GREEN COUNTRY GARDENER

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Episode Transcript

(00:08):
And welcome, welcome, welcome.It is time now for the Old Green
Country Gardener. And it is greatto be back here for the program because
I'm gonna get schooled a little bithere by by Larry. He brought in
he brought in visual aid. Soif you're watching us on K one TV
dot com, we'll hold them upto the camera here for you a little
bit later on you can do that. Yeah. Again, our phone line

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is open at one eight hundred sevenfour nine five nine three six, and
uh, you know nine is ourtime. And wow, Larry, we
got some sunshine here after a littlebit of rain. Has has the rain
been helping? It's I had onea little bit one or an eighth inch
of rain at the house. Good. Oh, that's that's pretty good.
Yeah. I keep that big oldbucket out in yard and yeah, use

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that to do a little spot waterand dry. And it's a kind of
like a you know, rain gage. Yeah, just take ruler. How
much rain do we get? Idon't know, there's like about an inch.
No, I don't know, that'sabout an inch. So I got
you got the tape major out therean inch in an eight where you go?

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So when you've been working outside forfifty plus years, you can you
know how much rain we've had there? Any is there any inch of this
drought? I don't know. Funnything yesterday I was at somebody's house.
Yeah, I was looking up thisguy. We have sure of stratus clouds
and there's some layering. It's gonnarain tomorrow. Ye. My bones are

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hurting too. So you don't haveto go to school like I did.
All you have to do is look, can't feel your body will tell you.
It tells me. Oh I feelbetter today. Yeah, I don't
have to drink your quarter thirty weightmoving anyway, golly going on at the

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nursery. We do have some plantsand you know, tract of plants that
are kind of heat tolerant, dropttolerant too. I really don't know what's
going to happen this summer. Lookingat this chart over here, it indications
it's gonna bounce back up, Ithink. And yeah, it's gonna come
back up a little bit. Unlessit was like it was way back in

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the thirties. Oh, we kindof did the same thing, but it
just kept going drop drop drought likethat. So, yeah, the thirties
was the dust bowl. We'll justsee what happened here. It looks like
they had another one in the fiftiestoo, in between the fifties and up
to two thousand. It's great,good weather. Anyway, we are a

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big ball of mud hurling through spaceat one hundred and eighty thousand miles per
second, not per second, perhour, I think it is. Yeah,
so we're going pretty fast. Yeah, but we don't feel it.
I mean no, So anyway,that's cool anyway, right now, check
out our kalidoscope abilions. We justgot some in yesterday. Really nice plants

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have some parallels to the kalidoscope.The butterflies like them, as well as
hummingbirds and things like too. Theabilion plant is a member of the honeysuckle
family, and it's noted for itstolerance of drought and so on, so
you might consider planting some of that. This morning, and the wife and
I were having breakfasts and a hummingbirdcame up to be up to the feeder

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by the window. And that's kindof cool. But anyway, so you
have company. Yeah, look,we have an uninvited guest for breakfast.
No, they look at you funny, look at you, like, what
are you doing. I'm just beinga hummingbird, you know. I imagine
in the frame of time we movereal slow, low, so we're no

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threat to them. So anyway,so we have some kind of perennials who
also that kind of attract butterflies.We do have some honeysuckle plants, just
a few. I don't know ifthey have any of the red the red
honeysuckles, but they really like thosetwo. So when you come check it
out at the nursery, and prettysoon we'll be setting up a bench for

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butterflies and hummingbirds. Nice. Soanyway, we've got a color, we
sure do. Good morning, Welcomeyou're on with the Green Country Gardener.
Your question or comment for Larry,Good morning, good morning and whoever love
you man, I love you along time. Hey, you got a

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question. Know my tomato plants?Yes, good, okay, I've got
leaves of the crushed last ball.I got them bagging. Everything's okay.
The molst with tomato plants with thoseleaves, absolutely not, you say not,
do not, no, you wantto get red? Do you want
to need to be burned or disposedof? Because there are any diseases at
all they carry it through the winter, and so yeah, you do want

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you want to get rid of asmuch as the plants as possible. Now
you can decompose it and use iton another part of the garden somewhere,
but I would keep it away fromthe tomato plants. All right, I'm
glad I called without a doubt.Yeah. Let they ask you're going to
get through You're getting ready to dothat this morning. Them say in the

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front yard, maybe on the underthe shrubs or something, but not not
around your tomatoes. All right,Yeah, there's such um So what with
use U s to me? Athome? I use a shredded up leaves
and grass flippings and they do fine. And when I plant my tomatoes,
I completely ignore them. I don'twant them or anything, and they do

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just great. Now what I meanyou say you use shredded what shredded leaves
or that's what I have, shreddedleaves, but not but you you implied
to use tomato leaves. No,no, no, no no no,
that's that's why they picked up thatyou have tomato leaves and you try to
No, no, I'd never dothat, No no, no, don't.

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Yeah, yeah, okay like that, Yeah, leave oak leaves and
everything slide just fine. Tomatoes likea pH that's a little bit low,
like six point five. So I'mglad I kept. I'm glad I kept
with you. There. I'm sodisappointed. No, no, no,
absolutely, you don't let me.Let me ask you another question before I

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go ahead. I'm not I'm nota good head. But anyway, is
it okay to put a little insecticidedown underneath the leaves and most it depends
on what kind of in secticide you'retalking about. Oh, I don't know
whether I've got out and shoot turnokay. Be very careful with systemics.

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Oh yeah, okay. They cancause especially the dicyst on and some other
ones like that. You can causesome problems with your with the edibility of
your tomatoes. Yeah, yeah,I know. I kind of never plant
my debats in the same place Idid last year. That's smart. Yeah,
very smart. I learned that fromyou a long time ago. All

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right, I thank you, fellows, Thank you, take care now,
thank you very much for calling.And you can be the next one up
right here and one eight hundred sevenfour nine five nine three six Larry,
Well, I'm glad we got thatcleared up. Oh boy, I should
say. Anyway, tomatoes, theydo like warmth. I haven't multimi toimated
yet, but they do lack warmsoil. So I wait until the soil

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temperature gets to be about sixty fiveplus and then sounds like someplace to go
play cards. But anyway, anyway, and then then when the soil moisture,
when the soil temperature is high thenup to that sixty five degree,
then you can go ahead and multipmendreal good. They do lack warm weather
real well. Okay, so anyway, that's that's pretty cool with that tomatoes.

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I put down up some salts thislast winter. It's some gypsum too.
They like the calcium. The calciumelemental calcium available in the gypsum help
prevent the blossom in blossom en rothas been theorized, and I think in
practice too that it's a calcium deficiency, so that should help it out too.

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And the magnesium helps helps them outtoo, and the sulfur helps over
with the pH So what's work thedirt. You've got great tomatoes, gotta
get it right. I had abunch of flower pots in the patio that
I didn't want this year, soI unloaded them on the tomato bed and
worked it into a really good loosesoil and Callie, they're growing like crazy,

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so nice. So be very carefulwith the insecticides you use. The
medicle emetic floorprint is okay, it'sa systemic insecticide, but I wouldn't use
any of the others that the chemicaltype because the can cause problems with the
poisoning the tomatoes. You don't wantto do that at all. Let's go

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to the phones here real quick.Good morning, Welcome to the Green Country
Gardener Program. Your question or commentfor Larry, Yes, good morning.
I have some regular honeysuckle that wason the fancis crawled around and in the
ground away from that. Is therea good way to kill honeysuckle that's spreading

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like that other thanded honeysuckle is avery persistent plant and it will recur from
fractions of the riot system. Yes. What you can do is if you
can find where the where the stemof the honeysuckle goes into the ground.

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You can find that place. Thereis a chemical you can drip on the
stem after you cut it. That'llkill the riot system too. There's ground
up. Do that round up reallyworks through leaf relief absorption. But the
other one is tracolateper it works througha stem absorption. See if if you

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use your round up on the leave, does it go down to the roots
and you get it too, you'llget some top guy back on the on
the honeysuckle, but it'll come back. Yeah, you'll really need that.
You really need root down in theground where it crawls. Yeah, you
really need to treat it at thatpoint where it reaches the ground and that

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should take care of it. Allright, Thanks for thank you. All
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to the Green Country Gardener Programmer.Telephone line is one eight seven point nine
five nine three six. He's Larry, I'm Tommy. You are who wherever
you want to be, But youcan give us a call of that number
and we will try to answer yourquestions. Getting back to tomatoes, tomatoes,
what I really like to use thestake up tomatoes? Yes, is
uh you get an little T shirtand cut it into strips. Uh huh.

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And the material that that T shirtsare made up has a tendency to
stretch. It does and it doesn'tcut into the plants. It lasts a
long time too. Terrible. Sothat's what I use is, uh,
go to the wife's side drawer,in her in her chest, take her,
sir, she won't miss this,she'll miss it that she comes out.

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Ah. That was my favorite tie. That happened to be once.
Oh we had good tomatoes. Wehad darn good tomatoes. There was the
trade off. You were in thedoghouse for a while, but the truly
will. But yeah, be sureto multum in once this warm. That
helps. That help prevent it fromdragging out so quickly, and you have

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better quality tomatoes. If the soiltemperature is fairly constant. The moisture is
fairly constant too. The biggest causeof cracking is sudden changes in soil moisture,
so you want to make sure totry to keep that consistent. Consistent.
Yeah, stretched tie works pretty welltoo, But I like to the
T shirt process. It didn't costanything. Is that maybe a little trouble

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but okay, yeah, yeah.So also on your tomatoes, look for
suckers that are coming out. Thislittle between the leaf and the stem'll come
off at the side about forty fivemarincle the stem that will come out.
It's okay to have some of thoseover there. But you get too many
of them, you just it justcrowds it out and you get to h

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yeah, problems, you don't needit. Tries to have too many tomatoes
and quality goes down a little bit. So try to try to control this
person a little bit too. Soanyway, so right now, the tomatoes
doing real well that if you dohave a problem with bugs on them.
Kneme oil works real well and spinhis ad works real well too. Those
are two non toxic type insecticides.The knem oil works physiologically as well as

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interrupt interrupting the life cycle of theinsects. So it's pretty cool stuff.
We have the good stuff to goodneem oil. There's some over there that
it's it's just got just a tinylittle bit worthy works for the for the
insects. We had the stuff that'spure and it's very good for controlling insects.
And it's sake too. You can, oh, I got it on
the tomato. Well we'll see,you know, won't hurt you what Yeah,

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Okay, might be a little oilynonnem oils Okay, Okay, So
it's a good gig. That's kindof what we're going with. Tomato is
if you really don't have a lotof blooms and bigger on it, you
might consider maybe a tomato fertilizer tookas time goes, keep up with that.
And also so and I have adrip system of mine too, So

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when we do get to where wecan water it's it'll be fine electronically water
this little drip thing occasionally. Sopretty cool. So uh, in your
garden, on your fruit trees.Now, what I mentioned about Niemo oil
is good good at this point.Right now, look for a boar activity
on your fruit trees and look fora scrape boy the frasts frast is a
sawdust at the boars kick out whenthey when they drill through, and you'll

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see this gelatinous google coming out ofthis for lack of a better word,
coming out of the stem. Andtypically that's from an intrusion by a boar
insect and it'll be up inside there. I'll just take my tuck on the
pocket knife and flatter them and digthem out there. Go get them out
there. But anyway, so watchfor that. Also, I do have

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a little bit of some intrusion onmy cherry tree in the backyard, so
I'm going to dig it out maybetomorrow and go out there with my pocket
knife and just go bore hunting.Yeah, but I do have some spinners
ad which will work also. Okay, Right now in the vegetable garden,
this big time for warm season seeds. Uh it seems like beans and it's

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not. It's not turned up timeyet, but it's it's wide open season
for your tomato, for your vegetableplants. I noticed a field over there
on Silver Lake. You got cornin it right now? Yeah, yeah,
So it's up pretty good. Sothere's still a little bit of time
to plap corn if you want to. You have like five corn plants,
you know, But things like splashand h and cantle open things planet at

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this point. So all right anyway, Um, but with your grass permiter
grassmuter, that permun grass has reallykind of opened up and really started to
grow. This week. We hada little bit of rain, a little
bit of warmth too. Permuta grasslikes it kind of warm, so choked

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out a lot of weeds too.Well. I had a problem last year
with my guard I didn't water itin the summertime. It was so hot
and I just didn't water it,so it's permuter grass. I spend my
retirement on permuto grass, you know. But anyway, that was a bit
of a mistake. I should havewatered it at least once a week because
a lot of it was dead.And what comes up with the weeds.

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I had a real good luck withusing a mixture of two four D and
oh god, let's name it'sact thaturbside QUINCLORAQ yeah, Q quinclorac. Yeah,
both of those together we have atthe nursery in a weed out plus
Q and it was very effective incontrolling the weeds. So, and the

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Remuna grass is starting to spread afterthe rain. It's starting to grow and
spread. And I fertilize it beforethe rain. Told the wife, I
really don't want to draining. Gotwork to do for liz grass, you
know. But it didn't work thistime. Didn't do no. It rained.
So anyway, if there is arain coming in, there's somewhere coming
up this week. Yeah, wehave about twenty to chances of rain starting

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like I think on Monday night,Thank you, I'll never get my project
done ward. Are we at thattime of the year where twenty percent means
it will Yeah, because that wasa couple of years ago. Yeah,
I remember that. Yeah, that'schance to rain four inches. Yeah,

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frogs are screaming from help that Igotta hear. But anyway, so the
permitted grass is growingram well, it'stime to raise some moor up a notch
too. It's not what the twentiethof May, so it'll be June pretty
soon, and so time to thinkabout if not to go ahead and raise
an up and sharpen the blade,if you will, because after all that

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dust, the blade probably a littlebit on the dull side. Yeah,
even the weeds were hard when youlike me, just a balled up in
the chee stopped anyway, So Igo ahead and just check it out.
Charge you if you didn't change theoil in it, you might want to

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go ahead and do that. Iknow that. I know you have a
five year old long lower and it'sgot the original of oil in it,
probably, so if you want todo that, change it every year.
Do you have a five year oldlong more? I just I know,
I'm sure you're getting nervous because I'mlike, did I actually I write it
on the deck? You oil changedates? Yeah, some people got that

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up there in the window of theircar. Larry you just right, Yeah,
I'm all my old pick up.I've got a record on the sundvisor.
Well that things so old looks likeyou probably got you'll do so anyway,

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make sure your equipment's up to par. I know, I ran into
a lot of dust the other dayand to take the filter often clean it
up real good. So I puta new filter on into the year.
Anyway, So it'll soon be timefor another fertilization of communigrass to and hopefully
we'll have some rain come next monthtoo to get it watered in, or

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enough rain in the reservoir where wecan water it. So, getting back
to the reservoir thing, we areunder a level was it three? Gonna
be four here pretty soon? Yeah, it'd be the first of June or
the middle of June, depending onhow rainfall is. Yeah, I think
with the precipitation we've been having,the following provisions are in effect for all
the city of Brothers of water customers. Rates increases for customs more than two

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thousand calends of water per month.Well, at the nursery, we have
all these plants and I use thatmuch in a day. Oh my goodness,
so outdoor water is you're gonna geta fun little surprise. Come build
tie. I know a good banker. Outdoor water is restricted to one day
per week, and that's just theusual. But we had I had that

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written down here somewhere. Oh herewe go. Even number properties made water
on Thursdays and odd number properties andmade water on Friday. And the water
pressure has been reduced within the distributionsystem to minimum levels with state and federal
regulation. So about pig five tosixty PSI. I put a gauge in
my water. My house its onehundred and ten. I yes, they

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haven't gotten around at part of town. But anyways, oh we got to
ours. Yeah yeah, but Ikeep my water pressure on. My house
is at sixty. Yeah, Ihave a regulator in the house. There's
just too much water. Yeah,well ours is we we we we purposely
ratched it ours down about a yearso ago. So yeah, there's a

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you plumbed in a regulator inside thehouse where the water comes in and you
can vary it a little bit.So when you take a shower, it's
like stinging in the rain. Youwait about pressure, yeah, our pressure.
So you wait about a half aday to get a glass of water.
I mean that's oh. We hadto wait. We moved into our

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house, had to wait about halfa second. You know, when that
pressure is high, you tear yourskin off getting into the shower. It
does. It was rammed up able, I said, I told the wibe.
So I got to do something aboutthis. So I went into the
boiler room and installed a pressure regulatoryregulator. And it's nice, not so
much water. And also one thingwe did in the house too, is

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we put a tankless water heater in. I hear those things are great.
And we put a circulating pump backby the shower, in the back of
by the kitchen sink, and youhit a switch and the pump turns on
and it heats the water up throughthe pipes to that point where the faucet
is, and you turn on thefaucet. You got hot water. You
have to worry about. You don'thave to run water to wait for the

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water to heat up. So whenwe turn the light on the shower,
the pump turns on. After abouta minute and a half, it shuts
off again, and you hot waterand you turn it on an instant hot
water. Wow, So you don'twaste. Yeah, you can. You
can do that. You can dothat with a regular water heater too.
So the more you know, sothat that helped. I know, I've

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saved thousands and thousands of gallons ofwater every year by pumping that, running
the pump before you turn on theshower and all that. So he's got
knowledge. Yeah, they're gonna hireyou downtown at the city. No,
No, that that worked really well. And but really in some places,
and I know down the street fromme, the one of my neighbors,

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water in the wall bursts from somuch pressure. Oh yeah, that happened
to pipe the pipe in the wallburst. Not fun, No, it
isn't really, that's just way toomuch. So yeah, we need to
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a thirty six and you're listening tothe Greek Country Gardener program. Your phone
calls are always welcome at one eighthundred seven four nine five nine thirty six,
He Larry, he'd be doing something. I'm Tom, I just answer
the phones. Craig. Myrtles,we should know the fats are curt.
I know that an Endina's were latethis year and they just they just they

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just puffed out real quick. Peopleabout give up on them and said,
just just wait. The next thing, you know, boy, you zing
right back to life. And they'refine. You get a little bit of
rain, and from where did theycome out of it? Crape myrtles are
kind of the same way too.We had a customer we planted a crepe
myrtle and it was late in comingup when she had it removed and thought
it was dead, so we putanother Linden for it. Anyway, So

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crepe mertles, they it's time tothink about fertilizing them too. You should
know their status that it's time scratchedthe bark at various levels and look for
green wood. And also a bigproblem with crepe myrtles is a scale insect
on crepe myrtles. And we've talkedabout this in the past, and the
minital briad works very well to controlthe s gets the systemic it works to

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control the scale real bad too,So you really need to be proactive on
that because it has to get intothe plant and up through the vascular system
in the plant up to the stemfor it to be effective. So something
that should be done. Don't waitafter it happens. You're kind of putting
the cart before the horse, ifyou will. You want to be preemptive

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on that. And there's a reallygood chance that your crepe mirdle is going
to have scale this year, sonow's the time to think about doing that.
It takes a while for this stuffto really work and get into the
tree and be effective. So theadmit of corprid or just a tree drench
is what it's called, and itdoes a very good job of controlling that
too. There is a scale ora tough, tough one to control too.

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There's a topical application perhaps of spinazadwhich might work. Kneem oil is
another way that basically smothers them,but you really have to put a lot
of it on there. So alsotime for the first fertilization. Two of
the crepe mirdles they have color yep. Okay, good morning, welcome to
the Green Country Gardener Program. You'reon the air with Larry your question or

(29:51):
comment. Good question. Ya,Okay, I've got blueberries up and in
the dram two years ago and Ididn't put enough pete mass in there about
six. Yeah, I've got someammonium, not a saltpe but I don't
know how much to put around theplant. Looked on the internet, but

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they just a handful. How muchdo I really need around each plant?
Do you only, like you say, two years old? Well, one
thing you want to do is trynot to correct the pH all at once.
It's it's a gradual thing. Anduh so, uh how much to
use It's difficult to say without reallylooking at it, But golly, actually

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I don't know exactly how much touse. It's not like you need to
go at least a half a pointon your scale on the pH scale at
least to get it to where it'scomfortable. So I would put just maybe
a cup or so at the mostplans. Yeah, yeah, I would

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put it maybe by two cups forseven plants, and then then monitor the
the plant's activity and monitor because modiumnitrate or modium sulfate is pretty strong stuff.
Okay, how deep do I needto get down in there? If
you dissolve it as a liquid.It goes down in right away. Oh
really, you can dissolve it.Yeah, it's a crystal right, okay,

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kind of the clearest sort of crystal. Yeah. You can dissolve it
in the water and a cupful forhow much water? About five gallons?
Five gallons for a cupful, andthen spread that around the plants and then
watch the pH You have a wayto monitor your pH. Yes, I
did pH meter. Okay, checkit after about a week and see what

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your status is. Okay, Iappreciate you here, thank you. All
right. One thing you don't wantto do is try to correct it all
at once. Right now. Iheard something about sulfur. But you have
to put that in and it takeslike six months or so, doesn't it.
Yeah, not really. Sulfur isa little slower. Yeah, but
uh yeah, but iron sulfate,luminium sulfate and magnesium sulfa and all that.

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They'll work pretty well to do that, but it does take a little
bit more time. One cup forfive gallons of water around there. Okay,
wait a week check your pH Okay, thank you all right, thanks
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welcome back to the Green Country Gardnerprogram. It's state forty three fifty
forty green, a little bit ofsunshine, and of course your phone calls
are always welcome to Larry, ourexpert at one eight hundred and seven four
nine five nine three six. Anyway, great merles. You want to put
a bloom encouraging fertilizer or bloom supportingtype fertilizer, and typically that's ten twenty

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ten or something like that, andthe phosphorus enhances the color and yeah,
yeah makes some blush, I guessso. And I actually I waited till
last weekend, last Sunday to prunemy crepe rubles, the big one I
have up front, and I dida stratified pruning on it, so it's

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not all just flashed different levels andto try to have different levels of blossom
show on that. So anyway,so they're pretty simple to prune out.
And it had a lot of deadwood into and so I trammed all that
out. It looks better now.The oncoming warmer weather and precipitation has made
a flush a little bit better.So all the crape rdles are really doing

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their thing right now. In anothermonth they're going to be starting to bloom.
So it should be actively growing andshould have some good leaves on it
at this point. Don't kill ityet. Yeah, anyway, so also
you're shrubbed. I've heard of themthis last week cut back winter kill.
May might maybe try something new andhad a burning bullshow. Was just horrible

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last year, it just was nothappy. It's the terrible. This year
is doing great, so who knows, but very lush and green looking.
Okay, So so anyway with you, if you haven't pruned them, you
might want to do so. It'snot too late to cut back to say

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box woods or something, but it'sgetting close to that. And actually my
box woods I sprayed some sopy wateron them before the rain. I noticed
some mics on them already, whichis odd for the relatively cool weather we're
having to have mics on them,and no mics this morning, so okay.
Also with other things too, withyour shrubs in general, kind of

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fertilized. Cut back to winter kill, maybe try something new. Maiden grass
is coming up right now, andI noticed there's some rather odd come come
back on the on the maiden grass, in other words, on an older
plant. It seems to be kindof kind of bald in the middle.
Yeah, but it'll feel in okay, But when it does add it you

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can divide it if you want anothermaiden grass somewhere that should have been done
a little while ago, but Ithink you can still do it. It'll
it's a survivor, and just don'tlet it get too dry. Okay,
but the maiden grass should have beencut back by now, and it's coming
out coming. It's flushing real nicelytoo. So so I don't know.

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The shrubs that might have been introuble will recover with some fertilization. I
know my dwarf Nadine is. Idid nothing to them, just kind of
snap them off, and they're reallynice and full again. So a lot
of these plants are pretty durable andhearty and they'll come back. Just find
the spring. All right, let'stake out the call. Good morning.
Hi, you're on with the GreenCountry Gardener. You're a comment a question

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for Larry. Good morning. Ibelieve I have some poison ivy in my
yard. Then I need to killWhat is the best method? And it's
got some little trailers that's going underthe ground and putting up the news shoots,
suck up leaves of three let itbe yes. Yeah, yeah,
I was at a house this weekand they had poison. I I just

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grabbed it and pulled it up outof the ground. Well, you're not.
No, it didn't bother me atall. Wow. Anyway, a
funny thing. I went to somebody'shouse one time. You got poison.
If I grabbed it through it inthe truck, yeah, oh my god,
I would be swollen up like ajellyfish if not, Like he's a
man of plants. But yeah,what what you can do is, uh,

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when it's shun like that, ifyou have a sex and say up
four inch pipe or even maybe evena two inch pipe or something, you
can put that over the leaves andspray some round up on it. You
do that so it doesn't spread toother plants around it, and that will
control it, or just a veryvery targeted application to round up will control
it. Well, I've sprayed roundup on it, um, and it

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didn't seem to affect it at all. It's a good sized planet. What
it does is come up inside ofa wild rose bush and now it's um.
The little stock or the stem isprobably really good sized, and I
just I'm I'm afraid that it's goingto spread everywhere and he falls somebody who's

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immune to it. Then yank itout of the ground and throw it your
truck. But what about that?What about that stuff that you said.
You cut the stem and then tryput it on there. But will that
kill it? That'll kill the routeright there? Yeah, cut the stem

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and we have to do it withina fifteen or twenty seconds. You have
to put it on there, okay, and plant draws it in and it'll
kill the root system. It's calledt t r I t r I c
l O p y r or somethinglike that, tracloper, and we're gloves.
You sell it. Can you spellit one more time? I think

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it's it's either t r I Rt r y but I don't recall.
But anyway, try c l Op y r tracloper c l O p
t r I t r I cl O p y r trala p y
r okay, okay. And wehave it at the nursery. We have

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it in a one with a littleeye dropper thing you can put on there,
and another one your mix up andand it's I killed off a bamboo
thicket with that stuff. Wow.So yeah. So anyway, it's it's
effective, and it's it's designed forthat a very specific application like that.
Okay, the plant it seems tobe um in other areas that we've noticed,

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and it's kind of it's kind ofthinley and tall, and then now
right now it has little white berrieson it. Am I identifying it correctly?
That it's not poison ivy? Thatsounds like not poison ivy. It
sounds like porcelain vine? Is thatum poisonous? Also? No, are

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you familiar? Are you familiar withwhat bean what leaves look like on a
bean plant? No? Okay,well they looked an awful lot like that
too. So in other words,there's there's a it's a compound leap and
it has three leaflets on it,one of which I have a cut on
it, and they're there, theyhave a point to them for the most
part, and has a relatively smoothtop. Yeah. Well, I did

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get into something in the yard umabout two well maybe six weeks ago in
it and it really was a terriblerash. So we're trying to kill it
out. And because we had gotteninto that flower bed and tried to pull
out and clean out leaves and that'swhen I got into something. So I'm

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assuming that poison ivy. I lookedit up on the internet and it looks
like the same plant. So okay, yeah, sure, but um,
I just don't. I'm like panickingbecause I don't want it to get everywhere.
You know, the birds will spreadit. I'm assuming. I don't
know. But it's go ahead,go ahead, go ahead. With the
weather we've had, it's been relativelycool. It's a bit earlier for them

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to have bloomed and produced okay fruitsat this point. So okay, But
that same remedy for poison ivy,you can use it on that, we
do, Gret Oh yeah, sure, okay, all right, Well I
appreciate it, Larry, thank you. Sure, thanks for telling a good

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day. Pulling out poison ivy withyour bare hand. Let's grab it and
she ran away. I'm not sosure. And I wouldn't have run away
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Gardener Program. Here telephone calls orwelcome we've got one burning out the line
here, but give you the neverdisticcase went eight hundred and seven, four
nine, five, three things andgood morning, welcome and your call,
your question for a Larry right hereon the Green Country Gardener Program. Yes,
I have areas in my yard that, um just have weeds. And

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I check the pH with this.Well it's like fourteen dollars thing, and
it's above seven. It hasn't goneto eight. But um, what does
grass like? It's six point fiveto seven, it'll go up to seven
and a half seven and a half. Um, Well, do I need

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to add something to lower the pHbecause um parts parts of that area have
recovered and it's growing um permuta.But what weed I have is uh,
somebody told me us, I saidit's got you know that said, yes,

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that said you're a different kind.Also to me, I call it
a cockleber or something like that.Sandbers. Yeah they're a mask too.
Yeah. And anyway, another factornot only just the pH factoring growing grass,
but the structure of the soil itself, the weight, the heavy is

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it a heavy clay soil or yeah? Yeah, and the bermiter grass and
all that just simply doesn't like thatheavy soil. So if you want to
really establish it, you might considerworking in some organic material in the form
of compose or barnyard maneuver or somethingto loosen up that soil so the riots

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can go down deep. Okay,and uh, nutrient do you do you
have a way to detect the nitrogenlevels too? I do not. Okay,
yeah, A lot of times whenyou have a lot of weeds and
nitrogen it's somewhat deficient as well.Okay, all right, Well, so

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compost would be better than gyps Gypsumwould do very well. You have to
repeat applications after a while. Itgypsum breaks up the molecular bonds in the
clay and it wears out after time. But a good layer of a good
layer of a just a decomposed compostor just compost to the bag, depending

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on the size of your lawn andyour budget, of course, that'll help
loosen it up. But gypsum also, it's a soil. When you dig
it up and you rub it betweenyour fingers and it feels almost greasy.
Some coarse sand mixed with it willhelp too. Be good soil is made
up of four elements. It's asand, clay, loam, and silt.

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Now, what you can also dois get a glass mason jar and
put about half soil and a littlebit more water. Seek and shake it
up, mix it up real good, and then let it settle, and
you'll get this stratification of elements inyour soil and the lower most will be

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the sand, and then you havethe clade in the silt and then in
the loan, so that that'll kindof give you an analysis of your soil
content. Okay, um, okay, let's say it's fifteen by fifteen,
how much stuff would need? No, well, it's a two hundred and

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twenty five square feet. That's nota big area, so so how not
a lot? I would probably aboutten bags of composts will do it just
fine. How are you talking about, um, the coconut stuff or something.
We have a Cruttenberg compost at thenursering what you're talking about. Yeah,

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we use that very successfully at theforgot a year as we'd use that
stuff and for what for launch anything? Anything? Okay, Our soil here
is inherently heavy, in the structureis inherently heavy, and it's somewhat anaerobic,
so it's difficult to grow things.Okay, all right, I'm trying

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to think some areas have hit itdoesn't drain well, so that probably doesn't
help either. Now, yeah,you got to have some degree of slope
on it, at least for toOkay, so I don't need to add
anything for the pH. Doesn't itsound like your pH is just Fine's it
sound like a soil structure and probablya neutral nutrient deficiency. Yeah, I'm

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sure that's true. Okay, Well, thank you, thanks for call.
All right, thank you very much. We have other callers online, but
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