Latest / Garden America Saturday / Mid-August Gardening Harvests, Surprises, and Fresh Tips [08.16.2025]
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- 0:01Speaker 1: Welcome to the Garden America Show, the country's most to
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- 0:07Speaker 1: us as we talk about gardening, horticulture, landscaping, in fact,
- 0:11Speaker 1: anything that has to do with the world of gardening.
- 0:13Speaker 1: Now here's Brian Maine, John Bagnasco, and Tiger Palafox on
- 0:18Speaker 1: the Garden America Radio and Media Network.
- 0:21Speaker 2: Welcome back, my friend. We are back in studio which
- 0:25Speaker 2: Garden America. Brian Maine, John Begnasco, Tiger Pelafox. Good to
- 0:29Speaker 2: be back in familiar surroundings here as we went from
- 0:32Speaker 2: the outdoors to the indoors and we're hoping things are
- 0:34Speaker 2: going to go just peachy keen today Tiger Palafox Again,
- 0:37Speaker 2: I'm Brian Maine, John Begnasco, John, good to see you here.
- 0:41Speaker 2: You're up and ready to go. In fact, John was
- 0:42Speaker 2: the first one here today and when I arrived, he
- 0:45Speaker 2: was in the parking lot. Oh really yeah already, And
- 0:47Speaker 2: then he says, you got your last night He camped
- 0:49Speaker 2: out there out there. He was so excited, so excited
- 0:52Speaker 2: to be back here. I was here at six sixty five. Yeah,
- 0:55Speaker 2: I pulled in about quartered tenders.
- 0:58Speaker 3: Here are San jose friend Tom that she's back in
- 1:01Speaker 3: the USA. She was in Amsterdam and Norway.
- 1:05Speaker 4: Oh memory, was she the one that asked about you
- 1:08Speaker 4: have to visit?
- 1:09Speaker 3: Well, she had a fam maybe I don't know, but
- 1:11Speaker 3: she had a family reunion in Norway, and she.
- 1:14Speaker 2: Told us before she left, because didn't she ask us
- 1:17Speaker 2: we were doing a broadcast at the nursery.
- 1:19Speaker 4: She asked about places to go in Amsterdam.
- 1:21Speaker 2: Or exactly yeah, and you gave her yeah. But that
- 1:26Speaker 2: wasn't a very nice part.
- 1:27Speaker 3: I don't know, if I don't know if you guys
- 1:29Speaker 3: noticed in the newsletter, did she sent a picture of
- 1:34Speaker 3: her plumeria blooming?
- 1:36Speaker 2: Yes? I did see that, and that was the plumeria
- 1:38Speaker 2: that she got the cutting.
- 1:39Speaker 4: Oh it's crazy how sometimes plumerias will bloom so early
- 1:47Speaker 4: and then some just won't bloom.
- 1:48Speaker 2: Oh you know what I mean about them? Don't You
- 1:50Speaker 2: can't really rely on anything. They're very because you're right,
- 1:54Speaker 2: because I had mine didn't bloom until maybe a month
- 1:58Speaker 2: or so ago. It just like, come on, what are
- 2:00Speaker 2: you gonna do?
- 2:01Speaker 4: You get envy because then there's all these people posting
- 2:03Speaker 4: these plumeria flower blooms.
- 2:05Speaker 2: You know, I relate.
- 2:08Speaker 4: Just just having them grow.
- 2:13Speaker 2: You know, go ahead.
- 2:14Speaker 4: I was up at California, California Rare Fruit Grower, California
- 2:23Speaker 4: Rare Fruit Growers Association. No, it was an association. It
- 2:28Speaker 4: was it was like a nursery and they're up in
- 2:33Speaker 4: here Fallbrook area, like I can't remember exactly where it was,
- 2:38Speaker 4: but they had a ton of plumerias at this at
- 2:42Speaker 4: this nursery too, and they were growing great. They were
- 2:45Speaker 4: out there in kind of the northeast county as well.
- 2:48Speaker 4: Not just about jacks, no, no, not jungle jacks. This
- 2:54Speaker 4: was California Rare Fruit Grocer.
- 2:57Speaker 2: Or grow I think that's what That's what I anyway.
- 3:00Speaker 4: Yeah, so yeah, I was picking up some trees for
- 3:04Speaker 4: a customer and you know, they were growing great out there.
- 3:09Speaker 2: There were some things that we need to talk about,
- 3:12Speaker 2: need to clean up just talking. Yeah, one was it
- 3:17Speaker 2: was last week.
- 3:18Speaker 3: I think we were talking about multi right, yes, and
- 3:21Speaker 3: you were talking about how you like gorilla hair, correct,
- 3:25Speaker 3: and we you know, sometimes when we start talking, you
- 3:31Speaker 3: don't think of the whole the scope of the whole
- 3:35Speaker 3: subject because we have limited time, right, and plus we
- 3:38Speaker 3: have short attention spans.
- 3:40Speaker 2: But sharing one part of the conversation, Yeah, but what.
- 3:42Speaker 3: We for neglected to do Tiger was to let people
- 3:47Speaker 3: know about if you're in a fire prone area, check
- 3:51Speaker 3: with your local guideline.
- 3:54Speaker 2: Like cal Fire has restrictions.
- 3:57Speaker 3: You're not even allowed to use hair, all right, and
- 4:02Speaker 3: that one of their restrictions is no malt or plants
- 4:06Speaker 3: for five feet. Well you could have plants, I guess,
- 4:09Speaker 3: but no malt five feet of the house. No mulch
- 4:12Speaker 3: that can burn. No, yeah, yeah, so you could have rock.
- 4:17Speaker 2: There's something I don't know if they call that bolt no, no,
- 4:20Speaker 2: but you know, if you have a walkway around the house, yeah,
- 4:23Speaker 2: you know. And then there's different zones like after thirty
- 4:25Speaker 2: feet you can do whatever, right, and then there's second
- 4:29Speaker 2: zambers can't jump.
- 4:30Speaker 4: Well well no. But the thing is is like, have
- 4:33Speaker 4: you ever seen like a grass fire, Brian, where it's
- 4:36Speaker 4: moving across the field and it's just it's just burning
- 4:39Speaker 4: as it goes small amounts of grass and it just
- 4:42Speaker 4: travels across the field. And that's what will happen with bults.
- 4:45Speaker 4: It'll light light on fire and then it'll just kind
- 4:48Speaker 4: of smolder all the way. And the reason why firefighters
- 4:52Speaker 4: don't like it is because it's that smoldering. If it's
- 4:55Speaker 4: up next to the house, they can't really put it
- 4:57Speaker 4: out real well. Even when they douse it with water,
- 5:00Speaker 4: it stays. So they kind of scrape it away from
- 5:03Speaker 4: a house because obviously they don't want your house. And
- 5:08Speaker 4: you know, so it's a very good point, very good
- 5:10Speaker 4: point for you know, if you're in a fire throne area.
- 5:14Speaker 3: Which is I just don't want somebody's house burn down
- 5:17Speaker 3: because they put correll.
- 5:20Speaker 2: Yeah, that's sure, that is true.
- 5:22Speaker 4: Yeah, And you know, and it's a tough thing because
- 5:25Speaker 4: you know, mulches do do a lot of good for areas,
- 5:30Speaker 4: even in fire areas, like in the sense.
- 5:32Speaker 3: Of keeping they hold moisture in the soil, so that's
- 5:36Speaker 3: not going to be dry.
- 5:37Speaker 4: Is dry, and you know, and like we said it
- 5:40Speaker 4: could you know, actually you know, keep the plants healthier
- 5:44Speaker 4: and full of water so they don't catch as catch
- 5:46Speaker 4: fire as much. So it's a it's a balance, it's
- 5:50Speaker 4: a balance. But I will say mulches are suggested to
- 5:54Speaker 4: be applied you know, every year. You know, these are
- 5:58Speaker 4: not just a one and done item. So if it's
- 6:00Speaker 4: something that you're like, ooh, I apply it in the
- 6:02Speaker 4: middle of winter, by the summer. Maybe it's if you
- 6:05Speaker 4: do a light coat of it. It's it's kind of
- 6:07Speaker 4: gone already.
- 6:09Speaker 3: The other thing we need, Gus is I think a
- 6:12Speaker 3: new topic.
- 6:13Speaker 2: Us.
- 6:14Speaker 3: Oh that's a vippery Oh yeah, Robert and one of
- 6:21Speaker 3: our listeners, just County. Yes, actually I think listen hot Thak.
- 6:30Speaker 3: But he sent this picture.
- 6:33Speaker 4: Golf course.
- 6:36Speaker 2: All right, But did you see the picture Brian and
- 6:39Speaker 2: the tomato? Yeah, yeah, exactly, we looked at that last
- 6:43Speaker 2: week before you put it in the newsletter, because you
- 6:45Speaker 2: have received it. Yeah, I saw, yeah, I saw. Yeah.
- 6:50Speaker 3: Anyway, his tomato has seeds that have germinated inside the tomato,
- 6:56Speaker 3: and plants are grown.
- 6:59Speaker 2: What do you call that? Call it the do you
- 7:04Speaker 2: call it? Or do you call it? I call it?
- 7:10Speaker 2: There's some.
- 7:12Speaker 3: Uh, some people say vibe which uh at the current
- 7:17Speaker 3: moment is here for me to say.
- 7:20Speaker 2: But it's seeds.
- 7:24Speaker 3: Seeds are plants, uh starting uh on the main part
- 7:30Speaker 3: of them. Yeah, and it's true with a gobby's plants
- 7:36Speaker 3: on the plant.
- 7:38Speaker 5: No.
- 7:38Speaker 4: But but I if I mean, if you want to
- 7:41Speaker 4: go into deeper. I loved the article that you wrote
- 7:43Speaker 4: on it because it explained it. But I mean, the
- 7:46Speaker 4: people need to understand that normally there's what is it called,
- 7:50Speaker 4: what is it hormones or what is it? You're saying
- 7:52Speaker 4: that normally the tomato has this product in there which
- 7:56Speaker 4: suppresses the seed for growing.
- 7:59Speaker 2: It's whacking that and yeah.
- 8:01Speaker 4: And it's black and that. And you said people can
- 8:03Speaker 4: actually cause that to happen by storing it. Yeah, area,
- 8:08Speaker 4: So what was.
- 8:09Speaker 2: It that it's like their natural hormones.
- 8:11Speaker 4: Hormones. There's hormones so that cover the seed that say,
- 8:14Speaker 4: do not start to sprout while growing in the fruit itself.
- 8:18Speaker 4: And this is this is for everything, because this happens
- 8:21Speaker 4: to cantalope.
- 8:22Speaker 2: How about potato? How about potatoes?
- 8:23Speaker 4: Now, potatoes have.
- 8:27Speaker 2: You're not part of the potatoes aren't family? They are? Yeah,
- 8:32Speaker 2: but it couldn't it could not happen to a tomato.
- 8:36Speaker 2: I mean, I'm sorry potato.
- 8:37Speaker 4: Well, potatoes naturally grow the plants on the outside of.
- 8:45Speaker 2: Right.
- 8:47Speaker 4: But no, but this can happen to a lot of
- 8:49Speaker 4: variety of different things. This happens to oranges sometimes.
- 8:52Speaker 2: Right, So the fruit has to be stressed out, so stressed.
- 8:55Speaker 4: Right, Yeah, but you said something in the article in
- 8:58Speaker 4: terms of storing it.
- 9:00Speaker 2: Yeah, if it's you start in a cool moist condition,
- 9:05Speaker 2: it'll naturally break down that hormone or if it's over right.
- 9:10Speaker 2: You know, if I was if I owned a company
- 9:12Speaker 2: that sells potatoes and I was charge of marketing. But
- 9:15Speaker 2: you know, but you know, if my selling point would
- 9:17Speaker 2: be the eyes, you don't get it. I did get it.
- 9:24Speaker 2: The eyes have it. It's something to work. But no, no,
- 9:26Speaker 2: that's it. There's no working. That's it. It doesn't it
- 9:29Speaker 2: any any polishing up at all. That's it. The hour.
- 9:31Speaker 2: There's no marketing campaign. You're gonna leave right now. That's it.
- 9:35Speaker 2: The eyes have it, all right. You know what you
- 9:37Speaker 2: want to squeeze in that quote? It is yet I'm
- 9:41Speaker 2: not even really a quote. It's more of a blip
- 9:43Speaker 2: on the radar screen. Was quotes from loud Su Chinese
- 9:49Speaker 2: plus that one name or is that too names?
- 9:51Speaker 4: I thought I thought it was loud.
- 9:55Speaker 2: Singer loud Sue And when did loud too live? Lao
- 10:00Speaker 2: Sue allow suit Lao Yeah, low is yes.
- 10:05Speaker 3: Anyways, a Chinese philosopher, and he said that nature does
- 10:08Speaker 3: not hurry get everything.
- 10:13Speaker 2: Ru Yeah, you have to think about those us. All right,
- 10:21Speaker 2: We're going to take a break. Our final segment is
- 10:25Speaker 2: almost in the history this no, no, no, this prior segment, prior, yeah,
- 10:33Speaker 2: the last thing this one here. When we come back,
- 10:35Speaker 2: we have a different from one of our listeners. Ray
- 10:37Speaker 2: five nice nice peace. John, Hey, thank you to those
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- 10:48Speaker 2: John macnasca talking plabox back in studio. This is Guard America.
- 11:06Speaker 5: Welcome back to the Garden America Radio Show with Brian,
- 11:09Speaker 5: John and Tiger.
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- 11:24Speaker 2: on a national level. Now, you did a great tease
- 11:27Speaker 2: before the break. Yeah, do you want to go right
- 11:29Speaker 2: into or I want to do whatever you want to do.
- 11:32Speaker 4: Let's all here for you.
- 11:33Speaker 2: Let's do that.
- 11:34Speaker 3: Right after you explained this is your day to John
- 11:37Speaker 3: from Newport Beach, why we're back hearing.
- 11:40Speaker 2: We're back in studio because during the last couple of
- 11:43Speaker 2: two or three weeks, Tiger's been experimenting with various technological
- 11:46Speaker 2: ways to present the show. We ran into some Wi
- 11:49Speaker 2: Fi problems, We ran into some situations that only only Tiger,
- 11:54Speaker 2: myself and you understand. So after being out for a
- 11:56Speaker 2: companent weeks include me and a mon of roll. What
- 12:00Speaker 2: are you doing here on a roll? What do I
- 12:02Speaker 2: normally say?
- 12:03Speaker 3: My answer always is did you put a new better
- 12:06Speaker 3: so you brought up were So what we're doing.
- 12:07Speaker 2: We're back in studio with a new way to hook
- 12:10Speaker 2: up based upon the experiences and the and the experimentations
- 12:14Speaker 2: we did outdoor.
- 12:16Speaker 4: Very true, and so you're going well for everybody else?
- 12:20Speaker 2: Yeah, I hope so true.
- 12:21Speaker 3: What you're saying is that our other hookup apps weren't satisfied.
- 12:26Speaker 2: You know what, remember this, when you update one, you know,
- 12:29Speaker 2: one little device, you better update all of the device.
- 12:36Speaker 3: That's good as anyway, back to Robert and Grapevine texts.
- 12:40Speaker 3: He sent us a picture and of a dwarf papai.
- 12:47Speaker 3: Really yeah, and it was growing through the roof of
- 12:49Speaker 3: his greenhouse. I saw that, Yeah, and but did you
- 12:53Speaker 3: see all the papai? Okay, so he was growing it
- 12:56Speaker 3: in a pot in the variety of papai called t
- 13:01Speaker 3: r hov h ov y. And the nice thing about
- 13:05Speaker 3: it is that you can grow that anywhere in a
- 13:07Speaker 3: container and it'll fruit like that in the container. So
- 13:11Speaker 3: I was thinking, like you, Brian on your patio, grow papaya. Yeah,
- 13:15Speaker 3: they're supposed to get like I think he said, supposed
- 13:19Speaker 3: to get four to eight.
- 13:21Speaker 2: His was I would say, easily over each. I've never
- 13:24Speaker 2: tried to grow them. You like, yes, you do. Yeah,
- 13:28Speaker 2: And it's not something that I think. It's not one
- 13:31Speaker 2: of those fruits that people eat all but it's not
- 13:33Speaker 2: up there with oranges blind one of the best things
- 13:36Speaker 2: for you, right anyway, that t r hovey. I looked
- 13:43Speaker 2: at that picture and you do the same thing, Tiger,
- 13:46Speaker 2: when you see something go I might yes, definitely, Oh yeah, yeah.
- 13:53Speaker 2: So we have some new you said, new viewers, new listeners.
- 13:56Speaker 2: This week we had oh my god, well you were
- 14:01Speaker 2: You're talking about the person from Elmerton, Alberta, Alberta, Brian, Brian,
- 14:10Speaker 2: let me know that I should not have put in
- 14:12Speaker 2: by letter Brian to Brian, let me know I should
- 14:15Speaker 2: not have put in Edmonton, Canada.
- 14:20Speaker 3: Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Right, it's a province. I feel like
- 14:23Speaker 3: San Diego, California, United States.
- 14:26Speaker 2: Right. But anyway, so we have some new people checking in,
- 14:30Speaker 2: you got.
- 14:31Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, she sent us a picture of some mister Shams.
- 14:34Speaker 3: You know that Edmonton, Canada, Edmonton, Alberta, Brian has the
- 14:39Speaker 3: largest shopping center in North America.
- 14:43Speaker 2: It's an indoor shopping center, isn't Yeah, yes, that's bigger
- 14:46Speaker 2: than the all of America. It has an amusement park. Yeah,
- 14:49Speaker 2: so it's it's like another bigger than it's like another
- 14:53Speaker 2: cent like you're in a city with it is. Yeah.
- 14:57Speaker 3: By the way, the Mexican government call it them All
- 15:04Speaker 3: instead of them all of America. But what the politicians.
- 15:09Speaker 2: Yeah, a lot of important things.
- 15:12Speaker 3: You just kind of pointed out Brian that she liked
- 15:15Speaker 3: their nursery setup. Yeah, this makes a lot more sense
- 15:18Speaker 3: with fall and winter coming.
- 15:20Speaker 4: Yeah, we're gonna try some different changes because we can
- 15:23Speaker 4: do this at the nursery too. Yeah, so we're to
- 15:29Speaker 4: be able to kind of expand our abilities when it comes.
- 15:31Speaker 2: To and you know what, there's growing pains.
- 15:33Speaker 4: Flexibility is what we're looking forward, right, Yeah, exactly as
- 15:37Speaker 4: we get older.
- 15:39Speaker 2: Important but again with that comes growing pains and certain
- 15:42Speaker 2: things that maybe not work exactly the way you want them,
- 15:45Speaker 2: but then you rebound and come back to the week after.
- 15:47Speaker 4: But it's like gardening, right, that's that's right. You know
- 15:50Speaker 4: you plant something and it doesn't work out.
- 15:54Speaker 2: So what's your what's you're what you're getting at is
- 15:55Speaker 2: at the end of the year, if someone's going to say, John,
- 15:57Speaker 2: how many shows did you kill? These?
- 15:59Speaker 3: The speaking of gardening, Uh, I'm getting a great crop
- 16:07Speaker 3: of are you?
- 16:08Speaker 2: And I like the do you want some?
- 16:13Speaker 3: I asked Shannon last night should I bring Brian a zucchini?
- 16:18Speaker 3: And she said, I'm gonna cut it off freezing.
- 16:22Speaker 2: Fine. You know, you just reminded me she can be
- 16:25Speaker 2: I never brought I never brought you your egg carton
- 16:30Speaker 2: and that was like a month ago. Well, here's what
- 16:32Speaker 2: I did when I was cracking eggs without even thinking,
- 16:35Speaker 2: I cracked that right back in the cart.
- 16:37Speaker 3: And you know what, I'm not saying, who in my
- 16:41Speaker 3: house also that? But that really upsets I know.
- 16:44Speaker 2: It's like you're coming clean, yeah, tossing the trash can.
- 16:48Speaker 3: Yeah, And it's a lot easier to recycle that if
- 16:51Speaker 3: you're not going to save the car. I had to
- 16:53Speaker 3: know you can recycle. I've been carrying this burden for
- 16:55Speaker 3: the past month. Ors I'm clean my chest, and I
- 16:59Speaker 3: knew it the first two and I.
- 17:01Speaker 4: Went so so John regarding you as zucchini though, right,
- 17:04Speaker 4: because this was kind of a an experiment. But this
- 17:08Speaker 4: was all very late, really late, right, and you're getting
- 17:12Speaker 4: good production on everything. Yeah, is this going to force
- 17:15Speaker 4: you to be a late gardener? Because like sometimes when
- 17:18Speaker 4: you start early, you deal with more problems.
- 17:22Speaker 2: Right, well, you know what you miss out on, right,
- 17:27Speaker 2: I didn't.
- 17:27Speaker 3: The reason I did did not start early was I
- 17:30Speaker 3: didn't have anywhere to plan, right, and then you made
- 17:33Speaker 3: somewhere for me exactly So had I been I we
- 17:38Speaker 3: planned lettice really was too late and I put in
- 17:40Speaker 3: a heat tolerant let us. But to me, it's a
- 17:43Speaker 3: little gotch. So wait for the cool weather. But other things.
- 17:48Speaker 4: Tomato looked great. Tomato look excellent.
- 17:52Speaker 2: Tomatoes are doing really well.
- 17:54Speaker 4: And normally you would have started those a couple of months,
- 17:58Speaker 4: three months earlier. I don't know about three, but two,
- 18:02Speaker 4: what are we in August, in July, June? I plan
- 18:06Speaker 4: planted them in May. Then when I did, oh, I
- 18:09Speaker 4: thought you planted them in June might have. Okay, so
- 18:14Speaker 4: what about how how hot?
- 18:16Speaker 2: How hot? I can take two right, how hot has
- 18:20Speaker 2: it been in Fallbrooks Because we've had uterally mild temperatures
- 18:24Speaker 2: last couple.
- 18:24Speaker 3: We've had pretty mild temperatures. Tiger pointed out that there's
- 18:28Speaker 3: some ninety degree days coming up towards.
- 18:34Speaker 2: Just when it just seems like I'm going to get
- 18:36Speaker 2: through August.
- 18:38Speaker 4: I love, I mean, it's it's natural. This is this
- 18:43Speaker 4: is not bad.
- 18:45Speaker 2: But I'm I got bets going. You know, you can
- 18:47Speaker 2: anything the weather.
- 18:49Speaker 4: This is perfect. But what do you what are you
- 18:50Speaker 4: betting that it's.
- 18:51Speaker 2: I'm betting that that they through the entire end of
- 18:53Speaker 2: August it's going to continue to be mild.
- 18:55Speaker 4: Well, but what's what is mild in the sense of, you.
- 18:58Speaker 2: Know, eighty mid to uper ratings?
- 19:01Speaker 4: Okay, John normally is hitting triple digits right right now.
- 19:06Speaker 2: I rarely ever get trip no not. You've come back
- 19:10Speaker 2: and you say I was one O one, one o
- 19:12Speaker 2: two in my pleasure. Yeah, but there's less than six
- 19:15Speaker 2: of those days the whole year.
- 19:17Speaker 4: Okay, So you're in the nineties, so you're in the nine,
- 19:21Speaker 4: you're in the nineties, you're in the nineties normal, No,
- 19:24Speaker 4: normally in the eighties.
- 19:25Speaker 2: Okay, this is for Tiger. This is the best time
- 19:30Speaker 2: of year for you. Right, Oh yeah, okay, break time
- 19:33Speaker 2: you have to keep. Yeah, we gotta pay some more bills.
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- 19:41Speaker 2: Here we go, Brian Main, John, Bacnasco, Tiger Peala Fox
- 19:44Speaker 2: back with more guarding information. Are we caught up with
- 19:46Speaker 2: a lot of the questions in comments? Do we need
- 19:47Speaker 2: to deal there?
- 19:48Speaker 3: We've got a question for Tiger because we were well
- 19:51Speaker 3: actually for me, but Tiger and I was pretty discussing.
- 19:55Speaker 2: We'll do that after the break. After these messages on BizTalk.
- 19:58Speaker 5: Radio, welcome back to the Garden America Radio Show with Brian,
- 20:14Speaker 5: John and Tiger.
- 20:16Speaker 2: That break is over. Back to business now, seriousness, gardening,
- 20:20Speaker 2: horticultural landscaping, and we got to answer some questions, comments
- 20:24Speaker 2: and the delve back into the show.
- 20:25Speaker 3: Yeah, Paula and Fallbrook. Tiger is asking if I laid
- 20:30Speaker 3: the screen under the vegetable area for gopher protection, and
- 20:35Speaker 3: we did not.
- 20:36Speaker 2: But you and I were just.
- 20:38Speaker 3: Right yeah, and you were talking about how sometimes I
- 20:41Speaker 3: guess when you put in a line, you'll put what
- 20:45Speaker 3: do you put under.
- 20:45Speaker 4: There's so it's not chicken wire. A lot of times
- 20:50Speaker 4: what they'll kind of sell it as is like a
- 20:52Speaker 4: construction match, and it's it's a wire match that has
- 20:56Speaker 4: square not hexicon.
- 20:59Speaker 2: Is what chicken wire has really small Usually.
- 21:02Speaker 4: It is pretty small. You can die in different sizes.
- 21:05Speaker 4: But for gophers. See, the thing with gophers is anything smaller,
- 21:09Speaker 4: anything bigger than like a three quarter of an inch
- 21:12Speaker 4: size is too big because gophers can kind of get
- 21:16Speaker 4: through there, So you kind of have to have it
- 21:19Speaker 4: smaller than that. That's why they say you can't even
- 21:21Speaker 4: use chicken or gophers too big protection. Yeah, exactly, So
- 21:26Speaker 4: it's like a construction screen or construction am but but yeah,
- 21:32Speaker 4: so people use it in their lawns to prevent the
- 21:35Speaker 4: gophers from getting into their lawns and creating damage.
- 21:37Speaker 2: So that's what you're gonna do with John Town No,
- 21:40Speaker 2: because really.
- 21:40Speaker 4: Because the thing with John's beds is John's beds.
- 21:44Speaker 2: I'm talking about the lawn that you're going to put in.
- 21:47Speaker 4: We we talked about it, and the thing that I
- 21:50Speaker 4: don't like about that is once it's there, it's it's there. Like,
- 21:56Speaker 4: it is not easy to pull up, it is not
- 21:59Speaker 4: easy to dig roue. It ends up breaking down eventually
- 22:04Speaker 4: and then you have.
- 22:06Speaker 2: You know what I mean, Like, what do you do
- 22:07Speaker 2: about the gophers that start to.
- 22:09Speaker 4: Well, that's job, he's got a system.
- 22:13Speaker 2: But you're gonna wait until you see that first go.
- 22:15Speaker 3: Had a gopher hole in months? You know, I I
- 22:19Speaker 3: got up to I think it was eighty four gophers.
- 22:22Speaker 2: So what do you think that's the end of gophers
- 22:24Speaker 2: at your place? No, but I you know, now, whenever
- 22:27Speaker 2: you see tunnel action can just go through it, right,
- 22:31Speaker 2: But you're you're not gonna see the damage until they
- 22:34Speaker 2: pop up on the lawn and there's a big mound, right. See.
- 22:37Speaker 4: But if anybody is listening that has used any kind
- 22:41Speaker 4: of mash material for protective overs, they've laid it in
- 22:44Speaker 4: an entire long I would love to hear a report
- 22:48Speaker 4: back after five and you see if they regretted it,
- 22:52Speaker 4: See if they appreciated it, See what their thoughts.
- 22:56Speaker 2: Okay, so what are your what are your concerns about that?
- 22:59Speaker 4: Well, well, my biggest concern is you know, you you know,
- 23:05Speaker 4: if you want to dig in that area against so
- 23:07Speaker 4: say so you want to plant a tree. Yeah, say
- 23:09Speaker 4: you want to plant a tree in your lawn. Now
- 23:11Speaker 4: you have this wire mesh that you dig through. It's
- 23:14Speaker 4: not going to be terribly hard, but you've now kind
- 23:19Speaker 4: of uh penetrated the force fields, so and you're just
- 23:24Speaker 4: providing access. And also it's just metal in there, and
- 23:28Speaker 4: like when you're digging, it's going to be sharp point.
- 23:31Speaker 2: So you're you're what you're what you're saying is if
- 23:33Speaker 2: you change your mind you want to want to up
- 23:35Speaker 2: trade or do something like planting a tree, there's a problem.
- 23:38Speaker 2: But if you don't plan on doing it, it's going
- 23:39Speaker 2: to be grass for righteve.
- 23:40Speaker 4: But who doesn't want to change their minds? Well, yeah, no,
- 23:43Speaker 4: exactly is five ten years from now. I mean it's
- 23:46Speaker 4: kind of like my thoughts on the weed fabric. People say, oh,
- 23:49Speaker 4: I want weed fabric below my rock or below my
- 23:52Speaker 4: molt or below the DG to protect from weeds. I
- 23:55Speaker 4: say no, because like it's it's just going to be
- 23:59Speaker 4: later on, it's going to come up through everything. It's
- 24:01Speaker 4: gonna tear, it's gonna rip the weeds. The weed seeds
- 24:05Speaker 4: fall on top of the mulch, the rock, the d G.
- 24:08Speaker 4: Anyway is start growing from there, you do get a
- 24:11Speaker 4: little bit more protection, but I think that the overall
- 24:15Speaker 4: problem is bigger with weed barrier down't and there are
- 24:19Speaker 4: right places for it, but I'm not a huge advocate.
- 24:22Speaker 3: I think that we'd berrier or the mesh is more
- 24:27Speaker 3: of a problem now, and that's because people aren't moving
- 24:32Speaker 3: as fun there used to be. If you lived in
- 24:35Speaker 3: California in a house for five years, that was plenty.
- 24:38Speaker 2: Yeah. Okay, so uh let's see what was the other.
- 24:48Speaker 4: Did we talk about that though? Like, did we answer
- 24:50Speaker 4: a question regarding the environment, what.
- 24:51Speaker 2: Do we find? I don't want people to be hanging
- 24:53Speaker 2: on going?
- 24:53Speaker 4: You know, they said we did you use the mesh
- 24:57Speaker 4: in the beds?
- 24:57Speaker 2: No? We did not?
- 24:58Speaker 4: Oh, ther answer was no. But but the other reason
- 25:01Speaker 4: why we specifically did not use mash in John's bed
- 25:05Speaker 4: is that his beds are only really about six inches
- 25:09Speaker 4: meaning above the ground. So if we were to put
- 25:11Speaker 4: mesh under the would raise it. Well, no, it would
- 25:14Speaker 4: have only been six inches blow. So if he would
- 25:16Speaker 4: have dig, if he would have planted a one gallon plant,
- 25:20Speaker 4: you'd been hitting that.
- 25:21Speaker 2: Plus there was rock composed granted the that's all right, but.
- 25:32Speaker 4: If people were doing like a two foot raised bed
- 25:35Speaker 4: or like a you know, something of deep size, like, yeah, you.
- 25:38Speaker 2: Could use I was gonna mention you gave me some
- 25:43Speaker 2: gopher cages cages.
- 25:46Speaker 4: From that and they were like a wire mash, like
- 25:50Speaker 4: a like a like a suit of armor wire.
- 25:52Speaker 3: Man, but very lightweight. Yeah, And we were wondering, what
- 25:56Speaker 3: happens plant a tree in there, right, you know, yeah,
- 26:00Speaker 3: we felt it would bind the roots.
- 26:02Speaker 2: Right.
- 26:02Speaker 3: I did try it on a fig tree that I've
- 26:04Speaker 3: put on my hillside, and gophers love victory, and I
- 26:09Speaker 3: thought a go forgot it. But then I started thinking, well,
- 26:13Speaker 3: how did the gopher even get in because I've planted
- 26:15Speaker 3: it in that mesh bag and it ended up coming
- 26:21Speaker 3: back and it's bigger than ever. The roots must have
- 26:25Speaker 3: thrown through the crazy. Yeah, the victory now is probably
- 26:30Speaker 3: eight to ten feet tall, so it's got surprising. So
- 26:34Speaker 3: it's got to have, you know, big roots that went somewhere.
- 26:37Speaker 3: So I guess maybe the roots grow right.
- 26:39Speaker 4: Through and the damage could have been from gophers because
- 26:42Speaker 4: the whole point of the cage is that it protects
- 26:45Speaker 4: the core of the plant, and gophers will sometimes nibble
- 26:49Speaker 4: out the surrounding roots and it'll die back. But since
- 26:53Speaker 4: that core is protected, the plant should come back.
- 26:56Speaker 2: Sounds like maybe what happened and maybe because I got
- 26:58Speaker 2: the gopher after Yeah, it could have been John and Newfirth.
- 27:03Speaker 3: Beach says that for him planning early as the gamble
- 27:06Speaker 3: and in their community garden, they always have a competition
- 27:09Speaker 3: to get.
- 27:10Speaker 2: The earliest meado.
- 27:11Speaker 3: Oh really yeah, a lot of people do that, right
- 27:14Speaker 3: when the first meato on your your property. I remember
- 27:20Speaker 3: when I lived in Michigan that Billy Martin always wanted
- 27:25Speaker 3: to have the first meado.
- 27:29Speaker 2: Baseball player Billy Martin.
- 27:31Speaker 3: Billy Martin and he was manager of the Tigers, used
- 27:33Speaker 3: to play well he made it? Okay, Yeah, I can
- 27:37Speaker 3: also Oakland, right.
- 27:38Speaker 2: That must have been his first managerial job, right, No.
- 27:42Speaker 3: He came from somewhere else. He came from Oakland, wasn't
- 27:47Speaker 3: it Oakland? Wasn't he the one that always used to
- 27:50Speaker 3: make his pictures go to complete game?
- 27:53Speaker 2: No, that was Dick william Oh that was Dick. That
- 27:56Speaker 2: was Dick Williams. Okay, theo William Martin was earlier. When
- 27:59Speaker 2: the pictures are struggling out there, leave them out there
- 28:02Speaker 2: is almost like a slow death. I'll teach you I'll
- 28:04Speaker 2: teach you to pitch correctly. That's right.
- 28:09Speaker 3: So anyway, he said, half the people plant way too early,
- 28:13Speaker 3: and the tomatoes suffer until the groundworms and.
- 28:19Speaker 2: They lose time because of planet. Yes, it's true. Right,
- 28:23Speaker 2: What about if you're playing planting and planting it early. Well,
- 28:27Speaker 2: that made me think about in the past we promoted
- 28:32Speaker 2: winter winter tomatoes. Yea, the peachka was one of them,
- 28:38Speaker 2: and ye and anything things that sounded cold. Yeah, like Siberia. Man.
- 28:47Speaker 3: But anyway, those winter so called winter tomatoes need to
- 28:51Speaker 3: be planted now in August. So if you want to
- 28:56Speaker 3: have tomatoes in the winter, plant a cold variety tomato early. Girl,
- 29:02Speaker 3: is not one of those don't we often talk about
- 29:04Speaker 3: people don't don't wait until fall when it's cold.
- 29:08Speaker 2: Yeah, start planting.
- 29:09Speaker 3: Well, now, well, it depends what you're planning. But the
- 29:12Speaker 3: reason you what a winter tomato is is a tomato
- 29:17Speaker 3: that will set fruit when nighttime temperatures are in the
- 29:22Speaker 3: thirties and forties, where regular tomatoes will not fruit when
- 29:26Speaker 3: it's that cold. But no tomato grows when cold. So
- 29:31Speaker 3: you want to plant the winter tomatoes now so that
- 29:35Speaker 3: they will get a lot of growth on them. So
- 29:37Speaker 3: come fall they'll be large enough to flower and fruit
- 29:41Speaker 3: or come winter. And again for listeners around the country,
- 29:46Speaker 3: we're talking about San Diego, we're not talking about our
- 29:52Speaker 3: new friend in Edmonton.
- 29:54Speaker 4: And one of the most important things to also stand
- 29:56Speaker 4: too is the root development tomatoes super you know, because
- 30:00Speaker 4: we were just talking about that big a fig tree
- 30:02Speaker 4: can have like a pretty mild root growth and it's
- 30:06Speaker 4: actually a pretty good freaking big leaves and look big
- 30:10Speaker 4: and then you knock it over and there was no
- 30:12Speaker 4: root system too, right, But like it's tomato, it requires
- 30:17Speaker 4: I mean, we talk about it. It requires a fifteen
- 30:19Speaker 4: gallon bucket just to be able to produce it. So
- 30:22Speaker 4: it needs to have that much root map. And like
- 30:26Speaker 4: they were saying, if the roots don't grow, even though
- 30:29Speaker 4: the plant's growing, then it still won't produce.
- 30:32Speaker 2: Break time one more segment until the top of the
- 30:36Speaker 2: hour for those on Bisktalk Radio, So again that we're
- 30:39Speaker 2: going to continue taking a break. This is gard in America.
- 30:41Speaker 2: We are back in the studio. You're John, Tiger and Ryan.
- 30:44Speaker 2: Where we go with the break came back actually.
- 30:46Speaker 5: Basic Welcome back to the Garden America Radio Show with Brian,
- 31:19Speaker 5: John and Tiger Okay.
- 31:23Speaker 2: No more delays. We are back and this is our
- 31:26Speaker 2: final segment, by the way, for hour one for Facebook.
- 31:29Speaker 2: It doesn't matter, John, because after that we're going to
- 31:30Speaker 2: go right over the top of the hill news on
- 31:32Speaker 2: the other side of the hour for Bistalk Radio, and
- 31:35Speaker 2: then we're back on Facebook Live and six minutes after
- 31:37Speaker 2: for bistalk Radio. You and I are the confusir brain
- 31:40Speaker 2: are both over the hill. I don't know about tiger
- 31:43Speaker 2: over the hill. I'm not even I haven't even started
- 31:45Speaker 2: climbing the hill you talking about. It's always been a
- 31:48Speaker 2: late bloom. You gotta you don't still wear those where those.
- 31:54Speaker 4: Hey, I got a question for John, so I the victory.
- 32:01Speaker 2: Things you do it too? Say y vippory way by
- 32:06Speaker 2: vippery where you're gonna forget seconds where the plants from
- 32:12Speaker 2: the fruit brows within the fruits.
- 32:15Speaker 3: Uh you know, kind of a on another part of
- 32:17Speaker 3: the plant in the case of a god, because it
- 32:19Speaker 3: can be a plant.
- 32:20Speaker 4: Okay, So number one does it change? Like is that
- 32:26Speaker 4: tomato you know, as you just put in the newsletter,
- 32:29Speaker 4: that one that had little and it was a tomato
- 32:32Speaker 4: fruit and then it had little tomato seeds growing all
- 32:34Speaker 4: out sprouting out of it? Does that make it taste
- 32:38Speaker 4: just horrible?
- 32:39Speaker 3: No, you can still eat You can still eat the fruit, right,
- 32:41Speaker 3: As a matter of fact, you can eat the tomato sprouts.
- 32:44Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, you know, sprouts are what happens, are
- 32:47Speaker 4: just small, so just keep growing. Wait a minute, I'm
- 32:50Speaker 4: getting them getting there. I'm like, I'm thinking, like, we
- 32:53Speaker 4: gotta we have a new level of things that we
- 32:56Speaker 4: can do here. Yeah, where what if we took a tomatoato?
- 33:01Speaker 4: You know you you spearheaded the whole ketchup and frize, right, Okay,
- 33:06Speaker 4: So what if we took a tomato and started embedding
- 33:09Speaker 4: other seeds into it? Would they begin to grow out
- 33:14Speaker 4: of that tomato too? Where just we have one tomato
- 33:17Speaker 4: and then out of that tomato we can have like
- 33:19Speaker 4: a little cilantro. Now, and that all you do is
- 33:22Speaker 4: you take this one tomato, drop it into a pot,
- 33:25Speaker 4: put it in a blender.
- 33:26Speaker 2: And what are you talking about other tomatoes or different
- 33:29Speaker 2: different he wo stay up salsa and one fruit?
- 33:33Speaker 4: Yes, Like, can you imagine you go into the store
- 33:36Speaker 4: and you've got this big, beautiful tomato and in that
- 33:39Speaker 4: tomato it has a cilantro growing out of it. It's
- 33:42Speaker 4: got a little bit of like chives growing out of
- 33:45Speaker 4: it and everything else. You just take that one plant
- 33:49Speaker 4: and throw it into a blender.
- 33:50Speaker 2: See. So, I'm thinking about when you introduce a foreign
- 33:54Speaker 2: substance into your body, it's not your own blood or
- 33:57Speaker 2: your own organs, that there's a rejection. Would there be
- 34:00Speaker 2: a rejection from that tomato?
- 34:03Speaker 3: Tomato is water, It's just a sunflower seed inside the metato,
- 34:07Speaker 3: and it would Germany.
- 34:09Speaker 2: Yeah, right, but we haven't. I mean, but I've never
- 34:12Speaker 2: you want in other words, you want to do this.
- 34:14Speaker 2: I want to do this.
- 34:15Speaker 4: How do I inject seeds into a tomato without breaking
- 34:22Speaker 4: without because that's the whole thing to you. The reason
- 34:24Speaker 4: why this works is because it's from the inside out
- 34:27Speaker 4: right right. If I were to puncture the tomato, it
- 34:29Speaker 4: would begin to decay.
- 34:31Speaker 3: Right so, and the tomato is going to decay anyway.
- 34:35Speaker 3: By the time the other things are Germans immature, the
- 34:38Speaker 3: tomato would be long gone.
- 34:41Speaker 2: I'm thinking, yeah, and I can do this. I would
- 34:43Speaker 2: say if it was water, if it was a watery substance,
- 34:46Speaker 2: you could just poke it right and it wouldn't It
- 34:49Speaker 2: wouldn't create a big hole.
- 34:51Speaker 3: Well, I'm trying to think of a nice way of
- 34:53Speaker 3: putting this, but just put it. It's silly.
- 34:57Speaker 2: You guys are being silly.
- 34:59Speaker 4: Hey, I know where you're going catch friz was silly.
- 35:03Speaker 3: Yeah, silly as ketchup in fries was. I think that
- 35:10Speaker 3: I made more money off that than you would make
- 35:12Speaker 3: off your idea.
- 35:13Speaker 2: But yeah, go ahead and try it. I mean, luk,
- 35:16Speaker 2: it's the way to introduce it because it comes from within.
- 35:20Speaker 3: We mentioned that Luther Burbank was the first one to
- 35:23Speaker 3: graft tomatoes and potatoes. He did it backwards at first,
- 35:28Speaker 3: where he grafted a potato plant onto a tomato roots.
- 35:34Speaker 3: That's yeah, even I know that Luther Burbank was. It
- 35:40Speaker 3: was a very impressive person.
- 35:43Speaker 2: You know.
- 35:44Speaker 3: We we've talked about how Henry Ford and Thomas Ettisen
- 35:51Speaker 3: visited Burbank in Santa Rosa because he was so well
- 35:58Speaker 3: respected time, so in a native and everything that the.
- 36:01Speaker 2: Innovative minds want to hang around. Yeah, well that's what
- 36:05Speaker 2: that's all about.
- 36:06Speaker 4: And it really comes down to if you really think
- 36:10Speaker 4: about science, biology is actually like light years ahead of
- 36:16Speaker 4: all the other science because it's it's nature and you know,
- 36:21Speaker 4: just like your quote, not in a rush, but it
- 36:24Speaker 4: all works itself out. And so nature's been doing science
- 36:30Speaker 4: for so much longer than we have, so it understands
- 36:35Speaker 4: when things work, when things don't. Restrictions all of that. So,
- 36:40Speaker 4: you know, I think that's where we you know, we
- 36:42Speaker 4: talk about like a lot of our medicine, where does
- 36:44Speaker 4: it come from plants? You know, a lot of our
- 36:48Speaker 4: all of our food, you know, besides animals, but even
- 36:50Speaker 4: then they depend on plants.
- 36:52Speaker 2: Or are you saying that God's plan is always better? Yes? Right,
- 36:56Speaker 2: No matter what we do, all we tend to do
- 36:58Speaker 2: is get in the way.
- 36:59Speaker 4: The answers are there.
- 37:00Speaker 2: We just have to look for him in nature exactly exactly,
- 37:03Speaker 2: you know. So, so you're right about about all these
- 37:05Speaker 2: medicines and things that come from you know, the plant world.
- 37:10Speaker 2: And I think they're even doing experiments on uncancer research
- 37:14Speaker 2: as it pertains to sharks. Really yeah, because I don't
- 37:18Speaker 2: think could be wrong, but I don't think sharks get cancer.
- 37:22Speaker 2: There's something, there's something within the shark itself that prohibits it.
- 37:26Speaker 2: So everything is right there.
- 37:27Speaker 4: It's high mercury, diet, mercury.
- 37:30Speaker 2: Some way to hear about mercury anymore. We're still hearing
- 37:32Speaker 2: about Venus and Mars, not mercury.
- 37:37Speaker 4: But yeah, so no, I think that, you know, the
- 37:40Speaker 4: Burbank like being involved with nature so much and understanding fans.
- 37:43Speaker 4: You can understand this as far as water filterration, air filterrace, energy, boo,
- 37:51Speaker 4: all of that.
- 37:53Speaker 3: John points out that his brother in Oregon, Oregon, Oregon,
- 37:59Speaker 3: I was reading, Yeah, do you remember? I can't offer
- 38:04Speaker 3: the subject of Perry Como. I think it was Perry
- 38:07Speaker 3: Como that's sang the song about where his aura gone? Yeah,
- 38:13Speaker 3: Perry Perry just she went to pay her taxes. Oh
- 38:18Speaker 3: remember the play on words now? But it's all the states,
- 38:20Speaker 3: like what did Delaware?
- 38:22Speaker 2: Boys?
- 38:22Speaker 3: What did Delaware? He wore a brand new jersey. I
- 38:27Speaker 3: think it was Perry Como, either Perry Comb or Dean Martin. Anyway,
- 38:31Speaker 3: taker's probably never heard that song.
- 38:33Speaker 2: Yeah I don't. I don't remember it. Remember those called
- 38:37Speaker 2: to play on words? Plan anyway, we got about a minute,
- 38:43Speaker 2: not less than a minute.
- 38:44Speaker 3: Well, anyway, John says, whenever his brother in Oregon, Brian Oregon, uh,
- 38:51Speaker 3: did he curses Luther Burbank whenever he sees the huge
- 38:54Speaker 3: roadside BlackBerry kimmelay and blackberries? But that happened mistake. You
- 39:05Speaker 3: know who was a David Fairchild. The Florida swamps are
- 39:10Speaker 3: infested with Mela luca because he brought that over in California.
- 39:16Speaker 3: We can grow Mela luca because.
- 39:17Speaker 2: Not a problem. But in the Everglades, Brian, it's a problem.
- 39:20Speaker 2: We've got to take a quick great news top of
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- 40:12Speaker 2: are back on Facebook Live and the second hour in
- 40:14Speaker 2: distance first hour was full of a lot of gardening. Yeah,
- 40:18Speaker 2: we didn't talk sports, We didn't drift off into some
- 40:21Speaker 2: esoteric area. We pretty much stuck to the game plan.
- 40:24Speaker 4: You know what I was just thinking about right now
- 40:26Speaker 4: before we started. You know, it's August and in what
- 40:30Speaker 4: what you were doing in the garden what people are planting.
- 40:34Speaker 4: And you know, for us it's it's nothing because it's
- 40:39Speaker 4: but for us here in San Diego. And yeah, the
- 40:43Speaker 4: garden center, I mean it's just a lot. Well you
- 40:48Speaker 4: always have a lot.
- 40:50Speaker 2: Last week I was admiring what was that Japanese rose
- 40:53Speaker 2: that we were staring at. It was right in front
- 40:55Speaker 2: of us on the table that you did a hard
- 40:57Speaker 2: prune had Japanese name. It was right in front of me.
- 41:03Speaker 4: Oh yeah, I brought it on camera, and well in
- 41:08Speaker 4: front of us is the Japanese garden that you created.
- 41:10Speaker 2: Against had a Japanese named.
- 41:14Speaker 4: In the Japanese name you called it You're Japanese.
- 41:18Speaker 2: No no, no, no, no no. It was a cross
- 41:20Speaker 2: right in front and it's a Japanese zero leaves. You
- 41:24Speaker 2: did a hard You had something that looked good. It
- 41:29Speaker 2: looked like a bear. Rude. No no, this is my point.
- 41:32Speaker 2: That was there you go Kaga yaki. So so my
- 41:37Speaker 2: point it all depends on how you look at something.
- 41:40Speaker 2: I look at that as like, that looks so good
- 41:43Speaker 2: because I envisioned what it's going to become. To me,
- 41:46Speaker 2: that looked like somebody just got out of the barbershop.
- 41:48Speaker 2: With a haircut, and and you're gonna look a little
- 41:51Speaker 2: better in a week. But look at you, and I
- 41:53Speaker 2: want to go home and do I didn't do it,
- 41:55Speaker 2: but I really it inspired me to go cut my
- 41:57Speaker 2: roses back, like, oh yeah, that would be a good
- 41:59Speaker 2: time do it for a fall blow. Yeah. I thought
- 42:02Speaker 2: it looked really good. I really did. But that's gonna
- 42:06Speaker 2: look now. Now you've got before and afters, So give
- 42:08Speaker 2: it what six weeks? What will it look like in
- 42:10Speaker 2: six week? Full full blown? Six ways from that in
- 42:14Speaker 2: six weeks. That's a huge you know, but what a metamorphos, right,
- 42:21Speaker 2: it's called the butterfly effect, the caterpillar.
- 42:25Speaker 4: But there are places in the world where August is spring, right,
- 42:28Speaker 4: you know in terms.
- 42:30Speaker 2: Of whats hey, tiger's stopped at the equator.
- 42:36Speaker 4: Yeah, you know what I'm saying, Like, you know, so
- 42:39Speaker 4: I wonder where where in the world people will get
- 42:43Speaker 4: excited to plant because it's August.
- 42:46Speaker 3: Well, August in the southern hemisphere is the same, yees,
- 42:53Speaker 3: so it's still win but but it's building.
- 42:55Speaker 2: Up the spring.
- 42:56Speaker 4: But it's building up, so they're getting January built.
- 43:01Speaker 2: I don't know.
- 43:01Speaker 4: Yeah, you're right, Okay, how about tell our.
- 43:03Speaker 2: Friend in Edmonton just thinking about planning in January. Here's
- 43:08Speaker 2: an idea. We take the twelve months of the year.
- 43:11Speaker 2: So like in California, the month of August, what should
- 43:14Speaker 2: you be doing planning murdered iris? Okay, if you're gonna play,
- 43:19Speaker 2: if you want bearded iris to bloom next year, they
- 43:22Speaker 2: need to be planted in August. And if you have
- 43:25Speaker 2: bearded iris, you need to divide, you need to do it. Okay.
- 43:29Speaker 2: Now take August and if you live in Nebraska, what
- 43:33Speaker 2: should you be doing. You know, you should be stocking
- 43:37Speaker 2: up your woodpile. And so what I'm saying is and
- 43:41Speaker 2: then you get to September, what should each state be
- 43:43Speaker 2: doing in terms of.
- 43:44Speaker 3: Gardens And a lot of cold areas planned pennies fall
- 43:49Speaker 3: really so yeah, so that they'll over winter and so
- 43:52Speaker 3: they'll bloom the following Yeah, because plant penies in the
- 43:56Speaker 3: springing up year.
- 44:01Speaker 4: But I think the other thing, you know, as far
- 44:06Speaker 4: as different parts of the world when the different months,
- 44:08Speaker 4: like you're saying, Brian, is also just different different cultures,
- 44:14Speaker 4: like you know you just mentioned.
- 44:16Speaker 2: Here to Irish.
- 44:18Speaker 4: You know, we can talk about tulips and you know,
- 44:21Speaker 4: all kinds of other rightes of plants that are very
- 44:23Speaker 4: seasonal to wherever people live, and you know where we
- 44:28Speaker 4: don't experience that because they don't grow here. And you know,
- 44:31Speaker 4: I mean, you know, as we get into the fall,
- 44:33Speaker 4: we talk about planting California natives because it's a great
- 44:36Speaker 4: time to plant the California natives. You get them established
- 44:39Speaker 4: through the winter, so by next summer they're established. You
- 44:43Speaker 4: don't have to worry about them as much. And they're
- 44:45Speaker 4: growing and developing. You know, that's our that's our tulip,
- 44:50Speaker 4: that's our our p and e so to speak. You know,
- 44:54Speaker 4: but you know other places where you know, you know
- 44:59Speaker 4: John Minch and you know the peenies, Like that's exciting
- 45:02Speaker 4: to be like, hey, I'm planting this now for next
- 45:06Speaker 4: We don't have too much of that besides maybe wildflower seeds,
- 45:10Speaker 4: because we don't have a lot of bulb like a
- 45:13Speaker 4: lot of we have fair roots season not really though,
- 45:18Speaker 4: like I think other places have a bunch better berries.
- 45:21Speaker 4: California was the biggest berries.
- 45:26Speaker 2: Grower.
- 45:28Speaker 4: But do you think the season, yeah.
- 45:30Speaker 2: Because other I don't.
- 45:34Speaker 3: Well, it depends what what you're talking about fair roots,
- 45:37Speaker 3: but I don't think other parts of the country half
- 45:40Speaker 3: the wide selections that we put in caln California used
- 45:45Speaker 3: stay up shrubs shrubs.
- 45:47Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, but you.
- 45:49Speaker 2: Can get a shorter amount of time with the station
- 45:51Speaker 2: to play.
- 45:51Speaker 4: Well I'm getting what I'm getting at is like when
- 45:55Speaker 4: when rose growers were going through their fields and bear
- 45:58Speaker 4: rooting roses, they weren't they weren't dormant, you know, they
- 46:03Speaker 4: weren't like they were still like having the defoliate of
- 46:07Speaker 4: all the other stuff.
- 46:08Speaker 2: Right, but they were all harvested at the same time. Right.
- 46:11Speaker 3: So if you if you have a bear root rose
- 46:15Speaker 3: in California, it's harvested in December, you can go ahead
- 46:19Speaker 3: and plant it, right, it comes to the nursery, but
- 46:23Speaker 3: if it's another part of the country, it has to
- 46:25Speaker 3: be held in cold storage.
- 46:27Speaker 4: Yeah, they ship them in Like you're saying that May April,
- 46:29Speaker 4: you know, or April they show up in the nursery's
- 46:32Speaker 4: back east.
- 46:33Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 46:34Speaker 4: Yeah, so yeah, I mean, you know, it's just it's
- 46:40Speaker 4: August is one of those weird and then August and
- 46:43Speaker 4: September are kind of like those weird months were gardens
- 46:46Speaker 4: and then I kind of feel people get excited again.
- 46:49Speaker 4: End of September October is a very exciting month of gardening.
- 46:54Speaker 4: Then I think November just gets grouped in with Christmas.
- 46:59Speaker 2: Kind of.
- 47:01Speaker 4: November and December are all one month for I think gardner.
- 47:06Speaker 2: Carla mentions she's trying not to buy any just right
- 47:11Speaker 2: now or in general.
- 47:12Speaker 3: I think she's saying because water water bill is oh yeah,
- 47:17Speaker 3: first of all, yeah, that's something you got with Idaho
- 47:22Speaker 3: because they don't have water bills in Idaho, at least
- 47:25Speaker 3: when they live off the runoff. No, I think it's free.
- 47:29Speaker 3: I don't think my daughter has a water I could
- 47:32Speaker 3: be wrong.
- 47:33Speaker 4: You gotta pay something, Okay, they got to put the pipes.
- 47:38Speaker 2: Water bill.
- 47:39Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 47:41Speaker 3: Our friend Diane, who lives outside of Boise, Nampa, as
- 47:48Speaker 3: a day of the week where she opens up the
- 47:52Speaker 3: dyke and floods her entire yard. Yeah that's really a minute,
- 47:57Speaker 3: just a personal dyke.
- 47:58Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah.
- 48:00Speaker 4: There's there are areas where they're kind of like rural
- 48:02Speaker 4: farmlands where what do they call them, the water master
- 48:06Speaker 4: and they like give you certain days where you can
- 48:09Speaker 4: you can divert the there's always like a stream running
- 48:11Speaker 4: in front of your house.
- 48:12Speaker 2: Yeah, right, okay, so you can tap into it.
- 48:14Speaker 4: Certain days of the week you can tap into it
- 48:16Speaker 4: and then water, you're property.
- 48:19Speaker 2: That's good.
- 48:20Speaker 4: Yeah, no, it's great, right, that's that's that's that's lovely,
- 48:23Speaker 4: that there are areas where there's always water.
- 48:27Speaker 2: I've never heard you say the word of lovely. No,
- 48:30Speaker 2: it's the first time I've ever heard him say.
- 48:32Speaker 4: There when I said it lovely?
- 48:36Speaker 2: You know? What is it that they always said in
- 48:38Speaker 2: and when we were in English? We never brilliant? Well? Yeah,
- 48:46Speaker 2: my brother when he lived in England for a while
- 48:49Speaker 2: again married in English. He worked in advertising over there.
- 48:51Speaker 2: He came back and everything was brilliant. It's brilliant, brilliant,
- 48:56Speaker 2: like I once good. I'm not sure really, really, what
- 48:59Speaker 2: do you mean? Is it intelligence? Yeah? Exactly. It's like
- 49:03Speaker 2: it's like, when's the last time you used the word darling? Hey, darling? No,
- 49:10Speaker 2: but isn't that isn't that flower? Darling? Isn't that not
- 49:13Speaker 2: your wife? Women tend to use the word more than
- 49:17Speaker 2: than men do. I never say I remember in the uh,
- 49:23Speaker 2: when's the last time Shannon said that's really bitch? I
- 49:28Speaker 2: know thanks she ever said that?
- 49:31Speaker 3: The I do remember though, when we were always the
- 49:35Speaker 3: hippie era and of the sixth.
- 49:38Speaker 2: Sixty seven to seventy four, maybe we got a break
- 49:40Speaker 2: coming up. That's gonna be a good story. Don't don't
- 49:42Speaker 2: lose your saying thought no no, no, no, Hippi each
- 49:45Speaker 2: other hip hip. Okay, you're gonna take a break for
- 49:49Speaker 2: Bistalk Radio back with John's Hippie Days sixty seven to
- 49:53Speaker 2: seventy four story they wouldn't start Americans. Okay, we are
- 50:54Speaker 2: right back this talk radio Facebook Live the Hippie Days.
- 50:57Speaker 2: John harkening back to that time for me, Avocado writ
- 51:02Speaker 2: exact all that speaking of macrimon my wife, don't you
- 51:06Speaker 2: don't know, don't no, don't you're gonna lose thot.
- 51:08Speaker 3: She made macrime on television. Yeah, it's a television show
- 51:14Speaker 3: making Detroit, remember that in those days. Took back to
- 51:19Speaker 3: your story, Carol Devaul. You can remember Carroll Devaal, but
- 51:22Speaker 3: he can't remember.
- 51:23Speaker 2: Last segment. What were we talking about?
- 51:28Speaker 3: Oh yeah, we were just talking about how they used
- 51:31Speaker 3: different words and and so we were in my friends
- 51:38Speaker 3: b w Van.
- 51:39Speaker 2: Of course, you were a bunch of people with the
- 51:41Speaker 2: big flowers on the side, and.
- 51:43Speaker 3: There were some people from England who were visits that
- 51:46Speaker 3: were there there with us, and my my friend's girlfriend
- 51:53Speaker 3: was looking at something I don't know what it was,
- 51:57Speaker 3: and uh, the people from England pointed it out to
- 52:00Speaker 3: her and she goes, oh wow, that's neate and they
- 52:03Speaker 3: just burst out laugh and what's what are you laughing?
- 52:09Speaker 2: Because do you mean it's tight? Yeah? Yeah, did you
- 52:16Speaker 2: ever use the word if something was really cool? Like
- 52:18Speaker 2: oh that's just oh yeah, wicked? Wicked? Never used the
- 52:23Speaker 2: keen went to that music And there's probably it's probably
- 52:30Speaker 2: original vernacular because when I was a kid surfers the
- 52:33Speaker 2: waves are really bitch. You gotta go see it. Really,
- 52:36Speaker 2: it's really righteous, really right. We never used that, No,
- 52:39Speaker 2: I never, I wouldn't think.
- 52:43Speaker 4: Definitely definitely regional.
- 52:48Speaker 2: Words, yeah, exactly.
- 52:50Speaker 3: Anyway, on the way home from Joe last week, I
- 52:54Speaker 3: went to Home Deepo and bought some on.
- 52:56Speaker 2: The way home from you already we were already you
- 52:58Speaker 2: were home last You were at your house last week
- 53:02Speaker 2: when we did the show.
- 53:03Speaker 4: You didn't have to leave. So from the backyard to
- 53:07Speaker 4: your sliding glass door, there's a home depot.
- 53:10Speaker 2: Yeah, ah, you know what.
- 53:11Speaker 3: I came to San Diego in the middle of it,
- 53:14Speaker 3: and on the way home I stopped at Home people
- 53:17Speaker 3: and got ten bags of that black mault.
- 53:20Speaker 2: Oh the Yeah, my wife likes the black. It doesn't
- 53:24Speaker 2: look bad. It's fine. Yeah. Anyway, it's like volcanic rock.
- 53:31Speaker 2: It's a it's a good foil. If you had some
- 53:35Speaker 2: bright colors with it, then you like, look not no
- 53:41Speaker 2: leave roses, right exactly.
- 53:43Speaker 3: Well, I'm the front bed is the my wife's pink
- 53:46Speaker 3: and white bed, so it's pink and white.
- 53:50Speaker 2: Shot. Yeah.
- 53:51Speaker 3: So I got ten bags and I put down the
- 53:53Speaker 3: wheat preventter first and then put the sun top and
- 53:57Speaker 3: I did half the gardens. So on the on the
- 53:59Speaker 3: way back from the show today, I'm going to get
- 54:02Speaker 3: another ten bags and hopefully I can finish the other half.
- 54:05Speaker 3: But the point was the last shipment they had trying
- 54:10Speaker 3: to think of the common tiger, it's pentus.
- 54:16Speaker 2: What's the common name is that Egyptian starflower? I was
- 54:21Speaker 2: gonna say starflower.
- 54:22Speaker 4: Yeah, they're not from me, but there's a few other starflowers.
- 54:27Speaker 4: And I can't remember the like you're saying, where.
- 54:29Speaker 3: Anyway, pentis and yeah, which they had these wonderful butterflies.
- 54:36Speaker 2: Yeah they had, and.
- 54:37Speaker 3: They had plants that had or pots that had I
- 54:41Speaker 3: think there were five plants in there, and they were
- 54:44Speaker 3: different colors and one was red, which I cannot put
- 54:48Speaker 3: in the pink and white gardens, but the others were
- 54:51Speaker 3: white and paink so I I just separated that fot rather. Yeah,
- 54:59Speaker 3: then they creating and they like the heat. They do
- 55:03Speaker 3: really well during Speaking of.
- 55:05Speaker 4: The heat, are you concerned at all that the black
- 55:08Speaker 4: bull is going to make the bed hotter?
- 55:15Speaker 2: Yes?
- 55:16Speaker 4: You think so?
- 55:17Speaker 2: You don't think.
- 55:19Speaker 4: You don't think with all the science that proves that
- 55:21Speaker 4: black absorbs more heat, that you're creating a hotter situation
- 55:26Speaker 4: for you.
- 55:27Speaker 3: Do you throw any plants in the nursery and black? Yes,
- 55:33Speaker 3: and and and it talks about like they've You're not
- 55:36Speaker 3: worried they're all going to die.
- 55:37Speaker 4: Well, hopefully they don't last there for more than.
- 55:40Speaker 2: A black container surrounds them. I saw a couple of
- 55:43Speaker 2: plants that I remember from last year. A black container
- 55:46Speaker 2: surrounds the plant. But but what heat we're talking about
- 55:48Speaker 2: is actually buried within them.
- 55:50Speaker 3: Yeah, but surrounding the plant is going to be a
- 55:52Speaker 3: lot worse because there's nowhere.
- 55:54Speaker 4: For those nur also in Mission Hills compared.
- 55:58Speaker 2: To we'll get a trimper meter it though, I think
- 56:03Speaker 2: you have in your mind that it's like, no, it's.
- 56:06Speaker 4: But I mean what I'm getting at is like it's
- 56:09Speaker 4: seventy FISHI and hills when it's eighty five.
- 56:12Speaker 2: Why don't you test to test the ground, the temperature
- 56:15Speaker 2: of the ground compared to the rest of the perriers.
- 56:17Speaker 2: You don't have them because I don't really want to
- 56:19Speaker 2: waste this.
- 56:21Speaker 4: He doesn't want to be proven wrong. He doesn't want
- 56:22Speaker 4: to be proved wrong.
- 56:23Speaker 2: You don't have an answer for it. No.
- 56:26Speaker 4: Wait, okay, so Brian, here's the next time we go
- 56:28Speaker 4: up to John's house. Okay, you know he has this
- 56:30Speaker 4: like slope. There's no molts on it, there's no I'm
- 56:33Speaker 4: going to bring my little thermometer, my laser thermometer. I'm
- 56:37Speaker 4: gonna shine it there, and I'm gonna shine it on
- 56:39Speaker 4: the black molds. And I think the black moles will
- 56:42Speaker 4: be hotter.
- 56:43Speaker 2: I would too. Yeah, he's looking up right.
- 56:45Speaker 4: And I'm not saying it's worse sometimes keeping judgment, sometimes
- 56:50Speaker 4: keeping the soil warm is actually better.
- 56:53Speaker 2: Right.
- 56:53Speaker 3: You know, without being sarcastic, that I have to really
- 56:57Speaker 3: watch myself because you know I have a ten you
- 56:59Speaker 3: you are always mentioned I have tendance, never sarcastic, and
- 57:03Speaker 3: and I.
- 57:04Speaker 2: Really it's something I work on the black males. Oh yeah,
- 57:13Speaker 2: the UH started thinking, so when you leave here, who
- 57:16Speaker 2: watches after? If you're by yourself? My mind just went to,
- 57:21Speaker 2: I really need to be a better person.
- 57:23Speaker 3: I could try harder. But the mulch is covering the ground,
- 57:30Speaker 3: holding the moisture. Yes, and the oyster's gotta automatically help
- 57:34Speaker 3: cool lower the temperature and keep the roots cool. And
- 57:38Speaker 3: roots like as long as there's moisture available, they like
- 57:41Speaker 3: warm temperature.
- 57:42Speaker 4: I know, That's what I'm saying.
- 57:43Speaker 2: That's what I'm saying. I mean, look at the tropics
- 57:45Speaker 2: right now.
- 57:45Speaker 4: That's what I'm saying. Warm soil is beneficial for the
- 57:50Speaker 4: most part. I mean, I think in most of the
- 57:53Speaker 4: problem areas people are combating keeping their soil warm.
- 57:57Speaker 2: Well, back back to what.
- 57:58Speaker 3: You're saying, if I lived in Palm Springs that I
- 58:01Speaker 3: reconsider black might.
- 58:04Speaker 4: Yeah, or like black Mexican beach pebble, you know what
- 58:07Speaker 4: I mean, like compared to like an Arizona river rock.
- 58:11Speaker 2: Yeah. But in Fallbrook problem we have. I don't thought
- 58:15Speaker 2: it was a problem. Just was it? What was the
- 58:18Speaker 2: ground actually warmer in other areas that didn't have it?
- 58:22Speaker 2: Don't know, don't judge is one of the least And
- 58:26Speaker 2: what in what burns the flowers in buliage on a road?
- 58:32Speaker 2: You know, like is it the intense intense sunlight or
- 58:37Speaker 2: is it in the intense heat? Is it like the
- 58:39Speaker 2: sunlight on top of it?
- 58:43Speaker 4: Because I mean, like that's the thing, right, Like intense.
- 58:45Speaker 3: Sunlight doesn't hurt plants because look at the look at
- 58:50Speaker 3: the traffics where the sunlights in. But you have humidity, yeah,
- 58:55Speaker 3: and cooler temperatures, so it's got to be a comedy.
- 58:59Speaker 3: So it's I think it's definitely the heat. Especially I
- 59:03Speaker 3: have a lot of wind where I start too. And
- 59:06Speaker 3: if you have hot drive, that are that's going to
- 59:11Speaker 3: create his break shot.
- 59:12Speaker 2: Yeah, they're pulling the uh moisture up the leak. Speaking
- 59:15Speaker 2: of hot air, We're going to continue to my so
- 59:19Speaker 2: do stay with us. This is Garden America taking a
- 59:21Speaker 2: break from biscotr. Okay, two more segments this when John
- 1:00:00Speaker 2: You'll be happy to know it is the longer of
- 1:00:02Speaker 2: the next two coming up, So twenty of time to
- 1:00:04Speaker 2: forget more things.
- 1:00:05Speaker 3: Well, that'll give Tiger time to answer Lamar's all right,
- 1:00:09Speaker 3: let's do it Canyon Country, right, she's got some dragon fruit. Well,
- 1:00:17Speaker 3: actually maybe she was the one who asked that she's
- 1:00:19Speaker 3: talking about dragon fruit.
- 1:00:21Speaker 2: But now I'm starting to we're going to what was
- 1:00:27Speaker 2: actually Veronica going back to Veronica now from Canyon Country
- 1:00:31Speaker 2: to Spring Valley. But isn't Veronica moving?
- 1:00:34Speaker 3: Yeah, but she's not moving to Canyon Country stand in
- 1:00:37Speaker 3: Spring Valley anyway?
- 1:00:39Speaker 2: How do I remember? All?
- 1:00:39Speaker 3: She's got four cuttings of dragons, okay, and she wants
- 1:00:42Speaker 3: to know out of plant all right, They're just cutting.
- 1:00:46Speaker 2: Just cuttings.
- 1:00:47Speaker 4: So like most cuttings, it'd be nice for you to
- 1:00:51Speaker 4: let them, which is about four or five days in
- 1:00:56Speaker 4: a cool, dark area where you just let that cutting
- 1:01:01Speaker 4: heel before you plant it. That just helps decrease a
- 1:01:04Speaker 4: little bit of rot. And then for the dragon fruit,
- 1:01:08Speaker 4: it's best to plant it in a very well draining
- 1:01:10Speaker 4: soil medium, you know, like a cactus like a cactus mix,
- 1:01:13Speaker 4: or like a really well draining potting steel.
- 1:01:15Speaker 2: Don't go to buy.
- 1:01:18Speaker 4: I'm getting, don't go don't go well, no, don't go
- 1:01:21Speaker 4: buy that moisture retaining miracle grow potting like nothing. Well,
- 1:01:28Speaker 4: that's what I'm saying. Like even like like John's a
- 1:01:30Speaker 4: super big advocate of ocean for us love the product
- 1:01:33Speaker 4: rate recipe for twenty from uh eb Stone wonderful products.
- 1:01:37Speaker 4: But they're all designed to retain moisture, right, and you
- 1:01:40Speaker 4: can rot out your cutting by planting those in there.
- 1:01:46Speaker 4: And what John mentioned, a steak is critical because you
- 1:01:51Speaker 4: what happens is when it starts to set those little
- 1:01:54Speaker 4: baby roots out from the bottom, if it falls over,
- 1:01:58Speaker 4: begins to move those begin to break, it just keeps
- 1:02:01Speaker 4: delaying the overall like cutting time that it takes to
- 1:02:07Speaker 4: really establish itself. So if you can keep it secure
- 1:02:10Speaker 4: and like we said, like the problem with a lot
- 1:02:13Speaker 4: of the sweat meetings we talked about is they're very loose,
- 1:02:15Speaker 4: so they're not going to hold the plant in it.
- 1:02:19Speaker 3: And you don't want to put the cutting too fire
- 1:02:21Speaker 3: in the style because there's a better chance of the rotting.
- 1:02:24Speaker 4: What do you think, like an inch or two?
- 1:02:26Speaker 2: Not even that much, I would say half inch to
- 1:02:31Speaker 2: an inch just.
- 1:02:32Speaker 4: Barely, yeah, barely putting it in the but there's.
- 1:02:36Speaker 2: No way it'll stand up. So like you said, you've
- 1:02:38Speaker 2: got to have a steak. Same thing with like Bloomeria cutting.
- 1:02:41Speaker 2: You know one thing that I saw somebody doing. I
- 1:02:44Speaker 2: have this neighbor that does a bunch of dragons there.
- 1:02:47Speaker 2: They their whole backyard is dragon like. It's weird.
- 1:02:50Speaker 4: They built this whole structure, you know, like the vagina
- 1:02:52Speaker 4: umbrellas with the dragon fruit on them. And you know
- 1:02:55Speaker 4: what they did. You know those I think you talked
- 1:02:57Speaker 4: about this a week or two ago. Keep planted. You
- 1:03:01Speaker 4: remember those tall, narrow citrus cans. Yeah, okay, I think
- 1:03:06Speaker 4: you recently planted one in some planted Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- 1:03:11Speaker 4: So it's these very tall How tall was yours? Was
- 1:03:15Speaker 4: it one of the big ones, like about of fourteen
- 1:03:18Speaker 4: or sixteen inches?
- 1:03:19Speaker 2: Okay?
- 1:03:19Speaker 4: But they're real narrow only like maybe like a six
- 1:03:22Speaker 4: inch one gallon can, but like a cylinder. What they
- 1:03:26Speaker 4: would do is put the soil at the bottom of
- 1:03:29Speaker 4: that and they would just drop the dragon fruit in
- 1:03:31Speaker 4: there and then that way it's rooted, but the the
- 1:03:35Speaker 4: can is holding it all up, versus like what you're
- 1:03:38Speaker 4: saying putting a steak. They just put it in this
- 1:03:40Speaker 4: very tall, narrow nursery key, let it root, and then
- 1:03:44Speaker 4: once it rooted, then they could just pop it out it.
- 1:03:47Speaker 2: Give me your favorite real quick. If you went on
- 1:03:49Speaker 2: your phone before I describe something that may not be true,
- 1:03:52Speaker 2: show me a picture of a dragon. You don't know
- 1:03:55Speaker 2: what it looks like. I think I do, and I
- 1:03:57Speaker 2: don't think.
- 1:03:58Speaker 4: I like, they're pink and they have like scales.
- 1:04:01Speaker 2: They're not white with dark seeds on them.
- 1:04:04Speaker 4: Yeah, that's the inside.
- 1:04:06Speaker 2: Okay, so I'm on the right track. Yeah, I think
- 1:04:08Speaker 2: when I when I've tried it in the past, do anything. Yeah,
- 1:04:13Speaker 2: what about you? I like him.
- 1:04:16Speaker 4: There's a lot of varieties of dragons.
- 1:04:17Speaker 2: Yes, exactly, So maybe maybe it's just a variety I
- 1:04:21Speaker 2: tried it was maybe that, but John showed bee I
- 1:04:23Speaker 2: just didn't do anything for me.
- 1:04:24Speaker 3: They have pink flesh, right, But does that change the flavor? Yeah,
- 1:04:28Speaker 3: summer sweeter, Some are kind of mild.
- 1:04:34Speaker 2: I like those little Yeah. Just the taste to me
- 1:04:37Speaker 2: wasn't it didn't It wasn't very inspiring, And maybe it
- 1:04:40Speaker 2: was just it wasn't sweet enough. Dragon. You know what's
- 1:04:49Speaker 2: interesting about dragons.
- 1:04:50Speaker 3: If there's the other name for dragon, pataia, is it?
- 1:04:56Speaker 2: I don't know I was gonna say about dragons, John,
- 1:05:01Speaker 2: is that in all parts of the world, in different
- 1:05:05Speaker 2: countries and time before we had you know, mass communication
- 1:05:09Speaker 2: with each other. If there's drawings of dragons, almost all
- 1:05:12Speaker 2: of the world.
- 1:05:14Speaker 3: You know that in my library, I have a fantasy
- 1:05:18Speaker 3: section and I've got all my horticulture books, those books
- 1:05:22Speaker 3: that fantasy okay, and then there's a fantasy section and
- 1:05:27Speaker 3: I had, like, I have one shelf that has Game
- 1:05:33Speaker 3: of Thrones on all those books and then some other
- 1:05:36Speaker 3: books that Robin Hobbs wrote about dragons. And online on Amazon,
- 1:05:42Speaker 3: I found this this bookend that is a dragon point
- 1:05:51Speaker 3: just his head with its law coming out, you know
- 1:05:55Speaker 3: that would hold books, and it's on the shelf.
- 1:05:58Speaker 2: You bought it. I bought it and put it up there.
- 1:06:01Speaker 3: And yesterday my son came over and we were playing
- 1:06:04Speaker 3: three handed Knuckles and Jesse looked at it and said, wow,
- 1:06:10Speaker 3: that's really cool. Shannon looked at and get that.
- 1:06:15Speaker 2: I didn't. I didn't really mention when I ordered it,
- 1:06:18Speaker 2: but I really like who notices change in your house?
- 1:06:21Speaker 2: We it subtle. For major you were your wife.
- 1:06:28Speaker 3: If it's outside, they noticed very people noticed very little.
- 1:06:34Speaker 3: I noticed every every little thing. If somebody picked up
- 1:06:37Speaker 3: a plant and what there's fifteen hundred pots of roses,
- 1:06:42Speaker 3: if someone moved it from one space to another.
- 1:06:44Speaker 2: Yeah, I noticed subtle changes. I can put something, I
- 1:06:48Speaker 2: can hang a picture or do something in the house.
- 1:06:50Speaker 2: It maybe three or four days later we're I'll say, hey,
- 1:06:53Speaker 2: notice what I did last week? Oh yeah, it's nice.
- 1:06:57Speaker 3: Well, my wife has started to notice things with our
- 1:07:00Speaker 3: vegetable garden, especially she's out there more. Well, yeah, she'll
- 1:07:04Speaker 3: go out and she'll see, you know, are the tomatoes right?
- 1:07:08Speaker 3: Maybe marinara sauce.
- 1:07:11Speaker 2: The other day.
- 1:07:13Speaker 3: Yet I really thought it was good, So she's looking
- 1:07:18Speaker 3: for that. Just wants, you know, zecchini creep up on you. Brian,
- 1:07:23Speaker 3: if you don't watch.
- 1:07:24Speaker 2: Do you remember years ago you had us over for
- 1:07:28Speaker 2: dinner at your house prior to this, remember what I said?
- 1:07:33Speaker 2: And and Dana and I were like, gosh, this is
- 1:07:37Speaker 2: just this is the best meal ever. And we assumed
- 1:07:41Speaker 2: Tiger that if John cooked it, you know, like from scratch,
- 1:07:44Speaker 2: did cook it, but from scratch. But John was very forthcoming,
- 1:07:50Speaker 2: and he said, that's Bertolini for Tollys for tolis or whatever. Yeah,
- 1:07:56Speaker 2: And from that moment on we continued.
- 1:07:58Speaker 4: To bum yeah, oh buddy, you took his Italian card away.
- 1:08:03Speaker 2: But it had shrimp. I think I think I think
- 1:08:06Speaker 2: it might have had shrimp, not sure, but because they
- 1:08:08Speaker 2: have several varieties. Yeah, but this goes back I don't know,
- 1:08:11Speaker 2: ten years or whatever it was to this day when
- 1:08:13Speaker 2: we grocery shop, we make sure to buy it all
- 1:08:15Speaker 2: because of you. It's so easy too write. You just
- 1:08:18Speaker 2: dump it in a pan, yeah, melt and hand to go.
- 1:08:20Speaker 2: And if you told people that I spent most of
- 1:08:23Speaker 2: the day making this, and believe you it's like this.
- 1:08:25Speaker 4: I had this friend who's Italian, and she used to
- 1:08:29Speaker 4: talk about her possas so delicious. She'd always be so
- 1:08:34Speaker 4: critical whenever we got of course Italian food, right, Italians
- 1:08:38Speaker 4: have a tendency, yes, And so I remember one time
- 1:08:44Speaker 4: for two of her house cookie and her mom used
- 1:08:50Speaker 4: like some like just like mosta sauce out of a
- 1:08:53Speaker 4: can like ragoo, Yeah exactly, And I was like, I
- 1:08:57Speaker 4: was all excited to come over.
- 1:08:58Speaker 2: And have this like home with your girlfriend at the time.
- 1:09:00Speaker 4: No, no, it's just a thread, but I was all
- 1:09:02Speaker 4: excited to have this wonderful home cooked Italian. She'd been
- 1:09:06Speaker 4: talking she she'd been talking up her mom's cooking so much,
- 1:09:10Speaker 4: and I was excited to come over.
- 1:09:12Speaker 2: And like, was she aware that her mother used dormall?
- 1:09:16Speaker 4: So I don't necessarily think her mom used it all
- 1:09:18Speaker 4: this time, like meaning like I think that she did
- 1:09:20Speaker 4: grow up with her mom cooking sauce. I think it
- 1:09:23Speaker 4: was just she's having people over. She didn't want to
- 1:09:27Speaker 4: maybe do the whole like, I mean, what is a
- 1:09:29Speaker 4: what does the pasta sauce usually take?
- 1:09:30Speaker 2: Like a day?
- 1:09:31Speaker 4: Like, don't you have to like started in the morning.
- 1:09:34Speaker 3: The world's best, that's that's sat right. But I make
- 1:09:39Speaker 3: really good takes. You know what I make that's really good?
- 1:09:43Speaker 3: That that I envisioned myself selling it.
- 1:09:45Speaker 2: You know his tartar.
- 1:09:47Speaker 4: You make a tartar sauce, but it's with things you
- 1:09:51Speaker 4: have in your cupboard already, right, Well, that isn't it
- 1:09:54Speaker 4: just like Mayo eggs and vinegar or something different?
- 1:09:57Speaker 2: What is the Mayo part? Okay, scream of ard. No,
- 1:10:01Speaker 2: I don't. I don't like what is well it could
- 1:10:04Speaker 2: be you know that that mine's a bit sweeter because
- 1:10:06Speaker 2: I put relish. Okay, okay, so if you go to
- 1:10:09Speaker 2: the store, some of those are like not quite as
- 1:10:10Speaker 2: sweet if.
- 1:10:11Speaker 4: You get sweet or you can get right.
- 1:10:15Speaker 2: It's Brian's world famous charter sauce. I gotta pick it.
- 1:10:21Speaker 2: This is that's my marketing. No, that's my marketing fantasy.
- 1:10:24Speaker 2: Brian's world famous problem. I love that what people say
- 1:10:26Speaker 2: world famous, you know, But anyway, you gotta take a break,
- 1:10:31Speaker 2: all right, So much of my charter sauce back after
- 1:10:33Speaker 2: these message messages, final mess I'm not christ ready to
- 1:10:59Speaker 2: go the final segment. Hey, this is almost like going
- 1:11:02Speaker 2: to Mars. We're hoping you get back home safely.
- 1:11:04Speaker 4: We're going to make this one of the.
- 1:11:06Speaker 2: So right now we're we're coming back home from Mars,
- 1:11:09Speaker 2: and we're right around the moon, so which means we
- 1:11:12Speaker 2: have two hundred and fifty thousand miles to go between
- 1:11:14Speaker 2: the Moon and New York.
- 1:11:15Speaker 4: You will, now you were watching that Matt Damon movie,
- 1:11:17Speaker 4: weren't you, well that that Marcia Marsha.
- 1:11:21Speaker 2: That's just a silly analogy.
- 1:11:23Speaker 3: By the way, Paula in not Paula me Lisa in
- 1:11:28Speaker 3: reading Grease with Tiger, because yeah, I'm not using black
- 1:11:33Speaker 3: mault here in readings, but readings you know, a.
- 1:11:36Speaker 2: Little hotter, yeah, a lot hotter. I think it looks
- 1:11:39Speaker 2: good though, but I like the way that if you
- 1:11:41Speaker 2: had like different variations of colors right on top of
- 1:11:44Speaker 2: it would look it would really have a stark contrast.
- 1:11:46Speaker 2: We when you get to variation with flower petals.
- 1:11:49Speaker 4: And you know what's so funny is people's people's vision
- 1:11:55Speaker 4: of multch and what it does to the garden. I was,
- 1:11:57Speaker 4: I was driving through. I was driving through. Uh, I
- 1:12:02Speaker 4: was up. I was up north.
- 1:12:05Speaker 2: In Escondido and that's if you're John, that's south. Yeah.
- 1:12:10Speaker 4: Yeah, And and I saw this guy laying down brown
- 1:12:14Speaker 4: so you know, there's the black, brown and red mulches
- 1:12:18Speaker 4: like that were describing, and he was laying down brown
- 1:12:21Speaker 4: bags of it over old brown mulch in his front yard.
- 1:12:28Speaker 4: And it really did make it pop a lot, right,
- 1:12:31Speaker 4: I mean I could see the clear line between here's
- 1:12:33Speaker 4: the old, here's the new, and I mean this was
- 1:12:38Speaker 4: a big area. This was like a whole front yard
- 1:12:40Speaker 4: he was doing. And you know, it just made me
- 1:12:43Speaker 4: think like at some point in time he drove up
- 1:12:45Speaker 4: to his house and was like that that brown mulch
- 1:12:48Speaker 4: looks old. I'm gonna get new and put it over
- 1:12:51Speaker 4: my whole yard.
- 1:12:53Speaker 2: And where you're driving, bio, you stopped to observe this.
- 1:12:56Speaker 4: No, No, I'm just driving by it because I mean,
- 1:12:58Speaker 4: you know, I mean it was a big air. I
- 1:13:00Speaker 4: can see you when.
- 1:13:01Speaker 2: You're driving in traffic and you're looking at no, no, no,
- 1:13:03Speaker 2: this was through like a neighbor.
- 1:13:04Speaker 4: Okay, okay, but you know, at some point in time
- 1:13:08Speaker 4: he was like, this weekend or this week, I'm gonna
- 1:13:12Speaker 4: make my because he was doing it out of a
- 1:13:14Speaker 4: back of like a mini man. So he's like, I'm
- 1:13:16Speaker 4: gonna make my twenty trips to the store to buy
- 1:13:19Speaker 4: ten bags of time to start laying over this whole area.
- 1:13:22Speaker 4: And you know, but it did look nice. It did
- 1:13:25Speaker 4: look nice.
- 1:13:26Speaker 2: But but you know, after a while, you kind of
- 1:13:28Speaker 2: get used to the way it looks because it fades
- 1:13:30Speaker 2: over time. It's like this last week, I had to
- 1:13:33Speaker 2: get a new what do you call those things that
- 1:13:35Speaker 2: plastic over the rug that your chair slides on, Matt,
- 1:13:38Speaker 2: like a plastic mat when you're on carpet, so that
- 1:13:41Speaker 2: your office chair will slide. Yeah, So I had i
- 1:13:44Speaker 2: because it was cracking years of use. So this is
- 1:13:47Speaker 2: in my office. So I removed it and I will
- 1:13:50Speaker 2: wait put and under under the under the under the
- 1:13:54Speaker 2: uh the rug underneath there was like brand new. Yeah,
- 1:13:59Speaker 2: and I'm looking around.
- 1:13:59Speaker 4: Going when you move the couch, yeah, it's like I didn't.
- 1:14:02Speaker 2: The rug looks good, but not like this because this
- 1:14:05Speaker 2: is like brand new because it had the plastic matt
- 1:14:07Speaker 2: over for all these years, and I'm like, well, there's
- 1:14:10Speaker 2: nothing I can really do. I mean, I'm not going
- 1:14:12Speaker 2: to bring it to look like the rug looks like
- 1:14:15Speaker 2: it's like we have. John is responsible for us having
- 1:14:18Speaker 2: bamboo hardwood floors because when I was redoing the house
- 1:14:21Speaker 2: and renovating years ago, John said, oh, you got to
- 1:14:23Speaker 2: consider bamboo floors, so I did. But we have area
- 1:14:27Speaker 2: rugs over a lot of So when you remove the
- 1:14:30Speaker 2: area rugs, you go, oh, that's what the floor used
- 1:14:33Speaker 2: to look like, very bright and shiny, and over time
- 1:14:36Speaker 2: it dulls. So this guy that you're talking about, unless
- 1:14:41Speaker 2: he had something to compare it with, you kind of
- 1:14:43Speaker 2: get used to the way it looks, yes, and you
- 1:14:45Speaker 2: don't realize when you do what he did, this is
- 1:14:48Speaker 2: what it's supposed to look right now. Is that because
- 1:14:51Speaker 2: of rain, weather, sun, all the elements, all of it affects.
- 1:14:55Speaker 4: It and leaves like it was in an area where
- 1:14:57Speaker 4: there's trees, so you know, obviously there's dropping down into
- 1:15:01Speaker 4: that multch and which will also make it look a
- 1:15:04Speaker 4: little bit not as clean. I will say, though, the
- 1:15:09Speaker 4: other thing that I don't agree with with that mulch
- 1:15:12Speaker 4: is that it doesn't break down as quickly, which is
- 1:15:14Speaker 4: you know, to some people that's what it's designed for.
- 1:15:16Speaker 4: It would have been better for him to rake out
- 1:15:18Speaker 4: the old stuff, remove it and put down the news
- 1:15:22Speaker 4: up because now he's just piling wood chips upon wood
- 1:15:25Speaker 4: chips upon wood chips, and you know, over time that's
- 1:15:30Speaker 4: not the best thing.
- 1:15:32Speaker 2: So would you say it's worth if you didn't want
- 1:15:34Speaker 2: to do that, it's just worth it to hire someone
- 1:15:35Speaker 2: and take all the old up put the new in.
- 1:15:37Speaker 4: Oh yeah, definitely.
- 1:15:38Speaker 2: You know, kind of the older you get, you realize
- 1:15:39Speaker 2: I'm just going to pay someone to do this. I
- 1:15:41Speaker 2: don't want to. It depends on what you're feeling, is well.
- 1:15:44Speaker 3: But if you're in a pottery area, a thicker layer
- 1:15:48Speaker 3: of mulch is moisture in right.
- 1:15:50Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 1:15:50Speaker 3: But if you're on the coast and you want to
- 1:15:53Speaker 3: and your purpose is to have it like me, like
- 1:15:55Speaker 3: if you live on a quarter acre or less, it
- 1:15:59Speaker 3: is different then if you live on three and a
- 1:16:01Speaker 3: half acres.
- 1:16:03Speaker 2: Yeah. Question for Brian from from Carlos.
- 1:16:09Speaker 3: She wanted to know if the Bertoli you were talking
- 1:16:12Speaker 3: about was like the Bertoli olive oil. Yes, yes, yeah, yeah,
- 1:16:16Speaker 3: same thing, same company, right, yeah, exactly, and.
- 1:16:20Speaker 2: John's responsible for that and my bamboo floors. So we
- 1:16:23Speaker 2: learned a lot today. You blame a lot of things
- 1:16:25Speaker 2: on me. Blame this is this is giving you full credit.
- 1:16:28Speaker 2: By the way, changing Paula in Fallbrook.
- 1:16:33Speaker 3: Till the end of the show. Oh my gosh, Peter haya.
- 1:16:37Speaker 3: Oh remember you walk by your friend hi yah and
- 1:16:41Speaker 3: then quickly Millie and.
- 1:16:45Speaker 2: In the Pomo.
- 1:16:47Speaker 3: I'm not sure if we should allow her to listen
- 1:16:49Speaker 3: to the show anymore because she said that her husband
- 1:16:53Speaker 3: makes the.
- 1:16:53Speaker 4: Best sauer no, the spaghetti sauce.
- 1:16:57Speaker 2: Best spaghetti sauce. Oh but you know what, Millie, what
- 1:17:02Speaker 2: type of sauce? That's the point.
- 1:17:04Speaker 3: Is it a bollionnaise? I make a bollionnaise sauce? There
- 1:17:06Speaker 3: are different is that the one with meat in it?
- 1:17:09Speaker 2: Yeah? Okay? And there's other types of sauce. You know,
- 1:17:12Speaker 2: is it billionnaise or bullionnaire? You pronounce the s yeah, okay,
- 1:17:16Speaker 2: that's Itali you okay, billionnaise.
- 1:17:19Speaker 4: So there's different ones, there's different sauce categories that we vote.
- 1:17:24Speaker 3: And it's all right if her husband wants to make
- 1:17:26Speaker 3: the best of marinera sauce. No, it depends on there's
- 1:17:31Speaker 3: different parts of Italy and you guys both know this from.
- 1:17:33Speaker 2: Because there's northern Northern is the white sauce and then
- 1:17:36Speaker 2: the red sauce or vice versa.
- 1:17:38Speaker 3: Right now, while it gets hotter the further south you
- 1:17:40Speaker 3: go in spicy, spicier.
- 1:17:42Speaker 4: Yeah, they put pepper in it all like like peppers
- 1:17:46Speaker 4: or is it just from like pepper seasoning?
- 1:17:49Speaker 2: No, pep down south?
- 1:17:51Speaker 4: Yeah, Like how do they get it spicier?
- 1:17:53Speaker 2: Oh?
- 1:17:53Speaker 3: They use spicy like like meats, like sausages and their sausages.
- 1:18:00Speaker 2: We gotta start wrapping it up. Wow, how about that.
- 1:18:03Speaker 2: Let's come back next week. Let's come back next week
- 1:18:06Speaker 2: more than we didn't cover. Yeah, and reenact the same thing,
- 1:18:09Speaker 2: all right? Second verse name is the first.
- 1:18:11Speaker 3: Send your pictures to Johnnigardanamerica dot com. We'll try to
- 1:18:14Speaker 3: get him in the newsletter. Yes, and I apologize.
- 1:18:17Speaker 2: You know, we had a lot coming, but John's got
- 1:18:19Speaker 2: an overabundance right now. I couldn't get everybody. There could
- 1:18:22Speaker 2: be a waiting time. Hey, for the entire crew. I
- 1:18:23Speaker 2: want to thank Stephanie on Bistok Radio Tiger Peller Fox
- 1:18:26Speaker 2: John Magnasco. I'm Brian Maine. Have a great week and
- 1:18:29Speaker 2: enjoy the rest of your weekend. We are back in
- 1:18:30Speaker 2: studio next week, right here on Garden America. Until then, John,
- 1:18:34Speaker 2: get growing, something like that, get growing. Take care,