Ktr H Garden Line does not necessarily endorse any of the products or services advertised on this program. Welcome to ktr H Garden Line with Skip rictor Smiling Trip. Just watch him as woo us so many feast to zeus clubs chicken, but not a sign the sun beaming. Well, good Sunday morning. You are listening to the Garden Line. I'm your host, Skip Richter, and we're here to talk about gardening. I see we got some folks on the board there. It looks like we're gonna hit the ground running on this one.
But first I want to introduce our special guest of the hour, and that is Sherry Harra from Plants for All Seasons. Good morning, Good morning to be here on this beautiful Saturday morning, Sunday morning. There you go. It's always a good day when I get to visit with you and pick your brain. I always learned something about plants. I think you've been doing this for lall. Just a little bit, maybe talk to a person or two about plant problems. Yeah, yeah, all day long, every day.
Sometimes I feel like the Statue of Liberty, the horticultural Statue of Liberty, where it says bring me you're tired, you're weary, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free or something like that. People bring me they're sick, they're tired, they're insect infested. There, yes, yearning to be green again. Absolutely, yeah, I know you and I love it. And it's not even when I'm at work. Yeah, it's it's all the time.
It is all the time, all the time. True story. Years ago in Conro, Texas, we were in church and it was one of those kind of a little bit of an auditorium kind of thing with a platform. Yeah. I was actually going to read something to start the service, and I was standing there and I looked at the back of the room and somebody met eyes with me from coming in the back back of the auditorium. I don't know why I noticed it, but they walked all the way down
up on the platform. This is like one or two minutes before we were starting, and they reached in their pocket and pulled out a baggy fas and I said, could we do this at another talk. That's not the right time. That tops all my other stories, but I thought, oh Jesus trumps the plant. There is never you're never gigging anywhere away from the mill. That's funny. Well, I'll tell you what. We got some folks waiting here on the line, So let's go and talk to some folks.
We're gonna go out to Forest West and talk to Jerry. Hey, Jerry, good morning, Welcome to garden Line. Good morning, ship. I have a small garden and I have planted a single watermelon vine and it is pretty well spread out and over most of the garden. When I water it, do I water just where I planted the single wine, or do our water than whole area? Well, you don't have to water the whole area necessarily, but you certainly want to water where the vine comes out of ground.
That you need to water a much larger area than that. So that watermelon's got roots reaching pretty far out in a lot of directions, and the soil. Think of the soil as a bank account. So every bit of soil that's moist is where roots can go get water. So if you water a little one foot, let's say you water at a cubic foot of soil at the base, that's the only place that roots can get water. And that's not enough for them to supply the whole vine. So the wider you
water, the better. I just don't know that you need to, you know, like do a twenty foot wide area for one vine. All right, thank you very much. Now, you know the rule on garden Line is we're happy to get free advice, but I expect to see a watermelon at the studio when this is all over with. Okay, Jerry, I don't think you wants to share his water and on Yeah, I think I
left him speechless or something like that. Boy, vegetables are fun cherry, oh yeah, being able to grow your own fresh produce and eat healthy. And you know lately the crucifer's vegetables cold crops like broccoling cabbage called maracle robbie, those are nutrient packed and they have all those things other than nutrients that are compounds. It helps our body fight cancer, stay healthy. And people
are really in to grow in edibles. I bet, I bet you guys have seen a little bit of evidence, huge uptick in the past several years. Really, it's it seems like gardening used to be trendy, like oh, everybody's going to do this this year. Well now it's everybody's growing food. Yeah, so anything they can eat and if they lose a plant in their yard, they want something edible. So there you go. Ya,
that is a good point. And you know, when you grow food yourself, it's fifteen hundred miles fresher in many cases, right, hasn't been hauled from California, or hasn't been gassed or treated for anything. Yeah, let's make this turn orange. Yeah, well that is true. And I don't want to date myself, but I can remember through the decades watching gardening kind
of ebb and flow come and go. I remember in the nineteen seventies it was like everybody was into getting back to the land, nature, growing things and stuff, and then it kind of went away for a while, and then it came back. And I've seen several ebbs and flows of the interest and edibles. But right now it's kind of like a perfect storm because number one, the amount of science research that's built up to show us that this
stuff is saving our lives, it's changing our future. If you want to be healthy and active in old age, eat right through your life, and it's so important. Secondly, economic times can be challenging, and you can grow your own groceries, you know you can. I mean, you can put a lot of money into a vegetable garden if you invest in a big red Troy built tiller. And you know, I don't know that the groceries pay for themselves, but you can also do it very economically and help in
that way. And so I guess just that perfect storm of all those things coming together for the kind of cool. Oh, it's super cool, you know. And we were talking to my daughter. My daughter's a little bit of a world traveler lately. She just got back from Brazil yesterday from a month's day. But she went to Italy for spring break. And one thing she noticed is I ate a lot while I was there, and I didn't
feel loaded or yucky. And so you know, in Europe they have different regulations on different different kind of eating, and there in a little bit more fresh and yeah, yeah, so I think a lot of people are noticing that too. That's cool and they and they only way to control that is to grow your own yea, And you sure can. It gives you lots of options. We're gonna we're gonna head out to Huffman now and talk to Cooper. Hey, Cooper, we got about a minute. How can we
help today? Well, I'm going through the task of big and five holes for five palm trees. I've done it before, but it was a long time. So give me a hint of what I need to do other than dig a hole and stick them in there. Okay, so we put shales on the bottom, but you said earlier do not do that, and I didn't think that was right. So shell in the bottom of the palm tree hole. Shale not shale. Yeah, shale not shell. Why don't you
address up? Yeah, so I do like to use the expanded shale when I'm planting, But you want to mix it in to the bottom of the hole and level your whole. Now, dig an ugly hole. I always say, dig an ugly hole, don't dig a pretty nice smooth hole, because with our clay content and our soil, I'm assuming you live in the area. So well, this has been done before. Actually, the frieze killed all my other palms, so the dirt is good from Okay, So,
yeah, I do put shale in mixing the bottom. Yeah. I do like to use the shale with with any of my tropicals and anything with a decent sized rootball. It just is like an insurance policy, and it's good to put it all through the bed too, not us in the hole, right, but all through the bed because it helps that drainage. I don't know what I had said that you heard before, but sometime sometimes people think if you put gravel in the bottom of a hole, it makes it.
That's what it was. Well, that's like think of your aquarium. You've got gravel in the aquarium. The aquarium holds water. What good did that gravel do? Right? And so what we're trying to do is, okay, I got John alligator turtles, all right, Well, forget my analogy, then for crying all seriously, amend the whole soil, like Sherry was saying, get that quality shale, and it takes quite a bit of it to really make a big difference, maybe several inches if you can.
Yeah, okay, all right, thanks guys, I'm gonna start digging. All right, thank you very much, very good. We're gonna take a break here. Let's see, we've got Jerry and al on. Hold Jerry, will you'll be first when we come back, and then aw, hang on just a minute. We're gonna take a break. We're visiting with Sherry. Hair for plants for all seasons. Our phone number seven one, three, two and two fifty eight seventy four. Just good morning. You are
listening to garden line. It is a beautiful Sunday morning, and every day is a good day for gardening, right We talked about that, you know, I mean, if it right now, if there was lightning and hail storms and it was two degrees outside and I don't know, we'll make it the worst day in the world. You could still go inside and start your
broccoli transfer. You certainly could could take care of your house plants. You could start planning your gardening and start you know, there's always something to do. Always a good day for gardening. I don't care what kind of day it is, but today is a good day for gardening anyway, because especially right now it is it's not so hot, no, not so hot, and I realize, you know, the middle part of the day, you don't want to be out there dying in the heat. By now's the time
to get stuff done. Falls coming and you wait until the weather is comfortable to get outside. It's too late. It's too late to plant tomato. Yeah, we were talking about that. You know, we have the store loaded up with with tomatoes and peppers especially, and this will be the year I was telling you in October. People will come in just as the it's cooled and they're like, I need my fall tomatoes. And we'll be like, well, we were selling those in August and they'll be like, but
they're fall tomatoes and they look at you like you're so stupid. It's like, I know, but you have to start early. Well, and people move here from other parts of the country. I get calls in May from people that came from the Midwest. Yeah, plant their tomatoes in May. And we had a big population of people that came late. You know, they come after Memorial Day because like I'm North, That's that's when they would start because you could have a late frost. So we had a lot of
teaching to do this year. Well, you can grow tomatoes even if you plant them in June. You just don't get any fruit, right exactly, I don't think we're growing people be like they'll be like I didn't have success with my tomatoes this year, and I'm like, well, you started late, so just give it some time. Wait till the end of September. There you go. We're visiting with Sherry Harrow from plants for all seasons and
answering your gardening questions. This morning we're gonna head out to East Texas and talk to Jerry. Good morning, Jerry, good morning. How can we help? Well, I'm on a couple of acres and I have three quacks of the old asas that are six seven feet tall. I have one that's probably three hundred square feet that is unfortunately in the sun. The pine tree died with Hurricane Reader, and so about a foot on the end is getting
scorched. We're having one hundred and five, so the asa is in the sun are probably getting one hundred eight hundred and nine and they are literally about a foot are gonna die. Now you can see on the interior that they're some greens. Okay, Now, these we had summer till mid December, and then we had a frost and they got they were bloomed, and so they got knocked back in December. Yeah, Nardinius demilius. Everything we're booming
in mid December. So they were stressed all year and they did bloom in December, then they boomed in March. Now what do I do with this twelve to eighteen inches on the six foot of zaius that are literally dead. Well, I think the answer is really clear. You need to you need to call Sherry to make a free trip up to these Texas just to look at this plant to fix it for you. Sherry, what would you tell somebody you understand it? I mean, yeah, this shade loving plant has
just been given the full brunners. Yeah, and it's been doing okay, so rita in that full sun. Yeah yeah, yeah. Man, these are all these are all fifty sixty years old. Yeah, they're well most I actually put another thirty let's see, uh okay, gall a mulch on them in the last few days. Yeah, all right, sounds like you're doing a lot of good things for him there. But let's just go. We'll cut to the chase area. I guess you got to get water on
the roots. You gotta get water to the roots. Things like liquid seaweed would be beneficial, kind of take the stress off of that plant. We just have to get it through this stressful time. Basically. Yeah, it sounds like you're doing you know, good things by the malch and Okay, but do I wait till say September October and cut that one foot eighteen inches off with prone in shares. It'd be fine if you want to do that. I would, you know, if you don't like the look of it,
you can get it out of there. You can wait till late winter and do printing on them if you want. But I just remember that if anything's alive and you prune it and it's a nazella, those branches can't have blooms this spring. Could you just cut off all their buds? Right? Anything that dooms in the spring is that way. But if it's dead, it's dead. It doesn't really matter. Yeah, So snip the ends and if they're if they're dead, cutting back. If they're not, I would
leave them on there. Okay, Hey, Jerry, I appreciate your call. I gotta run and get some other calls, but thank you very much. I hope I hope that helps. And hey, where are you calling from? In East Texas? It's hot? Yeah? Where are you calling from? Uh? Do you know where a wood bowl? Okay? We got sandy loam down to four five? Okay, don't tell us that here. People here don't want to hear about your wonderful soil. Hey, Uh, do you listen on the radio or do you listen online up there,
I have to listen online. We can't get each other. Oh the internet and dolled up. Yeah, so I enjoyed that way. All right, Hey, thank you. I appreciate that call very much. You know, Sherry, it's interesting. I know. I believe your dad was telling me that you guys can hear it in Arkansas. Yes, almost like northwest Arkansas Missouri border. Our producer Josh was to me as a friend that lives in Arkansas, and actually here's garden Line. And so you go through this period.
It's not like you can hear all the way to ark You can't hear it in Oklahoma and even in North Texas. Maybe they block it out. Maybe it's a radio for Europe and they don't want garden Line, and I could be okay, all this good information. There we go. They can't have that pirate radio. Thank you. Just all right, we're gonna go to let's see, we're gonna go to Katie and we're gonna talk to Al. Hello, Al, how are you today? Good morning, Sherry,
and Skip, good morning. I have a question about varieties of crape myrtle. I have a friend in northern Kentucky who admires our crape myrtle Florida down here in the Houston area, and I've given him several plants to try up in his area. They survive, but they don't thrive. Are there different varieties that do better in different hardiness zones? There is some variation, but you know, the best crape myrtle breeding program in the country is in Beltsville,
Maryland. That's way up there. Now. I know Maryland is not like Minnesota by any means, but there are crepe myrtles that can be quite hardy. There is a little variation, but the biggest variation al is in the way we take care of them. And here's the prime example if you. I don't see it as much in Houston, but in the College Station area this past December freeze hits so fast and sudden. They weren't ready, and all over town they are crepe myrtles. Some them are killed all the
way the ground. They're resprouting out of the base right. Some of them just have fifty percent of the branches are dead and there's new growth up there. But that's all because they weren't ready for the cold. So that December cold was not too cold for a crepe myrtle, but it was too cold for an unprepared crep myrtle, right, and so fertilizing late in the season
encouraging a lot of late season growth on anything that's marginally hardy. And I wouldn't have called craip myrtle marginally hardy, but anything like that, like a fig tree for example. You know, you want them a citrus. You want them to get ready for winter, not to go in thinking that you know, good days or ahead, when really it's hey, I better slow down and get ready. Yeah. Yeah, And that has a lot to
do with the year. And you know, if if we had a gradual which in Kentucky, they'll have a little bit more of a season, right, they'll have a slow down and then a freeze yea. And that would be fine for a crep myrtle. They should do well in Kentucky. Yeah, And I mean I've seen them in Tennessee. Yeah, there you go. Yeah, they are do well. There are varieties up there. Yeah, they're not as many as we have here, yes, but I have. I've just given him some samples of what I have around the house.
Yeah, mine, well here, but he don't bloom much okay, and it could be a matter of fertilizing I suppose. I'm not sure how he handles all that, but well, good if there was a better variety, if I had to go to i am Arilla or somewhere and try to find craip myrtles up there, you know, that's a good question. University Kentucky has some really good information online, and I haven't gone there to look at their crape myrtle information, but if there were some superior, hardy ones,
I would start there and look. I could go look myself. There's some good variety lists out there, and in fact I have one myself on the web, but I don't list heartiness because that's just not something we generally read about down here. Yeah, hey, thank you for that call, al. I appreciate that very much. It's interesting that someone is sending a crape myrtle up to the Midwest, because typically people from the Midwest go, I want to grow lilacs down here, right, we call crape myrtle the lilac
of the su which is one heck of a stretch. If you've ever smelled lilacs before I got to smell him for the first time. The spring. I think we should sell you know, welcome Midwesterners, come into Appliance for All Season. We're going to sell you a crape myrtle and a bottle of perfume with RGE one, and you can spray it and have your love Roman thepy. You can have your Lilac of the South. That's funny. Yeah.
My mother in law's from Ohio and she comes into town and she's like, oh, the lilacs are so beautiful here, and I'm like, they're crepe myrtles. That is true, that is true. Oh gosh, we're talking all kinds of things planting today. We're gonna take a break here in just a bit. Warren and Ben, you are on hold. You'll be the first up when we come back. If anybody like to give us a
call, it's seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. I'm visiting with Sherry Harra from Plants for All Seasons, and we are talking about all kinds of things plants. So if you have some questions you'd like to ask Sherry, let's pick her brain and let's find out what she knows, which is a lot. All right now, NICKI, I think we're gonna go to the Nicki News Network and talk about all things happening in the greater Houston area. Right, yeah, more or less any breaking plant news.
Pant Craig birtles are breaking out all over on East Alabama Street. A plant died yesterday of lack of water. I think that may be breaking news. Or stop the presses there you go. Okay, all right, guys, we'll be right back. I hope you are enjoying listening to guarden Line. We're sure having a good time being here and visiting with you. So give us call. Let's talk about your questions. And in the meantime, here's some news, and that's for sure, but there's nothing of home grown Tomatown.
Cut in a salad and put him in a stew. You can make your old everyone. You can eat him with eggs and eat him with the gravy. You can eat the beans over Nay, put him on the side, put him in the middle of the home grown und All right, you're listening to garden Line. I'm your host, Skip Richter, and we are with share here from Plants for all seasons today, answer some of your gardening questions. We got a few folks on the board here, So let's run
right out to Richmond and we're going to talk to Warren. Hey, Warren, how can we help today? Good morning Skip and good morning Sharn. I'm going two different blueberry plants in containers. One is an emerald, one is a jewel, and I think I am their own, you know, grim reaper. I think I may have overwatered them, and I'm hoping that maybe you guys can give you some guides them into how to maybe get them backups in alive again. The leaves have turned brown, and I've got my
jewel. It's leaves are coming back. But they're very very light in color. Okay, so they're not their normal vibrant green, they're they're very pre light, almost almost pale white. Well, let me answer that from a longer term perspective, and then shure, I'd like to get your thoughts on it. You need to always have a good quality mix drains super super well, and a container especially if rose soil okay, well good, and then you need a container that has lots of good drainage holes. Is this a
what kind of container? Is it a pottery or yeah, it's a plastic. It's a plastic container. White colored plastic container. And is it sitting on the soil or on a patio. It's on the patio, Okay, good, Well, if it has a good drainage hole, it ought to not let you over water. I mean it ought to drain out well. Sometimes we have to add some holes, but I would look at the long term fix in the meantime. But Sherry, do you want to comment on some of the things. Yeah, I mean it would be hard with this
extreme heat that we're having. Two overwater because we're watering the blueberries at the nursery right now at least once a day, if not twice a day. Yeah, just based on how they look. And we're seeing a lot of leaf scorch on them. Even ones that have been sufficiently watered are getting some brown leaves. They're just done. I think they're they're over this summer already like the rest. And you know that happens to plants. They have a
lot of physiological process. It's like photosynthesis, for example. Everybody knows what that is, but when the temperature gets up. I was here in one time. I can't remember, it's like ninety four or five degrees. Tomatoes they start photosynthesis starts to fail on them. Well, right, we get that every day here, you know. And I was looking at some roses the other day, Sherry, and they were just losing their green colors, kind of going shartruse and dull, and it's just I just think they're just
getting shut down. Yeah, I think they've just had it. They've they've reached critical mass and they're like, okay, I'm done. If they survive the summer, then they maybe they'll be okay, but if not, then it may be time to replace them. At this point, you ought to be able to keep them going. Yeah, in the water. And I've noticed on our blueberries, if I can keep up with the fertilization because we are having to water them so much, get a good acidic, loving fertile
lizer. You know a lot of people think, oh it's too hot to fertilize, but nutrition is very important through a stressful time. I didn't even think about the watering to louting out the fertilize. Yeah. And what what part of town are you in? I'm in Richmond. Yeah, I'm sure there's a nursery down there, Enchanted's that you could visit. There is a product, Yeah, there's a product called that I like as a quick fix. It's called Fertile Home Acid Loving Plants. It's a water soluble. It's
a good quick fix for your blueberries. If not, then get the Microlife Ultimate. Okay, all rank you, thank you. I appreciates always you bet All right, take care. Let's go up to Tomball and talk to Ben. Hey, Ben, good morning, I'm here. I'm sorry. Let me take care. Yeah, I kind of jumped real unexpected lee on you there, So welcome to garden. How can we help? I wasn't paying attention. I was talking to my son on the tech my stag there. Okay, anyway, I had a question about well, I had two
questions. One about the trees. I sold my house to my son and daughter in law, and then I moved into my motor home here. And I've got four trees around my house that look like they're getting ready to probably fall in my house. I was getting wanting to see if I could get
some advice on how to water them since they're they're just drying up. Well, a good soaking on an infrequent basis, and a good soaking means you're getting enough water down in there that it's wetting the soil deeply, not just the little squirt that some people put on their lawns, but we're giving them a good soaking. You can also do deep root watering too, I know Martin Spoon Moore, the folks that Affordable Tree, they do the deep root
feeding and deep root watering as well. That's one of the services that they offer. I don't know if you've ever contacted them before, but if you have it you ought to. Haven't come out. They know what they're talking about, and when you're looking at a tree like that and the value to the property, you definitely, as you said, don't want something falling off on your vehicles and other things. The seven one, three, six, nine, nine, twenty six sixty three is our number if you'd like to
get him a call. But but they know everything there is to know about trees, and if you're worried about them falling, they can come out and just do a consultation to ben. Maybe there's an it's an RV part. I don't know nothing. Oh, you're not in charge of the tree, okay, Well no, no, I just wanted to Yeah, a good as wide of an area as you can wet and put on at least an inch of water. And you may have to do that in several waterings,
giving it time to soak in and between each one. But if you can get a good amount done in the soil, that'll carry you through for a while. You know, this isn't like a little tomato plant in a container where you're providing the only water at has. Trees have extensive root systems, but by now they've been pumping the soil for so long that they're running out of water availability. Well, can I ask you another question? Yeah,
so we got a real quick one. Okay, I got the ants and my neighbor came over and he put a bunch of poison around my trailer, around my motor home. Yes, but they're still getting in my bed. They chew me up right or now I have to sleep on the couch because they're just yeah, and there's nothing in there. It's not like I keep fluting my bed or anything like. Well, I can tell you, yeah,
I've dealt with that. I had an exterminator come out years and years ago and put insect aside all around my house and it trapped the ants inside because they knew if they knew if they went outside, they were they were dying off yeah, hot and drying, yeah, and so they're looking for moisture, they're looking for food, and they're like, well, we can't go out, so we're going to go in. So you need to get
a bait something. If they're fire ants, they're biting you, you need to get a bait listed for the fire ants and that will pull them out. And there are a number of good baits out there. I had the same problem when I lived in Syprus. I'm sitting there with my feet on the bath mat outside the shower and all of a sudden something was biting my feet and it was fireants coming for the water. But they has there's a lot of good ones out. But you're up in Tomball, so you can
come see me at plants for all seasons on two forty nine. But as far as the product, yeah, would I would say the fertilome come and get at spinosad bait. I have Advan extinguished. Yeah, wish is a well known one. That one's really good. But the fertilam is an organic product and so we use it around our vegetable gardens because it's label for that and a lot of fire products aren't. But yeah, the only thing go ahead. Plants for all season. I didn't need to cut you off apologize,
No, not at all. Plants for all seasons is where Leeuettic comes into Highway two forty nine. So if you're on two forty nine, just north of Louetta on the on the east side, there easy to find and definitely worth the trip out anyway. Okay, I really appreciate you, all right. You take care, You take care. Good to talk to you. Well, we are well into where we should have taken a break, so I'm gonna stop right here. When we come back. Don and Pearland,
Sharon and Memorial, You'll be the first step. John. Good morning. You are listening to garden Line on a lovely Sunday morning. It's beautiful outside and we're talking about gardening. Isn't that a surprise. I'm here with Sherry Harrah Plants for all Seasons. She's helping give me the chance to kind of pick her brain, and you as well. We're gonna head out now to Pearland and talk to Don. Hey, Don, welcome to garden Line. How can hell? Good morning? High I'll doing this morning. We're
well, thank you, good God. Yes, I planted some roses on maybe about two three months ago and they get eight out of overlef for sun and I will have been watering it with super thride and water. Okay, but I was wondering, king, I've stopped putting some food out, y ecko. They're not blooming at all and they stand maybe about fourteen to sixteen inches high. Yeah. Absolutely, I mean I get out and fertilize and trim my roses in September, beginning of September because they love our fall and
winter if we have a mild winter. So yes, absolutely, and typically when I'll trim them at the end of summer like that, sprinkle a little fertilizer on the ground, scratch it in the ground if you want, but watered in really well and you'll get a flush of growth and you will have a beautiful October. And also because I guess because they get eight with the sun, some of the leaves are trained brown. I don't think it's because I'm on the water and I'm thinking of it. Because it the heat,
it is, it's everything. I mean, when you see the end of the leaf and it's like the mid vein dies and you get this little v of brown coming out the tip of the rose leaf. That is just a plant that's just struggling trying to get water out there. I mean, it could be moist soil and it just can't pump it fast enough. I think that physiological thing I was talking about where it's so hot that natural plant processes
are just shutting down. Photos they're just done. Yeah, it's just but hang on, keep them adequately moist, not saggy, and give them a little fertilizer here, especially when we get you know, get through August, and then do that little trimdback shore he was talking about and fertilize so you have a really beautiful fall. All right, thank you. I appreciate you.
Bet Don, thank you. I appreciate your call. Uh. You know, I've talked before about watering trees and plants, folks, and the tree hugger sprinkler is designed for watering woody ornamentals like a rosebush for example. Now I were to plan a rosebush, now number one, it's a tough time to get it started, but you can do it. You can plan any month of the year. But when you water the root ball, think about this you pull the plant out of the container, you've got this cylinder
of roots that goes in the ground. So for a good while that's where all the roots still are. And gradually roots are moving out and moving out and getting established. But during those early days, Sherry was talking about, you know, water in a blueberry twice a day at the nursery, trying to keep it alive. Well, when you put that in the ground, even if the soil is moist around it, it pumps that root system dry, and so you gotta almost pretend it's still in a container for a little
while. Just keep that moist, keep it moist. Eventually we're gonna water big areas or with trees not even worry at all because they have such extensive roots systems. But tree Hugger does that. You can turn it on small to just water a little eight inch area. You can turn it on wide, and maybe you've got a five year old tree, maybe something the size of a soft drink can in the trunk. That tree also needs water underneath the brain spread of the tree, that area where the canopy casts a shade
at midday, that's tree hugger. And you can find tree Hugger pretty much anywhere you go there all over town. Lots of our retailers carry them, and it's just I think of it as insurance, okay. And when you buy one, grab a little timer to go on the end of your outdoor garden faucet. So if you want to just water for a couple of minutes, you can do that. If you want to water for a longer period
of time, you can do that as well. That way you don't forget it and you come back out and now your tree's floating down the street as you over watered and it came out of the ground. Hey, let's go to Memorial and we are going to now talk to Sharon. Hello, Sharon, Hi, I'm so glad I've finally got to I'm glad you went got
thanks. I have two high discus plants. One's about fifteen years on the other ones about probably eleven, and they have been out in the bright and around the pool and they've started just getting real dull leaves and kind of yellow and then stuff. So we moved them to place in the sun. Now their impots pottery pots, and all of a sudden, after a week they they've had like fifteen and maybe ten balloons put buds on it, and they
were blooming like two or three flowers a day. Well, now all the buds just all of a sudden have just turned brown and they've staying a little. They're not growing, and the leaves are not only dull, but they are really yellow and bad starting from the outside, and then some of them are completely yellow. So do the idea do you talk to do you talk to your plant? Sharing? And I am about to chase my vocabulary.
Well, okay, well we're not going to do that on the air, but it's okay to talk to your plants that way if they need it, if they're if they're you know, misbehaving, you need to put your phone on speaker and walk outside because Sherry's gonna tell your plant what it needs. Well, and let's just are these the tropical hibiscus that you have to protect in the winter. Are these the perennial hibiscus like the movie ground? Yeah, they have to be protected in my greenhouse, okay, And they're in
pots. How often have you repotted them? Have you? Because they're very old. Well, one of them has not been repotted in a while, but the other one was repotted about three years ago. Okay, So on my tropical hibiscus, I mean it sounds like it might be time for a repot one too. How often are you feeding them? Well, we haven't fed them in about three weeks because it got so hot. We were worried that that might burn them up or something. Okay, so go ahead and
get them fed. I can tell you my more exotic tropical hibiscus. They like vacation weather, and this is not vacation weather. They they want to feel like it feels like when you go to a tropical destination where it's not desert like hot. Yeah, And I think they're just kind of taking a break, and so they have this little capability to slow down on their blooming
when they're stressed out. So I would feed them and let's get them through the worst of this and hopefully this fall they will really perform for you. So I don't need to cut them back or anything. I just need to only if it has deadwood. Okay, yeah, okay, Well, I thank y'all so much. All Right, thank you for that call. I appreciate that you take care. Yeah. Well, we're about out of time. It goes by fast. It's because we're having so much fun. That's
right. Time flies when you're having fun. I think Kermit the Frog said time's fun when you're having flies. Right. That's another that's a whole another thing. Sherry, thank you so much for being This is always a pleasure to visit with always, and I always learned something. It was a wealth of knowledge. So we've been talking to Sherry Hannah from Plants for all seasons. Appreciate her stepping in today. Hey, we're gonna be back after the
hour. We'll be going again at phone calls. Our phone number is seven one three two one two five eight seven four two one two ktr H. Richard add in Waller. I will get to you first thing when we get back for the rescue that call in. Just have Josh gets you on the board. It would be glad to visit with you about all kinds of things, gardening, things that are of interest to you. You know, it is blazing hot outside. I know that. You know when it's one hundred
degrees and it's hard to get excited about gardening. But I'm telling you we're in the big we're on the front steps of fall, and now's the time to get out there. And now's the time to get out and buy products to get your soul ready. Now's the time to buy fertilizers to be ready for that. Now it's time about plants. We are. There are many things that we're planning right now, so we'll be right back. In the meantime, have fun,