September 30, 2023 • 39 mins
This week on the WJBO Lawn & Garden Show, local experts Braden and Zane from Clegg's Nursery are busy answering your questions! From planting fall vegetables, whether pineapple can be grown in our area to the benefits of micro-irrigation, there's a lot to go over!
Also, Braden and Zane touch on fall color plantings, why regular irrigation is still critical and what happens when you winterize while your lawn is still under stress.
If you'd like to be part of the WJBO Lawn and Garden Show, we'd love to have you! Call (225) 499-9526 between 8 and 9 am Saturday mornings! Call earlier in the show to make sure we have enough time for your questions!
Listen to us in the Baton Rouge area on WJBO Newsradio 1150 AM and 98.7 FM, or anywhere on our FREE iHeartRadio app! If you listen on the app, you can also send us a message by tapping the red TalkBack Mic icon!
Also, Braden and Zane touch on fall color plantings, why regular irrigation is still critical and what happens when you winterize while your lawn is still under stress.
If you'd like to be part of the WJBO Lawn and Garden Show, we'd love to have you! Call (225) 499-9526 between 8 and 9 am Saturday mornings! Call earlier in the show to make sure we have enough time for your questions!
Listen to us in the Baton Rouge area on WJBO Newsradio 1150 AM and 98.7 FM, or anywhere on our FREE iHeartRadio app! If you listen on the app, you can also send us a message by tapping the red TalkBack Mic icon!
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Good Saturday morning, and welcome tothe WJBO Lawn and Garden Show, brought
to you by Cleg's Nursery. Ifyou have a question about seasonal planting,
lanning, garden concerns, all ourquestions about landscaping, call four nine nine
w JBO. That's four ninety nineninety five two six. Good morning,
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baton rouge, have mor Saturday morning. This is the w JBO Lawn and
Garden Show. My name's Zane Mercer, joined here by with my favorite co
host, Braden Bendona. How yousaid that wrong? Good try though,
I'll get it next time. Sohow's it going you enjoin this weather this
morning or what? Man? Ialmost got a little chili this morning.
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I thought about wearing pants myself,but then you know, it's gonna be
ninety five probably before the end ofthe day. Yeah, you would regret
that decision by the end the otherday. But I'll tell you what,
this ain't too bad. It's almostlike falls pretty much here. You know,
it's just drops a couple more degrees. I think we'll be good.
Yeah. So yeah, I've beenreal excited because we've been getting a lot
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of you know, it's fall plantingseason normally normally, you know, it's
still really I mean, it's sohot outside. You know, everyone's reluctant
to want a sweat, but whocan blame them exactly exactly. So,
but I've been you know, actuallyplanning out my my fall color plantings.
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Oh yeah, yeah, don't dotoo much vegetables anymore because I can't trust
my children or my dog. Butyou know, it's about time to start
getting all that stuff in the ground. And we've got plenty of that,
like plenty of color and plenty ofvegetables in stock for the fall. I
mean, the mum's selection that wegrew at Color Division has just been phenomenal.
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Yeah, they really have been verynice, and they're just starting to
crack. We've got some yellows thatare starting to show color, a couple
other things, you know, andso that's been real exciting. For real.
It's like the sacrificial planting during theyear where it's like not the longest
period of time, you know,but it's like the most colorful. In
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my opinion, I really do likethe moms. Also the crotons. This
year, we've gotten some beautiful crotonsand then we get I mean the varieties.
Yeah, I'm not big on thelittle, the stringy ones. I
saw we had some of those onthe breezeway the other day and they show
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a lot of color. I thoughtthose were really nice. So it's not
your typical running the mills, andthat's what usually like the change. Yeah,
you know, and then you know, we've got plenty of super tunious
which I'm excited about getting those inthe ground. I like having neighbors that
I've never met before stop to goto get the mail and ask me or
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compliment me about my flower beds.It's like real heartwarming, you know.
So, But it's it's still reallyhot outside. So and I've noticed that
we've been getting in snap dragons andeven I saw some violas come in the
other day, which was kind ofcrazy to me. Is it still too
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warm? Should we kind of holdoff on I think some of that.
Yeah, it's it's a little toohot still for all that stuff. I'm
I'm real reluctant about planning like mycabbages, my ornamental cabbages, makale,
my snap dragons, and any kindof panza or viola, just because it's
it's still kind of overbearingly hot forthose cooler weather plants, you know,
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but we we pull them in becauseyou get customers that ask for them,
and you know, you gotta havethe products they ask for, right.
So well, I've seen in theforecasts that we have some cooler days is
coming up this weekend, so yeah, and it maybe that'll be some relief.
We're like right on the cusp ofwhen it's like, okay, the
temperatures starting to break, you know, and once that temperature breaks, I
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mean, the snap dragons really enjoyit, right and saying with the cabbages
and the kales, which that isactually one of my favorite of the bedding
plants because I'll just i mean,I'll make a gorgeous little hedge each year
with them, and then they withthe kale. Oh cool. So i
use that as like my front hedgeand I'll do a tiered effect, so
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it just kind of it makes myflower bed look hot, look taller than
it actually is. You know,you do this like some snap dragons behind
the kale. Yeah, yeah,I'll do snap dra Like I really enjoy
snap dragons. I mean, theybloom really well and then you just cut
them back and they bush out yeah, and they bloom really well again,
you know. So it's one ofthose plants that it doesn't last the longest,
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like you pull them up in spring, but you still get a good
bang for your buck. Yeah,and it makes a tight, pretty hedge
if you keep it trimmed. Solast year I did some some snap dragons
in a pot in my front yardand I noticed maybe about twelve or fifteen
feet away I had snap dragons poppingup in the cracks of my concrete.
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That really kind of blew my mind. Yeah, they like to give you
some volunteers in a couple of places. You know. That's the same with
several plants, like your bagonia isduring the spring. Yeah, I'll find
little bagonia babies occasionally, you know, and the same like that, they
just give you a little freebie therehere there. So, but you know,
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we're talking about fall color plantings,right, and we're talking and I
am a big proponent of getting stuffin the ground early to give you the
longest stretch where you have this productoutgrowing, right, And so they're like
the like your cabbage is, yourkales and stuff. I usually I usually
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wait till we break ninety and thenI'll start looking at planting them and then
I like getting them in as bigas we can, you know, because
before the cold comes. But ifanyone has any questions, would like to
call just to chit chat, becauseI always like to hear other people other
than myself. You can reach usat four nine nine w JBO. That's
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four nine nine nine five two six. And if you'd like to tune in
at a later date and listen toour podcast, you can reach that on
the iHeartRadio website. Awesome, yeah, I know, right' so fancy nowadays
with technology. So we're talking aboutmoms talking about you know, all over
fall color. The one thing Ididn't mention is we have the most pristine
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boken vilious right, yes, andhanging baskets. I mean it's just gorgeous,
yes, And that is one plant. It's just like the timing as
far as growing them, it's kindof weird because you want to you need
them to have color for the consumer, right, otherwise they won't they won't
really move, so you gotta yougotta time them just right. That is
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the one of the most colorful plantsto put in a hanging basket or even
a punt so I've heard over theyears a lot of people having problems with
getting bogan villas to rebloom, likewhen you buy from from a nurse or
usually they they're showing color, butafter a while it seems like people have
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a problem with getting them to rebloom. So the biggest thing I've found is
where they planted, because if they'replanted in ground in South Louisiana, they
just will only be green. You'renot going to get color, typically because
they get too much water, andwhich they love the water, but then
they focus on just that green leafgrowth and not the actual colorful leaf growth
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because the color is a modified leaf, right, Yes, that's correct,
And that's one that's one of thethings I'm really tickled about him is because
you know, everyone thinks it's aflower. It's like, no, the
flower is that tiny, tiny,little trump hour you know that you don't
even really see. So, butit looks like we've got some phone calls.
How awesome, So we'll go aheadand take the first one. Doug,
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how are you doing today? No, I'm good. Can we help
you? When do our plant ballto make it? Well? About a
month ago? You know, Butbut you could get him in the ground
right now, right, and wemight be able to get some fruit before
December. Right, we still havesome We still have someone stock, right,
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But we're a tackle. A brandis better in the ball, not
particularly, I mean the ones thatwe have out there in stock. They're
all gonna put perform fruit. Iusually stay away from, like the black
crim and some of those like slowergrowers, And what is it that we
haven't stock because I haven't really evenpassed by that table lately. There should
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be some celebrity in stock, andthen there's like one or two other varieties
and those will put on fruit foryou. But we just want to get
them in the ground asap so thatthey can actually grow to mature to a
point where they'll set fruit before thatfirst freeze. All right, thank your
bus, You're welcome. Take care. That's a good one. Another one,
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A bunch of questions today. That'sgood, Cindy. How are you
doing today? Hey, Cindy,you there morning? Good morning? Oh
yes, good morning. I havea question about my angelonious believe how you
pronounce it. So I've planted themthe spring and they've gotten so big and
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bushy and tall, they're falling over, and I hate to trim them back
right now with all the colors thatI have, but I don't have they
won't allow me to plant anything elsein front of them. How do I
maintain their color and yet be ableto I guess have space for something in
front of them, because now they'reso tall and big, and will they
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make it through the winter. Yeah, you sound sound like you dealt with
the same problem I did. Sothey're beautiful when they are in bloom,
that is that is the plant.Yeah, all right, So I when
I was a contractor, I woulduse I'd use a trimmor like a wheat
eater, all right, and Iwould actually edge them to keep them nice
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and tighten in form I had everyeverything had a home, right so in
the in the color spacing, soif it encroached out into the next plant's
home, I would just keep ittrimmed to that point, all right.
But once they say, once theystart falling over, you know, you
really want to just give them agood cutback. They typically won't make it
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through the frost, so it's usuallya spring through the into the fall plant.
And so what I usually a lotof people they've got a nickname called
summer snap dragons. So what Ido is I once it hits fall and
we break their temperature, so hopefullynext week the week after, I look
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at taking those up and replacing themwith snapdragons to achieve that same kind of
look. But it'll make it throughthe cold. Now, with that being
said, I have seen snap dragonscome back from the roots after winter,
but I really feel like that kindof depends on the severity of the winter
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that we've had and possibly where youhad them plant it in your landscape.
Okay, so these are not angelonious. I thought they were perennial, so
yes and no. So they theycan come back, but they're not.
It's it's not typically worth it tocut it all the way down to the
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ground and hope it comes back.It depends on how how wet of a
winter we have whether or not theroots will actually survive. Yeah, so
I usually look at them as likea extremely extremely long period of time annual.
All right, all right, thankyou, You're very well appreciated.
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Take care. I'm really loving Allthe phone callers that we have yet are
on hold right now, so let'sgo ahead and get to it. First.
One we have is gonna be woody, Woody, How are you doing
today? Doing great? Did youall over to this weather this morning?
Dude? It was nice. Igot up at five to take the dogs
out, and I mean it wasI kind of wanted to not go to
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work today. I understand. Okay, I'm calling because I really feel that
the pineapple plan has been under misrepresentedby your group, and also I wanted
to call it represent them this morning. Yeah, of course, what are
the odds of growing to pineapple here? Oh, definitely can be done.
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It can definitely be done. Weactually we've got some growing at our color
division there for there for the workersthat we have that come in and workforce
over there. But they can definitelybe grown. We'll get we'll get some
in the spring with out of herout of Florida. It's just not a
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whole lot of growers that do thataround here. But it definitely can be
done. We've we've done it inpast summers. Ye. Well, I've
planted several clowns and they developed intothe actual pineapple plant. So I didn't
know how far how long we couldactually keep them growing. Let's see if
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they would reach maturity. So thatthat is something that would have to be
protected from the cold. But yeahyou can. If you can protect them,
you can produce a pineapple from it. I had a good friend of
mine that she's actually one of myold co managers, and her mother would
grow pineapples and it was like,I think it was the same pineapple plant,
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and so she just keep on makingmore crowns every time it would free.
And I think it was like shedid the same one for like three
or four years, and then justwhen the winter came, they bring it
into a little section that they couldheat and protect. Well, okay,
all right, I'm gonna give ita shot. Yes, sir, that's
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the luck. Good luck, takecare. All right, let's see we've
got Gary and Baton rouge. Gary, how are you doing today? Good
morning? Doing great? How y'alldoing okay? Pretty good? Awesome.
Yeah, I'll wait about my stuffand Craigs and I book full pack of
celebrity tomatoes. But do we stillplanning them? Three of them are doing
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real great. I treat all ofthem the same, but one of them
it's barely it's still growing, butit's it's like a midget. M H
should have just going down and getabout it. So I might if it's
if it's if it's real stunted,I mean I wouldn't. I wouldn't expend
too much energy on it if it'sreal stunted, just because we only got
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a select amount of time right todo to grow tomatoes for the fall.
Okay, you know, and thatlittle that little area where that made it
is might be better utilized putting insomething for the cooler weather, you know.
Like I don't know if you docabbages or lettuces and stuff, but
I mean you could start looking atwell, that's a piece of square footage.
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That's my next question. What isthe most common things you plant for
winter? So it depends what youlike, Like I really like a lot
of mustard. I like mustard greensand colored greens. I like to use
califlower and broccoli. Yeah, soit's really I mean what you like to
cook the most, you know.Oh yeah, I've planted some carrots about
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two years ago, and the crownswere great, but there was never no
carriage on the bottom. Yeah yousound like how I was about four or
five years ago. I was,I did carrots at my folks house and
yeah, they they came out eitherthey were a little dwarf carrot. Where's
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there's no actual carrot to it.And that was because the soil was a
little bit too compared acted. Youwant a real loose soil, all right
for your rose. And then uh, I don't know. I think the
year after we had a heavy rainfall, like maybe hours after I had seeded,
so it washed all the carrots intothe I was pulling carrots out of
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the grass. Oh wow. Yeah, and they look like the little you
know, the little mini carrots youget that store. Okay, all right,
all right, thank you. Yeah, they take care, ask some
good questions. Yeah, you know, I really like the pine you know
too. I enjoyed that. Youknow, we actually have that one pineapple
growing over at Seagan. Hopefully itmakes it in time. Yeah you know,
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but we'll see. Was there afruit on that one? Think that
one hands set fruit yet, Sowe'll we'll see how that one goes,
yeah, you know. And thenwe had a lot of fall veggie planting.
Yeah, which I'd like to takea moment just to you know,
if if you're into garlic, shallowonions, now these are the short day
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onions, the one a little pearlonions. Yeah, yeah, the little
small pearl onions that I love andmy children don't eat. I'm with your
children on that one. We've gota whole lot of that out and over
at each location. I think wereceived a fifty pounds or one hundred pound
sack of each of them. So, I mean, if you want to
get those in the ground right now, this would be the opportune time,
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just so they can start growing beforeit starts getting cold. So but we've
also got you know, we weretalking about vegetable planning, we talked about
color planting. But in order tokeep all these things alive, water,
Yeah, you could go ahead,which isn't here, but you can go
ahead and get that soapbox, dragthat over here, you know, But
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we need to be still properly irrigating. And the biggest thing I can stress
is irrigation is supplemental. We're stillnot getting any consistent rainfall, which is
what the plants really they really needbecause there's some material, there's some minerals
in our faucet water. That's notthe most ideal for plants, but they
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can still survive. Plus the waterthat wheat drink has to be sanitized,
which exactly necessarily have to be thatway with plants, yes, exactly.
And then I mean there's just there'sminerals and stuff from the rainwater that the
drinking water and the faucet water thatjust doesn't have. So if I could
stress more and more, just pleasestill water and water and water, because
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it's just it's so it's getting cooler, but we're still not seeing any kind
of significant rainfall. Yeah, that'swhat I've been trying to stress with customers
on like on the site. Youknow, it's just like the world.
The earth is extremely dry. Soif we want water for twenty minutes out
in your flower bed, well theearth around your flower bed is gonna soak
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that water up, right, youknow. I mean I was I moved
to my kids or we have akiddie pool in the backyard, and I
moved it and the ground was crackedunderneath it from how dry it was,
and I just hadn't really seen thatin a while. And it's just like
it was kind of eye opening,just how dry, right we've reached because
we had all that wind. Imean, we were one hundred degrees for
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kind of lost track, you know, and it was just no consistent rainfall.
I mean the other day we wereworking out in the out over at
Seagon and there was what actually wegot like two little spells of rain and
it probably accumulated to maybe fifteen ortwenty minutes. But that was impressive because
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I haven't seen rainfall like that sinceI can't tell you how long exactly.
You know, it's just been aI mean, we've been struggling this entire
year. I mean we started offon a bad note with it was like
eight something degrees in December, right, and then all of a sudden it
drops to sixteen degrees and then everythingburns and then we didn't get water.
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Yeah, you know, years beena hard, hard year. So and
that kind of brings us into uh, you know, using win a riser.
I want to talk about that withthe lawn and just chemical application in
general. So all right, pullthat soapbox back over here for me.
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You know, I wanted to talk. We were talking about heat, you
know, and putting water on ourplants, right, you know, and
our grass because it's so dry.But there's a this time of year,
we normally win a riser lawn,which is really important, okay, and
we typically do chemical applications as wellto get weeds under control as well.
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Right, So the big stipulation withthat is we don't want to apply any
chemicals like you know, your celsiais your MSM, your wheat free zone,
even when our grass is under stressdue to a lack of yes water
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lack of water, because all thoseproducts work on tolerance levels. So my
Saint Augustine grass can tolerate an applicationof wheat free zone completely fine normally when
it's hydrated, healthy, happy,all right, But when it's sickly dried,
you know, right dehydrated, it'llactually take some burn because it affects
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the tolerance levels based on that.So so that's why I typically recommend during
the year, like if we gointo a draft, that we water regularly
all right before we actually apply anyof this stuff. So I'm just kind
of reluctant to actually be putting stuffout right now. So if if you're
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someone who hasn't spent or hasn't wateredtheir lawn a whole lot through this drought
that we've been going through, probablyshouldn't be win a rising or or putting
out if if we're going to wina risers, I would say, extremely
important this year, extremely because ofhow much stress our lawn has undergone.
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You know, I can't speak foreveryone's yard, but my yard and then
the surrounding areas in my neighborhood,you know, because I pretty much go
to work and come home and hangout with my kids. But you know,
I notice all that stuff, andit's like, I mean, we've
had chinch bugs this year. We'vehad we still have a ton of side
activity, right, which we needto that'll be the next topic, you
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know, but we want to.We've got just all these different h different
stress right you know, that areattacking it op and it looks like we
have a caller, all right,so we have to get back to that.
Let's see what we got, Rick, how's it going from morning?
A few months ago? I heardy'all. I'm not shipping with y'all,
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but it was this irrigation. Yeah, yeah, it's probably but butcher myself,
I think. So I convinced mywife to let me do our main
garden, and she loved it somuch. I've done two more and I
had it dripper tylench awesome. Thatstuff is fantastic and super easy. Yeah,
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no, I mean it really islike when I was a contractor.
I mean we did some we dida lot of below ground irrigation as well.
I've got underground squat because I putit in like twenty years ago.
Yeah, but that above ground isjust so easy. I mean I went
on a on a week long likebeach trip month month and a half ago,
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and I mean I spent I hadone section that had irrigation, the
rest didn't have anything, and Imaybe spend an hour and a half to
put irrigation in the rest of myflower beds and then just set it on
a timer and walked away. Youknow. It's super easy. Oh yeah,
I mean it's easy. Uh.The only thing I've ever had an
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issue with is the squirrels, youknow, But I mean yeah, but
that just comes with the territory.Well, I'm sixty eight. It took
me just you know, a coupleof hours to put each one in and
there was no trouble at all.Oh yeah. Now, and I'm hoping,
you know, customers get more comfortable. I mean just read, I
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mean just going and getting stuff likethat, you know, because I have
a lot of customers that will comethrough and it's just like, oh I
I hand water. It's like,well it's it's next to impossible to handwater
enough. We both do still exactlyexactly, you know, and I'm in
the business selling people a product thatsurvives. Yeah, so everything was drooping
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in our gardens. Oh yeah,right out of cuirasky. How long do
you range everything? Out of curiosity? How long do you run the timers
for? Usually like fifteen to twentyminutes. Yeah, that's that sounds pretty
accurate. Where there's water. There'swater coming out of the garden into the
trenches, so I think that's prettywet. Yep, Yeah, that's that's
perfect. So my mind's all insoaker hoses and it's like a it's a
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pretty long stretch. So I runmine for like ninety minutes, but it's
like an extremely long stretch, soit takes a sprinkle just like two hours.
Oh yeah, exactly. I've gotone of the few green lawns left
in the neighborhood. Well that's that'sme too. I look at like two
of my neighbors on either side andI'm like, that is dead grass.
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Yeah, well that's it's it's badthis year. Yeah, I've been in
contact with a couple professors with LSU, and they just don't remember that ever
happening. And I did have thesagawab worms last two weeks ago. I
noticed them and I just put theone blast all out. Oh perfect,
yep, yeah, did you outof curiosity? Did you the Grand Manual
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or the spray? I use thegranule and that just mind the sprinkles,
Oh perfect, yep. That's allyou gotta do. And then that should
that treatment should last year through thethrough the year. I'm not seeing the
moss line as much anymore. Youjust sell yeah, So, I mean
the whole purpose of the granule iswe're just trying to break that life cycle.
And then all of a sudden,hey, we don't have grass issues.
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So yeah, I like my yardlooking nice. Oh yeah me too,
me too. I don't get Idon't get to get the yard in
a month. Though I think it. I think it's yeah, she's crab
grass. You wants it up now? You said crab grass? Yeah?
Look that uh, that dimension thatwe carry, it's called turf and ornamental
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weed and grass stopper with dimension,with dimension that is that is a great
product to control the crab grass.Think that's what I use ye. So
I put that out twice a year. I don't see any right now.
Yeah, I just put it outtwice a year, and then any mature
crab gras asked that may have grownpast the point. It doesn't stop it.
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I just use a handshovel and ahoe and I just dig that as
out. Yeah. I take alittle tool and dig as deep as I
can and jerk it out. Ye. All right, I let you know
that, let people know that microirrigation is not difficult and it's well worth
it. Oh. I mean,hey, that was the best like hundred
and twenty bucks I've spent in awhile. I think I might have spent
less than two hundred and I didthree guardens plus drippers, plus my sister
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laws plants on a car board.Oh wow, geez. Well all right,
Rick, I'm glad it worked outfor you. Have a good one.
I appreciate y'all. Take care.Looks like we got another color,
Braiden. We're never going to getto my list. Hi, Scott,
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how you doing today? Morning?Good? Hey, I've got I'm kind
of great my gas Coe. Itwas armadilla. I don't know, but
something is there anything that stop that? Yes? Sir, there is,
(29:12):
all right. So it could bea couple of things, all right.
It's like turning up your grass.Hi, Yeah, it looks for I
could your job. Okay, Iknow exactly what it could be. So
it's either a vole or a armadillo, all right. And the best way
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to get rid of that is sothey're looking for a grub, a little
white grub that lives in the soil. So they're they're they're hunting for grubs.
So the best thing we can dois take the food source out of
our property, and then they willmigrate elsewhere. So there's a few products
on the market. There's Merit andthere's also it's called grub free Zone.
(29:56):
We carry both of them, right, and you just you spread that out
in the yard. It's a phenomenallittle product. It's a systemic insecticide that
targets the grub, all right.So it'll kill the grub in the ground,
all right, which takes away theirfood source. So then they go
to your neighbors. Sounds good.What's the name name again? Grub free
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Zone? Okay, yes, sir, all right, we'll stop buy tomorrow.
Hey, sounds good. I shouldbe I should be at the Seaging
Lane store. If you'd like tostop buy out, I'll show it to
you. Okay, thank you much, You're welcome. Take care. And
we got another caller. Yeah,Tim from Baton Rouge. How you doing
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today, Good morning, doing great, doing great. I had bought some
but tunias last year, some ofthe super tunias, the bubblegum ones.
Oh yeah, yep, they didgreat until the heat wave hit is yep,
and they all died. Well.I was in your story the other
day and I bought some more y'allgot in huh, and I think I
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might have got a wave. Youhad some purple ones and then the bubble
gum super petunias. Are the wavesgonna be able to handle the heat right
now like the supers might? Orshould I keep him in the shade?
Said the wave like I've got.I've got some clientel that swear by the
waves. I haven't hit. Inoticed the waves have a bigger leaf.
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The waves always have a bigger leafthan thank you for the most part.
And now I just I I hadn'thad the best luck with the waves personally.
The super tiniers have just always beenthe best bang for my buck that
I hadn't had to worry about becausewhat I do is I have some some
masperanza that I bought and some uhhibiscus the tree type, not the bush,
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but the tree type one the singlestalk, and I have them in
pots. I got about twenty potsaround and I planted those super petunias under
my espirons and they did awesome anduntil you know, I kept water them
and water them, but they justshriveled up and they were gone. Yeah,
but I wanted to make sure Icould put those back under some of
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those pots that I had because Ikept them all winter. I have a
sun room and a garage. Iput classic around and heat it and keep
them for the winter and they allsurvived great until the summer came. You
know. But but is it okayto put those out? And now I
know we're having some cool weekend weatherthis weekend, But will they be okay
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to put in those pots? Aslong as I would think so, as
long as you just keep those potsreally well, don't let them get hydrophobic.
I do that in my pots areI have the holes in the side
where they will hold water for aboutan inch in the bottom, and I
water them until it runs out ofthe top almost and let them get good
and hydrated. I never let themdry out. Okay, good, Yeah,
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they should be fine. They shouldbe fine. I usually like,
I'm starting to look to replant mysupertunias in the yard coming up, I
mean, and so I'll dig mineup in July when they start to get
thin and crispy. And then soit's I mean, and there's I waited
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about you know, three months,three to four months, and then I
put him back in right because Itransferred over from the petunias to the vinca,
my vincas. It's awesome, yeah, yeah, and it'll lets you
know when in these water. Butit's other than that, it has been
great all summer. Yeah. Vincojust really loves the heat. Yeah,
that was one thing like that wasreally good about this year. Even though
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the drought was terrible, as longas we kept adequate water on the vinca,
the vinca did phenomenal this year.Like any bed that I drove by,
I could tell that head of irrigationbecause the vinca wasn't triveled up.
But the vincao, I don't havemuch. I don't have much yard.
I got a couple of flower bedsI keep, but I put I bought
some giant allocacia from you guys.I got that in and and that is
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all done, done well. ButI haven't put anything like that. And
I've got some hibiscuits and stuff inthere mingled with them to make a kind
of a tropical look. But thoseall all did pretty well. But most
of the other stuff I keep inpots so I can keep them from the
you know, cold in the winterand put them back out in the spring
and let them go. Yeah.But I did plant my uh satsuma that
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I had in a pot for yearsthat was doing great, and I decided
to put it in the ground andI did. And now my satsumas are
turning ripe. And I picked oneyesterday and it is nothing but pulps.
Yeah, and I have watered,and I watered, but I don't know,
is that just from the lack ofwater. It's the it's the lack
of rain water I've got. I'vegot a mature satsuma in the backyard.
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That's I mean, it's probably tenfoot tall and it's about one mind.
Isn't great? Yeah? No,I mean it you look at the plant
you're like, that is that's ahuge satsummetry that is mature, gorgeous.
I guarantee you there's going to besome dry, dry fruit, you know,
because it's just I mean, it'sso dry. The plant of this
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year's crop is pretty much gone.Yeah, And I mean I wasn't the
same when I watered it. Isit just you know, what I had
was too I had it in thepot and I'm one of these like on
my esperanzas. I took a oneinch BBC pipe and I put it in
the pot, and I drilled holesin it, and then I planted my
esperanz in it. And I don'twater from the top. I watered that
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pipe until it gets fulled up tothe top, Okay, so my roots
always get water. And that's whatI did with that sad suma. And
I did not do that when Iput it in the ground. And I
guess I should have kept the pipein the ground of water the roots.
Maybe, I don't know, ify'all. Yeah. The biggest thing is
the biggest issue though, is isthat the earth surrounding the plant. It's
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just so it's so dry, soit's just soaking everything up figs. Figs
did really poorly this year as well, for the same reason because I mean
I watered it and wanted it,but a lot of it ran off,
so I would water an extra totry to get it to go down.
But yeah, I usually look athand watering and just irrigation as a whole
as supplementary. It's just like,yeah, we're just trying to keep this
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stuff surviving. Would it would itbenefit me to dig take a post hole
digger and dig a hole down andput a pipe in, and I would
probably just let it. I wouldjust pet let it ride, just put
on a real slow drip, youknow, and just let it come wrong.
Good. The leaves, I meanit's put out new growth and it
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had a tremendous bloom on it,and I probably got thirty maybe satsumas on
it, but and they're all turningnice and yellow. But I just grabbed
one yesterday and it popped right offand open it. I'm like, oh
man, it's loose like a tangerinesupposed to be, you know. Yeah,
And when I went to eat itwas there was very little liquid in
it. All. It was justpulp. Yeah, that's just this stress
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we've got Tanya on the phone.I'd like to get her and to answer
her questions. Tanya, how areyou doing today? Good morning, Good
morning. I'm doing well and joiningy'all show. I wanted to I've got
some hummingbird finger seeders hanging on myfront porch which is on the north side
of the house, and I getstragglers here and there, so I'm wanting
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to plant some pots with flowers thatmight attract them to the area, and
was wanting some suggestions and also tofind out is this a good enough spot
farm or do they need to besomewhere else? And if you have time,
identified a weed I'm pulling this morningcalled quack brass, and if there's
another name for that that I'd bemore familiar with. I would like to
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know if if it's something new thatI've just never heard of. And uh
yeah, I may not have timefor the weed question, but if you
just bring that sample in, Ican like an idea, or any of
our managers can. But the asfar as the hummingbirds, that's one of
my favorite things and nowadays, otherthan playing with my children, is watching
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the humming birds. So any kindof salvia they go crazy for. Okay,
they also go they're real big onpetunias, actually, so you're supertunius,
which they put out so many flowers. That's a good nectar source form.
Also kufia and kufia as well,but since we're in the going into
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the fall, there's not gonna bea lot of I've got some say,
I've got some salvia available still,but there's not gonna be a lot of
kufia, all right. But Ido have a ton of the supertanius,
which if you're putting them in pots, I would probably do that, all
right, But Tania, of course, just come on by and I'll answer
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any questions you got. But weran out of time because we had too
much fun answering questions. So Ihope everyone has a great Saturday, all
right, And I know me andBraden will because we got to go to
work. Ylexy, y'all have togo see us at Quags.
Good Saturday morning, and welcome tothe WJBO Lawn and Garden Show, brought
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baton rouge, have mor Saturday morning. This is the w JBO Lawn and
Garden Show. My name's Zane Mercer, joined here by with my favorite co
host, Braden Bendona. How yousaid that wrong? Good try though,
I'll get it next time. Sohow's it going you enjoin this weather this
morning or what? Man? Ialmost got a little chili this morning.
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I thought about wearing pants myself,but then you know, it's gonna be
ninety five probably before the end ofthe day. Yeah, you would regret
that decision by the end the otherday. But I'll tell you what,
this ain't too bad. It's almostlike falls pretty much here. You know,
it's just drops a couple more degrees. I think we'll be good.
Yeah. So yeah, I've beenreal excited because we've been getting a lot
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of you know, it's fall plantingseason normally normally, you know, it's
still really I mean, it's sohot outside. You know, everyone's reluctant
to want a sweat, but whocan blame them exactly exactly. So,
but I've been you know, actuallyplanning out my my fall color plantings.
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Oh yeah, yeah, don't dotoo much vegetables anymore because I can't trust
my children or my dog. Butyou know, it's about time to start
getting all that stuff in the ground. And we've got plenty of that,
like plenty of color and plenty ofvegetables in stock for the fall. I
mean, the mum's selection that wegrew at Color Division has just been phenomenal.
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Yeah, they really have been verynice, and they're just starting to
crack. We've got some yellows thatare starting to show color, a couple
other things, you know, andso that's been real exciting. For real.
It's like the sacrificial planting during theyear where it's like not the longest
period of time, you know,but it's like the most colorful. In
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my opinion, I really do likethe moms. Also the crotons. This
year, we've gotten some beautiful crotonsand then we get I mean the varieties.
Yeah, I'm not big on thelittle, the stringy ones. I
saw we had some of those onthe breezeway the other day and they show
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a lot of color. I thoughtthose were really nice. So it's not
your typical running the mills, andthat's what usually like the change. Yeah,
you know, and then you know, we've got plenty of super tunious
which I'm excited about getting those inthe ground. I like having neighbors that
I've never met before stop to goto get the mail and ask me or
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compliment me about my flower beds.It's like real heartwarming, you know.
So, But it's it's still reallyhot outside. So and I've noticed that
we've been getting in snap dragons andeven I saw some violas come in the
other day, which was kind ofcrazy to me. Is it still too
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warm? Should we kind of holdoff on I think some of that.
Yeah, it's it's a little toohot still for all that stuff. I'm
I'm real reluctant about planning like mycabbages, my ornamental cabbages, makale,
my snap dragons, and any kindof panza or viola, just because it's
it's still kind of overbearingly hot forthose cooler weather plants, you know,
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but we we pull them in becauseyou get customers that ask for them,
and you know, you gotta havethe products they ask for, right.
So well, I've seen in theforecasts that we have some cooler days is
coming up this weekend, so yeah, and it maybe that'll be some relief.
We're like right on the cusp ofwhen it's like, okay, the
temperatures starting to break, you know, and once that temperature breaks, I
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mean, the snap dragons really enjoyit, right and saying with the cabbages
and the kales, which that isactually one of my favorite of the bedding
plants because I'll just i mean,I'll make a gorgeous little hedge each year
with them, and then they withthe kale. Oh cool. So i
use that as like my front hedgeand I'll do a tiered effect, so
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it just kind of it makes myflower bed look hot, look taller than
it actually is. You know,you do this like some snap dragons behind
the kale. Yeah, yeah,I'll do snap dra Like I really enjoy
snap dragons. I mean, theybloom really well and then you just cut
them back and they bush out yeah, and they bloom really well again,
you know. So it's one ofthose plants that it doesn't last the longest,
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like you pull them up in spring, but you still get a good
bang for your buck. Yeah,and it makes a tight, pretty hedge
if you keep it trimmed. Solast year I did some some snap dragons
in a pot in my front yardand I noticed maybe about twelve or fifteen
feet away I had snap dragons poppingup in the cracks of my concrete.
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That really kind of blew my mind. Yeah, they like to give you
some volunteers in a couple of places. You know. That's the same with
several plants, like your bagonia isduring the spring. Yeah, I'll find
little bagonia babies occasionally, you know, and the same like that, they
just give you a little freebie therehere there. So, but you know,
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we're talking about fall color plantings,right, and we're talking and I
am a big proponent of getting stuffin the ground early to give you the
longest stretch where you have this productoutgrowing, right, And so they're like
the like your cabbage is, yourkales and stuff. I usually I usually
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wait till we break ninety and thenI'll start looking at planting them and then
I like getting them in as bigas we can, you know, because
before the cold comes. But ifanyone has any questions, would like to
call just to chit chat, becauseI always like to hear other people other
than myself. You can reach usat four nine nine w JBO. That's
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four nine nine nine five two six. And if you'd like to tune in
at a later date and listen toour podcast, you can reach that on
the iHeartRadio website. Awesome, yeah, I know, right' so fancy nowadays
with technology. So we're talking aboutmoms talking about you know, all over
fall color. The one thing Ididn't mention is we have the most pristine
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boken vilious right, yes, andhanging baskets. I mean it's just gorgeous,
yes, And that is one plant. It's just like the timing as
far as growing them, it's kindof weird because you want to you need
them to have color for the consumer, right, otherwise they won't they won't
really move, so you gotta yougotta time them just right. That is
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the one of the most colorful plantsto put in a hanging basket or even
a punt so I've heard over theyears a lot of people having problems with
getting bogan villas to rebloom, likewhen you buy from from a nurse or
usually they they're showing color, butafter a while it seems like people have
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a problem with getting them to rebloom. So the biggest thing I've found is
where they planted, because if they'replanted in ground in South Louisiana, they
just will only be green. You'renot going to get color, typically because
they get too much water, andwhich they love the water, but then
they focus on just that green leafgrowth and not the actual colorful leaf growth
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because the color is a modified leaf, right, Yes, that's correct,
And that's one that's one of thethings I'm really tickled about him is because
you know, everyone thinks it's aflower. It's like, no, the
flower is that tiny, tiny,little trump hour you know that you don't
even really see. So, butit looks like we've got some phone calls.
How awesome, So we'll go aheadand take the first one. Doug,
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how are you doing today? No, I'm good. Can we help
you? When do our plant ballto make it? Well? About a
month ago? You know, Butbut you could get him in the ground
right now, right, and wemight be able to get some fruit before
December. Right, we still havesome We still have someone stock, right,
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But we're a tackle. A brandis better in the ball, not
particularly, I mean the ones thatwe have out there in stock. They're
all gonna put perform fruit. Iusually stay away from, like the black
crim and some of those like slowergrowers, And what is it that we
haven't stock because I haven't really evenpassed by that table lately. There should
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be some celebrity in stock, andthen there's like one or two other varieties
and those will put on fruit foryou. But we just want to get
them in the ground asap so thatthey can actually grow to mature to a
point where they'll set fruit before thatfirst freeze. All right, thank your
bus, You're welcome. Take care. That's a good one. Another one,
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A bunch of questions today. That'sgood, Cindy. How are you
doing today? Hey, Cindy,you there morning? Good morning? Oh
yes, good morning. I havea question about my angelonious believe how you
pronounce it. So I've planted themthe spring and they've gotten so big and
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bushy and tall, they're falling over, and I hate to trim them back
right now with all the colors thatI have, but I don't have they
won't allow me to plant anything elsein front of them. How do I
maintain their color and yet be ableto I guess have space for something in
front of them, because now they'reso tall and big, and will they
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make it through the winter. Yeah, you sound sound like you dealt with
the same problem I did. Sothey're beautiful when they are in bloom,
that is that is the plant.Yeah, all right, So I when
I was a contractor, I woulduse I'd use a trimmor like a wheat
eater, all right, and Iwould actually edge them to keep them nice
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and tighten in form I had everyeverything had a home, right so in
the in the color spacing, soif it encroached out into the next plant's
home, I would just keep ittrimmed to that point, all right.
But once they say, once theystart falling over, you know, you
really want to just give them agood cutback. They typically won't make it
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through the frost, so it's usuallya spring through the into the fall plant.
And so what I usually a lotof people they've got a nickname called
summer snap dragons. So what Ido is I once it hits fall and
we break their temperature, so hopefullynext week the week after, I look
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at taking those up and replacing themwith snapdragons to achieve that same kind of
look. But it'll make it throughthe cold. Now, with that being
said, I have seen snap dragonscome back from the roots after winter,
but I really feel like that kindof depends on the severity of the winter
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that we've had and possibly where youhad them plant it in your landscape.
Okay, so these are not angelonious. I thought they were perennial, so
yes and no. So they theycan come back, but they're not.
It's it's not typically worth it tocut it all the way down to the
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ground and hope it comes back.It depends on how how wet of a
winter we have whether or not theroots will actually survive. Yeah, so
I usually look at them as likea extremely extremely long period of time annual.
All right, all right, thankyou, You're very well appreciated.
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Take care. I'm really loving Allthe phone callers that we have yet are
on hold right now, so let'sgo ahead and get to it. First.
One we have is gonna be woody, Woody, How are you doing
today? Doing great? Did youall over to this weather this morning?
Dude? It was nice. Igot up at five to take the dogs
out, and I mean it wasI kind of wanted to not go to
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work today. I understand. Okay, I'm calling because I really feel that
the pineapple plan has been under misrepresentedby your group, and also I wanted
to call it represent them this morning. Yeah, of course, what are
the odds of growing to pineapple here? Oh, definitely can be done.
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It can definitely be done. Weactually we've got some growing at our color
division there for there for the workersthat we have that come in and workforce
over there. But they can definitelybe grown. We'll get we'll get some
in the spring with out of herout of Florida. It's just not a
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whole lot of growers that do thataround here. But it definitely can be
done. We've we've done it inpast summers. Ye. Well, I've
planted several clowns and they developed intothe actual pineapple plant. So I didn't
know how far how long we couldactually keep them growing. Let's see if
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they would reach maturity. So thatthat is something that would have to be
protected from the cold. But yeahyou can. If you can protect them,
you can produce a pineapple from it. I had a good friend of
mine that she's actually one of myold co managers, and her mother would
grow pineapples and it was like,I think it was the same pineapple plant,
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and so she just keep on makingmore crowns every time it would free.
And I think it was like shedid the same one for like three
or four years, and then justwhen the winter came, they bring it
into a little section that they couldheat and protect. Well, okay,
all right, I'm gonna give ita shot. Yes, sir, that's
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the luck. Good luck, takecare. All right, let's see we've
got Gary and Baton rouge. Gary, how are you doing today? Good
morning? Doing great? How y'alldoing okay? Pretty good? Awesome.
Yeah, I'll wait about my stuffand Craigs and I book full pack of
celebrity tomatoes. But do we stillplanning them? Three of them are doing
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real great. I treat all ofthem the same, but one of them
it's barely it's still growing, butit's it's like a midget. M H
should have just going down and getabout it. So I might if it's
if it's if it's real stunted,I mean I wouldn't. I wouldn't expend
too much energy on it if it'sreal stunted, just because we only got
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a select amount of time right todo to grow tomatoes for the fall.
Okay, you know, and thatlittle that little area where that made it
is might be better utilized putting insomething for the cooler weather, you know.
Like I don't know if you docabbages or lettuces and stuff, but
I mean you could start looking atwell, that's a piece of square footage.
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That's my next question. What isthe most common things you plant for
winter? So it depends what youlike, Like I really like a lot
of mustard. I like mustard greensand colored greens. I like to use
califlower and broccoli. Yeah, soit's really I mean what you like to
cook the most, you know.Oh yeah, I've planted some carrots about
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two years ago, and the crownswere great, but there was never no
carriage on the bottom. Yeah yousound like how I was about four or
five years ago. I was,I did carrots at my folks house and
yeah, they they came out eitherthey were a little dwarf carrot. Where's
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there's no actual carrot to it.And that was because the soil was a
little bit too compared acted. Youwant a real loose soil, all right
for your rose. And then uh, I don't know. I think the
year after we had a heavy rainfall, like maybe hours after I had seeded,
so it washed all the carrots intothe I was pulling carrots out of
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the grass. Oh wow. Yeah, and they look like the little you
know, the little mini carrots youget that store. Okay, all right,
all right, thank you. Yeah, they take care, ask some
good questions. Yeah, you know, I really like the pine you know
too. I enjoyed that. Youknow, we actually have that one pineapple
growing over at Seagan. Hopefully itmakes it in time. Yeah you know,
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but we'll see. Was there afruit on that one? Think that
one hands set fruit yet, Sowe'll we'll see how that one goes,
yeah, you know. And thenwe had a lot of fall veggie planting.
Yeah, which I'd like to takea moment just to you know,
if if you're into garlic, shallowonions, now these are the short day
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onions, the one a little pearlonions. Yeah, yeah, the little
small pearl onions that I love andmy children don't eat. I'm with your
children on that one. We've gota whole lot of that out and over
at each location. I think wereceived a fifty pounds or one hundred pound
sack of each of them. So, I mean, if you want to
get those in the ground right now, this would be the opportune time,
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just so they can start growing beforeit starts getting cold. So but we've
also got you know, we weretalking about vegetable planning, we talked about
color planting. But in order tokeep all these things alive, water,
Yeah, you could go ahead,which isn't here, but you can go
ahead and get that soapbox, dragthat over here, you know, But
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we need to be still properly irrigating. And the biggest thing I can stress
is irrigation is supplemental. We're stillnot getting any consistent rainfall, which is
what the plants really they really needbecause there's some material, there's some minerals
in our faucet water. That's notthe most ideal for plants, but they
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can still survive. Plus the waterthat wheat drink has to be sanitized,
which exactly necessarily have to be thatway with plants, yes, exactly.
And then I mean there's just there'sminerals and stuff from the rainwater that the
drinking water and the faucet water thatjust doesn't have. So if I could
stress more and more, just pleasestill water and water and water, because
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it's just it's so it's getting cooler, but we're still not seeing any kind
of significant rainfall. Yeah, that'swhat I've been trying to stress with customers
on like on the site. Youknow, it's just like the world.
The earth is extremely dry. Soif we want water for twenty minutes out
in your flower bed, well theearth around your flower bed is gonna soak
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that water up, right, youknow. I mean I was I moved
to my kids or we have akiddie pool in the backyard, and I
moved it and the ground was crackedunderneath it from how dry it was,
and I just hadn't really seen thatin a while. And it's just like
it was kind of eye opening,just how dry, right we've reached because
we had all that wind. Imean, we were one hundred degrees for
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kind of lost track, you know, and it was just no consistent rainfall.
I mean the other day we wereworking out in the out over at
Seagon and there was what actually wegot like two little spells of rain and
it probably accumulated to maybe fifteen ortwenty minutes. But that was impressive because
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I haven't seen rainfall like that sinceI can't tell you how long exactly.
You know, it's just been aI mean, we've been struggling this entire
year. I mean we started offon a bad note with it was like
eight something degrees in December, right, and then all of a sudden it
drops to sixteen degrees and then everythingburns and then we didn't get water.
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Yeah, you know, years beena hard, hard year. So and
that kind of brings us into uh, you know, using win a riser.
I want to talk about that withthe lawn and just chemical application in
general. So all right, pullthat soapbox back over here for me.
(21:30):
You know, I wanted to talk. We were talking about heat, you
know, and putting water on ourplants, right, you know, and
our grass because it's so dry.But there's a this time of year,
we normally win a riser lawn,which is really important, okay, and
we typically do chemical applications as wellto get weeds under control as well.
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Right, So the big stipulation withthat is we don't want to apply any
chemicals like you know, your celsiais your MSM, your wheat free zone,
even when our grass is under stressdue to a lack of yes water
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lack of water, because all thoseproducts work on tolerance levels. So my
Saint Augustine grass can tolerate an applicationof wheat free zone completely fine normally when
it's hydrated, healthy, happy,all right, But when it's sickly dried,
you know, right dehydrated, it'llactually take some burn because it affects
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the tolerance levels based on that.So so that's why I typically recommend during
the year, like if we gointo a draft, that we water regularly
all right before we actually apply anyof this stuff. So I'm just kind
of reluctant to actually be putting stuffout right now. So if if you're
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someone who hasn't spent or hasn't wateredtheir lawn a whole lot through this drought
that we've been going through, probablyshouldn't be win a rising or or putting
out if if we're going to wina risers, I would say, extremely
important this year, extremely because ofhow much stress our lawn has undergone.
(23:21):
You know, I can't speak foreveryone's yard, but my yard and then
the surrounding areas in my neighborhood,you know, because I pretty much go
to work and come home and hangout with my kids. But you know,
I notice all that stuff, andit's like, I mean, we've
had chinch bugs this year. We'vehad we still have a ton of side
activity, right, which we needto that'll be the next topic, you
(23:45):
know, but we want to.We've got just all these different h different
stress right you know, that areattacking it op and it looks like we
have a caller, all right,so we have to get back to that.
Let's see what we got, Rick, how's it going from morning?
A few months ago? I heardy'all. I'm not shipping with y'all,
(24:07):
but it was this irrigation. Yeah, yeah, it's probably but butcher myself,
I think. So I convinced mywife to let me do our main
garden, and she loved it somuch. I've done two more and I
had it dripper tylench awesome. Thatstuff is fantastic and super easy. Yeah,
(24:27):
no, I mean it really islike when I was a contractor.
I mean we did some we dida lot of below ground irrigation as well.
I've got underground squat because I putit in like twenty years ago.
Yeah, but that above ground isjust so easy. I mean I went
on a on a week long likebeach trip month month and a half ago,
(24:49):
and I mean I spent I hadone section that had irrigation, the
rest didn't have anything, and Imaybe spend an hour and a half to
put irrigation in the rest of myflower beds and then just set it on
a timer and walked away. Youknow. It's super easy. Oh yeah,
I mean it's easy. Uh.The only thing I've ever had an
(25:11):
issue with is the squirrels, youknow, But I mean yeah, but
that just comes with the territory.Well, I'm sixty eight. It took
me just you know, a coupleof hours to put each one in and
there was no trouble at all.Oh yeah. Now, and I'm hoping,
you know, customers get more comfortable. I mean just read, I
(25:32):
mean just going and getting stuff likethat, you know, because I have
a lot of customers that will comethrough and it's just like, oh I
I hand water. It's like,well it's it's next to impossible to handwater
enough. We both do still exactlyexactly, you know, and I'm in
the business selling people a product thatsurvives. Yeah, so everything was drooping
(25:55):
in our gardens. Oh yeah,right out of cuirasky. How long do
you range everything? Out of curiosity? How long do you run the timers
for? Usually like fifteen to twentyminutes. Yeah, that's that sounds pretty
accurate. Where there's water. There'swater coming out of the garden into the
trenches, so I think that's prettywet. Yep, Yeah, that's that's
perfect. So my mind's all insoaker hoses and it's like a it's a
(26:18):
pretty long stretch. So I runmine for like ninety minutes, but it's
like an extremely long stretch, soit takes a sprinkle just like two hours.
Oh yeah, exactly. I've gotone of the few green lawns left
in the neighborhood. Well that's that'sme too. I look at like two
of my neighbors on either side andI'm like, that is dead grass.
(26:38):
Yeah, well that's it's it's badthis year. Yeah, I've been in
contact with a couple professors with LSU, and they just don't remember that ever
happening. And I did have thesagawab worms last two weeks ago. I
noticed them and I just put theone blast all out. Oh perfect,
yep, yeah, did you outof curiosity? Did you the Grand Manual
(27:00):
or the spray? I use thegranule and that just mind the sprinkles,
Oh perfect, yep. That's allyou gotta do. And then that should
that treatment should last year through thethrough the year. I'm not seeing the
moss line as much anymore. Youjust sell yeah, So, I mean
the whole purpose of the granule iswe're just trying to break that life cycle.
And then all of a sudden,hey, we don't have grass issues.
(27:22):
So yeah, I like my yardlooking nice. Oh yeah me too,
me too. I don't get Idon't get to get the yard in
a month. Though I think it. I think it's yeah, she's crab
grass. You wants it up now? You said crab grass? Yeah?
Look that uh, that dimension thatwe carry, it's called turf and ornamental
(27:42):
weed and grass stopper with dimension,with dimension that is that is a great
product to control the crab grass.Think that's what I use ye. So
I put that out twice a year. I don't see any right now.
Yeah, I just put it outtwice a year, and then any mature
crab gras asked that may have grownpast the point. It doesn't stop it.
(28:03):
I just use a handshovel and ahoe and I just dig that as
out. Yeah. I take alittle tool and dig as deep as I
can and jerk it out. Ye. All right, I let you know
that, let people know that microirrigation is not difficult and it's well worth
it. Oh. I mean,hey, that was the best like hundred
and twenty bucks I've spent in awhile. I think I might have spent
less than two hundred and I didthree guardens plus drippers, plus my sister
(28:26):
laws plants on a car board.Oh wow, geez. Well all right,
Rick, I'm glad it worked outfor you. Have a good one.
I appreciate y'all. Take care.Looks like we got another color,
Braiden. We're never going to getto my list. Hi, Scott,
(28:47):
how you doing today? Morning?Good? Hey, I've got I'm kind
of great my gas Coe. Itwas armadilla. I don't know, but
something is there anything that stop that? Yes? Sir, there is,
(29:12):
all right. So it could bea couple of things, all right.
It's like turning up your grass.Hi, Yeah, it looks for I
could your job. Okay, Iknow exactly what it could be. So
it's either a vole or a armadillo, all right. And the best way
(29:33):
to get rid of that is sothey're looking for a grub, a little
white grub that lives in the soil. So they're they're they're hunting for grubs.
So the best thing we can dois take the food source out of
our property, and then they willmigrate elsewhere. So there's a few products
on the market. There's Merit andthere's also it's called grub free Zone.
(29:56):
We carry both of them, right, and you just you spread that out
in the yard. It's a phenomenallittle product. It's a systemic insecticide that
targets the grub, all right.So it'll kill the grub in the ground,
all right, which takes away theirfood source. So then they go
to your neighbors. Sounds good.What's the name name again? Grub free
(30:22):
Zone? Okay, yes, sir, all right, we'll stop buy tomorrow.
Hey, sounds good. I shouldbe I should be at the Seaging
Lane store. If you'd like tostop buy out, I'll show it to
you. Okay, thank you much, You're welcome. Take care. And
we got another caller. Yeah,Tim from Baton Rouge. How you doing
(30:45):
today, Good morning, doing great, doing great. I had bought some
but tunias last year, some ofthe super tunias, the bubblegum ones.
Oh yeah, yep, they didgreat until the heat wave hit is yep,
and they all died. Well.I was in your story the other
day and I bought some more y'allgot in huh, and I think I
(31:07):
might have got a wave. Youhad some purple ones and then the bubble
gum super petunias. Are the wavesgonna be able to handle the heat right
now like the supers might? Orshould I keep him in the shade?
Said the wave like I've got.I've got some clientel that swear by the
waves. I haven't hit. Inoticed the waves have a bigger leaf.
(31:30):
The waves always have a bigger leafthan thank you for the most part.
And now I just I I hadn'thad the best luck with the waves personally.
The super tiniers have just always beenthe best bang for my buck that
I hadn't had to worry about becausewhat I do is I have some some
masperanza that I bought and some uhhibiscus the tree type, not the bush,
(31:53):
but the tree type one the singlestalk, and I have them in
pots. I got about twenty potsaround and I planted those super petunias under
my espirons and they did awesome anduntil you know, I kept water them
and water them, but they justshriveled up and they were gone. Yeah,
but I wanted to make sure Icould put those back under some of
(32:14):
those pots that I had because Ikept them all winter. I have a
sun room and a garage. Iput classic around and heat it and keep
them for the winter and they allsurvived great until the summer came. You
know. But but is it okayto put those out? And now I
know we're having some cool weekend weatherthis weekend, But will they be okay
(32:36):
to put in those pots? Aslong as I would think so, as
long as you just keep those potsreally well, don't let them get hydrophobic.
I do that in my pots areI have the holes in the side
where they will hold water for aboutan inch in the bottom, and I
water them until it runs out ofthe top almost and let them get good
and hydrated. I never let themdry out. Okay, good, Yeah,
(33:00):
they should be fine. They shouldbe fine. I usually like,
I'm starting to look to replant mysupertunias in the yard coming up, I
mean, and so I'll dig mineup in July when they start to get
thin and crispy. And then soit's I mean, and there's I waited
(33:20):
about you know, three months,three to four months, and then I
put him back in right because Itransferred over from the petunias to the vinca,
my vincas. It's awesome, yeah, yeah, and it'll lets you
know when in these water. Butit's other than that, it has been
great all summer. Yeah. Vincojust really loves the heat. Yeah,
that was one thing like that wasreally good about this year. Even though
(33:43):
the drought was terrible, as longas we kept adequate water on the vinca,
the vinca did phenomenal this year.Like any bed that I drove by,
I could tell that head of irrigationbecause the vinca wasn't triveled up.
But the vincao, I don't havemuch. I don't have much yard.
I got a couple of flower bedsI keep, but I put I bought
some giant allocacia from you guys.I got that in and and that is
(34:06):
all done, done well. ButI haven't put anything like that. And
I've got some hibiscuits and stuff inthere mingled with them to make a kind
of a tropical look. But thoseall all did pretty well. But most
of the other stuff I keep inpots so I can keep them from the
you know, cold in the winterand put them back out in the spring
and let them go. Yeah.But I did plant my uh satsuma that
(34:30):
I had in a pot for yearsthat was doing great, and I decided
to put it in the ground andI did. And now my satsumas are
turning ripe. And I picked oneyesterday and it is nothing but pulps.
Yeah, and I have watered,and I watered, but I don't know,
is that just from the lack ofwater. It's the it's the lack
of rain water I've got. I'vegot a mature satsuma in the backyard.
(34:52):
That's I mean, it's probably tenfoot tall and it's about one mind.
Isn't great? Yeah? No,I mean it you look at the plant
you're like, that is that's ahuge satsummetry that is mature, gorgeous.
I guarantee you there's going to besome dry, dry fruit, you know,
because it's just I mean, it'sso dry. The plant of this
(35:15):
year's crop is pretty much gone.Yeah, And I mean I wasn't the
same when I watered it. Isit just you know, what I had
was too I had it in thepot and I'm one of these like on
my esperanzas. I took a oneinch BBC pipe and I put it in
the pot, and I drilled holesin it, and then I planted my
esperanz in it. And I don'twater from the top. I watered that
(35:37):
pipe until it gets fulled up tothe top, Okay, so my roots
always get water. And that's whatI did with that sad suma. And
I did not do that when Iput it in the ground. And I
guess I should have kept the pipein the ground of water the roots.
Maybe, I don't know, ify'all. Yeah. The biggest thing is
the biggest issue though, is isthat the earth surrounding the plant. It's
(36:01):
just so it's so dry, soit's just soaking everything up figs. Figs
did really poorly this year as well, for the same reason because I mean
I watered it and wanted it,but a lot of it ran off,
so I would water an extra totry to get it to go down.
But yeah, I usually look athand watering and just irrigation as a whole
as supplementary. It's just like,yeah, we're just trying to keep this
(36:23):
stuff surviving. Would it would itbenefit me to dig take a post hole
digger and dig a hole down andput a pipe in, and I would
probably just let it. I wouldjust pet let it ride, just put
on a real slow drip, youknow, and just let it come wrong.
Good. The leaves, I meanit's put out new growth and it
(36:45):
had a tremendous bloom on it,and I probably got thirty maybe satsumas on
it, but and they're all turningnice and yellow. But I just grabbed
one yesterday and it popped right offand open it. I'm like, oh
man, it's loose like a tangerinesupposed to be, you know. Yeah,
And when I went to eat itwas there was very little liquid in
it. All. It was justpulp. Yeah, that's just this stress
(37:08):
we've got Tanya on the phone.I'd like to get her and to answer
her questions. Tanya, how areyou doing today? Good morning, Good
morning. I'm doing well and joiningy'all show. I wanted to I've got
some hummingbird finger seeders hanging on myfront porch which is on the north side
of the house, and I getstragglers here and there, so I'm wanting
(37:29):
to plant some pots with flowers thatmight attract them to the area, and
was wanting some suggestions and also tofind out is this a good enough spot
farm or do they need to besomewhere else? And if you have time,
identified a weed I'm pulling this morningcalled quack brass, and if there's
another name for that that I'd bemore familiar with. I would like to
(37:52):
know if if it's something new thatI've just never heard of. And uh
yeah, I may not have timefor the weed question, but if you
just bring that sample in, Ican like an idea, or any of
our managers can. But the asfar as the hummingbirds, that's one of
my favorite things and nowadays, otherthan playing with my children, is watching
(38:15):
the humming birds. So any kindof salvia they go crazy for. Okay,
they also go they're real big onpetunias, actually, so you're supertunius,
which they put out so many flowers. That's a good nectar source form.
Also kufia and kufia as well,but since we're in the going into
(38:38):
the fall, there's not gonna bea lot of I've got some say,
I've got some salvia available still,but there's not gonna be a lot of
kufia, all right. But Ido have a ton of the supertanius,
which if you're putting them in pots, I would probably do that, all
right, But Tania, of course, just come on by and I'll answer
(38:59):
any questions you got. But weran out of time because we had too
much fun answering questions. So Ihope everyone has a great Saturday, all
right, And I know me andBraden will because we got to go to
work. Ylexy, y'all have togo see us at Quags.
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