GREEN COUNTRY GARDENER

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:05):
Good money. Good morning to Moning Walgo blog and welcome.
I'm now for the Green Country Gardner. A little bit
of fog right now, but you know you'll be able
to see your yard in just a little bit. And
if you have a question for Larry Glass, our genius
today Collins at nine one eight three three six fourteen hundred, Larry,
My goodness sakes, it's getting close to Christmas. We just

(00:27):
finish up with Thanksgiving and now we got this freezing fog.
That's fun.

Speaker 2 (00:32):
Oh freezing fog. How exciting of weather pattern.

Speaker 1 (00:36):
You know, I've as a professional meteorologist once removed, which
means I really kind of hung up the seal a
few years ago. Ever, since I'm I no longer have
a hair that's black, and to tell me that it's flat,
and I don't do that on television. Well, since I
moved into you know, the sixties of life, I just

(00:57):
spin the weather wheel. Oh you know what, I'll get
partly sonny, I'll get mostly sunny, I'll get cloudy, you'll
get partly cloudy, you'll get rain, I'll get snow, I'll
get windy. I'll get blizzard on occasion, sometimes earthquake. But
you know, it's just a real slim part of that
little wheel. When you spent it, that says freezing falk.

Speaker 2 (01:17):
Yeah, you hit a double zero today. Oh but thanks.

Speaker 3 (01:20):
Guy, years of training.

Speaker 2 (01:25):
Okay. Anyway, this guy here, he does the weather sometimes. Yeah,
so he knows. It's got a little beetle in a
box to tell you wheely worm in the fall.

Speaker 4 (01:36):
Spoons in the in the whatever, spoons in the afternoon.

Speaker 2 (01:41):
Both boons are fork It's a I can't think of
it right now, but anyway, a plant up a tree
over here. It'll come to me in a minute, all right.
And the inside of the seed the embryo spoon shaped
it's going to be a cold winter's night, or fork
shaped it's going to be a warm winter. A lot
of spoons out there. I'll think of it in a minute.

Speaker 3 (02:05):
But anyway, all right, So what do we have today?

Speaker 2 (02:07):
Oh golly, uh one thing at the nursery we have
right now which are really starting to pop out our
slumbers are uh?

Speaker 3 (02:15):
Is it contagent?

Speaker 2 (02:16):
Yes, it is very much, okay. Anyway. It's otherwise known
as a Christmas cactus.

Speaker 3 (02:21):
Oh they're beautiful.

Speaker 2 (02:22):
Yeah, We've got a great selection of them right now.
A very dense, blooming habit on the very nice looking plants.
So these plants can last golly up to one hundred years.

Speaker 3 (02:31):
So that's a merry Christmas for you and me.

Speaker 2 (02:34):
You put in your will, you know, per seme trees.
That's what they were king to me right now, the
preeme trees that have spoons on them. So anyway, uh slumbers, yeah,
although from otherwise I would we would refer to them
as Christmas cactus. Typically they bloom around Thanksgiving, so there,

(02:57):
I guess Thanksgiving cactus.

Speaker 1 (03:00):
Or they're just like Susie and they like to decorate
right after the turkey goes into the trash.

Speaker 2 (03:05):
It's just fine. So anyway, they're pretty much everywhere during
the holiday season. We have some great ones at the nursing.
We've got a hold of sun from I don't know
where we got, but they're just big and full of
all kinds of flowers on them, so they make quite
a show they are. Actually, they're blooming succulents that can
live up to one hundred years. So put it in

(03:26):
your will. This plant will survive for decades. It's inexpensive
and unfussy, it's easy to grow and someone it originated
in the shady humid force of Brazil, and they are
considered to be epiphytic. Yeah, so keep the cat away
from it.

Speaker 5 (03:43):
No.

Speaker 2 (03:43):
Epaphetic means it grows. It grows on top of tree
branches and things. It doesn't really require soil to grow. However,
they are adaptable enough to where we can put them
mentioned sold just so they don't follow the floor.

Speaker 3 (03:58):
Yet that working for you.

Speaker 1 (04:00):
Way.

Speaker 2 (04:00):
The leaves are segmented into somewhat interesting looking leads to
kind of flat and a little fleshy leaves, and they
have profuse flowers that come in salmon, hot, pink, pinky,
dark red, pale, pink, et cetera, et cetera. And they're
really easy to propagate too, So you can start a
Slamburgia farm somewhere.

Speaker 3 (04:19):
But have have Christmas going there for a couple hundred years.

Speaker 2 (04:24):
There are several different types that are usually are typically
called the Christmas cactus quote unquote, although some varieties are
a little different and they actually bloom several times during
the year, notably Thanksgiving. Check Oh we had well, when
I was a kid, I remember in the suburban Atlanta,
we had this giant admiral television set.

Speaker 3 (04:45):
Oh yeah, I think a lot of people.

Speaker 2 (04:47):
There's a twenty one inch my got it, christ steal
in that complete with green sky on it. You know
that it made it some man he could not get
the green out of everything else was fine, but every
time the sky was green. Anyway, this thing instant on
the vacuum tubes just stayed on all the time, and
the top of the television was warm always. So I'm

(05:10):
thanks you Ivan. We bring our Christmas cactus and set
it on the top of the television, it would bloom.

Speaker 3 (05:15):
My goodness, I really like the warm Yeah.

Speaker 2 (05:19):
So they do like a kind of a warm climate.

Speaker 6 (05:22):
You know.

Speaker 2 (05:22):
That's when you walk into the greenhouse, it's rather warm
in there, so in order to keep them blooming and
doing nice. And the point set is too so anyway,
so this plant is very easy to grow, does very
well on a west window perhaps or maybe a south
window of the time of year, and if you don't
have too much of an overhang on the house, and
they do, they do pretty well in the house. They're

(05:43):
very good house plants and you can actually make more
of them and have more slumbersia than the house too.

Speaker 3 (05:51):
Okay, So.

Speaker 2 (05:53):
Anyway, they do like some humidity. So if your house
is dry inside in the winter, put them on a
tray of pebbles. In other words, get a rather large
sulfur and then we've got a great selection. Grab a
handful of pebbles. Just don't tell anybody. Put that on
the saucer and keep that moist so that it has humidity.

(06:16):
It's really they're they're really not a true cactus. They
are an epiphytic plant kind of, you know. They well, anyway,
they live in on tree branches in the tropics and stuff,
so they don't really go on the ground anyway, like
they do like bright indirect sun. So over here on
this window you just find over here in the west,

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it should do okay over here, but it only gets
a little bit of sun these little narrow windows. So
it'll do fine right there in the corner perfectly right there.
Have cavin get you one over here for the clane,
all right. So anyway, so they need they like they
will burn in hot sunshine. In other words, the skin
kind of ruptures a little bit in hot sun, so

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they're really not a hot sun plant. So if it's
indoors in a near a west or south facing window,
make sure, it's filtered, maybe with a curtain. So they
do like humidity too. Oh yeah, And typically in the wintertime,
the air in the house is very dry, and that's
primarily because when the furnestures on, the air expands and

(07:20):
then there's less moisture in between them molecules. Yeah, so
the house does tend to be a little bit on
the dry side. That's where the saucer with the gravel
in it, that's where that comes in exactly. It also
catches the water so it doesn't stain the windowsill good
or the chicken table or you're five thousand dollars dynat set.

Speaker 3 (07:39):
You don't want that mold coming up on you.

Speaker 2 (07:44):
They do like that humidity, so you might want to
also that they prefer daytime tempers between sixty five and
seventy degrees and evening temperatures of fifty five to sixty
five degrees, which is fine in my house. Our bedroom
is kind of set off from everywhere else, and it
was fifty eight degrees in there. Fifty eight yeah, last night,
a chill. That's pretty cold. So the rest of the

(08:07):
house is like, you know, sixty but sixty five, but
it was six fifty eight in the house. Yeah, well
that wakes up.

Speaker 3 (08:16):
You go dance across that old kitchen linole.

Speaker 2 (08:18):
I mean you look like French there, I yes, my gosh.
But anyway, that's the deal on the Christmas cactus. And
they're really extraordinarily easy to grow. It's a bit of
a challenge to kill this plant unless you water it
too much. Okay, so it doesn't really like drought, but
it doesn't really like really wetness. You when you pick

(08:40):
a potting soil to plant this, it has to be
very loose and very friable and very aerobic, if you will.
As these plants definitely do not grow in Oklahoma clay
for sure, no, no, no, So you want to make
sure that they have a good, good breathing capacity soil.
So anyway, consider getting some of those along with the

(09:00):
point set he is, which we can talk about a
little bit later on points set.

Speaker 3 (09:05):
It's put out. That's the proper renunciation. People. Does he
got one of them post?

Speaker 2 (09:15):
Yeah, So be careful when with your points that if
you're bringing it home, Uh, don't expose it to the
cold for a long period of time, because it will affiliate.

Speaker 3 (09:25):
Means to fall apart quickly.

Speaker 2 (09:28):
So make sure that the temperature says for the constant
and you have a good amount of light. And the
point said, he is kind of the opposite of the
of the Christmas cactus in that it is it is
a U FORB but it but it does require a
drier condition, so it doesn't hurt to let them dry

(09:49):
out a little bit between watering. Yeah, we had some
of the greenhouse and they were starting to wilt. Then
we just watered them in five minutes back up again.
But anyway, they also being a U FORB, they are
associated with a milky sap and the milky sap is
not toxic. It's kind of like Elmer's glue. Okay, remember
that in school.

Speaker 3 (10:12):
And ed in the corner train to eat it turned out.

Speaker 2 (10:17):
But anyway, they do very well in the house. They
for for quite some time. Actually. They are a traditional
Christmas plant that will last actually throughout the Christmas season
and beyond. And it is important to select the best
plant for your home environment. There are a few selection pointers.
Number one, choose a plant with dark green foliage all

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the way down to the soil. If it has lost
a lot of leaves close to the ground, then the
plant's kind of been under stress and it's kind of
like a cat.

Speaker 3 (10:49):
It's just not going to work.

Speaker 2 (10:51):
Oh my, choose the bracts and modified leaves that are
completely colored up all the way. In other words, there's
the red pigmentation on It should be all its entirety
on the on the modified leaf on the top. I
say modified leaf, but you see the red on the
points that it is not a flower, so modified leaf.
The flowers that little yellow stuff in the middle. So

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but anyway, you want the color to be consistent on that.
That means it's been growing in a proper environment. Plenty
of air, plenty of light. Okay, where was it?

Speaker 3 (11:25):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (11:25):
Once that is?

Speaker 3 (11:26):
Yeah, there you go that one.

Speaker 2 (11:28):
Yeah, don't yeah, don't get one that has a lot
of green on the edges of the brax. Do not
choose plants with fallen or yellow leaves. By all means
the points that it should look full balance and attractive
from all sides. Okay, we've got some really specimen interest points.
That is that the nursery are beautiful and looks pretty
all the way around. Nice, So we only get the best.
So it should be about two and a half times

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taller than the diameter the container. Uh, don't get one
that's drooping or wilting. Do not purchase plants or displayed
in paper or plastic sleeves. Why is that that they
don't drain? They don't and it causes issues when you
when you get one and you and we put a
foil on it, you either cut the foil so the
water goes through and put it in a pot and

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elevated above the water, or just take it out of
the foil altogether. But it's a good idea too, because
they're they're not well suited to a really wet environment.
They're not they're not cattails here.

Speaker 3 (12:25):
Grown in Mexico.

Speaker 2 (12:27):
Really. Yeah, do not purchase plants that have been displayed
or crowded too close together, because what happens is there's
a lack of light on the lower leaves and they
fall off and soon crowding can cause premature brack loss
to take the plants soil. If it's wet and the
plant is wilt, that it could be an indication of rost.

Speaker 3 (12:48):
No.

Speaker 2 (12:49):
Yeah, so if the soil is moist, he had it
has got to wilt to it. You might want to
check out the one that's maybe right beside it. What's
it too close to a little better than that one?
When you water these don't use really cold cold water.
Use room temperature water or slightly above room temperature, but
don't use really cold water.

Speaker 3 (13:10):
And why is that?

Speaker 2 (13:11):
It kind of shocked the rit system there you go,
so you want to try to I'm not saying you
boiling water on it a little bit, but uh so
put your finger in and it feels kind of room
temperature is if you will. It's not not really cold water.
It shocked them too much.

Speaker 3 (13:25):
Very good, good to know. I think it's a fatal flaw.
A lot of people do here from the tap bang here.
We'll me back with more after this two minutes and
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Speaker 1 (16:14):
We're back with the Green Country Gardener program and your
calls are welcome at nine one eight three three six
fourteen hundred.

Speaker 3 (16:22):
He's Larry Glass. He knows a lot of things. I'm Tom.

Speaker 1 (16:24):
I pretty much just answered my answered the phone. Sometimes
I show my lack of intelligence proudly.

Speaker 2 (16:31):
Hey, you got a lot of smarts.

Speaker 3 (16:32):
Get out of here, well hidden. Now what we got
coming up next?

Speaker 2 (16:36):
Larry, Let's talk a little bit about Christmas trees in
the house. Let's do that you can go in the
attic and take it out of the box and set
it up for a ton. Yeah, no water.

Speaker 1 (16:46):
No, I did that because for many years I had
a live Christmas tree and there is usually something living
in it.

Speaker 3 (16:54):
By the time we got the decorations halfway on.

Speaker 2 (16:56):
Yeah, the owls are flagging around there.

Speaker 3 (16:58):
Oh that did happened, Yes, it did really. Oh that
was fun.

Speaker 2 (17:05):
But anyway, if you have a lot of when they
filled the tree. My daughter has one too in the
Virginia Beach. She has a light Christmas tree. We used
to had those when she was little. But anyway, and
you put it in some water right away. You do
a fresh cut on the bottom. And a lot of
times the the Christmas tree sales people might have a

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chainsaw or something. You can put a fresh cut on
it and within an hour.

Speaker 3 (17:30):
You want to get it in some water, Oh definitely.

Speaker 2 (17:33):
When I was a kid, we use a sugar water
and it kept them going pretty good. And the dog
kept we had a little docks and he kept forget
to fill it up every day. My mom was it,
what tree is really drinking the water?

Speaker 1 (17:46):
No, the dog gets can't you do? You's got a
little green tongue from the bigger it smells like pine
older dogs.

Speaker 2 (17:57):
Anyway, put a little a little sugar in the water.
That helps him out a little bit too. And I
can watch that water level. Don't let it go down.
So you probably have an app on your phone that
will probably tell you to build up pudos. But anyway,
so it needs to be in the garage for a bit.
It needs to transition from the outside to the inside.
So a transitional period of a few days in the

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garage and then then in the house. It'll less of
a shock effect on the tree. So it should do
a lot better and keep it, uh, you know, keep
it alive like that INtime during Christmas. It should do okay.
So anyway, pick them out. That's you know, well balanced
and all that and so on. I mean, as a kid,

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we spent more time picturing.

Speaker 3 (18:40):
Out the tree than he did decorating it.

Speaker 2 (18:43):
Now lesall that one's fine, you know.

Speaker 3 (18:46):
That's what it was the last couple of years I
did live trees.

Speaker 2 (18:49):
Yeah, throw it in the truck, let's go. That's fine, okay,
And it worked out pretty good. But I was trying
to get all the stuff on it. It looks fine,
So you need little gap gaps here in there to
put that especially big ornamental on the tree.

Speaker 1 (19:02):
You know, it cured me from getting live trees. Moving
to Florida just wasn't the same. Really, if I wasn't frostpit,
it wasn't happy. So you know, it's just like pull
it out of the box. Come on, there you go,
Merry Christmas.

Speaker 2 (19:13):
When I was a kid in North Carolina, or neighbors
across the street had one of them, illumined one that's
fun around. Oh and it had a light that was
shining on it with this wheel that changed.

Speaker 3 (19:22):
Yeah, we had one.

Speaker 1 (19:23):
My grandma grandpa had wake because Gramps was allergic to Yeah.

Speaker 2 (19:27):
I gotta even as a you know, a five year old,
scratch my head on that one.

Speaker 4 (19:32):
I'm sitting there thinking, you know, somebody's tripping nineteen sixty
Yeah it was nineteen sixty. Yeah, I get something making
it making a comeback.

Speaker 2 (19:44):
I don't know if the if the aluminum trees with
the with the light cuer I making a comeback or not.

Speaker 3 (19:49):
Anyway.

Speaker 2 (19:51):
So anyway, so I get to if you have a
Christmas tree in the house, just make sure that it
has the water on it because they can be somewhat troublesome.

Speaker 3 (19:57):
Yea, so h.

Speaker 2 (20:02):
It illumined ones. Now it's a good time right now. Actually,
the plant trees in the landscape.

Speaker 3 (20:08):
Real it's not aluminum ones.

Speaker 2 (20:10):
Oh yeah, illuminum ones don't grow or they do a
little bit when it gets warmed. They at a few
uh microns, yeah, micronity here and there they grow up
to But anyway, uh, we have some elms, oaks, maples, pistache,
bold ciphers, and magnolias and red buds. It's more so
they're all ready to go if you want to plant some.

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We've got them tucked away on the south side of
greenhouse right now, just so they doesn't they don't get
all that north wind from the uh, from the from.

Speaker 3 (20:41):
The north where it comes from here where.

Speaker 2 (20:44):
They are, because it comes whiling down there in the
greenhouse as it blocks that wind. So they survived the
winter a lot better. So they're all kind of bunched
up a little bit. But you can still get one
or two. We can even bring it out to you,
so wow, or planted if you want.

Speaker 3 (21:00):
So kind and when that comes out, I'll have you planted.

Speaker 2 (21:04):
Kind of the same thing with shrubs. Most could be
planted right now. I would probably steer clear of planting
crape myrtles at this time of the year because all
the roots are right over here and they're not established,
so they would do a lot better if they had
some roots growing up. So wait till February or so.
I've been the planet a great myrtle in the landscape.

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Other than that, most of them will do pretty well
in the landscape. So and landscaping, we're busy. We've got
a whole stack of project to kind of Actually, I
looked at my schedule where I could see the light
of day till March or April. We're so we're so

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busy for stuff. And the web has not been too
kind either, so been kind of raw lately. Well it's
been a little wet, a little hot, little dry. So
but it is also a good time to plant for
your landscaping. And now you can do that yourself. I'm
maybe making a scale drawing of the property. Now, there's
several ways to do that. You can use Google Maps, right,

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you can take a screenshot of that and then put
it on a paper size or whatever and then draw
what you might want to do in there. So that's
that's one way to do it, or you can just
kind of measure it or just do it kind of
a rough drawing of the house and find out and
then look at the architecture of the house too. Is
it's significant enough to have a type of landscape that

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that is balanced and follows the house or is it
more of a contemporary house where doesn't really matter? And
then you got to consider on a landscape also your
your soil type, and how are you going to water this?
And how big are these shrubs going to get? How
high are the wind does et cetera, et cetera.

Speaker 1 (22:51):
I have to ask this because we live in an
unusual area here in southeast Kansas and you know, East Oklahoma.
Have you ever had a yard where you were trying
to landscape it and you had, you know, basically the
moon on one part of the yard and garden of
Heaton on the other and just a whole lot of

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ugliness may be mixed in the middle.

Speaker 3 (23:14):
Have you ever run across that.

Speaker 2 (23:16):
Well that and actually have entire neighborhoods that are like.

Speaker 3 (23:19):
I was afraid to ask, but I figured I wouldn't
And so the answer is, oh.

Speaker 2 (23:25):
Yeah, yeah, we did an irrigation system this last month,
and every single inch we had to use a pick.
The trencher wouldn't work.

Speaker 3 (23:36):
It just glided across. A couple of weeks ago was day.

Speaker 2 (23:39):
Yeah, it just it would have just glided across the
top of the rocks. So I have a big old
pile of rocks there at the nurse Shelly dugout and
a smaller.

Speaker 3 (23:47):
Pile of dirt if you're interested, folks.

Speaker 2 (23:51):
Anyway, and so it is h you go across the street,
it's a whole different story as far as the sloyness concerned.
So ye, keep in mind also the available soil around
the house too, and when you when you when when
you planet tree or other things, make a note of
where the water comes in the house too, because uh,

(24:12):
if your house was built in the seventies or eighties,
the water pipe is probably going to have to be replaced.

Speaker 3 (24:19):
Yeah, there's no doubt about that. Time to go.

Speaker 2 (24:23):
So keep that in mind too. And when you're locating
a tree, and typically most builders will have the meter
out in the front yard and then there's a faucet
in the front of the house somewhere, ye, And usually
that's an indication as to where the pipe comes into
the house. And that's true at my house because I
found the pipe backwards.

Speaker 3 (24:44):
It's in the backyard and we've got the little back
paw set.

Speaker 2 (24:46):
Oh you don't have a front boss, but the meters
in the.

Speaker 3 (24:49):
Front meters in that they're looked up right on the
fence line in the back. Yeah, okay, so yeah, it's interesting.

Speaker 2 (24:57):
So typically they do a straight line, but sometimes there's
a lot of rock bill curved a little bit, but
it just makes it easier to find the pipe when
that happens. Now we've done I know, we've done several
shrink er system. We did one downtown years and years
ago and we were uh in there and we were
tying into the the line it was it was a

(25:17):
iron pipe and it was rusted. It looked like something
from the Titanic. There's two occasions and when we ran
into that and as I told the customers said, look
at this, you might and we usually have a plumber
come into connected. We always have a plumber coming to
kick connected to the meeting says this pipe is just
about paper thin and needs to be replaced. So sometimes

(25:42):
some of the houses built say in the fifties and
before that early sixties before that they used some iron
pipe and at this point in time it's getting a
little old. But anyway, with that in mind, you might
want to consider that where to locate the tree. When
you look at where the meter is in relationship to

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Speaker 3 (27:59):
Welcome back to the Green Country Gardener program.

Speaker 1 (28:01):
And he is eight thirty six and a half and
our number is nine one eight three, three sticks and
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Speaker 3 (28:08):
He's Lewery Glass.

Speaker 1 (28:08):
He's our expert in the garden, in the lawn and
taking care of you know, a lot of different things too,
like your landscape as well.

Speaker 3 (28:16):
We're talking about trees and pipelines.

Speaker 2 (28:18):
And things trees. Yeah, and also it's a good idea
if you have a sprinker system. Yes, I have a
device that will locate the wiring in the sprinker system.
And typically the wiring follows what we call the static line,
which is a line that's under pressure at all times
unless you have a master bill, and it distributes water
from one circle to another. And typically the wire is

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put in the ground in the same trench as the
static line, if you will. And you want to kind
of know where that is too. And I've got a
device and a lot of all the other sprinker guys
here in town have one too, that will locate the.

Speaker 3 (28:52):
Wire so like a magic wand that goes.

Speaker 2 (28:55):
I've done that on several occasions. I said, do you
have a sprinker system, Yes, let me get my little
what we call the electric box out hook up to
your system and we'll find the wire and there it is.
I so you better not put it there. Guess you're
going to have an old Faithful in your front yard.

Speaker 3 (29:12):
Oh oh, buddy, you don't want that.

Speaker 1 (29:13):
You don't want that for sure, unless you're selling tickets
and really wanted to lose a lot of money.

Speaker 2 (29:18):
Yeah, it's also good to know what's going on. We
were doing us and work with somebody in an older
neighborhood and we're digging. Clang, we hit something.

Speaker 8 (29:26):
Oh what is that?

Speaker 2 (29:27):
If it's an iron pipe, I said, that's the gas line.
Oh yi, four inches in the ground. I think in
nineteen fifty five they didn't have quite the code we.

Speaker 3 (29:37):
Have no nor the sophistication of equipment.

Speaker 2 (29:42):
So you've got to it's a good idea to have everything.
And the funny thing is they didn't flag that one though.
That's that's the weird part. But I guess I didn't
know it was there or something. But anyway we found it.
Usually when when we do something like that, we'll do
an exploratory with a shovel before we run the trencher.
All right, sure enough, clang there It was because I

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had my I had my suspicious suspicions as to where
it was. Judging from the the little valve thing up
by the street. Gas line here dug up with a shovel.
So we put all my columbo stuff.

Speaker 3 (30:21):
Here you go.

Speaker 2 (30:22):
And one time we were this is funny. We put
a sprinker system in downtown and the gas line was
right next to the water line, and we did a
fresh tap for the irrigation. Well they came out and
put a tap, turned it on. Natural gas came ah, hey, wow,
oh golly. It looked like the blagio or something you

(30:44):
lighted with you with the sprinker system. So man, we
had a whole caravan of cars and people in seats
and ties and all that looking at it. And yeah,
it's the identical pipe right next to each other. Mm
that that that they just clothes that's happened in the
one right next to it. And then we got water.

Speaker 3 (31:03):
Got it. That was that was thirty years ago, and
you remember it just like yesterday.

Speaker 2 (31:08):
Yes, exactly.

Speaker 3 (31:09):
My god.

Speaker 2 (31:10):
You need before you do anything like that, trenching or
planting trees, you need to know where your utilities are
and you need to have them flag it and all
that before you do that.

Speaker 3 (31:23):
So that's just the guys galloy come out there and God,
just flip those things in the ground.

Speaker 2 (31:27):
Yeah, and your neighbors all lot. Wait, we cut off
my cable, I can't.

Speaker 3 (31:33):
Can't finish my game.

Speaker 2 (31:34):
And then we got done with a frink system and
the utilities. There's four lines in the house, like somebody
took a fork and dragged it across the backyard and
we had, you know, a mainline with a wire and
all that, and then we had laterals going out, so
we had to change the circuitree on that to where
we only crossed it once instead of five times. So

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we put the valve in a different location and then
we crossed over it just one place and then went
laterately along the fence where there's no utilities. And was
able to do that, So you know, slight changes like that.
Sometimes you just have to make changes like that and
smart you know.

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These things about electronics too, because the only thing I
know about electronics may be violating alms alone.

Speaker 2 (32:19):
And I found this a cheap little am radio you
dragged across the ground. You could find some way to
really Yeah, and I have found lines that weren't marked in.

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The past too, just by taking a little little transistors.

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To radio fourteen hundred Killer Herds or around there A
little higher than that, somewhere where there's no station on
the upper end, and I found that they actually transmitted
signal over the line that you can find it. It's
a little radio help me, So that's uh. And I
used that a lot to confirm the flagging because they

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can make mistakes anyway.

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Speaker 2 (35:40):
Part of our of our what we're talking about, which
chill is just's know where they are, Yeah, and it's
I actually I prefer to do the online uh called
OKI thing.

Speaker 1 (35:49):
Oh when you're trying to figure out where your lines
and pipes and everything, you call.

Speaker 2 (35:53):
About and get your address and all that and they'll
come out and they're pretty good about marketing.

Speaker 3 (35:57):
Well I did that once.

Speaker 2 (35:58):
Yeah, yeah, a couple of to do a good job
and that way. That way you're if you if you
dig a hole somewhere where it's not mark and uh,
you don't get a surprise get in trouble. We were
doing another figure system and they had an abandoned phone
line and he used and a used phone line, and
they marked that's the one that was being used. So

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I got out my pocket knife and patch it up,
called them up. They came and fixed it, and they
wanted to just run a new line. Well they broke
it again. They broke it.

Speaker 3 (36:33):
You're a fault now, buddy.

Speaker 2 (36:35):
Yeah, so no, we had it all flagged, but they
flagged the wrong ones. What happened because it was an
abandoned line.

Speaker 3 (36:42):
I see.

Speaker 2 (36:43):
So anyway, let's talk a little bit about planning your landscape.
And that's something that's fairly easy to do. I've got
some projects on the board right now. I need to
send them out and uh, I can email it to
you or text it to you. And it's kind of
cool getting your property with a landscape planet. I got
to be elaborate when it did downtown, I got to

(37:04):
ship out. So anyway, so that's kind of the deal
with that. It's pretty easy to do. Just give us
a call and I'll scale up your property and all
that and come up with some kind of design. And
you know, it's easy to change it on the on
the cab programs. Oh yeah, it can change things around.
So it's pretty pretty simple to do. But you can
do it yourself simply by drawing just circles and blobs

(37:26):
where you might want some trees and shrubs. What you
want to do to the front of the house. You
want something to balance out the front door or something.
And then if you pick out a particular shape or
a plant and you see one at the nursery, ask
about how big is this plant going to get?

Speaker 3 (37:44):
Very important?

Speaker 2 (37:45):
Very important? Yeah, and that'll give you some idea. Ask
how far away to put it? If it, say, if
it gets six feet across, you might planet say four
feet away from the driveway or the sidewalk. That might
look a little strange at first.

Speaker 3 (37:58):
But it keeps you from clipping your as they walk violing.

Speaker 2 (38:02):
It'll grow into it. So I see a lot of people.

Speaker 1 (38:05):
Who kind of like when you got the series Robot
tough skin jeans when you were a little kid, They'll
grow into them.

Speaker 3 (38:12):
We'll just cuff them right now, you know. But I
know what you're saying. You have to use for sight
on this, and you have to crush the professionals on this.

Speaker 9 (38:22):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (38:23):
When I was a kid, I had my cuts all
up because I was growing so fast that I would
buy him about four inches too long?

Speaker 3 (38:31):
What are you about six or five?

Speaker 7 (38:32):
Now?

Speaker 5 (38:33):
No?

Speaker 2 (38:33):
Just just six feet?

Speaker 3 (38:35):
Okay, we sunk a little, I guess.

Speaker 2 (38:36):
Yes, Oh yeah, anyway, and they're too long, I'm will
roll them up your grow into I'm sure enough.

Speaker 4 (38:45):
You know.

Speaker 2 (38:45):
Three months later, well they fit yeah high we after
that anyway, pt keep in mind how big these plants
are going to get a lot of a lot of
houses heretown have very low windows, and that's so tough.
They get these cute little box woods. Put them on
the ground. You go in the house. You know, three
years later you come out, where's the window? So yeah,

(39:08):
it's a good idea to pick out something that can
be trimmed on occasion. And I sort of like Dwarf
show ponds for that as some of my house that
have been there since the eighties. And they're just knee high.
But every February they oh they just get poor things.
But they came out of it just fine for about

(39:29):
three weeks or it all. Really they grow more compact
that way and they look really nice. So they they're
they're good for that. I have some fairly low windows
and they use them and sharpen up the electric shears
and go out and sing them down. Also having sension
quarter with a lot of repairs on it too. But anyway,

(39:52):
so that so keep in mind that when you're doing
a landscape that the architecture of the house I was
going to compliment it. You don't want to fight it.
You want to emphasize the entry away. You want some
interest in the house. And it doesn't have to be
done all at once either. It doesn't not at all.
It could be done incremental. It can be done incrementally.

Speaker 1 (40:14):
They might work out what better for you, not only
visually but also fiscally exactly.

Speaker 2 (40:19):
Yeah, so you can do it, And I've done that
for a lot of people that you have a plan
and they say, well, what do we do first? Well,
maybe if you want a corner plant or something, that
would be the first thing you do. And then maybe
a little bit of the front door.

Speaker 3 (40:35):
People.

Speaker 2 (40:36):
Yeah, you get get the beds all established. In the meantime,
you can plant some annual flowers in there give you
some good color, and then as time goes on, you
can add some trucks. It doesn't have to happen all
at once. But one of the more important things to
consider is what kind of border do you want an edge,
what do you suggest In most yards these days, most arts,

(40:58):
probably the still edge is a minimal thing. But I
like to use a concrete and stone or brick edge.
It's very permanent, Yeah it is, and it looks really nice.
You can weed whacker against it the last forever.

Speaker 3 (41:10):
Yeah, that plastic jazz goes away, you know after.

Speaker 2 (41:14):
It's not that difficult to do either, and we do
a lot of them. Actually, you dig a trench and
put in some concrete, let it set, and sell you
to do some breaks for some stones on top of
the sandstone. Flat sandstones look really nice as a border,
and if they're cemented in and mortar together, it looks
really really nice. So that that can be. That's a

(41:37):
big part of the landscape is how it interfaces the.

Speaker 3 (41:40):
Yard in there too, So very good. Tell you what.

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Speaker 3 (46:38):
Let's talk a little.

Speaker 2 (46:39):
Bit more about the little bit more about the Christmas taxes.

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Let's do that.

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We started the show with that. We can talk a
little bit.

Speaker 3 (46:47):
Oh I know, is it lives for one hundred years
and it gets huge if you stick it on an
old Lottle TV.

Speaker 2 (46:52):
We had somebody who surrendered their plant. They gave it here,
just take this thing. It's too big of a one
out onto the fans of the nursery, and uh, somebody
bought it.

Speaker 3 (47:05):
Wow. How big was it?

Speaker 2 (47:07):
How big around? Can you read?

Speaker 3 (47:08):
Wow?

Speaker 2 (47:09):
It was a big old thing, white ballooms, a beautiful plant.
Somebody could resist. They came and bought it. But yeah,
that's probably one we sold back in the seventies.

Speaker 3 (47:19):
But big around, a huge some braer roll.

Speaker 2 (47:22):
We had to help and get it into the car.
Did anyway? They see they last a long time. Yeah,
and they're very good in the house. They can tolerate
a lot of conditions. But keep in mind they're they're
epiphytic epiphytes. They require a very loose type soil. And
we have a potty soil that cops that we've been

(47:46):
using for years. I can't think of an even right now.
That's awful. But anyway, it's in the white bag by
the door.

Speaker 3 (47:53):
He knows where he keeps it.

Speaker 2 (47:55):
Chromates. I guess what it is.

Speaker 3 (47:56):
Yeah, we've been here.

Speaker 2 (47:58):
We've been using that since the seventies. I mean that
is good stuff, and uh, it's very light and aerobic,
and these plants really do well in that. And you
want to have it elevated above a a saucer, if
you will, with graveling it so you can get some
moisture going on, because they're really they're really Uh there's
an epiphytic plant and really not a cactus per se.

(48:20):
It gets a name cactus because of its physiology. It's
got a lot of fleshy stuff in there, holds.

Speaker 3 (48:28):
A lot of water.

Speaker 2 (48:29):
So anyway, keep in mind that they don't really like
heavy soil, and they don't water it too much occasionally,
and there's just fine. A lot of sun is what
they really need. The do just fine too, so let it.

Speaker 3 (48:43):
Let it get some sunshine, but don't ground that slumbers.

Speaker 2 (48:49):
And they can live up to they can live up
one hundred years, so it can be a family inherance
thing generation to generation.

Speaker 3 (48:58):
I'm putting one in my will.

Speaker 2 (49:02):
And available and all kinds of colors too. We also
had the point settius too, and uh, it's kind of
a slow time in the landscape time kind of time
to put that lawnmill a for the winter I still
have to run mine just one more time to get
the leaves from my pistaste tree up and get that on,
wash clean that and make it, make it look a
little nicer. Good so, you might want to run it

(49:23):
just one more time for that, and you pull the
spark plug on it and put some oil in it
and spin it around a little bit, and that'll keep
the cylinder from rusting inside there. Good so, and make
sure it's all out of gasoline to be prepared to
change the oil in the spring. Buy your air filter
free and mower in the winter time. It's going to

(49:44):
get mine cheap because they've got it.

Speaker 3 (49:48):
Yeah, they're not going to run out. They might run
out fairwell. You get it in January. You're in good ship.

Speaker 2 (49:54):
Yeah exactly. So kind of plant ahead on that and
what else in the yard. The landscape, it's not it's
not really time to do any heavy punting on the shrubs.
I'd like to do that in the spring. It is
time to look at the structure of your trees. Look
for conflicting wood and stuff that's dead or dying or
falling off the tree, and time to kind of clip
out of toe. Got some maple trees that need some attention.

(50:15):
In my house. I got one to think I'm going
to have to take out because it's just old. It's
been there for fifty years. I mean, so it's probably
time for itty to go.

Speaker 3 (50:24):
But he may make good fireplace was.

Speaker 2 (50:27):
So anyway, keep that in mind too. I do have
replacement in places for that purpose. Anyway, Okay, anyway, come
by the nursery check us out. We're at forty six
oh five No Water Road, which is right between Washington
Boulevard and Madison. They're on the south side of the road.
There's ice cream shopping, car washing front, so.

Speaker 3 (50:47):
Everything you need right there.

Speaker 2 (50:49):
And a big old sign that's been up there for
thirty years. It needs to be worked all a little bit,
but you know, Ellie Toom's been a good show. Keep
that shovel sharp. We will see you next week.

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