GREEN COUNTRY GARDENER 4-29-23

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Episode Transcript

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It's our expert, Larry Glass.Stay tuned for a free hour of fun

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Yes, good morning, good morning, good morning, and welcome into the
Green Country Gardener Program. He's LarryGlass, I'm Tom Davis, You or
whoever you want to beat, andyou can call us up at one eight
hundred and seven four nine five ninethree six and you can ask Larry a
question of his vast knowledge of pluntsand things. Larry, how are we

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doing today? Look at that thing? It's called the sun. Ye know
what happened? Yeah, we hada whole week of drizzle something like that.
It was That's what I call annoyingrain where yeah it's raining, but
not enough to do any thing.I checked the lake levels. We're still
five feet below I know, justenough rain to where you slip and fall

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on your behind or you have toturn your wipers on. Yeah, and
that's it, and that's it.Yeah, that's down south. They had
we really haven't had a whamper yet. Now they'll give us buckets full of
all day long. We need weneed a good whomper, just northeast,
wholest of us. Yeah, awhamper in our swamper. It'll come.

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It's Oklahoma. We'll have plenty ofwhompers. Don't worry. I get the
feeling that May June is at thetime where the monsoon here it does seem
to be in May. This uh, well it's both May right now.
A couple of days or so,Yeah, across that threshold summers on its
way. We'll see anyway, Godlike, what a what a lot of
stuff going on right now? Ibet man at the nursery. We've got

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the annuals and perennials, but anythingyou'd want right now. So it's already
roll, yes, right there.So I just got to get that dirt
ready. And of course my houseis an experimental ground. Well, yeah,
you got a solid slab of anda mult part of the beds,
part of the beds unmulched. Yea. And even though it's been real dry

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and all that, not a wholelot of precipitation. The areas under which
the mulch is is moist. Itis. It's fine, Yeah, it
is so that that says a lotabout the effectiveness of the mults too,
and the once a week is plentyof adequate for a surface like that.
It's uh, you know, moltsreal well and sufficiently molist. So about

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two three inches of mulch works likeit's scientifically proven to do. About you
take your your square footage and youwant to play buy something or other than
you get how much mult you need? You doing the math? The math?
Yeah, anyway, annuals always forsure to prep the soil real well.
Those roots really have to get outand spread out. So when you

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do your annual beds, make sureit's very well prepared. Add a lot
of composts to it. That helpsthem too. But really it's going to
get hot, so they needn't havea really good root system. Yep.
There you go, really good rootsystem for them to you know, to
do well. So before you gooff and gallivanting around they're looking for your

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annuals, you might want to makesure your souls ready. We had the
compost to do this in a bag, big old buire composts and it works
very well. Oh yes, anyway, annuals right now. Perennials now time
to plant new perennials. Good soil, they bloom. Most of the perennials
bloom for a particular time in thesummer, except a few too, which

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I'll mention today. Okay, oneis the balloon flower playing. Okay,
it's a has a very unique bloomon it, and it looks like a
hot air balloon. Really, thebloom does before it opens up, and
then it pops open and this pentagonalblue flower on it. It's kind of
cool. And I planted this atsome lady's house a few years ago and

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they've grown and they spread and sheabsolutely loves her balloon flowers because she does
nothing to them on the show.And then they come back every year and
and they they do their Yeah,they balloon and a fascinating flower. So
we have some of those at thenursery right now. Cool. And the

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scabios is another one that blooms allsummer long. And anybody got the usual
bread and butter perennials too, socome on check that out. Also.
Trees, uh, kind of We'restarting to get a good selection trees and
some of the qualities really good thisyear. I'm quite pleased when they come
in. It's usually when they comein off the truck. I pulled the
sleeves off and check out the trunksand the driver goes, oh, oh

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oh, he's checking these things out. And actually the pass muster on the
way out. So we have somegood ones now. Good shrubs. Also,
we finally last last to hold usin dwarf fuel up on hollies.
There was a terrible shortage of them, and one of our suppliers found some
down in Louisiana. Yeah. Yeah, it's really nice looking plants too.

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So anyway, we've got plenty ofthose war fie upon hollies right now.
I know a lot about this shribs. The crape myrtles are starting to come
out, and there's some variable emergenceon the crepe myrtles too. Some of
them aren't even out yet. Wehave one great big one I got for
a project, and just yesterday Inoticed its starting to leave out. So
you don't give up on your crepemyrbles yet. Oh yeah, don't go

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taking the chainsaw to it. Andanother thing that Nandina's, they're they're starting
to come out. It's been kindof cool. Nandina's like a kind of
hot, so spit a little biton the cool site. So it's sort
of slow to come out. Andthe diok a really bad hit this last
winter. And they'll come back.Don't give up the hip. Yeah,
so they'll be back. Pretty toughplants. And there's one house right actually

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last week and just dug them outand put in some some other plants,
and there's a big, big,old heavy thing. But anyway, got
to put some composts in the solilof the planet. These Japanese hollies we
put in there, and I toldhim you need some iron sulfate with that
too, to help help them along, because their soil is resident soilers,

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and it was then a part ofthe town with the soil pah is a
little too higher for Japanese maples orJapanese hollies rather, so they dirty work
the dirt and get the chemistry righttoo. So anyway, so we've got
a great selection of shrubs at theindustry, and too, you want to
composure shrubs too. Typically on thelabel of the shrubs, it'll tell you

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how big they get, how tallthey get, how big around they get,
whether or not they grow in thesun of the shade Feller. No,
okay, never mind, okay,all right, good morning, and
welcome to the Green Country Gardener Program. Your question or comment for Larry,
Well, I'm still having trouble withmoles in my yard. And I tried

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the treatments that themselves commercially, andthey weren't ways a little while and then
they're back and mon time you saidsomething about it. They like grubs,
So if yards full of grubs,they'll come back. What treat me do?
It? Can I do? Isthat gonna help to treat the yard

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for the grubs? There's nothing forthem to eat. And my other question
is like, there's so much ofthis ready stuff in the yard, but
if I fertilize the grass more,will it overcome that? Yes, you
know, you probably need to rampup the fertilizational yard wherever there are what

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we call mole repellents out there.Um castor oil typically is what is used.
Repels. The moles don't like itand they go away. Moles are
are mammals, and the only wayit's it's really you know, if you
if you kill off their food supply, they're still going to search for some

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more food supply. It's just theway they do. They they go around
looking for and the and and theirchild. You know, they go to
the grocery store underground, you know. So anyway, so the castor oil
does a good job of repelling them. So if the pier there's something that

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had cast oil product, Yeah,there's several products there. We have some
at the nursery. Comes in abig old bag and you put it in
your spreader and spread it around andand watering in at night when nobody knows
your water and brand name. It'sjust a mold repellent mo repellent cole Max,
yes, mole Max. Yeah.But anyway, it's been very effective.

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I even brought some pictures for Tomhere. Yeah there's there's a little
mole crawling out the pide of theground. Thank you. So how often
do you have to put that onthe have to repeat it? Yeah,
really you do it. It's kindof an as needed sort of thing because
of the gregarious nature of the animal. They sort of come and go,

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So just kind of an as neededthing. But anyway, I found in
my yard personally, I just keepit pretty well fertilized, and they don't
seem to like the salts and thefertilizer that kind of keeps them away too.
Okay, So then the thing abouttreating the yards or grubs grub worms
is a good idea because the grobbrooms not only do do the moles like

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them, but they also attack yourgrass, your risk of your grass and
your shrubs and things too. Thereare spikes that you put in the ground
to get rid of the grubs.Do we get rid of the grubs with
durtspan? They don't make duran anymore? Oh sorry, but there are some
they don't make it. There's somethingyou can put on the ground to control

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that. We have. We haveseveral insecticides for that. And so is
that like that You don't want todo these two things at the same time.
You want to, you want totrain, you want to do them
right now, all together, rightnow, rat right now. But because

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the things on at the same time, or you need to, you can
put them on at the same time. Yeah, okay, So the grub
worms are active, the moles areThey're said, it's their time of the
year, if you will, Sothey're really looking around for stuff. So
you might want to do what youcan to get rid of the grub worms

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and repel the moles. But itreally if you keep your yard really well
fertilized, you shouldn't have too muchof a problem. If you go up
and down the neighborhoods, you seethe lawns that are real nice and neat,
you know the fertilizer, they don'treally have a more problem. But
next door the ones with all thecrag rests and dandelions, that they're full
of them. So I think thathas something to do with it. Yeah,

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and what brand of fertilizers, that'sone that's kind of your job.
You look at the ingredients for fertilizerand you want to some the nitrogen in
it is uria based, and you'llhave a mixture of urrea and themonium nitrate
in there. The money in nitrate. It's not only illegal in its purest

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form, but it gives you somequick greeting and the urea that's a little
bit longer, So look for thaton the label of the fertilizer. There's
so many thousands of different brands offertilizer out there, so you look look
look there, most of them havingnumbers. If there's some kind of numbers
that at this point on your firstfertilization, you want to do like a
ten twenty ten. And then lateron as the permuter grass really starts to

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grow and develop, you can usea higher hot nitrogen thirty seven zero zero
or something like that thirty something zerozero, yeah, thirty seven as a
maintenance during the summer to keep yourpermuter grass going. Or if there's three
sets numbers, what thirty seven andwhat Yeah, thirty seven is nitrogen in

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PK potassium and phosphorus and potassium inPK. Yeah, So right now you
want to use something that's fairly evenratio, like a ten twenty ten.
Right now, your permuter stoles needthe phosphorus for them to grow and so
on, and then as time progressesyou need as a nitrogen to support all

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the top growth. So the firstnumber is the main that's the important one
in the in the summer time,right, that's nitrogen. Yeah, So
the other numbers that could be itdoesn't make a difference on them. It
does the phosphorus and potassium. Youdo want to give them some stem growth,

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and you're good development with those twonumbers. But really our soil is
pretty much adequate as far as potassiumand phosphorus is concerned. We got enough
of it in there, so wejust give it a little bit of a
boost in the spring. But youdo want to put some of that on
there. I always put a tentwenty ten. I'm probably gonna do it,
uh next Friday when when it's legalfor me to water my yard.

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Yeah, and then and then Iget that worked into the soil. You
really don't want to Number one,you don't want to fertilize on dry grass.
You'll you'll want to make sure theground is moist before you fertilize,
then watered in. Ye, wedo have a long fertilizer schedule at the
nursery too. That kind of tellsyou what to do when every month put
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welcome back to the Green Country Gardenerprogram. He's learning last time.
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one eight hundred seven four nine fivenine three to six. Lawrence, where
are we on the agenda? Ohgolly, we got the sidetracked a little
bit. That's okay. We talkedabout bles, so get back to my

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didelog here we're talking about the nineteensand then recovering real well. Ring Day
Will he's a little bit of toboxwoods took a hit this winter. They
did. Yeah, mine, minedid fine because I was experimenting all winter
long on a drip system and theygot water. I didn't have any problems

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at all. But that's and Iuse a lot of moults on the ground
too. That's it's a lot forthem, really, and you want to
when it does get to be wintertimecoming on, and it was a dry
winter that the plants just don't doas well. When it's really dry like
that of snow on top, itdoes better. Yeah, what snow,
get out of here? We didn'thave any, And I you know why

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I bought a snow shovel in thesee you did, you're the guy,
okay, all the blame for thelack of snow this winter. So so
yeah, the boxwoods are hardy wayway up north. But the cold spell
we had this year was associated withsome dry weather and that that's just kind
of a death knail for a lotof plants like that, So make sure

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in the wintertime, even even rightnow, make sure things are watered real
well, because it's going to gethot money these days and it'll stay that
way for a while. Yeah,and the plants need to need to recover
and they need to go root system. Give them a little bit of fertilizer.
And look at your hollies too,and see if they might need a
little bit of iron in the soil. Yeah. So anyway, m yeah,

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So so the box with if yourbox with was damage, you can
probably cut it back and just keepan eye on it. It'll probably come
out again. Dude, just fine. I've got one in front of the
house. I'm just too tall.So I whacked it back about a month
ago and it started to leave out. You just stood there and waited,
what did you do? Yeah,it's leaping out, So look for very

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closely at them. Don't give upthe ship yet. I was at somebody's
house this last week and he hadthese really nice little low box with hedges,
and some of them look good.Then there's a dry spot for there's
nothing, and then I mean,I mean the spot where there's the leaves
are all dead, and then thegreen over here and then they're you know,
then they're dead and so on,and that's just a function of the
even distribution of water. So wedo have to be very conscious of things

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in the wintertime. I think allwinter long we were talking about that.
Just dry water plants, you know, makes some kind of silly out there,
you know when it hat and acoat and mittens out there waters,
but they really need that water inthe wintertime. Our soil here is typically
very shallow in some places, andwhen that happens, we do need to
augment water just a little bit.So I know, you admire you are

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do you go on a shovel andclang, And we had that late freeze.
I don't have any plums this year, hardly. The one tree has
none at all. Another one's gotsome on it. So so anyway,
twenty twenty three will not be agood year for plumbs. Not the best
vintage, so no, okay.Anyway, Shrubs are very important part of
the landscape. They had you know, color and backdrops, and they kind

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of help with the architecture of thealse, you know, kind of enhancing
the entry way and so on.So they're very important the landscape and we
want to take care of them.And that is a good initial preparation.
You see it when we do alandscape project. We've done a few up
this week. Actually finally get someget some in the ground, get some
plants, you know, get it'sbeen hard to get plants even but we

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get in there with the tiller andall this composts and work it up real
good and they'll do just fine.So the launch right now, the weeds
are really coming up very quickly.I've got that problem at my house.
Some of the broad leak weeds arecoming out and it's still cool enough.
You can use quint callack on thatas a general weed control. It also

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helps. I killed crab breasts.I noticed a little bit of crab breasts
coming up here and there in thewarmer areas. So here we go.
Hummingbirds. I've seen some hummingbirds,and this morning I put out the refreshment
hummingbird feeders. But you keep uptwice as many on hand as you want
to have out there, and thenI wash them out and put them in

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the dishwasher, clean them up realgood and rotatum inut and out. Yeah.
So when you when you went toget some hummingbird feeders. Buy twice
as many and keep a clean setin the house because they do need to
be cleaned up occasionally. You don'twant mold, nicky stuff in there kick
up and dry and get crusty.Yeah, so I gets some hummingbird nectar
stuff or whatever. You can goto the Hummingbird Authority web page or whatever

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that is. That's where I wentget the formula for making hummygird feeder food,
sugar and water and stuff. Soanyway, they're at right now.
So um. You can also plantsome plants of the hummingbirds where they like,
and those are Salvia. They likedit very well in Lantana and narda.
And it's sort of like kind ofstuckle. If you got a place

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where you can trailis or something,you put honey suckle one. They really
like that. They do like petuniasas well, and pentas. When they
really really like a zealous maybe anda butterfly bush. It's when they really
like to um flame acanthus, floweringquints, mosa Wigilia, coral honeysuckle,
cypress. Fine, that's an annualthey like pretty well too. Morning glories.

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You like to uh, the scarletrunner beans if you can get some
of those seeds. They do reallywell too, trumpet creeper, another one,
beebalm, it's one of their favorites. So I mentioned Minarda early,
but they do like this very well. And cannas, cardinal flowers, columbine
coral bells, et cetera, etcetera. They really do their attracted to
those plants. And you can't justhave just a few of these plants.

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You really need to have a fairlylarge garden of these particular plants for them
to do to attract the hummingbirds.You know, it's kind of like going
down the highway and your seed.You see one little little thing over there,
and I don't want to stop there, but just see a whole bunch
of them. Hey, that's prettycool. Let's stop doing stop at Branson,

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you know. So you really wantto have a good size, your
own little side attraction exactly something thatthey can be attracted to it. And
didn't didn't they tell all their friendsit's important. Also have a water too.
I have a little, a littletiny waterfall in my house. It's
a simply a horse feed bucket.Yeah, get the local farms farm store

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that the feet horses with It ismade of rubber and dug a hole and
stuck in the ground, put somerocks around it, put a pump in
it, and some other stones,and there's a has a fairly flat platform
over which the water runs before itgoes back into there. And the birds
just love it. They come outthere, play drink water. Yeah,
they know. It's a very simplething too. So you don't have to

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get complicated with if you want toattract some birds for the with the waterfall,
you don't have to get very complicated. It can be very simple.
Well, right, we gotta callLarry. Good morning, Welcome to the
Green Country Gardener Program. Your questionor comment for Larry. Yes, Larry,
I live up in southeast Kansas,down with the Oklahoma line. Yeah,
and of course it's been dry,light, it has been everywhere.

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We've barely gotten the drop of roomswe are on here. Yeah, yeah,
we're really dry up here. Wedo have. My question is um
I had like four or five gratmyrtles in my yard, different different areas.
One of them is leaving out prettygood, the other three years,

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well, two of the other threehave got a couple of crops coming up
from the bottom. But and eitherlike five foot tall, and there's nothing
up in the in the stalks ofthem. And then one of them so
far hasn't got anything, I mean, no green on it at all.
And I presume that they didn't makeit through the drought. Well, not

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necessarily. Some of them are aremerging a little bit later than others.
What you do is you get yourpocket ife and start at the top and
put a little scratch on the stem, yeah, and work your way down
and what's underneath the bark of thecrepe myrtle when it turns green, that's
the point where the plant is stillalive. Okay, So it's not unusual

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for crape myrtles to die back alittle bit here every year. We're kind
of at the northern limits of thecrepe myrtles, and so they do die
back a bit. We sort ofconsider them really shrugs here more than anything.
But if they did by die backall the way to the ground,
they grow so fast that golly,they'll be up there again pretty soon.
Anyway. Yeah, a few yearsago, this just one, particularly one,

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the oldest one, it did diecompletely and it head it head um
crowds kicks. The size of thesmall baseball bat. I mean it's pretty
good size, it's that's a bigone. But it completely died and I
just but it's completely down and hecame back and now it's like high.
But it's the one that doesn't haveany green on it at all. Huh

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well, yep, it's just crapemyrtles. Yeah, Okay, what you
can do, what you could donext year to avoid this so much to
die back, just to make surethere's adequate moisture and around the tree,
Okay, in the fall, afterafter the leaves go away, before it
gets really cold, you might putsome mults on the surface to help keep

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the word system warmer and also tohelp conserve moisture around the tree too.
And I think it'll it'll do alot better that way. Okay, Yeah,
I cannot like the eat in thesummer they're blooming while everything. Help
love them? Oh yeah, yeah, they do like them. Uh.
One thing is to put some tentwenty ten on them too. They really
the phosphorus really helps that color.It helps enhance the color. Really.

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Now, that would be a goodtime to do that, you bet,
and they can take full advantage.It takes a whiff of that to get
into that old dry ground over there. So yeah, yeah, it pretty
hard. You might want to workit in the soil a little bit and
water it through. And it wouldn'thurt to give them a little bit of
water too. I don't know ifyou have water rash up there or not,
but we got it down here inbartles No we don't. We don't

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yet, not like bart Barts arereally bad, but we don't yet.
But yeah, it could be.Yeah, So a good layer of mulch
will help keep the moisture content constantunderneath the plant, some ten twenty ten
to help improve the color in thegrowth. A little bit of nitrogen wouldn't
hurt really and uh and some mulchwill help it a whole lot. Okay,

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open at one eight hundred seven pointnine five nine three six Larry Glass,
Where are we here speaking of laterstrow me a indicause. Yes, it's
cratles. We've had a real badproblem with them. How that starts to
start about eight years ago. It'sa create myrtle scale. Oh yeah,
yeah, I saw that. Lookyeah, now now it's the time to

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put the amdical oprit around to helpstop that. They're going to become active
real soon. Another thing you canput down in some dietomaceous earth. Right
now, they're in the crawling stageand they run through that, that'll that'll
knock them out pretty good too.So you put that on the on the
on the base of the tree.That'll help them control them all stuck before
they get there. Right well,yeah, that the dietmacious earth is a

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it's a dieton from the ocean,a little tiny little the skeletons and these
little, tiny little creatures that livein the ocean and uh calcium carbonate and
so it's harmless. And they havea very sharp, very sharp skin on
them, or very sharp points ontheir skeleton, if you will. The
insects crawl across and they get iton it and it pierces there. The

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epidermis insects skin and then they desiccate, dry dry out. They're done,
you dry out. Yeah, Soanyway, that's how that works. So
anyway, so get the medicaloprid isa good, good systemic insecticide too.
Okay for the scale, so beready for that. I see a lot
of them in town. The stemshave all these little white dots on them,

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and the stems are black and allthat. And the blackening is that
the sugars that that the scale insectsexpel and the ants really like that.
So you know, you got moretrouble coming in. Well, the ants
come in and throw the end.The ants scroll out and then they carry
their eggs with them all over andit's a symbiotic relationship there. The ants

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like the sugars and all that,and then the ants carry the eggs around
and they go from kra merler cratemrles. You know, you got more scale,
scale everywhere. And really it's thegift that keeps on getting. And
I've seen a lot of scale evenon Japanese maples. So my Japanese maple,
it just looks horrible. What's thematter with it? Then you look
at the at the at the stemand it's just covered with these scale insects,

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just this kind of coating of themon there, and they're starting to
attack those two. So the bestdefense is a good offense and a twofold
approach with the dietematia, thirst andthe aminappropriate will do a very pretty good
job controlling them. Also, youcould use a spinner's add as a surface
treatment on them two or a kneemoil as a as a surface treatment that

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smothers the insect that works physiologically tocontrol the insects that way by smothering them
out. The kneem oil that specifically, and then em oil is also a
metamorphosis interrupter. It stops the metamorphousprocess. That's what's And there are different
grades of emoil too. You lookat the label. We only carry the
good stuff at the nurse, sothat's halfway home business. Yeah, No,

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there's there's good emoil and there's fairlyineffective and emoil. So we want
DRT dead right there exactly. Soanyway, that's the deal with a scale
and crape myrtles, and it's agood idea to give them something like ten
twenty and you don't need a lotof nitrogen on. They go like crazy
anywhere and they get enough from thelawn probably so. So the fosphors helps

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the color and also helps the ridsystem a little bit too. Very good,
okay, So, um, wetalked about crape myrtles. What we're
doing in the garden at right now, keep the foliage on the tulips and
the daffodils until they start to fizzleout. The daffodil foliage is just starting
to kind of brown up the tipsa little bit and it'll be soon.
You can cut that back if youwant to. Um, always add some

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MOLTI of course, support your penniesalso with tomty cages or something improvised.
In the past, I've used afuel line works real well, dude,
really okay, Yeah, well,when you got a little truck, you
have pretty and it helps up truckof years is thirty five years old,
thirty eight and it helped by ithelps tie them together so they stay upright.

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Usually when the ponies are opened,we have heavy storms, so they're
just about open. So I don'tcare what your weather man says. It's
going to rain here, but atthe end of the week. So yeah,
min minor rate of bust. Yeah, they kind of open them a
little bit. I don't care.We didn't have that big monsoon yet,

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right. And of course, inall the landscaping you do, I come
across some stuff that people don't want. And I found some pennies. I
got something that are route. They'revery low, not even hardly a foot
tall, and they have these redflowers on them. They're really quite attractive.
But pennies are just just a kindof a noe care plant. Put
them off in the garden somewhere.They're they're pretty for a short period of

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time, and after that there's justkind of green. So they're not a
mainstain the landscape. You and youdon't plant a lot of them, you
just unless you're a kind of surruppennies. But anyway, and then they
give you some color here in thegardens. So there's also we've we've had
some I don't know, I thinkwe've got some nature that the Japanese variety.
They get old pennies, it mightare getting ready to pop out too.

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And the foliage on this particular onemaintains itself very well well throughout the
summer, so it's a good oneto have. Also but they're about one
hundred dollars a piece. They're notvery common. Collie the less forever and
they look good all the year round, so except in the wintertime anyway.
So the penies are coming out rightnow too. Let's say fruit trees,

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the blossoms are faded, so fruitit is in production. So you might
want to use a fruit tree spray. You use the name oil of Mine
and the spin his ad keep thebugs at bay on the fruit trees.
I like those two because they're organicif you will, and they're they're harmless.
And I was out with a hosein sprayer and gets doing this stuff
at neighbor. What are you doing? It? Isn't it dangerous as it?

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Na? This is nem oil.It's it does its thing. It
doesn't bother anybody. Makes your hairreal shiny, so that's why you have
you're sporting such a lovely coat there, Larry. So anyway, that's kind
of kind right now. That's sortof fruit treats um on your jalius.

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Now, m lace bugs will become coming into bog and mits pretty soon
too. So the lace bugs arecan't be very tough to control, and
they're very hard they're a real tiny, little little insect about the size of
a maybe a fleet or something.And they're called lacebugs because they're leaves.
Their leaves, their wings looks likekind of like lace. Well, those

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times to start thinking about those two. And once you get themdic loprid to
work real well, they took dissiston off the market, which was a
very effective control for that. Wecan't use that anymore. So the emudic
cloprid is the one we're using rightnow. Okay, very good, tell
you what. We have to takea quick break, gotta make up for
one because we were we were chattinga little too long. We're going to

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We still have one more breakout forall of our stations along the network
lines, and so you know wehaven't forgotten. Yeah, he's Larry,
I'm Tom, and we're here talkingabout the lawn, the garden, the
weather and sometimes lack of it.And you can give it, well,
there's always weather, but we're talkingabout the rain baby. Yeah. If

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there's lack a weather, we're alldead. One eight hundred and seven,
four nine, nineteen thirty six,five ninety thirty six. It was the
last board. What you got,Larry. We'll be very busy at the
nursery this week and a lot ofpeople are looking for annuals and things.
So why would there get a sackof sack of compost? To put it
nicely, the blended with the soil. Now, when you when you plant

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something, you want to do akind of a general preparation. Keep in
mind where these plants are put inthe ground, the roots spread out,
and just doing a preparation on asmall area it's not enough. So I
gotta put your back into it.There's a good exercise. Yeah, I
do that every day. And that'swhy Larry Young. You know, Larry's
doctor told him to go try outfor the high school football team. Since

(39:59):
I it's good shape, I'm notkidding you. He didn't tell you that
a couple of years ago, didn'the, Well, not not to that
extreme. Yeah, and you knowthere's something to say about being physically active.
Yeah, there is. I wouldn'tknow, but you do. It's
a good time to think about,you know, planning your landscape too.
And we can do a landscape plan. Yeah, I've got several on the

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drawing board. That's what I doat night fall asleep with a mouse in
your hand and anyway, So yeah, you want to make sure it's done
right and the plants that have chosenwill do well. I got some landscapes
that are, you know, thirtyyears old. They're still doing just fine.
Some irrigation systems I know, almostforty years old and they're doing great

(40:44):
too. So that means they wereputting in correctly. You've got you've got
to engineer these things. Yeah,you simply can't just throw something in the
ground. And I've fixed a lotof them too. Somebody else's kind to
do that week too. I gota couple I got some of them are
real hid scratchers. How they dothat. Anyway, it's it's time to

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the sum of your house plants too. And bring them outside. The weather
is relatively gentle right now, that'sprobably a good week for that. It's
going to be in the mid seventiesall kind of all week long, so
be good. Good time to summerof the house plants if you haven't yet,
and don't none hesitate to cut backyour ficas trees if they've gotten too
big too. They can be cutback. They're just like any other weed.

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I remember my parents used to livingin Florida and they had a hurricane
and broke up the ficca street inthe backyard. It came back, so
so they can be cut back.Be careful though if you do cut it
back that they dropped this milky sapeverywhere and yeah, it's all some problems.
It's latex kind of stuff. Thator fig trees, you know,

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that's I guess Henry Ford use themin other parallels of rubber trees and stuff.
And they had to make tires backback in the day, way way
back. So you can gather allthat stuff up making new set of tires.
That'll take a long time. Soanyway back outside hostas, we've got

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a great selection of hostas for theshade, and they like pretty good foil
to it. They don't like todry out, so you might add a
little bit of molt ships so thatI have some in my backyard and they're
they're watered only well once a weekand heavy, heavy layer of bolts.
Yeah, legal, I think.Anyway, I use my drip system on

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them and they do very well,so I think it's more efficient than other
sprincrow system, but it's a littlebit more maintenance involved with a drip system.
So anyway, there's several varieties ofhostas that are out there and that
are available, and different colors areprecises. We have something with the great
big leaf for sure. To givethem plenty of room, and keep in
mind how large it stays on thelabel, how big they're gonna get,

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so make sure you get some littlefit in the space too, so and
try not to plant them in thesun. Hostes do not like the Sunday.
They just turn old brown that justget ugly, So trying to try
to keep him away from the scent. And I like to put the multi
around them because the slugs don't likethat. Mults too. Illness slugs really
do like hostes. So the mulchhas typically sharp edges on it, and

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they don't like to have too.Well, if you don't want to use
multi maybe some sawdust or something,or some sand, even even even some
dimide get it out dye to macousearthwork. Yeah that too. Yeah,
sometimes you get sal bugs on them, but sal bugs are not insects.
Actually, did you know that?I did not know that they're shrimp's kind

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of a a type of shrimp shrimpshrimp. So anyway, um, at
the nursery, we've got the somenandina's out there. We got a few
obsession nandinas, lots of dwarf nandinas. They finally be able to be able
to get some some Encoigelias, bigoniaselephant elephant the bulbs, and some cladion

(44:20):
bulbs to come check out the cladionbulbs kind of knife. The ground temperature
has to be fairly warm for themto grow mh so, but they'll still
be okay, just put them aground and it warms up, they'll start
growing. We have all kinds ofcolias, so herbs or herb selection is
increasing, all kinds of boxwood rightstoo. There's the baby jym, the

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baby jade, and they just justall kinds of Boxwoods two and they they've
been able to breed this plant witha very close internode, and that's what
makes it poor. Oh well,we'll take a break. We'll be right
back in just a moment, andwe'll be back after this one minute,
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oil business. And we're in theprocess of selling off their oil leases and
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trying, so rather than lose it, they decided to drill for oil,
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Welcome back to the Green Country GardenerProgram. Our phone line is open,
and why ain't hundred seven pot ninefive nine three six third glasses our expert.
I'me time. I'll just answer thephone, just chime in whenever unnecessary.
So what do you got lar wellin your line? Is the permutographs
and flozer grass are really starting togrow right now. My permuto graphs,

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I thought it was gone, butit's starting to come out. So I'm
not going to defatch it this yearbecause there's just simply not much of it
left good call. So I'm gonnalet it get really established and try to
get it back again if we haveenough water to do that. What happened
last summer? It just got sohot and dry. I just didn't water

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it. M I couldn't it wasn'tat home. But anyway, so it's
starting to make a comeback in areasI didn't think it would. So the
zoicial grass is starting to come outtoo, and if you have a good
stand, it's probably not too lateto do a detatched But also it's probably
not too late to do some kindof control on crab grass. There's our

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pre emergence you can use on apre emergent heurb side you can use on
your crab grass. And also theQuinn cal Iraq would be a post emergent
control. Q is also known asis a pretty broad spectrum herbicide and if
applied properly, it'll clean up yourmudia guys pretty well with weed. So

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you want to make sure the grassis very healthy and there's adequate moisture before
you put that on there too.So anyway, that's sort of it with
grass. Oh. Also, asI mentioned earlier with the customer, it
is time to do the spring applicationof ten. Typically we're doing our second
our first application and notre jump,but everything's kind of set back this month.

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Notice you and I have jackets on, yes, when normally we don't
do that first of maya No,you have short everything just a little bit
delayed this year. Yeah, sowhat's gonna happen. It's going to beautiful,
all winner of all summer all weeklong rather but the nighttime going to
be out of the forties. Lookat that all week long, three thirty
eight degrees tomorrow and I yeah,forty one and then forty. So it's

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it's not the permiter grass it's goingto want to really grow that fast.
So I think it's a little earlyto try to emphasize some good top growth
on your permiter grass. Let's waitjust a little while on there. Have
it a couple of weeks until thenine time temperatures get consistently above fifty five
degrees. Typically that's when the crabbreast starts to come out too, So

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I think you still have time.They'll have time to do a pre emergent.
You'll get some pretty good control.Yeah, you're kind of Yeah,
the areas near the curb or thesidewalk where it's a systematically warmer, I
do see some emergence of the crabgrass. So I gotta go pull out
a couple of ones in my yardthis morning. I saw that when I

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came into work. Oh no,you didn't I missed the spot. Oh
yeah, I gotta go take careof those rascals. Anyway, come back
to the nursery and check it out. We've got all kinds of stuff right
now for your garden. We managedto get ahold of some shrubs that people
really want and Gotti, it wasa tough call that winter. Really,

(50:38):
Jerry does an excellent job at scrounging. So so happy, he said,
I fousand worth yep on hollies.Yeah, thank you. Now I get
to my jobs. Those were becomingrather scarce. Well, it was the

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winter to call some problems, dieback on them. Yeah. These these
are actually grown in Louisiana, sobut they're still hardy. Genetics are the
same, so they'll do very wellover here. So that's good anyway,
Tom Gott, what a what awhat a week? Huh? Yeah,
and what a week coming up.It's going to be a ban a week
for landscaping and planting and all that. But in doing so, you want

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to make sure to keep that shovelsharp. We will see you next week,
Thank you, Larry. Once again, we've got news coming up at
the top of the hour. Stadiumresidential and commercial plumbing calling Meason's Plumbing.
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