Backyard Farmer; Historical Capsule

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Nebraska, a week of special programs dedicated to the new Nebraska Educational Telecommunications Center. The cooperative extension service of the University of Nebraska College of Agriculture and the Nebraska Educational Television Network proudly present Backyard Farmer in its 20th season. Now with the answers to your law and garden questions, here's your Backyard Farmer. Hello everyone and welcome to our first color visit here on Backyard Farmer. And tonight we're celebrating the Backyard Farmer's 20th year on television and the dedication of the new Nebraska Telecommunications Center. Our colleagues from the Agricultural Extension Service at the University of Nebraska Lincoln will be around for the next uninterrupted 90 minutes to visit with you about backyard farming. This

visit comes to, of course, live as it does every Monday evening throughout the season on Backyard Farmer when we answer your questions called in from Omaha and Lincoln. And later tonight we shall present to your questions, will it present your questions mailed in and answer them from all over the Midwest. Now these questions as you recognize would normally be answered on Backyard Farmer RFD, which is viewed each Tuesday evening from 9 .30 in 10 o 'clock central standard time. For the first time in the history of Backyard Farmer, we have a studio audience here tonight. We're delighted to have them and we will take a few questions from those here in the studios from time to time. I might say to you folks in the audience if you have questions, step up to the microphone there and state your question from time to time and we'll get going and try to answer them all. Certainly we couldn't get along without the representation of the commercial nurseries and garden centers in Omaha and Lincoln who each week man the phones and help answer your questions along with

the extension agents in Douglas and Lancaster counties. Right now let's meet those folks as you see on your screen who will be taking your calls on 4727211 in Lincoln. First of all Glenn Statler, the Statler Garden Center is shown on the phone Harvey Schullenberg of Camels and Nursery. Cornie Spidell, Nebraska Nursery as a caller, Jim Kinghorn of Earl May Garden Center on O Street, Alan Botcher of the Lancaster County Extension Agent on the right. So the number to call in Lincoln again folks is 4727211. In Omaha tonight, to man the phones on 5581404, Clark Jensen, a senior screen, the Douglas County Extension Agent Sue Trusty of Marshall Nurseries, Gary Dropbox of Earl Mays. There's Gary, so we welcome Clark and Sue and Gary up in Omaha tonight. And now in full color for the first time and the fellows who really do their work here on back here at Farmer, Wayne and Whitney and Extension Horticulture. You look colorful tonight, Wayne. I wish I could see it. You wish you could say well look

around the monitor in the back of your head you might be able to see it. Dave Weissong, Extension Plant Pathologist. Hello, George. How are you tonight? Good. John for Extension, the ground was John, you said. The color is great isn't it? Oh, I guess so. Could be. Robert Rosel, Extension Enomolage. The fellow knows all about bugs and things. How are you tonight, Bob? Fine, George. You know, it's marvelous to be here tonight with all these fine folks in the audience. And we wish all of our audience that are watching at home we're here, too. If we get them all in. We might be a little nervous, George, like you say. This is the first time we've had live audience. What about the flowers you want to mention? Aren't those beautiful, George? Those are the courtesy of Mr. J. Flourist here in Lincoln over in Havlock. Okay. And we were watching these on the monitor just a few minutes ago. And those colors are beautiful on the screen, at least here in the studio. I think even prettier than they are on the table. Okay, Bob. All our viewers know of course. We offer a free bulletin on this

program each week. And we have a dandy tonight, you ought to have in your library. This is vegetable gardening in Nebraska. It's seen on the screen written by Ari Nell. It tells about growing vegetables and how deep to plant them and how to space them. Seeds per 100 foot. Planting depth and what have you. Everything from onions to ochre to sweet corn, tomatoes, turnips, watermelons. You name it. We've got it in this particular publication. If you'd like to have a copy of this final publication by Robert Carter letter to the back yard farmer box 8124. That's box 8124 Lincoln Nebraska zip code 6851. We've got to send it along to you. Now, before getting to questions and I hope the fellows over the phones are busy, let's turn to our special guest, Secretary of Agriculture Earl Butts, speaking from Washington, Secretary Butts. There are a number of good reasons why American agriculture is the most productive and most

efficient in the world. And why rural America is an increasingly attractive place to live. One of these reasons, of course, is the flow of useful information that is available to our farmers and our rural people. The state of Nebraska, with its great university, it's outstanding extension service, and its active progressive people has excelled in many ways. For example, its communication system for rural people. Through the years, this network has brought many innovations for keeping farmers and ranchers in touch with news and developments. It has also kept the people at the state capitol and the university in touch with rural affairs. One not sending example is that famous TV program, The Backyard Farmer, which has been on the air for over 20 years. I've heard that it's the most popular program on the educational television network in Nebraska, as it answers questions phoned in about farming, about gardens, trees, and other subjects for an hour on evening prime time each Monday. A significant recent development is the statewide system of educational television stations, public television stations, as they are now

called. These have played a key role in helping farming rural people of Nebraska keep as well informed as their cousins in town. They have helped preserve our family farms, have strengthened Nebraska's rural economy, and have enabled the young people on farms and in small towns to enjoy the fruits of our great American free enterprise system. This excellent new facility, which is being dedicated and which houses the state ETV commission and the university television station, is a new milestone in the rural communications leadership, which has become so standard in Nebraska. This new facility testifies to the initiative, the industry, and resourcefulness of the people of the Cornhusker state. I'm honored to add my congratulations and best wishes to the people of Nebraska on this happy occasion. Thank you very much, Secretary of Agriculture, all buts. We appreciate your greetings very much. Now let's take a look at a letter. Look at a letter that we had the other day from Dr. Clifford damn Harden, former University of Nebraska Chancellor, and

former Secretary of Agriculture. Dr. Harden writes as follows. Backyard firm must be by now one of the oldest programs on television. Normally, there is no special distinction growing old, but in television, you also have to be good to survive. Congratulations to you, George, Wayne Whitney, Bob Rosell, John Furr, Dave Weissong, and all the others who have made backyard farm or a great Cornhusker institution. You have provided Nebraska people with sound up to date gardening information and an atmosphere of good fun. And as you go to full color, it may be well to remind Wayne Whitney that he'll have to bring in a ripe tomatoes now. He won't be able to fool people any longer with those green ones. Here's hoping that backyard farmer in color will have an even longer run than it did in black and white. That letter comes of course from Clifford damn Harden, former Secretary of Agriculture, and former Chancellor here at the University of Nebraska. You, Dr. Harden, and Earl Butts have given us reason to try to make backyard farmer even more useful in the years ahead. Let's get down to

business now. We've got all the preliminaries out of the way, Bob, and try a few questions here, and then we'll have John Wayne come along. Here's a question called in Redbud planted this spring. Lee has looked, willed it, and have brown blotch spots on him. Dave's that yours or not? Or Wayne's? Well, it could be a disease, George. We'd about have to take a look at the Redbud to make sure whether it was a disease or whether it might be chemical injury. I know Redbud are awful susceptible to some chemical injury. Pretty hard to tell from a description. We had a bot need to sample them to know for sure. Another caller. Oh, I'm sorry, man. Go ahead. What about the leaf hopper, Bob, to get on Redbud? I was just thinking these little tree hoppers, breed at little follows with orange stripes across them, will cause spotting on Redbud leaves. And George, if this is just newly planting, you could have some shocker too, couldn't you? It could be that too. Right, planted this spring. So George, it was down to the fact that we don't know without seeing a sample and we would hope we wouldn't know if we saw it. Okay. How about another call? Persian lilacs have watched with brown area of margins also

brown, Wayne. Persian lilacs. Well, there's a lot of things to have about this year. Young trees and things of this nature because we've had a very succulent year as far as growth's concerned. And we've had a terrific amount of wind. And then we come off of this heat. And it just naturally scorched them. Between the landwhip and the scorch. Nothing to do about it with this time. No, just keep on giving them tenderloven care. That's the old trademark here. How about leaf hoppers on the grass, Bob? Are they serious and what should the person do and call them? Normally, we don't think they're real serious, like some other insects that might attack the grass would be. They are sap sucking insects, George. This is true. And if they're extremely numerous over a period of time, they could decrease the vigor of the grass, I presume, and make it more susceptible to other insects or even to the diseases, Dave. So if they're very, very numerous, probably would be a good idea to spray them out, George, and they're very susceptible

to malathion, which is a safe product, does not last longer than a day, if that long. For this type of spraying, use a tablespoon to one gallon of water or equivalent, and spray them any time during the day. One spray enough? One would be enough at one time. They could recur, of course, naturally. Okay, Bob's sticking right with you. Big black ants in the house. They tried chlorodane and peril, P -E -R -O -O. Use what to control. What? Peril. P -E -D -R -O. I don't know what is it. I don't eat it, George. Well, how about chlorodane? Big black ants in the house. Big black ants would be carpenter ants normally, and usually they nest in decaying or softwood, which could possibly be in a window frame in the basement, more likely a tree out of doors that has a soft portion or a rotted portion in it. If they would use a chlorodane in the nesting area, they would kill them. And those that are in the house, usually there's only an occasional one. I think a fly squad is the best answer in that case. You see it's going to? Yeah.

Spray outside the foundation in any tree that has rotting portions with the chlorodane, and you keep that there. Okay, Wayne, a question, someone called in, and they wanted you to diagram the difference for identification between an ant and a termite, and Bob, I guess, can maybe help you out. He knows the difference. Okay. Is that the ant or the termite? That's the termite. It's supposed to be. It's either that or an ant or a pot. An ant has a waist. Head here, and that's. Feet are in his head. Is that pretty good? Yes. How about, what do you use the tree termites if you have them, Bob? Often it's difficult for the homeowner to treat them himself because it involves finding the location of the colony if at all possible, and creating a chemical barrier between the home and the colony, which quite often is a job

of a professional termite control operator. But any of our friends who would like to try themselves George, we didn't have a good circular on termites and how to control them. Got it from the county agent. From the county agent's office, or if the county agent does not have it, he could order it from us directly from the department of entomology, George. Or backyard farm. Well, I'll be your popular fellow tonight. The bugs are biting everywhere. Bill bugs. What should I do and win? If this individual had billbug problems last year, now is the time to start control. Because it appears that it is best to prevent, rather than to try to control, billbugs later on. The material probably, that of choice, would be either seven or dyes or not. Now, this is directed at the adult to prevent eggplants. You got that right around the way? No. Seven or dyes or not. I don't know how to spell it. I don't know. But the point is, do it now, George, as a preventative, rather than waiting until August and trying to cure it. Because often, it is not curable at that time. Dyes or not or seven. Or seven.

Dave, I don't know this your question or not. It says circles in the lawn about four to six inches in diameter. White moldy powder. What to do to control it? White moldy powder on the leaf surfaces? You suppose, George. Well, this may be pottery mildew. This is one of the fungi and turf grafts that produces kind of a flowery -like material on the surface of the leaves. George, there are several chemicals that can be used in the early spring or late fall. Sulphur can be used. But now, I think I would probably prefer something like faltan. And there is a possibility of getting some control of some other turf grafts to use. Dave, this is really damaged to the grass at all. It will, on a new seedling, large, unestablished grass that has to be pretty heavy to cause some real damage. What was that circle bit he had in there? Well, I have to find the question. Bob has mixed it up for me here. He has to know that it all had a George. Circles, it said

circles in the lawn about four to six inches in diameter. White moldy powder. Sulphur. Faltan. Or, yeah, faltan would be a preferred material now. Okay, here's the next one. Here's the next question. I have a scab or a scale on broad leaf dogwood. What can she do for that? George, it makes a lot of difference whether it's scab or scale. What she does on this one. Is that the only description that you have? How do you identify? Well, the scale would be on the twigs. Most likely Dave, the scab would be on the leaves. But our dogwood is susceptible to scab. Yeah, they can get scabs on the leaves. They can also get an anthrax, no sun or stems. The stem. Well, if it is scale, these look like little miniature oyster shells. On the, right now, would be on the growth last year and previous year, not on the new growth this year. If that is the case, you should be screening that early tomorrow morning with Malathion or Diasana. Tomorrow morning. Tomorrow morning, as soon as she can, because the hatch is underway now. It has been for over a week. Okay, Wayne, your

hand is as good in color as he used to be in black and white. I can't see. I see the monitor very well. I have about three other questions and we'll ask John Lyon, Superintendent of the Scotts Bluff Station, Western Nebraska, come in for a few minutes. There's a question, Wayne, that I don't understand. And don't tell me that's not unusual. I'm going to say that's normal. Go ahead. Do you cut a cut seed pods on winter? You want them? Is it wintering? Winter, W -I -N -T -E -A -N -O -S. What in the world is that? I don't know. I never mind what, what do you want to know? They want to know if you cut the seed pods, you leave them grow on whatever plant this is. I don't know what it is. Any of the flowering plants, whether it be bulbs, rhizomes, herbaceous perennials, you remove them so they don't produce seed. So they can store up food for next year's growth. The answer is yes. I don't know what exactly that is.

That's winter creeper, which is a euonomous. And in that case, it doesn't make any difference. Any, I'll cut the pods. Well, I don't know what it is they're talking about. If it says, you know you want them, do you, George? Well, I do. It has seed buds. Winter, is there a winter? Well, there's one they call winter creepers. You want them as red a cane on this leaf. This one's written. Well, they'll find out. The ones they're called in, they're called back. Maybe one of the following is a truck. But anything like your Irish and your tulips and your daffodils and all those have removed the flowers since they fade so they don't produce seed. Okay. How about two other questions? Then we'll have John Wine come along, and then Emory Nelson will be on them. I'm Cyril Beish. How about a red oak plant at this spring? A leaves are blotched with brown and some areas. What's that? Red oak this spring? Probably it's just a lack of becoming a established jet. It's a result of wind,

scorch, physiogenic reaction to adverse conditions. George just hasn't become established yet. What did they do? A transplant shot. Nothing just bringing a line with it. No station. Tender loving care, like Wayne says. Okay. You can't do much about it. These are so tender and get a lot of wind and heat and things they're bound to get damaged. Well, I think of Wayne, President Woody Varner said to tell you the popcorn that you sent out to his place, the best popcorn you'd ever had. Well, you know how it is. Did you grow it? Sure. What brought him? He wanted to know and he may be a listener viewing tonight. It's a white hybrid. White hybrid. Well, that ought to take care of you, Woody, and a white hybrid. One other question, by the way. That's not a corn, they care him. He's not good enough. He eats a lot of that. He loves that stuff. Folks here in the audience in the studio, if you care to ask questions, you step up that microphone anytime. Let's go to this other one and John will be in. Moas in the yard, Bob. Are they sod, web rooms, and if so, what should I do? So it's a color. This time of year, there are several small moas that may be in

long. Sod web rooms are certainly there. They've been coming out for about three weeks. There are several kinds of cutworms that are active. Flying in the lawns, night sign. We've also got some. I thought that was sigh. Came in there, John. Hi. Yeah. And John, we do have some armyworm adults flying. If these are small, about three quarters of an inch long or less, and cylindrical with the wing sort of wrap around their body, they could be the adults of sod web rooms. In which case, it's a little early, I think, to apply control measures unless there is certainly evidence of damage in the lawn. We usually do not get too much serious damage to lawns until after the eggs of the first brewed of these things have hatched. And feeding is a long, which probably would be another two weeks, I would guess, John, if it stays warm. Welcome back. Hello. Hello, John. You know, this kind of disillusioned me. They always told me administration had the answer, and here he comes back, he's asking them. Oh, sure. Well, it's great to be here. I just came back to give you my best wishes and then new medium that you are in.

The color. Same medium, different color. Different facility, too, isn't it, John? Yes, it's a wonderful facility. And it's certainly quite a change from the many years that had character and characters. Even God country don't have one of these. You know, you should come out and wait, and we have many, many plants out there that are very interesting, the... Why would I have a banana scout lately? Well, all right. You have the invitation. All of you, Wayne, Dave, John, Bob. I'd like to have you out, Scott's love sometime. You know, they tell me they couldn't have... Couldn't have much time here. You have to keep on with the questions. Okay. I picked up one at random, and... So, I have trouble with the peach tree. Mm -hmm. What can we do to correct the leaf curl? Dave? Okay, John, you probably can answer this... Make a banter. Yeah, I think John won't answer this. You can both answer this. John, I'm sorry this program was with us 20 years

ago, and I think he should be able to answer that question. I do, too, if he hasn't got the answer in 20 years, Wayne. How do you feel about Sit -Cop? Well, I don't feel about it. What do you mean Sit -Cop? I've seen it way too long. I think this person wants to answer this question, which is peach leaf curl, a fungus organism that lives over... in the buds, and when those buds begin to break, the organism infects the leaves. Now, they should be sprayed in a dormant condition, sometime during the winter or early spring, with the Bordeaux mixture, live sulfur. I see Wayne is putting him down. He's done this many times. These two are old -time chemicals that certainly can do an excellent job. And what is Sit -Cop? Sit -Cop. Oh, that's one of these coppers. Right, it's a new liquid copper, John, that the city service is bringing along, and it looks... Yes, I... You've got Sit -Cop on there. You know, I'm supposed to put a flurry. Yeah, that doesn't come in there. I'm supposed to ask another question. I'll ask you one. I don't have one written here. But you know, just

yesterday, my neighbor, is planning a new lawn. He used a lot of manure to start this, and he said, I got grubs. It's taken the lawn. It says, can't be. The lawn isn't even up. So he come take a look at all the grubs. It was a little white larvae, and they were changing into the adult form, which was a little black, hard... Shell beetle. Have any idea what it is, Bob? How long is that little... I want you about a quarter of a ditch long. And this is the first. And after he had used the manure, I could just come along. Sure was. These are probably some of the scarubs that do breed in manure, and I doubt if it's anything to be concerned about. I don't think it'd be a grass feeder. No. No, we didn't have a chance to get out. No, I still have a hammer in here. Every time Gary's got a whole fistful of that. Come on in, Emory. Come on. John, it's only been a pleasure to be with you. And again, I invite you and all of you in the audience to Western Nebraska. We have certainly enjoyed being out there. The short time we've been, it's been a fascinating experience, both from the position and also seeing the new kind of floor and fauna that is in Western

Nebraska. This is my old Johnny. Been real nice to have you back, John. And the first question we have is from the audience. And Wayne, would you like to identify this shrub for Mrs. Ralph Gray? And by the way, the people in the audience, if you would like to ask questions, step right up to the microphone. I'll recognize you. And we want to put your question right on there. Would somebody please step right up? Just buckthorn. How about saying a little bit about size? Well, they get up there pretty good size. I've seen those things up around 15 -20 feet. They use them some for hedging. They do have a purple berry on them. At the axle of the leaves. And the botanical name is Remnus Cathartica, and it means that. And once those berries and a bird can do to white cars out of this world. Wayne, thank you very much. The

same lady. 20 more? That's enough. Mrs. Ralph Gray brought in another plant here. Would you like to swing this around? What would you say about that, Bob? Well, it has aphids on the underside. I'm sure it could be part of the problem of the discoloration and the distortion of the leaves. If she'd look close, see those small green ones. There may be other problems there too, but I think this is the primary problem on this. Thank you. We have a question from the audience now. Would you go ahead and ask her question, please? I have a cherry tree that was supposed to be a dwarf, but naturally it's not a dwarf. It's about 20 feet tall. But what I'm wondering is it's not sending up shoots, but from the cherries that drop on the ground occasionally. These little trees continue to want to grow. Is it any, is it worth a while to try to get these to grow or should you forget about and keep chopping them off? Are you sure they're coming from cherry to drop on the ground? You bet you. I dug one up the other day and it's got a nice little seed down under it. What kind of cherry was it? It was supposed to be a dwarf, but it's about 20, 25 feet

tall. Well, it's very seldom you get seedling cherries because the embryo is not mature at the time the fruit is. Is the reason I ask you on the regular sour cherry. Is that what it is? Yeah. Regular sour cherry. And about this dwarf business, you know when they're butted onto a dwarfing fruit, there's usually not a some sort. And you get this on dwarfs, you plant that right at, or just above ground level. If dirt wars in or they get here, then they go on their own roots and they do sucker up. That's where you know I was asking you if they did come from seed. If you got the seed, you wouldn't know what you were getting as far as fruit's concerned. It wouldn't come true. Is it possible in it the original tree was just planted too deep? If it's a dwarf, it's possible it's planted too deep and went on its own and then it formed roots on its own, which it ceased to be a dwarf. So in other words, when you buy a dwarf tree, sometimes it could be your own fault. It doesn't end up being a

dwarf. That's right. Thank you. Thank you very much. I'll go ahead here with a couple questions. We never did get this from Sunny. Yeah, I thought you did. No, we told them that we're aphids there, but we didn't tell them what to do about it. Oh, okay, I'm sorry. All right. Let's spray the amount of thion. All right. Very good. Go ahead. Next question. In the meantime, maybe one of the audience will come up to one of the other microphones. We have large black worms above that are eating the hosta. What is it? And how can you kill them? Probably variegated cutworms. If they want to look at this real close, and if this large black worm has a series of small dots down the center of the back, they have a variegated cutworm, which is very fond of hosta petunia and everything else. In this particular case, if it is strictly a flower border or something like this, chloridane dust can be used, dust it on the soil as well as on the plant and work it in a little bit, because they do spend a little bit of time during the daytime in the soil or under debris, quads, and so forth. 5 % right? Very good. Wayne, next

question is for you. And this question is about tulip bulbs. When can you dig them? And then when should you replant them again? As soon as the leaves die down naturally, so they store it all the food they can for next year's growth, they can be lifted and replanted immediately. Or if you wish you can cure them out and save them till October. Personally, I'd just soon get the job over with. We have a question now that might involve both Dave and Bob. This is about a private hedge that is starting to turn a little bit yellowish and the leaves have spots on them, Bob. Would you like to say what you think it might be? I don't know about the spot on the leaf, but it could have borers. They are very subject to it, Emory. And usually an entire branch will start turning yellow as the borers curdle it and kill it. The best thing to do is examine that at soil level, or within six inches from soil level for evidence of sawdust, it may be coming out of the borer tunnel and so forth. And if this is true, the only thing that can be done is put a spray

schedule on that hedge, just on the stems near the soil, with lendane, seven might fit here. lendane would be preferable because it will last a little longer. Use a tablespoon into the gallon of water. If that is the case, and if it isn't, Emory, of course, do not spread with lendane. What might else it be? Well, there are some fungus and bacterial diseases that are of minor consequence. I'm quite sure that Bob probably has got the ticket here. Either that, the spots actually may be caused due to the death of the necrotic areas between the veins. This may give, you know, a rise of... Sometimes we have spots on. Mill do it on too, don't we, Wayne? Oh, yeah, you get me on there. Mill do it on everything. But as you can see, underneath side is the leaf. Okay, next question, Wayne's for you. It's about climatus. When do you trim them? And can you do this after they bloom? Oh, you could, I suppose. But I would rather wait until the next spring, early. Tech them

up about so far if it's all possible, just like you would have rolled something to this nature. And then the spring cuts it down to about six inches. And let them go. Otherwise, you got all your stuff up the top. I guess I'm in a hurry tonight. Yeah, why are you going? Oh, I've got so many questions here. I've been waiting two hours to get on a program. Well, I tell you, you get eager, I know. Let's go. Bob, we got a question now about ladybugs. Can you, are these very important in a sweet corn patch for controlling insects? Usually not of great importance, Emory. They are important in the general's natural, you say, suppression of some insects, including aphids and others. However, under the intensive culture of many of our crops, and in the case of corn, I don't know they're probably thinking about corn leaf aphids I would presume here, that we often will encounter severe insect infestations that

natural factors do not take care of. And in this particular case, I don't think I'd be too much concerned about corn leaf aphids and corn. But if we switch this a little bit and talk about green bugs in Milo, no. Lady beetles cannot be depended upon to control them at this time of year. They are helpful. But as a control factor, yes, they're important in nature, in the ecology, in the total environment in which they live. But when, just kind of like we are, when we're outnumbered, we have to call for help. Thank you very much, Bob. Next question I have, Dave. I think you can answer. It's about apple tree and the leaves are falling off the apple tree. What disease do you think this might be? Could be either of two. One is called apple scab. The other might be cedar apple rust. The apple scab can be identified by black blotch areas on the leaf, more or less circular, with a feathery margin. The cedar apple rust spot on the leaf generally has a yellow border or halo around the spot.

And there's a number of fungicides that can be used for scab. One, that is very, very good for the rust is zineb. And zineb will also work for apple scab. So probably the preferred material, not knowing just which disease this is, and would be zineb at the rate of about two tablespoons, tablespoon and a half to two tablespoons per gallon of water. Thank you, Dave. We're ready for a question from the audience. As soon as somebody gets up to the microphone, so while we have this question answered by Wayne, somebody come up and get ready for another question. We have a question now about surprise lily. When would it be the best time to move a surprise lily, Wayne? Right after the leaves die down. I presume they're just about doing that now. And they could be moved now and then it's still bloom as fall. And the other time just fall after through blooming. Wayne, we have a very distinguished looking person in the audience. Yeah, I understand that. And we're going to have a question from the audience now. I want to know how you

treat onions that have started to seed, whether they should be bent over, or should the seed pads be cut off? Bend the hood, you're reading the seed, you're onions. I think I'm going to read that. You never bend the tops over because as long as they're functional, they'll go over themself on the onions matured. But if you're going for seed crop, why are you certainly not a mature and then harvest? Well, I might call in an advisor. Yeah, I would. Okay. With ribs or something. Right. By the way, that young gentleman was Wayne's son, very handsome. And I like that mustache he has now. I did hardly like that. Next question is about rhubarb. And I think this is going to be a little bit of a tough one. They'd like to know what are making. The rhubarb leaves turn brown and what they might do about it. Okay. Any indication of leaf spots at all in the question? No, they didn't mention it over the phone. Yeah, it could be leaf

spots if there are obvious spots on the leaf. Maybe crownrod. This would be a fungus parasitizing, probably beneath the soil surface or right at the soil line. In this case, it would be just, we just couldn't tell for sure. It would be difficult. They could bring a sample in the Lancaster County Extension Office. I'd suggest that they do this immediately. Next question, Wayne, it's about a special iris bed. And they have 10 or 12 very fine varieties. And this lady was told that she should not cut off the flowers after she'd leave some of these flowers on the mature on the plant. Now, is that true or not? Personally, I would remove the flowers since it faded. Unless I was one that were going to save seed, hybridize or try to get new varieties that way. Because it takes a lot of strength from an iris or any other plant to produce seed. The weakest point in any plant's life is when it's producing seed, as

far as physical strength and reserve food is concerned. So there's just said in any use in letting it spend a strength doing that when it could be storing it up in rhizomes and either increasing rhizomes or storing up food for next year's production. I'd remove it. All right, Wayne, let's stay right with you on another question. This one is about golden vickery. Can these people plant golden vickery this time of year? Is this a good season? Oh, Emory, I'm just about depending on you plant nearly anything at any time. If you just want to go to trouble other things, of course, you probably would fail at most of the time. But it could be done. If you cut the top back severely and moved it, or if some of the nurseries, probably there's always a possibility that some of them that have coal storage may have some plants yet in coal storage that could be planted this time of year, yes. Sounds like a good idea. Next question I have is about asparagus. How long and how can you

continue to cut asparagus? How much must you leave for next year? Well, as soon as the stalks start becoming fine and fewer numbers, I would quit harvesting asparagus for the purpose and let the ferns grow so that they could start food again in the fleshy roots for next year's growth. We're good to say we have a distinguished guest in the audience. It has a question. We've turned to him now. Well, really, it's my question. My father lost questions in Panama. He has an Australian pine and it's about five years old and six foot tall. And he was wondering how would be the best to keep it at his present size and beauty. There's a tufty for you, Wayne. Well, you can keep it at that size, but I think you'll wreck the beauty. He was afraid of that. Yeah, because in order to keep it at that size, you'd have to share it. And the course is to make it very dense, but this is the thing that I don't care about shared trees myself. Thank you, Wayne. I'm afraid you'd ruin the natural shape. Thank you very much.

We will entertain any more questions for your audience. If somebody likes to step up, we'll take them as soon as we have opportunities. Now we have a question about potato leaves. These leaves are curling. They're turning brown. And what might be the cause for this? And what would you suggest they might do about potato leaves turning brown? Dave? Oh, I'm, gee. I know I passed this off by saying we ought to have a sample to tell for sure. If it's been quite wet, heavy do's. I assume that this isn't a garden. Sprinkler irrigated something like that. That's why it could be early blight. This causes a leaves turned brown. Late blight causes a leaves turned out brown. You could believe however it's getting about. You got to ask Dr. Warner out here in the audience about potatoes. He's a potato expert. There's a hopper burn that'll turn them brown too. That'll turn them brown. Couldn't tell unless you just saw it. Well, they might bring one in. We'd be glad to see it at Lancaster County office in the post office. Where's your office? The location is excited. And that post, old post office building on third floor.

There's an elevator in there. Very good one, too. Wayne, somebody recognized your terrific artistic ability and they wanted you to draw a picture of how to make geranium cuttings. Well, you make a geranium cutting the same as you do any other cuttings. They want to see your artistic. Oh, yeah, you bet. Well, you have a geranium leaf and then you have the bud and then you have this center bud on the thing and the cuttings down here. You have a node and you cut right below one of the, no, right where there has been a leaf and there and it's a good idea to let them dry or at least overnight on the table. Before you put them in a rooting media and you'll get less rotting of cuttings that way. Okay. That answer arch, take off your leaf and that just leave one small leaf in the bud. Very good. Next question we have, Bob is about aphids on peas and we do have some aphids on the peas. What should we do about it? On peas and they should be ready

to bear if they aren't already bearing now, Emory. Malathion at two teaspoons to one gallon of water would be perfectly safe to use on peas. However, I think I would pick them and then spray and then wait three days to four days. Now this is just for all purpose safety because Malathion does not last long. It's very short lasting, too long, too short of time. Is that a safe one to use? Would that be all right on the edible part of the peas? Yes. Sure would. All right. Next question is for you Wayne and it's about cutting flowers from the peas. Now should these, uh, spent flowers, uh, willed flowers be cut and removed from peas? They're, they're an abrasious print out like the others remove them so they don't produce seed. And Shirley Wood might add to get some to do. Uh, another question we have is from the audience. Uh, gentleman now has asked questions from the audience. Have some old fashioned roses and they seem to look quite healthy. Uh, but every year about the time the buds come on, it gets a real

heavy mildew on. And I have sprayed with fowl tan and Malathion and it seems like at the proper time, but I still have that mildew and I don't seem to be able to get rid of it. I wonder what to do so I can save these roses. Okay. Is the mildew, um, on the leaves or are they on the buds? It's on the leaves and then it finally gets up on the buds and then they bloom. Some of them bloom pretty good and others are sort of stifled. The bloom is stifled and it doesn't show up very good. And the bloom is blighted also. Yeah. Okay. There is a new product on the market. It's been, uh, all it's on it. It's, uh, brought up by the name of BenLate, B -E -N -L -A -T -E. This is one of the, one of the first systemic fungicides that has come on the market and is available. Uh, I'd suggest that you purchase some of this and try

BenLate. BenLate is supposed to give a good control of, of, uh, the mildews and also of the, uh, botritus blight organism that can attack roses. Is there time to do that yet now? Yes. Now, an application, uh, to the foliage here will be taken up by the leaves and, um, should remain effective within the plant for up to two to three weeks. Okay. Now it's time to plant. Thank you. Are they blooming now? Are your roses blooming now? Yes, they're starting to bloom. They're starting to bloom. As soon as they're through, it might be well take out some of the old canes that thin them out just a little bit so you get more ventilation through. It's just about time for Cyril to come in and I have about a hundred questions here. Shall we go a little faster for a while? Yeah, move on. Okay, we have an apples that are in bloom. I mean, the apples set on the wealthy and delicious but they did not set on any of them on the Jonathan. Can you give me an answer? Why? Did it bear heavy last year? I didn't happen to see the trees last year. Well, I don't know. They set,

they, they set well on the, what? wealthy and delicious. Wealthy and delicious. Jonathan didn't make it. I can't understand that unless they just bloomed a little bit different time and we had one night when there was a degree or two difference in temperature. And also the possibility that Jonathan may have been loaded last year because apples tend to bear heavily every other year. Wayne, let's stay right with you on these roses now. This is a rose bush that has some wilded roses on it every year. What might cause part of the roses to wilt on a, on a bush? Well, I wouldn't know what it'd be now. The, the, just the bud wilts or the roses will be the part of the stem. Well, she's talking about the flowers and buds. Yeah, but they'd be the stem of the bud. I imagine will drop over. Bob bears a little borer gets in there once a while, isn't there? There's one little one. Oh, do this. There's apple fruit worm and one of the fruit worms that will chew a little more into the bud. Well, you see roses and apples are pretty close and related. Yeah, same family. We'll chew into the bud. And

also, there's a boy tried to sit in their day that causes these to dry up sometimes I'll bleed. And Mel do will hit the necks on the, the stems on those too. So without know as seeing it, it's just a little difficult to tell. Got a lot of good reasons for him to turn that color. No reason we have for him to stand up. Next question about a climatus is turning yellow, Wayne or Dave. Can you give me a question or an answer, why some of the climatus get the speckles? Well, I'll tell you, I'm, this, this, this question comes up and I know it's a common problem. Dr. John Wayne, out in our audience here several years ago, conducted some tests to determine whether or not this condition that you can see in the monitor here is a result of an iron deficiency. And Emma, if I interpret the results correctly, it's not an iron deficiency and it was not corrected by the applications that he made. To be truthful, I don't know what it is. Now Wayne, I think, has gotten some results from application of furbam and menub. Is that right, Wayne? Well, that was mostly for the control of wilt, which is where the things wilt and the leaves turn brown. But the

lady called me, Dan, I'm sorry I can't remember her name, but she's been reading it and she suggests it's been a key -lated iron made like for full of your feet with water and with it. And I think it might be well to check out the lime situation on those two. I don't know. Did she have any luck with that iron? Well, as I understood her, either the place she found out about it had her, she did. Now one of the other, where did it help some. But she watered them with it. It really doesn't look like iron deficiency. No, it doesn't quite. Another possibility, I would be a virus infection, but again, this is strictly speculation. Let's just call it specter. I think somebody is going to work on it. They grow, don't they? Yeah, yeah. Okay, what proportion of chlorox do you use in water for controlling fungus in the lawn? Zero. No, chlorox should not be applied to turf grass for the control of lawn fungi or lawn diseases.

The chances of severe burn are just too great, and if you dilute the chlorox down to the point where it won't burn, it probably won't be effective, and certainly the fungicides that are marketed are far more efficient. So I wouldn't suggest it at all. However, if they want to sterilize their tools, use chlorox as a decontaminant or sterling for tools, the dilution would be about one part of chlorox to about six or seven parts of water. Before Cyril Bish comes in, I want to ask John one question, because I guess we really haven't had very many weed questions. I was thinking I hadn't earned my money yet, I remember. That's because you weren't tied. I think you did so well on previous programs that we just don't have any weed around anymore. But anyway, Dave, here's a question. They have bluegrass that they've let go to seed in their yard, and they'd like to know what they should do, how they can harvest it, and how this might improve their present lawn. Okay, everybody, the chances are letting the go to seed isn't going to improve the lawn. But as they want the harvest to seed, we would suggest that they go ahead and cut it,

and put it out to dry some place on the driveway, or I think probably harvesting it with a mower, with a bag on it would be a good way of getting it. We'll put this out, so it's early dries, and then they can go ahead and thrash out the seed or use it as it comes from the lawn. But really, Cyril, this doesn't do too much to enhance a lawn to leave a go to seed. Thank you, John, and good evening, panel and members. We would entertain some more questions from the audience if you folks have some questions to ask. Make sure you're in step down to the microphone, and it will be heard. I have a few calls here from Omaha. I think we'll take those first. I'm not sure about this question. They say a red, delicious, Jonathan apple tree, and maybe this is a combination. It hasn't yielded the last two years. They have sprayed it,

fertilize it, they water it well, and they're wondering why might it not produce, as it should. Has it ever? Yes, they say it did, but it hasn't the last two years. Well, I wouldn't know why it wasn't the last two years on apples, because unless it's a matter of pollination, if it had some other apple tree around here that didn't, there's some of the varieties that are very much so sterile. Cyril, did they say how old the tree was? It has borne, John, that's the thing. Sometimes when you first set them all, you might get a few. That's the case, that's something else. Is it possible that these are two separate trees, and would they need something other trees that fertilize? No, delicious, and Jonathan can get along very well together. Okay. Something's eating the petunias, Bob. Great greasy black spots on the leaves. Greasy black spots on the leaves. Petunias, huh? Well, I know what it was, if those black spots were black spots, I'm not sure from that description, memory, or

Cyril. If there was actual feeding on the leaves, a couple of them probably would be responsible. In that case, we can use a chloridane that we mentioned for a hostile, or we can use seven on these two. Either dust, in the case of seven, either dust or spray. But black spots, Cyril, that just doesn't ring a bell, as far as insect injuries concern. Really? Okay. Wayne's putting us on the board. John, we have a question here about controlling red sarl. What's used to control the red sarl in the lawn? Okay, Cyril. Red sarl is one of the more difficult weeds to control in a lawn. If they do not have any trees or shrubs nearby, Vanville would be the material to use, and actually Vanville is the only product that will effectively control red sarl. And if it is under the drip line of a tree, I think the only thing they can do, but the

only thing they can do is to pull it, and keep after it, and you can't eliminate it this way. But if it's outside the drip line, get a product with Vanville in it. Next call, still from Omaha. These people have some pin oak trees, and is there a spray they can use to prevent the pin oaks from setting acorns? Not that I know of for sure, I've often thought it would try seven. It does acts as thinner on apples, and never seem to get to it, John. But if they want to try this two pounds to a hundred gallons of water, that's two tablespoons to gallon. That should be done at the time of blossom, right? Well, I don't know. One should be done, but they can't do it that way now, so they better do it now. Okay. Another call about the use of chlorox. This is a solution for treating iris bulbs. They want a house strong to make it, and another question on them about using fertilizer for iris. Let's take the chlorox. Okay, let's take the chlorox one first. This is an acceptable use of chlorox. It's a depth

after removing with a clean knife, the rotten areas of the underground stem. It would be a diluted solution. Well, I don't remember just what we have said in the past. What is these in last one? There is a formula on the chlorox model for washing clothes, and I think this is the same one that can be used for soaking your iris in. Okay, Wayne. That's all right. Go ahead. I'm going to bathe him and take him off. We're soaking the iris if it worked. So just follow the loop. I think somewhere around there put the gallon, and one or two tables from the gallon. It's pretty diluted. Quite diluted. But I don't really call for this. These people have some hosta that we're getting at. Oh, the fertilizer. All right. John, you want to have this? Well, my experience, most iris don't need fertilizer. Not too

much. Okay. Next question is from Lincoln again, and these people have some hosta plants, and they want to know if it's all right to transplant them at this time. If they are individual plants and small, they also want to know if they should be divided. I wouldn't invite them at this time. I'd do that very early, because those things aren't the easiest thing in the world to divide. They have plant care out here, but send it back here and there's nothing between here and there, but just to shoot. So I'd do that in very early spring, but if they're small individual plants, I'd separate them here. They can't be left through the bottom of the earth and transplant them. We planted some just all week and a half, two weeks ago, doing beautifully. Very good. Bob, these people have had a very exceptionally good, asparagus, bad this spring. And they've looked real good until the last few days, and now there are some small greenish brown worms that are appearing on the stems. Can you suggest something that they might spray these? Well, I suspect these are

probably the larvae of one of the two kinds of asparagus beetles, if they're very small. Yes, use seven. Two tablespoons level. Two one gallon of water, 50 % seven. And should do an excellent job on these. Wayne from Scotts Bluff, we have a call. A people have grapes that die back each year. They are the Niagara type grape and are located just south of pine trees. They seem green when pruned in February each year, but have died back and have to start again from the base for the last three years. The Niagara grape is not reliably hardy and the west end of the state. And the only grape that actually we'd recommend out there would be the beta. Even conquered in these are not reliably hardy. That's first thing. The second thing is the white and the pink

for red grapes. We do not prune in February. Even here, we wait until in March. So you seem to be a little more susceptible to killback and winter entry that do the blue grapes even here. So I think if I were going to grow those there, I would probably grow them on the fan system rather than on the trellis. And this way you plant that you give me a few minutes and you get four or five shoots and you fan them up on the trellis this way. A grape spare on the wood to grow last summer. And if you started this, you get sprouts from the bottom. You cut these off as soon as you're in the fall. But the new shoots that come up, you let them run along the ground and then put a mulch over them over winter. And these, in the spring, you cut off back and leave them just a stub or two high so that you can get caged for next year because then these you lift up and put on the trellis and that's the only way you could get them to the winter. It's called a fan

system. John, these people have some six weeks old fescue lawn and they wonder what they should use for fertilizer on this new fescue lawn. And George, an ordinary lawn fertilizer which is a mixed fertilizer, could be applied anytime, so long as they use a light application. They should use it at a rate that would not apply any more than one pound of actual nitrogen per thousand square feet on a new ceiling. Okay, Wayne, how do you treat a cyclone bulb after it is through blooming? Well, you treat like you were in the other house plant. No, they like it where it's cool. So I would put it where it protected in the southwest and probably sink the pot in the ground to about the ground level and water it there and then pick it up in the fall and bring it in the house. No, the leaves probably die down on that and then they'll come up again. And when you transplant

the thing, it likes a cool room like an earth wind in a bedroom or something of this nature. Question here and maybe a little diagram. Wayne, diagram the method for printing tomatoes. On tomatoes, you have the plant here and the cluster of fruit will put some on there. It'll be leaves coming off in this manner. Probably have your stake over here that you're going to tie it to. But about the time it sets this first cluster flower it will start a side shoot at the axle of these leaves. And then it will make three more leaves and then another cluster of fruit. And when these form as soon as you can get your fingers on and you take them out, just break them out. Don't take off this top one up here because it'll stop right there and you don't have anything to renew the plant. But you take these out at the time you do this. You tie a string solid to the stake, loop it out around under a leaf

and tie a square knot there so it won't slip. But don't draw this up any closer and one needs to the stake because the plant will grow in a girdle. But it merely removes the laterals that form in each axle of the leaf but don't remove the leaf. Very good. Thank you, Wayne. John, a question about corn. Why do you de -tastle corn? Well, corn is de -tastled primarily in the process of hybrid seed corn production. And you de -tastle the female rows so that the male rows will produce a supply of the pollen. And there is no point in de -tastling sweet corn for the garden only for seed production do they de -tastle corn. Any reason why a red -bud tree would not bloom that is four years old? Oh, it's just not really yet again. It's not happy where it is. It's not old enough. One of the other hasn't been growing too rapidly. But it'll bloom in time. These people have some

flowering crabs that leaves are turning yellow and some of them are showing some welding. Any suggestions for spray for the flowering crab trees? Well, we may have talked about this a little before in relation to apple tree site. Leaves on flowering crab if it's this variety that's suppletable to see here apple rest. We'll turn yellow and these leaves will drop to foliate. Xenab would be the preferred material here to use. But it's really quite late and too late right now. I think to spray with Xenab and offer much protection. They can turn yellow for scab. There's an awful lot of it this year on some susceptible varieties and they're losing a lot of leaves as a result. Right. There'll be an orange pustule in the center of the spot with rust. Scab results in a black spot that has a feathery margin but no obvious pustule. We have any more questions from the audience. Please feel free to come down and ask them.

What causes paintings to change color? Heat. That's a pink with a feathered printer in the white. That's what you're meaning. As far as painting white to red or something, they don't actually. Is there a does holly hawk ever grow like a bush? Have you ever seen holly hawk grow in the form of a bush? Well, some of these new annual holly hawks don't get the big tall spikes that they did and if they got them fairly close together if they plant the annual seed white, it'll look like a bush. She don't get so high. But I presume something can happen to them if they send out more stalks. Something happened to the terminal bud on the stalk where I would shorten it up. The last question I have before George Brown comes back. Wayne, how do you go about transplanting a climbing rose and when should it be transplanted? This should be transplanted before the rose starts in the spring. And of course, you'd cut it back and treat it like you would

a newly purchased rose from the Nerschemann Garden Center or George or anybody. Is that all right? You know, if I was, I don't think everybody's pulling our leg. We've had calls tonight. That'll be different. Well, the Lake Tahoe, out on the California Nevada border. That's a long way away. Lake Tahoe. Shy on well. They say the signal is great. They like it. Shy on so it's the color is great. Thank you. I'd like to be a dead old man. Thank God. Bigger part. I'd like to be a dead part. Yeah. So let's go. Follow the signals. It's about 10 o 'clock. We're going to take a little break here for a historical capsule to review some of the participants on this program during the past 20 years. And Wayne Whitney leads off with this historical sketch and pictures. Wayne? You know what? Got a break. Well, here's a picture of the one of the first backyard farmer programs in 52 or three. I think it's 52, isn't it? I think it's right, Wayne.

What's that out of KFR? KFR. TV, Ottawa. The Mortuary. You remember we had that. Forty -eighth. That was a one -camera job. Forty -eighth and Vine. Yeah. Forty -eighth and Vine. On the Southwest corner of the intersection. How about this one? Well, listen, just, uh... That's Burton Peterson. I think that year or year later, I don't know that Burton Peterson on the left, County Agent and that. Harold Ball. Who's the other good -looking gentleman? There he is at the bow time. That one left glasses. At the bow time. And... How many people realize that KFR or how to TV station all right? Well, they did. I don't know how long it was. Do you, Bob? I'm not sure either. But they sure did. And that's where we started. You know that, Dave. You weren't here then. Well, here's John Wang. And, uh... Who's the fella in the middle? That's Hamilton then, Bob. That was Gene Hamilton. On the right. He's in South Dakota now. Say how you like that bow time. That's great. That's a very few of us left to get that one from scratch. George, he's got one pretty

tight. I can tell that from here. This is probably over in the, uh... Channel 10, uh... studios. Surely Marshall, the left, Rex, Mr. Smith, Jack McBride, and some other character there. Yeah, that's George Brown. George, your hair is different color too, there. You know, we were on earlier in the evening and they were here now. Say, this is getting up to more modern times. Yeah. And Dan Nutsson. John Furr. Paul Bergman then. Paul Bergman, Paul Bergman. He's a federal extension in the model of Sydney, Bob. He sure is now. And, uh... Well, that's a handsome... What's yours with these? Any idea? Well, there's John... There's Evan Nelson, he had a crew cut in those days. That's where he took up waves. The Wayne Trinkel used to be with us for a long time. No, I'm not the Wayne. How about Bob Rosell on the far right with that full head of hair? Yeah. That's Bob Rosell with dark hair and they're John Furr. He had a pretty respectable color in it too. And you did, too, George. John Wayne had his natural scalp. Well, this was one

of the early days. Now, here's one of the Wayne Trinkels, ain't it? You're right. Emory Nelson on the phone. Here's, uh... You remember that long -year drab at the head and you were simple that year? Yeah. Sidebushes of that wood. Sidebushes. George Brown. Alan Batcher. Bob Rosell. And Wayne Sirlin. Furr and Whitney. Quite a bunch of mail, Erick. Yeah, that's what brought on RFD. That's right. I'm not kidding. You got any others, Wayne? Yeah, they got some more here someplace. So that pitchfork bothered me just a little bit. Trying to look at the expression on your face, Wayne. You ever think about that guy getting behind you? Rosell looks like he would like to. Hey, boys, you know, this government quite a period of years when you think of that many guys being that... together that long on the panel of the show. Where are we now, by 1965? Somewhere as long as you? It's probably beyond a channel, uh... ten studios here. Yeah, we were on that thing in the mornings.

You remember, Bob? Until the opera room took over. Yeah, they expanded in hour and we got romped right out there. Well, for a while, we had one in the morning and one in the evening too. Well, that's when that was out there in the morning, you know? Right. Well, I had my first exposure back to that time. Or you had the opera room? I was with the panel there, Wayne. Okay. Okay, where are we now? Well, it should be any place. Well, I don't know, but there's those violets. There's Smiley and Robert in there. Smiley and Robert and Trank on the grinning white. John Scott's bluff now. You know, John's head was shining all the time, wasn't it? Well, you know what's up for us on the race track? Well, okay, there's... There's John McLaughlin. No, when did John join the staff? Uh, George? No, I'd been not too many years ago. You wanted to hear it short? There's five or six years. Yeah. This is coming up pretty modern time. Right. You always ask who's the

gentleman on the end of the table? I guess it's... It's a pretty good view of Whitney, doesn't it, fellas? Say, how can we always... There's two ends every table. I'll tell you that. Why doesn't Wayne know how to get on the end? I'm left handed. He writes well. No, that was about four years ago. No, we were in a greenhouse at the time. You see that circulating? I don't know what Wayne was holding there for sure, do you? Well, we didn't either. I can't see it playing enough to tell. Well, we were looking at it. I think a bunch of cabbage. No, it's... The plant is something that I can't see in the CY Compton Library. There's a scene there. That's over in CY Compton Library. What's the plant there at the point? There's a scene there. That was about three years ago, wasn't it? Yeah. Little more modern times, eh? Oh, it's more than that of gold. Looks like... Oh, I don't know what that's all about. Rosel looks like he's really studying that. Well, there's an aphid on there. Do you always stand on the tip? No, that's his problem. But now, this is

really more recent. There's two of us who've gone to strike shirts there already. Yeah, Dave, why so in there, finally, too? You know, I didn't know on a strike shirt until this year. Wayne, why'd you give up the bull tie? Why? Yeah, why? Well, you know, George, I'll tell you, the perpendicular straps are more becoming. I see. Then the crosslines on a person that's slightly heavy. I see. Slightly, but where are we here? That's around where we are now, except it was last year. A historical capsule highlighting some of the personalities and happenings here on the backyard farmer during the past 20 years or so. So we're trying for the final half -hour of our presentation here on Dedication Week at the Enterprise Telecommunications Center. Our colleagues from Agricultural Extension Service here at the University of Nebraska, obviously, are back. Had a cup of coffee, rested up, ready to go. We got some questions from out in the state now. Bob, let's take

this one. If you would please. This comes from Elkhorn, Nebraska. Here are some sugar maple leaves, which have black dried spots on them, or most of the outside of the tree, but not on every leaf. It's a large 24 -year -old tree. Is it a disease or just the wind and rainy weather? Dave, it causes it. George, it is a disease, a fungus disease. It's brought on by the rainy weather, so that there is an interplay here. The name of the disease is tar spot. It's quite common on maple. Now, in general, yeah, tar, T -A -R. And it looks like a drop of tar on the leaf itself. Okay. What do you know about it? Okay. In general, this disease is not severe enough to warrant control measures, George. If something... If the homeowner wants to do something, they can apply boiled mixture, and it'll achieve a certain amount of control. Okay. Let me call your attention. You viewers have fact that the follow -its from the Nurseries and Garden Centers and County Extension Office here in Lincoln are still

answering the phones and the calls. The number to call is 472 -7211. The other part of the question from Elkarn, what causes cherry trees to have many blossoms waned and form the stems, and only a few cherries on some of the stems and others dry up? Last year we had plenty of rain this year, so on. Well, I'll tell you, George, those that got pollinated make cherries and those that didn't don't. And it could be due to several things. Sometimes it's due to late trees this year. I think it could probably do a lot of rain during blooming time. Okay, I'll about this from pretty much. Can you please tell me what the enclosed weed is, John? What to do about it? It's taking over our grove outside of our house yard. Very shallow rooted, easy to pull. The plant has three to four long runners, like stem and some of them 18 to 24 inches long. We pulled many of them yesterday and piled them up to dry, and then we wanted to burn them. The plant's starting to bloom now, very tiny white flowers. George, this is a bed straw. I'm sure we can't see too much on the monitor with this particular

to identify this plant. But it isn't annual, comes up each year from seed, and if they could get some kind of a grass growing in this area to help crowd it out, this would be the best thing, because there isn't any good chemical control for it, and grass would be the best competition for it. Okay, from Council Bluffs Isle, I'm sending a fly, but seems to be on everything in our garden's willing. I found it on the flower and crab tree, rhubarb roses and white lally. Can you please tell us what it is and how to get rid of it? We've seen it on the crab tree before, but I thought the damage was cedar rust. I think there might be a combination of cedar rust insect damage. What if anything can take care of both? George, there's no insect damage on this sample. These flies are the adults of seed corn maggots that develop in high organic soil, and they die clinging to shrubs, trees, flowers, due to a fungus disease that has infected the fly.

The fly has no association with plant injury whatsoever. But there's something else wrong with this, and I think Dave can answer that. Okay, Dave. These samples are exhibiting the symptoms of scab. And this is a real nice sample. It's an obvious dark spot with this feathering margin that we've mentioned before. I can't tell where I'm going. That's right. There are several lesions, or scabby lesions on the majority of leaves there. And this is an easy one, really, to tell the difference between scab and cedar apple rust. Anything I can do for it? Oh, yeah. Control can be achieved with a number of chemicals, of which Xineb is good. Manib is good. Diaryne may be used. Faltan may be used. Or may be used. Tursaid may be used, George. How about from Oakland? Here's a small sample, Bob, of a large pine tree in our front yard, which is in the way of the entire tree. The tree is literally covered with worms about an inch in length.

It has a fine black stripe on either side of the green body. What are these? What will happen to the tree? And will others be interested in what must we do? These are soft lies that do this two pines. I was a little puzzled at first, because I didn't see worms on there, and they apparently have dried up before now. There's a lot of worms at the top here, Bob. No, those aren't worms at all. That's part of the tree. No, it's a pine flower. No, the soft lie larvae or worms will chew the needles beginning at the top and just chew them right back. And they can do some rather serious defoliation on pine if they are numerous and continue to feed for any period of time. It's a good idea to control them, especially on ornamental pines, which are of high value. And here's seven. We'll control these worms. Methoxicore also. We'll work on these. What's Mary getting there, right? Seven. Seven of Methoxicore. Yes. And any other insecticide that they have that is lay before

ornamental pines probably would do the job. You're going to watch out for abbreviation to Wayne over there this late at night. From lower leaves of potato plants, what's the problem? Disease or insects? What can be done? Keep from killing or affecting a whole vine. It's likely to have effect on the... Is it likely to have an effect on the setting growth of potatoes on the vine? Dave, you... What a pass up. Let us go to another... George, why don't you go to another one and Wayne and I will... Okay, pass us down today so he's got the explanation. This comes from Graschem. It says a lot of nice things about back here at Farmer. Then says we have sprayed every two weeks with May's all -purpose spray. Jim ought to be interested in that. One time was seven. A tree was... So full of bloom, we thought. We might thin them out. Every year we have delicious apples, many small ones, also a green apple that's in a five -inch tree. Who has that Wayne? No, I've got that one too. You got

both of them? George, let's go to another one. We'll get a back lock here and run till 11 o 'clock. Take your choice. This is just on the lower leaves. I had a question, George. Are we through? Let's go to another one. Okay, let's take... Oh, these are mine. That's just lower leaves. I think you're just shading down on the thing. I'd certainly hit them up with the fungicide. I'll tell you then. Sure mine. Wouldn't hurt anything with it. No. I think this is just physiological. But I shaded that. Okay, remember folks, during the next 15 minutes, you can still call a link on at least 472 -7211. Our good friends on phones will be answering your questions directly and we'll try to get through the other calls we've had. Some two or three hundred calls tonight. Maws in the yard. Are they sod, wet, berm, if so? What should I do? If they're small, say a quarter, a quarter of an inch to three quarters of an inch long, sort of gray color

and cylindrical. That is a sort of round. Then they probably would be one of the sod web worms. If they're larger, the wingspan'd about an inch. So wide, then it would be something else. I don't think it's quite time yet to control them because we control the worm stage a little later on. So I would watch for evidence of injury due to the worms in about three weeks and then control them if it does occur. What do you use, Bob? You can use seven. You can use dialogues. You can use daisonon. You can use ephion. It's not named too many. How about seven dialogues? Seven daisonon are the two that are most commonly used for this pest. Okay. Dave, did you have a question in there? Yeah. George, this one's got a stump. There's no evidence in, you know, that I can see with this little hand lens of a disease. Or intake damage. I think it looks like a chemical damage or something. Okay. Another call. What trouble have trouble with a peach tree? Wayne, what can we do to correct leaf curlers? That's yours, Dave. Okay. That's probably peach leaf curled. A disease called peach leaf curled to frina.

Organism. It's a fungus disease. Dr. Wayne answered that earlier. That was the question that he asked, as a matter of fact. And it requires a dormant spray. And now it's not the time to do anything about it. Say, by the way, this, a tephrine of species of leaf curled is occurring now in Siberian Elm. First I've ever seen it. We had two samples today. Right. It also works on plums. It's called plumbogging on its end. Okay. If I was let's see if we can get the rest of these answered. We have it right clover in the lawn, John. It's wonderful. George clover in the lawn can be controlled. The silver axis is usually sold as chickweed and clover killer. Okay. How about Wayne? They have a young pinotry in the yard. One side is growing faster than the other side. Is this a bad, bad, can it be trimmed to match or what? Oh, if I had a good head back, good branches. If they're going out, if it's a two trunk, three and one side going faster than the other, then I cut off one of them. Good trim back. Cut

one of them off. But if it's just growing out, you'll find this. Three branches go out farther to the north and they wilt the south. Okay. You're going to drive down the road. Do you look at those longer highways? Do the wind, I guess, or something? Okay. Buck the wind. Wayne, let's stay with you. The horse ready is your man. How do you keep ground horse ready from turning dark? Well, I'll tell you. I haven't ground any yet. Okay. No. George, we do have a recipe of doing that in a blender, which makes it a lot easier. But it's a vinegar and they put in the horse ready to keep it from turning dark and don't leave the jar open. Okay. Auburn, take out some, put the lid back on. Okay. I bought it in the ice box. Wayne, is it necessary to blanch? Peas, beans, and corn before freezing or are you? It's desirable to. Okay. It's kind of desirable to blanch pea pods before you shell them. They shell easier. Okay. How about it? Moves the lawn. They've mowed the lawn, John. It looks dry after mowing. Looked green before cutting. They say, what's wrong? That's all the question. George, there's a couple things that could be happening here. They may be taking off

too much at one time. If you never remove more than one -third of the growth when you're mowing the lawn. So if they're taking off a half or two -thirds of it, this could be the cause. And Dave, there are a lot of disease problems in lawns too. John, this could appear as though it was very dry. If it was kind of a brown understory. Well, I'll tell you the range we had. I think we left the fourth on the mowed. It just got carried away every time I was in the rain. It got high and it actually bleached, John. Blanched because one getting light. The ground is so rank. And so as a result of the red, they'd not only saw a lot of brown. It plain burned out in spots. Okay. Weighing out about another question. Fertilizer for blueberries. Blueberries, they like an acid soil. Okay. If I were going to use one, I'd use probably some aluminum sulfate. If I was going to use nitrogen, use ammonium

sulfate. Okay. And then I'd buy a frozen blueberry. For sure. Large brown spots in the lawn. Some of them 10 feet long and several feet wide. We've discussed this, haven't we? Not that size of spots. No, we have little smaller spots. Could be melting out, George. This is very common. And spots are quite large and very evident right now. What would they do about it? A chemical application or several applications probably would be justified. George, even this late in the season. A number of materials, die -ream, dacanel, any formulation containing manoev. This inoev can be used along with these other cultural practices, like frequency of moine and the moine height of fertility. Okay. What is tanzy and where can we get it? Well, I tell you, I have a plant tanzy plant in the pot. You know that we've had tanzy and we've had come for this year? Yeah. Well, I finally got it one of each. Well, I've got three of come for it. And thanks to Mrs. Pierce over the council bluff, she has

some and she sent me some tanzy. And so I've got some plant in the pot that didn't up yet. Wayne, somebody called in after we're talking about horse ready. She says, use white vinegar instead of brown to keep horse ready's white. You can't beat that. You can't beat it. Good idea. That's logical. Wayne, how about it in a row? Thank you. How about this tanzy? Well, you don't care whether it's white or brown. Wayne, how about anything you want on it? How about a rhubarb leaves poison swine? Their rhubarb leaves are toxic because of the high content of oxalic acid in the blade of the leaf. Okay. What's the best? What's the best time to trim and spy a rea in how much? Immediately after it blooms and take out old canes, clear it to ground. Leave the young new canes that are coming up. Don't quack everything off, Kurt the ground, because you get too many stems coming up and it takes too long to get height back. But if you just take out big old canes and leave these smaller ones, you know, that look like penny

pencils, that kind of light brown and all. Well, it'll bloom for you again next year. I'm making enough growth to bloom again. All flowering shrubs are pruned immediately after bloom. Another question, Wayne, what plants following a shrub to save five to six feet with growing dense shade? Oh, calacantha. Come again? Sweet shrub. What else? Well, that's all both the same thing. That's what I was talking about. I'd ran into it going in there. The snow barrier growing there may not get five feet of good in spots. It's holding in this five feet range that's bothering me. That's what they wanted. Pink snowball. Okay. What's your name? Carlesa. Webberdom. Carlesa. Webberdoms will grow there. Okay. Wayne, what are those big mushroom on... Bob, can you read it? You asked another question.

How about root burb from a good pet set out two years ago? It's spindly. What can be done? Well, you can fertilize it. And then again, it may be the variety. Some of them like ruby reds are very high quality ruby. It's some kind of cancer. Sam never gave me any fingers. At the most, and not too high. You get into something like Hunter Red or Canadian Red? Victory. What's some of those others? How about clover -like plant in the yard? They get big, George. Way big? Yeah. I shouldn't get this high. How about clover -like plant in the garden? About six to eight feet tall. Turns red -brown with a small yellow bloom. What is it, do you ask? Turns red -brown with a... Turns red -brown with a small yellow bloom. Well, George, how tall again? Clover -like plant. You said how tall. Six to eight feet tall. Well, this would almost have to be sweet clover, George. If it has

a yellow flower, but it's turning brown, that gets me. I don't know. Tell them to send in a part of a specimen in wheel. I'll take a look at it. Let's go, dry names and pots in a patio normally do well, weighing this year the leaves are drying any suggestions. You may be wondering them too much. Too much? It's either too much or too little. Knock one out of the pot and look at the bottom. See what it's mud or dust? It's mud -stop water. Yeah, dust, give it a little. How about crab apples, leaves turning brown and dying? Any help? Well, I think we've probably already covered this pretty well, George. Just skim. Okay. How about grapes? Nice cluster of grapes now. Something seemed to have sucked out the fruit. Leave nothing but the stem. Oh, they didn't set. For some reason, they just shelt off and just left the stem cluster there. They didn't get pounded or something. Nothing they can do about it now. No, they're gone. How about private hedge with mildew? What should you use? Faltan would

be a preferred material. Bob, did you desyfe there? We think so. What is in those mushrooms? Acidic acid or oxalic acid? Or something else? Neuon. That's another question here. I guess we're about ready to leave for tonight. Tomato plants about, pardon me? We had a couple of minutes. About 12 inches high, starting to curl. What? Tomato plants are about 12 inches high. And they are starting to curl. What can she do for this? Probably mosaic. You think it might be mosaic? Could be chemical injury, John. Well, if it's one plant in amongst many, George, it's probably a disease. If they're all curling, it could be, because someone has used some herbicide nearby and it bit it in. Okay. One other question here. A person called in said they got

iris. It was invaded by a leaf spot in the country. Have a... You read it, Bob. It's good to leave. Half in the city, too. Yeah. So it does. What's it say, Bob? No? Well, that didn't let Dave tell you what to say. Yeah. Okay. The iris leaf spot, as a fungus disease, it can be controlled by repeat applications of menub or xenub or caftain. A little sticker material added to this solution will aid in putting that residue or the flungicide deposit on the leaves. That's where you really want to keep that protection, George. Problems we've had. On this iris they say they have a water problem, George. Yeah, okay. The iris don't like to have wet feet. Okay. You followed us about wound up for the night? Well, I don't know. What were we going? We appreciate the fact that we had this call from somebody at Lake Tahoe. It's

hard to believe. It's out in the California. It ain't getting right, it's over, didn't it? Next week. Yeah. Probably right at the Cheyenne, not the Tahoe. Well, that's, I guess, back here at Farmer for the night folks. Thanks to our folks who have been answering at telephones tonight. Thanks to Wayne Whitney, Dave Weissong, John Furr, Bob Rosell. Now, this is George Brown. Folks, saying good night everyone. We'll see you next week at our usual times on Monday and Tuesday evening. So long, everybody. Sorry. Thank you.

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