Fall Bloom Boom

Skip Richter answers your questions all morning long!

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Welcome to Katie r. H. Garden Line with Skip Rictor.

Speaker 2 (00:05):
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Speaker 4 (00:25):
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Speaker 3 (00:28):
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Speaker 2 (00:45):
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Speaker 5 (00:57):
Well, good morning, gardeners. Yeah, I need you to look
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(01:19):
You are listening to garden Line. I'm your host, Skip Rickter,
and we're here to have some fun while we learn
a little bit about plants and help you have better success.
That is the goal. We want your place to look
as good as you want it to look. We want
your issues that sometimes we have to deal with things
like insects, pests, and disease and weeds and things those

(01:39):
to kind of go away because we manage them properly.
You know what gardening success is all about. It's learning
to see things from a plant's point of view. That is,
I think the simplest way that I can put it.
If you give a plant what it wants, it's going
to be happy. That starts with good soil, as we
always talk about her on garden line, soil first brown
stuff before green stuff, and then it continues on with

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proper care or watering, fertilizing. Certainly sunshine plays a part.
It will advise you on all those things. If you
like to give me a call this morning, here's the
phone number seven one three two one two fifty eight
seventy four seven one three two one two five eight
seven four. We are going to talk about a number
of things as we go through the morning, including the

(02:24):
things that you were interested in talking about as you
call in. But I wanted to start off this morning
and talk a little bit about a topic I haven't
really visited or talked about a whole lot, and that
that is a proper planting of a tree or shrub.
We're in the fall season when it is very important

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to get things planted, because there is no better season
than fall, because that plant has all winter, the rest
of the fall, and all winter and early part of
spring too to get those roots established so that when
this summer heat next year arrives, that plant is resilient
and ready to go. Okay, So how do we plant properly?

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Number One? We set the plant at the level that
it was in the container, so don't put it deeper.
One simple way to do it is you may have
to scrape back the soil at the top of the
container a little bit, find the topmost root, and the
topmost root goes right at the soil line. That's pretty much. Yet,
to make it simple, you plant them too deep. They're

(03:26):
not going to do well. Of course, you don't want
them sticking halfway out of the ground, so put them
at the proper depth. If you dig a hole too
deep and then try to fill in soil, it will
sink down, just like when you dig a trench and
you come back a couple months later and it's sunken
and you thought you'd filled it up real nice. Well,
it soil settles, so don't dig too deep. Dig only
as deep as the root cylinder that came out of

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that pot. Another thing, you're going to have circling roots
on woody plants because they're grown in round pots. That's
just the way it is. You need to cut the
roots that are going around the outside of the container.
You can use if it's a very small set of
roots a small container in or the roots aren't very big,
you can use a box cut a knife. Just slice

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vertically from top to bottom through that root cylinder, about
three places going around the root cylinder. If it's bigger,
you can use handprunters preen the roots, pri in the roots,
pri in the roots. That will not kill the plant.
In fact, it'll help it establish roots. Don't unwind underground,
and a circling root as it gets bigger on a tree,

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and as the tree trunk gets bigger, at some point
the two are going to come together. And now you've
got a root that is strangling the trunk. And that
is a problem that we see on plants down the line.
It takes a few years for that to happen, but
it can be avoided by cutting the circling roots. Whenever
you cut a root, it will re sprout fast. Within
two weeks, there will probably be new white roots coming

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out of that cut end, fresh new living white roots
heading out into the soil, and that speeds established mount
and success. And that's just something that you need to
be able to do. Third, if you want to watered
in with a good solution, something that if you want
to use something that has some rooting hormones in it,
that's fine the root starter kind of solutions. If you

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want to use something that's got a high phosphorus content,
that can be helpful too. Watering these plants in my
chrobial activity in the soil, and in some cases the
products you put down in there are all helpful in
getting that plant off to a good start. So that
would be some important tips there for getting started. If

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you can build a burm of soil around the plant,
that makes watering easier. Now, planning in the fall lessens
the need for that. If you were planning, let's say
in May or April, I would say definitely put a
burm around it. Because you fill that berm with water
and it's soaked straight down into that root cylinder. The
roots are only where they were in the container. When

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you put it out and put it in the ground,
the roots are still in the container shape, and so
the berm helps hold the water and so it soaks
straight down. It's hard to get a good soaking of
that container without that. Anyway, those are a few tips
to get you off to a good start. I see
a lot of folks are eager to plant in the spring.
Then we get into the fall season and it's like,

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you know, I'm not so excited about planting in the fall,
and I wish I could change that.

Speaker 2 (06:27):
I would.

Speaker 5 (06:27):
I really wish that I could change that. But I've
tried and I'll continue to try. But folks just don't
catch the fever and the fall like they do in
the spring, and we really need to catch that fever
in the fall. That is very important. Because of all
the advantages, I'll just give you another advantage. I tell
you what. Let me talk to those of you who
are tight wids. Yeah, so some of you look up

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when I said that word talk about, well, if you
like to save money, or let me just make it
an honorable thing. If you don't like to waste money,
fall planting is your friend. And here's why you get
a Let's say, by the way, when you buy a plant,
you're kind of paying for the dirt. That's the one
way I like to say it because it helps people

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understand something, and that is with each pot size increase,
the plant becomes more expensive in some cases a significant
jump between two pot sizes. So if you were to
take let's see you on a planet as salvia, and
you could find one in a little four inch pot
or six inch pot or something like that, this falling
plant it, and then you turn around plant the same

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plant in a next size up, maybe it's a six
inch or gallum pot. In the spring, you'd pay a
lot more for the spring plant, but by the time
you get to next summer, you couldn't tell the difference
hardly at all between those two plants. Fall planting gives
that plant that was smaller a head start, and in
the end you end up just fine. So there's another
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Speaker 2 (09:25):
Hey, welcome back.

Speaker 5 (09:30):
It's good to have you with us today. Looking forward
to talking gardening. Who are you looking for for success?
Give you a few chips here. You know, in the summertime,
our water demands on the plants because of the heat,
because of the temperatures and the blazing sunlight are higher,

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and so you when you're growing a container of whatever, vegetables, flowers, herbs,
you name it, you gotta water a lot more often
just to keep that container supplied. In the cool season,
things really slow down a lot. The temperatures are lower, milder,
even the solar intensity is less by and large as
you go through the days in the late fall and winter,

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and so it's not as demanding to have to water
all the time. But still it's worth having a large
sized container. If you watch gardening TV from across the
country you know gardening shows, or if you listen to
gardening radio programs somewhere else, you will often be led
to believe that a smaller container will work. For growing plants,

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because in areas where the demand is lower on the plant,
you get by with a little less of a container.
But I would suggest, especially in summertime, but also even
in the cool season here, if you want to have success,
give that plant a little bit more soil, give it
a little bit more container size, in other words, and
that way that plant will be able to go and

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grow uninhibited at all, not held back at all by
the container sized by the soil, because the roots of
the plant can only be in that container, right, So
everything that plant needs, from water to nutrients has to
come out of that container. So when you move up
a container size, that means a little more soil, a
little more water available to go through the next day

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or two, and also the nutrients that it needs, because
it needs nutrients every day. When you grow in a container,
have a source of nutrients that's always available. Now, you
can do that by applying an immediately available fertilizer in
light doses regularly, or you can do it by applying
a slow release fertilizer that gradually over time releases nutrients.

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It doesn't Either way is fine. The plant just cares
about one thing. My roots are sticking out there in
the soil. I need some iron, I need some zinc,
I need some nitrogen, I need some magnesium. You know,
that's what it's mining for. And it's either there it's
not there. And if it's not there, the plant growth
slows or stops in some cases depending on the nutrients

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and how low the levels are. So keeping them with
an adequate bank account of water and nutrients and nutrients
both and the soil is helpful. So give them a
little bit bigger size. Also, a bunch of small containers
you run around water and water and water and keeping
them happy and so on. Why not plant a bigger
one and make it more impressive. So we're going into

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the cool season, you could have an evergreen type plant
that is more upright in the center of a very
large container, and then you could have other plants around
the sides, some spilling over the sides, some just kind
of as a short bushy habit around that plant. The
tall center plant. That's a technique called thriller filler spiller,
And what that basically means is in the center of

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the plant, that's the thriller, that's the one going straight up,
and then the filler are those that go around that
to kind of fill in between the tall plant and
the pot, and then the spiller of the plants spilling
off the side. So in the cool season, something like
a lissome, the white flowered plant that's pretty cold, pretty cold, hardy,

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we'll spill over the sides and just like habillows of
white blooms going over the sides. There's other plants that
could be used as that ivy, even Nino, a little dwarf.
I was looking at some dwarf ivy yesterday at RCW
And by the way, thanks to the folks at RCW
for having us out yesterday. That was that was in Djoba.
I always like going out there. It's a great place

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to shop. It's a great place to find cool stuff.
It has really nice little tiny miniature succulents, and I
just happened upon him. It was like those are those
are really cool. It's kind of fun along with all
the other things they carry. But anyway, I was out
there and I saw some miniature needle point ivy that
they had that would be a good spiller around the

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side of a plant, and go, well, yeah, but that's
just a green vine, I know, But this is this
is a cool season, and we're looking for things. You
need evergreen plants, right, you need plants that are cold harding,
and so that'd be a really good spiller going over
the side thriller, filler spiller. That's just a technique. Takes
a big pot to do that though, but when you
do that, it makes a bigger impact visually on the

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landscape or on the setting. Maybe it's a patio where
you have that set up, or a front porch. Just
a little tip there for you out in the yard.
I'm still appealing to you to take care of your
grass before it goes into the cool season. Fully. Now
that's Nitrofos's three step or three products they put together
to do just that. So what are those three products. Well,

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first of all, it's the Fall Special winteriser. That is
an eight twelve sixteen product. That's sixteen. That third number
potassium very important for cold heartiness. That's why in the
fall fertilizer, the Fall Special by Nitrofoss, it is higher number.
You still need nitrogen, just a little bit, not a lot.
It's like we flip those in the summertime. It's a

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lot more nitrogen than potassium. In the fall season. More
potassium than nitrogen possible. That's what we're aiming for, and
that's the fall special. Second step is the winter weeds.
They are sprouting now. You won't notice them until spring
when they take off growing and blooming and throwing seeds
all over your yard to sentence you to ten more
years of weeding. But you can prevent those with a

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barricade application right now. That's the second step. Third step
nitrofoss eagle turf fungicide for the big brown circles that
appear on your lawn. That's a large patch. It's always
been called brown patch, and so we still use brown
patch as a name because people, you know, it's hard
to change. But it's technically large patch. It doesn't matter

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what it's called. It's big brown, ugly circles. It will
stay brown all winter until it warms up in the
grassery greens in those areas. You can prevent them from
ever happening with eagle turf fungicide. So that's the thing.
All of this is timely. You know, you don't put
on a pre emergent for weeds. After the weeds are
up and growing. You don't put down a fungicide for

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brown patch after the brown circles are already there. Uh.
And if you wait long enough, it's going to you're
gonna get less benefit from your fall fertilization because the
grass is slowing down, not taking up nutrients as fast.
Now's the time Texas three step. Where do you get it?
You get it at heat and Feed. In Houston you
can get it at Plants for all seasons, and Luetta,
you can get a Fisher's hardware down in Pasadena. They

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all carry nicofoss products. Uh. So we're talking about containers
and cool season. It's just it's just easier to grow
in containers. I would recommend not only flowers and containers,
but vegetables too. You can just do you like do
you like greens? Do you like cool season greens like

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lettuce and spinach and maybe baby kale or arugula or
some other tasty greens like that? Why not grow them
in a little container. If you don't have room for
a garden, you could have several containers of those. I
said little. I didn't I shouldn't say little. I just
say a container, because you know I have grown greens
and just a little flat almost a saucer. It's those

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things that catch water underneath the pot but not the
tiny ones, but a big one that's got like a
three inch high lip on it. Fill a full of
potting saw, put some greens in there. Just don't over
water or drill drainage holes. If you're going to do
that and it works, great, you can just take your
scissors and go out and I'm gonna go mow me
a salad. And you can take your scissors and go
out there, and you mow it off just a half

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inch inch above the soil something like that, probably an inch,
and it reached sprouts. It comes right back up out
of there again because you didn't you didn't pull up
the plants, you just mowed them off. So you need
several of those so you can always have a fresh
one coming on and ready to harvest. That's an example
if you got kids and you're wanting to have some
fun gardening with kids. Another technique is to grow like

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let's say you do radishes. That's really fast, radishes. Within
a month, you've got something on radishes. They're very fast.
You put it on radishes on the soil surface and
then you lay a piece of half inch hardware cloth
over it. That's a little squares like underneath the rabbit
cage for the rabbits to hop around on, but lets
the droppings fall through. You put one of those over

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the top of the soil, just kind of weigh it
down because you know how wire is, it kind of
bends and wants to stick up. You want to hold
it to the soil surface. Radishes come through it, they grow.
When it's time to harvest, you just pull up the
whole sheet of hardware cloth, wash the soil off, and
you got leaves on one side and radishes on the
other side. Kids will think that's kind of fun and cool.
That's just a fun technique that you can do. It's

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also time to plant start planning our carrots as well
out there in the gardens. Kind of a last call
here on your lawns for rejuvenating a struggling lawn. And
that's the folks at Greenpro coming out to do a
core aeration compost top dressing for you. By the way,
if you need fertilization done, you don't do it yourself,
you can have them. They can do that as well.

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They serve an area kind of the northwest quadrant of
Houston that would be Interstate forty five and I ten forming.
You know the four quadrants of Houston in the northwest,
so up around Woodlands, Conrad, Willis, Cyprus, Spring over to
Magnolia and Montgomery, Katie down to Katie on Iten West Houston,
that whole quadrant area that they service and they'll come

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out and they'll do a quality corroporation. They have very
nice equipment, very expensive equipment that they bring out and
it does a perfect job of air rating. They got
another piece of equipment that does a nice even application
of compost top dressing over the top brees life into
the soil and helps rejuvenate a struggling, struggling lawn. That

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is important. By the way, when you're when you were
doing your your fall fertilization, I don't want to forget
to mention that the fertilizer bags were putting out. Those
are micro nutrients, primarily most of them are or macro nutrients.
Azamite is micro nutrients and so always include an azmite
application before or after you do your regular fertilization applications.

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This is a crushed micro trace mineral supplement that provides
plants those nutrients that are also part of the nutrient
bank account that helps it survive, thrive, and produce well.
Azomite Texas dot Com that's the website. You're going to
find azemite all over the place. Just wherever you get
your fertilizer, they probably have as mite there as well.
Take a little break here, I'll be right back.

Speaker 2 (20:37):
All right.

Speaker 5 (20:38):
Good morning, Good morning, gardeners. Oh I'm enjoying this weather.
I am, and I've lived in Texas almost a whole lot.
Spent three years outside of the state, but I've been
subject to place got summers for a long time. But
I still I prefer a little bit of cool weather.

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And then now I'm not going to Wisconsin, that's for sure,
or any place north where I got to climb out
of snow all the time. But I do enjoy it
a little bit of cooler weather. I figure it this way.
I can always I can always bundle up. But in
the summertime, it's like, Okay, how do you get away
from this other than air conditioning? I understand air conditioning.

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I'm not counting that. So I hope you're enjoying it
at least a break from the weather. Those of you
who have been dealing with the heat all the time
and the summer. Those of you just moved to Houston,
A welcome to Houston area, all of this Southeast Texas
area where our garden line listeners are. If you have
been your first year here, don't worry. It is survivable.
We do make it through. It's okay, and we get

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a lot of perks because of the hot weather that
as far as gardening is concerned, that you don't have
another area, it's like, can you grow centris? Can you
grow even avocados down in the southern part of the region.
Put up with the little freezers every now and then,
but in general, we can grow a lot of things.
So a lot of beautiful plants that do well down
here that will not grow further north. Now I have

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people from It's typically like let's say somebody moves from
the Midwest down into the Houston area and I get
questions about for Cynthia, you know, can you grow it here? Well,
not like you want to, So I wouldn't bother with
that planet. It's just not going to do those you know,
harbinger of spring, bright canary yellow blooms that you've enjoyed.

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But and then another one that people seem to miss is.
Oh gosh, I just went blank on the one I
was gonna name. Hmm, I'll think of it in a
little bit. Very fragrant lilac, that's the one lilas. So
if you want a lilac, you need to find a
purple flowered crape myrtle, and there are some with kind
of lavender purple flowers, and then get your bottle of

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perfume and squirt the crape myrtle and you have. That's
as good as we can do on the way to lilacs,
by the way, but you're going to find a whole
new palad of plants that are really, really wonderful down here.
I was just outside yesterday and I saw my white
butterfly gingers blooming. Still they bloom late summer, in the fall,

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still blooming for me, And just every time I see
what a bloom, I got to walk over and take
a deep whiff of that fragrance. It is unbelievable. And
we can grow those here. And that's a surprise too,
because you get to the end of the summer season,
you know it's like been a long year. Here comes
the white butterfly ginger to just bless your nose with

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some wonderful fragrance. So let's talk about that. Maybe you've
got some questions about would this plant grow? Here? We
can talk about those as well. I've been doing this
for thirty five years, and you know, the fun thing is,
after thirty five years, I probably have answered some questions
three five hundred times, first of all, but there's always

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a new question. I had one yesterday. I can't remember
what it was. Someone asked me about a plant that
I'd never been asked about before. So it's always something new.
But that's the fun thing about gardening. It is renewed,
you know. Okay, I'm gonna It's a Sunday morning, so
here I go. Uh, there is a I believe we
were designed for gardening. I believe we were made for gardening.

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I really do, because if you think about it, you
look at the biblical story of the Garden of Eden, right,
and it wasn't the cubicle of Eden. We're not made
to be in an artificial lighting, inside in a box,
working staring at a screen all day. We're made to
be out there, touching plants, breathing fresh air. And the

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research showing the mental benefits of physical benefits just all
kinds of things, from a little kids dealing with ADHD
to older folks dealing with dementia, all the way across
the spectrum of life. Gardening is a healing thing. It
really makes a difference, a research measurably provable difference in us.

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And so I would encourage you whatever level you want
to get involved with with gardening, go for it. You know,
take take a dip your toe in gardening. Let's say,
let's try that out. If you haven't done that before,
you need to give it a shot because it's fun.
Maybe you're going to go out and just like redo
the whole landscape and go nuts and just you know,
you're putting in an orchard and you're putting in all

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the you can do that. Or maybe you just get
a simple little house plant that you start taking care
of and you enjoy, and then you get another one
you learn how to propagate them. There are eight hundred
thousand levels to gardening. There are all these options of it.
You do what you want to do. I was down
in Galveston County talking to the master gardeners down there,

(25:42):
Boon Holidays or horticulture agent down there now and speaking
to that group and we're talking about plant propagation, and
between the veteran master gardeners teaching some parts of the
plant propagation and myself teaching the class, we really had
a good time because, you know, I told the group,
once you learn how to propagate plants, you're dangerous. You know,

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when you go visit somebody's yard, they need to be
forewarned because any plant that they have, you know how
to take a pinch off that plant and root it.
You can have that plant too. Of course, that's stung
in cheek, joking kind of. But gardening has a lot
of fun things. If you never tried starting your own seed,
let's do that. Get you some equipment for starting seeds,

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the trays, the soils, maybe a nice set of lighting,
could be a heating pad to go underneath it if
you're going to start them out in a cold garage.
But you don't have to have the heating pad if
it's indoors, but you do need good light. But why
not plan on this coming year, find you a pepper
plant or a tomato variety, something you can't grow, you
cannot find locally, and get you some seeds of it

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and start you some try that out. It's a lot
of fun. That's one of my winter therapies is getting
to play under the gardening lights, starting new plants and
starting cuttings. Enchanted Forest down in the Richmond Rosenberg area
one of my favorite garden centers. You go visit and

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it just from the time you pull up, it just
is a cool setting. It is truly enchanting, just from
the rustic nature of the buildings to just seeing tables
full of beautiful plants. I'm talking about flowers, you know.
This season we're looking at snap dragons. We're looking at
pansies and petunias or pansies and violas, stock and colendulas

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and all kinds of cool season flowers. And then the
whole herb barn, the structure that's the herbs are in
the vegetable area is loaded with plants, and then there's
shrubs and trees. You know, I don't care what you're
looking for, they probably got it there at Enchanted Forest.
They got excellent advice too. The folks that are there,

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they know what they're talking about, and they can help
you and they can guide you and give you the
give you the direction you need to have success. That's
what it's all about. If you're interested in pollinator support
plant they have those. If you want to attract butterflies
or hummingbirds, they have that. If you're looking for plants
that are native, if you're looking for plants that are
unusual that maybe other people just don't have. They're kind

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of an unusual type of plant, you're going to find
it at Enchanted Forest. Now how do you get there, Well,
it's on FM twenty seven fifty nine. If you were
in Richmond heading towards Sugarland up fifty nine, it's off
to the right, it's on FM twenty seven to fifty nine.
But just do this, write down this website and go
check it out. You find out from the website what's

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going on there, you know, the different events that they
have going on. You'll find out different sales that they
have going on. Sign up for the newsletter Enchanted Forest
Richmond TX dot com. Enchanted Forest, Richmond, TX dot com.
You really need to go check it out. Is one wonderful,

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wonderful place right now. They have just got a lot
of good information on the web and on their newsletter.
The turks Caps, the Cyclement, Oh those are beautiful the
different kinds of holiday cactus, amarillis bulbs, cool season flowers,
and check out the gift shop. It is amazing Enchanted Forest, Richmond,

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TX dot com. Just take a little break and we'll
be right back with our last segment of this first
hour of Garden Line. All right, there's good advice for
you this morning. Good Sunday morning. Hope things are going
well for you this morning. We're looking forward to visiting
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seven to one three six sixty six one seven four.
Let's go to Tomball. Now we're going to talk to
David Well. Hello, David, Welcome to garden Line.

Speaker 6 (30:19):
Good morning, sir, Hey, I'm a cloth driver and I
was driving up in the Dakota's in Neblaska area, and
I just saw all these fields of sunflower and just
made me think, do those things grow good down here?
And if they do, what, Yes, I just don't want

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to waste my time if I if I try.

Speaker 7 (30:43):
To growing them.

Speaker 5 (30:45):
No, they do, they do do good. We grow them
in the warm season. You wouldn't be planning them now.
But there are actually some commercial fields in the Greater
Houston area of sunflowers. You gotta go a little further
north for the ones I'm most familiar with, but I've
occasionally going down the roadside you'll see a field of them.
But yes, people grow them as flowers.

Speaker 8 (31:03):
Uh.

Speaker 5 (31:04):
People grow them for the big giant ones for sunflower seeds.
If you wish to do that, yeah, yeah, no, do not. Now,
wait until all the frost dangers passed, uh in the
spring to begin planning them. Spring and summer, early summer

(31:25):
you can just yeah, just give them, give them a
place where then get lots of sun so they can
produce lots of carbhydrates, so they can produce lots of
sunflower kernels to eat, which is what you're going for
but it takes sunlight to accomplish all that.

Speaker 7 (31:40):
Alrighty, I'm gonna give it a try.

Speaker 5 (31:42):
There you go, there you go, all right, send me
a picture of your sunflowers. If you get them growing,
Thank you. You take care, that's for sure. Hey, Peers
Scapes you want you want some inspiration, go look at
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They can can take just a regular landscape, a regular

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home scape around the house and they can make it
really something special. The difference that landscape lighting makes, the
difference that nice hard scapes, you know, the patios, the walkways,
the things like that, the bordered beds with the rock
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You know, they do a quarterly maintenance program there as well.
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zero six zero, And oh they do seasonal lighting options too, which, boy,
it's time to talk about that, isn't it. You want
somebody to come out and really turn your place into
something special. Pierce Caapes two eight one three seven fifty
sixty talking about their sunflowers. I grew up planting different things,

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and we had a little garden in the backyard. Well, no,
it wasn't a little garden. It was a big garden
in the backyard. At that time, I didn't know I
wanted to be a horticulturist. In fact, at that time,
I wasn't a big fan of gardening because it was
how let's just say, what is the word for it,
when I misbehaved, Okay, when I misbehaved, it was the

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way that my parents sought to ensure that there wasn't
recidivism in my crime. In other words, I learned my lesson.
So I got to pull weeds in the garden when
I misbehaved, which, as I pointed out before on garden Line,
we had a weed free garden. You can put two
and two together and figure out what was going on there.

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But anyway, I loved grew sunflowers one time, and I
remember these giant sunflower heads. I need to big old
things of course, towering well above me with the fresh
sunflowers on them. Birds love those things too. Some people
will grow even the smaller types of sunflowers and just
leave the stalks into the cool season. And that's true
of a lot of those daisy like flower forms, you

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know Echinasia, purple cone flower, sunflowers and others. The birds
will come along and they'll peck the seeds out of
those if they're left dried and sitting there in the garden.
I know, people go, oh, that's ugly, it's dead. I
need to pull it out. Well, yeah you can, but
that's not what nature does. Nature feeds the birds by
leaving those things out there. And so just something that

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you might also want to think about doing. It makes
a lot of sense personally. Gardening has so many aspects
to it, and you know, for example, there's the visual aspects.
That's what we think about. You know, I want to
drive up look at my place with my eyes and
see beauty and just order and you know, whatever appeals

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to you. That's true. I mentioned earlier about the fragrance
of a guardina. I mean, well guardinas too, but I
was talking about white butterfly ginger. But fragrance is another
aspect of gardening. I mean you could you could be
blind and enjoy gardening, right. Another aspect of gardening is
I think the motion, the movement and the textures. And

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so when you see the movement of a swaying grass
seedheads when the sun is shining through them, when you
see you hear the rustling of the leaves of a
bamboo as it sways back and forth, it sounds like rain,
like a light rain falling through the leaves. It is
just another aspect of gardening. And there are many more
aspects of it as well, including bringing in butterflies and

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flowers and other butterflies and hummingbirds and other I call
them flying flowers because they are so pretty. So take
it manage all those you know I mentioned. The Native
Plants or the Buchanans Native Plants is an awesome place
to get the best selection in natives you're going to
find in this entire region. You can go to the

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website Buchanansplants dot com find out more about what you
can get there. But I'm telling you Buchanans is an
awesome place. They've got some nice deals right now on
selective pottery they've got. Of course, you're Amarillis bulbs that
you're you're planting. It's time to plant wildflowers and they
have a whole wall full of wildflower seed that are

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planted in the fall. For enjoying them in the spring.
Of course, you've got to go into the gift shops
and see all of the holiday items that they put
in there ready to go waiting on you. If you've
not planted a fall aster in your landscape, you need to.
That is another season where we could be enjoying bulbs,
blooms and fall Astor is a Houston Airs County native.

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The Buchanan's Navy plants on eleven Street and Height. You
need to get one. I had some fall aster at
a place I used to be and it's just gorgeous.
Lavender purple flowers just pop up in the spring. Maybe
when we come back, I can't remember to do this.
I want to talk about why to fall blooms bloom
in the fall. You think about it, you plant a flower,

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it blooms, right What Why to fall flowers bloom at
the end of the year. That fall aster sits there
all year when it's a little green, low growing shrub.
What makes it bloom? We'll talk about that when we
come back. I want to remind you that next weekend
I'll be at wild Birds Unlimited in Kingwood. Excuse me,

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that is Saturday, November eighth, from twelve thirty to two
thirty wild Birds Unlimited in Kingwood. We'll talk about that
more in a bit here.

Speaker 1 (37:53):
Welcome to k t RH Guarden Line with Scared Rictor.

Speaker 2 (37:57):
It's gas trip.

Speaker 9 (38:06):
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Speaker 4 (38:23):
Sign credits gas, sun beam and down between.

Speaker 5 (38:33):
All right, we're back. Welcome back, starting, Welcome back to
guard Line this morning, lovely Sunday morning. Glad to have
you with us. If you have a gardening question we
can help with well, give me a call. Seven one
three two one two fifty eight seventy four seven one
three two one two five eight seven four Plants for

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all seasons? Is the garden center right there. You're probably
driven past it going up Tomball Parkway back and forth
Houston at Tumble. It's right north of Luetta and it's
just it's been there since the early nineteen seventies. A
wonderful place. People that know what they're talking about, people
that can help you have success because they garden here.

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They have for a very long time. The Flowery family
who runs the operation, these folks, they're garden experts, and
the folks that work there absolutely the same thing. Friendly, helpful,
just enjoyable to go and be part of. You know,
I find when you go there, you're going to find
every kind of plant you're looking for right now. Oh
my gosh, the cool season color is through the roof,

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through the I was over there the other day stopping
in just to say hi, I check out see what
they got going on, and they are loaded up with
pansies and violas and with cyclomens, so many gorgeous colors
to really brighten your place. And then you get over
into the vegetables and the herbs, same as usual, just
everything that you would possibly need to have success there.

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They have got you covered on that. One thing I
wanted to tell you about, though, is coming up on
November fifteenth. November fifteenth is going to be a workshop.
It's called Bulbs, Tubers and Corms. Oh my like that name.
So they're going to cover things to help you understand
success with bulbs. Really, So, what's the difference in a
bulb and a two burn a korm for example? What

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types of bulbs of species? What varieties do best here
in the Houston area. When do you plan them? How
do you plan them so that you enjoy good success
so you enjoy blooms, which is why they put them in.
This is going to be on November the fifteenth from
nine am to ten am. It does not cost anything
to attend, but you need to register, okay, And if

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you will go to the Plants for All Seasons website
you can find out more about it or just give
them give them a call there Plants for All Seasons.
They'll tell you exactly how to get registered for it.
But it is all about bulbs. And of course after
the workshop you can go into Plants for All Seasons
and find those bulbs because they're loaded with bulbs right now.

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Whether it's bulbs for forcing indoors or bulbs for planting
in the ground outdoors. They got you covered there. Plants
for All Seasons, Plants for All Seasons dot com. Again,
they're just north of Luetta, right there on Highway to
forty nine FM two forty nine Tomball Parkway. The other day,
I was where was I somewhere? I can't remember, it

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doesn't matter where, but anyway, I was looking at a
bag of Nelson's carbo load. Carbo Load is the Nelson
product that's for the fall for the lawn. And the
reason it's for the fall of the lawn is because
it has that ratio of nutrients the higher potassium the
third number, the lower nitrogen the first number that is
perfect for plants going in the fall. It also has

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the preventative weed control in it, the product that is
a pre emergent. So you put on carbo load. By
the way, the bag is purple. If you're looking for it,
it's a purple bag. Makes it easy to find it.
You put on carbeload, you watered in, but you do
it right away because we're already hitting the season where
we're starting to see the winter seeds, winter weed seeds germinate.

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So get down carboload now watered in about half inch
of water will do it. Get it into the surface
and then it'll help prevent those Now you're going to
find carboload is the perfect blend of nutrients for getting
your lawn as hardy as it can be going into winter,
and as strong as it can be because new growth

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in the spring comes from the fall fertilization. The early
early spring. The plant root system is not set up
to take up a lot of nutrients right away, but
the fall fertilization has filled your grass plants, which is
what a lawn is. It's just a garden of grass plants.
It's filled your grass plants with the nutrients reserves to

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make it hardy and to give that early energy for
early growth. Load from the folks that Nelson easy to
find all over the place bags of carb load. Look
for the purple bag when you're out there looking for it.
Uh seven five eight seven four. That's the number here.
If you would like to give me a call, maybe
talk gardening about something. I know Sunday mornings are a

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little bit sleepy for folks and slow to get going here,
but you're sure welcome to give me a call. You
got a question, be happy to help with that. What
was I talking about before break? My producer, do you
remember what was that time about? I said, I'm going
to talk about after break. I can't remember now anyway,
it was a pardon okay, yeah, me, I don't remember anyway,

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whatever it is, it'll come to me. Here a little bit,
I was on some topic and I thought, oh, we
need to talk about that more. Well, I should write
it down.

Speaker 10 (43:50):
Uh.

Speaker 5 (43:51):
I do want to mention I've been getting out my
plant lights and getting things ready for some indoor guard
that I'm going to start doing. One of the things.
It's a little late now. Well, I mean you can
still do it, but it's a little late for me
to start transplants indoors for cool season, although it can
be done. I'll probably just direct seat them out of

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the garden at this point. But I do have a
lot of cuttings that I'm rooting. I'm rooting some rose
cuttings that I made the other day, and I just
need a good light for them. You know, light is
it drives everything in plants. And the number one mistake
people make when they're trying to start their own seedlings
is they don't give them enough light. They may put
them in a window sill, thinking well that's bright out there,

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and yes it is out there, but your plants are
going to get spindiy and lean toward that light and
not be nice, sturdy strong transplants. If you will give
them good light, they will perform well. And the same
is true with rooting cuttings. Cuttings have to get a
root down based on the carbohydrate reserves that are in

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them and the few leaves that they have on it.
You have on a cutting are able to take in
that l light and continue to support that plant until
it gets roots down. You know, when you cut a plant,
cutting off of a plant, it basically it's like a
race to death right there. You've already severed it so
it is on its way to dying, and you put

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that cutting in moist soil in a covered container to
hold the moisture in with a clear cover so light
can get in. And it's just a matter of can
this plant get a root out before it dies, because
it's on its way to dying. And then it gets
a root out, it turns things around and all of
a sudden you see new growth coming, meaning it has
rooted and it's gonna make it probably as long as

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you continue to provide good care. But light is an
important part of that, so don't forget that. The folks
at Houston Powder Coders I love going to see the
work that they've done, and you can do that in
a number of places. I like to go to their
Facebook page. You know, it's easy. It's Houston Powder Coders.
You can find them on Facebook. Easy. But Houston Powder

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Coders it just does magical work. You know, they do everything.
They'll do industrial types of work. I mean, you can
bring a goose neck trailer in there and they can
powder coat it and everything else. From a home standpoint,
you know, things like a barbecue pit. You got an
old barbecue pit that's looking rusty and yeah, not so great.
Let them get a hold of it. When they get

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through it, that you will think that it's sitting on
the showroom floor. It is that beautiful. You've got metal
fencing maybe, or one of those metal fences, you know
with the the either a mesh type or the actual
vertical posts in a metal they can powder coat it
and it looks amazing. It's outstanding what they can do

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with metal. How about some pool side chairs, how about
some patio tables and chairs? They can powder If it's metal,
they can do it and they can work magic. It's unbelievable.
It makes it brand new. Basically, it makes it brand new.
That's what they do at Houston Powder Coders, Houston Powder
Coats two eight one six seven six thirty eight eighty

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eight two eight one six seven six thirty eight eighty eight.
We're going to take a quick break and when we
come back, Ruthie and Hockley, you're going to be our
first s up. Welcome back thing, got welcome back to
the garden Line. Got good to have you with us
this morning. When let's head out to the phones, we

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are going to head out to Hockley and talk to
Ruthie this morning. Hi Ruthie, welcome to garden Line.

Speaker 10 (47:34):
Thik skip, Hi, thank you.

Speaker 11 (47:37):
You were going to talk about why cool plants bloom
in the fall, and I'm really looking forward to hearing
about that.

Speaker 7 (47:45):
Ah.

Speaker 5 (47:46):
Yes, my producer just reminded me of that. Is that
what you're calling for? Did you have a question?

Speaker 11 (47:50):
That's no, That's exactly why I was calling because I
was looking forward to hearing about it. So I'll get
off and listen.

Speaker 5 (47:57):
Ahi, Ruthie. Thanks, I need hell of the hell hope
I can get. I appreciate.

Speaker 12 (48:03):
You.

Speaker 5 (48:03):
Take care. We absolutely will do that. I got into
the caller sitting here, so let me go ahead and
go to that call, and then I will do the
wide plants bloom in the fall. Hey, welcome to garden line.
Tell me how I'm speaking to and where you're calling from.

Speaker 10 (48:20):
My name is Virginia and I'm calling from Gallaston.

Speaker 5 (48:25):
Good. How can we help my question?

Speaker 13 (48:30):
My question is I have a groundcover called Joseph's coate.

Speaker 14 (48:34):
I don't know if you're familiar with.

Speaker 13 (48:35):
It or not, but I've grown it for years and
I just love it, and I grow it in talks.
I grow it as in the ground as a border.

Speaker 10 (48:43):
It just is a beautiful ground cover.

Speaker 13 (48:46):
But for some reason, all of a sudden, all the
leaves fall off.

Speaker 12 (48:50):
I can't find a bug.

Speaker 13 (48:52):
I've done this for years, so I don't think I'm
overwatering or underwatering. And then another pot, I'll have it
growing and it's beautiful. I don't understand what's going on.

Speaker 12 (49:04):
Do you have a clue?

Speaker 5 (49:07):
I don't. Well, I mean there's possibilities in my head,
but I don't know specifically what's doing to your plants.
There are things that can come along and eat the leaves.
That's a possibility. There are when you say they're falling off,
are you seeing the fallen leaves around it. Yeah, leaves
are present, Yeah they're missing. That sounds like something chomped

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on it. There's things that will go out and chomp
in the night, you know. I'm always surprised that sometimes
the things that you find rats doing. I don't know
that a rat would want to eat leaves of Joseph's coat,
but something's going on there with that. I can't there's
not a disease of Joseph's coat or a particular insect

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of Joseph's coat that would be what I think. Okay,
maybe this is the culprit, so it's going to be
something a little bit unusual. Maybe the leaves kind of
died and shriveled and so you're not really seeing them there,
but they they're That's just what happened to them. Adequate moisture,
but not too much good It needs good drainage. I

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don't know. Maybe that we could we could take a
look at a close up picture emailed them. Let me
look in. Maybe I'll see something in the picture. I'm
happy to take a lot of what you'd like to
do that.

Speaker 13 (50:24):
Okay, Well, I've brought it for years and I just
feel like I've never had anything like this happened to it.
So I just and I'm and I have a gardener
garden for years and so okay, but I don't I'm
not very good at getting.

Speaker 8 (50:38):
The picture to you, so I can't do that well.
So thank you.

Speaker 5 (50:44):
If you got yes, that's that's perfect understandable. I think
my gut feeling here Virginia is something's coming in and
nipping on those leaves, maybe in the evenings or something
like that. But that's that's that's the best guess for
lack of other answers. Okay, thank you all right, Bubba,

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bye bye, you take care. The folks at Cienamltch have
you covered when it comes to getting your soil right.
You know, Cana malt is down south of Houston near
Highway six and two eighty eight. They're on FM five
twenty one. So the communities down there, you know, places
like Pomona and Alvin and Lake Olympia, Manvil, Let's see Riverstone,
Quell Valley, Meridiana. There's another one. This is your backyard

(51:31):
soil supply and it is the folks that help you
ensure success. When you start with CIANAMLCH, you start with
the right kinds of soils. First of all, they have
soils from like like heirlom source for example. That's just
an example of the quality stuff that they carry. And
then they have the compost, they have the mulches, they
have the fertilizers, all the all the top brands you

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hear me talk about on guard Line. They're going to
be there at Ciena Mulch. Now you can go to
the website and learn every everything you need to know,
including how to get there Sienna mulch dot com. They're
closed on Sunday, but they're open during the week and
on Saturday. You just need to give them a call
stop in. You can go pick it up there. If
you're within twenty miles. They will deliver for a fee

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to you if you want to go that route. That's
just real simple. I suggest going by because they got
a lot of cool stuff in the shop and they
got some interesting landscape art and stuff. Some vego beds
outside that are set up and planted, so you can
see what that would look like because they sell those
beds there at Siena Mulch. All right, I said, I
was going to talk about white plant's bloom in the fall.

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The reason that a plant that only blooms in the fall.
Blooms is because of day length. That's the change. So
you take a plant like a mountain sage Salvia rigla,
that's a fall bloomer fall aster with the little lavender

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purplish lavender blooms, that's a fall bloomer. Mexican bush sage
Salvi leucantha is a fall bloomer. There are others. The
what is Mexican met marigold the substitute for terragon, and
our spice garden has the yellow blooms and kind of
a black licorice bean black licorice jellybean smelling foliage is

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a fall bloomer. Salvia what's hell gosh it just like
the pineapple sage is another one that tends to bloom
more in the fall. Anyway, the reason they do is
because the day links is getting shorter. That's also the
reason why the bracs it's actually not the bloom that
we have on a point seta, but the bras of
a point seta turn red in the fall is because

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of a change in the day length. And people that
grow them, you know, the breeders are developing different day
length blooming range there in these but people that grow them.
Used to just drag a big shade cloth over them
toward the end of the day and make the day
end earlier, so the night's longer. Now the difference with

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fall bloomers, and this is kind of the fun fact
that your friends won't know. But with fall bloomers, it's
not the day length that causes them to bloom. Like
I just said, it's actually the night length that causes
them to bloom. What's the difference a short what's the
difference If I say a short day, Well, then it's

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going to be a long night. So why not just
say short day? Well, we do just say short day
because people understand that. But it's the length of darkness
that makes these things bloom. So if you had a
plant that was going to bloom in the fall, and
sometime in the middle of the night you went outside
and you turned on a light above that plant and
left it on for just a short time and turn

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it right back off, that plant would not have had
a long night. It would have had two short nights.
And even though the day links were getting shorter, you
broke the night in half with the light, and therefore
it won't bloom. That's again just for a minute. It's
the night link that makes them bloom. So why would

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I even bother that? Is that a nerd fact? Well, yeah,
but it's it's important. And here's why. One year, when
I was living working at the Austin Agrolife Extension Office
Travis County, we had a Salvier Rigla that's a mountains age.
It's just an example of a fall bloomer. There was
planted near a doorway that had a security light on it,

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and it was on the other side of a tree.
And everywhere that the shadow of the tree trunk from
the security light shined across or fell across that plant,
the plant received darkness because it blocked that light, and
it bloomed normal. Everywhere that the security light hit the plant,

(55:53):
it didn't bloom because they never had a long night.
The plant never had a long night because of the
security y. I'm saying, so, if around your house you're
going to plant something that's a fall bloomer, just keep
that in mind. It's not the day length, even though
we say it that way because short days and long
nights go together, but it truly is the darkness length,

(56:13):
the night length that does it. And so there you go.
There's the fun fact. All right, Thanks Ruthy for the reminder. Yeah, anyway,
you're listening to guarden Line and if you would like
to give me a call seven one three two one
two five eight seven four seven one three two one
two five eight seven four pulling back the curtain of

(56:35):
secrecy around plants. Plants don't tell you these things, so
you have to listen to garden Line here at these
things things their their mom about it for some reason.
All right. The folks at Medina have so many great products.
I enjoy trying out new ones, and they have so
many that you're going to be trying out new ones

(56:55):
for a very very long time. There's a lot of
really cool products from Medina that work really well. For example,
the liquid seaweed. You can get their liquid seaweed that
is chock full of all kinds of substances, not just
a nutrient, but all kinds of substances, got some potassium
in them, but a lot of other things that help
stimulate plant growth. A lot of people use that for

(57:18):
a winter heartiness boost. It can provide some benefits in
the way of winter heartiness as well. The Medina folks
have something called has to grow lawn that we were
using during the growing season. It's a twelve four to eight.
The Medina folks have a granular fertilizer that is called
growing Green for the lawn. It's a three two three

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fertilizer used throughout the growing season. So many excellent products
that they do. The original you know, Medina products that
were on the market would be things where you take
like the Medina Soil Activator, all kinds of good stuff
in there that people have loved and sworn by for years,
and then you take you add to that a bunch

(58:01):
of trace minerals, in fact, forty different trace elements and
growth hormones from seaweed like side of cainan that's a
plant growth hormone, and you put it all together. Now
you've got Medina plus another great product to do. So
whatever Medina product you're looking for, just know this. They're
time tested, they work, and you're going to find success

(58:22):
with them, and you're not going to have trouble find you.
They are available at garden centers, at feed stores, the
hardware stores, a lot of places around town carry these
quality Medina products and if you will try them out,
you will be pleasantly surprised. I'm always I'm always in
the planning season trying to talk you into giving a
good hard look. And medina has to grow six twelve

(58:45):
six plant food. That's a high phosphorus the middle number,
which is important for root development. By the way, it's
also important for bloom development. But the hyphosphorus medina six
twelve six, it's part of the has to grow there.
Medina another good one to try. Drench in your new
transplants with it. You'll see success. I do myself. Okay,

(59:09):
let's see our phone number if you'd like to give
me call. We're gonna go to break here in just
a little bit, but this would be a good time
to give a call, and so you can be our
first up when we come back. Seven one three two
one two five eight seven four seven one three two
one two fifty eight seventy four. Let's talk about the
things that are of interest to you. I want to
remind you that this coming Saturday, I'm going to be

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at wild Birds Unlimited in Kingwood. Now, if you want
to find your wild Birds Unlimited store, it's really easy
to do. All you have to do is type in
WBU dot com forward slash Houston. That's going to give
you a list of all the Houston area, the six
Houston Area wild Birds Unlimited stores. So you'll find that

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the Kingwood store is on Kingwood Drive forty five twenty
three if you want to be specific Kingwood Drive, but
go to WBU dot com forward slash Houston. Come on
and see me next Saturday.

Speaker 9 (01:00:05):
And.

Speaker 2 (01:00:07):
Remember the days cowboys once more.

Speaker 5 (01:00:11):
Some of you are old enough to remember the old westerns.
Good guys wore white hats, and hey, guys were bill
cats and they sat each other from behind rocks and
fox king Almost seems corny now, but then all right, folks,

(01:00:32):
welcome back to Gardenline. Good to have you with us.
Let's see here. Well we had call that two calls
appeared and disappeared. That's interesting. I think we have gremlin
sometimes get in the systems and do things like that.
Have you been doing enchanted gardens down there in the
Katie Full Shore side of Richmond. If you're in Richmond,
you look north and go up to FM three fifty nine,

(01:00:54):
you're gonna find enchanted gardens. Here's the website. It's a
very important one to write down because they got a
lot of good information on there. Their upcoming events are
on there. You can sign up for their newsletter. That
is a very good newsletter to come out and give
you a lot of good gardening information. The Enchanted Gardens
it's Enchanted Gardens Richmond dot com. Enchanted Gardens Richmond dot com.

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Butters nineteen ninety five. Long time and they do have
a lot of quality things right now. Of course, they've
got all the fall colors, all the decorations for fall.
You got Thanksgiving coming up here, you definitely want to
see that. And then the blooming color you know, the
violas and the petunias, and the snapdragons and the a

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lissum and just on and on down the line. Earlier
I was talking about fall blooming plants. Well, Gregg's mistflower
is another example of a plant grows all year, but
primarily you're going to see those blooms appear in the fall.
And when they do, every monarch and queen butterfly in
Taxis will fly to your house and land on those plans.

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I'm telling you they just get covered up with that.
But that's a fall bloomer that they have there at
Enchanted Gardens out in Richmond Rosenberg area. When you go there,
you're going to find an unmatched selection of plants and
trees and shrubs and knowledgeable people, friendly people, enthusiastic people
to help you find success. You can bring them a picture,

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you can bring them a sample of something. Maybe it's
a question. Maybe hey, my neighbor has this plant?

Speaker 10 (01:02:25):
What is it?

Speaker 5 (01:02:26):
And I want one? How do I get it? Or
maybe it's a bug that's eating my plant? How do
I stop it? They'll help you with that. They're very
good at that. They know what they're talking about. Enchanted
Gardens on FM three point fifty nine in the Richmond area.
This is on the Katie Fulsher side of Richmond. Enchanted
Gardens Richmond dot com. By the way, they're open today
from ten am to four pm Monday through Saturday eight

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am to five pm. So when you go, take some
friends with you, because it is a fun thing to experience,
walk around with people and visit and look at plants
and all that. It's it's an enjoyable place to visit.
So I hope you take advantage of that. Alrighty, there
you go. The other day I was in an ACE

(01:03:09):
hardware store and visiting with them about some specific things
on some particular brands of tools that they had. You know,
typically you go into Ace and I'm a tool guy.
I like the quality hand tools. You know, I happen
to be a de Wault fan myself, but Craftsmen Black
and Decker and Milwaukee and the Ace brand. There's a
lot of brands you're going to find there at Ace

(01:03:29):
Hardware stores. You're also going to find your barbecue pits.
And even though I already have my barbecue bit that
I got from ACE Hardware, I still have to go
look at the pits every time, you know, because there's
all these cool styles of pits. The top name brands
that you see anywhere, you're going to find them there
at ACE Hardware. The top brands are there. Make sure
and sign up for ACE Hardware Rewards program and so

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you get discounts. You get special offers only for ACE
Rewards customers. They'll email them directly to you. I belong.
Every time I check out, I give my card. It
adds up. You're going to find ACE Hardware by going
to ACE Hardware Texas dot com. Your local store will
be the closest store to you. You'll find them at
Acehardware Texas dot com. You're going to find Ace Hardware

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in Willis on Interstate forty five North. You're going to
find Ace Hardware and Base City on Seventh Street in
Victoria on Navarro Street. In Port Levaca on Calhoun Plaza.
Down and I'm down southwest now Rockport on State Highway
ninety or thirty five north. Uh, if you were to
go out to the southeast direction, how about Kilgore's Ace.

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You ever been to Kilgoes Ice Kilgoes Ace Hardware. It's
called clear Lake Lumber on East Maine, League City ACE
on West League City Parkway. ACE. That's called Patco on
West Willison. Alvin been to that one, was just there
the other day. And Baker Day south of Kemo on
Grand Avenue. Just a few of the Ace Hardware stores

(01:04:54):
you'll find at ACE Hardware Texas dot Com. Go out there,
get your gardening decoration, get your gardening supplies, and get
everything you need to make this holiday season really enjoyable. Alright,
Let's see here, looks like we may have a glitch
on the phone there watching these folks trying to call

(01:05:16):
in and not sticking on the board. Our phone number
seven one three two one two five eight seven four
seven one three, two one two fifty eight seventy four.
Give me a call if you've got a question. We'd
glad to help you in whatever way we can to
have success. I in my own preparations for the fall

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winter season where I do my indoor gardening work, primarily,
I've I've purchased a quality light a while back. And
you know there's a lot of different kinds of light
out there for growing plants. You go online and you're
going to see all kinds of things that are I
don't know, they're they're junkottom line is their junk. They

(01:06:01):
just don't provide what they need. And in order to
understand plant lighting really well, you need to be able
to go somewhere where you can learn what is the
aspects of plant lighting where you can have success. Okay,
does that make sense? So if you'll go to my
website Gardening with Skip dot com, I have what I

(01:06:26):
think is a very good online publication called Quality Lighting
for Growing Transplants, and I go into the spectrum of
light and the aspects that are important. There is the
amount of light. That's the quantity of light. There is
the duration how long does the light stay on? And
then there's a quality of light, the wavelengths of plants

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need and it's all there in an article. You can
download it, make a PDF download of it if you want.
But before you go purchase a plant light, read that
article first and that will help you get on the
right track for I be wanting to start your own transplants.
Let's go out to Lake Conrad now and we're gonna
speak to guitar Dave. Hey, Dave, good to talk to
you again.

Speaker 7 (01:07:07):
Man, what's going on?

Speaker 14 (01:07:09):
Ay Man?

Speaker 7 (01:07:09):
Yeah, you're wonderful beautiful out here. Hey, I got my
I got my uh lettuce seeds I got uh uh,
then I got my uh rainbow mixed carrots. And now
on the lettuce sage, you hear them shaking writers. Yeah,
it's a multiple variety of lettuce leaf around said of
blah blah blah blah. Yeah, and it says, uh, broadcast

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half inch apart, uh not necessary acquired baby greens, you know,
and it tells you on here. It's it's amazing if
you read the instructions, like when you go put a
Mike wave deal, if you go put a TV dinner
in the back, a wave level. You got to go
get it dig it out of the garbage head figure
out what's going on.

Speaker 5 (01:07:53):
But yeah, that's true, Okay.

Speaker 7 (01:07:55):
On the carrot On the carrot scene, it says a
seed depth quarter inch, you know, so you know, yeah,
and it's got like orange not a quarter.

Speaker 5 (01:08:07):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (01:08:08):
And then uh and then just like regular, I need
to get me about another four or five bags of
pot and sol and just just some regular pot and soil.

Speaker 5 (01:08:21):
Yeah, just straight seed starting for the car seeds starting.

Speaker 7 (01:08:26):
Yet for the carrots. Yeah, yeah, because I'm going to
put it in. I'm going to put it in those
galvanised buckets.

Speaker 8 (01:08:32):
You know.

Speaker 7 (01:08:33):
And uh, and then I've got holes drilled out in
the bottom and all that stuff, so we shouldn't.

Speaker 5 (01:08:38):
Okay, okay, good, Yeah, yeah, you can do that. Uh,
the carrot seed and lettuce seed are both pretty small.
What I would do is get your regular potting salt,
but then get some seed starting max, and I would
put rather than make the whole bucket seed starting max,
just put about a half inch of seed starting mix
up at the top so that you can press it

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down on it. I don't I'm not talking about packing it,
but just just tap it down a little nice and
flat and scatter your seeds on that, and the lettuce
seed you don't want to cover, uh, but the carrot
seed you want. You're gonna cover them maybe a quarter inch,
but just just right near the top, and then miss
them and get them wet. And then if you can,

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you don't have to move them out of the sunlight,
but put it. Put a clear cover over it could
be some serran wrap or something like that so that
it stays.

Speaker 7 (01:09:28):
I gotta I got a tarp. I got a real
silver tarp. I could just put over there and say, raid.

Speaker 5 (01:09:34):
Well, it would be good to have light because when
they germinate, they're gonna need some light. But you'll never
hear me. Yeah, I'm talking about just a little rap.
And here's why. Those things are right at the surface
and they dry out fast, and if you do that,
it'll stay humid and they'll germinate. And once they germinate
and get going, you want to take the saran wrap

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off and you want to move them into true sunlight.
But there they're just in a bright area out of
direct sun. You'll get much better germination if you can
do that, Dave, that's just a tip.

Speaker 7 (01:10:08):
You don't have to do it.

Speaker 5 (01:10:09):
People been growing carrots with that's around wrapping pots all
the time. But I'm just telling you that will give
you a little bit better germination.

Speaker 15 (01:10:19):
You know.

Speaker 8 (01:10:20):
And what was that the.

Speaker 7 (01:10:22):
The deal that Benjamin Franklin did, that book that till
you had a plant, when you needed a plant, and
all that stuff and all that. Okay, okay, right, yeah, yeah,
that's been going back since forever, you know, from the
when when our country has a Dave.

Speaker 5 (01:10:41):
I've talked with you past my break, So I better go,
but send me some pictures when you get those things
up and growing. I'll be right back. All right, you're back.
Welcome back to the garden Line. You got a question
you'd like to ask this morning? Seven one three two

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one two five eight seven four seven one three two
one two five eight seven four. We're going to go
now to sugar Land and talk to Randy this morning.
Hey Randy, welcome to garden Line.

Speaker 14 (01:11:15):
Good marning, Skip. I appreciate you taking my cup. I
sent you four pictures I think yesterday, and three of
them are concerning a variegate, some type of variegated bush
which half of it the leaves falling off. And I
also sent a picture where there's pretty serious wound at

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the base of the trunk. I assume that's probably where
my problem problem starts is that is there any way
I can treat that and bring it back or has
it just outlived its expiration date?

Speaker 5 (01:11:50):
Well, I can't tell. The parts where the leaves have
fallen off may be dead. I can't tell for sure.

Speaker 16 (01:11:57):
Uh.

Speaker 5 (01:11:57):
But if you wanted to cut the whole thing back
down low, I mean you cut off foot off the
ground or something, it should resprout for you. But I'd
wait to do that until we get to the end
of winter. You don't want to try to make it
resprout when we could have some good, hard cold weather coming.
You just don't know what's coming, okay, and it fertilize it.

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The wound at the bottom is not really a big problem.
It is a weak spot in the stem because it's
decaying interior. But the plan will grow just fine around that.
So if you want to replace it now, it would
be the time to go ahead and do it. Falls
the best time to plant. Just pull it out and
replace it. If you want to try to keep it,

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then cut it back to about a foot high. It's
going to look horrible, but it's going to start resprouting,
and you might get that plant back in good condition
with some early printing on it. As it grows, you know,
you share it back a little bit, and then it
makes it bushier and bushier as it grows and you
share it. But that's what I would that's what I
would suggest.

Speaker 14 (01:12:58):
Okay, thank you, that's pretty good advice. But I also
have a problem concerning what I'm calling a giant loiope.
I sent you a picture of that too. It's just
infested with bermuda grass, and I don't know an easy
way to get it out of there because it's all
it's it's too well established as far as the bermuda

(01:13:20):
grass is concerned. Yeah, is there is there an easy
way to get rid of the bermuda grass? Or or
if not, then is there an easy way to dig
it out of the dig the whole root ball out.
I don't want to try.

Speaker 10 (01:13:36):
To do that.

Speaker 5 (01:13:40):
That's a good question.

Speaker 4 (01:13:42):
Uh.

Speaker 5 (01:13:42):
There is a grass killer that is is called well,
the ingredient is flu as a fop. That's a weird,
a weird name, but it's it's called flu as a fault.
But it's sold in brand names like use laid f
U s I L A d E. Now you may

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have to buy a larger quantity. You may also find
it randy in a in a product called like like
that's called grass killer. You know it may be like
there used to be one called grass be gone. Uh,
there's another one that it just says like grass killer,
over the top, grass killers, things like that. But I'm

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gonna spell the ingredient the first part of the name
of it, and if you can find that, that would
be probably the one to use because it's it's labeled
for at least some forms of it at least are
labeled for use on around the wriope where it won't
kill the loariope, so you can spell it kills it back.
It's not as good at killing bermuda grass as some

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other things like glafs would be, but glif say, kills everything,
and so you definitely don't want to be doing that
around your loripe. But if you stay with it, do
it a couple of times, I think it'll be I
think it'll be fine. I think you'll you'll ahead of
it and you can get control of it and get
it out of there. That's why they make those you
call them over the top grass killers because you can

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you know, if there's growing in your petunias, you can
spray over the top and it won't hurt the petunia,
it'll just kill the grass.

Speaker 10 (01:15:13):
All right.

Speaker 14 (01:15:14):
That's the answer I was looking for. That sounds pretty easy.
You just don't find that stuff, okay.

Speaker 5 (01:15:20):
Yeah, yeah, And so that's what that's the approach. That's
the approach that I would recommend you take. I'm gonna
let me check something, right, it would be extra sure.
Let's see, yepop is on the label. You can spray
over the riopee so f you I f U s

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I l A d E or or the ingredient is
f l u A Z flu as I f O
P flu as A POP. I hate reading all the
chemical names on the air because that's kind of boring.

Speaker 2 (01:15:59):
But that's what we're.

Speaker 5 (01:16:00):
About to look for.

Speaker 14 (01:16:02):
Do you think a chanic forest might have it?

Speaker 5 (01:16:06):
I think they will have a version of it. Yeah,
I would. I would give them a call. That wouldn't
surprise me if they for them to carry that. If
they don't have it, they may have another product on
hand they can point you to. They know what they're talking.
They can they can help you help you do that.
Another thing I'm saying this for everybody listening right now
is I put a publication on my website, Gardening with

(01:16:27):
Skip dot Com. It's called herbicide products for use with
my weed wiper. But these products you don't have to
have a weed wiper to apply. But what the list
is is it gives a kind of weed that you have,
and then it gives the ingredient that kills that kind
of weed, and then it gives the brand names that
have that ingredient. And so if you'll go to Gardening

(01:16:51):
Withskip dot com, find the herbicide publication, go down to
grasses and go across, you're going to see some options. Okay, okay, is.

Speaker 8 (01:17:00):
It coming on.

Speaker 14 (01:17:00):
I truly appreciate your advice. You were good one. Thank
you Skip A.

Speaker 5 (01:17:04):
Right, thank you, sir. I appreciate that that is a
common issue that people run into. Is you know, what
do you do when you've got grass it's crawling into
your larrioty or in your Asian jasmine, you know, going
through the flower bed or whatever. We have options. We
have options for that. There was just regular annual grass.

(01:17:26):
I'd say, mulch it, shut it down. But for me
grass it laughs at much seeing a bit.

Speaker 1 (01:17:37):
Welcome to kt r H Garden Line with skimp Richard's.

Speaker 2 (01:17:43):
Crazy just watch him as many a sald credit.

Speaker 4 (01:18:12):
Salmen starting in it.

Speaker 5 (01:18:27):
All right, folks, welcome back to guard Line. You ready,
let's do this. We've got plenty plenty to talk about
still here on guarden Line. And if you'd like to
give me a call seven one three two one two
five eight seven four seven one three two one two
fifty eight seventy four. Folks at Microlife Fertilizers have produced

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a wide variety of products. We're talking about granulars. We're
talking about liquids that help your plants perform. They provide
the news of plants need. They provide in many cases,
in almost all cases, a microbial supplementation to additionally benefit
the soil and the plants themselves. You know, organic gardening

(01:19:12):
is all about the soil, All about the soil, About
the soil. Sounds like I'm starting a Megan Trainer song there. Anyway,
The fact that roots live in a microbe rich environment
is the way nature is designed to work. It's just
how soil works. Microbes release substances that help roots. Micros

(01:19:35):
Microbes release substances that stimulate plant growth. Microbes break down
organic matter. Microbes can some and when I say microbes,
i'm talking about individual groups can do each of these things.
There are microbes that can fix nitrogen from the air
into the soil and microlife fertilizers are chuck full of
those kinds of micros now right now, we're still in

(01:19:57):
the for the lawn the brown patch is the life
products you want to be using because we're in brown
pet season. But it's there that product to provide the
nutrients fear grass going in the fall, but also to
provide a lot of different micro sixty three different species
of microbes that benefit the plant in various ways. Lots
lots of examples there. From an indoor standpoint, I'm still

(01:20:21):
using the micro Life biomatrix. It's a seven to one
to three fertilizer, so it's got a little extra boost
of nitrogen there, and that is to provide the foliage support.
Nitrogen pushes foldier growth, It makes plants greener, it makes
them grow, and when we're looking about matrix from houseplants,

(01:20:41):
that is something that's going to stimulate good foliage growth
on those and I do it when I water. You
can dilute it down and just put a little bit
in each time you water, or you can you know,
once every few weeks give a dose of the biomatrix
and then just continue on with the regular water. Either
way you want to go about it, the main thing
is just go about it and do it. You can
find more about microlife at microlifefurdliser dot com Microlife furtlizer

(01:21:03):
dot com. Lots of good products and they're available all
over town. Easy easy to find those kinds of products. Uh,
you are listening to Guardline, if you would like to
give me a call seven to one to three two
one two fifty eight seventy four. That is our number,
so feel free to do so. I was talking with

(01:21:23):
folks at Arburgate not too long ago, and I got
a notice from them that they're doing their for perennial
flower bulb program coming up here on Tuesday. That's November fourth.
That's just a couple of days from now, Tuesday, November fourth,
and they're bringing in and you need to go. Hear
this guy, Chris Weisinger from the Southern Bulb Company. Chris

(01:21:46):
is a friend he we've had him on guardenline here
in the past, but he is an expert on bulb's.
When he got out of college with his horticulture degree,
he started his own bulb company, Southern Bulb Company, and
Arburgate carries those bulbs. And Chris is going to be
there on Tuesday, November fourth at ten am and he's
going to be talking about using perennial flower bulbs in

(01:22:07):
the garden. So, Okay, here's a bulb that has a bloom,
but how do I use it? He's going to talk
about those kind of things. These are gardening treasures that
come back year after year after year. The way I
like to put it, it's blooming dividends. You know, you
can buy a tulip bulb or hyacinth bulb standard hyacinth
and put it in the ground and it blooms. It's wonderful,
and then you're done. We call those one shot wonders.

(01:22:30):
They don't naturalize. But there are bulbs that do naturalize,
and once you plant them, they just come back year
after year. You paid for them, once you get blooms
year after year after year. After that, I was driving
down through somewhere south and west of Houston, and I
just remember I passed this abandoned homestead. The house is

(01:22:50):
long gone. There's a chimney standing, a couple of trees
still living in the yard. Everything's overgrown with weeds and stuff.
And here were all these beautiful paper whites taking their
heads up out of the weeds, just blooming up a
storm from when decades ago somebody planted them in that yard.
That's the picture I'm talking about here, using perennial flower

(01:23:10):
bulbs in the garden. Going to be at microt at
Arbor Gate on November fourth, Tuesday at ten am because
ten bucks now listen, you got they only have limited spot,
so forty people forty people limited, so you got to
call them. You got to pay the ten bucks in
order to reserve your spot. Ten bucks is chicken feet

(01:23:30):
compared to what you're going to get out of this deal.
They'll also have bulbs on hand because they got the
new shipment from Southern Bulb Company there at Microlife A
micro good night. My brain is still backwards talking about
microloft from the Southern Bulb Company at Arbor Gate, so
you can not only learn about it, but you can
pick up your bulbs while you're there. Here's the number
two eight one three five one eighty eight fifty one.

(01:23:54):
I'll give it to you again. You're going to call
them for the ten dollars, pay the ten dollar fee
and reserve your space for this class two eight one
three five one eighty eight fifty one. And while you're
at Arburgate, just wander around. I mean, I'm going to
tell you it's a wonderful place. You already know that
most almost everybody's been there, unless you've been hiding under
a rock, you know how wonderful Arborgate is great place

(01:24:16):
to go shop. Remember to park in the back, especially
for an event like this. There's gonna be a lot
of cars, so you want to park in the back.
You just go around Trishel Road. It's a loop that
goes around behind Arbor Gate, so off twenty nine to
twenty you can go either way. You know, if you
pass Arburgate and you haven't seen Trischell, keep going. You're
gonna see Trishel again. It's gonna come in right there.
Parking the parking lot in the back, good safe, all

(01:24:39):
weather parking. All right, there we go. Let's see we
are going to go to the phones here in just
a moment. I did want to mention to you that
the folks at Heirloom Soils have created such a wonderful
series of blends. I mean, the Veggie Nerbmex is one

(01:25:01):
of my favorite. I use it all the time. They
also have one called Roses and Other Bloomers. Rose and
other Bloomers. Now that particular one is good as his
name in furs for any kind of thing like that
that you want to grow. You're gonna grow in a container.
You're going to make a bed on the ground and
mix some quality stuff in about that clay soil you
got Rows and other Bloomers would be an excellent choice

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for that, and it's from Heirloom Soils. You can buy
it by the bulk by go getting it going to
get it at Porter Texas. You can call them and
have them deliver it by the bulk or by the supersac,
which is a cubic yard each supersack. You got to
order three to get delivery, but you can do it
that way, or you can just go find it all
over town. Lots of places carry Heirloom Soils by the bag.

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Makes it really simple. Let's go out to Tuk to
Bill in Montgomery. Now, hey, Bill, Welcome to garden Line.

Speaker 7 (01:25:58):
Yes, so are you today.

Speaker 8 (01:25:59):
I have question and I've got uh several Sago palms
in my front yard over the last four or five years.
Uh they've because of unduring the hard freezes, and I
guess maybe some of the drought conditions the uh uh
bronze don't seem uh they've all come back, but uh

(01:26:21):
I've got one it's probably seven feet tall. Uh this
year uh uh they uh well maybe not sixty anyway,
Uh they uh no fronds have have popped out from
that crown. Uh you know in the center of the planet.

Speaker 15 (01:26:42):
Uh.

Speaker 8 (01:26:42):
The other uh palms are maybe two feet tall and
one three or four feet tall. They've all come back
and seem to be doing well. But this one, uh,
it doesn't seem like it has uh at around the
base of it frands pop up. So I'm assuming there's
some still like there's still some life in it. But

(01:27:05):
I'm kind of wondering. I do notice in the crown
it's kind of split open a little bit, as if
maybe something was going to pop out. I see some
red bulbs in there. But anyway, I was just wondering
what I don't like them. I'd like to pull them up,
but I don't want to if they're still living.

Speaker 5 (01:27:27):
Okay, okay, Well, so you're saying that you haven't seen
any frowns on the franz on the tall trunk all year, right.

Speaker 8 (01:27:38):
They popping, They come out, pop out of the trunk part,
but not out of the very top part where it
always seems that the new growth comes.

Speaker 5 (01:27:48):
I would cut that off at the base and let
the little pups at the bottom will come up. You
can separate them out. Obviously you're not interested in having
a bunch of sagos, it sounds like, but you could
separate all that and they would they they would root out,
and you could have more of them. But that tall one,
I think it's done. Now. What you were describing at
the top sounded like it may be a female plant

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and those that it forms like a little kind of
a like a bowling ball type bulge at the top
that has the seeds in it that are large and
kind of a light brown reddish brown color. Uh and
and so, but you've you've got shorter ones with fronts.
I would just cut it out of there and be

(01:28:28):
done without, and the others will come on as long
as you won't leave it in.

Speaker 8 (01:28:33):
The ground, okay, okay, and cut it at the base.
Then is that where you cut it?

Speaker 5 (01:28:39):
Yeah, yeah, just cut, just cut it off down as
low as you can. That's got a run bill. But
good luck, good luck with that. And I do appreciate
your call. We'll be right back, folks, folks floating back
to the guard line. What do you want to talk about?
You tell me seven ones. I's read two two five

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eight seven four seven one three two fifty eight seventy four.
Fall is the time to plant. Fall is a time
to plant roses. Fall is also a time to take
care of your roses. You know, we got pruning season
coming up here on our roses. But the folks at
Nelson Plant Food have created a product called nutri Star Rows.
Nutra Star is part of their line that's fertilizers for

(01:29:23):
specific plants. There's a Nutra Star for vegetables, There's a
Nutra Star for Plumerius for example, and on down the
line nutral Star rows. It helps your roses bloom butter
through the growing season. You can apply it this granular fertilizer.
You can apply it monthly through the seasons. Now, all
kinds of roses are benefited. So you can have an

(01:29:44):
antiqu rose or a modern rose. You can have a
climbing rose, or a shrub rose, or a groundcover, a
miniature or regular rose, English roses, antique roses, hybrid teas,
it doesn't matter. It's for roses and it works on
all of them. Now, you can use it on roses
or in the ground. Maybe you've got a raised bed
box container that roses are in, you can do that,
or it could just be a big old container on

(01:30:06):
the patio. It works in all those situations. Five different
sources of nitrogen encourage not only the vigor, but kind
of a regulated growth because each source of nitrogen is
going to release a little bit different time, and so
you get a constant feed over a period of time.
And remember healthy leaves mean carbohydrates. Carbohydrates means you get roses.

(01:30:29):
You can grow a rose without flowers, but who wants
to do that. You want roses, We want flowers on it.
And vigor is part of getting good bloom production. And
that is exactly what nutri star rose can do for
your roses. Let's head out to the phones. Let's see
Welcome to garden line. Who am I speaking to? And
where are you calling from?

Speaker 12 (01:30:52):
My names? And then I'm calling from northwest Houston.

Speaker 5 (01:30:56):
Welcome.

Speaker 12 (01:31:01):
Well, I wanted to piggyback a little bit off of
the fellow that just called a couple of minutes ago.
We have a sego palm in our yard and we
love it, and I just trimmed it all the way
back under knee.

Speaker 5 (01:31:15):
M excuse me that I lose Okay, yes, I'm a listener.

Speaker 10 (01:31:20):
Go ahead, okay.

Speaker 12 (01:31:23):
Well, we have it's probably about four feet tall sago
out in our front yard, and I trimmed the frond
off the bottom of it because they're you know, I'm
burling out all the way to the ground, and that's
what I usually do this time of year. But there's
a bunch of pups at the bottom of it, and
it was a really good cluster and I pulled it.
Should I just keep it in damp like a damp

(01:31:46):
towel or something like that, or can I just go
ahead and plan it?

Speaker 8 (01:31:52):
Now?

Speaker 5 (01:31:52):
You can't put it and you put in a can
you put it in a pot if you want to
do it that way, you just want to, uh make sure.
I sometimes will let them dry off just a little bit.
That fresh wound that comes when you pull it and
before you put it down in moist soil. But it'll
take it a while, but in time it'll root and
you can go online that and do a little search
for it. But it'd s really not much to it.

(01:32:13):
You don't have to put rooting hormone on it or
anything like that. I can just get it down on
the ground good contact, and roots will start to form
because that plant will recognize, hey, I don't have any
connection to mom anymore. I need to make my own
roots and it'll start start forming those roots.

Speaker 12 (01:32:28):
And so you should let them dry out, man, because
I did get some smaller pups off of it.

Speaker 8 (01:32:36):
Yeah, you're going I.

Speaker 12 (01:32:36):
Put some damped paper towels on it, because I've looked
that up and that's what I've seen them say to do.
But if I don't need to do that, then I'm
going to take those off.

Speaker 5 (01:32:45):
I've done it both ways. It works both ways. Just
the main thing is keep it moist, and I would
take it out of the full sun, you know, give
it a maybe a little morning sign, but give it
a little bit of a break because it has no
roots to take up water, so big demands on it.
But you're doing it at a good time. I mean,
there's there's the demands that are going down by the

(01:33:05):
day as we move into cooler weather in the fall.

Speaker 12 (01:33:09):
Well, I really hope these take off, because I got
seven of them.

Speaker 5 (01:33:13):
All right, Well, you may open or just you know,
get you get your lemonade stand and take the word
lemonade off and write Angela's Saga shop and you can
sell them the curb.

Speaker 12 (01:33:32):
Okay, So just a little bit of sign here and there.

Speaker 5 (01:33:36):
Yeah, they start to dry out, Yeah, then they could move,
they can move into two more light. But just just
just follow it. It takes a while. Just be patient
with them.

Speaker 12 (01:33:45):
Okay, No, that's fine. But I could see some type
of a route developed at some point, Yes.

Speaker 5 (01:33:51):
At some point. Yeah, and you know that's going to
be related to things like temperatures and whatnot in time.
But that you're on the right track, Angela. Just it.

Speaker 12 (01:34:00):
Okay, fantastic, Thank you, thank.

Speaker 5 (01:34:03):
You, you bet, thanks for the call. I appreciate that.
Sago palms also called psycads.

Speaker 8 (01:34:10):
C y c A D.

Speaker 5 (01:34:12):
It's not a palm. By the way, for those of
you who are curious, Sago palms are not palms. A
lot of times we call plants things they're not. I
don't know why we do that, but we do. And
Sago palm is an example. I guess it looks palm
like that would be a reason why, but it's not
a palm. But as were well, in our area, you know,
occasionally we get those winters that'll whop it good, especially

(01:34:34):
for those of you who live further north. You know,
as you go north in Avinesota and let's see cont
North Conroe and up to hemps Gosh, Huntsville, there's a
word I'm looking for College Station Brian.

Speaker 2 (01:34:48):
Uh.

Speaker 5 (01:34:49):
We see some damage from hard, hard freezes, especially further up,
but even down down south occasionally, but they're tough plants.
I remember a number of years ago I saw some
that went through a seven degree temperature and I mean
the whole thing looked brown, and we thought, okay, they're done.
A few of them made it through, but lots of

(01:35:09):
pups started popping up at the bottom. Seven degrees is
too cold for sega. The pups started pumping out from
the bottom. That's kind of nice thing about them. They
always can bring you some new babies there around the base.
Nelson Nursery and Water Gardens is out in Katie, Texas,
and this is a garden center that you really do

(01:35:30):
need to go visit. Of course, they're famous because of
their water gardens. They're nationally known because of the water
gardens that they have. And so if you are looking
for anything from like a complete beautiful waterfall rock waterfall
feature in your landscape, they can do that hands down.
Maybe you're just looking for a disappearing fountain, you know,

(01:35:51):
a beautiful pottery that cascades water over the side. It's
just like it goes into the ground, but then it
comes back up through the pot again. They have all
the equipment if you want to build your own, if
you're doing it yourself for they can help you do that.
Don't forget when you're out there, you hear me talk
about MICROA fertilizers and Nelson fertilizers. They have the refill
stations for them out at Nelson Water Gardens and Nursery

(01:36:12):
out in Katie, Texas. Now what you do is you
go out it in. When you get to Katie Fort Benroad,
you turn north and just up the street a little
bit on the right hand side is Nelson Nursery and
Water Gardens. But don't just think of it as a
water garden place. They have beautiful fall color right now,
cool season color. I'm talking about dianthus and snap dragons

(01:36:33):
and pansies and viola's and stock and a lissa and
a lot of other things to beautify your place. If
you want to create a herb planting, they've got an
excellent herb selection. I've shopped the herb selection on several
occasions because it is very extensive and it's a really
nice herb selection. You should check that out too. And
then of course seeds on the inside, and you got

(01:36:54):
to walk through. You got to walk through the store
and see the house plants. Beautiful, beautiful selection of house plants.
And we are entering i call it houseplants season, meaning
we've kind of been driven indoors. Once we get a hard,
good hard freeze, we're hanging out inside a little bit. Well,
there you go. They've got you covered and some top
quality house plants too. Nelson Nursery and Water Gardens. If

(01:37:17):
you want to see the website, and you should, Nelson
Watergardens dot com. Nelson Watergardens dot com. I was talking
to somebody the other day and they were looking for gifts.
What's a good gift for a gardener? Oh my gosh,
don't get me started. I mean, there's lots of good
gifts for gardeners. But one of the things that I

(01:37:40):
think is a special gift, at least it is to me,
and that is a quality tool. You know, you get
a quality set of prunters or loppers, or you get
a soil knife, a quality one with a scabbard. You know,
it goes on your side and everything you run around
like Jim Bowie. But those all knives are one of

(01:38:00):
my top five tools that I have. I love those.
You can go to Southwest Fertilizer. You can find all
of that. You can find all of that. You know,
I tell you all the time. Every product you could
need is there. And if you're an organic gardener, every
organic product that you could need is there at Southwest Fertilizer.
But you got to check the tools out. And maybe

(01:38:20):
it's not a gift tool. Maybe it's just a piece
of equipment like a handspreader for a fireing bait while
falls a good time to do fireant baiting. Maybe it
is a fertilizer spreader. Maybe it's something else. They've got
it all there at Southwest Fertilizer. So put that on
your Christmas list. I guess if you do that sort
of thing and gets you a quality tool, a brand

(01:38:43):
like Felco or Corona, gardeners will appreciate those kinds of things.
And Bob's got all that stuff ready to go. By
the way, you can also get small engine repairs done
to there. We'll be right back are southern'st Texas and
there's Anna listeners. I've just spent a month on II

(01:39:08):
on my way to Atlanta at the Long Road like
playing like playing bumper cars with eighteen wheelers. That was
my experience heading across there. Welcome back to the garden line.
Good to have you with us. Seven one three two
one two five eight seven four. That is the number
you need to call. Seven one three two one two

(01:39:30):
fifty eight seventy four. Warrens Southern Gardens outstanding garden center
out there in Kingwood, Texas along with Kingwood Garden Center,
both of them out in the Kingwood area. Uh, you're
going to find all kinds of good things. I like
going into both of them because they each had their
own kind of unique personality. If you will when you

(01:39:51):
go in they you know, they have their own unique personality. Warrens,
by the way is on North Park Drive, Kingwood Garden
Centers on Kingwood Drive. Uh, excuse me, stone hollow drive,
not king with drives, don't hollow drive. Right now, they're
chock full of all kinds of fall color, beautiful fall
color plants. If you need bling for fall decoration, there's
still loaded up on that. Still got plenty of that around.

(01:40:14):
You hear me talking about these fertilizers and things you
need to put out. You hear me talking about the
soil blends that you need to put out, you know,
whether it's a Microlife or a Nelson fertilizer or any
of the blends really from heirloom soils. Like the veggie
nerd mix. I've been trying to talk you into doing
a fall fall winter garden and veggie nerd mix. There's
not a better mix for it. And you're going to

(01:40:34):
get them there at Warren Southern Gardens in Kingwood Garden Center,
both of them. Lots of nice houseplants also as well.
Make sure and when you go in find out about
signing up for the newsletter, ask them about it. They'll
tell you how to do it. You can go to
the website and do it there. Both these places are
open seven days a week. So today you head out

(01:40:55):
to either Warren Southern Gardens or Kingwood Garden Center. That'd
be a nice little outing this afternoon because we have
some nice weather to enjoy this afternoon. Not a better
day to get out than today. You just can't beat it.
We're talking whether they say a chamber of commerce weather,
that's for sure, all right. And fall planting, Yes, it's
fall planting season. What do you want to plant a

(01:41:16):
shrub or a tree? You're going to find those the
best types, including my favorite spring blooming tree, the Chinese
fringe tree. That is one I really really like a lot.
All right, there you go. Hey, a phone number if
you'd like to give me a call, seven to one
three two one two five eight seven four seven one

(01:41:38):
three two one two fifty eight seventy four. Give me
a call. We'll talk about the things that are most
of interest to you. One thing that I'm particularly interested
in is the trying some new things when it comes
to gardening with new kinds of plants. And I talk

(01:42:00):
about this all the time, but there's a kind of
gardening for everybody. Maybe you are the lawn ranger and
that is your thing, perfect lawn. That's that's as far
as in the gardening as you want to get. But
you want that thing to be a show place. You know,
you want the PGA to call and ask if they
can use your lawn for the next open. Well, seriously,

(01:42:22):
that's great. Do that, But there's all kinds of other aspects.
I know people that do nothing but orchids, nothing but
African violets and a pieces for those two kind of
go together. I think Africa violets and a piece. I
know people I just want to grow fruit and vegeables.
If I can't eat it, get it out of my way,
you know, plow up the lawn. We're going to make

(01:42:42):
a garden, an herb garden, a vegetable garden, and we're
going to fill it full of fruit trees and vines
and things like that. And that's fine. You can go
that route. Then I know people that are into something
called faery gardens. That's the thing. Now are you familiar
with that? So imagine that you've made a miniature. You
can do it around the base of a tree. You

(01:43:03):
use moss and you use little tiny plants, and then
they're the little figurines. It could be like a little
gnome or something like that that you put down there,
little houses and things, and it almost looks like a
scene from Oh Gosh, What's the Lord of the Rings,
you know, filmed in New Zealand those a little imagine
shrinking those those things down into a small, very garden.

(01:43:27):
That's kind of cool. I think that's a whole nother
kind of gardening. What do you want to try that
you haven't tried before. I've spent a career learning new things.
It just all you never finished learning with gardening. You
will never wear out on gardening. One of my daughters
asked me recently. He said, Dad, is there any plant
you don't know about? I just laughed, Yes, a bazillion

(01:43:51):
of them that I haven't learned yet. There and tomorrow
there'll be something new that starts arriving and it becomes
the next big deal and before it was off in
some jungle somewhere that they never told me about it. Well,
that's the fun thing about gardening. It's always learning. It's
always new when you grab Okay, I'm getting philosophical here,

(01:44:12):
but bear with me. When you grab a packet of
seed and you hold it in your hand. What you're
holding in your hand is promise. What you're holding in
your hand is vision. What you're holding in your hand
is hope. And that keeps that just keeps life exciting.
It keeps us alive because when you hold that seed
packet of tomato seeds, you can imagine carrying those fresh

(01:44:35):
tomatoes in the garden from the garden into the house.
You can imagine biting in to the fresh, fine ripe tomato. Right.
Same thing is true when you buy that little piece
of stick that they're telling you is a peach tree,
when you put it in the ground, you already are
making plans for cobbler, right or whatever. That is a

(01:44:56):
cool part about gardening. It always is fresh, it's always something,
and you never get to the end of it. Yeah,
they keep changing the goalposts on me. The only part
about it I don't like is when they change plant names.
There are plants I'm not kidding that have gone through
five names since I became a horticulturist. Now give me
a break. The reason we have scientific names botanical names

(01:45:18):
is so that we call something by one name wherever
it's grown. You know, we don't have eight things called
butterfly bush or butterfly plant or whatever. It's like, what's
the scientific name? Well, now they change the scientific names.
Give me a break for crying out loud. All right,
I griped. I'm happy. Now we can go on. Let's
go out to the phones and we're gonna we're gonna

(01:45:40):
get me off the line.

Speaker 17 (01:45:42):
Here.

Speaker 5 (01:45:42):
We're gonna talk to Marty in Fairfield. Hey, Marty, welcome
to the garden mine.

Speaker 18 (01:45:46):
That's the first time I've ever heard you get mad
about anything. Well, I'm sorry, I'm sorry.

Speaker 5 (01:45:54):
I'm convinced. I'm convinced, Marty. I'm convinced. They're a botanists
sitting in a little I don't know, a dungeon somewhere
and they're going, Okay, what plant can we rename to
irritate skip Now, I'm pretty sure that's their career. But anyway,
go ahead.

Speaker 18 (01:46:13):
I just sent you a picture or two of my calimandan.

Speaker 12 (01:46:18):
It's a citrus, okay, And I.

Speaker 18 (01:46:22):
Just don't know if it's got too much water or
exactly what's going on.

Speaker 10 (01:46:25):
But it's been like that, I guess about at least.

Speaker 8 (01:46:29):
A month or so.

Speaker 18 (01:46:31):
And I just got it like three months.

Speaker 7 (01:46:34):
Ago, so I don't know what.

Speaker 5 (01:46:39):
Yeah, it looks like soggy root conditions to me. The
wilting you know when when you when it doesn't drain
well and you get a root rot started in it
or something. It can't take up water because it's losing
roots and so you can't take up nutrients. You can't
take up water. I would have you replanted it since
you got it, or is it still in the same pot.

Speaker 18 (01:47:00):
No, it's still in the same pot.

Speaker 5 (01:47:03):
Okay. I would turn it on its side and slide
it out of that pot and take a look at
it and look at the root system. You should see white,
healthy roots on the outside, and I bet you don't.
If that's the case, it needs to dry out a
little bit, and it's kind of tricky because you don't
want to keep it too wet, but at the same time,
it's lacking roots, so you're having to make sure it
stays moist. So if you can find that happy medium there,

(01:47:26):
I think that's probably its best shot. But that all
that growth that's kind of yellow, yellowish green and wilty
and stuff, it doesn't look good. So that may be
one that you need to get a replacement on if
it didn't get better, But I would maybe give it
some very light fertilization, not too much, though, find a

(01:47:48):
product that's not going to burn the roots, and just
kind of gradually make sure it gets a little bit
of nitrogen, just a little bit with some other nutrients.
So an organic product. You know, the micro lifelines are
going to have not only the three numbers on the bag,
but they're going to have micros in them as well.
So I might try that, but I'm a little concerned
about how far along it is.

Speaker 12 (01:48:11):
Okay, I didn't want to put it.

Speaker 18 (01:48:16):
Into a huge pot until the springtime, but I can
at least put it. I can take it out and
let it dry out and see how it looks. Is
there something I should put on the roots?

Speaker 5 (01:48:29):
Not much at this point in time. Let's do this.
When you slide it out of the pot, lay it
on its side, and just slide it out. Look at
the roots and if it's all black or water soaked,
gray brown looking roots on the outside, that we're right
about the root problem. And so if that's the case,

(01:48:49):
then I would just leave it in that pot and
let's let it dry it a little bit, keep it
barely moist and see it recover. If, on the other hand,
the roots look okay and you don't have rot, then
I would give it a good dose of a fertilizer
to try to get some nutrient back in there. The
color of the leaves, it's either nitrogen or sulfur lacking,

(01:49:13):
which you almost never see sulfur deficiency and plants. But
that will also cause that nitrogen deficiency type symptom. So
maybe one of those. I think it's the problem though.

Speaker 18 (01:49:26):
Yeah, well that's sort of what I thought. I just
one positive that. Thank you.

Speaker 10 (01:49:31):
That'll be great.

Speaker 18 (01:49:32):
I'll take care of it all right, and I'll send
you an email on something else the Emerka.

Speaker 5 (01:49:38):
Thanks a lot. Appreciate that. Ok, all right, I appreciate that. Well, yeah,
you take care. I'm going to go back to griping now.
No I'm not. I'm not. I'll save my rant for
maybe another show. I've got plenty of rants we can do.
Uh Am, I due for Did I go past a
break there, my producer? I think I did. All right,

(01:50:05):
Let's let's take a break and I'll be right back.
All right, we're back back darline parts. Thank you would
like to give me a call seven to one three
two one two fifty eight seventy four, seven seventy four.

(01:50:25):
Let's talk about gardening. What kinds of things you want
to talk about? Well, I'm going to tell you one
more time. This is my public service announcement that I
am repeatedly giving this fall. It is time to make
sure you put your lawn to rest with a good
fall fertilizer application in order to create heartiness in the
lawn and strength coming out early in the spring. Good strong,

(01:50:47):
healthy growth early in the spring. Nitropos has done not
just that, but also added two more steps as part
of their Nitropos Texas three step. First is a fertilizer,
the fall Special Winter Riser, a very specific fertilizer. I
don't talk about it all year until fall, and I
talk about a lot in the fall because it's four fall. Secondly,

(01:51:10):
barricade prevents weeds. Third, eagle turf funge aside for those
big brown circles that will appear in lawns when we
get the right weather, which we've gotten and when we
get some rainfall which we've gotten, and especially in lawns
that are fertilized a lot, just a you know, really
pushed with extra nitrogen or mode too low. That's another

(01:51:33):
problem that promotes take all on excuse me, brown patch
in the lawns. And I've just drive it through the
neighborhood just yesterday, and I was looking and the lawns
that had been mode low and fertilized really heavily. They
were darker green than they should be. But anyway, big
old brown pet circles already appearing in them, and right

(01:51:53):
next to them a lawn that's starving to death in
that brown pat. Brown pet sports are going England and
there are to death too. That we promote disease by
the way we take care of our plants. If you've
got a rosebush and you spray it with water all
the time, you know with a sprinkler irrigation, you're going
to have more brown black spot. You're gonna have other issues.

(01:52:15):
High humidity creates powdery mildew in roses of the susceptible varieties.
But anyway, back to the lawns. In order to avoid
the brown circles, take care of your lawn properly. Don't
overdo the fertilizer, don't mow too low, but then put
down the eagle turf fungicide now now now because it

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helps prevent the circles. It nothing cures a brown circle
in a lawn. It will be brown until spring. That's
what happened. But you can prevent them with the Eagle
turf fungicide. So okay, back to the three steps. Fall
special wind a riser barricade to prevent weeds, Eagle turf
fungicide to stop the green circles. That's it, the Nitopas
three step system. Make your lawn look good in the

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fall and come out strong in the spring. You can
find these products at Bearings hard Run, West Teimer. You
can find them at Enchanted Gardens done Richmond. You can
go to Plants for All Seasons on Highway to forty
nine just north of Luetta and you're gonna find night
Fast products there as well. Simple as that. I was

(01:53:17):
talking to Randall at the Pest Bros. The other day.
We were talking about a number of things. We're always
talking about the mosquito buckets and the latest research and
what they're finding out about all that stuff. And he
was telling me that right now a big deal is
Varmint's getting into the houses because you know, you get
cold weather and the varmit's head indoors, whether it's mice
or rats, or squirrels or something bigger. If they can

(01:53:39):
get inside, they will come out and they will do
a pest proofing of your house and look for all
the areas where pests could get in. They'll show that
to you and then they'll do what's needed to make
sure the pests stay out. That is another service that
they offer, along with other things like controlling indoor pess.
You know you've got family coming from the holidays. You
don't want cockroaches ring across the Thanksgiving table. For crying

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out loud, call the pest Bros. Two eight one two
oh six forty six seventy two eight one two oh
six four six seven zero or go to dpestbros dot
com dpestbros dot com. There you'll find out everything you
need to know, and they do handle all kinds of things.

Speaker 8 (01:54:21):
You know.

Speaker 5 (01:54:21):
They're experts on termites, they're experts on any kind of
issues that you might be dealing with. They take time,
they explain it to you, and they make sure that
you get the most effective, longest lasting pest control for
the least worries. In other words, the safest possible manner.
That's what they're about at pest Pros. All right, I'm

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up against a hard top of the hour break. I
see I have a caller out there. If you can
hang on, we will take you first when we come
right back from the top of the hour break here,
I want to remind you all that I'll be at
wild Birds Unlimited in Kingwood, Texas. Wild Birds Unlimited, Kingwood, Texas.
For those of you who are going to head over

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that direction, maybe you're not familiar with Kingwood, Well, it's
on Kingwood Drive. On Kingwood Drive. You can go to
WBU dot com forward Splash Houston and find all six
wild Birds Unlimited store and again next Saturday, that is
November eighth, from twelve thirty starting a little late because
I'm having a little further to get there, twelve thirty

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pm to two thirty pm. I'll be at the wild
Birds on Limited stores be answering your questions. Come on out.
I want to show you the products that they have. Boy,
are they ever stocked up on quality, quality products. It
is time, by the way, to clean your old bird
feeders out, the ones you've been using all year. They
probably have some moldy seed down in the bottom from
the rains and stuff that we've had. Get them cleaned out,

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real good. Get them all cleaned out because it's time
to put in the winter super blend in those feeders.
Get them clean first. Take care of those birds because
we're going to enter the season when they need our help.

Speaker 2 (01:56:02):
Just watch him as world may give sorry s.

Speaker 5 (01:56:32):
All right, we're back. Let's do this last hour of
garden Line on the weekend. By the way, for those
of you new to garden Line, welcome. We are here
from six am to ten am every Saturday and every
Sunday morning, so set your alarm clocks, get you a
cup of coffee. I will be talking gardening every time,

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and if you've got any questions you want to give
us a call seven one three two one two five
eight seven four. You can listen to past shows too,
by the way, both on the iHeartMedia app and by
going to the ktr H website the garden Line section,
and you can listen to past shows there if you'd like.

Speaker 2 (01:57:09):
To do that.

Speaker 5 (01:57:10):
Nature's Way resources up toward Conroe, Texas. It's up on
Interstate forty five about where fourteen eighty eight comes in.
From the left or from the west, you turn east
across over the railroad tracks and you're at Nature's Way Resources.
They are the place to go for quality soil blends
of all kinds of types. And boy do they ever
have a lot of quality blends. And they have specially

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you know. I don't go into the details and all
this stuff they have, just as time doesn't allow it.
But let me just say when it comes to multiz,
for example, maltch does not equal multch. When you're at
Nature's Way Resources, there's a native mult medium. It's a
half inch screen composted hardwood mix beautiful dark chocolate brown
color gray for flower beds, ornamental areas where you want

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that nice, clean, finished look. Then there's the coarse native
mult that is a larger three quarter inch screen trees, shrubs,
areas where you want more durability. The courser of mulch
is the longer it's going to last, the finer ground
it is, the faster it goes, but the kneater and
cleaner looks, so there's a trade off there. They have
native age double ground malts. They have Azalia malts specially

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designed for acid loving plants, and it's not just azaleas,
but adranges, blueberries, guardenias and so on. And he has
a combo mix of kind of a shredded pine bark
or pine straw rather with a leaf mold compost. It's
a real nice texture, very pretty and very good for
those kind of plants. And then there's pine bales, yes,

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pine straw, pine straw harvested in East Texas and it's
really good. I like it around day lilies. I like
it in strawberry beds. It's kind of light and airy,
keeps the strawberries up off the ground, so the decays
and some of the other issues the strawberries can have,
you don't you run into that. But that's just examples
of what I'm talking about. Right now, By the way,

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they've got their fall magnolia sales. So have you been
thinking about getting you a little gem which is kind
of a compact type of magnoia or a Jane magnolia,
a deciduous type of magnoia. Well, now's the time they
are on sales, a limited stock right now, so don't delay.
That's not going to last a long time. People are
gonna snatch those up. Nature's Way Resources dot Com. That's

(01:59:16):
the website. Go find out more about them Nature's Way
Resources dot com. You find their products available by the
bag too around the greater Houston area. All right, we're
going to head back out to the phones now as promised.
Tell me who you are and where you're calling from.
By the way, welcome to garden Line.

Speaker 10 (01:59:35):
Well, thank you.

Speaker 15 (01:59:36):
My name is James, and I'm calling from New Alum, Texas.
And okay, so, by the way, but we have a
pine tree about five feet tall. We just planted it
probably six months ago. We planted three of them, and
then we went out there and looked this morning and
one of them, a deer has come up and taking
this entire thing has been deep army, and I'm wondering

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if the tree is savable and what I need to do,
and then what I need to do to try to
protect the other ones from getting the same.

Speaker 5 (02:00:12):
Faith gotcha, Now, you said it was a pine tree.

Speaker 15 (02:00:15):
Right, the east pine tree is about five foot tall.
I think it's all I think.

Speaker 5 (02:00:23):
Yeah, Okay, if if they have, if they've destroyed the
outer bark all the way around, the tree is not savable.
That it just it won't be able to close that
wound back over and heal before it dies. It won't
die tomorrow, but it won't make it, and so you
would need to replace that one unfortunately. For the other one,

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you can get you a couple of t posts, metal
t posts, and drive them into the ground on opposite
sides of the tree, maybe about a foot out from
the trunk in all directions, and then attach a wire mesh,
a stiff wire mesh like well, there's a lot of
different kinds of mesh wire, but I might get something

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that has kind of a two by four inch rectangles
or maybe something a little smaller, and that would be fine.
It just needs to be stuff and put it around it,
and the deer can't can't rub it, can't reach the
trunk that way. Deer don't tend to eat pine needles,
so they're not going to nip off the top. They
will eat the shoots and foliage of other plants, though,

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so that would require you keeping them further away from
the plant. But your main concern, again as you well
know now, unfortunately, is the deer horns rubbing against the trunk.
That is it.

Speaker 15 (02:01:44):
Thank you very much. I appreciate it that I know
which step to go, because I was going to sit
out there and try to nurse it forever. So obviously
it's not going to work.

Speaker 7 (02:01:51):
So thank you for that.

Speaker 5 (02:01:52):
Well you bet and James, at the risk of horrifying
a lot of listeners, you can eat deer.

Speaker 15 (02:02:03):
That is now a thought.

Speaker 5 (02:02:06):
Yeah, so deer in the property think of it as
an opportunity. I'm sorry, you take care. Appreciate that, all right,
if by calm down, calm down. I know, mamby, we
bring them in, we feed them. I know, I get it,
I get it. But I'm just saying they can cause
a lot of damage, a lot of damage, and you

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can protect your there's a lot of ways. Just take
a little side note here, there's a lot of ways
to protect your plants and your plantings from deer. And
it's kind of a multifaceted thing.

Speaker 3 (02:02:39):
You know.

Speaker 5 (02:02:39):
One thing would be to fence them out, but it
takes a tall fence. A tall fence to fence out deer.
I mean they can jump over a six seven foot fence,
well maybe not close to it. They can go right
over them. And so you got to have a tall
fence to do that. Most people don't. If you have
a small area, maybe you've got a little vegetable garden
that's not let's say it's not twenty feet across, you know,

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something smaller than that. Even you even a six foot
fence is probably going to work on them because deer
don't like to have to try to land in a
little area. It's just they need a little more space,
you know, to run along and jump over and stuff.
So a smaller area can be fenced with a little
bit smaller fence. But if you're planning new plants, any

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kind of a wire over the top of them to
keep the deer from nibbling, because what they do is
they nibble on them, but it pulls them right out
of the ground because you just stuck them in the ground.
You know, those new little flowering plants in the flower
beds and vegetable things like that. They can just pull
those right out of the ground. So just a temporary
fence to get them rooted in. Then the deer will
still nibble the foliage, but at least a plant will

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be rooted in and can re sprout from the base.
There are things that's scare deer. Noises can scare deer
as well as you're upset your neighbors. By the way,
there are scents that they don't They don't like the
human and scent. But when deer hungry, fear is not
as good of a motivator to keep them away. And

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so I've seen deer and I grew up in South Texas,
and I've seen deer with cactus thorns in their mouth.
It was a sad, sad situation. But they're so hungry
they're eating prickly pair cactus. So do you think that
a smelly plant's gonna keep them away? No, it's not.
And when a deer is hungry, it's going to eat.
There are plants that they like less. And I used

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to say I had a deer proof plant list, and
then deer came in my office and they opened the
folling drawers and ate all the deerproof plant lists, And
so I don't do that anymore. Seriously, if deer hungry,
they're gonna eat things. But there are plants they don't prefer,
and so choosing those kinds of plants can help when
you're in an area with high deer pressure, and we

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have a lot of plants that are very good for
that use. And then finally there's electric fencing. There are
different ways to go about it off time and the
details of it. But a baited electric fence where they
come up and they get the nose popped when they
sniff at it. People will take a piece of aluminum oil,
lay it with the fence off by the way, lay

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it over the fence, kind of crimp it down like
a little flap laid over the electric fence. Smear some
peanut butter on that. I'm told they'll come out and
take a sniff and get a pop and that that
will help a little bit. And then there's other fencing
that you can go online and learn about. It's not major,
it's not obtrusive, it's not an iceore that can help
keep them out as well. But those are a few
tips on dealing with deer. Let's take a quick break here.

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I see we got the lines lighting up again. We'll
come back with your calls in just a moment. All
right back, and we welcome back to the garden line again.
We're in our last hour of the day, answering your
gardening the question. You know, I talk about micro life
products a lot because there's so many of them, and
I don't have time to get around to all the

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different products that they have out there. But I do
want to tell you out Microlife Maximum Blooms. That's a
kind of a hot pink color label. It comes. It's
a liquid, it comes in a gallon of quart size.
It's a three eighty three high phosphorus high middle number.
That is great for watering in plants that you want
to give a boost to the root system up. Great

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for roses too. By the way, if you're planning a rose,
I would get some Microfe Maximum Bloom. Mix it in
the water, put it down in this in the root
zone itself, you know, pour it, drench it over the
root zone and it'll work really well for that specific thing.
They also have micro Microlife Humates Plus. That's kind of
a purplish colored label. Another liquid that provides essentially concentrated

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compost and liquid form, and it has other beneficial elements
to it, you know, the humates plus we talk we
don't talk about hum mats enough here. They have a
number of different benefits for plants, but it's that final
decomposed stage of organic matter really helps with the soil.
So again another good choice product from the folks at Microlife.

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We're going to head out to Myerland now and talk
to Andy this morning. Hey, Andy, welcome to garden Line.

Speaker 7 (02:07:11):
Marin.

Speaker 5 (02:07:11):
I appreciate it, good time.

Speaker 7 (02:07:14):
I just recently had a.

Speaker 19 (02:07:16):
Mature pine tree taken out and the stump was grinded.
I'd like to plant a maple in that spot. I'm
assuming I need to try to get out as much
as the grinding clippings as as I need to give
me advice there.

Speaker 5 (02:07:33):
Yeah, well.

Speaker 8 (02:07:36):
It is.

Speaker 5 (02:07:36):
It is important to get as much as you can,
but only because that area is going to sink down
as those chips decompose, and it's important to get plant
a tree at the right height. Is it possible to
move outside of the ground area to plant that maple.

Speaker 7 (02:07:53):
I'd prefer not to.

Speaker 5 (02:07:54):
It's it's an established book in the landscaping of the yard.

Speaker 7 (02:07:58):
But if you think it will failed, and I don't
want that either.

Speaker 5 (02:08:03):
Not necessarily, I would just mound up the soil a
little bit there because it is going to settle. So
if you mounted it up about eight or ten inches higher,
it is going to settle down a little bit and
then plant it, or do what you can to kind
of press down on the soil a little bit, and
you know, not leave it all fluffy and fluffed up,
because it is important to get that maple planted where

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the root is at the top route, is that the
soil line that that's kind of what you're aiming for
on that one. So give it a little extra to
allow for some settling.

Speaker 19 (02:08:35):
Okay, And then with with the with the new maple,
I haven't gone out in lot kit. I'm assuming I'd
rather pay a little bit more for more of established tree.
And I'm assuming having then plant it would be preferable
if it's a larger tree.

Speaker 5 (02:08:50):
Uh yeah, probably probably, So it just depends on you
know what you're hold on. One second, I've gotten my huh,
excuse me, just met my computer just went blank on me,
and I'm trying to get your call.

Speaker 8 (02:09:03):
There we go.

Speaker 5 (02:09:04):
Uh you're calling from the Meyerland area down there, and uh,
you've got a number of garden centers throughout the region
that will sell you a good quality plant. I know
as you go, as you go south and west, you
know you've got the two enchanteds and Tenny Garden and
Chennant Forest and down south is Horace Hidden Gardens. He
sells maples down there too, and then the Cannons and

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the heights. Just get you a good quality maple, check
around a little bit and find one that's gonna do
real well here. There's a number of different types. I
know RCW carries one. Oh gosh, the name of it
just went blank.

Speaker 8 (02:09:39):
Varieties are best for Houston area.

Speaker 5 (02:09:41):
But yeah, geez, I'm gonna, I'm gonna, I'll think of
it here in one second. Uh, San Philippe San Philippi
is the one I couldn't think of for RCW. San
Philippe maple is a good one that they carry there. Uh,
there are some other good ones. Do not plant a
silver maple, for sure, don't plant that one. That's that's
when you definitely want to avoid. But some of the

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other red maples from a reputable place and you're going
to do pretty good with that. So that's what I
would do. Uh, and just watered in with a good solution.
You hear me talk about all these products all the
time that have good phosphorus levels, that have root stimulators
in them. I know RCW will sell you root stimulator
products that you can drench down in there with them

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as well. But the main thing is get it planted
at the right height and make sure when we get
into the next spring. That you remember, the roots are
still where they were when you took that cylinder out
of the pot and put it in the ground, a
cylinder of soil. So make sure and direct your watering
to that area primarily as we go into that first summer,

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and that way your tree will be able to survive
during hot weather in the first critical summer.

Speaker 7 (02:10:53):
And this is the prime time the plant correct.

Speaker 5 (02:10:56):
Perfect time, best time. Yeah, now do this. You can
plan in November, you can plan December. You can plan January, February, March, April, major.
I mean you you can do that. It's just the sooner,
the better, beautiful.

Speaker 7 (02:11:09):
I appreciate it, sir, Thank you.

Speaker 5 (02:11:12):
Thank you, appreciate appreciate your call very much. Uh RCW Nursery.
I'm just talking about them, you know, they do have
that sam Felipe maple. Those are beautiful. They had a
number of different trees. I was out there yesterday, by
the way, thank you folks at RCW, uh for David
and Kathleen and the team for having me out there.
That was that was fun.

Speaker 13 (02:11:33):
Uh.

Speaker 5 (02:11:33):
They they haven't. He was showing me some of the
different kinds you've got. He's got a little live oak.
That's I don't want to see this dwarf, but you
know how big a live oak can get. This is
a smaller stature tree, special variety that they've carried. They
carry out there. They had a lot of excellent products,
including my favorite spring bloomer, the uh Chinese fringe tree.

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But when you go out there, you know that you
know there they get it, got it nursery. If they
don't have it, they'll do everything they can to get in,
so just ask for it. It's a great time to
be out there. Lots of good deals going on and
it's just a it was a fun time. I enjoyed
being out there. I was like going out to RCW Nurseries.
That is the place to go for all kinds of things.

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They're citrus trees. Got a good deal going on citrus
trees right now. So if you're thinking about planting the citrus,
maybe azalias or camellias. How about camellias that'll carry you're
blooming all through the cool season as well. Rcw's got
you covered on all that. They're experts, they know what
they're talking about, and that way you know you're getting
good advice. So you can have success. They're the garden

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center right where Beltway eight comes into Tomoll Parkway. R
CW Nurseries RCW nursery dot com. Let's go now out
to the phones. Welcome to garden line. Who am I
speaking to? And where are you calling from?

Speaker 8 (02:12:54):
Hey?

Speaker 7 (02:12:54):
This is Larry from Spring Branch.

Speaker 5 (02:12:57):
All right, Larry, how can we help?

Speaker 8 (02:13:00):
Quick?

Speaker 7 (02:13:01):
Bought some young trees planted last late April. Shrubs also
game with instructions to fertilize every three months with the
winter coming. Am I supposed to stop the fertilization every
three months for a while?

Speaker 5 (02:13:17):
Yeah, you can't tell me. Do you have any evergreens
or are they deciduous? I got a don't worry about.

Speaker 7 (02:13:25):
First got to magnolia.

Speaker 5 (02:13:29):
Oh okay, Well, you can lightly fertilize them during the
cool season, but they're not going to grow a lot.
So I would probably wait until spring. And you know,
as we warm up a little bit and you start
to see the bloom wildflowers blooming on the roadsides, and thing,
you know, it's it's sign that spring is here. You
can begin fertilizing again at that time. Do it in

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small doses. Follow the instructions on the label. If you're
in doubt and you don't know how much to put
out about a cup or two per inch of trunk
diameter spread in a wide area around that tree.

Speaker 7 (02:14:06):
Yes, sir, okay, and what about the root activator? Continue
to do that once a month.

Speaker 5 (02:14:14):
You can do that because the roots are going to
continue to grow in the cool season. But just follow
the label again on it. But you can continue to
do that. Once we get into the springtime, you can
stop on the root activator. They're on their own, they're growing,
They're okay, but let's go ahead and do it. I'll
go ahead and do it through the cool season, just
to be sure you get everything down there that it needs.

Speaker 7 (02:14:37):
All right, very good, thank you so much.

Speaker 5 (02:14:40):
All right, thanks a lot, appreciate your call, Larry. All right, folks,
you're listening to Garden Line. We're here to answer your
gardening questions at seven one three two one two fifty
eight seventy four seven one three two one two five
eight seven four wild Birds Unlimited. But first of all,
I'm going to be at the wild Birds Unlimited in
king Would next Saturday from twelve thirty to two thirty.

(02:15:03):
You need to come out there. I want to show
you some of the stuff they have. First of all,
the feeders. They've got all kinds of bird feeders and
if you want to enjoy the birds even through the wintertime,
getting a quality feeder from wild Birds Unlimited this is
These aren't cheap pieces of junk. These these are quality feeders.
Like their hopper feeder, they have one that's called the
Eco Tough hopper. It is completely made out of recycled

(02:15:26):
plastic materials. It's got an extra large sized roof so
the rain drips away and not getting in your bird
seed like that. They have seed tube feeders and they're
just what you would expect. Just imagine a long, tall
tube typically see through, so you can see the seeds inside,
with holes at various spots up and down the feeder
where birds can set and enjoy. They're lightweight, they're easy

(02:15:47):
to fill. The parts themselves are antimicrobial actually, so it
really retards the micro growth on them, which you don't
want to have that right. They have beautiful poles systems too.
These are sturdy metal poles, powder coated, very strong, and
you hang your bird feeders at different levels so you

(02:16:07):
can bring a whole bunch of birds at one time
at the feeders. So also bird houses. I'm starting to
talk Christmas gift share, aren't I bird houses like the
nest boxes themselves, whether it's blue blue birds or wringe
or chickadees. They even have houses for owls and bats
as well. Great time to stop in at wild Birds Unlimited,

(02:16:31):
get some gifts or decide what you want so you
can tell people put that on your list. Hey, I'd
love some of this stuff. It's time to put out
the Winter super Blend. They're high quality feed that goes
out this time of year to help those birds get
the protein and fats they need during the shorter feeding
days of fall and winter. We're going to take a
little break here. When we come back, DESI I believe

(02:16:55):
in sugar Land, We're going to come to your call,
So just hang on just a moment again. I will
be at the wild Birds Unlimited in Kingwood Kingwood Drive
from twelve thirty to two thirty on this coming Saturday.
Come on out and see me. I want to show
you the products and things that they have. You will
love the store.

Speaker 2 (02:17:14):
There we go.

Speaker 5 (02:17:17):
In the Guardline weekend without some Hey, if you had
your trees looked at in the last two years. You
should That is a single most valuable plant when you're
properly the big beautiful trees or flowering trees, smaller flowering
trees too. Is the affordable tree service Martin spoon Moore.

(02:17:42):
He's the one who knows how to take care of
your trees. And Martin stays busy because he does good work,
and so I would highly recommend you give him a
call right away, get on his schedule. He's already scheduling out.
I don't know if he has any space left in
November or not. I know he stays busy, and he might,
but he'll get you on the schedule and he will
get by there to do a trimming on your trees.

(02:18:03):
For every tree he trims, by the way, you get
a free deep root feeding on that tree to keep
your trees healthy all year long.

Speaker 2 (02:18:10):
Uh.

Speaker 5 (02:18:10):
He just give him a call seven to one three
six nine nine two six six'. Three say that again
seven to one, three six two six six. Three they
can tell you about all the services that they. Do you,
know they do consult, consulting tree consulting in general for
a fee of, course a bitch or free by the. Way,
uh they'll come, out they'll, prune they'll deep, root, feed

(02:18:32):
they'll do pest, control disease. Control you got some stumps
at the, grinding they can handle. That and especially this
is the ONE i always stress Because i've seen so
many people have work done around a, tree maybe, trenching
maybe adding, soil taking soil, away putting in a, driveway
a sidewalk of tree, slab a house lab rather. Uh

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and it's so important to Cale martin and let him
do the pre construction care and advise you as you
go about doing, that because there's nothing sadder then having
a nice new addition around a tree and then losing
that big beautiful. Tree call ahead of. Time there's a
lot to keep That martin can do ahead of. Time
but for right, now we're entering the dormant. Season it's

(02:19:15):
time to get booked up With martin so that you
can make sure and get your trees taken care of
this cool season when it's the prime time for pruning your.
Trees seven one, three six two six sixty. Three let's
set out To sugarland, now and we're going to visit
with THE si AM i saying.

Speaker 20 (02:19:32):
That right THE si, yes, yes, yes thank, You so
much for taking my. Phone, Okay i'm trying to prepare
my garden soil for vegetable gardens for a spring AND
i have galleryized raised, babes SO i want it is field,
already but you know it uses some oil by you,

(02:19:53):
know in summer and all, that SO i need to
add some. Soil Now i'm planning to add some organic
garden soil and on the TOP i want to add
some kind of mulch so it wouldn't you, know the
weed will not grow out of it during the winter.
Time SO i was, thinking you can give me your.

(02:20:14):
Opinion aromatic sed are good for vegetable you, know for
covering or pine.

Speaker 21 (02:20:20):
Mulch what do you, recommend, uh you, know in a
in a garden. Bed, yeah on the top of the.
Garden that's. That that is where we put the molt
uh in a garden bed like like a flower bed
or a vegetable let's, say not a bad a shrub.
Beed the cedar, mulches the chunky wood, mulches those are

(02:20:43):
all good and you can use them in a vegetable,
garden but you're going to end up wanting to plant
seeds and plants and sometimes the chunks get buried because
you're always working with the.

Speaker 5 (02:20:54):
Soil it's not being left untouched like it would be
in a shrug. Bed SO i, say on those KINDS
i would use a finer textured. Multch you can use a,
compost just a straight inch or so of compost over,
it and you. Can you know WHAT i do in
mind is when when it's leaf season and all the
leaves are getting off the, TREES i shred those up

(02:21:16):
with my lawn mower and just put them on my
garden and let them sit on top of the. Soil you,
know when they get, wet they're on the, soil and
then when it's planning time you can rake those out
of the way and plant or. Whatever so it doesn't
take a real fancy. Mulch but if you want something,
attractive go with something very, small particle size and not
a not a, big chunky course, mulch but but one

(02:21:38):
that's a little.

Speaker 20 (02:21:39):
Finer, okay, okay thank you so. Much and you know
you had talked about. That OH i forget the name
you can get From Ace. Hardware i'm, SORRY i don't.

Speaker 8 (02:21:51):
Remember.

Speaker 10 (02:21:52):
Small, yeah it comes in the.

Speaker 8 (02:21:55):
Bag it's.

Speaker 10 (02:21:58):
Like it's like it's like a, yeah or and.

Speaker 20 (02:22:03):
Or aired onto the fertilizing you mentioned. IT i bought
it last summer and it worked magic in my vegetable.

Speaker 7 (02:22:10):
Garden was?

Speaker 3 (02:22:11):
It was it?

Speaker 11 (02:22:16):
NOT i want to edit this, year but it's a,
right UH.

Speaker 10 (02:22:24):
I? Wish, yeah, OKAY i have. It let me read
the name Micro.

Speaker 5 (02:22:30):
Lives Six.

Speaker 17 (02:22:33):
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah you can do that, right absolutely,
absolutely you can mix it in. Magic, yeah it's like.

Speaker 5 (02:22:46):
Magic that is. True that's. Good you sound like you
sound like a commercial for. Mic you're a happy. Customer that's.
Good you're not the only one. Either you're not the only. One, so,
uh what WHAT i would do IF i were if
you're going to have a vegetable, GARDEN i WOULD i
would go out and maybe a week or two before

(02:23:07):
you're gonna, plant spread out microlife and mix it in
to the. Surface and then when you get ready to,
plant the microbes will already be releasing those. Nutrients you
get a little head start on it that, way and
you'll be good to. Go and then as the plants,
grow you're going to want to do the microlife again
because you know it. Does no fertilizer lasts. FOREVER i

(02:23:28):
mean it releases its nutrients or cycling and. Things so
be ready to do it again as your plants are
growing and, developing but start by mixing some into the
SOIL i see in the. String not, now, Right, YEAH
i mean you could do it. Now there's nothing wrong
with doing it, now but there's a lot of, months

(02:23:48):
there's a lot of weeks ahead of time before you're
going to be. Planting SO i would wait until two
weeks before and mix it in at that time and
you'll get the better benefit at that at that. Time.
Okay and also right as a mite is a micro nutrient,
supplement and you can use it at about ten, pounds

(02:24:09):
about ten pounds in a one thousand square feet a
thousand square feet of, Garden so one pound for one
hundred square feet of. Garden oh, Okay.

Speaker 20 (02:24:20):
Okay my babes are twelve by.

Speaker 5 (02:24:22):
Three by two.

Speaker 10 (02:24:25):
Twelve feet pipe.

Speaker 5 (02:24:26):
Okay three feet two two feet? High, okay, yeah so
twelve y three three beds is one hundred square. Feet
so you will take one pound of azamite and put
a third of it on each of the three. Beds
one pound of azamite should cover the might of your

(02:24:47):
beds because of the size. Bet, yeah and mix now
that you can mix in now that go ahead and
mix the might in now before you go into. Winter that's.
Fine just know too that the micro life also has
or nutrients in it because it's made from organic. MATERIALS i.

Speaker 7 (02:25:05):
See, okay, okay.

Speaker 5 (02:25:09):
Right, Now, no one last, thing one last. Thing i'm
just LIKE i. Give my advice is. Free you don't
have to pay for my, advice but you do have
to bring me half of the vegetables you, grow and
we'll call. It we'll call that an even. Deal, okay.

Speaker 7 (02:25:25):
Thank you for your.

Speaker 2 (02:25:26):
Call, bye.

Speaker 5 (02:25:30):
There you. Go all, right there you have. It let's
take a quick. Break we're going to come back with
our last segment Of Garden. Line there we, go all,
right little, peoples here On Garden, LINE i run the home, stretch.
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Speaker 8 (02:27:30):
Do?

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find your local. Store i'm going to go now out To,
lakewood Lake, side The states and talk To. Maureene, Hey,
maureen welcome back To.

Speaker 7 (02:28:10):
Gardener thank you so.

Speaker 10 (02:28:13):
Much i'm calling to find out how to care for
my high. Biscuits it is in a. Pot and the
last TIME i spoke to you was In september and
you said fertilizer and then that's.

Speaker 8 (02:28:31):
It leave it.

Speaker 22 (02:28:32):
Alone so Now i'm into THE i guess it's not
dorm and it's still nice and, green And i'm just
happy with whatever it.

Speaker 10 (02:28:39):
Does BUT i want to protect.

Speaker 12 (02:28:41):
It so it's in the.

Speaker 10 (02:28:42):
Pot so DO i put it in the garage at
a certain temperature OR i want? To it's done beautifully for.

Speaker 5 (02:28:49):
Me, Yeah so this is a tropical type, hibescus and
you are going to want to protect it because a
hard freeze will not only kill the but can kill
the base too because in that, pot being above, ground
the roots are going to get much colder than they,
would you, know were it planted in the in the ground,

(02:29:12):
itself in the ground. Itself excuse. Me so, anyway that
is something that you do want to bring. In you
can use a dolly or, whatever put a strap around
the plant and roll it in with a dolly with.
Ease leave it out as much as you. Can if
you don't want to move it in and out and
in and, out wait until you know we get some

(02:29:33):
good pretty cold weather coming and move it in, then
but in, general moving it back outside to get a
little bit of fresh air and sunshine and stuff it
is not a bad idea during the overwinter, season but
just protect it from that extra cold. Weather you don't
want to lose.

Speaker 12 (02:29:51):
It.

Speaker 10 (02:29:52):
Okay and a real short question IS i followed your.
Directions i'm very happy with.

Speaker 8 (02:29:57):
The sad you said, it do it.

Speaker 22 (02:29:59):
TODAY i did it, today and that's about six seven weeks,
ago so everything looks. Good i'm a little bit concerned
about WHEN i should begin cutting.

Speaker 5 (02:30:11):
It tell me what the item. Was you're happy with the? What,
okay mowing? It you probably you don't need to mow
it now if you know it's brand new. Sod if
you want to mow, IT i would say how long

(02:30:33):
ago did you say you put the sod?

Speaker 10 (02:30:36):
Down at least six to seven weeks?

Speaker 5 (02:30:40):
Ago, okay you can go ahead and give it another
mowing or give it a mowing. Now that's, fine even
if it doesn't really need it a little. Bit don't
cut it too short you want. To it's better to
have some height on it because those those sod, leaves
even if they're turning brown and getting cold you, know
cold damage from. Winter, uh they still are blocking sunlight

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from the soil and cutting down in your weed.

Speaker 10 (02:31:03):
Problems, OKAY i don't really need to do anything with.

Speaker 8 (02:31:08):
It it looks.

Speaker 16 (02:31:09):
LOVELY i just thought maybe the last, cutting but, NO
i Think i'm going along. Fine the last thing was
it's said to fertilize, it SO i need the name
of that.

Speaker 5 (02:31:19):
FERTILIZER i THINK i was talking About nitrofoss right. Now
the Night fross fertilizer would be The Fall. Special it's
eight twelve. Sixteen it's a brown Bag Nitrofoss Fall. Special
it's part of their three step. Program but, Yeah Fall,
special that's the one for. Now but don't, delay go
ahead and get that down because it needs time to

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take those nutrients.

Speaker 8 (02:31:42):
In, Okay, okay thank you so.

Speaker 10 (02:31:45):
Much, LOVE i love the.

Speaker 7 (02:31:46):
Program thank.

Speaker 5 (02:31:48):
YOU i appreciate that so. Much thank, You. Maran you take.
Care by the, way the three step also includes Night
fross barricade to prevent weeds from coming up And Nitrofoss
eagle terfun decide to prevent the brown patch. Circles you're
going to find Night fosh products at places Like Stanton
Shopping center, now Then Fisher's hardware And laporte and The
arbigate carries some Night fosh products up In tumble as.

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Well let's now go out To archie In. Paarland Hey,
archie welcome To Garden.

Speaker 14 (02:32:16):
Line Hey, Skip i'm all the way back from, church
and SO i wanted to see IF i could get
this in real.

Speaker 8 (02:32:22):
Quick can we do any pruning on.

Speaker 7 (02:32:24):
Our hedges right?

Speaker 14 (02:32:25):
Now or should we wait till?

Speaker 5 (02:32:27):
SPRING i would. Wait pruning is a stimulating. Process and
so let's say we went into a week where we,
had you, know upper, seventies even maybe hitting the low,
eighties which is going to happen. Here if you, prune
the plant's going to try to, regrow and then all this,
tender succulent growth that's not hardy could get hit by

(02:32:47):
an early hard. Freeze and SO i would wait until,
spring till we get past the freezes and do your
next sharing or pruning at that. Time, okay well that's
WHAT i need to.

Speaker 7 (02:32:57):
Know save me some work this acura.

Speaker 5 (02:33:00):
Good, yeah there you. Go that's that's that's what's that's.
Important all. Right, wow that was a busy. Day good
to talk to you all today On Guarden. LINE i
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