[speaker001:] okay so
[speaker002:] okay we're going to talk about lawn and garden today okay um where do you work at or do you you wish to discuss that
[speaker001:] right what uh no I I'm in uh well I live in uh Richardson Texas and uh
[speaker002:] oh okay yeah we're neighbors okay
[speaker001:] yeah and uh but grew up in uh Iowa on a farm with a considerably different philosophy in terms of lawn and garden work uh and uh
[speaker002:] hi can you hang on just a minute thank you
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] I have no idea he didn't broadcast thank you uh-huh I'm sorry go ahead
[speaker001:] no so uh uh not not growing up familiar with here uh uh when I get a chance I listen to Neil Sperry and do that and uh
[speaker002:] oh I do all the time I do all the time I get a lot of good tips from him
[speaker001:] yeah uh
[speaker002:] I have his book too um-hum
[speaker001:] yeah don't do any uh any gardening in the sense of uh vegetable gardening but uh
[speaker002:] not in Texas
[speaker001:] tried tried tried some tried some different flowers and and uh bushes and stuff and uh
[speaker002:] uh have a
[speaker001:] have a lawn service there was one when we when we bought the house and we just continued with them for a long time and then switched to a different one but in terms of the fertilizing and uh weed control mainly leave that up to them what about you
[speaker002:] um-hum well no I had a lawn service one year and I thought phooey I'm going to do it myself because I figured up the cost and I said huh-uh I can do it much
[speaker001:] yeah yeah
[speaker002:] cheaper and better and so what I did I switched to a liquid and I do it with an applicator with my hose and it's so much easier than taking that lawn spreader and walking all over the territory I was surprised how easy it was
[speaker001:] yeah yeah well
[speaker002:] and it I thought well I'm going to do this all the time
[speaker001:] well good
[speaker002:] so I found you know and I've got some problems with uh two trees in my front yard and I took them to a certified uh nurseryman the other day and do you know what he told me I he needed to do
[speaker001:] yeah no
[speaker002:] which is at it's just unreal he said I needed to pull every leave off the tree and the tree is fifteen feet high and it probably has about ten thousand leaves on it and he told me I needed to pull every leaf off and then spray it with this chemical that he said I should purchase and I thought uh-oh this is this is unreal this is unreal
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] so uh I think I'll get my son-in-law to do it for me if he will but
[speaker001:] yeah what what what kind of a is this some sort of a disease or is it a pest
[speaker002:] yes it's a disease that it's got and I don't know what happened to it uh and then it
[speaker001:] what well what kind
[speaker002:] it um well
[speaker001:] what kind of trees are they
[speaker002:] well one is a maple one is um
[speaker001:] huh
[speaker002:] a maple but I would much prefer I think it's not a native Texan tree
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] and uh the one that the ones that really do well are the ones that are on the city property and they don't get any care and they're Cedar Elm and they're just beautiful
[speaker001:] uh-huh uh-huh
[speaker002:] so I mean it it's you know these things that you pamper some people have really a green thumb and you know and um although I don't have
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] too serious a problem but I don't know if it was from the the the late freezes that were or the early freezes we had that caused this tree damage and you know Sperry said you know that's what happened to the Crepe Myrtles
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] the last two years that you we are looking at all of the freeze damage from the prior two years
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] so I kind of think that maybe that uh happened to these large trees that I have
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] and I really hate to lose them but um that's one of the hazards I guess of uh having a a yard because I
[speaker001:] yeah yeah well that's that's one thing that we had we've had very poor luck with with is in in our yard is is trees but the uh what what trees were were there when we moved in uh uh
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] were had been put in by the developer when he built the house and he just put in whatever was cheapest that he could claim was a tree I think yeah and uh
[speaker002:] right the quick growing yeah and they and he
[speaker001:] figured up last night at there were seven different trees of of various kinds and sizes in the yard when we moved in and we got one left at this point but uh a couple of them we've lost to the wind weren't too good trees we've lost to wind uh uh
[speaker002:] um um-hum
[speaker001:] three we three we've lost to to uh freezes between uh eighty three and uh and then uh a year ago we lost uh
[speaker002:] can I pick your brain about how you got rid of those trees did are they still there did you cut them down at the at the ground level or did you pull them up by the roots or how did you get rid of them because if I
[speaker001:] another one well
[speaker002:] I I don't know how to get rid of these big trees because one has a circumference of about ten inches and
[speaker001:] yeah well we didn't have we didn't have any that were that
[speaker002:] oh
[speaker001:] that big when they uh went two of two of them uh the wind the wind blew over uh
[speaker002:] um-hum oh
[speaker001:] in in terms of getting them down uh
[speaker002:] um-hum because I don't want stubs in my lawn because you still have to
[speaker001:] but yeah yeah now the the one that the one that we lost the last one that we lost a a year ago uh up up until then they don't hadn't been big enough but what I just
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] used a hand saw and sawed them off at at as close close to ground level as I could and then
[speaker002:] the base to the ground um-hum
[speaker001:] uh got some got some chemical that you drill holes and pour in that helps
[speaker002:] bore I see try uh a stump killer yeah uh-huh
[speaker001:] helps rot the stump killer yeah stump killer and stump stump rotter but uh this last one had a fair sized root and some guy
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] was doing a job in the neighborhood uh and and saw it and stopped in and asked if I didn't want the stump dug out on the spot for thirty five bucks and I said fine and he had he had a trailer with a machine on it that was specifically for that and it
[speaker002:] yeah and they get that saw and I think it's a kind some kind of a screwing a screwing thing that just rips it right out
[speaker001:] yeah yeah and it it just it just ripped it right
[speaker002:] right out yeah
[speaker001:] right out and uh I took the it it left the it left he left the chips and I
[speaker002:] used those for uh mulch sure
[speaker001:] put them up mulch around around around the other shrubs and uh
[speaker002:] sure
[speaker001:] uh had had a pile of dirt from various things uh back by the garage that I filled in with and and it's filling in with with grass uh nicely this year so that that was that was worth it but uh
[speaker002:] um-hum a blessing in disguise I mean you two fold purpose yeah
[speaker001:] yeah yeah but uh yeah well you do you do your own uh lawn in terms of uh mowing
[speaker002:] lawn yes um-hum yes I have a I have a self-propelled uh Snapper
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] because I'm sitting on a hill and it uh and it's very difficult to address
[speaker001:] oh yeah yeah I uh yeah I I I uh we just got a a old push uh uh Sears mower I it's been fifteen years now since we we first moved to Texas we've had it and I keep waiting for it to die but every year it just seems to hang on and uh and uh I do it my do it myself but uh yeah well a year a year ago I took into took it into Sears to have it tuned up for the season and they said
[speaker002:] well that's good they're very expensive uh
[speaker001:] no it's it's too old we won't even work on it and and I took it back home and it's can't kept plugs along but uh but my son's uh one one of my sons and a couple of his friends this year have
[speaker002:] oh booey yeah yeah they always try to give you a song and dance