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Well ddidn't we have the most
beautiful weekend. I hope they
were visiting with families
that you had a delicious dinner
and everybody got along well
and I know you enjoyed just
being outside and enjoying the
wonderful South Carolina
whether. We had and that you are
all fired up to go in and
really get your yard ready for
the rest of spring. if you are
and they have to yet things
you'd like to know about well
we've got a great panel here
tonight and our toll free lines
are open. So give us a call and
if you want to talk with each
other about things and not even
after opening that you are so
lucky because on Terasa Lott who
does so many things
for us. Besides just coming on
Tuesday to help is got to chat
room up and ready to go. Terasa.
Thanks Amanda. The landscape
continues to spring to life. In
fact this weekend I was able to
see Eastern Sweetshrub one of
our native Kelly campus
Florida's blooming in
Williamson park in Darlington. I
hope you are taking the time to
observe the Wonderful World
around you and encourage you to
join me in the chat room this
evening. If you need
instructions on how to
participate I'll provide those
in just a few minutes but right
now let's start making it grow.
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A beautiful Tuesday evening to
you. We're
so glad that you can join
us. We're a collaborative
effort between Clemson Extension
& SCETV. Trying
to bring you research based
information. In a way that won't
put you to sleep.isn't that
right Tony? Thats right.
it coming to you from beautiful
Sumter South Carolina Swan
Lake Iris Gardens is always a
gem to visit. But right now of
course like the rest of the
state it is truly just exquisite
beautiful. I'm Amanda McNulty
and I'm a Clemson Extension
agent. I get to come over with
smart people and help you
hopefully figure out what to do
with your yard and Jackie
Jordan is the extension agent
in Kershaw, Richland and
Fairfield counties and Jackie
you are kind
of my turf go to person. and
everybody I
go to this I went to one of
the big box in
the rock and and even today or
some places and I was buying
fertilizer and pre emergent and
post emergent and I was like
gosh I wish Jackie were here.She
could tell them what they should
be doing in their yard right
now. This time of year it's too
early to fertilize. You don't
wanna fertilize your lawn until
the night time temperatures are
in the seventies and stay in
the seventies and we're still
seeing the forties in Columbia.
so to early. You kind of waste
the fertilizer and you are you
are because the grass isn't
going to take it up and use it.
It's going to be taken up by the
weeds and they're going to grow.
It's going to move down to the
soil column and be lost. Okay so
you're just throwing money away
your money away from us pre
emergent you do you want to be
careful especially on centipede
can damage your lawn
pre emergent
.There's lots of different ones
so it depends on what weed
problem yeah dressing yeah so
a lot of the weeds that you're
seeing right now are winter
weeds thats gonna be killed
out by the heat and so you're
gonna have to make so many
applications with post emergent.
that they've already got it so
lots of times we say mow the
grass and let the clippings
fall. But right now and catch
those weed seeds. right
here
the best thing to do is just
put a bag on and just try to
keep as many of those seeds from
getting back into the soil okay
and let mother nature took a
course in the heat will come
out in just a few weeks anyway
There you go. because it will
get hot it will be hard to get
and Tony Melton our small fruit
and vegetable specialist is
the fact that it gets so hot at
night now. Has been causing a
problem for our farmers who
want to grow butter
beans. Lets talk about it being
so let's talk about
where that
fits in with the economies of
some farmers Tony and what
you're trying to do to help
them with that situation. Well
with all the root crop
situation now the prices are
down in this hard for farmers
to make money so a lot of them
are trying to do
diversification and grow other
things such as butter beans
butter beans is a no it's a
jewel of the south. I love my
butter beans and so they're
trying to go but being so
contacted farming common but
they've been having trouble and
not getting the crops that they
were expecting. Because of the
night I heat that we're getting
nighttime heat. Yeah what
happens is butter beans like
the heat
night still flowers I callem
little wimpy Amanda and a lot
They a little wimpy there they a
little wimpy they don't
it gets too hot at night
if it stays too
hot above seventy six degrees at
night they will fall and like
last year. We had a real
shortage of butter beans last
year because it gets hot June
then nobody produced Danny and
then I've seen people actually
get in scuffles over butter
beans. When they were available
they say I got those first.
So Tony your trying to do some
research at the PD Rec. on
selecting planning a lot of
different Butterbean seeds and
then selecting the ones that
seem to show some promise.
That's right I got some
varieties well some selections
that are heat tolerant. Okay
I'm just trying to multiply the
seed out now my own get we can
get it out
to the farm to see you fight.
[laughing] Christian Threatt
is with us tonight and she's
the education coordinator at
Old Canal Park in Moncks Corner
and she's got
a very exciting event coming
up Christian what have
you got planned for us down
there in Moncks Corner?
Hi there. So I'm Kristin Threatt
from old Santee canal park.
This weekend we have our native
plant festival. We're super
excited we'll talk a little bit
about that later in the show
and we're also going to come
over go over some awesome
native plants of South Carolina.
Okay. Thank you so much. Old
Santee Canal Park excuse me on
but it really
is a wonderful park and we can
learn more
about it in a minute the right
now we're
gonna check in with Terasa
because she has our chatters
ready to get up and go and if
somebody isn't familiar with
getting in I think she's got
something special to tell us to
make it even easier Terasa and
you've been doing some homework
and fiddling around to Making It
Grow page ?
Just a little bit. So we try to
make the process of doing the
chat conversation very user
friendly. The only trick comes
into play when you're trying to
use a mobile device. So we added
that new notes tab to the page
and you'll see that there are
instructions on how to join the
chat room. If you scroll down
you can read the directions
about clicking on the chat link
and then it talks about if
you're using an apple mobile
device. What you need to do is
look for this little share icon
it's that square with the arrow
pointing out. Push on there and
then scroll to the icon where
it says request desktop site.
And that should get you
connected from your mobile
device as long as it's an apple
product. If it's something else
we may need to find the tricks
and tips for that. Also on that
notes tab is the community
happenings Vicki and Sean put
this together. This will help
you to find out all about the
gardening and landscaping
related events so maybe you're
looking for something this
weekend and you can see that
there are a variety of things
happening on Friday and
Saturday. So lots to do probably
something no matter where
you're located in this state. So
click on that Making It Grow
chat room link to or from your
mobile device follow those
instructions.I hope to be
chatting with you very soon
Amanda back to you. Thank you.
ya'll please go to the
community events so many people
graciously sharing the yards
for garden tours right now and
if you think that they clean up
their house when their mother in
law is coming over you want to
see what
I mean the yard to just gonna
be beautiful and they go to a
lot of work and for many
organizations this as a fund
raiser and then they can use
that to beautify their
community so please we just had
so many people call in and be
I'm so we put it all together
so you can go and find out
what's going on near you and
fans of the close by or you can
even plan a road trip. Which is
a fun thing to do
everything in South Carolina
such beautiful so beautiful this
time of year. Well Lou
is calling us. Thank you for
calling us from Surfside and
tell us how we can help you
please.
Well Amanda thank you much and
happy belated easter to you
in beautiful Twilight here in
South Carolina.
here I do hear part of the
opening
about the centipede.That was
part of my question. I was
trying to be a neighbor and help
my my my my partner out
next door and spray some of his
weeds and killed some of his
grass and he got all p owed at
me. is great you got all listen
Jerry it's gonna come back.
Don't worry. but I did hear the
opening and I did get to hear
the results on what happened.
But I do believe that the
centipede will come back. I have
a question for Tony and this
might be off the cuff Tony but I
started for my granddaughter a
pine apple top. I am
wondering if it will ever
produce? It's grown
pretty darn big and I just
curious it'll ever produce
any pineapple? If that's
possible?
I'm sorry go ahead. Besides that
everything else is going good.
well we had a nice little spring
so far so thank you much.
Okay thank you for
calling we appreciate it. You
enjoy yourself down there let's
start with you Tony and then
will switch over and get a
little bit more information on
the centipede at that site so
he's got this pineapple the end
and it will produce fruit it
just takes a long time so it's
not something you can do
outside in South Carolina goes
is gonna to take all right
through the winter now to get
the produce fruit now you can
do it in green house or in a
sun room in places like that and
it will produce fruit
that it just comes back on
the top and you can get
a fruit but it will be awhile
okay so but with about
two years or something like
that yeah just don't be at home
we do still have the Hawaii
weather here Amanda.
Gosh darn it. But we've got he's
sprayed
centipede number little bit I
know says it's centipede if you
use herbicides often and you
have to use even the smell of
reduced amount the real
sensitive and there are no
facilities will come back well
it's really depending on what
he used there were two four d
the camber
that can in higher strains can
hurt your lawn. The centipede
tends to be fairly aggressive
that I have seen centipede
combat where most of the yard
was dead it was just a small
patch and is grown in and filled
in.
The base there it's a fairly
aggressive quick growing grass
okay in as long as it's
given what
it wants culturally okay so
don't fertilize it too much
love it to death just kind of
leave it alone and let it be an
okay it'll felons soak
what that's why it is so
important because some grasses
can even you can even use
particular herbicides on back
there are fine other grasses
and then on some of them you
have to reduce the amount back
St Augustine there are very few
chemicals that you can use on
St Augustine effectively you
there's more options for
centipede up certainly Bermuda
and Zoysia have different
options available to them
different strains can be used
so it's very important to check
the fact sheet that we have on
the weeds and read the label
read them. Thank you so much for
explaining that to us and we'll
hope that that we're going to
have a pineapple milkshake.
Charlotte is calling from
Lamar. Charlotte we sure happy
to hear from you and what's
going on up there that we might
be able to help you with.
Well I got two persimmon trees
to one make the big persimmons.
Yeah. I thought I was watching
them and my husband say did you
see all those bugs on the trees
I went and said no. I went
and it looks almost like
a Japanese beetle like a
lady bug. It is hard and I don't
know what they are I want to
find out what they are so I can
get rid of them cause I don't
want them to kill my two trees.
Now this is a persimmon tree or
pomegranate tree? Persimmon it's
the big Persimmons...
Okay. The one you would call
Korean Persimmon...
Yeah, Yeah! Okay! Those Asian
ones. Yeah They're Asian right!
I dont want to, I'm trying to
keep the alive. I don't want
those fancy whatever it is to
get rid of,
to kill them. So you're seeing,
figure out what's on them.
you're seeing some kind of
insect on it, you think?
Yeah! It's got a hard shell on
it and I missed and
popped one off today and it's
still, It's some kind
of bug or something inside of
it. I'm just not real sure what
that is. Anybody got any idea?
Might have stink bugs That'll be
the only thing I know. She said
it had a hard shell
or some kind of bug inside it. I
don't,
Simmons grow anywhere. You know.
Usually don't have any problems.
Charlotte I think you
you could you got a phone that
takes pictures?
No I dont. I bet your
grandchildren do.
But I'll tell you what I can do.
I can bring a piece of it to the
flower show. Yeah. Good Good
Tony usually be out there.
and I can bring a piece of it
and let them see what it is.
Your problems if anybody can
tell you it'll be Tony. And we
want you to enjoy those
persimmons. Now aren't they
delicious?
Yes they sure are. Okay! Thank
you so much. And be sure that
you get a good bumper crop.
You bring that over to Tony and
let it take a look at it. Okay?
All righty!
Jackie, I think you've got
something that you walked out in
the yard and found and said. Ah!
What a happy occasion. My little
Chinese ground orchid. Uh huh.
Now hold it real still so they
can get a good picture.
There you go. And the color is
just beautiful
Isn't it? Yeah
and with that shirt of yours
we feel like you've got
an old master artist
that put you up together. There
you go. And it's got a
bla-tea-cha?
Bla...bla. Bletilla
Chinese ground orchid and they
are growing in dry shade in my
yard. So it's just a pop of
color for shade. Okay, okay!
Well, it sure is pretty No you
don't have to do a thing in
the world to it do you?
No No. Yeah!
Our kind of plant. Exactly.
Well, thank you for sharing it
with us. You're welcome.
Alton lives down in Myrtle
Beach.
Alton what's going on down
your way?
Yes a question concerns rose
bushes. I forgot to trim, Well I
didn't forget. I kept pushing
off trimming my rose bushes back
one Spring and now one of my
rose bushes all it has on it is
just green leaves. It's not
putting out new buds or
anything. Is it too late for me
to cut my rose bushes back?
My goodness. I didn't cut man
back and I pick roses that are
all over Terasa's
desk today. He
He's does. He just has some
leaves. Did you fertilize it?
Are you still there Alton?
I'm still here. But I'm
having trouble hearing you. Did
you frtilize it?
I'm sorry. Say that again. Did
you put fertilizer on it?
No, not overly. I did just a
little bit but not a lot of
fertilizer. Okay
I don't know why it didn't have
any
blooms. What do you think he
should , just...?
Would you cut it right now?
I would imagine you, what I
would do is take a look at the
overall shrub itself and see if
it is so overgrown that it would
present a problem. Like
sometimes the knockouts get so
overgrown and it's so, Dense?
Dense. The sun, Well you have
more spider mite problems. You
have more insect problems. So if
that was the case then I would
come in and I would do some
heading pruning cuts, where you
actually take the branch
thinning pruning cuts where you
actually take the branch all the
way back to where it ends. To
open it up for more light.
Okay. Circulation to allow
more blooms in there. But if it
looks fine I would just imagine
he's probably gonna get some
blooms soon. Yeah Yeah.
Mine has just started having
some flowers. And Tony
be careful, you you like
the baby food approach to
fertilize. That's right. Always
just spoon feed. Okay.
Just a little bit at a time.
That's a pretty thing that you
got. That's a beautiful little
shrub
rose yeah Baffert Tom this
flowers all over now the only
thing I see is I do have some
anthracnose and some black spot
on it and you know if they can
they can put up with a lot of
it can't and really the only
academic difference is really
get a good look at it with us
this is a loopy yeah sale if
you look still if each side
hello I can see the difference
between the two two different
types of diseases can treat for
treat for the diseases. Okay but
a lot of roses can
tolerate those issues with and
without a
without okay thank you well
I'm going to go
and find out what Kristin to
share with us to get us all
excited about her native plant
event that she's having and
while we do that we can check
it Terasa and hear the latest
news from the chat room. Terasa
what is the news?
Thanks Amanda. We've been
talking a lot about wildlife.
Specifically bluebirds in their
nesting habitats and lots of
people excited about having
either eggs or babies or in the
my case, I have babies who have
already fled and ready for
another nest. This is the time
is show when I get to provide a
water quality tip. So tonight
I'd like to take the
opportunity to promote our
master rain Gardner
certification program. There is
a website if you just went to
Clemson and search master rain
Gardner. You'd find it very
easily this was developed by
Kim counts Morgan Elena to see
right there on the screen so
registration for this program
is coming up it's stops on may
the third and the course begins
on may the sixth. This is all
about rain water harvesting and
rain gardens and it happens to
be two tracks. We have a letter
of completion track that's open
to anyone so might be a general
homeowner, master gardener,
master naturalist. There also is
a certification track and
that's geared more toward the
professional audience. Who might
want to install a rain garden
or rain water harvesting system
in someone's yard. I'll be sure
to share the link on our
Facebook page. So it's right at
your fingertips and you'll be
able to learn more about those
water conservation measures. Now
let's check back in with Amanda
and her guest.Kristin Threet
comes up today from Moncks
Corner. From the Old Santee
Canal Park. You've got
a big event planned on Saturday
yes ma'am. So we have
our second native plant
festival. We're very excited.
we'll have plants available.
We're having several vendors we
have presentations from native
plant experts. It's gonna be
awesome. Now I think you can
even get lunch there. Can't you?
You can absolutely. I came last
year for us to see lunch.
Because when you someplace at
that you say you know you don't
always have time to pick picnic
and so it's nice to support
local people who come in.
Absolutely. And then to
go home to perhaps of some
beautiful plants
yeah we so interested native
plants these days fronts
reasons everyone's wildlife so
native plants provide shelter
and food sources to native
wildlife. Which is great and for
Gardner's because already
adapted to soil conditions in
the climate. They don't need a
lot of extra watering. They
don't need a lot of extra
fertilization how many just
really help balance out the
natural ecosystem is wonderful.
And their two groups of insects
that we don't think about
a lot whitch are pollinators.
Yes ma'am which can be bees.
yeah humming birds and I'm and
then also caterpillars and so
the native pollinators everybody
thinks about the bees the bees
so he's right out but not all of
it is so extraordinary important
thing. Absolutely so the
pollinators are really really
important. But like you said
there's also so many plants
that are larval hosts which
we'll talk about a little bit
which are also super important.
And that's because of the need
that birds have to feed protein.
Yeah absolutely. So it's a whole
cycle which is beautiful.
And native plants and the birds
came together to coevolution so
really they're not a lot of
plants that are exotic that we
brought here that will
support the larval canopy the
larval stage of the butterflies
and moths and that's makes it
critical. Absolutely because
these native plants have have
adapted and evolved with these
other species and they already
have those interactions. Well
let's start with some of the
most start down there with that
I believe that's what our
native honeysuckle. Absolutely
so I love this this native
honeysuckle is coral
honeysuckle is one of my
favorites.
It's ever green it comes in a
red or yellow bloom is
beautiful and it's wonderful
for hummingbirds. I sometimes I
see hummingbirds more at this
than my feeder which is really
cool that needs something to
clamor onside kick like a
trellis or a piece of chicken
it's a great climber not too
aggressive trellis is wonderful
an Arbor is wonderful really
great climber okay and and then
again evergreen and it blooms
sporadically. also me get amazed
this massive flustered blooms
but then you can call also
absolutely my goodness and the
next it we've got yellow top
one of my favorite new wild
flowers so this is lance leave
Korea offices there several
species with this is that for
the most common. Great for
pollinators. So all kinds of
different insects butterflies
this was really cool because it
grows in clusters of but it can
have large colonies. Okay. This
is when the kind used to be kept
on its own or in its own special
raised bed, it will start
to spread out okay but but if
you have an area where you've
got room this is a great one
right one it has four much of
loops office several yeah
that's it isn't really that is
doing its job for more than
just a week or two it was
hanging on there for spring and
summer okay right next to it we
have a little south yep. So this
one's called scarlet stages in
the south of your family I love
this one because it has is it's
going to have these really
pretty red blooms. And has the
one that is really
I was in the early he need to
come rejuvenate
and it offers a nice pop of
color to because it has is red
flowers. Is also really good for
hummingbirds and for
butterflies. Now this when you
said is pretty adaptable it is
yeah so and it doesn't get very
tall so it's a nice one to kind
of you can group together you
can
and sometimes it helps to track
the pollinators I guess if the
final round of the goodness of
options okay and then this will
also is continuing
to set last year the one that
you planted in your yard
was [moaning] yeah so they start
but don't be don't be surprised
when this is one of the
milkweed yes Sir this is rob
mills lane it does like a lot
of water but you can do that so
if you get a lot of rain this
will shoot up it produces a
woody stems about an inch and a
half in diameter and then it
has those beautiful milk we
flowers I've seen hummingbirds
on this but it's really great
as a food source for monarch
caterpillars I was really
excited last year my first
you're going this I had twenty
six monarch caterpillars on
this planet that is really
but I'm completely easy and I'm
established will come once yes
absolutely and so that would be
someone stay so you know where
the planet
yeah and then and then you just
turn that off and then you have
your new plan okay okay and
then this one has already you
can see the flowers that are
there yes. And this is just my
own plant but just this report
in every garden absolutely I
love this one it has an
interesting work you can use as
an ornamental but has is really
pretty clusters of white
flowers this is a yeah this is
a R.
I.
yes ma'am and this is good for
native bees so we have a lot of
native species of bees not
necessarily honey producing but
so important pollinators and
the native bees are interesting
and that most of them a
solitary and so even though you
might find an area sometimes it
in the ground with a little
nest they're not aggressive at
all because they're not trying
to defend the college actually
he got it so don't be afraid of
me no no no no George
in your garden
and then this to me because
when you bought into the
flowers open and even at the
bright lights of the studio it
has its own internal clock yes
because it's fun yeah close up
a little bit so this is the
Stokes ask so this is quite a
lot of the answers are farmers
but this actually blooms all
through the summer which is
really as a really long bloom
time has these beautiful purple
flowers which I love in really
great for pollinators and
butterflies but in the coverage
is very handsome is just an
overall handsome
it's got one of Italy's it's
just really nice to look very
attractive easy as pie easier
is easy but just go to sleep at
night that's right and then
over here we have one of those
wonderful colorful verbena I
know I love this so much this
is a native verbena the rose
vervain we were talking earlier
about the need to strangers is
been fun but this one is great
really great for hummingbirds
and butterflies okay the reason
why I like it though is great
ground cover because it's
creeping and it kind of forms
these dense mats so what kind
of creep over which I really
like she can have it on the
ground but I've also put it up
in boxes and it creeps over
pretty it's very pretty and so
it's got a little too far which
is perfect for those poor #*#*#*#*
absolutely going to get that
nectar now and we have somebody
who does not have colorful
flowers now but it's a very
important part of our native
community absolutely so this is
a wax myrtle. This is one of my
favorite native smaller trees.
It is has a lot of benefits. So
in the winter time the female
plants produce a blue gray
berry. Which is really great
for bird species unisource at
the bayberry candle right some
colonial times down there
Waxman
so they're not those down on
also has a lot of insects so
the around one fees on this in
the winter time which is great
has a spicy fragrant leaves
this is really good for habitat
restoration creating screens
and hedges and also this plan
can get big I've seen him use
like from the live oak trees
that way they also respond my
nicely to being cut back did you
fill out there now some
selections that are smaller
they're perfect for
smaller yards.
Absolutely I'm just
not getting to a
minimum and just in the flames
of a fragrance is
just a a wonderful plant that
really as you said is important
for wildlife like the many
different events yeah well I'm
so this Saturday what time of
things going to get going down
there. So they go in at nine AM
SO runs from nine AM to three
PM. Okay and then there's a
young have a big part there
lots of places to walk into
the US are causing people to
come out enjoyed the
presentations we have and then
we have like I said a two
hundred acre park. So we we have
four miles of trails and
boardwalks.
It's a beautiful place so come
enjoy it. And so if it's going
to be a dreary day it should
not keeping people away or you
on things can be an asset most
of the plant festival activities
will be inside the interpreter
center. Okay so either way
yeah absolutely shine. route it
ad deals to sanity canal
well we are so happy that you
came to telling so much for
having us. Now we check back
with Terasa.
We just heard a lot about
native plants the opposite
would be a non native plant now
not all non natives are bad.
However some non natives have
the potential to be extremely
invasive and they do when I so
we say they take over the world.
We happen to see one such
plant in Williamson park this
past weekend I just shared this
photo in the chat room. Now
first looks you'd probably say
that is a magnificent looking
flower and indeed it is but be
aware all that glitters is not
gold. Like the proverb says so
this is called the yellow flag
iris. It's known by the
scientific name iris suit a
chorus and it is non native to
the United States. It is fast
growing fast spreading and
there you can see the entire
plant where we had picked it as
so it's laying on a flat on the
boardwalk, but it will
outcompete other wetland plants
forming almost an impenetrable
thicket. So bewear this is
often available in the trade we
have a beautiful native species
with sort of a lie what color
the blue flag iris Iris
virginica so make sure you do
your duty before purchasing any
plants and be sure not to
install anything that might be
invasive. There are lots of
resources out there through
Clemson and through the South
Carolina exotic plant past
council as well. Now let's go
back to Tony, Amanda and Jackie.
A lot of times people will give
you things that multiply
unpleasantly and Tony I think
that's probably what happened
here looks like you've got some
of that Iris pseudacorus with
you has tried that someone gave
me some one time and way
back long time ago it it became
a thick mass of roots.
Down in my little pond and
I had time getting it
out. It was bigger these desks.
yes I hooked a chain into it to
pull it out with my truck. No!
To get it out of my pond.
and so you saw this in in place
where it shouldn't have been and
we hope that those people will
also quickly decide and learn
that this is not something we
want to promote. Don't make my
mistake and as we said the blue
flag would just be a perfect
venue so that's native and not
going to take over the world.
Okay. Harold is calling us from
Pacolet.Hello Harold
we're delighted to hear
from you.
Hello. Hey how are you what's
your question.
I'm doing great I enjoy your
show. Well thank you.
I have a wife that has a
beautiful flower bed. But I'm
having problem with grass. I put
mulch out. Are they some kind of
stuff I can spray to help kill
it? I don't want to kill them
flowers or I'm gonna have to
leave the house. We don't want
you to have to live on bologna
sandwiches the rest of your
life yeah she's got you know and
sometimes that kind of native
I call it wiregrass that
Bermuda grass gets involved it's
it is hard to get rid of. What
can he do besides just
put mulch down Jackie? Could you
put down several
sheets of newspaper under the
mulch perhaps or something like
that that may be able
to suppress a
little bit but wiregrass is
got to it's going to come
back. It's aggressive. In any
chemical that you use is only
going to suppress it. You're not
ever gonna eradicated, and even
chemical applications you are
coming in your applying it once
every thirty days just to try
and knock it back. to what we
need if it is why Chris is bad
I would definitely make sure
that I'm keeping at least three
inches of mulch
to try to shaded out.
I would just go in there and
try to mechanically remove as
much as I can. Yeah
And then they do make sponge
applicators that can be where
you can just take the sponge
applicator put it directly onto
the weed itself and so you know
it is a brain okay so that
would be the better way to save
and protect the flowers now if
you've got lawn near by does
it sometimes help me put some
of those kind of metal edge rims
around to keep grass is rooms
running in and it's a long the
bad so if you could help as
well okay well we hope that you
can have a happy wife and a
delicious supper every night.
Okay. Tony about thank you grab
it out in your yard several
things today to share with us
and we had talked about things
to take over the world. There's
another one. It is fixing to
flower. it smells so
wonderful when it flowers and
all. Just like wisteria
right, it does but it is one of
the worst weeds that we've had
this is privet or ligustrum.
This is a curly leaf. The
point there's also literally
porn that it just takes a little
while to mandate is hard to kill
is taking over our woods.
lives and it's the same group
as privet. Privet is a
Ligustrum as well and they just
smell wonderful and people plant
it but they the seeds just go
everywhere. The birds
take and spread a over.
Our forest and I think Tony
you and I've talked about the
fact that since these are
evergreen when they get down in
the swampy areas where so many
specialized native plants live
they can out compete those
because the green all year.
That's right they shade them
out. It just takes over.
If you have that. This is a good
plant to really set your mind on
and you can see them right now
Jack. Is a good time to identify
and get rid of them.
Don't you think? I do it it is a
good time you know. Plant some
natives like wax myrtles.
instead. They'er go yeah and
sometimes if you can't dig
something out I cut
it and then used in the pros
approved Glyphosate it says
you can use that cut stump.
thing is you talked about with
the little brushes that so I
think that you could do? You can
as long as you do it within the
first fifteen minutes after
cutting it can be fairly
effective. Now that's gonna work
in two ways because you remove
so much of the top that
you take out a reserve energy
yeah to resprout and you just
you have to do it a few times. I
won't just be once but it can be
fairly but they can be so big
you can't really put a chain to
like Tony I am yeah I don't
have a chain and I don't have a
truck sometimes for us this is
the way we can help control
things that we see in our thank
you thanks for sharing that
with us. Diana's is calling us
from Charlotte. We are
happy to you Diane from the
queen city up there you sure
live in a beautiful place and
is there something we can do to
make your yard more beautiful
for you?
Well yes you can. I am having an
ongoing battle with aphids on
my combine and I've had this
every year and I tried doing
I'm trying to I to eradicate
them using a natural
method I don't want any poisons
in my garden so what's
not working for me is
spraying them off with a you
know like a stream of water. But
what does your panel think
about bringing in baby
beetles
lady birds or praying
mantis into the garden. I I've
heard pros and cons and I just
want to get your panels thoughts
on it. Well Tony I'll let you
hit this
one for us. The lady beetles are
great. They do feed on
aphids but then they go to
everybody else's yard so that's
that is hard to box them in. You
can't keep them there.
and they are they
are a lot of already out there
they are yeah yeah Asian
ladybird beetles they're all
over the place and they're
feeding on them. I would suggest
using on insecticidal soap and
which is a natural product
that you are organic product
you can spray on. Those
soft body the insects what it
does is kind of like your hands.
When you wash your hands too
much and they start cracking
well it does the same thing
the outside of those aphids and
causes and cracking and kind of
bleed to death. And Jackie even
or something like that that's
organic and sounds like you
always do need to read the
label because if you get too
much of that on a plant you can
even sometimes they can be
taught can cause reactions in
the plant as well and it can it?
It can and then you know they're
also different plants that can
be put in the yard to help keep
the lady beetles in the yard.
Because when there aren't any
aphids to eat there sometime
feed on pollen so yes some of
those different plants are
available now factsheets on
that as well. Okay I didn't
realize that there was some
other plants you can keep that
SO keep having those plants will
help keep them in her yard.
Okay. Like a host plant but a
new way yeah yeah that's cool.
Thank you. Thanks for telling us
that. Okay, let's go Terasa and
see what see what new she has
from the chaplain for us.
Thanks Amanda. Well I'm lucky at
one of our fellow horticulture
agents Chase Smoak has joined
us and he reports that he
thinks he's found a state
champion Florida betony. so I
think we were talking about
this last week. Here you can see
the Florida many this is a a
pretty obnoxious weed. Not
something you really want to
find in your yard. But it's
about as big as that shovel and
what you can't see is the
tuber and he did say that he
was able to remove that it's
just that he broke it off and
it went into the trash can. So
we've been talking a little bit
about that someone also asked
about English IVE and so English
ivy is another one of those non
native invasive plants we do
have a fact sheet about it not
only can it to climb up trees
and potentially you know
smother them it can also damage
the Text is probably too small
for you to see but if you allow
it to grow up the side of a
home. Those Ariel rootlets
can damage the stucco or the
wood or mortar and brick
homes it can trap moisture
which can also be a problem
and that dense foliage is a
haven for insects and small
animals so. I hate to be the
bearer of bad news I feel like
with all this invasive talk.
we're kind of all like doom and
gloom but the good news is
we have lots of resources to
help you if you do happen to
have invasive plants in your
yard. And still have time left
so feel free to join me in the
chat room. Amanda back to you.
Well and knowledge is power
there a lot of you know they
these things are still sold and
I'm so if you want to use some
people like to use Ivy in
containers but if you do that
usually container at the end of
that season you must
wrap it up and throw it away
and not just you know and
you've got to make sure that
you really eradicate it I'm
don't just you know what's
being said there I have some
ivy in a container and I
really pay a lot of attention to
it because if I don't the next
thing I know it's you know
scattered around and every
year. I am older it's been a
great shot to find out that
that's happening and it makes it
harder and harder to keep up
with things in the yard. So this
is probably a good at a good
thank you Terasa of reminding
us of things like that because
it every year we should
probably go out and say you
know I'm going to make sure
that one of the things I've got
my yard don't become a problem
I'm gonna go ahead and get rid
of it right now. Okay, Melanie
is calling us from Sumter. Good
to have a local call okay
everything's doing fine with
you, but is there something we
might be able to give you some
help with?
yes I have some regular or
banana trees in my yard and
they come back every spring, but
was curious about the red banana
That I'm seeing out there
is is that tropical to come
back on its own every spring
here this planted out in the
yard. Okay,
That's a good one.
I have not had any luck
with that coming back.
I haven't used it in a couple
years and things are different
now I mean it's a real cold
and the only place I've
ever seen it be successful
come back perennial is at River
Bank Zoo where they have that
warmer microclimate. Yeah, they
say that it comes back for them
that it is not come back yeah
but I'm gonna say they're not
expensive no they're not and
then you got it I mean last
year we do have a frost thanks
I mean so for fourteen dollars
you can have a really dynamite
focal piece and and bear with
me and I think that's worth
doing. The way we used to have
to do bananas is dig them up
and wrap em
up throw them under the house
and take them out next
year yeah and that that
works to you know where
you can go home yeah she could
try that if she's got a good
crawl space in the house but
again I mean when you think
about the bang for your Buck
that is less than going to the
movie with you with your own
band but this pop some popcorn
he's a lot better use. Tony what
else you got over there to show
us today? Okay
We gOt all kind of little
things I want to >< talk about
what you bought for me I think
you got a present for me
got to love >< okay and a lot of
people. You know. Love
confederate roses and I do too,
and I
got old timey confederate rose.
I brought it one day in
the fall you know it's a fall
plant in it produces be it'll
just like cotton in the fall is
a Hibiscus is good is unhappy is
Hibiscus family out I'd say the
Hibiscus you can eat that's
okra, you look at this, this one
and cotton you can wear. Yeah
and so this is [stammers]
I just the easy thing in the
world to to root all I did was
cut some of the stems off
in the fall. This same size than
here in is stuck in this pot
watered it, and now it's
growing. Did you keep
it in the in the garage under
the carport? I had it in my
greenhouse I do have a little
green and now you can keep it
in your garage you just want to
keep it moist. Okay
or either in the sun room or
whatever. Okay, and this is
the single and you know Jackie
a lot of times i think the
single flowers are prettier
don't you? Yeah. This one stays
that bright pink that deep pink.
listen little component okay
in what of a part of the state
you're in. I bet you there's a
farmer's market is gearing up
if it is it hasn't been going
on all year. We've got a great
one at Sandhills, is that
when open all year now it runs
from may through November okay
but when is good yeah some just
like that and that's because
things are starting to come in
on hand and so we've got people
are out there
really working hard to grow
wonderful produce and flowers
to share with you. And you
need to get out and support them
because they're so your
neighbors is a South Carolina
people and although we want to
help everybody and buy products
from every body we sure want to
treat South Carolina best an
in Sumter on the farmers
market is out there about USC
Sumter and it's just open up
again and our crew went out
there and I'm me to tell you it
was a zoo in the best possible
way. We got some footage for and
if you live anywhere near come
on over on Friday and visit us
at the Sumter Farmers Market.
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well you just obviously don't
have any curiosity
or appetite if you don't want to
go on Friday because
look at the variety and smiles
and phone and excitement
it was kind of like the
markets in Europe that you
hear about and it's right here
in Sumpter. If you are in Sumter
come by and threr's plenty of
parking there not a problem at
all and where ever you are find
out where your local farmers
market is and do go and support
your friends and neighbors and
make new friends, while you're
there. Great place to do
shopping to find unusual gifts
too
we always like to find the
unusual well I was out says
we're having a native plant
since Kristian was coming I
was trying to think of things I
have some flocks that I got
from Daniel Pain down in
Beaufort. I can't remember the
name I've I've had a little tag
that it washed off but as a
native fox I've got to Tulip
poplars I've got
on which is a
wonderful plant that's the
yellow one the yellow lagume.
I've got blood
root which is I'm just the
most beautiful leaf in the
world a little on Matt Niskanen
but I'm going fine in my yard
and then I've got a native
clematis let me take it off and
I'll show you where that is so
this is the blood root that
this is the green part and it
has a beautiful little flower
and if you dig it up and moving
it over when it comes to the
back of the leaf is beautiful
it has a red storage organ and
this is a native clematis then
I got on my husband's farm
called leather leaf and just
make magnificent and I'm I
think it's available in the
trade he managed to look for
perfectly beautiful in that the
sweetest little thing and it
looks so Victorian to be native.
done and you know you think of
native has been kind of [moans]
like Tony and me and here's a
than that looks very well
behaved just like Terasa so
anyway
we've got our next caller is oh
my goodness sean I've lost it.
Ed in Seneca. Sean had told me.
I wrote I had so much my paper
now with that such a busy night
I couldn't find it but I'm glad
we got you on the phone and
tell us what we can do to try
to help you.
Yes ma'am. Hello yeah
we're doing well I hope you're
doing well.
I've got so been replaceing deck
railings. On my decks
yeah I'm having problems with
carpeter bees boaring into them.
Bumble bee looking things.
what can i do for it? Okay, I've
heard that they um.
Put your hands up
we sometimes you look like you
got clear nail Polish on
and after that they like that
they don't like that but they
don't like paint right an oil
base paint is less white again
so so you need to get down
underneath and paint the
undersides of those railings
that usually people leave is
that what it is okay and that
the best thing. The best thing
this listing on and then they
go to your neighbors.
yeah but he.
but that's because they
like it so if
you've got a good solid coating
on the wood that that
dissuades them. It does okay
yeah and they're not the worst
thing in the world but if you
get a lot of and it can make a
mess they can can can so yeah
so we hope Ed that if you
can do that if you just have to
bend over or allowed in a pain
upside down
is it is kind of a nuisance but
that really ought to help you a
lot if you try it that way.
Kristin threet the
educational coordinator at
Old Santee Canal Park down in
Moncks Corner. Near Rembert
dentist Dr I believe we wanna
to thank you for coming and
tell us about your Plant
festival and I hope you have a
great turn out on
Saturday.
Thank you so much Amanda for
having me and for more
information you can always
visit our Facebook page or our
park website for more
information. Thank you.
Monks Corner is a beautiful
little town and and you don't
have to worry about taking your
lunch because they'll have
venders there have been
cooking all day for you right
there unless it was got room
for one more phone call.
Tommy is up in Campobello. Tommy
happy to hear from you. Tell us
what's going on up your way.
Yes I have a seven foot
palm tree and it is got some
clusters of yellow
going out on the side of it so
we can't figure
out what the clusters are we
just like to know
what's growing on a palm tree.
Think it's a sago palm tree and
it's got the new growth coming
out.
It's a different type of palm
tree. It's a wind mill palm
tree. okay
it's got yellow thing I'm
imagine that it's the
fruiting structure yeah it
flowers coming down here
thanks bye flower to acting the
winning cut mine off at the
house because it it come out
and bees will like it and
kind of dried up in the fall.
and I use a cut him off to keep
and keep their fall out of the
tree later but then I hit them
with my lawnmower.
when we talk about things to
pollinators the flowers on the
palm trees are wonderfully
attracted to pollenators or
something yeah yeah and so
they're all the weeds in your
yard to
yeah but what you could let it
go him flowerr and then cut it
off before it goes to seed a
new
ten thousand little palm trees
okay, Thank you Jackie for that
Terasa Thank you so much
for all that you do for us and
for that new little tip but
you've got and for for mining
us about the community events
page. It is my pleasure this
is the
best place to be on a Tuesday
evening remember you can stay
in touch with us all week
through our Facebook page. There
are lots of great events going
on this weekend including that
Pee Dee plant and flower
festival held at the Pee Dee
state farmers market and I
believe there is even us some
trees available from trees S.C.
they're giving away some red
buds. It's through the PT plant
in flower festival you have to
sign up on their website and as
is only I believe for Florence
area residents but a great
resource so I will share that
on the page so you can access
it see right here next week.
Amanda Charlie got a minute so
tell me quickly what it is we
can try to help you with.
my other
what's your question what's
your question Charlie
I know about
the sun because earth's but
you've been inside since our
lives on power or you say okay
I believe New Guinea ones are
the ones that
but the face up and happy and
the sun is not right that I
don't know for sure
yeah yeah and the good thing
that I've heard at this new
regular impatience with
resistance a downy mildew in
It is wonderful that
was our go to plant from one
for color and the shade so many
years yeah well that's really
exciting here and thought and
that just shows you the
industry's always working to
try to make things easier so
that we can continue enjoy
okay I was reading going on
yeah and I'm so Tony you'll be
out there maybe at the PD plant
at festivals and get out there
so the place is a go
is busy Jackie thank you for
taking the time to be with the
same day I enjoyed it I had
Jackie had a good time playing
golf this week and she's got a
kid graduating from high school
hooray hooray.
Night and everybody will see on
the exam idea make it grow.
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