00:00:24,370	Welcome to Dakota Growing. I'm Kelsey Deckert, your Horticulture agent here in Burleigh County. Joined with my co-host Tom Kolb, NDSU Extension Horticulturist. How's it going today? Everything's great. Everything's great. Perfect weather outside 70. Nice and cool. Cool. Not overly hot like that. Few mosquitoes are coming in the town.

00:00:50,330	I didn't invite them, but they're showing up, so that's a problem. But all in all, everything's good. And got some. Rain in the forecast. That kind of on the margin of drought though, I saw the official. Man. See that too. Just on. And it's worse in the West in general, but we're just on the edge. But I think we're okay. It's not that bad.

00:01:12,030	No, not that bad. Rounding out the end of June already? Pretty much. Yeah. Wow. Pretty soon one of the days start getting shorter. Pretty after yesterday. Yesterday was the longest day. Yesterday was. Yes. Oh, no. That means winter is coming. That's really a pessimistic outlook. Yeah, a lot of summer left. Hopefully a long time.

00:01:35,800	I thought I was hoping we got a couple more weeks at longer days. Oh, no. No. Oh goodness sakes. So it is. What are we going to talk about today? Well, since days are getting shorter to talk about planting a garden. Oh. Just this is for people who procrastinate a lot.

00:02:00,970	Is this yours? Yes. Yeah, because I'm busy. I got 300 gardens across the state. Okay. Give me a break. What do you want? So I come last, and that's all right. But today I'm going to tell for other procrastinators. And now it's a good time to pick up bargains. Well that's true. Like, you know, sales. Like, when's it.

00:02:22,300	When's the best time to buy a winter coat? Spring. Exactly. So now is the best time to buy some plants. Because you should have done it by now. That's right. So I was out. There you go. That's a good advertisement there. That's. You know, you see those thoughts? Portable greenhouses. Yep.

00:02:42,870	It's on this next to Family Fair grocery store. So I was yesterday. So a great sale going on. That's great opportunities. So I'm going to give you a few tips about bargain hunting. And I want to thank my colleague Don Kinsler, who operated a greenhouse or a garden center in Fargo. And so he shared some tips about bargain hunting.

00:03:07,630	So here's just a few tips and then I'll show you some real examples. So now when you go bargain hunting, like when you go to this place here, you should have a plan in place. Okay. That would make sense. So you don't have any impulse buying like you see. Oh wow. I got to have that.

00:03:23,170	Got to have that eggplant and ever had that. So make a plan of what kind of plants you need. And then also second know your garden space. So you know about how many plants. So you don't over by right. Because those plants are small. Oh I probably need a lot of them.

00:03:41,400	Maybe you don't need a lot of them. So I have a pretty good perspective of what kind of plants you're going to buy and how many are you going to buy? Okay. Be prepared. Kelsey. Next, where do you go? Bargain hunting.

00:04:01,870	I would start with the local owned stores, because they're going to provide plants that grow well in our area. And maybe even they grew the plants from seed themselves. Yeah. Okay. And I'll just say something a little bit controversial here that in general, I would think I think our local owned greenhouses, you know, they train their employees to take care of plants.

00:04:23,470	This is this is their job and they know what they're doing. And so again, we're kind of at the end now. And so those plants, all those plants have been in the greenhouse a long time. And those those plants are kind of feeling it. You know they I am hungry I. Say.

00:04:40,500	Yeah. Please bear for me. Save me. It's like those. It's like those misfit toys on a Rudolph Reynolds. Yeah. You know, like, they're just hoping that someone will take them and take care of them. So I think generally our local garden centers to a really good job taking care of the plants.

00:05:00,670	I was just up in a greenhouse in Minot last week. I was just I was so impressed by how beautiful the plants were, even at this late stage of the of the buying season. But like if you go to a big box store, you know, the person who's in the garden center today may be in the.

00:05:21,170	So since the days are getting shorter, maybe they're in the Christmas section next week. You know, that kind of thing. Not always. I'm just it's a general. And also it's always good to buy local.

00:05:39,330	But I think it's because again, a lot of these big box stores, the plants make the probably they didn't grow those plants from seed. They got them. Ship them. Yeah. Next tip by at off peak. So avoid you can avoid the weekend crowds by shopping like Monday through Thursday. Okay. I you know, like sometimes in these greenhouses like it's, it's tight with your shopping cart and it's kind of. Oh yeah.

00:06:02,970	There's hoses everywhere, you know, and so it's kind of like to go like when it's less crowded and you can take your time. You can look at the, you know, the little name tags. Okay. Well okay. I kind of like that I can read it.

00:06:15,800	And then also I always ask the employee, I said, okay, what what day do you get your plants? Yeah. Because I would say oh yeah. Because they want to be ready for the weekends. Oh yeah. We get our plants on Thursdays. So in Thursday afternoons the truck comes. Okay. I'm going to be there late Thursday afternoon.

00:06:30,970	So I get the fresh plants from the regional greenhouse. So keep that in mind. Another tip. You know you can save money on this. We're talking about saving money by using starter plants. You know, like I like to buy like those six packs or four packs because because you get like 6 or 4 plants.

00:06:50,600	But if you buy, like, you can buy a big tomato plant in a pack for 25 bucks and you got an instant plant, you know, maybe you got some fruits on it to. But I can have starter plants for, you know, I can get, let's say, for plans for four bucks.

00:07:09,070	And those plants will grow and all the experience of growing. And so they'll get to be big eventually. So I like using starter plants. The last thing especially this time of year is again, some are plants are a little bit unhealthy in their been in the greenhouse for a couple of months.

00:07:27,370	So you got to got to look with a keen eye about what are the healthiest plants this greenhouse operates are offers I should say. So select plants with sturdy stems and look at the color of the foliage. Like here's some pepper plants you can see on the left hand side.

00:07:47,100	You see that rich green color and close up more yellowish. So that plant on the right side is saying, I really could use a little bit of nitrogen right now, I'm really a little bit hungry. Yeah. And also I also I don't like to see flowers on my vegetable plants or fruits.

00:08:06,900	That's the worst thing because once a vegetable plant sets a fruit, it starts targeting its energy to the fruit and not to development of the plant. And I want my my young plants to still develop in the garden before they set fruit. So we'll get a bigger overall harvest.

00:08:26,000	So like this one on the left has a little tiny bud. That's okay. But if I, if at this point had a pepper on it, I would turn away from it.

00:08:40,700	Or like if I buy it tomato plant and I see it as flowers as soon as I get away from that, as soon as I buy it, I'll pick off the flowers I want to plant. It's not time to bear fruit. For LAX. You got to relax. You got to grow. Okay? I got to feed you. You're hungry? Especially not bargain plant. You're really hungry. I got to feed you. Well, worry about the children, leader. Okay. Here.

00:09:01,970	Here's a marigold plant I bought because I wanted a special variety. And so why did I buy this plant? Because I wanted a special variety of this marigold. And it's not the best looking plant today. But I'm not. That doesn't mean I'm going to dismiss it, right? It can be healed. You are a doctor.

00:09:19,430	I feel. Like that is so true. Plant doctor, you got this. In other words, I spent way too much time in college and not in the real world. Sorry about that, but I am from a farm, so I do have some reality ingrained in me. I'm not strictly ivory tower time here, so. But it's got yellow.

00:09:40,470	That's probably nitrogen. You see the purple? That's probably a phosphorus deficiency, you know. And so this plant can be healed. It's like it's like a it's like a kid with a cold or a flu. You know, I can heal you. Okay. We got better times ahead of us. So I hit a sturdy stem.

00:09:58,770	Just a little discard, but I got little bit shot of fertilizer going to be off and roaring. And then I always look at the roots. Especially when a person in charge of the greenhouse isn't watching me. So then I can. Pick sneaking.

00:10:18,430	I sneak, and I said, okay, I wonder what these roots look like because I want the roots to be white. Yeah. When I mean white means healthy. Yeah. No fungus if it's brown, I mean, you're riding. It's a bad sign. The other thing is that, like, you see how this is a lot of roots. Okay, this is in a small pack. And so it got it's all congested.

00:10:40,100	So I'm going to have to break up those roots a little bit. I like to scratch them a little bit to open them up because they're citing the cycle around that the pack walls. So that's an important thing. Especially this time.

00:10:53,670	You're sometimes you buy like a six pack or something and it won't even come out of the plastic. It's so jam packed with roots. And so you got to just be aware of that. And if it's if it's got brown roots, I would just walk away from that. Do you agree with me? Yeah. Put it back. Put it back and. Not able to resuscitate you.

00:11:16,300	Well there's there's other fish in the sea is what my parents told me when I took decades to find a way. Filing for a town. There's other fish in the sea. So there's other plants in the greenhouse, too. But that's true. I can get a different one and everything.

00:11:33,300	When you handle plants in a greenhouse, please don't be picking up all these markers and then shuffling them around. Otherwise, like. What's using? Well, what about the poor guy behind me? Exactly. So I said, okay, I want to I want to buy a bell pepper plant and you pick it up. Where was that? And put it here.

00:11:50,700	Oh, you put it into a habanero or a hot pepper plant, you know, then you grow it in like a month or two later. What the heck did I get from that green? It said bell pepper. It's a narrow man. So be a good customer and think about the customers who who handle the the product after you.

00:12:09,130	Okay. Here's a couple plants that that I got and you can see the difference like the one on the top is is has green foliage and the one on the bottom it's hungrier. And probably one reason is the one with green foliage. It's got a single pot. It's got more soil that it's mining the nutrients from.

00:12:27,630	So that's a good sign. But I'd like for that green. But you see how tall and leggy it is. So that's okay. That's okay with tomatoes. You know, especially this time of year, you know, like, they grow, they grow up looking for sunlight.

00:12:42,730	And if they got a lot of friends nearby, they're all competing for the same sun. So they just get a little bit leggy. But the plants are sturdy. Here's a close up of that point. You can see the difference like you got one that's green and healthy. That one just it needs some fertilizer. Even.

00:12:56,230	I can see a little bit of shade of purple on that for the phosphorus. There's hope for both of them though. But and they both have sturdy socks. But again I'm a I'm a guy who likes varieties. So this one on the bottom was a special variety I just had to have. And it was worth spending some time healing it.

00:13:12,770	Here's something kind of fun about tomatoes. Yeah, is that they have these little bumps on the bottom of them, and those are those that's not a disease. And you know, or a we call that. No, this is these are adventitious roots.

00:13:31,330	And so that's why when we plant a tomato, a leggy tomato like this, even I'll go all the way back to see how long that is. I can pick off some of those, some of those lower leaves, and I can make a trench like here's my, here's my. I was wondering if we're getting to the. Here's my demonstration.

00:13:47,830	You see how this tall, leggy thing, man, just right here bang fall down. Oh, wow. It's so tall. So even if I planted it, man in the North Dakota wind, it's not going to be happy. But. But I can dig a trench and I can lay it on its side. Pick off the lower leaves, pick, pick, pick.

00:14:06,200	And then I can just have this much on the surface, just like the top 12in. And then on the bottom here, it's got all these bumps that's going to form new roots. So I'm going to have more roots by trenching them.

00:14:23,830	So and the people who do this early in the season, you want to make sure that the trenches shallow because the soil is warm. Warming to me it was like warm you don't want to plant. So the the roots are like two feet. Now that's because there's no good soil there. There's not much water there and it's colder.

00:14:38,200	But this time of year it's warm, the ground's good and warm, so that's our big deal. But I like that just typical bit. It's going to be a little bit crooked when I planted. But don't worry plants. Plants will not keep growing crooked. They're naturally. They will go. They're going to say where's the sun? Yeah. So where is the sun? It's above us.

00:14:54,770	No wonder, no wonder trees grow up. And so same with tomato plants. They will grow up. They will grow up. And you got a beautiful plant here, a dollar. How about that. Less than a dollar. Okay. Trench your tomatoes. You can buy those leggy tomatoes I cannot get a little sturdy.

00:15:14,400	And of course if they're green, that's better. But you can trench them and have new, strong roots. Okay, here's here's here's a close up of those bumps. Yeah. So what's the first thing I give my plans? I got again, a shot of phosphorus, especially tomatoes because phosphorus that's the second number on the fertilizer package.

00:15:38,800	Phosphorus promotes roots roots and fruits. That's what foster roots and fruits. Strong resistance. That's right. And so I get like a starter fertilizer. And here's like a bloom booster. It gets like fruits flowers. But they said root food. Probably nobody would buy it. Probably not. You know. So why do I care about the.

00:16:02,200	What do I care? I want the veggies. I want the flowers or the fruits. So but it's the same thing. It's high phosphorus. And so this is just what this plant needs. And you can give the shot right when you plant it. Or I like to give them a good drink of water just to recover the shock.

00:16:16,230	And then maybe two days later give them a good shot of phosphorus. And then then the roots. I'll just take off. Okay. Very good. Posing my tips about bargain hunting. So think about that. You're going to go help this one out. This one's going to be in the ground. You see the problem is I got a job.

00:16:34,930	I can't just goof off garden all the time. So this is going to take it's not going to not going to happen today but tomorrow buddy. You start feeling better on the road to recovery. Going to be on the road to recovery. Just give the doctor one more day. That's right.

00:16:51,030	I got to see some other patients and then get you. Yeah. What other patients you got out there? What's been going on? Winter injury mostly. And now we got fire bike coming in town. Yeah. So that's the biggest problem now. And also audiences care about this, but it's the fiscal end of the year.

00:17:11,970	So I got to get my money in order you know for my fun my grants and stuff. So I don't like that either. Trust me, I'd rather go shopping for plants instead of dealing with auditors, but that's a whole nother manner. I got one of the things going on Kelce. That's apple maggots.

00:17:29,100	I want people to know about that. Apple maggot flies. It's the most common insect on our apples okay Apple maggot. It starts with a fly. The fly start at the end of June. We're now in mid late June okay. The fly is just like just kind of waking up a little bit like. Little stretch. Yeah okay.

00:17:52,870	I just not quite ready to fly because you know it's coming, it's coming. So we've got to be prepared for this guy. Yeah. This woman especially. She's the prompt because she lays eggs. Men, men are pretty harmless. But she like, she lays eggs.

00:18:11,370	And every place where she punctures the fruit to lay her eggs, you get a little dimple on the apple. And then when the eggs hatch and the fruit sees narrow these thin, like railroad tracks or tunnels. Not a big, not a one big one with a big fat worm. These are maggots. You don't even see them. They're so small and they're translucent. But they make these trails.

00:18:34,630	So you got to you got misshapen fruit and you cut it and you got these trails in there. So what do you do with that? What do you do with that? With the apple that's got the trails in it I probably say here. Horses. Oh yeah. Horses I tell you, light horses.

00:18:52,600	Yeah. They like so you can move junk. Oh because they don't have a choice. Well. They don't buy in good apples. You give them. Here's a rotten apple horse. Not a rotten one, but a few. Well, if you have one. Would. You eat it? I wouldn't eat it, but my horse would. They'd enjoy that. They don't know.

00:19:08,870	You were such a walking contradiction with horses. I can't. Ride these horses. Right after your brand. I mean, you scar their skin for life. There you go. You give them a rotten apple. There you go. Let's go for a ride, Jenny.

00:19:23,470	I don't know about you, Kelsey. Here's the thing about maggots. So should you spray? Should you spray? Because the flies are coming? I don't know if you should spray. You don't know if she should spray. So you should set up a trap to see if the Pfizer around. And there's apple maggot traps that are available.

00:19:40,370	It's like a red sphere. And sometimes you have a yellow background, even like a little plastic sheet through it to really attract them. For some reason, insects got a thing for yellow or especially magnifies, but they also red because they see, oh, here's all those apples. Apple, Big apple. Wow. I bet that's rotten. Just like the kite.

00:20:02,900	The type that Kelsey feeds your horses with, right. Perfect. And so I'm going to go to that apple, not the apples. The rest of little green apples on the tree. And so all you got to do is hang up those traps and then just go out there once a week or any apple flies there. No flies. Okay.

00:20:21,800	No spray. There you go. It's called monitoring. That is monitoring. It's very important. Sometimes I get the people who say, I've had this for years. I know they're there. They don't want to waste of time with the traps.

00:20:39,730	All we can give is recommendations. That's right. That's all we can do. That's right. If they don't want to listen, that's fine. That's right, that's right. But then later. And you know what? Maybe they sprayed. They spent money. Some of these sprays are very toxic. Very much. And you didn't have to.

00:21:00,530	Why would you? Why would you spray like emerald ash borer? You shouldn't be applying anything for that. Don't say, oh, I might be here. No, wait till it's here. Same with the apple maggots. Just get five traps, okay? It's how you do it. You've put five traps in a tree. Make sure at least there's one on the south side.

00:21:18,330	If you've got a brush area, the flies may come from that. So put on the side of your brush if you see it. If you see the flies, you spray with an insecticide. Carb rail's gold seven and that's the traditional synthetic product. But pyrethroids and spinal said are organic and they're safer to use. They give less.

00:21:42,230	The protection is not as active for as long as a time. Like pyrethroids are really only good for a day or two. But those are your options to spray. And then you should spray, especially when things really get hot in late July. That's when these that's when we have most, most activity in general.

00:22:02,530	But it can begin right on the 4th of July when the fireworks come. More on fireworks later in this show. And then also maybe why these people have so many problems every year is they they don't pick up and remove their fallen fruit in the fall because those maggots come from, you know, they eat

00:22:18,970	and then they drop to the ground right below the tree. So maybe that's. That's right. Or maybe they came from the neighbor tree. That's another possibility. But good sanitation can reduce this problem. Save your money. Okay. That's what I got about apple maggots. Any questions about apple maggots? I don't got any. No. You know what I said.

00:22:41,700	If you got Rodney apples. But you can you can make applesauce out of that. I know you have told me that. There's a there's a, there's there's regulations like with there's a certain amount of apple allowed in applesauce. And you don't waste your best apples on applesauce. You either give them a horse or you make applesauce.

00:23:02,900	Most of us don't have horses. Maybe deer though. Deer sometimes. So you can put those rotten apples out for the deer, you know. There you go. That's another idea. That's it sounds nice. Yeah. They appreciate that. So you can shoot them later. Is that is that.

00:23:19,770	The plan? I mean, you shouldn't be baiting deer, but yeah, I guess I don't drop apples. I really like I don't like deer. Like you've tried it or you don't like deer hunting. I've never hunted. Okay. Sorry. I lost 10% of our audience right there, but I just can't. You know what? I'm a klutz.

00:23:41,300	I wouldn't trust myself with a gun, and no. One would. If I had a gun. You want to be around me, that's for sure. I can't go crazy. I'd probably kill somebody or myself, whichever I accidentally first. So that's not for me. Deer hunting is not for me. But I don't like deer. All I do is.

00:24:01,770	Hurt plants. They hurt cars, and they hurt plants. Yeah, so I don't like that. So they can go out in the wild. Well, I'm not going to talk about deer anymore. I'm going to shift gears though. Okay. What are you going to talk about.

00:24:16,900	I'm going to talk about 4th of July are a couple weeks away aren't we? 250th. Yeah. How are you celebrating America's birthday? Oh. Watching the fireworks. Oh, yeah. Definitely. Definitely my neighbor's fireworks, not mine. They cost too much. Well, you probably see the capital pretty well. No, it's too far. It's too far away. And they don't start till too late. Oh darn it.

00:24:39,370	I used to do that when I had little kids, but, man, they like they wait till like, 1030. Come on, man. Let's copy. Darko. Let's get the ball rolling here. The days are already getting shorter. Come on, let's get the let's get them going. Because then you get home at midnight with the kids. I don't know.

00:24:54,970	No. The nice thing is like, get your neighbors. I got like, I. Got well, you. Live I live out on the county. Would like for neighbors go nuts on the fireworks. And so that's great. I just sit on the deck and enjoy it. I enjoy them blowing up their money up in the sky. That's great.

00:25:14,400	I love it. Well, I did a little bit of research on fireworks. I hope. So, I did. This is a research based program. It is. So even the very first Independence Day involves some fireworks. So back in 1777, they had put together quite an elaborate data rate.

00:25:37,200	You know, they said that the celebration included a 13 cannon display. Or cannon. A parade. 4th of July. Yeah. Why are they wasting their ammunition? Yeah, a fancy. In the British, now. I know. 1777, the year after our first birthday, is what I'm talking. I know, but we were. We were at war. Yeah. We kept fighting those 1783.

00:26:02,230	Well, I don't know. This is. This is my one. Before we had. So my research says, Tom. Those guys are wasting their cannons. They said, I hope they aim the fireworks at the British. That would have been smarter. That's kill two birds with one stone with one firework there. Yeah. They said they had some musket salutes.

00:26:23,570	Loud hussars. I don't know what that means. And of course, fireworks. So it was actually cited in a description from the Virginia Gazette on July 18th, 1777, says the evening was closed with a ringing of bells, and at night there was a grand exhibition of fireworks, which began and concluded with 13 rockets on the commons.

00:26:50,170	And the city was beautifully illuminated. Everything was conducted with the greatest order. So how about that? So this year? Yeah, this year. Just like bottle rockets. Kind of real ammunition. Well. China is the place, man. Is there. It's good to go. There you go. Tell me what you know.

00:27:11,300	Tell me what. You know. Well, I lived in Taiwan, so. Yeah. They say is early as 200 BC. Yeah. I believe the Chinese were. Were writing on green bamboo stocks and heating it on coals to dry. Sometimes if it was left on that heat too long, that would expanded and burst and then you'd have a bang.

00:27:32,370	So that was like that was like they noted that those noises also scared off, you know, large mountain men. So that's what the purpose was back in the day, I guess. To scare. The enemy. To scare away. The Huns. Yep. The Huns. The Mongols.

00:27:55,200	So even some accounts a claim that the fireworks were also thought to scare away any evil spirits out there. I believe that. Yeah. So really is 200 BC with bamboo? 200 BC? Yep. And just of course, fireworks are just a chemical reaction. So in order to get that color, it just depends on the chemical utilized in it, which is kind of neat in itself.

00:28:18,300	And I think I got some specific colors. So if you have like a like that's going to produce your deep reds, copper is going to give you blue titanium and magnesium will burn silver and white calcium will create orange and sodium will produce yellow. And then finally barium burned green.

00:28:43,000	So but we don't recommend mixing your own fireworks. That's that's not what I'm. Talking about. Just just sharing some fun facts through my research of what I learned about fireworks. And how they make the designs. How do you make a swallow? Yeah, they make okay. That's exactly it. So you're just you're just jumping ahead of time.

00:29:01,830	Okay, so the development of the fireworks shape, it's just simple bursts in like complex patterns. So the way they get heart smiley face is actually quite an artistic design. And so what they say is they have to arrange the pyrotechnic stars within it that's in an aerial shell to form the patterns.

00:29:27,230	And then when it explodes, it goes outward and gets those shapes. I don't think I'd want to be that person experimenting with different shapes, but maybe people find a lot of joy into that. So yeah. You know, I think mostly you get the traditional of just the whatever you want to call that the burst. I don't see it.

00:29:46,300	I don't see a lot of shapes. Well not here. Yeah, but like when you, when I was in Taiwan, they go serious on this stuff and they would have like they I remember some bow ties. Wow. Arts. Palm trees. That'd be neat in the sky. They're so serious about.

00:30:09,630	There's some villages where you're not allowed to watch the fireworks unless you wear a motorcycle helmet. Oh. Because they're gonna. They just shoot right everywhere. Be right in your face. Sounds kind of like Mandarin. That's me dead. When you shoot in the city limits. Oh, no. This is like. This is like, right on right in your street. I know going.

00:30:35,300	Down over the fourth, I think they've sent maybe done some banning of that, but you could just they chewed them right in the bowling alley. Everything over so. Well anyways. That's, that's the Western spirit. That is got to celebrate America. Got it.

00:30:57,830	You're not going to plan on taking a drive out west with the president arriving and taking a look at the library. Oh, I was I was thinking about visiting with him for a while and give him some advice about his administration, but I feel like I'm too busy planting sick tomatoes right now. Healing to take care of Donald. Right? I think Donald finds some other things to do.

00:31:19,570	I bet he's got all plans. All the plans. You're to. It's going to be a beautiful Teddy Roosevelt Center, though. I hear it's natural. And yeah, I've only I haven't seen it up close. I've just I.

00:31:39,930	Really from where I'm like, we can ride to I will say like we're going out there this coming weekend, but not over the fourth. And with his arrival, our musical did get canceled, so I got to reschedule. Have you ever seen that before? The musical? Yeah. This was my daughter's birthday. Wish that she really wanted to go with the musical again. She's been there, like, one time, so. It's one more than I have. You've never been.

00:32:01,670	You should. Be expensive. Well, it's like 50 bucks a ticket or something. Yeah, it's probably a little higher with the new. I can't. I'll live once. Tom, you could. Maybe remind me. Yeah, that means I did a test. They said I'm going to live. Tom 83. So that means I got a while still to go to Medora.

00:32:25,530	You should check. It out. I will before I die. I don't I don't know what it's like now with the new production that came in and took over, but. Oh, really? Yeah. We'll see.

00:32:41,870	We need to focus back to plants, don't we? So I wanted to talk about how could we light up our landscape with some plants that resemble. What is their first guess? Plants are. Remember that resemble a firework. Well, I would say two to come to mind would be a allium flower. There you go. Just right off. The bat. How about that? Yeah. So that's going to include your onions, your garlic, your leeks, your shallots.

00:33:06,670	Most of the time if you're going to get this you're going to get the ornamental. Purple ones. Yeah. Purple flowers. You ever plant these? No. Yeah. Me neither. But I but the deer don't like it. That's good. Yeah. Oh I will before I die, just like Medora. We're just. Talking mental elegance. That's right. Yeah, I like these.

00:33:31,170	I mean, again. They're background flower. Yeah. Yep, yep. They're very they they they attract pollinators as well. Yeah. So I think they look good. They look like a sparkler. You know, up in the sky you can get that purple is pretty the most common. But you can also get like a pink or white.

00:33:51,530	I also include dahlias I think these are nice. Again you get that like shape of a firework. So excellent cut flower annual. These come in so many colors, but it is best to buy these as transplants and just put them in right away. Pretty low maintenance.

00:34:13,330	You may you will want to deadhead them to encourage more blooms of course. But like dahlias. Actually that's my father's favorite flower. Figaro Dahlia. And you can buy them in bedding plants. And what's a Figaro of color? Figaro. That's mixed colors. Oh. Mixed colors. Okay. That's that's what you buy for banning plants. Figaro mixed cars.

00:34:36,500	So I always try to plant that in my garden and and delegating by bulbs so you know, they can enjoy them. Did you see any on this counts. Bargain hunting. I was strictly going after the annuals. Oh okay. So no, it's all right. Didn't pay. Attention, I didn't listen I, I don't have time to flog around.

00:35:02,670	I got a. I thought maybe just because. You were to get my garden in. That's right, that's right. My next one is a dianthus also known as Sweet Williams. Again these are like perfect little firework looking plants. Brilliant. Part of the coronation family. You can buy these as an annual biennial perennial. I like the perennial again.

00:35:23,430	Let them keep coming back. And if you do you can divide those every few years. They bloom for several weeks. I think, again, I think this is just a great, great perennial. How about cone flowers? Do you see the firework there? Rosette bling. Yes. When I use my imagination, I can see that. That's what we're about today.

00:35:47,070	We're trying to bring in celebration. Celebrate the nature. Celebrate your flowers. There you go. All right, so these are great pollinator plant. Obviously purple cone flower is going to be your most common. But you can even find yellow white. And I think these orange are just I don't know they're they're very intriguing to me.

00:36:07,530	I like them a lot. I get a bunch of the purple though out in the pasture, so I don't I don't do any extra cone flowers in my flower beds. How about fountain grass? You like sparklers? You ever run around with sparkles as a kid? No. Too dangerous. To dangerous. Okay, I. Did sandwich shooting. Guns. Too dangerous.

00:36:34,100	Yeah. I guess if I wore glasses. No, I think they're pretty. Yeah, I think found grass is great. Especially a great option as an ornamental grass. Most of them are only marginally hardy for zone four. So you got to pay attention on that one. Yeah. Which is Canadian viewers. Say no. All those in Manitoba just say no.

00:37:00,070	Just say no. These do grow very quickly, which is nice. Talked about before. This is. Your favorites. Yeah. Resembles a sparkler, especially in that plume type I think those I just think these are great in containers as well. Like, they just, they're vibrant. I like to add those into mine.

00:37:22,430	Yep. Get a little bit of texture in there too. Very very low maintenance. So you know that checks it off my list for me as well. How about another perennial while bergamot it it's a good one. Think good colors purple pink lavender and red again. Yeah. If you're using your imagination the the fireworks when they come down.

00:37:45,430	I see it. That one you can see pretty. Good I see that good. This one blooms June to August. Excellent pollinator plant as well since there's so. Many right. Need for the pollinators out there. You want to divide these every 3 to 4 years. But yeah I think this is a good one to fun.

00:38:07,370	I think you can't not include asters all of these if you are seeing the trend. Pretty good pollinators. Great fall color easy to grow perennial prefers the full sun or even partial sun. Can be from six inches tall to eight feet tall. These can get very tall, pink, white, red and blue.

00:38:29,930	Got any of these at your place? No, no chiding Chinese asters. They would look a lot like. Fireworks better. But if I had to get Aster one that I would, I'd get a New England aster. Yeah, those purple petals with the a daisy like appearance. And the bees that love that in the fall.

00:38:52,930	I think it's one of the best. Isn't that one of the best pollinator plants? Because it gets food in the fall for our poor bees before they freeze to death. Your last suppers. Yeah. Well. Well, in the last one that I included out of, I just kind of picked ten the Columbine there. Two.

00:39:14,330	I think that's a good if you imagine the firework. I think that's great. So blooms may to July. Red yellow purple white. Blue two. Yeah that's kind of interesting. Don't get a lot of blue. Purple blue. Yeah. Yeah. Special. Yeah I think I'm flowers. Fascinating to me I've always been fascinated with Columbine. Me too. Yeah. There's shapes.

00:39:38,430	So cool. It's a little tricky to grow, I think. I don't see it too much out there. It's not like a cornflower. No. Well, those just grow anywhere. Just about. You see those in the ditches, the pastures, all of that. So, no, I think I agree with you.

00:39:59,800	I think especially when you pick up that flower and look at it, just the petals. Structure. The structure is very neat. Neat. I thought you were going to see mountain ash. Oh. Because Mountain ash, you know, has like those orange clusters of fruits. I didn't. I didn't think trees. I didn't think trees or shrubs we could have did in. Yeah.

00:40:22,400	But I think the mountain ash is the most firework tree. Well there you go. And you said if you have to imagine it. Right. So that's your plus one, your bonus. Plus one. But Monash got to have a cool moist soil. So they're kind of temperamental. So they're not you know they're not low maintenance.

00:40:43,200	You got to put them ultra on them in like the morning. For. Them on you know and then they'll have a decent life. But as far as fireworks that's that's that's up there for me. The fireworks so far. I'd say is bright orange clusters. You want to attract Cedar Waxwings too? They love that stuff. There you go.

00:41:08,070	Well, that's all I got. I just wanted to end the note on some ways that you could maybe imagine some fireworks in your yard. Yeah. I hope everybody has a great 4th of July. Well, time to celebrate. Celebrate our country. That's right. Greatest country on earth. I've been in a lot of them. Most of them.

00:41:32,530	You can't drink the water. Even so, I forget that. Yeah. Or you go to Asia and the doors are so slow, they keep bumping your head on the top of the doorway. You know, it's just so many problems out there. Let's just say I probably fit right in.

00:41:50,330	Or like, what is this food I'm eating? Oh, it's dog meat. Oh come on. Oh, yeah. Give me a give me a North Dakota hamburger any day or that. Or I'm a Dora steak. Right, fry? Is that right on a pitchfork? Yep. Pitchfork fell out there. Yeah. America's the best country. Freedom. So fortunate to live here. Yeah. So celebrated.

00:42:13,270	I would agree I would agree 250 a big, big year. So enjoy the activities that are out there. And the other pieces of advice when it comes in the plant world. Get your garden in. Don't wait any longer. Everything's on sale. One person says wait till the 4th of July.

00:42:31,570	As far as sales, they'll probably just open the greenhouse. Come on in. Come on in. We're we're getting the dump truck out in the back tomorrow, so. But no, most greenhouses won't give. It won't give that stuff away like that. But still, we still got about 90 days of growing season.

00:42:50,670	If it's a normal year like mid September is our frost got half of June, we got about 90 days. So we can do a lot of stuff. You know you can beans, beans and carrots, dill and zucchini squash get some tomatoes in but can't keep doing it. The days are getting shorter. I just wanted that today. That's so bad news. After yesterday. Yeah that's so but yeah.

00:43:15,930	Get it going. And yeah. And even some of the plants that Kelsey talked about how those are had beautiful color in the late summer and fall. I would agree. There you go. Be safe. Well with that I will say to happy 4th of July.

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