This week we're in Albuquerque, we're hanging with my mom, and we're learning about bug deterrence, garden hose-style. The rosemary's babies are just as much of an issue as you heard they would be. Plus: local cuisine!

(alternate episode title: "It puts the lotion on its exoskeleton, or else it gets the hose again.")

Want to see pics from the garden? Instagram: @freshclippings

Show art by Alison McKenzie

Production and sound guidance from Evan Roberts and Jeremy Bloom

Episode music from Blue Dot Sessions:

Our Son the Potter (Love and Weasel)

Bossa Boa (High Horse)

Pili Piper (Pglet)

Finn was sores ball and last night he got to bed and he's like, he's looking.

Oh yeah.

Cuz he left his toy outside.

Yeah.

Well, should we start inside?

Okay.

Okay.

Different approach today for clippings.

This is our very first ever remote episode because I am, uh, joining you

from Albuquerque New Mexico with somebody you've already been introduced to.

Yeah.

So I am fortunate enough to be Christopher's mom.

I remind her of that constantly.

so I asked mom, uh, since we're here in Albuquerque, what we could get up to.

Um, and what is the most important thing for us to do today in your garden?

Yeah, so summer is really just blossoming with lots of goodness and also the

bugs and pests that come with it.

I've had a little bit of aphid problems on my roses.

The weeds are coming up and I get these some things that.

Build webs in my Rosemary and then some of the branches die off.

So for that, we just spray the heck out of em with high force water.

Cool.

So it sounded like, uh, today's pest removal in the garden,

pest removal, except for my dog.

Okay, great.

we'll keep him.

Okay.

Cool.

All right, well, let's get outside.

First order of business has picked up the dog's toy.

So it doesn't get wet.

yeah.

Oh, we just scared away a hummingbird.

Oh,

So this is basically, how did you notice that these are, so I saw these

webs and I, first of all, I just tried removing them, you know, with gloved,

hands and so forth, and then they'd come back the next day and so forth.

So I finally.

I've got a bunch of this Rosemary, I just started spraying and that seems

to work for about three or four days.

And then they come back.

Um, and it's only for about a month.

And after that, it, it's not a problem here interest.

So it's just like right at the beginning of the warm season, it is, they attack.

Yeah.

Well, I think it may have to do with.

All those wonderful purple blossoms are starting.

Oh yeah.

So this is kind of, did you plant the Rosemary here or

did, was that already here?

So there, this looked like a lunar landscape.

Um, the person who lived in the house before me didn't like any plants.

So I had someone come out and give me some tips about what . I

can spend a little bit of time.

Uh, nurturing and fostering for a year or two, but after that, I want

them to just grow on their own with maybe a little supplemental water.

Yeah.

So the Rosemary's actually pretty water water.

It's pretty serious conservative.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I, I have, um, a sober hose on it and that's all it requires now.

Oh, that's pretty cool.

Yeah.

And it forms kind of a little bit of a privacy screen.

Which most people think of Rosemary.

I know I do as just like herbs mm-hmm , but this has really grown

to just look like bushes it does.

And it kind of absorbs the sound and it does make it, um, More private.

I can be sitting out in the backyard and people don't wave at me anymore.

as they walk by plus my little dog weaves in and out, and then

it's kind of aroma therapy.

He comes into the house and the house smells good.

yeah.

Yeah.

Turns Finn into an aroma therapy agent.

Exactly.

Oh, he looks ready and willing.

Yeah.

Yeah.

He's ready to go.

Cool.

Okay.

So we're I have taking this hose and then we're just gonna spray

the hell out of these things, huh?

Exactly.

Okay.

Cool.

So there you go.

Okay.

I turn it on pretty forceful.

I'm on hose duty.

You you're turning it on.

Yeah.

Okay.

And it's all of them.

Uh, yeah, just start down at that corner and just really spray and

you're gonna see these darn little, tiny, tiny little things fly up.

Okay.

So yeah.

A lot of people think gardening in Albuquerque has to be all cactuses,

but it's really wait, pose problems.

Okay.

We're on, I was trying to ruminate mom.

I, you can, there's all these like weird little bugs flying out, right?

Yeah.

And they are little.

Yeah.

Okay.

So I just do this a lot.

Yeah.

That's all over.

And does this a technique that works for other cuz you've

told me to spray things that I.

You know, does this work for other bugs?

If you see bugs on your plants, your brother was here a few days ago, and I

noticed an avid infestation on my roses.

So, um, he was on spray duty as well, and he just sprayed the heck out of this.

And the next day I'd say 75% of the aphids were gone.

But then that, uh, that evening we got the Neme out and sprayed.

And name is insecticidal type of thing.

Do you know where it comes from?

I've heard of it, but I don't know what it is.

I think it's geranium.

Oh, okay.

Mm-hmm I can look it up, but I'm pretty sure it's just kind of a natural,

um, bug deterrent from geranium.

And that is something that you can spray on any kind of plant.

Yes.

So, um, Sprayed really, really heavily.

Um, and then we'll do, I'll do it again, uh, seven days later and hopefully that'll

help I prefer to use just the water.

Um, but I'll, I'll go to the name if I have to.

Why does spraying bugs with water work?

I think that it destroys their actor skeleton.

Like their ectoplasm act, whatever, like oh, "who you gonna call?".

um, yeah, I, I kind of think it, it destroys the outside of them

and they're not protected, I guess.

That's not a very scientific thing there, but.

, but you have to kind of observe, you know, that's one of the things

that I've learned is I need to come out and just, uh, look at my plants.

And of course I do talk to them.

yeah, I, I do like some, I I've got this gorgeous, um, golden Raintree that almost

died because the roots got strangulated.

It was not planted correctly.

And there was way too much, uh, dirt packed too heavily around it.

And so it started dying and I will come out and just tell it.

I'm so proud of that.

And it stands more erect.

I know it does.

yeah, totally.

Yeah.

Are we good on this Bush?

Should we move over or do you think?

Okay, cool.

Yeah.

You can direct me as we're.

I'm gonna double check all those feet.

Okay.

Doing a little quality control here.

Uhhuh, miss the spot,

but doesn't it smell.

Yeah, it really smells great.

One of the payoffs to doing this is it just, it's a little aromatherapy time,

you know, it just smells fabulous.

Do you know what Rosemary aromatherapy is good for?

So it tends in, in for a lot of people, it tends to be an alerting fragrance.

Oh, like it like perks you up.

Yes.

Perks you up.

So if people are, some people use it when they're depressed or feeling down

and it's just kind of enlivening and, Um, I worked with people with depression

and thoughts of suicide and so forth.

So I would have them go out into the garden and pluck just a, a pretty.

Large piece of Rosemary and just stuck it into their, um, shirt pocket.

And they would then just, as they were walking around, they

would crush it and smell it.

And they said that it really helped them feel better.

Let me look and see if I look, you're doing a really good

job with this very thorough.

Well, I'm doing two things at once, so , you have to keep me honest.

Do you want me to take over?

Is it hard to, that's not the, oh, okay.

Conceit of the episode, mom.

There you go.

There you go.

Well, and I'm paying you so well for this.

What was the fee we discussed?

I, I, I think it's that little word?

Free three.

Uh, I thought it was dinner.

Dinner.

Yes.

Yeah.

Dinner was mentioned real new Mexican, Mexican food tonight.

Yes.

So I find twice a week really just discourages them.

I think they have to fly away, takes 'em a while to come back

reestablish and then I hit 'em again.

And then after about a month, they're.

Totally done.

What says I hate that Terry's like how cops get rid of skateboarders at malls.

Yeah.

That's exactly what you think.

Well, I did know I was gonna be a bug NA,

but my Rosemary is already thanking.

Can I show you this one area?

Yeah.

There's a, a right in that area?

Yeah.

Hey,

I almost thought about spraying you.

I don't wanna make you curse on your first in-person recording.

I would throw tons and tons of extra hot green chili on your food tonight.

Oh my gosh.

I am definitely feeling it from the extra green chili pepperoni pizza last.

Oh yeah.

That is a whole, you have to plan the next day accordingly.

Like I need to, I'm flying tomorrow.

I need to.

And people are gonna be in the same cabin with, yeah.

I need to be a little more respectful with my diet tonight.

are we, what do you think?

Are we done?

Is this officially?

I think that's great.

Okay.

Thank you.

All right.

That is awesome.

Good.

It didn't.

I me to take this from here.

Oh yeah.

Cool.

So pest, pest removal, the, uh, water therapy way.

Yeah.

All right.

Water hose.

Well, I think we did our task.

It's time to start thinking about ordering.

Sounds good to me.

Cool.

All right.

Any final messages of hope for the audience?

Oh, just enjoy the abundance of summer.

It's it's just renewing and just, Ugh.

Just makes one feel so good to get out into nature and the garden.

So enjoy you heard it from the, the lady herself.

we'll catch you guys in the garden next time.

I know what you're thinking.

I need more Albuquerque.

Do not worry.

On our next episode.

We'll actually be sharing part two of mom bossing me around in her yard.

So there is so much more where that came from in the meantime,

check us out on Instagram.

We are fresh clippings.

I'll post a few pictures from mom's garden.

It's beautiful.

You'll really love it.

I have a question too.

Do you have a mom who likes to boss you around in the yard?

Do you have a mom who would appreciate being shown how to

download and listen to podcasts?

Why not send her this episode of clippings?

She can listen to us on Spotify, apple podcasts, anything else, but also

our website, fresh clippings dot.

Thanks so much for joining us on plant time.

I'll catch you next week.

So I think what's happening is that is now becoming an established tree.

And what used to work for it is no longer, it needs more.

Good enough.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And I've got a variety of different nozzles that would be so handy if

you, do you have to, what time is it?

It's five 30.

When do you wanna eat?

I should probably call in the yeah.

Ench lot order.

Yep.

Dad said he wants the mixed Ench lot plate.

Really good.

I haven't looked at the menu, but I'm are their choices.

Yeah.

Okay.