Happy Fathers Day!

Skip answers your calls all morning long! 

Episode Transcript

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Kat r H Garden Line does notnecessarily endorse any of the products or services
advertised on this program. Welcome tokt r H Garden Line with Skip Richard's
shoes crazys. Just watch him asthings to set crazy again. Not a

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sign gas. So good Sunday morning. I want to wish each of you
are really nice Sunday morning. Itis a nice day outside. Glad to
have you with us today. You'relistening to Garden Line and what are we
doing. We're here to help youhave a more bountiful garden and a more

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beautiful landscape. That's our goal.So all you got to do is give
a call if you'd like to talkabout something regarding your garden. Maybe you've
never done a garden before, let'stalk about that. There are a lot
of ways to get into growing thingswithout having to just dive in full force.
For example, there's containers. Ifyou've never grown vegetables before, there

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is a great opportunity to grow them. Just a really nice large container.
For example, if you're going todo vegetables like a tomato, then I
would say five gallons minimum absolute minimum, more like ten gallons to do really
well with it. And why doesthat matter? Well, it matters because

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the plant has to be able toget water and nutrients, and everything it
gets has to come out of thecontainer. So I don't care whether you're
growing a petunia or a tomato oran herb in a container, that whole
root system is abnormally confined for thatplant. Okay, if you were looking
at a tomato growing out in thegarden, it have roots going down pretty
deep actually, and pretty far inall different directions, drawing from moisture and

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nutrients that are in the soil.In a container, it's limited to that
amount of soil. So the moresoil you have, the better you are.
That means you water less often.That means you have less drought stress.
That means the nutrient availability is greaterbecause there's a bigger volume, a
bigger bank account for them to drawfrom. So why not try garden and
a container this year? If youhaven't done it before, give it a
try. Now. It's not tomatoplanting season, that's for sure, But

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you can plant herbs. There areother vegetables you can grow in summer.
You can grow flowers, beautiful containergardens of flowers. Oh and by the
way, there's no rule that youhave to keep your flowers and your food
apart. There are flowers that areedible. There are ways to mix both
blooming beauty and bounty in the samegarden, and I would encourage you to

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do that. For example, what'sthe Swiss charred bright lights. It's got
all these beautiful colors of ribbed leavesand Swiss charred. Of course it's an
edible charred, but my goodness,that is gorgeous and a colorful container at
the right time of the year whenit's happy. So consider some of that.
What are you gonna do different thisyear? What are you gonna try
new that you haven't done before.We're gonna head straight out to the phones

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and we're gonna go to Montgomery andtalk to Albert. Hello, Albert,
Hello, skip make show you have. I love the patience you have with
the callers. Thank you. Areyou gonna try my patients now? Albert?
Oh, I think it's I thinkthis is a pretty simple question.
I just I've bought a ten gallona red oak tree, and uh,

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I've been struggling with how to digthe hole. Can you give me some
pointers on how to dig the holeso I can get this tree to grow.
Please. Yeah, well, youknow we don't want to dig a
hole deeper than the root cylinder thatyou're about to pull out of the container
and plant. Okay, because youknow you've probably dug trenches or holes before
where you thought you filled them uplevel, and then later you came and

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they were all sunking in because itswell settles over time, and you want
the plant to be at the rightlevel. And the right level for a
tree is so the topmost root isright at about the soil line. So
now you know, if you boughtthe tree, it may have been re
potted several times as it grew,and it may not be that the topmost

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root is at the top of thecontainer anymore. But just dig down wherever
the topmost root is that is atthe level of the soil, and then
you just measure down and that's howdeep you dig your hole. From the
topmost root to the bottom of thecontainer cylinder. That's how deep the hole
is. And people talk about diggingholes that are two and a half times
as wide as the root cylinder.That's fine, that's a good rule of

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thumb you can do that. I'vegotten to where I just don't like bending
and stooping and lifting dirt, andI pay for it the next day if
I do too much of that.So what I'll do is dig a hole
big enough to get the thing in, but then use a spading fork go
around the plant. Like imagine yourtree is sitting in the hole at the

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right level, uh, and it'snot a huge hole. But then you
take your spading fork and you're goingaround in the soil around that hole,
and you're sort of pushing the forkdown and pulling it back to crack it
open. So you're basically loosening thesoil with ever having a stoop and pick
it up, and you know,hurts your back on that, and it
accomplishes the same thing, whether youdig out the soil and then put the

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soil back in or whether you justloosen it up really good. Either way
you can help that tree get establishedand then always water really really good to
settle all the soil in as bestyou can. Well, when you pull
it out of the container, theroot, you're like in a circular circular
do you cut those or loosen themup? Or yeah, you need to

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they don't unwind underground, and ifit's a small enough circle, like let's
say if it was in a onegallon pot. Well, that little one,
that little spaghetti sized root going arounda one gallon pot. In about
eight years, it's going to bebig enough and the trunk's going to be
big enough to where they're going tocome together, and that root's going to
end up being a strangling route.We call them a girdling root around the

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trunk, which is a bad thing. That's why, that's why we cut
them. All right, you havea great Father's day, Skip, Thank
you, good to talk to you. You as well. Thank you very
much for the call over. Takecare, Thank you, Bye bye bye
bye. Plants for All Seasons isa is a wonderful garden center. It's
up it's up on Tomball Parkway Highwaytwo forty nine, which if you're going

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from Houston to Tomball you exit Louettaa crossover Luetta and a trade there on
the right hand side. They've beenaround for a long time, the Flowery
family, I think is about nineteenseventy three they began Plants for All Seasons
and they've been going strong ever since. You know, the expertise not only
within the family members but and itis family operation, but within the staff

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as well, the other staff aswell. It's excellent. And so when
you go in there, you getgood advice, you get good direction.
They will help you. But let'ssay you want to do one of those
beautiful color containers I was talking about. They could kind of walk you through
and go here, these are someplants would be good for maybe the center
of your container. Here's some ideasfrom the others. What do you like?

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In other words, they make sureyou have success. You know,
you come back in later. Yougot a bug on your plant, you
bring in in a bag and theyidentify it, Yeah, don't worry about
it, or well, yeah youneed to control it, and here's what
you use, and they have thaton hand. And it's that kind of
service. It's that kind of walkingalong with you as you're learning to garden
and as you're you know, tryingto create that beautiful homescape that eden around

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your house. That's what Plants forAll Seasons does. You can go to
the website Plants for All Seasons dotcom, Plunts for All Seasons dot com,
or you can go to the phoneand just call them up seven or
not seven two eight one three sevensix sixteen forty six. Let me do
that again. Two eight one threeseven six, sixteen forty six. Plunts

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for all seasons. Right there attwo forty nine and Lueta, it's starting
to warm up outside. I knowyou guys realize this. I had a
week last week out in the landscapewhere I'm doing a lot of different kinds
of work. I started talking aboutit yesterday. We have a bed that
just had the worst clay soil I'veever seen in my life in it.

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I mean it was, it justis a sticky mess. And so we've
done several things. I've done adrainage pipe away from there, kind of
an underground French strain to get theexcess water out of that area. And
i even excavated a little bit ofthe clay out and put a whole bunch
of expanded shale in, mixed itinto the soil, and then I've got

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a whole bunch of organic materials,bed mixes, compost that kind of thing,
mixing that into the soil as well, getting my nutrient levels up,
putting some fertilizer down. And thisnext week will be time to be planting.
But that was a lot of preparation. But it's more fun, isn't
it, just to get flowers andput them in the bed and then hopefully
enjoy them. But I'll tell you, if you want to be able to

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enjoy them, to realize that enjoyment, you got to get the right first.
That's really important. That bed hasbeen there for about a year.
In fact's been there longer than that. When we moved into the particular house
that we're in right now, thatbed it's just never been right. It's
never been right. And I finallyjust bit the bullet and went in and

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redid it. And now we're gonnahave a nice bed with nice flowers,
and I don't have to worry aboutit going forward. Just some swell amending
here and there as we go.But if you think about it that way,
you can take your garden areas justone at a time and get the
swill right. That is so importantto get it right, And part of
that is getting the nutrient levels right. And I know, normally when I'm

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talking about fertilizers and things, I'mtalking about for your lawn, because that's
kind of the elephant in the roomaround our Landscapes's got to get that lawn
care, but there are a lotof other ways that we can enhance our
garden success with fertilizers, even sometimesones that are with the lawn. I'm
going to talk about that a littlebit when I come back. Right now,
we're going to take a quick breakand I'll be right back. Our

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number is seven three two one twofifty eight seventy four. Welcome back.
Good to have you here with uson Garden Line. What kind of gardening
questions can we assist you with today? That's what we're here for. Give
us a call when you're when you'vegot something you'd like to discuss, such
as maybe it's vegetables or flowers orfruit. Certainly lawns and trees. Lawns

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and trees are the big ones.That's what the phone rings about most of
the time. So I was talkingabout lawn care and lawn care, fertilizers
and other things. You know.Microlife they have some excellent products for the
lawn, their Humantes Plus it's apurple bag that works really well. It's
concentrated compost in a bag. That'swhat it amounts to. It provides benefits

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that help not only with the microbialactivity in your soil, but also with
the physical characteristics of the soil.Humus is something that does assist in developing
a good friable structure to the soil, meaning it breaks apart. It's not
just a mass of clay with poordrainage compaction. It listens it up and
over time, as you improve yoursoil with organic matter, including with humans

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like microlife humates plus, you're goingto see those benefits. I would also
say that if you were doing anykind of vegetable gardening that these kinds of
products are also very effective because it'sit's plants with roots growing in soil,
and so you need to follow thekind of the design that nature created out
there that has a wonderful, loose, open soil that builds better and better

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over time. That's kind of howit works. We tend to tear soil
up by not taking care of it, and if you just look at how
nature functions, soil gets better andbetter each year. That's what that's what
we're aiming for, and micro lifefertilizers can help you with that. The
green bag that we would put onour lawns, the six to four good

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Summer fertilizer good fertilizer throughout the year. It is also one that I would
use in my vegetable garden. Iwould use it in a flower garden.
We use it in a bed thatyou are growing herbs in. It's a
good all purpose fertilizer. The sixto four green bag. There's a lot
of other products. I like Microlifs. They have a number of things such

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as the seaweed product, fish emulsiontype product, and other general fertilizers.
The orange bottle, the seven percentnitrogen liquid is an excellent I use it
for houseplants. I use it fora lot of other things. You're not
going to go wrong with these.Just take one look. If you want
to give us a call talk abouta particular kind of plant, we can
be a little more specific. Ican be a little more specific on recommending

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these, but in general, you'regoing to find success with all of them.
And I know I say this becauseyou know we put on bags or
bottles or whatever. We say thisis a biscus food, or this is
a tomato food, or this isa whatever rose food, and those are
all true in their guidelines. Excuseme, Ben. In general, plants

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need the nutrients that they're lacking,and so if you were to have a
soil let's say that the phosphorus wasalready through the roof high, just for
example, well, then a highphosphorus fertilizer that might otherwise be a good
one wouldn't be the one for youfor that particular situation because you were supplementing
what your soil needs. That's whywe often go with a three one two

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kind of ratio, because in generalthat's kind of what plants tend to take
up in terms of the ratio forespecially a leafy green growth on plants.
Anyway, just some thoughts on it. One of the things that is difficult
to encourage people to do or difficultto talk people into doing, is soil
testing. And you know it's justyou'd rather go take your money and go

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buy a plant, right, orfertilizer or something. And when you say,
well, go spend a little onsoil testing, you know it's not
that expensive. But what soil testingdoes is it gives you your snapshot in
time, so you know exactly what'salready in your soil. Is it balanced,
is it imbalanced? Is something excessive? Is something deficient? All the
above? You know, all ofthat and you know the pH of your

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soil as well, and then youcan fertilize more intelligently and more targeted in
a more targeted way. So ifnot, we go with these general guides
like use a three one two onyour lawn and put it out and put
it out so that you're putting apound of nitrogen per thousands square feet.
Those are all guidelines, and theremost of the time they're just fine.

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They're just fine, they work fine. But the ultimate is periodically test your
soil and find out what you need. It may be that my standard recommendations
for you at your yard are notthe best choice and that we would need
to adjust that based on a soiltest result. Does that make sense?
Analogy I like to use is ifI walked into a kitchen and somebody was

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in the process of putting together acake. You know, they had the
mixing bowl and had some flour inthere and other things, and I walk
in the room and they go,hey, do I need to add more
sugar, more salt? Do Ineed any more baking powder in this?
How would I answer that question?Because I, number one, I don't
have the recipe, but I don'tknow what's already in the bowl. And

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if they've already added all those wellthen no, you don't need to add
those. And so I use thatas an analogy because to just say every
soil needs a certain thing is it'sa good guess, but it's better to
know exactly what's already in the soiland then fertilize accordingly. All right,
Hopefully that wasn't too too dry andnerdy. But it's a simple, simple

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point, but it sure will helpyou have success. Our phone number is
seven one three two one two fiftyeight seventy four seven one three two one
two five eight seven four. Ihad a good time yesterday. I want
to thank the folks at the wallBirds Unlimited in bel Air for having me
out after the show. We wereout there. I always like going into
Wadbirds because they're fun. I gotto meet some nice folks while we are

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out there too, give aways somenice products. And thanks to Products for
donating some really cool stuff that we'reable to give away yesterday for folks that
came by. You know, Wildbirdsis an ideal spot if you're looking for
a great gift for Dad. Andguess what today is For those of you
who have let it sneak up thisfar, here's your chance. Wildbird's Unlimited.

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They have wonderful feeders, they havewonderful bird houses. They have all
kinds of accessories for birds. Iwas visiting with them about some of the
bird watering devices and the little theyhave a little gadget that drips water and
that makes the water and the birdbath have constantly have ripples in it,
and as a result, mosquitoes don'tlike to lay their eggs in water that's

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moving and that little dripping movement.It's a little simple gadget, but that's
really a great idea. But wewere looking at bird They have excellent books
on birds. It's easy to findsomething for dad. And Wildbirds Unlimited.
It just is. And the qualityfeed that they have is outstanding. I
picked up some myself. I'm doingkind of a blend of two of their

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feeds myself right now. And Ijust enjoy Wilbird Unlimited quality feeds because when
you buy a pound of it,you get a pound of stuff that's bird
food, not the stuff birds kickon the ground because they don't like to
eat it. And I think that'simportant. And if you've been dealing with
squirrels and you're all frustrated with that. Go into Wilbirds and say, hey,
what are the options, and they'regoing to give you four or five

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ways where you can help avoid problemswith squirrels getting in and stealing everything that
you're wanting to feed the birds with. I know some of you are out
there feeding squirrels, but that's awhole other thing. Wilberd, Hey,
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you. Excuse me, I'm havinga time of it this morning. If
you have never tried growing and graftingdifferent kinds of fruit, you ought to
consider that. There's just something totry out. It's not something you would
necessarily do right now, but thereit is not that difficult to learn how

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to graft, or that difficult tolearn how to bud to attach a bud.
There's a lot of good for informationonline. I know the Agrolife Extension
Service, the Horticulture Department has somepublications that teach you how to graft.
There's good videos online to learn howto do it. But it's really a
cool hobby. And if you let'ssay you had a citrus tree and a

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freeze killed it back, and nowthe rootstock sprots up and you got this
thorny rootstock. What do you do. Well, you can dig it up,
you can buy another one, putit in that's fine, totally legit.
Or you can try your hand graftingit yourself. Get some bud wood
from somebody who has a particular let'ssay, a satsuma or I don't know,
a lemon, something you're mere lemon, something you're interested in, and

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just graft it on yourself. Andit's not that difficult. And if you
mess up and it doesn't work,well, you get another you to try
it again, because you're not killingthe plant in order to just craft.
It pretty easy to do. Well, It's time for me to take a
little break here and let the newsdo the news. It is going to
be probably, I'll tell you what. Let's do this. We're gonna take

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a little break. When I comeback, I want to talk to you
a little bit about some general treecare and we're going to go to the
phones, and Charles you'll be therefirst. Stup, Welcome to garden line
this morning. Good have you withus? What are we going to talk
about? That would be your call. So we're going to start and let
Charles answer that question. Up inHuntsville. How are you doing, Charles,
Good morning. I am forty milesnorth of Huntsville, Alabama, in

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southern Tennessee. Oh that yeah.I've got fifty four sweet cord plants in
my in my garden, and Ifertilized with ten ten ten before I planted
them, and then once they sprouted, I used as a mic. They're
about four tall, but they haven'ttasseled yet. They haven't got that little
brown spike yet. Okay, they'reabout four feet. Does it do any

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good to fertilize them at this point? As far as the quality of the
corn, the sweet corn usually usuallyhow fertilized trails the corn. I'll get
the soil right for I even plant, and I think that's what you said
you did, you put some tenten ten in. I would then when
it gets about knee high, Iwill usually side dress them with just some
nitrogen. I mean, you canuse more than just nitrogen, but it's

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primarily the nitrogen that you're needing.So a turf type fertilizer that's hiering nitrogen
would be fine, or even justsomething that is just nitrogen would be fine
too, and then that gives themthe boost. Corn is a heavy feeder,
and in order to keep it growingand producing well, just making sure
it has plenty of nitrogen is important. Okay, yeah, So the thing

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about it, though, you know, it depends on what's already in your
soil. So if you ever havea soil test, that will be educational
because it may be usually over time, we don't need to keep using something
like a ten ten ten usually thatthat's going to change a little bit,
because that mental number tends to buildup. Well, I was using the
information that I shouldn't plant until theground temperature was sixty degrees, but I

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noticed the real farmer across the roadhas a huge, big field of field
corn, and he put his whenit was fifty and now his is already
starting to tassele out. But right, well, if field corn does better
germinating in cooler soil, if you'regoing to do like a sweet corn,
then and especially if you're going todo a super sweet that so one needs

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to build a considerably warmer to doequally well, so you're not necessarily too
late. Well, I know it'sabout four foot tall. Now, I
just noticed when I drive by theother farmer's field, his is way ahead
of month. Okay, all right, well may well have sweet corn by
the fourth of July. Well,I appreciate the information. Thank you,

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sir, thanks for listening up there. I appreciate it. Good luck with
that corn. You know, onething I found about corn, Charles,
is somehow the raccoons know the dayyou're gonna pick it. I have more
than once been ready to go outthe next morning and pick my corn,
and that night the coons got init and chewed it all up. So

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when we hunted in South Dakota,you could get out and you could go
drive around and there'd be corn fieldcorn growing, and there was just a
line you could draw a rumor onit. It was so straight where the
deer had eaten. They down theline, whole line of corn. There
you go. We don't have anyproblems with the raccoons because we've got dogs.
Raccoons away from it. All right, there you go. We'll good

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to talk to you. Take careof Thank you, bye bye. Yeah,
that is that you talk about frustratingin the morning, is like,
what were they doing, like sittingoff in the edge of the woods,
listening to me say I'm gonna pickit tomorrow, and they go, we
got to get in there tonight.We're won't get any corn out of this
deal. It almost feels like that. So I wanted I told you a
while ago, I wanted to talkabout trees a little bit. Our trees

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are the most valuable single plants inour landscape. They provide incredible benefits.
Number one, a shade when it'ssummer. Having shade, whether it's shade
on the roof of your house orthe side west wall of your house,
or just shade for you sitting outin a patio. It's a valuable thing
to have those trees. We needto pick trees carefully before we plant them

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because we're going to be living withthem for a long time, right or
somebody will. And to pick aquality tree species, one that's going to
last. It's going to be strongwooded, that has a great structure,
that just has a reputation for beinglong lived. That's important. It may
be a flowering tree, though,and that again, picking one that is

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going to perform well and do well. Here is important. Once you have
a tree, you need to takecare of it, and that involves a
number of things. From the timeit's young, it needs to be pruned
properly. We start off we saytrain the tree, meaning you're pruning it
in a way that develops a good, strong st structure. And this is
something that you can learn by gettingout and doing some reading and studying about

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it. And there's a lot ofgood information out there online, or you
can hire somebody to come do itfor you. But whatever you do,
you need to have it done right. And that's important because when you mistrain
a tree, you can end upcreating problems that down the line you just
never really overcome. And when youbutcher a tree by printing it wrong,

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you do damage that is a lifetimeAnd I see a lot of this from
so called professional tree prunters. Andwe have some very reputable folks through the
Houston area that know how to printtrees. And then we have a lot
of people that own a chainsaw apickup and that's kind of their level of
expertise. And I see the workthey do driving down the streets. I

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see really bad prunting jobs. AffordableTree Service Martin spoon Moore. The reason
we talk about Martin is he knowshow to do this. He's been doing
it for many years now. He'sgot the expertise to do it. He
knows Houston, he knows our trees. He understands what it means to live
in storm Alley here where we getthe hurricanes and all the other kinds of

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storms that come through like the onethat did the other day. If you
have a tree that hadn't been lookedat and examined by a professional in a
while, you ought to give Martina call. Let me give you a
phone number. It's seven one threesix nine nine twenty six sixty three.
Martin knows exactly how to take careof your trees. And whether you call
him at seven one three sixty ninenine twenty six sixty three, or go

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to the website Afftree Service dot com, have him come out. Schedule for
him to come out. Tell himyour guardline listener that puts you at the
front of the line for Affordable treeIn Martin spoon Moore. But have him
come out and look what is needed. Is there some deadwood? Are there
some narrow branch angles that need tobe pruned and removed. What need What
does your tree need? He willtell you and he'll do the job right.

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And that's the bottom line. Andso don't wait until after the storm
and you're looking for somebody to comechainsaw the limbs and throw them in the
back of a truck that fell outof the tree. Get ahead of it
and get your trees in the bestcondition because again, very valuable parts.
They're valuable to if you ever resellyour home. One of the most important

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things in terms of a nice homeresale is a beautiful landscape with beautiful trees
around it. That is a veryimportant thing. And you can have that,
but you got to take care ofthem. Don't trust your trees with
is somebody who owns a chainsaw.That's the bottom line for that. I
wanted to point out. Next.Let's see schedule here in front of me.

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Next June the twenty ninth, it'stwo weeks from today, June the
twenty ninth. I'm going to beat Langham Creek Ace Hardware. That's over
kind of in the Copperfield neighborhood.For those of you sort of West Houston
know the Copperfield area. Langham Creek'sover in that area, and I'll be
at the Ace Hardware there on Saturdayafter the show, two weeks from yesterday,

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and I hope you go ahead andput that on your calendar. That'll
be my last appearance of the season. So here's your chance, one last
chance if you want to bring somesamples by or just come by and meet.
I'd always love to meet people thatare listeners to Garden Line, So
make that note Langham Creek Ace Hardware. I'll tell you more about it as
we get closer, but it's twoweeks out from right now, eleven thirty

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to one thirty on that Saturday.We're going to take a break, get
some information here, and come rightback. Our phone number if you want
to get on the board with Chris. Seven one three two one two fifty
eight seventy four. Welcome back tothe garden Line. Good to have you
with us. If you'd like togive us a call and talk gardening,
here's the number you want to writethis down. Seven one three two one

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two five eight seven four seven onethree two one two fifty eight seventy four.
We're gonna go out to Brenham andtalk to Mike. Hello, Mike,
Hello, sir, how are you? I'm well, thank you.
How can we help today? Ihave two apple trees. One of them
is a pink lady, and Ithink the other is uh kalla, I
don't remember what. They had alot of growth this year and I did

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some hand of pollinating and it workedreally well good, probably too well.
I've got clusters of apples on littlelimbs that are I don't know, half
the size of a diameter of apencil. Yeah. So anyway, so
first off is that should I findthose apples out? I mean, I've

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got clusters of five apples on alittle limbs like that. Yeah, you
need to. It's how big arethe apples right now? Right now they're
golf ball are a little bit bigger. Yeah, So going forward in future
years, go try to get themthinned before they certainly reached the size of
your thumb the end of your thumb, okay, last joint of your thumb.

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That that would be kind of agoal to get them done. Now,
on an apple looms, it hasa cluster of blooms and there's one
in the middle that's called a kingblossom, and it's bigger, and that
would be the one that's most important. If you get that pollinated, it'll
make the best, biggest apple onthe cluster. But the others are there
too, and sometimes something happens tothe main one, and it's good to

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have some others around, But youthin them to one per cluster, So
that's pulling a lot of apples off. But yeah, one per cluster is
all you should have on an appletree. Okay, okay. Additionally,
the there's been a lot of aboveground growth, but with the storms and
whatnot, those both those apple treeshave have and I took off their supports.

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They were about three years old.They're leaning, they've they've had they've
been leaning over. I had toput supports back on. Yeah, to
keep them, to keep them upright. Is there something I can do?
And I had been using root activatorand stuff like that. There's something I
can do to help strengthen the strengthentruth just mainly the thing that strengthens would

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on whether it's a fruit tree ora shade tree or whatever, is movement
and stretching of those tissues. Andthey get stronger if you do that.
And so if you were to takea tree trunk when it's a little skinny
trunk and tie it to a posttight. It would never develop the strength
if you took the post away tosnap off. But when it moves in
the wind, that slight movement,that stretching, it gets stronger and stronger.

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It's kind of like our muscles workingout getting stronger. It's the same
principle in nature. And so ifyou can allow it some movement, you
got to stick it out, buta little bit of movement in time it
will get stronger. Do you knowoffhand what rootstock your apples are on?
Usually? Okay, that's fine,that's fine. That affects sometimes tree growth

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too. I see, should Itrim the canopy if you will? I
mean, they're not twelve foot tallnow, But should I trim it out
just kind of limit the sale effect? I would. I would trim it
only to take away things that don'thave a long term purpose in the canopy.

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Everywhere you have foliage, it's producingcarbohydrates, which is setting fruit buds
when we get into mid to latesummer. That's so you need that and
for next year. And it alsois strengthening the plant, helping it grow
bigger. And better root system,cutter top growth. So I wouldn't prune
just to prune. But if yougo online, there's a website called Aggie

(31:37):
Horticulture and they have free publications onthere. There's one in the fruit section
on apple trees, and it showsyou how to prine and apple. It's
a little different approach than when we'repruning peaches. It's hard to describe on
the air, but the bottom lineis you want branches that are spaced apart
enough so that you get good airmovement through there and good light down into
that. We say, into thecanopy of the tree. You don't want

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your treat to become an umbrella withall the foliage and fruit around the top
and outside. Okay, yes,sir, Yes, sir, okay,
awesome, awesome. I appreciate yourtime. All right, well, good
luck with that. Thanks, Mike, appreciate the call, Yes sir,
take care. Nelson Plant Food hasa wide variety of quality plant foods.
You know, have the turf Starline. And by the way, if

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you haven't done summer fertilizing Slow andEasy by Nelson Plant Food, part of
their turf Star line of products givesyou a very very nice smooth, gradual
release on from the time you putit down. You get a little nutrient
release then, and then it justcontinues to do that and all the way
up to like three months, fourmonths, even a little further out in
time, it's still releasing that nutrient. So when you're fertilized with slow and

(32:45):
Easy in the summer, you're doneuntil fall. It's got a little bit
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(33:09):
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just another example of a quality productin the nutri Star line from Nelson Plant

(33:30):
Food, and they're widely available,easy to find them easy to come by.
While we're talking about taking care ofthe soil, the importance of making
sure that we have prepared the soilwell with good quality organic matter is important.
Now you can go out to thesoil you have and you put composts
and things down and mix it inand create a nice soil. You can

(33:50):
also just buy a soil that youput in a box, put it in
a container, put it in araised bedgarden, put it on top of
the ground and grow in that.Things like the fruit berry and or excellent
for that. The veggie and herbmix would be excellent for that. For
succulents, the cacti and succulent mix. Airlom soils has a wide variety and
they're widely available. It's really easyto find heirloom soils no matter where you

(34:14):
live because they're sold by the bag. You can also bat by the bulk.
You can go to Heirloom Soilsoftexas dotcom, Heirloomsoils off Texas dot Com
and find out you can go getit. You can have them deliver it
to you. You can have thembring a supersack, which is a qbcard
sack that's set on your driveway.Real easy to do and very high quality

(34:34):
products. I've used in myself.They work very very well. And remember
round stuff before green stuff, thefertilizers, the soil amendments, all of
that. It's very very important.We know. Now out to conro and
talk to Archie. Hey, Archie, we got about a minute. If
it takes longer, I'll just holdyou over the break. Okay. Hey,
Well we spoke last year and hadsome little volunteer elm trees come out

(34:59):
and I replanted them, and they'rethey're doing awesome, really are I think
they're going to be fine? Myquestion is should I trim them up?
And what should I fertilize them with? Uh? You know I would?
Are you gonna are they containers rightnow? Are they already where they're going

(35:19):
to finally be? Yeah? No, they're they're where they're going to be.
Okay. I I went straight froma wheelbarrow where they volunteerily come up
straight to the ground. Okay,So what you what you want to do
with a young tree like that isas it grows, you're not going to
see the first long term limb fora good while, because that first limb
that is a long term limb isgoing to be a way above your head

(35:43):
high, right. I mean,if you go out to a big tree
in the yard, you don't havelimbs done at your waist on that tree.
Uh. And so the branches thatare growing out, now, I
would take my prunters and I wouldjust cut the last couple of inches out
of them, just tip them.And what that does is it leaves the
foe on them to make carbohydrates andmove down into the plant to help that

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plant get bigger and stronger, getmore root system, and do better and
better. And then once they hitthe stage where they're about the size of
the end of your thumb, let'ssay, about an engine diameter, then
you can cut them off where theyattached to the branch. But by tipping
them, you dwarf them and youprevent them from taking over and using all
the energy of the tree. Instead, they're more of an energy producer than

(36:25):
an energy user. Uh. Andjust continue to work it up there until
you finally get to a height whereyou're going to have a permanent branch.
And at that stage you wouldn't betipping those Does that make sense? So
blowing on all of them all aboutan inch from the bait. No,
no, no, let me dothe music is playing here. I'm going

(36:47):
to have to come back to youon it. No, I'm talking about
taking the inch, final inch outof the end of the branch. Let
me come back and oh god,I'll explain it. Just saying welcome to
kt r H garden line with skimpRictor. It's just watch him as a

(37:31):
sign welcome back to the garden line. Good to have you with us.
Look outside, will you take alook at that sky. It is beautiful.
It's going to be a beautiful day. I love it. I love
it, love it, love it. Hey, this is an opportunity this

(37:52):
afternoon for you to get outside toget a little couple of things done.
If you want to put around theart a little better, just go buy
a garden center and pick up someapplies and get ready to go for taking
your lawn and landscape to the nextlevel. Remember it is time to be
planting all kinds of things in thevegetable garden and in the flower beds.
We got a lot of good heattolerant plants that we can we can use

(38:13):
and so there's no reason even whensummer heat hits to lose the beauty and
the color that we can have aroundthe landscape. We're going to go back
to the phones now. We weretalking with Archie up in Conroe and Archie
we were discussing elm pruning. AndI'm gonna take another kind of stab at
at what I'm trying to describe.I wish I wish you could see me
wave my hands in the air.And you know how I can't talk without

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my hands. Well anyway, UhSo, you've got this little trunk coming
up out of the Ground's a younglittle tree and it's going to have sight
and a half foot and a halffoot tall right now, huh. And
you want that trunk to come onup. It's going to keep growing bigger
and bigger. But rather than cuttingoff all the branches where they attached to
the trunk and just living leaving youwith a little bamboo pole coming up out
of the ground, We're we're goingto take the tips of those and just

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snip the tips out so they stopgrowing, but they stay there with the
leaves that are on them. Andthat we call that a trashy trunk because
what we're doing is we're leaving themas to serve like they would be nurse
limbs, meaning they're they're they've gotleaves or producing carbohydrates, but they're not.

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The tree is not putting its energyinto growing those branches. It's putting
its energy into growing that upright trunkyou're building and eventually the true scaffold branches
that will appear way above your headand time. So rather than just cut
them off, let's take advantage ofthe leaves on them, and you can
get more of a response in termsof tree growth. Rapid tree growth is

(39:42):
a result to that. So justjust you're what you're saying is just just
clip the ones that are there aboutan inch and that'll kind of go dormant.
Yeah, sometimes you get even atree comes up and it has two
trunks and they want to compete witheach other who's going to be boss,
And if you let them do that, they just get bigger and it just
ends up being a mess and time. It's a very weak union. But
if you anytime you snip the tipsout of a branch, it dwarfs it

(40:07):
and it may try growing again andyou can do another trimming on it later
if you need to, meaning trimmingmeaning just cutting the tips out, But
at the end of the season,those that you tipped will just be a
fraction of the diameter of the onesyou let just grow, in this case
the trunk. So where will theystart growing after you tip them? Yes,

(40:30):
well, anytime you cut a branchoff, you may get two or
three buds at break and and andgrow out in response to that. Do
you see what I'm saying? Like, if you cut the top out of
your little trees you got, theywould have buds at form and try to
replace that trunk and go back upin there. Okay, okay, okay,
gotcha? Gotcha? All right?And should I should I fertilize it

(40:52):
now? Or moderate amounts in general, as yours is pretty small. But
in general, what I say is, on these young trees, go up
to the trunk with your thumb.That's my one inch measure close enough?
And how many thumb wits across isit? You know? So let's just
say the tree was the size ofa typical broom handle, you know,

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that may be what inch inch anda half whatever across, And and so
you would give it a cup ortwo of fertilizer for every inch of trunk
diameter. So if you had,if you had a broom handle, it'd
get a it'd get a cup ortwo or three of fertilizer. And if
it was the size of a CocaCola can, that's about three inches,
so that's going to be about threeor six cups. And that makes it

(41:35):
real easy, really easy to know. And you just sprinkle it around all
around. It watered in really good. Okay, okay. And what what
what? What type of fertilized is? I would no, I would use
lawn fertilizer whatever you use for yourlawn. You hear me talk about fertilizers
all the time. And just getone for your lawn and then just scoop
a scoop some cups out of itfor your for your trees. Yeah,

(42:00):
okay, okay, he's doing usperfect, all right, man, Thank
you appreciate it, buddy. Thankyou. You have a good day you
too. Take care of you.You know, the Father's Day is today.
First of all, for those ofyou who aren't aware, If for
any reason you are still in needof a really good quality Father's Day gift,
I've got a perfect idea. Infact, just take dead with you.

(42:22):
Go to an Ace hardware store there'sso many things that we dads would
love to have from an ACE hardwarestore. I mean, you can go
to the barbecue section and look inthere. You can go to some of
the tools and equipment and whatnot.We always have a need for some other
kinds of tools, or some betterthings for taking care of the lawn and
the landscape outside, something to makethe outdoor area more beautiful. There's just

(42:46):
a lot of opportunities. I don'tknow what your dad's interested in it,
but I guarantee you Ace has gotit whatever it is. There's a lot
of different things, and they havesome really cool stuff at the ACE Hardware
stores go way beyond just what youwould think of from a hardware store.
You can find ACE Hardware all overtown, all over the region really and
in the Greater Houston area. Wehave forty of them. So just go

(43:07):
to Acehardware dot com. Ace Hardwaredot Com, find the store locator in
there. You go, takes youright in there where you can find exactly
the nearest stores to you, andthey're gonna be some close to you.
We're going to head back now toSpring Branch and talk to Herta. Hello,
Herta, good morning, morning,I have a kalily that I got

(43:31):
for mothers today. Okay, butthey're at least I counted ten or twelve
stems in that pot. It's abouta five inch pot. I think there
are too many in there. There'sa leaf that's yellow and another leaf that's

(43:54):
like a yellow brown. Okay,okay, well they do they do that,
some heard it. I would justmainly if I'd worry about is it
getting a good amount of light butnot direct sun that they want a bright
area? Okay? And is itgetting they don't have to be in full
sun? In fact, they shouldn't. That's the price they're in full sun.

(44:19):
Yeah, that's that's probably a littletoo much for them, especially with
the sun with the temperatures we're aboutto get into here. But anyway,
the uh so you could you coulddo that and then make sure you keep
the soil moist but not drenched soggy. They don't like, they don't like
to be in a swamp, butthey do want moisture, I see,
okay, And I have some athemite. Should I give them that? Oh?

(44:45):
You can put a little on them, but I wouldn't be careful because
you could end up overdoing it by, you know, asthmight we put down
like a ten pound bag over athousand square feet easy and so I mean
you would maybe a quarter teaspoon ofasthmite in a little container would be enough.
Okay, but they're not too crammed. Well they might be, but

(45:07):
they grow like that, and theycan grow like that. I would for
now, since they're kind of newfrom Mother's Day, I would just leave
them alone and see how they dofor you. Oh okay, okay,
thank you very much. Take careall right, heardy, you take care
too. Thanks for the call.Appreciate that if you have not put your

(45:28):
summer turf fertilizers out, you stillcan do it. You know. We
put things on a schedule as aguideline for when you ought to do things,
and if you miss that date,that's okay, it's not the end
of the world. Just go aheadand do it later. Get it done
though. Summer fertilizing helps build turfdensity and nitrophoss superturf. That's the silver

(45:49):
bag. That's the silver bag nineteenfour ten. Those are the three numbers
on the bag that is designed togradually release at least half of the nitrogen
over the next two or three fourmonths. It's a very gradual release product.
And the nice thing about that isit gives you a nice green lawn,
good density, but not overdoing it. You know, anytime we overdo

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nutrition, it's not a good thing. And this idea that if a tea
spoons good at tablespoons better, Idon't care if it's pest control, fertilizing
or whatever. Don't operate by thatprinciple. Do what the plant needs.
And what the plant needs in thecase of a lawn is about a pound
of nitrogen per thousand square feet.That's that's kind of what it amounts to.
So when you use superturf and youapply it and follow the label,

(46:32):
follow the instructions, get it downon there, get it watered in,
you're going to see that gradual releaseover time. You're going to see the
benefit in terms of your lawn thatalong with some moderate applications of water here
and there in the absence of rainand then regular mowing will create the most
beautiful lawn that you can have.And that is I know what you're going
after there. If you go outto Ace Hardware at Sincle Ranch, you're

(46:55):
going to find nitrophost products like thesuperturf a task Asida Ace also has some
Lake hardware done in Clue Lake JacksonLake Hardware. Clue in Lake Jackson is
going to have Jem's Hardware up inMontgomery also another place where you're gonna find
super turk and other nitrofos products aswell. So we were we were discussing

(47:16):
earlier about fruit trees and little goshI'm looking at the time. I better
take a little break here. I'llcome back to that thought in just a
moment. Hang on our phone numberseven one three two one two fifty eight
seventy four. I'll be right back. Welcome back to Garden Line. May
you with us this morning? Alittle Brian White for those of you who

(47:37):
may remember that. You know Iwas talking about fruit while ago, and
the fruit is such an enjoyable thingto add to the landscape. You know,
you may not have room for orchard. Maybe you're looking at in the
back like I don't. I don'thave a back forty to put an orchard
in. But you can grow fruitin a lot of places. Citrus trees

(47:58):
do well in containers, large container. That is, when we're talking about
things like when I say citrus tree, I guess it's say trees and shrubs.
So something like the kumquats that makemore of a bush or a shrub.
They do well. A lime,various types of limes, a mere
lemon, even a satsuma orange couldbe put in a very large container,

(48:20):
something that is the equivalent of ahalf whiskey barrow, but definitely made us
something that won't rote out like awhiskey barrow will rote out, but something
about that volume. You can groweven a satsumn. If you just have
room for a tree or two,why not make it part of your landscape.
I used to have a peach treethat was I just used it like
I would a small tree in thelandscape, and it just happened to produce

(48:42):
fruit for me. Also beautiful blooms. Peaches do not require pollinators. Plums
generally do, but not always.And if you don't know, you can
always go online and find out.The Aggie Horticulture website. Aggie Horticulture has
a fruit section and every single plantthat species you can imagine is on there.

(49:02):
I mean, if you want apublication on peaches and plums, there's
one on apples on pears. There'sone on avocados, there's one on several
more than one on citrus that theyhave. I'm just saying it's free advice,
and it's very good advice. They'llsuggest varieties for you. They'll tay
hot a parnum and things make iteasier on yourself. But try something like

(49:24):
a fruit. Maybe you have anarbor area, how about some grapes on
an arbor. If you're going todo that and you want to grow some
grapes on an arbor, I wouldrecommend one called Southern Sensation Seedless SSS.
Southern Sensation Seedless. That is oneof the newest grapes that we have.

(49:45):
It's actually comes out of the breedingprogram up in Arkansas, but it is
one that doesn't do well for themthere, but it sure does for us
down here. That's the same breedingprogram that produced a lot of the blackberries
that we like so much down inthis area. The blackberries, if they
have a Native American name like Navajoor rappa hoo, those kind of names,

(50:08):
they came out of the Arkansas breedingprogram and they also produced Southern Sensation
Seedless, which is an excellent Ibelieve Arkansas breed is that great pretty sure.
Anyway, it's a good one,So it'd be a good one for
an arbor if you'd like to dothat. I think it would be an
excellent way to add something of interestand yummy at the same time to your

(50:29):
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(51:32):
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(52:38):
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Just get some information, get sitdown with them, give them a
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(53:00):
have to have a hurricane to losepower. We learned that the other day
again, didn't we That is forsure. I enjoy houseplants that have color
in the foliage. I don't know, you know, it used to be
I don't know, maybe it seemsto me like it used to be that
all houseplants were just green. Youknow, you had a green ivy,

(53:20):
maybe splotches of yellow and apothos orsomething, but it's basically green on green.
And now there are so many othercolors and patterns and things. And
it's not like they weren't there before. It's just that we have so many
more options now. When COVID camealong and we were all shoved inside the
house for a while. Houseplants becamepopular, and boy did that whole world

(53:42):
ever go crazy in terms of allthese new kinds of plants. And I
think they're beautiful. And I likeuglionima that's Chinese evergreen. There are some
types of it that have kind ofa coral and a pink and a reddish
color in the foliage that is justbeautiful. There's various kinds of variegated houseplants.
Why not do some different colors inthe house just by choosing plants that

(54:05):
you know can do that. Andwe have a lot of good new ones
now. Morana prayer plant is anexcellent one for providing a very interesting pattern
of color to the to the foliage. So I would encourage you to do
that. You know, the summertimeis maybe you don't want to be outside
when it's hundred degrees outside, Butthere's always things you can be doing indoors,
including with your houseplants, doing somecuttings, starting some new things,

(54:30):
giving them a little fertilizer is needed. Just to remember that the number one
problem we make with houseplants is weoverwater them. Number two, as we
underwater them. So it's like you'rewalking down the line here, you're going
to go to the left, tothe right, one of the other vis
really not that hard. You wanta really good, well drained mix.
That's number one, because if youoverwater, you want it to run out.

(54:52):
You don't want it to turn intoa soggy swamp that doesn't drain.
So a good pot that has holesthat drain away. You give it a
good drenching, set it and sink, let it all drain out, and
then you're good for a while.Don't water again until it dries out.
Now, for some tricks, there'stwo tricks that you can use. One
of them the most basic one.And I was talking with someone yesterday when

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I was at Wabird's Unlimited in belAir. We were talking about testing plants
for water and discussing the idea thatif you take a pencil and you sharpen
it, that fresh cut would endas you've sharpened it. You stick that
pencil down into the soil and justgo ahead and stick it. I usually

(55:35):
go like two inches in and pullit out and look at it, and
go another two inches, pull itout and look at it. And you're
testing for moisture at different levels,because when you have moisture, either you'll
see actual moisture soaked into that woodbecause instead of having you know, like
it's real slick with the oils ofyour fingers and stuff, you've sharpened it
fresh and now you have a freshcut on there, moisture shows up real
easy, or kind of like whenyou're baking a cake and you put a

(56:00):
little toothpick in it and you pullit out, and that's one way you
tell of like a pound cakes ready, you know, is there stuff clinging
to the toothpick or not. Well, soil will also cling to that fresh
cut pencil edge or surface that youdid, and so you can do a
real quick test that way. Ialso test just by picking them up.
You know, once you have aplant for a while and you kind of

(56:22):
know how heavy it is, youpick it up when it's full of moisture.
Almost all the weight of a plantis the water you put in the
pot. I mean, that's ahuge, huge part of the weight.
And so you can pick it upright away and ooh, this is really
light. This is going to needwater, and you kind of get better
at that. But that pencil isa great way to go, or the
toothpick. You can use a toothpick. My wife has some little succulents and

(56:43):
very tiny containers, and she usesa little toothpick because a pencil would just
kind of push the whole thing outof the pot. But a toothpick works
well just for testing. For that, We're going to take a little break
here. Our phone number is sevenone three two one two KTRH. I'll
be right back. We got somebright sun coming outside. It's going to
be a beautiful day. Take alook look outside. Wow, what do

(57:07):
they call that Chamber of Commas?Weather? A good day to get out
there. Hey, you've got anyFather's Day shopping left to do? I
tell you a lot of our gardencenters are all chocked up and ready to
go. I've got some really gooddeals going on various things. I was
checking out some of the things goingon online, and oh my gosh,
it'd be a good time to getout and purchase some things, even if

(57:29):
it wasn't for a Father's Day gift. This is good sales going on all
around in our garden centers. Landscaper'sPride is a company that is, first
of all, it's a local company. It's been around here in our region
for a good while now, providingquality products. And they have a wide
variety of blends of soils and compostsand all kinds of things, so twenty

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something different products that they produce.But right now I want to talk about
the mulches because mulch is very importantfor summer, and I know it's I'll
be thinking, Okay, how excitingcan you get putting bronze stuff on top
of the ground. Well, I'lltell you how exciting I get. As
excited as I get when I knowI'm not going to be pulling weeds by
hand in one hundred degree heat withfire ants biting me in the middle of

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summer because I maltched. But forsummertime arrived, That's how excited I get.
My plants are going to do better. Do you know how hot the
soil gets when the surface is unmulched, He gets very hot. I mean,
go put your hand, Go putyour hand on bear dirt sometime on
a hot summer summer day, andthen think about how would a root that
needs to be operating probably would liketo be in the seventy degree range,

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if not fifty degree range somewhere inthere. They do pretty well all through
that range, and then we're goingto take them up to over one hundred
degrees up near the surface. Andyes, it does get that hot.
Well, mulch helps avoid that.So meanwhile, back at the comments about
Landscaper's Pride, they've got a cypressmoultz that is locally sourced. Cypress logs
cyper smults is really good about kindof when it gets wet, it sits

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in, stays in place really well. It's got a nice light color to
it, and it doesn't tend tojust float away and move around it it
really kind of honkers down. Cedarmulch is nice because it has an aroma
to it. I think it's reallynice and it goes away in time as
it ages, but it's just abeautiful natural red streaking. It's a very
attractive kind of melt. Pine barkmultch is the most popular. It's the

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one. It's again beautiful colored,a little slow to decompose, which is
good, which is also true ofthe cedar and the cypers. And then
hardwood malts hardwood materials ground up andthey are put into a moltch that holds
well in its place. It's goodfor walkways too, by the way,
and then of course Landscapers Pride hastheir black velvet. Black velvet is not

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dyed. It is naturally velvety,dense, beautiful moults and it just it
just works well whatever you use.Get some bags of it. You can
find Landscapers Pride all over the place. You can go to Landscaperspride dot com
the website find out where to getit. But it's widely available. But
whatever you do, get some andget it out there and get it down
about three inches thick. Put itover the beds, keep the soil cool,

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protect the soil from erosion, stopweed seeds from getting started. And
it's just a win win. Andalways remember this when you're adding more malts.
Don't take the ol malt away.Throw the new mulch on top of
it. Let the ol malt slowlydecompose. That's what nature does in the
forest. No need to take theold out just when it's getting pretty good

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in terms of releasing its nutrients backinto the soil. So give the n
skippers Pride to a shot. Ithink you think you'll be impressed with the
kinds of products that they that theycarry I have. Let's see all.
I want to give you a phonenumber again, our phone number if you'd
like to give us a call ifyou have a question. Uh seven to
one three two one two fifty eightseventy four seven one three two one two

(01:00:52):
five eight seven four. Don't forgetmy website, Gardening with skip dot com.
It's a new site. I haven'thad it that long and we're slowly
building it out right now. Themain thing you're going to find there are
my two schedules. The lawn careschedule, which is how to grow a
lawn. It talks about mowing,watering, fertilizing, errating, doing the

(01:01:13):
micronutrient top dressing, talks about allthat. The other schedule lawn Pest,
Disease and weed management schedule. That'sabout what goes wrong with the lawn insects,
when do they occur and what doyou do about them? Diseases,
weeds, How do you prevent themwith premurden, how do you kill them
with a post emergent, How doyou grow your lawn so you don't have
so much of a weed problem.It's all on there. Whether you're interested

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in organic or synthetic options, they'reboth on both of those schedules, and
the schedules are free, so youknow you can't beat that. Just print
them out and there you go.You're ready to go for for it.
I have a beautiful, beautiful lawn. Makes it takes all the guesswork out
in the wondering, makes that simple. All right, let's see here I

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wanted to We're going to go thephones here in just a second. I
wanted I did want to make onequick comment though about this, the whole
lawn care thing. Just remember thatwhenever you're going for the best lawn you
can have, it is important tofertilize, It is important to water as

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you need to. But the mostsingle most important thing is a good sharp
mower and mowing regularly. That isthe single most important thing. It's not
the only by any means. Butthe more often you hedge your lawn,
think of it that way. Alawnmower hedges your lawn. The more you
trim a hedge, the dentsuer thehedge gets, the prettier the hedge gets.

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If you let a hedge grow twofeet out into the walkway and you
cut it back two feet, itwon't kill it, but it's your will
look bad and it'll be thin,and you'll be able to see right into
the hedge right. You trim regularlyto keep it dense. The same is
true with your lawn moh regularly geta good sharp more for good clean cuts,
not a whole bunch of big oldbrown tips on the ends of every

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grass blade. A good sharp moweron a regular basis, that's important.
We're going to head now out tosugar Land and talk to June. Hello,
June, Hi. I was callingto see about what kind of mulch
to use on hydraineas and I have. I was questioning if pine mulch is

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good or which mulch is the bestI have Limelight hydrainus. You know,
they don't care what kind of multyou put on them. They'll be happy
with They'll just be excited that youMolted pine bark is fine. Pine needles,
pine straw as we call it,is fry. You can do that.
You can use, you know,shredded hardwoodmulch if you like. Generally,

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with hedrangs, we go with somethinga little more on the acidic side.
We generally go with the pine needlesand pine bark kinds of things.
But listen, you can just melting. Ajdranga is doing the right thing.
Okay, that's all I need getto know. That's okay, all right,
thank you so much. I appreciateit. Thank you. I have
a great day you too. Youtake care. Appreciate that. Let's see

(01:04:10):
here we're going to go now tok in Paarland. Hello. Okay,
good morning, Skid, good morning. Thank you for taking my call.
I have a couple of questions.One is about round up. I have
a bed that has a variegated hibiscusin the middle and amarilla is all around.
It's kind of round, but theweeds have taken over in it.

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Can I use round up at allin there with a protective cardboard barrier?
You know? Next you can.You can use it if you don't get
in on anything desirable. So howeveryou go about doing that, you can
do that. Now, if theweeds are grassy weeds, you have other
options. There are some grass killersthat don't kill broad leaf plants. So

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the plants you describe that are yourgood plants, these grass killers wouldn't ca
kill them. If you actually,I don't think these are not grassy weeds.
They're they're feathery little yeah. Okay. The other question was I have
a couple I've just received a coupleof small trellises that I ordered. I
was wondering about something that is heatand preest tolerant both. Who doesn't want

(01:05:20):
that? You know you're looking fora vine. You're looking for a vine?
Okay, a vine? Yeah?Buy anything like like what am I
trying to say? Passion flower orokay? Uh, let me, let's
come back. I'm gonna run toa break right here, and let's come

(01:05:41):
back to that. But but uhand be thinking about how big of an
area of this can encompass, andthen we'll recommend a vine based on that.
But hang on, Calby, rightback with you when we get on
the other side. And then Boband Kingwood you'll be the next up.
All right, time for a littlebreak. Seven kt r h. All
right, welcome back to gardenine.Let's get back into gardening. We're gonna

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go back to the phones and talkto Kay in pairland. Ka, how
big of a vine area do youwant to have? I mean, is
this something like ten feet long orwhat? What dimensions? Well? I
have I have a bed that's fullforty feet forty feet long. Oh wow,
okay, so you got room fora vine it's you know, three

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three to four feet deep, threefeet deep probably, okay, I don't
it can go out on the groundtoo in something that big, because I
have two trellises, and I wouldseparate them, okay, and I would
like to put two different things onthem. Actually, okay, Well,

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there there's so many vine options.There's some things that are woody vines that
would be something like westeria, forexample. There is another when we say
woody. When I say woody,I don't necessarily mean in the sense of
like tree trunk wood. I meanlike for example, the coral vine is

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a vine that grows above ground,but it last year after year. It's
like a shrub, you know,it doesn't die back to the ground.
Coral vine has beautiful little coral reddishcolor, pink, tubular blossoms that hummingbirds
like. It is a I'm sorrycoral honeysuckle does. Coral vine comes out

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of a sweet potato out of theground, and it will run for a
long it'll take over the world.But it has beautiful blooms, especially late
summer and fall in clusters. Theylook like little pink clusters of flowers.
That's a good one. I like. Let's see, butterfly pee is a
good one that has very small,deep, deep blue, beautiful blooms.

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It's very tame, but it's anannual vine that comes back from a seed
each year. So there's so manyoptions. Confederate jasmine or are star jasmine
is an evergreen that has wonderfully fragrantblooms that are white. That is another
one you might be interested in.Soot does it die back? Men to

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be an almanda. Both are tropicals, and they're beautiful, little kind of
a morning glory looking bloom that isgorgeous. But they don't take hard freezes.
Okay, okay, I know passionflower can be very invasive. You
can, yeah, sometimes all ofthem probably can. Well, but it'll

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come out, it'll go out inthe yard and pop up in the yard
somewhere. A lot of the typesof passion vine will and so you have
to be a little careful with that. But it's a beautiful flower, one
of the most beautiful. That's agreat list, and I do appreciate it
so very much, and I enjoyyour program every every weekday. All right,
Thanks appreciate you listening. Have ablessed day. Well, thank you,

(01:09:02):
kay, I appreciate that. Thankyou very much. Bye bye bye
bye, all right our phone numberseven one three two one two fifty eight
seventy four seven one three two onetwo five eight seven four. If you
are looking for a little bit ofhelp keeping your flower beds looking their best,
your landscape beds, then you oughtto give Pierscapes a call. Pierscapes

(01:09:27):
does something called quarterly maintenance. Now, normally, when I think of pair
scapes, and you too, probablyyou think about just gorgeous landscape renovations.
I mean we're talking about hard scapesand outdoor lighting and improved drainage and just
on and on. I mean,they all kinds of features. They they
can create whatever kind of thing upto the taj Mahal you are looking for.

(01:09:49):
But they also come out and theydo things like check your irrigation system.
If you need a summer's coming,it's pretty much already here. You
need to get out there and haveI have this system checked, make sure
it's efficient, make sure it's working, there's there's everything's aligned, it's you
know, it's in good shape.That is important because when you provide a

(01:10:11):
good even distribution of water, yousave water because you're going to end up
watering enough to keep the dry spotswet, and it wastes water when you
have an air inefficient system as aresult of that. But talk to Pierce
Scapes about their their quarterly maintenance too. By the way, they come out
once a quarter they will do weedingand fertilizing and mulching. They'll change out
color if you want it. Twotimes a year, three times a year,

(01:10:34):
four times a year to have themtake out a set of plants and
put in a new set of colorplants for the next season that's coming on,
they can do that. They'll inspectthe irrigation in those beds. It's
really easy. Piercescapes dot com,Pierce scapes dot com. If you want
to give them a call, writethis number down two eight one three seven

(01:10:55):
oh fifty sixty two eight one threeseven oh fifty sixty and do go to
the website perscapes dot com and seethe kinds of works that they do.
It's pretty amazing, very in fact, it's very amazing, very impressed with
that. Let's see here. Weare going to now go back to the
phones and head to Kingwood and talkto Bob. Hello Bob, Yes,

(01:11:16):
hello Skip. I have a Asianorange that I bought in the pot about
six inches wide maybe six inches high. I bought about two months ago,
and I didn't replant it though itwas about maybe three foot tall. You
know how in the store they werealready starting a flower on top, big
long, skinny thing. Asian orange. You're talking about, like I said,

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an edible orange. Okay, yes, they call them CALAMANSI they're only
about the size of a big,big marble. Oh, a klamandon,
yes, I then, yeah,you got it, now gotcha. The
last two I planned died is thereis what's the smallest pot or I guess
that's the way to ask it.The smallest sized pot I could put it

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in. Yeah, you know,here's the deal. The smaller the pot
is, the more touching go takingcare of it is. So you could
grow a kalamandan and a little potthat was like two or three gallons,
but you're going to be watering itall the time, and if you forget
it, you're going to get introuble because it's going to redamage it to

(01:12:23):
set it back like that I wouldif I had a kalamandan, I would
try to get it into something thathad about at least ten gallons, maybe
fifteen, so that it does betterand you can move those. Even though
that's a heavy container. You canput a little dolly underneath it and a
strap around it and take it inwhen we're going to have really bad cold

(01:12:44):
weather too. Right, So youwere scaring me with the two or three
gallon. Obviously ten gallon I canwater it once every couple of days.
Yeah, yeah, well yeah,the bigger the container, the more water
it can hold, the less oftenyou have to worry, the less likely
it is to have. So reallyit's only the watering part, the roots

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and all that, and the bearingfruit will be okay, Yes, it's
the thing is it's the root systemthat's the confining factor that only nutrients are
available from that pot. The onlywater is available from what's in that pot.
So the bigger the pot, themore of a bank account that you
have, and that makes it alittle more resilient, a little more forgiving

(01:13:29):
if you forget to water. Forexample, I had one that went about
fifteen foot tall and about eight footwide. Now, question, you're gonna
have to have a bigger You haveto a much bigger pot than the little
ones I'm talking about to get aplant that size. Yeah, oh for
sure. Sure. But my questionmeaning that analogy was how big do a
root system go out on something likethat? Is that a rule of thumb

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that the wider the plant is whatyou see above the ground, the roots
or underground? Yeah, just ingeneral. Yeah, if it was in
the ground, your roots will beabout twice the height of the tree in
all directions about Oh really, yeah, yeah, twice the height of the
tree in general directly, And that'sa generalization. And so last question.

(01:14:15):
On the internet, I see thesepictures of people that got like plants in
a little small two gallon container.They're only about the plants only maybe about
two foot tall. And you seepapayas on there. Yeah, mango,
do that fake pictures or they reallydo it like that? That's mostly blooney.

(01:14:35):
Hey Bob, we got to we'vegot to run here for the top
there. If you want to continuethe discussion, hang on, keep you
through the hour and then we'll comeback to you. But i'll later occupacture.
Take care, all right, man, we're putting an hour in the
books there. It was beautiful,beautiful weather outside. Folks, this afternoon

(01:14:59):
would be a good time to getout and about. If you don't want
to you don't want to do anyplanting or puttering like that around the yard,
at least go out and visit oneof our garden centers. Take take
Dad with you. There are somereally cool stuff out there that I think
you would like. A lot ofour folks are still selling fruit trees,
and some of them even have somereally good deals on fruit trees. And
here there's plenty of good things.Get outside and enjoy with Dad. I'm

(01:15:27):
gonna take a little break here.I will be back. Just a reminder
two weeks from yesterday, I willbe at the Langham Creek Langcumbe Creek Ace
Hardware that's in West Houston, kindof in the old Copperfield neighborhood area.
Hope you'll come out and see metwo weeks from yesterday Langham Creek Ace.
Are welcome to kt r H GardenLine with Scared Ricter. It's just watch

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him as many things to welcome backto the guard line. Good to have

(01:16:23):
you. It's good to have youwith us today. We uh talking about
all kinds of things. Gardening wantsyou to have success, a more beautiful
garden, a more bountiful garden.The goal is to enjoy it. You
know that. That's the thing alot of people. I've heard this many
times over my career, as peoplesaying, you know, I'd like to

(01:16:44):
garden, but I just don't knowhow. Or I tried growing something and
it died, and it's like,well, okay, that's okay. We
can walk you through that. Butfirst of all, let's just take the
pressure off. In order to bea good gardener, you got to kill
a lot of plants. Can Ijust tell you that, Go ahead and
get out of your system. Don'tbe afraid you plant something, you try
it, it doesn't work, that'sokay. We can put you know,

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a whole vegetable gardens and flower gardensand all kinds of things out there,
and sometimes things thrive, sometimes thingsdon't. That we can't control the weather,
you know, insects have their ownopinion about how things are going to
go, and we have to dealwith that. It's okay, though,
It's okay to not have things dowell. We can always start over.
A garden is never finished. Didyou know that. You know, we

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think about, well, I'm gonnalandscape my home, this beautiful thing,
and I'm done. No, it'snever done. Things grow up. There's
always a time when it's time topull that out and plant something else there.
Maybe shrubs get overgrown and you're justhaving trouble keeping control of them.
Maybe an area that was really beautifuland sunny and everything was doing good,
and now the trees years down theline have gotten bigger and it's too shady.

(01:17:54):
Pull them out, redo it.It's a shade garden. Now,
let's do some of that. It'sokay to do that. There is a
there's a little toy from years agosome of you remember, called an etch
a sketch, and you would drawwith two knobs, and one knob goes
left right, one knob goes updown, and inevitably it is impossible to
draw, especially a circle with anedge of sketch, because your brain goes

(01:18:16):
backwards and you end up going leftwhen you meant to go right or whatever.
And it's like, oh man,I messed it up. What do
you do? What did you dowith your etcher sketch? You turned it
upside down? You shook it andthen you brought it back down again.
You had a blank slate. Yougot to start over. Rototillers or the
equivalent of shaking an etch of sketch. In other words, I'm sort of

(01:18:36):
joking. But if you plant somethingand it doesn't do good, pull it
out, put something else in.That is okay. You know. Part
of the fun of gardening is knowingthat nature is forever changing. It's forever
it's just evolving out there in frontof us. We may have a planting
that grows up and it fills innicely, or we may find that this

(01:18:59):
plant is struggling there, pull itup, put it somewhere else, or
get rid of it and put anew plant in that spot. Will figure
it out, and that's part ofthe fun of it. Part of the
fun of it is just getting outthere and doing it, and don't worry
about failing. You're not going tofail. All you can do is quit.
Okay, you're not going to fail, So don't quit. Just keep
trying. There's a lot of funthings we can do. And you know,

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there's some people that they want everything. They want to hire it done,
and that's okay. Somebody comes inthey do the landscaping for them.
They take care of the landscaping forthem. That's all okay. There's other
people on the other end of thespectrum that are all do it yourselfers and
they don't even want to buy aplant. They want to buy a seed
and grow their own plant to plant. Well, whatever, whatever you like,

(01:19:42):
our garden centers can help you havesuccess. We've got all these great
feed stores, these hardware stores,places like Southwest Fertilizers that have the supplies
you need to have success with it. And we have so much expertise here
in the Houston area to kind ofguide you so that you can find exactly
the types of plants that you wantto have the kind of garden that you

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want. And I'll tell you thismore than once I have had a bunch
of plants in and they look good, and I just at a point where
it's like, yeah, I'm gonnatry something different. I'm gonna try something
else a little bit different there,and that's okay to do. Think about
your wardrobe. Do you only getrid of a item of clothing when it

(01:20:25):
is completely worn out you practically seethrough it? Or is there such a
thing as you know what I'd liketo change my style a little bit.
I would like to try some differentthings. And that's kind of how gardening
is. By the way, onthe item of clothing thing, if I
were asking myself that, the answerwould probably be, yeah, he only
gets rid of it when it's completelyworn out. By one of my daughters

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one time posted to I think itwas Facebook account or whatever. She says,
Well, I see old pictures ofmom and dad, I think she
sure looks pretty in that dress.And when I see pictures of mom and
dad, I think he still wearsthat shirt. That's the truth. Guilty
at charge. But when it comesto my garden, I changed things out

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a little bit more. All right, enough of that nonsense. Let's go
back to the phones. We're goingto head to Northwest Euston and talk to
Donald. Hello, Donald, ohboy, thank you for answering. I'm
back again. Happy Father's Day.This is my Father's Day gift, by
the way, talking to somebody whoactually knows what they're talking about. All
right, well, I'll pretend toat least. Well, Okay, the
pine tree issue in the front lawnthat has the roots that grow above the

(01:21:36):
grass, well, okay, thathas to just stay as it is.
I measured it. It's about thirtyinches wide as the yardstick goes, and
it's thirty years old, thirty orthirty two years old. Now the issue
is with the little pine bark holesthat I saw in it. We talked
about what was actually the name ofthat blight that happened is some years ago.

(01:21:59):
You remember that was really terrible becauseon my on my street, like
four or five big pine trees justturn and com oh brown, and well,
I don't know a blight on pinewe deal with, of course,
lightning strikes or is an issue onbig pines especially, but we also have
some pine bark beetles that will underneaththe bark. Yeah, I guess that's

(01:22:21):
what they were called. Anyhow,I saw what they did, you know,
years ago. It's like ten yearsago if that happened. However,
the reason I'm calling you, I'mgonna I checked the holes and there's no
sap and told me that's great,okay, But I want to take a
calking gun and stick a little noseof a calking gun in there and put
a little plug of cock in thereto make sure nothing else gets in there?
Would that be okay? It wouldn'tbe necessary, Donald, and I

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don't think it would help a lot. These beetles, they drill in in
between the where the outer bark kindof sticks out, and then you kind
of have a furrow in between whereit's it's a shorter distance to get inside.
They go in right there, andso even if you cocked a hole,
something else isn't going to go inthat hole to cause damage, and
the beatle, if it were inthe hole, would just come out somewhere

(01:23:06):
else. Well, I might seemovercritical here. What I'm going to do
is take straws and put straws inthe hole and take a picture of it
with my phone, so I knowwhich ones are there now, and that
way I can save that picture andthen if I see any kind of a
new hole, I can go lookat the picture. Oh that one wasn't
there before. Okay, here's themain issue. My neighbor had a pine

(01:23:28):
tree cut down right next door,was a nine hundred dollars cut down.
It was way smaller than mine,and this one probably cost me twenty or
twenty five hundred dollars to have ittaken down the hole the way, So
it's a big issue. It's abig issue, and you could always hire,
you know, somebody to come outand take a look at it and
do an assessment to determine if there'ssomething else that maybe we're not even discussing

(01:23:49):
that they would see on the tree. And I have called Lewis Flurry before.
He said, you know, hisguys come out and they're very straightforward
and did what we had to do. This was a dip my older a
different house that I had. However, Okay, if you have trees that
big trees, you better be carefulbecause big trees equal big money whether they're

(01:24:11):
up there and they stay up there. This one made it through this tornado
that we had. Yeah, wonderfulbecause I had it thinned down and I
don't want to lose it because ifI if I lose it, there's no
possibility of putting another one. Yeah, you won't take care of the ones
you have. That's why what they'retalking about. Yeah, you're trees and
your kids, take care of theones you have. There you go,
that's good advice. Donald, HappyFather's day, man, Thank you,

(01:24:34):
Thank you all right, you takecare. That is good advice. Absolutely,
we were I was talking about thisbeing Father's Day. And you know,
Ace Hardware Store is just an excellentplace to get a Father's Day gift.
You're not going to do better ifyou've not already gotten some kind of
gift for Dad. Go to IceHardware because there is so much there.

(01:24:58):
In fact, I if I Iwould take Dad at this point, let's
go this afternoon, Dad, Let'shead out there. There is so many
cool tools. There's all kinds ofstuff for barbecuing, and I could just
go on and on and on.Ace has so many cool things that your
dad would love, really he would. Speaking from a dad, it's always

(01:25:19):
a good idea to have another tool. It's always a good idea to have
some of the gadget for barbequing andwhatnot. Just go and check it out.
You're not gonna find a better placefor Father's Day shopping than a good
Ace Hardware store with all of thethings that they carry to make things just
beautiful in the backyard, make itenjoyable in the backyard. Ace Hardware is

(01:25:42):
all over the place here in thesoutheast Houston area or Southeast Texas area around
Houston. We got forty stores aroundus here. You can go to Acehardware
dot com. Acehardware dot com findthe store locator and the stores nearest to
you, and they are stocked upand they've got some really cool stuff.
I was in an ac of thetoday walking through just looking at some of

(01:26:02):
the new kinds of things that theyhave been bringing in. And it's always
changing. You know. ACE hardrestores are independently owned. The guy who
is the owner of the store whereyou would go shop is going to be
some maybe you know, different thansome guy down the street that owns an
ACE Hardware store, and so theycan each do with their stores like they
want. And that's why no twoidentical, although they are very very similar

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in terms of you got all thebasics that are going to be there that
you would expect from ACE, butthere's also some cool new things that a
store owner may decide to bring inand do, and I think that's kind
of kind of nice, kind offun too. As a matter of fact,
in the category of do it yourselfin and starting seeds and things,

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now is a good time to becollecting your supplies for what we're going to
be doing for a fall garden herepretty soon. For example, tomatoes.
We can grow tomatoes in the fall, but you need to get those things
planted in July in order to havetime for the tomato plants to be able
to produce before the temperatures cool offand growth slows to a stop. And

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so planting the seeds and starting yourown seeds in an outdoor area is a
good idea. You can do itindoors initially if you've got good light,
but since we're in the warm seasonhere, I would go outside to a
very bright spot underneath the tree wherethere's no direct sun, but it's very
bright and get those things started andgrowing. Do that in the next few
weeks here, and get ready togo for fall planting. Later on.

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We're going to be starting transplants forthings like broccoli and cabbage and cauliflower and
whatnot as we get further in tothe late part of summer. But right
now it would be a time tobegin to get started. If you want
to do peppers, maybe you wantsome jlopenias or some eggplant starting from seed.
Just go to your garden centers,go to your feed stores and things,

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grab the supplies you need and startsome things yourself. Give it a
shot. All right. We gotto take a little break here. I
will be right back the number seventhree fifty eight seventy four. Welcome back.
We got some sunshine outside. Goodday to be outside today. I
know it's a little on the warmside, but hey, it's okay.
We we live here, we canwe can deal with it. We can

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deal with it, and there's plentyto do. I hope you haven't a
good Father's Day. For all thedads out there and family's out there in
general, we certainly do wish youa very, very happy Father's day.
Let's head out to the woodlands andwe're going to talk to Katie. Hello
Katie, Well, good morning,Master Skip. How are you this morning?

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I'm good. Harr are you today? What? Thanks for that title.
I've been itching to do that forever since you got on this show.
Okay, so much all you do? Okay. So I was wondering
if I could add on to thatpine bark beetle conversation, that kind of
crazy town straws and plugging it.So last summer noticed on the bottom of

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one of our trees looked like abunch of sawdust, and I thought my
granddaughter was cutting and I asked her, I said, what are you doing
over here? To cause all thissawdust. Well it turned out to be.
We called a tree service. Theycame out and it was a pine
bark beetle infestation. And what hetold us was that the pine bark beetles
are always trying to get into yourtrees, and when they find a weak

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one, the female goes in andshe releases a pheromone and it tells all
the females to come and, youknow, totally masticate this tree. So
basically I looked around at all ourtrees. Oh my gosh, probably about
ten of them had signs of this. It looked like little white lumps all
over the tree, which was thebeginning of the infestation. So he looked

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up to the crown of our treeand he said, you have a good
The good news is it's not yellowingyet. He said, I think I
can save your trees. And sothey came out and they did three springs
two months in between. So bambam bam, and they rate all of
our trees for less than what itwould cost to cut one down. Let's
good, and totally save them all. Well good. They must have had

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some good equipment to get up andspray pretty high on the trunk. Yeah,
they came completely masked and with thesebig sprayers, we watched the whole
thing and they went way up thetrunk and they did everyone. And they
recommend an annual spray. We havenot done that this year yet. We're
considering it. But it was afantastic three months or three treatment process.

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And I'm really excited to announce becausethe problem with those pine bark beetles he
was telling us, is they justjumped from tree to tree to tree.
And I saw them a lot onthe path while I was out walking dogs.
And it can be devastating to allof your trees. And like he
said, one tree, one ofthose big pine trees could literally cost two
to three thousand to down. Yeah, they can get expensive. Well,

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yeah, there's a lot of thingto do if they get in ahead of
them, you know, once thetree has severely infested did it, it's
usually too late to be able tosave them. But fortunately they were able
to catch her. There's a yougot to spray about eighty percent of the
height of the trunk to effectively doit. For most of the beatles.
There's like five different about five differentbeetles that attack pines. Here in our

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area. One of them attacks downlow, about eight feet off the ground
and below, but the rest ofthem go way way up the tree.
I think that might have been thetype that we had, the ones that
were eight feet in below, becausewe didn't see it much higher than that.
Okay, but it was very effective. And I think that this guy
instead of doing the whole straws andplugging it, which sounds to be a

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little bit, if I could sayso, ridiculous, because they're just going
to keep on coming back. Likeyou said, they're very they're very slender,
they can slip in anywhere, andthere's no way that he's going to
be able to Well, you're you'recorrect about the tree being stressed and being
a magnet for those beetles. Theysmell that, and I've been amazed.

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And I've lived up in the WillisConroy area for a number of years,
and up there you would have alet's say, a lightning strike hit a
tree and not be so bad thatit would kill the tree, but it
would it would knock the bark offone side, and then all of a
sudden you'd find pine marked beetles init before too long. It's because that
that stress tree is just like sendingout a clarion call and the beetles head

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that way. So yeah, Andhe said it was based on the drought.
So thet before last we had avery bad drought, and he said
those trees that were severely impacted bythe groat are now showing signs of weakness.
Yeah, that's true. So interestingthat that's true. All right,
Katie, Well good, I'm gladyou were able to turn yours around.
Thanks for calling filling in on thatHappy Father's Day. Bye bye. Take

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care. If you are looking fora organic product, there's a high level
of nitrogen in it for unorganic.Naturally speaking, organic products tend to be
lower in concentration of nutrients. That'son. Nature does things. But Sweet
Green is a molasses based product throughmicrobial activity, turned into an eleven percent

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nitrogen fertilizer and it's a product thatis produced by Nitrofoss sold by Nitropos.
It is available widely, like allNitrofoss products are. You can find it
at places like Shades of Texas downin South Houston a Fisher's Hardware, both
the one in South Houston on Southmoreand the one down in the port on
Broadway Street has it as well.You're going to find it a King web

(01:33:30):
Ace hardware for example, and thearburgate up in tombol. Sweet green is
the kind of product that you putit down and when you water it in
or when rain waters it in,it just dissolves away and moves in.
And it's a high carbon material.Any kind of a sugar is a high
carbon material, molasses based, andthat really fires up the microbes. They

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need carbon, and that's why organicgardeners often will put molasses on the garden,
on the soil for that reason.Provides that in addition to the fact
that it's just eleven percent nitrogen outthere, it takes about about ten pounds
of sweet green per thousand square feetto cover an area and to provide that

(01:34:11):
nutrient to carry you on into summer. You can do it now, I
would probably if you do it now, do it again in about eight weeks,
and that ought to carry you intothe fall fertilization season. Those two
applications of this week green. Andby the way, did I mention this
It smells good. It smells wonderfultoo. We're going to head out now
to the phones and just a moment. When we do, Luishi will be

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our first up. In the meantime, it is time to get Jared in
here for the news and talk aboutwhat else is going on out there,
out and about in the greater Houstonarea. I'll be right back, says,
Your moment is you can thank melater, all right, all right,

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if we do nothing else on gardenLine, we stretch your musical experience
a little bit. How about thatcuckoo yodel. Let's go to the phones.
We're gonna talk to Luise. Louise, what's up. Well, I'm
in beautiful downtown a leaf and it'sa group to stay. But I have
a tiger little it's from sitting onmy porch for twenty six years, and

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every once while there's some leaf damagines. So I put slogo in and I've
been doing that for the last month, and it's just getting destroyed on the
leaves, hole, eating and everything. So what could it possibly be besides
snails? So do you see trailson the leaves, the slim trails,
the dried slime stuff? No,yeah, ass just gaping holes. Oh

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okay, so it's more like holesin the leaf as opposed to being eaten
from the edges in like some chewingfrom the edge of the leaf. In
it's more holes in the leaf.It seems like it's more on the body
rather than the edges of each leave. Okay, all right, it could
be a beetle, it could bea caterpillar either way. Some of those

(01:36:01):
critters are nocturnal, so you goout in the day and you don't see
them, and then at night they'redoing their work. You might try going
out with a flashlight see what youfind, because there's some time a day
when it's going to be doing thedamage. And if you can find out
what it is doing it, thenit's easier to prescribe the right product to
control them. For example, ifit's a caterpillar BT or spinocid, either

(01:36:23):
one will control caterpillars quite well,and it will and the spinocid will control
beetles in addition to caterpillars, Soit could be that you would want to
try that. There's also a productcalled neme and it's not the name oil.
It's the name that has the chemicalin it. It's a natural chemical

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in the plant. It's called aciddirect and it's just aza is the ingredient
start and either either name or spinocidwould probably be a better shotgun approach because
it's going to work on both caterpillarsand beetles. But if you found out
exactly what it is, we mightswitch to a different recommended product if we
knew exactly what. All right,Well, all TV I on it.

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Yeah, I'll all your direction.All right, you know, sounds good?
Okay, take care of thanks,look all right, all right?
Bye bye. Our phone number isseven one three two one two fifty eight
seventy four seven one three two onetwo five eight seven four. Uh.
The Southwest Fertilizer Bob you know,talk about Bob Patterson all the time here

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in Southwest Fertilizer, because that isa place where you're going to find any
supply you need to take care ofyour garden and your landscape. And that
would include every fertilizer I talk abouton Guardline. It would include every kind
of pest control, whether it's diseaseor insect or weeds that you're going after.
Bob's going to have a supply ofall the things you need for that.
They get a little shop in theback for small engine repair. They

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carry a lot of different tools aneighty foot long wall of tools as a
matter of fact, and so nomatter what the tool is, some really
nice high quality ones too, bythe way, you can find them there.
Do you need a fertilizer spreader,Do you need a little hand carriage
spreadder maybe that you put the fireant bait out with, or do you
need fireant bait? And the chanceweris probably you do. This is fire

(01:38:15):
ant season and when we use baits, it's an easy way to put a
very low rate of a pesticide outthere that works really well because you're not
nuke in the whole yard to killeverything in the yard. You're basically putting
out a little bait that they willpick up, take back, feed to
the queen, feed to the colony, and it takes them out. That
way, it's much easier way todo it. And of course Bob's got

(01:38:36):
plenty of that stuff on hand.If I talk about a product on guardline,
it's at Southwest Fertilizer. Because ifthey don't have it, you don't
need it. It's as simple asthat. They're in the corner of Bissinet
and Renwick. Bissonet and Renwick.You can go to the website south West
Fertilizer dot com. Southwest Fertilizer dotcom. Let's go now to Spring Branch

(01:38:58):
and we're going to talk to Christine. Good morning. How are you.
I'm fine, what's up? Ijust moved into a house and the front
yard has been pretty good shape.But the backyard is just like full of
weeds. And when I say weeds, I mean like little bushes waist tie.

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One of them is that jewel ofopar with the little pink flowers,
and the other one has little goldflowers when it's wet. When it's wet,
I can pull them up out ofthe dirt fairly easily. But I
mean this is an entire backyard ofthese, so that's going to take forever.

(01:39:43):
Is there something I can just likespray that will kill them? There's
no grass. There are a coupleof crape myrtles out there that I don't
want to harm, okay, andthere's a bush or two that are some
sort of hedge or something that Iwouldn't want to kill. But other than
that, well, there's different waysto go about it. I think were

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at mine, I would probably Ithink the better thing to do would be,
can you just mow it all downto the ground just about as a
as a first step. Well,I mean these things are like waist high,
and some of the little trunks arefairly thick, I mean, like

(01:40:30):
okay, the thickness of my littlefinger. Okay, okay. Well,
other than mowing it, you knowdown, If you mow it down,
you get to start there, andthen as weed seeds come up, or
as these trunks as you described,start to re sprout, then you can
put a spray down and it's easyto control everything. When you got things
waist high, you're blowing a lotof spray up all over the place trying

(01:40:53):
to spray all these things. Youwant to be real careful with it.
If the breeze is blowing at alland you have a little bit of a
mist from your spray that drifts andit gets on something desirable, you're going
to hurt it. The advantage ofbeing able to start down at the dirt
level almost is that you know you'reyou're putting a course spray right down.
It's just a different type and amountof application. So if you whether you

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hand pull them, whether you mowthem with whatever you do, I would
do that because even if you sprayedand killed everything. You still have waste
high weeds that are now dead.You got to get out of there somehow,
either by pulling or mowing. Sothat's that's how I would approach it.
Be real careful with the glycas becauseanything desirable that you get it on,
it'll kill it. So a low, low pressure spray, don't pump

(01:41:38):
it up so much that you geta fine mist drifting around, just a
real course drop. Okay, Okay, Well, and I can also I
mean, I don't know how muchI'm going to get done in this heat,
but I can also wait and seewhat happens during the winter, if
things die back or what happens,you know, because there's a lot of
other work that still needs to bedone too. Well. Yeah, and

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it may even be better just toyou know, have somebody come in with
a big lit a weed eater orwhatever it takes to knock it all down.
But once you get ahead of it, then as it starts to reach
brought out, you can you canspray and kill the things and plant the
things you wanted with something like around up or something like that. Like
that, that only because that isa broad spectrum. So if it's a

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grass or a broadly if it's goingto kill it either way, depending on
specifically, if I saw the exactlayout and all this, I may have
a different opinion on it, ButI think in general that that's a good
way to get started. Just takeyour time, get ahead of it.
But the more you can when itsprouts, spray those weeds, get ahead

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of all the You got a reallygood supply of weed seed that's sitting there,
that's been building up for years inthat place, probably right right,
All right, christ thank you,take care, appreciate the call. We're
gonna have to run for a breakhere. When we come back. Georgie
will be first up. Dennis Mareneyou will be right after that. All
right. Now, all of youBeach Boys fans out there, how many

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of you knew that the Beach Boyssang a song named Vegetables about vegetables.
I did not listened to Beach Boysmy whole life. That was a surprise
to me. As we're gonna headout now to Jersey Village and talk to
George. Hello, George, Hey, Skip, that's a horrible song,
by the way, horror I mean, aren't you disappointed? I like the

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beach boys too, but no,that's pretty terrible. Anyhow, I want
to grow on apricot tree, butwe're not. I'm not encumbered by poor
quality music. I'm happy to playit. Yeah yeah, right, who
put that on for you? Yougotta manager that doesn't know. Unfortunately,
that's all on me. Anyhow,I want to grow an apricot tree.

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So do you know anything about thosethat which one you recommend them? We
don't have a good apricot for thisarea. There are a few out there.
The problem with apricot here is ourwinter fluctuations and tempered or such that
we just have a hard time withthem. They the tree will grow,
the tree grows, but we justdon't get good fruit set. And then

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you'll have a year where you havegreat fruit set, and then you'll go
several years without. And it's acombination of chilling hours being right. So
there's an overiety called Blenheim that usedto be tried a lot. But I'm
just telling you, unless you justhave a lot of space and want to
try, I wouldn't give you greathopes of getting to eat apricots as a

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result. Okay, the ones inthe supermarcers are horrible. They're mushy and
they have no flavor. So anyhow, yeah, all right, well so
far the text and M was lookingat a couple of newer cultivars a while
back, and I don't know thatanything ever came out of that, but
we're just trying to find some that, you know, they grow well in
other climates, but for something,it's about our winter fluctuations. I'm told

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that they just have a hard timewith that. Yeah, my brother had
one that was delicious, So Icalled him yesterday, the one that lives
in California, and now he said, give me, give me some of
that. He says, well,it got hit by lightning and they had
to take it out and he doesn'twhat it was. So yeah, I
know, so all right, thanks. Any how, when you have to
come up with one, let meknow. Okay, yeah, when you

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you know, I was, letme go right here while we're sitting here,
Well, I'm going to check onthis and see if there's any update
up there on the Eggy Horticulture websiteon those, but I don't think there
is at this point. Is thatwhere I would look to check on that?
Yeah, Horticulture, how they havea free section of the website,
and there's a publication on all kindsof fruit. It would probably go.
It probably be in the stone Fruitpublication, which includes peaches and plums.

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So yeah, all right, I'llgo look right, George, you bet,
Thank you appreciate it, sir.Let's go to Marine now. Hello
Marine, Oh, good morning,good morning. I called to you yesterday
about some leaf mold and on thetree, and I sent some pictures Ken,
did you have to review those?I did, and yes, that

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was a water oak. That istrue a water oak. Yeah, And
what I see in the photos thereis a leaf spot that's most likely fungal
in nature. It could be backto your involved in it too, but
mostly it looks like a fungal leafspot to me. There is not a
practical way to spray a whole wateroak tree. And these kind of spots

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are not something that is going tokill your tree. They're not doing it
any good. And apparently the weatherwe've had have just really promoted the spot
growth. And I know you're losinga lot of leaves from it, but
at this stage, like the picturesyou showed me, those leaves, even
if you spray them, they're they'regoing to be cast off the tree is
not going to hold onto those leaves. So I guess the bottom line is

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we just don't, as a generalrule, go out and spray our water
oaks or any of the oaks reallyall the time, just because they might
get these diseases. I think it'sjust kind of fluke that this year was
really bad for that one. Okay, my neighbor just ask can this sungus
travel from one tree to another?A fungus can because they float through the

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air, oh, on the spores, and they're present, and you just
don't see them because they haven't sproutedin an infected the leaf yet. But
they're actually out there in nature,and a lot of things are that way.
You don't take moss or algae forexample. You know, you look
at the side of your house andthere's maybe bricks on it, and you

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think, well, there's no algaethere. We'll start spraying that brick with
water every day, with a constantmist of water, and within a week
or two suddenly got algae growing onthe brick. Well where did it come
from? Well, it was thereall along. You just created the environment
where the algae could grow. That'show it is with these leaf spots on
your trees and things. We getsome rain, we get the right conditions,

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and now this disease attacks. Butit was always around, it just
wasn't a threat. Okay, SoI think I read online that if you
spray your water oak before it startsbudding, that it might keep the sungus
from coming on next year. Isthat true or not? Well, not

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this fungus. But there is onecalled oak leaf blister that causes the leaves
to be bumpy. They're more likea spinach leaf than a normal leaf.
You know how spinach is bumpy.Oak leaf blister does that. Of course,
those bumps turn brown and then theleaves fall off and it attacks water
oak. It attacks I'll attack liveoak and other oaks too, And that's

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a spring thing. So we cando a copper spray early before the buds
come out to help cut down onoak leaf blister. That's another one that
some years it's bad and some yearsit's not. And so do you really
want to be on a schedule whereevery year you're having to spray your trees
because when it, even when itshows up, the leaves look bad,
they fall off and the tree putsout new leaves and life goes on.

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So unless you go ahead ahead,we'll just continue the rest. We'll keep
falling and falling and falling all summer. Or do you think it'll stop.
I think at some point it's gonnastop and and not do that anymore.
But there's a really serious a lotof leaf spot on those leaves, and

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so they're they're gone. Okay,thank you? All right, I hear
the music, So either you andI have to sing or we have to
hang up. I think we oughtto hang up. Day by good we
will be back, Dennis and Roy. You will be the first two up.
I know you've been waiting a bit. I appreciate that, but we
we will be our first two upin that order, Dennis and Ryan when

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we come back. Don't forget.If you want more information on taking care
of your lawn, my lawn careschedules are online at gardening with Skip dot
com. Gardening with Skip dot com, that's me. We'll be happy to
help you along. Give us acall if you'd like to get on the
boards and be ready to go forthe next hour, which we have one

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more of today. Seven one threetwo one two k t r H seven
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Thank you, we're back. We'rehere. Let's do this. We are
here to answer your gardening question.Seven one three two one two fifty eight
seventy two five eight seven four.We're going to go to Dennis out in
Memorial right off the boat here.Hey Dennis, say good morning. Skip
quick question. I just recently movedinto a new home and trying to do

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some early late late spring, earlysummer re landscaping. So I've got some
roses underneath a tree that just aren'tdoing well. They don't get any sun
and obviously they're competing with water withthe tree. What could I plant this
time of year for some some color, some flowers underneath a tree like that.

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Uh So it's a lot of shade, is what you're telling me?
Right? Is there any sun?Yeah, well enough shade. It's a
smallish backyard patio. But the treeisn't huge, but it I looked one
of the rose bushes gets a bitof there's rose bushes under there now.
The ones that don't get any sunhave no flowers. The one that gets
sun has flowers. And it makesme think that they're just too much shade

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or something like that. That's it. Roses need six hours of sun really
to begin to perform well. Soare you talking about replacing the roses?
When you say plant something under there, you mean pull the roses out there?
Yeah, okay, I would.I don't think there's much hope of
ever getting a nice rose bush undernaatethat tree when you're when you're in a
bright area, that opens the doorfor the hydranges, for example, is

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an option. You need to keepthem adequately moist. They don't like to
dry out, but they like avery very bright shade. A littled apple
sign here and there, but somebright shade and they'll they'll put up with
that and do well for you.You've got a lot of annual types of
flowers that you can put in anarea like that. Of course, impatients
and kalladiums do well in the shadeif it's a bright shade. Persian shield

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is a foliage plant with purplish silverfoliage that's truly attractive that would do well
in an area like that. Thereare some salvias Salvia garon nittka. It's
called it's blue, a niche sagethat does well in a very very bright
shade area and it gets up aboutfour feet high, has kind of a

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bluish purple colored flowers that are attractivehummingbirds. So that's another app option.
You know, a lot of waysyou can go in a spot like that.
Well great. A couple of quickfollow up questions and patients. I've
done the sun patients out in areas, you know in Houston, sun patients
out the sun. They're fantastic.You're saying just regular patients. If I

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use that, you could do regularpatients, or you could do sun patients.
Some patients will grow in less sun. They're just able to take more
sun than regular impatients are. Andso you know you can you could do
either one of them in an area. Wishbone flower does good, Terina,
it does good in an area likethat. There's there's just a number of

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options, kind of depends on whatyou want to look at, what you
find, what you find attractive.Well, hydrangees tell me I've had hydranges
before in kind of a shady areaand they never did well. Okay,
well, do you really think that'san option underneath a tree that gets a
lot of shade. Yeah, that'san option. They're not an easy plant,

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though, I'll acknowledge that getting thewater right on them, and you
know, keeping them adequately fertilized,getting the water they need, never letting
them dry out. So if youwant to make it a little easier on
yourself, you know, we couldgo a different direction than the than the
hydranges would be. But okay,well, thanks so much. Another one

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is a shrimp plant does well ina in a bright, shady type area.
That would be another good choice forthat that you might say that one
again. Shrimp plant. It's veryunusual looking. It's blooms look sort of
like shrimp if you have to lookat a picture of it online to see
what they're talking about. But that'sthat would be a pretty we for an

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area like that. Okay, I'venever heard of that one. Well,
thanks so much. And you're inthe you're in the Memorial area, go
up to Buchanan's plants. They're justdown the road from you. Uh.
They have an excellent selection of shadeloving plants. So you could walk through
there and take a look at itand you know, have them help you
pick something out because they're gonna havean excellent selection. Okay, thanks a

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lot. All right, Dennis,thank you appreciate the call. Thanks a
lot. Let's go now to Richmond. We're going to talk to Roy.
Hello, Roy, thanks for waiting. Good morning, Skip. Happy Father's
Day to you and to all thefathers out there. Thanks. I have
a poison ivy that I have putchemicals on there from the box stores and

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all that, and that that justkeeps growing. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
It's a Is it a vine that'sattached to a tree going up a
tree? Or how's it growing?No, it's just on the it's just
on the on the grass. Ohokay, so it's like coming up out
of your lawn. Some of youon the fence line. Oh, on

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the fence line. Okay. Roy. What you need to do is you
need to get a product that containsan ingredient. Do you have a pin
or pencil handy there, it's triclopeer t r I c l O p
y R. You will find itin things that are called like poison ivy

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killer or a brush killer or stumpkiller. But triclo peer is the ingredient,
uh, And you can spray iton the poison ivy, but don't
get the triclo peer on anything desirablelike your lawn or flowers or things like
that. Another way to approach itis if your poison ivy is like little

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trunks, little vines coming up thatyou would cut off, you can dab
the triclo peer right on those cutsurfaces. So what I would do would
be go to a paint supply storeby those little wooden handled foam brushes,
you know the kind I'm talking about, and you dip it, dip it
in the tricle paer, and thenwhen you cut the poison ivy off,
you just dip it right on thatcut surface. Just dab it right on

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the You have to spray it andget on everything else. You can do
that, or you could, youknow, apply it anyway that's practical to
you along the vines of the poisonivy and it'll work. So whether you
put it on the leaves, thecut stump, or on the vine,
tricle a pear is pretty effective.And I would I would give it a
shot at that it's going to dieback. Just remember that dead poison ivy

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still has that oil in it,so never burn it because that in the
smoke that oil will volatilize. It'svery dangerous. And be real careful,
you know, get it into abag because even dry dead poison ivy will
will cause skin irritation. Well,great, thank you, skip all right,
good lucke o you right, takecare of good day you as well.

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that interest you. Welcome back toGuarden Line. Good to have you with
us. We're rocking and rolling thismorning. Let's head out to Humble,
Texas. We're going to talk toLily. Hello, lily, Good morning.
How are you. I'm good,I'm good. What's up. I
have a lot of different kind ofplants. I just want to know if

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there's a staple fertilized that I canput on them. You know I have,
Oh, go ahead. You're likewanting one fertilizer for a whole bunch
of stuff, right, nice,fair enough, fair enough. You know
I use lawn fertilizer for a lotof things. I just do. And
you know, there's situations where Iwould say, now, don't use that,

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use something different because you need alittle extra phosphorus or some other thing.
But in general I find that agood lawn fertilizer, if you got
it on hand, just use itfor whatever you need it for and it'll
work pretty good. I put iton my fruit treeways, I put it
on my lawns. I put itin vegetable gardens and so on. On
flowering plants. You can, yousure can. And here's the thing.

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You know, we know that likephosphorus for examples, it plays a big
role in flowering. But a lotof soils already have phosphorus in adequate amounts.
Not all do, but some do. But also a big thing about
flowering is having good vigor to produceleaves, to catch sunlight to make sugars
that build flowers. That that's howthe plant is able to flower. And

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so nitrogen is also an important partof a flowering plant's success. And nitrogen
is the big number in the lawnfertilizer. Okay, so is there a
certain number that you would suggest orno, just like a three one to
two kind of ratio of nutrients.We've got a lot of different ones.

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I don't know. If you havea particular lawn fertilizer you like, it'll
probably be okay to use on that. I use Natural Fuss. That's what
I then go with that one youcould use if you've got night Fuss,
if you've got some of the Imperialthe red bag, that's an immediately available
fertilizer, that would be a goodone for a lot of things. You
know, for our lawns, we'rethinking more slow release long term right now,

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but if you had a little flowerbed and you're going to have plants
in it for a couple of months, just use a more immediate release,
or maybe a vegetable garden, youknow, a tomato plant. You could
put some of that imperial around atomato plant if you want. And I'm
answering this not to say that noone should buy any other kinds of fertilizer.
I'm just saying your question was ifI could I buy one fertilizer and
just use it for a lot ofstuff in the answer is yes, And

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if you're going to do that,I would do it with a lawn fertilizer.
Okay. I have a list oftwenty different kinds of things that I
have. It's fertilized individually. Yeah, we'll just kind of okay, go
for it and see how they do. And all I ask is that whatever
produce and flowers you produce, youbring half of them to the KTR studio

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and drop them off for me andwe'll call it even I will do I
know where it's at. That's afair trade, isn't it. Free advice?
Thank you, free produce, Lily, you have fun out there and
Numble, thanks for your call,appreciate that. Thank you, Bye bye
bye. All right, we're goingto keep moving here. Yeah, we're
talking about fertilizers. And one thingI should have mentioned to Lily. Another
good one is astro grow. It'sa Supergrow Plus by Medina Medina Supergrow Plus,

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it's a sixteen zero two. It'sa hoose end fertilizer. So that
one's kind of cool because you know, it takes what maybe ten minutes to
go over about four thousand square feetalong, which is what one of those
bottles will carry. It's got areally good blend of nutrients, and it's
got a lot of extra things.Got some keylated iron in it. It's
got molasses and humic acid. Inother words, it is low did with

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things to make your plants happy.And I saw a picture the other day
someone who used Supergrow Plus the lawnfertilizer on their tomato plants, and I
mean they looked awesome. They werein great shape. They're very happy to
have that. Plants can't read,they don't know what is or is not
a lawn fertilizer. But anyway,the Supergrow Plus from Medina is an excellent

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product. It gave some away yesterdaywhen we were at at Wibird's Unlimited in
bel Air. So that is justone of those new products on the market
that I'm really excited about. AMedina super Grow Plus and it's a sixteen
zero too. It's got a hoseend hookup one court bottle, easy,
easy to use, and it works. It does work. I can tell

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you that for sure. Let's headto northeast Texas. We're going to talk
to James. Hey, James,where is Northeast Texas? Up around Marshall.
I've got a house here that we'veremodeled and put in a driveway and
a new garage. Really tore upthe yard in the sprinkler system. So
we took all of that out andput it back down and we put sant

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augustine grass in about a month ago. And it's really looking great, really
looks sure good. But now,what what kind of fertilizer should I put
on in the in the beginning ofsummer here when it's about to get hot.
Yeah, we don't have the nitroplusproducts up here. You don't do

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that super green super green Okay,I'm not familiar with that. I'm not
familiar. Well, well you justmentioned product oh, a super supergrow plus.
You could do that. That thatis more. You know, it's
a hose end, so it's goingto give you a lot of immediate release
and about a fifth of the nitrogenis slow release and supercrow plus. Uh.

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And so it would be fine.You would just do that in smaller
doses over time. So you maydo it now, you may do it
like two months from now, doit again. But if you're going to
go with just a typical traditional lawnfertilization, I would do something very slow
release. Uh. And if youdon't have like the nitrophiles up there,
do you have Nelson plant food productsup in that area? I haven't seen

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that. Okay, it's mostly thebig box stores. Okay, yeah,
well let's see here. But Ican get to Houston sometime and describe some
bring it back with you when youcome the the Nelson plant food there is.
Let me think, I think theymay have one up in your area.

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You said you were in Marshall.Marshall, Marshall area. Yeah,
they've got a website where they haveall their their located. I know they're
in the df W area. Idon't know how far out they consider DFW
go, and I think Marshall's toofar from f W. But but but
if they do go pretty far outfrom there, and what's the product?

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Nelson's would be slow and easy.That's their version, okay, Okay,
Nelson same. It's a you spreadit with a fertilizer spread walk behind fertilizers
udder, yeah, okay, yeah, So I'm just sitting here looking in
Houston stuff. Yeah, they mighthave it. But next time you come

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down this way, describe some ifyou've got If you've got the super Girl
Plus, go ahead and get itand do it for the next two fertilizations
this summer, and then you'll beready for the fall fertilization, which we
would put on you know when wego back. Do you have you seen
my schedules online? Yes? Okay, all right, good, well then

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that that lists them right there,and yeah, makes it easy skip.
Thank you very much, and happyFather's Day and you too, and have
a good time up there at yourplace up in northeast Texas. All right,
we are. Let's see, Igot some room here, got a
little time here for some calls ifyou'd like seven to one three two one
two k t r H. Sevenone three two one two k t r

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H. If you are dealing withbugs in the lawn, and I'm talking
about things like ants, of course, but also chinch bugs, webworms,
those are coming up. We're onthe verge of those seasons. In fact,
I thought I saw an area looklike chinchbugs other day, and I
got on my hands and knees andcrawled around in the grass for a while
and never found any. So dodgethat bullet. But they'll come, they'll

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get here. Well. Nitrofoss bugOut Max is a product that works well.
It's very persistent too. You putit down and within forty eight hours
it's killed the bugs. But it'sgoing to continue to provide that for the
whole summer season. It stays withit, so later when chinchbugs or side
web worms come along, you've alreadygot that product in place and that works
really well. You're going to findbug out Max in a number of different

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places. You know, nitrofos productsin general are widely available. You're going
to find them at places like theAce Hardware stores for example, the one
that is in the area just northcentral m and d Ace Hardware is up
in the Houston area. Are goingto have those kinds of products. You're
going to find them at the plantationAce out there in Richmond, for example,

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just another example places where you're goingto find nitropost products. Pretty much
when you say it is hardware youknow, they're going to have nitrofosts there,
including that bug out Max. See, we're going to go back to
the phones, and this time we'regoing to Cyprus to talk to Linda.
Hello, Linda, Do I havea Linda there? Okay, let's see.

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I'm put you back on hold.Linda. I think we may have
a get my producer involved. Herewe go. Do we have Linda?
Yeah? All right, I gotyou back on hold. We may have
to see what's going on there toget Linda connected back in with the call.
When we've had the questions about,you know, fertilizers and whatnot,

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and just remember fertilizers are supplemental nutrients. The soil has nutrients in it,
compost decomposing away has nutrients in it. And we don't have to apply and
supply everything that a plant needs inorder to survive, but we do supplement,
and when we supplement, we're ableto get more out of our plants.

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See, it's one thing for aplant just to survive out there in
nature. It's another one. Youwant a lawn that's dense and keeps regrowing
back in and getting denser and denserand better. Or you want a rose
bush and you want blooms and bloomsand blooms. That's where we come in
with our supplements and our fertilizers,and that's where we do. You know,
that extra boost that provides what theplants need. But never forget that

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the number one thing that makes bloomsand fruit on any plant, whether it's
an annual flower, whether it's atomato, or whether it's a peach or
you name it, the number onething that makes blooms and fruit is sunshine
shining on leaves. That's what makesblooms and fruit. Our fertilizer creates more
leafy growth. It can, thenitrogen can, and it provides more ability

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for the food factories that drive bloomingsuccessful blooming. So always keeping a plant
healthy a is a bait thing youcan do. Now, all the other
nutrients, the phosphorus we know thatplays a big part in bloom production,
Potassium, magnesium, a lot ofother things like that, but ultimately,
what we're trying to do is createa healthy leaf because when you have a

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healthy leaf that the sun shines on, then that plant is capable of producing
and blooming like you would want itto. Let's go back to cypress.
We're gonna talk to Linda. Youthere, Linda, Hello, alrighty,
let's see maybe Chris, could youcheck into that one for me. I'm
gonna go now to talk to Donna. Hello, Donna, Hi, good

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morning. How are you? Thankyou for taking and we don't have a
Donna there? All right? Itell you what, Linda, Donna and
Rachel. I'm gonna take a breakand when I come back, I will
give another try at it and we'llsee if we can get one of you
guys on on here. And we'llbe right up with that. We're gonna
take a little break for the news. Got Jared walking in the door,
tell us a little bit about what'sgoing on around the greater Houston area,

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and I will be back. Rememberif you need my lawn care schedules,
which we keep talking about today,gardening with skip dot com. They're free,
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back. Welcome back to Garden Line. I'm your host, skip Rictor.
We're here to answer your gardening questions. We're going to start off by heading
to Donna. Hello, Donna,how are you this morning? Hi?
Good morning, I'm great and youI'm good. I'm good. What can
we do for you? Thank youfor taking my call. I have some

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great myrtles that have this kind ofa dark, patchy look on the leaves.
They don't look healthy, but it'sstill thriving, but they're not blooming,
and I'm wondering, is there whatcan I treat that with? Okay,
you may be seeing city mold.A city mold grow on sugary substances

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produced by insects, and crape myrtleshave aphids that will produce city mold or
the honeydew that city mode grows on. Crape myrtles also have crept mertle bark
scale that can weaken the plant alittle bit. You'll notice on the trunks
little white flecks, a real smallwhite flex and kind of a black city
material when you have crepe myrtle barkscale. So those are possibilities of what's

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going on there. Crapes bloom theyneed good sunlight, so if it's getting
at least six hours of sun,then it ought to be blooming. If
not, part of the problem maybe a lack of sun to the leaves,
but it also could be these peststhat are sort of blocking the sun
by creating that city mold on theleaves. You see what I'm saying.

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It's almost like instead of having anice clear solar panel, now you've got
a dirty solar panel that the suncan't get through. Right, they're in
full sun, okay, but youknow, the new growth doesn't seem to
have any of that on there.It's the old growth, but they do.
They do look kind of a dirty, moldy. You can't really scrape
anything off, but well, usuallyif you something is happening, Yeah,

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usually if you kind of lick yourthumb and rub the top of the leaf,
if you're thumbs, you're wet,it'll come right off. And it's
a it's a superficial, but thinkof it as like a dried sugar with
a soot, moldy soot growing onit. It's kind of what it amounts
to. But anyway, some peoplewill use like kind of a soapy spray
to spray on there, and alot of times it go dry and kind

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of flake off. That's sort ofsomething you just have to try out and
see how that works for you.If it's aphids, insecticidal soap sprays work
really well and blasting them off.If it is the crape myrtle bark scale,
that's going to be a little bitmore of a job to try to
get it under control. But inthe meantime, I would fertilize it.
I would do whatever you can doto get some vigor in that plant,

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because for crapes to bloom, theyneed good vigor and that's the best look
and crapes when you have good vigor. So cleaning up the leaves a little
bit if we can, but boostingthem with some lawn fertilizer to give them
get them stuck. And somebody's saying, name oil, Is that something that
I need to spray them with?Name oil would help? If it was

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aphids, it would work pretty goodon those. It's not going to help
with the scale much. Knem oilis. It doesn't. It has a
little bit of an insecticide in it, but it mainly works by smothering insects
being because it's oil. Because it'san oil. Okay, So Okay,
yeah, gosh, I love mycrape myrtles, but they're just they're not

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blooming. Well, I think what'sgoing on. Yeah, I think getting
that vigor back in them is good. You may want to do a little
bit of a spring. You don'twant to be careful because crapes, honey
bees really need crepes in the summer. That's one of the sources of pollen
for them, a nectar. Andso when we start nuking our crapes to

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kill all the bugs on them,we can do a lot of damage to
the bees too, and we'd reallyrather avoid that, of course. Okay,
fair enough. And then I havea mandavilla that I've planted this year
that was beautiful, absolutely beautiful,thriving divines were climbing, and then one
day it just started wilting and thenjust completely died off, no matter how

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much I've fed it. Are theyvery very sensitive to heat? No,
they can take the heat. Isit in a container or was it in
a container? No, it's inthe ground. It's in the ground.
I'm wondering about root rot or somoisture levels, you know, of course
being too dry as bad, butbeing soggy the roots can't get oxygen.

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And we see a lot of rootright issues and plants like that when they
don't have good drainage. So awater extreme would be one of the first
things that I would look to forthat. Mando Villa is a pretty pretty
good tough plant, doesn't have alot of problems, but like a lot
of plants, when the roots getwater logged, we into some long term

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problems, especially in hot, hotweather where the demands are so high.
Yeah, I suspect that's what itwas. I was heartbroke. It was
beautiful. But thank you again fortaking my call. I appreciate it.
All right, don I thank you, appreciate the call. Take care.
Let's see, we're going to gonow to Chapel Hill and talk to Rachel.
Hello, Rachel, are you there? Hello? Hi, how can

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we help? Thanks for taking mycall. Just question about we planted a
bunch of new trees, not littlebabies, but you know, maybe ninety
gallons okay, you know, andI just want to know what to fertilize
them with. I use lawn fertilizer. There are some fertilizers that are just

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for trees. They make them forthat. Nitrofoss makes one for woody plants
that's in little plastic canisters. Youcan buy it by the bag too,
sometimes depending on where you're shopping.But a lot of times I use land
fertilizer and I find that that worksjust fine. And so here's what I
will do. Get you a loanfertilizer that does not have weed control on

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it, definitely not a weed controlproduct, just fertilizer, and then apply
it at a rate of one totwo cups per inch of trunk diameter.
So how long ago did you putthose trees in? Probably well when it
was still cool, okay, verycool, so probably six months, six
months? Okay, Well, theroot system is still largely where that those

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cylinders went into the ground, thoseninety gallon containers went in the ground.
It has begun reaching out, butit's not like it's a full root system
that's reaching out in all directions.So focus you're fertilizing on the area beneath
the branch spread of the tree.Put most of that down. So let's
say on a ninety pounds, whatyou are, your trunks are about what

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almost the size of a coke can, or a little smaller, maybe a
little bit smaller not much, littlesmall. Well, let's just say that's
about a three inch diameter trunk.Then you would put three to six cups
of lawn fertilizer all around it andwatered and really good. You could do
it again in six weeks and sixweeks later. Just stop by the time
you get about the beginning of August. Stop your your furtilyzation. Then okay,

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okay, And I poured some medinahas to grow around him. Does
that help at all? I'm sorry, say that one more time. You
poured some what medina has to growaround the us. That's helpful, that's
helpful. Yeah, okay. Andthere's several different has to grow, some
of them different nutrient mix than others. But that that's nothing wrong with that.

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That's fine. Okay, great,thank you very much. All right,
Rachel, thank you. I appreciatethe call very much. We're gonna
take a little break here June insugar Land. You will be the first
up when we come back. Herewe go a little bit of break for
the news, and I'll be rightback. Welcome back, Welcome back to
guard Line, Little Lenyard skinnerd.For those of you who remember that,

(02:18:05):
we're going to head out now tosugar Land and talk to June. Hello,
June, Hi, I was wondering, do I need to fertilize or
feed my hydraene here? Yes,you should use something for acid loving plants.
Ideally gets you a product that isfor acid loving plants, and follow
the label carefully, a little gradualfeeding over time. You can do it

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more than once. Uh, justto provide good nutrition so that they can
have the vigor necessary to grow foliageand make a nice healthy plant that blooms
well. Okay, acid polish,Okay, Yeah, I got you something
a little acidifying, so you knowyou're down. You're in the sugar Land

(02:18:50):
area. You got a lot ofgood places to get a good oh yeah
forest. Yeah, and they're gonnathey're gonna have it. Just tell them
I need I need something for kindof an acidic a type plant like like
okay adranger for example. It's notessential, okay, not essential for her
drangers, but I think they doa little better with those. Well,
mina blooming beautiful right now. ButI thought my landscaper said, June,

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I think you're supposed to be usingiron and stuff on them. You're on
the ground, And I said,I have no idea. Well, June,
if you if you see the newgrowth, the young leaves that are
forming at the end of the shoots, if you see it starting to look
a little yellowish, or maybe theveins are green, but the in between
the veins is a yellowish. That'sa sign you do need to supplement with

(02:19:35):
some iron. But just in general, I wouldn't grab the iron and apply
it until the plant is okay,I'll get the extent. Yeah, okay,
that's great. Thank you so much. You have a great day,
happy fall this day, well,thank you, jin and you have a
wonderful rest of your weekend as well. Thank you. You're out in West

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Houston. I want to tell youabout your home town nursery, your local
nursery. That is what you tellme. You hear me talk about it
all the time. Nelson Water Garden. It's out there in Katie, Texas.
You just head out to Katie.It's just right on the outside of
town. That's why I call itour West Houston Garden Center. Nelson Nursery
and water Garden is it's a oneof a kind place. And because they

(02:20:18):
carry one of a kind things,of course, they're a water garden.
Specialty. They've been doing that.They're nationally known for that. So do
you need fish, do you needfountains? Do you need water plants?
Plants that can survive submerged in water, or lily pads, those kind of
beautiful things that are just gorgeous tohave. They've got all of that,
they've got the disappearing fountains, buttheir nursery is chock full of all kinds

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of very very valuable things that youjust don't find everywhere. Last time I
went out to Nelson's, I wasvisiting a throut and I was really surprised.
I mean, they had things like, for example, they have three
different kinds three different varieties of elderberries. Did you know that? Did you
know there are three? They're morethan that, but three different varieties of
elderberries. That's pretty cool, that'spretty amazing. They have got an excellent

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selection of fertilizers and things. Youknow, you heard me earlier talking about
Nelson Turf Star, Slow and Easy, Well it's out there at Nelson Water
Garden nursery and water Garden. Theyhave clemitis that are just beautiful, very
beautiful out there, and many manyother things plumerias and fruit trees and everything
you can imagine. But one thingI haven't mentioned much on Nelson Water Garden

(02:21:33):
is their houseplants. Their indoor plantselection. When you walk in from the
parking lot, you walk into thestore, it is stunning. Remember how
earlier I said a lot of houseplants, or just to see a green,
it's like green this green, thatgreen that. Well, if you want
to see some variegations, some colors, some really like you notice it from
across the room. Houseplant, they'vegot those there. They've got things like

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the money tree. They got theallocacias of various types of calathea. I
mentioned moranta, the prayer plant.They also have the kalathias there that are
just beautiful and so go buy andcheck it out. The beautiful plants,
excellent condition, beautiful health. Iwas there the other day. I had
to grab some particular things going intothat new flower bed we've been working on
getting ready for that. But NelsonWater Garden is always chuck full of what

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you need. And when it comesto herbs, excellent excellent selections of herbs
as well. They still are stockedup on fruit trees, figs and blackberries
and various kinds of citrus like grapefruit, lemon, lime, satsumas, mandarin,
other mandarin types of orange, bloodorange. They've got it all there.
Nelson Water Garden, the nursery andwater gardens specifically. Hey, here's

(02:22:46):
the website, Nelsonwatergardens dot com.Nelson Watergardens dot com. Stop by and
check them out. But I haveto warn you that I don't say I
didn't warn you. When you gothere and you walk out back, you
will be enthralled by this water wonderworld they've created with the disappearing fountains and
everything, and you're going to haveto have one to go home. I
can tell you that you're going towant one for your backyard. I do

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every time I go there, whetherit's a waterfall or a disappearing fountain,
it is inspirational. Take some friendswith you and run out there and check
out what it is that I keeptalking about for all of that. All
right, Well, here we are. We're on guard line. We're running
the end of it, toward theend of the show here today. You
know we're here every Friday, excuseme, Saturday. I'm here on Friday

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too, But I'm not on theair. We're every Saturday from six am
to ten am and every Sunday fromsix am to ten am. If you
want to listen to us, youdon't just have to have a radio.
You can listen on your phone.Gets you an iHeartMedia app or some other
app and just tune in to guardenLine. You can listen to me live.
You can listen to pass shows.We basically turn those into a podcast

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where you can listen to pass shows. So if you hear me talk about
something and you didn't get a chanceto write it down, you can just
go on there and you can checkit out and find out more. That
way makes it makes it easy tokeep track of I enjoy so much getting
to talk to gardeners, getting tohelp you to have success. That is
one of the things that I mostenjoy it. I just find that gardeners

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are They're just a fun group ofpeople because they're out there trying to make
the world a more beautiful, betterplace. And you're also doing the hobby
that I think is the best hobbyin the world. You know, I
know it's hot outside, we're movinginto summertime, and you don't want to
be out a lot in that butmake room early in the morning to get
out and do a little bit,because every time you're outside interacting with nature

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and plants, not only are yougetting the exercise, but you are getting
a lot of mental therapy. I'mtelling you that all aspects of gardening I
find to be pretty much therapeutic.I joked about this once before, and
although I'm kidding about it, I'malso serious and that I feel this way,
and that is that when I gohome and look at a bed full

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of guard of weeds and I kneeldown and start working through that bed,
it is therapeutic in that you standup and you look at the work you've
done, and you can see theresult of your hands right there. And
a lot of things in life.You know, if you've got a job
where you go and you work allday, you're doing stuff, you're working,

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but at the end of the day, it's like, what did I
even get done today? Well,gardening tells you right away what you got
done, and then you get outthere. Take advantage of that, get
out, get some kids involved,to your kiddos. If you have never
grown vegetables with your kids, todaythis afternoon be a good day to get
you a container, get some qualitypotting mix to go in it, and

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let's grow something. Let's do somethingwith kids that help them be set up
for a lifestyle of eating healthier andjust surviving better. And for those of
us that are a little getting olderthrough the years here, gardening keeps you
young. That's just one way toput it. It keeps yea. All
right, we will be back andwe will see you again next weekend here

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on Guardenline. Thanks for being alistener. Don't forget to check out my
website at gardening with Skip dot com. MHM.