GREEN COUNTRY GARDENER 7-29-23

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Episode Transcript

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Good morning, and welcome to theGreen Country Gardener Program. The Green Country
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good morning, good morning, Welcome, welcome, welcome. It's time now
for the Green Country Gardener Program.And we've got our expert Larry Glass here
with this sorry telephone line. He'sopening one eight Hundred's happening four nine,
five nine at three six, andwe've got a cool ish morning. But
boy, it's been a heck ishweek heat wise. How you doing there,
Larry, Well, I've got time. Good to see again. And

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boy, ye it wasn't hotter thanseven hundred dollars out there. It was
hotter than seven thousand dollars this week, man. Wow. And this upcoming
we're going to be the same yeah, it is. So we're really being
very careful about working outside. We'redoing some projects outside and there we don't
have one day under one hundred,and it's going to be a little slow.
Progress is going very slow on ourprojects because because of that. Because

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yeah, if you don't have youknow, if you work your people to
the point where they can't work anymore, you can't get any work done.
So the way it is, whatthey call doll days, I reckon.
And anyway, the Platzas seemed tobe doing pretty good. We are something
they can tolerate. That they havewhat they call transpiration and that they draw

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water through the axylum of the treeand it evaporates out to leaves. As
long as there's plenty of water,of the trees tend to overheat. And
it looks like some of the biggertrees they've been out the wind. They're
in pretty good shape. They are, so I guess there's some pretty good
water down deep. And I actuallythe rain we had last week it was
very good. It washed away myproject I was doing. Oh well.

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Anyway, we went to the bottomof the hill to scrape it up and
put it back on the top.Well, sometimes you just gotta do things
like that. Yeah, some ofthe plants are showing a little bit of
heat and drought stress here. Hydrangeus, they kind of whilt in the middle
of the day. Yeah, whichthey got these giant leaves and the root
system. Remember when I said aboutwhen you plant a hydrangea, make it

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about preparation, about the bigger roundsyou can read, Yeah, and get
a lot of people austin organic stuffin there. It does a good job
to hold water that way so thatyou can feed the top of that plant.
So some plants need and that's whywe have different different methods of preparations
for different plants. You know,Azelia aelias are racacious, so they need

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acidic soil. Saying, well,rotared endoms don't grow here, it's too
hot. I'm finding that out.I stayed the same height for about eight
months anyway. But azelias need alittle bit acid soil, and the hollies
are kind of the same ways.And some parts of the town there's some
plants we just can't plant. Soyou just have to get your preparation right.

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Yeah, and that's that's a bitof a part of the cost of
having something installed is getting a soilproperly done, because our soil here is
well, it is what it is, and it's not I have a expression,
well as it were so so sowe do have to do that.

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So we planted some things yesterday andwe threw a wh bunch of composts on
the truck and put it in theground. Everybody else and the plants we
put in on a project. We'redoing drinking really quite well. Actually,
they don't seem to mind the heat. Some of the years are having a
little difficulty adjusting and all that.They have some afternoon shade but a little
bit of morning time. They're they'rethey're looking a little a little pale,

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but they'll they'll be all right.Winning cools down again. So anyway,
so uh, if the drought doesn'tget them this year and they're not healthy,
that the cold will get them some. So you want to give them
a little bit of water now weuh the lake reservoir is up to pie

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right now? Yea, So Ithink we learned a lesson that we do
we do that. Hello, Yeah, that they don't have to water every
day, no, no, weA good deep watering infrequently is better because
it'll temper the plants and make themseek out new life and new civilizations their

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riots and boldly go when no richit's called before. So it makes for
a healthier plant if they're subjected tojust a little bit of stress in between
the waterings. Okay, So Ithink we learned a good lesson on our
on our watering system that people flats, they're just fine once a week watering.
Yeah, I think we should followthrough on that because people got used

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to showering with a bucket too.I still do that. My elephant heres
absolutely love it. I bet theydo. And they're clean too. Who
wants dirty elephant airs? Wash thosethings out exactly. So anyway, I
always remember to water the riot massof new plants first and it's running soil.

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And also I tell people water inthe morning, yeah, man,
because the hose is out on theon the lawn. And in the afternoon
when it's one hundred degrees that thewater is boiling, you cook dinner with
the water in your hose. Yes, you can rock take a warm shower
with that. I think you'll getscalded, really probably, And and that's
a reason why a lot of peoplelose their plants. And the heat is

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they see a wilted plant and thefirst thought, I'll get the holes,
you know, put it on thereand turn on the faucet. Took it
and it makes it even worse.So it happened to us. One time
we did a planet a spruce treefor somebody. Beautiful tree. We had
at the nurse tree for months,kept it water to maintain and put it
in the ground and watered it ineverything else. The next day the customer

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called, all the needles still offof it. Oh, and she had
watered it with hot water. Itjust killed the flattered in. So you
have to be careful when you waterthings. They're like a cool drink better
than a hot drink, and mulchto it. It's another good thing to
do to help us to help loseprevent from losing water, and actually with

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it. With the cost of water, it's a money saving investment really,
so you don't have to water asmuch. Good. So there's some two
some tricks on the hot weather watering. Yeah, we learned those a hard
way exactly. So anyway, atan inter strate course it's really hot.
We've got the whole concept of hangingbaskets. We have some parawinkle hanging baskets,

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really attractive and colorful, and theydon't mind the heat. Paralinkle does
very well in the heat. It'sjust the Madagascar paralinkle. It's a very
heat tolerant plant. So you wantto plant those a little bit later.
I don't like to plant them earlyin the year because they don't actually,
they don't like it cold, andwe don't know. Are the June July
type of thing you want to play? Yeah? Well, no, no,
really when when it really starts toget consistently warm. So people say,

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could you plant me some paralinkles?Sure, you know April comes around,
middle of April, it's time toplant that. No, it isn't.
Wait, don't they don't like itcold and wet. It's not about
the first of May. You wantto plant those warms up anyway, they're
doing very well in people's yards,and the lantanas are doing quite well too,

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so they hate. There's a lotof plants and that can tolerate the
heat pretty well. So we've gotthe good selection of those two. So
lawns right now, your grass shouldbe fairly tall. I know I've got
training wheels on my snapper right now, and the grass. It's a little
high. I got that right.Finally made the mistake like three weeks ago.
It's like, oh my gosh,it's hard to push some more around

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them, Like, oh my gosh, I could put a golf ball on
this. I got it too long. I put it in the wrong direction.
Now we got it at the rightheight, and it's nice and green.
Doing that good and it looks healthy. But the grass recovers nicely from
that. Can they can do it'sa heat, hot season grass. You
know, I don't want to dothat again. That was that was a
long push. And then of coursethe dry belt snap on it. Oh

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yeah, where do you find adry belt for forty year old lawnmower?
I mean you gotta look a longand hard. I found one, though,
and I ordered one, forwarded one, and hurst came in a week
or you're the mind of mine finallyshowed up. See I'll be one hundred
and twelve years old. Anyway,I do today plan on sharpening the mower

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blade. It's mid season and Ilooked at it looks a little bit on
the dull side. It makes thegrass look a lot better the day after
you mow it, because if theblade is dull. The grass kind of
shreds. It doesn't really cut itvery well. So when you when you
do mow your grass, go backand take a closelick at the grass blade
itself and see if it's cut prettyfinally or if it's kind of ragged on

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the edge. So you probably shouldbring your blade next week. I'll bring
my grinder'll sharpened. Oh yeah,we'll make the sparks fly around. Oh
yeah, Kevin will love that.Oh yes, you will. Well you
doing up there? And a bladebalancer too helps to Yeah, thank you?
What that voice? The shakes youknew how to happen once I couldn't

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find my balancer, so I justguessed didn't Well, it didn't work.
Oh well, thanks blade balancer.Since my daughter was about three years old
she's forty now, she used tolove to play with the blade balancer.
It makes a little ringing sound whenyou looked at it. It spins around
them. Just gotta find so Ilet play with that. But anyway,

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so yeah, make sure your bladesare gett and sharp, and make sure
the blade balancers are getting sharped too. We're gonna take a quick break,
Larry and folks, if you've gota question for Larry right here on the
Green Country Gardener program. You cancertainly call in and we'll attack us about
any kind of problem you got withinreason one eight hundred and seven four nine,
five, nine three six is aretoll free number. We'll be back

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five seven thousand. Good morning,Good morning, good morning, Welcome back
to the Green Country Gardener Program.Alright, toll free and upward. Who
got ahold of Larry Glass? Ourexpert is run eight hundred seven four nine
five nine three six Larry, Whatdo we got coming up here? Okay?

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With watering? That kind of leadsus to irrigation systems, alrighty,
and for them to be properly designed, you need to kind of know what's
going on in underground as well aseverything else. Well, yeah, you
just don't put the rainbird five thousandeverywhere or the nozzle diam there has to
vary two depending on whether it's fullradius or half radius, or the soil

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type, whether it's on the slopeor in an area that doesn't drain well,
and so on, And actually you'llfind it on a on a typical
yard, you'll find all these differentscenarios on there. And the irrigation designers
should respond to the soil type,soil depth, and the drain percolation rates
and all this other stuff just justto save water. Oh yeah. Indeed,

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you ever walk into one of thoseplaces where somebody just kind of threw
it together in one house of thenicest one side of the house, like
really clean, Yeah, because itgets a flower. Watch every time they
water the yard, watch that waterthe house. And also you go in
and the top part of the backyardis just bone dry, but the bottom
part is swamp swamp. So yeah, so you really you have to kind

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of tailor the system to the environmenticindustries, yeah, such as the soil
type to soil depth, percolation rateand dada da da dada. So and
also you want to overdesign just alittle bit too, but a little bit
of caution goes a long way.Yeah, And you do you break up
the yard into into sections and throwinga little micro thing going on there,

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you know, their neighborhood, throwinglittle neighborhoods there. You gotta get you
have to assess the static water pressureand then the flow rate depending on the
diameter of the meter coming in,and all these other things you have to
factor in on that so the sprinkersystem will be successful. And then you

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look at the stream coming out ofthe say the rainbird five thousand sprinkle head.
Look at the stream, how muchthe mist is coming over it,
and the droplet size and all thesefactors you have to look at too,
because they're designed to work with eachother. In other words, you have,
say, in your front yard,instead of having like four sprinker systems

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in the corners, which is okay, you need really six, yeah,
if you want to if you wantto make good effective use of your water
and good uniform coverage. So thereare some factors to consider like that when
you're designing a sprinker system. Soit's a little bit more than spray and
prey. Larry, we've got acall. Good morning, caller. You're

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on the air with Larry. Yourquestion or your comment, Yes, I
have a question. Earlier in theshow, you said that the grass should
be taller. Right now, Ihave a commute lawn. How tall should
it be about? You can goup to inch and a half two inches?
Okay, that's what I thought,And that's what I've been doing.

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I've got mindset at two inches andjust want to make sure I had the
right height. Yeah, Now,later on, later on in late August
or early September, when it startsto rain again. I've done this in
the past. I've actually scalped thelawn down and it gives you a really
nice, fresh looking lawn in thefall. So when the resources are plentiful,
you can cut it down lower.Okay, later on, all right,

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and it'll do fine. So it'lllook it'll look kind of be draggled
for a little bit, but it'llcome out of it just fine later on
when you if you do want toscalp. A false scalping is not unusual.
All right, Hey, thank youfor your call, Larry. I
do believe we have another call onthe line, and I guess we don't
take but well, we'll just goon with what we got here. So
our screeners having fun, all right. So if irrigation systems, if you

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have timers now that you can controlwith your phone. By the way,
it got so hot this this littlehow hot did it get the screen protector
on my phone melted? Oh?And you get it. It's interesting pattern
over here, it looks like somearchipelago. Yeah it Wow. It actually
fell off the other day and Iwashed it stuck it back on. But

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it's it's kind of a lot that'skind of doing its thing, and it's
got dirt underneath it, so Ineed to do something about that. Anyway,
what are we talking about. Itwas hot. I'll tell you how
hot it was. I saw adog chasing a cat and they were both
walking. That's how hot it.So anyway, watering, you do want
to water? I've seen people wateringin the heat of the afternoon. That

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s no, no, because itgets too much of afforative loss. So
you want to water early in themorning. Well, it's the best time
of day to water. And thesesystems you can control with your with your
telephone too, which people really likethat. Oh yeah, I have several
customers where we've used the connection fromyour phone, and my supplier gave me

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a timer to play around with andI hooked it up with some stuff at
the house and it's really nice cool. You know, when I was a
kid, I thought it was kindof neat that you had like a channel
changer for your TV. Yeah,kind of putting me out of business as
being the designated channel changer, buildestkid in the house, you got to
go change the channel for the oldman. But now we've got things where

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you can water your yard with somethingas simple as your handheld cell phone.
That is just cool. Yeah,the timers have a Wi Fi connection and
you can program it on the phoneand all that go out and actually watch
it run. There's no more that'srunning back to the garage. Well,
what numbers one who don't remember whatturned out the one on? You know

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that kind of Oh I get somuch of that one. They'll have a
problem with their sucro system. Idon't know how many miles I've walked trying
to tune these things up, goingback and forth. Now it's right there.
You can see what happening. You'reon the ground looking at this,
saying okay, let's turn up.Comes up. Oh yeah, I've got
to do this. There we go, so shut it off, make the

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adjustments to turn it back on.So nice. Yeah, I guess it's
it's making me lazy. I onlyput in about five miles of days.
But you get more done, Iguess. But you get more and done
anyway, So that that's kind ofa new kind of thing, and it's
kind of sort of becoming more mainstreamreally than it was in the past.

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All the manufacturers have either a deviceyou can attach to your sprinker timer or
they come with it built in.And also they tap into the Weather Service
too. That's really novel. Hydroriding one does that. It uses data
from the so you don't over wateror underwater. Yeah, it's it's uh
and the one I have it athome and some of my customers happen too.

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It says watering is suspended because theWeather Service has reported so many inches
of rain, and also if theforecast cost force remained, it will kind
of shut it down too. Andalso it responds to temperature. If it
gets too cold, it'll shut itdown to keep you from having icicles on
your lawn. Right get the mailof the morning. So it's it's hendy.

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It's had a fun too. Butwhat I like about at the best
is you can walk around your yardand audit your system. And you know
you need to do that occasionally.It's just to check it out because it's
some mechanical something will go wrong.Oh yeah, especially when the installed cable
in new yard. My neighbor acrossthe street. Oh gosh, they severed

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the irrigation system in several places.ESPN comes in fine grass not so much
so it's a good thing to happen. So anyway, irrigation systems have come
a long way. We do alsoinstall physical rain censors and temperature cynsors too,

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back to the Green Huntry Gardener Program. It is eight thirty two or in
eighty degrees. There's gonna be anotherhotter one you know hotter, and you
know what, and right now thephone lines are open if you want to
talk to you. Larry Glass areexpert here at the Green Country Gardener Program
one eight hundred seven forty nine fivenine three six Lawrence, what you got
in the garden right now? Ifyou have some iris and I got a

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lot in my yard, yeah,it's time to divide them. Are they
causing trouble? Yeah? Yeah,they the fighting Irish iris of noticing.
I gotta keep them at right yeahreally no, no, you you cut
them down. And my grandmother taughtme this years and years ago. Dude,

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I cut them at an angle,don't cut them flap at an angle.
And you can divide them at thistime of year and put them in
the ground. Plant them pretty closeto the surface. They don't like to
be buried too deeply, and theydon't like mulch either, so they do
no. And I did that twoyears ago and some iris. I just
dug them up, basically, justthrew them on the ground, put a
little dirt on them, and theyjust bloom their little her next year.

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It's amazing. He's pretty hardy plants. So if you do have some iris,
then they do get a little pumpynow and then it's time to divide
those. But it's too hot toworry about it now. Sure, I
mean they're kind of slack about that. You don't there's no precise time when
it has to be done. Butwe're getting into that time where if you
do want to do that, it'stime to do that. And iris only
bloom once a year, but wedo at the industry have twice blooming iris

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too. Bloom in the fall.Yeah, has some doer put on a
real bang up show last fall.Wow, conditions were just right, And
I think with the heat and allthat, it kind of it kind of
makes them go a little kind oftemporarily dormant, and then when the when
the rains return, they'll go aheadand bloom again this fall. So I

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think we're going to have a goodshow on the twice blooming iris this year.
So also on trimming, don't trimyour dogwoods or your zelius right now.
They're setting in their blooms right now. This is the time of year
when our dogwood treats are setting bloomsand the zelius are setting blooms for next
springy, so you want to refrainfrom cutting the back of this point.
For sithia, kind of the sameway, but they just bloom anyway.

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They do what they do. Yourchrysanthemums, if you've got something, they
need to be about eight inches tallat this point, about mid August,
it's the last time you want tocut back your mumms because the days are
getting noticed from shorter right here inabout two weeks and they'll start differentiating and
producing blooms. So if you dowant to cut back your mums, and
sometimes you get a little leggy,now we're getting pretty close to the last

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time to do that. Okay,uh, cut back your yours was made
of phonetic dyslexia. There, cutback your club you're expired. Crape myrtle
blooms at this point, and they'llissue new blooms if you are to cut
them back. Yeah, okay,so some careful pruning on that will extend

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the bloom show in the crape roles. And also some people have noticed kind
of a muddying of the colors thisyear, as I supposed to having radically
different colors, Almost most of themare sort of going to a watermelon type
color and that's due to due tothe temperature primarily and a little extra phosphorus

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about three months ago. What what, But you can still furtilize your crape
myrtles because we're in the midst ofthe bloom season on them right now,
so it wouldn't hurt it. Don'tthrow it on around yeah around, if
used with water. Huh. So. Also on your crape myrtles, look
for the scale insect. Look veryclosely at the stem and there'll be little

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bumps on the stem and they're they'rewhite fish in color. And there'll be
a black black ending of the barkon the on the on the crape myrtle
too, and that's a black citymold as a result of the sugar produced
by the scale insect. You havean interesting adaptive strategy of these insects.
They yeah, they exude a sugarystap which which the ants love, and

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they, of course they walk throughit, you know the other ants.
Yeah, and uh, and thenthey collect the eggs on their feet and
spread them around, spread them around. It's right. I have no idea
what they're doing. So you haveto watch. Look at your crap myrtles
rip closely at the stem and ifthere are whitish growth on it, or

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the stems are turning black, oryou see all these little tiny bumps on
it, those are scale insects.The scale insect also is going cross the
platform to the red buds to getthem pretty bad too. But the evidence
it's not as obvious on red buds. It's such a species of scale insect.
They just have the bumps and youdon't have so much of the blackening

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on there. But you do havea lot of the scale insects on there,
so and they can decimate your redbuttrees. If you've noticed it's growing
a little slower than it has inthe past, you know, those of
leaves are kind of closer together andsmaller. You might look real carefully at
the stem and if you see somethingthat you can brush off with your fingernail
or something. Those are scale insectsand they exist by attaching themselves to the

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stem and drawing the juices out ofthe plant. Okay, and they get
the population increases so much that itdiminishes the health of the plant eventually if
he comes to them. Yeah,I've seen these on the red buds,
you know, in the crape marblesand some some of the oaks. Even

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I've seen some of the Japanese mapletoo. So watch out for those two
because you've got some you know,some time and money investing in these plants,
and simply an application of the treeand shrub Brench middle corprid. We'll
do a good job to take careof them. So that sounds good.

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Bagworm seasons pretty much over with,I think right now. I've seen them
hanging from the trees. I'm goingto some of the house and they're hanging
like these little corpses hanging. He'svery fine thread and you go, oh,
gos, we gotta call you realquick. Okay. Put them on.

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Good morning, and welcome to theGreen Country Gardener Program. Your question
or comment for Larry. My questionis a zoysia and bermuda fighting for the
same spot. Which one wins out, the zosia will win out. Well,
it's good to know because I thinkthat's what's happening. Yeah, because
the zosia is a very dense growinggrass as opposed to bermuter grass, and

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then the bermuter grass book I haveto glide over the top of it to
survive, and it'll those those runnerswill manually just sort of dry out.
So all right, well, thankyou, so may the may the best
grass win. Very good, verygood, very good. Of course you
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green count regarding the program. Wehave Larry Glance and a free land is
open at one hundred seven point ninefive nine three six. You've got a
question or comment, we're trying toanswer it for you. Well he will
because he knows things that is answeredthe phone. But you got Larry.
Oh golly. We were talking aboutbefore the break bagworms and their infestation is

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kind of passed the point where theycan be controlled. So if you do
have some bagworms on your plants,chances are at this time of the year
it's too late. They've they've donetheir damage. So, uh, we're
trying to control them at this pointis somewhat superfluous. So in other words,

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they're pupating if you will. Okay, so can you say that on
the radio? Well, yeah,they're they're they're metamorphosics. It's a yeah,
a stage in the metamorphosis. Anyway, they've they've done their damage.
So for the most part, ifyou see a real small ones on the
tree, yeah, you can stillget some control on them. Okay,

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But I was walking in somebody's yard. They were just hanging. Like there's
a movie where all these hanging corpseswere going in I don't remember the name
of that, but that's going downthe road and went up and hit the
windshield. You know. Just they'renot good so that they're actually leaving the
they're done, so I wouldn't worryabout trying to control them. Physical removal

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is probably the best thing at thispoint, the only thing you can do
exactly. So that's the deal withbackwards tent caterpillars. I really haven't seen
much of this year. Then I'mseeing something in the low part of the
tree of my neighbors. Yeah,those are the ones, you know,
they didn't make these big tents andlittle worms. Yeah, I haven't seen
a lot of that. Typically theyattack up the countrees and ash trees and

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a walnut. Oh well, thatmakes sense. Yeah, So anyway,
so they're not that bad this yeareither, thank goodness of that. We
don't need down on top of thedry conditions. So anyway, that's pretty
cool. That leads us to arbrevity. Speaking of bayworms from there are a

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genus of coniferous trees in the cypressfamily, and of course their natives to
China. For most of Japan andNorth America, there are some actually indigenous
Arborviti species here in North America.It has a scale likely which are kind
of flat branches. In other words, you have these vertical almost sort of
like a radiator, kind of verticallyassociated branches on them, and they're that's

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a scaly, evergue, but they'renot really thorty until you get done inside
of the branches. Anyway. Thearbrevity or white seater of East or North
America, it's called fujia oxygen talas. It forms a colton elect tree up
to feet feet in hype. That'sa tall tree. Yeah, there are
survivors. However, this last winter, the last two winters have been especially

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cut on. They It was reallydry, association was cold, and those
of you who watered your armor vitisin the wintertime, rewarded by their survival
and cold. But the people thinkof Kennifer's trees as droughts tolerant, but
this one in particular is not droughttolerant at all. Needs a drink of

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water now, so it does needsome water pretty well. Green giant is
a large growing variety of arbor viti, and a lot of people lost their
green giants the slice winter. Yeah, indeed, because of the of the
drought so bakes you are going intothe winter that they're most real well and
they have a sufficient amount of waterto help them survive the winter. There's

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some arborvital you see in the neighborputbeautiful plants right in the next door neighborne.
So that's kind of flagging. Ifyou want something just more droughts tolerant
and an ever green upright plant,you might consider something like a tailor juniper
Taylor generator Jennifer gets. If Ias big around as I am, it's
just straight up all right. Youknow the Italian cypress from Caesar's Palace in

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Las Vegas, Oh yeah, prettyand all that. Yeah, and you
see them in these pictures of Italywith they look kind of like that,
and there really is just it's arecent edition, not too long, you
know, for a few years,and it's become very popular because if it
is narrow and upright and now itis very well in the corner of the

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house, and it's very architectural andappearance, and it's up and down,
and it's tough. It's terrible durable, and yeah, and it does make
a statement in the landscape. Soour provide is a good plan to have
to but be aware that for itto survive the winter, it needs a
bit of more moisture. So youmight consider putting it in an area where

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you can irrigate, or perhaps ina bed where you can mulch it effectively,
and don't let it get too dry. I'm gonna work well for anything
if you do upright and every greenlike that. There are substitutions for that
that'll that'll tolerate the barb of fill. I think providing anywhere from South Carolina

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to Las Vegas to to North Dakota. That's what our weather is here.
We get all these different things,which hour of the day it is something
like that. It's pretty tough alsoanyway, getting back to your lawns.
Yeah, I like the waterline whenit shows only when it shows stress,

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and then you water it fairly heavilyand deeply. Try to you really want
an infrequent deep watering on your lawnso the roots will go down to have
a more vertical association of the rootsrather than being narrow like that. They'll
speak people with water the permuterographs everyday and it's just kind of a waste
of money. But then if yougo to dig it up, you just
kind of pull it and just sortof come out because the riots don't go

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very deep and it becomes dependent onbeing watered like that. It really won't
tolerate the heat. Permuter grass isa very drought tolerant grass, so let
it be. You have to treatit like a dropt tolerant grass for it
to do that. So my yard, I haven't haven't watered it in two
years, and right now it's justsolid green. It actually the rain we

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head it grew back together. Wow. Nice, looks pretty nice too,
and it's it's kind of tall.Because my more was out for a week
or two trying to find that fortyyear old belt for your forty year old
more and in it it's going tobe mode in the morning. So but
let's just say Larry's not a horder. He just makes sure that things get

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their nice long lifel they're supposed to. Well, yeah, you got that
forty year old more. You gotthirty five year old truck. It's it's
on a third engine. It isthe trucks on the second engine. Yet
she looks nice and it drives veryvery well. Yes, never gonna train
that thing in. No, that'sthat's that's kind of like part of the
family, those two things that actuallyit is part of the family. The

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father in law head on the farm. We yeah, so anyway, another
shrub we can talk about quickly,or why don't we talk about week control
post to merchant week control in theyard. It's too late. Yeah,
if you've got crab grass, youbetter just take the claw hammer and start.
It's too late to get it becauseit's it's in its mature stage.

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It's it's seating right now. Sothe controls typically don't work. The quinclo
iac is is the one we usenow. Used to use MSMA monosty massive
myth and arsenate that too, butthat's m SEM. But but the arsnake
in it made take it off themarket because it was getting into the water

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supply and all that, so wedon't want it. That's not good.
So anyway, so we use thatquinklerac now and it's a kind of annual
grass killer this time of year.If you do spray it under bermuni grass,
it will damage the bermunic grass,but it'll come back. So if
anything, just kind of tolerate itand use a pre diming pre emergent herbicite

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in a February margin next year andit'll do a good job to control it.
And also a fall application of preemergent will help control the hand bit
and chick weed and all the otherstuff there too. So right now on
the lawn, it's kind of atime where we don't do a whole lot
with our yard, just kind ofwater it and maintain it when resources are

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available. At Fertilization on bermuter grasswould help. To look at the color
too and see if it's the greencolor you want, and if fertilizing is
not really making it turn green,perhaps it needs some praise elements. Look
at yeah, look at the bagon your fertilizer and see if it has
iron in it. A lot ofthe good, A lot of good fertilizers

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who have iron and sultate and sulfurin it to help darken the color good.
All right, we're gonna take afive minute time out. We'll be
right back after his five minute timeout. Frank Phillips, the old man
with barred wire nerves and the courageof a wolf, didn't realize his own
capacity to love until after the deathof his dear wife Jane in nineteen forty

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eight. He no longer heard herlaughter in the mansion in town, nor
enjoyed the long drives out to hisbeloved Woolerock where they would often go to
share an evening dinner. After herdeath, he found himself waking to the
cold reality of her absence, andconfided to others that his soul ached.
More and more of Frank's time wasbeing spent at the ranch, sitting on

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the front porch of the lodge andenjoying the magnificent view and likely reflecting back
on an incredible life of personal andprofessional accomplishments. However, without his wife
in the chair next to him,these simple joys became shallow to uncle Frank.
After her death, those around Franksoon discovered that he had one desire,
and that was to build a mausolemat Woolerock to serve as a final

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resting place for Jane and himself.He had picked out the spot years before,
a favorite spot that overlooked one ofthe beautiful lakes that dotted the grounds
of the ranch. Inspired by thememorial built for his good friend Will Rogers
and Claremore, the mausoleum soon becamethe primary focus of Frank's life. Once
construction started on the mausolem in nineteenforty nine, he personally came out every

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day to see how work was progressing. Frank wanted it within walking distance of
the lodge, yet not directly inthe public eye, which is why he
chose the site above Elk Lake,one of his favorite fishing holes at wool
Rock. Built of native stone withno cut edges, the tomb appeared to
spring from the side of the hillas if it was part of the terrain.

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Workmen blasted through eighteen feet of solidrock to form the burial chamber,
and the twenty four square foot roomwas lined with a twelve inch steel reinforced
concrete wall. The chamber was airconditioned and a telephone was installed. Inside
the mausolem as a circular rotunda outlinedby eight columns of Saint Cecilia marble imported

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from Italy, which rises ten feetto a dome. The walls are covered
with thousands of mosaic tiles, andin the center of the room is an
eight pointed star formed by the differentshades of marble. Construction took about a
year, and as soon as itwas completed, Frank had Jane's casket brought
from White Rose Cemetery and a memorialservice was held at the new mausoleum to

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his friends and staff. Mister Phillipsseemed happier than at any time in recent
years. His final work was completedand he could return to the porch of
the lodge, which he did untilhis death on August twenty third, nineteen
fifty The magic of Woollerock is astory worth sharing, and it can be
found everywhere at this national treasure.Come see it for yourself and welcome home

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to Wallarock. It's eight fifty three. Time to check in with Evan Farback
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eight fifty five ENDO. Welcome tothe Green Country Gardener Program. Our total

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free number is one eight hundred andseven four nine five nine three six.
Larry Glass, what's next on ouragenda? Look kind of getting back to
lawns now. Yeah, make suredo not fertilize your fescue right now.
It's what we call summer dormant.You know this, It really doesn't grow
a whole lot and it should bemode fairly tall at this point yep.
And so when you do mow it, and if it's real thick here,

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keep the RPMs up on the moorand make sure the blade are sharp too,
and to do just fine if waterdeeply and infrequently, even the fescue
grass. The fescue grass is whatwe call shade tolerant. It doesn't require
shade. So there are some reallynice fescue lawns out here in the full
sun too. So it will godeep rutard if the soil is good enough

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and the preparations on it real well, and it's got adequate water, not
too much water, because it willjust get fight top thorio real bed and
collapse on you. So let itdry out a little bit between water rings
on your fiscal grass. Kind ofthe same with bermuto grass too. The
grass is out in the fields outin the country called either they're kind of

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tall, yes they are, butnobody ever waters them, and they're so
green and pretty. So take yourqueue there exactly. So when you do
water your lawn, try to doit maybe once or twice a week.
And when you do water, waterenough to get some moisture down in the
ground so the ritz will stretch downto the deeper areas. Otherwise they'll just

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be kind of shallow rioted, justsort of like you know, feeding a
dog or something whatever too much andthey'll get complacent. So you want to
make sure you know, deepee wateryour grass. Just find it fertilizing right
now. If you do want todo the bermudo grass, if it doesn't
have the color you want, youdo a light fertilization. At this point,

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water it before you fertilize. Fertilize, and then the next day fertilizer
and water actual words too, that'sthe fertilizer. The mechanism for fertilizic getting
down into the soil is called diffusion, and it just doesn't just go into
the soil. It has you gotto give it a path. It's a
salt. It has to diffuse intothe soil, and it takes a while

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to get down there. It doestake a bit of water water for it
to get down in there too,So it's it's on the surface and you
do want to water occasionally to helptake it to diffuse it down to the
soil. It'll do just find them, so okay, So that's kind of
how the fertilizer works. Also,golly, come by the nursery. We've
got all kinds of cool stuff onsail. You've got some big little elf

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in your bulbs are on sail,a good selection of herbs, and some
planted hummingbirds like and and the yeahwhat's that? Yeah, hummingbirds and yeah,
so I can't think of the namewith the insect. That butterfly that's
it. Yeah, the monarchs thatwe do have some monarch butterflies growing.

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And then on the countertop we havean incubator up there. Cool and yesterday
we had a one of the caterpillarsturn into a chrysalis and it'll pop out.
We'll have a release of the butterflyhere about a week or so nice
that we do have some yeah,butterfly monarch larvae in there right now,

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so you can come by and seewhat they look like, so you don't
kill them. Oh no, no, no no. They have these lateral
stripes of black and gold stripes andgreen color and they're um, almost a
big as your little finger. Anduh, if you see those, be
very careful not to spray them oranything. That's pretty cool. How that

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metaphorpoises take place. Exactly, coolthing you can never think of. All
right, well, it looks likeyou're on call exactly. Oh my goodness.
Hey, you know you got thatwaterfall out there at the Oh yeah,
folks that were trying to take adive in there, and now that
it's hot. Who had a photographerin there taking pictures of people in front

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of the waterfall this last week.Yeah. Nice. So it's kind of
a kind of a neat thing likethat for people to come over and do
the anybody come by the nursery,check us out, get all kinds of
stuff on sale. Got some goodtrees and beautiful look myrtles at this point
too, you know, climbs ofbox lids and plats two got the uh,
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