Speaker 1: Coming to you from historic, iconic studio, a spooky studio,
Speaker 1: A here at proven winners, color choice shrubs. It's time
Speaker 1: for the Gardening Simplified Show with Stacy Hervella me, Rick
Speaker 1: weisst and our engineer and producer Adrianna Robinson. Well, today
Speaker 1: we talk about spooky stories.
Speaker 2: May hello, the lights went out in the studio.
Speaker 1: Maintain your I told you it was historic and iconic.
Speaker 1: Maintain your composture today as we share horror stories from
Speaker 1: our listeners, this is going to be fun. And of
Speaker 1: course we all have our share of well sheer madness
Speaker 1: stories in the landscape. I know I have plenty. And
Speaker 1: as a bonus today also Stacy's gonna share a spooky
Speaker 1: Halloween poem with us.
Speaker 2: Yes, an original word I love.
Speaker 1: It and a limb a rick that will have you shaking.
Speaker 1: It's based on my neighborhood and my experience in my neighborhood.
Speaker 1: That's that's all coming up today. It's gonna be fun.
Speaker 2: It's gonna be a great, big scary show. I know
Speaker 2: Halloween is officially over by a few days, but you know,
Speaker 2: the spirit continues into this weekend, so it continues on
Speaker 2: the Gardening simplified show as well.
Speaker 1: Well, let me share scary with you. Halloween maybe a
Speaker 1: couple days over, but that means it's time for daylight
Speaker 1: saving time.
Speaker 2: Yay, sleep, sweet sweet sleep, bright mornings.
Speaker 1: I am ready, don't forget to fall back. Well, we
Speaker 1: had petitioned folks to give us horror stories from their landscape,
Speaker 1: and why don't we Why don't we dive into something
Speaker 1: all right? Right off the back? Sure, Stacy Brook writes
Speaker 1: to us. We bought a house last fall where the
Speaker 1: previous homeowners didn't know what they had on their property,
Speaker 1: did plant management. We inherited about a two thousand square
Speaker 1: foot wall of buckthorn along two sides of the property
Speaker 1: and a poison ivy wall covering the chimney. And she
Speaker 1: attached a photo. That's quite a special it is.
Speaker 2: It is a admirable specimen of poison ivy. If it weren't
Speaker 2: so difficult to manage and growing up the chimney and
Speaker 2: onto the roof like that, imagine that is a nightmare.
Speaker 2: This is a legitimate nightmare.
Speaker 1: Misery loves company, So thanks for sharing with us, Brooke.
Speaker 1: We were able to kill the poison ivy with chemicals,
Speaker 1: but still had to remove sprouts multiple times this year.
Speaker 1: We had a landscaping company remove the buckthorn, and while
Speaker 1: we have a end quote lawn there now, it's actually
Speaker 1: a thick blanket of weeds invasives that we keep mowing down.
Speaker 1: We're currently trying to figure out how to best tackle
Speaker 1: this two thousand square foot area. Add this to thistle
Speaker 1: and tree of Heaven growing in most beds and chipmunks
Speaker 1: getting into the crevices of the house, We've got a
Speaker 1: great gardening haunted house for Halloween. Hooray for home ownership, Brook,
Speaker 1: How long has this been going on? Oh?
Speaker 2: My word, yeah, you know, I love the chi ends.
Speaker 2: Hooray for home ownership because I think anyone who has
Speaker 2: bought a new home, and especially if it was an
Speaker 2: older new home, has had their share of horror stories
Speaker 2: to deal with, you know, things that are difficult to manage.
Speaker 2: Like I know, when I moved into my house, one
Speaker 2: of my least favorite invasive plants, Agapodium also known as
Speaker 2: Bishop's me was well established. Yes, and you know it
Speaker 2: gives you something to do. But I think that Brook's
Speaker 2: photo of that poison ivy is definitely makes a case
Speaker 2: for this being a true horrse ory. No one wants
Speaker 2: any poison ivy that big, especially growing literally on their house.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and Brooke mentions here, we bought the house last fall.
Speaker 1: So if you're buying a house in fall or maybe
Speaker 1: in winter, and the lance cape is sight unseen in spring,
Speaker 1: unidentified flowering objects start popping.
Speaker 2: Up, right, You're like, what's that charming vine covering the chimney?
Speaker 2: It must be a climbing hydrangea. Unfortunately, no, And you know,
Speaker 2: poison ivy is so hard to manage. And I would
Speaker 2: just caution anybody out there who is sitting there going
Speaker 2: poison ivy. I never got poison ivy. I am not
Speaker 2: allergic to poison ivy. To always approach it with caution
Speaker 2: because I am also not super allergic to poison ivy.
Speaker 2: But anytime I have had to handle it directly, like
Speaker 2: if I've been hiking or walking and it kind of
Speaker 2: brushes your pants or your ankle, you know, for me,
Speaker 2: that's not usually an issue. But anytime I have handled
Speaker 2: it directly, I have gotten poison ivy. And I'll tell
Speaker 2: you that is an itch that is like nothing else. Oh,
Speaker 2: it's so painful, it's so irritating.
Speaker 1: You can engaged with poison ivy. You need divine intervention.
Speaker 1: Let me tell you now. To control poison ivy, it's
Speaker 1: gorgeous in the fall. The color is un believably beautiful.
Speaker 1: And to control poison ivy, I truly believe that fall
Speaker 1: and late fall is the time to control. Cutting the
Speaker 1: plant at the base, you don't necessarily have to handle it.
Speaker 1: Cutting it at the base, brushing on brush killer directly
Speaker 1: to the stump to undiluted while it's still fresh, because
Speaker 1: poison ivy is translocating into the root system, just like
Speaker 1: the trees are in fall. That's the key with poison
Speaker 1: ivy in my mind.
Speaker 2: And remember, never ever burn any poison ivy trimming.
Speaker 1: Yes, agree, I agree in.
Speaker 2: Case unless you want a real horse story on your ends.
Speaker 1: So Hey, Stacy Corey from Netta's Nursery in Posin' Michigan
Speaker 1: wrote to.
Speaker 2: Us, Oh, yeah, I love this story. And I think
Speaker 2: a lot of our listeners, if they're not familiar with
Speaker 2: this product, they may not immediately like I saw where
Speaker 2: this was going right away, and I'm sure you did
Speaker 2: as well. But this will paint a vivid picture for you.
Speaker 2: So Corey says, at my family's nursery, we noticed that
Speaker 2: some of our potted trees were shown signs of chlorosis.
Speaker 2: Since our water naturally has a high pH or an
Speaker 2: alkaline water, we were advised to add a powdered form
Speaker 2: of iron to the soil. A product was recommended supposedly
Speaker 2: perfect for potted trees, so we decided to give it
Speaker 2: a shut. The next morning, one of our high school
Speaker 2: aged waterers burst into the office wide eyed, exclaiming, it
Speaker 2: looks like someone was murdered in the apple trees.
Speaker 1: Oh, I love it.
Speaker 2: The powdered iron we had applied had turned a deep
Speaker 2: blood red color, which makes sense. Iron is abundant in
Speaker 2: blood so and most iron is probably sourced from animal
Speaker 2: blood that, when mixed with water, stained the soil. In
Speaker 2: some areas, It even ran from under the pots in streaks,
Speaker 2: creating a scene that could have been mistaken for a
Speaker 2: crime scene. To top it all off, my sister sent
Speaker 2: us a video of her washing out the iron stained
Speaker 2: buckets from the job. It looked as if she was
Speaker 2: scrubbing away evidence from a scene in Dexter, with splashes
Speaker 2: of red everywhere. She underestimated the products. She clearly didn't
Speaker 2: gear up properly. It took us a while to stop
Speaker 2: laughing and a tidy of the row before our customers arrived.
Speaker 1: What a fantastic story. That is fantastic. We call that
Speaker 1: involuntary plant slaughter.
Speaker 2: I guess so, and yeah, I mean it totally makes sense.
Speaker 2: Iron does have that deep kind of blood red color,
Speaker 2: not the bright blood red like the dried blood colors.
Speaker 2: So you can imagine some for high school student feeling like, yes,
Speaker 2: something very bad had happened in the apple trees. Thank
Speaker 2: you for that, Corey, Thank you so much. Is a
Speaker 2: great story.
Speaker 1: It is great. Let me share a limb a rick
Speaker 1: with you of my neighborhood. As long as we're talking
Speaker 1: about scary stories, these are neighbors in my neighborhood. So
Speaker 1: Frank lives down the street. His yard is a trick,
Speaker 1: not a treat. The ground's really hard in his lifeless yard.
Speaker 1: Plants die when they root in concrete. Victor in his tank,
Speaker 1: a spray is brewing. He does know what he's doing.
Speaker 1: He won't read we'd killer instruction and caused widespread destruction.
Speaker 1: Now my neighborhood is stewing. Zelda's plants are yellow and browning, watering,
Speaker 1: just leaves her frowning. Poor Zelda is in such a
Speaker 1: dither all her plants curl up and wither, either dead
Speaker 1: from drought or drowning. And Jack's backyard heap we should sabotage.
Speaker 1: Is it compost or just trash to camouflage exactly what's
Speaker 1: under that tarp? Why are is tools so sharp? What
Speaker 1: goes on behind his garage? Blair's yard ornaments are appalling.
Speaker 1: This one's for you, Stacy. Blair's yard ornaments are appalling.
Speaker 1: Her yard is tacky and sprawling. If not convicted for crimes,
Speaker 1: I can't silence her wind chimes, security cameras they're installing.
Speaker 1: And finally, Freddie, a perfectionist next door. Every blade of
Speaker 1: grass he can account for for one weed. He's frantic,
Speaker 1: completely pedantic, garage so clean you could eat off the floor.
Speaker 1: So here's the moral of the story with my neighbors.
Speaker 1: So as you peek through the curtains, let me remind
Speaker 1: to our neighbors we should be kind. They see all
Speaker 1: the things you are batching. When you trip on a hose,
Speaker 1: they are watching as you fall on your behind. That's
Speaker 1: my neighborhood where we'll be trick or.
Speaker 2: Treated I love it. I love it. It sounds like
Speaker 2: a very colorful place and very relatable.
Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly. So, you know, plenty of horror stories to
Speaker 1: go around. And I have fun with my neighbors. Okay,
Speaker 1: I mean, I've got two types of neighbors. When the
Speaker 1: type of neighbor when I walk out the door, they
Speaker 1: come running with their questions and there, you know, and
Speaker 1: the other ones that don't ask questions and are struggling
Speaker 1: out there and you can watch from a distance and
Speaker 1: it's a lot of fun. But I love my neighborhood.
Speaker 1: We're going to share more horror stories with you, and
Speaker 1: thanks for sending them to us. But we'll share more
Speaker 1: of those here in the upcoming segments, as well as
Speaker 1: Stacy's I'm not going to call it terrifying poem. What
Speaker 1: would we call it, Stacy, what's the correct adjective?
Speaker 2: Bone chilling?
Speaker 1: Bone chilling? A bone chilling poem coming up that's coming
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Speaker 2: I would encourage you to look at our very silly,
Speaker 2: tongue in cheek, very often fun Halloween videos. We have
Speaker 2: done everything from a spoof off the show ghost Hunters.
Speaker 2: Is that what it's called Ghost Hunters?
Speaker 1: Ghost?
Speaker 2: No, it's a show like a reality show. Yeah, ghost Adventures, Yeah,
Speaker 2: thank you Adriana. So we did a spoof on Ghost Adventures.
Speaker 2: We have done Shopping with the Monsters, where all the
Speaker 2: classic horror movie monsters were shopping in a garden center
Speaker 2: for plants. I won't spoil them all, so please do
Speaker 2: check that out. And of course we'll put a link
Speaker 2: on the show notes at Gardening Simplified on air dot
Speaker 2: com as well as in our YouTube description, so you
Speaker 2: don't have to miss those as we're in the season.
Speaker 2: But let's not take any more time talking about that.
Speaker 2: Let's talk about our stories. We are continuing on the theme,
Speaker 2: the not surprising theme of maintenance nightmares, because that's something
Speaker 2: that happens a lot, and we heard from Julia. She
Speaker 2: wrote a very nice note. And Julia's story is one
Speaker 2: that I can definitely relate to you, and I will
Speaker 2: tell you why after I have read it, So here's
Speaker 2: what Julia sent us. Our entire backyard was a horror
Speaker 2: story when we moved in two years ago. It had
Speaker 2: been neglected for years. Bamboo had invaded, and the previous
Speaker 2: owner tried to combat it with a cheap tarp and
Speaker 2: huge rocks. Good luck that is no match for bamboo,
Speaker 2: considering that even asphalt and concrete are not a.
Speaker 1: Match for lower bloom.
Speaker 2: Okay, and for some reason, we keep finding broken glass
Speaker 2: all over the yard, broken window panes, fine china, porcelain,
Speaker 2: halloween decor, in case, baseball cards, you name it. We've
Speaker 2: easily picked up fifty pounds of broken glass from every
Speaker 2: area of the yard. Not the safest place for our
Speaker 2: dog and our two little kids. This horror story does
Speaker 2: have a happy ending, though, and landscapers ripped out the bamboo,
Speaker 2: the tarp and the rocks. They put in a bamboo
Speaker 2: barrier so it looks like a yard and not an
Speaker 2: overgrown jungle now. But we're still finding the odd piece
Speaker 2: of broken glass. Wow, now I totally relate to. So
Speaker 2: my house was built like in the nineteen tens, and
Speaker 2: you know back then there was not municipal garbage pickup.
Speaker 2: There was not, you know, really even like trash bins
Speaker 2: in that kind of thing, and people buried their trash.
Speaker 2: They just buried their trash in the backyard. And of course,
Speaker 2: you know, when you think about it, like food was
Speaker 2: not didn't have as much packaging, so you generally would
Speaker 2: have less trash than you would have now. But the
Speaker 2: main trash you would have is when things broke, whether
Speaker 2: that was a window pane or a drinking glass or china,
Speaker 2: et cetera. And so yeah, I find all sorts of
Speaker 2: broken glass, broken glass bottles, like old china patterns. No
Speaker 2: matter where we dig in our yard, we always find
Speaker 2: these little bits and pieces, and I do save them
Speaker 2: because I find them quite interesting. I'm hoping to do
Speaker 2: something with them someday. And sometimes we'll find like a
Speaker 2: mother load where like a lot of stuff had been buried.
Speaker 2: Usually it's just kind of the odd piece here and there.
Speaker 2: But yeah, broken glass, it's definitely not great if you
Speaker 2: want your kids to actually play in your yard.
Speaker 1: You know, I've heard from some folks who have this problem,
Speaker 1: and I think you're right. People were just putting the
Speaker 1: trash in the yard. But there have been circumstances people
Speaker 1: have talked about the fact that crows will carry shiny
Speaker 1: things to the yard. Sometimes someone has back filled with
Speaker 1: really bad backfill. That has happened. And here's another theory
Speaker 1: on this spooky story. Maybe someone used the yard as
Speaker 1: a shooting range.
Speaker 2: Ah. That's yeah, the broken glass would definitely make sense
Speaker 2: in that case. But yeah, so it does take time
Speaker 2: to pick up. Some of the glass that I find
Speaker 2: is actually pretty interesting. It's blue or purple or kind
Speaker 2: of pretty, you know, not just like the regular boring
Speaker 2: glass someone you know shot just to break something.
Speaker 1: Well, thanks for sharing with us, Julia, and you are
Speaker 1: definitely a yard core gardener. All right. My garden horror story,
Speaker 1: Karma writes to us. My garden horror story occurred at
Speaker 1: my previous home, so I cannot give you pictures. My
Speaker 1: horror includes bermuda grass bindweed. Our lush, beautiful Kentucky bluegrass
Speaker 1: that we planted by seeds started getting bermuda grass creeping in.
Speaker 1: There was no way to control it. Soon the entire
Speaker 1: neighborhood suffered, as did our lawn. I prefer a lush
Speaker 1: green run barefoot as the grass tickles my feet kind
Speaker 1: of lawn. How many hours did I waste trying to
Speaker 1: pull that vertical growing curse that hurts your feet. Bind
Speaker 1: Weed came years later, but a horrible hard to kill
Speaker 1: weed solution. We moved to a new development.
Speaker 2: That is one way to deal with the nightmare. For sure.
Speaker 1: This two shell grass, yes, exactly. Wow, what a nightmare.
Speaker 1: And of course bindweed stacey you know, looks like little
Speaker 1: morning glory flowers on it, but the root system on
Speaker 1: that weed is very extensive.
Speaker 2: The root system is very extensive. I mean you can
Speaker 2: chase it down and dig out like huge kind of
Speaker 2: tubers and that kind of thing. And you know, I
Speaker 2: will confess, when I was a younger gardener doing landscaping,
Speaker 2: I often left bind weed because I did think it
Speaker 2: was a morning glory, even though the flowers it's kind
Speaker 2: of pretty, and I assumed that it was a morning glory.
Speaker 2: So I'm very sorry to the people in those developments
Speaker 2: where I was supposed to be weeding and I left
Speaker 2: your bind weed. But it's also called bind weed for
Speaker 2: a reason, and that is that it curves and crawls
Speaker 2: around things, and it can cause a lot of damage
Speaker 2: to plants.
Speaker 1: It can actually choke out a shrub, yes, see where
Speaker 1: they just and that's why they call it bind weed.
Speaker 1: So yeah, it's it's kind of a scary thing. And
Speaker 1: bermuda grass when you get that into a nice Kentucky
Speaker 1: bluegrass lawn, it's not like you can use weed killer
Speaker 1: on it. You're going to have to use a total
Speaker 1: kill herbicide to get rid of it. It's very, very
Speaker 1: difficult to control.
Speaker 2: Great bermuda grass is often used on its own as
Speaker 2: a grass, in which case it's a fact dive and
Speaker 2: find and know. As Karma points out, you won't get that,
Speaker 2: you know, lush, beautiful green lawn that you want to
Speaker 2: actually walk on. But it's effective, yes, but in competition
Speaker 2: with other grasses, it's a nightmare, absolutely hot weather grass.
Speaker 1: And here in the North, you're definitely going to want
Speaker 1: something other than.
Speaker 2: Yes, you should definitely make that clear. That is that
Speaker 2: is very important. So Judy writes with a horror story
Speaker 2: that I have seen this one happen before, although not
Speaker 2: to the extent that Judy shares. And we do have
Speaker 2: photos from Judy, so you can see those at Gardenings
Speaker 2: Simplified on air dot Com or on our YouTube version.
Speaker 2: So Judy says, our garden horror story happened just this season.
Speaker 2: I have some roses and other plants that I wanted
Speaker 2: to get planted, but we knew we wouldn't get to
Speaker 2: it right away, so my husband put a couple strips
Speaker 2: of plant fabric down in our large garden. Whatever you
Speaker 2: call this plant fabric, landscape fabric, so called weed barrier,
Speaker 2: any other name, whatever name you use, it is actually
Speaker 2: a nightmare. It's horrible. It was the cheap stuff because
Speaker 2: we didn't know about the good stuff at the time.
Speaker 2: So sometimes, yes, the thicker stuff can be a bit
Speaker 2: more effective, even though it is a lot more expensive
Speaker 2: and requires more effort to put down as well as
Speaker 2: to take up. Now the plant fabric has become incorporated
Speaker 2: into the garden, with weeds and grass growing in and
Speaker 2: through it, and there is no way to pull it up,
Speaker 2: and we're not sure how we're going to row to
Speaker 2: tillet for next spring. I'm thinking my husband is going
Speaker 2: to have to take a chisel plow through it, and
Speaker 2: then I'm going to have to walk around and try
Speaker 2: to pick up the pieces. Fortunately it was only a
Speaker 2: small section of the garden, but lesson learned. I included
Speaker 2: three photos of our garden in the past year, so
Speaker 2: you can see the size of it, and wow, this
Speaker 2: is a definition of knitted together. See these.
Speaker 1: It's nasty. I tell you what, I'm not a fan
Speaker 1: of landscape fabric. I'm just not into it.
Speaker 2: Well, as Judy's story of tests, it does not actually
Speaker 2: keep down weeds, so all it does really is create
Speaker 2: a more different, you know, situation if you want to
Speaker 2: move a plant or add to your garden or anything
Speaker 2: like that, and it can in some cases actually interfere
Speaker 2: with the moisture. It can cause too much moisture or
Speaker 2: too little moisture around the plants. I mean, I have
Speaker 2: seen so so many people kill outright their plants. But
Speaker 2: with with having landscape.
Speaker 1: You're talking about woven polyester fibers, and it's somewhat porous,
Speaker 1: not completely porous. And in my landscape too, the previous
Speaker 1: owner used it and I've been pulling it up for years,
Speaker 1: and in areas underneath that landscape fabric it is dry
Speaker 1: as dust.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's hard for water to penetrate, and if water
Speaker 2: does penetrate, it's very hard for it to evaporate. So
Speaker 2: I have definitely seen a lot of people kill plants
Speaker 2: that are sensitive to lots of water in the soil,
Speaker 2: namely lilacs and panicle ranges, just because yeah, they watered it,
Speaker 2: and that moisture just never really evaporates because there's no
Speaker 2: sun hitting the soil, there's wind hitting the soil. And
Speaker 2: you know, this is one of those things. It sounds
Speaker 2: like such a good idea, it sounds like such a
Speaker 2: fool proof idea, but the reality is far from that,
Speaker 2: and it usually does, indeed create a maintenance nightmare.
Speaker 1: Yeah, because the original use was primarily for retaining walls,
Speaker 1: retaining areas for commercial applications, but for the home, I
Speaker 1: really believe you're better off using mulch.
Speaker 2: I agree one hundred percent. All right, So we're going
Speaker 2: to take a little break on that note, and when
Speaker 2: we come back, we have more gardening horror stories, So
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Speaker 2: Breading's Gardening Friends and Welcome back to the Gardening Simplified show,
Speaker 2: where we are spending this post Halloween episode talking about
Speaker 2: your garden horror stories, and horror stories happen to everyone
Speaker 2: in the garden. They can take any range from truly
Speaker 2: scary to mildly frightening to total nightmare. But I do
Speaker 2: you know, it was so fun to hear from everybody
Speaker 2: reading through these stories when I was checking our inbox.
Speaker 2: And you can email us at help HLP at Gardeningsimplified
Speaker 2: on air dot com, or just visit Gardening Simplified on
Speaker 2: air dot com to send us a message through our
Speaker 2: contact form. And you know, while I was reading through these,
Speaker 2: I saw so many people sending us great follow ups
Speaker 2: of you know, things that we had helped them with
Speaker 2: earlier in the season and saying here's what I did.
Speaker 1: I love that.
Speaker 2: I love that too, So we are definitely going to
Speaker 2: be covering those on a future episode. But I did
Speaker 2: want to just encourage you. If you have a success
Speaker 2: story to share with us, we will accept and love
Speaker 2: your success stories as much as your horror stories, So
Speaker 2: please feel free to reach out. And of course you
Speaker 2: can always leave comment on YouTube and that way all
Speaker 2: of your fellow YouTube viewers will be able to to
Speaker 2: join in and hear your story. So briefly, before we
Speaker 2: move to the Creepy Crawley stories, which I have to
Speaker 2: confess are my favorite, we have one last maintenance nightmare
Speaker 2: from listener Kathy, and she has an interesting spin on
Speaker 2: this because she said that a garden nightmare is seeing
Speaker 2: what a new owner did to your garden after you sold.
Speaker 2: And I'm sure you've had this here right. So she
Speaker 2: says her new homeowner over her house paved over mature
Speaker 2: Japanese maples and five foot tall tree peonies so he
Speaker 2: could park his truck.
Speaker 1: Yikes.
Speaker 2: Yeah, different values there. And Kathy also confesses that she
Speaker 2: once used the deer spray sprayer for weed killer and
Speaker 2: that was not a good combination.
Speaker 1: Yeah, mixing the wrong thing in a tank. I've seen
Speaker 1: that happen before. Not.
Speaker 2: So what do we got for Creepy Crawley's.
Speaker 1: Lacey says, Hello, Rick and Stacey. I generally always garden
Speaker 1: in a baseball hat, and now I'm glad that I do.
Speaker 1: One day this summer, I was working along in my
Speaker 1: garden filming a video for my YouTube channel, my Rustic Gardens.
Speaker 1: Upon the video airing a viewer pointed out something horrifying.
Speaker 1: For most of the video, I had a very large
Speaker 1: spider perched on my hat. This still gives me the
Speaker 1: hebgb's to think back on, knowing that I had no idea.
Speaker 2: Fun all the YouTube audience, it's like, oh my gosh,
Speaker 2: I got a spider on red. So I did look
Speaker 2: at Lacey's channel. She gardens in Oregon, USDA Zone Fante
Speaker 2: puts out a lot of very interesting videos, so we
Speaker 2: will make sure that we linked to her and you
Speaker 2: can check out her channel and find out what it's
Speaker 2: like to garden over on the other side of the country.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and that spider just wanted to be on the
Speaker 1: world Wide Web. He was on a webcam with Lacey Way,
Speaker 1: good job.
Speaker 2: You know all this talk about Creepy Crawley's it does
Speaker 2: remind me that I wrote this poem. I honestly don't
Speaker 2: remember as a few years ago, and I don't even
Speaker 2: remember at this point what inspired me to write it.
Speaker 2: But I want to share it with you now as
Speaker 2: we're talking about the Creepy Crawleys. You know, if you've
Speaker 2: listened to the show before, you know that I love
Speaker 2: insects and I'm a big believer in integrated pest management.
Speaker 2: So if you have problems in the garden, learning about
Speaker 2: them and finding a way to resolve them in a
Speaker 2: non toxic, very as peaceful as possible way. But I
Speaker 2: guess I let my imagination run wild one day when
Speaker 2: I was thinking about IPM, and I wrote the Gardener's Nightmare.
Speaker 2: So here it is. The candy bowl was empty, the
Speaker 2: candles all burned down. So I picked up a volume
Speaker 2: of Garden Verse and went to bed in my long
Speaker 2: flannel gown. Though I read a few poems and horticultural tips,
Speaker 2: I soon began to doze and nod with the words
Speaker 2: plant the rest of those crocus still on my lips.
Speaker 2: I awoke quite suddenly to a din, a true cacophony,
Speaker 2: that was coming from out in the garden, somewhere around
Speaker 2: my beloved Daphne. I went to the window, pulled back
Speaker 2: the shade, then ran down to the yard to witness
Speaker 2: an eleven mile long garden pest parade. Slugs and snails
Speaker 2: led the way, leaving trails of slime. Yet not a
Speaker 2: single raven flew in the sky to prey upon these
Speaker 2: vile things. One at a time. A million Japanese beetles followed,
Speaker 2: shells shining in the light. They skeletonized every leaf they
Speaker 2: came across, with neither be tea nor bucket of soapy
Speaker 2: water in sight. After them came mice and voles and
Speaker 2: terrifying array. They gnawed at the roots and the trees.
Speaker 2: Where was that red tailed hawk I saw yesterday? Shouldn't
Speaker 2: she be taking care of these? Next, the gophers and
Speaker 2: woodchucks lumbered as is their way. They looked me square
Speaker 2: in the eye and cackled as they drank a bottle
Speaker 2: of hot pepper sprayed. Yet even they were nothing compared
Speaker 2: to two thousand rabbits, who mowed down every plant at
Speaker 2: its base, causing twice the damage than their normal habit. Deer,
Speaker 2: of course, were the main attraction. So regal they appear,
Speaker 2: and they browsed and rubbed every tree and shrub. I
Speaker 2: could only sit and watch, paralyzed with fear. At the
Speaker 2: very end were acres of poison ivy and weeds. There
Speaker 2: was dandelion and dock and grass galore, and each planet
Speaker 2: itself in the space that had just been freed, then
Speaker 2: cloned itself and planted one more. Wake up, It's just
Speaker 2: a dream yelled a voice in my head. But I
Speaker 2: woke to muddy footprints on my sheets and a trail
Speaker 2: of fallen leaves ending at my bed.
Speaker 1: Oh, how good, goose look at that? I got goose bumps.
Speaker 1: What a nightmare?
Speaker 2: Yeah, Hi, thank you for fabulous Let my thank you, Alea.
Speaker 2: Let my imagination run wild with that. So some fun
Speaker 2: well done?
Speaker 1: Excellent? All right?
Speaker 2: Uh?
Speaker 1: Talt am I getting that right?
Speaker 2: Station help So? I wasn't exactly sure, but t lot
Speaker 2: seems like a reasonable nciation.
Speaker 1: Okay as a Halloween story for us. I love gardening.
Speaker 1: I'm not afraid of bugs and critters around me. Early spring,
Speaker 1: I was cleaning, prepping one of my island beds for
Speaker 1: the season. I came across pieces of a kind of
Speaker 1: plastic bubble wrap material here and there, all together there
Speaker 1: were maybe four, and I figured winter winds blew them
Speaker 1: into the garden. I picked them up and threw them
Speaker 1: into my pile of garden waists. Suddenly I saw something
Speaker 1: out of the corner of my eye move and slither
Speaker 1: out of one of those bubble wrap pieces, and I jumped.
Speaker 1: Little did I know that what I thought was bubble
Speaker 1: wrap was the skin snakes shed as they grow bigger,
Speaker 1: and one was still around. Yikes, did I mention that
Speaker 1: snakes are the only thing I'm afraid of? I agree
Speaker 1: with you. I'm the same boat for me. Goodness gracious,
Speaker 1: I mean that his sterea with snakes.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, we all know that snakes are so
Speaker 2: beneficial for the garden that they're gonna eat you know,
Speaker 2: snails and slugs and a lot of these things that
Speaker 2: we don't want. Of course, they also do eat some
Speaker 2: beneficial things like frogs and toads if you have those around,
Speaker 2: but you know, they're part of nature, and especially if
Speaker 2: you have a more rural garden, you may have snakes.
Speaker 2: I do not. I've never seen a snake in my
Speaker 2: garden right now.
Speaker 1: Oh, I know you have oh fangs for the memories.
Speaker 2: But when I was a landscaper, when I was going
Speaker 2: to college and then summers I would work landscaping, I
Speaker 2: had a lot of snake run ins, and you know
Speaker 2: the I remember one time I was coming up a
Speaker 2: hill with a load of mult You know how this happens.
Speaker 2: You always have to like bring the mulch up hill.
Speaker 2: I don't know, so I'm bringing the mulch up hill.
Speaker 2: It's a hot summer day. There's a little juniper standard,
Speaker 2: so like one of those like small trees with a
Speaker 2: juniper on, you know, on top there, and there is
Speaker 2: like the biggest garter snake all curled up like this
Speaker 2: juniper standard is its nest. You know. It's in the
Speaker 2: top of this little like three foot tall stand, having
Speaker 2: the time of its life. And it scared me so
Speaker 2: bad I dumped the mulch right there. Okay, so now
Speaker 2: the snake's there and I have to clean up all
Speaker 2: the mulch that I just dropped into the immaculate green
Speaker 2: lawn next to the snake in the juniper.
Speaker 1: I'd do the same thing, Stacy, I would run for
Speaker 1: my life, you know.
Speaker 2: But it's something that we have to get used to.
Speaker 2: And I guess the more often you see snakes in
Speaker 2: your garden, probably the less scared you will become of them. Yeah,
Speaker 2: you kind of get to know their habits and can
Speaker 2: avoid that area.
Speaker 1: You know that song. I don't like spiders and snakes,
Speaker 1: I do, yeah, but I don't have a problem with spiders.
Speaker 1: It's the snakes that I have a problem with.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it goes taps into like a deep
Speaker 2: lizard brain reaction that the humans have. So Laura shares
Speaker 2: that earlier this month, she and her son were helping
Speaker 2: her dad with some yardwork after he had a hip replacement.
Speaker 2: So they're moving a stack of bricks in his yard,
Speaker 2: and she says, inside the stack of bricks were many,
Speaker 2: in all roaches. As we took off each level of bricks,
Speaker 2: some of the roaches went further down into the pile
Speaker 2: and some scurried off into the leaves. The farther down
Speaker 2: we got into the stack of bricks, the more roaches
Speaker 2: we saw. It reminded me of the old commercial for
Speaker 2: roach motels. Those roaches checked in and did not check out,
Speaker 2: and we're still living there. It was disgusting. My son
Speaker 2: didn't have on gloves. After moving a few levels of
Speaker 2: the brick and with the roaches crawling on him, he
Speaker 2: decided I could finish since I did have on gloves.
Speaker 2: As I got lower in the pile, I finally decided
Speaker 2: I had to grab some roach spray because there were
Speaker 2: so many. All right, we got hev GBI's going around
Speaker 2: the studio right now. Both Rick and Adriana are visibly shivering.
Speaker 2: You know, I don't have a huge issue with roaches.
Speaker 2: The way they move is kind of creepy. But this
Speaker 2: is such a great example of how IPM can help
Speaker 2: you resolve those problems. You know, if you have a
Speaker 2: scenario like this where something in your yard is is
Speaker 2: creating good environment for past to live and thrive, you
Speaker 2: gotta get rid of it. And once you get rid
Speaker 2: of it, you'll usually get rid of the best. I mean,
Speaker 2: sometimes you have to kind of, you know, brave your
Speaker 2: way through the thousands of roaches.
Speaker 1: But it is that way through out gardening, whether it's
Speaker 1: a pest such as an insect or a disease. You're
Speaker 1: one hundred percent right, Stacey. You've got to focus on
Speaker 1: the environment. Yeah, there's a reason that they're there.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and you know, it's never too late to fix it.
Speaker 2: And very often simply removing that brick pile that the
Speaker 2: roaches were like, Hey, this is great, it's warm. There's
Speaker 2: all these cozy little spaces for us to do our roachy.
Speaker 1: Thing, a roachy thing.
Speaker 2: Hopefully they didn't get chased into the house. Although you know,
Speaker 2: normally we do have outdoor roaches and indoor roaches, it's
Speaker 2: not like necessarily the roaches, the cockroaches that can live
Speaker 2: outside are necessarily going to come in. But it all
Speaker 2: depends on the situation.
Speaker 1: So I'd go inside and have a bugweiser, That's what
Speaker 1: I would do. And you know, it does bring up
Speaker 1: the fact that this is the time of year, scary
Speaker 1: time of the year when on south facing walls, that's
Speaker 1: when you've got to be looking for those openings. As
Speaker 1: far as box elder bugs, spiders, Asian lady bugs, they're
Speaker 1: going to try and get inside for winters.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they want to stay warm and cozy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I and and I've had through the years
Speaker 1: in the garden center industry, so many people who rely
Speaker 1: on vix vapal rub what they rub it on the
Speaker 1: windows cell. You know, I'm recommending you look at the
Speaker 1: south facing of the house and look for cracks and
Speaker 1: crevices where they can get that's the practical thing to do.
Speaker 1: You'd be surprised how many people use vix vapo rub
Speaker 1: to combat these insects.
Speaker 2: Does it work?
Speaker 1: I don't think so.
Speaker 2: Okay, well, I guess it's worth a try. If you
Speaker 2: have bugs and it's too late for you to steal
Speaker 2: off the crevices spooking, give the vix vapor rub a
Speaker 2: wirl and let us know if it does or doesn't
Speaker 2: work out for you. We have to take a little
Speaker 2: break and when we come back, or going to wrap
Speaker 2: up the show with even more Halloween horror stories, so
Speaker 2: please stay tuned. The Gardening Simplified Show is brought to
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Speaker 2: and welcome back to the Gardening Simplified Show. You are
Speaker 2: not hearing the normal segments of the Gardening Simplified Show.
Speaker 2: We're devoting the whole episode to our listener horror stories.
Speaker 2: This is an idea that Rick had because he has
Speaker 2: experienced so very many yes gardening horror stories over the
Speaker 2: years between working in a garden center and of course
Speaker 2: being a gardener yourself. So like, what's your favorite one?
Speaker 1: I do it yourself for I think you know. My
Speaker 1: worst horror story and all joking aside, was falling out
Speaker 1: of a tree with a chainsaw.
Speaker 2: Oh Yeah, well that's pretty horrified.
Speaker 1: I always advised people. You know, it was when I
Speaker 1: was young, stupid and invincible, dangerous combinations. You know, I've
Speaker 1: fallen off a greenhouse, I've walked away from all of
Speaker 1: these things. I do not recommend it as far as
Speaker 1: trees are concerned. Hire a professional who does it right
Speaker 1: and follows safety rules. But no, I could go. I
Speaker 1: could give you a two hour show of just my
Speaker 1: horror story.
Speaker 2: Some people might actually want to hear that. But we
Speaker 2: did get a great one from Luri. Now this is
Speaker 2: also kind of funny, and I will tell you I
Speaker 2: did not see this coming as I started reading Lori's story.
Speaker 2: So she says, we're fortunate to have purchased land in
Speaker 2: Georgia for recreation in twenty twenty and as a result,
Speaker 2: we bounce back and forth between Florida and Georgia. So
Speaker 2: set in the warm South here. In the fall of
Speaker 2: twenty twenty three, we purchased a beautiful bald cypress to
Speaker 2: put next to our new pond. So bald cypress, if
Speaker 2: you're not familiar, Taxodium distigum are beautiful native bald cypress.
Speaker 2: You see it everywhere if you go down to the
Speaker 2: swamps of New Orleans. It grows all through the South
Speaker 2: and usually in area.
Speaker 1: Beauty's on the East coast this past week.
Speaker 2: Yeah, beautiful plant, great plant, and we can actually grow
Speaker 2: it here in Michigan, and it especially loves wet soils,
Speaker 2: so she says. It was a beauty In a fifteen
Speaker 2: gallon pot, we planted it and anxiously awaited for the
Speaker 2: rains to fill our pond. Thankfully, after just a few weeks,
Speaker 2: the beautiful bald cypress had its toes in the water
Speaker 2: and we felt it was very happy. Fast forward to
Speaker 2: February twenty twenty four. That's just this past February. We
Speaker 2: pull into our property after a couple weeks away. I
Speaker 2: asked my husband, where's the bald cypress. I can't see it. Granted,
Speaker 2: it kind of blends in with all the other trees,
Speaker 2: especially when it's dormant, but I couldn't even see its
Speaker 2: trunk from a distance. We parked the truck and wandered
Speaker 2: over to the edge of the pond, and horror of horrors,
Speaker 2: our beautiful bald cypress tree had been fallen by a beaver.
Speaker 2: And Laurie has the pictures for proof. Here there is
Speaker 2: no mistaking that Yes, this bald cypress was definitely felled
Speaker 2: by a beaver, and well you can see the pictures
Speaker 2: on YouTube or at Gardeningsimplified on air dot com. We
Speaker 2: didn't know if it was dead or alive. We couldn't
Speaker 2: exactly extract it from the pond, so we left it
Speaker 2: wondering how in the world a beaver passed hundreds of
Speaker 2: trees to eat our one and only bald cypress. Guess
Speaker 2: it was just the right thickness and he didn't feel
Speaker 2: like working so hard for those mature trees. We did
Speaker 2: ask the nursery nursery where we purchased it, what we
Speaker 2: should do. They felt the best thing to do was
Speaker 2: to cut the stump straight across, so that's what we did.
Speaker 2: Plus we put fencing around it. Now fast forward to
Speaker 2: August and we have a cousin it bald cypress, and
Speaker 2: we even had to enlarge the fence. We anxiously await
Speaker 2: to see how this tree shapes up Happy Halloween.
Speaker 1: So it just goes to prove you that beaver's a
Speaker 1: log on to find the tastiest trees, you know, and
Speaker 1: in the landscape.
Speaker 2: I think it's also really interesting, you know, you would see. Especially,
Speaker 2: you know, if a beaver took down a tree, you'd think, okay,
Speaker 2: well that tree is dead. And it's very interesting to
Speaker 2: see how this plant has recovered and the kind of
Speaker 2: adaptations that nature makes to withstand these because you know,
Speaker 2: both the beavers and the bald cypress are native to
Speaker 2: this area, so it is kind of a survival strategy
Speaker 2: for both of them. And so now they're really going
Speaker 2: to have a bald cypress that's a shrub, not just
Speaker 2: a tree.
Speaker 1: It's already growing back cypress with a story.
Speaker 2: Yes, and definitely a bald cypress with a story.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: So and it's a great story because not everyone can
Speaker 2: say that they have lost a tree or had a
Speaker 2: tree damaged due to beavers, beaver and speaking of fuzzy
Speaker 2: four legged critters damaging plants, Irene wrote that her story
Speaker 2: recently was planting some bargains from the garden Center Always
Speaker 2: love that to create a butterfly garden. She goes out
Speaker 2: to check on them daily and one day finds they
Speaker 2: are all pulled out. Put them back in. Happened again.
Speaker 2: She suspects raccoons.
Speaker 1: I like your spirit, Irene. Three times you did not
Speaker 1: give up.
Speaker 2: Neither did the raccoon unfortunately. But yeah, I mean I
Speaker 2: have definitely planted stuff in my yard. And even though
Speaker 2: I mostly plant deer resistant plants because I have such
Speaker 2: a severe deer issue, a lot of times, if it's
Speaker 2: fresh from the greenhouse it's really soft, they are more
Speaker 2: curious about it. They're more interested to try it. And yeah,
Speaker 2: when they're browsing it, they'll absolutely rip it right out
Speaker 2: of the ground and I'll find just a root pulseit
Speaker 2: in there.
Speaker 1: And that's when repellents can come in Handy repellance can
Speaker 1: be practical. If you have to be spraying repellents all
Speaker 1: the time, it's not practical. But when they first come
Speaker 1: out of the greenhouse shoe.
Speaker 2: Right, Yeah, and sometimes you have to, it's just you know,
Speaker 2: those plants have been given tons of water, tons of fertilizer.
Speaker 2: They're lush, they're soft. It's much different than when, yeah,
Speaker 2: when they come out in your yard and are stringy
Speaker 2: and fibrous and not so yummy.
Speaker 1: So in the cute not scary category. CJ writes to
Speaker 1: us Hi, Stacey, and Rick. This year, my garden was
Speaker 1: invaded by the extra chunky bumblebee species species cocker Spaniellie
Speaker 1: photo is attached, so if you're watching on YouTube or
Speaker 1: you go to our website Gardening Simplified. On air dot Com,
Speaker 1: CJ talks about this bumblebee could be found lounging every
Speaker 1: day amongst my romance mulberry numsia. Oh great plant, great
Speaker 1: annual numisia if you're keeping score at home. As a
Speaker 1: matter of fact, it's a great shoulder season plant, great
Speaker 1: for spring and fall. Kind of has a clove sent
Speaker 1: to it and proven winners has a great improved variety
Speaker 1: coming for twenty twenty five. It was her favorite spot
Speaker 1: in the garden. No persuasion could get this bea to
Speaker 1: leave these flowers alone, and sadly they diminished over the summer.
Speaker 1: Horror for something. But I think I'll plant a romance
Speaker 1: namesia here next year to lure in this same bumblebee.
Speaker 1: Best blooms CIJ and Pearl the bumble Bee.
Speaker 2: Yeah so CJ. If you haven't realized, Pearl the Bumblebee
Speaker 2: is a cocker spaniel, very cute, very epic hair, and
Speaker 2: obviously cute enough to be loved. Despite ruining the nmesia,
Speaker 2: it's great. And finally we heard from Kristin and the
Speaker 2: cute not scary category. She says, be careful when you
Speaker 2: open these pictures. I've made a ghastly mistake. Instead of
Speaker 2: something scary, I paired my gorgeous proven winners hydrangeas with
Speaker 2: halloween decor. I'm afraid I don't have a spooky taiale
Speaker 2: to share, just beautiful flowers that I couldn't let get
Speaker 2: snowed on. Because Western New York is expecting snow this week.
Speaker 2: I guess that could be a scary story health I
Speaker 2: did add a touch of Halloween spirit by comparing by
Speaker 2: pairing them with wicked witch colius, which might just be
Speaker 2: my new favorite plant or should I say shrub. Hope
Speaker 2: you enjoy the photos even if they're more enchanting than eerie.
Speaker 2: And Wow, the color on these hygdranges that Kristin cut
Speaker 2: is truly outstanding. I'm guessing she didn't say what variety there.
Speaker 2: I'm thinking they must be like Limelight Prime or little
Speaker 2: Lime Punch nice, just because the colors have that really rich,
Speaker 2: saturated tone that the newer varieties have, whereas a lot
Speaker 2: of the older varieties they can be kind of muddy.
Speaker 2: But she's obviously growing them beautifully because they're so pretty,
Speaker 2: they're so colorful, and she paired them with some fun
Speaker 2: Halloween de cor.
Speaker 1: That's fantastic way to go, Kristin. And you're right about
Speaker 1: the Colius. The color Blaze Colius from proven winners is fantastic.
Speaker 1: And you know, again, when I first started out in
Speaker 1: the garden center industry ages ago, that's a scary story
Speaker 1: of itself. You know, we just grew cold and shade.
Speaker 1: Now you can grow them in sun and shade, and
Speaker 1: Kristen says, here, yet it's almost like a shrub, and
Speaker 1: you're right, And I think part of the reason for
Speaker 1: that is these coliats also have been bred not to
Speaker 1: flower like the older varieties of Colius did, or at
Speaker 1: least not until late in the season, so they're putting
Speaker 1: all that energy into foliage. I just love the color
Speaker 1: blaze Colius and growing them in sun, great plant.
Speaker 2: I truly wish that I could grow them, But the
Speaker 2: deer love Colius as much as we do, so they
Speaker 2: are not an option for me. And actually my mom,
Speaker 2: I've talked about my mom's amazing red colis that she
Speaker 2: plants in front of a garage every year. The deer
Speaker 2: have even started nibbling hers, and she has some deer
Speaker 2: and they usually used to stick to her backyard. But
Speaker 2: one day she sent me a picture of her fabulous
Speaker 2: colius in September at its peak, and a little bit
Speaker 2: was missing, and I said that that is definitely dear.
Speaker 1: So it's no fun.
Speaker 2: Deer are kind of a nightmare, but a night where
Speaker 2: you can live.
Speaker 1: With and Stacy. One last scary story if you live
Speaker 1: in my neighborhood, I in the past week have been
Speaker 1: out stealing maple leaves from people's yards and then using
Speaker 1: my churninator, my grinder. I sent some pictures and video
Speaker 1: to Adriana that will share with you. So if you
Speaker 1: hear that grinding sound coming from my backyard, that's me
Speaker 1: churning up your maple leaves.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think you could say that you're taking them,
Speaker 2: not stealing them, okay, because they were getting rid of
Speaker 2: them in the first place.
Speaker 1: I'm borrowing them all for a good cost.
Speaker 2: Yes, I think you're doing the right thing. And as
Speaker 2: you know, I have also been known to help myself
Speaker 2: to some leaves sitting on the curb if they're all
Speaker 2: bagged up and sitting there anyway, I mean, why not
Speaker 2: thank money it can, so we wanted to thank every
Speaker 2: single person who wrote to us with their story. We
Speaker 2: really appreciate you taking the time to share your experience,
Speaker 2: and we hope that you enjoyed listening to the stories
Speaker 2: as much as we enjoyed reading them to you. So
Speaker 2: we hope you have a wonderful week ahead, and I
Speaker 2: want to thank you Rick, thank you Adriana, and we're
Speaker 2: wishing you the best. M