November 22, 2025 • 42 mins
We're looking ahead to more winter prep this week on the WJBO Lawn & Garden Show with Zane and Jessica from Clegg's Nursery! (It WILL feel like fall or winter around here eventually, right?)
They'll also look ahead to the Poinsettia Open House coming to the Clegg's Greenwell Springs location on November 29 and take plenty of your 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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They'll also look ahead to the Poinsettia Open House coming to the Clegg's Greenwell Springs location on November 29 and take plenty of your 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.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Show, brought to you by Cleg's Nursery. If you have
a question about seasonal planting, Lon and garden concerns or questions.
Speaker 3 (00:14):
About landscaping, called four nine nine WGBO.
Speaker 4 (00:18):
That's four nine nine two six.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Good Saturday morning, and welcome to the WJBO One and
Garden Show. My name is Zay Mercer, joined here with
Jessica Poiesi.
Speaker 4 (00:28):
Good morning, Good morning everyone.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
It is a wonderful morning today.
Speaker 4 (00:33):
It's pretty nice.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
I'll do not as foggy as it was the past
few days. I've been cracking up with that because it
was like, man, it got the one day, it got
foggier as the day progressed, and I was just like
what in the world. I was like, but hey, I
get to test out my new fog lights I put
in my truck. Hey if my dad was giving me
a hard time because he was like, why are you
(00:55):
putting new fog lights in, It's like cuz they're new,
you know. So But anyway, we're on the radio right
now to talk about lawn and garden stuff, not fog lights.
So we've got a lot of things going on. It's exciting.
You know, it's a kind of a cool transition period
(01:15):
because it's a you know, if you hadn't pulled up
your venca, you probably should have. But got a lot
of stuff going on. I mean, we've got Point Setta
is kind of ripping and rare, and right now plenty
of fall winter color. That kind of thing. I wanted
to take a moment talk about, like, you know, our
(01:37):
bulb availability was going to have plenty of ammarellists for
the most part, narcissus, some daffodils and tulips, and still
time to get those in the ground. Go ahead and
start them now, especially like your tulips, because you gotta
you're gonna have to refrigerate your tulips for six weeks
(01:58):
just so that we can enjoy them in the spring.
You know. I actually just was pretty proud, all right.
I cut back all my lantana the other day. Okay,
it was time, you know, I mean it's still blooming
pretty good, but it was like, all right, it's time
to clean everything up, you know.
Speaker 4 (02:13):
So and we do actually still have some lantana at
the stores. They're on sale too, right, Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
I think they're five ninety nine. Yeah, you can't really
beat that for a perennial that just comes back each year.
And I have plenty at the Greendeal Springs location and
at her Color Division which is right next door. So
but I'll talk about that place later. So, but you know,
we've got pansies and snab dragons. That's gonna be like
(02:40):
your typical fall through the winter plantings. All right, you.
Speaker 4 (02:44):
Got your viola, yeah, your dianthus.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
Yeah, even your ornamental cabbages and stuff. So I was excited.
I went to I work at the greenal Spring store now,
but I was at the Seagan store the other day
and that planting that cat decrapont oh yeah around in
the one flower bed looks so good. I was real excited.
Like so, she had asked me. She said she needed
(03:08):
something big and leafy, and I was like mustard greens,
which you know a lot of people don't think about.
It's like, I mean mustard greens or even I used
to use Dinosaur Cam just for like a cool little
texture change, because I mean you're playing your snap dragons,
your pansies, those are all like a little bit smaller leaf, right,
(03:30):
It's more the focus of those plants is more on
blooms versus you need a little sometimes you need a
little texture, a little foliage. It just makes stuff pop.
So but I was excited because I saw him and
I was like, oh, Pia, really good. That's that fish
and mulsion fertilizer. I'm telling you now, I swear by
(03:50):
fish mulsion fertilizer. It's just like the fast acting nitrogen
that most plants.
Speaker 4 (03:56):
Grave on anything and everything.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
I put it on almost everything, like your your shrubs
and stuff, like it's good for them. But like as
far as betting goes, it just really makes stuff pop.
Speaker 4 (04:10):
I've always heard like specifically for ferns, ye.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
Always, I mean ferns included, you know, but like you're
a like petunies for instance, typically all plant I really
like the supertunis like your bubble gum. There's a what
was it indigo and then eve us to indigo. I
really like it's a deep purple uh. And typically I'll
plant those in the fall and they'll bloom look great,
(04:36):
and then we get a hard freeze and they cut
them back to the plug and because they'll they'll burn
back a little bit. Depending on how hard of a
freeze weekend and I just hit them with fish and
moulsion fertilizer usually like the following month, like once every week,
and they explode in growth. You know, they're back to
(04:57):
the same size or bigger. And it's just it's a
fast acting nitrogen. It has a little bit of an odor.
I'm told they deodorize it, but it's still smell. I
mean I still smell it a little bit, but it
dissipates quickly, so it's not something that's like, oh, I
sprayed this week ago, I'm smelling it. I mighta smell
it for three weeks, you know that kind of deal. So,
(05:18):
but if anyone had any calls, questions, concerns, you can
reach us at four nine nine nine five two six.
We'd love to hear from you. It's four nine nine
nine five two six. And if you ever want to
tune into an old old session we have, you can
reach us on the iHeartRadio podcast. It's kind of cool,
(05:38):
you know, it's weird though. I've I try to sit
through some that I'm in and it's hard for me
to hear my voice me too, you know, it's just like, wait,
is that what I sound like? You know? But I
mean there's been countless times where it's like I'll go
tune back to what did Butch say? Yeah, Or like
we had Bill Rountree on one time and I couldn't
(06:00):
remember a variety of bush cherry that he had planted
and he had talked about it, so I was like,
let me tune back into that. So uh, but you know,
we're talking about bulb plantings, and like your winter color,
this is also the time to get your spring bloom
stuff in, like your delphinium, your fox gloves, all right, Columbine, yep,
(06:26):
those are really neat little plants because they they're just
kind of they'll be brewing during the winter, all right.
They do find they're fine. They're cold hardy, they actually are,
especially the delphinium. Delphinium is more of a northern plant,
same with the columbine. But you get them in now
so that they can develop a good root system, get
really established to give you an excellent showing of color
(06:48):
in the springtime. So uh, but moving on from betting
in bulbs, you know, and I could talk about bulbs
all day. So now that actually got this one little spot,
I think I'm gonna do tulips this year. Get Molly
off my case because she keeps mench She's like, why
don't we ever plant tulips? And it's like because because
(07:11):
I have to put them in the fridge. And it's
not it's not a big deal, you know, but it's
like one of those things that it's like, all right,
I got to remember to do this, so and it's
that's what gardening is. It's just it's all uh was
it premeditated?
Speaker 3 (07:28):
You know?
Speaker 2 (07:28):
If everything everything works out better if it's planned a
little bit, you know. But like poppies, for instance, It's
like I sewed some poppies at the beginning of the month,
which was a little bit late, you know, and that's
I mean, those are just going to be kind of
getting established and I won't see anything till springtime. So
(07:50):
but you know, right now, if you hadn't done your
winter mulching, I would recommend you go ahead and do that.
I'm starting to get some leaf drop from my open
so I use that as well just to insulate some
of my stuff. Like I've got tropicals in one bed
where it's all like tender, like Ginger's ground or kids
(08:12):
that kind of thing. So I just blow all my
leaves on top of my mulch. And then comes springtime,
I just blow those leaves off and I'll mult them up,
just use them as compost. I really like this cypress mulch.
It's like the but I like the Grade A cypress
mulch or the cedar mulch. Both of those are like
(08:32):
it's it's more fibrous, so as it gets some rain
or some irrigation, it kind of locks in place. It
helps trap in moisture and keep my plants warm. So
and I'm just you know, we hadn't had a hard
freeze yet. We had that little cold snap which you
see it, which right now we're seeing a little bit
(08:53):
of forced dormancy with some grasses, like especially like your
bermuda or your zoisho. Right now that's just going pretty
much going into four stormancy. So but you know, like
my Saint Augustine's doing, okay, got brown patch. But I
mean again, it's like the perfect you know, it's the
perfect weather for brown patch. Typically you'll see him see
(09:15):
it kind of crop up now and then early spring
just when it's not too cold but not too hot.
So but typically will use that that mulch just because
I mean it lasts too, you know. I usually put
it out once a year and I'll freshen up like
the color areas just because I'm digging and planting, you know.
(09:39):
And I've been all excited. My three year old started
actually helping me spread mulch the other day. I mean,
it wasn't the most helpful, but he will be helpful
one day. But it's it was cracking me up because
he was like, I'm gonna go get another bag, and
it was like, okay, I'm like those bags are forty pounds.
So you see him like just trying to tug like
(10:00):
drag it over, you know, and then ask him if
he needs help. No, I can do it. I'm strong,
you know. So it's just a trip. So but you know,
we want to go ahead and get our just kind
of our winter protection down, yes, right, be prepared, yeah,
because I mean South Louisiana we don't get very cold,
you know, and the granted we were like eight degrees
(10:22):
last year, but we get these weird little spikes where
it just plummets and you know, an hour or two.
And I think I've talked about this on the radio
a bunch but like an hour or two doesn't really
hurt plants too much. It's all about duration, you know.
Like I've got a variegated banana planet that took a
(10:45):
it's a little unhappy, you know, but it's not you know,
it's not dead, it's not it's not sad too much.
It's just I see a little bit of blemishes on
the leaves kind of thing. So we just want to
kind of keep an eye out for when we have
a actual hard frost. And it's the duration is the key,
(11:08):
you know. Like after we had that little cold snap,
I mean I saw plants covered up in blankets and
stuff for like four or five days, and it was
just like, no, no, it's all about duration. It's like
if we're gonna help, it needs to be like we
help and then we take the blanket off the next morning,
like immediately. So and that's the same with like the
(11:29):
frost protection that we'll carry throughout the year. It's like
they're designed to keep the frost off the plants, but
when the sun hits it, it magnifies underneath. So I
mean I remember with the eight degrees we had, I
mean it was sunny the day it started to melt
and I had to go change the propane tanks out
(11:50):
of the greenhouses and stuff, and I mean it was
it was hot underneath some of those blankets. Yeah, So
if anyone wanted to call, please call. It's four nine six.
We'll answer your calls if you just want to chat
talk about plants or whatever, you know. So, but we
we were talking about what was it betting plants and
(12:12):
color and all that stuff and mulching. Uh, you know.
But I wanted to give a shout out to and
I'm excited because this is the first year I'll actually
be there. But next weekend is the Clegg's Point Set
of open house at the Green Old Springs location, and
so it's a really exciting little thing. If you want
(12:32):
to bring your kids. There's gonna be snacks, I believe,
cookies and hot chocolate. And then Santa I think is there.
And if he's not there, we do letters to Santa
I forget. But it's just a really neat experience because
we'll grow, I mean we grow thousands a point sets
every year, and so we'll get a few for the
(12:55):
stores before the show, but we try to keep it
all full just so people can come in and kind
of see the magic. You know, I was excited. I
think it was Thursday. We had a master gardener group come,
which I forget what town they were from, maybe miss
somewhere in Mississippi, but it was impressive, like they I mean,
(13:17):
they brought up all the bocan va that was still blooming.
So it's like it was super inviting. You make the
turn through the warehouse and then all you see is
the points at us, you know. I mean, growing up,
I just thought there was a red point set and
that was it, you know. But I mean they come
in all different colors. There's ones that looked like glitter
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is on the leaves. You know. It's just like a
range of colors, and it's just a perfect little gift.
I'm not one to keep them year to year, but
you can keep them year to hear, you know. I
know there's a few people that just keep growing, like
let them get bigger. They'll take some cuttings of them,
grow those out.
Speaker 4 (13:58):
Really old one.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
But it's just a neat little sight. I mean. I
was talking to my sister who used to work there
years ago. Now she raises children, but she was cracking
me up because she was just talking about the first
thing she said was are they doing the points set
of trees again? And I was like, yeah, I mean
(14:21):
they do them every year, and she's like that was
my favorite part, you know, because essentially just select a
stem and then just keep growing it out and it's
just an a man neat thing because it's like, yes,
this is just like a little holiday plant, but the
amount of effort and work that goes into it to
make it come out perfect, because they've got to like
(14:42):
reduce daylight hours to get them to show color. And
it's kind of the same deal with moms too, where
require these other little extra steps that you don't necessarily
think about to get like a perfect little plant. You
know that you just you look at them and it's like, oh,
this is perfect. There's no blemishes, nothing, just like the
amount of effort goes into it. It's pretty neat. And
(15:05):
they were in a really tight shit that are color
Division department. I mean, you go over there, you're hard
pressed to find a weed and a pot. You know,
the concrete's always swept, super nice and clean. I mean
you walk in, everything's organized. I'll take people on tours
over there pretty frequently, and you know, we go over
(15:27):
and they're like, oh, I want this and this. Like
I took a contractor over the other day and we
looted up quite a bit of stuff out there, like
to the point they were like, do you'll have a
list going? It's I guess I have a list, you know.
But it was just like rack after rack of just
annual color.
Speaker 4 (15:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
You know, that guy was cracking me up because we
whirl through this one section in the back, which it's
just kind of a hodgepodge of our overstocked crowtons, tropicals
that kind of stuff. And there's pineapples because the workers
will grow pineapples for the year, you know, so they'll
just have pineapples in pots throughout the year and we'll
(16:10):
sell some of them, but they usually just have those
and papayas and they'll have some big tomatoes that everybody
snacks on. And he was like, I need I need
nine of those. You know. I was like like a
pineapple plant, you know, and he was just sold on it.
He was like, no, those were perfect. I'm gonna put
those in planters for the little holiday parties with a
(16:34):
little bit of color. And actually got a picture the
other day and it was pretty neat. You know, it
came out good. So but come on out if you
ever want a tour. I worked there probably more often
than I should. It's I'm there five days a week.
I'll take it right over and walk through, and I mean,
and I think it. I find it's very impressive, you know,
(16:55):
for what it is, because like the square footage everything is,
I mean rolled up. Everything's about square footage there. So
it's like, you know, how many times can I turn
over that six pack pansy like space? You know, can
I grow twenty twenty loads in that just that one
little area for the year. And so it's a neat
(17:18):
little way to look at stuff. Also, I was thought
it was cool that they work off of a week schedule,
so they'll I ask, say I want cabbages, They'll be
all right, that'll be ready week fifty three or fifty two. Yeah,
everything's on like a fifty four week schedule, which is
(17:40):
different from the way I typically look at things, you know,
because I look at it as like a month schedule.
But everything is weak because they'll have seeds. We get
seeds in week twelve, those seeds will be ready week
you know, fifteen or whatever. You know, and it's just
a neat little way. It's neat how they run it,
(18:01):
you know. I mean, And when I go down to
Florida to shop, I mean that's obviously it's a mass
scale version of that. Like I mean, we're like Greenwolf
Springs and color divisions. I think collectively it's like fourteen acres,
fifteen acres something like that, you know. And I go
down to Florida and just one property is like one
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hundred acres, you know, and it'll be like one hundred
acres of ten inch mandavilla, yeah, you know, or ten
inch high biscus, you know. And they may have some
different varieties in there, but that's still like a thousand
high biscus of one variety, you know. And it's just
cool to see because it's like, you know, it just
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kind of humbles me a little bit to where it's
like wow, I mean, they're just pumping this out because
like down in Florida, they ship everywhere. So like palms,
for instance, there's a grower I deal with down there,
and I mean she's shipping palms to Ohio to New
York and that's a whole different ball park because that's
(19:05):
like they'll put a palm in a like out in
a pool area up there for like three months and
they throw it away, you know, because it's just treated
as annual, you know. So it's like something that I
would try to protect down here. Uh, just on the
hard like hard freeze weeks that we have up there.
I mean they've got months of hard freezes, so that's
(19:27):
just it's a complete annual. Yeah. So it's just a
super neat kind of experience. So if you ever get
feel the desire to come out, we'll give you a tour,
no problem. And it's just a cool thing to see.
So moving on to more plant related things. So right now,
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since temperature has kind of risen up and you want
to you want to kind of be mindful of temperatures
when spring herbicides. Right now now, so great time to
get out our pre emergent if you didn't already get
it out, just to try to get our crab grass
under control, sticker weed under control, that kind of stuff.
(20:10):
I sprayed weed freezone the other day because I'm just
trying to hammer back the rest of my Virginia button
weed just so I can get some clear ground so
hopefully in the spring I can get my good my
Saint Augustine to kind of fill in. But we've just
been trying. It's a whole lot of weed control right now,
because some stuff put seed during the growing season, but
(20:32):
it just kind of grows during the cooler months, like
your kalinga for instance, it goes dormant, but there's still
root activity. So that just kind of, you know, ed
starts to slow down as the temperature drops, all right,
but right now it's still actively growing enough to where
we could hammer it back and just to try and
set you up for success in the spring and summer
(20:55):
to where you're not fighting it, you know. Yeah, And
that's the hardest thing is it's like it's way better
and I talk about it all the time on the radio.
It's way better, way easier to treat a problem early, like.
Speaker 4 (21:12):
Yeah, yeah, just consistently.
Speaker 2 (21:15):
Because like you're pre emerging. For instance, it's like, well,
crabgrass takes six days to germinate at forget that, I
forget the temperature. I think it's like fifty two degrees
or something. So your crab grass seed during the winter
will just stay dormant. But come January, if we start
climbing up a little bit it'll start germinating, and then
it just starts growing, and then once it gets to
(21:38):
certain size, the only way to get rid of it's
really a shovel or some round up. So it's like
it just sets up for easier success, so where when
it's hot and you're not trying to work, you can
just go do your thing, you know. And that's the
same with just all gardening. And I talked about it earlier,
(21:58):
where it's just like just let's just be a little preventative,
just makes it easier rather than fighting stuff in the
middle of the summer sweating. So so, but I guess
we could talk about some other cool things we got
at the stores right now. Camellias chamelion.
Speaker 4 (22:16):
Yeah, they are beautiful.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
They are beautiful, all right. That it's the like premiere
little fall summer or fall winter blooming plate. It's a
little neat little evergreen dark green foliage. If you're not familiar,
put on the biggest mass showing of color during the winter,
I mean, when everything else is going dormant. That's the thing,
you know, And are actually our camellias s The sank
(22:42):
was a selective variot group of seven allen are all
on sale right now. So the retail I think normal
price is fifty nine ninety nine, we're selling them for
I think forty nine. I think that's correct. So, but
they're nice. They're like four foot tall on average, full
showing great color. They come in a variety of pinks, whites, reds.
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There's even some like rouges, like magenta rouges, you know.
And it's just a cool little evergreen shrub. Like I
when I was a contractor, I would plant a typically,
like I really am fond of deciduous plants because I
find just typically the the flowering shrubs that drop their
(23:27):
leaves put on the biggest show of color when they
bloom on average, you know, like your your Spyria, your ita, uh,
I mean, father Gilla is a big fan. I'm a
big fan of that. It's more of a northern plant
still I have it in the yard. But all those
plants kind of they'll put on this huge show of
(23:48):
color in springtime with their blooming, and some of them,
like I tas more into the summer and then they'll
show fall or seasonal interest when once you get a
leaf turn like leaves will turn like orange red as
they're getting ready to fall and then there's just sticks.
But I used to use like your Sheishi Camellia silver
(24:10):
doll or white shishi, all your dwarf just in the front.
And I did the same thing with the alias, where
it was just like you put a little bit of
evergreen just to mask the sticks, all right, and then
that way you're just able and then you're able to
show up. It still looks good in the wintertime, all right,
and it's not just a bunch of sticks with mulch.
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So I'm terrible at calling out the phone number, but
I promised him I call it out right now, so
if y'all wanted, if y'all wanted to call and chat,
the phone numbers four nine, nine, five two six. See, Jeremy,
I did it all right. Yeah, I'll rese up the
clock for now, but yeah, give us a call. Phone
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lines are wide open, right. I don't think I'll see
a single person on there, so either everybody's sleeping or
they're out doing yard work. So but real exciting, you know,
I was, And I was tickled speaking of the phone
lines and calling. I was real tickled to hear my
mom had told me that my grandfather used to listen
(25:14):
to the w the Lawn and Garden Show really now, yeah,
And I was like get out of here, like in
the in the tool route, like because he has he
has a workshop in the back, or had a workshop
in the back. My parents have since taken over the property,
but he had set up like speakers and everything like
and ran speakers out so he could just he was
(25:36):
out out in the garden, he could hear it. It
was super neat. So you know, I just get tickled
here in little old hearing little old stories like that.
It's like my great uncle. I didn't even know he worked.
I knew he worked for the AG Center, but I
didn't know he researched tomato plants for fifteen years, you know,
(25:56):
because he asked his wife and she's just like, k
he worked for the Accenter for a while. And it's like,
oh cool. And then you know, my dad was cleaning
and found a whole like ten pages of notes about tomatoes,
which I think it's still at Seagan on the tag board,
which I need to get that. Yeah. Yeah, so it's
(26:18):
super cool. And you know he listed like all the
varieties back and this isn't like eighty I think it's
like eighty three or something like that. But listed all
his varieties that we carry some of them. You know.
His favorite was park Swapper, which park swapper, Yeah, that's
one you carry, it will carry. So but we got
our first phone caller of the day, and so we're
(26:40):
going to jump to Gary and Bent and rouge. Gary.
How are you?
Speaker 1 (26:44):
Oh? Pretty good?
Speaker 2 (26:45):
How a y'all doing today? Oh fabulous? Man.
Speaker 1 (26:48):
I planed with some strawberries about three weeks ago and
they're doing pretty good. But the little front came by
my leaves of falling into the into the bed. Do
I need to remove those leads?
Speaker 2 (26:57):
Or are those those bigger leaves like I seem I
got the buns of the bundles.
Speaker 1 (27:05):
Yeah, like oak tree the pecan leaves.
Speaker 2 (27:08):
Yeah. I mean, it doesn't hurt to have. It doesn't
hurt to have a little mulch, all right. So I
don't think it's gonna impact real negatively.
Speaker 1 (27:18):
It's not gonna chaine the pH of the sol.
Speaker 2 (27:21):
Yeah, it shouldn't. It takes a while. It takes a
while to do that. And I mean if you're just
using it for like a season for mulching, yeah, I
mean that would be fine. I mean you're gonna have
to clean that up come springtime. So but I would
just use I would just use what falls just as
a little bit of mulch, just to try to insulate
the soil and keep any weeds from German eating.
Speaker 1 (27:43):
Oh yeah, yeah, I was gonna go break up my
neighbor's straw and use petro.
Speaker 2 (27:47):
And that's the that's the best stuff, is pine strong,
just because since it lucks together better. All right, So
I mean, if you got some of that, use.
Speaker 1 (27:55):
That, yeah, I would, I would do it. But I
was just concerned about the pH.
Speaker 2 (27:59):
Yeah, okay, all right, right, we'll have a good one, Gary,
and good luck. Awesome. Well, I guess everybody started calling
all of a sudden. That's exciting. So we'll go ahead
and jump to Mark and bat Rouge. Good morning Mark,
how can we help you today?
Speaker 1 (28:16):
Good morning dame.
Speaker 2 (28:19):
So what we got going on?
Speaker 1 (28:21):
I have I put three this has been tall, good
looking plastic containers. I put three yellow lagustrum. Okay, now
they have sent and I've taken well care of them.
They have since gone to green. Will they pick yellow
(28:43):
again or did they not like being in applied?
Speaker 2 (28:45):
So and then you got them in good Son yes, sir, okay, sir.
So the yellow foliage is usually indicative of new growth,
all right, so come springtime, just hit them with a
little trim. You ain't got to I'm not talking about
you ain't got to cut a foot off. But if
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you just trim around the entire shrub, it'll flush out
more yellow growth. Okay, yeah, you usually you'll see more
green growth if they're in a bunch of shade or
if they get about get about yeah, so I mean
that should be sufficient. So yeah, yeah, I would just
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come springtime, I would just give them a trim. Usually
they kind of turn a little bit green and then
this time of year. Yeah, but just give them a
trim will promote more yellow foliage.
Speaker 1 (29:39):
What should I be fertilizing them with?
Speaker 2 (29:43):
So they're pretty easy. So typically just a general purpose
fertilizers sufficient, so you ain't got ain't gotta do nothing
too special with them. So like I yeah, I used
to use the Growers Special, which it's just something we
carry that I always have on hand at the house.
It's like a controlled release fertilizer, so you're not putting
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out fertilizer every other week.
Speaker 1 (30:07):
So a good looking show in these tall splendor pots.
Speaker 2 (30:12):
Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 1 (30:13):
And so I just wanted hopefully that I wanted some
yellow to come back.
Speaker 2 (30:17):
Yeah, and they should just uh like I said, come springtime.
I would say maybe middle of March, right around there. Okay,
just give them a good even trim around the whole
plant because everywhere you cut, the growth node behind where
you cut is going to activate.
Speaker 1 (30:35):
Awesome.
Speaker 2 (30:36):
Yeah, so you never want to just trim the top,
just make it around show.
Speaker 1 (30:40):
Okay, thank you so much, to have a great day.
Speaker 2 (30:43):
Take care, Mark, and everybody's calming. It's because I said
that phone call or the phone number you know. So.
But we're gonna go ahead and jump to James and
Baton rouge. Good morning, James. How can we help you?
Speaker 1 (30:56):
Yeah, I'm kind of laid on bulbs? What is is
it too late to plant bulbs in the ground like Narcissus?
Speaker 2 (31:05):
Okay, yeah, get them in, Get them in while we
got them.
Speaker 1 (31:09):
Yeah deep about three inches four inches?
Speaker 2 (31:11):
Oh no, probably not even that you want to have,
like for your Narcissus and amaryllis and most of the
bulbs you want to have. I don't want to say
the top half, but like the top quarter or so
exposed all right, okay, so just keep that top little
corner or top quarter of it exposed, so like a
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quarter to a half somewhere right around there, right.
Speaker 3 (31:35):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (31:36):
You know some stuff we would plant deeper, like your
kalladiums for instance, those you would plant deeper. But and
rule of thumb is just somewhere right around there, because
you want to just leave that little top crown exposed, okay, okay.
And the.
Speaker 1 (31:54):
Oh pansins petunias is uh time to plant now?
Speaker 2 (31:57):
Oh yes, sir, you know you want to get those
in now so we can get the best bang for
our book. You know, your your petunias, I mean your
petinuas you're going to get more life out of like
your petunias, and viola is typically at last longer into
the heat versus pansies. Will okay, okay, but yeah, I
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would just go ahead and get that stuff in the
ground as soon as you can get a free chance.
Speaker 3 (32:22):
Okay, appreciate it, all.
Speaker 2 (32:24):
Right, have a good one, all right. I guess we've
got another another caller too, so we'll jump to Mary
in Baton Rouge. Good morning, Mary, how can we help
you today? So?
Speaker 5 (32:38):
I was looking for the paint on the fruit trees.
These the paints and trunks with I can't find it anymore.
As for fun side and sechticide, let's.
Speaker 2 (32:49):
See, uh so, yeah, I don't see that too often.
I know at one point we carried it, but we
had they had discontinued it, So yeah, I don't see
that too often. And you're talking about the it's the
little product you would uh coat the fruit or the
trunk because there used to be there's two okay, Yeah,
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I don't see that too too often nowadays. So that
could be a thing whereas something was removed off the market.
Speaker 4 (33:18):
Yeah, I've never heard of that.
Speaker 2 (33:19):
Yeah, but that was that was something used to carry.
I'm pretty sure when I was cleaning up my grandfather, shit,
I had we found some in there. But yeah, don't
see that too often most of the time. Now it's
all going to be like a liquid spray for the
fruit trees. That's going to be most of what's available
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right now, right and yep, so that would be uh
typically as far as a funge of signed that would
be like your propacannas al uh. And then there's another
one out on the market as well, which we haven't
branded as like f stop and liquid systemic funge of sign.
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So not that I've seen, you know, because we'll order.
I mean, we do bookings and stuff, and we just
don't we don't really stock that anymore. So. The only
paint we carry now, which I don't necessarily agree with
is the the sealer, the wound sealer that I typically
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find causes more damage than that. So but that's really
the only paints we'll see in the market nowadays. So
I'm sure you can. You might be able to find
something on the online, but at least nothing at our
locations at least.
Speaker 4 (34:35):
All right, all right, thanks.
Speaker 2 (34:37):
You're welcome, Take care. Good morning, James. Sorry to keep
you on hold. How can I help you?
Speaker 3 (34:43):
Good morning. I was stuttering and not describing my question. Well, so,
I don't know the exact term. I have a blueberry
bush that I have two of them, two different species,
and they kind of come up with a sucker. Is
the best thing I can go all away at the bottom,
but it, you know, it's pointing out a way different directions.
(35:04):
My question is, can I, you know, cut down through
that sucker or whatever it's called and and maybe even
catch a little root and replant that for a new plant.
Speaker 2 (35:18):
Is that something you could so I typically call him
like water spounce and it's just like a it's a sucker,
you know. But uh, honestly, I mean, can you can
take a cutting of it? I would do. I feel
like I would rather do that than disturb any kind
of root zone.
Speaker 3 (35:38):
Right, So don't go, don't go below the ground, just
cut it right there off of the off the off
the trunk and stick it in good soil with a
little root stimulator.
Speaker 2 (35:48):
Yeah. Yeah, and you want it to be drier, so
like typically you would do like a higher concentration on perlite, right,
just so that it doesn't get soggy, okay, just kind
of its kind of like like I used to do
figs and yeah, okay, yeah, I think it was like
seventy per lighte. You know, it was more per lighte
(36:11):
than actual organic matter. And I just watered it a
lot just so that I could force a little root development.
Sometimes you'll you'll score the stem a little bit and
then you use as far as your rooting hormone, you
want to use a powder or there's a gel, a
rooting gel on the market. I really like the gel
(36:31):
because you dip it, you make a hole in the
soil you put it in. Uh sometimes when you use
the powder, which I mean the powder is awesome, but
it kind of can get dusted off the stem versus
like the gel just kind of sticks stupid.
Speaker 3 (36:48):
So all right, all right, And my second question is,
so I have a satoomber and a lemon and a
big old point set in fifteen gallon pots on on
rollers so I can take them in in the cold
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weather and mike, and they bearing fruit and look pretty
and all that. And my question is how long could
I keep that going or do I need to put
those fruit trees into the ground.
Speaker 2 (37:21):
The lemon, I would try to keep that in the
pot forever, you know. But the you said you had
a sad suma, I.
Speaker 3 (37:28):
Do, and they both fill up with fruit, you know, And.
Speaker 2 (37:31):
I'd say that sad suma since it gets so much
bigger than the lemon, eventually you might want to put
that in the ground.
Speaker 3 (37:40):
Okay, Okay, I'm fearful because because I've lost two satsumas
maybe three from cold, you.
Speaker 2 (37:48):
Know, in the and that would be the only thing
is like to get it really established, like I don't
like like I'll buy like a five gallon cinter stream,
but I'll put it in like a ten gallon or
fifteen gallon before even just so I can get it
as much size to it as I can, just to
give it the best chance, because otherwise, like you said,
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Simon wants to get like fifteen foot tall. So it's
like eventually it's gonna be pretty hard to move on
that roller.
Speaker 3 (38:17):
All right, all right, appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (38:20):
That welcome, James, take care. All right, We're going to
jump to Larry because we're running out of time. Good morning, Larry.
How can we help you today?
Speaker 1 (38:27):
I'm calling about it. I want to plant a fig
tree and I want to know if I could graft,
like take a piece graft and grafts another tree which
I got one in the pot and I want to
plant it. And I want to know if I could
take a fig branch a tree branch and graft it.
And I want to know, like the use of lime
(38:48):
is that I don't believe in you defort lines for nothing,
grass or gardening or anything of that nature. But would
I be going to give my my my wish it
if I use lime? Is line different?
Speaker 2 (39:02):
So lime affects the pH of the soil, so you
would use that. You would use that if your pH
is too acidic.
Speaker 1 (39:13):
All right, I'm sorry, but but I've been here most
mainly from just talking to damnateurs about you getting rid
of bug before you plant. It helps bug reduction.
Speaker 2 (39:26):
Uh, that's possibly. I hadn't noticed anything any issue with that.
Speaker 1 (39:34):
You know.
Speaker 2 (39:35):
The best thing I can recommend with bugs, depending on
what it is, is like obviously like caterpillars, I have
a very large like I do a lot of pollinators
and stuff to attract birds. But as far as like
your actual insect just random insects, I couldn't weigh gay
(39:56):
or knay on whether that actually helps or not. I
will say, you put out in your garden, you're gonna
make it more alkaline, so at a point that makes
plants not take nutrients up. Okay, you know, because plants
grow in optimal pH. So some plant, like a blueberry,
needs like four point eight all right, that's like perfect
(40:17):
for a blueberry. But if it gets up to six
or seven, it's just it's gonna stunt it. You're not
gonna get fruit because it can't take nutrients all right
from the soil.
Speaker 1 (40:27):
Right, Well, we have a little vegan began restaurant, and
I'm trying to get as close as I can to
producing a lot of the goods that you.
Speaker 2 (40:40):
Yeah, and that's gonna be typically like, especially if you're
trying to produce vegetables. All right, Vegetables are heavy feeders, Okay,
so they will do they will deplete the nutrition or
nutrients that's in the soil much quicker than other stuff.
Speaker 1 (40:58):
So I had a good experience with its growing those
a little small tomatoes. Many they go that create You
got to just stop them things from making and I
had good success with that.
Speaker 2 (41:09):
Yeah. But yeah, and as far as the fertilizer, periodically,
you're gonna have to add something because we can't just
keep taking and taking out the soil. As far as
so whether it's compost, whether it's compost or whatever, you
gotta add some little you gotta add a nitrogen source,
all right, so that can be degraded compost.
Speaker 1 (41:33):
Right, we disagree with you on that. I mean, we
could go all day on that, but I have information
and doing it without for the good success.
Speaker 2 (41:44):
Yeah No, I'm just saying overtime, it just keeps depleting
and depleting. So oh, but it looks like we ran
out of time, Larry, so uh but as always it's
a pleasure. Uh FYI we have Christmas trees in because
I ran out of time forgot to talk about that. Yes,
we have Christmas cactuses and onion plugs and onion plants.
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But come out and see us at the point set
of open house next weekend. I'll be there and we'll
get you taken care of point set of open house.
Oh it's at Clegg's Nursery on Green Old Springs Road.
Speaker 4 (42:22):
All right, what time.
Speaker 2 (42:24):
Nine to I think it's nine to noon, so speak Hey,
you're doing great, all right, thanks Jeremy. I've be lost
without you. So, as always, we'll see you at the nursery.
Take care.
Good Saturday morning, and welcome to the WGBO Lon and Garden.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
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Speaker 3 (00:14):
About landscaping, called four nine nine WGBO.
Speaker 4 (00:18):
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Speaker 2 (00:21):
Good Saturday morning, and welcome to the WJBO One and
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Jessica Poiesi.
Speaker 4 (00:28):
Good morning, Good morning everyone.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
It is a wonderful morning today.
Speaker 4 (00:33):
It's pretty nice.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
I'll do not as foggy as it was the past
few days. I've been cracking up with that because it
was like, man, it got the one day, it got
foggier as the day progressed, and I was just like
what in the world. I was like, but hey, I
get to test out my new fog lights I put
in my truck. Hey if my dad was giving me
a hard time because he was like, why are you
(00:55):
putting new fog lights in, It's like cuz they're new,
you know. So But anyway, we're on the radio right
now to talk about lawn and garden stuff, not fog lights.
So we've got a lot of things going on. It's exciting.
You know, it's a kind of a cool transition period
(01:15):
because it's a you know, if you hadn't pulled up
your venca, you probably should have. But got a lot
of stuff going on. I mean, we've got Point Setta
is kind of ripping and rare, and right now plenty
of fall winter color. That kind of thing. I wanted
to take a moment talk about, like, you know, our
(01:37):
bulb availability was going to have plenty of ammarellists for
the most part, narcissus, some daffodils and tulips, and still
time to get those in the ground. Go ahead and
start them now, especially like your tulips, because you gotta
you're gonna have to refrigerate your tulips for six weeks
(01:58):
just so that we can enjoy them in the spring.
You know. I actually just was pretty proud, all right.
I cut back all my lantana the other day. Okay,
it was time, you know, I mean it's still blooming
pretty good, but it was like, all right, it's time
to clean everything up, you know.
Speaker 4 (02:13):
So and we do actually still have some lantana at
the stores. They're on sale too, right, Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
I think they're five ninety nine. Yeah, you can't really
beat that for a perennial that just comes back each year.
And I have plenty at the Greendeal Springs location and
at her Color Division which is right next door. So
but I'll talk about that place later. So, but you know,
we've got pansies and snab dragons. That's gonna be like
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your typical fall through the winter plantings. All right, you.
Speaker 4 (02:44):
Got your viola, yeah, your dianthus.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
Yeah, even your ornamental cabbages and stuff. So I was excited.
I went to I work at the greenal Spring store now,
but I was at the Seagan store the other day
and that planting that cat decrapont oh yeah around in
the one flower bed looks so good. I was real excited.
Like so, she had asked me. She said she needed
(03:08):
something big and leafy, and I was like mustard greens,
which you know a lot of people don't think about.
It's like, I mean mustard greens or even I used
to use Dinosaur Cam just for like a cool little
texture change, because I mean you're playing your snap dragons,
your pansies, those are all like a little bit smaller leaf, right,
(03:30):
It's more the focus of those plants is more on
blooms versus you need a little sometimes you need a
little texture, a little foliage. It just makes stuff pop.
So but I was excited because I saw him and
I was like, oh, Pia, really good. That's that fish
and mulsion fertilizer. I'm telling you now, I swear by
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fish mulsion fertilizer. It's just like the fast acting nitrogen
that most plants.
Speaker 4 (03:56):
Grave on anything and everything.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
I put it on almost everything, like your your shrubs
and stuff, like it's good for them. But like as
far as betting goes, it just really makes stuff pop.
Speaker 4 (04:10):
I've always heard like specifically for ferns, ye.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
Always, I mean ferns included, you know, but like you're
a like petunies for instance, typically all plant I really
like the supertunis like your bubble gum. There's a what
was it indigo and then eve us to indigo. I
really like it's a deep purple uh. And typically I'll
plant those in the fall and they'll bloom look great,
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and then we get a hard freeze and they cut
them back to the plug and because they'll they'll burn
back a little bit. Depending on how hard of a
freeze weekend and I just hit them with fish and
moulsion fertilizer usually like the following month, like once every week,
and they explode in growth. You know, they're back to
(04:57):
the same size or bigger. And it's just it's a
fast acting nitrogen. It has a little bit of an odor.
I'm told they deodorize it, but it's still smell. I
mean I still smell it a little bit, but it
dissipates quickly, so it's not something that's like, oh, I
sprayed this week ago, I'm smelling it. I mighta smell
it for three weeks, you know that kind of deal. So,
(05:18):
but if anyone had any calls, questions, concerns, you can
reach us at four nine nine nine five two six.
We'd love to hear from you. It's four nine nine
nine five two six. And if you ever want to
tune into an old old session we have, you can
reach us on the iHeartRadio podcast. It's kind of cool,
(05:38):
you know, it's weird though. I've I try to sit
through some that I'm in and it's hard for me
to hear my voice me too, you know, it's just like, wait,
is that what I sound like? You know? But I
mean there's been countless times where it's like I'll go
tune back to what did Butch say? Yeah, Or like
we had Bill Rountree on one time and I couldn't
(06:00):
remember a variety of bush cherry that he had planted
and he had talked about it, so I was like,
let me tune back into that. So uh, but you know,
we're talking about bulb plantings, and like your winter color,
this is also the time to get your spring bloom
stuff in, like your delphinium, your fox gloves, all right, Columbine, yep,
(06:26):
those are really neat little plants because they they're just
kind of they'll be brewing during the winter, all right.
They do find they're fine. They're cold hardy, they actually are,
especially the delphinium. Delphinium is more of a northern plant,
same with the columbine. But you get them in now
so that they can develop a good root system, get
really established to give you an excellent showing of color
(06:48):
in the springtime. So uh, but moving on from betting
in bulbs, you know, and I could talk about bulbs
all day. So now that actually got this one little spot,
I think I'm gonna do tulips this year. Get Molly
off my case because she keeps mench She's like, why
don't we ever plant tulips? And it's like because because
(07:11):
I have to put them in the fridge. And it's
not it's not a big deal, you know, but it's
like one of those things that it's like, all right,
I got to remember to do this, so and it's
that's what gardening is. It's just it's all uh was
it premeditated?
Speaker 3 (07:28):
You know?
Speaker 2 (07:28):
If everything everything works out better if it's planned a
little bit, you know. But like poppies, for instance, It's
like I sewed some poppies at the beginning of the month,
which was a little bit late, you know, and that's
I mean, those are just going to be kind of
getting established and I won't see anything till springtime. So
(07:50):
but you know, right now, if you hadn't done your
winter mulching, I would recommend you go ahead and do that.
I'm starting to get some leaf drop from my open
so I use that as well just to insulate some
of my stuff. Like I've got tropicals in one bed
where it's all like tender, like Ginger's ground or kids
(08:12):
that kind of thing. So I just blow all my
leaves on top of my mulch. And then comes springtime,
I just blow those leaves off and I'll mult them up,
just use them as compost. I really like this cypress mulch.
It's like the but I like the Grade A cypress
mulch or the cedar mulch. Both of those are like
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it's it's more fibrous, so as it gets some rain
or some irrigation, it kind of locks in place. It
helps trap in moisture and keep my plants warm. So
and I'm just you know, we hadn't had a hard
freeze yet. We had that little cold snap which you
see it, which right now we're seeing a little bit
(08:53):
of forced dormancy with some grasses, like especially like your
bermuda or your zoisho. Right now that's just going pretty
much going into four stormancy. So but you know, like
my Saint Augustine's doing, okay, got brown patch. But I
mean again, it's like the perfect you know, it's the
perfect weather for brown patch. Typically you'll see him see
(09:15):
it kind of crop up now and then early spring
just when it's not too cold but not too hot.
So but typically will use that that mulch just because
I mean it lasts too, you know. I usually put
it out once a year and I'll freshen up like
the color areas just because I'm digging and planting, you know.
(09:39):
And I've been all excited. My three year old started
actually helping me spread mulch the other day. I mean,
it wasn't the most helpful, but he will be helpful
one day. But it's it was cracking me up because
he was like, I'm gonna go get another bag, and
it was like, okay, I'm like those bags are forty pounds.
So you see him like just trying to tug like
(10:00):
drag it over, you know, and then ask him if
he needs help. No, I can do it. I'm strong,
you know. So it's just a trip. So but you know,
we want to go ahead and get our just kind
of our winter protection down, yes, right, be prepared, yeah,
because I mean South Louisiana we don't get very cold,
you know, and the granted we were like eight degrees
(10:22):
last year, but we get these weird little spikes where
it just plummets and you know, an hour or two.
And I think I've talked about this on the radio
a bunch but like an hour or two doesn't really
hurt plants too much. It's all about duration, you know.
Like I've got a variegated banana planet that took a
(10:45):
it's a little unhappy, you know, but it's not you know,
it's not dead, it's not it's not sad too much.
It's just I see a little bit of blemishes on
the leaves kind of thing. So we just want to
kind of keep an eye out for when we have
a actual hard frost. And it's the duration is the key,
(11:08):
you know. Like after we had that little cold snap,
I mean I saw plants covered up in blankets and
stuff for like four or five days, and it was
just like, no, no, it's all about duration. It's like
if we're gonna help, it needs to be like we
help and then we take the blanket off the next morning,
like immediately. So and that's the same with like the
(11:29):
frost protection that we'll carry throughout the year. It's like
they're designed to keep the frost off the plants, but
when the sun hits it, it magnifies underneath. So I
mean I remember with the eight degrees we had, I
mean it was sunny the day it started to melt
and I had to go change the propane tanks out
(11:50):
of the greenhouses and stuff, and I mean it was
it was hot underneath some of those blankets. Yeah, So
if anyone wanted to call, please call. It's four nine six.
We'll answer your calls if you just want to chat
talk about plants or whatever, you know. So, but we
we were talking about what was it betting plants and
(12:12):
color and all that stuff and mulching. Uh, you know.
But I wanted to give a shout out to and
I'm excited because this is the first year I'll actually
be there. But next weekend is the Clegg's Point Set
of open house at the Green Old Springs location, and
so it's a really exciting little thing. If you want
(12:32):
to bring your kids. There's gonna be snacks, I believe,
cookies and hot chocolate. And then Santa I think is there.
And if he's not there, we do letters to Santa
I forget. But it's just a really neat experience because
we'll grow, I mean we grow thousands a point sets
every year, and so we'll get a few for the
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stores before the show, but we try to keep it
all full just so people can come in and kind
of see the magic. You know, I was excited. I
think it was Thursday. We had a master gardener group come,
which I forget what town they were from, maybe miss
somewhere in Mississippi, but it was impressive, like they I mean,
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they brought up all the bocan va that was still blooming.
So it's like it was super inviting. You make the
turn through the warehouse and then all you see is
the points at us, you know. I mean, growing up,
I just thought there was a red point set and
that was it, you know. But I mean they come
in all different colors. There's ones that looked like glitter
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is on the leaves. You know. It's just like a
range of colors, and it's just a perfect little gift.
I'm not one to keep them year to year, but
you can keep them year to hear, you know. I
know there's a few people that just keep growing, like
let them get bigger. They'll take some cuttings of them,
grow those out.
Speaker 4 (13:58):
Really old one.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
But it's just a neat little sight. I mean. I
was talking to my sister who used to work there
years ago. Now she raises children, but she was cracking
me up because she was just talking about the first
thing she said was are they doing the points set
of trees again? And I was like, yeah, I mean
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they do them every year, and she's like that was
my favorite part, you know, because essentially just select a
stem and then just keep growing it out and it's
just an a man neat thing because it's like, yes,
this is just like a little holiday plant, but the
amount of effort and work that goes into it to
make it come out perfect, because they've got to like
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reduce daylight hours to get them to show color. And
it's kind of the same deal with moms too, where
require these other little extra steps that you don't necessarily
think about to get like a perfect little plant. You
know that you just you look at them and it's like, oh,
this is perfect. There's no blemishes, nothing, just like the
amount of effort goes into it. It's pretty neat. And
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they were in a really tight shit that are color
Division department. I mean, you go over there, you're hard
pressed to find a weed and a pot. You know,
the concrete's always swept, super nice and clean. I mean
you walk in, everything's organized. I'll take people on tours
over there pretty frequently, and you know, we go over
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and they're like, oh, I want this and this. Like
I took a contractor over the other day and we
looted up quite a bit of stuff out there, like
to the point they were like, do you'll have a
list going? It's I guess I have a list, you know.
But it was just like rack after rack of just
annual color.
Speaker 4 (15:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
You know, that guy was cracking me up because we
whirl through this one section in the back, which it's
just kind of a hodgepodge of our overstocked crowtons, tropicals
that kind of stuff. And there's pineapples because the workers
will grow pineapples for the year, you know, so they'll
just have pineapples in pots throughout the year and we'll
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sell some of them, but they usually just have those
and papayas and they'll have some big tomatoes that everybody
snacks on. And he was like, I need I need
nine of those. You know. I was like like a
pineapple plant, you know, and he was just sold on it.
He was like, no, those were perfect. I'm gonna put
those in planters for the little holiday parties with a
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little bit of color. And actually got a picture the
other day and it was pretty neat. You know, it
came out good. So but come on out if you
ever want a tour. I worked there probably more often
than I should. It's I'm there five days a week.
I'll take it right over and walk through, and I mean,
and I think it. I find it's very impressive, you know,
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for what it is, because like the square footage everything is,
I mean rolled up. Everything's about square footage there. So
it's like, you know, how many times can I turn
over that six pack pansy like space? You know, can
I grow twenty twenty loads in that just that one
little area for the year. And so it's a neat
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little way to look at stuff. Also, I was thought
it was cool that they work off of a week schedule,
so they'll I ask, say I want cabbages, They'll be
all right, that'll be ready week fifty three or fifty two. Yeah,
everything's on like a fifty four week schedule, which is
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different from the way I typically look at things, you know,
because I look at it as like a month schedule.
But everything is weak because they'll have seeds. We get
seeds in week twelve, those seeds will be ready week
you know, fifteen or whatever. You know, and it's just
a neat little way. It's neat how they run it,
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you know. I mean, And when I go down to
Florida to shop, I mean that's obviously it's a mass
scale version of that. Like I mean, we're like Greenwolf
Springs and color divisions. I think collectively it's like fourteen acres,
fifteen acres something like that, you know. And I go
down to Florida and just one property is like one
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hundred acres, you know, and it'll be like one hundred
acres of ten inch mandavilla, yeah, you know, or ten
inch high biscus, you know. And they may have some
different varieties in there, but that's still like a thousand
high biscus of one variety, you know. And it's just
cool to see because it's like, you know, it just
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kind of humbles me a little bit to where it's
like wow, I mean, they're just pumping this out because
like down in Florida, they ship everywhere. So like palms,
for instance, there's a grower I deal with down there,
and I mean she's shipping palms to Ohio to New
York and that's a whole different ball park because that's
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like they'll put a palm in a like out in
a pool area up there for like three months and
they throw it away, you know, because it's just treated
as annual, you know. So it's like something that I
would try to protect down here. Uh, just on the
hard like hard freeze weeks that we have up there.
I mean they've got months of hard freezes, so that's
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just it's a complete annual. Yeah. So it's just a
super neat kind of experience. So if you ever get
feel the desire to come out, we'll give you a tour,
no problem. And it's just a cool thing to see.
So moving on to more plant related things. So right now,
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since temperature has kind of risen up and you want
to you want to kind of be mindful of temperatures
when spring herbicides. Right now now, so great time to
get out our pre emergent if you didn't already get
it out, just to try to get our crab grass
under control, sticker weed under control, that kind of stuff.
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I sprayed weed freezone the other day because I'm just
trying to hammer back the rest of my Virginia button
weed just so I can get some clear ground so
hopefully in the spring I can get my good my
Saint Augustine to kind of fill in. But we've just
been trying. It's a whole lot of weed control right now,
because some stuff put seed during the growing season, but
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it just kind of grows during the cooler months, like
your kalinga for instance, it goes dormant, but there's still
root activity. So that just kind of, you know, ed
starts to slow down as the temperature drops, all right,
but right now it's still actively growing enough to where
we could hammer it back and just to try and
set you up for success in the spring and summer
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to where you're not fighting it, you know. Yeah, And
that's the hardest thing is it's like it's way better
and I talk about it all the time on the radio.
It's way better, way easier to treat a problem early, like.
Speaker 4 (21:12):
Yeah, yeah, just consistently.
Speaker 2 (21:15):
Because like you're pre emerging. For instance, it's like, well,
crabgrass takes six days to germinate at forget that, I
forget the temperature. I think it's like fifty two degrees
or something. So your crab grass seed during the winter
will just stay dormant. But come January, if we start
climbing up a little bit it'll start germinating, and then
it just starts growing, and then once it gets to
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certain size, the only way to get rid of it's
really a shovel or some round up. So it's like
it just sets up for easier success, so where when
it's hot and you're not trying to work, you can
just go do your thing, you know. And that's the
same with just all gardening. And I talked about it earlier,
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where it's just like just let's just be a little preventative,
just makes it easier rather than fighting stuff in the
middle of the summer sweating. So so, but I guess
we could talk about some other cool things we got
at the stores right now. Camellias chamelion.
Speaker 4 (22:16):
Yeah, they are beautiful.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
They are beautiful, all right. That it's the like premiere
little fall summer or fall winter blooming plate. It's a
little neat little evergreen dark green foliage. If you're not familiar,
put on the biggest mass showing of color during the winter,
I mean, when everything else is going dormant. That's the thing,
you know, And are actually our camellias s The sank
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was a selective variot group of seven allen are all
on sale right now. So the retail I think normal
price is fifty nine ninety nine, we're selling them for
I think forty nine. I think that's correct. So, but
they're nice. They're like four foot tall on average, full
showing great color. They come in a variety of pinks, whites, reds.
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There's even some like rouges, like magenta rouges, you know.
And it's just a cool little evergreen shrub. Like I
when I was a contractor, I would plant a typically,
like I really am fond of deciduous plants because I
find just typically the the flowering shrubs that drop their
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leaves put on the biggest show of color when they
bloom on average, you know, like your your Spyria, your ita, uh,
I mean, father Gilla is a big fan. I'm a
big fan of that. It's more of a northern plant
still I have it in the yard. But all those
plants kind of they'll put on this huge show of
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color in springtime with their blooming, and some of them,
like I tas more into the summer and then they'll
show fall or seasonal interest when once you get a
leaf turn like leaves will turn like orange red as
they're getting ready to fall and then there's just sticks.
But I used to use like your Sheishi Camellia silver
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doll or white shishi, all your dwarf just in the front.
And I did the same thing with the alias, where
it was just like you put a little bit of
evergreen just to mask the sticks, all right, and then
that way you're just able and then you're able to
show up. It still looks good in the wintertime, all right,
and it's not just a bunch of sticks with mulch.
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So I'm terrible at calling out the phone number, but
I promised him I call it out right now, so
if y'all wanted, if y'all wanted to call and chat,
the phone numbers four nine, nine, five two six. See, Jeremy,
I did it all right. Yeah, I'll rese up the
clock for now, but yeah, give us a call. Phone
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lines are wide open, right. I don't think I'll see
a single person on there, so either everybody's sleeping or
they're out doing yard work. So but real exciting, you know,
I was, And I was tickled speaking of the phone
lines and calling. I was real tickled to hear my
mom had told me that my grandfather used to listen
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to the w the Lawn and Garden Show really now, yeah,
And I was like get out of here, like in
the in the tool route, like because he has he
has a workshop in the back, or had a workshop
in the back. My parents have since taken over the property,
but he had set up like speakers and everything like
and ran speakers out so he could just he was
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out out in the garden, he could hear it. It
was super neat. So you know, I just get tickled
here in little old hearing little old stories like that.
It's like my great uncle. I didn't even know he worked.
I knew he worked for the AG Center, but I
didn't know he researched tomato plants for fifteen years, you know,
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because he asked his wife and she's just like, k
he worked for the Accenter for a while. And it's like,
oh cool. And then you know, my dad was cleaning
and found a whole like ten pages of notes about tomatoes,
which I think it's still at Seagan on the tag board,
which I need to get that. Yeah. Yeah, so it's
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super cool. And you know he listed like all the
varieties back and this isn't like eighty I think it's
like eighty three or something like that. But listed all
his varieties that we carry some of them. You know.
His favorite was park Swapper, which park swapper, Yeah, that's
one you carry, it will carry. So but we got
our first phone caller of the day, and so we're
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going to jump to Gary and Bent and rouge. Gary.
How are you?
Speaker 1 (26:44):
Oh? Pretty good?
Speaker 2 (26:45):
How a y'all doing today? Oh fabulous? Man.
Speaker 1 (26:48):
I planed with some strawberries about three weeks ago and
they're doing pretty good. But the little front came by
my leaves of falling into the into the bed. Do
I need to remove those leads?
Speaker 2 (26:57):
Or are those those bigger leaves like I seem I
got the buns of the bundles.
Speaker 1 (27:05):
Yeah, like oak tree the pecan leaves.
Speaker 2 (27:08):
Yeah. I mean, it doesn't hurt to have. It doesn't
hurt to have a little mulch, all right. So I
don't think it's gonna impact real negatively.
Speaker 1 (27:18):
It's not gonna chaine the pH of the sol.
Speaker 2 (27:21):
Yeah, it shouldn't. It takes a while. It takes a
while to do that. And I mean if you're just
using it for like a season for mulching, yeah, I
mean that would be fine. I mean you're gonna have
to clean that up come springtime. So but I would
just use I would just use what falls just as
a little bit of mulch, just to try to insulate
the soil and keep any weeds from German eating.
Speaker 1 (27:43):
Oh yeah, yeah, I was gonna go break up my
neighbor's straw and use petro.
Speaker 2 (27:47):
And that's the that's the best stuff, is pine strong,
just because since it lucks together better. All right, So
I mean, if you got some of that, use.
Speaker 1 (27:55):
That, yeah, I would, I would do it. But I
was just concerned about the pH.
Speaker 2 (27:59):
Yeah, okay, all right, right, we'll have a good one, Gary,
and good luck. Awesome. Well, I guess everybody started calling
all of a sudden. That's exciting. So we'll go ahead
and jump to Mark and bat Rouge. Good morning Mark,
how can we help you today?
Speaker 1 (28:16):
Good morning dame.
Speaker 2 (28:19):
So what we got going on?
Speaker 1 (28:21):
I have I put three this has been tall, good
looking plastic containers. I put three yellow lagustrum. Okay, now
they have sent and I've taken well care of them.
They have since gone to green. Will they pick yellow
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again or did they not like being in applied?
Speaker 2 (28:45):
So and then you got them in good Son yes, sir, okay, sir.
So the yellow foliage is usually indicative of new growth,
all right, so come springtime, just hit them with a
little trim. You ain't got to I'm not talking about
you ain't got to cut a foot off. But if
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you just trim around the entire shrub, it'll flush out
more yellow growth. Okay, yeah, you usually you'll see more
green growth if they're in a bunch of shade or
if they get about get about yeah, so I mean
that should be sufficient. So yeah, yeah, I would just
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come springtime, I would just give them a trim. Usually
they kind of turn a little bit green and then
this time of year. Yeah, but just give them a
trim will promote more yellow foliage.
Speaker 1 (29:39):
What should I be fertilizing them with?
Speaker 2 (29:43):
So they're pretty easy. So typically just a general purpose
fertilizers sufficient, so you ain't got ain't gotta do nothing
too special with them. So like I yeah, I used
to use the Growers Special, which it's just something we
carry that I always have on hand at the house.
It's like a controlled release fertilizer, so you're not putting
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out fertilizer every other week.
Speaker 1 (30:07):
So a good looking show in these tall splendor pots.
Speaker 2 (30:12):
Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 1 (30:13):
And so I just wanted hopefully that I wanted some
yellow to come back.
Speaker 2 (30:17):
Yeah, and they should just uh like I said, come springtime.
I would say maybe middle of March, right around there. Okay,
just give them a good even trim around the whole
plant because everywhere you cut, the growth node behind where
you cut is going to activate.
Speaker 1 (30:35):
Awesome.
Speaker 2 (30:36):
Yeah, so you never want to just trim the top,
just make it around show.
Speaker 1 (30:40):
Okay, thank you so much, to have a great day.
Speaker 2 (30:43):
Take care, Mark, and everybody's calming. It's because I said
that phone call or the phone number you know. So.
But we're gonna go ahead and jump to James and
Baton rouge. Good morning, James. How can we help you?
Speaker 1 (30:56):
Yeah, I'm kind of laid on bulbs? What is is
it too late to plant bulbs in the ground like Narcissus?
Speaker 2 (31:05):
Okay, yeah, get them in, Get them in while we
got them.
Speaker 1 (31:09):
Yeah deep about three inches four inches?
Speaker 2 (31:11):
Oh no, probably not even that you want to have,
like for your Narcissus and amaryllis and most of the
bulbs you want to have. I don't want to say
the top half, but like the top quarter or so
exposed all right, okay, so just keep that top little
corner or top quarter of it exposed, so like a
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quarter to a half somewhere right around there, right.
Speaker 3 (31:35):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (31:36):
You know some stuff we would plant deeper, like your
kalladiums for instance, those you would plant deeper. But and
rule of thumb is just somewhere right around there, because
you want to just leave that little top crown exposed, okay, okay.
And the.
Speaker 1 (31:54):
Oh pansins petunias is uh time to plant now?
Speaker 2 (31:57):
Oh yes, sir, you know you want to get those
in now so we can get the best bang for
our book. You know, your your petunias, I mean your
petinuas you're going to get more life out of like
your petunias, and viola is typically at last longer into
the heat versus pansies. Will okay, okay, but yeah, I
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would just go ahead and get that stuff in the
ground as soon as you can get a free chance.
Speaker 3 (32:22):
Okay, appreciate it, all.
Speaker 2 (32:24):
Right, have a good one, all right. I guess we've
got another another caller too, so we'll jump to Mary
in Baton Rouge. Good morning, Mary, how can we help
you today? So?
Speaker 5 (32:38):
I was looking for the paint on the fruit trees.
These the paints and trunks with I can't find it anymore.
As for fun side and sechticide, let's.
Speaker 2 (32:49):
See, uh so, yeah, I don't see that too often.
I know at one point we carried it, but we
had they had discontinued it, So yeah, I don't see
that too often. And you're talking about the it's the
little product you would uh coat the fruit or the
trunk because there used to be there's two okay, Yeah,
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I don't see that too too often nowadays. So that
could be a thing whereas something was removed off the market.
Speaker 4 (33:18):
Yeah, I've never heard of that.
Speaker 2 (33:19):
Yeah, but that was that was something used to carry.
I'm pretty sure when I was cleaning up my grandfather, shit,
I had we found some in there. But yeah, don't
see that too often most of the time. Now it's
all going to be like a liquid spray for the
fruit trees. That's going to be most of what's available
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right now, right and yep, so that would be uh
typically as far as a funge of signed that would
be like your propacannas al uh. And then there's another
one out on the market as well, which we haven't
branded as like f stop and liquid systemic funge of sign.
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So not that I've seen, you know, because we'll order.
I mean, we do bookings and stuff, and we just
don't we don't really stock that anymore. So. The only
paint we carry now, which I don't necessarily agree with
is the the sealer, the wound sealer that I typically
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find causes more damage than that. So but that's really
the only paints we'll see in the market nowadays. So
I'm sure you can. You might be able to find
something on the online, but at least nothing at our
locations at least.
Speaker 4 (34:35):
All right, all right, thanks.
Speaker 2 (34:37):
You're welcome, Take care. Good morning, James. Sorry to keep
you on hold. How can I help you?
Speaker 3 (34:43):
Good morning. I was stuttering and not describing my question. Well, so,
I don't know the exact term. I have a blueberry
bush that I have two of them, two different species,
and they kind of come up with a sucker. Is
the best thing I can go all away at the bottom,
but it, you know, it's pointing out a way different directions.
(35:04):
My question is, can I, you know, cut down through
that sucker or whatever it's called and and maybe even
catch a little root and replant that for a new plant.
Speaker 2 (35:18):
Is that something you could so I typically call him
like water spounce and it's just like a it's a sucker,
you know. But uh, honestly, I mean, can you can
take a cutting of it? I would do. I feel
like I would rather do that than disturb any kind
of root zone.
Speaker 3 (35:38):
Right, So don't go, don't go below the ground, just
cut it right there off of the off the off
the trunk and stick it in good soil with a
little root stimulator.
Speaker 2 (35:48):
Yeah. Yeah, and you want it to be drier, so
like typically you would do like a higher concentration on perlite, right,
just so that it doesn't get soggy, okay, just kind
of its kind of like like I used to do
figs and yeah, okay, yeah, I think it was like
seventy per lighte. You know, it was more per lighte
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than actual organic matter. And I just watered it a
lot just so that I could force a little root development.
Sometimes you'll you'll score the stem a little bit and
then you use as far as your rooting hormone, you
want to use a powder or there's a gel, a
rooting gel on the market. I really like the gel
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because you dip it, you make a hole in the
soil you put it in. Uh sometimes when you use
the powder, which I mean the powder is awesome, but
it kind of can get dusted off the stem versus
like the gel just kind of sticks stupid.
Speaker 3 (36:48):
So all right, all right, And my second question is,
so I have a satoomber and a lemon and a
big old point set in fifteen gallon pots on on
rollers so I can take them in in the cold
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weather and mike, and they bearing fruit and look pretty
and all that. And my question is how long could
I keep that going or do I need to put
those fruit trees into the ground.
Speaker 2 (37:21):
The lemon, I would try to keep that in the
pot forever, you know. But the you said you had
a sad suma, I.
Speaker 3 (37:28):
Do, and they both fill up with fruit, you know, And.
Speaker 2 (37:31):
I'd say that sad suma since it gets so much
bigger than the lemon, eventually you might want to put
that in the ground.
Speaker 3 (37:40):
Okay, Okay, I'm fearful because because I've lost two satsumas
maybe three from cold, you.
Speaker 2 (37:48):
Know, in the and that would be the only thing
is like to get it really established, like I don't
like like I'll buy like a five gallon cinter stream,
but I'll put it in like a ten gallon or
fifteen gallon before even just so I can get it
as much size to it as I can, just to
give it the best chance, because otherwise, like you said,
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Simon wants to get like fifteen foot tall. So it's
like eventually it's gonna be pretty hard to move on
that roller.
Speaker 3 (38:17):
All right, all right, appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (38:20):
That welcome, James, take care. All right, We're going to
jump to Larry because we're running out of time. Good morning, Larry.
How can we help you today?
Speaker 1 (38:27):
I'm calling about it. I want to plant a fig
tree and I want to know if I could graft,
like take a piece graft and grafts another tree which
I got one in the pot and I want to
plant it. And I want to know if I could
take a fig branch a tree branch and graft it.
And I want to know, like the use of lime
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is that I don't believe in you defort lines for nothing,
grass or gardening or anything of that nature. But would
I be going to give my my my wish it
if I use lime? Is line different?
Speaker 2 (39:02):
So lime affects the pH of the soil, so you
would use that. You would use that if your pH
is too acidic.
Speaker 1 (39:13):
All right, I'm sorry, but but I've been here most
mainly from just talking to damnateurs about you getting rid
of bug before you plant. It helps bug reduction.
Speaker 2 (39:26):
Uh, that's possibly. I hadn't noticed anything any issue with that.
Speaker 1 (39:34):
You know.
Speaker 2 (39:35):
The best thing I can recommend with bugs, depending on
what it is, is like obviously like caterpillars, I have
a very large like I do a lot of pollinators
and stuff to attract birds. But as far as like
your actual insect just random insects, I couldn't weigh gay
(39:56):
or knay on whether that actually helps or not. I
will say, you put out in your garden, you're gonna
make it more alkaline, so at a point that makes
plants not take nutrients up. Okay, you know, because plants
grow in optimal pH. So some plant, like a blueberry,
needs like four point eight all right, that's like perfect
(40:17):
for a blueberry. But if it gets up to six
or seven, it's just it's gonna stunt it. You're not
gonna get fruit because it can't take nutrients all right
from the soil.
Speaker 1 (40:27):
Right, Well, we have a little vegan began restaurant, and
I'm trying to get as close as I can to
producing a lot of the goods that you.
Speaker 2 (40:40):
Yeah, and that's gonna be typically like, especially if you're
trying to produce vegetables. All right, Vegetables are heavy feeders, Okay,
so they will do they will deplete the nutrition or
nutrients that's in the soil much quicker than other stuff.
Speaker 1 (40:58):
So I had a good experience with its growing those
a little small tomatoes. Many they go that create You
got to just stop them things from making and I
had good success with that.
Speaker 2 (41:09):
Yeah. But yeah, and as far as the fertilizer, periodically,
you're gonna have to add something because we can't just
keep taking and taking out the soil. As far as
so whether it's compost, whether it's compost or whatever, you
gotta add some little you gotta add a nitrogen source,
all right, so that can be degraded compost.
Speaker 1 (41:33):
Right, we disagree with you on that. I mean, we
could go all day on that, but I have information
and doing it without for the good success.
Speaker 2 (41:44):
Yeah No, I'm just saying overtime, it just keeps depleting
and depleting. So oh, but it looks like we ran
out of time, Larry, so uh but as always it's
a pleasure. Uh FYI we have Christmas trees in because
I ran out of time forgot to talk about that. Yes,
we have Christmas cactuses and onion plugs and onion plants.
(42:08):
But come out and see us at the point set
of open house next weekend. I'll be there and we'll
get you taken care of point set of open house.
Oh it's at Clegg's Nursery on Green Old Springs Road.
Speaker 4 (42:22):
All right, what time.
Speaker 2 (42:24):
Nine to I think it's nine to noon, so speak Hey,
you're doing great, all right, thanks Jeremy. I've be lost
without you. So, as always, we'll see you at the nursery.
Take care.
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