January 25, 2025 • 44 mins
The intern Anna-Clare, Butch and Braden from Clegg's Nursery are this week's hosts for the WJBO Lawn & Garden Show! They talk about next steps after our historic snowfall earlier this week, and also look ahead to what you can think about planting in the coming months!
Plus YOUR questions on snow impacts to your lawns and gardens!
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Plus YOUR questions on snow impacts to your lawns and gardens!
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Good Saturday morning, and welcome to the WGBO lun 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.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
That's four nine n six.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
Good morning, and welcome back to WJBO Slawn and Garden
Show today. I'm here with Brandon and Butchers from Glex's Nursery.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Good morning, Good morning. Just did phenomenal. I can't tell
you how many people mess up my name. Good job.
Speaker 4 (00:36):
I'm one of the ones that normally messes it up.
I gotta take a full credit for that. Good morning.
Kind of an interesting week, not much going on, Pretty
typical for Baton Rouge as far as I can remember.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
Yeah, I mean this is usually the kind of week
we go through in January.
Speaker 4 (00:55):
I doubt people have any questions because I mean it
was such a you know, traditional January weary week, very mild.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
Get ten inches of snow entire week.
Speaker 4 (01:06):
You don't.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
Wait, it snowed.
Speaker 4 (01:11):
Where was I Yes, we did have a what they
call it a one hundred year weather event this last week,
and I'm sure there's probably some questions involved in that.
Uh Now, one of the questions I have real quick,
and I don't mean I know Antaclaire has several but
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what precautions did y'all take at the nursery for this?
Speaker 2 (01:34):
Oh my goodness, what didn't we do? We covered I
would say somewhere's between probably seventeen eighty percent of our
of our plants on the outside lot, and then of
course our our our betting, our greenhouses are heated, so
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we just had to make sure that was all closed
up right and drain our water lines, our all that system.
Speaker 4 (02:02):
Yeah, that wouldn't be fun fixing all that.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
I've had to do it before, actually I think I've
done it with you.
Speaker 4 (02:10):
But and some of what y'all covered at the nursery
of homeowner in the landscape probably wouldn't have had to
cover some of those things.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
It's a little different for a nursery because if you
go to a nursery and you see a plant that
has a bunch of cold damage, you're not going to
want to pay for that. I wouldn't want to pay
for that, right, So we have to make sure the
stuff still looks presentable and good. So people will want
to buy that.
Speaker 4 (02:37):
Yeah, so y'all covered like the holly beds and rasellia
beds were a homeowner not necessarily would have had to
do that for this colds. Now interesting, So some of
you went by the nursery once. I think y'all were
closed a couple of days too, if I'm not mistaken.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
Yeah, I believe it was. I was off for a
good amount of time all.
Speaker 4 (02:58):
Those Tuesday and Wednesday.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
Tuesday and Wednesday.
Speaker 4 (03:01):
So if you went by and saw stuff covered and
we're worried that you didn't cover those same plants at
your house, you're probably okay.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
But when when should we uncover the plants and order
about those that were burnt by the cold?
Speaker 4 (03:17):
I will probably. I checked the weather and I don't
think it's supposed to freeze tonight. I think lows in
the mid to maybe getting close to freezing. So I'll
probably start uncovering my plants today. I did leave. It's
been kind of weird to look out the bedroom window
and there's this glowing ball out in our yard where
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the covered my lemon tree, and I got my light
bulb and there I felt bad. Actually I was very pleased.
I'm thinking that maybe there are people that are actually
listening to the show. The number of people that had
ground contact with their covers this year, I didn't. I
saw a few, but for the most part, I didn't
as many lollipops as I normally do. But so weird.
(04:04):
I felt so bad. This one person had done a
great job. I mean it was you could see this
was down. It was sealed real good around the bottom
of it. But they used LED lights. It's like, uh,
I mean they get an A very definitely got the
A for effort. But yeah, that's one of the things
that we'd tried to stress and apparently they didn't understand,
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is led lights give off no heat. So you have
to find an old incandescent ball. Some of the I
don't know if they're still available or not, but some
of the hardware stores will sell what's called a rough
service ball. It's what people used to use in the
old trouble lights that they hung on their motors when
they were working, and those I believe are still You
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can still buy those, and those are incandescent and give
off heat. Or you can always get a heat lamp,
but be very careful with heat lamps because they actually
do create a lot of heat, and you can actually
burn some things with the heat lambs, so be careful
with those. But yeah, I think you're pretty safe starting
to uncover, especially if you use if you use the
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freeze cloth or something you purchased at Cleggs, you're probably
safe to leave it on for a while. But if
you were forced to use a tarp or vis queen
of any type, definitely get that pulled off. Actually, if
it's black, especially if it's black, it's dead. Good question. Yeah,
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what if somebody else had a question?
Speaker 3 (05:35):
If you have a question, cause a four six that
is for nine nine WGBO.
Speaker 4 (05:41):
I got an embarrassing story to tell. I had to
tell somebody my phone number yesterday and I gave him
that number just rattle off by the wait, now what
I was thinking about, but not probably trying to recruit callers,
that's right. So if the phone here was ringing all
day yesterday.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
So that explains that bill collected. Are my citures okay?
Speaker 3 (06:08):
And should I prune and fertilize them?
Speaker 1 (06:15):
No?
Speaker 4 (06:15):
On the pruning and fertilizing, I can go with that
right away. And that's one of the things on all
of your plant material out there. We do not want
to do any pruning or any fertilizing, especially fertilizing, until
after we know what damage has occurred. I am extremely
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concerned about my citrus trees. Extremely concerned I have Unfortunately,
I have a hamlet orange that I am fairly certain
is dead. Yeah, and I my satsumas are definitely going
to dephilate, but they they should recover. But we got
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down to ten degrees. I had ten degrees on my thomoma.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
I'm glad I know how to speak, but what I
can't even defoliate?
Speaker 4 (07:12):
Oh, come on, if you if you foliates a word,
it's it lose all its leaves.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
Well, but we know that word, I said, diphilate.
Speaker 4 (07:22):
I'm paying attention to it. But no, we're going to
see a lot of damage material, your hibiscus, all that
type of material is going to be probably dead to
the ground. And this is always a tough call aesthetically.
(07:44):
It's ugly, there's just no two ways about it. And
you know you're going to want to get out there
and clean it up. But once you start pruning that
dead material off, if your root system is still alive,
it's going to spur it to start to grow. So
we don't want a situation where, okay, everybody, it's supposed
(08:05):
to be a fairly it looks like it's gonna be
a beautiful day out there today. Let's get out and
clean up and prune all this stuff back. Well, then
a week from now, two weeks from now, it starts
to re sprout, and then wham, it gets it again.
You've lost all that energy to regenerate and you're probably
at that point definitely going to lose the plant. And
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that's the thing with pruning spurs new growth. Fertilization spurs
new growth, and we really for two reasons, One we
don't want that new growth to be killed back, and
two we don't want that plant that is suffering to
expend a lot of energy into putting out new growth
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that it may not be able to regenerate. We see
this a lot, and one of the things that we're
going to see is what we call the may kill.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
The may kill.
Speaker 4 (08:57):
The may kill plants dying in may because there was
enough stem damage that right now, with the plant not
being stressed, it can live. Air quotes that you can't
see for those of you not watching on TV, which
is nobody because we don't have TV coverage. Maybe one day.
(09:19):
But once we get stressed, there isn't enough of the
cambium layer left where all the translocation of nutrients and
water and all that occurs to keep the plant alive.
So what will happen is we'll see a lot of
plant material die out in once we get hot, right
or you'll start to see branches or portions of plants
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die out once we once the plant gets.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
Stressed, where the bark split comes in.
Speaker 4 (09:47):
That's where the bark split comes in, exactly. So no,
right now, it's just a matter of let's just wait
and see. Why are we beeping? But no, just I
am very very concerned about the citrus trees. I just
have a sneaky suspicion that Cleggs is going to have
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a real good citrus year.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
There was a couple of years ago we had a
really deep freeze that lasted for quite some time, and
we had a very mature satsumetry in our yard and
uh it died that year. And it was months later
when we that may kill when we saw the damage,
when you could start seeing the bark split away from
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the face and.
Speaker 4 (10:33):
What you'll start to notice is the stems will start
to shrivel. They'll become very rough and start. You can
actually tell they're shriveling. And once that occurs, taps.
Speaker 3 (10:49):
Yeah, But what should I do about my lawn with
the stickers and stuff?
Speaker 4 (11:00):
Actually, we had a very fun day yesterday. My three granddaughters,
my wife and I went to burden and they have
a real nice little story trail. I guess it's called
or whatever learning trail. And when we were walking, I
just happened to be looking down at the ground and
they're stickers starting. Oh yes, and now's the time to
(11:25):
kill stickers stickers right now. What they look like is
what I call easter grass. It's kind of a little furry,
fluffy grass type thing. There's probably only one of the
few things out there that's green. But right now the
sticker isn't on there, and the sticker itself is the seed,
so we want to kill it off now before it
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produces a sticker. Atressine does a very very good job
with knocking out sticker weed.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
Or would you want to just use the atressine or
can you do the week talktail.
Speaker 4 (11:58):
I'm glad you brought that up. I used a week
cocktail because you will have other stuff out there that
the weed cocktail will be beneficial. And actually in talking
to someone out at LSU, they're finding that the combination
makes both products more effective. Really. Yeah, it was very interesting.
(12:20):
Strahan I think is his name, was telling us that
they have found were even like on dollar weed. You know,
usually typically you can use weed for your zone, but
if you do the combination, they were getting a much
better kill. Because I thought was interesting. Yeah, we have
a we have a caller. How did they do it?
Speaker 3 (12:40):
They called us at six that is fort nine nine WJBO.
Good morning, Ben, Welcome to wjbo's line and garden.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
Joe.
Speaker 3 (12:49):
How may we help you today?
Speaker 4 (12:52):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (12:52):
Hello, Hi, I heard you say as far as waiting
to Proune for anything. But what if I had limb
damage from trees where it snapped off? Do you just
leave it half snapped or alone or no?
Speaker 4 (13:09):
That's a great question. I'm glad you brought that up.
If you had some damage or break each or limbs
like that, you want to go ahead and prune those
off and make a clean cut because that can create
more issues down the road. But no, what we do,
we just don't want people going out and oh, all
my perennials have died or my hibiscus have died to
the ground and prune those. But no, anytime you have
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any type of damage like that, it's good to get
a good clean cut on it. That's a great question.
Thank you.
Speaker 5 (13:38):
Okay, great, great And any food weard linings to the
snow and relation to maybe killing back weeds or some
of the insects, anything like that.
Speaker 4 (13:50):
Insects, yes, we probably will see a downturn in the
web worms, hopefully, as far as diseases, probably going to
have a lot of affect one way or the other
on those. In fact, one of the things with as
much moistures out there, we may and if we do
get some warmer temperatures, we may run into some fungal
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issues here pretty quickly. But now insects, yes, fungus is
probably not.
Speaker 5 (14:19):
All right. Great info, as always.
Speaker 4 (14:21):
Thanks for the call. That's one of the things that
talking to Johnny Naylor at Clegg's Nursery about the webworms
is we're they've been occurring much earlier than they normally
would have because it is a tropical insect and so
this cold snap to ten degrees, the good hard freeze
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of the snow on the ground definitely should have killed
them off. So maybe if they're not completely eradicated for
a year or two, it may may at least be
later into the season before we see them.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
And I can tell you I appreciate anything that helps
with best control.
Speaker 4 (14:58):
Yes, very definitely. It's one of the things that especially
people that use the freeze cloth or whatever. The snow
actually would help as an insulation because it snow is
thirty two degrees, so it kept a lot of that
kept it there at thirty two. Unfortunately, it kept it
at thirty two for a long period of time, which
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will some of that. We're going to have to wait
and see on the lawns how much damage there may
have been to grass. I have a feeling it's just
going to be a dormancy issue. And then well I
don't think there will be any grass damage, but we
will have to wait and see on that too.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
I have a few questions.
Speaker 3 (15:36):
Good our snowman fell like after making it and now
there's just a huge pile of snow in the front yard.
Is that going to damage your lawn if we don't
like break it up into.
Speaker 4 (15:46):
No, it'll be it should be gone by the end
of today.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
It's extra insulated.
Speaker 4 (15:52):
It's extra insulated again. Like I talked right before the break,
We've never had I mean, I've still got snow in
just a few areas in my lawn. Any areas that
were you know, north facing or you know, had some
shade around them. We've never had snow on grass for
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as long as at least that I know of or
I remember, and I'm pretty ancient, but I want.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
To say, the last time it snowed like this was
back in the eighteen hundred.
Speaker 4 (16:22):
Yeah, it was. So we are uncertain about some of
the damage. And you know, typically snow on our yards
is not a big deal at all, but the longevity
of the snow remaining there could be problematic. Again, we
just don't know. The answer to that was a very
(16:44):
nice snowman. By the way, I did see a picture.
Speaker 3 (16:48):
And can I plant potatoes now? And those clugs have
onion transflamps?
Speaker 2 (16:53):
Well, if anybody was listening to the commercial that played
right before, yes, uh you can. You can plant potato
sets now and we should have them in stock.
Speaker 4 (17:04):
And you don't have to do potatoes in the yard.
Clegg cells what they call grow bags they have them
anywhere from like a little one gallon I think it's
a twenty or twenty five gallon, which is.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
What's that black fabric episode back flat.
Speaker 4 (17:22):
They do great for potatoes, I mean just one of
the best ways. So potatoes in the garden can take
up a lot of room. And one of the things
a lot of people do is they'll rotate potatoes with
their warmer season. You know, when they put harvest their
potatoes in May. A lot of times that's when they
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may put their okra out, or they may do field peasers.
You can even do bush green beans at that point.
So if you are doing crop rotations, then you do
want to plant a lot of potatoes. You know, it's
a good thing to do. But if you have a
small you know, garden, square foot garden, whatever that is,
and don't want to put the room into it, want
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to use that space for peppers or tomatoes, purchase one
of these little growbags. You know, it depends upon the size,
depends upon how many potatoes you want to get, but
or you can do several of them. You can even
do the black plastic pots.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
I was just about to say, if you got like
a let's just say a thirty gallon black nursery pot
How would you yield a lot of potatoes from a
container that size?
Speaker 4 (18:31):
Yes, I mean antaclaar. Y'all have done the potatoes in
the you know, we do the little Mother's day thing
where we put potatoes in pots. And I mean when
we harvest as potatoes we have I mean we have
enough to send some home with them and Charley and
I keep some. So the secret to potato popularity or
(18:51):
population not popularity, is to keep healing up on potatoes.
You want to start, you don't plant potato very deep,
and as it grows, you actually put dirt around the
plant and potatoes and tomatoes actually root along their stems.
That's why you can plant a tomato plant deep. And
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part of the rooting process of a potato is creating
a potatoes. The deeper you can get the soil around them,
the more potatoes you're going to produce. Also, they're very
heavy feeders. But you asked about onions. The same thing
with onions. They both require a lot of fertilization. You know,
to when you start, do a typical complete fertilizer klegs,
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gardeners special something like that. But at least once a
month put a calcium nitrate on there to really especially
in a container, to keep them growing.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
When you start in I guess this container size doesn't matter.
But when you start in a container, how much soil
should you be starting with?
Speaker 4 (19:53):
You want the potato covered by maybe two inches of soil.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
So you're starting at the bottom of starting the bottom
of the pot okay, and.
Speaker 4 (20:02):
Growing up.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
And adding more soil.
Speaker 4 (20:05):
And adding more soil. The wait mud. If you come
from New Orleans, you don't.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
You don't call it dirt at clex.
Speaker 4 (20:13):
No, it's soil.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
Yeah, you will repeat, you will be reminded that it's soil.
Speaker 4 (20:21):
That was one thing good about mister Sam Clegg was
he was He was notorious for that. Really very nice man,
miss him.
Speaker 3 (20:30):
But anyway, our backyard doesn't have much sunlight. Can we
still plant potatoes in our backyard?
Speaker 6 (20:37):
Or no?
Speaker 4 (20:39):
No, All of your vegetable plants require a lot of sunlight.
So typically if you want to do the containers, you
can find a sunny spot in the backyard or maybe
even put them well, your mother run over them along
the driveway stuff, but you know you can, and a
container can be moved around that's what I was about
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to say, one of the advantages of doing it in
a container. But no, your backyard with your oak trees
as much too shady as your broccoli plants proved. Oh,
so congratulations are in order. Third place in the science sphere,
Anna Claire Yep, good job, thank you, awesome, she did great.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
What was your project?
Speaker 3 (21:24):
Does inorganic or organic fertilizer work better for broccoli plants
when they grow in like high and west.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
See I was hoping it had something to do with plants.
Well that that is really awesome.
Speaker 4 (21:35):
But one of the things that was disappointing was we
wanted to see which one would produce a better broccoli head,
but being as shady as your backyard was, we didn't
get any broccoli heads. But she still got there. We're
proper good. And that's called dead airspace. Because we have
nothing else to talk about.
Speaker 2 (21:53):
Please call for.
Speaker 3 (21:56):
Six sets four nine nine w JBO roses in.
Speaker 4 (22:00):
Yeah, are y'all done potting? Or probably not? I don't
think so well.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
I just roses got pushed to the back burner because
of snow we had. We had to prepare for that,
so it's a working progress. But we did gets we
got them in and I can't speak for the other stores,
but at Seagan there's a good bit out on the lot.
But we still have quite a bit.
Speaker 4 (22:23):
Any new one that's jumped out at you that like, wow,
that looks pretty.
Speaker 2 (22:29):
I wish I could say yes and start telling you
about some of them, but kind of.
Speaker 4 (22:34):
Put you on the spot there. Sorry about that again.
Speaker 2 (22:37):
With the weather preparation, I just I haven't been able
to mess with the roses a whole lot. I'm eager too,
because I know we got some new ones in. I
want to see what what they look like.
Speaker 4 (22:49):
What do you have in that you know somebody's got
a party coming up this weekend or next weekend. What
what can they put out right now to have a
little to get kind of cover up some of this
bird stuff.
Speaker 2 (23:03):
Geraniums. We have some beautiful geraniums that came from our
our growing division, Color Division, and uh, they look phenomenal
right now.
Speaker 4 (23:14):
That's a plant that is a great transition plant. It's
gonna pewter out once we get hot. But boy, I'll
tell you what. Get them in the ground right now.
If we're going to have another cold snap like we
just had, you're gonna have to protect them. But oh yeah,
but no, that's a great transition plant.
Speaker 2 (23:33):
Other than that, we have some really nice delfiniums. Another
good transition plant. We've gotten the blue diamonds. Oh okay, yeah,
the more common one. But I always like seeing blue
because you just you just don't see that color in nature.
Speaker 4 (23:50):
Yeah, you're right, you're right.
Speaker 2 (23:52):
And then we got I forget the name of the
other kind of delphinium, but it's a much bigger one.
You have some the ones we got are mixed varieties.
So there's some that are like light blue, there's some
that are dark blue. Yeah, me too.
Speaker 4 (24:08):
Do you think anybody out there still has a rotary phone?
Speaker 7 (24:11):
You don't even know what you know what that means?
Speaker 4 (24:15):
You know what a rotary phone is? You can say no,
we would understand that. Do you remember push button phones?
Speaker 2 (24:24):
Rotary phones are the thing you did this with.
Speaker 3 (24:26):
Oh, I know what you're talking about now. And then
there was like the one I got it anyway.
Speaker 7 (24:34):
But before that you had to actually ask somebody on
the other end to dial for you.
Speaker 4 (24:38):
That's right. One, ringy dingy, two, ringy dingy, kid?
Speaker 2 (24:44):
What four nine f four please?
Speaker 4 (24:47):
We've gone off the rails again, maybe Belle can say this,
I doubt it.
Speaker 3 (24:53):
Maybe good morning, bough, Welcome to w jbos one and
Garden Show. How may we help you today?
Speaker 8 (25:00):
Bye.
Speaker 9 (25:01):
So, just recently we had two very large trees cut
off like out of our front yard and we have
we have Saint Augustine grass right now. But I'm just wondering, like,
how quickly is it going to grow back?
Speaker 4 (25:15):
Saint Augustine is a very rapid grower. With good fertilization,
it'll recut. It should excuse me, it should cover those
uh this growing season easily. Or you can you know,
if you if it's a situation where you need it
covered quicker, you can always just buy a couple of
pieces aside and set them out there. If you had
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the stumps ground, I would probably wait a while until
some of that decomposition occurs because those that is going
to shrink, So you don't want to get a lot
of grass over the top of that until that has occurred,
so you don't have like little sinkholes in your yard.
But yeah, the Saint Augustine will overtake that relatively quickly.
Just throw a little fertilizer.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
On there from time to time, okay, thank you.
Speaker 4 (25:59):
Oh bell before you go. Do you know what a
road rey phone is?
Speaker 9 (26:04):
Is that the one with like the little anything.
Speaker 4 (26:08):
Good job? Well, thanks for the call, Thank you.
Speaker 3 (26:12):
That does open up phone lines at four.
Speaker 6 (26:16):
Nine w JBO.
Speaker 4 (26:18):
Do you did you ever have a landline in your
life where a phone was hooked to the wall. Golly,
I'm old, gee just getting.
Speaker 2 (26:30):
I remember when we first got caller I D on
our phone on our landline. It was a separate box
from the phone that hung on the wall.
Speaker 4 (26:40):
Wow, and it.
Speaker 2 (26:41):
Was Yeah, we felt pretty high class.
Speaker 4 (26:44):
I can actually remember getting a color TV for the
first time. Anyway, can we're gone down memory lane? Vegetables,
I talked about this a week or so ago. Right now,
you can have a lot of fun. If you want
a great educational thing for your children is to go
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ahead and start some seeds. Don't start cucumbers, beans, or
squash at this point because they grow very rapidly. We impact.
We had a caller last week that had done that,
and his squash were pretty much overtaking. Everybody, get some
tomato seeds, get some pepper seeds, have a little fun
with it. Come look at Johnny Naylor's seed wall. The
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Livingston Seed Rack has some unique varieties in it. Also,
you know, for I think twenty or thirty bucks, you
can buy the seed starting Kit which has a little
heat map to it and all the material you need
and plant some seeds and also if you weren't sure
what kind of seeds you should be starting at this
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time of year. Great thing about shopping for seeds at
Clegg's is we have planting guides there too, so you
can see what is a planting guy. It's just like
a person in a little hat and heelds up a
flag and you follow him.
Speaker 2 (28:06):
I've never seen that at Clegg's. But okay, no, it's
just we We usually keep them up at the register.
It's just a guide that shows you different dates. Do
you have as guide on it? Cannot finish my thought?
Speaker 4 (28:22):
Probably not.
Speaker 2 (28:25):
Anyways. It just has dates that show what what time
you should be planting certain seats done that's dead air.
Speaker 4 (28:37):
But so the dates, what are they?
Speaker 2 (28:40):
I couldn't tell you. Is it like a dinner date?
The inner date? Yeah, all of the above.
Speaker 4 (28:47):
M Have you ever eaten a date?
Speaker 2 (28:51):
Not on purpose? I don't think.
Speaker 4 (28:52):
Okay, do they come from palms? I have no idea
where we're going.
Speaker 2 (29:08):
What were we talking about? If you could call up
six nine, that would be great for Anna Clair's sake,
Please call.
Speaker 4 (29:21):
Now. It's as I mentioned, my son is into germinating
Japanese maples and dogwoods, and we bought him a heat
map for Christmas and he has been calling his mother
and me going, All of my seeds are germinating so
much quicker, so a little bit of heat underneath them
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definitely does help them. The other thing, whenever you're planting
vegetable seeds, two things actually, one is don't bury them.
You know, A good rule of thumb is as wide
as the seed is is how deep you want a planet.
So if you look at tamato seed, that's you know,
an eighth of an inch at the absolute most. So
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you don't want very much, and you definitely want to start.
One of the few times where I stress a seed
starting mix because it has been sterilized. Clegg's potting soil,
the Fox Farm products, your Miracle co products, those are
great soils. But therefore something that is already rooted and
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growing because they're not sterilized. Don't worry, there's nothing horrible
in there. But there are some pathogens that can kill
off a young seed. So we want to make sure
that the seed starter mix is sterilized. We recommend the
Black Gold brand. It works very well. We have it
should have a little display underneath the seed rocked back
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there in the back. Probably no one's refilling it, so
it's probably not. But no, that's something to have a
lot of fun with kids, and you can get you know,
you don't you buy a pack of seeds. You know,
some of the tomatoes there's only ten to twelve seeds
in there. Some of them there's a tablespoin. You don't
have to plant the entire pack of seeds. You know,
plant you want to put two, at least two seeds
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in each hole, because no seed that we sell is
one hundred percent germination. Most of them are over eighty
five to ninety percent. But you don't want that one
seed to be that one out of ten that's not
going to germinate. So I always try to put two
seeds in every hole. But yeah, something fun to do
and something that can give you a little variety. Later on,
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we have a caller.
Speaker 3 (31:33):
Let's go to it all right, Good morning, Diane, Welcome
to w gbo's Lone and Garden Show. How may we
help you today?
Speaker 2 (31:40):
Oh? Thank you?
Speaker 10 (31:42):
My cold loving snapdragons has the snow that's melted around
them now, but.
Speaker 6 (31:48):
They look a little wilted.
Speaker 2 (31:50):
Should I water?
Speaker 3 (31:52):
Just water? No?
Speaker 4 (31:54):
No, no, water.
Speaker 9 (31:56):
Well, they got a lot of water and.
Speaker 4 (31:58):
That's a great Another fantas asked the question Dane. We
are facing a little what we call supersaturation right now.
Speaker 2 (32:06):
Okay, soil.
Speaker 4 (32:07):
There has to be air pockets in the soil for
the plant to be able to take up the moisture
that's in the soil. What happens is with all that
snow and all the melting, pretty much there is no
oxygen in the soil right now, so we need to
get a little bit of drying in that way your
snap dragons can take start taking up moisture. They're also
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probably a little cold from being underneath the snow for
a while. They should come out and be just fine.
Speaker 10 (32:35):
You know, we'll I know a few years ago when
we had that deep freeze, they did come back.
Speaker 4 (32:42):
They will, yeah, but definitely you don't do anything no,
you know, again, I think it has been called if
the you know, if some stems got broken or something
like that, you may want to tidy those up wherever
there was a break and make a clean cut. No,
just we need a little bit of drying, which with
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the sunlight today and the warmer temperatures, we should get
you should these.
Speaker 10 (33:07):
Were the miniature ones. Yeah, nothing got broken. Okay, so
don't do anything.
Speaker 9 (33:12):
Nope, Okay, that sounds good.
Speaker 4 (33:14):
Thank you, all right, thank you for the call. One
thing that they may want to do is in a
couple of weeks, we probably want to get some fertilizer out.
But let's go ahead and let things dry out a
little bit and get some growing going before we do that.
But yeah, a little bit of fertilization wouldn't hurt in
maybe a week or two. That's called dead air.
Speaker 2 (33:37):
Yeah we've been doing today.
Speaker 4 (33:40):
We have a caller coming in. I'm not sure what's
what that's going to be. Oh, go ahead, let's go.
Speaker 3 (33:46):
Good morning, Sandy. Welcome to w jbo's London garden. Joie,
how may we help you today?
Speaker 2 (33:51):
Good morning.
Speaker 8 (33:52):
I'm just calling to make a comment from the from
the real frozen tundra of Green Bay, Wisconsin, where we
had zeros to.
Speaker 3 (33:59):
All this week.
Speaker 8 (34:00):
I've called these to say hi, No, no, we actually
we had at the time of this that you had
the storm, we had zero zero snow here. Now we
have just a very very light dusting overnight, but we've
had very cold temperatures. We were while you were in
that aupful time, our temperatures were right around minus eight,
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minus ten and uh and so it was, it was,
it was cool. But I got lots of texts and
pictures from friends and relatives in your area.
Speaker 4 (34:31):
It was, it was. It was probably a non event
for y'all, but it was quite interesting for us because
we just don't have the ability to salt roads and
all the things that need to be done. So, yeah,
bat Ridge was shut down for two days, so I
believe it.
Speaker 8 (34:48):
So I thought that maybe there would be more questions.
So I didn't want to type your life to day.
But since you were looking for calls, I thought, well,
I'll just call them un tell you I was thinking
of all of you down here.
Speaker 4 (34:57):
Well, we appreciate we were We're to say there's not
a lot of phone calls because we're giving out such
great information or everybody's still asleep.
Speaker 6 (35:08):
You're very welcome to have a good weekends too.
Speaker 4 (35:12):
Well, we we like reach out.
Speaker 2 (35:14):
Yeah, that's it's nice to know.
Speaker 4 (35:16):
We must be up to eight people listening.
Speaker 2 (35:18):
Now, what does that does?
Speaker 3 (35:20):
Open up phone lines at four nine two six? That
is four nine nine w GBO. Good morning, Rick, Welcome
to w gbos want to gardener check. How may we
hope you today?
Speaker 7 (35:30):
Hey guys, I've got a round guard in my front
yard with a five foot tall cow by.
Speaker 6 (35:39):
It did not get covered with time straw.
Speaker 4 (35:41):
You're yeah, roses are fine here. Yeah, the drift roads
would be fine. There is a something called confederate rose,
which is actually a hibiscus. It may get killed into
the ground, but the root system should be fine. But
no roses survived much further north than this. In fact,
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we have more problems with the heat on our roses
than we will this cold weather.
Speaker 6 (36:06):
Good guess, I guess?
Speaker 8 (36:08):
Uh?
Speaker 6 (36:09):
I guess that say that doesn't know about a party line?
Speaker 8 (36:11):
Does she.
Speaker 7 (36:16):
Showing time when I was a kid?
Speaker 4 (36:17):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (36:18):
All right, thanks Rick, All right, next color you can
do it.
Speaker 3 (36:26):
Good morning, Tiffanny, Welcome to w gbo's Lendon Garden Show.
How may we help you today?
Speaker 11 (36:31):
Hey guys, So I'm from Livingston and I picked up
a pineapple guava tree from the Arbor Day over at
the Burden Center.
Speaker 4 (36:39):
Yeah, that was fun. It was great.
Speaker 11 (36:42):
It was a wonderful day out there, and I'm so
glad that they provide all of the things that they do,
especially for all the kids to get them involved. But
I'm just wondering when would be a good time to
put it in the ground. I kind of held a
whole with the snow, but now I wished to be
my plan.
Speaker 4 (36:56):
I picked up a tree there too, and it's sitting
inside our living room. But let's just let the soil
dry out a little bit. Once we can dig a
hole easily without slopping around, you'll be good to plant that.
I have pineapple g out in my yard. Came through
the cold fine, but let's let's just wait till we
dry out a little bit. Okay, thank you, Okay, thanks
for the call. That was a great event. I think
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that was last weekend and we have another caller.
Speaker 2 (37:21):
I miss all of those. I'm always at work.
Speaker 3 (37:26):
Good morning, Sarah. Welcome to WJWS on in Garden Show.
How may we help you today?
Speaker 8 (37:31):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (37:31):
Thank you.
Speaker 6 (37:32):
I have Craik myrtles that really need to be cut back.
I don't want to murder them. But I really when
I'm coming back, Is this the time or have I
passed the time?
Speaker 2 (37:46):
I mean, I'm sorry, go ahead and you can correct
me if I'm wrong, But I would I would say
this would be a good time to prune on a
crape myrtle.
Speaker 4 (37:56):
Yeah, you want to get them prune before we have
leaf out of Typically you get people. My watch has
told me to stand up, and I feel like I
can't talk and stand up. So it's kind of weird here.
But typically I see most of that done February, which
we're a few days away from. So yeah, you definitely
can go ahead and start that printing process.
Speaker 6 (38:16):
Oh good, Now I can start sawing and everything else. Okay,
now you tell I can't. Okay, I remember party lines
and rotaries and every other thing before that.
Speaker 4 (38:32):
I'm gonna take taking Anna Clair home. I'm gonna have
to tell her what a party lies uncause she has.
Speaker 2 (38:40):
Yes, right, okay, what have fun?
Speaker 8 (38:43):
Thank you?
Speaker 4 (38:45):
Interesting the things that spur comments that we get carried
away sometimes.
Speaker 8 (38:50):
But.
Speaker 2 (38:53):
Everybody has nostalgic memory, stuff like.
Speaker 4 (38:56):
That, What was Lily Tomlin? That's what it was? Laughing?
That did the the operator she doesn't even know what
laugh in was.
Speaker 7 (39:09):
Is probably closest to being an operator today with all
those lines of having to answer the phones.
Speaker 4 (39:13):
Bo that's it.
Speaker 2 (39:15):
I don't know what party line is.
Speaker 4 (39:16):
Party line is when actually several people actually had the
same phone number and your phone would ring differently. So
if your phone rang a certain way, that was your call,
If it rang a different way, it was the other
person's call.
Speaker 2 (39:32):
Interesting.
Speaker 7 (39:33):
Yeah, And you could also listen in on other people's
conversations if you just picked up the phone exactly. I
know that all places from Disney World because on Main
Street there was one of the stores had a fake
party line phone set up. You could go and pick
up the phone. You would hear other conversations. Again, that's
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the only way I know what a party line is.
Speaker 4 (39:56):
Shirley's grandmother had a party line. When we first started dating,
still had a party line. And when I was a child,
one of my friends had a party line and their
phone it was weird. Their phone would ring and i'd,
you know, like try to go answer it, and the
mother would say, no, no, that's the other person.
Speaker 2 (40:13):
I'm like, wow.
Speaker 7 (40:16):
So if you wanted to make a call, did you
have to wait for other conversations to end? If someone else's.
Speaker 4 (40:21):
I mean, there was only one line, so if it
was in use, you couldn't use it.
Speaker 2 (40:26):
Oh goodness.
Speaker 4 (40:27):
And the other weird thing about rotary phones is if
you didn't go all the way around to the little catch,
it would be a wrong number because like if you
were one number off didn't get all the way, you
would have dialed, say a six instead of a seven.
Speaker 2 (40:42):
So yeah, there was And then couldn't you not do
an automated system on a rotary phone, like if it
asked you to press one to speak to an operator.
Speaker 4 (40:52):
No, they didn't. There was none of that.
Speaker 7 (40:54):
No, I'm I thought it like at the very beginning
you could do that, like it could there were systems
that could understand the rotary thing.
Speaker 4 (41:04):
I wouldn't know how they could.
Speaker 7 (41:05):
It was like the first fidget spinner for me, Like
my grandma had like one of those big, huge, like
you know, the phone company one that you could, you know,
knock a hole in the wall with.
Speaker 4 (41:14):
It was so heavy and I would just spin that thing.
It was fascinating. That's the other thing that's really weird
is payphones.
Speaker 2 (41:24):
You don't see them anymore. You know what a payphone is?
Speaker 4 (41:27):
I do.
Speaker 2 (41:28):
We got one, so.
Speaker 4 (41:34):
You got to commercial you can run, but vegetable plants onions,
you said, yeah, legs does have a pretty sure, we
have onion sets in. It's a neat little crop that
you can put in. It does not take up very
much room at all. Fertilize it. Plant now you'll harvest
in probably May again. So if you want to dedicate
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some room to it, or what I do is I
have cinder blocks around my garden. I just play them
in the little holes in the cinder block because nothing
else is going to grow there. I did it.
Speaker 2 (42:06):
I got you stand.
Speaker 7 (42:08):
You know, maybe just before we go, okay, someone's just
joined us just real quick, because we got about two
minutes left. Just what they shouldn't be doing right now
in terms of post snow.
Speaker 4 (42:19):
Okay, yeah, that's if somebody did. We did cover that
at the beginning, but we can do it again. Don't
do any fertilization or any pruning on anything that you suspect.
Damage to citrus trees was the big one that we did. Now,
some of your other type fruit trees, your apples, peaches, plums, pears,
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they're going to be fine. If you want to do
your spring fertilization on those, that's fine. But anything that
you're concerned that there was some damage. I'd even go
so far well as say, as you want to bloom,
you want to fertilize after they bloom anyway, But if
there was some concern your tropical plants, let's not fertilize
them yet. Let's not prune them some of your bedding
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plants maybe like blue Days or some of the stuff
that typically I'm gonna say perennial type stuff. You know,
let's just leave the dead material there as an insulation
because we don't want to spur growth. Pruning and fertilization
both spur new growth, and we don't want that until
the plant has had a chance to recover. Right. So
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but yeah, uh grass, we talked a little bit. We're
not sure Saint Augustine does have some cold susceptibility with
the snow being on there as long as it was,
is there going to be more damage to it than
we expect. We're gonna have to wait and see on that.
But anyway, I think I hear music. Does anybody else
hear music? I do? Okay, So that's just me. We're
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running up on the end of the show. We do
appreciate everybody that called in. We are Legs and Nursery.
We have four locations in the Greater Baton Rouge area.
The service you Denim Springs on Range Road, Greenwald Springs Road,
Don more in. Yeah, Segan, Yep, I've almost forgot Seegan
with that store. Of all of them, we will be
here next Saturday morning from eight to nine to answer
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questions and probably learn a lot more from you than
you'll ever learn from us.
Good Saturday morning, and welcome to the WGBO lun 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.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
That's four nine n six.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
Good morning, and welcome back to WJBO Slawn and Garden
Show today. I'm here with Brandon and Butchers from Glex's Nursery.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Good morning, Good morning. Just did phenomenal. I can't tell
you how many people mess up my name. Good job.
Speaker 4 (00:36):
I'm one of the ones that normally messes it up.
I gotta take a full credit for that. Good morning.
Kind of an interesting week, not much going on, Pretty
typical for Baton Rouge as far as I can remember.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
Yeah, I mean this is usually the kind of week
we go through in January.
Speaker 4 (00:55):
I doubt people have any questions because I mean it
was such a you know, traditional January weary week, very mild.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
Get ten inches of snow entire week.
Speaker 4 (01:06):
You don't.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
Wait, it snowed.
Speaker 4 (01:11):
Where was I Yes, we did have a what they
call it a one hundred year weather event this last week,
and I'm sure there's probably some questions involved in that.
Uh Now, one of the questions I have real quick,
and I don't mean I know Antaclaire has several but
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what precautions did y'all take at the nursery for this?
Speaker 2 (01:34):
Oh my goodness, what didn't we do? We covered I
would say somewhere's between probably seventeen eighty percent of our
of our plants on the outside lot, and then of
course our our our betting, our greenhouses are heated, so
(01:55):
we just had to make sure that was all closed
up right and drain our water lines, our all that system.
Speaker 4 (02:02):
Yeah, that wouldn't be fun fixing all that.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
I've had to do it before, actually I think I've
done it with you.
Speaker 4 (02:10):
But and some of what y'all covered at the nursery
of homeowner in the landscape probably wouldn't have had to
cover some of those things.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
It's a little different for a nursery because if you
go to a nursery and you see a plant that
has a bunch of cold damage, you're not going to
want to pay for that. I wouldn't want to pay
for that, right, So we have to make sure the
stuff still looks presentable and good. So people will want
to buy that.
Speaker 4 (02:37):
Yeah, so y'all covered like the holly beds and rasellia
beds were a homeowner not necessarily would have had to
do that for this colds. Now interesting, So some of
you went by the nursery once. I think y'all were
closed a couple of days too, if I'm not mistaken.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
Yeah, I believe it was. I was off for a
good amount of time all.
Speaker 4 (02:58):
Those Tuesday and Wednesday.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
Tuesday and Wednesday.
Speaker 4 (03:01):
So if you went by and saw stuff covered and
we're worried that you didn't cover those same plants at
your house, you're probably okay.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
But when when should we uncover the plants and order
about those that were burnt by the cold?
Speaker 4 (03:17):
I will probably. I checked the weather and I don't
think it's supposed to freeze tonight. I think lows in
the mid to maybe getting close to freezing. So I'll
probably start uncovering my plants today. I did leave. It's
been kind of weird to look out the bedroom window
and there's this glowing ball out in our yard where
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the covered my lemon tree, and I got my light
bulb and there I felt bad. Actually I was very pleased.
I'm thinking that maybe there are people that are actually
listening to the show. The number of people that had
ground contact with their covers this year, I didn't. I
saw a few, but for the most part, I didn't
as many lollipops as I normally do. But so weird.
(04:04):
I felt so bad. This one person had done a
great job. I mean it was you could see this
was down. It was sealed real good around the bottom
of it. But they used LED lights. It's like, uh,
I mean they get an A very definitely got the
A for effort. But yeah, that's one of the things
that we'd tried to stress and apparently they didn't understand,
(04:26):
is led lights give off no heat. So you have
to find an old incandescent ball. Some of the I
don't know if they're still available or not, but some
of the hardware stores will sell what's called a rough
service ball. It's what people used to use in the
old trouble lights that they hung on their motors when
they were working, and those I believe are still You
(04:49):
can still buy those, and those are incandescent and give
off heat. Or you can always get a heat lamp,
but be very careful with heat lamps because they actually
do create a lot of heat, and you can actually
burn some things with the heat lambs, so be careful
with those. But yeah, I think you're pretty safe starting
to uncover, especially if you use if you use the
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freeze cloth or something you purchased at Cleggs, you're probably
safe to leave it on for a while. But if
you were forced to use a tarp or vis queen
of any type, definitely get that pulled off. Actually, if
it's black, especially if it's black, it's dead. Good question. Yeah,
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what if somebody else had a question?
Speaker 3 (05:35):
If you have a question, cause a four six that
is for nine nine WGBO.
Speaker 4 (05:41):
I got an embarrassing story to tell. I had to
tell somebody my phone number yesterday and I gave him
that number just rattle off by the wait, now what
I was thinking about, but not probably trying to recruit callers,
that's right. So if the phone here was ringing all
day yesterday.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
So that explains that bill collected. Are my citures okay?
Speaker 3 (06:08):
And should I prune and fertilize them?
Speaker 1 (06:15):
No?
Speaker 4 (06:15):
On the pruning and fertilizing, I can go with that
right away. And that's one of the things on all
of your plant material out there. We do not want
to do any pruning or any fertilizing, especially fertilizing, until
after we know what damage has occurred. I am extremely
(06:36):
concerned about my citrus trees. Extremely concerned I have Unfortunately,
I have a hamlet orange that I am fairly certain
is dead. Yeah, and I my satsumas are definitely going
to dephilate, but they they should recover. But we got
(06:59):
down to ten degrees. I had ten degrees on my thomoma.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
I'm glad I know how to speak, but what I
can't even defoliate?
Speaker 4 (07:12):
Oh, come on, if you if you foliates a word,
it's it lose all its leaves.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
Well, but we know that word, I said, diphilate.
Speaker 4 (07:22):
I'm paying attention to it. But no, we're going to
see a lot of damage material, your hibiscus, all that
type of material is going to be probably dead to
the ground. And this is always a tough call aesthetically.
(07:44):
It's ugly, there's just no two ways about it. And
you know you're going to want to get out there
and clean it up. But once you start pruning that
dead material off, if your root system is still alive,
it's going to spur it to start to grow. So
we don't want a situation where, okay, everybody, it's supposed
(08:05):
to be a fairly it looks like it's gonna be
a beautiful day out there today. Let's get out and
clean up and prune all this stuff back. Well, then
a week from now, two weeks from now, it starts
to re sprout, and then wham, it gets it again.
You've lost all that energy to regenerate and you're probably
at that point definitely going to lose the plant. And
(08:25):
that's the thing with pruning spurs new growth. Fertilization spurs
new growth, and we really for two reasons, One we
don't want that new growth to be killed back, and
two we don't want that plant that is suffering to
expend a lot of energy into putting out new growth
(08:47):
that it may not be able to regenerate. We see
this a lot, and one of the things that we're
going to see is what we call the may kill.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
The may kill.
Speaker 4 (08:57):
The may kill plants dying in may because there was
enough stem damage that right now, with the plant not
being stressed, it can live. Air quotes that you can't
see for those of you not watching on TV, which
is nobody because we don't have TV coverage. Maybe one day.
(09:19):
But once we get stressed, there isn't enough of the
cambium layer left where all the translocation of nutrients and
water and all that occurs to keep the plant alive.
So what will happen is we'll see a lot of
plant material die out in once we get hot, right
or you'll start to see branches or portions of plants
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die out once we once the plant gets.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
Stressed, where the bark split comes in.
Speaker 4 (09:47):
That's where the bark split comes in, exactly. So no,
right now, it's just a matter of let's just wait
and see. Why are we beeping? But no, just I
am very very concerned about the citrus trees. I just
have a sneaky suspicion that Cleggs is going to have
(10:07):
a real good citrus year.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
There was a couple of years ago we had a
really deep freeze that lasted for quite some time, and
we had a very mature satsumetry in our yard and
uh it died that year. And it was months later
when we that may kill when we saw the damage,
when you could start seeing the bark split away from
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the face and.
Speaker 4 (10:33):
What you'll start to notice is the stems will start
to shrivel. They'll become very rough and start. You can
actually tell they're shriveling. And once that occurs, taps.
Speaker 3 (10:49):
Yeah, But what should I do about my lawn with
the stickers and stuff?
Speaker 4 (11:00):
Actually, we had a very fun day yesterday. My three granddaughters,
my wife and I went to burden and they have
a real nice little story trail. I guess it's called
or whatever learning trail. And when we were walking, I
just happened to be looking down at the ground and
they're stickers starting. Oh yes, and now's the time to
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kill stickers stickers right now. What they look like is
what I call easter grass. It's kind of a little furry,
fluffy grass type thing. There's probably only one of the
few things out there that's green. But right now the
sticker isn't on there, and the sticker itself is the seed,
so we want to kill it off now before it
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produces a sticker. Atressine does a very very good job
with knocking out sticker weed.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
Or would you want to just use the atressine or
can you do the week talktail.
Speaker 4 (11:58):
I'm glad you brought that up. I used a week
cocktail because you will have other stuff out there that
the weed cocktail will be beneficial. And actually in talking
to someone out at LSU, they're finding that the combination
makes both products more effective. Really. Yeah, it was very interesting.
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Strahan I think is his name, was telling us that
they have found were even like on dollar weed. You know,
usually typically you can use weed for your zone, but
if you do the combination, they were getting a much
better kill. Because I thought was interesting. Yeah, we have
a we have a caller. How did they do it?
Speaker 3 (12:40):
They called us at six that is fort nine nine WJBO.
Good morning, Ben, Welcome to wjbo's line and garden.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
Joe.
Speaker 3 (12:49):
How may we help you today?
Speaker 4 (12:52):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (12:52):
Hello, Hi, I heard you say as far as waiting
to Proune for anything. But what if I had limb
damage from trees where it snapped off? Do you just
leave it half snapped or alone or no?
Speaker 4 (13:09):
That's a great question. I'm glad you brought that up.
If you had some damage or break each or limbs
like that, you want to go ahead and prune those
off and make a clean cut because that can create
more issues down the road. But no, what we do,
we just don't want people going out and oh, all
my perennials have died or my hibiscus have died to
the ground and prune those. But no, anytime you have
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any type of damage like that, it's good to get
a good clean cut on it. That's a great question.
Thank you.
Speaker 5 (13:38):
Okay, great, great And any food weard linings to the
snow and relation to maybe killing back weeds or some
of the insects, anything like that.
Speaker 4 (13:50):
Insects, yes, we probably will see a downturn in the
web worms, hopefully, as far as diseases, probably going to
have a lot of affect one way or the other
on those. In fact, one of the things with as
much moistures out there, we may and if we do
get some warmer temperatures, we may run into some fungal
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issues here pretty quickly. But now insects, yes, fungus is
probably not.
Speaker 5 (14:19):
All right. Great info, as always.
Speaker 4 (14:21):
Thanks for the call. That's one of the things that
talking to Johnny Naylor at Clegg's Nursery about the webworms
is we're they've been occurring much earlier than they normally
would have because it is a tropical insect and so
this cold snap to ten degrees, the good hard freeze
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of the snow on the ground definitely should have killed
them off. So maybe if they're not completely eradicated for
a year or two, it may may at least be
later into the season before we see them.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
And I can tell you I appreciate anything that helps
with best control.
Speaker 4 (14:58):
Yes, very definitely. It's one of the things that especially
people that use the freeze cloth or whatever. The snow
actually would help as an insulation because it snow is
thirty two degrees, so it kept a lot of that
kept it there at thirty two. Unfortunately, it kept it
at thirty two for a long period of time, which
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will some of that. We're going to have to wait
and see on the lawns how much damage there may
have been to grass. I have a feeling it's just
going to be a dormancy issue. And then well I
don't think there will be any grass damage, but we
will have to wait and see on that too.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
I have a few questions.
Speaker 3 (15:36):
Good our snowman fell like after making it and now
there's just a huge pile of snow in the front yard.
Is that going to damage your lawn if we don't
like break it up into.
Speaker 4 (15:46):
No, it'll be it should be gone by the end
of today.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
It's extra insulated.
Speaker 4 (15:52):
It's extra insulated again. Like I talked right before the break,
We've never had I mean, I've still got snow in
just a few areas in my lawn. Any areas that
were you know, north facing or you know, had some
shade around them. We've never had snow on grass for
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as long as at least that I know of or
I remember, and I'm pretty ancient, but I want.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
To say, the last time it snowed like this was
back in the eighteen hundred.
Speaker 4 (16:22):
Yeah, it was. So we are uncertain about some of
the damage. And you know, typically snow on our yards
is not a big deal at all, but the longevity
of the snow remaining there could be problematic. Again, we
just don't know. The answer to that was a very
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nice snowman. By the way, I did see a picture.
Speaker 3 (16:48):
And can I plant potatoes now? And those clugs have
onion transflamps?
Speaker 2 (16:53):
Well, if anybody was listening to the commercial that played
right before, yes, uh you can. You can plant potato
sets now and we should have them in stock.
Speaker 4 (17:04):
And you don't have to do potatoes in the yard.
Clegg cells what they call grow bags they have them
anywhere from like a little one gallon I think it's
a twenty or twenty five gallon, which is.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
What's that black fabric episode back flat.
Speaker 4 (17:22):
They do great for potatoes, I mean just one of
the best ways. So potatoes in the garden can take
up a lot of room. And one of the things
a lot of people do is they'll rotate potatoes with
their warmer season. You know, when they put harvest their
potatoes in May. A lot of times that's when they
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may put their okra out, or they may do field peasers.
You can even do bush green beans at that point.
So if you are doing crop rotations, then you do
want to plant a lot of potatoes. You know, it's
a good thing to do. But if you have a
small you know, garden, square foot garden, whatever that is,
and don't want to put the room into it, want
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to use that space for peppers or tomatoes, purchase one
of these little growbags. You know, it depends upon the size,
depends upon how many potatoes you want to get, but
or you can do several of them. You can even
do the black plastic pots.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
I was just about to say, if you got like
a let's just say a thirty gallon black nursery pot
How would you yield a lot of potatoes from a
container that size?
Speaker 4 (18:31):
Yes, I mean antaclaar. Y'all have done the potatoes in
the you know, we do the little Mother's day thing
where we put potatoes in pots. And I mean when
we harvest as potatoes we have I mean we have
enough to send some home with them and Charley and
I keep some. So the secret to potato popularity or
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population not popularity, is to keep healing up on potatoes.
You want to start, you don't plant potato very deep,
and as it grows, you actually put dirt around the
plant and potatoes and tomatoes actually root along their stems.
That's why you can plant a tomato plant deep. And
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part of the rooting process of a potato is creating
a potatoes. The deeper you can get the soil around them,
the more potatoes you're going to produce. Also, they're very
heavy feeders. But you asked about onions. The same thing
with onions. They both require a lot of fertilization. You know,
to when you start, do a typical complete fertilizer klegs,
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gardeners special something like that. But at least once a
month put a calcium nitrate on there to really especially
in a container, to keep them growing.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
When you start in I guess this container size doesn't matter.
But when you start in a container, how much soil
should you be starting with?
Speaker 4 (19:53):
You want the potato covered by maybe two inches of soil.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
So you're starting at the bottom of starting the bottom
of the pot okay, and.
Speaker 4 (20:02):
Growing up.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
And adding more soil.
Speaker 4 (20:05):
And adding more soil. The wait mud. If you come
from New Orleans, you don't.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
You don't call it dirt at clex.
Speaker 4 (20:13):
No, it's soil.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
Yeah, you will repeat, you will be reminded that it's soil.
Speaker 4 (20:21):
That was one thing good about mister Sam Clegg was
he was He was notorious for that. Really very nice man,
miss him.
Speaker 3 (20:30):
But anyway, our backyard doesn't have much sunlight. Can we
still plant potatoes in our backyard?
Speaker 6 (20:37):
Or no?
Speaker 4 (20:39):
No, All of your vegetable plants require a lot of sunlight.
So typically if you want to do the containers, you
can find a sunny spot in the backyard or maybe
even put them well, your mother run over them along
the driveway stuff, but you know you can, and a
container can be moved around that's what I was about
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to say, one of the advantages of doing it in
a container. But no, your backyard with your oak trees
as much too shady as your broccoli plants proved. Oh,
so congratulations are in order. Third place in the science sphere,
Anna Claire Yep, good job, thank you, awesome, she did great.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
What was your project?
Speaker 3 (21:24):
Does inorganic or organic fertilizer work better for broccoli plants
when they grow in like high and west.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
See I was hoping it had something to do with plants.
Well that that is really awesome.
Speaker 4 (21:35):
But one of the things that was disappointing was we
wanted to see which one would produce a better broccoli head,
but being as shady as your backyard was, we didn't
get any broccoli heads. But she still got there. We're
proper good. And that's called dead airspace. Because we have
nothing else to talk about.
Speaker 2 (21:53):
Please call for.
Speaker 3 (21:56):
Six sets four nine nine w JBO roses in.
Speaker 4 (22:00):
Yeah, are y'all done potting? Or probably not? I don't
think so well.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
I just roses got pushed to the back burner because
of snow we had. We had to prepare for that,
so it's a working progress. But we did gets we
got them in and I can't speak for the other stores,
but at Seagan there's a good bit out on the lot.
But we still have quite a bit.
Speaker 4 (22:23):
Any new one that's jumped out at you that like, wow,
that looks pretty.
Speaker 2 (22:29):
I wish I could say yes and start telling you
about some of them, but kind of.
Speaker 4 (22:34):
Put you on the spot there. Sorry about that again.
Speaker 2 (22:37):
With the weather preparation, I just I haven't been able
to mess with the roses a whole lot. I'm eager too,
because I know we got some new ones in. I
want to see what what they look like.
Speaker 4 (22:49):
What do you have in that you know somebody's got
a party coming up this weekend or next weekend. What
what can they put out right now to have a
little to get kind of cover up some of this
bird stuff.
Speaker 2 (23:03):
Geraniums. We have some beautiful geraniums that came from our
our growing division, Color Division, and uh, they look phenomenal
right now.
Speaker 4 (23:14):
That's a plant that is a great transition plant. It's
gonna pewter out once we get hot. But boy, I'll
tell you what. Get them in the ground right now.
If we're going to have another cold snap like we
just had, you're gonna have to protect them. But oh yeah,
but no, that's a great transition plant.
Speaker 2 (23:33):
Other than that, we have some really nice delfiniums. Another
good transition plant. We've gotten the blue diamonds. Oh okay, yeah,
the more common one. But I always like seeing blue
because you just you just don't see that color in nature.
Speaker 4 (23:50):
Yeah, you're right, you're right.
Speaker 2 (23:52):
And then we got I forget the name of the
other kind of delphinium, but it's a much bigger one.
You have some the ones we got are mixed varieties.
So there's some that are like light blue, there's some
that are dark blue. Yeah, me too.
Speaker 4 (24:08):
Do you think anybody out there still has a rotary phone?
Speaker 7 (24:11):
You don't even know what you know what that means?
Speaker 4 (24:15):
You know what a rotary phone is? You can say no,
we would understand that. Do you remember push button phones?
Speaker 2 (24:24):
Rotary phones are the thing you did this with.
Speaker 3 (24:26):
Oh, I know what you're talking about now. And then
there was like the one I got it anyway.
Speaker 7 (24:34):
But before that you had to actually ask somebody on
the other end to dial for you.
Speaker 4 (24:38):
That's right. One, ringy dingy, two, ringy dingy, kid?
Speaker 2 (24:44):
What four nine f four please?
Speaker 4 (24:47):
We've gone off the rails again, maybe Belle can say this,
I doubt it.
Speaker 3 (24:53):
Maybe good morning, bough, Welcome to w jbos one and
Garden Show. How may we help you today?
Speaker 8 (25:00):
Bye.
Speaker 9 (25:01):
So, just recently we had two very large trees cut
off like out of our front yard and we have
we have Saint Augustine grass right now. But I'm just wondering, like,
how quickly is it going to grow back?
Speaker 4 (25:15):
Saint Augustine is a very rapid grower. With good fertilization,
it'll recut. It should excuse me, it should cover those
uh this growing season easily. Or you can you know,
if you if it's a situation where you need it
covered quicker, you can always just buy a couple of
pieces aside and set them out there. If you had
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the stumps ground, I would probably wait a while until
some of that decomposition occurs because those that is going
to shrink, So you don't want to get a lot
of grass over the top of that until that has occurred,
so you don't have like little sinkholes in your yard.
But yeah, the Saint Augustine will overtake that relatively quickly.
Just throw a little fertilizer.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
On there from time to time, okay, thank you.
Speaker 4 (25:59):
Oh bell before you go. Do you know what a
road rey phone is?
Speaker 9 (26:04):
Is that the one with like the little anything.
Speaker 4 (26:08):
Good job? Well, thanks for the call, Thank you.
Speaker 3 (26:12):
That does open up phone lines at four.
Speaker 6 (26:16):
Nine w JBO.
Speaker 4 (26:18):
Do you did you ever have a landline in your
life where a phone was hooked to the wall. Golly,
I'm old, gee just getting.
Speaker 2 (26:30):
I remember when we first got caller I D on
our phone on our landline. It was a separate box
from the phone that hung on the wall.
Speaker 4 (26:40):
Wow, and it.
Speaker 2 (26:41):
Was Yeah, we felt pretty high class.
Speaker 4 (26:44):
I can actually remember getting a color TV for the
first time. Anyway, can we're gone down memory lane? Vegetables,
I talked about this a week or so ago. Right now,
you can have a lot of fun. If you want
a great educational thing for your children is to go
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ahead and start some seeds. Don't start cucumbers, beans, or
squash at this point because they grow very rapidly. We impact.
We had a caller last week that had done that,
and his squash were pretty much overtaking. Everybody, get some
tomato seeds, get some pepper seeds, have a little fun
with it. Come look at Johnny Naylor's seed wall. The
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Livingston Seed Rack has some unique varieties in it. Also,
you know, for I think twenty or thirty bucks, you
can buy the seed starting Kit which has a little
heat map to it and all the material you need
and plant some seeds and also if you weren't sure
what kind of seeds you should be starting at this
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time of year. Great thing about shopping for seeds at
Clegg's is we have planting guides there too, so you
can see what is a planting guy. It's just like
a person in a little hat and heelds up a
flag and you follow him.
Speaker 2 (28:06):
I've never seen that at Clegg's. But okay, no, it's
just we We usually keep them up at the register.
It's just a guide that shows you different dates. Do
you have as guide on it? Cannot finish my thought?
Speaker 4 (28:22):
Probably not.
Speaker 2 (28:25):
Anyways. It just has dates that show what what time
you should be planting certain seats done that's dead air.
Speaker 4 (28:37):
But so the dates, what are they?
Speaker 2 (28:40):
I couldn't tell you. Is it like a dinner date?
The inner date? Yeah, all of the above.
Speaker 4 (28:47):
M Have you ever eaten a date?
Speaker 2 (28:51):
Not on purpose? I don't think.
Speaker 4 (28:52):
Okay, do they come from palms? I have no idea
where we're going.
Speaker 2 (29:08):
What were we talking about? If you could call up
six nine, that would be great for Anna Clair's sake,
Please call.
Speaker 4 (29:21):
Now. It's as I mentioned, my son is into germinating
Japanese maples and dogwoods, and we bought him a heat
map for Christmas and he has been calling his mother
and me going, All of my seeds are germinating so
much quicker, so a little bit of heat underneath them
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definitely does help them. The other thing, whenever you're planting
vegetable seeds, two things actually, one is don't bury them.
You know, A good rule of thumb is as wide
as the seed is is how deep you want a planet.
So if you look at tamato seed, that's you know,
an eighth of an inch at the absolute most. So
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you don't want very much, and you definitely want to start.
One of the few times where I stress a seed
starting mix because it has been sterilized. Clegg's potting soil,
the Fox Farm products, your Miracle co products, those are
great soils. But therefore something that is already rooted and
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growing because they're not sterilized. Don't worry, there's nothing horrible
in there. But there are some pathogens that can kill
off a young seed. So we want to make sure
that the seed starter mix is sterilized. We recommend the
Black Gold brand. It works very well. We have it
should have a little display underneath the seed rocked back
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there in the back. Probably no one's refilling it, so
it's probably not. But no, that's something to have a
lot of fun with kids, and you can get you know,
you don't you buy a pack of seeds. You know,
some of the tomatoes there's only ten to twelve seeds
in there. Some of them there's a tablespoin. You don't
have to plant the entire pack of seeds. You know,
plant you want to put two, at least two seeds
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in each hole, because no seed that we sell is
one hundred percent germination. Most of them are over eighty
five to ninety percent. But you don't want that one
seed to be that one out of ten that's not
going to germinate. So I always try to put two
seeds in every hole. But yeah, something fun to do
and something that can give you a little variety. Later on,
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we have a caller.
Speaker 3 (31:33):
Let's go to it all right, Good morning, Diane, Welcome
to w gbo's Lone and Garden Show. How may we
help you today?
Speaker 2 (31:40):
Oh? Thank you?
Speaker 10 (31:42):
My cold loving snapdragons has the snow that's melted around
them now, but.
Speaker 6 (31:48):
They look a little wilted.
Speaker 2 (31:50):
Should I water?
Speaker 3 (31:52):
Just water? No?
Speaker 4 (31:54):
No, no, water.
Speaker 9 (31:56):
Well, they got a lot of water and.
Speaker 4 (31:58):
That's a great Another fantas asked the question Dane. We
are facing a little what we call supersaturation right now.
Speaker 2 (32:06):
Okay, soil.
Speaker 4 (32:07):
There has to be air pockets in the soil for
the plant to be able to take up the moisture
that's in the soil. What happens is with all that
snow and all the melting, pretty much there is no
oxygen in the soil right now, so we need to
get a little bit of drying in that way your
snap dragons can take start taking up moisture. They're also
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probably a little cold from being underneath the snow for
a while. They should come out and be just fine.
Speaker 10 (32:35):
You know, we'll I know a few years ago when
we had that deep freeze, they did come back.
Speaker 4 (32:42):
They will, yeah, but definitely you don't do anything no,
you know, again, I think it has been called if
the you know, if some stems got broken or something
like that, you may want to tidy those up wherever
there was a break and make a clean cut. No,
just we need a little bit of drying, which with
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the sunlight today and the warmer temperatures, we should get
you should these.
Speaker 10 (33:07):
Were the miniature ones. Yeah, nothing got broken. Okay, so
don't do anything.
Speaker 9 (33:12):
Nope, Okay, that sounds good.
Speaker 4 (33:14):
Thank you, all right, thank you for the call. One
thing that they may want to do is in a
couple of weeks, we probably want to get some fertilizer out.
But let's go ahead and let things dry out a
little bit and get some growing going before we do that.
But yeah, a little bit of fertilization wouldn't hurt in
maybe a week or two. That's called dead air.
Speaker 2 (33:37):
Yeah we've been doing today.
Speaker 4 (33:40):
We have a caller coming in. I'm not sure what's
what that's going to be. Oh, go ahead, let's go.
Speaker 3 (33:46):
Good morning, Sandy. Welcome to w jbo's London garden. Joie,
how may we help you today?
Speaker 2 (33:51):
Good morning.
Speaker 8 (33:52):
I'm just calling to make a comment from the from
the real frozen tundra of Green Bay, Wisconsin, where we
had zeros to.
Speaker 3 (33:59):
All this week.
Speaker 8 (34:00):
I've called these to say hi, No, no, we actually
we had at the time of this that you had
the storm, we had zero zero snow here. Now we
have just a very very light dusting overnight, but we've
had very cold temperatures. We were while you were in
that aupful time, our temperatures were right around minus eight,
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minus ten and uh and so it was, it was,
it was cool. But I got lots of texts and
pictures from friends and relatives in your area.
Speaker 4 (34:31):
It was, it was. It was probably a non event
for y'all, but it was quite interesting for us because
we just don't have the ability to salt roads and
all the things that need to be done. So, yeah,
bat Ridge was shut down for two days, so I
believe it.
Speaker 8 (34:48):
So I thought that maybe there would be more questions.
So I didn't want to type your life to day.
But since you were looking for calls, I thought, well,
I'll just call them un tell you I was thinking
of all of you down here.
Speaker 4 (34:57):
Well, we appreciate we were We're to say there's not
a lot of phone calls because we're giving out such
great information or everybody's still asleep.
Speaker 6 (35:08):
You're very welcome to have a good weekends too.
Speaker 4 (35:12):
Well, we we like reach out.
Speaker 2 (35:14):
Yeah, that's it's nice to know.
Speaker 4 (35:16):
We must be up to eight people listening.
Speaker 2 (35:18):
Now, what does that does?
Speaker 3 (35:20):
Open up phone lines at four nine two six? That
is four nine nine w GBO. Good morning, Rick, Welcome
to w gbos want to gardener check. How may we
hope you today?
Speaker 7 (35:30):
Hey guys, I've got a round guard in my front
yard with a five foot tall cow by.
Speaker 6 (35:39):
It did not get covered with time straw.
Speaker 4 (35:41):
You're yeah, roses are fine here. Yeah, the drift roads
would be fine. There is a something called confederate rose,
which is actually a hibiscus. It may get killed into
the ground, but the root system should be fine. But
no roses survived much further north than this. In fact,
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we have more problems with the heat on our roses
than we will this cold weather.
Speaker 6 (36:06):
Good guess, I guess?
Speaker 8 (36:08):
Uh?
Speaker 6 (36:09):
I guess that say that doesn't know about a party line?
Speaker 8 (36:11):
Does she.
Speaker 7 (36:16):
Showing time when I was a kid?
Speaker 4 (36:17):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (36:18):
All right, thanks Rick, All right, next color you can
do it.
Speaker 3 (36:26):
Good morning, Tiffanny, Welcome to w gbo's Lendon Garden Show.
How may we help you today?
Speaker 11 (36:31):
Hey guys, So I'm from Livingston and I picked up
a pineapple guava tree from the Arbor Day over at
the Burden Center.
Speaker 4 (36:39):
Yeah, that was fun. It was great.
Speaker 11 (36:42):
It was a wonderful day out there, and I'm so
glad that they provide all of the things that they do,
especially for all the kids to get them involved. But
I'm just wondering when would be a good time to
put it in the ground. I kind of held a
whole with the snow, but now I wished to be
my plan.
Speaker 4 (36:56):
I picked up a tree there too, and it's sitting
inside our living room. But let's just let the soil
dry out a little bit. Once we can dig a
hole easily without slopping around, you'll be good to plant that.
I have pineapple g out in my yard. Came through
the cold fine, but let's let's just wait till we
dry out a little bit. Okay, thank you, Okay, thanks
for the call. That was a great event. I think
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that was last weekend and we have another caller.
Speaker 2 (37:21):
I miss all of those. I'm always at work.
Speaker 3 (37:26):
Good morning, Sarah. Welcome to WJWS on in Garden Show.
How may we help you today?
Speaker 8 (37:31):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (37:31):
Thank you.
Speaker 6 (37:32):
I have Craik myrtles that really need to be cut back.
I don't want to murder them. But I really when
I'm coming back, Is this the time or have I
passed the time?
Speaker 2 (37:46):
I mean, I'm sorry, go ahead and you can correct
me if I'm wrong, But I would I would say
this would be a good time to prune on a
crape myrtle.
Speaker 4 (37:56):
Yeah, you want to get them prune before we have
leaf out of Typically you get people. My watch has
told me to stand up, and I feel like I
can't talk and stand up. So it's kind of weird here.
But typically I see most of that done February, which
we're a few days away from. So yeah, you definitely
can go ahead and start that printing process.
Speaker 6 (38:16):
Oh good, Now I can start sawing and everything else. Okay,
now you tell I can't. Okay, I remember party lines
and rotaries and every other thing before that.
Speaker 4 (38:32):
I'm gonna take taking Anna Clair home. I'm gonna have
to tell her what a party lies uncause she has.
Speaker 2 (38:40):
Yes, right, okay, what have fun?
Speaker 8 (38:43):
Thank you?
Speaker 4 (38:45):
Interesting the things that spur comments that we get carried
away sometimes.
Speaker 8 (38:50):
But.
Speaker 2 (38:53):
Everybody has nostalgic memory, stuff like.
Speaker 4 (38:56):
That, What was Lily Tomlin? That's what it was? Laughing?
That did the the operator she doesn't even know what
laugh in was.
Speaker 7 (39:09):
Is probably closest to being an operator today with all
those lines of having to answer the phones.
Speaker 4 (39:13):
Bo that's it.
Speaker 2 (39:15):
I don't know what party line is.
Speaker 4 (39:16):
Party line is when actually several people actually had the
same phone number and your phone would ring differently. So
if your phone rang a certain way, that was your call,
If it rang a different way, it was the other
person's call.
Speaker 2 (39:32):
Interesting.
Speaker 7 (39:33):
Yeah, And you could also listen in on other people's
conversations if you just picked up the phone exactly. I
know that all places from Disney World because on Main
Street there was one of the stores had a fake
party line phone set up. You could go and pick
up the phone. You would hear other conversations. Again, that's
(39:53):
the only way I know what a party line is.
Speaker 4 (39:56):
Shirley's grandmother had a party line. When we first started dating,
still had a party line. And when I was a child,
one of my friends had a party line and their
phone it was weird. Their phone would ring and i'd,
you know, like try to go answer it, and the
mother would say, no, no, that's the other person.
Speaker 2 (40:13):
I'm like, wow.
Speaker 7 (40:16):
So if you wanted to make a call, did you
have to wait for other conversations to end? If someone else's.
Speaker 4 (40:21):
I mean, there was only one line, so if it
was in use, you couldn't use it.
Speaker 2 (40:26):
Oh goodness.
Speaker 4 (40:27):
And the other weird thing about rotary phones is if
you didn't go all the way around to the little catch,
it would be a wrong number because like if you
were one number off didn't get all the way, you
would have dialed, say a six instead of a seven.
Speaker 2 (40:42):
So yeah, there was And then couldn't you not do
an automated system on a rotary phone, like if it
asked you to press one to speak to an operator.
Speaker 4 (40:52):
No, they didn't. There was none of that.
Speaker 7 (40:54):
No, I'm I thought it like at the very beginning
you could do that, like it could there were systems
that could understand the rotary thing.
Speaker 4 (41:04):
I wouldn't know how they could.
Speaker 7 (41:05):
It was like the first fidget spinner for me, Like
my grandma had like one of those big, huge, like
you know, the phone company one that you could, you know,
knock a hole in the wall with.
Speaker 4 (41:14):
It was so heavy and I would just spin that thing.
It was fascinating. That's the other thing that's really weird
is payphones.
Speaker 2 (41:24):
You don't see them anymore. You know what a payphone is?
Speaker 4 (41:27):
I do.
Speaker 2 (41:28):
We got one, so.
Speaker 4 (41:34):
You got to commercial you can run, but vegetable plants onions,
you said, yeah, legs does have a pretty sure, we
have onion sets in. It's a neat little crop that
you can put in. It does not take up very
much room at all. Fertilize it. Plant now you'll harvest
in probably May again. So if you want to dedicate
(41:55):
some room to it, or what I do is I
have cinder blocks around my garden. I just play them
in the little holes in the cinder block because nothing
else is going to grow there. I did it.
Speaker 2 (42:06):
I got you stand.
Speaker 7 (42:08):
You know, maybe just before we go, okay, someone's just
joined us just real quick, because we got about two
minutes left. Just what they shouldn't be doing right now
in terms of post snow.
Speaker 4 (42:19):
Okay, yeah, that's if somebody did. We did cover that
at the beginning, but we can do it again. Don't
do any fertilization or any pruning on anything that you suspect.
Damage to citrus trees was the big one that we did. Now,
some of your other type fruit trees, your apples, peaches, plums, pears,
(42:40):
they're going to be fine. If you want to do
your spring fertilization on those, that's fine. But anything that
you're concerned that there was some damage. I'd even go
so far well as say, as you want to bloom,
you want to fertilize after they bloom anyway, But if
there was some concern your tropical plants, let's not fertilize
them yet. Let's not prune them some of your bedding
(43:00):
plants maybe like blue Days or some of the stuff
that typically I'm gonna say perennial type stuff. You know,
let's just leave the dead material there as an insulation
because we don't want to spur growth. Pruning and fertilization
both spur new growth, and we don't want that until
the plant has had a chance to recover. Right. So
(43:24):
but yeah, uh grass, we talked a little bit. We're
not sure Saint Augustine does have some cold susceptibility with
the snow being on there as long as it was,
is there going to be more damage to it than
we expect. We're gonna have to wait and see on that.
But anyway, I think I hear music. Does anybody else
hear music? I do? Okay, So that's just me. We're
(43:47):
running up on the end of the show. We do
appreciate everybody that called in. We are Legs and Nursery.
We have four locations in the Greater Baton Rouge area.
The service you Denim Springs on Range Road, Greenwald Springs Road,
Don more in. Yeah, Segan, Yep, I've almost forgot Seegan
with that store. Of all of them, we will be
here next Saturday morning from eight to nine to answer
(44:09):
questions and probably learn a lot more from you than
you'll ever learn from us.
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