May 9, 2026 • 39 mins
Garden expert and host Teresa Watkins marks Mother’s Day with Lizzie and guests, sharing cherished memories and ways to celebrate National Public Garden Week. She also features her Top Five “Mother” plants and answers listener questions on lawn fertilization, what to plant in May, and more.
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Speaker 1 (00:09):
Good morning, Welcome to Better Lawns and Gardens from the
Summit Responsible Solutions Studios. I'm Teresa Watkins. Happy Mother's Day
weekend to everyone out there that's a mother. If you've
got a mother, if you're you know your mother's past,
but you still have fond memories you want to get
to remember her. This is the weekend we do it.
(00:30):
Good morning, Lizzie, how we're in.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Good morning, and Happy Mother's Day to you. Teresa.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
I am so excited. We have a great family.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
We have four children between us, Tony I have three.
Tony has one Genevieve, and I have Teresa. She is
not a junior Teresa, Derek and Patrick, and we have
eleven grandchildren.
Speaker 4 (00:55):
Oh that's so special.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
It is.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
I just got to get their names, so I just
want to give him a shout out on the air.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
They range in age from twenty seven to four.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
And Jackson and McKenna, Xavier and Reagan and Emma, Bella, Madison,
kk Olivia and also Katerina and Cadence.
Speaker 4 (01:19):
Those are really nice names.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
Yeah, they're all they're all wonderful. They're all wonderful, and
so tell us about your family.
Speaker 4 (01:27):
I have two kids. Well, Shrek and I have two kids.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
We have a son and a daughter, and then we
have two grand brats from our son.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
And so yeah, do they love that you call them
grand brats.
Speaker 4 (01:40):
I don't care what they like.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
See that was the grandmother of the of generations gone
long gone.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
So I have some good news, Lizzie. Okay, last night
I got rain.
Speaker 4 (01:54):
Me too.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
I am so excited we got rained.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
In this week coming up, it looks to be like
we have a couple more days chances of getting rain.
And so if you were in Port Orange, that was
crazy last night, that the rain that came down there
and the wind.
Speaker 4 (02:10):
Yes, it was a little obnoxious.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
If you've watched any social media, you'll see it it.
Speaker 4 (02:16):
I mean, I don't I'd say it was like a torn.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
Noodle, but I mean I'm not a meteorologist, so I
can't really say that.
Speaker 4 (02:23):
But it looked pretty bad.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
It did. It would look pretty you know.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
Everybody's safe, So there was no injuries or anything like that.
But this morning, when I got up the debris on
our street, it only because it only rained for like
a few minutes. And so this has been a very
long drought and I'm getting ready for it. To be
over just any time now, okay, anytime. And the meteorologists
(02:48):
are saying we have the super el Nino that's gonna
happen this year, which means we're gonna have less chances,
knock on wood, less chances of having a hurricane. But
we're gonna have a wet fall, not only a wet
summer because al Ninos bring rain, but a wet fall
and a cool winter. And so that's gonna be nice.
(03:11):
That's gonna give us the rainfall we need to catch up.
Speaker 4 (03:13):
The only only bad thing it seems like.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
It seems like and like I said, I'm non meteorologists,
but it seems if we have a extremely hot hat
ha ha ha hot summer, we don't seem to get
as many hurricanes. But then we have to do it
was one hundred and three Thursday.
Speaker 4 (03:33):
Isn't that my price and three?
Speaker 1 (03:35):
And that is unbelievable because it's only made it was
really hot yesterday. I had to sit down. I was
out in the in the in the heat.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
For a little while.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
After about forty five minutes, I was feeling it. Yeah,
so we got to make sure when you're out there,
and you out there, you got to make sure your
turkeys have water all the time.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
Yes, and electrolytes, yes, people, electrolyte yourself please.
Speaker 3 (03:59):
Yeah, because as you.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
Get that low blood sugar, that kind of very tired
and you're going to pass out feeling. So if you
have that, you know, get some water, go sit down
out of the get in the shade, because it can
happen very quickly.
Speaker 4 (04:12):
Yeah, take frequent water breaks. That's you know.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
I mean, even if you're the type of person that
doesn't want to just like sit down for a minute,
because then you won't finish whatever your project is. Set
a tier on your phone, like every like fifteen minutes,
stop and take a drink.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
Especially when you're out there gardening and landscaping. Florida, it
can it can happen real quick.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
North Florida.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
You've got some rain last night, so you're gonna have
more rain this weekend. Every day through Monday. It looks
like chances. Pensacola you're going to be in the mid seventies,
which is so nice. Tallahassee and Gainesville you're going to
be in the high eighties. Temperatures are going to be
great for gardening. Great gardening weather up in North Florida.
(04:51):
So with the rain, that's going to loosen up the
soil and you're going to see a lot of growth happening.
Central Florida we're going to be cooler then the nineties
and the one hundred degree temperatures we had this week.
But we have a good chance of rain every day
through Tuesday, and I am looking forward to that. That
(05:12):
is going to be great. Tampa, you're going to be
mid to high eighties.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
Not a lot of rain on the West coast. East coast.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
The rain is gonna happen on the East coast Melbourne,
Port Saint Luci possible rain Sunday through Wednesday every day,
and the East coast temperatures are going to be in
the nineties to high eighties. Low's in the seventies and
that's that's about normal for this time of the year.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
So that's good.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
South Florida rain Monday through Wednesday. Fort Lauderdale, Miami, Key
West you're gonna have rain, which is so needed. It's
gonna be partly cloudy and temp's are gonna be in
the mid eighties there. So Mike and Venice, sorry, no
rain this week, just gonna have to irrigate and when
we talk about being in a drought, we want to
make sure and make this very very very clear. There's
(06:02):
no reason to water more. Okay for your landscape, your
plants that are established in the ground, Okay, you're not
gonna need to water more. You're twice a week watering
that we're allowed when there's no rainfall is adequate. Now
you're containers. I got some new plants in the mail
and they, uh, they're needing water two three times a
(06:24):
day just and they're in the shade and I've got
to get them in the ground. But they're needing two
to three times a day. So I'm handwatering those. So
you want to make sure that you're you know, getting
adequate water for yourself and for your garden. Hey, we're
gonna do phone calls this morning, so if you have
a gardening question one triple eight four five five two
(06:45):
nine sixty seven for you can text two three six
eight zero. If you have some great memories of your
mom gardening, give us a call.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
We'd love to hear it.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
From the Summit Responsible Solution Studios.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
It's Saturday morning.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
You're listening to Better Lands and Gardens and this is
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Speaker 3 (07:11):
And welcome back to Better Lawns and Gardens.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
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(07:37):
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Speaker 3 (07:44):
Podcasts, you can find us.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
Just google Better Lawns and Gardens and Teresa Watkins and
it comes up.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
Let's go to John and Melbourne. Good morning, John, how
are you fine?
Speaker 5 (07:54):
Good morning? So thanks for taking my call.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
Oh you're welcome.
Speaker 5 (07:57):
I have a situation where I have a Dana's palm
and it's very tall, about twenty and eighty then thirty feet,
and I believe it died in that heart reason. I
don't know for sure, but there's no new growth coming back.
And I did etge the bark, and I did see
some kind of liquid or softness, but I have two
parts of that question, do you think it's dead? And
(08:19):
the second part is I'm thinking of putting a crawling
vine at the bottom, perhaps a bogabilia type, but that's
high maintenance, huh. Just so I can have a crawl
up on the dead tree trunk and I think it
might work. So what do you think about that? And
I'll listen to your response off the air.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
Okay, Hen, thank you so much.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
I appreciate it.
Speaker 6 (08:39):
So.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
Pandana's palm is also known as a screw pine. It's
not a palm tree, but it really looks like one
when you see it. I really love the idea that
you obtained one, John, and you had it in your yard.
The unfortunate thing is it's very tropical. It likes the
temperatures seventies, eighties, nineties and doesn't take so I don't
(09:01):
know if it's dead or not.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
You should have seen some new growth coming. You say.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
It's about twenty feet tall, so you can't really get
up there and look at it, you know, just see
if you have something new coming up, and it might
take four to six months for something to come up. Now,
scraping the bark really won't help because if it's rotting,
or if it just kind of melted during the winter,
then the underneath the bark would be kind of damp
(09:26):
and moist anyway, So I would try to just wait
it out another month or so and see if you
see any new growth. If you do want to plant
something at the bottom. I love that idea. I don't
know how long the palm tree or the pine tree
will last, so you could put the boogam villa up
and see what happens.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
And it looks great if you know I can.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
I can see you using that pine tree, the screw
pine as a trellis, but I don't know how long
it will last, so I would do it, but I
would wait probably another month to even uh two months,
because that'll give you six months after the freeze, and
you should have seen something by six months, okay, So
(10:12):
no need to fertilize it. Just make sure that it's
getting adequate water and let us know how you do.
That's a wonderful innovative idea to use a screwpine. I'm
sorry you lost it. Let's go to Eileen in Polk City.
Happy Mother's Day, Eileen. How are you?
Speaker 7 (10:30):
I'm going to be better once they put in a
new air conditioner to.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
Oh no, what a time for it to break worth
of heat.
Speaker 3 (10:39):
Oh, I can just imagine.
Speaker 4 (10:41):
Oh goodness, horrible.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
Yeah, so you kind of had like outdoor temperatures indoors.
Speaker 7 (10:47):
Uh yeah, we've been leaving the door to the screened
in porch open, uh huh. And it's that way we
get the cool air in the morning in the house
and we've got the ceiling fans running, which you know,
in the living room it does good, but the rest
(11:08):
of the house forget it.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
Okay, So with the screen door open, are you getting
any chickens inside your house thinking it's much cooler in
there with with you than outside.
Speaker 3 (11:21):
How are your African violets.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
Doing without the air conditioning?
Speaker 3 (11:24):
Do they react right away?
Speaker 7 (11:27):
They seem to be doing just fine.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
They love that humidity and they love that that heat.
Speaker 7 (11:32):
Yeah, they're doing just fine. But I wanted to just
say happy mothers stay to you and Lucy.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
Thank you so much, younger.
Speaker 7 (11:41):
Welcome, and I hope you have What are you doing
for Mother's Day?
Speaker 1 (11:46):
Well, we are going to see one of our grandchildren,
and my daughter and my two other sons are in
the restaurant business, so my other sons. Derek has a
restaurant to restaurants in Saint august Tine that will be
open and very busy for a Mother's Day, and I
usually can go up, and he wants me to come
(12:07):
to dinner, but I don't like to go, you know,
when it's so crowded. So so, but my daughter she's
off for the weekend and she has fell us, so
we are going to go see them and spend some
quality time with them. My other son is a restaurant
manager to as well. So Patrick nice, So thank you. Well,
what are your plans for Mother's Day?
Speaker 7 (12:30):
Probably lawn?
Speaker 1 (12:34):
Well, isn't that just that's just a typical for a mother, right,
working seven days a week, all right, I had so
much to do, yeh, there you go. I'm so well,
get your children to help you, and your husband to
help you, all right.
Speaker 7 (12:47):
No, no, no, she wants it done right lift there
you go.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
Well, I always tell tell my husband that, honey, uh,
you know, there's never been a case of a man
who's been while doing the dishes or doing laundry, so
I mean just keeping it.
Speaker 7 (13:04):
Safe out laundry, all right, and take care.
Speaker 3 (13:08):
Thank you so much.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
Having Mother's Day let's go to Carol in Lakeland. Good morning, Carol.
Speaker 3 (13:13):
How can I help you?
Speaker 6 (13:15):
Hi there? Okay, so I'm steering at the thirty foot
avocado tree that looks bizarre.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
Okay.
Speaker 6 (13:23):
I mean it's got some some branches way up high
that that have leaves and some that are dead, and
then down on one of the dead ones about ten
feet up, it's got all of these branches coming out below.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
It's all going to recover, even way up high.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
Yeah, it will.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
But what I'm suggesting that you do is to bring
in an arborist to come in there and help it
thirty foot tall.
Speaker 3 (13:51):
I don't want you cutting the branches and everything.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
That high, but it could just use a trim and
of a certified arborist would be able to do that
for you, and and it'll grow, It'll all come back. Okay.
Speaker 6 (14:06):
Well that's amazing. And I think we lost our bottle
brush they tried to move.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
Oh no, oh that one you're that Carol. Oh, thank
you for calling me back. Well, I don't know, I'd
have to see.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
It, but I do.
Speaker 6 (14:23):
Two months, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3 (14:25):
Two months. It's what did the leaves look like?
Speaker 6 (14:31):
Well, they haven't fallen off, but they're all brown.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
They're all brown, okay. And and you can't can you
find any green as you go up any of the branches.
Not really, you know, it may just have may just
not have made it because of the the heat, the
lack of rain, you know, I don't know, hun, Yeah,
but I mean it was a good, good try.
Speaker 6 (14:54):
It was a good try. It was fun. It was
a fun project.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
Okay. So that's good. Thank you so much making for
Oh you're.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
Welcome, having Mother's Day. Let's go to Mike in Venice.
Good morning, Mike, how are you?
Speaker 8 (15:08):
Hey? Good morning.
Speaker 9 (15:09):
I thought I heard a shout out earlier, and y
you're correct. It's been dry down here. I live on
a retention pond and it's the lowest I've seen in
thirteen years.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
Yeah, oh my goodness. And it doesn't look good for
you this week either. It says just dry on the
West Coast.
Speaker 9 (15:27):
I bought a kalitha rattlesnake this past week. I was
looking at the care of it, and one person recommended
using distilled water. What I've been doing with my house
plants is drawing the water twenty four hours at least
before we'll use it on house plants. Think about watering dues.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
Well, Kalathia's you know, they will grow outside, so I
mean where you are. They can be an outdoor plant
if we have a warm winter. But the stilled water
you can do it, or you can let the chlorine
you know, evaporate like you're doing with leaving it out
twenty four hours. I think that's fine. It just depends
on how chlorinated your water is.
Speaker 9 (16:13):
Yeah, that's correct. You know, I tend to, like most people,
over water my houseplants, so even yeah, I think what
throws me, throws us off is the air conditioning will
dry the top inch or two, but the bottom of
the pot may still be damp.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
Yes, and that's that's you got to go down more
than a couple of inches, I say, to the second knuckle.
Speaker 3 (16:35):
And you know you can always, you know, it just depends.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
You want to make sure you're watering so Mike, so
that it gets down to the bottom. You don't want
to keep giving it little bits of water so that
the water stays.
Speaker 3 (16:46):
Wet on the top but the bottom roots don't get
the actual water.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
So you could if you wanted to put a string
in the bottom of the pot and put.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
It to.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
Have a little uh sauce sort of water underneath it, and.
Speaker 3 (17:02):
It could soak up the water that way.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
But just checking it once a week and giving it
some water once a week, it'll be fine.
Speaker 9 (17:09):
Yeah, sounds good. Thanks to three.
Speaker 3 (17:12):
You're welcome. Nice to hear from you. Tell Laurus and
Hyde bye bye.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
And so if you have a gardening question, we got
it off to a big start this morning. One triple
eight four five five two nine sixty seven, or you
can text two three six eight zero.
Speaker 4 (17:29):
I thought you were asking me the question.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
No, she just looked at me, she like looked at
me so intense, like, do you have a gardening question?
Speaker 9 (17:36):
Why?
Speaker 3 (17:36):
Yes, I do.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
Hold on one second, let me pull out my little
scroll a question, and.
Speaker 3 (17:40):
So what are you doing in your garden this week?
Speaker 4 (17:43):
This week?
Speaker 2 (17:45):
Just praying over it pretty much? You know, my onions,
I don't know. They're looking kind of raggedy for onions.
But I don't know. I don't know what's it's weird
Like I did him in the raised bed the last
two years and I got the big, gigantic fideli ones
and these are just like we don't like the ground.
Speaker 4 (18:03):
So I don't know what's going on with them.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
Yeah, it might be a little bit more, because when
you have a raised bed, you have a little bit
more you use an organic material, whereas in the ground,
especially you know in Lake County, it's a really dry,
sandy soil.
Speaker 2 (18:18):
Well, what it is the last two years where I
have them, I turned that into my garden area and
I've been dumping the droppings from the turkeys in there too,
So maybe mostly whatever, you know it I'm not a
holding out hope. This year a gigantic onion.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
So but yeah, so you go, I mean, how did
people live two hundred years ago?
Speaker 3 (18:38):
Three hundred years ago?
Speaker 1 (18:39):
We just went on the Revolutionary garden tour and these
magnificent gardens that have all these vegetables and rye and
just you know, where they could.
Speaker 3 (18:49):
Grow bread and wheat. How did they do it? And
what would they do in a drought?
Speaker 9 (18:55):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (18:55):
My goodness, we are so blessed right now.
Speaker 4 (18:57):
I have no clue what.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
They did, seriously, especially here in Florida, because they still
have the same soil as we do now. So I
don't know, but you know, and Hay, I'm hold now hope.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
So Carolyn Tampa sent me an email. She said, Teresa
is it too late to fertilize my lawn, and so Carol,
thank you for the email.
Speaker 3 (19:16):
No, it's not too late yet. So most of the
state of.
Speaker 1 (19:19):
Florida, and I would probably venture to say all of
Florida does have a fertilizer rule that you cannot fertilize
between June first and through through September thirty first. So
you want to make sure if you're going to get
fertilizing down, you.
Speaker 3 (19:34):
Need to do it right away. You've got about two
three weeks to do it.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
If it's Saturday morning, you're listening to Better Lawns and Gardens,
I'm Teresa, watchus and this is Florida's Talk and Entertainment Network.
(20:02):
Welcome back to Better Lawns and Gardens. If you have
a gardening question, you can give us a call one
triple eight four five five two nine sixty seven, or
you can text two three six eight zero.
Speaker 3 (20:14):
We would love to hear from you.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
You know, Lizzie, my mom loved flowers, and she had
six children in nine years. There wasn't a lot of
time to garden and so, but she would just take
us on walks all the time, out in nature, just
walking everywhere all six kids.
Speaker 3 (20:31):
We'd just go for a walk.
Speaker 1 (20:33):
Uh in Scotland, North Carolina, wherever we were. She would
walk us and she loved uh singing while we were
on the walk, so she would sing the whole time.
Speaker 3 (20:43):
Yeah. So I have great memories of my mom's singing. Uh.
But then towards the end of the walk.
Speaker 1 (20:48):
We were so tired, uh that we'd be crying and
singing at the same time.
Speaker 3 (20:53):
We would just want to go home. That's so funny.
Speaker 1 (20:57):
Yeah, we were really little. But guess what. She put
us to bed at six thirty seven o'clock at night,
and she knew she we were out. We were out.
Speaker 3 (21:06):
I love that.
Speaker 1 (21:07):
Yeah. So Carol from Tampa, she sent me a great
email about fertilizing. We do have the opportunity to fertilize
until June.
Speaker 3 (21:16):
First. You want to use.
Speaker 1 (21:17):
A slow release fertilizer, okay, with no phosphorus fifteen zero
fifteen is a good analysis. Why no phosphorus? Okay, that's important.
Most of the algae blooms that we get in lakes
come from phosphorus. The nitrogen and phosphorus A little bit
is from the decomposition of plants in the lake or water.
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But a lot of it's coming from I would say
the majority is coming from homes that fertilized. So one
is kind of funny to say this, but never fertilized
before a rainstorm. Yes, we will be getting rainstorms eventually,
and you never want to fertilize before a rainstorm. You
lose about seventy five percent of that fertilizer that you
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put down to stormwater runoff. Okay, so always fertilize after
a rainstorm. And why doesn't it need phosphorus. Well, phosphorus
is health plants develop flowers, fruit and root system. Okay, well,
turf does not need to have phosphors because it doesn't
have flowers and it doesn't have fruit, but it does
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have a root system. But the majority of Florida has
enough phosphorus in their soils that you don't have to
put down extra for the roots. Now, this is determined.
Especially you want to confirm that. Get a soil test
before you fertilize. The AGCH Soil KIP, which you can
get which is the University of Florida's soil test. You
(22:45):
can get it at the County Extension Office or you
can go online and.
Speaker 3 (22:49):
Get the AGRITECH soil.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
Test the agritech one word and ship it off to
the University of Florida. You will they have a quick turnaround.
You will get it right back and they will tell
you what your soil actually needs.
Speaker 3 (23:05):
All right, So that is.
Speaker 1 (23:06):
Preferable to do that before you fertilize.
Speaker 3 (23:10):
Also too, if you want to.
Speaker 1 (23:15):
Do your plants, you want to make sure you can
tell them that you're getting turf you want to fertilize
your turf, or you want to do fruit trees, They're
going to ask you what you're trying to fertilize, and
that's important. So for your vegetable and fruit plantings right now,
you want to make sure that you're maintaining three inches
of mult that's going to help when you do irrigate
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the water from evaporating. You want to keep bananas and
papaias moist so they are it's important. They need moisture
to produce fruit and you can feed them monthly and
you'll have flowers by late summer and then bananas in
the fall. You want to fertilize one last time for spring,
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your citrus, your grapes, and your other fruit trees that
you have the apples and the peaches.
Speaker 3 (24:03):
Right now is the time to do it.
Speaker 1 (24:05):
When we were up in Virginia last week, the blackberries
were all blooming everywhere up and down the highway. You
can see the blackberries here in Florida. Our blueberries and
blackberries are ready to harvest. So as soon as you
get the fruit off of your blueberries and your blackberries.
Speaker 3 (24:22):
You can prune it.
Speaker 1 (24:23):
Okay, that's a really good time to kind of gauge
when you should prune something is when you harvest the fruit. Also, too,
you want to feed your vegetable plantings monthly, Okay, you
can do a you know, a balanced fertilizer six sixty
six eight eight eighty ten, ten ten.
Speaker 3 (24:39):
That's fine.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
Also too, if you've had trouble with nematodes or other
pestissues and diseases, now's the time to go ahead and
solarize your garden area or your vegetable area so that
you can go ahead and plant in August again. Also two,
when you get to August, going to find that some
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seeds you're not going to be able to find, this
is the time now to go ahead and buy your seeds.
Look at the seed catalogs or to your seeds so
that when the time comes in August for your fall
vegetable garden, you have them all ready to go. So
let's go to Jeff in North Tallahassee. Good morning, Jeff.
How can I help you?
Speaker 8 (25:22):
Hey, good morning, I'm out here looking at a beautiful
garden here. I'm about twenty miles north of Tallahassee. We're
finally getting some lovely rain up here. I wanted to
ask you a question. I had some fabulous tomatoes last year,
heritage tomatoes. I could not get the same variety this year,
and so I planted my pepper plants where I had
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planted my tomato plants last year, and lo and behold,
about a week or so ago, I saw some tomato
plants coming in around the pepper plant and I thought,
my goodness, these must be some of those tomato plants
from last year. So fortune I was able to get
seven real nice plants and transplant them. My question is,
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so these tomato plants, if you keep them going for
quite a while, they do seed themselves. Is that correct?
In the ground, Well.
Speaker 1 (26:13):
You probably had a couple of tomatoes fall off and
leave seeds.
Speaker 3 (26:16):
So the fruit fell off into the ground, and.
Speaker 1 (26:19):
Uh, yeah, and see that it only happened it does.
Speaker 8 (26:22):
Yeah, well that's so I'm so pleased again.
Speaker 5 (26:26):
So I do have.
Speaker 8 (26:27):
I mean, I had the most fabulous tomatoes last year.
So I'm sitting here.
Speaker 9 (26:31):
I planted.
Speaker 8 (26:32):
I was able to recover seven of those plants, and
so I've replanted them. But I've got tomato plants that
are about two foot high now my other tomato plants
that I bought this year. My garden's doing great. My
yellow crook next squash is just I'm out here harvesting
it now this morning. But we've got rain up here
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and it's getting a good moist ground. So we're doing
fine up here now.
Speaker 1 (27:02):
Wonderful, Jeff. I'm very excited for you. So take one
of your heritage tomatoes that you that you get off
of these plants that have re seated itself, and go
ahead and save the seeds for next year.
Speaker 8 (27:14):
Okay, So just so so you just take so you
just take the tomato, cut it open and there's seats
the seeds inside. What do you have to do dry
them out?
Speaker 3 (27:25):
Or what dry them out?
Speaker 1 (27:26):
They're going to be in a kind of a little
jelious a gel kind of material or so of liquid,
and you want to wash them off, pat them with
a paper towel, dry them off, and put them in
an envelope.
Speaker 3 (27:40):
And once they.
Speaker 1 (27:41):
Dry and they'll be ready to recede in August.
Speaker 8 (27:45):
Would it be best to refrigerate them or just leave
them in an envelope?
Speaker 1 (27:49):
Well, it just depends. I mean, you don't necessarily want
them to dry out so completely that, you know, if
you've got one hundred degrees there, you know, but it
doesn't need chilling either, So.
Speaker 3 (28:00):
You just put them in a dry area.
Speaker 1 (28:01):
And if that is a vegetable bin in your in
your refrigerator, you can do that. That's not going to
hurt them.
Speaker 8 (28:09):
Well, hooray, Nature did it for me. There you go.
Speaker 1 (28:13):
What a great surprise.
Speaker 3 (28:14):
Oh, good job, good job.
Speaker 5 (28:16):
I love that you do it much, love your show.
Speaker 8 (28:19):
Thank you so much.
Speaker 3 (28:20):
Thank you Jeff for calling in. That just isn't that
just energizing? I love that. Well, thank you for Jeff
for calling in.
Speaker 1 (28:28):
We're going to be right back with my top five
plants that have mother in them. There you go for
Mother's Day. If it's Saturday morning, you're listening to Better
Lawns and Gardens. I'm Teresa Watkins. And this is Florida's
Talk Entertainment, Talk and entertainment.
Speaker 3 (28:43):
There you go.
Speaker 1 (29:03):
Welcome back up, better lawns in gardens. Now the reasons.
Top five My top five this week are plants with
the name mother in it. So my number five is
three different plants, okay, and or two plants in one
common name Mother of thousands, which is a calanchoe, and
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Mother of millions, which is also a calanchoe, a different variety,
or bad Mother. These are a succulent plant known for
producing little tiny plantlets along the edge of its sleeves,
symbolizing fertility and maternal care. Why is it sometimes called
bad mother because it drops its babies? That's so. Number
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four Motherwart mother Wart is a herb traditionally used for
heart and reproductive health, named for its historical association with
maternal well being.
Speaker 3 (29:55):
Number three Mother of.
Speaker 1 (29:57):
Time, also known as creeping time, belongs to the mint family.
It's native to Europe, Western Asia, and Africa. It has beautiful, tiny,
pur tubular pink to purple flowers in the springtime, which
attract bees and butterflies.
Speaker 3 (30:13):
And number one I get them all, Yes, I did.
Speaker 1 (30:16):
Number one Chrysanthemums or mums, Chrysanthemums are commonly called mums,
and it's the official flower for Mother's Day, symbolizing love
and respect for mothers. Very interesting, so I wanted to
go more in depth with saving tomato seeds for Jeff.
I went through that really really quickly and kind of sloppy,
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So I want to make sure he knows exactly what
to do. If you'd like to save an heirloom tomato seed,
you want to select a nice, good, healthy tomato. Then
you extract the seeds by cutting it in half and
squeezing the seeds out. You want to put them in
a little jar with a little bit of water, and
then you want to.
Speaker 3 (30:58):
Let it set for about three to four days.
Speaker 1 (31:01):
That gela to this material is going to then disengage
from it and you can take the seeds out. You
want to dry them off for a few days, make
sure they get nice and dry. You do that with
a paper towel, and then when it's dry, you put
them in an envelope, put the name of the type
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of tomato it is, and save it and then you
can plant it again in August. So that's a little
bit help. One triple eight four, five, five, two nine
sixty seven, or you can text two three six eight zero.
So now here's the difference between Mother of Thousands and
Mother of Millions. So these aren't Calanchoe's or clan shows,
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whichever way you'd like to say it. Are fast growing succulents.
They are from Madagascar, and they differ in leaf shape
and plantlet placement. So those little plants that are growing
on the outside of the leaf that they drop are
called plantlets, and they have different growth habits. So the
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Mother of Thousands is wide, broad, scattered, or toothed leaves
that grow in a branching upright habit, and the leaves
are thicker and can be up to two inches in length.
The Mother of Millions has slender, oval, smooth leaves that
grow in a rosette type of designed shape on the stem.
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And the leaves are typically green and can be so
small as a penny, so they're really small. The Mother
of Thousands, the plantlets form on the margins of the leaves,
creating a fringe like appearance. Mother of Millions, I'm sorry
that was Mother of Millions. Mother of Thousands. The plantlets
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form along the margins of the leaves, and the Mother
of Millions forms at the tips of the leaves. The
mother of millions produces multiple stocks from a single plant.
The mother of thousands grows upright. That can get a
little confusing, but there is a difference between mother of
thousands and mother of millions.
Speaker 4 (33:11):
I had never heard of them before.
Speaker 3 (33:13):
Really, do you have a picture up there?
Speaker 4 (33:16):
I am in the process of typing in right now.
Speaker 1 (33:18):
Oh, I can give you some because they do produce millions,
and so they can be kind of invasive.
Speaker 3 (33:24):
You don't want to get them started.
Speaker 1 (33:26):
But when they drop their babies, oh wow, yeah, that's.
Speaker 3 (33:32):
Yeah, she's she's looking.
Speaker 4 (33:33):
I'm looking at the picture right now.
Speaker 1 (33:35):
But they are succulents and they do take over, so
you want to you want to be careful for them.
Speaker 4 (33:40):
It looks like they would definitely take over.
Speaker 1 (33:42):
Yeah, especially with all the plantlets they produced. Okay one
triple eight, four, five, five, two, nine sixty seven, or
you can text two three, six eighth zero and let
us know what you'd like to do. If you have
memories of your your mother, your grandmother, we'd love to
hear those as well.
Speaker 3 (34:00):
Uh, we'd love to do that.
Speaker 2 (34:01):
Okay, wait, okay, I'm so when I looked at the
mother of millions and mothers of thousands, right right, Okay.
It also is known as the devil's backbone.
Speaker 1 (34:13):
Yeah, that's a common name of it too. I mean
that's the kind of an insult to the mothers.
Speaker 2 (34:18):
I don't know if it's an insult or if it's
a compliment. For me, i'd consider that a compliment.
Speaker 1 (34:24):
But see, here's to me, devil's backboat to me is
a different, totally different plant. Okay, Okay, So I don't see.
Speaker 3 (34:32):
It as being it is kind of a succulent. But
I don't know why they did that.
Speaker 4 (34:37):
But yeah, it's like combining the two or the three
of them. Actually, so yeah, right.
Speaker 3 (34:41):
Devil's back boat is a different plant. Yeah, so I thought, I.
Speaker 2 (34:44):
Thought, because I'm like looking, but I don't understand why
it's saying all of the above. So I like, because
it's the Internet, you know.
Speaker 4 (34:54):
Anyway, I'm sorry, go ahead, No, that's that's fine.
Speaker 1 (34:57):
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Speaker 3 (35:41):
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Speaker 1 (35:42):
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Speaker 3 (35:54):
You would love, we'd love to have you join us.
We have a great time.
Speaker 1 (35:57):
So Lizzie, so tomorrow now if you get rain, are
your turkeys covered? Your turkeys are covered.
Speaker 2 (36:06):
Yes, yes, they all have their own like uh we
have four run areas that are set up for them
and they all have their own housing like overhang housing, gazebos.
Speaker 1 (36:18):
I guess you would call it. So yeah, they're they're
they're covered. Okay, good, I worry about them. How is Gerald?
Speaker 4 (36:24):
He's doing good?
Speaker 2 (36:26):
I mean, I mean I didn't realize until the beginning
of this year that you know, I am I'm very
lucky if he continues to live for another year, because
the broad breasted turkeys are only supposed to live maybe
two years, because you know, that's what they're forced to
be eaten. And but yeah, so he had his his
two year birthday last month, and he is just feisty
(36:46):
as can be. Uh he's a lover to people. But
he's trying to fight all the other boys. And uh, yeah,
he's doing really good.
Speaker 4 (36:53):
He's huge.
Speaker 1 (36:54):
That's great. Uh So, uh, what else can you be
doing this month we talked about. You could go ahead
and solarize your garden area. If you have problems, it
will control It will help you control nematodes and diseases.
So also look at your fruit trees. You can control
fruit worms and leaf spots on vegetables with natural sprays
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as needed. That Captain Jack's Dead Bug brew is excellent
for that. You want to look for aphids, walk your
yards once a week and just look at the bottom
of the leaves, the top of the leaves and see
if you notice the aphens. You can use it insecticidal
soap spray for your aphids. And then also too, again
(37:37):
very important, go ahead now and get your seeds for August.
You know, spend the next few weeks looking through catalogs,
going online and seeing what you'd like to plant for
this year's guard All garden, and that will that way
you'll get them in time and have them when you
look in August. They're going to be pretty much picked
(37:57):
through if you want a special variety, so you want
to make sure you do that. Indoors, you want to
make sure that you are checking the water needs daily,
especially if it's on the patio or pool area.
Speaker 3 (38:11):
Plants that are wilting.
Speaker 1 (38:12):
Often if you have plants that droop, that means not
necessarily that they need to be watered. It could be
also the symptom for overwatering. Okay, so either way, the
roots are getting bloated and they can absorb water, or
they're dried out, they're desiccated and can absorb water.
Speaker 3 (38:34):
So again it's always a.
Speaker 1 (38:35):
Great idea, like Mike sets, to stick your finger in
the pot and go down to the second knuckle and
if it's moist, damp or wet cool.
Speaker 3 (38:45):
You do not need to water it.
Speaker 1 (38:47):
We're going to have a great, great guess the next
hour we're gonna be talking about some new brand New
Encore Azalea's. If it's Saturday morning, you're listening to Better
Lawns and Gardens. I'm Teresa Watkins and this is Florida's
talk and Entertainment Network,
Good morning, Welcome to Better Lawns and Gardens from the
Summit Responsible Solutions Studios. I'm Teresa Watkins. Happy Mother's Day
weekend to everyone out there that's a mother. If you've
got a mother, if you're you know your mother's past,
but you still have fond memories you want to get
to remember her. This is the weekend we do it.
(00:30):
Good morning, Lizzie, how we're in.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Good morning, and Happy Mother's Day to you. Teresa.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
I am so excited. We have a great family.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
We have four children between us, Tony I have three.
Tony has one Genevieve, and I have Teresa. She is
not a junior Teresa, Derek and Patrick, and we have
eleven grandchildren.
Speaker 4 (00:55):
Oh that's so special.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
It is.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
I just got to get their names, so I just
want to give him a shout out on the air.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
They range in age from twenty seven to four.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
And Jackson and McKenna, Xavier and Reagan and Emma, Bella, Madison,
kk Olivia and also Katerina and Cadence.
Speaker 4 (01:19):
Those are really nice names.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
Yeah, they're all they're all wonderful. They're all wonderful, and
so tell us about your family.
Speaker 4 (01:27):
I have two kids. Well, Shrek and I have two kids.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
We have a son and a daughter, and then we
have two grand brats from our son.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
And so yeah, do they love that you call them
grand brats.
Speaker 4 (01:40):
I don't care what they like.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
See that was the grandmother of the of generations gone
long gone.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
So I have some good news, Lizzie. Okay, last night
I got rain.
Speaker 4 (01:54):
Me too.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
I am so excited we got rained.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
In this week coming up, it looks to be like
we have a couple more days chances of getting rain.
And so if you were in Port Orange, that was
crazy last night, that the rain that came down there
and the wind.
Speaker 4 (02:10):
Yes, it was a little obnoxious.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
If you've watched any social media, you'll see it it.
Speaker 4 (02:16):
I mean, I don't I'd say it was like a torn.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
Noodle, but I mean I'm not a meteorologist, so I
can't really say that.
Speaker 4 (02:23):
But it looked pretty bad.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
It did. It would look pretty you know.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
Everybody's safe, So there was no injuries or anything like that.
But this morning, when I got up the debris on
our street, it only because it only rained for like
a few minutes. And so this has been a very
long drought and I'm getting ready for it. To be
over just any time now, okay, anytime. And the meteorologists
(02:48):
are saying we have the super el Nino that's gonna
happen this year, which means we're gonna have less chances,
knock on wood, less chances of having a hurricane. But
we're gonna have a wet fall, not only a wet
summer because al Ninos bring rain, but a wet fall
and a cool winter. And so that's gonna be nice.
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That's gonna give us the rainfall we need to catch up.
Speaker 4 (03:13):
The only only bad thing it seems like.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
It seems like and like I said, I'm non meteorologists,
but it seems if we have a extremely hot hat
ha ha ha hot summer, we don't seem to get
as many hurricanes. But then we have to do it
was one hundred and three Thursday.
Speaker 4 (03:33):
Isn't that my price and three?
Speaker 1 (03:35):
And that is unbelievable because it's only made it was
really hot yesterday. I had to sit down. I was
out in the in the in the heat.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
For a little while.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
After about forty five minutes, I was feeling it. Yeah,
so we got to make sure when you're out there,
and you out there, you got to make sure your
turkeys have water all the time.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
Yes, and electrolytes, yes, people, electrolyte yourself please.
Speaker 3 (03:59):
Yeah, because as you.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
Get that low blood sugar, that kind of very tired
and you're going to pass out feeling. So if you
have that, you know, get some water, go sit down
out of the get in the shade, because it can
happen very quickly.
Speaker 4 (04:12):
Yeah, take frequent water breaks. That's you know.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
I mean, even if you're the type of person that
doesn't want to just like sit down for a minute,
because then you won't finish whatever your project is. Set
a tier on your phone, like every like fifteen minutes,
stop and take a drink.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
Especially when you're out there gardening and landscaping. Florida, it
can it can happen real quick.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
North Florida.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
You've got some rain last night, so you're gonna have
more rain this weekend. Every day through Monday. It looks
like chances. Pensacola you're going to be in the mid seventies,
which is so nice. Tallahassee and Gainesville you're going to
be in the high eighties. Temperatures are going to be
great for gardening. Great gardening weather up in North Florida.
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So with the rain, that's going to loosen up the
soil and you're going to see a lot of growth happening.
Central Florida we're going to be cooler then the nineties
and the one hundred degree temperatures we had this week.
But we have a good chance of rain every day
through Tuesday, and I am looking forward to that. That
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is going to be great. Tampa, you're going to be
mid to high eighties.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
Not a lot of rain on the West coast. East coast.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
The rain is gonna happen on the East coast Melbourne,
Port Saint Luci possible rain Sunday through Wednesday every day,
and the East coast temperatures are going to be in
the nineties to high eighties. Low's in the seventies and
that's that's about normal for this time of the year.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
So that's good.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
South Florida rain Monday through Wednesday. Fort Lauderdale, Miami, Key
West you're gonna have rain, which is so needed. It's
gonna be partly cloudy and temp's are gonna be in
the mid eighties there. So Mike and Venice, sorry, no
rain this week, just gonna have to irrigate and when
we talk about being in a drought, we want to
make sure and make this very very very clear. There's
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no reason to water more. Okay for your landscape, your
plants that are established in the ground, Okay, you're not
gonna need to water more. You're twice a week watering
that we're allowed when there's no rainfall is adequate. Now
you're containers. I got some new plants in the mail
and they, uh, they're needing water two three times a
(06:24):
day just and they're in the shade and I've got
to get them in the ground. But they're needing two
to three times a day. So I'm handwatering those. So
you want to make sure that you're you know, getting
adequate water for yourself and for your garden. Hey, we're
gonna do phone calls this morning, so if you have
a gardening question one triple eight four five five two
(06:45):
nine sixty seven for you can text two three six
eight zero. If you have some great memories of your
mom gardening, give us a call.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
We'd love to hear it.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
From the Summit Responsible Solution Studios.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
It's Saturday morning.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
You're listening to Better Lands and Gardens and this is
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Speaker 3 (07:11):
And welcome back to Better Lawns and Gardens.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
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Speaker 1 (07:46):
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Speaker 3 (07:50):
Let's go to John and Melbourne. Good morning, John, how
are you fine?
Speaker 5 (07:54):
Good morning? So thanks for taking my call.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
Oh you're welcome.
Speaker 5 (07:57):
I have a situation where I have a Dana's palm
and it's very tall, about twenty and eighty then thirty feet,
and I believe it died in that heart reason. I
don't know for sure, but there's no new growth coming back.
And I did etge the bark, and I did see
some kind of liquid or softness, but I have two
parts of that question, do you think it's dead? And
(08:19):
the second part is I'm thinking of putting a crawling
vine at the bottom, perhaps a bogabilia type, but that's
high maintenance, huh. Just so I can have a crawl
up on the dead tree trunk and I think it
might work. So what do you think about that? And
I'll listen to your response off the air.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
Okay, Hen, thank you so much.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
I appreciate it.
Speaker 6 (08:39):
So.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
Pandana's palm is also known as a screw pine. It's
not a palm tree, but it really looks like one
when you see it. I really love the idea that
you obtained one, John, and you had it in your yard.
The unfortunate thing is it's very tropical. It likes the
temperatures seventies, eighties, nineties and doesn't take so I don't
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know if it's dead or not.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
You should have seen some new growth coming. You say.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
It's about twenty feet tall, so you can't really get
up there and look at it, you know, just see
if you have something new coming up, and it might
take four to six months for something to come up. Now,
scraping the bark really won't help because if it's rotting,
or if it just kind of melted during the winter,
then the underneath the bark would be kind of damp
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and moist anyway, So I would try to just wait
it out another month or so and see if you
see any new growth. If you do want to plant
something at the bottom. I love that idea. I don't
know how long the palm tree or the pine tree
will last, so you could put the boogam villa up
and see what happens.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
And it looks great if you know I can.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
I can see you using that pine tree, the screw
pine as a trellis, but I don't know how long
it will last, so I would do it, but I
would wait probably another month to even uh two months,
because that'll give you six months after the freeze, and
you should have seen something by six months, okay, So
(10:12):
no need to fertilize it. Just make sure that it's
getting adequate water and let us know how you do.
That's a wonderful innovative idea to use a screwpine. I'm
sorry you lost it. Let's go to Eileen in Polk City.
Happy Mother's Day, Eileen. How are you?
Speaker 7 (10:30):
I'm going to be better once they put in a
new air conditioner to.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
Oh no, what a time for it to break worth
of heat.
Speaker 3 (10:39):
Oh, I can just imagine.
Speaker 4 (10:41):
Oh goodness, horrible.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
Yeah, so you kind of had like outdoor temperatures indoors.
Speaker 7 (10:47):
Uh yeah, we've been leaving the door to the screened
in porch open, uh huh. And it's that way we
get the cool air in the morning in the house
and we've got the ceiling fans running, which you know,
in the living room it does good, but the rest
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of the house forget it.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
Okay, So with the screen door open, are you getting
any chickens inside your house thinking it's much cooler in
there with with you than outside.
Speaker 3 (11:21):
How are your African violets.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
Doing without the air conditioning?
Speaker 3 (11:24):
Do they react right away?
Speaker 7 (11:27):
They seem to be doing just fine.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
They love that humidity and they love that that heat.
Speaker 7 (11:32):
Yeah, they're doing just fine. But I wanted to just
say happy mothers stay to you and Lucy.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
Thank you so much, younger.
Speaker 7 (11:41):
Welcome, and I hope you have What are you doing
for Mother's Day?
Speaker 1 (11:46):
Well, we are going to see one of our grandchildren,
and my daughter and my two other sons are in
the restaurant business, so my other sons. Derek has a
restaurant to restaurants in Saint august Tine that will be
open and very busy for a Mother's Day, and I
usually can go up, and he wants me to come
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to dinner, but I don't like to go, you know,
when it's so crowded. So so, but my daughter she's
off for the weekend and she has fell us, so
we are going to go see them and spend some
quality time with them. My other son is a restaurant
manager to as well. So Patrick nice, So thank you. Well,
what are your plans for Mother's Day?
Speaker 7 (12:30):
Probably lawn?
Speaker 1 (12:34):
Well, isn't that just that's just a typical for a mother, right,
working seven days a week, all right, I had so
much to do, yeh, there you go. I'm so well,
get your children to help you, and your husband to
help you, all right.
Speaker 7 (12:47):
No, no, no, she wants it done right lift there
you go.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
Well, I always tell tell my husband that, honey, uh,
you know, there's never been a case of a man
who's been while doing the dishes or doing laundry, so
I mean just keeping it.
Speaker 7 (13:04):
Safe out laundry, all right, and take care.
Speaker 3 (13:08):
Thank you so much.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
Having Mother's Day let's go to Carol in Lakeland. Good morning, Carol.
Speaker 3 (13:13):
How can I help you?
Speaker 6 (13:15):
Hi there? Okay, so I'm steering at the thirty foot
avocado tree that looks bizarre.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
Okay.
Speaker 6 (13:23):
I mean it's got some some branches way up high
that that have leaves and some that are dead, and
then down on one of the dead ones about ten
feet up, it's got all of these branches coming out below.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
It's all going to recover, even way up high.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
Yeah, it will.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
But what I'm suggesting that you do is to bring
in an arborist to come in there and help it
thirty foot tall.
Speaker 3 (13:51):
I don't want you cutting the branches and everything.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
That high, but it could just use a trim and
of a certified arborist would be able to do that
for you, and and it'll grow, It'll all come back. Okay.
Speaker 6 (14:06):
Well that's amazing. And I think we lost our bottle
brush they tried to move.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
Oh no, oh that one you're that Carol. Oh, thank
you for calling me back. Well, I don't know, I'd
have to see.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
It, but I do.
Speaker 6 (14:23):
Two months, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3 (14:25):
Two months. It's what did the leaves look like?
Speaker 6 (14:31):
Well, they haven't fallen off, but they're all brown.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
They're all brown, okay. And and you can't can you
find any green as you go up any of the branches.
Not really, you know, it may just have may just
not have made it because of the the heat, the
lack of rain, you know, I don't know, hun, Yeah,
but I mean it was a good, good try.
Speaker 6 (14:54):
It was a good try. It was fun. It was
a fun project.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
Okay. So that's good. Thank you so much making for
Oh you're.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
Welcome, having Mother's Day. Let's go to Mike in Venice.
Good morning, Mike, how are you?
Speaker 8 (15:08):
Hey? Good morning.
Speaker 9 (15:09):
I thought I heard a shout out earlier, and y
you're correct. It's been dry down here. I live on
a retention pond and it's the lowest I've seen in
thirteen years.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
Yeah, oh my goodness. And it doesn't look good for
you this week either. It says just dry on the
West Coast.
Speaker 9 (15:27):
I bought a kalitha rattlesnake this past week. I was
looking at the care of it, and one person recommended
using distilled water. What I've been doing with my house
plants is drawing the water twenty four hours at least
before we'll use it on house plants. Think about watering dues.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
Well, Kalathia's you know, they will grow outside, so I
mean where you are. They can be an outdoor plant
if we have a warm winter. But the stilled water
you can do it, or you can let the chlorine
you know, evaporate like you're doing with leaving it out
twenty four hours. I think that's fine. It just depends
on how chlorinated your water is.
Speaker 9 (16:13):
Yeah, that's correct. You know, I tend to, like most people,
over water my houseplants, so even yeah, I think what
throws me, throws us off is the air conditioning will
dry the top inch or two, but the bottom of
the pot may still be damp.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
Yes, and that's that's you got to go down more
than a couple of inches, I say, to the second knuckle.
Speaker 3 (16:35):
And you know you can always, you know, it just depends.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
You want to make sure you're watering so Mike, so
that it gets down to the bottom. You don't want
to keep giving it little bits of water so that
the water stays.
Speaker 3 (16:46):
Wet on the top but the bottom roots don't get
the actual water.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
So you could if you wanted to put a string
in the bottom of the pot and put.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
It to.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
Have a little uh sauce sort of water underneath it, and.
Speaker 3 (17:02):
It could soak up the water that way.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
But just checking it once a week and giving it
some water once a week, it'll be fine.
Speaker 9 (17:09):
Yeah, sounds good. Thanks to three.
Speaker 3 (17:12):
You're welcome. Nice to hear from you. Tell Laurus and
Hyde bye bye.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
And so if you have a gardening question, we got
it off to a big start this morning. One triple
eight four five five two nine sixty seven, or you
can text two three six eight zero.
Speaker 4 (17:29):
I thought you were asking me the question.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
No, she just looked at me, she like looked at
me so intense, like, do you have a gardening question?
Speaker 9 (17:36):
Why?
Speaker 3 (17:36):
Yes, I do.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
Hold on one second, let me pull out my little
scroll a question, and.
Speaker 3 (17:40):
So what are you doing in your garden this week?
Speaker 4 (17:43):
This week?
Speaker 2 (17:45):
Just praying over it pretty much? You know, my onions,
I don't know. They're looking kind of raggedy for onions.
But I don't know. I don't know what's it's weird
Like I did him in the raised bed the last
two years and I got the big, gigantic fideli ones
and these are just like we don't like the ground.
Speaker 4 (18:03):
So I don't know what's going on with them.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
Yeah, it might be a little bit more, because when
you have a raised bed, you have a little bit
more you use an organic material, whereas in the ground,
especially you know in Lake County, it's a really dry,
sandy soil.
Speaker 2 (18:18):
Well, what it is the last two years where I
have them, I turned that into my garden area and
I've been dumping the droppings from the turkeys in there too,
So maybe mostly whatever, you know it I'm not a
holding out hope. This year a gigantic onion.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
So but yeah, so you go, I mean, how did
people live two hundred years ago?
Speaker 3 (18:38):
Three hundred years ago?
Speaker 1 (18:39):
We just went on the Revolutionary garden tour and these
magnificent gardens that have all these vegetables and rye and
just you know, where they could.
Speaker 3 (18:49):
Grow bread and wheat. How did they do it? And
what would they do in a drought?
Speaker 9 (18:55):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (18:55):
My goodness, we are so blessed right now.
Speaker 4 (18:57):
I have no clue what.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
They did, seriously, especially here in Florida, because they still
have the same soil as we do now. So I
don't know, but you know, and Hay, I'm hold now hope.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
So Carolyn Tampa sent me an email. She said, Teresa
is it too late to fertilize my lawn, and so Carol,
thank you for the email.
Speaker 3 (19:16):
No, it's not too late yet. So most of the
state of.
Speaker 1 (19:19):
Florida, and I would probably venture to say all of
Florida does have a fertilizer rule that you cannot fertilize
between June first and through through September thirty first. So
you want to make sure if you're going to get
fertilizing down, you.
Speaker 3 (19:34):
Need to do it right away. You've got about two
three weeks to do it.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
If it's Saturday morning, you're listening to Better Lawns and Gardens,
I'm Teresa, watchus and this is Florida's Talk and Entertainment Network.
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Welcome back to Better Lawns and Gardens. If you have
a gardening question, you can give us a call one
triple eight four five five two nine sixty seven, or
you can text two three six eight zero.
Speaker 3 (20:14):
We would love to hear from you.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
You know, Lizzie, my mom loved flowers, and she had
six children in nine years. There wasn't a lot of
time to garden and so, but she would just take
us on walks all the time, out in nature, just
walking everywhere all six kids.
Speaker 3 (20:31):
We'd just go for a walk.
Speaker 1 (20:33):
Uh in Scotland, North Carolina, wherever we were. She would
walk us and she loved uh singing while we were
on the walk, so she would sing the whole time.
Speaker 3 (20:43):
Yeah. So I have great memories of my mom's singing. Uh.
But then towards the end of the walk.
Speaker 1 (20:48):
We were so tired, uh that we'd be crying and
singing at the same time.
Speaker 3 (20:53):
We would just want to go home. That's so funny.
Speaker 1 (20:57):
Yeah, we were really little. But guess what. She put
us to bed at six thirty seven o'clock at night,
and she knew she we were out. We were out.
Speaker 3 (21:06):
I love that.
Speaker 1 (21:07):
Yeah. So Carol from Tampa, she sent me a great
email about fertilizing. We do have the opportunity to fertilize
until June.
Speaker 3 (21:16):
First. You want to use.
Speaker 1 (21:17):
A slow release fertilizer, okay, with no phosphorus fifteen zero
fifteen is a good analysis. Why no phosphorus? Okay, that's important.
Most of the algae blooms that we get in lakes
come from phosphorus. The nitrogen and phosphorus A little bit
is from the decomposition of plants in the lake or water.
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But a lot of it's coming from I would say
the majority is coming from homes that fertilized. So one
is kind of funny to say this, but never fertilized
before a rainstorm. Yes, we will be getting rainstorms eventually,
and you never want to fertilize before a rainstorm. You
lose about seventy five percent of that fertilizer that you
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put down to stormwater runoff. Okay, so always fertilize after
a rainstorm. And why doesn't it need phosphorus. Well, phosphorus
is health plants develop flowers, fruit and root system. Okay, well,
turf does not need to have phosphors because it doesn't
have flowers and it doesn't have fruit, but it does
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have a root system. But the majority of Florida has
enough phosphorus in their soils that you don't have to
put down extra for the roots. Now, this is determined.
Especially you want to confirm that. Get a soil test
before you fertilize. The AGCH Soil KIP, which you can
get which is the University of Florida's soil test. You
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can get it at the County Extension Office or you
can go online and.
Speaker 3 (22:49):
Get the AGRITECH soil.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
Test the agritech one word and ship it off to
the University of Florida. You will they have a quick turnaround.
You will get it right back and they will tell
you what your soil actually needs.
Speaker 3 (23:05):
All right, So that is.
Speaker 1 (23:06):
Preferable to do that before you fertilize.
Speaker 3 (23:10):
Also too, if you want to.
Speaker 1 (23:15):
Do your plants, you want to make sure you can
tell them that you're getting turf you want to fertilize
your turf, or you want to do fruit trees, They're
going to ask you what you're trying to fertilize, and
that's important. So for your vegetable and fruit plantings right now,
you want to make sure that you're maintaining three inches
of mult that's going to help when you do irrigate
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the water from evaporating. You want to keep bananas and
papaias moist so they are it's important. They need moisture
to produce fruit and you can feed them monthly and
you'll have flowers by late summer and then bananas in
the fall. You want to fertilize one last time for spring,
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your citrus, your grapes, and your other fruit trees that
you have the apples and the peaches.
Speaker 3 (24:03):
Right now is the time to do it.
Speaker 1 (24:05):
When we were up in Virginia last week, the blackberries
were all blooming everywhere up and down the highway. You
can see the blackberries here in Florida. Our blueberries and
blackberries are ready to harvest. So as soon as you
get the fruit off of your blueberries and your blackberries.
Speaker 3 (24:22):
You can prune it.
Speaker 1 (24:23):
Okay, that's a really good time to kind of gauge
when you should prune something is when you harvest the fruit. Also, too,
you want to feed your vegetable plantings monthly, Okay, you
can do a you know, a balanced fertilizer six sixty
six eight eight eighty ten, ten ten.
Speaker 3 (24:39):
That's fine.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
Also too, if you've had trouble with nematodes or other
pestissues and diseases, now's the time to go ahead and
solarize your garden area or your vegetable area so that
you can go ahead and plant in August again. Also two,
when you get to August, going to find that some
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seeds you're not going to be able to find, this
is the time now to go ahead and buy your seeds.
Look at the seed catalogs or to your seeds so
that when the time comes in August for your fall
vegetable garden, you have them all ready to go. So
let's go to Jeff in North Tallahassee. Good morning, Jeff.
How can I help you?
Speaker 8 (25:22):
Hey, good morning, I'm out here looking at a beautiful
garden here. I'm about twenty miles north of Tallahassee. We're
finally getting some lovely rain up here. I wanted to
ask you a question. I had some fabulous tomatoes last year,
heritage tomatoes. I could not get the same variety this year,
and so I planted my pepper plants where I had
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planted my tomato plants last year, and lo and behold,
about a week or so ago, I saw some tomato
plants coming in around the pepper plant and I thought,
my goodness, these must be some of those tomato plants
from last year. So fortune I was able to get
seven real nice plants and transplant them. My question is,
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so these tomato plants, if you keep them going for
quite a while, they do seed themselves. Is that correct?
In the ground, Well.
Speaker 1 (26:13):
You probably had a couple of tomatoes fall off and
leave seeds.
Speaker 3 (26:16):
So the fruit fell off into the ground, and.
Speaker 1 (26:19):
Uh, yeah, and see that it only happened it does.
Speaker 8 (26:22):
Yeah, well that's so I'm so pleased again.
Speaker 5 (26:26):
So I do have.
Speaker 8 (26:27):
I mean, I had the most fabulous tomatoes last year.
So I'm sitting here.
Speaker 9 (26:31):
I planted.
Speaker 8 (26:32):
I was able to recover seven of those plants, and
so I've replanted them. But I've got tomato plants that
are about two foot high now my other tomato plants
that I bought this year. My garden's doing great. My
yellow crook next squash is just I'm out here harvesting
it now this morning. But we've got rain up here
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and it's getting a good moist ground. So we're doing
fine up here now.
Speaker 1 (27:02):
Wonderful, Jeff. I'm very excited for you. So take one
of your heritage tomatoes that you that you get off
of these plants that have re seated itself, and go
ahead and save the seeds for next year.
Speaker 8 (27:14):
Okay, So just so so you just take so you
just take the tomato, cut it open and there's seats
the seeds inside. What do you have to do dry
them out?
Speaker 3 (27:25):
Or what dry them out?
Speaker 1 (27:26):
They're going to be in a kind of a little
jelious a gel kind of material or so of liquid,
and you want to wash them off, pat them with
a paper towel, dry them off, and put them in
an envelope.
Speaker 3 (27:40):
And once they.
Speaker 1 (27:41):
Dry and they'll be ready to recede in August.
Speaker 8 (27:45):
Would it be best to refrigerate them or just leave
them in an envelope?
Speaker 1 (27:49):
Well, it just depends. I mean, you don't necessarily want
them to dry out so completely that, you know, if
you've got one hundred degrees there, you know, but it
doesn't need chilling either, So.
Speaker 3 (28:00):
You just put them in a dry area.
Speaker 1 (28:01):
And if that is a vegetable bin in your in
your refrigerator, you can do that. That's not going to
hurt them.
Speaker 8 (28:09):
Well, hooray, Nature did it for me. There you go.
Speaker 1 (28:13):
What a great surprise.
Speaker 3 (28:14):
Oh, good job, good job.
Speaker 5 (28:16):
I love that you do it much, love your show.
Speaker 8 (28:19):
Thank you so much.
Speaker 3 (28:20):
Thank you Jeff for calling in. That just isn't that
just energizing? I love that. Well, thank you for Jeff
for calling in.
Speaker 1 (28:28):
We're going to be right back with my top five
plants that have mother in them. There you go for
Mother's Day. If it's Saturday morning, you're listening to Better
Lawns and Gardens. I'm Teresa Watkins. And this is Florida's
Talk Entertainment, Talk and entertainment.
Speaker 3 (28:43):
There you go.
Speaker 1 (29:03):
Welcome back up, better lawns in gardens. Now the reasons.
Top five My top five this week are plants with
the name mother in it. So my number five is
three different plants, okay, and or two plants in one
common name Mother of thousands, which is a calanchoe, and
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Mother of millions, which is also a calanchoe, a different variety,
or bad Mother. These are a succulent plant known for
producing little tiny plantlets along the edge of its sleeves,
symbolizing fertility and maternal care. Why is it sometimes called
bad mother because it drops its babies? That's so. Number
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four Motherwart mother Wart is a herb traditionally used for
heart and reproductive health, named for its historical association with
maternal well being.
Speaker 3 (29:55):
Number three Mother of.
Speaker 1 (29:57):
Time, also known as creeping time, belongs to the mint family.
It's native to Europe, Western Asia, and Africa. It has beautiful, tiny,
pur tubular pink to purple flowers in the springtime, which
attract bees and butterflies.
Speaker 3 (30:13):
And number one I get them all, Yes, I did.
Speaker 1 (30:16):
Number one Chrysanthemums or mums, Chrysanthemums are commonly called mums,
and it's the official flower for Mother's Day, symbolizing love
and respect for mothers. Very interesting, so I wanted to
go more in depth with saving tomato seeds for Jeff.
I went through that really really quickly and kind of sloppy,
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So I want to make sure he knows exactly what
to do. If you'd like to save an heirloom tomato seed,
you want to select a nice, good, healthy tomato. Then
you extract the seeds by cutting it in half and
squeezing the seeds out. You want to put them in
a little jar with a little bit of water, and
then you want to.
Speaker 3 (30:58):
Let it set for about three to four days.
Speaker 1 (31:01):
That gela to this material is going to then disengage
from it and you can take the seeds out. You
want to dry them off for a few days, make
sure they get nice and dry. You do that with
a paper towel, and then when it's dry, you put
them in an envelope, put the name of the type
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of tomato it is, and save it and then you
can plant it again in August. So that's a little
bit help. One triple eight four, five, five, two nine
sixty seven, or you can text two three six eight zero.
So now here's the difference between Mother of Thousands and
Mother of Millions. So these aren't Calanchoe's or clan shows,
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whichever way you'd like to say it. Are fast growing succulents.
They are from Madagascar, and they differ in leaf shape
and plantlet placement. So those little plants that are growing
on the outside of the leaf that they drop are
called plantlets, and they have different growth habits. So the
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Mother of Thousands is wide, broad, scattered, or toothed leaves
that grow in a branching upright habit, and the leaves
are thicker and can be up to two inches in length.
The Mother of Millions has slender, oval, smooth leaves that
grow in a rosette type of designed shape on the stem.
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And the leaves are typically green and can be so
small as a penny, so they're really small. The Mother
of Thousands, the plantlets form on the margins of the leaves,
creating a fringe like appearance. Mother of Millions, I'm sorry
that was Mother of Millions. Mother of Thousands. The plantlets
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form along the margins of the leaves, and the Mother
of Millions forms at the tips of the leaves. The
mother of millions produces multiple stocks from a single plant.
The mother of thousands grows upright. That can get a
little confusing, but there is a difference between mother of
thousands and mother of millions.
Speaker 4 (33:11):
I had never heard of them before.
Speaker 3 (33:13):
Really, do you have a picture up there?
Speaker 4 (33:16):
I am in the process of typing in right now.
Speaker 1 (33:18):
Oh, I can give you some because they do produce millions,
and so they can be kind of invasive.
Speaker 3 (33:24):
You don't want to get them started.
Speaker 1 (33:26):
But when they drop their babies, oh wow, yeah, that's.
Speaker 3 (33:32):
Yeah, she's she's looking.
Speaker 4 (33:33):
I'm looking at the picture right now.
Speaker 1 (33:35):
But they are succulents and they do take over, so
you want to you want to be careful for them.
Speaker 4 (33:40):
It looks like they would definitely take over.
Speaker 1 (33:42):
Yeah, especially with all the plantlets they produced. Okay one
triple eight, four, five, five, two, nine sixty seven, or
you can text two three, six eighth zero and let
us know what you'd like to do. If you have
memories of your your mother, your grandmother, we'd love to
hear those as well.
Speaker 3 (34:00):
Uh, we'd love to do that.
Speaker 2 (34:01):
Okay, wait, okay, I'm so when I looked at the
mother of millions and mothers of thousands, right right, Okay.
It also is known as the devil's backbone.
Speaker 1 (34:13):
Yeah, that's a common name of it too. I mean
that's the kind of an insult to the mothers.
Speaker 2 (34:18):
I don't know if it's an insult or if it's
a compliment. For me, i'd consider that a compliment.
Speaker 1 (34:24):
But see, here's to me, devil's backboat to me is
a different, totally different plant. Okay, Okay, So I don't see.
Speaker 3 (34:32):
It as being it is kind of a succulent. But
I don't know why they did that.
Speaker 4 (34:37):
But yeah, it's like combining the two or the three
of them. Actually, so yeah, right.
Speaker 3 (34:41):
Devil's back boat is a different plant. Yeah, so I thought, I.
Speaker 2 (34:44):
Thought, because I'm like looking, but I don't understand why
it's saying all of the above. So I like, because
it's the Internet, you know.
Speaker 4 (34:54):
Anyway, I'm sorry, go ahead, No, that's that's fine.
Speaker 1 (34:57):
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which is going to be very thrilling. It was a
life changer for me as far as landscape design to
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Speaker 3 (35:41):
It was wonderful.
Speaker 1 (35:42):
We do also go over to Canada, so you will
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Speaker 3 (35:54):
You would love, we'd love to have you join us.
We have a great time.
Speaker 1 (35:57):
So Lizzie, so tomorrow now if you get rain, are
your turkeys covered? Your turkeys are covered.
Speaker 2 (36:06):
Yes, yes, they all have their own like uh we
have four run areas that are set up for them
and they all have their own housing like overhang housing, gazebos.
Speaker 1 (36:18):
I guess you would call it. So yeah, they're they're
they're covered. Okay, good, I worry about them. How is Gerald?
Speaker 4 (36:24):
He's doing good?
Speaker 2 (36:26):
I mean, I mean I didn't realize until the beginning
of this year that you know, I am I'm very
lucky if he continues to live for another year, because
the broad breasted turkeys are only supposed to live maybe
two years, because you know, that's what they're forced to
be eaten. And but yeah, so he had his his
two year birthday last month, and he is just feisty
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as can be. Uh he's a lover to people. But
he's trying to fight all the other boys. And uh, yeah,
he's doing really good.
Speaker 4 (36:53):
He's huge.
Speaker 1 (36:54):
That's great. Uh So, uh, what else can you be
doing this month we talked about. You could go ahead
and solarize your garden area. If you have problems, it
will control It will help you control nematodes and diseases.
So also look at your fruit trees. You can control
fruit worms and leaf spots on vegetables with natural sprays
(37:14):
as needed. That Captain Jack's Dead Bug brew is excellent
for that. You want to look for aphids, walk your
yards once a week and just look at the bottom
of the leaves, the top of the leaves and see
if you notice the aphens. You can use it insecticidal
soap spray for your aphids. And then also too, again
(37:37):
very important, go ahead now and get your seeds for August.
You know, spend the next few weeks looking through catalogs,
going online and seeing what you'd like to plant for
this year's guard All garden, and that will that way
you'll get them in time and have them when you
look in August. They're going to be pretty much picked
(37:57):
through if you want a special variety, so you want
to make sure you do that. Indoors, you want to
make sure that you are checking the water needs daily,
especially if it's on the patio or pool area.
Speaker 3 (38:11):
Plants that are wilting.
Speaker 1 (38:12):
Often if you have plants that droop, that means not
necessarily that they need to be watered. It could be
also the symptom for overwatering. Okay, so either way, the
roots are getting bloated and they can absorb water, or
they're dried out, they're desiccated and can absorb water.
Speaker 3 (38:34):
So again it's always a.
Speaker 1 (38:35):
Great idea, like Mike sets, to stick your finger in
the pot and go down to the second knuckle and
if it's moist, damp or wet cool.
Speaker 3 (38:45):
You do not need to water it.
Speaker 1 (38:47):
We're going to have a great, great guess the next
hour we're gonna be talking about some new brand New
Encore Azalea's. If it's Saturday morning, you're listening to Better
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