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this weekend? Big platform? Me myself, yes, rest Well, Unfortunately
I wish I could say the same thing. It's just I'm in the radio
business obviously, but uh yeah, this evening looks like it could be uh
a time where I'll have to be back at work. Let's just get it
that way. They're looking a little uh, little ominous, Yes, little
ominous. And it's a good opportunity to fertilize the grass. Ye, there
you go, Because if you fertilize your grass, it won't rain. So
what you have to do is fertilizer grass and wash the car. Yeah,
yeah, that then it'll work. Then it'll work magic. Yeah, it
work works as magic. So yeah, have to do that. You really
wanted to rain. Know, you can spray your roses and your food trees
and stuff. Yes, please don't be spraying any roses today. Maybe please
don't be doing that for sure, exactly that I will kind of have kind
of a day of break week tomorrow and then I have to actually be back
at work here on Monday. So there we go. Hey, you know
what, I think we actually have a caller to start out our program this
morning. Good morning, You're on the air with Green Country Gardener. How
can we help you? Good morning morning, good morning, good morning.
I had two questions. I've noticed the cicadas. I guess I'm saying that
ord right are coming out east of this area. Yes, are you noticing
any of them around here? I have people have sent me pictures of cicadas
emerging from the ground, wondering what is that? And yeah they are.
They're up and coming. Also, look at your lawn and you see a
little round circles in the yard with dirt kind of pile up around them.
Those are the cicadas emerging. So yeah, they're coming up. Yep.
And to answer your question, I'm actually experiencing that at my own yard as
well, little holes coming out about Maybe they were those little mole things where
they're called, they're not, they're cicadas. Yeah, the little more things.
I can't I get together. No, No, my other question,
I drived up my hust got three or four times a week. Yeah,
it seems like I'm saying more and more turtles out on the highway. Got
yes, some kind of migration or something. Well it usually when it rains,
turtles across the road. So that means, yes, I know we've
we've encountered several and everybody dodging around them trying not to hit the little guys.
Yeah, you need to start save the turtles. Larry, Well,
when they advent the hob acraft, then well be problem there you go.
So yeah, I've seen them too, and maybe we should change that old
joke, white the chicken cross the road. Yeah, well maybe it's why
did the turtle cross the road? They crossed the road before it rains.
Yep, that's what I've heard from from experienced people. Very good, very
good. Thank you guys, thank you, thank you for the great call
to start out our program this morning. And if you have any questions about
turtles or more wordshell reptilian across the road, yeah, you can give us
a call as well, total one. Anyway, at the nursery we have
a really nice selection of memorial pots right now. These are containers you put
at a grave or they actually make great planters at home too, the patty
or something and a good assortment of colors and flowers on them, really nice.
The heart high biscuits are getting rid of the large going to make a
show soon hardly. High biscuits is most shadows and it's an indigenous species and
it's been hybridized to be rather showy and give them lots of room and lots
of sunshine. They don't seem to mind the heat and all that. No
matter how how to get so hard how biscuits are blooming and just happy as
a turtle on the road until that car comes around right exactly. But anyway,
so they do mind at home are starting to differentiate a little, so
we're gonna have some flowers on them pretty soon. We did have some strawberries,
but I think we've outsold them all they were on sale, not anymore.
And we've got all kinds of composts. Pere garden too good. When
we do our installations, the standard operating procedure is to put some composts in
the soil, and it's depending. The quantity of that is dependent on the
structure and the quality of the soil. We encountered a landscape we were doing
yesterday where it didn't require as much because the soil is just pretty good.
Yeah. So, but anyway, it does help the plants get started because
it doesn't aerate the soil, loosen it up, let's the ritz get out
there where it really needs to be. You just simply just don't dig a
hole into clay and right plant something to point at it and said you're going
to grow. It just doesn't work that way. Yeah, I have to
make sure the transition from your soil to what it's planeted in is enough for
it to survive. It absolutely, and typically in our soil here. We've
tried stuff over the years, yes, from that and everything else. So
we found that the back to nature compost because of its it's a it's a
coarseness, keep it soil open so the oxygen can get down to the roots
and so on. Yeah, we use that rather extensively. Extensively, I
say, by the semi truckload. That's a good thing. That's a good
thing. And it does loosen up the soil real well too. Uh.
As far as what to be pruning this time of year, suh, Well,
I had a notes in here on that somewhere, But anyway, it's
if you have a dog with tree that's a little bit in the way,
now it's time to do some pruning on it. I've done a little bit
of pruning on some dogwoods here in town, just so when you walk by
you you still have an intact eyeball when they get a little bit low.
And also that's some light in. But you don't want to trim them too
high up because you miss all the blooms in the springs. So we were
doing some work last fall on a property and the customer on her dog would
have pruned up and there are flower buds on it. And I told her,
I will, I will not trim this up. There you go right
outside your dining room window and with a blooms and have something really nice to
look at. Absolutely, she's oh, okay. And so the spring we
came in and trimmed it up. So you want to do that right now.
Typically flowers or trees that bloom in the spring, you don't want to
trim it really soon. At the middle of July vers of August, they
begin to what we call differentiate in other words, the day length that's getting
noticeably shorter and winter's on the way, and that's a trigger they get to
go ahead and establish some blooms. So those need to be put at this
point. Yeah, the same thing with the azalias. They need to be
cut back right soon, too, sure, because they'll do the same thing
about middle of July. It's too late cut them back, gotcha. Gotcha?
Well that you know, you were talking about soil earlier, and I
did basically an entire soil regeneration project. That's kind of what I called it
for my flower bed. Well, you know I live I live in the
downtown Bartlesville area, so that high clay content in the soil, so just
basically went through change it all, put in some great potting soil as well,
and some compost in there, and I planted fairly simple. This year.
I put in a dalia and I actually put in some petunias just to
make sure everything was right. And I'm telling you, and fertilized everything I
even put. I replanted or relocated what I thought was a tiger lily,
but it's it's another type of lily species that I don't know. I've used
that plant Identify your app and it keeps on telling me different things, so
I don't know. All I know is is a lily. But I'm telling
you, after the fertilizer, after all this rain that we've done, my
petunias are are going to be huge this year. That dahlia is growing up
very nice right now. It's probably about two foot tall right now. I
planted it right at the very earlier the part of the season, and that
lily species, whatever it is, is just blooming beautifully right now. So
during our commercial break, our two minute commercial break, I might show you
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Larry answered my question. So thank you for the most part. I mean,
we still don't know the species of lily per se, but he he
did identify that I have a caterpillar problem I need to take care of.
There we go, There we go. There it will grow and mature and
go away after a bit. Yeah, there you go. So we were
able to I was right. It was lily. We just don't know the
species day and he told me some things to do. The id think said
it was No, he didn't say it was a boy set. I actually
the first time it said it was a tiger lily with the scientific scientific name
for a tiger lily, and then it went off onto a whole other tangent.
So tiger lily has an orange flower like that, but it has pots
on it. Yeah, yeah, and I didn't see any and it's kind
of a construction cone orange right, Yeah, it is with with the dots
on it. I find them hard to find anymore. Yeah, I mean,
like, like I said, this was a relocation that it was previously
in that garden, and whenever I went through and wedid everything, I saw
it there. Yeah, And so I took it out, transplanted it into
another location inside the flower bed and for lives. And it's just one thing.
If you can get a tiger they did to spread a lot. Yeah,
they're very voracious spreaders and they blew them so nicely and they don't get
so tall that they just all over. So yeah, that's good. We
got a call. Good morning, You're on the air with Green Country Gardener.
How can I help you? Good morning. I know that's a little
late for this question now, but for next season, what is there anything
we can do to prevent wear or kill? Yeah, and the golf courses,
Yeah, there's something you can do. Make sure to water it,
you know, reasonably well in the drought and following fertilization procedure very closely,
because the only way to cure it now is just to resaw. It is
that correct, not necessarily. My front yard was a disaster zone itself,
and it's just about filled in right now, okay, and I just fertilizing
it, uh huh, water and fertilizing. At this point, we've got
plenty of water in the reservoir right now. Say that there is a chance
to rain tonight, so you might want to give it what the grass needs,
and that can start with a soil analysis, but typically we have enough
for some potassium in or soil that just at this point in time, probably
a nitrogen application would help it along real well. Okay, sounds great,
appreciate it, all right, Thanks all right, thanks for the call,
and again if you have a question for Larry this morning, kid, that's
called tot free seven nine five five. My front yard is an example of
that. When they built the house, they put a little little layer of
dust on top of the road, call it, call it done. And
when it gets really hot and dry, the grass just kind of dies out
a little bit. And this year, golly, it's starting to fill in
what was left of it last year. But in the fall it may seem
kind of crazy, but it didn't water it real well back when we could
start watering again, sure, just so the rift system can get established a
little bit better. And it's coming back real well. So absolutely absolutely it's
go ahead. We have rain coming tonight, and yes we do. We
talked about, yeah, we can do. It's gonna be. It's gonna
be a car. Watch the car water your flowers exactly, exactly. Well,
I was I was just looking kind of over our our our guiding points
today and uh so talking about fruit trees and specifically pecands. Now you know,
Larry, I have a big pecan tree in my front yard and it's
dropping dropping that so especially during uh I and clear off the shake the branches
or anything like that. So during the most reasons of your weather, I
just got pecan shells and all kinds of stuff all over my yards. So
I want to make sure I take care of that tree and take care of
my yard as well. So I see here that there are some things that
I should probably be doing to my pecan tree right now. Well, if
you think that, and a zinc sumplement would help, okay, because that's
a trace element that they seem to really like, and that would solve a
lot of problems on your pecans. If you were to put a zinc samplement
on there and the pecan nut case bear fermone trap can be put out.
Now, it's if you're really serious, griller, gotcha, and I'm not.
I'm really not. In fact, if I'm honest with you, I
find I don't like pecans. And so this beautiful, gorgeous, seventy five
foot tall pecan tree that is in my front yard, it's gorgeous to me.
It's a nuisance. Well, yeah, they are a bit. But
some people really like the pecans, of course, yeah they do. And
luckily I have family members who like the pecans because well then get it.
Well, the place I'm at now with this pecan tree, I moved there
during the winter months in February is when I moved there. And since that
time frame, just for me being proactive and getting all those pecans up,
I filled. I didn't crack them or anything, but I filled six five
gallon buckets full of fo cons and just try to give them way, just
get him out of there. And now after the severe weather we've had,
there's there, yeah, an impact on your yield this year. Well hopefully,
I mean I hate to say that, hopefully, but because again I
find cons has a nuisance. I really like to cook with. Forecan myself
the con wood right like brisket? Yeah? Absolutely, Yeah, Larry,
we have another call before we take our next commercial break. Here, let
me go and get them on the line. Here. Good morning, you
are on Green Country Gardener. How can I help you? Good morning,
Good morning. We've ordered a bear root magnolia tree from one of those online
companies, yes, and had it sent to us and we're on the third
one now, and we're just wondering what's the best way to get those to
survive when you when the tree arrives, they should have some instructions on what
to do, but we followed that typically you want to put in water at
least overnight to get the rip saturated again, and then the planet basically in
mud should do. Yeah, we've kind of done that. The first one,
the top boys cut off so it's fit in the package, so I
thought it dried out too much, but it was green. Then the second
on the roots were cut off, so we thought maybe there was enough tap
root and it was still green. But then after a few weeks they just
start to turn brown. The hole. Yeah, when you dig your holes
to plant this, do you put any kind of supplement into your soil.
No, we didn't do any of that. Okay, probably because our soil
has a tendency to be rather heavy. You probably generated an anaerobic soil situation.
And what you do when you dig your hole. Instead of making it
cylindrical, if you were to make it bowl shaped, kind of like a
cereal bowl and then get a lot of organic stuff and put in with it,
I think you're going to have much better luck. Because then we tied
a five gallon bucket and put some barnyard dirt in it, and we thought
we'd transplanted in the fall. Okay, Yeah, you could put it in
a pot or something like that and make sure you have holes in your bucket
so the water does drain out. Yeah, we did that too. Okay,
so we'll try this one, I guess. All right, all right,
give it a shot. Thank you. If you have troubles bread by
the nursery, maybe we can diagnose the situation there you go. Okay,
all right, Hey, all right, thank you so much for your call.
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Now, Larry and I were talking during the break as well about some of
the storm damage that has occurred obviously, and hopefully we don't get any more
of that tonight, but yeah, it's not looking in our favorite There a
lot of trees, lots of trees, lots of trees that were damage.
So what do we do to those damages? First of all, if there's
enough of the tree that you think it'll make a comeback, and then they
will know if you train it ride the broken open, broken branch, you
want to try to cut that square to limit the amount of surface area that
where predators and fundus can get into the branch. So if you have a
tree that's eligible like that, you can go ahead and cut it back and
they'll they'll branch out again and do pretty well good. And some people are
asking me what shall I replace my tree with? Well, really, if
you have a real heavy storm, nothing want to survive, right, But
there are some that are, you know, more tolerant and so on,
and uh, we went up we went up to a house on Trickle Mountain
this week and I made some recommendations of two species, the Chinese fistache being
one okay, and another area is kind of a garden area. I said,
well, appossum hall would do quite well. What now, Yeah,
that's that's that's exactly the same. It's called a watch the same reaction I
got as possumhaw is a native species grows around here. Real well, it's
pretty durable and insect resistant. That's some nice berries on it too, and
so it's it's a likely candidate for a small sized tree in the landscape,
right. And a lot of the trees that have damage if you notice when
they're falling over that there's a lot of dark wood in the trunk and it's
kind of rotted out. So they were just sort of getting old. Yeah.
Yeah, Well, our own Dave Woodell just walked into the studio.
I'm assuming he's he's here working on the weekend, as he always does.
Do you have a question, Absolutely, I have a question. You know,
I don't have the My neighbor has an oak tree, and Chiefs was
sailing from talking to a wood guy that those oak trees in Woodland Park are
probably about one hundred years old and there at the there at the end of
their lifespan. Is that what she said? That's exactly That's exactly right.
So that's why the branches from her yard flow into my house every now and
again. An no big deal. I have one other question. I had
a I have a cotton not cottonwood, but a dogwood tree. And you
know, last year, the last couple years has been pretty rough for the
lack of water, and I thought i'd been watering it, but it didn't
matter what I thought. The tree right now, it's funny when it came
out. Is it only came out. It's not like that. It's not
broke, it's not as a standard trunk. But I've got branches that have
green leaves on them, and I have branches that are dead in a door
nail, and I guess that tree is headed for the door. I don't
know how long a dogwood tree lives they last question some time. Actually,
well this has been there years, but this is this is probably twenty years
old, Okay, a few years ago. Yeah, look at the trunk.
Typically the problem with a part of the tree drying off, something wrong
with the trunk, either it's been broken or bore infestations with a dog that
I would probably say more likely it's a border problem. Yeah, well the
tree has taken a little damage in the last couple of years from this same
old tree. I'm talking about the last the last branch she shared of there
was about twelve inches and when it came down on my side, that poor
little dog would didn't have a chance. Well it can come back, it'll
be shaped a little differently. Well it can't recover. That's the Japanese maple.
It's shaped a little differently. And he also hit the Japanese maple.
And I had a really pretty Japanese maple that became a sleep shot and oh
boy, and I've trimmed it back because I didn't want to take it out.
And now the half of the swing shot has died. So I'm thinking
that at jeff Piece it took a really severe hit. I mean, we
losso over half the tree. Anyway, I think that's all. And we
talk about grass too, right, Yeah, we'll talk about maybe we'll talk
about grass maybe after our next commercial. All right, well, let's let's
go ahead and let Nathan do his thing. Go to your own studio,
Dave Withdell. My goodness, gracious, I'm telling you. We love Dave.
He's a great guy, great guy. Thanks for coming in visiting with
us. It sounds like he needs a visit. He might need a visit,
so you know he'll be here. I do that. I go to
people's house, We walk around and look at you. There you go.
Yeah, he'll be here for the next three hours or so. So before
you leave after the program, go by and talk to him. That appointments
to No. Well, yeah, lots lots of tree damage again across the
entire area. Yeah, so if you look at it, a lot of
the time you can tell whether or not a tree can be saved. And
you can tell a tree will tell you. But in instances where you have
a like my dreaded pecan tree that we were talking about earlier, I lost
a lot of branches, small branches. Bear in mind that the tornado that
came through on May sixth. Its track was actually its actual track was a
half block south of my house. Wow, so I was very lucky.
If you go south of where I am, I mean just total devastation.
There was a e F two level damage that was just south of my neighborhood.
As it came in through my area, it reduced down to an EF
one. But but yeah, literally that track was a half block south of
my house. So I've been picking up a lot of pecan limbs. So
if you need some pecan wood, I might know a source. Larry,
we'll talk, we'll talk, well talk, I gotta get Kirk. There
you go, there you go. Well, we are going to take another
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and Larry. We've been doing a lot of questions and answers today, haven't
we. It's been great. Your whole staff come through that. Yeah,
why we had here call you know exactly anyway on your on your grass,
it's time to fertilize that bermuda grass. Well, I add iron sulfate to
the fertilizer when I when they do it and darkness. The green color my
lawn as as it were, is uh notice darker than my neighbor's yard.
Well that's good because I use iron supplement, okay, and it does darken
the color real well, and the gratch just seems healthier to that way.
It doesn't seem to grow so fast. Well that's there you go. And
I use a thirty six zero zero at this point. Fertilizer water fort rains,
and I mean fertilize it rather the fort rains and being prepared to water
because when you do fertilize, the rain goes north or south. Yes,
the hete for light's yard. Today is a good day to for the lized
folks. I think it would be. There's a pretty chance of rain.
And if you're look at the forecast for the next week, yes I have.
And I'm telling you I love Aklahoma, this is my home home state.
Love it and I love talking about weather. But unfortunately, during the
springtime, you never know what's going to happen. Yeah, this evening might
be one of those times. Looking at the forecast for later on in the
week, I think after Tuesday, basically talking Wednesday, Thursday, Friday into
Saturday. Yeah, rain rain, rain, rain, rain, rain,
rain, rain, and last year were given anything to have there you go.
And of course, of course another trigger for rain, it's a SunFest.
Of course SunFest is coming out in Bundlesville. SunFest is coming up next
weekend. That's another trigger for rain. Absolutely. Well, actually it's been
dry for the last few years, that's true, So hey, bring it
really is so but you got really neat to just kind of hold back a
little bit. Yeah, and untill this range so hard. But anyway,
the weather guy, everybody always playing the time for those nitrogen applications and look
at you on and see if it's really the color you want it to be
and the density and some one. And if you don't have a very dense
permuta grass growth, or if you do remember when the last time was when
you furtilizer yard, it will probably be a good time to do it for
a lighture grass. Yeah. Absolutely, I would help out in that,
Larry. I would whenever I get home off of work this afternoon, I
would help out. But as you and I have already talked about, I
don't have a lawn, I have weeds. So I'm taking one project at
a time, replacing and restting my front and backyard. I was going to
be a project from owns in the house this week, which are actually doing
a landscape on and she wanted to know if we would saw the yard and
I said, well, how often do you fertilize your guard? She said,
I haven't hundred and fourteen years. I'd be a problem. I said,
well, perhaps, Uh, if you were to start a fertilizer program,
you'll have a good one. And then then we looked at the yard
walk closely, and there's bermuda in it, and I said, if you
were to just begin a fertilizer program, you'd be surprised how fast the bermuda
grass is there will grow and fill in. I've got crap grass, chick
weed, and uh clover, that's my yard. Okay, if you got
if we had, if if this was televised scene Larry's face whenever I said
that, yeah, I think I probably need to totally till that entire thing
up in recent Well, what you really need to do, it's kind of
take an inventory, okay, and if there is some grass in there,
some bermuda grass, and chances are there is some. Yeah, unless you
have a lot of shade, the contrary. Okay, front yard covers the
entire you might will and consider really not doing a whole lot this summer and
concentrate on the fall then and establish the fescue. At that point, I'll
just concentrate on my flower. But this year, how about that? Okay?
And then and then September we'll talk. I'll talk. So I love
that. Love that. So Also, if you have a lot of crabgrass
at this point, it's not quite mature yet. And if you got some
grass and you get that crab grass that the seeds come up the hill from
from the neighbors, you know, yes, I apologize to my neighbors.
Sorry, yeah, really. Quin Florac is the stuff you used to control
crabgrass at this point. There's all kinds of products we'd out with q They
call it queue starts of the queue, and it does. It's pretty effective
post emergent control of crabgrass. It actually kills out the grass itself. It
does have its limitation. So if the crabgrass is very well establish stand it's
kind of real flat to the ground, and you're starting to get some seed
production on your crab grass, it really won't work that well. So we're
at kind of at the middle of the time frame in which you can do
a post emergent control on the on the crabgraphs at this point that that might
be something I could do. Yeah, but tell you dirtle wash away so
you know me too well well, so you might want to if you do
have an issue with that, so you might want to get some. Yeah,
we have a product weed out with with Q. It's called and it
does broadly plants as well. It will co out some dieback, not dieback,
but a setback. If you will under permi grass, it will make
it a little bit on the six side, So you want to make sure
prior to doing that, or as you're doing it to give it some fertilizer
too, so we'll recover better. But anyway, weed out with Q or
Queen Clorac. This is the stuff we use now. Used to be we
had MS, which is monosodium acid method arsenate. That's some tongue time.
It was ill the old uh crabgrass post them and crabgrass control. But because
the arsenic and the likelihood of getting in groundwater, so they kind of stop
that for residential use. The farmers can still use it, but that's scary.
Far way way way, way, way way. Wait, we're talking
about it. You can't use it residentially or commercially, but agriculturally you can
still use it. Yeah, that's why I understand that is difficult time.
Okay, it's it's no longer available in the lawns or a commercial terp.
You can use it on golf forces and on solid things, but but you
don't want to use it and people don't in your in your lawn. So
so anyway, it's good control of cribgrass. And also if you want to
control the crabgrash, you can put a pre emergent down in the spring early
good and that is a partial control. I used that and I still had
some I forgot. I forgot one species that I still have in my yard.
Dandelions. Oh yeah, God, Actually dandelions are superfood. Well good,
so hey, you can get some rench dressing in the spray. Bole
Jar has big pinnic over at even thousand, we're coming our final break of
this show. This is a two minute and forty five second break. Forty
five second break. We'll be back with the final segment of Green Country Gardner.
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on this Saturday morning. I'm Nathan Thompson in studio with our gardening expert Larry
Glass. Sixty three degrees across our area is eight fifty three. We still
have time for maybe one more phone called area. It's going to be a
one eight hundred and seven four nine five, nine three six. If you
have a question, this morning, and there's a lot of questions for surrounding
crape myrtles as well. Right now, Larry, what's going on with us?
Well, the crape myrtles are up and growing right now, and the
winds damage should be quite evident at this point, at this point in time,
if they're going to come out and grow, they should be doing it
right away. And I've done some pruny on some crape myrtles, and you
use some stratified trimming here and there and cut them back. And actually,
if it looks kind of scruffy and there are some green on it, if
you were to cut all the dead stuff out there, they look pretty good.
Done that to several of them here in town. We're selectively pulling them
away and they're starting to grow out again. So you have a good show
in the crp myrtles this year, So anyway, good they will be differentiating
soon. That's that's when the sunlight link the sunlight signals them to bloom.
And that's happening real soon because we're getting into summer. It's long days,
longer days, right, yeah. I notice it was still relatively that last
night at nine o'clock, so I was in bed I was embedded, so
I was still In fact, I went to that with the sun still up.
It was kind of I'm not used to that. Anyway. The branch
tips should be turning a red pratt soon and you start to see some little
tiny buds forming, not right away, but not too long for now.
Actually, fertilizing your crape myrtleist is a good idea to gave them some phosphorus
space fertilizer ten twenty ten or something like that, and also mulch if it
gets really hot and dry. The multi will help conserve water. And what
do I do with my crape myrtles going into the winter. I get there
a lot too. Yes, First of all, make sure they're really well
watered, and that was a problem I had last year, right, And
actually I'm saving my bath water for yes, lots of people were for your
plants. And then going into the winter, they do need to be adequately
moist and all that and a good layer of mulch also will do an excellent
job of keeping the root system alive. We got a color, not for
sure? Yeah, okay, but anyway, maybe well I think we do
have a color a second year. Good morning, you're on the air with
Green Country Gardner. How can we help you? Uh? Yeah, I'm
calling. Uh. I live over Grand Lake area and have a couple of
questions on grass. I is it I've been spreading that Kentucky thirty one speed
down right, and you know it's kind of a universal grass. I got
shade and son and you know, it seems like it's doing okay. But
as far as my crab grass, I don't you know, I don't want
to fertilize my crab grass. Yeah. But my question when you put seed
down that Kentucky thirty one down that I bought in boat, Uh, when
you put some type of like you had talked about some type of crab grass
killer, will it kill the speed too or you got you know, yeah,
the mechan of a mechanism of a premerchant is non selective, so yes
it will. It will prevent the seed from sprouting. Okay, okay,
So but can you I've kind of been seeding my with that Kentucky thirty one
right glass here, and it seems to be filling in pretty good. You
know, I don't pop dress it, you know, I just kind of
throw it put it down because I bought a ficky down bag where you don't
have to throw it out like you're feeding chickens. Basically, I guess,
oh yeah, and you know it seems is that about the will it?
Will it take roots throughout the season if you water it periodically? Yeah?
K Y thirty one is a it's a very tough see. It's it's a
clump forming form of fescue and used in the past a lot and playgrounds and
things where something durable is needed, and that's kind of what I'm looking for.
Getting it established. It can be a little bit tricky, and you
want to start off with an analysis of your soil. I know, the
Grand Lake area, the parent material a lot of stuff over there. A
lot of your parent material is is sandstone based and it has a history of
having a lot of oak trees in that vicinity over the years. Okay,
so your soil pH might be a little bit on the off side. So
you might want to start off with a simple litmus test on your on your
soil just to determine what's going on with the chemistry. So if you're not
having good luck breaptist soil just a little bit on the acid side, and
timing is very important. Too. You start rescue seating in the third quarter
in August is when you want to start your rescue seat applications. Uh huh,
yeah, I've done that. But you said, like, I've got
a big oak tree in my circle in my front yard, and of course
it gets shade, so I figured, uh, you know, seat in
it. But so probably the pH as you say may maybe counter productive to
my kentuckted thirty one. Then that's precise precisely right. Yeah, yeah,
there's been there have been oak trees there for thousands of years, and as
the leaves decomposed, they exude some panic acid. Okay, if that's the
case, we'll say, and how would you how would you interact that to
keep that that fescue? Lime? Yeah, lime, So just buy a
bag of lime and spread it out. Well, it's not quite that simple.
You need to start with an analysis and that will tell you how much
to put down. Okay, okay, so that would because I don't,
you know, I have to hand water. It's not a sprinkling system.
So but it's it seems pretty hardy. Even though it's not you know,
every other day watering, it seems like you need Yeah, you probably need
to prepare the soil a little bit, and to do that, it's time
for us to sign off, especially in the old rocky soil over there.
Absolutely, I guarantee you there's more rocks and soil. Absolutely, absolutely all
right. Thanks so much for your call from the banks of Grand Lake in
eastern Oklahoma. Larry. Has been a great program today. Absolutely absolutely.
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