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My gold and diamond earrings, I guess.

They came in a box of an electric drill.

So I was opening the box in front of

all these friends of mine up in maine.

And every other man at the table cringed

because their wives were kicking them under the table.

And knowing y-- because they weren't getting gold and diamonds.

Knowing you, you probably asked what the drill was.

Of course I did, I said, what about the drill?

[ laughs ]

♪♪

[ rooster crows ]

[ various animal noises ]

martha: I've lived on this farm for about 17 years,

and like you, I'm spending more time at home than ever before.

I have 150 [bleep] acres that have to be planted.

So I'm going to take you behind the scenes

as I do my gardening projects.

Ryan, why are you leaving me here to dig this hole?

I'm going to help my celebrity friends.

Give them to your wife, everybody will love these.

I'm whacking my pomegranate right now.

Hey, snoop, I'm doing a pot show.

-What?! -And surprise new gardeners.

Hi, it's martha stewart. Oh, my god!

Martha: Some people say I wrote the book on gardening.

Well...I did.

Do you like?

This is "martha knows best."

[ birds chirping ]

this garden, which I call my hidden garden,

is only about six years old.

I put the boxwood surround in first.

And the siberian pea shrub.

I found those on sale.

But the focal point of this garden is that gingko tree.

That is the largest gingko tree in the tri state area.

And it drops close to a million ginko nuts every fall.

And it stinks to high heaven.

But they are delicious roasted with salt.

So thank you. Thank you, ginko.

Arigato gozaimasu.

[ laughs ]

so today we're going to talk about planting trees and shrubs.

We're going to show you how to plant a pine tree,

how to plant a fruit tree,

and how to plant a little japanese maple.

What was it like when you bought the property,

like, what I haven't seen.

Well, barren and the place

had a lot of barbed wire.

Barbed wire? It had a barbed wire fence.

Around all of it? All the posts.

And all the barn buildings were falling down.

This was the wreck of the neighborhood.

I have very, very fancy neighbors around me.

They just overlooked this place because it was such a mess.

And I saw the beauty and the thank god I did

because I had not only saved the place,

but I have enhanced it, I hope.

I hope you think so.

Let's go a thousand miles an hour.

[ starts engine ]

I'm planting trees, one of my favorite things to do.

♪♪

let's go, ryan, we have to dig holes.

Don't go too fast when you're driving

a giant machine like this.

Or else you're going to end up in a ditch.

Where's ryan?

Ryan? Where did he go?

Ryan are you around?

Oh, ryan! Oh, ryan!

[ various animal noises ]

ryan: Coming!

Good, you're here. [ laughs ]

you take one side, I'll take the other.

Very pretty.

Oh, it's a beauty. So this is our pinetum area.

Which is a garden devoted to all kinds and all varieties

and all species of pine trees.

So now I'd like to show you how to plant a pine tree.

Oh, this is such good soil. Oh, if if I can just dig

like that so easily, you know, it's good.

The first rule is you dig for rooted potted specimens

like this two times the depth and two times the width.

Ryan, why are you leaving me here to dig this hole?

Uh, here you dig.

I'll hold the water. [ laughs ]

I love to dig holes.

The second rule is don't use the soil

that you dug out of the hole in the bottom of the hole,

you just took it out.

The new soil goes in the bottom of the hole,

the compost, to give a nice rich root base for the plants.

Okay, that looks good.

If you think I'm fussy, you should have met my dad, edward.

Edward was a maniac. He never lost a plant. Never.

But he taught me all these techniques.

And then when I read books about it,

edward was even right-er.

So bang the pot like ryan is doing.

Bang on it. Yes, yep.

Kind of, step on it with your heel.

Just have to loosen it out of the pot.

Oh, that's coming out nicely.

Look, not root bound at all. So a little scarification,

just to make sure the roots are loose enough

to start thriving in that rich compost.

Oh, that looks perfect.

The top of the root ball

is at the top of the hole, then you can use

just a little bit more of the compost around the top.

Everywhere you put it, the plant's gonna find it.

Yep, it will find it.

We used to cut live christmas trees every year

when I lived in westport, connecticut.

But I find it kind of sad

to cut down a living thing for, for christmas.

I'll only cut it down if it goes to rockefeller center.

I think I will have to live to 110

to get those trees big enough, but that's a good goal.

♪♪

so it's so hot out.

I'm taking a break from planting all my trees and shrubs.

And I understand there's somebody in louisiana

who is having a tree crisis. Hi.

-Hi. How are you? -It's martha stewart calling.

I know exactly who you are. You're the original queen.

I am. I'm going to help you with a crape myrtle problem,

I understand. Is that it right there?

Yes. I'm trying to plant something underneath the tree.

It's very shaded.

All I can get it to grow is weeds and vines.

And I desperately need your help.

Crape myrtle's love, the hot they love the humid.

But they do not like to have things planted under them.

Oh. What you really should do,

I think, is to get maybe two more lower crape myrtles

and plant them next to that crape myrtle.

Try to get one that has multi stems because some of them

grow like shrubs, some grow like trees.

Okay, I'm excited to try that.

What about food? You give them a lot of food.

Oh, yeah, I've been cooking a lot.

No, I mean your tree, do you feed your tree?

Oh no, I don't feed -- I don't feed my tree tree. I don't.

This is my mom's house. They don't touch this garden.

And I'm just trying to leave this place better

than I found it and give them back. How lucky.

My daughter is going to live in my house up in maine

for the whole summer with her two kids.

Wonderful. I'm going to play that tape

that you put everything you just said.

I'm going to play that for her.

Maybe she'll be taking care of my garden up there, too.

Well, good luck and... Thank you. Try the multiple crape myrtles.

I think it'll look real pretty well, okay?

Alright. Thank you so much. Thank you, amanda.

Omg, I just got off the phone with the original queen bee

of gardening, martha stewart,

and she helped me solve my problem.

I'm just so grateful and excited

that I got it advice for martha stewart.

I can't wait to show you what I do with my garden.

I don't even know what this is.

A talk show host knows everything.

And you don't know?

I mean, this moves in those kale circles,

you know? No, it doesn't.

When it's your birthday,

I always tell everybody "she wants trees."

tree or a very good white wine.

One of my favorite parts of this program

is called "impress martha,"

the part of our show where viewers try to impress me.

Thirty-year-old michael vaninger-bell lives in brooklyn

and michael has slugs in his garden.

And guess what his grandfather taught him to do?

So, today, I'm going to teach you guys

how to get rid of slugs in your garden,

with just three things.

A beer, a cup, and a pair of scissors.

Open your beer can.

Pour your beer into the cup.

Take the scissors, and you literally just cut it in half.

[ chuckles ]

take the beer that you poured out previously

pour it into your little contraption,

so you take this guy, pop it in your garden,

stick it right at the soil level

so the slugs can get into your little slug death trap,

and that's it.

We're a german family and beer

was the solution to a lot of things.

And who knew that that also pertains to slugs.

I did it, too. And it it does work.

Slugs want to eat good things,

just like humans want to eat good things.

But you know what? I think it's a waste of money.

So find a slug food that causes those slugs to go away,

if you know what I mean.

You don't have to use beer. Drink it yourself.

♪♪

I have a very accurate chart

of where everything is planted in this orchard.

Two hundred and twenty different fruit trees, there is our chart.

Ryan: This is just my chicken scratch,

she has the nice one in the house.

Martha: But here, so write down montmorency cherry tree.

I don't have one montmorency cherry growing here in bedford.

Young trees like this benefit from being staked so strong wind

won't blow them over.

If they're heavy with fruit, they won't fall.

It doesn't rock their roots.

These are nice stakes. Hard wood.

And take them down as far as you can get them there.

So now where is that nice tape?

Here it is, cut two even pieces.

I like to put it above the first lateral branches.

So we always have something to keep it

from sliding down the tree and make this into a figure-8.

Criss-cross it and go around the post.

Ah, this tree cost $100.

It's very expensive.

[ laughs ]

so I have to call jay leno in a couple of minutes.

He's funny, he's from your hometown.

Exactly, from california.

He's a california boy.

And he's game to get a pomegranate tree.

I think he likes getting getting a tree.

I always tell everybody, when it's your birthday,

they always ask me what to get you.

And I always tell them "she wants trees."

trees or a very good white wine.

♪♪

-hi, jay. Hey. Hi, martha, how are you?

Everything good?

Everything's really good. Thanks for my tree.

Oh, you got your pomegranate tree.

I'm so excited.

You know something? I'm italian.

And when italian guys reach a certain age,

they get tomato plants.

You know, my uncle lou, "wha-wha-wha? Martha stewart,

with your pomegranate, what's that?

What, she can't send you a tomato plant,

what does she take? Bah, bah, bah.

And I'm going to hear the end of it.

"oh, mr. Hollywood. Oh, mr. Fancy pomegranate."

I don't know what this is.

A talk show host knows everything.

And you don't know?

I mean, this is in those kale circles, you know?

[ laughs ] no, it doesn't. This goes back to ancient rome,

nero ate pomegranates.

But see, we're poor italian.

This is like fancy italian.

[ laughs ]

you say you've got to cut off the top,

which is really the bottom. Okay.

Who put the -- who built this fruit, the government?

Okay, you want to learn how to open a pomegranate?

How do you open -- I don't know. Do I bite into it, what do I do?

No. So, do you have a knife there?

Do I have a knife? I'm italian. You gotta ask me that?

[ laughs ]

hey, marth-- martha, you will love the kitchen in my garage.

Yeah. I've seen you cook in there actual.

And you know what this is?

That's a cat.

No, this is a "first husband" knife holder.

Okay, first you have to cut off the top.

I'm just cutting through the skin.

Just the skin, don't cut too deeply, see?

I do this here?

No, from the top to the bottom,

around the longitude, not the latitude.

If you cut too deeply you cut into

each of those beautiful little pomegranate seeds

and you don't want blood all over you --

pomegranate blood.

Then you take the point of your knife,

put the point of the knife in the bottom

and then just gently twist it

like you were digging into somebody's neck.

Okay, you know, I feel like that scene in "casino."

and you break the pomegranate gently into quarters.

And inside -- look what's inside, jay.

Okay, oh, there's some horrible thing inside of it here.

Boy, that looks beautiful. This looks awful.

Those are the seeds! Now break it into quarters.

And now the fun part starts. Wait, you'll see.

Take your wooden spoon

and whack the hell out of that red skin.

Whack.

This is kinky. Whack.

How many chickens do you have?

Right now I have 15.

They'll make good coq au vin next year.

[ laughs ]

♪♪

martha: So the idea is to get as many seeds

out of the pomegranate whole, as possible.

Now put the piece you have in your hand upside down

in the palm of your hand.

And take your wooden spoon

and whack the hell out of that red skin.

Whack. Wow. This is this is, this is kinky.

See look, look what's happening.

Every seed comes out, by banging.

Bad, pomegranate.

You can get out all your aggressions at martha stewart.

Now, taste some of those red seeds.

Just put them in your mouth, a handful.

They're alright.

It's no tomato.

You are hopeless.

Mm! Sorry.

So what do you do with the rest of it?

I prepared a pomegranate martha-rita.

I've never had a margarita in my life.

Really? Not me. I love me some tequila.

Anyway, enjoy your tree. Really.

It'll be very productive.

I'm whacking my pomegranate right now.

Okay. [ laughs ]

it sounds bad, doesn't it? Yeah.

Yeah, it's great bye.

Okay, thanks. Ciao.

Martha, thank you very much for my pomegranate tree.

I've been, I've been whacking pomegranates all day. What fun.

And hopefully I will have my first pomegranate.

And how long's it take? Well, I should have it pretty soon.

Actually I could just go to market and buy a pomegranate.

But, but I'm going to wait and grow my own.

So, thanks a lot.

♪♪

we're standing on the edge

of the laura plimpton woodland garden with japanese maples.

Laura was my youngest sister and she loved japanese maples.

She passed away about five years ago

and I decided this would be her, the laura maple woodland.

We're just planting here a waterfall.

This is a greenish with a little tinge of red.

And again, the first thing you do is you dig a hole

twice as big as the pot.

Do enhance the soil with some dry roots and compost.

Yep. It fit right here.

A lot more water.

Mm-hmm. Beautiful.

And then cover it over with soil.

You can even step on that. I always do that.

My dad taught me to step around the tree.

Not too heavy. No, no, no.

Well, you might also get stuck in the mud.

Once it's planted,

that if it doesn't rain for the next four days, water it again.

And then the next four days, if it doesn't rain, water it again.

They need water, especially when they are taking root.

I have lost very, very few of these trees,

because I take care of them.

The only ones you've lost are the ones

when there's a storm and a branch falls.

Oh, yeah. Let's not talk about the storms.

[ both laugh ]

♪♪

oh, so let's call sunny.

She has a question about chickens.

And we're here at the chicken coop.

Okay? Oh, yeah.

Hi, sunny. How are you?

I'm well. How are you? Good.

How many chickens you have right now?

Right now I have 15.

They'll make good coq au vin next year.

[ laughs ] that's what everyone is saying.

Can you show me your coop? It looks very well made.

This is my run.

I let them free range also, but I don't do it

when I'm not outside with them because I had a hawk incident.

If you'd like a pair of guard geese,

I have an extra pair for you. I would love guard geese!

Oh, you come over here and you can have a pair of sebastopol.

They're the beautiful white fluffy geese with curly tails.

I would love that! I gave them to wes gordon.

The designer for carolina herrera,

he was losing a chicken a day to a fox.

Since he got my geese, he has not lost one chicken.

So you'll be happy with them. Oh, thank you.

Well, the other thing that I started doing

is that I'm starting an orchard.

What did you plant?

An apple tree. And if you see. Look at that. I like a little.

Do you see that? Oh, my gosh. You have an apple.

And now here that looks like a peach.

Yeah, I have a peach tree and I have little peaches.

Yeah. I feel like I'm doing pretty well.

Except that animals are coming and snacking.

Oh, you might have to put a fence.

You could do it inexpensively by using say, five rebar,

bang it about two feet down into the ground

and then just encase each tree in a netting.

You can do a plastic netting or a cloth netting.

Thank you, martha! You're welcome.

And I want to see pictures of your fruit

and I want to see pictures next year of your orchard.

I'm sure it's going to look really good.

Oh, thank you. Thank you so much.

I'm very excited about this. I'll see you on "the view."

okay. [ laughs ] take care. Thank you.

Get her phone number so that we can deliver the geese.

Yes. It's so cool. It's so great.

[ honks ]

[ martha imitates honking ]

daniel boulud and his wife katherine are building

a spectacular fire pit right across the street.

So as a special gift, I thought I would give them some seating.

...With a boulud "b" online. Perfect!

Martha: The famous chef, daniel boulud and his wife, katherine,

are building a spectacular fire pit

right across the street.

I popped over there yesterday to check on the progress.

I think we're going to go about 16 inch below.

Uh-huh? And then what will the surface around here be?

Similar stone. As the wall and the stair.

So we'll be back and see the finished product.

So as a special gift. I thought I would give them some seating.

We just cut one of our ash trees that had fallen down

and the tops of the logs were sanded

to make them nice and smooth for their bottoms.

And we are painting the tops of the logs a pretty gray

and then stenciling the daniel boulud "b" right off

their signs of the restaurants.

All you do is take the paint and put a little bit

right where the stencil is cut out,

and then use a pouncer brush, because what it does

is push the paint right into the paper cut

without going under the edge, you get a nice clean stencil.

Look at that.

So the bouluds live right across the street,

almost directly across from my tropical greenhouse?

And I wonder how much work has actually gotten done

on the fireplace.

♪♪

-bonjour! -Bonjour!

We got you a little silly present.

Come here. Here.

Oh, my gosh!

With the boulud "b" we found the b online.

Perfect!

This is very exciting. Can we run over there?

Yeah.

Oh, boy. Look!

Oh, it looks like stonehenge. Right?

Oh, it's so great. This is beautiful.

♪♪

[ martha imitating bird calls ]

bah, bah, bah, bah, bah.

[ honks ] [ martha honks back ]

I love talking to my birds.

Martha: Well, it's been a glorious day planting trees in bedford,

but now it's time to go in and have our dinner.

Hi, beauty.

Oh, what's that you say?

Oh, you love all of my trees, too.

[ martha and birds calling ]