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six, they got my numbers crossed up. Hey doing there, Larry?
Okay, alrighty, Well, we haven't had so much rain as we thought
we might get. We got missed a couple of times. Break any shovels
out there, dig around? Oh yeah, came rack clothes. My that's
not good. It got started to squeak. Oh oh you buy all metals,
all metal, well to shovel and yeah, the wells are starting to
go anyway, KLEI, what if should we be doing in the garden right
now? Well, you want to keep the foliage on your tulips and your
daffodils up until it starts to turn yellow. One with her away and must
must mults. It didn't experiment at the house the multon area with three inches
of mult How did it go? And in an area with normalts, the
area with normal dry ground area with mulch moist. Oh, well, so
it does a lot, really it does. It doesn't awful lot. It
helps to suppress the weeds number one. Number two, It does help conserve
water. It looks kind of nice too. It does. So you want
to when you when you do your new plant things or annuals and things.
This this water thing's gonna be oble with here end of the week. So
hopefully that's what happened last time we did this one rings form and boom,
what do we have? Like a six or seven inch wasn't much. Yeah,
it's about what's expected to come here. I got you. However,
the water, the rain should fall in the floodplain of the reservoir. Reservoir.
Yes, I do lock the idea of reducing the water pressure though,
because it worked for me at my house when we moved into the one hundred
and ten pounds of pressure. Oh, that's way too much, so we
put a regulator on there. They could dig the skin off down sixty psi
and it uses halfty amount of water. But anyway, keeping back, getting
back to the mulch, it also has the benefit of providing a constant moisture
for the plants, more kind of a flywheel effect, if you will,
so it doesn't get drying and wet and dry and wet and you know,
more panic watering. It works so and it also helps maintain a more constant
temperature in the soil too. Got a lot of plants really don't like hot
feet and I don't either, but anyway, but it does help keep the
relatively cool. And the more constant supply water, the better they're going to
be. So time to also spray the fruit trees. Now that the bossoms
have faded a spray program. You might consider using kneem oil or Spinner's ad
to help control those pesky little critters that invade your fruit up choppers and turn
your peaches in the Swiss cheese. You don't want that. Not good.
So the bossoms have kind of faded now, and so it's time to think
about a spray program. Also, look at the branching structure of your tree
and broken branches and things. If you forgot to do that in the winter
time, it's not too late. Okay, that just kind of invites diseases.
We have a caller, Yeah, we do, all right, put
them on. Good morning and welcome, Welcome, Welcome. It's your chance
to talk to Larry here on the Green Country Gardener program. What do you
have for us today? Yes, good morning. Hey, anticipating maybe a
slight frost tonight, what kind of precautions should I take with my roses that
are coming in? The roses should be okay, they can take a bit
more cold, say than your petunias or your colias or your annual plants.
But I'm keep an eye on the weather forecast. And as far as covering
things up, I would use I wouldn't use plastic, maybe a sheet and
perhaps a t post or metal posts elevated above the plant. Cool, Thank
you, sir. So keep keep an eye on the weather and see what's
happening. And it takes a little bit of time to do all this stuff.
But if you, if you, if you live kind of at a
low elevation, say closer to the river or something where it's a little bit
lower, you have a greater chance of something bad happening. Right, Thank
you sir, have a great day, all right, thanks for calling.
Already got down to thirty three tonight in some areas, so it's gotta be
right there. Clothes some areas. Yeah, yeah, Kevin potterby snow skiing
in his backyard, take pictures. I want to see that. You got
spray and it'll freeze. He probably want the same. If I decided to
do that. Tom's gonna do something physical. Hey, take pictures. We
need to put you on the landscape crew. Yeah, I know this would
be a good week. You know. I hope you got good boots because
you're going to be covered in mud. Yeah. Yeah. Anyway, when
you do your annuals and all that annual flowers and printingm fliwers, you get
him in and all that, you do want to do a good spading up
of the soil, getting good and lous, just chopping up really good.
And that's some compost to it. It helps water water percolated into the soil,
and you know, the soil looks real nice and fluffy after you get
it all prepared. Everything else, But what was it like before you did
that. Yeah, it's like a rock, so it'll turn into a rock
again. So you want to change that. Yeah, I want to all
to your soil structure to make it easier for the rich system to exploit the
area. Yeah yeah, pretty or healthier flowers that way and shoot trees and
shrubs and stuff. That's just why when we do a landscape, we spend
oh easily seventy five percent of the time just getting to get ready, working
the dirt, yep, just getting getting the rocks out and the stumps and
twigs and the clay and everything else. Preparing the soil real good, bringing
your materials to keep the soil loose so the plants will grow and look nice.
So that's that's the preparation is nine point seven five tenths of the law.
There here we go. Okay. Another thing. People had problems with
their Japanese maples this last winter. So I've had this tree for ten years
and just went to put just like that, Yeah, for no reason.
And actually the main reason was it was too dry associated with the cold we
had this winter. So that's an environment which with which they are not geared
to survive. You know, the words that they're not engineered to survive a
droughty winner like that, so they can't handle it, so they sort of
give up the ship. So anyway, if your jappie maple has not leafed
out by now, it probably won't. But look closer to the ground,
if you really want to keep that one, it will probably send out some
shoots closer to the ground that they might even go subgraps on it to make
a up a new tree perhaps. But but if it doesn't have any leaves
on it at this point, it's probably gone all right, So yeah,
really so, And then Nandine is golly, people complained about their Nandy.
It's all dead. No, it isn't. They'll be back. You've had
an obsession, Nadine, on the south side of the house and over by
the groves, and I did, you're dead, you know? And then
all of a sudden it started putting all the little leaves. And right now,
because the obsession has newly emerging leaves or it's your dark royal purple color,
it's just covered in leaves. At this point, it really came out
and flushed through good. And this is solid, solid purple plant, so
it's gonna be cool. And the other the dwarf Endians are coming out too.
They look kind of like the lost cause, but they came back and
I go to people's house and it's starting to come out. Just give it
a little bit more time. We've not had it of heat for them to
start growing. And even though they're they're they looked at it. They're they're
pretty tough plants. Good couldn't come out. That's the first time I think
in my entire career that we've had a problems with data. So anyway,
at least they don't get bugs. So it's it's been It hasn't been really
really warm enough for somebody's plants to really come out yet. So so give
them a little bit more time. Look real closely at your an Indiana plant.
You should see some little red leaves coming out, and they'll they'll recover
and do Okay, okay, so okay. Cool boxwoods took a hit this
last winder boxwoods are really tough plants. And uh, we had a freeze
a couple of million years ago. We bad freeze here and I remember seeing
a roll of boxwoods next to a house and where the downspout came down and
dumped into the ground. The boxwoods were green after that really cold winter,
and in between them they were brown. So it doesn't take a rocket sign
just figure that out. So really, when it gets cold or really gets
really dry, water the water them real well, multi real heavily, and
they'll do they do very well. Let's survive the cold winters quite well.
Tookay, got it. So anyway, getting back to fruit trees, borders
are a bit of a problem with our fruit trees. And I put down
some amit of clow print of my food trees. Had a maple tree in
the front yard also on the same vein, if you will, m hm,
that had a terrible problem with boors. And I put the amidic cloport
on it last year, and this year's flourishing. It seems to have healed
up nicely. It's growing out again. I almost gave up on the thing
because the dead branches here and there, and you know, even bought a
little chainsaw to pull on to trim them out there. Boy, then there
was one big branch that's hang out over the street and oh no, I
cut it off. Had to. Yeah, anyway, it looks great.
Yeah, so I think it saved putting the medicoprin on there. Good nice
a maple lis a species they'd like to attack because of the sugar content and
the fat coming up, and the boars really like that. Come by for
a tasty treat. Don't now what are the symptoms of boars um? Exfoliating
bark, typically on the southwest side of the tree is the first sign that
you might have some boards on your plants, or a lack of vigor in
the tree, or weeping out of just out of a hole in the trunk
or something. If you do have some holes on the trunk and in a
pattern, those are birds or woodpecker or sap platters. But if there's no
pattern to them, they're just kind of a regular And you got dead bark
underneath. Yeah, yeah, that's a sign of boarders right there. Get
rid of them. So yeah, So we used to be able to use
lindane for boars and can't You can't get lindanine. I think the veteran aias
can get them, but we can't get them. Get it anymore, and
it was a very effective control of boards, but can't get it anymore.
Spin's ad is also a good topical application, but typically we say mid cloprit
would be the best way to do it because it's a nicketinoid that's absorbed through
the riot system into the vascular tissues of the tree. It draws it up
and it kills the boars that way while they're eating. Yeah, you can't,
you could say that. So that's kind of what's going on with trees
and fruit trees. Getting back to the fruit trees, it's time to start
a spray program to get you the little critters under control. And I'd like
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six. If you have a question or a comment for Larry fire Away,
well we'll take him as to come in. What do we have an extra
on the old agenda here? Larry? Anyway, hummingbird moth, Ye see
a lot of them at the nursery, and so people are kind of horrified
by these things. They don't fear humans, like like the hummingbirds. Dude,
no, so they go, but it's harmless anyway. It's a species
of hawk moth found and typically in the europe European Asian areas and all that,
but it's made its way over here. And I say it's a species
looks kind of like hummingbirds and have this rather long proboscis that goes into tomb
shaped flowers to lecture out. So we got a color it looks like we
probably do here. Let's go ahead and take it and good morning. Turn
your radio down please so we don't have feedback. And what is your question
for Larry? My question is truly don't know. So the flowers that come
up annually that you don't have to replant the correct penis. Those are perennials
grainials. Okay. Also I'd like to plant some, but they don't get
real big. I mean a thicket ten twelve inches tall they'd be fine,
but not something to get three foot tall? What would be suggested for that?
And plan? And how do I plan them? Well, the perennials
can be planted most any time they're available because they are perennial. So yeah,
there's not specific time to plant or Yeah, it's best to plant them
in the spring so they can get established before the heat hits in the summer.
And the selection is good too on those two. So anything from a
choreoposus to work very well as a perennial. And some of the some gallardias
and some other things aren't really too tall, and they're somewhat of an indigenous
species, and you call that a what now, maybe a choreoposi is perhaps
coreopsis huh, chreoposis that's one. Diances is another one to the dianthus or
for the most part, are in full bloom right now. And there's some
low gray ones of those two, and there's just a lot of proby prime
time for planting, didn't have them. Oh, it's just we're just at
the beginning of it at this point. Oh so now it would be a
good time. You're beat, okay, and just plant the bulbs and we'll
have typically. Yeah, the perennials of which I'm referring are actual plants,
and they and they come back year after year. Okay, I'll always just
plant the bulb Okay, I didn't know. Yeah, Well, yeah,
there's the bulbs typically tulip bulbs and daffodils and stuff. Those are planted in
the fall. But your your perennials per se anything from seedums to whatever to
just thousands of different varieties. They're planted typically in the spring. Well,
sir, I'm gonna try to make a note of this and tell me again
what you called that thing so I know what to look for. Hey,
I can't pronounce the words. One plant is coreopsis. How do you spill
it? C c O R e O P O F quipped rock and steel
R. What is c O R e O P S I S coreopsis?
It's it's quite easy to grow, really, okay. And another one is
diantas and d I d I A N T h U S diantas. Okay,
those those are two, and there's there's lots of sums. I assume
you probably have those out at the greenhouse. Yeah, we got benches full
of them. We got a great display a perennials to this point, you
bet, okay, I'm swinging up, Bob, pick up. Well,
what you do as you come and buy and and you express your height,
your hyperence preferences, and then we can somebody can show you which which ones
grow so tall? All right, thank you for calling, yes already,
and yeah you can be next by calling one eight hundred seven four nine five
nine three six and uh yeah yeah you go there you go cool. Uh.
Anyway, the hummingbird moth is a common name for the plant or the
insects. So we have an insect. It kind of looks a little like
a hummingbird. That big. If you take your glasses off, it looks
like a humming Okay, well, just they hover around and they're they're characteristic
is similar to hummingbird as far as how they behave get around it all that.
Yeah, it's a good example of what we call convergent evolution. Yeah,
so anyway, it's it's harmless to people. The the the larval stage
of this is amadeo hornworm, so which is a negative thing. People don't
like tomato hornworms. It's a big, just big worm. It's about the
size of huge chimp anyway, for for a caterpillar. They're fairly large and
they have a little little spike on the end of them. That's it's a
tomato hornworm that turns into a hummingbird moth. So they seem to be very
prevalent this year for some hot reasons. So, but anyway, so they
like nectar on the on in the daytime and you get h my feet at
the end of the day or something. But one night blooming flowers maybe,
but they do like. I have them on my patio going around, sampling,
sampling, the sampling, the fair the sun, patience and whatnot they
like. And then there's the hummingbirds also going around too, so so they're
kind of cool anyway, So don't don't fear the hummingbirden moth, but keep
in mind that they come from the tomato horn worms, so interesting kind of
thing. Okay. Anyway, perennials is always time to plant new perennials and
KLi. We have everything from houses to to hooker Us who you know,
to coreopsis and Diansus and all that and setums and it's just hundreds of varieties
of perennials, yarrows, and we try to carry things that are suitable for
this climate too, so you don't waste your money. So and the chrysanthemums
typically are available in the fall. It's because when they bloom. People don't
think much of planting mums this time of year. Oh I need mums.
Oh no, in the fall, so we got those. Okay, so
great. H also a good time for annuals too. And this year,
of course, the spring such as it is, you want to try to
plant, to prepare your soil for for dry weather. Of course I say
that in the month of May will probably rain every day, don't it always?
Yeah, So anyway, so soul preparation is primarily important. We got
to call him. Sure, Hi, good morning, and welcome to the
Green Country Gardener Program. Hi, you're on the air. Yeah, hey,
yeah, yeah. The tomato worms that gets on tomatoes. What's good
to put on your tomatoes to keep them off eating your domato? Planet b
BT Hello, yeah, yeah, can you hear me? Yeah, call
from out of space, yeah, BT B fillos. Theiring genesis very effective.
It's gone under the trade name of throw side or or BT. It's
a bacterial control that works. It's very effective against insects in their larval stage.
Wet we beeat that again? What you said to put it onto thematas
BT. Yeah, it's known as BT or thorough side BT. Okay,
okay, yeah b B B A isn't boyant, T isn't o okay,
bt okay and u. It's it's generically it's a Basilus thering genesis, which
is kind of a long name, but nonetheless it's what it is BT short
for that it's gone out of the name of Thurside or dip hell, it's
another one. So anyway, look look look at the label on the fine
p on the label and look for the basilusthering genesis mettle, and that's that's
very effective in controlling him. It's it's a disease if the insects get in
a larval stage and it kills them from with him. All right. The
tomato worms, it's weird how they can find your tomatous in a hurry.
Do that where they come from? Because there's just a big cloud of invasion
and they there's a tomato. Sorry, Charlie, you're you're gone. Last
year I had h quite a few, you know, I'll pick them off
them, of course, kill them. But they was there were little ones,
big ones, and yeah, all side so did then they come from
the moth, yes, sir, eggs eggs from them off? Yes,
Well they sure can't find your tomatos. Well, there's just just so many
of them, right, and the population is so widespread that you know,
if you're planting a million eggs and you know three three hundred of them sprout,
you did pretty good, right right, thank you very much, all
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of the Paris Yeah, the Green Country Gardener program. And he's Larry,
he knows things. I'm Tom, I understands to the phone and one eight
hundred and seven four nine five nine three six. Now we were talking a
little bit off off off microphone about carbon dioxide, which is very good for
plants, it is, really And the typical atmospheric percentage of carbon dioxide is
zero point zero three something percent, So it's not thirty eight percent of our
No, it Isn't you go down to a point where lower than zero point
two percent, plants have a hard time breathing. Breathing, Yeah, they
can't photosynthesize without the carbon dioxide. And that's a that's where some of the
oxygen comes from. Most of the oxygen they comes from the ocean. Really
is. But anyway, so we have to I think we're along away from
being really dangerous, and we have anomalous weather patterns. Do you remember the
winter the summer of nineteen seventy eight, Yeah, I do. I think
I was living in Texas. I was working here in nineteen seventy one hundred
and over one hundred degrees for over one hundred days. Yeah, it's in
Palestine, Texas that year. Yeah, I remember that it was hot.
Now, that was hot. Yeah, And a couple of years ago never
got to one hundred degrees. Yeah, and last year it got hot.
Just just a typical patterns and coming there. We live in a in a
big ball of mud hurling food space that one hundred and eighty miles for a
second, scirling around the sun, going throughout a space like that, And
if you think of that, you know we're very fragile. There are so
many variables that can go on there, and they usually do occur. Yeah,
there are some patterns, but be expecting alternative patterns. Yeah. Usual
for us to have the weather the only thing constant has changed. True,
that's why we have all Nino la Nina patterns affect us here in the United
States. I'm not an advocate for, you know, bringing diesel fuel everywhere,
but nonetheless, we need to make our machines efficient as possible. Yeah,
but I still think we can co exist and still have our nicety jasoline
powered engines provided that we had the technology to make the exhaust fairly clean.
So anyway, back to back. I'm sorry about that, Larry, but
hey, it was a good education because there's a lot of misinformation as we
were told that going on out there, that some so called scientists were budget
numbers. Yeah, you got it. You got another And I had an
interesting talk with it in ecologists one time we were in the dinner together and
she was talking about La da Da Da da and She says, what do
you think about this climate thing? And I said, the only thing constant
has changed, correct, And she was silent for the rest of the rest
the rents of the dinner. But when you realize that we were a rock,
we were molten, law, we were ice cold, We're an ice
ball. We were all water, we little emerging land. We've been you
know, partying the continents with the plate tectonics and things like that. Yeah,
it's nothing but change exactly. So tell me another one. You know,
I'm sorry we got off. Only one reason why I got into You
know, how many trees I planted in my lifetime. I can't count that
high, I know. Okay. Anyway, anyway, speaking of trees,
if you have young trees, it's time to consider fertilizing them a little bit
and using a fairly well balanced And also when you pick the tree species,
yeah, you need to kind of know what's going on underground. Yeah,
because that's where it happens. You get the show on top. And then
there's such thing as soil pH yeah, soil density, soil types, you
know, and you have to kind of consider those factors when picking a tree
species. And also how big it can you tolerate in your yard, how
many rakes can you go through to keep the yard clean? But anyway,
and then you know, like like oak trees, for instance, the northern
red oak, it's a pretty good tree. There's some conditions that cannot tolerate,
such as extraordinarily higher sol pH. If you do want an oak tree
in that situation, you might consider a swamp white oak. You hear the
word swamp white though, and there's oh my god, you know my backyard
is going to turn into a swamp. No. No, They're very tolerant
of a wide variety of conditions. And the advantage of what like about the
swamp white oak is it doesn't get oak rot, which is symptomatic of oaks
that are living in an area where it's excessively wet. So if you do
live in a lower area with heavy clay soil that's slightly low in pH,
then you might consider a pin oak. Because I have a root system that's
physiologically to live in heavy acidic soils. Going at my house huge you don't
heavy soil washed down behind the shopping center part of it. I won't even
let kids play on the yard right now. They get hurt some trees are
tolerant of a wide varding maple trees for fully pretty adaptable trees. Your red
maple in a in a heavy clay or rocky soil, the red maples will
tend to have a very shallow root system, so be prepared for that when
you install a red maple in a difficult area. So there are the Chinese
fastache is a good tree for just absolutely terrible conditions. My front yard is
a good example of that. Yeah, I have a broken pick in my
shed. Oh yikes. So anyway, so they're the Patachi is a highly
adaptable tree too. Yeah, it's no good for it's good fault color and
disease resistance and drought tolerance and so on. It's a good tree to have.
And it's a medium sized tree. They don't get so big, and
if you happen to get a male tree, they don't drop stuff everywhere.
Yeah, except about a week ago they dropped a lot of They had a
little help, a little pollen thing coming off of them. But after that
they're okay. So so anyway, So that's the trees and and everything else
that they're typically geared towards their climate and their conditions. And all that.
And if you know what part of town your address, I can just about
pick out what kind of tree will grow there. You can. You've done
this long enough, yeah, thirty some years. If you live on Martin
Road, oh my gosh, forget it. Good luck, and don't don't
discount the the the Chinese elms. I mentioned the word elm the people,
and so, yeah, you live in a difficult area, but you might
consider a Chinese elm and hell no Dutch em disease. But no, that's
not true with the Chinese variety of the elm tree. The American elms one
head and the deliberty elm is a variety of the American elm that is immune
to that. And there's there are other parallels to that, depending on the
availability. But there are some American elms that are resistant to Dutch elm.
Let's go to the phones here. Good morning, welcome to the Green Country
Gardener Program. Your question or comment for Larry, Yes, good morning,
good morning, a great I left my elephant airs. I have three tubs
of different types of elophant airs out last night. They look a little chilly
this morning. I probably need to move them in tonight. That would probably
be a good idea. I won't kill the plan altogether. That has enough
masks to keep itself warm, but you're gonna lose your leaves if he gets
if he gets too cold. Yeah, I have them in big tubs where
I can roll them around if I get if I meet too But I didn't
know I'll get so cold last night. So yeah, it got a little
chilly last night, but it didn't get gold enough to hurt anything. So
now tonight it's going to be a different story. Down to about thirty three,
that's really close, so you're really cutting closer time. Can't you do
anything about that? I tried to hit the knob for heat. It won't
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I'm Tom, I just answer the phone. What you got there, Larry?
Anyway, wave petunias, yeah, the way petunia represents a kind of
a broad spectrum. Now different there's wave of a new wave and so on,
and of course the bubble gum is incorporated into that classification, if you
will. We do have some bubble gums at the innerstry. People really like
them because they can tolerate our varying temperatures and growing conditions. We do have
varied temperace, yes and so on, and they can tolerate that pretty well.
Anyways, they need a full sign at least six hours of sun every
day for them to do well. And they need well drained, fertile soil.
Yeah, so you need to move about thirty miles north. No,
no, hello tyro. Yeah, we do need we do need well.
You might want to consider getting some composts when you when you get your portina
plants and work you get in in with the soil. You don't ever want
to plant it in a hole of solid composts, which you do. Want
to prepare the soil with a compost to the point where you can get your
hand in a dig out a handful of soil. If you can't physically remove
with your hands some soil, then it's not good enough for these plants.
So and really you don't have to do this every year with the compost.
You do once you said it once and before forget it. Yeah, then
you can plant the again next year and also in that same soil that you
did your great preparation for your petinas. When we have a freeze, then
you can plant the pansies in there. They'll look good all in one all
summer, one winter, yeah, spring, one of those yeah, something
like that. Yeah, he said, yeah. Time anyway, you can
put your pansies in the same place, and if you do want to have
an annual turnover like that, you might consider putting some room in between them,
okay, and let them expand into that area. Then you can clip
them back a little bit and plant your pansies in there when they're available in
September late October around there, and then they'll take over as he's die off
in the cold. So anyway, so petunias, the bumping hum and the
way petunias are just very very showy plants. But you do want to do
some pep for them to you just you just simply can't plant them in our
indigenous soil because they're not john some grets and they're not hackberries, so so
they have to have a little bit of good slot. And also you might
consider getting some fertilizer as you plant them to anything from Saint milorg and I
work very well to just a good garden variety of slow h fertilizers at ten
even it would work just to give them some nutrients as they can go on
if you want to really big shoe, really big shoe, memory had Sullivan.
Yeah, but anyway, you do want to keep the fertilizer up liquid
fertilizers another way to do it. Also see the Peters fertilizer or miracle will
grow or something on an occasion them also. Okay, so anyway, consider
the wife bubble bubble gum patious. They'll do really well, give you some
color off summer one, lots of sunshine, lots so anyway, perny of
the week is pony. The pony plants are getting ready to bloom, and
as can be expected, when they bloom, it rains. Yeah, ours
are getting kind of fat, so yeah, well figger the figures. It's
gonna rain one all week. Well yeah, yeah, they're getting they're just
getting ready to bust open at home. We're getting ready to bust open.
And what happens, Here comes the rain. So it always happens. Anyway,
They bloom for a period of time in the spring. After that they're
they don't. So you don't want to make them a mainstain in the landscape.
Kind of put them not in the front of the perennial bed, but
in the middle of the middle, or even towards the back of It's a
tall variety, and my Japanese variety is getting ready to bloom too. It
has a big yellow bloom one. Oh yeah, kind of heavy out there,
are they? Yeah? Yeah, just in time. Yeah, storms
coming here. Hi, good morning, Welcome to the Green Country Gardener Program.
Your question or comment for Larry Hey, good morning, Yeah, good
morning. Regarding perennials. One that I've tried finding several years ago, but
it never did very well. I've never heard you talking about hollyhocks. We
have some hollyhocks at the nursery. You do, Oh, yes, okay,
well, I'll take a look at that next time I'm out through them.
Yeah. They're very, very easy to grow, and they tend to
come up and places all over the two and they will, yeah, the
seeds come out. And I had that at my house a few years back.
They would just come up in the middle of the yard and I would
kind of move around them. And they're kind of pretty out in the yard
too. But okay, Yeah, they're very easy to grow. An old
fashioned favorite. And uh, what kind of soil are there? Because mine
seemed to do well for about a two years and after that not much or
anything. Well, yeah, hollyhocks typically are biennials, so they only last
a couple of years. So you might want to go ahead and collect some
of the seeds from the flowers and and plant them too, And they'll come
up and do it for a couple of years, and then they they don't,
they don't do it anymore. So they do tend to recede well with
Mary Goals. We used to flint miracles all the time our front bar,
but we've always collect the seed that would be our next year's bunch. Right,
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I'm Tom David. He's Larry Glass. He's our expert and you can talk
to him at one eight hundred seven four ninety six. Where do we leave
off there? Larry, we were talking about puny plants. That's right,
and I typically support is kind of required for punies to mate key just worked
really well for those two. They help hold the flowers up and all that.
And me I use a fuel line. Well, the kind of time
together and it worked real well. So heavy an little vehicle, you do
have stuff like that handy y anyway, but something that will hold them together
like that, that doesn't bind it. The stretch tie. It's this green
tape we sell that. I've seen that. Yeah, it works very well
to hold them up too, So you might if your ponies the bulbs are
getting off, the flowers are getting fairly large. It's it's right at that
point you might consider heavy perhaps wrapping it so they don't tend to fall over.
So anyway, they're extraordinarily hardy, easier to grow plants. The pH
range from six point five to seven point five. The peach skill be exponential.
That represents a rather wide condition. So, and they do very well
in deep rich organic matter. But I have mine living in limestone and they're
doing very well. You've got to tie it does a little red ones and
I don't ever water or anything colly when they blooms there. They're a short
one. They're probably about a foot wall. Yeah, and the flower is
more open than the others and has a yellow center and it's its red and
it's really quite nice. And I don't do anything to them and just kind
of just pop out and be colorful and enjoy them. On the way home
after work, yea, they are pretty okay going in the house. But
I do take lots of pictures of them though. So anyway, so they're
getting ready to come in, and they're really easy to grow, and they
need to be divided. Actually they do about every three years or so.
Okay, when we moved into our house, there was one big clump of
white peonies and hid I had been divided in years. I took that thing.
Now fell over the yard now, oh hell yea. Anyway, they're
real pretty when they do them. Yeah, so peony plants. The only
problem they get is a bacterial leaf spot and that's typically associated with warm,
moist weather and the fungicide won't work because it's not a fungus, is a
bacteria. So we think we still have some. But some horticulturals chripped the
ice and there's a good control for them. But typically it's just a matter
of presentation on the plant. Really doesn't even hurt them that much because they
come back to the ice and fresh in the spring every year. So if
you do get spot on them, well you can use get some spread to
strut the ice and on it that will help control the bacterial lead spot.
Got it? On that too. Pennies easy to grow. It required good
sunshine, good drainage. There's a little susceptibility to really pully bugs sal bugs.
I think you have a little bit of susceptibility to that too. So
that's the only real problem I have. But enjoy them. It was easy
to grow, all right. Okay, So pennies, daffodils, and tulips,
I think I mentioned it earlier. You need to keep the leaves on
them for a while, still come back again next year. They can be
divided after the leaves drop off or will whither. They can be split up
and broken up. At that point there dormant another plant. I see it
actually seen a lot of the leaves come up this year. Is like corus
otherwise known that its naked ladies. Well, yeah, they come up in
the flowers, they pink flowers in the absence of the leaves in the summertime.
And see some great shurge of growth in the in the leaves of these
plants. So I think we're gonna have a really good year for lychorus come
summer. Very good. So if you have a leaf plant with a leaf
that looks a little bit like a say an amurryllists. The leaves come up,
that's like Horus. And I've noticed they pronounced the presence of them this
year, so it should be a good year, really good year for like
corus coming up too. Okay, vegetables, time to plant those tomatoes.
Make sure the soil is easy to work at this point. I don't like
to multic the tomatoes. I do like to let the soil warm up.
But anyway, come by the nursery. We've got tons of different varieties of
tomatoes, from little cherries to the big ones, and someone of other vegetable
plants. And a perennial is just about any kind of perennial you can possibly
want. Great selection of shrubs, trees and whatnot. Right now our inventory
is almost that peak. Thanks a little flower coming in this year because some
of the growerth has some issues appearance problems with the materials. So they're starting
to come in pretty good right now. Good. And we did manage to
latch onto a bunch of dwarf ye upon hollies too, which kind of a
favorite in the landscape. So anyway, Tom golly good good show this week,
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