July 1, 2023 • 42 mins
This week on the WJBO Lawn & Garden Show, the intern Anna-Claire and Butch welcome Bradon from Clegg's Nursery as a new host! Learn about one of Bradon's passions - bonsai trees! Also, we talk about why to be concerned about chinch bugs, who just love our recent hot and dry weather! Also, another discussion about watering properly and lots of caller questions on a variety of issues
If you're spending some time in your lawn and garden this long weekend, make sure you're properly hydrated yourself and give a listen to this week's show!
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If you're spending some time in your lawn and garden this long weekend, make sure you're properly hydrated yourself and give a listen to this week's show!
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Good Saturday morning, and welcome tothe WGBO London Garden Show, brought to
you by Cleg's Nursery. If youhave a question about seasonal planting, London
garden concerns or questions about landscaping,call four nine nine WUGBO. That's four
nine nine ninety five two six.Good morning, You're welcome. W JP
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is London Garden Show today. Iam here with Butch Jers and who are
you? I'm the intern, AnnaClaire. I am here today with Braden
and Butch from Clegs Nursery. Goodmorning, Anna Claire, Good morning.
How are you good? Glad tohave you back after all your world travels.
I'm glad to be back here.Well good but um if you want
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to call us close at four ninenine nine five two six out is four
nine nine w JBO. Here areyou going to welcome mister Braden or just
mentioned his name. Good morning withRadon. Good morning. How are you
doing Anta Claire? Good? Howare you? I'm doing good? So
you work at Clegg's I do.I've been there for about two and a
half years now, and uh yeah, I believe it or not, you've
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really taken the place over it seemsyou've been there much longer than that.
Um, I think I make threeyears in November. Yeah, but I'm
I'm a supervisor there, so Ibasically, um, it's kind of key,
basically runs the place. Let's justnot be modest. Yeah, pretty
much. And I sweat a lot. Yeah, and he has to work
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with me. I'll keep you inmy purse. Thank you. That's a
that's a big help. No,Brandon has been my I mean, I
count on this man all the time. He actually does. He's the glue
that holds Clegg Seegings together. AndI'm very appreciative of that, and I'm
very excited he's here with us today. Well, thank you. I'm a
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I'm a little nervous, just alittle bit. That's okay. Anna Claire
will work you through it. Justfollow her lead. Right. Sounds good.
Do you have some questions as youalways do, or what if somebody
else has a question? You cancall us at four nine nine nine five
six US one nine nine w GBO. Very good. You've remembered the phone
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lines are actually working this name.That's true too. Good point. Um,
anyway, I hear you Bond's eye. Tell me a little bit about
how you got started. So,Um, I've always kind of had a
fascination with bondside just the fact thata tree can be that small when it
has the potential to be something muchbigger than that. I just always found
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that really interesting. But I didn'treally get into Bond's Eye until right before
I started working at Clegg's. Andit started with a great myrtle tree that
somebody had given me and I Ihad to do a little bit of research
on how to how to get thisthing down to the size that I wanted
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it and how to get it tobecause it was in probably i want to
say, like a ten gallon pottand pa, Yeah, it was.
It was pretty big. And I'mgonna steal one of her questions. I
apologize for interrupted. That's one ofthe things I know minimal about Bond's Eye.
Um, I've always been intriguing andI'm sorry, unclear. I know
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this was one of your questions,but how do you root prune them?
So with and just keep in mind, I still very much consider myself an
amateur at this because there's so muchthat I don't know. But uh,
you're not doctor. What was it, mister Moji? Right? Um.
But what I always try to dois if I have to root prune,
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I just prune the smaller roots.I lead the bigger, thicker roots.
Okay, along, especially when itcomes to like a great myrtle or something
that uh, they don't quite healright when you when you cut them.
That's very interesting. So because andI again I this is fascinating to me,
but that would have been the oppositeof what I would have thought you
would have done. Typically, youknow, when we worry about trees out
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in the landscape and we get phonecalls sometimes people well I've got this large
route, can I cut it?It's like, well, no, you
really, Well, I guess itis the same thing. I'm sorry,
because if you cut the large route, you cut off a whole system where
you just cut the smaller that right, Okay, it does make sense now
that. And I always, becauseI'm so afraid to cut into the bigger
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roots, always just try to bendthem a little bit to get them to
fit in the pot. Right.So you actually, I know I've watched
it being done and I've seen youknow, I don't know if you've ever
been to the Arboretum in Washington,D C. But that's where they have
the national Bondsai things. Oh mygoodness, I can only imagine that's to
be amazing phenomenal. And you knowhow you do you do the wiring and
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all with the branches to get themto form. I personally don't do that.
There. There's a lot of differentstyles of Bondsai, and most of
them have to do with how youwire up the branches. Um. I
just kind of like the natural growth. If if anything starts to get crazy,
I just kind of punt it backa little bit, don't wire it,
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cut it. Yeah. One ofthe neatest ones that you have.
You've shown me some pictures of yours. Is is it a whole bunch of
maples? I think it is.It was actually Norfolk Island pine. Oh
yeah, okay, yeah, thatone's actually that my most favorite one.
That's like a whole little forest inlike this little what's what's eye? Is
it like four by six pot orsomething? Maybe it's actually a drip pan
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for a pot that I turned intoa bond side. We'll see. There.
You got people all these little saucersand all you have out there.
You can become like Brandon and bea bonds eye. Person the most important
thing is drainage holes. What doyou want to make? What do you
use for soil? Um? Ido usually get the I forget the brand
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of the one that the bonds eyesoil that we sell, like, yeah,
I use that, and I usuallymix in a little bit of potting
soil. Personally, I like touse our Cleg's brand or Ocean Forest.
I love those ocean Forest products metoo. You really do some good stuff.
We've got. What do we have? We have the ocean Forest,
which is it's a fox farm actuallyotion forest, and we have the soil
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condition or the yellow bag yeah,the happy frog and the happy frog yeah,
and then the Cocoa Loco. Soyeah, I know it's really interesting
how the whole cocoa core thing hasreally become become a big, big thing.
So yeah, we do have theCocoa Loco. But very interesting,
interesting hobby that I wish I'd gotteninto forty years ago. It takes a
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lot of patients. Hey, Iwork jigsaw puzzles, so oh, well
you have the patients. I don'tknow. For some reason, my wife
always comments, so how can youdo a two thousand piece of jigsaw puzzle
and you can't anyway concentrate long enoughto do anything else, but very interesting.
Thank you for sharing your hobby withus. Do you have any other
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questions or do we have any callers? We don't have any callers as of
now, but if you would liketo call us, call us at two
six at US one nine nine wGBO And yes, I do you have
more questions? Great, let's go. What is a chinch bug? And
why do we why should we beconcerned? Wow? Chinch bugs? And
I'm glad that is an excellent umquestion. And I'm sure your dad gave
it because I think I saw somehen and yard. Chinch bug is a
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small insect um that loves Saint Augustinegrass and the hotter and the dryer and
what are we right now, guys? Really hot and really dry exactly.
It becomes very very active and we'vehad numerous cases showed up at the store.
And that The big thing about chinchbugs is they kill. It's not
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like brown patches sometimes can run through. Chinch bugs actually kill Saint Augustine.
It's a small insect. If youwant to get into the transition zone,
which is where you're going from brownto green. Uh, it's a little
small bug, probably two three timesthe size of a pinhead. Then it
has a little white adult anyway,has a little white stripe across its back.
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It literally choose its way through thegrass. Very easy to control.
We recommend a product called bug Blaster. We carry it, I don't remember
the size of but a granular formand a liquid form. If you have
active chinch bugs, I would probablysuggest the liquid form will give you a
more instant control prevention. That's themost important thing when it comes to plants
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exactly. And if you if you'llput out what we call bug blaster,
put it out now, if you, especially if you have a Saint Augustine
lawn, and you're not wasting yourmoney because if you don't have chinch bugs,
if we do get side web worms, which we have been having for
the last couple of years, Ialso control Slee's an ant, So it's
a good preventative to make sure youdon't get chinch bugs. Also will kill
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them if you do have active chinchbugs. So very good question. What's
the granular form bug blaster. Oh, there's their bug Blaster liquid. And
I was told tall Star tell Staris also a control for it. Yes,
okay, all of those three things, well all of those are basically
by Fintherin is the chemical in them? Um Tellstar is. I don't know
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the chemistry of it, but itseems to be a little bit more potent,
I guess would be the controls mostpeople I know it is. It's
an excellent product. A lot ofpeople come in, you know, do
tell Star a couple times a yearto keep all of your bad insects out
of their lawn. So good,good call, Thank you. I think
we have a caller. Oh,speaking of a good call, just follow
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a law. Yeah, okay,Good morning, Donna. Welcome to WJB
Isla and Garden Show. How manywe hope you today. Good morning,
Donna, Good morning. I justplanted some lantana and uh from the sign
stores. One is the little yellowlight gym Lantana and the others I think
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it's pink and orange lantana. Thepink and orange day don't look good at
all, and I've water to them, and I know it's hot right now,
but there's maybe something wrong with thepink and orange on anything we're planting
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right now. And you did commenton the moisture thing we need to make
sure we keep everything well watered,uh watering. We want to go slow
with our water. We want tomake sure we get a good deep watering.
The other thing that I have afeeling you might be dealing with is
an issue called lace bugs or lacewings. It's it's become extremely detrimental to
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lantana. What it does is itcauses the outer foliage to almost look what
would you say, kind of amodeled color, maybe a little off color.
And also it causes the lantana tostop blooming. If that's the case,
we normally would recommend an acephate typeproduct or thine systemic insect control by
bonaide to control those insects. Ifyou want to snip some of that off,
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bring it into one of the locations. Let us look at that to
see if it is lacebugs. Sincethe one variety seems to be doing better,
and you obviously are probably treating inpretty much the same way, I
would think you probably have an issuewith lace wing or lacebugs on there.
Okay, I do have another question. Sure, we have a contrary in
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our yard that's probably forty years oldand has been an excellent a con producer.
Like every year except a couple andit's been losively from that like the
inside of the tree the past months. And I don't know if that's we
watered it more, we fertilized this, but it's a losing leaves from the
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inside. Yeah, and that wouldbe that would be a moisture thing.
It is nearly impossible to properly watera tree that's that old or that large.
I mean you would need to havea soaker hose and literally run those
things overnight to get anywhere close tothe moisture that that tree's going to absorb.
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And I don't remember, I'm oldand speeble minded, but the amount
of moisture a tree that size pullsout of the ground every day is just
unbelievable. It's an unfortunate situation thatwe are going to see. We'll see
some difficulty with trees because of howhot and how dry we are. Tree
will probably should be fine, Itwill recover from this. Your production probably
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will be down something next year becauseof it. But yeah, just putting
a sprinkler underneath a tree that sizeand running it for an hour, I
don't want to say as useless,but is basically useless. Sorry, you're
not going to lose it. Um, It's just it's a matter. I
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mean, there's other things that arepossibilities. But being that it's from the
inside out, that is typically anindication of stress, which right now is
moisture, lightning strikes, things likethat that may are concerning some people.
Would be more. You would seea more rapid decrease, and it would
be more from the exterior into theinterior of the plant. You may even
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see scarring on the stem where thelightning went down. A minimal amount of
insect damage that's going to cause mortalityon a p contree. But I just
really do think that that is anissue. Without hot and dry we are
okay, okay, So don't don'tput the soaker hose or I mean you
can, I mean if you wantto, if you want to put a
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soaker hose out there, but likeI said, let's it's if you're going
to do it, let's make surewe do run them. For like a
soaker hose overnight. We don't wantto do a light watering. Like I
said, a sprinkler. You know, set us oscillating sprinkler out there for
forty five minutes. What happens ifyou do that with any type of plant
material. Is it causes the rootsto come to come up to the moisture.
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So you want to make sure anytimewe water, we get a good
deep watering, Okay, so thatthe roots don't try to come up to
the moisture. Yeah, okay,all right, thank you for the call.
Thank you. We have another caller. Wow, we've filled up this
morning. Good morning, Craig,Welcome to WJB IS on the garden Check.
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How may we help you today?Hey, I've got most of vine
growing in my front yard and I'mtrying to get rid of it. It's
well established in uh kind of takingover. And I also have a second,
separate question. Well, to answeryour first question, the real estate
market right now is really good.That is, that is one of the
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most difficult things that we have toeradicate out of flower beds. Um.
I wish I had a good answerfor you. This is actually growing in
my lawn in my Saint Augustine andit is it is well entrenched and very
difficult to prune out or try tograb out it. Have you tried any
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of the broad leaf herbicides like MSMno. I have not. Let's let's
give that a try. Um,and right now I'm going to tell you
not to even though temperature restrictions blahblah blah, we should be Okay.
Our lawns are under extreme stress,even if we're watering them. They are
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stressed out. Herbsides work off atolerancelevels. So the more stressed it is,
am I saying that correctly, Brandon, Yeah, the more stress the
plant is, the less tolerant isto those herbicides. So let's wait till
we're supposed to start getting in target. Hello, something just happened to my
headphones there. We're supposed to getin and into that afternoon rain thing coming
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this next week, so i'd waittill we get to that. Then let's
try MSM. I don't know howeffective it's going to be, if it's
going to be effective at all,but if not, your best solution is
to get a paint brush and roundup. Okay, all right, sorry,
and then I will maybe we'll maybedo better with the second question.
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Okay, hopefully I have about afourteen fifteen year old Japanese mafle in my
courtyard and the foliage is all Imean, it's a tall tree. It's
probably about fifteen maybe sixteen seventeen feettall, and all of the foliage is
at the top third of the plant, and I'm just trying to see if
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there's any way I can what Ican do to it, maybe enhance some
growth down below. Hello, we'rehere. I'm sorry, I'm having headphone
problems. Your best bet to dothat is, remember all plant material produces
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leaves at the terminal growth, atthe new growth. So if you want
to fill the plant out, you'regoing to probably have to go in and
do some pruning. You're gonna haveto bring some of the limbs back a
little bit so that you can getthem to flush growth wherever you've pruned them
at you're talking about on the limbsthat already have existing foliage. If you
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want to bring the foliage down lower, yes, well, and I'm not
suggesting you do that. I thinkthat would and bring you're you're the bonsai
person in actually Japanese maple, butthat's typically with those that's where the foliage
is on the outermost part of theplant. You can also if you do
too much of that, you canchange the form of the plant. But
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that's the only way you're going toget more foliage lower on the plant is
to have terminal growth at that point, have new growth coming out at that
point, and the only way todo that is to prune it. Right
now, Japanese maples in Baton Rougeare really going to start to show some
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signs of damage from from the heatand everything. I want to say,
I was told a while back bysaying too that you would really need to
be careful pruning back Japanese maples thistime of year, correct, because it
makes some more susceptible to fungal issues. Yeah, okay, and I want
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to make sure I say this correctly. It's we are seeing an influx of
Japanese maple into Baton Rouge right now. Are beautiful trees, Don't get me
wrong. I understand why. There'sa reason why they haven't been here for
a long time. There's a fewvarieties, and we were very my wife
and I were very fortunate we wereable to go to Japanese maple whosale open
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house and there's a lot of breeding. Is that the right word, braden
development? You're talking about new cultivars? Yes, yeah, I guess that
would be development. And some ofthose are becoming more and more heat tolerant
heat tolerant, but they're able tohold their foliage longer. The problem with
us is on Japanese maples with ourheat and our humidity causes a deterioration of
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the foliage much earlier in the year. So that is one and that we're
going to see a lot more thisyear, I think. And again,
help me if I'm wrong here,Braden. They don't require and don't like
a lot of fertilization. No U. I want to say that uh that
box farm product that we sell,it's a natural Japanese maple uh fertilizer.
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I want to say, the numberson that are pretty low. They are
very low. So that would beone of the things we want to do
that in the spring that can thatcan encourage some growth also, but again
that's one of the things. Isyour new growth, your new felash is
going to come at the terminal end. So um, unless you do some
light pruning. What January December,Jen, you want to do it when
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it's colder outside, that would beyour cooler, but don't don't ruin the
form of it. Whatever you do. Good morning, then welcome to w
jbos On in Gardens. Show howmay we help you today. I'll be
as quick as I can. What'sum blood blaster or any tips on as
far as dudes don't just try toapply to the vegetation. And then what
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about flowering butts? Should you stayaway from that? And that's with the
insects but here, Yeah, bugblaster for the most part is a soil
insect control, so we really don'tneed to spray up onto the plants as
much as we would with some ofthe other chemicals. We want to treat
more of the soil level. Withbug blaster, you can do a light
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spraying over the foliage. Some peopledo use bug blaster for mosquito control and
some of the flying insects. Youcan do a light spraying over the top
as hot as it is. Ifyou do spray flowers on plants, you
may get some discoloration of the flowersare there, which would really upset your
wife. So maybe i'd stay awayfrom doing that. Oh, good point,
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speaking of her, she might wantyou know. As far as the
fourth of July coming up, I'vegot white hydranges, I've got a red
flowering plant in the corner in abed. What fourth of July kind of
color options do you have for colorpopping flower beds the store right now?
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It sounds like to me you're justmissing the blue, which an excellent choice
for that would be the blue plumbBaco. He nailed it, and you
could probably you could probably also usesome real nice fourteen inch colladium blooming pots
that are white. Is the best. Thank you for the call. I'm
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Ann Butchers and Brighten from Clegg's Nursery. Good morning you remember, good morning?
Oh, I think we have acall therew. What if somebody else
wanted to call calls that four ninenine two six as four nine nine w
JBO. Make sure you thank Jamesfor holding on through the break. Thank
you, James. Good morning,James. Welcome to w j Buslant and
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Garden Show. How may we helpyou today? Let's say, um um
um, we want a shade treein our in our front yard. We
have clay soil. We do notwant it to mess up our water pipe.
God, good question, James.One seven A. Okay, probably
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up in that area they have somereally pretty maples that would work real good.
One of the main things you wantto do is obviously know where your
waterline is, and we don't wantto plant directly on top of it,
or you know, we want tostay away from it from some distance.
But yeah, up where you're from, I think there are several real pretty
maples that might do real well inthat front yard. And we'll give you
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excellent shade. How does that sound? Thank you so much? All right,
thank you for the call? Doesthat? What does that do?
That opens up phone lines at fournine two six out of four nine nine
w JB. It also allows youto an ask another one of your questions.
Let's see, um, why doesn'tmy friends citrus tree still don't have
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no guesses? Brandon? I waskind of wondering about that. I was
interested to see what you would haveto say. I think it was probably
the I don't know. It's aninteresting question. I have had some debate
on that. I think it wasactually the cold snap in February. Citrus
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trees, for the most parts,that sum is grapefruits oranges, those type
trees. That's typically when the budsare just about to break open. And
we had a really hard cold snaplate in February, and I think that
killed off a lot of the buds. The other thing is and is a
cold snap we had in December.The cold snap we had in December actually
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killed limbs. So obviously once thelimb is killed, there's not gonna be
any fruit on that limb. Soactually it was a double whammy this fall
with cold weather between the December coldsnap, but most important lead the February
cold snap. That's the one thatkilled off and they hadn't they hadn't opened
yet, but the buds were thereand it killed a lot of them off.
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So yeah, it's going to bea very poor citrus year as far
as production. And that goes backto the cold snaps, both in December
and January. I'm sorry, Decemberand February. One of the things that
I in fact, I had oneof my friend customers came in yesterday was
still losing branches out of us Asak. Well, yeah, we have
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a a pretty mature I think it'sbrown select satsuma at home, and it
took some massive damage through that coldweather. At the end of the year,
they very much did. And youknow a lot of people come in
complaining about them. I kind oftell them, hey, look you're luck
you still have a citrus tree.Yeah, you've lost a year of production.
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But unless we have another situation likethat, at least you still have
your tree. But no, there'sthat boils back to December. Since since
we're on the topic of citrus trees, I remember a while back at the
store one day, you're telling methat, uh, I think it's blood
oranges, that the fruit on itis kind of sporadic, very much so
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um as much issues as people arehaving with citrus this year, I mean
ours is in a pot, sowe took measures to protect it. Our
blood good is full of fruit.I would say at least sixty or more.
I mean your Japanese maple blood goodhas blood orange. I had to
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tease you, and I knew exactlywhat you mean, and it's weird.
I mean, in your situation,you're in a container, you're I've seen
some not so much your house,but I've seen some pictures. It looks
like if you have a relatively protectedarea, and that's one of the things
that people. I'm glad you broughtthis up, Brain because it is very
important. There's a lot of especiallyin the mid city area, Spanish Town
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area, those type areas, there'sa lot of microclimates. We have courtyards
where you have two large A lotof times they're brick or stucco walls,
right, that holds heat and ina lot of situations with plant material you
have homes that are very close together. You have the old goodwood area,
you have a lot of tree canopyover it that holds some heat in and
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when we're dealing with plant damage.This may sound stupid to people out there,
but two or three degrees can makea huge difference. So yes,
there's a lot of especially in thearea of Baton Rouge where you're you're living
in all there's a lot of microclimatesthat can create just enough warmth that you
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can I'm this is the best centralstreet ye I've ever had. So yes,
we do get some of that,but for the most part, most
citrus was damaged. So so you'regonna give me a couple of blood oranges?
Yeah, my blood. That's calleddead air space. You're not supposed
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to allow that to happen, AnnaClaire, Um, if you want to
call us, call us at foursix, at us four ninebo I have
some more questions. I figured youdid. Let's go see talk about proper
watering. Oh fast and furious,right, I think I'd rather go with
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Eric Clapton and slow hand. Yeah, I have to hang on. Helld
on I get to do it forsomebody else wants let me drag the soapbox
over here. Come on, Bradon, get up on the soapbox with your
water. And I have to admitthat is one thing I preach at work
to our employees and to the customers. Um it is it's really important to
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have not just the fact that youwater your plants, but you want to
have a routine to it. Um. Right now this time of year,
since it's extremely hot, pretty muchevery day, you want to go out
there and check the water every dayevery day, especially if you have container
plants like I do. I havea lot of stuffing containers and if you
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don't water at least go check onit to make see if it needs water.
Stuff really starts to look bad quickly, quick question for you, how
many days have you gotten home fromwork that you haven't had to water your
containers? Well, unless David didit. Well. Usually we do try
to water our stuff in the morningbecause it's more beneficial to do it that
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way, but it's it's every morning. If we don't do that in the
morning. By the time we gethome at the end of the day,
stuff is like on its last leg. And that's that weakens the plant.
I mean, you know, wet, dry, wet, dry, wet,
dry, what happens. And Iwould use you analogy. If we
get cold hot, cold hot,cold hot, we get sick. Yeah,
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plants get dry, wet, dry, wet, they get sick,
and then insects come in, diseasescome in that type stuff. So what
do you do when you go outthere and water You just kind of stick
your thumb over the end of thehouse. We actually have one of those
really nice watering heads that we sellat Legs, the Red Ones. I'm
not sure what brand it is,Yeah, but that sucker. It really
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gets the job done. But wei and this is something again I preached
to our employees all the time.When you're watering stuff, go slow,
turn your water pressure down a littlebit, and just take your time because
you want to make sure everything isjust getting saturated. And especially in container
plants, don't be afraid to,Oh, I've watered this plant, pick
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it up, pull it out ofthe pot. Yeah, I mean we
get the roots seeing you do it. I do it all the time,
especially with new employees at work.They'll go water table and I'll go look
at and going right. So whatI do is I call him over there
and I'll pull a little four inchpot off and I'll go look And how
many times Brandon, it's like justhalf yeah, just a half in steep
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you gotta do, you know?And I love it. The other day
you were talking about you said youyou actually went out one time and grabbed
an employee's arm. It's this islike, yeah, I grabbed their arm
and just slowly went over the tablewith the watering wind. Soil density has
a lot to do with permeability ofwater. Now, most of the plants
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that we have at the store aregoing to be in what we call a
bart based media, which does allowthe moisture to permeate relatively quickly. But
if you're just and I hate they'restanding there with the water wind five feet
away from the planet, you knowyou're you're you're losing half your water onto
the ground, and you know you'relosing a certain percentage of evaporation even that
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quickly. You want to get itrelatively close to the plant so that you're
getting the water on the roots.I'll tell you what if. If you're
a regular customer at Cleggs, you'veprobably heard Chris preach this to the employees
from time to time. You're wateringthe soil, not the plant. Very
very well said, very well said. But anyway, not fast and furious.
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Let's go Eric Clapton slow hand watering. That sounds better, more appropriate.
Yes, are you sleeping over here? Did we wake you up this
morning? No? I didn't reallywake up. Let's go with the next
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question. Any other insect issues youare seeing a lot of um this time
of year. I've had quite afew people come in with samples of their
plants where you can visibly see milliebugson everything. Some more commonly known as
soft scale too. So just yeah. One of my favorite things to use
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on basically any kind of insect issuewould be horticulture oil. But this time
of year, it being so hot, you really have to be careful using
that. Another good product would beeight, which I believe is a boonide
product. It is, it's boththings, so this time of year,
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it's it's important that if you're goingto use that, either do it on
a really overcast day or later inthe evening or before the sun really starts
to come up, because otherwise it'lljust kind of fry your plants. That's
even though neither one of them reallyhave a temperature restriction per It's again we
talked earlier about some of the herbicideson the lawn. We are stressed,
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so we don't want to add stress. Oil is actually, even though it's
a lighter oil than we used tohave, it still is an oil on
there, and we don't you know, I got much the other day.
Bring my little thermometer on my trucksat one hundred and three. That's that's
just insane. That is hot.And then you know, fortunately, you
know, I mean, I'm sorry, do you mind if I brow the
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soapbox? So? I mean,yeah, thank you, thank you.
I don't know why the weather Servicethey don't give you the temperature anymore.
If you watch any of the localyou know, whatever the news stations are
nowadays, they don't tell you thetemperature. It's the feel like Temperature's okay,
fine, maybe people who are youknow, whatever it feels like,
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but it makes it sound a lotworse. We're very fortunate that the plants
don't feel the feels like temperature.It's a good thing. Yeah, they
do deal only with actual temperatures.So some of the things that you know,
if you're reading, you know wehave a temperature restriction of ninety five,
which right now we need to beconcerned about. Don't go by the
news castles doing the field like temperature. This is actual temperatures when we deal
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with this restrictions. So if youwant to call us, call us at
four nine nine. I really don'tlike the way your bangs are two six
four nine w j VO. Ithink i'd start over. Please call us
at four six four nine anyway,I think I've lost the in turn.
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Did you have a question, Yes, when should we start fall vegetable seeds?
What why should we be starting forthe fall? Well, your fall
vegetables that we typically go if youwant to start seed um would be your
what I call your larger plants.That would be your cabb eats, your
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cauliflower, your broccoli plants, um, a lot of your other fall vegetables,
your carrots, radishes. Let uscan we can do It's called direct
seeding, meaning we'll plant directly inthe garden. I wouldn't think about even
think about any of those two maybein the middle of September. Today If
you look at the planting guide,is the first day to plant fall seeds
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per se the big three I mentioned, or kale even sometimes I'll add kale
to that, I Braden. Ifyou disagree, please let me know.
But we've been having warmer weather laterinto the fall, yes, and definitely
seems that way. So I wouldprobably suggest waiting a little bit. If
you look at again, look atthe seed chart that we give out,
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and come buy any of the fourlocations and we'll give you one a planting
guide, you can plant your seedsup into September, and I would suggest
waiting and getting those planted a littlebit later into the summer, maybe maybe
as much as the first part ofAugust, to do most of them,
so that that goes back to theheat adding stress exactly exactly. I think
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we have a caller. Oh,let's go to it. Good morning,
Wallace, Welcome to WJBUS Lawn andGarden Show. How may I help you
today? Hey Wallace, Well,thank you much. About a month ago,
as you even worded it, yougot on your soapbox about hummingbirds.
No boy, are they still around? I mean, have they migrated.
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Sounds like your yards and laboratory forhummingbirds. Nou whilst very very time to
call, and I really do appreciateit. Hummingbird activity in Baton Rouge we
get a kind of an influx inlate spring, usually April into middle or
so of May, and then wehave a downturn. The reason for the
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downturn is male hummingbirds pretty much dowhatever they want to. They fly around,
they really accept during breeding time reallydon't have a territory per se.
The females at this time are wellactually usually about the middle of May or
sitting on a nest and they willnot venture very far away from that nest.
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So a lot of times we dohave a downturn in humming bird movement.
And in fact, one of thecool things is if you still have
activity during that time period of anyconsequence except for males, I mean you
probably have a nest somewhere in thevicinity. Those birds are going to start
fledge. I can't say this wordvery well, fled fledging. I think
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anyway, they're starting to leave thenest and so you're going to start to
see more activity. And we sawthat pick up. I want to say,
last week in our yard, westarted to notice more and more birds
and you will see that through mostof the month of July into about the
middle of August, and most ofwhat you'll be seen during that time period
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is going to be females and immatures. Once we get into about the middle
to end of August, that's whenit gets really really fun around here.
That's when the migration comes through.The migration of the hummingbirds from the northeast
actually come pretty much through a littlebit north of Baton Rouge Proper Saint Francisville
area, but we do, ofcourse have a lot moved through us and
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they actually fly down the coast ofTexas into South America, so you have
a big influx of ruby throat hummingbirdsduring that time period. After that,
we have a slight delay period andthat's when most people will take their hummingbird
feeders down and bring them in,which is the absolute biggest mistake. I'm
sorry I needed to call for mysoapbox here. We have winter humming birds
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when the humming when the ruby throatsgo south. We have several species of
western humming birds. Why do Iuse my hands migrate to the east.
We have black chin, we haverufous, we have broad broadtail, we
have several different ones. You don'twant to fill your feeders up like you
do during August when the migration,when the birds are just stupid, But
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leave a little bit out there,leave a couple feeders out. You'll be
surprised. I think if and Shirley, we'll probably text me. I think
we've had documented four different species inour yard. Um. We used to
have a lady come in and actuallywould do she was licensed to do it
would ban the hummingbirds, which wasreally a lot of fun. But yeah,
we can have birds here a yearround and as long as you understand
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the fluctuations of the amount at thefeeders during that time period, you can
have a great time with hummingbirds.And the best thing to do. Feeders
are excellent, But plant plants thatthey like, that's what attracts the birds
to your yard. Do the salve, yes, yes, you know,
the coral, coral, honeysuckles,the you know, all the different hummingbird
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plants, the um pentas, thosetype of things that just really gets the
color out there, that really doesattract them into your yard. But yeah,
you should start noticing an increasing activityaround your feeders here any day now,
Walls great quiet, that's the informationI'm looking for. Thank you,
hey, thank you so much.And as you can tell um with as
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you know Mimi very well, sheis big into her humming birds and that's
something that we're very excited about andtry our best to promote. There's a
lot of debate on the hummingbird liquids. I do suggest staying away from the
red dyed um. There's been conflictingbelieve it or not, there's been conflicting
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studies on that. But anyway,just either make your own or do some
of the clear. You can goto sleep now. I think that's I
think, Brandon, thank you sovery much. Awesome job. I really
enjoy here. Come by a visitwith Brandon at Seagan Lane. We are
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at Cleg's Nursery. We have fourlocations in the greater Baton Rouge area.
Segan Lane, Denham Springs, GreenSprings Road in our mid city on Don
Moore are you. We are Cleg'sNursery. We are the independent garden Center
in Baton Rouge. We're here everySaturday morning from eight o'clock to nine o'clock
to listen to your questions and learna lot more from y'all than y'all will
ever learn from us. Again,thank you, Braden, Thank you in
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turn, Thank you Jeremy. You'vebeen listening to news Radio eleven fifty w
jbo's Lana Garden Show. See younext Saturday.
Good Saturday morning, and welcome tothe WGBO London Garden Show, brought to
you by Cleg's Nursery. If youhave a question about seasonal planting, London
garden concerns or questions about landscaping,call four nine nine WUGBO. That's four
nine nine ninety five two six.Good morning, You're welcome. W JP
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is London Garden Show today. Iam here with Butch Jers and who are
you? I'm the intern, AnnaClaire. I am here today with Braden
and Butch from Clegs Nursery. Goodmorning, Anna Claire, Good morning.
How are you good? Glad tohave you back after all your world travels.
I'm glad to be back here.Well good but um if you want
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to call us close at four ninenine nine five two six out is four
nine nine w JBO. Here areyou going to welcome mister Braden or just
mentioned his name. Good morning withRadon. Good morning. How are you
doing Anta Claire? Good? Howare you? I'm doing good? So
you work at Clegg's I do.I've been there for about two and a
half years now, and uh yeah, I believe it or not, you've
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really taken the place over it seemsyou've been there much longer than that.
Um, I think I make threeyears in November. Yeah, but I'm
I'm a supervisor there, so Ibasically, um, it's kind of key,
basically runs the place. Let's justnot be modest. Yeah, pretty
much. And I sweat a lot. Yeah, and he has to work
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with me. I'll keep you inmy purse. Thank you. That's a
that's a big help. No,Brandon has been my I mean, I
count on this man all the time. He actually does. He's the glue
that holds Clegg Seegings together. AndI'm very appreciative of that, and I'm
very excited he's here with us today. Well, thank you. I'm a
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I'm a little nervous, just alittle bit. That's okay. Anna Claire
will work you through it. Justfollow her lead. Right. Sounds good.
Do you have some questions as youalways do, or what if somebody
else has a question? You cancall us at four nine nine nine five
six US one nine nine w GBO. Very good. You've remembered the phone
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lines are actually working this name.That's true too. Good point. Um,
anyway, I hear you Bond's eye. Tell me a little bit about
how you got started. So,Um, I've always kind of had a
fascination with bondside just the fact thata tree can be that small when it
has the potential to be something muchbigger than that. I just always found
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that really interesting. But I didn'treally get into Bond's Eye until right before
I started working at Clegg's. Andit started with a great myrtle tree that
somebody had given me and I Ihad to do a little bit of research
on how to how to get thisthing down to the size that I wanted
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it and how to get it tobecause it was in probably i want to
say, like a ten gallon pottand pa, Yeah, it was.
It was pretty big. And I'mgonna steal one of her questions. I
apologize for interrupted. That's one ofthe things I know minimal about Bond's Eye.
Um, I've always been intriguing andI'm sorry, unclear. I know
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this was one of your questions,but how do you root prune them?
So with and just keep in mind, I still very much consider myself an
amateur at this because there's so muchthat I don't know. But uh,
you're not doctor. What was it, mister Moji? Right? Um.
But what I always try to dois if I have to root prune,
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I just prune the smaller roots.I lead the bigger, thicker roots.
Okay, along, especially when itcomes to like a great myrtle or something
that uh, they don't quite healright when you when you cut them.
That's very interesting. So because andI again I this is fascinating to me,
but that would have been the oppositeof what I would have thought you
would have done. Typically, youknow, when we worry about trees out
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in the landscape and we get phonecalls sometimes people well I've got this large
route, can I cut it?It's like, well, no, you
really, Well, I guess itis the same thing. I'm sorry,
because if you cut the large route, you cut off a whole system where
you just cut the smaller that right, Okay, it does make sense now
that. And I always, becauseI'm so afraid to cut into the bigger
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roots, always just try to bendthem a little bit to get them to
fit in the pot. Right.So you actually, I know I've watched
it being done and I've seen youknow, I don't know if you've ever
been to the Arboretum in Washington,D C. But that's where they have
the national Bondsai things. Oh mygoodness, I can only imagine that's to
be amazing phenomenal. And you knowhow you do you do the wiring and
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all with the branches to get themto form. I personally don't do that.
There. There's a lot of differentstyles of Bondsai, and most of
them have to do with how youwire up the branches. Um. I
just kind of like the natural growth. If if anything starts to get crazy,
I just kind of punt it backa little bit, don't wire it,
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cut it. Yeah. One ofthe neatest ones that you have.
You've shown me some pictures of yours. Is is it a whole bunch of
maples? I think it is.It was actually Norfolk Island pine. Oh
yeah, okay, yeah, thatone's actually that my most favorite one.
That's like a whole little forest inlike this little what's what's eye? Is
it like four by six pot orsomething? Maybe it's actually a drip pan
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for a pot that I turned intoa bond side. We'll see. There.
You got people all these little saucersand all you have out there.
You can become like Brandon and bea bonds eye. Person the most important
thing is drainage holes. What doyou want to make? What do you
use for soil? Um? Ido usually get the I forget the brand
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of the one that the bonds eyesoil that we sell, like, yeah,
I use that, and I usuallymix in a little bit of potting
soil. Personally, I like touse our Cleg's brand or Ocean Forest.
I love those ocean Forest products metoo. You really do some good stuff.
We've got. What do we have? We have the ocean Forest,
which is it's a fox farm actuallyotion forest, and we have the soil
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condition or the yellow bag yeah,the happy frog and the happy frog yeah,
and then the Cocoa Loco. Soyeah, I know it's really interesting
how the whole cocoa core thing hasreally become become a big, big thing.
So yeah, we do have theCocoa Loco. But very interesting,
interesting hobby that I wish I'd gotteninto forty years ago. It takes a
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lot of patients. Hey, Iwork jigsaw puzzles, so oh, well
you have the patients. I don'tknow. For some reason, my wife
always comments, so how can youdo a two thousand piece of jigsaw puzzle
and you can't anyway concentrate long enoughto do anything else, but very interesting.
Thank you for sharing your hobby withus. Do you have any other
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questions or do we have any callers? We don't have any callers as of
now, but if you would liketo call us, call us at two
six at US one nine nine wGBO And yes, I do you have
more questions? Great, let's go. What is a chinch bug? And
why do we why should we beconcerned? Wow? Chinch bugs? And
I'm glad that is an excellent umquestion. And I'm sure your dad gave
it because I think I saw somehen and yard. Chinch bug is a
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small insect um that loves Saint Augustinegrass and the hotter and the dryer and
what are we right now, guys? Really hot and really dry exactly.
It becomes very very active and we'vehad numerous cases showed up at the store.
And that The big thing about chinchbugs is they kill. It's not
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like brown patches sometimes can run through. Chinch bugs actually kill Saint Augustine.
It's a small insect. If youwant to get into the transition zone,
which is where you're going from brownto green. Uh, it's a little
small bug, probably two three timesthe size of a pinhead. Then it
has a little white adult anyway,has a little white stripe across its back.
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It literally choose its way through thegrass. Very easy to control.
We recommend a product called bug Blaster. We carry it, I don't remember
the size of but a granular formand a liquid form. If you have
active chinch bugs, I would probablysuggest the liquid form will give you a
more instant control prevention. That's themost important thing when it comes to plants
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exactly. And if you if you'llput out what we call bug blaster,
put it out now, if you, especially if you have a Saint Augustine
lawn, and you're not wasting yourmoney because if you don't have chinch bugs,
if we do get side web worms, which we have been having for
the last couple of years, Ialso control Slee's an ant, So it's
a good preventative to make sure youdon't get chinch bugs. Also will kill
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them if you do have active chinchbugs. So very good question. What's
the granular form bug blaster. Oh, there's their bug Blaster liquid. And
I was told tall Star tell Staris also a control for it. Yes,
okay, all of those three things, well all of those are basically
by Fintherin is the chemical in them? Um Tellstar is. I don't know
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the chemistry of it, but itseems to be a little bit more potent,
I guess would be the controls mostpeople I know it is. It's
an excellent product. A lot ofpeople come in, you know, do
tell Star a couple times a yearto keep all of your bad insects out
of their lawn. So good,good call, Thank you. I think
we have a caller. Oh,speaking of a good call, just follow
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a law. Yeah, okay,Good morning, Donna. Welcome to WJB
Isla and Garden Show. How manywe hope you today. Good morning,
Donna, Good morning. I justplanted some lantana and uh from the sign
stores. One is the little yellowlight gym Lantana and the others I think
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it's pink and orange lantana. Thepink and orange day don't look good at
all, and I've water to them, and I know it's hot right now,
but there's maybe something wrong with thepink and orange on anything we're planting
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right now. And you did commenton the moisture thing we need to make
sure we keep everything well watered,uh watering. We want to go slow
with our water. We want tomake sure we get a good deep watering.
The other thing that I have afeeling you might be dealing with is
an issue called lace bugs or lacewings. It's it's become extremely detrimental to
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lantana. What it does is itcauses the outer foliage to almost look what
would you say, kind of amodeled color, maybe a little off color.
And also it causes the lantana tostop blooming. If that's the case,
we normally would recommend an acephate typeproduct or thine systemic insect control by
bonaide to control those insects. Ifyou want to snip some of that off,
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bring it into one of the locations. Let us look at that to
see if it is lacebugs. Sincethe one variety seems to be doing better,
and you obviously are probably treating inpretty much the same way, I
would think you probably have an issuewith lace wing or lacebugs on there.
Okay, I do have another question. Sure, we have a contrary in
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our yard that's probably forty years oldand has been an excellent a con producer.
Like every year except a couple andit's been losively from that like the
inside of the tree the past months. And I don't know if that's we
watered it more, we fertilized this, but it's a losing leaves from the
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inside. Yeah, and that wouldbe that would be a moisture thing.
It is nearly impossible to properly watera tree that's that old or that large.
I mean you would need to havea soaker hose and literally run those
things overnight to get anywhere close tothe moisture that that tree's going to absorb.
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And I don't remember, I'm oldand speeble minded, but the amount
of moisture a tree that size pullsout of the ground every day is just
unbelievable. It's an unfortunate situation thatwe are going to see. We'll see
some difficulty with trees because of howhot and how dry we are. Tree
will probably should be fine, Itwill recover from this. Your production probably
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will be down something next year becauseof it. But yeah, just putting
a sprinkler underneath a tree that sizeand running it for an hour, I
don't want to say as useless,but is basically useless. Sorry, you're
not going to lose it. Um, It's just it's a matter. I
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mean, there's other things that arepossibilities. But being that it's from the
inside out, that is typically anindication of stress, which right now is
moisture, lightning strikes, things likethat that may are concerning some people.
Would be more. You would seea more rapid decrease, and it would
be more from the exterior into theinterior of the plant. You may even
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see scarring on the stem where thelightning went down. A minimal amount of
insect damage that's going to cause mortalityon a p contree. But I just
really do think that that is anissue. Without hot and dry we are
okay, okay, So don't don'tput the soaker hose or I mean you
can, I mean if you wantto, if you want to put a
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soaker hose out there, but likeI said, let's it's if you're going
to do it, let's make surewe do run them. For like a
soaker hose overnight. We don't wantto do a light watering. Like I
said, a sprinkler. You know, set us oscillating sprinkler out there for
forty five minutes. What happens ifyou do that with any type of plant
material. Is it causes the rootsto come to come up to the moisture.
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So you want to make sure anytimewe water, we get a good
deep watering, Okay, so thatthe roots don't try to come up to
the moisture. Yeah, okay,all right, thank you for the call.
Thank you. We have another caller. Wow, we've filled up this
morning. Good morning, Craig,Welcome to WJB IS on the garden Check.
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How may we help you today?Hey, I've got most of vine
growing in my front yard and I'mtrying to get rid of it. It's
well established in uh kind of takingover. And I also have a second,
separate question. Well, to answeryour first question, the real estate
market right now is really good.That is, that is one of the
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most difficult things that we have toeradicate out of flower beds. Um.
I wish I had a good answerfor you. This is actually growing in
my lawn in my Saint Augustine andit is it is well entrenched and very
difficult to prune out or try tograb out it. Have you tried any
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of the broad leaf herbicides like MSMno. I have not. Let's let's
give that a try. Um,and right now I'm going to tell you
not to even though temperature restrictions blahblah blah, we should be Okay.
Our lawns are under extreme stress,even if we're watering them. They are
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stressed out. Herbsides work off atolerancelevels. So the more stressed it is,
am I saying that correctly, Brandon, Yeah, the more stress the
plant is, the less tolerant isto those herbicides. So let's wait till
we're supposed to start getting in target. Hello, something just happened to my
headphones there. We're supposed to getin and into that afternoon rain thing coming
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this next week, so i'd waittill we get to that. Then let's
try MSM. I don't know howeffective it's going to be, if it's
going to be effective at all,but if not, your best solution is
to get a paint brush and roundup. Okay, all right, sorry,
and then I will maybe we'll maybedo better with the second question.
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Okay, hopefully I have about afourteen fifteen year old Japanese mafle in my
courtyard and the foliage is all Imean, it's a tall tree. It's
probably about fifteen maybe sixteen seventeen feettall, and all of the foliage is
at the top third of the plant, and I'm just trying to see if
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there's any way I can what Ican do to it, maybe enhance some
growth down below. Hello, we'rehere. I'm sorry, I'm having headphone
problems. Your best bet to dothat is, remember all plant material produces
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leaves at the terminal growth, atthe new growth. So if you want
to fill the plant out, you'regoing to probably have to go in and
do some pruning. You're gonna haveto bring some of the limbs back a
little bit so that you can getthem to flush growth wherever you've pruned them
at you're talking about on the limbsthat already have existing foliage. If you
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want to bring the foliage down lower, yes, well, and I'm not
suggesting you do that. I thinkthat would and bring you're you're the bonsai
person in actually Japanese maple, butthat's typically with those that's where the foliage
is on the outermost part of theplant. You can also if you do
too much of that, you canchange the form of the plant. But
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that's the only way you're going toget more foliage lower on the plant is
to have terminal growth at that point, have new growth coming out at that
point, and the only way todo that is to prune it. Right
now, Japanese maples in Baton Rougeare really going to start to show some
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signs of damage from from the heatand everything. I want to say,
I was told a while back bysaying too that you would really need to
be careful pruning back Japanese maples thistime of year, correct, because it
makes some more susceptible to fungal issues. Yeah, okay, and I want
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to make sure I say this correctly. It's we are seeing an influx of
Japanese maple into Baton Rouge right now. Are beautiful trees, Don't get me
wrong. I understand why. There'sa reason why they haven't been here for
a long time. There's a fewvarieties, and we were very my wife
and I were very fortunate we wereable to go to Japanese maple whosale open
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house and there's a lot of breeding. Is that the right word, braden
development? You're talking about new cultivars? Yes, yeah, I guess that
would be development. And some ofthose are becoming more and more heat tolerant
heat tolerant, but they're able tohold their foliage longer. The problem with
us is on Japanese maples with ourheat and our humidity causes a deterioration of
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the foliage much earlier in the year. So that is one and that we're
going to see a lot more thisyear, I think. And again,
help me if I'm wrong here,Braden. They don't require and don't like
a lot of fertilization. No U. I want to say that uh that
box farm product that we sell,it's a natural Japanese maple uh fertilizer.
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I want to say, the numberson that are pretty low. They are
very low. So that would beone of the things we want to do
that in the spring that can thatcan encourage some growth also, but again
that's one of the things. Isyour new growth, your new felash is
going to come at the terminal end. So um, unless you do some
light pruning. What January December,Jen, you want to do it when
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it's colder outside, that would beyour cooler, but don't don't ruin the
form of it. Whatever you do. Good morning, then welcome to w
jbos On in Gardens. Show howmay we help you today. I'll be
as quick as I can. What'sum blood blaster or any tips on as
far as dudes don't just try toapply to the vegetation. And then what
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about flowering butts? Should you stayaway from that? And that's with the
insects but here, Yeah, bugblaster for the most part is a soil
insect control, so we really don'tneed to spray up onto the plants as
much as we would with some ofthe other chemicals. We want to treat
more of the soil level. Withbug blaster, you can do a light
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spraying over the foliage. Some peopledo use bug blaster for mosquito control and
some of the flying insects. Youcan do a light spraying over the top
as hot as it is. Ifyou do spray flowers on plants, you
may get some discoloration of the flowersare there, which would really upset your
wife. So maybe i'd stay awayfrom doing that. Oh, good point,
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speaking of her, she might wantyou know. As far as the
fourth of July coming up, I'vegot white hydranges, I've got a red
flowering plant in the corner in abed. What fourth of July kind of
color options do you have for colorpopping flower beds the store right now?
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It sounds like to me you're justmissing the blue, which an excellent choice
for that would be the blue plumbBaco. He nailed it, and you
could probably you could probably also usesome real nice fourteen inch colladium blooming pots
that are white. Is the best. Thank you for the call. I'm
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Ann Butchers and Brighten from Clegg's Nursery. Good morning you remember, good morning?
Oh, I think we have acall therew. What if somebody else
wanted to call calls that four ninenine two six as four nine nine w
JBO. Make sure you thank Jamesfor holding on through the break. Thank
you, James. Good morning,James. Welcome to w j Buslant and
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Garden Show. How may we helpyou today? Let's say, um um
um, we want a shade treein our in our front yard. We
have clay soil. We do notwant it to mess up our water pipe.
God, good question, James.One seven A. Okay, probably
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up in that area they have somereally pretty maples that would work real good.
One of the main things you wantto do is obviously know where your
waterline is, and we don't wantto plant directly on top of it,
or you know, we want tostay away from it from some distance.
But yeah, up where you're from, I think there are several real pretty
maples that might do real well inthat front yard. And we'll give you
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excellent shade. How does that sound? Thank you so much? All right,
thank you for the call? Doesthat? What does that do?
That opens up phone lines at fournine two six out of four nine nine
w JB. It also allows youto an ask another one of your questions.
Let's see, um, why doesn'tmy friends citrus tree still don't have
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no guesses? Brandon? I waskind of wondering about that. I was
interested to see what you would haveto say. I think it was probably
the I don't know. It's aninteresting question. I have had some debate
on that. I think it wasactually the cold snap in February. Citrus
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trees, for the most parts,that sum is grapefruits oranges, those type
trees. That's typically when the budsare just about to break open. And
we had a really hard cold snaplate in February, and I think that
killed off a lot of the buds. The other thing is and is a
cold snap we had in December.The cold snap we had in December actually
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killed limbs. So obviously once thelimb is killed, there's not gonna be
any fruit on that limb. Soactually it was a double whammy this fall
with cold weather between the December coldsnap, but most important lead the February
cold snap. That's the one thatkilled off and they hadn't they hadn't opened
yet, but the buds were thereand it killed a lot of them off.
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So yeah, it's going to bea very poor citrus year as far
as production. And that goes backto the cold snaps, both in December
and January. I'm sorry, Decemberand February. One of the things that
I in fact, I had oneof my friend customers came in yesterday was
still losing branches out of us Asak. Well, yeah, we have
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a a pretty mature I think it'sbrown select satsuma at home, and it
took some massive damage through that coldweather. At the end of the year,
they very much did. And youknow a lot of people come in
complaining about them. I kind oftell them, hey, look you're luck
you still have a citrus tree.Yeah, you've lost a year of production.
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But unless we have another situation likethat, at least you still have
your tree. But no, there'sthat boils back to December. Since since
we're on the topic of citrus trees, I remember a while back at the
store one day, you're telling methat, uh, I think it's blood
oranges, that the fruit on itis kind of sporadic, very much so
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um as much issues as people arehaving with citrus this year, I mean
ours is in a pot, sowe took measures to protect it. Our
blood good is full of fruit.I would say at least sixty or more.
I mean your Japanese maple blood goodhas blood orange. I had to
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tease you, and I knew exactlywhat you mean, and it's weird.
I mean, in your situation,you're in a container, you're I've seen
some not so much your house,but I've seen some pictures. It looks
like if you have a relatively protectedarea, and that's one of the things
that people. I'm glad you broughtthis up, Brain because it is very
important. There's a lot of especiallyin the mid city area, Spanish Town
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area, those type areas, there'sa lot of microclimates. We have courtyards
where you have two large A lotof times they're brick or stucco walls,
right, that holds heat and ina lot of situations with plant material you
have homes that are very close together. You have the old goodwood area,
you have a lot of tree canopyover it that holds some heat in and
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when we're dealing with plant damage.This may sound stupid to people out there,
but two or three degrees can makea huge difference. So yes,
there's a lot of especially in thearea of Baton Rouge where you're you're living
in all there's a lot of microclimatesthat can create just enough warmth that you
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can I'm this is the best centralstreet ye I've ever had. So yes,
we do get some of that,but for the most part, most
citrus was damaged. So so you'regonna give me a couple of blood oranges?
Yeah, my blood. That's calleddead air space. You're not supposed
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to allow that to happen, AnnaClaire, Um, if you want to
call us, call us at foursix, at us four ninebo I have
some more questions. I figured youdid. Let's go see talk about proper
watering. Oh fast and furious,right, I think I'd rather go with
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Eric Clapton and slow hand. Yeah, I have to hang on. Helld
on I get to do it forsomebody else wants let me drag the soapbox
over here. Come on, Bradon, get up on the soapbox with your
water. And I have to admitthat is one thing I preach at work
to our employees and to the customers. Um it is it's really important to
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have not just the fact that youwater your plants, but you want to
have a routine to it. Um. Right now this time of year,
since it's extremely hot, pretty muchevery day, you want to go out
there and check the water every dayevery day, especially if you have container
plants like I do. I havea lot of stuffing containers and if you
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don't water at least go check onit to make see if it needs water.
Stuff really starts to look bad quickly, quick question for you, how
many days have you gotten home fromwork that you haven't had to water your
containers? Well, unless David didit. Well. Usually we do try
to water our stuff in the morningbecause it's more beneficial to do it that
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way, but it's it's every morning. If we don't do that in the
morning. By the time we gethome at the end of the day,
stuff is like on its last leg. And that's that weakens the plant.
I mean, you know, wet, dry, wet, dry, wet,
dry, what happens. And Iwould use you analogy. If we
get cold hot, cold hot,cold hot, we get sick. Yeah,
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plants get dry, wet, dry, wet, they get sick,
and then insects come in, diseasescome in that type stuff. So what
do you do when you go outthere and water You just kind of stick
your thumb over the end of thehouse. We actually have one of those
really nice watering heads that we sellat Legs, the Red Ones. I'm
not sure what brand it is,Yeah, but that sucker. It really
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gets the job done. But wei and this is something again I preached
to our employees all the time.When you're watering stuff, go slow,
turn your water pressure down a littlebit, and just take your time because
you want to make sure everything isjust getting saturated. And especially in container
plants, don't be afraid to,Oh, I've watered this plant, pick
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it up, pull it out ofthe pot. Yeah, I mean we
get the roots seeing you do it. I do it all the time,
especially with new employees at work.They'll go water table and I'll go look
at and going right. So whatI do is I call him over there
and I'll pull a little four inchpot off and I'll go look And how
many times Brandon, it's like justhalf yeah, just a half in steep
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you gotta do, you know?And I love it. The other day
you were talking about you said youyou actually went out one time and grabbed
an employee's arm. It's this islike, yeah, I grabbed their arm
and just slowly went over the tablewith the watering wind. Soil density has
a lot to do with permeability ofwater. Now, most of the plants
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that we have at the store aregoing to be in what we call a
bart based media, which does allowthe moisture to permeate relatively quickly. But
if you're just and I hate they'restanding there with the water wind five feet
away from the planet, you knowyou're you're you're losing half your water onto
the ground, and you know you'relosing a certain percentage of evaporation even that
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quickly. You want to get itrelatively close to the plant so that you're
getting the water on the roots.I'll tell you what if. If you're
a regular customer at Cleggs, you'veprobably heard Chris preach this to the employees
from time to time. You're wateringthe soil, not the plant. Very
very well said, very well said. But anyway, not fast and furious.
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Let's go Eric Clapton slow hand watering. That sounds better, more appropriate.
Yes, are you sleeping over here? Did we wake you up this
morning? No? I didn't reallywake up. Let's go with the next
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question. Any other insect issues youare seeing a lot of um this time
of year. I've had quite afew people come in with samples of their
plants where you can visibly see milliebugson everything. Some more commonly known as
soft scale too. So just yeah. One of my favorite things to use
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on basically any kind of insect issuewould be horticulture oil. But this time
of year, it being so hot, you really have to be careful using
that. Another good product would beeight, which I believe is a boonide
product. It is, it's boththings, so this time of year,
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it's it's important that if you're goingto use that, either do it on
a really overcast day or later inthe evening or before the sun really starts
to come up, because otherwise it'lljust kind of fry your plants. That's
even though neither one of them reallyhave a temperature restriction per It's again we
talked earlier about some of the herbicideson the lawn. We are stressed,
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so we don't want to add stress. Oil is actually, even though it's
a lighter oil than we used tohave, it still is an oil on
there, and we don't you know, I got much the other day.
Bring my little thermometer on my trucksat one hundred and three. That's that's
just insane. That is hot.And then you know, fortunately, you
know, I mean, I'm sorry, do you mind if I brow the
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soapbox? So? I mean,yeah, thank you, thank you.
I don't know why the weather Servicethey don't give you the temperature anymore.
If you watch any of the localyou know, whatever the news stations are
nowadays, they don't tell you thetemperature. It's the feel like Temperature's okay,
fine, maybe people who are youknow, whatever it feels like,
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but it makes it sound a lotworse. We're very fortunate that the plants
don't feel the feels like temperature.It's a good thing. Yeah, they
do deal only with actual temperatures.So some of the things that you know,
if you're reading, you know wehave a temperature restriction of ninety five,
which right now we need to beconcerned about. Don't go by the
news castles doing the field like temperature. This is actual temperatures when we deal
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with this restrictions. So if youwant to call us, call us at
four nine nine. I really don'tlike the way your bangs are two six
four nine w j VO. Ithink i'd start over. Please call us
at four six four nine anyway,I think I've lost the in turn.
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Did you have a question, Yes, when should we start fall vegetable seeds?
What why should we be starting forthe fall? Well, your fall
vegetables that we typically go if youwant to start seed um would be your
what I call your larger plants.That would be your cabb eats, your
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cauliflower, your broccoli plants, um, a lot of your other fall vegetables,
your carrots, radishes. Let uscan we can do It's called direct
seeding, meaning we'll plant directly inthe garden. I wouldn't think about even
think about any of those two maybein the middle of September. Today If
you look at the planting guide,is the first day to plant fall seeds
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per se the big three I mentioned, or kale even sometimes I'll add kale
to that, I Braden. Ifyou disagree, please let me know.
But we've been having warmer weather laterinto the fall, yes, and definitely
seems that way. So I wouldprobably suggest waiting a little bit. If
you look at again, look atthe seed chart that we give out,
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and come buy any of the fourlocations and we'll give you one a planting
guide, you can plant your seedsup into September, and I would suggest
waiting and getting those planted a littlebit later into the summer, maybe maybe
as much as the first part ofAugust, to do most of them,
so that that goes back to theheat adding stress exactly exactly. I think
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we have a caller. Oh,let's go to it. Good morning,
Wallace, Welcome to WJBUS Lawn andGarden Show. How may I help you
today? Hey Wallace, Well,thank you much. About a month ago,
as you even worded it, yougot on your soapbox about hummingbirds.
No boy, are they still around? I mean, have they migrated.
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Sounds like your yards and laboratory forhummingbirds. Nou whilst very very time to
call, and I really do appreciateit. Hummingbird activity in Baton Rouge we
get a kind of an influx inlate spring, usually April into middle or
so of May, and then wehave a downturn. The reason for the
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downturn is male hummingbirds pretty much dowhatever they want to. They fly around,
they really accept during breeding time reallydon't have a territory per se.
The females at this time are wellactually usually about the middle of May or
sitting on a nest and they willnot venture very far away from that nest.
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So a lot of times we dohave a downturn in humming bird movement.
And in fact, one of thecool things is if you still have
activity during that time period of anyconsequence except for males, I mean you
probably have a nest somewhere in thevicinity. Those birds are going to start
fledge. I can't say this wordvery well, fled fledging. I think
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anyway, they're starting to leave thenest and so you're going to start to
see more activity. And we sawthat pick up. I want to say,
last week in our yard, westarted to notice more and more birds
and you will see that through mostof the month of July into about the
middle of August, and most ofwhat you'll be seen during that time period
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is going to be females and immatures. Once we get into about the middle
to end of August, that's whenit gets really really fun around here.
That's when the migration comes through.The migration of the hummingbirds from the northeast
actually come pretty much through a littlebit north of Baton Rouge Proper Saint Francisville
area, but we do, ofcourse have a lot moved through us and
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they actually fly down the coast ofTexas into South America, so you have
a big influx of ruby throat hummingbirdsduring that time period. After that,
we have a slight delay period andthat's when most people will take their hummingbird
feeders down and bring them in,which is the absolute biggest mistake. I'm
sorry I needed to call for mysoapbox here. We have winter humming birds
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when the humming when the ruby throatsgo south. We have several species of
western humming birds. Why do Iuse my hands migrate to the east.
We have black chin, we haverufous, we have broad broadtail, we
have several different ones. You don'twant to fill your feeders up like you
do during August when the migration,when the birds are just stupid, But
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leave a little bit out there,leave a couple feeders out. You'll be
surprised. I think if and Shirley, we'll probably text me. I think
we've had documented four different species inour yard. Um. We used to
have a lady come in and actuallywould do she was licensed to do it
would ban the hummingbirds, which wasreally a lot of fun. But yeah,
we can have birds here a yearround and as long as you understand
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the fluctuations of the amount at thefeeders during that time period, you can
have a great time with hummingbirds.And the best thing to do. Feeders
are excellent, But plant plants thatthey like, that's what attracts the birds
to your yard. Do the salve, yes, yes, you know,
the coral, coral, honeysuckles,the you know, all the different hummingbird
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plants, the um pentas, thosetype of things that just really gets the
color out there, that really doesattract them into your yard. But yeah,
you should start noticing an increasing activityaround your feeders here any day now,
Walls great quiet, that's the informationI'm looking for. Thank you,
hey, thank you so much.And as you can tell um with as
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you know Mimi very well, sheis big into her humming birds and that's
something that we're very excited about andtry our best to promote. There's a
lot of debate on the hummingbird liquids. I do suggest staying away from the
red dyed um. There's been conflictingbelieve it or not, there's been conflicting
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studies on that. But anyway,just either make your own or do some
of the clear. You can goto sleep now. I think that's I
think, Brandon, thank you sovery much. Awesome job. I really
enjoy here. Come by a visitwith Brandon at Seagan Lane. We are
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at Cleg's Nursery. We have fourlocations in the greater Baton Rouge area.
Segan Lane, Denham Springs, GreenSprings Road in our mid city on Don
Moore are you. We are Cleg'sNursery. We are the independent garden Center
in Baton Rouge. We're here everySaturday morning from eight o'clock to nine o'clock
to listen to your questions and learna lot more from y'all than y'all will
ever learn from us. Again,thank you, Braden, Thank you in
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turn, Thank you Jeremy. You'vebeen listening to news Radio eleven fifty w
jbo's Lana Garden Show. See younext Saturday.
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