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"Conversations with Alaska Gardeners" is your gateway to exploring the vibrant world of gardening in Juneau, Alaska, where the wilderness of towering mountains and the vast blue sea meet. This podcast series brings to life the unique challenges and unmatched rewards of gardening in the rugged yet beautiful terrain of The Last Frontier. Join us as we celebrate the passion and resilience of Juneau's gardening community, sharing insights, tips, and stories from those who thrive amidst the challenges of Alaskan gardening.
Conversations with Alaskan Gardeners is your gateway to exploring the vibrant world of gardening here in Juneau. Join us as we celebrate the passion and resilience of Juneau's gardening community, sharing insights, tips, and stories from the experts. Here's Margaret Tharp and David Lundrum of Landscape Alaska on KINY.
Speaker 2:Good morning. Good morning. Good morning. Conversations with Alaska Gardeners are back on the air. Beautiful.
Speaker 2:Beautiful, sunny, almost Father's Day, almost solstice, peak of the year. Tomorrow, the days start getting shorter.
Speaker 3:Let's not talk about that.
Speaker 2:Let's not.
Speaker 3:We really had two days of sunshine.
Speaker 2:It really took a long time to get here, didn't it?
Speaker 3:Well, Sarah, I'm not gonna complain. No complaining.
Speaker 2:Okay. Landscape Alaska is having a big Father's Day summer solstice active summer weekend sale. 20% off on lots of our most popular items, lilacs, hydrangeas, peonies, what, roses. There's something else. I don't remember what else it is, but there's something else.
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Speaker 2:Landscape Alaska at gmail. All kinds of specials, lots of information, all kinds of upcoming events and suggestions of what to do, and some absolutely spectacular photography done by me personally. You like that? Uh-huh. Okay.
Speaker 2:So we got a bunch of new stuff in this week, and among them are some hybrid Japanese maples. Now all the maples in the world are in the Acer family, and the Japanese maples are mostly Acer palmatum. And that's the kind of light, airy, beautifully foliaged. It's kind of small trees, whether they're the weeping ones with the split leaves or the upright ones with the small maple leaves on them, and they all turn spectacular fall colors. But that's not the only Japanese maple.
Speaker 2:There's another one called Acer japonicum, which is a much bigger tree and sturdier and much, much hardier. And and it grows to be, oh, 15 to 20 feet and can take it as low as zone four. And we're between four and five. So even though most years our Japanese maples in the palmatum family are perfectly okay, this last winter saw a lot of damage done to them. So we were looking for a hardier variety and our friends at the Isley nursery, one of the most famous plant breeding places in the world, have crossed those two families together, Japonicums and Palmatians.
Speaker 2:They came up with a line of trees that look decorative and beautiful and have yet the strength and endurance of the heartier specie. And we've got about, you know, five or six of them available, and they look quite spectacular. I'm sorry to say a couple of them got dried out in the shipment, but we'll take care of that. But also what came are some really, really cute little dwarf conifers. And if you think things are cute in the nursery world, this is something you really wanna see.
Speaker 2:These are cute like little bunnies.
Speaker 3:We have cones on them.
Speaker 2:They have cones. They're four inches tall, and they got cones on them.
Speaker 3:Yeah. That's amazing.
Speaker 2:Uh-huh. And they're such bright colors. We got we got a bunch of different kinds of dwarf gonifers.
Speaker 3:The ones we have are spruces.
Speaker 2:Those are spruces. Mhmm.
Speaker 3:And we
Speaker 2:have dwarf pines, and we have dwarf white pines, and we have an a couple of other kinds of dwarf spruces that are, more round and full and soft to the touch, but they look they look like little hedgehogs. You know? And the whole world of dwarf conifers is such a fascinating one. I'm sure that when you come and see them, you'll be you'll be equally entranted.
Speaker 3:Well, that's one of the things about Landscape Alaska is that we really stay ahead of the curve in terms of what's being introduced and what is recommended for harsh climates. And you know everybody. So you can call them up personally and say, tell me about this and tell me about that.
Speaker 2:It is one advantage to being an older person. You have a much bigger repertoire of acquaintances.
Speaker 3:Absolutely.
Speaker 2:And the chance to go to the Far West show every year and rub elbows with the people that are bringing these new plants to market.
Speaker 3:Remember when we first moved to Alaska? I mean, we went to the Far West a long time before we ever moved to Alaska. But once we moved to Alaska, how they would laugh at us, you're going to have a nursery in Juneau, Alaska. That's funny. Uh-huh.
Speaker 3:And it actually burst out laughing.
Speaker 2:Uh-huh. Yeah. Yes. I do remember.
Speaker 3:Well
Speaker 2:And, okay, I probably should have taken their advice, but, you know
Speaker 3:Too late now, Dave.
Speaker 2:It's too late now.
Speaker 3:Forty years later, nobody's laughing.
Speaker 2:Right. Forty years later, we're still slugging away at it. And, you know, we have found a lot of things that grow really well, really, really well. I know there's not a street you drive down in Juneau that doesn't have something on it that they got from Landscape Alaska. Like all those rhododendrons.
Speaker 2:We bought out of the same rhododendron field for forty years from the grandfathers and the fathers and now from the sons, you know, the the same strains of hardy rhododendrons are still
Speaker 3:Rothschild. Right? Well, that
Speaker 2:that's for the azaleas. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. But it's the hennies.
Speaker 3:Yep. No. I know. Uh-huh. The hennies are the people.
Speaker 3:Absolutely.
Speaker 2:And there are we have about six or seven varieties right now that are just looking beautiful. Only a couple of them are still flowering. Most of them flowered early, but while they were still in Oregon or when they just got here. But, you know, the ones that are available for sale now are beautiful looking plants.
Speaker 3:I'd like to deliver Allison's this
Speaker 4:week even if we can't get
Speaker 3:it in the ground so she can enjoy it. It's in full glory. So
Speaker 2:Set it up by her house.
Speaker 3:Set it out there where it's gonna go and have her enjoy seeing it from her window.
Speaker 2:Whatever you like. Of course. That's my pug. I betcha. And, we drove into the radio station today, and last week, they had a, event from Bobcat where they had a bunch of little excavator tools, and little kids were able to drive them around
Speaker 3:Oh, that's fun.
Speaker 2:And scoop things up. And there's a pile of soil in the parking lot here that has a big sign on it that says free. So if somebody ought to drive over here with their pickup truck and a flat shovel, I just take advantage of that or some five gallon buckets. It looks like nice soil. You know?
Speaker 2:I would use it.
Speaker 3:That sounds great.
Speaker 2:Oh, I've got a full right now. On our sale are peony plants, and peonies have turned out to be in Juneau, one of those marks of recognition. If you have peonies in your yard, people notice that you have a nice garden. And something about peonies is so romantic and memorable.
Speaker 3:They Well, it's such an ancient variety.
Speaker 2:Four thousand years
Speaker 3:in Most people grew up with somebody who grew the plant, you know, as an affectionate plant for gardeners.
Speaker 2:And you remember the guy down on C Street downtown with that gigantic Sarah Bernhardt peony?
Speaker 3:Uh-huh. There were a lot of peonies down on the flats.
Speaker 2:A lot of them. Yeah. And, you know, twenty years ago, that thing was chest high to me. Right. It's just huge.
Speaker 2:I don't even know who occupies that home now, but let's go look at it.
Speaker 3:Okay.
Speaker 2:We have got the Sitka roses in, and if you're looking for roses, they'll they'll survive and grow vigorously here. The one from Northern Japan, which is called Rosa rugosa, when they had the experiment station in Sitka in the twenties and thirties. His job was to find plants around the world that would grow well in Southeast Alaska.
Speaker 3:And there's something about a rose.
Speaker 2:It is.
Speaker 3:You know? It's a the peony, it's a universal affectionate plant has history.
Speaker 2:And you know those yellow tree roses you have in the back of the greenhouse? I'm gonna bring them out so I can smell them as I'm standing around today. They're
Speaker 3:in I want bloom so somebody who has a heated greenhouse to storm through the winter forest, and I'll trade them something for it.
Speaker 2:Someone's gonna buy them. Someone's gonna take them home happily. Not gonna
Speaker 3:live in the outside in the wintertime.
Speaker 2:I know.
Speaker 3:They need protection.
Speaker 2:I know. It's gonna be somebody who's got a greenhouse.
Speaker 3:A tree a tree rose, a very exotic thing. Yeah.
Speaker 2:And it's so fragrant.
Speaker 3:It's called Julia Child. It's a beautiful yellow rose and it's so fragrant, there's 10 or 12 flowers on each one of them right now in bloom.
Speaker 2:Mhmm. And it's gonna bloom the rest of the summer. Yeah. That's a really nice thing about a tree rose or any of those kind of cultivated roses. They keep blooming.
Speaker 2:They keep blooming. The Sitka roses aren't like that. They make a big show, but then they're done. Mhmm.
Speaker 3:And then
Speaker 2:they have the all that fruit ripening.
Speaker 3:All the hips. Rose hips.
Speaker 2:But, you know, people that are looking for something to, spread along their fence line or something that can take a hillside and make it make it an attractive place that you don't have to get back on very often. Those are really good plants for that kind of thing. Not that they're not good in the cultivated garden too, but you have to manage it more.
Speaker 3:Because they kind of push their way around.
Speaker 2:They do. They have the ability to send up sprouts from their root system. And so they can take over an area and kind of occupy it. Colonize it is what we call it. Colonizing the area.
Speaker 3:How polite.
Speaker 2:Yes. Our sale includes the hydrangea trees and so many of them walked out of the yard yesterday. If you have an interest in a hydrangea tree, you better come today
Speaker 3:because
Speaker 2:there's We not very many of them
Speaker 3:have a half dozen of them maybe.
Speaker 2:Maybe. Yeah. So, and the tree form hydrangea is a spectacular flowering thing. It's going to start flowering very, very soon and it'll bloom all the way until it freezes. And it starts off pale green, ripens through parchment with a red edge, and then it goes to pale pink and then to deep pink, and finally ends up just as the snow is approaching as a dark red flower and the leaves have turned burgundy by then.
Speaker 2:It's really a stage show, a floor show, a magnificent event in front of you. And I love them. Turn my phone off here, make sure that it doesn't ring. So this is a call in show, and we finally have our phones in place. You dial (907) 586-1800.
Speaker 2:You can ask us questions, invite us to come see things that are in bloom, make suggestions, invite other people to see things that are in bloom, anything you feel like doing. Give us a call. Ask us a question. 586-1800. Margaret and I will be in the nursery today.
Speaker 2:We're open until 04:00 in the afternoon. It's going to be hot. It's going to be beautiful, and things are just going to look magnificent. Everybody that walks into the nursery site says it just looks beautiful now.
Speaker 4:And we had to rebuild it this year.
Speaker 3:Boy, it was such a devastating year for everybody. I'm glad we were able to pull it off. But it's sweet. If you haven't been to Landscape Alaska, you might just like it. It's on a mountaintop, faces the glacier.
Speaker 3:It's totally private, and it's filled with beautiful things.
Speaker 2:And even the bears like it.
Speaker 3:Yeah. Even the bears like it.
Speaker 2:It's surprising how much wildlife we have walking through the nursery.
Speaker 3:Bears and deers. We've even had wild rabbits.
Speaker 2:And an occasional porcupine.
Speaker 3:Oh, the porcupines are darling.
Speaker 2:The wild rabbits were pretty cool.
Speaker 3:Uh-huh.
Speaker 2:They started off gray, and then as the winter came on, they turned white, just like it says in the books. I'd never believed it. So this was such a devastating winter. One of the things that suffered tremendously all over town were the arborvitaes, and they got blown apart. They they looked like, splayed out fingers in people's yards.
Speaker 2:And we've decided that that this might not be the only time that happens. So we looked around for something we could do to use instead of arborvitae, and we found a dwarf western red cedar called northern spire. And this is the the wild red cedar gets to be a huge tree, but this dwarf one tops out at about 20 feet, and you can keep it at eight feet without any trouble. It's only got a single trunk, so it doesn't blow apart under the snow and the deer don't eat them. And it's a cedar.
Speaker 2:It smells great. It doesn't you know, the arborvita's got a particular aroma, but I wouldn't say it's actually attractive. But the smell of the cedar is just marvelous.
Speaker 3:So what's the difference in price between the cedars and the arbovitaes?
Speaker 2:Another $100 for a big cedar from a big arbovita.
Speaker 4:Mhmm.
Speaker 3:Well, the thing about an arbovita is if you tie them up internally with strapping that you can't see, you can stop them from splaying apart. And they're so very affordable.
Speaker 2:Yep. They're they're kind of the standard. You know, if you want to have hedging around your house, if you want to demark your property lines, that's been the go to plant for a couple of generations.
Speaker 3:Right. But if you want to know how to tie them up, you know, talk to David at the nursery and he'll be able to give you some hints.
Speaker 2:And I'll show you the kind of material we use for doing that.
Speaker 3:Didn't you just order some new strapping?
Speaker 2:I did. Mhmm. Just came in the mail. Great. And one of the things is that you don't wanna have to see it on the outside.
Speaker 2:So there are, six five or six main trunks on a good sized arborvitae, and you press the the foliage aside and you grab a hold of the main trunks inside, and that's what you tie together. So the foliage covers up any evidence of the tying together.
Speaker 3:Right. And you don't have the tie be bright yellow or something like that.
Speaker 2:No. Not if you can help it. But you know, if that's what you got and the winter's coming on, better better to be bright yellow than to be splayed out. Yep. And, we have a planting project coming up that's going to involve some, red obelisk European beaches, and they just arrived also.
Speaker 2:And what a beautiful tree. But we ordered more than we're going to need for our project. So if you have interest in such a it'll be a columnar kind of tree, red in color, extremely hardy, and it'll get to be pretty good sized. A real attractive tree.
Speaker 3:They're very dark.
Speaker 2:Very dark.
Speaker 3:And it's really dramatic how dark they are. But the new growth on the tops, the leaves come out red, bright red.
Speaker 2:And then in the fall it changes color and gets to be bright red again. And, you know, it's beech is probably one of the very hardiest trees for us around here. There are a few really large, really old beech trees in Juneau. One of them is across the street from the Governor's House. And if you go driving down Calhoun Avenue and you notice there is a huge red leaf tree with beautiful elephant hide colored gray bark, that's the one that's right on the corner.
Speaker 2:And, it's the most spectacular tree in town from my point of view.
Speaker 3:Of course.
Speaker 2:Yes. Everything has to be had with a caveat. And the the fruit bearing recca blueberry.
Speaker 3:Yes. They're really being late. Got tied up because they were so heavy with blueberries. And the blueberries
Speaker 2:were so big. The berries you know, they came from Portland, and they're months ahead of what we have in our yards now. But the berries are already beginning to ripen on those things.
Speaker 3:Yeah. No. They're great.
Speaker 2:And this is gonna be a shrub that'll get about, go chest high and maybe, as far around as you can reach with your arms, and it'll have thousands of blueberries on them. And this is a cultivar from New Zealand, and the berries are so abundant on there. They look like bunches of grapes.
Speaker 3:And they grow like grapes. I mean, in the visual, instead of here's one berry and here's one berry and here's
Speaker 2:one berry. It's like There are big clusters on them.
Speaker 3:Here's a cluster of berries.
Speaker 2:Everybody who had them last year came back to buy another one this year, said that they were the most spectacular. And they ripen about a month after our wild ones do, so it gives you another crop of fresh berries.
Speaker 4:Great. Mhmm.
Speaker 2:And if you want to have a fruiting plant and and that's your choice, you could also put underneath it. You could plant lingonberries, which are, locally known as lowbush cranberry. It's a beautiful evergreen ground cover with bright red fruits that taste real tart.
Speaker 3:They have and Fruit full of flowers on them constantly.
Speaker 2:Fruit and flowers at the same time. Yeah. They make two crops of berries every year, and they also turn red in the autumn. So as a little, you know, a piece.
Speaker 3:The ground cover.
Speaker 2:The arrangement. That's a nice set.
Speaker 3:Very much.
Speaker 2:So a fruiting blueberry with lingonberries underneath it and maybe a dwarf conifer next to it too. Gotta say, I absolutely love them. So we'll be open today. We're on the back loop road. We can't have a big sign on the road.
Speaker 2:It's been prohibited, but we can have a mailbox that's painted to look like a rhododendron flower, and that'll be your clue. So you go drive we're between Goat Hill Road and Spring Way, and, it's up the hill and park park along the driveway up the hill. There's room for about 10 cars at a time, and, everybody's really friendly and comfortable about moving cars in order to make space for somebody else. It's been a lesson in crowd dynamics that I've really enjoyed.
Speaker 3:Well, good.
Speaker 2:And I got to say though, the more plants come in, the less parking space there is.
Speaker 3:Right. Well, you have to move those big hogs of those trucks that you have, get them out of there on
Speaker 2:That's the part of the deal. That's right. And the large rhododendrons that are in flower right now look so cool. So very, very cool. You're right.
Speaker 3:Well, in this sunshine, everything just looks great, you know, including everybody who comes to the nurseries because everybody's grinning and they're so happy that the sun finally showed up. It's been a cold, cold spring.
Speaker 2:And the beneficial insects are on their way. They haven't arrived yet. I I'm going to the post office today hoping that they're here, but we'll have nematodes for attacking the larval stage of the rhododendron root weevil, and we'll have lacewing eggs that hatch out into little aphid eating beasts. And the lacewing eggs come on a card that you hang on your plant, and then the eggs hatch out over a period of about three weeks, and the little larvae go crawling around and each one of these little larvae eats like 30 to 50 aphids a day. So they're a very, very effective control.
Speaker 3:And they don't fly around.
Speaker 2:And they don't fly away. You know, they're there. They stay when they finally mature, they immature into a little fly, and it does fly away, but they're gone.
Speaker 3:Mhmm. The aphids are gone.
Speaker 2:Uh-huh. So if you have a greenhouse and you're worried about aphids on your peppers or on your tomato plants, this is really the thing to do. If you have aphids out in your yard, you wanna get a card for each one of the aphid infested plants because you you have to they don't fly. They crawl. So you put them around where the aphids are.
Speaker 2:They hatch out. They crawl around, eat their lunch, and then go away. Kinda like the ideal worker.
Speaker 3:And it's aphid time.
Speaker 2:Boy, isn't it though? Mhmm. And there's nothing like, this kind of long day in warm weather to really bring the aphids out. It doesn't take very long. I think you get a new generation of aphids in seven to ten days, so from infant to mature adult.
Speaker 3:I remember when we used to treat aphids in the landscape with ladybugs. But remember how we'd have to encase the plants in
Speaker 2:a Uh-huh. And wrap the plants up?
Speaker 3:Because the ladybugs would fly away. I mean, that was the old style.
Speaker 2:That's right. And that's before really you know, we had access to all these these
Speaker 3:Other insects.
Speaker 2:Right. What's also on sale are lilacs, and we have a wide variety of lilac varieties
Speaker 3:this year. And they're nice and big.
Speaker 2:We have ones that are five feet tall that are that are, just tremendous with buds, and those are the Ludwig spathe, the really deep purple one. Then we have another deep purple one called Congo. It's got more red in it.
Speaker 3:We also have pink ones.
Speaker 2:Pink ones and white ones. Yep. And also a fair selection of the Miss Kim dwarf Korean lilac, which is a kind of a lavender color, and it flowers after the main ones flower.
Speaker 3:Miscum is a real tough plant. It takes a lot.
Speaker 2:It does. It's it's a Korean origin, but all the breeding work was done in Canada up in the prairie provinces. There were a particular guy who took it upon himself to introduce a a kind of lilac Yep. That would would withstand their climates because, a, he wanted them, and it was his job.
Speaker 3:And it's pretty harsh weather there.
Speaker 2:So the lilac hedge that's around the parking lot at the Gold Belt Building and that gas station that's next to it, that's miss Kim lilac, and it flowers here about the fourth of July every year. So that whole intersection just smells like lilac right around the fourth of July celebration time. It's it's such a lucky choice. I don't know who planted that originally.
Speaker 3:It can take all the snow. You know, that's what I'm trying to sustain the severity of our winters without breaking up, those dwarf shrubs really take it.
Speaker 2:And among the dwarf shrubs that we're featuring now is a new bush honeysuckle. And this bush honeysuckle has really colorful foliage. It has red and gold and orange on it all at the same time, and it's a really tough little performer. The flowers on it are pretty, but it's really the foliage that makes it pretty spectacular.
Speaker 3:I'm looking forward to seeing the flowers.
Speaker 2:It's in bloom right now. We have a opportunity for another phone call. 586-1800. You want to get on before the end of our show today, and we're going to go away pretty soon, so give us a call. We're gonna be traveling around Southeast Alaska a bit a little bit this summer.
Speaker 2:Maybe we'll see you in your town. But whether we do or not, we ship, and we ship stuff all over Southeast Alaska.
Speaker 3:Big shipment to Sitka this week.
Speaker 5:Text question.
Speaker 2:Yes. About a
Speaker 5:house plant, and it has to do with, thought it was a fruit fly, but I don't have any fruit. And somebody said I may have gnats from getting some starts. And somebody said to put hydrogen peroxide in the water. True or false?
Speaker 2:I don't know about that.
Speaker 5:K.
Speaker 2:I do know that the gnats gnats are a real pest, and these nematodes are something that actually does control fungus gnats. So the nematodes come they're they're infinitesimally small, microscopic little creatures, and they come in a kind of a frass, a it's almost like sawdust, but not quite. And you put a little bit of that in the in a container of water and shake it up and pour it around on there, and the nematode crawls down into the soil and hunts for the larvae of the fungus fly and, eats them up. It's a real good solution for it and and no chemical interaction there and no smell. I had worm farms in my office at the university when I was operating, trying to figure out how to manage it.
Speaker 2:And, I got a fungus fly infestation, and it filled the building with fungus flies. And all the ladies upstairs were really infuriated. And that's when I figured out that I could do it with the nematodes. We could control that. I had to take the worm farms out of my office anyway.
Speaker 3:Yeah. Remember you trying to talk me into putting a worm farm in the middle of our dining room table. I'm like, you're out of your mind, man. Absolutely not.
Speaker 2:Yeah. Well, sometimes I get kind of carried away with an
Speaker 3:odd I
Speaker 2:read an article about a guy who had it so he could just put his food scraps off the table into his worm farm there underneath the table.
Speaker 3:No way. Yeah. No way.
Speaker 2:It didn't fly very well,
Speaker 3:did it? No. It didn't.
Speaker 2:So come come out to Landscape Alaska. And if you wanna be on our newsletter, be sure and do give us a call here, 586-1800. Give us a text. We wanna have some information. We wanna have some interaction.
Speaker 3:And we'll know this afternoon whether or not the nematodes have come in.
Speaker 5:Here's the first call.
Speaker 2:We have a call. Hello? Hello? No. Well, maybe.
Speaker 2:New phone system. If that was you hello?
Speaker 5:You there?
Speaker 4:Are you there? Hello?
Speaker 2:Yes. Hello.
Speaker 4:Yes. Hi. Hi. My name's Beth, and I have some highbush cranberry, and only a bit has leafed out. Yes.
Speaker 4:It's still alive.
Speaker 2:This is really a common complaint this year, not just with things like highbush cranberry, with all kinds of things. And, you know, we're looking at them and thinking, I can see there's some leaves. It's still alive. But if there's only, like, four leaves on a five foot shrub, it might not be worthwhile. But as Martin's gonna say, give it some fertilizer, give it some water, give it a little, a little encouragement.
Speaker 2:Maybe you'll get more of it. If you see any indication that it is kind of coming to life, you can prune them back. And highbush cranberry is a viburnum, so it's able to be pruned pretty well. And how big are they now?
Speaker 4:Like seven or nine feet tall.
Speaker 2:Oh, that's really too bad if they don't look good. Send me a picture. Send me a couple of pictures. Send it to Landscape Alaska Gmail and I'll be able to look at it and then I'll get back to you and give you some suggestions. Okay?
Speaker 4:Okay. Thank you.
Speaker 2:I love the Thank highbush you, Beth. That's very nice of you
Speaker 4:to Hi. Yeah. Bye bye. Bye.
Speaker 3:So part of the thing that happened this year is the stems had the juice to produce the leaves, but the roots are dead. And that's kind of that indication where there's only a few leaves coming out in the whole bush isn't leafing out is because the damage has been done to the roots. Although a high bush cranberry is a pretty tough thing. So giving it a little TLC might might work. You never know.
Speaker 3:It's worth the effort.
Speaker 2:And TLC includes fertilizer.
Speaker 3:Yeah. Can be a liquid fertilizer. And actually I'd recommend a liquid fertilizer.
Speaker 2:Probably so. Start with. It's immediately available. Right. And remember when you do fertilizing, you fertilize into moist soil.
Speaker 2:You don't fertilize into dry soil. So if you're gonna plant if you're gonna put something there do we have another call?
Speaker 5:One minute.
Speaker 2:Okay. One minute. Okay. If you're gonna fertilize something, water it well beforehand, put the fertilizer down, then wash it into the soil. And, we've only one minute left.
Speaker 2:Well, I'm gonna issue an invitation to you all to come and visit us today. We'll be open until 04:00. We're on the back loop road, and you'll see our mailbox. It looks like rhododendron flowers. And until next week, this is Marge and Dave from Landscape Alaska, and we're wishing you all happy gardening.
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