well why don't you tell me about your lawn and gardening
oh let's see it hurts um i don't know i do quite a bit of it
do you do you have a large lawn
um pretty fairly fairly fair amount yeah yeah we switch plants here and there do you like to garden
uh-huh
well i like the yard to look nice but i can't say i really enjoy it
oh really
yeah no i've i've got other things that i like to do and that's that's not my favorite
i don't know sweating out there sweating in the sun you know and pulling weeds and those stuff
oh no no i don't like that no
yeah
no not that part just the pretty part
yeah and i won't mow the lawn either and you know watering the lawn is a pain in the butt because we don't have a an electric system so
yeah
right right
or sprinkler system i should say so
yeah i like to get out in the morning
yeah
and that's it
well what do you like to do when you garden
oh mostly i like to keep a little garden
oh so you actually grow vegetables
right right right just like um salad salad vegetables that kind of thing
well that's nice
uh-huh
and um
that's about it
just you know and shrubbery and everything and to keep the weeds down and stuff put mulch around it so you don't have to weed them
yeah
yeah you know i i find that gardening for me is just uh it it's expensive
it really is
you know you get into buying as many plants that you need to make it look good and you know you can't just buy two or three you've got to buy a dozen for one small area
right
right right
you know so
so it doesn't look it looks skimpy if you don't
exactly and i know we've got this spring we've got to push pull a bunch of stumps out because they're
they kicked the bucket so
oh heaven
well that means we'll just have to put something else
and so but you know we haven't we hadn't had any freeze damage this year of course because it hasn't been that cold i guess it's been about the same with you all
really
right
right i think it's only frozen um we've had a freeze twice
yeah and i
and it wasn't very bad
and the rain is unbelievable i mean it's just
right right did you get any snow
we got a few a few flakes last week
oh you're kidding really
just enough to make it look you know i mean it didn't even of course settle you know on the ground but it looked pretty while it was coming down
right
well that's nice
yeah what about you
no none none not none whatsoever so some of the plants are still kind of growing along
yeah
uh-huh
so that makes it nice
that's true that's true ours are well they're they're kind of dormant they're pretty mellow right now
yeah but soon it'll be time to go out and put some bulbs i get enthusiastic in the spring and then it kind of dies down
yeah
a little while later when you have to take care of everything
in fact i just had a garden company come by and give me a well you know one of those places that fertilizes your lawn give me an estimate because i just don't want to go out and buy all the chemicals and stuff because because i don't know what you need for this weed versus this weed versus this weed
right
right
right
so i just let them treat all my weeds and i won't have to deal with you know buying this stuff and having it sit in the garage
wow that's not bad
well yeah it's better for us because we don't we have a pretty small lawn
right
so and and you know the cost i think per time is a little less than thirty bucks so
do they get get rid of the ants and stuff like that
i don't think they do the ants i think they're just dealing with the weeds
oh oh
not bad not bad at all though
no because we've got a real problem they're overtaking everything
so but i mean we got some good grass but it's getting you know um
to the point where the weeds are taking over the grass
exactly it's getting choked out
oh my
well i think we covered it don't you do you know anything else you want to talk about about gardening
oh let's see i still have onions growing in the garden
you you still have onions growing
well they'll in Texas they'll go all year around
oh
and then if you want green onions you just go out there and grab some
so so do you go uh give them away that you have so many
no
you use them pretty much yourself
yeah
well that's good
yeah if you put them in all times of the year you can go out and take them you know for a green onion here and there and then if you have some left over they'll go to a a regular bulb onion and then you can have that the next um
uh-huh
the next time next next year yeah
so the green onions the green onions grow into the
the bigger onions
yeah
huh yeah they will if you let them alone and then you can put them anywhere sometimes i'll put mix them in with plants
wow
uh-huh
just have a bunch of green here and there
well you sound like somebody that needs to come to my house and do a little work but
and then oh let's see and then um i put rye grass or my husband did put rye grass out this winter to make it look green
uh-huh
um right you put it around September November to make it look green
uh-huh
and that stuff fades away though right
right when it starts getting hot um
uh-huh
it'll start dying down and your regular grass will come back in
uh-huh so it doesn't cover i mean it it it doesn't compete with the regular grass or anything
in the
no no no no huh-uh it has real shallow roots everything but you got to get out and mow it it looks nice for a while and then it goes away and it kind of fertilizes the grass that's there all the time
uh-huh
