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Value Hardware, Kelly Banks Tree Service, Any United Rattles. Good morning, good morning, good morning, morning morning that Right now it is eight oh eight and we are ready to rock and roll here with the Green Country Gardener Program and of course the toll free number one eight hundred seven forty nine five nine three six data get you on the radio with Larry Glass, our steam new colleague and expert. How are you doing, Lawrence? Hey, Tom,

Pretty good, good job on the weather this week. Had a little bit of rain, kind of nice. Oh yeah, it looks like you had a little tornado across the road there. But for the folks who don't know, they tore down a house across the street, nothing but splinter as boy had a two hundred foot wide tornado locally locally affected. Okay, anyway, ground moisture is in pretty good shape right now. It is. It's okay on the surface. A little bit below too, it's somewhat dry.

A little bit deeper. We dug some holes in the ground and you go through this nice moist soil, than all a sudden you hit dry, dry soil and it's dry and it's kind of hard. Yeah, yeah, it's a little dry. You know. Gotty, you try to plant a tree and this stuff, and with that in mind, you want to make sure that when you do get new trees or shrubs or things, that's you water fairly, slowly and deeply, so the water will seep down in there.

Any water that runs off is a waste. So you want to make sure if you when you run the hose on there, let the water cool down. If you are from the day, if you would, it's gonna be what four thousand degrees this week something like, you're pretty darn close. Yeah, I don't know. It'll melt lead on the driveway. But anyway, so you want to make sure if you do water in the option and to let the water run. That's the leading cause that people killing their trees in

the summer is putting hot water on them. So let it run until it's comfortable to run over your hands. You don't scald blister yours, get out for the and then it should be okay. Or you can just water in the morning. Typically when we plant trees for people, I tell them the

water them. It's best to water them in the morning. So anyway, it's primarily because the water is cool and those yet you don't want to give them a hot bad Yeah, but if you have, if you have not water, to do so slowly for a long time to get the water deep into the ground. And adding molch actually is a very good way to help conserve moisture. I've followed that practice of my house for years and around my

tomatoes. I've got mine and just still foot of molts around them, and it's really moist underneath there, so and no I don't wanted them, so yeah, mulch is a good way. It's also a good way to control weeds and other unwanted stuff at the in the ground too. So the cedar multu works very well. We have a cedar mulchen big bags and picks up up or something. It's genuine cedar, genuine, it's accept no limitations, it's aromatic, aromatic smells good. Okay. Anyway, So at the nurse

tree we got container and baby trees. It can be planted at anytime. You just don't want to move them. All of our bird bald and broad trees are pottered up in big containers just because they do better in the in the summer. When you do that, the hosses in the shade house are starting to exhibit some flowers on them, good color right now too. The endless summer. Hydrangus are blooming a little bit right now too, starting to come and come out. And you're oakley if hydratus are gonna bloom a little

bit too. Starting on Corzelius. They show a flower here and there now when they bloom, but when it gets really hot, like like when it gets July four or five hundred degrees and then we have a day when it gets way down to ninety. Yeah, yeah, they'll bloom. They respond to a temperature change and they'll put them some flowers, and in the fall they put on a really big show too. So it's also important to plant

your zelis in straight peat moss. We did something this week, planted four of them and like a big old hole and filled the full of peat moss and used some soapy water to get the make the water wetter so the peat moss. Otherwise you'd be there all day trying to mix it up because it's not happening. Peat moss has a negative charge, so it does water. Yeah, so I gotta have something. They're a little kind of fun to watch the water bounce off of it. Surfacting we do have. We do

have a factant at the nurse vase, a little bottle. It goes a long long way. It doesn't doesn't take much. You think that's kind of expensive for a little bottle, but you just use us a little bit and it gips of water a positive chart so soaks it up pretty well. So anyway, we are selling a few azilius, and I make it a point to tell people that a little bit of the chemistry involved with getting the peat

moss mixed up. We use pete mosson azilius because Pete moster raicacious, meaning they prefer a city type of soil pH of about five point five, which exactly matches what pete moths has, and they'll do just fine. So hydranges, if you want blue hydrogen, you kind of follow the same pattern, yeah exactly, and they'll have your blue flowers on them, but if you plant them in our soil here, they'll be pink. So you remember a litmus paper, Yeah, yeah, I remember in school. Yeah, yeah,

oh off is off a little bit. You need to be eating. Let's great for anyway. Uh the uh eche. The comb flowers are showing some color. And we have a great selection of hardy habiscus right now with different colored leaves and flowers on them. The whole row up going from the parking lot to the shade house there looking good, and they're looking and the buds are starting to form on them so nice. And the hardy hibiscus has a flower bigg around and there's well maybe not that big around, but bigg

rounds a typical hand okay, a little bit bigger than most. They're pretty good eye so and they blew really almost in perpetuity and in the summertime, so they and they like the heat real well, but they don't seem to tolerate drought too well too. So the most shadows biscus much sets typically are indigenous to swampy areas, but they adapt real well to the dry conditions.

The one so water I'm when to go limp and they'll they'll pull right back up and do just find and once again, goodly our motile on the surface will help flatten that dry wet curve a little bit so they don't have to supper when it gets too dry. Okay, so those are showings in color right now. So you might consider harder hybiscus in a sunny place as a specimen interest plant because it does bloom for a very long period of time.

I like to so associate them with maybe an evergreen shrub like the door fuel fun holly, the door nandina or some other low growing hearty evergreen shrub, so in the wintertime you have something there also. So anyway, so can you consider a hardy hibiscus on the west side of the house in the sun. They'll do okay, kind of keep away from swimming pools because they are kind of trashy. Yeah, literally, it's not that bad. They don't.

They don't really have a what not like crape marble, which make a mess see your pool And when I do a design, I don't use the crape ridles anywhere near a pool. No, No, you're just asking for trouble. Yeah, well, not bad. It's just it's just who wants to clean up after that? No nobody? So anyway, so that's what it was, a hardy business. They bloom real well. Other things throwing on at the nurse rate. The landscape crew is really busy doing landscape jobs.

We're involved in a sizable project at this point. Yeah, and we're getting to the point where we'll be able to actually wrap up and get get going on it and get it finished here pretty soon. Sweet. It's been one of those long term things. Well, little interruptions here and there, waiting behind subcontractors and things you have to give me. Yeah, So anyway, we're getting there. It's got the it'll have about twenty eight sprinter circuits.

Nice big project, but the water pressures kind of love so we had to engineer it to compensate for that. So and only work on it or two or frighting for right now, right for right now, and unless they pulled back on that and don't let us water at all, so that that is a distinct possibility. So we're kind of holding off on the grass right now. I would indigenous species of grass are starting to grow, oh nice,

so which isn't really desirable. So the grass on that project might go into the fall, but in the meantime we'll have indigenous grasses set'll cover and then you think it with some herbicide and put on your side. A couple of days later, find hey, that leads us speaking of water, the shrub of the week, which is Hydrangea. Yeah. So the Hydrangea of course likes that really good soil. And if there is a climate that the Hydrangea is not suited for, that's partles fill ye nice plant. I don't

like the location. They don't really like to heat that well, and they'd like a more consistent soil moisture. So if you want to plato hydrange don't forget to throw about three or four bags of mulch in the truck too, and a lot of composts or peat moss in there. Also working the dirt vigorously. Typically we do a preparation A's bigger round as official basket. When we do ground, throw away half the soil and put in some composts and

or peat moss. Opinion on what color they want or the type of hydrangea they want, bring in the good stuff. Some of the hydrange just have white flowers on the Poople hydrangees, but the PG hydranges have that big boid with variable colors been on the pH and and then we asked the customer what color do you want them, and then it tells us how much peat moss you use. Peat moss are compost depending on it's a chemical, but but

the root system of the headrange it's not very adventuresome. In other words, when it hits heavy soil, it's just gonna stop. It's gonna say, I'm not going in there. I don't like. So that's why you have to do a fairly large preparation when you plant, make sure they feel at home. And some people they plant them without anything on the north side of the house and that area states fairly moist and my coincidence of soil was pretty good in some cases too, So it is possible for them to grow in

our soil. Depending on what you know the builder put back over there and the moisture conditions and all that, it is possible. Test first, right, yeah, dig it up. See how how high you have to jump to get the shovel to go into the ground, and that'll tell you how to do the ground prep for hydranges. But typically we do a rather extensive preparation for those and get it loose so you can take your hand and do

that. Dig it out. Okay, So hydranges the plant that's really attractive, very nice, but not a really well suited for our climate unless you have the microclimate for them, some afternoon shade or midday to afternoon shade and maybe some good bright morning sun. So typically on the east side of the house they should do. Okay. Drainage is not much should be issue because they do like a lot of you know, a lot of water, but

the hydro part that much. They're not a swamp plant. The important thing of consistency of moisture, and to do that you add a rather significant layer mulch on the surface to put the flywheel effect on its dry wet cycles. Okay, So anyway, the blooms will start forming about the middle of April and blooms out to early June or so, and they will last until the end of June. Typically this year they seem to be offset a bit because of our odd spring. We had read relatively cool spring. Yeah, and

everything seems to be delayed a little bit. Even though hardy have biscuits are not blowing the crape myrtles there, they're just holding tight right now. I don't know what they're waiting for. Here is Jude, and they're not blooming yet, So you ready can't go on a on a calendar percent you just had to go and how other nature rules what the Earth is doing everyone.

That's when the Earth says it's ready. It's ready. I expect by the end of next week or so. Typically around the solstice is when they start to differentiate the initiation of crape myrtles blooming. It's a byproduct of the length of day. So that's coming up pretty soon. You should start seeing blooms on them pretty quick. All right, tell you what We're gonna take a quick break and we'll be right back with more of the Green Country Gardener Program

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Larry Glass. Our expert here is with us. I'm Tom. I just answer the phones and so one eight hundred and seven point nine five ninety three six will get you in contact with Lar I've seen some Japanese beetles around too. Oh really, yeah, actually they are. I've had some of my cannas, you know, canda plant, yeah, and some other plants too, huh and uh So we got to try to, you know, watch out for those. The beetle itself just eats a bunch of stuff, but

there's the larval stage and that's the big damage. Oh yeah, so the Japanese beetle, it's green, green, a shiny green beetle. I saw one on the window here for a little bit ago, so I know exactly. Yeah, and it's been a while, you know, they haven't been out here for quite some time, and now they're starting to make it a little bit of a comeback. So we're gonna, I guess, try to carry some milky's for which you put on the ground it and it kills the

larval stage of the Japanese beetle. But they can be kind of dangerous and eat a lot of stuff. Yeah, it's hungry, So we got to watch out for those and eat. An hour later, they're back at it. I've been getting texts from customers and say what do I do about this? And Spine's ad worked real well, it's a very safe insecticide. Spine's AD is a hey synthesis of spine's AD spins in A and spins in B. Yeah, you remember one of the two beat Yeah, And it's very

safety use I use it on my fruit trees and tomatoes and whatnot. And it's not toxic so to human. So not so much for the jampanie. How much is that beetle at the nursery. We have it in three forms. We have it in the concentrate. We have it in a concentrate with a hose in sprayer, which I really liked this one. I tried one out and it shoots way up over there, real high. You know, they get it up there, get up behind the tree and uh. And

it also has a spray pattern which sprays it out too. So there's a ways to control that. Jack beetles pretty well. So keep an eye out if it's a green bug. You know, you got you want to because they'll eat your planets. They really have an appetite for roses and canvas and things like that. So what happens with these populations. You know, they had a few a few years ago, a little bit more than next year. Well, where it's gonna go exponential, so they'll be be prepared for

that. Wow, invaded by the beetles. Invasion of the green beetles. They have a little intended to you anyway. Annual the week is Salbia. That's one of my favorite. They have a big song out. Didn't need the Japanese beetles. I want to eat your plant. I want to eat you. Never mind, those are the English beetles. I want to eat your plant. Okay, we're black and head a mop head, bad,

my bad, Yeah, whatever. Anyway, Annual salbia is a tender tropical perennial that is typically grown in warm weather as an annual bating plant here. When I say perennial in a tropical climate is that they persist for a long period of time. We definitely right now we're having tropical weather, but it freezes here so that they're not. The annual salbia is not a perennial here. So anyway, what a lack about them is they just blew them all

the time and they can tell the dryness pretty well. Do we have a call it? We sure do. Okay, we'll put them on. Good morning, and welcome to the Green Country. Gardener Program. Your question or comment for Larry, Yes, I've got who were talking about creat myrtle, I've got my create mertle. I can see the new growth coming up in the center. The old growth is an older stems on the outside. Should cut those about? Cut those off? Are there leaves on the older stems?

Yeah? No, okay, yeah, go ahead and cut the go ahead and what we call dead wooded like that? Yeah right, yeah, cut that down to words green huh definitely. Okay, So go ahead and cut those all out, just for a parent's sake. I think eventually it's just a fall off. But okay, but if the story is as big around as your little finger, then perhaps you do need to cut it back.

So yes, okay, so just trim those out then fill the new growth, would be so the new growth come up in the center, which is what's doing right now exactly you'll get if if if you don't have a whole lot of green leaves on it right now, you probably won't have much of a and so want it and if you do, it'll be later on. But yeah, it's gonna be later if it's not always looms late anyway, So it didn't do too much last year, but it looks like it's

really coming on strong this year. Yeah, well they do like the warm weather which we're having, and they can help. They can tolerate a pretty fair amount of draft tea, so especially the established ones. So yeah, go ahead and well this one's been there for a while, go ahead and dead wood it. It'll do just fine. Okay, Well, thank you very much. That's what I wanted to know. All right, thanks for calling. All right, and you can be the next caller at one eight

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we have going on now? Anyway? The salbia that's that's pretty well in our climate here, and it's available in several colors including white, salmon, purple, and of course bright red any anywhere. Heights from eight eight inches up to three feet tall, depending on the variety. The leaves are bright to dark cream and somewhat elliptical in shape. And uh, they have a

bit of a toothy marginal and the flower is typically on. The Salbia grow on spikes and are two lipped, don't they got They look kind of like, yeah, making a puppet with your head and uh, with a flat lower lip and a helmet shaped upper lip. What I like about these are hummingbirds. They love them. How long they do? Yeah, they really like it? Yeah so and how many? Uh So. It's a native to Brazil and it's cultivated as a summer, warm weather annual. And at

the nursery we have a bench dedicated to hummingbirds and butterflies. So the second one in as you go to the east door, one down, so as you can't miss for flowers for those. And you know a lot of times the butterfly flowers and things aren't the most attractive ones, but they really do like anyway, the salvia plant is characterized by a square stems. You remember the mint family, and it has a the stem is just like a four by four yeah, square kind of rictating Yeah, square stem that's kind of

across the board on the mint family, Shalbia and some one. So anyway, it's a really good plant. It likes an average or a rich or enriched soil. So what else is new? Yeah? And here everything better be. You fertilize it as needed if you will, you might put some ozma code in the ground when when planting them. That way they'll get the fertilizer whatever you want. And over a long season, the flowers will kind of drop and leave the kind of a ragged spike and you just kind of

snap it off there are. The stems are a little bit on the brittle side, so so if you fall fallen, it'll probably break. Yes, be careful, very careful, keep the dog away from anyway. When when when after the leaves expire, you want or flowers expirely, you want to cut it back a little bit on the stem so the new growth will come up and emerge and have more of stems on it too, got it. So you don't want to plant just one of these, just plant them in

groups and clusters that we have some flowers on them. Full sound. Just a tiny little bit of shade, especially in the afternoon. A little bit of afternoon shade might reduce stress on them, especially if your soil is heavy and it can't develop a good riot system. But anyway, so average who slightly dry soil, average meeting you know, you pick it up, it doesn't it feels moist to a little bit on the dry side. It teems to do pretty well. The larger varieties will have deeper roots and need less

water than say the dwarf, because it's a bigger plant. You're not going to get on a dwarf salve. You're not going to get giant roots on It's not like the other. So it's a summer annual and it might survive a light freeze, so come around Halloween it might be worth it to cover it. Typically we have a week before Halloween it's down like twenty seven degrees and then for like a month and every tree, yeah you get that one warning, you know. So so anyway, they're they're tender here. There

are some perennials salveets too. They're not quite as showy as the annual ones, but you do get some pretty flowers on them. They're prolific and durable bloomers. They are not bothered by pests, which is a good thing. The selected barriety is a species are not as attractive to hummingbirds as our most Salbia species, so the perennial salbias attract more of the hummingbirds. So that's

pretty cool. Salbi. It's good plants for our climate here too. And we talked a little bit about the hard harder hibiscuits in the back, but it's also called the rosemallow and it has the largest flower of any perennial. Really. Yeah, it's just big, huge makeup umbrella out of it. Yeah, but some of the hybrids may be up to a foot in diameter. Now, this is a bioproduct or the available resources too, So if you plant it in a hard play, they're not going to be a foot

they're not going to be that big. So you want to make sure they can develop a good root system so they can develop a really nice big flower on them. And we have one variety that's just red, just a good neutral red color, almost a ruby, kind of dark red maybe a little bit, but it's just red and fairly large flower and it blooms for a very long period of time. So that's what I like about These hardy hibiscuits hang around a while. So yeah. So anyway, botanically, these are

habitious mochetos. They are native to marshy areas of North America, native indigenous species, and sometimes Ago by the name malov. They're close relatives of the rows of sharon shrub, which is known as Hibiscus syriacus, and it's also related to cotton and okra. So there you go. So it should do well in Oklahoma, Okrid as well. Here. Yeah, very well, so you might. So you might consider it enough. You might consider the

tropical hibiscuits, which are indigenous to tropical areas. Give you some reliable blooms on someone, and maybe some of the hardy hibiscuits together with for some big tropical like booms on it. It's kind of an attractive shrub. Really. They do tend to can't get eaten by maybe some caterpillars or things here and there, so it keeps them beat handy, and it'll keep them unt of control fuzzy worms away. Yep. So anyway, they do like well drained

area. They like a good, rich, well prepared soil. The better the preparation, the bigger the roots, the better the blooms. The more of the blooms, and the bigger the booms. So prepare the soil real well. Don't just duck them into clay. Okay, roses right now, it's always time to trendy roses. Back to the first leaf with five leaflets on it. So you look at it, and the roads has a compound leaf, and when it develops five leaflets, you cut it just above that.

It's typically how far back he got them, Okay, about a eighth of an inch above the leaf petio and sort of angle it down away from it too. So anyway, right now, you want to spray for black spot, which hasn't been much of a problem. It's been kind of dry, so we haven't a bunch of a problem with black spot this year. And aphids and the kind of nasty little things. So let's keep a little spins ad and some fungicida some time. There's a lot of them out there,

handy for you if you have a lot of roses. One problem, one problem we've had with the roses lately, and let's see it's it's diminishing a little bit is Rosette's disease. And a lot of people they'll bring in pictures of their roses and just just a whole lot of thorns, closely associated thorns and distorted leaves and tiny little flowers are barely bloom. That's what we call rosettes. It's a virus that the roses typical typically get and it's spread

by a mic. I know we've talked about rosettes disease in the past, but there's really no cure for that. So once it gets in there, the virus is in the plant and it'll manifest itself on the new growth. So get another one, and cultural practices can kind of slow down the effectiveness of this or the incidents of this plant. Take of an area that mikes really don't like. That is, areas that don't have say like hot walls or a warm ground, or a hot vulture or sidewalks or something like that.

Mights really like the moist and wet, not moist, but hot climates, and the krobably their populations just they increase more than exponentially when when you get the spider minesert. They're very good at perpetuating themselves. So, but they do like a kind of a hot climate. So if you have an area where it's kind of hot and you want a girl something like a road,

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all right, we're back with the Green Country Gardener programma. We were during the commercial break, how you might have seen us trying to work the camera over across the street. They're demolishing a home and we got a feller with the bobcat and he's just having a dick until the time to break up the stairs necessarily as really heavy and submit the machine tips over a little bit. We're like digging bets will at your wonting just just pick it up and let's

drop in the middle of Frank Phillips Boulevard. It'll split in two. But anyway, traffic, you know, you know we're talking about the soil being a little rough around here, just across the street. It's wow, it's hard as a rock. You bet, you bet. Vegetables right now, Time to plant okra and still plants some beans right now. Look forward to tomato diseases. I had a customer call and they're having absolutely poor luck whatsoever growing tomatoes. And I said, what's your pH? He said about seven

point five. I said, oh my goodness, you need to lower that down about you know, six pH of six? Oh yeah, yeah, give it a chance. Tomatoes like a six point five pH slightly acidic for them to do well, and they don't. They won't grow in a highly alkaline soil. Also, as it as we go into the summer, you want to multch the surface. And I like to do that because it helps

prevent the splash of a soil borne bacteria getting on the leaves. Typically the leaves, the leaf spot they get is a bacterial leaf spot, and the funkisite won't work well. No, So we follow some cultural practices that help prevent that, and I've got some tomatoes in my back. I actually grew some tomatoes this year. I planted some orphans. I don't know what they were, and we get that now and that labels fall off or I don't know what it is. And they're doing very well. I put some cedar

molts on them there, popping out of the ground. I got a new batch of it in. I had to, you know, check it out, and yeah, cute. Yeah, but anyway, and it's got the layer about about a interest state of a seder molts. They're doing very well. Yeah, if finally they'll put off some tomatoes. So far, no fruit to me. Well, they're they're all there, but they're they're they're taking their own sweet time about getting ripe. So I'm growing on a on

the Jablinish cattle panel held up with tepots. And typically when we have lightning, the they really go. Yeah something about that metal and enlightening. The tomato is kind of light but I can't explain it. Okay, well, but they grow real well on something like that. So anyway, tomato is keep them up pretty well fertilized throughout here. Don't overdo it. Don't overdo the nitrogen. You might want to use something like maybe a ten twenty ten

or even some super phosphate. But typically our soil here is sufficient in fosphate and potassium, and so we don't have to do too much of that really, So if you do fertilize them, you get too much nitrogen on them, then you have a hard time producing flowers. They just grow too fast, so you might want to hold back on too much nitrogen fertilizer. Okay, So typically what's a resident in our soil is adequate for them to do

real well without too much fertilizer augmentation. I didn't fertilize them at all and doing just great good, so we used to. They grow a lot of them in the Ozark too. I remember around table Rock Lake when I was a kid, growing tomatoes everywhere, just really good climate. For God, these big giant tomatoes, you know, side your hand, and they were so tastes they're so good. Bet I haven't been there quite some time.

I still don't know. If you have tomato stands on the side of the road like to do back in the sixties, Maybe not as good, but I remember that. I remember those little stands in the well we stop and get some tomatos. Oh, they're the best and the tasty. They have a kind of a limestone soil out there, but it has kind of an orange tinge to it in the upper upper layers, and I think that has a lot to do with the flavor of the tomato and also indigenous oak species

over there. So naturally the tannic acid from the decomposition of the oak leaves and parts there candle lower the soil pH for a little while, but down low it will kind of high. So they that's probably why the tomatoes always did very well there. So anyway, tomatoes, good drainage. Let's sunshine, let's open air. Let'll do just fine. There you go, get get into the lawns now. I know the perimeter grass is finally starting to grow. Actually along the parkway at my house, which I don't know why

we had these little two foot white parkways. It's four feet white. I got one in front of my house too. And anyway, the grass completely died out last summer. It's coming back dead in another week. It looks golf course green. Now it'll be filled in. Yeah, it looks looking pretty good except for the some of the crab grass, but invasion. Yeah, I gotta get my call hammer and pull it out or put some Q on it. Q is otherwise known as quinclorac, and you can find that

in a sprays to control cry breasts. And it's getting too late to control it with a poster emergent control, so you want to get after it. If you do have some cry breasts in your and do some spot applications of the queue and it should get it under control. And when we mean spot, we mean right on it right Well, yeah, yeah, you don't

want to kill everything. Well, it's gonna be kind of hot and it'll set back to your permuter grass a little bit, so you do kind of a if you do a general application, then can cause some damages at the permun grass. There was a house where they spread the queue and their stuff and for about two weeks you had all these dead, little, odd little shapes in it. But it came back. Okay, So the permunic grass won't kill it. It'll come back. It'll bruise it. I guess that's

a good word. And it's a rain fast you know pretty soon, I mean it'll for what rain we're going to get in the morning. I'm holding you guys that we could use the rain. So yeah, we could, because I'm gonna fertilize my grass too. And if it doesn't rain, y'all are in trouble. It'll be just like that one Sunday a few years ago where you had to get out of your car before you would hang on. It'll stop. You gotta take care of this stop right at the county line.

Also in your in your lawns and bermuda grass lawns, it's time to take it up a notch tab. And as it gets hotter like that, you need more surface area to or transpire so the plant itself doesn't become hot and stress out. It also helps encourage deeper riots if you have a more of a top onet it two so, so raise it up a little bit. Fescue grass should be at its high point right now, about two inches

tall. And you don't want to fertilize your fescue right now. Just let it go Statisico right now, and then in late August said to me, you can start fertilizing it. And actually you can start planting fescue seed in late August early September two. Typically typically I haven't seen a typical year since I've lived here. There's nothing typical about our weather or No. The only thing you're predictable, said, when's it going to be normal? Said?

Hang on. The only thing predictable here is the unpredictable. So anyway, most lines right now, I can remove two and a half to three inches on the fetch your grass PERMU to grass maybe an inch and a half two inches or so. And you calibrate this by putting your mower on the driveway and then I'm measuring the distance between the ground and the blade, and that'll kind of tell you how high it is, so probably inch and a half two inches or so they're being to grass at this point. It also lets

you balance level of blade too. Sometimes you find that the blade is not level. I found that Rocky hit with the more which one. So if your blade is kind of bent, then then you pick the lower number as your height and remove. I was just slowing my grass last week and the engine started sputtering a little bit. Put it up on the truck and dismantle the carburetor. It was dirty, cleaned it out. It started to write up with the first pole. Yeah, so let's take a break. We'll

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ninety three point three and ninety five point one FM. And welcome back to the Green Country Gardener Program, Idiots eight fifty six. Our phone lines are open into one eight up, been seven four nine three six h Larry, what we got going on here? Man? We were talking about the lawns and it's time to make sure the the height is said. Okay, okay. And on herbicides, there's typically two classifications of herbicides for your lawn.

One is called a pre emergent herbicide, and that stops the seeds from sprouting. It arrests the germination process. They will sprout, but then they sort of quit. And then there's post emergent herbicide, which controls the kills the plants afterwards too. And the pre emergent urbicides are somewhat non selective, but the post emergence can be selective. Actually, there's a quin Quinn chlorac, which will wipe out the crab grass. Uh, while it's still growing in

before blooms, after after sets blooms on it. Yes, what flowers on the crabgrass? What? No? That that why they do have them. But they're real small. Okay, if they had big flowers on it, everybody'll be growing. It be so easy to grow anyway, excuse me, goodness. But it once it gets fairly mature, it's more difficult to control with the quinclorac. So this um, we're not getting to our last time when it can be controlled with it, and after that get up the claw

hammer and pull it up. But but crab rats can be a little bit of a tough one too. Well boy, so as it gets older like that, it's more difficult to control and to pull up. So so I think it's just to be like your last chance to do it this week or only you. Yeah, So anyway, it's uh, it's a more of

a problem in warmer climates. You know, it sort of starts kind of close to the curb and then it comes worked this way to the yard because because it sprouts in warmer climates, it doesn't really like to cool that much. But if you're in a situation where you don't have anything else, well, yeah, so what there you go, and you can use the pre emergent on it early in the spring. Pro dimine is a good one to use for that, and it's also in the fall to control the dendelions and

chickweed and d bit and all the other stuff too. So the prodymine is sort of a non selective pre emergent herbit side. So if you missed the boat on that will you missed the boat, you got cry There's you're done. A post emergent will only go so far. Now you can do spot applications where you actually take a cardboard tube or a little pieces piece of pipe as a shield and a little bit of round up on that on the middle

of the cry grass plant. It'll kill it out and then bringing the grasp will sort of fill in around it too, So so there's other ways to control it. I got it's very important to use a shield like that if you're going to use a non selective rubber type. Anyway to come by the nursery check it out. We've got a great selection of annuals. Still this beautiful color right now, and the perenials are coming. And check out those Hardhu biscuits. Put them in the garden somewhere where they can get real big

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