And welcome, welcome, welcome in this time now for the Green Country Gardener
Program. And I'm Tom Davis. I just answered the phones around here.
He's Larry Glass. He'd been knowing something once again. It is at one
eight hundred and seven four nine five nine three six. Nice busy week there
for you, Lawrence, you're there. You had to prime the microphone.
There you go, wake up now, it's okay. You're tired. I'm
tard. You know something. You're in the right place in America where you
can rhyme tired and hard hard. I'm tired a lot of a lot of
it. Miles on this week. I bet you wouldn't. Your predometer said
something like twenty two twenty three miles three miles this week. That's just walking
around in the sun heat anyway. They have new fall color trees have just
arrived. Oh nice maples and needs pustache. We've got a few elm trees
and some oaks and whatnot. They're coming in. You're looking pretty good.
Some of the maples took a little tattered from the wind. I guess so
we had a bit of a windstorm and Tulsa. These are from an outfit
and Tulsa there by the river down south of town, and they had Yeah,
they got a little breeze, a little breeze down and the southern leaves
are a little tattered on the on the maple's nose, but finde. So
anyways, we're kind of excited about that. Also, we're thinking about points
that he is, I have to get your gibbs in on those. Yeah,
you better get them. They're going and we're starting panzies right now in
the greenhouse, just in time for the fan to break. Yes, your
kid, Well, the bearings went out on these fans that they're they're like
helicopter blade cross are huge and the weigh a lot of natural bal the bearings
just kind of give out. It's not us. That was fun, but
it was a little bit more it in plants, folks, and there's a
lot about machinery electronics. We got hold tage and bearings. So we got
that fixed. Greenhouse. Greenhouse six is working just fine right now. Good
you hear the road, the things screaming from the street. It was it's
all that louder pulling in mid four when you're going. Not that not that
one again. So we got that fix. It's working just fine, so
just in time for the heat to come on this week? When is this
going to be over with? What's moth of you guys? Come on fix
it's already ninety eight on Thursday. Shut up, Well when summer's last?
Gasp? Well it might be in a couple of weeks. The week after
my ten day things shows it's going to be a little cooler next week.
So yeah, in the next week, maybe if I December list fish,
everyone have to work about the snow building up on the roads, Oh you
might. I just took a look at the old farmer's almanac. I didn't
check the new one. You know, he's a new guy. He's kind
of wrong. The old guy been around a little bit. So I took
a look at the old Farmer's almanac, and it said that we're going to
be a little wet, uh this winter, which you know, looking at
the lake. Good, but I don't know much. It's gonna be snow.
That's a good thing, plants good for the next spring. Snow in
the winter is really good. It is stealthy when it melts, it melts
slowly and it gets down into the soil rot real good. Yeah, so
yeah, so you hold that thought if you will. All right, Okay,
so anyway, we could do have some at the nurse races. Let's
sail get this scene. There we go, There we go. Hostas are
twenty five percent off. It doesn't seem like quite the right time a year
to buy hosts could say they look at worse right now. However, to
get in the ground at this point, even though they're they're you know,
a deal of bargain right now, you gotta consider what's happening underground. Yeah,
it's not all about what they'll live in two different worlds. Get them
right, then I'll have a more robust root system the next spring that will
really come out nicely. So just because they're on sale doesn't mean they're they're
bad stuff or whatever. Anyway, they're on sale too. We have we
have some herbs. Don't say Mandeville's jasmine and Jessamin. It's the difference between
Jessamin and jasmine. What's that? What's the difference? Well, Jessamin typically
has a yellow flower. Yeah, and people call it Carolina jasmine. It's
wrong. Actually, down south, it's a bit of a pest climbed up
into the trees and when you're traveling down the road, you see these big
bosss of of I lived in Florida. I think I've seen that yellow flowers
up in the tree. That's just Samium simper viruns, which is called Carolina
jessamine, and they colloquially, you'll whatever that word is word for that adjastment.
It's easier to say jasmine and adjacment, I guess. Yeah. So
anyway, we got some of that too. It does well pretty well here.
It is hardy in the zone seven, so it can't get nipped a
bit in the winter. But they seem to be if they have plenty of
roots space on them, plenty of mults on the ground going into it,
that they should survive, which is fine. So anyway, so we asked
a little bit of that too. Canada's, of course fox farm stuffs on
sale peonies or half price too. Great time to plant peony bushes. They're
ugly, is all geared out, but now it's a good time to plant
them because they'll have a good roots system if you're going into the spring,
because they'll have all winter along for the roots to establish and they'll be much
better. So if you have plants for planting some pony plants their own sale
half price, okay, annuals, soperennials, plenty of bulbs or buy one,
get one, and were hanging baskets for twelve ninety nine. So anyway,
so there's a few things on sale, but the trees aren't. No,
they're gonna be coming into vote real soon. So like in two weeks
here, it's good be like everywhere a month ago so where anyway, Yeah,
those are coming into so anyway, a lot of things going on at
the nursery kind of a transitionary period too. Our greenhouse is going from growing
annuals and summer annuals and things just fall things like a kale and and uh
and the pansies right now. So it's a big, a big change of
modus opera and modus operendi. And we're growing stuffs anyway. That's what's going
on too in the vegtable garden this week. Time to plant those turnips and
prepare the soil for coal crops, cold crops. There's a cabbage whatnot,
like a kale and things like that. Let us good content the greens that
keep you going. Yeah, and typically when let us it's ready to go,
the bugs are gone. So if you plant it too early, it
doesn't like the heat. Number one, number twos. Look at that young
they pounce the next thing you know. It didn't look good. So you
away a little bit of time on lettuce maybe, but to get some nice
good turnips. Time to get those in. Actually, the greens of the
turnips, the real healthy part is the root is just kind of starchy,
which good was run dressing though, But nonetheless the greens, the turnip greens
or what's that's the part you gotta have. Living in Georgia for so many
years, Oh you've had that. I really enjoy turnip greens. I just
love them. They got them in North Florida too. Boy, they with
everything. I could eat my weight and turnip greens. That's good. That's
really healthy for you too. They are in the lawns this week. The
perimeter grass and zoya grass. Joys of grass are growing pretty good. Now.
It's a little late to fertilize that permuter right now September, so don't
use a high nitrogen fertilizer on your permiter grass. It needs to toughen up
for the winter. If you have a situation where you've tested the spoil and
it is deficient, it wouldn't hurt to put a scribed him not to fertilize
one in the permuter grass just to keep the levels up. But otherwise,
if you've got some twenty or thirty six zlo or something, well put it
back in the shed for the winter and store it up off the ground so
it'll be ready for next next May, next May. So yeah, the
ten twenty ten right now we do. It's also getting a soon time to
put down the prodiamine. Prodiamine is a pre emergent herbicite and it's very good
at controlling henbit and chick weed and stuff like that. It gets in your
yards and spring down the lion to helps control them too, So getting really
really close for that too also, so think about that into your yard.
Also what to do. Check out the irrigation system too. It is gonna
get to where we can actually water our grass pretty soon, so you might
want to turn it on and just let it run for a little bit.
Just make sure everything's up up to snuff. So when you do put down
your ten twenty ten or your per diamine or whatever, you have the method
about which they can be watered in, so click that out diffuse and so
Dave Hatch, I wouldn't do it. It's too hot and dry. I
thought about it, but give it a couple of weeks and I've got more
things to do than worry about my grass. You know, we mowed ours,
did the little you know, got it kind of low. Yeah,
I don't think we're gonna be mowing, but maybe one more time before wintertime.
Oh no, No, when it starts raining again, you'll you'll get
some get some quick growth. It always happens in the fall, and that's
why we don't want to fertilize our permuto grass too much grow real quick and
the stolens aren't hard enough for the winter. So yeah, so yeah,
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is open The one eight hundred seven fourt nine five nine three six Larry Glasses,
our expert, and we've been talking about this, that and the other
and all the weather and everything really what weather. Yeah, Welldle what to
do with them right now? You can got back to spent blooms right now
for appearance. As I was coming into the office a little bit before sunrise,
as you always do, the sun that is coming up a little further
to the closer to the equinox. So we're getting really too late for the
Great Middles to generate new blooms. That's pruned at this point. So so
cut off the dead blooms right now, just for appearance, and maybe shape
it up a little bit too, Yeah, if you can tolerate the heat.
But so anyway, just kind of leave them and you don't want them
to grow too much going into the wintertime. They need, like I said,
you need to be hard and off like the bermuda grass too, So
you know, the crepe myrtles and multum in maybe for the winter coming on
too, Let's get some rain on them and let them get good and silk
in. They don't do very well if we have a dry period going into
the winter, so you might consider getting some mulch and after we do have
some good rain and before we have our arch and blast, you might want
to go ahead and mulch them in just so it keeps that area the soil
just a little bit on the warmer site and they should be able to tolerate
the cold little bit of that way. So crepe myrtles pretty cool plants.
Look on them. Also, look for a scale. I haven't seen such
an outbreak of the scale this year as I have in a bath in the
past. Might be something to do with the dryness perhaps, but they seem
to be doing pretty good with it right now. So some of them though
I've seen some of them just literal real attack, but for the most part,
they're not that bad this year, it seems, with the scale.
So anyway, look at them real closely, look at the stems and look
for rather odd looking growths on the stem that pop off at leasily. But
those are scaling, and don't confuse them with maybe the dead ones from last
year too, because that can happen. Yeah, I've seen them where they're
recovering and the bringing are gone, so just the residue. Yeah, right
now on your hydrang just kind of leave them alone a little bit I wouldn't
cut them back at this point. Uh, you're gonna have some blooms forming
on them real soon, and you need a good mature aprical mere stem.
We're using the big words here at the twenty dollars crossword puzzle word. Well,
I think that will go all the way across anyway, if you if
you cut them back too far, chances are they won't be able to reach
generate the tissues necessary to produce blooms. So if you just don't cut the
back at this point and then just keep them watered, not not too much
nitrogen, maybe some phosphorus if you have some around and stuff like that,
it's a good blooming type fertilizer and they'll do okay. So so hydrange is
they're difficult to grow here because of our soil and our burying or climate or
periods of extreme drought and all that. But they do better in the more
northern climate. But actually people are having pretty good luck with them down in
Dallas of all places too. What do you know who? Anyway, So
that's odd. So so they'll do too much of the with your hydrone this
week, okay. Also Mike's underbox swids look closely at them. We talked
about this last week. They're pretty bad. Dormant oil or knee oil or
triple action or with the hireson antemoil or lace bugs or on a sail is
a little bit of a problem too. I haven't seen much of it this
year though. Lace bugs, yeah, yeah, they're really They've been really
bad at the past, but this year that I think they're taking a bit
of a break, if you will, so too hot. I hadn't seen
too much of them. Typically earlier in the spring, you rub your hand
through yoursel and all these little honey flies come out. Those are lace wings,
and they attached themselves or fly or land on the bottom of the leaf,
and they have a proboscis that goes in between the layers of the leaf
and they scoop out the chloroplasts in the palisade. Missiphil. Yeah, just
like little vampires. That's right. So, but I haven't too much of
a problem with here this year. The chapam Jack's dead bug will work,
or a metaploper to work against those, but right now I wouldn't waste your
money on it. I'd go ahead and apply that next spring help keep the
lace bugs under control. When you're great, myrtles, Let's see what else?
Uh? Kind of all the bugs right now? Tomatoes. I noticed
the tomatoes have slowed down to the screeching halt. Mind having the backyard,
and when it cools down just a little bit, we'll have all our false
church and it'll be really nice tomatoes and little freeze. It's all about the
timing, that's right. So they'll they'll keeping water. Don't don't water them
too much. I think you can water. I haven't watered mine yet.
There's well maybe twice I watered them. You got build nine inch layer mulchs
on the top so they hold the moisture real well, so they'll be coming
back to this. I got the little tomatoes, so wife flights, so
just pop them in. They're really good. So not much to do with
the tomatoes right now, except maybe keep an eye on the mic populations and
the white flights too. They're kind of tough. The Captain Jack's dead,
but taking care of the white flies. But the mics are unractied. So
I controlled them with about a one or two percent solution of dawn soap on
a holds in sprayer scare of him in the evening. In the evening,
dormant oil works pretty well too, I mustified light oil will work pretty good
too. But so you can't breathe of that your trees right now. Look
at the board damage on your fruit trees and all that. You might do
a little fall fertilization here pretty soon. I wouldn't do it quite yet.
It really won't diffuse right now. It drives the ground is unless you have
a sprinker system. So when you do fertilize the tree, put it out
of the drip line. I see so many people with piles of fertilize right
next to the trunk with us. No, what's not going out a way?
And actually the drip line is where all these goofy looking people hang out
under the tree. Drip got you, I'd sell you what you did.
No, But it's the furthest point where the branches come out. That's typically
the point where the absorption. Most of the absorption is happening of the other
materials on that So concentrate on that area. It seems rather odd people have
a tendency to want to here's a tree, put it right there there,
No, no, no, that goes out there, And they don't see
what's underground. They don't know. If you fertil of trees water at first,
put a sprinker out there of water for if you haven't been water in
your yard a couple of hours. Yeah, it was a little impact head
and then fertilized in water again because it has to for it to get down
into the soil. It needs moisture, lots of moisture diffusion into the soil.
So that's kind of what it would trade. A tree fertilizer will work,
or ten twenty ten or something like that. If you have an oak
tree and leaves a little bit small one, it'll say, pino for instance,
I want to get something with some iron in it. Iron. Yeah,
you're a joying this that iron. It will help help it green up
a little bit, orange up your sidewalk a little bit. That's okay.
But the iron is an essential element, especially for pin oaks. They have
a difficult time existing and soil that's iron deficient. They get what they're called
clorosis, which is symptomatic of the leaves. They have this yellowish colored and
the veins in the middle of kind of green in color, and the leaves
you're smaller and smaller over time because of an iron deficiency. So if you
do have a situation where there's a pin olk, you might consider either fertilizing
your lawn with a fertilizer that has iron in it or a specific application at
the jopline of the pine. Got a call, I think so, good
morning. Hi, you're on the air with our Green Country gardener Larry Glass.
You question or comment, Good morning you for being and hey, I
was wondering about planting FSK. You see when a person should do that thsk
you seed us. There's two sets the criteria right there. It needs to
be a little cool at night, and we're just about at that point right
now. It's the low in the seventies. I'd like to see at the
low fifty five to sixty at night, and then you know, some fairly
cool weather it should take. Okay, Also make sure you're grounded. You
do at least a shallow tail on the ground, all right, and then
distribute the seat over that you should do okay, all right, I'll go
to try it. Thank you very much. All right, thanks appreciate it.
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nine five nine three six healthy fescue grass. There's an underlying criteria to make
the grass seed healthy. One is the ability of the root system is probably
the most important thing. The ability of the root system to go down into
the soil and be able to reach that moisture higher level of moisture. So
you should have anywhere from a minimum I would say, of six inches of
soil maximum of who knows what, and it should be loose enough for the
roots to go down and be able to exploit the resources down there. So
the more vertical association of richie can have, the better the grass is going
to be. If you live in an area where there's a whole lot of
rock, well, there are areas that are a whole lot of rock around
here, So I go purchase a bulldozer, I guess you got your work
got out right. So it's difficult to say, because anyway, they do
need a fairly deep soil for it to work well. Because our weather here
is is it's an extreme We we don't have maybe three days a normal weather
during the year. Yeah, I've lived here for going on five years now,
yet to see north forty years. It's one or the other, yea
anyway, So the deeper the soil the better, The loozardlest soil the better.
So if you're soil, you type of shovel and jump on it.
And if it doesn't go anywhere, then then you got some problems. Yeah,
now right now, as as dry as soil as a soil list.
Before you do your chilling, you might want to put the sprinkler system on
it, let it run, or use a hose and uh water thing sprinkler
szz yeah and water it in't real good. And then I dig another hole
and see how deep it can go, just to make sure the soil number
one is loose enough and make sure the number one it'll it'll percolate down.
If the soiled water does not percolated into the soil, you probably have a
little too much clay and a lot of things associated with play and a lot
of moisture. Is anaerobic conditions, and fescue does not grow in a In
an anaerobic it rots, it gets uh symptomatic of five top four you what
happens to it gets collapse of the bascular tissue. If it stays too wet
and whatever. So all these things and another thing is your pH. Check
your soil pH. Typically here in Bartlesville's pretty close to where we need to
be. But I've recorded in some parts of the time in Woodland Park in
the shade over there five point five pH. Yeah, and some parts of
Sooner Park you know a little different. It's seven or you know even more
than that, seven and a half eight eight, And it's a little extreme
in the same place like this, from one one to another. It's difficult
to gauge how to do that. So a soil test would be the best
thing to do. Grass seats expensive this year, so that makes a soil
soil tastes a whole lot cheaper. So get your soil chemistry right and get
your soil structure right now. Adding compost is good for the for the sand,
but you want to I meaning for the soil, but you might want
to get some course sand as well. Let's say, course, not not
to find mason sand, but course sand. That's an essential part of the
soil is a clay loam, sand and silt. And what you can do
if you're not not too sure of the composition of your of your soil it's
a good science fair project, two of the kids. It doubles since I
do for a full take like a court jar, and fill it up oh
halfway with soil and rest way. Leave a little bit in the top for
shaking room with water. Shake it up real good until it's a homogeneous set
it on the countertop, and then uh, look at it the next day,
and you'll have this stratification of different materials in the soil, and it'll
give you a good feeling for what you have in your soil. The bottom
room will be the sand, and then the silk, the neck clay,
and the mid loam usually a little whatever, a little bit would get it's
floating on the top of the water, and that'll kind of tell you your
content of the soil. So if you have a very very thin layer of
sand, you might add a bit more sand. If you've got a thick
layer of loam, that's pretty good. You know, organic stuff, you're
you're you're right now, you have to come across that here in town.
But a clay, you're gonna have a whole lot of clay had some silt.
So do a a storiation analysis and see what your soil is made of
and also get your shovel and you might want to stead of shoppering it so
it doesn't bounce off the ground, and just dig a hole there and see
what you got underneath there. Yet, the more difficult it is, the
more stuff you have to add to your soil. Good rule of thumb.
So once that's under control, and then when the nighttime temperatures get the in
the mid sixties or so would be good time to start planting fiescu seed at
lower sixties fifties around there. You know, when it feels really nice in
the morning, when actually when when it's really feels cold, that's a good
feeling, then it's time to go ahead and do that. It wouldn't hurt
the fescu seed to have a little bit of a warm spell, but we
need a more consistent lower temperature for it to do well. Okay, fertilizer
also, just to use something like a ten twenty ten to begin with,
and then as it grows, hope you can ramp up the nitrogen a little
bit. You don't want too much nitrogen it'll have too rapid week of a
growth. Want a good strong growth on it. So when it hits wide
blade it will really be nice, some green, healthy, but not a
whole lot of nitrogen. And it's difficult to quantify that because there's so many
variables in existing mineral content of the soil to be able to tell how much
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Larry Glass on the Green Regardener program. Wady Dodrid's up in four nine,
five nine three six. Larry, Okay, box words right now, don't
treming back too much at this point. What's gonna happen is if you're really
kind of back real far, the new growth is going to go into the
winter and you have these little blonde leaves everywhere. Yeah, so it needs
to be hard enough now after we've had a cold spell when it's not growing
any and it could be in a little bit. But I think right now,
if you were to trimmed them back somewhat sternly, we're going to ask
some cooler and rainia weather coming on. It's inevitable they'll put on some fresh
growth and then the farmer's all max that's going to be wet and cold and
all that. So they'll probably die back anyway. So I wouldn't do too
much with them right now. Typically I like to cut back. The box
was a heavy cut back in February March around Okay, you've super fuscated on
them, maybe, but no very little opinion nitrogen at all. And we
talked about dormant oil or an em oil or triple action or soap Pyrenthans on
the mics. So if you do have the mics, that's that smell they
get. My box was don't smell. Well, you're lucky. No,
they don't, think because I use this soap on occasionally. There you go.
They're clean too, dawn fresh. Oh yeah, they're they're nice,
nice and clean. We get to wash behind your leaves. So the roses
right now, it's uh, they're going to be growing here in another whenever
the weather turns around, so you can cut them back right now. We
did get a couple of Julia Child roses in, but not very many of
them are available out there, so we got just a couple of men so
anyway, and and we do have some of my drift roses at this point
too. What don't like about these is there they're not a miniature and they're
not a standard. They're somewhere in between, and they had this kind of
those low branching habit and they bloom the spite of it, you know everything
too. So they're available in a red and yellow and an apricot. So
the drift roses are good ones. I have very carefully roses too. And
to get out of hand, just take your hedge flip or two of them
and show them all what poor Kevin, you'll like these roses eighteen Chilinger.
Yeah, I think it's up the thirty six. Now, Oh my gosh,
yeah you said here that, then go anyway here it runs on coal
and bibles. I don't even know what that means. Yeah, okay,
anyway, on your trees right now, you can trim them back a little
bit if you need to look for damage. I did find some board,
mean board damage, find some board damage on my trees, so I had
to do something about that. Use a little bit of a medical opord on
them. And maple is doing just fine. So not much ado fertilizer on
the trees. I wouldn't fertilize it at this point because it's going to get
cold, and you don't want a lot of fresh tender kind of like a
boxwoods, a lot of fresh tender growth growing into your trees into the fall.
So I just kind of exercise a little discipline with them, and if
you really want some fall color, don't don't fertilize them too much at all.
So wait, wait a little bit later, give it a little time.
Also, landscape plans, I've got two people towns I got to go
to today. We can get a plan to you, and if you give
me your email, like an email it to you, it's a lot quicker
than then you can zoom in on it and all that. It's kind of
fun anyway, it's not quicker than trying to meet again. So anyway we
do those. I do a little example of one here, so it's one
we're actually putting in. So oh there. Ye. So that's kind of
important to being able to look at it and reach plans and see what's going
on. And we offer you know, perspective views also of it too,
and cost estimates and everything else. So I'll let you know what's coming up.
Also, people are kind of getting into planting trees right now, and
we can advise you up the nursery on how to prepare the soil plant those
trees, How big a hole to dig and all that. Yeah, yeah,
you don't. You're not putting your cork in the ground, you don't.
You want to try to get some of the rock out of the way
too, and we run into a lot of rock and roots and things.
Golie sometimes will be there all afternoon, plan to a little five gallon tree
and sometimes where there for ten minutes to plan a thirty gallons tree, so
it all sort of comes out and wash, I guess. So anyway to
properly prepare them, make sure the soil drains a real well away from the
house, make sure your your chilities are marked flagged on all that. And
the sewer line coming into the house. If it's a PBC line, it's
not as important to say if it worked clay tile or something. There's still
some of those here in town, probably, and you don't want to create
some problems, but you know, solve it probably at the same time you
cause any problems on that, So go ahead and get those marked. If
you don't know where your sewer line is marked, it might even be worth
while to have a plumber come out and located for you. Might cost you
one hundred dollars or so, but Galli, it should be a lot less
than cutting a hole in a sewer pipe ruining it that way. So so
you might have a survey done to that. Just not no one just see
you no where it is. Yeah, so you know what to put in,
what not to put until on in your yard. Keep in mind also
that the right away is a right away, and if they have to do
some mutility work, it's uh, they're bailey. Wait so you're could lose
a few things that happened to me at my the house did when they're doing
the sewer thing. The the sewer lines, I don't know what they're made
of, paper or something, what they're made of under that, and the
smoke came up all over the backyard. Oh they do smoke testing sometimes.
Yeah, well they did it over there. That was a mess. Oh
boy, so they had. Fortunately, when I built my fence, I
bolted the food pieces whatever it's called, backing to a post and just unscrewed
it and took a whole fence fiction out. They really like that we might
lest we might mess up some real landscaping. I said, hey, this
is a right away. Do what you gotta do. Yeah, just bring
me some good dirt. That's all I ask. That's all I ask.
They did. They did, and they did. So it works well when
you talk. Yeah, why don't even climbed up in a tree to get
some gords out of it? I had a well there you go, so
there you go. So anyway, I keep that in mind also in planting
a trade. They're right aways. And also if you have an elevated power
lines in the backyard, you want to be the tree to plant about twenty
feet away from those two. If you don't have twenty feet to plantum,
you might consider a fistigiated tree. Got it. That's narrowing upright, something
like an English show. Because there's some elms that drow narrow and upright,
but they'll stay in bounds. You shouldn't bottle in the middle. They don't
like that. So and smaller trees too. That the Oklahoma redbud is a
small one, the Chinese crustache, the Chinese elm thinking pretty big. But
nonetheless, pick up some smaller species of tree in an area where it might
be a little bit tight. But you still want some trees, got it.
Okay, So species selection is important. Drainage, it's important you chose
the locations. It's very important. We had a customer come in one of
this big old tree in the yard. Oh, they're about the driveway.
I said, I'm just flying and it was like it looked like a quilt.
Oh my, I'm lying joining there. I said, Well, we
can't plan it here. There's there's a seed catching thirty years is how we
decided on the location in the backyard block in the morning sun. So it
turned out okay, there you go. It's always a remedy exactly. So
kind of know what's going on the ground so you don't inconvenience your neighbors.
Well you could be real popular, real past, but not in a good
way for a little thirteen year old running out the door, got my one
by I don't I can't look at look at TikTok now yeah TikTok. Yeah.
Yeah. So anyway, you want to make sure they not to break
the lines. That's happened on several occasions too. People bought it. Somebody
bought just five different trees and I said, there's snitty way the lines are
too close together, so we can get these in here. Yeah, well
yeah, so you don't want to get caught. Also, irrigation systems good
a little thing. They'll find the wire on the irrigation system and a lot
of times people ask can you locate the line? You get the scene there,
you go find it. Nope, you don't want to plant there.
That's not gonna work it over here just a little bit too. So knowledge
is very important on that too where it is and all that too. Okay.
That also leads up to other things in the landscape and outdoor lighting is
a popular thing too. I should have brought one of my lights up to
let you feel the weight of this thing. We use only stainless steel or
brass. Okay, I've gotten away from aluminum. It deteriorates that what he
kind of it turns into powder. Yeah, it does. Actually, this
this kind of gel stuff forms on the inside of the Sometimes then the lights
aren't very bright and they burn up. We did some repairs for somebody.
You're telling me that brass really works, well, yeah, but make sure
on the brass everything is brass. Yeah yeah. Galvanic corrosion and really cause
some problems. Stainless steel is a good one. Also, if you can
get all stainless stamped. Maybe all stamped means screws and everything, right,
I'll have to be stainless steel or glass and silicone. Ok they don't react
with each other. And also the wire as it goes into it. We
only use one that will have a silicone plug or something in it that keeps
the ants from getting in there. Bugs they go everywhere though you are the
standless steal once we've used in the past, so I don't I don't know
if I can get them anymore. But they're they're rated for underwater. Oh
and so the bugs don't get into them. It's interesting. It's a little
little cup shaped like thing and it has a flats on the top. Well
you put screws. Then on top of that goes rather interesting looking silicon seal
that when you put pressure on it, these little ridges on it collapse and
it makes it a perfect steal against against the glass lens. So stainless steel,
glass and silicone. You know, they don't interact. They're all three
of them are inert. Next thing, you know, you got a fully
functioning USUL equipment. There even be any trouble. Even the screw on the
back that that clamps the rubber around the cord going in there. Stainless steel
too, so detail, baby, yeah, just make sure just that way.
Now they've got cheaper ones. It's probably worth it, you know,
to get one that called swelve dollars as opposed to one to get maybe forty
dollars. But then you have to go back and rewire it get to forty,
you and forget it. Set it and forget it. Okay, So
anyway, so those are the two matrails I'd like to use in an outdoor
lighting system, standless steel or brass. Very good. We're gonna take a
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five nine three six. Larry, what do we have here? Okay,
we talked about lighting and everything else. And to help save water in your
landscape, the soil actually is a battery for water storage. It's a good
deep soil prip so the salt water will for the water will percolate down there.
If any water that runs off of your of your irrigation is a waste.
So if you want to try to make the soil absworb as much as
possible. In our soil here it's kind of heavy and clay, so you
might want to do amend to foil somewhat to either listen, composts and or
some sand depending on the content of it. There's so many variables in that,
but a good deep soil is is is the best thing you can do.
Also, drought holler and plants, ice plants, lavender, rosemary,
seatums and other cycul limps like that do very well, and limited water on
these plants apply much to retain water so anyway, so don't try to plant
ahead on that. And our resident soil here is fine for you know,
johnson grass and hackberry trees, but a lot of these plants here are just
simply not native to the area, so they're unprepared for the soiled Those hackberry
trees grow up so uninvitedly and there's so hard to pull up to. Yeah,
the riches. That's why they do very well here. Yeah, just
go way down to the ground. You can't killing. Yeah, if they
didn't fall apart so that and and spread seeds everywhere, they'd make pretty good
tree. But there's things you don't want to plant around hackburge fees because of
the root system the city. This is one of them, Yeah, because
the roots are just take over the whole thing, and things like nantina isn't
used do pretty well around them. It's about about it pretty tough plants.
And also to help stay a war in the landscape, always apply of mults
there you And speaking of which, we got a big old truck load of
nice clicking malts. Very satisfying to see pretty much like that, no matter,
it is good stuff. It smells nice new Yeah, okay, thank
you, very mulch. Heard that. Okay, So anyway, that's kind
of what's going on out the landscape this week. It's any we're kind of
a beginning to get into it a sort of transitionary period between really hot and
really cold weather, and people are getting anxious out there. I noticed in
the landscape they're they're really wanting to what falls coming here and it's just just
too hot right now. Good time to do ground prep and all that.
Good time to do some planning. Also, think of other things you might
want the landscape, such as lighting and what and what kind of flowering shrubs
and trees and whatnot to give you some interest in the landscape, and try
to create one that does very well in our soil. And we'll survive these
weather extremes we have here, you know, you get that really cool computer
program that folks are doing some planning. You can made it look like it's
already there. Yeah, it's pretty nice. It doesn't do it on its
own though, No, you have to have one certified bonified no one what
going on? Kind of guy running it? I guess so, but no,
it doesn't, it doesn't. It's not an AI thing. No,
No, it's called Larry I Larry Intelligent. It'll probably come that day somewhere,
will You'll you'll ask the AI what kind of plants do well in my
part? Yeah, and then it'll give you a list of plants. But
it can't design it, No, it can't. It has not the ability
to do that. Yeah, so that's that's what we come in handy very
That's all I'll be doing for the rest of the morning. Got figured that
away. Come by the nursery shop. We had to offer. We got
all kinds of stuff and say, that's really nice looking new trees. We're
getting the points that is ordered. Pansies are getting started to right now in
the greenhouse, so that'll be ready pretty soon too. And h it's just
a real busy time for us. So anyway, tom yep, Well,
it's too let's say see you next week. All right now it is now,
it's time. Okay, see you next week. Tom, get that
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