May 3, 2025 • 46 mins
This week on the WJBO Lawn & Garden Show, Chris & Butch from Clegg's Nursery start off talking about ideas for Mother's Day gifts that go beyond just plants - including some gardening gadgets! They also touch on how it's a weird time for vegetables, what weeds we're already seeing, and one caller question leads them to remind you how important planning is before planting!
Speaking of callers, we got a TON of questions this week, covering everything from fighting poison ivy, best time to prune azaleas, how you can tell if stored fertilizers are stll good, the best position of planting a tree to avoid future headaches and dealing with a "weed tree"!
If you'd like to be part of the WJBO Lawn & Garden Show, give us a call Saturday mornings between 8 and 9m at (225) 499-9526 - that's 499-WJBO! If you're listening on our free iHeartRadio app, you can also leave a message by tapping the red Talkback Mic button!
And make sure you have the latest version of our free iHeartRadio app so you can make WJBO Newsradio 1150 AM & 98.7 FM your #1 preset on the app! You can also make the WJBO Lawn & Garden Show podcast a preset too!
Speaking of callers, we got a TON of questions this week, covering everything from fighting poison ivy, best time to prune azaleas, how you can tell if stored fertilizers are stll good, the best position of planting a tree to avoid future headaches and dealing with a "weed tree"!
If you'd like to be part of the WJBO Lawn & Garden Show, give us a call Saturday mornings between 8 and 9m at (225) 499-9526 - that's 499-WJBO! If you're listening on our free iHeartRadio app, you can also leave a message by tapping the red Talkback Mic button!
And make sure you have the latest version of our free iHeartRadio app so you can make WJBO Newsradio 1150 AM & 98.7 FM your #1 preset on the app! You can also make the WJBO Lawn & Garden Show podcast a preset too!
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Good Saturday morning, and welcome to the Wgboln and Garden Show,
brought to you by Cleg's Nursery. If you have a
question about seasonal planting, lon and garden concerns or questions
about landscaping, called four nine nine WGBO.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
That's four nine nine two six.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
Good morning, Baton Rouge, and welcome to news radio eleven
fifty wjbo's Lawn and Garden Show. My name is Butch Drew's.
I'm with Chris Herman from Klegg's Nursery. Good morning, Chris,
Good morning, Butch. I was a little concerned when I
walked in and didn't see the internturn. I know you're
her highness. Yeah, I think we've lost the intern Negotiations
(00:43):
did not go well.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
I am glad.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
I was listening to a couple of things that I'd
noticed coming up to the show. I am very glad
that in the intro they took out called the experts for.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
But anyway, Zane's not here, so they hi good point.
Give us call for six that's four nine nine WJBO.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
For those of you that can figure out the alphabet
on your phone, I never could. There's call lots of
things going on, a lot of things going on. And
one question I have for you, Chris, since you are
the absolute smartest person I know, Yes, I know I
needed to learn this room, in this room exactly.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
Why are the Sierra Nevada.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
Mountains in California? Wouldn't it be the Sierra California Mountains?
Speaker 2 (01:27):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (01:28):
Next question, when did we have the lawn and garden
and geography shows?
Speaker 2 (01:32):
Well, I mean they were.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
Talking about on the weather how there was severe weather
in the Sierra Nevadas.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
It made me think of it.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
Oh, okay, got so now we're doing climate geography and
lawn and garden.
Speaker 4 (01:43):
I'll not to get that thing recut. That wasn't in
my contract. I don't remember that. Yeah, you have a contract. No, anyway,
So what's going on? What's the big deals at the
nursery right now? Chris?
Speaker 5 (01:56):
Getting ready for Mother's Day? Yes, next week, next time.
We have plenty of hydranges, roses, all kind of blooming plants,
and we also have one of the best gifts I
think is a gift card.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
No, I think so too. That way people can get
with they get what they want exactly. I like that
idea because especially and again I really don't like to
do commercials because I mean, we have enough commercials on
here anyway. But there are so many other things that
you know, Oh, a plant, well, plant's great, you know,
(02:33):
there's absolutely nothing wrong with a plant. But one of
the things I tell people, and I promote on this
radio show all the time, there are so many other
I'm gonna use the word gadget. I don't like that word,
but that's what the only one I can think of
this quickly. That for a true garden or important soil thermometer. True,
(02:53):
I mean, that's one of you know, Johnny Naylor harps constantly.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
What I harps is a bad word too.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
But oil temperatures are so important for so many things.
You know, we laugh last time we were together about venka.
How you know you want your soil temperatures at least
the mid seventies, if not warmer when you plant your
venca or otherwise they're going to get hit by a
disease and die unfortunately. And so vegetable gardening, you know,
(03:22):
your soul temperature is so important, especially if you're out
starting seeds. So I mean, that's something that you know,
put it in a little mother's day basket. If your
your mother, your grandmother is big into gardening, not just
vegetable gardening, but flowers.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
That's a very important thing.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
The pH meters, plant tags, you know, plant tags. You know,
that's one of the things that my wife is tagging
plants all the time. So it's it's little things like that.
That was your wife tagging the plants?
Speaker 2 (03:53):
Or are you tagging? No?
Speaker 3 (03:54):
She actually, because I have no idea what they are,
probably think you're gonna screw it up.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
Yeah, I am.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
Could you also potentially just give you know, you said
you put in a little basket the soil thermometer. Could
you just give a big mound of dirt with thermometer
in it.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
Oh, oh, a.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
Clay pot full of pot and soil with the thermometer.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
That's a great idea. Jeremy, you're hired.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
Ye're welcome on. We're gonna switch places. I have no
idea what's going on over there.
Speaker 5 (04:21):
But no, you know, well, one of the things I
had mentioned roses, and I don't know where i'd learned this.
I'm sure I was with clag So years and years ago.
They were talking about roses for Valentine's Day or Mother's
Day because it's the rose that keeps on giving, you know.
Don't give them a bouquet of roses which is only
going to last a week or so. Give them a plant,
(04:41):
a rose plant. You were talking about soil temperature and
the soil thermometers. I think that's one thing that most gardeners,
even probably most experienced gardeners, or they think they're experienced gardeners,
don't realize how important the soil temperature is really. Like
you said, I think it was back in February or
March on the show we were talking about Finco right
(05:05):
not to plant too early vegetables. You know, Johnny, he
didn't like the plant until that's soil temperature seventy degrees.
Now I try and cheat that, and of course I'm
down in New Orleans, so we're a little bit warmer.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
But you can notice the difference.
Speaker 5 (05:18):
I mean, the plant won't die, It just will just
sit there right exactly.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
And it's plants are one thing, as you pointed out,
very astuteley. But seeds, if you know, a lot of
people are trying to get into which which is exciting,
especially young families with kids. You can plant some seeds,
some seeds won't germinate at certain temperatures, so it is
I'm you know, that's one of the things that I've noticed,
or I noticed when I was still in the store,
(05:43):
more like the heating mats for seed trays and all.
People were starting to understand the importance of those, yes
and so that type stuff. So maybe maybe the one
or two people that are listening to the show are
actually paying attention and telling others and telling others four
nine nine nine five two six four nine nine WJBO
will get you onto the radio pretty quick. Speaking of vegetables,
(06:08):
it's kind of a weird time as far as tomatoes.
You're almost getting late to plant just because of our
weather getting warmer. Yeah, because so your your popular varieties,
you're better boys, your big Beef, Beef Master, all of those.
The issue planting those as late is once they get
(06:30):
up and get to flowering. I'm hoping I'm wrong on this,
believe me, but our nighttime temperatures are going to be
too high for this to set. Yeah, And there is
a is it called blossom set or blossom blossom set.
Speaker 5 (06:45):
It's almost like an adhesive that you spray by a
flower and it holds the flour on longer.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
You want to know something really cool. You probably already
know about blossom set.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
What's that?
Speaker 3 (06:53):
If you use blossom set on the bloom, what happens
other than it produces a tomato?
Speaker 2 (06:59):
Don't be as.
Speaker 5 (07:01):
I don't know it doesn't it just hold the flower
on longers.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
No seeds in the fruit in the fruit. I did
not know that. WHOA look at you gob.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
If you if you pollinate with it.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
In fact, some of the people that don't like tomato
seeds are actually do that to which is way.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
Too much work.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
But so there are what we call heat set not
heat tolerant tomatoes. Florida ninety one, any new new ones
out there that I'm not is Amelia Amelia berosa. And
what they'll do is they will set temper they will
set their fruit at higher nighttime temperatures and actually hire
(07:42):
daytime temperatures.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
So it is.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
Typically those will have either like Florida or sun or
heat in the name belaros and Amelia obviously not. But
those are good ones. But those are what you would
be looking for if you come into this store right now.
Peppers you can plant peppers right now. The fruit that
you get off, especially bell peppers right now, will be
(08:07):
smaller in the summer. Just baby them through, get you know,
get into the fall when you can get the large
peppers gain.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
Hot peppers love it hot, so.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
Any of your if you're looking to do any of
your hot peppers, habin arrows, those type peppers. Now is
a great time to be planting those.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
How are we on? Eggplant?
Speaker 3 (08:26):
Eggplant loves it hot. Egg egg plant okra okra is
another good one to plant right now. Field peas will
be coming up pretty soon. You could still get a
crop of bush beans in I think without an issue,
because that's usually about a forty five day crop, and
you know that'll push us into mid June, which you
should be able to get fruit set or bean set
(08:47):
and be able to pick the one of the things.
As we get into the summer, more and more I
wish more people would do would be to plant field
peas because they are a lagome. So what even if
you don't eat the pea, even if you want to
cut them down, cut when you get to a certain
(09:09):
point when you're ready to put your fall gardening, don't
pull those up, cut them off because they are nitrogen fixers.
They take nitrogen out of the soil. They actually out
of the air. They apply it to the little nodule
on their roots, and so once you cut the plant off,
it releases that nodule. So you have nitrogen in your soil.
It's like magic. It's like magic, it's like nature. But no,
(09:33):
that is and you can deal with your beans. You're
any of your lagumes. You can, you know, don't pull
if you pull them, you probably pull most of the
nodules off anyway. But just cut them off. Take your
weed eater out there, you know, hedge clippers, whatever you want.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
Just cut them off. Leave the root system in there.
Speaker 3 (09:48):
As the roots deteriorated, it helps that's actually organic material
in your soil and helps areate your soil.
Speaker 5 (09:54):
I planted a black eyed piece two years ago.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
I thought that was a musical group. It is.
Speaker 5 (10:01):
Why'd you plant them? I felt like it quit interrupting me.
But like you say, like we're saying, there's not that
much that you can plant during the summer, but there
is some items. So of course I had my egg plant,
I had my peppers, and I had okrah Holly loves okra.
And I asked Johnny said, well, I have these two beds.
(10:22):
What else can I plant? And he told me black
eyed peas. I've never grown them before. I mean, they
were so simple except when you have to peel them.
But we sit in front of the TV and just
peel them. And now we have a jar full of
black eyed peas. You're getting old, Chris, I am. When
you sit in front of the shell peas, you know
you've you've crossed that line. Well, I should be sitting
in front of a creek or something. Yeah, do you
(10:44):
take your teeth?
Speaker 2 (10:44):
That white?
Speaker 3 (10:45):
Not not that old, that's not quite that old. But no,
you know, and you can always do you know, if you,
if you And we're way too early for this conversation
because most people are just at the peak of their
gardening anyway, but you know a lot of times people
will come in, you know, because it is a slower
time period. If you don't want to just I don't
(11:06):
want to do peas. I don't want to deal with that.
And you don't have to pick them, you know, you
can leave them on there. But you know, you always
do some sort of cover over your garden in the
summer so you can keep the weeds down.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
If it's a weed.
Speaker 3 (11:21):
Block material, you know, just some type of a thick
malt or something just to keep your garden from becoming
a weed patch. I've seen way too much of that.
And then once weeds get started in a garden. It's
people don't realize once you let a weed go, a
weed is a weed because it spreads very quickly. I mean,
(11:41):
it produces massive seeds and it will become as if
you'll keep what is it to.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
Pay me now or pay me later? Things?
Speaker 3 (11:49):
You know, keep it clean as much as you can,
otherwise it'll overrun you. What what herbicides or pre emergence
can we use in the guard garden in a vegetable
garden trigline which is preen right, what is the what
is the high yield product that is basically preene. I
(12:10):
can't remember the name of high granules herb Yeah, okay,
that that is an Both of those are excellent product,
especially for grassy weeds.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (12:19):
We always stress on the show to make sure you
read the label because as a consumer it is your responsibility,
not ours to tell you how to do it, but
read the label because on that one, because some things
you want to apply after planting, some things you want
to apply before planting. So that is, that is a
(12:41):
very specific label. But the herbs hygranules preene excellent pre
emergent control for vegetable gardens.
Speaker 5 (12:48):
And you're talking about reading the label. We have several
different pre emergence I mean the biggest, the most well
known one I think is dimension. Well, Dimension is not
labeled for vegetable gardens, so that's why we carry the TRY.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
I can't say that which.
Speaker 5 (13:02):
Is the pre I just called, but that one, But
that one is labeled for vegetable grudens. So we need
to make sure that we pay attention to that very
very very much.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
So I am with Chris Herman, the Manager of the
Year at Clegg's Nursery. Congratulations on that award. By the way,
I said, do I have a time limit to guess this?
Speaker 5 (13:22):
What was in your yard? It's just like Final Jeopardy?
Can I call a friend? No, that's a different show.
I'm sorry. Virginia button weed YEP.
Speaker 3 (13:32):
I saw Virginia button weed blooms in my yard yesterday
and I was like, WHOA way too early?
Speaker 5 (13:38):
People, But well, I was telling you during the break
that I sprayed the cocktail. I want to say it
was February the atrazine weed fore zone and spread or sticker.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
Just I know I keep interrupting you.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
I apologize for that, but button weed probably was. Now
you're in New Orleans, so was button weed up?
Speaker 5 (13:58):
I didn't notice it, so you probably correct, but I
got the right. Oh yeah, everything else right. So then
two or three weeks later, of course, we started to
warm up and I see button weed. I you'll be
kidding me, So I sprayed it. I spot treated, this
time with a cocktail. Two weeks later I see some
more coming up, so it's it is a battle.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
Now.
Speaker 5 (14:21):
I'm want to ask you because I don't know if
I would continue to spray the cocktail right now, even
though we had this little cool spell.
Speaker 3 (14:27):
But I'm switching to MSM. Would you agree? Yes, very much? So,
I'm glad you brought that up. Actually, that was something
where I was going to try and head with this
Scott Rica we used to do the show. Unfortunately, for
some reason, we just don't seem to do the show
together anymore. We've got all these other awesome hosts that
are doing it with us.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
Where are they? I hadn't found them.
Speaker 3 (14:49):
Yet, but he said, from but Virginia, button weed bloom
to eradication is eighteen months because of something again we
were talking about during the break. Virginia button weed not
only produces the button above ground, which is the seed pod,
(15:10):
which I've been told there's like a bazillion seeds in
each one of those pods, it also produces seed underground
off of the roots, which, okay, you and I understand people,
especially in the summer, when you got the mat of
Virginia button weed, you go out there and you pull
it all up, and you think you're doing a great
job and you're getting rid of all those well you are,
(15:31):
but the problem is you're not getting that root system,
so those seeds are underneath there. And what's so frustrating
about Virginia button weed seeds is we were talking about
earlier with the soil thermometer, once soil temperatures hit a
certain something, they don't.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
Care, No, they don't.
Speaker 3 (15:49):
They just germinate whenever the heck they want to. Well,
and the other thing, the other point we were talking
about a pre emergent at this time, there's no pre
emergent from Virginia button weed, so that makes it more difficult,
even more difficult. So what you have to do is
exactly what Chris said. And some of the issues with
that is limitations about how many times you can spray.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
Correct, So what you.
Speaker 3 (16:14):
Want to do is you you want to spray when
you see it coming up, but you want to try
and hit it before, right, is it's about the flower.
That way, you kill off that group and then you
hold off, hold off, hold off as long as you
can for germination of the next group until you just
about start the flower. Then you spray again. So you're
(16:37):
you're limiting the number of spray is it? I can't
Is it three for for a weed free zone?
Speaker 2 (16:46):
Right? I think it's two? Two? Okay, I know it.
I knew it was either two or three. I couldn't
remember for sure.
Speaker 3 (16:54):
And another big concern we have is with the temperatures,
like Chris was talking about, which is about eighty five
reasons where we really shut down on weed free zone
and we switched to ms M.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
And do you want to give them the bad news?
Speaker 5 (17:08):
The little Small one has been discontinued, which is terrible.
We don't understand. It's not our decision. What is that
going on out there?
Speaker 3 (17:17):
It's a whole bunch of motorcycles going by it sales angels.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
No, it's cops.
Speaker 3 (17:22):
Okay, oh there must be as I don't know if
it's a sports team or something. There's some buses going
behind them. I'm sorry.
Speaker 5 (17:30):
Traffic brought to you by Flakes Nursery the traffic cop on.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
Where were we m y'all? Did Clegg's did stock up?
Speaker 5 (17:46):
If I'm not mistaken, I did my best to purchase
everything I could find from three different distributors. So yes,
we have a good stock, but probably make it through
the summer maybe, but then it's going to go to Uh,
it's an eight ounce, which is you only need an
eighth of a teaspoon, so it doesn't take that much.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
And then a decision that we made and the eight
ounce is how much? Like I'll have to look out.
Speaker 3 (18:12):
Yeah, it's over one hundred dollars. Where how much is
the little two ounce one twenty nine ninety nine? Yeah,
I'm thinking I'm gonna go buy one anyway. Seriously, if
you have been fighting Virginia button weed or long weed problems,
MSM in an affordable size has been discontinued by the manufacturer,
he may want to hit one of the legs up
and buy five or six and put them on eBay.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
What are you doing? Well, what's it?
Speaker 3 (18:40):
What's your cleges is out? You know, everything goes up
and you could make a you know, yeah.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
They used to have a little small vial.
Speaker 5 (18:47):
Oh I know you would throw into a gallon of water,
and they pull that one off the market.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
So it doesn't make any sense. I think it was.
Speaker 3 (18:54):
I think it was the guy that changed the Taco
bell menu so many years ago, or a new co
or the new coke. Yeah, that's the same guy it is.
You can kind of follow him through history. There are
other weed issues out there. MSM is what we're promoting,
dollar weed, those type things. Whatever you do, and I
(19:17):
preach this every time. I can use a surfactant spreader, sticker, spreadersticker,
don't use ivory liquid or don.
Speaker 5 (19:28):
Or done before dawn, yes, because that messes with the chemical.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
It does. It actually messes with the chemical.
Speaker 3 (19:35):
And part of it is the non ionic because that
is the ionic part is what screws up the chemicals.
So it is important. It's what six bucks seven bucks.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
I believe. So for a little small it doesn't take much.
Speaker 3 (19:47):
It's too soons spoons per gallon, So you know you're
buying a chemical that's thirty bucks, make sure it gives
you all thirty bucks bang by just adding this fact
to it. And that's for that's for any herbicide, for
any any liquid soluble I mean herbicide, insecticide, funge aside.
Speaker 5 (20:12):
I've even put it in with my miracle grow. I
know that's a bad word, but but miracle grow liquid fertilize,
liquid fertilizer.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
There you go.
Speaker 5 (20:21):
I mean what it does is it breaks that water
tension and it allows the water to spread on the leaf,
getting the product that you're spraying, whether it's an insecticide
funge of side, herbicide covers the leaf right.
Speaker 3 (20:34):
And I like to tell people everybody knows what dollar weed.
It's the little green lily pads in your yard. Go
out in your yard one day and pick one and
feel it. It feels waxy to the top. And what
happens when you have your car freshly waxed, or you
go through the car wash and you get wax all
of your windshield and for three days you're trying to
use your windshield wipers to get the wax off so
you can see.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
Never mind, the water beats up. Yeah. Oh, that's where
I was going.
Speaker 5 (21:00):
Yes, the water beads up, especially on dollar weed and
just rolls off, but that spreader stickers or fact and
breaks that water tension and it spreads.
Speaker 3 (21:09):
And these herbicides that we're talking about, the weed free zone,
the atrozine, the MSM.
Speaker 2 (21:15):
These are for lawns only.
Speaker 3 (21:17):
Correct, do not use them in flower beds, vegetable gardens.
In fact, atrozine you want to be very careful using
under trees because atrozine actually does have some soil activity
with it.
Speaker 2 (21:31):
So yes, what we're talking about right now is for
lawns only.
Speaker 3 (21:37):
Unfortunately, unless something's come out that I'm not aware of,
we really don't have a product, a selective product to
spray in our flower beds for weeds.
Speaker 2 (21:50):
Correct.
Speaker 5 (21:51):
I mean there are a few items, but it depends
on the plants that you have in your flower bed.
Speaker 2 (21:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (21:57):
I mean there's things that you can spray on most
groundcoat vertus, asian jasmine, riope. Image is the product you
know that'll kill certain weeds. But there is nothing that
you can spray your entire yard that'll just kill the weeds.
Speaker 2 (22:13):
I was talking to nothing like that.
Speaker 3 (22:14):
I was talking to somebody that was much smarter than me,
which is most everybody I talked to said, basically, flowers
and shrubs are weeds that.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
We like well in there saying that weed is a
plant out of place exactly.
Speaker 3 (22:28):
So image is one of the things we get a
lot of people coming into the store looking for. Well,
it's a selective herbicide. Well, you can only use it
around like seven plants. So and asaiahs is one of
the big ones. You do not want to use it
around for sure, because it can be root absorbed by those.
Speaker 5 (22:47):
Azalea's roses, lagustrium ands. I've read it many many times.
What is a pi rus temple bells? I know, yeah,
I was anyway, it's fine, uh, but yeah, we killing.
You can use non selective herbicides. Typically, if you use
(23:07):
a non selective herbicide in a flower bed, you need
to be very, very very controlled because it is non selective.
It's going to kill everything that it touches. Most of
your non selective you're I'm going to use the word
round up products.
Speaker 3 (23:25):
Glici fate type products really have no soil activity, so
you don't have to worry about it being absorbed through
a root system. There are certain herbicides out there that
are soil sterilants that you definitely would not want to use,
but be very very paint brush, you know, chemical resistant
(23:46):
glove and a paper towel, something that you can apply
directly to whatever you're trying to control.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
Had a friend of.
Speaker 3 (23:53):
Mine felt so bad about it, got a piece of
cardboard and put the cardboard between the plant and the
weeds he was spraying, so he would spray. He was
spraying a glyc of eate product, and he kept going
all the way through his flower bed.
Speaker 2 (24:10):
He kept switching sides on the car. Oh no, so
the cardboard rubbed against the plant spray. Yeah, pretty much.
Speaker 3 (24:17):
I believe is now divorced. But dear, I thought you
wanted the new plants in our flower bed. I was
just trying to help. I just I sometimes, Yeah, I know,
my mind goes really weird places.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
Do I need to call nine one one? You might
want to six fifty seven?
Speaker 3 (24:40):
Do you know such a specific time, specific post time?
Speaker 2 (24:44):
You know what happens if it's like six fifty eight,
it can't.
Speaker 5 (24:47):
The end of the show. So that's why it's six
fifty seven. Looks like we have a caller. No, the
Kentucky Derby goes off at six fifty seven post time, right,
but they have like three hours of pre game.
Speaker 4 (25:00):
And that show and right now, okay, god, it takes
three hours to get all those hats in places.
Speaker 2 (25:05):
Right, that's right. We do have a college. She called
us at four nine nine nine five two six. That's
fort nine nine w JBO. Let's go to Kathy and
see what she's got. Good morning, Kathy, how are you?
Speaker 6 (25:15):
Good morning? I'm doing great. I just wanted to give
y'all goudos. I got some super petunias. Oh yeah, Bubblegum Canada,
and they're doing absolutely wonderful that I appreciate that, y'all.
Y'all told me about them.
Speaker 3 (25:34):
One of the things Kathy on that is bubble gum
Supertunia's awesome plant.
Speaker 2 (25:39):
Love it, but it's a teenage boy.
Speaker 3 (25:42):
It is going to want to be fertilized and it
wants to get haircuts every once in a while.
Speaker 2 (25:49):
It's very difficult to do.
Speaker 3 (25:51):
And what I do when I have a grouping of
those is I'll take about a third of it and
i'll prune those. Then a week or so after those
have come back out, I'll pune another third, so I'm
not going through and cutting them all at the same time.
But the only negative that I've ever found with all
of the supertunias is if they get leggy, they tend
(26:12):
to kind of play out that way. So if you'll
keep them fed and give them haircuts, especially the bubblegum,
is just fantastic.
Speaker 6 (26:20):
Oh well, thank you for letting me know, because I
would not have wanted to do that.
Speaker 3 (26:25):
Yeah, it's kind of hard and you know, but yeah,
it's it's important that every once in a while you
go out there and give them a little bit of
hair and like I said, just take a little bit,
don't don't do the whole thing at one time.
Speaker 2 (26:35):
You can keep them kind of pretty and going.
Speaker 3 (26:37):
So yeah, great plant, Kathy, thanks for the call, and
that does open up phone lines right now two six
that's for nine nine WGB.
Speaker 5 (26:47):
They're talking about Sorry interrupt, So that's talking about supertunias.
Most people, hopefully are aware that most petunia is like
the cooler weather, so they do great in the fall
in the spring, but the supertunia can tolerate a little
bit more heat and we'll go into the summer a
little bit better than others.
Speaker 2 (27:03):
But it is. It does put off a show. Yeah,
it really does bloom.
Speaker 3 (27:07):
And the bubblegum, which is the pink which actually was
a Louisiana superplant a year or two of three or
five years ago. Time is running by the older I
get dust hold up real well. Some of the newer
varieties have not had as good as success with But again,
as we were talking to Kathy a minute ago, the
(27:28):
most important thing on all of them is don't let
them get rangey, runny, whatever you want to call it,
and make sure they're well fertilized. Tell you what we're
getting some phone calls in it FO six, it's four
nine nine WJBO. We have plenty of phone lines, so
if you have a question, go ahead and jump on
(27:49):
the line.
Speaker 2 (27:49):
Let's go to Debbie.
Speaker 3 (27:50):
Good morning, Debbie, Welcome to news radio eleven fifty wjbo's
Lawn and Garden Show.
Speaker 2 (27:55):
What can we help you with?
Speaker 7 (27:57):
Hey, I have an intation.
Speaker 2 (28:01):
In my yard. Yeah, I've been.
Speaker 3 (28:04):
I've been scratching between my fingers and my knees all
morning because of it. The best thing to do, if
at all possible, is, especially if it's gotten any maturity
to it, is a product called cut vine and stump killer.
You want to again put on chemical resistant gloves, long sleeves,
(28:25):
the whole thing so you don't get into it. Take
your pruner's try and go as close to the ground
as you can cut it off. And when you do,
the product comes with a little paint brush attached to
the lid. Just paint that on that fresh cut and
it does a great job, especially this time of the year,
of getting rid of it. If it's if you have
(28:45):
an area in your yard where it's just nothing but
poison ivy, you can use a non selective herbicide, the
new spruce product, the roundup, one of those type things.
But yeah, eradication of and ivy is uh is a process,
but the most important thing. And I've done it several times.
(29:08):
I used to when I was younger. I would go
out and do side jobs and I eradicated poison ivy
out of a yard.
Speaker 2 (29:15):
I'm not lying.
Speaker 3 (29:16):
Some of the vines we cut, we're probably three inches
in diameter, going all the way up pine trees. And
my son would I would cut it and he would
come behind me with the paintbrush, and I mean it
was one application.
Speaker 2 (29:28):
We knocked it all out. But it it.
Speaker 3 (29:30):
It's something you protect yourself when you're taking care of
it is the only way.
Speaker 2 (29:35):
But that's that would be my suggestion.
Speaker 8 (29:38):
And tell me what the name of that is, cut.
Speaker 2 (29:40):
Vine and stump killer, fertile.
Speaker 3 (29:43):
And stump killer.
Speaker 9 (29:45):
Okay, thank you, I'm going to give that a try.
Speaker 2 (29:47):
All right, good luck with it.
Speaker 3 (29:48):
And again we're wear gloves, long sleeves, long pants, the
whole thing, and wash your clothes by themselves when you
get done.
Speaker 2 (29:56):
So all right. Wow.
Speaker 3 (29:57):
Yeah, that's one of the things that you can get
the oils on your clothes and if you're very sensitive
and you wash your clothes with other clothes, it can spread.
So that's something to be very careful about. Let's go
and talk to Patrick. Good morning, Patrick. What can we
help you with today?
Speaker 2 (30:15):
Yeah, I've got a.
Speaker 3 (30:16):
Question about encore isaiahs that have planted from potts after blooming.
Speaker 9 (30:21):
Do you prune them.
Speaker 2 (30:23):
In the spring, That's what somebody told me.
Speaker 7 (30:25):
But then I heard that they bloom again perhaps in
the fall.
Speaker 2 (30:29):
That is that true?
Speaker 5 (30:31):
So the thing with encore azalea is is they're a hybrid,
so they bloom several times. Your typical old fashioned azaleas
bloom in the spring. I mean, there are a couple
that broom in the spring in the fall, but the
encorees bloom several times a year, so your typical azalea
you want to cut after they bloom. So most of
(30:52):
them have finished blooming, so you want to prune them now.
Encores you can almost prune any time of the year,
but now would still be the time. And you're just
going to prune it to help keep its shape and
it's overall height if you don't want it to get too.
Speaker 3 (31:06):
Tall, and I would recommend fertilizing after after any pruning.
Speaker 2 (31:10):
Yes, but yeah, so really I don't need to prune it.
Speaker 3 (31:14):
You don't have to unless unless you want a specific shape.
As as Chris was saying, old are you for most
of those as you see every spring, they typically have
their buds set by July fourth for the following year,
so we want to make sure we prune them very
soon after blooming. Where with the encore is they actually
(31:37):
bloom off a new wood if I'm not mistaken, And
so you prune and they you know, they actually the
more you prune, the more it blooms. You will get
I see, all right, thanks for the call, and that
again opens up phone lines at four. That's four nine
nine WJBO. Let's see what John has to say. Good morning, John,
(31:58):
Welcome to news radio eleven fifty WJB. Be A is
lawn and Garden show. What can we do for you?
Speaker 9 (32:03):
I'm in the shed look at stuff.
Speaker 4 (32:05):
But then I find out that bag's miracle grow and
gardeners special and different types.
Speaker 7 (32:13):
Of products in the morning.
Speaker 2 (32:14):
How can I.
Speaker 9 (32:15):
Typically expect those to be any good and just not
throw them out?
Speaker 3 (32:19):
As long as they are not moist or wet they are,
they will be fine. The biggest issue, especially with a
lot of your field grade fertilizers and your water soluble fertilizers,
if they're open at all to the air, they will
attract moisture, they'll become wet, which point they are actually
(32:40):
can be dangerous. They can burn very easily most of
your products. And they correct me if I'm wrong, please,
and I mean that, Chris are now have like the
little seal thing that when you open the bag, if
you open it right, you can reseal them. Typically, what
I do is, you know these five gallon buckets, I'll
(33:03):
get I have one of those with the plastic lid
and I will try to store my fertilizers in there.
That's has helped me tremendously. But yeah, between the receal
plastic containers is the most important thing, just so they
don't attract moisture into them.
Speaker 5 (33:20):
Yeah, moisture is going to be your your biggest problem.
I mean, and one of the things we were discussing
earlier miracle grow and a liquid soluble fertilizer. You'll know,
and that's bad because it'll be a rock will all right,
thank you.
Speaker 2 (33:35):
For the call. We appreciate it. And let's check one
more here. Let's go with Wesley.
Speaker 3 (33:40):
Good morning, Wesley, Welcome to news radio eleven to fifty
wjbo's Long Guarden Show.
Speaker 2 (33:44):
What can we do for you today?
Speaker 9 (33:46):
Hey, good morning guys.
Speaker 2 (33:47):
Than good morning. Ye.
Speaker 9 (33:49):
I'm kind of my backyard is near by you, and
I'll have this weed tree what I call weed tree
pop up. It'll grow thirty feet tall and it shoots
out roots under that pop up new trees.
Speaker 2 (34:01):
Oh boy, it's got a leaf.
Speaker 9 (34:03):
It's like a try leaf.
Speaker 3 (34:04):
Okay, uh, possibly possibly tallow tree.
Speaker 7 (34:13):
Go.
Speaker 3 (34:14):
I mean, if you want an exact identification, please feel
free to take a picture of the leaves.
Speaker 2 (34:20):
You can email it to me.
Speaker 3 (34:22):
It's b as in boy Das and dog R E
W E S at Cleggs Nursery dot com and I
can probably can identify it for you or bringing into
the store. Bring it into the store however you want
to do that. Your product we're going to recommend is
going to be what we call cut vine and stump killer,
same thing we talked to the lady with the poison ivy.
(34:43):
You want to cut that tree off as close to
the ground as you can, and it comes comes with
a little paint brush in the lids you just painted on.
One of the things interesting things here is if it's
especially a larger stump, you don't have to paint the
entire stump. You just want to paint that outer circle
on it because that's where all your translocation occurs. That
(35:04):
is one of the greatest products. I've got like three
or four bottles in my shed because I love that,
and I'm clearing some landed behind my house right now,
so I'm using a lot of it. But yeah, that
will take care of it. It gets in, especially for
those root suckering trees. It gets into the root system,
it kills it out, so fertilum, cut vine and stump.
Speaker 2 (35:23):
Killer is what you need.
Speaker 3 (35:25):
And like I said, if you do want identification of
the tree when you come into the store to get
the product, bringing a picture on your phone or some leaves,
or you can email it to me either way.
Speaker 9 (35:35):
Yeah, that's great, Thank you very much.
Speaker 3 (35:36):
All right, thank you, Wesley. And again that opens up
a phone line at four six. That's four nine nine WJBO.
I'm wondering that's pretty interesting how they were able to
get those numbers. So it was kind of like the
call letters for the station. Just quincident on the next call.
Oh okay, good morning, Melissa. Welcome to news radio eleven
(35:58):
to fifty wjbo's Long Garden Show.
Speaker 2 (36:00):
What can we do for you today?
Speaker 5 (36:01):
Melissa, Hey, good morning, good morning, morning, good morning.
Speaker 8 (36:06):
I have a question about two trees that I have
that took some damage at this with the snow and
laugh yet I wanted a camellia and the others a
sweet olive. So they're both mature trees. And the chamellia
is about I guess four feet tall. It's a su sink,
what I think is what it is. The smaller camellias
(36:27):
and the other is a sweet olive that's about nine
feet tall, I would say, and they're both growing back,
but it's just at the base of the tree. So
I don't know if I should just leave all of
it as is or cut it back pretty significantly. I'm
a little afraid to prime it.
Speaker 3 (36:44):
First thing I would do is take my fingernail and
I would scratch the stem where it's not leafing out.
If it's bright green, I would probably hold off a
little while. If it's brown, that means, unfortunately that it's dead.
It does't hurt to prune those plants. In fact, I'm
(37:04):
going through doing some of that in the yard right now.
And the really cool thing, A neat thing about that
is you have a very large root system under underneath
the ground that was used to supplying all this nutrients
and water and all to this big, old, large plant.
Well now it doesn't have that big, old, large plant.
(37:26):
So that plant's going to grow back very quickly. You're
going to be very pleased. So don't be afraid to
prune off damage parts of that plant.
Speaker 2 (37:35):
It will come back very quickly. Would suggest.
Speaker 3 (37:37):
If the new growth is coming back fairly strongly, to
go ahead and fertilize when you do that pruning. If
it seems a little weak, let's hold off a little
bit on the fertilizing.
Speaker 8 (37:49):
So how far is too much to cut back?
Speaker 3 (37:51):
You want to cut off whatever is not leafing out
on again, use your thumbnail or fingernail or bring something
out that you can scratch the stem lightly. If it's green,
you can leave it. If it's brown, it needs to
come off. You may be cutting those plants back to
the ground or close to the all right, all right,
thank you for the phone call. Good morning, Cleve, Welcome
(38:13):
to the show. Good morning, Good morning.
Speaker 7 (38:18):
I got a question regarding a multberry tree that I
was awarded or given during the Arbor Day activities over
at Burden this past year.
Speaker 3 (38:27):
That was awesome. I really had a good time at
that this year. It's one of the first times I
was able to go. That was a very nice event.
I'm sorry, but go ahead.
Speaker 7 (38:36):
Well, well, we went there and my wife a lot
of these mulberry trees, and it took her back to
her childhood, of course, and she said, well, you know,
she had to have one. So we picked one up,
brought it on home and with really no idea where
the heck, we were going to plant the thing, and
I had no expect you know, it's amazing. I've lived
sixty years on this planet never seen a mulberry tree
(38:56):
but until that day. But nevertheless, had to do a
little bit of research on it and learn that I'm
not supposed to plant it too close to my driveway
for the birds and the mess that they create. So
it less limited options for where I was going to
put it, and I think I've chosen a good place
and it was doing great. It still is, However, I've
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read recently that it may be a problem if it's
too close to the house or too close to irrigation
for root purposes.
Speaker 9 (39:26):
Is that correct?
Speaker 3 (39:27):
It's any tree, especially can have issues with water line,
sewer line, irrigation lines.
Speaker 2 (39:37):
Let me start there.
Speaker 3 (39:39):
It's not, again, something that I would be overly concerned about.
How close to a water line, sewer line, irrigation line
are you.
Speaker 7 (39:53):
I'm about six feet from my water line and about
twelve feet from my house.
Speaker 2 (39:59):
I think that's prob I think you're going to be okay.
It's not a willow.
Speaker 3 (40:03):
I mean, weeping willows are the ones that you know
you can plant thirty feet away. And it's going to
find and clog your sewer eMedia or your water lines
immediate typically typically your water lines, your your main feed
into the house. Those are very well sealed. I mean
they're glued much more tightly. It's very difficult for a
(40:26):
root system to get into supply lines. Sewer lines are
not as sealed.
Speaker 2 (40:36):
Thank you.
Speaker 3 (40:37):
That's exact word I was looking for, and which can
allow roots into it a little bit easier. That's a
very simplified statement there. But I would not be real concerned.
I understand the issue with you know, you are going
to have bird activity, and that's one of the cool
things about mulberry's is you know it is and it
(40:57):
is an edible fruit that you can eat too. But
anytime you have birds eating anything, they leave things behind.
Speaker 2 (41:04):
We'll just leave it at that. But no, I wouldn't
be real concerned.
Speaker 3 (41:07):
And as far as foundation issues anything like that, you're
not going to have any problem with a mulberry as
a smaller tree. If you do have a limb that
starts to get too close to the house roofline whatever,
you can obviously prune that off too, So I would
not be overly concerned.
Speaker 7 (41:25):
Well, another quick quick question in addition to that is that,
as you mentioned the tree aspect with the when we
brought it home, it was pretty much a single dominant tree,
a single branch, I guess, and we had that late
freeze and it was doing great up until that point.
It pretty much knocked all that down, and now it's
coming back up from the lower end of that and
(41:46):
more of a bush form. Should I try to prune
that back down to a single dominant.
Speaker 2 (41:51):
Yes, I would.
Speaker 3 (41:52):
I would definitely prone it down to a single dominant.
You may you may want to wait a little bit
to find out which one of those is, but at
some point I definitely would prune it back.
Speaker 2 (42:04):
Down to one.
Speaker 7 (42:05):
Okay, Well, that good. I appreciate it all.
Speaker 2 (42:08):
Right, thank you, Cleve.
Speaker 3 (42:09):
And there was something during all that I really wanted
to bring up.
Speaker 2 (42:13):
But I forgot what it was.
Speaker 5 (42:15):
So well, any tree he was asking about a mulberry,
But any tree or shrub there's always a chance that
something could happen. I mean, it's highly unlikely that a
smaller shrub would you damage to your your driveway or sidewalk,
but an oak tree.
Speaker 3 (42:30):
Is going to Yeah, I was I was walking, I
took a had some car issues and was walking through
Sherwood Forrest subdivision yesterday and.
Speaker 2 (42:38):
I was like, whoa, I see I have mountains on
the sidewalk with the oak trees. Of planning.
Speaker 3 (42:44):
I know we don't have very long left in the show,
but you know, I was really excited about that phone call.
Cleave actually did some research and figured out where to
plant something. I drive around and I hate to pick
on people, but in newer subdivisions and I see these
trees right up next to the house. Little Jim magnolia
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is exactly where I was at back in the day.
Speaker 2 (43:09):
It was a coma crpe myrtle.
Speaker 3 (43:10):
Yeah, realize that you buy a plant from Clegg's nursery,
hopefully and it's okay.
Speaker 2 (43:18):
I'll even say a ten gallon magnolia. You know it
may have a spread of three feet you know why
when you purchase it.
Speaker 3 (43:26):
When you purchase it, and it's gonna get six to
eight feet wide at maturity. If you're planting at two
feet from your house, you're gonna be sheer in the
backside of that tree off constantly.
Speaker 5 (43:35):
I think the problem that we have with the Little
Gem or the Teddy Bear is it's a dwarf you're doing.
Speaker 2 (43:43):
I can see it. Dwarf is all relative. I mean
the D D.
Speaker 5 (43:47):
Blanchard, the regular southern magnolia you can get forty to
fifty foot Tallasily. This is dwarf of that, which is
twenty to twenty five.
Speaker 3 (43:54):
I mean dwarf doesn't mean it's gonna be two feet, No,
it doesn't.
Speaker 5 (43:58):
But it's also not to papoo on any landscape architects.
But it's also designed. They're just looking at lines. They
don't realize how big the tree is gonna get. Even
some of these newer I love Dahune Hollies. Dahun Holly
is just one of them. I just love that plant,
you know, and you can.
Speaker 3 (44:16):
I like it as a full to ground as opposed
to the patio tree or whatever standard.
Speaker 2 (44:21):
Thank you. But again, it's going to get a top
to it.
Speaker 3 (44:24):
Don't plant it four feet out from your house, or
you're not going to have that nice cone shape at
the top of it, because the back of it's going
to be sheared.
Speaker 2 (44:33):
Off because it's rubbing up against the roof. For comparing
the gut or.
Speaker 3 (44:37):
Off lawn fertilization just a few few seconds. Yes, yes,
fertile and lawn food plus iron. Definitely organite. Yeah, as
we get filiz as.
Speaker 2 (44:48):
We get warmer mill. Organite as an excellent product. It
will not burn.
Speaker 3 (44:53):
But yes, right now, if you have not fertilized your lawn,
I strongly recommend fertilizing. Healthy lawn is going to out
compete a lot of the weeds. Probably not Virginia. Hey,
we just went full circle.
Speaker 2 (45:07):
We did we did that. Wow.
Speaker 3 (45:09):
We have the music, awesome show people. Thank you, thank
all the callers, Thank you Chris, thank you, Buch Wow
I touch but no, we are Clegg's Nursery. We have
four locations in the Greater Batony Jerry, with one in
Denhim on Range Road, Seagan Lane by far, the best
(45:30):
store near Airline, mid City on don More and the
Greenwald Springs location. Pretty much we're surewood bumps into it.
We will be here every Saturday morning from eight to
nine to hopefully entertain and maybe learn a thing or
two from y'all, because.
Speaker 2 (45:44):
Y'all aren't going to learn anything from Ustin.
Speaker 3 (45:45):
Again, you've been listening to news radio eleven to fifty
wjbo's Lawn and Garden Show.
Speaker 2 (45:50):
We will see you next Saturday.
Speaker 3 (45:51):
Morning, come by the stores, gift cards for Mother's Day.
Speaker 2 (45:54):
Have a great weekend,
Good Saturday morning, and welcome to the Wgboln and Garden Show,
brought to you by Cleg's Nursery. If you have a
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about landscaping, called four nine nine WGBO.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
That's four nine nine two six.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
Good morning, Baton Rouge, and welcome to news radio eleven
fifty wjbo's Lawn and Garden Show. My name is Butch Drew's.
I'm with Chris Herman from Klegg's Nursery. Good morning, Chris,
Good morning, Butch. I was a little concerned when I
walked in and didn't see the internturn. I know you're
her highness. Yeah, I think we've lost the intern Negotiations
(00:43):
did not go well.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
I am glad.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
I was listening to a couple of things that I'd
noticed coming up to the show. I am very glad
that in the intro they took out called the experts for.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
But anyway, Zane's not here, so they hi good point.
Give us call for six that's four nine nine WJBO.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
For those of you that can figure out the alphabet
on your phone, I never could. There's call lots of
things going on, a lot of things going on. And
one question I have for you, Chris, since you are
the absolute smartest person I know, Yes, I know I
needed to learn this room, in this room exactly.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
Why are the Sierra Nevada.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
Mountains in California? Wouldn't it be the Sierra California Mountains?
Speaker 2 (01:27):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (01:28):
Next question, when did we have the lawn and garden
and geography shows?
Speaker 2 (01:32):
Well, I mean they were.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
Talking about on the weather how there was severe weather
in the Sierra Nevadas.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
It made me think of it.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
Oh, okay, got so now we're doing climate geography and
lawn and garden.
Speaker 4 (01:43):
I'll not to get that thing recut. That wasn't in
my contract. I don't remember that. Yeah, you have a contract. No, anyway,
So what's going on? What's the big deals at the
nursery right now? Chris?
Speaker 5 (01:56):
Getting ready for Mother's Day? Yes, next week, next time.
We have plenty of hydranges, roses, all kind of blooming plants,
and we also have one of the best gifts I
think is a gift card.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
No, I think so too. That way people can get
with they get what they want exactly. I like that
idea because especially and again I really don't like to
do commercials because I mean, we have enough commercials on
here anyway. But there are so many other things that
you know, Oh, a plant, well, plant's great, you know,
(02:33):
there's absolutely nothing wrong with a plant. But one of
the things I tell people, and I promote on this
radio show all the time, there are so many other
I'm gonna use the word gadget. I don't like that word,
but that's what the only one I can think of
this quickly. That for a true garden or important soil thermometer. True,
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I mean, that's one of you know, Johnny Naylor harps constantly.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
What I harps is a bad word too.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
But oil temperatures are so important for so many things.
You know, we laugh last time we were together about venka.
How you know you want your soil temperatures at least
the mid seventies, if not warmer when you plant your
venca or otherwise they're going to get hit by a
disease and die unfortunately. And so vegetable gardening, you know,
(03:22):
your soul temperature is so important, especially if you're out
starting seeds. So I mean, that's something that you know,
put it in a little mother's day basket. If your
your mother, your grandmother is big into gardening, not just
vegetable gardening, but flowers.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
That's a very important thing.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
The pH meters, plant tags, you know, plant tags. You know,
that's one of the things that my wife is tagging
plants all the time. So it's it's little things like that.
That was your wife tagging the plants?
Speaker 2 (03:53):
Or are you tagging? No?
Speaker 3 (03:54):
She actually, because I have no idea what they are,
probably think you're gonna screw it up.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
Yeah, I am.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
Could you also potentially just give you know, you said
you put in a little basket the soil thermometer. Could
you just give a big mound of dirt with thermometer
in it.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
Oh, oh, a.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
Clay pot full of pot and soil with the thermometer.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
That's a great idea. Jeremy, you're hired.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
Ye're welcome on. We're gonna switch places. I have no
idea what's going on over there.
Speaker 5 (04:21):
But no, you know, well, one of the things I
had mentioned roses, and I don't know where i'd learned this.
I'm sure I was with clag So years and years ago.
They were talking about roses for Valentine's Day or Mother's
Day because it's the rose that keeps on giving, you know.
Don't give them a bouquet of roses which is only
going to last a week or so. Give them a plant,
(04:41):
a rose plant. You were talking about soil temperature and
the soil thermometers. I think that's one thing that most gardeners,
even probably most experienced gardeners, or they think they're experienced gardeners,
don't realize how important the soil temperature is really. Like
you said, I think it was back in February or
March on the show we were talking about Finco right
(05:05):
not to plant too early vegetables. You know, Johnny, he
didn't like the plant until that's soil temperature seventy degrees.
Now I try and cheat that, and of course I'm
down in New Orleans, so we're a little bit warmer.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
But you can notice the difference.
Speaker 5 (05:18):
I mean, the plant won't die, It just will just
sit there right exactly.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
And it's plants are one thing, as you pointed out,
very astuteley. But seeds, if you know, a lot of
people are trying to get into which which is exciting,
especially young families with kids. You can plant some seeds,
some seeds won't germinate at certain temperatures, so it is
I'm you know, that's one of the things that I've noticed,
or I noticed when I was still in the store,
(05:43):
more like the heating mats for seed trays and all.
People were starting to understand the importance of those, yes
and so that type stuff. So maybe maybe the one
or two people that are listening to the show are
actually paying attention and telling others and telling others four
nine nine nine five two six four nine nine WJBO
will get you onto the radio pretty quick. Speaking of vegetables,
(06:08):
it's kind of a weird time as far as tomatoes.
You're almost getting late to plant just because of our
weather getting warmer. Yeah, because so your your popular varieties,
you're better boys, your big Beef, Beef Master, all of those.
The issue planting those as late is once they get
(06:30):
up and get to flowering. I'm hoping I'm wrong on this,
believe me, but our nighttime temperatures are going to be
too high for this to set. Yeah, And there is
a is it called blossom set or blossom blossom set.
Speaker 5 (06:45):
It's almost like an adhesive that you spray by a
flower and it holds the flour on longer.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
You want to know something really cool. You probably already
know about blossom set.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
What's that?
Speaker 3 (06:53):
If you use blossom set on the bloom, what happens
other than it produces a tomato?
Speaker 2 (06:59):
Don't be as.
Speaker 5 (07:01):
I don't know it doesn't it just hold the flower
on longers.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
No seeds in the fruit in the fruit. I did
not know that. WHOA look at you gob.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
If you if you pollinate with it.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
In fact, some of the people that don't like tomato
seeds are actually do that to which is way.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
Too much work.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
But so there are what we call heat set not
heat tolerant tomatoes. Florida ninety one, any new new ones
out there that I'm not is Amelia Amelia berosa. And
what they'll do is they will set temper they will
set their fruit at higher nighttime temperatures and actually hire
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daytime temperatures.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
So it is.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
Typically those will have either like Florida or sun or
heat in the name belaros and Amelia obviously not. But
those are good ones. But those are what you would
be looking for if you come into this store right now.
Peppers you can plant peppers right now. The fruit that
you get off, especially bell peppers right now, will be
(08:07):
smaller in the summer. Just baby them through, get you know,
get into the fall when you can get the large
peppers gain.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
Hot peppers love it hot, so.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
Any of your if you're looking to do any of
your hot peppers, habin arrows, those type peppers. Now is
a great time to be planting those.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
How are we on? Eggplant?
Speaker 3 (08:26):
Eggplant loves it hot. Egg egg plant okra okra is
another good one to plant right now. Field peas will
be coming up pretty soon. You could still get a
crop of bush beans in I think without an issue,
because that's usually about a forty five day crop, and
you know that'll push us into mid June, which you
should be able to get fruit set or bean set
(08:47):
and be able to pick the one of the things.
As we get into the summer, more and more I
wish more people would do would be to plant field
peas because they are a lagome. So what even if
you don't eat the pea, even if you want to
cut them down, cut when you get to a certain
(09:09):
point when you're ready to put your fall gardening, don't
pull those up, cut them off because they are nitrogen fixers.
They take nitrogen out of the soil. They actually out
of the air. They apply it to the little nodule
on their roots, and so once you cut the plant off,
it releases that nodule. So you have nitrogen in your soil.
It's like magic. It's like magic, it's like nature. But no,
(09:33):
that is and you can deal with your beans. You're
any of your lagumes. You can, you know, don't pull
if you pull them, you probably pull most of the
nodules off anyway. But just cut them off. Take your
weed eater out there, you know, hedge clippers, whatever you want.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
Just cut them off. Leave the root system in there.
Speaker 3 (09:48):
As the roots deteriorated, it helps that's actually organic material
in your soil and helps areate your soil.
Speaker 5 (09:54):
I planted a black eyed piece two years ago.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
I thought that was a musical group. It is.
Speaker 5 (10:01):
Why'd you plant them? I felt like it quit interrupting me.
But like you say, like we're saying, there's not that
much that you can plant during the summer, but there
is some items. So of course I had my egg plant,
I had my peppers, and I had okrah Holly loves okra.
And I asked Johnny said, well, I have these two beds.
(10:22):
What else can I plant? And he told me black
eyed peas. I've never grown them before. I mean, they
were so simple except when you have to peel them.
But we sit in front of the TV and just
peel them. And now we have a jar full of
black eyed peas. You're getting old, Chris, I am. When
you sit in front of the shell peas, you know
you've you've crossed that line. Well, I should be sitting
in front of a creek or something. Yeah, do you
(10:44):
take your teeth?
Speaker 2 (10:44):
That white?
Speaker 3 (10:45):
Not not that old, that's not quite that old. But no,
you know, and you can always do you know, if you,
if you And we're way too early for this conversation
because most people are just at the peak of their
gardening anyway, but you know a lot of times people
will come in, you know, because it is a slower
time period. If you don't want to just I don't
(11:06):
want to do peas. I don't want to deal with that.
And you don't have to pick them, you know, you
can leave them on there. But you know, you always
do some sort of cover over your garden in the
summer so you can keep the weeds down.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
If it's a weed.
Speaker 3 (11:21):
Block material, you know, just some type of a thick
malt or something just to keep your garden from becoming
a weed patch. I've seen way too much of that.
And then once weeds get started in a garden. It's
people don't realize once you let a weed go, a
weed is a weed because it spreads very quickly. I mean,
(11:41):
it produces massive seeds and it will become as if
you'll keep what is it to.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
Pay me now or pay me later? Things?
Speaker 3 (11:49):
You know, keep it clean as much as you can,
otherwise it'll overrun you. What what herbicides or pre emergence
can we use in the guard garden in a vegetable
garden trigline which is preen right, what is the what
is the high yield product that is basically preene. I
(12:10):
can't remember the name of high granules herb Yeah, okay,
that that is an Both of those are excellent product,
especially for grassy weeds.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (12:19):
We always stress on the show to make sure you
read the label because as a consumer it is your responsibility,
not ours to tell you how to do it, but
read the label because on that one, because some things
you want to apply after planting, some things you want
to apply before planting. So that is, that is a
(12:41):
very specific label. But the herbs hygranules preene excellent pre
emergent control for vegetable gardens.
Speaker 5 (12:48):
And you're talking about reading the label. We have several
different pre emergence I mean the biggest, the most well
known one I think is dimension. Well, Dimension is not
labeled for vegetable gardens, so that's why we carry the TRY.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
I can't say that which.
Speaker 5 (13:02):
Is the pre I just called, but that one, But
that one is labeled for vegetable grudens. So we need
to make sure that we pay attention to that very
very very much.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
So I am with Chris Herman, the Manager of the
Year at Clegg's Nursery. Congratulations on that award. By the way,
I said, do I have a time limit to guess this?
Speaker 5 (13:22):
What was in your yard? It's just like Final Jeopardy?
Can I call a friend? No, that's a different show.
I'm sorry. Virginia button weed YEP.
Speaker 3 (13:32):
I saw Virginia button weed blooms in my yard yesterday
and I was like, WHOA way too early?
Speaker 5 (13:38):
People, But well, I was telling you during the break
that I sprayed the cocktail. I want to say it
was February the atrazine weed fore zone and spread or sticker.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
Just I know I keep interrupting you.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
I apologize for that, but button weed probably was. Now
you're in New Orleans, so was button weed up?
Speaker 5 (13:58):
I didn't notice it, so you probably correct, but I
got the right. Oh yeah, everything else right. So then
two or three weeks later, of course, we started to
warm up and I see button weed. I you'll be
kidding me, So I sprayed it. I spot treated, this
time with a cocktail. Two weeks later I see some
more coming up, so it's it is a battle.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
Now.
Speaker 5 (14:21):
I'm want to ask you because I don't know if
I would continue to spray the cocktail right now, even
though we had this little cool spell.
Speaker 3 (14:27):
But I'm switching to MSM. Would you agree? Yes, very much? So,
I'm glad you brought that up. Actually, that was something
where I was going to try and head with this
Scott Rica we used to do the show. Unfortunately, for
some reason, we just don't seem to do the show
together anymore. We've got all these other awesome hosts that
are doing it with us.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
Where are they? I hadn't found them.
Speaker 3 (14:49):
Yet, but he said, from but Virginia, button weed bloom
to eradication is eighteen months because of something again we
were talking about during the break. Virginia button weed not
only produces the button above ground, which is the seed pod,
(15:10):
which I've been told there's like a bazillion seeds in
each one of those pods, it also produces seed underground
off of the roots, which, okay, you and I understand people,
especially in the summer, when you got the mat of
Virginia button weed, you go out there and you pull
it all up, and you think you're doing a great
job and you're getting rid of all those well you are,
(15:31):
but the problem is you're not getting that root system,
so those seeds are underneath there. And what's so frustrating
about Virginia button weed seeds is we were talking about
earlier with the soil thermometer, once soil temperatures hit a
certain something, they don't.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
Care, No, they don't.
Speaker 3 (15:49):
They just germinate whenever the heck they want to. Well,
and the other thing, the other point we were talking
about a pre emergent at this time, there's no pre
emergent from Virginia button weed, so that makes it more difficult,
even more difficult. So what you have to do is
exactly what Chris said. And some of the issues with
that is limitations about how many times you can spray.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
Correct, So what you.
Speaker 3 (16:14):
Want to do is you you want to spray when
you see it coming up, but you want to try
and hit it before, right, is it's about the flower.
That way, you kill off that group and then you
hold off, hold off, hold off as long as you
can for germination of the next group until you just
about start the flower. Then you spray again. So you're
(16:37):
you're limiting the number of spray is it? I can't
Is it three for for a weed free zone?
Speaker 2 (16:46):
Right? I think it's two? Two? Okay, I know it.
I knew it was either two or three. I couldn't
remember for sure.
Speaker 3 (16:54):
And another big concern we have is with the temperatures,
like Chris was talking about, which is about eighty five
reasons where we really shut down on weed free zone
and we switched to ms M.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
And do you want to give them the bad news?
Speaker 5 (17:08):
The little Small one has been discontinued, which is terrible.
We don't understand. It's not our decision. What is that
going on out there?
Speaker 3 (17:17):
It's a whole bunch of motorcycles going by it sales angels.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
No, it's cops.
Speaker 3 (17:22):
Okay, oh there must be as I don't know if
it's a sports team or something. There's some buses going
behind them. I'm sorry.
Speaker 5 (17:30):
Traffic brought to you by Flakes Nursery the traffic cop on.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
Where were we m y'all? Did Clegg's did stock up?
Speaker 5 (17:46):
If I'm not mistaken, I did my best to purchase
everything I could find from three different distributors. So yes,
we have a good stock, but probably make it through
the summer maybe, but then it's going to go to Uh,
it's an eight ounce, which is you only need an
eighth of a teaspoon, so it doesn't take that much.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
And then a decision that we made and the eight
ounce is how much? Like I'll have to look out.
Speaker 3 (18:12):
Yeah, it's over one hundred dollars. Where how much is
the little two ounce one twenty nine ninety nine? Yeah,
I'm thinking I'm gonna go buy one anyway. Seriously, if
you have been fighting Virginia button weed or long weed problems,
MSM in an affordable size has been discontinued by the manufacturer,
he may want to hit one of the legs up
and buy five or six and put them on eBay.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
What are you doing? Well, what's it?
Speaker 3 (18:40):
What's your cleges is out? You know, everything goes up
and you could make a you know, yeah.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
They used to have a little small vial.
Speaker 5 (18:47):
Oh I know you would throw into a gallon of water,
and they pull that one off the market.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
So it doesn't make any sense. I think it was.
Speaker 3 (18:54):
I think it was the guy that changed the Taco
bell menu so many years ago, or a new co
or the new coke. Yeah, that's the same guy it is.
You can kind of follow him through history. There are
other weed issues out there. MSM is what we're promoting,
dollar weed, those type things. Whatever you do, and I
(19:17):
preach this every time. I can use a surfactant spreader, sticker, spreadersticker,
don't use ivory liquid or don.
Speaker 5 (19:28):
Or done before dawn, yes, because that messes with the chemical.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
It does. It actually messes with the chemical.
Speaker 3 (19:35):
And part of it is the non ionic because that
is the ionic part is what screws up the chemicals.
So it is important. It's what six bucks seven bucks.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
I believe. So for a little small it doesn't take much.
Speaker 3 (19:47):
It's too soons spoons per gallon, So you know you're
buying a chemical that's thirty bucks, make sure it gives
you all thirty bucks bang by just adding this fact
to it. And that's for that's for any herbicide, for
any any liquid soluble I mean herbicide, insecticide, funge aside.
Speaker 5 (20:12):
I've even put it in with my miracle grow. I
know that's a bad word, but but miracle grow liquid fertilize,
liquid fertilizer.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
There you go.
Speaker 5 (20:21):
I mean what it does is it breaks that water
tension and it allows the water to spread on the leaf,
getting the product that you're spraying, whether it's an insecticide
funge of side, herbicide covers the leaf right.
Speaker 3 (20:34):
And I like to tell people everybody knows what dollar weed.
It's the little green lily pads in your yard. Go
out in your yard one day and pick one and
feel it. It feels waxy to the top. And what
happens when you have your car freshly waxed, or you
go through the car wash and you get wax all
of your windshield and for three days you're trying to
use your windshield wipers to get the wax off so
you can see.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
Never mind, the water beats up. Yeah. Oh, that's where
I was going.
Speaker 5 (21:00):
Yes, the water beads up, especially on dollar weed and
just rolls off, but that spreader stickers or fact and
breaks that water tension and it spreads.
Speaker 3 (21:09):
And these herbicides that we're talking about, the weed free zone,
the atrozine, the MSM.
Speaker 2 (21:15):
These are for lawns only.
Speaker 3 (21:17):
Correct, do not use them in flower beds, vegetable gardens.
In fact, atrozine you want to be very careful using
under trees because atrozine actually does have some soil activity
with it.
Speaker 2 (21:31):
So yes, what we're talking about right now is for
lawns only.
Speaker 3 (21:37):
Unfortunately, unless something's come out that I'm not aware of,
we really don't have a product, a selective product to
spray in our flower beds for weeds.
Speaker 2 (21:50):
Correct.
Speaker 5 (21:51):
I mean there are a few items, but it depends
on the plants that you have in your flower bed.
Speaker 2 (21:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (21:57):
I mean there's things that you can spray on most
groundcoat vertus, asian jasmine, riope. Image is the product you
know that'll kill certain weeds. But there is nothing that
you can spray your entire yard that'll just kill the weeds.
Speaker 2 (22:13):
I was talking to nothing like that.
Speaker 3 (22:14):
I was talking to somebody that was much smarter than me,
which is most everybody I talked to said, basically, flowers
and shrubs are weeds that.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
We like well in there saying that weed is a
plant out of place exactly.
Speaker 3 (22:28):
So image is one of the things we get a
lot of people coming into the store looking for. Well,
it's a selective herbicide. Well, you can only use it
around like seven plants. So and asaiahs is one of
the big ones. You do not want to use it
around for sure, because it can be root absorbed by those.
Speaker 5 (22:47):
Azalea's roses, lagustrium ands. I've read it many many times.
What is a pi rus temple bells? I know, yeah,
I was anyway, it's fine, uh, but yeah, we killing.
You can use non selective herbicides. Typically, if you use
(23:07):
a non selective herbicide in a flower bed, you need
to be very, very very controlled because it is non selective.
It's going to kill everything that it touches. Most of
your non selective you're I'm going to use the word
round up products.
Speaker 3 (23:25):
Glici fate type products really have no soil activity, so
you don't have to worry about it being absorbed through
a root system. There are certain herbicides out there that
are soil sterilants that you definitely would not want to use,
but be very very paint brush, you know, chemical resistant
(23:46):
glove and a paper towel, something that you can apply
directly to whatever you're trying to control.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
Had a friend of.
Speaker 3 (23:53):
Mine felt so bad about it, got a piece of
cardboard and put the cardboard between the plant and the
weeds he was spraying, so he would spray. He was
spraying a glyc of eate product, and he kept going
all the way through his flower bed.
Speaker 2 (24:10):
He kept switching sides on the car. Oh no, so
the cardboard rubbed against the plant spray. Yeah, pretty much.
Speaker 3 (24:17):
I believe is now divorced. But dear, I thought you
wanted the new plants in our flower bed. I was
just trying to help. I just I sometimes, Yeah, I know,
my mind goes really weird places.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
Do I need to call nine one one? You might
want to six fifty seven?
Speaker 3 (24:40):
Do you know such a specific time, specific post time?
Speaker 2 (24:44):
You know what happens if it's like six fifty eight,
it can't.
Speaker 5 (24:47):
The end of the show. So that's why it's six
fifty seven. Looks like we have a caller. No, the
Kentucky Derby goes off at six fifty seven post time, right,
but they have like three hours of pre game.
Speaker 4 (25:00):
And that show and right now, okay, god, it takes
three hours to get all those hats in places.
Speaker 2 (25:05):
Right, that's right. We do have a college. She called
us at four nine nine nine five two six. That's
fort nine nine w JBO. Let's go to Kathy and
see what she's got. Good morning, Kathy, how are you?
Speaker 6 (25:15):
Good morning? I'm doing great. I just wanted to give
y'all goudos. I got some super petunias. Oh yeah, Bubblegum Canada,
and they're doing absolutely wonderful that I appreciate that, y'all.
Y'all told me about them.
Speaker 3 (25:34):
One of the things Kathy on that is bubble gum
Supertunia's awesome plant.
Speaker 2 (25:39):
Love it, but it's a teenage boy.
Speaker 3 (25:42):
It is going to want to be fertilized and it
wants to get haircuts every once in a while.
Speaker 2 (25:49):
It's very difficult to do.
Speaker 3 (25:51):
And what I do when I have a grouping of
those is I'll take about a third of it and
i'll prune those. Then a week or so after those
have come back out, I'll pune another third, so I'm
not going through and cutting them all at the same time.
But the only negative that I've ever found with all
of the supertunias is if they get leggy, they tend
(26:12):
to kind of play out that way. So if you'll
keep them fed and give them haircuts, especially the bubblegum,
is just fantastic.
Speaker 6 (26:20):
Oh well, thank you for letting me know, because I
would not have wanted to do that.
Speaker 3 (26:25):
Yeah, it's kind of hard and you know, but yeah,
it's it's important that every once in a while you
go out there and give them a little bit of
hair and like I said, just take a little bit,
don't don't do the whole thing at one time.
Speaker 2 (26:35):
You can keep them kind of pretty and going.
Speaker 3 (26:37):
So yeah, great plant, Kathy, thanks for the call, and
that does open up phone lines right now two six
that's for nine nine WGB.
Speaker 5 (26:47):
They're talking about Sorry interrupt, So that's talking about supertunias.
Most people, hopefully are aware that most petunia is like
the cooler weather, so they do great in the fall
in the spring, but the supertunia can tolerate a little
bit more heat and we'll go into the summer a
little bit better than others.
Speaker 2 (27:03):
But it is. It does put off a show. Yeah,
it really does bloom.
Speaker 3 (27:07):
And the bubblegum, which is the pink which actually was
a Louisiana superplant a year or two of three or
five years ago. Time is running by the older I
get dust hold up real well. Some of the newer
varieties have not had as good as success with But again,
as we were talking to Kathy a minute ago, the
(27:28):
most important thing on all of them is don't let
them get rangey, runny, whatever you want to call it,
and make sure they're well fertilized. Tell you what we're
getting some phone calls in it FO six, it's four
nine nine WJBO. We have plenty of phone lines, so
if you have a question, go ahead and jump on
(27:49):
the line.
Speaker 2 (27:49):
Let's go to Debbie.
Speaker 3 (27:50):
Good morning, Debbie, Welcome to news radio eleven fifty wjbo's
Lawn and Garden Show.
Speaker 2 (27:55):
What can we help you with?
Speaker 7 (27:57):
Hey, I have an intation.
Speaker 2 (28:01):
In my yard. Yeah, I've been.
Speaker 3 (28:04):
I've been scratching between my fingers and my knees all
morning because of it. The best thing to do, if
at all possible, is, especially if it's gotten any maturity
to it, is a product called cut vine and stump killer.
You want to again put on chemical resistant gloves, long sleeves,
(28:25):
the whole thing so you don't get into it. Take
your pruner's try and go as close to the ground
as you can cut it off. And when you do,
the product comes with a little paint brush attached to
the lid. Just paint that on that fresh cut and
it does a great job, especially this time of the year,
of getting rid of it. If it's if you have
(28:45):
an area in your yard where it's just nothing but
poison ivy, you can use a non selective herbicide, the
new spruce product, the roundup, one of those type things.
But yeah, eradication of and ivy is uh is a process,
but the most important thing. And I've done it several times.
(29:08):
I used to when I was younger. I would go
out and do side jobs and I eradicated poison ivy
out of a yard.
Speaker 2 (29:15):
I'm not lying.
Speaker 3 (29:16):
Some of the vines we cut, we're probably three inches
in diameter, going all the way up pine trees. And
my son would I would cut it and he would
come behind me with the paintbrush, and I mean it
was one application.
Speaker 2 (29:28):
We knocked it all out. But it it.
Speaker 3 (29:30):
It's something you protect yourself when you're taking care of
it is the only way.
Speaker 2 (29:35):
But that's that would be my suggestion.
Speaker 8 (29:38):
And tell me what the name of that is, cut.
Speaker 2 (29:40):
Vine and stump killer, fertile.
Speaker 3 (29:43):
And stump killer.
Speaker 9 (29:45):
Okay, thank you, I'm going to give that a try.
Speaker 2 (29:47):
All right, good luck with it.
Speaker 3 (29:48):
And again we're wear gloves, long sleeves, long pants, the
whole thing, and wash your clothes by themselves when you
get done.
Speaker 2 (29:56):
So all right. Wow.
Speaker 3 (29:57):
Yeah, that's one of the things that you can get
the oils on your clothes and if you're very sensitive
and you wash your clothes with other clothes, it can spread.
So that's something to be very careful about. Let's go
and talk to Patrick. Good morning, Patrick. What can we
help you with today?
Speaker 2 (30:15):
Yeah, I've got a.
Speaker 3 (30:16):
Question about encore isaiahs that have planted from potts after blooming.
Speaker 9 (30:21):
Do you prune them.
Speaker 2 (30:23):
In the spring, That's what somebody told me.
Speaker 7 (30:25):
But then I heard that they bloom again perhaps in
the fall.
Speaker 2 (30:29):
That is that true?
Speaker 5 (30:31):
So the thing with encore azalea is is they're a hybrid,
so they bloom several times. Your typical old fashioned azaleas
bloom in the spring. I mean, there are a couple
that broom in the spring in the fall, but the
encorees bloom several times a year, so your typical azalea
you want to cut after they bloom. So most of
(30:52):
them have finished blooming, so you want to prune them now.
Encores you can almost prune any time of the year,
but now would still be the time. And you're just
going to prune it to help keep its shape and
it's overall height if you don't want it to get too.
Speaker 3 (31:06):
Tall, and I would recommend fertilizing after after any pruning.
Speaker 2 (31:10):
Yes, but yeah, so really I don't need to prune it.
Speaker 3 (31:14):
You don't have to unless unless you want a specific shape.
As as Chris was saying, old are you for most
of those as you see every spring, they typically have
their buds set by July fourth for the following year,
so we want to make sure we prune them very
soon after blooming. Where with the encore is they actually
(31:37):
bloom off a new wood if I'm not mistaken, And
so you prune and they you know, they actually the
more you prune, the more it blooms. You will get
I see, all right, thanks for the call, and that
again opens up phone lines at four. That's four nine
nine WJBO. Let's see what John has to say. Good morning, John,
(31:58):
Welcome to news radio eleven fifty WJB. Be A is
lawn and Garden show. What can we do for you?
Speaker 9 (32:03):
I'm in the shed look at stuff.
Speaker 4 (32:05):
But then I find out that bag's miracle grow and
gardeners special and different types.
Speaker 7 (32:13):
Of products in the morning.
Speaker 2 (32:14):
How can I.
Speaker 9 (32:15):
Typically expect those to be any good and just not
throw them out?
Speaker 3 (32:19):
As long as they are not moist or wet they are,
they will be fine. The biggest issue, especially with a
lot of your field grade fertilizers and your water soluble fertilizers,
if they're open at all to the air, they will
attract moisture, they'll become wet, which point they are actually
(32:40):
can be dangerous. They can burn very easily most of
your products. And they correct me if I'm wrong, please,
and I mean that, Chris are now have like the
little seal thing that when you open the bag, if
you open it right, you can reseal them. Typically, what
I do is, you know these five gallon buckets, I'll
(33:03):
get I have one of those with the plastic lid
and I will try to store my fertilizers in there.
That's has helped me tremendously. But yeah, between the receal
plastic containers is the most important thing, just so they
don't attract moisture into them.
Speaker 5 (33:20):
Yeah, moisture is going to be your your biggest problem.
I mean, and one of the things we were discussing
earlier miracle grow and a liquid soluble fertilizer. You'll know,
and that's bad because it'll be a rock will all right,
thank you.
Speaker 2 (33:35):
For the call. We appreciate it. And let's check one
more here. Let's go with Wesley.
Speaker 3 (33:40):
Good morning, Wesley, Welcome to news radio eleven to fifty
wjbo's Long Guarden Show.
Speaker 2 (33:44):
What can we do for you today?
Speaker 9 (33:46):
Hey, good morning guys.
Speaker 2 (33:47):
Than good morning. Ye.
Speaker 9 (33:49):
I'm kind of my backyard is near by you, and
I'll have this weed tree what I call weed tree
pop up. It'll grow thirty feet tall and it shoots
out roots under that pop up new trees.
Speaker 2 (34:01):
Oh boy, it's got a leaf.
Speaker 9 (34:03):
It's like a try leaf.
Speaker 3 (34:04):
Okay, uh, possibly possibly tallow tree.
Speaker 7 (34:13):
Go.
Speaker 3 (34:14):
I mean, if you want an exact identification, please feel
free to take a picture of the leaves.
Speaker 2 (34:20):
You can email it to me.
Speaker 3 (34:22):
It's b as in boy Das and dog R E
W E S at Cleggs Nursery dot com and I
can probably can identify it for you or bringing into
the store. Bring it into the store however you want
to do that. Your product we're going to recommend is
going to be what we call cut vine and stump killer,
same thing we talked to the lady with the poison ivy.
(34:43):
You want to cut that tree off as close to
the ground as you can, and it comes comes with
a little paint brush in the lids you just painted on.
One of the things interesting things here is if it's
especially a larger stump, you don't have to paint the
entire stump. You just want to paint that outer circle
on it because that's where all your translocation occurs. That
(35:04):
is one of the greatest products. I've got like three
or four bottles in my shed because I love that,
and I'm clearing some landed behind my house right now,
so I'm using a lot of it. But yeah, that
will take care of it. It gets in, especially for
those root suckering trees. It gets into the root system,
it kills it out, so fertilum, cut vine and stump.
Speaker 2 (35:23):
Killer is what you need.
Speaker 3 (35:25):
And like I said, if you do want identification of
the tree when you come into the store to get
the product, bringing a picture on your phone or some leaves,
or you can email it to me either way.
Speaker 9 (35:35):
Yeah, that's great, Thank you very much.
Speaker 3 (35:36):
All right, thank you, Wesley. And again that opens up
a phone line at four six. That's four nine nine WJBO.
I'm wondering that's pretty interesting how they were able to
get those numbers. So it was kind of like the
call letters for the station. Just quincident on the next call.
Oh okay, good morning, Melissa. Welcome to news radio eleven
(35:58):
to fifty wjbo's Long Garden Show.
Speaker 2 (36:00):
What can we do for you today?
Speaker 5 (36:01):
Melissa, Hey, good morning, good morning, morning, good morning.
Speaker 8 (36:06):
I have a question about two trees that I have
that took some damage at this with the snow and
laugh yet I wanted a camellia and the others a
sweet olive. So they're both mature trees. And the chamellia
is about I guess four feet tall. It's a su sink,
what I think is what it is. The smaller camellias
(36:27):
and the other is a sweet olive that's about nine
feet tall, I would say, and they're both growing back,
but it's just at the base of the tree. So
I don't know if I should just leave all of
it as is or cut it back pretty significantly. I'm
a little afraid to prime it.
Speaker 3 (36:44):
First thing I would do is take my fingernail and
I would scratch the stem where it's not leafing out.
If it's bright green, I would probably hold off a
little while. If it's brown, that means, unfortunately that it's dead.
It does't hurt to prune those plants. In fact, I'm
(37:04):
going through doing some of that in the yard right now.
And the really cool thing, A neat thing about that
is you have a very large root system under underneath
the ground that was used to supplying all this nutrients
and water and all to this big, old, large plant.
Well now it doesn't have that big, old, large plant.
(37:26):
So that plant's going to grow back very quickly. You're
going to be very pleased. So don't be afraid to
prune off damage parts of that plant.
Speaker 2 (37:35):
It will come back very quickly. Would suggest.
Speaker 3 (37:37):
If the new growth is coming back fairly strongly, to
go ahead and fertilize when you do that pruning. If
it seems a little weak, let's hold off a little
bit on the fertilizing.
Speaker 8 (37:49):
So how far is too much to cut back?
Speaker 3 (37:51):
You want to cut off whatever is not leafing out
on again, use your thumbnail or fingernail or bring something
out that you can scratch the stem lightly. If it's green,
you can leave it. If it's brown, it needs to
come off. You may be cutting those plants back to
the ground or close to the all right, all right,
thank you for the phone call. Good morning, Cleve, Welcome
(38:13):
to the show. Good morning, Good morning.
Speaker 7 (38:18):
I got a question regarding a multberry tree that I
was awarded or given during the Arbor Day activities over
at Burden this past year.
Speaker 3 (38:27):
That was awesome. I really had a good time at
that this year. It's one of the first times I
was able to go. That was a very nice event.
I'm sorry, but go ahead.
Speaker 7 (38:36):
Well, well, we went there and my wife a lot
of these mulberry trees, and it took her back to
her childhood, of course, and she said, well, you know,
she had to have one. So we picked one up,
brought it on home and with really no idea where
the heck, we were going to plant the thing, and
I had no expect you know, it's amazing. I've lived
sixty years on this planet never seen a mulberry tree
(38:56):
but until that day. But nevertheless, had to do a
little bit of research on it and learn that I'm
not supposed to plant it too close to my driveway
for the birds and the mess that they create. So
it less limited options for where I was going to
put it, and I think I've chosen a good place
and it was doing great. It still is, However, I've
(39:16):
read recently that it may be a problem if it's
too close to the house or too close to irrigation
for root purposes.
Speaker 9 (39:26):
Is that correct?
Speaker 3 (39:27):
It's any tree, especially can have issues with water line,
sewer line, irrigation lines.
Speaker 2 (39:37):
Let me start there.
Speaker 3 (39:39):
It's not, again, something that I would be overly concerned about.
How close to a water line, sewer line, irrigation line
are you.
Speaker 7 (39:53):
I'm about six feet from my water line and about
twelve feet from my house.
Speaker 2 (39:59):
I think that's prob I think you're going to be okay.
It's not a willow.
Speaker 3 (40:03):
I mean, weeping willows are the ones that you know
you can plant thirty feet away. And it's going to
find and clog your sewer eMedia or your water lines
immediate typically typically your water lines, your your main feed
into the house. Those are very well sealed. I mean
they're glued much more tightly. It's very difficult for a
(40:26):
root system to get into supply lines. Sewer lines are
not as sealed.
Speaker 2 (40:36):
Thank you.
Speaker 3 (40:37):
That's exact word I was looking for, and which can
allow roots into it a little bit easier. That's a
very simplified statement there. But I would not be real concerned.
I understand the issue with you know, you are going
to have bird activity, and that's one of the cool
things about mulberry's is you know it is and it
(40:57):
is an edible fruit that you can eat too. But
anytime you have birds eating anything, they leave things behind.
Speaker 2 (41:04):
We'll just leave it at that. But no, I wouldn't
be real concerned.
Speaker 3 (41:07):
And as far as foundation issues anything like that, you're
not going to have any problem with a mulberry as
a smaller tree. If you do have a limb that
starts to get too close to the house roofline whatever,
you can obviously prune that off too, So I would
not be overly concerned.
Speaker 7 (41:25):
Well, another quick quick question in addition to that is that,
as you mentioned the tree aspect with the when we
brought it home, it was pretty much a single dominant tree,
a single branch, I guess, and we had that late
freeze and it was doing great up until that point.
It pretty much knocked all that down, and now it's
coming back up from the lower end of that and
(41:46):
more of a bush form. Should I try to prune
that back down to a single dominant.
Speaker 2 (41:51):
Yes, I would.
Speaker 3 (41:52):
I would definitely prone it down to a single dominant.
You may you may want to wait a little bit
to find out which one of those is, but at
some point I definitely would prune it back.
Speaker 2 (42:04):
Down to one.
Speaker 7 (42:05):
Okay, Well, that good. I appreciate it all.
Speaker 2 (42:08):
Right, thank you, Cleve.
Speaker 3 (42:09):
And there was something during all that I really wanted
to bring up.
Speaker 2 (42:13):
But I forgot what it was.
Speaker 5 (42:15):
So well, any tree he was asking about a mulberry,
But any tree or shrub there's always a chance that
something could happen. I mean, it's highly unlikely that a
smaller shrub would you damage to your your driveway or sidewalk,
but an oak tree.
Speaker 3 (42:30):
Is going to Yeah, I was I was walking, I
took a had some car issues and was walking through
Sherwood Forrest subdivision yesterday and.
Speaker 2 (42:38):
I was like, whoa, I see I have mountains on
the sidewalk with the oak trees. Of planning.
Speaker 3 (42:44):
I know we don't have very long left in the show,
but you know, I was really excited about that phone call.
Cleave actually did some research and figured out where to
plant something. I drive around and I hate to pick
on people, but in newer subdivisions and I see these
trees right up next to the house. Little Jim magnolia
(43:07):
is exactly where I was at back in the day.
Speaker 2 (43:09):
It was a coma crpe myrtle.
Speaker 3 (43:10):
Yeah, realize that you buy a plant from Clegg's nursery,
hopefully and it's okay.
Speaker 2 (43:18):
I'll even say a ten gallon magnolia. You know it
may have a spread of three feet you know why
when you purchase it.
Speaker 3 (43:26):
When you purchase it, and it's gonna get six to
eight feet wide at maturity. If you're planting at two
feet from your house, you're gonna be sheer in the
backside of that tree off constantly.
Speaker 5 (43:35):
I think the problem that we have with the Little
Gem or the Teddy Bear is it's a dwarf you're doing.
Speaker 2 (43:43):
I can see it. Dwarf is all relative. I mean
the D D.
Speaker 5 (43:47):
Blanchard, the regular southern magnolia you can get forty to
fifty foot Tallasily. This is dwarf of that, which is
twenty to twenty five.
Speaker 3 (43:54):
I mean dwarf doesn't mean it's gonna be two feet, No,
it doesn't.
Speaker 5 (43:58):
But it's also not to papoo on any landscape architects.
But it's also designed. They're just looking at lines. They
don't realize how big the tree is gonna get. Even
some of these newer I love Dahune Hollies. Dahun Holly
is just one of them. I just love that plant,
you know, and you can.
Speaker 3 (44:16):
I like it as a full to ground as opposed
to the patio tree or whatever standard.
Speaker 2 (44:21):
Thank you. But again, it's going to get a top
to it.
Speaker 3 (44:24):
Don't plant it four feet out from your house, or
you're not going to have that nice cone shape at
the top of it, because the back of it's going
to be sheared.
Speaker 2 (44:33):
Off because it's rubbing up against the roof. For comparing
the gut or.
Speaker 3 (44:37):
Off lawn fertilization just a few few seconds. Yes, yes,
fertile and lawn food plus iron. Definitely organite. Yeah, as
we get filiz as.
Speaker 2 (44:48):
We get warmer mill. Organite as an excellent product. It
will not burn.
Speaker 3 (44:53):
But yes, right now, if you have not fertilized your lawn,
I strongly recommend fertilizing. Healthy lawn is going to out
compete a lot of the weeds. Probably not Virginia. Hey,
we just went full circle.
Speaker 2 (45:07):
We did we did that. Wow.
Speaker 3 (45:09):
We have the music, awesome show people. Thank you, thank
all the callers, Thank you Chris, thank you, Buch Wow
I touch but no, we are Clegg's Nursery. We have
four locations in the Greater Batony Jerry, with one in
Denhim on Range Road, Seagan Lane by far, the best
(45:30):
store near Airline, mid City on don More and the
Greenwald Springs location. Pretty much we're surewood bumps into it.
We will be here every Saturday morning from eight to
nine to hopefully entertain and maybe learn a thing or
two from y'all, because.
Speaker 2 (45:44):
Y'all aren't going to learn anything from Ustin.
Speaker 3 (45:45):
Again, you've been listening to news radio eleven to fifty
wjbo's Lawn and Garden Show.
Speaker 2 (45:50):
We will see you next Saturday.
Speaker 3 (45:51):
Morning, come by the stores, gift cards for Mother's Day.
Speaker 2 (45:54):
Have a great weekend,
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