GREEN COUNTRY GARDENER

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The water reservoir doing. I mean, how much did it rain there?
Let me take a look, becausewhen I checked earlier today, it didn't
look like much had taken place asfar as going bringing, but it looked
like it was, you know,least maintaining. I'm going to take a
look right now on our Yeah,when you when you look at the shape
of the reservoir, it's shaped kindof like a shallow bowl, and every

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inch is probably more than exponentially greateramount of water necessary to raise a level
up. It didn't change, it'sa further act you go the more surface
area. And also and because ofthe slope, it takes an awful lot
of water to get it back.So what we need, what we need
is a good toad strangler. Ohyeah, we do. Right now,
we're still at about four point sixteenfeet below normal at U the lake and

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hopefully some more rain this afternoon.Yeah, hope. I got to come
in pretty much all week. Yeah, yeah, I remember one fourth of
July yet rained cats and dolls.I think I was in that one.
You were in Chicago at the time. That was back in the night nineties.
You know, it's in Springfield.My neighborhood is flag up, so

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I took it down for him.Anyway, you're a scout at heart.
Man. He also had blue lightsall over his house. I got on
the roof of his house and puta red one in. Well, anyways,
that's kind of fun. Anyway,it's it's uh. Actually, we're

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selling an awful lot of annual flowersplant flows right now and uh. At
home, I use the bath waterto water my elephant ears and it works
really well. I'd say probably sentwater that comes in the shower, so
I get maybe three gallons you knowthose very clean, yeah, very clean,

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collected in a bucket and then dropa pump down in the bucket with
a sprinkle head on it and plugit in, spreads it out like that,
so it works out, works quitewell. And a lot of mulch
too. I've got a lot oftomatoes this week on the tomato plants too.
They're doing looking good. Yeah,and Kylli, that mulch helps a
whole while keep that soil moisture conceptand the temperature constant of the soil,

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and the bugs don't like the cedarmult So getting a whole lot of tomatoes
right now, Get some tomato actiongoing on act trying to make some tomato
soup and tomato puree and frozen tomatoesand bloody Marry as well. But I
had a bad problem with white fliespreviously. Yeah, and he used some

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Captain Jack's dead bugs on it and'lldo it. I don't kill any boat,
no white flies. So it worked. So you want to right now
when this time of the year,when it's hotter in the day, you
want to If you do want tospray your plants, do it early in
the learning or late in the eveningbecause the chemicals and they're can costant damage.
Yeah, it's not necessarily the chemicalthat spins Ad and chappin back Captain

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Jack. Get it out, Larryanyway, the chemical and Captain Jack.
It's called spins ad, which isI don't ganny kind of thing. And
wipeflies are extraordinarily tough to control,and it could care of them rather well.
So hard to believe. But didCaptain Jack dead dead bug? You
could spray it and eat it rightaway because it didn't hurt humans. Oh

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okay, that's good to know.Is it tasty? I don't know.
I never tried to wash the fruitanyway, just getting grette aftertaste. The
grapes are coming on too. Afew grapes coming on. Yeah, I'll
probably get the half quarter wine thisyear. Advantage. I think the mockingbirds

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get it before we have a chance. Okay, anyway, So that's kind
of what's going on in my gardenbusiness. Business as usual. They hard
to have biscuits to starting. Theblooms starting to expand on them. Pretty
big, pretty big show. Theyget up to twelve inches across depending on
the water conditions and lot. Igot a feeling that the flowers won't be
as big this year, but theywill put on some color because of the

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lack of brain and the crape myrtlesare really late this year's here's this July
and they're not all blooming yet.You look at there's no blooms. What's
today with the crepe myrtles. Ithink it has a lot to do with
the plant trying to restructure itself afterthe severe cold and the drought we had
in the winter. So they'll they'llcome on, they'll be a little bit

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late. And we were getting worriedabout are also on crepe morbles. I'll
see it. An awful lot ofpeople with scale insect on their crape myrtles
too. What do we look foron that? You look at the stem
very carefully. The bar from thetrunk will be darker than normal, be
almost almost black. And you seesome mold on the leaves. That's the
honeydew exuded by the scale insects,which attracts ants, which is symbiotic thing

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going on between the ants and thescale insects. And they carry the eggs
on the little toes and spread theword if you will, so a scale
insect, it looks kind of likea half of a say, an overcooked
egg, if you will, onthe stem, and you can scrape them
off. And yeah, and sothey're they're really bad. Also, I've

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seen them on red bet trees too. Took them a wife to the doctor
and went to the walked by thered bet tree. Of course, what
I stop and look at it,and what do you know? It's covered
in scale? Now, how dowe get rid of the scale? A
metal? There you go? Yeah, the bare tree shrub insect control is
another than any for it. Butanyway, it's a systemic. It's a

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systemic nicola. Yeah, naka,totally get it out. Come on systemic
nis. It messes with their head. Well, you're messing with my head
today, you know. I knowall these names. But anyway, so
we got it's just a tree drench, is what we say. It's easy
to remember that way, and itworks out very well to control the scale

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insects. Uh the a topical application. I don't recommend using a torment oil
this time of the year. It'sjust too hot and the leaves can't transpire
and overheats. So you want toyou want to make sure to use something
systemic, such as the tree drench. It worked fine. Drink fine.
Look at him eventually. Yeah.Yeah, and bagworms too. I saw

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a plant, a little plant somewhere, and I just maybe I was dreaming,
I don't know, I can't remember, and I was pulling all these
all these uh is at a customer'shouse, all these bagworms. After Oh
yeah, it's a customer We didtwo years ago a landscape, and we
went up there and just checking things. Oh my gosh, look at that

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picked all the bagworms. So they'rebecoming pretty and it's funny how they're they're
going. That's not really kind ofwidespread. They seemed to be very specific
with their applications. In other words, you get a whole lot of them.
One plant, and I said,another house and run across the street
was another customer, and I noticedher blue spruce had them, and she
just happened to walk out and Ishowed them to her and said, you

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got bag lard and real bad.She said, I know, here,
try this. The BT works reallywell by sell of thringinesss. And I
guess she tried it. I don'tknow, I hope. So anyway,
so the bagworms are starting to comereally bad. The tent caterpillars. You've
got to distinguish between tent caterpillars,which are the ones that get into the

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pond trees later on in the year. Remember that one year everything was covered
in them. Yeah, right downthere, the pecan trees by the river.
Well yeah, you're going down NoWater Road and all the forests over
there. It looked like Halloween.Oh yeah, that one year. And
I think the population now grew theresource and hadn't really been been bad since
then. So, but if we'redue for one of those, yeah,

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so, and the tent caterpillars canbe controlled the same way with the BT
works, right, well, so, and sold at the shop. So
those are the pests of the week, all right, and we need to
do it on an ad nowedgy,Yes we do. Okay, we'll be
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nine three six. Larry, Well, we got next time the old agend
for today's program. Oh yeah,well lawns. Let me get this thought.
Yeah, my landscape crews asking questions. He was checking doing his list.
Make sure the lamar blade is sharpright now. Oh, you're gonna

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need it, yeah, because thegrass is a little bit stronger dry at
this point, and the bringing thegrass is a little stringy ear, so
it'll it'll kind of weaken that bladea little bit when when you're sharp,
and you really don't want it razorsharp because the tip shatters pretty much.
So get it just good and sharp, but not razor sharp. It's fine.
And also be sure to balance ittoo. So oh yeah, you

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don't want you gotta I got alittle my daughter used to. I still
have it when she was a little, my blade balancer. Oh yeah,
like the top, you know.I let it play with it and it's
fun because it's metal. She can'thurt it, you know. But and
uh, and it makes sure yourbladest level when you don't get all that

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vibration so on, and you'll bendyour crankshapat you blades out of balance.
So we got a call here,put it on. Good morning, and
welcome to the Green Country Gardener Program. Hi, you're on the air.
Okay, I welcome to the GreenCountry Gardner Program. You're on the ear.
Yeah, good morning. A coupleof questions for you. I'm not

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Michael Gardner, but I planted cantaloupeand I planted strawberry. And my questions
are, uh, the cantlope isgrowing out of the area that uh that
I planted again, and I'd liketo know if I can trim it back

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if it'll hurt the plants. Andalso i'd like to know. I'm attention
water strawberries. You take a lotof water. Yeah, strawberries need a
good amount of molts too. Butyeah, they when you water them,
you want to water them in themorning so it drives out a little bit
so they don't get leaf disease andwhatnot on them. So yeah, as

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far as a lot of water isconcerned, not any more than say anything
else. But you don't want to, of course over water, and you
don't want to underwater. Just keepto keep the ground moderately moist, and
they'll do fine. Okay, whatabout the cantlope spreading? If you were
to cut off the growing stem onthat, it'll send out a sight shoot
and you'll probably get three or fourmore stem going out. Oh that could

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be a good thing actually, Soyou're saying, don't turn it back,
Oh you can, It really won't. I don't cut it back too far
though, but if you cut offthe tip, it will one of the
leaves over there as a little differentiatinggrowing a new runner, right, So
I just trying to contain them sothat they don't go all over the yard

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because you're going really fast. Ohcool. You could take it and and
turn it around and make it growback towards it perhaps, maybe, right.
I tried that and it's just overgrown so much. There grow.
Are you getting any cantlopes out ofthis? Not yet? But I got
a lot of blooms, yeah,probably a lot of male flowers. Yeah,
but you can tell the difference.The females have a little little bolts

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on the bottom where the fruit wouldbe. But it'll take a while for
the females to wake up. Iguess. Okay, Well, thank you
I appreciate you till thanks for goingright. Are you saying there's only like
two things of male or female onthe plant. It's an interesting physiology.
A lot of plants are monoecious andthis one has dioecious on the same plant.

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Oh okay, So yeah, apaintbrush would help too. Okay,
just put it, put up acurtain around it. Got you modesty,
okay, Monty gotta be a modestYeah. So anyway, Yeah, on

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watering your yard, it's good towater fairly infrequently and you know, kind
of heavy, a little bit hereand there, and uh, it doesn't
hurt the grass to dry a littlebit between waterings, especially for me.
The grass it'll come back. SoI haven't water my grass on you know.
I mentioned that last week and Midapoint not to water my grass.
It'll come back. Sure, Soyeah, you're nay, I just don't

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don't do it. I didn't doit last year, I didn't do it
this year. There you go.But if anything, the crag grass will
come in. Well, we gotthat arrested just in time at our house.
A good deal. Yeah. Soanother thing is on your grass,
make sure you have a good deepsoil and I like to what we call

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native bromun to grass. It's acourser texture and all that. It seems
to tolerate to drought a lot better. So you can get a hold of
that, or you can go intothe field and dig some up and put
it in the yard and it'll takeover everything else. And it's a good,
good stout grass, a good deal. So anyway, uh, fescue
grass, it's gonna go kind ofdormant this summer when it's hot, so

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don't don't anticipate a lot of growth. Mode as high as you can.
The grass and all plants in generaldo a process called transpiration, and it
does help keep it cool. Soyou do want to mode fairly high,
unless you want to irrigate in theafternoon to do what we'll call a syringe
or cool down on it. Butstill on the on the fescue grass,

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you wanted to go ahead and letit dry out a little bit between waterings,
so maybe about a week apart ofwater it or so on the dangerous
signed. Yeah, but anyway,what the water cops. So good thing
about the fescue grass is the grassseed fairly inexpensive, so if it dries
out when the rains come back inthe fall. You can plant it in

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about the face of first first ofJuly. It's about six weeks. Maybe
time to start thinking about God,it's hard to believe, isn't it.
Yeah, it's trying to think aboutputting down the fescue seed. So if
it dives out a little bit,it's pretty easy to restore. Yeah,
So that brings us back to howto pre emergent urbanside work. How do

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they work? I know you gotto do it before anything emerges exactly are
pre emergent urbside does not prevent we'dseed from germination, actually it or that
doesn't kill the seed either. Instead, the riot system development is curtailed through
the action the action of the preemergent so it won't control existing waves.

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But we all if applied before germination, and so yeah, you have to
do a little bit of planning andknowledge about what comes up when. So
typically on the pre merchant herbsides asopposed to post e mergent erbsides pregerban sides.
We put those down in your lawnin September or depending on the weather,

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maybe even late August or early September. Because the hend bit and all
that other stuff that so as weget cool its yeah, on all these
nasty chick weeds instead of that comeup in the spring. That's when they
germinated in the fall. So youwant to be prepared for that and do
it early September before it starts toget cool yo. Okay, all right,

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and also in your in your bedstoo, you can use a pre
emergents. Would be very careful notto overapply because they are considered somewhat of
a sterland because they do constrict theirroot development on young plants if you put
too much down to or put itdown too frequently. And if you look
on the instructions on the container,it says only put so much in a

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given year of the pre emergent herbicides. It will put curtail rit development on
your annuals. You don't want that. They don't do very well. They
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Any Welcome back to the Green GundryGardener Program. I'm Tom hus Larry.
He knows stuff, and you giveus a call at one eight hundred seven

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four nine. I'm nine three six. That is our contact number. What
do we have next? On thewell on the lines this weekend? I
gotta set the snapper up all theway. Oh yeah, I gotta set
it high, Set it high,and that that way you get. You
don't have the most often either,so trye. The week is of Bald
Cypress. The Bald Cypress otherwise knownas Taxodium or Taxeldium discum. It's a

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genus of two one or one ofthe three species, depending on the whatever
the opinions are anyway of the botanistson what they think. So there's several
of them over there for anyway,it's closely related to the Chinese slumps,
cypress or whatever, and all theseother odd little Chinese things. Anyway,

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the species of Taxelium occur in thesouthern part of the North American continent and
are deciduous in the north and semievergreen evergreen in the south. So you
see the slot and slamps, andyou had these cypress and needs everywhere.
Two in the slamps they are tradeto the large trees getting through the forty
five ft tall and uh, Iknow, two to three meters or so

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in tounk diameter, so they canget pretty good size plant. But not
here in Oklahoma. Uh. TheActually they make a really good flash here
in Oklahoma because they do seem totolerate the drought real well, that's good,
and Gollie, they're growing all updown my street where I lived.
Somebody just kind of went crazy boldcybers everywhere, So I think they're very

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attracted trees. I have a weepingbold cybers at my house where it's got
a graft on it and it growslike a kind of a miniature weeping willow.
Oh it's about the not about eightfeet tall now and it's really dramatic
and look dramatic in the landscape.Yeah, it's gotten to be pretty good
size. And uh, I've donenothing to it. No, it's spraying.

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You know. There has really verylittle, if any pests at all.
No pest you ever noticed when Larryplants something, he's as well,
I've done nothing to it, andit just magic crows in your yard.
That's because that everything that gets bugsdies, like, so you watch what
you're plant and you have to worryabout the only problem you might have is
bagworms occasionally. Oh yeah, butit's really not too serious on this planet.

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I just don't think you'll like themthat well. Yeah, okay,
so it does have these little fruitsthat hang down almost about half the size
of a golf ball and about thehardest one too. But anyway, so
the both cypress is a good treeto have. I like the texture of
this plant. I kind of likethe dramatic weeping habit to it also,

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so it makes a good specimen interestplant kind of far away into landscape or
maybe in the front water or something. It does very well too. You
have to go a good fifteen twentyfeet away from the house, don't you.
Oh yeah, at least yes,And I make sure that if you're
putting an irrigation system into put inbefore you put the plots. Unfortunately,
though, this is a physiologically inclinedto have a shallow resistem okay, and

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it can be very tough to cutthrough it. So yeah, but I
like it good. Or it's adisease resistance, insect resistance and all that.
So it's it's a good tree tohave in the yard. In its
in its place, it should beeasily twenty feet away from the house and
away from concrete structures because it becausethe d system is shallow and it will

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buckle concrete up the tree from minersone about five feet away from the sidewalk,
and you know, don't don't walkthere at night. You have fallen.
You don't need So if it's inthe right place, it could be
it. I'd like to put itoff in the distance maybe as a as
a vertical element in the landscape becauseit is quite nice, but up close

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it's just almost intolerable, really,I think. But it is a tough
plant. It's a it's an insectresistant, very disease resistant, and the
cypress will it is known for notdecomposing very easily too, So it's a
really good plant to have in thelandscape for that. No bugs, no
bugs, I like that part.But just keep it away from structures,

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keep it away from plumbing and stufflike that, and it'll do fine.
Okay. So there are several variationsof this. There's a pond cypress,
which I think is a very attractivetree. And like I said, the
weaving cypress isn't good when there's amore calmer grown variety, et cetera,
et cetera. So they've had somefun breeding that thing to what it is.
So they're a good plant to havereally. And annual leik is the

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dragon wing Bagonia. We've sold aton of dragon wings, as the name
applies to leave, which is notlike a dragons, they're dragon wing.
Yeah, it's it's a large plant. The leaves get almost as big as
your hand, and the flowers arelarger too, and I've got some of
this at home and baskets. They'redoing very well, you display nicely,

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yeah, very Actually they're very easierto grow in someone and uh and in
big pots to do real nicely too. There's miner on a little drip thing,
so you got people little drip thingsall over. I don't have time
to water the stuff. Every busy, take care of everybody else exactly,
so it drips out a little bitof water every once in a while.

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That's fine. Yeah, anyway,you're very I'm very pleased with their performance
in a in a pot too.And they have lots of large, you
know, large flowers for bagonias orand a very lush green leaves or a
shiny glossy leaves. And the moresun the redder the leaves are too.
They turn kind of a reddish colorin the sun. They're two types to

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a green leaf one and a redleaf one, but in a pretty fair
amount of sun they're both gonna bered or reddish if you will. It
kind of adds to the interest too. I like to associate this, uh,
these with something fine like copa ina pot, but copa is a
very small leaf, very small floweredannual that kind of hangs over the edge,

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and the textual contrasts give Lind someinterest to it too, and Dressina
spikes do well with it too,and colias the sun Colias will tower above
it and have this kind of twolayer of thing, so it's kind of
cool, nice composition. So anyway, the dragon move is one of my
favorites. Annuals are concerned, andI'm use them. I didn't plan out

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any outside this year. The groundwas just too dry in the spring.
I kind of predicted this, youknow, sort of guess that we're gonna
have a dry summer. I didn'tcorrect. I didn't plant much of anything
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the Green Country Gardener program right hereon your favorite radio station. We've got
a call here, Larry. Let'sgo ahead and thank good morning. You're
on with the Green Country Gardener.Your question or your comment please, well,
good morning, good morning. I'veenjoyed some success with my tomatoes this

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year. Good show. You youknow there's a lot coming on this Yeah,
they got got a lot of tomatoeson it on this one plant.
And I picked one, uh startingto turn pink. I thought about get
it before the birds packet and theyuh, but you know what I mean.

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And the rest of the tomatoes arestill sitting there green. They're beautiful
tomatoes, they're shiny, and they'rethey're but they're drinking. Is that common
or is that? Is there somethingI need to do to encourage the little
fellas to come along. I'm havingthe same problem with mine. They're just
stay green forever. And then allof a sudden I picked uh golly about

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twelve of them last night. Okay, so finally turned red. Yeah,
well it was. It was.I usually have a hard time just kidding
tomatoes, and this was I thought, oh wow, this is this is
great stuff. They just didn't neverforever to turn red and finally, okay,

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I'm going to turn red. Soyeah, okay, Well, so
so patience is a virtue. Inother words, I would say, yeah,
and if you're having problem with critterseating on them, just as soon
as they start to pinking up likethat, you might want to go ahead
and pick them. Yeah. Ihave learned that trick for sure, But
I'll do that right now. Well, thanks for they encouraged, but I'll

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just uh, I'll just go Doyou have a good layer of mulchion underneath
them? Yes? Yes, Icame and got some of your cotton burr
mulch and uh, and put onthere and that helps. That helped.
Conservative you want it. You wanta good constant moisture level underneath I underneath
it to meet is as much aspossible given the circumstances exactly. Yeah.

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Yeah, it can vary back,but you don't you don't want a sudden
change, no a little bit.Yeah yeah, okay, well great,
thank you so much. Birthday.All right, thanks for calling already and
you can be next up at oneeight hundreds up before nine five nine three
six Larry. Oh okay, Collie, what are we going to talk about?
Oh? Uh, Chase tree.Yeah. The Chase tree, or

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the bi tech Castus agnus, isa considered a large shrub. There are
some varieties that little get so large, which we have some got a plant
one this week, But anyway itgrows. It can't grow up to up
to twelve feet tall. It's indigenousappearance wise, really, and it's native
to the Mediterranean and southern Europe.It orishes on moist river banks, but

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it's easily grown as an ornamental plantin the garden. It blooms with pretty
blue violet flowers in midsummer. Ido like the colors, kind of nice
on it too. The Greeks andRomans us this plant to encourage chastity is
how it gets the name. Okay, and I thought of it as capable
of warding off evil. It's atough drought tolerant shrub. The flowers attract

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butterflies. It likes full sun,good drainage, and does best in good
to average soil. Good luck here, yeah, average soil here. Like
a rock. It can freeze backin the winter, but recovers miicly.
Uh. It kind of like crepemyrtles. Do We planted one at a
at a bank project. We did, and the spring of the oh my

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gosh, I think it's dead.The three of them we planted. Oh
no, but it's out right nowblooming really quite nice. Great, So
it recovered from that. So reallyon the on the on the south side
or the west side of the house, that will do just fine. But
it doesn't really like to dry outtoo much. But it didn't again,
just like it whip a little ficklething, is it. Yeah? But

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but I think once he gets establishedto do this fine. So the chase
streak. Consider that as a specimentype interest plant. Give it room to
grow so and attract the butterflies andivan birds and whatnot. So it's a
good plant to have around. Reallyblooms starting to bloom right now too,
then a good plant. So whereare we now on this thing? We

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were going to talk about the goaliebagworms again? Why golly, like you
said you've spotted a few, Youpicked a few off a few plants.
Yeah, so bagworms feed on awide variety of trees and shrubs, primarily
a pest on arbor vita and easternred cedar as we know, and actually
Japanese maples too. Yeah, they'lleat your Japanese maple a wide. So

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so you really gotta watch them.Look real close at this point, they're
real small, and look for onJapanese maples or other trees, deciduous trees
like that, look for sections ofthe leaves that have been eaten out,
and then look underneath it. There'llbe this little thing hanging down, the
bagworm. So right now at myhouse, I just kind of pick them

(34:58):
off as I see them. Yeah, be going yeah, please squeeze,
squeeze it like but anyway, andgive it a squish, throw it away.
So they also tackle blue spruce too. They love blue spruce and these
little globe spruce people have come inone day, let's find the next day

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it's it's half gone. And it'salso characterized by needles kind of dangling down
to a little bit. And thenyou'll see the little bagworms in there too,
if you're the culprite. Yeah,so watch them right now, and
that's a good time to control them. And I do like the BT.
The Captain Jack's Dead Bug works fromthese two also, but the BT works
well on the too any any notany, But insects in the larval stage

(35:45):
like that are susceptible to the bestsellers turn genasis. So if you're on
a silk farm, growing silk ona silk farm, don't use it.
Okay, I'll remember that next timeI get some new anchorage. Yeah,
backgrounds have one generation per year andprocess an entire area really where they grow

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and all that. So the mothis a kind of nondescriptive looking little thing.
It's not a very trial like afly with oversized wings. So it's
a big pest we have here,all right. We gotto the call real
quick and we said go to thephone lines here. Good morning, and
welcome to the Green Country. Gardenerprogram, your question or comment for Larry

(36:30):
good Morning, get a question aboutit. I think it's a Dallas grass
or crab grass. Yeah, that'swhat you kill that out. Use a
water hammer, you said, clammer, clam dig them up for clammer.
I did an experiment in my houseand use a very uh a very uh

(36:52):
a targeted stream of round up andit got the crab grass. But it
also made kind of a dead spotin the permunra. But it'll come back,
so uh yeah, just a preemergent is the basic way to control
that. And that that happens inuh March April, right, what about

(37:13):
right now? Like I use MSMAand yeah, really not heavy enough or
something, but maybe I'm not mixingit right. But well, as as
the crab grass matures, it becomesless susceptible to these things, to the
MSMA and the other the other otherones that are used for crab grass.
So as time goes on, it'sjust it's the control is more difficult and

(37:35):
more ineffective. Right, So youprobably missed the boat. I know I
have because mine starting to go toseed here and there, so I might
have missed a boat online too.But but that's that's the deal with that.
It gets tougher as it gets older. Yeah, difficult to control.
Yeah, I found out, likeyou said, the only thing that controls
it when he gets older is roundup. So yeah, but I'm going

(37:57):
to try another experiment tomorrow using ita little piece of play too, and
spray it through that pipe so itdoesn't statter anywhere specifically on the plant,
and see how that works too,Right, Okay, all right, I
appreciate your time. All right,thanks for calling round up through a straw.
Huh, Well, through a littlethere and take that and then then

(38:23):
it drips on the grass and yousee this little death pot. Well,
you know you're trying, man,crying man, Like my yard is a
laboratory. We're gonna dig a break. We'll be right back after this two
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right expert with your question or commentat one eight hundred and seven four nine
five nine three six Cone flowers,yes, or I canitiate. There nine
kinds of ecknitiate that grow in thiscountry, the most common being a can

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Issia propria Papa, it's Latin.It doesn't matter how you say it.
It's an un spoken language. Butanyway, is that a flower that smells?
Well, it's purple? Okaypri okay, got you said popouri Latin pa?
All right, No, that's apurple cone flower. Okay. And

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there are other colors in this twonow all right, yeah, I'm paying
attention back. We had mustard andcatch up a series of canasiate. I
don't know if it's eleven. It'suh known as the purple cone flower.
This plant is part of the sunflowerslash daisy family. It's easy grow from
North America. It's definitely American.It's a North American native wildflower too.

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It's an excellent addition to any garden. The plants are long lived and have
a long blooming period from pretty tosixty days a pretty good mpernial plant.
They did do for a long periodof time. They're starting to come into
the bloom right now, and theygrow in a variety of conditions too.
So long as it's well drained andfairly warm and sunny and all that to
do fine. And the flowers areabout three to four inches and they have

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the native one has lavender kind offlower to do this, the kind of
droop, a little bit of thepetals sort of hang down this and a
cone shaped brown center. Okay,it's excellent for borders and it makes a
good good cut flower. But Ilike to use these because they're so carefree
and easy to grow, and theygrow just about anywhere here in Oklahoma indigenous

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species. So you see him inone used to well, yeah, you
used to see him on the roadsides or the road side. But they
used to the roots for Oh Iforgot what they use the roots for,
but anyway, there would be combeflowers were dug up and used for the
root. The root system had thechemical limit. What was that the user

(43:22):
for supplements, don't they? Yeah? I think so supplements supplements. Yeah,
yeah. Anyway, it's it's easyto grow, very durable plant and
very attractive and easy to grow.It can really kind of spread out too,
so it does seat itself real wellas well. Okay, so multiplies
nicely. And the butterflies love thisplant and hummingbirds. They all really liked

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this plant. So if you wantcompany in your backyard, plant is yeah,
really, yeah, I have somehammerers and hi guys, Hey,
here we go. Anyway, Ido like the comb flower. And there's
several sizes. Actually you don't allall of them are the big ones are
some orbits too, there are huh. So it's very easy to grow plant,

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very petch resistant, and the beeflike it. Butterflies and like it.
So it's a good plan to haveits easy, easy to grow native
to Oklahoma. How many times canwe say that about the plant? Sometimes
we like to look at but sometimeswe well that in Johnson grouse, well,
yeah that'll work. And hackberry trees, yeah, you can grow a

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hackberry tree without trying real hard.Let the birds do the The roses actually
are doing. They're kind of asleep right now when it's hot. But
I don't see a lot of problemswith black spot on the roses really because
the temperature is such that it doesn'twork too well on them. So enjoy
them when they do bloom. Andwhen you do water your roses, be
sure to water them in the morning. Okay, first of all, so

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the leaves will dry out a littlebit. Secondarily, if you're water with
the hose in the afternoon, thewater is hot coming out of the hose
and it'll it'll cause some problems.So sure the water is cool. Some
people that'll leave the hose out yourplan. Leave the hose out on the
ground. Oh that's Wilton. Theyturn the water on the up. You
killed it. Now you can boileggs with that water, and it does

(45:13):
cause problems with the tree. Soyou want to wear the plants. So
you want to make sure the wateris cool. So you let it run
out on the driveway for a littlebit or something. As it cracks the
cement, it'll put it in abucket. Let it cool for later too.
What's a good idea. Yeah,I'm thinking about conservation here, put
you know, buckets in your bathtub. I'm gonna stick buckets out there from

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I did that. I did that. It didn't experiment two ways. On
the shower. I used a bucketand today I harvested five gallons of water
and one thing and another one.I plugged up the shower. We had
this big shower or okay, andit put a just a buttertop lid on
it. Then it took a pumpand sucked it out but it bucket,

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and then put the pump in thebucket and water my elephant ears with it.
Oh, here you go. Soit worked pretty well. Got the
cleanest elephant ears in town. Igot it, I tell you anyway.
So which worked better? The swabthe palm malip? When you got that?
You know, soap water? Iuse Irish spring. Oh well,
there you go, soap and prela. The surfactant inner actually helps the water.

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So yeah, And the elephantors don'tcare, No, they really don't
care. Here I'm helping you.I'm giving a little sfacted here. Really,
yeah, elephanting here. You thinkthey'd never forget, but all they
do. Anyway. It's getting thirtydays away from turn of time, so
come by the nursery and see whatwe have at the nursery. We've got

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just tons of annuals and primials andsome shrubs and some things on sale,
and lots of color out there.And golly, Tom, it's once again
that time to keep your shovel sharp. We will see you next week,
all right, You have a greatfourth July. Larry will catch you next
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