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Speaker 1 (00:01):
From the makers. If I Know What You did last summer,
comes a terrifying new film about a moviegoer whose actions
come back to hound him.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Hello, I know what you did while watching I know
what you did last summer. What I saw you smuggle
in your own starburst? Well, yeah, I saw you lean
over to your date halfway through and whisper this movie sucks.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
Well it did.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
And I know you left to sneak into a screening
of Smurfs.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
No, no, please, please don't tell anyone.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
No, I know what you did while watching I know
what you did last summer. And in theater showing I
know what you did last summer. Nobody can hear you scream.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Because it's empty.
Speaker 4 (00:41):
You're listening to.
Speaker 5 (00:42):
The radio all radio station.
Speaker 4 (00:44):
Someone's listening to me.
Speaker 6 (00:46):
No, I know how radio feels.
Speaker 7 (00:49):
Hurt.
Speaker 8 (00:49):
Any good radio lately?
Speaker 1 (00:51):
Now we heard your show though.
Speaker 4 (00:53):
Huh, that's not funny.
Speaker 6 (00:54):
It was funny when I said it on my radio show.
Speaker 9 (00:56):
They're talked about me on the radio.
Speaker 8 (00:58):
I matter that.
Speaker 6 (01:01):
Wow, the power radio okays. At this present crisis, government
give is not the solution to our problem.
Speaker 4 (01:09):
Government is the problem.
Speaker 6 (01:12):
This is Charlotte County speaks.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
Your chance to let your voice be heard on local, state,
in national issues, and now broadcasting live from a dumpy
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County Speaks, Ken Love Joy.
Speaker 5 (01:34):
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Speaker 6 (02:04):
It is Master.
Speaker 5 (02:05):
Gardener, Tuesday, Bill and Mike in the house. What's going on?
Speaker 4 (02:11):
Uh? Well, Rob's not here today because he's training in Palmetto.
I think here, is it Palm Metal? I thought, well,
maybe not. I thought it was, but maybe not.
Speaker 6 (02:22):
It could be. I'm not sure. Oh but he gets
around this guy. Yeah. Uh, I'm glad I'm not as
busy as he is. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (02:30):
Oh, you've got something for Ken.
Speaker 6 (02:31):
Yeah, So let me let me start with this month's activities. Okay,
July twenty fifth, twenty six, twenty seven, and Lake Placid
is the Coldeum Festival. Now I've been to this thing.
I've actually driven buses over there to this thing. It's
just so much fun. If you've never been, I suggest
you go at least say you've been there, because it's
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worth it. The place is absolutely gorgeous. It's in a
very nice park setting in like Placid. It's a gorgeous
hilaria over there, kind of hilly. We don't see much here,
but it is a beautiful place to go to and
spend the day, even if it's hot as hadies.
Speaker 4 (03:13):
But even even even if you don't like kladiums, they
also usually have a really nice car show there and
they have the clown Museum in school and that is
absolutely cool and it is that's air conditioned, yes, exactly.
Speaker 5 (03:29):
So if you're if you're if you don't have a
phobia for clowns, go ahead and check it out.
Speaker 6 (03:35):
Yeah, or them around and yeah.
Speaker 4 (03:39):
It's if you're not. If the person you're going with
is Kladium City and you want to do something else,
you've got options.
Speaker 6 (03:45):
Good. So since Ralph typically brings you a plant and
this is Kalladium Month, I haven't brought you am, How
do I take care of this without killing? Kalladiums like
a little moisture, good rich soil hard to find in Florida, however,
they seem to be growing really well. Lake Placid is
kind of a runoff of the big lake over there,
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so they have very very fertile soil. And when you go,
please take the bus tour because it takes you through
these fields where they grow that well, it might be millions,
I don't even know. You see out the bus window
and you look across these fields and all the various
colors of kalladiums are lined up like little soldiers, and
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it's just beautiful. You really got to go see this
thing anyway. Kalladium you have today, I believe is white Christmas.
That's the closest one that I could find. There are
so many varieties. This one has an arrowhead shaped leaf.
We'll get to approximately a foot tall. Maybe. One of
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the great things about this and the one that I've
given you today was actually dug up in my yard
last year, and the bulbs were set aside for the winter.
And now he's become a little baby, so you got
that one. We do these, I do these for the
plant shows and typically you'll see them there. But a
beautiful plant. Everybody wants color in the summer. Yeah, you
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got it. Just go get you some colladiums. There are
any groceries, not grocery store, but well, you might find
him in the grocery do. It will go dormant, typically
in late September, mid september. It kind of depends on
when you plant them. I find if you plant them
in the spring, they're going to be up early in
the spring. If you plant them later in the fall,
they're going to come up later in the fall. And
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I like it that way because you can spread them
around the yard. I got him all over the place
because there's so many trips over there, and every year
they come right back up. It is a rhizome. So
if you want to meaning it's a tuber in the ground,
and if you want to, like I do, dig it up,
cut it up into little pieces, leave it in dirt
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for the winter in a dark, cool place, and then
bring them out in the spring and put them wherever
you want. You can spread these around your yard and
you will have a light or color all summer long.
I absolutely love them, and like like I say, they
do go dormant, but they'll pop right up the next year.
Speaker 4 (06:16):
Yeah, but they can. You can leave them in the
same spot.
Speaker 6 (06:19):
You can't. You can't. They will actually start to multiply
because it is a rhzome. So it is this one
here may have several bulbs in it now because it's
been in that pot since April, so it's it's ready
to bust out. It needs to go now.
Speaker 4 (06:34):
They usually like shade, right.
Speaker 6 (06:35):
Yeah, not necessarily. You can have a partial shade is fine.
You just don't put them in the baking song all
day long. But almost anywhere on a border they do wonderful.
They really do. It is just keep them wet. They
do need to stay damp soil, not soaking, but damn soil. Okay,
all right, thank you. That's that Clarion show, Cladion Festival,
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July twenty fifth, twenty seven. Don't miss it. Great, great show.
Speaker 5 (07:03):
All right, we have to take our first break and
we'll be back with more on News Radio fifteen eighty.
Speaker 10 (07:08):
All right, now, Dad, you made.
Speaker 9 (07:09):
It across over guy, Dad up north for some father
soun fishing.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
Dad.
Speaker 10 (07:12):
Don't get the kids all riled up before Beddad.
Speaker 6 (07:14):
Not to be fair to be fair, to be fair
to fair. Lots of people who met sounds when the
stands up and sits down, not just dad's.
Speaker 8 (07:24):
We'll be right back with Charlotte County Speaks News Radio,
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Speaker 5 (08:51):
We got the master gardner's in house taking to your
calls at nine four one two zero six fifteen eighty.
Speaker 4 (08:57):
Who's up the well, I can do gardening in a minute,
all right, the uh do it? I've done this I
think three years ago. And Ralph, so.
Speaker 5 (09:08):
We're getting a repeat of your gardening in a minute.
Speaker 4 (09:11):
Yeah, yeah, we're getting a little repeat. And Ralph got
his nickers.
Speaker 13 (09:14):
In the I thought that, yeah, yeah, I thought that
came on vacation weeks.
Speaker 7 (09:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (09:20):
And you know, Ralph got his knickers in a bunch
when I did it the first time, so he's not here.
I can do it again. And it's just understanding the
nitrogen cycle in your landscape. I believe this is an
important topic to mention, even though, or maybe because of
we are currently in the restricted season from June first
until September thirtieth, which means you are prohibited from using
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fertilizers containing nitrogen and phosphorus. But yeah, However, in Southwest
Florida soils generally contained sufficient amounts of phosphorus, so phosphorus
is not really a concern about adding to your soil
right now. Nitrogen is the most abundant element, encompassing approximately
seventy eight percent of the Earth's atmosphere, and is important
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to all living things. It is found in the soil
in plants, the water we drink, and the air we breathe,
and it is not surprising then that nitrogen is an
essential micronutrient for plants, making it a key component in
plant health as well as helping to regulate water and
nutrient absorption. Too little nitrogen your plants will not thrive.
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Too much can be toxic to the plants and harm
our environment. Unfortunately, Florida soils are often deficient in nitrogen
and should be added to your landscape. Therefore, it is
important to monitor the amount of nitrogen you use. To
this end, it's helpful to understand from a fifty thousand
foot perspective how the nitrogen cycle works. In its basic form,
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nitrogen cycle is a simple process. Comes from the atmosphere
to the soil plants back to the atmosphere ground water.
Nitrogen moves from the atmosphere through the soil in your landscape,
absorbed by your plants, then released back to the atmosphere.
Primary sources of nitrogen in your landscape are rain, organic matter,
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and synthetic fertilizers, to a lesser extent, animal waste and
septic systems. On a side note, using a mulching more
is a good way of adding a regular supply of
nitrogen to your yard. Bacteria in the soil converts nitrogen
to a form which plants can absorb. Plants in general
absorb the nitrogen they need. When excessive amounts of nitrogen
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are used through fertilizers, synthetic or organic, plants can absorb
only so much, in other words, only what they need.
The excess may leach into the groundwater or run off
into the waterways. Both are harmful to the environment. It's
important to use slow release fertilizers in your landscape and
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to always always follow the label instructions when applying fertilizer.
This allows the appropriate amount of fertilizers to enter the
soil over pairseriod of time, ensuring your plants receive only
what they need. When your landscape or garden looks like
it needs attention, your first response should not be I'll
just add more fertilizer. The man me. It's like when
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you own a pool. You know, I think I need
to add more chlorine. No, maybe you don't. The simple
action the yeah, I mean, when you add too much chlorine,
you're gonna burn out the pump and you're gonna have
to buy bathing suits more often. The simple action of
using appropriate amounts of fertilizer, specifically nitrogen in your landscape
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will help ensure your plants thrive and not just survive,
and make you a better steward of the environment. And
that's guarding in probably almost a minute, Maybe let me.
Speaker 6 (12:44):
Try this on that same cool I'm not same yeah,
thought processed nitrogen fertilizers, things like that. If you have
your if you treat your lawn and you make your
lawn look pretty and they bag your grass, don't make
them take it away. Make them put that in the borders,
because now you're fertilizing during season, when with the same
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things that you're not required to put in season because
basically it's it's broken down already, it goes in as biodegradable,
and those chemicals that are already there, if you spread
them on the lawn, it's going to leach into the groundwater.
If you put it in your landscape, it has a
beneficial use. As mentioned, the plants will take it up
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as needed, so you're actually getting a two full benefit
from paying long guys to command and spray lawns and
do the things that they do that a lot of
times we wish they didn't do, but they have to
to keep it nice looking. Sad grouse, so there's.
Speaker 4 (13:45):
Not okay, that was gardening in a minute.
Speaker 10 (13:48):
Right.
Speaker 6 (13:50):
About Angelonia, who, well, it's not really a person's name.
It's actually that's a different story for a different program.
But I'll never forget it anyway. It gets considered like
a snap dragon. It has that typical kind of look
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of a snap dragon. So those of you from the North,
which I am about one hundred years ago, it's a
great plant for your landscape. And one of the great
things about it is is that it's a perennial and
so in Florida, again, it's gonna go dormant, but it's
gonna give you flowers several times a year. They're very fragrant.
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They have almost a great smell to them, and you
can bring cut those flowers and bring them in. You'll
see these in bouquets everywhere because they do last a
good long time as a cut flower, so they have
a huge benefit. They grow great in nine B south
and of course now we're in that area. Yeah, yes,
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so get yourself some angelonia. They are a great little
plant and again borter three feet maybe at the top,
so they're not going to get really huge. You can
thin them out as they start to spread. And again,
a very nice ornamental plant for the summer.
Speaker 4 (15:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (15:17):
Shade, shade, shade, everything's shade this time of year. You know,
if you're going to plant new stuff, it's got to
be in the shade.
Speaker 4 (15:26):
Oh yeah, absolutely. How about vegetable of the month, let's
go with it. Hot peppers and yard long beans. Hot
peppers they do grow really well in the summer down here.
Speaker 6 (15:39):
That's when they get the heat.
Speaker 4 (15:41):
Yeah, that's when they get the heat. And God bless
my daughter. She has a hard time trying to grow vegetables.
She's really busy. But she has some fantastic hot peppers.
So they're very minimal maintenance requirement for the most part
once you get them started. Yard long beans, I look
at them as part of the cover cropping, and I
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planted yard long beans and I planted black eyed peas,
purple hol and Texas cream as cover crops and they
are doing fantastic and I'm just learning now when to
pick the yard long beans. I picked them a little
too soon. I think they were only fourteen inches. Mike,
I know, remember you told me that it's better to
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pick them before they get three.
Speaker 6 (16:24):
Feet It is it is that tastes better than don't
quite is mean?
Speaker 4 (16:28):
Yeah. And you know when you talk to Ralph and
Mike and some of the other master gardeners, they always
leave out key pieces of information when they tell you
to try to grow these things.
Speaker 6 (16:39):
It's a learning process.
Speaker 4 (16:40):
Well it's key in this case. And you know you
think yard long beans, they say, oh, it tastes just
like green beans. It's just like you get in the winter.
It's all blah blah. Okay, you cook them like that. Nay, nay,
you cook them like stir fry. Well, that's an important
piece of information to have when you start cooking and
you grow these things and it's like, well, taste like dirt,
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and it's like, well, you cook them wrong. You got
to tell people how to cook these things.
Speaker 6 (17:05):
Butter.
Speaker 4 (17:06):
Yeah, well, but they and butter or a lot of
bourbon and beer. But but I have a question on
the there. I have the red yard long beans that
you gave me. Will the outer skin turn red when
they're ripe?
Speaker 6 (17:22):
No, they they'll actually start to well, they might get
a little color to them, but they're going to start
turning brown, is what's going to happen.
Speaker 4 (17:29):
And you need to before that.
Speaker 6 (17:30):
Yeah, you need to. You're talking about getting the beans themselves, right, No,
eat them?
Speaker 4 (17:35):
No, no, no, before to eat them.
Speaker 6 (17:37):
No, don't wait for them to do that. They're going
to be ugly.
Speaker 4 (17:40):
Okay, So how do you know when they're ripe?
Speaker 6 (17:44):
Well, what I always say is if you can get
them before, you see a real distinct bean, look in
the plant. In other words, the fruit will come down,
it'll get quite long. You'll see it. You're pretty much
vigilant looking at them every day. So you take a
peek at it and you go, oh, that's getting a
little lumpy. If it's getting lumpy, you better get it
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off of the vine because it's not going to be
very good if you don't. The younger the better. Let's
just put it that way, Okay, don't wait to becoming
yard long.
Speaker 4 (18:15):
No. No. And so I think I maybe need to
pick those now. Then I don't have enough for a meal.
The it's kind of cool when I'm growing stuff because Kim,
my wife likes to cook stuff, and if it's new stuff,
she has to look up how to do it, which
is she had to really look up on the yard
long being she had no idea either. Think, you know, to.
Speaker 6 (18:37):
Talk more about this, but all of this is a
learning process.
Speaker 4 (18:41):
It is you know, gardening it for it is a
learning process. But you know this year, last year, I
had so many aphids because I planted it like grass.
This year, I planted it like a plant and no
a fids. I've sprayed them a couple of times, but
not really much, and I'm getting plenty of the cover
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crops aren't quite ready yet, the purple hull and Texas
cream black eyed peas, but I think the yard long
beans are ready.
Speaker 5 (19:10):
To from what Mike says, Yeah, Ti Fi, it's time
to pick. All right, we have take another break. We'll
be right back on news Radio fifteen eighty to be fair.
Speaker 9 (19:17):
To Fair, to be fairs.
Speaker 6 (19:30):
That seems like you're doing all his works to distract
yourself from feelings you don't want to redeals with you.
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Speaker 6 (20:07):
Okay. Pest of the month we have here a little
We get talking points from Ralph every month, so we
have some idea what should be talked about. However, sometimes
we go off script.
Speaker 4 (20:20):
I usually go off script.
Speaker 6 (20:21):
Yes, yeah, that's Bill. Yes we love Ralph, but occasionally
we have to do different things. So the pest of
the month on my list is aphids, and we've talked
about that pretty regularly on this show as far as
being a real problem and how to deal with it,
so I won't go into that. What I'd like to
talk about today is for those of you that have
a sad lawn that you maintain and spend a lot
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of money doing that to keep passing things out. This
is the time of year for you to be very vigilant.
Don't wait for your pest control company to find chinch bugs.
They're very small, tiny little pests. I have other names
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for them, but I'm sure here. But anyway, what you'll
see is you'll see small patches of brown in your yard.
Speaker 3 (21:16):
Uh.
Speaker 6 (21:16):
It'll start small, it'll start to grow as the colony
underneath the ground starts to grow. Now, these little guys
will eat the roots out and that kills the grass.
So there's really you have toy have to really get
deep down on their hands and knees and look at
the grass when they come in to spray your yard
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for this condition, however, you can pick it up quickly.
And the other thing you might find is I've called
before and said, hey, I got a brown spot in
my yard. I'm not sure if it's chinchbugs or if
it's a fungus, because that's very possible as well. It's
this similar kind of pattern. But when they come in
and look, make sure that your guys getting on the
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ground actually looking so he actually treats it correctly, because
funguses can spread super quick this year with the rain, well,
with the rain that we should be happy. But anyway
that is pested in a minute, no, I'm sorry, they
want to steal that pesting the month pested them month,
Thank you, And yeah, just be vigilant. Take a walk
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around your yard, you know, if you take it to
the little boys out the doggie's out in the morning,
as I do. I always take a walk with them
and just take a peek and see what's going on.
It's pretty easy to catch it. You can see it
from a good distance away. Brown patches in your yard.
Speaker 4 (22:38):
Yeah, you see them. I had that. We had chitchbugs
when I lived up in Palm Harbor, and the we
first moved in, I didn't know what they were. And
I did what every dope does, like that just moves
the Florida I asked my neighbor. He said, oh, you
just got a water more and that did not help.
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But well, let's talk about insecticide of the month. Then
how about that horticulture oil, because I have a story
I want to tell about this as well, a little
bit not necessarily. The insecticide horticulture oil is a good
organic pesticide to use any time of year really for
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aphids and things like that on your plants. And but
what I want to focus on is always use per
labeled directions. And in this one and and most pesticides
as well. Do not do in the heat of the
day because you will burn your leaves. And nobody reads
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the directions, you know, they just throw stuff down. And
my son called me last week and he's raising chickens
and he goes, Dad, there's mites everywhere. And he goes,
I don't know what to do, and I said, I do.
I'm gonna call Holly. So long story short, she said
use seven dust. So I told him, and he calls
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me and he goes, I'm that's a story. To get
seven dust. There's three different types. I said, that's the
powder kind. Blah blah blah, and he goes, holy cow,
this stuff is so expensive. And I said, well, read
the directions on how to use it. And he goes, well,
it's like eight dollars a pound, and or six dollars
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a pound. He goes, oh, eight ounces for a thousand
square feet. I only need about at most eighty square feet.
So it's like, oh see, so it's only going to
cost you about forty cents every time you use that thing.
He goes, he thought he was going to have to
spend fifty bucks a month, and he didn't. So the
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moral of the story is not only are you doing
stuff that's better for the environment, better for the plant,
but it's also better for your pocketbook because you're not
just wasting this stuff and using it inappropriately. So and
it was a simple, easy fix. You just spray a
little on the ground where the chicken's nest and boom,
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he said, within a two days that where they were
all gone. So you go so read. We don't just
say this stuff. It's like read the label instructions. They
work perfectly. And that's we have time.
Speaker 6 (25:32):
Yes, we do vine of the month vine. Well, I
won't be back for another month. So I figured Queen's
wreath grows great beautiful purple flowers for you ladies out there. Again,
I'm all about color. If you want color in your yard,
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you got to do all these things. If you don't
do these things and stop planting things in rows, hedge,
rows are just not in anymore. It's really a great
idea to have an abstract long where you have different
plants flowering at different times. But this one in particular
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can flower several times a year, typically after a good rain.
It does not require a heck of a lot of attention.
Once it's established, fence slides are the best, but you
can put it on a trellis or however you want
to do it. You can trum it up and keep
it within bounds if you need to. Some people just
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like to let them go because once they flower, they
are absolutely beautiful. February to June is the typical flowering time,
but they can flower, as I said, almost anytime. They
look like a bunch of grapes when they start to
that's what they resemble. And look you get a long
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spear that comes out of them, and then mult to
pull flowers that come off of that very beautiful, beautiful
plant on queens wreath, the best one in the area.
It's also called Alba flora. You can try that, but
it's described as being various variably deciduous, meaning you can
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have leaf drop if you have a little bit of
cold weather, never fear it will come back. And I
know people down here like evergreens, but if you want
a really great flowering plant, this is the one to get.
All right, fine, in a month.
Speaker 5 (27:38):
There you go Vine of the month and with that
we'll take our final break and be right back on
News Radio fifteen eighty.
Speaker 6 (27:44):
Yeah. Well, you know that's just like your opinion.
Speaker 8 (27:49):
Man will be right back with Charlotte County Speaks News Radio,
fifteen eighty WCCs.
Speaker 7 (27:57):
HI waste endless amounts of time, endless hours watching TV
that I can't believe I'm watching while I'm watching it,
but I can't.
Speaker 3 (28:02):
Turn it off.
Speaker 7 (28:03):
This is the best example of the last six months.
About three months ago, I watched Martha Stewart build a
hammock for a cat. Swear to god, I don't even
have a cat. I was just so astonished that a
human being could reach this point in their life where
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you're you are literally this out of things to do,
and there's enough free room in your brain for the
thought to get in. While looking at the cat, I
don't think he's comfortable enough. I see him in a
hammock with a martine. I think Martha Stewart is evil.
(28:43):
I can't prove that her little project. She's like, well,
this should only take thirty minutes for you. You had
ten guys shopping for this for four days.
Speaker 10 (28:52):
You go to home depot and try to find cat
hammock carpet.
Speaker 5 (29:08):
News Radio fifteen eighty one hundred point nine FM, WCCF
ten forty nine. Here at Charlotte County speaks with a
master Gardener's phone lines are nine four one, two zero six,
fifteen eighty. Who's up, Bill, Bill, Mike, Mike, Bill.
Speaker 13 (29:24):
I'll take I'll take Hello over all right, He's safety.
You guys know it's really bad out there right now.
If any of you work this weekend out in your yards,
you are well aware of how bad it is.
Speaker 6 (29:40):
Summer gardens seems to have an endless amount of work
to be done. There are is grass, tomo, weeds to pull,
trees to trim. Don't trim me trees in a summer.
Just leave alone, okay, But working in the garden during
the summer can put gardeners at risk from the unforgiving
Florida heat. A couple of suggestions. First of all, drink
(30:01):
water before you go out. Don't wait until you're thirsty.
Start early, right after breakfast if you're going out there
when it's cooler most people do. Don't just eat breakfast,
drink cup of coffee and go outside because you're going
to dehydrate. Get the water into you, and I mean
a lot of water into you. If you're not visiting
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the restroom occasionally, you're dehydrating. Just keep that in mind.
If you're working outside, do it in short spurts. Get
in the shade, take a break. More water. The other
thing I like to suggest to people is there are
these potassium drinks out there, and there's some great ones. Now,
don't be drinking energy drinks. They're just full of caffeine.
(30:45):
What you really want is a potassium drink. A drink
like gatorade full of potassium.
Speaker 4 (30:53):
Soda is not going to do with water or potassium drinks,
and keep the sugar low.
Speaker 6 (31:00):
Don't stay outside too long. Remember to take the breaks
off and to rest and cool off. Keep water nearby
even if you're outside, and drink, drink, drink drink. I
can't say it enough. If you start to feel lightheaded,
get inside, take a break, and again more water so
you're replacing the body is like ninety nine percent water.
(31:21):
I'm not a doctor, but I can tell you if
you go outside in this weather, it's going to go
away really quickly. You need to understand it and change
your shirts. Get rid of the wet shirts, put a
dry shirt on. But drink the water. You got to
drink the water. It's really really important. Save yourself a
trip to the emergency room. That is no fun. Nobody
(31:43):
wants to do that, so please please be very very cautious.
Some symptoms excessive sweating, cool, pale or clammy skin. You
start to feel like you're sweating to death, but you're
all a sudden cool and you're starting to feel like
a little clammy. It's time to get inside because you're
in trouble. Nausea, are vomiting, and rapid weak pulse, feeling
(32:07):
faint or dizzy. Of course would be the number one
heat strokes, and that was heat exhaustion. Heat stroke symptoms
is confusion, throbbing, headache, body temperature of one hundred and
three or better, red hot, dry skin, nausea or vomiting,
rapid strong pulse, loss of consciousness. So what happens here
in these little areas of these symptoms is we're going
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from the least worst to the most worst. Okay, you're
kind of looking at you're gonna have losses of consciousness
if you have the other things going on and you
didn't pay attention to it. So get yourself inside, Get
lots of fluids into you, keep them going into you
even when you're outside. Don't think you can just take
a break and go back in the house and have
your fluids later.
Speaker 4 (32:52):
Yeah, and what you wear, I mean there's clothes now
that our SPF protection and big hat clothes that I mean,
you can wear long sleeves with the SPF. I mean,
you see these guys fishing, and I mean they look
like Ninja's out there with the hoods and the car.
I mean, but they they protect themselves from the sun
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and that helps as well.
Speaker 6 (33:15):
Sunblock.
Speaker 4 (33:16):
Yeah, the sunblock. I mean, they just keep the sun off.
So it's in the key that people that come down
here that haven't been down here very long. Is eighty
degrees in Florida is not eighty degrees up north. We
are closer to the equator. It's much more intense. Yep,
you know, just like Mikey's much more intense he is
(33:37):
now that he's down here. He's much more intense. But
it's the uh, it's so you can't you know, it
just it's all the above. Take breaks, We.
Speaker 6 (33:47):
Love you guys. Don't get hurt. Yes, be careful out
there kids. Okay, what else you got?
Speaker 4 (33:54):
Well, you know, I people like to garden, you know,
like the vegetable garden, and it's like, what can I
grow now, blah blah blah. Well, you know, if you
haven't started your cover crops or sweet potatoes earlier, that
really now is not a time to plant anything. So
not even peppers, No, not really. They tell you, I'm
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going down the list for South Florida right now. And August. Yeah,
egg plant you can start, and the okra in August.
Okra probably pretty much any time. Everything else, peppers in August.
You can start, the squash August August, everything else. The
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earliest is really September, because it's what.
Speaker 6 (34:44):
I would say about that. If you're planting in seed
with seeds, and you're planting, you're getting ready for your garden,
which is late September, mid late September, October, depending on
how hot it is. I typically start my seeds inside
in August. Okay, so you get to the first week
of August, you need to be thinking, ooh, next weekend,
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I got to work on getting my seeds planted, because
if I don't, you won't get six weeks for them
to prepare to be going into the garden. Once they're
you know, six weeks old or so, it starts to
cool down. Now it's time to plant and keep in mind.
Peppers again in Florida don't like the fall. They would
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rather go in in February and produce in the spring.
I just got I just pulled my pepper plants. We've
been eating them all summer.
Speaker 4 (35:34):
Yeah, I still have one lipstick pepper that hydroponically that's
doing okay, it's hanging in there. Why not? But you
mentioned something to me a little while ago that really
changed my frame of mind on how to plant things.
When you look at a plant, does it do better
if it's going from hot to cold or cold to hot,
which means do you plant it now? Then it'll do
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thrive when temperatures get a little cooler. Do you plant
when temperatures are cooler and thrive when they get warmer?
And I'm going to try that this year. I'm gonna
be more intentional to see that and probably experiment as well.
But I had never looked at it that way before.
Speaker 6 (36:11):
You could put peppers in earlier, but I'm going to
tell you they're not going to produce very well, especially
if we have a cooler winter. Well, but if you
put them in around January February, and you're able to
cover if we do get that frost. You're going to
have great production in this spring.
Speaker 4 (36:27):
Yeah, and if you start too early in August or September,
even you know, we still have hurricanes. And you know,
even if we don't we get we should get a
lot of rain. We get a tropical storm or two
for sure, and it just makes it tougher to do.
So I just try to be more strategic.
Speaker 6 (36:47):
Yes, all good advice.
Speaker 4 (36:49):
Yep, there it is. So we need to talk about
something else, Yes, you do.
Speaker 6 (36:55):
Okay, let's go back. Let's go back. I mean, just
remind listeners the upcoming events twenty fifth, twenty six, twenty seven,
and Lake Placid. It's a beautiful place. Again, if you
have never been there, it is worth the trip. You
will enjoy your day. Yep. Sunblocks, sun block, complenty of water.
Speaker 4 (37:14):
Yeah, yep.
Speaker 5 (37:16):
The carsho kalladiums and clowns.
Speaker 6 (37:18):
Yeah. And they have garden stuff there. They have little trickys.
You know, it's the typical farmer market yard sale kind
of thing. But it's pretty good size. It's gotten bigger
every year and.
Speaker 5 (37:31):
Kind of like our Hibiscus festival down there, and yeah, we're.
Speaker 6 (37:34):
Sort of like that. I would say it's similar to that. Yeah,
but take the bus trip and go do the tour
of the fields. It's amazing, absolutely amazing.
Speaker 4 (37:42):
And you know, you can plant lemon grass or sugarcane.
I've never grown sugarcan. I do have lemon grass, and
it's not that hard to grow. They say it repels mosquitos,
and it sort of does if you rub the leaves
and then rub that on you. It works for me
now my wife or other people, but.
Speaker 6 (38:02):
It seems to work for me, so okay, interesting, Yeah,
never heard that. I mean, n I have.
Speaker 4 (38:07):
Could be an old wives tale, but it seems to work.
Speaker 5 (38:09):
Hey, they know those old wives tales usually wind up
being true.
Speaker 2 (38:14):
I know they.
Speaker 6 (38:16):
Watch O when your wife starts talking about you.
Speaker 4 (38:20):
Well, she's not old.
Speaker 5 (38:24):
So what about Uh how do you how do you
get lemon grass?
Speaker 6 (38:29):
Well?
Speaker 4 (38:29):
I just you just buy the plant and it can
be split up too.
Speaker 6 (38:34):
You can buy the seed too.
Speaker 14 (38:35):
I have never gone the seed. I guess you could
get the seed. And I'm a propagator. I gotta have seeds.
I gotta try it, you know what I mean? I
have sent so many implants in my yard are rare,
and they're not from plants, they're from seed that was
something somebody's yard.
Speaker 6 (38:51):
You see a little seed head and you go, oh,
let me try that and cut it off, take it,
putting it, bring it home, you know, put a little
bit of dirt and throw some water on its sprayed
every day and next thing you know, you're gonna play.
Speaker 4 (39:01):
Yeah, and it goes well. And pots are in the soil.
I mean, we put it in pots. I'm not sure why,
but we do.
Speaker 5 (39:09):
All right, Mike, Bill Master Gardners. Thank you very much.
We'll talk to you again next month.
Speaker 6 (39:13):
Thanks so much for folks.
Speaker 5 (39:15):
We'll talk to you again tomorrow morning, right here on
news radio fifteen eighty.
Speaker 4 (39:25):
Anybody got any more jokes, any funny?
Speaker 6 (39:27):
Nope, nope. All right, see you folks.
Speaker 4 (39:31):
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Speaker 9 (39:42):
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Gardener, Tuesday, Bill and Mike in the house. What's going on?
Speaker 4 (02:11):
Uh? Well, Rob's not here today because he's training in Palmetto.
I think here, is it Palm Metal? I thought, well,
maybe not. I thought it was, but maybe not.
Speaker 6 (02:22):
It could be. I'm not sure. Oh but he gets
around this guy. Yeah. Uh, I'm glad I'm not as
busy as he is. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (02:30):
Oh, you've got something for Ken.
Speaker 6 (02:31):
Yeah, So let me let me start with this month's activities. Okay,
July twenty fifth, twenty six, twenty seven, and Lake Placid
is the Coldeum Festival. Now I've been to this thing.
I've actually driven buses over there to this thing. It's
just so much fun. If you've never been, I suggest
you go at least say you've been there, because it's
(02:55):
worth it. The place is absolutely gorgeous. It's in a
very nice park setting in like Placid. It's a gorgeous
hilaria over there, kind of hilly. We don't see much here,
but it is a beautiful place to go to and
spend the day, even if it's hot as hadies.
Speaker 4 (03:13):
But even even even if you don't like kladiums, they
also usually have a really nice car show there and
they have the clown Museum in school and that is
absolutely cool and it is that's air conditioned, yes, exactly.
Speaker 5 (03:29):
So if you're if you're if you don't have a
phobia for clowns, go ahead and check it out.
Speaker 6 (03:35):
Yeah, or them around and yeah.
Speaker 4 (03:39):
It's if you're not. If the person you're going with
is Kladium City and you want to do something else,
you've got options.
Speaker 6 (03:45):
Good. So since Ralph typically brings you a plant and
this is Kalladium Month, I haven't brought you am, How
do I take care of this without killing? Kalladiums like
a little moisture, good rich soil hard to find in Florida, however,
they seem to be growing really well. Lake Placid is
kind of a runoff of the big lake over there,
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so they have very very fertile soil. And when you go,
please take the bus tour because it takes you through
these fields where they grow that well, it might be millions,
I don't even know. You see out the bus window
and you look across these fields and all the various
colors of kalladiums are lined up like little soldiers, and
(04:31):
it's just beautiful. You really got to go see this
thing anyway. Kalladium you have today, I believe is white Christmas.
That's the closest one that I could find. There are
so many varieties. This one has an arrowhead shaped leaf.
We'll get to approximately a foot tall. Maybe. One of
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the great things about this and the one that I've
given you today was actually dug up in my yard
last year, and the bulbs were set aside for the winter.
And now he's become a little baby, so you got
that one. We do these, I do these for the
plant shows and typically you'll see them there. But a
beautiful plant. Everybody wants color in the summer. Yeah, you
(05:15):
got it. Just go get you some colladiums. There are
any groceries, not grocery store, but well, you might find
him in the grocery do. It will go dormant, typically
in late September, mid september. It kind of depends on
when you plant them. I find if you plant them
in the spring, they're going to be up early in
the spring. If you plant them later in the fall,
they're going to come up later in the fall. And
(05:38):
I like it that way because you can spread them
around the yard. I got him all over the place
because there's so many trips over there, and every year
they come right back up. It is a rhizome. So
if you want to meaning it's a tuber in the ground,
and if you want to, like I do, dig it up,
cut it up into little pieces, leave it in dirt
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for the winter in a dark, cool place, and then
bring them out in the spring and put them wherever
you want. You can spread these around your yard and
you will have a light or color all summer long.
I absolutely love them, and like like I say, they
do go dormant, but they'll pop right up the next year.
Speaker 4 (06:16):
Yeah, but they can. You can leave them in the
same spot.
Speaker 6 (06:19):
You can't. You can't. They will actually start to multiply
because it is a rhzome. So it is this one
here may have several bulbs in it now because it's
been in that pot since April, so it's it's ready
to bust out. It needs to go now.
Speaker 4 (06:34):
They usually like shade, right.
Speaker 6 (06:35):
Yeah, not necessarily. You can have a partial shade is fine.
You just don't put them in the baking song all
day long. But almost anywhere on a border they do wonderful.
They really do. It is just keep them wet. They
do need to stay damp soil, not soaking, but damn soil. Okay,
all right, thank you. That's that Clarion show, Cladion Festival,
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July twenty fifth, twenty seven. Don't miss it. Great, great show.
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All right, we have to take our first break and
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We got the master gardner's in house taking to your
calls at nine four one two zero six fifteen eighty.
Speaker 4 (08:57):
Who's up the well, I can do gardening in a minute,
all right, the uh do it? I've done this I
think three years ago. And Ralph, so.
Speaker 5 (09:08):
We're getting a repeat of your gardening in a minute.
Speaker 4 (09:11):
Yeah, yeah, we're getting a little repeat. And Ralph got
his nickers.
Speaker 13 (09:14):
In the I thought that, yeah, yeah, I thought that
came on vacation weeks.
Speaker 7 (09:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (09:20):
And you know, Ralph got his knickers in a bunch
when I did it the first time, so he's not here.
I can do it again. And it's just understanding the
nitrogen cycle in your landscape. I believe this is an
important topic to mention, even though, or maybe because of
we are currently in the restricted season from June first
until September thirtieth, which means you are prohibited from using
(09:43):
fertilizers containing nitrogen and phosphorus. But yeah, However, in Southwest
Florida soils generally contained sufficient amounts of phosphorus, so phosphorus
is not really a concern about adding to your soil
right now. Nitrogen is the most abundant element, encompassing approximately
seventy eight percent of the Earth's atmosphere, and is important
(10:03):
to all living things. It is found in the soil
in plants, the water we drink, and the air we breathe,
and it is not surprising then that nitrogen is an
essential micronutrient for plants, making it a key component in
plant health as well as helping to regulate water and
nutrient absorption. Too little nitrogen your plants will not thrive.
(10:24):
Too much can be toxic to the plants and harm
our environment. Unfortunately, Florida soils are often deficient in nitrogen
and should be added to your landscape. Therefore, it is
important to monitor the amount of nitrogen you use. To
this end, it's helpful to understand from a fifty thousand
foot perspective how the nitrogen cycle works. In its basic form,
(10:46):
nitrogen cycle is a simple process. Comes from the atmosphere
to the soil plants back to the atmosphere ground water.
Nitrogen moves from the atmosphere through the soil in your landscape,
absorbed by your plants, then released back to the atmosphere.
Primary sources of nitrogen in your landscape are rain, organic matter,
(11:07):
and synthetic fertilizers, to a lesser extent, animal waste and
septic systems. On a side note, using a mulching more
is a good way of adding a regular supply of
nitrogen to your yard. Bacteria in the soil converts nitrogen
to a form which plants can absorb. Plants in general
absorb the nitrogen they need. When excessive amounts of nitrogen
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are used through fertilizers, synthetic or organic, plants can absorb
only so much, in other words, only what they need.
The excess may leach into the groundwater or run off
into the waterways. Both are harmful to the environment. It's
important to use slow release fertilizers in your landscape and
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to always always follow the label instructions when applying fertilizer.
This allows the appropriate amount of fertilizers to enter the
soil over pairseriod of time, ensuring your plants receive only
what they need. When your landscape or garden looks like
it needs attention, your first response should not be I'll
just add more fertilizer. The man me. It's like when
(12:13):
you own a pool. You know, I think I need
to add more chlorine. No, maybe you don't. The simple
action the yeah, I mean, when you add too much chlorine,
you're gonna burn out the pump and you're gonna have
to buy bathing suits more often. The simple action of
using appropriate amounts of fertilizer, specifically nitrogen in your landscape
(12:33):
will help ensure your plants thrive and not just survive,
and make you a better steward of the environment. And
that's guarding in probably almost a minute, Maybe let me.
Speaker 6 (12:44):
Try this on that same cool I'm not same yeah,
thought processed nitrogen fertilizers, things like that. If you have
your if you treat your lawn and you make your
lawn look pretty and they bag your grass, don't make
them take it away. Make them put that in the borders,
because now you're fertilizing during season, when with the same
(13:09):
things that you're not required to put in season because
basically it's it's broken down already, it goes in as biodegradable,
and those chemicals that are already there, if you spread
them on the lawn, it's going to leach into the groundwater.
If you put it in your landscape, it has a
beneficial use. As mentioned, the plants will take it up
(13:29):
as needed, so you're actually getting a two full benefit
from paying long guys to command and spray lawns and
do the things that they do that a lot of
times we wish they didn't do, but they have to
to keep it nice looking. Sad grouse, so there's.
Speaker 4 (13:45):
Not okay, that was gardening in a minute.
Speaker 10 (13:48):
Right.
Speaker 6 (13:50):
About Angelonia, who, well, it's not really a person's name.
It's actually that's a different story for a different program.
But I'll never forget it anyway. It gets considered like
a snap dragon. It has that typical kind of look
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of a snap dragon. So those of you from the North,
which I am about one hundred years ago, it's a
great plant for your landscape. And one of the great
things about it is is that it's a perennial and
so in Florida, again, it's gonna go dormant, but it's
gonna give you flowers several times a year. They're very fragrant.
(14:33):
They have almost a great smell to them, and you
can bring cut those flowers and bring them in. You'll
see these in bouquets everywhere because they do last a
good long time as a cut flower, so they have
a huge benefit. They grow great in nine B south
and of course now we're in that area. Yeah, yes,
(14:56):
so get yourself some angelonia. They are a great little
plant and again borter three feet maybe at the top,
so they're not going to get really huge. You can
thin them out as they start to spread. And again,
a very nice ornamental plant for the summer.
Speaker 4 (15:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (15:17):
Shade, shade, shade, everything's shade this time of year. You know,
if you're going to plant new stuff, it's got to
be in the shade.
Speaker 4 (15:26):
Oh yeah, absolutely. How about vegetable of the month, let's
go with it. Hot peppers and yard long beans. Hot
peppers they do grow really well in the summer down here.
Speaker 6 (15:39):
That's when they get the heat.
Speaker 4 (15:41):
Yeah, that's when they get the heat. And God bless
my daughter. She has a hard time trying to grow vegetables.
She's really busy. But she has some fantastic hot peppers.
So they're very minimal maintenance requirement for the most part
once you get them started. Yard long beans, I look
at them as part of the cover cropping, and I
(16:02):
planted yard long beans and I planted black eyed peas,
purple hol and Texas cream as cover crops and they
are doing fantastic and I'm just learning now when to
pick the yard long beans. I picked them a little
too soon. I think they were only fourteen inches. Mike,
I know, remember you told me that it's better to
(16:22):
pick them before they get three.
Speaker 6 (16:24):
Feet It is it is that tastes better than don't
quite is mean?
Speaker 4 (16:28):
Yeah. And you know when you talk to Ralph and
Mike and some of the other master gardeners, they always
leave out key pieces of information when they tell you
to try to grow these things.
Speaker 6 (16:39):
It's a learning process.
Speaker 4 (16:40):
Well it's key in this case. And you know you
think yard long beans, they say, oh, it tastes just
like green beans. It's just like you get in the winter.
It's all blah blah. Okay, you cook them like that. Nay, nay,
you cook them like stir fry. Well, that's an important
piece of information to have when you start cooking and
you grow these things and it's like, well, taste like dirt,
(17:01):
and it's like, well, you cook them wrong. You got
to tell people how to cook these things.
Speaker 6 (17:05):
Butter.
Speaker 4 (17:06):
Yeah, well, but they and butter or a lot of
bourbon and beer. But but I have a question on
the there. I have the red yard long beans that
you gave me. Will the outer skin turn red when
they're ripe?
Speaker 6 (17:22):
No, they they'll actually start to well, they might get
a little color to them, but they're going to start
turning brown, is what's going to happen.
Speaker 4 (17:29):
And you need to before that.
Speaker 6 (17:30):
Yeah, you need to. You're talking about getting the beans themselves, right, No,
eat them?
Speaker 4 (17:35):
No, no, no, before to eat them.
Speaker 6 (17:37):
No, don't wait for them to do that. They're going
to be ugly.
Speaker 4 (17:40):
Okay, So how do you know when they're ripe?
Speaker 6 (17:44):
Well, what I always say is if you can get
them before, you see a real distinct bean, look in
the plant. In other words, the fruit will come down,
it'll get quite long. You'll see it. You're pretty much
vigilant looking at them every day. So you take a
peek at it and you go, oh, that's getting a
little lumpy. If it's getting lumpy, you better get it
(18:06):
off of the vine because it's not going to be
very good if you don't. The younger the better. Let's
just put it that way, Okay, don't wait to becoming
yard long.
Speaker 4 (18:15):
No. No. And so I think I maybe need to
pick those now. Then I don't have enough for a meal.
The it's kind of cool when I'm growing stuff because Kim,
my wife likes to cook stuff, and if it's new stuff,
she has to look up how to do it, which
is she had to really look up on the yard
long being she had no idea either. Think, you know, to.
Speaker 6 (18:37):
Talk more about this, but all of this is a
learning process.
Speaker 4 (18:41):
It is you know, gardening it for it is a
learning process. But you know this year, last year, I
had so many aphids because I planted it like grass.
This year, I planted it like a plant and no
a fids. I've sprayed them a couple of times, but
not really much, and I'm getting plenty of the cover
(19:01):
crops aren't quite ready yet, the purple hull and Texas
cream black eyed peas, but I think the yard long
beans are ready.
Speaker 5 (19:10):
To from what Mike says, Yeah, Ti Fi, it's time
to pick. All right, we have take another break. We'll
be right back on news Radio fifteen eighty to be fair.
Speaker 9 (19:17):
To Fair, to be fairs.
Speaker 6 (19:30):
That seems like you're doing all his works to distract
yourself from feelings you don't want to redeals with you.
Speaker 8 (19:34):
We'll be right back with Charlotte County speaks on news
Radio fifteen eighty WCCF.
Speaker 5 (19:50):
News Radio fifteen eighty one hundred point nine FM, WCCF
Charlotte County, speaks at ten thirty five with the Master.
Gardner's phone lines are open if you have a question,
inform at nine four one two zero six fifteen eighty
toll free eight eight eight four four one fifteen eighty.
Speaker 6 (20:07):
Okay. Pest of the month we have here a little
We get talking points from Ralph every month, so we
have some idea what should be talked about. However, sometimes
we go off script.
Speaker 4 (20:20):
I usually go off script.
Speaker 6 (20:21):
Yes, yeah, that's Bill. Yes we love Ralph, but occasionally
we have to do different things. So the pest of
the month on my list is aphids, and we've talked
about that pretty regularly on this show as far as
being a real problem and how to deal with it,
so I won't go into that. What I'd like to
talk about today is for those of you that have
a sad lawn that you maintain and spend a lot
(20:45):
of money doing that to keep passing things out. This
is the time of year for you to be very vigilant.
Don't wait for your pest control company to find chinch bugs.
They're very small, tiny little pests. I have other names
(21:07):
for them, but I'm sure here. But anyway, what you'll
see is you'll see small patches of brown in your yard.
Speaker 3 (21:16):
Uh.
Speaker 6 (21:16):
It'll start small, it'll start to grow as the colony
underneath the ground starts to grow. Now, these little guys
will eat the roots out and that kills the grass.
So there's really you have toy have to really get
deep down on their hands and knees and look at
the grass when they come in to spray your yard
(21:37):
for this condition, however, you can pick it up quickly.
And the other thing you might find is I've called
before and said, hey, I got a brown spot in
my yard. I'm not sure if it's chinchbugs or if
it's a fungus, because that's very possible as well. It's
this similar kind of pattern. But when they come in
and look, make sure that your guys getting on the
(21:59):
ground actually looking so he actually treats it correctly, because
funguses can spread super quick this year with the rain, well,
with the rain that we should be happy. But anyway
that is pested in a minute, no, I'm sorry, they
want to steal that pesting the month pested them month,
Thank you, And yeah, just be vigilant. Take a walk
(22:23):
around your yard, you know, if you take it to
the little boys out the doggie's out in the morning,
as I do. I always take a walk with them
and just take a peek and see what's going on.
It's pretty easy to catch it. You can see it
from a good distance away. Brown patches in your yard.
Speaker 4 (22:38):
Yeah, you see them. I had that. We had chitchbugs
when I lived up in Palm Harbor, and the we
first moved in, I didn't know what they were. And
I did what every dope does, like that just moves
the Florida I asked my neighbor. He said, oh, you
just got a water more and that did not help.
(23:00):
But well, let's talk about insecticide of the month. Then
how about that horticulture oil, because I have a story
I want to tell about this as well, a little
bit not necessarily. The insecticide horticulture oil is a good
organic pesticide to use any time of year really for
(23:24):
aphids and things like that on your plants. And but
what I want to focus on is always use per
labeled directions. And in this one and and most pesticides
as well. Do not do in the heat of the
day because you will burn your leaves. And nobody reads
(23:46):
the directions, you know, they just throw stuff down. And
my son called me last week and he's raising chickens
and he goes, Dad, there's mites everywhere. And he goes,
I don't know what to do, and I said, I do.
I'm gonna call Holly. So long story short, she said
use seven dust. So I told him, and he calls
(24:09):
me and he goes, I'm that's a story. To get
seven dust. There's three different types. I said, that's the
powder kind. Blah blah blah, and he goes, holy cow,
this stuff is so expensive. And I said, well, read
the directions on how to use it. And he goes, well,
it's like eight dollars a pound, and or six dollars
(24:29):
a pound. He goes, oh, eight ounces for a thousand
square feet. I only need about at most eighty square feet.
So it's like, oh see, so it's only going to
cost you about forty cents every time you use that thing.
He goes, he thought he was going to have to
spend fifty bucks a month, and he didn't. So the
(24:53):
moral of the story is not only are you doing
stuff that's better for the environment, better for the plant,
but it's also better for your pocketbook because you're not
just wasting this stuff and using it inappropriately. So and
it was a simple, easy fix. You just spray a
little on the ground where the chicken's nest and boom,
(25:17):
he said, within a two days that where they were
all gone. So you go so read. We don't just
say this stuff. It's like read the label instructions. They
work perfectly. And that's we have time.
Speaker 6 (25:32):
Yes, we do vine of the month vine. Well, I
won't be back for another month. So I figured Queen's
wreath grows great beautiful purple flowers for you ladies out there. Again,
I'm all about color. If you want color in your yard,
(25:54):
you got to do all these things. If you don't
do these things and stop planting things in rows, hedge,
rows are just not in anymore. It's really a great
idea to have an abstract long where you have different
plants flowering at different times. But this one in particular
(26:14):
can flower several times a year, typically after a good rain.
It does not require a heck of a lot of attention.
Once it's established, fence slides are the best, but you
can put it on a trellis or however you want
to do it. You can trum it up and keep
it within bounds if you need to. Some people just
(26:35):
like to let them go because once they flower, they
are absolutely beautiful. February to June is the typical flowering time,
but they can flower, as I said, almost anytime. They
look like a bunch of grapes when they start to
that's what they resemble. And look you get a long
(26:57):
spear that comes out of them, and then mult to
pull flowers that come off of that very beautiful, beautiful
plant on queens wreath, the best one in the area.
It's also called Alba flora. You can try that, but
it's described as being various variably deciduous, meaning you can
(27:22):
have leaf drop if you have a little bit of
cold weather, never fear it will come back. And I
know people down here like evergreens, but if you want
a really great flowering plant, this is the one to get.
All right, fine, in a month.
Speaker 5 (27:38):
There you go Vine of the month and with that
we'll take our final break and be right back on
News Radio fifteen eighty.
Speaker 6 (27:44):
Yeah. Well, you know that's just like your opinion.
Speaker 8 (27:49):
Man will be right back with Charlotte County Speaks News Radio,
fifteen eighty WCCs.
Speaker 7 (27:57):
HI waste endless amounts of time, endless hours watching TV
that I can't believe I'm watching while I'm watching it,
but I can't.
Speaker 3 (28:02):
Turn it off.
Speaker 7 (28:03):
This is the best example of the last six months.
About three months ago, I watched Martha Stewart build a
hammock for a cat. Swear to god, I don't even
have a cat. I was just so astonished that a
human being could reach this point in their life where
(28:23):
you're you are literally this out of things to do,
and there's enough free room in your brain for the
thought to get in. While looking at the cat, I
don't think he's comfortable enough. I see him in a
hammock with a martine. I think Martha Stewart is evil.
(28:43):
I can't prove that her little project. She's like, well,
this should only take thirty minutes for you. You had
ten guys shopping for this for four days.
Speaker 10 (28:52):
You go to home depot and try to find cat
hammock carpet.
Speaker 5 (29:08):
News Radio fifteen eighty one hundred point nine FM, WCCF
ten forty nine. Here at Charlotte County speaks with a
master Gardener's phone lines are nine four one, two zero six,
fifteen eighty. Who's up, Bill, Bill, Mike, Mike, Bill.
Speaker 13 (29:24):
I'll take I'll take Hello over all right, He's safety.
You guys know it's really bad out there right now.
If any of you work this weekend out in your yards,
you are well aware of how bad it is.
Speaker 6 (29:40):
Summer gardens seems to have an endless amount of work
to be done. There are is grass, tomo, weeds to pull,
trees to trim. Don't trim me trees in a summer.
Just leave alone, okay, But working in the garden during
the summer can put gardeners at risk from the unforgiving
Florida heat. A couple of suggestions. First of all, drink
(30:01):
water before you go out. Don't wait until you're thirsty.
Start early, right after breakfast if you're going out there
when it's cooler most people do. Don't just eat breakfast,
drink cup of coffee and go outside because you're going
to dehydrate. Get the water into you, and I mean
a lot of water into you. If you're not visiting
(30:22):
the restroom occasionally, you're dehydrating. Just keep that in mind.
If you're working outside, do it in short spurts. Get
in the shade, take a break. More water. The other
thing I like to suggest to people is there are
these potassium drinks out there, and there's some great ones. Now,
don't be drinking energy drinks. They're just full of caffeine.
(30:45):
What you really want is a potassium drink. A drink
like gatorade full of potassium.
Speaker 4 (30:53):
Soda is not going to do with water or potassium drinks,
and keep the sugar low.
Speaker 6 (31:00):
Don't stay outside too long. Remember to take the breaks
off and to rest and cool off. Keep water nearby
even if you're outside, and drink, drink, drink drink. I
can't say it enough. If you start to feel lightheaded,
get inside, take a break, and again more water so
you're replacing the body is like ninety nine percent water.
(31:21):
I'm not a doctor, but I can tell you if
you go outside in this weather, it's going to go
away really quickly. You need to understand it and change
your shirts. Get rid of the wet shirts, put a
dry shirt on. But drink the water. You got to
drink the water. It's really really important. Save yourself a
trip to the emergency room. That is no fun. Nobody
(31:43):
wants to do that, so please please be very very cautious.
Some symptoms excessive sweating, cool, pale or clammy skin. You
start to feel like you're sweating to death, but you're
all a sudden cool and you're starting to feel like
a little clammy. It's time to get inside because you're
in trouble. Nausea, are vomiting, and rapid weak pulse, feeling
(32:07):
faint or dizzy. Of course would be the number one
heat strokes, and that was heat exhaustion. Heat stroke symptoms
is confusion, throbbing, headache, body temperature of one hundred and
three or better, red hot, dry skin, nausea or vomiting,
rapid strong pulse, loss of consciousness. So what happens here
in these little areas of these symptoms is we're going
(32:31):
from the least worst to the most worst. Okay, you're
kind of looking at you're gonna have losses of consciousness
if you have the other things going on and you
didn't pay attention to it. So get yourself inside, Get
lots of fluids into you, keep them going into you
even when you're outside. Don't think you can just take
a break and go back in the house and have
your fluids later.
Speaker 4 (32:52):
Yeah, and what you wear, I mean there's clothes now
that our SPF protection and big hat clothes that I mean,
you can wear long sleeves with the SPF. I mean,
you see these guys fishing, and I mean they look
like Ninja's out there with the hoods and the car.
I mean, but they they protect themselves from the sun
(33:13):
and that helps as well.
Speaker 6 (33:15):
Sunblock.
Speaker 4 (33:16):
Yeah, the sunblock. I mean, they just keep the sun off.
So it's in the key that people that come down
here that haven't been down here very long. Is eighty
degrees in Florida is not eighty degrees up north. We
are closer to the equator. It's much more intense. Yep,
you know, just like Mikey's much more intense he is
(33:37):
now that he's down here. He's much more intense. But
it's the uh, it's so you can't you know, it
just it's all the above. Take breaks, We.
Speaker 6 (33:47):
Love you guys. Don't get hurt. Yes, be careful out
there kids. Okay, what else you got?
Speaker 4 (33:54):
Well, you know, I people like to garden, you know,
like the vegetable garden, and it's like, what can I
grow now, blah blah blah. Well, you know, if you
haven't started your cover crops or sweet potatoes earlier, that
really now is not a time to plant anything. So
not even peppers, No, not really. They tell you, I'm
(34:15):
going down the list for South Florida right now. And August. Yeah,
egg plant you can start, and the okra in August.
Okra probably pretty much any time. Everything else, peppers in August.
You can start, the squash August August, everything else. The
(34:40):
earliest is really September, because it's what.
Speaker 6 (34:44):
I would say about that. If you're planting in seed
with seeds, and you're planting, you're getting ready for your garden,
which is late September, mid late September, October, depending on
how hot it is. I typically start my seeds inside
in August. Okay, so you get to the first week
of August, you need to be thinking, ooh, next weekend,
(35:06):
I got to work on getting my seeds planted, because
if I don't, you won't get six weeks for them
to prepare to be going into the garden. Once they're
you know, six weeks old or so, it starts to
cool down. Now it's time to plant and keep in mind.
Peppers again in Florida don't like the fall. They would
(35:26):
rather go in in February and produce in the spring.
I just got I just pulled my pepper plants. We've
been eating them all summer.
Speaker 4 (35:34):
Yeah, I still have one lipstick pepper that hydroponically that's
doing okay, it's hanging in there. Why not? But you
mentioned something to me a little while ago that really
changed my frame of mind on how to plant things.
When you look at a plant, does it do better
if it's going from hot to cold or cold to hot,
which means do you plant it now? Then it'll do
(35:56):
thrive when temperatures get a little cooler. Do you plant
when temperatures are cooler and thrive when they get warmer?
And I'm going to try that this year. I'm gonna
be more intentional to see that and probably experiment as well.
But I had never looked at it that way before.
Speaker 6 (36:11):
You could put peppers in earlier, but I'm going to
tell you they're not going to produce very well, especially
if we have a cooler winter. Well, but if you
put them in around January February, and you're able to
cover if we do get that frost. You're going to
have great production in this spring.
Speaker 4 (36:27):
Yeah, and if you start too early in August or September,
even you know, we still have hurricanes. And you know,
even if we don't we get we should get a
lot of rain. We get a tropical storm or two
for sure, and it just makes it tougher to do.
So I just try to be more strategic.
Speaker 6 (36:47):
Yes, all good advice.
Speaker 4 (36:49):
Yep, there it is. So we need to talk about
something else, Yes, you do.
Speaker 6 (36:55):
Okay, let's go back. Let's go back. I mean, just
remind listeners the upcoming events twenty fifth, twenty six, twenty seven,
and Lake Placid. It's a beautiful place. Again, if you
have never been there, it is worth the trip. You
will enjoy your day. Yep. Sunblocks, sun block, complenty of water.
Speaker 4 (37:14):
Yeah, yep.
Speaker 5 (37:16):
The carsho kalladiums and clowns.
Speaker 6 (37:18):
Yeah. And they have garden stuff there. They have little trickys.
You know, it's the typical farmer market yard sale kind
of thing. But it's pretty good size. It's gotten bigger
every year and.
Speaker 5 (37:31):
Kind of like our Hibiscus festival down there, and yeah, we're.
Speaker 6 (37:34):
Sort of like that. I would say it's similar to that. Yeah,
but take the bus trip and go do the tour
of the fields. It's amazing, absolutely amazing.
Speaker 4 (37:42):
And you know, you can plant lemon grass or sugarcane.
I've never grown sugarcan. I do have lemon grass, and
it's not that hard to grow. They say it repels mosquitos,
and it sort of does if you rub the leaves
and then rub that on you. It works for me
now my wife or other people, but.
Speaker 6 (38:02):
It seems to work for me, so okay, interesting, Yeah,
never heard that. I mean, n I have.
Speaker 4 (38:07):
Could be an old wives tale, but it seems to work.
Speaker 5 (38:09):
Hey, they know those old wives tales usually wind up
being true.
Speaker 2 (38:14):
I know they.
Speaker 6 (38:16):
Watch O when your wife starts talking about you.
Speaker 4 (38:20):
Well, she's not old.
Speaker 5 (38:24):
So what about Uh how do you how do you
get lemon grass?
Speaker 6 (38:29):
Well?
Speaker 4 (38:29):
I just you just buy the plant and it can
be split up too.
Speaker 6 (38:34):
You can buy the seed too.
Speaker 14 (38:35):
I have never gone the seed. I guess you could
get the seed. And I'm a propagator. I gotta have seeds.
I gotta try it, you know what I mean? I
have sent so many implants in my yard are rare,
and they're not from plants, they're from seed that was
something somebody's yard.
Speaker 6 (38:51):
You see a little seed head and you go, oh,
let me try that and cut it off, take it,
putting it, bring it home, you know, put a little
bit of dirt and throw some water on its sprayed
every day and next thing you know, you're gonna play.
Speaker 4 (39:01):
Yeah, and it goes well. And pots are in the soil.
I mean, we put it in pots. I'm not sure why,
but we do.
Speaker 5 (39:09):
All right, Mike, Bill Master Gardners. Thank you very much.
We'll talk to you again next month.
Speaker 6 (39:13):
Thanks so much for folks.
Speaker 5 (39:15):
We'll talk to you again tomorrow morning, right here on
news radio fifteen eighty.
Speaker 4 (39:25):
Anybody got any more jokes, any funny?
Speaker 6 (39:27):
Nope, nope. All right, see you folks.
Speaker 4 (39:31):
You are not fad easily. You're close.
Speaker 12 (39:37):
If you're not, then you are the crew.
Speaker 8 (39:39):
Please leave, We are close.
Speaker 9 (39:42):
Make your way to the door.
Speaker 5 (39:45):
We're in news Radio fifteen eighty AM w CCF Punda
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