1 00:00:03,000 --> 00:00:05,560 Speaker 1: You're listening to Bob Danam in the garden this. 2 00:00:06,200 --> 00:00:09,040 Speaker 2: Years ago and here we are. Okay, So I would 3 00:00:09,119 --> 00:00:12,639 Speaker 2: like to welcome everybody to call in with their gardening 4 00:00:12,720 --> 00:00:16,120 Speaker 2: questions because we're we don't have a guest this morning, 5 00:00:16,120 --> 00:00:19,440 Speaker 2: and I'm working on getting the Davy's tree. But everybody's 6 00:00:19,480 --> 00:00:22,959 Speaker 2: busy at spring. Guess what first day of spring. Welcome, Welcome, 7 00:00:23,079 --> 00:00:26,080 Speaker 2: first day of spring. Yeah, so there are all sorts 8 00:00:26,120 --> 00:00:28,760 Speaker 2: of questions. I'm sure about the heat wave that we 9 00:00:28,960 --> 00:00:33,200 Speaker 2: just had and now we're cooling down again. How cool 10 00:00:33,280 --> 00:00:36,760 Speaker 2: we will get we will find out, right, So if 11 00:00:36,760 --> 00:00:39,400 Speaker 2: you do have gardening questions, my lines are open at 12 00:00:39,479 --> 00:00:43,080 Speaker 2: eight eight five six zero zero. That is four one 13 00:00:43,159 --> 00:00:48,000 Speaker 2: five area code. Eighth eight five six zero zero. There 14 00:00:48,000 --> 00:00:50,839 Speaker 2: we go, four one five area code. Don't forget the 15 00:00:50,880 --> 00:00:55,040 Speaker 2: four one five and let me know if you're able 16 00:00:55,080 --> 00:00:58,200 Speaker 2: to get through. And during the week, you know, if 17 00:00:58,240 --> 00:01:00,440 Speaker 2: you do come up with questions, and and I know 18 00:01:00,520 --> 00:01:05,280 Speaker 2: people have found my emails from the website Bob Tannem 19 00:01:05,319 --> 00:01:10,120 Speaker 2: dot com. That's Bob Bob Tannem. T isn't Tom A 20 00:01:10,560 --> 00:01:13,560 Speaker 2: m is in Nancy e em Is and Mary. That's 21 00:01:13,600 --> 00:01:18,160 Speaker 2: the Tannem way to sit Bell, tannem good old Tom, 22 00:01:18,240 --> 00:01:20,360 Speaker 2: and Nancy and Mary. They're all in there with the 23 00:01:20,440 --> 00:01:26,160 Speaker 2: vowels anyway, a very unique name. If you run across one, 24 00:01:26,360 --> 00:01:30,840 Speaker 2: they're probably related. Uh yeah, that's the way it goes. 25 00:01:31,640 --> 00:01:33,960 Speaker 2: So that would be four one, five eight eight five 26 00:01:34,040 --> 00:01:37,360 Speaker 2: six zero zero four questions on gardening. So what's going 27 00:01:37,400 --> 00:01:40,440 Speaker 2: on in my world? Let's see here, we're getting ready 28 00:01:40,480 --> 00:01:43,479 Speaker 2: for Easter that'll be coming up, and I've got some 29 00:01:43,520 --> 00:01:47,680 Speaker 2: cousins coming and we try to do this every year 30 00:01:47,760 --> 00:01:54,120 Speaker 2: to hold up the tradition that we started way back when, gosh, 31 00:01:54,720 --> 00:01:57,760 Speaker 2: way back when. Let's say the first Easter for my 32 00:01:57,960 --> 00:02:00,720 Speaker 2: it was always my mom's side of the family, and 33 00:02:02,160 --> 00:02:05,400 Speaker 2: the first Easter was in Berkeley. The first many Easters 34 00:02:05,400 --> 00:02:08,280 Speaker 2: were in Berkeley at my grandma and grandpa's house. And 35 00:02:08,720 --> 00:02:11,600 Speaker 2: actually it's not really Berkeley. What is that Albany is 36 00:02:11,760 --> 00:02:16,519 Speaker 2: I guess where it really is on Marin anyway, a 37 00:02:16,639 --> 00:02:20,760 Speaker 2: nice old shingled house to three stories, I don't know, 38 00:02:20,800 --> 00:02:24,600 Speaker 2: garage off to the side. I got pictures of it 39 00:02:24,960 --> 00:02:28,840 Speaker 2: through the times. But anyway, the point was that we 40 00:02:28,880 --> 00:02:32,200 Speaker 2: would look for easter eggs there and then we would 41 00:02:32,240 --> 00:02:34,519 Speaker 2: find out what the latest handy downs for the next 42 00:02:34,520 --> 00:02:37,760 Speaker 2: door neighbors were for clothes for girls because their girls 43 00:02:37,760 --> 00:02:40,400 Speaker 2: were older than my sister and I. So we'd end 44 00:02:40,480 --> 00:02:42,440 Speaker 2: up with hand me downs and had a great time. 45 00:02:44,160 --> 00:02:46,080 Speaker 2: And my sister reminded me of that the other day. 46 00:02:46,120 --> 00:02:47,600 Speaker 2: It was kind of funny. It's like we went to 47 00:02:48,200 --> 00:02:51,560 Speaker 2: we went to a celebration of life for my cousin 48 00:02:52,120 --> 00:02:56,959 Speaker 2: in law, and you know, the dress I wore was 49 00:02:57,000 --> 00:02:58,959 Speaker 2: the first time I ever wore it and even had 50 00:02:59,200 --> 00:03:01,400 Speaker 2: a tag on it still, but it was a hand 51 00:03:01,400 --> 00:03:04,000 Speaker 2: me down. It was from a sack of clothes that 52 00:03:04,080 --> 00:03:06,880 Speaker 2: my work partner had given me that she couldn't wear, 53 00:03:07,480 --> 00:03:10,280 Speaker 2: and I found that it worked very nicely on me. 54 00:03:11,040 --> 00:03:13,320 Speaker 2: And you know, I told my sister, she goes, where'd 55 00:03:13,320 --> 00:03:15,320 Speaker 2: you get the dress? And I'm like, hand me down 56 00:03:15,400 --> 00:03:18,799 Speaker 2: in a bag. She goes, Oh, hand me downs are 57 00:03:18,800 --> 00:03:21,840 Speaker 2: the best anyway. So that's how my sister and I 58 00:03:21,840 --> 00:03:27,320 Speaker 2: grew up. Never say no, And so that was kind 59 00:03:27,320 --> 00:03:29,800 Speaker 2: of fun. And where was I going with that? 60 00:03:29,919 --> 00:03:30,040 Speaker 3: Oh? 61 00:03:30,080 --> 00:03:33,760 Speaker 2: So we had Easter there and then we always had 62 00:03:33,800 --> 00:03:37,720 Speaker 2: it with our cousins and sometimes more cousins, sometimes less cousins, 63 00:03:37,760 --> 00:03:42,520 Speaker 2: depending And then the following years after my grandparents passed away. 64 00:03:42,800 --> 00:03:45,080 Speaker 2: Then it was at my mom and dad's in Santra 65 00:03:45,160 --> 00:03:49,400 Speaker 2: Fell at the nursery. We didn't hide eggs in the nursery, 66 00:03:49,560 --> 00:03:53,119 Speaker 2: and we weren't that cruel. My mom and dad would 67 00:03:53,200 --> 00:03:56,320 Speaker 2: hide the eggs, I'm sorry. The easter bunny would hide 68 00:03:56,320 --> 00:03:58,480 Speaker 2: the eggs all the way around the top of the 69 00:03:58,560 --> 00:04:01,800 Speaker 2: hill and to all sorts of interesting nooks and crannies. 70 00:04:01,800 --> 00:04:04,680 Speaker 2: And that place was just full of nooks and crannies, 71 00:04:04,720 --> 00:04:08,400 Speaker 2: you know. I mean there was always deciduous trees, which 72 00:04:08,400 --> 00:04:11,480 Speaker 2: are the best places to hide, right to hide the eggs, 73 00:04:11,520 --> 00:04:16,839 Speaker 2: which were you know, under the decomposing. It's not like 74 00:04:16,880 --> 00:04:20,599 Speaker 2: we came out clean any easter, oh my gosh. And 75 00:04:20,640 --> 00:04:23,320 Speaker 2: then there's just pots and stuff that were always lying 76 00:04:23,400 --> 00:04:27,880 Speaker 2: around from some tranceplant or something. And then you know 77 00:04:27,920 --> 00:04:30,960 Speaker 2: that they would always hide in the pots or hide 78 00:04:31,040 --> 00:04:34,880 Speaker 2: in this, and hide in that, and not really inside 79 00:04:34,920 --> 00:04:37,200 Speaker 2: the garage. That would have been a messy situation. No 80 00:04:37,200 --> 00:04:39,919 Speaker 2: one would have found them, but you know, on the 81 00:04:40,040 --> 00:04:42,919 Speaker 2: edge of the garage and all sorts of different areas. 82 00:04:43,160 --> 00:04:45,400 Speaker 2: So it was really fun. I mean, we had lots 83 00:04:45,440 --> 00:04:49,680 Speaker 2: of fun every year. And then at around two thousand 84 00:04:49,800 --> 00:04:52,159 Speaker 2: is when my parents moved here and then we have 85 00:04:52,240 --> 00:04:54,840 Speaker 2: this generation thing. Right in two thousand and three is 86 00:04:54,839 --> 00:04:58,359 Speaker 2: when my son was born, so he was one of 87 00:04:58,400 --> 00:05:02,640 Speaker 2: the searchers. We had some extended family that had some 88 00:05:03,240 --> 00:05:05,960 Speaker 2: kids too, but it was harder because my son was 89 00:05:06,000 --> 00:05:08,719 Speaker 2: pretty much the only cousin of that age, so he 90 00:05:08,839 --> 00:05:11,839 Speaker 2: was the only one searching a couple of years. But 91 00:05:12,040 --> 00:05:13,880 Speaker 2: that was fun and he enjoyed it and he's got 92 00:05:13,920 --> 00:05:16,800 Speaker 2: good memories and that's the point. So that's why we 93 00:05:16,960 --> 00:05:20,280 Speaker 2: kept the tradition going. Now, of course it's mostly adults, 94 00:05:20,320 --> 00:05:25,520 Speaker 2: even my son as an adult, and we hide We 95 00:05:25,680 --> 00:05:28,640 Speaker 2: just put the what do you call it, scratchers, and 96 00:05:28,720 --> 00:05:31,360 Speaker 2: we get a whole bunch of scratchers and put them 97 00:05:31,360 --> 00:05:34,200 Speaker 2: in those plastic eggs and hide them all the way 98 00:05:34,240 --> 00:05:37,480 Speaker 2: around the mobile home here. So keep the duratition up. 99 00:05:37,680 --> 00:05:39,479 Speaker 2: Got to keep the tradition up. So that's what we 100 00:05:39,560 --> 00:05:42,200 Speaker 2: do for Easter. I hope you have some Easter plans. 101 00:05:42,800 --> 00:05:44,960 Speaker 2: If you want to call in and tell us about it, 102 00:05:45,000 --> 00:05:47,480 Speaker 2: don't be shy. It's really not that big of a deal. 103 00:05:47,600 --> 00:05:51,000 Speaker 2: You just call in and say, hey, just talk to me, 104 00:05:51,400 --> 00:05:55,200 Speaker 2: keep me company. That's four point five eight eight five 105 00:05:55,279 --> 00:05:59,200 Speaker 2: six zero zero. So all of the repotting for Bonzai 106 00:05:59,320 --> 00:06:01,960 Speaker 2: should be done by now, just so you know what 107 00:06:02,000 --> 00:06:06,159 Speaker 2: the schedule is. And that means. That also means that 108 00:06:06,360 --> 00:06:11,520 Speaker 2: the repotting that you might have planned ahead, like for 109 00:06:12,160 --> 00:06:15,240 Speaker 2: deciduous trees, they should be done. You know, when those 110 00:06:15,320 --> 00:06:17,200 Speaker 2: trees start to leave out, they should have been in 111 00:06:17,240 --> 00:06:21,599 Speaker 2: that new soil at the same time. So any repotting 112 00:06:21,640 --> 00:06:23,880 Speaker 2: that you might have planned on doing during the winter, 113 00:06:25,080 --> 00:06:27,080 Speaker 2: try to do it in the middle of summer now, 114 00:06:27,160 --> 00:06:29,599 Speaker 2: so that would be the next time that the trees 115 00:06:29,600 --> 00:06:32,840 Speaker 2: are resting enough so that you're not going to disturb 116 00:06:32,920 --> 00:06:38,280 Speaker 2: that spring growth, especially Japanese maples, any sort of deciduous trees, 117 00:06:38,279 --> 00:06:41,120 Speaker 2: all the fruit trees, they all have to have been 118 00:06:41,200 --> 00:06:43,920 Speaker 2: repotted by now. And of course the one exception would 119 00:06:43,920 --> 00:06:47,120 Speaker 2: be the evergreen fruit trees, and that would mostly be citrus. 120 00:06:48,080 --> 00:06:50,400 Speaker 2: So now is the time you can repot your citrus 121 00:06:50,400 --> 00:06:53,920 Speaker 2: even though they're flowering. Keep that in mind though, when 122 00:06:53,920 --> 00:06:56,360 Speaker 2: you're repotting, because you do not want a whole lot 123 00:06:56,400 --> 00:07:00,960 Speaker 2: of big adjustments because they could lose their fruit for 124 00:07:01,040 --> 00:07:04,520 Speaker 2: the following year. So it's kind of a a little 125 00:07:04,680 --> 00:07:07,400 Speaker 2: little bit of a thing going on there, you know, 126 00:07:07,480 --> 00:07:09,440 Speaker 2: and with the heat spell that we just had, I 127 00:07:09,440 --> 00:07:13,480 Speaker 2: hope you had enough water on your trees, because there 128 00:07:13,560 --> 00:07:18,920 Speaker 2: was no water in most situations, especially in pots in 129 00:07:18,960 --> 00:07:21,560 Speaker 2: the ground. There might have been just a residue from 130 00:07:21,560 --> 00:07:24,880 Speaker 2: that last rainstorm. I've noticed that just a little bit, 131 00:07:24,960 --> 00:07:28,280 Speaker 2: but most of the soil is dry, and especially if 132 00:07:28,320 --> 00:07:31,600 Speaker 2: there was any type of raised bed that the trees 133 00:07:31,600 --> 00:07:35,040 Speaker 2: were in or anything else where, there could have been 134 00:07:35,080 --> 00:07:38,560 Speaker 2: some other kind of settling of soil. And it's dry now, 135 00:07:38,600 --> 00:07:41,720 Speaker 2: it's powdery. That could be a very big sign that 136 00:07:42,240 --> 00:07:45,160 Speaker 2: the trees could could dry out too quickly with that 137 00:07:45,240 --> 00:07:47,720 Speaker 2: heat that we just had. So I hope that didn't 138 00:07:47,760 --> 00:07:49,840 Speaker 2: happen to you, And I hope you don't come out 139 00:07:49,880 --> 00:07:52,320 Speaker 2: one day and see all the trees, you know, dropped 140 00:07:52,320 --> 00:07:55,680 Speaker 2: all the leaves when it's spring. That that is a 141 00:07:55,720 --> 00:07:58,360 Speaker 2: good indication that you might not get that tree back. 142 00:07:58,800 --> 00:08:03,160 Speaker 2: Good indication, but not always a death sentence. You know. 143 00:08:03,360 --> 00:08:06,480 Speaker 2: Sometimes you just have to be very very patient and 144 00:08:06,680 --> 00:08:11,000 Speaker 2: continue to keep moisture on there but not overwater. And 145 00:08:11,800 --> 00:08:14,200 Speaker 2: you know, there's that fine line of too much and 146 00:08:14,240 --> 00:08:18,520 Speaker 2: not enough. But if it wasn't enough it dropped its leaves, 147 00:08:18,760 --> 00:08:22,640 Speaker 2: that would be that would be pretty much classic during 148 00:08:22,640 --> 00:08:25,160 Speaker 2: the heat sprowl. If you're a tree lost a whole 149 00:08:25,200 --> 00:08:28,120 Speaker 2: lot of leaves, it didn't get enough water to sustain 150 00:08:28,160 --> 00:08:30,480 Speaker 2: it or put on new growth. If you do see 151 00:08:30,520 --> 00:08:34,120 Speaker 2: new growth at the same time you see the dropped foliage, 152 00:08:34,480 --> 00:08:37,079 Speaker 2: you should be okay. But you won't really get that 153 00:08:37,280 --> 00:08:41,120 Speaker 2: to come back until June. And so that's a real 154 00:08:41,240 --> 00:08:45,280 Speaker 2: big thing to keep in mind, A really important thing 155 00:08:45,280 --> 00:08:47,559 Speaker 2: to keep in mind. Not to toss the tree unless 156 00:08:47,640 --> 00:08:51,960 Speaker 2: there's absolutely no greenery on it and no green you know, 157 00:08:52,080 --> 00:08:56,560 Speaker 2: like you can get a black Yeah, I do a 158 00:08:56,600 --> 00:09:03,719 Speaker 2: black trunk main trunk on a Japanese maple. And if 159 00:09:03,720 --> 00:09:07,199 Speaker 2: it's black and it's all the way around, it's definitely 160 00:09:07,200 --> 00:09:09,360 Speaker 2: not going to come back. So if it doesn't have 161 00:09:09,400 --> 00:09:12,120 Speaker 2: any leaves on it now and it has a dark 162 00:09:12,800 --> 00:09:19,400 Speaker 2: black drunk, it's definitely well, I would say it's very definitely, 163 00:09:19,440 --> 00:09:23,880 Speaker 2: probably very dead. Unfortunately, I have one that did demise, 164 00:09:24,000 --> 00:09:27,280 Speaker 2: and all the rest of them around it are doing well, 165 00:09:27,400 --> 00:09:31,880 Speaker 2: so I just can't BONSI that one. There's nothing left 166 00:09:32,160 --> 00:09:33,600 Speaker 2: on that one. That one died all the way down 167 00:09:33,640 --> 00:09:37,320 Speaker 2: to the ground. Yeah, So you know, you kind of 168 00:09:37,559 --> 00:09:41,280 Speaker 2: get some and you gain it and lose it in 169 00:09:41,360 --> 00:09:43,880 Speaker 2: a lot of circumstances in the garden, and hopefully you 170 00:09:44,120 --> 00:09:47,000 Speaker 2: gain more than you lose, and then hopefully there's a 171 00:09:47,000 --> 00:09:49,720 Speaker 2: flower beside it that just happened to be there that's 172 00:09:49,760 --> 00:09:53,400 Speaker 2: making you happy instead. So I hope that's the situation 173 00:09:53,559 --> 00:09:55,960 Speaker 2: in your yard. But yeah, that heat spell was a 174 00:09:56,000 --> 00:10:00,360 Speaker 2: little bit much. I think that would be enough heat 175 00:10:00,360 --> 00:10:02,880 Speaker 2: to finish up your camellias. I don't know if you 176 00:10:02,920 --> 00:10:06,320 Speaker 2: had any camellias in your garden, the bloom will just 177 00:10:06,360 --> 00:10:08,240 Speaker 2: pop all of a sudden and just go okay, that 178 00:10:08,400 --> 00:10:13,560 Speaker 2: was enough, and hopefully didn't wilt in the meantime, but 179 00:10:13,720 --> 00:10:16,400 Speaker 2: they would hurry up with their blossom. I don't know 180 00:10:16,440 --> 00:10:19,840 Speaker 2: if that affected rhododendrons. You gotta be careful with them 181 00:10:19,880 --> 00:10:24,920 Speaker 2: as well. They are very sensitive to that heat. So 182 00:10:25,080 --> 00:10:28,079 Speaker 2: it's something to keep in mind, all right. So we're 183 00:10:28,080 --> 00:10:30,199 Speaker 2: gonna go ahead and take our first break of the morning, 184 00:10:30,760 --> 00:10:34,199 Speaker 2: and that will let you get a little settled and 185 00:10:34,240 --> 00:10:36,760 Speaker 2: maybe give me a call of what's going on in 186 00:10:36,760 --> 00:10:39,079 Speaker 2: your garden. I'd love to find out about any events 187 00:10:39,160 --> 00:10:42,440 Speaker 2: that you know about, et cetera. So four one, five, eight, eight, 188 00:10:42,679 --> 00:10:46,840 Speaker 2: five six zero zero talked to me, talk to me. 189 00:10:47,000 --> 00:10:49,079 Speaker 2: It's Sunday morning. Talk to you in a minute. 190 00:10:49,320 --> 00:10:52,040 Speaker 1: You're listening to Bob Tannem in the Garden on Talk 191 00:10:52,160 --> 00:10:55,120 Speaker 1: radio five sixty ks it Welcome back. 192 00:10:55,000 --> 00:10:57,440 Speaker 2: To Bob Tannem in the Garden with Edy Tanhem. And 193 00:10:57,559 --> 00:10:59,720 Speaker 2: we do have a call from Greg in San Francisco. 194 00:10:59,800 --> 00:11:01,559 Speaker 2: Good morning, Greg, How are. 195 00:11:01,559 --> 00:11:03,440 Speaker 4: You today, Good morning, Good morning. 196 00:11:03,760 --> 00:11:04,920 Speaker 3: I'm new. 197 00:11:06,320 --> 00:11:08,400 Speaker 2: I'm okay, okay, healthy, okay. 198 00:11:10,320 --> 00:11:10,560 Speaker 3: Yeah. 199 00:11:10,679 --> 00:11:11,200 Speaker 5: I have. 200 00:11:12,720 --> 00:11:15,120 Speaker 3: A desire to get rid of a flowering plumb tree 201 00:11:15,160 --> 00:11:19,960 Speaker 3: in our backyard because it's just over over throwing, I guess. 202 00:11:19,960 --> 00:11:24,840 Speaker 3: And it's it's covering, it's taking up a lot of shade, 203 00:11:25,679 --> 00:11:29,200 Speaker 3: a lot of summer, should say. And I'm thinking of 204 00:11:29,240 --> 00:11:33,719 Speaker 3: putting an apple tree in. And I was thinking of 205 00:11:33,760 --> 00:11:37,640 Speaker 3: buying like a five gallon size apple tree, and I'm 206 00:11:37,679 --> 00:11:40,200 Speaker 3: just wondering it's too late. And also what kind of 207 00:11:40,240 --> 00:11:46,479 Speaker 3: apple tree would do well in San Francisco. 208 00:11:47,760 --> 00:11:48,880 Speaker 4: I don't really care about them. 209 00:11:49,000 --> 00:11:54,679 Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, sure, yeah, they grow well in San Francisco. 210 00:11:54,760 --> 00:11:58,280 Speaker 2: Just keep in mind that if they do encounter shade 211 00:11:59,120 --> 00:12:02,360 Speaker 2: from other very large trees in the area, or if 212 00:12:02,360 --> 00:12:05,640 Speaker 2: you're in the fog belt of San Francisco, it may 213 00:12:05,679 --> 00:12:08,440 Speaker 2: not do as well as it would if it was 214 00:12:08,760 --> 00:12:10,520 Speaker 2: you know, in the mission so to speak, where there's 215 00:12:10,520 --> 00:12:15,560 Speaker 2: more sun, but you should should be okay if you 216 00:12:15,600 --> 00:12:18,840 Speaker 2: do have as much sun as possible with pretty much anything. 217 00:12:18,840 --> 00:12:21,960 Speaker 2: I mean, the the edible apples are good, you know, 218 00:12:22,040 --> 00:12:26,440 Speaker 2: the fuji, I think the green apples need more sun, 219 00:12:26,600 --> 00:12:29,199 Speaker 2: so any of that family would probably not do as well. 220 00:12:29,679 --> 00:12:32,160 Speaker 2: But I think those in betweeners, but none of the 221 00:12:32,200 --> 00:12:34,480 Speaker 2: real fancy ones I think those would be picky as well. 222 00:12:35,120 --> 00:12:37,920 Speaker 2: So something that's an old fashioned like a fuji would 223 00:12:38,240 --> 00:12:42,840 Speaker 2: would be my first choice. I don't think a real 224 00:12:42,920 --> 00:12:47,319 Speaker 2: red red red apple would work. Golden would work. Golden 225 00:12:47,360 --> 00:12:49,360 Speaker 2: I don't know why, but golden should work. So it 226 00:12:49,400 --> 00:12:54,480 Speaker 2: depends on what your what your appetite wants. So they 227 00:12:54,600 --> 00:12:59,760 Speaker 2: also can get large, but they're generally not super foliage like, 228 00:12:59,760 --> 00:13:03,760 Speaker 2: like the plumb was very foliage oriented and lots of mess. 229 00:13:04,400 --> 00:13:07,199 Speaker 2: The apples not quite as much. But keep the apple 230 00:13:07,280 --> 00:13:10,440 Speaker 2: small too, so that just in case, you know, you 231 00:13:10,480 --> 00:13:13,560 Speaker 2: don't have that addage shade that you don't want. But 232 00:13:13,920 --> 00:13:16,679 Speaker 2: as far as when to transplant it, you can if 233 00:13:16,720 --> 00:13:19,720 Speaker 2: you find them in the nursery. Now ask how long 234 00:13:19,760 --> 00:13:23,040 Speaker 2: it's been potted Okay, it may be a second year 235 00:13:23,080 --> 00:13:26,640 Speaker 2: repotting from an older nursery. That would be good. If 236 00:13:26,640 --> 00:13:29,959 Speaker 2: that's the case, I would still wait until probably June 237 00:13:30,000 --> 00:13:34,400 Speaker 2: to transplant it. Ok You could also wait until the fall. 238 00:13:35,000 --> 00:13:38,040 Speaker 2: You could get the plant in the five gallon bucket 239 00:13:38,280 --> 00:13:40,040 Speaker 2: and leave it in there until the fall and then 240 00:13:40,080 --> 00:13:43,600 Speaker 2: transplant it. So you have options. 241 00:13:44,240 --> 00:13:50,160 Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, just kind of necessary. We're in a sort 242 00:13:50,160 --> 00:13:54,040 Speaker 3: of between area with respect to the fog and sun. 243 00:13:54,080 --> 00:13:55,760 Speaker 3: We're in the West Portal Okay. 244 00:13:57,120 --> 00:13:58,120 Speaker 2: Oh yeah, and. 245 00:14:00,920 --> 00:14:03,880 Speaker 3: The area. I was going to put it in morning 246 00:14:04,000 --> 00:14:07,239 Speaker 3: sun and all after the afternoon. 247 00:14:07,400 --> 00:14:15,040 Speaker 2: Actually that's good, Yeah, good. 248 00:14:14,120 --> 00:14:18,240 Speaker 3: There was. I was reading a little bit about apple trees. 249 00:14:18,280 --> 00:14:21,880 Speaker 3: Maybe need to have two apple trees to pollinate. 250 00:14:23,400 --> 00:14:29,200 Speaker 2: Yeah, so not always. There's a lot of self pollinating apples. 251 00:14:29,720 --> 00:14:32,640 Speaker 2: That's another thing about fuji. So you want to take 252 00:14:32,640 --> 00:14:36,040 Speaker 2: a look at the you know, the label, real closely 253 00:14:36,120 --> 00:14:37,720 Speaker 2: before you go, hey, I want to get it, but 254 00:14:37,760 --> 00:14:40,080 Speaker 2: get it at a nursery, you know, go for the 255 00:14:40,120 --> 00:14:43,760 Speaker 2: long haul. Try not to order it online because they're 256 00:14:43,840 --> 00:14:47,160 Speaker 2: just going to be so weak and that just takes 257 00:14:47,200 --> 00:14:51,520 Speaker 2: so much more time to get them adjusted. So definitely 258 00:14:51,560 --> 00:14:53,560 Speaker 2: try to get one that you can fit in the 259 00:14:53,560 --> 00:14:55,800 Speaker 2: car for the long drive home or whoever it takes. 260 00:14:56,040 --> 00:14:58,120 Speaker 2: Or there might be a supplier in the city. I 261 00:14:58,120 --> 00:15:02,360 Speaker 2: don't know which nurseries you know would bring in fruit 262 00:15:02,360 --> 00:15:05,560 Speaker 2: trees in the city, but certainly right outside the city 263 00:15:05,600 --> 00:15:08,640 Speaker 2: there's a lot of nurseries. But slow it might be 264 00:15:08,640 --> 00:15:11,680 Speaker 2: a place to start because they've got so many areas 265 00:15:11,720 --> 00:15:14,960 Speaker 2: where they can pull in from an order to stock 266 00:15:15,120 --> 00:15:18,000 Speaker 2: or get special order. So that may be an idea. 267 00:15:18,040 --> 00:15:19,760 Speaker 2: But always check the label to make sure it's a 268 00:15:19,880 --> 00:15:21,600 Speaker 2: it's a self pollinating. 269 00:15:21,040 --> 00:15:23,000 Speaker 6: Apple, got it? 270 00:15:23,600 --> 00:15:27,560 Speaker 2: See, thank you, yeah, of course, no problem. Thank you 271 00:15:27,600 --> 00:15:33,000 Speaker 2: for calling Greg. Absolutely have a great day, all right. 272 00:15:33,200 --> 00:15:36,480 Speaker 2: That definitely leaves our lines open. Eight oh eight five, 273 00:15:36,560 --> 00:15:39,080 Speaker 2: six zero zero are the call in numbers. And I 274 00:15:39,120 --> 00:15:42,560 Speaker 2: did want to mention let's see here today. Oh so 275 00:15:43,280 --> 00:15:46,960 Speaker 2: today actually is the very last day to see Bonzai 276 00:15:47,720 --> 00:15:52,840 Speaker 2: in bloom or Blossoms and Bonzai at the Sonoma Botanical Gardens. 277 00:15:52,880 --> 00:15:56,840 Speaker 2: So if you're up in the Glen Ellen area, then 278 00:15:57,120 --> 00:15:59,040 Speaker 2: you want to go there and see all the things 279 00:15:59,040 --> 00:16:00,880 Speaker 2: that are. I mean, you got play the whole day, 280 00:16:01,000 --> 00:16:03,680 Speaker 2: So get on over there right now. If you're driving, 281 00:16:03,760 --> 00:16:06,760 Speaker 2: you can listen to me, okay and then so today 282 00:16:06,840 --> 00:16:09,000 Speaker 2: is the last day for that event. There will be 283 00:16:09,080 --> 00:16:13,680 Speaker 2: bringing in another huge art show this summer, so you'll 284 00:16:14,040 --> 00:16:18,120 Speaker 2: stay tuned for that because I'm hoping to again hook 285 00:16:18,200 --> 00:16:22,120 Speaker 2: up the artists. Anyway, it's going to be extremely colorful, 286 00:16:22,960 --> 00:16:26,560 Speaker 2: I'm going to tell you that much. Absolutely incredibly gorgeous. 287 00:16:26,640 --> 00:16:31,400 Speaker 2: Large structures that'll be in the Cinema botanical gardens. There 288 00:16:31,440 --> 00:16:34,040 Speaker 2: is a permanent troll by the way at Piloli, so 289 00:16:34,120 --> 00:16:36,080 Speaker 2: if you want to if you miss the show last 290 00:16:36,120 --> 00:16:39,440 Speaker 2: summer of the trolls, there is still a troll that 291 00:16:39,520 --> 00:16:45,960 Speaker 2: they commissioned Thomas Thomas Danbo to build there as a 292 00:16:46,000 --> 00:16:48,880 Speaker 2: permanent structure, so you can still go to Filoli and 293 00:16:48,920 --> 00:16:53,920 Speaker 2: see a seaatrol events. And of course this time a year, 294 00:16:54,080 --> 00:16:57,880 Speaker 2: my gosh, everything is just doing its thing. In bloom 295 00:16:58,200 --> 00:17:01,960 Speaker 2: gardeners are feverish taking old the flowers off, and the 296 00:17:02,040 --> 00:17:04,760 Speaker 2: roses are starting. So what can you say. You know, 297 00:17:05,720 --> 00:17:09,480 Speaker 2: it's gonna be an it's an early spring. The weather 298 00:17:09,520 --> 00:17:12,200 Speaker 2: should be much better this week, shouldn't be too hot. 299 00:17:12,720 --> 00:17:14,960 Speaker 2: It will be warm, but won't be too hot. And 300 00:17:15,000 --> 00:17:17,280 Speaker 2: then we'll go from there. We don't know when if 301 00:17:17,280 --> 00:17:19,280 Speaker 2: we're gonna get cold weather, anymore. We don't know if 302 00:17:19,320 --> 00:17:22,760 Speaker 2: there's going to be rain anymore. You know, this this spring, 303 00:17:23,400 --> 00:17:25,800 Speaker 2: it just is that where we live, and this is 304 00:17:26,160 --> 00:17:29,200 Speaker 2: this year for us right now. So yeah, if you've 305 00:17:29,200 --> 00:17:32,080 Speaker 2: got any ideas about that, let me know, tell me 306 00:17:32,119 --> 00:17:34,720 Speaker 2: all about the weather if you like. Eight oh eight 307 00:17:34,760 --> 00:17:37,960 Speaker 2: five six zero zero four one five Area code four 308 00:17:38,040 --> 00:17:42,520 Speaker 2: one five eighth eight five six zero zero. Who ah, 309 00:17:42,560 --> 00:17:46,560 Speaker 2: Normen has something here. Good morning, Doreen. How are you today? 310 00:17:47,320 --> 00:17:47,520 Speaker 4: Oh? 311 00:17:47,600 --> 00:17:51,040 Speaker 5: I'm great, etie, thank you, and you good good. 312 00:17:51,080 --> 00:17:52,040 Speaker 2: I'm fine, thank you. 313 00:17:52,960 --> 00:18:00,240 Speaker 5: Oh yes, I'm right in for your collar. Who called in, Oh, 314 00:18:00,280 --> 00:18:04,760 Speaker 5: I don't know, maybe three weeks ago with a coddling problem. 315 00:18:05,119 --> 00:18:07,760 Speaker 5: And I have a great solution for that, which I 316 00:18:07,840 --> 00:18:12,400 Speaker 5: found online. And it was this orchardist who put molasses 317 00:18:12,480 --> 00:18:16,240 Speaker 5: in a bottle and hung it from each tree. And 318 00:18:17,040 --> 00:18:20,160 Speaker 5: I tried it last year for the first time, and 319 00:18:20,760 --> 00:18:26,040 Speaker 5: it completely, like ninety percent eliminated all coddling mass from 320 00:18:26,119 --> 00:18:28,080 Speaker 5: my apple tree. 321 00:18:29,520 --> 00:18:31,760 Speaker 2: Wow, how did you hang them up in the tree 322 00:18:31,840 --> 00:18:33,399 Speaker 2: or what sized bottles did you use? 323 00:18:33,480 --> 00:18:36,240 Speaker 5: Or how did you get like a drinking water bottle? 324 00:18:36,760 --> 00:18:41,639 Speaker 5: Or we even used a few oil plastic you know 325 00:18:41,720 --> 00:18:45,000 Speaker 5: containers that you put oil in your car with washed 326 00:18:45,000 --> 00:18:49,680 Speaker 5: them out good and put about. Oh well, anyway, then 327 00:18:49,720 --> 00:18:53,960 Speaker 5: you drill a hole where the lip is and put 328 00:18:54,080 --> 00:18:58,320 Speaker 5: a wire hanger through there, and then drill four more 329 00:18:58,359 --> 00:19:01,560 Speaker 5: holes around the outside edges right at the shoulder of 330 00:19:01,640 --> 00:19:05,359 Speaker 5: the bottle or the container, and then you pour in 331 00:19:05,400 --> 00:19:09,119 Speaker 5: your molasses in your water. And I kind of like 332 00:19:09,200 --> 00:19:11,880 Speaker 5: the clear bottles because you could just see like an 333 00:19:11,960 --> 00:19:14,040 Speaker 5: inch of coddling mass aled round. 334 00:19:14,480 --> 00:19:20,880 Speaker 2: Oh my gosh. Yeah, an interesting attraction. Oh cool. Well, 335 00:19:20,920 --> 00:19:22,399 Speaker 2: thank you very much for sharing. 336 00:19:23,280 --> 00:19:25,639 Speaker 5: Yeah. Yeah, and I hope your listener who had that 337 00:19:25,800 --> 00:19:28,720 Speaker 5: problem and he was so concerned about. 338 00:19:28,480 --> 00:19:34,240 Speaker 2: It, well, yes, wonderful. That's that's a that is definitely 339 00:19:34,320 --> 00:19:37,320 Speaker 2: something I had not heard of yet. There's always something 340 00:19:37,359 --> 00:19:41,680 Speaker 2: new every day. But yes, I really the molasses and water. 341 00:19:41,840 --> 00:19:44,480 Speaker 2: Is it like half and half half molasses, no water? 342 00:19:44,840 --> 00:19:48,240 Speaker 5: About a quarter molasses and three quarters water. 343 00:19:49,600 --> 00:19:53,520 Speaker 2: Ahhh? Got it? Cool? All right, Well, thank you so 344 00:19:53,640 --> 00:19:57,200 Speaker 2: much for that suggestion. That's a great idea. 345 00:19:57,520 --> 00:19:58,600 Speaker 5: You're welcome, and. 346 00:19:58,480 --> 00:20:03,119 Speaker 2: They're flying around now. Thank you, Brian, thanks for calling 347 00:20:03,359 --> 00:20:06,840 Speaker 2: bye bye. All right, this is fun, all right. That 348 00:20:06,960 --> 00:20:09,680 Speaker 2: had not heard of that one before. And don't forget 349 00:20:09,680 --> 00:20:11,320 Speaker 2: it was a couple of weeks ago. And I don't 350 00:20:11,320 --> 00:20:14,200 Speaker 2: know if anyone tried this or not, but to put 351 00:20:14,280 --> 00:20:19,800 Speaker 2: the what was it, club soda to suffocate the ant colony. 352 00:20:20,320 --> 00:20:22,840 Speaker 2: That's of course, if you found the majority of where 353 00:20:22,840 --> 00:20:25,680 Speaker 2: the ants are coming from, and if you really really 354 00:20:25,720 --> 00:20:28,639 Speaker 2: feel like you don't want them around, you know, if 355 00:20:28,640 --> 00:20:32,359 Speaker 2: there's so many of them, there a nuisance. Oh and 356 00:20:32,359 --> 00:20:36,080 Speaker 2: then my girlfriend this week sent me a picture that 357 00:20:36,240 --> 00:20:40,879 Speaker 2: I mistook as scale because they were on the stem 358 00:20:40,960 --> 00:20:43,720 Speaker 2: of a maple or something like that, and they, you know, 359 00:20:43,760 --> 00:20:45,840 Speaker 2: the mabel was just beginning to leave out, but it 360 00:20:45,880 --> 00:20:50,480 Speaker 2: was just loaded with these little, tiny, overlapping things that 361 00:20:50,600 --> 00:20:53,400 Speaker 2: look like scale. They were just overlapping all the way 362 00:20:53,480 --> 00:20:57,640 Speaker 2: up the stem. And then we realized after she did 363 00:20:57,640 --> 00:21:00,320 Speaker 2: a little bit more research and after I miss took 364 00:21:00,359 --> 00:21:04,480 Speaker 2: them at scale, she realized they were Katie did eggs. 365 00:21:05,320 --> 00:21:08,880 Speaker 2: Had anyone seen those before? Oh my goodness, gracious, they 366 00:21:08,920 --> 00:21:12,360 Speaker 2: look exactly like the bark of the tree, except when 367 00:21:12,359 --> 00:21:15,520 Speaker 2: you look at them up closely, you can you can 368 00:21:15,600 --> 00:21:20,640 Speaker 2: tell that they're there. They're an insect insect colony. Never 369 00:21:20,680 --> 00:21:23,800 Speaker 2: seen that before. Maybe I just never noticed it before. 370 00:21:23,920 --> 00:21:26,960 Speaker 2: Maybe I got to get out there more, huh. Anyway, 371 00:21:27,440 --> 00:21:30,000 Speaker 2: so that was a news and of course Katie did 372 00:21:30,000 --> 00:21:32,600 Speaker 2: it's so beneficial, so you don't really want to get 373 00:21:32,680 --> 00:21:35,200 Speaker 2: rid of those. So here I was going, oh, yeah, 374 00:21:35,240 --> 00:21:38,480 Speaker 2: you got spraying with soap and it's like nope. And 375 00:21:38,680 --> 00:21:41,439 Speaker 2: and of course at the same time, I'll just have 376 00:21:41,520 --> 00:21:44,439 Speaker 2: to share this one. I brought in my baby to 377 00:21:44,600 --> 00:21:48,240 Speaker 2: the Bonzi class. My baby is the first bonds I 378 00:21:48,280 --> 00:21:54,960 Speaker 2: ever did. It's a Juniper Calgary Juniper hybrid blah blah blah, Monrovia. 379 00:21:55,080 --> 00:21:58,320 Speaker 2: I think it's a Monrovia hybrid. I can't remember all 380 00:21:58,320 --> 00:22:02,600 Speaker 2: the different names. Anyhow, my Juniper and I brought it 381 00:22:02,640 --> 00:22:07,600 Speaker 2: in for more styling. So Michael from the club helped 382 00:22:07,600 --> 00:22:10,040 Speaker 2: me do some more styling to it. He's helped me 383 00:22:10,080 --> 00:22:13,120 Speaker 2: with this one plant before, and he goes, well you oh, 384 00:22:13,160 --> 00:22:15,040 Speaker 2: And then Diane was there as well, she goes, you 385 00:22:15,080 --> 00:22:18,119 Speaker 2: do have scale on that. I went, what this is? 386 00:22:18,160 --> 00:22:21,200 Speaker 2: Right after I saw the Katie did okay. So I'm 387 00:22:21,240 --> 00:22:23,280 Speaker 2: sitting there going searching him, and I've got the wrong 388 00:22:23,320 --> 00:22:27,040 Speaker 2: glasses on. I can't see very closely, and boom there 389 00:22:27,160 --> 00:22:31,159 Speaker 2: they were they little itsy bitsy, teeny tiny little white things, 390 00:22:31,520 --> 00:22:33,639 Speaker 2: and I'm like, well, thank goodness, I didn't bring in 391 00:22:33,680 --> 00:22:39,760 Speaker 2: a colony of ants, so I was happy to do that. 392 00:22:39,840 --> 00:22:42,359 Speaker 2: And then I've got to spray that this week with 393 00:22:42,440 --> 00:22:44,800 Speaker 2: a little soapy water and go from there and see 394 00:22:44,840 --> 00:22:47,520 Speaker 2: if I can get rid of them. Okay, all right, 395 00:22:47,520 --> 00:22:49,520 Speaker 2: we're gonna go ahead and take our second break of 396 00:22:49,560 --> 00:22:52,800 Speaker 2: the morning. Eight eight five six zero zero. That's four 397 00:22:52,880 --> 00:22:56,119 Speaker 2: one five eight eight five six zero zero. Give me 398 00:22:56,160 --> 00:22:58,720 Speaker 2: a call. We can talk about anything you want gardening wise, 399 00:22:58,960 --> 00:22:59,560 Speaker 2: be right back. 400 00:23:00,240 --> 00:23:02,960 Speaker 1: You're listening to Bob Tannam in the Garden on talk 401 00:23:03,080 --> 00:23:06,399 Speaker 1: radio five sixty KSFO. 402 00:23:05,800 --> 00:23:08,439 Speaker 2: With Ed Tanem. Yeah, if you want to talk about apples, 403 00:23:08,440 --> 00:23:09,960 Speaker 2: go ahead and give us a call at four one 404 00:23:10,040 --> 00:23:14,520 Speaker 2: five eighth eight five six zero zero. That's who to call. Yeah, 405 00:23:14,600 --> 00:23:16,560 Speaker 2: that would be me. Yep, Well, you talked to David 406 00:23:16,600 --> 00:23:19,040 Speaker 2: first and then then he'll feed you to me and 407 00:23:19,040 --> 00:23:22,840 Speaker 2: then we'll be good. So give your little phone call. 408 00:23:22,880 --> 00:23:26,280 Speaker 2: Of phone call. We can talk about apples, we can 409 00:23:26,320 --> 00:23:29,840 Speaker 2: talk about citrus, we can talk about soil, we can 410 00:23:29,880 --> 00:23:36,920 Speaker 2: talk about tomatoes. Of course, we can talk about asparagus. Anyway. 411 00:23:37,160 --> 00:23:39,399 Speaker 2: I hope you have had a chance to visit my 412 00:23:39,440 --> 00:23:44,280 Speaker 2: website that is Bob Tanem dot com and there are 413 00:23:44,400 --> 00:23:48,800 Speaker 2: all sorts of interesting helpful hints there. There's the hydrangea article, 414 00:23:48,960 --> 00:23:51,399 Speaker 2: the asparagus article. These are all written by my father. 415 00:23:51,880 --> 00:23:56,280 Speaker 2: I am not a writer, really not a writer in fact. 416 00:23:56,480 --> 00:24:00,320 Speaker 2: At we have this thing at my work where if 417 00:24:00,320 --> 00:24:02,600 Speaker 2: I'm sending out a general email, if I'm sending out 418 00:24:03,000 --> 00:24:08,400 Speaker 2: an email to colleagues for some reason, I don't put 419 00:24:08,440 --> 00:24:13,240 Speaker 2: everything I'm thinking into the email. So when they's there's 420 00:24:13,280 --> 00:24:18,000 Speaker 2: the CEO of the company or CFO whatever they call it, 421 00:24:18,040 --> 00:24:23,560 Speaker 2: is the head guy. He's coined my emails as edie 422 00:24:23,640 --> 00:24:27,360 Speaker 2: speak if he doesn't get them, and that has come 423 00:24:27,400 --> 00:24:30,640 Speaker 2: back and bit me in the dairy air. I guess 424 00:24:30,640 --> 00:24:34,240 Speaker 2: that's as bad as anyway, and so therefore I try 425 00:24:34,280 --> 00:24:36,920 Speaker 2: to try to really be more careful. But that's why 426 00:24:37,000 --> 00:24:38,880 Speaker 2: I'm not a writer. That was long on the short 427 00:24:38,920 --> 00:24:42,879 Speaker 2: of that little story is that I do have a 428 00:24:42,920 --> 00:24:46,120 Speaker 2: tendency to leave things out. I used to be the 429 00:24:46,119 --> 00:24:50,399 Speaker 2: second the second editor of my dad's newsletter, and my 430 00:24:50,480 --> 00:24:55,080 Speaker 2: dad was notoriously misspelling things. My mom would get a 431 00:24:55,200 --> 00:24:58,560 Speaker 2: copy of it, she would literally from the printer, she 432 00:24:58,640 --> 00:25:03,040 Speaker 2: would cross things out out. And besides the online thing 433 00:25:03,040 --> 00:25:06,199 Speaker 2: that my dad would go in and actually correct, and 434 00:25:06,200 --> 00:25:08,880 Speaker 2: then he'd send the newsletter over to me, and then 435 00:25:08,920 --> 00:25:12,639 Speaker 2: I would then read it and go, this doesn't make sense. 436 00:25:13,080 --> 00:25:15,919 Speaker 2: Because my mom was looking for spelling. She didn't know 437 00:25:16,280 --> 00:25:19,920 Speaker 2: about how to make the you know, case and point. 438 00:25:20,040 --> 00:25:22,639 Speaker 2: I was like, well, not case in point, but anyway, 439 00:25:22,680 --> 00:25:24,919 Speaker 2: she would be looking at it as the spelling, and 440 00:25:25,000 --> 00:25:27,240 Speaker 2: I would have to look at it as how much 441 00:25:27,280 --> 00:25:30,399 Speaker 2: sense it made. And I worked with my dad at 442 00:25:30,400 --> 00:25:33,680 Speaker 2: that time, so I knew a lot about the things 443 00:25:33,720 --> 00:25:36,439 Speaker 2: that he would want to talk about. I learned all 444 00:25:36,520 --> 00:25:42,080 Speaker 2: of that information that he had in his brain that 445 00:25:42,119 --> 00:25:45,840 Speaker 2: he put down on paper. And it was interesting because 446 00:25:45,840 --> 00:25:49,359 Speaker 2: there was just this need for the secondary editing. And 447 00:25:49,359 --> 00:25:51,439 Speaker 2: then of course I would lay it out into a 448 00:25:51,480 --> 00:25:56,520 Speaker 2: newsletter and we would actually print it and this, oh 449 00:25:56,560 --> 00:26:03,360 Speaker 2: my goodness, use artificial intelligence to rewrite exactly exactly, which, 450 00:26:03,440 --> 00:26:08,879 Speaker 2: of course, and that's that's just took away two people's 451 00:26:08,960 --> 00:26:14,600 Speaker 2: jobs right there, unfortunately. But yeah, so that was what 452 00:26:14,640 --> 00:26:17,640 Speaker 2: we did, and then we would mail it and then 453 00:26:17,840 --> 00:26:20,679 Speaker 2: you know, and now then we went to an electronic version, 454 00:26:21,119 --> 00:26:26,080 Speaker 2: had everybody's email instead, and then would email. You know, 455 00:26:26,119 --> 00:26:28,520 Speaker 2: at a certain point, we ended up charging because there 456 00:26:28,560 --> 00:26:31,560 Speaker 2: was so much information and my dad had gotten some 457 00:26:31,680 --> 00:26:36,320 Speaker 2: notoriety being on the radio and doing special appearances and 458 00:26:36,320 --> 00:26:39,560 Speaker 2: stuff like that. So is at different times, different times, 459 00:26:39,720 --> 00:26:45,120 Speaker 2: different fun. Yeah, oh yeah, So I did actually want 460 00:26:45,160 --> 00:26:48,840 Speaker 2: to mention that there are some other things coming up. 461 00:26:48,920 --> 00:26:53,200 Speaker 2: So one one public service type of idea to keep 462 00:26:53,240 --> 00:26:56,200 Speaker 2: in mind that if you do see in your yards 463 00:26:56,440 --> 00:27:00,480 Speaker 2: a swarm, in other words, a very large cluster bees, 464 00:27:00,960 --> 00:27:06,360 Speaker 2: right that causes maybe some fear or anxiety or something, 465 00:27:06,760 --> 00:27:09,760 Speaker 2: but you don't feel comfortable with it, and you want 466 00:27:09,800 --> 00:27:12,479 Speaker 2: to have somebody come out to take a look at it, 467 00:27:13,320 --> 00:27:16,960 Speaker 2: take a look at any of the bee organizations that 468 00:27:17,040 --> 00:27:20,280 Speaker 2: might be near you. There is one up in Sonoma 469 00:27:20,840 --> 00:27:24,080 Speaker 2: that may have recommendations for someone in your area that 470 00:27:24,160 --> 00:27:28,720 Speaker 2: can help save those bees. They are Sonomabees dot org 471 00:27:29,440 --> 00:27:32,520 Speaker 2: and then they have a forward slash report as swarm. 472 00:27:33,359 --> 00:27:35,119 Speaker 2: But you can just go to their main website and 473 00:27:35,119 --> 00:27:38,199 Speaker 2: find the links to go further deeper into that and 474 00:27:38,240 --> 00:27:40,840 Speaker 2: then hopefully somebody will have a chance to recommend another 475 00:27:40,880 --> 00:27:43,880 Speaker 2: group for you. If you're in San Francisco, for instance, 476 00:27:44,359 --> 00:27:49,240 Speaker 2: or down the Peninsula or the East Bay. There are 477 00:27:49,560 --> 00:27:53,760 Speaker 2: different organizations in every area, but you can always email 478 00:27:53,840 --> 00:27:57,119 Speaker 2: Sonoma Bees or go to their website to Sonoma bees 479 00:27:57,280 --> 00:28:00,440 Speaker 2: dot org and go from there all right, and then 480 00:28:00,480 --> 00:28:03,680 Speaker 2: also there are some bonsai shows coming up. Let's say 481 00:28:03,720 --> 00:28:08,040 Speaker 2: March twenty eighth in San Jose at the Buddhist Church 482 00:28:08,280 --> 00:28:11,400 Speaker 2: Betsuan is going to be Let's say they are at 483 00:28:11,440 --> 00:28:16,080 Speaker 2: six forty North fifth Street in San Jose, and they 484 00:28:16,200 --> 00:28:19,560 Speaker 2: have an exhibition and a sail on Saturday and Sunday. 485 00:28:19,640 --> 00:28:22,640 Speaker 2: Saturdays eleven to five, Sundays twelve to four. Those are 486 00:28:22,640 --> 00:28:26,040 Speaker 2: my hours. That's a good way. But that's down in 487 00:28:26,080 --> 00:28:30,240 Speaker 2: San Jose and that is six forty North fifth Street, 488 00:28:30,640 --> 00:28:36,480 Speaker 2: so downtown. That's March twenty eighth. April eleventh. In Sacramento, 489 00:28:37,320 --> 00:28:41,480 Speaker 2: they're going to have the Sacramento Bonzai and Suzki display 490 00:28:42,200 --> 00:28:45,800 Speaker 2: and so that'll be coming up. It didn't give me 491 00:28:45,840 --> 00:28:49,320 Speaker 2: an address, but it's at the Sacramento Garden and Arts Center, 492 00:28:50,120 --> 00:28:52,480 Speaker 2: so take a look for that. April eleventh, that's the 493 00:28:52,560 --> 00:28:58,480 Speaker 2: weekend after Easter. And then April eighteenth, Modesta Bonzai Club 494 00:28:58,840 --> 00:29:02,640 Speaker 2: is having their spring sho. Some more information on that 495 00:29:02,840 --> 00:29:05,680 Speaker 2: as it comes closer. So I was looking at those, 496 00:29:05,760 --> 00:29:10,400 Speaker 2: and you can always any any group information. You can 497 00:29:10,400 --> 00:29:12,800 Speaker 2: always go to their main group page. So if you're 498 00:29:13,040 --> 00:29:15,360 Speaker 2: not into Bonzi but you're into fruit trees, there's the 499 00:29:15,440 --> 00:29:20,120 Speaker 2: Rare Fruit Growers Associations that will give you local chapters 500 00:29:20,160 --> 00:29:23,440 Speaker 2: that you can join. There's the Pegoonia Society in San Francisco, 501 00:29:24,040 --> 00:29:28,000 Speaker 2: there's the Rose Society in Marin all of those things, 502 00:29:28,040 --> 00:29:32,280 Speaker 2: but for Bonzai, it is the Golden State Bonzi Federation. 503 00:29:32,600 --> 00:29:36,240 Speaker 2: So you go to g s like sam B, like 504 00:29:36,320 --> 00:29:41,880 Speaker 2: boy F, like Frank so gsbf dot org, and that'll 505 00:29:41,880 --> 00:29:45,480 Speaker 2: give you information about local clubs in your area, as 506 00:29:45,480 --> 00:29:48,040 Speaker 2: well as events coming up that are out of your area. 507 00:29:48,480 --> 00:29:50,680 Speaker 2: There's one in US. I didn't write this one down 508 00:29:50,760 --> 00:29:53,200 Speaker 2: for some reason, but there's a big one also coming 509 00:29:53,280 --> 00:29:57,200 Speaker 2: up in Santa Cruz. I read all about it beforegott 510 00:29:57,240 --> 00:29:59,920 Speaker 2: to write notes so well, but it is on that site. 511 00:30:01,280 --> 00:30:05,040 Speaker 2: And then I think there's an Azalea show that comes up. 512 00:30:05,320 --> 00:30:07,480 Speaker 2: I don't know if it's annually. I've got to double 513 00:30:07,560 --> 00:30:10,320 Speaker 2: check that, but that should be coming up soon too, 514 00:30:11,640 --> 00:30:15,800 Speaker 2: because I know there's Azalea's Crazy. They are crazy. They 515 00:30:15,840 --> 00:30:20,120 Speaker 2: are so beautiful. The ones they proc procure for Bonzai 516 00:30:20,240 --> 00:30:23,440 Speaker 2: are generally and this is only generally, the ones that 517 00:30:23,480 --> 00:30:26,880 Speaker 2: have bicolors on the flowers, and they're smaller, a little smaller, 518 00:30:27,720 --> 00:30:30,960 Speaker 2: a little bicolored. I'm having a bear of a time 519 00:30:31,000 --> 00:30:34,160 Speaker 2: trying to keep mine alive, let alone get any buds 520 00:30:34,200 --> 00:30:38,240 Speaker 2: on them for bloom. So I'm going to keep trying 521 00:30:38,320 --> 00:30:42,040 Speaker 2: till I'm successful on that one anyway. And I have 522 00:30:42,120 --> 00:30:44,760 Speaker 2: some evergreens that are doing really well. I showed them 523 00:30:44,800 --> 00:30:47,400 Speaker 2: off to David who came to visit yesterday and helped 524 00:30:47,440 --> 00:30:51,080 Speaker 2: me get my printers set situated. Thank you, David. And 525 00:30:51,120 --> 00:30:54,360 Speaker 2: I showed some of my evergreen BONZEI butt. I didn't 526 00:30:54,360 --> 00:30:57,480 Speaker 2: show you the one that I've been bringing to class 527 00:30:57,520 --> 00:31:01,240 Speaker 2: that's on the other side of the house. I din't 528 00:31:01,280 --> 00:31:04,000 Speaker 2: get to show that one off, but I'll be cleaning 529 00:31:04,040 --> 00:31:06,560 Speaker 2: the port and making it all look very very nice 530 00:31:07,080 --> 00:31:12,360 Speaker 2: for Easter. And my cymvidiums, the ones that my dad 531 00:31:12,440 --> 00:31:16,400 Speaker 2: named I'm named after my mom, the beverly enses, that's 532 00:31:16,400 --> 00:31:19,760 Speaker 2: what you like to call it, and they are just 533 00:31:19,880 --> 00:31:23,360 Speaker 2: putting out spikes like crazy. They are underneath the bond. 534 00:31:23,440 --> 00:31:26,040 Speaker 2: I have got this two layer bonze Iraq. At the 535 00:31:26,080 --> 00:31:28,760 Speaker 2: top is the bonze I still don't get enough sun, 536 00:31:29,120 --> 00:31:31,520 Speaker 2: and then the bottom is where the symbidiums are and 537 00:31:31,560 --> 00:31:35,320 Speaker 2: they're just in perfect condition. I'm very surprised. I've got 538 00:31:35,360 --> 00:31:39,719 Speaker 2: to turn them and make sure that they're clean, you know, 539 00:31:39,840 --> 00:31:42,640 Speaker 2: after the blooms are done, to make sure I'm not 540 00:31:42,920 --> 00:31:45,520 Speaker 2: going to harbor any insects by leaving them in a 541 00:31:45,520 --> 00:31:47,760 Speaker 2: little scrawny area like that. But they seem to be 542 00:31:47,840 --> 00:31:50,880 Speaker 2: very happy right now. I do pretty much throw a 543 00:31:50,920 --> 00:31:53,480 Speaker 2: banana peel on each one of them once a year, 544 00:31:54,280 --> 00:31:57,160 Speaker 2: a little part of a banana peel, and that seems 545 00:31:57,200 --> 00:32:00,120 Speaker 2: to make them very happy. And whatever I'm feet and 546 00:32:00,160 --> 00:32:03,880 Speaker 2: that the bondsie above it gets down to them as well. 547 00:32:03,960 --> 00:32:07,960 Speaker 2: So yeah, that's the way it goes. And so there 548 00:32:07,960 --> 00:32:11,080 Speaker 2: we are. I'm wondering if you guys wanna ask me 549 00:32:11,120 --> 00:32:14,520 Speaker 2: any questions. It's a four one, five eight eight five 550 00:32:14,640 --> 00:32:17,640 Speaker 2: six zero zero. After the show, I'm going to go 551 00:32:17,800 --> 00:32:20,360 Speaker 2: meet up with my son and we're gonna walk to 552 00:32:20,400 --> 00:32:24,160 Speaker 2: the farmer's market in Santra Fell at the Civic Center. 553 00:32:24,240 --> 00:32:27,320 Speaker 2: That's my favorite place to go on Sundays. Also gets 554 00:32:27,320 --> 00:32:29,880 Speaker 2: me my exercise for the week. I know I need 555 00:32:29,920 --> 00:32:33,040 Speaker 2: to get more exercise, so we'll keep that in mind. 556 00:32:35,000 --> 00:32:37,120 Speaker 2: Maybe someday I'll go all the way up that hill 557 00:32:37,160 --> 00:32:40,600 Speaker 2: and not have to stop for a breather, but yet, 558 00:32:40,920 --> 00:32:42,680 Speaker 2: so if you want to call, it's four one, five 559 00:32:42,800 --> 00:32:46,960 Speaker 2: eight eight five six zero zero. And so if you've 560 00:32:46,960 --> 00:32:51,160 Speaker 2: got questions about transplanting or anything else coming up, or 561 00:32:51,600 --> 00:32:53,800 Speaker 2: some new ideas that came your way and you want 562 00:32:53,840 --> 00:32:56,720 Speaker 2: to share them and see what my feedback might be, 563 00:32:57,280 --> 00:32:58,840 Speaker 2: you can give us a call. So we're gonna go 564 00:32:58,840 --> 00:33:01,960 Speaker 2: ahead and take our third break in the morning just now, 565 00:33:02,080 --> 00:33:04,600 Speaker 2: and then we'll go ahead and be back for your calls. 566 00:33:04,680 --> 00:33:07,800 Speaker 1: All right, you're listening to Bob Tannam in the Garden 567 00:33:07,960 --> 00:33:09,600 Speaker 1: on Talk Radio five sixty. 568 00:33:09,760 --> 00:33:11,760 Speaker 2: All right, welcome back to Bob Tannam in the Garden 569 00:33:11,800 --> 00:33:15,280 Speaker 2: with Edie Tannem. Good morning, everybody. All right, let's go 570 00:33:15,360 --> 00:33:18,040 Speaker 2: to Dennis in Rodeo. Good morning, Dennis. How are you 571 00:33:18,120 --> 00:33:18,560 Speaker 2: this morning? 572 00:33:19,040 --> 00:33:22,240 Speaker 7: Good morning. I'm doing very fine. And this is a 573 00:33:22,320 --> 00:33:25,520 Speaker 7: question about my avocado tree. It's been in the ground 574 00:33:25,520 --> 00:33:29,440 Speaker 7: about six years, maybe doing very well. And I have 575 00:33:30,320 --> 00:33:34,360 Speaker 7: lower branches that have begun to touch the ground. Am 576 00:33:34,360 --> 00:33:38,160 Speaker 7: I supposed to trim those back or don't bother them 577 00:33:38,160 --> 00:33:40,280 Speaker 7: at all? 578 00:33:40,320 --> 00:33:44,000 Speaker 2: I would shorten them. You know, avocados are kind of 579 00:33:44,080 --> 00:33:46,880 Speaker 2: you know, they can get well, they can get pretty 580 00:33:46,880 --> 00:33:49,960 Speaker 2: heavy depending on how many fruit come at once. Right, 581 00:33:51,080 --> 00:33:54,480 Speaker 2: so they can be trimmed and they can be you know, 582 00:33:54,600 --> 00:34:00,400 Speaker 2: bald actually like a regular what they usually tell orange 583 00:34:00,560 --> 00:34:03,920 Speaker 2: orange tree growers and lemon trees, you can prune them 584 00:34:03,920 --> 00:34:09,000 Speaker 2: into more of a lollipop shape, right, So you can 585 00:34:09,280 --> 00:34:12,720 Speaker 2: you can basically trim back the foliage so that it's 586 00:34:12,760 --> 00:34:16,520 Speaker 2: going to be stronger to you know, support the amount 587 00:34:16,560 --> 00:34:19,160 Speaker 2: of fruit that you want to get. And that means 588 00:34:19,200 --> 00:34:21,920 Speaker 2: that anything touching the ground should be pruned up as well, 589 00:34:22,320 --> 00:34:24,279 Speaker 2: so that the branches should be shortened so they're not 590 00:34:24,320 --> 00:34:27,799 Speaker 2: touching the ground. They're probably still going to fruit, you know, 591 00:34:27,920 --> 00:34:28,719 Speaker 2: depending on the sun. 592 00:34:29,840 --> 00:34:32,600 Speaker 7: Yeah, I'm sure, because it's giving lots and lots of 593 00:34:32,640 --> 00:34:40,200 Speaker 7: fruit each year. Also, then the central trunk has grown up, 594 00:34:40,880 --> 00:34:44,840 Speaker 7: and I'm looking at the tree right now. The last 595 00:34:45,000 --> 00:34:48,520 Speaker 7: I would say five feet is kind of skinny and tall. 596 00:34:48,960 --> 00:34:52,400 Speaker 7: Should I cut that back some or just be them alone? 597 00:34:53,400 --> 00:34:55,480 Speaker 2: I would cut them back. I mean, if they're if 598 00:34:55,520 --> 00:34:58,960 Speaker 2: they're continuing to grow straight up, it may or may 599 00:34:59,000 --> 00:35:02,400 Speaker 2: not be in indication that they're trying to, you know, 600 00:35:02,520 --> 00:35:06,719 Speaker 2: get more sun. But also the important part is to 601 00:35:06,719 --> 00:35:09,720 Speaker 2: be able to harvest all the fruit instead of leaving 602 00:35:09,760 --> 00:35:12,399 Speaker 2: it on the tree. So if it is getting up 603 00:35:12,440 --> 00:35:14,440 Speaker 2: past the point where you can get to the fruit 604 00:35:14,480 --> 00:35:16,800 Speaker 2: with a ladder, you know, or if the soil underneath 605 00:35:16,840 --> 00:35:19,000 Speaker 2: isn't even going to support a ladder, you want to 606 00:35:19,040 --> 00:35:20,839 Speaker 2: be able to try to make sure that you can 607 00:35:21,320 --> 00:35:25,440 Speaker 2: prune the tree every year and also make sure that 608 00:35:25,480 --> 00:35:27,279 Speaker 2: you can get a hold of the fruit so that 609 00:35:27,320 --> 00:35:29,640 Speaker 2: you don't end up with a whole lot of wasted 610 00:35:29,640 --> 00:35:31,080 Speaker 2: fruit on the tree. 611 00:35:31,360 --> 00:35:34,439 Speaker 7: Sure, if I were to just chomp off the save 612 00:35:34,760 --> 00:35:40,839 Speaker 7: five or six feet from the top, well, that damage. 613 00:35:39,960 --> 00:35:44,000 Speaker 2: That much at once will probably set the tree back 614 00:35:44,040 --> 00:35:48,360 Speaker 2: from being, you know, from thriving. I would probably limit 615 00:35:48,440 --> 00:35:50,759 Speaker 2: that first cut to a foot and a half, and 616 00:35:50,800 --> 00:35:53,239 Speaker 2: then the following year hopefully you'll be able to foot 617 00:35:53,239 --> 00:35:55,960 Speaker 2: and a half so that you can gradually get it 618 00:35:56,000 --> 00:35:57,759 Speaker 2: to be shorter with that main leader. 619 00:35:58,800 --> 00:36:05,040 Speaker 7: Oh, I get it. I'm glad I called you alrighty. 620 00:36:03,520 --> 00:36:07,360 Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely, thank you for calling Dennis, Thanks for listening 621 00:36:07,400 --> 00:36:11,399 Speaker 2: to huh bye, all right, that does leave our lines open. 622 00:36:11,440 --> 00:36:13,839 Speaker 2: That's eight oh eight five six zero zero four one 623 00:36:13,920 --> 00:36:17,480 Speaker 2: five area code. If that, you know, made you think 624 00:36:17,480 --> 00:36:19,560 Speaker 2: of something else you want to ask, that'd be great 625 00:36:19,920 --> 00:36:21,880 Speaker 2: that's the way my brain thinks. You know. It's like, 626 00:36:21,920 --> 00:36:24,719 Speaker 2: all of a sudden, somebody asked me a question. My 627 00:36:25,239 --> 00:36:28,440 Speaker 2: daytime job, by the way, just so you know, is 628 00:36:29,160 --> 00:36:34,960 Speaker 2: talking to people about fabric art that encompasses everything. And 629 00:36:35,000 --> 00:36:38,040 Speaker 2: I get calls. The wee get calls at our job, 630 00:36:38,800 --> 00:36:43,120 Speaker 2: and it's just kind of crazy what people want to do, 631 00:36:43,719 --> 00:36:47,320 Speaker 2: you know, without reading directions, or even after reading directions, 632 00:36:47,320 --> 00:36:50,200 Speaker 2: what they want to do. And so it, you know, 633 00:36:50,280 --> 00:36:52,360 Speaker 2: kind of correlates to what I do here once a 634 00:36:52,400 --> 00:36:55,719 Speaker 2: week with the gardening, and it's kind of you know, like, 635 00:36:55,800 --> 00:36:58,279 Speaker 2: well don't you think this would work? And I'm like, 636 00:36:59,160 --> 00:37:02,560 Speaker 2: you know, you can always try and then go get 637 00:37:02,600 --> 00:37:05,440 Speaker 2: another tree, you know what I mean. You might do 638 00:37:05,520 --> 00:37:07,560 Speaker 2: that cut that I would advise you not to do. 639 00:37:07,840 --> 00:37:11,200 Speaker 2: You might just have already done it, you know, and 640 00:37:11,360 --> 00:37:14,200 Speaker 2: maybe it is something that you'll notice two years down 641 00:37:14,200 --> 00:37:16,520 Speaker 2: the road all of a sudden the fruit production is 642 00:37:16,920 --> 00:37:19,399 Speaker 2: taken aback if you take that much off of the tree. 643 00:37:19,440 --> 00:37:22,080 Speaker 2: That in this situation. But anyway, so you can call 644 00:37:22,120 --> 00:37:24,919 Speaker 2: me four one five eight eight five six zero zero 645 00:37:25,480 --> 00:37:28,480 Speaker 2: if that does, I say, brought you to another question. 646 00:37:28,800 --> 00:37:31,480 Speaker 2: So that was four one five eight eight five six 647 00:37:31,600 --> 00:37:35,760 Speaker 2: zero zero, and yeah, I know there's one one little 648 00:37:35,800 --> 00:37:38,919 Speaker 2: caveat to calling live. But anyway, let's go to Bob 649 00:37:39,000 --> 00:37:42,040 Speaker 2: in San Carlos. Good morning, Bob, it's Todd. 650 00:37:42,120 --> 00:37:45,920 Speaker 4: Yeah, Hi, good morning, Good morning Todd. 651 00:37:46,120 --> 00:37:48,040 Speaker 2: How are you this morning? How can I help you? 652 00:37:49,360 --> 00:37:49,840 Speaker 3: I'm good. 653 00:37:49,920 --> 00:37:53,319 Speaker 4: I have about six rose bushes that are in the 654 00:37:53,360 --> 00:37:57,239 Speaker 4: ground that start out great in the spring, you know, 655 00:37:57,320 --> 00:38:00,879 Speaker 4: get green and lush and start booming, and then they 656 00:38:00,920 --> 00:38:05,160 Speaker 4: sort of fizzle out even if I fertilize them. I mean, 657 00:38:05,440 --> 00:38:08,600 Speaker 4: the leaves will get so yellowish or them, it won't 658 00:38:08,640 --> 00:38:12,120 Speaker 4: bloom as much. I haven't fertilized yet. I guess my 659 00:38:12,239 --> 00:38:15,880 Speaker 4: question is today wind like fertilize and if there anything 660 00:38:15,880 --> 00:38:18,120 Speaker 4: else I should be doing to help them along a 661 00:38:18,160 --> 00:38:18,680 Speaker 4: little better. 662 00:38:20,920 --> 00:38:23,400 Speaker 2: Yeah, soil has a lot to do with what to 663 00:38:23,480 --> 00:38:28,120 Speaker 2: do with fertilizer as well. So sometimes the area where 664 00:38:28,160 --> 00:38:31,759 Speaker 2: you've got the roses may have soil that's great in 665 00:38:31,800 --> 00:38:34,879 Speaker 2: the summer, I'm sorry, great in the wintertime when it's 666 00:38:34,920 --> 00:38:37,759 Speaker 2: absorbing water and it's soft and it's great, and then 667 00:38:37,800 --> 00:38:39,960 Speaker 2: toward the middle of summer, towards the end of spring, 668 00:38:40,280 --> 00:38:42,600 Speaker 2: you start to get a hard pan soil that may 669 00:38:42,680 --> 00:38:46,520 Speaker 2: or may not be the situation, and that's it. If 670 00:38:46,760 --> 00:38:49,759 Speaker 2: that was the situation, then I would go in there 671 00:38:49,880 --> 00:38:53,520 Speaker 2: underneath the roses and start to use a rake of 672 00:38:53,560 --> 00:38:56,360 Speaker 2: some sort to bake break up that before it starts 673 00:38:56,400 --> 00:39:01,480 Speaker 2: to become a pan. And then also another thing that 674 00:39:01,640 --> 00:39:06,920 Speaker 2: helps other fertilizers get absorbed is alfalfa. Alfalfa is my 675 00:39:07,000 --> 00:39:11,640 Speaker 2: favorite springtime fertilizer for roses and fruit trees. I do 676 00:39:11,719 --> 00:39:16,960 Speaker 2: a combination of chicka manure because it's gushy and alfalfa. 677 00:39:17,480 --> 00:39:20,960 Speaker 2: It's gushier that starts to kind of break down the 678 00:39:20,960 --> 00:39:23,120 Speaker 2: soil at that top surface, so it doesn't end up 679 00:39:23,680 --> 00:39:27,560 Speaker 2: being a hardpan and resist fertilizer. So that may be 680 00:39:27,760 --> 00:39:31,520 Speaker 2: the answer for you, regardless of how dry that soil 681 00:39:31,560 --> 00:39:34,480 Speaker 2: becomes during the summer. But also just make sure that, 682 00:39:34,880 --> 00:39:37,879 Speaker 2: I mean, that's pretty much the main thing I see 683 00:39:38,040 --> 00:39:43,440 Speaker 2: with a rose that is not getting really really well fertilized. 684 00:39:43,920 --> 00:39:45,680 Speaker 2: So the first thing I think of is the content 685 00:39:45,719 --> 00:39:49,120 Speaker 2: of the soil, and any sort of a mulch is 686 00:39:49,160 --> 00:39:51,759 Speaker 2: good on top of the soil as well, But make 687 00:39:51,800 --> 00:39:54,879 Speaker 2: sure that that alfalfa and chicka manure are right there 688 00:39:54,920 --> 00:39:57,760 Speaker 2: on the soil level in order to get into the plant. 689 00:39:58,239 --> 00:39:59,280 Speaker 2: Does that sound doable? 690 00:40:00,640 --> 00:40:03,960 Speaker 4: It does undoable, and I've done I've done alfalfa before, 691 00:40:04,000 --> 00:40:05,640 Speaker 4: but maybe I need to be a little more regular 692 00:40:05,680 --> 00:40:12,080 Speaker 4: with the alfalfa and the chicken manure. Chicken they won't right. 693 00:40:13,520 --> 00:40:15,759 Speaker 2: No, I mean, if we're gonna get some, you're gonna 694 00:40:15,760 --> 00:40:19,400 Speaker 2: water them in number one and you're not putting a 695 00:40:19,440 --> 00:40:22,600 Speaker 2: lot of chicken manure. Now that it got hot. But 696 00:40:22,680 --> 00:40:25,800 Speaker 2: if it's not going to be above seventy this week. 697 00:40:26,040 --> 00:40:29,760 Speaker 2: If that's the case, double check your area in San Carlos. 698 00:40:30,360 --> 00:40:32,239 Speaker 2: If it's not going to get too hot, then I 699 00:40:32,280 --> 00:40:34,240 Speaker 2: can go ahead and put it out this this week, 700 00:40:34,640 --> 00:40:36,239 Speaker 2: or you can wait until the following week and see 701 00:40:36,239 --> 00:40:40,239 Speaker 2: if it cools down even more. I don't know how 702 00:40:40,280 --> 00:40:41,600 Speaker 2: cool it's going to be for Easter. 703 00:40:42,960 --> 00:40:43,480 Speaker 3: Aalfa. 704 00:40:43,920 --> 00:40:48,279 Speaker 4: I probably don't need the granular organic growth. 705 00:40:48,880 --> 00:40:52,040 Speaker 2: Skip a month, right, you would skip a month and 706 00:40:52,080 --> 00:40:59,280 Speaker 2: then then start regularly in May with the actual organic 707 00:40:59,560 --> 00:41:07,080 Speaker 2: rose fertilizer from ebe Stone or one of those companies. Okay, yeah, okay, 708 00:41:07,360 --> 00:41:10,239 Speaker 2: all right, Todd, thanks so much for calling. Thank you 709 00:41:10,360 --> 00:41:13,439 Speaker 2: very much. Let's go to Lynn and Berkeley. Good morning, Lynn, 710 00:41:13,920 --> 00:41:16,280 Speaker 2: how are you today? How's that water? Morning. 711 00:41:19,400 --> 00:41:22,760 Speaker 6: Yeah right, my head watering. It's crazy that always recommended 712 00:41:22,800 --> 00:41:25,640 Speaker 6: that I love us. I have a question. I have 713 00:41:25,640 --> 00:41:28,280 Speaker 6: a squirrel who loves digging up seats that I've planted. 714 00:41:28,320 --> 00:41:32,080 Speaker 6: It's so annoying. Besides putting maybe a like mesh on it. 715 00:41:32,120 --> 00:41:34,360 Speaker 6: Give any of these questions and we're not going to 716 00:41:34,440 --> 00:41:36,120 Speaker 6: do anything harmful to the squirrel. 717 00:41:37,480 --> 00:41:40,279 Speaker 2: No, I mean harmful with. 718 00:41:41,760 --> 00:41:41,960 Speaker 4: You know. 719 00:41:42,080 --> 00:41:45,799 Speaker 2: What I'd like to think of is avoidance. Okay, So 720 00:41:45,840 --> 00:41:49,560 Speaker 2: in other words, make something unattractive to them. And with 721 00:41:49,680 --> 00:41:52,960 Speaker 2: the squirrels, that would be the Tabasco sauce. Okay, so 722 00:41:53,040 --> 00:41:56,120 Speaker 2: that's basically tabasco and water. Get it in a little spritzer. 723 00:41:56,640 --> 00:42:00,799 Speaker 2: Put it on top of that every maybe you might 724 00:42:00,840 --> 00:42:04,160 Speaker 2: want to yeah, yeah, exactly, on top of the soil. 725 00:42:04,239 --> 00:42:06,799 Speaker 2: So the first, the first thing that gets in their 726 00:42:06,840 --> 00:42:09,360 Speaker 2: mouth that they tried to avoid it. I have a 727 00:42:09,360 --> 00:42:12,719 Speaker 2: pet peeve with squirrels as well. But yes I I 728 00:42:13,160 --> 00:42:18,320 Speaker 2: I actually gave them two plants exactly. Yeah, it's hard, 729 00:42:18,840 --> 00:42:19,680 Speaker 2: but we had you do it. 730 00:42:21,000 --> 00:42:22,000 Speaker 4: Would that worked to keep them? 731 00:42:22,000 --> 00:42:23,520 Speaker 6: Would that worked to keep them off of a bird 732 00:42:23,520 --> 00:42:23,920 Speaker 6: feed here? 733 00:42:25,760 --> 00:42:28,680 Speaker 2: Yeah? A lot of times it does. In fact, my 734 00:42:28,880 --> 00:42:33,120 Speaker 2: dad always put gosh, you put tabasco in the bird, 735 00:42:33,200 --> 00:42:37,040 Speaker 2: in the feed itself, so that once they experience that 736 00:42:37,080 --> 00:42:40,120 Speaker 2: they stayed away whether or not you can get that 737 00:42:40,239 --> 00:42:45,080 Speaker 2: same from yeah, yeah, chili pepper right exactly, something spicy, 738 00:42:45,160 --> 00:42:47,600 Speaker 2: so that yep, exactly. 739 00:42:49,520 --> 00:42:51,800 Speaker 6: Wonderful. 740 00:42:52,200 --> 00:42:55,720 Speaker 2: Thank you, thank you, Lynn, thanks so much for everything, 741 00:42:55,880 --> 00:43:00,279 Speaker 2: all right, alrighty and that that kind of winds us 742 00:43:00,360 --> 00:43:03,400 Speaker 2: up for the day. I hope everybody has a good 743 00:43:03,440 --> 00:43:09,720 Speaker 2: plan this week. Keep keep listening to or keep reading 744 00:43:09,800 --> 00:43:13,280 Speaker 2: up on what the weather will be like that day 745 00:43:14,200 --> 00:43:16,880 Speaker 2: each day to make sure that if you are going 746 00:43:17,000 --> 00:43:19,120 Speaker 2: out there to you know, planning to put that chicken 747 00:43:19,200 --> 00:43:21,080 Speaker 2: manure out there, or if you're going to put the 748 00:43:21,239 --> 00:43:23,040 Speaker 2: alfalfa is fine. It doesn't matter around