WEBVTT 00:02.502 --> 00:04.104 >> HI THERE, I'M TOM SPENCER. 00:04.104 --> 00:04.704 THIS WEEK ON CENTRAL TEXAS 00:04.704 --> 00:08.308 GARDENER, HORTICULTURIST 00:08.308 --> 00:10.210 GREG GRANT KEEPS THE HARVEST 00:10.210 --> 00:11.311 GOING WITH LATE WINTER AND 00:11.311 --> 00:12.412 SPRING VEGETABLES. 00:12.412 --> 00:13.813 ON TOUR SEE HOW A NEW 00:13.813 --> 00:15.615 GARDENER TURNED A FIELD OF 00:15.615 --> 00:16.916 WEEDS INTO RAISED BEDS OF 00:16.916 --> 00:17.317 FOOD. 00:17.317 --> 00:18.818 DAPHNE EXPLAINS WHY TO PRUNE 00:18.818 --> 00:21.021 TREES NOW AND GIVES YOU THE 00:21.021 --> 00:23.023 TIMELINE FOR OAKS AND TRISHA 00:23.023 --> 00:25.725 HAS BASIC BACKYARD TIPS. 00:25.725 --> 00:27.527 LET'S GET GOING RIGHT NOW. 00:27.527 --> 00:28.128 >> SUPPORT FOR CENTRAL TEXAS GARDENER COMES FROM 00:28.128 --> 00:29.729 GEOGROWERS, OFFERING CUSTOM 00:29.729 --> 00:31.031 SOIL BLENDS FOR LAWN, 00:31.031 --> 00:33.133 GARDENS XERISCAPING AND 00:33.133 --> 00:34.234 ORGANIC LANDSCAPING SUPPLY. 00:34.234 --> 00:35.235 MORE INFORMATION AT 00:35.235 --> 00:37.137 GEOGROWERS.NET. 00:37.137 --> 00:51.451 >> [MUSIC PLAYING]. 00:51.451 --> 00:53.253 >> YOUR FIRST GARDEN IS BOTH 00:53.253 --> 00:55.155 THE HARDEST AND THE MOST 00:55.155 --> 00:55.455 EXCITING. 00:55.455 --> 00:56.990 IT'S ESPECIALLY POWERFUL IF 00:56.990 --> 00:58.792 YOU MOVE TO AUSTIN JUST AS 00:58.792 --> 00:59.392 DROUGHT HITS. 00:59.392 --> 01:01.695 SEE HOW NEW GARDENER ELLIE 01:01.695 --> 01:03.196 HANLON TOOK ON THE 01:03.196 --> 01:03.496 CHALLENGE. 01:03.496 --> 01:05.398 >> ELLIE HANLON IS GROWING 01:05.398 --> 01:06.499 HER FIRST GARDEN. 01:06.499 --> 01:10.203 NOT ONLY THAT, SINCE SHE 01:10.203 --> 01:11.705 HAILS FROM FLORIDA AND 01:11.705 --> 01:13.506 BROOKLYN, SHE TACKLED PLANTS 01:13.506 --> 01:14.207 AND TEXAS TOUGH AT THE SAME 01:14.207 --> 01:14.708 TIME. 01:14.708 --> 01:15.308 AT LEAST WHEN SHE AND 01:15.308 --> 01:19.112 HUSBAND L.B. DEYO BOUGHT 01:19.112 --> 01:20.613 THEIR HOUSE IN 2009 THEY DID 01:20.613 --> 01:21.915 INHERIT AMENDED SOIL FROM 01:21.915 --> 01:23.817 THE PREVIOUS OWNERS' 01:23.817 --> 01:24.517 VEGETABLE GARDEN. 01:24.517 --> 01:25.418 >> THERE HAD BEEN A PERIOD 01:25.418 --> 01:27.120 OF MAYBE EIGHT MONTHS WHERE 01:27.120 --> 01:28.221 THE HOUSE HAD BEEN VACANT, 01:28.221 --> 01:29.823 AND SO WEEDS HAD TAKEN OVER 01:29.823 --> 01:31.825 AND THERE WERE SUNFLOWERS, 01:31.825 --> 01:34.127 MAYBE 14 FEET HIGH, AND THE 01:34.127 --> 01:36.229 STEM, I DON'T EVEN THINK YOU 01:36.229 --> 01:37.130 COULD CALL THEM STEMS. 01:37.130 --> 01:38.832 THEY WERE LIKE TREE TRUNKS. 01:38.832 --> 01:39.733 THEY WERE HUGE. 01:39.733 --> 01:40.433 IT WAS A LITTLE 01:40.433 --> 01:41.434 OVERWHELMING. 01:41.434 --> 01:43.937 >> HER GOOD FRIEND, CHLOE 01:43.937 --> 01:45.638 CERWINKA, AN ARCHITECT AND 01:45.638 --> 01:47.340 GARDENER, CAME TO ASSIST. 01:47.340 --> 01:49.342 >> SO SHE CAME DOWN HERE AND 01:49.342 --> 01:50.543 SPENT ABOUT TEN DAYS. 01:50.543 --> 01:52.245 ACTUALLY WE HADN'T MOVED 01:52.245 --> 01:53.346 INTO THE HOUSE YET BUT WE 01:53.346 --> 01:54.848 CAME OVER HERE EVERY DAY AND 01:54.848 --> 01:55.648 MEASURED AND SORT OF WATCHED 01:55.648 --> 01:56.683 WHERE THE SUN WAS HITTING, 01:56.683 --> 01:57.784 AND THAT'S HOW THE GARDEN 01:57.784 --> 01:58.585 WAS PLANNED. 01:58.585 --> 02:00.687 >> ELLIE WANTED A TOTAL 02:00.687 --> 02:01.688 GARDEN EXPERIENCE, WHERE 02:01.688 --> 02:03.490 ROSES AND PERENNIAL FLOWERS 02:03.490 --> 02:04.791 MINGLE WITH FOOD FOR THE 02:04.791 --> 02:05.291 KITCHEN. 02:05.291 --> 02:06.693 INSTEAD OF THE FORMER ROWS, 02:06.693 --> 02:08.194 THEY DESIGNED BEDS FRAMED 02:08.194 --> 02:10.797 WITH SCAVENGED ROCKS AND 02:10.797 --> 02:12.198 MULCHED PATHWAYS. 02:12.198 --> 02:13.400 >> EVEN THOUGH I KNEW I 02:13.400 --> 02:14.801 WANTED TO DO VEGETABLES, I 02:14.801 --> 02:15.902 STILL WANTED IT TO BE KIND 02:15.902 --> 02:18.405 OF A PRETTY GARDEN, AND I 02:18.405 --> 02:19.606 THINK ROWS ARE NICE, BUT 02:19.606 --> 02:21.007 THEY'RE MORE FOR EFFICIENCY. 02:21.007 --> 02:22.709 SO I WANTED SOMETHING WHERE 02:22.709 --> 02:23.610 YOU COULD LIKE WALK -- YOU 02:23.610 --> 02:25.211 KNOW, WALK AROUND, SEE 02:25.211 --> 02:27.514 DIFFERENT THINGS AND JUST 02:27.514 --> 02:29.716 SORT OF EXPLORE A LITTLE BIT 02:29.716 --> 02:30.417 MORE. 02:30.417 --> 02:31.518 IT WAS HARD TO MOVE AROUND 02:31.518 --> 02:35.121 WHEN IT WAS JUST ROWS SO 02:35.121 --> 02:37.023 THAT FIRST WINTER 2009, WE 02:37.023 --> 02:38.725 PUT CARDBOARD DOWN AND 02:38.725 --> 02:39.826 COVERED IT WITH MULCH TO 02:39.826 --> 02:40.927 SORT OF KILL ALL THE GRASS 02:40.927 --> 02:42.128 AND THE WEEDS THAT HAD GROWN 02:42.128 --> 02:44.931 UP, AND THEN THAT WAS ALSO 02:44.931 --> 02:46.232 WHEN WE PUT IN THE FIRST 02:46.232 --> 02:46.933 WINTER GARDEN. 02:46.933 --> 02:49.936 AND SO WE HAD LETTUCE, 02:49.936 --> 02:52.238 COLLARDS, TRIED TO DO SOME 02:52.238 --> 02:53.039 BRUSSELS SPROUTS. 02:53.039 --> 02:54.341 THAT DIDN'T WORK BUT WE HAD 02:54.341 --> 02:55.241 BROCCOLI. 02:55.241 --> 02:56.476 IT WAS AMAZING, AND EVEN 02:56.476 --> 02:57.177 THOUGH IT WAS SORT OF 02:57.177 --> 02:58.278 CRAZY-LOOKING BECAUSE 02:58.278 --> 02:59.679 EVERYTHING WAS GROWING UP 02:59.679 --> 03:02.482 WITH CARDBOARD AROUND IT, IT 03:02.482 --> 03:03.983 WAS STILL DELICIOUS. 03:03.983 --> 03:06.086 >> WARM SEASON CROPS THRIVE 03:06.086 --> 03:07.987 IN AN ORGANIC REGIMEN TOO, 03:07.987 --> 03:09.489 ALONG WITH FRESH PICKS FOR 03:09.489 --> 03:10.790 DINNER, ELLIE LEARNED HOW TO 03:10.790 --> 03:11.491 CAN AND PRESERVE FOR THE 03:11.491 --> 03:12.692 FIRST TIME. 03:12.692 --> 03:14.094 SHE ALSO WANTS TO FEED THE 03:14.094 --> 03:15.295 WILDLIFE IN HER NEW HOME AND 03:15.295 --> 03:20.100 SEE THEM UP CLOSE. 03:20.100 --> 03:22.002 >> WELL, I KNEW THAT THE 03:22.002 --> 03:23.303 BORDERS, I WANTED THOSE TO 03:23.303 --> 03:27.507 ATTRACT BUTTERFLIES AND 03:27.507 --> 03:28.708 HUMMINGBIRDS. 03:28.708 --> 03:30.210 >> AND FLOWERS BRING ON THE 03:30.210 --> 03:32.312 BEES TO POLLINATE HER CROPS. 03:32.312 --> 03:33.413 >> THERE HAVE BEEN SOME 03:33.413 --> 03:34.914 BIRDS VISITING THAT HAVE 03:34.914 --> 03:36.216 BEEN SITTING ON THE SWISS 03:36.216 --> 03:37.317 CHARD AND EATING THE BUGS 03:37.317 --> 03:39.619 OFF OF IT, AND I THOUGHT, 03:39.619 --> 03:41.021 OH, HOW WONDERFUL. 03:41.021 --> 03:43.123 SO I LOOKED INTO MY TEXAS 03:43.123 --> 03:44.524 BIRD BOOK AND I FOUND THAT 03:44.524 --> 03:47.727 THEY'RE THE HOUSE SPARROW. 03:47.727 --> 03:49.929 [LAUGHTER] 03:49.929 --> 03:51.131 THOUGHT IT WAS THIS EXOTIC 03:51.131 --> 03:52.632 BIRD, BUT IT WAS A HOUSE 03:52.632 --> 03:53.233 SPARROW. 03:53.233 --> 03:54.334 >> ALONG WITH THAT NATURAL 03:54.334 --> 03:57.671 PEST CONTROL MANY BIRDS NOW 03:57.671 --> 03:58.672 LOVED THE NOW TAMED 03:58.672 --> 04:00.173 SUNFLOWER VOLUNTEERS THAT 04:00.173 --> 04:02.175 ALSO ACT AS A TRAP CROP FOR 04:02.175 --> 04:03.176 TOMATO STINKBUGS. 04:03.176 --> 04:05.178 >> I ALSO OFTEN COME OVER 04:05.178 --> 04:06.279 HERE IN THE MORNING AFTER 04:06.279 --> 04:07.681 WALKING THE DOG SO I'LL HAVE 04:07.681 --> 04:09.783 HIS LEASH WITH ME AND IT HAS 04:09.783 --> 04:12.686 DOG BAGS ATTACHED TO IT. 04:12.686 --> 04:13.586 I WAS SITTING OVER THERE BY 04:13.586 --> 04:14.487 THE POND ONE MORNING 04:14.487 --> 04:15.889 ENJOYING MY COFFEE AND I 04:15.889 --> 04:17.090 LOOKED OVER AND SAW A LEAF 04:17.090 --> 04:18.291 ON ONE OF THE SUNFLOWERS 04:18.291 --> 04:18.692 COVERED, THERE MUST HAVE 04:18.692 --> 04:22.195 BEEN 50 OR 60 STINKBUG 04:22.195 --> 04:22.696 BABIES. 04:22.696 --> 04:24.497 AND SO I JUST WENT OVER WITH 04:24.497 --> 04:25.999 THE DOG BAG AND GRABBED THE 04:25.999 --> 04:27.600 LEAF AND TIED IT UP AND 04:27.600 --> 04:29.402 TOSSED IT IN THE TRASH. 04:29.402 --> 04:32.906 >> TO FEND OFF SOILBORNE 04:32.906 --> 04:34.808 TOMATO NEMATODES AND 04:34.808 --> 04:39.012 NUTRIENT DEFICIENCIES ELLIE 04:39.012 --> 04:40.113 ROTATES CROPS. 04:40.113 --> 04:41.014 >> THEY STARTED UP ON THE 04:41.014 --> 04:42.115 NORTH END AND I'VE BEEN 04:42.115 --> 04:43.917 MOVING THEM SOUTH EACH TIME. 04:43.917 --> 04:44.818 >> LATER SHE ADD THE AN 04:44.818 --> 04:46.419 ANCHOR TO SIGNIFY THE 04:46.419 --> 04:47.020 CENTRAL PATH. 04:47.020 --> 04:49.923 THE ARBOR'S PRACTICAL JOB IS 04:49.923 --> 04:52.025 TO SUPPORT CUCUMBERS SEEDED 04:52.025 --> 04:53.226 IN MID-SPRING. 04:53.226 --> 04:55.128 ELLIE'S TACTIC IN 2012 WAS 04:55.128 --> 04:56.463 ONE SHE LEARNED EARLY ON. 04:56.463 --> 04:57.464 >> ON ONE SIDE I HAD 04:57.464 --> 04:59.766 ARMENIAN CUCUMBERS, WHICH I 04:59.766 --> 05:00.967 GUESS AREN'T REALLY 05:00.967 --> 05:01.768 CUCUMBERS. 05:01.768 --> 05:03.069 THEY'RE MORE IN THE GOURD 05:03.069 --> 05:05.271 FAMILY, AND THOSE REALLY 05:05.271 --> 05:06.773 COULD WITHSTAND THE HEAT AND 05:06.773 --> 05:07.474 THE DROUGHT. 05:07.474 --> 05:08.775 SO I PLANTED THOSE AGAIN ON 05:08.775 --> 05:10.176 THE WEST SIDE, AND THEN 05:10.176 --> 05:12.979 STRAIGHT EIGHTS ON THE EAST 05:12.979 --> 05:14.581 SIDE HOPING THEY'LL GET A 05:14.581 --> 05:15.582 LITTLE BIT OF SHADE FROM THE 05:15.582 --> 05:17.083 ARMENIAN CUCUMBERS. 05:17.083 --> 05:19.085 >> IN 2010 SHE INSTALLED A 05:19.085 --> 05:21.988 STOCK TANK POND THAT GIVES 05:21.988 --> 05:23.189 THE WANDERING GARDENER A 05:23.189 --> 05:24.190 PLACE TO STOP AND REFLECT. 05:24.190 --> 05:26.893 FILLED WITH PLANTS AND FISH 05:26.893 --> 05:28.294 IT DOESN'T TAKE MUCH CARE. 05:28.294 --> 05:29.195 >> IT'S BEEN REALLY FUN. 05:29.195 --> 05:30.997 I LIKE TO SIT OUT BY IT AND 05:30.997 --> 05:31.898 DRINK MY COFFEE IN THE 05:31.898 --> 05:32.198 MORNING. 05:32.198 --> 05:34.100 >> THAT'S WHEN SHE'LL TURN 05:34.100 --> 05:36.202 ON THE DRIP SYSTEM, IF 05:36.202 --> 05:36.603 NECESSARY. 05:36.603 --> 05:38.805 SHE SET IT UP ON TWO MAIN 05:38.805 --> 05:39.906 CONTROLS TO SERVE EACH SIDE 05:39.906 --> 05:40.607 OF THE GARDEN. 05:40.607 --> 05:42.409 >> EACH BED IS ON A SEPARATE 05:42.409 --> 05:44.010 VALVE, SO IF THERE ISN'T 05:44.010 --> 05:44.911 ANYTHING GROWING IN A BED 05:44.911 --> 05:46.212 RIGHT NOW OR IF IT'S 05:46.212 --> 05:47.514 SOMETHING THAT DOESN'T NEED 05:47.514 --> 05:49.015 WATER AT THAT MOMENT, I JUST 05:49.015 --> 05:50.717 TURN OFF THE VALVE AND DON'T 05:50.717 --> 05:51.918 EVEN WORRY ABOUT IT. 05:51.918 --> 05:54.921 IT'S VERY PRECISE WATERING. 05:54.921 --> 05:56.156 IT'S A DRIP SYSTEM SO IT'S 05:56.156 --> 05:57.257 GOING STRAIGHT WHERE THE 05:57.257 --> 05:58.458 PLANTS NEED IT INTO THE 05:58.458 --> 05:58.758 SOIL. 05:58.758 --> 06:00.060 THERE ISN'T A LOT OF WATER 06:00.060 --> 06:02.062 BEING BLOWN AROUND BECAUSE 06:02.062 --> 06:03.863 IT'S AT THE GROUND LEVEL. 06:03.863 --> 06:05.765 AND I CAN ALSO ADJUST IT AS 06:05.765 --> 06:10.270 NEEDED. 06:10.270 --> 06:12.872 I ALSO, JUST LAST WEEK, 06:12.872 --> 06:13.973 ACTUALLY, I HOOKED UP A 06:13.973 --> 06:15.775 FERTILIZER RESERVOIR FOR MY 06:15.775 --> 06:16.976 DRIP IRRIGATION SYSTEM AND I 06:16.976 --> 06:18.178 FILLED THAT WITH FISH FORT 06:18.178 --> 06:21.581 WORTH FERTILIZER SO WE'LL 06:21.581 --> 06:25.385 SEE THAT WORKS. 06:25.385 --> 06:26.686 >> FOR HAND-WATERING SHE 06:26.686 --> 06:28.088 TAPS FROM THE LINKED RAIN 06:28.088 --> 06:28.488 BARRELS. 06:28.488 --> 06:29.689 SHE ALSO USES THEIR WATER 06:29.689 --> 06:31.591 FOR HER PATIO PLANTS 06:31.591 --> 06:33.093 INCLUDING FRAGRANT SOME TIME 06:33.093 --> 06:33.993 EVENING BLOOMERS, LIKE FOUR 06:33.993 --> 06:39.199 O'CLOCKS AND VINING WHITE 06:39.199 --> 06:40.400 MOONFLOWER TO SCENT THEIR 06:40.400 --> 06:42.202 AFTER-HOURS PATIO DOWNTIME. 06:42.202 --> 06:43.603 >> I BOUGHT STOCK TANKS AND 06:43.603 --> 06:44.804 FILLED THEM WITH ROCKS AND 06:44.804 --> 06:45.905 SOIL ROCKS ON THE BOTTOM FOR 06:45.905 --> 06:46.706 DRAINAGE AND I DRILLED 06:46.706 --> 06:47.407 HOLES. 06:47.407 --> 06:48.508 >> MINIATURE PONDS COMPLETE 06:48.508 --> 06:50.410 THE REFRESHMENT ON A WARM 06:50.410 --> 06:51.111 SUMMER EVENING. 06:51.111 --> 06:52.612 ALONG WITH THE FRESH FOOD 06:52.612 --> 06:53.613 AND MEETING A NEW CHALLENGE, 06:53.613 --> 06:55.215 THE GARDEN'S BEEN A 06:55.215 --> 06:56.716 NEIGHBORLY LAUNCH PAD FOR 06:56.716 --> 06:59.219 ELLIE, L.B. AND PRESTO. 06:59.219 --> 07:00.620 >> WE HAD A TRADING GROUP 07:00.620 --> 07:01.521 WHERE ONE OF OUR NEIGHBORS 07:01.521 --> 07:02.822 WITH CHICKENS OFFERED FREE 07:02.822 --> 07:04.124 WONDERFUL EGGS IN EXCHANGE 07:04.124 --> 07:05.425 FOR HOMEGROWN VEGETABLES. 07:05.425 --> 07:07.027 WE ALSO HAD ANOTHER MEMBER 07:07.027 --> 07:08.528 WHO MADE SOAP, BEAUTIFUL 07:08.528 --> 07:09.529 ORGANIC SOAP, AND SO WE 07:09.529 --> 07:11.031 WOULD TRADE AND I ALSO WAS 07:11.031 --> 07:12.232 LUCKY ENOUGH TO GET SOME 07:12.232 --> 07:14.034 POPPYSEEDS FROM ONE OF MY 07:14.034 --> 07:16.036 NEIGHBORS, AND THESE POPPIES 07:16.036 --> 07:18.638 ARE REALLY THICK AND FRILLY. 07:18.638 --> 07:21.541 THEY ALMOST LOOK LIKE ROSES. 07:21.541 --> 07:23.343 I'VE NEVER SEEN POPPIES LIKE 07:23.343 --> 07:23.843 THEM BEFORE. 07:23.843 --> 07:24.944 AND I ASKED HER RECENTLY 07:24.944 --> 07:26.146 WHERE SHE GOT THE SEED, AND 07:26.146 --> 07:27.947 SHE SAID THAT SHE HAD GOTTEN 07:27.947 --> 07:29.749 THEM FROM MR. CRUTCHFIELD ON 07:29.749 --> 07:32.352 AVENUE G 30 YEARS AGO. 07:32.352 --> 07:33.753 AND SHE HAS BEEN PLANTING 07:33.753 --> 07:34.654 THEM AND, YOU KNOW, 07:34.654 --> 07:35.955 SOMETIMES SHE'LL THROW IN 07:35.955 --> 07:37.357 SOME OTHER POPPYSEEDS THAT 07:37.357 --> 07:38.958 SHE'S PURCHASED OR GOTTEN 07:38.958 --> 07:39.759 FROM A FRIEND. 07:39.759 --> 07:41.061 AND SO THEY'VE JUST 07:41.061 --> 07:42.362 DEVELOPED THIS NEW STRAIN OF 07:42.362 --> 07:44.164 POPPY THAT WE'RE CALLING 07:44.164 --> 07:46.366 HYDE PARK POPPIES. 07:46.366 --> 07:47.667 >> FOLLOW ELLIE'S STEP BY 07:47.667 --> 07:49.169 STEP EXPERIENCE AS A NEW 07:49.169 --> 07:51.471 GARDENER ON HER BLOG, MOSTLY 07:51.471 --> 07:52.672 WEEDS, WHERE THEY TURNED 07:52.672 --> 07:53.473 WEEDS INTO WONDER. 07:53.473 --> 07:54.474 >> THANKS SO MUCH FOR 07:54.474 --> 07:55.775 SHARING YOUR GARDEN WITH US, 07:55.775 --> 07:56.810 AND RIGHT NOW ONE OF MY 07:56.810 --> 07:57.911 FAVORITE GUESTS ON CENTRAL 07:57.911 --> 08:00.113 TEXAS GARDENER MAKING REPEAT 08:00.113 --> 08:01.715 APPEARANCE, GREG GRANT, 08:01.715 --> 08:03.016 DROVE ALL THE WAY FROM EAST 08:03.016 --> 08:04.718 TEXAS TO BE WITH US TODAY. 08:04.718 --> 08:05.719 GREG, GREAT TO SEE YOU 08:05.719 --> 08:06.119 AGAIN. 08:06.119 --> 08:06.720 >> GREAT TO BE HERE. 08:06.720 --> 08:07.620 >> WE'LL BE TALKING ABOUT 08:07.620 --> 08:09.622 VEGETABLE PLANTING AND YOUR 08:09.622 --> 08:11.124 NEW BOOK, WHICH IS TEXAS BE 08:11.124 --> 08:12.625 FRUIT AND VEGETABLE 08:12.625 --> 08:14.928 GARDENING. 08:14.928 --> 08:15.729 CONGRATULATIONS ON THAT. 08:15.729 --> 08:16.229 >> THANK YOU VERY MUCH. 08:16.229 --> 08:17.230 >> IT'S A GREAT RESOURCES 08:17.230 --> 08:18.431 AND WE'RE GOING TO TRY TO 08:18.431 --> 08:19.632 GIVE PEOPLE AN OVERVIEW OF 08:19.632 --> 08:20.934 WHAT'S IN THE BOOK AND THEN 08:20.934 --> 08:22.235 TALK ABOUT THINGS THAT 08:22.235 --> 08:23.336 SHOULD BE ON PEOPLE'S 08:23.336 --> 08:24.738 CALENDARS THIS TIME OF YEAR 08:24.738 --> 08:25.939 BECAUSE WE'RE GETTING PRETTY 08:25.939 --> 08:27.040 DARN CLOSE TO SPRINGTIME 08:27.040 --> 08:28.141 HERE IN CENTRAL TEXAS. 08:28.141 --> 08:28.842 >> ABSOLUTELY. 08:28.842 --> 08:32.145 >> SO LET'S START OFF BY 08:32.145 --> 08:32.946 TALKING ABOUT WHAT YOU WERE 08:32.946 --> 08:33.747 TRYING TO INCLUDE IN THE 08:33.747 --> 08:34.247 BOOK. 08:34.247 --> 08:35.048 THERE ARE LOTS OF DIFFERENT 08:35.048 --> 08:36.049 THINGS THERE, BUT IN TERMS 08:36.049 --> 08:37.751 OF DIFFERENT CATEGORIES, FOR 08:37.751 --> 08:39.052 EXAMPLE, THERE'S A LOT OF 08:39.052 --> 08:40.754 INFORMATION ABOUT PLANTING 08:40.754 --> 08:42.155 SEEDS, RIGHT? 08:42.155 --> 08:44.157 >> ABSOLUTELY. 08:44.157 --> 08:45.458 YOU CAN'T REALLY GARDEN, 08:45.458 --> 08:47.961 PARTICULARLY VEGETABLE 08:47.961 --> 08:48.762 GARDEN WITHOUT KNOWING 08:48.762 --> 08:49.462 SOMETHING ABOUT GERMINATION 08:49.462 --> 08:50.463 OF SEEDS. 08:50.463 --> 08:51.264 SO YOU PRETTY MUCH HAVE TO 08:51.264 --> 08:52.766 START, NOT ALL VEGETABLE 08:52.766 --> 08:53.667 PLANTS BUT A LOT OF THEM 08:53.667 --> 08:54.668 FROM SEED, PARTICULARLY SOME 08:54.668 --> 08:57.804 OF THE LARGER VEGETABLES. 08:57.804 --> 08:58.905 AND EVEN IF YOU DON'T 08:58.905 --> 09:00.407 EVERYBODY NEEDS TO KNOW 09:00.407 --> 09:01.608 WHERE PLANTS COME FROM. 09:01.608 --> 09:01.908 >> EXACTLY. 09:01.908 --> 09:03.710 >> AND THEY ALL START FROM A 09:03.710 --> 09:05.512 SEED, EITHER IN YOUR GARDEN 09:05.512 --> 09:06.312 OFFER THE NURSERY. 09:06.312 --> 09:07.313 IT'S VERY IMPORTANT PEOPLE 09:07.313 --> 09:08.314 UNDERSTAND THAT PROCESS. 09:08.314 --> 09:08.915 >> AND I THINK THERE'S A 09:08.915 --> 09:11.818 SPECIAL PLEASURE IN GROWING 09:11.818 --> 09:13.620 A PLANT FROM SEED COMPARED 09:13.620 --> 09:15.021 TO BUYING ONE IN THE 09:15.021 --> 09:15.522 NURSERY. 09:15.522 --> 09:16.222 >> ABSOLUTELY. 09:16.222 --> 09:17.524 I'VE BEEN A SEED SAVER AND 09:17.524 --> 09:18.625 COLLECTOR SINCE I WAS A 09:18.625 --> 09:23.229 CHILD, AS WITH ANYTHING I 09:23.229 --> 09:24.631 WRITE, ARE I DON'T DO A POLL 09:24.631 --> 09:26.332 OF WHAT PEOPLE WANT TO HEAR. 09:26.332 --> 09:27.534 I HAVE THIS STUFF IN MY HEAD 09:27.534 --> 09:29.536 THAT WANTS TO COME OUT. 09:29.536 --> 09:30.236 BOTH MY PARENTS WERE 09:30.236 --> 09:31.538 TEACHERS SO IT'S PRETTY MUCH 09:31.538 --> 09:32.539 THE STORY OF MY LIFE AND 09:32.539 --> 09:34.240 WHAT I THOUGHT I NEEDED TO 09:34.240 --> 09:35.342 KNOW WHEN I GOT INTO 09:35.342 --> 09:37.043 VEGETABLE GARDENING AND I 09:37.043 --> 09:38.645 TURNED AROUND AND SHARE THAT 09:38.645 --> 09:39.646 WITH OTHER PEOPLE AND I 09:39.646 --> 09:40.547 START WITH SEEDS AND I THINK 09:40.547 --> 09:41.748 THAT'S WHERE THEY NEED TO 09:41.748 --> 09:42.148 START TOO. 09:42.148 --> 09:43.550 >> I THINK THAT'S WHAT SETS 09:43.550 --> 09:45.251 THIS BOOK APART, IS YOUR 09:45.251 --> 09:45.952 PERSONALITY COMES THROUGH IN 09:45.952 --> 09:46.953 THE BOOK, AND THAT'S ONE OF 09:46.953 --> 09:48.455 THE CHARMS OF BUYING A BOOK 09:48.455 --> 09:50.056 WRITTEN BY GREG GRANT, IS 09:50.056 --> 09:51.057 IT'S NOT JUST GOING TO BE 09:51.057 --> 09:52.459 THE HOW-TO KIND OF 09:52.459 --> 09:52.759 INFORMATION. 09:52.759 --> 09:54.461 THERE'S GOING TO BE LET'S 09:54.461 --> 09:55.562 SAY LOCAL FLAVOR. 09:55.562 --> 09:56.096 >> UNFORTUNATELY THAT'S WHAT 09:56.096 --> 09:56.996 YOU GET WHEN IT COMES OUT OF 09:56.996 --> 09:57.497 MY HEAD. 09:57.497 --> 09:58.098 [LAUGHTER] 09:58.098 --> 09:58.998 THAT'S THE ONLY WAY I CAN 09:58.998 --> 10:00.600 WRITE. 10:00.600 --> 10:01.501 >> WELL, IT COMES WITH THE 10:01.501 --> 10:04.204 TERRITORY, I THINK OUT THERE 10:04.204 --> 10:06.706 IN EAST TEXAS. 10:06.706 --> 10:07.207 >> ABSOLUTELY. 10:07.207 --> 10:08.008 >> ANOTHER THING YOU SPENT 10:08.008 --> 10:09.109 TIME ON IS TALKING ABOUT 10:09.109 --> 10:10.010 SOIL TYPES. 10:10.010 --> 10:11.411 >> CHRIS, TEXAS IS A BIG 10:11.411 --> 10:12.812 STATE AND THE FALL IS 10:12.812 --> 10:14.414 EXTREMELY VARIABLE, AND I'M 10:14.414 --> 10:16.016 ONE OF THE FEW PEOPLE IN 10:16.016 --> 10:19.419 THE -- IN THE INDUSTRY THAT 10:19.419 --> 10:20.220 HAS LIVED IN THE DIFFERENT 10:20.220 --> 10:20.920 AREAS WITH THE DIFFERENT 10:20.920 --> 10:21.421 SOIL TYPES. 10:21.421 --> 10:22.222 SO YOU HAVE PEOPLE THAT 10:22.222 --> 10:23.423 LIVED IN EAST TEXAS ALL 10:23.423 --> 10:24.724 THEIR LIFE AND THEY CAN TELL 10:24.724 --> 10:26.426 YOU ABOUT SANDY ACID SOILS 10:26.426 --> 10:27.927 AND YOU'VE GOT PEOPLE WHO 10:27.927 --> 10:29.529 SPENT THEIR LIFE IN BLACK 10:29.529 --> 10:31.831 CALICHE GUMBO AND THEY CAN 10:31.831 --> 10:32.632 TELL YOU ABOUT IT. 10:32.632 --> 10:34.934 I LOVE GARDENING AND JUMPED 10:34.934 --> 10:36.336 AT EVERY JOB OFFER THAT CAME 10:36.336 --> 10:36.936 MY WAY. 10:36.936 --> 10:38.338 I'VE WORKED FROM EXTREMELY 10:38.338 --> 10:41.941 ACID TO ALKALINE AND NORTH 10:41.941 --> 10:43.843 TO SOUTH TEXAS. 10:43.843 --> 10:44.544 I HAVE A BACKGROUND TO 10:44.544 --> 10:45.545 UNDERSTAND THE SOIL TYPES 10:45.545 --> 10:46.646 AND MAKES A HUGE DIFFERENCE 10:46.646 --> 10:49.749 IN VEGETABLE GARDENING. 10:49.749 --> 10:51.051 WHEN I WENT TO SCHOOL IN 10:51.051 --> 10:52.052 COLLEGE STATION AND TRIED TO 10:52.052 --> 10:53.853 GARDEN BLACK CLAY I WASN'T 10:53.853 --> 10:54.854 SUPPOSED TO. 10:54.854 --> 10:55.855 THEY DIDN'T COME UP. 10:55.855 --> 10:57.190 I ENTOMBED THE SEEDS AND 10:57.190 --> 10:59.492 THEY GRADED US ON IT. 10:59.492 --> 11:00.593 AND THE FIRST TIME THERE'S 11:00.593 --> 11:01.494 GREG WITH AN F BECAUSE 11:01.494 --> 11:02.495 THERE'S NOTHING IN MY 11:02.495 --> 11:02.796 GARDEN. 11:02.796 --> 11:04.397 I LEARNED QUICKLY DIFFERENT 11:04.397 --> 11:05.498 SOILS NEED DIFFERENT 11:05.498 --> 11:07.100 TECHNIQUES TO GROW THINGS. 11:07.100 --> 11:08.201 THE FIRST THING YOU HAVE TO 11:08.201 --> 11:09.302 FIND OUT BEFORE YOU EVEN PUT 11:09.302 --> 11:11.104 A SEED IN THE GROUND IS WHAT 11:11.104 --> 11:12.105 KIND OF SOIL DO I HAVE 11:12.105 --> 11:13.206 BECAUSE IT DETERMINES WHAT 11:13.206 --> 11:15.208 KIND OF SOIL AND HOW DEEP 11:15.208 --> 11:16.009 YOU'LL PLANT IT. 11:16.009 --> 11:16.910 >> YOU ALSO SPENT TIME 11:16.910 --> 11:17.811 TALKING ABOUT CONTAINER 11:17.811 --> 11:18.611 GARDENING, WHICH IS 11:18.611 --> 11:20.413 INCREASINGLY POPULAR IN OUR 11:20.413 --> 11:22.215 MORE URBAN LIFE-STYLES. 11:22.215 --> 11:23.516 >> I LOVE CONTAINERS AND 11:23.516 --> 11:24.617 I'VE HAD GOBS OF CONTAINERS 11:24.617 --> 11:25.919 IN MY LIFE AND OF COURSE 11:25.919 --> 11:27.320 LOVE TO GO TO THE NORTH AND 11:27.320 --> 11:28.221 EUROPE AND SEE BEAUTIFUL 11:28.221 --> 11:29.923 CONTAINERS, BUT IT'S TRICKY 11:29.923 --> 11:32.325 IN TEXAS, BECAUSE WHEN YOU 11:32.325 --> 11:33.326 RAISE UP A PLANT AND LIMIT 11:33.326 --> 11:34.627 THE ROOT BALL AND THE SIZE 11:34.627 --> 11:36.229 OF THE SOIL, THEY DRY OUT SO 11:36.229 --> 11:36.930 MUCH QUICKER. 11:36.930 --> 11:38.131 SO YOU HAVE TO KNOW AHEAD OF 11:38.131 --> 11:38.631 TIME. 11:38.631 --> 11:40.033 IT LOOKS CUTE BUT MAIN THING 11:40.033 --> 11:41.735 IN TEXAS, YOU GOT TO LOOK 11:41.735 --> 11:43.336 ABOUT HOW AM I GOING TO KEEP 11:43.336 --> 11:44.337 THAT THING WATERED WHICH 11:44.337 --> 11:46.339 SOMETIMES CAN BE AS MUCH AS 11:46.339 --> 11:47.040 TWICE A DAY. 11:47.040 --> 11:47.741 A LOT OF PEOPLE AREN'T 11:47.741 --> 11:48.441 WILLING TO DO THAT. 11:48.441 --> 11:49.943 SO REAL SPECIFIC INFORMATION 11:49.943 --> 11:50.844 YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT 11:50.844 --> 11:51.945 CONTAINER GARDENING. 11:51.945 --> 11:52.846 >> AS IT GETS UP TO 11:52.846 --> 11:54.547 110 DEGREES AS IT IS 11:54.547 --> 11:55.749 ROUTINELY NOW IN AUSTIN, 11:55.749 --> 11:56.583 WATERING TWICE A DAY 11:56.583 --> 11:58.284 SOMETIMES IS A REALITY IN A 11:58.284 --> 12:00.887 CONTAINER GARDEN. 12:00.887 --> 12:02.088 >> ABSOLUTELY. 12:02.088 --> 12:04.391 >> BUYER BEWARE ON THAT. 12:04.391 --> 12:05.191 HEADS-UP. 12:05.191 --> 12:06.092 ONE THING THAT IS REALLY 12:06.092 --> 12:07.794 COOL IN THE BOOK IS DETAILED 12:07.794 --> 12:09.095 INFORMATION ABOUT NUTRIENT 12:09.095 --> 12:10.497 DEFICIENCIES, AND THIS IS 12:10.497 --> 12:11.398 SOMETHING WHERE YOU CAN 12:11.398 --> 12:12.599 REALLY HAVE A DIAGNOSTIC 12:12.599 --> 12:14.801 TOOL WITH YOU WHEN YOU WALK 12:14.801 --> 12:15.802 OUT INTO THE GARDEN. 12:15.802 --> 12:17.103 >> TO BE HONEST, IT LOOKS 12:17.103 --> 12:18.204 GOOD WHEN YOU FLASH ALL THE 12:18.204 --> 12:19.506 NUTRIENTS UP THERE AND 12:19.506 --> 12:21.808 DESCRIBE THE DEFICIENCY 12:21.808 --> 12:23.009 SYMPTOMS, BUT MOST OF THE 12:23.009 --> 12:24.811 TIME IN THE VEGETABLE GARDEN 12:24.811 --> 12:27.213 AND WHERE ALL THE MAIN 12:27.213 --> 12:29.416 CULPRIT IS A LACK OF 12:29.416 --> 12:30.817 NITROGEN, BECAUSE VEGETABLES 12:30.817 --> 12:32.118 ARE HEAVY FEEDERS. 12:32.118 --> 12:33.420 IT'S A LOT TO ASK OF A PLANT 12:33.420 --> 12:34.721 TO NOT ONLY GROW BUT PRODUCE 12:34.721 --> 12:36.423 LOTS OF STUFF TO FEED US. 12:36.423 --> 12:37.524 SO IT'S IMPORTANT TO KNOW 12:37.524 --> 12:39.926 ALL OF THIS, BUT ABOUT 93% 12:39.926 --> 12:41.027 OF THE TIME PEOPLE WILL RUN 12:41.027 --> 12:43.830 INTO NITROGEN DEFICIENCY, SO 12:43.830 --> 12:45.031 IF I CAN GET THEM TO LEARN 12:45.031 --> 12:45.932 THAT THEY'RE PRETTY MUCH 12:45.932 --> 12:46.433 THERE. 12:46.433 --> 12:46.733 >> OKAY. 12:46.733 --> 12:47.734 WELL, I'M GOING TO REMEMBER 12:47.734 --> 12:49.135 THAT IN MY GARDEN SHOW. 12:49.135 --> 12:51.438 MY DEFAULT -- 12:51.438 --> 12:52.739 >> GREG SAID NITROGEN. 12:52.739 --> 12:53.139 [LAUGHTER] 12:53.139 --> 12:55.542 >> RIGHT. 12:55.542 --> 12:56.576 ABSOLUTELY. 12:56.576 --> 12:57.577 ALSO INCLUDED IN THE BOOK, 12:57.577 --> 12:58.678 THIS IS WHERE I THINK MORE 12:58.678 --> 12:59.679 OF YOUR PERSONALITY COMES 12:59.679 --> 13:00.580 THROUGH IS THERE ARE A LOT 13:00.580 --> 13:01.281 OF RECIPES. 13:01.281 --> 13:02.982 >> I LOVE TO EAT. 13:02.982 --> 13:03.683 I LIKE TO COOK. 13:03.683 --> 13:05.285 MY MOM LIKED TO COOK. 13:05.285 --> 13:06.686 MY GRANDMOTHER LIKED TO COOK 13:06.686 --> 13:08.688 SO THAT'S SORT OF PASSED 13:08.688 --> 13:09.389 DOWN THROUGH THE FAMILY. 13:09.389 --> 13:11.091 BUT TO ME THE REASON WE GROW 13:11.091 --> 13:12.192 VEGETABLES IS TO EAT THEM, 13:12.192 --> 13:13.293 AND THERE ARE A LOT OF 13:13.293 --> 13:13.993 PEOPLE OUT THERE. 13:13.993 --> 13:15.095 AND THERE'S NOTHING WRONG 13:15.095 --> 13:16.696 WITH EATING A VEGETABLE RAW 13:16.696 --> 13:17.397 OFF THE PLANT. 13:17.397 --> 13:18.098 THAT'S WHAT WE SHOULD BE 13:18.098 --> 13:19.699 DOING ANYWAY BUT A LOT OF 13:19.699 --> 13:21.701 PEOPLE DON'T LIKE VEGETABLES 13:21.701 --> 13:24.404 BECAUSE YOU BOIL IT IN A POT 13:24.404 --> 13:25.505 OF WATER AND THROW IT ON THE 13:25.505 --> 13:26.006 PLATE. 13:26.006 --> 13:28.808 I HAVE NEPHEWS WHO REFUSE TO 13:28.808 --> 13:29.209 EAT THEM. 13:29.209 --> 13:30.410 YOU HAVE TO THINK OF 13:30.410 --> 13:31.911 CREATIVE WAYS TO MAKE THEM 13:31.911 --> 13:32.812 LOOK AND TASTE GOOD. 13:32.812 --> 13:34.014 A FEW TRICKS OF THE TRADE 13:34.014 --> 13:35.115 THROUGHOUT HISTORY HAD A LOT 13:35.115 --> 13:36.516 OF PEOPLE EATING VEGETABLES. 13:36.516 --> 13:37.517 AUSTIN MAY BE DIFFERENT. 13:37.517 --> 13:38.618 THERE'S SOME EDUCATED FOLKS 13:38.618 --> 13:41.521 IN AUSTIN THAT KNOW JUST A 13:41.521 --> 13:43.323 GOOD NUTRITIOUS VEGETABLE IS 13:43.323 --> 13:43.823 FINE WITHOUT ADULTERATION, 13:43.823 --> 13:48.928 BUT OTHER PEOPLE ARE USED 13:48.928 --> 13:51.131 TO -- IT FLOWING THROUGH 13:51.131 --> 13:54.234 THEIR VEINS OR SLOP OUT OF A 13:54.234 --> 13:55.835 CAN WITH POPEYE'S PICTURE ON 13:55.835 --> 13:56.169 THERE. 13:56.169 --> 13:57.170 RECIPE IS IMPORTANT. 13:57.170 --> 13:58.972 EVEN SIMPLE ONES. 13:58.972 --> 14:00.674 >> WELL, YEAH, AND SIMPLER 14:00.674 --> 14:01.474 THE BETTER. 14:01.474 --> 14:01.875 >> ABSOLUTELY. 14:01.875 --> 14:04.477 >> JUST ROASTING THEM IS MY 14:04.477 --> 14:05.779 FAVORITE THING TO DO NOW. 14:05.779 --> 14:05.979 OKAY. 14:05.979 --> 14:07.681 SO WE'RE AT THE TIME OF 14:07.681 --> 14:07.981 YEAR. 14:07.981 --> 14:08.682 AS I SAID AT THE BEGINNING 14:08.682 --> 14:09.582 OF THE INTERVIEW, WHERE 14:09.582 --> 14:10.684 PEOPLE ARE THINKING ABOUT 14:10.684 --> 14:12.085 THAT SPRING GARDEN. 14:12.085 --> 14:13.186 THEY SHOULD BE PREPARING 14:13.186 --> 14:15.488 SOIL, IF NOTHING ELSE AT 14:15.488 --> 14:17.290 THIS POINT, BUT YOUR BOOK 14:17.290 --> 14:19.392 HAS LOTS OF GREAT DETAILED 14:19.392 --> 14:19.993 INFORMATION ABOUT THE 14:19.993 --> 14:21.194 DIFFERENT KINDS OF PLANTS 14:21.194 --> 14:23.596 YOU GROW IN THE GARDEN AND 14:23.596 --> 14:25.098 FOR EACH PLANT YOU HAVE 14:25.098 --> 14:27.100 SPECIFICS ABOUT WHEN DO YOU 14:27.100 --> 14:28.401 PLANT IT, WHERE DO YOU PLANT 14:28.401 --> 14:29.903 IT, THE CARE AND HARVEST OF 14:29.903 --> 14:31.905 THE PLANT AND ALSO, YOU 14:31.905 --> 14:35.108 KNOW, BE LITTLE TIPS ABOUT 14:35.108 --> 14:36.209 IT, ADDITIONAL INFORMATION, 14:36.209 --> 14:37.210 ABOUT WHICH VARIETIES DO 14:37.210 --> 14:38.311 BEST IN OUR REGION. 14:38.311 --> 14:39.512 SO LET'S -- WHAT ARE YOU 14:39.512 --> 14:40.513 GOING TO BE PLANTING THIS 14:40.513 --> 14:41.514 SPRING? 14:41.514 --> 14:42.716 WHAT ARE YOUR FAVORITE 14:42.716 --> 14:43.216 PLANTS? 14:43.216 --> 14:44.317 >> THE IMPORTANT THING TO 14:44.317 --> 14:46.519 GET OUT OF THE WAY FIRST IS 14:46.519 --> 14:47.620 WHAT IS SPRING. 14:47.620 --> 14:49.522 THE REST OF THE WORLD -- 14:49.522 --> 14:49.923 >> UH-HUH. 14:49.923 --> 14:50.824 >> OUR CALENDAR DOESN'T LINE 14:50.824 --> 14:51.725 UP WITH THE REST OF THE 14:51.725 --> 14:54.227 WORLD'S GARDENING CALENDAR 14:54.227 --> 14:55.729 AND A LOT OF BEGINNING 14:55.729 --> 14:57.564 GARDENERS DON'T KNOW -- 14:57.564 --> 15:00.166 GARDENERS DON'T KNOW WHAT TO 15:00.166 --> 15:01.267 PLANT. 15:01.267 --> 15:03.870 MOST PEOPLE, 75% OF THE 15:03.870 --> 15:06.473 GARDENING WORLD, DON'T 15:06.473 --> 15:07.173 GARDEN IN THE SUMMER, DON'T 15:07.173 --> 15:08.475 GARDEN IN THE FALL, DON'T 15:08.475 --> 15:10.176 GARDEN IN THE WINTER. 15:10.176 --> 15:11.277 BUT THEY JUMP OUT IN THE 15:11.277 --> 15:12.379 SPRINGTIME AND TRY TO GROW 15:12.379 --> 15:13.880 ALL THE THINGS THEY LIKE. 15:13.880 --> 15:14.981 UNLESS IT FITS THAT SEASON 15:14.981 --> 15:16.282 YOU'RE NOT GOING TO BE 15:16.282 --> 15:16.883 SUCCESSFUL. 15:16.883 --> 15:17.784 AND SO WHEN YOU'RE STARTING 15:17.784 --> 15:19.185 OUT WITH EARLY SPRING 15:19.185 --> 15:20.687 GARDEN, FEBRUARY, MARCH, 15:20.687 --> 15:22.188 STILL GOT A CHANCE OF FROST, 15:22.188 --> 15:23.289 YOU CAN'T GO OUT THERE WITH 15:23.289 --> 15:25.091 PEPPERS AND TOMATOES AND SO 15:25.091 --> 15:26.593 THOSE ARE -- YOU'RE LOOKING 15:26.593 --> 15:27.694 AT COOL SEASON PLANTS THAT 15:27.694 --> 15:29.095 CAN TOLERATE A FROST. 15:29.095 --> 15:32.098 AND SO IT'S PRETTY MUCH WHAT 15:32.098 --> 15:34.801 WE HAVE FOR SPRING 15:34.801 --> 15:36.202 CONDITIONS, WHERE WE GROW 15:36.202 --> 15:37.404 OUR SPRING CROPS, THAT'S 15:37.404 --> 15:38.405 WHAT A LOT OF THE REST OF 15:38.405 --> 15:39.305 THE WORLD IS GOING TO HAVE 15:39.305 --> 15:40.907 FOR THEIR MID-SPRING AND 15:40.907 --> 15:41.908 SUMMER CROPS. 15:41.908 --> 15:43.009 SO WE'RE ACTUALLY GOING IN 15:43.009 --> 15:44.911 WITH THINGS WITH LETTUCE AND 15:44.911 --> 15:47.914 BROCCOLI AND CAULIFLOWER AND 15:47.914 --> 15:50.016 TURNIP GROUPS, TURNIP 15:50.016 --> 15:52.719 GREENS, ALL THOSE THINGS 15:52.719 --> 15:54.220 THAT LOVE COOL WEATHER AND 15:54.220 --> 15:55.822 FROSTY NIGHTS. 15:55.822 --> 15:57.557 SAME PLANTS CAN BE PLANTED 15:57.557 --> 15:58.058 IN THE FALL. 15:58.058 --> 15:59.659 SO WE GET TWO FALL GARDENS 15:59.659 --> 16:01.061 IN TEXAS, TWO SPRING GARDENS 16:01.061 --> 16:02.662 IN TEXAS, BY SPRING I'M 16:02.662 --> 16:03.963 TALKING LATER AFTER FROST, 16:03.963 --> 16:04.964 SO YOU CAN DO TOMATOES AND 16:04.964 --> 16:06.766 PEPPERS IN SPRING, DO 16:06.766 --> 16:07.667 TOMATOES AND PEPPERS AGAIN 16:07.667 --> 16:09.169 IN THE FALL AND THEN GET ONE 16:09.169 --> 16:10.270 SUMMER GARDEN THAT THE REST 16:10.270 --> 16:11.371 OF THE WORLD IS NOT FAMILIAR 16:11.371 --> 16:12.772 WITH WHEN WE CAN DO THINGS 16:12.772 --> 16:14.474 LIKE PEAS AND OKRA THAT HAVE 16:14.474 --> 16:16.276 TO TAKE INFERNO FOR HEAT. 16:16.276 --> 16:17.677 SO WE LITERALLY HAVE THREE 16:17.677 --> 16:18.878 DIFFERENT TYPES OF CROPS AND 16:18.878 --> 16:20.180 FIVE DIFFERENT SEASONS TOO 16:20.180 --> 16:21.681 THAT WE GET TO DUPLICATE, 16:21.681 --> 16:22.782 AND A LOT OF PEOPLE TRY TO 16:22.782 --> 16:23.983 CRAM ALL THAT INTO ONE 16:23.983 --> 16:25.285 SPRING GARDEN AND IT JUST 16:25.285 --> 16:25.985 DOESN'T WORK. 16:25.985 --> 16:27.287 SO WHAT'S COMING UP NOW ARE 16:27.287 --> 16:28.788 COOL SEASON CROPS THAT CAN 16:28.788 --> 16:33.293 TOLERATE, A LOT OF GREENS, A 16:33.293 --> 16:34.694 LOT OF GOOD NUTRITIOUS 16:34.694 --> 16:35.095 STUFF. 16:35.095 --> 16:36.096 >> LET'S TAKE ONE EXAMPLE 16:36.096 --> 16:37.397 AND FILTER IT THROUGH THE 16:37.397 --> 16:38.898 WAY YOU DO IT IN THE BOOK. 16:38.898 --> 16:40.800 LET'S TAKE LETTUCE, WHICH IS 16:40.800 --> 16:42.902 REAL POPULAR TO GROW THIS 16:42.902 --> 16:43.603 TIME OF YEAR. 16:43.603 --> 16:44.704 >> OF COURSE YOU HAVE ALL 16:44.704 --> 16:45.605 DIFFERENT KINDS OF LETTUCE 16:45.605 --> 16:46.006 NOW. 16:46.006 --> 16:47.207 EVERYBODY GREW UP JUST 16:47.207 --> 16:48.608 EATING ICEBERG LETTUCE AND 16:48.608 --> 16:50.610 NOW WE HAVE THIS AMAZING 16:50.610 --> 16:51.811 ARRAY OF DIFFERENT -- 16:51.811 --> 16:53.513 PARTICULARLY LEAF LETTUCE, 16:53.513 --> 16:57.517 EVERYTHING FROM GREEN TO 16:57.517 --> 17:01.021 BURGUNDY TO SPOTTED TO RICE. 17:01.021 --> 17:02.722 IT LIKES COOL WEATHER SO IF 17:02.722 --> 17:04.124 YOU PLANT IT WITH TOMATOES 17:04.124 --> 17:05.325 AND PEPPERS IN APRIL IT'S 17:05.325 --> 17:06.326 TOO LATE. 17:06.326 --> 17:07.727 IT'S GOT TO BE PLANTED 17:07.727 --> 17:08.928 FEBRUARY, MARCH MAYBE AT THE 17:08.928 --> 17:10.030 LATEST. 17:10.030 --> 17:11.531 ALSO IMPORTANT TO KNOW 17:11.531 --> 17:12.532 LETTUCE NEEDS LIGHT TO 17:12.532 --> 17:14.234 GERMINATE SO IF YOU MAKE 17:14.234 --> 17:15.135 TRENCHES AND PUT YOUR 17:15.135 --> 17:16.236 LETTUCE SEED IN IT AND COVER 17:16.236 --> 17:17.237 THEM LIKE YOU'RE PLANTING 17:17.237 --> 17:18.238 BEANS IT WON'T COME UP. 17:18.238 --> 17:19.739 THERE ARE CERTAIN SEEDS THAT 17:19.739 --> 17:21.041 HAVE TO HAVE LIGHT TO 17:21.041 --> 17:21.741 GERMINATE. 17:21.741 --> 17:22.242 LETTUCE IS ONE. 17:22.242 --> 17:23.643 SO YOU CULTIVATE A PERFECT 17:23.643 --> 17:25.945 CUSHY BED AND YOU LITERALLY 17:25.945 --> 17:27.347 SPRINKLE THEM ON THERE, 17:27.347 --> 17:28.448 SCRATCH THEM IN A LITTLE BIT 17:28.448 --> 17:29.849 MAYBE, BUT YOU'RE NOT 17:29.849 --> 17:31.051 PLANTING SEEDS. 17:31.051 --> 17:32.052 >> SCATTERING. 17:32.052 --> 17:33.853 >> POPPYSEEDS ON A ROLL. 17:33.853 --> 17:35.455 SO THAT'S -- OF COURSE 17:35.455 --> 17:36.956 THEY'RE DELICATE LITTLE 17:36.956 --> 17:38.058 PLANTS AND UP NEED A 17:38.058 --> 17:40.060 WEED-FREE GARDEN BECAUSE 17:40.060 --> 17:41.761 YOUR WEEDS WILL ALL COME UP 17:41.761 --> 17:42.262 AT THE SAME TIME, AND SO 17:42.262 --> 17:44.064 HAVING SOME NICE CLEAN 17:44.064 --> 17:44.864 COMPOST, SOMETHING THAT 17:44.864 --> 17:46.066 DOESN'T HAVE A LOT OF WEEDS 17:46.066 --> 17:48.368 IN THERE, AND KNOWING THE 17:48.368 --> 17:49.469 DIFFERENCE AND JUST A MATTER 17:49.469 --> 17:50.770 OF GETTING THEM GOING. 17:50.770 --> 17:51.771 THEN ALL OF THESE COOL 17:51.771 --> 17:53.273 SEASON CROPS, PARTICULARLY 17:53.273 --> 17:54.874 LEAFY GREENS, ARE HEAVY 17:54.874 --> 17:56.309 FEEDERS AND SO YOU HAVE TO 17:56.309 --> 17:57.711 FERTILIZE THEM, NOT ONLY 17:57.711 --> 17:58.411 WHILE THEY'RE GROWING BUT 17:58.411 --> 17:59.612 BEFORE, OTHERWISE YOU'LL 17:59.612 --> 18:01.314 HAVE STUNTED LITTLE TINY 18:01.314 --> 18:03.016 LETTUCE PLANTS. 18:03.016 --> 18:04.317 THERE'S NOT A LOT TO EAT ON 18:04.317 --> 18:06.219 TINY LETTUCE LEAVES. 18:06.219 --> 18:07.821 YOU HAVE BIG SALADS AND 18:07.821 --> 18:09.522 FREQUENT SALADS AND THAT 18:09.522 --> 18:11.024 MEANS FEEDING THEM SO THEY 18:11.024 --> 18:14.327 CAN FEED US SO. 18:14.327 --> 18:16.629 >> SO IN A NUTSHELL, IN A 18:16.629 --> 18:17.831 CONDENSED VERSION WHAT YOU 18:17.831 --> 18:19.733 JUST SAID, PEOPLE CAN 18:19.733 --> 18:20.834 EXPERIENCE WHEN THEY GET THE 18:20.834 --> 18:22.035 BOOK AND GO THROUGH ALL THE 18:22.035 --> 18:22.736 DIFFERENT CROPS. 18:22.736 --> 18:23.136 >> ABSOLUTELY. 18:23.136 --> 18:24.437 WE BREAK IT DOWN. 18:24.437 --> 18:26.740 MY MOM WAS THE FIRST GREAT 18:26.740 --> 18:27.040 TEACHER. 18:27.040 --> 18:28.141 WHEN I FIRST STARTED WORKING 18:28.141 --> 18:30.143 FOR THE EXTENSION SERVICE, 18:30.143 --> 18:31.845 DR. PARSONS WAS MY MENTOR, I 18:31.845 --> 18:33.246 CHOSE THE WORK OF BEGINNING 18:33.246 --> 18:33.747 GARDENERS. 18:33.747 --> 18:35.048 WHEN I FOUND OUT 50% OF THE 18:35.048 --> 18:36.750 WORLD DIDN'T GARDEN, I SAID, 18:36.750 --> 18:37.550 WHY? 18:37.550 --> 18:38.351 THEY'RE MISSING OUT. 18:38.351 --> 18:40.453 SO I'D MUCH RATHER WORK WITH 18:40.453 --> 18:42.055 THE PEOPLE THAT DON'T KNOW 18:42.055 --> 18:42.956 ANYTHING ABOUT IT UNTIL A 18:42.956 --> 18:44.958 STEP-BY-STEP ABC APPROACH IS 18:44.958 --> 18:45.258 GOOD. 18:45.258 --> 18:46.459 THERE ARE GOOD GARDENERS 18:46.459 --> 18:47.660 THAT COULD HAVE WRITTEN THIS 18:47.660 --> 18:48.962 BOOK SO THEY DON'T NEED THE 18:48.962 --> 18:49.963 INFORMATION BUT A LOT DON'T 18:49.963 --> 18:50.764 KNOW THE INFORMATION. 18:50.764 --> 18:51.765 WE TRIED TO MAKE IT SIMPLE 18:51.765 --> 18:52.465 FOR THEM. 18:52.465 --> 18:53.366 >> I'M MORE AND MORE 18:53.366 --> 18:54.167 CONVINCED WE'RE ALL 18:54.167 --> 18:55.168 BEGINNING GARDENERS. 18:55.168 --> 18:55.769 >> THAT'S TRUE. 18:55.769 --> 18:57.103 I'VE BEEN DOING IT MY WHOLE 18:57.103 --> 18:58.204 LIFE AND THERE'S GIANT 18:58.204 --> 18:58.905 MISTAKES. 18:58.905 --> 19:00.607 I THINK, WHY DIDN'T YOU KNOW 19:00.607 --> 19:00.907 THAT? 19:00.907 --> 19:01.808 THERE'S NO WAY TO KNOW IT 19:01.808 --> 19:02.809 ALL. 19:02.809 --> 19:03.910 THAT'S WHY GARDENERS LIVE TO 19:03.910 --> 19:05.011 BE 107, BECAUSE THERE'S 19:05.011 --> 19:06.112 SOMETHING NEW TO LEARN EVERY 19:06.112 --> 19:06.613 DAY. 19:06.613 --> 19:07.213 >> THANK YOU FOR BEING OUR 19:07.213 --> 19:07.914 GUEST ON CENTRAL TEXAS 19:07.914 --> 19:10.517 GARDENER. 19:10.517 --> 19:11.317 >> GLAD TO BE HERE. 19:11.317 --> 19:11.918 >> THANK YOU. 19:11.918 --> 19:13.219 AND COMING UP NEXT IS OUR 19:13.219 --> 19:14.020 FRIEND DAPHNE. 19:14.020 --> 19:16.623 [MUSIC PLAYING]. 19:16.623 --> 19:18.425 >> HI, I'M DAPHNE RICHARDS. 19:18.425 --> 19:19.325 OUR QUESTION THIS WEEK IS, 19:19.325 --> 19:21.327 "WHY DO SOME PLANTS DIE IN 19:21.327 --> 19:22.829 FREEZING WEATHER?" 19:22.829 --> 19:23.830 WELL, THIS IS A GREAT 19:23.830 --> 19:24.431 QUESTION! 19:24.431 --> 19:25.732 AND THERE ARE ACTUALLY A FEW 19:25.732 --> 19:26.833 WAYS THAT FREEZE DAMAGE 19:26.833 --> 19:28.134 OCCURS ON PLANTS, BUT MOST 19:28.134 --> 19:29.235 COMMONLY IT HAPPENS WHEN THE 19:29.235 --> 19:30.437 FROZEN WATER IN THE PLANT 19:30.437 --> 19:31.137 THAWS OUT. 19:31.137 --> 19:32.539 JERRY PARSONS, ONE OF MY 19:32.539 --> 19:34.240 FAVORITE RETIRED EXTENSION 19:34.240 --> 19:35.742 SPECIALISTS, ALWAYS 19:35.742 --> 19:36.743 EXPLAINED THIS QUESTION WITH 19:36.743 --> 19:37.844 THE CHALLENGE OF AN 19:37.844 --> 19:38.345 EXPERIMENT. 19:38.345 --> 19:39.946 FILL A GLASS HALF FULL WITH 19:39.946 --> 19:41.247 WATER AND PUT IT IN YOUR 19:41.247 --> 19:41.848 FREEZER. 19:41.848 --> 19:44.451 TAKE IT OUT THE NEXT DAY 19:44.451 --> 19:46.853 ONCE IT'S THOROUGHLY FROZEN 19:46.853 --> 19:48.254 AND IMMEDIATELY PLACE IT 19:48.254 --> 19:49.556 UNDER A WARM STREAM OF TAP 19:49.556 --> 19:50.256 WATER AND WATCH WHAT 19:50.256 --> 19:50.557 HAPPENS. 19:50.557 --> 19:52.559 IF YOU'RE NOT A SCIENCE NERD 19:52.559 --> 19:54.361 LIKE ME THEN I'LL SPARE YOU 19:54.361 --> 19:55.662 THE EXPERIMENT AND TELL YOU 19:55.662 --> 19:55.962 WHAT HAPPENS. 19:55.962 --> 19:57.797 BUT I BET YOU CAN GUESS. 19:57.797 --> 19:58.898 THE GLASS WILL SHATTER AS 19:58.898 --> 20:00.000 SOON AS THE ICE STARTS TO 20:00.000 --> 20:02.202 THAT YOU AND CRACK, EXACTLY 20:02.202 --> 20:03.703 AS THAWING PLANT CELLS WILL 20:03.703 --> 20:04.504 DIE AS SOON AS THE 20:04.504 --> 20:05.105 TEMPERATURES WARM UP. 20:05.105 --> 20:06.206 SOME PLANTS CONTAIN MORE 20:06.206 --> 20:06.906 WATER THAN OTHERS, 20:06.906 --> 20:08.008 ESPECIALLY IN THEIR LEAVES. 20:08.008 --> 20:09.509 A PINE TREE HAS VERY LITTLE 20:09.509 --> 20:10.810 WATER STORED IN ITS LEAVES, 20:10.810 --> 20:11.911 SO PINE TREES DON'T 20:11.911 --> 20:13.113 GENERALLY FREEZE. 20:13.113 --> 20:14.714 BUT TROPICAL PLANTS ARE FROM 20:14.714 --> 20:15.715 CLIMATES WHERE THE HUMIDITY 20:15.715 --> 20:17.517 IS HIGH AND RAIN IS USUALLY 20:17.517 --> 20:18.918 PLENTIFUL, SO THEY HAVE LOTS 20:18.918 --> 20:20.420 OF WATER IN THEIR LEAVES, 20:20.420 --> 20:21.721 MAKING THEM VERY SUSCEPTIBLE 20:21.721 --> 20:22.922 TO COLD TEMPERATURES. 20:22.922 --> 20:24.724 MANY PLANTS ALSO RETAIN HIGH 20:24.724 --> 20:25.825 AMOUNTS OF WATER IN THEIR 20:25.825 --> 20:27.527 FLESHY STEMS, SO THOSE TOO 20:27.527 --> 20:28.628 MAY FREEZE. 20:28.628 --> 20:29.729 PLANTS HAVE DIFFERENT 20:29.729 --> 20:30.930 STRATEGIES FOR DEALING WITH 20:30.930 --> 20:31.231 COLD. 20:31.231 --> 20:32.532 SOME DIE COMPLETELY, LEAVING 20:32.532 --> 20:33.833 THE NEXT GENERATION TO CARRY 20:33.833 --> 20:35.235 ON IN THEIR SEEDS. 20:35.235 --> 20:36.636 OTHERS ONLY LOSE THEIR 20:36.636 --> 20:38.238 TENDER LEAVES AND PERHAPS 20:38.238 --> 20:40.640 ANY TENDER NEW STEM GROWTH, 20:40.640 --> 20:41.941 WHILE OTHERS DIE ALL THE WAY 20:41.941 --> 20:43.643 BACK TO THE GROUND BUT HAVE 20:43.643 --> 20:45.445 HARDY ROOT SYSTEMS ALLOWING 20:45.445 --> 20:47.047 THEM TO EMERGE AFTER THE 20:47.047 --> 20:48.448 HARSH, COLD WEATHER HAS 20:48.448 --> 20:48.948 PASSED. 20:48.948 --> 20:49.949 OUR PLANT THIS WEEK IS 20:49.949 --> 20:51.951 HEARTLEAF SKULLCAP, 20:51.951 --> 20:54.154 SCUTELLARIA OVATA. 20:54.154 --> 20:56.589 THIS PARTICULAR SCUTELLARIA 20:56.589 --> 20:58.491 LOOKS LIKE BLUE FLOWERING 20:58.491 --> 20:58.992 SALVIAS. 20:58.992 --> 20:59.893 AND THERE'S A GOOD REASON 20:59.893 --> 21:00.493 FOR THAT, THEY'RE IN THE 21:00.493 --> 21:04.798 SAME PLANT FAMILY, THE MINT 21:04.798 --> 21:05.198 FAMILY. 21:05.198 --> 21:07.000 EVEN THOUGH IT LOOKS TENDER 21:07.000 --> 21:10.103 IT'S A VERY COLD-TOLERANT 21:10.103 --> 21:10.904 NATIVE PLANT THAT IS 21:10.904 --> 21:12.105 NORMALLY EVERGREEN IN 21:12.105 --> 21:12.405 CENTRAL TEXAS. 21:12.405 --> 21:14.307 YOU MAY SEE THEM PUTTING ON 21:14.307 --> 21:16.710 NEW GROWTH AT THIS TIME OF 21:16.710 --> 21:19.012 YEAR, PREPARING FOR PRODUCE 21:19.012 --> 21:20.814 THEIR LOVELY TOWERING PURPLE 21:20.814 --> 21:23.116 FLOWERS SPIKE IN THE SPRING. 21:23.116 --> 21:24.718 IN FACT, IT PREFERS THE COLD 21:24.718 --> 21:27.220 SO MUCH IT MAY GO DORMANT TO 21:27.220 --> 21:28.722 AVOID OUR OVERBEARING 21:28.722 --> 21:29.522 CENTRAL TEXAS HEAT. 21:29.522 --> 21:30.924 I WISH I COULD DO THAT. 21:30.924 --> 21:33.526 HEARTLEAF SKULLCAP GROWS 21:33.526 --> 21:36.029 VIGOROUSLY VIA ITS FLESHY 21:36.029 --> 21:37.130 ROOTS AND WILL CREEP AROUND 21:37.130 --> 21:37.831 YOUR GARDEN. 21:37.831 --> 21:38.932 BE PREPARED TO TAME IT BACK 21:38.932 --> 21:40.834 IF IT MOVES INTO UNWANTED 21:40.834 --> 21:41.234 AREAS. 21:41.234 --> 21:43.536 THE OIL IN ITS LEAVES ALSO 21:43.536 --> 21:45.238 CONFERS SOME DEER RESISTANCE 21:45.238 --> 21:46.740 AND THE NECTAR IN ITS 21:46.740 --> 21:47.640 FLOWERS SERVES AS A 21:47.640 --> 21:49.342 HUMMINGBIRD ATTRACTANT. 21:49.342 --> 21:51.044 HEART SHAPED LEAVES ARE ALSO 21:51.044 --> 21:54.347 VERY PRETTY WITH PURPLISH 21:54.347 --> 21:56.182 STEMS AND FUZZY SURFACE. 21:56.182 --> 21:58.084 HEARTLEAF SKULLCAP PREFERS 21:58.084 --> 21:59.486 TO BE KEPT A LITTLE ON THE 21:59.486 --> 22:01.688 DRY SIDE, IN DAPPLED 22:01.688 --> 22:02.088 SUNLIGHT. 22:02.088 --> 22:03.390 IT CAN BE A LITTLE 22:03.390 --> 22:05.191 CHALLENGING TO FIND IN 22:05.191 --> 22:06.593 NURSERIES, BUT IF YOU KNOW 22:06.593 --> 22:07.794 ANYONE WHO HAS SOME, JUST 22:07.794 --> 22:09.195 ASK AND I BET THEY'LL DIG UP 22:09.195 --> 22:10.096 A CHUNK FOR YOU. 22:10.096 --> 22:11.598 TO DO IN YOUR GARDEN THIS 22:11.598 --> 22:13.099 WEEK, CONSIDER PLANTING SOME 22:13.099 --> 22:14.501 ASPARAGUS CROWNS AND MAYBE 22:14.501 --> 22:16.202 EVEN SOME COLD-LOVING HERBS, 22:16.202 --> 22:18.505 LIKE GARLIC CHIVES AND 22:18.505 --> 22:19.806 PARSLEY. 22:19.806 --> 22:20.807 >> WE'D LOVE TO HEAR FROM 22:20.807 --> 22:21.107 YOU SO PLEASE VISIT KLRU.ORG/CTG, TO SEND US YOUR QUESTIONS OR PLANTS OF THE WEEK FROM YOUR GARDEN. 22:21.107 --> 22:22.709 >> LET'S CHECK IN WITH 22:22.709 --> 22:24.811 TRISHA SHIREY WITH BACKYARD 22:24.811 --> 22:25.512 BASICS. 22:25.512 --> 22:28.114 >> HI, I'M TRISHA SHIREY AND 22:28.114 --> 22:29.315 THIS IS BACKYARD BASICS. 22:29.315 --> 22:30.417 TODAY WE'RE HERE IN MY 22:30.417 --> 22:32.118 BACKYARD AT LAKE AUSTIN SPA 22:32.118 --> 22:32.819 RESORT. 22:32.819 --> 22:35.121 AND THERE COMES A TIME WHEN 22:35.121 --> 22:37.223 ALL GARDENERS NEED TO GIVE 22:37.223 --> 22:38.324 PLANTS EXTRA NUTRITION AND 22:38.324 --> 22:39.225 ONE OF THE WAYS I LIKE TO DO 22:39.225 --> 22:40.427 THAT THAT'S VERY INEXPENSIVE 22:40.427 --> 22:42.829 IS TO MAKE YOUR OWN 22:42.829 --> 22:44.631 FERTILIZER BY MAKING A 22:44.631 --> 22:47.734 COMPOST TEA OR NUTRIENT TEA. 22:47.734 --> 22:48.234 IT'S SIMPLE. 22:48.234 --> 22:50.136 TAKE A GOOD QUALITY MANURE 22:50.136 --> 22:51.938 COMPOST, PUT IT IN A 22:51.938 --> 22:55.442 5-GALLON BUCKET AND COVER IT 22:55.442 --> 22:57.377 WITH WATER, PREFERABLY 22:57.377 --> 22:59.179 RAINWATER OR NON-CHLORINE 22:59.179 --> 23:00.680 AND STIR IT A COUPLE TIMES A 23:00.680 --> 23:02.182 DAY TO INTRODUCE AIR INTO 23:02.182 --> 23:02.982 IT. 23:02.982 --> 23:03.883 YOU COULD LITTLE DO THE SAME 23:03.883 --> 23:06.186 THING WITH EARTHWORM 23:06.186 --> 23:08.188 CASTINGS AND MAKE AN 23:08.188 --> 23:09.189 EXCELLENT FERTILIZER THAT 23:09.189 --> 23:09.689 WAY TOO. 23:09.689 --> 23:10.990 YOU CAN ALSO ADD COFFEE 23:10.990 --> 23:12.992 GROUNDS, TEA GROUNDS TO THAT 23:12.992 --> 23:13.993 SAME MIX AND GIVE YOUR 23:13.993 --> 23:15.395 PLANTS THE NUTRIENTS FROM 23:15.395 --> 23:16.196 THOSE, BECAUSE COFFEE 23:16.196 --> 23:17.797 GROUNDS ARE HIGH IN 23:17.797 --> 23:18.098 NITROGEN. 23:18.098 --> 23:19.599 SO THAT'S A GOOD DRINK FOR 23:19.599 --> 23:20.400 YOUR PLANTS. 23:20.400 --> 23:22.702 NOW, I LET IT SIT FOR A DAY 23:22.702 --> 23:25.005 OR TWO AND THEN THE COMPOST 23:25.005 --> 23:26.206 WILL SETTLE TO THE BOTTOM SO 23:26.206 --> 23:30.010 I STRAIN THE LIQUID OFF THE 23:30.010 --> 23:31.611 TOP, DILUTE IT AND PUT A 23:31.611 --> 23:32.512 LITTLE AROUND THE BASE OF 23:32.512 --> 23:33.113 EACH PLANT. 23:33.113 --> 23:34.314 HERE'S ANOTHER WAY YOU CAN 23:34.314 --> 23:34.814 DO THIS. 23:34.814 --> 23:36.216 TO MAKE IT A LITTLE EASIER 23:36.216 --> 23:38.218 TO USE, USE AN OLD PILLOW 23:38.218 --> 23:39.419 CASE AND PUT YOUR COMPOST IN 23:39.419 --> 23:42.222 THE PILLOW CASE AND TIE IT 23:42.222 --> 23:43.623 UP AND TIE IT TO THE HANDLE 23:43.623 --> 23:44.924 OF THE BUCKET, AND THEN THAT 23:44.924 --> 23:46.526 WAY IT ACTS LIKE A GIANT 23:46.526 --> 23:47.127 TEABAG. 23:47.127 --> 23:48.528 YOU COULD PULL THAT OUT AND 23:48.528 --> 23:50.530 NOT HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT 23:50.530 --> 23:51.331 STRAINING THAT BEFORE YOU 23:51.331 --> 23:52.732 PUT IT IN THE GARDEN. 23:52.732 --> 23:54.734 THIS IS NOT TRUE AEROBIC 23:54.734 --> 23:56.169 COMPOST TEA SO THIS IS NOT 23:56.169 --> 23:57.070 SOMETHING I WOULD PUT 23:57.070 --> 23:58.071 DIRECTLY ON THE FOLIAGE OF 23:58.071 --> 23:58.672 THE PLANTS. 23:58.672 --> 23:59.673 THIS IS MORE AS A ROOT 23:59.673 --> 24:00.373 FERTILIZER. 24:00.373 --> 24:02.475 SO I PUT IT TOWARD THE BASE 24:02.475 --> 24:03.076 OF THE PLANT. 24:03.076 --> 24:05.478 NOW, I HAVE MY PLANTS 24:05.478 --> 24:06.479 MULCHED WITH COMPOST AND 24:06.479 --> 24:09.182 THEN A SHREDDED HARDWOOD 24:09.182 --> 24:12.285 MULCH, SO AS YOU'RE PUTTING 24:12.285 --> 24:14.688 THAT NUTRIENT ON THE PLANT 24:14.688 --> 24:16.790 IT'S HASHED TO GET IT TO THE 24:16.790 --> 24:17.190 MULCH. 24:17.190 --> 24:18.191 SO I BURY POTS IN THE 24:18.191 --> 24:20.493 GROUND, SMALLER, LIKE A 24:20.493 --> 24:22.295 ONE-QUART FOR THE SMALLER 24:22.295 --> 24:24.698 PLANTS OR GALLON POTS FOR 24:24.698 --> 24:26.099 LARGER PLANTS, LIKE 24:26.099 --> 24:27.500 TOMATOES, AND PUT ONE POT 24:27.500 --> 24:31.504 BETWEEN TWO PLANTS OR EVEN 24:31.504 --> 24:32.205 THREE PLANTS. 24:32.205 --> 24:33.306 AS LONG AS IT'S 12 TO 24:33.306 --> 24:34.708 18 INCHES FROM THE ROOT ZONE 24:34.708 --> 24:36.109 OF THE PLANT THAT FERTILIZER 24:36.109 --> 24:37.510 WILL LEACH OUT INTO THE ROOT 24:37.510 --> 24:38.611 ZONE OF THE PLANT. 24:38.611 --> 24:39.412 AND IT'S INTERESTING WHEN 24:39.412 --> 24:40.513 I'VE PULLED THESE POTS UP 24:40.513 --> 24:42.015 AND THE PLANTS UP AFTER THE 24:42.015 --> 24:43.717 GARDEN SEASON IS OVER, I SEE 24:43.717 --> 24:45.418 LOTS OF ROOTS JUST REALLY 24:45.418 --> 24:46.720 AROUND THOSE POTS WHERE 24:46.720 --> 24:48.421 THEY'VE BEEN GOING FOR THE 24:48.421 --> 24:49.122 NUTRIENTS. 24:49.122 --> 24:50.523 YOU CAN USE THOSE SAME POTS 24:50.523 --> 24:54.127 FOR PUTTING KILL MEAL, 24:54.127 --> 24:55.328 COTTONSEED MEAL, EPSOM 24:55.328 --> 24:57.664 SALTS, GIVING YOUR PLANTS 24:57.664 --> 24:59.165 MORE NUTRITION IN THE POTS 24:59.165 --> 25:01.468 AND PUT A WATER HOSE IN AND 25:01.468 --> 25:03.370 GIVE THE PLANTS A DRENCH OF 25:03.370 --> 25:05.972 GOOD FERTILIZER. 25:05.972 --> 25:07.374 ADD FISH EMULSION, 25:07.374 --> 25:09.175 SUPER-THRIVE, ANY OF THOSE 25:09.175 --> 25:10.477 EXTRA NUTRIENTS TO THE 25:10.477 --> 25:11.978 COMPOST SEED AND YOU CAN 25:11.978 --> 25:16.383 REALLY GIVE YOUR PLANTS A 25:16.383 --> 25:18.685 BALANCED AND HEALTHY DRINK. 25:18.685 --> 25:21.187 THIS FERTILIZING CAN BE DONE 25:21.187 --> 25:23.189 AS OFTEN AS THEY LOOK LIKE 25:23.189 --> 25:23.890 THEY NEED A PUSH. 25:23.890 --> 25:25.692 I TEND TO USE THEM EVERY TWO 25:25.692 --> 25:26.993 WEEKS AS THEY'RE GETTING 25:26.993 --> 25:28.395 STARTED AND MAYBE ONCE A 25:28.395 --> 25:29.596 MONTH AS THEY BECOME MORE 25:29.596 --> 25:30.397 ESTABLISHED IN THE GARDEN. 25:30.397 --> 25:31.297 IT WORKS VERY WELL. 25:31.297 --> 25:32.198 ONCE YOU FINISH WITH THE 25:32.198 --> 25:34.000 COMPOST YOU CAN USUALLY 25:34.000 --> 25:35.602 REBREW IT A SECOND TIME AND 25:35.602 --> 25:37.303 THEN THAT COMPOST CAN GO 25:37.303 --> 25:38.204 AROUND THE BASE OF YOUR 25:38.204 --> 25:39.305 PLANTS, ADD IT TO YOUR 25:39.305 --> 25:41.007 COMPOST PILE SO IT'S NOT 25:41.007 --> 25:42.909 WASTED BUT YOU'VE GOTTEN A 25:42.909 --> 25:44.210 LOT OF MILEAGE OUT OF THAT 25:44.210 --> 25:46.112 SHOVELFUL OF COMPOST. 25:46.112 --> 25:47.013 THIS IS A GREAT WAY TO FEED 25:47.013 --> 25:47.514 YOUR PLANTS. 25:47.514 --> 25:48.615 FOR BACKYARD BASICS, I'M 25:48.615 --> 25:49.716 TRISHA SHIREY. 25:49.716 --> 25:50.717 THANKS FOR JOINING US. 25:50.717 --> 25:53.319 >> FIND OUT MORE AT 25:53.319 --> 25:55.422 KLRU.ORG/CTG, AND BE SURE TO 25:55.422 --> 25:56.756 LIKE US ON FACEBOOK. 25:56.756 --> 25:58.358 NEXT WEEK GET A NEW 25:58.358 --> 25:59.059 PERSPECTIVE ON DROUGHTS. 25:59.059 --> 26:00.460 UNTIL THAT I'LL SEE YOU IN 26:00.460 --> 26:01.161 THE GARDEN. 26:01.161 --> 26:03.563 [MUSIC PLAYING]. 26:03.563 --> 26:04.764 >> TO LEARN ABOUT TODAY'S 26:04.764 --> 26:06.066 PROGRAM WATCH ON-LINE 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