October 14, 2023 • 43 mins
This week on the WJBO Lawn & Garden Show, local experts Zane and Braden from Clegg's Nursery talk about what's new at the nursery, why it's perfect weather to plant pansies, snapdragons and petunias, and a reminder not to wait to stop by and grab your pumpkins for Halloween and fall decorations!
Also, caller questions on getting rid of monkey grass, seeding rye grass and planting a satsuma tree!
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Also, caller questions on getting rid of monkey grass, seeding rye grass and planting a satsuma tree!
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Good Saturday morning, and welcome tothe WGBO Lawn and Garden Show, brought
to you by Cleg's Nursery. Ifyou have a question about seasonal planting,
lon and garden concerns or questions aboutlandscaping, called four nine nine WGBO.
That's four nine nine two six.Good morning, Baton rouge. How are
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y'all doing today? More Sane Mercerjoined here with Braden Bona Donna Bana Donna.
I'll get it one day, oneday on the WJBO Land and Garden
Show. So how are you doingthis morning? Doing good? It was
a little colder this morning than itwas yesterday. It was kind of nice.
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Yeah, I thought about pants thismorning. You know, it's just
enters the wind mainly, but itwas definitely refreshing. I think this is
this is fault weather, right.You know, if I didn't have my
ac go out yesterday, I wouldhave enjoyed this weather, you know.
But it was it was hot yesterday. I a little hotter than I thought
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it was gonna get. Yeah,you know, especially around run around two.
So but breeding, what's been goingon at the nursery, So we're
starting to see a lot of fallannuals come in are cooler weather annuals.
So we got a lot of snapdragons, starting to see some pansies,
got Dianthus Mom's just a lot ofa lot of stuff that puts on.
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Don't forget supertunias, Yes, alot of and regular petunias like your dream
we have waves and waves. Yeah, the supertunias. That's my that's my
favorite. That seems to be everybody'sgo to, which just I mean I
pulled mine up in July and Iplanted them in either October or November,
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right, So it's like, Imean, that was almost the I mean,
other than a couple months, thatwas almost the entire year I had
them going. So it's just,I mean, they do really well.
It was definitely a good bang formy buck. So and if anyone has
any calls or questions and they'd liketo reach us, you could reach us
at four nine nine w JBO.That's four nine two six. And it
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looks like we've got a customer actuallycalling in already. Good morning, Susanne.
How are you? I'm fine,thank you. I have a question
about Mondo graphs. Yes, ma'am. We have a section, a large
section of monkey grass or mondo grass. We would like to get rid of
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that, eradicate it and change itto say, in Augustine, what's the
best way to eradicate the monkey grass? The best way in like the cleanest
way would be to cut it out, all right. And what I what
I used to use was it's ait's a machine you rent from tripe Blay
or like any rental store called aside cutter, all right, And it's
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the same thing you would use ifyou're taking a side like Saint Augustine to
lay something fresh. Okay, what'sit called a side cutter? Oh?
A cutter? Yep. Yeah,So you just said it. You'll set
it at kind of the higher rateor the higher level, and it just
essentially scrapes that mondo right up andit'll get up the roots, yes,
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ma'am. Yeah, you just setit to the actual whatever grade you set
it to, and so you justset it to cut right below the roots
and then you pull. And thebest part about it is it leaves it
in a strip, so you canjust roll it up and put it in
a trash can. Oh that soundsgood, all right, now that you've
mentioned that, could I use itto get rid of what is it called
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rual? I have some purple rualiaand another part of my yard I would
like to get rid of. Isthat too tough for siter? If I've
cut down, if you cut itdown, you should be able to just
hit it with the side cutter anddo the same thing. It's a pretty
it's a pretty versatile tool. Okay, thank you very very much. You're
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welcome. Take care. That's oneof my favorite tools. Actually, I
mean they have ever used the one. It's it's real pretty when you when
you run a long stretch of itand then you roll it up, it
gets real heavy at a point,but uh, you know, it's nice.
It makes it look clean when you'redoing demo. It's satisfying. Yeah,
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exactly. So back to what wewere talking about with the pansies,
the snapdragons, the petunias, thisweather's perfect for them. Yeah, but
I've always been on the you know, the bandwagon of planting pansies. A
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little bit later, Yeah, theyreally don't like the warm weather. They
do not, And so that's thebiggest thing. Like we got in these
pansies over at Clegs and I justbe mindful. Obviously, you want to
get as quick a head start rightall these plants as possible. But I'm
just be mindful that with the heat, well we still need to irrigate and
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just kind of keep an eye onthem. Because when we're talking about the
heat for pansies, how hot istoo hot? Over eighty over eighty?
Yeah, you know, if we'rein the seventies, I mean that's perfect.
It's like the dream for them,right, but it's like once it's
eighties, it's kind of overbearing onthem and they just don't tolerate getting dried
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out. So but you know,and then your snapdragons, your petunias,
they do they'll do fine, right, you know, but it's just the
pansies, just be kind of mindfulof. And we also got in to
move on a lot of we gotin strawberries, that's right, we got
some finally be strawberries. Finally Ineed to start my garden. You know.
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I actually let my parents know yesterdayabout it. Ours at Homer still
really struggling from all the drought andthe heat we've had, and y'all have
a kind of neat setup. Y'alljust use it as gram car. It
was it was really cool last yearwhen they started producing strawberries and then you'll
just got them cut of nine stuff, didn't you yep, all throughout the
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spring and late into the summer.Yeah, And so the variety we got
in was what was it, FloridaBrilliance, And we're expected to get Chandler
later in the month, but that'sthe one I think I'll hold out for.
I did Florida Brilliance a couple ofyears ago, and I liked it,
but I didn't tried the Chandler.So I was gonna try that one.
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I'd be lying if I told youI knew what contars were. Well,
it was the ones we had onsale in one gallon pots last year,
That's what it was. Well,those were the ones that there was
an overturned truck. Yeah, thosecame for those were an accident, you
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know. So we also got ina bunch of vegetables. You know,
your most of your leafy stuff,broccoli, I mean, cauliflower, lettuces.
It's time to get that stuff inthe ground, and you know,
we just want to make sure keepan eye on them. That most of
those plants. The biggest thing wecan do is just fertilize them with a
good nitrogen source, like you know, Butch recommends the calcium nitrote I mean
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I have some at home and I'lluse that, but I also use a
lot of fisher moulsion fertilizer because likegrossing out my wife that's now horrible.
Yeah, but only for like aday and that's gone, you know.
But it's just I feel like that'sprobably the most effective fast acting nitrogen source
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I've used, other than like someof those higher end products from like fox
Form, you know, like theliquid feeds stuff like that. Is fish
in moltion, a liquid fertilizing itis. It's a concentrate. So does
that mean it's absorbed through the foliagelike you can spray the plant or do
you use it? It can be, but it's I mean I usually use
it as a soak okay, youknow, I'll just drench the whole the
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whole bed. Yeah, And itseems to work fairly well on that.
And I mean I use that formy pansies, my petunias, you know,
any of that stuff that really respondsto nitrogen, right, So,
and so that's just a good productfor me to always have on hand.
Speaking of which, because uh,if you walked into into our bedding house.
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That clicks right now. You wouldsee a table with pansies and there's
blood mill set up on there.So what it what's the point of using
the blood mill for the pansies.Well, Brandon, I'm glad you brought
that up. The blood meal isone of the little uh secrets of the
trade. For It's like with kalladiumsand with pansies, there's something about the
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slow acting nitrogen source and the bloodmeal that just makes them, I mean
they pop, like the color onthe pansies vibrant. It don't just make
their colors really vibrant yep, lookgood. Yeah, and just help them
grow real well, right you know, because I mean it's it's just nitrogen,
you know, but just it's slow. It's slow releasing. Okay.
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Yeah. So and if you're stillseeing some side webworms around still coming in
a lot for that yeah. Uh. You know, if I can only
stress, just please use like abifetherne product, whether it be towel Star,
bud blaster you know. Uh,any of those products work real well.
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But it's just they are still doinga number on my grass. You
know. I got eradicated most ofit, but I was cutting the grass
in the backyard, and what aresome of the major indicators that you would
have sideweb worm, a mass ofwhite moths. You know, you won't
ever actually see the worm, theworms in the ground. We'd have to
flood the soil and actually see themfloat up to the ground to ground level.
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But usually the moths, it's theclearest indicator that where you don't have
to weed eat anymore, you know, because they cut they cut the grass
for you, and so I'll justhave patches where I don't I normally would
weed eat, but I don't haveto weed eat right now. So is
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this so, I know, becausewe've talked about this many times. You
use the granular bug blaster and thisis something you just brought. Use like
a broadcaster. Yeah, yeah,you just use a little broadcaster. I
mean I have a push spreader.I usually just use my little handspreader.
Yeah, and just put it out, put down about it eighth of finantial
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water, you know, and justenough to really soak it to affect the
product so that it drops down intothe soil and it'll kill them. You
know, in the moth. We'rereally not trying to kill we're not worried
about that. We're trying to breakthe life cycle, right, you know,
so we just we kill the larvae, which causes the damage, all
right, and then they don't actuallyturn into the moth to lay more eggs.
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Right. So, and another thing, since we're talking about ones right
now, all right, we've gota lot of you know, pre emergent
win a riser questions that have beencoming through the store. Yeah, you
know, and pre emergent is probablythe most important this year. And I
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say that because of all the droughtstress we had. The grass is so
thin. I mean I stopped actuallycutting my grass probably four weeks ago,
where it's like, you know,i'd know, and it cut a little
bit, but I mean nothing's reallyactively growing, right, you know.
And it's just from all this heatstress and drought. So we're putting down
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pre emergent because the weeds can kindof move into the bear spots in your
lawn exactly, So any bare spotthat is prime real estate for something that
grows better than your grass. Soit's like, I mean, I've got
crab grass in the front, andI've got you know, I've got dove
weed and a couple other things andit's just I mean those are bear spots,
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so they feel they're way more prevalentto fill in with something else I
don't desire than my Saint Augustine,right, you know, So that pre
emergent. I mean, we sellthe turf and ornamental we'd preventer with dimension
that is great for crab grass andgrassy weeds. It covers some other weeds
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too, but the biggest thing isthe grassy weeds for me, right,
because that's the stuff that I can'tjust spray and get rid of, you
know. And I'm I don't spraysuper vigorously throughout the year, but I
do it fairly regularly, right,you know, just to keep everything under
control. But the crab like mycrab grass in the front, well,
there's only like two products that killthat, and it kills my Saint Augustine.
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Yeah, and you're defeating the purpose. Yeah. Point. So I'm
trying to do that same kind ofthat same thing we did with the web
worms where we break the life cycle. I'm trying to skip seed germinations so
that can actually tackle the mature plants. Right. So, and you know,
the so we sell that turf andornamental we'd prevent her with dimension.
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We sell a few other products aswell, So there's like the gallery that
we sell. It's which is broadleaf control does the same thing as the
turf and ornamental, all right,but it covers broad leaf. Okay,
yeah, So I mean there's abunch of range of different pre merchants we
can put out to just help keepit. Makes it easier for us than
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next year, you know, becauseit's it's less plans we have to deal
with next year to get this backunder control. This is Zane Mercer joined
here with Braden Bonadana and did it. I know, Look, it just
took what five years wherever long I'veknown you, So if y'all had any
calls or questions, please call itand question us. So me and Braiden
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don't have to talk to each other, but you could reach us at four
nine nine WJBO. That's four ninenine nine five two six, And if
you'd like to tune in at alater date at any point, you can
also listen to us on our podcaston the iHeartRadio station. You can fancy.
I know that sounded nice, didn'tit. All right, So we
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talked about the lawns a little bit. We talked about some vegetable strawberries,
all that fun stuff, the fallcolor. Yeah, everything we'd be doing
this time of year. Yeah,I'd like to move on to the more
interesting of lists. Down the list. It's going to be Japanese maples.
Yep, that's one of my favorites. And we definitely have received a really
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nice shipment of Japanese maples. Yeah, a variety of different cultivars and different
pot sizes, and they look amazing, yeah, I mean very nice.
I mean the the grower we getthis from is pretty much the other corner
of the United States, and Imean they are that is what they do.
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Yeah, So every every single one, even the little tiny ones,
look nice. Yeah, you know, and I've been really if only I
had a I don't have a spacefor it. But that orange dream that's
phenomenal. And then I've been toldit actually grows really well here at least
going towards Hammond. So yeah,I really like that one, and I
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like the the orange Ola. Thatone's really you know, they've been and
this is the second year we've gottenfrom this grower, and it just I
mean each time, I mean it'squality plants. Yeah, I mean they're
pricey, but it means an extremelyslow growing plant. I mean the ones
I have at my house, themature blood good I don't think grew any
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all right, and that's probably dueto heat stress. Yeah, this was
a rough year in their Japanese maplesin the south. And then I get
down, you know my other twowhich they since I put them in the
ground, they probably doubled in size. You know. It's I've got sango
kaku, coral bark, and thenon then the verritis, which I the
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verritis is to die for. Inthe spring, it didn't look much,
look like much right now, notmost of them. If they're in your
landscape or you've had them for awhile, that if they went through this
strout this year, they're not gonnalook that great. So just a little
bit of heat stress, you know, not a big deal. I mean,
like mine, I just put wateron them sufficiently, and that was
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the key thing, was sufficient wateringand a little bit of fertilizer. I
tell you that the fact that theyI think it offsets the cost the amount
of fertilizer have to put them onmaples versus how much you know how much
they actually cost me to buy,you know, because it really don't.
I mean it's not a heavy feeder, no, so I mean my coral
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bark, it just kind of hangsout and it I mean it put on
upwards of a foot of growth onsome of the runners, like the at
the outermost branching, in which Iwas very excited about that to say the
least, you know, but thatjust means it's happy. And then we
have a lot of them in containersat home and we've watered almost every day
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throughout the summer, and I meanthey look they look pretty good, but
still they're they're struggling through the heat. You really have to have a spot
where they're not going to get alot of evening sun, I think,
and I think that sweet spots rightaround like tewish. Yeah, anything like
to and on is just brutal.That's when we start getting to like the
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hottest part of the day. Yeah, I know, we struggle out there.
So some of the plants definitely areoh exactly exactly. Well, it
looks like we got a caller,so see it, Jared. How's it
going today? Hello, Jared,can you hear us? Good morning?
Oh yeah, yeah, you wentout for a while. Okay, thank
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you for taking my call live.Yeah, I'm a I've got a farm
around Clinton, Louisiana, and Igot a bunch of guys going up,
say we plant a bunch of regresstoday, and I'm a most concerned.
First of all, someone told meit might be a little early, but
then other people said it's okay.But what I'm concerned about it it just
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lays there with no rain, likewe've getting these dry for two weeks.
Uh, what happens to it?Does it? You know, not grow
good or what? Yeah, itjust kind of it reduces the viability of
the seed. Yeah, how long? Like like I mean, would I
have to plant over if, saywe don't get any rain for two during
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weeks? Yeah, I'm not gonnasay you won't, but that seed ain't
gonna just sit there and be okay. Uh is there any way you can
put water on it? Especially thefirst Oh god, no, no,
no, it's it's ten acres.Yeah, that's what I was afraid of.
Yeah, and then uh, youknow it's pretty far off. And
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like I said, but already gotsome guys tied up to help me,
and uh, you know, it'slike, oh god, I hate to
tell them go home. Let's waittill rain next week or ten weeks.
Yeah, I know we're supposed tobe having some rain coming through supposedly,
you know. Yeah, but okay, yeah, as long as you can
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get some water. Yeah, whatday is that? Is it supposed to
come through? Next week? Yeah? Next week sometime? Okay, Well
that might not be because I've plantedit before and then shadow about four or
five days and it ended up beingokay. Yeah, and it usually will
be. You should be okay aslong as it's not real, real hot.
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So but another temperature is starting todrop, so I would say you're
probably gonna be okay. Yeah,just as long as we get that rainfall
in the next week. Yeah.Well, I don't mind doing it again.
Joe Biden's never supported me. I'mbuying Fordell, so uh, they
make the co op money. Now. The second question, what I usually
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do is just put a little bitfur flies. So when I throw it
out and after it pops its headup, I start putting some more.
That's the right way to do it. No, that's that's the right way
to do it. I mean II usually I'll just do a When I
do dwarf fry in my yard.I'll just do a I'll do my winter
riser first, all right, whichthat's just a slow release nitrogen and potassium,
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and then I just come down withthe dwarf fry after. Okay,
that'll work good. You're welcome Hereed, take care. We know it's funny
you guys just mentioned that the expectationof rain. But I was just looking
at the latest forecast and looking nowfor the coming week. It's in the
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low single digits rain chances, soyou know, maybe it'll come back.
I mean, you know what itis around here. Rain will just pop
up out of nowhere. But nowit's starting to look like a dry week.
I looked at it at like eleveno'clock at night last night. I'm
looking, well, it's I justpulled up the weather channel aprial quick for
Clinton, Louisiana, and it's rainchances are on the low side. I'll
put it like that beautiful weather though, sixty nine for two days on coming
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up here. Nice. You knowyou can't see me throw my hands up
in the air, you know,I mean, I know it's ten acres.
Maybe it's got like a water bottleor something, and then you know,
that's the most we're just kind ofI mean, with a property like
that, we're on pretty much thatthe beck and call of when the rain
decides to come. Yeah, youknow, so you mentioned like the viability
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of the sea, because now I'mcurious, say, you know, it
gets rolled out, not a lotof rain comes through. What's the worst
case scenario for him? Yeah,if less come up, But can you
revitalize that at some point or isit once we start getting rainfall? So
the ans is always this water thing. Yeah, well, it's just the
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grass seed isn't going to do anythingon the ground til we get water,
and then if the grass seed driesout to a certain point, it won't
sprout. So you know, you'rekind of at the beck and call of
when the rainfall has So could itbe the worst case scenario you just none
of it comes up. I wouldexpect some to still come up, you
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know, only maybe just have toreseed at some point in the future to
get the bear spots out. Yeah, exactly, And that's just if we
get enough rainfall. So we gotto talk about Maples, right, which
that's very exciting yep. And wealso get to talk about all the camellias.
The sank was we've been getting infinally, Yeah, we've gotten a
lot of camellias, but burnout oncamellias. It's just I feel like every
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trailer we get is ninety camellias becauseit has been. But I'll tell you
this is the best year or besttime of year actually to get your camellias
in the ground, I mean withthe cool weather. Also the fact that
the grower that supplies us with thecamellias, they are top match. I
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mean, the biggest she she's thebiggest, you know, for the size
I mean, and even the threegallon. Yes, it's just like the
best bang for your buck. Asfar as like the plant height. If
he wants to say a camellia diedin new Yard and you needed to find
a five foot one, you couldprobably find that depending on the variety.
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And so that's what I really likeabout the fall. That and the fact
that that is one of the mostpretty plants during the winter. Otherwise it's
just an evergreen shrip. But youknow during the winter when we just have
color that's blooming. Nothing, there'svery little that actually blooms during the winter,
right as far as shrub material,and camellias are one of the few.
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Yeah, and they do put ona very nice show. I mean
I love when mine start blooming inmy house because it's just pink all across
the entire front of the house,you know, and then it's just I
mean, yeah, it's like pinksnow once it falls on my mulch and
I have to remulch, you know. But the Susankos are phenomenal. We
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also got a lot of larger,like ten gallon size tree material and like
you're Japanese magnolias, which if you'rein the market for one of those,
this would be the time to plantthose as well, right before they drop
their leaves. And that's another thing. You know. We just got a
nice selection at those ends, andwe get a range. It used to
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be we would just get you know, a couple of whites and primarily pink,
right you know, maybe a redif we were lucky. But now
there's a lot more diversity. Yea, with all the Japanese magnolias. I
haven't seen any come in yet,but usually we get like the Judy z
Uck Yeah, where what is itsensational? H Yeah? And then there's
another one yellow bird. Yeah,you know, so it's all just a
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range of those will be yellow,all right, and then we've got like
some deep reddish purple, right yep. And so it's it's real neat that
we're we're getting a little bit morevariety available to the consumer, right,
you know, even like that theElizabeth it kind of has like an off
white, yeah, like cream color. So it's just I mean, much
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more range than we did when Ifirst started, you know. And so
I've been excited about that because it'slike, oh, I mean that's a
real really unique plant. I meanit's the first market spring for me.
I have two in my front yard, and it's just I mean that's when
I know spring is here. Yeah, just because all of a sudden,
I've got fifty million flowers on mytwo little plants in the front yard.
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That and the cherry blossom trees exactly, yep, exactly. So we've been
getting all that in. We alsogot some Japanese Directs, which is a
really cool spring tree. I'm abig fan of that. We've gotten well,
we're getting ready for that native cell. So yeah, and that's exciting
too. You know, we've justbeen rearranging the whole nursery, all right,
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and now we have all of ournative plants all in one corner.
Yeah, you know, because welike to consolidate everything for the show,
because it's a real neat, littleevent. I mean, Baton Ridge Green
comes out. They get to answerquestions so I don't have to, you
know, and it's I get tovisit with them because I don't get to
see some of the guys over theretoo often. You know. I used
to work with one of them fora good while, and I see him
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very infrequently now that I have children. So but it's a good time.
A lot of questions, a lotof knowledgeable people on on the property,
and a lot of natives and alot of natives. We've gotten in a
lot of natives, and I've beenvery impressed. Everything looks so good,
I mean the quality of everything.I mean, we've got some rose mallow
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high biscus. Oh yeah, thatTexas Star, a little Texas Star look
phenomenal. You know, the Americanbeauty berry that we've been getting in.
Yeah, it's just like Tom Notch. I mean, I am a I
love that plant, yeah, right, because it's just a little it's a
little deciduous shrub most of the yearputs on those until it puts on the
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berries and then all of a suddenit's covered in purple. Yeah. And
so it's a it's a neat plantthat I think is a little bit underutilized,
you know. You know, Ireally like that. Uh what I
forget the nate that blueberry. Ithink it's like Roses blush or something like
that. I can't remember the nameof it. And that's a sore subject.
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I was trying to get mister Timeto find something for me when I
was doing my pollinatter bed because Iwas going to use those as a hedge
around the bed. They really puton some nice color, right at least
they are right now? Yeah,No, they it's like a a light
blue grayish tone during during the year. Did I say the name of that,
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right, Yeah, Roses blush,Okay, hmm. And it's just
a neat, little native native blueberry. You know. The berries aren't super
viable, but I let I mean, when I used to install them,
I would just that's for the birds, you know, they can have that.
I'm doing it for the coloring,right, And my favorite thing about
the blueberries is they turn like areddish color. Yeah, during the winter,
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just like your itea another plant that'llbe on the native. I've got
several different varieties yeah over there,and it's just a neat little color change
that's unique to those those couple ofplants for the winter, so it's not
just like a little bush throughout theyear. And I've found that it's a
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trend that most people want, likeevergreen. They don't want stuff to drop
their leaves in the winter, right, you know, they don't want sticks
in the ground. You know.One of the things that really impressed me
that we got in was the tingallon Grancy gray Beard. Yeah, because
that's a really slow growing tree.Yeah. It takes a while for them
to be able to get that sizeto be in a tin gallon pot.
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So the fact that we have someis it's pretty cool. Yeah. And
it's they're they're not my It's oneof those where like the Chinese outperforms it's
so well they do, but it'slike, I like the Chinese. It's
a cool tree, but it's aneat little It's a neat native, right,
It's a neat native. It's reallyit's a one of those plants that
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you put in a corner and thenall of a sudden you see these flowers
and you're like, oh, yeah, this is it. Yeah, you
know, this is why I plantedit here, you know. And it's
just a neat, little white,blooming small tree, you know. I
mean, it's perfect for any kindof understory planting, right right. And
then uh, you know, we'vegot all of our you know, our
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bread and butter. You know,we've got your tulip poplars, your black
fire gums, sycamore, sycamore unfortunatelynot my favorite tree. One of the
things we did get in and Ireally like when they come in is uh,
and I may say this wrong,cardonia. Yeah, the Gordonia that's
a that is a forgot we gotthose in. Actually. Yeah. So
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there's the sweet baby magnolias. Andthen you've got the cool uh you know
step cousin the Gordonia which looks likea sweet baby magnolia but it's not.
And it's a little evergreen small tree. A contractor we both know uses them
a lot for the McDonald's properties.Yeah, you know, and it's just
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I mean I love the flowers that'sflat and the petals almost look like the
rubber. Yeah, you know,it's I mean, it's a neat little
plant. Yeah, it's super slowgrowing, not very fast, but it's
like if you need something that's likeeight to ten foot and the tree it
just has a cool shape to ittoo. It makes a really nice,
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cool shape. The foliage is prettyright, there's just an overall a real
pretty plant, you know. Andthen you know, I talked about our
sweet bays, and we've got abunch of Southern magnolias as well with the
dark leaf and it's just kind ofreally come along. I really liked those.
I think it was Paris k andthree gallons we had gotten the smaller
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ones. They are really nice andthey're reasonably priced. And then that's like
the biggest thing is, you know, I want I want all of our
native stuff to be nice and reasonablypriced as best we can. You know,
now some none of the bigger stuffobviously caused a little bit more,
right, but just I mean,I think overall native plants are a little
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bit underutilized. Like we're so quickto go to you know, boxwoods and
all that stuff, and you know, and I like my yo pine hollies,
you know, I like I likemy dwarf palm meadows, like some
of those older native plants to Louisianaand the surrounding areas, right, you
know that I think are used alittle bit less. Yeah, so I
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figure, you know, we've gotto talk a good bit about a bunch
of other stuff. Yeah, let'stalk about the home decoration that we see
all at work right now. Yeah, last thing I did before I left
work yesterday was restock the corn.YEA, We've got plenty of corn stocks.
Uh, you know, lots ofpumpkins, lots of gords. If
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you want some pine straw to putout for a display, I we can
definitely help you out with that one. Not the hey, yeah, so,
but the you know, And that'swhat I'm actually doing since you know,
I wasn't going to depend on gettinghey this year, I just use
pine straw from a I'm gonna wrapit around my trailer and just for my
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hay ride right now, it'll bea pine straw ride. But you know,
I did that last year for myson, and uh, he really
got a good kick out of it. So we're gonna do that again.
Cool. Yeah, but it lookslike we've got another collar it looks like
Alan from Santa Mont or Santama,say it right? I always always mess
it up. How you doing today? Alan? The morning? The morning?
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I just planted some Japanese use Okay. They were in uh probably twelve
fifteen gallon pots. They've been inthere for fifteen years, and I just
played put them in the ground,and I was wondering if I'm giving them
enough water or not. I puta bucket on one of the sprinklers that
I got, you know, thewater system, and it showed about two
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to two and a half gallons perday. That enough. I would do
more than that. Okay, howmuch should I do? About like five
gallons? What would that be inmeans of running irrigation? Like in time?
In time? Like, how soyou have a sprinkler system on there?
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I just got, you know,I want to poly drip over there
the hole. Okay, little thicketsspray out. Yeah, what's your uh
what's the duration that you have seton that? Ten minutes? Ten minutes?
Okay, I'd increase that to probablytwenty five minutes, all right,
and like yeah, obviously as itgets cooler, we're gonna die that back
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some, you know. But it'sjust with the with the heat stress that
we had going coming up to rightnow, and then the fact that we
hadn't got any rainfall and it's sodry. The soil surrounding those use is
probably very dry, so it's justsoaking up all that water. And usually
I dug a hole out and I'llput some good sort in there when I
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plant to use last week, youknow, And that's what I'm gonna do.
All go ahead and tim on it. Yeah, And look I like
to do higher higher duration like timeduration, but less actual like I won't
do it. I want water everyday. I'll do every other day,
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you know, something like that,all right, other day, yes,
sir, yes, sir? Allright, all right, well, thank
you appreciate, You're very welcome.Take care. That's a good call.
Yeah, you know, very importantwatering. Right. So but look it
looks like we've got another caller,Kevin in Baton Rooche. Kevin, how
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you doing today? Good morning,Good morning guys. I'd like to get
some advice on planting a satsuma treein my yard. Yeah, can you
please advise me on that? Andis this a good time to plant one?
And you know, what is agood variety of satsummetry. Yeah,
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so there's a we'll tackle the varietiesfirst. There's a few varieties we have
that we carry that they all performabout the same. Like my parents had
three different varieties at the house.I couldn't tell the actual taste difference or
anything like that. But the thebiggest thing is they they fruit like a
week apart. Like the fruit ripingsabout a week apart. That's the biggest
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difference I've noticed between them. Butis there one makes more satsumas, I
mean it produces more than No,they all just have a on switch for
the most part. So yeah,which ain't a bad thing. Now,
once they get what I'll do isI'll pick the fruit off. Like so,
uh, last Christmas, gifted myfather a satsuma. I picked all
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the fruit off that were setting offthe flowers to give it as much energy
as possible for the year to strengthenup bulka because once they start, once
you start keeping the fruit, theyput on so much weight that they'll just
snap branches. So and that's oneof the great things about them is you
end up with like five thousand satsumasevery year, but that you recommend removing
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the fruit the first year. Yeah, and obviously like keep one or two,
you know, but it just justknow that the more you keep,
the heavier it's gonna of eLOAD.It's gonna be on those little stems.
Okay, I got yeah, Soand you can plant them right now,
right. I just have to watchwatering. Yeah, just watch watch watering
and all that. And then ifwe get a real cold spell, we'll
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have to protect it, right Yeah. And the biggest thing I can recommend
is just you cover it, youknow, and I know some people put
like a heat lamp and stuff likethat in there. It's also a good
idea to malt. Yeah, butI usually just heavy mulch, all right,
and then I'll cover it for thenight that it freezes and not take
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that cover off immediately. Yeah,you don't want to. Good daytime.
So now it's an okay time theplant one. Yeah, yeah, you
can get one in the ground.All right. Great, Well, thank
you for your advice. You're verywelcome. Take care, Kevin. Yeah,
you know satsuma is that really?You know, they just they keep
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on giving. They are awesome trees. It's it was kind of sad to
see, uh, some many likewell established trees take such a hard hit
from that freeze last year. It'sbecause it was eight I think I attracted.
It was like eighty two degrees Decemberseventh. It was right around my
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birthday. It was like eighty twodegrees and then it dropped down to like
sixteen and it was just it waswild. Yeah. So but you know,
we've got just a few minutes left, so I'd like to talk for
just a second, you know aboutWe've got a great selection of pumpkins and
gourts still over it clicks, youknow, a lot of specialty stuff.
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So if you want to get yourdecoration done before Halloween s comes around,
the best jump on it, becauseI mean we got and we still have
a good selection. Oh they aregoing quick. So and then we've got
a good selection of bokenvillea hanging basketsbetween the nurseries that we grow ourselves and
showing great color. Such a colorfulplant. Well it's it and it's it's
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a filler plant. Yeah. Youknow it's like, hey, I just
need a little bit more color,you know for the front or my back
patio anything like that. It's likeI'll go pick up one of those.
I mean they're on sale, youknow, right, And that's one of
those plants that they drop their leavesin the winter, but that'll come back
next year. So and then wealso have a other in addition to that,
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we also have a huge selection offruit trees that we've been getting in.
Yeah, you know. I meanI've got your peaches, your pears,
your plums, apples, blackberries,muscadines that still haven't got stocked.
You know. We just got awide range of stuff because this is that
time of year that we want toget those fall. And don't forget about
the blueberries we've got, yes,let's me forget the We have probably collectively
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seven hundred blueberries ye just at theSeagan Lane store, you know. But
it's just all that material. Wewant to get that in the ground in
addition to like what Kevin was talkingabout with the satsuma in the ground as
soon as possible, because it justgives it the best chance to grow before
we reach another scorching heat. Right. But because we haven't really received a
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whole lot of rainfall, we doneed to watch water. I mean we
can't even though it's cool outside,plants still need water. I mean,
we we we have to stay hydrated, right, you know, I mean
there's some genetic differences, but youknow, we have we have to stay
hydrated. We got to keep themhydrated. Still, so the you know,
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we also since I have a too, since I just have a couple
more minutes, I'd like to pullthe soap box over here, though,
right, and so drag it overhere dwarf citrus trees, because I just
have a few more minutes, andi'd like to talk about We actually received
a shipment of dwarf citrus. Soif you'd like a great little container plant,
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that is that is the primo plantfor that, and I would I
would say to the majority of thedwarf citrus that we have left is blood
orange, and I believe it improved. Meyer. Yeah, And there might
be one other plant over there.I forgot to make note of which one
it was. I think it wasa sad suma. But the the blood
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orange, that's like the ticket,you know, I mean, is the
sweetest orange. Ours at home isloaded down this year. Well, I
guess I guess i'd get some freeoranges today, you know. So but
the you know, we've got those, We've got the the women's and it's
just that's a great little gift togive somebody because it's just something that's going
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to keep on providing for throughout theyears. So all right, and it
you know, got about one minuteleft. It's just gonna say it was
a pleasure being on the radio withyou today as we got a few callers
in that great to hear from YEP, and we got to talk about,
you know, all the stuff weget to work around and work YEP,
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which for the most part it's prettypretty I love it, you know so.
But we'll see you around Benton Ridge. Take care,
Good Saturday morning, and welcome tothe WGBO Lawn and Garden Show, brought
to you by Cleg's Nursery. Ifyou have a question about seasonal planting,
lon and garden concerns or questions aboutlandscaping, called four nine nine WGBO.
That's four nine nine two six.Good morning, Baton rouge. How are
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y'all doing today? More Sane Mercerjoined here with Braden Bona Donna Bana Donna.
I'll get it one day, oneday on the WJBO Land and Garden
Show. So how are you doingthis morning? Doing good? It was
a little colder this morning than itwas yesterday. It was kind of nice.
(00:45):
Yeah, I thought about pants thismorning. You know, it's just
enters the wind mainly, but itwas definitely refreshing. I think this is
this is fault weather, right.You know, if I didn't have my
ac go out yesterday, I wouldhave enjoyed this weather, you know.
But it was it was hot yesterday. I a little hotter than I thought
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it was gonna get. Yeah,you know, especially around run around two.
So but breeding, what's been goingon at the nursery, So we're
starting to see a lot of fallannuals come in are cooler weather annuals.
So we got a lot of snapdragons, starting to see some pansies,
got Dianthus Mom's just a lot ofa lot of stuff that puts on.
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Don't forget supertunias, Yes, alot of and regular petunias like your dream
we have waves and waves. Yeah, the supertunias. That's my that's my
favorite. That seems to be everybody'sgo to, which just I mean I
pulled mine up in July and Iplanted them in either October or November,
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right, So it's like, Imean, that was almost the I mean,
other than a couple months, thatwas almost the entire year I had
them going. So it's just,I mean, they do really well.
It was definitely a good bang formy buck. So and if anyone has
any calls or questions and they'd liketo reach us, you could reach us
at four nine nine w JBO.That's four nine two six. And it
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looks like we've got a customer actuallycalling in already. Good morning, Susanne.
How are you? I'm fine,thank you. I have a question
about Mondo graphs. Yes, ma'am. We have a section, a large
section of monkey grass or mondo grass. We would like to get rid of
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that, eradicate it and change itto say, in Augustine, what's the
best way to eradicate the monkey grass? The best way in like the cleanest
way would be to cut it out, all right. And what I what
I used to use was it's ait's a machine you rent from tripe Blay
or like any rental store called aside cutter, all right, And it's
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the same thing you would use ifyou're taking a side like Saint Augustine to
lay something fresh. Okay, what'sit called a side cutter? Oh?
A cutter? Yep. Yeah,So you just said it. You'll set
it at kind of the higher rateor the higher level, and it just
essentially scrapes that mondo right up andit'll get up the roots, yes,
(03:30):
ma'am. Yeah, you just setit to the actual whatever grade you set
it to, and so you justset it to cut right below the roots
and then you pull. And thebest part about it is it leaves it
in a strip, so you canjust roll it up and put it in
a trash can. Oh that soundsgood, all right, now that you've
mentioned that, could I use itto get rid of what is it called
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rual? I have some purple rualiaand another part of my yard I would
like to get rid of. Isthat too tough for siter? If I've
cut down, if you cut itdown, you should be able to just
hit it with the side cutter anddo the same thing. It's a pretty
it's a pretty versatile tool. Okay, thank you very very much. You're
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welcome. Take care. That's oneof my favorite tools. Actually, I
mean they have ever used the one. It's it's real pretty when you when
you run a long stretch of itand then you roll it up, it
gets real heavy at a point,but uh, you know, it's nice.
It makes it look clean when you'redoing demo. It's satisfying. Yeah,
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exactly. So back to what wewere talking about with the pansies,
the snapdragons, the petunias, thisweather's perfect for them. Yeah, but
I've always been on the you know, the bandwagon of planting pansies. A
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little bit later, Yeah, theyreally don't like the warm weather. They
do not, And so that's thebiggest thing. Like we got in these
pansies over at Clegs and I justbe mindful. Obviously, you want to
get as quick a head start rightall these plants as possible. But I'm
just be mindful that with the heat, well we still need to irrigate and
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just kind of keep an eye onthem. Because when we're talking about the
heat for pansies, how hot istoo hot? Over eighty over eighty?
Yeah, you know, if we'rein the seventies, I mean that's perfect.
It's like the dream for them,right, but it's like once it's
eighties, it's kind of overbearing onthem and they just don't tolerate getting dried
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out. So but you know,and then your snapdragons, your petunias,
they do they'll do fine, right, you know, but it's just the
pansies, just be kind of mindfulof. And we also got in to
move on a lot of we gotin strawberries, that's right, we got
some finally be strawberries. Finally Ineed to start my garden. You know.
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I actually let my parents know yesterdayabout it. Ours at Homer still
really struggling from all the drought andthe heat we've had, and y'all have
a kind of neat setup. Y'alljust use it as gram car. It
was it was really cool last yearwhen they started producing strawberries and then you'll
just got them cut of nine stuff, didn't you yep, all throughout the
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spring and late into the summer.Yeah, And so the variety we got
in was what was it, FloridaBrilliance, And we're expected to get Chandler
later in the month, but that'sthe one I think I'll hold out for.
I did Florida Brilliance a couple ofyears ago, and I liked it,
but I didn't tried the Chandler.So I was gonna try that one.
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I'd be lying if I told youI knew what contars were. Well,
it was the ones we had onsale in one gallon pots last year,
That's what it was. Well,those were the ones that there was
an overturned truck. Yeah, thosecame for those were an accident, you
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know. So we also got ina bunch of vegetables. You know,
your most of your leafy stuff,broccoli, I mean, cauliflower, lettuces.
It's time to get that stuff inthe ground, and you know,
we just want to make sure keepan eye on them. That most of
those plants. The biggest thing wecan do is just fertilize them with a
good nitrogen source, like you know, Butch recommends the calcium nitrote I mean
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I have some at home and I'lluse that, but I also use a
lot of fisher moulsion fertilizer because likegrossing out my wife that's now horrible.
Yeah, but only for like aday and that's gone, you know.
But it's just I feel like that'sprobably the most effective fast acting nitrogen source
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I've used, other than like someof those higher end products from like fox
Form, you know, like theliquid feeds stuff like that. Is fish
in moltion, a liquid fertilizing itis. It's a concentrate. So does
that mean it's absorbed through the foliagelike you can spray the plant or do
you use it? It can be, but it's I mean I usually use
it as a soak okay, youknow, I'll just drench the whole the
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whole bed. Yeah, And itseems to work fairly well on that.
And I mean I use that formy pansies, my petunias, you know,
any of that stuff that really respondsto nitrogen, right, So,
and so that's just a good productfor me to always have on hand.
Speaking of which, because uh,if you walked into into our bedding house.
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That clicks right now. You wouldsee a table with pansies and there's
blood mill set up on there.So what it what's the point of using
the blood mill for the pansies.Well, Brandon, I'm glad you brought
that up. The blood meal isone of the little uh secrets of the
trade. For It's like with kalladiumsand with pansies, there's something about the
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slow acting nitrogen source and the bloodmeal that just makes them, I mean
they pop, like the color onthe pansies vibrant. It don't just make
their colors really vibrant yep, lookgood. Yeah, and just help them
grow real well, right you know, because I mean it's it's just nitrogen,
you know, but just it's slow. It's slow releasing. Okay.
(09:31):
Yeah. So and if you're stillseeing some side webworms around still coming in
a lot for that yeah. Uh. You know, if I can only
stress, just please use like abifetherne product, whether it be towel Star,
bud blaster you know. Uh,any of those products work real well.
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But it's just they are still doinga number on my grass. You
know. I got eradicated most ofit, but I was cutting the grass
in the backyard, and what aresome of the major indicators that you would
have sideweb worm, a mass ofwhite moths. You know, you won't
ever actually see the worm, theworms in the ground. We'd have to
flood the soil and actually see themfloat up to the ground to ground level.
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But usually the moths, it's theclearest indicator that where you don't have
to weed eat anymore, you know, because they cut they cut the grass
for you, and so I'll justhave patches where I don't I normally would
weed eat, but I don't haveto weed eat right now. So is
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this so, I know, becausewe've talked about this many times. You
use the granular bug blaster and thisis something you just brought. Use like
a broadcaster. Yeah, yeah,you just use a little broadcaster. I
mean I have a push spreader.I usually just use my little handspreader.
Yeah, and just put it out, put down about it eighth of finantial
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water, you know, and justenough to really soak it to affect the
product so that it drops down intothe soil and it'll kill them. You
know, in the moth. We'rereally not trying to kill we're not worried
about that. We're trying to breakthe life cycle, right, you know,
so we just we kill the larvae, which causes the damage, all
right, and then they don't actuallyturn into the moth to lay more eggs.
(11:22):
Right. So, and another thing, since we're talking about ones right
now, all right, we've gota lot of you know, pre emergent
win a riser questions that have beencoming through the store. Yeah, you
know, and pre emergent is probablythe most important this year. And I
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say that because of all the droughtstress we had. The grass is so
thin. I mean I stopped actuallycutting my grass probably four weeks ago,
where it's like, you know,i'd know, and it cut a little
bit, but I mean nothing's reallyactively growing, right, you know.
And it's just from all this heatstress and drought. So we're putting down
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pre emergent because the weeds can kindof move into the bear spots in your
lawn exactly, So any bare spotthat is prime real estate for something that
grows better than your grass. Soit's like, I mean, I've got
crab grass in the front, andI've got you know, I've got dove
weed and a couple other things andit's just I mean those are bear spots,
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so they feel they're way more prevalentto fill in with something else I
don't desire than my Saint Augustine,right, you know, So that pre
emergent. I mean, we sellthe turf and ornamental we'd preventer with dimension
that is great for crab grass andgrassy weeds. It covers some other weeds
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too, but the biggest thing isthe grassy weeds for me, right,
because that's the stuff that I can'tjust spray and get rid of, you
know. And I'm I don't spraysuper vigorously throughout the year, but I
do it fairly regularly, right,you know, just to keep everything under
control. But the crab like mycrab grass in the front, well,
there's only like two products that killthat, and it kills my Saint Augustine.
(13:18):
Yeah, and you're defeating the purpose. Yeah. Point. So I'm
trying to do that same kind ofthat same thing we did with the web
worms where we break the life cycle. I'm trying to skip seed germinations so
that can actually tackle the mature plants. Right. So, and you know,
the so we sell that turf andornamental we'd prevent her with dimension.
(13:39):
We sell a few other products aswell, So there's like the gallery that
we sell. It's which is broadleaf control does the same thing as the
turf and ornamental, all right,but it covers broad leaf. Okay,
yeah, So I mean there's abunch of range of different pre merchants we
can put out to just help keepit. Makes it easier for us than
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next year, you know, becauseit's it's less plans we have to deal
with next year to get this backunder control. This is Zane Mercer joined
here with Braden Bonadana and did it. I know, Look, it just
took what five years wherever long I'veknown you, So if y'all had any
calls or questions, please call itand question us. So me and Braiden
(14:26):
don't have to talk to each other, but you could reach us at four
nine nine WJBO. That's four ninenine nine five two six, And if
you'd like to tune in at alater date at any point, you can
also listen to us on our podcaston the iHeartRadio station. You can fancy.
I know that sounded nice, didn'tit. All right, So we
(14:48):
talked about the lawns a little bit. We talked about some vegetable strawberries,
all that fun stuff, the fallcolor. Yeah, everything we'd be doing
this time of year. Yeah,I'd like to move on to the more
interesting of lists. Down the list. It's going to be Japanese maples.
Yep, that's one of my favorites. And we definitely have received a really
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nice shipment of Japanese maples. Yeah, a variety of different cultivars and different
pot sizes, and they look amazing, yeah, I mean very nice.
I mean the the grower we getthis from is pretty much the other corner
of the United States, and Imean they are that is what they do.
(15:33):
Yeah, So every every single one, even the little tiny ones,
look nice. Yeah, you know, and I've been really if only I
had a I don't have a spacefor it. But that orange dream that's
phenomenal. And then I've been toldit actually grows really well here at least
going towards Hammond. So yeah,I really like that one, and I
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like the the orange Ola. Thatone's really you know, they've been and
this is the second year we've gottenfrom this grower, and it just I
mean each time, I mean it'squality plants. Yeah, I mean they're
pricey, but it means an extremelyslow growing plant. I mean the ones
I have at my house, themature blood good I don't think grew any
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all right, and that's probably dueto heat stress. Yeah, this was
a rough year in their Japanese maplesin the south. And then I get
down, you know my other twowhich they since I put them in the
ground, they probably doubled in size. You know. It's I've got sango
kaku, coral bark, and thenon then the verritis, which I the
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verritis is to die for. Inthe spring, it didn't look much,
look like much right now, notmost of them. If they're in your
landscape or you've had them for awhile, that if they went through this
strout this year, they're not gonnalook that great. So just a little
bit of heat stress, you know, not a big deal. I mean,
like mine, I just put wateron them sufficiently, and that was
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the key thing, was sufficient wateringand a little bit of fertilizer. I
tell you that the fact that theyI think it offsets the cost the amount
of fertilizer have to put them onmaples versus how much you know how much
they actually cost me to buy,you know, because it really don't.
I mean it's not a heavy feeder, no, so I mean my coral
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bark, it just kind of hangsout and it I mean it put on
upwards of a foot of growth onsome of the runners, like the at
the outermost branching, in which Iwas very excited about that to say the
least, you know, but thatjust means it's happy. And then we
have a lot of them in containersat home and we've watered almost every day
(17:51):
throughout the summer, and I meanthey look they look pretty good, but
still they're they're struggling through the heat. You really have to have a spot
where they're not going to get alot of evening sun, I think,
and I think that sweet spots rightaround like tewish. Yeah, anything like
to and on is just brutal.That's when we start getting to like the
(18:12):
hottest part of the day. Yeah, I know, we struggle out there.
So some of the plants definitely areoh exactly exactly. Well, it
looks like we got a caller,so see it, Jared. How's it
going today? Hello, Jared,can you hear us? Good morning?
Oh yeah, yeah, you wentout for a while. Okay, thank
(18:34):
you for taking my call live.Yeah, I'm a I've got a farm
around Clinton, Louisiana, and Igot a bunch of guys going up,
say we plant a bunch of regresstoday, and I'm a most concerned.
First of all, someone told meit might be a little early, but
then other people said it's okay.But what I'm concerned about it it just
(18:56):
lays there with no rain, likewe've getting these dry for two weeks.
Uh, what happens to it?Does it? You know, not grow
good or what? Yeah, itjust kind of it reduces the viability of
the seed. Yeah, how long? Like like I mean, would I
have to plant over if, saywe don't get any rain for two during
(19:19):
weeks? Yeah, I'm not gonnasay you won't, but that seed ain't
gonna just sit there and be okay. Uh is there any way you can
put water on it? Especially thefirst Oh god, no, no,
no, it's it's ten acres.Yeah, that's what I was afraid of.
Yeah, and then uh, youknow it's pretty far off. And
(19:42):
like I said, but already gotsome guys tied up to help me,
and uh, you know, it'slike, oh god, I hate to
tell them go home. Let's waittill rain next week or ten weeks.
Yeah, I know we're supposed tobe having some rain coming through supposedly,
you know. Yeah, but okay, yeah, as long as you can
(20:03):
get some water. Yeah, whatday is that? Is it supposed to
come through? Next week? Yeah? Next week sometime? Okay, Well
that might not be because I've plantedit before and then shadow about four or
five days and it ended up beingokay. Yeah, and it usually will
be. You should be okay aslong as it's not real, real hot.
(20:26):
So but another temperature is starting todrop, so I would say you're
probably gonna be okay. Yeah,just as long as we get that rainfall
in the next week. Yeah.Well, I don't mind doing it again.
Joe Biden's never supported me. I'mbuying Fordell, so uh, they
make the co op money. Now. The second question, what I usually
(20:51):
do is just put a little bitfur flies. So when I throw it
out and after it pops its headup, I start putting some more.
That's the right way to do it. No, that's that's the right way
to do it. I mean II usually I'll just do a When I
do dwarf fry in my yard.I'll just do a I'll do my winter
riser first, all right, whichthat's just a slow release nitrogen and potassium,
(21:17):
and then I just come down withthe dwarf fry after. Okay,
that'll work good. You're welcome Hereed, take care. We know it's funny
you guys just mentioned that the expectationof rain. But I was just looking
at the latest forecast and looking nowfor the coming week. It's in the
(21:37):
low single digits rain chances, soyou know, maybe it'll come back.
I mean, you know what itis around here. Rain will just pop
up out of nowhere. But nowit's starting to look like a dry week.
I looked at it at like eleveno'clock at night last night. I'm
looking, well, it's I justpulled up the weather channel aprial quick for
Clinton, Louisiana, and it's rainchances are on the low side. I'll
put it like that beautiful weather though, sixty nine for two days on coming
(22:02):
up here. Nice. You knowyou can't see me throw my hands up
in the air, you know,I mean, I know it's ten acres.
Maybe it's got like a water bottleor something, and then you know,
that's the most we're just kind ofI mean, with a property like
that, we're on pretty much thatthe beck and call of when the rain
decides to come. Yeah, youknow, so you mentioned like the viability
(22:23):
of the sea, because now I'mcurious, say, you know, it
gets rolled out, not a lotof rain comes through. What's the worst
case scenario for him? Yeah,if less come up, But can you
revitalize that at some point or isit once we start getting rainfall? So
the ans is always this water thing. Yeah, well, it's just the
(22:44):
grass seed isn't going to do anythingon the ground til we get water,
and then if the grass seed driesout to a certain point, it won't
sprout. So you know, you'rekind of at the beck and call of
when the rainfall has So could itbe the worst case scenario you just none
of it comes up. I wouldexpect some to still come up, you
(23:06):
know, only maybe just have toreseed at some point in the future to
get the bear spots out. Yeah, exactly, And that's just if we
get enough rainfall. So we gotto talk about Maples, right, which
that's very exciting yep. And wealso get to talk about all the camellias.
The sank was we've been getting infinally, Yeah, we've gotten a
lot of camellias, but burnout oncamellias. It's just I feel like every
(23:30):
trailer we get is ninety camellias becauseit has been. But I'll tell you
this is the best year or besttime of year actually to get your camellias
in the ground, I mean withthe cool weather. Also the fact that
the grower that supplies us with thecamellias, they are top match. I
(23:52):
mean, the biggest she she's thebiggest, you know, for the size
I mean, and even the threegallon. Yes, it's just like the
best bang for your buck. Asfar as like the plant height. If
he wants to say a camellia diedin new Yard and you needed to find
a five foot one, you couldprobably find that depending on the variety.
(24:14):
And so that's what I really likeabout the fall. That and the fact
that that is one of the mostpretty plants during the winter. Otherwise it's
just an evergreen shrip. But youknow during the winter when we just have
color that's blooming. Nothing, there'svery little that actually blooms during the winter,
right as far as shrub material,and camellias are one of the few.
(24:37):
Yeah, and they do put ona very nice show. I mean
I love when mine start blooming inmy house because it's just pink all across
the entire front of the house,you know, and then it's just I
mean, yeah, it's like pinksnow once it falls on my mulch and
I have to remulch, you know. But the Susankos are phenomenal. We
(25:00):
also got a lot of larger,like ten gallon size tree material and like
you're Japanese magnolias, which if you'rein the market for one of those,
this would be the time to plantthose as well, right before they drop
their leaves. And that's another thing. You know. We just got a
nice selection at those ends, andwe get a range. It used to
(25:21):
be we would just get you know, a couple of whites and primarily pink,
right you know, maybe a redif we were lucky. But now
there's a lot more diversity. Yea, with all the Japanese magnolias. I
haven't seen any come in yet,but usually we get like the Judy z
Uck Yeah, where what is itsensational? H Yeah? And then there's
another one yellow bird. Yeah,you know, so it's all just a
(25:45):
range of those will be yellow,all right, and then we've got like
some deep reddish purple, right yep. And so it's it's real neat that
we're we're getting a little bit morevariety available to the consumer, right,
you know, even like that theElizabeth it kind of has like an off
white, yeah, like cream color. So it's just I mean, much
(26:06):
more range than we did when Ifirst started, you know. And so
I've been excited about that because it'slike, oh, I mean that's a
real really unique plant. I meanit's the first market spring for me.
I have two in my front yard, and it's just I mean that's when
I know spring is here. Yeah, just because all of a sudden,
I've got fifty million flowers on mytwo little plants in the front yard.
(26:30):
That and the cherry blossom trees exactly, yep, exactly. So we've been
getting all that in. We alsogot some Japanese Directs, which is a
really cool spring tree. I'm abig fan of that. We've gotten well,
we're getting ready for that native cell. So yeah, and that's exciting
too. You know, we've justbeen rearranging the whole nursery, all right,
(26:52):
and now we have all of ournative plants all in one corner.
Yeah, you know, because welike to consolidate everything for the show,
because it's a real neat, littleevent. I mean, Baton Ridge Green
comes out. They get to answerquestions so I don't have to, you
know, and it's I get tovisit with them because I don't get to
see some of the guys over theretoo often. You know. I used
to work with one of them fora good while, and I see him
(27:17):
very infrequently now that I have children. So but it's a good time.
A lot of questions, a lotof knowledgeable people on on the property,
and a lot of natives and alot of natives. We've gotten in a
lot of natives, and I've beenvery impressed. Everything looks so good,
I mean the quality of everything.I mean, we've got some rose mallow
(27:38):
high biscus. Oh yeah, thatTexas Star, a little Texas Star look
phenomenal. You know, the Americanbeauty berry that we've been getting in.
Yeah, it's just like Tom Notch. I mean, I am a I
love that plant, yeah, right, because it's just a little it's a
little deciduous shrub most of the yearputs on those until it puts on the
(28:00):
berries and then all of a suddenit's covered in purple. Yeah. And
so it's a it's a neat plantthat I think is a little bit underutilized,
you know. You know, Ireally like that. Uh what I
forget the nate that blueberry. Ithink it's like Roses blush or something like
that. I can't remember the nameof it. And that's a sore subject.
(28:22):
I was trying to get mister Timeto find something for me when I
was doing my pollinatter bed because Iwas going to use those as a hedge
around the bed. They really puton some nice color, right at least
they are right now? Yeah,No, they it's like a a light
blue grayish tone during during the year. Did I say the name of that,
(28:47):
right, Yeah, Roses blush,Okay, hmm. And it's just
a neat, little native native blueberry. You know. The berries aren't super
viable, but I let I mean, when I used to install them,
I would just that's for the birds, you know, they can have that.
I'm doing it for the coloring,right, And my favorite thing about
the blueberries is they turn like areddish color. Yeah, during the winter,
(29:10):
just like your itea another plant that'llbe on the native. I've got
several different varieties yeah over there,and it's just a neat little color change
that's unique to those those couple ofplants for the winter, so it's not
just like a little bush throughout theyear. And I've found that it's a
(29:33):
trend that most people want, likeevergreen. They don't want stuff to drop
their leaves in the winter, right, you know, they don't want sticks
in the ground. You know.One of the things that really impressed me
that we got in was the tingallon Grancy gray Beard. Yeah, because
that's a really slow growing tree.Yeah. It takes a while for them
to be able to get that sizeto be in a tin gallon pot.
(29:56):
So the fact that we have someis it's pretty cool. Yeah. And
it's they're they're not my It's oneof those where like the Chinese outperforms it's
so well they do, but it'slike, I like the Chinese. It's
a cool tree, but it's aneat little It's a neat native, right,
It's a neat native. It's reallyit's a one of those plants that
(30:18):
you put in a corner and thenall of a sudden you see these flowers
and you're like, oh, yeah, this is it. Yeah, you
know, this is why I plantedit here, you know. And it's
just a neat, little white,blooming small tree, you know. I
mean, it's perfect for any kindof understory planting, right right. And
then uh, you know, we'vegot all of our you know, our
(30:40):
bread and butter. You know,we've got your tulip poplars, your black
fire gums, sycamore, sycamore unfortunatelynot my favorite tree. One of the
things we did get in and Ireally like when they come in is uh,
and I may say this wrong,cardonia. Yeah, the Gordonia that's
a that is a forgot we gotthose in. Actually. Yeah. So
(31:03):
there's the sweet baby magnolias. Andthen you've got the cool uh you know
step cousin the Gordonia which looks likea sweet baby magnolia but it's not.
And it's a little evergreen small tree. A contractor we both know uses them
a lot for the McDonald's properties.Yeah, you know, and it's just
(31:23):
I mean I love the flowers that'sflat and the petals almost look like the
rubber. Yeah, you know,it's I mean, it's a neat little
plant. Yeah, it's super slowgrowing, not very fast, but it's
like if you need something that's likeeight to ten foot and the tree it
just has a cool shape to ittoo. It makes a really nice,
(31:44):
cool shape. The foliage is prettyright, there's just an overall a real
pretty plant, you know. Andthen you know, I talked about our
sweet bays, and we've got abunch of Southern magnolias as well with the
dark leaf and it's just kind ofreally come along. I really liked those.
I think it was Paris k andthree gallons we had gotten the smaller
(32:07):
ones. They are really nice andthey're reasonably priced. And then that's like
the biggest thing is, you know, I want I want all of our
native stuff to be nice and reasonablypriced as best we can. You know,
now some none of the bigger stuffobviously caused a little bit more,
right, but just I mean,I think overall native plants are a little
(32:29):
bit underutilized. Like we're so quickto go to you know, boxwoods and
all that stuff, and you know, and I like my yo pine hollies,
you know, I like I likemy dwarf palm meadows, like some
of those older native plants to Louisianaand the surrounding areas, right, you
know that I think are used alittle bit less. Yeah, so I
(32:52):
figure, you know, we've gotto talk a good bit about a bunch
of other stuff. Yeah, let'stalk about the home decoration that we see
all at work right now. Yeah, last thing I did before I left
work yesterday was restock the corn.YEA, We've got plenty of corn stocks.
Uh, you know, lots ofpumpkins, lots of gords. If
(33:13):
you want some pine straw to putout for a display, I we can
definitely help you out with that one. Not the hey, yeah, so,
but the you know, And that'swhat I'm actually doing since you know,
I wasn't going to depend on gettinghey this year, I just use
pine straw from a I'm gonna wrapit around my trailer and just for my
(33:34):
hay ride right now, it'll bea pine straw ride. But you know,
I did that last year for myson, and uh, he really
got a good kick out of it. So we're gonna do that again.
Cool. Yeah, but it lookslike we've got another collar it looks like
Alan from Santa Mont or Santama,say it right? I always always mess
it up. How you doing today? Alan? The morning? The morning?
(34:00):
I just planted some Japanese use Okay. They were in uh probably twelve
fifteen gallon pots. They've been inthere for fifteen years, and I just
played put them in the ground,and I was wondering if I'm giving them
enough water or not. I puta bucket on one of the sprinklers that
I got, you know, thewater system, and it showed about two
(34:22):
to two and a half gallons perday. That enough. I would do
more than that. Okay, howmuch should I do? About like five
gallons? What would that be inmeans of running irrigation? Like in time?
In time? Like, how soyou have a sprinkler system on there?
(34:43):
I just got, you know,I want to poly drip over there
the hole. Okay, little thicketsspray out. Yeah, what's your uh
what's the duration that you have seton that? Ten minutes? Ten minutes?
Okay, I'd increase that to probablytwenty five minutes, all right,
and like yeah, obviously as itgets cooler, we're gonna die that back
(35:05):
some, you know. But it'sjust with the with the heat stress that
we had going coming up to rightnow, and then the fact that we
hadn't got any rainfall and it's sodry. The soil surrounding those use is
probably very dry, so it's justsoaking up all that water. And usually
I dug a hole out and I'llput some good sort in there when I
(35:30):
plant to use last week, youknow, And that's what I'm gonna do.
All go ahead and tim on it. Yeah, And look I like
to do higher higher duration like timeduration, but less actual like I won't
do it. I want water everyday. I'll do every other day,
(35:52):
you know, something like that,all right, other day, yes,
sir, yes, sir? Allright, all right, well, thank
you appreciate, You're very welcome.Take care. That's a good call.
Yeah, you know, very importantwatering. Right. So but look it
looks like we've got another caller,Kevin in Baton Rooche. Kevin, how
(36:14):
you doing today? Good morning,Good morning guys. I'd like to get
some advice on planting a satsuma treein my yard. Yeah, can you
please advise me on that? Andis this a good time to plant one?
And you know, what is agood variety of satsummetry. Yeah,
(36:34):
so there's a we'll tackle the varietiesfirst. There's a few varieties we have
that we carry that they all performabout the same. Like my parents had
three different varieties at the house.I couldn't tell the actual taste difference or
anything like that. But the thebiggest thing is they they fruit like a
week apart. Like the fruit ripingsabout a week apart. That's the biggest
(36:57):
difference I've noticed between them. Butis there one makes more satsumas, I
mean it produces more than No,they all just have a on switch for
the most part. So yeah,which ain't a bad thing. Now,
once they get what I'll do isI'll pick the fruit off. Like so,
uh, last Christmas, gifted myfather a satsuma. I picked all
(37:20):
the fruit off that were setting offthe flowers to give it as much energy
as possible for the year to strengthenup bulka because once they start, once
you start keeping the fruit, theyput on so much weight that they'll just
snap branches. So and that's oneof the great things about them is you
end up with like five thousand satsumasevery year, but that you recommend removing
(37:43):
the fruit the first year. Yeah, and obviously like keep one or two,
you know, but it just justknow that the more you keep,
the heavier it's gonna of eLOAD.It's gonna be on those little stems.
Okay, I got yeah, Soand you can plant them right now,
right. I just have to watchwatering. Yeah, just watch watch watering
and all that. And then ifwe get a real cold spell, we'll
(38:07):
have to protect it, right Yeah. And the biggest thing I can recommend
is just you cover it, youknow, and I know some people put
like a heat lamp and stuff likethat in there. It's also a good
idea to malt. Yeah, butI usually just heavy mulch, all right,
and then I'll cover it for thenight that it freezes and not take
(38:28):
that cover off immediately. Yeah,you don't want to. Good daytime.
So now it's an okay time theplant one. Yeah, yeah, you
can get one in the ground.All right. Great, Well, thank
you for your advice. You're verywelcome. Take care, Kevin. Yeah,
you know satsuma is that really?You know, they just they keep
(38:52):
on giving. They are awesome trees. It's it was kind of sad to
see, uh, some many likewell established trees take such a hard hit
from that freeze last year. It'sbecause it was eight I think I attracted.
It was like eighty two degrees Decemberseventh. It was right around my
(39:15):
birthday. It was like eighty twodegrees and then it dropped down to like
sixteen and it was just it waswild. Yeah. So but you know,
we've got just a few minutes left, so I'd like to talk for
just a second, you know aboutWe've got a great selection of pumpkins and
gourts still over it clicks, youknow, a lot of specialty stuff.
(39:37):
So if you want to get yourdecoration done before Halloween s comes around,
the best jump on it, becauseI mean we got and we still have
a good selection. Oh they aregoing quick. So and then we've got
a good selection of bokenvillea hanging basketsbetween the nurseries that we grow ourselves and
showing great color. Such a colorfulplant. Well it's it and it's it's
(40:00):
a filler plant. Yeah. Youknow it's like, hey, I just
need a little bit more color,you know for the front or my back
patio anything like that. It's likeI'll go pick up one of those.
I mean they're on sale, youknow, right, And that's one of
those plants that they drop their leavesin the winter, but that'll come back
next year. So and then wealso have a other in addition to that,
(40:22):
we also have a huge selection offruit trees that we've been getting in.
Yeah, you know. I meanI've got your peaches, your pears,
your plums, apples, blackberries,muscadines that still haven't got stocked.
You know. We just got awide range of stuff because this is that
time of year that we want toget those fall. And don't forget about
the blueberries we've got, yes,let's me forget the We have probably collectively
(40:46):
seven hundred blueberries ye just at theSeagan Lane store, you know. But
it's just all that material. Wewant to get that in the ground in
addition to like what Kevin was talkingabout with the satsuma in the ground as
soon as possible, because it justgives it the best chance to grow before
we reach another scorching heat. Right. But because we haven't really received a
(41:08):
whole lot of rainfall, we doneed to watch water. I mean we
can't even though it's cool outside,plants still need water. I mean,
we we we have to stay hydrated, right, you know, I mean
there's some genetic differences, but youknow, we have we have to stay
hydrated. We got to keep themhydrated. Still, so the you know,
(41:30):
we also since I have a too, since I just have a couple
more minutes, I'd like to pullthe soap box over here, though,
right, and so drag it overhere dwarf citrus trees, because I just
have a few more minutes, andi'd like to talk about We actually received
a shipment of dwarf citrus. Soif you'd like a great little container plant,
(41:53):
that is that is the primo plantfor that, and I would I
would say to the majority of thedwarf citrus that we have left is blood
orange, and I believe it improved. Meyer. Yeah, And there might
be one other plant over there.I forgot to make note of which one
it was. I think it wasa sad suma. But the the blood
(42:15):
orange, that's like the ticket,you know, I mean, is the
sweetest orange. Ours at home isloaded down this year. Well, I
guess I guess i'd get some freeoranges today, you know. So but
the you know, we've got those, We've got the the women's and it's
just that's a great little gift togive somebody because it's just something that's going
(42:37):
to keep on providing for throughout theyears. So all right, and it
you know, got about one minuteleft. It's just gonna say it was
a pleasure being on the radio withyou today as we got a few callers
in that great to hear from YEP, and we got to talk about,
you know, all the stuff weget to work around and work YEP,
(42:59):
which for the most part it's prettypretty I love it, you know so.
But we'll see you around Benton Ridge. Take care,
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