November 8, 2025 • 41 mins
We're giving you some expert tips to prepare for our upcoming cold snap on the WJBO Lawn & Garden Show with Zane and Dr. Allen from Clegg's Nursery!
Curious how much prep work is needed for our quick visit from Old Man Winter? They'll have the advice you need. Also, your questions about an amazing amount of acorns, moving a tree from pot to ground the right way, and what's going on with milkweed and butterfilies!
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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Curious how much prep work is needed for our quick visit from Old Man Winter? They'll have the advice you need. Also, your questions about an amazing amount of acorns, moving a tree from pot to ground the right way, and what's going on with milkweed and butterfilies!
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 Lone and
Garden Show, brought to you by Cleg's Nursery. If you
have a question about seasonal plan tank lone and garden
concerns or questions about landscaping, called four nine nine w GBO.
That's four nine nine two six.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Good Saturday morning, and welcome to the w GBO One
and Garden Show. I named Say Mercer, joined here with
doctor Allen Owens, the.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
Alan Owens, the the one and only exactly exactly Good morning,
Good morning, another eighty degree day. Eighty five degree day?
Speaker 4 (00:39):
Is it?
Speaker 3 (00:39):
It was in November? Yeah, I think it was eighty
five yesterday. I'm not sure it was.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
I like this time of the year. But then it's
like I start today, we're wearing pants exactly. Then I'm like,
I kind of wear want to wear a shorts leader? Yes, yeah,
you know that said, you know, I should. I should
always wear pants. So I'm not I'm not as cool
as Butch.
Speaker 5 (00:59):
You know. Anyway, we got.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
A lot of stuff to talk about, at least that's
what my list says.
Speaker 5 (01:06):
But it's a I just want to take a moment.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
I love this this weather right now, where it's like
a little overcast, little rocky, and then it clears up. Yes,
but a lot of stuff as far as gardening and
stuff we can do right now. And if you had
any calls, questions are concerned, she could reach us at
four nine nine WJBO or four nine nine nine five
two six And if you miss the show, you can
(01:31):
listen tune.
Speaker 5 (01:32):
In on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
Jeremy's pretty quick on putting the each session, posting it
so and moving on. So Allen on that fancy list,
you got what you want to talk about first?
Speaker 3 (01:46):
Well, I guess we can maybe talk about the upcoming
cool front that we have coming in. Oh yeah, and
you know, the mornings have been comfortable, but it's been
kind of sticky and yeah, warm in the afternoon the
last couple of days. But hopefully every bay's cool seas
and Betty plants are doing good, and every bay's cool
(02:08):
seas and vegetables are doing good. And people are asking about,
you know, how cold is it going to be Monday
morning and Tuesday morning.
Speaker 5 (02:16):
I've been telling people overall weather.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
Yes, you know, you know it looks like Baton Rouge
thirty two thirty three on Tuesday thirty six on a
Monday morning. So and that's not really a temperature that
we need to be majorly concerned about the majority of
the plants that we have in our landscape.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
I mean, like some of your tropical stuff, I might
like your houseplant material and all that kind of stuff,
because I keep my house plants all the way out
in the front on my front porch under misters, and
so this is the time I start migrating everything.
Speaker 5 (02:49):
In right right now.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
And when you move your houseplants in, you want to
try to get you know, as much indoor light on
a lot of those as you can. And some people
may just move their plants in on the coldest nights
and then move them back out until the next cold
spell in one or two weeks.
Speaker 5 (03:10):
And that's really what I prefer to.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
Do, unless you have a huge volume that you don't
want to it's going to make that much effort.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
Probably fifteen pots things and I don't know, like the
my intheriums, I've already moved those in, yes, you know.
It was like I don't need those leaves turning yet, right,
But like the my philodendrons and everything, that's like I'm
just gonna wait until it's probably I would say tomorrow.
(03:39):
I would think, right right, I'll just bring them in
and then if the temper drops it goes back up,
I'm gonna move.
Speaker 5 (03:45):
Them back out.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
And we also need to be thinking about so like,
if it's thirty six on Monday morning and thirty two
on Tuesday morning, how many hours is it going to
be thirty two and how many hours is it going
to be thirty six? This is not going to be
a significant, yeah, cold weather event, and then we're gonna
be warming back up again.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
That's what I try to explain, is it's it's just
it's mainly about the duration. I get to some extent,
it's how far it goes, how far the temp drops.
Speaker 5 (04:13):
Yes, but I mean if it's just.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
Say, the coldest part of the night is four in
the morning, you know, and then it starts going climbing
back up right right, you know, it's it's not too bad.
So but it looks like we've already got a collar. Okay,
so we're gonna jump to it's gonna be Michael and
bed Ridge.
Speaker 5 (04:31):
Good morning, Michael, Hey, good morning guys.
Speaker 6 (04:35):
So I got to ask you this mysterious question. So
I've been living on Perkins Road for ten years and
I've got three two hundred and fifty year old a
live oak trees, right, and thousands of acorns have dropped
this year, where in all ten years, I've never seen
anything like it. Is this a pattern?
Speaker 3 (04:55):
It is a pattern on oak treys. Now, normally you're
not going to have ten year gap, but you have
what's called a masked crop m a s T where
you get a lot of c production one year and
then the next year you won't get very much. There's
no real good scientific explanation for that, but that does
happen in all of your oak trees.
Speaker 5 (05:16):
So gotcha.
Speaker 6 (05:18):
I'm just curious because it's it's so strange.
Speaker 5 (05:20):
All right, right?
Speaker 6 (05:21):
Thousands?
Speaker 3 (05:22):
Yeah, I mean you can you every foot, you every
step you take, You're you're all over acre and so yep, yes, yes, sir, yes.
Speaker 6 (05:31):
Well, thank you man. I just want to make sure
something wasn't won.
Speaker 5 (05:33):
Okay, and you're probably gonna have none next year.
Speaker 6 (05:36):
Yeah, great, thanks you guys.
Speaker 5 (05:39):
Take care of Michael.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
I saw one of the wildlife guys talking about that
a week or two ago.
Speaker 5 (05:44):
Now, it seems like a good year, you know, for
acorns yes, yes, and.
Speaker 4 (05:48):
That does explain why I fuck, I'm crunching on them
a lot more when I go walk the dog.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
Well, you know, and that would explain why Scott helped
me get a bunch of tree pots for like ceiling pots.
So but anyway, now, the you know, that brings up
a kind of a good topic I like to talk about.
Speaker 5 (06:08):
Is cleanup, clean up.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
Okay, yeah, you know we need to start prepping for
a little bit of clean up. I mean, leaf drop
on your disasterous trees, right, It's it's kind of starting.
Speaker 5 (06:18):
Right right, you know.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
I noticed some, you know, the few, the few trees
that we have that show a little bit of foul
folish color. They're starting. Yeah, and we do have some
leaf drop occurring. And it's been dry also, so you're
going to get more earlier season leaf fall when we
have dry weather powders like we've been having.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
Ivan transplant, I mean more or less been in a
little bit of a drought. We have been, you know,
because I was I was trying to think about the
last time I got a good rainfall, and it's been
several weeks.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
Right, I've lost track. Now, we did have that good
rain two or three weeks ago or sometime, and I
think where I live in Hammond, we got more than
Matt Rouge got.
Speaker 5 (06:58):
So oh, I guess Hamon's better. Yeah, you so.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
But our centipede grass looks bad. We we did not
do the regular file irrigation like we should have on
our centipede and this very thin and patchy right now.
Speaker 5 (07:14):
And see my my song.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
I've got a little bit of brown patch that had
crept up with the temperature drop right but everything I
see signs of the grass is slowing down get ready
to go dormund absolutely, which I'm excited about. I like
having brown grass. I don't have to cut.
Speaker 3 (07:34):
Right, but it's a good idea to maybe break up
some of those leaves and just top dress them on
top of the maulch in your in your shrub beds.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
And that's all I do, like all freshen Like I'll
put fresh moulch out in some of my beds. But
then I've got so along the side of my driveway,
I do a bunch of it's like a shade garden
and then a pollinator garden. And I literally just I
blew all the lead leaves from on my oak trees
and pecone trees on that side. Once we and I
(08:05):
just get started. The second leaves start start right, and
I just use that as a mulch till spring.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
And all that mulch in your pollinator guarden helps your
pollinators over winter or two.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
Yeah, I try to get the most out of especially
the achnesia. Yes, that's the that's the one, and I
mean i'll spread seed out, but that's the one that's like,
that's prom my favorite little perennial.
Speaker 5 (08:27):
Right.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
So but anyway, what else we got going on? And
then we've got Cassias in full bloom.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
I was at the Singing Lane location of Clegg's Nursery
yesterday and some very nice golden water wonder cassie Es
blendidas And those are perennial in baton rouge and they
make a six eight foot tall They can even be
much larger than that large shrub. Yeah, usually multi trunk.
(08:57):
October November, you got the yellow flower. Get a lot
of sulfur butterflies, a lot of b activity on them.
Speaker 5 (09:04):
And I love them just because of the foliage.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
Yes, I mean it reminds me of I don't know,
it's like they kind of close up at night. You know,
it's similar to like like the sensitive plant and some
of those other plants out there that to conserve water
loss and stuff they close up. But it's just a
neat little shrub and it's kind of weird because it
I mean, it's it's almost always multi trunk, you know,
(09:29):
unless you unless.
Speaker 5 (09:29):
You cut out of the right.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
But it's I mean, it just looks like a bunch
of sticks with leaves on the top. And then I
remember growing up there was one planet at a neighbor
down the street, and I mean it was old and
it was probably like twelve feet tall. It was up
the side of the house. Yeah yeah, but I mean
you see it from a mile away. Oh yeah, once
it starts blooming.
Speaker 5 (09:51):
So but the file.
Speaker 3 (09:53):
Bloom and cassios are all nice, and of course there's
also the candlestick or candle libru cassia see a who
lota and those are usually annuals.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
You mean the weed, the weed, No, it's it's not
a weed, but you know, it's a real pretty yellow
it is. But it's just I swear there's like I've
got one maintenance account left that I just take care
of out of kindness of my heart. Sure, And I'm like,
you know, I had to pop up over there one time,
and then I think I've sprayed it for ten years
(10:25):
now and still just pops up periodically. And then this
is the first year it actually moved.
Speaker 5 (10:33):
So but anyway, but.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
Those would be good plants for your pollinator garden. I'd
like to be out there in the full sun and
they're going to do good for you.
Speaker 4 (10:41):
Yep.
Speaker 5 (10:42):
So, but what is it? Okay? So, but we've also
got a plenty of bulbs.
Speaker 3 (10:49):
Still, okay, okay, so it is time for cool season bulbs.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
And not to you know, get on a soapbox or
something like Butcher would do. But yeah, I get your
bulbs now, know, yes, because supply is dwindling quickly. But
you know, I don't know if anyone's ever if you
haven't ever planted bulbs. I mean like just your paperwhites
or your like chorus, those are super easy. Something you
(11:15):
get to plant doesn't look like it does anything, and
then you enjoy it probably three months from now, or
with the spider lilies, that'd be a full.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
Year, right right, So I can get you some tulips
and playing them in the ground or in containers and yeah, yeah,
good good opportunity now to get your cool season bulbs,
and you know, depending on which ones you get, you
may need to do some chilling on them, or you know,
plant mid late December and they're gonna be doing good
(11:45):
for you in February March.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
I was always blown away with the tulips because it
was like the you know, when I first started working
with Klaggs, I didn't you know, I'd never done tulips.
I just you know, see I saw pictures in you know,
Holland of the tulip gardens and stuff, and it's just
a I never realized it's a you know, it's short
lived blooming bloom season. But you know, you got to
(12:09):
put in the fridge for six weeks right to chill
it right, and then you plant it and then you
do not keep the plant after that gloom.
Speaker 5 (12:17):
You have to get rid of it. And I call
be perennial down here. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
So, but it's just a it's a weird it's a weird,
niche little plant, but it makes a heck of a show.
Speaker 5 (12:27):
They absolutely do.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
I know last year at the Country Club of Louisiana,
or I guess it'd be the beginning of this year
but they bought us out of tulims and then they
they ended up needing more. But they had this whole
display as you walk, as you drive in. It was
just I mean, it was quite a show.
Speaker 3 (12:45):
And some of the botanical gardens around the South do
a lot of tulip planning, and I mean they plant
twenty and thirty thousand.
Speaker 5 (12:52):
Seeing that, Seeing that is just wild to me, right
because it's like just twenty or thirty thousand, that's all.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
Yeah, But it looks it's like that's as far as
I can see, you know, And so I'm just always
blown away by that. So but it looks like we've
got another collar. So we'll be going jump to This
is going to be Donna and Placamen. Good morning, Donna.
How can we help you today?
Speaker 7 (13:14):
Good morning. I have a gigantic night blooming serrus that
I've had several years and this year is the first
time it blew.
Speaker 5 (13:22):
It's still blooming.
Speaker 7 (13:24):
It's on my back porch and it, you know, reaches
out for the sunlight. Do I have to move that
giant inside for this cold coming in? Or can I
cover it?
Speaker 2 (13:37):
So it really just depends duration. So to play it safe,
I would bring inside. But as far as like the
duration projected duration right now, I think you'd be okay,
but I would cover it. As it gets colder, I
would start looking at bringing it in.
Speaker 8 (13:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (13:57):
I brought it in last winter, so I guess i'd
be once I move it.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
It's isn't it exciting when you see the bloom spike
pop on it? Though?
Speaker 7 (14:05):
Finally, yeah, I always wanted to give it away because
it wasn't blooming.
Speaker 5 (14:10):
Yeah, they'll take it, they'll care forever.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
But yeah, it's one of those plants where it's just like, oh,
there's a bloom spike. And then so we've got one
at the Seagan Lane location, like a we'll call it
a mother plant. I'm taking a lot of cuttings off
of it, and it's probably forty years old. And when
we see a bloom spike, we're all excited, all right,
but usually most of the staff miss it because the
(14:35):
bloom's already burning up by the time they gain now.
Speaker 7 (14:37):
So yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, well it must have gotten
mad at well. No, it said, I'm gonna show you now,
I've got over forty blooms on that plane.
Speaker 5 (14:46):
Oh wow, wow.
Speaker 2 (14:48):
Make sure you can get plenty of pictures. So yes, sir,
All right, well I have a great day.
Speaker 7 (14:53):
Donna, Thank you.
Speaker 5 (14:55):
Take care. That's a lovely question. Absolutely.
Speaker 3 (14:59):
Any if you have those special plants that you need
to protect, go ahead and move them and give them
that winter protection that yeah they're going to need. They're
going to need it instead of kicking the can down
the road. Yeah, they had two collars.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
I know.
Speaker 3 (15:14):
Have you noticed that you when you and I are
on the radio, we have way more collars than other
people to have.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
Yeah, I know, yes, Oh it was cricket chirping last time,
you know, but granted, I mean it was I don't
remember if it was cold, but I figured.
Speaker 5 (15:29):
We would have a few cold weather calls. All yeah.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
So, uh before we jump into some other stuff, I
wanted to just quickly uh promote the uh so one.
We had the tree spree last year, yes, or last
year yes, last week, but I've been dealing with banters
green this week. They sent me in a big order
(15:53):
plant and trees I think howl Howell Street. Okay, So
I was all excited, Yes, good, I know, and I
was cracking up because they should have sent two trailers.
Speaker 5 (16:03):
They only sent one. Okay, yeah, how much can we fit.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
Not not half we put it that way, but I
was all excited because.
Speaker 5 (16:11):
You know, it's it's cool to see that.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
And I mean, I know, I mean, we donate proceeds
when we do the tree spree to them, Yes, but
it's really neat that they I mean that we have
a nonprofit in the city of Benton Rouge that really
promotes like beautification.
Speaker 5 (16:29):
Absolutely absolutely, it just I don't know, it means something
to me.
Speaker 3 (16:34):
Yes, do what you can to support Baton Rouge Green.
And there's there's similar organizations in a lot of other
larger cities in Louisiana.
Speaker 5 (16:41):
Of course, a lot of a lot of.
Speaker 3 (16:43):
Our urban tree planning, urban landscaping going on, and and
with the canopy loss and a lot of our urban areas,
especially with Hurricane Gustaf and some other storms just devastating
the urban tree canopy and Baton Rouge, we need a
plant more trees. Yeah, And no better time of the
year than November, de summer, January.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
Exactly, honestly, at the time where you can almost plant it.
Speaker 5 (17:09):
And walk away for a while. Yes, you know whereas
I mean, I.
Speaker 2 (17:13):
Mean, I'll sell your plants any time of the year,
but you know during the summer, it's like you gotta.
I mean, it's so much more care, you know. So
that's why it's sometimes it'll make me cringe a little
bit when I have a customer in the July come in.
I want stuff that's no maintenance. It's like, well, nothing
is no maintenance, yes right, but you know, even like
(17:35):
the low maintenance things like I would say, like an azalea,
like an established azalea is more low maintenance, yes, right,
a low maintenance plant. It's like you got to put
so much water in that little tiny root ball to
keep it alive, just to make it to the cooler months.
Speaker 5 (17:51):
Yes.
Speaker 3 (17:51):
So and this is the time of year that you
really ought to be planting your azalias and you're guardanius. Yeah,
and even though your camellias are in blown, planting down
this time of year. Yeah, which anybuddy buy us or
hydrange just when they're in bloom, Yeah, plant or hydrange
just now. I used to I just think how much
better they're going to look, whether you plant a garden
(18:12):
hydrangel or one of the sun loving limelight variety types.
Think how much more they're going to be established if
you go ahead and plant now then you wait till
next March, April or June.
Speaker 2 (18:25):
I remember I talked to Bill Roundtree one time about
like I just want I used to I used to
look for the hydrange of pots that we had purchased,
like we had ordered in from last year the year before, right,
so that they were extra rooted.
Speaker 5 (18:39):
Yes, yes.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
And then typically if it was an install job and
it was in the summertime, it's like, all right, can
we come back and can I plant your hydrangees in
the winter?
Speaker 6 (18:50):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (18:51):
Yes, Because it's just mean and I usually harp on
this to most people, but it's like, you know, I
look at the winter months that when root like all
your root development occurs during the spring summer, the plants
worried about flower and fruiting, putting.
Speaker 5 (19:08):
Out leaves, shooting growth.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
Yeah, it's not worried about root development, right right. So
it's like, I mean, I've I've seen a one gallon
of zelia that I had to you know, customer brought
it in because it died and they needed to replace it.
It's like it's still the same size pot or the
same size as the pot, right right, But anyway, that's enough.
Speaker 3 (19:28):
Maybe I'm even seeing plants shrinking size. How do plants
do that?
Speaker 2 (19:32):
I don't know, man, It's like, I mean, I get
like some piff plants. It could be I mean, you
might be onto something.
Speaker 3 (19:41):
So but anyway, I have a plant the time of year,
plant at the time of the year where you're going
to optimize your root growth.
Speaker 5 (19:48):
That's what you want to do, because.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
You really I mean, and as my wife will tell
you gladly, she doesn't want she doesn't want to look
at my water bill during the summer. So it's like,
you know, you want to get stuff established so we're
not having to put out so many gallons of water.
Speaker 5 (20:05):
Yes, so you know, but we got that going on. Uh.
You know you brought up the sanquids. They are all
budded in blooming. It is wonderful right now.
Speaker 3 (20:16):
Yeah, the early bloom is the cyanquists. They've they've had
some collar out there for a couple of weeks now. Yeah,
and I've seen a lot with very good by development.
Speaker 5 (20:24):
So I want to know. Uh.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
And I'm friends with Bracy's on Facebook. How are there
she she's already blooming, mind just hanging out.
Speaker 3 (20:35):
I've seen she she's in bloom. And then I've seen
some that have plenty of bus, but they're not open
yet bus just super tight.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
Yes, yes, so, which I guess is a good thing.
My Azalia is in front. I've got which we don't
stock him anymore. It was, but the proven I've got
some proven winter azalias. If one of them dies, I
don't know where I'm going to find it. Yes, because
Ron told me I was out of lucky put it
that way. Yes, but you know they're still blooming, so
(21:03):
i'd like to and if they're the color my tone
is almost it's just off color from the she She's
I've got planted, right, So I'm hoping those finish off
blooming by the time the she She's open.
Speaker 3 (21:15):
But normally your first bloom on she she Ga sheer
it starts, you know, October fifteenth, October twentieth, But this year,
I really don't think they started until a week or
two later. And then they're going to go to the
bear of late January. Yeah, they only plant and then
plants just some camellias panicas, and they're gonna bloom December
through March, she even in early April.
Speaker 2 (21:36):
And well, like I've got which we've gotten all of
our Chapanica crap in for the most part, but I've
been impressed with the was it variegated like a gura okay,
because those are all kind of full bloom raight now,
and which I can't remember if that's an earlier bloomer.
Speaker 3 (21:54):
Typically I cannot either. I know what variety you are
talking about, but I'm not very familiar with.
Speaker 5 (21:59):
My favorite, which my mother in law has. It's that.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
Lady Vani start right, which well, I always try to
like those in if I can find them, because that's
just a neat.
Speaker 5 (22:10):
I always thought it was cool.
Speaker 2 (22:11):
It's it's a mutation sport, right, so you get a
fluctuation of blooms typically, so it comes in shades of
like a dark pink to red to a white pink,
and I always like that little bit of variation. Yeah,
it's just always a show stopper and it has a
weird little crinkled leaf to it.
Speaker 3 (22:30):
So some of the best flower shows to go to
are the Camelia shows. There'll be a Camellia show in
Slidell coming up, one in New Orleans coming up Baton
Rouge at the Rural Life Museum in early February. So
I mean the Camellia clubs in South Louis Down are
very strong and they have a number of members and
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everybody brings all their blooms into display and they'll be
over a thousand.
Speaker 5 (22:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (22:57):
So I was looking at my planted and this was
probably I don't know, ten years ago ish, but I
had planted and always butchered the name. But the LiFi era,
which is the like the tea oil, Yes, yes, yeah,
So I planted that in my parents' house because we
had gotten them in and I was like, oh, this
is super neat, yes, you know it, you know because
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the actual tea plant Camellia the flower, I mean it's
a cool flower, but it has not grown for the
flower period, yes right, whereas this one it's got more
of a show, all right. And so a plant in
that it's I mean it's probably eight foot tall now,
real pretty plant. But I love that bloom because it's
just like that soft, soft white John and Baton rouge,
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Good morning John.
Speaker 5 (23:44):
How can we help you today?
Speaker 8 (23:47):
Guys? You already covered it, but I need a re
pressure in containers and pretty north boxes. I have tomatoes, peppers,
myer lemon and Chinese cabbage.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
What do I need to protect the tomatoes, the peppers,
and the meyer lemons. Probably okay this cold temp, but
if it drops lower, I would say protect the mayor lemon,
like at least cover it.
Speaker 5 (24:11):
So are you close to where you are?
Speaker 3 (24:13):
You close to where you can harvest some tomatoes?
Speaker 5 (24:16):
Yeah? You have any?
Speaker 8 (24:20):
A lot of them are still green.
Speaker 2 (24:23):
Yeah, either either bring them in to protect them or
I don't know how you feel about fried green tomatoes.
Speaker 8 (24:31):
NA, if I cover them and maybe drag them up
against the wall, that.
Speaker 5 (24:39):
Enough. You can try that.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
But as we get cooler and cooler, I mean your
tomato production and pepper productions pretty gonna gonna dwindle.
Speaker 3 (24:51):
The days are getting shorter and they need longer days
to really produce.
Speaker 2 (24:55):
Well, your Chinese cabbine should be fine. But if it
was me personally, I would just harvest everything you can
and I would just replant with cool season stuff like
some broccoli, Brussels sprouts, that kind of thing. Yeah, just
because it's kind of it's it's getting so late. The
unless you're gonna move the peppers and the tomatoes into
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a heated greenhound like.
Speaker 5 (25:18):
A hothouse, yeah, I don't have that.
Speaker 3 (25:22):
Yeah, it's just it's gonna be and you know, and
you know, protect, protect on Sunday night and Monday night
and if you can the best you can, and maybe
we'll go two or three or four more weeks before
we have another yeah frost event. So you know, you
may get a little bit of production in a few
weeks if you can protect for those two hours that
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we're gonna get you know, thirty five, thirty three, thirty two.
Speaker 8 (25:47):
So Sunday night, Monday night, protect.
Speaker 5 (25:50):
Yeah, right, Ryan, break right right, So Ma le.
Speaker 6 (25:57):
Mari Lemon.
Speaker 5 (26:00):
Myer limbit is gonna be okay at these temperatures.
Speaker 2 (26:03):
Yeah, yeah, it's when we get to like the lower twenties,
like you know, twenty to twenty five, twenty seven, you
want to start looking and kind.
Speaker 5 (26:13):
Of protecting that.
Speaker 8 (26:16):
Okay, then thanks Jack.
Speaker 4 (26:17):
All right, you're welcome, take care and kind of following
up on that point, looking at the far extended forecast,
and obviously once you kind of get passed out to
the far end of that, it gets a little less iffy.
But after this cold snap, it's pretty much almost locked
in seventies and fifties, yeah, for temperatures. So we were
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talking about this beforehand. It just feels like you should
protect a little. But this is not well code read,
you know, not a situation.
Speaker 5 (26:48):
It's not like inclement.
Speaker 2 (26:51):
You're gonna have a ice sheet covering whatever you use,
whatever your blanket like, you know, if you use a
frost blanket, it's gonna be covered tonight and you're gonna
have a little maybe.
Speaker 4 (27:01):
It just it feels like this is precaution, not yeah.
Not you don't have to roll out the full winter.
Uh what's the word I'm looking for response?
Speaker 2 (27:13):
No, I mean, you know, you know, I wouldn't say
ever pull out a heat lamp or anything like that,
but I do want to quickly manchine. You know, if
you do use frost protection like a blanket, like a
frost blanket something like that, I wouldn't recommend just a
like a comforter or anything like that. Obviously, if you're
in a pickle, you gotta use what you got to use. Uh,
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you want to take that off immediately and then next morning,
like immediately, right, you know, Like if I say I
covered all my all my material in the front, all right,
and because I was concerned, the second I get up
in the morning, I'm gonna go take that off because
that heat, like if this when the sun comes out,
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you're gonna cook.
Speaker 5 (27:55):
What's underneath that blanket, you know.
Speaker 2 (27:58):
And whether or not that's the little little thermal blankets
that will sell, or you know, just a comforter or
something like that, or tarp 'espe actually especially a.
Speaker 3 (28:09):
Turpe, you know, the tarp and the plastic gets when
most people get into trouble.
Speaker 5 (28:13):
Yeah, yes, you.
Speaker 2 (28:14):
Know, but I'm hoping this year, I don't see any lollipops,
all right, so.
Speaker 5 (28:19):
Just bundle that top, you know. So anyway, enough felt
cold weather protection.
Speaker 3 (28:25):
Right, but we are where are we are about the
time when we get a first frost in Baton Rouge,
So you know, all is right in the world, and
there's no our emergency situation that we have here culturally,
you know.
Speaker 2 (28:39):
I mean it's usually what like February January February when
we start getting actual cold where it's like, okay, we
want to go ahead and right, you know, cover so
and since we're talking about being chilly outside, I want
to quick take a moment to mention allan, do you
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know it comes in next weekend or what's projected to.
Speaker 5 (29:02):
Collect next comes in next weekend? All right?
Speaker 2 (29:05):
They smell really good. All right, they're conical green would
be fresh cut Christmas tree exactly. But now when can
people come in and buy them? I mean I'll sell
them to you off the truck. I mean I can't
stand them right there specifically, Yeah, that I do not
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know they're going to show up when they show up
for me, But it's projected next weekend, I think Saturday,
you know, and that'll be just our first round, you know,
and then as far as I'm aware, we're gonna get
all the same trees we got last year. Like we'll
get those alpine cut, which is what some people tell me.
It's just a nuts sheer tree. They just skip trimming
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right bush so that it's more airy, which I like.
Those have done those couple of years. Like one I
really liked, which I've only done it like two years,
was I think it's I think it's the I always
mix up the Douglas and the Grand it's the one
with a little bit wider leaf as a citrusy smell
to it. I did that two years and it was awesome.
(30:11):
We've got like a little dining room area that we
turned into or four year that we turned into Molly
calls at the boys room. It's where my PlayStation sits
collects dust and the kids toys are. But now we
put the Christmas tree in there and it just it
(30:31):
made that whole room just smell varies.
Speaker 5 (30:34):
I mean, it was so aromatic. So nothing better than
a fresh truck, living Christmas truck. Yeah yeah, so, and you.
Speaker 2 (30:42):
Know, I'm sure I'll throw away a couple of pairs
of jeans as I do every year because I get
tree sap all over them. But it's an exciting time,
you know, because as far as the nursery goes, it's
one of these again.
Speaker 5 (30:53):
I talked about it with I think Cat the other week.
Speaker 2 (30:57):
But it's we go through several transitions airy aperience where
it's just like you know, fall starts rolling around and
it's like, okay, pumpkins start rolling in tree, your shade, tree,
shrubs like native plantings start moving up, because that's what
I tried to push for the fall, right, and then
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we rotate again to Christmas trees and then that's where
I move up all my cedars things like that because
because people like living Christmas trees too, And then it
was just a cool little change. It is, right, but
it looks like we've got another caller, and I think, Alan,
you're right.
Speaker 5 (31:35):
When it's you and me, we get all the calls,
we appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (31:39):
So it's gonna be Greg and baton rouge. Good morning, Greg.
How can we help you?
Speaker 8 (31:44):
Hey?
Speaker 9 (31:45):
I wanted to know I've got They just they raised
my house and then they they planted a centipede side
in the front yard about money. Will be two weeks
and I've been watering it or when it was hot,
less when it was cool. But I've been watering it
every day, and I wanted to know is that it
(32:05):
Should I stop watering it?
Speaker 6 (32:07):
Or should I?
Speaker 9 (32:08):
I mean, I see green coming through, but are you
still kind of brown? And should I put the freeze
coming up? Should I stop water?
Speaker 2 (32:16):
And yeah, I wouldn't water probably every day as it
gets cooler and cooler, you kind of start backing up.
So all right, but you want to make sure it
just stays a little moist, all right, and doesn't dry out,
because right now we are in a drought. There's what
I would consider a drought if I don't see rain
for three weeks so.
Speaker 5 (32:37):
And there's no rain predicted for the next ten days.
So yeah, but you.
Speaker 3 (32:41):
You aren't to the point where you ought to be.
You'rengating two or three times a week now instead of daily.
Speaker 9 (32:46):
Yeah, okay, all right, so.
Speaker 2 (32:48):
It probably spitch that up and maybe twenty minutes, you know,
something like that, fifteen to twenty minutes, something like that,
just to keep it a little moist.
Speaker 9 (32:57):
Okay, all right, because it is mush you know what.
Speaker 5 (33:01):
Well, yeah that and that may be a little too wet.
Speaker 2 (33:03):
No, yeah, so yeah, definitely back you don't want it
to be mushy.
Speaker 9 (33:07):
So okay, all right, I got another question for you
in my backyard. Is it is it? Can I start?
Can I spray answer zine right now?
Speaker 5 (33:18):
Yeah? You can go.
Speaker 2 (33:19):
Yeah, you can go ahead, use your answerzine, your winter
weed cocktail, go and get all that under control.
Speaker 5 (33:26):
Okay, yeah, all right.
Speaker 2 (33:27):
I'd recommend if you don't put out a pre emergent
uh to use that dimension that we carry. It's like
turf and ornamental weed and grass stopper because the and
and this is just personally I have an issue with
crabgrass and I'm already seeing that kind of germinate right now.
Speaker 5 (33:46):
So yeah, so you want to try and get all
that under control.
Speaker 2 (33:50):
It's one of the few things like your atrozine or
that weed free zone that we carry.
Speaker 5 (33:55):
Uh, it doesn't cover.
Speaker 9 (33:57):
So all right, okay, all right, thank you very much.
Speaker 5 (34:01):
You're welcome. We appreciate all the phone calle.
Speaker 2 (34:03):
It's been great. So it is the last segment of
the of the hour. So we're gonna go and jump
to Jim and Denim. We got a call again. I'm
telling you. There we go, you, me and Jeremy. So
good morning, Jim. How can we help you today?
Speaker 8 (34:21):
Come?
Speaker 10 (34:21):
All right, gentlemen, I have a just a query more
than anything. Many years ago, my sister gave me some
acorns that came from the friendship op at the at
the university over there in Gulf Port, and my wife
and I took those those acorns and we put them
in a large pot with potting soil and nutrients and
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everything else, and it.
Speaker 6 (34:44):
Started to grow. Well.
Speaker 10 (34:45):
Now that plant is about six and a half feet
tall and it's a tree, but it's still in the pot.
And I was wondering, what do I have to do
to take it out of the pot and put it
in the ground so it will continue to flourish and grow.
Speaker 2 (35:00):
To start out, you grab a shovel and then we're
gonna start digging, all right. This is the perfect time
to transplant it though. All right, this cool weather. How
big of a pipe do you would?
Speaker 5 (35:13):
You say? It is okay, ten gallon pot?
Speaker 2 (35:16):
Okay, so you want to do I usually recommend dig
one and a half to twice the width of that pot,
all right, just to make back feel very easy. All right,
you gonna have plenty of room to work around the pot.
And then I don't know, if you want to keep
the pot, you'd pull it out.
Speaker 5 (35:34):
But is it just like a plastic pot.
Speaker 10 (35:37):
Yeah, it's plastic, and it's it's disposable.
Speaker 2 (35:40):
I mean, yeah, I was probably I would probably just
cut the pot, you know, if it's been in there
for a while.
Speaker 5 (35:47):
Uh, and.
Speaker 10 (35:49):
The ground on the bottom of the pot so I
can't move it now.
Speaker 2 (35:52):
Yeah, yeah, you'll definitely have to cut it loose. So
but I would probably just start, like, get your whole prepped,
all right. I wouldn't put any fertilizer other than maybe
some root stimulator down once you plan it, all right,
but yeah, just trying to see if you can get
it separated all right from the ground and then cut
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that pot loose. And yeah, go ahead and plant just
planet rights that up.
Speaker 10 (36:19):
Okay, I thought there was some special technique or whatever that.
Speaker 5 (36:23):
I don't want. The biggest thing is.
Speaker 2 (36:27):
You never go deeper than the soil level of the
pot is a good rule with them.
Speaker 10 (36:33):
So wait, try that again.
Speaker 6 (36:35):
Deeper than what.
Speaker 5 (36:36):
The soil level in that pot? All right?
Speaker 3 (36:39):
Okay, So plant it at the same depth that it's
growing right now. Don't make the hole till deep, you know.
And I like a plant maybe one inch or two
inches above grade, if you understand what I mean by that.
Speaker 2 (36:51):
Right, Yeah, I'll try and check to see where the
root flare is on the tree, all right, because you
want to kind of leave that exposed, all right, So
that's kind of where the roots flare.
Speaker 3 (37:03):
Out, so and been in that container for the amount
of time it's been, you know, like Zayne was saying,
you're going to have to do some chopping on the
roots to get that unrooted from the ground. But then
do you some justing on the outside circumference of that
root ball and it gets you some hand pruners to
just break up those roots on so get them to
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start growing out for you.
Speaker 2 (37:25):
Yeah, I ideally you just want your you want your
roots to be extending outwards, not kind of a quilled
up shape, which the pot's just I mean, it's a
round pot.
Speaker 5 (37:37):
It's just going to promote so right, all right.
Speaker 6 (37:41):
Okay, sound good. Thank you gentlemen. I appreciate it.
Speaker 5 (37:43):
You're welcome. Take care.
Speaker 3 (37:47):
Let's see, and I guess we need to be thinking
about Points saty as also.
Speaker 5 (37:51):
Do we do? Thanks for reminding me.
Speaker 3 (37:53):
So we have our Clex Nursery Points Satyr open house. Yeah,
three weeks from today.
Speaker 2 (38:00):
And look, this is the first year, first year, first year.
I'm going to be there, okay, you know.
Speaker 3 (38:07):
And it's nine till two at the Greenwolf Springs Road
location where we have our production greenhouses and we have
ten thousand points set us and you can come, bring
your children, grandchildren, bring your parents, bring your whole family,
bring your friends, take some pictures. See Santa Claus. I
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think they buy some points Satius.
Speaker 2 (38:30):
And I think they said something about cookies too, maybe
and cookies and hot chocolate and on probably a seventy
five degree day. Yeah, but I tell you it's it
gets you in the holiday spirit, you know. And I
used to man I manage to see the greenwell spring
store now. And that's why I'm excited. I get to family.
Usually my wife takes the kids over there and takes pictures, yes,
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you know, and I miss out, but this will be
the first year I get to scoot over there and
take some pictures.
Speaker 5 (39:01):
Very good.
Speaker 2 (39:02):
But it's I mean, it's a really interesting site because
it's like the first time I went to the Color Division, right,
I was kind of blown away. I was like, Oh,
this place is huge, enormous, and then as years passed,
I'm like, it's and it's not small potatoes, but it's like,
you know, I go down to Florida to shop, yes,
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and I was just like, oh, this is small exactly,
you know.
Speaker 3 (39:27):
So but it may it may say ten thousand points
satios may sound like a lot, but it's really not
in the grand scheme of the horticulture world.
Speaker 2 (39:35):
And so that was just I mean, it kind of
put me in, you know, kind of gave me a
little idea.
Speaker 3 (39:41):
On And we have your traditional red point satios and
the pink and the white, and there's some of the
unique new colored black varieties out there, and there's one
that's really really uniquely burgundy. This year, I don't know
what variety that one is.
Speaker 5 (39:57):
I think it's new. Yep.
Speaker 2 (39:58):
Well look we got one more calling, so we're gonna
go ahead and jump to it.
Speaker 5 (40:01):
It's gonna be kay in Lafayette. I think I think
I know her.
Speaker 7 (40:06):
Good morning, Okay, yeah, you know me.
Speaker 10 (40:10):
I have a question about an article that was in
the paper today about the milk weed that are causing
the monarchs to be sick.
Speaker 2 (40:17):
Okay, yeah, so that's essentially we just need to cut
back all of our milkweed. Usually it's like middle to
late September through October November.
Speaker 3 (40:27):
I think that's correct, right, right, most people, you know,
we recommend cutting back milkweed by October first.
Speaker 5 (40:33):
Yeah. So, but that's the big thing.
Speaker 2 (40:36):
It's just it builds up and it's a toxin essentially, Okay,
in the in the stem, as the milk, as the
butterfly eats it, or the caterpillar eats it, it ends
up causing down.
Speaker 5 (40:52):
So but it's a real neat thing.
Speaker 2 (40:54):
We just need to make sure we cut back our milkweed,
all right, and have a good one k and it.
Speaker 5 (41:02):
Lots of good college today, great, lots of good information.
Was good. You know, I'm always excited doing the show
with you.
Speaker 3 (41:09):
I'm always good to see you zaying so appreciate everything
you do.
Speaker 5 (41:12):
You don't have to
Speaker 2 (41:13):
Butter me up so but everybody, you'll have a wonderful
Saturday and we'll see you at the nursery.
Good Saturday morning, and welcome to the WGBO Lone and
Garden Show, brought to you by Cleg's Nursery. If you
have a question about seasonal plan tank lone and garden
concerns or questions about landscaping, called four nine nine w GBO.
That's four nine nine two six.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Good Saturday morning, and welcome to the w GBO One
and Garden Show. I named Say Mercer, joined here with
doctor Allen Owens, the.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
Alan Owens, the the one and only exactly exactly Good morning,
Good morning, another eighty degree day. Eighty five degree day?
Speaker 4 (00:39):
Is it?
Speaker 3 (00:39):
It was in November? Yeah, I think it was eighty
five yesterday. I'm not sure it was.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
I like this time of the year. But then it's
like I start today, we're wearing pants exactly. Then I'm like,
I kind of wear want to wear a shorts leader? Yes, yeah,
you know that said, you know, I should. I should
always wear pants. So I'm not I'm not as cool
as Butch.
Speaker 5 (00:59):
You know. Anyway, we got.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
A lot of stuff to talk about, at least that's
what my list says.
Speaker 5 (01:06):
But it's a I just want to take a moment.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
I love this this weather right now, where it's like
a little overcast, little rocky, and then it clears up. Yes,
but a lot of stuff as far as gardening and
stuff we can do right now. And if you had
any calls, questions are concerned, she could reach us at
four nine nine WJBO or four nine nine nine five
two six And if you miss the show, you can
(01:31):
listen tune.
Speaker 5 (01:32):
In on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
Jeremy's pretty quick on putting the each session, posting it
so and moving on. So Allen on that fancy list,
you got what you want to talk about first?
Speaker 3 (01:46):
Well, I guess we can maybe talk about the upcoming
cool front that we have coming in. Oh yeah, and
you know, the mornings have been comfortable, but it's been
kind of sticky and yeah, warm in the afternoon the
last couple of days. But hopefully every bay's cool seas
and Betty plants are doing good, and every bay's cool
(02:08):
seas and vegetables are doing good. And people are asking about,
you know, how cold is it going to be Monday
morning and Tuesday morning.
Speaker 5 (02:16):
I've been telling people overall weather.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
Yes, you know, you know it looks like Baton Rouge
thirty two thirty three on Tuesday thirty six on a
Monday morning. So and that's not really a temperature that
we need to be majorly concerned about the majority of
the plants that we have in our landscape.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
I mean, like some of your tropical stuff, I might
like your houseplant material and all that kind of stuff,
because I keep my house plants all the way out
in the front on my front porch under misters, and
so this is the time I start migrating everything.
Speaker 5 (02:49):
In right right now.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
And when you move your houseplants in, you want to
try to get you know, as much indoor light on
a lot of those as you can. And some people
may just move their plants in on the coldest nights
and then move them back out until the next cold
spell in one or two weeks.
Speaker 5 (03:10):
And that's really what I prefer to.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
Do, unless you have a huge volume that you don't
want to it's going to make that much effort.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
Probably fifteen pots things and I don't know, like the
my intheriums, I've already moved those in, yes, you know.
It was like I don't need those leaves turning yet, right,
But like the my philodendrons and everything, that's like I'm
just gonna wait until it's probably I would say tomorrow.
(03:39):
I would think, right right, I'll just bring them in
and then if the temper drops it goes back up,
I'm gonna move.
Speaker 5 (03:45):
Them back out.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
And we also need to be thinking about so like,
if it's thirty six on Monday morning and thirty two
on Tuesday morning, how many hours is it going to
be thirty two and how many hours is it going
to be thirty six? This is not going to be
a significant, yeah, cold weather event, and then we're gonna
be warming back up again.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
That's what I try to explain, is it's it's just
it's mainly about the duration. I get to some extent,
it's how far it goes, how far the temp drops.
Speaker 5 (04:13):
Yes, but I mean if it's just.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
Say, the coldest part of the night is four in
the morning, you know, and then it starts going climbing
back up right right, you know, it's it's not too bad.
So but it looks like we've already got a collar. Okay,
so we're gonna jump to it's gonna be Michael and
bed Ridge.
Speaker 5 (04:31):
Good morning, Michael, Hey, good morning guys.
Speaker 6 (04:35):
So I got to ask you this mysterious question. So
I've been living on Perkins Road for ten years and
I've got three two hundred and fifty year old a
live oak trees, right, and thousands of acorns have dropped
this year, where in all ten years, I've never seen
anything like it. Is this a pattern?
Speaker 3 (04:55):
It is a pattern on oak treys. Now, normally you're
not going to have ten year gap, but you have
what's called a masked crop m a s T where
you get a lot of c production one year and
then the next year you won't get very much. There's
no real good scientific explanation for that, but that does
happen in all of your oak trees.
Speaker 5 (05:16):
So gotcha.
Speaker 6 (05:18):
I'm just curious because it's it's so strange.
Speaker 5 (05:20):
All right, right?
Speaker 6 (05:21):
Thousands?
Speaker 3 (05:22):
Yeah, I mean you can you every foot, you every
step you take, You're you're all over acre and so yep, yes, yes, sir, yes.
Speaker 6 (05:31):
Well, thank you man. I just want to make sure
something wasn't won.
Speaker 5 (05:33):
Okay, and you're probably gonna have none next year.
Speaker 6 (05:36):
Yeah, great, thanks you guys.
Speaker 5 (05:39):
Take care of Michael.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
I saw one of the wildlife guys talking about that
a week or two ago.
Speaker 5 (05:44):
Now, it seems like a good year, you know, for
acorns yes, yes, and.
Speaker 4 (05:48):
That does explain why I fuck, I'm crunching on them
a lot more when I go walk the dog.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
Well, you know, and that would explain why Scott helped
me get a bunch of tree pots for like ceiling pots.
So but anyway, now, the you know, that brings up
a kind of a good topic I like to talk about.
Speaker 5 (06:08):
Is cleanup, clean up.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
Okay, yeah, you know we need to start prepping for
a little bit of clean up. I mean, leaf drop
on your disasterous trees, right, It's it's kind of starting.
Speaker 5 (06:18):
Right right, you know.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
I noticed some, you know, the few, the few trees
that we have that show a little bit of foul
folish color. They're starting. Yeah, and we do have some
leaf drop occurring. And it's been dry also, so you're
going to get more earlier season leaf fall when we
have dry weather powders like we've been having.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
Ivan transplant, I mean more or less been in a
little bit of a drought. We have been, you know,
because I was I was trying to think about the
last time I got a good rainfall, and it's been
several weeks.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
Right, I've lost track. Now, we did have that good
rain two or three weeks ago or sometime, and I
think where I live in Hammond, we got more than
Matt Rouge got.
Speaker 5 (06:58):
So oh, I guess Hamon's better. Yeah, you so.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
But our centipede grass looks bad. We we did not
do the regular file irrigation like we should have on
our centipede and this very thin and patchy right now.
Speaker 5 (07:14):
And see my my song.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
I've got a little bit of brown patch that had
crept up with the temperature drop right but everything I
see signs of the grass is slowing down get ready
to go dormund absolutely, which I'm excited about. I like
having brown grass. I don't have to cut.
Speaker 3 (07:34):
Right, but it's a good idea to maybe break up
some of those leaves and just top dress them on
top of the maulch in your in your shrub beds.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
And that's all I do, like all freshen Like I'll
put fresh moulch out in some of my beds. But
then I've got so along the side of my driveway,
I do a bunch of it's like a shade garden
and then a pollinator garden. And I literally just I
blew all the lead leaves from on my oak trees
and pecone trees on that side. Once we and I
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just get started. The second leaves start start right, and
I just use that as a mulch till spring.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
And all that mulch in your pollinator guarden helps your
pollinators over winter or two.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
Yeah, I try to get the most out of especially
the achnesia. Yes, that's the that's the one, and I
mean i'll spread seed out, but that's the one that's like,
that's prom my favorite little perennial.
Speaker 5 (08:27):
Right.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
So but anyway, what else we got going on? And
then we've got Cassias in full bloom.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
I was at the Singing Lane location of Clegg's Nursery
yesterday and some very nice golden water wonder cassie Es
blendidas And those are perennial in baton rouge and they
make a six eight foot tall They can even be
much larger than that large shrub. Yeah, usually multi trunk.
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October November, you got the yellow flower. Get a lot
of sulfur butterflies, a lot of b activity on them.
Speaker 5 (09:04):
And I love them just because of the foliage.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
Yes, I mean it reminds me of I don't know,
it's like they kind of close up at night. You know,
it's similar to like like the sensitive plant and some
of those other plants out there that to conserve water
loss and stuff they close up. But it's just a
neat little shrub and it's kind of weird because it
I mean, it's it's almost always multi trunk, you know,
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unless you unless.
Speaker 5 (09:29):
You cut out of the right.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
But it's I mean, it just looks like a bunch
of sticks with leaves on the top. And then I
remember growing up there was one planet at a neighbor
down the street, and I mean it was old and
it was probably like twelve feet tall. It was up
the side of the house. Yeah yeah, but I mean
you see it from a mile away. Oh yeah, once
it starts blooming.
Speaker 5 (09:51):
So but the file.
Speaker 3 (09:53):
Bloom and cassios are all nice, and of course there's
also the candlestick or candle libru cassia see a who
lota and those are usually annuals.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
You mean the weed, the weed, No, it's it's not
a weed, but you know, it's a real pretty yellow
it is. But it's just I swear there's like I've
got one maintenance account left that I just take care
of out of kindness of my heart. Sure, And I'm like,
you know, I had to pop up over there one time,
and then I think I've sprayed it for ten years
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now and still just pops up periodically. And then this
is the first year it actually moved.
Speaker 5 (10:33):
So but anyway, but.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
Those would be good plants for your pollinator garden. I'd
like to be out there in the full sun and
they're going to do good for you.
Speaker 4 (10:41):
Yep.
Speaker 5 (10:42):
So, but what is it? Okay? So, but we've also
got a plenty of bulbs.
Speaker 3 (10:49):
Still, okay, okay, so it is time for cool season bulbs.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
And not to you know, get on a soapbox or
something like Butcher would do. But yeah, I get your
bulbs now, know, yes, because supply is dwindling quickly. But
you know, I don't know if anyone's ever if you
haven't ever planted bulbs. I mean like just your paperwhites
or your like chorus, those are super easy. Something you
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get to plant doesn't look like it does anything, and
then you enjoy it probably three months from now, or
with the spider lilies, that'd be a full.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
Year, right right, So I can get you some tulips
and playing them in the ground or in containers and yeah, yeah,
good good opportunity now to get your cool season bulbs,
and you know, depending on which ones you get, you
may need to do some chilling on them, or you know,
plant mid late December and they're gonna be doing good
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for you in February March.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
I was always blown away with the tulips because it
was like the you know, when I first started working
with Klaggs, I didn't you know, I'd never done tulips.
I just you know, see I saw pictures in you know,
Holland of the tulip gardens and stuff, and it's just
a I never realized it's a you know, it's short
lived blooming bloom season. But you know, you got to
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put in the fridge for six weeks right to chill
it right, and then you plant it and then you
do not keep the plant after that gloom.
Speaker 5 (12:17):
You have to get rid of it. And I call
be perennial down here. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
So, but it's just a it's a weird it's a weird,
niche little plant, but it makes a heck of a show.
Speaker 5 (12:27):
They absolutely do.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
I know last year at the Country Club of Louisiana,
or I guess it'd be the beginning of this year
but they bought us out of tulims and then they
they ended up needing more. But they had this whole
display as you walk, as you drive in. It was
just I mean, it was quite a show.
Speaker 3 (12:45):
And some of the botanical gardens around the South do
a lot of tulip planning, and I mean they plant
twenty and thirty thousand.
Speaker 5 (12:52):
Seeing that, Seeing that is just wild to me, right
because it's like just twenty or thirty thousand, that's all.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
Yeah, But it looks it's like that's as far as
I can see, you know, And so I'm just always
blown away by that. So but it looks like we've
got another collar. So we'll be going jump to This
is going to be Donna and Placamen. Good morning, Donna.
How can we help you today?
Speaker 7 (13:14):
Good morning. I have a gigantic night blooming serrus that
I've had several years and this year is the first
time it blew.
Speaker 5 (13:22):
It's still blooming.
Speaker 7 (13:24):
It's on my back porch and it, you know, reaches
out for the sunlight. Do I have to move that
giant inside for this cold coming in? Or can I
cover it?
Speaker 2 (13:37):
So it really just depends duration. So to play it safe,
I would bring inside. But as far as like the
duration projected duration right now, I think you'd be okay,
but I would cover it. As it gets colder, I
would start looking at bringing it in.
Speaker 8 (13:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (13:57):
I brought it in last winter, so I guess i'd
be once I move it.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
It's isn't it exciting when you see the bloom spike
pop on it? Though?
Speaker 7 (14:05):
Finally, yeah, I always wanted to give it away because
it wasn't blooming.
Speaker 5 (14:10):
Yeah, they'll take it, they'll care forever.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
But yeah, it's one of those plants where it's just like, oh,
there's a bloom spike. And then so we've got one
at the Seagan Lane location, like a we'll call it
a mother plant. I'm taking a lot of cuttings off
of it, and it's probably forty years old. And when
we see a bloom spike, we're all excited, all right,
but usually most of the staff miss it because the
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bloom's already burning up by the time they gain now.
Speaker 7 (14:37):
So yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, well it must have gotten
mad at well. No, it said, I'm gonna show you now,
I've got over forty blooms on that plane.
Speaker 5 (14:46):
Oh wow, wow.
Speaker 2 (14:48):
Make sure you can get plenty of pictures. So yes, sir,
All right, well I have a great day.
Speaker 7 (14:53):
Donna, Thank you.
Speaker 5 (14:55):
Take care. That's a lovely question. Absolutely.
Speaker 3 (14:59):
Any if you have those special plants that you need
to protect, go ahead and move them and give them
that winter protection that yeah they're going to need. They're
going to need it instead of kicking the can down
the road. Yeah, they had two collars.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
I know.
Speaker 3 (15:14):
Have you noticed that you when you and I are
on the radio, we have way more collars than other
people to have.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
Yeah, I know, yes, Oh it was cricket chirping last time,
you know, but granted, I mean it was I don't
remember if it was cold, but I figured.
Speaker 5 (15:29):
We would have a few cold weather calls. All yeah.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
So, uh before we jump into some other stuff, I
wanted to just quickly uh promote the uh so one.
We had the tree spree last year, yes, or last
year yes, last week, but I've been dealing with banters
green this week. They sent me in a big order
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plant and trees I think howl Howell Street. Okay, So
I was all excited, Yes, good, I know, and I
was cracking up because they should have sent two trailers.
Speaker 5 (16:03):
They only sent one. Okay, yeah, how much can we fit.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
Not not half we put it that way, but I
was all excited because.
Speaker 5 (16:11):
You know, it's it's cool to see that.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
And I mean, I know, I mean, we donate proceeds
when we do the tree spree to them, Yes, but
it's really neat that they I mean that we have
a nonprofit in the city of Benton Rouge that really
promotes like beautification.
Speaker 5 (16:29):
Absolutely absolutely, it just I don't know, it means something
to me.
Speaker 3 (16:34):
Yes, do what you can to support Baton Rouge Green.
And there's there's similar organizations in a lot of other
larger cities in Louisiana.
Speaker 5 (16:41):
Of course, a lot of a lot of.
Speaker 3 (16:43):
Our urban tree planning, urban landscaping going on, and and
with the canopy loss and a lot of our urban areas,
especially with Hurricane Gustaf and some other storms just devastating
the urban tree canopy and Baton Rouge, we need a
plant more trees. Yeah, And no better time of the
year than November, de summer, January.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
Exactly, honestly, at the time where you can almost plant it.
Speaker 5 (17:09):
And walk away for a while. Yes, you know whereas
I mean, I.
Speaker 2 (17:13):
Mean, I'll sell your plants any time of the year,
but you know during the summer, it's like you gotta.
I mean, it's so much more care, you know. So
that's why it's sometimes it'll make me cringe a little
bit when I have a customer in the July come in.
I want stuff that's no maintenance. It's like, well, nothing
is no maintenance, yes right, but you know, even like
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the low maintenance things like I would say, like an azalea,
like an established azalea is more low maintenance, yes, right,
a low maintenance plant. It's like you got to put
so much water in that little tiny root ball to
keep it alive, just to make it to the cooler months.
Speaker 5 (17:51):
Yes.
Speaker 3 (17:51):
So and this is the time of year that you
really ought to be planting your azalias and you're guardanius. Yeah,
and even though your camellias are in blown, planting down
this time of year. Yeah, which anybuddy buy us or
hydrange just when they're in bloom, Yeah, plant or hydrange
just now. I used to I just think how much
better they're going to look, whether you plant a garden
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hydrangel or one of the sun loving limelight variety types.
Think how much more they're going to be established if
you go ahead and plant now then you wait till
next March, April or June.
Speaker 2 (18:25):
I remember I talked to Bill Roundtree one time about
like I just want I used to I used to
look for the hydrange of pots that we had purchased,
like we had ordered in from last year the year before, right,
so that they were extra rooted.
Speaker 5 (18:39):
Yes, yes.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
And then typically if it was an install job and
it was in the summertime, it's like, all right, can
we come back and can I plant your hydrangees in
the winter?
Speaker 6 (18:50):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (18:51):
Yes, Because it's just mean and I usually harp on
this to most people, but it's like, you know, I
look at the winter months that when root like all
your root development occurs during the spring summer, the plants
worried about flower and fruiting, putting.
Speaker 5 (19:08):
Out leaves, shooting growth.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
Yeah, it's not worried about root development, right right. So
it's like, I mean, I've I've seen a one gallon
of zelia that I had to you know, customer brought
it in because it died and they needed to replace it.
It's like it's still the same size pot or the
same size as the pot, right right, But anyway, that's enough.
Speaker 3 (19:28):
Maybe I'm even seeing plants shrinking size. How do plants
do that?
Speaker 2 (19:32):
I don't know, man, It's like, I mean, I get
like some piff plants. It could be I mean, you
might be onto something.
Speaker 3 (19:41):
So but anyway, I have a plant the time of year,
plant at the time of the year where you're going
to optimize your root growth.
Speaker 5 (19:48):
That's what you want to do, because.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
You really I mean, and as my wife will tell
you gladly, she doesn't want she doesn't want to look
at my water bill during the summer. So it's like,
you know, you want to get stuff established so we're
not having to put out so many gallons of water.
Speaker 5 (20:05):
Yes, so you know, but we got that going on. Uh.
You know you brought up the sanquids. They are all
budded in blooming. It is wonderful right now.
Speaker 3 (20:16):
Yeah, the early bloom is the cyanquists. They've they've had
some collar out there for a couple of weeks now. Yeah,
and I've seen a lot with very good by development.
Speaker 5 (20:24):
So I want to know. Uh.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
And I'm friends with Bracy's on Facebook. How are there
she she's already blooming, mind just hanging out.
Speaker 3 (20:35):
I've seen she she's in bloom. And then I've seen
some that have plenty of bus, but they're not open
yet bus just super tight.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
Yes, yes, so, which I guess is a good thing.
My Azalia is in front. I've got which we don't
stock him anymore. It was, but the proven I've got
some proven winter azalias. If one of them dies, I
don't know where I'm going to find it. Yes, because
Ron told me I was out of lucky put it
that way. Yes, but you know they're still blooming, so
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i'd like to and if they're the color my tone
is almost it's just off color from the she She's
I've got planted, right, So I'm hoping those finish off
blooming by the time the she She's open.
Speaker 3 (21:15):
But normally your first bloom on she she Ga sheer
it starts, you know, October fifteenth, October twentieth, But this year,
I really don't think they started until a week or
two later. And then they're going to go to the
bear of late January. Yeah, they only plant and then
plants just some camellias panicas, and they're gonna bloom December
through March, she even in early April.
Speaker 2 (21:36):
And well, like I've got which we've gotten all of
our Chapanica crap in for the most part, but I've
been impressed with the was it variegated like a gura okay,
because those are all kind of full bloom raight now,
and which I can't remember if that's an earlier bloomer.
Speaker 3 (21:54):
Typically I cannot either. I know what variety you are
talking about, but I'm not very familiar with.
Speaker 5 (21:59):
My favorite, which my mother in law has. It's that.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
Lady Vani start right, which well, I always try to
like those in if I can find them, because that's
just a neat.
Speaker 5 (22:10):
I always thought it was cool.
Speaker 2 (22:11):
It's it's a mutation sport, right, so you get a
fluctuation of blooms typically, so it comes in shades of
like a dark pink to red to a white pink,
and I always like that little bit of variation. Yeah,
it's just always a show stopper and it has a
weird little crinkled leaf to it.
Speaker 3 (22:30):
So some of the best flower shows to go to
are the Camelia shows. There'll be a Camellia show in
Slidell coming up, one in New Orleans coming up Baton
Rouge at the Rural Life Museum in early February. So
I mean the Camellia clubs in South Louis Down are
very strong and they have a number of members and
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everybody brings all their blooms into display and they'll be
over a thousand.
Speaker 5 (22:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (22:57):
So I was looking at my planted and this was
probably I don't know, ten years ago ish, but I
had planted and always butchered the name. But the LiFi era,
which is the like the tea oil, Yes, yes, yeah,
So I planted that in my parents' house because we
had gotten them in and I was like, oh, this
is super neat, yes, you know it, you know because
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the actual tea plant Camellia the flower, I mean it's
a cool flower, but it has not grown for the
flower period, yes right, whereas this one it's got more
of a show, all right. And so a plant in
that it's I mean it's probably eight foot tall now,
real pretty plant. But I love that bloom because it's
just like that soft, soft white John and Baton rouge,
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Good morning John.
Speaker 5 (23:44):
How can we help you today?
Speaker 8 (23:47):
Guys? You already covered it, but I need a re
pressure in containers and pretty north boxes. I have tomatoes, peppers,
myer lemon and Chinese cabbage.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
What do I need to protect the tomatoes, the peppers,
and the meyer lemons. Probably okay this cold temp, but
if it drops lower, I would say protect the mayor lemon,
like at least cover it.
Speaker 5 (24:11):
So are you close to where you are?
Speaker 3 (24:13):
You close to where you can harvest some tomatoes?
Speaker 5 (24:16):
Yeah? You have any?
Speaker 8 (24:20):
A lot of them are still green.
Speaker 2 (24:23):
Yeah, either either bring them in to protect them or
I don't know how you feel about fried green tomatoes.
Speaker 8 (24:31):
NA, if I cover them and maybe drag them up
against the wall, that.
Speaker 5 (24:39):
Enough. You can try that.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
But as we get cooler and cooler, I mean your
tomato production and pepper productions pretty gonna gonna dwindle.
Speaker 3 (24:51):
The days are getting shorter and they need longer days
to really produce.
Speaker 2 (24:55):
Well, your Chinese cabbine should be fine. But if it
was me personally, I would just harvest everything you can
and I would just replant with cool season stuff like
some broccoli, Brussels sprouts, that kind of thing. Yeah, just
because it's kind of it's it's getting so late. The
unless you're gonna move the peppers and the tomatoes into
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a heated greenhound like.
Speaker 5 (25:18):
A hothouse, yeah, I don't have that.
Speaker 3 (25:22):
Yeah, it's just it's gonna be and you know, and
you know, protect, protect on Sunday night and Monday night
and if you can the best you can, and maybe
we'll go two or three or four more weeks before
we have another yeah frost event. So you know, you
may get a little bit of production in a few
weeks if you can protect for those two hours that
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we're gonna get you know, thirty five, thirty three, thirty two.
Speaker 8 (25:47):
So Sunday night, Monday night, protect.
Speaker 5 (25:50):
Yeah, right, Ryan, break right right, So Ma le.
Speaker 6 (25:57):
Mari Lemon.
Speaker 5 (26:00):
Myer limbit is gonna be okay at these temperatures.
Speaker 2 (26:03):
Yeah, yeah, it's when we get to like the lower twenties,
like you know, twenty to twenty five, twenty seven, you
want to start looking and kind.
Speaker 5 (26:13):
Of protecting that.
Speaker 8 (26:16):
Okay, then thanks Jack.
Speaker 4 (26:17):
All right, you're welcome, take care and kind of following
up on that point, looking at the far extended forecast,
and obviously once you kind of get passed out to
the far end of that, it gets a little less iffy.
But after this cold snap, it's pretty much almost locked
in seventies and fifties, yeah, for temperatures. So we were
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talking about this beforehand. It just feels like you should
protect a little. But this is not well code read,
you know, not a situation.
Speaker 5 (26:48):
It's not like inclement.
Speaker 2 (26:51):
You're gonna have a ice sheet covering whatever you use,
whatever your blanket like, you know, if you use a
frost blanket, it's gonna be covered tonight and you're gonna
have a little maybe.
Speaker 4 (27:01):
It just it feels like this is precaution, not yeah.
Not you don't have to roll out the full winter.
Uh what's the word I'm looking for response?
Speaker 2 (27:13):
No, I mean, you know, you know, I wouldn't say
ever pull out a heat lamp or anything like that,
but I do want to quickly manchine. You know, if
you do use frost protection like a blanket, like a
frost blanket something like that, I wouldn't recommend just a
like a comforter or anything like that. Obviously, if you're
in a pickle, you gotta use what you got to use. Uh,
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you want to take that off immediately and then next morning,
like immediately, right, you know, Like if I say I
covered all my all my material in the front, all right,
and because I was concerned, the second I get up
in the morning, I'm gonna go take that off because
that heat, like if this when the sun comes out,
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you're gonna cook.
Speaker 5 (27:55):
What's underneath that blanket, you know.
Speaker 2 (27:58):
And whether or not that's the little little thermal blankets
that will sell, or you know, just a comforter or
something like that, or tarp 'espe actually especially a.
Speaker 3 (28:09):
Turpe, you know, the tarp and the plastic gets when
most people get into trouble.
Speaker 5 (28:13):
Yeah, yes, you.
Speaker 2 (28:14):
Know, but I'm hoping this year, I don't see any lollipops,
all right, so.
Speaker 5 (28:19):
Just bundle that top, you know. So anyway, enough felt
cold weather protection.
Speaker 3 (28:25):
Right, but we are where are we are about the
time when we get a first frost in Baton Rouge,
So you know, all is right in the world, and
there's no our emergency situation that we have here culturally,
you know.
Speaker 2 (28:39):
I mean it's usually what like February January February when
we start getting actual cold where it's like, okay, we
want to go ahead and right, you know, cover so
and since we're talking about being chilly outside, I want
to quick take a moment to mention allan, do you
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know it comes in next weekend or what's projected to.
Speaker 5 (29:02):
Collect next comes in next weekend? All right?
Speaker 2 (29:05):
They smell really good. All right, they're conical green would
be fresh cut Christmas tree exactly. But now when can
people come in and buy them? I mean I'll sell
them to you off the truck. I mean I can't
stand them right there specifically, Yeah, that I do not
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know they're going to show up when they show up
for me, But it's projected next weekend, I think Saturday,
you know, and that'll be just our first round, you know,
and then as far as I'm aware, we're gonna get
all the same trees we got last year. Like we'll
get those alpine cut, which is what some people tell me.
It's just a nuts sheer tree. They just skip trimming
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right bush so that it's more airy, which I like.
Those have done those couple of years. Like one I
really liked, which I've only done it like two years,
was I think it's I think it's the I always
mix up the Douglas and the Grand it's the one
with a little bit wider leaf as a citrusy smell
to it. I did that two years and it was awesome.
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We've got like a little dining room area that we
turned into or four year that we turned into Molly
calls at the boys room. It's where my PlayStation sits
collects dust and the kids toys are. But now we
put the Christmas tree in there and it just it
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made that whole room just smell varies.
Speaker 5 (30:34):
I mean, it was so aromatic. So nothing better than
a fresh truck, living Christmas truck. Yeah yeah, so, and you.
Speaker 2 (30:42):
Know, I'm sure I'll throw away a couple of pairs
of jeans as I do every year because I get
tree sap all over them. But it's an exciting time,
you know, because as far as the nursery goes, it's
one of these again.
Speaker 5 (30:53):
I talked about it with I think Cat the other week.
Speaker 2 (30:57):
But it's we go through several transitions airy aperience where
it's just like you know, fall starts rolling around and
it's like, okay, pumpkins start rolling in tree, your shade, tree,
shrubs like native plantings start moving up, because that's what
I tried to push for the fall, right, and then
(31:17):
we rotate again to Christmas trees and then that's where
I move up all my cedars things like that because
because people like living Christmas trees too, And then it
was just a cool little change. It is, right, but
it looks like we've got another caller, and I think, Alan,
you're right.
Speaker 5 (31:35):
When it's you and me, we get all the calls,
we appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (31:39):
So it's gonna be Greg and baton rouge. Good morning, Greg.
How can we help you?
Speaker 8 (31:44):
Hey?
Speaker 9 (31:45):
I wanted to know I've got They just they raised
my house and then they they planted a centipede side
in the front yard about money. Will be two weeks
and I've been watering it or when it was hot,
less when it was cool. But I've been watering it
every day, and I wanted to know is that it
(32:05):
Should I stop watering it?
Speaker 6 (32:07):
Or should I?
Speaker 9 (32:08):
I mean, I see green coming through, but are you
still kind of brown? And should I put the freeze
coming up? Should I stop water?
Speaker 2 (32:16):
And yeah, I wouldn't water probably every day as it
gets cooler and cooler, you kind of start backing up.
So all right, but you want to make sure it
just stays a little moist, all right, and doesn't dry out,
because right now we are in a drought. There's what
I would consider a drought if I don't see rain
for three weeks so.
Speaker 5 (32:37):
And there's no rain predicted for the next ten days.
So yeah, but you.
Speaker 3 (32:41):
You aren't to the point where you ought to be.
You'rengating two or three times a week now instead of daily.
Speaker 9 (32:46):
Yeah, okay, all right, so.
Speaker 2 (32:48):
It probably spitch that up and maybe twenty minutes, you know,
something like that, fifteen to twenty minutes, something like that,
just to keep it a little moist.
Speaker 9 (32:57):
Okay, all right, because it is mush you know what.
Speaker 5 (33:01):
Well, yeah that and that may be a little too wet.
Speaker 2 (33:03):
No, yeah, so yeah, definitely back you don't want it
to be mushy.
Speaker 9 (33:07):
So okay, all right, I got another question for you
in my backyard. Is it is it? Can I start?
Can I spray answer zine right now?
Speaker 5 (33:18):
Yeah? You can go.
Speaker 2 (33:19):
Yeah, you can go ahead, use your answerzine, your winter
weed cocktail, go and get all that under control.
Speaker 5 (33:26):
Okay, yeah, all right.
Speaker 2 (33:27):
I'd recommend if you don't put out a pre emergent
uh to use that dimension that we carry. It's like
turf and ornamental weed and grass stopper because the and
and this is just personally I have an issue with
crabgrass and I'm already seeing that kind of germinate right now.
Speaker 5 (33:46):
So yeah, so you want to try and get all
that under control.
Speaker 2 (33:50):
It's one of the few things like your atrozine or
that weed free zone that we carry.
Speaker 5 (33:55):
Uh, it doesn't cover.
Speaker 9 (33:57):
So all right, okay, all right, thank you very much.
Speaker 5 (34:01):
You're welcome. We appreciate all the phone calle.
Speaker 2 (34:03):
It's been great. So it is the last segment of
the of the hour. So we're gonna go and jump
to Jim and Denim. We got a call again. I'm
telling you. There we go, you, me and Jeremy. So
good morning, Jim. How can we help you today?
Speaker 8 (34:21):
Come?
Speaker 10 (34:21):
All right, gentlemen, I have a just a query more
than anything. Many years ago, my sister gave me some
acorns that came from the friendship op at the at
the university over there in Gulf Port, and my wife
and I took those those acorns and we put them
in a large pot with potting soil and nutrients and
(34:43):
everything else, and it.
Speaker 6 (34:44):
Started to grow. Well.
Speaker 10 (34:45):
Now that plant is about six and a half feet
tall and it's a tree, but it's still in the pot.
And I was wondering, what do I have to do
to take it out of the pot and put it
in the ground so it will continue to flourish and grow.
Speaker 2 (35:00):
To start out, you grab a shovel and then we're
gonna start digging, all right. This is the perfect time
to transplant it though. All right, this cool weather. How
big of a pipe do you would?
Speaker 5 (35:13):
You say? It is okay, ten gallon pot?
Speaker 2 (35:16):
Okay, so you want to do I usually recommend dig
one and a half to twice the width of that pot,
all right, just to make back feel very easy. All right,
you gonna have plenty of room to work around the pot.
And then I don't know, if you want to keep
the pot, you'd pull it out.
Speaker 5 (35:34):
But is it just like a plastic pot.
Speaker 10 (35:37):
Yeah, it's plastic, and it's it's disposable.
Speaker 2 (35:40):
I mean, yeah, I was probably I would probably just
cut the pot, you know, if it's been in there
for a while.
Speaker 5 (35:47):
Uh, and.
Speaker 10 (35:49):
The ground on the bottom of the pot so I
can't move it now.
Speaker 2 (35:52):
Yeah, yeah, you'll definitely have to cut it loose. So
but I would probably just start, like, get your whole prepped,
all right. I wouldn't put any fertilizer other than maybe
some root stimulator down once you plan it, all right,
but yeah, just trying to see if you can get
it separated all right from the ground and then cut
(36:13):
that pot loose. And yeah, go ahead and plant just
planet rights that up.
Speaker 10 (36:19):
Okay, I thought there was some special technique or whatever that.
Speaker 5 (36:23):
I don't want. The biggest thing is.
Speaker 2 (36:27):
You never go deeper than the soil level of the
pot is a good rule with them.
Speaker 10 (36:33):
So wait, try that again.
Speaker 6 (36:35):
Deeper than what.
Speaker 5 (36:36):
The soil level in that pot? All right?
Speaker 3 (36:39):
Okay, So plant it at the same depth that it's
growing right now. Don't make the hole till deep, you know.
And I like a plant maybe one inch or two
inches above grade, if you understand what I mean by that.
Speaker 2 (36:51):
Right, Yeah, I'll try and check to see where the
root flare is on the tree, all right, because you
want to kind of leave that exposed, all right, So
that's kind of where the roots flare.
Speaker 3 (37:03):
Out, so and been in that container for the amount
of time it's been, you know, like Zayne was saying,
you're going to have to do some chopping on the
roots to get that unrooted from the ground. But then
do you some justing on the outside circumference of that
root ball and it gets you some hand pruners to
just break up those roots on so get them to
(37:24):
start growing out for you.
Speaker 2 (37:25):
Yeah, I ideally you just want your you want your
roots to be extending outwards, not kind of a quilled
up shape, which the pot's just I mean, it's a
round pot.
Speaker 5 (37:37):
It's just going to promote so right, all right.
Speaker 6 (37:41):
Okay, sound good. Thank you gentlemen. I appreciate it.
Speaker 5 (37:43):
You're welcome. Take care.
Speaker 3 (37:47):
Let's see, and I guess we need to be thinking
about Points saty as also.
Speaker 5 (37:51):
Do we do? Thanks for reminding me.
Speaker 3 (37:53):
So we have our Clex Nursery Points Satyr open house. Yeah,
three weeks from today.
Speaker 2 (38:00):
And look, this is the first year, first year, first year.
I'm going to be there, okay, you know.
Speaker 3 (38:07):
And it's nine till two at the Greenwolf Springs Road
location where we have our production greenhouses and we have
ten thousand points set us and you can come, bring
your children, grandchildren, bring your parents, bring your whole family,
bring your friends, take some pictures. See Santa Claus. I
(38:29):
think they buy some points Satius.
Speaker 2 (38:30):
And I think they said something about cookies too, maybe
and cookies and hot chocolate and on probably a seventy
five degree day. Yeah, but I tell you it's it
gets you in the holiday spirit, you know. And I
used to man I manage to see the greenwell spring
store now. And that's why I'm excited. I get to family.
Usually my wife takes the kids over there and takes pictures, yes,
(38:56):
you know, and I miss out, but this will be
the first year I get to scoot over there and
take some pictures.
Speaker 5 (39:01):
Very good.
Speaker 2 (39:02):
But it's I mean, it's a really interesting site because
it's like the first time I went to the Color Division, right,
I was kind of blown away. I was like, Oh,
this place is huge, enormous, and then as years passed,
I'm like, it's and it's not small potatoes, but it's like,
you know, I go down to Florida to shop, yes,
(39:22):
and I was just like, oh, this is small exactly,
you know.
Speaker 3 (39:27):
So but it may it may say ten thousand points
satios may sound like a lot, but it's really not
in the grand scheme of the horticulture world.
Speaker 2 (39:35):
And so that was just I mean, it kind of
put me in, you know, kind of gave me a
little idea.
Speaker 3 (39:41):
On And we have your traditional red point satios and
the pink and the white, and there's some of the
unique new colored black varieties out there, and there's one
that's really really uniquely burgundy. This year, I don't know
what variety that one is.
Speaker 5 (39:57):
I think it's new. Yep.
Speaker 2 (39:58):
Well look we got one more calling, so we're gonna
go ahead and jump to it.
Speaker 5 (40:01):
It's gonna be kay in Lafayette. I think I think
I know her.
Speaker 7 (40:06):
Good morning, Okay, yeah, you know me.
Speaker 10 (40:10):
I have a question about an article that was in
the paper today about the milk weed that are causing
the monarchs to be sick.
Speaker 2 (40:17):
Okay, yeah, so that's essentially we just need to cut
back all of our milkweed. Usually it's like middle to
late September through October November.
Speaker 3 (40:27):
I think that's correct, right, right, most people, you know,
we recommend cutting back milkweed by October first.
Speaker 5 (40:33):
Yeah. So, but that's the big thing.
Speaker 2 (40:36):
It's just it builds up and it's a toxin essentially, Okay,
in the in the stem, as the milk, as the
butterfly eats it, or the caterpillar eats it, it ends
up causing down.
Speaker 5 (40:52):
So but it's a real neat thing.
Speaker 2 (40:54):
We just need to make sure we cut back our milkweed,
all right, and have a good one k and it.
Speaker 5 (41:02):
Lots of good college today, great, lots of good information.
Was good. You know, I'm always excited doing the show
with you.
Speaker 3 (41:09):
I'm always good to see you zaying so appreciate everything
you do.
Speaker 5 (41:12):
You don't have to
Speaker 2 (41:13):
Butter me up so but everybody, you'll have a wonderful
Saturday and we'll see you at the nursery.
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