speaker 2: welcome back.
Speaker 5: Ain't no sunshine, Ain't no sunshine when she's gone.
Speaker 2: But we're gonna have sunshine this and I'm looking forward
Speaker 2: to it. I like mildly cool weather with the sunshining.
Speaker 2: Oh is that ever pleasant? Anybody who's been here for
Speaker 2: a summer. Try to work in the garden in the summer,
Speaker 2: which summer, by the way, summer months for those of
Speaker 2: you just moved here, by the way, welcome to Texas.
Speaker 2: Summer starts at the end of April and it goes
Speaker 2: all the way sometime in October. We don't know when,
Speaker 2: but that's the last summer month for our area. So
Speaker 2: we really enjoy this kind of cool weather that we're
Speaker 2: having out here. Joking aside, I was talking about preparing
Speaker 2: the soil while ago, and then some cool season veggie things.
Speaker 2: I mentioned the chrysipherus, the coal crops. That's things like broccoli, cabbage, cauliflower,
Speaker 2: col robbie kale, collareds, Brussels sprouts. I'm sure, I'm Mustard
Speaker 2: actually is considered one of the coal crops, and they
Speaker 2: do so good in the cool season, and they're so
Speaker 2: healthy for you as well, this is a time when
Speaker 2: we can plant other cool season things. You know, there
Speaker 2: are some greens that we just don't traditionally eat in
Speaker 2: Texas in general. Okay, now, I know if you moved
Speaker 2: here from another culture that you bring those kind of
Speaker 2: cuisines with you in things. I know that, But by
Speaker 2: and large, the Texas gardens through the decades that I've
Speaker 2: been around gardening have just been boring. You know, tomatoes, lettuce, cucumbers, squash, something,
Speaker 2: those are all fine crops. But cool season greens like mash,
Speaker 2: or like corn salad, or like plantain, or like sorrel.
Speaker 2: Do you see what I'm saying? Those are cool season
Speaker 2: And there's examples in the warm season too, and there's
Speaker 2: more in the cool season. There's a lot of things
Speaker 2: we can grow, and you should try that, because you
Speaker 2: know you don't. You may be saying, okay, talking about vegetables,
Speaker 2: I don't have a garden. We do. You have a
Speaker 2: five gallon bucket that you can grow some holes in.
Speaker 2: I've grown carrots and five gallon buckets. They do really well.
Speaker 2: If you've got a good quality mix and decent drainage.
Speaker 2: You can grow carrots in a five gallon bucket. I've
Speaker 2: grown kale in five gallon buckets or containers. You know
Speaker 2: those nursery containers you buy shrubs and trees in. Don't
Speaker 2: throw them way. They're great for gardening it Now, if
Speaker 2: you want something pretty, you can buy really nice glazed
Speaker 2: pottery to grow in. Do you know my favorite vegetable
Speaker 2: gardening container is my favorite one of all the ones
Speaker 2: that are out there. It's not one that's made for
Speaker 2: vegetable gardening. It's a wheelbarrow. I have had several wheelbarrows
Speaker 2: over time. I had an old metal one that actually
Speaker 2: started resting out. That was beautiful, It was so cool
Speaker 2: for gardening. I had a plastic one that I dropped
Speaker 2: a cinderblock in and cracked the bottom, and so now
Speaker 2: I have drainage. They are excellent for growing things. Wheelbarrows
Speaker 2: hold quite a bit of soil unless it's a little one.
Speaker 2: Getch you a good big one and you can grow
Speaker 2: all kinds of things. I had a wheelbarrow. Wish I
Speaker 2: could show you a picture of it. It had spinach,
Speaker 2: it had lettuce, it had broccoli, it had kale. What
Speaker 2: else did I have in that thing? That had some
Speaker 2: Swiss chart in it? It just had all kinds of
Speaker 2: vegetables in a wheelbarrow. And you know what the cool
Speaker 2: thing about a wheelbarrow Number one, It gives a neighbors
Speaker 2: something to talk about if they hadn't already. Like Mildred,
Speaker 2: the guy his garden is in a wheelbarrow. You can
Speaker 2: put it wherever you want if you want. If, of course,
Speaker 2: you need sun for vegetables to do their best, move
Speaker 2: it to a sunny spot in the yard. If you
Speaker 2: got a mode, just move the wheelbarrow over when you're mowing,
Speaker 2: move it back, or move it to a new spot.
Speaker 2: And it's great. It holds enough soil and therefore enough
Speaker 2: moisture that you don't have to water it twice a
Speaker 2: day to keep things going well. And you know, the
Speaker 2: hoa probably will not bother you about your wheelbarrow as
Speaker 2: long as it's pretty and it keeps moving. I did flowers,
Speaker 2: flowers cascading over the sides, flowers coming up in the center.
Speaker 2: You can do an herb will wheel barrow with a
Speaker 2: regano or a time or things like that, spilling over
Speaker 2: the sides, and then you've got chives around it, and
Speaker 2: then you've got uprighter maybe basil plant or something in
Speaker 2: the middle. I mean, use your imagination, but it's pretty cool.
Speaker 2: I think it looks good. I think it's fun. And
Speaker 2: guess what if it Remember, oh gosh, years ago at
Speaker 2: my house it dropped down to almost seven degrees and
Speaker 2: that's too cold for vegetables. I don't care what the
Speaker 2: vegetable is. Where did my wielburrow go right into the garage?
Speaker 2: Just as simple as that. When it was time to
Speaker 2: move it back rolled it back outside. Again. I'm telling you,
Speaker 2: it's a cool way to go, and it's different, and
Speaker 2: again it does give the neighbors something to talk about,
Speaker 2: as if they needed something else to talk about. But anyway,
Speaker 2: that's my favorite kind of gardening bed. I guess what
Speaker 2: I'm trying to say is everybody can grow a garden.
Speaker 2: If you're listening to me, and you were in downtown
Speaker 2: Houston on the eight hundredth floor of some high rise
Speaker 2: and you got a little tiny patio, call me. We'll
Speaker 2: figure something out. I mean, there are things you can
Speaker 2: grow no matter where you are. And so I want
Speaker 2: you to try some things this year. Here's a good
Speaker 2: New Year's resolution. If you do those things, try something
Speaker 2: this year that you'd never done. Before, and I would
Speaker 2: suggest try growing something you can eat that is healthy
Speaker 2: and taste that you've never grown before. When I do salads,
Speaker 2: I try to create all kinds of flavors in the salad.
Speaker 2: Sorel has a lemony flavor, en dive has a bitter
Speaker 2: type flavor. There are certainly even certain kinds of very
Speaker 2: mild herb type plants can be used and mixed in
Speaker 2: to create flavor in a salad. And a lot of
Speaker 2: the salad vegetables, the majority, the vast majority of salad
Speaker 2: vegetables are cool seasoned vegetables, not all, but a lot
Speaker 2: of them. And you can grow kinds of good things
Speaker 2: out there if you want some. If you'm to do
Speaker 2: parsley for garnishing a plate, if you do't do. I
Speaker 2: like growing celery. I like the Asian types of celery
Speaker 2: as well as the big stalk types of celery that
Speaker 2: everybody thinks of when you use the word celery. You
Speaker 2: can grow with that here. Just got to get out
Speaker 2: there and do it, so try it out. Hey, you
Speaker 2: can't fail at gardening. You can only give up. Listen.
Speaker 2: Every gardener, I don't care how good they are, has
Speaker 2: failed many times over the course of their gardening life
Speaker 2: and they just keep trying. That's how they do it.
Speaker 2: I wanted to mention you know, we love our feed
Speaker 2: stores here on Garden Line and D and D Feed
Speaker 2: and Tomball just about three miles west of two forty
Speaker 2: nine on Highway twenty nine to twenty so you're big
Speaker 2: middle of Tomball there. You head west on twenty nine
Speaker 2: to twenty about three miles, it'll be on the left
Speaker 2: hand side. The Dover family has been running D and D.
Speaker 2: They opened it up in nineteen eighty nine. It is
Speaker 2: a wonderful store stocked with all kinds of things for
Speaker 2: your garden, nitrofoss products, bonin products, Microlife, turf Star from Nelson, Medina,
Speaker 2: heirloom soils, Landscaper's Pride. They carry flats of vegetables, they
Speaker 2: carry vegetables, seeds, they carry tools seasonally, they'll have fruit
Speaker 2: trees and roses and citrus and other things out there.
Speaker 2: High quality dog food, and then everything you need to
Speaker 2: deal with the pests and diseases that are in your garden.
Speaker 2: It's a one stop shop out there. D and D
Speaker 2: Feed has always got things going on, and if you're
Speaker 2: thinking about getting backyard chickens, February is when the chicks
Speaker 2: come in. D and D was were all the chicks
Speaker 2: hang out. D and D feed is going to be
Speaker 2: loaded up with types of chickens you've never heard of.
Speaker 2: And we'll talk about that more in February. But get
Speaker 2: ready now it's time to go out there and get
Speaker 2: some of the supplies. They have to get ready for
Speaker 2: that if you want to have backyard chickens. All right,
Speaker 2: time for me quit talking, Time for us to go
Speaker 2: to break. I'll be right back.
Speaker 10: All right, welcome back.
Speaker 2: You are listening to the Garden Line. I'm your host,
Speaker 2: Skip Richter, and we are here to help you have
Speaker 2: a bountiful garden, a beautiful landscape, and more fun in
Speaker 2: the process. You'd like to give me a call seven
Speaker 2: one three two one two k t r H. Seven
Speaker 2: one three two one two k t r H. I
Speaker 2: uh visiting with the folks at Nelson Fertilizer the other
Speaker 2: day about some of the products and things that they have.
Speaker 2: And they introduced a product. Was it last year? It
Speaker 2: was real recently? I know that. And Chris Announcement has
Speaker 2: a lot of products from the turf Star line to
Speaker 2: the Color Star line to the nutri Star line. The
Speaker 2: Nutristar Genesis is a product I'm talking about, and what
Speaker 2: it is is it's our first retail blend that incorporates
Speaker 2: Micriza bacteria and other good fungi to benefit that soil.
Speaker 2: We call it the microbiome. That means all of the
Speaker 2: creatures that are living in the soil that take organic
Speaker 2: matter and turn it back into plant food, if you will,
Speaker 2: and that improve the soil structure. They interact with plants
Speaker 2: in ways that help them. Nutri Star Genesis is packed
Speaker 2: with that. It's specifically designed to be mixed in the soil.
Speaker 2: Now it is a fertilizer. It is releases the nutrients
Speaker 2: in But what you do is you put the Nutristar
Speaker 2: Genesis in the soil. So if you're going to dig
Speaker 2: a hole in plant and mix them in the hole
Speaker 2: and then put the plant in, and you can use
Speaker 2: it in the soil that you're putting around the plant
Speaker 2: to replant it, you know, as you're refilling the hole.
Speaker 2: I like to use it whenever I'm bumping up. Let's see,
Speaker 2: I'll start some tomato plants and as the little seedlings
Speaker 2: get going, I need to move them to a four
Speaker 2: inch pot or a six inch or a gallon pot
Speaker 2: or whatever. I'll mix the Nutristar Genesis in that, and
Speaker 2: I'm telling you it is huge the difference. I seen
Speaker 2: it with my own eyes. I did it last year,
Speaker 2: watching those things jump out of the ground. They love
Speaker 2: that stuff.
Speaker 10: Now.
Speaker 2: It helps minimize transplant shock for a lot of plants,
Speaker 2: and it does provide the nutrients in the soil to
Speaker 2: then feed the plant. You mix it in the transplant hole.
Speaker 2: Do you put it on as a top dress, mixed
Speaker 2: in around as you're filling it in however you want
Speaker 2: to go about it. But then after you do that,
Speaker 2: once it gets going, then you switch over and use
Speaker 2: the other line of nutri Star foods from Nelson, or
Speaker 2: the color starre if it's flowering plants, or the Nature
Speaker 2: Star if you want something that's an organic type product.
Speaker 2: You can do all of that nutri Star. So look
Speaker 2: for that nutris Star Genesis from Nelson plant food. It's
Speaker 2: planting season, it's transplant growing season, and Nutristar genesis is
Speaker 2: good for all of those kinds of things. I couldn't
Speaker 2: believe it the first time I used it. I was
Speaker 2: in I bumped some tomatoes up to four inch pots
Speaker 2: and put some nutral star in some of them, it
Speaker 2: was like whoa got to move those lights up because
Speaker 2: they were heading heading for the sky. With all that
Speaker 2: they were happy with that. You're listening to garden Line
Speaker 2: our phone number seven one three two one two k
Speaker 2: t RH. We've got time for one call here before
Speaker 2: the end of the hour and then we will continue on.
Speaker 2: If you have a question about gardening, I would like
Speaker 2: to know if you have something you're going to do
Speaker 2: new this year they have done before. Would you tell
Speaker 2: me that? Just let me know. I want to know
Speaker 2: what are the things you're going to do different this year?
Speaker 2: Every year in gardening we get a brand new start.
Speaker 2: I used this etch a sketch example. All the times
Speaker 2: you know you don't like what you drew a your sketch,
Speaker 2: you turn it upside down, shake it and you get
Speaker 2: to start over. We do the same thing in gardening.
Speaker 2: It's okay, But what are you gonna try that you
Speaker 2: haven't tried before? For me this year, I'm gonna try
Speaker 2: some new kinds of fruit, and I'm also gonna try
Speaker 2: a grape arbor, a grape barber. I've never planted. I've
Speaker 2: had arbors, but never planted on an arbor. My own
Speaker 2: grape made the choices and the design and everything like that,
Speaker 2: and I'm really looking forward to it. I got this
Speaker 2: little spot. It's a good sunny spot, which I've kind
Speaker 2: of got to look for in my landscape now because
Speaker 2: all the good sunny spots are taken. My vegetables were
Speaker 2: first in line. They jumped on the first sunny spot.
Speaker 2: But anyway, I'm put a little grape barber in and
Speaker 2: it's gonna be a shaded area that enters the area
Speaker 2: where I have fruit trees, and so you walk through
Speaker 2: underneath this arbor, it's gonna be an arching livestock panel.
Speaker 2: You know what livestock panels are. It's like I don't
Speaker 2: want to even use the word wire. It's like, but
Speaker 2: think of a wire, but each wires more like the
Speaker 2: almost the diameter of a pencil, real thick metal. Those
Speaker 2: are called livestock panels, coming about four foot by sixteen
Speaker 2: foot or somewhere close to that range. And if you
Speaker 2: use them as an overhead archway, they are very strong
Speaker 2: and sturdy. You just need a good post to hold them.
Speaker 2: I use them as vertical panels in the garden for
Speaker 2: growing vines and things on too. They're really good for that.
Speaker 2: They're galvanized, they last forever. I love those things. Anyway,
Speaker 2: that's going to be the arbor top and the grapes
Speaker 2: will hang down underneath it. I can already taste them.
Speaker 2: Did you know that when you haven't planted something you're
Speaker 2: gonna plant, you can already taste it. Same with tomatoes.
Speaker 2: Let's go to Gary in Houston right quick for a
Speaker 2: run out of time here. Hey Gary, welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 11: Hey, how's it going. I got a question about drainage.
Speaker 11: So I'm having standing water. I know it's not technically gardening.
Speaker 11: And I just moved out to Winning and.
Speaker 12: I've seen some stuff about a.
Speaker 11: It's kind of like a French strain, but it's vertical.
Speaker 11: Do you do you know anything about that? Or because
Speaker 11: I was going to make a French strain going.
Speaker 2: To sorry, Uh, explain to me what you mean by vertical.
Speaker 2: I'm not picturing what you're saying.
Speaker 12: So what I saw was he dug a hole straight
Speaker 12: down and uh and put the rock in it, or
Speaker 12: put the cloth in it, put the rock in it,
Speaker 12: covered it up with just thot and showed that that
Speaker 12: what I've seen was it on the video. Obviously it
Speaker 12: got rid of the water, but I don't know for sure,
Speaker 12: And I just wondered if you knew anything about that.
Speaker 12: If I gotta do a French train, I'm going to
Speaker 12: do a garden.
Speaker 13: So I.
Speaker 2: If you had a sandy soil underlying the clay, maybe
Speaker 2: and that can't happen, perhaps that would the water could
Speaker 2: get down in there and move on down. If it
Speaker 2: was just clay, you would just have basically a little
Speaker 2: skinny farm pond, a hole that would fill up and
Speaker 2: hold water. So I would do definitely the standard French drain.
Speaker 2: You can also do if you don't have an area
Speaker 2: to drain it too, that's lower adequately lower, so the
Speaker 2: water can drain away. You can you can almost dig
Speaker 2: like a miniature pit that you fill with water and
Speaker 2: put a It has a you put a box in
Speaker 2: the bottom with a sump pump in there, and whenever
Speaker 2: the water comes up to a certain level, it physically
Speaker 2: pumps it through a solid pipe out to another area.
Speaker 2: So that's how we drain areas that are already low
Speaker 2: and we don't have a lower area for the gravity
Speaker 2: to take the water too.
Speaker 11: Okay, yeah, pretty strange, is not cheap, but a lot
Speaker 11: of it I gotta go.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, that's that's true. And the other thing about
Speaker 2: French drains is sometimes you're draining a whole area. I've
Speaker 2: got a spot in the back of my yard that
Speaker 2: I'm gonna pu French strain. Now I haven't done it yet,
Speaker 2: but it probably covers a fifty foot length, and I
Speaker 2: need water to go in all along that fifty foot,
Speaker 2: not just in one little spot. So depending on the
Speaker 2: layer of your land, you got options. But I wouldn't
Speaker 2: just dig a deep hole because it's just gonna fill
Speaker 2: with water and hold it unless as I said that.
Speaker 11: Yeah, he didn't say where he was at. He didn't
Speaker 11: say where he was at, And I'm assuming that I
Speaker 11: haven't really dug yet at the property.
Speaker 9: So I'm not sure.
Speaker 11: I'm not sure what's below, but I'm beat.
Speaker 12: It's just quite you know how it is out here.
Speaker 2: Well, we'll take your time, do some thinking about it.
Speaker 2: Sometimes changing maybe downspouts on the house circumcent creating a problem,
Speaker 2: and that would be part of the solution. Sometimes a
Speaker 2: swale that can kind of direct water in a different direction.
Speaker 2: You know. Off, you have a lot of options for
Speaker 2: dealing with water. But as you think through it, you'll
Speaker 2: figure it out.
Speaker 9: All right.
Speaker 12: I know that wasn't exactly all.
Speaker 7: Thank you appreciate it.
Speaker 2: Oh, nice part, big, big part of garden Thanks for
Speaker 2: the question, man, I appreciate you were calling in today.
Speaker 2: All right, folks, time for our top of the hour break.
Speaker 2: We'll be right back. Hang around.
Speaker 1: Welcome to Katie r H. Garden Line with Skip Rictor.
Speaker 2: It's crazy.
Speaker 4: Just watch him as we may to septis. Sorry.
Speaker 2: Well, good morning, good morning, and welcome to Garden Line.
Speaker 2: We are glad to have you with us. This is
Speaker 2: a place hopefully that you come to for good advice
Speaker 2: for your lawn and garden, for answers to your questions
Speaker 2: you can give. You can give me a call at
Speaker 2: seven one three two U two K T r H.
Speaker 2: We'll be happy to visit with you. I like talking
Speaker 2: to gardeners. You know, gardeners are some of the I
Speaker 2: don't know, just the nicest people. Have you ever noticed
Speaker 2: that you ever visited with somebody, you know, maybe walking
Speaker 2: down taking a walk through the neighborhood, down the street
Speaker 2: and you see somebody out gardening and they're just always
Speaker 2: willing to visit with you and talk with you, probably
Speaker 2: share a few plants with you too, and certainly some advice.
Speaker 2: Gardeners have opinions. We all have two elbows, but gardeners
Speaker 2: have way more than two opinions. I'll tell you that
Speaker 2: for sure. They have opinions, and so do I, I guess,
Speaker 2: to be totally honest, I certainly do. But gardening is
Speaker 2: a fun hobby. It's a it's a kind of thing
Speaker 2: that I find to be really renewing and encouraging, and
Speaker 2: that that is important.
Speaker 10: You know.
Speaker 2: The gardening gives you the chance always to start over,
Speaker 2: to try something different, and to do something you haven't
Speaker 2: done before. And I asked, I talked about this last week,
Speaker 2: and already this morning, I have what are you going
Speaker 2: to do different in twenty twenty five? And I don't
Speaker 2: mean just what are you going to change? Like, oh,
Speaker 2: don't do it that way anymore? Do it this way?
Speaker 2: That's fine, But I'm talking about what are you going
Speaker 2: to grow that you haven't grown before? What are you
Speaker 2: going to try as a gardening practice that you haven't
Speaker 2: tried before? For example, have you ever tried propagating your
Speaker 2: own plants? Have you ever tried rooting a cutting? Have
Speaker 2: you ever tried doing something called an air layer. An
Speaker 2: air layer is where you bring soil up to the
Speaker 2: stem of the plant or soil or peat moss or
Speaker 2: potting soil, whatever, and you cover it with something plastic
Speaker 2: to hold the moisture in, and you wound the stem
Speaker 2: and the roots form inside that soil. So and you
Speaker 2: can buy little devices, little devices, little gadgets that you
Speaker 2: fill with soil and they click together around the stem
Speaker 2: the way I've always done it. Back first time, I
Speaker 2: did it just an old bread wrapper tied around the
Speaker 2: stem at the base. Fill it full of soil tied
Speaker 2: around the stem at the top, and then put some
Speaker 2: foil around it if it's outside, to keep the sun
Speaker 2: from shining through that clear wrapper. But anyway, it works,
Speaker 2: and you can do that. And if you got a
Speaker 2: plant you want to propagate, that's the way. How about dividing.
Speaker 2: Have you ever done division before? So let's do it this.
Speaker 2: Let's say you had a clump of grass, ornamental grass,
Speaker 2: or let's say you had like all the fall blooming
Speaker 2: Salvia salvio lecanta, a Mexican bush safe and do you
Speaker 2: grew it last year? And now it's instead of being
Speaker 2: a little you know, came out of a French potter
Speaker 2: or gallon pot. Now it's a clump that you know,
Speaker 2: maybe about I don't know, eight eight inches across, six
Speaker 2: inches across. You can take a shovel straight down through
Speaker 2: it and divide it into two and now you have
Speaker 2: two of those one some other location, or share one
Speaker 2: with a friend. That's another kind of propagation. What kinds
Speaker 2: of propagation are you going to try this year that
Speaker 2: you haven't done before? Have you ever done seeds starting before?
Speaker 2: That is easy to do. Your local garden centers, a
Speaker 2: lot of feed stores also ace hardware stores. They're going
Speaker 2: to have supplies for that kind of thing where you
Speaker 2: can go in and you can start your own seats,
Speaker 2: and it is really a cool thing to do. It's
Speaker 2: enjoyable to get out and try some new kinds of gardening.
Speaker 2: What are you going to do different? If you call in,
Speaker 2: I want to hear that. I want to hear about
Speaker 2: what are you going to try they haven't tried before?
Speaker 2: Or maybe you can tell me what did you try
Speaker 2: in twenty four that you hadn't tried before. Either way
Speaker 2: we can do it. We just want to talk about
Speaker 2: encouraging people to try something new. You know, there are
Speaker 2: many kinds of gardeners out there. There's a range. There
Speaker 2: are the people who want a beautiful lawn and a
Speaker 2: beautiful landscape and they get on their phone and call
Speaker 2: and tell somebody to do that. That's okay, that's legit.
Speaker 2: We can help you have a beautiful landscape that way
Speaker 2: as well. And then there are people but everything is
Speaker 2: their own, do it yourself project, and they are the
Speaker 2: garden is never finished. And that's true of a lot
Speaker 2: of gardens. We never finish them because we're always changing them.
Speaker 2: And however you want to go about gardening, what are
Speaker 2: you going to try something new? I hope you will
Speaker 2: try that. If you've not done much in the way
Speaker 2: of fertilizing and taking care of your plants. By the way,
Speaker 2: we're coming into the big spring planting season. That's a
Speaker 2: big one. If you haven't planted woody ornamentals, including fruit trees,
Speaker 2: by the way, but woody ornamentals that need to go
Speaker 2: on the ground, do it today, not today, Do it
Speaker 2: soon as soon as you can, because they need time
Speaker 2: for the roots to grow before summer arrives and puts
Speaker 2: the demands on the plant. That way, you don't have
Speaker 2: to be so touching go in the summer where you
Speaker 2: could possibly lose a plant by forgetting to water for
Speaker 2: a little while. Well, when you put it in the ground,
Speaker 2: you need to water it in with a good quality
Speaker 2: solution to do things to help those roots. And for example,
Speaker 2: Medina has one call has to grow six twelve six
Speaker 2: plant food six percent nitrogen, twelve percent phosphorus six percent potassium.
Speaker 2: Phosphorus is really important in a number of things. It
Speaker 2: helps with blooming, but it also helps us with root development.
Speaker 2: And Medina has to grow six twelve six has Medina
Speaker 2: soil activator which stimulates biological activity. It's got humate, humic acid.
Speaker 2: Humic acid improves soil structure. It helps with nutrient uptake,
Speaker 2: it helps it is the final stage of decomposing organic matter.
Speaker 2: That's humus and humic acid is one of the acids
Speaker 2: or humic acid and full OFC acid and others. But
Speaker 2: it has beneficial effects in the soil and it's in
Speaker 2: that it's in the has to grow six twelve six.
Speaker 2: It also has to grow six twelve six. Also has
Speaker 2: seaweed extracts. They stimulate fruiting and blooming. So you can
Speaker 2: use as to grow six to twelve six is a
Speaker 2: full of your application. You're not going to burn your plants.
Speaker 2: But since I'm talking about planting time, and because it
Speaker 2: helps build the bial biological activity in the soil, I
Speaker 2: would suggest doing it as a transplant. You could take
Speaker 2: a plant out of a container and soak it in
Speaker 2: a dilution of has to grow six to twelve six.
Speaker 2: You can plant the plant and then drench it in water.
Speaker 2: In really good with medina has to grow six twelve six.
Speaker 2: How do you want to go about it? The instructions
Speaker 2: are on the label. It doesn't take much, goes a
Speaker 2: long way like in a flower bed. Probably an ounce
Speaker 2: of has to grow six twelve six per gallon of water.
Speaker 2: You can apply it with a sprinkling can. That's how
Speaker 2: I like to water in under plants. How do you
Speaker 2: go about it?
Speaker 9: Do it?
Speaker 2: You're going to find medina at many of our home
Speaker 2: garden centers, at our feed stores, certainly Southwest Fertilizer, ace
Speaker 2: hardware stores all carry the medina has to grow six
Speaker 2: twelve six, so that you can have success with that. Well,
Speaker 2: you are listening to Garline and I'm about half the
Speaker 2: day time flies. They say what flies when you're having fun?
Speaker 2: But I just think it flies anyway, the next hour segment,
Speaker 2: when we come back, I want to talk to you.
Speaker 2: First of all, We're going to take a call from
Speaker 2: Glenn in College Station right when we get back from
Speaker 2: the break, and I'm going to talk to you a
Speaker 2: little bit about our trees, because this is the time
Speaker 2: when we need to be taking care of our trees
Speaker 2: as well. We'll be right back.
Speaker 5: Welcome back, Glad to have you back with us here
Speaker 5: on Guarden Line. We are going to be taking your
Speaker 5: calls all morning until ten am seven one three, two
Speaker 5: one two kt our age. Why don't we start off
Speaker 5: by heading out to College Station and talking to Glenn.
Speaker 14: Hey, Glenn, welcome to Garden Line. Good morning, Skip. It's
Speaker 14: great to be on your program. I got the bleasure
Speaker 14: sitting next to your daughter in law on a plane
Speaker 14: ride about a little over a year ago and we.
Speaker 15: Got to talking about your program. So she's a very
Speaker 15: very lovely young lady. She very supportive of what you do.
Speaker 14: Anyway, I bought some time.
Speaker 2: Thank you, she told me. But she told me about that.
Speaker 2: I didn't. I didn't know who she talked to, but
Speaker 2: she said she met somebody on me was me.
Speaker 14: So I bought some fopon hollies two years ago, put
Speaker 14: them in my bed and they grew beautifully. And now
Speaker 14: I found out well during the growing of two years
Speaker 14: they are not dwarfs. They got up to six foot
Speaker 14: tall and blocked the windows.
Speaker 2: And things like that.
Speaker 14: So a week ago, when we had good soft soil,
Speaker 14: I pulled them up at the front end of a
Speaker 14: loader and a high school boy and I dug holes
Speaker 14: and transplanted them along the fence line. Is there any
Speaker 14: chance they're going to grow after being transplanted? Being that mature?
Speaker 14: Should I have cut them back? Is there anything I
Speaker 14: can do to help them along?
Speaker 9: Now?
Speaker 2: Well, by doing it in the dormant season, you did
Speaker 2: a good thing. That gives them a good chance by
Speaker 2: if you If you when you dug them, didn't like
Speaker 2: let the roots dry out. You know sometimes people dig
Speaker 2: them one day and then plan them another day, and
Speaker 2: in the meantime the roots start to desiccate. If you
Speaker 2: get them right in the ground, that's a good thing, watermen,
Speaker 2: real good is a good thing. And don't worry about
Speaker 2: fertilizer right now, just as it gets dry. And I
Speaker 2: know right now you are stopping soggy wet up there
Speaker 2: in College Station just when it needs water a little bit.
Speaker 2: Just remember they have a very limited root system and
Speaker 2: will through a good part of the summer this year.
Speaker 2: So just small amounts of water pretty much, I say,
Speaker 2: within two or three feet of the base of the
Speaker 2: plant in all directions. That's primarily what you're trying to
Speaker 2: help because the roots are very confined. Get that watered
Speaker 2: in real good, and that's the main thing in your
Speaker 2: power to do, especially when the weather heats up. But
Speaker 2: you can do a little fertilizing later, but first we
Speaker 2: need to get a good root system before we start
Speaker 2: putt in fertilizer.
Speaker 14: Perfect that's exactly what I've done. And I was a
Speaker 14: little word with the cool weather if that was going
Speaker 14: to affect them in any way. But I did water
Speaker 14: them in. They were out of the ground maybe about
Speaker 14: an hour and before we started transplanting them, and they
Speaker 14: look great. But of course I know that takes a
Speaker 14: long time for them to dry out when they're stuck
Speaker 14: in the ground, but they look great so far, and
Speaker 14: I just wanted to know if there was any chance
Speaker 14: I could help them out in any way, so I
Speaker 14: appreciate the information.
Speaker 2: Well you yeah, you did it right, just always in
Speaker 2: your brain, in your mind, you know that established Jopon
Speaker 2: has got roots going way out in all directions through
Speaker 2: a huge volume of soil. And now what you've got
Speaker 2: now is something with a bunch of stubbed off roots
Speaker 2: from the digging process that's going to take a while
Speaker 2: to get where it was before you dug it. So
Speaker 2: be aware of that consciously, and then you'll water appropriately
Speaker 2: as a result of that.
Speaker 14: I appreciate the information. Skip, Thank you so much for
Speaker 14: all you do.
Speaker 2: All right, thanks l Carle. Appreciate that. Glenn. You take care.
Speaker 2: Let's head out to Cyprus now and talk to Nick. Hey, Nick,
Speaker 2: welcome to Gardline.
Speaker 12: I'm how are you, Skipped?
Speaker 14: Hey, you were, Thank you.
Speaker 16: I'm doing things you've never done before, such as seeding
Speaker 16: and such as that. I grew an African violet from
Speaker 16: a leaf.
Speaker 15: That was a leaf.
Speaker 2: There you go, a leaf from.
Speaker 16: A plant that my sister in law grew for her mother.
Speaker 16: I pinched off a leaf some water. I waited for
Speaker 16: it to get rooting. Then once it rooted, I put
Speaker 16: it in a pot inside and it is now robust
Speaker 16: and greed and full. My question is cool, would make
Speaker 16: it bloom better? Because it's not bloomy, it's just kind
Speaker 16: African viot robots.
Speaker 17: I'm sorry.
Speaker 2: Yeah, African violets need a moderate amount of nutrition and
Speaker 2: a consistent supply of moisture. That's why you often see
Speaker 2: them grown in little pots that have a little wick
Speaker 2: that goes down in a water pot below that and
Speaker 2: it brings the water up through the wick. They don't
Speaker 2: want to be soggy, they'll rot, but they also can't
Speaker 2: take any drought, so keep it moderately moist in one
Speaker 2: of those little wicking pots. They have different forms they take,
Speaker 2: but one of those would be helpful. Good lighting, not
Speaker 2: direct sun, but a very nice bright light. Some people
Speaker 2: use a window location, that's fine. Some people put them
Speaker 2: under a little artificial light. That's fine too, Okay, and
Speaker 2: then provide get you what's called it?
Speaker 16: I'm sorry, No, go ahead, Oh, I would saying I
Speaker 16: have it in a window, right, I mean in on
Speaker 16: a shelf right by a window, and it seems to
Speaker 16: be doing well, and I'll rotate it so that it
Speaker 16: doesn't all grow direction.
Speaker 2: So but that's good about and.
Speaker 16: I appreciate that because my mother in laws was blooming,
Speaker 16: but mine wasn't.
Speaker 2: So yeah, well the wick makes it easier. It makes
Speaker 2: it a little more fool proof. You know, when we
Speaker 2: go on a trip or we forget or whatever. It's
Speaker 2: good for that also get you an African violet food.
Speaker 2: There are products out there called African violet food and
Speaker 2: that way, you know you're getting a good blend of
Speaker 2: nutrients for those plants.
Speaker 16: Okay, well that sounds.
Speaker 2: And when you fertilize it give and when you fertilize
Speaker 2: African violets, you can put that food in the the
Speaker 2: water container and it'll wicket right up to the plants,
Speaker 2: so you don't have to put dry granules of the
Speaker 2: salt based fertilizer around the African violets. You don't do that,
Speaker 2: all right, sir?
Speaker 16: All right, thank you, Skip, I appreciate it. You have
Speaker 16: a good day.
Speaker 2: Yeah, congratulations. Yeah, And everybody that's a that would be
Speaker 2: thing to try. You got a family, friend, relative, or
Speaker 2: something's got a little African violet, you can learn how to.
Speaker 2: It's crazy. You break a little leaf off and you
Speaker 2: put it in the ground so that the stem is
Speaker 2: below ground. The leaf petiole that holds the leaf is
Speaker 2: below ground right to the point where the leaf is
Speaker 2: almost going into the ground itself right there, and that,
Speaker 2: believe it or not, you're going to get roots for
Speaker 2: him and little baby plants coming out right there at
Speaker 2: the end of the petiole, right before it goes into
Speaker 2: the leaf. Pretty cool stuff, all right, that's a good one.
Speaker 2: Alan in Cyprus, Welcome to garden line. How can we
Speaker 2: help today?
Speaker 7: Did you hear me?
Speaker 2: Yes, sir? Look okay, good, yes, sir.
Speaker 18: You were talking earlier about air layering fruit trees, and
Speaker 18: I'm actually my way today beyond County where I have
Speaker 18: several varieties, but I was actually going to do that today,
Speaker 18: and I'm curious, Texas, is there the best time to
Speaker 18: try that?
Speaker 2: Did you say fruit trees, yes.
Speaker 18: Sir, apples, pears, beaches, apricots, Okay, where the coming out?
Speaker 18: I actually stated that them can try this, and I
Speaker 18: was just curious if there's the best.
Speaker 2: Time well for air layering. I wouldn't recommend it for
Speaker 2: fruit trees for a couple of reasons. Stems that are
Speaker 2: juvenile root very well. Some plants are just wanting to root,
Speaker 2: you know, vicuses and diffenbachia and a lot of the
Speaker 2: houseplant type things are very happy to root that way.
Speaker 2: Figs or root easily like that. That's a fruit tree,
Speaker 2: but a lot of the others. What you're dealing with
Speaker 2: on a fruit tree is you're taking They take a
Speaker 2: bud from mature wood and they graft it onto a rootstock,
Speaker 2: and so what you've got is a more mature type
Speaker 2: of wood up there that is not is easy to root.
Speaker 2: The second thing is if it rooted and you made
Speaker 2: a plant, you wouldn't have the benefits of the rootstock.
Speaker 2: So in the case of peaches, they graft them onto
Speaker 2: things that are Nema toad resistant. In the case of apples,
Speaker 2: it may be a semi dwarfing rootstock or other things.
Speaker 2: But in general, could you do it. Maybe if it
Speaker 2: were a seedling plant that grew and you could get
Speaker 2: a shoot from near the base, you could do the
Speaker 2: air layer on that and root it and that would work.
Speaker 2: But if it is a grafted tree, probably going to
Speaker 2: be hard to have success. And if you do, then
Speaker 2: you got the issue of Okay, now it's not on
Speaker 2: a rootstock, and sometimes that's a problem.
Speaker 18: Okay, so maybe the water sprout's from the roots, but
Speaker 18: not likely any of the other branches.
Speaker 2: A water sprout. If it's not a graph the tree,
Speaker 2: you know, if it's coming up, sometimes a graph the tree.
Speaker 2: You got these shoots that are basically the rootstock growing,
Speaker 2: not the variety of the tree I got you.
Speaker 15: Okay, thanks so much.
Speaker 2: All right, man, thanks a lot. Appreciate your call. Good question,
Speaker 2: by the way, too, Appreciate that a lot. I was
Speaker 2: talking earlier about the importance of taking care of your trees,
Speaker 2: and I wanted to mention a couple of things. You know,
Speaker 2: tree care. The winter time is a very important season
Speaker 2: for that. Winter is when we do the majority of
Speaker 2: our pruning, and it's when we should be doing our
Speaker 2: planting fall and winter. And we've had a lot of
Speaker 2: unpredictable weather here in the winter. I mean it's always
Speaker 2: that way, you know. We may have cold fronts with
Speaker 2: a hard freeze, and we may go through very mild periods,
Speaker 2: and we got to take care of our trees. And
Speaker 2: if you have, if you can't remember the last time
Speaker 2: you had someone come out and prune and evaluate your
Speaker 2: trees for their health, now is the time to do that.
Speaker 2: And Martin spoon Moore is a guy you need to call.
Speaker 2: He's with Affordable Tree Service Martin Spoon Moore Affordable Tree Service.
Speaker 2: If you like websites a ff tree service dot com
Speaker 2: aff tree Service dot com you can find go there,
Speaker 2: find out everything you them know, or just give him
Speaker 2: a call. Seven one three six twenty six sixty three.
Speaker 2: Now Martin or his wife Joe will answer the phone.
Speaker 2: The owner's answer the phone there. If if you don't
Speaker 2: talk to Martin or Joe when you call, you've called
Speaker 2: the wrong place. Seven one three six ninety nine twenty
Speaker 2: six sixty three. You gotta get him scheduled now. And
Speaker 2: if the guy does good work, he stays busy. Schedule
Speaker 2: him now to ensure your trees are in top shape.
Speaker 2: Not just for winter that's important, but for when growth
Speaker 2: begins in the spring. He can come out of value
Speaker 2: you trees, give you an estimate of what needs to
Speaker 2: be done that would involve pruning or training in general.
Speaker 2: Uh and deep root feeding. He does that. He does
Speaker 2: a lot. He did pretty much. If your tree needs that,
Speaker 2: Martin can do it. Martin Spoon Moored Affordable Tree seven
Speaker 2: one three six nine nine twenty six sixty three.
Speaker 9: Uh.
Speaker 2: You know a lot of people let their trees go
Speaker 2: and they just don't take care of them. And when
Speaker 2: they call the tree the tree person, it's because a
Speaker 2: branch broke off in a storm. Don't wait until that happens.
Speaker 2: The way a tree is trained from the day it's
Speaker 2: planted to the way it's prune decade by decade through
Speaker 2: its life helps create a strong structure or allows problems
Speaker 2: to develop. And we want to stay away from those.
Speaker 2: That is it. Don't delay. Trees are the single most
Speaker 2: valuable plant in your landscape. For your trees, and you
Speaker 2: got to take care of them. And that's why you
Speaker 2: got to trust it with somebody that knows what they're doing.
Speaker 2: I see so much more practice on treecre not necessary.
Speaker 2: All right, I'm going to take a quick break. When
Speaker 2: we come back, Leon, you will be our very first
Speaker 2: s up. All right, welcome back. Let's get going here
Speaker 2: on some more garden talk. Here on garden Line seven
Speaker 2: one three two one two KT Rights. That's the phone number.
Speaker 2: Like you gi me call seven one three two one
Speaker 2: two KTR. Going to now go and talk to Leon. Hello, Leon,
Speaker 2: welcome to guard Line. Good morning.
Speaker 10: How you doing today.
Speaker 2: I'm well, fans.
Speaker 10: All right. I called about three or four weeks ago
Speaker 10: about a lemon tree that had the black leaves, and
Speaker 10: you told me to get the hornicultural oil and spray
Speaker 10: on the bottom side, And yes, I did that and
Speaker 10: it took care of mo. I think there's a few
Speaker 10: branches I might need to go back and do a
Speaker 10: second treatment on. But my wife and the neighbor lady
Speaker 10: across the street said, oh, I wouldn't need those lemons.
Speaker 10: There are a bound to be something wrong with them.
Speaker 10: Are they safety?
Speaker 9: Eat?
Speaker 2: They're perfectly safety. And the oil spray for the blackest
Speaker 2: city moll. The city mold comes from either scale or
Speaker 2: aphids or mealy bugs or some other insect. When you
Speaker 2: spray the oil, you kill the insect. But that doesn't
Speaker 2: make the city mole grow away overnight. It just just
Speaker 2: the production of it. And in time you're gonna you're
Speaker 2: gonna not have the black city on there. Some people
Speaker 2: will blast it with kind of a spray or a soapy
Speaker 2: spray or something to just wash it off. But uh,
Speaker 2: there is absolutely no effect on those lemons whatsoever. Here
Speaker 2: here's what it's like. It's like if you took sugar,
Speaker 2: mixed it in water, and then you went out and
Speaker 2: sprayed it on some plants, and those plants got sot
Speaker 2: on them. There would be no problem to the plant,
Speaker 2: to eating that plant, right, It just just so that's
Speaker 2: all I do.
Speaker 10: Right, Okay, when's the best time or when should you
Speaker 10: harvest the fruit?
Speaker 2: For lemons? Do you have a is it a Meyer lemon?
Speaker 9: Yeah?
Speaker 10: You know now it's a Mark.
Speaker 2: Meyer Okay, Meyer's actually across. It's not a true lemon.
Speaker 2: It's a cross between a lemon and amandain type orange.
Speaker 2: And uh it is it mature? It goes towards it's
Speaker 2: an it's a yellow color, but sometimes they even go
Speaker 2: a little a little bit toward the orange side, but
Speaker 2: then they're way too far along.
Speaker 14: Uh.
Speaker 2: I would just pick it, harvest it and taste it.
Speaker 2: When it starts to get good yellow on it, you
Speaker 2: could harvest it. I was sample one, but a lot
Speaker 2: of citrus. You know, we think an orange has to
Speaker 2: be fully orange. Well you're grownside zoom as you pick
Speaker 2: them before they're fully orange for top quality. And the
Speaker 2: same thing is true on lemons and things. They are
Speaker 2: going to be sour sour lemone before they're fully yellow.
Speaker 2: So do a little sampling and see what you like,
Speaker 2: but just don't let them go too far.
Speaker 10: Okay, I've been in the last three years. I've been
Speaker 10: picking them right before the freeze so I could put
Speaker 10: my tin over my bush and you know, protect it
Speaker 10: from the freeze.
Speaker 5: Okay, yeah, yeah, you said you're supposed to pick them
Speaker 5: in February.
Speaker 10: I said, okay, no, no.
Speaker 2: Well, in some some citrus and lemons can kind of
Speaker 2: do this. They may have more than one fruit cycle
Speaker 2: during the year. Some things like orangeice is they're gonna
Speaker 2: they're gonna have one cycle where they produce, and other
Speaker 2: things can repeat bloom depending on what kind of citrus
Speaker 2: it is. But so now, the all you need to
Speaker 2: do now is get you some plywood and two by
Speaker 2: fours and make a lemonade stand so you can make
Speaker 2: some money out of the street.
Speaker 10: Oh yeah, yeah, I have to get a permit from
Speaker 10: the city, though, I'll do you.
Speaker 2: You can't. You can't just ask for forgiveness, give a
Speaker 2: give one they show up, give them a glass of
Speaker 2: lemonade as hush money. Right, all right, thanks a lot.
Speaker 2: Leh alright, man, take care alight, Baba. There you go.
Speaker 2: Gardening advice as well as lawlessness here on Garden Line.
Speaker 2: Let's go to Tomball and talk to Wayne. Hey, Wayne,
Speaker 2: welcome to garden line. I have a question, well, thank
Speaker 2: you out.
Speaker 19: I have a question about knockout right. My knockout roses
Speaker 19: every year are so gorgeous, you know, every you know,
Speaker 19: I cut them back twice a year. They come back,
Speaker 19: you know, then they flush back out and then you know,
Speaker 19: early spring early, you know, you know early, you know,
Speaker 19: class a year they bloom really gorgeous.
Speaker 13: When it's not so hot.
Speaker 19: Well, this year, lots of my roses are just real straggly,
Speaker 19: you know what I'm talking about. I mean, like they
Speaker 19: don't have a lot of foliage, sporadic blooms look more
Speaker 19: woody than you know, anything else. And now I have
Speaker 19: some that are fine, but most of them are just
Speaker 19: and I'm just shocked.
Speaker 2: Because they're always so.
Speaker 19: You know, beautiful, and but this year they're not.
Speaker 16: I've never seen anything like it.
Speaker 2: So I was wondering description. Uh huh yeah, based on
Speaker 2: your description there, Waane, I don't I don't hear a
Speaker 2: problem that is evident in what you said. Uh. Now,
Speaker 2: you know, roses in the winter oftener a little scraggly
Speaker 2: or than normal depends on the winner we have in
Speaker 2: the condition of the rose and things. But well, we
Speaker 2: cut them back and the new growth comes out, they
Speaker 2: should be good. Now if when the new growth comes
Speaker 2: out you start to see weird things.
Speaker 10: Well I do.
Speaker 19: That's what I want to tell you about now, so
Speaker 19: you don't how when you cut them back. When the
Speaker 19: new growth comes back, the new growth is kind of raiched,
Speaker 19: you know, it's it's kind of red. And then as
Speaker 19: the leaves get bigger, bill they green up, well a
Speaker 19: lot of them. When the new growth comes on, it
Speaker 19: looks like the new growth is being burned.
Speaker 9: You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 19: It's like it's it's like the leader.
Speaker 2: Okay, Okay, here's what I need you to do. Okay, yeah,
Speaker 2: I don't wanna. I don't want to alarm you. It
Speaker 2: could be something very bad or it could be nothing.
Speaker 2: But uh, could you take some pictures of the show
Speaker 2: me the whole bush and then show me up as
Speaker 2: close as you can get in good sharp focus. And
Speaker 2: you may have to put your hand right behind the
Speaker 2: stem and the leaves so when you focus it doesn't
Speaker 2: focus on something behind those stem and leaves. But I
Speaker 2: need a good close up two or three and sharp
Speaker 2: focus and let me look at them. If you can
Speaker 2: email them to me here before the show's over. We
Speaker 2: can talk about it and I'll take a look at them.
Speaker 19: Well, I may not be able to get I'm already
Speaker 19: give you.
Speaker 2: A quicker okay, but I will send them to me.
Speaker 19: Can I tell you one other things?
Speaker 11: So you know, I've got a lot of.
Speaker 19: I got a lot of the knockout roases that are
Speaker 19: really established, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 9: But so also.
Speaker 19: Back in the end of the summer, I bought some
Speaker 19: more knockout roses when I caught them on sail and
Speaker 19: all that kind of stuff, And they were so full
Speaker 19: when I bought them, and they're just you know, they're
Speaker 19: they didn't flush out. But yet I'll have a few
Speaker 19: that flushed out really good.
Speaker 2: That's what's confused.
Speaker 20: I'll have it to you that really.
Speaker 19: Flushed other ones did, but I will to take a
Speaker 19: picture and I may not be able to send that
Speaker 19: till tomorrow, and then maybe I can call in them all.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I call tomorrow. That's fine. Whenever you want, just
Speaker 2: give it to me, but don't delay too much. Some
Speaker 2: of the possibilities or stuff that would be more of
Speaker 2: a concern, and I don't want to go there until
Speaker 2: we know what we're dealing with. But a photo will
Speaker 2: tell me if it's a good sharp photo. Check up,
Speaker 2: make sure they're all focused. Oh and the last thing, Wayne,
Speaker 2: don't embed them in the text. Don't paste them into
Speaker 2: the text, attach them to your email. Okay, use a
Speaker 2: little paper club.
Speaker 9: Okay.
Speaker 19: I will take a picture of the new plannings and
Speaker 19: I want to take a picture of the you know,
Speaker 19: the established one. Okay, all right, then, thank you.
Speaker 2: So much, thanks a lot man. All Right, you take
Speaker 2: care alrighty, we'll get to the bottom of that one. Well,
Speaker 2: it looks like it is time for me to go
Speaker 2: to a break. I'll be right back with our last
Speaker 2: segment for this hour. We're back. Welcome back to Guarden Line.
Speaker 2: We are here to help you have a bountiful garden,
Speaker 2: a beautiful landscape, and more fun in the process. That's it.
Speaker 2: Gardening is fun. It's rewarding, it's good for your health,
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Speaker 2: they do on commercials. Can be addictive, can be habit
Speaker 2: forming and so on. But it's a good habit, a
Speaker 2: good habit to have when you're trying to have success
Speaker 2: in your garden. You know, you want to do good practices.
Speaker 2: You want to follow good horticulture practices. That's what we
Speaker 2: try to teach about here on Garden Line when we're
Speaker 2: talking about specifics, and I always try to lead you
Speaker 2: to success. I always say like brown stuff before green stuff,
Speaker 2: trying to make the point that when you get the
Speaker 2: soil right, you get your plants happy. That's the key.
Speaker 2: That's a foundation. There's other principles like plants need light,
Speaker 2: plants e moisture, but not too much moisture in most cases.
Speaker 2: And following those you do those things right and you
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Speaker 2: that is not at Southwest Fertilizer because Bob makes sure
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Speaker 2: people going to need it, He's going to carry it.
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Speaker 2: Houston or vice versa, right there on two forty nine,
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Speaker 2: plants for all seasons. Well, you were listening to garden Line,
Speaker 2: and we are coming close to a wrap. I probably
Speaker 2: could take a real quick call. One want to call
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Speaker 2: Of course next segment. When you're talking about things to
Speaker 2: be doing right now, it is time to get those
Speaker 2: seeds started. In fact, this afternoon, that is one of
Speaker 2: the things I'm going to be doing is starting some
Speaker 2: more seeds under lights that I have inside the garage.
Speaker 2: Got a little heat map to go underneath them under there,
Speaker 2: and I've got a lot of different things I want
Speaker 2: to try. You know, there's the standard way where you
Speaker 2: go buy a packet of seed and you bring it
Speaker 2: home and planet of course, that's legit. That's what most
Speaker 2: people do. I do seed saving from my non hybrid
Speaker 2: varieties of flowers and vegetables. I'll often save seed from them,
Speaker 2: and that's another way to do it. And then I'm
Speaker 2: a seed collector.
Speaker 20: You know.
Speaker 2: I was out on a roadside recently and saw some farkleberry.
Speaker 2: Have you ever heard of farkleberry. It's a relative of
Speaker 2: blueberries that grows wild up north of Houston and the woods,
Speaker 2: and it has beautiful burgundy color in the fall, and
Speaker 2: it makes these little tiny berries that are like a blueberry,
Speaker 2: but they're small and they're mostly seed, so none to
Speaker 2: write home about. I mean, you can make jelly out
Speaker 2: of them, but they're graft compatible with blueberries, and they
Speaker 2: grow on soil that blueberries might struggle in. So I'm
Speaker 2: going to I've got some seed. I'm going to start
Speaker 2: some farkleberries, and when they're old enough, I'll try grafting
Speaker 2: them to blueberries. Remember I said try something new this year.
Speaker 2: I haven't tried before. So that's just an example. I
Speaker 2: saw some beautiful roadside wildflowers that just were unique in
Speaker 2: a specific I won't bore you with the details, but
Speaker 2: it's like, Ooh, I haven't seen that species look like that.
Speaker 2: I collected the seed. They're about to go out in
Speaker 2: my garage and go into containers, and I'm going to
Speaker 2: check them out and maybe pick out some good ones.
Speaker 2: That would be another thing. And you're talking about things
Speaker 2: you haven't done before that you ought to try this year,
Speaker 2: that you're gonna try this year. How about trying your
Speaker 2: hand at improving a species or a crop. So I
Speaker 2: do that with Okra. For example, I cross okra and
Speaker 2: my best ones, I save them, and then I plant them,
Speaker 2: and I pull up everything that is not the best,
Speaker 2: and the ones that are left are the best, and
Speaker 2: then I do it again and again, and you get
Speaker 2: better at that. You can do the same thing. A
Speaker 2: lot of really quality plants that we have now were
Speaker 2: found by somebody somewhere and brought in and grown in
Speaker 2: that kind of way. And so these wildflowers that I planted,
Speaker 2: when I plant those seeds, they're not all going to
Speaker 2: be like what I the mama plant that I took
Speaker 2: them off of. So I'll pull up everything that is
Speaker 2: not like or better than the mother plant and just
Speaker 2: let it cross with itself and keep going like that.
Speaker 2: That's a hobby. And I know a lot of you're
Speaker 2: listening to go, I'm.
Speaker 9: Not gonna do it.
Speaker 2: That's fine, you I have to do. Gardening is a broad,
Speaker 2: broad hobby. Everybody is to do what they want. But
Speaker 2: I like playing in the dirt. You know, you're never
Speaker 2: too old to play in the dirt. You aren't. That's
Speaker 2: what they say. There's a shirt that says that. By
Speaker 2: the way, I'll collect gardening t shirts I have some
Speaker 2: really unusual as right, I'll posted the first to face
Speaker 2: all right, top of the hour. When we come back,
Speaker 2: Kay and pair Land, you'll be our first up.
Speaker 1: Welcome to kt r H garden line with skin rictor.
Speaker 2: Crazy Trim.
Speaker 3: Just watch him as many spots.
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Speaker 2: I'll be somewhat coherent even in this next hour. Our
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Speaker 2: first thing this hour. Hello, okay, welcome to guard Mine.
Speaker 21: Yeah, thank you for taking my call. I was just wondering,
Speaker 21: is this an okay time to plant amarilla spulbs. They're transplants.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's fine. You can do that now. You know
Speaker 2: normally we we we do a lot of bulb planting
Speaker 2: in the fall. Uh, yeah, you can still plant them now.
Speaker 2: There's there's nothing they'll they'll they'll grow. There are these
Speaker 2: ones that you are moving around your yard or are
Speaker 2: these ones you've purchased.
Speaker 21: No, these are ones I dug up. I didn't dig
Speaker 21: them up until about a month ago. I was having
Speaker 21: all my beds mulched, and I thought, well, I'm gonna
Speaker 21: get them out of there and put them back in.
Speaker 2: Okay, it ought to be fine. It ought to be
Speaker 2: fine to go ahead and do that. You bet, have
Speaker 2: have fun. Send me a picture when they all come
Speaker 2: out and start blooming.
Speaker 21: Oh okay, I'll try.
Speaker 22: Thank you talk to you.
Speaker 2: About all right. You're welcome to you bet. Yeah. By
Speaker 2: the way, all of you, you're welcome to brag about
Speaker 2: your stuff. You know, if you grow a tomato that
Speaker 2: you're particularly proud of, I'll I'll tell you a look
Speaker 2: at that. I'd like to see that, you know, or
Speaker 2: some beautiful Amarillus bulbs, or I don't know, some homemade
Speaker 2: contraption that you made. Well, well, we will go along
Speaker 2: with any of that kind of thing. Gardeners love to
Speaker 2: talk about gardening, you know. It's kind of like you know,
Speaker 2: you dog people, which, by the way, we have two
Speaker 2: golden retrievers, And so if you look at the photos
Speaker 2: on my phone too, but my wife's phone, you scroll
Speaker 2: through them and it's like eight hundred thousand pictures of
Speaker 2: our looks along with kids and grandkids and everything else.
Speaker 2: But gardener's that way. You know, you got to take
Speaker 2: pictures while your stuff. You should by the way that
Speaker 2: reminds me of something. Uh, this would be. I don't
Speaker 2: like the term New Year's resolution because to me, what
Speaker 2: that means is something I think I should do, but
Speaker 2: I'll never get around to when the when the rubber
Speaker 2: hits the road, right, But I'll just use it new
Speaker 2: Year's resolution. Here's an idea to journal your gardening activities
Speaker 2: this year. And you're thinking, Okay, I'm not a journ
Speaker 2: I don't have a journal that I write about what
Speaker 2: I think and feel and everything else. No, I'm talking
Speaker 2: about something different. I'm talking about when you plant and emeralists.
Speaker 2: Let's say this. We're just talking to okay about amarillis.
Speaker 2: When they come up and bloom, take a picture of
Speaker 2: it and where they are and where they're blooming. I've
Speaker 2: taken pictures of things after I planted them that are
Speaker 2: they're going to disappear away and later you want to go,
Speaker 2: like a bulb, dig it up you don't know where
Speaker 2: it is. Well, that's one thing you can do. But
Speaker 2: also take pictures of how things are doing and what
Speaker 2: works and what doesn't. You're out this year, You're going
Speaker 2: to grow tomatoes in your garden, let's say. And so
Speaker 2: you grow the tomatoes and you see a bug you'd
Speaker 2: never seen before, take a picture of it. Take a
Speaker 2: picture of it, and keep track of that. Some people
Speaker 2: like to write in a journal. You can do that.
Speaker 2: I like the electronic ones. There are different kinds of
Speaker 2: things that you can I'm not going to go into
Speaker 2: all the apps and softwares and things, but there's a
Speaker 2: lot of it out there. Some people just use, you know,
Speaker 2: something like Microsoft Word or Excel or something. You can
Speaker 2: take those pictures and you can put them into the
Speaker 2: journal of that year with those plants as well as notes.
Speaker 2: And I go back to notes all the time. You know,
Speaker 2: what was two years ago I planted a whole bunch
Speaker 2: of hot peppers. What was the name of that one?
Speaker 2: Or how did that do? Or what earlier? I two
Speaker 2: years ago, I took a picture of some stuff on
Speaker 2: Okra that I'd never seen before, And now I was
Speaker 2: just not too long ago thinking about, Okay, what was
Speaker 2: that and what month was that that I saw that?
Speaker 2: On it? With's on the picture the date on the picture.
Speaker 2: I mean, I'm just saying. You can journal about a
Speaker 2: lot of different things that you try and what works
Speaker 2: and what doesn't work. You can journal about pests and diseases.
Speaker 2: You know what You can also do You can clip
Speaker 2: something from online that you read that's really good and
Speaker 2: put it in that folder. I have folders like that
Speaker 2: where I read an article about not just make something
Speaker 2: up here, you know, Like I read an article about
Speaker 2: this great new carrot that has got way more vitamin
Speaker 2: or more beta caroteene in it, which is a precursor
Speaker 2: to vitamin A, and this and that and the other
Speaker 2: about this wonderful carrot, and I may just take a
Speaker 2: click that link and paste it into my journal in
Speaker 2: the section on vegetables or carrots or whatever, however organized
Speaker 2: you want to go about it, or however unorganized, however
Speaker 2: in depth or however just cursory. Find a way to
Speaker 2: capture the things that you see in or learning. You
Speaker 2: go visit a botanical garden in another city and you
Speaker 2: see this cool plant, take a picture of it, take
Speaker 2: a picture of the tag on it, and there you go.
Speaker 2: Now you know what it looks like, what it is.
Speaker 2: So when you go home, you can go see, hey,
Speaker 2: do you guys carry this plant? You got it with you,
Speaker 2: so take advantage of that. Some you can use the
Speaker 2: word journal however you want to look at it, just
Speaker 2: however you want to go about it. Do that. I
Speaker 2: really like the Microsoft product. One note for that I
Speaker 2: have used. Oh gosh, I can't even say the names
Speaker 2: of past softwares that I've used. And find what works
Speaker 2: for you or at you know, in the old days,
Speaker 2: we just cut clippings out of the newspaper and wrote
Speaker 2: on a you know, big chief tablet or three ring
Speaker 2: binder those things down. You will find that those become
Speaker 2: very helpful and educational for those of you that want
Speaker 2: to get really serious about gardening in one aspect or another,
Speaker 2: or at least to learn and remember. All right, that's
Speaker 2: enough of a spiel on that, but I think that's
Speaker 2: important and I encourage you to try doing that well.
Speaker 2: The folks at Microlife have put together a number of
Speaker 2: quality products, and I talk about these all the time,
Speaker 2: but micro Grow Liquid AF is one I just want
Speaker 2: to briefly mention to you. It is loaded with a
Speaker 2: bazillion different kinds of good things, eight specifically extremely dominating
Speaker 2: microbes for example, there are microbes that help control certain diseases.
Speaker 2: Micro Grow Liquid AF bioinoculate is loaded with those. There
Speaker 2: are microbes that live on the leaf and when a
Speaker 2: diseasepore lands or a bacteria lands, it out competes them
Speaker 2: or it just outright kills them. There's microbes that cause
Speaker 2: plants to growth to be regulated in a good way.
Speaker 2: There's microbes that help the plant obtain nutrients from the soil,
Speaker 2: and on and on and on down the way. Micro
Speaker 2: Grow Liquid AF bioinoculate. This is a liquid. You can
Speaker 2: get it at a granule, but this is a liquid.
Speaker 2: It is very effective and it's everywhere you see micro
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Speaker 2: Liquid AF all organic liquid biological inoculation for your plants
Speaker 2: and for your soil. Time for me to take a
Speaker 2: quick break. I'll be right back with your calls.
Speaker 5: Amaze, Welcome back to garden Line see dancing Glad to
Speaker 5: have you with us this morning.
Speaker 2: I'm your host, Skip Rechtor, and we're here to guide
Speaker 2: you to success in your gardening. How's that for a
Speaker 2: lofty goal. It's not rocket science, man, you can do it.
Speaker 2: Let's talk. You got a question, you got something you
Speaker 2: maybe I can be assistance with helping you have success
Speaker 2: with Let's talk about that very very important. Try to
Speaker 2: give you some principal. I try to avoid too much
Speaker 2: of the what is it didactic radio where I'm just
Speaker 2: like teaching the or that kind of thing. But I
Speaker 2: think at times it helps to understand the why. You know,
Speaker 2: a little bit of the why is helpful because then
Speaker 2: then you understand and you can apply that to other things.
Speaker 2: However you want to go about it, We're here for that.
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Speaker 2: The folks at wild Birds have come up with a
Speaker 2: new product and it is really cool stuff. They call
Speaker 2: it the Cardinal Confetti Blend. That was it was a
Speaker 2: Cardinal Confetti blend is designed you know, for cardinals, but
Speaker 2: I'm telling you a lot of birds will like this blend.
Speaker 2: It's got safflower backs, black sunflowers, sunflower chips, It's got
Speaker 2: something called nutris saff and, which is a safflower. It's
Speaker 2: got the bark butter bits, it's got peanut halves, dried
Speaker 2: meal worms. I'm not a bird is starting to make
Speaker 2: my mouth water, and striped sunflower seeds as well, and
Speaker 2: you put it in a I would just put it
Speaker 2: loose in a tray. You put it in a one
Speaker 2: of those tube feeders, or have a squirrel eliminator, my
Speaker 2: favorite bird feeder of all. You put it in there.
Speaker 2: They're going to keep this available year round because Cardinal's
Speaker 2: around year round. But it is really really cool. They've
Speaker 2: got a Cardinal tube feeder. It's brand new, also designed
Speaker 2: for this confetti collection, Cardinal Confetti. There's also a good
Speaker 2: evening Cardinal feeder. Two new feeders that are really really
Speaker 2: effective and they're attractive too, by the way. They also
Speaker 2: this time of the year because it's winter, the Winter
Speaker 2: super Blend, it's a still very important, very timely it's
Speaker 2: got the energy and the fats that birds need for
Speaker 2: winter survival. In fact, it's wild Bird Unlimited, its highest
Speaker 2: fat seed blend, the Winter super Blend. That's what's in
Speaker 2: my feeders right now, Winter super blund. And then they've
Speaker 2: got something called bark butter. Now this is crazy, but
Speaker 2: bark butter is a spreadable suet and you can literally
Speaker 2: you just go out there and smear it on a
Speaker 2: tree trunk and birds will come up and peck it.
Speaker 2: Out of that tree trunk. I mean you can smear
Speaker 2: it on a feed or whatever you want. But no
Speaker 2: bird food attracts more species of birds than Gem's birdaceous
Speaker 2: bark butter. Is that a name, Gem's berdaceous bark butter.
Speaker 2: Now Jim Carpenter, by the way, he's the wild Birds
Speaker 2: Unlimited founder, But they have documented one hundred and fifty
Speaker 2: plus bird species that are attracted to this bark butter.
Speaker 2: I mean this is this is like, this is like
Speaker 2: bird crack. Okay, I mean there's it's probably a control
Speaker 2: substance in the bird world. It is so good. It
Speaker 2: comes into bark butter bits and or little bite sized nuggets.
Speaker 2: It comes with something called bugs and bits. This does
Speaker 2: not make my mouthwater. It's bark butter bits with dried mealworms,
Speaker 2: and birds love dried mealworms, and so any kind of
Speaker 2: an insect eating bird especially is going to be very
Speaker 2: interested in that bark butter. So I can sit here
Speaker 2: and brag and brag and talk about it, but just
Speaker 2: know cardinal confetti blend, the new product with the cardinal
Speaker 2: tube feeder and the cardinal Good Evening cardinal feeder are
Speaker 2: all there. Also, know your birds need water. Birds drink
Speaker 2: every day of the year just like you do. So
Speaker 2: make sure there's always a supply of water out there
Speaker 2: for them, and you're gonna have good success with that.
Speaker 2: That reminds me I need to go out and check
Speaker 2: my feeders, another thing for me to do this afternoon.
Speaker 2: And I've not gotten the cardinal confetti yet, and then
Speaker 2: reading about I gotta get some. Next time I'm down
Speaker 2: at the wild birds, I'm gonna grab some of that stuff.
Speaker 2: That is really cool stuff. Cardinals are such beautiful birds.
Speaker 2: Beautiful beautiful. I mean, probably one of the most recognizable
Speaker 2: birds even by children out there. And they may call
Speaker 2: them a redbird, but cardinals are beautiful. They come to
Speaker 2: my feeder. Well, it is time for me to take
Speaker 2: another little break here in just a little bit. I
Speaker 2: want to let's see here. Yuh, I'm a little early
Speaker 2: on that, aren't I? Yeah, I'm a little excuse me,
Speaker 2: I have my time all wrong. I got time to
Speaker 2: go out here and talk to Mark in the woodlands.
Speaker 2: So let's do that. Hey, Mark, Welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 20: Hello, Randy, good morning.
Speaker 2: Oh wrong, guy, I skip. That's all right, Sorry, that's okay,
Speaker 2: that's okay, Randy Randy. Randy was a friend.
Speaker 20: I know, I know we miss him. Hey, I've got
Speaker 20: a meer lemon tree in a pot.
Speaker 17: That has absolutely bloomed.
Speaker 20: I've got I've got lemons glore on it like I
Speaker 20: wish I had in the spring, and I've got it
Speaker 20: in the garage now and I'm thinking I'm just gonna
Speaker 20: go with it and see if I'm going to be
Speaker 20: able to produce lemons with uh with this tree right now?
Speaker 20: Is there any harm in doing that? Or should I
Speaker 20: take them off?
Speaker 2: No? Not it all. When they're real tiny, they may
Speaker 2: abort if they go into some sort of stress and
Speaker 2: the little tiny pea sized lemons fall off, But as
Speaker 2: they get bigger, they stick. I would get that thing
Speaker 2: out of the garage as much as you can. If
Speaker 2: it's going to be above thirty two, I'd get it
Speaker 2: outside where it gets sunlight because sunlight on the leaves
Speaker 2: make carbohydrates and that's what helps that those lemons to
Speaker 2: grow mature and ripen on your tree. So as much
Speaker 2: as you can get it out, and if it goes
Speaker 2: below thirty two, put it back in. But I'm just
Speaker 2: telling you that tree will keep going even in the
Speaker 2: cool weather out there unless you just have an awesome
Speaker 2: lighting set up in the garage. I'd give it some sunlight.
Speaker 20: No, I'll get it out for sure. But so that
Speaker 20: means I'm probably I usually get those lemons in November
Speaker 20: and December when I when I take them off, But
Speaker 20: that means I'm going to have lemons and yeah, je.
Speaker 2: July, you'll have lemons coming up from them. Yeah, I would.
Speaker 2: I would take care of that crop. That's a good one. Yeah,
Speaker 2: then it a little bit.
Speaker 20: If I got so many lemons on there right now,
Speaker 20: it's unbelievable.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 9: Well.
Speaker 2: One of the principles of fruit growing is that, of
Speaker 2: course the sunshines on the leaves and make carbohydrates, right,
Speaker 2: That helps the tree set buds for fruit that turn
Speaker 2: into flowers and then fruit. But when you have a
Speaker 2: lot of fruit, the carbohydrates are going into that fruit,
Speaker 2: and so that may affect the bud set coming up.
Speaker 2: So if you lessen the load a little bit on lemons,
Speaker 2: if you have way more than you need, and you
Speaker 2: could lessen that crop load to an acceptable level, it
Speaker 2: may help it then do better at the next fruit set.
Speaker 2: A lot of the carbohydrates will go into forming fruit buds.
Speaker 2: Later that for your normal cycle that you were talking about.
Speaker 20: Okay, okay, hey, can I one more question?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 20: You got Yeah, trees. Should I have them trimmed it
Speaker 20: back by now or not?
Speaker 2: No, it's fine. You can trim them now. You can
Speaker 2: trim them a little later if you want. But there's
Speaker 2: just trim them before the buds start to push out,
Speaker 2: swell up and start to push out.
Speaker 20: Okay, very good, Skip, Thank you very much. I appreciate
Speaker 20: your help.
Speaker 2: Sure, all right, Mark, thank you. You take care. You
Speaker 2: know that thing about I was saying about carbohydrates and fruit, uh,
Speaker 2: fun fact, fun story. This is true. This is history.
Speaker 2: I have to say it's true, as if the other
Speaker 2: things I'm saying are not true. But really, this is true.
Speaker 2: When the Spanish conquistadors were floating across the ocean over
Speaker 2: here to find out what was going on in the Americas,
Speaker 2: what became the Americas. A guy named Cabeza de Vaca,
Speaker 2: which I can't imagine any mama or any person wanting
Speaker 2: to name their kid or be called or whatever Cadese
Speaker 2: Devakamin's head of the cow. I mean, how would you
Speaker 2: like that? He talked about a boy named Sue for
Speaker 2: a name head of the cow. Anyway, he was he
Speaker 2: was captured by Indians here in Texas and he was
Speaker 2: tied to a pecan tree. And he was the first
Speaker 2: guy to write about alternate bearing. In his notes that
Speaker 2: he took later, he wrote about alternate bearing of pecans
Speaker 2: or state tree. That means that one year pecans have
Speaker 2: a huge crop, the next year they have a very
Speaker 2: light crop, and then the next year they have a
Speaker 2: very heavy crop. That's called alternate bearing. And just the
Speaker 2: fun fact was the history that's that's the first guy
Speaker 2: that wrote about it over here, and he had plenty
Speaker 2: of time being chained to a pecan tree anyway, or
Speaker 2: tied not chained. The reason for that is pecan's bear
Speaker 2: in the fall. So if you have a heavy crop,
Speaker 2: all of those carbohydrates are going in to create pecan kernels.
Speaker 2: I mean, that's a lot of protein and oils and
Speaker 2: things that are going in there to make that luscious
Speaker 2: pecan kernel. So the tree isn't able to set pecan
Speaker 2: fruit buds or nut buds that would then come out
Speaker 2: in the spring with the little kakins that are hanging
Speaker 2: down that drop on the driveway, and then the little
Speaker 2: nuts that come out and get set, so the next
Speaker 2: year you wouldn't have a good pecan set. Then it's
Speaker 2: growing all through that year with no pecans on the tree,
Speaker 2: hardly at all, and it has one heck of a
Speaker 2: big set in the following fall. That's alternate bearing of pecans.
Speaker 2: And it's for the same reason that I was just
Speaker 2: discussing with Mark on thinning out that lemon a little
Speaker 2: bit to help out with that that heavy fruit lot.
Speaker 2: It's even worse with pecans for the reasons I've mentioned.
Speaker 2: But okay, fun fact, you learned that here you heard
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Speaker 2: All right. I'm gonna take a break. If you'd like
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Speaker 2: to garden Line.
Speaker 17: Thank you, good morning.
Speaker 6: I need uh some replacement plants for some Japanese box
Speaker 6: woods that that I lost during the summer. They had
Speaker 6: uh like dive back. Uh the branches would turned really
Speaker 6: for you. You probably know what I'm talking about. But
Speaker 6: I've got a hedge row and I was wondering, is
Speaker 6: there a plant that I could put in the places
Speaker 6: that I lost those box woods that would be compatible
Speaker 6: with the leaf shape of the Japanese boxwood.
Speaker 2: One idea would be to use a dwarf yopon. There
Speaker 2: are very compact dwarf yopons. You can let them grow naturally,
Speaker 2: or you can share them to squared around or whatever
Speaker 2: shape you want to do, just like you would have boxwood.
Speaker 2: That would probably be the first suggestion. That's a plant
Speaker 2: that's native in our region anyway, and I think that
Speaker 2: would that would be what I would suggest first. There
Speaker 2: are a few other things out there. Different things have
Speaker 2: their own challenges. Every plant has its pros and cons.
Speaker 2: But I think I think dorothy upon would be a
Speaker 2: good choice because.
Speaker 6: I don't want a pressy plant. And that's why I
Speaker 6: put the box woods out there, because I had locations
Speaker 6: than they were hardy. But some reason this past summer
Speaker 6: it was it was really bad.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so are the are the boxwood still around or
Speaker 2: are they gone off the property? And everything now?
Speaker 6: Well, No, the ones that were really bad, I dug
Speaker 6: up and I dug out the soil that was around there,
Speaker 6: and I haven't replaced anything, yet I needed to do
Speaker 6: some research and find something that was heardier.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, the reason I ask is if you can
Speaker 2: find some of the roots system of those box woods,
Speaker 2: it makes some of it may still be on the soil,
Speaker 2: but kind of take a spade and for it and
Speaker 2: dig it out and come of wash some water off
Speaker 2: and look at it and see if there's little bumps
Speaker 2: and knots all along the roots, if they look kind
Speaker 2: of normal, or if they are just very knotted and
Speaker 2: bumpy like a string of pearls, or that makes it
Speaker 2: sound prettier than it'll be. But anyway, that's nematodes and
Speaker 2: they can be a contributing factor, and knowing that they're
Speaker 2: there helps guide you as you're going to plant other
Speaker 2: things in the area too. So that's one of the
Speaker 2: things that attacks box woulds. So let's just make let's
Speaker 2: find out, just get that info by checking the root
Speaker 2: the roots that you can find still around.
Speaker 15: All right, good, I will do that. Thank you so much.
Speaker 15: I appreciate your help.
Speaker 2: You bet, thanks a lot. Thanks for the call, Sharon.
Speaker 2: We're going to go now out to Seabrook and talk
Speaker 2: to Sarah. Hey, Sarah from Seabrook.
Speaker 23: Hello, Rick, how are you?
Speaker 2: I'm good today?
Speaker 13: Hello?
Speaker 2: What can we help?
Speaker 23: I want to do air layering. Air layering on some
Speaker 23: kumquats that my friend has and I saw on YouTube
Speaker 23: where you can use spagnum moss and a plastic a
Speaker 23: small plastic bottle where you soak your spagnum moss and
Speaker 23: then put it in the bottle and then wrap it
Speaker 23: all up real tight. The only thing I was concerned
Speaker 23: about is there going to be root rot or rot
Speaker 23: in that bottle?
Speaker 2: Well?
Speaker 23: If it all the water?
Speaker 2: Can you put any kind of right? You can use
Speaker 2: all kinds of things to hold the soil around the stem.
Speaker 2: I mentioned doing it with bread wrappers when I was
Speaker 2: first learning to do this. That works great. You can
Speaker 2: buy You can take a little plastic bottle like you
Speaker 2: see and cut it and put the two halves around
Speaker 2: the stem and use that. There's the only way for
Speaker 2: water to get in will be when you open it
Speaker 2: up so that you can like pour a little bit
Speaker 2: of water back into the bottle, like if it rained
Speaker 2: on it or something. It's not going to get soggy
Speaker 2: because there's no way for water to get in once
Speaker 2: you've wrapped it up. In fact, once roots start to farm,
Speaker 2: you're going to have to open it up just a
Speaker 2: little to add more water. You know, when the first
Speaker 2: root forms, don't take it off. It's not ready yet.
Speaker 2: It needs a little bit more of a root system
Speaker 2: inside that. If you use a bottle inside that bottle.
Speaker 2: But yeah, it's not going to get soggy, you just
Speaker 2: it will only get soggy if you build a bottle
Speaker 2: fort of water, which you're not going to do.
Speaker 23: Okay, okay, as long as the spagnum moss is wet,
Speaker 23: then just leave it with that much moisture.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and you can use spagnum. I typically grab some
Speaker 2: potting soil and use that. I mean, there's there's no
Speaker 2: magic to it either way. Whatever works for you. Some
Speaker 2: people like the stringy sphagnum because I don't know, it's
Speaker 2: kind of hard. It's kind of easier to have it
Speaker 2: stick on there, whereas potting soul tends to fall away
Speaker 2: as you're trying to get it to stay to the
Speaker 2: stem till you can get something wrapped around it.
Speaker 23: Right, It is now a good time to do it.
Speaker 2: All right, anytimes you've done to do an earlier Okay,
Speaker 2: all right, yes.
Speaker 23: I'm on it, all right, Thank you so much.
Speaker 2: Take care, good luck with us. Hey, if it roots,
Speaker 2: send me a picture of it. I want to see
Speaker 2: your can see how I did. Thanks a lot, Sarah,
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Speaker 2: Start off with Paula. Hey, Paula, welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 24: Thank you, good morning, Thank you for taking my call.
Speaker 24: I have a two part question. I have three beautiful
Speaker 24: one set of plants, one limb walk off and I'm
Speaker 24: the type of person that pinches everything and roots it
Speaker 24: and plant it. I tried to put this in water,
Speaker 24: but it looks like that tip is starting to rot.
Speaker 2: Also, I would like.
Speaker 24: To plant these outside. My aunt has beautiful points setters,
Speaker 24: but she does live in port of that which is
Speaker 24: closer to the Gulf. She planted hers on the south
Speaker 24: side about twenty years ago and they're almost as tall
Speaker 24: as her house.
Speaker 22: What can I do.
Speaker 2: Well? I would I'd pull it out of the water.
Speaker 2: They're not going to do real well rooting in there.
Speaker 2: If you can, I would make a fresh cut, put
Speaker 2: it make a cut just below a node which is
Speaker 2: where the leaf attaches to the stem, or where there
Speaker 2: was in the past a leaf attached to the stem.
Speaker 2: And then dip that point seta in rooting hormone. Get
Speaker 2: some rooting hormone powder and get rooting hormone on the
Speaker 2: sides and especially the base of that point set of cutting.
Speaker 2: Then put it in some kind of a container with
Speaker 2: it could be just pearlite, or it could be you know,
Speaker 2: a quality potting mix. Put it down in there and
Speaker 2: put a clear bag over the top, something that will
Speaker 2: hold in the moisture. And there's a lot of ways
Speaker 2: to do that, but however works for you. Do that,
Speaker 2: and then put it in a very bright spot, but
Speaker 2: not direct sun, direct son. It'll get too hot in there.
Speaker 2: And once you've got moist mix and you've the point
Speaker 2: seta has rooting hormone on it, and you've got it
Speaker 2: in a bright area, Uh, then that's all you can do.
Speaker 2: After that. Nature has to take over from there.
Speaker 22: Okay, And now what about replanning the uh, the points
Speaker 22: shadows that are in the pot.
Speaker 2: I would wait until we are long past all the
Speaker 2: cold weather. You know, we don't want nights even down
Speaker 2: in the in the forties really. I mean, but if
Speaker 2: in the meantime get them outside while you can during
Speaker 2: sunny days and begin they've been in your house so
Speaker 2: they're not used to sun, so you don't just stick
Speaker 2: them in the full brunt of the sun all of
Speaker 2: a sudden, but gradually give them a little more and
Speaker 2: more sunlight, because you want to get those plants as
Speaker 2: strong as you can, and it takes sun to do that.
Speaker 2: They're diplenished right now from being inside. Get them as
Speaker 2: healthy as you can. Then when we get past all
Speaker 2: the frost, what what roughly where do you live? What
Speaker 2: area do you live in? We are you north?
Speaker 22: Fifty miles north of the Gulf of Mexico.
Speaker 2: Oh okay, all right, well I would say let's yeah,
Speaker 2: well let's get into you know, maybe second week of
Speaker 2: March or so. That's plenty a good time to go
Speaker 2: ahead and start putting those things out. Remember, the root
Speaker 2: system is very confined still, so over the first few
Speaker 2: months after you plant it, when you do your watering
Speaker 2: and fertilizing, you're primarily doing it within a foot of
Speaker 2: the stem of that plant, around the base there to
Speaker 2: help it get established. But the main thing right now
Speaker 2: is it's been in way too little light, and we
Speaker 2: got to get some sun and some carbohydrates so it
Speaker 2: has the energy to rebound.
Speaker 22: I can do that. And now, how much water as
Speaker 22: the plants get large. My aunt just doesn't do anything,
Speaker 22: but she it must just be a perfect location. How
Speaker 22: much water do they need a lot of water during
Speaker 22: the summer or just medium water?
Speaker 2: Yeah, so as there as their root as they're establishing
Speaker 2: during twenty twenty five through the season, a little more
Speaker 2: water than you normally would, not keeping it soggy, but
Speaker 2: always keeping it moist. Once the point said, it gets established, Uh,
Speaker 2: you just kind of have to water as needed. You know,
Speaker 2: if it's one hundred degrees for three weeks without rain,
Speaker 2: I mean you got a water, but uh, it's not
Speaker 2: something like you're having to water them every day. Once
Speaker 2: they're in the ground and have a root system.
Speaker 22: Well I know they have. My ants had all right,
Speaker 22: Bety flowers, And I just want to be able to
Speaker 22: plan thesea. And I appreciate your information. I'm going to
Speaker 22: follow it to the letter. Thank you so much for
Speaker 22: the call.
Speaker 2: All right, Well, once they get established and stuff in
Speaker 2: the future year, if you think about it, send me
Speaker 2: a picture. I'd love to see that. I appreciate you calling.
Speaker 2: We're going to go now to Curtis and Friends with Hey, Curtis,
Speaker 2: welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 9: Good morning.
Speaker 13: I have a question about I have a mango tree
Speaker 13: that's about four feet tall and the pot it's a
Speaker 13: way too small. I have it in my garage, so
Speaker 13: it's not getting the freeze and cold, and I wonder
Speaker 13: if it's okay for me to repot that now while
Speaker 13: I have it inside.
Speaker 2: You could you know? If you do, I think it
Speaker 2: needs to be out in light as much as possible
Speaker 2: and better lighting. So yes, you're correct, it doesn't want
Speaker 2: to be cold. But if we if we can warm
Speaker 2: up a little bit and get some days where their
Speaker 2: sunshine and it have a little light like that, I
Speaker 2: think it would really help it. When you repot it,
Speaker 2: you're going to want to cut the roots that are
Speaker 2: circling the container, and there's going to be a lot
Speaker 2: of them, so that's why I would first i'd probably
Speaker 2: cut those roots and then put it in the new
Speaker 2: pot that's larger, of course, and help it begin to
Speaker 2: re establish a new root system. And after you cut them,
Speaker 2: within a couple of weeks, you're going to see fresh
Speaker 2: new root. If you pulled it up, you would see
Speaker 2: fresh new roots growing from the cut ends, so don't
Speaker 2: be afraid to cut them. But do that, do some
Speaker 2: root pruning so that it doesn't get all pot bound
Speaker 2: or stay pot bound, and make sure you give it
Speaker 2: a little bit of light. If you have the time
Speaker 2: and energy to run it out every day for some
Speaker 2: sun and then back in, that would be ideal as
Speaker 2: far as the plant's concerned.
Speaker 13: Well, I have the pots on Dolly's with wheels, so
Speaker 13: I roll it in and out, and I've already used
Speaker 13: like a masonry trou slide down around, so I've listened
Speaker 13: it in the pot over the last week.
Speaker 2: Okay, Well that's good.
Speaker 13: A new pot.
Speaker 2: Okay. And what I would suggest you do is what
Speaker 2: now that you've got it loose, lean the pot over
Speaker 2: when you're ready to pull it out. Don't pull it.
Speaker 2: Don't grab the stem and pull it up out, lean
Speaker 2: it over and slide it out to the side. For
Speaker 2: various reasons, that's a little bit safer, better way to
Speaker 2: handle that. And then you can see the roots. You
Speaker 2: can use pruners or a box cutter knife or whatever
Speaker 2: to slice vertically down through that that root ball and
Speaker 2: make that those cuts when you're doing the repotting.
Speaker 15: Okay, okay, thank you.
Speaker 20: I appreciate.
Speaker 2: All right, Curtis, good luck, good luck with that. And
Speaker 2: all I ask is it someday when you get mangos,
Speaker 2: you send me a few. You take care boy. Bye?
Speaker 2: All right, folks, time for a break. I hear music.
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Speaker 14: Well.
Speaker 2: I answer the kinds of questions that you might have.
Speaker 2: What are you gonna be doing new this year? What
Speaker 2: are you going to try new? I've suggested a lot
Speaker 2: of things, like try your hand at dividing plants, try
Speaker 2: your hand at rooting cuttings, try your hand at air layering,
Speaker 2: grow vegetables if you never have before, grow vegetables you've
Speaker 2: never grown before. If you are a vegetable gardener, what
Speaker 2: are you gonna try it's new. There's a lot of
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Speaker 2: Try something new this year. Gardening is way too much
Speaker 2: fun to just do the same old, same ole over
Speaker 2: and over and never nothing new.
Speaker 1: Welcome to Katie r h Garden Line with Skip Richard.
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Speaker 2: here and we're going to talk to Carrie in Columbus. Hello, Kerry,
Speaker 2: Welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 25: Hello Skip, Happy new year to you.
Speaker 2: And you as well. Thank you.
Speaker 17: I have a.
Speaker 25: Question about a avocado seed that I planted. Early your shows.
Speaker 25: You were talking to a lady about the roots that
Speaker 25: have the little knobs, pearl looking knobs on them. Well,
Speaker 25: when I planted this seed, it had that. Now it
Speaker 25: is in its own pot, but it's currently in a
Speaker 25: greenhouse with a lot of other plants, So I'm wondering,
Speaker 25: is this going to cause a problem with my other plants.
Speaker 2: No, I think that's something else you're seeing on the
Speaker 2: avocado seed. I wouldn't worry about that.
Speaker 25: Okay, okay, very good. Thank you.
Speaker 2: Are you saying it was on the roots that came
Speaker 2: out of Are you saying it's on the roots that
Speaker 2: came out of the seed? Yes, sir, on the roots
Speaker 2: if you want to, if you want to take a
Speaker 2: picture of it, put your finger in there in the
Speaker 2: picture pointing to one of those, or a pencil or
Speaker 2: something pointing to one of those root white things, and
Speaker 2: get up close and sharp focus and send me a photo.
Speaker 2: I'll put you on hold when we finish here. If
Speaker 2: you would like to wait, Jonathan'll pick it up and
Speaker 2: give you an email to send it to. I'll check
Speaker 2: to be extra sure. It's very unlikely that that is
Speaker 2: a nematode, but I will take a good close look
Speaker 2: at it if you want to send me a picture.
Speaker 2: I think you had another follow up question.
Speaker 25: Yes, I have another avocado seed that I'm growing. I'm
Speaker 25: kind of curious. Is there any way I could get
Speaker 25: these things to produce fruit.
Speaker 2: In time? They will. That seed is juvenile, and as
Speaker 2: it grows, the plant is juvenile, and at some point
Speaker 2: a maturity process occurs where it can produce fruit. It
Speaker 2: would be like a human or an animal. You know,
Speaker 2: a young child is not capable of having offspring, but
Speaker 2: as they get older, there is a point where you're
Speaker 2: capable of having off That is true with plants too,
Speaker 2: and that avocado has to get past the juvenile stage,
Speaker 2: which could take I don't know off the top of
Speaker 2: my head. In avocados, I know with like a pecand tree,
Speaker 2: that could be fourteen years. With a peach tree, probably
Speaker 2: about seven. But it's going to take a while, but
Speaker 2: at some point it is able to produce avocados from
Speaker 2: a seed.
Speaker 25: Okay, yeah, because my husband and I both like avocados,
Speaker 25: so we thought we'd tried to grow a tree because
Speaker 25: I've googled and I'm able to find you know, I
Speaker 25: tree that I could actually plant now and it would
Speaker 25: produce fruit in a couple of years. I mean, because
Speaker 25: we're in our sixties.
Speaker 2: And there all. Yeah, you're out there in Columbus if
Speaker 2: you came in as far as the Kadi area just
Speaker 2: north of ten.
Speaker 19: H.
Speaker 2: Nelson Water Garden, Carri's fruit. And I don't know that
Speaker 2: they carry avocado. They may carry them, and they may
Speaker 2: be able to get them. They probably won't have them
Speaker 2: in stock now because it's wintertime. But if you wanted
Speaker 2: to call Nilson Water Garden, I'll bet they could get
Speaker 2: you one. If not, it depends on how much of
Speaker 2: a trip you want to make. But you could go
Speaker 2: down to enchanted gardens between Katie and Richmond Rosenberg, and
Speaker 2: I bet they have avocados seasonally, and plus those are
Speaker 2: fun places to visit anyway. But you could get a
Speaker 2: tree that you put it in the ground and it
Speaker 2: won't be very long before it's ready to produce fruit
Speaker 2: because it's been grafted.
Speaker 12: Right.
Speaker 25: Okay, we know where both of those areas are. We
Speaker 25: came from Katie, so we know where everything is. Okay, Well, great,
Speaker 25: I appreciate your help, and yes, I'll try all right.
Speaker 2: Columbus, Texas. Yes, I was just saying Columbus, Texas. When
Speaker 2: I was a kid, we would travel from Sand Antonio,
Speaker 2: let's just say San Antonio to Houston basically, and that
Speaker 2: was back before convenience stores and all of that. You know,
Speaker 2: there wasn't such a thing as a seven eleven or McDonald's.
Speaker 2: And we had to stop at a Gulf gas station
Speaker 2: in Columbus where they had a little side room where
Speaker 2: you could put a coin in a box and pull
Speaker 2: it and you'd get crackers out the bottom.
Speaker 13: Right.
Speaker 2: That's my Columbus story. That was civilization as far as
Speaker 2: I was concerned as a small child, and during a
Speaker 2: four hour trip. Carrie, thank you, thanks for enduring that story.
Speaker 2: Take care bye bye. That's like, you know, that's like
Speaker 2: one of these old stories. You know, the guy that
Speaker 2: had to walk you know, your parents they had to
Speaker 2: walk uphill through the snow to school both ways going
Speaker 2: and coming. We're going to go to friends with now
Speaker 2: and talk to Beverly. Hey, Beverly, welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 17: Hello.
Speaker 26: I have a Jerusalem artichoke that I planned probably a
Speaker 26: year ago, and I don't know when to harvest them.
Speaker 26: I tried, you know, the green comes up and it
Speaker 26: blooms and then it dies back down, and I thought, well,
Speaker 26: maybe that's when I would dig them up. But they
Speaker 26: were very very tiny. It's like very.
Speaker 2: Small when you say small, small as like like a
Speaker 2: pece an inch across or across all right, Well, for
Speaker 2: some reason they didn't, Yeah, they didn't. How tall were
Speaker 2: they when they were growing before the coal weather hit?
Speaker 26: Oh a good two three foot They were very tall
Speaker 26: and they bloomed it looked really healthy. And this is
Speaker 26: in the container, a big, huge container.
Speaker 2: Oh a container. Okay, that may be part of the reason.
Speaker 2: That may be part of the reason they're Jerusalem Artico
Speaker 2: chokes will get pretty tall, and now they vary between varieties,
Speaker 2: but they ought to be, you know, up in the
Speaker 2: five six foot range in the ground, growing healthy. And
Speaker 2: what happens is the tops grow and they collect sunlight
Speaker 2: and they put it in the in those storage tubers
Speaker 2: on the roots. That is what you're growing the plant
Speaker 2: for those tubers, right, and they should get up to
Speaker 2: be the size, oh about an inch in diameter, up
Speaker 2: a little bit bigger than that. They can be larger
Speaker 2: than that, but they don't get much bigger than an inch.
Speaker 2: So next year, if they're in really good sunlight, you
Speaker 2: should they should do better. You can. You can dig
Speaker 2: them up and put a few back in the ground,
Speaker 2: but just know that they can get a little weedy,
Speaker 2: so don't let them just run wild and free for
Speaker 2: too long because they'll spread on you.
Speaker 26: Okay, thank you very much, I appreciate that. But when
Speaker 26: do you harve it in the fall? After that the stem.
Speaker 2: Seat, well, you can harp you can harve the meantime,
Speaker 2: you wait till fall if you want to get the
Speaker 2: most production and size out of them. But you might
Speaker 2: try to kind of digging down, get your little spade
Speaker 2: and fart and going to there and lift the soil
Speaker 2: up a little bit and kind of just work. You're
Speaker 2: not digging up the plant, you're just kind of exposed
Speaker 2: some of those see what's underneath there. But it's been
Speaker 2: a long time since I grew jerwis lamartin chokes. We
Speaker 2: grew a number of varieties and that some are round,
Speaker 2: some are elongated, and yeah, it's you can grow them.
Speaker 2: They're enthusiastic growers well.
Speaker 26: And they're very good for you to eat too, especially
Speaker 26: for people. I'm not diabetic, but for people who are diabetic,
Speaker 26: that is true.
Speaker 2: The type of sugars in there, it's different, that's true. Hey, Beverly,
Speaker 2: I got a run for a break. But thanks and
Speaker 2: good luck with those. Appreciate it, all right, folks, I
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Speaker 2: building a good, strong tree, and that continues throughout the
Speaker 2: life of the tree in the form of occasional pruning
Speaker 2: as needed. Someone with a good eye that knows what
Speaker 2: to look for can tell you exactly what needs to
Speaker 2: be done on that tree, and that's Martin. So if
Speaker 2: you can't remember the last time you had your trees
Speaker 2: pruned and evaluated for their health, now is the time. Absolutely,
Speaker 2: don't delay. The single most valuable plant your landscape is
Speaker 2: a tree. It adds much value to the home it provides.
Speaker 2: It can provide shade for cooling during the summer months.
Speaker 2: It's a valuable thing. They'll mess around cal Martin seven
Speaker 2: to one three sixt' nine nine two six sixty three,
Speaker 2: or just go to his website aff tree service dot com.
Speaker 2: Aff tree service dot com. I saw a tree the
Speaker 2: other day that had been uprooted. What happens. What happened
Speaker 2: is rain, rain, rain, rain, rain. The soil is basically
Speaker 2: just soup. I mean, it's just like oat meal. You know,
Speaker 2: it's all soft and gooy and everything. Here comes the
Speaker 2: wind and that tree's anchorage. It's got the roots out there,
Speaker 2: but you know, the soil goes with it and it
Speaker 2: just it doesn't hold. You got to take care of
Speaker 2: your trees. You want to have a good, a good, good,
Speaker 2: proper caring for them. What I also saw the other
Speaker 2: day was a tree that wasn't prune right, and I
Speaker 2: could tell because the branch had fallen off, and where
Speaker 2: it had fallen off, there was a big black area
Speaker 2: where it attached. You know, your branch attaches to the
Speaker 2: trunk and if it's a narrow angle, the bark gets
Speaker 2: squeezed in there. As the trunk gets bigger, and as
Speaker 2: a branch gets a bigger, the bar gets squeezed in there.
Speaker 2: And so that's a very weak union. I mean, there's
Speaker 2: no connection in that black area. It's just a bunch
Speaker 2: of dead, rotting, composting bark. And so when it snaps
Speaker 2: away there, we saw it, and I knew exactly why
Speaker 2: that branch snapped. It was a very weak union. And
Speaker 2: that starts with proper training early on in the process.
Speaker 2: You're listening to garden line. I haven't mentioned it all
Speaker 2: day to day. I can't believe this, but I have
Speaker 2: a website. It is gardening with Skip dot com. Gardening
Speaker 2: with Skip. That's me. You can garden with me. Gardening
Speaker 2: with Skip dot Com. Go there and you're gonna find
Speaker 2: a lot of good information there. And I say that
Speaker 2: because I put it up there on purpose. First of all,
Speaker 2: the first thing you're gonna see is Randy Lemon Scholarship.
Speaker 2: Randy was a legend in our area and all of
Speaker 2: you who benefited from him, no I'm talking about and
Speaker 2: there's you can give toward a scholarship that was set
Speaker 2: up by Dan Nelson in Randy's name, up at Texas
Speaker 2: A and M. You can give online or you can
Speaker 2: write a check and mail it to them. And if
Speaker 2: you go to my website look at the Randy Lemon's Scholarship.
Speaker 2: It tells you everything that you need to know. And
Speaker 2: I would ask you to consider, just consider making a
Speaker 2: donation to Randy Lemon's scholarship at A and M. I
Speaker 2: know how happy and proud he would be of that.
Speaker 2: That was his alma mater as it was mine. And
Speaker 2: this is your chance, you know, to help the next
Speaker 2: generation of horticultures coming out of the university War Department there.
Speaker 2: That is important. I'm a product of that, and as
Speaker 2: you do things now, you make a difference for the future.
Speaker 2: There's also an article on growing transplants and it's specifically
Speaker 2: on quality lighting for growing transplants. I'm going to put
Speaker 2: another one up on how to grow transplants and it
Speaker 2: goes beyond lighting taking care of transplants. There's an article
Speaker 2: also on there, and you don't see it in the
Speaker 2: new articles you got to you gotta click on all publications,
Speaker 2: but as you scroll down there is one called tis
Speaker 2: the Season to be Freezing? That links you to a
Speaker 2: publication nine pages on how to protect plants against cold,
Speaker 2: and I would recommend you take a look at that.
Speaker 2: There's other good articles and things on there as you will.
Speaker 2: But anyway, gardening with Skip dot com, Gardening with skip
Speaker 2: dot com, go check it out. We're gonna put more
Speaker 2: good stuff up there. And that's one way that I
Speaker 2: can answer a question that requires more information than I
Speaker 2: can go into on just a phone call or more
Speaker 2: in depth. And I'll continue to post those things up
Speaker 2: there if you'd like to give us a call. Maybe
Speaker 2: you have a gardening question seven one three two one
Speaker 2: two k t r H. Seven one three two one
Speaker 2: two k t r H. Well, all this rain means
Speaker 2: that our clay soils have swollen up. Do you know
Speaker 2: a clay shrinks and swells, or at least some types
Speaker 2: of clays especially shrink and swell a lot. And that's
Speaker 2: the kind we have here in the Houston area along
Speaker 2: the Gulf coast. When that happens, it causes Well, how
Speaker 2: about this. Have you ever been going on a sidewalk
Speaker 2: and seeing this big giant pad of sidewalks sticking up
Speaker 2: or you trip over it, or maybe your driveway is
Speaker 2: cracking or heaving in the same way, that's the soil
Speaker 2: moving it around. Well, all you have to do is
Speaker 2: call Martin. Martin, I'm back on the tree. Thing called
Speaker 2: Ty Strickland at fixed my slab foundation repair. Ty's been
Speaker 2: doing this for twenty three years. He's a native Heystonian,
Speaker 2: fifth generation Texan. He knows our soil, he knows what
Speaker 2: happens to foundations, and he knows what to do about it.
Speaker 2: And if you call Tye at two eight one two
Speaker 2: five five forty ninety nine, he can come out. He
Speaker 2: can take a look. Tell him you're a guarden line listener.
Speaker 2: Free estimates for garden line listeners. Have him come take
Speaker 2: a look. Maybe your doors are sticking inside, or maybe
Speaker 2: sometimes they stick and sometimes they don't. That's a movement indicator.
Speaker 2: Maybe there's a crack in the sheet rock or on
Speaker 2: the brick on the outside, that's a movement indicator. Have
Speaker 2: him come look at it. He'll evaluate, he knows what
Speaker 2: he's doing. He'll tell you if nothing needs to be done,
Speaker 2: and he'll tell you if something needs to be done,
Speaker 2: what your options are. The things that I most appreciate
Speaker 2: about Tie is that he shows up when he tells
Speaker 2: you he's going to show up. He's on time, he
Speaker 2: gives you a fair price, and he fixes it right.
Speaker 2: One two three. Boy, if you could have that from
Speaker 2: any service person that comes to your house, wouldn't you
Speaker 2: love to have that on time, fair price, fixed right.
Speaker 2: That's important and that's tie. Fix myslab dot com is
Speaker 2: a website. Fix myslab dot com two eight one two
Speaker 2: FI five forty nine forty nine. The We have had
Speaker 2: to bring service people into our house for various things.
Speaker 2: And I'm telling you, boy, there is a night and
Speaker 2: day difference. I had had a plumber come a while back,
Speaker 2: and oh my gosh, I said they're gonna be there
Speaker 2: first thing in the morning. By mid afternoon still hadn't
Speaker 2: showed up yet. I'm sitting there wasting my whole day
Speaker 2: waiting on them to show up. A stuff drives me nuts.
Speaker 2: And then the job they did is like I think
Speaker 2: I could have done that anyway. I'll leave it at that.
Speaker 2: Let's go out to the phones. We're going to talk
Speaker 2: to Ronnie and Lake Jackson. Hey, Ronnie, welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 9: Yes, sir, I appreciate you taking my call. Hey, what
Speaker 9: I'm calling about is I've got a couple of rows.
Speaker 27: Of Japanese box woods that run up and down my driveway.
Speaker 27: And in the last year now they've been through, of
Speaker 27: course all the Hurricane two hill storms and everything.
Speaker 9: And I went online and I found some fertilizers specifically
Speaker 9: four boxwoods type. Do you think it's okay to shout
Speaker 9: out until spring comes? Or should should? I? Is it
Speaker 9: okay to go ahead and fertilize them now?
Speaker 2: Well, you could fertilize them now, some of the nitrogen
Speaker 2: will wash away in the meantime, uh, you know, because
Speaker 2: it nitrogen's a volatile substance, so it might be better
Speaker 2: to wait and have it around more when the plants
Speaker 2: are actually ready to take it up. I don't know
Speaker 2: what fertilizer it was you saw online. I don't really
Speaker 2: don't really need to know. I know Nelson has one
Speaker 2: called Nutristar Tree and Shrub. Nutristar Tree and Shrub is
Speaker 2: designed for our trees and shrubs here in our climate
Speaker 2: here in this part of Texas. There's also Nitrofus has
Speaker 2: a really good U one for trees and shrubs. We
Speaker 2: call those woody ornamentals.
Speaker 10: You know.
Speaker 2: Nitrus has a really good one for that as well.
Speaker 2: Those are both available about the canister. So you know,
Speaker 2: you just got a tree or two you're taken care of.
Speaker 2: You you can use those, so that that's what I suggest.
Speaker 2: But anyway, as far as timing, yeah, let's get a
Speaker 2: little growth starting on them and then put that down
Speaker 2: and watered in really good. And I think you're gonna
Speaker 2: get the most bang for your buck that way.
Speaker 10: To get my by.
Speaker 9: As always, I appreciate the information.
Speaker 2: All right, good luck with us. You take care. Thanks
Speaker 2: for the call. Glad you call first. Yeah, if you
Speaker 2: have any kind of question on things like you're about
Speaker 2: to buy. One of the things that is most discouraging
Speaker 2: for me is to talk to someone who made a
Speaker 2: mistake and then they call, you know, and maybe it's
Speaker 2: like they went out and pruned their tree and now
Speaker 2: they're asking me if that was right, or they they
Speaker 2: spent some money on a plant to put in the
Speaker 2: ground and you know, maybe it's a fascipia or a
Speaker 2: lilac because they came from the Midwest and they remember
Speaker 2: those plants. And I got to be the bearer of
Speaker 2: bad news to go. It's just not going to do
Speaker 2: well here, you know, call me first and let me
Speaker 2: help you with that. I hate to see people waste money.
Speaker 2: I hate to see people waste time. And I can
Speaker 2: help you avoid both of those, and that's definitely wanted
Speaker 2: to do. Hey, it's your choice. You know I'm not
Speaker 2: in charge you. I don't tell you what to do.
Speaker 2: I give you my advice. You decide whether you want
Speaker 2: to take it or not. But at least give me
Speaker 2: a shot and helping save time and help you have success.
Speaker 2: That's what I want to do. Time for me to
Speaker 2: take a break. I'll be right back at seven to
Speaker 2: one three two one two k t RH. Hey, welcome back,
Speaker 2: Welcome back to guardenline. Hey, let's do this. We got
Speaker 2: some more to talk about today, and we got a
Speaker 2: half hour, not just under a half hour to get
Speaker 2: it done. If you got some questions, I have open
Speaker 2: phone lines. Believe it or not, they are open phone lines.
Speaker 2: If you would like to give me a call. I
Speaker 2: can't promise you you'll be first. Someone may dialet faster,
Speaker 2: but you definitely will get on if you want to
Speaker 2: give us a call now, seven to one three two
Speaker 2: one two k t r H seven one three two
Speaker 2: one two k t r H. Simple as that. Uh,
Speaker 2: it is fruit tree planning season. Earlier, I mentioned that
Speaker 2: I was going to plant a grape that's going to
Speaker 2: go on a trellis that I've already got the spot
Speaker 2: ready to go for it. I just need to get
Speaker 2: my plants and put them out there and do that.
Speaker 2: And if you are looking to plant a grapevine, a blueberry,
Speaker 2: a fig, a BlackBerry, any kind of fruit tree, any
Speaker 2: kind of fruit plant, now this season is a great
Speaker 2: time to go ahead and get that done. And you know,
Speaker 2: the grapes, if you're going to plant a grape, you
Speaker 2: want to plant one that's going to do well. Here,
Speaker 2: one that's going to do well. Listen, grapes are very
Speaker 2: disease prone, and we struggle with a lot of issues
Speaker 2: on grapes, but there are a handful of varieties that
Speaker 2: are very resistant. Blanc dubois is a white grape. If
Speaker 2: you go to a vineyard in southeast Texas, nine inches
Speaker 2: out of ten you're looking at Blanc du bois grapes
Speaker 2: because they are Pierce's disease resistance, and that is a
Speaker 2: grape killing disease. They're good. There's an old variety black Space,
Speaker 2: It's tough, that's been around for a while. There are
Speaker 2: muscadine grapes. Muscadines are extremely adapted to the wet, humid
Speaker 2: climate that we have here. There's one there's one called
Speaker 2: Victoria Red that was named after Victoria out there. It
Speaker 2: was actually an Arkansas a breeding line that does really well.
Speaker 2: And then my favorite of all the table grapes is
Speaker 2: Southern sensation seedless table grape. So where do you get
Speaker 2: something like that? Latteywhere you get them? At Arburgate? Arborgate
Speaker 2: has got I was talking to Canon and Beverly out
Speaker 2: there and just said, hey, send me a list of
Speaker 2: all the fruit trees that you got going. I want
Speaker 2: to know what you carry pages. Send me pages of
Speaker 2: fruit trees and all those grapes I mentioned ar at Arburgate.
Speaker 2: Do you want plums? How about this? Have you ever
Speaker 2: heard of a pluot? A pluot is a cross between
Speaker 2: a plum and an apricot. They've got those at Arburgate.
Speaker 2: They got palm granites. I'm going to the unusual things here.
Speaker 2: How about gogie berries? Have you ever done of the
Speaker 2: dragon fruit fruiting edible bulberries? Of course, yeah, they got
Speaker 2: those there. One of the longest selections is some fruit
Speaker 2: that you're ever going to see I mean like fig
Speaker 2: Their fig list is way over a dozen different figs
Speaker 2: you can choose from. All are Arbrogate. Of course, when
Speaker 2: you're at Arburgate, you know you're gonna find everything else
Speaker 2: cool seas, color, vegetables, herbs. Right now they've got gorgeous camellias.
Speaker 2: They're in both in bud and in bloom and there's
Speaker 2: more coming by the way. Row their roses are blooming. Yeah,
Speaker 2: it just I just spend the whole day going on
Speaker 2: about it. They also have seed starting kits and the seeds.
Speaker 2: So I've been talking about growing your own transplants. Now's
Speaker 2: the time run by Arbigate. Grab your seed starting kit
Speaker 2: and some seed. And remember they got that new parking
Speaker 2: lot in back where I don't care how much it rains.
Speaker 2: I don't care how many people are visiting Arborgate and
Speaker 2: it's a popular place. You can go in the back
Speaker 2: and have easy access to good safe park and easy
Speaker 2: accessed into the nursery there at Arburgate. And for those
Speaker 2: of you who've been living under a rock don't know
Speaker 2: where Arbigate is, it's west of Tombull on twenty nine
Speaker 2: twenty Highway twenty nine to twenty. Just west of Tombull.
Speaker 2: You'll see it over on the left hand side. You
Speaker 2: can't miss it. Let's go to the phones and we're
Speaker 2: going to head out to let's see Clark Spring, Texas.
Speaker 2: Is that right? And talk to cry there. Good morning,
Speaker 2: Hello cr Yeah, Cat.
Speaker 7: Springs, check it out west of Beauville.
Speaker 2: Oh, Cat Springs. I love that old German what do
Speaker 2: you call that round octagony kind of building that the
Speaker 2: German settlers would build out there. You got one of
Speaker 2: those out there in Cat Springs Country. I can't remember
Speaker 2: what it is. It's a community building. I can't think
Speaker 2: of the name of it. Anyway. Yeah, anyway, go ahead.
Speaker 7: Hall, Yeah, it's the egg hall. It's our egg hall
Speaker 7: that you're talking about.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah. Though you see those kind of the
Speaker 2: middle part of Texas, it is. It is old time
Speaker 2: cool all right. Anyway, you didn't call me to talk
Speaker 2: about buildings. How can I help?
Speaker 7: Yes, sir?
Speaker 9: Okay.
Speaker 7: So with the weather that we've had over the last week,
Speaker 7: we covered all of our olive trees and our gave
Speaker 7: plants that we have out on our ranch, and you
Speaker 7: know we cover them up well with all the frost
Speaker 7: blanket with the burlap. So we completely covered them, did
Speaker 7: a really good job. Titlem all did them correctly. Well,
Speaker 7: now my question is it's gonna be warmer over the
Speaker 7: next five days or so, but then it looks like
Speaker 7: next weekend it's gonna, you know, be back down in
Speaker 7: the mid to low thirties. So with that said, specifically
Speaker 7: for the olives and the tequila gave plants, will I
Speaker 7: go ahead and uncover them for the week and then
Speaker 7: have to put all that back on or can I
Speaker 7: just leave it on through the week and will.
Speaker 9: They be okay?
Speaker 2: So the cloth is I had a kind of a
Speaker 2: white spunbound polyester kind of fabric that you put.
Speaker 5: Over them, yes, okay, And you said.
Speaker 2: So burlaps on top of the plant, not wrapped around
Speaker 2: the base or anything. Okay, Yeah, the burlap is shading
Speaker 2: them too much. I hate to catch you to the work,
Speaker 2: but ideally I would pull it off because you're gonna
Speaker 2: have a bunch of sunny days at least five I
Speaker 2: believe of sun. You probably ought to let them catch
Speaker 2: up from that, let the soil warm up and stuff,
Speaker 2: and then put it back down. But I'll tell you this,
Speaker 2: if it's not going to go below below thirty two,
Speaker 2: may even thirty. You're in good shape. Those olives are
Speaker 2: not going to be killed at thirty. And I've never
Speaker 2: tried to grow the tequila type of agavii you have,
Speaker 2: but my bet is that it can take thirty two
Speaker 2: because we're thirty also, so I don't know that you
Speaker 2: have to recover them, but I don't know. Let's get
Speaker 2: closer where we have a more accurate weather prediction before
Speaker 2: we make that decision.
Speaker 7: Okay, So at this point, go ahead and pull off
Speaker 7: the burlap and the white crostcloth woad, and just pull
Speaker 7: that off for the week and then see what the
Speaker 7: weather looks like.
Speaker 2: Yes, shade is a stressor for plants that like sun,
Speaker 2: and sun makes carbohydrates. Carbohydrates make our sugars that are
Speaker 2: essentially anti freeze in the plant. So we want to
Speaker 2: give them all the chance for that that we can.
Speaker 2: And so I would if you left them shaded, would
Speaker 2: it be the end of them? Probably not, But I
Speaker 2: think the best would be to let them have sunlight
Speaker 2: because we've got a lot of good, good sunny days here.
Speaker 7: Okay, So as long as I look at the weather
Speaker 7: and next weekend, it's not going to be below thirty two.
Speaker 7: Don't worry about covering them. Even if it's thirty four
Speaker 7: or thirty five.
Speaker 2: I can leave them un covered, absolutely absolutely, and even
Speaker 2: I bet they'd even go to thirty without a problem
Speaker 2: on those I know olives can. But anyway, yeah, how
Speaker 2: old are these olive trees?
Speaker 9: Yeah, so.
Speaker 7: They're anywhere from three years that eight years. But they
Speaker 7: were recently planted okay, six months ago?
Speaker 2: Oh okay, okay, well yeah, that little extra care on
Speaker 2: a new plant like that, once in olive is established.
Speaker 2: I've seen him go down, you know, twenty eight and
Speaker 2: be fine.
Speaker 7: So okay, well great, that's good news, sir. I appreciate
Speaker 7: your help. Thank you.
Speaker 2: You bet take care. Let's now listen, I got I
Speaker 2: got to take a little quick break. Hey, Cleveland, san Antonio.
Speaker 2: I'll be coming to you first when we come right
Speaker 2: back from this break.
Speaker 5: All right, welcome back to Garden Line. We're gonna run
Speaker 5: straight out to San Antonio. That doesn't take a while
Speaker 5: to get Santonio running. We're gonna talk to Cleveland. Hey Cleveland,
Speaker 5: welcome to guard Line.
Speaker 26: Good morning to step How you doing.
Speaker 2: I'm well, sir, I'm well. How can we help today?
Speaker 15: I'm going to add a little color to my landscape.
Speaker 11: Most everything's all brown out there, and I was going.
Speaker 14: To put down some rye grass.
Speaker 11: I was trying to find out if it's too late
Speaker 11: to do that.
Speaker 2: Rye grass. It's a little late. Normally he'd plant that
Speaker 2: in November in San Antonio. Uh, you could put it
Speaker 2: out now, it will come up. Uh, as long as
Speaker 2: we don't have a really really bad cold snap or
Speaker 2: something that messes with the little tender seedlings. You ought
Speaker 2: to be okay on it. It would be it would
Speaker 2: be worth worth giving it a shot at this point.
Speaker 9: Oh, okay, it sounds good.
Speaker 20: Thank you you.
Speaker 2: But hey, Cleveland, do you know have you ever heard
Speaker 2: of David Rodriguez uh out there in San Antonio on
Speaker 2: the radio?
Speaker 9: Yeah?
Speaker 20: Yeah, part of them.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Okay, David's a friend of mine. He is on
Speaker 2: iHeart station in San Antonio, and I'm telling you he's
Speaker 2: a great horticulturist too. Please keep listening to garden Line.
Speaker 2: But I just wanted to tell you about him because
Speaker 2: he's he's local there, and he is he is an expert.
Speaker 2: Very very good. That's it. Hey, thanks for calling me.
Speaker 2: Appreciate You're welcome calling anytime you want. All right, folks,
Speaker 2: let's go to Carol in Baytown. Hey, Carol, welcome to
Speaker 2: garden Line.
Speaker 17: Jared morning. I have sent you pictures on an email.
Speaker 2: You did and.
Speaker 17: I'm opening I've never you always did to try, Steph.
Speaker 17: So I'm trying. Mhm, and I don't know what to
Speaker 17: do with both people.
Speaker 2: Good for you, So what what is your what is
Speaker 2: your question? Just on cutting it back? That's that's basically
Speaker 2: what you're.
Speaker 9: Wanting to know on this fair.
Speaker 17: I hadn't in the ground.
Speaker 28: I've always read that it was supposed to be like
Speaker 28: three years or something before it produces.
Speaker 17: But this, this is so big, and well.
Speaker 2: What is this? Yeah, no, it's good. No, No, you
Speaker 2: can you can. Okay. Here's the thing with asparagus. It
Speaker 2: actually does better further north because they have a real
Speaker 2: winter and it dies to the ground and it doesn't
Speaker 2: come up until spring, and then it comes up with
Speaker 2: these nice strong spears that we eat. We harvest the
Speaker 2: first spears that are coming out here. It says green
Speaker 2: above ground all winter, and so we don't really get
Speaker 2: that carbohydrate storage sometimes or to the degree we want.
Speaker 2: I've talked to people that will just come in and
Speaker 2: they will cut that asparagus off at the ground and
Speaker 2: let it come out fresh totally and do the harvesting
Speaker 2: at that time. So if you want to wait a
Speaker 2: little bit, maybe get into a little further into January February,
Speaker 2: or you could try it doing it right now. Either
Speaker 2: way is fine. But just know that we are so
Speaker 2: warm here that asparagus doesn't fully go dormant like like
Speaker 2: it should, but that yours.
Speaker 17: Is very happy.
Speaker 28: Yes, okay, okay, so wait late January, cut it back, yeah, just.
Speaker 2: Cut all the way to the ground. It'll it'll be
Speaker 2: fine because up north it freezes to the ground has
Speaker 2: to start all over again.
Speaker 28: So you can do that with the that I can
Speaker 28: cut them right it comes up and cut them okay, okay.
Speaker 15: Broccoli, absolutely.
Speaker 9: See it.
Speaker 2: No, it'll be fine. If you're going to get down
Speaker 2: to twenty eighth, well, molts for weeds and stuff, but
Speaker 2: the broccoli is fine. I would just uh, that's a
Speaker 2: small head forming in there. Just watch it. What happens
Speaker 2: the broccoli heads. You know, not all broccoli makes a
Speaker 2: big head. For various reasons. You may end up with
Speaker 2: a head the size of a golf ball or the
Speaker 2: size of a softball, or they had the size, you know,
Speaker 2: even the large ones. Just watch the buds as the
Speaker 2: buds start to get bigger, and you want them to
Speaker 2: get larger the individual little bud in the head. But
Speaker 2: at some point it starts to kind of get looser.
Speaker 2: It's not a good tight head, and you want to
Speaker 2: pick it before it gets loose, and certainly before the
Speaker 2: buds start to open up the yellow flowers, so uh
Speaker 2: you wey don't have to grow to get more out
Speaker 2: of it, and then cut it off just below if
Speaker 2: you haven't grown it before. What's going to happen is
Speaker 2: you're going to get side shoots of broccoli that come
Speaker 2: out below that head, so it'll produce a second crop
Speaker 2: of small broccoli stalks. They won't get very big, and
Speaker 2: you'll get a second harvest out of those. So once
Speaker 2: you cut the top one out, but you want to
Speaker 2: let it get as much as you can without it
Speaker 2: getting big and loose. That's the bottom line.
Speaker 17: Okay, sounds good.
Speaker 15: Okay, And I was going to tell you there's another picture.
Speaker 17: Yeah, it's two of each. There's two of broccoli.
Speaker 28: I want to tell you I grew burgundy okra this season.
Speaker 28: I got it from Buchanans and it.
Speaker 17: Was so pretty.
Speaker 28: I'm enjoying oprah because it goes a long time. You
Speaker 28: can it just now froze. So I've been saving my seeds.
Speaker 28: I knew you like oprah, Yes.
Speaker 2: Good, good for you? Yeah I do. And burgundy is
Speaker 2: an open pollinated variety. You can save the seed from
Speaker 2: all right. Now, you've got to figure out other ways
Speaker 2: to cook it. Do you have a favorite way of
Speaker 2: eating okra? Do you have a favorite?
Speaker 17: I really don't know how to save it.
Speaker 15: Well.
Speaker 17: I like to roast it. That's how my daughter likes.
Speaker 15: To eat it.
Speaker 17: But when I get an abundance, is it better to
Speaker 17: cut it and freeze it or just freeze it whole?
Speaker 2: You know, I'm not a food preservation expert, but there
Speaker 2: is a website at the University of Georgia. It's a
Speaker 2: National Food Preservation website, and I mean it's got everything
Speaker 2: from freezing to drying, to canning, to water bathing to
Speaker 2: you name it, and they can tell you all about
Speaker 2: what you need to blanch and what you don't need
Speaker 2: to blant. I don't know how you roast yours. We
Speaker 2: rub olive oil on ours, sprinkle salt on them, and
Speaker 2: put them on the grill for two minutes on each side.
Speaker 2: And that's how we like people make gumbo out of okra.
Speaker 2: I also dry okra. I will I will slice it
Speaker 2: and put enough food dryer and dry it and store
Speaker 2: it in a jar or run it through a like
Speaker 2: of item X type thing to grind it up. And
Speaker 2: now you have okra powder that can be used. You
Speaker 2: can use the dried sliced okra to reconstitute in soups.
Speaker 2: You can use the powdered You know, people are gonna
Speaker 2: roll their eyes when I say this, but I take
Speaker 2: a spoon of okra powder put it in my smoothies
Speaker 2: and it thickens them up. And they don't taste like
Speaker 2: okra when you do that, they taste like the smoothie.
Speaker 2: But it's a good thing for thickening soups and things.
Speaker 2: So yeah, there's a lot of ways to preserve okra.
Speaker 15: Okay, all right, I better run.
Speaker 2: I'm about out of.
Speaker 17: Time here, all right, Thank you so much.
Speaker 2: Yeah, look for National Food Preservation you better. Thanks very much.
Speaker 2: You know, we love feed stores on Garden Line and
Speaker 2: League City. Feed Down in League City is a great feedstore.
Speaker 2: It's one of those old time feed stores. You go in,
Speaker 2: you're going to find all the fertilizers I talk about.
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Speaker 2: If you got back air chickens, they got everything you
Speaker 2: need for your backyard chickens. They are three blocks, a
Speaker 2: few blocks actually, south of Highway ninety six on Highway
Speaker 2: three in League City two eight one three three two
Speaker 2: sixteen twelve League City Feed. Any of you anywhere in
Speaker 2: that region should swing by there and make that your
Speaker 2: hometown feed store because it's a good one. Well, I
Speaker 2: hear music, which means we gotta go today. I got
Speaker 2: stuff to do. You know they say the cobblers kids
Speaker 2: go barefoot. I got to get up in my garden,
Speaker 2: start taking care of it. I'll be back in the
Speaker 2: morning six am. Talk to you then,