May 17, 2025 • 41 mins
Things are getting hot this week on the WJBO Lawn & Garden Show with the Intern, Butch and Braden from Clegg's Nursery! Well, the weather is what's warming up, so we discuss what can be planted now, like your annual colors including one of the best for these conditions, vinca! They'll also go over the herbs and vegetables you can consider picking up when you head to your local garden center.
Also, learn the difference between buckeye rot and blossom end rot on tomatoes, why vitex could be a possible crepe myrtle replacement, how lack of pollenation could impact your squash, and tackle a few weed questions.
If you'd like to be part of the WJBO Lawn & Garden Show, give us a call Saturday mornings between 8 and 9 am by calling (225) 499-9526 - that's 499-WJBO! If you're listening on our free iHeartRadio app, you can also leave us a message by tapping the red Talkback Mic button!
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Also, learn the difference between buckeye rot and blossom end rot on tomatoes, why vitex could be a possible crepe myrtle replacement, how lack of pollenation could impact your squash, and tackle a few weed questions.
If you'd like to be part of the WJBO Lawn & Garden Show, give us a call Saturday mornings between 8 and 9 am by calling (225) 499-9526 - that's 499-WJBO! If you're listening on our free iHeartRadio app, you can also leave us a message by tapping the red Talkback Mic button!
Don't forget to make sure you've updated to the latest version of the iHeartRadio app so you can make WJBO Newsradio 1150 AM & 98.7 FM your #1 preset, just like in your car! You can also make the WJBO Lawn & Garden Show podcast a preset too! And now, presets work on Apple CarPlay and Android Auto too!
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Good Saturday morning, and welcome to the WGBO Lon and
Garden Show, brought to you by Clegg's Nursery. If you
have a question about seasonal planting, Lon and garden concerns
are questions about landscaping called four nine nine WGBO. That's
four nine nine two six.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Good morning and welcome back to wjbo's Wanting Garden Show.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (00:25):
I am so glad we got Trea and I and
then ild deal worked out in your back.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Welcome back, Thank you please, sorry, awesome with me today
is Butch and Breeden very good from Cleg's Nursery.
Speaker 4 (00:43):
Good morning, good morning, Welcome back, big big graduate over
here now. Congrats moving out into the real world. Get
got a job. I heard right right out of eighth grade.
She's still good starting her career.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
If you have any questions these WJBO.
Speaker 4 (01:09):
What's going on at the nursery right now? It's getting hot,
Yes it is. Yeah. I put out some pine straw
yesterday afternoon and thought I was going to melt.
Speaker 5 (01:19):
No, We're we're starting to get into the warmer season.
So it seems like the spring rush is kind of
coming to an end in Uh about this time of year,
we start working on cleaning stuff up and pulling weeds
because it's that time of year.
Speaker 4 (01:36):
Yes, and spraying that stuff that gets on the walkway, yes,
that algae. Oh, that's the horrible stuff I've ever been around.
But I think we have a lot, actually a lot
going on out there for those in their yards looking
around to grab your favorite beverage, your phone, walk out
there if you see an issue or concern, like Anna
Claire said, gives call four nine nine. Do you have
(01:58):
any questions or concerns, ma'am.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
Yes, speaking of like the warmer seasons. What's what flowers
can we plant now?
Speaker 6 (02:08):
And then a little bit That is a very good question.
Speaker 4 (02:11):
He doesn't know the answer, but it's a very good question. Uh.
Speaker 5 (02:16):
There is still a lot of annual color you can
plant right now, Vinka being the most popular, and there's
a reason for that because they do so well through
the summertime.
Speaker 4 (02:27):
You can this is your hot weather plant.
Speaker 6 (02:28):
Yeah, it really is, just got to make sure you
don't overwater it.
Speaker 4 (02:33):
What is a little there's a I guess it's a vinca,
a little small bloom.
Speaker 5 (02:38):
You know, And that one's really been gaining traction. I
feel like over the years. It's called swore a vinka. Yeah, okay,
that is Shirley planted it. I think for the first
time last year is kind of a little front on
her bed man.
Speaker 4 (02:53):
That is just fantastic. It comes in different colors, I
think it does.
Speaker 5 (02:57):
There's I think like lavender shade. There's a polka dot
I think it's called peppermint, and then there's red shades,
and I think a violet or something like that.
Speaker 4 (03:07):
Maybe a coral the I guess it's the peppermint you
were talking about, has a white blossom and with with
a red dot. That thing just I mean in the
heat of the summer that just pops out of them. Yeah,
that is just to me. When and people that have
listened to the show for a long time realized, I'm
not really that big of a plant person. I enjoy
(03:30):
the whole thing, but I'm my wife and you and
Michael and you know, Chris to some extent that are
really you get really excited about them. So when I
get really excited about a plant, it's really you know,
and I hate to cut you off.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
Now.
Speaker 5 (03:45):
One thing that really I was really just surprised to
see it. We had a native orchid plant pop up
in one of our dragon food fruit pots. It was
it was really cool. It made a very small white flower,
but it did a spiral all the way up the
(04:06):
bloom spike.
Speaker 4 (04:07):
Wow, it's really neat. That is neat one of those
bird droppings or.
Speaker 6 (04:12):
Something, I guess.
Speaker 4 (04:13):
So I have no idea how you all have any
of the sun colliers right now. Yeah, we have a
bunch of sunclass And that's another and I get frustrated.
I got frustrated. I don't anymore because I don't go
into the store as a as an employee anymore. But
that I used to show people that plant and go, well,
(04:34):
it doesn't flower.
Speaker 7 (04:36):
You don't want it's a flower. You want the colorful,
colorful foliage. To me, you know, is so much more
attractive than you know. It pops more than I think
a bloom, would you know? Right, Like we're just talked
about the vink and all that's great color, and you
know you are looking at the flower there, but you
get so many what's I don't want to say model was,
(04:58):
but you know, the variation of kind trast in color
within the leaves themselves. I don't remember specific names anymore
because I'm old and seen now, but some of those coldest,
you know, the variation and colors in the leaves.
Speaker 5 (05:13):
There's one that proven Winners put out. It's called el Brighto.
Speaker 4 (05:17):
Oh wow, be that is.
Speaker 5 (05:19):
It has so many different colors and it it just
looks phenomenal.
Speaker 4 (05:23):
Wow.
Speaker 5 (05:24):
And there's another one. I've been really liking the darker
color ones this year. There's one called a Dobo pink
I think is how you say it. And it's like
a dark red with just pink striping down the middle.
Speaker 4 (05:36):
Wow, that would be pretty. Do you Okay, I got
a question. I'm sorry clear, but I'm going to ask
a couple of questions myself. Are you I'm gonna use
the word spot planner. Are you a mass planter.
Speaker 5 (05:51):
I like to have I guess I'm more of a
spot planner because I like to have a nice contrasting colors.
I don't want just a mass row up the same thing.
I want different colors and different height levels.
Speaker 4 (06:08):
That's I mean, that's a good you know. Excuse me
because people refer to me when I did planting as
a disney planter. The bigger, the massive, you know, And
that was one of the things I liked about Sun
collas is you could get. You could mass planting, definitely can,
and you get the variation of color within within the
(06:28):
leaves of the plant. So that's one of the things.
But no, I'm Shirley is a spot planter like you,
and so that's what our yard looks like, which it
looks great. I mean, there's nothing wrong with that. But
like I said, I just love some of the along
Highland roads. Some of those are what I call mass
plantings entrances to some of the subdivisions, and I don't know,
(06:49):
just that's the that's me. And again there's nothing wrong
with either way of doing it, but it's just curious. Now.
Speaker 5 (06:55):
I will say I had a customer come in the
other day and they showed me a picture of this
planting or this garden bed that they did at their house,
and it was basically just the electric orange sunpatient planted
and mass planting around these sunshine with gustrooms and that,
(07:17):
like if I was driving through that neighborhood, that would
catch my eye.
Speaker 4 (07:21):
I could see how they won Yard of the Month.
I'm sorry, but I like the sun patients, even though
they do better with a little bit of afternoon. Definitely,
I do not like sunshine. I am very sorry. You know,
I understand that why just overplayed. It's overplayed and it's
(07:43):
it's a privet and I just as I'm eradicating privet
out of my yard at Prairieville, it's just become a
plant I just don't like. But I don't know, there's
you know, there's things that you know, I'm just one
of those things that I don't like. I'm sure there's
things you liked that I and vice versa. Oh yeah,
(08:03):
that's why we have all the different plants we have
at Cleggs, right, because no, no tube tastes exactly.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
One.
Speaker 5 (08:10):
One thing I've learned since doing the ordering and stuff
for the betting house at Cleggs is you can't bring
in with what you like. Yeah, you have to bring
in with what everybody's like.
Speaker 4 (08:22):
It's like, I can't believe I'm ordering this. Yeah, anyway,
did you have any other questions? That was a very
good discussion. Yes, Now could someone discuss that with they could.
Speaker 6 (08:35):
Go us at.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
That is four nine nine w JBO.
Speaker 4 (08:39):
You don't think that would be disgusting?
Speaker 6 (08:44):
The King of Dad jokes, Yeah, I know what is?
Speaker 4 (08:47):
Boy know, she got mad at me because we we
go through Chick fil A, that's her new nil deal,
and our bill was eighteen seventy six, and I said, oh,
that was a very good year. I remember it well.
And the little Chick fil A guy looked at me
like I was really weird. I do understand why, right.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
Me, I'm getting through the question what is the buckeye
rot on tomatoes? Any more comments that you have to
make before you answer it.
Speaker 4 (09:21):
No, I think I'm good. I have no idea though
what buckeye rot is. No, No, I'm kidding. I was
about to say, ainta Claire know something we don't know?
Right There's a lot going on in vegetable gardens right now,
and that's one of the things that you know. I'm
hoping somebody calls in with you know for nine six
(09:41):
buckeye rot and blossom and rot on tomatoes are very
much confused and I confusing. And I can understand why.
Blossom and rot is a rotting of the bottom of
the tomato that completely income This is a bloomscar. The
(10:01):
bloomscar is where the bloom attached to the tomato or
tomato attached to the bloom, however you want to look
at it and blossom enrote will completely encircle that. It
will also tend to be a blacker appearance and almost,
I hate to almost a leathery appearance to it. And
(10:23):
that is caused by a calcium deficiency. That deficiency, unless
it's in a container, usually is not a true calcium
deficiency in your soil. It is the plant's inability to
absorb the calcium that is in the soil because of
moisture fluctuations. We suggest Clegg suggests calcium nitrate as a
(10:48):
side dress on tomatoes, especially pretty much on everything except
for beans in your garden. So that is a calcium
source that will help prevent blossom en rot. It's not
one hundred percent, especially if you're in a container because
of possible moisture fluctuations. If you are getting blossom end
rot on your tomatoes, there is a stop rot is
(11:12):
a liquid calcium chloride product that you spray on the
foliage of the plant. It's kind of like going to
the doctrine getting a shot. It's an instance. It's not
going to cure a tomato that has the blossom in rote,
but it pretty much prevents any of the other tomatoes
from getting the rotten spot on it. The calcium nitrate
is the prescription you have to go to your drug
(11:32):
store to get filled. It's going to be longer lasting.
Buckeye rot is an organism that is actually splashed up
onto the tomato by either heavy watering or heavy rains.
And typically, because it's being splashed up from the ground,
it's going to be on the bottom part of a
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tomato can. But a lot of times it's more on
the side, and a lot of times and most of
the time it does not commpletely encircle the blossom scar Also,
buckeye rot is going to be look more like a
bruise than an actual rotten spot on it, So that's
the biggest differential. And typically buckeye rot because it is
(12:16):
a splashing of dirt up onto the tomato. As the
tomatoes get higher on the planet, of course the kid
gets splashed up on their best thing to do is prevention.
On that mult your bed, Yeah, you know, just put
a good layer of pine straw, whatever malt you like,
and that will prevent the organism from being splashed up
onto it. But that is one of the more common misconceptions.
(12:39):
I'm going to use that word that when I was
at the nursery. I would come, people bring in their tomato,
and I got blossom. Menrat Well, though, you've got buckeye rot,
so it's of the two. I would much rather you
have buckeye rot because it's a very very easy fix.
But even even blossom and rock can be very easily
hand so so.
Speaker 5 (13:00):
The buckeye rot that doesn't necessarily happen where the blossoms
scar is.
Speaker 4 (13:06):
No, it does not, And a lot of times you'll
see it more on the side of the tomato, but
it usually because it is a splashing of the dirt,
it is usually on the lower side of the tomato.
That's why it's so easily confused.
Speaker 6 (13:17):
But no, excellent, very educational.
Speaker 4 (13:20):
You were discussing Brandon me.
Speaker 6 (13:25):
I know, beautiful.
Speaker 4 (13:28):
Anyway, I'm just gonna leave. I'm getting picked on way
too much. Wait, everybody's good. You set yourself up.
Speaker 5 (13:38):
But no, I I just remember when when you were
at Clegg's more often before you retired.
Speaker 4 (13:45):
Anytimes somebody will why doesn't why don't you do it
like everybody else that says before you retired for the
fourth time or fifth time, And it was only two times.
Speaker 6 (13:54):
Because for me, it's the first time you weren't.
Speaker 4 (13:57):
The first time you weren't, I wasn't.
Speaker 5 (14:00):
But I always just remember anytime somebody asked about bud
lea over the walkie, you would give a very good
explanation of how to properly care for them.
Speaker 4 (14:11):
Bud Lea is a plant that if you don't prone,
if it does, isn't getting new growth every year. It
only is going to last two maybe three years. So
the most important thing you do with bud lea is
every year. You can do it in the spring, right
is before it starts to leaf back out, or you
can even do it in the fall and then mulch
over the roots. You want to cut it back almost
(14:32):
completely to the ground. Really, it regenerates the following year. Okay,
it's very important of course when if you do it
in the spring, which is usually when most people do
their spring cleaning. That's why we don't call it fall cleaning.
That you want to fertilize it because that spurs on
the new growth. You don't have to go right to
the ground, you know, six twelve inches up, but you
(14:55):
really want to get which is actually what you want
to do. I want to cut it about six to
twelve inches from the ground, but that keeps the plant
regenerating itself. It's weird. There's you know, other plant groups
out there. One of the biggest ones, and you know
people that come into the nursery. I tried really hard
(15:15):
to anytime manybee came in for blackberries. It's the same thing.
Blackberries produce off a second year wood. So once they'll
produce continually off of that wood, but every year the
berry gets smaller and less and less. So what I
you know, people that come in and want a BlackBerry
patch or put in blackberries. When you get done picking
(15:36):
in the late spring early summer, the cane that you're
cutting off of take it down to the ground because
it's really that first year or that's actually second year,
but the first year it produces is actually the best
year for production. So if you remove that out, you'll
see the new shoots coming up and those are the
ones that are going to produce a following year. That
(15:57):
also because keeps your BlackBerry is becoming a briar patch
just where you can't even get into picks. So that's
a you know, there's other plants like that that need
you know, I call them teenage boys. They need to
be cut back and fertilized to continue to grow stronger
and healthier. But anyway, we brought up buddle in our
(16:21):
in the Kleg's commercial, so I thought it was important
or you thought it was important to bring that up.
But that's a neat plant out there, and there's so
many new.
Speaker 6 (16:30):
They come in a wide variety of color.
Speaker 4 (16:32):
Yeah, that's exactly where I was trying to go with that.
I mean, whites, pinks, blues, purples.
Speaker 5 (16:38):
Yeah, that dark purple, and it's probably my favorite, very.
Speaker 4 (16:42):
Definitely speaking, we totally off track now, so but there's
a is that budd lea I see in tree form
all around town, blooming purple right now?
Speaker 6 (16:55):
It's not buddle it's not.
Speaker 8 (16:56):
It looks like a buddlely of blood kind of what
is it would be by tech And are they beautiful?
Speaker 4 (17:04):
V I yeah, it's it is. If you're looking for something,
I will say as a crape myrtle replacement in your landscape,
They're not gonna get as large as some of the
grape myrtles, but it kind of takes that small, leggy
tree form. And they are right now, they're just in
(17:25):
full bloom out there and you see them all over
the place. There's two on Jones Creek Road. At least
I hope they're still there. I used to see all
the time when I was headed home when I work
with nailers. But that is just a beautiful trees, a
you know, good foundation planning for the corner of a house.
I can use it out in a bed. Excellent for
butterflies for those of you that are interested in.
Speaker 5 (17:46):
That, And I can tell you from experience with them
at Cleggs they have very vigorous root growth.
Speaker 4 (17:57):
You mean you have to cut them off the weed
block sometimes, Yeah, are they are you getting in? Are
you just getting the purples in? Or if y'all have
been able to find any of the pinks.
Speaker 6 (18:07):
I don't recall seeing any pinks yet.
Speaker 4 (18:10):
Okay, that's that's you know, and that is you know,
you have to be able to use that dark blue
purple blossom, you know, but in your landscape because the
pinks are I don't want to say rare, but definitely
not in the supply that the purple or dark blue
ones are. For sure, I feel like the purple would
make more of a statement. Yeah they do. But some
(18:32):
people that just can't use purple anyway, go go with
another question Anna and in baton rouge Louisiana. I find
that hard to believe. That's a good point. It's a
shame they can't come. Oh, you know what would be
really cool vitext with Esperanza underneath it. Yeah, there's your
purple and gold. Yeah, there's your purple and gold. People
(18:52):
write that down or give us call it four nine
nine nine five six. That is for nine.
Speaker 6 (18:59):
I know you gave you.
Speaker 4 (19:00):
Oh okay, I know there's one other two I couldn't
remember which.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
What are the ends of the squash turning black? Is
it blossom and rot?
Speaker 4 (19:09):
No?
Speaker 8 (19:10):
Really, I would have thought that would be the case.
Romarino Buckerino. Sorry, my maturity comes out again. It's lack
of I can't. I can't look at him.
Speaker 9 (19:28):
He's about to die in there.
Speaker 4 (19:35):
Maintain some form of professionality here, but I doubt it.
The rotting on the end of the skolash is caused
by lack of pollination. How you fix this? You down
a yellow, black striped suit, put little antinas out and
(19:57):
go all around your squash plants.
Speaker 9 (20:01):
We've totally lost control. Now, why is he interns on
so much older when she's annoyed. She shouldn't know that voice.
It's such a it's just frustration.
Speaker 4 (20:21):
We're gonna make a great wife one day. Could we
need to go? No? Anyway, Squash have male and female
flowers on the plant, and the best way to tell
the difference between a male and a female squash flower
(20:42):
is the female flower has a baby squash or zucchini
or whatever, even cucumbers. You have a little baby cucumber
on the end of the flower. Well, the best pollinator
for squash or Q curbids, let me use that word,
is honey bee because the female flower on CHU curbids
(21:06):
will close up, usually relatively early in the morning. Usually
by nine thirty ten o'clock they're closed. So you're wasp
and your secondary pollinators, you know, being that most of
those are teenage boys and sleeping really late, aren't up
and moving in time to pollinate the female flower correctly.
As the honey bee is up early in the morning,
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you know, and she's the one that can pollinate the flower.
Because the female is open, the squash will continue to
be viable for a while, but at some point, if
it's not pollinated, the vine will abort the fruit, at
which point you basically are getting a rot at the
end of the squash and it falls off. The easiest
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way to take care of this is to go out
and pollinate yourself, which everybody goes, Oh, isn't that really hard, No,
it's really not. Do need to do it in the
morning when the female flower is open, so you don't
have to pry the pedals to put the pollen in it.
You pick a male flower, which the male squash flower
has a straight stem going back to the main vine.
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It doesn't have the baby squash on it. Some people
will take a cue tip and take the pollen out
of that. Some people will actually pick the flower. I
typically when I do this, pick the flower, take the
petals off, and then go dab that in maybe two
or three female flowers. You've pollinated those and that squash
(22:33):
will continue to produce. You'd want to try to do
that every other day, maybe every third day at the most,
because most of the time a female flower squash flower
is only available to be pollinated for about thirty six
to forty eight hours, so you do want to do
it every couple days if you have a lack of bees.
Fortunately at our house we have enough honey bees. I
(22:57):
don't have to do that anymore. But yes, a lot
of people in town are having to pollinate their own squash.
But that's it's not really blossom and rot on squash.
It is a lack of pollination. Well, the commercial just
said free never sounded so good?
Speaker 6 (23:16):
Free, it's free, am am?
Speaker 10 (23:17):
I really gonna have to do like a English sentence
breakdown here of why free never sounded so good? Yes, okay,
I can do this in like thirty seconds.
Speaker 4 (23:26):
All right.
Speaker 10 (23:27):
The podcast lives on the iHeart app. The iHeart app
has lots of auditory experiences for you. Therefore, free never
sounded so good.
Speaker 4 (23:38):
Well, they don't say sounded they said free never sounds
so good?
Speaker 10 (23:44):
I mean, do you do you do you want me
to pass that note on to the people who say
the words, well you think you can't talk this morning, Jeremy,
can can you just do it?
Speaker 5 (23:55):
Can you just make a new commercial for ree?
Speaker 4 (24:00):
No? So good? There we go, No I need to
coke or something. That was all the energet I think
it should be free never sounded so good?
Speaker 10 (24:12):
So free never sounded so we put the emphasis on sound.
This is a lawn and gardenership, just definitely on.
Speaker 6 (24:23):
Good.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
Is there an issue with the peppers dropping their leaves?
Speaker 4 (24:26):
Yes, yeah, they're default or as I like to say,
they're defilating. Uh. It is actually a bacterial spec of
very common issue in peppers, especially if we're having a
lot of rain and moisture. Fortunately, and I don't know
(24:48):
this late in the season, you probably don't have a
lot of bell pepper selection at the storm.
Speaker 8 (24:53):
But Ninja and tradition, I know I remember getting the
ninja in this year.
Speaker 4 (25:03):
I think it was Tradition is the other one. Those
two are. Ninja is resistant to all of the specs
and as an excellent pepper grew it last year. It
had extreme success with it lasted all season long, no
problems at all. The bacterial speck is very common in
especially bell peppers. You can get it in all your peppers.
(25:26):
Usually almost has a little modeling to the leaf and
then the leaf falls off. The only control for it
is a copper spray. Fortunately, the heavy metal sprays copper
in particular is the one that's still around. Used to
have issues with heat. There's the form of copper that
(25:47):
sold that Cleggs now does not have as severe heat
restrictions on it, so we can use it later into
the summer, but you want to get it if you
have the issue in your guard and you really want
to spray with copper, probably once a week to kind
of keep it as a preventative, because if you don't
start treating that, that is one disease that will take
your plant out. I don't know what the deal is.
(26:09):
We had the best pepper year I think we've ever
had last year, and this year our peppers at home
just do not look good. And I don't know what
the deal is. If it's the if it is more
rainy cycle we've had this spring, or what it is,
but it's been pretty rainy.
Speaker 6 (26:25):
Would the cold have had anything to do with that?
Speaker 4 (26:27):
It may be the cooler That's a great point for once, Jeremy,
that you know, the cooler temperatures. Peppers are not real
cool weather plants, so it's very you know, some of
the cooler nighttime temperatures may be having some effect on that.
But yeah, what you're talking about is bacterial speck and
it's very common issue. If you have it in your garden,
remove all the infected leaves, dispose of them, don't compost them,
(26:51):
and use a copper spray.
Speaker 10 (26:52):
Actually have a follow up to that, since this week
we're supposedly getting one of those lovely things called a
cold front in May that might bring the nighttime temperatures
back down to say, like maybe sixties. Would that possibly
kind of not help in the long run. Is the
peppers kind of get confused, like why gotta put my
sweater back.
Speaker 4 (27:14):
Again? That's a good point, is pep You know, peppers
do like it warmer. If it's only into the sixties,
mid sixties, even to the lower sixties, it's not going
to be that much of an issue once we start
sending issues. Is once we get back down into the fifties,
which wouldn't be I wouldn't mind, but you know, it
is not going to happen. But yeah, the tends to
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be more of an issue with moisture fluctuations, these overcast,
real humid days, rainy days. That's you know, Pepper's like
that sun and that heat. So I think I think
it is weather related probably why we're not we're not
having as good as pepper year at home. I'm sure
there's other people out there in radio land that are
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having good Peppers year. But bacterial spec copper spray To
answer your original question, and Claire, I have a question.
Speaker 5 (28:06):
Is the bacterial spec anything like the bacterial wilt whereas
if you have like if you get the bacterial wilt,
I want to say you've said in the past that
that kind of stays in the soil for a certain
amount of time after or once it appears.
Speaker 4 (28:24):
Yes, once you get back. And that's the problem with
bacterial wilt is once you get it into an area.
I've heard various things, but some people say don't plant
for five years and it will go away. There is
no soil treatment for it, so rotation typically is the
way to go. Typically most people don't have large enough
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gardens to get a good spacing on rotation, or they're
using the same gloves, tiller, shovels, or they're spreading it
around anyway. Bacterial wilt usually it can affect peppers, usually
is much more so on tomatoes. It's probably the most
devastating thing a gardener can get in their garden because
what happens is the tomatoes, potatoes, tomatoes whatever they are,
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are growing beautiful, starting to set, flowers usually have small
fruit on it. One day you go out there, they
look a little wilty. Sea pour water on them. The
next morning looks good, by the end of that day
it's wiltier, and then by the third day it's gone.
So yeah, I will start to see that. Usually by
the end of this month, you'll start to see some
of it coming into the store. But bacterial spec if
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I'm not mistaken, I wish I could get a hold
of Johnny real quick. But I think that's more wind
borne than soilble so, but yeah, that's a good question.
But yeah, bacterial wilt again, it can affect peppers, but
it's usually more on tomatoes.
Speaker 2 (29:49):
Yeah, what what herbs and vegetables can be planning now?
Speaker 5 (29:59):
Well, as far as herbs go, I believe there's I mean,
you played just about all the herbs we'd have out
at Clegg's. I know a lot of people are coming
in right now for things like dill in fennel and
parsley for the for the butterflies.
Speaker 4 (30:15):
Right those Unfortunately, especially the parsley can kind of play
out or go to seed in the summertime. Yeah, and
it's salsa silantra. Same thing with that is it has
its tendency to just bolts faster, bolts faster this time
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of year. So basil do you have the Amazed Basil.
Speaker 5 (30:39):
I've been having a hard time keeping it on the table.
I got some in the other day, but it's sold fairly.
Speaker 4 (30:45):
Probably ought to order more.
Speaker 6 (30:46):
Than Yeah, I ordered what I could.
Speaker 4 (30:51):
Maybe whoever's growing it should grow more and not worry
about Barbarie. But yeah, we were having an issue for
several years on basil with a mildew and Amazing Basil
is actually resistant to that, and it is very resistant.
Some of these resistant air quote plants aren't that great,
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but Amazing Basil is is. If you're doing basil in
your garden, you won't know the difference. You won't be
able to taste the difference from you know, more common basils,
but it is far superior to your regular ones. So
order more, grow more.
Speaker 2 (31:29):
I think we were still on that one question. It
was the what herbs and vegetables can be planning now?
Speaker 6 (31:34):
We talked about the.
Speaker 4 (31:35):
Herbs, but yes, so there are still not the herds
Apparently I am misspelled herb. What vegetables can we plant now?
Speaker 5 (31:48):
You can still do some heat set tomatoes, right, Yeah, definitely,
and we definitely Actually now is the time.
Speaker 4 (31:53):
To plant heat set tomatoes because they'll be producing in
August September.
Speaker 5 (31:57):
Okay, and we have a quite a few varieties, and
I want to say maybe even some new ones this year.
I don't remember seeing fourth of July, know that that is.
Or thunderbird that's a new one.
Speaker 8 (32:11):
Or red bounty, whoa, that's my mind being blown.
Speaker 5 (32:17):
But we we also got some heat masters in which
that's that's only but good.
Speaker 4 (32:21):
Yeah, what if somebody doesn't want to there their spring
maybe they didn't plant the spring garden. What should gardeners
do if they just I don't want to plant, Like,
what what should they do instead of gardening? What should
they do with their garden plot? If they I don't
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want to plant anything right now.
Speaker 5 (32:44):
There's some wild seat wildflower seats out there and help
the pollinators.
Speaker 4 (32:48):
That's an option. But why wouldn't they throw field peas
out there to fix the night? That's very good. Both
of those are very good points. Yes, But and that's
one of the things that a lot of people, you know,
as you know, get back to your wheelchi tomatoes go away.
You know what, I just don't really want to don't
leave the ground there. You're going to develop a lot
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of weed issues.
Speaker 6 (33:11):
As we all nature doesn't like bear spot.
Speaker 2 (33:13):
No.
Speaker 4 (33:13):
Mother nature is going to something that's brown, Mother Nature
is gonna paint it green. And field peas are an
excellent way to do that because if you actually can
pick the peas, peel them and eat them, which is
a lot of work. But even if you don't do that,
if you're ready, when you're ready for the fall, just
go in. Don't even pull the piece, just take your
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weed eater whatever and cut them off and leave the
root system in there. They're nitrogen fixers. They take nitrogen
out of the air, put a little nitrogen nodule on
their root system, and release that when they when you
come back. That's really we got a phone call we do.
Speaker 2 (33:51):
Good morning, Terry, Welcome to w jbo's Lining Garden Show.
How may we help you today?
Speaker 3 (33:55):
Hey Terry, huh hy, good morning. I have a question
about a weed that's growing in my flower beds and
in my yard. And not only do I know how
to describe it as kind of think of a day lily,
but like a mini day lily, kind of strappy leaves
that come out from the center and then straight up
in the middle of long stem and a little white
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star shaped flower.
Speaker 4 (34:18):
I think you're right right, I think Ward, that's a
tough fee to Actually, there's really no If it is
spider word, there is no real true pre emergent for it.
If you can, I would probably suggest a topical, uh
(34:41):
direct application of a like a selective herbit, non selective
herbicide like round up take, you know, put on a
chemical resistant glove and a sponge and wipe it on,
pulling it. If it is spider word, typically that breaks off.
So it's just going to re sprout. U. Would you
mind giving out your email address? Maybe she could send
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you a picture. Sure.
Speaker 5 (35:05):
So it's my full name, uh, Brandon Bonadonna at gmail
dot com. But I'm gonna spell that out for you.
So it's b r A or let me just start
over B as in boy r A, d as in
dog o n b as in boy o n a,
(35:27):
d as in dog o n a. And I'm and
I told you wrong. That's at Cleggs Nursery dot com. No,
I am so sorry, I am mixing up two different addresses.
Speaker 4 (35:42):
It's b. You don't spell out his first name.
Speaker 5 (35:46):
Yeah, okay, so it's just the letter be my last name,
Bonna Donna at klex nursery dot com.
Speaker 3 (35:54):
Okay, B B O n A d O n A
at Clex Nursery dot com. Yes, ma'am, Okay, I'll send
a pick. Yeah, I'd love some help on that because
I actually have sprayed round up and it kind of
half kills it.
Speaker 4 (36:08):
Okay, that's kills it.
Speaker 6 (36:10):
Maybe I need to hit it well.
Speaker 4 (36:11):
And I I'm glad you said something and that makes
me even sure that it is because that it could
also be alligator weed, but I think Braiden's right. Both
of those weeds have an extensive underground root system, so
when you treat it with a round up type product,
you only kill back so far, and it re sprouts
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from wherever you killed it off. So it's it is
going to be multiple applications till you get till you
get that root system eradicated. So yeah, but it's end
braiding that picture. And he will respond and make sure
make sure what we're talking about, and if it is
something different, he'll send a recommendation with it also.
Speaker 3 (36:55):
Okay, you have a good day.
Speaker 4 (37:00):
I do still have an email address also at Clegg's
which is b as in boy das and dog R
E W E S at Cleggs Nursery dot com. I
do answer emails. Got a really nice email from a
caller a two weeks ago about his paper mulberry. I
originally responded mulberry and it became paper mulberry is a
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weed that doesn't fruit. But anyway, we got a few
more minutes.
Speaker 2 (37:26):
You got another question, Yes, can we still use weedon feed?
Speaker 4 (37:35):
I'm going to say no because most of the weeds
that are because the weed and feed you would use
right now is to me very difficult to use in
that you either have to use it early in the
morning when there's dew on the grass, or you actually
have to water your lawn before you do it, because
what you be putting out in a weed and feed
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right now is a post emergent product, meaning the we
killer has to stick to the weed for twenty four
to forty eight hours for it to be effective. I
would suggest, if you have a weed issue in your
lawn right now, to go ahead and spray MSM is
what we're going to be recommending. I think the store
still has someone talking to Chris. The little Small Economical
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bottle has been discontinued by the manufacturer, not by Clegs,
so run by and get you one if it's something
you use fairly commonly. Because what stock Legs has is it.
They will have the larger bottles available, but they're like
one hundred and twenty something bucks and treat like one
hundred acres. Most homeowners don't need that. But you can
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fertilize right now. Again, ideally you would do that relatively
early in the morning. You do one of water after
you put your fertilizer out, so it's going to be
a two step process. I would actually suggest fertilizing first.
That will get your weeds. The weeds will take up
the fertilz, but that's what you're wanting to do. You're
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wanting to get that weed actively growing, so when you
do come in with your spray, it's absorbed quicker and
you're going to get a much better kill that way.
Anytime you're using a herbicide in as a spray, you
always want to use a surfactant and not ivory liquid.
You want to use a non ionic surfactant. That way
you're going to get much better application and absorption of
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the chemical that you're trying to get into the weed
to kill it. But fertilization if you haven't done. It
is going to be very important. You want your grass
good and healthy. A good healthy lawn is your best
control for weeds period. I have a question for you, Brandon. Okay,
I'm sorry to take over for a second here, but
why are my Nico blue hydrangeous pink? Because the pH
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balance in the soil for it's called Nico blue, it's
not called Nico pink. Yeah, it's we get that call
all the time. Hydranges left natural and baton rouge are
going to turn pink. Two reasons. One are typical soil
pH is six point eight, which is basically neutral, but
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we call it an alkaline soil here. And the biggest
issue is because baton ridge water, which is excellent for
us as humans, is an eight point two pH which
causes your soil to become basic, and basic soil for
hydrange is is going to turn it pink. So if
you want blue hydranges in Baton rouge, you heard going
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to have to periodically use aluminum sulfate that will keep
your soil pH down so that you will actually have
blue hydrangs. And you want to do that much earlier
in the system. You're not going to be able to
change the color. This laid into the system. Welcome back,
in turn, we missed you a much better show, much
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quicker show with you here. Thank you, Brayden. I don't
know why I have so much trouble with that. I
don't even try to get the last name anymore. Anyway.
We are Clegg's Nursery. We have four locations in the
Greater Baton Rouge area. Combine visits with us lots of
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Speaker 2 (01:02):
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Speaker 4 (01:09):
What's going on at the nursery right now? It's getting hot,
Yes it is. Yeah. I put out some pine straw
yesterday afternoon and thought I was going to melt.
Speaker 5 (01:19):
No, We're we're starting to get into the warmer season.
So it seems like the spring rush is kind of
coming to an end in Uh about this time of year,
we start working on cleaning stuff up and pulling weeds
because it's that time of year.
Speaker 4 (01:36):
Yes, and spraying that stuff that gets on the walkway, yes,
that algae. Oh, that's the horrible stuff I've ever been around.
But I think we have a lot, actually a lot
going on out there for those in their yards looking
around to grab your favorite beverage, your phone, walk out
there if you see an issue or concern, like Anna
Claire said, gives call four nine nine. Do you have
(01:58):
any questions or concerns, ma'am.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
Yes, speaking of like the warmer seasons. What's what flowers
can we plant now?
Speaker 6 (02:08):
And then a little bit That is a very good question.
Speaker 4 (02:11):
He doesn't know the answer, but it's a very good question. Uh.
Speaker 5 (02:16):
There is still a lot of annual color you can
plant right now, Vinka being the most popular, and there's
a reason for that because they do so well through
the summertime.
Speaker 4 (02:27):
You can this is your hot weather plant.
Speaker 6 (02:28):
Yeah, it really is, just got to make sure you
don't overwater it.
Speaker 4 (02:33):
What is a little there's a I guess it's a vinca,
a little small bloom.
Speaker 5 (02:38):
You know, And that one's really been gaining traction. I
feel like over the years. It's called swore a vinka. Yeah, okay,
that is Shirley planted it. I think for the first
time last year is kind of a little front on
her bed man.
Speaker 4 (02:53):
That is just fantastic. It comes in different colors, I
think it does.
Speaker 5 (02:57):
There's I think like lavender shade. There's a polka dot
I think it's called peppermint, and then there's red shades,
and I think a violet or something like that.
Speaker 4 (03:07):
Maybe a coral the I guess it's the peppermint you
were talking about, has a white blossom and with with
a red dot. That thing just I mean in the
heat of the summer that just pops out of them. Yeah,
that is just to me. When and people that have
listened to the show for a long time realized, I'm
not really that big of a plant person. I enjoy
(03:30):
the whole thing, but I'm my wife and you and
Michael and you know, Chris to some extent that are
really you get really excited about them. So when I
get really excited about a plant, it's really you know,
and I hate to cut you off.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
Now.
Speaker 5 (03:45):
One thing that really I was really just surprised to
see it. We had a native orchid plant pop up
in one of our dragon food fruit pots. It was
it was really cool. It made a very small white flower,
but it did a spiral all the way up the
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bloom spike.
Speaker 4 (04:07):
Wow, it's really neat. That is neat one of those
bird droppings or.
Speaker 6 (04:12):
Something, I guess.
Speaker 4 (04:13):
So I have no idea how you all have any
of the sun colliers right now. Yeah, we have a
bunch of sunclass And that's another and I get frustrated.
I got frustrated. I don't anymore because I don't go
into the store as a as an employee anymore. But
that I used to show people that plant and go, well,
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it doesn't flower.
Speaker 7 (04:36):
You don't want it's a flower. You want the colorful,
colorful foliage. To me, you know, is so much more
attractive than you know. It pops more than I think
a bloom, would you know? Right, Like we're just talked
about the vink and all that's great color, and you
know you are looking at the flower there, but you
get so many what's I don't want to say model was,
(04:58):
but you know, the variation of kind trast in color
within the leaves themselves. I don't remember specific names anymore
because I'm old and seen now, but some of those coldest,
you know, the variation and colors in the leaves.
Speaker 5 (05:13):
There's one that proven Winners put out. It's called el Brighto.
Speaker 4 (05:17):
Oh wow, be that is.
Speaker 5 (05:19):
It has so many different colors and it it just
looks phenomenal.
Speaker 4 (05:23):
Wow.
Speaker 5 (05:24):
And there's another one. I've been really liking the darker
color ones this year. There's one called a Dobo pink
I think is how you say it. And it's like
a dark red with just pink striping down the middle.
Speaker 4 (05:36):
Wow, that would be pretty. Do you Okay, I got
a question. I'm sorry clear, but I'm going to ask
a couple of questions myself. Are you I'm gonna use
the word spot planner. Are you a mass planter.
Speaker 5 (05:51):
I like to have I guess I'm more of a
spot planner because I like to have a nice contrasting colors.
I don't want just a mass row up the same thing.
I want different colors and different height levels.
Speaker 4 (06:08):
That's I mean, that's a good you know. Excuse me
because people refer to me when I did planting as
a disney planter. The bigger, the massive, you know, And
that was one of the things I liked about Sun
collas is you could get. You could mass planting, definitely can,
and you get the variation of color within within the
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leaves of the plant. So that's one of the things.
But no, I'm Shirley is a spot planter like you,
and so that's what our yard looks like, which it
looks great. I mean, there's nothing wrong with that. But
like I said, I just love some of the along
Highland roads. Some of those are what I call mass
plantings entrances to some of the subdivisions, and I don't know,
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just that's the that's me. And again there's nothing wrong
with either way of doing it, but it's just curious. Now.
Speaker 5 (06:55):
I will say I had a customer come in the
other day and they showed me a picture of this
planting or this garden bed that they did at their house,
and it was basically just the electric orange sunpatient planted
and mass planting around these sunshine with gustrooms and that,
(07:17):
like if I was driving through that neighborhood, that would
catch my eye.
Speaker 4 (07:21):
I could see how they won Yard of the Month.
I'm sorry, but I like the sun patients, even though
they do better with a little bit of afternoon. Definitely,
I do not like sunshine. I am very sorry. You know,
I understand that why just overplayed. It's overplayed and it's
(07:43):
it's a privet and I just as I'm eradicating privet
out of my yard at Prairieville, it's just become a
plant I just don't like. But I don't know, there's
you know, there's things that you know, I'm just one
of those things that I don't like. I'm sure there's
things you liked that I and vice versa. Oh yeah,
(08:03):
that's why we have all the different plants we have
at Cleggs, right, because no, no tube tastes exactly.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
One.
Speaker 5 (08:10):
One thing I've learned since doing the ordering and stuff
for the betting house at Cleggs is you can't bring
in with what you like. Yeah, you have to bring
in with what everybody's like.
Speaker 4 (08:22):
It's like, I can't believe I'm ordering this. Yeah, anyway,
did you have any other questions? That was a very
good discussion. Yes, Now could someone discuss that with they could.
Speaker 6 (08:35):
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Speaker 2 (08:37):
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Speaker 4 (08:39):
You don't think that would be disgusting?
Speaker 6 (08:44):
The King of Dad jokes, Yeah, I know what is?
Speaker 4 (08:47):
Boy know, she got mad at me because we we
go through Chick fil A, that's her new nil deal,
and our bill was eighteen seventy six, and I said, oh,
that was a very good year. I remember it well.
And the little Chick fil A guy looked at me
like I was really weird. I do understand why, right.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
Me, I'm getting through the question what is the buckeye
rot on tomatoes? Any more comments that you have to
make before you answer it.
Speaker 4 (09:21):
No, I think I'm good. I have no idea though
what buckeye rot is. No, No, I'm kidding. I was
about to say, ainta Claire know something we don't know?
Right There's a lot going on in vegetable gardens right now,
and that's one of the things that you know. I'm
hoping somebody calls in with you know for nine six
(09:41):
buckeye rot and blossom and rot on tomatoes are very
much confused and I confusing. And I can understand why.
Blossom and rot is a rotting of the bottom of
the tomato that completely income This is a bloomscar. The
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bloomscar is where the bloom attached to the tomato or
tomato attached to the bloom, however you want to look
at it and blossom enrote will completely encircle that. It
will also tend to be a blacker appearance and almost,
I hate to almost a leathery appearance to it. And
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that is caused by a calcium deficiency. That deficiency, unless
it's in a container, usually is not a true calcium
deficiency in your soil. It is the plant's inability to
absorb the calcium that is in the soil because of
moisture fluctuations. We suggest Clegg suggests calcium nitrate as a
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side dress on tomatoes, especially pretty much on everything except
for beans in your garden. So that is a calcium
source that will help prevent blossom en rot. It's not
one hundred percent, especially if you're in a container because
of possible moisture fluctuations. If you are getting blossom end
rot on your tomatoes, there is a stop rot is
(11:12):
a liquid calcium chloride product that you spray on the
foliage of the plant. It's kind of like going to
the doctrine getting a shot. It's an instance. It's not
going to cure a tomato that has the blossom in rote,
but it pretty much prevents any of the other tomatoes
from getting the rotten spot on it. The calcium nitrate
is the prescription you have to go to your drug
(11:32):
store to get filled. It's going to be longer lasting.
Buckeye rot is an organism that is actually splashed up
onto the tomato by either heavy watering or heavy rains.
And typically, because it's being splashed up from the ground,
it's going to be on the bottom part of a
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tomato can. But a lot of times it's more on
the side, and a lot of times and most of
the time it does not commpletely encircle the blossom scar Also,
buckeye rot is going to be look more like a
bruise than an actual rotten spot on it, So that's
the biggest differential. And typically buckeye rot because it is
(12:16):
a splashing of dirt up onto the tomato. As the
tomatoes get higher on the planet, of course the kid
gets splashed up on their best thing to do is prevention.
On that mult your bed, Yeah, you know, just put
a good layer of pine straw, whatever malt you like,
and that will prevent the organism from being splashed up
onto it. But that is one of the more common misconceptions.
(12:39):
I'm going to use that word that when I was
at the nursery. I would come, people bring in their tomato,
and I got blossom. Menrat Well, though, you've got buckeye rot,
so it's of the two. I would much rather you
have buckeye rot because it's a very very easy fix.
But even even blossom and rock can be very easily
hand so so.
Speaker 5 (13:00):
The buckeye rot that doesn't necessarily happen where the blossoms
scar is.
Speaker 4 (13:06):
No, it does not, And a lot of times you'll
see it more on the side of the tomato, but
it usually because it is a splashing of the dirt,
it is usually on the lower side of the tomato.
That's why it's so easily confused.
Speaker 6 (13:17):
But no, excellent, very educational.
Speaker 4 (13:20):
You were discussing Brandon me.
Speaker 6 (13:25):
I know, beautiful.
Speaker 4 (13:28):
Anyway, I'm just gonna leave. I'm getting picked on way
too much. Wait, everybody's good. You set yourself up.
Speaker 5 (13:38):
But no, I I just remember when when you were
at Clegg's more often before you retired.
Speaker 4 (13:45):
Anytimes somebody will why doesn't why don't you do it
like everybody else that says before you retired for the
fourth time or fifth time, And it was only two times.
Speaker 6 (13:54):
Because for me, it's the first time you weren't.
Speaker 4 (13:57):
The first time you weren't, I wasn't.
Speaker 5 (14:00):
But I always just remember anytime somebody asked about bud
lea over the walkie, you would give a very good
explanation of how to properly care for them.
Speaker 4 (14:11):
Bud Lea is a plant that if you don't prone,
if it does, isn't getting new growth every year. It
only is going to last two maybe three years. So
the most important thing you do with bud lea is
every year. You can do it in the spring, right
is before it starts to leaf back out, or you
can even do it in the fall and then mulch
over the roots. You want to cut it back almost
(14:32):
completely to the ground. Really, it regenerates the following year. Okay,
it's very important of course when if you do it
in the spring, which is usually when most people do
their spring cleaning. That's why we don't call it fall cleaning.
That you want to fertilize it because that spurs on
the new growth. You don't have to go right to
the ground, you know, six twelve inches up, but you
(14:55):
really want to get which is actually what you want
to do. I want to cut it about six to
twelve inches from the ground, but that keeps the plant
regenerating itself. It's weird. There's you know, other plant groups
out there. One of the biggest ones, and you know
people that come into the nursery. I tried really hard
(15:15):
to anytime manybee came in for blackberries. It's the same thing.
Blackberries produce off a second year wood. So once they'll
produce continually off of that wood, but every year the
berry gets smaller and less and less. So what I
you know, people that come in and want a BlackBerry
patch or put in blackberries. When you get done picking
(15:36):
in the late spring early summer, the cane that you're
cutting off of take it down to the ground because
it's really that first year or that's actually second year,
but the first year it produces is actually the best
year for production. So if you remove that out, you'll
see the new shoots coming up and those are the
ones that are going to produce a following year. That
(15:57):
also because keeps your BlackBerry is becoming a briar patch
just where you can't even get into picks. So that's
a you know, there's other plants like that that need
you know, I call them teenage boys. They need to
be cut back and fertilized to continue to grow stronger
and healthier. But anyway, we brought up buddle in our
(16:21):
in the Kleg's commercial, so I thought it was important
or you thought it was important to bring that up.
But that's a neat plant out there, and there's so
many new.
Speaker 6 (16:30):
They come in a wide variety of color.
Speaker 4 (16:32):
Yeah, that's exactly where I was trying to go with that.
I mean, whites, pinks, blues, purples.
Speaker 5 (16:38):
Yeah, that dark purple, and it's probably my favorite, very.
Speaker 4 (16:42):
Definitely speaking, we totally off track now, so but there's
a is that budd lea I see in tree form
all around town, blooming purple right now?
Speaker 6 (16:55):
It's not buddle it's not.
Speaker 8 (16:56):
It looks like a buddlely of blood kind of what
is it would be by tech And are they beautiful?
Speaker 4 (17:04):
V I yeah, it's it is. If you're looking for something,
I will say as a crape myrtle replacement in your landscape,
They're not gonna get as large as some of the
grape myrtles, but it kind of takes that small, leggy
tree form. And they are right now, they're just in
(17:25):
full bloom out there and you see them all over
the place. There's two on Jones Creek Road. At least
I hope they're still there. I used to see all
the time when I was headed home when I work
with nailers. But that is just a beautiful trees, a
you know, good foundation planning for the corner of a house.
I can use it out in a bed. Excellent for
butterflies for those of you that are interested in.
Speaker 5 (17:46):
That, And I can tell you from experience with them
at Cleggs they have very vigorous root growth.
Speaker 4 (17:57):
You mean you have to cut them off the weed
block sometimes, Yeah, are they are you getting in? Are
you just getting the purples in? Or if y'all have
been able to find any of the pinks.
Speaker 6 (18:07):
I don't recall seeing any pinks yet.
Speaker 4 (18:10):
Okay, that's that's you know, and that is you know,
you have to be able to use that dark blue
purple blossom, you know, but in your landscape because the
pinks are I don't want to say rare, but definitely
not in the supply that the purple or dark blue
ones are. For sure, I feel like the purple would
make more of a statement. Yeah they do. But some
(18:32):
people that just can't use purple anyway, go go with
another question Anna and in baton rouge Louisiana. I find
that hard to believe. That's a good point. It's a
shame they can't come. Oh, you know what would be
really cool vitext with Esperanza underneath it. Yeah, there's your
purple and gold. Yeah, there's your purple and gold. People
(18:52):
write that down or give us call it four nine
nine nine five six. That is for nine.
Speaker 6 (18:59):
I know you gave you.
Speaker 4 (19:00):
Oh okay, I know there's one other two I couldn't
remember which.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
What are the ends of the squash turning black? Is
it blossom and rot?
Speaker 4 (19:09):
No?
Speaker 8 (19:10):
Really, I would have thought that would be the case.
Romarino Buckerino. Sorry, my maturity comes out again. It's lack
of I can't. I can't look at him.
Speaker 9 (19:28):
He's about to die in there.
Speaker 4 (19:35):
Maintain some form of professionality here, but I doubt it.
The rotting on the end of the skolash is caused
by lack of pollination. How you fix this? You down
a yellow, black striped suit, put little antinas out and
(19:57):
go all around your squash plants.
Speaker 9 (20:01):
We've totally lost control. Now, why is he interns on
so much older when she's annoyed. She shouldn't know that voice.
It's such a it's just frustration.
Speaker 4 (20:21):
We're gonna make a great wife one day. Could we
need to go? No? Anyway, Squash have male and female
flowers on the plant, and the best way to tell
the difference between a male and a female squash flower
(20:42):
is the female flower has a baby squash or zucchini
or whatever, even cucumbers. You have a little baby cucumber
on the end of the flower. Well, the best pollinator
for squash or Q curbids, let me use that word,
is honey bee because the female flower on CHU curbids
(21:06):
will close up, usually relatively early in the morning. Usually
by nine thirty ten o'clock they're closed. So you're wasp
and your secondary pollinators, you know, being that most of
those are teenage boys and sleeping really late, aren't up
and moving in time to pollinate the female flower correctly.
As the honey bee is up early in the morning,
(21:28):
you know, and she's the one that can pollinate the flower.
Because the female is open, the squash will continue to
be viable for a while, but at some point, if
it's not pollinated, the vine will abort the fruit, at
which point you basically are getting a rot at the
end of the squash and it falls off. The easiest
(21:51):
way to take care of this is to go out
and pollinate yourself, which everybody goes, Oh, isn't that really hard, No,
it's really not. Do need to do it in the
morning when the female flower is open, so you don't
have to pry the pedals to put the pollen in it.
You pick a male flower, which the male squash flower
has a straight stem going back to the main vine.
(22:13):
It doesn't have the baby squash on it. Some people
will take a cue tip and take the pollen out
of that. Some people will actually pick the flower. I
typically when I do this, pick the flower, take the
petals off, and then go dab that in maybe two
or three female flowers. You've pollinated those and that squash
(22:33):
will continue to produce. You'd want to try to do
that every other day, maybe every third day at the most,
because most of the time a female flower squash flower
is only available to be pollinated for about thirty six
to forty eight hours, so you do want to do
it every couple days if you have a lack of bees.
Fortunately at our house we have enough honey bees. I
(22:57):
don't have to do that anymore. But yes, a lot
of people in town are having to pollinate their own squash.
But that's it's not really blossom and rot on squash.
It is a lack of pollination. Well, the commercial just
said free never sounded so good?
Speaker 6 (23:16):
Free, it's free, am am?
Speaker 10 (23:17):
I really gonna have to do like a English sentence
breakdown here of why free never sounded so good? Yes, okay,
I can do this in like thirty seconds.
Speaker 4 (23:26):
All right.
Speaker 10 (23:27):
The podcast lives on the iHeart app. The iHeart app
has lots of auditory experiences for you. Therefore, free never
sounded so good.
Speaker 4 (23:38):
Well, they don't say sounded they said free never sounds
so good?
Speaker 10 (23:44):
I mean, do you do you do you want me
to pass that note on to the people who say
the words, well you think you can't talk this morning, Jeremy,
can can you just do it?
Speaker 5 (23:55):
Can you just make a new commercial for ree?
Speaker 4 (24:00):
No? So good? There we go, No I need to
coke or something. That was all the energet I think
it should be free never sounded so good?
Speaker 10 (24:12):
So free never sounded so we put the emphasis on sound.
This is a lawn and gardenership, just definitely on.
Speaker 6 (24:23):
Good.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
Is there an issue with the peppers dropping their leaves?
Speaker 4 (24:26):
Yes, yeah, they're default or as I like to say,
they're defilating. Uh. It is actually a bacterial spec of
very common issue in peppers, especially if we're having a
lot of rain and moisture. Fortunately, and I don't know
(24:48):
this late in the season, you probably don't have a
lot of bell pepper selection at the storm.
Speaker 8 (24:53):
But Ninja and tradition, I know I remember getting the
ninja in this year.
Speaker 4 (25:03):
I think it was Tradition is the other one. Those
two are. Ninja is resistant to all of the specs
and as an excellent pepper grew it last year. It
had extreme success with it lasted all season long, no
problems at all. The bacterial speck is very common in
especially bell peppers. You can get it in all your peppers.
(25:26):
Usually almost has a little modeling to the leaf and
then the leaf falls off. The only control for it
is a copper spray. Fortunately, the heavy metal sprays copper
in particular is the one that's still around. Used to
have issues with heat. There's the form of copper that
(25:47):
sold that Cleggs now does not have as severe heat
restrictions on it, so we can use it later into
the summer, but you want to get it if you
have the issue in your guard and you really want
to spray with copper, probably once a week to kind
of keep it as a preventative, because if you don't
start treating that, that is one disease that will take
your plant out. I don't know what the deal is.
(26:09):
We had the best pepper year I think we've ever
had last year, and this year our peppers at home
just do not look good. And I don't know what
the deal is. If it's the if it is more
rainy cycle we've had this spring, or what it is,
but it's been pretty rainy.
Speaker 6 (26:25):
Would the cold have had anything to do with that?
Speaker 4 (26:27):
It may be the cooler That's a great point for once, Jeremy,
that you know, the cooler temperatures. Peppers are not real
cool weather plants, so it's very you know, some of
the cooler nighttime temperatures may be having some effect on that.
But yeah, what you're talking about is bacterial speck and
it's very common issue. If you have it in your garden,
remove all the infected leaves, dispose of them, don't compost them,
(26:51):
and use a copper spray.
Speaker 10 (26:52):
Actually have a follow up to that, since this week
we're supposedly getting one of those lovely things called a
cold front in May that might bring the nighttime temperatures
back down to say, like maybe sixties. Would that possibly
kind of not help in the long run. Is the
peppers kind of get confused, like why gotta put my
sweater back.
Speaker 4 (27:14):
Again? That's a good point, is pep You know, peppers
do like it warmer. If it's only into the sixties,
mid sixties, even to the lower sixties, it's not going
to be that much of an issue once we start
sending issues. Is once we get back down into the fifties,
which wouldn't be I wouldn't mind, but you know, it
is not going to happen. But yeah, the tends to
(27:37):
be more of an issue with moisture fluctuations, these overcast,
real humid days, rainy days. That's you know, Pepper's like
that sun and that heat. So I think I think
it is weather related probably why we're not we're not
having as good as pepper year at home. I'm sure
there's other people out there in radio land that are
(27:58):
having good Peppers year. But bacterial spec copper spray To
answer your original question, and Claire, I have a question.
Speaker 5 (28:06):
Is the bacterial spec anything like the bacterial wilt whereas
if you have like if you get the bacterial wilt,
I want to say you've said in the past that
that kind of stays in the soil for a certain
amount of time after or once it appears.
Speaker 4 (28:24):
Yes, once you get back. And that's the problem with
bacterial wilt is once you get it into an area.
I've heard various things, but some people say don't plant
for five years and it will go away. There is
no soil treatment for it, so rotation typically is the
way to go. Typically most people don't have large enough
(28:46):
gardens to get a good spacing on rotation, or they're
using the same gloves, tiller, shovels, or they're spreading it
around anyway. Bacterial wilt usually it can affect peppers, usually
is much more so on tomatoes. It's probably the most
devastating thing a gardener can get in their garden because
what happens is the tomatoes, potatoes, tomatoes whatever they are,
(29:10):
are growing beautiful, starting to set, flowers usually have small
fruit on it. One day you go out there, they
look a little wilty. Sea pour water on them. The
next morning looks good, by the end of that day
it's wiltier, and then by the third day it's gone.
So yeah, I will start to see that. Usually by
the end of this month, you'll start to see some
of it coming into the store. But bacterial spec if
(29:34):
I'm not mistaken, I wish I could get a hold
of Johnny real quick. But I think that's more wind
borne than soilble so, but yeah, that's a good question.
But yeah, bacterial wilt again, it can affect peppers, but
it's usually more on tomatoes.
Speaker 2 (29:49):
Yeah, what what herbs and vegetables can be planning now?
Speaker 5 (29:59):
Well, as far as herbs go, I believe there's I mean,
you played just about all the herbs we'd have out
at Clegg's. I know a lot of people are coming
in right now for things like dill in fennel and
parsley for the for the butterflies.
Speaker 4 (30:15):
Right those Unfortunately, especially the parsley can kind of play
out or go to seed in the summertime. Yeah, and
it's salsa silantra. Same thing with that is it has
its tendency to just bolts faster, bolts faster this time
(30:35):
of year. So basil do you have the Amazed Basil.
Speaker 5 (30:39):
I've been having a hard time keeping it on the table.
I got some in the other day, but it's sold fairly.
Speaker 4 (30:45):
Probably ought to order more.
Speaker 6 (30:46):
Than Yeah, I ordered what I could.
Speaker 4 (30:51):
Maybe whoever's growing it should grow more and not worry
about Barbarie. But yeah, we were having an issue for
several years on basil with a mildew and Amazing Basil
is actually resistant to that, and it is very resistant.
Some of these resistant air quote plants aren't that great,
(31:12):
but Amazing Basil is is. If you're doing basil in
your garden, you won't know the difference. You won't be
able to taste the difference from you know, more common basils,
but it is far superior to your regular ones. So
order more, grow more.
Speaker 2 (31:29):
I think we were still on that one question. It
was the what herbs and vegetables can be planning now?
Speaker 6 (31:34):
We talked about the.
Speaker 4 (31:35):
Herbs, but yes, so there are still not the herds
Apparently I am misspelled herb. What vegetables can we plant now?
Speaker 5 (31:48):
You can still do some heat set tomatoes, right, Yeah, definitely,
and we definitely Actually now is the time.
Speaker 4 (31:53):
To plant heat set tomatoes because they'll be producing in
August September.
Speaker 5 (31:57):
Okay, and we have a quite a few varieties, and
I want to say maybe even some new ones this year.
I don't remember seeing fourth of July, know that that is.
Or thunderbird that's a new one.
Speaker 8 (32:11):
Or red bounty, whoa, that's my mind being blown.
Speaker 5 (32:17):
But we we also got some heat masters in which
that's that's only but good.
Speaker 4 (32:21):
Yeah, what if somebody doesn't want to there their spring
maybe they didn't plant the spring garden. What should gardeners
do if they just I don't want to plant, Like,
what what should they do instead of gardening? What should
they do with their garden plot? If they I don't
(32:42):
want to plant anything right now.
Speaker 5 (32:44):
There's some wild seat wildflower seats out there and help
the pollinators.
Speaker 4 (32:48):
That's an option. But why wouldn't they throw field peas
out there to fix the night? That's very good. Both
of those are very good points. Yes, But and that's
one of the things that a lot of people, you know,
as you know, get back to your wheelchi tomatoes go away.
You know what, I just don't really want to don't
leave the ground there. You're going to develop a lot
(33:09):
of weed issues.
Speaker 6 (33:11):
As we all nature doesn't like bear spot.
Speaker 2 (33:13):
No.
Speaker 4 (33:13):
Mother nature is going to something that's brown, Mother Nature
is gonna paint it green. And field peas are an
excellent way to do that because if you actually can
pick the peas, peel them and eat them, which is
a lot of work. But even if you don't do that,
if you're ready, when you're ready for the fall, just
go in. Don't even pull the piece, just take your
(33:34):
weed eater whatever and cut them off and leave the
root system in there. They're nitrogen fixers. They take nitrogen
out of the air, put a little nitrogen nodule on
their root system, and release that when they when you
come back. That's really we got a phone call we do.
Speaker 2 (33:51):
Good morning, Terry, Welcome to w jbo's Lining Garden Show.
How may we help you today?
Speaker 3 (33:55):
Hey Terry, huh hy, good morning. I have a question
about a weed that's growing in my flower beds and
in my yard. And not only do I know how
to describe it as kind of think of a day lily,
but like a mini day lily, kind of strappy leaves
that come out from the center and then straight up
in the middle of long stem and a little white
(34:16):
star shaped flower.
Speaker 4 (34:18):
I think you're right right, I think Ward, that's a
tough fee to Actually, there's really no If it is
spider word, there is no real true pre emergent for it.
If you can, I would probably suggest a topical, uh
(34:41):
direct application of a like a selective herbit, non selective
herbicide like round up take, you know, put on a
chemical resistant glove and a sponge and wipe it on,
pulling it. If it is spider word, typically that breaks off.
So it's just going to re sprout. U. Would you
mind giving out your email address? Maybe she could send
(35:03):
you a picture. Sure.
Speaker 5 (35:05):
So it's my full name, uh, Brandon Bonadonna at gmail
dot com. But I'm gonna spell that out for you.
So it's b r A or let me just start
over B as in boy r A, d as in
dog o n b as in boy o n a,
(35:27):
d as in dog o n a. And I'm and
I told you wrong. That's at Cleggs Nursery dot com. No,
I am so sorry, I am mixing up two different addresses.
Speaker 4 (35:42):
It's b. You don't spell out his first name.
Speaker 5 (35:46):
Yeah, okay, so it's just the letter be my last name,
Bonna Donna at klex nursery dot com.
Speaker 3 (35:54):
Okay, B B O n A d O n A
at Clex Nursery dot com. Yes, ma'am, Okay, I'll send
a pick. Yeah, I'd love some help on that because
I actually have sprayed round up and it kind of
half kills it.
Speaker 4 (36:08):
Okay, that's kills it.
Speaker 6 (36:10):
Maybe I need to hit it well.
Speaker 4 (36:11):
And I I'm glad you said something and that makes
me even sure that it is because that it could
also be alligator weed, but I think Braiden's right. Both
of those weeds have an extensive underground root system, so
when you treat it with a round up type product,
you only kill back so far, and it re sprouts
(36:35):
from wherever you killed it off. So it's it is
going to be multiple applications till you get till you
get that root system eradicated. So yeah, but it's end
braiding that picture. And he will respond and make sure
make sure what we're talking about, and if it is
something different, he'll send a recommendation with it also.
Speaker 3 (36:55):
Okay, you have a good day.
Speaker 4 (37:00):
I do still have an email address also at Clegg's
which is b as in boy das and dog R
E W E S at Cleggs Nursery dot com. I
do answer emails. Got a really nice email from a
caller a two weeks ago about his paper mulberry. I
originally responded mulberry and it became paper mulberry is a
(37:23):
weed that doesn't fruit. But anyway, we got a few
more minutes.
Speaker 2 (37:26):
You got another question, Yes, can we still use weedon feed?
Speaker 4 (37:35):
I'm going to say no because most of the weeds
that are because the weed and feed you would use
right now is to me very difficult to use in
that you either have to use it early in the
morning when there's dew on the grass, or you actually
have to water your lawn before you do it, because
what you be putting out in a weed and feed
(37:56):
right now is a post emergent product, meaning the we
killer has to stick to the weed for twenty four
to forty eight hours for it to be effective. I
would suggest, if you have a weed issue in your
lawn right now, to go ahead and spray MSM is
what we're going to be recommending. I think the store
still has someone talking to Chris. The little Small Economical
(38:20):
bottle has been discontinued by the manufacturer, not by Clegs,
so run by and get you one if it's something
you use fairly commonly. Because what stock Legs has is it.
They will have the larger bottles available, but they're like
one hundred and twenty something bucks and treat like one
hundred acres. Most homeowners don't need that. But you can
(38:41):
fertilize right now. Again, ideally you would do that relatively
early in the morning. You do one of water after
you put your fertilizer out, so it's going to be
a two step process. I would actually suggest fertilizing first.
That will get your weeds. The weeds will take up
the fertilz, but that's what you're wanting to do. You're
(39:01):
wanting to get that weed actively growing, so when you
do come in with your spray, it's absorbed quicker and
you're going to get a much better kill that way.
Anytime you're using a herbicide in as a spray, you
always want to use a surfactant and not ivory liquid.
You want to use a non ionic surfactant. That way
you're going to get much better application and absorption of
(39:27):
the chemical that you're trying to get into the weed
to kill it. But fertilization if you haven't done. It
is going to be very important. You want your grass
good and healthy. A good healthy lawn is your best
control for weeds period. I have a question for you, Brandon. Okay,
I'm sorry to take over for a second here, but
why are my Nico blue hydrangeous pink? Because the pH
(39:53):
balance in the soil for it's called Nico blue, it's
not called Nico pink. Yeah, it's we get that call
all the time. Hydranges left natural and baton rouge are
going to turn pink. Two reasons. One are typical soil
pH is six point eight, which is basically neutral, but
(40:17):
we call it an alkaline soil here. And the biggest
issue is because baton ridge water, which is excellent for
us as humans, is an eight point two pH which
causes your soil to become basic, and basic soil for
hydrange is is going to turn it pink. So if
you want blue hydranges in Baton rouge, you heard going
(40:37):
to have to periodically use aluminum sulfate that will keep
your soil pH down so that you will actually have
blue hydrangs. And you want to do that much earlier
in the system. You're not going to be able to
change the color. This laid into the system. Welcome back,
in turn, we missed you a much better show, much
(40:57):
quicker show with you here. Thank you, Brayden. I don't
know why I have so much trouble with that. I
don't even try to get the last name anymore. Anyway.
We are Clegg's Nursery. We have four locations in the
Greater Baton Rouge area. Combine visits with us lots of
pretty plants in the nurseries. You're listening to wjbo's line
Garden Show, News Radio eleven fifty WJBO. We'll see you
(41:18):
next Saturday.
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