Humble Herbs

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 (00:04):
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Speaker 3 (00:09):
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Speaker 4 (00:10):
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Speaker 3 (00:17):
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Speaker 2 (00:33):
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(00:54):
never thing here Sunday.

Speaker 3 (00:57):
S all right, Hey, welcome, good morning, good day to

(01:22):
be inside, Good morning to be inside. Yep, this is
the second whammy of the year. I hope you guys
had your plants covered. Hopefully all is well out there.
I've got a heat lamp underneath the cover where my
citrus trees are. That is it does the job. It
does a really good job. One little heat lamp. And

(01:43):
these are small trees. They haven't been in the ground
very long. One little heat lamp makes a lot of
difference underneath there. When you need to cover. Just gotta
be careful, you know you don't want those plugs out
in the rain. You don't want anything and a bunch
of dry grass where a little spark or something might
really warm the trees up, if you know what I mean.
But I think looking at the week ahead, we've got

(02:07):
some normal temperatures. It looks it looks nice. It's cool
on the chili side, for sure, But I don't see
freeze come into the area. So that's a good thing.
That's a good thing. It's time out in the garden
to be getting ready though, for spring, time, to be
working the soil. Time to getting making sure we're getting
all that ready. If you're gonna plant potatoes, you need

(02:29):
to buy those. They call them seed potatoes, I guess
because you plant them just like you would plant a
seed to get a plant. But these aren't seeds. They're
a seed. Potato is basically a potato that's been cut
into sections with at least a couple of eyes, a
couple of eyes on each section, and then allowed to
heal over the cut surface. You know, when you cut

(02:50):
a potatoes very wet and you just set it out
there in a counter, let it air dry the surface
of just a day or two. It's fun enough usually
to do that, you want to be extra careful. You
can dust the cut surfaces with sulfur. You can buy
powdered sulfur at your garden center. Just throw. What I
do is just put it on a paper sack and
throw the potatoes in there and kind of shake it

(03:11):
around and everything and it sticks to those cut surfaces.
Or put some in a tray and just dab the
cut surfaces down in there as you're cutting them. That's
even simpler. But anyway, that cuts down on some of
the decay and stuff that can happen. But after they've
had a few days to kind of dry off there,
they say heal, but it's not healing. Dry off. Basically

(03:34):
put them in the ground. You don't have to blow
them very deep, just know the surface. Here's something people
don't know about growing regular potatoes. By regular, I mean
not sweet potatoes, but the Irish potatoes, the new potatoes
and all those versions. Is the potatoes don't form underground

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like it would on a sweet potato, which is a root.
An Irish potato or a new potato is a stem.
When you take a potato and you mash it, neat it,
you're eating stem tissue isn't that interesting or weird. So
here's what happens. You put that seed piece in the
ground and where there's that little bud on the potato,
the eye, as we call it, roots come out right

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there and go down, and the potato itself is a
little bit of a storage organ that the plant can
get some nutrition out of initially. But basically you're getting
those roots down in the ground and then the eye
of the potato grows up and makes your shoot that
comes out of the ground. Of course it's a bud,
but then you have to pull soil in around the
stem that's come up out of the ground above the

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seed piece, and side shoots from the stem come out
and form the tubers that we call potatoes. So this
is why if one of your potatoes, if the soil
or mulch or whatever is pulled back and the sun
shines on a potato, it turns green because it's stem
tissue that's colorophyll forming, and it's not good to eat
that and just take your little potato pe learn take

(05:03):
that off. But basically we want to cover up the stem. Now,
what you're going to see, and a lot of social
media type things is you'll see somebody with this box
that is a foot or too high by actually two
feet high, that is piled up, and they're going to
have potatoes the whole box up. We used to see
it like you stack a bunch of tires on the

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ground and you fill them up with soil, and the
potatoes grow all the way up. The stem goes all
the way up through them as you cover up more
or put more and more soil in the tires, and
at the end you can just take the top tier
off and harvest potatoes, take the next tier off and
harvest That doesn't work that way. All of your potatoes
are going to form from the seed piece, oh about
eight inches down from that point. So any deeper than

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that that you pile up stuff is not doing he's
not doing anything. It's not helping at all. Now, if
you don't get fun with it, you can loosen up
the soil and plant the seed piece in the soil,
and then on top of that set some kind of
a container that the potato can grow up through. Some

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people will use those milk crates, plastic square milk crates,
or the big holes in them, and that Sometimes they'll
line them a newspaper, just to keep it a little
moisture in there, no big deal, and then fill it
full of a compost or a very very very fine
textured multi materials as that potato plant starts to grow,

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and then your potatoes will all be in that milk crate.
I've done it before with a five gallon bucket, but
you got to be careful with that because it stay
it can stay too wet. But drill a bunch of
holes in the bottom of the bucket and then make
one bigger hole that you put right over where the
potatoes coming up. When it first comes up, just set
the bucket right over that little plant and the hole
in the bottom of the bucket. The plant comes up,

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and as the plant grows up, every time it gets
up about three or four inches, you throw in compost
around it, and then it comes up further. You do
it again until you get the bucket about half full,
and all your potatoes will be in the bucket. That's
kind of fun, gives an a you know, gives your
family and friends something to go ooh, that's cool. Because
you just go out the garden cut cut the vine off.

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Underneath the bottom of the bucket. There and carry your
bucket full of potatoes and compost inside. Or what you
really do is just dump it on the ground and
all the potatoes fall fall out and among the composts,
and now you got composts and yourself. So anyway, a
little fun thing to do. Fun thing. The folks who
use some powder coats are experts in basically taking metal

(07:36):
that is in a very ugly state and turning it
into brand new whatever it was before. Furniture, barbecue, pet iron, railing,
metal fence, got a metal fence with the bars you know,
around the around the property the beautiful and then do
one hundred colors. So I mean, if you want a

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pink metal bar fence or purple around your property, you
can do that. I don't know. They would probably raise
an eyebrow, but going that's kind of kind of kept
cause traffic accidents out on the street. But anyway, you
can do anything that you want to coat with them,
and they know how to do it. You know, if
you've got a beautiful piece of furniture, maybe one of

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those old time chairs that were the primary colors metal
tops and bottoms and kind of a bent piece of
tubular metal that kind of rocked as you bounced up
and down on it. Thing to those, put brand new
stainless steel bolts on them, make them look really cool.
So here's just a tip. But if you run across
some stuff like that that is in halfway decent shape

(08:40):
in terms of the metal integrity, take it to Uston
Matter Coators. Let them put a new coat on it
and give you a brand new piece of furniture back,
including nice stainless steel bolts. Easton Powdercoats dot Com Houston
Powder Coats. I really enjoy going on their Facebook and
just seeing the things that people do. And I'm mean
they can code anything. If it's metal, they can coat

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it and they'll come get it. They'll bring it back.
Houston Powder Coders. That's who you want to talk to.
They can make something that was ready for the trash,
ready for the show place. Let's take a little break
and we'll be right back.

Speaker 6 (09:18):
I'm pretty sure a congo I'm pretty sure a congo
line is. It's a little early in the morning, but
it is a happy song and we live happy here
on guard Line.

Speaker 3 (09:28):
Hey, welcome back. I'm your host, Skip Richter. We're gonna
have fun gardening today, even if it is on the radio.
Got any indoor gardening projects planned. It's a really good
day to grab you some potting soil and bump up
some plants that need bumping up. Maybe take some cuttings,
get them started rooting so you can make more plants

(09:51):
out of them. I've got a string of turtles that
I don't know what happened, but it just is declining
and it you know, it's the kind of that would
happen if I overwatered them. Succulents, when you keep the
roots too water, too wet, they rot. They're they're not
most succulents, they're not used to that. And anyway, it
was declining. So I took some cutting sucument water just

(10:12):
because I was in a hurry and getting some roots
going on them. I need to pop those up. I
need to get some others started too. You know, plants,
some plants are just really easy to grow. They just
they want to live. Other plants it seems like they
want to die.

Speaker 7 (10:28):
You know.

Speaker 3 (10:28):
They're looking to disappoint and embarrass you. That is their
goal in life. So it's like, what did I do?
But anyway, I've got some these succulents were doing so
good and I was real proud of myself for doing
a great job of growing succulents, and then here they
just started croaking a couple of them on me. Anyway,

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we got them in the hospital. They're about to come back.
That's one of the fun things about plants. Propagating, too,
is one of the fun things about plants. Learning how
to propagate is an important skin when it comes to
just having fun growing stuff propagating. It could be seeds starting,
which now is an excellent time to get out there

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and get your seeds started for your spring garden that
includes flowers and vegetables. I've got a bunch of seeds
that I have collected that I need to start, just
wild plants that I run into and I want to
try them out. So grab some seed on them, take

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them to my propagation area, get them started, and who
knows what we're going to find out. I like trying
to do things with plants. I like trying to plant
grow plants I haven't grown before. That's fun. Just remember
this gardening is fun. It is fun, and if you're
not having fun, then we need to fix that, because yeah,

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it's disappointing to lose a plant. I understand that. But
if it's just like you feel pressure or this isn't
going to work or get discouraged and stuff that can
be fixed. All the gardening is learning to see things
from a plant's point of view. The bottom line, that's
how you end up with success. So I'm trying to
propagate my string of turtles. So what is if I

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were to get into the mind of a string of
turtles where there's such a thing and say what is
it you need? They would say, well, I would like
you to if you don't put me in water, get
those lower leaves off, strip them off. They're not made
to be into water for sure, and put my stems
done in water and let some roots for them. Change
out the water regularly or it'll go nasty and start
to rot, like the bouquet of flowers that you left

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on the counter for an extra couple of weeks. And
if you want to do it in soil, lay them
on top of the soil, pin them down to the soil.
Everywhere there's a node, the plant will tell me. That's
what a string of turtles will tell you is everywhere
I have a node, I can put roots down there.
But I need to be touching some moist soil for
that to happen. You don't want to bury them in soil.

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The plant will tell you that. Actually it won't. But
if you could see it from a plant's point of view,
you would see, you would understand that. And that's what
we try to do, is we get to be better gardeners.
Bottom line. To be a better gardener, you got to
work at it and you got to be willing to fail.
It is okay to fail. It's okay to make mistakes,

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to be as Let's see who is at Ralston J. C.
Ralston said to be a good horticulture she got to
kill a lot of plants. And that's true.

Speaker 7 (13:26):
You do.

Speaker 3 (13:27):
So there you go. You have permission to go kill plants.
Fun with that, seriously, though, I want you to have fun.
I want you to like this because it's a great hobby.
It's a great hobby. I had a really good time
out and in Chenny Gardens yesterday thanks to everybody that
came out. We had a lot of fun there in
the tent, cutting up and learning about growing things and

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containers and in large container beds as well. In Chenny
Gardens is such a wonderful place. I always like going there,
the expanse of plants, the options that they have, I mean,
whatever kind of plants you want to grow, they've got
plenty of it, and it's just plants from eye. And
they also have really cool containers. Also. I was walking

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by when I was down the way to car, walking
by some of the metal containers that they have those
iron baskets, so you know, think of it like like
a wire basket, but not made of wire, but made
out of a very nice iron, and it just they're
just gorgeous. You put a little cocoa core liner in

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there and fill it up with plants, and the basket
itself is just stunning as well as the plants. A
trail over the sides when you plant it. They carry
a really good they got to already have some good
vegetables in, but they're going to get a whole lot
more vegetables in as time goes by. Here. They are
stocked up. The shipments are on the way, and so

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if you need to get your tomatoes, your peppers, your eggplants,
you want to try that vegetable gardening this year, I
recommend you do that. That's the place you can go
as well. As good advice, friendly people that greet you.
I just enjoy shopping. There is a pleasure shop and
in Channing Gardens. They are on the Katie Foster side

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of Richmond, which is FM three fifty nine. That's the
road that they're on. Enchanted Gardens Richmond dot Com is
their website. Go check them out. Oh, by the way,
they also carry all the fertilizer products that you hear
me talk about here on Guardline, Microlife, Nitrofoss Nelson plant

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Food for example, and Medina. Thanks to Medina too. Yesterday
they gave away some really nice things hose end sprayer
products that they have that has to grow for lawns
and other products like that. So that was nice and
congratulations to everybody that won some really really cool I

(15:55):
want to let you know that on this coming Friday
and Saturday, I'm going to be at the Houston Home
and Garden Show at the NRG Center Houston Home and
Garden Show so Energy South Beltway, and I'll be there
on Friday and on Saturday, I'll give a talk and

(16:15):
excuse me and then answer your gardening questions. I'm gonna
have some copies of my book on hand if you'd
like to come by and get a copy and get
a signed I'd be happy to do that, but I'll
be there for two hours and so first of all
doing the talk, answering questions, and then I'll be at
a table out in the garden show area itself where
you can continue to come by. I'll have the books there,

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and then I'll have time to answer your gardening questions.
You can bring me samples, you can bring me photos,
whatever works. Be happy to help assess, diagnose, identify whatever
you need. Houston Home and Garden Shows can be a
really excellent garden show. It is an excellent garden show
every year, but this year I'm really looking forward to

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seeing you there. Okay, you go. I'll talk about that
more as we go through the day. If you got
a question and you would like to discuss it with
me on the air, give me a call. Seven one
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happy to help with that. Sunday morning, especially early, is

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a little bit slower day. So if you have ever
called and you know there's a group of people waiting
in line, this is a good time to call whether
it's not for sure, So just just a tip there.
If you have a question you'd like to ask uh.
On my website, I am about to put up some
video and what I've been doing is shooting videos putting

(17:43):
them on social for now social media, but I would
like to get some of those loaded up onto the website.
We're going to have sections for various kinds of plants,
like for your lawn, for your vegetable garden, and so on,
and have some very helpful publications and video in that
I'm excited about doing. It is a lot of work,
but I'm looking forward to getting that ready to go.

(18:06):
If you have not gotten a copy of my lawn schedule,
my lawn care schedule like how to grow a pretty lawn,
that's what That's what I call the schedule, or my
lawn Pest Disease and weed management schedule, which you could
call it the Lions and Tigers and Bears Oh My,
or you could just call it the what goes Wrong
with the lawn Schedule. Both of those are on the website,

(18:27):
full color chart from January to February everything you need
to know and what to do about it from an
organic and a synthetic standpoint both. So the schedule is there,
it's free, you can print it out. I recommend printing
it out, taking it with you. That way, when you
go shopping and you're looking for a product, you can
kind of point and go, this is the one I

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need right here, and so there you go, simple as that.
I'll be giving away copies of my schedule at the
Houston Home and Garden Show at NRG Park this coming weekend.
But again it's not just Saturday. This isn't a different
I'm going to be on Friday and again on Saturday,
not all day for both of them. But I'll give
you more information on that as we go along. Let's

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take a little break. We're coming up here on the
half hour news. If you have a question seven one
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about the things that are of interest to you. If
a photo would be helpful, call my producer, get an email,

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send me the photo, and then follow up with a call.
There we go. All right, welcome back to guard Line.
What are we going to talk about today? You tell
me this is a call in show and I will
be happy to drone on for four hours of all
kinds of gardening things that I think or I actually
know a lot of people are going to be interested in,

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because having done this for almost forty years now, I
I heard a lot of questions year to year, and
you kind of know what kind of questions people are
going to have, so happy to visit with you about
any kind of thing like that. Are just get into
a list of things that I would like to talk
about as well. Let's start off though, by going to
the phones. We're going to head up to Nadville and

(20:18):
see you talk to Vernon this morning. Hey, Vernon, welcome
to Garden Line. How you doing today's skip? Hey, I
have a question, good sir.

Speaker 8 (20:28):
I'm put getting my garden ready for spurring. But over
the last couple of months, I've done a lot of
fishing and I've taken all the fish remains after I
got through flaying them, and I buried them in one
of my race containers four by ten and I've been
turning it whether there's.

Speaker 3 (20:46):
Absolutely no sign of any of them.

Speaker 9 (20:48):
I mean, they're all.

Speaker 7 (20:51):
Degraded.

Speaker 9 (20:53):
I'm just wondering if I can use this. Is that
going to be too risky using.

Speaker 10 (20:56):
My garden, you think, or Jesus sparingly or what do
you think about that?

Speaker 3 (21:00):
No, it'll be fine. The roots will will grow where
they need to grow to get what they need to get.
How long ago did you put those in there in
the soil.

Speaker 9 (21:09):
It's been a couple of months. I'm kind of surprised
there's no sign of any remaining for this.

Speaker 3 (21:14):
Yeah, there should be some you know, cartilage or or
something from the fish.

Speaker 8 (21:19):
And well, I can't recovered with most of the time,
I can't recovered with a tarp, so it get heat
in there.

Speaker 3 (21:29):
But I didn't go ahead and plan U. Now, no,
you could do that there. You know how we have
the the Thanksgiving story about settlers in America and the
first Thanksgiving kinds of things uh and and part of
the stories UH is as people here was that the

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Native Americans taught how people how to drop a fish
in a hole, put a little swell on it, and
put the seed in there. And so they planted right
on top of a fish. And of course that did
benefits that we know any kind of a decaying organic
matter can do. So that's exactly what you're doing. And
I think you're going to see good results.

Speaker 8 (22:09):
Okay, Yeah, I'm going to take it, spread it on
each row and mix it in with the existing souls.
So okay, okay, I just wanted to make sure one't
too strong they'd burn or anything.

Speaker 3 (22:19):
Now, the only time we really were about the burning
or the main time is when something is salt based.
You know, a lot of our synthetic fertilizers are a
salt based fertilizer, and when that happens, you know, anything
that's the salt can can burn if it's too concentrated.
So but when you use a fertilizer right, it's not
too concentrated when you use it right, sometimes people just

(22:41):
get a little heavy handed with it, all right. Now,
that's uh, that's all right, sir, Thanks a lot, all right,
very interesting. Yeah, you know, there's a there's a lot
of things that we we just don't think about and
do because we're in a mindset that in order to
grow stuff, you have to use some product to do it,

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and products can be very helpful. And the nice thing
of our products is you can you're better able to
be to have precision with what nutrients you put on
and where you put them in all of that. But
in nature, things just de and decay away. That's what happens,
whether it's a raccoon laying on the forest floor or

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whether it is an animal that lives in the soil
that dies down there and pass away. I mean, we
don't put we don't put like meat and cheese and
stuff like that in compost piles. But in fact, anything

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that is organic eventually is going to decay. Some things
are really slow, like oils and fats, like cheese would
be and that's just a very very slow benefit, if
at all, and we don't recommend that. But other things
they are gonna become part of the soil again.

Speaker 7 (24:07):
What was was it.

Speaker 3 (24:09):
Shakespeare or Longfellow? One of the poets said Dost thou Art.
It's a good one for Sunday morning. Dust thou Art
to dust return is not spoken of the soul. I
gotta find out what the name of that poem is.
But dust thou Art to dust return that term that
is true of every form of living life taken from

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the soil and becomes soil again.

Speaker 7 (24:36):
So there you go.

Speaker 3 (24:37):
If you want a morbid maybe too early for humor,
but if you want a morbid humor, It's like Shakespeare
spent several decades composing and has been decomposing ever since. Sorry,
too early for that. Let's go out to Marland. We'll
go talk to John. Hey, John, welcome to garden line.

Speaker 11 (24:57):
Hey, I got my freezing p them salved and now
I'm ready to start for the spring. And I saw
on Facebook people cutting fifty five calendar fifty five gallon
drums and a half long ways, so it's like two
half shells. How do you think that would work out?

(25:19):
Just shallow roots stuff?

Speaker 3 (25:21):
Huh yeah, what are you wanting to grow in it specifically?

Speaker 11 (25:26):
Well, I was thinking like herbs in the front and
alapinos and other peppers in the back, you know, kind
of kill it that little and maybe make it a
step frame. Well you put it on a west wall
and they don't get late afternoon sunshine.

Speaker 3 (25:45):
That that would be fine. Yeah, that would be perfectly okay.
You would need to drink drill holes in the bottom
so drainage could occur enough of them to wear wherever
water happened to be, you know, roll down to the
lowest spot in it. Depending on how you have the
drum angled that it would drain out. They will rust

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in decay away and time, but they hold quite a
bit of soil and that plants would do well with that.

Speaker 11 (26:15):
I was also funny, you know, thinking maybe I would
put straw or brown bed stuff, say for the first
or four inches in the deepest part in the bottom.

Speaker 3 (26:28):
Well, instead of that, I would just use a quality
bed mix. It could be a veggie nerve mix. It
could even be a rose soil kind of mix or
something in those and make every square inch you can
a square inch of soil for roots to grow in.
Some things like if you put straw on the bottom,
it's going to decay away and things are going to
sink down a little faster, but it's not a benefit

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really to the plants. So every yesterday I was talking
about raised bed gardening and things and container gardening, and
here it's so hot that every square inch of soil
we can give a plant and a container is a
square inch you can get water and nutrients fum on
a hot summer day. And so we want to make
sure and not decrease them the volume of soil and

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the container.

Speaker 11 (27:13):
Yeah, okay, all right, appreciate it.

Speaker 3 (27:18):
Yeah, if you end up doing it, if you end
up doing it, getting set up. If you don't mind
send me take a picture and send it to me.
I'm pretty sure can't give you an email, but if
you get i'd like to see your set up.

Speaker 11 (27:31):
Yes, my freezing problem. I bought clear parts and my
high biscuits are still putting out flowers.

Speaker 3 (27:41):
Oh cool, nicey John, I got I got to run
to a break here, but thank you for your call.
I appreciate it very much. And you and you take
care and best of luck with your gardening folks. I'll
be right back here we are. Can I tell me
who's singing with Elton John?

Speaker 12 (28:02):
There?

Speaker 3 (28:03):
I need to have prizes on garden line, so if
you call with the right answer, we can give you
a prize. I will make no weeds be allowed to
grow in your yard this year. If you know who
that lady is there, we go.

Speaker 13 (28:17):
Hey.

Speaker 3 (28:18):
If you have an area that's not draining well in
your landscape, you need to call the folks at Peerscapes.
They know how to fix drainage issues. They can affect
your foundation, they can affect a lot of things. Certainly
plant don't want to grow in a soggy spot. Pierce
Scapes can do it. Piercescapes dot com. But that's not
all they do. They do smart irrigation systems, they do design,

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they do build, they do maintenance, anything to make your
landscape a showplace. Just remember piercescapes dot com two eight
one three seven fifty sixty two eight one three seven
oh five zero six zero. Now's the time to get
you so ready, folks. Spring planting is here, it really
is here. We should be planting fruit trees, shrubs, trees,

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shade trees rather flowering trees, any kind of thing like that.
Now we should be planning perennials. Now the spring planting
season for vegetables and flower beds is almost upon us.
Here it is time to get the soil ready. Soil first,
Get the soil first, then put the plants in and
watch them hit the ground running and thrive. Folks. At
Nature's Way, they know how to make soil. They know

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what nature does to create the best soils on the
planet Earth, and they make them for you so you
can have instant results. You don't have to wait decades
for the soil to be built in a natural nature, slow, slow,
slow way like nature does. You can buy the products
from Nature's way and put them down, put them in

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a planting bed in the ground, put them in a
raised planting bed, whatever, and you're ready to go.

Speaker 7 (29:56):
Now.

Speaker 3 (29:56):
Their bagged products are sold also as if you don't
want to go up to the Conroe area to pick
them up bulk or have them deliver bulk to you,
you can buy them by the bag at places like
a task Asda Ace in northeast of town here in Tascasita,
k and m Ace in Kingwood, J n R's Ace
and Porter Nelson's water Garden Outing Katie or Ace Hardware

(30:17):
on Memorial Drive. Ace Hardware City on Memorial Drive Southwest
Fertilizer of course has them Enchanted Forest and Chenney Gardens
down to the southwest up north Plenchville, Seasons, Ace Hardware
in Willis and Ace Hardware in the Woodlands. All Seasons Ason, Willis,
that is, Ace Hardware in the Woodlands all carry Nature's
Way products by the bag. Makes it easy, and I
tell you this, it works from the time when John

(30:40):
Ferguson first founded that program, that company built on the
way Nature does things to today son Ian running the place,
same quality, same quality products and a team that is
dedicated to helping you and help you have success. They
get excited about soil because they know that soil is

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where it all starts. You're listening to garden Line. If
you have a gardening question seven one three, two, one
two five eight seven four seven one three two one
two fifty eight seventy four, give me a call. We
can talk about those kinds of things. I was looking.
I follow a lot of my sponsors and stuff on

(31:22):
social media and check out the websites periodically and just
see what's up, what's going on there. And I tell
you Jorge has got a lot of fruit trees in
Don and Jorges Hidden Gardens, which isn't between it's between
Alvin and Santa Fe. It's an Alvin address Elizabeth Street
between Alvin and Santa Fe down there. So all of
you listening from Alvin Santa Fe. Uh certainly places like

(31:44):
Hillcrest and Alta Lomar Katie and I'll go, this is
your backyard garden center, and you ought to go check
them out. Lots of fruit trees. He even has some
fruit trees that have been budded to multiple different varieties
of that fruit, so you don't just buy like one
pair of variety or something. You get one that has
several varieties butted onto it. So that's kind of a

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cool thing, isn't it. But he has a lot of
really good, good options. He's got a thing called the
fruit cocktail tree that has a nectarine, a plum, a
white peach, and a donut peach on one tree. That's crazy.
But you got you gotta go down to jes Said
and Gardens. Give him a call. Jorge is opened today

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from eight to four now Tuesday through Friday nine to three,
Saturday and Sunday eight am to four pm. So he's
open right now, well not quite yet. I'm getting ahead
of the game here. He'll be open in an hour
seven one three, six, three two fifty two ninety seven
one three, six, three two five two nine zero.

Speaker 13 (32:48):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (32:48):
Glad to have you with us today. We are looking
forward to helping you with whatever kind of gardening tasks
that you may want to do. And I want to
give you a couple of things that are very timely,
and one of them right now is you need to
get plants pruned that for their winter pruning, so deciduous
shade trees, for example, in all your deciduous plants. Really

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that need the normal winter pruning. This is the time
we get it done. And so you want to have
sharp pruners. That's important. And you want to know how
to prune, prune the right way. And listen, I see
eighty percent of the pruning I see done around town
is done wrong. And I'm talking about buy commercial companies.
They just don't do it right. They may be eighty

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percent right, but that's not one hundred percent right. You
can learn how to prune, how to make a pruning cut,
where to make a pruning cut, and just to make
it real, kind of brief and simple. When you're going
up to remove a limb, you want to remove it
close to where it attaches, but not right up against.
Let's say it comes off of a trunk, a branch

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goes out from the trunk. You don't want to remove
it right up flo up against the trunk because that
makes a very big wound. If you think about it,
that limb is coming down, it's a certain diameter, whatever
that diameter is, and right when it gets to the trunk,
it flares out to attach. And so the closer you
get to the trunk after that flaring begins, the bigger
the opening is going to be after you cut it.

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The bigger the wound, the slower it'll be to heal.
And if you cut far enough back, you're removing the
best healing tissues in that area. So you don't want
to leave a stub because it'll die. And now it
can't close over because you've got a dead piece of
tuba four in there, if you know what I'm saying,
or cut it too flush. But there's a sweet spot there,
and you can go online and learn that basically if

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I can just a little bit oversimplify it, which is
a little dangerous, I guess, But right where the branch
starts to flare out, just as it's beginning to fly out,
that's about where you're going to make that cut. Now,
we have different kinds of branches, some of them don't
flare like that as much, but in general, no no
stub and no flesh cut both and you're going to

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be probably in about the right range. Don't need to
do pruning paint. We don't need pruning paint on our
wounds here. If you're listening to me and you're over
in the Austin area or some of the area that
and we do have listeners as far away as almost Austin.
You have oak wilt in a lot of areas around

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the state. We have it here. It's not rampant all
over the place here, It's not as common here at all.
But in areas where oak wilt is present, then we
do paint the pruning cuts on oak trees when we
prune them. But we want to prune them in the
coldest month of the year. And guess where we are.
This is the time right now to do pruning. To

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stay as far away from the opportunity for oak wilt
to be spread by the beatles into a pruning cut.

Speaker 7 (35:52):
I like that.

Speaker 3 (35:53):
So there you go. I think about this a lot.
You know, I'm sitting here talking about gardening. Houston's kind
of the home base area. We got people in LaVey
at Louisiana and people over Like I said to Austin,
almost Santonio, doning Corpus up in Huntsville, downing Galveston. And

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so when I tell you when to play tomatoes, I
don't know who to talk to. I could just you know,
go into great legs telling everybody what to do, but boy,
would that be boring radio. We have enough of that already. No, seriously,
we try to give the best estimates and give you
an idea. What the what you need to know is
kind of like last night. Up north, they're down to

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about twenty four or five degrees down south, just barely
blow freezing. But that's how it is gardening. Hay, i'milla,
get a cup of coffee. Why don't you do the same,
and we'll meet right back here in just a moment
while we allow time for the news.

Speaker 1 (36:54):
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Speaker 2 (37:41):
Like gas became you did. Everything is so clean.

Speaker 3 (37:45):
You can see and everything here is sung you you
can be had the trem all right, we're back. Hey,
Welcome to garden Line. Good to have you with us.
I was looking at some pottery the other day impact

(38:06):
yesterday and thinking about the disappearing fountains. Those are the
fountains where these it was a tall glazed piece of pottery,
like a giant vase, if you want to think of
it that way, but outdoor, uh, and you can turn
those into disappearing fountains where water is coming out of
the top and just goes down the side and it
just recirculates again. Nelson Water Gardens and Katie they invented that.

(38:29):
Literally they did. They invented that, and they can tay
out to make it. They got the parts and everything.
You're going to do that. But I was just looking
at these vases, and ever since I discovered the disapring
fountain idea, now everything I look at, I think you
can probably make a disserring fountain out of that, or
that'd be kind of cool if we you know whatever.
And that's just the way it is. It's addictive thing

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when you start getting into water gardening. The sound of
water is therapeutic, it's wonderful. And the folks at Nelson
Nursery and Water Gardens, they know exactly how to do that.
By the way, right now you're thinking, Okay, it's too
cold of a day to be out, well, stop buying
Nelson Nursing Water Gardens, And what I'd like you to
do is start off indoors. Start off and look at
the houseplants inside. They are gorgeous and there's a lot

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of different kinds of houseplants, not just standard stuff. They
have standard stuff, but not just standard stuff. They've got
some really attractive houseplants. It just really transforms an indoor
area to have those. And yeah, so you need to
go check them out. They're really really cool. How do
you get there? Way, you go out to Katie. You

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go north on Katie Fort Ben Road and it's just
down the street on the right hand side. Nelson Watergardens
dot com. Let's go out to Spring Branch and we're
going to visit with Robert this morning. Hey Robert, welcome
to garden Line.

Speaker 14 (39:50):
Hey morning, Skip. Yeah, I was in the shower there
and you asked who Kiki d was. That was a
no brainer, but I couldn't get out of the shower
quick enough. Fortunately, I guess what are you as old
as me?

Speaker 7 (40:02):
Is listening to the showy or or nose?

Speaker 15 (40:08):
Uh?

Speaker 3 (40:08):
Kiki is not a well known name. Kiki's name actually
was Pauline Matthews. I thought that was kind of interesting,
but that happens a lot. You know, John Denver wasn't
John Denver either, so nor was Carrie Graham. But anyway, yeah,
there you go. Yeah, you have to make up your name.
I need to make up a new name. I just
haven't come up with one yet. But yeah, okay, well,

(40:30):
good congratulations on that. And I won't ask if you
were singing in the shower or not, but anyway, in
the shower.

Speaker 14 (40:38):
I actually got the bluetooth speaker from a family member
for Christmas and didn't take it out till a couple
of days ago and thought, I'm never going to use this,
and now here I am.

Speaker 3 (40:50):
Well, you've made my day because I've never gotten a
garden line call from a live from a shower before.
I know you're not right now. It's interesting, yeah, no,
but it is interesting to know that.

Speaker 11 (41:03):
We got people.

Speaker 3 (41:06):
I know that I know we got people.

Speaker 7 (41:08):
Think what you're going to help me with?

Speaker 3 (41:10):
There you go. I know that we have people that
listen from out in their gardens off their phone, but
I never knew people were listening from the shower, so
I need to I need to keep that in mind
in the future. Thank you a lot, man. I appreciate
the call. All right, guy, take care.

Speaker 7 (41:27):
There you go.

Speaker 3 (41:28):
There you go a new a new way of listening
to garden line. Uh and why not? So anyway, 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. Do you know
what KIKII also sang? She sang, I've got the music

(41:48):
in Me? Do you know that song I've got the
music in Me? Yeah? I won't sing from the radio
hair either, But anyway, that was about the only other
hit I know of from that lady from England. If
you want success, you have to start in the soil.
How many times on a weekend do I say brown
stuff before green stuff? Start with the soil. Don't PLoP

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a poor plant into an unprepared plot. I mean, there's
just lots of ways to put it, but the bottom
line is plants live in their roots. That is the
foundation for success. You can't build anything on a bad foundation.
That's just a common thing people know. You don't lay
two by fours in the dirt and build a house.
You got to have a foundation. It's true with soils,

(42:30):
and the folks at Earn themselves do a very good
job of this. I was talking to somebody the other
day that we were talking about some of the bag
products that they have which are sold all over the
Greater Houston area, and they carry a line for pretty
much everything you're going to need. Leaf more compost for
top dressing your lawn or for using in a vegetable garden.
By the way, leaf mole compost is excellent for a

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vegetable garden because it is a little is a very
fine textured and lightweight simple mults that you can plant in.
If you use like a big wood, chunky mulch in
a vegetable garden, it would malt your plants. But then
when you pull those out, you're going to get that
mult mixed in kind of with the soil. And then

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you want to go plant little seeds, and now you
get all these chunks of wood and the soil. It's
hard to plant a seed at the right depth. With
leaf moll compos that's not the case. You just kind
of scrape it back a little bit. It's easy to do,
but they have those. They have edgy nerd mix, that's
one of their most famous products. From heirloom soil, the
rosen and other bloomers and just all kinds of blooming plants,

(43:32):
flower beds and stuff. They have a soil for everything.
Now you can buy it, buy the bulk and have
it delivered either bulk or a supersac which is a
QB yard. You can go out to porter and pick
it up yourself, or you can go to a million
places around town that carry heirloom soilce products. I would
recommend that you go to their website. When you go

(43:53):
to the website, you're going to see a list of
the different products that they carry, Okay, and then you
can read the room and find out out them and
learn all the things. They have a good calculator on
the website too, and it's an easy one to remember.
Heirloomsoils dot com. Heirloomsoils dot com. You're listening to Gardenline.

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I'm your host, Skip Richter. We're here to help you
have success. We're here to help you see things from
a plant's point of view. That is the secret to
success in gardening is learning to see things from a
plant's point of view. All right, if you are planning
on doing a vegetable garden this year, I want you
to remember that vegetables need lots of sun to be successful.

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They need lots of sun in order to support growth.
You need power, excuse me, power in the plant to
push that push that growth along, to fuel that growth along.
And in a plant that's called carbohydrates and they come
from the sun shining on the plant leaves, and the
plant food factory makes carbohydrates, which are the true plant food.

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If it's in the shade, it's not going to do
as well. If you had a solar panel and you
were trying to make power and it was in the sun,
you'd make a lot of power. If you stick it
in the shade, it's going to trickle a little bit
out if it's a bright shade, but not much. And
the same is true with our vegetable solar panels, which
are called leaves. When you put them in the sun,
they make power. So if you want something that takes

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a lot of carbohydrates to make it, like a tomato
fruit or a squash fruit, or a carrot root or
a beet root, you need extra power to do that
extra carbs to do that compared to making leaves. Why
am I saying all this. Here's why. If you have
to make a choice in your garden because you don't

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have full sun in all the garden space, then put
the fruits and the roots in the sunniest spots you
can give them, and put the leafy greens in a
bright shade. If you have to do that, they'd rather
be in signed. But you're not making high carb plant

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parts with leafy greens. So if somebody's got to go
with less sun, make it the leafy greens. All right,
it's a little tip for success. Let's take a break
and we'll be right back. Here's the number if you'd
like to call, seven to one three two one, two
fifty eight seventy four. All right, welcome back to garden Line.

(46:26):
What do you want to talk about anything gardening?

Speaker 13 (46:28):
This?

Speaker 3 (46:30):
I don't. I don't do a relation of relationship advice,
although I have been I've been putting the on the
spot at times. One time I went out to a
place I can't remember. I think a lady called, and
this is back when I was a county extension agent
and they needed to be She wonted me come out
to the property to I don't know, to advise about something,

(46:51):
or they had a problem out there or whatever. Anyway,
I don't remember the details. I just remember the moment
I was standing there and I thought I was because
the couple had a question for me. Well, the man
and his wife are standing there, and she says to me,
will you tell him that she went into I don't

(47:13):
remember what it was, because at the after the will
you tell him? I thought, oh, heck, I'm standing between
these two, and who's told him? I said, listen, horticulture
advice is free. Marriage advice is three hundred dollars an hour.
I get in the middle of this one. Y'all run
your own with that boy. Anyway, you gotta laugh. Will

(47:36):
you tell him? I knew why I was there, and
it was under false pretenses. Let me just say, all right,
here's the number again, seven one three two on two
K t R H. If you like to die by
the letter, your Ace hardware store has always got what
you need for whatever is going on in the garden
or in this case, in the weather. You know, people

(47:57):
have been going into a getting truckloads of things in
from heating lamps, to foam pipe insulation to everything else
that you need. Propane and the heaters, electric heaters and
stuff for the coal that we've been going through. But
the weather's gonna warm up. But ACE Hardware is still
going to be the place. You know, you need to
get your filters for your air conditioning system, you need

(48:20):
to get tools for the project you're working on, paints
and stains and supplies and everything you would expect from
a hardware store. But there is a very distinct thing
about ACE that has really impressed me since I'll say
the new ACE has come on the scene and it's
been a number of years now. But individually owned stores

(48:41):
mean individual unique features and faces on the stores. They
got all these standard A stuff Aces Ace, but going
in and finding things like a fudge bar like you know,
something that etches or laser burns, the tumbler mugs, you know,

(49:03):
the yettie kinds of mugs, things like that, the turtle box,
the new speaker that just seems to be taking the
world by storm, and things that you know, oh, I
didn't expect a hardware store to have that. You know,
Kendra Scott Jewelry or not Kinder Scott but that what
do you call it? Okay, I've definitely stepped out of
my league here, but the farmhouse, look, you know, for

(49:25):
the kitchens and the decorations and all that kind of thing.
Ace Hardware and yes, jewelry in purses and I've seen
it in Acehardware was like, Okay, I didn't see that coming.
But that's a cool thing. You never know. And you
can find your local Ace Hardware store at Ace Hardware
Texas dot com. Ace Hardware Texas dot com. And there
you're going to find just you just need to go,

(49:49):
just go and check it out. You see what I'm
talking about. Gardening tools, gardening supplies, the fertilizers, the products
to put down to prevent weeds and so on are
all there, and Ace Hardware stores are all For example,
if you go up north all Star Ace and Magnolia
and go down to US southwest to Port Lavaca, Port Levaca,
Ace is on Calhoun Plaza out west on Pinoak Road

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and Oldtown Katie is Katie Hardware, and then southeast Kilgore's
clear Lake lumber k and m up in Kingwood on
timber Wood Drive or king excusey kimber good night Kingwood Drive.
Those are just a few Ace Hardware Texas dot Com
go check them out. I am getting ready to do

(50:34):
some things out in the yard. My yard right now
is brown. Saint Augustine is better than most grasses at
retaining some green color through the wintertime. But boy, that
cold it rounded up really good, and so that's okay.
I'm gonna leave it like that. Our grass is asleep,
and we don't need to be fertilized in the grass

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right now. It's it would some of it would be
around when the grass finally woke up, but that's some
of it wouldn't, and so you don't want to waste fertilizer.
But when it comes time the grass starts to wake up,
I'm going to mowd down. I'm gonna set them more down,
just a little bit lower, and get a good clean cut,

(51:14):
removing all the dead brown on top. Not down. I'm
not going to scalp it, but a little bit lower.
And then the new fresh grass comes out and looks good,
and we'll talk about fertilizing and things at that time.
But you need to know a couple of things about
the lawn right now, and they have to do with weeds.
We're in a window where you can get rid of

(51:38):
existing weeds before they make one hundred thousand seeds each
or before they get so big that they're literally shading
out your grass. Trying to come on with a post
emergent product. Now, now I have a few weeds in
my yard, not a lot, because I do try to
do what I say and maintain a dense grass through

(52:01):
proper mowing, watering, and fertilizing, and as a results, I
don't have that many weeds. But I have a few.
You'rers gonna have a few, and I'll just do hand
pulling on them. I got my kneeling bench, get out there,
kneel down, pull them up, get a five gallon bucket.
And it's not that much work. It's not a problem.
And if the whole yard was weeds, that would be different.
But if you're gonna spray, then you need to do

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it right now, and you need to do it with
a post emergent. Broadly, we control product because the weeds
are most susceptible. Now, within a few weeks, they are
going to be growing actively as the weather begins to warm,
and they're going to be blooming and setting seed they
become what we say is reproductive, and at that stage
they don't respond to the herbicides as well. And if

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they've already got viable seed, even if you kill the weed,
the herbicide is not going into the already formed seed
and preventing it from growing. You just that one weed
because you waited now, has given you bazillion more weed
seeds for next fall to germinate and be a problem
the following spring. So if you're going to spray, do

(53:07):
it now. I've got some information on my lon Pest
Weed and Disease Management schedule about sprays that you can use.
And I understand some people are in to spray, some
people aren't. That's fine, whatever your situation is and your preference,
but don't wait. If you're going to do it, don't wait.

Speaker 7 (53:24):
Do it now.

Speaker 3 (53:25):
As it heats up a lot of those products that
are very effective now against weeds. As the weeds begin
to put on their growth, which they are already, we'll
be damaging to your Saint Augustine lawn. And when the
weather gets up upper eighties, definitely by the low nineties,
those products start to stress the lawn. And so if

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you have to use them, you have to use them,
but you know it's better not to at that time.
Do it now if you're going to do it, but now.
The other thing is pre emergent control. If you're lawn
is not dense and you tend to have a lot
of weed problems every year, your number one step is
to use my lawn care schedule to mow, water, fertilize,

(54:09):
air rate, micronutrient applications if needed, all of that stuff
to get the densest lawn you can. When you mow, water, fertilize, right,
you get a dense lawn. But when you don't have
a dense lawn, sunlight hits the soil. And wherever sunlight
hits the soil, nature plants a weed. So pre emergent. Now,

(54:31):
pre emergent means before it emerges. And I'm not condescending.
I'm just making a point that if you wait and weed,
seeds can germinate in January here in our warm climate.
But right now we've got through this cold spell and
we're going to be seeing we'd seed germinating occurring in
February and even into March for sure and beyond, and

(54:54):
a pre emergent prevents that we'd seed trying to sprout
from establishing a root system and becoming a weed in
your yard. So if you're going to use a pre emergent, again,
some people don't, some people do. But if you're going
to use a pre emergent like barricade, now is a
good time to go ahead and get it down Now.
I would say the next two weeks or prime time,

(55:16):
because you're pretty sure to be ahead of the vast
majority of warm season weeds that are about to be germinating.
You can do it all through February. If you look
at my schedule, it goes all the way up to
the beginning of March. If you're listening to me and
you're up in Huntsville or up further north like that,
you could probably even go into March a little bit

(55:37):
with your pre emergent because its a little bit cooler
up there. If you're down in Galveston, you probably got
a few warm season weeds that tried to germinate when
we had little warmer weather before. But now's the time. Overall,
February is the prime spot. I would get it done
in the first half of February, and I would get
it done in the first half of the first half
of February, which means the first week if you can.

(55:59):
When you put a primmer now and you got to
water it in, it's got to move into the soil
where it does its work. The granules just sitting there
on top of the soil surface. A weed seed sprouting
over to the side of a granule doesn't get controlled
by the granule. When you watered in, it gets that
product in there that says when the weed seed sprouts,
that's fine. You can sprout, but you may not put
a root system down, and then you're going to dry

(56:20):
out and die. That's how they work. Okay, one last
thing about weeds. Follow the label instructions. The product that
prevents the weed seed from putting a root down when
you double up on the rate, because if a teaspoons good,
a tablespoons better, which is not the way to think.

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When you doublop on the rate, it will prevent your
Saint Augustine root from coming off the note on top
of the ground on the runner and going down in
the soil. You'll see roots and they'll be clubbed off.
They'll be just like they went down and they just
kind of have a bulbous swollen in like a caveman club.
And that's because people use products, and listen, products can work.
But imagine you know what happens if you take a

(57:06):
half bottle of that of tylenol or aspen or something.
I mean, that's not good for you, right, They're very
dangerous for you. And yet it's a product that can
be a good product to help stop a headache.

Speaker 7 (57:16):
Right.

Speaker 3 (57:17):
But anytime you're using products, don't even even with organics,
there are ways there are like you overdo the strength
of an insecticidal soap is not good for plants and
so on. Just follow the label in general, that is good.
It's there for a reason, all right. I know it's
like I'm parenting or whatever, but I just see so

(57:39):
many people I can tell you I've been so I've
been to so many yards where the yard is declining,
and it's like, are you watering? Yeah, we're watering? What's
going on? And I get on my hands and knees
and I start looking. I said, did you use a
permergent weed killer?

Speaker 7 (57:54):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (57:54):
When'd you use it?

Speaker 7 (57:55):
Well?

Speaker 3 (57:55):
I did it back in such and such, and then
a couple of weeks later I did it again. And
then we fired that guy and we hired a new
lawn care company and they came in and did it. Look,
for crying out loud, that's three times that it was
applied to that lawn. A good a product that would
have been safe and fine for the lawn itself now
has been misused. So all right, that was my soapbox.

(58:18):
Thanks for enduring it. But I'm telling you I don't
want that to happen to you in your lawn, so
use the products.

Speaker 7 (58:25):
Right.

Speaker 3 (58:25):
But now, just to close up, this whole thing was
about if you're going to control broad leaf cool season
weeds before they produce a bazillion seeds, now, now now
is the time. If you're going to prevent weeds from
coming up that are warm season weeds that'll plague you
on through the summer. Now, now, now there's the time
to do that. We are in a very important moment.
I haven't gotten a fertilizing time yet, but we are

(58:46):
at a time when the we control the best effect
with the with the least product application is going to happen.
Right now, all right, we have to take a break.
I'm out of breath, and you're tired of listening to
me and I'll be right back in just a moment
after the bottom of the hour news. Thanks for listening

(59:07):
to the garden Line. If you want to be first
up seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four.
All right, we're back.

Speaker 16 (59:14):
You don't have too.

Speaker 3 (59:16):
Let's talk gardening folks. Welcome to garden Line. My goal
is to help you have a bountiful garden, a beautiful landscape,
and more fun in the process. That's what we try
to do here on garden Line. So if you have
a gardening question seven one three, two one two five
eight seven four, be happy to help you with that.

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Yesterday out at the Entented Gardens, we're giving away some
cool Medina products. They had the hash to Grow six
twelve six plant food and the type of container that
hooks up to the garden hose and so you just
spray it and it's real easy to use. You can
buy that product in various container like forms like that,
but I recommend it, especially when you're doing transplanting. That

(01:00:02):
high phosphorus amount really helps with the root system. You
need to get a good soaking, so I would take
it and soak a plant. You can soak it before
you put it in the ground, but I would probably
dig the hole, set it in the hole, and then
fill the whole up, soak it real good, and then
add some soil. Probably do one more application over the
top of it, and then a week later do it
again with the soaking of the root system with that

(01:00:24):
product mixed up according to label, and then a week
after that again, So three applications of it and your
plant will have its best shot at hitting the ground running.
We also had their sixteen percent nitrogen who's in spray
super grow so Medina products. There's so many great products
out there. They've been doing this for a very long

(01:00:44):
time and they know how to create wonderful things that
people have success with. I've talked to gardeners from way
before I was even doing radio, talking to people as
a kid, even people talking about nah Medina, this Medina,
that we use this or we use that one, and
they're they're just excellent, excellent products. You're gonna find success

(01:01:06):
when you use them. Follow the label, use them right,
but they're they're really really good. I like to use
the hose insprayers because it's so convenient. And I'll tell
you this, plants cannot read labels. I said this yesterday
when we're in shiney gardens. Uh, plants can't read labels.
So if you're using the medina has to grow for
lawns twelve four eight, and you have some leftover and

(01:01:29):
you just decide, well, I'm gonna go put it on
a tomatoes. Your tomatoes are gonna love it. They're gonna
thrive because of it. You don't put it on a
flower bed or a shrub bed or something. That good
boost and nitrogen in there is gonna help. It's gonna work.
And so uh, don't be afraid to do that. It's
okay to do that. You know, tomatoes aren't gonna go. No,
don't put lawn food on me. I'm gonna die. Nope,

(01:01:52):
they'll be very happy and they will do well. I've
talked to gardeners who've used it successfully, and I've used
it myself. I love that stuff. It really does work.
And where do you get it? Well, everywhere, Medina. You're
going to find it at Ace hardware stores. You're going
to find a Southwust fertilizer. You're going to find it
at garden centers. You are going to find it at
feed stores. I mean it's just all over town uh

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Medina products are available. So what were we talking about earlier?
I was on a long, long, long tirade about lawn
herbicide products, their use and misuse and how to have
success instead of a failure and a disaster from misusing them.
That's very important information for you to know. I want

(01:02:35):
to talk this morning a little bit. I don't think
i've I've really discussed in depth herbs in a while.
And we have so many wonderful herbs that we can
grow here. And I think a lot of people have
seen pictures of herb gardens, the the geometrically designed, beautiful
you know, mirror image, right side, left side kind of

(01:02:57):
designs and gardens. Those are fine you can do though
I don't, just because I don't have space for that.
But azerbs everywhere, azerbs and containers. I've got a container
that's got chives in it, and shives are pretty tough.
I forget the water a little bit. Yeah they gripe
about it, but they bounce back. And I haven't been containers.

(01:03:18):
I've used herbs in a bed, to line a walkway,
to line a garden bed. You know, chives can be
used that way. You have to cut the seed the
blooms off after they bloom, because you don't want seeds
going into the bed. Chives will reced sometimes worse than others,
but you don't want to do that, but they work
well for that salad. Burnet is an herb that has

(01:03:38):
the foliage has sort of a cucumbery taste, so it's
really good to put those little leaves that it produces
in salads for just that extra fresh taste that it provides.
I like solid burnet. It makes a mound of foliage
that is good for lining a pathway. There's a lot
of herbs that make good groundcovers. Time and oregano are
two common examples that make a really good groundcover. Some

(01:04:02):
types of oregano get up a little taller, but you
can shear them down. Don't be afraid to share your
herbs back and they just come right back again and
fill in very very well. And then there's herbs that
have beautiful blooms. Probably one of my favorite for blooms
is pineapple sage. It's actually a type of salvia that
has red tubular blooms. The foldage is kind of a

(01:04:23):
light green color, kind of a shartrusi green color, but
it blooms especially well in the late summer and fall,
but it will bloom at other times of the year.
And the leaves have a pineapple scent, but that's an
herb that is a beautiful bloomer. Trailing types of rosemary
bloom better than upright types of rome rosemary, although both
types of bloom and these blooms are very attractive to

(01:04:47):
beneficial insects. You'll find bees on rosemary just working. I mean,
they go after it. They love that, and that helps
them and that is helpful as well as being beautiful
to look at. So the trailing types a little bit
better bloomers than the upright types do. One time I
was in a garden and time groundcover had little blooms

(01:05:09):
on it, and they're very small. You got to kind
of get close to look at them to notice them.
But I saw a wasp on there. That's a top
of wasp called a potter wasp, and it's a kind
that makes those little round marble sized mudballs on the
screens of your house. You may have seen that before.
Nothing else makes it. It's like a mud dauber, but
not the long mud dauber. Nests of mud, the little

(01:05:31):
round marble sized balls. You break one of those open
that's been fully closed over and they're gonna be caterpillars
inside That wasp is a predator going out. And in
my case, they were capturing little inch worms, the loopers,
cabbage loopers that were on my broccoli, cabbage and things
and bringing them back. That's a beneficial And why was

(01:05:53):
it in my garden and able to keep going because
it's being fueled by the nectar and my time blooms,
see what I mean. Any reasons to use herbs, We
could go on and on from sense to bringing them in.
My wife likes to take cuttings off the trailing rosemary
to use and arrangements indoors when she's bringing flowers in
for arrangements. Herbs are a wonderful plant and they're not

(01:06:14):
just for herb gardens there for wherever you want to
use them to bring what they have in and make
something special out of it. Another good one to use
is the one that blooms, one that blooms late summer
and fall, and that is a Mexican mint marigold, and
it is a it is related to marigolds, the foliage
has a black jelly bean licoricy smell. But the ballooms

(01:06:38):
are yellow that are up on top of the plants
that are very attractive in the fall, and another one
that attracts beneficials in all right, well, I think I
made that point. Let's take a little break here. When
we come back, we will go to Lake Conroe and
talk to guitar Day this morning. Then save the appropriate
song for a gardening show and for spring. Welcome back

(01:06:59):
to Guardline. Glad you're with us today. If you have roses,
you need to listen to those. If you have roses
in your landscape. There's going to be a program by
Gay Hammond, past president of Houston Rose Society. I've known
Gay for a long time and she is as knowledgeable
about roses as anybody I know. And she's a very

(01:07:22):
entertaining presenter as well. And this is going to be
at the Arbor Gate on February the fourteenth, Saturday, kind
of close to Valentimee's Day. When you say anyway, Gay's
gonna be talking about rose pruning and she's going to
go through the three days of pruning, you have to
go to hear what that is, as well as things
that you're going to do in the spring to make

(01:07:42):
sure roses are set up and ready to go for
that spring season. You may have roses that are doing
really well. You have roses that are barely alive. You
go in there and listen to Gay. She'll teach you,
shall answer your questions, and you she'll help you have
a stunning display of roses in your landscape. That is
Saturday the fourteenth at Arburgate. And for those of you

(01:08:03):
haven't been to Arburgate, Arburgate is a mile and a
half west of two forty nine on twenty nine twenty
and Tom Ball. While you're out there listening to Gay,
make sure you go home with the three bags the
one two three system of food that's organic, a soil
that includes some expanded shale in it, which is a
nice thing to put into our clay saus especially, And

(01:08:26):
a compost that includes expanded shale in it too, that's
also good for putting in to our soils. If you
need more than just bags, talk to Arburgate. They can.
They can set you up for the soil in the
compost on a book delivery if you need that. Okay,
they can do that, but write that down February fourteenth,
Gay Hammond, let's go now, we're going to talk this

(01:08:47):
morning to guitar Dave and Lake conro. Hey, Dave, welcome
to garden.

Speaker 17 (01:08:51):
I as you answered one of my questions right here,
Alburgate over I'll get my wife to google all that
up and then yeah, I'll probably go over there to
that because Tomball, it's not that far. And I got
to go visit one of my buddies over there and
pick up some stuff. Throow him over there so I
can kill two birds worn stone when I'm over there
doing that.

Speaker 2 (01:09:11):
There you go, Dave.

Speaker 3 (01:09:12):
Have you ever been to Arbigate?

Speaker 7 (01:09:13):
Dave?

Speaker 3 (01:09:13):
Have you ever been to Arbrogate?

Speaker 7 (01:09:15):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (01:09:15):
Sir, No, you gotta go. You gotta go. It'll trust me.
You'll be very impressed and amazed by that place. Yeah,
all right, but you call me for something else.

Speaker 17 (01:09:27):
Yeah, yeah, okay, on the okay, on that, I did
find a bag that it was the last bag of
charcoal over here, off a little place off Old seventy five,
right out of Willis And okay, in came the p
in the my plant of pots. I think I'm thinking
put in that's danger. Put a little bit of the
charcoal down at the bottom of what about some rocks
and then put my pot and soid and then playing

(01:09:48):
on top of that.

Speaker 3 (01:09:51):
No rocks, but uh over no rocks. But if you
if if the drainage isn't real good, the charcoal will
help that. So we put the truckle on the very bottom.
If you're gonna use charcoal, Not every pot needs charcoal,
but when when it's gonna stay a little on the
wet side, charcoal helps, uh. And then just go soil
straight on top of it. You're potting saut straight on
top of the charcoal.

Speaker 17 (01:10:13):
What if there's no draine.

Speaker 3 (01:10:18):
Critically Yeah, it's critically important.

Speaker 13 (01:10:22):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (01:10:22):
And you just have to when you water kind of
in your brain go well, it's gonna take you know,
a quarter cup of water to wet this soiler. It's
gonna take a cup and a half of water. Whatever.
You just want to you don't want to over water.
And if you're not sure, here's what it's in your
wife's office, you.

Speaker 17 (01:10:37):
Said, yeah, yeah, she has a corner of the house.

Speaker 3 (01:10:42):
Yeah, all right, she needs to get an old time
pencil like we used to use and sharpen the end
of it. Sharpen. Yeah, sharpen the end of it. It
needs to be sharp, not have the oil from your
hands on it and stuff. Sharpen the end of it
and stick it down in the pot about two inches
and then pull it back out. And if your wife's
ever made a pound cake, she knows how you do

(01:11:04):
that with a little toothpick to see if the pound
cakes ready or not.

Speaker 13 (01:11:07):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (01:11:08):
And you stick it down. And if you pull it
out and it's it's dry, there's no soil sticking to it,
or you can just see it's dry, then go down
to four inches and pull it back out again and
check it. And in some depth you're that that fresh
cut surface is gonna be wet and there's gonna be
a little dark, wet pieces of soil sticking to that
fresh cut. That's another reason why you want to sharpen

(01:11:28):
it right for you to do this, And and that
tells you how much water you got in there. Like
if you go two inches in and you already got water,
don't water it because otherwise you can underwater.

Speaker 17 (01:11:42):
That's why I'm glad talking, you know.

Speaker 7 (01:11:45):
Yeah.

Speaker 17 (01:11:46):
And one long thing on the on the olevira plant,
it's got some black spots on it, so what's happening there.

Speaker 3 (01:11:57):
Some cut, some kind of a disease, you know, it
could be fungal, bacterial, or whatever. When you water it,
make sure and water the soil. Try not to splash
from those spots onto other things and whatnot. But if
you want, I put you on hold here, my producer
will give you an email. And if you'll take some
close up pictures of the black spots and send them
to me, I'll be able to give you a better answer. Okay,

(01:12:18):
but you got to just hang on.

Speaker 7 (01:12:19):
I got okay, all right, all right.

Speaker 3 (01:12:24):
Date, just hang on, hang on. We'll be right back
with you in just a second. Wild Birds Unlimited is
stocked up on bird seed. This is an important season
for feeding birds because birds need energy. The day length
is shorter, there are time to be out foraging is shorter.

Speaker 13 (01:12:39):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (01:12:39):
You know, the cold weather, there's not gonna be a
lot of bugs out there to chomp on for the birds.

Speaker 7 (01:12:44):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (01:12:44):
This is a time to get those feeders filled with
something called winter super Blend. That's an excellent product for
this time of the year because it's high fat, high protein,
high energy for the birds. That's important. But when you're
in there, I want you to take a look at
the bird houses. If you're gonna get at a Martin
house up, you need to get that done really soon.

(01:13:04):
And boy do they ever have some wonderful Martin houses
from what looks like a plastic gord. You know, have
you seen the gorge with a hold in them for
a bird house. They have a plastic version of that's
easier to clean and take care of. And then they
have the full fledged Martin houses that are just cadillacs,
and I mean they are easy to clean. They go
up and down. You know, you have to get a
ladder and go up the pole to get to them.

(01:13:25):
They come on down to you. Wild Birds Unlimited is
the place to go for quality period including quality advice.
If you have a question like I would like to
bring in bluebirds, what can I do? What are they like?
What do they eat? They know all that stuff and more.
They know when what birds arrive. You know, like just

(01:13:45):
a lot of good things going on right now with
the birds, and it's time to get going. Six wild
Birds Unlimited stores in the area for you. So all
you gotta do is go to WBU dot com forward
slash Houston. That is the wild Bird's Unlimited website for
the six stores. Each store has its own website too,
Clear Lake, Texas, Eldorado, Cypress Texas, Barker Cypress Road, Houston, Texas,

(01:14:11):
bel Air, another one in Houston on the west side
on Memorial Drive, and then Kingwood, Texas on Kingwood Drive
in Pearland on East Broadway. The six wild Birds Unlimited
source here in the Greater Houston area. You should give
them a call. I sung to somebody yesterday, well, earlier today,

(01:14:32):
I was talking about proper pruning on trees and the
importance of that. But I was talking to somebody about
tree training. People don't think about that, and we need
to get our trees trained properly. This is a perfect
time to plant trees. When you put a tree in
the ground, training begins right down. It does unless you

(01:14:53):
buy a giant, giant train. Every branch on the tree
you buy is temporary. And think about that you got
in your yard. You've got a big, beautiful shade tree
in the yard. How high is the first branch? If
you stuck your hand above your head and reached as
high as you could, it's probably higher than that, right
it is, And so those branches are temporary, but they're

(01:15:15):
very important. You don't want to prune them all off,
but proper pruning. Learn how to do it. The International
Society of Arbora Culture has a good pruning guide on
their website, as does the Texas Forest Service. Learn how
to train your trees so that they grow in a good,
strong way. We'll be right back.

Speaker 1 (01:15:37):
Welcome to kt r H garden Line with scip Rickard.

Speaker 4 (01:15:41):
It's just watch him as world side.

Speaker 3 (01:16:16):
Welcome back to garden Line. Good to have you with us.
Glad to have you back. Uh, those of you who
live out in Kingwood area, and when I say Kingwood area,
I mean that whole region really, you know, Porter and
Humble and all through the area in the countryside. Warrants
and Kingwood Garden Center are your two garden centers there
in Kingwood that are both just outstanding places to go.

(01:16:39):
You're going to find when you go to those, you're
going to find that whatever you're looking for, whatever kinds
of plants, seeds, soil products, fertilizers, pottery. They got a
huge pottery so going on up there too. Uh, It's
just it's there. And if you're looking to do some
vegetable gardening, which I hope you are talking about seed

(01:17:00):
potatoes earlier. They've got seed potatoes in, they've got onion
sets in. They've got a leak called lens a lot.
I like the night a leak in. And if you
have not grown leaks before, they're not hard to grow.
They're very easy to grow. You want to try that out.
Nice selection of beautiful houseplants too. You know, a day
like today's a good day to be inside taking care

(01:17:21):
of houseplants. Why not pick up one of the unusual
types of sense of aia, which is also called snake
plant or mother in law tongue. How about a ficus
or a philodendron what we call that Swiss cheese, the kind.
They have lots of kalafias that are pretty. You know,
I love the staghorn ferns, and they have staghorn and
fern hanging baskets that once weather gets warm and you
got your summer weather out there, put them in a

(01:17:43):
shady spot outside hanging or up against the wall of
your house, underneath the maybe a cover or you know,
some sort of a lattice panel, shade panel. Oh, they're
so beautiful. And then fruit, citrus, blueberries, blackberries, grapefruit, guaba,
and a lot more coming this month, including lots of
tomatoes and peppers. Warrens Southern Gardens and Kingwood Garden Center,

(01:18:05):
by the way. Warrens is on North Park Drive, Kingwood's
on Stone Hollow Drive. Both are open seven days a week.
That means today, what a good thing to do this afternoon.
Get out there and get to some There's go all
the phones. We're gonna head up to Spring and talk
to Matt. First. Hey, Matt, welcome to garden Line.

Speaker 10 (01:18:24):
Thank you, skip appreciate it.

Speaker 9 (01:18:26):
Listen.

Speaker 10 (01:18:26):
Try to make this quick for you for your other listeners.

Speaker 7 (01:18:28):
But I've got.

Speaker 18 (01:18:31):
Some I like to know how far to cut these
bushes back and wind. One of them is first the lantanas,
which are really leggy right now. And the next one
is my highbiscus, which I've got some pretty tall ones now.
And then especially my exraras which were in my front yard,

(01:18:54):
which were burned a little bit from this frost. They
came back last year late and they're a little bigger
this year. So if you can give me some advice
on all three of those, i'd appreciate it.

Speaker 3 (01:19:06):
Okay, Well, in general, I would hold off on pruning
and all that stuff. If you wanted to trim the
lantana back, you just don't like the ugly look. You
could trim it back, but then you need to mulch
over the top just to protect it when a new
freeze comes. You don't have to mulch today but the
day you cut it. But whenever you see a freeze coming,

(01:19:26):
you want to melt over it and protect that crown,
the old dead growth on top. We generally leave it.
It provides a little bit of protection. So I would
wait to cut mine. I am waiting to cut mine
back until we begin to see new growth in the spring.
I'll cut mine back then. But if you want to
go a little earlier, just be ready to mulch now.
As far as the exora and the I think you

(01:19:47):
said hibiscus, those are very cult tender, and so you
don't want to prune them until it warms up enough
to wear Number one, all the frosts are passed in
cold weather. But also the plan is interested in regrowing,
and at that point you can do a very good
assessment because whatever died with the frost is going to
be very brown on those exors exaors and just cut

(01:20:10):
back accordingly the plant tails you kind of were to
prune at that point, but be patient. I'd hold off
on those. Okay, appreciate it. Thank you very much. All right,
thanks for the carl. You take care. We're going to
go now out to Chapel Hill and talk to Brian. Hey,
Brian from the Land of Blue Bonnets.

Speaker 15 (01:20:32):
Good morning, Skipt, Good morning, Good morning. I have several
new raised beds that were getting ready to start planning
in and I was told that cotton burr compost is
a really good thing to put into your into new
raised beds. Have you ever used cotton burr compost?

Speaker 7 (01:20:55):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (01:20:55):
I have, Yeah, I have it. It's good stuff. I'm
trying to remember now that you use a defoliant on it.
They defoliate cotton like before they harvest it. They don't
want all those green leaders getting caught up in the
fibers and staining, and so they spread a folion on
it to just fry the leaves and knock them off
so they can harvest the cotton cleaner. Uh, I can't

(01:21:16):
remember now what is used for that. That would be
my only question. And I'm not an agriculture agent, so
you might try, you know, calling your agriculture agent and
asking you know what they what they use and if
you're let's ye're in Chapel Hill, I don't there's a
lot of cotton grown over there. I don't think I've
seen cotton much in that area, so they not much go.

Speaker 15 (01:21:38):
Round called station.

Speaker 11 (01:21:39):
As you get towards that way on one oh five, there's.

Speaker 3 (01:21:41):
Quite a bit of cotton out there, yes, well called
called Chad. Chad in the Brass County Extension Office. He's
the ag agent and uh I d Chad Caperton and
I asked him about that, you know what is used
on it? That would be my only hesitation. Probably it's

(01:22:04):
not a problem because people used to put cotton for
a compost in their yards as a top dressing in
cotton country all the time. So I think it'll be okay,
But I just want to be real sure.

Speaker 15 (01:22:14):
About that, Okay, right right, appreciate it, skip.

Speaker 3 (01:22:18):
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in my voice right now, and one that serves every
county in the whole state of Texas, all two hundred
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(01:23:21):
Morning Hey, rick welcome to Garden.

Speaker 19 (01:23:23):
Line Hey, skip you gave me a real good tip
putting strips of paper in my. Compost i'm doing that.

Speaker 3 (01:23:31):
Now, Okay well you Know, Rick they say, That, okay.

Speaker 19 (01:23:37):
Good moisture.

Speaker 7 (01:23:41):
The.

Speaker 3 (01:23:41):
Paper yes.

Speaker 11 (01:23:46):
You, Think, Rick i'm.

Speaker 3 (01:23:47):
TRYING i DON'T i don't. REMEMBER i don't remember our.
Conversation but are we talking about composting the paper in
a compost power are we talking about putting paper down
on the surface to block heads and then putting composts
over the.

Speaker 19 (01:23:59):
Top SO i have about six composts AND i actually
put a layer of it in my compost with the.

Speaker 3 (01:24:06):
Leaves oh, Okay and it.

Speaker 10 (01:24:08):
Attracts it's.

Speaker 19 (01:24:09):
Attracting, uh attracts a lot of. Worms AND i think
they're going to the, moisture especially on the they like.

Speaker 3 (01:24:18):
It, yeah they like. It worms like carbon. Materials they'll
go to the. Surface so grab nightcrawlers will go to
the surface of the, soil grab leaves and pull them
back down and roll them, up kind of pull them
back down in the tunnel where they can feed on.
Them but all kinds of worms like the. Carbon and
if people that have verma culture, bins which basically is
a bin full of shredded wet newspaper that they're growing worms. In,

(01:24:42):
uh they eat the. Newspaper that is the one of
their main food sources along with food.

Speaker 7 (01:24:47):
Scraps.

Speaker 3 (01:24:48):
Newspaper, now if you put a big, Mass, now if
you put a mass of, them you know it just of.
Newspaper it just sort of becomes like, paper just a,
YEAH i like.

Speaker 19 (01:25:02):
Rips let me get to my. Question as a matter of,
fact the potatoes is part of my. QUESTION i did
everything that you said with the potatoes and the you're you're,
RIGHT i already. HAVE i bought my potatoes From Southwest
fertilizer The, comet AND i already got them in the.
GROUND i got forty pounds in the. GROUND i think they're,
okay five or six. Deep they're, right five or, six

(01:25:25):
but the ones at a.

Speaker 3 (01:25:26):
Little deeper deeper THAN i m, hm.

Speaker 19 (01:25:31):
They're about five inches THAT i always do it five.
Inches i've been doing it forty. Years it works When
i've cut. Them WHEN i cut the potato in, HALF
i did mine in old farmer told me. THIS i
did mine and cement powder and then stick it in
the ground and that that helps it helps it keep

(01:25:52):
from uh. Rotten and also the tire. TRICK i have done.
That my dad made me do.

Speaker 9 (01:25:57):
That we went like four.

Speaker 3 (01:25:59):
Times, okay, okay it.

Speaker 19 (01:26:02):
Works and he also told me don't ever water. Potatoes
that's what he told.

Speaker 7 (01:26:06):
Me that's what he.

Speaker 19 (01:26:10):
Said he, says when you cut that, potato look at.
It he, said there is water inside that. Potato and
this guy, here he does like twenty acres of potatoes In.

Speaker 3 (01:26:22):
Wimer, okay that's just what he told.

Speaker 19 (01:26:24):
Me i've never watered, them And i've come out, okay,
HERE i.

Speaker 3 (01:26:27):
Understand SO i. Understand it's just when the, roots when
the roots get going and the plant starts growing, actively
those roots have got to have. Moisture but but you
know that. POTATO i.

Speaker 19 (01:26:41):
Did put water in the. ROAD i did do, that
and THEN i stuck the potato in. There but that
gets my question a, Lot like you, said when you
do them the tire. Trick i've got some tomatoes by
seeds AND i BUY i bought those four by four
containers AND i feel it like halfway AND i put
the seed in, there and then when he gets to the,
TOP i put more more dirt around, it so just

(01:27:04):
the top stick it. Up, well my mine are, already
they're about three or four inches out of the container,
already And i'm not going to put them in the
ground Till.

Speaker 3 (01:27:13):
March So, rick it sounds like you're having. Fun, Oh
i've been doing.

Speaker 19 (01:27:19):
This my dad made me do this WHEN i was,
Young so, YEAH i got into. It you were there
AND i had a problem with my. Tomatoes do you remember?

Speaker 3 (01:27:31):
That, yeah it WAS i remember.

Speaker 19 (01:27:33):
THAT i prove it, well harvested six tomatoes.

Speaker 3 (01:27:40):
Last all, right Well i'm coming back six of Good.
Night i'm coming back To Southwest fertilizer On april. Eighteenth april,
eighteenth so mark That i'd love to see you. Again,
yeah said. Way if you planted forty pounds of potatoes
and your harvet's and hundreds of. TOMATOES i normally ask
for half of what people grow and pay for the
adsal bring. You BUT i don't. THINK i don't THINK

(01:28:02):
i have storage room for.

Speaker 19 (01:28:03):
All all my. Neighbors all my neighbors get they love the,
tomatoes and they don't realize that, potato the home road.
Potato they don't realize if that they, Grow you plant
one and it grows into four or. Five they don't understand.
That i'm.

Speaker 3 (01:28:20):
Trying all, Right, Hey, RICK i APPRECIATE i appreciate visiting with.
You i'm gonna have to. Run i've missed my, break
SO i gotta go, here but thanks a. Lot look
forward to seeing you In southwest if you can make.
It thanks skip all, Right, thanks, yes, sir you take
Care by bye already we're.

Speaker 4 (01:28:37):
Back the.

Speaker 3 (01:28:40):
Good to have you with. Us welcome back to the garden.
Line if you have a gardening, question all you gotta
do Is i'll seven one three two one two five
eight seven four and we will get to the bottom of.

Speaker 7 (01:28:55):
It that is for.

Speaker 3 (01:28:56):
Sure the Ground up provides quality soils and mulches and
many other kinds of products as. Well there's three locations
that they can ship out. Of, there's of, course The
britmore location Britt moore IS i think WHAT i think
of is kind of the main location for the garden

(01:29:19):
retail garden kind of customers because they're open to the
public there On saturdays from seven am to, noon so
you drive in, there you can get your product and drive.
Out they've got it, bulk you can pick it up that,
way or they can deliver. Bulk the other locations can
deliver bulk as. Well and The britmore location also has plants.

(01:29:40):
Available they have a really nice selection of. PLANTS i
was there the other day visiting with the, team and my,
GOSH i was surprised at how many different kinds of,
plants And i'd see variety varieties and species and be, like,
WELL i didn't know you could get that here in.
Town that is a good. One they carry things that
just a lot of people don't carry at the Brit
moore location. There now you can call the ground up

(01:30:02):
at seven to one three excuse, me two eight one
sorry two eight one nine seventy zero zero zero three
two eight one nine seventy zero zero zero. Three or
go to the. Website you got an excellent, website the
ground up dot. Com you can see all the products
that they carry. There they're bagged in their Bulk they've
got veggie and herb. Soiled they've got a potting. Soil

(01:30:24):
they Have leapmo, composts they have a double screened, compost
a rose, mix a bed, mix, hardwood, mulches other kinds of.
Mulches it just a lot of really good. Stuff and
you're gonna find their bag product around. Town Moss nursery carries,
it Ci Ona mulch carries. IT Rcw nursery carries. It
Ace hardware's a city On Memorial dry right. There Ace

(01:30:45):
hardware in The champions. Area just go to the ground
up dot. Com you can see the full list of
where you can buy their products by the bag or
LIKE i said on A saturday, morning if you want
to go to the Brent more location seven am to
noon On saturdays Now monday Through. Friday it's landscapers, only all,
right so stop by. There lots of good. Blends i've
used their blends years. AGO i used to use ground

(01:31:08):
up blends and various forms on plants AND i always
have had good success with the. Results it's nice to
have a good source of material that's made right over
there on the west side of. Town you're listening To
Garden line and we're here to help you have. Success
we want you to enjoy gardening and we want you

(01:31:30):
to get the full fulfillment out of. It and if
you can hear from some of our callers, today they're
having a good time. Gardening in, fact they're they may
be having too much of a good time. Gardening they're
really really enjoying themselves and gardening is just. Fun you,
know your there's your standard meat and potatoes type. Gardener
they're going to plant tomatoes and, potatoes of, course and

(01:31:50):
things like. That or maybe they're just into a lawn you,
know we've got a lot of lawn rangers that listen
to a Garden line and it's got to be the
perfect pristine lawn that just looks like out of a magazine,
cover you know kind of. Lawn and that's fine, too
whatever kind of gardener you. Are then we got the.
Experimenters they're always trying something, new you, know dipping the

(01:32:13):
cup potatoes in cement dust and you, know different things like,
that kind of. Different i've heard that one. Before but you,
experiment who, knows you may find something new that you.
Like and then we have the gardeners that are just
into one kind of. Plant they are into, orchids or
they are into. Herbs that's all they care about is.

(01:32:34):
Herbs there are just. Houseplants you can be listening to
Guard line from the twenty eighth floor of some high
rise in Downtown houston and all you got is a.
Houseplant we can talk about houseplants, too because there's a
lot of cool ones out. There so get out there
and enjoy. YOURSELF i mentioned ground up products by the
bag are available there AT Rcw. Nursery they have got

(01:32:56):
an outstanding selection of shrubs and trees right now and
it is the time to get them done. Now you
can planetary anytime of the, year but it's easiest if
you do it when the weather's cool and it has
a little time to get roots down before hot weather,
arise AND rcw will come out and plant it for.
You there's charged for. That but some of these big
large container, trees there's no we can lift them and

(01:33:18):
get them. In LET rcw bring it to your house
and put it in the ground for. You they're, professionals
they know how to do. That if you're looking for Night,
Foss microlife Urch star, fertilizer they carry those as. Well
they're AT Rcw. Nursery and when it comes to roses
and we are entering rose season that people think about
every month of the year's rose, season but to do

(01:33:39):
something with your. Roses but right NOW rcw is getting
in their shipments of various kinds of, plants and when
they get their full row, shipment it is going to
be roses wall to. Wall if there's a rose you,
want you need to go check it. Out there AT
Rcw nursery is such a good. Selection look at It
highway two forty nine and bout wait. Eight you need

(01:34:00):
to go see. It i'm telling you it's a good.
Place love going. THERE Rcw Nurseries dot com OR Cw
nursries Dot. Com i'm going to be out AT ourcw
this fall Early, April so for those of you in that,
AREA i hope you come by and see. Me it's over.
There looking forward to. That one's always a good time over. There,
well you're listening to Garden. Line we are talking about

(01:34:21):
all kinds of things gardening. TODAY i love to go
into some of the detail of. GARDENING i have. To
i'm a garden nerd AND i love gardening research because
research is how you try to get to the bottom
of questions that we have about growing. Plants will this
work or? Not for, example does that tomato produce more

(01:34:41):
than the next variety of? Tomato and so. ON i
love keeping up with, research AND i also like doing research.
Myself but that's just WHAT i. Enjoy some of you
listening feel that, way, Probably But i'm here to provide
research based. Advice my goal is to give you advice
that you can depend. On not STUFF i heard somebody
say one, time not stuff that has not been, proven

(01:35:03):
but stuff that EITHER i have research on Or i've
done it, myself or SOMEONE i really trust and they
know how to test plants and things they're into. THIS
i talk to those kind of people, too so that
WHEN i give you an, answer it is an answer
that you're going to have success. With and so therefore
it is hard for me to look at social. MEDIA

(01:35:25):
i JUST i have a hard time with it because
so much of it is either totally untrue or based
on truth but stretched to a point where it's not,
True like there's a fact involved in in the core
of what they're. Saying there's a fact, there but the
way it's being, applied it's just not going to. Work so,
anyway we try to avoid that here on Guard. Line

(01:35:47):
and just BECAUSE i think something doesn't mean WHAT i
think is. True But i'm constantly trying to make sure
That i'm giving the best advice THAT i, can because
that is very. Important nobody needs to be, misled nobody
needs to fail at. Gardening we need to get you good.
Advice and SO i spend my life learning to see
things from a plant's point of view and can help

(01:36:07):
you do the same here on Guarden. Line all, righty
if you would like to get on the phone lines
now and be ready to. Go we're going to go
to a break and you can be the first up
at seven to one three two one two five eight seven.
FOUR i want to remind you That february, seventeenth which
is A, tuesday is the Annual fort Ben Vegetable. Conference

(01:36:28):
it's an all day. Affair call The extension office two
eight one three four to two thirty thirty four two
eight one three four to two thirty thirty four Four Benk.
County i'll be there giving a talk as, well AND
i hope to see there is an outstanding. Conference all,
right there's a blast from the. Past please welcome back
to the garden. Line now that we've gotten past this hardest,

(01:36:56):
freeze the not the hardest we've. Had we had a
harder one, earlier but today was the. Doozy it's gonna
warm up after this a little. Bit AND i had
not the cold day coming this, week but not freezing.
Weather so now that that's, past we can pull off
all the covers on our. Plants you want to make
sure and get them some. Sunlight some plants have been

(01:37:17):
undercover for a long, time especially that last reason where
it was days several days three days where it was
just getting too. Cold you might as well just leave
them covered. Up but now that that's. Done get those covers.
Off if you made mulch volcanoes LIKE i told you
to make at the base of your citrus, trees go
ahead and pull those back down now because the dangers,

(01:37:39):
passed and you don't want to leave soil up against
the tree for weeks and weeks and weeks like the
multi volcanoes we tell you not to do all the.
Time but if you did that protection and you lost
most of your, tree hopefully below that soil level that
you made as you piled it up soil or compost
or mult up against the, tree you're gonna have some
living buds above the graph that come. Out watch for.

(01:38:03):
That if you didn't lose the tree will wonderful the.
Congratulations that's what the number one goal. Is but if
you did lose the, top you should get a resproute
and it ought to take off growing pretty. Good when it,
does you want to manage that resprouting because it's going
to come out just like just a bush of growth
coming up from all. Around everything below the graft has

(01:38:24):
to go. Off. Immediately take every sprout below the graft.
Off that is a. Rootstock you do not want. That
don't wait until it gets, bigger and now you got
to make a bigger wound to prune it. Off take
it off right. Away of the shoots that, GROW i
would watch them for just a little, bit you, know
let them get a foot or so high and see
how they're. Doing and then you can do a couple of.

(01:38:47):
Things you can take all of them off but, one
or if you want to hedge your, bet you could
leave a couple of them for a little, longer just
to make sure something doesn't break off or GET i
don't know if something happened to. It the rest of,
THEM i would just take off where they attached to the.
Trunk now that root system is extensive because it was

(01:39:09):
an established. Citrus when it puts all its energy into
pushing that one shoot, up it is going to grow
fast and you're going to lose some root system because
there's not enough leaves to support. It now that you've
lost that much of the, top but you should get
really good regrowth as it, rebalances and you want to
just watch that and train. It remember that new citrus

(01:39:31):
growth is going to be attacked by the citrus leaf
miner in our. Area we just have it all over
the place here spray the things with spinocid as they.
Grow i'd ever ten days give it a spray of.
Spinosid and here's. Why you have an established tree and
citrus leaf miner is not as big of a. Problem
but when you have a tree that is trying to

(01:39:54):
get going and the citrus leaf miner curls up and
eats away the interior of eighty percent of the, leaves
or even fifty percent of the, leaves that's affecting that
tree's ability to thrive and get going and. Recreate you a,
Tree so spray it every ten. Days once the new
growth starts immediately at the first sign of new growth

(01:40:14):
gets in a half inch, long go ahead and spray
it with spinosid just a little, bit and then just
keep going every ten days for a. While and when
those leaves get bigger and the bigger of the growth slows,
down you can back off of the spinocid that you're.
Using we don't like to use any product over and
over and over and over, again because resistance develops in

(01:40:35):
the insect we're trying to, control and they can develop
resistance to spinocid because it's a. Pisticide they're going to
develop resistance to. It if you don't only if you
use it over and over and over. Again so try
to avoid, that try to minimize your usage of. It but,
anyway you got to get those trees back up and.

(01:40:56):
Growing that is our. Goal all. RIGHT i got a
question on gardening seven one, three two one two five
eight seven four seven one three two one two fifty
eight seventy. Four give me a. Call we can talk
about the things that are of most interest to. You all.
RIGHT i want to visit a little bit about the

(01:41:19):
spring green up time in our, grasses in our. Lawns
when the grass wakes up from winter and begins to,
grow it is due to temperatures that it's doing, that
and as it warms, up the growth speeds, up but
at first it's just barely getting. Going and at that
STAGE i do have on the, schedule And randy had

(01:41:43):
this on the schedule as well when he was Doing,
guardline the Spring Early greenup, application which was on the.
Schedule it shows as Late february through third week Of.
March the Late february is not for people living up
In tomball And conroe and north like. That it's for

(01:42:03):
down very far. South but if you're up in the
further north, area it would be more like maybe a
Mid march type application that is an optional. One it
will make your lawn, greener, okay but the grass is
still hasn't hit its full stride yet and so it's
not gonna make it grow. Faster temperature make it grow,

(01:42:25):
faster but it'll green it up really. Good once you've
mowed your lawn, twice you mowed the grass, twice and
mowing weeds doesn't. Count so if you're out there and
the weeds are getting tall and you need to, mow
that doesn't count as mowing grass unless your grass is
also tall enough to need. Mowing but once the grass
is needed to be mowed, twice it is actively growing

(01:42:47):
and you need to put down an. Application if you
want a calendar date for, it look at my. Schedule
it's the month Of. April and again north to, south
the temperature is going to range a little, bit so you,
know there's no one magic. Time but that is about
when we put on our first spring, application AND i
prefer to use a slow release fertilizer at that. TIME

(01:43:09):
a slow release fertilizer gradually releases the. Nutrients, now the
first application the fast release for early greenup that is
not a slow release. Fertilizer do not use a slow release.
Fertilizer then if you want early greenup because it's slow,
release you need something that's available right. Away nitrovis has

(01:43:29):
An imperial products a fifteen five Ten nelson's has what
they Call Bruce's. Brew those are both good fast release
fertilizers without creating. CONFUSION i want to explain a little
bit more about the difference between slow release and fast.
Release the chemistry of the product controls how quickly the

(01:43:53):
nitrogen is released into the soil to be available to.
Plants slow, release it takes a, while and often there's
more than one kind of slow release, ingredient so that
you don't just get an initial release and then a second,
release but it spreads out more over, time and those
are good products to. Use it makes fertilizing. Simple but

(01:44:16):
you can use a fast release as well in place
of slow release if you do multiple. Applications so if
you wanted to Use imperial or if you wanted to
Use Bruce's brew for, example that are faster, releases you
could put them down in a small application and six
weeks later put on a small. Application put on a small.

(01:44:39):
Application you're not putting a full pound of nitrogen forer
thousand square feet each. Time you're just putting a moderate
application each, time and you essentially are the one releasing
slowly as opposed to the chemistry of the. Product, okay
so you can do. That it's not like when summer
comes you can't use those. Products you. Can you just

(01:45:00):
want to avoid putting a whole lot out and getting
a flush of. Growth that has all kinds of problems
when we overdo fertilisure at any one point in. Time
but choose the way you want to do. It i'm
not trying to complicate. It i'm just Saying i've had
people ask me, before, WELL i got some imperial left
over from. Spring CAN i use?

Speaker 7 (01:45:18):
It you know In?

Speaker 3 (01:45:19):
June, yes you can use it In june unless you
just put a slow release. Down you can use any
time you. Want just remember it's the how fast are
those nutrients being given to the? Grass all, right hopefully that.
Helped let's take a little, break we'll be right. Back
welcome back to the guard. Line yeah me not to

(01:45:40):
enchant it for. Us you didn't need to get out
there they're stocked up on a number of different types
of plants that need to go on the ground. Now
And i'm thinking in terms of like small, trees for.
Example we really need to get those things planted. Now small,
trees so many beautiful trees to choose, from and they

(01:46:01):
carry a really good. Selection you, Know i'm a big
fan of The Chinese french and they have it's a
spring bloomer with shaggy white blooms that smell nice and,
fragrant really cool. Plant of, course crate. Myrtles everybody knows
about crape myrtles and, things but there are many many
types that they carry out, there not just blooming, plants

(01:46:21):
but others that don't. Bloom Little Jim, magnoia's for, example
The mexican. Plum they carry a wide variety Of just
call them and ask about availability because they're getting these
things in all the. Time but the sooner you get those,
planted the. Better AND i know we're ready for spring,
guarden and don't, worry the shipments are on their. Way
they're an enchanted forest for your flowers and for your

(01:46:43):
vegetables and for your herbs and other things like. That
if you haven't checked out their gift. Shop you need
to check it. Out is really nice stuff in. There
you look at it and you'll, GO i would love
to have one of, those OR i know somebody next
TIME i need a gift for. Somebody that's a perfect
place to get to get a. Gift good selection of
roses that they bring in every, year and everybody thinks

(01:47:05):
when you get close To valentine's which here comes in
a couple of, weeks everybody thinks about roses and they
have a good selection down. There and you know, what
another thing about enchanted forest down In Richmond rosenberg, area
they have advice that is. Solid this, family The lineman,
family has been in the business for a very long
time done in that, area and they know plants and

(01:47:29):
they can advise. You you go down an intended for
us and you talk To clay Or danny or any
of the folks working, there and they're going to be
able to point you in the right direction so you
can have. Success SO i just know. THAT i guess
What i'm trying to say in that first part is
it is time to get these shrubs and trees. Planted
they've got, Them go get them and get them in

(01:47:50):
the ground and then turn your attention toward all the
other fun stuff that we have in. Gardening here's the
website Enchanted, Forest, RICHMOND tx dot. Com we're going to
go To Northwest houston now and talk To. Diana Hello,
Diana welcome to Garden.

Speaker 7 (01:48:05):
Line.

Speaker 13 (01:48:06):
Hi.

Speaker 12 (01:48:07):
SKIP i just moved to my house In, september new
house up off of fourteen eighty, eight and there's, NOTHING i,
mean not even a shrub in the. Backyard the uh
grass is. Fair but, ANYWAY i was wanting to put
back in a, corner maybe do a flower, bed trees
and two shrubs and that to begin. With but DO

(01:48:29):
i have to physically dig that sod out or CAN
i put cardboard down and pile the malch on you, know,
dirt well soiled gardening soil on top of.

Speaker 7 (01:48:40):
It?

Speaker 3 (01:48:42):
Yeah is your your Turface Saint? Augustine, yes, okay, yeah
just throw a piece of cardboard on, it or just
piled you don't even have to put cardboard on. It
just pile up your your bed mixes that are going
to make your nice raised, bed just up on top of,
them right on The Saint. Augustine if you cover it

(01:49:03):
several inches, deep it's not going to be able to
come through and it'll be just. Fine, Uh and so
do that and then dig your whole and then plant your. Plant,
yeah that's not the ideal way to go about, it
but it'll work just. Fine not a. Problem oh.

Speaker 12 (01:49:17):
GOOD i don't physically have that power left to. Dig
but my next question, was do you have an online
site for, like you, know the old schedule that used
to be out her beside when to put all this?
OUT i, Mean i'm on the fourteen eighty, eight so
it's pretty far north AND i didn't know if that

(01:49:38):
would take that area in or.

Speaker 7 (01:49:40):
Not.

Speaker 3 (01:49:42):
Yeah. Absolutely if you go to gardening With, skip that's
my website, Gardening it's skip dot, com and my schedules are.
There the one for growing a, lawn mowing water and
fertilizing a, lawn and the one for dealing with pests
and weeds and. Diseases both of them are up there
and they're free.

Speaker 12 (01:50:02):
Doing on there.

Speaker 3 (01:50:04):
Too is there a lot of, Tips, no there's not
a tip, line but there's there's a number of other
bits of information on topics that you might be interested,
in like.

Speaker 13 (01:50:18):
Or.

Speaker 3 (01:50:18):
Whatever, yeah, okay that's so go check those out and
you're you're there fourteen eighty.

Speaker 12 (01:50:25):
Eight, huh, yes is there anything good up? HERE i Mean,
arburgate of.

Speaker 10 (01:50:29):
Course and that's not too.

Speaker 3 (01:50:31):
FAR I, lovegate it's that.

Speaker 20 (01:50:34):
Far there was anything this Way?

Speaker 3 (01:50:38):
Arbgates, well there's there are nurseries around and, about but
you're not going to find a better spot close to,
you you, know the closest to. YOU i would say
it would be to Get arburgate for one of those
outstanding garden centers that's up in that, area and they're
going to be able to advise you To they're going
to be able to tell, you, well this is a
shrub or this is a tree that will do well and.

(01:51:01):
Whatnot and they both deliver their garden soil and their.
Compost so if you wanted them to drop it off
at your, place they could bring it right up there to,
you so That i'm not going to talk to advocate about. That,
okay thank.

Speaker 12 (01:51:18):
YOU i will appreciate. That thank you.

Speaker 3 (01:51:21):
Much you bet and have fun out. There take your
friends with.

Speaker 12 (01:51:25):
You oh, yeah all, right you take care, Bye thank.

Speaker 3 (01:51:30):
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On North Austin. Parkway let's go now to Southwest houston
and we're going to talk To david this. Morning Hey,
david welcome to Garden. Line good.

Speaker 9 (01:52:24):
Morning how are you?

Speaker 3 (01:52:25):
Today doing? Good how can we? Help?

Speaker 21 (01:52:30):
SO i want to ask a couple of. Questions hirsh's
one thing meant to another AND i was not able
to do by winterizing of fertilizing with my sweet Green
CAN i go ahead and do it?

Speaker 19 (01:52:42):
Now or SHOULD i?

Speaker 7 (01:52:43):
Wait do it At March?

Speaker 19 (01:52:44):
April doesn't?

Speaker 3 (01:52:45):
Matter hold, off hold off. Now if you want to
do a spring green, up you can do. That yeah
at let's yeah up in your. AREA i would do
the spring green up in Early, march but the main
fergization happens In April. April you bet good luck with.
That and you're In Southwest. Houston bob's got what you

(01:53:09):
need Over Southwest. Fertilizer, Alrighty, sorry we had to squeeze
that one, in BUT i didn't want to have to
wait until we came back from the news and everything.
Else you're listening to Garden. Line we are glad to
have you with. Us i'm going to be at The
Houston home And Garden show On friday the sixth And
saturday the. Seventh i'll be there both days for various.

(01:53:31):
Things all, right you ready to do? THAT i want
to see. You come on. Out i'll talk about it
a little bit when we come.

Speaker 1 (01:53:36):
Back welcome To katie. R. H Garden line with Skimped.
Richard it's.

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Just watch him as sad starting.

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In all, right, folks welcome back to Guard. Line good
drive Around we appreciate that you. Listening you are listening
to Guard, line we appreciate that you tune in because
it's fun to have a conversation with folks that are,

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we will go out now To Garden oaks and talk
To frank this. Morning Hey, frank welcome to Garden.

Speaker 16 (01:57:29):
Line good morning to. That got a couple of questions
for you regarding planning. Trees are we still kind of
in the season to plant trees primarily up In Grand's
county or that.

Speaker 3 (01:57:45):
Window, no there's, no, no, no and there's no black
and white. Lines you can plant a tree any month
of the, year but now's a good time because it
has still several months before it really starts to get
hot and the demands are on. It so the sooner
you get it, done the. Better.

Speaker 16 (01:58:03):
Okay and when you do plant a younger, tree do
you use any kind of a root stimulator or has
to grow or anything as a. Stimulant, yeah you, can
you can do.

Speaker 3 (01:58:14):
That some people use root stimulator products on. Them those are.
Available and if if you if you want to use
A medina's product that is it's a hash to grow plant,
food that's a six twelve. SIX i would put the
tree in the, hole soak that root ball with it
filled up with with, soil you, know fill the whole

(01:58:36):
back up with soil to plant, it and then drench
it again and do it again on about a one
week apart basis for two more times and that will
get that high phosphorus fertilizer down in there where you're
going to get the best benefit from.

Speaker 7 (01:58:49):
It, okay and do you know what.

Speaker 3 (01:58:55):
Do you know what kind of tree you're wanting to?
Plant what type of tree you wanting to?

Speaker 9 (01:58:59):
PLANT a couple of young live oaks and some younger pine.

Speaker 3 (01:59:06):
Trees, okay, good all, RIGHT i think you had a
follow up.

Speaker 9 (01:59:12):
Question, yes as far as trimming younger type.

Speaker 16 (01:59:18):
Trees let's say you know four or five year, old you,
know lower hanging limbs for pine.

Speaker 9 (01:59:24):
Trees or live. Oaks is when would you stop doing?

Speaker 3 (01:59:29):
That, well you can do it anytime of the. Year
if you've got a lot of printing to, do you
need to do the bulk of it at the end
of the dormant, season which is now the mid mid.
Dormant end of the dormant is. Now but if you
just need to print a branch here, there you can
do that anytime of the year if it's. Needed it's
just take a look at your trees and if you

(01:59:51):
know it's going to need to be printed this, year
go ahead and get it. Done but if you hit
summer and a branch, breaks you can do the printing
to clean things up at that.

Speaker 7 (01:59:59):
Time got?

Speaker 9 (02:00:00):
It, okay thanks very. MUCH i appreciate your.

Speaker 3 (02:00:03):
Health, yeah and and, listen, Uh, frank you're you are
just like right next door TO. Rcw you've probably been
over there two ninety and and, uh Belt way eight IS.
Rcw so you're just in toward town a little. Bit,
uh you should go by. There they have a really
good selection of trees and they'll even come out and do.
Planting if you purchase a tree that you, know a

(02:00:25):
little too big to carry, around you might talk to.
Them but they they grow their trees up In plantersville
and they have a really good.

Speaker 9 (02:00:32):
Selection all, right sounds, Good thank, you.

Speaker 3 (02:00:35):
All, right thank you appreciate. That all, right you're listening
to garden line seven one or, yeah seven, one, three
two one two fifty eight seventy. Four THERE'S i, mean
numbers out during the course of a. SHOW i JUST
i just start to say the wrong. Number, Hey i'm
gonna be at The Houston home And Garden show at

(02:00:58):
N Rg. Park. Now that show Goes february sixth through.
Eighth i'll be there there this Coming, Friday february. Sixth
i'll get there at twelve o'clock And i'll be there
for two. Hours i'm going to give a little bit
of a talk on. Plants i'm going to answer your gardening.
Questions i'll move out then to a little Table i've
got out in the show area and continue to answer gardening.

(02:01:19):
Questions at the. Table i'll have my books available for
sale if you are interested in, one but just come on,
by bring me samples of plants that you put in the,
bag bring me photos on your. Phone let's. Talk i'm
going to have my lawn care schedules out giving those
away at the. Show then On, saturday this Coming saturday the,
Seventh i'm going to get there an hour, earlier eleven,
o'clock and i'll be there till one o'clock for two

(02:01:41):
hours both days at The Houston Garden home And Garden
show at N. Rg all, right simple to do all
kinds of gardening tips on spring is part of my
talk for the show. There SO i hope you can
come on out and join. Us it's a great gardening
show to get out. Too let's take a little break

(02:02:01):
here and we'll be right back with your. Calls seven
one three two one two five eight seven. Four let's, go,
hey welcome back to the garden. Line if you live
up in The Conroe willis, area the woodlands you know
up in The Lake, Conroe bentwater Aprilsund Point aquarius seven,
coast or maybe A Republic Grand, Range you've got a

(02:02:23):
hometown garden center right up. There it's Called Growers outlet In.
Willis it's On highway seventy five just south Of, willis iby.
Seven now it runs parallel to forty five just south Of.
Willis Growers outlet In, willis which is the Website Growers
outlet In willis dot. Com they have a nice selection, vegetables, bedding, plants,
ferns perennial, shrubs, trees you name.

Speaker 13 (02:02:46):
It right.

Speaker 3 (02:02:46):
Now they've got some beautiful angel wing bogonia hanging baskets
look really really. GOOD i was checking out the things
that they have coming. On they grow a lot of
things right there on. Site, uh and so you just
just go check them. Out every month of the year
you swing by. There there's something new going on when
they when it warms up a little more and the

(02:03:07):
ferns have fully. Developed oh my, gosh you can't believe
the giant firm baskets that they have really really Nice
if some of your plants were killed by this cold
like bottle, brush that's a somewhat cold tender. Plant they've
got some really Beautiful Hannah ray bottom brush that they
carry there At Growers outlet And, willis so give them
a call swing, by but go to the Website Growers

(02:03:29):
Outlets outlet And weillius dot. Com you'll find out everything
you need to know.

Speaker 7 (02:03:34):
And then.

Speaker 3 (02:03:34):
Go let's go To houston and talk To richard this.
Morning Hey, richard welcome to Garden.

Speaker 7 (02:03:39):
Line how are you doing this? Morning, Skip thank you
for taking my? Call?

Speaker 3 (02:03:45):
Yeah, good? Thanks what's?

Speaker 7 (02:03:46):
Up? SO i have a thirty three foot long by
thirteen foot wide patio thirty three foot faces, south the
thirteen foot faces east and, west AND i need some,
sunshade AND i thought about just getting some roller shades and.
Stuff didn't really want to do. That pretty expensive to

(02:04:10):
get the ONES i really. Want SO i got to
thank you IF i hanged some planters and put a
tell us above it and get some climbing plants or.

Speaker 3 (02:04:22):
Vines, yeah what.

Speaker 7 (02:04:25):
What kind of recommendation of those? Vines you, know you,
know would you? Recommend?

Speaker 13 (02:04:34):
Uh you, know the east and west gets direct, Son,
uh the south. Side of course it's not direct right.

Speaker 7 (02:04:44):
Now, well it is kind of, direct but as the sun,
climbs you, know later in the, year then it won't
BE i won't have that direct, sun.

Speaker 9 (02:04:53):
All.

Speaker 3 (02:04:53):
Right so you mentioned put, out you mentioned putting planners
out in. IT i, Would, yeah it's going to be
very hard to keep those adequately. Watered when you start
putting a lot of foliage up there to give you,
shade it is going to drink a lot of water
on sunny, days and SO i don't know that that

(02:05:14):
is going to be your best. Bet if there are
a way to get something in the, ground a vine
that could go up a post and then go over the,
top that would be a. Possibility BUT i may not
be picturing the scene that you're describing, accurately but from
What i'm picturing, IT i think i'd go in the
ground with. Something, now the options get you something that is,

(02:05:38):
perennial a, shrub a vine rather a vining type of,
shrub or it could be a. ROSE i have a
arbor over my back patio and it has Got Peggy
martin roses on, it and so that looks. Good from
that you don't get to appreciate the roses on top
because you're sitting down looking up through the. Vine but

(02:06:00):
those hanging over the sides look. Good you could do
a lot of other kinds of vines that are evergreen
THAT i have the shade all. YEAR i kind of
like the deciduous myself because in the winter time it
allows a little sunshine, through which is kind of. Nice
but you make up your own mind on. That just
get something that forms a, woody solid always around, vine

(02:06:22):
as opposed to something that has to come back out
of the ground again each, year because then you have
to wait for it to.

Speaker 7 (02:06:27):
Recover the Trellis, Okay is there some PLACE i could
send you some photographs and let you look at.

Speaker 3 (02:06:33):
Them, Yes i'm going to put you on hold and
my producer is going to pick up and give you
an email and you can send me your. Photos make
sure they're in good sharp. Furcos and ALSO i won't
remember WHEN i get the email my conversation with you
today which conversation we're talking, About so just remind me
we talked on the air about, it And i'll be.
Happy you, guys all, right you take, Care thank, you.

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Sir the folks At Nelson Plant food have a fairly
new product in their. Lineup it's Called Nutristar genesis and
it is a, product the first one they've made that
Incorporates microriza bacteria another fungai that benefit that soil and
the root zone of the plants what we call the
microbiome where everything's alive in the, soil and it does

(02:07:18):
the plants a lot of, good and boy does. IT
a former Coworker, Buying Paul winskey works with the agrolife
extension in the horticulture department AT a AND. M he
did a little study out at The Houston Community College
katie campus and they tried they Compared Nelson Plant food's
Nutri Star genesis transplant mix to a similar type of

(02:07:40):
standard fertilizer for, trees and they put it on a
bunch Of mexican sycamores and the ones that they put
The genesis on significant difference in growth both in height
the size of the. Trunk and they just did. Well
and so you're, going, well they both had the same
nutrients in. Them so why the difference In Nelson Plant
food WILL i think perhaps the microbial components of it

(02:08:03):
may have made the difference that we're seeing, here you,
know beneficial, bacteria micoryso, fungi, humates and so. On it
just made a. Difference it's very, impressive And i've used
it When i'm potting up tomato, plants you, know bumping
them up to grow a bigger plant prior to putting them.
Outside When i'm putting in something like a rose bush
and mixing it into the soil and the, whole it's

(02:08:25):
not going to burn the plant. Roots and so anytime
you're going to put something into, soil whether it's potting
soil or garden, soil mix Nutristar genesis and the soil
and you will see a better faster establishment and new.
Growth and then after, that as we go, along you're
going to need to fertilize. Them so you can use
your Your Nelson Color star if it's a coloring plant or,

(02:08:47):
whatever whatever kind of thing you're going to, use continue
to do, that And nelson has many in the Nutri star,
line and in The Color star of course, itself and
The Nature star there organic line From nelson's that are all.
There you can Find genesis in jars at many garden,
centers and many of The nelson products sold in jars

(02:09:10):
are available to refill at about a dozen garden centers
around town where you just take your old jar in
and fill it back. Up economical and saves on wasting,
plastic which we all need to. Do we're gonna go.
Out let's go out To. Alvin now we're gonna talk
To frank this. Morning, Hey, frank welcome to Guarden. Line

(02:09:31):
i'm gonna get you to turn any radios off in
the background and let's figure out how we can. Help.

Speaker 22 (02:09:39):
Hello can you hear, me, yes, Sir, YEAH i was
calling to question about irrigation drip irrigation. System i'm planning
some hedges along the fence. Line we was gonna see
what you recommended in the. Past i'd used something. Before
it is like a little drippers that you. Buy those
things seem to like outbreak plastic and a cta of

(02:10:02):
anything more professionally.

Speaker 7 (02:10:03):
Recommend for a.

Speaker 3 (02:10:06):
Better coverage under, SHRUBS i would use something that you
have a drip line that runs down the row of,
shrubs and then you plug into that line a smaller
line that's about the size of a, pencil and it
goes out and there's a little. Steak the steaks maybe
four to six inches. LONG i mean more like six inches,
long and you stick them in the ground and on

(02:10:27):
top is a head that allows water to squirt out
in about six different, directions so it looks like a you,
know if you type an asterisk with a, typewriter go
the lines go out in all. Directions it sort of
sends water out like, that and it'll cover an area
of the shrubblers they call, them do an area all
about four inches. Wide there are some microjets that'll even

(02:10:48):
do a bigger area that you just put one on
one side of the, shrub one on the other side
of the, shrub go down the line and pop a
couple more. In it's real easy to. Do they don't
clog out very bad because you're putting, out you, know
a little spray of water down. Low, uh and it
wets a larger, area so the whole root system is
watered as opposed to just a little spot where the
drip drips.

Speaker 22 (02:11:08):
Out, okay do you do you know WHERE i can
get some or where you recommend purchasing these things?

Speaker 7 (02:11:16):
Front.

Speaker 3 (02:11:17):
Uh the place THAT i got mine is a place
Called Sprinkler, warehouse and it's in Northwest. Houston go online
and find the website, there you can mail OR i
think they still ship it to your house for you
if you, want or you can go buy and pick it.
Up but that's WHERE i got. Mine there's a lot
of places to buy.

Speaker 9 (02:11:36):
Your stuff in.

Speaker 22 (02:11:38):
Town this isn't this isn't a big box store like
it To Home, Depot lows Or.

Speaker 3 (02:11:43):
Walmart they they probably they will have stuff like. It
they're not going to have as big of a variety of,
options but they will carry stuff like that at those.

Speaker 15 (02:11:54):
Stores, yes, Okay i'm writing the name.

Speaker 20 (02:11:58):
Down could you say the name?

Speaker 3 (02:11:59):
Again Sprinkler, warehouse that's one here In. Houston there's a
lot of a lot of online places will sell you
and ship your sprinkler. Stuff but our watering stuff but,
anyway all, right and a lot of our garden centers
you know we'll carry will carry kits for drip irrigation
and things like. That BUT i think with your specific installation,

(02:12:20):
there you might need to go a little bit out on.

Speaker 7 (02:12:23):
That.

Speaker 3 (02:12:24):
FRANK i do appreciate your. Call i'm, Sorry i'm, Sorry,
FRANK i lost. You i'm done too quick. There buchanus
naeded plants in the Heights my. GOODNESS i love going
into that. Place every TIME i, GO i need a
lot of time Because i'm going to wander. Around there's
so much to. See it'll take me thirty minutes to
get through the house plant, greenhouse just because there's so

(02:12:45):
many cool plants. There but, shrubs, trees, fruit you name,
it they've got. It and when it comes to today
is nobody has an extensive of a supply and the
knowledge That Buchanus Native plants. Has they're on a Eleventh
street and the. Heights Buchanan's Native plants easy to get,
to And i'm telling you you will enjoy. It you

(02:13:07):
will enjoy going. There talk to the. People they've been
in this business for a very long, time and they
know their, stuff they know their. Plants they're going to
be able to advise you and direct you to exactly
what you. Want and if you go in there and you,
SAY i want a native that attracts, hummingbirds OR i
want a plant native or not that attracts humming, BIRDS
i want a plant that is a good butterfly food,

(02:13:28):
source and they're going to, say, well which, butterfly because
we got them for all the different butterflies Here buchanan's
native plants and the. Heights that's what you need to.
Know that's what you need to know for. Sure i've
tell somebody earlier that was going to be A southwest
fertilizer in or Mid april down. THERE i always love Going.
Southwest if you haven't been, there you gotta. Go it's

(02:13:50):
been around since nineteen fifty. Five if they don't have,
it you don't need. It do you need fertilizer organic?
Synthetic do you need pest weed and disease control organic
or are? Synthetic do you need? Tools they got a
ninety foot long wallow wall of. Tools do you need engine?
Repair they got a small engine repair shop in the
back corner Of bisonet And runwick In Southwest. Houston seven

(02:14:12):
three six sixty six one seven four four South West.
Fertilizer you're gonna you're gonna love. It they've got everything
you need right. There, alright somebody gonna tell me who's
singing that they're almost the one hit WONDERING Bj, thomas he,

(02:14:33):
did all, right welcome back to the garden. Line sometimes
it gets the end of the. Music have you NOTICED
i light of? MUSIC i gets the end of the
music THAT i forget to do the gardener. Show all,
right let's head out to The annesota area and we

(02:14:53):
are gonna visit With david this. Morning Hello, david welcome
to Garden.

Speaker 7 (02:14:57):
Line good, morning.

Speaker 14 (02:14:59):
BUDDY i got a bunch of bear roots strawberry, plaints
And i've never messed with them.

Speaker 7 (02:15:06):
Before do you have any?

Speaker 3 (02:15:07):
Advice, yeah plant them, asap get them in the. Ground
if we were to have another hard heart, freeze you
get the a little straw or hay or whatever the
top of them if you, want but get them in the.
Ground they need to get. Growing, ideally in our, area
strawberries are planted in the fall and they have all
winter to get established and grow in. Strength they can

(02:15:30):
grow in cold, weather just not hard heart, freezes but
they survive the. Freezes but you want to give them
as much time as you can because they're going to
try to start blooming and setting fruit here within a
month actually in your, area and so get them in
the ground as quick as you. Can begin to fertilize
them with small amounts of nitrogen on a regular, basis
mix some in the. Soil if you get Some genesis

(02:15:54):
transplant mix From nelson you'll put it in. Saw that's,
fine but continue to do small doses of nitrogen because
you want to get those things growing as fast as you.
Can and then they'll do their production and it'll go
until sometime in Early may probably when they'll find me play.

Speaker 7 (02:16:10):
Out perfect, perfect all scarick so hard.

Speaker 20 (02:16:15):
Freeze what's that, like twenty five twenty?

Speaker 3 (02:16:17):
Eight probably you know the strawberry plants will be okay
down to about twenty. Five i'm sure in fact that
they can take it a little colder than, that but
further north they cover them with straw to protect them
just a little. Bit but the blooms are very cold.
Tender if it gets if it gets thirty, degrees it
will kill a bloom and the center yellow spot will turn.

(02:16:39):
Black and it's the early blooms that are the biggest.
Berries so if we do have a, frost after you
see a, bloom make sure and cover that plant.

Speaker 7 (02:16:50):
Perfect get a good weekin.

Speaker 3 (02:16:53):
All, Right you take, Care, Thanks, david appreciate that a
thing or two about. STRAWBERRIES i used to have a
straw break patch up In, Willis texas half acres of.
Strawberries that's a lot of, strawberries by the, way but
my kids they got fat eating. Strawberries at this strawberry
patch we. Had it was a pick your own and
people would come to pick and then they'd show up

(02:17:15):
over at the checkout and there'd be like a few
berries in the bottom of their. Container and it's like
we were saw weighing people when they come in and
weighing them when they. Leave BECAUSE i THINK i know
what's happening to these. Berries, anyway let's, go let's go
to Clear lake now and Doctor greg this. Morning Hey,
greg welcome to Garden.

Speaker 20 (02:17:34):
Love good, morning good, morning good.

Speaker 3 (02:17:37):
Morning.

Speaker 20 (02:17:37):
Yeah, so, UH i just had a quick. Question i'm
thinking about planting a drake elm in my front, yard
AND uh was just curious that that's WHEN i go
to The TEXAS a AND m website for just you, know,
picking BECAUSE i don't have a really large front, yard
BUT i want like a medium, size kind of a
fast growing shade. Tree and WHEN i go of the

(02:18:00):
texting in, website that's, right the only One i'm really
interested that pops. UP i, mean there's like a there's
a holly. Tree there's like four different, ones AND i
would just want to know what your thoughts are about
that planting like a drake elm is like a medium
sized shade.

Speaker 3 (02:18:14):
TREE i like drake elm a. Lot it does grow.
FAST i love the, bark the exfoliating. Bark and by the,
way for people that are, listening drake elm is a
variety Of chinese. Elm there are other varieties out there
Of chinese elm that are also, good but drake is
the more common one that you see around the. Area so,

(02:18:35):
YEAH i think it's a good. Tree as far as
it being medium, SIZED i think it gets pretty large over.
Time now it's not, giant but it does develop a
pretty good size over. Time so if if you can't
let it get very big at, all then maybe it
wouldn't be the best. Choice but it's a good tree
grows fast just when you plant. It one of the

(02:18:57):
issues That i've seen With chinese elm is they tend to,
lean and so make sure you get a tree that's well.
Grown so when you like if you grab the tree
trunk and you kind of wiggle to the, side it
wouldn't be like it was hinged where it comes out
of the, soil you, know like the whole trunk. Moves
but as you pull on it it bends like a fishing.

(02:19:19):
Pole does that work for you as a mental? Image
you want the tree to bend, itself but not not
to be loose at the bottom in the. Soil sometimes
are grown and left too long in a pot and
they get root bound and they have that that. Wiggle
if that's the, case you can still just stake them
for a little, longer allow them to move in the

(02:19:42):
wind a little bit and they'll be.

Speaker 20 (02:19:43):
Fine, Okay, yeah so if you know, so the drake, elm,
YEAH i really don't want it to Getting lara's the.
Thing i've noticed some that seem to be pretty. Large
but you, KNOW i keep going back to tech being
in website and it said some Medium do you have
another like a medium size? Tree And i'm not interested,
in you, Know holly's or. ANYTHING i don't like the

(02:20:05):
leaves with the thorns and. Stuff it's just too much
of a. Pain do you have another type of medium sized?

Speaker 9 (02:20:12):
Tree?

Speaker 3 (02:20:14):
RIGHT a native tree in our area is a cedar.
Elm it has kind of a dirty yellow color in the.
SPRING i guess you could call that a golden color
sort of in the. Fall cedar elm grows medium fast
and it makes a good sized tree as, well but
it's a little bit slower in the growth. Rate any

(02:20:34):
elm is going to be weedy in your flower. Beds
elms produce lots of seeds and they pop up, everywhere
so that is kind of an issue with them THAT
i don't, know you might want to just kind of
be aware. Of as far as the tree there, is,
now this is a very different, look but The Palo
Verde Desert, Museum Palo, verde it has green trunks and.

(02:20:56):
Stuff it is a small to medium sized tree casts
a very light, shade so it's not going to get too,
dense but it has more of A southwestern look to,
it and you may be looking for something with a
little more lush of a. Look there are crape myrtles
that make nice wide trees as. Well natchez has beautiful

(02:21:16):
cinnamon colored exfoliating bark as the Drake elma's pretty exfoliating,
bark And natchez has white, flowers, powdery mildew resistant and
gets up about thirty feet high in, time so it
would be considered a medium sized tree for a very
very long. TIME i think you might enjoy that. One

(02:21:37):
do you have kind of a general, like here's how
many feet that needs to not be whiter than.

Speaker 20 (02:21:42):
Those, YEAH i want TO i really want to keep.

Speaker 13 (02:21:46):
It you.

Speaker 20 (02:21:47):
KNOW i can plant it about fifteen feet from the,
house fifteen to twenty feet from the. House so AND
i had At montezuma bald cypress there, before and it
just got to where the problem is, There i'm going
to hold the, sack So i've GOT i walks around
it stuff like, that AND I i started pulling up my,
sidewalk SO i had to take that one out because
it just got so big at the. Base but, yes

(02:22:09):
and that's Why i'm kind OF i don't want a small.
Tree so, yes, yes a pretty, tree but it's definitely
a uh to too large for for for a cul
de sac where you're kind of it's, triangular so you
got a fairly small front. Yard but but you have
all the. Tree i've heard of that one, too.

Speaker 3 (02:22:26):
So but uh but it's a it's a very, different
very different. Look the palaverti is a very different. Look
so most people look at for a shade, tree they're gonna, Go,
YEAH i don't live In, phoenix you, know, right it's
a very it's a very different. Look BUT i love,
them and they grow. Here there are some planet in
front of the Uh houston the uh oh, gosh what's

(02:22:48):
the name of the garden In Memorial? Park oh, gosh
the name is just escaping. Me but, anyway uhm govern gardens.
There there's some palavertis, THERE i guess you. Know there
are some other. Options maple's fairly moderate in their are,
size not as big as some of these giant trees

(02:23:08):
eventually can. Be U there is a oak called A lacey,
oak and the name is like a man's. Name it's
doesn't mean the leaves are. Lacey lacey the guy named
after a GUY i, think has a bluish green look to,
It and if you looked at it and you didn't
know any, better you'd, go that looks like a kind

(02:23:29):
of bluish green colored live. Oak but he's very. Small
it doesn't get very. Big at least it takes a
while for it to get very. Big and so that
might be an option that you like as. Well it's
a native a little further west than, here But i've
seen them some around, here but the growth rate is
very slow on.

Speaker 20 (02:23:47):
Those, yeah like something kind of. Quick i'm, sixty SO
i don't want to wait till have a tree that.

Speaker 9 (02:23:55):
WHEN i get to be. Eighty well you like.

Speaker 3 (02:23:59):
THIS i was gonna, say there's a saying, that you,
know a society is great when old men plant trees
under which shade they will never.

Speaker 7 (02:24:09):
Set, yeah my.

Speaker 20 (02:24:15):
Site but, yeah so The pella very day maybe for
the cedar, ELM i guess was the other one you
Were you were saying it is a fast grower.

Speaker 3 (02:24:22):
Too, Yeah cedar elm is another good. Choice and uh, see,
uh it just it just kind of depends on what
you want. IT i hate picking plans out for people
because it's, like you, know it's Like, greg you give
me your credit card and, say go to the mall
and buy me. CLOTHES i don't know what you. Want
do you want a Big hawaiian shirt or do you
want a? SUIT i, mean there's, preferences the, looks the

(02:24:44):
uses and. Stuff it's kind of, hard BUT i really
like that The chinese. Fringe it you just need to
fertilize it to keep it. Going it's gonna be a little,
slower but it's gonna be so beautiful in the meantime
with its. Blooms so that that's ONE i might consider.

Speaker 20 (02:25:01):
Too, okay The french, Tree, yeah that one, Too so
that's been. Recommended so all, right, well thank you very.
Much that certainly is.

Speaker 3 (02:25:07):
Helpful all, right, good thank you very. Much appreciate that very.
Much let's take a quick. Break we'll be back for
the last segment of the. Weekend, hey welcome.

Speaker 14 (02:25:16):
Back to Guard.

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(02:27:09):
and talk To. Larry, Hello, larry welcome to Garden.

Speaker 10 (02:27:12):
Line Hey, skip good. MORNING i got A i've talked
to you about this. BEFORE i got a ditch it's
about one hundred and fifty to one hundred and seventy
five feet, long AND i want a ground. Cover and
on My facebook keeps coming up creeping. Time is that
good down? Here Missori?

Speaker 3 (02:27:33):
County it's, Okay but what's going to happen is it
it doesn't move very fast and it's going to fill
in with weeds and they're probably not gonna be very
happy with. It, really any, groundcover unless one gets really,
dense there's going to be that issue of the of
the weeds coming. In how wet does this area? Stay is?

Speaker 10 (02:27:55):
It, well it's in the, ditch it's pretty dry except
at the bottom. Course but, Uh i'm playing it rep
over and it does great until it gets hot and
then it's gone and the weeds come.

Speaker 7 (02:28:12):
Back.

Speaker 3 (02:28:14):
Yeah, yeah the annuals and biennials and things like, that
they're not gonna be the. One you need something that's
gonna stick around and be. There you know a lot
of people Do asian. Jasmine you're probably gonna have to
do some watering on it to keep it happy out,
there and there's probably a lot of sun for.

Speaker 13 (02:28:29):
It.

Speaker 3 (02:28:30):
Uh there are other. Groundcovers each one has its pros and. Cons, though,
uh you, KNOW i always recommending. PLANTS i kind of
WISH i could be there on the site and take
a look at it and know exactly the, situation SO
i could better recommend a plant that is gonna do
really well in any particular. Location but you need something that. Binds.

(02:28:53):
Uh there is let's see here. Uncover Maybe i'm trying
to think of one that that you might like out.
There one of my favorite. GROUNDCOVERS i think it's gonna
be too low growing for, you but it's a native
weed that is an awesome groundcover in sunny. Areas. Uh

(02:29:13):
and that is frog. Fruit excuse, Me, yeah frog, fruit
that's the name of. It it grows very low to the,
ground gets very dense and. Stuff But i'm telling, you
when you have something that's down, load other weeds is
gonna get in there in it and you're not going
to have that that look that you might have been
interested in going for.

Speaker 10 (02:29:34):
Weeds that's the main rais and do it because it's
real hard, weedy you.

Speaker 3 (02:29:38):
Know so, yeah, WELL i THINK i think what you're
gonna have to. Do you're gonna have to get a
groundcover that moves pretty fast and fills in really well
and chokes out most of its weed. Problems, now you
can kill grassy weeds and broad leaf. Groundcover they are
products that kill the, grass but not the. Groundcover but
broad leaf weeds and broad leaf ground cover that is

(02:30:01):
going to be a. Problem so you would have to
start off weed free having killed all the weeds that
are in there very. Well, uh and then you just
have to stay on it because go, ahead pardon say that,
again classy, FIGHT i mean bed Every, yeah, okay well

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then there's weeds that are waiting to grow.

Speaker 9 (02:30:24):
There But.

Speaker 10 (02:30:26):
I'll send you a picture next. WEEK i got your.
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