March 1, 2025 • 42 mins
This week on the WJBO Lawn & Garden Show, Dr. Allen and Braden from Clegg's Nursery talk about our changing seasons! They also cover a wide range of topics including tomatoes, caladiums, tropical plants, roses, vegetables, supertunias and more!
Plus caller questions on muscadines, fig trees and what to do with a very old bag of weed-n-feed!
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Plus caller questions on muscadines, fig trees and what to do with a very old bag of weed-n-feed!
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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 planting, lon and garden concerns
or questions about landscaping, called four nine nine WGBO. That's
four nine nine two six.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Good morning, Baton Rouge. This is Alan Owens and I'm
here with Braden Vona Donnell. Of course we're from Clegg's
Nursery and you're listening to the WJBO Lawn and Garden Show.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
It's a nice day, Alan, Baton Rouge. It's Marti braw weekend.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Beautiful and the garden center was pretty busy yesterday. Oh yes,
and we're at March first, yep, first day of mark.
Did you buy any plants on February twenty ninth, February
thirtieth or February thirty first?
Speaker 4 (00:53):
Did I?
Speaker 3 (00:53):
Yes, No you didn't.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
We missed three days of plant buying with that short February.
And anyway, you know, March April May, that's when most
folks think of that's the three main months of spring,
and then June and July and August this summer.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
So I'm ready to spring forward, are you.
Speaker 4 (01:14):
Yes, Yeah, it is time.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
And it was Sunday and seventy five yesterday, and yeah,
it looks like a nice day today, definitely. And the
weather report just said seventy two or so tomorrow, so
we should have a nice weekend. Few mrdy Gras parades
going on.
Speaker 5 (01:32):
Yeah, I think after the crazy winter we had, I
think everyone's probably about ready for some very nice weather.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
Everybody's had cabin fever, you know. Last week it was
chilly and rainy a couple of days, and that kind
of slowed our spring momentum. Yeah, but we've had we
had a cold week in January, cold week in February.
But it's time to move forward to spring as far
as I'm concerned.
Speaker 4 (01:58):
Let's spring forward.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
Yes, and we do that?
Speaker 4 (02:01):
Do do that?
Speaker 3 (02:02):
I think a week from tomorrow. Oh really, yes, spring forward.
Speaker 4 (02:05):
It always catches me off guard.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
It does, it does.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
And that uh it'll be uh so it'll be light
till seven or seven thirty, but we'll be it'll still
be kind of darket seven seven thirty am.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
Yeah, so.
Speaker 4 (02:22):
About the time I'm leaving for.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
Work exactly exactly. So call in this morning. Everyone. Of course,
we're at area code two two five for nine nine
WJBO four nine nine nine five two six and early March.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
That's about our last frost date.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
So it looks like the forecast for the next ten
to fifteen days is favorable. Yeah, and uh, people are
planning tomatoes. Oh, yes, we have some vegetables on the
tables at Clegs.
Speaker 5 (02:53):
We have a very nice assortment of vegetables, especially tomatoes.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
Right.
Speaker 5 (02:59):
Right, we're starting to see a lot of tomatoes come in,
a lot of peppers. Right, We're gradually starting to see
like the squash and cucumbers and eggplants stuff like that. Right,
I know, those squashing cucumbers. Usually it needs to be
a little.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
Warmer, exactly.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
I still think it's maybe a week or so early
for squashing cucumber, but certainly certainly possible to get some
tomatoes in the ground. And there are several of my
Baton Rouge area friends that plant their tomatoes on March
first or about that every year, and yeah, they usually
make it nine years out of ten. So one person
(03:37):
on social media wanted me to post a list of
every tomato variety we had on the table. I started
to do that yesterday, but I decided I wasn't on
to list thirty something varieties, but.
Speaker 4 (03:48):
You know, yeah, it's a lot.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
But Clegg's we probably have the most tomato varieties on
the benches in any garden center in Baton Rouge, I
would think.
Speaker 5 (03:57):
And I would say probably somewhere is between eighty and
ninety percent of the tomato varieties we have out on
the table. We're grown at clicks right right right from
our color divisions, so locally grown.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
And of course the varieties are selected by our horticulturist,
Johnny Naylor. And of course Johnny owned Naylor's True Value
Hardware and Garden center for many years and he's with
us now at Clex Nursery, And.
Speaker 4 (04:25):
Yeah, he does all our seeds.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
Forty five years of vegetable growing experience, or maybe even
more years than that.
Speaker 5 (04:32):
Honest, I don't see how he contained he's able to
contain all the information that he does. He's just a
wealth of knowledge.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
And of course the last few years has been a
few varieties of vegetables that haven't met as readily available
as they were in the past. But it seems like
the vegetable seeds supply is better now than what it
was a couple of years ago during the pandemic gardening
the right phase.
Speaker 4 (04:58):
So those are crazy times.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
Yes, yes, but you know, if y'all want to talk
about cold weather damage, so we'll we'll entertain that it's
still too early probably to make a final decision on
a lot of plants. I know you and Butch have
been talking to a lot of folks about their cisrus trees.
But oh yeah, but you know, citrus trees are just
(05:23):
taking a cold weather beating the last four to five years,
and uh, they get step back every year, and we
really need to wait another couple of months before see
if we get some new growth before we do a
whole lot of like pruning and deed wood pruning and.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
That at least that's my opinion.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, And uh, there may be some bark
split on Isaelia's coming up later this spring due to
the cold weather. And I've seen some bad looking bottle
brush and sago palms. You can go ahead and cut
off your sago palm frauds right now, get those cleaned up.
So a lot of things you can do escape this
time of year, a lot of clean up stuff, exactly exactly,
(06:06):
So next weekend is the Baton Rouge Spring Garden Show.
Speaker 5 (06:12):
I'm always working when that happens, but I always see
pictures and it always looks so awesome.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
It's a really good event.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
And I'm not sure what year the Baton Rouge Spring
Garden Show is now, but anyway, it's a sponsored by
the LSU Act Center and it's that Parker Coliseum there
on Highland Road on campus. And the show will be
open Friday night from five till eight pm and open
Saturday nine to four and then nine to three on Sunday.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
So a lot of the area.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
Retailers will have booths there will be there with legs
and some of the you know, some of the small
specially kind of nurseries itself, blue areas and tropical plants. Yeah,
I imagine the Baton Rouge Hibiscus Society will be there
with tropical hibiscus.
Speaker 4 (07:05):
Does Brace's do like the Cajun hibiscus?
Speaker 2 (07:08):
For that so so so I help at Bracy's Nursery.
Also in addition to Clegg's, we don't grow Cajun hibiscus.
Speaker 5 (07:14):
Oh I'm sorry not Bracey's DuPont DuPont.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
The Hibiscus Club buys the Cajun hibiscus from DuPont, and
the High Biscus Club sells them. Yeah, it is a
madhouse at the Hibiscus, Yes, you know. To answer your question,
are crazy about Cajun hibiscus?
Speaker 6 (07:35):
To answer your question about the how long the Spring
Garden Show is going on, I'm a little confused because
one of the things on the ag Center site says
the twenty second annual and another one says the twenty third.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
So wow, I actually was going to say like nineteen
or twenty, So it's it's longer than I thought.
Speaker 6 (07:54):
So either way, it's been around for a while, but
it's either twenty two or twenty three.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
Oh, we've got we got to get this to sid
before we get to year twenty five, so we make
sure we get that right. Don't want to celebrate celebrating
ANNIVERSI I'm going to do a little more dig later early,
you know. And then, of course it wasn't hell COVID year,
So how do you count that?
Speaker 3 (08:14):
You know?
Speaker 4 (08:14):
I wonder if that means that if that would be
the problem.
Speaker 6 (08:18):
All right, I've seen twenty second twice in twenty third one,
so I'm going to lean on twenty second.
Speaker 3 (08:23):
Okay, maybe that's yay.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
We appreciate our producer Jeremy all his very important input.
He's got his muddy grod decor on this morning celebrating
airy code five oh four. I thought we were gonna
get a whole lot of calls this morning and upbraiding.
Yeah I did too, and there's nobody on the line.
Maybe we should give him that number again, the number again,
(08:47):
two two five four nine nine w j b O
four nine nine nine five two six.
Speaker 6 (08:53):
Maybe they're trying to forget about their citrus issues by
going to Spanish Town.
Speaker 3 (08:57):
Or so, that's right, that's right.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
I don't even know what time Spanish Town Parade is today,
but anyway, the bat Rouche Ring Garden Show next Friday night,
Saturday Sunday. It is ten dollars emission, so keep that
in mind. Twelve and under free. LSU students are free.
Southern University students are free. So it's always a good event.
(09:18):
You always find great plants there.
Speaker 5 (09:20):
Yeah, I feel like they usually have some more like
unique stuff that you wouldn't commonly find.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
Right, and some of the bigger nursery right right, some
of the specialty plants, and then you know, there's folks
there selling containers and pottery and you know a little
bit of lawn and garden furniture.
Speaker 5 (09:42):
I want to say, last year Butcher had said that
they had this booth set up where they did like
pieces of driftwood and stuff. Drift wood really right, right,
Maybe they'll have that again this year.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
Yeah, So y'all mark your calendars for next for next
weekend that event, And there's a lot of other garden
shows of course around South Louisiana over the next four
to six weekends. So there's a show in Lafayette, a
show in Lake Charles, a show in Covington, the show
at the New Orleans Botanical Gardens at City Park. There's
(10:18):
a show at one of the plantation homes down by
the river. So a lot of events this time of year.
You need to spend some time going out there and
finding you some plants for the twenty twenty five growing season.
This is Allen and Braiden from PEG's Nursery. We're still here.
We've been talking about a number of topics. I guess
(10:42):
it is getting time for warm season flowers and oh yeah,
our tropicals and our ferns. So yeah, do we have
some of that in stock right now, Braiden, Yeah, definitely.
Speaker 5 (10:52):
We've been seeing a lot of the warm weather annuals
and tropical plants come in, a lot of really nice
high biscus yes, that we received. We also got got
in some really nice shrimp plants. I love when those
come in because they show so much color.
Speaker 3 (11:11):
I love shrimp plants.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
I took a picture of those yesterday at Seagan Lane.
Speaker 5 (11:15):
And then the Bogan villas. I know you you had
posted a picture on Facebook. Man, they have been just
amazing lately.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
They are just absolutely at full bloom. You don't even
see any leaves on. It's just all flowers, all color, yes, yes, yes.
Speaker 4 (11:29):
And then we've.
Speaker 5 (11:30):
Gotten in a lot of marigold's, a lot of petunias,
some really nice uh sun patients which came from Bracy
right right.
Speaker 4 (11:41):
They've been selling like crazyly right right.
Speaker 3 (11:44):
And we have a few pollinator plants here, yeah and
right uh.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
Yeah and uh and and and you know there's some
of these warm seasoned flowers that it's best to plant
maybe in Martian there's some warm seasoned flowers that it's
best to plant late April early Ben. May you know
everybody's will start asking for benca very soon. And you know,
we're about six weeks ahead of time if we think
we're going to plant venca right now.
Speaker 4 (12:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
So uh so that's one of those hot weather plants.
Speaker 5 (12:19):
And I've had people come in to Cleggs earlier than
this asking about venca. But believe it or not, I
do have a little bit of binco on the table.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
Okay, okay, all right, we do what we missed do Yeah.
Speaker 4 (12:36):
I mean I try to.
Speaker 5 (12:37):
I try to tell people when they come in, you know,
it's still a little a little cool. The ground temperatures
have to reach a certain degrees before you start.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
Playing exactly exactly and then fair warning, right right. And
the petunias, the petunias, they can take the cool night
temperatures and they're more of that. Petunias actually do better
cool season and how and they did warm seasons South Louisianna.
So you know, plant use some petunias in February and March.
(13:07):
They'll last till Memorial Day into June. Your supertunias, like bubblegum,
probably last into the summer and sometimes even through the summer. Yeah,
if you get them in a nice, well prepared bed,
a good well prepared media and a container and have
them in the right sun exposure, shade exposure.
Speaker 5 (13:27):
I Uh, there's this restaurant I passed by on my
way to work every day, and last year, I want
to say it was last year, they had bubblegum supertunias, yes,
in their beds out front, and I just every day
I'd watch them, and throughout the summer, I'd watched these
supertunias take over the shrubs in the bed behind them,
(13:47):
and they just they went all summer and looked amazing.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
Absolutely, absolutely, And so there's a lot of varieties of supertunia.
Supertunias are proven winter plants supertunia petunias, but you know,
bubble gum is so much better than some of the
other variety. One silver berry is a really good one.
So there's three or four of those fifteen varieties that
(14:13):
outperform the other ten or eleven varieties.
Speaker 4 (14:15):
So I think bubble Gum's at the top.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
It is incredible that every petunia was like bubble gum petunia.
Speaker 5 (14:23):
I don't think people would plant much more than petunias
exactly exactly.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
But and all those bedding plants, whether it be cool
season or warm season, we need to, you know, have
adequate spacing between the plants. Sometimes we plant too close together.
If you're planting bubble gum petunia, those things get big
and those get wide, and you don't want to be
planting them on a nine inch or twelve inch spacing
(14:49):
like you would when you're doing like a color install
or something like that.
Speaker 3 (14:55):
So you need to.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
Yeah, as ridiculous as it sounds, planted them three feet
apart before and they still fill in.
Speaker 4 (15:02):
Oh yeah, I could believe that.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
Yes, yeah, so so So anyway, bed preparation, if you
want to get some bedding plants in, make sure you
have a nice, well prepared bed. Of course, people are
growing a lot of flowers and containers now, so get
you some good bags soil. We have the happy frog,
(15:25):
we have tiger grow. We have the klegs. Yeah, actual soil.
Speaker 5 (15:31):
The ocean forests, the tiger grow and the klegs. Those
are three that I usually recommend a lot. They're good
for drainage with a lot of your potted plants.
Speaker 3 (15:41):
Needed exactly exactly.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
Yeah, with our rainfall here, you want to make sure
your plants, your your media drains and gets all that
excess water out after our our heavy rainfalls and then
we well you said we had some tropical hibiscus in
so I am man tropical hibiscus and the landscape. But
they were landscape planted last year and they went through
(16:06):
the winter in the ground. They're not going to come
back this year. So you know, everybody is optimistic, but
we need to tell you the truth.
Speaker 3 (16:16):
Yeah, they're they're they're not going to make it.
Speaker 4 (16:17):
They're not gonna make it.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
They're not going to make it, so so be thinking
about getting you some new tropical hibiscus.
Speaker 5 (16:25):
Also, another thing that we received recently was some really
nice hanging basket Boston ferns. Oh yes, and they're actually
on sale at a very nice price.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
Okay, good, good, Yeah, Yeah, Boston ferns are always popular.
And those I think they're like a fourteen inch, but
the Kimberly ferns are just gorgeous, those big, those big
Kimberly ferns.
Speaker 3 (16:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
I think we have them in a ten inch too,
which is kind of like a cheat or three gallon,
you know. So, so everybody loves all the ferns for
their front porch and their insurance ways and.
Speaker 5 (17:00):
It adds such a nice like tropical fill to your front.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
Porch exactly, exactly exactly. And then I guess we have
a few macho ferns. I'll say, oh, yeah.
Speaker 4 (17:11):
We do.
Speaker 5 (17:12):
We do have and some asparagus fern right right, we
have a bunch of Boston ferns.
Speaker 3 (17:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
It seems like a very good supply. So, and we
have some kaladiums in. Yeah, we did receiver kalladium ball right,
and it looks like the kaladium supply is good again.
We had a few years where the supply was not
as good. You didn't have as main number number ones
and jumbos. But it looks like the availability on the
(17:40):
kalladiums is good again. Yeah, I definitely, So go ahead
and come in and get you some kaladium balls. And
you're you know, before the of the varieties you want,
before the supply dwindles, you know.
Speaker 5 (17:53):
Yeah, isn't it the is it the blood mill that
you used with right right right? That really does it
makes a difference, It.
Speaker 3 (18:03):
Does, it does.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
And sometimes instead of just putting one bulb in a
planting hole, I put three bulbs in a planting hole
and plant it like in a triangle.
Speaker 3 (18:12):
And that makes you a really big more massive.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
Nice dense, dense, dense plant, you know, so you know
you can plant one bullb in a hole or three
bulbs in a hole, and you know, have you different
make you it's going to look like one plant, but
it's actually three plants together.
Speaker 3 (18:30):
They're just very close together, right right.
Speaker 5 (18:33):
And one of the things push kind of and I
kind of talked about this on the last radio show
we did, the difference in the size of the bulb.
What that means for the plant. Just because you're buying
a bigger bulb doesn't necessarily mean that it's going to
pit put out.
Speaker 3 (18:52):
A bigger leaf, right or.
Speaker 5 (18:55):
It Usually it's just if you get a bigger bulb,
it'll put out more.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
Shoots exactly exactly. And if you plant your kalladiums in
a landscape bed some years in Baton Rouge, if you
leave the bulbs in the bed, they will come back
after the winter, but I don't think they're going to
do that this year. You can also dig up your
kaladium bulbs in October and save them over the winter
and plant them out again next late March early April.
Speaker 4 (19:22):
Is it the the amount of rain or moisture.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
That were moisture in the soil. Okay, so you know
a lot of your bulbs are susceptible to riding in
the around over winter when they're when they're dormant, and
that's what the kaladiums are going to be that time
of year, you know. But uh, you know, so so
(19:45):
be thinking about your tropical plants. We have the shrimp
plants in, like Braiden said, I really like those. They
just bloom, spring all the way through into the fallah.
And uh, the tropical high discus also, I find I
find on the tropical hibiscus people don't fertilize them enough. Okay,
(20:06):
but so you know, don't be afraid to put a
little bit of hibiscus or bogabilia food on your right.
Speaker 5 (20:13):
Actually, I was about to say that, I think we
sell a fertile loom, right, fertilizer.
Speaker 3 (20:18):
I think it's a Bogavilia hibiscus. Yeah, maybe it is.
I think it is.
Speaker 4 (20:23):
It sounds right, yeah, but uh yeah.
Speaker 5 (20:26):
Along with the high biscus and the shrimp plants, we
received some heliconia, which is, oh yeah, one of my
personal favorites. I like the little orange flowers they do.
Speaker 3 (20:37):
And I like the cordline. The tie plants.
Speaker 2 (20:40):
I notice y'all have some tie plants, some of those
red sister in there, some I can't remember the ones
that are the.
Speaker 3 (20:47):
Multi colored and pink.
Speaker 5 (20:49):
And yeah, I know there's one that's called Kiwi.
Speaker 3 (20:53):
Yeah, the Kiwi, the Kiwi. I like that.
Speaker 4 (20:55):
Yeah, that one is really yeah.
Speaker 5 (20:59):
But yeah, we've we've gotten a lot of really nice
tropicals and a lot of really nice house plants.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
And right the new Folige House at Segan lanees nice
and always has a good supplying.
Speaker 4 (21:11):
It's starting to fill up in there.
Speaker 2 (21:14):
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It's time, is he It's time for roses. We passed
(21:52):
Valentine's Day.
Speaker 4 (21:54):
That we did.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
Hopefully everybody got their roses pruned in February. Yeah, and
so you know, March and April is the time to
be getting your rose varieties for the new year selected
at the garden center, whether it be a hybrid tea
or a Flora button or a grand of flora, or
a landscape shrub like a drift or a knockout. And
(22:16):
it's also the perfect time right now to fertilize your roses.
So roses like food, they have to be fertilized. So
I'll give your roses some good fertil on rose food
in mid February, late February, early March every spring, and
that'll greatly benefit you with more flowers later on.
Speaker 5 (22:36):
And then we also have the rose food with the
systemic in it too, that's right, which will help prevent
any kind of pest from zagonaun it.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
And a lot of times folks wait till around Mother's
state to start picking out their roses.
Speaker 3 (22:48):
But come on in and do it before then.
Speaker 4 (22:52):
I don't know, I was about to say, if you
wait till they start.
Speaker 3 (22:55):
Blooming exactly, they're going to be gone exactly exactly.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
So you have all the tags out there, all the information,
a picture of picture of what the blooms look like.
Alan and Braiden we're with you this morning. Of course.
We work at Clegg's Nursery. We have four locations in
the metropolitan Baton Rouge area. We've covered a number of
(23:19):
topics this morning, and we'll throw a few more things
out there. I do think we may have a few
callers coming in, so that'll be good. But it's time
for fruit trees now too, and also blueberries, blackberries, muscardines, all.
Speaker 5 (23:35):
Those different fruit plants, and we have a lot of
that in stock right now too.
Speaker 3 (23:41):
Yes, right, So.
Speaker 2 (23:44):
You know there's some pollination things that you need to
consider on some on some fruit trees need to plant
multiple varieties of peaches and sometimes apples and pears to
get you good fruit set blueberries also, whereas you don't
have to do that with blackberries. You could just plant
(24:05):
one variety of BlackBerry and good good fruit production.
Speaker 4 (24:09):
So same with citrus too.
Speaker 2 (24:12):
Right, right, right, okay, So I do see we do
have a caller. We have Kenneth. I'm trying to hit
the right button. Which button? Good morning, Kenneth, This is
Alan and Brayden. How can we help you this morning?
Speaker 4 (24:34):
Yeah, got lunch to day, okay, muscadines I love much
of the day.
Speaker 7 (24:42):
Yeah, I can't turn, I cannot go down.
Speaker 5 (24:46):
Yeah, I would definitely say come by seeing laying clicks
because we have them in stock there for sure, and I.
Speaker 8 (24:55):
Cannot learn how long did it takes where you're putting
berries out?
Speaker 2 (25:00):
You're you're gonna get muscadine berries, you know, by year two,
and you may even get a few year one.
Speaker 3 (25:07):
Nice you want to you want?
Speaker 5 (25:10):
He said you would you would see uh fruits, saying yeah,
you would see fruit set by at least the second year.
You might see a little bit on the first year.
Speaker 4 (25:24):
But it might get done.
Speaker 7 (25:25):
You you may you you maybe would get one or
two or three berries.
Speaker 8 (25:35):
Plum plum tree, you know, Blan I like them.
Speaker 5 (25:41):
Too, Yeah, the plum tree, Yes, sir, we we definitely
have plums in stock, and this would be a great
time to start planning those. With the plums, you typically
would want to plant two different varieties to get better
fruit production.
Speaker 4 (25:58):
You no got all that? No, yes, sir?
Speaker 8 (26:03):
Well that journains you down there a little bit getting
remembered with that.
Speaker 4 (26:06):
I love that kind of awesome. Well, yeah, I wait
to see you there.
Speaker 2 (26:11):
Yeah, all the fruit trees, there's there's high interest in
fruit trees. So thank you, Kenneth. We appreciate the call. So, yeah,
so we have you know, there's bronze, and there's purple
muscadine berries and the plums or are typically.
Speaker 3 (26:30):
Good producers.
Speaker 2 (26:31):
My dad and I used to have some plumb trees,
and everybody talks about the need to spray plumb trees
for insects and disease, and we never had to do
that a whole lot, and we still got a decent
amount of quality fruit. So so and then and then
people don't realize that we can we can actually.
Speaker 3 (26:51):
Get apples from an apple tree and Baton Rouge.
Speaker 2 (26:53):
You know, you you think about North Carolina or or
the northeastern United States for for apples, but you know,
some of the low chill apple varieties do well in
the Baton Rouge area.
Speaker 4 (27:07):
Yeah, I know we have it.
Speaker 5 (27:09):
I want to see an anna apple and an Einsheimer
at home, and they both do really well. Usually the
biggest problem we run into is being able to harvest
the apples before the squirrels.
Speaker 3 (27:23):
Eat them exactly.
Speaker 4 (27:25):
But yeah, they make really good apples.
Speaker 5 (27:29):
Last year we got some of the a few different
kind of peach trees and we were able to harvest
some of the peaches from our Sam Houston, Right, that
was an awesome peach, very good, they very very sweet,
right right.
Speaker 2 (27:45):
Yeah, Sam Houston is a good one. And then we
you know La Feliciano, la Festival, la peach. Those are
all LSU varieties and they're the right chillin' nours for
South Louisiana.
Speaker 4 (27:59):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (28:00):
And this year we've had about five hundred and fifty
six hundred chilling hours in Baton Rouge. We've had more
chilling than we normally have, so we should get good production.
We should get our fruit trees coming out of dormancy
really good spring because we got enough cold weather.
Speaker 5 (28:15):
Yeah, So on average, how many chilling hours would you
say Louisiana gets like four hundred four fifty.
Speaker 2 (28:24):
Usually usually in the Baton Rouge area three fifty to
four hundred, and then Alexandria five to six hundred, and
about seven seven fifty in Rusting shree Port, Monroe. So
you need to be picking out your fruit varieties based
on what the chilling hour requirement is.
Speaker 3 (28:41):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, which I know.
Speaker 6 (28:43):
I'm sorry, go ahead, I was going to ask a
followup question about the chilling apps. Okay, is that kind
of standard for this part of southeast Louisiana that amount,
or as if you go further southward towards the electing.
Speaker 2 (28:53):
Warrian then and then New Orleans, New Orleans is going
to be in the two hundred chilling hours, you know,
home of Tibaneaux, New Orleans. So Lake Charles is going
to be a little bit less than laugh Yette and
Baton rouge yea.
Speaker 3 (29:04):
So yeah, so that.
Speaker 6 (29:07):
Kind of just and we had an off your question
while I'm thinking about it about fig trees. They're seeing
their fig trees starting to show some leaves, and just
had a question about fertilization. Is it time to do
it now or wait? And what should they use fertilizer fictory.
Speaker 2 (29:24):
Well, on your fig trees and most of your fruit trees,
March is gonna be a good time to fertilize. I'd
say anytime in the next two to three weeks. Fertile
fruit tree fertilizer would be a good fertilizer to use.
Speaker 9 (29:39):
Yeah, I want to say it's the fruit trees, citrus, Yeah,
that's yeah, citrus, fruit trees, because right, yeah, and you
want to put that fertilizer out at the edge of
the plant canopy.
Speaker 2 (29:52):
You don't want to put the fertilizer right next to
the stem. You want to put it out where the
end of the branches are, so at the drip lot,
at the drip right right, And that will definitely help
your productivity on your on your fig trees, and also
help your apple trees and pear trees and blueberries and yeah,
and blackberries. Definitely always good idea to fertilize your fruit
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every year once in the spring.
Speaker 4 (30:21):
Awesome.
Speaker 2 (30:24):
So we do still have some citrus trees at Clegs.
We keep citrus trees year round, so I know a
lot of people want to, you know, decide what they're
gonna do with their cisrus trees. I do have some
folks I've been talking to that are very frustrated with
their citrus.
Speaker 4 (30:42):
But that's understandable.
Speaker 2 (30:44):
Yeah, yeah, but your coumquats and satsumas are going to
be your most cold hearty citrus. So you know, if
you're having continual issues with cold weather damage, you may
want to try satsumas and cum quats, or you may
want to try just on your citrus trees and containers.
Speaker 3 (31:02):
Yeah, and that's workable.
Speaker 4 (31:04):
That's what we do at my house.
Speaker 5 (31:06):
I have I think right now, two or three different
kind of citrus in pots, and I mean, yeah, they're
a little heavy, but we just drag them into our
garage when it gets cold and they still look amazing.
Speaker 3 (31:20):
Right.
Speaker 2 (31:21):
And you know in the in the container, the fertilization
will be important. Oh yeah, and of course your irrigation
will be important. Yes, But you can keep a citrus
tree in depending on what size container you put it in,
for two to three years before you have to maybe
move it up to a bigger size. Yeah, I would.
Speaker 3 (31:41):
I would say, oh yeah, definitely.
Speaker 2 (31:43):
I haven't done a lot of citrus growing in containers,
but that's my thoughts on it.
Speaker 5 (31:47):
Yeah, it's always important to keep in mind, and this
goes for anything that you do in a container. That
plant is relying on you for everything at that point
for it, right, it's fertilized needs for its moisture needs.
So you just have to watch stuff a little more.
Speaker 2 (32:05):
Containers, So keep in mind all the fruit trees, the
fruit bushes of fruit, fruit vines, and all the citrus
and chilling hours and the spring. Fertilization is important on
all of those. I think we still have a few
sea potatoes where you know, normally you plant your sea
potatoes January February in the Baton Rouge area. But I
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think you could still get them in the ground in
the next week or so.
Speaker 3 (32:32):
Yeah, and get.
Speaker 2 (32:35):
You a harvest round Memorial Day or so. But most
people's potatoes ought to be up and growing good now. Yeah,
And and just watch them. And usually it's going to
be about eighty to one hundred days after planning when
you harvest, so it's not bad.
Speaker 3 (32:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (32:55):
Redlely soda Redily soda is the most popular potato around
the Baton Rouge area, and that was an Lsu variety
that was developed way back in the nineteen sixties and
it's still one of the most old potatoes in the
United States.
Speaker 3 (33:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (33:13):
Yeah, I want to say, usually we keep the red
milnesoda in White Kennebec.
Speaker 2 (33:21):
Good morning, Dale. We have another callar. You have a
fig treek question. Can we help you? Yes, sir, Yes, sir.
Speaker 7 (33:28):
I have a very young it's I don't even know
it's an Lsu pig. I don't know if it's the
purple or gold, but I know it's an LSU pig
and I bought it from y'all last year. And like
I said, it's really young. I mean it's maybe a
foot tall of a half tall. And I didn't cover
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it or anything during these hard freezes that we had.
Speaker 4 (33:53):
I know this.
Speaker 8 (33:53):
When it snowed, I know it.
Speaker 7 (33:55):
The snow acted like an insulation to the roots and everything.
But it seems like all my branches above ground, I
don't see any new growth on them yet or anything.
I'm wondering if I should prun it back.
Speaker 2 (34:09):
Or I think I think dale I would wake up
a couple more weeks and then it's gonna be more
obvious as to maybe what wood is dead and what
wood is alive.
Speaker 5 (34:18):
And also you can do a scratch test on it
just to see if there's any anything, uh, still green
underneath the bark. If it's green underneath the bark, usually
that's a good sign that the tree.
Speaker 4 (34:31):
Is still alive.
Speaker 5 (34:33):
If you statch and you see brown, then usually that
portion is died back.
Speaker 8 (34:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (34:40):
But one but one good one good thing about figs
is even if the top dice back, they are usually
pretty good about coming back from the root system.
Speaker 8 (34:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (34:50):
That's because I did. I did kind of scratch it,
and it seems like there is some green, but it's
all where the snow might have covered and insulated it.
Everything above say six inches or so. It seems like
it's all brown underneath the skin right right.
Speaker 2 (35:09):
If you can tell where that brown that dead wood is,
I would go ahead and prune that off.
Speaker 4 (35:14):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (35:15):
It's always beneficial to get that dead wood pruned off
your plants. Okay, yeah, so go ahead and do that.
Let the plants start rebounding from the base. Maybe hold
off on fertilization for another three to four weeks before
you put any fertilizer out. Just give the chance for
the fig tree to rebound a little bit before you
start fertilizing. Okay, Okay, thank you Dale. We appreciate the call.
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And we have another call. We have John and Watson. John,
what do you have for us this morning on the
WJBO Lawn and Garden Show.
Speaker 8 (35:52):
Okay, just a quick question.
Speaker 2 (35:54):
I have a bag of Scotch turf builder Whedon Whedon
feed been.
Speaker 8 (35:58):
Bug mom's garage ten years. Is it still good?
Speaker 3 (36:04):
Have you have you opened it? John nod openness so
it never it never has been opened.
Speaker 8 (36:12):
No, hadn't been open, but it might have gotten you know,
just it's been in the garage. You know the humidity
here in Loisenna, you know, right, I'm down.
Speaker 3 (36:20):
I'm worried about using it.
Speaker 2 (36:21):
Of this been in the garage that long, and there's
gonna be a lot of moisture accumulation that's occurred, even
if you haven't opened the bag, and it could probably
be all chunky and I that that's my personal opinion.
Speaker 8 (36:36):
Okay, Well, how do you dispose of something like that?
Speaker 3 (36:40):
Well?
Speaker 4 (36:40):
Do you do?
Speaker 8 (36:40):
You? Do? You do?
Speaker 3 (36:41):
You?
Speaker 2 (36:42):
Do you have any pasture nearby? Do you have an
old feeling an old field somewhere?
Speaker 5 (36:47):
I could probably find them.
Speaker 2 (36:49):
Actually, get get, get, get a friend and just broadcast
it out on an old field or over pasture or
something and that'll be that'll be fine, A good way
to liquidate it. Yeah, okay, okay, thank you John. We
appreciate the call. Kenny, how can we help you this morning?
Speaker 8 (37:05):
Good morning. This is my first time caller, and I
really learned a lot from the show.
Speaker 3 (37:10):
Thank you.
Speaker 8 (37:10):
My first question is I have a fiddle leaf plant
it's about six to seven feet tall, and a container
and a bird of paradise plant and a container about
four and a half Spotzy tall, and they I wrapped
them with the landscape wrapping during the freeze, but they
their leaves are really brown, and I wrapped them both
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times when we had the freezes. What can I do
at this point?
Speaker 2 (37:37):
Braydon, don't you think a philodendron that large is gonna
come back?
Speaker 4 (37:41):
You mean a bird of paradise? Oh?
Speaker 2 (37:43):
I thought was it a split leaf philodendron? And then
a bird of paradise?
Speaker 8 (37:48):
A bird of paradise in a fiddle leaf.
Speaker 3 (37:51):
A fiddle leaf.
Speaker 2 (37:52):
I'm sorry, fiddle leaf, My bad, my bad.
Speaker 5 (37:58):
It's it's hard to say on that that fiddle leaf.
I know they're not really cold tolerant. Again, kind of
like we were telling the last caller, I would do
a scratch test on it and see if there's any
green below that that outer layer.
Speaker 2 (38:15):
Yeah, fiddle fiddle leaf figs are really tropical. And I
assume you're I assume it was outside and you wrapped
it and it was outside. I'm worried about the fiddle leaf, yeah,
you know, And I'm worried, and I'm worried about the
bird of paradise to you, unless it was really old.
Speaker 4 (38:36):
Usually yeah, things like that.
Speaker 5 (38:40):
I try to if if I have them outside, I
try to bring them into my garage or something somewhere.
Is to get them away from that uh exposure from
the cold.
Speaker 8 (38:51):
Okay, my second question, if you have time, I have
an m uh tree chiny Chinese tree that I purchased
uh in October, and I had the floor uh your
company come out and planet and I wrapped the base
of it with tabric turn it's about eight to ten feets.
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You think I've loved that tree.
Speaker 4 (39:15):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (39:15):
No, Your Chinese elms should be fine. Yeah, it's very
cold hearty. Che I didn't know.
Speaker 8 (39:22):
If it was just a young tree, they usually see
it the next year would be safe. All right. Well,
I'm looking forward to hearing the rest of your show
and listening in every Saturday.
Speaker 2 (39:33):
Yes, yes, sir, thank you for Colin Kenny. Yeah, so
uh so. On the the Chinese elms, they should be
leafing out pretty soon anyway. They're one of the early
trees to start leafing out in the Baton Rouge area.
Speaker 5 (39:48):
Films do like the maples where they'll go put out
their seed pods.
Speaker 3 (39:52):
Right exactly exactly right, right right.
Speaker 2 (39:56):
I know the the elms in the parking lot at
our Seeing Lane location always litter my truck when I
fought right there, real quick.
Speaker 6 (40:06):
Follow up questions. We had talked about muscadines earlier. One
person wanted to know where is the best spot to
kind of plant those when you're thinking about growing well.
Speaker 2 (40:17):
Of course you need full sun for muscadines. You need
well drained soil. That's really the main, the main thing.
And muscadines need to be on a treiller, so they
need to be on a fence. So they need to
be on a support system, right right, So whether it
be a te post with some wires and plant them
about fifteen feet apart, and muscandies take up room. You
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grow them horizontally. If you just plant a muscadine without
any support system, they're going to just grow everywhere and
you're not going to have much productivity, right right, So okay,
so we just have a couple of minutes to wrap
up everything this morning. I think we've covered a a
lot of great topics. Yeah, getting to be vegetable planting
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time and the warm season bedding plants are starting to
arrive at garden centers and tropical plants and watching your
your shrubs and your other plants or cold damage is
still going to be critical as we matriculate through the
spring months.
Speaker 5 (41:23):
But I definitely think it's safe to say spring has sprung.
Speaker 3 (41:27):
I believe, so I'm going to go with that. I'm
going to go with that.
Speaker 2 (41:32):
I promise everybody usually sometime in February, no more frost,
no more freeze.
Speaker 3 (41:36):
And I get caught every year. It's all my fault.
It's on my fault. But anyway, and.
Speaker 2 (41:42):
You know there are weeds out there, all your cool
season weeds from maturing. Definitely your warm season weeds are germinating.
So you got both of them out there at the
same time. Right now, and there's still time to do
your weed cocktail spray on your Saint Augustine or centipede lawn.
Nice sunny days is when you want to do it. Yeah,
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pre emerged herbicide and landscape beds. We'll keep your warm
season weeds under control if you get that out pretty soon.
Speaker 4 (42:13):
You know, since we brought up the week cocktail.
Speaker 5 (42:15):
One thing I do want to kind of just put
out there is when you're spring in the lawn, you
just want to be careful if you're springing underneath the.
Speaker 2 (42:23):
Trees exactly be careful with all these herbicides around trees,
underneath trees, around the root zone of trees. Well, we've
enjoyed being here this Saturday with you on the WJBO
Lawn and Garden Show. We're here every Saturday on WJBO,
and we hope everybody has a great Mardi Gras weekend
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and get planting.
Speaker 3 (42:46):
Thank you all.
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 planting, lon and garden concerns
or questions about landscaping, called four nine nine WGBO. That's
four nine nine two six.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Good morning, Baton Rouge. This is Alan Owens and I'm
here with Braden Vona Donnell. Of course we're from Clegg's
Nursery and you're listening to the WJBO Lawn and Garden Show.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
It's a nice day, Alan, Baton Rouge. It's Marti braw weekend.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Beautiful and the garden center was pretty busy yesterday. Oh yes,
and we're at March first, yep, first day of mark.
Did you buy any plants on February twenty ninth, February
thirtieth or February thirty first?
Speaker 4 (00:53):
Did I?
Speaker 3 (00:53):
Yes, No you didn't.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
We missed three days of plant buying with that short February.
And anyway, you know, March April May, that's when most
folks think of that's the three main months of spring,
and then June and July and August this summer.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
So I'm ready to spring forward, are you.
Speaker 4 (01:14):
Yes, Yeah, it is time.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
And it was Sunday and seventy five yesterday, and yeah,
it looks like a nice day today, definitely. And the
weather report just said seventy two or so tomorrow, so
we should have a nice weekend. Few mrdy Gras parades
going on.
Speaker 5 (01:32):
Yeah, I think after the crazy winter we had, I
think everyone's probably about ready for some very nice weather.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
Everybody's had cabin fever, you know. Last week it was
chilly and rainy a couple of days, and that kind
of slowed our spring momentum. Yeah, but we've had we
had a cold week in January, cold week in February.
But it's time to move forward to spring as far
as I'm concerned.
Speaker 4 (01:58):
Let's spring forward.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
Yes, and we do that?
Speaker 4 (02:01):
Do do that?
Speaker 3 (02:02):
I think a week from tomorrow. Oh really, yes, spring forward.
Speaker 4 (02:05):
It always catches me off guard.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
It does, it does.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
And that uh it'll be uh so it'll be light
till seven or seven thirty, but we'll be it'll still
be kind of darket seven seven thirty am.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
Yeah, so.
Speaker 4 (02:22):
About the time I'm leaving for.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
Work exactly exactly. So call in this morning. Everyone. Of course,
we're at area code two two five for nine nine
WJBO four nine nine nine five two six and early March.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
That's about our last frost date.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
So it looks like the forecast for the next ten
to fifteen days is favorable. Yeah, and uh, people are
planning tomatoes. Oh, yes, we have some vegetables on the
tables at Clegs.
Speaker 5 (02:53):
We have a very nice assortment of vegetables, especially tomatoes.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
Right.
Speaker 5 (02:59):
Right, we're starting to see a lot of tomatoes come in,
a lot of peppers. Right, We're gradually starting to see
like the squash and cucumbers and eggplants stuff like that. Right,
I know, those squashing cucumbers. Usually it needs to be
a little.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
Warmer, exactly.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
I still think it's maybe a week or so early
for squashing cucumber, but certainly certainly possible to get some
tomatoes in the ground. And there are several of my
Baton Rouge area friends that plant their tomatoes on March
first or about that every year, and yeah, they usually
make it nine years out of ten. So one person
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on social media wanted me to post a list of
every tomato variety we had on the table. I started
to do that yesterday, but I decided I wasn't on
to list thirty something varieties, but.
Speaker 4 (03:48):
You know, yeah, it's a lot.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
But Clegg's we probably have the most tomato varieties on
the benches in any garden center in Baton Rouge, I
would think.
Speaker 5 (03:57):
And I would say probably somewhere is between eighty and
ninety percent of the tomato varieties we have out on
the table. We're grown at clicks right right right from
our color divisions, so locally grown.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
And of course the varieties are selected by our horticulturist,
Johnny Naylor. And of course Johnny owned Naylor's True Value
Hardware and Garden center for many years and he's with
us now at Clex Nursery, And.
Speaker 4 (04:25):
Yeah, he does all our seeds.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
Forty five years of vegetable growing experience, or maybe even
more years than that.
Speaker 5 (04:32):
Honest, I don't see how he contained he's able to
contain all the information that he does. He's just a
wealth of knowledge.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
And of course the last few years has been a
few varieties of vegetables that haven't met as readily available
as they were in the past. But it seems like
the vegetable seeds supply is better now than what it
was a couple of years ago during the pandemic gardening
the right phase.
Speaker 4 (04:58):
So those are crazy times.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
Yes, yes, but you know, if y'all want to talk
about cold weather damage, so we'll we'll entertain that it's
still too early probably to make a final decision on
a lot of plants. I know you and Butch have
been talking to a lot of folks about their cisrus trees.
But oh yeah, but you know, citrus trees are just
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taking a cold weather beating the last four to five years,
and uh, they get step back every year, and we
really need to wait another couple of months before see
if we get some new growth before we do a
whole lot of like pruning and deed wood pruning and.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
That at least that's my opinion.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, And uh, there may be some bark
split on Isaelia's coming up later this spring due to
the cold weather. And I've seen some bad looking bottle
brush and sago palms. You can go ahead and cut
off your sago palm frauds right now, get those cleaned up.
So a lot of things you can do escape this
time of year, a lot of clean up stuff, exactly exactly,
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So next weekend is the Baton Rouge Spring Garden Show.
Speaker 5 (06:12):
I'm always working when that happens, but I always see
pictures and it always looks so awesome.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
It's a really good event.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
And I'm not sure what year the Baton Rouge Spring
Garden Show is now, but anyway, it's a sponsored by
the LSU Act Center and it's that Parker Coliseum there
on Highland Road on campus. And the show will be
open Friday night from five till eight pm and open
Saturday nine to four and then nine to three on Sunday.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
So a lot of the area.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
Retailers will have booths there will be there with legs
and some of the you know, some of the small
specially kind of nurseries itself, blue areas and tropical plants. Yeah,
I imagine the Baton Rouge Hibiscus Society will be there
with tropical hibiscus.
Speaker 4 (07:05):
Does Brace's do like the Cajun hibiscus?
Speaker 2 (07:08):
For that so so so I help at Bracy's Nursery.
Also in addition to Clegg's, we don't grow Cajun hibiscus.
Speaker 5 (07:14):
Oh I'm sorry not Bracey's DuPont DuPont.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
The Hibiscus Club buys the Cajun hibiscus from DuPont, and
the High Biscus Club sells them. Yeah, it is a
madhouse at the Hibiscus, Yes, you know. To answer your question,
are crazy about Cajun hibiscus?
Speaker 6 (07:35):
To answer your question about the how long the Spring
Garden Show is going on, I'm a little confused because
one of the things on the ag Center site says
the twenty second annual and another one says the twenty third.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
So wow, I actually was going to say like nineteen
or twenty, So it's it's longer than I thought.
Speaker 6 (07:54):
So either way, it's been around for a while, but
it's either twenty two or twenty three.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
Oh, we've got we got to get this to sid
before we get to year twenty five, so we make
sure we get that right. Don't want to celebrate celebrating
ANNIVERSI I'm going to do a little more dig later early,
you know. And then, of course it wasn't hell COVID year,
So how do you count that?
Speaker 3 (08:14):
You know?
Speaker 4 (08:14):
I wonder if that means that if that would be
the problem.
Speaker 6 (08:18):
All right, I've seen twenty second twice in twenty third one,
so I'm going to lean on twenty second.
Speaker 3 (08:23):
Okay, maybe that's yay.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
We appreciate our producer Jeremy all his very important input.
He's got his muddy grod decor on this morning celebrating
airy code five oh four. I thought we were gonna
get a whole lot of calls this morning and upbraiding.
Yeah I did too, and there's nobody on the line.
Maybe we should give him that number again, the number again,
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Speaker 6 (08:53):
Maybe they're trying to forget about their citrus issues by
going to Spanish Town.
Speaker 3 (08:57):
Or so, that's right, that's right.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
I don't even know what time Spanish Town Parade is today,
but anyway, the bat Rouche Ring Garden Show next Friday night,
Saturday Sunday. It is ten dollars emission, so keep that
in mind. Twelve and under free. LSU students are free.
Southern University students are free. So it's always a good event.
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You always find great plants there.
Speaker 5 (09:20):
Yeah, I feel like they usually have some more like
unique stuff that you wouldn't commonly find.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
Right, and some of the bigger nursery right right, some
of the specialty plants, and then you know, there's folks
there selling containers and pottery and you know a little
bit of lawn and garden furniture.
Speaker 5 (09:42):
I want to say, last year Butcher had said that
they had this booth set up where they did like
pieces of driftwood and stuff. Drift wood really right, right,
Maybe they'll have that again this year.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
Yeah, So y'all mark your calendars for next for next
weekend that event, And there's a lot of other garden
shows of course around South Louisiana over the next four
to six weekends. So there's a show in Lafayette, a
show in Lake Charles, a show in Covington, the show
at the New Orleans Botanical Gardens at City Park. There's
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a show at one of the plantation homes down by
the river. So a lot of events this time of year.
You need to spend some time going out there and
finding you some plants for the twenty twenty five growing season.
This is Allen and Braiden from PEG's Nursery. We're still here.
We've been talking about a number of topics. I guess
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it is getting time for warm season flowers and oh yeah,
our tropicals and our ferns. So yeah, do we have
some of that in stock right now, Braiden, Yeah, definitely.
Speaker 5 (10:52):
We've been seeing a lot of the warm weather annuals
and tropical plants come in, a lot of really nice
high biscus yes, that we received. We also got got
in some really nice shrimp plants. I love when those
come in because they show so much color.
Speaker 3 (11:11):
I love shrimp plants.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
I took a picture of those yesterday at Seagan Lane.
Speaker 5 (11:15):
And then the Bogan villas. I know you you had
posted a picture on Facebook. Man, they have been just
amazing lately.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
They are just absolutely at full bloom. You don't even
see any leaves on. It's just all flowers, all color, yes, yes, yes.
Speaker 4 (11:29):
And then we've.
Speaker 5 (11:30):
Gotten in a lot of marigold's, a lot of petunias,
some really nice uh sun patients which came from Bracy
right right.
Speaker 4 (11:41):
They've been selling like crazyly right right.
Speaker 3 (11:44):
And we have a few pollinator plants here, yeah and
right uh.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
Yeah and uh and and and you know there's some
of these warm seasoned flowers that it's best to plant
maybe in Martian there's some warm seasoned flowers that it's
best to plant late April early Ben. May you know
everybody's will start asking for benca very soon. And you know,
we're about six weeks ahead of time if we think
we're going to plant venca right now.
Speaker 4 (12:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
So uh so that's one of those hot weather plants.
Speaker 5 (12:19):
And I've had people come in to Cleggs earlier than
this asking about venca. But believe it or not, I
do have a little bit of binco on the table.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
Okay, okay, all right, we do what we missed do Yeah.
Speaker 4 (12:36):
I mean I try to.
Speaker 5 (12:37):
I try to tell people when they come in, you know,
it's still a little a little cool. The ground temperatures
have to reach a certain degrees before you start.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
Playing exactly exactly and then fair warning, right right. And
the petunias, the petunias, they can take the cool night
temperatures and they're more of that. Petunias actually do better
cool season and how and they did warm seasons South Louisianna.
So you know, plant use some petunias in February and March.
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They'll last till Memorial Day into June. Your supertunias, like bubblegum,
probably last into the summer and sometimes even through the summer. Yeah,
if you get them in a nice, well prepared bed,
a good well prepared media and a container and have
them in the right sun exposure, shade exposure.
Speaker 5 (13:27):
I Uh, there's this restaurant I passed by on my
way to work every day, and last year, I want
to say it was last year, they had bubblegum supertunias, yes,
in their beds out front, and I just every day
I'd watch them, and throughout the summer, I'd watched these
supertunias take over the shrubs in the bed behind them,
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and they just they went all summer and looked amazing.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
Absolutely, absolutely, And so there's a lot of varieties of supertunia.
Supertunias are proven winter plants supertunia petunias, but you know,
bubble gum is so much better than some of the
other variety. One silver berry is a really good one.
So there's three or four of those fifteen varieties that
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outperform the other ten or eleven varieties.
Speaker 4 (14:15):
So I think bubble Gum's at the top.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
It is incredible that every petunia was like bubble gum petunia.
Speaker 5 (14:23):
I don't think people would plant much more than petunias
exactly exactly.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
But and all those bedding plants, whether it be cool
season or warm season, we need to, you know, have
adequate spacing between the plants. Sometimes we plant too close together.
If you're planting bubble gum petunia, those things get big
and those get wide, and you don't want to be
planting them on a nine inch or twelve inch spacing
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like you would when you're doing like a color install
or something like that.
Speaker 3 (14:55):
So you need to.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
Yeah, as ridiculous as it sounds, planted them three feet
apart before and they still fill in.
Speaker 4 (15:02):
Oh yeah, I could believe that.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
Yes, yeah, so so So anyway, bed preparation, if you
want to get some bedding plants in, make sure you
have a nice, well prepared bed. Of course, people are
growing a lot of flowers and containers now, so get
you some good bags soil. We have the happy frog,
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we have tiger grow. We have the klegs. Yeah, actual soil.
Speaker 5 (15:31):
The ocean forests, the tiger grow and the klegs. Those
are three that I usually recommend a lot. They're good
for drainage with a lot of your potted plants.
Speaker 3 (15:41):
Needed exactly exactly.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
Yeah, with our rainfall here, you want to make sure
your plants, your your media drains and gets all that
excess water out after our our heavy rainfalls and then
we well you said we had some tropical hibiscus in
so I am man tropical hibiscus and the landscape. But
they were landscape planted last year and they went through
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the winter in the ground. They're not going to come
back this year. So you know, everybody is optimistic, but
we need to tell you the truth.
Speaker 3 (16:16):
Yeah, they're they're they're not going to make it.
Speaker 4 (16:17):
They're not gonna make it.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
They're not going to make it, so so be thinking
about getting you some new tropical hibiscus.
Speaker 5 (16:25):
Also, another thing that we received recently was some really
nice hanging basket Boston ferns. Oh yes, and they're actually
on sale at a very nice price.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
Okay, good, good, Yeah, Yeah, Boston ferns are always popular.
And those I think they're like a fourteen inch, but
the Kimberly ferns are just gorgeous, those big, those big
Kimberly ferns.
Speaker 3 (16:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
I think we have them in a ten inch too,
which is kind of like a cheat or three gallon,
you know. So, so everybody loves all the ferns for
their front porch and their insurance ways and.
Speaker 5 (17:00):
It adds such a nice like tropical fill to your front.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
Porch exactly, exactly exactly. And then I guess we have
a few macho ferns. I'll say, oh, yeah.
Speaker 4 (17:11):
We do.
Speaker 5 (17:12):
We do have and some asparagus fern right right, we
have a bunch of Boston ferns.
Speaker 3 (17:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
It seems like a very good supply. So, and we
have some kaladiums in. Yeah, we did receiver kalladium ball right,
and it looks like the kaladium supply is good again.
We had a few years where the supply was not
as good. You didn't have as main number number ones
and jumbos. But it looks like the availability on the
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kalladiums is good again. Yeah, I definitely, So go ahead
and come in and get you some kaladium balls. And
you're you know, before the of the varieties you want,
before the supply dwindles, you know.
Speaker 5 (17:53):
Yeah, isn't it the is it the blood mill that
you used with right right right? That really does it
makes a difference, It.
Speaker 3 (18:03):
Does, it does.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
And sometimes instead of just putting one bulb in a
planting hole, I put three bulbs in a planting hole
and plant it like in a triangle.
Speaker 3 (18:12):
And that makes you a really big more massive.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
Nice dense, dense, dense plant, you know, so you know
you can plant one bullb in a hole or three
bulbs in a hole, and you know, have you different
make you it's going to look like one plant, but
it's actually three plants together.
Speaker 3 (18:30):
They're just very close together, right right.
Speaker 5 (18:33):
And one of the things push kind of and I
kind of talked about this on the last radio show
we did, the difference in the size of the bulb.
What that means for the plant. Just because you're buying
a bigger bulb doesn't necessarily mean that it's going to
pit put out.
Speaker 3 (18:52):
A bigger leaf, right or.
Speaker 5 (18:55):
It Usually it's just if you get a bigger bulb,
it'll put out more.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
Shoots exactly exactly. And if you plant your kalladiums in
a landscape bed some years in Baton Rouge, if you
leave the bulbs in the bed, they will come back
after the winter, but I don't think they're going to
do that this year. You can also dig up your
kaladium bulbs in October and save them over the winter
and plant them out again next late March early April.
Speaker 4 (19:22):
Is it the the amount of rain or moisture.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
That were moisture in the soil. Okay, so you know
a lot of your bulbs are susceptible to riding in
the around over winter when they're when they're dormant, and
that's what the kaladiums are going to be that time
of year, you know. But uh, you know, so so
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be thinking about your tropical plants. We have the shrimp
plants in, like Braiden said, I really like those. They
just bloom, spring all the way through into the fallah.
And uh, the tropical high discus also, I find I
find on the tropical hibiscus people don't fertilize them enough. Okay,
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but so you know, don't be afraid to put a
little bit of hibiscus or bogabilia food on your right.
Speaker 5 (20:13):
Actually, I was about to say that, I think we
sell a fertile loom, right, fertilizer.
Speaker 3 (20:18):
I think it's a Bogavilia hibiscus. Yeah, maybe it is.
I think it is.
Speaker 4 (20:23):
It sounds right, yeah, but uh yeah.
Speaker 5 (20:26):
Along with the high biscus and the shrimp plants, we
received some heliconia, which is, oh yeah, one of my
personal favorites. I like the little orange flowers they do.
Speaker 3 (20:37):
And I like the cordline. The tie plants.
Speaker 2 (20:40):
I notice y'all have some tie plants, some of those
red sister in there, some I can't remember the ones
that are the.
Speaker 3 (20:47):
Multi colored and pink.
Speaker 5 (20:49):
And yeah, I know there's one that's called Kiwi.
Speaker 3 (20:53):
Yeah, the Kiwi, the Kiwi. I like that.
Speaker 4 (20:55):
Yeah, that one is really yeah.
Speaker 5 (20:59):
But yeah, we've we've gotten a lot of really nice
tropicals and a lot of really nice house plants.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
And right the new Folige House at Segan lanees nice
and always has a good supplying.
Speaker 4 (21:11):
It's starting to fill up in there.
Speaker 2 (21:14):
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It's time, is he It's time for roses. We passed
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Valentine's Day.
Speaker 4 (21:54):
That we did.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
Hopefully everybody got their roses pruned in February. Yeah, and
so you know, March and April is the time to
be getting your rose varieties for the new year selected
at the garden center, whether it be a hybrid tea
or a Flora button or a grand of flora, or
a landscape shrub like a drift or a knockout. And
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it's also the perfect time right now to fertilize your roses.
So roses like food, they have to be fertilized. So
I'll give your roses some good fertil on rose food
in mid February, late February, early March every spring, and
that'll greatly benefit you with more flowers later on.
Speaker 5 (22:36):
And then we also have the rose food with the
systemic in it too, that's right, which will help prevent
any kind of pest from zagonaun it.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
And a lot of times folks wait till around Mother's
state to start picking out their roses.
Speaker 3 (22:48):
But come on in and do it before then.
Speaker 4 (22:52):
I don't know, I was about to say, if you
wait till they start.
Speaker 3 (22:55):
Blooming exactly, they're going to be gone exactly exactly.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
So you have all the tags out there, all the information,
a picture of picture of what the blooms look like.
Alan and Braiden we're with you this morning. Of course.
We work at Clegg's Nursery. We have four locations in
the metropolitan Baton Rouge area. We've covered a number of
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topics this morning, and we'll throw a few more things
out there. I do think we may have a few
callers coming in, so that'll be good. But it's time
for fruit trees now too, and also blueberries, blackberries, muscardines, all.
Speaker 5 (23:35):
Those different fruit plants, and we have a lot of
that in stock right now too.
Speaker 3 (23:41):
Yes, right, So.
Speaker 2 (23:44):
You know there's some pollination things that you need to
consider on some on some fruit trees need to plant
multiple varieties of peaches and sometimes apples and pears to
get you good fruit set blueberries also, whereas you don't
have to do that with blackberries. You could just plant
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one variety of BlackBerry and good good fruit production.
Speaker 4 (24:09):
So same with citrus too.
Speaker 2 (24:12):
Right, right, right, okay, So I do see we do
have a caller. We have Kenneth. I'm trying to hit
the right button. Which button? Good morning, Kenneth, This is
Alan and Brayden. How can we help you this morning?
Speaker 4 (24:34):
Yeah, got lunch to day, okay, muscadines I love much
of the day.
Speaker 7 (24:42):
Yeah, I can't turn, I cannot go down.
Speaker 5 (24:46):
Yeah, I would definitely say come by seeing laying clicks
because we have them in stock there for sure, and I.
Speaker 8 (24:55):
Cannot learn how long did it takes where you're putting
berries out?
Speaker 2 (25:00):
You're you're gonna get muscadine berries, you know, by year two,
and you may even get a few year one.
Speaker 3 (25:07):
Nice you want to you want?
Speaker 5 (25:10):
He said you would you would see uh fruits, saying yeah,
you would see fruit set by at least the second year.
You might see a little bit on the first year.
Speaker 4 (25:24):
But it might get done.
Speaker 7 (25:25):
You you may you you maybe would get one or
two or three berries.
Speaker 8 (25:35):
Plum plum tree, you know, Blan I like them.
Speaker 5 (25:41):
Too, Yeah, the plum tree, Yes, sir, we we definitely
have plums in stock, and this would be a great
time to start planning those. With the plums, you typically
would want to plant two different varieties to get better
fruit production.
Speaker 4 (25:58):
You no got all that? No, yes, sir?
Speaker 8 (26:03):
Well that journains you down there a little bit getting
remembered with that.
Speaker 4 (26:06):
I love that kind of awesome. Well, yeah, I wait
to see you there.
Speaker 2 (26:11):
Yeah, all the fruit trees, there's there's high interest in
fruit trees. So thank you, Kenneth. We appreciate the call. So, yeah,
so we have you know, there's bronze, and there's purple
muscadine berries and the plums or are typically.
Speaker 3 (26:30):
Good producers.
Speaker 2 (26:31):
My dad and I used to have some plumb trees,
and everybody talks about the need to spray plumb trees
for insects and disease, and we never had to do
that a whole lot, and we still got a decent
amount of quality fruit. So so and then and then
people don't realize that we can we can actually.
Speaker 3 (26:51):
Get apples from an apple tree and Baton Rouge.
Speaker 2 (26:53):
You know, you you think about North Carolina or or
the northeastern United States for for apples, but you know,
some of the low chill apple varieties do well in
the Baton Rouge area.
Speaker 4 (27:07):
Yeah, I know we have it.
Speaker 5 (27:09):
I want to see an anna apple and an Einsheimer
at home, and they both do really well. Usually the
biggest problem we run into is being able to harvest
the apples before the squirrels.
Speaker 3 (27:23):
Eat them exactly.
Speaker 4 (27:25):
But yeah, they make really good apples.
Speaker 5 (27:29):
Last year we got some of the a few different
kind of peach trees and we were able to harvest
some of the peaches from our Sam Houston, Right, that
was an awesome peach, very good, they very very sweet,
right right.
Speaker 2 (27:45):
Yeah, Sam Houston is a good one. And then we
you know La Feliciano, la Festival, la peach. Those are
all LSU varieties and they're the right chillin' nours for
South Louisiana.
Speaker 4 (27:59):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (28:00):
And this year we've had about five hundred and fifty
six hundred chilling hours in Baton Rouge. We've had more
chilling than we normally have, so we should get good production.
We should get our fruit trees coming out of dormancy
really good spring because we got enough cold weather.
Speaker 5 (28:15):
Yeah, So on average, how many chilling hours would you
say Louisiana gets like four hundred four fifty.
Speaker 2 (28:24):
Usually usually in the Baton Rouge area three fifty to
four hundred, and then Alexandria five to six hundred, and
about seven seven fifty in Rusting shree Port, Monroe. So
you need to be picking out your fruit varieties based
on what the chilling hour requirement is.
Speaker 3 (28:41):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, which I know.
Speaker 6 (28:43):
I'm sorry, go ahead, I was going to ask a
followup question about the chilling apps. Okay, is that kind
of standard for this part of southeast Louisiana that amount,
or as if you go further southward towards the electing.
Speaker 2 (28:53):
Warrian then and then New Orleans, New Orleans is going
to be in the two hundred chilling hours, you know,
home of Tibaneaux, New Orleans. So Lake Charles is going
to be a little bit less than laugh Yette and
Baton rouge yea.
Speaker 3 (29:04):
So yeah, so that.
Speaker 6 (29:07):
Kind of just and we had an off your question
while I'm thinking about it about fig trees. They're seeing
their fig trees starting to show some leaves, and just
had a question about fertilization. Is it time to do
it now or wait? And what should they use fertilizer fictory.
Speaker 2 (29:24):
Well, on your fig trees and most of your fruit trees,
March is gonna be a good time to fertilize. I'd
say anytime in the next two to three weeks. Fertile
fruit tree fertilizer would be a good fertilizer to use.
Speaker 9 (29:39):
Yeah, I want to say it's the fruit trees, citrus, Yeah,
that's yeah, citrus, fruit trees, because right, yeah, and you
want to put that fertilizer out at the edge of
the plant canopy.
Speaker 2 (29:52):
You don't want to put the fertilizer right next to
the stem. You want to put it out where the
end of the branches are, so at the drip lot,
at the drip right right, And that will definitely help
your productivity on your on your fig trees, and also
help your apple trees and pear trees and blueberries and yeah,
and blackberries. Definitely always good idea to fertilize your fruit
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every year once in the spring.
Speaker 4 (30:21):
Awesome.
Speaker 2 (30:24):
So we do still have some citrus trees at Clegs.
We keep citrus trees year round, so I know a
lot of people want to, you know, decide what they're
gonna do with their cisrus trees. I do have some
folks I've been talking to that are very frustrated with
their citrus.
Speaker 4 (30:42):
But that's understandable.
Speaker 2 (30:44):
Yeah, yeah, but your coumquats and satsumas are going to
be your most cold hearty citrus. So you know, if
you're having continual issues with cold weather damage, you may
want to try satsumas and cum quats, or you may
want to try just on your citrus trees and containers.
Speaker 3 (31:02):
Yeah, and that's workable.
Speaker 4 (31:04):
That's what we do at my house.
Speaker 5 (31:06):
I have I think right now, two or three different
kind of citrus in pots, and I mean, yeah, they're
a little heavy, but we just drag them into our
garage when it gets cold and they still look amazing.
Speaker 3 (31:20):
Right.
Speaker 2 (31:21):
And you know in the in the container, the fertilization
will be important. Oh yeah, and of course your irrigation
will be important. Yes, But you can keep a citrus
tree in depending on what size container you put it in,
for two to three years before you have to maybe
move it up to a bigger size. Yeah, I would.
Speaker 3 (31:41):
I would say, oh yeah, definitely.
Speaker 2 (31:43):
I haven't done a lot of citrus growing in containers,
but that's my thoughts on it.
Speaker 5 (31:47):
Yeah, it's always important to keep in mind, and this
goes for anything that you do in a container. That
plant is relying on you for everything at that point
for it, right, it's fertilized needs for its moisture needs.
So you just have to watch stuff a little more.
Speaker 2 (32:05):
Containers, So keep in mind all the fruit trees, the
fruit bushes of fruit, fruit vines, and all the citrus
and chilling hours and the spring. Fertilization is important on
all of those. I think we still have a few
sea potatoes where you know, normally you plant your sea
potatoes January February in the Baton Rouge area. But I
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think you could still get them in the ground in
the next week or so.
Speaker 3 (32:32):
Yeah, and get.
Speaker 2 (32:35):
You a harvest round Memorial Day or so. But most
people's potatoes ought to be up and growing good now. Yeah,
And and just watch them. And usually it's going to
be about eighty to one hundred days after planning when
you harvest, so it's not bad.
Speaker 3 (32:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (32:55):
Redlely soda Redily soda is the most popular potato around
the Baton Rouge area, and that was an Lsu variety
that was developed way back in the nineteen sixties and
it's still one of the most old potatoes in the
United States.
Speaker 3 (33:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (33:13):
Yeah, I want to say, usually we keep the red
milnesoda in White Kennebec.
Speaker 2 (33:21):
Good morning, Dale. We have another callar. You have a
fig treek question. Can we help you? Yes, sir, Yes, sir.
Speaker 7 (33:28):
I have a very young it's I don't even know
it's an Lsu pig. I don't know if it's the
purple or gold, but I know it's an LSU pig
and I bought it from y'all last year. And like
I said, it's really young. I mean it's maybe a
foot tall of a half tall. And I didn't cover
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it or anything during these hard freezes that we had.
Speaker 4 (33:53):
I know this.
Speaker 8 (33:53):
When it snowed, I know it.
Speaker 7 (33:55):
The snow acted like an insulation to the roots and everything.
But it seems like all my branches above ground, I
don't see any new growth on them yet or anything.
I'm wondering if I should prun it back.
Speaker 2 (34:09):
Or I think I think dale I would wake up
a couple more weeks and then it's gonna be more
obvious as to maybe what wood is dead and what
wood is alive.
Speaker 5 (34:18):
And also you can do a scratch test on it
just to see if there's any anything, uh, still green
underneath the bark. If it's green underneath the bark, usually
that's a good sign that the tree.
Speaker 4 (34:31):
Is still alive.
Speaker 5 (34:33):
If you statch and you see brown, then usually that
portion is died back.
Speaker 8 (34:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (34:40):
But one but one good one good thing about figs
is even if the top dice back, they are usually
pretty good about coming back from the root system.
Speaker 8 (34:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (34:50):
That's because I did. I did kind of scratch it,
and it seems like there is some green, but it's
all where the snow might have covered and insulated it.
Everything above say six inches or so. It seems like
it's all brown underneath the skin right right.
Speaker 2 (35:09):
If you can tell where that brown that dead wood is,
I would go ahead and prune that off.
Speaker 4 (35:14):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (35:15):
It's always beneficial to get that dead wood pruned off
your plants. Okay, yeah, so go ahead and do that.
Let the plants start rebounding from the base. Maybe hold
off on fertilization for another three to four weeks before
you put any fertilizer out. Just give the chance for
the fig tree to rebound a little bit before you
start fertilizing. Okay, Okay, thank you Dale. We appreciate the call.
(35:44):
And we have another call. We have John and Watson. John,
what do you have for us this morning on the
WJBO Lawn and Garden Show.
Speaker 8 (35:52):
Okay, just a quick question.
Speaker 2 (35:54):
I have a bag of Scotch turf builder Whedon Whedon
feed been.
Speaker 8 (35:58):
Bug mom's garage ten years. Is it still good?
Speaker 3 (36:04):
Have you have you opened it? John nod openness so
it never it never has been opened.
Speaker 8 (36:12):
No, hadn't been open, but it might have gotten you know,
just it's been in the garage. You know the humidity
here in Loisenna, you know, right, I'm down.
Speaker 3 (36:20):
I'm worried about using it.
Speaker 2 (36:21):
Of this been in the garage that long, and there's
gonna be a lot of moisture accumulation that's occurred, even
if you haven't opened the bag, and it could probably
be all chunky and I that that's my personal opinion.
Speaker 8 (36:36):
Okay, Well, how do you dispose of something like that?
Speaker 3 (36:40):
Well?
Speaker 4 (36:40):
Do you do?
Speaker 8 (36:40):
You? Do? You do?
Speaker 3 (36:41):
You?
Speaker 2 (36:42):
Do you have any pasture nearby? Do you have an
old feeling an old field somewhere?
Speaker 5 (36:47):
I could probably find them.
Speaker 2 (36:49):
Actually, get get, get, get a friend and just broadcast
it out on an old field or over pasture or
something and that'll be that'll be fine, A good way
to liquidate it. Yeah, okay, okay, thank you John. We
appreciate the call. Kenny, how can we help you this morning?
Speaker 8 (37:05):
Good morning. This is my first time caller, and I
really learned a lot from the show.
Speaker 3 (37:10):
Thank you.
Speaker 8 (37:10):
My first question is I have a fiddle leaf plant
it's about six to seven feet tall, and a container
and a bird of paradise plant and a container about
four and a half Spotzy tall, and they I wrapped
them with the landscape wrapping during the freeze, but they
their leaves are really brown, and I wrapped them both
(37:31):
times when we had the freezes. What can I do
at this point?
Speaker 2 (37:37):
Braydon, don't you think a philodendron that large is gonna
come back?
Speaker 4 (37:41):
You mean a bird of paradise? Oh?
Speaker 2 (37:43):
I thought was it a split leaf philodendron? And then
a bird of paradise?
Speaker 8 (37:48):
A bird of paradise in a fiddle leaf.
Speaker 3 (37:51):
A fiddle leaf.
Speaker 2 (37:52):
I'm sorry, fiddle leaf, My bad, my bad.
Speaker 5 (37:58):
It's it's hard to say on that that fiddle leaf.
I know they're not really cold tolerant. Again, kind of
like we were telling the last caller, I would do
a scratch test on it and see if there's any
green below that that outer layer.
Speaker 2 (38:15):
Yeah, fiddle fiddle leaf figs are really tropical. And I
assume you're I assume it was outside and you wrapped
it and it was outside. I'm worried about the fiddle leaf, yeah,
you know, And I'm worried, and I'm worried about the
bird of paradise to you, unless it was really old.
Speaker 4 (38:36):
Usually yeah, things like that.
Speaker 5 (38:40):
I try to if if I have them outside, I
try to bring them into my garage or something somewhere.
Is to get them away from that uh exposure from
the cold.
Speaker 8 (38:51):
Okay, my second question, if you have time, I have
an m uh tree chiny Chinese tree that I purchased
uh in October, and I had the floor uh your
company come out and planet and I wrapped the base
of it with tabric turn it's about eight to ten feets.
(39:11):
You think I've loved that tree.
Speaker 4 (39:15):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (39:15):
No, Your Chinese elms should be fine. Yeah, it's very
cold hearty. Che I didn't know.
Speaker 8 (39:22):
If it was just a young tree, they usually see
it the next year would be safe. All right. Well,
I'm looking forward to hearing the rest of your show
and listening in every Saturday.
Speaker 2 (39:33):
Yes, yes, sir, thank you for Colin Kenny. Yeah, so
uh so. On the the Chinese elms, they should be
leafing out pretty soon anyway. They're one of the early
trees to start leafing out in the Baton Rouge area.
Speaker 5 (39:48):
Films do like the maples where they'll go put out
their seed pods.
Speaker 3 (39:52):
Right exactly exactly right, right right.
Speaker 2 (39:56):
I know the the elms in the parking lot at
our Seeing Lane location always litter my truck when I
fought right there, real quick.
Speaker 6 (40:06):
Follow up questions. We had talked about muscadines earlier. One
person wanted to know where is the best spot to
kind of plant those when you're thinking about growing well.
Speaker 2 (40:17):
Of course you need full sun for muscadines. You need
well drained soil. That's really the main, the main thing.
And muscadines need to be on a treiller, so they
need to be on a fence. So they need to
be on a support system, right right, So whether it
be a te post with some wires and plant them
about fifteen feet apart, and muscandies take up room. You
(40:41):
grow them horizontally. If you just plant a muscadine without
any support system, they're going to just grow everywhere and
you're not going to have much productivity, right right, So okay,
so we just have a couple of minutes to wrap
up everything this morning. I think we've covered a a
lot of great topics. Yeah, getting to be vegetable planting
(41:04):
time and the warm season bedding plants are starting to
arrive at garden centers and tropical plants and watching your
your shrubs and your other plants or cold damage is
still going to be critical as we matriculate through the
spring months.
Speaker 5 (41:23):
But I definitely think it's safe to say spring has sprung.
Speaker 3 (41:27):
I believe, so I'm going to go with that. I'm
going to go with that.
Speaker 2 (41:32):
I promise everybody usually sometime in February, no more frost,
no more freeze.
Speaker 3 (41:36):
And I get caught every year. It's all my fault.
It's on my fault. But anyway, and.
Speaker 2 (41:42):
You know there are weeds out there, all your cool
season weeds from maturing. Definitely your warm season weeds are germinating.
So you got both of them out there at the
same time. Right now, and there's still time to do
your weed cocktail spray on your Saint Augustine or centipede lawn.
Nice sunny days is when you want to do it. Yeah,
(42:05):
pre emerged herbicide and landscape beds. We'll keep your warm
season weeds under control if you get that out pretty soon.
Speaker 4 (42:13):
You know, since we brought up the week cocktail.
Speaker 5 (42:15):
One thing I do want to kind of just put
out there is when you're spring in the lawn, you
just want to be careful if you're springing underneath the.
Speaker 2 (42:23):
Trees exactly be careful with all these herbicides around trees,
underneath trees, around the root zone of trees. Well, we've
enjoyed being here this Saturday with you on the WJBO
Lawn and Garden Show. We're here every Saturday on WJBO,
and we hope everybody has a great Mardi Gras weekend
(42:43):
and get planting.
Speaker 3 (42:46):
Thank you all.
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