June 7, 2025 • 43 mins
This week on the WJBO Lawn & Garden Show, Butch and Braden welcome Jessica from Clegg's Nursery! The three talk houseplants, what's new at the nursery, micro-irrigation, the best mulch, dealing with weeds in your lawn, adding some color to your garden and the plant of the week: lime-light hydrangeas! Plus caller questions on ninja bell peppers and crepe myrtles!
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Good Saturday morning, and welcome to the WGBO ln and
Garden Show, brought to you by Cleg's Nursery. If you
have a question about seasonal plan tank lon and garden
concerns or questions about landscaping, called four nine nine WGBO.
That's four nine nine six, And.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Good morning, Baton Rouge, and welcome to News Radio eleven
fifty wjbo's Lawn and Garden Show. My name is Butch
Drew's with me is Braiden. I got it right, Jessica. Hi, Jessica,
you face in the studio, smart face. The show is
going to just you know, now I have somebody smart.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
We're all screwed.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Give us call four nine six. That's four nine nine WJBO.
We'll get you smack dab on top of our list.
Jessica Is we're introducing her. Is one of the newest
members of the Clegg's team. She works at the Seagon
Lane location and if I'm not mistaken, and since I'm
not there that often, she's kind of our houseplan expert.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
Yeah, yeah, I would say cool.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
Well that's good because I know absolutely nothing about house plants.
I've always been curious in selling a house plant. I mean,
how do you advertise them? It's like this new twenty
five leaf, three stemmed houseplant, you know, with a you
know it comes with a sparkling blue base, or you know,
(01:25):
do you have little signs in each one with the
little realator's face And no, no, that's not how it works. No, okay,
So it's not like selling a regular house.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
No okay, So.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
Anything any new exciting houseplants in your house plan area.
Speaker 4 (01:41):
We actually just got a shipment this past week. We've
got tons of orchids, oias, snake plants, kaleithias, philodendrons, We've
gotten all kinds of stuff in cool.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
I think when was it last year they did the
extent Yeah, I want to say last years when we
got it up and.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
The owners expanded the Betting Plant House and put in
a really nice house plan area. And it is and
I'm Jessica has a lot to do with that. Looks
very very very nice, even with Zaane ordering the plants.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
But anyway, no, you know, I love how you I did.
Just throw that out yours, you know, that's what I do. Well, Uh,
there's a lot going on.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
Even though it is extremely hot out there, Get out
early in the morning, bring your favorite beverage, walk around
your yard with your phone. Gives call four nine six
with any questions comments that you might have of what
you find in your yard. I was kind of glancing
over your numerous pages of notes that you brought with us.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
It's it's exten extensive. It's it's something or another. But
watering is.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
So oh misdone, I guess is a better way of
saying it, or misunderstood. I wanted to stop my neighbor, fabulous,
fabulous people. They just did some len They came in
Cleggs yesterday and bought some plants and some mulch, and
they're to redoing some flower beds, surely. And I had
helped them kind of with plant choices and all. And
(03:24):
you know what she was doing. What she was out
there with her hose with their spray nozzle on the
end of it, going oh, you can't see what I'm doing,
but spray and water ladies and gentlemen. I could be wrong,
but that's pretty much useless.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
Yeah, I would agree.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
You know, I always tell people, if that's the way
you water, you know, you can water your houseplants that way.
You can take a little watering can or even a
little nozzle, and you sprinkle water in there for fifteen
twenty seconds. Usually your pots six inches maybe ten inches.
It's going to be enough for that container. But in
a landscape that's nowhere near enough, because.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
When you get done.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
With your water sprayer, you basically have wet the mulch.
If you're lucky, right, so you want to do deep watering,
set a sprinkler out there. Micro irrigation that is your
best friend. I mean, micro irrigation is unbelievable. And I
tell people all the time, Oh, I can't do that.
(04:31):
Oh I can't do it.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
Yes you can. I can do it. You can do it.
I did it.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
Oh you're kidding now, that is no. It's very very simple. Relative.
The most expensive part of micro irrigation is if you
get a water timer, they're usually what fifty bucks.
Speaker 5 (04:47):
Yeah, if you want a good one, they can be
pretty cheap. If you just get the little hand turned one.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
You can't use those to me, the ones where you
set the donut shuts it stuff off, you can't use
it with micro irrigation. Why because of the back pressure.
A lot of times they won't shut off.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
Really, I didn't have that problem. Well, you're just lucky.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
We have had that issue with the self turning off
or water timers is if you get some back pressure
against them, they sometimes won't shut off.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
Oh, I thought he was going to say something, now I.
Speaker 6 (05:21):
Am Did you just say that was a self turning offee?
Speaker 3 (05:24):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (05:24):
Timer, just just making.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
Sure that's the technical term for it.
Speaker 6 (05:28):
I want to make sure you've got the technical term
because I don't want any confusion out now.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
It's the one that self turney's offee. I knew exactly
what you mean. If that helps.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
But you know a good water timer where you can
set it for every other day, every day, you know,
twice a day, set it for fifteen minutes, twenty minutes, whatever.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
That is the way to go. Okay, it's fifty bucks
forty fifty bucks.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
The rest of your system may cost the same amount,
depending upon how large the system is. Surely and I
have been very for it since my retirement. We are
able to travel. One of her big.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
Things was I can't leave my plants.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
Well now we don't have to worry about it because
I've got micro irrigation in all of our beds. And
we just turned the timers on and we just go
and come back to squirrel damage. I mean perfectly good
plants for squirrel damage.
Speaker 3 (06:20):
But no, it's a very simple thing to do.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
You have adapter that goes to either to your hose
bib or to the water timer. We have what you
call half inch tubing or trunk to tubing. There's no
maximum length to it, no minimum length to that. If
you have say ten or fewer sprinkler heads on your system,
(06:44):
you definitely need a pressure regulator. You really don't want
to put over about twenty heads to a system.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
Now there's some I learned that less than the hard way. Yeah,
I did too.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
You know, batter ridge water, cension water, whoever you have
is only going to be able to give you so
many gallons of water per minute or per hour.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
So if you exceed.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
That, the sprinkler heads down there at the end may
not be seen quite as much as the ones up
towards the front. But that's the only time you really
have any pressure thing. I had a system originally at
my house six hundred foot long, but it only had
twenty five thirty heads on it because I had to
go way down a hill to get to some plants
that we had planted, but the heads typically, you know,
(07:32):
to let's say two bucks apiece, the two beings probably
let's say ten to fifteen bucks for fifty foot. So
again it's all very inexpensive. You have a little yellow
punch tool. Word to the wise voice of experience, do
not put that punch tool in your pocket. It hurts
if it pokes you. But you know, so again, it's
(07:54):
a very simple thing to do. The way I do
it is I take my trunk tubing, I lay it out,
and you put some things on the ends of it
to kind of let it because it does come coiled up.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
Then I go inside. I put my heads together.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
You know, there's a little what we call spaghetti tubing
that goes from the main tube to the to the head.
You do want that all to be about the same length.
You don't want to vary the length of your tubing.
Your spaghetti tubing a lot. But I put all those together.
Then I go out, lay the tubing in the bed,
poke the holes in, put the sprinkler heads where I
(08:28):
want them, turn the water on, set the timer, go
in and.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
Have an adult bed.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
I mean a bevery some stuff there, but no micro irrigation.
Set it to run. I usually set in our beds
for about forty five minutes. That tends to keep it water.
I tend to do that every other day. I don't
want to get too much water. Did you did you
(08:53):
get a memento on the planet of the week? I did,
I didn't. Maybe we'll have to call some during the
break and find out what that is. But we'll come
back to that. He knows what the plan of the
week is, does he? So you can just ask him.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
I didn't think of that.
Speaker 5 (09:09):
Yeah, it sounds like maybe Jeremy knows what the plan
of the week is.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
I've already forgotten. I know I have.
Speaker 6 (09:15):
I have a question another question about the micro irrigation,
just talking about because why didn't you.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
Call fortnite nine nine five two six.
Speaker 6 (09:23):
I could, but then would sound weird to get a
bit weird echo echo echo for me talking on both things.
You know, and years past in Baton Rouge or in
South Louisiana, we've had concerns with drought conditions and so
and it's led to sometimes people because they're trying to
do overwatering. We've had, like you know, constraints on the
(09:44):
water system here. Would micro irrigation is set up like
this help in that scenario. Because you are doing it
more often, you wouldn't have to worry about, say, if
we're under some water restrictions or things of that nature.
Speaker 3 (09:57):
Actually that's an excellent point.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
Yes, yes, and yes, this really is very beneficial because
a you're not wasting a lot of the water, you're
not losing water to evaporation, you're not losing you know,
you got one of these oscillating sprinklers. Three quarters of
what you're oscillating doesn't need to be sprinkled, so you're
putting the water where it needs to be. And one
of the other major things that you're doing is you
(10:22):
can water at what they call off times, you know,
I mean everybody gets up for work at five point thirty,
takes their shower, do whatever, and out the door for eight. Well,
there's a huge water draw at that time period. Same
thing in the evening. Everybody gives their kids a bath
at seven o'clock at night. So what you do is
you set your timer either earlier than that morning rush
(10:45):
or a little bit later, and same thing in the evening.
So yes, micro irrigation is an excellent way to help
with you know, those considerations during because the most important
thing is you're putting the water where it's needed and
you're not wasting a lot of it. You know, we've
all seen people that are running their sprinklers and half
the water's going out the driveway into the you know, guttering,
(11:09):
into the wherever it goes after that. But no, at
some point, you know, I was I had a minor.
Speaker 3 (11:16):
No, no, it wasn't minor. I'm still all bruised and sore.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
Fell off a ladder and that was really the coolest
part about it was my watch actually called e MS
for me.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
It is really neat.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
So yeah, well, some people say unfortunately I did survive, but.
Speaker 3 (11:35):
Mostly my wife, which I don't quite.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
But you know, when they when the E M S
people were there, they didn't notice there a scuff mark
on the bottom of the ladder that looked a lot
like her shoe marks mark.
Speaker 6 (11:46):
I'm sure that was her just trying to stop the ladder.
Speaker 3 (11:48):
Yeah, that's it, that's leverage. That's that's it.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
Anyway, we kind of teased our Clegg's nursery Plant of
the Week this week is drum roll.
Speaker 3 (11:58):
Please, way to go, Jared.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
Nobody told me to have a drum roll, rad, I
won't then do the soapbox thing at least that.
Speaker 6 (12:11):
Doesn't sound right. I mean we'll try it. Go ahead
and intro it again.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
Ah and yes, now we have the klegs plant of
the week and it is drum roll please.
Speaker 3 (12:22):
That's close enough. I don't think that's gonna work. And
what is the plan of the week. It's limelight limelight.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
And what is so special about limelight hydranges?
Speaker 3 (12:37):
Uh?
Speaker 5 (12:37):
Well, they're high dranger that can take more sun than
one of the other high ranges. I think that's one
thing that makes them stand out. And they also have
those really cool, very big bloom clusters that they do.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
And I will be honest, I actually believe it or not.
Did a little bit of research. The one thing then,
the research that I saw that I thought was just
totally and completely wrong was the fact that they said
it was football shaped blooms.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
I saw that too. You know that's not a football.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
It's like a triangle thingy Yeah, yeah, cone shape.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
There you go. See.
Speaker 5 (13:23):
Actually, Jessica told me a very interesting fact about the
hydrange of blooms earlier, and.
Speaker 4 (13:31):
It is Oh, they actually can absorb water through their petals.
The petals are actually called sepals. They're not true petals.
But a lot of people when they do cut flowers
of hydranges and they end up drying out, they'll stick
the blooms in a bucket of water and they'll absorb
(13:51):
the water.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
WHOA, we're in trouble. She's gonna take this over real quick.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
Limelight hydra range is what they call a peniculata hydrangea.
It is as opposed to a macrophiler. Some people call
those mop heads. Limelight was the original peniculata or panicle
hydrangea developed for the nursery trade.
Speaker 3 (14:16):
It has.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
They say it comes out, and it does. It sort
of starts out kind of a greenish color, but turns
a beautiful white color.
Speaker 3 (14:25):
Completely agree with Jessica.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
Cone shape not football shape. But I don't want to
say I hate to use the word issue. If you
can use a plant that gets six to seven foot
tall five to six foot wide in a morning sun
situation in Baton Rouge. And I've noticed in a lot
of the information on it that that has adjusted. Thank
(14:51):
goodness for our Southern because when these hydrangers first came out,
they were told, oh they can be in full sun.
They're full of sun Hydrangea in the southern quarriter. It's
better that they have morning sun afternoon shade, at least
late afternoon shade. Otherwise the plant, the foli is more so,
(15:11):
is going to deteriorate on it what we have seen.
And the other thing interesting thing about all hydrange is,
but particularly the peniculatas, is they need a lot of moisture.
But they can't be wet right, So what do we
use on them?
Speaker 3 (15:31):
What do we use to water? Though? Irrigation micro irrigation
work with me here.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
But anyway, the other really cool thing about all of
your peniculatas is that they are what they call rebloomers.
Speaker 3 (15:46):
On your mop heads or your macrofiles.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
You have to prune those right after they bloom or
you're cutting the bloom heads for next year off. Actually,
on the peniculatas, they bloom off a new gross So
do you want to give them a pretty decent haircut
every spring? And I saw most of the most of
the information said cut maybe a third to a quarter
of the plant off every spring, just to keep it
a little bit tighter. But limelight excellent plant, especially that
(16:12):
white blossom in a little bit of shade is just,
I mean, strikingly beautiful.
Speaker 5 (16:18):
Another thing that uh, I think confuses people, like if
you if you came to Cleggs and you were looking
at the hot limelight height ranges and you looked at
the tag on the front of the tag, it shows
you a picture of the white bloom. You turn it over,
it'll show you a picture of a darker pink bloom. Yeah,
which as the season progresses, if we were a little
(16:41):
further up north where it would be a little cooler,
As the season progresses, the color of the bloom changes
to a darker pink.
Speaker 3 (16:48):
Very much so great point, because that is true.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
They do start out that beautiful almost a greenish, and
then they turn that beautiful white, and then as they mature,
they do turn into a red or.
Speaker 3 (17:01):
Pink or red. Because I actually notice it so much
here though.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
Ah, you're right, and that's the one thing I'm sorry
to say. I was trying to figure out where in
Baton Rouge someone wanted to see them growing could be,
and I couldn't think of any place. But there are
some places in college town may know you woods area
that you can see them growing. They're just starting to
come into full bloom right now, so they may not
(17:27):
see a lot of bloom on them. But one of
the things that I think was most interesting about this,
and Tom finn On, the owner of Klegg's Nursery, has
been really good about getting a lot of the newer
peniculatas in and what they're doing as in our trade,
even in the houseplant trade, we see every time Zaying
(17:49):
or Jessica gets in another house plant order.
Speaker 3 (17:51):
I got to add to another fifteen plants to.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
The database because of all the new stuff coming and
the new developments is they're trying to shrink the size
of it because Limelight does get six to seven foot
tall five to six foot wide. A lot of you know,
your zero lot line houses can't absorb a plant that size.
Speaker 3 (18:12):
So you're going to see a lot.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
Of other names in the trade right now. One of
the ones that and if you want to get on
a waiting list, I think I just got a text
from Tom he's able to get some of these in
is a new one called White Wedding. Yes, that one
is staying to me. Much smaller tends to come in,
(18:34):
you know easily, and when I unlike us, we grow
to a certain size and we stop and then actually
we start shrinking plants. Never when you come into the
nursery and say how tall is that plant going to get,
we're going to give you a name, a number. But
that's where the plant can be easily maintained. Plants never
(18:58):
stop growing. Coral beel azelia, they are a dwarf azel
you come into the nursery, we're gonna tell you they're
gonna get to maybe three feet tall. I know of
a bank of coralbel azelias off of clay Cut that
are eight foot tall, but they've been there for sixty years,
so exactly. But it's a maintenance thing. So white wedding
(19:21):
phantom is another one. Firelight. There's a lot of like
little lime, quick lime, punch, anything with the word lime.
These are variations of limelight that they're trying to reduce
the size of the plant of.
Speaker 3 (19:35):
But yeah, limelight hydrange is. If you have a morning sun.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
Situation, these Peniculata hydrange is are excellent. And again the
cool thing about them is you can you can prune them,
like Jessica said, you can prune them for bouquets or
little things.
Speaker 3 (19:51):
What do you call them? When you like put them
in like on your table, just like a bouquete.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
Okay, coo, you know, and what do you do? You just
put them in a bucket of water and they.
Speaker 4 (20:04):
Yeah, if they dry out, you can stick the whole
flower head and water and it'll help to absorb the water.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
And how many times when you do that? As many
times as you want? Yeah, I want until it doesn't
work anymore.
Speaker 3 (20:16):
Yeah, yeah, it doesn't work. Yeah. Anyway, excellent plant of vail.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
We have them available at all four Clegs locations in
the Greater Baton Rouge area. Oh, I thought you were
about to say something just called four nine six. That's
four nine nine w jbo. I still miss Star eleven fifty.
But anyway, I.
Speaker 3 (20:40):
Bet you're getting a lot of calls. Wait, I'm gonna go.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
I'm gonna take a U turn here you and I'm
pointing at Jessica for those of you that aren't watching
on video, because that would be all of you because
we don't have a video.
Speaker 3 (20:53):
Right, one plant. You can only have one plant. What
is it? They a houseplana?
Speaker 2 (21:01):
I don't care. It can be any plant. This is Silence,
brought to you by.
Speaker 3 (21:11):
One of my favorite plants.
Speaker 4 (21:12):
We actually got a couple in the other day is
a Ficus umbellata.
Speaker 3 (21:17):
They are really really pretty.
Speaker 4 (21:18):
They have huge, big, big loaded leaves and they get
big like a tree.
Speaker 3 (21:25):
But I love that one.
Speaker 2 (21:28):
Okay, that would be we would use that more as
a houseplant here.
Speaker 4 (21:31):
Yeah, a house plan or like out on the patio.
Speaker 2 (21:37):
How tall can they get? And that's going to be
dependent on pot size, right, yeah, yeah, I.
Speaker 4 (21:42):
Want to say pretty tall, probably ten twelve feet.
Speaker 2 (21:45):
Yeah, funniest thing just to throw a tangent out there,
which we never do on this show.
Speaker 3 (21:51):
And you want to stop these tangents, you can call us.
At four nine nine nine five two six.
Speaker 2 (21:57):
My wife and I went to my for the Orange
Bowl and we were just out of college and I
had just started at Cleggs and she'd been with Legs
for a while. And we're driving down the interstate coming
into Miami and we kept looking out going what is
those trees out there?
Speaker 3 (22:13):
And we kept looking.
Speaker 2 (22:15):
They were Norfolk Island pines fifty and sixty foot tall
Ficus the same way.
Speaker 3 (22:19):
I mean, it's just and you.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
Have hibiscus hedges, but a lot of the and ficus
is going to be a full sun. So you want
a bright, lit lit window in your house, and does
that come in multiple sizes? Can you get it like
a twenty five leaf three stem or a fifty leaf
four stem plant.
Speaker 4 (22:39):
We only have a couple, yeah, that have a good
bit of stems, but I'm sure, yeah, they grow them
in different ways.
Speaker 3 (22:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
No, I was just doing the whole house thing with
the three bedroom, two baths. Sorry, I do that from
time to time. Just I told you there'd be left
turns in the show anyway, y'all.
Speaker 3 (22:56):
Both work at Seeking right, yep. Yeah, the best store,
the best one.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
You know, there are three other ones, but who really cares.
There's We got our location on don More, mid City.
On Dono Moore, we have the Greenweald Springs location, which
is basically at the end of Sherwood Forest Boulevard where
it hits Greeneald Springs and the Denim Springs store.
Speaker 3 (23:17):
Which is pretty close.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
It's exactly five miles from I twelve north on Highway
sixteen Range Road pass the Antiep District passing.
Speaker 3 (23:27):
Oh yeah, way past past the school almost to Mainnollia
Bridge Road.
Speaker 2 (23:33):
Really, yep, that's how I do when I go when
I have to do my loop every once in a while,
I go down Greenom Springs to Mainnia Bridge and then
pretty much right there. Awesome, thank you actually have a
cane's drive through right there too. Is it time to plant?
Speaker 5 (23:52):
So that's I'd say, that's definitely a question we get
a lot.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
I think, the like we said during the break, I
think they're about forty five minutes late.
Speaker 5 (24:00):
Yeah, it definitely would have been cooler at that point
of the day.
Speaker 3 (24:04):
But it's cool to plan a plant anytime. Wow, you
just really get me with those dad jokes. Sometimes I'll
take that as a compliment. No, I think what you're
trying to say is that.
Speaker 2 (24:23):
Some you know, so often you see, you know, especially
for people that tend to go to the Internet for
information and for their how to do things, their YouTube
videos and all that, a lot of those indicate that
winter is when we don't plant. But that is for
(24:43):
northern climates where a lot of times you can't stick
a shovel in the ground because it's frous.
Speaker 3 (24:48):
Right.
Speaker 2 (24:49):
For us in Baton Rouge, summertime is our stress time, right,
I mean, especially these last few years when we've been
having the drought situations we've been having it's up to
you to. In fact, Jessica was saying during our discussion
during the break, if you plant right now, what did
you say, Jessica.
Speaker 4 (25:09):
You better keep them water?
Speaker 3 (25:10):
Amen.
Speaker 2 (25:11):
Yeah, And that's you know, goes back to our original
conversation about the micro irrigation, sprinkler systems, whatever you have,
because last now this coming up weeks, supposedly we're going
to have a rainy spell again, but last week ten
days it's been very, very dry.
Speaker 3 (25:26):
And if.
Speaker 2 (25:30):
When you plant a plant, if it's a one gallon
six inch plan, if it's a ten inch three gallon plant,
fifteen gallon, whatever it is, you have to remember that
that root system, that's it, right. You don't have some
little rooted all of a sudden goes, oh man, I've been
playing here.
Speaker 3 (25:48):
Let me go five feet grow real quick out there.
Speaker 2 (25:51):
So you can have wet soil or moist soil in
your bed. But if that root ball gets dry, do
you have tap? What are we paying him for? I mean,
I got tample water that would actually help the plant
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that we're talking about. So you need to make sure
that you keep him watered and you keep water on
that root ball. Otherwise, you know, hey, that soil six
inches over from there could be have lots of moisture
in it, but that little root hadn't.
Speaker 3 (26:30):
Jumped over there yet.
Speaker 2 (26:31):
So, and that's especially important with certain fibrous root plants azaleas.
Once an isaiah root ball gets dry, it's gone. You know,
you're not gonna It's not like the hydrangea where you
can stick it in a bucket of water and it's
going to revive itself. Yeah, it's done. So you can
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plant anytime. I probably wouldn't suggest between like midnight and four, but.
Speaker 6 (26:59):
You know, because that would look a little suspicious between
midnight and Yeah, you.
Speaker 2 (27:05):
And they pulls out there in your shorts, you know,
but I have no idea where I was going anymore.
Speaker 3 (27:13):
Just that left turns got.
Speaker 6 (27:15):
It overnight, Now go from there.
Speaker 3 (27:17):
Yeah, okay, But.
Speaker 2 (27:21):
The more the closer to summertime you get, the more
you're going to be involved in it. You're going to
have to work with that and maintain that moisture. And
where if you plant in the fall, even into the winter,
that even dormit trees, deciduous trees, they're still doing root developments.
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So that plant has say you plan in October, you
have November December.
Speaker 3 (27:46):
What comes after December, January.
Speaker 2 (27:48):
February, March, April, even May plants rooting out. So remember
I was telling about that little moist pocket over there
that was like six eight inches away. Well, that root
has made it over there then, so you don't have
as much issue with stress on plants. They're able to
absorb more moisture from further out than just that root ball.
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But again, I have to plant, now, come on, do it.
Talk to Braydon, talk to Jessica. Talk to Chris. Who's
the other one?
Speaker 3 (28:18):
Your favorite? Oh, that's right. I don't know if I'm
talked anyway. No, I'm kidding. Talk to Zaying. I'm Zaying.
Speaker 2 (28:23):
I pick on him all the time because I think
he reminds me a lot of my son.
Speaker 3 (28:29):
Who fortunately No. But yeah, it's it's it can be done,
and it's it's just.
Speaker 2 (28:34):
A matter of are you going to put the effort
into maintaining that plant during the summer heat. What are
some of the we've we've I planted a landscape last
fall and it's growing, it's doing well. I fertilized it,
I've maulched it. Mulch is actually something you can do
to help maintain moisture in your beds. That's one of
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the big benefits of mulch. And what is the best mulch?
Speaker 5 (29:01):
Is this a personal preference thing? I like to use
pine straw? Yeah, oh, it's a three pine straw.
Speaker 3 (29:08):
You know what.
Speaker 2 (29:09):
My answer to that is what the best mulches pinestrang
No whatever Shirley wants.
Speaker 3 (29:15):
Good answer.
Speaker 2 (29:17):
No, maulching and mulching is, like Brayden said, is a
personal preference. It's whatever. It's an aesthetic thing. I mean
that's for most of us. That's the reason we put
mulch out is it's esthetic. It's also excellent to prevent weeds. Also,
as we were just talking about, excellent for maintaining and
helping with moisture. If you have a mulch o there
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a bed, you're not gonna lose as much moisture to evaporation.
And also mulch is important. But for the most part,
it is an aesthetic thing. It's whatever you think looks good.
Speaker 3 (29:46):
Go for it.
Speaker 2 (29:49):
I have pine straw, is not pine mulch. Pine mulches
where they actually pine bark mulch is probably a better description.
That's the one that I kind of sometimes try to
shy people away because it can actually float. Yeah, if
you have a sloped area, I would definitely stay away
from pine any of the pine bark materials just because again,
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they will float. It's been used for a long time
and it actually is an excellent mulch.
Speaker 3 (30:17):
But yeah, it can move on you.
Speaker 2 (30:20):
What but where I was going when I got totally sidetracked,
which I absolutely never do on this show, And you
can prevent that by calling four nine nine five two six.
You can plant something in your bed right now, Jessica
to because I planted a landscape, but I don't have
any color.
Speaker 3 (30:38):
What color could I plant right now?
Speaker 4 (30:42):
I love Lantana. We've got a whole lot of Lantana's
and they're actually on sale right now. They've got all
kind of different colors. There's yellows, whites, pinks, purples. They're
great for tracking the bees, butterflies.
Speaker 2 (30:57):
Yeah, it's she has ESPN going on here with me,
because that's exactly what I was thinking about. So many people, though, get.
Speaker 3 (31:10):
Confused with Lantana.
Speaker 2 (31:11):
They've again as we talk about plant development, they have
so many of our maturer customers think of Lantana's as
he's six foot ham and eggs plants. Yeah, but they
have developed so many that what is it bandana? Yeah,
that these are shorter plants, Shirley's planets, several in our
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bed as kind of front plants behind some of our penta.
And they do they do so good. It is an
excellent plant. We actually have a caller and he was
actually I was going to get to that in the
next segment, but we will take bell peppers right now.
Good morning, Fred, Welcome to news radio eleven to fifty
wjbo's Lawn and Garden Show.
Speaker 3 (31:50):
What can we do for you today? Hey? Hey, Fred,
how are you doing this? Excellent? Good look?
Speaker 7 (31:58):
I got a question about it. I was listening to
some shows a while back and I negligent turned it
on about minutes before you finished, and I heard you
mentioned ninja bell peppers. Yes, I figured they had to
be good if you're talking about them, so I bought some,
and I got to tell you, at least at my
house right now, they're doing the best for any bell
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pepper I've ever had in They're monsters. Yeah, I just
want to know what you said about the darn things,
because they are amazing.
Speaker 2 (32:28):
Tradition and ninja are two newer bell peppers. In fact,
I think last year was the first year we even
had them typically bell peppers in Baton rouge get, and
there's various different specs. There's I think there's between fifteen
to twenty different varieties of bacterial spec that can hit
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bell peppers, and Ninja is resistant to all of them,
and tradition is resistant to most of them. But that's
what usually deteriorates our peppers here. So that's the benefit
of the ninja bell pepper is that it will it's
resistant to the problems, so it's going to grow much better.
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And like you said, it is an excellent size. I
planted it last year, just had wonderful success with both
of them. Planted it this year, and I'm now a
squirrel hunter because the squirrels have just I mean, we
came back from our last little trip and they were done.
They literally had cut them down to about six inches.
Speaker 3 (33:28):
So I am, oh, yeah.
Speaker 7 (33:30):
What is it?
Speaker 3 (33:30):
Squirrel sauce pecan or something is gone?
Speaker 2 (33:33):
And if you're with wildlife and fisheries, I'm not hunting them.
Speaker 7 (33:37):
But no, but yeah, but I got something going after
my green beans of all things, and they eat like
the ends off of them, and I found tartises in
my yard, those texastises.
Speaker 3 (33:51):
No, these are problems.
Speaker 2 (33:53):
I don't know what sirrels it squirrels or squirrels without
the bushy tail, one of the two of those.
Speaker 3 (33:59):
So okay. But yeah, but no, I appreciate the plug
for the.
Speaker 2 (34:03):
Ninja bell peppers because that's something I'm hoping color and
tradition both.
Speaker 3 (34:08):
I'm hoping we can get more of those in next year.
Speaker 2 (34:10):
I know they were relatively limited this year at the stores, but.
Speaker 7 (34:14):
I mean, I got to give you credit when you
get something right.
Speaker 3 (34:16):
It's only been once, so I appreciate it. Fred. We
need to get together for we need to get together
for a coffee. Fred, I understand. We'll do take.
Speaker 2 (34:27):
Jessica is the newest team member at Clegg's Nursery and
has definitely increased the IQ of the store, which couldn't
have gotten much lower.
Speaker 3 (34:38):
Give us call that's four nine nine WJBO. We'll get you.
Put smack Dab on top of our list.
Speaker 2 (34:46):
Kind of teased when we went out to the last
break there weeds in the lawn. I know I got them, Yeah,
but limited to what we can do right now because
of the temperature. About the only thing we have and
do we still have it? Actually the MSN, Yeah, I believe.
(35:07):
I would have to look at the shelf. The other
day we had two size two sizes.
Speaker 3 (35:12):
There was a.
Speaker 5 (35:12):
Smaller bottle and a bigger one. But I want to say,
eventually it's just going to go to one size.
Speaker 2 (35:18):
Yeah, it's just going to go to the larger I
mean sorry to yeah, to the larger bottle. The company
has discontinued the small homeowner friendly size and so we
will be which the little I think it's a two
ounce container.
Speaker 3 (35:34):
It's going to cover for most people.
Speaker 2 (35:35):
It's going to cover about an acre, So most people
don't need that large hundred and forty dollars size. But
I know Chris bought everything that he could, so I
think there's still a pretty decent supply. But if you
are having weed issues, especially Virginia button weed, run by
any of the four locations of Klegg's Nursery in the
Greater Baton Ridge area to pick up your bottle of MSM.
(35:57):
Maybe pick up two just so you have it once
small bottles go away. But accellent control on most of
our broad leaf weeds. This is just for lawns. Do
not spray this in your flower beds or your vegetable
garden for sure, or.
Speaker 3 (36:12):
You're not gonna be happy.
Speaker 5 (36:14):
So another common question we've been getting recently is is
it still a good time to fertilize your.
Speaker 6 (36:21):
Lawn that pause couldn't get much pregnantory.
Speaker 3 (36:33):
Yes and no.
Speaker 2 (36:36):
I hate those answers. You need to be careful fertilizing
right now. You don't want to. You know, if the
bags is five thousand square foot coverage, we need to
try and get it out over about five thousand.
Speaker 3 (36:48):
We need to make sure we water afterwards.
Speaker 2 (36:51):
There's actually a product on the market called mill Organite,
especially people with centipede lawns that have that little bit
of yellow color. That's where I would try to get
customers to go if they do want to fertilize. And actually,
even if they haven't fertilized, mill Organize excellent product. You're
not going to have the burning issues with it that
(37:12):
you will with some of the other fertilizers. But yes,
if you need to fertilize, mill organite would be the
way to go. H We have a caller, but we
don't know what it's about because he didn't do his
whole job and type like he normally does.
Speaker 3 (37:25):
So we're just going to go to Patrick.
Speaker 2 (37:26):
Good morning, Patrick, Welcome the news Radio eleven fifty wjbo's line,
garden shit, what can.
Speaker 3 (37:31):
Do for you?
Speaker 7 (37:33):
I've gone a question about Ms. Francis great myrtle.
Speaker 3 (37:36):
Yeah. Actually bought one from.
Speaker 7 (37:38):
Y'all and a pot planted it in February.
Speaker 3 (37:41):
It greened out.
Speaker 7 (37:43):
Believes does it bloom because I haven't seen any bloom yet.
I guess I'm judging it based on maybe established plants
society in the soil.
Speaker 2 (37:52):
Patrick, here, this is the This is a perfect question,
and you're going to hate the answer for it. So
often in crape myrtles, they don't bloom the first year
they're planted because they're developing a root system and they're growing.
Once a crape myrtle blooms, it tends to stop growing
(38:15):
for that season.
Speaker 3 (38:16):
So, actually, what you.
Speaker 2 (38:18):
Just told me indicates that you did a very good
job of planting that plant and it's very happy where
it is.
Speaker 3 (38:25):
So it's just growing up.
Speaker 2 (38:26):
A storm and it says, oh, wait, you wanted me
to bloom for you. Well, I'm sorry, I'm not gonna
do it. Wait anyway, but no, that's very common issue
in crape myrtles to not bloom. In fact, I've known
some of the Natchez variety, which is a large growing white,
can take two or three years to actually bloom because they,
especially people that really do a very good job planting plants,
(38:50):
just totally happiness growing up a storm. So it, like
I said, it likes to forget to bloom. So I
think you did an excellent job. You may you may
still get a bloom a little bit late in the summer,
maybe even as late as August on that because a
lot of times once we get into that heat and
that especially drought situation, they will slow down that growth
(39:10):
naturally and we'll put on a bloom then. But don't
be disappointed if it doesn't bloom this year. It just
means it's gonna be that much prettier next year. Okay, Well,
I appreciate it him letting him buy the matches.
Speaker 3 (39:22):
Thanks for the phone call.
Speaker 2 (39:23):
We got a couple more minutes left if somebody wants
to give us a call for ANI got back from
our last little trip. So's some very disappointing but somewhat
expected news. My citrus taint. Yeah, so many people, my
neighbor being one of them.
Speaker 3 (39:41):
I don't have anything to throw at.
Speaker 2 (39:43):
Him least, Oh thank you. They they leafed out, but
there just wasn't enough energy there and there. Now, now
that we're getting into stress time, they are starting to
die off. I've still got some green looks like my
great fruit it's gonna make it, but my satsuma and
(40:03):
my orange bit the dust. Let's go to Seth. Good morning, Seth.
Welcome to the news radio eleven to fifty wjbs Lone
Garden Show.
Speaker 3 (40:12):
We've got a couple of minutes. What can we do
for you? Yeah, just asking real quick.
Speaker 2 (40:15):
I know y'all talked about it a million times. But
powdery mildew on the crepe myrtles.
Speaker 3 (40:20):
I'm noticing them on all of mine in the backyard.
What do I need to spray on that?
Speaker 2 (40:25):
I would suggest either f stop or liquid funge a
side too, I think is the name of it.
Speaker 3 (40:35):
I like the second product better.
Speaker 2 (40:39):
It has a longer control on it, and I am
drawn a total blank as to the chemical in it
right now. It has it usually has a twenty one
day control on it. But liquid funge A side too
or f stop either one of those. Both of them
come in hose en sprayers, which is definitely the way
to go. That way you can get up into the
(40:59):
tree if you have a tradition of this. Microbutanol is
what I was trying to think of. The chemical name
prevention is better. So once we get into like a
rainy cooler spell, which I'm you know is probably the
week before this last dry hot week, you may want
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to do a preventative spray. And but again f stop
or liquid fung aside too, will take care of that issue.
Speaker 3 (41:25):
Okay, fantastic.
Speaker 2 (41:26):
I appreciate it, all right, and we appreciate that phone call.
Enjoying your time at Clegg's.
Speaker 4 (41:33):
Oh yeah, yeah, it's been a lot of fun. It's
been hot, yes, but uh it's been gery. I've been
loving it.
Speaker 2 (41:40):
Cool cool, Well, well, again, we're very happy to have
you there and especially here on the radio with us.
But anything else new and exciting. In the plant yard,
she talked about the new bedding plants, I mean, in
the new house plants.
Speaker 5 (41:56):
We've gotten a few different things that we haven't had
in the asked a couple new really cool barberries. I
know you're not the biggest fan of Barberry, but.
Speaker 3 (42:06):
That takes it. Can we turn.
Speaker 2 (42:10):
Just not a lot of you know, we all have
plants we don't like, and that is just one that
I just don't think should exist.
Speaker 3 (42:18):
But no, we have.
Speaker 5 (42:20):
We've had some very nice roses come in. Just a
lot of a lot of stuff.
Speaker 2 (42:25):
Like I said, during one of the breaks, I texted
the owner, Tom Fennell. And for those of you that
follow Facebook, there was a post about white wedding hydranges,
which is a.
Speaker 3 (42:35):
Macro I'm sorry.
Speaker 2 (42:36):
A peniculata dwarf or size of the limelight we talked
about get in line. Those are excellent hydrangers for the area.
I hear music that means we're coming up on the
end of the show. Again, I appreciate Jessica Braden for
being here with me. We are Cleg's Nursery. We have
four locations in the Greater bat and Rouge area. We're
here every Saturday morning from eight to nine to listen
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to your comments, listen to your questions, and learn a
lot more from you you'll ever learn from us.
Speaker 3 (43:01):
So next week.
Speaker 2 (43:03):
Eight to nine, listen to the podcast on your favorite
podcast area. Again, we are Clegg's Nursery. And you're listening
to wjbo's Launa Garden Show. We will see you next
Saturday morning.
Good Saturday morning, and welcome to the WGBO ln and
Garden Show, brought to you by Cleg's Nursery. If you
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That's four nine nine six, And.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Good morning, Baton Rouge, and welcome to News Radio eleven
fifty wjbo's Lawn and Garden Show. My name is Butch
Drew's with me is Braiden. I got it right, Jessica. Hi, Jessica,
you face in the studio, smart face. The show is
going to just you know, now I have somebody smart.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
We're all screwed.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Give us call four nine six. That's four nine nine WJBO.
We'll get you smack dab on top of our list.
Jessica Is we're introducing her. Is one of the newest
members of the Clegg's team. She works at the Seagon
Lane location and if I'm not mistaken, and since I'm
not there that often, she's kind of our houseplan expert.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
Yeah, yeah, I would say cool.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
Well that's good because I know absolutely nothing about house plants.
I've always been curious in selling a house plant. I mean,
how do you advertise them? It's like this new twenty
five leaf, three stemmed houseplant, you know, with a you
know it comes with a sparkling blue base, or you know,
(01:25):
do you have little signs in each one with the
little realator's face And no, no, that's not how it works. No, okay,
So it's not like selling a regular house.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
No okay, So.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
Anything any new exciting houseplants in your house plan area.
Speaker 4 (01:41):
We actually just got a shipment this past week. We've
got tons of orchids, oias, snake plants, kaleithias, philodendrons, We've
gotten all kinds of stuff in cool.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
I think when was it last year they did the
extent Yeah, I want to say last years when we
got it up and.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
The owners expanded the Betting Plant House and put in
a really nice house plan area. And it is and
I'm Jessica has a lot to do with that. Looks
very very very nice, even with Zaane ordering the plants.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
But anyway, no, you know, I love how you I did.
Just throw that out yours, you know, that's what I do. Well, Uh,
there's a lot going on.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
Even though it is extremely hot out there, Get out
early in the morning, bring your favorite beverage, walk around
your yard with your phone. Gives call four nine six
with any questions comments that you might have of what
you find in your yard. I was kind of glancing
over your numerous pages of notes that you brought with us.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
It's it's exten extensive. It's it's something or another. But
watering is.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
So oh misdone, I guess is a better way of
saying it, or misunderstood. I wanted to stop my neighbor, fabulous,
fabulous people. They just did some len They came in
Cleggs yesterday and bought some plants and some mulch, and
they're to redoing some flower beds, surely. And I had
helped them kind of with plant choices and all. And
(03:24):
you know what she was doing. What she was out
there with her hose with their spray nozzle on the
end of it, going oh, you can't see what I'm doing,
but spray and water ladies and gentlemen. I could be wrong,
but that's pretty much useless.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
Yeah, I would agree.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
You know, I always tell people, if that's the way
you water, you know, you can water your houseplants that way.
You can take a little watering can or even a
little nozzle, and you sprinkle water in there for fifteen
twenty seconds. Usually your pots six inches maybe ten inches.
It's going to be enough for that container. But in
a landscape that's nowhere near enough, because.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
When you get done.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
With your water sprayer, you basically have wet the mulch.
If you're lucky, right, so you want to do deep watering,
set a sprinkler out there. Micro irrigation that is your
best friend. I mean, micro irrigation is unbelievable. And I
tell people all the time, Oh, I can't do that.
(04:31):
Oh I can't do it.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
Yes you can. I can do it. You can do it.
I did it.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
Oh you're kidding now, that is no. It's very very simple. Relative.
The most expensive part of micro irrigation is if you
get a water timer, they're usually what fifty bucks.
Speaker 5 (04:47):
Yeah, if you want a good one, they can be
pretty cheap. If you just get the little hand turned one.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
You can't use those to me, the ones where you
set the donut shuts it stuff off, you can't use
it with micro irrigation. Why because of the back pressure.
A lot of times they won't shut off.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
Really, I didn't have that problem. Well, you're just lucky.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
We have had that issue with the self turning off
or water timers is if you get some back pressure
against them, they sometimes won't shut off.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
Oh, I thought he was going to say something, now I.
Speaker 6 (05:21):
Am Did you just say that was a self turning offee?
Speaker 3 (05:24):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (05:24):
Timer, just just making.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
Sure that's the technical term for it.
Speaker 6 (05:28):
I want to make sure you've got the technical term
because I don't want any confusion out now.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
It's the one that self turney's offee. I knew exactly
what you mean. If that helps.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
But you know a good water timer where you can
set it for every other day, every day, you know,
twice a day, set it for fifteen minutes, twenty minutes, whatever.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
That is the way to go. Okay, it's fifty bucks
forty fifty bucks.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
The rest of your system may cost the same amount,
depending upon how large the system is. Surely and I
have been very for it since my retirement. We are
able to travel. One of her big.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
Things was I can't leave my plants.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
Well now we don't have to worry about it because
I've got micro irrigation in all of our beds. And
we just turned the timers on and we just go
and come back to squirrel damage. I mean perfectly good
plants for squirrel damage.
Speaker 3 (06:20):
But no, it's a very simple thing to do.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
You have adapter that goes to either to your hose
bib or to the water timer. We have what you
call half inch tubing or trunk to tubing. There's no
maximum length to it, no minimum length to that. If
you have say ten or fewer sprinkler heads on your system,
(06:44):
you definitely need a pressure regulator. You really don't want
to put over about twenty heads to a system.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
Now there's some I learned that less than the hard way. Yeah,
I did too.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
You know, batter ridge water, cension water, whoever you have
is only going to be able to give you so
many gallons of water per minute or per hour.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
So if you exceed.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
That, the sprinkler heads down there at the end may
not be seen quite as much as the ones up
towards the front. But that's the only time you really
have any pressure thing. I had a system originally at
my house six hundred foot long, but it only had
twenty five thirty heads on it because I had to
go way down a hill to get to some plants
that we had planted, but the heads typically, you know,
(07:32):
to let's say two bucks apiece, the two beings probably
let's say ten to fifteen bucks for fifty foot. So
again it's all very inexpensive. You have a little yellow
punch tool. Word to the wise voice of experience, do
not put that punch tool in your pocket. It hurts
if it pokes you. But you know, so again, it's
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a very simple thing to do. The way I do
it is I take my trunk tubing, I lay it out,
and you put some things on the ends of it
to kind of let it because it does come coiled up.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
Then I go inside. I put my heads together.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
You know, there's a little what we call spaghetti tubing
that goes from the main tube to the to the head.
You do want that all to be about the same length.
You don't want to vary the length of your tubing.
Your spaghetti tubing a lot. But I put all those together.
Then I go out, lay the tubing in the bed,
poke the holes in, put the sprinkler heads where I
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want them, turn the water on, set the timer, go
in and.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
Have an adult bed.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
I mean a bevery some stuff there, but no micro irrigation.
Set it to run. I usually set in our beds
for about forty five minutes. That tends to keep it water.
I tend to do that every other day. I don't
want to get too much water. Did you did you
(08:53):
get a memento on the planet of the week? I did,
I didn't. Maybe we'll have to call some during the
break and find out what that is. But we'll come
back to that. He knows what the plan of the
week is, does he? So you can just ask him.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
I didn't think of that.
Speaker 5 (09:09):
Yeah, it sounds like maybe Jeremy knows what the plan
of the week is.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
I've already forgotten. I know I have.
Speaker 6 (09:15):
I have a question another question about the micro irrigation,
just talking about because why didn't you.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
Call fortnite nine nine five two six.
Speaker 6 (09:23):
I could, but then would sound weird to get a
bit weird echo echo echo for me talking on both things.
You know, and years past in Baton Rouge or in
South Louisiana, we've had concerns with drought conditions and so
and it's led to sometimes people because they're trying to
do overwatering. We've had, like you know, constraints on the
(09:44):
water system here. Would micro irrigation is set up like
this help in that scenario. Because you are doing it
more often, you wouldn't have to worry about, say, if
we're under some water restrictions or things of that nature.
Speaker 3 (09:57):
Actually that's an excellent point.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
Yes, yes, and yes, this really is very beneficial because
a you're not wasting a lot of the water, you're
not losing water to evaporation, you're not losing you know,
you got one of these oscillating sprinklers. Three quarters of
what you're oscillating doesn't need to be sprinkled, so you're
putting the water where it needs to be. And one
of the other major things that you're doing is you
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can water at what they call off times, you know,
I mean everybody gets up for work at five point thirty,
takes their shower, do whatever, and out the door for eight. Well,
there's a huge water draw at that time period. Same
thing in the evening. Everybody gives their kids a bath
at seven o'clock at night. So what you do is
you set your timer either earlier than that morning rush
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or a little bit later, and same thing in the evening.
So yes, micro irrigation is an excellent way to help
with you know, those considerations during because the most important
thing is you're putting the water where it's needed and
you're not wasting a lot of it. You know, we've
all seen people that are running their sprinklers and half
the water's going out the driveway into the you know, guttering,
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into the wherever it goes after that. But no, at
some point, you know, I was I had a minor.
Speaker 3 (11:16):
No, no, it wasn't minor. I'm still all bruised and sore.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
Fell off a ladder and that was really the coolest
part about it was my watch actually called e MS
for me.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
It is really neat.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
So yeah, well, some people say unfortunately I did survive, but.
Speaker 3 (11:35):
Mostly my wife, which I don't quite.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
But you know, when they when the E M S
people were there, they didn't notice there a scuff mark
on the bottom of the ladder that looked a lot
like her shoe marks mark.
Speaker 6 (11:46):
I'm sure that was her just trying to stop the ladder.
Speaker 3 (11:48):
Yeah, that's it, that's leverage. That's that's it.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
Anyway, we kind of teased our Clegg's nursery Plant of
the Week this week is drum roll.
Speaker 3 (11:58):
Please, way to go, Jared.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
Nobody told me to have a drum roll, rad, I
won't then do the soapbox thing at least that.
Speaker 6 (12:11):
Doesn't sound right. I mean we'll try it. Go ahead
and intro it again.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
Ah and yes, now we have the klegs plant of
the week and it is drum roll please.
Speaker 3 (12:22):
That's close enough. I don't think that's gonna work. And
what is the plan of the week. It's limelight limelight.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
And what is so special about limelight hydranges?
Speaker 3 (12:37):
Uh?
Speaker 5 (12:37):
Well, they're high dranger that can take more sun than
one of the other high ranges. I think that's one
thing that makes them stand out. And they also have
those really cool, very big bloom clusters that they do.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
And I will be honest, I actually believe it or not.
Did a little bit of research. The one thing then,
the research that I saw that I thought was just
totally and completely wrong was the fact that they said
it was football shaped blooms.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
I saw that too. You know that's not a football.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
It's like a triangle thingy Yeah, yeah, cone shape.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
There you go. See.
Speaker 5 (13:23):
Actually, Jessica told me a very interesting fact about the
hydrange of blooms earlier, and.
Speaker 4 (13:31):
It is Oh, they actually can absorb water through their petals.
The petals are actually called sepals. They're not true petals.
But a lot of people when they do cut flowers
of hydranges and they end up drying out, they'll stick
the blooms in a bucket of water and they'll absorb
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the water.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
WHOA, we're in trouble. She's gonna take this over real quick.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
Limelight hydra range is what they call a peniculata hydrangea.
It is as opposed to a macrophiler. Some people call
those mop heads. Limelight was the original peniculata or panicle
hydrangea developed for the nursery trade.
Speaker 3 (14:16):
It has.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
They say it comes out, and it does. It sort
of starts out kind of a greenish color, but turns
a beautiful white color.
Speaker 3 (14:25):
Completely agree with Jessica.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
Cone shape not football shape. But I don't want to
say I hate to use the word issue. If you
can use a plant that gets six to seven foot
tall five to six foot wide in a morning sun
situation in Baton Rouge. And I've noticed in a lot
of the information on it that that has adjusted. Thank
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goodness for our Southern because when these hydrangers first came out,
they were told, oh they can be in full sun.
They're full of sun Hydrangea in the southern quarriter. It's
better that they have morning sun afternoon shade, at least
late afternoon shade. Otherwise the plant, the foli is more so,
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is going to deteriorate on it what we have seen.
And the other thing interesting thing about all hydrange is,
but particularly the peniculatas, is they need a lot of moisture.
But they can't be wet right, So what do we
use on them?
Speaker 3 (15:31):
What do we use to water? Though? Irrigation micro irrigation
work with me here.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
But anyway, the other really cool thing about all of
your peniculatas is that they are what they call rebloomers.
Speaker 3 (15:46):
On your mop heads or your macrofiles.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
You have to prune those right after they bloom or
you're cutting the bloom heads for next year off. Actually,
on the peniculatas, they bloom off a new gross So
do you want to give them a pretty decent haircut
every spring? And I saw most of the most of
the information said cut maybe a third to a quarter
of the plant off every spring, just to keep it
a little bit tighter. But limelight excellent plant, especially that
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white blossom in a little bit of shade is just,
I mean, strikingly beautiful.
Speaker 5 (16:18):
Another thing that uh, I think confuses people, like if
you if you came to Cleggs and you were looking
at the hot limelight height ranges and you looked at
the tag on the front of the tag, it shows
you a picture of the white bloom. You turn it over,
it'll show you a picture of a darker pink bloom. Yeah,
which as the season progresses, if we were a little
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further up north where it would be a little cooler,
As the season progresses, the color of the bloom changes
to a darker pink.
Speaker 3 (16:48):
Very much so great point, because that is true.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
They do start out that beautiful almost a greenish, and
then they turn that beautiful white, and then as they mature,
they do turn into a red or.
Speaker 3 (17:01):
Pink or red. Because I actually notice it so much
here though.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
Ah, you're right, and that's the one thing I'm sorry
to say. I was trying to figure out where in
Baton Rouge someone wanted to see them growing could be,
and I couldn't think of any place. But there are
some places in college town may know you woods area
that you can see them growing. They're just starting to
come into full bloom right now, so they may not
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see a lot of bloom on them. But one of
the things that I think was most interesting about this,
and Tom finn On, the owner of Klegg's Nursery, has
been really good about getting a lot of the newer
peniculatas in and what they're doing as in our trade,
even in the houseplant trade, we see every time Zaying
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or Jessica gets in another house plant order.
Speaker 3 (17:51):
I got to add to another fifteen plants to.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
The database because of all the new stuff coming and
the new developments is they're trying to shrink the size
of it because Limelight does get six to seven foot
tall five to six foot wide. A lot of you know,
your zero lot line houses can't absorb a plant that size.
Speaker 3 (18:12):
So you're going to see a lot.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
Of other names in the trade right now. One of
the ones that and if you want to get on
a waiting list, I think I just got a text
from Tom he's able to get some of these in
is a new one called White Wedding. Yes, that one
is staying to me. Much smaller tends to come in,
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you know easily, and when I unlike us, we grow
to a certain size and we stop and then actually
we start shrinking plants. Never when you come into the
nursery and say how tall is that plant going to get,
we're going to give you a name, a number. But
that's where the plant can be easily maintained. Plants never
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stop growing. Coral beel azelia, they are a dwarf azel
you come into the nursery, we're gonna tell you they're
gonna get to maybe three feet tall. I know of
a bank of coralbel azelias off of clay Cut that
are eight foot tall, but they've been there for sixty years,
so exactly. But it's a maintenance thing. So white wedding
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phantom is another one. Firelight. There's a lot of like
little lime, quick lime, punch, anything with the word lime.
These are variations of limelight that they're trying to reduce
the size of the plant of.
Speaker 3 (19:35):
But yeah, limelight hydrange is. If you have a morning sun.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
Situation, these Peniculata hydrange is are excellent. And again the
cool thing about them is you can you can prune them,
like Jessica said, you can prune them for bouquets or
little things.
Speaker 3 (19:51):
What do you call them? When you like put them
in like on your table, just like a bouquete.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
Okay, coo, you know, and what do you do? You just
put them in a bucket of water and they.
Speaker 4 (20:04):
Yeah, if they dry out, you can stick the whole
flower head and water and it'll help to absorb the water.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
And how many times when you do that? As many
times as you want? Yeah, I want until it doesn't
work anymore.
Speaker 3 (20:16):
Yeah, yeah, it doesn't work. Yeah. Anyway, excellent plant of vail.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
We have them available at all four Clegs locations in
the Greater Baton Rouge area. Oh, I thought you were
about to say something just called four nine six. That's
four nine nine w jbo. I still miss Star eleven fifty.
But anyway, I.
Speaker 3 (20:40):
Bet you're getting a lot of calls. Wait, I'm gonna go.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
I'm gonna take a U turn here you and I'm
pointing at Jessica for those of you that aren't watching
on video, because that would be all of you because
we don't have a video.
Speaker 3 (20:53):
Right, one plant. You can only have one plant. What
is it? They a houseplana?
Speaker 2 (21:01):
I don't care. It can be any plant. This is Silence,
brought to you by.
Speaker 3 (21:11):
One of my favorite plants.
Speaker 4 (21:12):
We actually got a couple in the other day is
a Ficus umbellata.
Speaker 3 (21:17):
They are really really pretty.
Speaker 4 (21:18):
They have huge, big, big loaded leaves and they get
big like a tree.
Speaker 3 (21:25):
But I love that one.
Speaker 2 (21:28):
Okay, that would be we would use that more as
a houseplant here.
Speaker 4 (21:31):
Yeah, a house plan or like out on the patio.
Speaker 2 (21:37):
How tall can they get? And that's going to be
dependent on pot size, right, yeah, yeah, I.
Speaker 4 (21:42):
Want to say pretty tall, probably ten twelve feet.
Speaker 2 (21:45):
Yeah, funniest thing just to throw a tangent out there,
which we never do on this show.
Speaker 3 (21:51):
And you want to stop these tangents, you can call us.
At four nine nine nine five two six.
Speaker 2 (21:57):
My wife and I went to my for the Orange
Bowl and we were just out of college and I
had just started at Cleggs and she'd been with Legs
for a while. And we're driving down the interstate coming
into Miami and we kept looking out going what is
those trees out there?
Speaker 3 (22:13):
And we kept looking.
Speaker 2 (22:15):
They were Norfolk Island pines fifty and sixty foot tall
Ficus the same way.
Speaker 3 (22:19):
I mean, it's just and you.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
Have hibiscus hedges, but a lot of the and ficus
is going to be a full sun. So you want
a bright, lit lit window in your house, and does
that come in multiple sizes? Can you get it like
a twenty five leaf three stem or a fifty leaf
four stem plant.
Speaker 4 (22:39):
We only have a couple, yeah, that have a good
bit of stems, but I'm sure, yeah, they grow them
in different ways.
Speaker 3 (22:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
No, I was just doing the whole house thing with
the three bedroom, two baths. Sorry, I do that from
time to time. Just I told you there'd be left
turns in the show anyway, y'all.
Speaker 3 (22:56):
Both work at Seeking right, yep. Yeah, the best store,
the best one.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
You know, there are three other ones, but who really cares.
There's We got our location on don More, mid City.
On Dono Moore, we have the Greenweald Springs location, which
is basically at the end of Sherwood Forest Boulevard where
it hits Greeneald Springs and the Denim Springs store.
Speaker 3 (23:17):
Which is pretty close.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
It's exactly five miles from I twelve north on Highway
sixteen Range Road pass the Antiep District passing.
Speaker 3 (23:27):
Oh yeah, way past past the school almost to Mainnollia
Bridge Road.
Speaker 2 (23:33):
Really, yep, that's how I do when I go when
I have to do my loop every once in a while,
I go down Greenom Springs to Mainnia Bridge and then
pretty much right there. Awesome, thank you actually have a
cane's drive through right there too. Is it time to plant?
Speaker 5 (23:52):
So that's I'd say, that's definitely a question we get
a lot.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
I think, the like we said during the break, I
think they're about forty five minutes late.
Speaker 5 (24:00):
Yeah, it definitely would have been cooler at that point
of the day.
Speaker 3 (24:04):
But it's cool to plan a plant anytime. Wow, you
just really get me with those dad jokes. Sometimes I'll
take that as a compliment. No, I think what you're
trying to say is that.
Speaker 2 (24:23):
Some you know, so often you see, you know, especially
for people that tend to go to the Internet for
information and for their how to do things, their YouTube
videos and all that, a lot of those indicate that
winter is when we don't plant. But that is for
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northern climates where a lot of times you can't stick
a shovel in the ground because it's frous.
Speaker 3 (24:48):
Right.
Speaker 2 (24:49):
For us in Baton Rouge, summertime is our stress time, right,
I mean, especially these last few years when we've been
having the drought situations we've been having it's up to
you to. In fact, Jessica was saying during our discussion
during the break, if you plant right now, what did
you say, Jessica.
Speaker 4 (25:09):
You better keep them water?
Speaker 3 (25:10):
Amen.
Speaker 2 (25:11):
Yeah, And that's you know, goes back to our original
conversation about the micro irrigation, sprinkler systems, whatever you have,
because last now this coming up weeks, supposedly we're going
to have a rainy spell again, but last week ten
days it's been very, very dry.
Speaker 3 (25:26):
And if.
Speaker 2 (25:30):
When you plant a plant, if it's a one gallon
six inch plan, if it's a ten inch three gallon plant,
fifteen gallon, whatever it is, you have to remember that
that root system, that's it, right. You don't have some
little rooted all of a sudden goes, oh man, I've been
playing here.
Speaker 3 (25:48):
Let me go five feet grow real quick out there.
Speaker 2 (25:51):
So you can have wet soil or moist soil in
your bed. But if that root ball gets dry, do
you have tap? What are we paying him for? I mean,
I got tample water that would actually help the plant
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that we're talking about. So you need to make sure
that you keep him watered and you keep water on
that root ball. Otherwise, you know, hey, that soil six
inches over from there could be have lots of moisture
in it, but that little root hadn't.
Speaker 3 (26:30):
Jumped over there yet.
Speaker 2 (26:31):
So, and that's especially important with certain fibrous root plants azaleas.
Once an isaiah root ball gets dry, it's gone. You know,
you're not gonna It's not like the hydrangea where you
can stick it in a bucket of water and it's
going to revive itself. Yeah, it's done. So you can
(26:53):
plant anytime. I probably wouldn't suggest between like midnight and four, but.
Speaker 6 (26:59):
You know, because that would look a little suspicious between
midnight and Yeah, you.
Speaker 2 (27:05):
And they pulls out there in your shorts, you know,
but I have no idea where I was going anymore.
Speaker 3 (27:13):
Just that left turns got.
Speaker 6 (27:15):
It overnight, Now go from there.
Speaker 3 (27:17):
Yeah, okay, But.
Speaker 2 (27:21):
The more the closer to summertime you get, the more
you're going to be involved in it. You're going to
have to work with that and maintain that moisture. And
where if you plant in the fall, even into the winter,
that even dormit trees, deciduous trees, they're still doing root developments.
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So that plant has say you plan in October, you
have November December.
Speaker 3 (27:46):
What comes after December, January.
Speaker 2 (27:48):
February, March, April, even May plants rooting out. So remember
I was telling about that little moist pocket over there
that was like six eight inches away. Well, that root
has made it over there then, so you don't have
as much issue with stress on plants. They're able to
absorb more moisture from further out than just that root ball.
(28:09):
But again, I have to plant, now, come on, do it.
Talk to Braydon, talk to Jessica. Talk to Chris. Who's
the other one?
Speaker 3 (28:18):
Your favorite? Oh, that's right. I don't know if I'm
talked anyway. No, I'm kidding. Talk to Zaying. I'm Zaying.
Speaker 2 (28:23):
I pick on him all the time because I think
he reminds me a lot of my son.
Speaker 3 (28:29):
Who fortunately No. But yeah, it's it's it can be done,
and it's it's just.
Speaker 2 (28:34):
A matter of are you going to put the effort
into maintaining that plant during the summer heat. What are
some of the we've we've I planted a landscape last
fall and it's growing, it's doing well. I fertilized it,
I've maulched it. Mulch is actually something you can do
to help maintain moisture in your beds. That's one of
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the big benefits of mulch. And what is the best mulch?
Speaker 5 (29:01):
Is this a personal preference thing? I like to use
pine straw? Yeah, oh, it's a three pine straw.
Speaker 3 (29:08):
You know what.
Speaker 2 (29:09):
My answer to that is what the best mulches pinestrang
No whatever Shirley wants.
Speaker 3 (29:15):
Good answer.
Speaker 2 (29:17):
No, maulching and mulching is, like Brayden said, is a
personal preference. It's whatever. It's an aesthetic thing. I mean
that's for most of us. That's the reason we put
mulch out is it's esthetic. It's also excellent to prevent weeds. Also,
as we were just talking about, excellent for maintaining and
helping with moisture. If you have a mulch o there
(29:37):
a bed, you're not gonna lose as much moisture to evaporation.
And also mulch is important. But for the most part,
it is an aesthetic thing. It's whatever you think looks good.
Speaker 3 (29:46):
Go for it.
Speaker 2 (29:49):
I have pine straw, is not pine mulch. Pine mulches
where they actually pine bark mulch is probably a better description.
That's the one that I kind of sometimes try to
shy people away because it can actually float. Yeah, if
you have a sloped area, I would definitely stay away
from pine any of the pine bark materials just because again,
(30:11):
they will float. It's been used for a long time
and it actually is an excellent mulch.
Speaker 3 (30:17):
But yeah, it can move on you.
Speaker 2 (30:20):
What but where I was going when I got totally sidetracked,
which I absolutely never do on this show, And you
can prevent that by calling four nine nine five two six.
You can plant something in your bed right now, Jessica
to because I planted a landscape, but I don't have
any color.
Speaker 3 (30:38):
What color could I plant right now?
Speaker 4 (30:42):
I love Lantana. We've got a whole lot of Lantana's
and they're actually on sale right now. They've got all
kind of different colors. There's yellows, whites, pinks, purples. They're
great for tracking the bees, butterflies.
Speaker 2 (30:57):
Yeah, it's she has ESPN going on here with me,
because that's exactly what I was thinking about. So many people, though, get.
Speaker 3 (31:10):
Confused with Lantana.
Speaker 2 (31:11):
They've again as we talk about plant development, they have
so many of our maturer customers think of Lantana's as
he's six foot ham and eggs plants. Yeah, but they
have developed so many that what is it bandana? Yeah,
that these are shorter plants, Shirley's planets, several in our
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bed as kind of front plants behind some of our penta.
And they do they do so good. It is an
excellent plant. We actually have a caller and he was
actually I was going to get to that in the
next segment, but we will take bell peppers right now.
Good morning, Fred, Welcome to news radio eleven to fifty
wjbo's Lawn and Garden Show.
Speaker 3 (31:50):
What can we do for you today? Hey? Hey, Fred,
how are you doing this? Excellent? Good look?
Speaker 7 (31:58):
I got a question about it. I was listening to
some shows a while back and I negligent turned it
on about minutes before you finished, and I heard you
mentioned ninja bell peppers. Yes, I figured they had to
be good if you're talking about them, so I bought some,
and I got to tell you, at least at my
house right now, they're doing the best for any bell
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pepper I've ever had in They're monsters. Yeah, I just
want to know what you said about the darn things,
because they are amazing.
Speaker 2 (32:28):
Tradition and ninja are two newer bell peppers. In fact,
I think last year was the first year we even
had them typically bell peppers in Baton rouge get, and
there's various different specs. There's I think there's between fifteen
to twenty different varieties of bacterial spec that can hit
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bell peppers, and Ninja is resistant to all of them,
and tradition is resistant to most of them. But that's
what usually deteriorates our peppers here. So that's the benefit
of the ninja bell pepper is that it will it's
resistant to the problems, so it's going to grow much better.
(33:09):
And like you said, it is an excellent size. I
planted it last year, just had wonderful success with both
of them. Planted it this year, and I'm now a
squirrel hunter because the squirrels have just I mean, we
came back from our last little trip and they were done.
They literally had cut them down to about six inches.
Speaker 3 (33:28):
So I am, oh, yeah.
Speaker 7 (33:30):
What is it?
Speaker 3 (33:30):
Squirrel sauce pecan or something is gone?
Speaker 2 (33:33):
And if you're with wildlife and fisheries, I'm not hunting them.
Speaker 7 (33:37):
But no, but yeah, but I got something going after
my green beans of all things, and they eat like
the ends off of them, and I found tartises in
my yard, those texastises.
Speaker 3 (33:51):
No, these are problems.
Speaker 2 (33:53):
I don't know what sirrels it squirrels or squirrels without
the bushy tail, one of the two of those.
Speaker 3 (33:59):
So okay. But yeah, but no, I appreciate the plug
for the.
Speaker 2 (34:03):
Ninja bell peppers because that's something I'm hoping color and
tradition both.
Speaker 3 (34:08):
I'm hoping we can get more of those in next year.
Speaker 2 (34:10):
I know they were relatively limited this year at the stores, but.
Speaker 7 (34:14):
I mean, I got to give you credit when you
get something right.
Speaker 3 (34:16):
It's only been once, so I appreciate it. Fred. We
need to get together for we need to get together
for a coffee. Fred, I understand. We'll do take.
Speaker 2 (34:27):
Jessica is the newest team member at Clegg's Nursery and
has definitely increased the IQ of the store, which couldn't
have gotten much lower.
Speaker 3 (34:38):
Give us call that's four nine nine WJBO. We'll get you.
Put smack Dab on top of our list.
Speaker 2 (34:46):
Kind of teased when we went out to the last
break there weeds in the lawn. I know I got them, Yeah,
but limited to what we can do right now because
of the temperature. About the only thing we have and
do we still have it? Actually the MSN, Yeah, I believe.
(35:07):
I would have to look at the shelf. The other
day we had two size two sizes.
Speaker 3 (35:12):
There was a.
Speaker 5 (35:12):
Smaller bottle and a bigger one. But I want to say,
eventually it's just going to go to one size.
Speaker 2 (35:18):
Yeah, it's just going to go to the larger I
mean sorry to yeah, to the larger bottle. The company
has discontinued the small homeowner friendly size and so we
will be which the little I think it's a two
ounce container.
Speaker 3 (35:34):
It's going to cover for most people.
Speaker 2 (35:35):
It's going to cover about an acre, So most people
don't need that large hundred and forty dollars size. But
I know Chris bought everything that he could, so I
think there's still a pretty decent supply. But if you
are having weed issues, especially Virginia button weed, run by
any of the four locations of Klegg's Nursery in the
Greater Baton Ridge area to pick up your bottle of MSM.
(35:57):
Maybe pick up two just so you have it once
small bottles go away. But accellent control on most of
our broad leaf weeds. This is just for lawns. Do
not spray this in your flower beds or your vegetable
garden for sure, or.
Speaker 3 (36:12):
You're not gonna be happy.
Speaker 5 (36:14):
So another common question we've been getting recently is is
it still a good time to fertilize your.
Speaker 6 (36:21):
Lawn that pause couldn't get much pregnantory.
Speaker 3 (36:33):
Yes and no.
Speaker 2 (36:36):
I hate those answers. You need to be careful fertilizing
right now. You don't want to. You know, if the
bags is five thousand square foot coverage, we need to
try and get it out over about five thousand.
Speaker 3 (36:48):
We need to make sure we water afterwards.
Speaker 2 (36:51):
There's actually a product on the market called mill Organite,
especially people with centipede lawns that have that little bit
of yellow color. That's where I would try to get
customers to go if they do want to fertilize. And actually,
even if they haven't fertilized, mill Organize excellent product. You're
not going to have the burning issues with it that
(37:12):
you will with some of the other fertilizers. But yes,
if you need to fertilize, mill organite would be the
way to go. H We have a caller, but we
don't know what it's about because he didn't do his
whole job and type like he normally does.
Speaker 3 (37:25):
So we're just going to go to Patrick.
Speaker 2 (37:26):
Good morning, Patrick, Welcome the news Radio eleven fifty wjbo's line,
garden shit, what can.
Speaker 3 (37:31):
Do for you?
Speaker 7 (37:33):
I've gone a question about Ms. Francis great myrtle.
Speaker 3 (37:36):
Yeah. Actually bought one from.
Speaker 7 (37:38):
Y'all and a pot planted it in February.
Speaker 3 (37:41):
It greened out.
Speaker 7 (37:43):
Believes does it bloom because I haven't seen any bloom yet.
I guess I'm judging it based on maybe established plants
society in the soil.
Speaker 2 (37:52):
Patrick, here, this is the This is a perfect question,
and you're going to hate the answer for it. So
often in crape myrtles, they don't bloom the first year
they're planted because they're developing a root system and they're growing.
Once a crape myrtle blooms, it tends to stop growing
(38:15):
for that season.
Speaker 3 (38:16):
So, actually, what you.
Speaker 2 (38:18):
Just told me indicates that you did a very good
job of planting that plant and it's very happy where
it is.
Speaker 3 (38:25):
So it's just growing up.
Speaker 2 (38:26):
A storm and it says, oh, wait, you wanted me
to bloom for you. Well, I'm sorry, I'm not gonna
do it. Wait anyway, but no, that's very common issue
in crape myrtles to not bloom. In fact, I've known
some of the Natchez variety, which is a large growing white,
can take two or three years to actually bloom because they,
especially people that really do a very good job planting plants,
(38:50):
just totally happiness growing up a storm. So it, like
I said, it likes to forget to bloom. So I
think you did an excellent job. You may you may
still get a bloom a little bit late in the summer,
maybe even as late as August on that because a
lot of times once we get into that heat and
that especially drought situation, they will slow down that growth
(39:10):
naturally and we'll put on a bloom then. But don't
be disappointed if it doesn't bloom this year. It just
means it's gonna be that much prettier next year. Okay, Well,
I appreciate it him letting him buy the matches.
Speaker 3 (39:22):
Thanks for the phone call.
Speaker 2 (39:23):
We got a couple more minutes left if somebody wants
to give us a call for ANI got back from
our last little trip. So's some very disappointing but somewhat
expected news. My citrus taint. Yeah, so many people, my
neighbor being one of them.
Speaker 3 (39:41):
I don't have anything to throw at.
Speaker 2 (39:43):
Him least, Oh thank you. They they leafed out, but
there just wasn't enough energy there and there. Now, now
that we're getting into stress time, they are starting to
die off. I've still got some green looks like my
great fruit it's gonna make it, but my satsuma and
(40:03):
my orange bit the dust. Let's go to Seth. Good morning, Seth.
Welcome to the news radio eleven to fifty wjbs Lone
Garden Show.
Speaker 3 (40:12):
We've got a couple of minutes. What can we do
for you? Yeah, just asking real quick.
Speaker 2 (40:15):
I know y'all talked about it a million times. But
powdery mildew on the crepe myrtles.
Speaker 3 (40:20):
I'm noticing them on all of mine in the backyard.
What do I need to spray on that?
Speaker 2 (40:25):
I would suggest either f stop or liquid funge a
side too, I think is the name of it.
Speaker 3 (40:35):
I like the second product better.
Speaker 2 (40:39):
It has a longer control on it, and I am
drawn a total blank as to the chemical in it
right now. It has it usually has a twenty one
day control on it. But liquid funge A side too
or f stop either one of those. Both of them
come in hose en sprayers, which is definitely the way
to go. That way you can get up into the
(40:59):
tree if you have a tradition of this. Microbutanol is
what I was trying to think of. The chemical name
prevention is better. So once we get into like a
rainy cooler spell, which I'm you know is probably the
week before this last dry hot week, you may want
(41:19):
to do a preventative spray. And but again f stop
or liquid fung aside too, will take care of that issue.
Speaker 3 (41:25):
Okay, fantastic.
Speaker 2 (41:26):
I appreciate it, all right, and we appreciate that phone call.
Enjoying your time at Clegg's.
Speaker 4 (41:33):
Oh yeah, yeah, it's been a lot of fun. It's
been hot, yes, but uh it's been gery. I've been
loving it.
Speaker 2 (41:40):
Cool cool, Well, well, again, we're very happy to have
you there and especially here on the radio with us.
But anything else new and exciting. In the plant yard,
she talked about the new bedding plants, I mean, in
the new house plants.
Speaker 5 (41:56):
We've gotten a few different things that we haven't had
in the asked a couple new really cool barberries. I
know you're not the biggest fan of Barberry, but.
Speaker 3 (42:06):
That takes it. Can we turn.
Speaker 2 (42:10):
Just not a lot of you know, we all have
plants we don't like, and that is just one that
I just don't think should exist.
Speaker 3 (42:18):
But no, we have.
Speaker 5 (42:20):
We've had some very nice roses come in. Just a
lot of a lot of stuff.
Speaker 2 (42:25):
Like I said, during one of the breaks, I texted
the owner, Tom Fennell. And for those of you that
follow Facebook, there was a post about white wedding hydranges,
which is a.
Speaker 3 (42:35):
Macro I'm sorry.
Speaker 2 (42:36):
A peniculata dwarf or size of the limelight we talked
about get in line. Those are excellent hydrangers for the area.
I hear music that means we're coming up on the
end of the show. Again, I appreciate Jessica Braden for
being here with me. We are Cleg's Nursery. We have
four locations in the Greater bat and Rouge area. We're
here every Saturday morning from eight to nine to listen
(42:57):
to your comments, listen to your questions, and learn a
lot more from you you'll ever learn from us.
Speaker 3 (43:01):
So next week.
Speaker 2 (43:03):
Eight to nine, listen to the podcast on your favorite
podcast area. Again, we are Clegg's Nursery. And you're listening
to wjbo's Launa Garden Show. We will see you next
Saturday morning.
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