WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.080 --> 00:00:05.559 Advice you can make that garden and that lawn look great. The Green Country 2 00:00:05.599 --> 00:00:10.679 Gardener Program is brought to you by Green Thumb Nurseries and Greenhouse Peters, True 3 00:00:10.759 --> 00:00:31.320 Value Hardware, Kelly Banks Tree Service, Any United Rattles. Good morning, 4 00:00:31.359 --> 00:00:34.719 good morning, good morning, morning morning that Right now it is eight oh 5 00:00:34.759 --> 00:00:39.920 eight and we are ready to rock and roll here with the Green Country Gardener 6 00:00:40.000 --> 00:00:44.679 Program and of course the toll free number one eight hundred seven forty nine five 7 00:00:44.840 --> 00:00:49.200 nine three six data get you on the radio with Larry Glass, our steam 8 00:00:49.200 --> 00:00:52.320 new colleague and expert. How are you doing, Lawrence? Hey, Tom, 9 00:00:52.399 --> 00:00:55.240 Pretty good, good job on the weather this week. Had a little 10 00:00:55.240 --> 00:00:57.920 bit of rain, kind of nice. Oh yeah, it looks like you 11 00:00:58.039 --> 00:01:03.079 had a little tornado across the road there. But for the folks who don't 12 00:01:03.079 --> 00:01:07.280 know, they tore down a house across the street, nothing but splinter as 13 00:01:07.359 --> 00:01:12.760 boy had a two hundred foot wide tornado locally locally affected. Okay, anyway, 14 00:01:14.599 --> 00:01:19.280 ground moisture is in pretty good shape right now. It is. It's 15 00:01:19.319 --> 00:01:23.319 okay on the surface. A little bit below too, it's somewhat dry. 16 00:01:23.359 --> 00:01:26.239 A little bit deeper. We dug some holes in the ground and you go 17 00:01:26.319 --> 00:01:32.879 through this nice moist soil, than all a sudden you hit dry, dry 18 00:01:32.920 --> 00:01:36.439 soil and it's dry and it's kind of hard. Yeah, yeah, it's 19 00:01:36.439 --> 00:01:38.640 a little dry. You know. Gotty, you try to plant a tree 20 00:01:38.680 --> 00:01:41.760 and this stuff, and with that in mind, you want to make sure 21 00:01:41.799 --> 00:01:44.280 that when you do get new trees or shrubs or things, that's you water 22 00:01:44.719 --> 00:01:48.079 fairly, slowly and deeply, so the water will seep down in there. 23 00:01:48.079 --> 00:01:51.719 Any water that runs off is a waste. So you want to make sure 24 00:01:51.840 --> 00:01:56.040 if you when you run the hose on there, let the water cool down. 25 00:01:56.760 --> 00:01:59.280 If you are from the day, if you would, it's gonna be 26 00:01:59.400 --> 00:02:02.280 what four thousand degrees this week something like, you're pretty darn close. Yeah, 27 00:02:02.319 --> 00:02:06.319 I don't know. It'll melt lead on the driveway. But anyway, 28 00:02:06.400 --> 00:02:07.479 so you want to make sure if you do water in the option and to 29 00:02:07.639 --> 00:02:12.400 let the water run. That's the leading cause that people killing their trees in 30 00:02:12.400 --> 00:02:15.039 the summer is putting hot water on them. So let it run until it's 31 00:02:15.080 --> 00:02:21.039 comfortable to run over your hands. You don't scald blister yours, get out 32 00:02:21.080 --> 00:02:23.680 for the and then it should be okay. Or you can just water in 33 00:02:23.680 --> 00:02:28.360 the morning. Typically when we plant trees for people, I tell them the 34 00:02:28.400 --> 00:02:32.400 water them. It's best to water them in the morning. So anyway, 35 00:02:32.439 --> 00:02:38.639 it's primarily because the water is cool and those yet you don't want to give 36 00:02:38.680 --> 00:02:40.879 them a hot bad Yeah, but if you have, if you have not 37 00:02:40.960 --> 00:02:45.199 water, to do so slowly for a long time to get the water deep 38 00:02:45.240 --> 00:02:49.000 into the ground. And adding molch actually is a very good way to help 39 00:02:49.400 --> 00:02:53.960 conserve moisture. I've followed that practice of my house for years and around my 40 00:02:53.000 --> 00:02:59.120 tomatoes. I've got mine and just still foot of molts around them, and 41 00:02:59.159 --> 00:03:05.639 it's really moist underneath there, so and no I don't wanted them, so 42 00:03:07.240 --> 00:03:09.479 yeah, mulch is a good way. It's also a good way to control 43 00:03:09.560 --> 00:03:15.680 weeds and other unwanted stuff at the in the ground too. So the cedar 44 00:03:15.719 --> 00:03:22.039 multu works very well. We have a cedar mulchen big bags and picks up 45 00:03:22.120 --> 00:03:27.879 up or something. It's genuine cedar, genuine, it's accept no limitations, 46 00:03:28.000 --> 00:03:32.840 it's aromatic, aromatic smells good. Okay. Anyway, So at the nurse 47 00:03:32.840 --> 00:03:36.639 tree we got container and baby trees. It can be planted at anytime. 48 00:03:37.400 --> 00:03:38.639 You just don't want to move them. All of our bird bald and broad 49 00:03:38.840 --> 00:03:43.840 trees are pottered up in big containers just because they do better in the in 50 00:03:43.879 --> 00:03:47.000 the summer. When you do that, the hosses in the shade house are 51 00:03:47.000 --> 00:03:53.120 starting to exhibit some flowers on them, good color right now too. The 52 00:03:53.199 --> 00:03:55.800 endless summer. Hydrangus are blooming a little bit right now too, starting to 53 00:03:55.800 --> 00:04:00.719 come and come out. And you're oakley if hydratus are gonna bloom a little 54 00:04:00.759 --> 00:04:03.840 bit too. Starting on Corzelius. They show a flower here and there now 55 00:04:05.120 --> 00:04:09.520 when they bloom, but when it gets really hot, like like when it 56 00:04:09.560 --> 00:04:13.479 gets July four or five hundred degrees and then we have a day when it 57 00:04:13.520 --> 00:04:19.680 gets way down to ninety. Yeah, yeah, they'll bloom. They respond 58 00:04:19.720 --> 00:04:23.480 to a temperature change and they'll put them some flowers, and in the fall 59 00:04:23.519 --> 00:04:27.079 they put on a really big show too. So it's also important to plant 60 00:04:27.079 --> 00:04:30.800 your zelis in straight peat moss. We did something this week, planted four 61 00:04:30.800 --> 00:04:34.879 of them and like a big old hole and filled the full of peat moss 62 00:04:34.879 --> 00:04:40.839 and used some soapy water to get the make the water wetter so the peat 63 00:04:40.879 --> 00:04:44.879 moss. Otherwise you'd be there all day trying to mix it up because it's 64 00:04:44.920 --> 00:04:47.360 not happening. Peat moss has a negative charge, so it does water. 65 00:04:47.600 --> 00:04:51.000 Yeah, so I gotta have something. They're a little kind of fun to 66 00:04:51.000 --> 00:04:59.279 watch the water bounce off of it. Surfacting we do have. We do 67 00:04:59.360 --> 00:05:01.120 have a factant at the nurse vase, a little bottle. It goes a 68 00:05:01.160 --> 00:05:04.199 long long way. It doesn't doesn't take much. You think that's kind of 69 00:05:04.240 --> 00:05:08.519 expensive for a little bottle, but you just use us a little bit and 70 00:05:08.680 --> 00:05:12.600 it gips of water a positive chart so soaks it up pretty well. So 71 00:05:12.639 --> 00:05:15.480 anyway, we are selling a few azilius, and I make it a point 72 00:05:15.480 --> 00:05:19.720 to tell people that a little bit of the chemistry involved with getting the peat 73 00:05:19.800 --> 00:05:26.319 moss mixed up. We use pete mosson azilius because Pete moster raicacious, meaning 74 00:05:26.360 --> 00:05:30.240 they prefer a city type of soil pH of about five point five, which 75 00:05:30.360 --> 00:05:36.839 exactly matches what pete moths has, and they'll do just fine. So hydranges, 76 00:05:38.240 --> 00:05:42.120 if you want blue hydrogen, you kind of follow the same pattern, 77 00:05:42.519 --> 00:05:46.399 yeah exactly, and they'll have your blue flowers on them, but if you 78 00:05:46.439 --> 00:05:50.920 plant them in our soil here, they'll be pink. So you remember a 79 00:05:51.000 --> 00:05:55.120 litmus paper, Yeah, yeah, I remember in school. Yeah, yeah, 80 00:05:55.160 --> 00:05:59.360 oh off is off a little bit. You need to be eating. 81 00:05:59.399 --> 00:06:08.480 Let's great for anyway. Uh the uh eche. The comb flowers are showing 82 00:06:08.560 --> 00:06:12.879 some color. And we have a great selection of hardy habiscus right now with 83 00:06:13.000 --> 00:06:15.720 different colored leaves and flowers on them. The whole row up going from the 84 00:06:15.720 --> 00:06:19.079 parking lot to the shade house there looking good, and they're looking and the 85 00:06:19.120 --> 00:06:25.480 buds are starting to form on them so nice. And the hardy hibiscus has 86 00:06:25.519 --> 00:06:30.040 a flower bigg around and there's well maybe not that big around, but bigg 87 00:06:30.079 --> 00:06:33.680 rounds a typical hand okay, a little bit bigger than most. They're pretty 88 00:06:33.680 --> 00:06:40.279 good eye so and they blew really almost in perpetuity and in the summertime, 89 00:06:40.879 --> 00:06:44.199 so they and they like the heat real well, but they don't seem to 90 00:06:44.199 --> 00:06:48.839 tolerate drought too well too. So the most shadows biscus much sets typically are 91 00:06:48.959 --> 00:06:54.959 indigenous to swampy areas, but they adapt real well to the dry conditions. 92 00:06:55.120 --> 00:06:59.199 The one so water I'm when to go limp and they'll they'll pull right back 93 00:06:59.279 --> 00:07:02.240 up and do just find and once again, goodly our motile on the surface 94 00:07:02.319 --> 00:07:09.800 will help flatten that dry wet curve a little bit so they don't have to 95 00:07:09.959 --> 00:07:13.920 supper when it gets too dry. Okay, so those are showings in color 96 00:07:14.040 --> 00:07:17.800 right now. So you might consider harder hybiscus in a sunny place as a 97 00:07:17.839 --> 00:07:24.319 specimen interest plant because it does bloom for a very long period of time. 98 00:07:24.720 --> 00:07:30.800 I like to so associate them with maybe an evergreen shrub like the door fuel 99 00:07:30.879 --> 00:07:38.079 fun holly, the door nandina or some other low growing hearty evergreen shrub, 100 00:07:38.480 --> 00:07:43.519 so in the wintertime you have something there also. So anyway, so can 101 00:07:43.560 --> 00:07:46.639 you consider a hardy hibiscus on the west side of the house in the sun. 102 00:07:46.759 --> 00:07:50.120 They'll do okay, kind of keep away from swimming pools because they are 103 00:07:50.199 --> 00:07:55.160 kind of trashy. Yeah, literally, it's not that bad. They don't. 104 00:07:55.199 --> 00:07:59.680 They don't really have a what not like crape marble, which make a 105 00:07:59.759 --> 00:08:03.319 mess see your pool And when I do a design, I don't use the 106 00:08:03.399 --> 00:08:07.439 crape ridles anywhere near a pool. No, No, you're just asking for 107 00:08:07.519 --> 00:08:11.040 trouble. Yeah, well, not bad. It's just it's just who wants 108 00:08:11.079 --> 00:08:15.560 to clean up after that? No nobody? So anyway, so that's what 109 00:08:15.879 --> 00:08:20.680 it was, a hardy business. They bloom real well. Other things throwing 110 00:08:20.720 --> 00:08:24.600 on at the nurse rate. The landscape crew is really busy doing landscape jobs. 111 00:08:24.959 --> 00:08:30.040 We're involved in a sizable project at this point. Yeah, and we're 112 00:08:30.040 --> 00:08:33.000 getting to the point where we'll be able to actually wrap up and get get 113 00:08:33.039 --> 00:08:37.600 going on it and get it finished here pretty soon. Sweet. It's been 114 00:08:37.679 --> 00:08:41.639 one of those long term things. Well, little interruptions here and there, 115 00:08:41.679 --> 00:08:43.799 waiting behind subcontractors and things you have to give me. Yeah, So anyway, 116 00:08:43.840 --> 00:08:48.240 we're getting there. It's got the it'll have about twenty eight sprinter circuits. 117 00:08:48.919 --> 00:08:54.440 Nice big project, but the water pressures kind of love so we had 118 00:08:54.480 --> 00:09:00.159 to engineer it to compensate for that. So and only work on it or 119 00:09:00.159 --> 00:09:03.559 two or frighting for right now, right for right now, and unless they 120 00:09:05.200 --> 00:09:07.679 pulled back on that and don't let us water at all, so that that 121 00:09:07.840 --> 00:09:11.399 is a distinct possibility. So we're kind of holding off on the grass right 122 00:09:11.440 --> 00:09:18.519 now. I would indigenous species of grass are starting to grow, oh nice, 123 00:09:18.600 --> 00:09:26.879 so which isn't really desirable. So the grass on that project might go 124 00:09:26.919 --> 00:09:33.559 into the fall, but in the meantime we'll have indigenous grasses set'll cover and 125 00:09:33.600 --> 00:09:37.799 then you think it with some herbicide and put on your side. A couple 126 00:09:37.799 --> 00:09:41.840 of days later, find hey, that leads us speaking of water, the 127 00:09:41.919 --> 00:09:46.960 shrub of the week, which is Hydrangea. Yeah. So the Hydrangea of 128 00:09:46.960 --> 00:09:52.759 course likes that really good soil. And if there is a climate that the 129 00:09:52.840 --> 00:10:00.840 Hydrangea is not suited for, that's partles fill ye nice plant. I don't 130 00:10:00.919 --> 00:10:03.320 like the location. They don't really like to heat that well, and they'd 131 00:10:03.360 --> 00:10:09.759 like a more consistent soil moisture. So if you want to plato hydrange don't 132 00:10:09.799 --> 00:10:11.679 forget to throw about three or four bags of mulch in the truck too, 133 00:10:13.200 --> 00:10:16.879 and a lot of composts or peat moss in there. Also working the dirt 134 00:10:18.120 --> 00:10:22.480 vigorously. Typically we do a preparation A's bigger round as official basket. When 135 00:10:22.519 --> 00:10:26.720 we do ground, throw away half the soil and put in some composts and 136 00:10:26.960 --> 00:10:31.360 or peat moss. Opinion on what color they want or the type of hydrangea 137 00:10:31.399 --> 00:10:35.039 they want, bring in the good stuff. Some of the hydrange just have 138 00:10:35.320 --> 00:10:45.240 white flowers on the Poople hydrangees, but the PG hydranges have that big boid 139 00:10:45.679 --> 00:10:50.320 with variable colors been on the pH and and then we asked the customer what 140 00:10:50.360 --> 00:10:52.159 color do you want them, and then it tells us how much peat moss 141 00:10:52.200 --> 00:11:00.519 you use. Peat moss are compost depending on it's a chemical, but but 142 00:11:01.679 --> 00:11:05.879 the root system of the headrange it's not very adventuresome. In other words, 143 00:11:05.919 --> 00:11:09.639 when it hits heavy soil, it's just gonna stop. It's gonna say, 144 00:11:09.720 --> 00:11:13.240 I'm not going in there. I don't like. So that's why you have 145 00:11:13.320 --> 00:11:18.120 to do a fairly large preparation when you plant, make sure they feel at 146 00:11:18.120 --> 00:11:20.240 home. And some people they plant them without anything on the north side of 147 00:11:20.279 --> 00:11:26.200 the house and that area states fairly moist and my coincidence of soil was pretty 148 00:11:26.200 --> 00:11:30.120 good in some cases too, So it is possible for them to grow in 149 00:11:30.240 --> 00:11:35.279 our soil. Depending on what you know the builder put back over there and 150 00:11:35.320 --> 00:11:39.320 the moisture conditions and all that, it is possible. Test first, right, 151 00:11:39.440 --> 00:11:41.120 yeah, dig it up. See how how high you have to jump 152 00:11:41.159 --> 00:11:46.799 to get the shovel to go into the ground, and that'll tell you how 153 00:11:46.840 --> 00:11:52.320 to do the ground prep for hydranges. But typically we do a rather extensive 154 00:11:52.399 --> 00:11:56.279 preparation for those and get it loose so you can take your hand and do 155 00:11:56.360 --> 00:12:01.080 that. Dig it out. Okay, So hydranges the plant that's really attractive, 156 00:12:01.200 --> 00:12:05.440 very nice, but not a really well suited for our climate unless you 157 00:12:05.519 --> 00:12:11.679 have the microclimate for them, some afternoon shade or midday to afternoon shade and 158 00:12:11.759 --> 00:12:15.679 maybe some good bright morning sun. So typically on the east side of the 159 00:12:15.720 --> 00:12:20.639 house they should do. Okay. Drainage is not much should be issue because 160 00:12:20.679 --> 00:12:24.679 they do like a lot of you know, a lot of water, but 161 00:12:24.759 --> 00:12:31.919 the hydro part that much. They're not a swamp plant. The important thing 162 00:12:31.960 --> 00:12:37.039 of consistency of moisture, and to do that you add a rather significant layer 163 00:12:37.159 --> 00:12:41.639 mulch on the surface to put the flywheel effect on its dry wet cycles. 164 00:12:41.879 --> 00:12:46.440 Okay, So anyway, the blooms will start forming about the middle of April 165 00:12:46.480 --> 00:12:52.200 and blooms out to early June or so, and they will last until the 166 00:12:52.279 --> 00:12:56.159 end of June. Typically this year they seem to be offset a bit because 167 00:12:56.200 --> 00:13:01.320 of our odd spring. We had read relatively cool spring. Yeah, and 168 00:13:01.600 --> 00:13:05.240 everything seems to be delayed a little bit. Even though hardy have biscuits are 169 00:13:05.240 --> 00:13:07.519 not blowing the crape myrtles there, they're just holding tight right now. I 170 00:13:07.559 --> 00:13:11.759 don't know what they're waiting for. Here is Jude, and they're not blooming 171 00:13:11.840 --> 00:13:18.440 yet, So you ready can't go on a on a calendar percent you just 172 00:13:18.480 --> 00:13:22.639 had to go and how other nature rules what the Earth is doing everyone. 173 00:13:24.600 --> 00:13:28.360 That's when the Earth says it's ready. It's ready. I expect by the 174 00:13:28.440 --> 00:13:33.120 end of next week or so. Typically around the solstice is when they start 175 00:13:33.159 --> 00:13:39.799 to differentiate the initiation of crape myrtles blooming. It's a byproduct of the length 176 00:13:39.799 --> 00:13:43.960 of day. So that's coming up pretty soon. You should start seeing blooms 177 00:13:43.960 --> 00:13:46.519 on them pretty quick. All right, tell you what We're gonna take a 178 00:13:46.600 --> 00:13:50.000 quick break and we'll be right back with more of the Green Country Gardener Program 179 00:13:50.240 --> 00:13:56.519 with Larry Glass. I'm Tom Davis. After this two minute and fifteen second 180 00:13:56.559 --> 00:14:00.840 time out, I have mathematic cheer from Roman's Outdoor Power. It's hay season 181 00:14:00.919 --> 00:14:03.559 and you'll want to get the most value out of your hayfield. Trust the 182 00:14:03.679 --> 00:14:07.879 name Kiboda. They make bads Dismore's hay rakes that make hay seasons sweep and 183 00:14:07.039 --> 00:14:11.919 simple. Ask about the silage special Furbu six mela with netrap, the three 184 00:14:11.000 --> 00:14:16.440 knife Caboda Dismore that cuts cleaner and faster, and the Kiboda hate rakes direct 185 00:14:16.519 --> 00:14:20.559 general and clean all types of terrains, zero down, zero percent financing for 186 00:14:20.679 --> 00:14:24.480 up to sixteen months now through June thirty, twenty twenty three. Sees are 187 00:14:24.519 --> 00:14:28.759 good at kiboda USA dot com for more information, Roman's Outdoor Power your Combota 188 00:14:28.799 --> 00:14:35.080 Dealer Highway seventy five in Martlesville, Independence Fort, okaycaboda dot com. Green 189 00:14:35.120 --> 00:14:39.559 thunders were in Greenhouses has their sale of the week and this week you can 190 00:14:39.600 --> 00:14:43.440 save twenty five percent on clematis, flooras, geraniums, colladium bulbs and elephant 191 00:14:43.519 --> 00:14:48.279 ear bulbs. Save thirty percent on roses, hostas and tropical blooming plants like 192 00:14:48.480 --> 00:14:54.120 mende villa, tropical hibiscus and jasmine. Don't put off adding color to your 193 00:14:54.240 --> 00:14:58.919 existing flower beds, spots and gardens. Shut now and save at green thumbders 194 00:14:58.080 --> 00:15:03.200 Y and Greenhouses on the Water Road open Monday three, Saturday nine to five, 195 00:15:03.399 --> 00:15:09.240 Sunday ten to four. Who do I call to get my trees trimmed? 196 00:15:09.440 --> 00:15:13.120 Keilly Banks Tree Service? Who can grind up these stumps in my yard? 197 00:15:13.320 --> 00:15:18.279 Kelly Banks Tree Service. There's a dead tree right by my house and 198 00:15:18.360 --> 00:15:22.200 I'm nervous it might fall were you better call Kelly Banks tree service. What's 199 00:15:22.240 --> 00:15:26.360 that number? It's nine one eight three three five seven thousand. It's nine 200 00:15:26.399 --> 00:15:31.279 one eight b three five seven zero zero zero calling today for your tree trimming, 201 00:15:31.480 --> 00:15:35.919 stump grinding and tree removal needs. That's nine one eight b three five 202 00:15:35.200 --> 00:15:43.200 seven zero zero zero nine one eight b three five seven thousand. Hey, 203 00:15:43.279 --> 00:15:46.240 Barrowsville, this is Stephen with Revision Properties, Barlesville's handyman. Do you have 204 00:15:46.320 --> 00:15:48.879 a project around the house you need help with? Let me handle it for 205 00:15:48.960 --> 00:15:52.679 you. No project is two big or two small. For handyman services, 206 00:15:52.840 --> 00:15:56.240 dec in, handicap, ramp, painting, tile and LVP flooring, privacy, 207 00:15:56.320 --> 00:16:00.720 fence, room remodel and much more. For free estimates, call text 208 00:16:00.840 --> 00:16:03.399 nine one nine nine to two eight eight. That's nine one eight nine nine 209 00:16:03.480 --> 00:16:07.320 eight two two eight eight. That's Revision Properties, bars Wille's handyman. Because 210 00:16:07.360 --> 00:16:32.879 your home is worth it, got a lot of much got alrighty, It's 211 00:16:33.200 --> 00:16:36.639 time to get back to the Green Country Gardener program. It's a twenty four 212 00:16:37.240 --> 00:16:38.919 Larry Glass. Our expert here is with us. I'm Tom. I just 213 00:16:40.000 --> 00:16:44.000 answer the phones and so one eight hundred and seven point nine five ninety three 214 00:16:44.080 --> 00:16:48.559 six will get you in contact with Lar I've seen some Japanese beetles around too. 215 00:16:48.799 --> 00:16:52.080 Oh really, yeah, actually they are. I've had some of my 216 00:16:52.240 --> 00:16:56.159 cannas, you know, canda plant, yeah, and some other plants too, 217 00:16:56.559 --> 00:17:00.120 huh and uh So we got to try to, you know, watch 218 00:17:00.200 --> 00:17:03.759 out for those. The beetle itself just eats a bunch of stuff, but 219 00:17:03.880 --> 00:17:08.640 there's the larval stage and that's the big damage. Oh yeah, so the 220 00:17:08.759 --> 00:17:14.720 Japanese beetle, it's green, green, a shiny green beetle. I saw 221 00:17:14.799 --> 00:17:17.599 one on the window here for a little bit ago, so I know exactly. 222 00:17:17.920 --> 00:17:18.920 Yeah, and it's been a while, you know, they haven't been 223 00:17:18.960 --> 00:17:22.359 out here for quite some time, and now they're starting to make it a 224 00:17:22.400 --> 00:17:25.680 little bit of a comeback. So we're gonna, I guess, try to 225 00:17:25.720 --> 00:17:29.720 carry some milky's for which you put on the ground it and it kills the 226 00:17:30.039 --> 00:17:33.000 larval stage of the Japanese beetle. But they can be kind of dangerous and 227 00:17:34.400 --> 00:17:38.079 eat a lot of stuff. Yeah, it's hungry, So we got to 228 00:17:38.119 --> 00:17:41.839 watch out for those and eat. An hour later, they're back at it. 229 00:17:41.880 --> 00:17:45.759 I've been getting texts from customers and say what do I do about this? 230 00:17:45.000 --> 00:17:51.200 And Spine's ad worked real well, it's a very safe insecticide. Spine's 231 00:17:51.240 --> 00:17:57.480 AD is a hey synthesis of spine's AD spins in A and spins in B. 232 00:17:57.920 --> 00:18:03.799 Yeah, you remember one of the two beat Yeah, And it's very 233 00:18:03.839 --> 00:18:07.240 safety use I use it on my fruit trees and tomatoes and whatnot. And 234 00:18:07.440 --> 00:18:11.680 it's not toxic so to human. So not so much for the jampanie. 235 00:18:11.920 --> 00:18:14.640 How much is that beetle at the nursery. We have it in three forms. 236 00:18:14.680 --> 00:18:17.640 We have it in the concentrate. We have it in a concentrate with 237 00:18:17.759 --> 00:18:19.440 a hose in sprayer, which I really liked this one. I tried one 238 00:18:19.480 --> 00:18:25.440 out and it shoots way up over there, real high. You know, 239 00:18:25.599 --> 00:18:27.640 they get it up there, get up behind the tree and uh. And 240 00:18:27.720 --> 00:18:32.640 it also has a spray pattern which sprays it out too. So there's a 241 00:18:32.720 --> 00:18:36.400 ways to control that. Jack beetles pretty well. So keep an eye out 242 00:18:36.440 --> 00:18:38.799 if it's a green bug. You know, you got you want to because 243 00:18:38.799 --> 00:18:44.640 they'll eat your planets. They really have an appetite for roses and canvas and 244 00:18:44.720 --> 00:18:49.920 things like that. So what happens with these populations. You know, they 245 00:18:51.000 --> 00:18:53.160 had a few a few years ago, a little bit more than next year. 246 00:18:53.240 --> 00:18:57.319 Well, where it's gonna go exponential, so they'll be be prepared for 247 00:18:57.440 --> 00:19:03.119 that. Wow, invaded by the beetles. Invasion of the green beetles. 248 00:19:06.440 --> 00:19:11.720 They have a little intended to you anyway. Annual the week is Salbia. 249 00:19:11.759 --> 00:19:14.359 That's one of my favorite. They have a big song out. Didn't need 250 00:19:14.400 --> 00:19:17.039 the Japanese beetles. I want to eat your plant. I want to eat 251 00:19:17.039 --> 00:19:21.839 you. Never mind, those are the English beetles. I want to eat 252 00:19:21.839 --> 00:19:29.000 your plant. Okay, we're black and head a mop head, bad, 253 00:19:29.400 --> 00:19:34.599 my bad, Yeah, whatever. Anyway, Annual salbia is a tender tropical 254 00:19:34.680 --> 00:19:40.599 perennial that is typically grown in warm weather as an annual bating plant here. 255 00:19:41.480 --> 00:19:45.200 When I say perennial in a tropical climate is that they persist for a long 256 00:19:45.240 --> 00:19:48.440 period of time. We definitely right now we're having tropical weather, but it 257 00:19:48.960 --> 00:19:55.279 freezes here so that they're not. The annual salbia is not a perennial here. 258 00:19:56.039 --> 00:19:57.440 So anyway, what a lack about them is they just blew them all 259 00:19:57.440 --> 00:20:02.240 the time and they can tell the dryness pretty well. Do we have a 260 00:20:02.279 --> 00:20:03.640 call it? We sure do. Okay, we'll put them on. Good 261 00:20:03.720 --> 00:20:07.960 morning, and welcome to the Green Country. Gardener Program. Your question or 262 00:20:07.000 --> 00:20:11.880 comment for Larry, Yes, I've got who were talking about creat myrtle, 263 00:20:11.880 --> 00:20:15.039 I've got my create mertle. I can see the new growth coming up in 264 00:20:15.079 --> 00:20:18.920 the center. The old growth is an older stems on the outside. Should 265 00:20:18.960 --> 00:20:22.359 cut those about? Cut those off? Are there leaves on the older stems? 266 00:20:23.160 --> 00:20:26.200 Yeah? No, okay, yeah, go ahead and cut the go 267 00:20:26.200 --> 00:20:29.519 ahead and what we call dead wooded like that? Yeah right, yeah, 268 00:20:29.960 --> 00:20:33.240 cut that down to words green huh definitely. Okay, So go ahead and 269 00:20:33.240 --> 00:20:37.759 cut those all out, just for a parent's sake. I think eventually it's 270 00:20:37.759 --> 00:20:41.079 just a fall off. But okay, but if the story is as big 271 00:20:41.119 --> 00:20:44.559 around as your little finger, then perhaps you do need to cut it back. 272 00:20:44.640 --> 00:20:49.359 So yes, okay, so just trim those out then fill the new 273 00:20:49.400 --> 00:20:52.759 growth, would be so the new growth come up in the center, which 274 00:20:52.880 --> 00:20:56.880 is what's doing right now exactly you'll get if if if you don't have a 275 00:20:56.920 --> 00:20:59.680 whole lot of green leaves on it right now, you probably won't have much 276 00:20:59.680 --> 00:21:02.039 of a and so want it and if you do, it'll be later on. 277 00:21:03.119 --> 00:21:06.000 But yeah, it's gonna be later if it's not always looms late anyway, 278 00:21:06.440 --> 00:21:08.240 So it didn't do too much last year, but it looks like it's 279 00:21:08.279 --> 00:21:11.720 really coming on strong this year. Yeah, well they do like the warm 280 00:21:11.799 --> 00:21:15.599 weather which we're having, and they can help. They can tolerate a pretty 281 00:21:15.599 --> 00:21:21.119 fair amount of draft tea, so especially the established ones. So yeah, 282 00:21:21.160 --> 00:21:22.799 go ahead and well this one's been there for a while, go ahead and 283 00:21:23.119 --> 00:21:26.480 dead wood it. It'll do just fine. Okay, Well, thank you 284 00:21:26.559 --> 00:21:29.119 very much. That's what I wanted to know. All right, thanks for 285 00:21:29.200 --> 00:21:32.519 calling. All right, and you can be the next caller at one eight 286 00:21:32.640 --> 00:21:36.200 hundred seven point nine five three six. We're going to take a brief break 287 00:21:36.240 --> 00:21:38.079 and then we're gonna be right back with more with Larry right here on the 288 00:21:38.160 --> 00:21:44.039 Green Country Gardener Program. And once again our number is one eight hubdred seven 289 00:21:44.119 --> 00:21:48.119 four nine five nine three six back after this two minute, five second time 290 00:21:48.880 --> 00:21:52.599 Green Thunder Swing Greenhouses has their sale of the week and this week you can 291 00:21:52.640 --> 00:21:56.480 save twenty five percent on clematis, floorich, geraniums, colladium bulbs and elephant 292 00:21:56.559 --> 00:22:02.319 ear bulbs, say thirty percent on roses, pastas and tropical blooming plants like 293 00:22:02.519 --> 00:22:07.160 mandevilla, tropical highbiscus, and jasmine. Don't put off adding color to your 294 00:22:07.279 --> 00:22:11.119 existing flower beds, spots and gardens shut now and save at Green Thumb Nursery 295 00:22:11.160 --> 00:22:15.240 and Greenhouses on the Water Road, open Monday through Saturday nine to five, 296 00:22:15.440 --> 00:22:21.799 sent day ten to four. The employees at United Rentals are local folk who 297 00:22:21.880 --> 00:22:25.319 work, play, go to church, and send their kids to school in 298 00:22:25.440 --> 00:22:30.880 Bartlesville and the surrounding area. But United Rentals also has corporate buying power, 299 00:22:30.079 --> 00:22:36.119 which gives them power and leverage to get you the best deal on equipment you 300 00:22:36.279 --> 00:22:40.920 need to get your job done right, and with twenty four hours servants, 301 00:22:41.160 --> 00:22:45.680 there's always someone from United Rentals to help you. United Rentals on the southeast 302 00:22:45.759 --> 00:22:52.039 corner of Highway sixteen seventy five. United Rentals. The strength of America, 303 00:22:52.680 --> 00:22:57.960 our values, our way of life hasn't just been one on the battlefield. 304 00:22:59.279 --> 00:23:04.519 It's one every day in our communities when we come together extending hands of compassion, 305 00:23:06.119 --> 00:23:11.039 service and hope to those who need it most. For over one hundred 306 00:23:11.160 --> 00:23:17.079 years, the American Legion has been strengthening communities across our nation by providing life 307 00:23:17.119 --> 00:23:22.599 saving help and support to our veterans and neighbors during times like we're facing today. 308 00:23:22.480 --> 00:23:27.680 It's what the Legions all about. From Blood drives to distributing food, 309 00:23:29.359 --> 00:23:34.240 from responding to emergencies and protecting the most vulnerable among us. Our mission is 310 00:23:34.400 --> 00:23:41.279 making America's community stronger. We are one family, and therefore we care. 311 00:23:41.400 --> 00:23:47.920 We are the American Legion Veterans Strengthening America. To learn how you can help, 312 00:23:48.119 --> 00:24:03.440 visit Legion dot org. Alrighty, it is eight thirty two and you're 313 00:24:03.160 --> 00:24:08.039 watching and listening to the Green Country Gardener Program one eight hundred seven four nine 314 00:24:08.279 --> 00:24:11.359 five nine three six. That is our contact point, Larry. What do 315 00:24:11.440 --> 00:24:15.200 we have going on now? Anyway? The salbia that's that's pretty well in 316 00:24:15.240 --> 00:24:19.039 our climate here, and it's available in several colors including white, salmon, 317 00:24:19.160 --> 00:24:25.000 purple, and of course bright red any anywhere. Heights from eight eight inches 318 00:24:25.039 --> 00:24:27.599 up to three feet tall, depending on the variety. The leaves are bright 319 00:24:27.960 --> 00:24:33.039 to dark cream and somewhat elliptical in shape. And uh, they have a 320 00:24:33.119 --> 00:24:37.559 bit of a toothy marginal and the flower is typically on. The Salbia grow 321 00:24:37.680 --> 00:24:41.839 on spikes and are two lipped, don't they got They look kind of like, 322 00:24:42.119 --> 00:24:45.920 yeah, making a puppet with your head and uh, with a flat 323 00:24:47.000 --> 00:24:49.480 lower lip and a helmet shaped upper lip. What I like about these are 324 00:24:49.680 --> 00:24:52.720 hummingbirds. They love them. How long they do? Yeah, they really 325 00:24:52.759 --> 00:24:57.400 like it? Yeah so and how many? Uh So. It's a native 326 00:24:57.440 --> 00:25:03.680 to Brazil and it's cultivated as a summer, warm weather annual. And at 327 00:25:03.720 --> 00:25:07.880 the nursery we have a bench dedicated to hummingbirds and butterflies. So the second 328 00:25:07.920 --> 00:25:12.240 one in as you go to the east door, one down, so as 329 00:25:12.279 --> 00:25:15.359 you can't miss for flowers for those. And you know a lot of times 330 00:25:15.880 --> 00:25:21.519 the butterfly flowers and things aren't the most attractive ones, but they really do 331 00:25:21.720 --> 00:25:26.960 like anyway, the salvia plant is characterized by a square stems. You remember 332 00:25:27.000 --> 00:25:33.599 the mint family, and it has a the stem is just like a four 333 00:25:33.680 --> 00:25:40.160 by four yeah, square kind of rictating Yeah, square stem that's kind of 334 00:25:40.160 --> 00:25:44.200 across the board on the mint family, Shalbia and some one. So anyway, 335 00:25:44.200 --> 00:25:48.000 it's a really good plant. It likes an average or a rich or 336 00:25:48.200 --> 00:25:52.000 enriched soil. So what else is new? Yeah? And here everything better 337 00:25:52.079 --> 00:25:56.240 be. You fertilize it as needed if you will, you might put some 338 00:25:56.319 --> 00:26:00.400 ozma code in the ground when when planting them. That way they'll get the 339 00:26:00.440 --> 00:26:06.720 fertilizer whatever you want. And over a long season, the flowers will kind 340 00:26:06.720 --> 00:26:08.440 of drop and leave the kind of a ragged spike and you just kind of 341 00:26:08.440 --> 00:26:12.400 snap it off there are. The stems are a little bit on the brittle 342 00:26:12.480 --> 00:26:18.880 side, so so if you fall fallen, it'll probably break. Yes, 343 00:26:19.200 --> 00:26:25.079 be careful, very careful, keep the dog away from anyway. When when 344 00:26:25.480 --> 00:26:27.400 when after the leaves expire, you want or flowers expirely, you want to 345 00:26:27.440 --> 00:26:30.559 cut it back a little bit on the stem so the new growth will come 346 00:26:30.640 --> 00:26:33.279 up and emerge and have more of stems on it too, got it. 347 00:26:33.799 --> 00:26:37.200 So you don't want to plant just one of these, just plant them in 348 00:26:37.480 --> 00:26:41.839 groups and clusters that we have some flowers on them. Full sound. Just 349 00:26:41.920 --> 00:26:47.119 a tiny little bit of shade, especially in the afternoon. A little bit 350 00:26:47.160 --> 00:26:52.079 of afternoon shade might reduce stress on them, especially if your soil is heavy 351 00:26:52.079 --> 00:26:56.880 and it can't develop a good riot system. But anyway, so average who 352 00:26:56.039 --> 00:27:00.720 slightly dry soil, average meeting you know, you pick it up, it 353 00:27:00.799 --> 00:27:04.000 doesn't it feels moist to a little bit on the dry side. It teems 354 00:27:04.000 --> 00:27:11.359 to do pretty well. The larger varieties will have deeper roots and need less 355 00:27:11.400 --> 00:27:15.079 water than say the dwarf, because it's a bigger plant. You're not going 356 00:27:15.119 --> 00:27:18.119 to get on a dwarf salve. You're not going to get giant roots on 357 00:27:18.200 --> 00:27:25.480 It's not like the other. So it's a summer annual and it might survive 358 00:27:25.599 --> 00:27:30.119 a light freeze, so come around Halloween it might be worth it to cover 359 00:27:30.200 --> 00:27:33.480 it. Typically we have a week before Halloween it's down like twenty seven degrees 360 00:27:34.400 --> 00:27:38.599 and then for like a month and every tree, yeah you get that one 361 00:27:38.680 --> 00:27:45.519 warning, you know. So so anyway, they're they're tender here. There 362 00:27:45.559 --> 00:27:48.680 are some perennials salveets too. They're not quite as showy as the annual ones, 363 00:27:48.759 --> 00:27:53.279 but you do get some pretty flowers on them. They're prolific and durable 364 00:27:53.279 --> 00:27:56.160 bloomers. They are not bothered by pests, which is a good thing. 365 00:27:57.359 --> 00:28:03.279 The selected barriety is a species are not as attractive to hummingbirds as our most 366 00:28:03.319 --> 00:28:11.519 Salbia species, so the perennial salbias attract more of the hummingbirds. So that's 367 00:28:11.559 --> 00:28:15.799 pretty cool. Salbi. It's good plants for our climate here too. And 368 00:28:15.079 --> 00:28:18.519 we talked a little bit about the hard harder hibiscuits in the back, but 369 00:28:19.039 --> 00:28:23.960 it's also called the rosemallow and it has the largest flower of any perennial. 370 00:28:25.359 --> 00:28:30.279 Really. Yeah, it's just big, huge makeup umbrella out of it. 371 00:28:30.440 --> 00:28:33.400 Yeah, but some of the hybrids may be up to a foot in diameter. 372 00:28:34.359 --> 00:28:38.880 Now, this is a bioproduct or the available resources too, So if 373 00:28:38.920 --> 00:28:41.519 you plant it in a hard play, they're not going to be a foot 374 00:28:42.839 --> 00:28:45.680 they're not going to be that big. So you want to make sure they 375 00:28:45.759 --> 00:28:49.799 can develop a good root system so they can develop a really nice big flower 376 00:28:49.880 --> 00:28:55.359 on them. And we have one variety that's just red, just a good 377 00:28:55.680 --> 00:28:59.359 neutral red color, almost a ruby, kind of dark red maybe a little 378 00:28:59.359 --> 00:29:03.640 bit, but it's just red and fairly large flower and it blooms for a 379 00:29:03.799 --> 00:29:07.480 very long period of time. So that's what I like about These hardy hibiscuits 380 00:29:07.799 --> 00:29:11.640 hang around a while. So yeah. So anyway, botanically, these are 381 00:29:12.079 --> 00:29:19.759 habitious mochetos. They are native to marshy areas of North America, native indigenous 382 00:29:19.799 --> 00:29:26.960 species, and sometimes Ago by the name malov. They're close relatives of the 383 00:29:27.079 --> 00:29:34.279 rows of sharon shrub, which is known as Hibiscus syriacus, and it's also 384 00:29:34.400 --> 00:29:41.400 related to cotton and okra. So there you go. So it should do 385 00:29:41.480 --> 00:29:44.839 well in Oklahoma, Okrid as well. Here. Yeah, very well, 386 00:29:45.039 --> 00:29:48.880 so you might. So you might consider it enough. You might consider the 387 00:29:48.480 --> 00:29:56.400 tropical hibiscuits, which are indigenous to tropical areas. Give you some reliable blooms 388 00:29:56.440 --> 00:30:00.599 on someone, and maybe some of the hardy hibiscuits together with for some big 389 00:30:00.680 --> 00:30:03.759 tropical like booms on it. It's kind of an attractive shrub. Really. 390 00:30:03.440 --> 00:30:08.839 They do tend to can't get eaten by maybe some caterpillars or things here and 391 00:30:08.920 --> 00:30:11.880 there, so it keeps them beat handy, and it'll keep them unt of 392 00:30:11.920 --> 00:30:17.599 control fuzzy worms away. Yep. So anyway, they do like well drained 393 00:30:17.640 --> 00:30:21.599 area. They like a good, rich, well prepared soil. The better 394 00:30:21.640 --> 00:30:23.200 the preparation, the bigger the roots, the better the blooms. The more 395 00:30:23.200 --> 00:30:26.319 of the blooms, and the bigger the booms. So prepare the soil real 396 00:30:26.400 --> 00:30:33.559 well. Don't just duck them into clay. Okay, roses right now, 397 00:30:33.680 --> 00:30:38.119 it's always time to trendy roses. Back to the first leaf with five leaflets 398 00:30:38.160 --> 00:30:41.480 on it. So you look at it, and the roads has a compound 399 00:30:41.599 --> 00:30:45.599 leaf, and when it develops five leaflets, you cut it just above that. 400 00:30:47.160 --> 00:30:52.960 It's typically how far back he got them, Okay, about a eighth 401 00:30:52.960 --> 00:30:56.400 of an inch above the leaf petio and sort of angle it down away from 402 00:30:56.440 --> 00:30:59.480 it too. So anyway, right now, you want to spray for black 403 00:30:59.519 --> 00:31:02.400 spot, which hasn't been much of a problem. It's been kind of dry, 404 00:31:02.480 --> 00:31:03.599 so we haven't a bunch of a problem with black spot this year. 405 00:31:04.640 --> 00:31:10.160 And aphids and the kind of nasty little things. So let's keep a little 406 00:31:10.319 --> 00:31:14.880 spins ad and some fungicida some time. There's a lot of them out there, 407 00:31:15.279 --> 00:31:18.680 handy for you if you have a lot of roses. One problem, 408 00:31:18.720 --> 00:31:22.480 one problem we've had with the roses lately, and let's see it's it's diminishing 409 00:31:22.480 --> 00:31:26.559 a little bit is Rosette's disease. And a lot of people they'll bring in 410 00:31:26.599 --> 00:31:34.160 pictures of their roses and just just a whole lot of thorns, closely associated 411 00:31:34.240 --> 00:31:40.200 thorns and distorted leaves and tiny little flowers are barely bloom. That's what we 412 00:31:40.359 --> 00:31:45.640 call rosettes. It's a virus that the roses typical typically get and it's spread 413 00:31:45.720 --> 00:31:48.119 by a mic. I know we've talked about rosettes disease in the past, 414 00:31:48.799 --> 00:31:52.799 but there's really no cure for that. So once it gets in there, 415 00:31:52.839 --> 00:31:56.839 the virus is in the plant and it'll manifest itself on the new growth. 416 00:31:56.680 --> 00:32:06.559 So get another one, and cultural practices can kind of slow down the effectiveness 417 00:32:06.599 --> 00:32:09.759 of this or the incidents of this plant. Take of an area that mikes 418 00:32:09.799 --> 00:32:15.640 really don't like. That is, areas that don't have say like hot walls 419 00:32:15.640 --> 00:32:20.319 or a warm ground, or a hot vulture or sidewalks or something like that. 420 00:32:21.000 --> 00:32:25.519 Mights really like the moist and wet, not moist, but hot climates, 421 00:32:27.480 --> 00:32:34.079 and the krobably their populations just they increase more than exponentially when when you 422 00:32:34.160 --> 00:32:38.200 get the spider minesert. They're very good at perpetuating themselves. So, but 423 00:32:38.359 --> 00:32:42.119 they do like a kind of a hot climate. So if you have an 424 00:32:42.160 --> 00:32:45.680 area where it's kind of hot and you want a girl something like a road, 425 00:32:45.799 --> 00:32:50.359 you might consider maybe something different. Okay, okay, what folks, 426 00:32:50.400 --> 00:32:52.319 We're gonna be right back with more of the green Countred Gardener and your calls 427 00:32:52.640 --> 00:32:57.920 at one eight hundred seven four nine five nine three six. But first we're 428 00:32:57.920 --> 00:33:02.319 gonna take this two minute and five shecond time out. Called to get my 429 00:33:02.480 --> 00:33:07.519 trees trimmed. Kelly Banks Tree Service. Who can grind up these stumps in 430 00:33:07.640 --> 00:33:12.079 my yard? Kelly Banks Tree Service there's a dead tree right by my house 431 00:33:12.160 --> 00:33:15.680 and I'm nervous it might fall were you better call Kelly Banks Tree Service. 432 00:33:15.880 --> 00:33:20.039 What's that number? It's nine one eight three three five seven thousand. It's 433 00:33:20.119 --> 00:33:23.519 nine one eight by three five seven zero zero zero Call them today for your 434 00:33:23.599 --> 00:33:29.279 tree trimming, stop grinding and tree removal needs. That's nine one eight three 435 00:33:29.359 --> 00:33:34.319 three five seven zero zero zero nine one eight day three five seven thousand. 436 00:33:36.640 --> 00:33:39.400 Looking for a new career that offers free training, join the team at vs 437 00:33:39.640 --> 00:33:45.680 Aviation located by the Independence Airport. We have a media openings in customer service, 438 00:33:45.920 --> 00:33:50.359 maintenance and repair and Quality. These full time positions offer competitive pay, 439 00:33:50.640 --> 00:33:55.039 comprehensive benefits, and on the job training. To apply, visit vs aviation 440 00:33:55.200 --> 00:34:05.759 dot com forward slash careers. Vs Aviation is an equal opportunity employer. What 441 00:34:06.039 --> 00:34:09.280 is a number story? My number story stargable fear and a lack of support, 442 00:34:09.400 --> 00:34:13.440 and it has led me to be there for others. A number story 443 00:34:13.559 --> 00:34:19.800 begins in our childhood with aces adverse childhood experiences. My number story begins with 444 00:34:19.920 --> 00:34:22.800 the separation from my father and the emotional abandonment from my mother and leads to 445 00:34:22.880 --> 00:34:27.480 me being a role model to not only myself but those around me by becoming 446 00:34:27.519 --> 00:34:30.360 the person that wasn't there for me. Aces are so common two thirds of 447 00:34:30.519 --> 00:34:35.559 us have one. My number story begins with drug abuse and homelessness and leads 448 00:34:35.599 --> 00:34:38.880 to realizing that I can live life by my own standards. A study found 449 00:34:38.920 --> 00:34:43.920 the more aces, the more likely we may experience a host of serious health 450 00:34:43.960 --> 00:34:46.599 effects, physical and mental. But that doesn't need to be the case. 451 00:34:46.960 --> 00:34:51.800 Your ACE number is simply an entry point to your own story. Where it 452 00:34:51.960 --> 00:34:55.719 leads is up to you. My number story begins with years of emotional abuse 453 00:34:57.000 --> 00:35:00.679 and leads to peace, clarity, and security in myself. Take control of 454 00:35:00.760 --> 00:35:09.639 the boy. Your number story leads at number story dot org. Yeah, 455 00:35:22.119 --> 00:35:27.800 all right, we're back with the Green Country Gardener programma. We were during 456 00:35:27.840 --> 00:35:30.000 the commercial break, how you might have seen us trying to work the camera 457 00:35:30.119 --> 00:35:35.559 over across the street. They're demolishing a home and we got a feller with 458 00:35:35.639 --> 00:35:37.800 the bobcat and he's just having a dick until the time to break up the 459 00:35:37.880 --> 00:35:43.639 stairs necessarily as really heavy and submit the machine tips over a little bit. 460 00:35:44.840 --> 00:35:49.079 We're like digging bets will at your wonting just just pick it up and let's 461 00:35:49.159 --> 00:35:53.360 drop in the middle of Frank Phillips Boulevard. It'll split in two. But 462 00:35:53.480 --> 00:35:57.679 anyway, traffic, you know, you know we're talking about the soil being 463 00:35:57.679 --> 00:36:00.639 a little rough around here, just across the street. It's wow, it's 464 00:36:00.679 --> 00:36:04.599 hard as a rock. You bet, you bet. Vegetables right now, 465 00:36:04.760 --> 00:36:08.239 Time to plant okra and still plants some beans right now. Look forward to 466 00:36:09.000 --> 00:36:15.199 tomato diseases. I had a customer call and they're having absolutely poor luck whatsoever 467 00:36:15.360 --> 00:36:20.039 growing tomatoes. And I said, what's your pH? He said about seven 468 00:36:20.119 --> 00:36:22.920 point five. I said, oh my goodness, you need to lower that 469 00:36:22.039 --> 00:36:29.000 down about you know, six pH of six? Oh yeah, yeah, 470 00:36:29.280 --> 00:36:34.519 give it a chance. Tomatoes like a six point five pH slightly acidic for 471 00:36:34.639 --> 00:36:37.239 them to do well, and they don't. They won't grow in a highly 472 00:36:37.280 --> 00:36:40.960 alkaline soil. Also, as it as we go into the summer, you 473 00:36:42.000 --> 00:36:45.239 want to multch the surface. And I like to do that because it helps 474 00:36:45.320 --> 00:36:51.360 prevent the splash of a soil borne bacteria getting on the leaves. Typically the 475 00:36:51.960 --> 00:36:55.239 leaves, the leaf spot they get is a bacterial leaf spot, and the 476 00:36:55.320 --> 00:37:01.800 funkisite won't work well. No, So we follow some cultural practices that help 477 00:37:01.840 --> 00:37:07.079 prevent that, and I've got some tomatoes in my back. I actually grew 478 00:37:07.159 --> 00:37:10.599 some tomatoes this year. I planted some orphans. I don't know what they 479 00:37:10.679 --> 00:37:15.199 were, and we get that now and that labels fall off or I don't 480 00:37:15.199 --> 00:37:19.360 know what it is. And they're doing very well. I put some cedar 481 00:37:19.440 --> 00:37:22.599 molts on them there, popping out of the ground. I got a new 482 00:37:22.679 --> 00:37:23.800 batch of it in. I had to, you know, check it out, 483 00:37:24.519 --> 00:37:30.559 and yeah, cute. Yeah, but anyway, and it's got the 484 00:37:30.639 --> 00:37:37.079 layer about about a interest state of a seder molts. They're doing very well. 485 00:37:37.079 --> 00:37:43.239 Yeah, if finally they'll put off some tomatoes. So far, no 486 00:37:43.360 --> 00:37:45.679 fruit to me. Well, they're they're all there, but they're they're they're 487 00:37:45.760 --> 00:37:52.360 taking their own sweet time about getting ripe. So I'm growing on a on 488 00:37:52.480 --> 00:37:59.639 the Jablinish cattle panel held up with tepots. And typically when we have lightning, 489 00:37:59.719 --> 00:38:04.880 the they really go. Yeah something about that metal and enlightening. The 490 00:38:05.079 --> 00:38:08.840 tomato is kind of light but I can't explain it. Okay, well, 491 00:38:10.400 --> 00:38:15.840 but they grow real well on something like that. So anyway, tomato is 492 00:38:16.239 --> 00:38:20.199 keep them up pretty well fertilized throughout here. Don't overdo it. Don't overdo 493 00:38:20.280 --> 00:38:23.800 the nitrogen. You might want to use something like maybe a ten twenty ten 494 00:38:23.960 --> 00:38:29.880 or even some super phosphate. But typically our soil here is sufficient in fosphate 495 00:38:30.360 --> 00:38:32.960 and potassium, and so we don't have to do too much of that really, 496 00:38:34.039 --> 00:38:37.239 So if you do fertilize them, you get too much nitrogen on them, 497 00:38:37.280 --> 00:38:42.639 then you have a hard time producing flowers. They just grow too fast, 498 00:38:43.280 --> 00:38:47.760 so you might want to hold back on too much nitrogen fertilizer. Okay, 499 00:38:47.960 --> 00:38:52.239 So typically what's a resident in our soil is adequate for them to do 500 00:38:52.400 --> 00:38:55.639 real well without too much fertilizer augmentation. I didn't fertilize them at all and 501 00:38:55.840 --> 00:39:00.920 doing just great good, so we used to. They grow a lot of 502 00:39:00.920 --> 00:39:04.719 them in the Ozark too. I remember around table Rock Lake when I was 503 00:39:04.760 --> 00:39:10.960 a kid, growing tomatoes everywhere, just really good climate. For God, 504 00:39:12.039 --> 00:39:15.559 these big giant tomatoes, you know, side your hand, and they were 505 00:39:15.639 --> 00:39:19.880 so tastes they're so good. Bet I haven't been there quite some time. 506 00:39:19.880 --> 00:39:22.000 I still don't know. If you have tomato stands on the side of the 507 00:39:22.079 --> 00:39:28.480 road like to do back in the sixties, Maybe not as good, but 508 00:39:29.360 --> 00:39:31.679 I remember that. I remember those little stands in the well we stop and 509 00:39:31.719 --> 00:39:36.840 get some tomatos. Oh, they're the best and the tasty. They have 510 00:39:37.000 --> 00:39:39.440 a kind of a limestone soil out there, but it has kind of an 511 00:39:39.480 --> 00:39:44.880 orange tinge to it in the upper upper layers, and I think that has 512 00:39:44.920 --> 00:39:49.320 a lot to do with the flavor of the tomato and also indigenous oak species 513 00:39:49.440 --> 00:39:53.559 over there. So naturally the tannic acid from the decomposition of the oak leaves 514 00:39:53.599 --> 00:39:59.480 and parts there candle lower the soil pH for a little while, but down 515 00:39:59.559 --> 00:40:02.079 low it will kind of high. So they that's probably why the tomatoes always 516 00:40:02.079 --> 00:40:07.400 did very well there. So anyway, tomatoes, good drainage. Let's sunshine, 517 00:40:07.480 --> 00:40:10.280 let's open air. Let'll do just fine. There you go, get 518 00:40:10.440 --> 00:40:15.639 get into the lawns now. I know the perimeter grass is finally starting to 519 00:40:15.719 --> 00:40:17.679 grow. Actually along the parkway at my house, which I don't know why 520 00:40:17.800 --> 00:40:23.880 we had these little two foot white parkways. It's four feet white. I 521 00:40:24.039 --> 00:40:29.599 got one in front of my house too. And anyway, the grass completely 522 00:40:29.679 --> 00:40:32.400 died out last summer. It's coming back dead in another week. It looks 523 00:40:32.440 --> 00:40:36.679 golf course green. Now it'll be filled in. Yeah, it looks looking 524 00:40:36.719 --> 00:40:39.920 pretty good except for the some of the crab grass, but invasion. Yeah, 525 00:40:39.920 --> 00:40:43.960 I gotta get my call hammer and pull it out or put some Q 526 00:40:44.199 --> 00:40:47.639 on it. Q is otherwise known as quinclorac, and you can find that 527 00:40:47.880 --> 00:40:52.320 in a sprays to control cry breasts. And it's getting too late to control 528 00:40:52.400 --> 00:40:58.280 it with a poster emergent control, so you want to get after it. 529 00:40:58.360 --> 00:41:00.800 If you do have some cry breasts in your and do some spot applications of 530 00:41:00.880 --> 00:41:06.360 the queue and it should get it under control. And when we mean spot, 531 00:41:06.400 --> 00:41:08.440 we mean right on it right Well, yeah, yeah, you don't 532 00:41:08.440 --> 00:41:10.880 want to kill everything. Well, it's gonna be kind of hot and it'll 533 00:41:10.920 --> 00:41:15.159 set back to your permuter grass a little bit, so you do kind of 534 00:41:15.199 --> 00:41:19.280 a if you do a general application, then can cause some damages at the 535 00:41:19.320 --> 00:41:22.360 permun grass. There was a house where they spread the queue and their stuff 536 00:41:22.480 --> 00:41:25.599 and for about two weeks you had all these dead, little, odd little 537 00:41:25.639 --> 00:41:29.679 shapes in it. But it came back. Okay, So the permunic grass 538 00:41:29.960 --> 00:41:34.280 won't kill it. It'll come back. It'll bruise it. I guess that's 539 00:41:34.280 --> 00:41:38.599 a good word. And it's a rain fast you know pretty soon, I 540 00:41:38.679 --> 00:41:44.400 mean it'll for what rain we're going to get in the morning. I'm holding 541 00:41:44.400 --> 00:41:46.559 you guys that we could use the rain. So yeah, we could, 542 00:41:46.599 --> 00:41:51.079 because I'm gonna fertilize my grass too. And if it doesn't rain, y'all 543 00:41:51.079 --> 00:41:53.400 are in trouble. It'll be just like that one Sunday a few years ago 544 00:41:53.480 --> 00:41:57.280 where you had to get out of your car before you would hang on. 545 00:41:58.440 --> 00:42:00.360 It'll stop. You gotta take care of this stop right at the county line. 546 00:42:04.800 --> 00:42:07.719 Also in your in your lawns and bermuda grass lawns, it's time to 547 00:42:07.880 --> 00:42:10.559 take it up a notch tab. And as it gets hotter like that, 548 00:42:10.760 --> 00:42:15.400 you need more surface area to or transpire so the plant itself doesn't become hot 549 00:42:15.480 --> 00:42:20.480 and stress out. It also helps encourage deeper riots if you have a more 550 00:42:20.480 --> 00:42:23.239 of a top onet it two so, so raise it up a little bit. 551 00:42:23.400 --> 00:42:27.400 Fescue grass should be at its high point right now, about two inches 552 00:42:27.440 --> 00:42:32.159 tall. And you don't want to fertilize your fescue right now. Just let 553 00:42:32.199 --> 00:42:38.679 it go Statisico right now, and then in late August said to me, 554 00:42:38.760 --> 00:42:43.400 you can start fertilizing it. And actually you can start planting fescue seed in 555 00:42:43.480 --> 00:42:49.920 late August early September two. Typically typically I haven't seen a typical year since 556 00:42:49.960 --> 00:42:52.800 I've lived here. There's nothing typical about our weather or No. The only 557 00:42:52.840 --> 00:42:54.559 thing you're predictable, said, when's it going to be normal? Said? 558 00:42:55.119 --> 00:43:00.320 Hang on. The only thing predictable here is the unpredictable. So anyway, 559 00:43:00.800 --> 00:43:02.480 most lines right now, I can remove two and a half to three inches 560 00:43:02.519 --> 00:43:07.239 on the fetch your grass PERMU to grass maybe an inch and a half two 561 00:43:07.320 --> 00:43:10.800 inches or so. And you calibrate this by putting your mower on the driveway 562 00:43:12.559 --> 00:43:15.320 and then I'm measuring the distance between the ground and the blade, and that'll 563 00:43:15.599 --> 00:43:19.239 kind of tell you how high it is, so probably inch and a half 564 00:43:19.280 --> 00:43:22.880 two inches or so they're being to grass at this point. It also lets 565 00:43:22.920 --> 00:43:25.039 you balance level of blade too. Sometimes you find that the blade is not 566 00:43:25.199 --> 00:43:36.960 level. I found that Rocky hit with the more which one. So if 567 00:43:37.000 --> 00:43:42.360 your blade is kind of bent, then then you pick the lower number as 568 00:43:42.400 --> 00:43:49.000 your height and remove. I was just slowing my grass last week and the 569 00:43:49.119 --> 00:43:52.320 engine started sputtering a little bit. Put it up on the truck and dismantle 570 00:43:52.400 --> 00:43:57.400 the carburetor. It was dirty, cleaned it out. It started to write 571 00:43:57.440 --> 00:44:02.400 up with the first pole. Yeah, so let's take a break. We'll 572 00:44:02.440 --> 00:44:07.719 be right back after this three minute, thirty second time out. The original 573 00:44:07.800 --> 00:44:13.599 Waldorf Astoria Hotel on Fifth Avenue in New York City was built in eighteen ninety 574 00:44:13.679 --> 00:44:17.639 three. Constructed in the German Renaissance style, the hotel had four hundred and 575 00:44:17.719 --> 00:44:22.599 fifty guest rooms and another hundred rooms for staff and servants. After merging with 576 00:44:22.679 --> 00:44:27.760 their next door neighbor, the Astoria Hotel, in eighteen ninety seven, the 577 00:44:27.920 --> 00:44:30.840 hotel had one thousand, three hundred rooms, making it the largest hotel in 578 00:44:30.920 --> 00:44:36.119 the world at the time. The Empire Room at the hotel was the largest 579 00:44:36.199 --> 00:44:39.960 and most lavishly decorated room in the Waldorf and quickly became one of the finest 580 00:44:40.039 --> 00:44:45.679 restaurants in New York City. From the beginning, the Waldorf was the must 581 00:44:45.719 --> 00:44:50.360 stay place for four indignitaries from around the world. Some of those guests were 582 00:44:50.400 --> 00:44:53.440 the leaders of China, the Princess i Am, the Grand Duchess of Russia, 583 00:44:53.679 --> 00:44:58.760 and many others. Andrew Carnegie was a regular guest at the hotel, 584 00:44:59.280 --> 00:45:02.000 and the Waldorf if a story a bar became a favorite haunt from many of 585 00:45:02.079 --> 00:45:07.960 the financial elites, such as Diamond Jim Brady, Buffalo Bill Cody and bat 586 00:45:07.159 --> 00:45:12.800 Masterson. In short, anyone who was anyone in the world of politics, 587 00:45:12.960 --> 00:45:17.039 society, business or entertainment wanted to be seen at the Waldorf. It truly 588 00:45:17.280 --> 00:45:22.840 was the world's hotel. Following the tragic sinking of the Titanic, the Waldorf 589 00:45:22.920 --> 00:45:28.360 Hotel was the official site for the inquiry that was performed by the United States 590 00:45:28.440 --> 00:45:32.840 Senate into the disaster. With this backdrop, our very own Frank Phillips was 591 00:45:32.880 --> 00:45:37.440 a major player at the Waldorf. In nineteen twenty nine, a private corporation 592 00:45:37.599 --> 00:45:43.280 was formed by Uncle Frank and he became part owner of the Waldorf. Later 593 00:45:43.440 --> 00:45:47.039 that year, they sold the buildings and the land to a corporation named Empire 594 00:45:47.159 --> 00:45:52.280 State, Inc. Their plan was to demolish the hotel, which they did 595 00:45:52.760 --> 00:45:57.719 and build the Empire State Building in that location. In July of nineteen twenty 596 00:45:57.800 --> 00:46:01.239 nine, prior to the demolition, Frank Phillips inspected the hotel and paid particular 597 00:46:01.320 --> 00:46:06.760 attention to four handsome chandeliers which hung in the tap room of the hotel. 598 00:46:07.559 --> 00:46:10.840 When the hotel was gutted in preparation for the demolition, Frank was given those 599 00:46:12.039 --> 00:46:15.159 ornate lights. He promptly shipped them to Oklahoma and had them hung in the 600 00:46:15.199 --> 00:46:21.119 Great living room of the Woollerock Lodge, where they illuminated family gatherings, business 601 00:46:21.199 --> 00:46:25.519 meetings, cocktail parties, poker games, and many other social events. Whenever 602 00:46:25.599 --> 00:46:30.239 asked by guests about the lights, Frank liked a joke and say they were 603 00:46:30.320 --> 00:46:34.719 all that he got out of his investment, calling them his million dollars chandeliers 604 00:46:34.800 --> 00:46:38.159 and declaring them the most expensive in the country. The magic of New York 605 00:46:38.239 --> 00:46:44.679 City and the Waldorf Astoria from eighteen ninety three is still part of the lodge 606 00:46:44.719 --> 00:46:52.880 today and the wonderful history of Woollerock That same magic still exists. Welcome home 607 00:46:52.679 --> 00:46:59.000 to Wallerock. Built upon a solid foundation of cast iron and steel. Took 608 00:46:59.039 --> 00:47:02.239 a bonus. Standardale series is part of our tractor lineup rated number one endurability 609 00:47:02.360 --> 00:47:07.119 and owner experience, Hi My Mikeemadox Roman's outdoor Power. They feature powerful combode 610 00:47:07.159 --> 00:47:12.760 to diesel engines and easy operations that's endurable Abode to Standard l Series. Come 611 00:47:12.800 --> 00:47:15.840 see us today and schedule a demo get point nine nine percent for seventy two 612 00:47:15.920 --> 00:47:20.519 months. Offer expires June thirty at twenty twenty three. See us or go 613 00:47:20.599 --> 00:47:23.400 to Comboda USA dot com for full disclaimer. That's Roman's outdoor Power. You're 614 00:47:23.400 --> 00:47:30.440 Comboted Dealer in Bartlesville Independence or online at Okikibota dot com. You're tuned to 615 00:47:30.559 --> 00:47:37.400 the Voice of Bartlesville K one AM fourteen hundred at now nighttime Crystal Clear at 616 00:47:37.559 --> 00:47:53.320 ninety three point three and ninety five point one FM. And welcome back to 617 00:47:53.400 --> 00:47:58.519 the Green Country Gardener Program, Idiots eight fifty six. Our phone lines are 618 00:47:58.559 --> 00:48:02.639 open into one eight up, been seven four nine three six h Larry, 619 00:48:02.679 --> 00:48:06.360 what we got going on here? Man? We were talking about the lawns 620 00:48:07.440 --> 00:48:14.039 and it's time to make sure the the height is said. Okay, okay. 621 00:48:14.360 --> 00:48:17.679 And on herbicides, there's typically two classifications of herbicides for your lawn. 622 00:48:20.079 --> 00:48:24.320 One is called a pre emergent herbicide, and that stops the seeds from sprouting. 623 00:48:24.880 --> 00:48:28.719 It arrests the germination process. They will sprout, but then they sort 624 00:48:28.719 --> 00:48:34.599 of quit. And then there's post emergent herbicide, which controls the kills the 625 00:48:34.679 --> 00:48:40.400 plants afterwards too. And the pre emergent urbicides are somewhat non selective, but 626 00:48:40.599 --> 00:48:45.199 the post emergence can be selective. Actually, there's a quin Quinn chlorac, 627 00:48:46.280 --> 00:48:51.679 which will wipe out the crab grass. Uh, while it's still growing in 628 00:48:51.800 --> 00:48:58.239 before blooms, after after sets blooms on it. Yes, what flowers on 629 00:48:58.320 --> 00:49:01.480 the crabgrass? What? No? That that why they do have them. 630 00:49:01.519 --> 00:49:06.880 But they're real small. Okay, if they had big flowers on it, 631 00:49:06.920 --> 00:49:12.239 everybody'll be growing. It be so easy to grow anyway, excuse me, 632 00:49:12.400 --> 00:49:15.719 goodness. But it once it gets fairly mature, it's more difficult to control 633 00:49:15.800 --> 00:49:22.079 with the quinclorac. So this um, we're not getting to our last time 634 00:49:22.119 --> 00:49:25.079 when it can be controlled with it, and after that get up the claw 635 00:49:25.119 --> 00:49:30.079 hammer and pull it up. But but crab rats can be a little bit 636 00:49:30.079 --> 00:49:34.400 of a tough one too. Well boy, so as it gets older like 637 00:49:34.480 --> 00:49:38.639 that, it's more difficult to control and to pull up. So so I 638 00:49:38.719 --> 00:49:42.920 think it's just to be like your last chance to do it this week or 639 00:49:43.719 --> 00:49:52.360 only you. Yeah, So anyway, it's uh, it's a more of 640 00:49:52.440 --> 00:49:54.840 a problem in warmer climates. You know, it sort of starts kind of 641 00:49:54.920 --> 00:50:00.920 close to the curb and then it comes worked this way to the yard because 642 00:50:00.159 --> 00:50:06.480 because it sprouts in warmer climates, it doesn't really like to cool that much. 643 00:50:07.519 --> 00:50:09.320 But if you're in a situation where you don't have anything else, well, 644 00:50:09.480 --> 00:50:13.840 yeah, so what there you go, and you can use the pre 645 00:50:13.960 --> 00:50:19.639 emergent on it early in the spring. Pro dimine is a good one to 646 00:50:19.760 --> 00:50:22.639 use for that, and it's also in the fall to control the dendelions and 647 00:50:22.719 --> 00:50:25.960 chickweed and d bit and all the other stuff too. So the prodymine is 648 00:50:27.000 --> 00:50:30.000 sort of a non selective pre emergent herbit side. So if you missed the 649 00:50:30.039 --> 00:50:36.800 boat on that will you missed the boat, you got cry There's you're done. 650 00:50:37.239 --> 00:50:39.639 A post emergent will only go so far. Now you can do spot 651 00:50:39.679 --> 00:50:45.519 applications where you actually take a cardboard tube or a little pieces piece of pipe 652 00:50:45.840 --> 00:50:49.960 as a shield and a little bit of round up on that on the middle 653 00:50:49.960 --> 00:50:52.400 of the cry grass plant. It'll kill it out and then bringing the grasp 654 00:50:52.440 --> 00:50:57.199 will sort of fill in around it too, So so there's other ways to 655 00:50:57.320 --> 00:51:00.599 control it. I got it's very important to use a shield like that if 656 00:51:00.599 --> 00:51:05.599 you're going to use a non selective rubber type. Anyway to come by the 657 00:51:05.719 --> 00:51:07.400 nursery check it out. We've got a great selection of annuals. Still this 658 00:51:07.519 --> 00:51:10.840 beautiful color right now, and the perenials are coming. And check out those 659 00:51:10.880 --> 00:51:14.840 Hardhu biscuits. Put them in the garden somewhere where they can get real big 660 00:51:14.920 --> 00:51:17.920 and tall and give you a lot of really nice sleeping blooms. And we 661 00:51:19.000 --> 00:51:22.639 just got a truck fload of new mulchin ready to break in. I tried 662 00:51:22.679 --> 00:51:27.800 it out and this good stuff. So anyway, Tom Callie, keep your 663 00:51:27.840 --> 00:51:31.320 shovel sharp. We will see you next week. Happy Father's Day weekend to 664 00:51:31.400 --> 00:51:36.559 one and all state tuned. You get to do the second residential and commercial 665 00:51:36.559 --> 00:51:40.159 clumbing calling Nason's Cumbing. We're serving you with their priority. K WN Bartles