August 15, 2026 • 39 mins
Multi-Award Winning Host, Landscape designer and garden expert Teresa Watkins explains why you should NOT put down fertilizers right now. Do you know what the "Dogs Days of Summer" means & when it is? Teresa's Top Five vegetables to propagate in water.
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Speaker 1 (00:09):
Good morning from the summit Responsible Solution Studios. Welcome to
Better Lawns and Gardens. I'm your host, Touisa what can
Landscape designer, garden author, consultant. I just love being in
a garden, walking through them, just helping people with their
yards and their landscapes. And I can do that this
morning for you. Welcome aboard. I have my cup of
(00:29):
tea and I have our magical producer, Lizzie Steele. Good morning, Lizzie.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Good morning. You forgot award winning?
Speaker 1 (00:37):
How do you forget that? I know it's an award
winning show. I'm so appreciative of that, and it's very exciting.
It's something that I've wanted for a long time and
it's just good to get recognitions. So yeah, thank you
so much for that. I do want to say this
is a very big weekend for my family, Tony and
I want to wish our beautiful and talented granddaughter, Reagan
(01:00):
a wonderful and exciting nineteenth birthday. Grame and people love you, honey,
and we're very proud of you. So happy birthday, Reagan.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Oh, happy birthday nineteen.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
Wow. I know she's just starting. She graduated last year
and she is just doing so well. Yes, and I
have a cousin over from Scotland. He has been touring
the United States up the East coast and his name
is Scott no pun intended, Scott from Scotland, Scott McDermott.
He's enjoying his gap year and he's visiting Florida and
(01:30):
he is nineteen two as well, and we're enjoy spending
time with him. He's getting to know new experiences afternoon thunderstorms,
humidity and heat and so it's definitely not Scotland.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
Has he experienced our thunderstorm? Yes, but did he ever
experience that in Scotland?
Speaker 1 (01:51):
No, Scotland In England he lives in Newcastle, but he's
from my Scottish side of the family. Yeah, no, not
at all. But he is enjoying himself and I want
to then he's going to go back home and visit
all family in Ireland and things. So just wishing everybody
all our love here from across the pond. Yes, and
a big hello to the Glente's Garden Club in Glente's,
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County Donegal, Ireland. They're a wonderful group and they have
beautiful gardens. So the weather this week so Lizzie, do
you know what it means when we have red sky
in the morning sailors take warning. You've heard that, yes,
and red sky at night sailor's delight. Okay, so we
have both of them. You know, we have red skies
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in the morning and red skies at night. I think
a little bit of that is due to the Saharan
desert that comes over from Africa. But what it means
is weather wise, is that the weather can change very
drastically rapidly, so it can go from being nice and
sunny to a thunderstorm, you know, very quickly. So we
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just want everyone to pay attention and be careful. And
you know, lightning do not stand underneath trees. Did you
see the video of the guy who got hit by lightning?
Speaker 3 (03:02):
No?
Speaker 2 (03:03):
But I saw the cows.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
Did you see the cows?
Speaker 2 (03:05):
Crazy?
Speaker 1 (03:06):
Yes? So right now there's just you know, lightning going
to happen even if it's not raining in your area,
so be very careful of that. So it's going to
be a great gardening week. We do have the rainstorms
coming in occasionally. It's going to be more this weekend
in the interior, not on the coasts, but it's going
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to be in the mid to high nineties, so you
want to be really careful out there drinking water. You
want to drink water every thirty minutes. And because it
could happen very quickly, I want to give a shout
out to all our listeners who follow Better Lawns and
Gardens on our Facebook page. And if you listen to
the show and you like us, and you're on social media,
please like WFLA Orlando on Instagram and on Facebook, and
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then Better Lawns and Gardens on Facebook and you can
just shout out. You can always send me questions too,
gardening questions like Nancy did last week, and I'll be
talking about her question, uh so on our Facebook. Thank
you for checking in, Craig and Carol, Pat Beverly, Jorge
or George and Nancy and Tina and all of the
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Florida Federation of Garden Clubs and district members. We appreciate
their support. They like and share our posts, so we
do really appreciate this hour. I'm going to be answering
your gardening questions. You should have the phone number in
your phone so you can just dial it automatically anytime.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
Yes, save us as a contact.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
Yes, just don't butt dial us one triple eight four
five five two nine sixty seven, or you can text
two three six eight zero. Remember to give us your
name and your location, because that will help me tell
you or you know, help you with your gardening question
much better. Uh what I would tell somebody in Miami
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or somebody in Texas, I would not say to the
same you know, uh, the same. I would not answer
the same question in North Florida. So or Georgia. Well,
we have a lot of listeners in Georgia, yes, and
so we do want to say hello to them. And
so what should you be planting right now? I will
tell you the herbs that you can be planting right now.
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This is a great time to be planting annis and
basil and bay laurel. Do you ever cook with bay? Yes?
I do. I love bay laurels, and I put it
in my stews and my soups.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
I should say, it's more of like a winter type
of ingredient.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
That I use.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
Yah savory, real savory and real savory. I love that word. Yes,
And so bay laurel, chives and dil and ginger lemon,
balm and Mexican tarragon. Oh I love Brene sauce and steak.
I love mint, and we know what we do with mint.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
Keep mint and containers. I don't care how great you
think we are. Is gonna smell with this, Please, for
the love of all that's out there.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
Please put it in a container exactly. This has been
a warning. This has been a service announcement.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
Award.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
Yes Oregano, Rosemary, say sweet Marjoram and time so herbs
can be planted.
Speaker 4 (06:14):
Now.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
You can be planting the seeds now. You can be
doing the four inch pots if you buy them just
directly from the nursery, the independent nurseries or the buck stores,
and you can plant the herbs in your landscape and
have an edible landscape. So you want to be real,
you know, just real, careful what you do. But you
can be planting them in the border. You can be
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planting creeping time along your pathway and that will smell
so good when you walk there, and at night you're
sitting on your patio, you'll be able to smell it.
We're going to have a great show today. I'll go
be answering your questions. And in the second hour, if
you ever wanted to have water or garden. Well, we're
going to be talking to the best the Pond Monster
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in the second hour. So this Saturday morning, you're listening
to Better Lawns and Gardens. I'm Teresa Watkins, and this
is Florida's Talk and Entertainment Network, and welcome back to
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the Better Law in Sane Gardens from the Summit Responsible
Solution Studios. We are here for you answering your gardening questions.
And I just want to We have that Saharan desert
effect going on, and uh so it's it's coming over,
but uh, it's just gonna it. Just uh we have
some storms out there in the Atlantic. They're not gonna
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affect Florida. So nothing is in the atmosphere right now
and nothing heading. So we're doing we're doing good for
this summer.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
But still stay up on your your supplies, your yes
because those are new to this. It'll probably be maybe
September October before ahead exactly.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
And so we let's go to Donald in Daytona Beach.
Good morning, Donald, How can I hold you?
Speaker 5 (08:09):
Teresa?
Speaker 3 (08:09):
I really love your show.
Speaker 6 (08:10):
Thank you.
Speaker 5 (08:13):
I have a question for you. I called you last
year about I made some raised beds for my tomato plants.
But this year it was so hot so early. I
think I might have planted them too late. When is
the best time for you to plant tomatoes? And what
varieties do you recommend?
Speaker 1 (08:29):
You can go ahead?
Speaker 5 (08:30):
Oh, in the past, I've always had good luck with
cherry tomatoes, but I don't do so well in the
bigger varieties.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
Right.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
Well, well, you can plant cherry tomatoes any time of
the year. Okay, So those you know, the sweet one
hundreds and sweet millions, and the golden tomatoes, cherry tomatoes
and the everglaze tomato, you can plant those any time
of the year. Donald, But what are.
Speaker 3 (08:51):
You trying to play a receipt?
Speaker 5 (08:52):
I know I've heard you say before in the past,
to race so that tomatoes don't put out fruit after
eighty five degrees or something.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
Yeah, we got so hot.
Speaker 5 (08:59):
So early over here in Daytona.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
Mm hmm, I think we've been in We've been.
Speaker 5 (09:02):
Over eighty five degrees since late March, early April.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
Right, No, I agree with you, But cherry tomatoes are
a little bit different. They can they can be unpollinated
all year round, so you're bigger tomatoes, you can't. They
don't pollinate well after it gets to be eighty five degrees.
But cherry tomatoes you can do all year round.
Speaker 5 (09:24):
Now, what would you recommend it? Just not even trying
the bigger tomatoes, Like, can I plant them like I
think I planted them like in late January early February,
but they didn't have time enough to fruit before it
got right.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
No, now's the time to be planting tomatoes. So go
ahead and plant them by the time they start to
have flowers on them. If you're planting them now and
their seeds, it'll still be cool at the in the
end of September and October, so you'll be able to
have tomatoes all fall. Okay, So go ahead and plant
them now.
Speaker 5 (09:54):
I either planted them too late last year or I
didn't really understand the planting time. But like I said,
I've had good luck with the cherry and you mentioned
again Sweet.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
One hundreds and sweet millions. There's all kinds of different kinds.
There's black magic and black Midnight for the black tomatoes,
and then also Everglades tomato. If you can grab some seat, great, okay,
but before you go, Donald, before you go, so you
can plant tomatoes in the early spring that be February March, okay,
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and they should be able to have some tomatoes. I'm
talking about the larger varieties before it gets really super hot.
And then you plant them again in August and September,
so you've got two times a year to plant the
larger ones.
Speaker 5 (10:37):
Oh great, thank you so much.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
Here, welcome on, take care, bye bye. And that was
Donald in Daytona Beach. And if you have a gardening question,
you can give me a call one triple eight four
five five two nine sixty seven or one or two
three six eight zero. You can text and give us
a message.
Speaker 3 (10:53):
There.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
Let's go to Bill and Georgetown. Good morning, Bill. Let's
hear all about your watermelons.
Speaker 4 (10:59):
Well, first of to say about that previous caller, there's
a variety of cherry tomatoes that I really like. It's
called wild cherry and it's got a lot of flavor.
And I just thought i'd mentioned that.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
Oh I'm going to try that now, So thank you
wild cherry. Okay, wild cherry tomatoes, okay, super And so
how's your watermelons doing?
Speaker 4 (11:18):
Okay, it's hanging there now. If I wanted to send
you a picture through my neighbor, what address do I
email address? Or whether I'm home, you can email.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
Me at Teresa t E r E s A dot.
Make sure you put the dot in there. Watkins w
A t k I n S Teresa Dot Watkins at live,
which is what we want our plans to be Live
l I v E dot Com.
Speaker 4 (11:43):
Okay, I'll try to remember that I didn't write it down.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
But okay, well you can always go back and listen
to the show.
Speaker 4 (11:49):
Okay, it's hanging there. But when you had your when
you had Tom mccubban on as you guess, I asked him,
I said, how.
Speaker 3 (11:57):
Can I tell him this thing's going to be? Right?
Speaker 4 (11:59):
He said, well, in the tendrils, the tendrils turn brown.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
Roun yes.
Speaker 4 (12:03):
The watermelon okay, well that one is turned brown, the
leaves are turned brown, but the stem is still green.
And there's another watermelon about six feet farther down that
the leaves are still green and it's still growing. So
how do I tell when this thing's ready to pick?
Speaker 1 (12:19):
Okay? So again thumping it. You know, that was one
of the other advice that that Tom said something.
Speaker 4 (12:24):
No, no, you're talking to an ignorantus when it comes
to that, You're not you.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
Know, you're not dumping savvy. Okay, So, but I would
just say it's going to be ready before labor day.
So if you want to in the next couple of weeks,
you can, you know, and it'll stay in your house
and you can just bring it inside and keep it
cool and without cutting it. It'll stay for you know,
a week or so to ten days or so without
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any problem whatsoever. So I would probably give it another
week and then you know, for labor day you can
cut them open.
Speaker 4 (12:56):
Can't it get over ripe? No, So I should be
good either way, right.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
Yeah, That's what I'm thinking, is You're going to be
good either way.
Speaker 4 (13:06):
Okay, all right, all right, I'll try to get you
I'll try to get you a picture of this.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
Oh, that would be great. And then and then what
you do, Bill is in the future, find the seeds.
Because some watermelons take you know, seventy five days, some
take ninety. Go ahead and mark it on your calendar
when the harvest date is when you plant the seed.
Speaker 4 (13:23):
And then that I'm not going to Yeah, I'm not
going to be growing one again. This was a This
was a fluke. I'm too old and I don't care anymore.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
And I was just trying to do it is what
I do it there, you go, okay.
Speaker 4 (13:35):
So and I had it hanging off the rail and
I thought, well, that'll be a unique thing. And it's
probably about ten pounds or whatever, and I thought that's
pretty Now. I do have a rope underneath it to
kind of support it a little education at fault breaks.
But no, I just I just wanted to do it
as a fluke because it was a seedless watermelon. Of course,
they always have a few seeds in them, and I
went ahead and planted them and one came up and
I and I got it to got it to grow
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and I got a watermelon. So it's a talking point,
that's all it is.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
You go, well, you have everybody in Better Lands and
Gardens world hanging on your updates. Okay, okay, Bill, thank you.
Let us know how it tasts all right. Bye bye.
Let's go to Alan in Montverord. Good morning, Alan. How
can I help you?
Speaker 6 (14:15):
Well here, Piggy, Picky, picky, pigy, I have your favorite weed.
I want to share a thing with you. I should
have known better. Yesh, got compost from a local person.
First load was great. Second load, I guess they've been
pulling from the dairies down south. I have explosions. I've
got like five one hundred gallon tubs. It's my overflow.
Speaker 7 (14:35):
And all I do now is harvest greens, not the
kind of greens I want, but pig weed. It is
an explosion, and I wanted to let your your listeners know,
and you can probably give more of a history on
it than I am, but it's it. I mean, from
by the time they're two inches, Saul, you better be
wearing gloves because they've got a wonderful doors. It's just
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a minute and I've been trying to stay on them.
I need the soil. I really know what I need
to do as a solarization, just clear plastic kill it.
Speaker 3 (15:06):
But I need the soil.
Speaker 7 (15:08):
But I don't know if this person is the supplier
was aware of it an older person. But it's been great,
great prices, and sometimes the best deals aren't always the
best deals.
Speaker 3 (15:19):
But the pig weed.
Speaker 7 (15:21):
Isn't It is like I came out there as on
a Citrus xpo this past week and it was really neat,
and I should have asked some of my USDA and
IPHIS people about it for how to prevent this it's
not really. When you go on the you know, you
go and Facebook, you find a spot and you get
it and it's great and it smells good and looks good.
(15:41):
And it was from load to load it's been this way. Well,
I want to let your listeners know about that. We
are out there twisting it and turning it every couple
of days, just abrupture the seeds. And it's as you know,
it's a weed that well, I pulled it up and
laid it on the ground. Watch it will even though
it's laying on the ground.
Speaker 3 (16:02):
Yes, weeds will die. It will reroot itself and wrong.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
They are strong survivors. I mean, it's incredible how mother
nature does that. You know you want to plant lovely
flowers and turfins.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
Yes, and don't and just take from my experience because
our yard is overloaded with them and stuff. And we
did the same thing that you did. Alan, is that
we got a big a bunch of soil brought in, Yeah,
tops brought in and it was beautiful and then I
put it out and all of a sudden, and we
call them steam needles, which I think that may be
a different breed. But let me tell you what if
you were actually new to this. I found that A
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you need gloves, but b if you can dig the
soil down, don't touch it, but dig it around. There's
less needles down in the ground where the root is,
and that's how and you have to pull it all
the way out. But it's still oh my goodness.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
So that's one of the downside. Yeah, for of just
getting composts, that's not that grab production one.
Speaker 7 (16:57):
The other one too. You find it in horse maneuvers
like Free Times horsemen there they're probably are weison life boats.
But you know, buyer beware. But I'm I'm a Sergeant
Carter's groomer. Pile on a blockhead, I get so irritated
time to put gloves on. It takes time to grab.
Speaker 3 (17:11):
It and go.
Speaker 7 (17:11):
If you pull it from the bottom, you kind of
pull it, funnel it up the leaves and pull it.
The leaves protect a little bit. But I've tried not
to keep it there. Another glomer pile that I did.
I left my Christmas cactuses to get rain and somebody
forgot to bring them in for two days and now
they're desert brown. Will they survive and bounce back? They're
in the shade where they belong now, but they will
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damage is pretty much done on them.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
No, no, you'll start to see new growth on them.
So go ahead and just keep baby in them and
just let them dry out a little bit.
Speaker 7 (17:44):
Just a little suggestion.
Speaker 3 (17:46):
It's just me.
Speaker 7 (17:47):
Maybe's potentially a program about weeds and buyer beware kind
of approach with the things you pick up, because as
you know, pigwig is all through the southeast United States
and it does. You could spray pure round up on it.
Speaker 3 (17:59):
It'll go.
Speaker 7 (18:00):
Has got some more for me?
Speaker 1 (18:01):
Yeah, there you go. It'll take it and say I would.
Speaker 3 (18:03):
Like but anyway, have a great weekend.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
So Alan, I just need to ask you. You've made
some references. So can you sing beautifully?
Speaker 3 (18:13):
Only rest.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
Gomber File. He had a lovely voice, So you did
all right?
Speaker 7 (18:21):
I played tuba and my wife sings in the choir,
and there's a reason we do that. So I'm on
the other.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
I love him.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
It's awesome. But you know, it's really when once you
get I mean, there are certain weeds that if it
gets into your containers or your yard, you just have
it forever, and it's really difficult. Artillery weed is like that.
Artillery weed chamber bitter is like that. Pig weed is
like that. And it's just the downside that some of
these weeds do have thorns and when you're pulling them up,
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you know, you better have gloves.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
And you and it's like and what I found is
it doesn't you think that you're that close to the
ground that oh there's not gonna meaning needles right there
and they're little. So that's why I say, I have
to dig the soil around and it's so.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
And just pull the root.
Speaker 3 (19:06):
Pull.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
They grab down to the root the best that you
can and then pull because that's the only way you're
gonna try to help get rid of it.
Speaker 1 (19:12):
You know what's in my yard right now? That point
SETI a weed. It's in the point setia eupour be
a family and it's three foot tall in certain areas
in my yard and just gotta have to go and.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
Pull them up so some Christmas lights on it.
Speaker 1 (19:25):
If it's Saturday morning from the Summit Responsible Solution Studios,
you're listening to Better Lawns and Gardens. I'm Teresa Watkins
and this is Florida's Talk at Entertainment Network. Welcome back
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to Better Lawns and gardens. You're in the second half hour.
We to take your gardening questions. We've had a busy
morning so far. One triple eight five five, two nine
sixty seven, or you can text me two three six
eight zero. Well, it's hot down. When we think of
the dog days of summer, we think of it as
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being now in August, but they actually the dog days
of summer ended this week and on the thirteenth, So
the last dog days of summer, the hot, heavy weeks
from July third through August eleventh, and ancient civilizations why
they call it the dog days of summer, they tied
this season, the heat of the summer to the rising
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of Sirius, the dog star, which appears in the eastern
sky just before dawn in mid August. So the Greeks
believed Sirius added extra heat to the summer, and the Egyptians,
when they saw the first appearance, was always signaling the
annual flooding of the Nile. So that's the event that
helps sustain their crops, their agriculture. They depended on the
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Nile flooding. And today we know Sirious doesn't affect our
you know, our weather, but the folklore remains, and that's
why we talk about the dog days of summer. Romans
would blame the serious dog star rising for droughts and
fevers and general misery. So we do have drought and
we do have general misery, but I don't think it's
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the dog star that's doing that. So the next time
you're going to be able to see the Sirius from
Florida will be September twenty second. And it's one of
those simple skywatching moments that my cousin Danny, he was
all into astronomy that connects us to thousands of years
of history that we're looking at something that you know,
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the ancient Greeks and the ancient Egyptians they looked at too,
and depended on for their forecasting. Luckily we don't do
that now. So Wednesday, is August nineteenth, is National Potato
Day and rated the world's one of the world's most
important food crops. It is third next to wheat and rice,
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and humans consume more than three hundred and seventy million
metric tons of potatoes every year. And and it's just
it's it's just I love potatoes, I love mashed potatoes,
I love baked potatoes. I love sliced potatoes, cassell potatoes.
I just love potatoes.
Speaker 2 (22:24):
I love potatoes. But you know the one potato that
really really absolutely can't stand hash browns. Really, I don't
know what it is.
Speaker 1 (22:32):
I don't got to be seasoned.
Speaker 2 (22:33):
Yeah, even season I don't know.
Speaker 3 (22:35):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
If it's just because they're like so thin, they're and
they're burnt.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
Yeah, they know, they will they be there. Well, you
know they're really right. Yeah, they're hash browns too hash brown.
Speaker 2 (22:48):
It's too much brown for me.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
Okay, So what kind of gravy do you put on
your mashed potatoes? Oh?
Speaker 2 (22:55):
It depends on what I'm eating, yes, okay, So if
it's a steak, probably a brown gravy. If it's like
a chicken fried steak, or if it's chicken fried waite,
just white gravy, white gravy. Yes, if it's like chichi gravy, yeah,
So if it's like a chicken version, or even its
chicken fried steak, then that I do the white gravy.
Speaker 1 (23:16):
Oh, chicken fried steak is wonderful.
Speaker 3 (23:18):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (23:18):
So. So long before potatoes reached Europe, the potatoes were
cultivated and protected in the andes okay. So the Papa
Arawa descendants pre inc pre in Incan. Yeah, pre Incan
cultures in Peru are the original potato guardians. For thousands
of years, they preserved potato diversity in its center of origin,
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and it's a legacy still honored today by the International
Potato Center, whose logo features Papa Arowa caring for potatoes
and so. Sir Walter Raleigh is often credited with helping
introduce potatoes to Ireland in the late fifteen hundreds, which
was a life saver. I did help the Irish people
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with poverty and food for a while, and then the
Irish Potato Famine happened, but it reshaped European agriculture. So
today there are over four thousand potato varieties worldwide, including
more than three thousand native Andian types safeguarded in the
International Potato Centers Jane Back, Jeene Bank and Lima, Peru.
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But it's my second vegetable, favorite vegetable, and I love
it every way. My first favorite, can you guess my
first favorite vegetable?
Speaker 2 (24:34):
Green beans?
Speaker 1 (24:35):
I like green beans. No, green beans are good. Onions
I love money.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
I can eat an onion raw I could eat it
onion raw. I love them.
Speaker 1 (24:42):
I eat them for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, and I
love growing them, and they're easy to grow.
Speaker 2 (24:46):
I love them so much that went around cutting them
and I'm crying. It has nothing to do with the onion.
It's just I'm so happy. I'm like, I get to
eat you.
Speaker 1 (24:57):
Yes, I know the feeling, and it's just more more onions, please.
So I do love that one triple eight four five
two ninety sixty seven. However, you can text two three
six eight zero.
Speaker 2 (25:08):
Have you ever had an onion sandwich? Yes, Oh my god,
it's the best sleay, especially when there used to be
Marina white bread. I take Marita white bread and then
put some Dukes mayonnaise on it. Yes, and then I
put a few thin I have to be thin slices,
but a lot of them, but thinly sliced onions.
Speaker 1 (25:23):
Yes, especially about yeah. Yeah. Tony says when he's cooking burgers,
he says, do you do you want sautee onions? I
go yes. He goes, do you want raw onions? I
say yes, raw and saute on the same burger.
Speaker 2 (25:33):
Whenever I get a steak and cheese, I have to
explain myself. I go, I would like grilled onions and
then when you're done, will you put raw onions on
top of it? Then they go you want both?
Speaker 1 (25:43):
And I'm like, dude, yeah, what are they thinking? There?
Speaker 3 (25:48):
You go?
Speaker 1 (25:48):
So what should you be doing in your landscape right now? Well,
I will tell you.
Speaker 3 (25:52):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (25:53):
Pete from Miami he emailed me, and he says, my
grass is looking sad turning brown? Can I fertilize it?
And whatertilizer should I use? Hang in there, Pete, we
do not want to fertilize right now. It is too hot, okay,
thank you for asking, though before you did it. Due
to the intensive heat we just experiencing through the state
(26:14):
lack of rain, it's not a good time to fertilize.
But then also too, with the water Management District and
the city and counties, they have bands on fertilizing right now.
And yes, it's kind of an oxymoron because you're supposed
to fertilize when the plants are growing, So you would
think that fertilizing turf now because it's growing and we
(26:35):
have the rain, it would be good. But in reality,
when you fertilize and a lot of people do it,
before a rainstorm comes. Have you ever heard that that
you Okay, it's going to rain this afternoon, I better
get my fertilizer down. No, you don't want to do it.
You want to fertilize after the rainstorm. One, because if
you fertilize before a rainstorm and it's really heavy like
(26:57):
we've been getting these downpours, you can lose seventy five
percent of your fertilizer to stormwater runoff, which means it
just rolls right off your yard into the storm water
drain and into the lakes, which causes algae blooms. Okay,
you don't want to do that. You want to fertilize
after the storm, so that if you need to water it,
the ground is soaked, the turf won't burn because you
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can burn with fertilizer and it'll be hydrated. It can
take it also too. It's it's just important that we
do have the rainfall, we do have the heat, and
the grass is growing. But if you don't like mowing
your lawn, why are you fertilizing it?
Speaker 3 (27:36):
Well?
Speaker 2 (27:36):
Also, and how about this, If you are a money
person and you like to pay attention to where your
money goes, I want you to pretend that your money
the cash. I want to take a few one dollar bills, okay,
take them out to your yard, all right, dump that,
and then I want you to take a hose and
then watch where your money blows, or take a blower
and blow it, because that's exactly what you're doing with
putting the fertilizer, and you're washing all that money away.
Speaker 1 (27:57):
Exactly, and so it's very important. So pete right now,
I would wait until October first, which is the band
gets taken off and you'll be able to fertilize them.
This Saturday morning, you're listening to Better Lawns and Gardens
from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios. I'm Teresa Watkins and
this is Florida's Talk and Entertainment Network. Welcome back up
(28:39):
Better Lawns and Gardens, and now for reasons top five.
My top five this week is in honor of the
school starting and all the opportunities for hands on science projects.
So here are my top five vegetables to propagate in water.
These vegetables are reliable, fun and perfect for demonstrating how
plants regenerate from kitchen scraps. You'll need a clear glass
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fresh water, write in direct sunlight, toothpicks and the vegetables
Number one buck Choi. To regrow buck choi, begin by
trimming off the base of the plant, removing approximately two
to four inches from the bottom, and then put it
into the glass of water. You can stabilize it with toothpicks.
Within three to four weeks, you will see new roots
developing and allow it to continue to grow for about
(29:26):
thirty days, at which point it'll be able to be
planted in the garden. Number two potatoes. You can celebrate
Potato Day Wednesday with a large Idaho potato with sprouting
eyes that can be divided for propagation. Or you can
put the potato, cut it in half and insert toothpicks
and place it in the water up to the bottom.
You want to make sure the bottom's covered and then
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refresh the water every three days. That's important for all
of these vegetables. Within two to three weeks, you will
have enough roots developed. In about four weeks, you can
plant the rooted piece. Number three garlic garlic six too
long in the bin. Separate the bulb and remove a
sprouting clove, or just place the clove that's dry in
the water. With the base down in the water. You
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want to fully cover the whole entire base. Refresh the
water every three or four days. Once a green shoot
reaches three to four inches, you can trim it off
and use it immediately in breads, egg dishes, salad, soups,
and more. Number four scallions My favorite. When I harvest scallions,
I bring them home from the grocery store. Immediately trim
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off the root ends. This simple start helps them keep
longer in the refrigerator. Thank you, and got just two more.
Though I love them so off, I use them so often,
they rarely sip for long. You want to place the
rooted end the bulbs cut about an inch off the bottom,
and in a clear jar bowl with enough water to
cover the white portion. Refresh the water every three to
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four days, and in about two weeks the scallions will regrow.
You can either plant them in a pot or snip
the new green leaves for cooking and just have them
growing right there on your counter in the water. Number
five celery at the bottom two to three inches from
the celery stock, Insert toothpicks around the midpoint, and rest
the base in a short glass that's filled with water
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about one inch below the cut end or one inch
above the cut and refresh the water every three or
four days. The roots form in one to two weeks
and the celery is ready to transplant in three to
four weeks. So those are all my vegetables for school projects.
If you'd like to do those with your children, or
just continue to have vegetables coming up on your counter,
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you can you can propagate them in water. I love this.
I love this because I do that.
Speaker 2 (31:40):
Like whenever I wanted, like I don't have time to
plant a plant, I'll like chunk it into like a
bucket of water. Yeah, and then if you months later,
I'm like, oh wow, there, that's what I did with it.
Speaker 3 (31:49):
So it's.
Speaker 1 (31:52):
Right that or it's dead. There you go. Let's go
to Jerry in Citrus County. Good morning, Jerry.
Speaker 3 (32:01):
I got a couple of questions because you just bought
one up. Okay, on these rooting. Is there is there
publication or something available on doing that routings of these
different iteables.
Speaker 1 (32:13):
Yes. I can guarantee you if you just will Google
when you go on the internet, Jerry, google potatoes or
vegetables to propagate in water, you will have hundreds of
articles coming up and they all say the same thing.
So it's very easy to look forward on the on
the internet and you can just download it.
Speaker 3 (32:31):
I'll do that, thank you, Teresa. And the first question
I had asked Lizzie, is the tropical spinaches or the
spinaches that grow in Florida year round? Like longevity? Sure, Okinawa,
Let's see, okay, surnam. I had good luck with surnam
and longevity. I didn't have good luck with the Okinawa.
(32:54):
Malabar was is too, I don't know, too flimsy, it
doesn't have the bigger okay that I need on there.
So well, what do you recommend on the growing those
spinaches on? Are there other kinds of spinach?
Speaker 1 (33:07):
There's Oh, there's lots more spinaches. I don't know if
you'll find them available in the in the stores or
in the nurseries, but yeah, there's a dozens and dozens
of more spinaches. But Jepanese spinach. You got Korean spinach.
There's lots more, but I think the longevity tastes really
good of the Korean one. And uh, then longevity is
my favorite. I do like malabar, and I haven't had
(33:29):
any trouble with it being too flimsy. So does it
get enough light? Because you live in the shade. You
have a lot of shade around your yard, right, Yeah,
I have.
Speaker 3 (33:38):
A lot of shade, and also I get very cold weather.
Speaker 5 (33:42):
Uh huh.
Speaker 3 (33:44):
There, And of course I maybe expect too much from it.
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (33:48):
Well, I can understand that, but it might just need
a little bit more sunlight so it's not so flimsy.
Speaker 3 (33:53):
Oh okay, that's why I got more sun Okay on
the Malabar and anything else. Any recommendations on any of
the other ones, because I really like the longevity. It
keeps coming back.
Speaker 1 (34:05):
Yeah, the longevity is really good.
Speaker 3 (34:07):
It's doing great now too. But it's got a little
bitty purple flowers on it, uh huh. And you could
eat the whole thing you can.
Speaker 1 (34:14):
And I bet it looks pretty in a salad, So
that's good.
Speaker 3 (34:17):
Yeah. So I'm just I would love.
Speaker 1 (34:20):
To see your yard, Jerry. That's that's you sound like
you have a wonderful yard with your rose mallow.
Speaker 3 (34:25):
And people come by, they say it's food dense.
Speaker 1 (34:30):
What do they know? What do they know?
Speaker 3 (34:33):
The growing a lot of food? I tell you that.
Speaker 1 (34:35):
There you go I'm so proud of you. Thank you
so much, Jerry. Let's go to Rob in Christmas. Good morning, Rob.
How can I help you?
Speaker 3 (34:43):
How y'all doing?
Speaker 1 (34:44):
We're doing great. How are you?
Speaker 3 (34:46):
I'm better than I deserve. Anyway. I've got some blood
lilies and I've got somebody gave me a couple of them,
and they seem to be spreading. Is there any way too?
I don't know. Are they bulbs that you can they
are bulbs?
Speaker 1 (35:02):
Yeah, and you can divide them?
Speaker 3 (35:03):
Sure one should I do this?
Speaker 7 (35:06):
Well?
Speaker 1 (35:07):
You can do them now. And this is when I
would advise you to do them, only because you want
them to be hardened off and settled before the winter
time comes. So go ahead in the next three or
four weeks just dig them up. See how much and
you can just split the bulbs just a little bit
and they will they growing on each other, and just
very gently take them off plan them.
Speaker 3 (35:28):
Okay, Oh, thank you very much.
Speaker 1 (35:30):
You're welcome.
Speaker 3 (35:31):
Great. You guys are great. I appreciate you.
Speaker 1 (35:33):
Thank you so much for I'll call anytime. Yeah, we're good.
One triple eight four five five two nine sixty seven,
or you can text two three six eight zero. We
have Lloyd Lightsey. He is the pond Monster, and yeah,
that's cool. He is cool and he I've worked with
him for a long time and he is He installs
(35:57):
all my clients water features, but he does little bubbling
water you know features, and then he does huge, huge
Koi ponds. And so I wanted him to come on
and he's gonna give us a lot of great information. Now,
Pete in Miami, you did talk about fertilizing right now,
and I do want to say this so that because
we can't fertilize right now basically generally throughout the entire state,
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this is the time that you can use to go
ahead and take a soil test of your soil and
send it into the Extension office and the University of Florida,
and they will tell you exactly what fertilizer you need
to use on your turf and your landscape and your
fruit trees and your vegetables. So this is the time.
(36:43):
It only takes about three weeks to submit it and
get it back and we use it. A soil test
that I recommend is called Agritech Soil Kit Agritech Soil Kit,
and you can go into the extension offices and pick
one up. You can get one. They do charge for
them about it's about thirty dollars, but that covers for
(37:04):
the that covers for the soil test that you're going
to receive back or the analysis, and or you can
go online and it's called Agritech Soil Kit and they'll
ship it to you in the mail and you'll get
it right away within a week. You send it off
and by the end of September you will know exactly
what to put on your on your landscape, your agriculture,
(37:27):
your crops, your raised beds on October first, Okay, so
take this time to find out what you're working with.
Your soil may be great, your pH may be different
than you thought it was. I just did soil tests
for a community about two months ago, two and a
half months ago now back in June, and uh, it
(37:50):
was amazing how the one one house and then their
neighbors had two different phs, and and then and then
a couple of streets over that house had a different
pH And so your neighbors don't aren't going to have
maybe the same soil as you do, especially if you
live in older sections of the town and it's not
(38:12):
a citrus grove that has been you know, redeveloped and
houses have sprung up on it. So if you live
in in the older neighborhoods or even you know, neighborhoods
that are twenty to thirty years old, then you might
have not issues with your soul. But it's good to
know what the pH is and what fertilizer to use.
There you go. I guess Lizzie wants to go.
Speaker 2 (38:36):
It's literally just I'm so sorry to listen.
Speaker 1 (38:40):
That's okay. Thank you to everyone who called today. We
have another great hour. You don't want to miss the
Pond Monster. He's coming upright in the next hour and
you can give us a call one Triple eight four
five five two nine sixty seven or Texas two three
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Saturday Morning. You're listening to Better Lawns and Gardens from
the Summit Responsible Solution Studios. I'm Teresa Watkins, and this
(39:03):
is Florida's talk and entertainment network.
Speaker 2 (39:05):
And if you want to recap any of the shows,
you can catch them all on Better Lawns and Gardens
dot com or Better Lawns dot com.
Good morning from the summit Responsible Solution Studios. Welcome to
Better Lawns and Gardens. I'm your host, Touisa what can
Landscape designer, garden author, consultant. I just love being in
a garden, walking through them, just helping people with their
yards and their landscapes. And I can do that this
morning for you. Welcome aboard. I have my cup of
(00:29):
tea and I have our magical producer, Lizzie Steele. Good morning, Lizzie.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Good morning. You forgot award winning?
Speaker 1 (00:37):
How do you forget that? I know it's an award
winning show. I'm so appreciative of that, and it's very exciting.
It's something that I've wanted for a long time and
it's just good to get recognitions. So yeah, thank you
so much for that. I do want to say this
is a very big weekend for my family, Tony and
I want to wish our beautiful and talented granddaughter, Reagan
(01:00):
a wonderful and exciting nineteenth birthday. Grame and people love you, honey,
and we're very proud of you. So happy birthday, Reagan.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Oh, happy birthday nineteen.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
Wow. I know she's just starting. She graduated last year
and she is just doing so well. Yes, and I
have a cousin over from Scotland. He has been touring
the United States up the East coast and his name
is Scott no pun intended, Scott from Scotland, Scott McDermott.
He's enjoying his gap year and he's visiting Florida and
(01:30):
he is nineteen two as well, and we're enjoy spending
time with him. He's getting to know new experiences afternoon thunderstorms,
humidity and heat and so it's definitely not Scotland.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
Has he experienced our thunderstorm? Yes, but did he ever
experience that in Scotland?
Speaker 1 (01:51):
No, Scotland In England he lives in Newcastle, but he's
from my Scottish side of the family. Yeah, no, not
at all. But he is enjoying himself and I want
to then he's going to go back home and visit
all family in Ireland and things. So just wishing everybody
all our love here from across the pond. Yes, and
a big hello to the Glente's Garden Club in Glente's,
(02:12):
County Donegal, Ireland. They're a wonderful group and they have
beautiful gardens. So the weather this week so Lizzie, do
you know what it means when we have red sky
in the morning sailors take warning. You've heard that, yes,
and red sky at night sailor's delight. Okay, so we
have both of them. You know, we have red skies
(02:32):
in the morning and red skies at night. I think
a little bit of that is due to the Saharan
desert that comes over from Africa. But what it means
is weather wise, is that the weather can change very
drastically rapidly, so it can go from being nice and
sunny to a thunderstorm, you know, very quickly. So we
(02:53):
just want everyone to pay attention and be careful. And
you know, lightning do not stand underneath trees. Did you
see the video of the guy who got hit by lightning?
Speaker 3 (03:02):
No?
Speaker 2 (03:03):
But I saw the cows.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
Did you see the cows?
Speaker 2 (03:05):
Crazy?
Speaker 1 (03:06):
Yes? So right now there's just you know, lightning going
to happen even if it's not raining in your area,
so be very careful of that. So it's going to
be a great gardening week. We do have the rainstorms
coming in occasionally. It's going to be more this weekend
in the interior, not on the coasts, but it's going
(03:26):
to be in the mid to high nineties, so you
want to be really careful out there drinking water. You
want to drink water every thirty minutes. And because it
could happen very quickly, I want to give a shout
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(03:50):
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gardening questions like Nancy did last week, and I'll be
talking about her question, uh so on our Facebook. Thank
you for checking in, Craig and Carol, Pat Beverly, Jorge
or George and Nancy and Tina and all of the
(04:12):
Florida Federation of Garden Clubs and district members. We appreciate
their support. They like and share our posts, so we
do really appreciate this hour. I'm going to be answering
your gardening questions. You should have the phone number in
your phone so you can just dial it automatically anytime.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
Yes, save us as a contact.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
Yes, just don't butt dial us one triple eight four
five five two nine sixty seven, or you can text
two three six eight zero. Remember to give us your
name and your location, because that will help me tell
you or you know, help you with your gardening question
much better. Uh what I would tell somebody in Miami
(04:54):
or somebody in Texas, I would not say to the
same you know, uh, the same. I would not answer
the same question in North Florida. So or Georgia. Well,
we have a lot of listeners in Georgia, yes, and
so we do want to say hello to them. And
so what should you be planting right now? I will
tell you the herbs that you can be planting right now.
(05:17):
This is a great time to be planting annis and
basil and bay laurel. Do you ever cook with bay? Yes?
I do. I love bay laurels, and I put it
in my stews and my soups.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
I should say, it's more of like a winter type
of ingredient.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
That I use.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
Yah savory, real savory and real savory. I love that word. Yes,
And so bay laurel, chives and dil and ginger lemon,
balm and Mexican tarragon. Oh I love Brene sauce and steak.
I love mint, and we know what we do with mint.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
Keep mint and containers. I don't care how great you
think we are. Is gonna smell with this, Please, for
the love of all that's out there.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
Please put it in a container exactly. This has been
a warning. This has been a service announcement.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
Award.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
Yes Oregano, Rosemary, say sweet Marjoram and time so herbs
can be planted.
Speaker 4 (06:14):
Now.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
You can be planting the seeds now. You can be
doing the four inch pots if you buy them just
directly from the nursery, the independent nurseries or the buck stores,
and you can plant the herbs in your landscape and
have an edible landscape. So you want to be real,
you know, just real, careful what you do. But you
can be planting them in the border. You can be
(06:35):
planting creeping time along your pathway and that will smell
so good when you walk there, and at night you're
sitting on your patio, you'll be able to smell it.
We're going to have a great show today. I'll go
be answering your questions. And in the second hour, if
you ever wanted to have water or garden. Well, we're
going to be talking to the best the Pond Monster
(06:55):
in the second hour. So this Saturday morning, you're listening
to Better Lawns and Gardens. I'm Teresa Watkins, and this
is Florida's Talk and Entertainment Network, and welcome back to
(07:23):
the Better Law in Sane Gardens from the Summit Responsible
Solution Studios. We are here for you answering your gardening questions.
And I just want to We have that Saharan desert
effect going on, and uh so it's it's coming over,
but uh, it's just gonna it. Just uh we have
some storms out there in the Atlantic. They're not gonna
(07:45):
affect Florida. So nothing is in the atmosphere right now
and nothing heading. So we're doing we're doing good for
this summer.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
But still stay up on your your supplies, your yes
because those are new to this. It'll probably be maybe
September October before ahead exactly.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
And so we let's go to Donald in Daytona Beach.
Good morning, Donald, How can I hold you?
Speaker 5 (08:09):
Teresa?
Speaker 3 (08:09):
I really love your show.
Speaker 6 (08:10):
Thank you.
Speaker 5 (08:13):
I have a question for you. I called you last
year about I made some raised beds for my tomato plants.
But this year it was so hot so early. I
think I might have planted them too late. When is
the best time for you to plant tomatoes? And what
varieties do you recommend?
Speaker 1 (08:29):
You can go ahead?
Speaker 5 (08:30):
Oh, in the past, I've always had good luck with
cherry tomatoes, but I don't do so well in the
bigger varieties.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
Right.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
Well, well, you can plant cherry tomatoes any time of
the year. Okay, So those you know, the sweet one
hundreds and sweet millions, and the golden tomatoes, cherry tomatoes
and the everglaze tomato, you can plant those any time
of the year. Donald, But what are.
Speaker 3 (08:51):
You trying to play a receipt?
Speaker 5 (08:52):
I know I've heard you say before in the past,
to race so that tomatoes don't put out fruit after
eighty five degrees or something.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
Yeah, we got so hot.
Speaker 5 (08:59):
So early over here in Daytona.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
Mm hmm, I think we've been in We've been.
Speaker 5 (09:02):
Over eighty five degrees since late March, early April.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
Right, No, I agree with you, But cherry tomatoes are
a little bit different. They can they can be unpollinated
all year round, so you're bigger tomatoes, you can't. They
don't pollinate well after it gets to be eighty five degrees.
But cherry tomatoes you can do all year round.
Speaker 5 (09:24):
Now, what would you recommend it? Just not even trying
the bigger tomatoes, Like, can I plant them like I
think I planted them like in late January early February,
but they didn't have time enough to fruit before it
got right.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
No, now's the time to be planting tomatoes. So go
ahead and plant them by the time they start to
have flowers on them. If you're planting them now and
their seeds, it'll still be cool at the in the
end of September and October, so you'll be able to
have tomatoes all fall. Okay, So go ahead and plant
them now.
Speaker 5 (09:54):
I either planted them too late last year or I
didn't really understand the planting time. But like I said,
I've had good luck with the cherry and you mentioned
again Sweet.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
One hundreds and sweet millions. There's all kinds of different kinds.
There's black magic and black Midnight for the black tomatoes,
and then also Everglades tomato. If you can grab some seat, great, okay,
but before you go, Donald, before you go, so you
can plant tomatoes in the early spring that be February March, okay,
(10:25):
and they should be able to have some tomatoes. I'm
talking about the larger varieties before it gets really super hot.
And then you plant them again in August and September,
so you've got two times a year to plant the
larger ones.
Speaker 5 (10:37):
Oh great, thank you so much.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
Here, welcome on, take care, bye bye. And that was
Donald in Daytona Beach. And if you have a gardening question,
you can give me a call one triple eight four
five five two nine sixty seven or one or two
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a message.
Speaker 3 (10:53):
There.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
Let's go to Bill and Georgetown. Good morning, Bill. Let's
hear all about your watermelons.
Speaker 4 (10:59):
Well, first of to say about that previous caller, there's
a variety of cherry tomatoes that I really like. It's
called wild cherry and it's got a lot of flavor.
And I just thought i'd mentioned that.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
Oh I'm going to try that now, So thank you
wild cherry. Okay, wild cherry tomatoes, okay, super And so
how's your watermelons doing?
Speaker 4 (11:18):
Okay, it's hanging there now. If I wanted to send
you a picture through my neighbor, what address do I
email address? Or whether I'm home, you can email.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
Me at Teresa t E r E s A dot.
Make sure you put the dot in there. Watkins w
A t k I n S Teresa Dot Watkins at live,
which is what we want our plans to be Live
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Speaker 4 (11:43):
Okay, I'll try to remember that I didn't write it down.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
But okay, well you can always go back and listen
to the show.
Speaker 4 (11:49):
Okay, it's hanging there. But when you had your when
you had Tom mccubban on as you guess, I asked him,
I said, how.
Speaker 3 (11:57):
Can I tell him this thing's going to be? Right?
Speaker 4 (11:59):
He said, well, in the tendrils, the tendrils turn brown.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
Roun yes.
Speaker 4 (12:03):
The watermelon okay, well that one is turned brown, the
leaves are turned brown, but the stem is still green.
And there's another watermelon about six feet farther down that
the leaves are still green and it's still growing. So
how do I tell when this thing's ready to pick?
Speaker 1 (12:19):
Okay? So again thumping it. You know, that was one
of the other advice that that Tom said something.
Speaker 4 (12:24):
No, no, you're talking to an ignorantus when it comes
to that, You're not you.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
Know, you're not dumping savvy. Okay, So, but I would
just say it's going to be ready before labor day.
So if you want to in the next couple of weeks,
you can, you know, and it'll stay in your house
and you can just bring it inside and keep it
cool and without cutting it. It'll stay for you know,
a week or so to ten days or so without
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any problem whatsoever. So I would probably give it another
week and then you know, for labor day you can
cut them open.
Speaker 4 (12:56):
Can't it get over ripe? No, So I should be
good either way, right.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
Yeah, That's what I'm thinking, is You're going to be
good either way.
Speaker 4 (13:06):
Okay, all right, all right, I'll try to get you
I'll try to get you a picture of this.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
Oh, that would be great. And then and then what
you do, Bill is in the future, find the seeds.
Because some watermelons take you know, seventy five days, some
take ninety. Go ahead and mark it on your calendar
when the harvest date is when you plant the seed.
Speaker 4 (13:23):
And then that I'm not going to Yeah, I'm not
going to be growing one again. This was a This
was a fluke. I'm too old and I don't care anymore.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
And I was just trying to do it is what
I do it there, you go, okay.
Speaker 4 (13:35):
So and I had it hanging off the rail and
I thought, well, that'll be a unique thing. And it's
probably about ten pounds or whatever, and I thought that's
pretty Now. I do have a rope underneath it to
kind of support it a little education at fault breaks.
But no, I just I just wanted to do it
as a fluke because it was a seedless watermelon. Of course,
they always have a few seeds in them, and I
went ahead and planted them and one came up and
I and I got it to got it to grow
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and I got a watermelon. So it's a talking point,
that's all it is.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
You go, well, you have everybody in Better Lands and
Gardens world hanging on your updates. Okay, okay, Bill, thank you.
Let us know how it tasts all right. Bye bye.
Let's go to Alan in Montverord. Good morning, Alan. How
can I help you?
Speaker 6 (14:15):
Well here, Piggy, Picky, picky, pigy, I have your favorite weed.
I want to share a thing with you. I should
have known better. Yesh, got compost from a local person.
First load was great. Second load, I guess they've been
pulling from the dairies down south. I have explosions. I've
got like five one hundred gallon tubs. It's my overflow.
Speaker 7 (14:35):
And all I do now is harvest greens, not the
kind of greens I want, but pig weed. It is
an explosion, and I wanted to let your your listeners know,
and you can probably give more of a history on
it than I am, but it's it. I mean, from
by the time they're two inches, Saul, you better be
wearing gloves because they've got a wonderful doors. It's just
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a minute and I've been trying to stay on them.
I need the soil. I really know what I need
to do as a solarization, just clear plastic kill it.
Speaker 3 (15:06):
But I need the soil.
Speaker 7 (15:08):
But I don't know if this person is the supplier
was aware of it an older person. But it's been great,
great prices, and sometimes the best deals aren't always the
best deals.
Speaker 3 (15:19):
But the pig weed.
Speaker 7 (15:21):
Isn't It is like I came out there as on
a Citrus xpo this past week and it was really neat,
and I should have asked some of my USDA and
IPHIS people about it for how to prevent this it's
not really. When you go on the you know, you
go and Facebook, you find a spot and you get
it and it's great and it smells good and looks good.
(15:41):
And it was from load to load it's been this way. Well,
I want to let your listeners know about that. We
are out there twisting it and turning it every couple
of days, just abrupture the seeds. And it's as you know,
it's a weed that well, I pulled it up and
laid it on the ground. Watch it will even though
it's laying on the ground.
Speaker 3 (16:02):
Yes, weeds will die. It will reroot itself and wrong.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
They are strong survivors. I mean, it's incredible how mother
nature does that. You know you want to plant lovely
flowers and turfins.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
Yes, and don't and just take from my experience because
our yard is overloaded with them and stuff. And we
did the same thing that you did. Alan, is that
we got a big a bunch of soil brought in, Yeah,
tops brought in and it was beautiful and then I
put it out and all of a sudden, and we
call them steam needles, which I think that may be
a different breed. But let me tell you what if
you were actually new to this. I found that A
(16:36):
you need gloves, but b if you can dig the
soil down, don't touch it, but dig it around. There's
less needles down in the ground where the root is,
and that's how and you have to pull it all
the way out. But it's still oh my goodness.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
So that's one of the downside. Yeah, for of just
getting composts, that's not that grab production one.
Speaker 7 (16:57):
The other one too. You find it in horse maneuvers
like Free Times horsemen there they're probably are weison life boats.
But you know, buyer beware. But I'm I'm a Sergeant
Carter's groomer. Pile on a blockhead, I get so irritated
time to put gloves on. It takes time to grab.
Speaker 3 (17:11):
It and go.
Speaker 7 (17:11):
If you pull it from the bottom, you kind of
pull it, funnel it up the leaves and pull it.
The leaves protect a little bit. But I've tried not
to keep it there. Another glomer pile that I did.
I left my Christmas cactuses to get rain and somebody
forgot to bring them in for two days and now
they're desert brown. Will they survive and bounce back? They're
in the shade where they belong now, but they will
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damage is pretty much done on them.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
No, no, you'll start to see new growth on them.
So go ahead and just keep baby in them and
just let them dry out a little bit.
Speaker 7 (17:44):
Just a little suggestion.
Speaker 3 (17:46):
It's just me.
Speaker 7 (17:47):
Maybe's potentially a program about weeds and buyer beware kind
of approach with the things you pick up, because as
you know, pigwig is all through the southeast United States
and it does. You could spray pure round up on it.
Speaker 3 (17:59):
It'll go.
Speaker 7 (18:00):
Has got some more for me?
Speaker 1 (18:01):
Yeah, there you go. It'll take it and say I would.
Speaker 3 (18:03):
Like but anyway, have a great weekend.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
So Alan, I just need to ask you. You've made
some references. So can you sing beautifully?
Speaker 3 (18:13):
Only rest.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
Gomber File. He had a lovely voice, So you did
all right?
Speaker 7 (18:21):
I played tuba and my wife sings in the choir,
and there's a reason we do that. So I'm on
the other.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
I love him.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
It's awesome. But you know, it's really when once you
get I mean, there are certain weeds that if it
gets into your containers or your yard, you just have
it forever, and it's really difficult. Artillery weed is like that.
Artillery weed chamber bitter is like that. Pig weed is
like that. And it's just the downside that some of
these weeds do have thorns and when you're pulling them up,
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you know, you better have gloves.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
And you and it's like and what I found is
it doesn't you think that you're that close to the
ground that oh there's not gonna meaning needles right there
and they're little. So that's why I say, I have
to dig the soil around and it's so.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
And just pull the root.
Speaker 3 (19:06):
Pull.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
They grab down to the root the best that you
can and then pull because that's the only way you're
gonna try to help get rid of it.
Speaker 1 (19:12):
You know what's in my yard right now? That point
SETI a weed. It's in the point setia eupour be
a family and it's three foot tall in certain areas
in my yard and just gotta have to go and.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
Pull them up so some Christmas lights on it.
Speaker 1 (19:25):
If it's Saturday morning from the Summit Responsible Solution Studios,
you're listening to Better Lawns and Gardens. I'm Teresa Watkins
and this is Florida's Talk at Entertainment Network. Welcome back
(19:56):
to Better Lawns and gardens. You're in the second half hour.
We to take your gardening questions. We've had a busy
morning so far. One triple eight five five, two nine
sixty seven, or you can text me two three six
eight zero. Well, it's hot down. When we think of
the dog days of summer, we think of it as
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being now in August, but they actually the dog days
of summer ended this week and on the thirteenth, So
the last dog days of summer, the hot, heavy weeks
from July third through August eleventh, and ancient civilizations why
they call it the dog days of summer, they tied
this season, the heat of the summer to the rising
(20:39):
of Sirius, the dog star, which appears in the eastern
sky just before dawn in mid August. So the Greeks
believed Sirius added extra heat to the summer, and the Egyptians,
when they saw the first appearance, was always signaling the
annual flooding of the Nile. So that's the event that
helps sustain their crops, their agriculture. They depended on the
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Nile flooding. And today we know Sirious doesn't affect our
you know, our weather, but the folklore remains, and that's
why we talk about the dog days of summer. Romans
would blame the serious dog star rising for droughts and
fevers and general misery. So we do have drought and
we do have general misery, but I don't think it's
(21:24):
the dog star that's doing that. So the next time
you're going to be able to see the Sirius from
Florida will be September twenty second. And it's one of
those simple skywatching moments that my cousin Danny, he was
all into astronomy that connects us to thousands of years
of history that we're looking at something that you know,
(21:44):
the ancient Greeks and the ancient Egyptians they looked at too,
and depended on for their forecasting. Luckily we don't do
that now. So Wednesday, is August nineteenth, is National Potato
Day and rated the world's one of the world's most
important food crops. It is third next to wheat and rice,
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and humans consume more than three hundred and seventy million
metric tons of potatoes every year. And and it's just
it's it's just I love potatoes, I love mashed potatoes,
I love baked potatoes. I love sliced potatoes, cassell potatoes.
I just love potatoes.
Speaker 2 (22:24):
I love potatoes. But you know the one potato that
really really absolutely can't stand hash browns. Really, I don't
know what it is.
Speaker 1 (22:32):
I don't got to be seasoned.
Speaker 2 (22:33):
Yeah, even season I don't know.
Speaker 3 (22:35):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
If it's just because they're like so thin, they're and
they're burnt.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
Yeah, they know, they will they be there. Well, you
know they're really right. Yeah, they're hash browns too hash brown.
Speaker 2 (22:48):
It's too much brown for me.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
Okay, So what kind of gravy do you put on
your mashed potatoes? Oh?
Speaker 2 (22:55):
It depends on what I'm eating, yes, okay, So if
it's a steak, probably a brown gravy. If it's like
a chicken fried steak, or if it's chicken fried waite,
just white gravy, white gravy. Yes, if it's like chichi gravy, yeah,
So if it's like a chicken version, or even its
chicken fried steak, then that I do the white gravy.
Speaker 1 (23:16):
Oh, chicken fried steak is wonderful.
Speaker 3 (23:18):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (23:18):
So. So long before potatoes reached Europe, the potatoes were
cultivated and protected in the andes okay. So the Papa
Arawa descendants pre inc pre in Incan. Yeah, pre Incan
cultures in Peru are the original potato guardians. For thousands
of years, they preserved potato diversity in its center of origin,
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and it's a legacy still honored today by the International
Potato Center, whose logo features Papa Arowa caring for potatoes
and so. Sir Walter Raleigh is often credited with helping
introduce potatoes to Ireland in the late fifteen hundreds, which
was a life saver. I did help the Irish people
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with poverty and food for a while, and then the
Irish Potato Famine happened, but it reshaped European agriculture. So
today there are over four thousand potato varieties worldwide, including
more than three thousand native Andian types safeguarded in the
International Potato Centers Jane Back, Jeene Bank and Lima, Peru.
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But it's my second vegetable, favorite vegetable, and I love
it every way. My first favorite, can you guess my
first favorite vegetable?
Speaker 2 (24:34):
Green beans?
Speaker 1 (24:35):
I like green beans. No, green beans are good. Onions
I love money.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
I can eat an onion raw I could eat it
onion raw. I love them.
Speaker 1 (24:42):
I eat them for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, and I
love growing them, and they're easy to grow.
Speaker 2 (24:46):
I love them so much that went around cutting them
and I'm crying. It has nothing to do with the onion.
It's just I'm so happy. I'm like, I get to
eat you.
Speaker 1 (24:57):
Yes, I know the feeling, and it's just more more onions, please.
So I do love that one triple eight four five
two ninety sixty seven. However, you can text two three
six eight zero.
Speaker 2 (25:08):
Have you ever had an onion sandwich? Yes, Oh my god,
it's the best sleay, especially when there used to be
Marina white bread. I take Marita white bread and then
put some Dukes mayonnaise on it. Yes, and then I
put a few thin I have to be thin slices,
but a lot of them, but thinly sliced onions.
Speaker 1 (25:23):
Yes, especially about yeah. Yeah. Tony says when he's cooking burgers,
he says, do you do you want sautee onions? I
go yes. He goes, do you want raw onions? I
say yes, raw and saute on the same burger.
Speaker 2 (25:33):
Whenever I get a steak and cheese, I have to
explain myself. I go, I would like grilled onions and
then when you're done, will you put raw onions on
top of it? Then they go you want both?
Speaker 1 (25:43):
And I'm like, dude, yeah, what are they thinking? There?
Speaker 3 (25:48):
You go?
Speaker 1 (25:48):
So what should you be doing in your landscape right now? Well,
I will tell you.
Speaker 3 (25:52):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (25:53):
Pete from Miami he emailed me, and he says, my
grass is looking sad turning brown? Can I fertilize it?
And whatertilizer should I use? Hang in there, Pete, we
do not want to fertilize right now. It is too hot, okay,
thank you for asking, though before you did it. Due
to the intensive heat we just experiencing through the state
(26:14):
lack of rain, it's not a good time to fertilize.
But then also too, with the water Management District and
the city and counties, they have bands on fertilizing right now.
And yes, it's kind of an oxymoron because you're supposed
to fertilize when the plants are growing, So you would
think that fertilizing turf now because it's growing and we
(26:35):
have the rain, it would be good. But in reality,
when you fertilize and a lot of people do it,
before a rainstorm comes. Have you ever heard that that
you Okay, it's going to rain this afternoon, I better
get my fertilizer down. No, you don't want to do it.
You want to fertilize after the rainstorm. One, because if
you fertilize before a rainstorm and it's really heavy like
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we've been getting these downpours, you can lose seventy five
percent of your fertilizer to stormwater runoff, which means it
just rolls right off your yard into the storm water
drain and into the lakes, which causes algae blooms. Okay,
you don't want to do that. You want to fertilize
after the storm, so that if you need to water it,
the ground is soaked, the turf won't burn because you
(27:18):
can burn with fertilizer and it'll be hydrated. It can
take it also too. It's it's just important that we
do have the rainfall, we do have the heat, and
the grass is growing. But if you don't like mowing
your lawn, why are you fertilizing it?
Speaker 3 (27:36):
Well?
Speaker 2 (27:36):
Also, and how about this, If you are a money
person and you like to pay attention to where your
money goes, I want you to pretend that your money
the cash. I want to take a few one dollar bills, okay,
take them out to your yard, all right, dump that,
and then I want you to take a hose and
then watch where your money blows, or take a blower
and blow it, because that's exactly what you're doing with
putting the fertilizer, and you're washing all that money away.
Speaker 1 (27:57):
Exactly, and so it's very important. So pete right now,
I would wait until October first, which is the band
gets taken off and you'll be able to fertilize them.
This Saturday morning, you're listening to Better Lawns and Gardens
from the Summit Responsible Solutions Studios. I'm Teresa Watkins and
this is Florida's Talk and Entertainment Network. Welcome back up
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Better Lawns and Gardens, and now for reasons top five.
My top five this week is in honor of the
school starting and all the opportunities for hands on science projects.
So here are my top five vegetables to propagate in water.
These vegetables are reliable, fun and perfect for demonstrating how
plants regenerate from kitchen scraps. You'll need a clear glass
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fresh water, write in direct sunlight, toothpicks and the vegetables
Number one buck Choi. To regrow buck choi, begin by
trimming off the base of the plant, removing approximately two
to four inches from the bottom, and then put it
into the glass of water. You can stabilize it with toothpicks.
Within three to four weeks, you will see new roots
developing and allow it to continue to grow for about
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thirty days, at which point it'll be able to be
planted in the garden. Number two potatoes. You can celebrate
Potato Day Wednesday with a large Idaho potato with sprouting
eyes that can be divided for propagation. Or you can
put the potato, cut it in half and insert toothpicks
and place it in the water up to the bottom.
You want to make sure the bottom's covered and then
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refresh the water every three days. That's important for all
of these vegetables. Within two to three weeks, you will
have enough roots developed. In about four weeks, you can
plant the rooted piece. Number three garlic garlic six too
long in the bin. Separate the bulb and remove a
sprouting clove, or just place the clove that's dry in
the water. With the base down in the water. You
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want to fully cover the whole entire base. Refresh the
water every three or four days. Once a green shoot
reaches three to four inches, you can trim it off
and use it immediately in breads, egg dishes, salad, soups,
and more. Number four scallions My favorite. When I harvest scallions,
I bring them home from the grocery store. Immediately trim
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off the root ends. This simple start helps them keep
longer in the refrigerator. Thank you, and got just two more.
Though I love them so off, I use them so often,
they rarely sip for long. You want to place the
rooted end the bulbs cut about an inch off the bottom,
and in a clear jar bowl with enough water to
cover the white portion. Refresh the water every three to
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four days, and in about two weeks the scallions will regrow.
You can either plant them in a pot or snip
the new green leaves for cooking and just have them
growing right there on your counter in the water. Number
five celery at the bottom two to three inches from
the celery stock, Insert toothpicks around the midpoint, and rest
the base in a short glass that's filled with water
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about one inch below the cut end or one inch
above the cut and refresh the water every three or
four days. The roots form in one to two weeks
and the celery is ready to transplant in three to
four weeks. So those are all my vegetables for school projects.
If you'd like to do those with your children, or
just continue to have vegetables coming up on your counter,
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you can you can propagate them in water. I love this.
I love this because I do that.
Speaker 2 (31:40):
Like whenever I wanted, like I don't have time to
plant a plant, I'll like chunk it into like a
bucket of water. Yeah, and then if you months later,
I'm like, oh wow, there, that's what I did with it.
Speaker 3 (31:49):
So it's.
Speaker 1 (31:52):
Right that or it's dead. There you go. Let's go
to Jerry in Citrus County. Good morning, Jerry.
Speaker 3 (32:01):
I got a couple of questions because you just bought
one up. Okay, on these rooting. Is there is there
publication or something available on doing that routings of these
different iteables.
Speaker 1 (32:13):
Yes. I can guarantee you if you just will Google
when you go on the internet, Jerry, google potatoes or
vegetables to propagate in water, you will have hundreds of
articles coming up and they all say the same thing.
So it's very easy to look forward on the on
the internet and you can just download it.
Speaker 3 (32:31):
I'll do that, thank you, Teresa. And the first question
I had asked Lizzie, is the tropical spinaches or the
spinaches that grow in Florida year round? Like longevity? Sure, Okinawa,
Let's see, okay, surnam. I had good luck with surnam
and longevity. I didn't have good luck with the Okinawa.
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Malabar was is too, I don't know, too flimsy, it
doesn't have the bigger okay that I need on there.
So well, what do you recommend on the growing those
spinaches on? Are there other kinds of spinach?
Speaker 1 (33:07):
There's Oh, there's lots more spinaches. I don't know if
you'll find them available in the in the stores or
in the nurseries, but yeah, there's a dozens and dozens
of more spinaches. But Jepanese spinach. You got Korean spinach.
There's lots more, but I think the longevity tastes really
good of the Korean one. And uh, then longevity is
my favorite. I do like malabar, and I haven't had
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any trouble with it being too flimsy. So does it
get enough light? Because you live in the shade. You
have a lot of shade around your yard, right, Yeah,
I have.
Speaker 3 (33:38):
A lot of shade, and also I get very cold weather.
Speaker 5 (33:42):
Uh huh.
Speaker 3 (33:44):
There, And of course I maybe expect too much from it.
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (33:48):
Well, I can understand that, but it might just need
a little bit more sunlight so it's not so flimsy.
Speaker 3 (33:53):
Oh okay, that's why I got more sun Okay on
the Malabar and anything else. Any recommendations on any of
the other ones, because I really like the longevity. It
keeps coming back.
Speaker 1 (34:05):
Yeah, the longevity is really good.
Speaker 3 (34:07):
It's doing great now too. But it's got a little
bitty purple flowers on it, uh huh. And you could
eat the whole thing you can.
Speaker 1 (34:14):
And I bet it looks pretty in a salad, So
that's good.
Speaker 3 (34:17):
Yeah. So I'm just I would love.
Speaker 1 (34:20):
To see your yard, Jerry. That's that's you sound like
you have a wonderful yard with your rose mallow.
Speaker 3 (34:25):
And people come by, they say it's food dense.
Speaker 1 (34:30):
What do they know? What do they know?
Speaker 3 (34:33):
The growing a lot of food? I tell you that.
Speaker 1 (34:35):
There you go I'm so proud of you. Thank you
so much, Jerry. Let's go to Rob in Christmas. Good morning, Rob.
How can I help you?
Speaker 3 (34:43):
How y'all doing?
Speaker 1 (34:44):
We're doing great. How are you?
Speaker 3 (34:46):
I'm better than I deserve. Anyway. I've got some blood
lilies and I've got somebody gave me a couple of them,
and they seem to be spreading. Is there any way too?
I don't know. Are they bulbs that you can they
are bulbs?
Speaker 1 (35:02):
Yeah, and you can divide them?
Speaker 3 (35:03):
Sure one should I do this?
Speaker 7 (35:06):
Well?
Speaker 1 (35:07):
You can do them now. And this is when I
would advise you to do them, only because you want
them to be hardened off and settled before the winter
time comes. So go ahead in the next three or
four weeks just dig them up. See how much and
you can just split the bulbs just a little bit
and they will they growing on each other, and just
very gently take them off plan them.
Speaker 3 (35:28):
Okay, Oh, thank you very much.
Speaker 1 (35:30):
You're welcome.
Speaker 3 (35:31):
Great. You guys are great. I appreciate you.
Speaker 1 (35:33):
Thank you so much for I'll call anytime. Yeah, we're good.
One triple eight four five five two nine sixty seven,
or you can text two three six eight zero. We
have Lloyd Lightsey. He is the pond Monster, and yeah,
that's cool. He is cool and he I've worked with
him for a long time and he is He installs
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all my clients water features, but he does little bubbling
water you know features, and then he does huge, huge
Koi ponds. And so I wanted him to come on
and he's gonna give us a lot of great information. Now,
Pete in Miami, you did talk about fertilizing right now,
and I do want to say this so that because
we can't fertilize right now basically generally throughout the entire state,
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this is the time that you can use to go
ahead and take a soil test of your soil and
send it into the Extension office and the University of Florida,
and they will tell you exactly what fertilizer you need
to use on your turf and your landscape and your
fruit trees and your vegetables. So this is the time.
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It only takes about three weeks to submit it and
get it back and we use it. A soil test
that I recommend is called Agritech Soil Kit Agritech Soil Kit,
and you can go into the extension offices and pick
one up. You can get one. They do charge for
them about it's about thirty dollars, but that covers for
(37:04):
the that covers for the soil test that you're going
to receive back or the analysis, and or you can
go online and it's called Agritech Soil Kit and they'll
ship it to you in the mail and you'll get
it right away within a week. You send it off
and by the end of September you will know exactly
what to put on your on your landscape, your agriculture,
(37:27):
your crops, your raised beds on October first, Okay, so
take this time to find out what you're working with.
Your soil may be great, your pH may be different
than you thought it was. I just did soil tests
for a community about two months ago, two and a
half months ago now back in June, and uh, it
(37:50):
was amazing how the one one house and then their
neighbors had two different phs, and and then and then
a couple of streets over that house had a different
pH And so your neighbors don't aren't going to have
maybe the same soil as you do, especially if you
live in older sections of the town and it's not
(38:12):
a citrus grove that has been you know, redeveloped and
houses have sprung up on it. So if you live
in in the older neighborhoods or even you know, neighborhoods
that are twenty to thirty years old, then you might
have not issues with your soul. But it's good to
know what the pH is and what fertilizer to use.
There you go. I guess Lizzie wants to go.
Speaker 2 (38:36):
It's literally just I'm so sorry to listen.
Speaker 1 (38:40):
That's okay. Thank you to everyone who called today. We
have another great hour. You don't want to miss the
Pond Monster. He's coming upright in the next hour and
you can give us a call one Triple eight four
five five two nine sixty seven or Texas two three
six eight zero. Don't miss the second hour and miss
Saturday Morning. You're listening to Better Lawns and Gardens from
the Summit Responsible Solution Studios. I'm Teresa Watkins, and this
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is Florida's talk and entertainment network.
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And if you want to recap any of the shows,
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