Spring is Coming !

Episode Transcript

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

Speaker 2 (00:05):
It's just watch him as many.

Speaker 3 (00:21):
Good things to sets, not a sign.

Speaker 2 (00:35):
The sun beam and.

Speaker 3 (00:39):
Hey, good morning, good Saturday morning. Good to have you
with us this morning on garden Line. I'm your host,
Skip Richter, and we will be talking about all the
things you need to know when it comes to having
a successful garden and a beautiful landscape and just enjoying
yourself in the process. That that's one of my goals

(01:00):
is really when we do garden Line here is to
have you find gardening to be an enjoyable, fulfilling process.
Whether all you want to do is make the place
pretty so many people drive by, or when you drive
up you like the way it looks, or maybe you
want to go in also in a direction of I
would like some production from the garden. I want to

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see I want flowers to bring inside. I want herbs
to bring inside for the culinary things going on in
the kitchen, as well as maybe some vegetables. We can
do that too. If you just want a beautiful, perfect lawn,
well let's talk about how to get there. From here.
You can give me a call at seven one three
two one two k t r H seven to one

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three two one two kt RH and we can help
you have that kind of success. That's what we're all
about doing here. I'm going to tell you something right
off the bat, and I'll mention this number of times today.
But today after the show at one pm, one pm,
right after lunch, I will be at the Home and

(02:03):
Garden Show down at the Fort Bend Epicenter. The Fort
Bend Epicenter. Now this is the call it bras this
Home and Garden Show. It is on Southwest Freeway, so
I mean it's just right there. When you drive down
Southwest Freeway. You to see it right there. If you're
heading down south the direction from Houston's come me on
the left hand side. But anyway, I'll be there from

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one to three and what I'm going to do is
I'm going to go through some of the essential steps
to create a thriving spring garden and a thriving spring lawn.
And then I'll have time to answer your gardening questions
and answer or gardening questions and assists you if you
got any problems you want to diagnose. Maybe you got
some samples you want to bring in, put them in

(02:44):
a bag a plastic bag and make sure and capture
whatever it is you want me to see. Maybe it's
some leaves that aren't looking right, or a bug or
a disease looking thing or and or take a photo
on your phone and bring it in with you and
we'll get to the bottom of it. We'll have a
the doctor is in clinic. I'm not a doctor, but
we will have one of those. Come on, we'll do

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a plant clinic right there for you as well as
me giving some tips to help you have success. And
I'll be there for two hours, So come on out
Fort Bend Epicenter, Southwest Freeway, the Brawses Home and Garden Show.
I will also be bringing some things to give away
as a result, so you may win some things as

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you come in. I'm bring a whole bunch of different
things in the giveaway to folks that come to the seminars.
So look forward to seeing you. Hope you can make
that today here on Garden Line. We love our feed
stores and League City feed is you know one of
those kinds of places where if you have memories of
old time feed stores, you know, going in just the wonderful,

(03:52):
just the aroma of a feed store I don't know,
it's just a nice earthy smell. I love it, absolutely
love it. That City feeds like that. You It's been
around for forty years plus, actually over forty years now,
and it's down in League City. Of course, it's just
a few blocks south of Highway ninety six on Highway three.
So if you're on ninety six and you go south

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on three, just a few blocks it'll be there on
the left. So it serves that whole region really, Elkaminar Reale,
League City, Webster Baylift, Lamark, all those communities around there.
This is your hometown feed store. And when you go in,
you're going to find products you hear me talk about
like nitrofoss products, like product like the product asamite a,
products from Microlife, heirloom soils, Nelson plant food and more

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all there at League City feed They also got really
high quality pet foods as well. And it's kind of
a one stop shop.

Speaker 4 (04:45):
You know.

Speaker 3 (04:45):
They're open Monday through Saturday from nine to six, closed
on Sunday, but even during the week after working, swing
by there on the way home and get what you need.
And if you happen to have back here chickens. I
got good supplies for those as well. League City Feed
a few blocks south of Highway ninety six on Highway
three in League City. I was out working on some

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things out in the yard this week, and one of
the things that I noticed is the cold that we
had had kind of fried back some of the tips
of my long grasses, Saint Augustine primarily, but also I've
got some Saint Augustine some Soysa both in my lawn.
I love both of those grasses, really, I permute it

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is good too. Evergrass has its place. But anyway, I'm
just kind of noticing that the freeze that had burned
that back. A lot of my plants that kind of
got nipped good in the first freeze were taken to
the ground in this freeze. And that's okay. But here's
what I'm doing. I'm leaving the dead top growth. And
the phrase I use for that is learn to like ugly,

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or learn to love ugly, or learn to live with ugly,
however you want to put it. What that means is okay.
Let me use this as an example. In the front
of the house, I've got some Mexican heather, which is
a little short kind of spreading mounting plant, and I
have some lantana and both of them are just fried
on the top, but all the dead leaves, the dead

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tops on those are acting as sort of an insulation
for the base. When heat rises up from the soil,
it could either radiate directly up in the atmosphere or
if it hits some foliage something to block that radiant,
it bounces back down. And you can see this on
a frosty night. Next time we have frost and you've

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got frost all over your yard, you know that white,
frozen frosty covering look underneath like a live oak tree,
and there won't be frost. And it's because the heat
rising directly up from there is being reflected back down
onto the grass blades. So as they lose their heat
and frost would have developed, it doesn't. And that's just

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an example of what the principal I'm talking about about
about something above the plant like that reflecting it back
down having a difference. Now, that's not going to make
the difference. You know, if we have a hard freeze.
I'm not talking about that. I'm not frost, but it
does make a little bit of a difference in a freeze.
So if you can learn to live with ugly for
a while. Once we get past the freezes, then we'll

(07:19):
clean all that out and things will look all pretty
and everything again. But we need to be able to
leave it as long as possible. Now, sometimes plants turn
to mush. You know, if you had more of us
a plant that has more moisture in it, like a
cana for example, Well it's gonna be a pot of mush.
And you can clean that out and get rid of it.

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But if you do, throw some mulch over the top
of it, because you still want that blanket of protection.
I don't think we're done with freezes, and if we're not,
we don't want to pull the plug too quick and
open things up. Hey, I'm going to go to a
break right now and we'll be right back if you'd
like to give me a call. Seven one three two
one two KTR eight and welcome back to the Garden Line. Wow,

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that wrong, Glad to have you with us. I'm going
to run straight out to the phones. This we back
off again and we're going to head to Cleveland and
talk to Cynthia. Hello, Cynthia, good morning, Welcome to Garden Line.

Speaker 5 (08:17):
Good mornings. Get how you doing this morning?

Speaker 3 (08:23):
I'm well, thanks.

Speaker 5 (08:25):
I have some questions.

Speaker 6 (08:28):
Number One, I'm gonna get ready to start a spring garden,
but first I need to ask you about my tropicals.

Speaker 5 (08:36):
I've got a bunch of tropical trees.

Speaker 6 (08:38):
That I planted last spring, and I did my best
to keep them covered and and try to keep them
out of all the cold that we have.

Speaker 5 (08:48):
But I looked at a lot of them yesterday and
a lot.

Speaker 6 (08:51):
Of them don't look real good, and I'm not sure
what I can do to try to revive them. Okay,
they've been watered real good, and I know we've got
rain coming and that'll probably help them, but I don't
know if there's something else that I can do to
them that they will make it through everything they've been through.

Speaker 5 (09:15):
That's my first question.

Speaker 3 (09:17):
Well tropic, Yeah, tropicals, you know, they they aren't made
for just living through cold weather. That that's wather. They're
called tropicals, right we when we use that term tropical, though,
we throw a lot of things in that are actually perennial,
you know. So some people refer to like a canna
as a tropical type plant because the least little bit

(09:38):
of frost or freeze it's gonna take it down.

Speaker 5 (09:40):
But well, these are for us. Well, these are all
like fruit trees, like lemon trees.

Speaker 6 (09:49):
I've got pomegranates, I've got limes, grapefruit, and then I've
got clementines. And I know that they don't do you
well when it gets to cold. And I tried to
protect them, but other than going out there and putting
a heater on each and every one, there's just no way.

Speaker 5 (10:08):
There's too many of them.

Speaker 3 (10:10):
Right right, Well, the citrus is cold tender, but it
varies from one type of citrus to another. On those,
you need to protect them as best you can. And
there's there's like two levels of protection. The first thing
would just beat the mound soil or fine compost up
against the trunk and a big and a big cone.
It's about the only time you'll ever hear me talk

(10:32):
about doing that. We call those multi volcanoes. It's actually
a soil or a compost volcano. And that protects the graph.
So if all is lost, at least you'll have re sprouting.
You want to replace the tree, it'll the variety that's
grapped will come back.

Speaker 5 (10:50):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (10:50):
I did that to each and every one of them,
and then I covered them with a frost frost blanket.
But then I also cover good with uh like a
moving blanket, and then put them under a tub. So,
like I said, I did all my kids that I
pulled some of the coverings up of them yesterday. The

(11:10):
leaves are all crunchy, and so I watered all the
truth good.

Speaker 3 (11:16):
But yes, I don't know what you what you're gonna
do for the spring, well for not not for now,
We're gonna wait and watch.

Speaker 5 (11:26):
Now, Okay, the.

Speaker 3 (11:29):
I'll talk about in a little more depth today about
how do you assess coal damage, But the bottom line
is you want to give it a few days. Uh,
And then what you're gonna notice is that inside those
little twigs and branches, what was creamy white or light
green turns papersack brown. Uh. And when you and even

(11:50):
gray and black event on some plants. But when you
see that, then you know that's dead. And when it
comes time to print, which isn't now, uhlater on, when
the new growth begins, the growth will tell you where
to prune. So that you're just gonna for now just
hold on, wait and watch. I know it's ugly. I
know you're wondering and stuff but don't jump the gun,

(12:13):
and when it's time, you'll prone out all the dead.
And that may mean cutting it off above the ground,
above that soil that you piled up, but it also
may mean that your trunk and many of the branches
are still alive and fine. But time will tell on
that for sure.

Speaker 5 (12:29):
Okay, okay.

Speaker 6 (12:30):
The other question I have for my garden is the
ground here.

Speaker 5 (12:37):
Where I live is it's just clay. It's so hard clay.

Speaker 6 (12:41):
It's so hard in the summertime when there's no rain,
and then as soon as you get rain, it just
gets slick. And I live not too far from living earth,
So I'm.

Speaker 5 (12:54):
Not sure if they make a product that is suitable
for that.

Speaker 6 (12:59):
Garden to be able to go and work it into
that dirt to make it more fertile for like cucumbers
in summer, squash and you know, stuff like that to
be able to even survive in.

Speaker 3 (13:14):
Right, I'm sure they have products. I'm not familiar with
their products at all, and I'm just not But if
you're in Cleveland, you're really close to airlom soils and
Porter and I am more familiar with those, and they
have if you're going to grow edibles and things. They
have a veggie and herb mix there that you can
mix in. They have regular composts and things like that,

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and so that may you know, I know, you're down
just down the road from them, and they can deliver
or you can go pick it up or those kinds
of things. A lot of our composts and multipurveyers will
sell by the bag. They'll sell them bulk and whatnot.
But from kind of what you described, I think the
veggie and hermex would be a good a good blend

(13:55):
for that and anything with that heavy clay and sticky
heavy clay, it doesn't have air space in the soil.
It's very very compacted, very dense. It water logs easily,
and when you add decaying organic matter in it, which
you know, compost is the term for basically for that,
when you add that kind of thing in, it helps

(14:17):
open that soil up. You just want to avoid compressing
it yourself with foot traffic or anything. Whenever walk on
our garden beds, we always you know, avoid that because
it just smashes them the clay back down again and
the organic matter is helping to loosen it up over time.

Speaker 6 (14:34):
Right, right, Okay, Well that answers. That answers both both
questions I had, and that helps me so much. I
was I was really frightened over my my fruit trees
because I've really put a lot of work into them.
But we'll just wait and see what happens.

Speaker 5 (14:51):
Hopefully they're not answer yeah.

Speaker 3 (14:54):
Yeah, And as they start to come out, if you
want to send me some pictures, uh, you know, we
can take a look at them again and make advice.
I just think you'll give them some time. If you
prune now and you cut into living tissues in your pruning,
it stimulates that plant to try to regrow, and the
last thing your citrus needs to do now is to

(15:15):
start putting out new growth exactly. I definitely don't want that.
So let's just hold off and then there'll be plenty
of time to get it cleaned up and you'll be
off to the races again with them.

Speaker 6 (15:28):
Okay, well, I appreciate it much to let you know.
The last time I called it was about my rosa
sharing We're blooming beautifully and all of a sudden they
just started dying. It was too much water in the coil,
and you had told me to check that okay, and
I did, and I got them on the ground, I

(15:48):
got them in some pots, and so they're doing wonderful.

Speaker 5 (15:52):
So I just wanted to thank you.

Speaker 3 (15:53):
Well, good glad to hear you were able to turn
them around. Well, Cyndia, thanksk Cynthia, thank you for the call.
I appreciate that.

Speaker 5 (16:01):
Thanks ye all right, bye.

Speaker 3 (16:04):
Bye, allright bye bye. Yeah, that is uh act to me.

Speaker 7 (16:10):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (16:12):
Let me just go ahead and make a few comments about, uh,
how do you how do you know? How do you
assess freeze damage? First of all, when when plant, you know,
when you see the leaves brown and stuff, well, those
leaves are killed. That's obviously it frosted it. But you
got all these branches and trunks and things of some
of our shrubs and trees. And how do you assess

(16:34):
where it was killed? Well, first of all, right after
the freeze, it's a little hard to assess. And as
you have a few days, especially as the temperatures warm
up a little bit, then you're going to start to
see the tissues that were killed. Go from what if
you scratch back the bark on little twigs and branches
with your thumbnail or a knife blade, what it should

(16:56):
look like underneath this creamy white or a very light
light shark treacy green color. Okay, but if it in
time those freeze dead tissues turned toward brown or I
like to use the descript or paper sack brown or
pecan brown, that's what you see. Sometimes you get black
and gray and they're depending again on how much freeze
damage and the species. But that's obviously not healthy. Once

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you straight back and see that, well that's not going
to come back to life, of course, and you would
need to print it out. But at this stage we
still have winter left, and so to prune. Now, should
you cut down into living tissues, then that is Prunting's
a stimulating process and it sort of encourages a plant
to re sprout. And we don't want ref sprouting now,

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we want it to be still, stay asleep, wait and
then when spring comes, you'll the plant will tell you
where to prune back. Okay, Now you can assess it
with a thumbnail or a knife blade and keep checking
here and here and here and here and here and
all over and decide where to prune. But I would
say hold on right now, let the plant tell you
when it comes out. If you need to get it

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burned out. Use that scratch test to determine, but don't
cut down into living tissues to shit. That is not
what you want to do. But that's one quick way
to just do that kind of assessment on your plants.
I love going to the garden centers. I just do that.
It is so much fun to wander through a quality

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garden center. Buchanons is that kind of place. Those of
you who've been there know what I'm talking about. If
you haven't been there, you need to go check it out.
Buchanons is in the Heights. It's on Eleventh Street, and
they specialize in Texas natives, but they have everything. If
you want house plants, they have a huge house plant
greenhouse that is unbelievably well stocked. In fact, one thing

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I kind of find cool is they've got these little
small two inch tropicals. I had little tiny pots and
if you want together like a terrarium, which is a
great thing to do in the winter season when you're
gardening indoors. Tried that out. I mean, they have all
this beautiful colored foliage and little two inch containers and
you can build your own terrarium. And I use that
just as an example, because when you go to Buchanans,

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you're gonna find few trees, fruit trees. You're gonna find
stuff for shade, You're gonna find gorgeous pottery. You're gonna
find all the supplies, whether it's you know, products from
Nature's Way or heirloom soil or Landscaper's Pride or nitrophoss
or Nelson or you name it. Microlife's another one. They
got plenty of that at Buchanans in the Heights. Go
to their website buchanons Plants dot com. Write that down

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police Buchanan's Plants dot com. It is an outstanding website
full of good educational information. And you need to sign
up for their newsletter so you can stay up to
date on what's coming, the events that they're gonna have,
the things going on at the nursery. Buchanansplants dot com.
Go check that out. I'm gonna take a break now

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for the halfway through the hour news and I'll be
right back at seven one three two one two k
t rh All right, here we go back in the
saddle again. A garden line. I'm your host, skip Rick
or we are here to answer your gardening questions. All
you got to do is give me a call seven
one three two one two k t R H. Wile ago.

(20:15):
I was talking about Buchannan's plants and I wanted to
mention that they have a seminar today at ten ten
to eleven o'clock on Texas Native Gardening. You know they
If anybody knows about native plants, it's Buchanans. Folks at
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aeration and compost. Hot dressing over the top. You're listening
to garden Line. I'm your hostp Richter. If you've got
a gardening question you want to visit about seven one
three two one two fifty eight seventy four seven one
three two one two five eight seven four. Hey, if
you want to take that to another level, I'm going
to be at the Brasses Home and Garden Show at

(23:32):
the Fort Bend Epicenter down in Rosenberg today, So all
of you folks listening, you know, down Victoria, and then
that holds everywhere southwest, especially of Houston, or you can
ride further if you want. Some people do. It's gonna
be a good home and garden show.

Speaker 8 (23:49):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (23:49):
The folks that inntented forests are going to be there.
They've got a great display and there's lots of seminars
going on. It'll be today, it was yesterday, and it'll
be today and tomorrow is well. I'll be there today
from one to three. One to three today. You can
bring me some samples or photos for diagnostics if you want.
I'm going to be doing some giveaways as well. I'm

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gonna have a book there as well. I never talked
about my book, but I'm gonna bring some of those
with me today and i'll be answering your gardening questions.
After I start off with a brief presentation, I'm going
to talk about the essential steps to creating a thriving
spring garden and lawn and then we'll have a lot
of Q and A time, plenty of time to visit

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and take a good close look at the things that
are going wrong in your line. You got maybe you
scratched a branch back and you go, I don't know
if that's dead or not. Bring a picture of it,
get up close, make sure it's in sharp focus. Fuzzy
pictures gets you fuzzy answers. So you need a good
sharp focus photo. We'll take a look at that. Be
happy to visit with you about all those kinds of
things at the Browse's Home and Garden Show today one

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o'clock to three o'clock. Be there for two hours. One
hour seminar followed by an hour of Q and A
and diagnostics and everything else, including if you'd like to
pick up a copy of a book and have it signed,
we'll be happy to do that. Well, let's see, I
was talking about checking out my lawns and some of
the frost that had occurred on my plants. I have

(25:16):
a some ginger. Ginger is one of my favorite flowering plants,
by the way, and I'm there are lots of good
kinds of ginger out there. There's the variegated yellow and
green Alpinia ginger. That's more of a foliage plant. That's
why we grow it for its beautiful foliage. There is
hidden ginger there, you know. There's My favorite of all

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the gingers is the hedicium. It's called the butterfly ginger.
It's tall stalks. And my favorite of all the butterflies
is plain old white butterfly ginger. It is so fragrant.
And then there's some other cool colors. There's kind of
coral colored blooms and variations, you know, from the yellow
to the to the reddish colors. Uh. And some of

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them are very fragrant. Some of them are not as fragrant,
but they're all beautiful. They all make good cut flowers too,
by the way. But I've got some two different kinds
of of a butterfly ginger that I hadn't some containers,
so I had to protect those because whenever you have
a container on top of the surface, what would have
been root hardy below the ground in the soil suddenly

(26:22):
now is exposed to the full brunt of the cold
because you're set in a container in my case, on
top of the patio out there, and it's going to
get way too cold and cause more damage than it
would had that ginger been in the ground. Because multed
well in the ground, ginger is a is a dependable
perennial for us. So I had to bring them in
real close to the house, cover them, come up, mult
of them because they're about to go in the ground

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to get planted. Not the normal time of year you
plant ginger, but you can plant ginger now. And we're
going to be working on on some of that. But anyway,
just a few of the things going on out there
in the garden. Uh, you've heard me talk about Nelson
plant food before. Nelson has something called Jennison. It's one
of their nutri Star line.

Speaker 9 (27:02):
You know.

Speaker 3 (27:02):
Nelson has Turf Star for your lawn. They've got color
Star awesome for color in your flower beds. And then
they have Genesis. Genesis is loaded with microizo bacteria and
other fungi that helped benefit benefit that soul microbiome. It's
got humates in it. It's designed to be mixed in
the soil. So if you're going to transplant anything or

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bump up anything you're growing, mix Genesis into the soil plant,
your plant watered in, and then later you can resume
with regular fertilizations, but start with Nelson Genesis. Time for
me to take a little break here. I am going
to be right back at seven one three two one
two KTRH. Welcome back, hey, it's good to have you

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with us today. We are going into all kinds of
things related to plants to help you have success. Is
the way I like to put it is I want
you to have a bountiful garden, a beautiful landscape, and
more fun in the process. That is the goal here.
So let's do that. You got some questions you want
to ask. All you gotta do is give me a
call seven to one three two one two k t

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r H. Seven to one three two one two k
t r H. We'll be happy to visit with you
about those so that you can have success. By the way,
if you're one of the good ways to have success
in all kinds of things, not just your lawn and garden,
but even around the house, inside the house, the patio,
and you name it is Ace Hardware. You know. Ace
Hardware has got a number of stores through the Greater

(28:30):
Houston area. You can go to their website ayshardware dot
Com and find the store locator and there's just a
whole bunch of red dots everywhere. So you're going to
get to find more than one ACE near you that
has everything you need. We got the Super Bowl coming up,
so it's time to get ready to do some Super
Gold Bowl grilling, if you will. Uh. And you go
to ACE Hardware and you're going to find incredible brands

(28:52):
like Traeger you know what what that means, a Weber, Rectech,
a Big Green Egg, and Blackstone. All those kinds of
brands are available at our various ACE Hardware stores or
as you go around town. If you're an ACE Hardware
Rewards remember which I remember which I am, by the way,
and you should be too. You just sign up for it,

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and as you purchase things at ACE, you build up
your reward numbers, your count and being a reward member.
A lot of the stores you just have to ask
your local store about this, but a lot of them
will assemble and even deliver a barbecue pet for you,
but just ask your store for details about that. But
anytime you're on ACE, go ahead and sign up for
ACE Rewards. It's very very well worth it. Easy, painless

(29:36):
to do. If you want to get your garage in ordering,
maybe you need some storage shelves. Spring cleaning time is here.
I know, I know. I walk out in my garage
about once a year and I look and I go,
you know, I've made a mess again. Time time to
get this cleaned up. ACE has got you covered on that.
And of course if you're doing spring cleaning, all the
cleaning supplies and storage tots and everything else you need,

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I don't know. Just let's put let's make this simple.
ACE is the place. ACE is the place, no matter
what you're looking for. ACE is a place. We got
Aces all over again. Up in Champions for Us, there's
Champions Ace Hardware. You go over to the Copperfield there
and you got Langham Creek right there, a hard Memorial
Ace Hardware and the Memorial Area. Go down to Richmond area,

(30:22):
you got Plantation Ace. Just come north of Richmond Plantation
Ace Hardware, awesome store. And they're many many more. Easy.
ACE makes it easy, they just really do. I was
looking at my vegetable garden and if you can see
a pick, if you can see my vegetable garden right now,
you might be shaking your head going, what's wrong with him?

(30:45):
Why doesn't he there and clean it up? And it's
because I've been busy, been doing other things. But it
needs me. Uh spring planting is just around the corner,
and uh so it's time for me to get out
there and do some cleanup. And that's easy to do.
In fact, that's one of the actually one of the
things I enjoy. I'm probably weird in this way as
a gardener, but I like a weeding and I like

(31:08):
cleaning up the garden. And the reason is this. If
you go out and you've got a weedy bed and
you just get busy and you pull weeds on it
or hoe them, or mulch the bed or whatever, when
you get through, it looks beautiful and it's so rewarding
to see that. You know, there are a lot of
things in life. And I don't know if you guys

(31:28):
got a job, you may know that what I'm talking
about here, But you know, you work all day and
at the end of the day, it's like, what did
I accomplish today? I know, I move paper around the
desk and talk to some people about some stuff, But
what did I accomplish today? With gardening and you got
a weedy bed. Oh my gosh. Thirty minutes you look
back and it's like, ah, that looks better. I like that.

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So anyway, I'm a little weird in that way. I
like that, but like cleaning up too. Right now, I've
got some old dead stalks of some last year's okra
and peppers and some other things. I'll just get in
there and clean all those up real good. I'll be
ready to go. Everything will look really nice and pretty
for the next step of it. Whenever I'm there's different

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ways to go about gardening. There's not one way. The
old traditional ways you got a rototiller and you banged
up the soil, made it loose, planted your plants, and
you just rototilled more than one time a year for sure,
every time you're doing a new planting. Whenever you had
a plant, you pulled it out, shook the soil off
the roots, and threw the plant away, and that you know,

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that was part of renovating. That's okay. You can still
do everything that way if you want. What I'm doing
more now is a no till kind of gardening in
the vegetable garden. And what does that mean? That means
Number one, think about nature. Nobody's spading forks or rototill's nature.
The plants die, the roots they had in the ground die,

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and now those roots are dead to haying organic matter
that have created tunnels through the soil, opening the soil up.
Microbes get in there, they get happy, they go crazy,
and little by little, as you fill the soil with
roots and roots on annual plants are gonna ride away
when the plant's gone in. On grassy plants, by the way,

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roots live about a year and then die. So grass
even builds its own soil that way. But when whenever
I have let's say, well I've got some peppers and
some tomatoes and things, I'll just cut them off right
at the ground, or you just cut the base out
right there and basically leave the base in the ground
to rot. And so when it's time to plant around them,

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I just make my little trenches, dig the holes, put
in the transplants, do whatever I'm gonna do, but I
just leave it as a no till. Now, you don't
have to do it that way, but you can. If
you have something that dies from a root rod, or
let's say it's a tomato that gets nematodes on the roots,
or some wilt fungal disease of the roots. Well, yeah,
you want to get that out of it and then

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not replant that same family of plants in that area
for a while. But in general, no tail is good.
Farmers have gone to no til for years. There's a
lot of no tail going on in various types of
agriculture where they reconize, just cut it off at the ground,
leave the roots in the ground. They even have special
planters that are designed to plant into no tail beds

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and do well. Now, if I were going to have
to mix some amendments into the soil, well yeah, I
would spade it. I would do that. I would get
those down in there. If I were going to dig
a trench to plant potatoes in, okay, I get it.
I'm not saying, you know, this only way to do it.
I'm just saying it makes a lot of sense. And
it's a lot easier too, that is for sure. So

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I've got to get out there. I'm gonna cut those
peppers off, cut the okra off. Sometimes I'll pull when
something is rotted, I'll kind of pull on it and
it'll all break off there just below the ground. I'll
get the base of it out out of the way.
But I had a soil knife, which is like a
big old giant booe kne that's got a serrated edge
on one side, one of my favorite tools, and I'll

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just go to the bottom of a cornstalk and just
with that soul knife, I'll just just essentially cut it
off right there at the ground, real fast and easy
to do. And all those corn roots now have created
the pathways into the soil to get oxygen down, to
get water in faster, to stimulate microbial growth as they decompose.
And it makes sense, all right. So that's called no till.

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There's a lot of versions of it. There's a lot
of ways to go about it, but it's something that
maybe you ought to think about. If you haven't done
that before. Just know this. You don't have to pull
all the plants out and get all that stuff out
of the ground. Nature doesn't do that. If you're looking
for a cool place to find lots of quality plants,

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plants for all seasons, is it? You know? They have
been in business here for a long time since nineteen
seventy three, and they are true lawn and garden experts,
and if you're struggling with something, just take them a
picture or bring a sample in therefore for them to
look at. They can take a good hard look at
it and tell you what's going on. And Plants for
All Seasons is at Luetta and Tomball Parkway. Plants for

(36:10):
All Seasons dot com. Here's the phone number two eight
one three seven six one six four six get your
green on there. Plants for all seasons. Music means I
got to stop talking here. We're going to take a
little break for the top of the hour news. I'm
here for your phone calls. If you would like to
be one of the first ones up when we come back,

(36:31):
just called now seven one three two one two k
t r H. Johnathan'll get you on the board. We'll
be ready to go at the top of the news
and we'll take your phone calls at that point in time.
Don't forget today, I'm going to be at the Fort.
Then it's a home and garden show down there in Richmond, Texas.
I'll either from one to three at the foot and Epicenter.

Speaker 1 (36:57):
Welcome to KTRH Guarden Line with scarre Ricard's.

Speaker 2 (37:09):
Just watch him as.

Speaker 3 (37:26):
A sign well, good morning, Welcome back to garden Line.
We're here to answer your gardening questions and to help
you have more success and more fun in the process
as you go about gardening. We are still in winter
time and after that last freeze, things are looking kind

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of bleak out there, but spring is coming. That is
the cool thing about gardening. Is one of the cool
things about gardening is that there's always a renewal. There's
always a new season. You know, things live, things die,
things come up, we plant new things things. We can
just continue to take our little piece of eden and
turn it more and more beautiful as we go along.

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And I think that is a really cool creative process.
It is a mind, body and soul healing process to
get out there and just enjoy working with nature, just
taking it and making it better. And what do we say,
improving your plot in life? If you want to go
about it that way, we can put it that way
as well. Speaking of improving your plot in life, if

(38:32):
you really want to see your plot improve, Peerscapes can
do it. They go here's what I want to do.
Go to this website peerscapes dot com, piercescapes dot com
and just look look at what they do on landscape
lighting and tell me you cannot picture how much that
would improve the property. Whether it's just your backpatio or

(38:54):
whether it's all around the house. You want lights on
the house, on the pathways, on security lighting, you know,
for or your own protection. Piercescapes has the ability to
do magic there. Look at the hardscapes they do, Oh
my gosh, patios and walkways and things that are gorgeous.
Do you need irrigation work done? Do you have a
bad drainage? Most people in Houston with our clay soils,

(39:16):
you got some low spot that doesn't drain well. They
can fix that. They know how to fix that. Maybe
you just want quality care for your landscape. You know
you're not a do it yourself or to get out
and do it all yourself. You want somebody that comes
by once a quarter and gets in those flower beds
and if they need replanting of the flowers, put some
new stuff in, if they need some mulching replenished on

(39:39):
the surface, if they need the irrigation check, they do
all that. By the way, when they come by on
their quarterly maintenance, they do the changes out of color
little fertilizing, little trimming, whatever you need. That's part of that.
And I could just go on and on. Piercescapes does
it all. Pierscapes dot Com go look at it. Then
you'll see what I'm talking about. From you know, minor

(40:01):
revamping of beds to a major top down, turnkey, gorgeous,
beautiful turnover in your landscape. They can do all of that.
And spring is the time to get get busy with
turning out the places around. I've got some flowers that
I'm going to be putting out, I say flowers at
perennials that I'm going to be putting out in my beds.

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Last year I worked on salvia bed that I have.
I love salvia's. They're my favorite of all the perennials.
You know, people often ask me, oh, your horticulture is,
what's your favorite plant? Well, I got a billion favorite plants.
I have one. But if you put a gun to
my head and said come on, man, I'd say, okay,
give me one species, give me one or genus. Rather,

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it would be the salvias. I love Salvi's, beautiful salvias.
South Mexican bush stage blooms in the late summer and
fall Salvia mystic spires, beautiful blue blooms. Salvia greggy I.
It's a little subshri that just now it comes in
so many colors. Used to be kind of red and
maybe white. Now we've got corals and purples and mobs

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and all kinds of versions of Salvia gregory. They're just
absolutely gorgeous. And I could go on and on and
on and on. There's a lot of Salva, hundreds and
literally hundreds of types of salvia out there. Not all
of them do well here, but a lot of them do.
And that is one of the most dependable genera of
plants that we have, or the salvias. You know, salvias
are in the mint family. Did you know that? Okay,

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nerd alert fun fact. You can be the next Cliff
Claven at the next garden Club if you just listen
to this. Mint family plants have square stems, and when
you grab the stem, you can feel it fee the
little four sides. That's what mint is like. Salvia is
in the mint family. It has square stems. Agistash is
in the mint family. It's got square stems, And there

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are other members of the mint family. But I'm just
saying fun fact square stems mint family. By the way,
can you tell me what has triangular stems, sedges, sedges
like papyrus, like the umbrella sedge that you see as
an ornamental plant, like nutsedge nutgrass in your yard. Yeah,
nutsedge has triangular stems. So you can sometimes walk around

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blind reaching on plants and tell a lot about them
just by feeling the structures and things like the shapes
of the stem, for example. But anyway, that's just an
extra that was what ever penny you paid for it.
But I love salvias, and some of the salvias they
bloom at different times. A lot of them are good

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about reblooming and reblooming salvias. Many of the types will
attract hummingbirds. Many of the tripes will attract butterflies. Many
of the types can be used as cutflowers too, as salvias,
and they just have a lot of good features. Many
of them are quite drought tolerant. Most of them want
good sunlight. But some salvia greggy I will put up

(43:03):
with a very bright shade and do very well in
it as well. So there's kind of a salvia for
everybody out there. In fact, there's probably a dozen salvias
that would do really well in your landscaping garden. I
don't know why I got off into Salvia's. I just
it's one of the plants that I do like a lot.
I do like a lot, but never forget. I only

(43:24):
have ten thousand favorites, so we're not going to limit
it to just one thing. If you'd like to give
me a call and ask a question, our phone number
is seven to one three two to one two kt
RH seven one three two one two kt RH. I
will be at the Epicenter, the Fort Bend Epicenter, which

(43:48):
is on Southwest Freeway, having fifty nine down that direction
in Fort ben County near Rosenberg. I'll be there today
after the show. After the show at one o'clock to
three o'clock, I'll be there for two hours. I'll talk
about some things, answer some questions, give a little talk.
I have some copies of books there if you're interested
in a sign book, I'll bring some samples to give

(44:11):
away as well. An Enchanted Forest will be there now.
If you've not been to Enchanted Forest, they're gonna have
a big old display there. Folks that enchanted fillids coulding
Danny Millican who is their new manager for growth there
an Enchanted Forest. Dany's got a long history in the
green industry here in the Greater Houston area, but they
will be there as well. And if you haven't been

(44:31):
to Enchanted Forest, you need to go. It's out there
on FM twenty seven fifty nine. So if you're en
Richmond going towards sugar Land is off to the right
FM twenty seven fifty nine, you have got to go.
They've got bulbs, they've got fruit trees, they've got shrubs,
they've got annual color. They have a beautiful gift shop.
And if you need to get a beautiful tree or

(44:53):
shrub in like maybe something that blooms like a Chinese
French tree, they've got a good supply of shrubs in
as well. And when it comes to plants for butterflies,
oh my gosh, they have huge tablefuls of all kinds
of things. In fact, if you want to know what
a butterfly looks like, go buy, Go buy and Jenni
Forest because they all hang out there and they'll even
give you a larva of the butterfly if it's on

(45:14):
the planet, to take home with you. So it's kind
of like what sour dough starter for your butterfly garden
and gented forest in Jenny Forest. Go come just come
by today to the Fort Ben Hoome and Garden Show
and see them when you come by to visit with me.
Time for me to take a quick break. When we
come back, we were going to go to the phones
and Ron and Derek you'll be our first two.

Speaker 2 (45:34):
Up.

Speaker 3 (45:35):
Hey, welcome back to the garden Line. Glad to have
you with us today. Let's run out to the phones
right now. We're going to start in Cleveland, Texas with Ron. Hello, Ron,
welcome to garden Line. Good morning Skip.

Speaker 2 (45:50):
Hey.

Speaker 10 (45:50):
I've got four knockout or double knockout roses in a
front flower bed that have gotten way bigger than I
thought they would.

Speaker 5 (45:58):
I'd like to.

Speaker 10 (45:59):
Get some tips and tricks on how far I can
trim them back, and I want to pull through them
out and put them towards the back of the bed.
So like, can I get on to the big canes
on those or any tips would be appreciated.

Speaker 3 (46:12):
Yeah, no, you can. You can cut them way back.
I mean, you know, ros is go and be real
happy about it being cut, But you could cut that
thing back to eight inches high and have it come
back out again. It could, it'll survive that. But I
would I would print them back. If you're going to
move them, I'd probably print them back by about a

(46:33):
half maybe maybe two thirds, even get them in their
new spot. That way, it's easy to get them moved
and in the new spot. Watermen really good and they
will come back. But don't delay. Get it done now
while the temperatures are still cool and the demands are low. Yeah.
All right, well, I appreciate it. Enjoy your show. Yeah yeah.

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Now if you if you're wanting to keep more of it,
you may have to kind of tie the branches kind
of up together, like you're pulling them upward, and twine
around the whole bush to kind of hold it together.
That makes it easier to get in there and work
underneath it without given blood. I would I would do
the printing thing myself. Either way, you'll be good because

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people right now, people are planting roses that have been
ripped out of the ground their bear root, and they've
been chopped off just you know, a foot above the ground,
and they're selling them to you that way. So basically
you're doing the same thing. At home, except yours are
just getting dug and moved and watered in right away,
same day, so it's even easier on yours. Okay, great,

(47:36):
I appreciate all right, sir, thank you. Good luck with that.
Send me a picture when they start blooming. You bet,
take care. All right, let's h it's head the Houston
area and talk to Derek. Hey, Derek, welcome to gardenline.

Speaker 2 (47:53):
Good morning.

Speaker 9 (47:54):
Yeah, I'd like to suggest it on I sot your
crab and I want to get rid of the net edge.
Just started coming in last year really heavy, so I
want to see whether I pray on it or you
know what I should apply to kill the netdig the
number two. I got box food that I want suggestions

(48:15):
on boxhood.

Speaker 3 (48:19):
Okay. Well, as far as the nuts edge is concerned,
if you go to my website, there is I have
a number of publications. But if you scroll down or
just do the view all publications because it's dumped off
the bottom of the list. Now. Uh, there's tips for
winning the war against nutsedge, and then there's nutsedge and

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end depth. Look, you can go with either of those
that you want, but the bottom line when it comes
to spraying is you're going to want to use a
product there. There are a number, by the way, the
excuse me. There are a number of different products that
are on the market for it, but the best are
one that contain an ingredient called halo sulfur on Halo

(49:05):
sulfur on. Now, I know that trying to remember a
name like that is possible, but on the website, on
my Nutsedge publication, it gives examples. I'm going to give
you a few brand examples, but there's one called sedge
Hammer Plus, like not sledgehammer, but sedge hammer Plus. There

(49:25):
is one called Martin's Nut Grass Eliminator. That's another one.
There's a high yield product for it. The Monterey has
one called nut grass Killer. Two. Those are all the
same ingredient and they all work well on Nutsedge. I
would encourage you to read the publication on there that

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brown stuff before green stuff, meaning you get the foundation
right and then you put that green plant in the
ground and it's going to hit the ground running and
you're going to be really happy with the results. Whether
it's a whole bunch of tomatoes or a lot beautiful
petunia flowers or whatever. The plant is. Soil first brown
stuff before green stuff. And the place where you can

(50:07):
get all your ground, all the brown stuff you need
to do taken care of all of it, from compost
to bed mixes to fertilizers is Ciena Mulch. Cena Maltch
is just south of Houston. It's near where Highway six
and two eighty eight come together. The actual road is
FM five point twenty one. But I just want you

(50:28):
to go to Cienamultch dot com and there you can
get the number in the road in the hours and
all that kind of stuff. Sienna Mulch dot com. That
whole region Meridian First Colony, Sweetwater, Paarland, Iowa Colony, Sandy Point,
that whole region down there, Sir Ciena malt serves it.
They'll deliver within about twenty miles for a fee if

(50:48):
you want them to bring it to your place, or
you can just go get it. You can buy things
by the bag, you and buy things by the bulk.
They've gotten native hardwood, they got double ground mulches, two
inch screen mulches. They have propucks from Landscapers Pride, they
have products from excuse me, heirloom soils. And then when
it comes to fertilizers we're talking about. By the way,

(51:10):
they also have yeah, the landscapers Pride black velvet malts too,
which is really special, and the rose soil, the veggie
nerdmix from heirloom soils down there. When it comes to fertilizers,
they have stuff from Medina, they have stuff from Nilsen,
they have stuff from Nitroposs, they have stuff from Microlife.

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They carry azamite as well, and this is a good
time to be beginning with any kind of azamite editions.
You're going to be wanting to put into your soil
this year, and they've got that. So when you come
out to see anamalts, you have the foundation. You have
done the brown stuff before green stuff, and now go
find a fun great plant that wants to grow here

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and watch it take off and grow as a result
from that. Ce animals dot com. Animals dot com. And
by the way, they treat you right there too. They
are just very very customer friendly. When you go in there,
you have a good time. You will have a good time.
You're listening to Guardline. The phone number is seven to

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one three two one two fifty eight seventy four seven
one three two one two, five, eight, seven four, And
we've talked about today. I was I was talking a
little bit about frost and freeze assessment and how to
go about that. I'm going to post I think I'm
going to post something to our social media about frost

(52:34):
and freeze assessment. Gave a little spiel about it. I'll
mention some more a little bit later as we go
through it. The bottom line on frost and freeze assessment
right now is relax, learn to live with ugly, don't
worry about it. Don't feel like you need to jump
the gun and cut everything off that's dead. Just wait.
The easiest law is that fair way to go about

(52:57):
taking care of your plants that were freeze damaged is
just still. Let the plant tell you where to prune.
As we start to warm up a little bit, you're
going to see exactly where sprouts of new growth appear,
and then you know where to cut things off that
are dead. If you want to get ahead of it,
at least give it a few days after a freeze
e vent like we had and some little warmer weather,

(53:19):
and that way, those tissues that were killed begin to
show the decline very well, and you may see underneath
the surface of the bark. If you scrape, scrape a
little branch with your thumbnail or with a knife, you'll
see instead of a nice creamy, creamy white to chartrouse
green underneath there, you'll see paper sack brown color. And

(53:41):
that means it's dead. It's dying, and it takes a
little while for the for that to kind of happen
and you to be real clear what you're dealing with.
But either way, just wait and wait and see. You know,
if you want, if you got a prone then at
least scrape and don't cut into living wood. Don't cut
health healthy wood. That's a stimulating process. And the last

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thing your plans need right now is to be encouraged
to try to re sprout because you pruned it back
too much, then the next freeze is going to cause
even more damage. Anyway, that's why, well here we are,
and we are about the time for me to take
another break. I want to remind you that I'm going
to be at the Brass Home and Garden Show today

(54:23):
at the Fort Bend at the Center. It's in Rosenberg, Texas.
I'll be there from one pm, so you have time
to get lunch one pm to three PM. I'll talk
for an hour in a seminar and we'll talk about
essential steps to create a thriving spring garden and a lawn,
a beautiful lawn in the spring. What do you need
to do? What do you need to know? Let's get

(54:44):
that done. We'll talk about that and then I'll answer
your gardening questions and so just show up, bring me
samples and whatnot. I'll be doing some giveaways as well,
and I'll bring some of my books that I never
talked about on the air and I should anyway. I'll
bring some and have some signed copies if you'd like
to do that. We'll be right back. Good morning, Welcome
to guarden Line. I'm your host, Stiff Rector. This is

(55:06):
garden Line. Guarden Line is a call in show. Now
I can talk about gardening till the cows come home,
but what this is about is getting your questions answered,
helping you have a more bountiful garden, a more beautiful landscape,
and more fun in the process. So in order to
do that, you'll need to write this number down seven
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(55:28):
three two one two k T Right, how can we help?
What kinds of questions do you have and we will
be happy to assist you with that. RCW Nurseries you
know they've been around a long time. That that is
the garden center that's right there where Tumball Parkway two
forty nine FM two nine where that comes into belt

(55:48):
Way eight and it's an easy access, easy to get
to right there. When you go into RCW, you're going
to find people that know what they're talking about. You're
going to find service. You're going to find people that
have a garden to here themselves for a long time.
They know what they're doing. In fact, they essentially are
growing their own trees up there at the Williamson Tree

(56:08):
Farm up in Plantersville area, and they have a quality
stock of all kinds of things like that the tree.
When it comes to trees, whether it's big or small.
They can also come out and do the planting for
you and take care of that. And listen, we're in
tree planting season. Don't delay. I mean, you can plant
a tree twelve months out of the year. But the
sooner you get it done, the better off it is.

(56:30):
The easier it is on you, the easier it is
on the tree to get established. So go ahead and
call them and do that. Right now, they've gotten in
a shipment of roses that is unbelievable. I'm talking about hundreds,
hundreds of rose varieties. Their list, you can go to
the website r Cwnurseries dot com RCW Nurseries dot com

(56:53):
and you can print out their list. And I'm talking
about a chart that tells you the name, the habit
of the rose, the class of rose, the color of
the rose, is it fragrant or not, other helpful comments
about that rose, and it's it's six pages long. That's
so many roses that they have. So if you're looking
for a rose that is disease resistant, that repeat blooms,

(57:14):
that is an all America rose selection, that is apricot
colored or red colored or pink colored or lavender color.
It's a shrub, it's a climber. You get to pick.
And they've got their best stock of the year right
now at r c W Nurseries. And it's time to
get roses planted too. I know, we say roses. You know,
Valentine's Day roses easy to remember. Yeah, that's true, and

(57:36):
that's a good time. But you right today is a
good time to plant a rose. Get one, get it
in the ground. Talk to them. They'll get you some
root stimulators, some other products you need to get success
with that plant. They'll even tell you how to do it.
They won't come out and plant it for you, but
they will do how to do it. And I'm telling you,
why not a rose, it's a queen of the garden.

(57:56):
If you've got a sunny spot. Roses like sun If
you got a sun spot and you want something that
just gives you color and color, they've got it. Do
you want one that's a cut flower, They've got it.
You bring those cut flowers in. Do you want one
that is a shrub, a shrub type rose, you just
hedge it. You don't have to be a rose printing specially.
Just headgs the thing and it'll grow and it'll look good.
Knockouts that kind of rose. It does good. But oh

(58:19):
my gosh, when you've got six pages of roses shoes from,
you're not gonna do better now. R cwnurseries dot com.
And while you're in there, yes, you're gonna find herbs
and vegetables and flowers and other kinds of ornamental shrubs
and trees and everything else, including the products. You need
to have success with them, So go check it out.

(58:40):
You have been forewarned. The opportunity is there. There should
be a there should be a line backed up on
two forty nine and bout way a trying to get
into that place today with the with the kind of
shipment that they've gotten in on these beautiful roses. You know,
I like roses. They I like easy care. Now when

(59:04):
it comes to roses, I'm just kind of wandering on
on roses here because I like talking about roses. The
you know, rose enthusiasts. They may be into the cut
flowers and the really unique and beautiful hybrid teas and
just all that kind of thing, and that's fine, you
can do that, but you may just want a little groundcover,
spreading rose. Do you know. Roses can be groundcovers and

(59:25):
sunny spots. There are a number of types of roses
that they stay small, they stay low, and they spread
out and they do really well. I mentioned I like
shrub roses because I think it's pretty cool that to
get a shrub with green leaves, so it's a shrub.
It looks good, but then it blooms. I mean, what
a deal? What a what a plus that is and

(59:48):
it's easy. It's easy to do, you know. It used
to be roses were all prima donnas. I mean you
had to sit there and in one hand you had
an umbrella to keep the rain off of them because
rain promotes disease, and in the other hand had a
spray wand to squirt them every five minutes with a
fungeeside to keep them from dying from some disease. Now
now we have got a lot of roses with incredible

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disease resistance that they can be a very very low
care maintenance shrub in your landscape and you get flowers
and in some cases you get fragrance too. So I
think everybody will to plant more roses. How about an arbor,
how about a pergola or maybe an archway going in
to the garden or entering an outdoor patio sitting area,

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or an arbor over the top of an outdoor sitting area.

Speaker 11 (01:00:33):
I have.

Speaker 3 (01:00:35):
I have a rose that goes over a pergola type
structure over a part of one of my patio areas
in the back, and it's just gorgeous. This is a
this is a climber, and so a lot of climbers
tend to be once bloomers, meaning they bloom in spring,
but not after that. But that's good with me, you know.

(01:00:56):
I'm good with that, and so'm I really really enjoy it. Yeah,
I do. And when when spring comes, oh my gosh,
the branches, the shoots of that that hang over the
sides of the pergola just load up with flowers. Gorgeous, beautiful,
beautiful flowers. That minds of Peggy Martin. By the way,
that's one of the ones that in the last ten

(01:01:18):
years has just been so loved and famous because it
survived the New Orleans hurricane floods. It went for weeks
out there years ago. You remember that one, Katrina, Peggy Martin.
That's a good one. But Peggy Martin is just one
example of many many good rowses. So anyway, that's the
one I have in my pergola. I love that thing. Well,

(01:01:41):
you're listening to Guardline our phone numbers seven one three
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about time for me to go to a little break
here in just a moment, I did want to mention
that if you have questions that might involve a photo.

(01:02:02):
You can call my producer, talk to Jonathan seven one
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up with a phone call. I'm not able to answer
with my fingers typing all the questions that come in
at the time just doesn't allow that. But if you
will send me a picture or send me a question

(01:02:23):
with a photo and then call in, we can discuss it.
Because I'll tell you this, I know a lot of
people are shy to be on the air. Don't worry
about it. The pressure's on me, not you. And so
send me a picture and I can look at it
and then we can talk about Because somebody else is
going to have the same question. You may think, Ah,
this is a stupid question. Nobody asks us. No it's not.
It's not a stupid question. There's only stupid answers. And

(01:02:45):
I'll worry about that, all right, folks. I'll be right back,
and we're going to take a call from looks like
Jimmy when we come right back. Alrighty, let's get right
to the phones this hour. We're going to head to Conro,
Texas and talk to Jimmy. Hey, Jimmy, welcome to garden line.
Oh hello, do we have Jimmy? Yeah, there you are.

Speaker 5 (01:03:09):
Let's sorry about that.

Speaker 11 (01:03:10):
Uh.

Speaker 12 (01:03:12):
Yes, I have a rose bush and there used to
be three other ones, but they never survived.

Speaker 5 (01:03:18):
This one hardly did anything to it.

Speaker 12 (01:03:21):
And I have given catfish in the to the soil
where the rose bushes were, and I'm thinking about propagating
them because that rose bush seems to be really resilient
and just survives. I guess, so I will say about
propagating it, okay. And the thing about that.

Speaker 3 (01:03:46):
Yeah, so do you happen to know the name of
the rose or not?

Speaker 4 (01:03:51):
No?

Speaker 3 (01:03:52):
That's kind of pink. Okay, okay. Uh. A lot of
roses are grafted, and their grafted is because the root
stock is more resilient in certain soil conditions than a
rooted rose would have been. But there are a lot

(01:04:13):
of types of roses that aren't grafted. They root a
cutting like you're describing, and then they just plant it.
And so you can go either way. But what you'll
want to do is there's two things you can do.
The standard way people propagate roses is to take a
cutting and take the leaves off the Let's say the
cutting is about four inches long, and you take the

(01:04:35):
leaves off the bottom half of that cutting and dip
it in a rooting hormone powder, which you can get
at any garden center, and then you put it in
moist like a potting soil or something like that, put
a cover over it to keep the humidity in because
otherwise they've dry it before it has a chance to
make roots. And put it in a bright spot, but

(01:04:57):
not direct sunlight, so really like real close to like
an eastern window or something like that would be good,
or a northern window. Even you want good light, but
you don't want direct sunlight. And it takes a while,
but most roses are fairly easy to root. If you
get a good, healthy cutting and you dip it in
rooting hormone first and make sure it's in a moist condition.

(01:05:19):
There's another way to do it that is a higher
percentage success. And if this bush has branches that are
kind of sagging down toward the ground, you can go
out toward the end of a branch. With roses, you
don't want to root a woody limb of the of
the rose bush. You know one that has bark on

(01:05:41):
the outside. It's that big or old. You want to
root something that's pencil sized or smaller, typically typically smaller.
But if you take one of those and you bend it,
what it'll happen is it'll crack. It won't No, I'm
not talking about snap off, but I'm talking about you
just bend it, and now it's almost like that branch

(01:06:02):
has an elbow on it. You see what I'm saying.
You move it and it's attached, but it moves like
an elbow. And you put that elbow down in the
ground and I will often take a piece of coat hanger,
make a U shape a piece of coat hanger and
push it into the soil to hold that elbow into
a shallow hole in the ground, maybe three or four

(01:06:23):
inches deep, and then put soil over it and keep
it moist. Some people will just set a big, heavy
rock over it. You just don't want the wind to
blow the branch and pull it back out of the ground.
But if you do that, it will root. It may
take a few weeks to do that, but once it
is rooting, you can cut it loose from the mother
plant and dig it up and move it wherever you want.

(01:06:43):
So that's called a tip layer or a layer la
yeer and it's more successful than cuttings because what happens
is the mother plant is nourishing the cutting while it's developing,
or the thing while it's develop uping roots as opposed
to being cut off. And now it has no nourishment
and it just has to get a root done real

(01:07:05):
quick before it dies. That's how it would be with
a cutting. That makes sense. Oh yeah, it's interesting. Yeah,
do this. Go online and do a search for layering
l A y e R layering a rose and you'll
find lots of good help to help you do that. Okay,
And if there's nothing down low like that, then you've

(01:07:26):
got to do cuttings. All right. Hey, good luck with that, Jimmy,
thank you all right, Yes, sir, appreciate that you as well.
Thank you very much. Let's see here, all right, We're
going to go to Brookshire now and talk to Mike. Hey, Mike,
welcome to guard Line.

Speaker 8 (01:07:47):
Good morning.

Speaker 3 (01:07:49):
Morning. So how can we help Well, I have a.

Speaker 8 (01:07:55):
Just bought a new home in north of Berkshire here
just for five nine in Waller County, and it has
zero landscaping, with the exception of Saint Augustine, Bermuda and weeds,
and I'm curious. I'm looking for help in several areas. First,
I want to get some trees in and I'm cious

(01:08:16):
looking for recommendations on that. I've got an acre and
a half, so I've got a lot of real estate
and any companies that might get I need to put
some pre emergent down, I'm sure pretty soon, and fertilizer.
And I've got my own water well, so I'm a
little concerned about putting down the right stuff there. And lastly,

(01:08:40):
I'm adding a water softener that will also hit the spigots.

Speaker 3 (01:08:46):
On the house.

Speaker 8 (01:08:47):
And I'm wondering if there's a difference between potassium chloride and.

Speaker 5 (01:08:50):
Sodium chloride on the water softer on how it will.

Speaker 8 (01:08:53):
Affect any of the plants I put around the house.

Speaker 3 (01:08:58):
Alrighty, well, I'm not sure why you're softening outdoor spiggot water.
You know, we we soften our water, you know, for
the pipes. I know that's one reason, but we soften
for washing clothes and things like that. But anyway, the
potassium potassium isn't as bad as sodium when it comes

(01:09:19):
to that, but still softened water is not something that
the plants are real fond of. As far as you know,
you have a bunch of questions and that's good. By
the way, feel free to call back as often as
you like, and we kind of walk through all of them.
But as far as you know, making sure that you've

(01:09:40):
got the kind of plants you want, there's a lot
of good things out There's a lot of good trees
out there. You're just down the street from Nelson Water
Gardens and Katie off it In and Katie and they
have they carry trees and they could probably direct you
to local landscapers who they would recommend if you want
that kind of help. Down toward Richmond from you is

(01:10:05):
Enchanted Gardens and the same thing there. They do carry
a lot of trees and they could also direct you
probably to some landscapers in your area. As far as
trees go, I like blooming trees in the summer like
Craig myrtles are beautiful. Chinese fringe tree has white, shaggy
spring blooms. That's a nice one. Didn't get too large,

(01:10:26):
so it's one where you know, it sounds like you
got the space for a large tree, but it's nice
having some smaller trees around too, over a patio or
something you can enjoy visually. But then there's beautiful shade
trees that would do well. A nut tall oak and
new t t A l nut tall oak is a
good red oak that would do well out in your area.

(01:10:49):
And then there's a lot of others that also will
do well there. Mike, I'm running up against a hard break.
If you want to hang on through the break. When
we come back, we can continue this this because i
know you have you know, additional probably follow ups questions
on it, but I'm going to put you on hold.
If you want to stick around, we'll talk when when
you get back. When we get back, time for me

(01:11:12):
to take a top of the hour break. Just want
to remind everybody I'm going to be down in regiment
area at the Fort Ben County Epicenter. That's on Southwest
Freeway right there, so you're heading down south. That'll be
on the left hand side. I'm going to be there
from one to three today. From one to three now,

(01:11:33):
I'll be starting off for about an hour of talking
about the essential steps of creating a thriving spring garden
and a lawn. In fact, yeah, just all kinds of
things about having success in the spring. What do you
need to know?

Speaker 7 (01:11:49):
Then?

Speaker 3 (01:11:49):
I want to talk about answering your gardening questions for
about an hour, so I'll be giving away free samples.
I'll bring copies of my books down there to sign
if you're interested, but basically just helping you have six
us through Q and A and bring me samples.

Speaker 1 (01:12:04):
Welcome to kt r H Garden Line with Scamp Richards.

Speaker 2 (01:12:16):
Just watch him as so many things to.

Speaker 3 (01:12:33):
All right, we're back, Welcome back to garden Line. I
am glad you are with us today, looking forward to
visiting with you. I was mentioned before we went to
break about talking with Mike out in Brookshire, which we're
going to come back to here just a second, about
in China Gardens being down south of him. There has
been a source for he was looking for some trees

(01:12:54):
for example. Uh, they really in China Gardens has an
unmatched selection of plants and in general, I mean if
you're talking about vegetables or ornamental grasses, or flowers or
herbs or shrubs or trees or roses or fruit trees
or just everything you name it, they've got a good,
good selection of it. They also have an outstanding selection
of products to go with the things that you're purchasing there. Remember,

(01:13:18):
we got to take care of the soil for you.
Take ore of the plants well Microlife, nitrofoss Nelson, plant
food Medina, things from Nature's Way, things from heirloom soils,
things from landscapers Pride. See what I mean. They've got
it all right there now. In Chenna Gardens is on
the Kjfullshire side of Richmond. They're on FM three fifty
nine three fifty nine. You just go to the website

(01:13:39):
Entented Gardens Richmond dot com Entented Gardens Richmond dot com.
They're open money through Saturday from eight to five and
Tomorrow Sunday from ten am to four pm. By the way,
I'm going to be out there in at Chenna Gardens
on Saturday, February fifteenth, from twelve to one. I'm gonna
be giving a talk on till for making gardening less work,

(01:14:02):
talk about how to get more from your gardens with
the way I like to put it, how to get
more with less sweat and ibuprofen. I hope you make
gardening easy and more productive and more fun in the process.
Out there in Jenny Gardens and that'll be on February fifteenth.
From twelve till one, we're going to go back to
Mike now in Brookshire. Mike, where do we pick it up? Here?
We were talking about some things you might want to

(01:14:23):
plant out there.

Speaker 8 (01:14:25):
We were I think we're ready to transition to the yard.
So I've got a combination of Saint Augustine and Bermuda
pretty well covered a lot of weeds as well, and
looking for recommendations for water well friendly pre emergence and
infertilizers and granular or liquid.

Speaker 3 (01:14:47):
I'm not sure what I need, Okay. What i want
to do is have you go to my website. I
don't know, have you ever been and looked at my
gardening schedules yet up there on the website, have yes, sir? Okay.
So there's a lawn care schedule, and then there's a
lawn pest disease and weed management schedule. The second one

(01:15:10):
pest disease and weed management. If you have a question
about like pre emergent weed control, you'll see on the
schedule that anytime from mid January through February in our
general listening area here, which is a large area. But
that's why it's a big section on the calendar is
the time to put your pre emergent out because you
want to get those out before we'd seeds begin to

(01:15:33):
sprout and come up. And when I say weed seeds
in this case, I mean warm season weed seeds. The
cool season weeds are already growing. But that's when you
do it. If you at the bottom of the schedule
there there's a pre emergent section with synthetic and organic
options for trying to deal with weeds in the lawn
in a pre emergent way. Then there's more information on

(01:15:54):
post emergent. But the main thing on pre emergence is
you want to grab a product, you know, night frust
barricades and I talk most about.

Speaker 7 (01:16:01):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (01:16:01):
You put it out at the label rate, water it
in with about a half inch of water. Get it
into the soil surface. Just get it into the soil surface, uh,
and then it will prevent when the weed seed tries
to sprout. It it doesn't let it establish and grow,
it kills it and so but you have to do
it before the weed seed tries to sprout.

Speaker 8 (01:16:22):
Okay, perfect, I guess the last last question any recommendations
on I've got it mentioned an acre and a half.
Some of the soil I know was trucked in to
build elevation. How would I go about getting a soil
test done?

Speaker 3 (01:16:43):
Okay, I also have a thing on my website that
is a publication that I it's just a page that
I wrote on soil testing and uh, it's at the
garden It's at the Gardening with Skip website, Gardening with
Skip dot com. But the short answer is there is
the state soil testing lab is at A and M,

(01:17:05):
and the website is soil Testing one word dot T
a m U as in Texas A and M University
dot ed U as an education so soil testing dot
TAMU dot edu. And you want to choose the urban

(01:17:26):
soil test form urban even though you're out in the
country Berkshire. Urban means yards, gardens, roses, flower beds, you
know that, that kind of thing. That's what urban means.
But urban soil testing form uh. And then follow the
instructions and when you get the results back, if you've
got questions, you can maybe send me a copy of

(01:17:47):
it and then give me a call to follow up
on it and we can we can discuss some of that.
Or you can go to your county Extension office and
your horticulture or agriculture agent can help interpret it as well.

Speaker 8 (01:18:03):
Easy, okay, thank you very much.

Speaker 3 (01:18:06):
Yeah, just make make sure and follow the instructions for
how to take a soil sample. The bottom line is
you want to take a composite sample from a bunch
of different spots of a six inch core of soil.
So you want the same amount of soil one inch
deep as six inches deep. You know, don't just scoop
some off the top two inches. Don't dig a hole
and take some out of the bottom of the hole.

(01:18:28):
Get a get a vertical section from a bunch of places,
could be five to ten places. Mix it all together
and you need about a pint of soil to send in.
All right, sir, you've met Thanks for the call, looking
for You're talking it again sometime YouTube, Bye bye. Nature's

(01:18:48):
Way resources is up there in Conroe on off Interstate
forty five. In fact, if you're heading if you're heading
from Houston north to Conroe, right where fourteen eighty eight
comes in from Magnolia, you just turn right across the
tracks and you're there. Nature's Way. It's on Turrbroke Circle
right there and they have number one. They've They've got
every kind of soil product you possibly could want or
need in a very quality form. They've been doing this

(01:19:09):
is kind of I guess you could almost say the
grandfather of soil products is John John Ferguson at Nature's
Way I and his son now runs a place carries
the same tradition, same kind of quality products, from composts
to bed mixes, to things for fruit trees, things for herbs.
You need mulches, do you, I mean flower beds. They've

(01:19:30):
got it all right there at Nature's Way. And all
you have to do is go check them out and
you can. You can drive up there with your truck
or trader and get some stuff if you want, you can,
you know, have them deliver it for you. And lie
of their products are available by the bag around the
greater Houston area as well. Nature's Way Resources dot Com.

(01:19:52):
Go to that website. Everything he needs there Nature's Way
Resources dot Com. I'm gonna take a break now, I'll
be right back with a call for from Christa out
in Richmond. Alrighty, Welcome back to garden Line. I'm your host,
Stip Richter, and we're here to answer your gardening questions
at seven one three, two, one, two, five, eight, seven four.

(01:20:13):
Listen the super Bowls coming? Are you geared up for that? All? Right? Well,
speaking of Super Bowls, one of the things I like
to do most is grill. I like to grill up.
I like to grill all the time, actually, but grilling
burgers and whatever you're into grilling in kababs and things.

(01:20:34):
If you want to really have a good quality grill,
you just need to go by ACE Hardware. Because what
are the biggest best brands that the famous ones, the
ones that people just swear by, like Big Green Egg
They've got it, Rectech got it, Tragger got it, Weber
got it, Blackstone, They've got it. ACE Hardware Store has
got you covered for grills and all the accessories that

(01:20:56):
you need. With Super Bowl coming up and all of that.
You got it. Now, when when you go to ACE,
you got to get and you got to join and
become an ACE Rewards member. Sure, simply you just sign
the me. It doesn't take anything to do it. But
when you do that, in average purchase you make you're
earning points toward it. And a lot of ACE Hardware
stores for their members will do an assembly and a

(01:21:18):
delivery of grills to your house. So just ask about that.
Where you shop at your ACE. You know there's a
bunch of Aces all over the place. You just go
to Acehardware dot Com and find the store locator and
find the one near you. Now, right now in my garage,
I'm doing cleanup. Shelving units are available at ACE. Storage
binds are available at ACE. Everything you need to get

(01:21:39):
that spring cleaning done, both out in the garage and
in the house. All kinds of cleaning supplies and things
like that. ACE has got you covered. It's as simple
as that. You know, there's ACE everywhere. Like I said,
there's one in Victoria, Victoria ACE down Base City ACE.
If you go down to Galveston, they got Chalmers ACE
down there. So it's just really easy to find an
ACE store near you. I think we're going to go

(01:22:03):
out now to Richmond, Texas and talk to Christa. Hello Christa,
Welcome to Garden Line.

Speaker 13 (01:22:09):
Hi dare Skip. Thank you for taking my call and
really appreciate it. I just actually moved here, Thank you.
I started. I just moved here about nine months ago
from Nevada where it's desert. So this is a whole
different world to me here as far as landscaping. But
I start it is totally the soil is so different here.

(01:22:32):
And I was pretty good.

Speaker 3 (01:22:33):
At him when I was everything in the desert.

Speaker 13 (01:22:36):
Yeah, So I started a landscape project. I'm putting in
a partial of some rock, you know, some type of
what we call desert landscaping. But I kept a lot
of grass. But the gentlemen that are doing the work
are going to remove some maulch and a little layer
of dirt. We're going to re put some fresh mulch

(01:22:58):
in fresh soil there in the garden area in the front,
We're going to plant with some flowers.

Speaker 7 (01:23:04):
Is it?

Speaker 13 (01:23:05):
Is it okay to you?

Speaker 11 (01:23:06):
Now?

Speaker 13 (01:23:07):
I have some very low areas in the backyard. It's
a huge backyard where and where I'm actually having a
lot of puddling, a lot of waters gathering after it
rains or snows. Would it be okay to instead of
throwing that away, to place it there in those lower areas,
I'm trying to build those areas up so there because

(01:23:29):
you know in the summer that it then gets moldy
as it as the heat comes. So go ahead, I'm sorry.

Speaker 3 (01:23:38):
Yeah, right, So tell me what is what is it
that you're going to put in those lower areas? I
miss that. What are you asking?

Speaker 1 (01:23:46):
Well, they're going to.

Speaker 13 (01:23:47):
Remove the malt, maulch, and soil from the there's a
little area in the front where you know how in
most front yards there is like the builders put an
area where there's shrubs and you and flowers. So they're
going to remove They're going to remove the old mulch

(01:24:08):
and soil. And because they want to put fresh mulch
and soil in, so I can plant some beautiful flowers
there in a couple of weeks and instead of throwing
that old away? Can I use that in those low
areas in the backyard where water.

Speaker 3 (01:24:27):
So if it's soil, yes you can. If it's mulch,
I wouldn't. Mulch is just organic matter that is going
to decompose and shrink down. So if you fill the
low areas and you use mostly mult slash compost type materials,
it's going to just sink back down again. Just the way.
I don't know if you've ever noticed this, but if
you had a pot on the patio, after two years,

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the pot's only half full of soil because what was
there was almost all organic matter and it just decomposed away,
So just use soil to fill in the low areas.
But and the old malt is good. Maltmult decomposes and
releases nutrients. It turns into compost which feeds microbes in
the soil and makes your plants happy, your soil better.

(01:25:12):
So I would never get rid of olmult I generally,
and I know you're renovating there, so I would pull
it and set it aside, and then I would get
all the bed done, and then I'd put the ulmultch
back in and you can pull it aside to do
your planting around it. But think of the forest floor.
There's dry leaves on top, and then as you go
down you get into rich crumbly leaf mold compost d

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materials that is the best of on earth, and then
the soils down below that. And that's what you do
in your flower beds is when you have nu malts needed,
when the olmult gets thin, just add nu mulch on
top and leave that almultch because that's just when it's
getting to be really good soil stuff.

Speaker 13 (01:25:53):
Oh well, that's good news because so basically what people
when people are replacing their mulch doing it, probably because
the mulch doesn't look attractive, right, so they think, well,
I'm going to put new mults in because okay, okay.

Speaker 3 (01:26:10):
I guess yes, And beauty is in the eye of
the beholder. Some people like colored mulches and I don't.
I don't care for those at all. But I think
old malts is beautiful. But if you want something pretty
and fresh, you know, there's a product that Landscaper's Pride makes.
It's available all over town and it is. It's called
black velvet, and it's not dyed. It's just naturally very

(01:26:33):
dark color. So some people like that and it's fine.
It's fine stuff, especially because it's not dyeed. But any
kind of a quality mulch put on the surface is
what you want to do, just to maintain something that
blocks the sunlight out and moderates soil temperatures.

Speaker 13 (01:26:49):
Oh okay, well, thank you very much. I really apprecire
your help. Thank you, sir. You have a beautiful day.

Speaker 3 (01:26:54):
All right, welcome to Houston. Call us back. One quick
thing you mentioned, you know, putting in some kind of
zeric type landscaping. You can do that here. We do
get a lot of rain, a lot of humidity. So
you definitely want an area that drains well. If you
take some of the plants that are very drought tolerant
and you put them in our Houston black clays and

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it's stays soggy like that area you were describing, it'll
kill them in a heartbeat. So a raised amound of
soil to drain away excess water, fixing low spots that
have poor drainage with either French drains underground or by
raising the lava lap. It's all important, especially if you
want to go with some more zeric types of plants. Okay,

(01:27:35):
all right, thank you appreciate that. All right, you're listening
to guard line. Uh seven one three two one two
fifty eight seventy four seven one three two one two
five eight seven four. Listen, it's planting season. It's planting season. Uh.
We're going to get to summertime and people are gonna
call me and say, can I still plant a you

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fill in the blank, And the answer is going to
be yes, with a little bit of a butt. Yes.
But you got to water a little bit every day
to keep it going without overwater in it and causing
major problems. If you plant now, it's a more forgiving time.
It's easy. You put it in the ground, you water
it in real good. It has a chance to establish roots,

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and you know you do have to rewater at times,
but it's not like in one day that root balls
already pumped dry again because it's one hundred degrees outside
and hadn't rained in three weeks. So now's the time
to get the plants in so you can get a
root system established. And if you're going to do that,
I want you to do one other thing. Gets some
Medina has to grow six twelve six. Medina has to
grow six twelve six. It's got six percent nitrogen, twelve

(01:28:39):
percent phosphorus that's especially important in root development, and six
percent potassium. And with that it also has Medina soil
activator to stimulate biological activity. It's got humate humic acid.
Humic acid is produced by decomposed, fully decomposing organic matter.

(01:29:00):
Hemic acids is one of the natural organic acids that's
produced by decomposing organic matter and the microbes that are
doing the work. Okay, that improves sol structure, It improves
nutrient uptake as well. Whenever your soil gets better, your
nutrient uptake is going to improve. It's got seaweed extracts
in it. Now you can use it as a folier spray.

(01:29:21):
That's fine, But right now for planting season, I would
especially make sure and get your watering can. Put some
has to grow six twelve six from medina has to
grow six twelve six plant food, put it in the
watering can and water in your new plants with it.
I will often put it in a little container and
set the whole plant pot in the container before I

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plant it to soak that root ball full of has
to grow six to twelve six, and then plant in
the ground. You can do it either way. Planet it
and soak it, soak it and planet either way you
want to go. Follow up a week later with another
soaking of has to grow, and a week later with
another soaking of asterword those three about a week of
art and your plant will be well on its way
to success. And the more you do right now to

(01:30:05):
get a root system out in the ground, the better
that plant is going to not only take off running
and grow well for you. But survived this first challenging summer,
which every summer is a challenging summer here in the
Greater Houston area. That is for sure. You're listening to

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garden Line phone number seven one three two one two
fifty eight seventy four seven one three two one two
five eight seven four. If you need any kind of
supplies for your gardening, got to swing by Southwest Fertilizer.

Speaker 2 (01:30:41):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (01:30:41):
Southwest Fertilizer is a Houston tradition, really long term, better
since nineteen fifty five, it's a long time. They have
got everything you need. Do you need to kill insects
or diseases? Do you need to kill weeds or prevent weeds?
Do you need to fertilize the soil. You are not

(01:31:02):
going to find a better selection of any of that
than Southwest Fertilizer. Or you're an organic gardener, you're not
going to find a better selection of all organic products
than Southwest Fertilizer. Do you need a quality tool, go
talk to Bob. They've got them there. They absolutely do.
Full selection of soils and multiz from heirloom and nature's
way and landscaper's pride. I mean, if I endorse it

(01:31:25):
on Guardline, they have it at Southwest Fertilizer, And then
they have a lot, a lot more and they know
what they're talking about and they can direct you to
the products that you need. You take them a sample,
you take them a picture, and they'll point you. They
won't steer you wrong, they won't just try to sell
you something. They'll tell you what the problem is and
they'll show you your options and they'll have more than
one for solving that problem. In Southwest Fertilizer Corner Bisont

(01:31:50):
and Renwick. Here's the website Southwest Fertilizer dot com. Southwest
Fertilizer dot com. Time for me to take a break.
I'll be right back with your calls in just a moment. Alrighty,
we have some more garden Line to do, so let's
hop right in and do that. I'm your host, Skip Richter,

(01:32:11):
and we're here to answer your gardening questions. I'm here
to help you have a more bountiful garden, a more
beautiful landscape, and more fun in the process. Now I
gotta do is give me a call seven to one
three two one two k t r H. So we
are going to go now out to Carrie. Hello, Carrie,
welcome to garden Line.

Speaker 5 (01:32:31):
Hey, my name is Terry.

Speaker 3 (01:32:34):
Oh. Hello, well, welcome to garden Line.

Speaker 5 (01:32:38):
Hi.

Speaker 14 (01:32:39):
I have some lemon tares and an orange tree that
I've grown from a seed, and they're all in pots.

Speaker 5 (01:32:49):
And I don't know.

Speaker 14 (01:32:53):
When to prove them when it's appropriate, you know, And
they need to go in the ground because they're not miniatures.

Speaker 5 (01:33:02):
They need to be in the ground.

Speaker 14 (01:33:03):
But we're figure that out of our situation with deer
and all that.

Speaker 3 (01:33:08):
But yeah, I'm just, well, so what.

Speaker 5 (01:33:13):
From the shock from the cold? I have them in
the house right now.

Speaker 14 (01:33:19):
Before the freeze came, we I had a neighbor of
mine brought them inside, and.

Speaker 3 (01:33:26):
Okay, I just.

Speaker 5 (01:33:28):
I don't know what what do I do to get
them out of the shock when the cold.

Speaker 14 (01:33:34):
Is away and I take them back outside. One of
my neighbors said to put like a couple of aspirins
and some water and put that in the soil.

Speaker 3 (01:33:44):
I don't know. Okay, well you don't need to do that.
What you want to do is, first of all, anytime
it's above forty degrees especially, put them out and just
let them get sunlight, because sunlight makes the carbohydrates in

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the leaves and that strengthens the plant so that when
you transplant it, or just in general, it's going to
be stronger and healthier and do better. So indoors, you know,
we just don't quite have enough light for them, and
they want to be in sunlight. So whenever you can,
just have them out there where they get good sunlight.
If it's going to get down, you know, freezing, well yeah,

(01:34:26):
bring them in. But in general, as much as you can.

Speaker 14 (01:34:32):
Even right now, and I live in Livingston or Trinity actually,
but it's like thirty five degrees.

Speaker 3 (01:34:39):
Yeah, I know, I know it's cold, but thirty five
at least it can get some sunlight and benefit from that.
But just in general, just if they stay in for
weeks or a week or so, it's going to weaken
it a little bit. And so you need to just
do it according to your temperatures there in that area.

(01:35:01):
Just just do the best you can with it. As
far as planting them, because they've been in a container,
you're gonna have roots that are going around in a
circle in the pot, and those don't unwind after you
plan them underground. So what you're gonna want to do,
and it's gonna be hard to do, but you're going
to cut those roots. Just take your little prunters or
if if they're little roots, you can just use a

(01:35:22):
box cutter knife and slice vertically down through the sides
of the cylinder root ball. And it's okay, very important
to do this to cut those roots because otherwise you're
going to have a wound up, root bound container and
they're just not gonna thrive. They're not gonna take off

(01:35:43):
and thrive like you want them to. So then's the
top part. You can cut it back. Go ahead.

Speaker 14 (01:35:52):
So when we go to put them in the round.
So I say they're a container probably about I'm five
foot tall if I put my arms together, I don't
even put them around, so six foot pots, right, But.

Speaker 3 (01:36:09):
They're in a very large.

Speaker 14 (01:36:12):
Growing out of out of the bottoms of the pot,
and so I know it's time. We've got to find
a place to play at them in the ground and
get them in the ground.

Speaker 3 (01:36:21):
Yeah, And so you want to wait.

Speaker 14 (01:36:23):
Though, because we live we live in Trinity on Lake Livingston,
and it's mostly all red clay and red dirt. So
I'm gonna I want them need to dig that whole like.

Speaker 5 (01:36:35):
I'm gonna need like a.

Speaker 14 (01:36:37):
Something bigger in a shovel to dig the whole, like
two to three times bigger than the pot, and then
cut the roots right, and.

Speaker 3 (01:36:47):
Then yeah, cut the cut the roots. Here. Here's what well, Terry,
let me tell you what what I do. I would
get you some good composting material, compost or bed mix
or whatever, and I would put it on the ground,
and I would take a spading fork and as best
you can in an area probably five feet across, mix

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that into the soil before you even dig a hole.
And then dig the hole for the plant. And if
you've mixed that in an area five feet wide, you
don't have to dig a hole that's two times as
big as the root ball because you've already loosened the
soil out there. You want to dig it only as
deep as the soil in the container. So if you
were just a picture you've taken the plant out of

(01:37:29):
the container and it's sitting on the ground, how tall
is that soils that was in the pot? And if
it's a foot high, dig a foothole. If it's a
foot and a half high, dig of a foot and
a half hole, because you don't want to dig it
deeper because then you'll fill with loose soil in the bottom.
Because it wants you need to have it at the
same depth that it was in the pot. You want

(01:37:51):
the soil level to be the same, so if you
dig it too deep, it ends up settling down too deep.
So dig it only as deep as a root ball.
Dig it a little bigger than the root ball, not much,
because you've already loose, You've taken a spading fork, and
you've you've kind of cracked open the soil to get
this compost. You spread around it down in the soil,
dig that whole planet in and watered in really well.

(01:38:13):
And I would wait to do that until we're past
the danger of frosts in your area. You know, there's
no hurry. Citrus is not going to take off growing
real fast, real early on. And it likes it a little.
It likes it to warm up a little bit. So
go ahead and get it in after you know you're
not going to have any more frosts, and and and
then do it as I described there.

Speaker 14 (01:38:34):
I have a random question as well. So, uh, my
lemon trees one of them. So we were moving from
Texas City to our lake house, and my husband acted
in the back of the truck sideways, and once he
brought them back and put them in the front yard,
one of them started making flower buds. Is that just

(01:38:58):
like I'm in shock, I'm gonna I'm gonna bloom or is.

Speaker 5 (01:39:02):
I have no idea?

Speaker 3 (01:39:03):
No, it'll do. Now, lemons can bloom repeatedly during the season,
and so that's not unusual. Uh they You know, I
can't go into exactly why it may have bloom at
that specific time, but that's okay. You're all right on those. Hey,
I've got a heartbreak coming up here and I'm gonna
have to run, But good luck with those, and if
if you have success. I know it's a long drive

(01:39:25):
to the station in Houston, but all I ask is
you bring me half the lemons you grow and we'll
call this even.

Speaker 5 (01:39:31):
All right, I've got I've got six and the ball
that man, I'm saving those.

Speaker 3 (01:39:37):
All right, all right, Kerrien, there you go. You take care.
Thank you for the call. A lot, folks. I'm gonna
have to run here. I will be right back with
your call seven one three two one two kt r
H Lady's choice, everybody. Alrighty, there you go, a little

(01:39:57):
asleep at the wheel. I'm I'm not asleep at the
microphone though. We're here to answer your gardening questions. Just
give me a call seven to one three two one
two k t R eight seven one three two one
two k t r H. Listen, this is the time
to get your fruit trees planted. Prime time for planting
fruit trees. I don't know what kind of fruit you're

(01:40:17):
interested in growing, but I'll tell you this. You ought
to grow something. Everybody has room for fruit trees. Now
you're thinking, okay, no, I don't. I absolutely do not.
What do you have shrubs? Do you have a garden bed?
You do have room for fruit trees. You know, a
peach tree is an attractive little blue spring blooming tree
that gives you fruit on top of the old. Deal

(01:40:41):
you an area that's a little shady because fruit trees
love full sun. Well, how about a blueberry or how
about a fig tree? They both do good in a
partial shade. They can they can do okay in that.
It's not they want to be in shape, but they
can do well in that. I'll tell where you can
get a lot of fruit trees too. I was talking
to the folks out at Arborgate, Beverly Kennon out there,

(01:41:02):
and I said, hey, I need you to send me
a list of the fruit trees you carry They did
pages and pages and pages and pages, all the standard stuff.
You know, you want an apple, you want a pear,
You want a blueberry, You want to peach, you want
to plum, you want all that kind of How about this?
How about a palm granite? They have those. How About

(01:41:24):
a really quality type of grape that will grow here
in our area. How about all kinds of cetera, I mean,
all kinds of centris, lots and lots, blackberries, thornless blackberries.
You want a quality thornless BlackBerry. They've got those there.
Unusual things like tangi low and pamelo and guava that's unusual.

(01:41:47):
And olive like the arbiquinya that's one of the most
common adapted varieties of olive attire here, and they've got
those at Arborgate. I was talking, you know about blueberries.
They've got both the southernhigh bush type and the rabbit
eye types of blueberries, both of which do very very
well here. I mean, I could go on and on
and on. Gojiberries, Native paw paws, Native mayha, oh, Native

(01:42:11):
mayhow someone called me about a Mayhaw the other day,
Native Mayhaw's They got gojiberries, as I said, jujubi's. Do
you even know what a jiujubi is? Think of it
as like a little miniature apple like fruit that grows
and it is extremely, extremely tough plant all at Arburgate.
While you're at Arborgate, make sure and check out their camellias.

(01:42:31):
Beautiful camellias in bud and in bloom. They've got roses
in bloom out there at Arburgate. If you need cool
season color. It's still okay, still time to be putting
out things like viola's and snap dragons and alyssa and
all of that. We got plenty of mild weathers still
to come here. They've got vegetables, they've got herbs. They've

(01:42:51):
got you covered. That's the bottom line. Do you know
you know that I talked about their one two three system,
which is a soil for anything that has roots, a
fertile eye the same organic fertilizer, and then a compost
type material that is part of their one two three.
They sell their soil and composts by bulk too, and
they deliver it. It can be delivered. So give them

(01:43:13):
a call at Arbrogate and say I need need to
get a bulk amount, not just a few bags. I
need a bulk amount of this. They'll get you fixed
up there as well. Remember when you go to Arbrogate,
take Trischel Road around the back, because that's where the
really cool parking lot is. It's so easy access, so safe,
so easy to get in and out. Arbrogate's a popular place,

(01:43:34):
and they stay busy in that front parking lot stays busy.
Just go around the back. That's what I do. Just
drive around the back. It's really easy to get in,
and I think you will. It'll become your favorite place
to park. When you go by there. You listen to
the garden line and I'm your host, Skip Richter. How
can we help you with something that you have going on.

(01:43:54):
Maybe it's a problem with a plant, a disease insect.
Maybe you're dealing with weeds, or you have been year
after year and you're wanting to know how do I
get ahead of that. Well, give me a call. Seven
one three two one two KTRH seven one three two
one two k t r H. Someone was asking me

(01:44:15):
about nuts Edge earlier, and I was talking about the
publications that are on my website. The website is gardening
with Skip dot com and anything here on garden line
where I need to put you a publication up there
where you can find. It's going to be on my website.
That makes it easy. And when I get questions that
take a minute to answer, you know, like nuts edge

(01:44:37):
isn't just a two second answer, It's better if I
explain some things to you and give you your options
where you can choose and understand how to go about it. Right.
I put that on the website, like freeze protection. That
freeze protection publication I talked about for weeks now because
we were having all the freezes coming up. It's there
on the website and it's there all year long. And

(01:44:59):
if you you got a friend in timbucktoo, I mean,
if they live in the Allegheny Mountains of Wordsgany in
New York, I just made something up there. Anyway, if
they live anywhere in the country, that freese publication is
still applicable to them because it talks about how freezes
happened and how we protect plants. And that's true in
Minnesota and that is true in many Yellow Texas as well.

(01:45:21):
So if you want my schedules, a lawn care schedule
and the pest disease and weed management schedule. Think of
a chart. On the left side is January, on the
right side of December, and going up and down the
side or the specifics. How do you mow your lawn,
how do you water your lawn, how do you fertilize
your lawn, what do you use when do you do it?

(01:45:42):
How do you control pasts, how do you control weeds?
How do you control diseases? Both organic and synthetic options,
they're on the chart. It makes it so easy. Just
download it, print it out, keep it with you, take
it shopping that way when you get into the store.
You may I think I said something, but it's printed
there on the chart. Just just point at that and

(01:46:04):
send me one of those and they'll take care of that.
We put all that together to make it easier for you.
Someone called about soil testing while ago and on there
on my publications is a soil testing made simple, fill
one page sheet. It explains how to take a soil sample,
how to submit a soil sample, and you can print
it out as a PDF. Most of my things are

(01:46:25):
available as PDF documents as well. If you don't just
read them online and makes it easy. So I would
recommend that you just booked that bookmark that gardeningwith skip
dot com, and I'm going to be adding more to
it and adding more to it. And if you're ever
kind of wondering, well, what was that thing? He said,
you can go and you can just look at that

(01:46:47):
and it makes it real simple. I'm going to run
here to Houston and talk to Andy. Andy, we got
a little bit here. Let's see if we can get
your question answered before we have to go to break. Yes,
good morning.

Speaker 15 (01:47:00):
I'm trying to figure out how I can stream Plumeria
plumary I grow. Uh it's so tall and uh up.
A couple of days ago, I had to bring it
inside and I didn't know can I trim it or
which way can I manage it in order to to
to get this plant? I mean handle these plant and

(01:47:23):
also yeah, never ever bluem.

Speaker 3 (01:47:28):
Okay, okay, So plum arias they're they're a big, thick,
fleshy stalk stem and with branches sometimes and uh so
if you cut them off, they're gonna shoots are gonna
come out. You're gonna get some buds push out on
the sides. But you can also cut one off and
root it. You can take a section of the end

(01:47:49):
of a branch, and you can make more plumerias that
way by rooting them, and that brings it down in
stature as well. You're starting back with a shorter maybe
a you know, a foot or a foot and a
half tall little plant there, So that is also another option.
As far as blooming, plumerias need good nutrition, especially things

(01:48:10):
like phosphorus and potassium the second and third number on
the bag, with a little bit of nitrogen. In order
for them to bloom well, they need an adequate supply
of moisture, not soggy wet, but they need lots of sun,
lots and lots of sun. That's the most important, the sun,
A little bit of nutrition and moderate moisture to have
success with those. Okay, thank you much, all right, you bet,

(01:48:36):
thank you. I appreciate that call. Kind of running short
there on time, folks. When we come back, by the way,
Kathleen and Tom will you'll be first up if you'd
like to be second seven one three two one two
k t R H own to remind you today this afternoon,
right after lunch one pm, I'm going to be at
the Brasses Home and Garden show at the Fort. Then

(01:48:56):
epicenter off Southwest Freeway, and I'll talk for an hour
about essential steps to create a thrive in spring garden.
And then i'll do Q and A with you with
your samples and your pictures till the cows come home.

Speaker 1 (01:49:10):
Welcome to Kati r h. Garden Line with Skip Richard.

Speaker 2 (01:49:14):
It's just watch him as.

Speaker 3 (01:49:34):
All right, we're back for our last hour of garden
Line this morning. Were I have to jump in a
car and or get to jump in a car and
down to the Brows's Home and Garden Show. I'll be
there at one o'clock today. Let's jump right into the
calls here and we're gonna go to Magnolia and talk
to Carla. Hello, Carla, welcome to garden Line.

Speaker 16 (01:49:55):
Hi, thanks for having me.

Speaker 3 (01:49:58):
So the the question I had was I.

Speaker 16 (01:50:02):
Have planted you know, I've tried citrus trees, fig trees.
The problem we have is the deer, so they never
really get a chance to take off. And I don't
know what I should do because we're kind of in
a wooded area. If I should just like put that
type you know, that fencing around it, Like what would

(01:50:23):
you recommend?

Speaker 3 (01:50:26):
Well, that's a that is a simple little question with
a very long answer, because there's a lot of things
we do to try to discourage deer. I'll try to
be brief with it. But first of all, deer are
not equally fond of all plants. I wouldn't use the
term deer proof, although there are some plants that are

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essentially deer proof. But what you'll find is a plant
deer don't like in one area, they may eat in
another area of the state. And so just kind of
be a low cautious when someone says this is a
deerproof plant, because it may or may not. But choosing
plants they don't prefer is a good idea. That's one,
and there are lists of those online that you can

(01:51:07):
look at. Secondly, deer in a rural area are quite skittish,
and so it's kind of easy to spook them and
they run away. In urban areas, they're not I've been
in or San Antonio and seen deer in the middle
of the day driving down a neighborhood street. Deer three
deer laying in the front yard watching me drive by.

(01:51:28):
That's not a skittish deer. So those kind of deer
are harder to spook because they're already used to human
smells and whatnot. There are sprays that you can put
out that usually are made of what's called putrescent egg solid,
so think of rotten eggs. You mix up the spray
you sprayed on plants into stincts, and deer prefer not

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to get around that. They don't like that. There are
there are sound and light and water types of scared
devices out there too. One called one brand is called
the scarecrow sprinkler, and it's because it's painted to look
sort of like a scarecrow, or like a little crow rather,

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and it has a motion sensor, so when deer come
walking through the yard, it comes on like a machine
gun and just strafes water across them for about eight seconds,
and it spooks them and they run away. But deer
get used to anything. They do get used to anything.
Some people put out little human hair and I've used
the flour in garden before that it spooked them away.

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They left, But then when it rains and washes in,
it doesn't. But again, if they're used to people, the
human hair smell even isn't quite enough. So the next
step would be using a fence, and the fence needs
to be at least six feet tall, probably more and
more like seven to really keep them out. If your
area is small, the fence doesn't need to be as

(01:52:53):
large because deer need to have room to get a
running start, to jump or to land. Uh. And so
if you have like a ten by ten fenced area,
they're not going to jump into the middle of that.
That's an extreme example.

Speaker 17 (01:53:07):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (01:53:07):
But and then finally electrical electrical fencing that they it
pops them and they it scares them away, and and
that's a whole nother discussion, but those are those are
kind of your options on deer. The only other thing
is when you're putting out new plants, they haven't rooted
in well, and so putting a little wire cage over them,

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maybe you get a chicken wire box over them or
something like that until they get rooted in. Then if
deer nip them, they're just pruning them back and that
the plant can sprout back out, whereas when it's a
new plant, they just literally pull on it and they're
rips right out of the ground.

Speaker 16 (01:53:43):
And that's basically what's been taking place. Okay, I see, Okay,
now that that's a great idea. Yeah, go ahead.

Speaker 3 (01:53:53):
Uh, yeah, I would. I would get a spray from
you know, a garden center, gets you a spray and
see how that works for a lot of deer. That's
gonna work pretty good, one of those deer scaring sprays.
And they come in many brand names, but they work okay.
But again depending on we say deer pressure, meaning if

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deer is starving to death, they live in a city already,
that's heavy deer pressure, it's hard to spook them away.
But as you go away from starving to death, and
as you go away from familiarity with people, it's easier
to spook them away. So those those are your options. Carla,
got it? Okay, great, I'm gonna have to I'm gonna
have to run. We got some some folks that lined

(01:54:34):
up here. But thank you for the call. Good luck
with that, Good luck with that. Yeah, but all right,
bye bye. Let's see here. Where's next. We're gonna go
to talk to Katie. Hello, Katie, how can we help?

Speaker 18 (01:54:49):
Hello?

Speaker 7 (01:54:49):
Thanks for having my call.

Speaker 1 (01:54:51):
Quick question.

Speaker 7 (01:54:52):
I have to one of them. One of them is
I have a banana fig tree that has been in
the ground for about four years and it's like a
giant Bond's eye. It's really gnarly and pretty when it
doesn't have a leaves on it. But and it does
two harvests a year, probably somewhere upwards of seven hundred

(01:55:13):
figs on each harvest. My question is it's a lot
out of control. So I need to know when I
should prune it and how severely I can prune it
because it grows probably two to three feet in circumference
every year, and so now I don't want to have
to use a ladder to get to things.

Speaker 3 (01:55:34):
Gotcha, Okay, So I would prune it at the end
of the cool season, because when you prune, you don't
want it to try to re sprout. Let's say we
have a few days of seventy five degrees next week
or whatever, it may try to re sprout, and then
figs are not that cold hearty with especially tender growth.
So I would wait. I'd probably do my pruning. I

(01:55:59):
don't know, maybe early to mid February something like that.
There's not the magic about that time. But that's just
that's just an idea because I do get.

Speaker 7 (01:56:09):
But I do get, you know, leaf tips. You know,
if it gets warm again, I'm going to have leaf
tips in the next week or so.

Speaker 3 (01:56:17):
Yes, and you can't. You can't prevent that. So just
cut it back as far as you want. And if
you got some old big stumps in it, you can
cut those off the ground if you want. But our
trunks in it is what I should have said. But
space the branches out. You know, if you're going to
have a big tree like you've got, you may have

(01:56:39):
seven or so trunks, five to seven trunks coming up
from the ground in this huge clump space I'm out
apart a little bit where they're not just one right
beside the other, and open the tree up a little
bit that way, and you can maintain some height on
it height maintenance that way as well.

Speaker 7 (01:56:57):
Okay, And then my second question. I have two white
flesh peach trees that are in probably twenty four inch diameter,
you know, large terracotta pots that I want to put
in the ground this year. Yes, one of them never
even lost its leaves and they're both in bloom. So
I was always told, you know, whether it was a

(01:57:18):
wives tail or alm neck, you know, can't transplant when
they're blooming. But it's like you know, they were blooming
before you can free.

Speaker 3 (01:57:25):
No, yeah, no, you can you can. We'll just have
to see if these blooms hold up or not. The
advantage of them being in pots is if we do
have another hard freeze, you can bring the blooms in
and then bring them back out and I might wait
to plant them until after the last frost if you're
trying to save the crop that's on them. Hey, Katie,
I have got to run. I'm against a hard break.

(01:57:46):
But good luck with those, and thank you a lot.
I appreciate that call. Emily, Charles, Kathleen. We'll get you
first up when we come back. Hey, welcome back. Good
with us. We are going to jump right back in
the phones here on garden Line and head out to
Emily and sugar Land. Hello Emily, Welcome to garden Line.

Speaker 18 (01:58:09):
Yes, I have a quick question. I have a roast
bush's tall skin eat. It only produces maybe three roses,
but the top but broke off at the in where
it's like hanging on by the skin. So I kind
of like try to patch it together because the butt
is still green. Is it better to print it and
because I heard that if you pune it it will
grow back more, or is it better to graft.

Speaker 7 (01:58:31):
It back on in someplace to the tree.

Speaker 18 (01:58:32):
Does that have how much green does that have to have?
Or do you have a video that shows how to
grab it someplace else?

Speaker 3 (01:58:40):
Yeah, I wouldn't worry about the grafting at all. What
I would do is print it out. Go down at
least to the first set of five leaflet leaf on
the plant, you know, right below a bud that usually
you have a leaflets that are about three of them
or so. And then you got a little further and
you'll have leaves that have five leaflets, and at least
go down to that. Here's the thing on roses. They

(01:59:01):
bloom on the ends of shoots. So when you prune
a plant, you take off one shoot and you're going
to have maybe two or three shoots. They grow in
its place, so now you can have two or three
blooms instead of one. So each time you prune back,
don't be afraid to cut it back pretty good and
get fresh new growth coming out, and that will provide
additional blooms for you. Don't try to grasp you.

Speaker 18 (01:59:24):
Come off, You leave it like you cut before the
fought the set of five, or you cut after below it,
above it or below.

Speaker 3 (01:59:33):
Yeah, this is this is a This is a cut
flower rose, not a bush rose, right, I mean, it's
not made for a shrub. It's made for cut flower
long stems, yes or no.

Speaker 18 (01:59:44):
On that, I don't know. It's a long skinny it's
tall and skinny.

Speaker 4 (01:59:47):
It doesn't it's not a bush.

Speaker 7 (01:59:49):
It looks more like a little tree.

Speaker 18 (01:59:53):
Three long beams coming up right.

Speaker 3 (01:59:56):
So when I'm saying three to five leaflets, what I'm
really trying to to say is, don't just cut the
butt off. Go down a little bit until you start
seeing these five leaflet leaves and cut down in there,
because that will provide the extra vigor to send up
a good, strong, new shoot for more blooms. But I
would go ahead at some.

Speaker 18 (02:00:15):
Point I cut above them, are below this set.

Speaker 5 (02:00:19):
Of plus.

Speaker 3 (02:00:21):
Right above, right above, because where that leaf attaches, there's
a bud that will form a shoot. Cut right above that,
and you'll and a shoot will come out right at
the bottom of that leaflet.

Speaker 18 (02:00:31):
Okay, perfect, okay, thank you so much, all right, goodbye,
you bet you, thank you.

Speaker 3 (02:00:37):
Appreciate your call very much. You know, Microlife has a
number of products that are good. Now we're gonna be
talking about microlif fertilizer. For your lawn here later. Okay,
that warming season is coming up and we're going to
go all into lawn fertilizing. Anytime of the year, though,
it is a good time to put out Microlife humts plus.
Now there is four percent potassium in it, but the

(02:00:57):
primary reason we're putting it out is hu mats plus
is concentrated compost in a bag. So you take organic
matter like leaves and grass clippings and whatever, and you
decompose it, and we call that compost. You take compost
and you let it decompose to its final state that's
called humus. And when you reach the stage of humus,
when we're creating humates with the hum humic acid and

(02:01:19):
other things in it, that is really good stuff with
the soil. It improves all texture, it improves microbial activity,
It helps loosen up a clay soil as it works
itself as you work it, or it works yourself down
into the soil. Microlife humantes plus that is a bluish
purple bag and you can do it anytime of the year.
You could do it now. You can wait until you
fertilize in the spring. Put your fertilizer out and then

(02:01:41):
put humts plus out too, because we're talking about two
different actions here and humans plus. For any kind of
a soil, it's going to be beneficial, especially when you're
dealing with kind of fixing up a pretty crummy clay
or something like that. It's especially helpful in those kinds
of situations. And that's from the folks at Microlife and
you can go to micro Life Fertilizer dot com find

(02:02:02):
out where to buy it. It's pretty much sold everywhere,
and also about the other products that they carry. I'm
going to head nowt to Tanglewood and talk to Charles. Hey, Charles,
Welcome to Guardline.

Speaker 17 (02:02:13):
Thank you Skip. I have used the letyer since nineteen
eighty eight. I have used the schedule that goes provided
by Randy and now by you for at least ten years. Okay,
this is the first year I've had some brown patch.
My neighbor had some and it apparently jumped the driveway

(02:02:37):
have about a two foot area and about a six
foot area. They're not water stands. So I put on
Nelson's fertilizer that had the fund side in it about
six or eight weeks ago when I first saw it,
but it didn't stop it. What can I do now?

(02:03:00):
Number one? Do I still need to stop it? Number two?
What can I do now to guard against having it
next year? And if I can't do anything now, when
do I make sure I put something out next year?

Speaker 3 (02:03:14):
Okay, Well, when we see the circles, what we're seeing
is the visual progressed condition of brown patch. Where So
when you see a circle and you spray it, and
you go, well the circle got better, bigger, or another
one appeared, it's because that disease was already working in
the grass. You just didn't see the circle yet, And
so that's why it looks like a product may not work.

(02:03:36):
That's one reason why I would not be doing fertilizing
on the lawn this early. But there are on my
schedule that you referred to. If you look on there,
it's got mid January through February. Are actually into March
is a time when we can have brown patch, and
when we do preventive applications of the products that are

(02:03:56):
there on the schedule to control it. Now you kind
of have an option. The brown patch seems to be
worse and better prevented when we do it in the spring,
I mean in the fall, in the spring, we will
get we can get more circles. I usually ignore mine.
I've got some in my yard right now, and I'm
kind of ignoring them because once that grass gets growing,

(02:04:19):
it's going to green backy. It's going to be okay,
because brown patch that I can kill your grass, It
just rots the leaves off. But if you want to
prevent additional circles, now would be a good time to
get a product out there that will help prevent it. Now,
and especially in February. It's temperature moisture related, and so

(02:04:40):
if we have mild temperatures, you can get brown patch
circles in the middle of winter. You know, if the
temperatures are right. Typically it's a fall in the spring problem,
early spring problem. But if you want to prevent it,
get the right products out there now. If not, you know,
like I'm doing, And that's just say, Okay, the circles
are there, that's okay. It's going to be all green

(02:05:00):
pretty soon, and I'm not gonna worry about it, Okay.

Speaker 17 (02:05:02):
You see, is there a liquid form or something that
works better than the granular because what I put out
was grain. You're looking for.

Speaker 3 (02:05:12):
Either either way is find most of the products that
we have are going to be granular. Something like nitrophos
has a total brown patch control, for example, and you
know you can There are some products that are liquid
that can be sprayed in a hose en sprayer that

(02:05:32):
contain ingredients like propoconazole and azoxystrobin. Those are on my schedule,
but I generally recommend those for take all root rod
and don't worry about them for brown patch. But you
can go either way. Just know that it is basically
occurring on the runners and at the base of the
grass blades. That's where it's causing its damage. So you

(02:05:55):
get either way you go about it. You just want
to protect that area, all right.

Speaker 17 (02:06:01):
My neighbor has a one of the high end, big
name landscape folks who did spray her little spot, and
so they used the liquid and I was curious to
appear to attack it immediately, and I was curious if
there's something out there and I could do to make
sure that.

Speaker 3 (02:06:19):
Yeah, well a liquid is going to get down there,
You're gonna spray, and it's going to get right down
there on the grass blades and on the on the
runners and stuff, so I could I could see that too.
In general, you know we're talking about ingredients. Uh, and
so however you get the ingredient out there, Uh, the
ingredient's going to do what that ingredient can do. In
other words, does it control it well or not? Is

(02:06:40):
the question? All right, sir?

Speaker 17 (02:06:43):
You have the ingredients are on the website.

Speaker 3 (02:06:45):
You said, yes, they are on my on my lawn
pest disease and we'd management schedule. But you have to
look undertake our root rot to see to see those
ingredients that I mentioned by name. Uh, that will also
help them. Bron pat sum. All right, sir, Thank you
appreciate your call. You take care. Let's see here. Oh,

(02:07:06):
I wanted to mention for those of you up in
the Tamboul area. D and D Feed is an outstanding
place to get all kinds of products like this. You know,
we're talking about stuff on my schedule and they D
and D carries nitrofoss products, they carry microlife products, They
carry Nelson Turf Star line, They have other Nilsen plant foods.
One of the canisters, for example, they have products from

(02:07:27):
Medina airloom soil products. There. At D and D Feed
they carry everything you need along with quality feeds like
especially high quality pet food for your pets, very good.
And then if you need to control weeds, diseases, insects,
it's all there at D and D Feed. They're three
miles west of two forty nine, just west on twenty

(02:07:48):
nine to twenty outside of Tumball, so you're in the
middle of Tomball. Head out twenty nine to twenty to
the west three miles and they'll be on the left
hand side. Dover Family's been doing this since nineteen eighty nine.
They continue to expand it and improve on it, and
every time I go by there, it's just like it's
a better place. It really is. It is good to
begin with. Don't forget if those of you are into

(02:08:08):
backyard chickens, they're going to be getting backyard chicken orders
in pretty soon. I think we can get into February.
We'll start talking about that as well. But go by,
say hey to Jeff and the team there at D
and Defeat. While you're there, pick up the products you
need to have success with your lawn and your landscapes.

(02:08:28):
Let's see here. I'm gonna go Chris in Jersey Village.
I'm picking up this phone call right before I have
to go to break but let's see if we can
get a start on it, and we'll finish you when
we come back.

Speaker 11 (02:08:39):
Okay, thanks for taking my call, you bet Okay, real quick.
The microlight you said, we can get that most anyway. See,
I wanted to fertilize the backyard, but my dogs are
back there, and everybody I've talked to you know you
don't want to do that with dogs.

Speaker 3 (02:09:00):
So I was thinking, no, perfect, I'm sorry. Yeah, the
dogs may eat it. The dogs may eat it. They
like it. My dogs love to eat micro life. I'm serious,
they do. All right, man, let me let me do this,
but let me let me go to break. I'm I'm
having to stop right here. I will come back and

(02:09:22):
we're gonna we're gonna talk about this and and go
into detail for you. We'll be right back. Okay, sure,
all right, let's see what's wrong here we go. Welcome back.
We're going to go back out to the phone call
we started before a break with Chris out in Jersey Village.
So Chris, we were talking about uh uh, you had

(02:09:42):
some questions about the yard and let's let's continue.

Speaker 7 (02:09:46):
On with that.

Speaker 3 (02:09:48):
Okay.

Speaker 11 (02:09:49):
Uh, what I need to know is what kind of
product can I put in my backyard that you know,
a won't affect the dogs and be you know, will
help the grass grow because I mean it does come in,
but I mean a lot of weeds and stuff like that,
and I know I can't use a weed or anything
because of the dogs.

Speaker 3 (02:10:12):
Yeah, yeah, that's right, I get it. Uh, Well, you've
got you've got a number of different options out there.
There are products from Medina that are good fertilizers that
for fertilizing you're on. You got a products from Microlife
that are good fertilizers for fertilizing you on when it
comes to micro everywhere, right, Okay, yeah, yeah, it's easy

(02:10:36):
to talk about microlide that that really interested me. Yeah.
Well that you know, there's an Ace Hardware store. The
closest one to you is on on Jones Road. I
used to go out one when I lived up in
your area. Uh and Jones Roid. Ace is gonna have
Microlife and they're gonna, yeah, they're gonna have some other
stuff and they're just down the road from you a
little bit. There. Probably the closest one to you. You

(02:10:57):
know what, also over pretty close to you, Hamilton Hardware
over on Highway sixth North is about equidistant from you
there in Jersey Villas. But you mean you go into
an ACE hardware store and you're gonna find these products.

Speaker 11 (02:11:11):
Okay, Now I've got a preferred customer thing. I use
that ACE quite a bit. I'm going to go because
I want to talk to you anyway. I just wanted
to say thank you for your program. You actually have
something on the air that I want to listen to instead.

Speaker 3 (02:11:29):
Of all the fruit for all that's going around.

Speaker 11 (02:11:32):
So thank you very much.

Speaker 3 (02:11:36):
I'll take that. I'll take that as I praise Chris.
Thank you, appreciate I for you being a listener. Thanks
for the call to you. Take care of guy. Good
luck with that. All right? There you have it, folks,
No fruit for all on this show, or at least
I try not to. Actually we do. We do frough
a little bit. Ever now we try to avoid it. Okay, Hey, listen,

(02:12:00):
whenever you are looking to have success with attracting birds
to your landscape, there's one place to go, and that's
Wildbirds Unlimited. And I'm telling you I love going in there,
and I've been to a whole bunch of you know,
we have six of them in the Houston area, there's
if you want to find the one near you, you
can just go to WBU that stands for Wildbirds Unlimited

(02:12:24):
WBU dot com forward slash Houston and I'll show you
where the stores are, and there's one nor Southeast. But
you're going to find them easy, easy to find. But
when you go in there, you're going to find the
quality products that will attract birds to your landscape in
the best way. And there's a lot of cheap bird
seed on the market, a ton of it. Most of

(02:12:46):
it is about fifty percent of those little red bebes
that birds don't really particularly care for. To be honest,
most birds that you're wanting to bring in don't. But
with a Wildbirds product, you're getting you buy a pound
of wild bird seed and you're getting a pound of stuff.
It goes into a bird's belly, especially if it's the
already whole seed, and they have whole seed mixes. So
if you buy sunflower, you're getting the kernels, not the husks. Now,

(02:13:09):
there's nothing wrong with the huss they just break them open,
get the kernels out, and then you got a husk
on the ground. I'm fine with that, but if you
want like one percent of the bag going into the
bird belly that go to Wallbirds. They're no mess blends.
It's called no mess. They have n M on the
bags and you'll find all kinds. The newest thing at
Wallbirds is called cardinal confetti. Cardinal confetti. Cardinal is in

(02:13:33):
the red birds. Yeah, the cardinals. It's got safflower. It's
got black ole sunflower, it's got sunflower chips. It's got
nutrius safflower called nutris saff It's got bark, butter bits,
peanut halves, dried mealworms, stripes, sunflower seeds. Doesn't that sound
yummy except the dried mealworm part. Dried mealworms are yummy

(02:13:54):
to the birds. I'll tell you that. You can put
it in a loose tray feeder. You can put it
on a hopper. I use stuff like that bird eliminator,
excuse me, squirrel eliminator, not bird eliminator. When squirrels come
up and try to get my feed, that eliminator just
shuts the door and they can't get in. And you
will not believe the kind of language a squirrel will
use in your backyard where the children can hear it.

(02:14:15):
When you can't get into my bird feeder. That makes
me happy to break their hearts. But anyway, Wildbirds has
got the eliminator. It's got all kinds of feeders. If
you are looking for a wintertime feed, we're still in
the season where I would recommend Winter super Blend. Winter
super Blend is loaded with proteins and fats, very helpful
to birds. Less day hours to be out there gathering feed,

(02:14:37):
colder temperatures, just they need a little extra boost. And
that's why Wildbird's made Winter super Blend. I want take
out one other thing, and that's bark butter. I mentioned
that wall ago and that cardinal confetti blend. Bark butter
itself is a spreadable suet that you smear on the
bark of a tree. That's why they call it bark butter,

(02:14:58):
and the birds go up to imagine peanut but sort
of and you just smeared it on the tree and
birds were coming out and pecking in it. Well, this
bark butter has got all kinds of things mixed into it,
and they have documented over one hundred and fifty different
species of birds that bark butter attracts. It's called Gem's
birdacious bark butter. It's made by the founder of All

(02:15:18):
Birds guy named Jen Carpenter. They also had the bark
butter and bits. It's little bite sized nuggets that you
can put in a feeder. You can mix it in
with the seed that you're already putting in there. They've
got bugs and bits. Here we go mealworms. It's got
the bark, butter and dried millworms in it. Now, if
there are any birds listening right now, birds don't have
saliva to my knowledge, but they're slobber coming out of

(02:15:41):
the corners of their mouth listening to this, because this
is like, that's like talking to me about enchiladas. I mean,
I cannot start drooling when you start talking about enchilada.
This chiladas for birds anyway. Bark butter products super high
and calcium that helps support the egg development. By the way,
your birds are going to besting soon. They're out there,

(02:16:01):
they're getting those those finding their nests, getting them set up.
If you, by the way, if you want to do
a one of those Purple Martin houses, time to get
those set up. Because we get into February, we're gonna
have scouts coming around looking for a place to stay.
You want your house up when the scouts are looking
before they settle in on some other place. So stop
by wild birds, ask them, ask them to show you

(02:16:24):
the options they have for the purple Martin boxes. All right,
I've been talking about wilberds because I'm excited about it.
I love love feeding birds in the back. I love
the sounds go out in the morning and enjoyed listening
to the birds singing. It's kind of cool you are
listening to Gardenline, and I to give you a phone number,
and that number is seven one three two one two

(02:16:45):
k t r H. Seven one three two one two
k t r H. I'm gonna take a little break here.
We're coming back for the last segment of the day.
I can take a call or two then, So if
you like, I got a question, can't wait till tomorrow,
Now's the time to give us a call. Seven one
three two and two KTRH. Hey, welcome back, Welcome back

(02:17:05):
to garden Line. Hey, I got time for a quick call.
If you have got one that's burning, maybe a burning
question or something like that, we can do that. Remember
when I finished today, I'm gonna grab me some lunch
and head down to the Brazas home and garden Show
at the Fort Bend Epicenter just off Southwest Freeway down
there in Rosenberg, Texas. I'll be there from one to three.

(02:17:28):
I'm gonna start off with one hour talking about the
essential steps to create a thriving garden in the spring,
a thriving lawn in the spring. We'll go through that
and we'll answer your gardening questions for another hour. For sure,
I'm gonna have some giveaways that I'm giving away. I
have some copies of Texas Gardener magazine. If you have
not subscribed to Texas Gardener, you need to. You need to,

(02:17:51):
and I'm gonna have some samples there. I'll give you one.
Come take a look at least for the first However,
many people that I have samples for I don't I'm bringing.
But anyway, i'll have those for you, answering your gardening questions.
I'll bring some of my books. If you like one signed,
I can provide that for you down there too, But
mainly bring me pictures on your phone of problems of questions.

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What's this plant? What's this weed? How do I control it?
Bring me samples. Throw some weeds in a bag, you
zip it up and bring it on in. We'll take
a look at them and we'll just have a little
plant clinic. I don't have a lab coat. I wish
I need a white lab coat and I could say
the plant doctor is in or something like that, even
though I don't have my doctorate, by the way, but
I'll be happy to answer your gardening questions. At the

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Fort Bend Epicenter, the Brises Home and Garden Shoe by
the way, the folks at Enchanted Forest will be there.
They have a great display. You can visit with them.
You can see examples of some of the plants that
they had, some really cool plants they're going to bring in.
And there's going to be a lot of other seminars too,
I know just looking at the schedule. By the way,
that Home and Garden show is going from yesterday to tomorrow,

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Friday to Sunday. Remember I'll be there today three, but
they have a lot of other seminars. Andy chad Ester
from the folks at Medina will be there. She has
been there already talking. She's gonna give some more talks there.
And Danny from Intended Forest is going to be there
as well, so you need to come by and meet him.

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Danny's is new to intended Forest, not new to the area.
He's been doing gardening in all kinds of ways here
the green industry in the Houston area, from botanical gardens
to media to you name it. Danny's a real cool
fellow to meet and he'll be down there giving some
talks as well. So come on down, let's meet you

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and let's have some fun. Bring me some samples. This
is my first appearance this year, and I can't wait.
I've been cooped up all winter not being able to
go out and rub shoulders a gardener. So here we go.
Come on out and see me. We had some calls
today from sugar Land at different places. Come on down,
let's do that. Let's get some products in your hands,
some samples to try out. The We've talked a lot today,

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off and on with different things about soil regarding plants.
You know, the clay soils that we have, and they
don't drain well, and almost all plants need good drainage.
There's some that can live in a swamp, but most
plants would prefer to have good drainage, good oxygen in
the root system. Well, when it comes to your home,
the problem with our soils. Is that these clay shrinks
and swells. It gets bigger and it gets smaller. It

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literally does. That's way of cracks in the summer, Big
giant cracks in the yard. That's clay that has shrunk up. Well,
what happens when you have a sidewalk or a driveway
or a foundation on that You get damage, You get
heaving and breaking and cracking and all kinds of things.
Fix my slab foundation repair. Ty Strecklin's the guy tie

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owns it. Ty is a native Ustonian. He's a fifth
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for twenty three years, actually probably more than that. Now
he knows what he's doing. He shows up on time.
Isn't that a nice refreshing change of pace for people?
Somebody and then they never show up? Ty will he does.
He fixes it right, and he gives you a fair price.

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And if it doesn't need work, he'll tell you that too.
If you tell him you're a guarden line listener, free
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and look is your sheet rock? Cracking is a door
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the sand. Call him bite the bullet. Let's take a
look at it. Who knows. You may get good news
and you don't even need to worry about it. But
if you need it, he'll tell you what you need,
what it's going to take, and he knows what he's

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talking about, and he's an honest, fair fellow. We're gonna
go now out to Oh my gosh, we're going all
the ways San Antonio, Texas to talk to Doug. Hey, Doug,
welcome to guarden Line.

Speaker 4 (02:22:01):
Hey, Skip, thanks for taking my call. I'm sure a
lot of people call it in this morning after the
freeze and see what they're going to do about their plants.
I have a speranza now, it's in the pot. I
was able to bring it in, but the leaves are
getting a little crispy on it, and uh, I want
to know, do I need to cut it back or
what for spring or or what do we got to
do there?

Speaker 3 (02:22:21):
Good question, A good question. Are you going to keep
it in a pot? Or are you going to plant
it in the garden?

Speaker 1 (02:22:27):
Now, we're going to keep it in the pot.

Speaker 7 (02:22:29):
It's it's a wide pot.

Speaker 4 (02:22:30):
It's it's probably about two feet.

Speaker 3 (02:22:32):
Wide and about about about a foot up. So okay, okay, Well,
uh so you could do a couple of things.

Speaker 7 (02:22:41):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (02:22:41):
I would wait until it starts to grow, and you'll
see what's dead and what's sprouting, and then cut it
back to what's sprouting. Uh that's off the ugly. Yeah,
I just want ever new gro it maybe a little
later in that before you've see new growth. But uh yeah,
just that'd be the easiest. If you want to get
in a hurry about it, you can take your thumbnail
little piget knife, scratch the bark back. It should be

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cream colored or maybe a sharpsose light green color in
there if it's alive, and if it's dead, it'll be
the color of a paper sack or even brown black
gray streak sometimes, but gotcha, it takes a while after
a freeze for it to fully show that damage color.
But you could then follow keep scratching your way back

(02:23:24):
toward the ground and when you hit green, then printed
above that. But I would.

Speaker 4 (02:23:32):
I'll probably wait on it. I have a two prider
Barbados in the ground, and I'm molt volcano, as I say,
And they're a little chrispy cue. They're gonna first year once,
so they're not so established it. They're gonna be all right, right.

Speaker 3 (02:23:49):
Yeah, leave them for now, leaving leave the mounds you
got on them. It's okay. As soon as we start
to warm up. Pride of Barbados is slow to wake
up in the spring. It's like a teenager on a
Saturday morning. If you see them for lunch, that's what
you're doing. Good. So Pride to Arbodos. It's going to
be about probably April, April or May before it tells
you it's coming back. Don't give up on it. But

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once we warm up a little bit and we're not
worried about freezes, pull all that multi volcano you put
around them away to get for you know, get oxygen
down in there and they'll be back. They'll be fine
with what you did.

Speaker 4 (02:24:25):
All right, Well, sir, thank you for the yes.

Speaker 3 (02:24:28):
Sir, all right, sounds good. Thanks for the call, take care, Thanks,
appreciate your calling. Yeah, you can listen to garden Line anywhere.
If you got family in uh Nome, Alaska, they can
listen to garden Line on the iHeart Media app. My
advice may not be applicable to know, but I don't know.

(02:24:51):
Might enjoy it seriously though. Anybody listen on the iHeartMedia
app live or to the podcast, or you just go
to ktr EA's website and listen the podcasts there. Yeah,
however you want to go about it. You can listen
to past shows that way too, So I thank you
for listening in live. We will be back tomorrow morning
and I'll be back taking your questions your calls. In

(02:25:12):
the meantime, come on down to the Brazzes Home and
Garden Show in Rosenberg at the Fort Bend at the Center.
I'll be there at one o'clock and I'm going to
be bringing samples of Texas Gardener Magazine. I'll have my
books on hand. I'll be bringing giveaways trying Nelson plant
food as a matter of fact for you to receive,
and then answering your gardening question. How could I do

(02:25:34):
a talk? Be there for two hours. Come on let's
meet