American Roots Outdoors w/ Alex Rutledge
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American Roots Outdoors w/ Alex Rutledge
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Before you put your plants in the ground, Wayne, you're gonna find this is an amazing tip. Crack an egg. Farm fresh egg. Not store-bought eggs, but a farm fresh egg. Crack that egg. Don't break it all the way open. Just crack it. Dump it in the bottom of the hole. Then put your water and put your plant and then cover it all the way up to the bottom limbs.
SPEAKER_05That sounds awesome.
SPEAKER_08Well, it provides a lot of protein. It provides the calcium, which presents the uh uh the fruit, you know, the ro on the fruit that sometimes you get. Yeah. Well, that is a calcium deficiency, and that hope that'll help provide the calcium those plants need to be healthy and prevent disease. So, yeah, I went out in the hen house and gathered up all the eggs.
SPEAKER_04Camel boots on my feet, bowing my hand. Walking in the early dawn to climb the.
SPEAKER_07Hey, Redbone, do you hear about that new deer feed? What new deer feet?
SPEAKER_00Hey, Buck Grits, boys, you ain't heard of that yet? Buggritz! Buggritz.com.
SPEAKER_07Well, tell us about it. What makes it better than any other deer feed?
SPEAKER_00Well, Buck Grits has got the protein of deer needs, it's got the fat of deer needs, it's got the amino acids, it's got the energy, it's got it all, brother. It's gonna bring them back after the rut and it's gonna put a rack on their head.
SPEAKER_07And it's gonna help the lactate and dough, I assume too, after they have the fawns.
SPEAKER_00That's right. Keep the fawns going and get them for the next crop.
SPEAKER_07Well, where can I get buck grits?
SPEAKER_00Buck grits.com. You can get a sample, you can order it directly from the website, and we're coming to a retailer near you. If you want to help a deer hurt, use buck grits.
SPEAKER_04We can take it to a holler. Take it to a field, a crowd's a creek of a big old hill, year after year, come on gear. And my old pair of hundred boots passed on down planet.
SPEAKER_07Why thy ground horny buck grits, apex ammunition, amped outdoors, eagle seed. That's it. That's it. I think we've got them all American Roots Outdoors, everybody. We got a great show as always lined up for you. And the topic of this show is gardening and cooking with Team ARO. I want you to pull your phone up real quick so everybody live here can see the ribs. Check these ribs out that Redmond cooked for his family this past weekend, and he never invited none of us. Y'all are familiar with us.
SPEAKER_08And the people on the radio are going ribs. Wait a minute, I can't see him.
SPEAKER_03It's a it's a scratch and sniff radio. Scratch and sniff radio. Scratch your dials, sniff it.
SPEAKER_07So anyway, welcome to the show, everybody. Uh, we're gonna talk current events real quick. Uh CRSA, Current River Smallmouth Association. First tournament is this weekend, June 4th, at Banbure, Missouri. The launching areas are Watercrest Landing and Big Springs Landing. Uh, $60 entry fee, and I think $40 each for membership. Two-person tournament, five fish weigh-in, six fish in your live well as all you can have at one time. No largemouth, all smallmouth. And uh anybody can fish it as long as your boat will pass a water patrol inspection. You gotta have a live well, aerator pump in it to keep your fish alive. And uh CRSA Club is kicked off this coming Saturday. I've been pre-fishing and I'm fishing this year with Mr. Rick York. He was on the show last week. And Rick and I caught 120 smallmouth last Thursday. Wow. And our best five, we caught uh like 38 keepers that day. And our best five would weigh 11 and a half to 12 pounds. Man. Well, where were you fishing? Uh we went on Upper Current River. We went uh Van Buren area.
SPEAKER_03Okay. Yeah, I I do have a question though for you, Alex. I uh you said you were you've been pre-fishing the last you know couple days in that here, but when when you drove by this morning, and I happened to glance in the back here, but what was what was the scuba gear for? I I don't understand scuba gear and crab boxes. I don't live baskets.
SPEAKER_06Yeah, live baskets, yeah. Yeah, yeah. Scuba gear. Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_07You gotta watch some of these people wouldn't believe that.
SPEAKER_08All right, so while we're on the subject of fishing and we're kind of doing uh uh just a menage of things here, free fishing weekend is next weekend in Missouri and Arkansas. Uh so folks, you know, maybe you don't want to buy fishing license. You're thinking, well, we only go once or twice a year. Don't want to go through buying a license. Next weekend is your weekend. In Missouri, free fishing weekend is Saturday and Sunday. All day long. In Missouri, you can fish any public waters, no license needed. Now, you do have to follow all the rules and regulations, the length limits, the possession limits, the daily limits, that all applies. You just don't have to have a license. Now, in Arkansas, the free fishing weekend begins at noon on Friday, June the 10th, and goes until midnight, Sunday night. And again, all rules and regulations apply. You just don't have to have a license.
SPEAKER_03And that's for residents only, correct?
SPEAKER_08Uh residents, no, non-residents as well. Non-residents as well. Absolutely. Absolutely. Anybody in Kemp State, Missouri and fish without a license, same way folks in Missouri can go to Arkansas and fish without a license. Free fishing weekend.
SPEAKER_07Believe it or not, I heard somebody griping about this. Really? You ready? They just grip it. Well, if they can give somebody free fishing, why don't they give us free roading hunting uh opportunities? Or hunting over corn or bait.
SPEAKER_08Well, I can tell they do that anyway.
SPEAKER_06Yeah. Yeah.
SPEAKER_08Legally.
SPEAKER_06Yeah.
unknownYeah.
SPEAKER_06And look what it's done. So anyway.
SPEAKER_08And look what it's done to their deer and turkey hunting.
SPEAKER_06Yeah, you can't do that. Not exactly.
SPEAKER_08It's not good. All right, so but anyway, free fishing weekend. So really, I mean, seriously, folks, get out there and do some fishing. Yeah. And you know, take the whole family. This is an opportunity to get the whole family together, go down to the creek, go to the river, go to one of the lakes, and just get out and have some fun.
SPEAKER_07Yeah. There you have it. You might get somebody hooked. Carrie Robbins. I I talked to Kerry Robbins from Gainesville. And he's on his way uh catching stripers and hybrids right now. He's been catching some big ones.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, 25 to 30 pounds.
SPEAKER_0725 to 30 pound stripers. Yeah. Yeah, not small. He didn't want to say where he was going, but he's been catching 25 pounders uh on Norfolk. Wow. So that's a good fish.
SPEAKER_08I mean, it's not as big as the stripers get. They get huge, but that's a real that's that was I've never caught a 25-pound fish.
SPEAKER_03I think the week the week before when we were talking to him, he was catching uh he caught a couple 50 pounders, didn't he?
SPEAKER_07Uh 40. 40 pounds. 40 plus. Carrie is pretty well known for catching huge stripers. And uh give a big shout out to him. Shout out to my nephew J.D. Rutledge. His birthday was today. My sister Jules' birthday was here a couple of days ago. And a happy birthday to everybody out there. Happy anniversary to everybody out there, too. I'd like to thank all of our listeners from all over the country that listened to us, support us.
SPEAKER_03Uh it's my aunt's birthday too, today. My aunt Cheryl. Give her a happy shout-out. Happy shout out to you and happy birthday. Can't wait to get back to Mississippi and see them. I haven't seen my family in six. Going on six years since Braxton, I think, was two weeks old. Wow.
SPEAKER_08My uh oldest son had a birthday on Wednesday. He was 43.
SPEAKER_07Happy birthday.
SPEAKER_08Yeah.
SPEAKER_03It's a month for birthdays. Yeah.
SPEAKER_07Month for birthdays.
SPEAKER_08I'd like to give an update on the uh, I think they're a 500 St. Louis Cardinals team uh who has now won seven of their last ten. Uh just finished off, as we record this on Wednesday. Finished off a sweep of the San Diego Padres and uh gonna head to Chicago take on the Cubs up at Wrigley.
SPEAKER_06Yeah, the mouth made 500. You watch. They won't be much better than 500.
SPEAKER_03I don't think you have to be in baseball, though, do you?
SPEAKER_08No, like I said last week, if you finish 10 games over 500, you're likely gonna make the playoffs.
SPEAKER_03Wow. Of course, football lately, depending upon what division you're in, you could be 500 and then make the playoffs.
SPEAKER_08You can play in the NFC East and be sub-500 and make the playoffs.
SPEAKER_07Well, I'm a huge Cardinals fan, but I get upset at the pitching, and they have been beating San Diego. But uh I'm concerned about their pitching.
SPEAKER_08Who, by the way, has the third best record in the National League? San Diego Padres.
SPEAKER_07You heard what he said, third. Third, not first.
SPEAKER_08Only the Mets and the Dodgers are better than the Padres.
SPEAKER_07Okay.
SPEAKER_08And the Cardinals are at number four now after the sweep. Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_07Well, there you have it, everybody. We're gonna give it a break. When we come back, we're gonna talk about gardening. Yeah, they they jabbed me again about the Cardinals. We gotta jab about the. Oh man. Don't go away. We'll be back with more American Roots Outdoors right after this.
SPEAKER_02Right here, right now, this is Chance Waters listening to American Roots Outdoors with Alex Rutley, the Ozark herd bull.
SPEAKER_04Wishing on some love.
unknownI've been on a big boy for a while. I could load him in the back of my truck.
SPEAKER_07Redbone, what would you say if I could tell you that you could kill a buck on a certain day?
SPEAKER_08I would say you're crazy. There's no way to predict how the bucks are gonna move.
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SPEAKER_07You go to wiseysmartcam.com. I'm using them. You should too. Make your hunt easier. Use wiseye. Eagle Seed and Neutral Plot present American Roots Outdoors. Welcome back to segment two of the show. We are in the studio and we got a big storm front coming in as we are speaking. Uh storms in our area. We got about the recording, by the way. On Wednesday. We're recording Wednesday. And this will be distributed out Thursday evening to the networks. And our podcast will be downloaded to all the carriers. Monday morning or Sunday evening. Sunday evening, yeah. Yeah, yeah. So anyway, our subject is gardening and cooking. Okay. I'm going to talk about our garden to kick it off. Or you you kick yours off, Redbone, because you got a big one.
SPEAKER_08Uh yeah, I don't have a big garden, but I grow a lot of stuff in a in a pretty small space. And uh uh let's see, right now I'm growing uh cherry tomatoes, cucumbers, uh, green onions, uh, five types of lettuce, jalapenos, and I've got tomatoes and squash. I didn't do green beans this year because I was late because of the wet weather, it's late getting just too late to get green beans in reality. I'll wait and grow those in the fall. But uh I got a couple of tips. And I and I went online uh to a company that raises tomatoes. This is one of these organic, uh, off-the-grid families, and they were giving tips on how to make better tomatoes, how to grow better tomatoes. Because I wanted to put in less plants and more production because you can take better care of less plants and maybe get more fruit. So, a couple of things. When you put your tomatoes in the ground, there's always two little sprouts that come out toward the bottom of the tomato plant. They said, pick those off. They won't ever do anything, they're nothing. Pick them off, prune those off, and then when you sucklings. And before you put your plants in the ground, Wayne, you're gonna find this is an amazing tip. Crack an egg. Farm fresh egg, not store-bought eggs, but a farm fresh egg, crack that egg, don't break it all the way open, just crack it, dump it in the bottom of the hole. Then put your water and put your plant and then cover it all the way up to the bottom limbs.
SPEAKER_05That sounds awesome.
SPEAKER_08Well, it well it provides a lot of protein. It provides the calcium, which presents the uh uh the fruit, you know, the rot on the fruits that sometimes you get. Yeah. Well, that is a calcium deficiency, and that hope that'll help provide the calcium those plants need to be healthy and prevent disease. So, yeah, I went out in the hen house and gathered up all the eggs. And I went out cracking. Need your eggs are gone. Oh, she's got plenty, believe me. Uh so that that's one tip right there. Now, and I've always been told by some of the old timers, put a spoonful of Epsom salt in the bottom of a hole. Or after you get them planted, sprinkle it around the dirt. Yeah. And and which basically does the same thing. Uh and you can also, if you have that issue after your plants start producing fruit, you can sprinkle powdered milk.
SPEAKER_07Powdered milk.
SPEAKER_08Powdered milk around the outside. What is milk full of? Calcium. Calcium. So you can sprinkle some cow uh some powdered milk around uh the outside of the plants and uh and do the same thing. But uh I raise all of my shallow growing plants in raised beds. My my cherry tomatoes, I have it a four by four bed, I have two of them. They are loaded up. I put the grape tomatoes, they grow in a bunch like grapes, and they are just loaded up. I I grow my uh cucumbers. I built two troughs that are uh 18 inches wide and nine feet long, and I put a foot between them, uh, which I fill with just rock, and then on the the the inside of there, I put an eight-foot-tall fence or two four foot lengths of fence, one on top of the other, and all my cucumbers grow up the fence. So I don't have to have I don't have to have a lot of room in the gun. Yeah, so they grow up and they're easy to pick. That's what Linda does.
SPEAKER_07Linda does the same thing.
SPEAKER_08Yeah, and a lot of people will take cattle panels and and bend them over and make an archway and go. Yeah, and then they just hang down. They just hang down and you just pick them. I've seen people do it with tomato plants, too. Uh, some people do, yeah. Uh so just I just wanted to pass along, just a couple ideas thinking, well, I'd love to grow cucumbers, but I don't have room. Yeah, you do. You can grow some in a you know, a two by four, you could put out, well, you could put out four cucumber hills and grow them up up a fence, and you could grow all kinds of cucumbers for making pickles.
SPEAKER_07I got a question for you. Yeah. How do you prepare your soil? Let's say you're first breaking your soil. I know we're going backwards instead of forwards here. You you talked about what you got planted and how to uh treat the the plant itself when you put it in the ground. How do you prepare your soil? Let's talk about from what day you break the dirt and what you do to your dirt to get it ready.
SPEAKER_08You know, I try to get my above ground stuff, my my above-ground stuff, the in-ground stuff, the lettuce, radishes, onions, the the cherry tomatoes. I try to get all that stuff in uh by uh uh Mother's Day. Now the in-ground stuff, I like to get it done by Memorial Day. And to the tomatoes and the squash. I did get a little bit of a head start on the squash because we're gonna be eating squash at my house in a week. Oh, yeah. Save me some. Got the little bit of yellow crookneck squash that are that are already growing. Uh but uh I think Memorial Day is kind of the magic day for me, and that's why uh and all I do is till my soil.
SPEAKER_07Do you do you put anything in your soil at all? Fertilizer, lime. Uh I'm gonna share my strategies of what we do. But then what we we got different opinions here. We got, you know, different people, but uh go ahead.
SPEAKER_08Yeah, well every year in the raised beds, the the soil, some of it disappears. Now the birds take it or whatever, because you know so yeah, I do I have to replenish that soil which is already fertilized. Because I buy the bag to the Miracle Grow gardening soil. And uh and I use that. And uh then in the ground, uh I usually don't do any fertilizer when I plant or before I plant, before I break it, but afterwards I I might spray a little neutriplot on those plants when I get them going.
SPEAKER_07That's good. That's what I do. I if you I I made a post today and Wayne, you all saw it. Uh my peach trees and my strawberry patch in the garden. I had some of the Nutriplot Nutriguard uh hanging from a limb right there. Did you see all the peaches?
SPEAKER_08I did see all the peaches.
SPEAKER_07I treated that the root system about a month ago, all around the root system. Yep. Then I got uh suckling uh small uh peach starters coming up out of the ground. So I sprayed each one of them. You ought to see them. Yeah, explode it. And did you see how thick the tomato plants was with the neutral plot?
SPEAKER_08Yeah, yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_07It'll really make strawberries plants.
SPEAKER_08Yeah, strawberries. If they're if they're struggling a little bit, they will green right up with the neutral plot.
SPEAKER_07Yeah.
SPEAKER_08I need to spray some of that on my blackberries. I have blackberry bushes now that are 12 feet high. You've got some, right? Or do I need to bring you. Yeah, you have plenty left. Uh yeah, I do. Yeah, I think so. But I need I need to actually spray some on my on my tame blackberries, which are just unbelievable.
SPEAKER_07Guy Poyer would just come on here on our live Facebook. He says, uh, if you have too many green onions, I chop mine into quarter-inch pieces, put in zip lock freezer bags. Then grab a handful whenever you need. That's a good tip. That's a really good tip. Anyone else got tips on uh the Facebook Live here? Be sure to share some with us and we'll share them over the show. Uh anything you want to add to your your listeners here talking about your garden to share more tips with them before we go to Wayne.
SPEAKER_08Uh yeah, I I have a tame bear that stands outside my garden. And if anybody comes in it while I'm not home, he attacks them.
SPEAKER_07Don't bother my crace's garden. Yeah. We're going to go to a break. Everybody, we come back, we're going to talk with Wayne Locke about him and his homestead with Miss Renee and how they prepare their garden and what they got growing this year. Then we'll do mine in the fourth segment. Then we're going to share some other stuff, tips with you that we do with our gardens in the bonus segment. Don't go away. We'll be right back with more American Roots Outdoors right after this.
SPEAKER_01This is Brenda Valentine, and you're listening to American Roots Outdoors with Alex Rutledge and friends.
SPEAKER_07How many of you are tired of your batteries running out of energy, out of power? Let me tell you about amped outdoors. I've changed using the batteries I have had in the past. Amped Outdoors, I have the new 80 amp 24 volt single battery, weighs 46 pounds. This thing has produced energy all day long. Tested for two days, total use 11 hours. Cannot tell the batteries have even lost any energy. Go to amped outdoors if you want to be successful and not run out of power. Amped Outdoors and Apex Eminition presents American Roots Outdoors. Welcome back to the show. We are in the studio in Thayer, Missouri, K Country 95 Studio, recording our show. And now we're going to Mr. Wayne Locke to talk about his homestead, his gardening. And we've got a lot of rain here, so some people ain't put all their garden in yet. A lot of people's got starters put in buckets or whatever, and I think that's what Wayne's doing. Let's talk about your setup. What do you do to get your garden spots ready? And let's talk about what you've got planted right now and what your strategy is and any tips that you got for gardeners.
SPEAKER_03Well, strategy-wise, things have changed over the last 24 hours because I don't know if anybody knew or not, but my truck was broken into last night. Oh no. Yeah, and uh I I went in there and I it was weird though because doors are wide open, tailgate was wide, you know, down, and I look inside, everything's still in there. Wise cameras are in there. My bags, two bags of Eagle Seat are still there, my my uh uh gun that I was uh turkey hunting with was still there, not gone. Nope, nope, but you know what they took? My two jugs of gasoline, which was worth more than all that combined. No, I'm just kidding. I'm just kidding. Nothing would happen over at my place. But um, we did buy a mule because we're going to uh so we're gonna do a plow and mule now. So Alex. We got a mule? We got a mule, so yeah, so we have a mule, so we're briar, you're taking a mule. It does. It does.
SPEAKER_08We have a real John Deere Mule.
SPEAKER_03Not a John Deere mule. Yeah, we've got a real one. So we're uh we've been uh I told my wife, I said, maybe we had a look at getting one of those plows like the Amish views and put that strap around me and let the mule do the work and break the ground and uh because I can't afford gas for the road atilder.
SPEAKER_06I just vision Wade across the street with a strap around his shoulders and mule dragging him through the He's never even seen that done.
SPEAKER_03No, no, but I walked a little house on the prairie when I was younger, so I know how this gets done. Let the meetles do all the work. Exactly. All you got to do is steer, from my understanding. It can't be that hard.
SPEAKER_08There is a reason they invented motor.
SPEAKER_03Especially here in Missouri, you know, because you plow two feet, you hit a rock or a boulder, you got to get a crowbar out. And you got to get a crowbar out, dig it up. And no, actually, going back to on a more serious note, going back to what we were saying is um we've only I started I broke my garden three years ago. Alex came over with his tractor, we broke the ground, and it for three years we've been picking rocks out of that garden, and it's like we just not seem to be making any headway.
SPEAKER_08I got news for you. If you're there for 30 years, you're still gonna go back to the road. Still picking rocks, right? Right.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, exactly. But I mean it's a it's a learning experience. I mean, from Ohio, we didn't have to have raised beds. We had 18 inches of just beautiful rich soil. So this is all new to us. And we tried the in-ground stuff last year, the last year and you know, two years, and nothing grew. Our tomato plants got like 18 inches high. Uh, the only thing we that went phenomenal on us was the cucumbers. And I mean, I'm telling you what, it they grew. We did the hog panels and and that we had uh 10 rows of hog of the hog panels and that. And we I I we had so many cucumbers last year we were throwing them away. We couldn't give them away fast enough.
SPEAKER_07Oh and you were just I got one for you. Do you know why in the Ozarks you see people with busted teeth and stuff? From the rocks, from the rocks and their vegetables from the garden.
SPEAKER_06I can believe it.
SPEAKER_09No, no, no, not still not getting me tricked on that.
SPEAKER_03But uh, you know, one of the tips I can give that we did right off the bat when we talked about where we were going to put our garden that is we'd got a soil sample. And we just took it, just like you do with your food plots. We talk about that all the time. But if you take your soil sample over to the any of the extension offices through the University of Missouri, they will test it. If you tell them what vegetables you're looking to plant, what herbs you're looking to plant, whether it's food plot or you know, tomatoes or whatever, they will actually come back with what you need to to uh put in for amendments to your soil for that particular vegetable. Uh so you know that's a big tip for everybody. I mean, we needed tons of lime that first year. Um, and we put it in, and now this year we had it tested already this year, and our lime is actually good this year. Um, but we're doing raised beds, or we're we're really going smaller on the garden this year just because of the fact with us building the new house, we just don't have time for a big garden. But so I'm doing, I got three raised beds. My wife started from seeds, cucumbers, tomatoes, and peppers um that we're gonna be putting in. So the cucumbers will go in the ground because we found a sweet spot for that, that they just grow like crazy, but the other stuff will go on raised beds for the first time we've ever had to do raised beds here.
SPEAKER_08Yeah, I and I think you'll be happy with that because you can actually grow a lot of stuff in a small space and it makes it much easier to take care of. And back to my point from earlier in the show if you are strapped for time, like I am, I mean, I work 10, sometimes 12 hours a day, I'm kind of strapped for time to keep up with garden when things really start going 100 miles an hour. So I have to be able to have something that I can still take care of in the limited amount of time that I have. So I love the raised garden beds.
SPEAKER_03Yeah. Absolutely love it. And one thing we invested in this year is the uh sun shade for the uh to go over the beds because we're like with Alex's property and his garden, they're in, you know, they got trees all around them, so they're they got a lot of shade. They're in sun part of the day, shade a lot of the day. Uh with us, ours is in the backyard, and there's just no trees around at all. So they're in the sun all day long. We saw last year, we think they just got burned up too easy. Uh the heat down here. Yeah, the heat down here is just was pretty bad. So we got sun shade uh that we're gonna be, I'm gonna build the little trellises for, and then we'll put the sunshades over. Um so hopefully that'll really help, you know, with the production of that.
SPEAKER_08I have trees in the house because I I strategically put stuff where in the mornings I get a little bit of shade. You get that noontime sun, and then the afternoon, there are trees in the house that shade to things late in the afternoon when the sun just really gets really hot. So I don't have a whole lot of trouble with things burning uh because I do have some shaded periods through the day.
SPEAKER_03Yeah. Well, and you were talking about, you know, uh limited space and how you can you know do things. One one of the things I see, because I belong to quite a few of the homesteading Facebook pages, is people use the uh those feed buckets, uh fertilizer buckets and that, that you know, those big red ones, the big tubs.
SPEAKER_08Yeah, tub they're tubs, why not buckets?
SPEAKER_03Yeah, tubs. Well, no, actually the buckets too. You'll see them with the buckets. Yeah, five-gallon buckets. But yeah, the tubs also uh uh and they will use um uh rosebush trellises in there. Uh so that you know that's just another way of doing it. Yeah. Uh if you're limited on space or and the nice thing about that is the portability of it. Yeah. You know, you can move them to a certain you know, a location that may be better suited for you.
SPEAKER_08And if you want to grow green beans and don't want to move the I usually do the bush beans, but you can actually use the uh the pole beans and you can use cattle panels or some kind of a trellis and grow the pole beans. You don't have to go out and cut poles and make the big teepee like my uncle Joe used to do. Right. That was so cool to come to Thayer from St. Louis in the in the summertime and had these teepees that were just covered in green beans. And I've always wanted to do that, but I always just used us the bush beans because he likes bush beer. Well, that too.
SPEAKER_03I like bush beans, but I think we're talking a different kind of that secret recipe is locked up and that dog is guarding it. The bush, the bush green beans. Green beans, there you go. But I know we gotta go to break here, and when we come back, it's Alex's turn to talk about what they're doing on their garden. And I'm gonna keep taking notes from both Mike and Alex here because they know a lot more about this than I do. Uh we're still new to this down here, so we were raised on the other side of the street.
SPEAKER_08Yes, yes. And we still got our teeth.
SPEAKER_07Don't go away, you're listening to it. But you ain't got no hairs outdoors right here, right now. We'll be right back with more after this.
SPEAKER_01Hey y'all, it's Tyler Ford, and you're hanging with me and my good buddy, Alex Rutledge on American Roots Outdoors.
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SPEAKER_03Oh, I how I try to grow vegetables.
SPEAKER_07How I try to grow vegetables. Linda and I uh we break our garden in March. Usually we go by the almanac. We always go by the almanac, the best time to break the garden. So we break our garden, and before we broke our garden this past winter, I put, I can't remember how many pounds of lime on there to neutralize the acids in the garden because I got pine trees around our garden. And the way our garden's set up, we get sun until about two, three o'clock in the day. Then the evening we got shade from all the pine trees and oak trees in our yard. So that's what we do. Yeah.
SPEAKER_08Hottest part of the day, you really need that shade.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, yeah. So And you only have pine trees because you Linda can't get you away long enough for her to cut them down.
SPEAKER_07She hates her pine trees. She hates those pine trees. She does, she hates them. So anyway, after that, we we break our ground in March uh uh with my tractor, and then we'll go over the tiller, and then we we we start planting our stuff again by the almanac. Linda never plants anything early, she does most of the planting. Okay, we got a strawberry plant that you gave us, you and Renee gave us from last year. They're producing strawberries right now. And our asparagus keeps coming back year after year. I love the asparagus, okay? So another thing I started doing uh after we get things in the ground, Linda started putting them in mounds. I don't know if you you've seen what she's doing, Wayne. Yeah, but she she creates mounds and covers uh a lot of the plan up of the of her tomatoes or whatever it may be, plant cucumbers, whatever. We've already got cucumbers, uh tomatoes on our tomato plants, size of a quarter. Wow. Yeah, and our peach trees, uh, that's beside the garden. Uh again, I treated them about a month ago, month and a half ago, with neutral plot, the root system, and it's made them explode. My my trees are loaded with peaches. So we use a lot of uh horse manure sometimes. My dad always used horse manure and we put around the plants when we set them in the ground. And a lot of people use cattle cow manure, but cows eat a lot of hay and hay seed passes through their you know the droppings. And but we use horse manure. And Epsom salt does work. And talking about tomato plants, uh, they're called suckers. Anything that's between a fork, it's in a little bitty stem, break it off. My cousin Randy Sartan's the one that shared that with me. You gotta see his gardens. He grows some of the best tomatoes in the country. So that's how we plant. And we go back and we try to keep every weed out of it so it don't draw from the plant itself. Right. So we like to go into and we never water uh in the hot sun. Never water in the hot sun. We always wait for the sun to go down when the plants have cooled down a little bit to water them that evening.
SPEAKER_03Okay, well, now here's a question for you. Speaking of watering, and and Mike, give me your two cents on this or three cents, whatever you think it's worth. But last year we had did the sprinkler system, and it seemed like you know, we knit we knew you don't want to water during the middle of the day, and you don't want to water in the evening because then you get the mildew and stuff like that, you know, best time of water is in the morning. On these a lot of these homesteader uh pages that I'm on, people that have moved from the north down to here said that they found from advice from other locals is that instead of using a sprinkler system, use a soaking system. Would you guys agree with that?
SPEAKER_08I would. Yeah, and a lot of times when I water my plants, and I don't remember who it was told me, and and we gotta wrap up here in about two minutes, guys. But somebody told me one time, uh, for best results, never get your plants wet. The tomato plants, water around the base only.
SPEAKER_09Okay.
SPEAKER_08Uh now, every once in a while I still turn the hose on, sprinkle if I'm watering, and just seems like it gives them a little relief. But for the most part, I just water around the base of the plants. Uh and and those soaker hoses, I bought one of those from mom one time and uh many years ago, and that was the best thing ever. She just ran those hoses and turned it on, and the water just seeped out right into the ground, right next to the plants, whether it was cucumbers or tomatoes or whatever she was growing. And it was just yeah, I I would agree with that 100%.
SPEAKER_07I want to share one more thing with you before we go to uh uh wrap up the show. My brother-in-law and my sister Jules Utraman, Ben J, they used to always lay old carpet or plastic down between each row. They didn't have to weed.
SPEAKER_03That's a good point.
SPEAKER_07And if you laid carpet down, you didn't lay plastic, it didn't cause the ground to get too hot. So they'd lay carpet down, and he'd they'd keep the the carpet, old carpet, wet and moist. And but you wouldn't believe how good a garden they grew. So little things like that.
SPEAKER_08Another helpful hint there is feed sacks. If you if you feed cattle and stuff like that, uh uh take the empty feed sacks, flatten them out, and you can actually cut them down the sides, make them longer, and just lay those, just put a rock every once in a while to hold them down on a windy day, or put rocks down to hold them down, then sprinkle them with the water, and that will help keep the weeds down for a long time. Now eventually they'll start to rot and the weeds will grow through.
SPEAKER_03Uh but uh start saving mine because I throw them away every day. You can use feed sacks.
SPEAKER_08Yeah.
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SPEAKER_07Welcome back to American Roots Outdoors, our bonus segment. If you're listening to this, you are obviously a podcast follower and listener. Uh we've had a great show this past recording. Yep. And we talked about gardening and we're gonna talk about recipes now, but I'm gonna talk about social media real quick. Uh Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, TikTokers, TikTokers, TikTokers. Are you TikTok? You TikTok?
SPEAKER_08Yeah, I do. You know, I've never posted anything yet on TikTok, but I do have an idea for uh for a video. I'm gonna try and get done and post on TikTok. But the other day I got a notice on my phone. You know, they send you those notices, and a notice says What did the notice say? The notice says, I like older guys. So you thought so I thought, what the heck? I'll just click on this. Yeah, yeah. And I clicked on it, it was an old woman. I was like, okay. Probably a hacker. Now you're hacking.
SPEAKER_06Whom womp womp.
SPEAKER_08That didn't actually happen. That was just a joke. That was a joke I just thought of a minute ago.
SPEAKER_07Kind of kind of like the Ozarks, no teeth, broken teeth, eating garden vegetables with rocks in it. But TikTok is hilarious.
SPEAKER_03I still say if Eagle Seed could come up with a uh a genetic form of a bean that has some kind of razor or diamond tip root system, they'd probably cut through rocks. They grow great here in the in the Ozarks.
SPEAKER_07Hey, you wouldn't believe how good they do grow here. You already know that Mike and uh Nikki.
SPEAKER_03Oh, yeah.
SPEAKER_07They grew them in rocks over there, and Grant Woods grows them in rocks over at Branson. Yeah. Oh, yeah.
SPEAKER_08On top of a limestone hill.
SPEAKER_07Yeah. Right. Yeah. Let's talk recipes. All right. Okay. Uh vegetables. H1 of you share a recipe with vegetables. You got two minutes.
SPEAKER_08Oh, vegetables.
SPEAKER_07How do you cook vegetables?
SPEAKER_08Okay, you know, I like to uh uh either give me a a little a little aluminum pan or make one out of some aluminum foil. A lot of times I do that if I don't have an aluminum pan. Uh chop my vegetables up. I like chop them up pretty pretty thick. I'm talking about green peppers, onions, red peppers, uh squash when it's in season, uh zucchini if it's in season. I mean, just whatever we've got in the fridge. Chop that all up and uh melt me some butter and put some garlic salt in it. And and just when I when my meat's about done on the grill, just set that on the grill and just saute those vegetables and that garlic salt. And then when I get done, drain off all the garlic salt and I sprinkle a little. And and folks, in this segment, you're gonna find out I love rendezvous seasoning. I love rendezvous uh uh restaurant in Memphis. And I sell their seasoning seasoning, it's the best in the world, my opinion. And I sprinkle that on the vegetables, and it is unbelievable.
SPEAKER_03Well, judging from your ribs that I saw the picture of on Facebook, yeah. Uh it ain't just the um, I don't think it's just your opinion that your ribs are gonna taste that good because I'll tell you what, I I saw your picture and I was scratching my phone and sniffing it. I I even licked the screen, I'm like, man, this ain't working right. So yeah, I just apparently my invite though, uh, you know, Alex got lost in the mail or something.
SPEAKER_08I can't figure out what happened, but I I think your mule ate it.
SPEAKER_07I tell you what I like to do. I'm gonna talk share one of mine. Uh I like to take cabbage. My wife and I take cabbage and uh cut it in small pieces and take butter and bacon grease and put onions in with it and skillet fry it, and iron cast uh cast iron skillet and fry it. You talk about good. And jalapeno in it, yeah. Sometimes uh Linda takes cornbread and puts sugar in her cornbread when she makes uh cornbread muffins for eating fish and stuff, and she'll take jalapeno pieces, put in her sweet uh jalapeno cornbread. It's delicious. Another one for you. We take corn, cut the corn off the cob, uh, and we'll take it and fry it in butter and bacon grease there too, and put onions in with that. That's another thing we like to do.
SPEAKER_03That sounds good.
SPEAKER_07Yeah, yeah. And I mean, I'm a cheese freak, so I like to take this is a secret. You you like popcorn. Everybody likes popcorn. You can buy this seasoning flavors, cheddar. Yeah, right. I take the cheddar and sprinkle it on top of my corn. Oh, there you go. Cheddar, popcorn, seasoning. No.
SPEAKER_08Well, let me tell you another one with the cabbages real that cabbage, hollow it out, get a hole in the top and hollow it out, and put you some onions and green peppers or whatever in there, wrap it in foil, poke some holes in the top, and put that in your smoker for about five or six hours.
SPEAKER_03Oh boy, that sounds good.
SPEAKER_08Smoked cabbage. Absolutely phenomenal.
SPEAKER_03Yeah. Now, nothing against you and nothing against Linda, yeah, but Mallory. Your daughter, Mallory. Now that girl can cook. Let me tell you what, you get her on that blackstone grill you got out there on your deck, man. Blackstone for listening. We we do need a sponsor. We need a yeah, we need a grill sponsor. That's right. Holy cow, that girl can cook on that blackstone. She's a shit. She reminds me a lot of JD. I mean, JD does some carboard grilling.
SPEAKER_07Thursday night or carved board grilling, but uh boy Mallory can you ever watch JD on Thursday night? Yeah, I do, yeah.
SPEAKER_03But boy Mallory can cook up some wigs.
SPEAKER_07She cooked hibachi the other night for everybody. Hibachian. Yeah. But anyway, uh we talked vegetable. I'll talk meat now. I want to talk something else before I go to meat. I found some chicken of the woods mushrooms a week or so ago. A big one. I mean bigger than a basketball. A great big one, like two basketballs. So we de-leafed it, broke it into leash, it looked like cabbage meat. So what you do is you clean it real good in cold water and you lay it on a pan and you freeze it that way. Then you take them, put them in a bag. Two amount of servings you want in Ziploc bags. They taste just like chicken breast. And we roll it in flour and salt and pepper and fry it in bacon, grease, and butter. Bacon, grease, butter, my cholesterol is high. Just talking about it.
SPEAKER_03I say there's a common theme with him right now. It seems like bacon grease and stuff. It reminds me of my grandmother, my grandma Brown. She had a big old tub of bacon grease that sat on her stove all the time. And it's like, man, grandma ain't cooked bacon like in a month. Yeah. You know, but boy, that bacon grease, like she said. Well, she said she because I always ask there, so you ever worried about that going bad? You know, when I became a teenager and I was going out there and you ever worry about that going bad? She's like, ain't nothing that a black, hot smoking skillet ain't gonna kill.
SPEAKER_08That's exactly right. Yeah, and going back to the cabbage again, because I love cabbage. Oh, I'll do too. I'm a cabbage. Do you ever have cabbage steaks? No. Yeah, cut your cabbage uh crossways about two inches thick, and then coat that with olive oil. Oh, wow. And cook that in a skillet just like you would cook a steak. A little salt, a little salt and pepper, maybe put a little garlic on it. Oh, absolutely.
SPEAKER_03Now, do you cook your there's one thing we used to do at the fire station all the time. That is we took the big, huge garlic cloves, uh, the heads, and we would just cut them in half, open them up, and we just put butter on top of it with some a little bit of uh herbs and stuff on top, and then wrap it in foil, stick it in the oven, bake at 350 for about 50 minutes. Or no, it's no, excuse me, 250 for 50 minutes. When you brought them out, you just take that clove out and it would just melt in your mouth. Oh my goodness, what? I've never done that, but it's candy. Yeah. I mean we were going to be able to do that.
SPEAKER_07One last, one last uh steak. How I like to fix a steak. You ready? Alex Rutledge Steak. Linda Bird Rutledge Steak, I should say. Take any cut you want, okay? Uh thaw it out. Hopefully it's a fresh cut. Uh take your steak, and what Linda does is she takes and seasons it on both sides, whatever her favorite may be, Montreal or Cavendars or uh sweet baby rays, any kind of seasoning. She just bastes it, like dry rub it. Then she'll take it, uh pan, Dale's liquid seasoning. Liquid seasoning, and she'll half and half with water, about a fourth of the bottle, and let that steak marinate overnight or steaks overnight in that bowl. And she'll flip it every four hours to let it marinate, absorb. Then you put it on a smoker like Oklahoma Joe's and smoke it real slow. Then take your a juice that you marinate your marinate in and brush it as you're cooking it. It'll make you take back things you never did steal. It's so good. I promise you.
SPEAKER_03Wait now for me, the best seasoning I ever had was uh the guy that actually did my taxidermy, uh Jeff Mossberger, um, just outside the suburb of Cleveland there. He uh had his own seasoning company that him and his wife Tina started, and it was slabum seasoning, it was called. And um, oh my goodness, I'll tell you what, he had different kinds, but there was nothing better I had ever, and it's still to this day, I've tried other stuff that's really, really good. You know, that stuff that you gave me that one time, really, really good, but man, nothing just ever stopped that slab them. But unfortunately, Jeff went through some medical issues and he he's got Parkinson's and that, and so he had us, you know, quit the uh the producing the uh seasonings and that, but man, was that good. And we used to put that in our hamburgers and all that kind of stuff. But um, speaking of hamburgers, and you know, you were talking about squash, take your squash, cube it up, put it inside your hamburger with mozzarella cheese, put your patty on top, seal it, a little soy sauce on top of that, fry it up. There you go, everybody.
SPEAKER_08One more thing about that when you're talking about because you didn't let me just talk about cooking meat, which is my specialty. This is very quick. I just want to make a statement. If I'm eating beef, I don't want it marinated, I don't want it rubbed, because when I eat beef, I want to taste beef.
SPEAKER_03Really?
SPEAKER_08You don't want to marinate your beef. You don't marinate your steaks or roast or nothing. I know. Wow. No, if I'm eating beef, I will eat. Well, I will eat it, but I if if I'm cooking. If I'm eating steak, yeah, the only thing I might do is melt a little garlic butter and baste it when it's done. Okay, and then flip it a couple times to get that hot.
SPEAKER_03But no, I'll roll your own butter uh garlic butter in logs to put the cold frozen one.
SPEAKER_08I just put some garlic, salt, and some butter and mix it together.
SPEAKER_07But uh, you're making me hungry.
SPEAKER_08Yeah, me too. That's why we need to go ahead and do that. Hey, great show.
SPEAKER_07Gardening and recipes, cooking with Team ARO. If you like this, please let us know if you want to hear more of this, because we're gonna try to cover different subjects throughout this season. Next week.
SPEAKER_03Next week it'll be Roadkill Possum. Yeah, road recipe something. And raccoon. And raccoon.
SPEAKER_07That's right. Yeah, we're gonna kill lots of raccoons. They're invaders. But thanks for listening. Again, share the outdoors with somebody you love, no matter what it is. Hunting, fishing, planting the garden. Remember. I mean your roots run deep and strong.
SPEAKER_08There's no reason to fear the wind.