Lifestyle Gardening Program 604b
Brad Mills
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02/07/2019
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Backyard Farmer Presents Lifestyle Gardening program 604
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- [00:00:14.848](uplifting music)
- [00:00:37.780]Hello and welcome to another edition
- [00:00:39.660]of Lifestyle Gardening.
- [00:00:41.170]I'm Kim Todd and I hope you're all warm and safe somewhere
- [00:00:44.530]as we try to get through another Nebraska cold snap.
- [00:00:47.940]We've got another great program for you today
- [00:00:50.150]as we'll be looking at helping new homeowners decide
- [00:00:52.820]where to put their hardscapes.
- [00:00:54.770]We'd also like to give you some tips for house plant care
- [00:00:57.980]and we'll hear about how those plants
- [00:00:59.950]get from the breeders and growers
- [00:01:01.490]to your local garden center.
- [00:01:03.450]But first, we are going to hear from Vaughn Hammond
- [00:01:06.090]at Kimmel Orchard about some of the new techniques
- [00:01:08.960]in growing apples.
- [00:01:10.460]Here's Vaughn to tell us more.
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- [00:01:18.500]I'm here with Vaughn Hammond at Kimmel Orchard and Vineyard
- [00:01:21.220]and we are going to be talking about edible landscapes.
- [00:01:24.690]Vaughn, there is such interest
- [00:01:26.240]in edible landscapes these days
- [00:01:28.160]and a lot of homeowners want them in their own backyard,
- [00:01:31.240]whether it's rural or residential or urban.
- [00:01:36.250]Behind me is a really interesting sort of a system
- [00:01:39.460]that appears to be apples.
- [00:01:41.110]What exactly is this?
- [00:01:43.100]I'm glad you said they look like some sort of apple
- [00:01:45.220]because everybody that we have come through
- [00:01:47.360]are often times people are going,
- [00:01:49.410]what kind of grapes those?
- [00:01:51.010]'Cause they are on a trellis.
- [00:01:52.400]So these are actually Honeycrisp apples on a dwarf rootstock
- [00:01:57.480]and they do look like grapes but they are apples.
- [00:02:02.430]So in describing a trellis system for the homeowner,
- [00:02:06.600]what are the components?
- [00:02:07.810]What goes into constructing this sort of a system
- [00:02:10.580]and what is the point of using it?
- [00:02:13.270]So the trellis system itself
- [00:02:15.210]is as tall as the trees we'll get
- [00:02:17.490]which is approximately 10 foot.
- [00:02:19.500]In this situation, we have 25 foot between posts.
- [00:02:23.820]We have the end post assembly
- [00:02:25.380]which is a rather hefty treated timber with a deadman
- [00:02:33.500]and what that does is actually supports the weight
- [00:02:36.690]of the whole trellis system.
- [00:02:38.790]So 12-foot post, two foot into the ground,
- [00:02:41.820]10 foot above ground and then high tensile wire
- [00:02:44.640]for the wires and there's five of 'em
- [00:02:46.810]placed approximately two to 2 1/2 foot between each wire.
- [00:02:51.060]If a homeowner wanted to use a trellis system,
- [00:02:54.020]are there differences in terms of apple spacing
- [00:02:57.570]or fruit tree spacing?
- [00:02:59.250]And what about the pests and the pruning practices,
- [00:03:02.360]have those changed at all over the years?
- [00:03:04.760]Okay, so the spacing traditionally in fruit production,
- [00:03:08.690]let's talk apples,
- [00:03:10.780]it's about 15 to 18 foot between trees,
- [00:03:13.990]sometimes 20 with semi dwarf trees
- [00:03:16.730]and then 20 to 25 foot between rows
- [00:03:19.990]for the equipment purposes.
- [00:03:21.950]That equates to about 187 trees an acre.
- [00:03:25.520]Today, with this system, which by the way is the direction
- [00:03:29.520]of most of production orchards are going to today,
- [00:03:33.070]this spacing is three to 3 1/2 foot between trees
- [00:03:36.690]and about 12 foot between rows
- [00:03:39.730]which equates to just a little over 1,000 trees per acre.
- [00:03:43.070]Absolutely, a homeowner could use this
- [00:03:44.820]in their landscape situation.
- [00:03:47.650]A great barrier between neighbors
- [00:03:50.240]or different areas in your landscape.
- [00:03:53.181]It could be a shield against something
- [00:03:56.670]that you might not want to have seen
- [00:03:58.640]like a building or a compost pile
- [00:04:00.980]or something along those lines.
- [00:04:02.760]And as far as maintenance
- [00:04:04.860]and how that affects the maintenance of the tree,
- [00:04:08.130]actually, maintenance just becomes much easier.
- [00:04:10.300]No longer do you necessary need a ladder or a chainsaw
- [00:04:14.350]or a big sprayer to spray the trees.
- [00:04:16.810]You can actually get by with using a hand pump sprayer
- [00:04:19.900]for pesticide application,
- [00:04:21.920]a lopping shears and a hand pruners
- [00:04:23.640]instead of a chainsaw for pruning
- [00:04:25.870]and you don't need a ladder for harvesting.
- [00:04:27.870]So when you're up on the ladder
- [00:04:29.210]and you got 40 pounds of apples around your neck,
- [00:04:31.640]it's not a very pleasant experience.
- [00:04:33.570]Now, you can do it all from the ground.
- [00:04:35.360]So it's much easier for the homeowner.
- [00:04:37.310]So it sounds a lot safer for the homeowner.
- [00:04:40.170]A lot safer, absolutely.
- [00:04:42.130]And no chainsaws when it comes to pruning.
- [00:04:44.340]Which is also perfect. That's right.
- [00:04:46.100]So if people were going
- [00:04:47.240]to do a small little trellis system at home
- [00:04:50.020]with three or four, five trees even,
- [00:04:53.050]what exactly would be the lifespan
- [00:04:55.490]for any fruit trees in a home landscape situation?
- [00:05:00.040]In this system you're looking at,
- [00:05:01.730]so with it being a dwarf rootstock, the dwarf rootstock
- [00:05:06.060]can part several different characteristics
- [00:05:08.720]but one of the characteristics is precocious bearing
- [00:05:12.420]which means it will bear fruit at a very young age.
- [00:05:15.930]It will actually start bearing fruit
- [00:05:17.590]at two years if you'll let it.
- [00:05:20.740]You want it to gain, the plant to gain a little bit
- [00:05:23.120]of energy so we like to leave 'em
- [00:05:25.070]and go for three or four years.
- [00:05:27.200]But let's say, starting harvest at year three,
- [00:05:29.740]you can consistently get harvest up to about year 15.
- [00:05:33.710]And the yields on each of these little trees
- [00:05:36.100]is between a bushel and a bushel and a half of apples
- [00:05:39.820]or 40 to 60 pounds of apples as they mature.
- [00:05:43.540]You're gonna expect harvest
- [00:05:44.560]from year three to about 15 years
- [00:05:47.360]and at that point in time,
- [00:05:48.510]then they start to peer out a little bit.
- [00:05:50.750]So perfect lifespan.
- [00:05:52.180]This sounds like a great system.
- [00:05:53.670]We really appreciate your information, Vaughn.
- [00:05:55.830]Absolutely, my pleasure.
- [00:05:59.560]We've heard from Vaughn about growing peaches
- [00:06:01.680]and now we've heard from him about apples.
- [00:06:04.160]We're really trying to show you the value of growing fruit
- [00:06:06.800]and then a small orchard
- [00:06:08.210]can be a great addition to your home.
- [00:06:10.440]It takes a little effort as you'll have to be aware
- [00:06:12.540]of pest problems and you'll have to do some pruning
- [00:06:15.180]but there's really nothing like fresh fruit
- [00:06:17.210]right of the tree.
- [00:06:18.950]This week's Go Gardening! feature for newer gardens
- [00:06:21.440]takes a look at hardscapes.
- [00:06:23.305]A hardscape is all of those additions to your yard
- [00:06:26.040]that aren't actually growing anything such as a brick patio,
- [00:06:29.630]retaining walls, fire pits and any outdoor buildings.
- [00:06:33.570]It's fine to throw a few lawn chairs on the patio
- [00:06:36.440]while you barbecue but some planning,
- [00:06:38.990]you can really create an area
- [00:06:40.560]that will be practical and useful for years to come.
- [00:06:43.313](relaxing music)
- [00:06:51.930]In our previous Go Gardening! sessions,
- [00:06:53.740]we've talked to you about how to inventory what you have,
- [00:06:56.840]how to figure out what you want,
- [00:06:58.920]how to create some conceptual, what if,
- [00:07:01.240]shoot the moon sorts of ideas.
- [00:07:03.590]It's now time to figure out exactly
- [00:07:06.020]where some of those elements
- [00:07:07.270]that really will make your landscape yours
- [00:07:09.750]go into the landscape.
- [00:07:11.410]Our tendency is people, if we're plants people,
- [00:07:14.010]is to move immediately to let's go pick out the plants.
- [00:07:17.780]But let's take a step back and figure out,
- [00:07:20.890]now that you know what you want and you need,
- [00:07:22.840]you've gotta figure out where the hardscape elements go.
- [00:07:26.250]Think of this as circulation systems
- [00:07:28.320]and as nodes or gathering places
- [00:07:31.100]just like you would if you were living in town.
- [00:07:33.920]You have to use a street or a sidewalk
- [00:07:35.940]to get to where you're going
- [00:07:37.580]and then there is some sort of a feature when you get there.
- [00:07:41.120]So the hardscape elements can be designed
- [00:07:44.040]and placed in your landscape in a multitude of ways.
- [00:07:48.410]People tend to think very rigidly about those sidewalks
- [00:07:51.940]and those patios.
- [00:07:53.610]The sidewalk at the street of course
- [00:07:55.340]which typically cannot be changed,
- [00:07:57.480]but the place where your sidewalk hits that one can.
- [00:08:01.350]So this is actually exactly the same layout of property.
- [00:08:05.010]The doors are in the same place,
- [00:08:06.690]the driveway is in the same place,
- [00:08:08.690]and if you look at what has happened here,
- [00:08:11.200]we have four different iterations
- [00:08:14.470]of how to do something as simple as get to the front door
- [00:08:18.000]and in a couple of instances,
- [00:08:19.770]not only get to the front door on a sidewalk of some sort
- [00:08:24.350]but to get from the driveway.
- [00:08:26.390]So we can come from the drive straight into a big patio,
- [00:08:30.310]we can come in a curve or linear fashion
- [00:08:33.400]with what is probably some stepping stones
- [00:08:35.630]or a different kind of material,
- [00:08:37.500]we can come very close to the driveway with a patio
- [00:08:41.670]or we can come kinda straight in
- [00:08:43.320]in a more traditional way.
- [00:08:45.260]So think about not only the getting to one point
- [00:08:50.360]from another on a walkable surface
- [00:08:53.400]in the instance of a residential property.
- [00:08:55.740]Even the driveway, if you've got a bigger property
- [00:08:58.730]and you have room to curve that drive,
- [00:09:01.500]narrow it a little bit,
- [00:09:02.900]figure out where the parking goes,
- [00:09:05.030]maybe use a dual use
- [00:09:06.870]of the drive surface if you have company
- [00:09:09.110]so that it does become sort of an extension of the patio.
- [00:09:12.660]You also do exactly the same thing on the side yard
- [00:09:16.140]and in the backyard.
- [00:09:17.290]So many people really place all of their hardscape elements,
- [00:09:21.790]patios, fire pits, and so forth in the backyard
- [00:09:25.920]and yet if you're in a neighborhood
- [00:09:28.220]where you're really good with your neighbors
- [00:09:30.300]or you want to be,
- [00:09:31.700]having even a small element in the front
- [00:09:34.000]where you can place a couple of chairs,
- [00:09:36.310]you could have containers,
- [00:09:38.280]you could have a little tiny table where you could go sit
- [00:09:40.640]and have your coffee,
- [00:09:42.000]those really enhance the experience for your own landscape.
- [00:09:45.830]They also give you some options
- [00:09:47.720]so that depending on where those trees are,
- [00:09:50.560]depending on how hot it is or if the wind is blowing,
- [00:09:54.150]if you want more privacy or less,
- [00:09:56.470]you have the capability of moving from the front to the back
- [00:10:00.140]or the back to the front.
- [00:10:01.670]Again, in a method that works for you.
- [00:10:04.640]Either on a very solid harscape element,
- [00:10:08.520]very clean, clear path,
- [00:10:10.560]or one that is a little bit more meandering
- [00:10:12.767]and a little bit more garden-like
- [00:10:15.840]so that the true elements that you have to think about
- [00:10:19.370]are where you're starting, where are you going,
- [00:10:23.160]how are you going to get there,
- [00:10:24.750]and what are you going to do when you do get there
- [00:10:27.740]on what kind of a surface.
- [00:10:29.530]So we'll be talking a little bit later on in this series
- [00:10:32.120]about okay, you figured out where you're going.
- [00:10:35.630]Now we're gonna figure out what are those materials
- [00:10:38.440]that you get to work with.
- [00:10:41.180]In review, we've talked about taking inventory
- [00:10:43.780]of what you already have,
- [00:10:45.360]taking notes about what you'd like,
- [00:10:47.190]and we've summed up how to get where you'd like to be
- [00:10:49.630]in terms of what's actually outside of your home.
- [00:10:53.030]A well-planned out hardscape can become a beautiful,
- [00:10:55.820]peaceful, and functional addition to your home.
- [00:10:59.080]Next time, we'll be helping you pick out the plants
- [00:11:01.780]that really make all of this planning
- [00:11:03.540]for gardeners worthwhile.
- [00:11:06.250]Since we're all confined to our homes
- [00:11:08.380]or offices this time of year,
- [00:11:09.870]it's nice to see something green and growing
- [00:11:12.080]in the living room or your cubicle.
- [00:11:14.540]House plants can provide a little bit of color in your life
- [00:11:17.260]when everything else is covered with snow.
- [00:11:20.040]But like all those other plants,
- [00:11:21.520]you'll need to pay attention to their care
- [00:11:23.680]and that is the topic of this week's Landscape Lesson.
- [00:11:26.602](bright music)
- [00:11:35.090]This time of year, a lot of people really need
- [00:11:37.280]to get a greenhouse fix
- [00:11:39.170]or you've got houseplants at home
- [00:11:41.040]that are maybe looking a little bit piqued.
- [00:11:43.390]So think about the kinds of conditions
- [00:11:45.220]that you're giving those houseplants.
- [00:11:47.050]It's been gray and cloudy and certainly the ones
- [00:11:50.030]that need a lot more sun are probably a little bit unhappy.
- [00:11:54.120]It's also a little bit difficult sometimes
- [00:11:56.470]to deal with that dry heat in a home.
- [00:11:59.350]That can also have impact on your houseplants.
- [00:12:02.370]So what to look for or what to do
- [00:12:04.340]besides just enjoying it and hoping
- [00:12:06.410]that we get a little bit of sunshine
- [00:12:07.970]or go into a real greenhouse.
- [00:12:10.320]Something like this really, really simple airplant
- [00:12:13.320]which is one of my favorites
- [00:12:14.490]because I'm terrible with houseplants
- [00:12:16.210]and even I can't kill this one but it also sheds parts.
- [00:12:20.680]So this dried up old dead foliage, in any of your plants,
- [00:12:25.330]you wanna remove that and get rid of it
- [00:12:27.780]just in case it's insect-based or pest-based
- [00:12:31.290]or simply doesn't look good.
- [00:12:33.430]The interesting cylindrical snake plant
- [00:12:36.810]is looking a little bit piqued,
- [00:12:38.360]like it probably needs a little bit of fertilization.
- [00:12:42.070]Houseplants do like to be crowded in the container,
- [00:12:45.150]a lot of them do.
- [00:12:46.440]But you can see that we also have
- [00:12:47.890]what looks an awful lot like some rust starting on the ends
- [00:12:51.440]of these particular snakes, if you will.
- [00:12:54.960]So getting rid of those kinds of things
- [00:12:57.110]also will help keeping those disease from spreading.
- [00:13:00.670]Water requirements are going to vary and of course,
- [00:13:03.280]a lot of our Crassulaceae family clans or our succulents
- [00:13:07.680]really thrive without much water
- [00:13:10.000]but that doesn't mean no water.
- [00:13:12.090]They also are going to stretch if they don't get enough sun
- [00:13:14.960]so the ability to either add artificial light
- [00:13:17.960]or move them to a sunny window is going to be important.
- [00:13:21.480]And if you have plants that are showing an awful lot
- [00:13:23.930]of yellowing foliage in places where it shouldn't be yellow,
- [00:13:27.520]check for either over watering
- [00:13:29.210]which is very easy to do or under watering.
- [00:13:32.720]Dig down in the base of that plant
- [00:13:34.390]and figure out, is there something else going on
- [00:13:36.500]that you really need to attend to
- [00:13:38.430]if you're going to keep those houseplants healthy.
- [00:13:42.870]Houseplants are like anything else you grow.
- [00:13:45.050]You're going to have to inspect them from time to time
- [00:13:47.490]to make sure they're thriving.
- [00:13:49.000]And one of the most common problems
- [00:13:50.990]with houseplants is over watering
- [00:13:53.130]so do pay special attention to the growing instructions
- [00:13:56.400]and to the plant itself when you bring it home
- [00:13:58.420]from the garden center.
- [00:14:00.370]Those plants you purchase at those local garden centers
- [00:14:03.050]are oftentimes started someplace else.
- [00:14:06.090]This week's interview focuses on how those plants
- [00:14:08.640]start as slips and end up on the nursery shelf
- [00:14:12.160]where you can purchase them and take them home.
- [00:14:14.688](bright music)
- [00:14:21.290]You might wonder how exactly the plants
- [00:14:23.610]that you get to buy in the garden centers
- [00:14:25.560]get to you from wherever they came from.
- [00:14:28.330]We've talked a little bit this year about sunken gardens,
- [00:14:31.540]how those plants come to be
- [00:14:33.550]but we're really gonna talk today
- [00:14:35.210]about how those containerized plants,
- [00:14:37.520]the ball and burlap evergreens,
- [00:14:39.050]the little bitty things that have to start out life somehow
- [00:14:42.640]end up in something you can use in your landscape.
- [00:14:45.150]So it's my pleasure to be talking with Randy Wolf
- [00:14:47.600]of Campbell's Nursery and Garden Center
- [00:14:49.730]about how that happens.
- [00:14:51.510]So Randy, just exactly how do those little tiny plants
- [00:14:55.630]come to you from where before they end up being big enough
- [00:14:59.650]to send out to consumers?
- [00:15:01.950]Well, our little tiny plants,
- [00:15:05.130]we know 'em as liners in the industry
- [00:15:07.990]and they come to us from a myriad of suppliers
- [00:15:12.020]from all over The United States and even in Canada.
- [00:15:15.660]The shrub liners that we have here
- [00:15:17.350]happen to come from Canada
- [00:15:18.840]and we received those about 10 days ago
- [00:15:21.810]in a refrigerated truck.
- [00:15:24.140]They put 28 in a box of whatever variety
- [00:15:27.360]and ship 'em to us and we in turn put 'em into
- [00:15:32.010]the appropriate sized container.
- [00:15:33.810]These happen to go into a number two
- [00:15:35.430]or two-gallon container.
- [00:15:37.340]We'll start 'em in a cool greenhouse, grow them slow,
- [00:15:40.620]try and get some roots on them,
- [00:15:42.410]and if I do my job correctly
- [00:15:45.550]and the weather cooperates a little bit,
- [00:15:48.600]we'll have a saleable plant to come first part of May
- [00:15:52.640]or end of May.
- [00:15:54.560]We'll do this with ornamental grasses,
- [00:15:56.250]we'll do this with shrubs, we'll do this with vines
- [00:15:58.441]and of course, a lot of different perennials.
- [00:16:01.350]What I'm hearing you say is there are various sizes
- [00:16:04.880]and various ways that they come in
- [00:16:07.660]and just exactly how do you know
- [00:16:10.470]when to bump them or move them up into a bigger container?
- [00:16:14.160]We look a the root system.
- [00:16:16.190]And you're right, we've gotten away from bare-root.
- [00:16:18.570]We do very little bare-root anymore.
- [00:16:20.280]A lot of it is in small containers
- [00:16:22.050]and some of the containers will actually help produce
- [00:16:25.750]a nice, fibrous root system.
- [00:16:28.345]When you pull that plant out of its container,
- [00:16:30.650]out of a small plant and see that nice, fibrous root system,
- [00:16:34.160]we know it's good enough to go into a larger pot.
- [00:16:38.370]In the larger pot, it's a wait-and-see.
- [00:16:42.660]When we start seeing roots getting out to that pot wall
- [00:16:45.790]down to the edge of the pot,
- [00:16:47.510]then we feel like it's close and depending on variety,
- [00:16:50.560]could go out into the garden centers
- [00:16:52.950]or into a landscape.
- [00:16:54.090]And then of course that million-dollar
- [00:16:55.810]or at least profit question is when do you know
- [00:16:59.800]that they're actually ready in their new containers
- [00:17:02.420]so that you can take them out of production,
- [00:17:04.880]put them in the garden center
- [00:17:06.410]and allow consumers to actually purchase them
- [00:17:08.680]and take them home in the pickup truck.
- [00:17:11.250]That's the trick, that's the whole scheduling problem.
- [00:17:16.700]You back up a certain number of weeks
- [00:17:18.720]and that's when you try and have your product come in.
- [00:17:21.960]The greenhouses are set at certain temperatures
- [00:17:24.550]so that they stay on schedule
- [00:17:26.710]and just hope you don't have too many cloudy days
- [00:17:29.660]to warmer days can kinda speed the process up.
- [00:17:33.930]Sometimes not allowing that root system
- [00:17:35.810]to grow like you'd like it to
- [00:17:39.755]but then it requires pinching or trimming some top growth
- [00:17:42.690]to slow 'em down.
- [00:17:44.440]The other thing is we shoot for times
- [00:17:47.390]when we have a market for them
- [00:17:50.760]and obviously spring is one of those times,
- [00:17:54.680]a major period for us.
- [00:17:56.890]But we also do landscaping throughout the summer
- [00:17:59.220]and into the fall and so we'll want product
- [00:18:01.520]for those times as well.
- [00:18:03.170]Thanks Randy for that great information.
- [00:18:05.060]I know this is a new position for you
- [00:18:06.950]in what you're doing
- [00:18:07.910]and I'm assuming you will be looking forward
- [00:18:10.500]to spring just like all the rest of us.
- [00:18:15.100]That's one of the main jobs of a good garden center
- [00:18:17.430]which is to offer you a choice of color, species,
- [00:18:20.210]and hearty plants that have a good chance
- [00:18:22.760]of thriving here in Nebraska
- [00:18:24.710]and you don't have to wait until April
- [00:18:26.570]to get started planting for this season.
- [00:18:29.540]It's time now to answer a few of your questions.
- [00:18:32.620]If you've got a question you'd like to submit to the show,
- [00:18:35.030]just drop as an email, byf@unl.edu
- [00:18:39.490]and as always, please tell us as much information as you can
- [00:18:43.420]including where you live and attach those pictures as JPEGs.
- [00:18:47.700]Our first question comes from a viewer
- [00:18:49.690]who didn't tell us where they're from
- [00:18:51.600]but this is a houseplant question
- [00:18:53.290]so it's probably less critical than if they were out
- [00:18:56.200]in the heater lands asking us about a tree
- [00:18:58.720]and this is about a Christmas cactus
- [00:19:01.180]which bloomed well at Christmas or at least close
- [00:19:05.170]because of course some of them don't think it's Christmas
- [00:19:07.670]when it's Christmas and there's a Thanksgiving version
- [00:19:10.300]and an Easter version and an oops version sometimes.
- [00:19:14.630]But what happened with this one is after it flowered,
- [00:19:17.520]it dropped its flowers and then turned a strange color
- [00:19:21.430]and it doesn't really look to us like it is over watered
- [00:19:26.150]which would typically be maybe a little soggier appearance,
- [00:19:29.360]a little bit more yellow and those pads on that cactus
- [00:19:33.870]but it does look dark, almost like its cold,
- [00:19:37.730]like it maybe it's sad in a draft a little bit.
- [00:19:41.440]Doesn't really look like it needs fertilizing
- [00:19:43.700]and typically when those Christmas cactuses
- [00:19:46.300]finish their flowering,
- [00:19:47.860]we don't fertilize immediately anyway.
- [00:19:49.760]They need to go into a resting period.
- [00:19:53.210]Certainly with a single picture and not a closeup,
- [00:19:56.460]we can't see insect damage.
- [00:19:58.970]We can't see any sort of fungal diseases
- [00:20:02.100]on this cactus either so the suspicion at this point
- [00:20:06.190]is maybe it's an environmental thing.
- [00:20:07.920]Did it get moved?
- [00:20:09.600]Do check for the water.
- [00:20:11.250]Christmas cactus is not one of the cactus
- [00:20:13.670]that likes it deadly dry
- [00:20:15.820]but it's also not one that really can't get soaked either.
- [00:20:20.170]You're welcome to send additional pictures if you'd like
- [00:20:22.560]but best guess at this point
- [00:20:24.610]is that's maybe something going on with this plant.
- [00:20:28.860]All right, we have actually a question from a Lincoln viewer
- [00:20:34.320]who happened to be driving down one of the city streets
- [00:20:37.010]in their neighborhood and saw trees
- [00:20:39.680]that looked like the branches had really been stripped
- [00:20:43.180]in the canopy of the tree.
- [00:20:45.040]They're newer elms, they're the hybrid elms
- [00:20:47.820]that are being so popular as a street tree
- [00:20:51.150]in many, many cities.
- [00:20:52.770]They were bred oftentimes for certainly resistance
- [00:20:55.790]to Dutch elm disease, difference in canopy,
- [00:20:58.680]slightly smaller structure,
- [00:21:00.430]some of them have great fall color.
- [00:21:02.700]They have to be managed when they're young
- [00:21:04.420]and that includes a lot of pruning
- [00:21:06.370]but this particular instance,
- [00:21:07.900]this kind of pruning, we don't wanna do that.
- [00:21:10.610]This is one of Denis' critters that has done all this damage
- [00:21:14.560]and for some reason,
- [00:21:16.010]that would be a great PhD research project.
- [00:21:20.050]The squirrels seem to really be attracted
- [00:21:23.200]to a lot of these newer hybrid elms.
- [00:21:25.910]In the winter months, they come in,
- [00:21:27.450]they strip those branches
- [00:21:29.940]and as you can see in the images on this one,
- [00:21:32.380]they have not only stripped on the top
- [00:21:34.290]which we see pretty frequently
- [00:21:35.760]with squirrels sitting and chewing and doing all that stuff.
- [00:21:39.650]They have gone almost all the way around
- [00:21:42.050]a couple of the main trunks on this street
- [00:21:44.380]or the main stems on this tree.
- [00:21:46.520]When you're down to a strip of bark
- [00:21:49.340]that's an inch or a half or even less than half
- [00:21:54.210]of the actual diameter of the trunk of the tree,
- [00:21:57.020]that tree is going to be putting a lot of resources back
- [00:22:00.100]into compartmentalizing and trying to close that opening.
- [00:22:03.870]In this instance, there's also a lot of included bark.
- [00:22:07.100]There's some poor branch attachments in this tree
- [00:22:10.450]so I'm gonna say that these,
- [00:22:13.460]at least these particular one with the pictures
- [00:22:16.840]is not going to be a tree that is going
- [00:22:19.140]to be worth putting resources in to save.
- [00:22:21.880]And the real unfortunate thing
- [00:22:23.360]is you can't actually just cage an entire tree
- [00:22:25.930]in the landscape typically.
- [00:22:27.870]You can put netting over it maybe while it's younger
- [00:22:31.430]but that is still not going to deter those squirrels.
- [00:22:35.220]You cannot move them to a different location,
- [00:22:38.290]you can't get a license
- [00:22:39.850]to shoot them as a game animal in town
- [00:22:42.580]so it's really that head scratcher on shoot,
- [00:22:46.260]wish they would've gone off
- [00:22:47.280]and chewed on somebody else's tree.
- [00:22:49.850]For our final feature of today's program,
- [00:22:51.890]we're going to hear from extension educator, John Porter
- [00:22:54.920]about planning your garden for this season.
- [00:22:57.810]Sure, it's been bitterly cold here
- [00:23:00.210]but that shouldn't stop you from taking time
- [00:23:02.340]to think about what you'd like to accomplish outdoors
- [00:23:05.230]this upcoming growing season.
- [00:23:07.270]Good gardeners do understand
- [00:23:08.910]that successful gardening starts with a plan.
- [00:23:11.620]John tells us that starts right now.
- [00:23:14.491](uplifting music)
- [00:23:22.150]So as we have winter going on and the snow flies
- [00:23:25.490]and the temperatures are cold,
- [00:23:26.970]sometimes we think that well, gardening is just not upon us
- [00:23:31.370]but when in the middle of winter,
- [00:23:33.490]when we have January going on
- [00:23:35.280]and all those seed catalogs start coming in the mail,
- [00:23:37.940]it's actually the best time to start planning
- [00:23:40.020]for our garden year ahead.
- [00:23:42.170]Now, we might think, well,
- [00:23:44.130]why don't we just go buy what we want
- [00:23:45.330]and we put it in the ground?
- [00:23:46.370]And some people do that and they have lovely gardens
- [00:23:49.830]but a lot of people,
- [00:23:50.840]it really helps to plan out your garden year
- [00:23:53.710]and there are several different reasons for that.
- [00:23:56.530]Number one is really knowing
- [00:23:58.200]when you are getting ready to plant things,
- [00:24:01.180]what you're gonna have ready to plant.
- [00:24:03.250]So this is especially key if you're starting your own seeds.
- [00:24:07.090]So when you get your own seeds, you pick up your seed packet
- [00:24:10.720]and you never know exactly when to plant it
- [00:24:13.710]or whenever you need to get things ready to go
- [00:24:15.910]so you look at the back of the seed packet
- [00:24:17.730]and it tells you, do you direct sow?
- [00:24:19.970]Do you start that indoors?
- [00:24:22.350]When do you do that?
- [00:24:23.250]When do you plant it outside?
- [00:24:24.720]So it's really good to have that information ahead of time
- [00:24:27.990]and really make a plan when you wanna do that
- [00:24:29.950]so you don't forget.
- [00:24:31.380]So you look at the seed packet and it says,
- [00:24:33.730]you start indoors six weeks before the last frost
- [00:24:38.010]and then you plant outdoors.
- [00:24:39.920]So you can actually take some time
- [00:24:42.660]to really schedule that out.
- [00:24:44.580]What I like to do is something like make a garden plan
- [00:24:48.230]or a garden calendar
- [00:24:49.550]so just taking a notebook or some paper
- [00:24:52.600]and scheduling out,
- [00:24:54.739]when do I have to start this indoors?
- [00:24:56.750]When can I plant it outdoors?
- [00:24:58.840]And when is it going to be mature?
- [00:25:01.740]'Cause that's another thing that we can think about.
- [00:25:03.990]We want to think ahead to our gardening
- [00:25:06.690]and that's one thing that a lot of people don't do
- [00:25:08.920]so I plant this and it's mature in 60 days
- [00:25:13.300]and well, I forgot that I scheduled
- [00:25:15.650]a two-week vacation in 60 days
- [00:25:17.640]so all of that is going to be ripe whenever I'm out of town
- [00:25:22.340]so we want to schedule things ahead of time.
- [00:25:25.840]Also thinking about not having everything mature
- [00:25:28.920]in the vegetable garden at the same time.
- [00:25:31.510]We have tomatoes that mature in 80 days, 100 days, 120 days
- [00:25:37.680]so we can really schedule those things out
- [00:25:39.750]if we think ahead, if we create a calendar for ourselves.
- [00:25:43.490]The same thing goes if we're doing landscaping or flowers.
- [00:25:47.110]If we're starting those seeds indoors,
- [00:25:48.820]we can schedule that out when we wanna plant.
- [00:25:51.900]If we're wanting to install something new in the landscape,
- [00:25:55.490]we can plan out how far ahead do I need
- [00:25:58.390]to start thinking about finding the plants for those?
- [00:26:01.590]And then just scheduling out
- [00:26:03.730]and planning out your actual gardening space.
- [00:26:08.150]I'm a big garden planner.
- [00:26:09.360]So I do lots of raised bed vegetables
- [00:26:11.980]so I might actually make myself a chart
- [00:26:14.850]of what I'm going to plant
- [00:26:17.060]and maybe even when I'm gonna plant it
- [00:26:19.480]'cause I don't plant everything at the same time.
- [00:26:21.490]I have cool season crops that go in in March or April
- [00:26:25.740]then I have warm season crops that go in later
- [00:26:28.260]and so I schedule that out, I plan that out,
- [00:26:30.620]and I can make good use of my space
- [00:26:32.830]'cause my beans might be done in July
- [00:26:34.870]and what else can I plant in there
- [00:26:36.650]so I can really think about making the best use of my space.
- [00:26:39.930]Then I also have a map of what I planted where
- [00:26:42.420]for when I need to do crop rotation next year
- [00:26:45.440]'cause I don't wanna plant my tomatoes in the same place.
- [00:26:48.130]I have it mapped out and I remember exactly
- [00:26:50.170]where they've been for the last few years.
- [00:26:52.570]So you can get yourself a notebook, a nice journal to use
- [00:26:57.330]and to keep all of that information in one place
- [00:26:59.810]and use it from year to year
- [00:27:01.660]and it will help you become a much better gardener
- [00:27:04.250]just by keeping that information at hand.
- [00:27:08.960]A simple plan starts with what was successful last year
- [00:27:12.200]as well as what didn't work
- [00:27:14.250]and of course what you'd like to try again.
- [00:27:17.010]And as we've said several times on the program,
- [00:27:19.270]trying something new can be very rewarding
- [00:27:22.540]so get out the catalogs,
- [00:27:23.980]go to the garden center to look around
- [00:27:25.700]and take notes about what you want
- [00:27:27.900]to do in your garden in 2019.
- [00:27:31.590]Thank you so much for joining us again
- [00:27:33.760]for Lifestyle Gardening.
- [00:27:35.380]Next time, we'll be talking about integrated pest management
- [00:27:38.960]and we will help gardeners pick out plants
- [00:27:41.600]for their landscape plan.
- [00:27:43.470]Don't forget to check us out
- [00:27:44.710]on Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter.
- [00:27:46.970]So good morning, good gardening, thanks for watching,
- [00:27:50.270]we'll see you all next time on Lifestyle Gardening.
- [00:27:53.176](uplifting music)
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