Gardner 5.13.2023

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Episode Transcript

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Good morning again. Welcome to theGreen Country Gardener Program with our expert Larry
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Hardware, Kelly Banks Tree Service,and United Retolds. Good morning, good
morning, good morning. It's eightor nine time for the Green Country Gardener

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Program. Hopefully you're having a goodSaturday morning so far. We've got Larry
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one hundred and seven for nine atfive nine three six Larry A long time,
no see how we're doing fine?Good morning, hey goalie. This
is an active time the garden andit's time to plant those perennials. Annuals

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in the garden. They give youcolor pretty much all summer long. Really,
your annuals did punges and pair winklesand stuff like that. Kind of
early for para winkles though, becausethey like a sort of a bit on
the hot site. We haven't hada whole lot of heat lately. It
seems. Oh, I don't know, yesterday was pretty steamy. I thought,
oh, that was kind of warm. I guess, okay, it's
like I've I've been through warmer.But anyway, it's it's yeah, and

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thank goodness for the moisture cheez.We really needed that. It is also
important to prepare the soil properly also, and usually when you hire us to
do something, we'd be a bigold bunch of composts out and work it
up in this oil mixed for summers, good dirt. Absolutely, I have
to plant this, this rather largeholly tree. It was too it yesterday

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to plant it, and it's probablytoo today also, but I'm going to
give it the old college try.Oh that's all you can ever do with
life today, and give it agood, good planting, if you will.
Lots of pete moss when you plantto holly, so where we'll be
bringing out some peate moths. Theylike kind of a little pH. So
it's in an area where the submaterial is a limestone calcium carbonate, and

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you know what happens with that raisesthe pH So, all right, try
to counteract that as much as possible, and a little pete moths helps it
breed too, But you have touse your soil amendments, you know,
judiciously improperly, because there are somecases when you don't want to use pete
moths, depending on the variety ofplant okay, like hostas and whatnot.

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Hostas, yeah, they like aneutral to slightly alkaline pH and so you
don't want to. I would usea compost instead, or maybe even a
neutralized potting soil for that. Andmost of your annuals need to about a
neutral pH. You can plant themin about anything and the other just fine.
But to get a big old sackercompost and throwing the back of the

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car, it'll do just fine.I do that at home too, use
a lot about a composts in thesoil, and it uses a lot of
leaves and things that chop up withthe old snapper and throw them in there
and work them into the soil throughoutthe winter of course, and golli I
dug up in there the other day. This is ready to go. It's
beautiful stuff. So anyway, don'tforget to fertilize also, not only initially,

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but ongoing too, because they're notindigenous to the area, and for
them to produce all those blooms takesa tremendous amount of energy, so you
want to make sure that they're wellfertilized throughout the sturmer as well. Several
ways you can do that use say, like I said earlier, a compost
which kind of decomposes and as itdoes and makes the nutrients available. Or

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you can use something like ozma coat. Kind of an expensive way to do
it, but it waters for youknow, months at a time, so
initial investments a little high with it, but it pays off in the long
run. That or just a goodgarden for the list or two okay,

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like a miracle grow or something willwork very well on an ongoing basis to
keep them going. And mulch isvery important because it is going to get
hot and it's going to get dryagain. So going buy the nurser,
pick up the mulch, get somemulch too. We have a very fine
grade of cedar mulch in the bagsand we put down some down for a

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customer and they go, wow,that's nicely good stuff, and it is.
It's a it's in the bag andit's a ground up real nice.
It makes a good texture on thesurface anyway. Look at the quality of
the multi two as well, Sodon't get slickered in, but buy it
a bunch. It's bad stuff.That stuff favorite. Yeah, sener mulch

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is my favorite. It lasts alot longer too that it's kind of pretty
going in. Another thing to comingin is, of course the weeds,
and the multis helped control that quitea bit, and pre emergent herb sides
help a lot too. I don'tlike to use them too much. The
pre emergent urban side have a tendencyto somewhat act as a soil sterilns if

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they're overused, and your your annualsand perennials suffer the growth heartiness and all
that because of overuse of pre emergenturban sides, So be very careful with
them because they can kind of rechargethe growth of your annuals and perennials and
not be as showy as possible.So probably a good, good old thick
layer of multi is one of thebest things to use for a weed control

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in the garden. Smells too,sometimes smells really good when we first pat
down too. Also timed the bermudagrass. I put my run out last
weekend when starting to rain, yeah, or whenever it was the first rain
we had with my fertilizer spreader,put down my ten twenty ten for the
ramuda graph. It's it's kind ofwaking up a little bit, coming to

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life a little bit. Yeah,that and the weeds. I kind of
put off putting a pretty emergent downjust because of the stretch factor on the
grass at this point, so Ididn't do it. Now I'll get the
crab grass. So yes, that'srough, so well, so what hey,

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you know there is such a thingas quinn COLOROQ and it'll take care
of it pretty well. Anyway,it's time to fertilize that FORMU this weekend.
I gotta put on the nitrogen justas small application, and some iron
sulfid to help to help the colorof it too, so and probably pull

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a lot of weeds. But anyway, also, um, it's system consecticide
on your zealous for lace bug preventionis a good idea right now, okay.
And I've seen a lot of casesof borers on trees really yeah,
a lot of them, and youcan you can deal it. It's borers

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because typically the holes in the treeare associated with the south and the west
side of the tree. And Iwas at a house yesterday and they had
an oak tree looking ritt and I'mlooking a little bit on the Yellow side
of Sydney. Some iron didn't lookedat it again and said this, you've
got borers in it. So alittle bit of spin as add in some
mediclo pridge that take care of them. But still you've got to kind of

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watch that real carefully. There's anewly planet of trees there. They're under
a lot of stress because they've losta lot of the root system and they're
recovering from that being in the containeror whatever, and they need they need
a little fertilizer too, And don'tI don't stretch them out, but don't
water them too much because root rotis the biggest problem we have with people

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losing those trees. It's riding onthe roots from too much water. So
let the surface of the water dryout between the water rings. When you're
on your newly planted trees, youshould do just fine. It doesn't hurt
them to wilt a little bit,just let it dry out a little bit,
dry a little bit. And uh. And when whenever I planted something,
I planned a dogwoo tree in myyard. The poor thing looked like
it was a dish ragon of wind. So you, yeah, you picking

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up the pail right now, putit down, and and then it watered
it a little bit. It cameup. Now it's it's it's on its
own. There was a transplant fromthe front of the house that I moved
to the back of somebody planted ittwo feet away from the house. Come
on, get out of here.And it's goodly. It's two stories soul
now and you can't see the bloomsbecause they're too Oh no, but anyway

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it is. I never watered thatthing. It just gets enough from from
the drip system from the from theflowers and things, so it does okay.
So anyway, I'd be careful notto overwater your plants too. Yeah,
And going back to your initial thought, you're talking about insecticides to prevent
lace bugs. We talked about bars. What are some preventatives for maybe some
pasts for azaleas zalius. Well,that's the lace bugs. It's a primary

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piss they get. They also getscale and the emiticaloprid will take care of
both of them. Really. Now, the amitical operator works for insects per
se, it really won't work forspider mites. Spider mites are a bit
of a problem on your box woodsand your jennifers and things like that.

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But the emiticalrprid doesn't work on thatvery well because it targets the physiology of
the insect, but not necessarily anarachnid. Okay, so we have a
different set of rules for arachnids,if you will one are the rules you
want to That's where the spinazade comesin. It's a topical application of spinazad.
You used to be able to usedisiston, but it's not available anymore,

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gotcha. So but anyway, itworks pretty well. Also spider mightes.
Just soapy water works well too.Just occasional application of silpy water bowl
smother them out. Okay, howhow would you say occasional? So you
do it once? And how longwould you know? There's some variability and
that equation? Really, however youfeel the occasional gestation period on a mike

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is about three days? Okay,so if you do maybe are we a
four or five day application should takecare of them, okay, and then
you get the you're gonna have someYou just want to get the populations under
control, and so you got tostay ahead of the game. What I
like to use is a hos insprayer and some dish soap and just straight
down. Don't do it during theheat of the day, and don't don't

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get it too concentrated, because itcan cause problems if you have too much
soap. You know what My nextquestion is going to be, what how
much do we No no, no, I was gonna say, what brand
of dish soap? Don? Well? Don works really well, it's kind
of a universal thing. Yeah,we planted up some of the US yesterday

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and we used the dawn dish soapand the surfactants and that team to act
a little better than off the shelfcheapo stuff. So we've had good luck
with that. In integrating water intopeatmos, that's another thing when you're planning
is use you have to plant themin pea moths. Pemoths has a negative
electrical charge to it, as doeswater has a negative charge, so the

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surfactant changes the charge in the waterto the positive and the souks it up
for up. Yeah. So anyway, so a surfactant to motherwoods. We
do have anionic surfactan at the atthe nursery too, a little bottle to
put them there too. So it'shighly highly concentrated and it doesn't take a

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lot. It seems like it's spendinga lot of money, but it just
takes a few drops to change thatcharge in the water, if you will.
Um and sticking with the zalea isreal quick time to print them right.
No, No, they really haven'tbloomed a whole lot yet. Okay.
Yeah, you're looking at a dialoguethat it's based on the calendar,

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but we can't follow the calendar perse. No, I wouldn't unless your
zealous have completely bloomed. I wouldn'tprove them yet, okay, because sometimes
some of them are late bloomers too, and we're a little bit late this
time of year this year, soanyway, so typically after they bloom is
the best time. And from atime standpoint, typically the middle of May

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is a good time to punting themback. You have all the way between
now and middle of May and themiddle of July. Once July comes in
the day links started getting a littlebit shorter, and that's a signal for
them to generate blooms. So soyou don't want to prove them after that,
right, Yeah, so cut backfrom trying not to cut them back

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into August late July. But inthis timeframe it's fine, okay, So
don't prune. Well, it dependson if they've already bloom. Yeah,
but some of the late bloomers.Yeah, yeah, you just can't say
general across the board. I wouldsay probably the end of the month be
a good good time too. Well, when that's coming up on as fast

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too, it seems like, Iknow, God, the times just flying
um And I know we talked aboutcraipe myrtles a little bit before the show
started because I have some of myhouse. Uh what should mean to be
doing for those? Well, Itrained my crape myrtle back last weekend.
I have one in the front yardand it's rather tall actually, and I
turned back to some of the deadwoods on it. Got that done,

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then I'll look at it, evaluateand cut of backs. And we got
some time to do that. Theydifferentiate in June, so middle June,
so we got a little bit oftime to train them back like a month.
Yeah, a lot of time.I mean, it doesn't seem like
it. And I see so manytimes they did this Neanderthal haircut on it,
just straight across the word. Andthen you get a fairly thin veneer

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of blooms. You want to staggerthe height that the cuts, some of
them lower, some of them higher, so you get more vertical blooming associations.
You don't have a better shew thatway, okay. And also the
ten twenty ten will work really wellright now. It's got a phosphor sent
it and that helps the color ofthe crat mortles as well. Cra Myrtles
do like a very very slightly acidsoil pH a little bit lower, that's

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all. You might want to addsome aluminium and magnesium or iron sulfate to
the soil too to help maintain alow pH unless your soil is naturally lower.
I know a lot of people havea lot of limestone under their under
their soil, and the pH tensare run a little bit on the high
side. So if they're not bloomingwell and they're not vigorous, you see

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some veins and colored veins in theleaves and other or some yellowing other leaves
with green around the veins. Chancesall your pH is just a little bit
on the low side or high siderather, and you need to lower that
p a little bit. Okay.Leaf size is also an indicator to leaves
are extraordinarily small, then smaller thanit should be. Then your page might
be a little bit on a highsighttoo, So watch that pH Yeah,

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gotcha, Okay. Cool As arethe same way. You can tell if
your PhD is getting too high.You have a very short node length,
and you also have smaller, verysmaller leader. They get successfully smaller as
they go. That means it's aplant. It's adapting to the soil conditions,
unfavorable conditions, and trying to survive. So, just as a fertilizer,

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Welcome back to the Green Cutchery GardenerProgram live on K one the One
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six one four zero zero or thattoll free number one eight hundred seven four
nine five nine three six And Larry, we've covered quite a few topics about
what's going on now, what weshould be doing in the garden. You
do have a groundfall opportunity right nowto control the scale insects on crape myrtles.

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What does a scale insect? Lookvery closely at your crape myrtle plant
and look at the stem, andif there are a whole lot of little
white specs on it, those arescale insects. The scale insects so will
be starting to emerge from the groundhere pretty soon, and they become a
bit of a problem, and theyactually suck out the juices at the plant

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and it makes it a difficult forthe plant to survive, and it'll actually
kill a great myrtle plant because sothat they just draw it out so bad
and they exude a honeydew. There'sa sugary substance, and the ants really
like it and they and together withthat our eggs in there and the ants
carry the eggs around and so on. It's interesting, very good adaptive strategy

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on their part. Let's admire themfor their efforts. But but yeah,
there's we don't like it on ourgreat myrtles. No, no scale.
Once they get going scale, itis extremely up to control. They have
an exoskeleton or all the that's somewhatimpenetrable and it's difficult to control. So
we use the systemic to work fromwithin, okay, and to kill from

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the inside out. Yeah, medicalprid. It's a nicotenoid. And if to
stop some synaptic function on the insectsspecifically, say that one more time.
What was it? What the what? You use the nicotenoid or a medicaloprid
okay, And it's what we callthe nicotenoid, and it prevents synaptic function

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in the nervous system. We shutdown. Yeah, they shut down,
so all right, sorry, that'skind of yeah, I want that shut
It's easy to apply. You youput it into a bucket of water imported
on the ground and the molecule andit's a material is small enough for the
plant to absorb and its controls theinsects that way. Okay, So anyway,

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the socience. So if you ifyou have if you have some createmurbles
and you have had some problems withthe scale insects, then you want to
do something to control them. Andthat's a good way to do it.
It's kind of a set it andforget it kind of way, and it
lasts about twelve months. Really,it has a long lasting effect on it
too, so it's more value init also, maybe a little more expensive
initially, but you have more valuein it as well. And be very

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careful using it around the planets thatbutterflies like. Okay, it will affect
the butterflies as well, so Icould eat butterfly or anything like that.
So that's why you want to doa specific application something that like auld createmrdle
or something which butterflies really could careless about. Yeah, and that's another

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thing. The bag worms are goingto be here coming pretty soon. There's
a little tiny little bags to hangon your junior person things. I prefer
to use a BT or basiluster genesison that it's a bacteria culture that the
insects heat as a similar effect asthe amaticloprid, but it's a it's a
topical application, and it they justkind of lose interest in needing it,

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they stop and die out. Soany on, your jennifers, it's time
to think about that because they'll bearound really really soon and usually when we
have some stressful weather in the winteror say the summer before the populations or
just just go bananas. It wasn'ttoo bad last year if we had just
a few select plants here and therethat we're really just heavily infested with them.

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But that doesn't mean it's going tobe a you know, a good
year for them this year. Sothe BT works for will really well to
control that. But you must beearly with the application and be very observant
too, and you go out andget the mail, look closely at your
juniper plants and see if they havethese bagworms on them yet, get the
magnifying glass out everything, because they'llbe really small to begin with. Ye

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So anyway, so bagworms are comingon, so get ready for that too.
And the BT works really well tocontrol them, and it has a
long lasting effect because it's not itdoesn't work like other things. This is
a bacterial culture and it works verywell to control them that way, and
it has some good residual effect too. It takes a heck up a rainstorm
to get it off the tree,especially if you use a spreader, sticker

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or surfactant, it makes it stickonto the plant a little better. So
you might also want to consider gettinga surfactant or some sofy water together when
you do your application to control thebagworms. So that's fun up too.
I'm gonna get all this stuff.Geez, I know it's a lot.
We talked about mice and bag let'stalk about good stuff now. If you're
listening, take notes, get outof pencil and a pad. Okay,

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Also, on your roses, timeto give them some fertilizer. We've had
people come in the roses didn't makeit through the winter and ask them how
closely associated are the needles on youron your rose plants. Thorns are really
really close together, and it soundslike you had Rosette's disease on your rose
plants. Oh really? Yeah?And if the if the growth was kind

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of curly and the roses are distorted, and you've got a whole lot of
close and branching on it and justhundreds of needles specific to a certain area
of the plants, and you've gotwhat we call Rosette's disease. And you
can slow down the spread of thatby pruning it. But it's it's in
deplaned. It's a virus, okay, at least a plat virus and spread

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by a mite. Gotcha, there'sreally no bringing it back sometimes when that
happens. So plants that I foundthat the roses that don't get it specifically
are ones that the mites are notattracted to. So those that are planning
to stay away from boxwoods or junipersthat are some distance away from those and
typically where they don't get a lotof hot afterning sun. Keep in mind,

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what's what spider mites really like,and it is a lot of warmth
and they like those two species ofplants are a little box woods and junipers.
So okay, So trying not toblund I have some knockouts on the
north side of out. They're bloomingright now on the north side of out,
so it didn't find they've been therefor years. They don't have to
knock the knockout the rose's disease becausethey might just don't like them in an

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environment. All right, so cool, So those are the roses. The
roses, um uh, go ahead. Clematis were able to say half same
frequency, Larry, that the clematisfines are blooming. They're a little late
this year, but they're blooming,and their their bloom show. It's going

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to be spread out a little bitmore. It might not be is intense
this year, but they're gonna putit on a show. We have a
good selection of falmattist fines at thenursery too, so they come check them
out. Yeah. They they bloomin the spring and early summer, and
they don't like hot feet. Soyou can plant them in the sun,
which you might want to plant somethingin front of them so the soil doesn't
get so hot. It's just anodd thing with this particular plant that it

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will grow, say on the westside of a house or somewhere, but
it doesn't like an overly warm rootsystem. It's a remember the nunky lacier
family that might have some reason forthat. But anyway, what would you
prefer or would you recommend people playingin front of the chlemaptus. I'd like
to use a dwarf. Dwarf nandina, a small plant gets probably about knee

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higher, so okay, and itgets a good fall color, and it
doesn't attract insects because they don't likeit. I don't know if any insect
that likes nandina plants, the dwarfnandinas because the fall color, or discuss
just because of the because they don'tlike them. It's like ah fall yeah.
Nandina's are a member of the barbaryfamily, and as you know as

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barbary, as mahoney as, theyall share that same attribute and the connection
on the different varieties of a barbarousor barbary or the yellow wood down below
the bark. You scratch it andit's a bright yellow color, okay,
And the mahoneius have that, whichis one plant and the barbers have it,

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and then ndinas share the same attribute. So and the bugs just simply
don't like those three types of plants. I could see it in my head
now, the commands with the yeah, yeah, and the follow you get
the good color too, and youget the insect resistance to the nandinus and
some one, so good plant,the good association, if you will,

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and they stay small so you cansee it still doesn't matter. It doesn't
get huge and cover it up.There's no work involved, of an other
words, yeah, just let itgo, let it do, let doing
so anyway, that's a good associationor of the two. Another thing that
ponies are just about out of bloomright now. They're in full bloom,

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okay. And of course every timethey bloom, the rains never. Never,
every single year when the ponies andbloom, we have these hard rains.
So no, no, really happensevery year. Come on. Not
much to do with them, really, you when the flowers eye off,
we just cut them off and they'rejust sort of green there for the rest

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of the summer. There are Peonesesocieties actually they kind of grow these plants
and so, but they only blewa brief trade during the year. So
I wouldn't make a mainstay of it. Put it in a place where,
yeah you can see it in thespring, but I don't. Don't make
it a highlight plant. Just putit and they get really tall. Just

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kind of put it in the backof the garden somewhere. If you're gonna
put if you have an annual bay, to put it in the back somewhere,
because when the blooms are really reallynice, there's big, big blossoms
on them. And there's an oldwife tail that says you must have ants
for them to open up. Butno, no, it's not true.
They have a lot of sugars intheir in their in their sap, if

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you will. When the flowers andthe ants are attracted to that gotchas so
they would have passed over the yearsthat they own open unless you have ants.
So that's why it shows you thatit has sugar. Yeah, okay,
I understood. It's the marker andthey bloom just this once a year.
There are several varieties, you know, colors and all that, and
there are several types. There's aJapanese one that I have in my backyard.

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Blooms yellow over your beautiful thing.Don't blink though, oh I blinked.
Don't leave town and have the cameraready. But but that one is
the Japanese right, it's more expensive, but it's it's it's what they call
a tree peony, and it ismore resistant to bacterial leaf spot. That's

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one serious thing that peon needs toget during the course of the summer,
especially if they're in an area whereit doesn't get enough air circulation, you
get a problem with bacterial leaf spoton your ponies. And that's the only
way to control that is listen.Let's chutomyacin. Fungicide won't work because the
bacteria is not a fundi. Sowe do. We do have some horticulturals

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trip tomas and that will stop thatfrom happening, and it can make them
somewhat unattractive, especially if they're ina you know, a prominent play place
in the landscape. You want tostop that from happening. And typically that
occurs when the nine time temperature toget above sixty five degrees. Okay,
um, Larry, I think wemight be due for another break here on
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back to the Green Country Gardener.I'm your host for today, Garrett Giles.
We got Larry Glass in here withus. If you have any caller,
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or you could reach us at thattoll free number one eight hundred seven four
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We'd love to hear from you againwith your gardening questions. And Larry,
let's talk about some perennials. Perennials. The hostes are up. I've
got this little little area between theshed and the house in order to I've

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built the shed just to meet codesas far as i mean ordinates right here.
Yeah, good, there's a littlepathway between the shed and the house.
I'm both flanked with that or someperennial beds and hostess and Kellie overnight.
They're just up. It's amazing anyway. Hosts are up and doing really

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well. They really like this raindue got that. You get a little
bit of rain and they just theyjust pop life, popo, living water.
But they're up and doing well,and you want to put a little
course stands saw us around them.They're deterred. The slugs. Slugs are
a big problem with them there.They're really big old juicy leaves and they
really like that. So you cancontrol the slugs slugs with us and sands

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and sawdust. They don't it ticklestheir little toes and they don't like that,
so they kind of stay away fromthere. There's also slug baits and
everything else you can use to tocontrol them. So shalbugs maybe maybe a
bit of a problem with the riotsand that's where the sal bugs are attracted
to the slug bait too. Salbugsare they're actually kind of a shrimp,
kind of a plant animal. They'renot a truly insect there, shrimp,

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but what a crustacean crustacean crustation.Yeah, so that's cool, Yeah,
pretty good boiled up. You know. I'll get the pot so so we
can control them that. We cancontrol them with a bait, or you
can use just some sawdust or somethingaround here help control them. They said

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they don't feel to vol in thatarea right there. So they're doing quite
well. And the perennials are doingcoming up to the elephant ears and my
elephant eris are coming up, andthe cannads are coming up to kind of
a tough winter on a lot ofthings. And I noticed a bit of
a thinning on the mechanas and theelephant ares, but they'll come back pretty
soon. And another thing in thewintertime that caused some problems. It was

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rather dry this last winter, andit caused a lot of stressing people's Japanese
maples to the point where a lotof people lost them. And it just
simply a matter of not having anywater. And we planted a tree before
the rain hit and the ground wasjust just absolutely bone dry. We had

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just a little bit of moisture,but below that just desert, just dust
came out and as no wonder,these plants didn't make it. And I
was working on a drip system forthe yard this year, and and all
the testing and experimenting, I managedto keep my plants pretty well watered this
winter good, so they made itjust fine. But that's that's an important

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factor, not only in your perennialsfor them to come up real good and
all that is uh, and foryour trees and your shrubs. Also they
have adequate moisture and through even throughoutthe winter. And this year is a
good proof that they see rows ofboxwoods and some of them are just dead.
And the box swords are extremely coldhearty, but they just cannot stand
the dryness and glia. I justsee rows of them just dead because they

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dried out in the winter, justjust too dry. And also they're closer
planets, fairly close to the housefor the most part, and you have
an eve on the house, thevery whipped and all that, and you
can tell the ones that are ona house where they were a wide eve
frof on it. They there's noatmospheric water coming down to it. You
have to artificially water them in orderfor them to survive. And they really

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suffered this last this last winter inthe cold, and some of them even
out in the open. But youwouldn't expect it to happen. It just
happened. And I had a customerwho'd actually dug his up. I admire
him greatly for doing that. He'sin his eighties and he's out there with
a shovel and the heat. Theyneeds some boxwoods up. Wow. And
the wrist system just went down justvery shadow. And that's because the soil

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down below there was too heavy.So it all comes down to the soil
prep and slow preparation. And alsothese are on kind of a raised a
mound, if you will, andthat exposes more surface area to the cold
and it drives out faster. Sosomething thing about so that. Yeah,
So anyway, boxwoods, Uh,they don't like to When we had that

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real cold spell oh years and yearsago, it got down to I think
what four five hundred degrees below zero? Yeah, I mean water meters were
frozen all over time. Is thatcold? Wow. There. It was
associated with some precipitation prior to thathappening, and the moisture level was good
in the soil. The boxwoods andheavy problems. M what was this,

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Oh, I think it's before youwere oh years ago, and it was
okay, so that would have beencarry the one twenty of eight and it
was. But anyway, and thatone, yeah, I remember that it
was really really cold and call andI actually got a call on the Christmas

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day her water meter was had rupturedand wanted me to the customer we had
we did irrigation for and uh.I went out there with my water key
and shut off for water. Shewas burbling up out of the ground running
down the street. Oh boy,and she, you know, thank me
for coming out and all that.No problem. But anyway, but that

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year when it got really cold,yes, there was some damage on some
box woods, but those are theones that were not didn't get the advantage
of the snow with the moisture.So it's very important to apply a mulch
in the fall to help moderate thevalleys and valleys or valleys and peaks rather
than moisture. To try to keepthe moisture level constant and to help moderate

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the soil temperature as well. Soit's a good investment really, it could
save a lot of money on theplants. Oh yeah. And also when
you're doing a planter beds, tryto make them fairly level, if you
will, just so it doesn't doesn'tblow away in someone. Okay. So
anyway, that's kind of what happenedwith a lot of plants this winter.

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And even these big Japanese maples thathave been in the ground for years just
died out because they're they're not adesert plant by all names. They they
don't they don't tolerate the extreme drought. So to make sure that your plants
are well watered into the winter.Okay, uh, Larry, I know

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you said you wanted to talk aboutsome draniums too. Okay, lets try
to get to that. Geraniums areone of the most popular declarative plants for
indoor and outdoor use. They arekind of two different times or the genre
of draining. This showy flowering geraniumsnormally grown indoors or outdoors on planter boxes
and stuff. And then there's athe finding geraniums to the two types of

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geraniums over there and then do reallyquite well here in our soil in our
area, and they give you bloomsoff summer one. Some people just absolutely
love their geraniums. The important thingis just ground prep and they do like
a slightly lower soil pH. Two. And our soil here tends to be
alkaline. As I say over andover again, it gets a bit on
the alkaline side, So you wantto do your ground prep real well.

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It wouldn't hurt to add a littleline or sulfate or just just some miracle
grow or something to the ground thatwill help maintain a proper soil pH and
help them bloom along too. Fertilizerwith the emphasis on phosphorus or something that
says blooming type fertilizer. You seesome of the neighborhood of a say of
a five and forty eight and youknow thirty or something on your furtilights of

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ratios, that's a lot of youknow, first absolutely that helps them bloom.
Larry, we do have a calleron the line. Okay, let's
go ahead and take that. Thenwe'll take a break. Good morning.
You're on the Green Country Garder program. Is that what happened to my apple?
Tree. It started to gloom justbefore we had that last frost,

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and now it's just like dead.No leaves, no nothing. That's probably
what happened. It might have gottenyou too cold, but apple trees are
very very hearty way up north.What you want to do on your apple
tree's look on the west side ofthe trunk. Look at the trunk real
closely on the west side, andget out your pocket knipe and see if
the bark peels off. And that'son the California side of it. I

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guess west side. Yea, andthat'll you might have had some borders in
it. Oh no, it looksfine and everything. I just put some
more molt on it. It's intactedme that dude. Yeah, the barkers
intact and everything else. Oh you'relast year, it gave me pounds and

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pounds of apples. I shared themwith everybody. Right, Are the leaves
coming out of it? Okay?Nothing? Nothing. It could have gotten
freeze damage. Yes, it's probablygone, yes, but yeah dead yeah

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so um yeah. If it theleast came out and it died like that,
there's something wrong in the stem orthe root of the plant. Another
apple tree. Oh, apple treesdo fine here, Yes, but you
want to mulch it in real heavilygoing into the winter. Oh okay,

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Yeah, without really looking at itand without really cutting cutting some of the
wood and seeing what's going on downbelow the barker's difficult make a diagnosis.
But it sounds like it could beeither borers in it, or it could
be a freeze damage, or itcould be a stamp virus of some kind.

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Yeah, I have to kind oftake a pocket knife and cut into
the wood and see if you seeany any vertical straiations of darker color or
not. Um, it sounds likeI need to read a live area books
on apple tree. Apple trees dowell here. They do like a good
drainage And it could be anything.It could be grafting compatibility too. If

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there's a rather large bulge at theground where the rit meets the top,
it could be some grafting compatibility aswell. But to me, to me,
it sounds like and it would beokay to try another apple tree for
sure, no problem. But itsounds to me like you might have a

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borer problem. But it's time togive us on it. Well, yeah,
if it's if it's all the leavesare dead on it. It's not
going to do anything. Yes,Now the George apple tree, it's doing
fine. It's covered in leaves.Okay, but that's the semi George.
And then and it's at the otherend of the yard. Well, you

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have a very specific problem with thatone tree. And they are both out
in a similar environment, so it'sprobably another environmental problem. It's something specific
to that tree, so you wantto look very closely for border damage on
that. That would be my primeconsideration. Okay, thank you so much.

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the Green Country Gardener program. Wegot Larry Glass with us. We are
running out of time quickly and wedo have one more break to get to.
But Larry, we were talking aboutgeraniums right, we hadn't lost color.
There are just your pelgoniums, yourregular Martha Washington geraniums often sold US
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the ones we have the nursery JUSTUSgeranium geraniums. We also have ivy
leaf or trailing geraniums, kind ofpretty. The leaves kind of hang down
and get these flowers on them,and hanging basket too. They do good
on the say, retaining wall.They kind of hang over the edge two
or place for around rocks. Andthat they're kind of cool too. Cented
geraniums, yeah, have ornamental leavesthat trail and uh wedment. No,

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the centeneraniums are prized for their fullyaromas, not much for the flowers.
You know, there's kind of usuallykind of spars and all that, but
they sort of they sort of resemblea journium, but they're just a good
durable plant to put it in abasket or something. And the smell is
kind of enough too. The mosquitogeranium too. I don't know if we
have any of these yet, butI'm sure they're on their way. By

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introducing the gene from the citrone plantinto the geranium, they were able to
get that mosquito geranium in there,and they don't like them too well.
It helps keep keep the mosquitoes.The way out of taking to really be
effective that you want to go outand kind of rub the leaves a little
bit before your guests survived, sokeep them mosquitoes away, right, Okay,

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So so those are kind of thevarieties of journiums you can get too.
So anyway, geraniums are of welcomeedition in the in the landscape that
they have blooms and flowers, andthey do, they smell good and they
help keep away mosquitoes, so they'repretty good plants they have around the house.
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