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Welcome back. You're in the gardenwith Ron Wilson. You know,
every now and then a really coolnew product comes along in the gardening industry,
and this spring, boy, I'lltell you what I found one that

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I think is absolutely well. Ilooked at this thing and said, why
didn't I think of that? Becauseit's an I mean, it's just wonderful
the way this thing works. Whatam I talking about, Well, you
know, all spring, and especiallyright now as dry as it is out
there, we're talking about watering thosenewly planted trees. And shrubs, even
the existing ones as well. Sometimesit can be hard to do, you
know, getting that the water rightup around the base of the plant,

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getting that immediate rootball soaked and all. Well. I found a product that
I think you are going to absolutelylove. It works great, the way
it's made is unbelievable. I said, we got to get these folks on
the show and talk about this.It's called tree Hugger Sprinklers. Their website
tree huggers Sprinklers dot com, andwith us this morning is the owner and
inventor of the tree Hugger Sprinkler,Mister Robert Bechtel. Good morning, sir,

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Good morning. How are y'all doingup there? We are doing great.
So you're in Texas this morning,correct, I am. What's the
weather like? Well, right nowI'm sitting on my back porch and it's
eighty degrees with ninety percent humidity.Gez, Oh my gosh. And I
thought we had a situation here withour temperatures. That's that's unheard of.

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So why do you stay there?Oh? Well, I just you know,
I've just been raised here and Ilove it down here. But it
does get hot in the summertime.Yeah, no doubt about it, no
doubt all right. So this treehugger sprinkler, Man, you came up
with an idea here that I seriouslyI looked at this and said, I've
been in this business all my life. Why didn't I think of something like

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this? What a great idea?Before we talk about the sprinkler, how
did this all come about? Well, back in two thousand and twenty and
ten, there was a horrible droughtin Texas and we didn't have rain for
maybe three or four months. SoI had to go out. I had
just built a new house and outhere in the country, and I'd planted

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four peach trees and nine or tenpecan trees, and I was watering them
by hand, and I just figuredit had to be a better way.
So I went to a big boxstore, and man, I thought I
found the perfect solution. I founda little, a little ring sprinkler and
I had, you know, hada hole in the middle. And I

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figured, well it would it wouldthrow walk her out three hundred and sixty
degrees and it was only like twodollars, and so I bought it.
I brought it home, and thenI realized, you wouldn't fit over the
top of the tree. So Igot to thinking. I said, well,
it just needs to be able toopen up. And I didn't really

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do anything with it at that time. I kind of drew up a little
skitch of what I thought would work, and I put it in a file
and then I procrastinated didn't do anythingabout it for years. When I retired
in twenty and seventeen, I foundthe file and I said to myself,
you know, Bob, either dosomething or with it, or throw the

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file away. So went home thatnight and on my way home stopped at
a big box store bought me everykind of at fitting, PBC fitting you
could possibly think of, warshers andwhatnot. And I started working on it
in the garage and only finally madesomething that worked. You know, and

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uh sot. At that point intime, I had a good idea.
I thought it was a good idea. Uh showed it to my oldest daughter,
and my oldest daughter she said,well, it hugs the trees.
Dad says, you should call ittree hugger. I said, that's a
good idea. So so, youknow, at that point in time,
I didn't know how to get apatent, so we uh, somebody told

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us, we'll call a patent lawyer, and so that was easier really,
yeah, And uh so after youknow, patents take a while. They
took a year and a half,you know, and uh then once you
get a patent, then you gotoh my gosh, you got engineering,
you've got tooling, you got tofind a manufacturing, you got distribution.
So it all takes time. Anduh we were we were ready to go

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and uh twenty and twenty, butthen COVID hit, you know, and
so we actually in the in theshort of it, we didn't get product
until about May of twenty twenty one. And uh then then we decided we
had we had a good product,but we didn't know I mean, we

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didn't know how to We didn't knowwhat we were doing. So we we
figured out, well, how dowe get it out to the people.
Well, there was a garden showin Houston and I and I listened to
it and I thought, well,if we could, if we could do
radio advertising, I mean, radioadvertising's great, how do you do that?
You know? So we called upand called down there to the show
and they said yeah, they said, uh, they said, we'll we'll

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look at it and see if welike it, you know, And so
we sent samples and the host ofthe show he loved it. And uh
that's when I said, oh,Guard, can I buy advertising? And
he said, no, not yet. He said, if I'm gonna endorse
s it or if I'm going totalk about it on the radio, you
need to get into some garden centers. So when we love mom and pop

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garden centers, that's the that's ninetypercent of our business, or the garden
centers, you know. And sowe we did, We went out like
and just cold called, and wegot in the garden centers and we started
advertising on the radio and uh andit just took off from there and the
rest is history. We're talking.That's that's a pretty good story. Talking
with Bob Bechtel. He is theowner and inventor of the sprinkler system for

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for watering trees and shrubs and whateveryou want to put it around called tree
Hugger Sprinklers and you can see itgo to tree Hugger Sprinklers dot com and
you'll see more about it. Butthe I mean it's in g I mean,
you know, and I'm sure asyou played around with this thing,
is is great. But so folksunderstand, this is like a if you're

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looking at a sea clamp and itopens up and then you put it push
it back together around the base ofthe tree. Then you hook up your
sprinkler, you turn it on andoff. It's got an on and off
button here, and it just lightlycomes out and goes right back down into
the immediate root ball of the plant. It's it's ingenious. Now. Were
you ever able to use this onyour own trees and shrubs? Oh?
Absolutely. I actually I actually haveone around every one of my trees out

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in the front. So you justleave one around each one. Yeah,
well, and I I loop themtogether, you know. You you can.
You can buy some t's or somey's at the at the at the
big box stores, a hardware store. And I have like four of them
on on on one hose and andturn them on and uh, I adjust

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the valve, you know, adjustablevalve it's on them and shoot the water
out, you know, to whatwe call the targeted saturation zone, which
is out where the roots are.You know, I mean a lot of
people are mistaken. You don't.You don't water a trunk of a tree.
You water out where the roots are, and the roots are the targeted
saturation zone, which is, youknow, go out to the drip line

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about sixty percent of the way outto the drip line. To the drip
line, that's where you want towater. That's where the feeder roots are.
That's where you need to hydrate fatarea of your trees and shrubs.
So what you can do with these, you can actually do that as far
as the more mature trees, oryou turn it down and let it just
go right into the immediate root ballof your newly planted trees and shrubs and

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soaking those as well. Let's takea quick break, we come back.
We're talking with mister Robert Bechtel.The name of the product is called tree
Hugger Sprinklers. Go to their websitetree Hugger Sprinklers dot com learn more about
it. There's several sizes. We'llfind out more about how you use this
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the talk station. Welcome back herein the garden with Ron Wilson talking
with mister Robert Bechtill. Who isRobert Bechtill? You say, well,
he's the owner inventor of a reallycool new gardening product. I love it.
It's called tree Hugger sprinklers. Thereare three different sizes. We'll talk
with him about that. He cameup with us to help water his own
trees. It's a very unique systembecause you actually open it up, put

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it around the base of the tree, shrub, playing evergreen, whatever,
close it back around so it sitsaround the trunk of the tree, and
then you take it from there.Now you came up with three different sizes.
The reasoning for that, well,the the reasoning for that is is
just for the tree trunks. Youknow, small media art. Okay,

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They all all of the sprinklers basedon the water pressure coming from your hydrant.
All of them spray out, willspray out the same distance. It's
all based. So yeah, soagain you've got a seven inch eleven inch
and a fifteen inch diameter, soyou can use around pretty good sized,
pretty good sized trees. And againthis can be used and I looked at

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it mostly for using around newly plantedtrees and shrubs, but again, a
great way to us to water establishtrees because of the way if you turn
up the pressure all the way out, like you said, out to the
feeder roots system and giving it agood soaking from there. And boy,
I don't know about you right nowin Texas, but we are hot and
dry here in the Ohio area,and I'm sure other states are pretty much

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experiencing the same thing this And it'salways you know what, and I know
you've gone through this to mister Bechdel, is that it's always hard to figure
out the best way to water thesenewly planted trees and shrubs. And I'm
telling you this, tree hugger,I'm not a big tree tree gator bag,
tree bag type person. I likethis system. I think it's one
of the best ways to go wellon your newly planted trees. When you

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you know, when you're watering out, you're basically water and at to the
edge of the root ball you justplanted it. And the key is to
is to three hundred and sixty degrees. You want the roots system to throw
all three hundred and sixty degree direction. You don't want it to. If
you have a launch sprinkler, youtypically will get more water on one side

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than the other. The bags andthe doughnuts and all of that, I
mean, they I guess they work, and there's there's issues with them,
you know. Over we feel likethat the tree hunter sprinkler, it checks
all the boxes. You know,you can you can adjust the valve and
then later on when the tree theroots grow out a little farther, you

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know, just open the valve upa little farther. But the the fifteen
inches, the fifteen inch sprinkler,it's a it's a big cellar in the
south because in the South you havea lot of palm trees which have huge
bases too. You know, anew palm tree as a huge base.
But in the North we sell quitea few of them based on drought conditions

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and stress conditions. You know,you got a nice you got a nice
oak tree and the road department comesby and you know, they disrupt the
root system to it, or orit gets damaged by lightning or construction or
you know around a new home orsomething, and you just need something with
a bigger ring. And you know, if you have thirty to forty pounds

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of pressure on your water hydrant andyou put a fifteen inch tree hugger around
the tree, uh, the waterwill shoot out twenty twenty five feet,
you know, and it'll get outthere. It'll get out there to the
to the grip line of the treeto where the feeder roots are. And
with a with a tree hugger sprinter, if you're doing any kind of deep
roots at all, you know,it's the perfect it's the perfect tool to

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you know, to soak that,to soak those chemicals into the into the
room. Sure, you know Iwas talking. I was just sharing a
story the other day. I wastalking to one of our landscape managers and
he was talking about he just planneda row of I forget what he had
planted, but he said, youknow, I've been watering in my hand
to make sure I get him reallysoaked well when I water. But he

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said, what's interesting is I wentback with a moisture meter just to play
around to see what I had doneby my hand watering, and he said,
I couldn't believe how many dry spotsI had, how many dry plants
I had that I thought I hadsoaked, because you know, you're standing
on one, like you said,you're standing on one side of the plant
you're trying to water. It's veryeasy to miss it one side of the

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plant or whatever. You use asprinkler the same way. Well, and
that's why I kiddingly said, youneed a tree hugger sprinkler. So we
obviously showed him what a tree huggersprinkler was. But you're right, this
is a great way to make ito uniform, to make sure that all
parts of that plant gets watered,that root ball gets watered. And it's
it's so dog gone easy, andit's it's so simple. But yet,

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you know, that's why I said, I looked at it and said,
why in the heck didn't I thinkof something like that. Yeah, we
had a dollar every time we saidthat, and look at it. You
put it in a file and cameback years later and finally did something about
it. Yeah, yeah, thatwas a little a little procrastination there.
You know, I wish I hadit earlier, you know, but but

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I did. Yeah. So,so people can go on your website now
they can order these from you onthe website, right, they can order
us from the website. You canorder them at Amazon dot com. Also
on our website, we have astore locator, retail store locator, and
we have uh, you know Ohio. We have a lot of stores in

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Ohio. Yeah, and again youknow, so yeah good. A lot
of independent local garden centers are goingto have the I think you're going to
see them more and more showing upat your local independent garden store. If
they don't have it and you goand ask for it, tell me they
need to look for it, becauseI think this is a product they need
to have on their shelves because itreally does work. Again, it's called

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tree Hugger Sprinklers, and you cango to their website tree Huggersprinklers dot com
learn more about it. And again, like I say, if you can't
find it at your local independence,tell them they should get it in there
because it's something that I think thatthey will do really well with because it
is an absolutely wonderful product when itcomes to watering those new tree shrubs and
evergreens as well as the established onesas well. Mister Bechtel, I can't
appreciate you. Tell you how muchwe appreciate you spending time with us this

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morning. Great product. I loveit. We'll try to keep getting the
word out about this thing because Ijust think it's absolutely something everybody needs to
have on hand when it comes toproper watering of those trees and shrubs and
evergreens. We appreciate you coming upwith the idea and spending time with us
this morning. Well, I appreciateyou'all having me and y'all have a blessed

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day and keep those trees and shrubswater. You got it. Thank you,
sir, have a good one,Thank you. All right, Robert
Bechtel again, it's tree Hugger's TreeHugger sprinklers. You imagine that it's sixty
six thirty out there, and it'seighty degrees and ninety percent of humidity already
in Texas. We'll have to sendJoe out there anyway. When I first

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saw this, seriously, we havethem and at our garden center, our
hard goods buyer had picked these up, and I just I said, that
is unbelievable. I love the idea. I wish I can't believe I didn't
think of it, but it works. And again just to understand it,
you open the ring up, youput it around the base of the plant,
and you close it back up,attach it to your hose. You

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turn it on about a quarter ofthe way on the sprinkler itself. Then
go and turn your water on andthat adjusts how far out of the water
will spray. It can be immediateinto the immediate root ball, and it
can go out as much as abouttwenty or twenty five feet for those larger
trees as well. But check itout. Just go on on their website
again, it's a tree Hugger sprinklersdot com. And if your local independent

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garden centers don't have them, there'llbe at the some of the trade shows
coming up this fall. Tell themwe need to get them because that's gonna
be a great one to use forwatering in those newly planted trees come this
fall season. And you know,I said, talking about the tree bags,
I have no problem with tree bags. You know what the tree bags
you know what they were originally developedfor. Tree bags were developed to cut
down your time of watering. Soon construction sites where they have planted new

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trees, they could go and putthese trees around their tree bags, fill
them up. Takes what two minutesto fill it up and go away,
and then the water slow drips ontothe immediate root ball, which is a
great thing, low evaporation right intothe immediate rootball. But sometimes they can
be very confusing because folks think thatthat is watering at all week long.
Will it usually drops that out inabout two or three hours and it's done,

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so you have to keep filling itup on a regular basis and water
is needed, and I think itconfuses folks sometimes as far as how much
to do that. And over time, sediment can stop those from dripping properly
at the bottom, and the nextthing you know, they really aren't emptying
very quickly and it's kind of holdingup and the plants are not getting watered

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well. So make sure you alwaysmonitor your tree bags if you're using them,
make sure they are emptying out ina two three four hour period that's
what they're supposed to do. Andthen of course filling back up, and
you can buy additional ones. Ithink there's are fifteen or twenty gallon bags
to zip together around there if youwant to add more water to it for
each time you water. But again, the ease of this thing. You

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just put the hose on it,drag it out there, put this around
the tree, turn it on,let it do its thing, and when
it's done, take it to anothertree and buy two or three of them.
Put a tea on your spicket andthen you can do two or three
or four of them at the sametime. I think it's a great idea.
It's called tree Hugger Sprinklers and theirwebsite is Tree Hugger Sprinklers. So

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sprinkle where it matters and that's it. And again a great way to water
the soil and not the foliage whenyou're doing those as well. So keep
that in mind. And watering rightknee right now is key, trust me,
it is key. And in mostcases probably what's going wrong with your
plants that are newly planted not gettingthe right amount of moisture. Can't those
hydramas be confusing? Yeah? Youknow, you look out there in the

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morning, they look great. Youlook at them at noon, they're wilded
down. You look at them atnine o'clock at nine and they're rat right
back up again. When it's hotand sunny. They just can't replace the
moisture quick enough that's leaving those leavesduring the summertime, no matter how much
moisture is in the ground. Somake sure you're not over watering your hydrandas
that are welting during the heat ofthe day. If they look good at

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the evening or first thing in themorning, they probably have enough moisture,
no need to water, But youneed to water on a regular basis.
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