GREEN COUNTRY GARDENER 7-5-25

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:03):
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(00:36):
good morning, good morning, good morning, welcome, welcome time now
for the Green Country Gardener Program.

Speaker 1 (00:41):
He's Larry Glass, He's our expert. I'm Tom Davis. I
just answered the Poe's the kind of way ad level
of the humor.

Speaker 2 (00:46):
But our phone line is open, so if you do
have a question or a comment at poor Larry are expert,
make sure you called in at one eight hundred seven
four nine five nine three six. Happy crabgrass season crabgrass. Yes,
I got a crop for you, buddy.

Speaker 3 (01:04):
How tall is cra well?

Speaker 2 (01:06):
I'm starting to see you get back home from vacation.
Time to get it before that happened.

Speaker 3 (01:11):
I know, I've ran into some of the toughest crabgrass
in my place. It'll bend your blades. Yeah, it's crazy.
I love this weather. Some people actually call it waters
water crabgrass, but it's when it gets to that point. Uh,
the herbicides just won't work.

Speaker 1 (01:32):
No, it's it's it's that will work.

Speaker 4 (01:35):
Now.

Speaker 3 (01:35):
Is a claw hammer?

Speaker 1 (01:36):
Yeah? Pickax? How big it is?

Speaker 3 (01:43):
I got craggrass the size of redwood redwood trees. Oh
my goodness, you can cut it up and make lumber
out of them.

Speaker 1 (01:53):
Anyway, that's not a good thing for here.

Speaker 3 (01:56):
Typically we're running into a lot of dry weather and
you know, I've cactus screwing in my front yard. But
this year things are looking pretty good.

Speaker 1 (02:03):
They are.

Speaker 3 (02:04):
We've had some makeup rain from last year. We've already
reached our amount of rain almost till the end.

Speaker 1 (02:11):
Of the year. You were showing me back graft. That
was impressive.

Speaker 3 (02:15):
We've had thirty one point seven inches of rain so far,
and typically we have forty. So they're going to have
to the Weather Department's going to have to make a
bigger chart. Probably. Yeah, we'll see what happens. Actually, I've
had experiences where it's we've had wall clouds come in
on July the fourth.

Speaker 1 (02:35):
I bet we have in the past.

Speaker 3 (02:37):
Back in the eighties and nineties.

Speaker 1 (02:41):
Do we have some politility back then? Is that what
you're saying.

Speaker 3 (02:44):
Yeah, and we still do. I mean that still happened.
The weather's cyclical and it's unpredictable. So yeah, anyway, we
would take all we can get.

Speaker 1 (02:56):
We will.

Speaker 2 (02:57):
I don't want to have anything like I was seeing
a few years ago where the fish will hit track
into the next pond because you're breaking out of water.

Speaker 5 (03:04):
Catch me, please, trying to fight and chance with you.

Speaker 3 (03:10):
Try not to, however, over water your tomatoes and try
not to. People who are watering the grass every single
day haven't water mine yet, and it looks great. So
that's a terrible waste of water. So you don't if
you don't need to, don't. I mean it's that does
is it makes your grass dependent on that shallow water.

Speaker 1 (03:29):
It does, and.

Speaker 3 (03:30):
When the time gets rough, they don't have the deep roots,
and it's like, uh, you know, like being on a
drug or something. They just can't survive a drought. You know,
we need to when you do water, let the ground
dry out between watering. This is a simple thing. Just
look look down in there and put your finger on

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the ground. If you raise a kid, you know. But anyway,
see if it's wet down there, and if it's wet,
don't water yeah, easy. That Typically you get take your
wife's nine by thirteen pain and put it out in
the yard and run your sprinkler for a while, and
when you get to get it to one inch, that's
how much time it takes to water though the whole
yard on a weekly period. So typically about an inch

(04:12):
a week is its adequate brain for our needs around
in here.

Speaker 1 (04:16):
All right.

Speaker 3 (04:17):
So, and we've had that really so grounds and got
to lead. The trees are doing great.

Speaker 1 (04:23):
The trees look wonderful.

Speaker 3 (04:25):
Those that survived the past year's droughts. Yeah, I pulled
up the trucks from the Weather Service and it's been
three years in a row. We've been stuck in a
dry situation. And this is cyclical if you go back
way back in time patterns. Yeah, yeah, you look at it.
It's a cycle that comes and goes. So it's just
a natural thing. So don't worry about it. Just prepare

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for it, right right, So, trying not to overwater your
tomatoes at this point, they're cracking the heat.

Speaker 1 (04:51):
I was going to ask you what made tomatoes do that?

Speaker 3 (04:54):
Now I know it's the Typically the skin when the
water comes in, they ripen the the water in there
soaks up the water and it breaks the breaks the skin.
So if you do have a situation where your tomatoes
crack a lot, you might want to pick them as
they turn peak and then bring them in the house
with them, ripe it in the house. Very good idea,

(05:16):
So that way, at least you won't have a little
little critters in.

Speaker 2 (05:20):
Your I used to see those things about as big
as your fist, and then they would start to crack,
and the you know, we'd have to run into the
garden because somebody saw a crack and just pull them out,
you know quick, you know, before they start pick them, Yeah,
pick them, bring him in, put them in the window,
Put them in the window.

Speaker 1 (05:39):
Still right.

Speaker 3 (05:40):
So anyway, so that's kind of it. With the tomatoes.
I'd be sure to keep a steady fertilizer on them.
Don't try to overdo it, no, just just a good
steady flow use a you know, Tremertle Vitaler tomato fertilizer.

Speaker 6 (05:55):
There you go, phanetic food pot there, just having an
issue there. Get to that for a lie as as
recommended on the package of the okay okay, also time
to in the in the in the garden.

Speaker 3 (06:13):
Time to plant okram, so it'll be ready to go.
And Oka likes it's hot.

Speaker 1 (06:20):
I heard her say that on TV. No O crah o.

Speaker 3 (06:24):
Cra Yeah, your crap there, you just find Okay, the
roses are slowing down a little bit. Hydrants are slowing
down also a little bit. It's the latest time right
now to cut back to dogwood trees. They're going to
begin differentiating the days are what is summer solstice? Anyway,
we're there, huh, we're there over there now, Okay, these

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aids are going to start getting a little bit shorter,
and that's their signal to go ahead and initiate blooms.
So you if you haven't prune back, and if you
do want to prune back your dogwood trees and your
zellios and other things like that to bloom this ring lightlacs, etcetera, etcetera. Uh,
get away along because they're going to start differentiating based
on the length of day. So as they shortened, uh,

(07:10):
they get that signal to put on bloom. So uh,
the wisteria buyings the same thing. It sets booms. The
booms are set in the fall and then when the
spring comes.

Speaker 1 (07:24):
There you go.

Speaker 2 (07:25):
Hey, getting back to roses, kind of go ahead knockout roses.
I've seen some of them start to turn pinkish sh
bang red, you know, yeah, is not a sign that's
not doing well.

Speaker 3 (07:38):
It's probably either rosette disease or excessive water.

Speaker 1 (07:42):
I'm going with excessive water.

Speaker 3 (07:43):
Yeah. The rosette disease, which is a problem that people
a few years ago outs at the house too Thursday.
They had had it real bad on their knockouts. And
if it's typically associated with very closely related and numerous
uh thorns, and the flowers get all distorted and actually

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they get a little bit of a little bit pinky
too when that happens. Okay, so your leaves get distorted,
the tips get burned, and that's typically typical of Rosette's disease,
which came a while back, and it's spread by mikes.
So I don't have it on my knockout road, of.

Speaker 1 (08:22):
Course you don't. You do nothing to yours. They just
magically they just grow.

Speaker 3 (08:27):
But anyway, they're planting on the north side of the
house away from mine on the south, and there's a
vegetation between it and the rock on the house. So's
it's in any microclimate that the mics really don't prosper
very well.

Speaker 1 (08:41):
Yeah, mine's right there on the southwest, right in the heat, so.

Speaker 3 (08:45):
That, yeah, you'll you'll probably have them if you haven't yet.
They probably hopefully that this disease will run its course
and then there will be a problem anymore. We can
grow some really nat rods is again, but kay, the
knockouts can't beat big old plants. They are nice and
just covered in blue booms and just boom like they're
all the same color. But they're coming out with some
different colors that there's a pink one and a yellow

(09:07):
knockout and a white one. It's called white out, believe
it or not. A man yeah white yeah that. But anyways,
so you want to kind of keep them fertilized to
on a regular basis. To add, with all this rain,
it's kind of washed away some stuff, so it might
be malnutriented due to just the fertilizer washing out of

(09:33):
the soil utilized by crabgrass.

Speaker 1 (09:36):
So in your case, crab grass turned into a mouture.

Speaker 3 (09:42):
And when your fertilizer, your roses don't use a high
nitrogen use ten twenty ten or something like that that's
thick or just get some rose fertilizer. Very simple, it's
all the work for you.

Speaker 1 (09:54):
It'll diffuse nicely.

Speaker 3 (09:56):
It's right now. Also is the latest time for the
fertilizer operation applications on azalias. This is the last one
to do. They're going to be initiating blooms pretty soon too.
And you don't want a whole lot of top growth
at this point. You want to kind of slow down
a little bit. So something with a fairly low nitrogen level.

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Your jalies and look at the leaf size of the
rxalis that the leaves are really kind of small. Senses
are your pH is too high, So you get somen
with some salts in it or some iron salfate on
them or something to lower try to lower that pH.
Because they they're not native to this area. Alias or
what we call ericaceous, and that covers that term covers

(10:40):
a broad spectrum of plant cetera, acid requiring azalias and
rhododendrons and et cetera. Et cetera, like a require an
acid soil.

Speaker 1 (10:50):
Got it.

Speaker 3 (10:51):
They come from the Orient and they have a lot
of volcanic foil there and that that's why they're kind
of suited to that. Gotcha, up on Circle Mountain, though,
we do have some situations where the soil is somewhat
acid and these values do bid. I see some lawns
over their beautiful jailias, but some of them, some of

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them around around town, just don't do as well because
we have a limestone based soil.

Speaker 1 (11:19):
I've seen those. Yeah, I think maybe at my house.

Speaker 3 (11:26):
So I don't have any values in my house.

Speaker 1 (11:29):
Well, I've learned my lessons that Rhode todendron they don't work.

Speaker 3 (11:33):
Well, yeah, there are. Actually I have a customer who
has a rotor dinner in her backyard in an elevated
bed that shielded from the afternoon sun by a pergola thing.

Speaker 1 (11:45):
And it's lucky her, but it still has a little
bit of.

Speaker 3 (11:48):
Stamp virus in it. But I told her to slow
down on the watering and hopefully it'll do better.

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Speaker 2 (14:09):
Good morning, and welcome to the Green Country Gardener Program.
Our phone line is open at one eight hundred seven
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get your question answered by our expert, Larry Glass. I'm
Tom Davis. Where are we now on the program?

Speaker 1 (14:25):
Larry, Well, we were.

Speaker 3 (14:26):
Talking about the weather and how it's affecting things and
now this year I noticed a lot of the scale
insects are a little late, but you do need to
inspect your plants for those. And actually I've found some
clean crape myrtles here and there. Typically they're not associated
with the war with the worm spot and mine at
home don't seem to have too many of them scale

(14:47):
insects either.

Speaker 10 (14:48):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (14:49):
The scale insect also is spreading across the board into
the uanamous family, specifically burning bush and Manhattan euana us.
So you want to watch for that too.

Speaker 2 (15:01):
How do I know if I have scale, Well, it's
a little dark, and it's kind of slimy.

Speaker 3 (15:07):
It's a real small imagine a overcooked fried egg stuck
to the stem, very small though, about as big as
the head of a pin or something. And what they
do is they cling themselves to the tree and they
draw juices out of the plant. Then they take that
juice and do whatever they do with it, and then

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they poop it out, if you will, along with eggs,
along with ants. Like that syrupy stuff they put out,
and that's good. They walk through it, and them and
Fred and Ethel and George also walk through that. Ants

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walk through that slimy stuff and they carry it around.
And that's why there's one reason why the spacing on
them is fairly uniform too. Just by the the ant
has six legs, and that one leg is the same distance. Yea,
So watch out on your oak trees. I was at
a customer's house earlier this year, and they had terrible

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problem with scale on their oaks. I wonder why they're
not growing fast. Well, they're they're being stressed out from
the scale insects. Then about two weeks ago went to
their house and we looked at it and the scale.
They put the amidle clo prid down the tree, drew
it up and then, uh, the scales are still there,
but they're they're not alive. Knocked them out and the

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tree is actually having a second flush.

Speaker 1 (16:36):
Good.

Speaker 3 (16:41):
So yeah, crape myrtle's burning bush uanymous And actually a
lot of other plants are starting to get affected by
them as they kind of changed their diet habits, I guess,
so watch out for those. They're pretty bad things, okay, they,
like I said, the amid clo prid is at this
point is a good control, while the dormant In the

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winter dormant oil works real well. But you don't want
to use dormant oil when it's hot. Yeah, leaves all
dry up flow lace. So timing is very important on
that too. So at the nursery, golly, we got all
kinds of container and bald bird out trees can be
planning just about new time, just don't want to move them.

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Hawsters are doing very well. They're starting to bloom a
little bit. Encore as there's putting on As is putting
on some flowers here and there, and I began to
show some budswell opening up to colb. Flowers are showing
some color. Harder high Biscuits is growing aggressively and then
beginning to bloom. Hardy high Biscuits is a pretty cool plant.

Speaker 1 (17:41):
It gets big, the name hardy.

Speaker 3 (17:47):
Yeah, I have heard my house in the bed and
they're six feet tall, and you're starting to bloom right now.
But they need they get tall. So but I tried
on one of them, I tried cutting it back and
it actually increased the branching while it was young. Maybe
more branches coming out, so we'll have more blooms. So
but they will form eventually a kind of a V

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shaped cluster of stems or clump, if you will, And
they bloom for a pretty long period of time, and
in the summer. I wouldn't make a big deal of
their composition. I mean, in your composition, you know, an
entire entire composition of these plants, because they're going to
bloom for a short period of time, so you put

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them here and there to give you some seasonal interest. Yeah.
They associate real well with with rows of Sharon, which
is actually related. So and the roads of Sharon are
in full bloom right now too.

Speaker 1 (18:44):
I see how you work in it.

Speaker 3 (18:46):
Yeah, so.

Speaker 1 (18:48):
The mesage to your madness.

Speaker 3 (18:52):
So the crape myrtles are starting to starting to make
some show. Some of the earlier blooming ones are blooming
right now. And yeah, some a purple ones in the
landscape too. I'm working on a plan for somebody and
they wanted something purple on the west side of the house.
I said, well, I really wouldn't go with the little
Japanese maple. No, it'll turn into post hostis in no time.

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So let's think about maybe a purple leaf crape and
a dwarf too, and that'll give you that purple color.
There's also nine bark, which is one two, but it's
it's very irregular in this growth habit and in this situation,
it wouldn't work because it's porky growth, you know. And

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they just don't make a good form. I mean, they're
pretty well when they bloom, they're nice, and the purple
leaves are nice too, and They take the sun real well,
and we've used them on very successfully on some landscapes
when you allow it to get fairly large, and the
blooms all kind of show you on them too. But anyway,
so something purple like that would work. It's fine. There's
also a dwarf purple leaf plum, but they get so

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full of bugs and disease and boards and stuff, but
it's not worth it at all. But probably one of
the better purplely plants on the Wist side is barbary
well really yeah, and thorns, but no, really, you really
only have to do anything with your barberies maybe once
a year in the spring, just cut them back a

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little bit. People let them get too big and about
middle February early early March they need to be cut
back rather sternly. And my neighbor across the street did
that and they're beautiful and he doesn't do anything to them.
You know, some pleasure gloves you know in winter, and

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the thorns aren't that bad on them.

Speaker 2 (20:46):
If you got a rose bush, I think it'll be Okays.

Speaker 3 (20:49):
Are worse, really, But the barbary is takes our heat
and it doesn't get the diseases we have here and
so on so on. So for some purple color you
might consider that good. Okay, we'll do our tree this
week is a little gym magnolia. The little gym is

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a smaller version of the regular magnolia treetch. But however
it stays small because it has a shorter node between
the stems and the leaves. A node is a link
between the stem it branches out, or the distance between
the leaves. On the planet too, it thinks it's hey,
I'm a two hundred foot magnolia. I'm big and tall.

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But no, no, it gets about ten or twelve feet tall.
So if you do want to magnolia or something, it
doesn't get us tall. Over here on the notes that
says gets up to forty feet forty by thirty feet.
But not in Oklahoma, No, no, not at all. One

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thing about the magnolia tree is this, we planted something
for somebody and they said, you don't want to trend
them from the ground up. You don't know, And so
why is that? Because every single day they drop something,
They drop leaves. They're done with their leaf, drop in
the string. Then they around the leaf. They have a
sheath that falls off when the flowers come out. They

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have a sheath that falls off the blooms, the bloom
fold bud. So there's also stuff, a lot of stuff
below them, So you want to make that just a
surface where all that's stuck and decomposed and go back
into the soil. Also act as the mults. So when
you're planting magnolia trees, planting is this is what one
of my college professors said. It's so funny, like southern

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bells dancing across the yard. You know, those big dresses.
So they that's kind of how you want to do
your magnolia trees. Don't get them close to the house.
Keep them twenty feet away from the sidewalk or the
driveway and twenty thirty feet from the house. They grow
to be a really nice big plant.

Speaker 1 (23:01):
That's all you say they get. Huh, how do all
do you say they get?

Speaker 3 (23:04):
They can get up to forty one hundred fifty fifty
feet around. Okay, pretty good, thie, and a little gym
is a smaller plant than that, so okay, very good. Anyway,
I mentioned that because they're blooming and they look good.

Speaker 1 (23:20):
Yeah, they look good, folks.

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Welcome back to the Green Country Gardner Program. And it's
a thirty four seventy seventy degree is a little overcast
right now. To take a look at the Tray County
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I like that.

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Speaker 3 (25:57):
Larry Well, yeah, we're oh yeah, there's a little well,
it kind of went away. But let's talk a little
bit about cone flowers.

Speaker 1 (26:07):
Let's do that.

Speaker 3 (26:09):
Echinacea is a cone flower and it's a hearty perennial
here if where snake wret comes from. And it does
quite well in our climate. Of course, this one loves
the heat, but kind of within limits too, you know,
to go so far.

Speaker 1 (26:26):
Like one hundred and four and then it starts to
wilt a little bit.

Speaker 3 (26:29):
About at about one hundred and twenty degrees. It kind
of will little.

Speaker 2 (26:32):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (26:33):
Anyway, the available in colors from white to yellow, orange
and red to purple. They boom for a fairly long
period of time in the summer. But they do like
well drained soil and a wide open situation. And I
like to use them in a composition where there's just
not a bunch of them, just you will get a
bunch of them eventually kind of doum, just kind of
dotum around a little bit. Give them some room to grow,

(26:53):
because you'll they will be joining hands in no time.
They read received. The sells very well, they do, and
sometimes you get some variations in the color too.

Speaker 1 (27:04):
Nice.

Speaker 3 (27:05):
Anyway, we have met the nursery and it's a big
color kind of rainbow colors, some white, yellow, orange, red, purple.
The stock option, of course, there's kind of a lavender
purple is sort of color.

Speaker 1 (27:16):
And they.

Speaker 3 (27:19):
They do quite well here because they're native to the area.
If you have to on the roadside, you see them
all over the place. They're a really really good plant. Actually,
so you might consider some cone flowers to be prepared
for them to have seeds come up everywhere and make
little cone flowers all over the place, so some thinning
is necessary, and they can makes good early Christmas gifts

(27:43):
for somebody. Do you have my cone flowers? You can
have some. So anyway, they're a really good plant. I
like them in the landscape, has some of my house,
and most people I do know really kind of like
them too. They seem to be very resistant to diseases,
insects and everything and just tolerate to heat very well.

Speaker 1 (28:00):
Good.

Speaker 3 (28:00):
Okay, so hard to have. Biscuits are kind of the
same way. I think we talked about them earlier. Anyway,
planning your landscape, that's kind of important thing. Kind of
know what's going to happen when on your landscape. That's
something we do. We go to your house and take
some measurements, and I take a lot of pictures too,

(28:23):
and basically build build a house virtually with the landscape
around it, and get get the measures measurements really close
and then come up with with an idea. And once
you get the base information down you can work with
some which there are no variables in the equation when
it comes to base base information is there set, but

(28:44):
there are some in the landscape type. So when you
do I want us to come out and give you
a landscape planning. I kind of need to know what
are you looking for, what you need? What is your
vision of the landscape, I mean, and then then I
can interpolate that and assign different shrubs and shape and
elevations and stuff like that to make the landscape do

(29:07):
what you wanted to do. Okay, one thing you have
to consider it. I ran into this this week also
is at a kind of an elderly couple. It must
have been sixty five. Hey, shut out, you're.

Speaker 1 (29:20):
Older now, Hey both of us are older.

Speaker 3 (29:22):
No, not really, but anyway, they overdid the landscape too
too much.

Speaker 1 (29:30):
So they had like some kind of like a rainforest
going on in there.

Speaker 3 (29:34):
It's just a whole lot of disassociated plants and overgrown
stuff here and there, and it just looks And I
know they spent a lot of money on it because
a lot of plants, just too many plants put in there.
They had it, they had done, somebody did it for them.
But you need to use a little discretion on some
of this and try not to overdo it and think,
what's it gonna What is this landscape going to look

(29:55):
like in ten years?

Speaker 1 (29:57):
What do you want it to accomplish? Where do you see? So?

Speaker 3 (30:00):
Right? Yeah, and this one, uh, the design who designed
it that completely ignored the house.

Speaker 1 (30:05):
It's just basically they sold them a bunch of plants
and cash.

Speaker 3 (30:09):
Yeah, just kind of threw them in the ground. And
it's a it's a maintenance nightmare for them. And I'm
trying to keep it as simple as possible, lurry glass
law and rescue and reducing some of the square footage
of the bed is just a whole lot of probably
a quarter acre planter beds themselves. And when you get older,

(30:29):
you just don't want to mess with that.

Speaker 2 (30:30):
So you like looking at it, you appreciate it being pretty,
but it's like getting down on my knees. I made
a commitment here.

Speaker 3 (30:36):
One of my thoughts is to keep it, keep it simple,
so and also kind of envision Yeah the people, Yeah,
they might be in their you know, thirties forties right now,
but what's going to happen in you know, twenty years. Yeah,
are they going to want to do that much work
later on? I'm not.

Speaker 1 (30:58):
I'm fond of it right now.

Speaker 3 (30:59):
So yeah, and then you know, and during the conversation
and try to get information from them, but whether or
not they really like to work out in the yard
or they don't. And actually I made some converts credit converts.
As far as I don't want to do a thing
with this too, well, I kind of enjoyed this. So
it just depends on where you are on the number one,

(31:22):
the environment, number two the house style of the house
and what do they want to do with the landscape.
How big is it, how big are the beds all
this other things? How much rooms are between the sidewalk
and the house. Not only builders do that, you get
but nine inches, dude, what are you going to plan that?

Speaker 1 (31:40):
Come on, you can't even move that without.

Speaker 3 (31:43):
You take the sidewalk and you put a little curve
into it. You have some specimen plants that work with
the landscape of the house, come up with a designer
where it actually goes on the outside of the of
the sidewalk, where it sort of curves around outside where
is your imagination. You're kind of walking through the landscape
rather than walking at it, if you will. And some

(32:06):
people are kind of slow to accept that. They just
see this boundary that they don't want to go past.
So we try to break those boundaries. And then you
know when it really kind of emphasized.

Speaker 1 (32:16):
The front door, it's your welcome spot.

Speaker 3 (32:19):
This one I went to this week, everything was kind
of sort of overemphasized except the front door. O. Yeah,
very odd. Yeah, so what do you know? So I'll
probably present them a plan where we tear out all
the concrete and make it more creative. But wish'll thinking

(32:41):
that's what you would do, That's what I did in
my house.

Speaker 1 (32:45):
You did do that, so you're speaking from experience.

Speaker 3 (32:52):
We'll come on over sledgehammer and I cut those stones.
Actually with us a sledge hammer, you can go kind
of linear thing and you have a what it used
for retaining wall block.

Speaker 1 (33:05):
On the back.

Speaker 3 (33:06):
Really, yeah, you didn't waste anything, didn't waste anything. And
and it turned some of them upside down and put
some iron sulfate on them and some water and turned
him into sandstone.

Speaker 5 (33:15):
Rocksh you go, so my boulders are artificial. But anyway,
so did you do something like that out of the
huge range? Yeah, actually liked it everything. Yes, it looks
concrete column right by the back door. And the ground
elevation was too high, the water was going towards the house.

(33:36):
We rearranged all that so the water goes away.

Speaker 3 (33:39):
From the house. And and being so there's this ugly
concrete thing, a chunk that was poured, like, what do
we do with it? It took my grinder to it
and kind of sculpted a little bit. And then you
use the the iron sulfate on it and let it
sit for a little while. And it took some hydrated
line and sprinkled it here and there. It gave you
some color verry.

Speaker 2 (34:01):
So it looks it looks it looks like a rock,
looks like heame out of the ground exactly poured from
some guy's truck.

Speaker 3 (34:08):
So sometimes when you get back in their corner yet
to use the creativity.

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Speaker 3 (36:43):
Larry, Yeah, we're getting back to lawns. We touched a
little bit on craggrass, and crabgrass is a warm season
annual grass which grows best in the heat of midsummer. Boy,
doesn't I see some people's lawns that are entirely crabgrass,
and fine.

Speaker 1 (36:59):
This is great.

Speaker 3 (37:00):
If that's what you want, that's fine.

Speaker 1 (37:01):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (37:02):
It overwinters as a seed comes up about mid May
or later, so it's killed by the fall frost. Crab
grass is not shade tolerant. It grows best in full sun.
I have a big maple tree and a Chinese ustache
under which there is no crabgras, and have a little
bit in the front yard. I actually found something that

(37:23):
kind of selectively removed it. But there's some extenuating circumstances
you have to work around, so kind of run out
of time. But anyway to help control the crabgrass, you
want to use a pre emergent. You do that early
in the spring, right, it'll take care of it.

Speaker 2 (37:42):
Now.

Speaker 3 (37:42):
If if you want to get rid of handbit stuff
like that that comes up in the spring. You do
that in October. So a pre emergent urban side works
pretty well too. Per Dieman's a good one to help
stop the growth of crabgrass in the yard. And I
didn't do that on my yard this year, unfortunately, because
the last three years has been so dry. That's all

(38:02):
I had. Yeah, that's not the trace this year, not
not the shape, not the well anyway, it's not having
this year. It has some really nice permetographs. So it
and as time goes on, it's more difficult to control.
So you might want to consider a law management program.

(38:24):
Say we talked about long of pecan trees right now,
conserve moisture, control weeds on your pecans, collect leaf samples
if you have a problem with them. The extension agent
can tell you if you got problems with your thing,
soil drain and clean ditches and so. All the stuff

(38:44):
is from the fact sheet. So anyway, if you're having
trouble with your pecans bearing or anything, you might might
consider a zinc And the zinc does a pretty good
job of it's it's a trace element that the precontra
and need to grow real well. But after all the
rain this year, we I don't know how the crop's
going to be. But anyway, so you want to if

(39:05):
you do hapicons right now. It's not a whole lot
to do with them right now. Just don't let them
get too wet.

Speaker 1 (39:11):
Gotcha.

Speaker 3 (39:14):
I watch carefully for aphids and case bears and all
the stuff. So the insects are coming in the spinners.
Ad works pretty well to control a lot of wide
variety of insects. So look at su pecontril close and
look for little maybe little holes or if you see

(39:37):
a spider web, black pain. Yeah, yeah, you want to
control those two. Anyway. So there's time here, not allowed
to talk about.

Speaker 2 (39:45):
Really, everything's either growing or burning up, depending on what
kind of year we're happening.

Speaker 3 (39:51):
One thing, though, it's going to quit watering here pretty soon.
It's gonna quit rainy, I mean pretty soon. So you
want to of course, water properly. Water water is expensive. Yeah,
you should get my water belts in nurthtry.

Speaker 1 (40:03):
My goodness, Oh i'd faint.

Speaker 3 (40:06):
Yeah, and the grass will do much better if you
have a drying out period between waterings. In other words,
let it. I'm not saying let it wilth a little bit.
But check the surface of the soil and see if
it's drying and drying, drying out quickly or drying out slowly.
And then when it gets fairly dry to the touch

(40:27):
and gets a little dry on the surface, then your water. Yeah,
but try to manage your watering like that and eventually
you will develop a schedule. Basically, you just don't want
to do every other day for twenty minutes each, No,
you don't need to do that. You just need to
do it when it's needed. Now, there are sprinter timers also.
When we install these that connect to the weather Service

(40:50):
and shut it down when it's going to rain, gotch
and also when it gets through a windy it'll shut
it down, et cetera, et cetera. So they're smart timers
can run it. I'll set it my den and so
my flowers need water and it'll water them.

Speaker 1 (41:06):
Hit me out a little.

Speaker 3 (41:07):
People people kind of like these. Some people are real
tech savvy. They really enjoy that. And some people I
don't want that.

Speaker 1 (41:12):
They don't want it at all.

Speaker 3 (41:14):
I don't want it at all.

Speaker 1 (41:15):
But they still work.

Speaker 3 (41:16):
It's just a regular timer, but it kind of knows
when the weather's going to happen, and it's the whole
idea behind these is to try to save water. I mean,
we don't need to water every single day and have
all the water run down into the ditch and down
to the drain back into the river then whatever, So

(41:40):
you don't You just want to water judicially and water
properly and try to respond to the environment. Really Now,
they also have raine sensors which are really good, and
freeze sensor. Free sensors are very important, very because it
will get cold one of these days and you don't
want to have your sprinkler system run at three am
and walk out the front door and trip and fall

(42:02):
on your briefcase and have the wind blow all your
documents away.

Speaker 1 (42:05):
No, you don't want No, what wants that? Nobody wants that.
Nobody wants to lose their briefs elarry really.

Speaker 3 (42:14):
So so anyways, so do some kind of sense or
just be aware of it, you know, just say, okay,
I'm going to turn this thing off for a while.
I don't need the water. And as your grass becomes
more savage, the more distance time apart, you want to water.
You want those richs to go deep down into the soil.

(42:36):
So they do that. You don't want them to live
on the shallow step.

Speaker 1 (42:43):
You don't want to say, hey, babe.

Speaker 3 (42:44):
You might also consider a drip system. I utilize that
at home, a drip system, and it works very well.
I even have hanging pots on that drip system and
it comes on every day at six o'clock for the pots,
but nothing else. The other subject to rain and all
this other stuff, or just manual watering, but they run.

(43:07):
The pots are dependent on that. They run. It's basically
every day. So you can have a hanging pots up
with the drip tube and so on. I put it
in the guttering and let it come out each one.
You really don't see too much of it from inside
the house. So there are a lot of ways of water.
And also when you're doing water, make sure your contractor

(43:28):
does his math and gets because these sprinter nozzles they
have a specific PSI ranges where they're effective. And if
you have too much water pressure and jazz, you get
a lot of aerosol. So you want to keep you
want to design your system based on that so you

(43:48):
don't have a lot of steam myst coming out. You
want that to go in your yard in the atmosphere, right,
and I see someone you go down the street and
they're just shooting water and just half of it's going
up to the to the clouds to come down as
rain injured neighbor's yard. They did come out with some

(44:08):
moisture sensors. I tried them out on a project and
they still need to work on those a little bit.

Speaker 1 (44:14):
Still not quite really to be corrosions real bad on me.

Speaker 3 (44:18):
Yeah, Well, it takes a bimetallic or two different metals
to generate a current based on the moisture, and they
decomposed real quickly. So they're coming along with a moisture sensors.
But right now we just use environmental cause and effect
to regulate the water.

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Speaker 1 (47:00):
Welcome back to the Green Country Gardener Program.

Speaker 2 (47:03):
It is an eight to fifty five and a half
seventy seventygrees is a little bit of overcast at this point,
and our telephone number to reach Larry glass Are Expert
today is one eight hundred seven nine three six on
the Green Country Gardener Program, which you got.

Speaker 3 (47:18):
We didn't discuss our trade of the week yet, No,
we didn't. The emerald arborvite emerald arbor vitae.

Speaker 1 (47:26):
I get to feeling these things kind of go up
and down.

Speaker 3 (47:28):
It's yeah, it's that green green plant, fairly dark green
and actually fairly dense growing for an arborvity actually, and
at a small tray or evergreen shrub kind of well
seited for the loose border style of a privacy screen.
A lot of people plant in a row like that

(47:48):
to block things off. Yeah, and they get about three
feet water, so twenty feet tall on their on their growth,
and they I make a good backdrop, so fifteen to
twenty feet four to six of spread to make excellent
screen to grow iterat of about four feet per year.

Speaker 1 (48:07):
Oh that's getting up there.

Speaker 3 (48:08):
Yeah, so you won't be one hundred years old when
the thing's sure. When they're young, they have a bright
green color and it's darkened to as the plant ages.
In other words, that's a real dark, lush green color
to its cures immatures. Yeah, anyway, we it's often a

(48:29):
little trimming might be necessary, but generally it's not needed.
You need to give them room to grow and develop.
They need to have a space where they grow in
the bellow, and they go naturally into a somewhat paramidal
shape over time. It's kind of narrow when they're young,
but they kind of like like everything, yeah, kind of

(48:51):
broaden out of the middle.

Speaker 1 (48:52):
As I hear you. You need to look at me
when you say broad. I have ready at clear.

Speaker 3 (49:00):
Anyway, advantage in the mist as they will grow and
basically ordinary soil. They will grow in alkaline soil, and
they're hardy and zones three through seven, so they're hardy
pretty far up north. The emerald green arborvietry prefers full
sun to thrive and they are performed best in areas
with high atmospheric moisture, which is humid here, so I

(49:25):
know my sweat planets can attest to that.

Speaker 10 (49:27):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (49:28):
Anyway, this is grown for kind of like a narrow
upright screen. A few years back we had a cold spell.
It got down to I think four or five hundred
degrees below zero. I think it was here for that, yeah, yeah,
I think it was absolute zero. Well, the people who
didn't water them, they got knocked out. Yeah, so if

(49:50):
if you do plant emerald iverybody and there is a
real cold spill coming on, you might want to go
ahead and water it so it'll stay alive. It knocked
out a a whole bunch here intown.

Speaker 1 (50:00):
I saw someone Madison. It didn't do too good.

Speaker 3 (50:03):
Yeah, And the last three we had a cold spiale
couple years ago. Some of them made it. Most of
them made it, though probably a substitute right now will
be the the tailor juniper. The tailor juniper is a narrow, narrow,
upright growing juniper plant, resembling the Italian cypress, and it's
used for kind of an informal screen, not much of

(50:24):
a not much of a heavy screen, but kind of
an implied sprint to screen, if you will. It's also
used for specimen interest. We use it at the corner
houses and things like that because it does resemble the
Italian cypress. With if you've been to Las Vegas, they're
all over this and that's pretty well. And a customer
actually brought in a picture of bagworms on his tailor jennifer,

(50:50):
which is very very uncommon. But because they're so small
and narrow that they don't have a you have much
of a problem with them, and the armor vio. He
does have a problem with bagworms too as well. That
seems across the platform as far as these plants that
have a resonance. So anyway, come by the nursery and

(51:12):
stick out and see what we have. We have still
have a great selection of annuals. There's a good selection
of perennials, hummingbird plants. We got to the lantanas and
all that stuff for hummingbirds too, and a great selection
of shrubs and trees and so on. And we can
come out your health, to your house and help you
out with a problem. So Tom, keep your shovel sharp.

(51:34):
We will see you next week.

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