All right, y'all, welcome to another lawns across America podcast. Today I'll be covering several

topics, including the massive drought in Florida. My trip to the Flower and Garden Show at Epcot,

where I enjoyed a beautiful mint julep in favor of the Kentucky Derby coming up. We're going to go

into a new tool that measures carbon sequestration.

I'm going to talk about some different penetrants and surfactants and things I've been learning about there.

Do a water drop penetration test.

And in the end, I'm going to react to two videos, which I don't usually do.

I'm going to react to one about weed and feed and react to another one about the Pro Vista St. Augustine grass. Let's get into this week's podcast. What's up, y'all? I'm

Alan Hayne the Lawn Care Nut. Thanks for coming back for yet another Lawns Across America podcast.

Today, we are at the end of April heading into May.

It's been such a slow start for y'all up north. It seems like looking at soil attempts across

the country. Seems like this has been an extremely slow start to the season. You all have to

let me know if that's the case. But typically, as you guys know, I said in the last podcast,

the main dandelion rush usually comes the last week of April to the first week of May or when the Kentucky Derby hits. We are coming up to the Derby. Speaking of that, was at Epcot this last weekend for the first time ever, did the little tour through the countries. Yeah, first time ever. Grown, born and raised in Florida, never went to Epcot, went to Disney a few times, but I just remember,

you know, I was born in 1973, so first time I ever went to Disney was around 78, 79, and I have a

distinct memory of the tickets being $30 to get in for Florida residents. They used to advertise

Florida resident discounts. My dad was not happy about that $30 price tag. He thought that was way too high. And again, this is 1978, nine. I think Epcot came around maybe in the early 80s, but either way, it was more of an educational thing. And my parents were like, nah, we're not doing that educational stuff. So I'd never been until now. Now, it was fun. I enjoyed it. Of course, Guardians of the Galaxy, incredible. I'm a huge Groot fan. I am Groot. In fact, I named my new FJ Cruiser that I wrapped in tan. It was already a tan color, but I wrapped it in a little darker sandy tan with a matte color. I have nicknamed

that car Groot. I don't know if you guys nickname your cars. Maybe that's a nerd thing that I do.

My tundra is called the Beaver because I bought it from Beaver Toyota in St. Augustine, Florida,

over by there. But it, but yeah, I named the fj and if named it grute so uh but anyway

guardians of the galaxy excellent excellent ride we got the come on shake your body baby do that con

no that plays all the way through there's like four or five songs they play you get one one'll come on

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