[speaker001:] okay well what do you do on your yard
[speaker002:] well ah typical lawn stuff Saint Augustine ah with a little Bermuda mixed in in some of the sunny areas uh
[speaker001:] um-hum uh-huh
[speaker002:] and really all I do to it is uh in fact I didn't even fertilize it this year I just mowed it and I I mow it uh you know with a mulch mower so the the particles fall down yeah
[speaker001:] comes back in the yard so you don't have anyone do your yard you do it yourself yeah we do too
[speaker002:] I do it myself have a lot of people trying to do it for me but hey I need the exercise so what the heck
[speaker001:] isn't that the truth all flyer's on every door everyday that's right well we um we my husband does the same thing he does the yard and he wants me to learn how to work the lawn mower but I keep putting off learning
[speaker002:] hey you've got the right idea
[speaker001:] that's right but I had recently gone out and planted mums so we had decided to paint the front of the house about three weeks ago and so while my husband was painting I went out and bought about fifty dollars worth of mums over at Calloway's
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] and put out yellow and bronze and they just gorgeous and so then last week my mom comes in town and she says well those are gonna die just the first frost she said you should have done pansies and I went well now you tell me so that first night that on Halloween we went out and covered them with a sheet and they did okay that first night but the second night we were at the movies and didn't do it so I guess I've lost them
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] I haven't gone out to check yet
[speaker002:] yeah I wouldn't don't blame you I wouldn't wanna look at them
[speaker001:] oh listen but um the worst problem we've had here with this grass was about the third year we were here I guess it was about four years ago and we did not know in August to put down the uh whatever it is for grub worms
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] and the next spring I guess in that March every time we would go out and just try to walk on the grass or reach down to pull a weed we'd have big whole patches come up have you ever seen it
[speaker002:] yeah yeah
[speaker001:] what grub worms do and we pulled up almost half of our yard just by raking it it would just come off in the rake down to the dirt so we had to go out and resod the whole thing with squares and wet it and put it down and rope it off everything it took a lot of money and a lot of time so the most careful thing we do on our yard every August is put down that Diazanon
[speaker002:] yeah you you you think that's what it was uh mulch mulch mulch okay well
[speaker001:] oh yeah we found them yeah we found them we dug under there about an inch and you could see them they're real fat old white things and they said they turn into black bugs in the spring
[speaker002:] yeah yeah those kind of brown uh June what we call June bugs and some people call them May beetles and yeah yeah
[speaker001:] yeah but in but in the whole um-hum yeah June bugs is what I'd heard them called so anyhow occasionally I find them in the flower beds they said that every yard has some but it was a preponderance of them that caused our problem
[speaker002:] oh yeah
[speaker001:] so that's the number one thing we do whether we fertilize or anything else just because we got burned so badly before
[speaker002:] yeah well I had some of that problem but mine was freeze it
[speaker001:] oh yeah that too you know two years ago or last Christmas is that what you're talking about yeah um-hum
[speaker002:] yeah yeah and I'm still replacing I'm still replacing that in the back especially under the trees um you know kind of slow and and as you say very expensive
[speaker001:] um-hum yeah
[speaker002:] I caught Wolfe with ah ah one ah one of the sales where they have those big blocks for fifty cents and I I bought about twenty of them and
[speaker001:] oh yeah I bet you did too and put those down in the spring
[speaker002:] uh well I put that you know that was laid that was like
[speaker001:] or the fall yeah because I started to say you can there's different times they say it's okay to do it
[speaker002:] yeah that was like September I think and I had to water it you know gosh
[speaker001:] yeah yeah keep it damp well my out here you know we don't have as many trees in Plano at least the area where we're over by Collin Creek Mall and but a lot of the shrubbery that we have in the front like the pittosporum all died and all those variegated uh things died so we pretty much go with that dwarf yaupon and that yaupon holly and they just live yeah you can you can stand those
[speaker002:] yeah they're pretty tough uh pittosporum is kind of borderline here and usually it'll do pretty well but uh you know every once in a while we get one of these really cold deals and it it zaps it
[speaker001:] um-hum yeah well it's kind of like one of these it's
[speaker002:] oh wax leaf wax leaf ligustrum is the same way
[speaker001:] same way um-hum that they warned me of that one finally and I said you know you need to either read Neil Sperry's book before you shop or get a reputable nursery because a lot of places that would are just trying to sell whatever was pretty out there and we didn't know the difference and every year we learn one more thing we didn't know before like about these mums it's like okay next year I'll do pansies
[speaker002:] yeah your list is growing
[speaker001:] yes and my backyard we had it really nice and then my husband wanted a Labrador puppy and so it was about I guess he's three now so the first summer he was here he dug up all of my
[speaker002:] oh yeah oh gee
[speaker001:] bushes and plants and brought them to the front door and the back door and laid them on the patio so it's like our backyard is just kind of like as long as he won't damage it fine and if he'll if there's anything he'll hurt we just don't put it out there anymore
[speaker002:] um yeah kind of cuts your possibilities for flower beds down
[speaker001:] um-hum very much very much
[speaker002:] I had a I had a small vegetable garden that uh it did pretty well it's it's like on the side the apron of the of the parkway out behind the garage and uh there's our our garages come in from the back you know from the alley
[speaker001:] you did huh uh-huh so do ours yeah
[speaker002:] and uh it's it's that little piece of land over there well I had uh tomatoes and and uh uh peppers
[speaker001:] what did you grow
[speaker002:] and I had had okra and cucumbers by the fence I had cucumbers
[speaker001:] that is amazing
[speaker002:] which which didn't do real well uh they kind of came out looking like gourds
[speaker001:] yeah well put them in a salad though you say well I made it though at least it's mine
[speaker002:] yeah but I had squash I had zucchini and and yellow crook neck squash