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June 11, 2019 13 mins

What hobby has always intimidated Jodi?  

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
So there's the real show, and then there's this thing
we call after the show. So here we go with
another merby Sam and Jody after the show podcast. Not
that it's fake. Yeah, it's just not on the air
on the regular radio track.

Speaker 2 (00:11):
It's not the real show.

Speaker 3 (00:12):
It's extra.

Speaker 1 (00:13):
It's extra.

Speaker 3 (00:14):
Hang around longer and we can go as long as
we want extra.

Speaker 2 (00:16):
I mean something different these days.

Speaker 3 (00:18):
Well it's still the same, though it's an extra. It's
not too much anyway, Guys, Murphy, we were telling you
to everybody today about Phoebe getting a little job. She's
watering the plants of our neighbor who lives two houses down.
Her name is Mimi, and she went to the beach
with her family for a few days. So Phoebe is
watering her plants, her outside plants.

Speaker 2 (00:42):
She got any cool exotic stuff or she has.

Speaker 3 (00:44):
A ton of cool stuff. This is why I bring
this up. She's got all kinds. She can grow anything.
She's one of these women that can grow anything. And
she's always she's show she's she was showing us all this.
This is you can't find this anywhere. Some lady who
used to do you know, landscape architecture gave me that,
and it's cool and I want to get some some
of my orchids today, but don't worry about them. I've

(01:04):
got excuse me, Sam.

Speaker 1 (01:09):
Yeah, but a little slip there, there's a there's a
cream that helps with that.

Speaker 3 (01:16):
Okay, so enter my I. As soon as she started
showing us all of this and everything that she's growing,
she's growing.

Speaker 1 (01:22):
Well, yeah, I mean I'm impressed. These are plants and
species that I just don't recognize either. I mean, I
know that summer. Some are tropical and some are not.
That's pretty much to me the difference classifications for you.
But I can if it's Paul me and I mean
it kind of looks like it super should be, you know,
close to a beach, then it's tropical.

Speaker 3 (01:42):
So when they when she gets back from the beach
and we go down to visit her, and she's going
to pay pheebe a little you know, fee for doing
the work. I know she'll say yes because she's a sweet,
sweet lady. And if she doesn't say yes, that's fine
because I can watch videos. I've got other friends who
can help me. But I've only ever really done house plants.

(02:02):
I mean, I repotted some stuff the other night, and
I do okay with it. I'm not great. The thumb's
not green, but I want it to be. You know
what I'm saying. So it's something i've dabbled in.

Speaker 1 (02:11):
Well, didn't you buy a kit that the instruction said
it's impossible to screw? It was a fool proof is
what it said? Is that herb garden.

Speaker 3 (02:18):
I was going to bring that up too. Okay. I
bought Phoebe and herb garden the other day. Okay, when
to sell herb garden? Right, She's always wanted to do this,
grow herbs, and I thought this would be cool for
her to do it and you can use it. Well,
guess what four herbs are in it? Say, cilantro, a regano, parsley,
chives and cilantro. And so Phoebe begged her dad, can

(02:41):
I please plant these? And what was your answer?

Speaker 2 (02:44):
Well?

Speaker 1 (02:44):
I was hesitant at first. Actually, Jody's answer was the
one that cracked me up. It's like, we really don't
need to plant those.

Speaker 3 (02:49):
It's a dollar a sprig an. Well, she's like, this
is the only thing I'd like to grow for the
bearded dragon.

Speaker 1 (02:57):
But Phoebe is interested in growing it. For the bearded dragon.
So you know me the daddy, and me is like, okay,
that's fine. The only caveat is if for some reason,
if I can smell this thing or whatever, then it's
gonna it's gonna have to go outside. But even suggested,
why don't we plant it outside.

Speaker 3 (03:15):
On the window sill first.

Speaker 4 (03:15):
I mean, you can put one of your new sash
a's by it. Right, I'm gonna put it in the
far corner of the yard.

Speaker 3 (03:21):
We will grow it in the window sill, and once
it starts, if it does well and sprouts, we will
move it outside. I don't want all of them outside anyway.
And containers.

Speaker 1 (03:31):
I know nothing about growing herbs at all now, but Cilantro,
when you look at it in the store, seems to
me like it pretty much just grows like crazy like
a weed. You can't kill cilantro, apparently, although Cilandric could
kill you or I can kill me.

Speaker 3 (03:45):
Anyway, we planted that already. We're waiting for sprigs, like
it's in not in direct sunlight right now, and we're
waiting to.

Speaker 2 (03:51):
See some big as this thing.

Speaker 3 (03:52):
It's little. It's a little tray with little containers for
different containers, little herb garden little herb garden starter thing.
I bought that for her and we'll see how it goes.

Speaker 1 (04:01):
You know, Joke's first complaint was about it. I can't
believe this. I've got a poke holes in the bottom
of the success because it doesn't drain like you have
to have.

Speaker 3 (04:12):
Give me one that has a little hole in it already.

Speaker 4 (04:14):
I didn't want to put it goes back to your
dollar a bunch. You know, it's not even worth it, right, I'm.

Speaker 3 (04:20):
Doing a knife and poking my hole anyway. I bring
it all back up because we have this beautiful planter
in the new house that we moved into at the
deck in the patio area. It's this big wooden, long, rectangular,
rectangular planter, perfect for herbs, perfect for just the flowers.

Speaker 1 (04:37):
And I should tell you it's not in the greatest shape.
It looks like a shipwreck. Time is taking a toll
on this thing. But it should be perfect for raising earth.

Speaker 3 (04:47):
I'm not going to put herbs in it or whatever.
I am going to clean it out, make sure it's
got drainage holes. If not, I need to look at
what kind of wood it is, because maybe it's porous.
But I have never since I was a little girl.
What porous is a word? I know?

Speaker 4 (05:01):
It is just drill some holes. You drill some holes
and put some rocks or pebbles over it so it
doesn't the mud doesn't leak out, and.

Speaker 1 (05:07):
You go, yeah, see I can do that, and I
have a drill bit big enough for that.

Speaker 3 (05:12):
But whatever you mean, good for you, Okay, Murphy. Anyway,
I'm going to ask our neighbor Mimi, who can grow anything,
to advise me on what I should put in here,
because I don't want to just go pick out what
I think would look nice. Because this is a direct
sunlight thing. You know, I need to know what will
work well together, what I can have the most success with,
you know, because Phoebe wants to do this with me too,

(05:33):
and I don't want to be the and I'm gona
be honest with her. I haven't planted flowers since I
was a little girl with my dad, and all I
did was go out and do what he told me
to do, you know, because you have to think about
what goes well together, what needs direct sunlight spacing. You
have to think about spacing, right, you want something you
don't want? I want both. I want to put both

(05:54):
in there. I want the things that drape over and
the things that go They call them thrillers, fillers and spillers.
Remember have you never heard that a video I watched
about planting flowers. Fill and thriller would be something that
if you're going to plant something together in a big
pot and you want it to be really fills up
every part it's beautiful. You want a thriller, which is

(06:15):
something that goes up high, a filler which fills in
spaces you don't see dirt, and then a spiller that
spills out.

Speaker 1 (06:22):
I didn't know any of that. You know, when you're
talking about you know, biennials and annuals and all that stuff.
Do they have like perennial?

Speaker 4 (06:33):
There is no such thing as a biennial plant.

Speaker 1 (06:35):
I think that there could be. I mean there aren't
there something like bloom every ten years or something. I've
heard something about that something.

Speaker 4 (06:42):
There's some rare plants that, you know, some things that
bloom at night only for one day, and.

Speaker 1 (06:47):
Then some bloom once a decade. It's like you got
to be sitting there, you know, or you miss.

Speaker 3 (06:51):
It, like that Dennis the Menace movie. Anyway, my whole
point is I think that she would. She would be
a good person to ask, and I really want to
learn it.

Speaker 2 (07:00):
Yeah, she'll tell you the exact kind of soil one everything.

Speaker 3 (07:02):
I've always felt dumb when it comes to that stuff.
It did nut. It's just one of those things that
does not come naturally to me. So I'm lucky to
keep my house plants alive. And all my house plants
are doing fine, but they're very okay.

Speaker 2 (07:14):
You know.

Speaker 3 (07:15):
And I don't when I walk into a nursery, I
don't know what I'm looking at or what to buy.
And I want to me too.

Speaker 1 (07:24):
When I was a kid especially, and I don't remember that.
Of course, I don't remember the name of the plant.
In horticulture class, which I did take a horticulture class.

Speaker 3 (07:32):
Really learned about biennials. It was.

Speaker 1 (07:35):
It was a six week you know, this rotating elective thing.
And mister Bezer was my horticulture teacher.

Speaker 4 (07:40):
I called him Basil, right, No, no, I think about
that now, but you spice things up.

Speaker 1 (07:47):
Yeah, just but he had two he had two rules,
and one is not to overwater your plants. Sure, and
don't stick your hand in the fan. That was, you know,
because they had those little greenhouse fans and you be surprised.
But there was this palm looking kind of plant. We've

(08:07):
all seen him before, green leaves, and it kind of
has that red little outline or kind of a purplish
kind of a hue outline. It kind of looks like
a palm. Do you know what I'm talking about? That
was the plant that he had us all raised because
apparently if you take reasonable care of it, you can
keep it alive.

Speaker 2 (08:23):
And kalladium bulbs, wasn't it?

Speaker 1 (08:25):
No, No, I know what those are. You see when
those go away, they come back? Yeah? Right, They got
to call them boomerangs.

Speaker 3 (08:31):
I had this plant or perennials. I had this plant once.
Then I kept hearing, don't overwater it, don't overwater it,
and so I didn't overwater and every time I watered it,
I only gave it a little bit. And the poor
thing was just pathetic. And I brought it to a
nursery and the guy dumped out and goes, this thing
needs some water desperately. So it's like, why, you know,

(08:51):
how am I supposed to know that if some of
them meet a lot, some of them meant only a little.
And yes, they come with the tag. But it's like,
I follow that to the best of my ability, and
at some point I'm like, how many more things do
I need to take care of? But I really do
want to learn enough for one planter or box is
what it is. It's a big pits and it's sad
to me that it's empty right now, Murphy, it's sad

(09:13):
to me that it's nothing but leaves in it. I'm
gonna work it and hopefully Mimi will help me.

Speaker 1 (09:18):
The only thing that's more sad than it being empty
is when you kill everything that you're gonna put it.
That'll be sad.

Speaker 3 (09:26):
And later, later when we're home, he'll be going, you know,
it's just picking about that.

Speaker 1 (09:29):
Yeah, well, yeah, I am picking about that. I just
I don't really know.

Speaker 3 (09:35):
You don't have to know.

Speaker 1 (09:35):
I'm not good at that.

Speaker 3 (09:36):
You know, I'm not asking you to be. In fact,
I don't want to do this with you, Murphy. I
want to learn this. Look at me.

Speaker 2 (09:43):
I'm trying to.

Speaker 1 (09:43):
Look at this palm things. It says ponytail palm. That's
not what it was. An indoor outdoor plant. It's an
indoor plant.

Speaker 3 (09:50):
There's a million, there's a million until you see it again,
You're not gonna know what it is.

Speaker 5 (09:55):
No, it's it was it's spiky, right, yeah, okay, yeah,
I'm I'm looking at them online and all I've found
so far is it's just, oh, this is a palm plant,
but it's.

Speaker 1 (10:04):
Not a palm. It has a name. I'll think of it.
It's a really it's a pretty common name. Where I
don't need to be growing plants.

Speaker 5 (10:11):
We're on the difficulty scale in everything that you've talked
about is growing food.

Speaker 3 (10:16):
I have no idea of food like O tomato tomatoes.
I've heard they're how hard, But I would love that.
I know a Mimi will help me with that because
she's got tomatoes.

Speaker 1 (10:26):
She has some nice tomatoes.

Speaker 3 (10:28):
I know.

Speaker 1 (10:28):
Would I mean when I'm like, I'm sitting there like
I couldn't take my eyes off of them, saying I
couldn't believe they were so perfect.

Speaker 3 (10:34):
Okay, My deal is we sit outside on that patio
all the time. I want the flowerbed first with some flowers,
and then we'll do tomatoes. But I want to do
this myself. It's something I'm seeking out on my own.
Does that make sense?

Speaker 1 (10:49):
And with Phoebe's I'm not gonna messy that it's your project.
I support you, and actually I do hope it succeeds.
You tell me where you want the holes drilled, then
you do all the plants.

Speaker 3 (10:58):
And he just waits for the fingers crossed because you know,
I don't know how how well I'll do.

Speaker 1 (11:05):
See, I think growing tomatoes would be exciting.

Speaker 5 (11:08):
I bet food tastes so much better knowing that that
was coming from your backyard.

Speaker 1 (11:13):
Yeah, amazing.

Speaker 3 (11:14):
We'll see when you.

Speaker 1 (11:15):
When you have two fresh grown tomatoes in your hand
and you go to you know, I mean it's some
some are so big. They're bigger than the ones you
ever seen. Okay, making Jody's grandfather, I don't know what
he puts in the dirt tomato tomatoes they are, They're perfect.

(11:36):
I'm serious.

Speaker 3 (11:37):
So the one knows how to grow them.

Speaker 5 (11:40):
The Madagascar dragon tree is what you're looking for. Marg
I don't know how to say it.

Speaker 2 (11:48):
Lat it's it.

Speaker 1 (11:50):
That's it. It's a dragon, it's a dragon plant. It's like, okay,
that may be it. Thank you, Bailey.

Speaker 3 (11:56):
So why did you need to know that so badly?
You want one of those?

Speaker 1 (11:59):
And I mean I see them all the time. They
had out. They had a whole row of them at
Low's yesterday. I guess I should look at the lake
bowl and I'm talking about I do now.

Speaker 3 (12:09):
Yeah, they're beautiful. I don't know if we're gonna put
it there because I don't know if it needs direct sunlight.

Speaker 1 (12:14):
Well, I don't remember. I guess you can plan them outside.
I like them inside. But yeah, you had the class.
It was a long time ago. I don't remember. But
back to you know what you're growing. Jody and I
do think it's cool, Sam, because Jody's not done this
for a while. The one that you got inside that
you're going to have in the window was the urb
one and then the thing outside. I hope that you're

(12:35):
able to do both of them. I think Jody's that
we talked about this the other day because this is
you and I are both the same way. We're not
very patient people, so you have to really be in
the right mindset to cultivate plane.

Speaker 3 (12:46):
Like I could be patient with this. It's different, it's quiet,
there's something lovely about it.

Speaker 2 (12:49):
You have to see, like a tomato grow from tiny
up to Yeah.

Speaker 3 (12:53):
Right, it'll be a victory if I can do it.
That makes sense. We'll see missed any part of the show.
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