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Speaker 6 (01:06):
UH.
Speaker 5 (01:07):
I want to start out the show by saying thanks
to all the teachers and counselors at Springville Middle School
and every other school, not every and every other school,
but particularly ours.
Speaker 4 (01:19):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (01:20):
Miss Hubbard's a counselor at UH. Springville Middle School and
Claire a couple of weeks ago, uh busted her hip
up a little bit.
Speaker 6 (01:28):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (01:28):
She was out playing, she was playing the scrimmage game
and kicked the ball just like did a corner kick,
just kicked it and fell to the ground. And we're like,
what the heck, maybe she just tweaked something. And uh,
she was down on the ground crying. And I'm gonna
tell you what. When my when that kid goes down
on the ground and she doesn't get back up, you
know something is you know, something's wrong. And uh so
(01:52):
we walk over there and and her hat her hip
but she felt something popping her hip and we're like,
oh god, she's like dislocated it or something like that. So,
long story short, she had a what's called a hip
e vulsion fracture. And so basically, and I'm not a doctor,
so I might butcher this explanation, but basically, like, you know,
there's growth plates in you know, in in bodies. Yeah,
(02:14):
you know.
Speaker 4 (02:14):
Kids.
Speaker 5 (02:15):
So she's twelve, says, their bones grow, they're not as
strong as ours and they have these soft points and everything, well,
the muscles attached to the tendon and the tendons attached
to the bone, and so when that muscle has a
sharp contractions, you know when you're running or sprinting or
jumping or anything like that. You know, basically, where the
tendon attaches to the bone, it puts pressure on it
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and pulls on it. And uh, when she kicked the ball,
you know, her her basically her muscles are stronger than
her bones. When she kicked the ball, there's a little
bitty spot where the tendon attaches to the hip. Well,
it pulled that, It pulled the bone away from the bone,
so it fractured. It fractured that and uh we went
(02:58):
to uh Andrew's sports Medicine because you know, we've taken
her that all our kids there ever time or two
because they're rough and tumble. Yeah, and apparently that's very
common in you know, like young athletes, boys and girls.
You know at this age I guess between like twelve
and fifteen, as their bones are developing. Uh, well, she's
all she's on crutches, uh six to eight weeks basically,
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and she can't put any foot or she can't put
any weight on her right leg because she if she
puts put puts weight on that right leg. The muscles
will start to you know, inflex and contract and everything,
and then it might you know, re refracture that bone.
So this is like a week this is a week
before school starts, and we're like, oh my gosh, what
(03:42):
are we gonna you know, you know moms, you know,
moms are like, oh my gosh, what are we gonna do?
We got car pick up, we got car drop off,
we got lockers, we got lunch and da da da
da da da da. You know, mom, you know momsill
worry like that.
Speaker 4 (03:53):
Yeah, they're freaking out.
Speaker 5 (03:54):
And uh so we she ended up she's with the PTO,
so she knows a lot of the teachers, counselors, principle therething.
So we met with the school a few days before,
you know, first day, just to kind of come up
with a game plan, you know what I'm saying, because
she's on crutches and we're worried about her walking through
the hallways with all the big crowds and some old
(04:14):
you know, mean bully or something kicks the crushes out
from under you. I'm just joking, but for real, just
how to She has classes on the second floor and
on the first floor, and they have an elevator. So
just coming up with a game plan basically, and we
met with the vice principal and Miss Hubbard, the guiance counselor.
She listens to the radio show, but fantastic to work with,
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you know, and really came up with just a good
game plan and and you know, basically care for you know,
they really care for the students up there, and it
was just this real great experience dealing with them. And
they were very flexible, you know, with her, you know,
maybe letting out of letting out of classes a little
bit early, or getting to classes a few minutes late
just so the halls can clear, and making adjustments for
(04:57):
pe and lunch and all that kind of stuff. So
we were very fortunate to be able to to have
staff there at the Springville School System to help us out.
Speaker 4 (05:08):
Good stuff.
Speaker 5 (05:09):
And you got kids that are because she listens to
the show, and uh, we got to talking about you
and she was like, where does he live in Springville,
Chris Keith, And I was like, yeah, he had kids
come through here years years ago, So you've dealt you've
dealt with the school system.
Speaker 4 (05:23):
We're in up my we're in the middle school and like, uh,
what ten years ago.
Speaker 5 (05:29):
Yeah. Uh, but anyway, I think you know, she's four weeks,
so it'll be three weeks now she'll go back to
get it checked and then uh and so that'll be
basically like four weeks after the injury, check on the
healing and uh and go from there. But apparently it heals,
it heals. It's a common common issue. It heals really quickly.
(05:51):
It's just kind of a long long process. But six
weeks of buh and and my and my kids don't
just sit there. Man, My kids, all three of my kids. Man,
they're like they got two speeds. It's like sleep and go.
And I said, they are wide open all the time.
But you know, so we got a but she's so
she still goes to you know, sits at practice. We
got a game today and hunt still we're going to
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and so we'll go up there because my wife's team
manager anyway, But we won't put her back until she's
one hundred percent. Yeah, without a doubt, you know what
I'm saying. That's not something that we'll rush back into it.
But she's been Claire's really been like complete heads up,
you know, hasn't let it get her down or anything
like that probably didn't mind. She gets to kind of
(06:34):
sit around to do a little bit of nothing for
a little bit.
Speaker 4 (06:38):
Yeah. Well, how about this weather this last week?
Speaker 5 (06:41):
Oh boy, that it was nice, wasn't it.
Speaker 4 (06:42):
So when have you ever heard of record low temperatures
in August? Like never never, So record low might be
like eighty So working with that on Monday, Tuesday and
Wednesday was pretty dang nice. Yeah, unlet's go ahead and
say it. And uh, you know, it really hadn't been
that bad the rest of the week either, So it
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looks like we've got a pretty decent weekend and all
that stuff. So you had a good time to get
out and do some landscaping. And we're fortunate to have
something to do. So if y'all want to do some landscaping,
y'all call us eight five four four thousand and five
and get on the books do landscaping. You know we'd done.
We were at miss Croson's. Mister and Miss Croson live
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over there in the bray and Chris, you know how
much we love the bray and uh, but we were
actually working most of what we were working with well,
I say that I was going to say most of
what we were working with was up on a back slope,
had their property line goes about twenty feet further back
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up the hill and kind of hooks down, so like
on one side it's twenty feet further up the hill
than their fence, and on the other side it's only
like maybe eight feet up the hill. So we put
a row of plants on the top of the hill,
like right on the property line, and then sawt at
everything below that. It was just it looked like a
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hay field back there. We went in there like two
weeks before, sprayed all that stuff out and went in
the day of and I took a weeded and bladed
it all down to the dirt, and then Sergio came
in with a hearty rack and hearty rake that thing
off and got it nice and smooth, and we laid
saw it up there. And then there was areas in
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the yard. The contractor just went in there, like right
behind a row of front shrubs and just put like
a water daylilies in there. Didn't make a lick of sex.
So we took up those eight or ten day lilies
that they just randomly stuck in there and put some
hydranges in there, and she added hydranges. She added some
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more plants and you know, just got that whole place
cleaned up. They put pie straw in and then they
can't stand pine straw, so we took all the pine
straw up. We actually used it up on the top
side that hill around those plants. Kind of recycled that
stuff and then put bark in all the beds and
just cleaned that. It was a couple of day jobs.
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And then uh we had a couple of bigger pairs.
So Miss Battle she lives over. We treated their yard forever.
Chris over Investdavia the battles. They did an addition, I
forget yeah, Hank Battles and uh so we were they
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did an addition pretty much. They didn't they liked the
area they're in, but they didn't they wanted to downsize.
So so rather than downsize, and they built an a
dish on the house to live in the addition.
Speaker 5 (09:50):
How about that? So what are they doing with the
rest of the house.
Speaker 4 (09:53):
Nothing? But anyways, whatever is there is there money in
their house. So obviously when they put this addition on
the house, they screwed the irrigation up there. There's a
main line that ran around the house that ran I
think its zone five and seven. And uh so when
they put that addition in, before they ever even started,
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we went in there and just capped it on one
end and then went on the bottom end and capped
it down there. And then when it got the addition done.
So this has been like a like a seven or
eight month process getting this addition done. There's still actually
still working on it, but they're far enough along where
we could cook their irrigation back up. You know, it's
getting it's been sneaky dry, then it got really dry,
(10:38):
and now we finally got a little rain. But we
got their irrigation now where they can run it on
all stations, so they're good to go. Actually, Zone five
doesn't exist anymore. Zone five was water and plants where
the new is it addition used to be so or
where the where its shrubs were shrubs where the addition
(10:59):
is now, uh don't exist anymore. So it's on five
don't exist.
Speaker 5 (11:04):
There's no more zone five.
Speaker 4 (11:06):
So if if they get ready to put shrobs back
around there though, we've got the wires right there. The
you know, all we got to do is you know,
add one valve, you know, and we can put we
can put irrigation on whatever they put men down.
Speaker 5 (11:20):
So I know the battle. I know the battles.
Speaker 7 (11:22):
Now.
Speaker 5 (11:22):
It took me a minute to picture their house. That's
a that's a sweet couple. We treat his house in
the cul de Sac. And then he's got a business
in downtown Birmingham that we treat as well. And uh,
he's I think we signed him up probably three or
four three four years ago. His uh, his business downtown
they do like electrical work, and it's always always read
(11:44):
the sign. Uh. I forget that what it says exactly,
but it's it's got a picture of a dog on
the fence downtown. It's kind of like down there by
what's that barbecue, Carlisle's barbecue. Uh, down like by the
Alabama Symphony Orchestra building, second third Avenue, down that way.
Speaker 7 (12:02):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (12:04):
But the sign is like it says something like, you know,
I hope you can run faster than my dog or
something like that. It's a funny sign. But we treat
his his business and his house good, good folks. He
always has a nice little garden section vegetable gardens like
from our tomato program and everything. At the end of
his driveway. I hadn't been there in a minute or
this year, so I don't know if he did that.
Speaker 4 (12:25):
She's got a lot of unique plants around the house,
and she's she's one of them gardeners, you know what
I mean.
Speaker 5 (12:30):
It's like a it's like a small botanical gardens in
their backyard. They have trails and paths going all over
the place. When you get back into those woods, yeah,
pretty neat.
Speaker 4 (12:38):
Well now they can water it. Yeah, good well, Chris,
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Speaker 4 (17:14):
It's the long.
Speaker 5 (17:15):
Ringing shirk.
Speaker 4 (17:18):
For a lawn tractor with a speed of light.
Speaker 5 (17:23):
I go of soil and a hearty high hold for
long the big.
Speaker 4 (17:28):
Old bag of range furlong lawn food plus iron. How
have I say?
Speaker 5 (17:32):
That's what I need to put on my yard after
a serious Sarah cut it down the other day.
Speaker 4 (17:36):
You know this time of the year, this time of year.
You know everybody, it seems like, goes on vacation sometime
between the middle of June and the middle of August.
Speaker 5 (17:45):
That's right.
Speaker 4 (17:46):
And you know you go out of town for a
week if you don't cut your grass, like the day
before you leave or the day you leave. Yeah, you know,
like the day you leave. When you come back, you're
grasping me too tall. And you know what a either
people do one of two things. They raised more up
one notch or they come in there and scalp it.
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You know, it just looks bad for a week or so,
so you don't want to bump it up. You want
to gradually. If anything else, if you've been bumping it
up a little bit on account of you know, the
rains we were having or whatever, and you just let
that stuff get too long, and that it was a
good time, just go ahead and start. Just go down
down every time you cut it, just go a notch down,
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going notch down. You get that thing down there. We
wanted that sweet spots about the inch and a half
two inches, that's where we want to be. And you
don't want to get that stuff getting up over over
that we did that.
Speaker 5 (18:37):
I mean, we were guilty of the same thing. We
were out on vacation. You know, school was going back,
sports were starting back, and and we missed a week.
So it was it may have been two and a
half weeks since we cut grass. Oh good, and so
like Sarah cut it on. Sarah cut it on month Monday,
and then uh I got home and it was pretty day,
and uh I got home on Wednesday, so she cut it.
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She cut it at like two and three quarters and
then I bumped it down to like two and a
half a couple of days later. And so I think today,
after the radio show, I'm gonna go down to two
inches and take it down to two inches. But it was,
I mean, it was green. It was green as could
be before we cut it right, but you couldn't see
your feet when you were walking through it because it
had gotten tall. Looked like a dag on hayfield. Yeah,
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and uh, we browned it out a little bit, and
today I'm gonna turn I'm I'm gonna cut it, get
to the right height and turn it brown. Then I'm
gonna come back with long food plus iron and give
it a healthy dose of that and green it back
up before we get into the fall. The problem is
people will, they will, They'll let it get taller and
taller and taller in the summer and then you're gonna
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blink and it's gonna be September October. And then we
get into our wet season through the winter months and
the grass is really really tall, and then it ends
up getting matted down and laid over, and so the
next spring the new growth can't emerge because it's like
the grass is matted down like old mangy dog and
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that new growth can't come up, especially if you don't
scalp it, and that can cause issues going into the spring.
So yeah, you just got to bite the bullet and
get it back down to where it needs to go.
And you need to do it as fast as possible,
because I mean, we're running out of growing season. We're
already we're on the down side of it, you know,
I mean.
Speaker 4 (20:18):
I mean this this month is really you know, we
put the lawn food plus iron on the yard. You know,
this month that's we start backing off on the fertilizer.
You know, as we go into you know, you September,
pre emerge it and going into the October, we'll be
doing winter aser and there's very little nitroen in that stuff.
We're not pushing it to you know, stay green or whatever.
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It's gonna start the daytime out the day. Daylight hours
are dwindling away already, so you know as night as
you know, the days get shorter, you know, the grass
is gonna lose its luster. And you get into you know,
mid October, just say and we're allo able to have
a little light frost or something like that. When we do,
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you know, that's gonna wind it grass up. So you
got another probably two months where your grass is gonna
look pretty good, and then after that it's gonna start
kind of kind of start.
Speaker 5 (21:11):
Yeah, I'll start fizzling out for sure. Yeah, and it's
that timing, I tell you, I don't know that. I
think I'm about ready for it. I've cut more grass
this year.
Speaker 4 (21:20):
I think what I've stayed on top of everything really well.
I've got that big patch down below the house that
I cut like a I mean, it's a half acre
and I cut it, you know, religiously, you know, every
once a week, like clockwork, and it looks like a
it looks like a lawn. And then everything around my
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my ponds down there, I mean, I keep it shaved down.
Speaker 5 (21:43):
It looks half you know.
Speaker 4 (21:46):
And the hayfield is the hayfields waiste deep and uh.
But yeah, I keep everything around at and around the
barn and everything. I keep all that cut low low yep,
all the.
Speaker 5 (21:56):
All the pastures around here. They were out bailing yesterday.
Speaker 4 (22:00):
Yeah, they cutting hair right now all over the place.
I saw, uh the tuckers down down the road down there,
they've got half of they got half of a field,
uh bailed in the other half. They got five tractors
sitting there ready. They're probably breaking hay as we speak.
So yeah, it's time to get up at last cutting.
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They may try to get one more, but I doubt
it most what they'll probably do now, they'll probably uh
may give it another strat of that sninky stuffy and
uh make this make that stuff come on one more time,
and then uh they'll probably graze it, you know, once
it gets you know, in the colder colder times.
Speaker 5 (22:40):
We uh, I guess it was last year. We were
doing the radio show and I walked outside and I'm
piddling around in the yard. And the day before Friday night,
Sarah and I were sitting on the front porch. Man,
I said, you smell that the last money right there,
because they'd taken the chicken litter and put all over
the the uh the pastures. Yeah, cut and my neighbor
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came out.
Speaker 4 (23:01):
It's like crape murder. You know, everybody sees everybody else
do it. Next thing, you know, you know, everybody's cut
the top side of crape myrtles. What's kind of the
same thing. This guy sees them putting the litter out
and he said, man, I need some of that litter too.
Next thing, you know, every hayfield from from Springville to
the Ashvill's got chicken litter.
Speaker 5 (23:18):
Spread on it, and my neighbor came out. He's like, God, Chris,
what kind of manure did you put on your yard
that smells so bad? And I was like, man, I
didn't do anything. I said, you go right up on
the other side of that woods and there's thousands of
pounds of chicken chicken litter out there fertilizing those fills.
Speaker 7 (23:34):
Ye.
Speaker 5 (23:34):
Well, boy, it smelled for days, and I guess the
wind was the wind was just right and it was
blowing into our neighborhood. That I was, what did you put
on your heart that smells so bad?
Speaker 4 (23:43):
Yeah? So on a much lighter scale, if you got
a yard that's kind of lost its lust or whatever,
you put the lawn food plus iron on it and
you just want to give it that little edge or
whatever that you know, turn it for shades greener, mixed
the little mill organized in there with it. Yeah. And
I don't mean, ain't go heavy yet. It's all right.
You can't burn with that stuff. You put it on there,
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hot and heavy. I use it on my garden a lot,
because man, the deer, it's like you put up a fence.
They just they'll literally walk up to the edge of
the garden and be like now. And uh, I used
it last last winter. You know, we got super dry,
you know about middle of August last year and it
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didn't rain for like four months. And uh I used
it on my garden. I water my garden, so it's
you know, I got irrigation on it. So it's you know,
I kept it couldn't go. But I was going out
there about every three weeks and I'd put a dose
of mill organite on that thing. And the deer, you know,
everything got so dry in the in the woods to
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the deer were just walking around like dogs out in
the yard. And uh, they walk up to that garden
and I mean I got the prettiest patch of turnip
greens and all that stuff, and normally they'd just be
pounding it and and never touched it. So mill organize
on your garden, Mill organized on your grass. If you
want your grass to turn five shades of green, put
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it on there. It's got a little bit of earthy
smell to it. I'll go ahead and tell you, but
the stuff works really good, and uh it'll make that
grass come on.
Speaker 5 (25:16):
We get it blended in with our fertilizers. Yeah, that
we put on our long cair customers and it's fantastic.
Stuff doesn't stain the iron in it's non staining. Uh,
and it really helps out with like a lot of
the new subdivisions that we treat because there's strips of
grass all around concrete.
Speaker 4 (25:33):
Well, you know, my brother in law was that guy,
you know, the real mowing guy. Yeah, the guy it
cuts the grass every other night, yeah, or every other
week or every other day. And uh. He would keep
a two or three bags of mill organized at the house.
And man, you go in his neighborhood, he had like
yard of the month, like like the year. Everybody else
(25:54):
hated him because he kept the yard of the month
thing in his yard every time. But you got down
to the street and he's like four shades greener of
grass and everybody else and that's what he was doing.
He's just pumping that meal organite to it. Man, you
go in his in his whole neighborhood and it's just
like go down the road, it's like boom there. He's
(26:17):
got a bad back, so we don't do that any
of that. He's he's only about an inch tall now, yeah,
instead of you know, half inch. It's crazy.
Speaker 5 (26:28):
It looks good.
Speaker 4 (26:29):
I'm sure it looks great. Man, Chris, is time for
another break. Let's go ahead and take that. While we're
going to break, I want to say, hated David Dobbs
and his wife. They gave me some honey mustard. Chris
homemade it, homemade hot money honey mustard.
Speaker 5 (26:45):
How about that.
Speaker 4 (26:46):
Let me tell you. When I opened that pint jar,
I didn't quit the about half of it was gone.
It's that good.
Speaker 5 (26:53):
I have to try it. I don't like honey mustard listen,
so maybe maybe i'd like the Dobbs.
Speaker 4 (26:58):
It's got a little bit of punch to it. Yeah, yeah,
just a little dab and uh yeah, it's good. It's
super good. So hated David and then appreciate the honey
muster and we'll be back on the Classic Gardens of
Landscape Show.
Speaker 2 (27:09):
All the ready to go when you'll.
Speaker 3 (27:12):
Watch up Plants and Grass to Grow two and docent Chris.
Speaker 2 (27:17):
Chris and Chris No and now you're a host Chris
Joiner and Chris Keith.
Speaker 4 (27:25):
Alrighty, we're back for the second half of the Class
of Gardens and Landscape Show. And our number if you
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Speaker 5 (27:35):
So here we are talking about last shot of fertilizer
on your yard right now. And at the break we're
talking about going up to the mountains. And where I'm
talking we were last night, me and then laws are
sitting around talking about we should have already done it.
But you know we always go for a camping for
a week at Thanksgiving. Yeah, but here we are talking
(27:56):
about all that. And so you know what time that
means is you know what time it is, too, is
coming up on premergent times. So yes, the poana seeds
are sitting around waiting for that tempered ground temperature to
get in right spot.
Speaker 4 (28:09):
I've been looking at it, Chris, because I've had this
funky weed around my lake, you know, and I'm religious
about cutting it and spraying and doing all that stuff
and keeping the weeds down and all that around my pond,
and I've had this funky weed that's just had me.
It's a paint in my butt this year. And it's
(28:30):
called horse weed, and it grows on a stem as
big as your finger, and if you let it go,
it'll get like chest high, you know. But I've been
doing a little research on it and round up it.
Laughs at round up.
Speaker 5 (28:45):
Yeah, you know that.
Speaker 4 (28:47):
Because I have doused it like a dozen times and
it just says here right, But it might have stunned
in a little bit, I'll put it like that, but
it hadn't killed it. So I've been looking at it, Chris,
and come to find out it's an annual.
Speaker 5 (29:02):
Yeah, it's kind of it's in the burnt like the
burn weed family. Yeah, because sometimes we'll see it early
in the spring in some of our yards. Pre emergents
not effective, not really effective on all weeds, and so
there's some weeds that will actually develop in the thatch
layer of like our yards, and uh, the pre emergence
in the soil, so the that sits on top of
(29:23):
the soil itself. And sometimes sometimes we get that horse
weed and uh, it's easy to kill when it's real
young like that in our yards. Plus we're cut cut
as well, so it's not that big of an issue
in our yards. But sorry to interrupt, now, you're good.
Speaker 4 (29:36):
So what I'm thinking is, all right, it's gonna it's
gonna bloom in about if I let it at which
I'm not gonna let it. I'm gonna cut the stuff down.
But if i'm what I'm thinking is if I go
in there and do a heavy haircut on that stuff
with a weed ear with a blade on it, and
cut that stuff down to where it has no foliage
(29:57):
left on it, maybe I can get down low enough
like that that I can spray it on that new
tender growth and burn it back enough to where it
won't go to seed this year. And if it don't
go to seed, it shouldn't come back.
Speaker 5 (30:09):
And you shouldn't have problems with it next year. Yeah,
you got plans.
Speaker 4 (30:13):
Yeah, so that's my plan for the horse weeds. So
I'll I'll keep you posting on it.
Speaker 5 (30:17):
And once it gets taught, once it gets to a
certain point, it's like trying to try and weedy bamboo.
I mean, you know that stuff is.
Speaker 4 (30:24):
You got to have the blade.
Speaker 5 (30:25):
Yeah, that stuff is. It's got a stalk on it.
It's like it's like.
Speaker 4 (30:28):
It's yeah, it's a woody stem. I've got some more
of it up around the barn and it's looking like
it's about to sport and try to put on seed.
But uh, and and from what I read read on it,
just about every seed germinates and it can travel like uh,
like dandelion seed, you know how it.
Speaker 5 (30:50):
Just flows feather feathery seed on it.
Speaker 4 (30:53):
Yeah, this this stuffs that way. That's why I had
it like on one side of the lake, on the on
the banks of the and then it got in the
lake and obviously you know, sits on top of the
water and like wind travels it across and now I
got it, you know, coming up on another bank. So
I'm going to eradicate that crap.
Speaker 5 (31:12):
Chris Keith is man, tell you what your garden is
primetime at lake. You're gonna have that thing. Mo we
might as well add it to our lawn cair program
and just treat close and just treat you know, fifteen
twenty feet around the around the whole pond, right.
Speaker 4 (31:25):
You know what I'm saying, it's that say you virtually
don't have to do it. Keep it cut pretty ed.
Speaker 5 (31:31):
I mean, mowing, mowing is huge. I mean we preach this.
We preach this every single spring, every single summer. You know,
Mowing regularly is like a huge part of weed control.
I mean, that's that's just that's just is what it is.
You know, even like you take a not just mowing,
but like edging your sidewalks and driveways and stuff like that.
(31:52):
You know, spurge has been one of those weeds this
year with the mount of rain that we've had, that's
that's been pretty prolific, especially along you know, edges of
concert and the the problem you areds that I see
are people that don't edge, and so you come through
and you you know, you keep that clean edge along
the concrete and then you're cutting that spurge off and
then you know, basically doesn't grow because we just don't
(32:12):
like to be cut. So you got to stay on
top of mowing. You know, you want to help keep
control of the weeds.
Speaker 4 (32:17):
Yeah, mowing is the key for sure. Uh, we got
Lois online. Let's get Lowess. Good morning. How are you Lois?
Speaker 7 (32:24):
Good morning? How you doing?
Speaker 4 (32:26):
We're doing good. How can we help you?
Speaker 5 (32:29):
I had a question about pine lilis.
Speaker 1 (32:32):
What can I do and they can go from some
on to summer without dying?
Speaker 4 (32:39):
What kind of lily is it?
Speaker 7 (32:40):
I'm sorry, it's it's it's a called palm lilly.
Speaker 5 (32:49):
I probably get your rolling it.
Speaker 4 (32:52):
Yeah, I'm not familiar with it, to be honest with you.
Speaker 7 (32:56):
Okay, then.
Speaker 4 (32:59):
Thank you. What you might do is take a picture
of it bringing in the garden center, and there all
the time where where they're Wednesday, Thursday and Friday eight
to four. Take a picture of it bringing in the
garden center, and let and take a look at it.
She'll tell you exactly what it is more than likely,
I mean, and is like an encyclopedia plants, and she'll
(33:21):
tell you exactly what it is. It may be a
maybe a deal where it's an annual that just doesn't
come back, but unlikely. If it's a bulb like that,
it more than likely it will come back. They just
you may be having issues with it with our soul
as clay as it is and all. You may have
issues with the bulls rotten, or you may have children's
eating the bulbs or something like that. So you can
(33:45):
bring it in the garden center and they let her
take a look at it and she can tell you
more about it.
Speaker 7 (33:50):
Okay, I'm preciate you.
Speaker 5 (33:52):
Yes, ma'am, having to do with you Lois, thank you.
There's so many types of the littlies, and you know
you get especially like spring. You know, a lot of
the big box stores bring in a lot of yours,
like you know from ornamental lilies, tropically and they force
those things to bloom and they're gorgeous for about a
(34:14):
week and a half, right, and so you you know
a lot of people buy these lilies thinking that they'll
bloom all year. When they get them home, they put
them in a flower pot, and the next thing, you know,
a week later, those blooms have dropped off. And now
you basically just have you know, plant vegetative vegetation and
even and even then, you know a lot of your
a lot of your a lot of your perennial type stuff.
(34:35):
I mean you look at like day lilies, iris, you know, uh,
you know, lint and rows and any any type of
perennial like that. They'll go through their blooming cycle and
at some point, like the actual daffodils, the same way,
the actual like vegetative part of it, once they get
through bloom and you get into the summer, it just
kind of looks like trash, you know what I'm saying.
(34:56):
Uh So I'm not a huge I like perennials when
there's staged properly, but you know, at some point the
plant itself sometimes it ends up looking like a weed. Yeah,
at some point.
Speaker 4 (35:06):
That's really I mean if you've got a perennial garden,
you have to put in so many different things. We
have something blooming all the time because it just nothing really,
it's it's got its cycle and then after its cycle,
it just kind of bit. You know, you just want
to cut the thing down. All it done.
Speaker 5 (35:23):
And I've got all those plants around my around my property,
but yeah, you know, constantly trying to cut out the
dead parts and the fungal parts and stuff like that.
But when they bloom all their gorgeous. Definition of perennial
is a pretty weed, right, I mean, yeah, that's it,
so you know, it.
Speaker 4 (35:39):
Is what it is. I know, Chris, Next, I mean
next week, we got a lot going on. We're going
back to the Pals. We've been building a h They
had Mark uh Whitfield come in there and take out
a bunch of trees before we ever came in and
did anything for them and clear the whole backyard. And
(35:59):
then uh we went in there, cleaned up the whole backyard.
We've been building a retaining wall over there out of
out of rock at various types. It's a lot of
it's like like cobblestone almost, and they built the wall
out of that, and then it's got caps on top
of it and big columns and you know, and then
it's got a big flag stone patio. I mean, it's
(36:21):
it's been a month long project over there, and uh
so they're about done with the wall. They're about done
with all that stuff. So we got to haul out
all the excess rock and pile pallets and trash, you know,
any of everything that's there finished grade in the yard.
Speaker 7 (36:38):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (36:39):
Now that the guys are done with the wall, clean
all that stuff up, and we're gonna see and straw
the backyard and uh work our way out of there
and get that thing cleaned up for them, and we'll
be done at the piles. We've gave them an estimate
to do. Uh. They just moved into this house not
long ago from what I understand, and they the house
(36:59):
is good, good, but you know, and they started remodeling
inside and now they're working on the outside. And man,
the backyard was just hideous. And uh, we we've got
that thing in good shape for them and they're they're
gonna have a really nice patio they can enjoy. So
we gave them price to go in and redo the
front yard and they're gonna do that, you know, as
(37:20):
obviously as the budget allows, you know, just working their
way into you know what prioritize and you know what
they wanted to do because the back man was it
was a jung. The front looks pretty bad too, but
you know, this.
Speaker 5 (37:32):
Was a complete makeover. Yeah, there's nothing there like a
nuclear bomb went off and we came in to clean up.
Speaker 4 (37:39):
It is literally the whole backyard is nothing to smooth
dirt now. So we've got a little bit of vegetation
up the fences and this, that and other we got
to cut out and you know, pull up and get
out of there. But for the most part, it's all
clean right now. We're just more or less clean up
after after the building crew at this point. So we'll
get that.
Speaker 5 (37:58):
Well that's what that's what classic gardens does. Best man
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Speaker 4 (38:03):
Well, we've got another one, Chris is a you know,
a pool is one of those things that you know,
if you want to pool, it's a good thing. But
if you don't want to pool and you don't want
to maintenance of a pool, then it's an isore and
a headache. And we've got a guy, uh, this police
officer lives not far from the garden center, right up
(38:24):
the road pretty much. That has an old pool in
the backyard that you know, the liner's gone in and
it ain't nothing but a tadpole tadpole pond, you know
at this point. So we're gonna go in there and
cave the walls in on that thing and fill that
pool in and uh, you know, go back in and
regrade the whole backyard and see and straw that thing
(38:46):
for him and get it back in good shape. But
it's a it's it's gonna be a project. I might.
I think I've got a haul about thirty loads of
dirt over there, and uh to fill that pool in
and everything. But when we get done, you won't even
know where's a pool.
Speaker 5 (39:00):
You remember that. We still treat her Ms McLoughlin down
and I don't know, we don't know anymore. That was
in Adamsville. She had a pool and she had that
deck built over the top of it. Wow, it was
like a complete wooden deck over over like a twenty
by thirty pool and they just built a wooden deck
right over the top of it. You got like a
frog pond, snake pond up underneath. Wow, mosquito nen uh
(39:23):
huh for sure?
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Speaker 4 (42:50):
Know your plans, know your plants. And I hated I
didn't know what kind of lilly uh Lois was talking about.
She brings it in and can identify, and I swear
to God in the Encyclopedia plus.
Speaker 5 (43:01):
She is, Hey, you need some oak firewood?
Speaker 4 (43:04):
Yeah, yeah, coming down, it's coming down. Hey, we need
to take it down. Hey, honestly, we've been watching that
all year. Yeah, are we gonna do it?
Speaker 5 (43:15):
Or I don't know, mann do my probably mark because
there's a couple of other trees I might get taken down, all.
Speaker 4 (43:19):
Right, So when they take them down, just telling them, like,
just put it right over there.
Speaker 5 (43:24):
All right. So so last last fall, when I was
decorating for Christmas, Yes, I decorate. I started decorating for
Christmas and fall may have been Halloween. I walked into
the woods to I've got a tree that anchors some
stuff too, and I see just bore holes all over
this thing, and uh, Chris, before we get the story,
(43:45):
let's get Tamora before we run out of.
Speaker 4 (43:47):
The Yeah, let's do that. Good morning, tamor.
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Good morning, good morning.
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had got bores all in it last fall, and I
mean I could I should have come in there with
the drench if I really wanted to save it. But
it's just a big old It's just an oak.
Speaker 4 (44:46):
Out and.
Speaker 5 (44:48):
Not no big deal. So me and Chris have been
watching that tree all year and it leafed out. Thing
looked perfect, great, not an issue with it. We hit
that sneaky we hit that dry spell. Uh, you know,
a couple of weeks ago, and when we get through
the radio show, you look up at the top of
that thing. It's dead one hundred percent brown leaves out.
So the boars get in there, they eat the cambium
(45:10):
tissue throughout the throughout the tree, which is basically like
the vascular system of the tree, and so the tree
can't take up water where it needs to. So you
get one of these dry spells and it can't take
the water up throughout the throughout basically throughout the tree,
and the tree ends up dying. So I'm gonna have
to get that and get that thing dropped.
Speaker 4 (45:30):
Now. We were wet enough up until about a month
ago until it wasn't an issue. But as soon as
you hit that good dry spell, it's it's a gonn.
It's a goner, you know. And we've been we've been
looking at that thing for a solid year, yep, you know.
Speaker 5 (45:47):
So we were waiting, we were waiting on that dry
spell to see what it did. So I have to
get Mark Whitfield out here to take drop that a
couple more.
Speaker 4 (45:54):
It's not a huge tree. It's a tall, skinny tree
out in the woods, and it's so it's not like
if if you lost a big white oak in the
front yard, you know, you'd be heard about that. But
if you got a prize tree in your yard, just
say a big white oak, or if you've got a whatever,
you know, cherries like candy to those things, Japanese made
(46:15):
Japanese maples. If you got a prize Japanese maple, a
dog wood, man, they love dog woods. You need to
be drenching that tree yearly otherwise you're gonna wind up
losing it because at some point it's just a matter
of time. Some trees like cherries, dog woods, Japanese maples,
(46:36):
anything like that, they are candy to those things. And uh,
but if you got a big, you know, oak tree
in your front yard. I always think of the Lloyd's
over there over a mountain brook not far from where
we're working at the Pals. Uh, they lost a big,
humongous white oak in their front yard and it totally
disfigured the whole yard. And uh, just to make the
(46:58):
yard look right, we had to go in there and
plant two oak trees that were already you know, twenty
five feet tall, just to make it look like a
house again, because it just, man, it went from this
big old majesticoke in the yard of just having a
nothing just look pathetic, and uh, you know, it changed
the whole look of the yard.
Speaker 5 (47:18):
He had a sycamore tree in his backyard, Chris, that.
Speaker 4 (47:21):
Was he had a monster it was huge.
Speaker 5 (47:25):
I've never seen a tree sycamore that big around. It
was massive.
Speaker 4 (47:28):
I remember it.
Speaker 7 (47:29):
It was.
Speaker 4 (47:30):
I mean it was off in the wood and it
was like yeah yeah, I mean yeah yeah. You know
how you go by go in some areas and you
see those telephone poles or whatever that are like masks
that look like a tree. Yeah, right and there, but
they're like, you know, eighty feet taller than any other tree.
So it sticks up there, but they mask it to
look like that. Yeah, that's that sick one. And it was.
Speaker 5 (47:51):
It was as big a round as you know. Yeah,
was huge.
Speaker 4 (47:59):
That was Jimbo Squirrel cut up sweet gum the other day.
It was four foot across. Boy, that's about that's a
big sweet gun. There's a white oak back in the woods.
That's that way all. Me and the girls are hiking
back there when we first bought our house, and uh,
I looked. I was like, good god, girls, look at
the size of that white oak.
Speaker 5 (48:15):
And so I had them standing shoulder to shoulder in
front of that thing taking pictures. I mean, it's it's big.
Speaker 4 (48:21):
I got a couple of sweet gums at the house.
I gotta drop. I got one up up by We've
got a like a connex box buried in the ground
for like a storm shelter. Yep. And there's a sweet gum,
a huge sweet gum behind beside it that's about half dead.
But I'm gonna have to ax. And there's one at
the lake. There's another pine down there, a humungus pine
(48:41):
on the back side of the lake.
Speaker 5 (48:42):
There's gonna fall, so uh, you're gonna make it fall.
I'm gonna make it fall in the direction I wanted to,
that's right. Otherwise it might be a cross crossway and
that's a problem block my sister in forevery right. Well,
Chris long Hair, you'all been y'all been running wide open
landscaping and.
Speaker 4 (49:02):
Yeah, but we'd like to have more work.
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it opens up a lot more opportunity for people to
get out there, do cook outs, watch football football seasons
(49:24):
right around the corner, have birthday parties and stuff like that.
So we've taken over the years, you know, backyards that
were unusable and we've come in there with our equipment
and basically and and basically just fix them to where
you can actually use them. And I love when we
can do patios like we're doing at the Pals right now,
because it just it changes the whole dynamics of just
outdoor living. Yeah, you know, for sure.
Speaker 4 (49:46):
I mean it's in some of the time you're just
an outdoor person.
Speaker 7 (49:49):
You know.
Speaker 5 (49:50):
It's like to sit out on the patio and just
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I want to start out the show by saying thanks
to all the teachers and counselors at Springville Middle School
and every other school, not every and every other school,
but particularly ours.
Speaker 4 (01:19):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (01:20):
Miss Hubbard's a counselor at UH. Springville Middle School and
Claire a couple of weeks ago, uh busted her hip
up a little bit.
Speaker 6 (01:28):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (01:28):
She was out playing, she was playing the scrimmage game
and kicked the ball just like did a corner kick,
just kicked it and fell to the ground. And we're like,
what the heck, maybe she just tweaked something. And uh,
she was down on the ground crying. And I'm gonna
tell you what. When my when that kid goes down
on the ground and she doesn't get back up, you
know something is you know, something's wrong. And uh so
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we walk over there and and her hat her hip
but she felt something popping her hip and we're like,
oh god, she's like dislocated it or something like that. So,
long story short, she had a what's called a hip
e vulsion fracture. And so basically, and I'm not a doctor,
so I might butcher this explanation, but basically, like, you know,
there's growth plates in you know, in in bodies. Yeah,
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you know.
Speaker 4 (02:14):
Kids.
Speaker 5 (02:15):
So she's twelve, says, their bones grow, they're not as
strong as ours and they have these soft points and everything, well,
the muscles attached to the tendon and the tendons attached
to the bone, and so when that muscle has a
sharp contractions, you know when you're running or sprinting or
jumping or anything like that. You know, basically, where the
tendon attaches to the bone, it puts pressure on it
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and pulls on it. And uh, when she kicked the ball,
you know, her her basically her muscles are stronger than
her bones. When she kicked the ball, there's a little
bitty spot where the tendon attaches to the hip. Well,
it pulled that, It pulled the bone away from the bone,
so it fractured. It fractured that and uh we went
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to uh Andrew's sports Medicine because you know, we've taken
her that all our kids there ever time or two
because they're rough and tumble. Yeah, and apparently that's very
common in you know, like young athletes, boys and girls.
You know at this age I guess between like twelve
and fifteen, as their bones are developing. Uh, well, she's
all she's on crutches, uh six to eight weeks basically,
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and she can't put any foot or she can't put
any weight on her right leg because she if she
puts put puts weight on that right leg. The muscles
will start to you know, inflex and contract and everything,
and then it might you know, re refracture that bone.
So this is like a week this is a week
before school starts, and we're like, oh my gosh, what
(03:42):
are we gonna you know, you know moms, you know,
moms are like, oh my gosh, what are we gonna do?
We got car pick up, we got car drop off,
we got lockers, we got lunch and da da da
da da da da. You know, mom, you know momsill
worry like that.
Speaker 4 (03:53):
Yeah, they're freaking out.
Speaker 5 (03:54):
And uh so we she ended up she's with the PTO,
so she knows a lot of the teachers, counselors, principle therething.
So we met with the school a few days before,
you know, first day, just to kind of come up
with a game plan, you know what I'm saying, because
she's on crutches and we're worried about her walking through
the hallways with all the big crowds and some old
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you know, mean bully or something kicks the crushes out
from under you. I'm just joking, but for real, just
how to She has classes on the second floor and
on the first floor, and they have an elevator. So
just coming up with a game plan basically, and we
met with the vice principal and Miss Hubbard, the guiance counselor.
She listens to the radio show, but fantastic to work with,
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you know, and really came up with just a good
game plan and and you know, basically care for you know,
they really care for the students up there, and it
was just this real great experience dealing with them. And
they were very flexible, you know, with her, you know,
maybe letting out of letting out of classes a little
bit early, or getting to classes a few minutes late
just so the halls can clear, and making adjustments for
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pe and lunch and all that kind of stuff. So
we were very fortunate to be able to to have
staff there at the Springville School System to help us out.
Speaker 4 (05:08):
Good stuff.
Speaker 5 (05:09):
And you got kids that are because she listens to
the show, and uh, we got to talking about you
and she was like, where does he live in Springville,
Chris Keith, And I was like, yeah, he had kids
come through here years years ago, So you've dealt you've
dealt with the school system.
Speaker 4 (05:23):
We're in up my we're in the middle school and like, uh,
what ten years ago.
Speaker 5 (05:29):
Yeah. Uh, but anyway, I think you know, she's four weeks,
so it'll be three weeks now she'll go back to
get it checked and then uh and so that'll be
basically like four weeks after the injury, check on the
healing and uh and go from there. But apparently it heals,
it heals. It's a common common issue. It heals really quickly.
(05:51):
It's just kind of a long long process. But six
weeks of buh and and my and my kids don't
just sit there. Man, My kids, all three of my kids. Man,
they're like they got two speeds. It's like sleep and go.
And I said, they are wide open all the time.
But you know, so we got a but she's so
she still goes to you know, sits at practice. We
got a game today and hunt still we're going to
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and so we'll go up there because my wife's team
manager anyway, But we won't put her back until she's
one hundred percent. Yeah, without a doubt, you know what
I'm saying. That's not something that we'll rush back into it.
But she's been Claire's really been like complete heads up,
you know, hasn't let it get her down or anything
like that probably didn't mind. She gets to kind of
(06:34):
sit around to do a little bit of nothing for
a little bit.
Speaker 4 (06:38):
Yeah. Well, how about this weather this last week?
Speaker 5 (06:41):
Oh boy, that it was nice, wasn't it.
Speaker 4 (06:42):
So when have you ever heard of record low temperatures
in August? Like never never, So record low might be
like eighty So working with that on Monday, Tuesday and
Wednesday was pretty dang nice. Yeah, unlet's go ahead and
say it. And uh, you know, it really hadn't been
that bad the rest of the week either, So it
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looks like we've got a pretty decent weekend and all
that stuff. So you had a good time to get
out and do some landscaping. And we're fortunate to have
something to do. So if y'all want to do some landscaping,
y'all call us eight five four four thousand and five
and get on the books do landscaping. You know we'd done.
We were at miss Croson's. Mister and Miss Croson live
(07:27):
over there in the bray and Chris, you know how
much we love the bray and uh, but we were
actually working most of what we were working with well,
I say that I was going to say most of
what we were working with was up on a back slope,
had their property line goes about twenty feet further back
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up the hill and kind of hooks down, so like
on one side it's twenty feet further up the hill
than their fence, and on the other side it's only
like maybe eight feet up the hill. So we put
a row of plants on the top of the hill,
like right on the property line, and then sawt at
everything below that. It was just it looked like a
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hay field back there. We went in there like two
weeks before, sprayed all that stuff out and went in
the day of and I took a weeded and bladed
it all down to the dirt, and then Sergio came
in with a hearty rack and hearty rake that thing
off and got it nice and smooth, and we laid
saw it up there. And then there was areas in
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the yard. The contractor just went in there, like right
behind a row of front shrubs and just put like
a water daylilies in there. Didn't make a lick of sex.
So we took up those eight or ten day lilies
that they just randomly stuck in there and put some
hydranges in there, and she added hydranges. She added some
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more plants and you know, just got that whole place
cleaned up. They put pie straw in and then they
can't stand pine straw, so we took all the pine
straw up. We actually used it up on the top
side that hill around those plants. Kind of recycled that
stuff and then put bark in all the beds and
just cleaned that. It was a couple of day jobs.
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And then uh we had a couple of bigger pairs.
So Miss Battle she lives over. We treated their yard forever.
Chris over Investdavia the battles. They did an addition, I
forget yeah, Hank Battles and uh so we were they
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did an addition pretty much. They didn't they liked the
area they're in, but they didn't they wanted to downsize.
So so rather than downsize, and they built an a
dish on the house to live in the addition.
Speaker 5 (09:50):
How about that? So what are they doing with the
rest of the house.
Speaker 4 (09:53):
Nothing? But anyways, whatever is there is there money in
their house. So obviously when they put this addition on
the house, they screwed the irrigation up there. There's a
main line that ran around the house that ran I
think its zone five and seven. And uh so when
they put that addition in, before they ever even started,
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we went in there and just capped it on one
end and then went on the bottom end and capped
it down there. And then when it got the addition done.
So this has been like a like a seven or
eight month process getting this addition done. There's still actually
still working on it, but they're far enough along where
we could cook their irrigation back up. You know, it's
getting it's been sneaky dry, then it got really dry,
(10:38):
and now we finally got a little rain. But we
got their irrigation now where they can run it on
all stations, so they're good to go. Actually, Zone five
doesn't exist anymore. Zone five was water and plants where
the new is it addition used to be so or
where the where its shrubs were shrubs where the addition
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is now, uh don't exist anymore. So it's on five
don't exist.
Speaker 5 (11:04):
There's no more zone five.
Speaker 4 (11:06):
So if if they get ready to put shrobs back
around there though, we've got the wires right there. The
you know, all we got to do is you know,
add one valve, you know, and we can put we
can put irrigation on whatever they put men down.
Speaker 5 (11:20):
So I know the battle. I know the battles.
Speaker 7 (11:22):
Now.
Speaker 5 (11:22):
It took me a minute to picture their house. That's
a that's a sweet couple. We treat his house in
the cul de Sac. And then he's got a business
in downtown Birmingham that we treat as well. And uh,
he's I think we signed him up probably three or
four three four years ago. His uh, his business downtown
they do like electrical work, and it's always always read
(11:44):
the sign. Uh. I forget that what it says exactly,
but it's it's got a picture of a dog on
the fence downtown. It's kind of like down there by
what's that barbecue, Carlisle's barbecue. Uh, down like by the
Alabama Symphony Orchestra building, second third Avenue, down that way.
Speaker 7 (12:02):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (12:04):
But the sign is like it says something like, you know,
I hope you can run faster than my dog or
something like that. It's a funny sign. But we treat
his his business and his house good, good folks. He
always has a nice little garden section vegetable gardens like
from our tomato program and everything. At the end of
his driveway. I hadn't been there in a minute or
this year, so I don't know if he did that.
Speaker 4 (12:25):
She's got a lot of unique plants around the house,
and she's she's one of them gardeners, you know what
I mean.
Speaker 5 (12:30):
It's like a it's like a small botanical gardens in
their backyard. They have trails and paths going all over
the place. When you get back into those woods, yeah,
pretty neat.
Speaker 4 (12:38):
Well now they can water it. Yeah, good well, Chris,
let's take a break right quick. Our number. If you
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It's the long.
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Ringing shirk.
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For a lawn tractor with a speed of light.
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I go of soil and a hearty high hold for
long the big.
Speaker 4 (17:28):
Old bag of range furlong lawn food plus iron. How
have I say?
Speaker 5 (17:32):
That's what I need to put on my yard after
a serious Sarah cut it down the other day.
Speaker 4 (17:36):
You know this time of the year, this time of year.
You know everybody, it seems like, goes on vacation sometime
between the middle of June and the middle of August.
Speaker 5 (17:45):
That's right.
Speaker 4 (17:46):
And you know you go out of town for a
week if you don't cut your grass, like the day
before you leave or the day you leave. Yeah, you know,
like the day you leave. When you come back, you're
grasping me too tall. And you know what a either
people do one of two things. They raised more up
one notch or they come in there and scalp it.
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You know, it just looks bad for a week or so,
so you don't want to bump it up. You want
to gradually. If anything else, if you've been bumping it
up a little bit on account of you know, the
rains we were having or whatever, and you just let
that stuff get too long, and that it was a
good time, just go ahead and start. Just go down
down every time you cut it, just go a notch down,
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going notch down. You get that thing down there. We
wanted that sweet spots about the inch and a half
two inches, that's where we want to be. And you
don't want to get that stuff getting up over over
that we did that.
Speaker 5 (18:37):
I mean, we were guilty of the same thing. We
were out on vacation. You know, school was going back,
sports were starting back, and and we missed a week.
So it was it may have been two and a
half weeks since we cut grass. Oh good, and so
like Sarah cut it on. Sarah cut it on month Monday,
and then uh I got home and it was pretty day,
and uh I got home on Wednesday, so she cut it.
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She cut it at like two and three quarters and
then I bumped it down to like two and a
half a couple of days later. And so I think today,
after the radio show, I'm gonna go down to two
inches and take it down to two inches. But it was,
I mean, it was green. It was green as could
be before we cut it right, but you couldn't see
your feet when you were walking through it because it
had gotten tall. Looked like a dag on hayfield. Yeah,
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and uh, we browned it out a little bit, and
today I'm gonna turn I'm I'm gonna cut it, get
to the right height and turn it brown. Then I'm
gonna come back with long food plus iron and give
it a healthy dose of that and green it back
up before we get into the fall. The problem is
people will, they will, They'll let it get taller and
taller and taller in the summer and then you're gonna
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blink and it's gonna be September October. And then we
get into our wet season through the winter months and
the grass is really really tall, and then it ends
up getting matted down and laid over, and so the
next spring the new growth can't emerge because it's like
the grass is matted down like old mangy dog and
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that new growth can't come up, especially if you don't
scalp it, and that can cause issues going into the spring.
So yeah, you just got to bite the bullet and
get it back down to where it needs to go.
And you need to do it as fast as possible,
because I mean, we're running out of growing season. We're
already we're on the down side of it, you know,
I mean.
Speaker 4 (20:18):
I mean this this month is really you know, we
put the lawn food plus iron on the yard. You know,
this month that's we start backing off on the fertilizer.
You know, as we go into you know, you September,
pre emerge it and going into the October, we'll be
doing winter aser and there's very little nitroen in that stuff.
We're not pushing it to you know, stay green or whatever.
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It's gonna start the daytime out the day. Daylight hours
are dwindling away already, so you know as night as
you know, the days get shorter, you know, the grass
is gonna lose its luster. And you get into you know,
mid October, just say and we're allo able to have
a little light frost or something like that. When we do,
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you know, that's gonna wind it grass up. So you
got another probably two months where your grass is gonna
look pretty good, and then after that it's gonna start
kind of kind of start.
Speaker 5 (21:11):
Yeah, I'll start fizzling out for sure. Yeah, and it's
that timing, I tell you, I don't know that. I
think I'm about ready for it. I've cut more grass
this year.
Speaker 4 (21:20):
I think what I've stayed on top of everything really well.
I've got that big patch down below the house that
I cut like a I mean, it's a half acre
and I cut it, you know, religiously, you know, every
once a week, like clockwork, and it looks like a
it looks like a lawn. And then everything around my
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my ponds down there, I mean, I keep it shaved down.
Speaker 5 (21:43):
It looks half you know.
Speaker 4 (21:46):
And the hayfield is the hayfields waiste deep and uh.
But yeah, I keep everything around at and around the
barn and everything. I keep all that cut low low yep,
all the.
Speaker 5 (21:56):
All the pastures around here. They were out bailing yesterday.
Speaker 4 (22:00):
Yeah, they cutting hair right now all over the place.
I saw, uh the tuckers down down the road down there,
they've got half of they got half of a field,
uh bailed in the other half. They got five tractors
sitting there ready. They're probably breaking hay as we speak.
So yeah, it's time to get up at last cutting.
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They may try to get one more, but I doubt
it most what they'll probably do now, they'll probably uh
may give it another strat of that sninky stuffy and
uh make this make that stuff come on one more time,
and then uh they'll probably graze it, you know, once
it gets you know, in the colder colder times.
Speaker 5 (22:40):
We uh, I guess it was last year. We were
doing the radio show and I walked outside and I'm
piddling around in the yard. And the day before Friday night,
Sarah and I were sitting on the front porch. Man,
I said, you smell that the last money right there,
because they'd taken the chicken litter and put all over
the the uh the pastures. Yeah, cut and my neighbor
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came out.
Speaker 4 (23:01):
It's like crape murder. You know, everybody sees everybody else
do it. Next thing, you know, you know, everybody's cut
the top side of crape myrtles. What's kind of the
same thing. This guy sees them putting the litter out
and he said, man, I need some of that litter too.
Next thing, you know, every hayfield from from Springville to
the Ashvill's got chicken litter.
Speaker 5 (23:18):
Spread on it, and my neighbor came out. He's like, God, Chris,
what kind of manure did you put on your yard
that smells so bad? And I was like, man, I
didn't do anything. I said, you go right up on
the other side of that woods and there's thousands of
pounds of chicken chicken litter out there fertilizing those fills.
Speaker 7 (23:34):
Ye.
Speaker 5 (23:34):
Well, boy, it smelled for days, and I guess the
wind was the wind was just right and it was
blowing into our neighborhood. That I was, what did you put
on your heart that smells so bad?
Speaker 4 (23:43):
Yeah? So on a much lighter scale, if you got
a yard that's kind of lost its lust or whatever,
you put the lawn food plus iron on it and
you just want to give it that little edge or
whatever that you know, turn it for shades greener, mixed
the little mill organized in there with it. Yeah. And
I don't mean, ain't go heavy yet. It's all right.
You can't burn with that stuff. You put it on there,
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hot and heavy. I use it on my garden a lot,
because man, the deer, it's like you put up a fence.
They just they'll literally walk up to the edge of
the garden and be like now. And uh, I used
it last last winter. You know, we got super dry,
you know about middle of August last year and it
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didn't rain for like four months. And uh I used
it on my garden. I water my garden, so it's
you know, I got irrigation on it. So it's you know,
I kept it couldn't go. But I was going out
there about every three weeks and I'd put a dose
of mill organite on that thing. And the deer, you know,
everything got so dry in the in the woods to
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the deer were just walking around like dogs out in
the yard. And uh, they walk up to that garden
and I mean I got the prettiest patch of turnip
greens and all that stuff, and normally they'd just be
pounding it and and never touched it. So mill organize
on your garden, Mill organized on your grass. If you
want your grass to turn five shades of green, put
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it on there. It's got a little bit of earthy
smell to it. I'll go ahead and tell you, but
the stuff works really good, and uh it'll make that
grass come on.
Speaker 5 (25:16):
We get it blended in with our fertilizers. Yeah, that
we put on our long cair customers and it's fantastic.
Stuff doesn't stain the iron in it's non staining. Uh,
and it really helps out with like a lot of
the new subdivisions that we treat because there's strips of
grass all around concrete.
Speaker 4 (25:33):
Well, you know, my brother in law was that guy,
you know, the real mowing guy. Yeah, the guy it
cuts the grass every other night, yeah, or every other
week or every other day. And uh. He would keep
a two or three bags of mill organized at the house.
And man, you go in his neighborhood, he had like
yard of the month, like like the year. Everybody else
(25:54):
hated him because he kept the yard of the month
thing in his yard every time. But you got down
to the street and he's like four shades greener of
grass and everybody else and that's what he was doing.
He's just pumping that meal organite to it. Man, you
go in his in his whole neighborhood and it's just
like go down the road, it's like boom there. He's
(26:17):
got a bad back, so we don't do that any
of that. He's he's only about an inch tall now, yeah,
instead of you know, half inch. It's crazy.
Speaker 5 (26:28):
It looks good.
Speaker 4 (26:29):
I'm sure it looks great. Man, Chris, is time for
another break. Let's go ahead and take that. While we're
going to break, I want to say, hated David Dobbs
and his wife. They gave me some honey mustard. Chris
homemade it, homemade hot money honey mustard.
Speaker 5 (26:45):
How about that.
Speaker 4 (26:46):
Let me tell you. When I opened that pint jar,
I didn't quit the about half of it was gone.
It's that good.
Speaker 5 (26:53):
I have to try it. I don't like honey mustard listen,
so maybe maybe i'd like the Dobbs.
Speaker 4 (26:58):
It's got a little bit of punch to it. Yeah, yeah,
just a little dab and uh yeah, it's good. It's
super good. So hated David and then appreciate the honey
muster and we'll be back on the Classic Gardens of
Landscape Show.
Speaker 2 (27:09):
All the ready to go when you'll.
Speaker 3 (27:12):
Watch up Plants and Grass to Grow two and docent Chris.
Speaker 2 (27:17):
Chris and Chris No and now you're a host Chris
Joiner and Chris Keith.
Speaker 4 (27:25):
Alrighty, we're back for the second half of the Class
of Gardens and Landscape Show. And our number if you
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Speaker 5 (27:35):
So here we are talking about last shot of fertilizer
on your yard right now. And at the break we're
talking about going up to the mountains. And where I'm
talking we were last night, me and then laws are
sitting around talking about we should have already done it.
But you know we always go for a camping for
a week at Thanksgiving. Yeah, but here we are talking
(27:56):
about all that. And so you know what time that
means is you know what time it is, too, is
coming up on premergent times. So yes, the poana seeds
are sitting around waiting for that tempered ground temperature to
get in right spot.
Speaker 4 (28:09):
I've been looking at it, Chris, because I've had this
funky weed around my lake, you know, and I'm religious
about cutting it and spraying and doing all that stuff
and keeping the weeds down and all that around my pond,
and I've had this funky weed that's just had me.
It's a paint in my butt this year. And it's
(28:30):
called horse weed, and it grows on a stem as
big as your finger, and if you let it go,
it'll get like chest high, you know. But I've been
doing a little research on it and round up it.
Laughs at round up.
Speaker 5 (28:45):
Yeah, you know that.
Speaker 4 (28:47):
Because I have doused it like a dozen times and
it just says here right, But it might have stunned
in a little bit, I'll put it like that, but
it hadn't killed it. So I've been looking at it, Chris,
and come to find out it's an annual.
Speaker 5 (29:02):
Yeah, it's kind of it's in the burnt like the
burn weed family. Yeah, because sometimes we'll see it early
in the spring in some of our yards. Pre emergents
not effective, not really effective on all weeds, and so
there's some weeds that will actually develop in the thatch
layer of like our yards, and uh, the pre emergence
in the soil, so the that sits on top of
(29:23):
the soil itself. And sometimes sometimes we get that horse
weed and uh, it's easy to kill when it's real
young like that in our yards. Plus we're cut cut
as well, so it's not that big of an issue
in our yards. But sorry to interrupt, now, you're good.
Speaker 4 (29:36):
So what I'm thinking is, all right, it's gonna it's
gonna bloom in about if I let it at which
I'm not gonna let it. I'm gonna cut the stuff down.
But if i'm what I'm thinking is if I go
in there and do a heavy haircut on that stuff
with a weed ear with a blade on it, and
cut that stuff down to where it has no foliage
(29:57):
left on it, maybe I can get down low enough
like that that I can spray it on that new
tender growth and burn it back enough to where it
won't go to seed this year. And if it don't
go to seed, it shouldn't come back.
Speaker 5 (30:09):
And you shouldn't have problems with it next year. Yeah,
you got plans.
Speaker 4 (30:13):
Yeah, so that's my plan for the horse weeds. So
I'll I'll keep you posting on it.
Speaker 5 (30:17):
And once it gets taught, once it gets to a
certain point, it's like trying to try and weedy bamboo.
I mean, you know that stuff is.
Speaker 4 (30:24):
You got to have the blade.
Speaker 5 (30:25):
Yeah, that stuff is. It's got a stalk on it.
It's like it's like.
Speaker 4 (30:28):
It's yeah, it's a woody stem. I've got some more
of it up around the barn and it's looking like
it's about to sport and try to put on seed.
But uh, and and from what I read read on it,
just about every seed germinates and it can travel like uh,
like dandelion seed, you know how it.
Speaker 5 (30:50):
Just flows feather feathery seed on it.
Speaker 4 (30:53):
Yeah, this this stuffs that way. That's why I had
it like on one side of the lake, on the on
the banks of the and then it got in the
lake and obviously you know, sits on top of the
water and like wind travels it across and now I
got it, you know, coming up on another bank. So
I'm going to eradicate that crap.
Speaker 5 (31:12):
Chris Keith is man, tell you what your garden is
primetime at lake. You're gonna have that thing. Mo we
might as well add it to our lawn cair program
and just treat close and just treat you know, fifteen
twenty feet around the around the whole pond, right.
Speaker 4 (31:25):
You know what I'm saying, it's that say you virtually
don't have to do it. Keep it cut pretty ed.
Speaker 5 (31:31):
I mean, mowing, mowing is huge. I mean we preach this.
We preach this every single spring, every single summer. You know,
Mowing regularly is like a huge part of weed control.
I mean, that's that's just that's just is what it is.
You know, even like you take a not just mowing,
but like edging your sidewalks and driveways and stuff like that.
(31:52):
You know, spurge has been one of those weeds this
year with the mount of rain that we've had, that's
that's been pretty prolific, especially along you know, edges of
concert and the the problem you areds that I see
are people that don't edge, and so you come through
and you you know, you keep that clean edge along
the concrete and then you're cutting that spurge off and
then you know, basically doesn't grow because we just don't
(32:12):
like to be cut. So you got to stay on
top of mowing. You know, you want to help keep
control of the weeds.
Speaker 4 (32:17):
Yeah, mowing is the key for sure. Uh, we got
Lois online. Let's get Lowess. Good morning. How are you Lois?
Speaker 7 (32:24):
Good morning? How you doing?
Speaker 4 (32:26):
We're doing good. How can we help you?
Speaker 5 (32:29):
I had a question about pine lilis.
Speaker 1 (32:32):
What can I do and they can go from some
on to summer without dying?
Speaker 4 (32:39):
What kind of lily is it?
Speaker 7 (32:40):
I'm sorry, it's it's it's a called palm lilly.
Speaker 5 (32:49):
I probably get your rolling it.
Speaker 4 (32:52):
Yeah, I'm not familiar with it, to be honest with you.
Speaker 7 (32:56):
Okay, then.
Speaker 4 (32:59):
Thank you. What you might do is take a picture
of it bringing in the garden center, and there all
the time where where they're Wednesday, Thursday and Friday eight
to four. Take a picture of it bringing in the
garden center, and let and take a look at it.
She'll tell you exactly what it is more than likely,
I mean, and is like an encyclopedia plants, and she'll
(33:21):
tell you exactly what it is. It may be a
maybe a deal where it's an annual that just doesn't
come back, but unlikely. If it's a bulb like that,
it more than likely it will come back. They just
you may be having issues with it with our soul
as clay as it is and all. You may have
issues with the bulls rotten, or you may have children's
eating the bulbs or something like that. So you can
(33:45):
bring it in the garden center and they let her
take a look at it and she can tell you
more about it.
Speaker 7 (33:50):
Okay, I'm preciate you.
Speaker 5 (33:52):
Yes, ma'am, having to do with you Lois, thank you.
There's so many types of the littlies, and you know
you get especially like spring. You know, a lot of
the big box stores bring in a lot of yours,
like you know from ornamental lilies, tropically and they force
those things to bloom and they're gorgeous for about a
(34:14):
week and a half, right, and so you you know
a lot of people buy these lilies thinking that they'll
bloom all year. When they get them home, they put
them in a flower pot, and the next thing, you know,
a week later, those blooms have dropped off. And now
you basically just have you know, plant vegetative vegetation and
even and even then, you know a lot of your
a lot of your a lot of your perennial type stuff.
(34:35):
I mean you look at like day lilies, iris, you know, uh,
you know, lint and rows and any any type of
perennial like that. They'll go through their blooming cycle and
at some point, like the actual daffodils, the same way,
the actual like vegetative part of it, once they get
through bloom and you get into the summer, it just
kind of looks like trash, you know what I'm saying.
(34:56):
Uh So I'm not a huge I like perennials when
there's staged properly, but you know, at some point the
plant itself sometimes it ends up looking like a weed. Yeah,
at some point.
Speaker 4 (35:06):
That's really I mean if you've got a perennial garden,
you have to put in so many different things. We
have something blooming all the time because it just nothing really,
it's it's got its cycle and then after its cycle,
it just kind of bit. You know, you just want
to cut the thing down. All it done.
Speaker 5 (35:23):
And I've got all those plants around my around my property,
but yeah, you know, constantly trying to cut out the
dead parts and the fungal parts and stuff like that.
But when they bloom all their gorgeous. Definition of perennial
is a pretty weed, right, I mean, yeah, that's it,
so you know, it.
Speaker 4 (35:39):
Is what it is. I know, Chris, Next, I mean
next week, we got a lot going on. We're going
back to the Pals. We've been building a h They
had Mark uh Whitfield come in there and take out
a bunch of trees before we ever came in and
did anything for them and clear the whole backyard. And
(35:59):
then uh we went in there, cleaned up the whole backyard.
We've been building a retaining wall over there out of
out of rock at various types. It's a lot of
it's like like cobblestone almost, and they built the wall
out of that, and then it's got caps on top
of it and big columns and you know, and then
it's got a big flag stone patio. I mean, it's
(36:21):
it's been a month long project over there, and uh
so they're about done with the wall. They're about done
with all that stuff. So we got to haul out
all the excess rock and pile pallets and trash, you know,
any of everything that's there finished grade in the yard.
Speaker 7 (36:38):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (36:39):
Now that the guys are done with the wall, clean
all that stuff up, and we're gonna see and straw
the backyard and uh work our way out of there
and get that thing cleaned up for them, and we'll
be done at the piles. We've gave them an estimate
to do. Uh. They just moved into this house not
long ago from what I understand, and they the house
(36:59):
is good, good, but you know, and they started remodeling
inside and now they're working on the outside. And man,
the backyard was just hideous. And uh, we we've got
that thing in good shape for them and they're they're
gonna have a really nice patio they can enjoy. So
we gave them price to go in and redo the
front yard and they're gonna do that, you know, as
(37:20):
obviously as the budget allows, you know, just working their
way into you know what prioritize and you know what
they wanted to do because the back man was it
was a jung. The front looks pretty bad too, but
you know, this.
Speaker 5 (37:32):
Was a complete makeover. Yeah, there's nothing there like a
nuclear bomb went off and we came in to clean up.
Speaker 4 (37:39):
It is literally the whole backyard is nothing to smooth
dirt now. So we've got a little bit of vegetation
up the fences and this, that and other we got
to cut out and you know, pull up and get
out of there. But for the most part, it's all
clean right now. We're just more or less clean up
after after the building crew at this point. So we'll
get that.
Speaker 5 (37:58):
Well that's what that's what classic gardens does. Best man
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Speaker 4 (38:03):
Well, we've got another one, Chris is a you know,
a pool is one of those things that you know,
if you want to pool, it's a good thing. But
if you don't want to pool and you don't want
to maintenance of a pool, then it's an isore and
a headache. And we've got a guy, uh, this police
officer lives not far from the garden center, right up
(38:24):
the road pretty much. That has an old pool in
the backyard that you know, the liner's gone in and
it ain't nothing but a tadpole tadpole pond, you know
at this point. So we're gonna go in there and
cave the walls in on that thing and fill that
pool in and uh, you know, go back in and
regrade the whole backyard and see and straw that thing
(38:46):
for him and get it back in good shape. But
it's a it's it's gonna be a project. I might.
I think I've got a haul about thirty loads of
dirt over there, and uh to fill that pool in
and everything. But when we get done, you won't even
know where's a pool.
Speaker 5 (39:00):
You remember that. We still treat her Ms McLoughlin down
and I don't know, we don't know anymore. That was
in Adamsville. She had a pool and she had that
deck built over the top of it. Wow, it was
like a complete wooden deck over over like a twenty
by thirty pool and they just built a wooden deck
right over the top of it. You got like a
frog pond, snake pond up underneath. Wow, mosquito nen uh
(39:23):
huh for sure?
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Speaker 4 (42:50):
Know your plans, know your plants. And I hated I
didn't know what kind of lilly uh Lois was talking about.
She brings it in and can identify, and I swear
to God in the Encyclopedia plus.
Speaker 5 (43:01):
She is, Hey, you need some oak firewood?
Speaker 4 (43:04):
Yeah, yeah, coming down, it's coming down. Hey, we need
to take it down. Hey, honestly, we've been watching that
all year. Yeah, are we gonna do it?
Speaker 5 (43:15):
Or I don't know, mann do my probably mark because
there's a couple of other trees I might get taken down, all.
Speaker 4 (43:19):
Right, So when they take them down, just telling them, like,
just put it right over there.
Speaker 5 (43:24):
All right. So so last last fall, when I was
decorating for Christmas, Yes, I decorate. I started decorating for
Christmas and fall may have been Halloween. I walked into
the woods to I've got a tree that anchors some
stuff too, and I see just bore holes all over
this thing, and uh, Chris, before we get the story,
(43:45):
let's get Tamora before we run out of.
Speaker 4 (43:47):
The Yeah, let's do that. Good morning, tamor.
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Good morning, good morning.
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had got bores all in it last fall, and I
mean I could I should have come in there with
the drench if I really wanted to save it. But
it's just a big old It's just an oak.
Speaker 4 (44:46):
Out and.
Speaker 5 (44:48):
Not no big deal. So me and Chris have been
watching that tree all year and it leafed out. Thing
looked perfect, great, not an issue with it. We hit
that sneaky we hit that dry spell. Uh, you know,
a couple of weeks ago, and when we get through
the radio show, you look up at the top of
that thing. It's dead one hundred percent brown leaves out.
So the boars get in there, they eat the cambium
(45:10):
tissue throughout the throughout the tree, which is basically like
the vascular system of the tree, and so the tree
can't take up water where it needs to. So you
get one of these dry spells and it can't take
the water up throughout the throughout basically throughout the tree,
and the tree ends up dying. So I'm gonna have
to get that and get that thing dropped.
Speaker 4 (45:30):
Now. We were wet enough up until about a month
ago until it wasn't an issue. But as soon as
you hit that good dry spell, it's it's a gonn.
It's a goner, you know. And we've been we've been
looking at that thing for a solid year, yep, you know.
Speaker 5 (45:47):
So we were waiting, we were waiting on that dry
spell to see what it did. So I have to
get Mark Whitfield out here to take drop that a
couple more.
Speaker 4 (45:54):
It's not a huge tree. It's a tall, skinny tree
out in the woods, and it's so it's not like
if if you lost a big white oak in the
front yard, you know, you'd be heard about that. But
if you got a prize tree in your yard, just
say a big white oak, or if you've got a whatever,
you know, cherries like candy to those things, Japanese made
(46:15):
Japanese maples. If you got a prize Japanese maple, a
dog wood, man, they love dog woods. You need to
be drenching that tree yearly otherwise you're gonna wind up
losing it because at some point it's just a matter
of time. Some trees like cherries, dog woods, Japanese maples,
(46:36):
anything like that, they are candy to those things. And uh,
but if you got a big, you know, oak tree
in your front yard. I always think of the Lloyd's
over there over a mountain brook not far from where
we're working at the Pals. Uh, they lost a big,
humongous white oak in their front yard and it totally
disfigured the whole yard. And uh, just to make the
(46:58):
yard look right, we had to go in there and
plant two oak trees that were already you know, twenty
five feet tall, just to make it look like a
house again, because it just, man, it went from this
big old majesticoke in the yard of just having a
nothing just look pathetic, and uh, you know, it changed
the whole look of the yard.
Speaker 5 (47:18):
He had a sycamore tree in his backyard, Chris, that.
Speaker 4 (47:21):
Was he had a monster it was huge.
Speaker 5 (47:25):
I've never seen a tree sycamore that big around. It
was massive.
Speaker 4 (47:28):
I remember it.
Speaker 7 (47:29):
It was.
Speaker 4 (47:30):
I mean it was off in the wood and it
was like yeah yeah, I mean yeah yeah. You know
how you go by go in some areas and you
see those telephone poles or whatever that are like masks
that look like a tree. Yeah, right and there, but
they're like, you know, eighty feet taller than any other tree.
So it sticks up there, but they mask it to
look like that. Yeah, that's that sick one. And it was.
Speaker 5 (47:51):
It was as big a round as you know. Yeah,
was huge.
Speaker 4 (47:59):
That was Jimbo Squirrel cut up sweet gum the other day.
It was four foot across. Boy, that's about that's a
big sweet gun. There's a white oak back in the woods.
That's that way all. Me and the girls are hiking
back there when we first bought our house, and uh,
I looked. I was like, good god, girls, look at
the size of that white oak.
Speaker 5 (48:15):
And so I had them standing shoulder to shoulder in
front of that thing taking pictures. I mean, it's it's big.
Speaker 4 (48:21):
I got a couple of sweet gums at the house.
I gotta drop. I got one up up by We've
got a like a connex box buried in the ground
for like a storm shelter. Yep. And there's a sweet gum,
a huge sweet gum behind beside it that's about half dead.
But I'm gonna have to ax. And there's one at
the lake. There's another pine down there, a humungus pine
(48:41):
on the back side of the lake.
Speaker 5 (48:42):
There's gonna fall, so uh, you're gonna make it fall.
I'm gonna make it fall in the direction I wanted to,
that's right. Otherwise it might be a cross crossway and
that's a problem block my sister in forevery right. Well,
Chris long Hair, you'all been y'all been running wide open
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Speaker 4 (49:02):
Yeah, but we'd like to have more work.
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it opens up a lot more opportunity for people to
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(49:24):
right around the corner, have birthday parties and stuff like that.
So we've taken over the years, you know, backyards that
were unusable and we've come in there with our equipment
and basically and and basically just fix them to where
you can actually use them. And I love when we
can do patios like we're doing at the Pals right now,
because it just it changes the whole dynamics of just
outdoor living. Yeah, you know, for sure.
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I mean it's in some of the time you're just
an outdoor person.
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