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Speaker 1: All right, back at it you go. You're at home

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Speaker 1: with Gary Sullivan. A big part of our curb appeal

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Speaker 1: to our homes, which we're all striving for. We're looking

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Speaker 1: for our home to look good. But where does I

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Speaker 1: go first? Usually do the outside, the landscaping beds of

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Speaker 1: the yard. And that's why I say, well, that's garden

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Speaker 1: with Scott Berline. Hey, Scott, how are you?

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Speaker 2: I'm good. How are you doing this morning?

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Speaker 1: Doing wonderful? I did cut my grass. Yeah, everything got

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Speaker 1: real green in a hurry, in a hurry. That's about

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Speaker 1: as early as I've seen it in our area turn green.

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Speaker 1: Like it didn't.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and you know, the really hard cold we got

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Speaker 3: Tuesday didn't seem to affect it much.

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Speaker 2: It's still looking good.

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Speaker 1: If it could just slow it down for a day,

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Speaker 1: because I know within two weeks I'm going to be complaining.

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Speaker 1: I'm cutting that grass like every four days now.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and it's high each time. Yeah, it's that time

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Speaker 3: of year for sure.

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Speaker 1: I guess a lot of people too. Once you get

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Speaker 1: a couple of days in the seventies, man, I'm telling you,

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Speaker 1: you get spring fever. Yes, you get all fired up.

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Speaker 1: You want to trim bushes, you want to spread malt,

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Speaker 1: you want to cut grass, you want to edge the bed,

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Speaker 1: you want to rake out the leaves. That's true, That

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Speaker 1: all has to happen.

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Speaker 2: I guess, yeah, it really does. It's still early.

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Speaker 3: You know, we've got, you know what, a month and

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Speaker 3: a half still before Mother's Day, right, you know, But

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Speaker 3: I mean you want to it comes so fast. Mother's

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Speaker 3: Day isn't the beginning of the of the gardening year.

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Speaker 3: It's just a sort of designated poster child at the

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Speaker 3: beginning of the garden year.

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Speaker 1: Is there anything I mean, does it hurt to start early?

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Speaker 1: I guess you want to get the leaves out of

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Speaker 1: the yeah, bushes and get them breathing. I don't know.

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Speaker 1: There's some look better.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a fine line, because you want to get

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Speaker 3: the spent stems from your perennials out. You want to

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Speaker 3: get the leaves looking. You know, your bed's looking good

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Speaker 3: and not sloppy with a bunch of old leaves in there.

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Speaker 3: But that's also pollinator habitat, so you kind of have

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Speaker 3: to balance one against the other. How long you can

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Speaker 3: take it looking like it does versus you know, giving

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Speaker 3: time for the pollinators to escape that that debris and

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Speaker 3: and and come out in the springtime.

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Speaker 1: So that's where they're hiding a lot of them.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, there's they're they're living in spent perennial stems or

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Speaker 3: in the leaves.

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Speaker 3: You know it's you can just move those things. You

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Speaker 3: can cut the stems off, move them to the back

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Speaker 3: of the garden somewhere, let them just sort of play out,

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Speaker 3: you know, till Mother's Day or so, and and then

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Speaker 3: you can compost them or do what you do with them.

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Speaker 3: Same with the leaves. Uh, and and that with leeves.

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Speaker 3: I'll tell you I was out there last week when

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Speaker 3: it got nice and uh. I I like to leave

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Speaker 3: as much organic matter out there as I can, especially leaves.

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Speaker 3: But we had, you know, that early winter, and the

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Speaker 3: leaves fell after I was thought I was pretty much

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Speaker 3: done a lot.

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Speaker 1: I did the same thing.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, And they were matted down an inch or so thick,

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Speaker 3: creating completely anaerobic conditions and the soil beneath and you

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Speaker 3: Certainlys are notorious for it, Maple's, Ginko's oaks and things

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Speaker 3: stay fluffyer and not as much of a problem. But

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Speaker 3: when you get out there and you look at this

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Speaker 3: flat layer of matt, yeah, cold and just holding all

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Speaker 2: Right, Yeah, that's not a good thing.

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Speaker 1: I'll tell you. It was a couple of weeks ago

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Speaker 1: is when I did get the blower out and they

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Speaker 1: rake and even Heffna really worked to get that matted

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Speaker 3: You know, if you get lucky with the blower, they

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Speaker 3: But yeah, when you're when you're just raking them out,

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Speaker 3: And yeah, they's they're cold and wet and you don't

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Speaker 1: Well I got those up, and then we had that

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Speaker 1: big wind that blew all the fluffy leaves back up

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Speaker 1: do a little bit of clean up. How about folks

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Speaker 1: that have some of the ornate grasses, the wild grasses

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Speaker 1: and things. I can show you the cuts on my

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Speaker 3: Yeah, they can be very sharp. And you know there's

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Speaker 3: different philosophies on that as well. I like, I like

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Speaker 3: to remove the stems now before the new growth comes in,

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Speaker 3: because afterwards it gets so much more difficult. I think

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Speaker 3: I missed my chance to burn. I don't know what

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Speaker 3: the codes are, what the law is, but to set

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Speaker 1: If it's it's hard to do a right around your house.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you don't want to do it right up against

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Speaker 3: the house. But so yeah, there's as just a period

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Speaker 3: of time where that you can kind of get away

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Speaker 3: with that. But no, you want to cut those back.

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Speaker 3: You cut if you've already got new growth. You want

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Speaker 3: to cut just above the new growth.

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Speaker 1: Right right? Yeah, Well I did it. Usually put the

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Speaker 1: fire pit to good work. The other day I got

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Speaker 1: a couple white pines, and I've got these pine cones

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Speaker 1: that are about eight inches long. Yes, it looks like

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Speaker 1: a hot dog bun. And man, they were all over

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Speaker 1: and pick those up, and those spurn pretty good.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, anything to do with the pine tree usually burns

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Speaker 3: I think this is the reason, really, the main reason

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Speaker 3: for people to have fire beds. It's this time a

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Speaker 3: year to burn this stuff away. But yeah, they're nice again,

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Speaker 3: you know, once in a while they have friends around

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Speaker 3: to get rid of all the twigs and branches.

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Speaker 1: And boy, a lot of branches out this year too.

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Speaker 1: The wind we've had.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it was pretty extreme.

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Speaker 1: So I guess from those kind of projects that we

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Speaker 1: just spoke of, it's not too early. You can get

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's the hard part.

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Speaker 3: You know, maybe if you have a lot of annual

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Speaker 2: They're coming on so fast.

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Speaker 1: Boy, it never ends. Thanks for join us. Those are

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Speaker 1: great tips. Thanks Scott, You're welcome here. All right. That's

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Speaker 1: Scott Berline his show Let's Garden with Scott Berlin. How

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