WEBVTT 1 00:00:01.080 --> 00:00:04.879 Welcome to kt r H Garden Line with Skip Ricord. 2 00:00:04.919 --> 00:00:12.320 It's a trim. 3 00:00:13.240 --> 00:00:21.079 You just watch him as many. 4 00:00:20.920 --> 00:00:30.160 Good things to see Botasys gas days bad not a 5 00:00:30.399 --> 00:00:32.679 sound glass. 6 00:00:35.719 --> 00:00:37.799 Sunmons of. 7 00:00:39.359 --> 00:00:44.560 All right, good morning, good morning, and welcome to Garden Line. 8 00:00:44.600 --> 00:00:48.840 We are ready to go here on the start of 9 00:00:48.880 --> 00:00:51.520 a new show. You know we're here every Saturday morning 10 00:00:52.200 --> 00:00:54.439 six am. Obviously you know that you wouldn't be listening. 11 00:00:55.159 --> 00:00:58.359 Those that don't know that aren't listening. We also here 12 00:00:58.479 --> 00:01:00.479 tomorrow morning at six am. We go to ten every 13 00:01:00.520 --> 00:01:03.240 day each day on the weekend, and we're here to 14 00:01:03.280 --> 00:01:05.599 answer your gardening questions. So if you have any kind 15 00:01:05.640 --> 00:01:08.719 of a question something we can help you with, help 16 00:01:08.799 --> 00:01:11.640 you have success, just give us a call seven one 17 00:01:11.719 --> 00:01:14.879 three two to one two kt r H seven one 18 00:01:14.920 --> 00:01:20.560 three two one two kt r H. I. I've got 19 00:01:20.560 --> 00:01:23.640 a number of things that I'd like to cover today, 20 00:01:23.719 --> 00:01:26.760 things that are seasonal stuff that we need to be 21 00:01:26.799 --> 00:01:29.079 getting done or we could be getting done out there 22 00:01:29.439 --> 00:01:32.000 in the landscape and the garden and even some inside 23 00:01:32.000 --> 00:01:36.239 the house. This has been kind of a wet ish 24 00:01:36.400 --> 00:01:39.879 off and on and definitely a cold past few days 25 00:01:39.879 --> 00:01:41.480 that we've had. It's going to be a good week 26 00:01:41.560 --> 00:01:44.120 coming up. A little bit on the chilly side, but 27 00:01:44.680 --> 00:01:47.200 basically we got sunshine and which is a good thing. 28 00:01:47.799 --> 00:01:50.239 I've got some decent highs for the days we can 29 00:01:50.280 --> 00:01:53.519 get outside and get a few things done. And I 30 00:01:53.599 --> 00:01:56.120 need my soil to dry out just a little bit, 31 00:01:56.920 --> 00:02:00.560 because I've got quite a bit that I've caught the storms. 32 00:02:00.560 --> 00:02:03.000 It seems like they've wherever they rain, they made sure 33 00:02:03.000 --> 00:02:04.519 and come to my house and did a little of that. 34 00:02:04.840 --> 00:02:07.319 So it's nice and moist out there. I'm not going 35 00:02:07.359 --> 00:02:09.919 to complain in that. But at the same time, I've 36 00:02:09.960 --> 00:02:13.280 got to move a garden fence post. Yeah, that's right. 37 00:02:13.599 --> 00:02:17.000 I put a patio in and now my entrance to 38 00:02:17.080 --> 00:02:19.240 the garden is in a different spot, so I have 39 00:02:19.319 --> 00:02:21.960 to move a fence post, move the gate, and so 40 00:02:22.319 --> 00:02:25.840 digging in clay soil when it is wet is a challenge. 41 00:02:26.400 --> 00:02:29.000 You would never want to dig your garden soil when 42 00:02:29.000 --> 00:02:30.960 it's wet. I'll tell you why in just a moment. 43 00:02:31.719 --> 00:02:33.919 But when it comes to moving a fence post, it's 44 00:02:33.960 --> 00:02:35.840 still okay. It's just kind of hard to tamp them 45 00:02:35.840 --> 00:02:40.479 in and get a nice, good, straight, sturdy post that way, 46 00:02:40.599 --> 00:02:43.879 So why not move mix or mess with garden soil 47 00:02:43.879 --> 00:02:47.199 when it's wet, when I dig it rototill, it's spaded well. 48 00:02:47.319 --> 00:02:51.039 Soil has structure. Structure is the way the little clumps 49 00:02:51.080 --> 00:02:55.039 of soil grouped together. The reason that a heavy, gooey 50 00:02:55.080 --> 00:02:59.080 clay is so massive and sticky like that doesn't have 51 00:02:59.120 --> 00:03:02.080 good oxygen, water doesn't move in it very fast. It 52 00:03:02.120 --> 00:03:05.159 is because the structure has been destroyed and the type 53 00:03:05.199 --> 00:03:09.080 of clay just doesn't allow that. So it's kind of 54 00:03:09.080 --> 00:03:11.599 like modeling clay. If you remember playing with modeling clay 55 00:03:11.599 --> 00:03:13.719 when you were a kid. That is a clay with 56 00:03:13.879 --> 00:03:18.919 no structure, no decent structure. As we add organic matter, 57 00:03:19.000 --> 00:03:23.280 as roots go through it, as organic acids some of 58 00:03:23.319 --> 00:03:26.039 the we'd always talk about humus and humic acid and 59 00:03:26.080 --> 00:03:30.039 things like that. That all helps contribute to good structure. 60 00:03:30.080 --> 00:03:33.039 So it gets looser. It's still a clay, but it's 61 00:03:33.080 --> 00:03:37.719 more crumbly. So if you take a criminal massive Houston 62 00:03:37.759 --> 00:03:39.919 black clay, that's the name of the clay along here 63 00:03:39.960 --> 00:03:42.199 along this part of the Gulf coast, Houston black clay 64 00:03:43.240 --> 00:03:47.319 the primary clay, and you let it dry out, it's 65 00:03:47.360 --> 00:03:51.000 like concrete. But if it had good structure to it 66 00:03:51.120 --> 00:03:54.439 if you'd added compost, and if you had all the 67 00:03:54.479 --> 00:03:58.719 biological activity doing what microbes and roots and everything else 68 00:03:58.840 --> 00:04:01.759 is doing. You grab that dry clay and squeeze it 69 00:04:01.800 --> 00:04:04.520 and it would crumble apart in your hand. And from 70 00:04:04.680 --> 00:04:08.319 a soil scientists import they call that friable soil. It 71 00:04:08.360 --> 00:04:10.639 breaks apart in your hand. That's what we're going for. 72 00:04:10.759 --> 00:04:13.919 And if you have a nice friable clay and you 73 00:04:14.120 --> 00:04:16.839 mess with it when it's too wet, you're gonna end 74 00:04:16.920 --> 00:04:20.759 up destroying some of that very important structure that helps 75 00:04:20.800 --> 00:04:23.360 plants thrive. Plants can thrive in clay, A lot of 76 00:04:23.360 --> 00:04:27.800 plants can if it drains adequately well, So we don't 77 00:04:27.839 --> 00:04:31.519 walk on our garden beds. When you're making garden beds, 78 00:04:32.680 --> 00:04:35.000 make the bed and then you never set a foot 79 00:04:35.000 --> 00:04:38.319 on it after that. When we were doing beds and 80 00:04:38.439 --> 00:04:41.600 community gardens and from some school gardens, I always advise 81 00:04:41.680 --> 00:04:45.720 people don't make that bed any longer that the most 82 00:04:45.759 --> 00:04:49.120 sixteen feet. That's a long way, because what's going to 83 00:04:49.160 --> 00:04:50.879 happen as kiddos are gonna be on one side and 84 00:04:50.920 --> 00:04:52.279 want to get the other side, and how they're going 85 00:04:52.319 --> 00:04:54.480 to get there. They're going trapes right through the middle 86 00:04:54.519 --> 00:04:56.319 of that bed. And we don't want to walk on 87 00:04:56.360 --> 00:04:58.120 our beds, so if you make them short enough, people 88 00:04:58.160 --> 00:05:01.319 walk around the ends that are trying to jump a anyway, 89 00:05:01.879 --> 00:05:04.560 don't mess with your soil when it's too wet. So 90 00:05:04.759 --> 00:05:08.120 whenever the soil is moist is the best time to 91 00:05:08.120 --> 00:05:11.360 work it. When it's dry, hard to work dry soil. 92 00:05:11.399 --> 00:05:14.879 It's like concrete, especially clay. But when it's too wet, 93 00:05:15.040 --> 00:05:19.399 you're destroying structure. So you find that sweet spot. And 94 00:05:19.439 --> 00:05:23.839 that's why it's important to take advantage of those moments 95 00:05:23.959 --> 00:05:27.680 when we do have good moderate soil moisture to get 96 00:05:27.720 --> 00:05:29.800 out there and improve your soil. All right, Well, that 97 00:05:29.920 --> 00:05:33.519 was a lot of information there about improving soil, but 98 00:05:34.160 --> 00:05:36.480 that's the important thing. And by the way, when you're 99 00:05:36.560 --> 00:05:39.040 going to improve your soil, you want to make sure 100 00:05:39.319 --> 00:05:43.240 and get a quality compost product, not something that's been 101 00:05:43.360 --> 00:05:47.120 rushed through real fast, not something the composting process, Not 102 00:05:47.240 --> 00:05:50.839 something that is basically a bunch of chunks of wood. 103 00:05:51.680 --> 00:05:56.639 You want a well composted, well screened compost mixed for 104 00:05:56.759 --> 00:05:58.480 the soil. Now, chunks of wood are great for the 105 00:05:58.480 --> 00:06:01.439 top of the soil. You know, when you look at 106 00:06:01.439 --> 00:06:04.560 screened compost. When you look at stuff like our shredded 107 00:06:04.560 --> 00:06:08.160 hardwood composts and other things like that, that's good for 108 00:06:08.199 --> 00:06:11.240 the top. That's called malch in the soil. We want 109 00:06:11.240 --> 00:06:13.759 a good quality compost, and you know you can you 110 00:06:13.759 --> 00:06:15.959 can find that. Somebody asked me the O today, where 111 00:06:16.000 --> 00:06:18.040 can I get some good composts? And they're a little 112 00:06:18.040 --> 00:06:22.720 down south of town, and I said, Cianamulchamult is the place. 113 00:06:23.120 --> 00:06:26.879 They're out there on ear road sharing. It's on FM 114 00:06:26.920 --> 00:06:29.759 five twenty one. You can go to the website. I 115 00:06:29.800 --> 00:06:32.879 can give you days and hours and times and places, 116 00:06:32.920 --> 00:06:35.800 and just go to the website Sienna Maltch dot com, 117 00:06:35.839 --> 00:06:38.399 CNA malts dot com. When you go there, you get 118 00:06:38.399 --> 00:06:43.279 a choice, you get to purchase. If you like landscapers 119 00:06:43.279 --> 00:06:46.800 Pride black velvet, they've got that. If you like products 120 00:06:47.000 --> 00:06:50.399 from excuse me, airloom soils, they've got those. They have 121 00:06:50.480 --> 00:06:53.360 their their veggiane herb mix there. If you need to 122 00:06:53.399 --> 00:06:57.079 add nutrients to the soil fertilizer in other words, from 123 00:06:57.160 --> 00:07:01.680 nitrophoss or from nelson or azemite for micros or microlife 124 00:07:01.759 --> 00:07:04.560 or an organic source, they've got all of that there. 125 00:07:04.560 --> 00:07:06.800 And they have Medina too, by the way, as well, 126 00:07:07.079 --> 00:07:09.279 so anything you know, you always hear me say brown 127 00:07:09.279 --> 00:07:12.240 stuff before green stuff. Well, brown stuff is a soil. 128 00:07:12.279 --> 00:07:14.600 Green stuff is the plants. If you want to go 129 00:07:14.639 --> 00:07:16.839 to a place where you get anything you need regarding 130 00:07:17.040 --> 00:07:19.879 brown stuff, regarding making that soil the best it can be, 131 00:07:19.959 --> 00:07:22.040 so you can have success with that, I would send 132 00:07:22.040 --> 00:07:25.399 you to see an a mulch down there. They they 133 00:07:26.800 --> 00:07:28.639 know what they're doing. They have quality stuff. And by 134 00:07:28.639 --> 00:07:29.959 the way, why are you're done there? You can get 135 00:07:30.040 --> 00:07:33.519 mulch as well. You can get landscaped stones and rock. 136 00:07:33.600 --> 00:07:37.000 I mean, it's it's a great place, all right. Well, 137 00:07:37.680 --> 00:07:40.319 bottom line is take care of the soil. They say, 138 00:07:40.360 --> 00:07:44.360 make hay while the sun shines. I would say, yeah, 139 00:07:44.439 --> 00:07:48.160 you also improve your soil while the sunshines. In other words, 140 00:07:48.600 --> 00:07:50.480 the sun's coming out this week. We may get a 141 00:07:50.519 --> 00:07:52.959 little soil work done. Time for me to take a break. 142 00:07:53.079 --> 00:07:56.000 I'll be right back with your questions at seven one 143 00:07:56.120 --> 00:08:01.519 three two one two ktrhy. 144 00:08:01.600 --> 00:08:05.360 Good morning, good Saturday morning. 145 00:08:06.160 --> 00:08:10.680 This is a good morning to be inside listening to 146 00:08:10.720 --> 00:08:16.120 garden line. That is for sure. We we love being outside. 147 00:08:16.120 --> 00:08:17.959 And I alwould say, hey, put your phone in your pocket, 148 00:08:18.000 --> 00:08:21.120 turn upside down, turn the speaker on, get some gardening 149 00:08:21.120 --> 00:08:23.720 work done while you listen to garden line. I think 150 00:08:23.759 --> 00:08:26.600 that's a good plan. That's something I do. I love 151 00:08:26.639 --> 00:08:29.199 to take my phone out with me when I'm when 152 00:08:29.199 --> 00:08:31.600 I'm out and about working in the garden and things 153 00:08:31.680 --> 00:08:36.879 like that. Makes it makes it real easy. Well, uh, 154 00:08:36.960 --> 00:08:40.440 there is a we have, we have some good weather coming, 155 00:08:41.200 --> 00:08:45.240 but there's always you know, there's always the next freeze 156 00:08:45.240 --> 00:08:47.879 that we're going to deal with. And I think, oh gosh, 157 00:08:47.919 --> 00:08:50.120 it was last week or two weeks ago. Even I 158 00:08:50.159 --> 00:08:52.360 was talking about the fact that East Hardware has so 159 00:08:52.399 --> 00:08:56.440 many freeze protection products, and so what kinds of things 160 00:08:56.480 --> 00:08:58.799 am I talking about? What I'm talking about the the 161 00:08:59.120 --> 00:09:01.480 little clamp on lights where you put them underneath the 162 00:09:01.480 --> 00:09:03.519 plant that you've covered and it adds a little bit 163 00:09:03.519 --> 00:09:06.080 of heat under there. Talking about the covers, the various 164 00:09:06.120 --> 00:09:09.279 kinds of frost blanket, different different things you cover a 165 00:09:09.279 --> 00:09:12.679 plant with. And they also have those little things you 166 00:09:12.720 --> 00:09:16.840 screw on to your outdoor faucets that allow for the 167 00:09:16.879 --> 00:09:19.600 water to trickle out when it gets cold. They don't 168 00:09:19.639 --> 00:09:21.320 run all the time. You know, what I've always done 169 00:09:21.399 --> 00:09:24.360 is let my faucet run on a trickle. It's kind 170 00:09:24.399 --> 00:09:26.519 of hard getting it just right when you do that, 171 00:09:26.600 --> 00:09:30.720 you know, But when you have those little attachments, it 172 00:09:30.919 --> 00:09:34.039 doesn't run until it gets cold, and when it starts freezing, 173 00:09:34.480 --> 00:09:38.080 that's when it starts to trickle out and keep that 174 00:09:38.159 --> 00:09:40.679 faucet from freezing up. I think it's a great way 175 00:09:40.720 --> 00:09:44.080 to go, a really cool way to go. They also 176 00:09:44.120 --> 00:09:46.240 have the faucet covers. By the way. That that thing 177 00:09:46.240 --> 00:09:47.679 you screw on up it's talking about is called a 178 00:09:47.679 --> 00:09:51.559 freeze miser. Freeze miser. They have everything like that. Now, 179 00:09:51.600 --> 00:09:53.639 we just went through a little freeze, but one off, 180 00:09:53.639 --> 00:09:56.240 a bigger ones come in. You know, they come, and 181 00:09:56.279 --> 00:09:58.080 you know when they come, you're never ready for it. 182 00:09:58.120 --> 00:09:59.799 You got to run out there and grab stuff. And 183 00:10:00.000 --> 00:10:02.559 everybody else has already been out in shop. Will that'd 184 00:10:02.600 --> 00:10:04.679 be a good time to get stocked up on those 185 00:10:04.799 --> 00:10:05.320 kind of things. 186 00:10:05.320 --> 00:10:05.480 You know. 187 00:10:05.519 --> 00:10:08.039 You get you some freeze misers, some passet covers, and 188 00:10:08.080 --> 00:10:10.000 then you got them when the next freeze rise, you 189 00:10:10.039 --> 00:10:11.919 got your clamp on lights and the bulbs to go 190 00:10:12.000 --> 00:10:13.759 in them to provide a little bit of heat under there. 191 00:10:14.120 --> 00:10:16.600 You're ready to go when the freeze comes. Now, Ace 192 00:10:16.600 --> 00:10:18.639 Hardware is all over the place, easy to find them. 193 00:10:19.200 --> 00:10:22.000 There's ACE Hardware up in Willis called All Seasons Ace 194 00:10:22.080 --> 00:10:25.000 up there in Willis, up in Cypress, We've got Cypress Ace. 195 00:10:25.720 --> 00:10:28.759 We've got J and R Ace in Porter, and Kilgour 196 00:10:28.840 --> 00:10:31.799 Lumber down in Claire Lake. Those are just four examples 197 00:10:31.960 --> 00:10:34.279 of a lot of different ACE options. You can go 198 00:10:34.320 --> 00:10:36.879 to Ace Hardware dot com, find the store locator, find 199 00:10:36.879 --> 00:10:39.519 the one near you. But the main thing is, hey, 200 00:10:39.840 --> 00:10:43.440 why not get ready for a bigger freeze because they 201 00:10:43.480 --> 00:10:46.080 can come. And I can't tell you if it will 202 00:10:46.159 --> 00:10:50.879 or won't. We just know that absolutely we have to 203 00:10:50.919 --> 00:10:53.000 deal with that, and so we might as well be 204 00:10:53.039 --> 00:10:57.519 ready to go for it because it will happen all right. 205 00:10:57.960 --> 00:11:02.480 By the way, the Chris Ace is stocking up too, 206 00:11:02.600 --> 00:11:05.320 for we're hitting the point where we're in spring cleaning 207 00:11:05.559 --> 00:11:07.559 right now. Uh, so you get you know, you got 208 00:11:07.600 --> 00:11:10.799 to get everything order. They have all kinds of spring 209 00:11:11.000 --> 00:11:14.080 cleaning supplies, storage toads. I was just putting the still 210 00:11:14.120 --> 00:11:16.720 putting up some stuff from the Christmas holidays and things, 211 00:11:17.120 --> 00:11:19.639 and uh, you know, we're how are you gonna pack 212 00:11:19.639 --> 00:11:21.519 it up? How are you gonna get stored for next year, 213 00:11:21.559 --> 00:11:23.440 ACE Sketch covered on all of that kind of thing. 214 00:11:23.440 --> 00:11:26.279 If you're going to get your garage and order shelving units, 215 00:11:26.320 --> 00:11:29.000 which is something I'm also doing right now, having to 216 00:11:29.000 --> 00:11:31.159 put in some new shelves in the garage and things. 217 00:11:31.159 --> 00:11:34.600 They've got good options for that as well. Uh, it's 218 00:11:34.679 --> 00:11:37.080 just a it's just a place to go for everything. 219 00:11:37.159 --> 00:11:39.360 They say ACE is the place, and it really is. 220 00:11:39.960 --> 00:11:41.799 While you're there, by the way, you need to sign 221 00:11:41.840 --> 00:11:45.440 up online for the ACE Rewards program and I belong 222 00:11:45.559 --> 00:11:48.440 to it. And every time you buy something, you you 223 00:11:48.519 --> 00:11:52.080 build up your points and things for discounts and special offers, 224 00:11:52.399 --> 00:11:55.960 and their special offer is only available to ACE Rewards customers. 225 00:11:55.960 --> 00:11:58.639 They get emailed directly to you. So why not you're 226 00:11:58.639 --> 00:12:01.559 already shopping, just go on to East hardbroad Dock, come 227 00:12:01.600 --> 00:12:04.840 sign up for ACE Rewards and it does pay off, 228 00:12:05.159 --> 00:12:10.559 It absolutely does. Alrighty, let's see here. I was gonna 229 00:12:11.039 --> 00:12:14.240 talk a little bit this morning about some vegetable gardening 230 00:12:14.480 --> 00:12:18.360 things that we need to be aware of. The cool 231 00:12:18.399 --> 00:12:22.279 season here in the Greater Houston area is relatively mild. 232 00:12:22.559 --> 00:12:27.080 We don't have to deal with really difficult cold. We don't. 233 00:12:27.200 --> 00:12:30.200 We're fortunate in that way, but occasionally, you know, we 234 00:12:30.279 --> 00:12:32.960 get some doozies, but in general we're okay. So we 235 00:12:33.039 --> 00:12:37.000 can grow. We can garden all through the cool Seasoncoli 236 00:12:37.080 --> 00:12:39.720 our broccoli right now, we're still harvesting it is doing good. 237 00:12:40.120 --> 00:12:43.000 Our freeze freeze wasn't bad enough to hurt it, and 238 00:12:43.080 --> 00:12:46.200 so we're good. Uh, It's time for me to get 239 00:12:46.240 --> 00:12:49.200 out and plant some more cool season greens. I love 240 00:12:49.600 --> 00:12:52.080 cool season greens. At number one, there's some of the 241 00:12:52.120 --> 00:12:57.039 most nutrient packed vegetables that we can grow, things like 242 00:12:57.480 --> 00:13:01.799 kale and spinach. A lot of folks like to plant lettuce. 243 00:13:01.879 --> 00:13:03.879 By the way, if you're going to grow lettuce, the 244 00:13:04.080 --> 00:13:07.879 bib lettuce or the leaf types of lettuce are much 245 00:13:07.960 --> 00:13:11.080 more successful here than head lettuce. I'm not saying you 246 00:13:11.120 --> 00:13:14.120 can't grow lettushead. I'm just saying the bib and leaf types. 247 00:13:14.120 --> 00:13:16.320 I think they're more attractive. Also in a salad, but 248 00:13:17.559 --> 00:13:19.600 you can grow romain and I know that is a 249 00:13:19.639 --> 00:13:21.600 heading type of lettuce, and I love it for the 250 00:13:21.679 --> 00:13:25.000 crunchiness of it. You can't have a caesar shallad without it, right, 251 00:13:25.679 --> 00:13:28.240 But you can get out and plant those things. Now. 252 00:13:28.720 --> 00:13:31.440 Some of the things like carrots can go in the 253 00:13:31.440 --> 00:13:34.000 ground still. Now we can continue to plant those through 254 00:13:34.039 --> 00:13:36.840 the cool season. It's still good to be if you 255 00:13:36.960 --> 00:13:41.039 haven't planted the blue leaf vegetables. Also, those things have 256 00:13:41.120 --> 00:13:46.120 more names than a criminal on the run. They're called 257 00:13:46.360 --> 00:13:50.960 blue le vegetables. They're called coal crops, colle coal crops. 258 00:13:51.200 --> 00:13:54.960 They're called cruciferous vegetables because of the shape of the 259 00:13:55.720 --> 00:13:59.120 blooms being in across did you know that? In fact? 260 00:14:00.279 --> 00:14:03.879 And they're they're loaded with good, good things, not just 261 00:14:04.440 --> 00:14:09.399 vitamins and things, but things like nutrients as well, and 262 00:14:09.720 --> 00:14:11.720 those can all be planted. Now let me head over 263 00:14:11.720 --> 00:14:13.679 to the phones though. We're going to go to Cypress, 264 00:14:13.720 --> 00:14:22.840 Texas and talk to Steve. Hey, Steve, Welcome to garden Line. Hello, Hello, 265 00:14:23.200 --> 00:14:23.879 you there, Steve. 266 00:14:24.759 --> 00:14:27.159 Yes, I am, good morning. 267 00:14:27.320 --> 00:14:29.879 All right, how can we help this morning? Good morning? 268 00:14:30.279 --> 00:14:31.080 Yeah, good morning. 269 00:14:31.360 --> 00:14:34.039 The question I have is I planted a number of 270 00:14:34.240 --> 00:14:37.480 trees this fall. I've got an oak tree that I planted, 271 00:14:37.639 --> 00:14:42.840 I planted a Chinese pistache. Is it beneficial to continue 272 00:14:42.879 --> 00:14:46.519 to hit those things with roots stimulator once a month 273 00:14:47.360 --> 00:14:47.960 through the winter. 274 00:14:51.039 --> 00:14:54.600 Well, roots can grow through the winter and a new 275 00:14:54.720 --> 00:14:58.039 established tree. Anything you do to help the root development 276 00:14:58.159 --> 00:15:01.000 is okay. You just would have to get it down 277 00:15:01.039 --> 00:15:03.399 to where the roots are, and it takes a volume 278 00:15:03.440 --> 00:15:05.519 Once you plant a tree. It's one thing when you're 279 00:15:05.519 --> 00:15:07.679 planning it and watering it in and soaking the root 280 00:15:07.679 --> 00:15:10.440 ball and everything, but once you planted it, it takes 281 00:15:10.720 --> 00:15:13.559 a considerable amount of water to get the liquid down 282 00:15:13.559 --> 00:15:15.679 in there. You know, you put a gallon of water 283 00:15:15.759 --> 00:15:18.480 on and it may not soak all the way down 284 00:15:18.480 --> 00:15:21.639 in there. So just be ready to do the stimulator 285 00:15:21.679 --> 00:15:24.559 and enough volume of water to get it down in 286 00:15:24.600 --> 00:15:27.799 where the roots actually are. But there's no problem with that. 287 00:15:28.320 --> 00:15:31.240 Certainly wouldn't hurt anything. You know, as to how much 288 00:15:31.279 --> 00:15:33.440 it helps, you know, well that that kind of depends 289 00:15:33.440 --> 00:15:37.279 on a lot of factors. But yeah, right. 290 00:15:37.200 --> 00:15:39.840 Right, What about do you recommend I've seen where they 291 00:15:39.840 --> 00:15:43.279 put pbc in the ground it flow with gravel so 292 00:15:43.480 --> 00:15:45.519 the fluid of it gets straight to the roots. 293 00:15:45.679 --> 00:15:47.320 Is that a recommendation. 294 00:15:50.559 --> 00:15:54.159 Of even an established giant trees roots system is in 295 00:15:54.200 --> 00:15:58.480 the top foot of soil. So a lot of people 296 00:15:58.480 --> 00:16:01.879 put pipes down, you know, a twenty four inches or whatever, 297 00:16:02.320 --> 00:16:06.840 and it just that's too deep. Now, I would say, 298 00:16:06.960 --> 00:16:08.919 rather than that, what you want to do is you 299 00:16:08.919 --> 00:16:11.759 want to wed a large area. So if depending on 300 00:16:11.799 --> 00:16:13.919 the bed you're in and you've got a couple of options. 301 00:16:13.960 --> 00:16:16.799 If it's a new tree, there's little gadgets that are 302 00:16:16.879 --> 00:16:19.039 bags that you put around the tree. You fill them 303 00:16:19.039 --> 00:16:21.639 with water and they slowly leak out of the bottom 304 00:16:21.679 --> 00:16:24.480 of the bag. Get it. If you're out in the 305 00:16:24.519 --> 00:16:26.440 country and you don't care what it looks like, you 306 00:16:26.440 --> 00:16:28.639 can do that by putting a five gallon bucket beside 307 00:16:28.679 --> 00:16:31.120 the tree, drilling little tiny holes in it and then 308 00:16:31.159 --> 00:16:33.320 filling it with water and that way all the water 309 00:16:33.399 --> 00:16:35.960 goes down. In a larger area, I like to use 310 00:16:36.000 --> 00:16:39.240 a berm of soil, a doughnut, a ring maybe four 311 00:16:39.279 --> 00:16:42.559 feet across around that tree and soaking it down. So 312 00:16:42.600 --> 00:16:44.240 however you want to go about it is good. But 313 00:16:44.279 --> 00:16:47.519 I wouldn't do I wouldn't do the tube of PVC 314 00:16:48.240 --> 00:16:49.840 for watering the tree. 315 00:16:50.759 --> 00:16:51.799 Okay, got it? 316 00:16:52.039 --> 00:16:52.440 All right? 317 00:16:52.480 --> 00:16:54.080 Well, I definitely appreciate the information. 318 00:16:56.159 --> 00:17:03.279 All right, man, thanks for call. Take care, stay warm, 319 00:17:03.360 --> 00:17:06.359 all right. Well, yeah, you know, we see a lot 320 00:17:06.400 --> 00:17:09.400 of things done horticulturally as practices, and I've even seen 321 00:17:09.480 --> 00:17:12.359 diagrams where there's a pipe in the ground and it 322 00:17:12.440 --> 00:17:14.960 shows water going out down the pipe and going out 323 00:17:15.000 --> 00:17:19.559 in all directions and stuff. Well, it's gonna wet that area, 324 00:17:19.880 --> 00:17:22.720 but it's better to be able to wet it a 325 00:17:22.799 --> 00:17:26.559 little bit deeper. I mean from the surface down deep, 326 00:17:26.640 --> 00:17:30.839 not to start the wedding down deep. The tree roots 327 00:17:30.839 --> 00:17:34.119 are not way way down there. There's a few sinker routes, 328 00:17:34.160 --> 00:17:37.240 but not a lot. When I lived up in Willis, Texas, 329 00:17:37.400 --> 00:17:40.319 just north of Conroe, we put in a peach orchard, 330 00:17:40.519 --> 00:17:42.480 and in doing so we had to push out a 331 00:17:42.480 --> 00:17:44.640 bunch of brush and things, and there was trees in it, 332 00:17:44.720 --> 00:17:47.160 and it's tough to clear the land for the orchard. 333 00:17:47.599 --> 00:17:50.119 And I was struck by the fact that a giant 334 00:17:50.240 --> 00:17:54.160 pine tree had this big tap root going down, but 335 00:17:54.440 --> 00:17:57.440 all the feeder roots were going sideways in the soil. 336 00:17:57.960 --> 00:18:00.680 It would it just I took picture of it. I 337 00:18:00.680 --> 00:18:03.440 can't show you a picture on the radio, but it 338 00:18:03.920 --> 00:18:07.000 was really striking as to just how much those roots 339 00:18:07.039 --> 00:18:09.480 are in the surface. And if you if you have 340 00:18:09.519 --> 00:18:12.960 trouble believing me there, it's because you've seen these diagrams 341 00:18:13.039 --> 00:18:16.880 where you see a tree sticking up above the ground. 342 00:18:17.359 --> 00:18:20.039 You know that the branches and the trunk and branches 343 00:18:20.079 --> 00:18:22.480 and all that going up and then below ground. It's 344 00:18:22.559 --> 00:18:25.599 like a mirror image of the roots going down and out. 345 00:18:26.119 --> 00:18:28.799 That is not how a tree grows. If you, if 346 00:18:28.880 --> 00:18:33.359 you don't believe me, do a search for Morton arboretom 347 00:18:33.519 --> 00:18:39.920 Morton like Morton salt Morton arboretum tree root diagram or 348 00:18:39.960 --> 00:18:44.759 something like that, and it'll surprise you. There are drop roots, 349 00:18:44.799 --> 00:18:47.079 there are tap There can be a tap root depending 350 00:18:47.079 --> 00:18:49.160 on the species. There can be roots that drop down 351 00:18:49.680 --> 00:18:52.799 from that root system to anchor and to reach down 352 00:18:52.880 --> 00:18:55.359 to get water from down deep when it's too dry 353 00:18:55.440 --> 00:18:58.920 up the top. But by and large, go sideways if 354 00:18:58.960 --> 00:19:01.200 you want to. If you want to better diagram than 355 00:19:01.240 --> 00:19:04.799 that mirror image diagram, take a pancake and set it 356 00:19:04.839 --> 00:19:08.079 on the table. Take a stalk of broccoli and put 357 00:19:08.119 --> 00:19:10.440 it in the middle of the pancake. That's a tree. 358 00:19:10.519 --> 00:19:13.160 The BROCCOLI's the above ground. The pancake is the root 359 00:19:13.200 --> 00:19:18.359 system below ground. Go sideways. I'm pausing to let you 360 00:19:18.839 --> 00:19:20.839 mumble and grumble it you don't believe them, go check 361 00:19:20.880 --> 00:19:26.079 it out, really seriously. It's important. It's time to get 362 00:19:26.119 --> 00:19:30.079 a lot of landscape stuff done, to have beauty and care, 363 00:19:30.359 --> 00:19:33.759 you know, beauty and all kinds of enjoyment when it 364 00:19:33.799 --> 00:19:36.119 comes to spring, and Piercecapes is a company that can 365 00:19:36.160 --> 00:19:38.960 do that for you. If you want a professional design, 366 00:19:39.039 --> 00:19:40.559 I mean, let you're going to go whole hog and 367 00:19:40.680 --> 00:19:43.519 just turn the place into the taj Mahal, they can 368 00:19:43.559 --> 00:19:46.880 do that. If you just want some additions done, some 369 00:19:47.079 --> 00:19:51.279 revamping of bed areas, some creating an outdoor hardscape structure 370 00:19:51.359 --> 00:19:53.319 so you can enjoy it on the outside. If you 371 00:19:53.359 --> 00:19:55.880 need quarterly maintenance, they can do that. If you need 372 00:19:55.880 --> 00:19:58.920 you irrigation system tweaked, they can do that. Do you 373 00:19:58.960 --> 00:20:03.240 want to add landscape, they can do it all. Piercescapes 374 00:20:03.440 --> 00:20:05.720 dot Com. Go there, look at the pictures. You see 375 00:20:05.759 --> 00:20:08.400 what I'm talking about. Two eight one three seven oh 376 00:20:08.720 --> 00:20:13.680 fifty sixty two eight one three seven oh fifty sixty. 377 00:20:13.799 --> 00:20:17.480 Let the folks at Pierscapes turn your place into a showplace. 378 00:20:17.720 --> 00:20:19.799 And I'm telling you when you go to pierscapes dot Com, 379 00:20:19.839 --> 00:20:23.079 you're gonna be really impressed with the kind of work 380 00:20:23.359 --> 00:20:25.799 that they can do. All Right, time for me to 381 00:20:25.839 --> 00:20:27.799 take a little bit of a break. If you'd like 382 00:20:27.839 --> 00:20:30.720 to call Jonathan get on the board for the next segment. 383 00:20:30.839 --> 00:20:35.039 Seven one three two one two kt r H. All right, 384 00:20:35.119 --> 00:20:35.720 welcome back. 385 00:20:36.480 --> 00:20:41.440 Ain't no sunshine, Ain't no sunshine when she's gone. 386 00:20:42.119 --> 00:20:45.799 But we're gonna have sunshine this and I'm looking forward 387 00:20:45.839 --> 00:20:50.720 to it. I like mildly cool weather with the sunshining. 388 00:20:50.880 --> 00:20:54.759 Oh is that ever pleasant? Anybody who's been here for 389 00:20:54.799 --> 00:20:57.839 a summer. Try to work in the garden in the summer, 390 00:20:58.240 --> 00:21:00.599 which summer, by the way, summer months for those of 391 00:21:00.599 --> 00:21:02.480 you just moved here, by the way, welcome to Texas. 392 00:21:02.480 --> 00:21:04.480 Summer starts at the end of April and it goes 393 00:21:04.519 --> 00:21:06.680 all the way sometime in October. We don't know when, 394 00:21:06.839 --> 00:21:11.440 but that's the last summer month for our area. So 395 00:21:11.519 --> 00:21:14.480 we really enjoy this kind of cool weather that we're 396 00:21:14.519 --> 00:21:19.279 having out here. Joking aside, I was talking about preparing 397 00:21:19.640 --> 00:21:22.279 the soil while ago, and then some cool season veggie things. 398 00:21:22.519 --> 00:21:27.440 I mentioned the chrysipherus, the coal crops. That's things like broccoli, cabbage, cauliflower, 399 00:21:27.920 --> 00:21:31.759 col robbie kale, collareds, Brussels sprouts. I'm sure, I'm Mustard 400 00:21:31.799 --> 00:21:36.359 actually is considered one of the coal crops, and they 401 00:21:36.440 --> 00:21:39.279 do so good in the cool season, and they're so 402 00:21:39.400 --> 00:21:43.119 healthy for you as well, this is a time when 403 00:21:43.119 --> 00:21:45.920 we can plant other cool season things. You know, there 404 00:21:45.920 --> 00:21:51.720 are some greens that we just don't traditionally eat in 405 00:21:51.880 --> 00:21:54.519 Texas in general. Okay, now, I know if you moved 406 00:21:54.519 --> 00:21:58.279 here from another culture that you bring those kind of 407 00:21:58.319 --> 00:22:01.640 cuisines with you in things. I know that, But by 408 00:22:01.680 --> 00:22:06.599 and large, the Texas gardens through the decades that I've 409 00:22:06.599 --> 00:22:14.240 been around gardening have just been boring. You know, tomatoes, lettuce, cucumbers, squash, something, 410 00:22:14.319 --> 00:22:18.960 those are all fine crops. But cool season greens like mash, 411 00:22:19.559 --> 00:22:23.839 or like corn salad, or like plantain, or like sorrel. 412 00:22:24.920 --> 00:22:26.680 Do you see what I'm saying? Those are cool season 413 00:22:26.759 --> 00:22:28.880 And there's examples in the warm season too, and there's 414 00:22:28.880 --> 00:22:31.200 more in the cool season. There's a lot of things 415 00:22:31.200 --> 00:22:33.200 we can grow, and you should try that, because you 416 00:22:33.240 --> 00:22:36.359 know you don't. You may be saying, okay, talking about vegetables, 417 00:22:36.359 --> 00:22:38.039 I don't have a garden. We do. You have a 418 00:22:38.079 --> 00:22:40.079 five gallon bucket that you can grow some holes in. 419 00:22:40.759 --> 00:22:44.680 I've grown carrots and five gallon buckets. They do really well. 420 00:22:44.839 --> 00:22:47.359 If you've got a good quality mix and decent drainage. 421 00:22:47.559 --> 00:22:50.200 You can grow carrots in a five gallon bucket. I've 422 00:22:50.240 --> 00:22:55.119 grown kale in five gallon buckets or containers. You know 423 00:22:55.160 --> 00:22:57.960 those nursery containers you buy shrubs and trees in. Don't 424 00:22:57.960 --> 00:23:00.680 throw them way. They're great for gardening it Now, if 425 00:23:00.680 --> 00:23:04.200 you want something pretty, you can buy really nice glazed 426 00:23:04.240 --> 00:23:09.200 pottery to grow in. Do you know my favorite vegetable 427 00:23:09.200 --> 00:23:12.759 gardening container is my favorite one of all the ones 428 00:23:12.759 --> 00:23:14.559 that are out there. It's not one that's made for 429 00:23:14.640 --> 00:23:19.440 vegetable gardening. It's a wheelbarrow. I have had several wheelbarrows 430 00:23:19.720 --> 00:23:22.319 over time. I had an old metal one that actually 431 00:23:22.400 --> 00:23:25.119 started resting out. That was beautiful, It was so cool 432 00:23:26.400 --> 00:23:29.279 for gardening. I had a plastic one that I dropped 433 00:23:29.279 --> 00:23:32.640 a cinderblock in and cracked the bottom, and so now 434 00:23:32.640 --> 00:23:37.880 I have drainage. They are excellent for growing things. Wheelbarrows 435 00:23:37.920 --> 00:23:39.920 hold quite a bit of soil unless it's a little one. 436 00:23:39.960 --> 00:23:42.000 Getch you a good big one and you can grow 437 00:23:42.039 --> 00:23:43.920 all kinds of things. I had a wheelbarrow. Wish I 438 00:23:43.920 --> 00:23:47.160 could show you a picture of it. It had spinach, 439 00:23:47.359 --> 00:23:51.279 it had lettuce, it had broccoli, it had kale. What 440 00:23:51.400 --> 00:23:53.519 else did I have in that thing? That had some 441 00:23:53.559 --> 00:23:57.039 Swiss chart in it? It just had all kinds of 442 00:23:57.160 --> 00:23:59.079 vegetables in a wheelbarrow. And you know what the cool 443 00:23:59.079 --> 00:24:01.839 thing about a wheelbarrow Number one, It gives a neighbors 444 00:24:01.920 --> 00:24:04.920 something to talk about if they hadn't already. Like Mildred, 445 00:24:05.000 --> 00:24:08.240 the guy his garden is in a wheelbarrow. You can 446 00:24:08.240 --> 00:24:11.200 put it wherever you want if you want. If, of course, 447 00:24:11.240 --> 00:24:13.640 you need sun for vegetables to do their best, move 448 00:24:13.680 --> 00:24:15.119 it to a sunny spot in the yard. If you 449 00:24:15.119 --> 00:24:17.519 got a mode, just move the wheelbarrow over when you're mowing, 450 00:24:17.599 --> 00:24:19.920 move it back, or move it to a new spot. 451 00:24:20.279 --> 00:24:24.839 And it's great. It holds enough soil and therefore enough 452 00:24:24.880 --> 00:24:27.160 moisture that you don't have to water it twice a 453 00:24:27.240 --> 00:24:30.160 day to keep things going well. And you know, the 454 00:24:30.359 --> 00:24:34.519 hoa probably will not bother you about your wheelbarrow as 455 00:24:34.559 --> 00:24:38.359 long as it's pretty and it keeps moving. I did flowers, 456 00:24:38.400 --> 00:24:41.559 flowers cascading over the sides, flowers coming up in the center. 457 00:24:41.640 --> 00:24:46.079 You can do an herb will wheel barrow with a 458 00:24:46.200 --> 00:24:49.160 regano or a time or things like that, spilling over 459 00:24:49.200 --> 00:24:51.680 the sides, and then you've got chives around it, and 460 00:24:51.680 --> 00:24:54.319 then you've got uprighter maybe basil plant or something in 461 00:24:54.319 --> 00:24:57.599 the middle. I mean, use your imagination, but it's pretty cool. 462 00:24:58.160 --> 00:25:00.400 I think it looks good. I think it's fun. And 463 00:25:00.480 --> 00:25:03.559 guess what if it Remember, oh gosh, years ago at 464 00:25:03.559 --> 00:25:08.559 my house it dropped down to almost seven degrees and 465 00:25:08.599 --> 00:25:10.640 that's too cold for vegetables. I don't care what the 466 00:25:10.759 --> 00:25:14.039 vegetable is. Where did my wielburrow go right into the garage? 467 00:25:15.319 --> 00:25:17.440 Just as simple as that. When it was time to 468 00:25:17.440 --> 00:25:19.680 move it back rolled it back outside. Again. I'm telling you, 469 00:25:19.759 --> 00:25:22.400 it's a cool way to go, and it's different, and 470 00:25:22.440 --> 00:25:24.559 again it does give the neighbors something to talk about, 471 00:25:24.599 --> 00:25:27.559 as if they needed something else to talk about. But anyway, 472 00:25:27.599 --> 00:25:29.759 that's my favorite kind of gardening bed. I guess what 473 00:25:29.799 --> 00:25:33.720 I'm trying to say is everybody can grow a garden. 474 00:25:34.480 --> 00:25:36.759 If you're listening to me, and you were in downtown 475 00:25:36.799 --> 00:25:39.640 Houston on the eight hundredth floor of some high rise 476 00:25:39.680 --> 00:25:42.279 and you got a little tiny patio, call me. We'll 477 00:25:42.279 --> 00:25:44.519 figure something out. I mean, there are things you can 478 00:25:44.559 --> 00:25:47.279 grow no matter where you are. And so I want 479 00:25:47.319 --> 00:25:50.000 you to try some things this year. Here's a good 480 00:25:50.119 --> 00:25:53.359 New Year's resolution. If you do those things, try something 481 00:25:53.400 --> 00:25:55.799 this year that you'd never done. Before, and I would 482 00:25:55.880 --> 00:25:59.519 suggest try growing something you can eat that is healthy 483 00:25:59.559 --> 00:26:04.279 and taste that you've never grown before. When I do salads, 484 00:26:04.440 --> 00:26:07.200 I try to create all kinds of flavors in the salad. 485 00:26:07.279 --> 00:26:11.359 Sorel has a lemony flavor, en dive has a bitter 486 00:26:11.720 --> 00:26:17.720 type flavor. There are certainly even certain kinds of very 487 00:26:17.720 --> 00:26:20.920 mild herb type plants can be used and mixed in 488 00:26:21.079 --> 00:26:24.799 to create flavor in a salad. And a lot of 489 00:26:24.839 --> 00:26:27.960 the salad vegetables, the majority, the vast majority of salad 490 00:26:28.039 --> 00:26:32.000 vegetables are cool seasoned vegetables, not all, but a lot 491 00:26:32.000 --> 00:26:34.599 of them. And you can grow kinds of good things 492 00:26:34.839 --> 00:26:36.759 out there if you want some. If you'm to do 493 00:26:36.960 --> 00:26:40.319 parsley for garnishing a plate, if you do't do. I 494 00:26:40.480 --> 00:26:44.680 like growing celery. I like the Asian types of celery 495 00:26:44.759 --> 00:26:47.279 as well as the big stalk types of celery that 496 00:26:47.319 --> 00:26:49.880 everybody thinks of when you use the word celery. You 497 00:26:49.880 --> 00:26:52.200 can grow with that here. Just got to get out 498 00:26:52.240 --> 00:26:54.240 there and do it, so try it out. Hey, you 499 00:26:54.279 --> 00:26:56.559 can't fail at gardening. You can only give up. Listen. 500 00:26:56.680 --> 00:26:59.880 Every gardener, I don't care how good they are, has 501 00:27:00.119 --> 00:27:04.480 failed many times over the course of their gardening life 502 00:27:04.960 --> 00:27:07.759 and they just keep trying. That's how they do it. 503 00:27:08.799 --> 00:27:10.799 I wanted to mention you know, we love our feed 504 00:27:10.799 --> 00:27:12.880 stores here on Garden Line and D and D Feed 505 00:27:12.920 --> 00:27:15.640 and Tomball just about three miles west of two forty 506 00:27:15.720 --> 00:27:18.279 nine on Highway twenty nine to twenty so you're big 507 00:27:18.319 --> 00:27:20.680 middle of Tomball there. You head west on twenty nine 508 00:27:20.720 --> 00:27:23.279 to twenty about three miles, it'll be on the left 509 00:27:23.279 --> 00:27:25.559 hand side. The Dover family has been running D and D. 510 00:27:25.680 --> 00:27:28.559 They opened it up in nineteen eighty nine. It is 511 00:27:28.599 --> 00:27:31.480 a wonderful store stocked with all kinds of things for 512 00:27:31.519 --> 00:27:37.519 your garden, nitrofoss products, bonin products, Microlife, turf Star from Nelson, Medina, 513 00:27:37.640 --> 00:27:42.519 heirloom soils, Landscaper's Pride. They carry flats of vegetables, they 514 00:27:42.519 --> 00:27:46.440 carry vegetables, seeds, they carry tools seasonally, they'll have fruit 515 00:27:46.480 --> 00:27:49.039 trees and roses and citrus and other things out there. 516 00:27:49.319 --> 00:27:52.000 High quality dog food, and then everything you need to 517 00:27:52.079 --> 00:27:55.640 deal with the pests and diseases that are in your garden. 518 00:27:55.799 --> 00:27:57.720 It's a one stop shop out there. D and D 519 00:27:57.799 --> 00:28:00.559 Feed has always got things going on, and if you're 520 00:28:00.640 --> 00:28:05.480 thinking about getting backyard chickens, February is when the chicks 521 00:28:05.519 --> 00:28:07.680 come in. D and D was were all the chicks 522 00:28:07.680 --> 00:28:12.200 hang out. D and D feed is going to be 523 00:28:12.400 --> 00:28:16.079 loaded up with types of chickens you've never heard of. 524 00:28:16.920 --> 00:28:19.119 And we'll talk about that more in February. But get 525 00:28:19.119 --> 00:28:20.799 ready now it's time to go out there and get 526 00:28:20.799 --> 00:28:22.839 some of the supplies. They have to get ready for 527 00:28:22.920 --> 00:28:25.039 that if you want to have backyard chickens. All right, 528 00:28:25.079 --> 00:28:27.119 time for me quit talking, Time for us to go 529 00:28:27.160 --> 00:28:28.440 to break. I'll be right back. 530 00:28:31.319 --> 00:28:32.279 All right, welcome back. 531 00:28:34.160 --> 00:28:36.000 You are listening to the Garden Line. I'm your host, 532 00:28:36.000 --> 00:28:38.440 Skip Richter, and we are here to help you have 533 00:28:38.640 --> 00:28:43.319 a bountiful garden, a beautiful landscape, and more fun in 534 00:28:43.400 --> 00:28:45.960 the process. You'd like to give me a call seven 535 00:28:46.000 --> 00:28:49.279 one three two one two k t r H. Seven 536 00:28:49.480 --> 00:28:55.200 one three two one two k t r H. I 537 00:28:54.759 --> 00:28:58.799 uh visiting with the folks at Nelson Fertilizer the other 538 00:28:58.880 --> 00:29:01.680 day about some of the products and things that they have. 539 00:29:02.240 --> 00:29:05.440 And they introduced a product. Was it last year? It 540 00:29:05.480 --> 00:29:08.640 was real recently? I know that. And Chris Announcement has 541 00:29:08.640 --> 00:29:10.720 a lot of products from the turf Star line to 542 00:29:10.799 --> 00:29:14.759 the Color Star line to the nutri Star line. The 543 00:29:14.880 --> 00:29:18.200 Nutristar Genesis is a product I'm talking about, and what 544 00:29:18.319 --> 00:29:22.359 it is is it's our first retail blend that incorporates 545 00:29:22.559 --> 00:29:27.279 Micriza bacteria and other good fungi to benefit that soil. 546 00:29:27.400 --> 00:29:30.440 We call it the microbiome. That means all of the 547 00:29:30.599 --> 00:29:34.200 creatures that are living in the soil that take organic 548 00:29:34.240 --> 00:29:37.000 matter and turn it back into plant food, if you will, 549 00:29:37.480 --> 00:29:41.960 and that improve the soil structure. They interact with plants 550 00:29:41.960 --> 00:29:44.640 in ways that help them. Nutri Star Genesis is packed 551 00:29:44.640 --> 00:29:48.039 with that. It's specifically designed to be mixed in the soil. 552 00:29:48.440 --> 00:29:52.240 Now it is a fertilizer. It is releases the nutrients 553 00:29:52.240 --> 00:29:54.640 in But what you do is you put the Nutristar 554 00:29:54.720 --> 00:29:57.119 Genesis in the soil. So if you're going to dig 555 00:29:57.160 --> 00:29:59.000 a hole in plant and mix them in the hole 556 00:29:59.680 --> 00:30:02.160 and then put the plant in, and you can use 557 00:30:02.160 --> 00:30:04.720 it in the soil that you're putting around the plant 558 00:30:04.759 --> 00:30:06.720 to replant it, you know, as you're refilling the hole. 559 00:30:07.200 --> 00:30:09.960 I like to use it whenever I'm bumping up. Let's see, 560 00:30:09.960 --> 00:30:12.200 I'll start some tomato plants and as the little seedlings 561 00:30:12.240 --> 00:30:13.720 get going, I need to move them to a four 562 00:30:13.720 --> 00:30:15.559 inch pot or a six inch or a gallon pot 563 00:30:15.640 --> 00:30:19.079 or whatever. I'll mix the Nutristar Genesis in that, and 564 00:30:19.119 --> 00:30:23.240 I'm telling you it is huge the difference. I seen 565 00:30:23.319 --> 00:30:25.640 it with my own eyes. I did it last year, 566 00:30:26.640 --> 00:30:29.359 watching those things jump out of the ground. They love 567 00:30:29.400 --> 00:30:29.960 that stuff. 568 00:30:30.160 --> 00:30:30.319 Now. 569 00:30:30.359 --> 00:30:33.039 It helps minimize transplant shock for a lot of plants, 570 00:30:33.640 --> 00:30:36.119 and it does provide the nutrients in the soil to 571 00:30:36.160 --> 00:30:39.160 then feed the plant. You mix it in the transplant hole. 572 00:30:39.240 --> 00:30:41.880 Do you put it on as a top dress, mixed 573 00:30:41.880 --> 00:30:43.960 in around as you're filling it in however you want 574 00:30:43.960 --> 00:30:46.079 to go about it. But then after you do that, 575 00:30:46.200 --> 00:30:48.680 once it gets going, then you switch over and use 576 00:30:49.119 --> 00:30:52.319 the other line of nutri Star foods from Nelson, or 577 00:30:52.359 --> 00:30:54.880 the color starre if it's flowering plants, or the Nature 578 00:30:54.920 --> 00:30:57.359 Star if you want something that's an organic type product. 579 00:30:57.920 --> 00:31:00.759 You can do all of that nutri Star. So look 580 00:31:00.799 --> 00:31:05.400 for that nutris Star Genesis from Nelson plant food. It's 581 00:31:05.599 --> 00:31:10.200 planting season, it's transplant growing season, and Nutristar genesis is 582 00:31:10.240 --> 00:31:14.160 good for all of those kinds of things. I couldn't 583 00:31:14.200 --> 00:31:16.119 believe it the first time I used it. I was 584 00:31:16.119 --> 00:31:18.759 in I bumped some tomatoes up to four inch pots 585 00:31:18.759 --> 00:31:21.319 and put some nutral star in some of them, it 586 00:31:21.400 --> 00:31:24.599 was like whoa got to move those lights up because 587 00:31:24.599 --> 00:31:27.119 they were heading heading for the sky. With all that 588 00:31:27.480 --> 00:31:30.359 they were happy with that. You're listening to garden Line 589 00:31:30.359 --> 00:31:32.519 our phone number seven one three two one two k 590 00:31:32.759 --> 00:31:36.039 t RH. We've got time for one call here before 591 00:31:36.079 --> 00:31:38.880 the end of the hour and then we will continue on. 592 00:31:39.319 --> 00:31:42.000 If you have a question about gardening, I would like 593 00:31:42.079 --> 00:31:44.519 to know if you have something you're going to do 594 00:31:44.680 --> 00:31:46.880 new this year they have done before. Would you tell 595 00:31:46.880 --> 00:31:49.599 me that? Just let me know. I want to know 596 00:31:49.640 --> 00:31:52.160 what are the things you're going to do different this year? 597 00:31:52.480 --> 00:31:55.799 Every year in gardening we get a brand new start. 598 00:31:55.960 --> 00:31:58.640 I used this etch a sketch example. All the times 599 00:31:58.680 --> 00:32:00.759 you know you don't like what you drew a your sketch, 600 00:32:00.799 --> 00:32:02.359 you turn it upside down, shake it and you get 601 00:32:02.400 --> 00:32:04.920 to start over. We do the same thing in gardening. 602 00:32:05.079 --> 00:32:07.599 It's okay, But what are you gonna try that you 603 00:32:07.680 --> 00:32:11.119 haven't tried before? For me this year, I'm gonna try 604 00:32:11.160 --> 00:32:13.640 some new kinds of fruit, and I'm also gonna try 605 00:32:13.920 --> 00:32:18.640 a grape arbor, a grape barber. I've never planted. I've 606 00:32:18.720 --> 00:32:22.720 had arbors, but never planted on an arbor. My own 607 00:32:22.759 --> 00:32:25.519 grape made the choices and the design and everything like that, 608 00:32:25.960 --> 00:32:27.640 and I'm really looking forward to it. I got this 609 00:32:27.680 --> 00:32:30.720 little spot. It's a good sunny spot, which I've kind 610 00:32:30.720 --> 00:32:32.640 of got to look for in my landscape now because 611 00:32:32.640 --> 00:32:36.160 all the good sunny spots are taken. My vegetables were 612 00:32:36.160 --> 00:32:38.799 first in line. They jumped on the first sunny spot. 613 00:32:39.640 --> 00:32:42.000 But anyway, I'm put a little grape barber in and 614 00:32:42.200 --> 00:32:45.759 it's gonna be a shaded area that enters the area 615 00:32:45.799 --> 00:32:48.279 where I have fruit trees, and so you walk through 616 00:32:48.400 --> 00:32:52.000 underneath this arbor, it's gonna be an arching livestock panel. 617 00:32:52.039 --> 00:32:55.400 You know what livestock panels are. It's like I don't 618 00:32:55.400 --> 00:32:57.519 want to even use the word wire. It's like, but 619 00:32:57.759 --> 00:33:01.440 think of a wire, but each wires more like the 620 00:33:01.480 --> 00:33:05.039 almost the diameter of a pencil, real thick metal. Those 621 00:33:05.039 --> 00:33:08.079 are called livestock panels, coming about four foot by sixteen 622 00:33:08.079 --> 00:33:12.000 foot or somewhere close to that range. And if you 623 00:33:12.359 --> 00:33:17.160 use them as an overhead archway, they are very strong 624 00:33:17.200 --> 00:33:19.680 and sturdy. You just need a good post to hold them. 625 00:33:20.079 --> 00:33:24.000 I use them as vertical panels in the garden for 626 00:33:24.079 --> 00:33:26.680 growing vines and things on too. They're really good for that. 627 00:33:26.799 --> 00:33:30.079 They're galvanized, they last forever. I love those things. Anyway, 628 00:33:30.240 --> 00:33:33.319 that's going to be the arbor top and the grapes 629 00:33:33.319 --> 00:33:35.680 will hang down underneath it. I can already taste them. 630 00:33:36.319 --> 00:33:38.839 Did you know that when you haven't planted something you're 631 00:33:38.839 --> 00:33:42.920 gonna plant, you can already taste it. Same with tomatoes. 632 00:33:43.039 --> 00:33:45.000 Let's go to Gary in Houston right quick for a 633 00:33:45.079 --> 00:33:47.720 run out of time here. Hey Gary, welcome to garden Line. 634 00:33:47.799 --> 00:33:52.279 Hey, how's it going. I got a question about drainage. 635 00:33:52.559 --> 00:33:56.400 So I'm having standing water. I know it's not technically gardening. 636 00:33:59.079 --> 00:34:01.599 And I just moved out to Winning and. 637 00:34:01.640 --> 00:34:03.559 I've seen some stuff about a. 638 00:34:03.680 --> 00:34:05.599 It's kind of like a French strain, but it's vertical. 639 00:34:07.200 --> 00:34:09.760 Do you do you know anything about that? Or because 640 00:34:09.760 --> 00:34:11.559 I was going to make a French strain going. 641 00:34:11.440 --> 00:34:18.559 To sorry, Uh, explain to me what you mean by vertical. 642 00:34:18.920 --> 00:34:20.559 I'm not picturing what you're saying. 643 00:34:21.440 --> 00:34:24.159 So what I saw was he dug a hole straight 644 00:34:24.239 --> 00:34:29.800 down and uh and put the rock in it, or 645 00:34:29.840 --> 00:34:31.800 put the cloth in it, put the rock in it, 646 00:34:31.920 --> 00:34:35.920 covered it up with just thot and showed that that 647 00:34:36.599 --> 00:34:39.719 what I've seen was it on the video. Obviously it 648 00:34:39.760 --> 00:34:41.639 got rid of the water, but I don't know for sure, 649 00:34:41.639 --> 00:34:43.599 And I just wondered if you knew anything about that. 650 00:34:44.719 --> 00:34:47.079 If I gotta do a French train, I'm going to 651 00:34:47.159 --> 00:34:47.719 do a garden. 652 00:34:49.599 --> 00:34:50.000 So I. 653 00:34:54.280 --> 00:34:57.039 If you had a sandy soil underlying the clay, maybe 654 00:34:57.079 --> 00:35:00.960 and that can't happen, perhaps that would the water could 655 00:35:01.000 --> 00:35:02.880 get down in there and move on down. If it 656 00:35:02.920 --> 00:35:05.639 was just clay, you would just have basically a little 657 00:35:05.639 --> 00:35:08.880 skinny farm pond, a hole that would fill up and 658 00:35:08.920 --> 00:35:13.000 hold water. So I would do definitely the standard French drain. 659 00:35:13.480 --> 00:35:15.559 You can also do if you don't have an area 660 00:35:15.599 --> 00:35:19.599 to drain it too, that's lower adequately lower, so the 661 00:35:19.639 --> 00:35:23.159 water can drain away. You can you can almost dig 662 00:35:23.280 --> 00:35:26.800 like a miniature pit that you fill with water and 663 00:35:26.840 --> 00:35:28.920 put a It has a you put a box in 664 00:35:28.960 --> 00:35:31.159 the bottom with a sump pump in there, and whenever 665 00:35:31.199 --> 00:35:34.360 the water comes up to a certain level, it physically 666 00:35:34.400 --> 00:35:37.360 pumps it through a solid pipe out to another area. 667 00:35:37.440 --> 00:35:39.960 So that's how we drain areas that are already low 668 00:35:40.000 --> 00:35:42.400 and we don't have a lower area for the gravity 669 00:35:42.440 --> 00:35:43.400 to take the water too. 670 00:35:44.920 --> 00:35:47.800 Okay, yeah, pretty strange, is not cheap, but a lot 671 00:35:47.840 --> 00:35:49.559 of it I gotta go. 672 00:35:52.719 --> 00:35:55.880 Yeah, yeah, that's that's true. And the other thing about 673 00:35:55.920 --> 00:35:58.119 French drains is sometimes you're draining a whole area. I've 674 00:35:58.159 --> 00:35:59.559 got a spot in the back of my yard that 675 00:35:59.559 --> 00:36:01.679 I'm gonna pu French strain. Now I haven't done it yet, 676 00:36:02.159 --> 00:36:04.960 but it probably covers a fifty foot length, and I 677 00:36:05.000 --> 00:36:07.679 need water to go in all along that fifty foot, 678 00:36:07.800 --> 00:36:11.480 not just in one little spot. So depending on the 679 00:36:11.519 --> 00:36:14.639 layer of your land, you got options. But I wouldn't 680 00:36:14.679 --> 00:36:18.519 just dig a deep hole because it's just gonna fill 681 00:36:18.599 --> 00:36:20.840 with water and hold it unless as I said that. 682 00:36:20.920 --> 00:36:24.320 Yeah, he didn't say where he was at. He didn't 683 00:36:24.360 --> 00:36:26.719 say where he was at, And I'm assuming that I 684 00:36:26.760 --> 00:36:29.880 haven't really dug yet at the property. 685 00:36:30.599 --> 00:36:32.360 So I'm not sure. 686 00:36:32.920 --> 00:36:35.119 I'm not sure what's below, but I'm beat. 687 00:36:35.559 --> 00:36:37.639 It's just quite you know how it is out here. 688 00:36:38.719 --> 00:36:41.119 Well, we'll take your time, do some thinking about it. 689 00:36:41.199 --> 00:36:46.039 Sometimes changing maybe downspouts on the house circumcent creating a problem, 690 00:36:46.079 --> 00:36:48.880 and that would be part of the solution. Sometimes a 691 00:36:49.000 --> 00:36:52.360 swale that can kind of direct water in a different direction. 692 00:36:53.800 --> 00:36:56.199 You know. Off, you have a lot of options for 693 00:36:56.280 --> 00:36:58.199 dealing with water. But as you think through it, you'll 694 00:36:58.199 --> 00:36:58.760 figure it out. 695 00:37:00.199 --> 00:37:00.519 All right. 696 00:37:00.599 --> 00:37:02.039 I know that wasn't exactly all. 697 00:37:02.559 --> 00:37:04.039 Thank you appreciate it. 698 00:37:04.880 --> 00:37:07.480 Oh, nice part, big, big part of garden Thanks for 699 00:37:07.519 --> 00:37:10.840 the question, man, I appreciate you were calling in today. 700 00:37:11.000 --> 00:37:13.599 All right, folks, time for our top of the hour break. 701 00:37:14.119 --> 00:37:15.639 We'll be right back. Hang around. 702 00:37:17.800 --> 00:37:21.519 Welcome to Katie r H. Garden Line with Skip Rictor. 703 00:37:21.639 --> 00:37:24.159 It's crazy. 704 00:37:30.360 --> 00:37:49.440 Just watch him as we may to septis. Sorry. 705 00:37:49.519 --> 00:37:54.440 Well, good morning, good morning, and welcome to Garden Line. 706 00:37:54.559 --> 00:37:57.880 We are glad to have you with us. This is 707 00:37:57.880 --> 00:38:01.880 a place hopefully that you come to for good advice 708 00:38:02.000 --> 00:38:04.559 for your lawn and garden, for answers to your questions 709 00:38:04.559 --> 00:38:05.960 you can give. You can give me a call at 710 00:38:06.000 --> 00:38:09.000 seven one three two U two K T r H. 711 00:38:09.159 --> 00:38:11.239 We'll be happy to visit with you. I like talking 712 00:38:11.280 --> 00:38:14.679 to gardeners. You know, gardeners are some of the I 713 00:38:14.719 --> 00:38:17.559 don't know, just the nicest people. Have you ever noticed 714 00:38:17.599 --> 00:38:20.079 that you ever visited with somebody, you know, maybe walking 715 00:38:20.079 --> 00:38:21.920 down taking a walk through the neighborhood, down the street 716 00:38:21.960 --> 00:38:24.360 and you see somebody out gardening and they're just always 717 00:38:24.400 --> 00:38:26.679 willing to visit with you and talk with you, probably 718 00:38:26.679 --> 00:38:29.199 share a few plants with you too, and certainly some advice. 719 00:38:29.239 --> 00:38:32.360 Gardeners have opinions. We all have two elbows, but gardeners 720 00:38:32.400 --> 00:38:34.440 have way more than two opinions. I'll tell you that 721 00:38:34.559 --> 00:38:39.280 for sure. They have opinions, and so do I, I guess, 722 00:38:39.800 --> 00:38:43.199 to be totally honest, I certainly do. But gardening is 723 00:38:43.239 --> 00:38:45.639 a fun hobby. It's a it's a kind of thing 724 00:38:45.679 --> 00:38:50.239 that I find to be really renewing and encouraging, and 725 00:38:50.280 --> 00:38:52.639 that that is important. 726 00:38:53.039 --> 00:38:53.239 You know. 727 00:38:53.320 --> 00:38:58.440 The gardening gives you the chance always to start over, 728 00:38:59.119 --> 00:39:01.800 to try something different, and to do something you haven't 729 00:39:01.840 --> 00:39:05.519 done before. And I asked, I talked about this last week, 730 00:39:05.719 --> 00:39:07.960 and already this morning, I have what are you going 731 00:39:08.000 --> 00:39:10.960 to do different in twenty twenty five? And I don't 732 00:39:10.960 --> 00:39:14.360 mean just what are you going to change? Like, oh, 733 00:39:14.519 --> 00:39:16.360 don't do it that way anymore? Do it this way? 734 00:39:17.039 --> 00:39:18.840 That's fine, But I'm talking about what are you going 735 00:39:18.880 --> 00:39:20.960 to grow that you haven't grown before? What are you 736 00:39:21.000 --> 00:39:23.320 going to try as a gardening practice that you haven't 737 00:39:23.360 --> 00:39:28.239 tried before? For example, have you ever tried propagating your 738 00:39:28.280 --> 00:39:31.159 own plants? Have you ever tried rooting a cutting? Have 739 00:39:31.280 --> 00:39:35.880 you ever tried doing something called an air layer. An 740 00:39:35.960 --> 00:39:38.960 air layer is where you bring soil up to the 741 00:39:39.000 --> 00:39:41.719 stem of the plant or soil or peat moss or 742 00:39:41.760 --> 00:39:45.320 potting soil, whatever, and you cover it with something plastic 743 00:39:45.599 --> 00:39:49.760 to hold the moisture in, and you wound the stem 744 00:39:49.960 --> 00:39:53.400 and the roots form inside that soil. So and you 745 00:39:53.400 --> 00:39:57.239 can buy little devices, little devices, little gadgets that you 746 00:39:57.280 --> 00:39:59.960 fill with soil and they click together around the stem 747 00:40:00.559 --> 00:40:02.920 the way I've always done it. Back first time, I 748 00:40:02.960 --> 00:40:05.960 did it just an old bread wrapper tied around the 749 00:40:05.960 --> 00:40:08.559 stem at the base. Fill it full of soil tied 750 00:40:08.559 --> 00:40:10.440 around the stem at the top, and then put some 751 00:40:10.480 --> 00:40:12.440 foil around it if it's outside, to keep the sun 752 00:40:12.480 --> 00:40:16.000 from shining through that clear wrapper. But anyway, it works, 753 00:40:16.280 --> 00:40:17.719 and you can do that. And if you got a 754 00:40:17.800 --> 00:40:20.559 plant you want to propagate, that's the way. How about dividing. 755 00:40:20.599 --> 00:40:24.559 Have you ever done division before? So let's do it this. 756 00:40:24.679 --> 00:40:27.320 Let's say you had a clump of grass, ornamental grass, 757 00:40:27.559 --> 00:40:32.639 or let's say you had like all the fall blooming 758 00:40:32.679 --> 00:40:38.000 Salvia salvio lecanta, a Mexican bush safe and do you 759 00:40:38.039 --> 00:40:40.239 grew it last year? And now it's instead of being 760 00:40:40.239 --> 00:40:42.239 a little you know, came out of a French potter 761 00:40:42.280 --> 00:40:44.159 or gallon pot. Now it's a clump that you know, 762 00:40:44.239 --> 00:40:47.719 maybe about I don't know, eight eight inches across, six 763 00:40:47.760 --> 00:40:50.480 inches across. You can take a shovel straight down through 764 00:40:50.519 --> 00:40:52.679 it and divide it into two and now you have 765 00:40:52.760 --> 00:40:55.360 two of those one some other location, or share one 766 00:40:55.360 --> 00:40:58.559 with a friend. That's another kind of propagation. What kinds 767 00:40:58.599 --> 00:41:00.559 of propagation are you going to try this year that 768 00:41:00.599 --> 00:41:04.320 you haven't done before? Have you ever done seeds starting before? 769 00:41:04.880 --> 00:41:07.840 That is easy to do. Your local garden centers, a 770 00:41:07.840 --> 00:41:11.480 lot of feed stores also ace hardware stores. They're going 771 00:41:11.559 --> 00:41:14.199 to have supplies for that kind of thing where you 772 00:41:14.199 --> 00:41:16.920 can go in and you can start your own seats, 773 00:41:17.079 --> 00:41:19.880 and it is really a cool thing to do. It's 774 00:41:20.000 --> 00:41:22.400 enjoyable to get out and try some new kinds of gardening. 775 00:41:22.480 --> 00:41:25.000 What are you going to do different? If you call in, 776 00:41:25.159 --> 00:41:26.880 I want to hear that. I want to hear about 777 00:41:26.920 --> 00:41:28.880 what are you going to try they haven't tried before? 778 00:41:29.199 --> 00:41:31.199 Or maybe you can tell me what did you try 779 00:41:31.360 --> 00:41:34.039 in twenty four that you hadn't tried before. Either way 780 00:41:34.039 --> 00:41:35.639 we can do it. We just want to talk about 781 00:41:36.119 --> 00:41:40.400 encouraging people to try something new. You know, there are 782 00:41:41.159 --> 00:41:44.800 many kinds of gardeners out there. There's a range. There 783 00:41:44.840 --> 00:41:47.519 are the people who want a beautiful lawn and a 784 00:41:47.559 --> 00:41:50.159 beautiful landscape and they get on their phone and call 785 00:41:50.239 --> 00:41:54.159 and tell somebody to do that. That's okay, that's legit. 786 00:41:55.000 --> 00:41:57.840 We can help you have a beautiful landscape that way 787 00:41:57.880 --> 00:42:01.360 as well. And then there are people but everything is 788 00:42:01.400 --> 00:42:04.199 their own, do it yourself project, and they are the 789 00:42:04.239 --> 00:42:06.920 garden is never finished. And that's true of a lot 790 00:42:06.920 --> 00:42:09.960 of gardens. We never finish them because we're always changing them. 791 00:42:11.719 --> 00:42:14.320 And however you want to go about gardening, what are 792 00:42:14.360 --> 00:42:16.119 you going to try something new? I hope you will 793 00:42:16.199 --> 00:42:19.559 try that. If you've not done much in the way 794 00:42:19.559 --> 00:42:22.400 of fertilizing and taking care of your plants. By the way, 795 00:42:22.440 --> 00:42:26.039 we're coming into the big spring planting season. That's a 796 00:42:26.039 --> 00:42:30.239 big one. If you haven't planted woody ornamentals, including fruit trees, 797 00:42:30.280 --> 00:42:33.360 by the way, but woody ornamentals that need to go 798 00:42:33.400 --> 00:42:36.199 on the ground, do it today, not today, Do it 799 00:42:36.320 --> 00:42:39.800 soon as soon as you can, because they need time 800 00:42:39.800 --> 00:42:42.039 for the roots to grow before summer arrives and puts 801 00:42:42.079 --> 00:42:44.920 the demands on the plant. That way, you don't have 802 00:42:45.000 --> 00:42:47.159 to be so touching go in the summer where you 803 00:42:47.199 --> 00:42:49.519 could possibly lose a plant by forgetting to water for 804 00:42:49.519 --> 00:42:52.119 a little while. Well, when you put it in the ground, 805 00:42:52.280 --> 00:42:54.400 you need to water it in with a good quality 806 00:42:54.519 --> 00:42:58.599 solution to do things to help those roots. And for example, 807 00:42:58.960 --> 00:43:01.880 Medina has one call has to grow six twelve six 808 00:43:02.079 --> 00:43:06.519 plant food six percent nitrogen, twelve percent phosphorus six percent potassium. 809 00:43:06.639 --> 00:43:08.880 Phosphorus is really important in a number of things. It 810 00:43:08.920 --> 00:43:11.599 helps with blooming, but it also helps us with root development. 811 00:43:12.159 --> 00:43:16.239 And Medina has to grow six twelve six has Medina 812 00:43:16.320 --> 00:43:21.559 soil activator which stimulates biological activity. It's got humate, humic acid. 813 00:43:21.599 --> 00:43:24.960 Humic acid improves soil structure. It helps with nutrient uptake, 814 00:43:25.480 --> 00:43:31.000 it helps it is the final stage of decomposing organic matter. 815 00:43:31.079 --> 00:43:34.480 That's humus and humic acid is one of the acids 816 00:43:34.519 --> 00:43:37.280 or humic acid and full OFC acid and others. But 817 00:43:37.400 --> 00:43:40.440 it has beneficial effects in the soil and it's in 818 00:43:40.480 --> 00:43:42.480 that it's in the has to grow six twelve six. 819 00:43:42.760 --> 00:43:45.199 It also has to grow six twelve six. Also has 820 00:43:45.239 --> 00:43:49.159 seaweed extracts. They stimulate fruiting and blooming. So you can 821 00:43:49.320 --> 00:43:51.320 use as to grow six to twelve six is a 822 00:43:51.360 --> 00:43:53.679 full of your application. You're not going to burn your plants. 823 00:43:54.000 --> 00:43:57.639 But since I'm talking about planting time, and because it 824 00:43:57.679 --> 00:44:01.719 helps build the bial biological activity in the soil, I 825 00:44:01.719 --> 00:44:05.360 would suggest doing it as a transplant. You could take 826 00:44:05.360 --> 00:44:08.440 a plant out of a container and soak it in 827 00:44:08.639 --> 00:44:11.800 a dilution of has to grow six to twelve six. 828 00:44:12.119 --> 00:44:15.639 You can plant the plant and then drench it in water. 829 00:44:15.800 --> 00:44:18.400 In really good with medina has to grow six twelve six. 830 00:44:18.400 --> 00:44:20.079 How do you want to go about it? The instructions 831 00:44:20.079 --> 00:44:21.800 are on the label. It doesn't take much, goes a 832 00:44:21.840 --> 00:44:24.679 long way like in a flower bed. Probably an ounce 833 00:44:24.760 --> 00:44:27.679 of has to grow six twelve six per gallon of water. 834 00:44:27.880 --> 00:44:29.679 You can apply it with a sprinkling can. That's how 835 00:44:29.719 --> 00:44:32.519 I like to water in under plants. How do you 836 00:44:32.559 --> 00:44:33.119 go about it? 837 00:44:33.679 --> 00:44:34.039 Do it? 838 00:44:34.239 --> 00:44:36.559 You're going to find medina at many of our home 839 00:44:36.599 --> 00:44:40.679 garden centers, at our feed stores, certainly Southwest Fertilizer, ace 840 00:44:40.760 --> 00:44:44.800 hardware stores all carry the medina has to grow six 841 00:44:44.880 --> 00:44:50.039 twelve six, so that you can have success with that. Well, 842 00:44:50.159 --> 00:44:52.800 you are listening to Garline and I'm about half the 843 00:44:52.880 --> 00:44:56.119 day time flies. They say what flies when you're having fun? 844 00:44:56.199 --> 00:45:02.760 But I just think it flies anyway, the next hour segment, 845 00:45:02.800 --> 00:45:04.400 when we come back, I want to talk to you. 846 00:45:04.519 --> 00:45:06.000 First of all, We're going to take a call from 847 00:45:06.039 --> 00:45:08.639 Glenn in College Station right when we get back from 848 00:45:08.679 --> 00:45:10.159 the break, and I'm going to talk to you a 849 00:45:10.159 --> 00:45:12.360 little bit about our trees, because this is the time 850 00:45:12.400 --> 00:45:14.199 when we need to be taking care of our trees 851 00:45:14.199 --> 00:45:15.760 as well. We'll be right back. 852 00:45:17.480 --> 00:45:20.760 Welcome back, Glad to have you back with us here 853 00:45:20.840 --> 00:45:26.400 on Guarden Line. We are going to be taking your 854 00:45:26.400 --> 00:45:29.960 calls all morning until ten am seven one three, two 855 00:45:30.039 --> 00:45:33.880 one two kt our age. Why don't we start off 856 00:45:34.719 --> 00:45:37.039 by heading out to College Station and talking to Glenn. 857 00:45:37.199 --> 00:45:41.559 Hey, Glenn, welcome to Garden Line. Good morning, Skip. It's 858 00:45:41.800 --> 00:45:44.400 great to be on your program. I got the bleasure 859 00:45:44.480 --> 00:45:46.400 sitting next to your daughter in law on a plane 860 00:45:46.480 --> 00:45:50.159 ride about a little over a year ago and we. 861 00:45:50.079 --> 00:45:52.639 Got to talking about your program. So she's a very 862 00:45:52.840 --> 00:45:56.679 very lovely young lady. She very supportive of what you do. 863 00:45:57.360 --> 00:45:58.960 Anyway, I bought some time. 864 00:45:59.039 --> 00:46:01.239 Thank you, she told me. But she told me about that. 865 00:46:01.360 --> 00:46:03.400 I didn't. I didn't know who she talked to, but 866 00:46:03.480 --> 00:46:07.199 she said she met somebody on me was me. 867 00:46:08.440 --> 00:46:12.800 So I bought some fopon hollies two years ago, put 868 00:46:12.840 --> 00:46:16.400 them in my bed and they grew beautifully. And now 869 00:46:16.480 --> 00:46:20.800 I found out well during the growing of two years 870 00:46:21.079 --> 00:46:23.320 they are not dwarfs. They got up to six foot 871 00:46:23.360 --> 00:46:25.320 tall and blocked the windows. 872 00:46:24.880 --> 00:46:26.039 And things like that. 873 00:46:26.880 --> 00:46:30.440 So a week ago, when we had good soft soil, 874 00:46:30.679 --> 00:46:32.880 I pulled them up at the front end of a 875 00:46:32.920 --> 00:46:36.239 loader and a high school boy and I dug holes 876 00:46:36.280 --> 00:46:41.119 and transplanted them along the fence line. Is there any 877 00:46:41.199 --> 00:46:45.559 chance they're going to grow after being transplanted? Being that mature? 878 00:46:45.639 --> 00:46:48.840 Should I have cut them back? Is there anything I 879 00:46:48.840 --> 00:46:50.199 can do to help them along? 880 00:46:50.280 --> 00:46:50.519 Now? 881 00:46:52.280 --> 00:46:54.440 Well, by doing it in the dormant season, you did 882 00:46:54.440 --> 00:46:56.920 a good thing. That gives them a good chance by 883 00:46:57.159 --> 00:46:59.679 if you If you when you dug them, didn't like 884 00:47:00.920 --> 00:47:03.119 let the roots dry out. You know sometimes people dig 885 00:47:03.119 --> 00:47:05.360 them one day and then plan them another day, and 886 00:47:05.400 --> 00:47:09.000 in the meantime the roots start to desiccate. If you 887 00:47:09.000 --> 00:47:11.719 get them right in the ground, that's a good thing, watermen, 888 00:47:11.800 --> 00:47:14.519 real good is a good thing. And don't worry about 889 00:47:14.519 --> 00:47:17.880 fertilizer right now, just as it gets dry. And I 890 00:47:17.920 --> 00:47:20.760 know right now you are stopping soggy wet up there 891 00:47:20.760 --> 00:47:27.079 in College Station just when it needs water a little bit. 892 00:47:27.199 --> 00:47:29.880 Just remember they have a very limited root system and 893 00:47:29.920 --> 00:47:32.519 will through a good part of the summer this year. 894 00:47:33.400 --> 00:47:37.199 So just small amounts of water pretty much, I say, 895 00:47:37.199 --> 00:47:40.280 within two or three feet of the base of the 896 00:47:40.320 --> 00:47:43.840 plant in all directions. That's primarily what you're trying to 897 00:47:44.239 --> 00:47:48.559 help because the roots are very confined. Get that watered 898 00:47:48.559 --> 00:47:50.840 in real good, and that's the main thing in your 899 00:47:50.880 --> 00:47:55.239 power to do, especially when the weather heats up. But 900 00:47:55.599 --> 00:47:58.039 you can do a little fertilizing later, but first we 901 00:47:58.119 --> 00:48:00.000 need to get a good root system before we start 902 00:48:00.000 --> 00:48:00.840 putt in fertilizer. 903 00:48:02.840 --> 00:48:05.360 Perfect that's exactly what I've done. And I was a 904 00:48:05.400 --> 00:48:07.960 little word with the cool weather if that was going 905 00:48:08.000 --> 00:48:10.000 to affect them in any way. But I did water 906 00:48:10.079 --> 00:48:12.320 them in. They were out of the ground maybe about 907 00:48:12.360 --> 00:48:17.400 an hour and before we started transplanting them, and they 908 00:48:17.480 --> 00:48:20.119 look great. But of course I know that takes a 909 00:48:20.159 --> 00:48:22.880 long time for them to dry out when they're stuck 910 00:48:22.920 --> 00:48:25.840 in the ground, but they look great so far, and 911 00:48:25.880 --> 00:48:27.559 I just wanted to know if there was any chance 912 00:48:27.639 --> 00:48:30.039 I could help them out in any way, so I 913 00:48:30.039 --> 00:48:31.119 appreciate the information. 914 00:48:31.400 --> 00:48:35.679 Well you yeah, you did it right, just always in 915 00:48:35.719 --> 00:48:38.800 your brain, in your mind, you know that established Jopon 916 00:48:38.920 --> 00:48:41.599 has got roots going way out in all directions through 917 00:48:41.599 --> 00:48:44.400 a huge volume of soil. And now what you've got 918 00:48:44.440 --> 00:48:48.039 now is something with a bunch of stubbed off roots 919 00:48:48.079 --> 00:48:50.639 from the digging process that's going to take a while 920 00:48:50.719 --> 00:48:53.079 to get where it was before you dug it. So 921 00:48:54.639 --> 00:48:57.639 be aware of that consciously, and then you'll water appropriately 922 00:48:57.719 --> 00:48:58.519 as a result of that. 923 00:48:59.840 --> 00:49:02.519 I appreciate the information. Skip, Thank you so much for 924 00:49:02.559 --> 00:49:02.960 all you do. 925 00:49:04.679 --> 00:49:07.079 All right, thanks l Carle. Appreciate that. Glenn. You take care. 926 00:49:08.119 --> 00:49:11.519 Let's head out to Cyprus now and talk to Nick. Hey, Nick, 927 00:49:11.559 --> 00:49:12.440 welcome to Gardline. 928 00:49:13.400 --> 00:49:15.280 I'm how are you, Skipped? 929 00:49:16.199 --> 00:49:17.719 Hey, you were, Thank you. 930 00:49:19.880 --> 00:49:22.880 I'm doing things you've never done before, such as seeding 931 00:49:22.960 --> 00:49:27.360 and such as that. I grew an African violet from 932 00:49:27.400 --> 00:49:28.079 a leaf. 933 00:49:29.840 --> 00:49:31.159 That was a leaf. 934 00:49:31.320 --> 00:49:34.639 There you go, a leaf from. 935 00:49:34.400 --> 00:49:38.000 A plant that my sister in law grew for her mother. 936 00:49:38.920 --> 00:49:42.719 I pinched off a leaf some water. I waited for 937 00:49:42.800 --> 00:49:46.320 it to get rooting. Then once it rooted, I put 938 00:49:46.320 --> 00:49:50.880 it in a pot inside and it is now robust 939 00:49:51.000 --> 00:49:56.079 and greed and full. My question is cool, would make 940 00:49:56.159 --> 00:49:59.880 it bloom better? Because it's not bloomy, it's just kind 941 00:50:00.000 --> 00:50:01.599 African viot robots. 942 00:50:01.920 --> 00:50:02.480 I'm sorry. 943 00:50:03.159 --> 00:50:07.159 Yeah, African violets need a moderate amount of nutrition and 944 00:50:07.280 --> 00:50:10.960 a consistent supply of moisture. That's why you often see 945 00:50:10.960 --> 00:50:13.320 them grown in little pots that have a little wick 946 00:50:13.400 --> 00:50:16.199 that goes down in a water pot below that and 947 00:50:16.559 --> 00:50:19.320 it brings the water up through the wick. They don't 948 00:50:19.320 --> 00:50:22.360 want to be soggy, they'll rot, but they also can't 949 00:50:22.360 --> 00:50:25.639 take any drought, so keep it moderately moist in one 950 00:50:25.679 --> 00:50:28.559 of those little wicking pots. They have different forms they take, 951 00:50:28.599 --> 00:50:31.960 but one of those would be helpful. Good lighting, not 952 00:50:32.199 --> 00:50:36.199 direct sun, but a very nice bright light. Some people 953 00:50:36.360 --> 00:50:39.440 use a window location, that's fine. Some people put them 954 00:50:39.519 --> 00:50:43.519 under a little artificial light. That's fine too, Okay, and 955 00:50:43.559 --> 00:50:45.519 then provide get you what's called it? 956 00:50:46.599 --> 00:50:51.519 I'm sorry, No, go ahead, Oh, I would saying I 957 00:50:51.519 --> 00:50:53.760 have it in a window, right, I mean in on 958 00:50:53.800 --> 00:50:56.440 a shelf right by a window, and it seems to 959 00:50:56.440 --> 00:50:58.960 be doing well, and I'll rotate it so that it 960 00:50:59.000 --> 00:51:00.519 doesn't all grow direction. 961 00:51:01.400 --> 00:51:04.199 So but that's good about and. 962 00:51:04.360 --> 00:51:07.800 I appreciate that because my mother in laws was blooming, 963 00:51:07.920 --> 00:51:08.639 but mine wasn't. 964 00:51:09.320 --> 00:51:13.519 So yeah, well the wick makes it easier. It makes 965 00:51:13.599 --> 00:51:15.880 it a little more fool proof. You know, when we 966 00:51:15.960 --> 00:51:18.719 go on a trip or we forget or whatever. It's 967 00:51:18.719 --> 00:51:21.559 good for that also get you an African violet food. 968 00:51:21.599 --> 00:51:24.760 There are products out there called African violet food and 969 00:51:24.800 --> 00:51:26.480 that way, you know you're getting a good blend of 970 00:51:26.559 --> 00:51:28.360 nutrients for those plants. 971 00:51:28.840 --> 00:51:30.360 Okay, well that sounds. 972 00:51:30.599 --> 00:51:34.719 And when you fertilize it give and when you fertilize 973 00:51:34.760 --> 00:51:37.880 African violets, you can put that food in the the 974 00:51:37.920 --> 00:51:41.519 water container and it'll wicket right up to the plants, 975 00:51:41.760 --> 00:51:43.760 so you don't have to put dry granules of the 976 00:51:43.800 --> 00:51:46.760 salt based fertilizer around the African violets. You don't do that, 977 00:51:47.920 --> 00:51:48.519 all right, sir? 978 00:51:49.400 --> 00:51:51.639 All right, thank you, Skip, I appreciate it. You have 979 00:51:51.679 --> 00:51:52.800 a good day. 980 00:51:53.760 --> 00:51:57.320 Yeah, congratulations. Yeah, And everybody that's a that would be 981 00:51:57.440 --> 00:52:01.519 thing to try. You got a family, friend, relative, or 982 00:52:01.519 --> 00:52:05.039 something's got a little African violet, you can learn how to. 983 00:52:05.519 --> 00:52:07.760 It's crazy. You break a little leaf off and you 984 00:52:07.800 --> 00:52:10.320 put it in the ground so that the stem is 985 00:52:10.440 --> 00:52:13.920 below ground. The leaf petiole that holds the leaf is 986 00:52:14.000 --> 00:52:17.360 below ground right to the point where the leaf is 987 00:52:17.440 --> 00:52:21.360 almost going into the ground itself right there, and that, 988 00:52:21.559 --> 00:52:23.280 believe it or not, you're going to get roots for 989 00:52:23.360 --> 00:52:25.679 him and little baby plants coming out right there at 990 00:52:25.719 --> 00:52:27.559 the end of the petiole, right before it goes into 991 00:52:27.559 --> 00:52:31.119 the leaf. Pretty cool stuff, all right, that's a good one. 992 00:52:31.159 --> 00:52:34.199 Alan in Cyprus, Welcome to garden line. How can we 993 00:52:34.239 --> 00:52:34.760 help today? 994 00:52:36.000 --> 00:52:36.599 Did you hear me? 995 00:52:38.559 --> 00:52:42.440 Yes, sir? Look okay, good, yes, sir. 996 00:52:43.159 --> 00:52:48.360 You were talking earlier about air layering fruit trees, and 997 00:52:48.559 --> 00:52:53.599 I'm actually my way today beyond County where I have 998 00:52:54.000 --> 00:52:57.760 several varieties, but I was actually going to do that today, 999 00:52:57.800 --> 00:53:02.000 and I'm curious, Texas, is there the best time to 1000 00:53:02.039 --> 00:53:02.400 try that? 1001 00:53:04.880 --> 00:53:07.599 Did you say fruit trees, yes. 1002 00:53:07.519 --> 00:53:14.800 Sir, apples, pears, beaches, apricots, Okay, where the coming out? 1003 00:53:15.119 --> 00:53:18.400 I actually stated that them can try this, and I 1004 00:53:18.519 --> 00:53:20.039 was just curious if there's the best. 1005 00:53:19.840 --> 00:53:25.800 Time well for air layering. I wouldn't recommend it for 1006 00:53:25.840 --> 00:53:29.760 fruit trees for a couple of reasons. Stems that are 1007 00:53:29.880 --> 00:53:35.360 juvenile root very well. Some plants are just wanting to root, 1008 00:53:35.599 --> 00:53:39.679 you know, vicuses and diffenbachia and a lot of the 1009 00:53:39.719 --> 00:53:42.400 houseplant type things are very happy to root that way. 1010 00:53:42.960 --> 00:53:45.599 Figs or root easily like that. That's a fruit tree, 1011 00:53:45.639 --> 00:53:47.880 but a lot of the others. What you're dealing with 1012 00:53:47.920 --> 00:53:50.440 on a fruit tree is you're taking They take a 1013 00:53:50.480 --> 00:53:53.719 bud from mature wood and they graft it onto a rootstock, 1014 00:53:54.039 --> 00:53:57.880 and so what you've got is a more mature type 1015 00:53:57.920 --> 00:54:01.920 of wood up there that is not is easy to root. 1016 00:54:02.360 --> 00:54:05.239 The second thing is if it rooted and you made 1017 00:54:05.239 --> 00:54:08.320 a plant, you wouldn't have the benefits of the rootstock. 1018 00:54:08.400 --> 00:54:10.800 So in the case of peaches, they graft them onto 1019 00:54:10.840 --> 00:54:14.480 things that are Nema toad resistant. In the case of apples, 1020 00:54:14.480 --> 00:54:17.639 it may be a semi dwarfing rootstock or other things. 1021 00:54:17.679 --> 00:54:21.960 But in general, could you do it. Maybe if it 1022 00:54:22.000 --> 00:54:25.920 were a seedling plant that grew and you could get 1023 00:54:25.960 --> 00:54:28.239 a shoot from near the base, you could do the 1024 00:54:28.280 --> 00:54:31.239 air layer on that and root it and that would work. 1025 00:54:31.840 --> 00:54:35.639 But if it is a grafted tree, probably going to 1026 00:54:35.679 --> 00:54:37.400 be hard to have success. And if you do, then 1027 00:54:37.440 --> 00:54:39.239 you got the issue of Okay, now it's not on 1028 00:54:39.280 --> 00:54:42.280 a rootstock, and sometimes that's a problem. 1029 00:54:42.679 --> 00:54:44.880 Okay, so maybe the water sprout's from the roots, but 1030 00:54:45.119 --> 00:54:47.199 not likely any of the other branches. 1031 00:54:48.559 --> 00:54:51.199 A water sprout. If it's not a graph the tree, 1032 00:54:51.199 --> 00:54:54.159 you know, if it's coming up, sometimes a graph the tree. 1033 00:54:54.159 --> 00:54:56.719 You got these shoots that are basically the rootstock growing, 1034 00:54:56.800 --> 00:55:00.440 not the variety of the tree I got you. 1035 00:55:00.480 --> 00:55:01.480 Okay, thanks so much. 1036 00:55:03.280 --> 00:55:05.920 All right, man, thanks a lot. Appreciate your call. Good question, 1037 00:55:06.039 --> 00:55:09.639 by the way, too, Appreciate that a lot. I was 1038 00:55:09.639 --> 00:55:14.480 talking earlier about the importance of taking care of your trees, 1039 00:55:14.480 --> 00:55:16.039 and I wanted to mention a couple of things. You know, 1040 00:55:16.119 --> 00:55:19.800 tree care. The winter time is a very important season 1041 00:55:19.840 --> 00:55:22.760 for that. Winter is when we do the majority of 1042 00:55:22.760 --> 00:55:25.000 our pruning, and it's when we should be doing our 1043 00:55:25.000 --> 00:55:28.159 planting fall and winter. And we've had a lot of 1044 00:55:28.239 --> 00:55:31.119 unpredictable weather here in the winter. I mean it's always 1045 00:55:31.199 --> 00:55:33.199 that way, you know. We may have cold fronts with 1046 00:55:33.239 --> 00:55:36.440 a hard freeze, and we may go through very mild periods, 1047 00:55:36.960 --> 00:55:39.119 and we got to take care of our trees. And 1048 00:55:39.320 --> 00:55:43.599 if you have, if you can't remember the last time 1049 00:55:43.639 --> 00:55:46.280 you had someone come out and prune and evaluate your 1050 00:55:46.280 --> 00:55:50.199 trees for their health, now is the time to do that. 1051 00:55:50.320 --> 00:55:52.679 And Martin spoon Moore is a guy you need to call. 1052 00:55:52.719 --> 00:55:57.159 He's with Affordable Tree Service Martin Spoon Moore Affordable Tree Service. 1053 00:55:57.840 --> 00:56:01.760 If you like websites a ff tree service dot com 1054 00:56:01.840 --> 00:56:04.679 aff tree Service dot com you can find go there, 1055 00:56:04.719 --> 00:56:06.840 find out everything you them know, or just give him 1056 00:56:06.840 --> 00:56:12.079 a call. Seven one three six twenty six sixty three. 1057 00:56:12.519 --> 00:56:15.199 Now Martin or his wife Joe will answer the phone. 1058 00:56:14.920 --> 00:56:17.079 The owner's answer the phone there. If if you don't 1059 00:56:17.079 --> 00:56:18.719 talk to Martin or Joe when you call, you've called 1060 00:56:18.760 --> 00:56:22.760 the wrong place. Seven one three six ninety nine twenty 1061 00:56:22.760 --> 00:56:25.320 six sixty three. You gotta get him scheduled now. And 1062 00:56:25.440 --> 00:56:28.000 if the guy does good work, he stays busy. Schedule 1063 00:56:28.039 --> 00:56:30.280 him now to ensure your trees are in top shape. 1064 00:56:30.719 --> 00:56:33.639 Not just for winter that's important, but for when growth 1065 00:56:33.679 --> 00:56:36.119 begins in the spring. He can come out of value 1066 00:56:36.199 --> 00:56:38.039 you trees, give you an estimate of what needs to 1067 00:56:38.079 --> 00:56:41.360 be done that would involve pruning or training in general. 1068 00:56:41.719 --> 00:56:43.840 Uh and deep root feeding. He does that. He does 1069 00:56:43.920 --> 00:56:45.920 a lot. He did pretty much. If your tree needs that, 1070 00:56:46.000 --> 00:56:49.119 Martin can do it. Martin Spoon Moored Affordable Tree seven 1071 00:56:49.199 --> 00:56:52.760 one three six nine nine twenty six sixty three. 1072 00:56:54.519 --> 00:56:54.800 Uh. 1073 00:56:55.320 --> 00:56:57.960 You know a lot of people let their trees go 1074 00:56:58.199 --> 00:57:00.239 and they just don't take care of them. And when 1075 00:57:00.280 --> 00:57:04.119 they call the tree the tree person, it's because a 1076 00:57:04.239 --> 00:57:07.800 branch broke off in a storm. Don't wait until that happens. 1077 00:57:07.840 --> 00:57:10.320 The way a tree is trained from the day it's 1078 00:57:10.360 --> 00:57:13.440 planted to the way it's prune decade by decade through 1079 00:57:13.480 --> 00:57:18.840 its life helps create a strong structure or allows problems 1080 00:57:18.880 --> 00:57:21.079 to develop. And we want to stay away from those. 1081 00:57:21.320 --> 00:57:25.199 That is it. Don't delay. Trees are the single most 1082 00:57:25.280 --> 00:57:29.119 valuable plant in your landscape. For your trees, and you 1083 00:57:29.159 --> 00:57:30.840 got to take care of them. And that's why you 1084 00:57:30.920 --> 00:57:32.880 got to trust it with somebody that knows what they're doing. 1085 00:57:33.239 --> 00:57:37.000 I see so much more practice on treecre not necessary. 1086 00:57:37.280 --> 00:57:39.239 All right, I'm going to take a quick break. When 1087 00:57:39.280 --> 00:57:41.679 we come back, Leon, you will be our very first 1088 00:57:41.679 --> 00:57:47.519 s up. All right, welcome back. Let's get going here 1089 00:57:47.599 --> 00:57:52.400 on some more garden talk. Here on garden Line seven 1090 00:57:52.480 --> 00:57:56.039 one three two one two KT Rights. That's the phone number. 1091 00:57:56.360 --> 00:57:58.199 Like you gi me call seven one three two one 1092 00:57:58.239 --> 00:58:02.760 two KTR. Going to now go and talk to Leon. Hello, Leon, 1093 00:58:02.840 --> 00:58:05.320 welcome to guard Line. Good morning. 1094 00:58:05.360 --> 00:58:07.280 How you doing today. 1095 00:58:08.079 --> 00:58:08.920 I'm well, fans. 1096 00:58:10.039 --> 00:58:13.400 All right. I called about three or four weeks ago 1097 00:58:13.440 --> 00:58:16.199 about a lemon tree that had the black leaves, and 1098 00:58:16.239 --> 00:58:19.199 you told me to get the hornicultural oil and spray 1099 00:58:19.239 --> 00:58:24.320 on the bottom side, And yes, I did that and 1100 00:58:24.440 --> 00:58:26.599 it took care of mo. I think there's a few 1101 00:58:27.559 --> 00:58:29.679 branches I might need to go back and do a 1102 00:58:29.719 --> 00:58:34.679 second treatment on. But my wife and the neighbor lady 1103 00:58:34.719 --> 00:58:37.360 across the street said, oh, I wouldn't need those lemons. 1104 00:58:37.400 --> 00:58:39.159 There are a bound to be something wrong with them. 1105 00:58:39.880 --> 00:58:40.840 Are they safety? 1106 00:58:40.880 --> 00:58:41.079 Eat? 1107 00:58:43.199 --> 00:58:47.880 They're perfectly safety. And the oil spray for the blackest 1108 00:58:47.920 --> 00:58:50.840 city moll. The city mold comes from either scale or 1109 00:58:50.880 --> 00:58:54.280 aphids or mealy bugs or some other insect. When you 1110 00:58:54.280 --> 00:58:56.920 spray the oil, you kill the insect. But that doesn't 1111 00:58:56.920 --> 00:58:59.760 make the city mole grow away overnight. It just just 1112 00:59:00.360 --> 00:59:03.320 the production of it. And in time you're gonna you're 1113 00:59:03.320 --> 00:59:05.960 gonna not have the black city on there. Some people 1114 00:59:06.000 --> 00:59:08.760 will blast it with kind of a spray or a soapy 1115 00:59:08.800 --> 00:59:11.639 spray or something to just wash it off. But uh, 1116 00:59:12.159 --> 00:59:16.440 there is absolutely no effect on those lemons whatsoever. Here 1117 00:59:16.480 --> 00:59:19.320 here's what it's like. It's like if you took sugar, 1118 00:59:19.440 --> 00:59:21.880 mixed it in water, and then you went out and 1119 00:59:21.960 --> 00:59:25.360 sprayed it on some plants, and those plants got sot 1120 00:59:25.400 --> 00:59:27.599 on them. There would be no problem to the plant, 1121 00:59:27.679 --> 00:59:31.440 to eating that plant, right, It just just so that's 1122 00:59:31.480 --> 00:59:31.840 all I do. 1123 00:59:32.280 --> 00:59:36.400 Right, Okay, when's the best time or when should you 1124 00:59:36.480 --> 00:59:37.440 harvest the fruit? 1125 00:59:40.519 --> 00:59:45.519 For lemons? Do you have a is it a Meyer lemon? 1126 00:59:46.519 --> 00:59:46.719 Yeah? 1127 00:59:46.760 --> 00:59:49.199 You know now it's a Mark. 1128 00:59:49.880 --> 00:59:53.840 Meyer Okay, Meyer's actually across. It's not a true lemon. 1129 00:59:53.880 --> 00:59:57.000 It's a cross between a lemon and amandain type orange. 1130 00:59:57.519 --> 01:00:01.519 And uh it is it mature? It goes towards it's 1131 01:00:01.519 --> 01:00:03.840 an it's a yellow color, but sometimes they even go 1132 01:00:03.920 --> 01:00:06.039 a little a little bit toward the orange side, but 1133 01:00:06.079 --> 01:00:07.760 then they're way too far along. 1134 01:00:08.400 --> 01:00:08.480 Uh. 1135 01:00:08.679 --> 01:00:10.679 I would just pick it, harvest it and taste it. 1136 01:00:11.119 --> 01:00:13.400 When it starts to get good yellow on it, you 1137 01:00:13.400 --> 01:00:17.079 could harvest it. I was sample one, but a lot 1138 01:00:17.119 --> 01:00:19.119 of citrus. You know, we think an orange has to 1139 01:00:19.159 --> 01:00:22.440 be fully orange. Well you're grownside zoom as you pick 1140 01:00:22.480 --> 01:00:25.199 them before they're fully orange for top quality. And the 1141 01:00:25.239 --> 01:00:27.079 same thing is true on lemons and things. They are 1142 01:00:27.119 --> 01:00:31.079 going to be sour sour lemone before they're fully yellow. 1143 01:00:31.239 --> 01:00:33.480 So do a little sampling and see what you like, 1144 01:00:33.559 --> 01:00:34.920 but just don't let them go too far. 1145 01:00:36.000 --> 01:00:38.880 Okay, I've been in the last three years. I've been 1146 01:00:39.760 --> 01:00:42.480 picking them right before the freeze so I could put 1147 01:00:42.519 --> 01:00:45.800 my tin over my bush and you know, protect it 1148 01:00:45.800 --> 01:00:46.559 from the freeze. 1149 01:00:46.719 --> 01:00:54.360 Okay, yeah, yeah, you said you're supposed to pick them 1150 01:00:54.400 --> 01:00:55.119 in February. 1151 01:00:56.119 --> 01:00:58.440 I said, okay, no, no. 1152 01:00:58.920 --> 01:01:01.920 Well, in some some citrus and lemons can kind of 1153 01:01:01.920 --> 01:01:05.119 do this. They may have more than one fruit cycle 1154 01:01:05.400 --> 01:01:08.519 during the year. Some things like orangeice is they're gonna 1155 01:01:08.559 --> 01:01:11.280 they're gonna have one cycle where they produce, and other 1156 01:01:11.360 --> 01:01:14.320 things can repeat bloom depending on what kind of citrus 1157 01:01:14.320 --> 01:01:18.119 it is. But so now, the all you need to 1158 01:01:18.159 --> 01:01:20.199 do now is get you some plywood and two by 1159 01:01:20.239 --> 01:01:22.119 fours and make a lemonade stand so you can make 1160 01:01:22.159 --> 01:01:23.199 some money out of the street. 1161 01:01:23.320 --> 01:01:25.679 Oh yeah, yeah, I have to get a permit from 1162 01:01:25.679 --> 01:01:31.960 the city, though, I'll do you. 1163 01:01:31.960 --> 01:01:34.800 You can't. You can't just ask for forgiveness, give a 1164 01:01:35.000 --> 01:01:36.719 give one they show up, give them a glass of 1165 01:01:36.800 --> 01:01:41.199 lemonade as hush money. Right, all right, thanks a lot. 1166 01:01:41.280 --> 01:01:48.440 Leh alright, man, take care alight, Baba. There you go. 1167 01:01:48.559 --> 01:01:51.519 Gardening advice as well as lawlessness here on Garden Line. 1168 01:01:51.559 --> 01:01:54.360 Let's go to Tomball and talk to Wayne. Hey, Wayne, 1169 01:01:54.559 --> 01:01:59.800 welcome to garden line. I have a question, well, thank 1170 01:01:59.840 --> 01:02:00.239 you out. 1171 01:02:01.119 --> 01:02:05.760 I have a question about knockout right. My knockout roses 1172 01:02:06.000 --> 01:02:09.559 every year are so gorgeous, you know, every you know, 1173 01:02:09.559 --> 01:02:11.559 I cut them back twice a year. They come back, 1174 01:02:11.719 --> 01:02:14.480 you know, then they flush back out and then you know, 1175 01:02:14.559 --> 01:02:19.360 early spring early, you know, you know early, you know, 1176 01:02:19.960 --> 01:02:22.119 class a year they bloom really gorgeous. 1177 01:02:21.800 --> 01:02:22.679 When it's not so hot. 1178 01:02:23.320 --> 01:02:30.039 Well, this year, lots of my roses are just real straggly, 1179 01:02:30.119 --> 01:02:32.079 you know what I'm talking about. I mean, like they 1180 01:02:32.119 --> 01:02:36.880 don't have a lot of foliage, sporadic blooms look more 1181 01:02:36.880 --> 01:02:41.000 woody than you know, anything else. And now I have 1182 01:02:41.239 --> 01:02:45.719 some that are fine, but most of them are just 1183 01:02:46.119 --> 01:02:47.559 and I'm just shocked. 1184 01:02:47.199 --> 01:02:48.559 Because they're always so. 1185 01:02:50.280 --> 01:02:52.599 You know, beautiful, and but this year they're not. 1186 01:02:52.920 --> 01:02:54.079 I've never seen anything like it. 1187 01:02:55.760 --> 01:03:01.039 So I was wondering description. Uh huh yeah, based on 1188 01:03:01.079 --> 01:03:06.360 your description there, Waane, I don't I don't hear a 1189 01:03:06.440 --> 01:03:10.679 problem that is evident in what you said. Uh. Now, 1190 01:03:10.719 --> 01:03:14.039 you know, roses in the winter oftener a little scraggly 1191 01:03:14.119 --> 01:03:16.119 or than normal depends on the winner we have in 1192 01:03:16.199 --> 01:03:18.679 the condition of the rose and things. But well, we 1193 01:03:18.760 --> 01:03:20.480 cut them back and the new growth comes out, they 1194 01:03:20.519 --> 01:03:22.519 should be good. Now if when the new growth comes 1195 01:03:22.559 --> 01:03:24.599 out you start to see weird things. 1196 01:03:25.000 --> 01:03:25.360 Well I do. 1197 01:03:25.519 --> 01:03:26.719 That's what I want to tell you about now, so 1198 01:03:26.760 --> 01:03:29.159 you don't how when you cut them back. When the 1199 01:03:29.159 --> 01:03:31.840 new growth comes back, the new growth is kind of raiched, 1200 01:03:32.159 --> 01:03:34.760 you know, it's it's kind of red. And then as 1201 01:03:34.800 --> 01:03:39.159 the leaves get bigger, bill they green up, well a 1202 01:03:39.199 --> 01:03:41.559 lot of them. When the new growth comes on, it 1203 01:03:41.559 --> 01:03:43.639 looks like the new growth is being burned. 1204 01:03:43.960 --> 01:03:44.599 You know what I'm saying. 1205 01:03:44.639 --> 01:03:46.320 It's like it's it's like the leader. 1206 01:03:47.280 --> 01:03:53.599 Okay, Okay, here's what I need you to do. Okay, yeah, 1207 01:03:53.800 --> 01:03:56.079 I don't wanna. I don't want to alarm you. It 1208 01:03:56.119 --> 01:03:58.760 could be something very bad or it could be nothing. 1209 01:03:59.000 --> 01:04:02.480 But uh, could you take some pictures of the show 1210 01:04:02.519 --> 01:04:05.199 me the whole bush and then show me up as 1211 01:04:05.280 --> 01:04:07.280 close as you can get in good sharp focus. And 1212 01:04:07.280 --> 01:04:09.519 you may have to put your hand right behind the 1213 01:04:09.679 --> 01:04:12.320 stem and the leaves so when you focus it doesn't 1214 01:04:12.440 --> 01:04:15.239 focus on something behind those stem and leaves. But I 1215 01:04:15.280 --> 01:04:17.920 need a good close up two or three and sharp 1216 01:04:17.960 --> 01:04:19.559 focus and let me look at them. If you can 1217 01:04:19.599 --> 01:04:22.920 email them to me here before the show's over. We 1218 01:04:23.320 --> 01:04:25.760 can talk about it and I'll take a look at them. 1219 01:04:26.480 --> 01:04:27.760 Well, I may not be able to get I'm already 1220 01:04:27.760 --> 01:04:27.960 give you. 1221 01:04:27.920 --> 01:04:32.039 A quicker okay, but I will send them to me. 1222 01:04:33.559 --> 01:04:34.800 Can I tell you one other things? 1223 01:04:35.079 --> 01:04:36.559 So you know, I've got a lot of. 1224 01:04:38.199 --> 01:04:40.719 I got a lot of the knockout roases that are 1225 01:04:40.719 --> 01:04:42.280 really established, you know what I'm saying. 1226 01:04:42.559 --> 01:04:43.679 But so also. 1227 01:04:45.320 --> 01:04:47.239 Back in the end of the summer, I bought some 1228 01:04:47.280 --> 01:04:49.320 more knockout roses when I caught them on sail and 1229 01:04:49.360 --> 01:04:52.000 all that kind of stuff, And they were so full 1230 01:04:52.079 --> 01:04:55.119 when I bought them, and they're just you know, they're 1231 01:04:55.320 --> 01:04:58.519 they didn't flush out. But yet I'll have a few 1232 01:04:58.639 --> 01:04:59.960 that flushed out really good. 1233 01:05:00.039 --> 01:05:00.840 That's what's confused. 1234 01:05:00.920 --> 01:05:02.440 I'll have it to you that really. 1235 01:05:02.159 --> 01:05:04.920 Flushed other ones did, but I will to take a 1236 01:05:04.920 --> 01:05:07.440 picture and I may not be able to send that 1237 01:05:07.599 --> 01:05:10.159 till tomorrow, and then maybe I can call in them all. 1238 01:05:11.599 --> 01:05:14.639 Yeah, I call tomorrow. That's fine. Whenever you want, just 1239 01:05:14.679 --> 01:05:16.760 give it to me, but don't delay too much. Some 1240 01:05:16.880 --> 01:05:19.960 of the possibilities or stuff that would be more of 1241 01:05:20.000 --> 01:05:21.719 a concern, and I don't want to go there until 1242 01:05:21.719 --> 01:05:24.000 we know what we're dealing with. But a photo will 1243 01:05:24.039 --> 01:05:25.800 tell me if it's a good sharp photo. Check up, 1244 01:05:25.880 --> 01:05:28.360 make sure they're all focused. Oh and the last thing, Wayne, 1245 01:05:28.920 --> 01:05:31.719 don't embed them in the text. Don't paste them into 1246 01:05:31.760 --> 01:05:37.079 the text, attach them to your email. Okay, use a 1247 01:05:37.079 --> 01:05:37.920 little paper club. 1248 01:05:38.719 --> 01:05:39.000 Okay. 1249 01:05:39.000 --> 01:05:41.239 I will take a picture of the new plannings and 1250 01:05:41.239 --> 01:05:42.599 I want to take a picture of the you know, 1251 01:05:42.639 --> 01:05:45.880 the established one. Okay, all right, then, thank you. 1252 01:05:45.880 --> 01:05:49.280 So much, thanks a lot man. All Right, you take 1253 01:05:49.320 --> 01:05:53.199 care alrighty, we'll get to the bottom of that one. Well, 1254 01:05:53.280 --> 01:05:55.320 it looks like it is time for me to go 1255 01:05:55.360 --> 01:05:57.960 to a break. I'll be right back with our last 1256 01:05:58.760 --> 01:06:05.239 segment for this hour. We're back. Welcome back to Guarden Line. 1257 01:06:06.679 --> 01:06:09.159 We are here to help you have a bountiful garden, 1258 01:06:09.199 --> 01:06:12.679 a beautiful landscape, and more fun in the process. That's it. 1259 01:06:13.400 --> 01:06:17.000 Gardening is fun. It's rewarding, it's good for your health, 1260 01:06:17.079 --> 01:06:21.719 physical and mental health, and it's just fun. It's just fun. 1261 01:06:21.760 --> 01:06:23.960 I warn you it is addictive. I have to put 1262 01:06:23.960 --> 01:06:26.559 that disclaimer on it. I need to roll somebody to 1263 01:06:26.639 --> 01:06:28.719 read legal terms real fast here at the end, like 1264 01:06:28.760 --> 01:06:32.039 they do on commercials. Can be addictive, can be habit 1265 01:06:32.079 --> 01:06:35.719 forming and so on. But it's a good habit, a 1266 01:06:35.719 --> 01:06:39.880 good habit to have when you're trying to have success 1267 01:06:39.880 --> 01:06:41.800 in your garden. You know, you want to do good practices. 1268 01:06:41.840 --> 01:06:44.880 You want to follow good horticulture practices. That's what we 1269 01:06:45.039 --> 01:06:47.400 try to teach about here on Garden Line when we're 1270 01:06:47.440 --> 01:06:50.800 talking about specifics, and I always try to lead you 1271 01:06:50.840 --> 01:06:53.840 to success. I always say like brown stuff before green stuff, 1272 01:06:54.159 --> 01:06:56.000 trying to make the point that when you get the 1273 01:06:56.039 --> 01:06:59.119 soil right, you get your plants happy. That's the key. 1274 01:06:59.199 --> 01:07:02.639 That's a foundation. There's other principles like plants need light, 1275 01:07:02.719 --> 01:07:05.480 plants e moisture, but not too much moisture in most cases. 1276 01:07:06.079 --> 01:07:08.519 And following those you do those things right and you 1277 01:07:08.639 --> 01:07:11.480 got it. And when you need supplies for that, you 1278 01:07:11.519 --> 01:07:15.599 know I was talking about has to grow, you know 1279 01:07:15.639 --> 01:07:18.599 from Medina while ago, talking about Nilson plant foods one 1280 01:07:18.639 --> 01:07:20.320 of their products a little bit earlier, and all of 1281 01:07:20.320 --> 01:07:23.079 those kinds of things. If you're kind of wondering to 1282 01:07:23.119 --> 01:07:26.760 where I get that, well, one place you can go 1283 01:07:26.800 --> 01:07:30.920 and get all of it is Southwest Fertilizer. There is 1284 01:07:30.960 --> 01:07:32.519 not a product that comes out of my mouth and 1285 01:07:32.599 --> 01:07:35.119 my knowledge. I don't think I've ever mentioned a product 1286 01:07:35.880 --> 01:07:38.920 that is not at Southwest Fertilizer because Bob makes sure 1287 01:07:38.960 --> 01:07:41.880 if something is worth carrying, if it's a good product, 1288 01:07:41.880 --> 01:07:43.599 people going to need it, He's going to carry it. 1289 01:07:43.639 --> 01:07:46.039 And that's how it works. Southwest Fertilizers on the corner 1290 01:07:46.039 --> 01:07:50.159 of Businet and Runwick in Southwest Houston. It is the premiere, 1291 01:07:50.679 --> 01:07:53.960 one stop shop for everything. Do you want to start seeds, 1292 01:07:54.320 --> 01:07:57.920 Bob's got everything you need to start seeds. Do you 1293 01:07:58.039 --> 01:08:01.400 need to have a certain of gardening tools, It's time 1294 01:08:01.440 --> 01:08:04.159 to prune. By the way, he carries quality brands like 1295 01:08:04.280 --> 01:08:08.480 Felco and Barnell and Corona. Or you an organic gardener 1296 01:08:08.480 --> 01:08:12.559 and you go, yeah, you talk about pesticides and secticides, fungicides, herbicides, 1297 01:08:12.599 --> 01:08:15.880 I'm organic. Well, there's organic versions of all of those, 1298 01:08:16.239 --> 01:08:19.359 and nobody has a bigger organic selection than Bob does. 1299 01:08:19.520 --> 01:08:24.119 At Southwest Fertilizer corner Abyss and Nutt and Renwick. Southwest 1300 01:08:24.119 --> 01:08:27.680 Fertilizer dot Com is a website you on a phone number. Hope, 1301 01:08:27.840 --> 01:08:29.920 hopefully you're listening to garden Line with a pen and 1302 01:08:29.960 --> 01:08:33.640 paper nearby here it is seven one three six six 1303 01:08:33.760 --> 01:08:37.439 six one seven four four seven one three six six 1304 01:08:37.560 --> 01:08:42.119 six one seven four four. If Bob doesn't carry it, 1305 01:08:42.239 --> 01:08:45.880 you don't need it. It's as simple as that. If 1306 01:08:45.920 --> 01:08:48.079 you like to give me a call my phone number 1307 01:08:48.199 --> 01:08:51.600 seven one three two one two k t r H 1308 01:08:51.760 --> 01:08:56.279 seven one three two one two k t r H. 1309 01:08:56.359 --> 01:08:58.800 Let's help. You have a bountiful lawn and a beautiful 1310 01:08:58.880 --> 01:09:02.439 landscape and a bountifl garden and all those kinds of things. 1311 01:09:04.600 --> 01:09:07.720 Plants fall seasons is the garden center right there on 1312 01:09:07.800 --> 01:09:10.079 two forty nine as you're going up toward Tomball from 1313 01:09:10.119 --> 01:09:13.319 Houston or vice versa, right there on two forty nine, 1314 01:09:13.399 --> 01:09:16.279 just north of Luetta. So when you exit for Luetta, 1315 01:09:16.399 --> 01:09:19.880 you just you just right there, I mean just a 1316 01:09:19.640 --> 01:09:22.640 what about a half block north of Luetta on the 1317 01:09:22.680 --> 01:09:25.520 right hand side if you're going north. Plants for All 1318 01:09:25.520 --> 01:09:30.439 Seasons always has a good selection of everything that is 1319 01:09:30.479 --> 01:09:33.800 in season. And so for example, if you if you 1320 01:09:33.840 --> 01:09:36.960 go to Plants for All Seasons and you're you're looking 1321 01:09:37.119 --> 01:09:40.600 for a particular kind of flower or maybe vegetables, or 1322 01:09:40.640 --> 01:09:44.319 maybe containers or all kinds of things like that, they've 1323 01:09:44.319 --> 01:09:47.000 got it all. They have it all right there. Plants 1324 01:09:47.000 --> 01:09:49.680 for All Seasons. You're going to find right now they 1325 01:09:49.720 --> 01:09:52.880 are stocked up on roses. Oh my gosh, I got 1326 01:09:52.920 --> 01:09:57.479 a lot of roses there. Still good good cool season color, 1327 01:09:57.920 --> 01:10:01.359 really good cool cool season color plants. They're veggies for 1328 01:10:01.439 --> 01:10:03.520 cool season. And you know I was talking about cruciferous 1329 01:10:03.520 --> 01:10:07.359 crops before, Well they've got them. They've got them there 1330 01:10:07.399 --> 01:10:10.479 in a nice size, transplant size. There are plants for 1331 01:10:10.520 --> 01:10:13.399 all seasons. You're gonna find. You can't even walk out 1332 01:10:13.399 --> 01:10:16.680 of the place to check out without going through all 1333 01:10:16.720 --> 01:10:20.039 of the fertilizers and the soil types of products that 1334 01:10:20.079 --> 01:10:24.279 are so important so that that beautiful plant, that basketful 1335 01:10:24.319 --> 01:10:26.960 of plants you got shopping there, you got to grab 1336 01:10:27.560 --> 01:10:30.640 the mixes, the blends of the composts, the mulches, the 1337 01:10:30.680 --> 01:10:33.560 fertilizers to make those plants have success. And they got 1338 01:10:33.600 --> 01:10:35.359 you covered there. They've been doing this for a very 1339 01:10:35.399 --> 01:10:38.079 long time. Plants for all season. In fact, I believe 1340 01:10:38.079 --> 01:10:41.680 it goes back to Oh my gosh, in nineteen seventy three, 1341 01:10:41.760 --> 01:10:44.199 I think is when they begin, and so they know 1342 01:10:44.359 --> 01:10:47.159 what grows in Houston. They're not just people that sell plants. 1343 01:10:47.239 --> 01:10:51.279 They're gardeners with experience that know what they're doing. The 1344 01:10:51.399 --> 01:10:55.520 plants for all seasons. Well, you were listening to garden Line, 1345 01:10:55.640 --> 01:10:58.520 and we are coming close to a wrap. I probably 1346 01:10:58.520 --> 01:11:00.600 could take a real quick call. One want to call 1347 01:11:00.720 --> 01:11:02.800 for the top of the hour here, we're getting real 1348 01:11:02.840 --> 01:11:06.119 close to the end for that and we'll be back. 1349 01:11:06.159 --> 01:11:11.039 Of course next segment. When you're talking about things to 1350 01:11:11.039 --> 01:11:13.520 be doing right now, it is time to get those 1351 01:11:13.560 --> 01:11:17.039 seeds started. In fact, this afternoon, that is one of 1352 01:11:17.079 --> 01:11:19.359 the things I'm going to be doing is starting some 1353 01:11:19.439 --> 01:11:23.239 more seeds under lights that I have inside the garage. 1354 01:11:23.600 --> 01:11:26.039 Got a little heat map to go underneath them under there, 1355 01:11:26.600 --> 01:11:28.359 and I've got a lot of different things I want 1356 01:11:28.399 --> 01:11:31.800 to try. You know, there's the standard way where you 1357 01:11:31.880 --> 01:11:34.159 go buy a packet of seed and you bring it 1358 01:11:34.159 --> 01:11:36.279 home and planet of course, that's legit. That's what most 1359 01:11:36.319 --> 01:11:40.239 people do. I do seed saving from my non hybrid 1360 01:11:40.439 --> 01:11:43.880 varieties of flowers and vegetables. I'll often save seed from them, 1361 01:11:44.560 --> 01:11:47.960 and that's another way to do it. And then I'm 1362 01:11:47.960 --> 01:11:48.920 a seed collector. 1363 01:11:49.399 --> 01:11:49.640 You know. 1364 01:11:49.720 --> 01:11:54.359 I was out on a roadside recently and saw some farkleberry. 1365 01:11:54.600 --> 01:11:57.760 Have you ever heard of farkleberry. It's a relative of 1366 01:11:57.800 --> 01:12:02.319 blueberries that grows wild up north of Houston and the woods, 1367 01:12:02.319 --> 01:12:04.479 and it has beautiful burgundy color in the fall, and 1368 01:12:04.479 --> 01:12:08.079 it makes these little tiny berries that are like a blueberry, 1369 01:12:08.119 --> 01:12:11.159 but they're small and they're mostly seed, so none to 1370 01:12:11.199 --> 01:12:13.039 write home about. I mean, you can make jelly out 1371 01:12:13.079 --> 01:12:16.560 of them, but they're graft compatible with blueberries, and they 1372 01:12:16.560 --> 01:12:20.039 grow on soil that blueberries might struggle in. So I'm 1373 01:12:20.039 --> 01:12:22.319 going to I've got some seed. I'm going to start 1374 01:12:22.359 --> 01:12:25.800 some farkleberries, and when they're old enough, I'll try grafting 1375 01:12:25.840 --> 01:12:28.000 them to blueberries. Remember I said try something new this year. 1376 01:12:28.000 --> 01:12:31.920 I haven't tried before. So that's just an example. I 1377 01:12:31.960 --> 01:12:36.560 saw some beautiful roadside wildflowers that just were unique in 1378 01:12:36.600 --> 01:12:38.600 a specific I won't bore you with the details, but 1379 01:12:38.600 --> 01:12:41.319 it's like, Ooh, I haven't seen that species look like that. 1380 01:12:41.800 --> 01:12:44.079 I collected the seed. They're about to go out in 1381 01:12:44.079 --> 01:12:46.119 my garage and go into containers, and I'm going to 1382 01:12:46.199 --> 01:12:48.880 check them out and maybe pick out some good ones. 1383 01:12:49.439 --> 01:12:51.560 That would be another thing. And you're talking about things 1384 01:12:51.560 --> 01:12:54.439 you haven't done before that you ought to try this year, 1385 01:12:54.760 --> 01:12:58.439 that you're gonna try this year. How about trying your 1386 01:12:58.560 --> 01:13:04.119 hand at improving a species or a crop. So I 1387 01:13:04.159 --> 01:13:06.479 do that with Okra. For example, I cross okra and 1388 01:13:06.760 --> 01:13:09.159 my best ones, I save them, and then I plant them, 1389 01:13:09.199 --> 01:13:11.560 and I pull up everything that is not the best, 1390 01:13:11.720 --> 01:13:13.760 and the ones that are left are the best, and 1391 01:13:13.800 --> 01:13:15.920 then I do it again and again, and you get 1392 01:13:15.960 --> 01:13:18.159 better at that. You can do the same thing. A 1393 01:13:18.199 --> 01:13:21.680 lot of really quality plants that we have now were 1394 01:13:21.800 --> 01:13:25.720 found by somebody somewhere and brought in and grown in 1395 01:13:25.800 --> 01:13:30.119 that kind of way. And so these wildflowers that I planted, 1396 01:13:30.159 --> 01:13:32.520 when I plant those seeds, they're not all going to 1397 01:13:32.560 --> 01:13:34.640 be like what I the mama plant that I took 1398 01:13:34.680 --> 01:13:37.920 them off of. So I'll pull up everything that is 1399 01:13:38.000 --> 01:13:41.359 not like or better than the mother plant and just 1400 01:13:41.439 --> 01:13:45.199 let it cross with itself and keep going like that. 1401 01:13:45.199 --> 01:13:46.720 That's a hobby. And I know a lot of you're 1402 01:13:46.720 --> 01:13:47.560 listening to go, I'm. 1403 01:13:47.399 --> 01:13:47.960 Not gonna do it. 1404 01:13:48.039 --> 01:13:51.039 That's fine, you I have to do. Gardening is a broad, 1405 01:13:51.479 --> 01:13:54.960 broad hobby. Everybody is to do what they want. But 1406 01:13:55.159 --> 01:13:57.960 I like playing in the dirt. You know, you're never 1407 01:13:58.239 --> 01:14:01.760 too old to play in the dirt. You aren't. That's 1408 01:14:01.760 --> 01:14:05.039 what they say. There's a shirt that says that. By 1409 01:14:05.039 --> 01:14:08.119 the way, I'll collect gardening t shirts I have some 1410 01:14:08.319 --> 01:14:13.039 really unusual as right, I'll posted the first to face 1411 01:14:13.880 --> 01:14:15.800 all right, top of the hour. When we come back, 1412 01:14:15.880 --> 01:14:20.560 Kay and pair Land, you'll be our first up. 1413 01:14:21.399 --> 01:14:25.439 Welcome to kt r H garden line with skin rictor. 1414 01:14:27.359 --> 01:14:32.640 Crazy Trim. 1415 01:14:33.960 --> 01:14:42.720 Just watch him as many spots. 1416 01:14:50.560 --> 01:14:55.600 All Right, we're back. I have refueled on coffee, so 1417 01:14:55.760 --> 01:14:59.920 I'll be somewhat coherent even in this next hour. Our 1418 01:15:00.000 --> 01:15:03.039 phone number seven one three two one two k t 1419 01:15:03.279 --> 01:15:06.119 r H. What do you wanna talk about regarding plants? Uh, 1420 01:15:06.479 --> 01:15:08.239 happy to talk to you about that. Just give us 1421 01:15:08.279 --> 01:15:11.039 call seven one three two one two k t r H. 1422 01:15:11.119 --> 01:15:13.680 Let's run out to Paarland now and talk to k 1423 01:15:14.000 --> 01:15:17.079 first thing this hour. Hello, okay, welcome to guard Mine. 1424 01:15:17.720 --> 01:15:21.079 Yeah, thank you for taking my call. I was just wondering, 1425 01:15:21.560 --> 01:15:26.920 is this an okay time to plant amarilla spulbs. They're transplants. 1426 01:15:27.239 --> 01:15:31.960 Yeah, it's fine. You can do that now. You know 1427 01:15:32.079 --> 01:15:34.920 normally we we we do a lot of bulb planting 1428 01:15:34.960 --> 01:15:38.159 in the fall. Uh, yeah, you can still plant them now. 1429 01:15:38.199 --> 01:15:42.079 There's there's nothing they'll they'll they'll grow. There are these 1430 01:15:42.159 --> 01:15:44.920 ones that you are moving around your yard or are 1431 01:15:44.920 --> 01:15:46.680 these ones you've purchased. 1432 01:15:47.000 --> 01:15:49.880 No, these are ones I dug up. I didn't dig 1433 01:15:49.920 --> 01:15:53.199 them up until about a month ago. I was having 1434 01:15:54.039 --> 01:15:57.079 all my beds mulched, and I thought, well, I'm gonna 1435 01:15:57.119 --> 01:15:59.239 get them out of there and put them back in. 1436 01:16:00.920 --> 01:16:03.640 Okay, it ought to be fine. It ought to be 1437 01:16:03.680 --> 01:16:06.560 fine to go ahead and do that. You bet, have 1438 01:16:06.680 --> 01:16:08.279 have fun. Send me a picture when they all come 1439 01:16:08.279 --> 01:16:09.079 out and start blooming. 1440 01:16:10.039 --> 01:16:11.359 Oh okay, I'll try. 1441 01:16:11.680 --> 01:16:13.119 Thank you talk to you. 1442 01:16:13.119 --> 01:16:16.960 About all right. You're welcome to you bet. Yeah. By 1443 01:16:17.000 --> 01:16:18.920 the way, all of you, you're welcome to brag about 1444 01:16:18.920 --> 01:16:22.039 your stuff. You know, if you grow a tomato that 1445 01:16:22.079 --> 01:16:24.920 you're particularly proud of, I'll I'll tell you a look 1446 01:16:24.960 --> 01:16:27.159 at that. I'd like to see that, you know, or 1447 01:16:27.199 --> 01:16:31.159 some beautiful Amarillus bulbs, or I don't know, some homemade 1448 01:16:31.159 --> 01:16:34.600 contraption that you made. Well, well, we will go along 1449 01:16:34.640 --> 01:16:37.279 with any of that kind of thing. Gardeners love to 1450 01:16:37.319 --> 01:16:40.359 talk about gardening, you know. It's kind of like you know, 1451 01:16:40.439 --> 01:16:44.319 you dog people, which, by the way, we have two 1452 01:16:44.359 --> 01:16:48.600 golden retrievers, And so if you look at the photos 1453 01:16:48.680 --> 01:16:52.199 on my phone too, but my wife's phone, you scroll 1454 01:16:52.319 --> 01:16:55.039 through them and it's like eight hundred thousand pictures of 1455 01:16:55.119 --> 01:16:58.800 our looks along with kids and grandkids and everything else. 1456 01:16:59.399 --> 01:17:01.239 But gardener's that way. You know, you got to take 1457 01:17:01.279 --> 01:17:03.840 pictures while your stuff. You should by the way that 1458 01:17:04.000 --> 01:17:09.720 reminds me of something. Uh, this would be. I don't 1459 01:17:09.760 --> 01:17:12.319 like the term New Year's resolution because to me, what 1460 01:17:12.359 --> 01:17:14.439 that means is something I think I should do, but 1461 01:17:14.520 --> 01:17:16.920 I'll never get around to when the when the rubber 1462 01:17:16.960 --> 01:17:20.760 hits the road, right, But I'll just use it new 1463 01:17:20.840 --> 01:17:26.520 Year's resolution. Here's an idea to journal your gardening activities 1464 01:17:26.560 --> 01:17:29.479 this year. And you're thinking, Okay, I'm not a journ 1465 01:17:29.560 --> 01:17:31.439 I don't have a journal that I write about what 1466 01:17:31.479 --> 01:17:33.560 I think and feel and everything else. No, I'm talking 1467 01:17:33.600 --> 01:17:40.680 about something different. I'm talking about when you plant and emeralists. 1468 01:17:40.760 --> 01:17:43.319 Let's say this. We're just talking to okay about amarillis. 1469 01:17:43.760 --> 01:17:45.600 When they come up and bloom, take a picture of 1470 01:17:45.640 --> 01:17:48.800 it and where they are and where they're blooming. I've 1471 01:17:48.800 --> 01:17:53.039 taken pictures of things after I planted them that are 1472 01:17:53.079 --> 01:17:55.640 they're going to disappear away and later you want to go, 1473 01:17:55.760 --> 01:17:57.159 like a bulb, dig it up you don't know where 1474 01:17:57.159 --> 01:17:59.239 it is. Well, that's one thing you can do. But 1475 01:17:59.359 --> 01:18:02.199 also take pictures of how things are doing and what 1476 01:18:02.319 --> 01:18:05.560 works and what doesn't. You're out this year, You're going 1477 01:18:05.640 --> 01:18:07.960 to grow tomatoes in your garden, let's say. And so 1478 01:18:08.479 --> 01:18:10.359 you grow the tomatoes and you see a bug you'd 1479 01:18:10.399 --> 01:18:12.680 never seen before, take a picture of it. Take a 1480 01:18:12.760 --> 01:18:15.159 picture of it, and keep track of that. Some people 1481 01:18:15.239 --> 01:18:17.600 like to write in a journal. You can do that. 1482 01:18:17.800 --> 01:18:20.600 I like the electronic ones. There are different kinds of 1483 01:18:20.640 --> 01:18:23.119 things that you can I'm not going to go into 1484 01:18:23.159 --> 01:18:26.800 all the apps and softwares and things, but there's a 1485 01:18:26.840 --> 01:18:29.720 lot of it out there. Some people just use, you know, 1486 01:18:29.760 --> 01:18:34.079 something like Microsoft Word or Excel or something. You can 1487 01:18:34.119 --> 01:18:37.880 take those pictures and you can put them into the 1488 01:18:37.960 --> 01:18:42.439 journal of that year with those plants as well as notes. 1489 01:18:42.600 --> 01:18:46.279 And I go back to notes all the time. You know, 1490 01:18:46.359 --> 01:18:49.720 what was two years ago I planted a whole bunch 1491 01:18:49.760 --> 01:18:53.680 of hot peppers. What was the name of that one? 1492 01:18:53.960 --> 01:18:57.199 Or how did that do? Or what earlier? I two 1493 01:18:57.279 --> 01:18:59.079 years ago, I took a picture of some stuff on 1494 01:18:59.159 --> 01:19:02.119 Okra that I'd never seen before, And now I was 1495 01:19:02.239 --> 01:19:04.800 just not too long ago thinking about, Okay, what was 1496 01:19:04.840 --> 01:19:07.039 that and what month was that that I saw that? 1497 01:19:07.159 --> 01:19:09.680 On it? With's on the picture the date on the picture. 1498 01:19:09.920 --> 01:19:12.199 I mean, I'm just saying. You can journal about a 1499 01:19:12.239 --> 01:19:14.239 lot of different things that you try and what works 1500 01:19:14.239 --> 01:19:17.319 and what doesn't work. You can journal about pests and diseases. 1501 01:19:17.439 --> 01:19:19.399 You know what You can also do You can clip 1502 01:19:19.439 --> 01:19:23.159 something from online that you read that's really good and 1503 01:19:23.199 --> 01:19:25.319 put it in that folder. I have folders like that 1504 01:19:25.760 --> 01:19:28.920 where I read an article about not just make something 1505 01:19:29.000 --> 01:19:31.359 up here, you know, Like I read an article about 1506 01:19:31.399 --> 01:19:34.600 this great new carrot that has got way more vitamin 1507 01:19:34.920 --> 01:19:37.600 or more beta caroteene in it, which is a precursor 1508 01:19:37.640 --> 01:19:40.760 to vitamin A, and this and that and the other 1509 01:19:40.800 --> 01:19:44.039 about this wonderful carrot, and I may just take a 1510 01:19:44.159 --> 01:19:47.800 click that link and paste it into my journal in 1511 01:19:47.840 --> 01:19:51.600 the section on vegetables or carrots or whatever, however organized 1512 01:19:51.640 --> 01:19:54.840 you want to go about it, or however unorganized, however 1513 01:19:55.119 --> 01:19:59.239 in depth or however just cursory. Find a way to 1514 01:19:59.439 --> 01:20:02.279 capture the things that you see in or learning. You 1515 01:20:02.359 --> 01:20:05.560 go visit a botanical garden in another city and you 1516 01:20:05.600 --> 01:20:07.880 see this cool plant, take a picture of it, take 1517 01:20:07.920 --> 01:20:09.960 a picture of the tag on it, and there you go. 1518 01:20:10.199 --> 01:20:11.840 Now you know what it looks like, what it is. 1519 01:20:11.880 --> 01:20:14.319 So when you go home, you can go see, hey, 1520 01:20:14.359 --> 01:20:16.560 do you guys carry this plant? You got it with you, 1521 01:20:16.960 --> 01:20:19.760 so take advantage of that. Some you can use the 1522 01:20:19.760 --> 01:20:23.760 word journal however you want to look at it, just 1523 01:20:23.880 --> 01:20:26.479 however you want to go about it. Do that. I 1524 01:20:28.279 --> 01:20:33.880 really like the Microsoft product. One note for that I 1525 01:20:33.960 --> 01:20:37.520 have used. Oh gosh, I can't even say the names 1526 01:20:37.520 --> 01:20:40.840 of past softwares that I've used. And find what works 1527 01:20:40.840 --> 01:20:43.760 for you or at you know, in the old days, 1528 01:20:44.399 --> 01:20:48.239 we just cut clippings out of the newspaper and wrote 1529 01:20:48.359 --> 01:20:52.000 on a you know, big chief tablet or three ring 1530 01:20:52.039 --> 01:20:56.520 binder those things down. You will find that those become 1531 01:20:57.279 --> 01:20:59.560 very helpful and educational for those of you that want 1532 01:20:59.600 --> 01:21:03.840 to get really serious about gardening in one aspect or another, 1533 01:21:03.960 --> 01:21:07.840 or at least to learn and remember. All right, that's 1534 01:21:07.960 --> 01:21:11.439 enough of a spiel on that, but I think that's 1535 01:21:11.439 --> 01:21:16.920 important and I encourage you to try doing that well. 1536 01:21:17.000 --> 01:21:19.680 The folks at Microlife have put together a number of 1537 01:21:19.760 --> 01:21:22.159 quality products, and I talk about these all the time, 1538 01:21:22.520 --> 01:21:26.439 but micro Grow Liquid AF is one I just want 1539 01:21:26.439 --> 01:21:31.039 to briefly mention to you. It is loaded with a 1540 01:21:31.199 --> 01:21:36.000 bazillion different kinds of good things, eight specifically extremely dominating 1541 01:21:36.960 --> 01:21:41.439 microbes for example, there are microbes that help control certain diseases. 1542 01:21:42.359 --> 01:21:46.119 Micro Grow Liquid AF bioinoculate is loaded with those. There 1543 01:21:46.119 --> 01:21:49.359 are microbes that live on the leaf and when a 1544 01:21:49.439 --> 01:21:54.079 diseasepore lands or a bacteria lands, it out competes them 1545 01:21:54.159 --> 01:21:56.880 or it just outright kills them. There's microbes that cause 1546 01:21:57.079 --> 01:21:59.880 plants to growth to be regulated in a good way. 1547 01:22:00.279 --> 01:22:04.159 There's microbes that help the plant obtain nutrients from the soil, 1548 01:22:04.239 --> 01:22:06.880 and on and on and on down the way. Micro 1549 01:22:07.039 --> 01:22:11.039 Grow Liquid AF bioinoculate. This is a liquid. You can 1550 01:22:11.039 --> 01:22:13.359 get it at a granule, but this is a liquid. 1551 01:22:14.119 --> 01:22:16.720 It is very effective and it's everywhere you see micro 1552 01:22:16.800 --> 01:22:21.279 life sould. It's a maroon burgundy colored label. Micro Grow 1553 01:22:21.399 --> 01:22:26.399 Liquid AF all organic liquid biological inoculation for your plants 1554 01:22:26.439 --> 01:22:28.600 and for your soil. Time for me to take a 1555 01:22:28.640 --> 01:22:30.920 quick break. I'll be right back with your calls. 1556 01:22:31.720 --> 01:22:37.199 Amaze, Welcome back to garden Line see dancing Glad to 1557 01:22:37.199 --> 01:22:38.319 have you with us this morning. 1558 01:22:38.359 --> 01:22:40.680 I'm your host, Skip Rechtor, and we're here to guide 1559 01:22:40.720 --> 01:22:43.760 you to success in your gardening. How's that for a 1560 01:22:43.800 --> 01:22:47.880 lofty goal. It's not rocket science, man, you can do it. 1561 01:22:48.520 --> 01:22:51.600 Let's talk. You got a question, you got something you 1562 01:22:51.640 --> 01:22:54.640 maybe I can be assistance with helping you have success 1563 01:22:54.720 --> 01:22:58.960 with Let's talk about that very very important. Try to 1564 01:22:59.000 --> 01:23:01.560 give you some principal. I try to avoid too much 1565 01:23:01.600 --> 01:23:05.439 of the what is it didactic radio where I'm just 1566 01:23:05.479 --> 01:23:09.000 like teaching the or that kind of thing. But I 1567 01:23:09.039 --> 01:23:12.920 think at times it helps to understand the why. You know, 1568 01:23:13.399 --> 01:23:15.720 a little bit of the why is helpful because then 1569 01:23:15.840 --> 01:23:19.520 then you understand and you can apply that to other things. 1570 01:23:20.039 --> 01:23:21.680 However you want to go about it, We're here for that. 1571 01:23:22.199 --> 01:23:27.039 Seven one three two one two k t r H. 1572 01:23:27.279 --> 01:23:30.199 The folks at wild Birds have come up with a 1573 01:23:30.520 --> 01:23:35.119 new product and it is really cool stuff. They call 1574 01:23:35.159 --> 01:23:39.920 it the Cardinal Confetti Blend. That was it was a 1575 01:23:39.920 --> 01:23:44.239 Cardinal Confetti blend is designed you know, for cardinals, but 1576 01:23:44.279 --> 01:23:46.319 I'm telling you a lot of birds will like this blend. 1577 01:23:46.359 --> 01:23:51.039 It's got safflower backs, black sunflowers, sunflower chips, It's got 1578 01:23:51.039 --> 01:23:54.880 something called nutris saff and, which is a safflower. It's 1579 01:23:54.880 --> 01:23:57.680 got the bark butter bits, it's got peanut halves, dried 1580 01:23:57.720 --> 01:24:00.920 meal worms. I'm not a bird is starting to make 1581 01:24:00.960 --> 01:24:04.239 my mouth water, and striped sunflower seeds as well, and 1582 01:24:04.279 --> 01:24:06.119 you put it in a I would just put it 1583 01:24:06.199 --> 01:24:08.319 loose in a tray. You put it in a one 1584 01:24:08.359 --> 01:24:11.800 of those tube feeders, or have a squirrel eliminator, my 1585 01:24:11.920 --> 01:24:14.319 favorite bird feeder of all. You put it in there. 1586 01:24:15.159 --> 01:24:17.680 They're going to keep this available year round because Cardinal's 1587 01:24:17.680 --> 01:24:21.640 around year round. But it is really really cool. They've 1588 01:24:21.640 --> 01:24:25.159 got a Cardinal tube feeder. It's brand new, also designed 1589 01:24:25.159 --> 01:24:29.279 for this confetti collection, Cardinal Confetti. There's also a good 1590 01:24:29.279 --> 01:24:33.479 evening Cardinal feeder. Two new feeders that are really really 1591 01:24:33.520 --> 01:24:36.039 effective and they're attractive too, by the way. They also 1592 01:24:37.039 --> 01:24:39.520 this time of the year because it's winter, the Winter 1593 01:24:39.600 --> 01:24:44.279 super Blend, it's a still very important, very timely it's 1594 01:24:44.279 --> 01:24:46.399 got the energy and the fats that birds need for 1595 01:24:46.479 --> 01:24:49.960 winter survival. In fact, it's wild Bird Unlimited, its highest 1596 01:24:50.199 --> 01:24:53.359 fat seed blend, the Winter super Blend. That's what's in 1597 01:24:53.399 --> 01:24:55.960 my feeders right now, Winter super blund. And then they've 1598 01:24:55.960 --> 01:25:00.079 got something called bark butter. Now this is crazy, but 1599 01:25:00.600 --> 01:25:03.920 bark butter is a spreadable suet and you can literally 1600 01:25:03.960 --> 01:25:05.479 you just go out there and smear it on a 1601 01:25:05.520 --> 01:25:07.840 tree trunk and birds will come up and peck it. 1602 01:25:07.960 --> 01:25:09.359 Out of that tree trunk. I mean you can smear 1603 01:25:09.359 --> 01:25:11.720 it on a feed or whatever you want. But no 1604 01:25:12.159 --> 01:25:17.119 bird food attracts more species of birds than Gem's birdaceous 1605 01:25:17.159 --> 01:25:20.079 bark butter. Is that a name, Gem's berdaceous bark butter. 1606 01:25:20.479 --> 01:25:22.920 Now Jim Carpenter, by the way, he's the wild Birds 1607 01:25:22.960 --> 01:25:27.279 Unlimited founder, But they have documented one hundred and fifty 1608 01:25:27.520 --> 01:25:31.479 plus bird species that are attracted to this bark butter. 1609 01:25:31.920 --> 01:25:34.000 I mean this is this is like, this is like 1610 01:25:34.079 --> 01:25:37.359 bird crack. Okay, I mean there's it's probably a control 1611 01:25:37.439 --> 01:25:40.119 substance in the bird world. It is so good. It 1612 01:25:40.159 --> 01:25:42.600 comes into bark butter bits and or little bite sized nuggets. 1613 01:25:42.600 --> 01:25:45.960 It comes with something called bugs and bits. This does 1614 01:25:46.000 --> 01:25:50.000 not make my mouthwater. It's bark butter bits with dried mealworms, 1615 01:25:50.159 --> 01:25:55.039 and birds love dried mealworms, and so any kind of 1616 01:25:55.039 --> 01:25:57.800 an insect eating bird especially is going to be very 1617 01:25:57.800 --> 01:26:01.920 interested in that bark butter. So I can sit here 1618 01:26:01.920 --> 01:26:03.960 and brag and brag and talk about it, but just 1619 01:26:04.079 --> 01:26:07.520 know cardinal confetti blend, the new product with the cardinal 1620 01:26:07.600 --> 01:26:10.840 tube feeder and the cardinal Good Evening cardinal feeder are 1621 01:26:10.880 --> 01:26:13.680 all there. Also, know your birds need water. Birds drink 1622 01:26:13.680 --> 01:26:15.640 every day of the year just like you do. So 1623 01:26:15.840 --> 01:26:17.960 make sure there's always a supply of water out there 1624 01:26:17.960 --> 01:26:21.159 for them, and you're gonna have good success with that. 1625 01:26:21.159 --> 01:26:22.560 That reminds me I need to go out and check 1626 01:26:22.600 --> 01:26:24.960 my feeders, another thing for me to do this afternoon. 1627 01:26:25.479 --> 01:26:28.640 And I've not gotten the cardinal confetti yet, and then 1628 01:26:28.800 --> 01:26:31.399 reading about I gotta get some. Next time I'm down 1629 01:26:31.399 --> 01:26:33.359 at the wild birds, I'm gonna grab some of that stuff. 1630 01:26:33.399 --> 01:26:36.880 That is really cool stuff. Cardinals are such beautiful birds. 1631 01:26:37.800 --> 01:26:41.960 Beautiful beautiful. I mean, probably one of the most recognizable 1632 01:26:42.000 --> 01:26:44.760 birds even by children out there. And they may call 1633 01:26:44.800 --> 01:26:48.800 them a redbird, but cardinals are beautiful. They come to 1634 01:26:48.840 --> 01:26:53.800 my feeder. Well, it is time for me to take 1635 01:26:53.840 --> 01:26:57.720 another little break here in just a little bit. I 1636 01:26:57.840 --> 01:27:01.680 want to let's see here. Yuh, I'm a little early 1637 01:27:01.760 --> 01:27:03.640 on that, aren't I? Yeah, I'm a little excuse me, 1638 01:27:03.680 --> 01:27:05.640 I have my time all wrong. I got time to 1639 01:27:05.680 --> 01:27:08.079 go out here and talk to Mark in the woodlands. 1640 01:27:08.119 --> 01:27:11.239 So let's do that. Hey, Mark, Welcome to garden Line. 1641 01:27:13.000 --> 01:27:15.439 Hello, Randy, good morning. 1642 01:27:15.880 --> 01:27:25.479 Oh wrong, guy, I skip. That's all right, Sorry, that's okay, 1643 01:27:26.159 --> 01:27:28.720 that's okay, Randy Randy. Randy was a friend. 1644 01:27:29.680 --> 01:27:32.800 I know, I know we miss him. Hey, I've got 1645 01:27:32.800 --> 01:27:35.880 a meer lemon tree in a pot. 1646 01:27:36.359 --> 01:27:38.199 That has absolutely bloomed. 1647 01:27:38.600 --> 01:27:41.760 I've got I've got lemons glore on it like I 1648 01:27:41.800 --> 01:27:44.760 wish I had in the spring, and I've got it 1649 01:27:44.760 --> 01:27:47.359 in the garage now and I'm thinking I'm just gonna 1650 01:27:48.399 --> 01:27:50.239 go with it and see if I'm going to be 1651 01:27:50.279 --> 01:27:54.000 able to produce lemons with uh with this tree right now? 1652 01:27:54.479 --> 01:27:57.199 Is there any harm in doing that? Or should I 1653 01:27:57.239 --> 01:27:57.840 take them off? 1654 01:27:59.520 --> 01:28:01.800 No? Not it all. When they're real tiny, they may 1655 01:28:01.800 --> 01:28:04.159 abort if they go into some sort of stress and 1656 01:28:04.199 --> 01:28:07.000 the little tiny pea sized lemons fall off, But as 1657 01:28:07.039 --> 01:28:09.720 they get bigger, they stick. I would get that thing 1658 01:28:09.760 --> 01:28:12.239 out of the garage as much as you can. If 1659 01:28:12.279 --> 01:28:14.319 it's going to be above thirty two, I'd get it 1660 01:28:14.319 --> 01:28:17.800 outside where it gets sunlight because sunlight on the leaves 1661 01:28:17.840 --> 01:28:21.359 make carbohydrates and that's what helps that those lemons to 1662 01:28:21.479 --> 01:28:26.359 grow mature and ripen on your tree. So as much 1663 01:28:26.399 --> 01:28:27.880 as you can get it out, and if it goes 1664 01:28:27.880 --> 01:28:30.119 below thirty two, put it back in. But I'm just 1665 01:28:30.199 --> 01:28:33.000 telling you that tree will keep going even in the 1666 01:28:33.039 --> 01:28:35.479 cool weather out there unless you just have an awesome 1667 01:28:35.600 --> 01:28:39.119 lighting set up in the garage. I'd give it some sunlight. 1668 01:28:40.039 --> 01:28:42.239 No, I'll get it out for sure. But so that 1669 01:28:42.279 --> 01:28:45.000 means I'm probably I usually get those lemons in November 1670 01:28:45.000 --> 01:28:48.239 and December when I when I take them off, But 1671 01:28:48.359 --> 01:28:51.239 that means I'm going to have lemons and yeah, je. 1672 01:28:51.119 --> 01:28:56.159 July, you'll have lemons coming up from them. Yeah, I would. 1673 01:28:56.199 --> 01:28:59.640 I would take care of that crop. That's a good one. Yeah, 1674 01:29:00.079 --> 01:29:01.000 then it a little bit. 1675 01:29:02.680 --> 01:29:04.560 If I got so many lemons on there right now, 1676 01:29:04.600 --> 01:29:05.439 it's unbelievable. 1677 01:29:07.000 --> 01:29:07.319 Yeah. 1678 01:29:07.359 --> 01:29:07.560 Well. 1679 01:29:07.640 --> 01:29:14.079 One of the principles of fruit growing is that, of 1680 01:29:14.119 --> 01:29:16.560 course the sunshines on the leaves and make carbohydrates, right, 1681 01:29:16.600 --> 01:29:19.560 That helps the tree set buds for fruit that turn 1682 01:29:19.640 --> 01:29:22.880 into flowers and then fruit. But when you have a 1683 01:29:22.880 --> 01:29:25.439 lot of fruit, the carbohydrates are going into that fruit, 1684 01:29:25.720 --> 01:29:29.880 and so that may affect the bud set coming up. 1685 01:29:30.079 --> 01:29:33.119 So if you lessen the load a little bit on lemons, 1686 01:29:33.119 --> 01:29:35.439 if you have way more than you need, and you 1687 01:29:35.479 --> 01:29:39.640 could lessen that crop load to an acceptable level, it 1688 01:29:39.720 --> 01:29:43.720 may help it then do better at the next fruit set. 1689 01:29:43.560 --> 01:29:47.119 A lot of the carbohydrates will go into forming fruit buds. 1690 01:29:47.319 --> 01:29:52.079 Later that for your normal cycle that you were talking about. 1691 01:29:52.800 --> 01:29:56.479 Okay, okay, hey, can I one more question? 1692 01:29:56.640 --> 01:29:56.960 Yeah? 1693 01:29:58.000 --> 01:30:02.920 You got Yeah, trees. Should I have them trimmed it 1694 01:30:02.960 --> 01:30:04.119 back by now or not? 1695 01:30:06.560 --> 01:30:09.199 No, it's fine. You can trim them now. You can 1696 01:30:09.199 --> 01:30:11.560 trim them a little later if you want. But there's 1697 01:30:11.920 --> 01:30:14.359 just trim them before the buds start to push out, 1698 01:30:14.359 --> 01:30:16.000 swell up and start to push out. 1699 01:30:17.680 --> 01:30:21.159 Okay, very good, Skip, Thank you very much. I appreciate 1700 01:30:21.159 --> 01:30:21.479 your help. 1701 01:30:21.520 --> 01:30:25.840 Sure, all right, Mark, thank you. You take care. You 1702 01:30:25.880 --> 01:30:29.439 know that thing about I was saying about carbohydrates and fruit, uh, 1703 01:30:30.079 --> 01:30:33.000 fun fact, fun story. This is true. This is history. 1704 01:30:33.720 --> 01:30:35.840 I have to say it's true, as if the other 1705 01:30:35.880 --> 01:30:40.000 things I'm saying are not true. But really, this is true. 1706 01:30:40.600 --> 01:30:45.960 When the Spanish conquistadors were floating across the ocean over 1707 01:30:45.960 --> 01:30:48.600 here to find out what was going on in the Americas, 1708 01:30:48.720 --> 01:30:52.680 what became the Americas. A guy named Cabeza de Vaca, 1709 01:30:53.119 --> 01:30:57.439 which I can't imagine any mama or any person wanting 1710 01:30:57.479 --> 01:31:00.479 to name their kid or be called or whatever Cadese 1711 01:31:00.520 --> 01:31:02.800 Devakamin's head of the cow. I mean, how would you 1712 01:31:02.880 --> 01:31:04.479 like that? He talked about a boy named Sue for 1713 01:31:04.520 --> 01:31:07.159 a name head of the cow. Anyway, he was he 1714 01:31:07.239 --> 01:31:11.359 was captured by Indians here in Texas and he was 1715 01:31:12.039 --> 01:31:15.079 tied to a pecan tree. And he was the first 1716 01:31:15.119 --> 01:31:18.359 guy to write about alternate bearing. In his notes that 1717 01:31:18.399 --> 01:31:22.479 he took later, he wrote about alternate bearing of pecans 1718 01:31:22.760 --> 01:31:26.479 or state tree. That means that one year pecans have 1719 01:31:26.520 --> 01:31:31.159 a huge crop, the next year they have a very 1720 01:31:31.279 --> 01:31:33.560 light crop, and then the next year they have a 1721 01:31:33.640 --> 01:31:38.359 very heavy crop. That's called alternate bearing. And just the 1722 01:31:38.399 --> 01:31:40.880 fun fact was the history that's that's the first guy 1723 01:31:40.880 --> 01:31:43.279 that wrote about it over here, and he had plenty 1724 01:31:43.319 --> 01:31:47.199 of time being chained to a pecan tree anyway, or 1725 01:31:47.279 --> 01:31:51.199 tied not chained. The reason for that is pecan's bear 1726 01:31:51.239 --> 01:31:54.319 in the fall. So if you have a heavy crop, 1727 01:31:54.720 --> 01:31:58.399 all of those carbohydrates are going in to create pecan kernels. 1728 01:31:58.520 --> 01:32:01.359 I mean, that's a lot of protein and oils and 1729 01:32:01.399 --> 01:32:03.840 things that are going in there to make that luscious 1730 01:32:03.880 --> 01:32:08.760 pecan kernel. So the tree isn't able to set pecan 1731 01:32:09.760 --> 01:32:13.399 fruit buds or nut buds that would then come out 1732 01:32:13.439 --> 01:32:15.760 in the spring with the little kakins that are hanging 1733 01:32:15.800 --> 01:32:18.199 down that drop on the driveway, and then the little 1734 01:32:18.279 --> 01:32:20.159 nuts that come out and get set, so the next 1735 01:32:20.239 --> 01:32:23.560 year you wouldn't have a good pecan set. Then it's 1736 01:32:23.560 --> 01:32:26.000 growing all through that year with no pecans on the tree, 1737 01:32:26.000 --> 01:32:28.439 hardly at all, and it has one heck of a 1738 01:32:28.439 --> 01:32:32.119 big set in the following fall. That's alternate bearing of pecans. 1739 01:32:32.119 --> 01:32:33.720 And it's for the same reason that I was just 1740 01:32:33.760 --> 01:32:36.600 discussing with Mark on thinning out that lemon a little 1741 01:32:36.640 --> 01:32:39.359 bit to help out with that that heavy fruit lot. 1742 01:32:39.359 --> 01:32:41.960 It's even worse with pecans for the reasons I've mentioned. 1743 01:32:42.000 --> 01:32:44.359 But okay, fun fact, you learned that here you heard 1744 01:32:44.399 --> 01:32:48.479 here first, or maybe you did our phone number seven 1745 01:32:48.520 --> 01:32:51.720 one three two one two kt r H seven to 1746 01:32:51.760 --> 01:32:56.119 one three two one two kt r H. Your local 1747 01:32:56.159 --> 01:32:59.119 Ace Hardware store is set up for everything you need. 1748 01:32:59.239 --> 01:33:01.279 That's why we say ACE is the place you know. 1749 01:33:01.319 --> 01:33:03.159 In the Houston area. We got a lot of Ace 1750 01:33:03.199 --> 01:33:06.199 Hardware stores and you can go in if you want 1751 01:33:06.199 --> 01:33:08.199 to find the one near you, go to the website 1752 01:33:08.319 --> 01:33:11.520 Acehardware dot com and find the store locator and find it. 1753 01:33:11.520 --> 01:33:12.960 It's gonna be all over them, but there's gonna be 1754 01:33:13.000 --> 01:33:15.960 one close to you. And so right now, are you 1755 01:33:16.000 --> 01:33:18.880 doing spring cleaning? Do you need storage toats for things. 1756 01:33:18.920 --> 01:33:21.079 Maybe I was just putting up some Christmas stuff that 1757 01:33:21.119 --> 01:33:23.880 I needed to get a toat for. You can go 1758 01:33:23.920 --> 01:33:26.720 buy your ACE Hardware store before the lawn and garden 1759 01:33:26.760 --> 01:33:30.199 season hits. They've got everything that I'll be talking about 1760 01:33:30.319 --> 01:33:32.960 or I am talking about and lawn and gardening. They 1761 01:33:32.960 --> 01:33:36.640 also have shelving units there. You know, fire is kind 1762 01:33:36.680 --> 01:33:39.439 of a fun thing. They have a fire pit from 1763 01:33:39.479 --> 01:33:43.479 Brito and Solo Stove. Really cool. They have firewood that 1764 01:33:43.520 --> 01:33:45.960 you can replenish your stock with for these cool days. 1765 01:33:46.840 --> 01:33:49.000 You know, when you're in there, just make sure and 1766 01:33:49.079 --> 01:33:51.960 sign up for the ACE Rewards program so that you 1767 01:33:52.119 --> 01:33:55.359 get discounts and special offers that are only available for 1768 01:33:55.439 --> 01:33:59.560 ACE Hardware customers now. To just remember that, I mean, 1769 01:33:59.600 --> 01:34:03.239 you're gonna shop there, get the benefit of that. That 1770 01:34:03.359 --> 01:34:06.399 is a really I belonged to ACE Rewards for I 1771 01:34:06.399 --> 01:34:09.479 don't know, over a decade now. Uh and it really 1772 01:34:09.720 --> 01:34:12.920 is a worthwhile thing to do. And while you're in there, 1773 01:34:13.439 --> 01:34:16.920 as they get restocked up on all these cool weather supplies, 1774 01:34:17.039 --> 01:34:19.199 you know, how you go in to buy that heat 1775 01:34:19.279 --> 01:34:23.279 lamp or that fascic cover and uh, yeah, they're all 1776 01:34:23.279 --> 01:34:25.279 gone because everybody else is doing it because it's gonna 1777 01:34:25.279 --> 01:34:28.199 freeze tonight. Get it now. Get ready. You're gonna need 1778 01:34:28.239 --> 01:34:31.079 fascic covers for the next X years are many years 1779 01:34:31.079 --> 01:34:33.279 you're in that house, You're gonna need faust covers. Go 1780 01:34:33.319 --> 01:34:36.840 ahead and get them. Get them now. The little freezemiser 1781 01:34:36.920 --> 01:34:41.600 that prevents those faucets from freezing over it, they've got those. 1782 01:34:41.680 --> 01:34:44.720 Get those now. What else do you need? They've got it? 1783 01:34:45.039 --> 01:34:46.720 All right. I'm gonna take a break. If you'd like 1784 01:34:46.760 --> 01:34:48.960 to call in the meantime, you'll be first up when 1785 01:34:49.000 --> 01:34:52.000 we come back. Seven one three two one two KTRH. 1786 01:34:52.960 --> 01:34:57.880 All right, you're back. We're back. Let's talk. We've got 1787 01:34:57.920 --> 01:35:01.159 gardening to talk about. Seven to one three two one 1788 01:35:01.199 --> 01:35:03.920 two fifty eight seventy four seven one three two one 1789 01:35:03.960 --> 01:35:07.640 two five eight seven four. We're going to go out 1790 01:35:08.000 --> 01:35:11.680 to talk to Let's see Sharon. Now, Hey, Sharon, welcome 1791 01:35:11.680 --> 01:35:12.680 to garden Line. 1792 01:35:13.039 --> 01:35:14.079 Thank you, good morning. 1793 01:35:14.279 --> 01:35:18.760 I need uh some replacement plants for some Japanese box 1794 01:35:18.840 --> 01:35:22.479 woods that that I lost during the summer. They had 1795 01:35:22.720 --> 01:35:27.199 uh like dive back. Uh the branches would turned really 1796 01:35:28.039 --> 01:35:30.560 for you. You probably know what I'm talking about. But 1797 01:35:30.680 --> 01:35:33.319 I've got a hedge row and I was wondering, is 1798 01:35:33.359 --> 01:35:37.359 there a plant that I could put in the places 1799 01:35:37.399 --> 01:35:41.239 that I lost those box woods that would be compatible 1800 01:35:41.319 --> 01:35:44.079 with the leaf shape of the Japanese boxwood. 1801 01:35:48.920 --> 01:35:52.039 One idea would be to use a dwarf yopon. There 1802 01:35:52.039 --> 01:35:55.399 are very compact dwarf yopons. You can let them grow naturally, 1803 01:35:55.560 --> 01:35:58.239 or you can share them to squared around or whatever 1804 01:35:58.359 --> 01:36:00.560 shape you want to do, just like you would have boxwood. 1805 01:36:01.680 --> 01:36:05.560 That would probably be the first suggestion. That's a plant 1806 01:36:05.560 --> 01:36:09.119 that's native in our region anyway, and I think that 1807 01:36:09.159 --> 01:36:11.760 would that would be what I would suggest first. There 1808 01:36:11.800 --> 01:36:14.000 are a few other things out there. Different things have 1809 01:36:14.079 --> 01:36:17.079 their own challenges. Every plant has its pros and cons. 1810 01:36:17.119 --> 01:36:19.680 But I think I think dorothy upon would be a 1811 01:36:19.680 --> 01:36:21.560 good choice because. 1812 01:36:21.319 --> 01:36:23.279 I don't want a pressy plant. And that's why I 1813 01:36:23.319 --> 01:36:27.880 put the box woods out there, because I had locations 1814 01:36:27.920 --> 01:36:31.880 than they were hardy. But some reason this past summer 1815 01:36:31.960 --> 01:36:34.079 it was it was really bad. 1816 01:36:36.159 --> 01:36:40.439 Yeah, so are the are the boxwood still around or 1817 01:36:40.439 --> 01:36:42.680 are they gone off the property? And everything now? 1818 01:36:43.239 --> 01:36:47.359 Well, No, the ones that were really bad, I dug 1819 01:36:47.439 --> 01:36:50.840 up and I dug out the soil that was around there, 1820 01:36:50.880 --> 01:36:54.960 and I haven't replaced anything, yet I needed to do 1821 01:36:55.119 --> 01:36:58.039 some research and find something that was heardier. 1822 01:37:00.119 --> 01:37:02.600 Yeah. Well, the reason I ask is if you can 1823 01:37:02.640 --> 01:37:05.920 find some of the roots system of those box woods, 1824 01:37:05.960 --> 01:37:07.920 it makes some of it may still be on the soil, 1825 01:37:07.960 --> 01:37:09.359 but kind of take a spade and for it and 1826 01:37:09.359 --> 01:37:11.119 dig it out and come of wash some water off 1827 01:37:11.159 --> 01:37:13.640 and look at it and see if there's little bumps 1828 01:37:13.640 --> 01:37:16.720 and knots all along the roots, if they look kind 1829 01:37:16.720 --> 01:37:19.760 of normal, or if they are just very knotted and 1830 01:37:19.840 --> 01:37:23.000 bumpy like a string of pearls, or that makes it 1831 01:37:23.039 --> 01:37:26.960 sound prettier than it'll be. But anyway, that's nematodes and 1832 01:37:27.039 --> 01:37:29.880 they can be a contributing factor, and knowing that they're 1833 01:37:29.960 --> 01:37:32.880 there helps guide you as you're going to plant other 1834 01:37:32.960 --> 01:37:35.960 things in the area too. So that's one of the 1835 01:37:35.960 --> 01:37:38.760 things that attacks box woulds. So let's just make let's 1836 01:37:38.760 --> 01:37:41.119 find out, just get that info by checking the root 1837 01:37:41.800 --> 01:37:43.600 the roots that you can find still around. 1838 01:37:44.439 --> 01:37:47.319 All right, good, I will do that. Thank you so much. 1839 01:37:47.359 --> 01:37:48.600 I appreciate your help. 1840 01:37:50.159 --> 01:37:52.720 You bet, thanks a lot. Thanks for the call, Sharon. 1841 01:37:53.960 --> 01:37:56.079 We're going to go now out to Seabrook and talk 1842 01:37:56.079 --> 01:37:58.600 to Sarah. Hey, Sarah from Seabrook. 1843 01:37:59.279 --> 01:38:00.399 Hello, Rick, how are you? 1844 01:38:02.359 --> 01:38:03.039 I'm good today? 1845 01:38:03.119 --> 01:38:03.319 Hello? 1846 01:38:03.399 --> 01:38:04.039 What can we help? 1847 01:38:05.399 --> 01:38:11.399 I want to do air layering. Air layering on some 1848 01:38:12.039 --> 01:38:18.520 kumquats that my friend has and I saw on YouTube 1849 01:38:18.520 --> 01:38:22.119 where you can use spagnum moss and a plastic a 1850 01:38:22.119 --> 01:38:26.880 small plastic bottle where you soak your spagnum moss and 1851 01:38:26.920 --> 01:38:28.880 then put it in the bottle and then wrap it 1852 01:38:28.920 --> 01:38:31.800 all up real tight. The only thing I was concerned 1853 01:38:31.840 --> 01:38:36.159 about is there going to be root rot or rot 1854 01:38:36.199 --> 01:38:37.760 in that bottle? 1855 01:38:39.960 --> 01:38:40.159 Well? 1856 01:38:40.199 --> 01:38:41.119 If it all the water? 1857 01:38:41.199 --> 01:38:43.960 Can you put any kind of right? You can use 1858 01:38:44.039 --> 01:38:47.039 all kinds of things to hold the soil around the stem. 1859 01:38:47.520 --> 01:38:49.760 I mentioned doing it with bread wrappers when I was 1860 01:38:49.800 --> 01:38:52.840 first learning to do this. That works great. You can 1861 01:38:52.880 --> 01:38:55.439 buy You can take a little plastic bottle like you 1862 01:38:55.479 --> 01:38:59.359 see and cut it and put the two halves around 1863 01:38:59.439 --> 01:39:03.720 the stem and use that. There's the only way for 1864 01:39:03.880 --> 01:39:07.000 water to get in will be when you open it 1865 01:39:07.079 --> 01:39:09.319 up so that you can like pour a little bit 1866 01:39:09.319 --> 01:39:12.199 of water back into the bottle, like if it rained 1867 01:39:12.239 --> 01:39:15.920 on it or something. It's not going to get soggy 1868 01:39:15.960 --> 01:39:19.239 because there's no way for water to get in once 1869 01:39:19.319 --> 01:39:23.720 you've wrapped it up. In fact, once roots start to farm, 1870 01:39:23.760 --> 01:39:25.239 you're going to have to open it up just a 1871 01:39:25.239 --> 01:39:28.600 little to add more water. You know, when the first 1872 01:39:28.640 --> 01:39:30.920 root forms, don't take it off. It's not ready yet. 1873 01:39:30.960 --> 01:39:32.760 It needs a little bit more of a root system 1874 01:39:32.760 --> 01:39:35.079 inside that. If you use a bottle inside that bottle. 1875 01:39:36.119 --> 01:39:39.399 But yeah, it's not going to get soggy, you just 1876 01:39:39.880 --> 01:39:42.560 it will only get soggy if you build a bottle 1877 01:39:42.640 --> 01:39:44.359 fort of water, which you're not going to do. 1878 01:39:45.560 --> 01:39:48.520 Okay, okay, as long as the spagnum moss is wet, 1879 01:39:48.840 --> 01:39:51.000 then just leave it with that much moisture. 1880 01:39:52.840 --> 01:39:55.880 Yeah, and you can use spagnum. I typically grab some 1881 01:39:55.920 --> 01:39:58.239 potting soil and use that. I mean, there's there's no 1882 01:39:58.359 --> 01:40:01.640 magic to it either way. Whatever works for you. Some 1883 01:40:01.680 --> 01:40:05.159 people like the stringy sphagnum because I don't know, it's 1884 01:40:05.199 --> 01:40:07.479 kind of hard. It's kind of easier to have it 1885 01:40:07.640 --> 01:40:10.279 stick on there, whereas potting soul tends to fall away 1886 01:40:10.680 --> 01:40:12.560 as you're trying to get it to stay to the 1887 01:40:12.600 --> 01:40:14.600 stem till you can get something wrapped around it. 1888 01:40:15.880 --> 01:40:18.560 Right, It is now a good time to do it. 1889 01:40:18.520 --> 01:40:24.119 All right, anytimes you've done to do an earlier Okay, 1890 01:40:24.159 --> 01:40:25.199 all right, yes. 1891 01:40:25.039 --> 01:40:28.199 I'm on it, all right, Thank you so much. 1892 01:40:28.039 --> 01:40:30.760 Take care, good luck with us. Hey, if it roots, 1893 01:40:30.760 --> 01:40:32.239 send me a picture of it. I want to see 1894 01:40:32.279 --> 01:40:37.680 your can see how I did. Thanks a lot, Sarah, 1895 01:40:34.640 --> 01:40:40.039 all right, our phone number seven one three two one 1896 01:40:40.079 --> 01:40:43.359 two kt r H seven one three two one two 1897 01:40:43.920 --> 01:40:49.000 kt r H. You know the folks up at Nature's 1898 01:40:49.000 --> 01:40:52.600 Way Resources, which is on Intertate off Interstate forty five 1899 01:40:52.680 --> 01:40:55.840 up toward Conroe. If you were in Houston heading toward Conroe, 1900 01:40:56.079 --> 01:40:58.760 right where fourteen eighty eight comes in for Magnolia on 1901 01:40:58.800 --> 01:41:02.079 the left, you turn right across the railroad tracks and 1902 01:41:02.159 --> 01:41:05.000 that's Sherbrooke Circle, which is what Nature's Way is on. 1903 01:41:05.720 --> 01:41:07.439 And when you go in there, you're going to find 1904 01:41:07.520 --> 01:41:12.199 the highest quality soil based products from a place that 1905 01:41:12.359 --> 01:41:15.840 actually originated in our region. Many of these products, you know, 1906 01:41:15.960 --> 01:41:18.520 we talk about leaf more compos well, that's where it 1907 01:41:18.560 --> 01:41:21.960 was born. Nature's Way Resources, we talk about rose soil, 1908 01:41:22.079 --> 01:41:24.920 that's where it's born, and Nature's Way Resources. Right now, 1909 01:41:24.960 --> 01:41:28.239 they've also got firewood. They got it bagged and bundled. 1910 01:41:28.640 --> 01:41:33.319 It's a nice well seasoned oak firewood, nice natural scent. 1911 01:41:33.439 --> 01:41:35.119 Good for grilling too. By the way, if we get 1912 01:41:35.119 --> 01:41:39.000 through winter and you know where you're done with the fireplace. 1913 01:41:39.560 --> 01:41:42.760 It's good for grilling, it's good for smoking meat. It's 1914 01:41:42.800 --> 01:41:44.800 just a good quality product. And they have it there 1915 01:41:45.199 --> 01:41:49.319 at Nature's Way Resources. Of course, they're famous for their soils. 1916 01:41:49.359 --> 01:41:54.039 They're different mixes. They also have pine straw, pine straw 1917 01:41:54.079 --> 01:41:57.640 bales that you would use for mulching. Yeah, pine straw 1918 01:41:57.760 --> 01:42:00.479 like on the floor of the forest. Now, one thing 1919 01:42:00.520 --> 01:42:04.319 I will tell you about the pine straw is people 1920 01:42:04.439 --> 01:42:07.319 have asked me a million times, but doesn't that make 1921 01:42:07.399 --> 01:42:10.800 the soil to acidic? Would you listen to me? The 1922 01:42:10.840 --> 01:42:15.239 answer is no, absolutely not. Now, if you take fresh 1923 01:42:15.239 --> 01:42:18.479 fallen pine needles and measure the pH, yes, they are acidic. 1924 01:42:18.880 --> 01:42:20.720 By the time they dry out and lay on the ground, 1925 01:42:20.800 --> 01:42:23.840 they are not. And the I mean, you could pine 1926 01:42:23.840 --> 01:42:27.520 straw malts for ten years and there would barely be 1927 01:42:27.600 --> 01:42:30.199 any movement in the pH of that soil if any. 1928 01:42:31.159 --> 01:42:35.079 Don't worry about that. Pine straw is a wonderful, beautiful 1929 01:42:35.119 --> 01:42:37.840 I love the bronze look of the little needles. I 1930 01:42:37.920 --> 01:42:42.840 think it's really really attractive too. It holds moisture, it insulates, 1931 01:42:42.680 --> 01:42:45.600 it's kind of slow to break down, you know, which 1932 01:42:45.640 --> 01:42:47.680 is for a malt that's kind of a good thing, 1933 01:42:47.760 --> 01:42:51.000 good for erosion control and so on. You can get 1934 01:42:51.000 --> 01:42:54.239 it there. Nature's way resource is just another quality product 1935 01:42:54.319 --> 01:42:56.640 that they have. Time for me to take a break, 1936 01:42:56.720 --> 01:42:59.039 I will be right back with your calls. Seven one 1937 01:42:59.079 --> 01:43:03.199 three two point two kat r h all right and 1938 01:43:03.319 --> 01:43:08.399 welcome back. We are gonna head straight to the phones. 1939 01:43:09.199 --> 01:43:14.000 Start off with Paula. Hey, Paula, welcome to garden Line. 1940 01:43:14.560 --> 01:43:17.119 Thank you, good morning, Thank you for taking my call. 1941 01:43:17.760 --> 01:43:21.000 I have a two part question. I have three beautiful 1942 01:43:21.479 --> 01:43:25.560 one set of plants, one limb walk off and I'm 1943 01:43:26.000 --> 01:43:29.560 the type of person that pinches everything and roots it 1944 01:43:29.640 --> 01:43:32.279 and plant it. I tried to put this in water, 1945 01:43:32.319 --> 01:43:34.720 but it looks like that tip is starting to rot. 1946 01:43:35.359 --> 01:43:36.600 Also, I would like. 1947 01:43:36.560 --> 01:43:41.159 To plant these outside. My aunt has beautiful points setters, 1948 01:43:41.279 --> 01:43:43.560 but she does live in port of that which is 1949 01:43:43.600 --> 01:43:47.720 closer to the Gulf. She planted hers on the south 1950 01:43:47.840 --> 01:43:51.359 side about twenty years ago and they're almost as tall 1951 01:43:51.399 --> 01:43:52.159 as her house. 1952 01:43:52.600 --> 01:43:53.960 What can I do. 1953 01:43:56.319 --> 01:43:58.399 Well? I would I'd pull it out of the water. 1954 01:43:58.640 --> 01:44:00.800 They're not going to do real well rooting in there. 1955 01:44:01.479 --> 01:44:04.399 If you can, I would make a fresh cut, put 1956 01:44:04.439 --> 01:44:06.760 it make a cut just below a node which is 1957 01:44:06.760 --> 01:44:09.359 where the leaf attaches to the stem, or where there 1958 01:44:09.560 --> 01:44:11.720 was in the past a leaf attached to the stem. 1959 01:44:12.840 --> 01:44:17.520 And then dip that point seta in rooting hormone. Get 1960 01:44:17.560 --> 01:44:22.039 some rooting hormone powder and get rooting hormone on the 1961 01:44:22.079 --> 01:44:25.039 sides and especially the base of that point set of cutting. 1962 01:44:25.800 --> 01:44:29.039 Then put it in some kind of a container with 1963 01:44:29.520 --> 01:44:31.800 it could be just pearlite, or it could be you know, 1964 01:44:31.840 --> 01:44:35.079 a quality potting mix. Put it down in there and 1965 01:44:35.159 --> 01:44:38.880 put a clear bag over the top, something that will 1966 01:44:39.279 --> 01:44:42.560 hold in the moisture. And there's a lot of ways 1967 01:44:42.600 --> 01:44:44.840 to do that, but however works for you. Do that, 1968 01:44:45.720 --> 01:44:47.920 and then put it in a very bright spot, but 1969 01:44:48.119 --> 01:44:51.399 not direct sun, direct son. It'll get too hot in there. 1970 01:44:52.000 --> 01:44:55.600 And once you've got moist mix and you've the point 1971 01:44:55.640 --> 01:44:59.000 seta has rooting hormone on it, and you've got it 1972 01:44:59.119 --> 01:45:01.840 in a bright area, Uh, then that's all you can do. 1973 01:45:02.079 --> 01:45:04.640 After that. Nature has to take over from there. 1974 01:45:06.119 --> 01:45:12.279 Okay, And now what about replanning the uh, the points 1975 01:45:12.279 --> 01:45:13.920 shadows that are in the pot. 1976 01:45:16.560 --> 01:45:19.359 I would wait until we are long past all the 1977 01:45:19.399 --> 01:45:22.600 cold weather. You know, we don't want nights even down 1978 01:45:22.640 --> 01:45:26.399 in the in the forties really. I mean, but if 1979 01:45:27.000 --> 01:45:31.279 in the meantime get them outside while you can during 1980 01:45:31.720 --> 01:45:34.800 sunny days and begin they've been in your house so 1981 01:45:34.840 --> 01:45:36.840 they're not used to sun, so you don't just stick 1982 01:45:36.880 --> 01:45:38.239 them in the full brunt of the sun all of 1983 01:45:38.279 --> 01:45:41.680 a sudden, but gradually give them a little more and 1984 01:45:41.720 --> 01:45:43.960 more sunlight, because you want to get those plants as 1985 01:45:44.000 --> 01:45:46.239 strong as you can, and it takes sun to do that. 1986 01:45:47.479 --> 01:45:51.239 They're diplenished right now from being inside. Get them as 1987 01:45:51.239 --> 01:45:53.600 healthy as you can. Then when we get past all 1988 01:45:53.640 --> 01:45:57.520 the frost, what what roughly where do you live? What 1989 01:45:57.720 --> 01:46:01.359 area do you live in? We are you north? 1990 01:46:02.720 --> 01:46:08.880 Fifty miles north of the Gulf of Mexico. 1991 01:46:10.760 --> 01:46:14.119 Oh okay, all right, well I would say let's yeah, 1992 01:46:14.199 --> 01:46:16.399 well let's get into you know, maybe second week of 1993 01:46:16.439 --> 01:46:19.720 March or so. That's plenty a good time to go 1994 01:46:19.760 --> 01:46:24.039 ahead and start putting those things out. Remember, the root 1995 01:46:24.079 --> 01:46:27.399 system is very confined still, so over the first few 1996 01:46:27.399 --> 01:46:30.159 months after you plant it, when you do your watering 1997 01:46:30.199 --> 01:46:33.239 and fertilizing, you're primarily doing it within a foot of 1998 01:46:33.279 --> 01:46:37.000 the stem of that plant, around the base there to 1999 01:46:37.560 --> 01:46:41.079 help it get established. But the main thing right now 2000 01:46:41.279 --> 01:46:44.199 is it's been in way too little light, and we 2001 01:46:44.319 --> 01:46:46.720 got to get some sun and some carbohydrates so it 2002 01:46:46.760 --> 01:46:49.079 has the energy to rebound. 2003 01:46:50.319 --> 01:46:53.720 I can do that. And now, how much water as 2004 01:46:53.760 --> 01:46:57.800 the plants get large. My aunt just doesn't do anything, 2005 01:46:57.960 --> 01:47:01.680 but she it must just be a perfect location. How 2006 01:47:01.800 --> 01:47:04.119 much water do they need a lot of water during 2007 01:47:04.159 --> 01:47:06.920 the summer or just medium water? 2008 01:47:08.439 --> 01:47:11.920 Yeah, so as there as their root as they're establishing 2009 01:47:12.039 --> 01:47:16.239 during twenty twenty five through the season, a little more 2010 01:47:16.279 --> 01:47:19.640 water than you normally would, not keeping it soggy, but 2011 01:47:19.800 --> 01:47:24.039 always keeping it moist. Once the point said, it gets established, Uh, 2012 01:47:24.399 --> 01:47:26.520 you just kind of have to water as needed. You know, 2013 01:47:26.520 --> 01:47:28.760 if it's one hundred degrees for three weeks without rain, 2014 01:47:28.840 --> 01:47:32.319 I mean you got a water, but uh, it's not 2015 01:47:32.520 --> 01:47:34.680 something like you're having to water them every day. Once 2016 01:47:34.720 --> 01:47:38.319 they're in the ground and have a root system. 2017 01:47:37.680 --> 01:47:39.680 Well I know they have. My ants had all right, 2018 01:47:41.000 --> 01:47:44.279 Bety flowers, And I just want to be able to 2019 01:47:44.520 --> 01:47:47.800 plan thesea. And I appreciate your information. I'm going to 2020 01:47:47.920 --> 01:47:50.319 follow it to the letter. Thank you so much for 2021 01:47:50.399 --> 01:47:50.800 the call. 2022 01:47:52.640 --> 01:47:54.920 All right, Well, once they get established and stuff in 2023 01:47:54.960 --> 01:47:56.479 the future year, if you think about it, send me 2024 01:47:56.520 --> 01:47:58.880 a picture. I'd love to see that. I appreciate you calling. 2025 01:47:59.239 --> 01:48:02.079 We're going to go now to Curtis and Friends with Hey, Curtis, 2026 01:48:02.159 --> 01:48:03.039 welcome to garden Line. 2027 01:48:04.000 --> 01:48:04.680 Good morning. 2028 01:48:07.720 --> 01:48:12.159 I have a question about I have a mango tree 2029 01:48:12.800 --> 01:48:18.239 that's about four feet tall and the pot it's a 2030 01:48:18.279 --> 01:48:22.359 way too small. I have it in my garage, so 2031 01:48:22.680 --> 01:48:30.880 it's not getting the freeze and cold, and I wonder 2032 01:48:30.880 --> 01:48:34.119 if it's okay for me to repot that now while 2033 01:48:34.159 --> 01:48:37.520 I have it inside. 2034 01:48:38.920 --> 01:48:43.920 You could you know? If you do, I think it 2035 01:48:44.000 --> 01:48:47.640 needs to be out in light as much as possible 2036 01:48:48.039 --> 01:48:52.199 and better lighting. So yes, you're correct, it doesn't want 2037 01:48:52.199 --> 01:48:55.600 to be cold. But if we if we can warm 2038 01:48:55.680 --> 01:48:58.479 up a little bit and get some days where their 2039 01:48:58.520 --> 01:49:00.840 sunshine and it have a little light like that, I 2040 01:49:00.840 --> 01:49:03.920 think it would really help it. When you repot it, 2041 01:49:04.079 --> 01:49:05.880 you're going to want to cut the roots that are 2042 01:49:05.920 --> 01:49:08.439 circling the container, and there's going to be a lot 2043 01:49:08.479 --> 01:49:13.359 of them, so that's why I would first i'd probably 2044 01:49:13.359 --> 01:49:17.039 cut those roots and then put it in the new 2045 01:49:17.119 --> 01:49:22.520 pot that's larger, of course, and help it begin to 2046 01:49:22.640 --> 01:49:25.079 re establish a new root system. And after you cut them, 2047 01:49:25.119 --> 01:49:26.640 within a couple of weeks, you're going to see fresh 2048 01:49:26.720 --> 01:49:28.439 new root. If you pulled it up, you would see 2049 01:49:28.439 --> 01:49:31.720 fresh new roots growing from the cut ends, so don't 2050 01:49:31.760 --> 01:49:34.680 be afraid to cut them. But do that, do some 2051 01:49:34.800 --> 01:49:37.439 root pruning so that it doesn't get all pot bound 2052 01:49:38.039 --> 01:49:41.159 or stay pot bound, and make sure you give it 2053 01:49:41.199 --> 01:49:43.000 a little bit of light. If you have the time 2054 01:49:43.039 --> 01:49:45.119 and energy to run it out every day for some 2055 01:49:45.279 --> 01:49:48.239 sun and then back in, that would be ideal as 2056 01:49:48.279 --> 01:49:49.600 far as the plant's concerned. 2057 01:49:50.079 --> 01:49:54.199 Well, I have the pots on Dolly's with wheels, so 2058 01:49:54.600 --> 01:49:57.239 I roll it in and out, and I've already used 2059 01:49:58.560 --> 01:50:05.359 like a masonry trou slide down around, so I've listened 2060 01:50:05.399 --> 01:50:07.520 it in the pot over the last week. 2061 01:50:09.680 --> 01:50:11.800 Okay, Well that's good. 2062 01:50:13.039 --> 01:50:13.960 A new pot. 2063 01:50:15.520 --> 01:50:17.960 Okay. And what I would suggest you do is what 2064 01:50:18.199 --> 01:50:20.760 now that you've got it loose, lean the pot over 2065 01:50:20.920 --> 01:50:22.840 when you're ready to pull it out. Don't pull it. 2066 01:50:22.960 --> 01:50:25.399 Don't grab the stem and pull it up out, lean 2067 01:50:25.439 --> 01:50:28.800 it over and slide it out to the side. For 2068 01:50:28.920 --> 01:50:31.920 various reasons, that's a little bit safer, better way to 2069 01:50:32.000 --> 01:50:34.560 handle that. And then you can see the roots. You 2070 01:50:34.600 --> 01:50:38.000 can use pruners or a box cutter knife or whatever 2071 01:50:38.119 --> 01:50:41.319 to slice vertically down through that that root ball and 2072 01:50:41.359 --> 01:50:43.680 make that those cuts when you're doing the repotting. 2073 01:50:43.760 --> 01:50:46.079 Okay, okay, thank you. 2074 01:50:48.000 --> 01:50:49.239 I appreciate. 2075 01:50:50.600 --> 01:50:52.800 All right, Curtis, good luck, good luck with that. And 2076 01:50:52.880 --> 01:50:55.279 all I ask is it someday when you get mangos, 2077 01:50:55.279 --> 01:50:58.439 you send me a few. You take care boy. Bye? 2078 01:51:00.039 --> 01:51:04.359 All right, folks, time for a break. I hear music. 2079 01:51:04.680 --> 01:51:07.079 That means you know what music means. It means skip 2080 01:51:07.119 --> 01:51:10.760 stop talking. If you'd like to give a call when 2081 01:51:10.760 --> 01:51:13.560 we come back Katie in Columbus, You're going to be 2082 01:51:13.560 --> 01:51:16.039 our very first uh. And for the rest of you 2083 01:51:16.119 --> 01:51:19.920 seven one three two one two kt rih. We'd love 2084 01:51:19.960 --> 01:51:22.079 to hear from you. Give us a call. 2085 01:51:22.159 --> 01:51:22.279 Well. 2086 01:51:22.319 --> 01:51:24.720 I answer the kinds of questions that you might have. 2087 01:51:24.800 --> 01:51:26.920 What are you gonna be doing new this year? What 2088 01:51:26.920 --> 01:51:29.479 are you going to try new? I've suggested a lot 2089 01:51:29.479 --> 01:51:33.479 of things, like try your hand at dividing plants, try 2090 01:51:33.479 --> 01:51:36.560 your hand at rooting cuttings, try your hand at air layering, 2091 01:51:37.359 --> 01:51:41.279 grow vegetables if you never have before, grow vegetables you've 2092 01:51:41.319 --> 01:51:44.880 never grown before. If you are a vegetable gardener, what 2093 01:51:44.960 --> 01:51:46.680 are you gonna try it's new. There's a lot of 2094 01:51:46.760 --> 01:51:51.000 cool stuff out there, saving seeds all kinds of things. 2095 01:51:51.520 --> 01:51:53.920 Try something new this year. Gardening is way too much 2096 01:51:53.960 --> 01:51:56.960 fun to just do the same old, same ole over 2097 01:51:57.039 --> 01:51:58.479 and over and never nothing new. 2098 01:52:00.159 --> 01:52:03.920 Welcome to Katie r h Garden Line with Skip Richard. 2099 01:52:04.000 --> 01:52:21.119 It's trip just watch him as many good things to see. 2100 01:52:20.960 --> 01:52:29.319 By all right, folks, welcome back to garden Line. If 2101 01:52:29.359 --> 01:52:31.560 you have a question and would like to give me 2102 01:52:31.600 --> 01:52:35.840 a call seven one three two one two Katie r H. 2103 01:52:35.960 --> 01:52:38.359 That's how you do it. In fact, I'm going to 2104 01:52:38.439 --> 01:52:40.399 just start off by going straight out of the phones 2105 01:52:40.439 --> 01:52:44.159 here and we're going to talk to Carrie in Columbus. Hello, Kerry, 2106 01:52:44.199 --> 01:52:45.279 Welcome to garden Line. 2107 01:52:46.359 --> 01:52:49.079 Hello Skip, Happy new year to you. 2108 01:52:50.600 --> 01:52:51.760 And you as well. Thank you. 2109 01:52:53.720 --> 01:52:54.279 I have a. 2110 01:52:54.279 --> 01:53:00.840 Question about a avocado seed that I planted. Early your shows. 2111 01:53:00.920 --> 01:53:04.119 You were talking to a lady about the roots that 2112 01:53:04.319 --> 01:53:08.960 have the little knobs, pearl looking knobs on them. Well, 2113 01:53:08.960 --> 01:53:13.520 when I planted this seed, it had that. Now it 2114 01:53:13.600 --> 01:53:17.239 is in its own pot, but it's currently in a 2115 01:53:17.279 --> 01:53:21.560 greenhouse with a lot of other plants, So I'm wondering, 2116 01:53:22.159 --> 01:53:25.479 is this going to cause a problem with my other plants. 2117 01:53:26.920 --> 01:53:28.920 No, I think that's something else you're seeing on the 2118 01:53:28.920 --> 01:53:30.600 avocado seed. I wouldn't worry about that. 2119 01:53:31.960 --> 01:53:35.680 Okay, okay, very good. Thank you. 2120 01:53:35.920 --> 01:53:37.960 Are you saying it was on the roots that came 2121 01:53:38.000 --> 01:53:40.279 out of Are you saying it's on the roots that 2122 01:53:40.319 --> 01:53:44.680 came out of the seed? Yes, sir, on the roots 2123 01:53:45.439 --> 01:53:47.359 if you want to, if you want to take a 2124 01:53:47.399 --> 01:53:49.760 picture of it, put your finger in there in the 2125 01:53:49.800 --> 01:53:52.439 picture pointing to one of those, or a pencil or 2126 01:53:52.479 --> 01:53:56.039 something pointing to one of those root white things, and 2127 01:53:56.199 --> 01:53:59.800 get up close and sharp focus and send me a photo. 2128 01:54:00.560 --> 01:54:04.520 I'll put you on hold when we finish here. If 2129 01:54:04.560 --> 01:54:07.520 you would like to wait, Jonathan'll pick it up and 2130 01:54:07.560 --> 01:54:10.680 give you an email to send it to. I'll check 2131 01:54:10.760 --> 01:54:14.720 to be extra sure. It's very unlikely that that is 2132 01:54:14.760 --> 01:54:16.880 a nematode, but I will take a good close look 2133 01:54:16.880 --> 01:54:18.439 at it if you want to send me a picture. 2134 01:54:18.920 --> 01:54:20.720 I think you had another follow up question. 2135 01:54:21.840 --> 01:54:28.359 Yes, I have another avocado seed that I'm growing. I'm 2136 01:54:28.439 --> 01:54:30.720 kind of curious. Is there any way I could get 2137 01:54:30.760 --> 01:54:32.880 these things to produce fruit. 2138 01:54:34.800 --> 01:54:40.319 In time? They will. That seed is juvenile, and as 2139 01:54:40.359 --> 01:54:44.720 it grows, the plant is juvenile, and at some point 2140 01:54:44.880 --> 01:54:49.159 a maturity process occurs where it can produce fruit. It 2141 01:54:49.159 --> 01:54:52.640 would be like a human or an animal. You know, 2142 01:54:52.840 --> 01:54:56.680 a young child is not capable of having offspring, but 2143 01:54:57.039 --> 01:54:58.960 as they get older, there is a point where you're 2144 01:54:59.000 --> 01:55:02.000 capable of having off That is true with plants too, 2145 01:55:02.039 --> 01:55:05.520 and that avocado has to get past the juvenile stage, 2146 01:55:05.560 --> 01:55:08.199 which could take I don't know off the top of 2147 01:55:08.239 --> 01:55:11.239 my head. In avocados, I know with like a pecand tree, 2148 01:55:11.239 --> 01:55:14.279 that could be fourteen years. With a peach tree, probably 2149 01:55:14.279 --> 01:55:17.399 about seven. But it's going to take a while, but 2150 01:55:17.520 --> 01:55:22.239 at some point it is able to produce avocados from 2151 01:55:22.279 --> 01:55:22.760 a seed. 2152 01:55:24.520 --> 01:55:28.520 Okay, yeah, because my husband and I both like avocados, 2153 01:55:28.560 --> 01:55:31.279 so we thought we'd tried to grow a tree because 2154 01:55:31.319 --> 01:55:36.000 I've googled and I'm able to find you know, I 2155 01:55:36.079 --> 01:55:39.199 tree that I could actually plant now and it would 2156 01:55:39.279 --> 01:55:42.079 produce fruit in a couple of years. I mean, because 2157 01:55:42.119 --> 01:55:43.680 we're in our sixties. 2158 01:55:43.199 --> 01:55:49.279 And there all. Yeah, you're out there in Columbus if 2159 01:55:49.279 --> 01:55:54.880 you came in as far as the Kadi area just 2160 01:55:55.479 --> 01:55:56.720 north of ten. 2161 01:55:58.479 --> 01:55:58.520 H. 2162 01:55:58.720 --> 01:56:03.359 Nelson Water Garden, Carri's fruit. And I don't know that 2163 01:56:03.439 --> 01:56:06.039 they carry avocado. They may carry them, and they may 2164 01:56:06.039 --> 01:56:07.840 be able to get them. They probably won't have them 2165 01:56:07.880 --> 01:56:11.720 in stock now because it's wintertime. But if you wanted 2166 01:56:11.760 --> 01:56:15.159 to call Nilson Water Garden, I'll bet they could get 2167 01:56:15.199 --> 01:56:17.760 you one. If not, it depends on how much of 2168 01:56:17.760 --> 01:56:19.239 a trip you want to make. But you could go 2169 01:56:19.319 --> 01:56:26.039 down to enchanted gardens between Katie and Richmond Rosenberg, and 2170 01:56:26.199 --> 01:56:30.279 I bet they have avocados seasonally, and plus those are 2171 01:56:30.279 --> 01:56:33.159 fun places to visit anyway. But you could get a 2172 01:56:33.199 --> 01:56:35.319 tree that you put it in the ground and it 2173 01:56:35.359 --> 01:56:38.000 won't be very long before it's ready to produce fruit 2174 01:56:38.039 --> 01:56:39.439 because it's been grafted. 2175 01:56:40.640 --> 01:56:40.880 Right. 2176 01:56:41.119 --> 01:56:43.920 Okay, we know where both of those areas are. We 2177 01:56:44.039 --> 01:56:48.079 came from Katie, so we know where everything is. Okay, Well, great, 2178 01:56:48.199 --> 01:56:52.000 I appreciate your help, and yes, I'll try all right. 2179 01:56:52.000 --> 01:56:57.800 Columbus, Texas. Yes, I was just saying Columbus, Texas. When 2180 01:56:57.840 --> 01:57:00.800 I was a kid, we would travel from Sand Antonio, 2181 01:57:01.159 --> 01:57:04.640 let's just say San Antonio to Houston basically, and that 2182 01:57:04.760 --> 01:57:07.640 was back before convenience stores and all of that. You know, 2183 01:57:07.680 --> 01:57:10.279 there wasn't such a thing as a seven eleven or McDonald's. 2184 01:57:10.279 --> 01:57:12.239 And we had to stop at a Gulf gas station 2185 01:57:12.359 --> 01:57:15.279 in Columbus where they had a little side room where 2186 01:57:15.319 --> 01:57:17.479 you could put a coin in a box and pull 2187 01:57:17.520 --> 01:57:19.279 it and you'd get crackers out the bottom. 2188 01:57:20.640 --> 01:57:20.800 Right. 2189 01:57:21.399 --> 01:57:25.640 That's my Columbus story. That was civilization as far as 2190 01:57:25.680 --> 01:57:28.159 I was concerned as a small child, and during a 2191 01:57:28.199 --> 01:57:33.840 four hour trip. Carrie, thank you, thanks for enduring that story. 2192 01:57:34.479 --> 01:57:38.279 Take care bye bye. That's like, you know, that's like 2193 01:57:38.279 --> 01:57:39.960 one of these old stories. You know, the guy that 2194 01:57:40.239 --> 01:57:42.560 had to walk you know, your parents they had to 2195 01:57:42.600 --> 01:57:47.119 walk uphill through the snow to school both ways going 2196 01:57:47.159 --> 01:57:49.239 and coming. We're going to go to friends with now 2197 01:57:49.239 --> 01:57:51.960 and talk to Beverly. Hey, Beverly, welcome to garden Line. 2198 01:57:52.319 --> 01:57:52.640 Hello. 2199 01:57:53.600 --> 01:57:57.039 I have a Jerusalem artichoke that I planned probably a 2200 01:57:57.119 --> 01:58:00.359 year ago, and I don't know when to harvest them. 2201 01:58:00.720 --> 01:58:03.279 I tried, you know, the green comes up and it 2202 01:58:03.279 --> 01:58:06.640 blooms and then it dies back down, and I thought, well, 2203 01:58:06.680 --> 01:58:08.880 maybe that's when I would dig them up. But they 2204 01:58:08.920 --> 01:58:12.479 were very very tiny. It's like very. 2205 01:58:12.319 --> 01:58:18.680 Small when you say small, small as like like a 2206 01:58:18.720 --> 01:58:25.600 pece an inch across or across all right, Well, for 2207 01:58:25.640 --> 01:58:30.039 some reason they didn't, Yeah, they didn't. How tall were 2208 01:58:30.079 --> 01:58:32.279 they when they were growing before the coal weather hit? 2209 01:58:32.479 --> 01:58:36.239 Oh a good two three foot They were very tall 2210 01:58:36.279 --> 01:58:39.119 and they bloomed it looked really healthy. And this is 2211 01:58:39.119 --> 01:58:41.399 in the container, a big, huge container. 2212 01:58:42.640 --> 01:58:46.359 Oh a container. Okay, that may be part of the reason. 2213 01:58:46.640 --> 01:58:49.159 That may be part of the reason they're Jerusalem Artico 2214 01:58:49.359 --> 01:58:51.880 chokes will get pretty tall, and now they vary between varieties, 2215 01:58:51.920 --> 01:58:54.079 but they ought to be, you know, up in the 2216 01:58:54.119 --> 01:58:58.159 five six foot range in the ground, growing healthy. And 2217 01:58:58.239 --> 01:59:01.760 what happens is the tops grow and they collect sunlight 2218 01:59:02.119 --> 01:59:05.720 and they put it in the in those storage tubers 2219 01:59:05.760 --> 01:59:08.159 on the roots. That is what you're growing the plant 2220 01:59:08.199 --> 01:59:11.199 for those tubers, right, and they should get up to 2221 01:59:11.239 --> 01:59:14.479 be the size, oh about an inch in diameter, up 2222 01:59:14.520 --> 01:59:17.000 a little bit bigger than that. They can be larger 2223 01:59:17.039 --> 01:59:20.039 than that, but they don't get much bigger than an inch. 2224 01:59:20.119 --> 01:59:23.439 So next year, if they're in really good sunlight, you 2225 01:59:23.479 --> 01:59:26.039 should they should do better. You can. You can dig 2226 01:59:26.079 --> 01:59:28.079 them up and put a few back in the ground, 2227 01:59:28.880 --> 01:59:31.800 but just know that they can get a little weedy, 2228 01:59:31.920 --> 01:59:35.119 so don't let them just run wild and free for 2229 01:59:35.159 --> 01:59:37.119 too long because they'll spread on you. 2230 01:59:37.800 --> 01:59:41.199 Okay, thank you very much, I appreciate that. But when 2231 01:59:41.279 --> 01:59:44.800 do you harve it in the fall? After that the stem. 2232 01:59:44.520 --> 01:59:47.760 Seat, well, you can harp you can harve the meantime, 2233 01:59:47.800 --> 01:59:49.159 you wait till fall if you want to get the 2234 01:59:49.159 --> 01:59:52.680 most production and size out of them. But you might 2235 01:59:52.720 --> 01:59:54.399 try to kind of digging down, get your little spade 2236 01:59:54.399 --> 01:59:55.880 and fart and going to there and lift the soil 2237 01:59:55.960 --> 01:59:58.079 up a little bit and kind of just work. You're 2238 01:59:58.119 --> 01:59:59.960 not digging up the plant, you're just kind of exposed 2239 02:00:00.159 --> 02:00:03.680 some of those see what's underneath there. But it's been 2240 02:00:03.720 --> 02:00:05.960 a long time since I grew jerwis lamartin chokes. We 2241 02:00:06.000 --> 02:00:08.439 grew a number of varieties and that some are round, 2242 02:00:08.520 --> 02:00:12.560 some are elongated, and yeah, it's you can grow them. 2243 02:00:12.600 --> 02:00:14.479 They're enthusiastic growers well. 2244 02:00:14.479 --> 02:00:17.319 And they're very good for you to eat too, especially 2245 02:00:17.319 --> 02:00:20.960 for people. I'm not diabetic, but for people who are diabetic, 2246 02:00:22.840 --> 02:00:23.479 that is true. 2247 02:00:23.600 --> 02:00:27.960 The type of sugars in there, it's different, that's true. Hey, Beverly, 2248 02:00:27.960 --> 02:00:29.399 I got a run for a break. But thanks and 2249 02:00:29.479 --> 02:00:32.920 good luck with those. Appreciate it, all right, folks, I 2250 02:00:33.079 --> 02:00:35.560 will be right back seven one three two one two 2251 02:00:35.840 --> 02:00:44.079 k t R eight. All right, we're back back with 2252 02:00:44.199 --> 02:00:49.960 your calls on garden line. All you got to do 2253 02:00:50.039 --> 02:00:53.079 is dial seven one three two one two k t 2254 02:00:53.239 --> 02:00:55.960 r H seven one three two one two K T 2255 02:00:56.479 --> 02:00:59.039 R H. I'm happy to visit with you. We're in 2256 02:00:59.039 --> 02:01:02.119 our last hour of the morning. Show'll be done by 2257 02:01:02.199 --> 02:01:04.600 ten o'clock the day, start back over again six o'clock 2258 02:01:04.640 --> 02:01:07.199 in the morning. Look forward to seeing you bright eyed 2259 02:01:07.279 --> 02:01:11.279 and bushy tailed at that time. I've but if someone 2260 02:01:11.359 --> 02:01:13.479 told me one time, I will rise, but I refuse 2261 02:01:13.560 --> 02:01:16.319 to shine. Okay, well, if you'll at least your rise 2262 02:01:16.359 --> 02:01:19.159 and turn on the radio, we'll go with that. Listen. 2263 02:01:19.800 --> 02:01:23.119 I mentioned earlier the importance of tree care. Last year 2264 02:01:23.159 --> 02:01:26.520 we had storms twice that were really bad and we 2265 02:01:26.600 --> 02:01:30.039 lost power for a long time. The number one reason 2266 02:01:30.520 --> 02:01:33.159 for damage to homes, the number one reason for loss 2267 02:01:33.159 --> 02:01:38.800 of power is trees falling on lines. Now, if you're 2268 02:01:39.199 --> 02:01:41.640 there's times when you can't do anything. I mean, you know, 2269 02:01:41.840 --> 02:01:43.520 if a torn eight, it hits a tree, and I 2270 02:01:43.520 --> 02:01:45.479 don't care how you pruned it, it's in trouble, right. 2271 02:01:46.039 --> 02:01:48.840 But there's a lot that can be prevented by proper 2272 02:01:48.920 --> 02:01:51.600 pruning and care. And Martin spoon more or more of 2273 02:01:51.640 --> 02:01:55.520 affordable tree that's what he can do. He's an expert 2274 02:01:55.520 --> 02:01:57.920 at this. He's not the guy down the driving down 2275 02:01:57.960 --> 02:02:00.720 the street just has a truck in a chainsaw, trying 2276 02:02:00.720 --> 02:02:03.319 to talk you into letting him touch your trees. No, don't 2277 02:02:03.359 --> 02:02:05.800 do that. Martin knows what he's doing. You can give 2278 02:02:05.880 --> 02:02:08.680 them a call seven one, three, six, nine, nine, twenty 2279 02:02:08.720 --> 02:02:12.159 six sixty three. He come out. He'll evaluate your trees, 2280 02:02:12.399 --> 02:02:14.520 will give an estimate on what needs to be done, 2281 02:02:14.560 --> 02:02:17.359 including pruning. If you want to have deep root feeding done, 2282 02:02:17.520 --> 02:02:20.199 he can do that too. Anything that your tree's going 2283 02:02:20.279 --> 02:02:23.199 to need, Martin can take care of it. You got 2284 02:02:23.239 --> 02:02:25.800 to call now, though, to get on his schedule. You 2285 02:02:25.920 --> 02:02:28.079 got to take care of your trees. Don't wait until 2286 02:02:28.119 --> 02:02:30.920 the storm has done the damage it's going to do. 2287 02:02:31.319 --> 02:02:33.359 From the time a tree goes into the ground, really 2288 02:02:33.560 --> 02:02:36.239 it ought to be you start the training process of 2289 02:02:36.279 --> 02:02:39.159 building a good, strong tree, and that continues throughout the 2290 02:02:39.199 --> 02:02:41.920 life of the tree in the form of occasional pruning 2291 02:02:41.960 --> 02:02:45.079 as needed. Someone with a good eye that knows what 2292 02:02:45.159 --> 02:02:48.439 to look for can tell you exactly what needs to 2293 02:02:48.439 --> 02:02:50.159 be done on that tree, and that's Martin. So if 2294 02:02:50.199 --> 02:02:52.119 you can't remember the last time you had your trees 2295 02:02:52.159 --> 02:02:56.640 pruned and evaluated for their health, now is the time. Absolutely, 2296 02:02:57.119 --> 02:03:00.760 don't delay. The single most valuable plant your landscape is 2297 02:03:00.800 --> 02:03:04.560 a tree. It adds much value to the home it provides. 2298 02:03:04.680 --> 02:03:08.600 It can provide shade for cooling during the summer months. 2299 02:03:09.199 --> 02:03:12.520 It's a valuable thing. They'll mess around cal Martin seven 2300 02:03:12.560 --> 02:03:15.720 to one three sixt' nine nine two six sixty three, 2301 02:03:15.840 --> 02:03:19.399 or just go to his website aff tree service dot com. 2302 02:03:20.439 --> 02:03:23.159 Aff tree service dot com. I saw a tree the 2303 02:03:23.199 --> 02:03:27.520 other day that had been uprooted. What happens. What happened 2304 02:03:27.760 --> 02:03:31.560 is rain, rain, rain, rain, rain. The soil is basically 2305 02:03:31.760 --> 02:03:34.079 just soup. I mean, it's just like oat meal. You know, 2306 02:03:34.119 --> 02:03:36.920 it's all soft and gooy and everything. Here comes the 2307 02:03:36.960 --> 02:03:40.039 wind and that tree's anchorage. It's got the roots out there, 2308 02:03:40.039 --> 02:03:42.600 but you know, the soil goes with it and it 2309 02:03:42.760 --> 02:03:45.199 just it doesn't hold. You got to take care of 2310 02:03:45.239 --> 02:03:47.840 your trees. You want to have a good, a good, good, 2311 02:03:48.560 --> 02:03:51.600 proper caring for them. What I also saw the other 2312 02:03:51.680 --> 02:03:54.279 day was a tree that wasn't prune right, and I 2313 02:03:54.279 --> 02:03:56.399 could tell because the branch had fallen off, and where 2314 02:03:56.399 --> 02:03:58.560 it had fallen off, there was a big black area 2315 02:03:58.760 --> 02:04:02.159 where it attached. You know, your branch attaches to the 2316 02:04:02.199 --> 02:04:05.239 trunk and if it's a narrow angle, the bark gets 2317 02:04:05.279 --> 02:04:07.520 squeezed in there. As the trunk gets bigger, and as 2318 02:04:07.520 --> 02:04:09.920 a branch gets a bigger, the bar gets squeezed in there. 2319 02:04:10.399 --> 02:04:13.039 And so that's a very weak union. I mean, there's 2320 02:04:13.079 --> 02:04:15.800 no connection in that black area. It's just a bunch 2321 02:04:15.880 --> 02:04:19.520 of dead, rotting, composting bark. And so when it snaps 2322 02:04:19.520 --> 02:04:22.039 away there, we saw it, and I knew exactly why 2323 02:04:22.439 --> 02:04:26.600 that branch snapped. It was a very weak union. And 2324 02:04:26.640 --> 02:04:30.079 that starts with proper training early on in the process. 2325 02:04:31.600 --> 02:04:33.560 You're listening to garden line. I haven't mentioned it all 2326 02:04:33.640 --> 02:04:35.039 day to day. I can't believe this, but I have 2327 02:04:35.079 --> 02:04:40.439 a website. It is gardening with Skip dot com. Gardening 2328 02:04:40.479 --> 02:04:43.920 with Skip. That's me. You can garden with me. Gardening 2329 02:04:43.960 --> 02:04:46.079 with Skip dot Com. Go there and you're gonna find 2330 02:04:46.119 --> 02:04:48.760 a lot of good information there. And I say that 2331 02:04:48.840 --> 02:04:50.680 because I put it up there on purpose. First of all, 2332 02:04:50.680 --> 02:04:53.119 the first thing you're gonna see is Randy Lemon Scholarship. 2333 02:04:54.159 --> 02:04:57.520 Randy was a legend in our area and all of 2334 02:04:57.560 --> 02:05:01.439 you who benefited from him, no I'm talking about and 2335 02:05:01.520 --> 02:05:04.319 there's you can give toward a scholarship that was set 2336 02:05:04.399 --> 02:05:06.920 up by Dan Nelson in Randy's name, up at Texas 2337 02:05:07.000 --> 02:05:09.520 A and M. You can give online or you can 2338 02:05:09.560 --> 02:05:11.319 write a check and mail it to them. And if 2339 02:05:11.319 --> 02:05:13.720 you go to my website look at the Randy Lemon's Scholarship. 2340 02:05:13.720 --> 02:05:15.840 It tells you everything that you need to know. And 2341 02:05:15.880 --> 02:05:19.520 I would ask you to consider, just consider making a 2342 02:05:19.560 --> 02:05:22.159 donation to Randy Lemon's scholarship at A and M. I 2343 02:05:22.800 --> 02:05:26.279 know how happy and proud he would be of that. 2344 02:05:26.279 --> 02:05:29.840 That was his alma mater as it was mine. And 2345 02:05:30.560 --> 02:05:33.840 this is your chance, you know, to help the next 2346 02:05:33.880 --> 02:05:38.159 generation of horticultures coming out of the university War Department there. 2347 02:05:38.680 --> 02:05:42.199 That is important. I'm a product of that, and as 2348 02:05:42.239 --> 02:05:44.880 you do things now, you make a difference for the future. 2349 02:05:46.960 --> 02:05:51.279 There's also an article on growing transplants and it's specifically 2350 02:05:51.399 --> 02:05:54.840 on quality lighting for growing transplants. I'm going to put 2351 02:05:54.840 --> 02:05:58.399 another one up on how to grow transplants and it 2352 02:05:58.520 --> 02:06:02.119 goes beyond lighting taking care of transplants. There's an article 2353 02:06:02.239 --> 02:06:04.600 also on there, and you don't see it in the 2354 02:06:04.640 --> 02:06:07.880 new articles you got to you gotta click on all publications, 2355 02:06:08.399 --> 02:06:11.279 but as you scroll down there is one called tis 2356 02:06:11.319 --> 02:06:14.760 the Season to be Freezing? That links you to a 2357 02:06:14.800 --> 02:06:18.399 publication nine pages on how to protect plants against cold, 2358 02:06:19.239 --> 02:06:21.359 and I would recommend you take a look at that. 2359 02:06:21.399 --> 02:06:24.199 There's other good articles and things on there as you will. 2360 02:06:24.520 --> 02:06:28.640 But anyway, gardening with Skip dot com, Gardening with skip 2361 02:06:28.640 --> 02:06:30.439 dot com, go check it out. We're gonna put more 2362 02:06:30.479 --> 02:06:33.359 good stuff up there. And that's one way that I 2363 02:06:33.399 --> 02:06:37.159 can answer a question that requires more information than I 2364 02:06:37.199 --> 02:06:39.720 can go into on just a phone call or more 2365 02:06:39.720 --> 02:06:43.399 in depth. And I'll continue to post those things up 2366 02:06:43.439 --> 02:06:47.439 there if you'd like to give us a call. Maybe 2367 02:06:47.479 --> 02:06:50.079 you have a gardening question seven one three two one 2368 02:06:50.159 --> 02:06:53.800 two k t r H. Seven one three two one 2369 02:06:53.880 --> 02:06:57.359 two k t r H. Well, all this rain means 2370 02:06:57.359 --> 02:07:00.640 that our clay soils have swollen up. Do you know 2371 02:07:00.680 --> 02:07:03.119 a clay shrinks and swells, or at least some types 2372 02:07:03.159 --> 02:07:06.600 of clays especially shrink and swell a lot. And that's 2373 02:07:06.640 --> 02:07:09.279 the kind we have here in the Houston area along 2374 02:07:09.319 --> 02:07:13.720 the Gulf coast. When that happens, it causes Well, how 2375 02:07:13.720 --> 02:07:15.640 about this. Have you ever been going on a sidewalk 2376 02:07:15.680 --> 02:07:18.640 and seeing this big giant pad of sidewalks sticking up 2377 02:07:18.760 --> 02:07:21.359 or you trip over it, or maybe your driveway is 2378 02:07:21.439 --> 02:07:24.680 cracking or heaving in the same way, that's the soil 2379 02:07:24.800 --> 02:07:27.399 moving it around. Well, all you have to do is 2380 02:07:27.439 --> 02:07:31.000 call Martin. Martin, I'm back on the tree. Thing called 2381 02:07:31.000 --> 02:07:35.239 Ty Strickland at fixed my slab foundation repair. Ty's been 2382 02:07:35.239 --> 02:07:38.239 doing this for twenty three years. He's a native Heystonian, 2383 02:07:38.319 --> 02:07:42.199 fifth generation Texan. He knows our soil, he knows what 2384 02:07:42.279 --> 02:07:45.039 happens to foundations, and he knows what to do about it. 2385 02:07:45.439 --> 02:07:48.279 And if you call Tye at two eight one two 2386 02:07:48.279 --> 02:07:52.119 five five forty ninety nine, he can come out. He 2387 02:07:52.119 --> 02:07:54.279 can take a look. Tell him you're a guarden line listener. 2388 02:07:54.319 --> 02:07:58.479 Free estimates for garden line listeners. Have him come take 2389 02:07:58.520 --> 02:08:01.199 a look. Maybe your doors are sticking inside, or maybe 2390 02:08:01.199 --> 02:08:05.000 sometimes they stick and sometimes they don't. That's a movement indicator. 2391 02:08:05.840 --> 02:08:07.720 Maybe there's a crack in the sheet rock or on 2392 02:08:07.760 --> 02:08:11.680 the brick on the outside, that's a movement indicator. Have 2393 02:08:11.800 --> 02:08:14.640 him come look at it. He'll evaluate, he knows what 2394 02:08:14.680 --> 02:08:16.960 he's doing. He'll tell you if nothing needs to be done, 2395 02:08:17.279 --> 02:08:19.119 and he'll tell you if something needs to be done, 2396 02:08:19.159 --> 02:08:23.159 what your options are. The things that I most appreciate 2397 02:08:23.199 --> 02:08:25.760 about Tie is that he shows up when he tells 2398 02:08:25.800 --> 02:08:28.079 you he's going to show up. He's on time, he 2399 02:08:28.399 --> 02:08:31.279 gives you a fair price, and he fixes it right. 2400 02:08:31.640 --> 02:08:34.000 One two three. Boy, if you could have that from 2401 02:08:34.119 --> 02:08:36.520 any service person that comes to your house, wouldn't you 2402 02:08:36.640 --> 02:08:39.880 love to have that on time, fair price, fixed right. 2403 02:08:40.760 --> 02:08:44.760 That's important and that's tie. Fix myslab dot com is 2404 02:08:44.800 --> 02:08:47.239 a website. Fix myslab dot com two eight one two 2405 02:08:47.239 --> 02:08:55.439 FI five forty nine forty nine. The We have had 2406 02:08:55.600 --> 02:08:58.359 to bring service people into our house for various things. 2407 02:08:58.399 --> 02:09:00.279 And I'm telling you, boy, there is a night and 2408 02:09:00.359 --> 02:09:03.960 day difference. I had had a plumber come a while back, 2409 02:09:04.079 --> 02:09:07.800 and oh my gosh, I said they're gonna be there 2410 02:09:08.319 --> 02:09:13.439 first thing in the morning. By mid afternoon still hadn't 2411 02:09:13.439 --> 02:09:16.239 showed up yet. I'm sitting there wasting my whole day 2412 02:09:16.279 --> 02:09:19.760 waiting on them to show up. A stuff drives me nuts. 2413 02:09:19.800 --> 02:09:21.960 And then the job they did is like I think 2414 02:09:22.000 --> 02:09:26.359 I could have done that anyway. I'll leave it at that. 2415 02:09:26.960 --> 02:09:28.720 Let's go out to the phones. We're going to talk 2416 02:09:28.760 --> 02:09:32.279 to Ronnie and Lake Jackson. Hey, Ronnie, welcome to garden Line. 2417 02:09:33.279 --> 02:09:35.560 Yes, sir, I appreciate you taking my call. Hey, what 2418 02:09:35.600 --> 02:09:38.079 I'm calling about is I've got a couple of rows. 2419 02:09:37.760 --> 02:09:41.520 Of Japanese box woods that run up and down my driveway. 2420 02:09:41.600 --> 02:09:45.199 And in the last year now they've been through, of 2421 02:09:45.239 --> 02:09:48.319 course all the Hurricane two hill storms and everything. 2422 02:09:49.119 --> 02:09:52.600 And I went online and I found some fertilizers specifically 2423 02:09:52.680 --> 02:09:59.800 four boxwoods type. Do you think it's okay to shout 2424 02:09:59.800 --> 02:10:03.560 out until spring comes? Or should should? I? Is it 2425 02:10:03.600 --> 02:10:05.439 okay to go ahead and fertilize them now? 2426 02:10:09.000 --> 02:10:11.960 Well, you could fertilize them now, some of the nitrogen 2427 02:10:12.279 --> 02:10:16.239 will wash away in the meantime, uh, you know, because 2428 02:10:16.239 --> 02:10:19.960 it nitrogen's a volatile substance, so it might be better 2429 02:10:20.119 --> 02:10:24.600 to wait and have it around more when the plants 2430 02:10:24.600 --> 02:10:28.479 are actually ready to take it up. I don't know 2431 02:10:28.520 --> 02:10:30.840 what fertilizer it was you saw online. I don't really 2432 02:10:30.880 --> 02:10:33.600 don't really need to know. I know Nelson has one 2433 02:10:33.640 --> 02:10:37.960 called Nutristar Tree and Shrub. Nutristar Tree and Shrub is 2434 02:10:38.560 --> 02:10:41.760 designed for our trees and shrubs here in our climate 2435 02:10:41.800 --> 02:10:45.359 here in this part of Texas. There's also Nitrofus has 2436 02:10:45.359 --> 02:10:48.279 a really good U one for trees and shrubs. We 2437 02:10:48.319 --> 02:10:49.680 call those woody ornamentals. 2438 02:10:49.880 --> 02:10:50.079 You know. 2439 02:10:50.960 --> 02:10:52.960 Nitrus has a really good one for that as well. 2440 02:10:53.000 --> 02:10:56.000 Those are both available about the canister. So you know, 2441 02:10:56.000 --> 02:10:57.760 you just got a tree or two you're taken care of. 2442 02:10:57.800 --> 02:11:00.520 You you can use those, so that that's what I suggest. 2443 02:11:00.840 --> 02:11:03.560 But anyway, as far as timing, yeah, let's get a 2444 02:11:03.600 --> 02:11:05.840 little growth starting on them and then put that down 2445 02:11:05.880 --> 02:11:07.720 and watered in really good. And I think you're gonna 2446 02:11:07.720 --> 02:11:09.520 get the most bang for your buck that way. 2447 02:11:10.880 --> 02:11:11.479 To get my by. 2448 02:11:11.520 --> 02:11:13.199 As always, I appreciate the information. 2449 02:11:15.039 --> 02:11:17.239 All right, good luck with us. You take care. Thanks 2450 02:11:17.239 --> 02:11:21.439 for the call. Glad you call first. Yeah, if you 2451 02:11:21.479 --> 02:11:23.760 have any kind of question on things like you're about 2452 02:11:23.760 --> 02:11:28.319 to buy. One of the things that is most discouraging 2453 02:11:28.840 --> 02:11:33.279 for me is to talk to someone who made a 2454 02:11:33.319 --> 02:11:36.800 mistake and then they call, you know, and maybe it's 2455 02:11:36.800 --> 02:11:38.640 like they went out and pruned their tree and now 2456 02:11:38.640 --> 02:11:41.560 they're asking me if that was right, or they they 2457 02:11:41.600 --> 02:11:43.840 spent some money on a plant to put in the 2458 02:11:43.840 --> 02:11:47.000 ground and you know, maybe it's a fascipia or a 2459 02:11:47.079 --> 02:11:49.319 lilac because they came from the Midwest and they remember 2460 02:11:49.399 --> 02:11:51.439 those plants. And I got to be the bearer of 2461 02:11:51.479 --> 02:11:53.439 bad news to go. It's just not going to do 2462 02:11:53.520 --> 02:11:55.640 well here, you know, call me first and let me 2463 02:11:55.680 --> 02:11:58.079 help you with that. I hate to see people waste money. 2464 02:11:58.119 --> 02:12:00.680 I hate to see people waste time. And I can 2465 02:12:00.720 --> 02:12:03.239 help you avoid both of those, and that's definitely wanted 2466 02:12:03.239 --> 02:12:05.199 to do. Hey, it's your choice. You know I'm not 2467 02:12:05.239 --> 02:12:06.840 in charge you. I don't tell you what to do. 2468 02:12:07.319 --> 02:12:09.680 I give you my advice. You decide whether you want 2469 02:12:09.680 --> 02:12:11.439 to take it or not. But at least give me 2470 02:12:11.479 --> 02:12:15.960 a shot and helping save time and help you have success. 2471 02:12:16.119 --> 02:12:18.479 That's what I want to do. Time for me to 2472 02:12:18.520 --> 02:12:20.600 take a break. I'll be right back at seven to 2473 02:12:20.640 --> 02:12:26.199 one three two one two k t RH. Hey, welcome back, 2474 02:12:28.640 --> 02:12:31.960 Welcome back to guardenline. Hey, let's do this. We got 2475 02:12:31.960 --> 02:12:33.600 some more to talk about today, and we got a 2476 02:12:33.720 --> 02:12:35.720 half hour, not just under a half hour to get 2477 02:12:35.720 --> 02:12:38.479 it done. If you got some questions, I have open 2478 02:12:38.520 --> 02:12:41.520 phone lines. Believe it or not, they are open phone lines. 2479 02:12:41.560 --> 02:12:42.720 If you would like to give me a call. I 2480 02:12:42.760 --> 02:12:44.920 can't promise you you'll be first. Someone may dialet faster, 2481 02:12:45.479 --> 02:12:47.479 but you definitely will get on if you want to 2482 02:12:47.479 --> 02:12:49.520 give us a call now, seven to one three two 2483 02:12:49.600 --> 02:12:53.000 one two k t r H seven one three two 2484 02:12:53.079 --> 02:12:57.239 one two k t r H. Simple as that. Uh, 2485 02:12:57.279 --> 02:13:00.840 it is fruit tree planning season. Earlier, I mentioned that 2486 02:13:01.079 --> 02:13:04.239 I was going to plant a grape that's going to 2487 02:13:04.279 --> 02:13:07.119 go on a trellis that I've already got the spot 2488 02:13:07.159 --> 02:13:09.079 ready to go for it. I just need to get 2489 02:13:09.119 --> 02:13:10.880 my plants and put them out there and do that. 2490 02:13:11.640 --> 02:13:15.760 And if you are looking to plant a grapevine, a blueberry, 2491 02:13:15.800 --> 02:13:19.520 a fig, a BlackBerry, any kind of fruit tree, any 2492 02:13:19.600 --> 02:13:22.920 kind of fruit plant, now this season is a great 2493 02:13:22.960 --> 02:13:26.560 time to go ahead and get that done. And you know, 2494 02:13:26.720 --> 02:13:29.760 the grapes, if you're going to plant a grape, you 2495 02:13:29.800 --> 02:13:32.840 want to plant one that's going to do well. Here, 2496 02:13:33.279 --> 02:13:36.039 one that's going to do well. Listen, grapes are very 2497 02:13:36.079 --> 02:13:39.760 disease prone, and we struggle with a lot of issues 2498 02:13:39.840 --> 02:13:43.279 on grapes, but there are a handful of varieties that 2499 02:13:43.359 --> 02:13:46.880 are very resistant. Blanc dubois is a white grape. If 2500 02:13:46.920 --> 02:13:51.199 you go to a vineyard in southeast Texas, nine inches 2501 02:13:51.199 --> 02:13:53.439 out of ten you're looking at Blanc du bois grapes 2502 02:13:53.479 --> 02:13:56.039 because they are Pierce's disease resistance, and that is a 2503 02:13:56.079 --> 02:14:00.000 grape killing disease. They're good. There's an old variety black Space, 2504 02:14:00.359 --> 02:14:03.800 It's tough, that's been around for a while. There are 2505 02:14:04.000 --> 02:14:10.199 muscadine grapes. Muscadines are extremely adapted to the wet, humid 2506 02:14:10.239 --> 02:14:14.000 climate that we have here. There's one there's one called 2507 02:14:14.079 --> 02:14:18.359 Victoria Red that was named after Victoria out there. It 2508 02:14:18.479 --> 02:14:22.279 was actually an Arkansas a breeding line that does really well. 2509 02:14:22.319 --> 02:14:24.880 And then my favorite of all the table grapes is 2510 02:14:24.960 --> 02:14:29.600 Southern sensation seedless table grape. So where do you get 2511 02:14:29.640 --> 02:14:33.520 something like that? Latteywhere you get them? At Arburgate? Arborgate 2512 02:14:34.159 --> 02:14:38.239 has got I was talking to Canon and Beverly out 2513 02:14:38.239 --> 02:14:39.960 there and just said, hey, send me a list of 2514 02:14:40.000 --> 02:14:42.039 all the fruit trees that you got going. I want 2515 02:14:42.039 --> 02:14:46.479 to know what you carry pages. Send me pages of 2516 02:14:46.880 --> 02:14:50.039 fruit trees and all those grapes I mentioned ar at Arburgate. 2517 02:14:50.680 --> 02:14:53.119 Do you want plums? How about this? Have you ever 2518 02:14:53.119 --> 02:14:56.359 heard of a pluot? A pluot is a cross between 2519 02:14:56.359 --> 02:14:59.239 a plum and an apricot. They've got those at Arburgate. 2520 02:15:00.199 --> 02:15:04.279 They got palm granites. I'm going to the unusual things here. 2521 02:15:04.319 --> 02:15:06.159 How about gogie berries? Have you ever done of the 2522 02:15:06.479 --> 02:15:11.439 dragon fruit fruiting edible bulberries? Of course, yeah, they got 2523 02:15:11.439 --> 02:15:15.239 those there. One of the longest selections is some fruit 2524 02:15:15.279 --> 02:15:17.000 that you're ever going to see I mean like fig 2525 02:15:17.039 --> 02:15:20.520 Their fig list is way over a dozen different figs 2526 02:15:20.520 --> 02:15:22.439 you can choose from. All are Arbrogate. Of course, when 2527 02:15:22.439 --> 02:15:24.840 you're at Arburgate, you know you're gonna find everything else 2528 02:15:24.920 --> 02:15:29.199 cool seas, color, vegetables, herbs. Right now they've got gorgeous camellias. 2529 02:15:29.239 --> 02:15:31.680 They're in both in bud and in bloom and there's 2530 02:15:31.720 --> 02:15:36.720 more coming by the way. Row their roses are blooming. Yeah, 2531 02:15:36.800 --> 02:15:38.640 it just I just spend the whole day going on 2532 02:15:38.720 --> 02:15:41.960 about it. They also have seed starting kits and the seeds. 2533 02:15:42.000 --> 02:15:45.199 So I've been talking about growing your own transplants. Now's 2534 02:15:45.239 --> 02:15:47.439 the time run by Arbigate. Grab your seed starting kit 2535 02:15:47.520 --> 02:15:49.600 and some seed. And remember they got that new parking 2536 02:15:49.640 --> 02:15:52.239 lot in back where I don't care how much it rains. 2537 02:15:52.279 --> 02:15:54.880 I don't care how many people are visiting Arborgate and 2538 02:15:55.039 --> 02:15:57.520 it's a popular place. You can go in the back 2539 02:15:57.560 --> 02:16:01.119 and have easy access to good safe park and easy 2540 02:16:01.159 --> 02:16:04.520 accessed into the nursery there at Arburgate. And for those 2541 02:16:04.520 --> 02:16:06.760 of you who've been living under a rock don't know 2542 02:16:06.760 --> 02:16:09.439 where Arbigate is, it's west of Tombull on twenty nine 2543 02:16:09.800 --> 02:16:12.359 twenty Highway twenty nine to twenty. Just west of Tombull. 2544 02:16:12.680 --> 02:16:14.239 You'll see it over on the left hand side. You 2545 02:16:14.239 --> 02:16:18.319 can't miss it. Let's go to the phones and we're 2546 02:16:18.359 --> 02:16:22.279 going to head out to let's see Clark Spring, Texas. 2547 02:16:22.399 --> 02:16:26.520 Is that right? And talk to cry there. Good morning, 2548 02:16:26.720 --> 02:16:29.119 Hello cr Yeah, Cat. 2549 02:16:29.039 --> 02:16:30.960 Springs, check it out west of Beauville. 2550 02:16:33.000 --> 02:16:36.559 Oh, Cat Springs. I love that old German what do 2551 02:16:36.559 --> 02:16:39.639 you call that round octagony kind of building that the 2552 02:16:39.680 --> 02:16:44.920 German settlers would build out there. You got one of 2553 02:16:44.920 --> 02:16:47.159 those out there in Cat Springs Country. I can't remember 2554 02:16:47.200 --> 02:16:49.799 what it is. It's a community building. I can't think 2555 02:16:49.799 --> 02:16:52.479 of the name of it. Anyway. Yeah, anyway, go ahead. 2556 02:16:52.440 --> 02:16:55.479 Hall, Yeah, it's the egg hall. It's our egg hall 2557 02:16:55.559 --> 02:16:56.440 that you're talking about. 2558 02:16:56.559 --> 02:17:01.120 Yeah, yeah, yeah. Though you see those kind of the 2559 02:17:01.120 --> 02:17:04.120 middle part of Texas, it is. It is old time 2560 02:17:04.239 --> 02:17:06.840 cool all right. Anyway, you didn't call me to talk 2561 02:17:06.879 --> 02:17:08.239 about buildings. How can I help? 2562 02:17:09.239 --> 02:17:09.600 Yes, sir? 2563 02:17:09.680 --> 02:17:10.040 Okay. 2564 02:17:10.120 --> 02:17:15.200 So with the weather that we've had over the last week, 2565 02:17:15.479 --> 02:17:19.680 we covered all of our olive trees and our gave 2566 02:17:19.840 --> 02:17:22.360 plants that we have out on our ranch, and you 2567 02:17:22.360 --> 02:17:24.079 know we cover them up well with all the frost 2568 02:17:24.079 --> 02:17:28.000 blanket with the burlap. So we completely covered them, did 2569 02:17:28.000 --> 02:17:30.959 a really good job. Titlem all did them correctly. Well, 2570 02:17:31.120 --> 02:17:34.120 now my question is it's gonna be warmer over the 2571 02:17:34.159 --> 02:17:35.959 next five days or so, but then it looks like 2572 02:17:36.120 --> 02:17:38.559 next weekend it's gonna, you know, be back down in 2573 02:17:38.639 --> 02:17:43.000 the mid to low thirties. So with that said, specifically 2574 02:17:43.000 --> 02:17:46.719 for the olives and the tequila gave plants, will I 2575 02:17:46.799 --> 02:17:50.000 go ahead and uncover them for the week and then 2576 02:17:51.120 --> 02:17:53.440 have to put all that back on or can I 2577 02:17:53.520 --> 02:17:55.639 just leave it on through the week and will. 2578 02:17:55.520 --> 02:17:56.159 They be okay? 2579 02:17:58.239 --> 02:18:00.920 So the cloth is I had a kind of a 2580 02:18:00.959 --> 02:18:04.840 white spunbound polyester kind of fabric that you put. 2581 02:18:04.639 --> 02:18:08.840 Over them, yes, okay, And you said. 2582 02:18:10.799 --> 02:18:13.479 So burlaps on top of the plant, not wrapped around 2583 02:18:13.520 --> 02:18:17.600 the base or anything. Okay, Yeah, the burlap is shading 2584 02:18:17.680 --> 02:18:21.280 them too much. I hate to catch you to the work, 2585 02:18:21.399 --> 02:18:24.000 but ideally I would pull it off because you're gonna 2586 02:18:24.000 --> 02:18:26.159 have a bunch of sunny days at least five I 2587 02:18:26.200 --> 02:18:30.559 believe of sun. You probably ought to let them catch 2588 02:18:30.639 --> 02:18:32.959 up from that, let the soil warm up and stuff, 2589 02:18:33.280 --> 02:18:34.879 and then put it back down. But I'll tell you this, 2590 02:18:34.920 --> 02:18:38.719 if it's not going to go below below thirty two, 2591 02:18:39.000 --> 02:18:42.479 may even thirty. You're in good shape. Those olives are 2592 02:18:42.479 --> 02:18:45.239 not going to be killed at thirty. And I've never 2593 02:18:45.319 --> 02:18:49.399 tried to grow the tequila type of agavii you have, 2594 02:18:49.520 --> 02:18:51.639 but my bet is that it can take thirty two 2595 02:18:51.879 --> 02:18:56.079 because we're thirty also, so I don't know that you 2596 02:18:56.120 --> 02:18:58.200 have to recover them, but I don't know. Let's get 2597 02:18:58.200 --> 02:19:01.879 closer where we have a more accurate weather prediction before 2598 02:19:01.920 --> 02:19:02.959 we make that decision. 2599 02:19:04.120 --> 02:19:06.399 Okay, So at this point, go ahead and pull off 2600 02:19:06.440 --> 02:19:10.440 the burlap and the white crostcloth woad, and just pull 2601 02:19:10.479 --> 02:19:11.879 that off for the week and then see what the 2602 02:19:11.920 --> 02:19:12.559 weather looks like. 2603 02:19:14.479 --> 02:19:17.600 Yes, shade is a stressor for plants that like sun, 2604 02:19:18.079 --> 02:19:22.680 and sun makes carbohydrates. Carbohydrates make our sugars that are 2605 02:19:22.799 --> 02:19:25.920 essentially anti freeze in the plant. So we want to 2606 02:19:25.959 --> 02:19:28.040 give them all the chance for that that we can. 2607 02:19:28.559 --> 02:19:31.840 And so I would if you left them shaded, would 2608 02:19:31.879 --> 02:19:33.920 it be the end of them? Probably not, But I 2609 02:19:33.959 --> 02:19:36.040 think the best would be to let them have sunlight 2610 02:19:36.040 --> 02:19:38.319 because we've got a lot of good, good sunny days here. 2611 02:19:39.799 --> 02:19:42.319 Okay, So as long as I look at the weather 2612 02:19:42.360 --> 02:19:44.559 and next weekend, it's not going to be below thirty two. 2613 02:19:45.159 --> 02:19:47.200 Don't worry about covering them. Even if it's thirty four 2614 02:19:47.239 --> 02:19:47.799 or thirty five. 2615 02:19:47.840 --> 02:19:52.479 I can leave them un covered, absolutely absolutely, and even 2616 02:19:52.559 --> 02:19:54.639 I bet they'd even go to thirty without a problem 2617 02:19:54.799 --> 02:19:58.760 on those I know olives can. But anyway, yeah, how 2618 02:19:58.799 --> 02:20:00.280 old are these olive trees? 2619 02:20:01.479 --> 02:20:02.120 Yeah, so. 2620 02:20:03.879 --> 02:20:09.879 They're anywhere from three years that eight years. But they 2621 02:20:09.920 --> 02:20:12.479 were recently planted okay, six months ago? 2622 02:20:14.920 --> 02:20:18.239 Oh okay, okay, well yeah, that little extra care on 2623 02:20:18.319 --> 02:20:20.799 a new plant like that, once in olive is established. 2624 02:20:20.840 --> 02:20:23.040 I've seen him go down, you know, twenty eight and 2625 02:20:23.079 --> 02:20:23.559 be fine. 2626 02:20:23.959 --> 02:20:28.239 So okay, well great, that's good news, sir. I appreciate 2627 02:20:28.239 --> 02:20:30.760 your help. Thank you. 2628 02:20:30.760 --> 02:20:35.360 You bet take care. Let's now listen, I got I 2629 02:20:35.399 --> 02:20:38.360 got to take a little quick break. Hey, Cleveland, san Antonio. 2630 02:20:38.440 --> 02:20:40.280 I'll be coming to you first when we come right 2631 02:20:40.319 --> 02:20:41.200 back from this break. 2632 02:20:42.040 --> 02:20:46.200 All right, welcome back to Garden Line. We're gonna run 2633 02:20:46.319 --> 02:20:48.760 straight out to San Antonio. That doesn't take a while 2634 02:20:48.760 --> 02:20:52.319 to get Santonio running. We're gonna talk to Cleveland. Hey Cleveland, 2635 02:20:52.479 --> 02:20:53.479 welcome to guard Line. 2636 02:20:54.719 --> 02:20:55.840 Good morning to step How you doing. 2637 02:20:57.760 --> 02:21:00.159 I'm well, sir, I'm well. How can we help today? 2638 02:21:01.920 --> 02:21:04.120 I'm going to add a little color to my landscape. 2639 02:21:04.559 --> 02:21:07.639 Most everything's all brown out there, and I was going. 2640 02:21:07.479 --> 02:21:09.799 To put down some rye grass. 2641 02:21:09.920 --> 02:21:11.600 I was trying to find out if it's too late 2642 02:21:11.639 --> 02:21:12.079 to do that. 2643 02:21:13.920 --> 02:21:17.200 Rye grass. It's a little late. Normally he'd plant that 2644 02:21:17.319 --> 02:21:20.719 in November in San Antonio. Uh, you could put it 2645 02:21:20.760 --> 02:21:23.319 out now, it will come up. Uh, as long as 2646 02:21:23.360 --> 02:21:26.159 we don't have a really really bad cold snap or 2647 02:21:26.200 --> 02:21:29.479 something that messes with the little tender seedlings. You ought 2648 02:21:29.520 --> 02:21:31.559 to be okay on it. It would be it would 2649 02:21:31.600 --> 02:21:35.280 be worth worth giving it a shot at this point. 2650 02:21:35.559 --> 02:21:37.319 Oh, okay, it sounds good. 2651 02:21:37.360 --> 02:21:39.479 Thank you you. 2652 02:21:39.559 --> 02:21:42.159 But hey, Cleveland, do you know have you ever heard 2653 02:21:42.200 --> 02:21:45.200 of David Rodriguez uh out there in San Antonio on 2654 02:21:45.239 --> 02:21:45.840 the radio? 2655 02:21:47.520 --> 02:21:47.760 Yeah? 2656 02:21:48.200 --> 02:21:49.399 Yeah, part of them. 2657 02:21:49.680 --> 02:21:52.360 Yeah, Okay, David's a friend of mine. He is on 2658 02:21:52.440 --> 02:21:54.600 iHeart station in San Antonio, and I'm telling you he's 2659 02:21:54.600 --> 02:21:57.760 a great horticulturist too. Please keep listening to garden Line. 2660 02:21:57.760 --> 02:21:59.239 But I just wanted to tell you about him because 2661 02:21:59.280 --> 02:22:01.959 he's he's local there, and he is he is an expert. 2662 02:22:02.319 --> 02:22:09.079 Very very good. That's it. Hey, thanks for calling me. 2663 02:22:09.120 --> 02:22:12.799 Appreciate You're welcome calling anytime you want. All right, folks, 2664 02:22:12.879 --> 02:22:16.799 let's go to Carol in Baytown. Hey, Carol, welcome to 2665 02:22:16.840 --> 02:22:17.399 garden Line. 2666 02:22:18.799 --> 02:22:24.760 Jared morning. I have sent you pictures on an email. 2667 02:22:26.840 --> 02:22:27.600 You did and. 2668 02:22:30.079 --> 02:22:34.159 I'm opening I've never you always did to try, Steph. 2669 02:22:34.319 --> 02:22:37.840 So I'm trying. Mhm, and I don't know what to 2670 02:22:37.879 --> 02:22:38.600 do with both people. 2671 02:22:38.840 --> 02:22:44.360 Good for you, So what what is your what is 2672 02:22:44.440 --> 02:22:47.440 your question? Just on cutting it back? That's that's basically 2673 02:22:47.440 --> 02:22:47.840 what you're. 2674 02:22:47.760 --> 02:22:50.000 Wanting to know on this fair. 2675 02:22:50.079 --> 02:22:51.079 I hadn't in the ground. 2676 02:22:51.200 --> 02:22:53.319 I've always read that it was supposed to be like 2677 02:22:53.360 --> 02:22:55.280 three years or something before it produces. 2678 02:22:55.319 --> 02:22:59.520 But this, this is so big, and well. 2679 02:22:59.440 --> 02:23:03.319 What is this? Yeah, no, it's good. No, No, you 2680 02:23:03.319 --> 02:23:06.559 can you can. Okay. Here's the thing with asparagus. It 2681 02:23:06.600 --> 02:23:09.120 actually does better further north because they have a real 2682 02:23:09.159 --> 02:23:12.079 winter and it dies to the ground and it doesn't 2683 02:23:12.079 --> 02:23:14.360 come up until spring, and then it comes up with 2684 02:23:14.399 --> 02:23:18.399 these nice strong spears that we eat. We harvest the 2685 02:23:18.399 --> 02:23:22.200 first spears that are coming out here. It says green 2686 02:23:22.239 --> 02:23:25.040 above ground all winter, and so we don't really get 2687 02:23:25.040 --> 02:23:29.520 that carbohydrate storage sometimes or to the degree we want. 2688 02:23:30.360 --> 02:23:32.399 I've talked to people that will just come in and 2689 02:23:32.440 --> 02:23:35.559 they will cut that asparagus off at the ground and 2690 02:23:35.639 --> 02:23:38.920 let it come out fresh totally and do the harvesting 2691 02:23:39.000 --> 02:23:42.000 at that time. So if you want to wait a 2692 02:23:42.079 --> 02:23:46.840 little bit, maybe get into a little further into January February, 2693 02:23:46.920 --> 02:23:48.799 or you could try it doing it right now. Either 2694 02:23:48.799 --> 02:23:51.760 way is fine. But just know that we are so 2695 02:23:51.920 --> 02:23:55.760 warm here that asparagus doesn't fully go dormant like like 2696 02:23:55.879 --> 02:23:58.600 it should, but that yours. 2697 02:23:58.360 --> 02:23:59.200 Is very happy. 2698 02:23:59.120 --> 02:24:07.479 Yes, okay, okay, so wait late January, cut it back, yeah, just. 2699 02:24:07.399 --> 02:24:09.239 Cut all the way to the ground. It'll it'll be 2700 02:24:09.319 --> 02:24:11.639 fine because up north it freezes to the ground has 2701 02:24:11.680 --> 02:24:12.760 to start all over again. 2702 02:24:12.879 --> 02:24:15.000 So you can do that with the that I can 2703 02:24:15.000 --> 02:24:19.959 cut them right it comes up and cut them okay, okay. 2704 02:24:20.280 --> 02:24:22.559 Broccoli, absolutely. 2705 02:24:23.479 --> 02:24:23.760 See it. 2706 02:24:26.079 --> 02:24:28.399 No, it'll be fine. If you're going to get down 2707 02:24:28.440 --> 02:24:33.440 to twenty eighth, well, molts for weeds and stuff, but 2708 02:24:33.840 --> 02:24:36.879 the broccoli is fine. I would just uh, that's a 2709 02:24:36.920 --> 02:24:39.959 small head forming in there. Just watch it. What happens 2710 02:24:40.000 --> 02:24:43.239 the broccoli heads. You know, not all broccoli makes a 2711 02:24:43.239 --> 02:24:45.680 big head. For various reasons. You may end up with 2712 02:24:45.680 --> 02:24:47.760 a head the size of a golf ball or the 2713 02:24:47.799 --> 02:24:49.920 size of a softball, or they had the size, you know, 2714 02:24:50.000 --> 02:24:54.680 even the large ones. Just watch the buds as the 2715 02:24:54.719 --> 02:24:58.239 buds start to get bigger, and you want them to 2716 02:24:58.280 --> 02:25:01.000 get larger the individual little bud in the head. But 2717 02:25:01.280 --> 02:25:03.399 at some point it starts to kind of get looser. 2718 02:25:03.520 --> 02:25:05.879 It's not a good tight head, and you want to 2719 02:25:05.879 --> 02:25:08.120 pick it before it gets loose, and certainly before the 2720 02:25:08.159 --> 02:25:11.079 buds start to open up the yellow flowers, so uh 2721 02:25:11.239 --> 02:25:13.600 you wey don't have to grow to get more out 2722 02:25:13.639 --> 02:25:16.000 of it, and then cut it off just below if 2723 02:25:16.000 --> 02:25:17.840 you haven't grown it before. What's going to happen is 2724 02:25:17.840 --> 02:25:20.159 you're going to get side shoots of broccoli that come 2725 02:25:20.200 --> 02:25:24.079 out below that head, so it'll produce a second crop 2726 02:25:24.280 --> 02:25:28.159 of small broccoli stalks. They won't get very big, and 2727 02:25:28.200 --> 02:25:31.319 you'll get a second harvest out of those. So once 2728 02:25:31.360 --> 02:25:33.159 you cut the top one out, but you want to 2729 02:25:33.239 --> 02:25:35.200 let it get as much as you can without it 2730 02:25:35.239 --> 02:25:37.280 getting big and loose. That's the bottom line. 2731 02:25:37.639 --> 02:25:39.040 Okay, sounds good. 2732 02:25:39.200 --> 02:25:42.719 Okay, And I was going to tell you there's another picture. 2733 02:25:44.559 --> 02:25:50.239 Yeah, it's two of each. There's two of broccoli. 2734 02:25:50.719 --> 02:25:54.200 I want to tell you I grew burgundy okra this season. 2735 02:25:54.239 --> 02:25:59.079 I got it from Buchanans and it. 2736 02:25:59.120 --> 02:25:59.799 Was so pretty. 2737 02:26:00.200 --> 02:26:02.879 I'm enjoying oprah because it goes a long time. You 2738 02:26:02.920 --> 02:26:06.239 can it just now froze. So I've been saving my seeds. 2739 02:26:06.920 --> 02:26:08.559 I knew you like oprah, Yes. 2740 02:26:08.319 --> 02:26:11.280 Good, good for you? Yeah I do. And burgundy is 2741 02:26:11.319 --> 02:26:14.280 an open pollinated variety. You can save the seed from 2742 02:26:14.319 --> 02:26:16.040 all right. Now, you've got to figure out other ways 2743 02:26:16.040 --> 02:26:20.479 to cook it. Do you have a favorite way of 2744 02:26:21.040 --> 02:26:23.079 eating okra? Do you have a favorite? 2745 02:26:24.000 --> 02:26:25.559 I really don't know how to save it. 2746 02:26:25.600 --> 02:26:25.840 Well. 2747 02:26:26.000 --> 02:26:30.000 I like to roast it. That's how my daughter likes. 2748 02:26:29.840 --> 02:26:30.280 To eat it. 2749 02:26:30.719 --> 02:26:33.799 But when I get an abundance, is it better to 2750 02:26:33.879 --> 02:26:37.719 cut it and freeze it or just freeze it whole? 2751 02:26:39.840 --> 02:26:44.319 You know, I'm not a food preservation expert, but there 2752 02:26:45.239 --> 02:26:48.399 is a website at the University of Georgia. It's a 2753 02:26:48.600 --> 02:26:53.600 National Food Preservation website, and I mean it's got everything 2754 02:26:53.639 --> 02:26:57.079 from freezing to drying, to canning, to water bathing to 2755 02:26:57.239 --> 02:26:59.879 you name it, and they can tell you all about 2756 02:27:00.200 --> 02:27:01.959 what you need to blanch and what you don't need 2757 02:27:02.000 --> 02:27:04.600 to blant. I don't know how you roast yours. We 2758 02:27:05.040 --> 02:27:07.920 rub olive oil on ours, sprinkle salt on them, and 2759 02:27:07.959 --> 02:27:10.879 put them on the grill for two minutes on each side. 2760 02:27:10.879 --> 02:27:14.000 And that's how we like people make gumbo out of okra. 2761 02:27:14.360 --> 02:27:17.040 I also dry okra. I will I will slice it 2762 02:27:17.319 --> 02:27:19.520 and put enough food dryer and dry it and store 2763 02:27:19.559 --> 02:27:21.719 it in a jar or run it through a like 2764 02:27:21.760 --> 02:27:24.120 of item X type thing to grind it up. And 2765 02:27:24.159 --> 02:27:26.959 now you have okra powder that can be used. You 2766 02:27:27.000 --> 02:27:32.000 can use the dried sliced okra to reconstitute in soups. 2767 02:27:32.680 --> 02:27:35.440 You can use the powdered You know, people are gonna 2768 02:27:35.600 --> 02:27:37.719 roll their eyes when I say this, but I take 2769 02:27:37.760 --> 02:27:40.399 a spoon of okra powder put it in my smoothies 2770 02:27:40.440 --> 02:27:43.120 and it thickens them up. And they don't taste like 2771 02:27:43.200 --> 02:27:45.959 okra when you do that, they taste like the smoothie. 2772 02:27:46.239 --> 02:27:48.719 But it's a good thing for thickening soups and things. 2773 02:27:48.719 --> 02:27:50.760 So yeah, there's a lot of ways to preserve okra. 2774 02:27:52.079 --> 02:27:53.399 Okay, all right, I better run. 2775 02:27:53.600 --> 02:27:54.280 I'm about out of. 2776 02:27:54.319 --> 02:27:57.040 Time here, all right, Thank you so much. 2777 02:27:57.280 --> 02:28:01.120 Yeah, look for National Food Preservation you better. Thanks very much. 2778 02:28:01.719 --> 02:28:04.360 You know, we love feed stores on Garden Line and 2779 02:28:04.440 --> 02:28:08.399 League City. Feed Down in League City is a great feedstore. 2780 02:28:08.440 --> 02:28:10.920 It's one of those old time feed stores. You go in, 2781 02:28:11.840 --> 02:28:14.760 you're going to find all the fertilizers I talk about. 2782 02:28:15.079 --> 02:28:18.799 You're going to find an animein, nitrophys, azumite, microlife, heirloom 2783 02:28:18.879 --> 02:28:22.520 soil products, bon eye products, Nature's creation, Nelson plant they're 2784 02:28:22.559 --> 02:28:27.440 all there. Pesticides, herbicides, fungicides to control problems, quality pet foods. 2785 02:28:27.479 --> 02:28:29.319 If you got back air chickens, they got everything you 2786 02:28:29.360 --> 02:28:33.600 need for your backyard chickens. They are three blocks, a 2787 02:28:33.600 --> 02:28:36.559 few blocks actually, south of Highway ninety six on Highway 2788 02:28:36.559 --> 02:28:39.719 three in League City two eight one three three two 2789 02:28:40.000 --> 02:28:44.360 sixteen twelve League City Feed. Any of you anywhere in 2790 02:28:44.399 --> 02:28:46.440 that region should swing by there and make that your 2791 02:28:46.479 --> 02:28:50.799 hometown feed store because it's a good one. Well, I 2792 02:28:50.840 --> 02:28:54.200 hear music, which means we gotta go today. I got 2793 02:28:54.319 --> 02:28:56.719 stuff to do. You know they say the cobblers kids 2794 02:28:56.760 --> 02:28:58.559 go barefoot. I got to get up in my garden, 2795 02:28:58.680 --> 02:29:00.840 start taking care of it. I'll be back in the 2796 02:29:00.879 --> 02:29:03.200 morning six am. Talk to you then,