you know one of the most single most
important things about your home is curb
appeal yep curve appeal you see one of
those houses with the beautiful form Oh
in it my yard doesn't look like that
though some nice curves as you need you
need the expert and the expert is Mary
Brimmer from mill burgers how are ya so
how can we make she on her phone she was
showing you know most people have
pictures of their pets and all that
stuff she's got her front lawn which is
just gorgeous out yeah it looks I mean
you know this times a hundred so how do
you get your yard to look like this well
its proper procreation of the soil is
your number one key and the mix that we
use in the soil is called landscape mix
what I'll do is loosen aerate and hold
moisture at the same time and we're
going to demonstrate with this potting
soil what it might look like after you
fixed your soil okay
it doesn't have to look this rich and
dark that's something you need a nice
loosening up at least twice the size of
the pot and never go any deeper than the
pot itself and I'll tell you why okay
now if your mmm you know if your brown
is more like concrete than this stuff
you do have to break it up obviously
right guys I'm in the Blackland Prairie
which means if it rains too much I have
things drown okay so it's very important
I fix the soil enough to help it drain
okay all right sounds good cuz that's
the drainage and for the little roots so
they can grow in there because otherwise
there's no room to grow air no root all
right okay so you want the potting a
plant or planting a pant plan a potted
plant like that see I'm still twice the
size of that so the best thing to do is
what set the pot down on the ground and
then draw a circle around it or you put
two pots next to each other and there's
your circle right there okay okay at
least that you can go out farther and
when you're pulling in a pot out I
gently squeezed it now you see the pots
are going to this roots are going in
circles here mm-hmm you want to
interrupt circles on shrubs and trees
otherwise you'd get these big nodding
big roots and especially a tree will
fall over if there's a big storm because
it's girded itself
so it will set it back a little bit you
got to reroute it but you either rough
it up to loosen out the roots
mm-hmm or you have to cut those bigger
roots so that it can regrow new roots
okay okay you don't plant it too deep is
because in this tree or anything else
right the tree with especially some
perennials hate it
thank you all right so what you got to
do is keep that root ball the top
exposed so it can breathe that little
part right there that's covered up your
my little joke totally just can't
breathe and it will die it'll rot if you
put mulch up against it too so you got
to keep the mulch just outside of the
root ball center of the root ball so you
want it just a little bub grade mm-hmm
do you hack it in real tight around it
do you heal it in what do you do well
you you want it to be just like that
okay
so you've got and then you'd make a nice
will so that you water it and as you can
see it will not be flowing back onto the
top root ball so that way it's gonna go
down the sides and the roots underneath
we're gonna write the water so do people
come to me after loving him to death
you know I planted it really deep and
like oh okay I did that too at about 13
years old and it didn't work and I told
him look I've done everything you could
possibly do wrong that's how I learned
the hard way but you don't have that's
right you know what's right you come
talk to me first you know I'll help you
out
other things to plant in the fall we can
do extremely important you do not bury
these deep okay okay so you want to see
just the crown above the ground there so
say you in here you don't have to rough
up the roots in these as you see it's
not witty roots okay you got to be
gentle you know you could pull them
apart a little bit if there's a lot of
them again plant it in the soil just
just to where's you just enough Jim HANA
too high is better if you're gonna it
better than below okay and then
strawberries I recommend people best in
their like a hanging basket or a pot
that you didn't put on a table because
you got the creepy crawly things I'd
like to eat the strawberries if you have
it on the ground okay
and there's diseases in our ground so
that could affect them these are the
best varieties available now it's called
Fiesta and it's a very productive
strawberry medium size and this is what
they call a airplane airplane off of
that because that's gonna be another
strawberry plant after December you
don't want those okay you could actually
grow some more until that by just
putting it on the soil next to it and
you'll have another strawberry plant but
then you want to stop that okay it can
take the weather it could be outside you
might lose leaves clean it up it's still
growing roots so if you want to you know
now the weather is getting a little bit
more tolerable to be outside start
planning and if you want to give you get
your hand going with the green thumb
which I of course do not have you guys
have all the advice what to do when to
do don't do this after December don't I
even have the best books available for
gardening here in South Texas okay so I
have supplies at the workplace I can get
you familiar and when you forget what I
told you what you will the book and say
oh yeah she said that okay okay
fantastic for more information on mil
Berger's nursery thank you very much
Mary and all the tips on fall planting
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