In and around the home and garden with Scott and Gary 5/30/2026

As the weather warms up, many of us are enjoying the lush greenery that's bursting forth in our gardens. But with all that growth comes the need for some pruning and maintenance to keep things looking their best. 

Gary and Scott share some valuable insights on when to prune trees, especially when it comes to younger ones with low-hanging branches. They also discuss the importance of not over-fertilizing your trees, as this can do more harm than good. It's a great reminder to take a step back and appreciate the natural beauty of your garden, rather than trying to force it to grow.

One of the most interesting topics covered is the speed at which annuals can grow when given the right conditions.  

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
All right, back at it we go. We're about twenty
two minutes after the top of the hour at Home
with Gary Sulvan, our segment with Scott Berlin or Let's
Garden with Scott Berline and Scott how are you? I'm good.
How are you doing? I'm doing fine. But I've never
seen so much vegetation in all my life.

Speaker 2 (00:18):
It's a jungle out there.

Speaker 1 (00:19):
It is a jungle out there. Last night, a beautiful, beautiful,
beautiful evening last night, sitting out on the screen porch
and looking out at the trees and stuff. And my
wife even said.

Speaker 3 (00:30):
Look how big these trees are.

Speaker 1 (00:31):
And it's like, I just want to get my lopping
shore out there. I just want to clean things up.
But it's not that bad. It's kind of nice looking.

Speaker 2 (00:39):
Yeah, it's beautiful and lush, you know, and we've had
so much rain and the temperatures of stay cool, so
things are just growing really well. Yeah, you know, I
haven't gone out and really looked at new growth to
see what the trees have put on this year, but
I think it's going to be a lot. When I
take a look at.

Speaker 1 (00:58):
It's gonna be a whole bunch I have I think
I told you this once. They have a smoke bush
just outside my office. Yeah, and you know this thing,
I don't know, it's maybe six foot tall. I kind
of keep it a bush. And right now, those runners,
the new blooms, they just kind of created, the little
seed things, yeah, which are beautiful, I think. Yeah, some

(01:18):
people don't like those, I understand.

Speaker 2 (01:20):
Yeah, that's a plant people like or they don't like.

Speaker 1 (01:22):
I love it. It's beautiful. But those runners right now,
I'll bet you they're eighteen inches long. Yeah. Yeah, And
so I got to get out there and do a
little shaping here before it gets too out of control.
There you go, But and heat low hanging tree branches,
especially on trees that are probably less than ten years old. Yeah,

(01:46):
I guess. I guess we've got to clean those up too. Well.

Speaker 2 (01:49):
You don't have to, but if you want to walk
under them, I know, mother grass there, yeah, or mother
the grass, Yeah, you can. You know, when a tree
gets to a size where the branches are for you know,
if the brand are still close to the tree, you
don't want to really get in there and cut them out,
just you know, mulch the area around it. But you know,

(02:11):
as the top gets fuller and taller. Yeah, you can
start taking out those lower branches. It's called limbing up
to give yourself some room, get some light underneath. I
do that a lot, just to keep my perennials happy
that are gradually becoming full shade residents.

Speaker 1 (02:29):
I'm trying to think. I think it was last weekend. No,
it was the weekend before. It's probably been ten to
fourteen days we planted annuals May. It was Mother's Day,
maybe right after Mother's Day, after Mother's Day. And I've
never seen annuals take bite so fast. Yeah. Yeah, I

(02:49):
mean we timed it perfectly. I mean seventy five degrees
and it's raining every other day, so hooray. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (02:57):
We same thing at the zoo. We've put all our
almost all our annuals out now, and they were they
were nice coming into the zoo, but once they hit
the ground, man, they hit the ground running. And yeah,
really putting on on shape and body and form.

Speaker 1 (03:14):
You know, it's really kind of cool. Yeah. Yeah, it's
always amazing to me. You know, we're always talking about
fertilizing our lawn and fertilizing this and fertilizing that, and
I'm looking I'm going like, I don't know if I've
ever fertilized my trees. Those things are growing like crazy.

Speaker 2 (03:30):
Well that's a good indicator that you don't need to Yeah. Yeah,
if they started looking off, the color was wrong, the
leaves are too small, then you start looking at it
and you start thinking, well, what's going on here? And
but before you fertilize, you know, if that's going on,
bring an arborist in, because you might it might not

(03:50):
be a fertility issue.

Speaker 1 (03:51):
It could be something different. Yeah, and I don't know,
this is a layman's answer to it. If you're fertilizing
the lawn or the trees kind of enjoyed some of
the fertilizer too.

Speaker 2 (04:02):
Well, they're getting the fertilizer. Whether they're enjoying it or
not is a different question. Oh yeah, trees don't like
the nearly the same level of fertility that that turf requires,
or at least a you know, a turf that is
PGA style, you know, really kept growing. So yeah, you

(04:24):
if you can back off the fertilizer for your turf,
that's great. If you still want to fertilize your turf,
maybe make the mault ring around your tree I.

Speaker 1 (04:33):
Got to make it bigger. Yeah, make it larger. Yeah, yeah,
I got to make it a little larger. Well, it's
a good year to have a gardening show like yours.
And when you say let's garden, you've got fur lined.
You can say, look what I did for you. Yeah. Yeah,
take credit when credit's ready, Well, yeah, I'll do it. Sure.

(04:54):
Got you got a website people can check out for
some information or a podcast.

Speaker 2 (04:59):
Yeah, the podcast is available all the past shows that
just look for Let's Garden with Scott Berline.

Speaker 1 (05:07):
Very good, thanks for joining us. Appreciate it. Thanks Gary.
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