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Good morning, and welcome to theGreen Country Gardener Program. The Green Country
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First Bank. Green Country Gardener oneAM fourteen hundred FM ninety three point three
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morning, Welcome, welcome, welcome. I'm Tom Davis, are our

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guru for the garden. Larry Glassis here with us today and again a
good Saturday morning to you. It'sbeen a long, hard week and been
kind of hot. Oh yes,there's there's uh. You'll have to pardon
my slowness today. There's not muchof meat left. You kind of beat
up by it all. I thinkI evaporated. Hey time, Kelly.
I read your stories on the radio'sweb page. You're doing good work well,

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Thank you, thank you much,thank you very much. Really we
got talent. I thought I hadtalent. This guy's got talent. Like
your brother's one who plays the banshohere I play other obnoxious music. But
he's the start of the music show. Hey, i'll tell you what.
We got a call already. It'sa good for that right now. Hi,

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good morning, and welcome to theGreen Country Gardener Program. You're on
the air with Larry. Good morning, Good morning. I was calling to
advertising Rod Sell today. Well,we do that after at nine o'clock and
when we do the consumer calls,this is the Green Country Gardener Program.
So if you'll call back in aboutan hour, we'll get that for you.

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Thank you very much. I knowwhy anybody want to sell their garage.
Yeah, those garages as you wantto put the car in the girl,
Yeah, keep that in there,sell it, keep your car there
we go, Thank you. Iwas screening, by the way, guys,
nice phone screening. It is here. It is the end of August,

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and it's typically when the seasons thatwill change. It's gonna be what
a thousand degrees today and maybe fourhundred tomorrow, been down to maybe eighty
something. Yeah, that's a littlebit of a chance of rain, which
is going to be a welcome edition. Oh sure, if but looking at
the grass out there. It's niceand green, Mike. You know,

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as hot as it. Mine grewlike exponentially. I haven't, I have
not, I have yet. Thewater my long this year. Yeah,
and it's growing like crazy. Yeah. I gotta get her done tomorrow.
Yeah, I gotta get it donetomorrow when it cools off a little bit.
Yeah, and you know, getthere, get it looks starting to
look like a hate field. I'llbe out there with my thirty year old
Snapper moor. Just we got thatsun right, yeah I did. Actually

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I had to repair the drive onit, a little verry war out on.
You know, poor guy, it'swhat thirty years old? You say
it works great? You know whatgreat? Let me expense It's just it
starts on the first pole and listen, just nothing wrong with it. Just
a little little slightly in the paintdepartment. So who cares abows the grass

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is not out there for a beauty. Content can't paint. Let's have a
paint party. When it cools down, we paint the Snapper. We can
do raise money for charity. Anyway. We got new stuff ordered. I
looked at the bookings yesterday and weget all kinds of new stuff coming and

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new trees and shrubs. We'll talkabout some of the trees we have coming
in later on the show, butanyway, we're excited about the fall line
up and stuff coming in. There'sa new bucks wooden. It's not too
new, but it's relative new newcalled Emerald No Emerald, no knol Emerald
No. It only gets about afoot tall with no efforts days small.

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Yeah, they've been real hard toget though. Really we had a few
of them that planet him for acustomer and I looked at him the last
fall actually and they were still justnice little little shrugs. Did you get
too big? So that's just oneexample a little level of the shrub and
some fall colors coming into But anyway, we're excited about that. It's on
the way. We got some treeson sale right now. And uh,

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we're having a few problems with bugsare in there. They think caterpillars occasionally
here and there, and moles abit of a round page. It might
be a little kind of wondering howhas it been, how how does the
mold take it? But well,we had a lot of rain before.
They're not having good luck in myyard because they just can't they can't do

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it. It's under the rocks there, but the soil as hard as the
rocky break. But I do runthe dripped systems though water my shrubs.
So okay. But anyway, itwill soon be time for fescue seed too,
beautiful fescue fescue grass yep. Fescuegrass traditionally is a is a cool

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season grass, and that the mostpeople associated with having to grow in the
shade. But it is what wecall it shade tolerant. In other words,
it tolerates a little bit of shade, so you can do well under
some trees. You do want to, even even with fetch your grass,
you do want some dappled light onyour tree. Dappled life meaning your body.

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Yeah yeah, leopard light underneath it. So you you want to make
sure you have some light underneath andalso offer it to do well in the
sun, it has to be fairlytall in the summer. Don't don't give
her that close scalp. No.A lot of people have killed their fescue
lawns from willing them too short,murder by mowing and also watering your watering

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practices. You got to be verycareful with that. So they don't get
five top four you five top fouryou is a fungus disease. It closes
a collapse of the vascular system andthe plant. Then they just die.
And it I wanted it, youknow, you wanted it to dat.
Yeah, you go to people's yards. It's like a wet tennis shoe.
What's going on here? But anyway, so you do want to have a

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drying period between watering on your peskygrass. Don't don't water it constantly,
So saying kind of the same thinggoes with the seed. After it gets
established and starts to come up,you can back off on the watering a
little bit and back off a littlebit to where there's a when the roots
get down into the ground that it'llhave a little bit of a drying period.

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So I think we learned a lessonthis summer. With the reservoir gurgling
a bit, we can still conservewater and have healthy plants. There.
You go, don't overdo it,don't go anyway, that's happening now.
Ye hydranges, Uh, we'll beginto bloom a little bit when it cools.

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I was at Alice this year whereshe actually had a very healthy looking
hydrange and then we planted some ofthe landscape project and they just shriveled up
into you know, I said,well, we'll get some new ones.
Fault. They're so hard to establishin the heat. So so the hydranges
will be making a bit of acomeback too, so that's pretty cool too.

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Don't fertilize them, however, youdon't want to emphasize too much nitrogen
fertilizer on your hydranges. You geta lot of green girls and not very
many blooms, and a lot oftimes, I know, when you're fertilizing
or lawn, it's it's inevitable thatsome of that aloni and n traders ureea,
whatever you're using, we'll get intothere and they'll grow and they'll look

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like you know, redwood trees andheavy blooms. So they so you want
to kind of give them to somephosphorus and also a good heavy layer of
multich helps too for them to besuccessfully constant moisture content. It's really neat
and highly organic soil. Now withsome of the newer varieties of Hydrangeus,

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the bobo and even the oak leafhydrantic, you can back off a little
bit on that extra deal of preparationjust because they're not so demanding as the
PG the big, the big,big, these blossoms the size of you
know yeah spare tires. Yeah,they're not the big I got do require
a little bit of care. Alsogoing on the garden right now, the

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the grat myrtles, you want tocut back, they'll spin blooms. We
still have it here. It isstill August, barely, but the days
are long enough to where it willbloom again. That that's the promise.
Primary stimulus for them to bloom isthe length of the day. Yeah,
so they will go ahead and perhapsbloom again a bit more if they were

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to be cut back. Good.We had one at the nurse ry that
was looking pretty good. Then somebodyforgot to water at But so we applied
a lot of water to it thislast week and it's actually starting to bloom
again. Good. So so they'rethey're very resilient plants, very forgiving.
But they the chances are they willbloom again if if they are cut back,

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good, not significantly. They've cutit back too far. You just
you just get a lot of topgo of just just the bloom. The
little tree on the on the veryend where the blooms are. Let's cut
that off. That'll help them too. They don't like a whole lot of
water, so which is a goodthing for here. But you do want
them to be pretty well watered goinginto the winter because typically the winter is

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our driest part of the year.So the addition of mulch to the surpoce
will help moderate the water loss aroundyour great myrtles and help moderate the temperature
too, so they'll have a betterchance of standing the cold weather. Speaking
of old molts, we've got agreat, big, old semi truck full
of some of the nicest looking cedarmolts I have seen in years. And

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you've seen a lot, I guess, so whatever molts clean here, whatever,
But anyway, it's really nice lookingstuff, and it's bulk and it
smells good too. That's good.It's a cedar molts and it'll really freshen

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up the garden to get something ofthat. And we've got a big old
truck with a dup bed on it. We can bring it out to your
driveway on a tarp or you canbring a tarp or have a tarp ready,
and we can give it a tiltand that's really the best way to
get the molt is in bulk likethat. Great, and it's really really
really nice stuff. So I waspleasantly surprised when the truck pulled up.

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This is and they have a livebed what they call a live bed.
Yeah, and they have these skins. It alternate when of them goes back
and it stops another one, sothe stuff just kind of comes out.
Yeah, so it kind of conveysout it like that. That's pretty cool.
Yeah, it works. But anyway, that's that's kind of new with

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the nursery too. Let's say wetalked about crape myrtles and hydrangeus boxwoods right
now, watcher might also look atthe color of the leaves on it.
They're not a really green green color. Perhaps they're not getting enough water.
If they're a newly planted boxwood andit looks a little olive green color,

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it's just probably from all the heat. It's just going through a bit of
a tantrum, and when the weathercools out, it'll it'll be Okay.
The important thing is not to overwater them. Okay, that's the worst
thing you can do with a plantthat's kind of stressed out. Oh,
I'll just give her more water.That's the stock solution, but it's not
always the best one. So ifyou have some and I've had this at

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my house too, some of theboxwoods will turn an olive green color.
Snap out of it when it coolsdown, and do you just fine?
So look at them that also lookalso looked very very close to the leaves,
and look for mike mites are realtiny little insects. A little piece
of paper and do that with thebrush. Let's see it with the branch,

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over the over the little little brownthings. And after getting totally grossed
out, you go take a coolpart of the day when you can take
some about a twenty five to oneratio on don soap to water and it'll
smother them out pretty good. Yeah, take care of just like that,
and you smell pretty I did thatto mine a couple of weeks ago,

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and they kind of perked up alittle bit. I bet they did.
The mits not so much, butthe plants did. I mean, the
color was improved. I guess maybeit washed all the dust off of you
did get a little bit of that. Tell you why we're gonna take a
little bit of a break. Willbe back with more up your calls at
one eight hundred and seven four ninefive nine three six with Larry Glass and

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you to get a hold of Larrywith your question to comment about your lawn
or your garden is one eight hundredseven four nine five nine three six Larry,
Right, look at your azelius.Two. I really haven't seen a
lot of lacebug damages this year.That's good, which is a good thing,
I guess. But anyway, thefall blooming azelius are loving, are

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gonna really love this cooler weather.We've got some in the shade house at
the nursery and they got a lotof buds on him. So when he
gets down below two thousand degree they'llprobably put on a few blooms here and
there. And typically if we dohave a good change of weather like that
and a more reasonable cool weather getafter a time. Come on, well

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you got on the buttons, youcan make it cooler. Oh yeah yeah,
put this one right here. Bay. All right, there we go.
Well we'll see what happens. Mightkick twenty four hours so Okay,
cool, I'll give you the creditfor being in the eighties. On Sunday
Saturday, we'll talk to the powersof beat who had been at the button.

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So anyways, so the fall bloomingis used, will be a bloom
here real soon, and they're settingtheir buds and all that too. So
we do have some of the eyesfor sale also, And there's a bit
of a procedure when planting them too, so and a lot of people kind
of cut back on this a littlebit. They do. Yeah, you

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really need to be lavish with yourpeat moths. About one cubic peat moss
per plant. Oh okay, yeah, So it's usually when we go out
and yeah and throw a whole bunchof peat moss in the truck, big
whole bunch of a jellius and someof that good old stinky molds there you
go, now grow. Yeah,and they actually do. But they need

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to be planted at the top ofthe hill or on the hill, but
not at the bottom of the hill. You don't want him get washed out.
They well, they get the soilwashers over them and they do like
a little bit of it. Maybeit'll not too dry, but it's on
some drying period between waterings too.They rode pretty easily, so they need
to be in an area that's welldrained. In other words, so try
to try to put them. Whenyou're putting them next to the house,

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make sure that the soil levels addedor slightly about the sidewalk mounded up,
if you will, because when thepeat moss in which there planted will slowly
kind of shrink. Im anyway,and be prepared to add some peat moss
at some time. It does decomposewashers away and animals use it for nesting
and so on, so multi purpose, yeah, good stuff. Yeah,

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but anyway, so you'll want tobe prepared to add peat moss to yea.
And really when you do plant them, we saturate. We either dig
a hole in the ground the biggerround big rounds of bushel bathroom, fill
a full of peat moth and thenuse a garden hose with a surfactant injected

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into it. And that's actually usethe form of dish soap, so it
makes and the peat moss takes onwater roll all that way. So and
we did that because the surfactant givesthe water a positive charge. Inherently it
has a negative charge to it,so it does the peat moss and it

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makes it difficult to blend. Andwe tell people that it's I don't have
to do that. They put themin dry peat moss and flandskipe Bay.
Attention to someone whould still want tomake sure the peatmal house is faturated.
Actually when they dig it up outof the peat bogs, it's it's really
quite wet, huh. And butthey have to dry it out before they

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pack it into these veils. Surejust for shipping, you know, costs
because it's way up in Canada.They don't want to ship water down here,
so they dry it out. Canadadry exactly. As far as fertilizing
aselias, uh, it's too latefor that right now. You really don't
want to spur a lot of growthon them, especially the spring blooming ones,

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because the blooms are set already onthe azelius so they're ready for the
next spring. So you just justkeep them watered really well and all that.
And if the leaves are a littleyellowish and colors, that's either the
heat or if the leaves are gettingsmaller as time goes on. Your your
pH it's too high, so youmight want to add a little iron sulfade

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to them or loomonum sualtade. Becareful with when sulfate is pretty stout,
but it's iron. Sulfate is alittle slower, but it will stain your
sidewalks pretty color too and light orange. But anyway, you put some hydrated
lyme on it and it makes itvery interesting modeling weather anyway. Yeah,
so chemicals, chemistry or whatever,So you know what you do want to

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Yeah, but you just take careof business, pay attention to mixing instructions
and you'll be fine. Yeah,you do want to saturate the petemas first.
And yeah, oh the pH wewere talking about, Yeah, that's
right. Yeah, look at theleaf size and if they're getting smaller,
that's an indication. There's kind ofthe same thing holds true with holly's too.
Yeah, and a lot of partsof town that the pH is is
relatively high. Yeah, because peoplelive on limestone bluffs former limestone bluffs,

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and it kind of goes with theterritory cam cascium carbonate and so on,
and so you do want to watchthe leaf size. And in hollies,
typically, say a Berford holly isone that seems to be susceptible to a
pH in balance, the leaf willget noticeably noticeably smaller, yellow in color,

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and have start to get black spotson it. You know the black
spots served it's a fundus disease resultsfrom the plant's lack of health. So
if you do alter the pH youdon't want to do it suddenly there's a
big change like that. It's nothealthy for the plants. It can actually
kill it. So bring it upkind of slowly. When you do add

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the iron. Iron iron sulfate isprobably one of the easiest ones you use.
It didn't hurt the plants that much. But if you if you use
aluminium sulfe, it's pretty hot stuff. So yeah, read the instructions.
Ground the ground sizzles, Yeah,like it's not siling it up already.
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to our Green Country Gardener Program,and our phone line is open at one
eight hundred seven four nine five ninethree six to talk to Larry, our
garden guru. All right here onGreen Country Gardener Program, Larry Glass,
would we have next door roses?We'll talk a little bit about rose.
Yeah, we did, and they'rethey're kind of kind of hanging out right
now. They're not doing a wholelot of kind of wil thing, but

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my knockot roses popping on a fewflowers. Yeah, they still have some
alive on the north on the northside of the house. You know what,
They're probably gonna pop a little moreafter we get some ring, I'm
gonna go they're gonna get solid.Really yeah. I cut them down about
this time every year, you do, okay, yeah, and then they
I used it. Wait till theThanksgiving me everybody's asleep, you know,

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Well that's the time too. Butanyway for them to what's happen is when
the weather changes until it's not,they'll they'll flush, they'll put on more
blooms. Yeah. So if they'recut back about this time, you'll happen.
How do you want to cut thoseback at this time? Hello?
Can you go? Oh? Giveit a flat cop baby, probably about
knee high or so high than thebranch out. I just had to look

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at them individually, and it soundslike I got something to do on Sunday
then. Yeah. But anyway,so they can be cut back right now.
Also, also, one thing Idon't recommend this to everybody, but
I've done this to my yard inthe past is a scalping that seems to
be a pearl forgot of a controversialsubject. Yeah, yeah, when the

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scalp, when not the scalp?I'm telling you, I get the feeling
that this late in August, aswe head into September, A good scalp
this time of year might be inorder. Well, it will freshen the
rumina grass. Little mine looks itdoesn't look that bad. There's one section
of the yard where there's a lotof shallow rock and it's having some difficulty,
but everywhere else it's doing pretty good. And crab grass. I was

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just loving this weather. I mean, isn't it though, setting up looking
like a wheat field out. Yeah, so you could if you really wanting
to take a lot of effort inthis heat and all that. I wouldn't
really want to do it. I'mnot going to do it this year because
of that. But anyway, I'vedone in the past and it rather actually
makes for a very nice looking fescuelawn bermuna grass lawn in the fall.

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So but it is somewhat laborious,and if we do have an extraordinary cold
winter, it could call some issuestoo. So it's a bit of a
gamble. So I've heard some peoplesay, yeah, it scout my Bermuda
lawn, you know, every AugustSeptember, but you don't have to do
it. But this is a strangeyear weatherwise, because we got all the

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wet stuff in July and August.We didn't you have anything in May and
June. But it's some I alwaysearlier it seemed like the grass was just
not going to be growing too muchin September, and you might get away
with one moment in September and you'redone till February. Anyway, on the
permiter grass, this is the lastuh nitrogen fertile fertilization to put down.

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Okay, in the middle of nextmonth, you put down say at ten
twenty ten phosphorus or something to tryto get some good stem and stolen growth
on it, and so it'll it'lltolerate the winter a lot. Better give
it some strang. Yeah, youwant it to slow down a little bit
because there is a disease called springdead spot something fighting doesn't It occurs a

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lot in clay soils, it does. So you want to harden up the
grass a little bit too. Andthe yeah that ten twenty ten, we'll
get it. We'll give you thephosphorus you need to help it make it
through the winter. So that's kindof it with premier grass. Really uh

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fescue grass, you want to notreally fertile is it quite yet? But
when it begins to cool down,when we have some consistent cool weather,
that's when it's time to restart yourfertilization program on your pescue grass. And
then as time progressive, you cancut it a little bit lower. It
doesn't have to transpire as much tokeep itself alive if it's you know,

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if it's if it's short and cooland cool. Yeah, So anyway,
so much for lawns on your trees. Right now you can trim back a
little bit. Now, look forboar damage, fertilize the trees. I
know my fruit trees needs a littlebit of some mechanical trimming on them.
So they need to mechanical meeting somecrossing woods and some imbalance here and there.

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So I'll probably be out there maybenext weekend when it's not four thousand
degrees outside, to to trim outthe fruit trees a little bit. And
I noticed some board problems to onthe fruit trees and also the trees in
general. Had a customer called andaffect at nine o'clock at night. What
was the bark peeling off my trees? You got boards? Yeah, we

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got something for it. Yeah,come by the nursery and ask for something
for boards and we'll give it toyou. Yeah. It's a systemic called
a medical oprid. It's yeah,pretty effective on it. If you do
have a big problem, you mightwant to do a a topical application of
Captain Jack's Dead Bug. You justgotta buy it for the name, folks.
Really it does work and works well, but for the name, just

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because you know that's cool. That'sthat spins as we discussed that in the
past. Yeah, the origin ofit. So yeah, and also going
into fallow people are wanting landscape plansand as it gets a little cooler,
I'll have more time to actually getsome of them done. Right now,
I'm just kind of trying to getcaught up and all this hot weather rolling

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saw it in the heat of theday. Yeah. Fun anyway, so
we do offer, sir whish way, we give you a plan and let's
kind of let you know what whatcan happen. And when you see it
ahead like that, it does helptoo. I've got a presentation to do
somebody, probably maybe in this afternoonor Monday, where we do a three
D thing. They want to dosome screening trees and you want to be

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able to from from different points beable to see what happens in the backyard
with the screening plants. So that'sit's kind of clean three D presentation.
Do have a virtual walkthrough on it, and h this is particular program.
It allows you to add topography toit also nice, so the when you're

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doing when you do the walkthrough it, our stud elevates so over there and
let you look out over so youset the height at eye level on it
and you can kind of cruise around. Let's see. Well, goodness that
that's pretty clever. Plants and allthat. Yeah, so that's kind of
fun too. Yeah, So wedo, and I call them the three

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D plans basically model the house andthe landscape around it. So I'm joining
one for somebody right now and scriptook Lake. They're remodeling their house.
So the really the house is theredoesn't really exist, so god it so
having to make some assumptions based onthe existing topography and all that, how
it's going to work. So it'sturning out pretty good. It's well great

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good. So anyway, in additionto that, though, you might consider
irrigation and so on. As Iwas leaving for work one day at six
o'clock in the morning. I sawone of my systems running up the road.
And we put that one in inthe late eighties. It's still popping
off, still working. Oh mygosh. So, yeah, you do

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want to do a little bit ofoverdesign on your on your irrigation system,
because there are time periods when thewater pressure really is isn't as great as
it could be, and we experienceto that. In fact, this week
I noticed the water level pressure wentup a little bit too, a little
bit and the system we're finished upnow because it was when we put it

(32:09):
in we had to renozzle because ofthe lack of pressure. But now the
pressure is gone back up. SoI guess we got plenty of water and
they raise it up or something.I don't know what it is, but
anyway, it's working great now.Now you're just showing me off. But
this is clever. He can hecan put on his phone and turn it
to a certain page on his phoneand you can see who's waters. Yeah,

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the system was working, and who'sturned off and everything else like that.
Pretty dark and cool. Yeah,And I can program timers and stuff
from from the phone. I've gotseveral customers I help out with there with
that programming. Now it doesn't havea picture of your yard. It just
got this picture of this sprinkler systemshooting water up and that's it. It's
a dude. You can do that. You can I know, you can

(32:51):
know a life picture, but youcan have a picture of it. You
can have a picture. But thisjust has a little nozzle y sprinkling rain
all over people's yards. Looks prettycool. So anyway, all right,
we're gonna take another little quick breakand we're going to be back with more
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back, Welcome back, and sendthe Green Country Gardener program and we've got
your questions and comments for Larry atone eight hundred and seven four nine five
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are we here on the agenda?Okay, we talked about irrigation. Oh
yeah, and light lighting at night. It's a pretty popular thing too,
lighting at night, little foot lightsand things like that. There's a bit
of engineering involved that too. Wedid imagine that. We did one system
this year and we had to dohad to run duplicate wires for the distance.

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Yeah, they just had to becareful with polarity. Okay, I
can get you into trouble power boom, you got fireworks of light. But
anyway, the light pictures themselves canbe can be a good thing, or
they can be a bad thing.Let's keep them a good thing. We're

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going everybody's kind of going with LEDsanymore. We're sure fine. They last
for a long last a long time. They don't use as much power.
But the material from which the ofwhich the lighting pictures are made can make
a big difference too. There's acopper, which is pretty good stuff,
and brass I like, I likethe brass ones. Aluminum. You want

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to avoid that, please, yeah, because you get a lot of times
with aluminum. The screws they useon it are different metal, and you
get the electrolysis in this middle.The illuminum turns and turns into turns into
powder. Base stains. Steel isa good one. Also, glass forever,
but make sure that the screws arestainless steel and steel. Also,

(37:15):
when you get those houses and thelenses on them should be glass and they
can be sealed with the silicone.But we put in an old brass one.
It's things heavy, it's extraordinarily heavy, and it's all brass. Even
the screws on into brass. Nice. The only thing that isn't brass is

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the glass shield on it for theprotect the bulb and the silicone you used
to seal that with two and evenon the back of it, it has
a heavy plug of silicone through whichthe wire to the light goes. Bugs
can't get in. That's one thingyou got to look for. And that
happened to be at my house.We're not gonna make you got full of

(37:59):
bugs and I don't. I guessthey eat them up or something. I've
had to replaced all of my aluminumones. I'm using either stainless steel or
brass. And it might might reallyit's kind of an experimental ground for different
types of lights and things. Makesure you're screwzing, your material are consistent.
That's a good yeah, and uhyeah, you know you get one

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that's sollo got it. This wholeset is like twelve dollars. It's gotta
be good. Yeah, right,that's that's money can buy. You don't
let it rain on it, youknow, no. And the wire has
to be sized properly and the connectiontype. We did one system with all
stainless steel and glass, and theseparticular lights had a very long tether or

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a wire on them, and wedid a node system where you ran a
real heavy wire and we actually putall the stripped off a whole lot of
copper on it and sit it aroundand got a torch and soldered it together
and then snipped it, you know, to where it made an excellent connections.
Soldering and solder connections the best youcan do in love voltage. Sure,

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there's a lot of average, notmuch voltage. With a lot of
average. You have to have yougetting the good stuff without the risk,
and you have to have a reruallygood connection and then me as the waterproof
see the two. And it workedout pretty well. So I do that.
Yeah, you're amps your volts.You've got to be able to convert.
You do want to over overstate yourtime or somewhat just so it doesn't

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labor out there and hum and buzzand pop and burn the house down.
So you want to use I liketo use a minimum of six hundred and
what transform even though you're probably goingto use one hundred of it. But
it just kind of it goes downthe pathway real light and doesn't have any
problems last forever. It's not likepulling a wagon full of rocks. It

(39:54):
has an easy go of it,and it lasts a lot longer. I've
got some transformers have been out therethirty years are still working. That's great.
So you want to make sure notto overdesign those two. So,
just like irrigation systems, that hasto be engineered as well too, you
know. And you don't want tokeep your you don't want your pipeline the
lossity to go too fast. It'syour friction loss and so on. It's

(40:16):
like wiring a house. On bothof these cases, the wires had to
be a certain size to in orderto run the washing machine so they don't
overheat and burn your house down.You gotta go for optimisic kind of thing.
Yeah. So anyway, that leadsus to our tree of the Week
three of the week, which isthe Ace or Freeman I quote Autumn Blaze

(40:38):
unquote Autumn blaze maple it zone threeto eight. We're there, yeah,
we're okay here, we're six six. So they're pretty nice, comfortable,
very comfortable, fit exactly a fullsign to maybe just a touch of shade.
It gets fifty to sixty feet tall. Oh that's a tall tree,

(41:00):
big little tree room h And itspreads forty to fifty ft widespread. So
I just need one. Yeah,that'll take care of your whole yard.
Its shape is oval. It's rounded. Depending on the condition, the shallower
the soil, more rounded, it'llbe the deeper, better the soil of
the more oval. Upright, it'sgoing to be so on. Growth rate

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quite fast, about three feet ayear. And it's it's very adaptable.
It even tolerates clay clay clay soy'all and pH. It looks like a
slightly lower pH soil. But itwill tolerate others. You know, it
just won't grow. It's fast proup. It's very addractable soil moistures requirements.

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It's very adaptable. It'll tolerate droppretty well too. It's some dense
medium green porridge. It has littlereddish clusters on the female trees. Yeah,
this one is dioecious, very uncommonamongst the maple trees and fruits.
Seedless or nearly seedless on the fruit. Even the females don't have too much.

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It didn't have good luck make itseeds. But and that's a good
thing in the landscape. Really.All right, I think we got a
call here. Good morning, andwelcome to the Green Country Gardener Program.
How can we help you? Yes, I need to know my peel is
some of mine on the north fishcorner. Yeah, are still green?

(42:31):
Yeah, mine are too. Theylook pretty nice, well, flink,
Can I need to thin them out? Oh? You want to dig them
up and divide them? Right,February it's a good time for that,
okay, natural man, Yeah,right now, they're not going to grow
for a hole for quite some timeall winter, and that will allow bugs

(42:52):
and fungus and stuff to get intoit. You want, you want to
you want to be almost rapidly growingso it'll heal up quicker. Okay.
Then my day lilies, yes,can I dig some of them up?
Now? Oh, you can digthem up and throw them on the ground
and put them somewhere else. They'rehearty as a day as long. Okay.
Now, these are those asiatics thatare real pretty. Yeah. Oh

(43:15):
the asiatic lilies, No, no, no, no, those are different.
Yeah you're probably talking. I was. I thought you might have been
talking about day lilies. Right well, these are those. Well, they're
just real pretty. They're not likethose. That's just the little elew ones
that blow them all times. Okay, Yeah, these are asiatic lilies.
Once again, winter time or Februaryis a good time to divide those as

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well. Oh okay, and thenI shay the asparagus seed off my asparagus
this year, Can I just start, say in the house? Sure,
yeah, okay, tell me thebest way to do it. Well,
use a potting soil that is neutralin pH or maybe even slightly out line.

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They do like a neutral to slightlyalkaline soil. What's the sunshine and
a good warm west window, andthey should they should probably do okay,
okay, well they make the littletroopers in it. Should plant in the
ground eventually. Yes, how longdoes that take? I didn't think a

(44:20):
couple of years? Really? Ohgreat, okay, but you can still
plant them in the ground though thenext spring and they'll do it. Okay,
they'll do okay. Well, thenI'm wanting to move my asparagus a
new place. Yeah, Quinn's thebest time to do that. Winter would
be a good time. Oh yeah, dem faster they're still green. Yeah.

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At that point you can also separatethem to have more more plants eventually,
right, well mine should mind havebeen there for years and they're really
sick. Yeah, so good.You'll be able to have a big old
role of asparagus. Then, well, it's good. It's hard to pick.
As you get older, what youmight want to do in your asparagus
is not move the whole cluster orthe whole group, but move some of

(45:07):
it at a time. It's goingto be a couple of years before you
get any asparagus out of your transplants. Oh so, okay, probably save
some of the existing and migrate themslowly that way. All right, well

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and tell me what I need todo then, all right, Brank's the
best time to do them to movethe asparagush winter time once again? Okay,
everything's the winter time. Well,it's too hot now anyway, right
to keep you in the shade now, thank you, all right, thanks,
and we're gonna take a two minute, ten second time out. We'll

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For the next year, that planebarnstorm the country advertising Philip's fuel, and
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Welcome, Welcome back to the GreenCountry Gardener Program. We got one more
caller coming in here, Larry,Let's put them on the air. Hi,
Welcome, Well, I guess not, I guess so you hung up
on us. It is the GreenCountry garden and Program. And what do
we have left here on our We'retalking about fall color trees and Another one
is uh oh, brandy wine redmaple. Brandy Wine red maple is is

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a cross between october glory and autumnflame, and fall color is a brilliant
red kind of purple beginning of redand turning a brilliant red purple leash color.
That's a good lawn tree too,that one, the brandywine. It
has a very reliable fall color onit it. And there's also another seedless

(48:57):
one too, so you might considerthat all so you don't have all these
little red maples coming up over theyard. I had some landing in one
of my pots on the patio seed, and now I've got this these trees
that are six feet tall. SoI think I'll plant one, or I
don't know, maybe give it awayon the radio show. Oh there you
go, free tree, come anyway, come and get it. So anyway,

(49:22):
it is a mark nobody. Soanyway, these are the red maples,
and we all know what causes themto turn red. It's the cyanathans
that stay in the leaf and theplant forward the chlorophyll. Yeah, and
it stays in there and it callsus the red color. Anyway, there's
a lot of things are going tohappen at the nursing. Oh, we
got what we got going on torecap. We got the big old truckload.

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That's right, good smelling stuff too. I guess not many people get
excited about malts, well you do. I do a little bit. It
looks nice, good stuff, goodquality too, and that's I kind of
like that. It really helps youplay a great selection of tropical plants too.
Right now at the nursery dry binecheck that out his winner's comings and
foliage in the house and we havea good selection of trees at this point,

(50:15):
and nice Japanese maples and the fallblooming fazelius. There's something to bloom
right now too. So we gota pretty good a bunch of inventory,
and we got some new stub cominginto what I mentioned, or I'm kind
of excited about some of these plantsthat are coming in. Dwarf yelp on
hollies, which is really nice,rugged, reliable plants, things kind of
small and compact with a little help, yep, and it's very well suited

(50:38):
for this area. We planted themand they've been successful. Even after they
dry up and they come right backthere. They just don't say no.
They just keep coming back. They'repretty good plants we're getting. We'll be
getting some more dwarf and Endina's inOkay. These these kind of plants are
sort of sort of bread and butterplants. I call them bread and butter
plants in the landscape because they're they'rereally reliable and they do very well.

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Very little maintenance kind of plants too, and that's something I'll try to emphasize
on the designs. It's as lowermaintenance as possible, and these plants too.
Right, we have a good selectionof fertilizers and pre emergence and bug
sprays, stuff of your borders andwhatnot. Anyway, Tom, it's been
a good show. It's been agreat come by the newstry. We're on

(51:22):
the oh there on no water roadhalfway between this and that. Keep your
shovel sharp. We'll see you nextweek. Alrighty, policy do we get
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