Prune & Cover Now!!!

If you feel that way, maybe you're somewhere in between. Do you like vegetable gardening? Grownk things you can eat, vegetables and fruit and herbs. Oh my gosh, we can grow all kinds here in the Greater Houston area. We are fortunate. You know, we're about to get into some cold and we'll be talking about that a lot today. I bet, and yes that that's a rough one. But by and large, this is a very temperate climate and the amount of really hard freezes that we have are

very few and far between. That's why you see cetresol over the place. That's why you see avocado trees down here. For crying out loud, I mean, this is a great place to grow a lot of things. It's not. There are not a lot of places where you can grow apples and avocados in the same spot. But this is actually one where it could be done as long as you're willing to go to some links in order to do it well. The way we get from here to

there is for you to give me a call. Seven one three two one two KTRH seven one three two one two KTRH. Let's help you get the kind of success that you're looking for. All Right, we'll start off with the elephant in the room, and we'll come back to the elephant. I bet a bunch of times today the elephant in the room is it's going to get

really cold. And I realized that I've talked to someone the other day that listens over almost to San Antonio in that area, listens on the radio to the show, and some folks down Corpus direction over Louisiana and Huntsville. It's kind of hard to say how cold's going to get at your house when we're covering that kind of area. But we're looking at everything from the teens maybe down to just a little bit into the twenties below thirty,

depending on where you live as you're listening to this broadcast. Well, that means that what you need to do has a big range as well, you know, and we're going to get down in the mid twenties. We got a lot of plants that are commonly grown here that are really going to need some protection to not have a significant loss to them. Fortunately, we have a lot of plants

that are able or resprout from the base. I was just out doing a video, which by the way, I posted to Facebook yesterday on protecting plants from the cold, just kind of real quick went over basically how to cover a plant and put heat underneath it and so on. And I was using a plant that's kind of a semi tender one. And we have a number of plants like that, you know, the Pride of Barbados, sometimes called Redbird of Paradise. That's one that is not hard to

kill that to the ground. It cannot take much cold at all and it'll go to the ground. But if you mound soil or compost or mulch over the base, I like to use finer textured things because they don't allow the air to move through as easily. Like a big old chunky mulch isn't as much unless you put it read deep. Isn't as much protection let's say per

inch of depth as would be compost or soil. But either way you go, you want to mount something over the base of it, and it killed it to the ground, that's fine, and it'll come right back out of the ground. In fact, plants like that do well if they get killed of the ground. They just come out fresh and same as true with esperanza yellow bells. Plant it all

over the place. Those plants are marginally hardy. Depending on where you live in the listening area, they're gonna get killed part way to the or killed back a little bit, or often killed all the way to the ground. When we have a good coal snap. If you have a plant like that and it gets half killed back and it looks horrible, cut it to the ground. I cut mine to the ground every year because they come right back out of the ground. And if you do that,

the plant won't be so scraggedly. You know, you had one long stem that kind of half survived and then sums coming back out of the ground. Cut it all the ground, have it all fresh, come back out again, and you'll be good to go. Don't forget. Don't forget that. You can do that. Thry Alice. Thrialice is a well it would be evergreen if it didn't freeze. Hard bush that has yellow blooms, and it blooms probably more months of the year than almost any plant you're going to

put in your landscape really continues blooming. Mine has a little bloom on it still. I don't know what that's about. We went through upper twenties. The other day, it's underneath the eaves of the house on the south side, and it didn't kill it back. I was a little surprised. I figured that might take it down. Well, we're going to take it down this week because I'm going to be down in the upper teens probably where I live, and so that is going to take it back. But

I was talking about those. That's another one thry alis. It could be killed to the ground and it'll come right back out again. Duranta Golden showers is another name people use for that. Duranta will be killed the ground. Just mulch the base. I would say, don't worry about trying to protect those plants unless you're way south and you're in an area where you almost never killed those back to the ground. Then if you want to give some protection protect the above ground parts, you can. I

just like coming out fresh with them. That's my approach. So you choose how you want to go about that. But that's that's like cold protection. One oh one is mult the base, Well, you don't have to cut it back now. In fact, I would suggest you don't cut them back prior to mulching uh. And the reason is pruning is an invigorating process. Pruning is an invigorating process, and I want to I want to make a couple

of comments about that. We're gonna take a little break here in a minute, and when I come back, I want to discuss what happens to a plant when you prune it, and why we do or don't prune prior to going into a cold season or a cold weather and coming up soon. So we'll do that in just a moment. I do want to remind you if you'd like to give us a call and get on the boards.

It's always quiet as early in the morning, so you kind of have first shot without waiting in line seven one three two one two k t r H seven to one three two one two k t r H. Stay tuned. We'll be right back to talk about pruning and its effect on plants. All right, folks, we're back. Welcome back to Guardline. Good to have you with us.

We've got a lot of things to cover today. I'll be talking about freeze and frost protection, certainly that some other concepts talk about printing here in just a little bit. As we get going, you know, when it comes to the cold weather, though, you need to be ready for it. And ACE Hardware stores have got you covered. Boy are they. I was talking to somebody from ASA other day and they are stocked up. They have everything you're gonna need. Do you need things like faucet covers? They've got that.

Do you need that gadget called the freeze miser. You screw it into the end of your faucet and you turn your faucet on, just crank it up full force, and nothing happens. It just sits there and it as a temperature coals, something inside shrinks up and it starts to trickle water. And so the colder it gets, the more it's protecting that faucet. Doesn't that make sense? And then when the weather warms up, it stops dripping again, so you're not running water all night at a trickle

trying to protect your lines. Fustymiser's really good. They got those at ACE. You can get insulation for your pipes. You can get that tape that you wrap around them, you know things. They have all kinds of things. Do you need to maintain your generator, make sure fires up in case there's some sort of issue with the power. They also can refill your propane tanks. They have propeane heaters, all kinds of heaters, electric heaters, overtype. You can imagine.

You need some lugs for the fireplace. We always get excited when it gets cold because we get to run our fireplace. And so they've got that for you. Heat lamps for your for your plants, and I talk about that on that video by the way that I did on Facebook. Heat lamps for your plants and how to use them properly, and on and on and on. At your Houston Ace Hardware stores and I'm telling you Ace Hardware, they're a bunch of them all over the place. You can go to Ace Hardware dot Com find the one

near you, or I'm just this. You've got Sinco Ranch on South Mason Road. There's an Ace Hardware right there. Ace Hardware, Sinco Ranch, Evaldie. Ace is on the east side of town, Crosby up in Crosby, Ace Hardware, Bay Cliff Ace Hardware just just south of the Chema and then Spring Ace Hardware. Those are just a few examples of the many Ace Hardware that we have. I'm gonna head out to the phone, said boy. I said Colin, it's quiet. Nick sorted, be not so quiet. We're gonna

go to Mary in Houston. Hey Mary, good morning and welcome to garden Line. All right, Mary, are you there?

go with. They do require pruning and care, and so if this is somebody that wants the least care fruit they can have, then it might be something like a fig, a fig tree. You can grow satsuma oranges up in Brian College Station. You just occasionally need to throw a cover over the top. Once they get established, they're going to take it down in the low twenties and so without cover, and so that that would be a sis type of option. Plus they get the fragrances from it.

I mean, there are a lot of other kinds of fruit, but those are just a few that come to my mind when I just think about either easy or very very popular, or or offering some extra bonuses in addition to the fruit that you get off of.

hole some of that warm soil heat in. But the bulbs won't be killed by this, nor will the iris bulbs be killed by this. They're pretty tough.

explain how to do it? And I can do a better job if you watch that video than trying to describe it to you.

it's we have milder temperatures. I think you might consider like a bail of hay that you just spread over across that as something to kind of walk on and maltz the ground, or even some bags of compost and mulch or mulch itself would make it something you you could walk on, wouldn't be so muddy, and things like that, and then you just rake that up when it's time to serve. But you could you could do the rye grass.

I just think at this point, I don't know that you would get the size of rye grass plants that would accomplish what you want before it's about times but sawed down anyway.

of the plant too there. So I would roll that thing into the garage and that way you're on the safe side. Plus you don't lose all the top growth that you have.

causes new growth to take off and push out. And so although if you know, if it's freezing, there's not going to be much of that happening, but if you do it prior to a freeze, it actually is. There's a decrease in heartiness of the parts of the plant there that you're pruning, especially because it is going to push new growth. So I would not prune which is stimulating,

prior to going into cold weather. And I don't mean just the day before, but I mean, you know, if you do it, we don't prune things in the fall for that reason. That's one reason you get a good hard freeze. So what you're going to want to do is hold off on that pruning until after the winner, and then cut all the dead stuff out and do the pruning at that point. Just go ahead, and sometimes

the covering even helps protect underneath. I also did a video just a little while ago on leave your dead antanas and dead Mexican heather tops and things because they are protecting the plant's base. We'll be right back, all right, Welcome back to Guardline. If you're planning any fishing in the dark, you better be getting it done while it's dark now, because it's fixing to get cold and we're going to get some wind in here and the chills are going to be a little high to be up there.

And I have been up on a lake with the wind blowing, and I can tell you this, it's better bring an extra coat for that. Well, you're listening to garden Line. We're here to help you have a more beautiful landscape, a bountiful garden, and like I like to say, it more fun in the process. That's important, you know, it's not. Some people get real I don't know, anxious about trying to garden. And I've had gosh, I have so many people tell me like, yeah, I tried that

and it didn't work. And I can just tell they just feel like frustrated and that's too hard. I can't do it. I don't have a green thumb. Nope, no, no, none of that is true. None of you you. It's your thumb doesn't have a color. If you want to say brown and green thumbs, then I'll say it this way. All you need is to educate your thumb, and it makes it turn from brown to green. That's how that works. Grandma the reason she could do anything in the garden.

It seemed to grow everything she touched. It's because you know how to take our plants. She just had some base sick understanding of what plants need and she provided them that along with picking plants that are going to do well in the area. And that just makes it look like you have a green thumb. So let's let's get that thumb educated. Give me a call. Seven one three two one two k t r H. Seven one three two one two k t r H. We will talk about the kinds of things that are of interest

to you. Answer those gardening questions. Uh RCW RCW nursery. You've probably been there many times before, but it's the one right there where Beltway eight and Highway two forty nine Tomball Parkway come together. They have gotten in their roses. And when RCW gets in roses, it is it is like an invasion. I mean, they have over two hundred varieties of the finest roses you're going to find in Houston, and they're available bars now two forty nine and belt

wag eight. That's where you go by the way. They're open Monday through Friday seven am to four pm, today, eight am to five pm, and tomorrow ten am to five pm. So go by there and get that. I got a copy of that. In fact, I printed out you can do this off their website RCW nurseries dot com. I printed out their roselist, and I mean it is a chart that tells you about each rose, what growth hapen of row is a climber or a shrub ros for example? What class is a grand of flora, a

Flora bunda. You know that kind of thing, whether it's fragrant or not, how big it gets a disease resistance. And let's see turn it over here, almost six pages like five and three quarter pages of roses. Yeah, two hundred. So if you're looking for a rose and you want some selection, and you want some people that know roses. RCWZ RCW nurseries dot Com. Again easy to get to Timball parkway bo wait eight, just put it in your maps and head that way. Grab you some really quality plants.

Of course, they have a lot of other kinds of plants. They have some frost clout there as well. Of course they're ready to go on that. You need fertilizers to go along with the plants you purchased. They've got that other kind of supplies and good advice. They know what they're doing, very very important. RCW. Let's see, we're going to head out and now to Manville, Texas or Manville and talk to Patty. Hey, Patty, welcome to garden Line.

They have just hundreds of thousand dollars worth of equipment that will do a much better job of analyzing soil. Then you know, these little kits you buy, or maybe someone sticks their own pH meter or in it or something. You'll get a much better answer to it. And you can just do the standard soil test. When you get the results, if you want, you can email them to me and I could take a look at them and then call in and we'll disc us what you might need.

If you're Saint Augustine is struggling, though, Patty, I would think soil would be probably about five down the list of what's likely a mount of sunlight, the watering diseases, insects, those are all more important than soil, I mean, than the nutrient.

for brown patch or gray leaf spot or whatever. And I think looking at that timing is going to be very important. And then be careful when you use products that prevent weeds or that kill existing weeds. If you misuse them in application or in timing of it, you can cause problems that also weaken your lawn and make it more likely to have to be killed by something like that.

have got a lot of stuff to talk about. We have got all kinds of things talk about regarding the freeze and whatnot. Before I do that, though, I just want to bring up a topic that you're probably not thinking about today, and that is the foundation of your house. The Houston soils, the heavy clay, the black Houston clay soil, and the other kinds of soils that have a lot of shrink and swell potential can wreck havoc on your sidewalks and your foundations and certainly your driveways as well

and fixed. MYSH Lab Foundation Repair is the company you need to call if you have any kinds of questions about that. Ty Strickland is native Houstonian, fifth generation Texan. As a matter of fact, he has been doing this for twenty three to actually twenty four years now and he knows what he's doing. So you know signs of this. Of course, you see the visible, like when your sidewalk heaves or your driveway heaves up. But inside the house,

you'll notice sticking doors. You know, they stick sometimes and they don't stick sometimes that's movement. You'll see cracks. Typically they start at the corner of a window, but they could be anywhere, could be in the ceiling, can be you know, all over on the outside. He cracks in the brick. Those are all signs you need to call Ty,

and he will not oversay you on this. I have called him before and asked him questions about things, said, you know what, that's not worth even having to worry about. That's that's a normal amount of movement. We're not going to worry about that. That's okay. So that's that's kind of how he is. He's honest, he's on time. If he says he's going to show up, he shows up, and he shows up when he's going to show up. If he fixes it, the price is going to be fair and he's going to fix it, right, And what

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something you want to put off. Don't stick your head in the sound like an ostrich. Just go ahead and call them, find out, and you will know exactly what you need to do to protect one of the largest investments you've ever made that's in your home. Let's head out to sugar Land and we're going to talk to Lynn. Hey Lynn, welcome to garden Line.

out there and cover these things. So if you've got if it's easy enough to do, you can get to it, go ahead and do it. Prevent a little bit of leaf burn and some of that kind of thing.

those plants. And that is very very important when when you're looking at you know, what's wrong with this plant? How do I plant this plant? What would be a good plant to go with this other plant to look good? How can I get something for this shady spot over here that you know? Blah blah blah. Whatever your question is, you go in there and you're gonna get help. You throw you got a problem, clip it off, throw it in a baggie and take it in and say what's going on here? Throw a bug in a bag if

you want take a picture on your phone. Go in there. They've got the expertise, they know what they're doing. I mean, they've been doing this since nineteen seventy three. They are true lawn and go garden Experts, as they like to say, get your green on at Plants for All Seasons. I think that's a good way to put it. Doesn't matter if you're a master gardener or a first timer. They're going to be able to help you from education to

selection to delivery planting. They even do custom potting their True Lawn and Garden Experts Plants for All Seasons dot com two eight one, three, seven six sixteen forty six. Say hey to Sherry and the rest of the Flowery family when you head over to Plants for All Seasons. We uh one of the one of my favorite things to be able to do is visit with gardeners, and that's exactly what we're doing here this morning with you.

goes all the way to the ground. Don't wrap the camellia like a lollipop, don't wrap it around the trun let the cover goes straight down. You need to get some weights to hold that cover down, whether you scubas soiled, Okay, whatever it takes, you gotta hold it down because we're gonna have breezes it'll blow it right off of there.

And then the lighting is the extra. You probably don't need the lighting, but just to be safe to protect the blooms and things, I would put at least one hundred and fifty watt flood lamp bulb on a clamp light. I don't think you need a heat lamp under there for this. And now, if it's a huge plant, it comes down to this, Melanie, what's the volume of air you're trying to warm up? You know, if it were a little plant, one hundred and fifty what we find.

If it was a big, old giant thing, you're gonna need blood, heat lamps inder there to do it.

ready for that. Get those things done ahead of time, get ready to go so you're when you do go out there and try to protect your plants. You've got the supplies and things that you need on hand. That is important. I was the other day looking around at some supplies I had in my storage shed, and I couldn't find some things that I thought I had. I

think they may have gotten thrown away or something like that. Anyway, I thought I was ready to go for yesterday to load up some stuff, get it prepared and ready for the freeze. And sure enough I'm not so anyway, got to do it, get some of those supplies. Picked up a couple of things yesterday, so I'm good to go now. Anyway,

this week, someone who was it I think Ronnie. Yeah, ron had emailed me talking about his memories of feed store growing up, and you know, the the fragrance of the feed store, you know, it's that pleasant, enjoyable feed store experience. And he was bragging on D and D feed He loves going in there, visiting with Jeff and and of course that's understandable. It's a great place. They take good care of you in there. But I love

going into feed stores, you know that. I just there is a there's a certain ambiance and fragrance to a feed store that I just really enjoy. I grew up raising animals for this dock show, and so that was part of the experience. We had a little small cattle operation, and so we were often taking care of the cows going in, taking care of getting the things that we needed.

But D and D is that kind of feed store, you know, any kind of feed you can imagine they're going to have, by the way, they have their onion transplants and their seed potatoes in at D and D. And it is time to get those in the ground. You know, not to plant them today right for the hard freeze, but go ahead and get them, get the bundles, because what happens is they get picked over and they sell out in time. So go ahead and get those there. And they carry the kinds of onions, the kinds of

potatoes you need for your garden when you're there. While you're there, you're going to find a good supply of heat lamps and the little shields that can hold the heat lamps and the flood lamps too, not just the heat By the way, when you're purchasing a shield, a clamp on shield for a lamp, if it's a heat lamp, you know they kind of have the red glass cover. You need to get a quality when don't put it in a little dinky shield. They're not made to hold that.

You need the kind with a little ceramic a place where you screw the bulbin. But when you go by D and D, they can explain to you what you need and what will work. You know, if you need to wrap your pipes, they got the stuff of that too, and certainly all the supplies for your lawn and garden, from fertilizers to pesticide to weak controlled disease control. Everything they've got all that there, uh and a really nice selection of high quality pet food and other kinds of

supplies that the pets like as well. D and Defeed. Oh, by the way, whereas it D and Defeed is on twenty nine to twenty west to Tomball. So if you're in the big middle of Tomball from two forty nine, you just head out twenty nine to twenty to the west and you do not have to go out very far, and D and D be right there on your left hand side, and you will enjoy it when you go. I can tell you that they treat you right. You were listening to Garden Line. A phone number is seven

one three two one two KTRH. If you'd like to give me a call, we'd be happy to visit with you about the kinds of questions that you might have out in the garden. I've got some soil work that I need to do, and that's kind of been postponed a combination of some real wet conditions where I couldn't

get in there without slashing through some muddy areas. I'm going to be getting that done because I'm putting in some fruit tree and I'm also revamping a section of my vegetable garden where I need to add some soil in, mix it up and get those beds ready to go, and don't plant until you get the soil ready. It's very important to have the soil right first. If you've listened to Garden Line once, you've heard me say brown

stuff before green stuff. And that's the simplest way I can put the fact that you need to get the soil right before you put the plants in very important, especially for plants that are going to be there a while. You know, an annual maybe in for a season, part of a season, and then you pull it out. So that's not you can always fix it after you that

season if you need to. But when you're putting in something like a perennial or a shrub, a rose bush, or fruit trees and things, those are long term and so you've got to get that soil right for those kinds of plants, and that is very important to be able to do that. If you're doing planting, By the way, I would recommend that when you put the plant in, you put a quality drench over that root ball. And we are in the big middle of planting season for

perennials and for woody ornamentals especially. There certainly are annuals and herbs and things we can plant now. But I'm talking about a product like has to Grow six twelve six. Has to Grow six twelve six is a combination product by the folks at Medina. By the way they carry Medina products there at d and de Feed, as well as a lot of other quality brands. The has to Grow six to twelve six has Medina Soil Activator in it. That's a product in and of itself that stimulates biological activity.

It's got humate, which is humic acid, improves your soil structure, helps with nutrient more effective nutrient update as that happens. It's got seaweed extracts in it. You can use it as a folier spray. But I'm talking about right now being planting season. When you put a plant in the ground,

drench that plant after you plant with it. Or what I will do sometimes is just have a little container and I take the plant out of the pot and set it in the container, and I can feel that container full of a root soak like has to grow six twelve six, and you just let that soak into the root ball, put it in the ground, and you've done your work. You're ready to go. You can do another drench a week later. You can do another drench a week later. After that, you can do all three

of those, helping that plant get well established. NaSTA grows six twelve six has many uses. One is the planting use. I'm talking about transplanting use. One is just going into the flower bed or the vegetable garden and drenching it down the row. That's legit, and then there's full of your applications, not gonna burn your plants. You use about a tablespoon per gallon and just spray the foliage with

your plant. Now, that's primarily I use that during the growing season as things are warming up and plants are starting to grow. Not so important to do the folier right now, although you can. Some people believe that it does help with some of the cold heartiness and things like that, so I totally would support that approach to it as well. Well, let's do this. I'm going to head out to Cypress now and we're going to visit with Joe, Hey, Joe, Welcome to garden Line.

on just a second. I want to spend some more time on this with you, and I'll pick you right back up when we come back from break.

healthy spears for a good while. Down here, it just kind of keeps going in the winter and never really dies back well, and so we don't get the volume of harvests that you would further north. So what we kind of have to do is cut it back and create that top freeze back event. And if after this freeze at some point, I would just cut all the dead or whether dead or not, the top growth back

and begin your harvests. It's a little early for that because we're probably gonna get some more freezes, but I still if you want to, if you want to get going on it, you could cut that top back and start your harvest season well after the freeze.

of s form. Thank you so much. All right, man, good luck getting all that taken care of. Appreciate you call. We're gonna go out to the port now and talk to JC. Hey, JC, what's up?

how to do it. Is it going to be one the charge for each bed or should I just take a sample from each bed?

know green beans in the other. Well, you're not gonna put some nitrogen on your green beans as you do on your tomatoes, and so over time those bed levels are going to get different, and you know, and so I would, I would fertilize. Make a note though, to yourself. You can you can say sample one A is good and maybe use a letter A for good or B for bad if you want.

is a good representative of that whole bed. So take some here, some there, you know, put and mix them together, and then take your pint of soil out of that to send in. You want to use the urban soil test. There's agriculture seal test, it just said, and then there's an urban salt test. You want the urban because on that form it'll allow you to say this is roses, or this is vegetables, or this is lawn, you know,

and that's the urban and use that form. You can do the regular, which is fine if you want to go a little further, which if you haven't had to soil test in a long time, you might do the regular. Plus the micro nutrients costs a little bit more. But that way, if iron or zinc or some other thing like that is an issue, you'll know it.

in the ground, off onto the ground. Get as much of it out as you can, and then it's not gonna shouldn't be a problem until we get back to warm weather and it starts re sprouting a lot then, and all you need is a good mult over the soil and it will not come up if you if you shade the soil surface really well.

a little bit too cold tender. They're just not going to be good for the long term for you. Maybe you're looking at your landscapes and it's kind of bleak. I could use some more evergreen bushes here there. You know, there's a lot of things we can do to make our landscapes better, but I tell you peerscapes can take care of all of it. Pierscapes they do everything from landscape design. If you want to like create a landscapeer

on your pool, they're very good at that. If you have poor drainage areas, maybe you need some French drains installed, pier scapes can they got you covered. They absolutely are professionals when it comes to landscape designing, landscape installation. They even do seasonal maintenance. You know, come have them come out every quarter and do maintenance in your garden beds. You know, do some weeding or adding fresh mulch out,

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can do. You really have to just go to their website site Peerscapes dot com, pier Scapes one word, pierscapes dot com. Check out the work they do if you want to give them a call. Two eight one three seven oh fifty sixty. Now is a good time where the season is still a little distance away. It's time to go ahead and start that process and have them

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would especially be concerned about the heads. So just throwing any kind of a cover over them, just to hold a little soil warmth in it should be sufficient for the kind of cold that you're going to be getting.

I'm all run, but I appreciate it.

down to the side. Don't wrap them up.

have to take it off every day. You can you can leave it on for a few days if you need to, We're not going to have that much cold, but if you if, we are going to have several nights below freezing, so you can just cover it and leave it on till you take it off, really really good. They also have got a nice selection of camellia still. If you need color like pansies and flowering kale, they've

got that. They've got some dowar feupon Holly's Little Nana Nana, a variety that does so well here, and a lot of other things. And by the way, Enchanted just kind of a little news out there from Enchended. Enchanted just had Danny Millican join the team. He probably heard Danny before. He has been around this area for a long time, got a good horticulture background, done a lot of environmental education, sustainable design. It just brings a lot of years of

experience to that team out there at Enchanted Forest. He's going to be working on educational programs out there at Enchanted enhancing the experience for visitors and supporting their conservation initiatives that are going on. So stop, I say hello to Danny out there at Enchanted Forest, and we look forward to working with Danny as well in the months

to come. You are listening to Gardenline our phone number seven one three two one two k t r H seven to one three two one two k t r H. By the way, Enchended Forest is on FM twenty seven fifty nine out there in Richmond, Texas. It's a great nursery to go visit. And again, I just want to one more thing. Don't forget they got that rollout long rolls of frost cloth that can really help you with

the frost that we're about to get. They're going to be with me at the Home and Garden show that's coming up down there in the the Richmond Rosenberg area, and I'm really looking forward to getting out and doing that very soon. It's next Saturday, next next Saturday, so you want to come out and see us there. I'll talk about that more in a little bit here. It's never a bad time to prepare your soil. It's always a good time to prepare your soil. Nature's Way resources

they know how to prepare your soil. You go out there, talk to Ian, talk to any of the staff out there, and they can get you fixed up with rose soil, with leaf mole compost with various types of quality mulches. You can go out and buy it and pick it up on your trailer or pickup. You can have them deliver it, and a lot of areas around town will sell many of their products by the bag as well.

Nine three six, three two one sixty nine ninety. They're up I forty five right where fourteen eighty eight comes in from Magnolia. You turn right, cross the railroad tracks and that is there street. Right there Sherwood Circle right there in that area, Nature's way resources well worth your visit. Uh sit here, looking at my watch, it looks like we're about to go to a break here. I should hear music starting out pretty quick here, So I've quit talking.

Just remember that if everybody's going to be hole up inside because it is getting really cold. But you need to get ready because spring preps. We are in the middle of spring prep. There's there's planting to be done, there's soil building to be done. You need to get those pruning chores done. Its best to prune before the plants begin their growth in the spring. If you miss it, you can prune a little bit later, it's fine, But go ahead and get the pruning chores done. We're gonna

be talking about pruning, uh and not this weekend. But once we get past those freeze, I'll start talking a little bit more about some of the printing tasks that we have how to do them for so that you can have success. All right, would you like to give us a call beyond the board when I come back seven one three two one two kt r H.

If you have a pen or pencil handy, if after you put any search into Google or whatever search you're using, you put in the word site colon dot e d u, So it's s I T E a colon a period an e ed u. That tells the search engine that I want you to look for raising soil pH with lime and then but I only want you to look

in in sights that are university related sites. What you're going to get is some real good, accurate information and it'll tell you if you have a clay soil, it takes more lime than if you have a sandy soil that's going up or down with the pH it takes more of something. So it'll tell you exactly how many pounds. You know, be very careful to follow that because you

don't want to move it too far. But you can raise the soil pH significantly by using lime, but you have to mix it down into the soil for it to actually have that effect on down deep.

of soil phs. So is it Saint Augustine grass or bermuda or what do you have?

in pH you're gonna have more problems. Will take all a root rot on that lawn, and so I my first thought is, don't do anything if the lawn looks halfway okay with proper care.

raising pH as you go down. And so that's what I'm trying to say is, uh, you want to be extra extra careful with that because it's not good to have a high pH, right up there where your runners are when it comes to certain things like the disease. Take all root rot.

diesel oil that helps it stick. And you can even spray diesel a trickle pair on the sides of the base of those yopons without doing the cut, and it'll kill them because it soaks through the tender thin bark thats have down there. But just just you know, it's it's a relative thing. It's just that the sooner you do it, the more results you're going to get. The better the results will be.

it might be enough to protect the top growth. But I would just let it do its normal thing, die to the ground, then leave it dead and ugly until you know, we get a little past the dangers of freezes, and then you can clean out all the dead and let the fresh new come through.

the process, is how I would put it. You know, there are a lot of natural microbes that are ruling the world out there, taking care of our plants and microlife. The folks at Microlife they're all about that. Their products contain microbes. Their products enhance microbial activity and growth. Now, so all you got to do is apply one of the products and you're going to be adding some of those to the soil. There's one in particular I just want to talk about. It's a liquid. It's called micro

Grow liquid AF. Micro Grow liquid AF. It's a beautiful maroon label for those of you non Aggie's out there. It's a beautiful burgundy label, all right. And what it is, it's loaded with eight extremely dominating beneficial microbes that get down in your soil and do good to plants. These are good guy microbes. I talked about it last weekend quite a bit. But it's got things like strupt, a certain type of two types of structo mices that are

actually disease fighting. It's got two types of trichoderma that help fight disease. Several types of Bacillus one, specifically basilla subtless is even can be applied to foliage to help prevent disease sportes that fungal spores that land and attack the plants. Micro grow liquid AF the maroon jug. You can get it by the gallon or I believe they have about a quart as well. But all you do is you apply it with You can put some in some molasses in a gallon of water to drench around

the soil. You can do it to spray the foliage on the leaves. Either way, it's going to work very very well. Micro Grow liquid AF. We're gonna head out now to Spring and talk to Jonathan. Hey, Jonathan, welcome to garden Line.

Do I need to wrap the base in the trunks in a in a in a blanket at all or should the burlap sack and the front thought that'd be enough.

the little it's the gosh. I don't know how the proper term for it, but it's a little heating cable. It's a it's a wire coated wire that you plug in to an extension core and you wrap it around a pipe to barely keep that pipe warm, warm enough to protect protect against freeze. You could wrap some of that around up at the top and put a little cover over it, and that would provide a little bit of heat for the top of that palm tree as well. You just have to run extension cord up to the

top on those. But anyway, however you want to go about it, it's that that key bud that's the growing point. And if it dies. On most types of palms, if it dies, the whole tree is dead. Some palms will re sprout at the bottom, and Mexican fan is a it's a pretty tough palm anyway.

And uh, now with this the with the real cold weather coming, I'm going to put little tiny heaters in there to keep them a little warm. And I was going to suggest that today with our technology that we have, there's these little things you can buy and you can

hang them in the in the wrap. Whatever kind of bush or tree you have, you can hang it in there away from your heater, and it can tell you what the temperature is inside there, and you can stay in the house to monitor it to see what you're doing and how effective it is.

I mean figs, and then unusual things like elderberries. You know what they grow wild, But did you know their cultivars of elderberries that you can buy that do really well. They have their selection of avocados, their selection of blueberries, or selection of palmgranites, and I could just talk and talk about all the things they have at Arborgate. Now they also have seed starting kits. It's time to get the seed starting done, so you need to go ahead

and get those done as well. They've got wonderful selection of cool season color and it's still okay to plant cool season color, so you can carry you on in to when we get all past all the freezes and things and we might start to think about the warm season color then, but go ahead and get some things in now and make things look good out there. They also I want to mention this. The parking lot is the way to go. That's in back. You just turned

down Trasher Road before or after Arburgate. He goes right around to the back of Arburgate. You can pull in there. It's an all weather parking lot, super easy access, super safe, easy, easy, easy to do, and I highly recommend you use that. That's the parking lot I prefer to use. And don't forget that their soil and their compost materials that we talk about, they're also available in bulk and they will deliver.

So talk to Beverly kennon the whole group there at Arburgate if you're interested in having a bulk delivery of their soil and compost types of products. Well, It's time for me to take a break. Got a lot of folks holding on here, y'all. Hang on, I'm gonna get to you as quick as I can when we come right back. Welcome back to the garden Line. Just go jump right back in here. So we get out and get us some bundy of these taking care of here. We're going to go to let's see, we're gonna head

out to Nadville and talk to Vernon. Hey, Vernon, Welcome to garden Line.

the cover. Put some steaks down the row or whatever works for you to hold it up, off the off the plants.

stain your clothing or carpet or wherever it's whatever it's fallen on.

bounce back. Her leaves are very wilted, and with this next breeze coming, we're just a little concerned if just the the plant wrap is good enough or if we should be doing something different for her so she can bounce back the spring.

it breaks down in sunlight faster. But anyway, I'll get a little eighteen inch piece of rebar at a good lumber type store, hammered into the ground in four places around that plant, and then get that PVC stick it over the rebar, bend it, stick it over the rebar on the opposite side. So let's say you have a north south and an east west piece, and then take a zip tie or some twine and tie the PVC together. So now you've created a little igloo over that plant.

Then cover it. Then secure the edges, yes, like a frame. Secure the edges, and you've created dead airspace. You got it. Not let air blow up underneath there or it defeats what you're trying to accomplish. Then get you a clamp light and one hundred and fifty watt flood light bulb should be enough. You can use a heat lamp, but it shouldn't be needed on the coal we're having. And put it not shining onto the plant or the stems

of the leaves. Shine it down on the ground and that heat will rise up underneath there, and that will that will do the trick. If you've created dead air space. I use plastic because I'm going over the PVC and plastic absolutely doesn't allow any air to move through it, And so that's how I do it.

something called bark butter. Bark butter is a spreadable suet, So think of it like peanut butter, but a little firmer. You smear it on the tree trunk and birds come up, grab the tree trunk and sit there and pack at it. I mean they really like it. And the one they have is created by their found under Jim Carpenter. It's called Gem's Birdaceous bark Butter. Good name and they have documented over one hundred and fifty species of birds being

attracted at bark butter. That's pretty cool. They have bark butter bits, little bite sized nuggets you can put in a feeder. There's a bugs and bits that has dried millworms and our birds is like you've created this fine dining restaurant, you know, a Michelin restaurant there for the birds in your backyard. They also have Cardinal Confetti blend for cardinals. It attracts o the birds too, but it's got a great mix of all kinds of things that

cardinals likes. A brand new blend. They're gonna have it all year. Cardinal Confetti all at Wallbirds. Go to WBU dot com forward slash Houston WBU dot com forward slash Houston and find the Wallbirds near you. There's six of them, so it's easy, easy to find one close to you. We're going to take a break. When we come back, Sue and Houston and Addie Huffman, you'll be our first two up. All right, welcome back to Garden nine. We

are glad you're listening. Continuing on with our phones this morning, we are going to go to Sue in Houston. Hello, Sue, welcome to Garden Line.

walk through on the floor of the balcony. So I called two different vest offices and they said, call your apartment office. They have to tell you what they've been using. Of course, they said nothing. So I called Texas Apartment of Agriculture.

done before, I wouldn't be worried about it now. Uh. In general, there's not a threat from most herbicides to a cat walking across, scratching through the soil or something and like that, just unless you know, like they walked on it with their wet wet with their paws or something. But I wouldn't worry about that, I think, and I don't think the you know, the apartment company is trying to hide anything. They just they hire somebody to go take care of the weeds and the beds and things.

As to what they use, I don't even know. But the company ought to be able to tell you they they There ought to be a way for them to provide that information if you're curious, I would say in the meantime, just you know, try to keep an eye out on it out there, and you should be. Did you say, when you looked at it, did you see weeds that had been growing, that had been killed, that were dead and dried up?

you know, go out. My dog goes out and eat eats grass out of the yard and stuff, So that would be different. But as far as just walking on it, there shouldn't be a great Once it's dried, fully dried and stuff, there shouldn't be a great concern.

But I do appreciate your call. Thank you very much, and give us a call back if we can help with them. Let's see who was next here. We were gonna trying to think of who. There we go. We're gonna go out to Huffman and talk to Betty. Hey, Betty, good morning.

those kinds of things. And I would use that as you fertilize, continue to water as needed to support good growth when it's dry, and get good growth on it. If it has good growth and good light, it will settle down and start blooming for you. But it does need good light, doesn't necessarily need full sun. It just needs good light, good nutrition, good growth, and it ought to bloom for you well. So that would be my suggestion going through this twenty twenty five year to try to turn that around.

I just want to remind you our phone number seven one three two one two KTRH. Also, please hear this. My website is where I put all kinds of information and please write it down. Please bookmarkt so that you're ready to go. The publication, nine page full color publication for free. Everything's for free on there is available on my website. Gardening with Skip dot com. Someone called earlier about killing yo pond with a product I have a new publication I just put up last night on how

to do a stump cut treatment. So when you're trying to get rid of woody weeds like poison ivy and things, you don't want to spray the whole weed and kill stuff all around it and cut off the base and you treat the stump and I tell you exactly how to do that. Dow publication on just another example of the kinds of stuff.

to a cave depending on the plant. So you know, if you're trying to keep a tropical hibiscus from freezing, versus if you're just trying to keep you know, something that's fairly cold hardy from freezing, Uh, the tropic hibiscus, you're gonna have to leave it on. Okay, Well that's you're.

a good time to always replenish your malts. Maults in the wintertime deters weeds and it also helps moderate soil temperature, protects the crown of that plant against extreme drops in temperature as well. Cnimalts noticed malts in the name Cnimaltch is the go to place for all the brown stuff that helps your green stuff to thrive. That's how that works. They're open Monday through Friday, seven thirty to five. You got there on a Saturday seven thirty to two, closed

on Sunday. They're on FM five Point twenty one near Highway six and two eighty eight. Best thing I can tell you is just go to the website Sienna multch dot com. Simple as that, cnmultch dot com. They're down south of town again. So all of you out in communities like see in a plantation, Riverstone, Sandy Point, Meridian, First Colony, Iowa Colony, pear Land out by the Brasis

Bend State Park, all through that region. This is your backyard spot to go get the maltches you need and the soil blends that you need, and the fertilizers that you need. They carry products by Microlife by Nelson, by nitrofoss by Landscaper's Pride by Medina, by Heirloom Soils. They

have Airloom soils of Veggie nerdmex. They've got Landscaper's Pride in bolt black velvet malts, and so it's just the place to go when you drive out of there with your stuff, or you can have them within about twenty miles. They'll do a delivery for a small fee. When you get that set up, you're ready to go. Then your plants will thrive, and money spent on the soil is very important. Before you spend money on. Let me put it this way, spend a dollar in your soil before

you spend a dollar in your plants. Are do them both at the same time. Take care of the soil and then put the plant in. That's how you do it. And see anumult is where you can get the kind of quality products that you need. I mentioned that, you know they have products by Nelson, and Nelson Fertilizer has a number of lines. They've got the Turf Star line. We'll talk about that when we get back to lawn

fertilizing discussions again. They've got the color Star line, which if you're going to have a flower bed and you want flowers in it, you want color. Colorstar is an awesome product for it's been around for forty years now and it's used not just here in our area, not just in Texas. I mean they shift that stuff all over the country. People figure out it works and they go send me some because it's worked for me. If it ain't broke, I ain't gonna fix it. In other words,

and it's popular. They also have Nelson has a product called Nutristar Genesis, and this is a plant food designed to blend into the soil at planting. It's got indo and ectomycroiza that helped that root to reach more nutrients. It has bacteria and other fungi that benefit that soul microbiome. It's got hum maates in it. It's designed to be mixed in so you just when you dig your planting hole, just mix some into the soil. As you plant that plant and put that soil back in. Have some of

the Nelson nutristarch genesis in the planning hale. If you're growing transplants, you're gonna bump them up from a six pack to a four inch pot, or a four inch pot to a six inch or gallum pot. That new potting mix mix the Nelson genesis. That's how I use it during this time of the year because I'm growing transplants, I'm potting them up Nelson's neutral star genesis. It really helps after the plant gets going, then you can use things like Colorstar and other fertilizers on top of the soil.

But this will help them get them off to a good start. Well, I am looking at a break coming here too fast to go out to Huffman and talk to Jerry. Jerry, if you can hang on when I come back from break, you will be our first call up and we will visit you at that point. I want to remind you again my website, Gardening with Skip dot com, is where you're going to find information about all kinds of things, including protecting plants from cold, if

you will follow garden Line on Facebook. Just yesterday I posted a little video on how to cover a plant, put light underneath it and protect it and some of the things you need to know, things to avoid, things to do. It's all there on the Facebook page and we post periodically to that. I've got some others that are coming up pretty quick here to post a Facebook so you always need to follow us on Facebook. In the meantime, I'm going to take a break. I'll be

right back. All right, folks, welcome back to Guardline. Good have you with us. We are going to head straight out to Huffman and talk to Jerry. Hello Jerry, and welcome to guard Line.

to provide information, so whoever they apply it for. In this case of be an apartment company should have received that information. And if the apartment receives the information, they should be able to provide it for you. That's not a secret. But anyway, well, you are listening to guard Line. I'm your host, Skip Richter, and we are here to help you have a bountiful garden. Help you have a

bountiful garden and a beautiful landscape. So my suggestion would be give us a call seven one three two one two k T right, seven to one three two one two k T right, and we are gonna be happy to visit with you and help you have success. You know, one way that you can have success is to stop myself as a fertilizer. I don't care what it is you need for your plants. They're going to have it. Do you need to fertilize them? They have more fertilizers

than you can imagine. Everything I talk about on guarden Line and way way past that, they've got the best selection of organic fertilizers of anybody in the whole region. The same thing is true with insect control, The same thing is true with disease control. The same thing is true with weed control. If you need tools, quality tools, like maybe you went on my website and saw that grab or weed wiper tool that I have. Well, the little thing you start with, the tool you start with.

Bob's got him at Southwest Fertilized. You can make your own if you don't do that, but he's got him there. When you go to Southwest Fertilizer, you're gonna find selection, but you're also going to find expertise. You walk in with a picture with a plant samples could always bring in a plant sample, and they're gonna be able to tell you what's wrong with it and what to do

about it. And I frequently stop by there to check on what's the latest, because you know, a company comes up with some new product, organic or synthetic, they're not going to call me up and say, hey, we got this new product. I have to find out myself and I go into Southwest. If it's a new product on the market, it's probably gonna be there, and we bought and I discuss things like that all the time. What works, what doesn't work, how's it working? You know what's available,

and it's just that kind of place. It's been around since nineteen fifty five. Corner Abyssinet and Renwick. And here's the website, Southwest Fertilizer dot com. Southwest Fertilize dot com. I don't care where you live. When you drive over there, you'll see why I am so big on that place, and why pretty much if you don't if they don't have it, you don't need it. I think that's the simplest way to put it. We're going to head out now to friends would and talk to Ed this morning.

Hello Ed, Welcome to Garden line, Hi, skip power.

conditions going into that cold. You know, any of our plants, when we are just having nice, mild conditions and suddenly that temperature drops way down, it's going to cause more damage than had there been a natural slowing and cooling of a plant in terms of what it could take. Date palms are not among the heartier palms. They're among the less hardy palms. They can be grown, but when it comes to freezes that separate one palm from another, date palm's going to be one that is going to

sustain more damage than some of our hardier palms. That we have. The most important thing to remember on any palms is the terminal bud at the top of the trunk. That is where new growth comes out of. A few palms can reach sprout from the bottom. Date palm can't.

Most palms can't. So if you can get something up there in the top, like a little cable on an extension cord the kind you wrap around a pie that keeps a pipe from freezing, provides a little bit of warmth, and then have any kind of cover over there on the top, you can get them through a lot. You can have damage to the trunk during a freeze.

that's even better. But at least warm warm the fronds and the top bud in it, and you should be good to go. And you can leave that on there for a few days if you need to, if it's gonna keep stay cold on you.

They are loaded up. They got a really good list of fruit trees now that they've got in. By the way, they got a program coming up next Saturday as January. No excuse me to day. I'm sorry. I'm looking at my calendar wrongs today January the eighteenth, and it's this morning, and it was John Penzarella, and I'm looking now. It starts at ten am, so basically when garden Line ends

is when it kicks off. So I don't know. We'll give you permission to quit listening to the Garden Line, to put it on the radio on the car and head over there. John has been growing citrus on the Gulf Coast for a very long time. He knows how to grow all kinds of centrus. And this is a free program. They've got a tent out there that's heated, so you're gonna be comfortable. Just head out to Enchanted Gardens.

That's FM three fifty on the Katie fullsher the north side of Richmond and Chanty Gardens and go check that out. By the way, I'm going to be out there on February fifteenth, about a month from now, from twelve noon to one thirty, and I'm going to be talking about tips for making gardening less work. Does that not sound appealing? It's, in other words, the way I like to put the subtitle, how to get more from your gardens with less sweat

and less abuprofen. Okay, tips for making gardening less work. We'll make it more easier, more fun, more productive. Out there. That's February fifth. I'll tell you more about that as we get close to it. By the way, in Chanty Gardens is open Saturdays, Monday through Saturdays eight to five and Sundays eight to four. So get out there. When you're out there, you're going to find all the many, many kinds of plants. I mentioned fruit trees, but my gosh,

they got your seed potatoes. They're ready to go out there, got products for frost protection, and their seed selection is outstanding. Inside the building there really good selection of all kinds of seeds. We could go on and on and on with that. Just go out there and Shendy Gardens. Go see John Penzrella today. I'm telling you it is. It'll be one of the best talks you ever heard on how to grow all kinds of centrus and answers your questions too. All right. I don't know how I can

promote it any more than that. I wish I was at that moment I could get out there and get time to get there in time, I would go, I love love hearing that guy talk. Well, you're listening to Garden Line. Here's the phone number seven to one three two one two fifty eight seventy four, seven to one three two one two five eight seven four. We love our feed stores here on Garden Line and down south

of Houston. League City feed in League City, Texas is an outstanding when it's got that old time feed store feel. I even like. I just like the fragrance going into a feed so I love that smell of fresh feeds and things. And League City is that it ain't s been around for forty years. It's on Highway three, just a few blocks south of ninety six in League Sity. So all of you in that whole region, like Lamark and Webster and elcame Ino Reale and Santa Fe, Dickinson,

Clear Lake City, this is your hometown feed store. Go check them out. They've got nitrofoss products, they have azamite, they have microlife products, they have Nelson plant food products. They carry heirloom soils for example, anything you need to crow pass weeds and diseases. They've got it there at League City Feed, as well as some real premium types of pet food as well. All right, I'm going to head out now to Conroe and we're going to talk to Sym Hello, Cyan.

the equipment, better equipment than you can rent. And that's the compost top dressing, couple of yards of composts going out there on it. You will be way better off than trying to rent a machine and find somebody to run it and buy all the composts and stuff like that. I would just call it Greenpro. There. If you have a pen or pencil handy and give you a phone number. I sure do, okay, it's two eight one three five three five one forty seven thirty three forty seven thirty. Yeah,

I'll repeat it one more time. Two eight one three five one forty seven thirty three. Or if you're don't go online, it's Greenpro dot net. That's an easy way to get hold of them. But they can do they'll do the job right, and they got the equipment that does it better.

where do you begin? You know, ACE Hardware. Their motto is ACE is the place, or at least it has been for a long time, and it is it is the place for all kinds of things that you might need. I mean, right now, it's all about cold weather, right, That's what we're worried about, is cold weather. How do we you know, how do we protect our plants? Well, when you go to ACE, you're going to find things like the pipe insulation to wrap around your pipe, the

heat lamps that you need under your plants. By the way, if you want to know how to use one, go on Facebook garden Line facebook page. I did a video yesterday explaining how to do that. And you want to be careful when you use those. There's a right way and wrong way to do it, but it's on there. ACE has got that. ACE is going to be the place where you find all kinds of interior heaters. Maybe you want to put something out in the garage to keep it a little bit warmer because you put all

some plants in there. Brought a bunch of plants into there. They've got that the frost covers to go over your plants. They've got everything you need when you think of cold weather. You know the covers that go over your faucets outside the miser, the freeze miser that is a gadget. You just screw it into the garden fawcet bib. You turn it on all the way. Nothing comes out because it's not until it gets cold cold that that freeze miser

starts to water trickle out. So you don't waste water all night like you do when you have to leave your faucets trickling. But it works, and ACE has got it. Ace has got every kind of thing you might possibly need. For example, they've they've got those ac film that you need. In fact, the hardware city of Memorial may have the largest selection of AC filters in all of Houston. But we got Ace stores all over the place. You can go to fullshre Ace Hardware up in Spring. There's All

Star Ace Hardware. There's another All Star Ace Hardware in Magnolia and Port Lavaca. Ace Hardware just another example of the many Ace Hardware is in the greater Houston area. If you went to Acehardware dot com and find the store locator, you can find the one near you. And it's as simple as that. And I could just sit here, item after item reading off everything you need from Ace Hardware. The cause we're getting into cold, cold weather, so get by there, don't alike, get by there and get that

taken care of. And then when things warm up a little bit, I want to tell you about some of their gardening supplies that they carry, because they have a nice full supply of gardening options at your local Ace Hardware store. Ace is the place that is true. Well let's see here, where are we. We're getting pretty close to the break. Well, I've got time for a call. If someone'd like to, you might call it seven one three two one two k t r H. Seven one three two one two k t r H. I'm gonna

talk a little bit about some non freeze type of thing. Uh, and that would be This is the time to get your fruit trees in the ground, any kind of woody ornamental. The sooner you plant it, the better. Our garden centers are loaded with ones. Now, when you go to a good mom and pop garden center, I'm not talking about national chains that sell hammers and everything else. I'm talking about a garden center that's locally owned. You're gonna they're gonna be able to tell you what are the best

cultivars for your area. Because you know, the cultivar of peach you would grow on Galveston and Huntsville are very different. They're gonna be able to tell you do you need a pollinator for that kind of fruit? Peaches don't need a second pollinator out do. And then I'm not going to go through every fruit tree, but they'll be able to tell you that, they'll be able to tell you how to plant it, They'll be able to provide the products you need to have success with it. That's true

with fruit trees. That's also true with camellias. It's true with tho zalias. It's true with all kinds of shrubs and trees that you might want to plant there at your property. The best time to plant a tree is forty years ago. Second best times today. So if you're looking for a nice shade tree or a nice blooming tree, my favorite spring bloomer is a tree called Chinese fringe tree. There's a native fringe f East Texas Native fringe. The showiest thing is the Chinese fringe and I love it.

It is absolutely wonderful, has nice fragrance to it as well. So anyway, go to a good, trustable local garden center. We got them north, south, East, and West. We're lucky here in Houston. I'm going to take a break and when I come back, Danny, you'll be our first up. Oh my gosh, I don't even know where to start, so I'm just not gonna say anything. I promised you something you haven't heard before. If you've heard that before, number one, I don't believe you, but call in tell

me you're wrong. Skip. I have heard that. It's probably some barbershop enthusiast out there. Hey, we're going to go out to the phones now and talk to Breen in Hitchcock. Hello, Bring, Welcome to garden Line.

You don't want plastic to touch plants. But with those hibiscus, you know they're already the leaves are probably falling off and not looking very great anyway, and fresh growth will come out next spring. But if you go to the if you go to garden line Facebook page, I just kind of show you how to do it on one plant. It may make it easier to kind of picture what I'm talking about.

out from under there. That that's the goal. So uh yeah, you can. You can go about that either way.

best results. Now, these are all, you know, like ten different things you can do that each one helps a little bit. So if you don't do them all, that's okay.

kind of cover over it. So for you to mound up soil or cover soil or put a tarp over that root ball and protect the roots and things, that's fine. Meal palm is very cold hearty. They can take temperatures down into the teens when they're you know, in decent shape. I just wouldn't necessarily want to try that with the roots getting that cold. But yeah, once they're established, they're quite hearty. But for this one, let's just protect the

base of it, the roots a little bit there. And I don't see what the kind of weather we're having here in Houston area that you need to you need to be that concerned about a mule pom.

a good fruit production coming there with fruit. Talk to you tomorrow.