GREEN COUNTRY GARDENER 8-30-25

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Good morning, and welcome to the Green Country Gardener Program
right here on K one. Hey, I'm fourteen hundred, FM
ninety three point three and FMT ninety five point one.

Speaker 2 (00:12):
The Green Country Gardner Program with our expert.

Speaker 1 (00:14):
Learning class is brought to you by Green Plumb Nursery
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(00:46):
for the Green Country Gardener Program once again. Our phone
line is opening one eight hundred and seventy four nine
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Speaker 2 (00:53):
He's Larry Glass, He's our expert. I'm Tom Davis. That
he's answer the phone. Say silly things. Eh? Are your
brothers wrapping up on the banjo?

Speaker 3 (01:01):
Here?

Speaker 2 (01:01):
We all ready to go? Now, Hey, how do you
like the cool weather?

Speaker 4 (01:05):
Love that I was actually able to work until five o'clock.

Speaker 2 (01:08):
Yesterday instead of, you know, taking the old heat stroke.

Speaker 4 (01:12):
In my eyes are finally getting back to normal, I
bet and out there in the heat, you know, in
the sun and all that the ultra violet stuff kind
of messes them up. A little bit. You see about
another week or so they're back to normal. Yeah, a
lot of catching up survived. Yeah, we got a lot

(01:33):
of catching up to do. Man, it's it's cold. It's
hot weather. Cold weather. Hot weather kind of slowed does
down a little bit, going all the work so long.

Speaker 2 (01:40):
Yeah, everything just kind of gives people.

Speaker 4 (01:42):
Just get all worn out, you know, and they started falling. Yeah,
so uh, we like everybody else in town, it is
behind schedule. That's what else is doing. It's Bartlesville in
the hottest. It's cold that it ain't cold, it's raining
of it, and they ain't raining it's snow. Anyway, I saw.

Speaker 2 (02:05):
One of the long range forecasts. It didn't look like
it's going to be too bad this way.

Speaker 4 (02:09):
No, I think it'll be an.

Speaker 2 (02:10):
Average whatever averages. I've lived here for so.

Speaker 4 (02:12):
It's easy to predict an average Winterow how is it
because there is there is no such thing as an average.

Speaker 2 (02:21):
I was gonna say, I've never seen two the same yet.

Speaker 4 (02:23):
No, we can go whole February without any snow, yeah,
or we can you know, breaking our snowshovels. Yeah, you
just don't know that far in advance. So anyway, we get.

Speaker 1 (02:37):
We get really kind of weird winters. It'd be seventy
eighty in December and then right tunes it hits January.

Speaker 2 (02:42):
Oh my god.

Speaker 4 (02:43):
When when my daughter was born on December the nineteenth,
Mom made this little hat thing somewhere and a cuddly
little knitter a little It was seventy five degrees. That's
don't worry, mom, we'll bring her over in her outfit
when he gets cool. That's quite a deal. Anyway, we're

(03:08):
going to be getting some new fall color trees and
right now. Oh yeah, and because it's given going to
be that time, pretty soon your trees are going to
start differentiating into leaf color. So with with a little
bit more raindom more precipitation, I think we'll have a
really nice looking fall this year. If you guys could
kind of make it cool, it would be really nice.

Speaker 1 (03:29):
I think it's going to be rather cool here for
the remainder of the weekdays.

Speaker 2 (03:34):
Week got the day Wednesday of next week.

Speaker 4 (03:37):
The only time it hits eighty eighty well a month ago,
or even a week ago.

Speaker 2 (03:45):
I telled for an overnight lowb that's about what it was.

Speaker 4 (03:49):
We had engine three quarters at our house. Wow, the
last rain that came down in a hurry. It did. Yeah,
but it's nice and the ground is still wet so
moist because it's not been a blast furnace, so it's
so Captain. I know it's I am for my granddaughter.

Speaker 2 (04:13):
Sending Grandpa pictures.

Speaker 4 (04:14):
Yeah. Anyway, we are also in the process of ordering
points that he is exactly and this week fall color
is on the way. We got some trees on sale,
some other stuff on sale too. Questions this week tent caterpillars.
What to do? Well, it's hardy been done. But typically
if you have tent caterpillars, you know, these things up

(04:36):
in the trees and all that. I think that's getting
ready just to quit, so I wouldn't worry about it
too much. But uh BT works really well. The soils
third genesis excellent for those, so you can control it
with that. Moles. I noticed that my yard moles are
on a rampage.

Speaker 1 (04:54):
You got them from me, They said, they packed their bags,
they said, you're not gregarious.

Speaker 5 (05:00):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (05:00):
At night they had their little conference. So they all
gather and talk about what yards have been doing and
all that, and then you go off. So h A
few of them here and there in the yard. And
I see that in some customers houses too. They have
moles too. Uh is that I have yesterday? And and
she wanted to be looking looking at a few things,
and perhaps so we've got a little landscape we gotta do.

(05:23):
I was walking around and notice her sprinkler system was
seeping water. Hm. Yes, did you know your sprinkler systems leaking?
I said yeah, or she said yeah, that's why I
want water bills so high. So really, if you have
a sprinker system like that, you want to occasionally just

(05:46):
walk around and see what's going on with it. Because uh,
and this this one that I know, it's it predates
the time I was here in town. Who that's a
long time. So things things do, we're out and especially
the rubber in the diaphragms, it kind of wears out too,
So we got to get brit over. Well, it just
breaks down. You know, that doesn't last forever, and thirty

(06:10):
years is probably about all you're going to get out
of one of those two. So but anyways, so we're
going to uh I'll probably covered in mud this afternoon
if my guys aren't on it right now, and get
her ballots replaced. There some time for terrain.

Speaker 2 (06:27):
Ain't that the way it always works?

Speaker 4 (06:28):
So anyway, something like that, you just have to kind
of a walk around down then make sure everything's working
on the case. Kind of the same thing with outdoor
lighting too. Over time, you know, these wire sheials can
corrode and whatnot, and it calls us maybe a dimming
of the lights. Most people are using LED lights right now.
They don't have much average and power draw so we
don't have these big knots of molten wire nuts and

(06:53):
because it's not that much of it at a lot
of the problems with the new LED lights it's just corrosion.
So it's easy to refresh a wire connections that hard
to do. Yeah, So I'm experimenting at my house with
different methodologies for connections and the best one I can

(07:15):
come up with is just solder it together and then
put some electrical feelings on it. And that's fine. It
had some joints that are twenty years older still working.
So anyway, so yeah, you just and you look at

(07:37):
you and if they're not all bright, you know, then
then there could be a wiring issue, a connection issue,
And what's going to happen is that's going to get hot.
It's going to also just like that. Also, they don't work,
So just just kind of look at your stuff down
and out there the landscape and see what's going on
with the sprinker system.

Speaker 5 (07:56):
And all that.

Speaker 4 (07:57):
So, I know, not everybody really knows how to you
an O beater. I use those extensively analysis for irrigation
wiring and lighting weiring too, so those have to be
utilized in that too. So anyway, so just maintain your
stuff this way. I was at a house earlier today
and she had a leak and it was a the

(08:18):
master valve was stuck open.

Speaker 2 (08:21):
That's just a little bit more than a complication.

Speaker 4 (08:24):
Yeah, and there's drain valves on the static line, so
it was, uh, the drain valves were doing their job then,
so I just had to take the soul night off
the the master valve and clean and put it back
on the work. It's mine. So most most of these
things are pretty reliable. But but knowing what to do

(08:45):
when something happens it's kind of important to Okay, indeed,
so anyway, the vegetable garden this week, turnips are just
about ready. You want to prepare the soil for fall crops.
Things like lettuce, cabbage and whatnot. You probably get some
carrots at this time here and get the wistly rabbits

(09:08):
from eating them up. But and coal crops like like
you know, cabbage and whatnot can be planted pretty soon too.
What's going on in the lawn this week, bermediograss and
ysa growing pretty quickly down the heat. It's getting a
little late to fertilize. You really don't want to encourage

(09:28):
a whole lot of of growth on the bermedi grass
because it's got a winter coming up and it's time
to probably the very last nitrogen application on your permiograsso
it is August, well September, yeah, basically, and at that point,

(09:50):
at that point really see at that point you need
to go with a ten twenty ten or something like
that with some phosphorus in it to help build up
the strength of the stolen on the bermuda grass. That's
basically what keeps your bermutigraphs alife from you to your
is these the root system and there's stolen there for
its growth. So the stolens are those little bamboo like

(10:13):
things that are on the ground bermuti grass, and that's
kind of where the where it comes from next year too,
So you want to make sure that you try to
reinforce that a little bit with some ten don't like that, okay,
trying to encourage a whole lot of top growth at

(10:33):
this point. I've done some experimenting in the past where
I scalped the yard. Right now. It looks good, you know,
going into the fall, but it doesn't have a good
survival rate. No, So so if you want that, I
know that the permeter grass has for the most part,
has a very thin veneer on the surface. She could
take you over down a notch just once.

Speaker 2 (10:55):
Just don't take it down to military don't.

Speaker 4 (10:57):
Don't take it all the way to down, but just
take it down a notch, and then the next week
bringing back up, you'll have some fresh grass on the top.
You just don't want to scalp at this time of year. Also,
fescue grass is getting time for that. It's also time
for pre emergence for winter weeds. As it gets cool
like it has been getting your handbit's gonna start sprouting

(11:19):
your chick weed, all the other junk that comes in.
We're prepared for that. We have a pre diamine with
a fertilizer base of zero zero seven. Yeah, shake the use.
They use the fertilizers a carrier to make the hazard

(11:41):
to dispense. So you might consider getting some pre diamine
to help slow down the production of hend bit and
chick weed and stuff like that. All those beautiful purple
sea of purple flowers. We have that, but but it
dies often it gets hot. Not a huge deal. No,
I don't know, but if you're in a particular in

(12:01):
your yard, you need to plan ahead and apply some
p diamine at this point in time, just so we
don't have that problem with weeds. And we brought a
bunch of it in last week.

Speaker 2 (12:12):
So good, you're ready for my yard.

Speaker 4 (12:17):
Fescue lawns right now? Oh we got to yeah, yeah, Okay.

Speaker 1 (12:20):
We'll get to the rescue here in just a moment
and we'll get you all caught up to date what
you need to do going into this part of the year.
Right now, it's a twenty. It's time to take a
little bit of a break. We'll be back after this
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Speaker 2 (14:56):
He's larried glass. He knows a few things.

Speaker 4 (14:57):
Yeah, fesculans, it's time to start to get in them going
again too. Maybe a little bit more nitrogen at this point.
Try to get them growing up and please don't set
them over down low on your fescue grass. At this
point it's still too hot, so you want to keep
it a put duct tape on the wheels, I guess
to make them bigger. So yeah, you always want to

(15:18):
make that kind of tall. And also your bermuda grass
andrels always of grass. Keep it a little bit on
the tall side going into the fall, just so you
have that layer of insulation to help prevent damage from
the cold. Bermuda grass goes all the way up to
Golly Middle Missouri or something in north northern part of Kansas,
so we're at a latitude at this point where it

(15:41):
could get cold enough cause of damage from cold damage.
So we've had this in the past. We freeze damage
on your bermutigrass too, So you want to make sure
it's good and healthy and fairly tall going into the fall,
tall for fault, so it does have that layer of insulation.
Do not don't scalp your bermuinograss at this point, despite
what slick mystribles, they don't do it. Don't get flickered

(16:06):
into doing that. They're trying to sell you a whole
new so only law in the spring. But anyway, keep
a little high and don't don't use too much nitrogen
on the premiiniographs at this point and it should do okay.
And the pre emergence, Uh, what I like about the
for dining pre emerging is a long lasting one. It's
not a flashing dashing. It stays resident for a pretty

(16:27):
long period of time.

Speaker 2 (16:28):
Okay.

Speaker 4 (16:28):
So that's that's why. That's why some one we sell
is because it works very good. There you go and
in the in the pellet form, it's easy to distribute
around the earth. I just might do it in my
yard this year. Oh well, you know, I keep forgetting.
I'm so busy, I just forget about my old jockey. Well, anyway,

(16:49):
my neighbor across the street, we did his, uh before
we was there, we did his lawn back in the
late eighties in Soysia. It's beautiful yard, yea beautiful stuff.
And then you go to my yard variable grasses. Here,

(17:10):
there's some grass in there. So I'm going to fight
the dry grass next year.

Speaker 2 (17:19):
There you go. You're giving up right now.

Speaker 4 (17:24):
Until for that right, So anyways, with the crate myrtles,
right now, you want to cut basket spent blooms. You
do that because the seeds that are produced afterwards just
take energy out of the plant, so you want to
cut them back somewhat. If you do a heavy cut
back on the crpe myrtles, it's a good chance they
won't bloom again.

Speaker 2 (17:43):
Before it gets cold.

Speaker 4 (17:45):
And actually they're kind of starting to change color. Another
thing you want to look at is, uh, the scale
has It's not as bad this year as it was
last year, but the crate myrtle scale can't get pretty
bad on your on your crate myrtle. The we've discussed
the scale insects in the past, a real tiny little
thing about the size of a pencil point, and their populations,

(18:08):
like a lot of things, increase exponentially. You got, you know,
get one, then you got two, then you got four, eight, sixteen,
thirty two, sixty word ah, next thing you know, you're
covered in them. So they can best be controlled by
being by applying disist on early or amid a clulprid. Early.

(18:32):
You can't get disist on anymore unless you're a farmer
or something. But anyway, but you usually admitted cloth prid
on it that takes a little while to get into
the planet. It might seem rather odd to apply it
to you know, a middle spring for create marbles. I
don't want to put that all my credit. They're not
blooming yet. Well yeah, but uh, there's a terrible scale
outbreak on the crate myrtles and it'll just wipe it out.

(18:55):
It seemed big, nice crepe merdles just decimated because of
the scale with the scale insect. So that happens in
mid to late spring around just cret merdles. They emerge
a little late, so you don't want to put it
on too early because they won't draw up into the plant.
So you do it just as the leaves start to sprown,

(19:16):
and once it's in the plant they emitted cloprid. Once
it's in there, you have a certain degree of immunity.
As far as scale insects are concerned. You're going to
have a few, but it's not going to be an
infestation and we might even have to reapply. I think
the last about three months, so you know what, may June,
July and August again, maybe do another one just to

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and it's easy to apply it. Makes it up in
a bucket and pour it on the ground, you know,
rinse out the bucket and go back in the house.
Whatever you do. So it's not that difficult to apply.
They've they've made it quite easy. It is a systemic
it's a systemic nicotinoid. That's the mechanism how it works

(19:58):
on these insects. It affects brain function. It's harmless to mammals.
It's specific to insects. So try it.

Speaker 2 (20:10):
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Speaker 4 (20:12):
It is it's it's relatively expensive, but then again we
consider you just only have to do it just maybe
once or twice a year. It's not really that expensive,
and you don't need any fancy hookups or any fancy
uh sprayers or anything. You just put it pour in
a bucket and dump it on the ground and the
tree draws it up just like that. Yeah, just like that.

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So another thing I noticed a lot on people's yards.
They plant a tree in their house or around the house,
and like say this maple tree, but they let the
grass go right up to the trunk. And a natural
response to that, let's get the weed whacker out and
starting at a house and its pistache trees were three

(20:58):
quarters or greater severed from from the from the roof
to the top. In other words, the floam layer in
there was just completely way by whackers. So I said,
whenever you plant these things, and we planted them actually
two years ago, and we had a layer of molt
around them, you want to keep that area clear. So

(21:20):
first of all, you don't have to stop and back
up and mow or anything, just you know, but it's
better for the tree if you have that protection. Now,
if you do want to have grass right up the tree,
you might want to put a shield or some time
around the tree. That could be the form of a
piece of black you know that black drain pipe, the
ribbed painted drain pipe. Get a piece about it's a foot,

(21:45):
then cut it down the side and snap it over
the trunk and that'll help. It's ugly, but it'll help
prevent the weed whacker from wacking those trees off. So
when we do a commercial operators or when I'll put
it on a landscape design for a customer, we'll take
one section of steel edge which is sixteen feet. It

(22:07):
makes a four or five diameter circles. Do the math
I don't remember, but anyway, and it's better for the tree.
You can water it better. You can fertilize it better.
When you figure for that, you can move around it
with a you know, a fairy decent radius and it
looks nice too. So we do that. When we do

(22:30):
commercial projects, we do the steel edging around and some
I'll put it in on a residential design and sometimes
it gets rejected and then the tree grows up, then
it dies.

Speaker 2 (22:44):
It should have been a listening to layer, so.

Speaker 4 (22:46):
You want you want to try to shield that from it.
It also makes the water going a little better too,
and so on. So try to have a clear area
around the trees so when you do more, you don't
have to back up and go around, just go straight.
And it helped prevent damage to the trunk from weed eaters.

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Get one of it's the Green Country Gardener program.

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Our phone line is open at one eight hundred and
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Speaker 2 (25:24):
Larry, where were we here?

Speaker 4 (25:26):
I remember when that song first came out.

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So do I and that kind of neat that we
knew the oldies when they were newies.

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Yeah, wow, driving around in nineteen sixty six Arracuda. Oh yeah,
we had a cassette player in it that I yeah.

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Dang. Oh.

Speaker 4 (25:47):
Anyway, we're talking about craig myrtles rings around the tree
to help protect them from the mower damage and so on.
Another thing that's a bit of a problem right now
is some box woods I use actually on mine, I
have get them on there like everybody else, and I
just use a Dondae soap and a and a hoose

(26:10):
in sprayer, a proportional sprayer and just spray it on
there and leave it on for you know, a few hours,
and then then hose it off. You don't want to
leave the soap on, No, you can cause some problems.
But anyway, and that that works really well. I had
a bad problem last year with my gourds and aphiens,
and that worked out real well. Soapy water and then
you follow it up. I forgot one of them and

(26:32):
killed all the leaves on it, but you got to
kind of follow up with a wash, just so the
soap doesn't completely seal off the leaf. Speaking of cords,
I was looking up back behind the shed and it
had some come up wild that reminists from last year. Yeah,
some of them that failed and broke apart. I just

(26:52):
kind of threw them on the ground. Well, it's this
hall knee high. It's knee high. It was that eighteen
inches hot and growing still grow. Oh my sci fi
movie with a giant gorge that eight Bartlesville and a

(27:13):
couple others are coming up and they've completely dominated the
garden behind the shed. It's just a solid sea of
these giant leaves and these big gorge. I brought one
into the nursery from last year and somebody was so
fascinated by it, I just gave them to him. That's
probably the biggest thing I've ever seen here.

Speaker 2 (27:34):
Put it in the back of your car. It's the
biggest thing there.

Speaker 4 (27:37):
Put wheels on it and pull it behind you. Yah,
that was kind of fine. I bought some seeds last
year and planet those and I thought it'd be kind
of fine. I didn't know that take over the entire
yards anyway. So yeah, roses right now they're starting to

(28:00):
put on their fall surge of blooms. So if they're
just some dead stuff on them, you might want to
clean them up a little bit. That does help the
help of the stem stop stem disease and viruses and
rots and whatnot on the stem, So they might need
a little bit of cleaning. They're going to be growing
aggressively here right now. I know my knockouts on the
north side are really starting to butt out. So they're

(28:25):
only alive because they are on the north side and
there's nothing enough heat for the mic so so they
don't have the rosette disease, and there are some town
who don't really if it's not exposed in an area
that's overly hot, that the might like that feat. But
if you're in an area where that's not there, they
tend to go to greener pastures. So anyway, so they're

(28:48):
doing quite well and they're getting ready to put on
a bit of a herd right now too. Trees, right now,
trim back your trees a little bit. Look for damage
on the trees. Don't do a lot of heavy trimming
on your trees at this point unless there's some damage
of the tree or just kind of like obnoxious in
the way. I have to do that to my maples
up front as some dead branches, probably as a result
of the winter we had a couple of years ago.

(29:09):
Oh yeah, and the leaves are some of the branches
are kind of dying off. So need to get the
big old poles all out and cut them off. Yeah,
So that's always fun. It is, especially when it hits
the ground and you run a past. Can you run

(29:30):
gravity gravity? I want to check those out. It's easier
to see though in the wintertime, the branching structure and
all that, and also the broken things. But right now,
if there's something very obvious, it's time to do that. Also. Okay,
trees right now a good time to plant them too.

(29:50):
Or at least think about planting. There's kind of a
lag time in the acquisition of an inventory as far
as planting trees is concerned. So when you when you're
wanting to plant, I want a tree in my front yard. Okay, fine,
how much space do you have. Where's your water line
going into the house. Usually it's right between the water

(30:11):
meter and say a fawcet on the house. A lot
of builders will do that. They'll put a'll tee up
and put a falter falset right there comes into the house.
So so if you kind of connect the line between
the two, that's basically where your water line is. You
don't want to plant a tree on top of that
because what will happen is the water line will play

(30:32):
out and there's a big old tree in the way. Well,
they have to dig around the tree if you want
to say, it's not fun. So keep that in mind
your utilities. Also, where's the sewer line, where's the electric
line to the house. That's important kind.

Speaker 2 (30:48):
Of a little bit a little bit.

Speaker 4 (30:50):
Yeah, and uh, communication line, telephone, internet and all that.
I know a lot of people are going with with
this fiber optic stuff, and sure that's going to be
rather dividual to your place if you were to cut it. Yeah,
so call oak if you really want to know exactly
where everything is. They won't tell you where the water

(31:11):
line is to the house, but they will tell you
where the water line is, you know, five feet underground
along the street. So you just kind of had to
have an avenue of clearance where you don't plant a
tree right there.

Speaker 9 (31:24):
You know.

Speaker 4 (31:24):
That's that's kind of the responsibility of the customer, not
really the contractor as to where it's supposed to go.
And we can advise and consent when we get there.
But there's some things to look for, you know, at
least when I'm over there plant trees. Where's your water line?
Did a last last fall to somebody's house. She wanted
to right there, and I said, there's your water meter

(31:46):
right here, and there's your falset. It really won't work
here because you have a water line under there. Let's
move it over just a little bit, just so if
something should go wrong they don't have to destroy your tree.
Oh my goodness, I didn't think of that. Yeah, there's
also when a drainage swil too, and what happens when
you put a tree in a draining scale is our
soil here's a little shallow. The root mass swells up

(32:09):
the ground. That changes the elevation immediately around the tree,
and that water that was designed to go away from
the house or the driveway out this way gets blocked
by the mass of the roots and the upheaval of
the soil around the tree. So keep that in mind. Also,
how does your drainage work around the house. You don't
want to create a problem. You don't want water going

(32:30):
in the garage, you know, five years from now, So
make sure that the water right away is clear. And
that little narrow area between the house and the fence
right there. You want to try to avoid planting some
over there too, because here's the same problem. Yep, you
just get water in the house and it's no fun, never,
never fun, okay. So also keep in mind there are

(32:55):
all different kinds of tree configurations. There's some that are
extremely narrow. It upright one of my favorites. And this
tree really is very adaptable. We have it growing in
the worst of places, one of which is out east
of town. Here one there's Planet Islands. All the crape
murles are suffering, whining and complaining in the heat, but
this upright English oak is perfect. Well she So what

(33:19):
do he wanted was a tree that would be kind
of tall, but didn't want it too wide. Well that's
this one fits the bill.

Speaker 2 (33:25):
Wow.

Speaker 4 (33:26):
And really in the landscape it's the only thing that
looks good, Oh my goodness, safe after all the heat.
But anyway, so there are different species that have different
shapes that do different things, so keep that in mind. Also,
how big do you want this tree? How close to
the house? Kind of plant a tree? That really kind
of depends on the tree. Typically we figure fifteen to

(33:48):
twenty feet away from the house be a good place.
And this for a lot of cases right smack in
the middle of the drainage pattern. So you want to
be careful plant the tree. See, don't cause problems later on,
new problems, okay. And then that comes down to what
species a tree to a plant. Well, in some parts

(34:08):
of town you want to avoid a tree that has
shallow roots, and those are say sweet gums and silver
maples and platinous trees, sigamores, things like that river birch
are notorious for swelling up the ground around it and
causing some drainage. Sus we rented a house or in
town where there's a river birch and the east side

(34:31):
of the house flooded every oh because the water couldn't
get down to the backyard because of the bulk and
mass of this tree raises raise the level of the
ground up and the water has nowhere to go but
through the house. So you want to be very careful
about that and know what's going to happen, not only now,
what's it going to be like in ten years? Okay,

(34:55):
threes have the trees have specifications as far as how
wide they get and so on, and that plays a
little factor in you have to plan ahead. That's why
I say, maybe there's some fish situated forms of maples
and some of it that don't get so big around
and might consider that Chinese fistache is kind of a
good tree, very good tree, and a dug one out

(35:16):
of my backyard and planted in the front yard. Oh,
I see how it goes, and it's uh, it's fifteen
twenty feet away from this from the driveway, and the
canopy is just now approaching the edge of the driveway
and it shaves my old truck in the afternoon when
I come home.

Speaker 2 (35:30):
Very nice.

Speaker 4 (35:31):
Talk about shad tree mechanics.

Speaker 2 (35:32):
There you go a tree, yeah really.

Speaker 4 (35:37):
And it's in an area where there's there's no drainage problems.
It's the water goes actually around it or out of
the street towards the west, and there's no problems at all.
So so all these things you gotta consider, not only
just the fall color. The fall color can be really nice,
but you don't want for you know, two weeks. Basically

(36:01):
usually when the changes color, we have a thunderstorm.

Speaker 2 (36:04):
Here, no, usually a pretty rocking one too.

Speaker 4 (36:08):
So keep in mind what are going to look like,
and ask how big does this tree get? We can
tell you versus sometimes it even says on the label
all the data on the tree.

Speaker 1 (36:19):
A lot of times it is we're gonna take quick Greek.
We'll be right back after this two minute time out.

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Speaker 1 (38:44):
And welcome back to the Green Country Gardner program. I
got that time down. I started doing radio web.

Speaker 4 (38:50):
All your functions are a time just right.

Speaker 1 (38:52):
Well, you know, when I was a young disc jockey,
I used to have to play those little Roger Miller songs.

Speaker 2 (38:57):
They weren't even two minutes long. So I can take
care of things. Hurry. What we got next year?

Speaker 4 (39:03):
Okay? What to do with the trees now? Turn back up,
needed to look for boar damage, time for fall, fertilization
of the trees too.

Speaker 2 (39:10):
Southwest part of the tree. Look for those boards.

Speaker 4 (39:13):
And it's so common. You see it everywhere. Mean, because
of our environment, the trees grow a little slower than
it would maybe a further noise or something. But we
do have a problem with borders here. We do so
keeping the tree healthy to get one of the best defenses.
I had one maple tree in my front yard, is
this big old thing, and but the dagon stem looked

(39:37):
like Swiss cheese, and I hit it with you made
a cloprin and got it. Just a few months later,
it just took off right back to line. Good, thank you,
thank you, and put all these new branches out. Looks
it's a good and full tree right now, so.

Speaker 2 (39:52):
You can bring it to full health real quick.

Speaker 4 (39:54):
Exactly Now what I do when I go to people's
houses kind of strange. I'll take my fingers and run
them backwards up the trunk, and you listen to it,
to the sound of the of your fingernails, and if
it sounds like there's something hollow under there, then chances
are you have some boards. So there's an air gap

(40:14):
in there, and it resonates a little differently than solid
would do. So like, what are you doing petting the
I'm looks you start with the southwest side and then
typically that's where it is. Yeah, I was at a
house so the other day we planted a bunch of
trees for them.

Speaker 2 (40:34):
Garley.

Speaker 4 (40:35):
I didn't have any gray hair then, and every single
tree on the southwest side had border damage and they
were healthy enough, they were healing up around it. But yeah,
I said, you really need to do something about that. Okay,
because she wanted to tear one of them out, just
put a new one in. I said, I think this

(40:56):
will make it. If you just get us the stuff
and put it in a bucket and pour it on
the ground, I think it'll it'll come around. But it's
still some pretty good leaves on it. But you can
sell by the growth rings on the stems. That was
slowing down real fast. You got the node was this long,
and they did every year. He got a little narrow
where so I said, it's this tree is under stress.

(41:17):
So you might want to put some of that stop
the insect infestations. So anyway, that's kind of a anyway
landscape plans. I got a few up on the drawing
board and I people really like it when they get
a text on their on their phone there's a plan
over here and all that to you kind of like that,

(41:38):
and they said, well, can we do this? You know,
I can change it. It's so much easier to transmit
like that, either either email or the on the text
on the phone. So what I do is I take
the plans and then convert them to a JPEG. Had
a real big file and then it got a program
that will shrink it down the size but still have

(42:01):
the resolution so you can zoom in on it. The
I guess the computer guys know more about the JPEG
impression than I do. But anyway, I find if you
start with a bigger file and compress it down, you
can see just fine and see it so so you
can see the lettering on it blurb. So we can

(42:25):
do that, and Cally, I sent out some this week,
some landscape designs and estimates too, so we can do that.
And I come to your house, I walk around and
talk to you a little bit and see what kind
of what you want to try to get a feel
for what you want, and then we can submit that,
and then you can criticize it with a plan view
and then a perspective view of what it looked like.

(42:46):
And then I said, look, what are you thinking? So anyway,
back to the base map and come up with something different.
So that's kind of one way to do it. You
gotta everybody it has these these little phone things, so
you've got to kind of be up with the tune
on that as far as that's concerned too. So during

(43:07):
the course of the day, I'll use three computers the
same programming to get it done. Wow, got to get
stuff done.

Speaker 2 (43:17):
Okay, you are a task master.

Speaker 4 (43:20):
Another thing is lighting in the landscape. That's kind of
important too. I noticed in my house, I noticed the
lighting wasn't as bright as has been. So I went
and checked a few connections and they were a little truded.
They were twenty years old, I expect, and refreshed them
and I was bright again. So anyway, I use the
LED lights. And one thing I insist upon is that

(43:42):
the LFE pictures be of a good quality, so you'll
have it for twenty or thirty years and you want it.
You don't want to mix your metals on a light.

Speaker 1 (43:53):
Some of these I heard that that's kind of a
bad thing.

Speaker 4 (43:57):
I tried some of those big box lights and the
the illuminum just turns into this gummy stuff. Yeah, it's
kind of this sticky good and that doesn't happen if
you use one but stainless steel screws, stainless steel things
and brass or stainless steel body. So you want to

(44:19):
they cost a little bit more, but then again, you're
not having to replace it.

Speaker 2 (44:22):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (44:22):
I've used some of these solid brass ones at my
house for ten years now. Don't have to touch them.

Speaker 2 (44:28):
They're gonna be there forever.

Speaker 4 (44:29):
Yeah, they're they're good, and we're using them on our
on our lighting our lighting systems are expensive, but then
it's gonna last. Yeah, and you don't have to go
to the drudge of digging up the wires replacing it
and dah dah da da dah.

Speaker 2 (44:42):
So yeah, so what are you really saving is you're
killing good stuff. Get the good stuff.

Speaker 4 (44:47):
You don't have to mess with it.

Speaker 2 (44:48):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (44:49):
I mean it's a little expensive going in, but as
you go along it pays for itself.

Speaker 4 (44:53):
While back I was using some fairly small stainless steel ones,
all stainless, even the screws or stainless really hold it
really well. But they got a dog gone expensive. So
I went through some brass ones and right now, and
they're they're more expensive. They're not they're not as expensive,
but they are forty dollars a piece. Ok, it's not

(45:14):
too bad, but still they're going to be there. It's
going to be there. Yeah, I've got to get the
good stuff. And when you when you looked at you
count up how many lights you have over there, and
then you figure, well, I need a thirty what transformer? No,
you need one hundred and twenty what transformer? You got
to build some oof into these things, because what happens

(45:35):
is if you get one that doesn't have the the
ampage in it, even though it is it's enough to
do all the lights, a lot of that ampriage is
going to be eaten up by wire lengths too, So
you've got to factor that in. Also is the link
and these wires can get really long too. And it's
also good if you're having one in the front of

(45:55):
the house, if you can put it in the middle
and split it two ways rather than a linear association.
If you have to do it linear, run a jumper wire.
In addition, to the wire you doing and go to
the very end and wire it together. Make sure the
polarity is correct, so you have a loop line which
will equalize the average through the whole system. So the

(46:18):
last one is as bright as the front one.

Speaker 2 (46:21):
You don't have that. You don't have that.

Speaker 4 (46:23):
So if you have to put your time way over
here on the side of the house, you got a
light way over there. Run two wires. Do a loop line.

Speaker 2 (46:32):
Works very well, very good. We're going to take a
quick break. We'll be back after this two minutes, ten
second time out.

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There we are.

Speaker 1 (48:56):
We're back at the Green Country Gardner program playing Larry's
favorite bumper music. Hey October for October.

Speaker 2 (49:01):
Is coming up in a month. Yeah, we're going to
get the October Fest that did drives my buddy Chris
U put our stations.

Speaker 4 (49:10):
In the ohs like.

Speaker 2 (49:16):
He just wonders where we got that.

Speaker 4 (49:17):
Oh really, I had a CD that's got all these
October fat songs.

Speaker 2 (49:23):
Oh, I know, play the daylights out.

Speaker 4 (49:25):
Of them, and then I did some of that, submitted
them going on to the shop at the shop. Golly,
it's a little kind of a quiet time right now.
We have a great selection of tropicals at this point
and some shrubs and things. We'll be bringing in our
fall stuff pretty soon too, stuff that you might want

(49:46):
to get for fall and winter, things like burning bush
ranges and stuff like that. And so we'll have some
pertinent materials. That's some fall blooming trees too. We got
some lists from the grow and Gary and I are
going to sit around and decide what to get as
far as trees are concerned for the fall too. So

(50:07):
we have a crew that does an excellent job of
planting trees. Yep, so green sight up of course, very good.
And then so come come check it out. Right now,
our inventory is kind of a bit of a low ad,
but we've got some good stuff still the nursery, some
big stuff from the little little trees too, So come

(50:27):
check it out. Okay, right, Oh golly, what a show
this week.

Speaker 1 (50:33):
Oh yeah, I'll tell you what we went through here
without a weather warning, which is kind of rare on Saturdays.
Yeah yeah, but we the cloudy skies. But we're only
at sixty nine degrees at this point of the day.
Usually it's seventy nine.

Speaker 4 (50:51):
I thought I'd never see sixty nine degrees again. No,
you got to jack it on already.

Speaker 1 (50:55):
Well, the it's the proprietor likes to have it cold
in here to keep the equipment good and preserve us
old guys like filling me.

Speaker 4 (51:08):
Yes, I'm shivering in here, I guess.

Speaker 2 (51:10):
Yeah, yeah, it's it's one of those things.

Speaker 4 (51:13):
Cool anyway, come by the nursery. We're at the five
no Water Road on the south side of the road,
right between Madison and Washington Boulevard. There's a car wash
and an ice cream shop in front, so kind of
kind of easy to find. So golly, Tom had quite
a good show this week, and golly, keep that shovel sharp. Tom.
We will see you next week. Have a good one,

(51:35):
just enjoy this weather.

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