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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Well, you're at home with Gary Salvan. This is the
time every week where we join up with Ron Wilson.
Ron his whole life has really been based in working
with horticulture and lawns and gardens and nursery stores. And Ron,
here's the question for you, all right, because one of
(00:22):
the things I've got is, you know what ruins a
kitchen and the cooks? Well, here's that's the best answer
yet that wasn't on my list. But what is the
common mistakes that homeowners make for their maybe their whole
landscaping or landscaping and gardening, I mean being in the
(00:45):
business like me pretty much your whole life. What real
common mistakes do you see weekend.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
And week out using the internet.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
To what identify stuff and whatever?
Speaker 2 (01:00):
No, seriously, A lot of times when I go and
look at you know, there's so many different things out there.
When I go to look at landscapes, for instance, if
someone did it themselves, which is fine, a lot of
people do their own landscaping, you know, whatever is not
calculating the size the mature size of the plant. So
(01:22):
many times the plants are overgrown. I get the question,
how do I trim this back? How do I keep
it smaller, can I you know, blah blah blah. And
it's like, well, you know, if you hadn't to put that,
it's just in the wrong spot. And let's move it
somewhere else and let it grow and then take it
from and let you know, find something smaller that comes
into play A lot way over planted comes into play
a lot over mulching comes into play a lot still
(01:46):
an issue, Gary, I was out yesterday and I know
that I've even spoken with these people several times, visiting
some ailing plants in their landscape and pull the mult
away from the around the trunk of the tree they
just finished mulching, showed them again how you don't put
you know, the mult up against trunk of the tree.
It was six inches deep on top of the root ball.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
Now, is that what causes the girdling? All?
Speaker 2 (02:13):
It can? As a matter of fact, it had. It
had been like that for over a year. And as
I pulled that mulch back to show them that you
wanted to look like a doughnut. As I'm doing that,
roots and it sometimes call those air roots. But these
roots had already started to come out from the side
of the trunk of the tree trying to root into
the excessive mulch that was there, and you don't want
(02:35):
that to happen because it can't create girdling roots over time,
you know, et cetera, et cetera. And you can look
at the trunk of the tree already starting to decay
a little bit in some areas. So that's that still
is a major issue. Not you're gonna love this one.
Not mowing the lawn as often as you should, mowing
(02:55):
the lawn too short. You know, it's hard to convince
people to mow the lawn higher level.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
Yes, it is a fine line. I look back over
the last ten years. In the year my lawn looked
the best was the year it was kind of shaggy looking.
To be honest with you, Yeah, I left it go
that extra notch. In fact, I think I headed as
high as it would go. And I can't remember why
with I was just playing around with it, or it
was a wet spring. But that particular year, when the
(03:24):
drought always comes around August, my grass stay greener.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
Well, And that's the whole point. Research has shown that
we know that. And if you can mow at three
inches three and a half inches high. Two and a
half is a minimum, but three to three and a
half inches the taller than grass. And there's a point
where you can get me too tall and not successful.
But that three and a half inch three inch height
also increases the depth of the rooting down below, so
it roots in deeper and better, it shades the ground
(03:51):
so doesn't dry out as quickly. And then there's the
other thing on top of that, Gary when your mowing
is throwing those clippings back into the turf's amazingly people
still bag those clippings and take that away. So I
mean there's a I think, and you know the other
one is commitment to watering. Yeah, we just you know,
it's you know, when you first plant, you water and
try to get everything. And then once you know, you
(04:13):
think it's all rooted in and we get into a
drought or whatever it may be, and you just don't
see the watering going on that should be going on, right,
especially in the fall.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
Well when's our lawn look the best?
Speaker 2 (04:25):
Our lawns look the best usually right now, right and
in the fall, and in the fall, cooler right, uh temperatures,
and they take advantage of that as well. So yeah, exactly.
I mean, think about it. That lawn is like a
piece of celery, you know, it's that turf is seventy water.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
Yeah, you mentioned a couple of things that that I
got follow up questions when you're talking about the hythe
and I know the moral will tell you what heyth
it is. But can you just take a regular ruler
and stick it down to the soil lever and see
how high that grass is before you get an idea
where you're at.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
Yeah, before you mow, you'll probably be surprised. Yeah, and
you never want to take off more than about a
third of the grass blade each time you mow, right,
And I think you'll be surprised how short you are
mowing once you go out there and actually measure it.
In many cases, like you were talking about with a
push mower, In many cases to get that three and
a half inch height, you're on the top setting. Yep.
(05:20):
Some of them won't go to four inches. A lot
of them won't go to four inches, so it's almost
impossible to go too tall. But you know, you've almost
got to go to the top notch before you get
to three and a half inch bowing heights. So we
wind up mowing a little bit too short, stressing it out,
and that could cause problems down the road as well.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
The roots that's girdling the tree, can you cut those
out with like a chisel.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
Absolutely, catch it, catch it early enough. You can cut
those off on both ends in some cases get it
out of there. In some cases just leave it alone,
let it do its own thing. But cutting it on
both ends and killing that definitely, most definitely do that.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
Been a great help. Have a great weekend you too,
All righty, very good run Wilson online dot com. You're
calls next at Home with Garry Sullivan.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
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(06:39):
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mosquito larvae for thirty days or longer. Don't worry. Mosquito
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(07:24):
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to the t Rex of the insect world, slow and lumbering,
but still capable of inflicting serious damage. To prevent carpenter
bees from damaging your property, there's no better solution than
(07:46):
the carpenter B trapstick from Rescue. Specifically designed colors and
patterns lured carpenter bees to the trap's sticky surface, keeping
them away from your home. Carpenter B trapstick made in
the USA by the makers of the popular Rescue Flying
Yellowjacket traps. Learn more at rescue dot com, Garysalvent here
for the Zalar Pump company.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
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Speaker 3 (08:12):
Now you can see the light with their LED plug
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Speaker 1 (08:18):
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has power. The plug is always illuminated when power is present.
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three and M fifty three. Go to Zlar pumps dot
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dot com
Well, you're at home with Gary Salvan. This is the
time every week where we join up with Ron Wilson.
Ron his whole life has really been based in working
with horticulture and lawns and gardens and nursery stores. And Ron,
here's the question for you, all right, because one of
(00:22):
the things I've got is, you know what ruins a
kitchen and the cooks? Well, here's that's the best answer
yet that wasn't on my list. But what is the
common mistakes that homeowners make for their maybe their whole
landscaping or landscaping and gardening, I mean being in the
(00:45):
business like me pretty much your whole life. What real
common mistakes do you see weekend.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
And week out using the internet.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
To what identify stuff and whatever?
Speaker 2 (01:00):
No, seriously, A lot of times when I go and
look at you know, there's so many different things out there.
When I go to look at landscapes, for instance, if
someone did it themselves, which is fine, a lot of
people do their own landscaping, you know, whatever is not
calculating the size the mature size of the plant. So
(01:22):
many times the plants are overgrown. I get the question,
how do I trim this back? How do I keep
it smaller, can I you know, blah blah blah. And
it's like, well, you know, if you hadn't to put that,
it's just in the wrong spot. And let's move it
somewhere else and let it grow and then take it
from and let you know, find something smaller that comes
into play A lot way over planted comes into play
a lot over mulching comes into play a lot still
(01:46):
an issue, Gary, I was out yesterday and I know
that I've even spoken with these people several times, visiting
some ailing plants in their landscape and pull the mult
away from the around the trunk of the tree they
just finished mulching, showed them again how you don't put
you know, the mult up against trunk of the tree.
It was six inches deep on top of the root ball.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
Now, is that what causes the girdling? All?
Speaker 2 (02:13):
It can? As a matter of fact, it had. It
had been like that for over a year. And as
I pulled that mulch back to show them that you
wanted to look like a doughnut. As I'm doing that,
roots and it sometimes call those air roots. But these
roots had already started to come out from the side
of the trunk of the tree trying to root into
the excessive mulch that was there, and you don't want
(02:35):
that to happen because it can't create girdling roots over time,
you know, et cetera, et cetera. And you can look
at the trunk of the tree already starting to decay
a little bit in some areas. So that's that still
is a major issue. Not you're gonna love this one.
Not mowing the lawn as often as you should, mowing
(02:55):
the lawn too short. You know, it's hard to convince
people to mow the lawn higher level.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
Yes, it is a fine line. I look back over
the last ten years. In the year my lawn looked
the best was the year it was kind of shaggy looking.
To be honest with you, Yeah, I left it go
that extra notch. In fact, I think I headed as
high as it would go. And I can't remember why
with I was just playing around with it, or it
was a wet spring. But that particular year, when the
(03:24):
drought always comes around August, my grass stay greener.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
Well, And that's the whole point. Research has shown that
we know that. And if you can mow at three
inches three and a half inches high. Two and a
half is a minimum, but three to three and a
half inches the taller than grass. And there's a point
where you can get me too tall and not successful.
But that three and a half inch three inch height
also increases the depth of the rooting down below, so
it roots in deeper and better, it shades the ground
(03:51):
so doesn't dry out as quickly. And then there's the
other thing on top of that, Gary when your mowing
is throwing those clippings back into the turf's amazingly people
still bag those clippings and take that away. So I
mean there's a I think, and you know the other
one is commitment to watering. Yeah, we just you know,
it's you know, when you first plant, you water and
try to get everything. And then once you know, you
(04:13):
think it's all rooted in and we get into a
drought or whatever it may be, and you just don't
see the watering going on that should be going on, right,
especially in the fall.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
Well when's our lawn look the best?
Speaker 2 (04:25):
Our lawns look the best usually right now, right and
in the fall, and in the fall, cooler right, uh temperatures,
and they take advantage of that as well. So yeah, exactly.
I mean, think about it. That lawn is like a
piece of celery, you know, it's that turf is seventy water.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
Yeah, you mentioned a couple of things that that I
got follow up questions when you're talking about the hythe
and I know the moral will tell you what heyth
it is. But can you just take a regular ruler
and stick it down to the soil lever and see
how high that grass is before you get an idea
where you're at.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
Yeah, before you mow, you'll probably be surprised. Yeah, and
you never want to take off more than about a
third of the grass blade each time you mow, right,
And I think you'll be surprised how short you are
mowing once you go out there and actually measure it.
In many cases, like you were talking about with a
push mower, In many cases to get that three and
a half inch height, you're on the top setting. Yep.
(05:20):
Some of them won't go to four inches. A lot
of them won't go to four inches, so it's almost
impossible to go too tall. But you know, you've almost
got to go to the top notch before you get
to three and a half inch bowing heights. So we
wind up mowing a little bit too short, stressing it out,
and that could cause problems down the road as well.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
The roots that's girdling the tree, can you cut those
out with like a chisel.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
Absolutely, catch it, catch it early enough. You can cut
those off on both ends in some cases get it
out of there. In some cases just leave it alone,
let it do its own thing. But cutting it on
both ends and killing that definitely, most definitely do that.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
Been a great help. Have a great weekend you too,
All righty, very good run Wilson online dot com. You're
calls next at Home with Garry Sullivan.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
Solutions to your home improvement are as easy as calling
one eighty two three Talk this is at Home with
Gary Solivan. Mosquitoes can transmit deadly diseases, including West now virus,
(06:39):
but some mosquito dunks kill mosquitoes before they're old enough
to bite. Just float an organic mosquito dunk and ponds
bird bass rain barrels in any standing water to kill
mosquito larvae for thirty days or longer. Don't worry. Mosquito
dunks won't harm people, pets, fish, birds, or wildlife. Mosquito
dunks are available at garden centers, hardware stores online, visit
(07:01):
Somewhat Responsible Solutions dot com. Rust ruins everything it touches vehicles, furniture, tools, toys.
Rust doesn't know how to stop, but Blaster knows how
to stop rust. Stop it, bust it up, clean it off,
and prevent it from ever happening with pbe Blaster the
number one product to break free rusted or stuckbarts period.
Then use Blaster's surface shield rust protected to protect from
(07:24):
rust from ever forming in the first place. It's simple,
Blaster knows rust, So get to know Blaster products at
a home, auto or hardware store near you, and always
work it like a pro. Carpenter bees can be likened
to the t Rex of the insect world, slow and lumbering,
but still capable of inflicting serious damage. To prevent carpenter
bees from damaging your property, there's no better solution than
(07:46):
the carpenter B trapstick from Rescue. Specifically designed colors and
patterns lured carpenter bees to the trap's sticky surface, keeping
them away from your home. Carpenter B trapstick made in
the USA by the makers of the popular Rescue Flying
Yellowjacket traps. Learn more at rescue dot com, Garysalvent here
for the Zalar Pump company.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
Zalor leads the way in some pumps and battery backup
systems with continuous innovation.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
Now you can see the light with their LED plug
illuminating Zalor green when the power is present.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
You no longer have to wonder if your some pump
has power. The plug is always illuminated when power is present.
Check it out today on the popular Zolar model sixty
three and M fifty three. Go to Zlar pumps dot
com the located factory certified installer in your area zalorpumps
dot com
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