April 19, 2025 • 43 mins
This week on the WJBO Lawn & Garden Show powered by Clegg's Nursery Butch, Chris & the Intern get questions about tomatoes! Callers also ask about peppers, raised beds, what can be put in your compost pile, and potential azalea damage.
Plus discussions on Amazel Basil, herb gardens, peat moss, raised gardens, drip irrigation and what's new at the nursery!
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Good Saturday morning, and welcome to the WGBO Lawn and
Garden Show, brought to you by Gleg'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, and welcome back to w jbo's Lon and
Garden Show today. I am here with mister Butcher mister Chris,
both from Clegg's Nursery.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
Good morning, good morning.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
If you have any questions or concerns, please call us
a four nine nine nine six, that's four nine nine WJBO.
Speaker 4 (00:38):
I noticed on the intro there that seasonal plumt and
you like go to the grocery store and get the
little McCormick seasoning and plant those what.
Speaker 5 (00:49):
Not A good way to start off. That's not how
you make little peppers. That's what I thought, little tiny ers.
Speaker 4 (00:54):
Oh, before we get two started on questions and four
nine six here.
Speaker 3 (00:59):
You had a big day yesterday.
Speaker 4 (01:01):
I heard that you went shopping for hours and found
several on.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
Sale, several hours on sale.
Speaker 4 (01:10):
She was shopping for several hours and she found some
on sale.
Speaker 5 (01:16):
Okay, can I start the showing please, so actually I
want to say welcome back, and there our CEO.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
Is that what we're supposed to call her?
Speaker 2 (01:28):
Now?
Speaker 3 (01:29):
Is that in the contract? It's her highness? Her highness?
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Okay, I was not aware of this.
Speaker 4 (01:36):
We actually have someone calling in, probably tell us to
go off air. Anyway, you have been busy lately, a
big graduation coming up, so moving on moving away from us?
Speaker 3 (01:53):
Maybe not, but anyway, so we're just killing time here
till he puts.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
Out there's the name, good morning video, Welcome to w
jbo's London Garden Show. How may we help you today?
Speaker 6 (02:05):
Is it too late to plant tomatoes?
Speaker 3 (02:07):
No, not at all. I would be a little bit
more selective on what varieties I were to plant this late.
I would probably stay away from some of the heirloom varieties.
They have a tendency to be more disease prone.
Speaker 4 (02:28):
They're not going to set fruit at some of your
higher temperatures, so you're probably a little late, and those
would be more purple Cherokee, purple black crim Yeah, it's
those type. I think your celebrity, your big beef. I
don't know if y'all are getting in like your Florida
(02:48):
ninety ones yet, I.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
Don't think we've seen those yet. Those oh denitly well.
Speaker 4 (02:56):
If you go with what we call heat set varieties,
that would be Florida ninety one, and I'm drawing a
total blankness.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
Some of the other even still have heat wave solar set.
Speaker 4 (03:08):
I haven't seen those, and I know heat waves been
gone for a while. Amelia is a good one, Bela
Rosa is another one. If you're going with heat set varieties,
I would go ahead, and I wouldn't be opposed to
starting from seed. But if you're trying to do like
your celebrities, big beef h those type eye, you're a
little bit late to be putting those out from seed
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or too early.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
Either way you want to look at it.
Speaker 6 (03:31):
Thank you very much.
Speaker 4 (03:32):
All right, good question, actually, very good question. Most at
least I feel, and Chris you can chime in, most
of your vegetables at this point should probably be planted
from plants. The exceptions I would say to that would
be if you want to still do beans. And sorry
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you got the soapbox sounder up there, because I need
to drag it over here. When you come by Klegg's
Nursery or wherever you buy your plants.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
Don't buy a bean plant, plant a seed. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (04:09):
The problem with planting a bean plant is you're never
gonna have enough beans to do anything with them.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
I mean it's in a row. You have to plant
a row.
Speaker 4 (04:18):
You have to plant a bunch of beans, because unlike
a tomato, where you can pick a tomato or a pepper,
and one tomato a lot of times is all you
really need at one point. Well, how many people eat
one bean? Not many, not many? So, but anyway, beans,
your cucurbage, your squash, your cucumbers. I think you would
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probably still be able to go from seed okra. Actually
that's I think you're still a little early on. Yeah,
the hotter it is, the happier there are. In fact,
we planted in our garden at home squash plants this
last week. And what we'll do is we'll wait till
the squash fine boor kill them, and that's when she'll
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plant the okra in that bit.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
So, I mean we won't be planting opra till probably June.
I picked my first squash yesterday, Well, congratulations, hopefully I'll
get some more today.
Speaker 4 (05:11):
What squash come in, they are, it's like, oh, no
more squash.
Speaker 5 (05:17):
One of the things, back to the Gentleman's that the
callers question about tomatoes is the problem that I've noticed
the last several years is we're getting hotter earlier. I
mean years ago. I don't remember getting in the nineties
in June. I mean we were in the eighties. Now,
did we hit ninety yesterday?
Speaker 3 (05:35):
We were close. If we didn't hit it, I think
we're supposed to get close today.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
I think we were like upper eighties all day yesterday,
so it was close.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
It was close, I think.
Speaker 4 (05:42):
I think I looked at my truck thermometer one time
and it's a little always a little off. I think
it was just over ninety.
Speaker 5 (05:48):
Yeah, So it's not a question of you know, are
you too late. It really depends on our weather. I mean,
if we stayed cooler, especially the nighttime temperature.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
It is nighttime temperature.
Speaker 4 (05:55):
That is, I mean both both daytime and nighttime temperatures
affect tomato plants, and what the effects is if the
flower can become viable in set of fruit most of
your varieties that most people recognize that nighttime temperature is
in the low seventies.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
So you know we're starting to get.
Speaker 4 (06:14):
I mean this morning when I woke up and looked
at the thermometer. We were at seventy six when I
woke up this morning, So I mean, we're already getting
nighttime temperatures a little higher than we should. I think
we're supposed to have. Are we supposed to have like
a reinforcing cool front this weekend that maybe bring.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
The temperatures down Sunday night Monday mornings what I.
Speaker 4 (06:32):
Was thinking too, But no, there's plenty that we can
do in the vegetable garden. Fertilization is very important if
you have planted right now or have things planted in
your garden still recommending calcium nitrate, yes, yeah.
Speaker 5 (06:48):
And actually most of these fertilizers, I mean, they don't
last the entire season.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
Le's. Of course, you get the Cadillac, which is.
Speaker 5 (06:54):
Osma Cote, but most of them, like what we sells,
last about thirty to forty five days, so you really
do want to reapply about once a month.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
Good, just a good conversation. Points you brought up there?
What are you.
Speaker 4 (07:08):
And let me preface what I'm about to ask by saying,
I think Ozma code is an excellent fertilizer do you
think it's a good fertilizer to use with vegetables?
Speaker 3 (07:18):
Probably not, because you're not going to get enough nitrogen,
which is you're growing, you're green growing, you're green growth.
Speaker 5 (07:25):
I put it in there, but I also use the
gardener Special, the fertile on special, so I have a
long term release and then I have a quick release.
Speaker 3 (07:34):
I agree with you. I think I think the same
thing again, OZMA.
Speaker 4 (07:38):
Code for a shrubbed or for something that's established that
you're trying to keep fed over a long period of time.
Is But like you said, the Cadillac or the fertilizers.
But I think exactly what you said. I think for
vegetable gardens it's almost too slow.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
Right.
Speaker 4 (07:55):
You know those vegetable plants are teenage boys. They need
to be vestantly, Yes, ed heavily.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
So good point.
Speaker 4 (08:01):
But anyway, that was a great discussion. What if somebody
wanted to get involved in that great discussion.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
They could cause that four six and it's nine WJBO.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
I'm surprised you remembered the number. Did you have any questions?
Speaker 2 (08:17):
I do?
Speaker 3 (08:18):
All right?
Speaker 2 (08:18):
What is pete mass and is it important for the plants?
Speaker 3 (08:23):
Yes?
Speaker 5 (08:24):
And no, it's a soil amendment. I mean you probably
have more scientific drop your scientific knowledge about what it is.
It was out of Canada, correct for the most part,
for the most part, and it actually the easiest way
for me to It actually kind of works as a
sponge and holes moisture soils are different everywhere you go.
(08:47):
Here in Louisiana and South Louisiana, it's clay. We have
so many people who come in and say, well, I
have clay in my yard. Unique, but we all have
a clay soil. So you want to break up that
by adding soil amendments. And pete moss is one of them.
Sand is another, which I agree with everything you just said.
(09:10):
And peat moss is a sponge.
Speaker 4 (09:12):
And when I was talking to customers more.
Speaker 3 (09:17):
We recommend a product. I highly recommend a product at
Clegg's if people are doing what we call bulk where
you got to bring the pickup truck and we dump
it in the back of your pickup truck, we can
sell it a raised bed blend product. I'm getting your
tongue tied in a clare.
Speaker 4 (09:33):
That's where you need peat moss when you're doing a
raised vegetable garden or and I don't know how this
became popular, but some and it's totally okay. I mean
LSU has approved it. Were people come in and they
just dump eighteen inches of soil on top of the
clay and plant in it. If you're doing that, you
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need something in that soil that is going to help
you hold moisture. That's what peat moss does, where you
get your moisture retention for the most part the clay soils.
If you're dealing, if you're doing the way I grew up,
preparing a bed where you break up the clay and
you add the organic material like I normally don't like
(10:14):
to put pete moss in there because the clay is
going to hold moisture for you already, correct, so, and
the peat moss is such a fine organic material that
it really doesn't help you with the breaking up of
the clay ions. So peat moss is important, especially in
raised beds. In fact, do we do you still have
the little our little raised bed soil mix that we
used to promote somewhere somewhere. Yeah, that was one of
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the important things that we put into there. I think
it was set up to be twenty seven cubic feet
and for cubic feet of what we were recommending was
peat moss.
Speaker 3 (10:48):
So it is important in raised beds in particular. And
I agree with you one hundred percent on the raised bed.
The raised bed is an excellent mix, but water goes
right through it, oh does it. But if we were
to add the peat moss, it would probably be two
hundred dollars a yard, So you know you do want to.
Speaker 4 (11:07):
It's I always say you can add stuff. It's hard
to take stuff out. So if a customer comes in
buys the raised bed blend and mixes it, say with
a compost pile they already have, well that compost may
work with some of that moisture retention. So you wouldn't
need as quite as much peat moss as if you
come in, dump the yard of raised bed and blend
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in there and then throw you a two point two
qub footed peat moss in.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
You know it's it's it varies.
Speaker 4 (11:35):
And that's the other thing with the raised bed blend
and what you say, we're saying about how much it drains.
I'd rather drain each than than moisture retention. So anyway,
good question, Thank you, you're welcome.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
We have an Easter egg hunt tomorrow and there are
like really big weeds in the yard. Is there anything
we can do to get rid of them?
Speaker 3 (11:56):
Mom? We eat them? There's that was easy.
Speaker 4 (12:00):
Next question, Yeah, weed killers. I know the commercials out
there right now with spruce and the weeds are gone
within ten minutes or whatever it is. But most especially
in your yards, you're not wanting to spray a non
selective herbicide, meaning it kills everything. And I don't think
(12:24):
I with an easter egg hunt, I don't think i'd
do that anyway, because we don't want any type of
contaminants when they're picking up the eggs. But most of
your in fact, I think i'd.
Speaker 3 (12:34):
Be safe saying if you know something different obviously, Chris,
But your selective herbicides have to be absorbed either through
the root system or through the foliage to work, and
that absorption takes time. But attressing is twenty one days,
isn't that right? Of course? I'm not sure. Yeah, I'm
pretty sure.
Speaker 4 (12:53):
Know that attressinge is like it can sometimes it can
take up to twenty one days to actually be effective.
Weed pre zones about four to seven days, so it
is an absorption process to take care of weeds. So
if you were having an Easter egg hunt, you should
have planned a couple of weeks ago ahead, planned the heads,
and you were talking about the products that and their
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effectiveness and how long they take.
Speaker 3 (13:17):
But also weeds react differently.
Speaker 5 (13:20):
That's when I sprayed the cocktail, as we call it
the weed cocktail. I sprayed it in the morning and
that afternoon the clover it was wilting and turning brown.
But the dollar weed, it was seven to ten days
before it did anything, but now it's gone.
Speaker 3 (13:36):
Do you put the big ice balls in your weed cocktail? Yeah?
The square winds the cubes. It's got my initial one right.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
If you have any questions, are we Butcher Drews and
mister Kurt, mister Chris from Clegg's Nursery.
Speaker 3 (13:54):
Good morning, Good morning? What is this called?
Speaker 2 (13:57):
WJVU is one and garden show?
Speaker 3 (14:01):
Would people want to call it?
Speaker 2 (14:02):
I'm getting there.
Speaker 3 (14:03):
I don't know why.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
Please call us that.
Speaker 3 (14:09):
JBO And if they call what would they do? Ask
a question like you're about to yep?
Speaker 2 (14:17):
Is there any question? Are the cit trees dead? They're
sprowning low on the trunks.
Speaker 5 (14:25):
Short answer, yes, So we've seen a lot of pictures
come in the nursery and yeah, the tops are dead,
they're brown, they're not coming out, but there are is
some growth down at the bottom. Now, one thing you
have to pay attention to is there's a graft about
what four to six inches off the ground. Typically, if
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there's growth coming from below that, well you're it's not
a satsuma, it's not a lemon, it's the native orange.
If it's coming above that, then that should be your lemon,
or your setsuma or your orange and it will come back.
But do you want to take the time and you're
going to have a weird looking shape tree?
Speaker 3 (15:04):
What do you say? I agree?
Speaker 4 (15:06):
But one of the things to add to what you
were just saying, and I'm seeing it already in my citrus.
Your explanation, I mean, you obviously were looking at my
citrus except for.
Speaker 3 (15:19):
My brown select. I do want to point that out.
Speaker 4 (15:22):
I had both an awari actually unfortunately it was my
father's that I planted in our yard many years ago,
and obviously he since passed, and I had a brown select.
My brown select had damage, but it has it is
coming out like pretty much the same shape and same
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size as before.
Speaker 3 (15:44):
I had noticed several of the lower branches.
Speaker 4 (15:48):
Were actually killed out, and I truthfully believe that was
because obviously the snow was covering the upper branches and
not the lower ones.
Speaker 3 (15:55):
So that's why I'm losing those.
Speaker 4 (15:58):
The Awari is where I wanted to continue what you
were talking about. I was getting it to leaf out,
and I was all excited. I started to notice this
last week as the temperature started to go out, some
of those are starting to wilt. So what I'm afraid
of a lot of people are going to see where, Oh,
I've got growth coming out. Yes, I have dead limbs
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I need to cut off. But as we get into
more stressful period, I'm wondering if those main stems are
damage to the point.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
Where they're not going to be able to survive later on.
Speaker 5 (16:30):
Yeah, that's one of the things that most people don't realize,
and we can actually see it in azaleas. Even though
is aas are evergreen, they could have received some freeze damage.
But unfortunately we're not going to notice it. And still,
like you say, it starts warming up, it starts pulling
up moisture and nutrients, and then it wilts. And if
you go down and follow that stem you'll see a
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split on the bark.
Speaker 4 (16:53):
In the citrus, I'm not seeing the split, but I
am starting to see darkened areas where I can tell
the tissues died. In fact, I was talking to my
neighbors last night and I kind of gave last rice.
Speaker 3 (17:06):
To a couple of his trees. So it's a it's
still a weight and see situation. H But I.
Speaker 4 (17:14):
Am more and more and more concerned, especially if it
was a younger tree. I just don't think it's And
your point about what what is.
Speaker 3 (17:26):
A tree going to look like? And how long is
it going to take for that tree to recover and
be productive? Again?
Speaker 4 (17:33):
Is I have a red naval orange that I mean
it's sprouting out, but I mean it's sprouting out two
feet from above the graph.
Speaker 3 (17:42):
But I just don't think it's gonna be worth trying
to save it.
Speaker 5 (17:45):
Another thing I wanted to mention is we have a
lot of people coming in and say, hell, well I
covered it well.
Speaker 3 (17:50):
Covering it only does so much.
Speaker 5 (17:53):
What my wife and I did is we actually covered
it and put lights on it. But even that is
only going to go so raised the temperature so much.
I mean we got down a low ten degrees, didn't
we I've heard seven, I've heard ten.
Speaker 3 (18:07):
Tom said it was seven, so it's seven. But it's cold.
I mean, there's only so much you can do.
Speaker 4 (18:12):
And we'd have a smaller lemon tree that has planted,
and we wrapped it with the freeze cloth that we got.
We sell it clegs and I put a trouble light
in there with the hunter watt in you know, incandescent,
not led light, because I needed the heat. And it's fine.
I mean, it's as good today as it was the
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day we wrapped it. But all its little friends are
not feeling windows we got Ana Claire, get off your phone,
Anta Claire, I.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
Have another question.
Speaker 3 (18:47):
Good.
Speaker 4 (18:48):
Hopefully somebody else will and call us at four nine six.
Speaker 3 (18:52):
This is final Jeopardy.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
Dude. What herbs are available now? And what is so
amazing about a mizzle basil?
Speaker 3 (19:05):
Very amazal basil is amazing. I love it.
Speaker 5 (19:10):
But we have basil time, Oregano sage all of those.
But back to the amazel basil. One of the things
with just regular and it is a sweet basil. It's
got that large leaf. Great for a red gravy or marinera.
I'm from New Orleans we say red gravy one of
the things. With just a regular sweet basil, it tends
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to go to flower, and once it goes to flowers
pretty much finished. So if you're good at going out
there and clipping that seed head off or the flower off,
it'll continue to go. With the amazal basil, I found
that it doesn't go to flower until later, so we
get a nicer shrub. I mean it got about two
foot tall, two to three foot tall, but it did
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very well for us.
Speaker 3 (19:54):
The biggest thing with a masal basil is that it
is much more disease resistant.
Speaker 4 (20:01):
We get several bacterial issues with basil basically melts it,
and a masal basil is relatively resistant to that.
Speaker 3 (20:12):
I haven't really seen that much of an issue on it.
Speaker 4 (20:15):
Sometimes, unfortunately, I would see it at the nursery where
we'd be a little bit too close together and we
get some issues there. But typically in the in the
homeowner's garden, it's going to be very resistant to that.
So definitely it's a little bit more expensive, but definitely
worth the difference in price.
Speaker 3 (20:34):
Definitely, herb gardens are neat. Charlie has been.
Speaker 4 (20:40):
Doing one for many years and it's kind of neat
to go out there and just clip the irreguano to
put into your marinaro, no red sauce, red gravy.
Speaker 3 (20:52):
You know, it is kind of neat.
Speaker 4 (20:53):
To go out there the basil, you know, the time,
you know some of those like the time its great.
Right now, it's gonna get a little ratty when it
gets real hot, but it comes right back and she
does rosemary. So yeah, it's kind of fun to have
with herbs. You don't need a garden. You can plant,
put some in a pop. You can put three or
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four of them in a decent sized pot right outside
your kitchen. Yep, if you live in an apartment, if
you have a nice sunny area, if you have a
veranda that faces west, oh, you must be fancy. I
know I wrote that word down one day, but yeah,
herb pots are very popular and very easy to do.
Speaker 3 (21:34):
So a great little thing, a kind of neat thing.
Speaker 4 (21:37):
If somebody, you know, student out of LSU or something
out on, you know, wants to try gardening, you know,
don't worry about tomatoes and peppers and all that.
Speaker 3 (21:45):
Start out with herbs. They're a little bit easier.
Speaker 2 (21:51):
I have another question, good, are there any issues showing
up in the garden yet and what preventatives can be used.
Speaker 3 (22:00):
You kind of threw me under the bus on that one.
Speaker 4 (22:02):
No, I actually had one of my gardening buddies sent
me some pictures yesterday. Unfortunately, we're starting to get the
bacterial spot on peppers. Kind of surprised that it's this early.
But what happens is your pepper leaves will start to
get a modeled look to them. They may actually have
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some dark spots. Typically start from the bottom up. It's
very detrimental on peppers. Tends to be more active in
bell peppers than hot peppers. We have is a tradition
and ninja or two new pepper varieties that are very
resistant to that. The spray for it, and then actually
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it's better if you do a preventative spray use copper.
It is actually very effective, but again it's more of
a preventative than a cure.
Speaker 3 (22:56):
Tomatoes, probably with.
Speaker 4 (22:58):
The temperatures we're seeing, probably going to be starting to
see stink bugs pretty soon, if we haven't already. Eight
is still my recommendation for stink bugs. Stink bugs ideally
again if you catch them juvenile and a juvenile stink bug.
Speaker 3 (23:17):
Looks like a big red ant with black legs.
Speaker 2 (23:20):
We actually have a caller.
Speaker 3 (23:21):
Let's go.
Speaker 2 (23:24):
Good morning, Philip, Welcome to wjba's London Guarded Show. How
may we help you today?
Speaker 3 (23:28):
Good morning, guys, Good morning.
Speaker 7 (23:31):
Let's take here of some business first, your highness, I'm
listening to you grow up on the radio, and I'm
making the assumption that what you're going into high school?
Speaker 2 (23:44):
Now?
Speaker 7 (23:46):
Yes, yes, okay, Well, now that we got that out
of the way. I've been listening to y'all for a
long long time. We appreciate it, and I think I
kind of slept through the first segment on the tomatoes.
Speaker 3 (23:59):
We did too.
Speaker 7 (24:01):
Yeah, I have some salmon zana seeds.
Speaker 3 (24:05):
Is it too late? Yes?
Speaker 4 (24:07):
Yeah, Sam Marizano is a pacee type tomato. It's actually
one of the ones that should be planted early because
it has As we get hotter, it can develop. Being
a paste type tomato, it can develop more issues than
some of your more common tomatoes would be. So yeah,
just the nice thing about tomato seeds is hang on
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to them. They will be They will actually, if anything,
they'll be better next year. As far as germination goes,
it's kind of weird. With tomato seeds, I mean after
you know, if I have ten year old seeds, you
probably can get rid of them. But yeah, you can
save tamato seeds from year to year being some of
the other ones. You know, if you missplanting those, you
miles will put them in the trash, but tomatoes will
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be just fine.
Speaker 3 (24:51):
So just hang on to them.
Speaker 4 (24:52):
If you want to start seeing those, I'd start them
in January, no later than middle of February.
Speaker 3 (24:58):
But yeah, just hang on to them. You'll be sure.
Speaker 7 (25:00):
Okay, Well, look let me ask you what uh what
do y'all have out at the center that would be
a good sub for for that, you know, plants.
Speaker 4 (25:13):
If if there are some San Marzana's, I wouldn't be
opposed completely to planting some. We have the roma, which
is the original paste tomato. Should have some of those
sometimes now they're actually labeled lace roma.
Speaker 3 (25:28):
It's h laar Roma is the I don't want to
say better.
Speaker 4 (25:33):
But the more the more recent variety released, So that
would be your paste tomatoes that it would be available
at the nursery right now.
Speaker 6 (25:42):
Good to you. Well, I appreciate it.
Speaker 7 (25:44):
I love to cook fresh tomato sauce.
Speaker 3 (25:47):
There you go well, Thank you so much, Philip for
the call.
Speaker 4 (25:49):
You and we were discussing before we went to break
peppers and some of the issues we're having with peppers
and one of the things in vegetable gardening that.
Speaker 3 (26:04):
I really want.
Speaker 4 (26:05):
To figure out the best way to stress this is
a lot of the problems that we get on vegetable
plants is because of improper watering. Overhead watering on vegetables
is probably the worst thing that you can do for
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two reasons. One, now, if you do it early in
the morning, maybe it's not as bad. It definitely don't
want to do it in the evening or at night.
But you don't want water sitting on the foliage for
a long period of time because that brings funguses. The
other thing you're finding is that when you're doing overhead watering,
you're getting splashing of dirt up onto the plant and
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in some instances onto the fruit. You can get buckeye rot,
which is an issue a lot of times we get
in tomatoes.
Speaker 3 (26:55):
So you really want to do.
Speaker 4 (27:00):
Watering. How else to say that drip irrigation is where
I was going. You weren't getting there fast.
Speaker 3 (27:11):
I'm old, I get there eventually, Okay, the wheelchair only
goes so fast drip irrigation. Anybody that does raise gardening,
come in, talk to Chris, and only Chris.
Speaker 4 (27:24):
If Chris isn't there, leave, come back. Some other times
it's no problem. But no, any of the people there
can explain to you it is the easiest thing to
install you will ever do. I have, and I've told
people before I have. When I set up my garden,
it is basically five separate plots and it's they're bordered
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by cinder blocks. And I did that on purpose because
my wife told me to. And one of the one
of them is her herb garden and the other one
we do tomatoes, peppers, eggplant in one of the beds,
squashed another one. It took me less than two hours
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to get the entire system put into drip irrigation. And
that was actually doing what I call a retrofit. I
had to dig under the cinder blocks under the walkways
to put my main tube or my trunk tube down
if you're starting out a new garden. And it was,
like I said, I did the whole thing for less
than fifty bucks, you know.
Speaker 3 (28:28):
And I put it to the timer.
Speaker 4 (28:30):
That's not including the timer, because I think the timer
is about fifty bucks.
Speaker 3 (28:33):
But it's on timer. We don't have to worry about it.
We go very it's very economical. We go on vacation.
It's watered.
Speaker 5 (28:42):
Yes, it's watered, so you don't have to worry about
somebody the granddaughter coming over and forget forget.
Speaker 3 (28:48):
That to turn it off the neighbor.
Speaker 5 (28:51):
Now a drip irrigation, and we've said this before on
the show. When you water, it's best to water the
soil that's where the roots are exactly and soak it.
I mean give it a good thorough watering, but not
very often.
Speaker 4 (29:05):
I mean there we sell a six inch spacing, a
twelve inch spacing. You know, all the instructions are there
on the little rapper or you, like I said, you
can ask Chris.
Speaker 3 (29:17):
Come on in and ask me to be glad to
help you.
Speaker 2 (29:19):
We have a caller.
Speaker 3 (29:20):
Well, let's go.
Speaker 2 (29:23):
Good morning, John, Welcome to wjbs On and Garden Show.
How may we help you today?
Speaker 6 (29:28):
Good morning and Claire, Hey, John, Hey, but how are
you questions one fine? Thank you great?
Speaker 3 (29:38):
I miss.
Speaker 4 (29:39):
I was about to say, if you're one of the
people I miss not being there anymore.
Speaker 3 (29:42):
So it's good to hear your voice. John. One of
a few I did not say that. No, we do
miss you, but.
Speaker 6 (29:54):
Purchased, uh, some peppers, some clegs. I'm just sick red. Yeah,
it's like a ninja ten yep. A couple of them
went into containers. We're doing okay. Other two however, what
end of the container? And the next day they're wilky
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And it's not too much water? Is it the soil
and the container? I think I've had a problem there before.
Speaker 4 (30:23):
Well, obviously if you've had a problem before, I would
I would I would lean towards the soil one of
the things. And actually it's.
Speaker 3 (30:33):
Not a problem with the drip irrigation we were just
talking about. But we are some of our garden.
Speaker 4 (30:39):
We just planted our squash, like I said last week. Well,
when you plant it, you've got a little what do
I'm gonna say, two inch square? Maybe you know if
you bought a four inch plant three and a half
inch square, all of the root system is in that square.
So if your soil out in the pot is wet
and that little square dries out, your plant is going
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to droop.
Speaker 3 (31:01):
So that's one of the things.
Speaker 4 (31:03):
When we initially plant, we want to make sure that
we are getting that little, small square root ball watered.
The other thing with peppers is if they got and
I don't think you would do this, John, I know
how you've been gardening it, well, not quite as long
as I have.
Speaker 3 (31:20):
You're not near as old as I am. But it
don't plant them deep.
Speaker 4 (31:26):
You don't want unlike tomatoes where you could practically bury them.
You'd want the surface of that root ball when you
plant it to be at the surface of the soil.
You get to start getting soil up around the stem
of a pepper, and it'll go It'll go south real quick.
Speaker 6 (31:42):
Okay for the soil and that it was two containers
in questions, go ahead and replace it, Yes, and you
put that in the compost bin and oh yeah, you
get hot enough.
Speaker 4 (31:55):
Maybe any it's probably not that big of a deal.
I tell people. It's kind of like, Okay, I'm gonna
use antaclair in me. If Antaclaire is exposed to something,
because she's much smaller than I am, she may be affected.
Were the same exposure to me.
Speaker 3 (32:15):
I'm just not even I might get the sniffles from
it or whatever. Baby plants.
Speaker 4 (32:21):
You know, transplants are much more susceptible to issues in
the soil than.
Speaker 3 (32:27):
A mature plant would be.
Speaker 4 (32:28):
So or the other thing is, you've got this root
ball and I'm just going to say a ten inch pot.
Speaker 3 (32:34):
Well, it's concentrated there.
Speaker 4 (32:36):
Where you take that and you dump it in your
compost pile, it's spread out. So even if you do
get some things in there that maybe you don't really want,
they're either gonna be so spread out or you're gonna
be putting them around large enough plants that it's probably
not going to affect them. So no, I wouldn't have
any issue putting that soil in your compost palm.
Speaker 6 (32:55):
Well, how do you clean the container after you've done that?
Speaker 4 (32:59):
Ten percent bleach solution ten bleach to water if you
can put if you have a big enough bucket that
you can put the pot in there and let it
soak for several minutes is the best way to do it.
But yeah, ten percent bleach solution.
Speaker 6 (33:15):
Would soil sterilization work on the soil that within those containers.
Speaker 4 (33:22):
Yes, but again I'm not sure if you're dumping it
into the compost pile that's really worth it.
Speaker 3 (33:27):
I would I would get new soil to put in there.
I would not solarize or sanitize the soil and put
it back in that container.
Speaker 6 (33:34):
No trying to figure out where to put it other
than putting it out in the yard.
Speaker 3 (33:41):
That would work too.
Speaker 5 (33:42):
Yeah, your flower bad, put it in your flower bed
around the shrubs.
Speaker 6 (33:48):
Okay, then thank you very much. Guys see you get
the nursery all right?
Speaker 2 (33:51):
Thanks and that does open up phone lines at four GBO.
Speaker 3 (34:00):
Very nicely done. What's new at the nursery? Anything new
this year?
Speaker 5 (34:03):
We got enough we had it last year. But those
and now I can't think of the name of them.
Those Dipladinia's. Oh yeah, the purple is blue and orange. Yeah, yeah,
I'm trying to think of what else is new. We
have a lot of Zain's been bringing a lot of quarterline,
different color quarterline.
Speaker 3 (34:21):
There was cool looking. Those are flying out the door.
And we just got another truck from Florida. So your
tropicals Hibiscus, mandevilla, dipladinia, they're not new. I mean there's
some new colors. Well.
Speaker 4 (34:32):
One of the things that it was Shirley's week to
plant her bedding plants at our house, so I actually
sent a picture to a friend of mine that I
was just a joke with him how he needed to
teach lessons on how to push a cart behind his wife.
Speaker 3 (34:46):
So I sent a picture and asked, was I leaning
on the cart properly followed Charlie, I am just blown
away by the house plan area at Seagan Lane.
Speaker 4 (34:57):
I mean that is just I mean that, I that
is fantastic. I love the way it was. I don't
know if you designed the setup or whatever with the
bench actually had the greenhouse company designed it for.
Speaker 3 (35:09):
It's just it's so it feels so nice to just
walk through there, and it's actually.
Speaker 5 (35:14):
And Zane's doing a very good job of keeping it
stocked and plants that I have no idea what you are.
Speaker 8 (35:20):
I'm putting them in the computer and I have no
idea either, but anyway, so but yeah, if you haven't
seen the new house plan area at Segan it's it's
definitely walk around, you know, if you want to get
together a bus tour of those are welcome.
Speaker 3 (35:36):
We had one a couple of weeks ago.
Speaker 2 (35:38):
Said that good morning, Stanley, welcome to w jbos On
and Garden Show. How may we help you today?
Speaker 6 (35:45):
I'd like to know what this sistance to bat News
Day Little Society.
Speaker 3 (35:49):
It's still we do not know. To be honest, yeah,
we do not know.
Speaker 4 (35:54):
We were trying to look it up on our phones
before we took the call.
Speaker 3 (35:57):
But I don't know. I don't even know who to call.
You know what.
Speaker 4 (36:03):
You might want to call the East Betton Ridge Parish Library.
They do a lot with those type of groups. They
may be able to answer that question.
Speaker 6 (36:11):
Okay, I appreciate that.
Speaker 3 (36:13):
Okay, sorry about that.
Speaker 9 (36:14):
Thank you.
Speaker 6 (36:14):
That's okay, all right.
Speaker 2 (36:16):
Good morning, Mary, Welcome to WJB is On and Garden Show.
I man help you today.
Speaker 10 (36:21):
I was I have a question.
Speaker 9 (36:22):
I was digging in a raised bed garden that had
filled with soil last year, but I've actually ever planned
anything in it, so I was trying to turn over
to soil or I was going to amend it. And
when I turned it over, I discovered this long white string.
Speaker 6 (36:36):
You look or stuff.
Speaker 9 (36:36):
It almost looks like moss moss. I don't know what
it is.
Speaker 4 (36:40):
It is one of the fungus and it's not a
bad thing.
Speaker 3 (36:45):
I mean to preface that, it's a funcus.
Speaker 4 (36:47):
It actually helps with breaking down your organic material in
your soul. Actually it's I would say, a very positive sign.
It's not you can break it up real easily. Right,
It's not a root of any type. Okay, yeah, yeah,
it's not real. It's uh for it's not a mushroom,
but it would be similar to a mushroom. Again, it's
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just helping with the decomposition process. Very good, very good
thing to have in there.
Speaker 9 (37:13):
Okay, so don't worry about Just turn it over.
Speaker 3 (37:15):
Just turn it over, Just turn it over.
Speaker 9 (37:17):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (37:18):
All right, thank you so great, Carl.
Speaker 2 (37:19):
Thank you, thank you, and we have one more color.
Speaker 3 (37:23):
Let's go.
Speaker 2 (37:24):
Good morning, Terry, Welcome to wjbo's London Gardens. You how
many we help you today?
Speaker 6 (37:28):
Huh hi, good morning, Good morning morning.
Speaker 10 (37:30):
I have a question about a zeal my azaleas. I've
got azaleos on the east side of my house, pretty sheltered,
kind of near the east and I guess this is
about the third growing season. Just planning them about two
years ago, and they seem to, you know, catch on
getting larger every year, that kind of thing. They were
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kind of about a month ago when they start flushing out. Uh,
they were a little steadily, but they were they were
coming around. But all of a sudden, now this week,
I see the leaves are starting to turn brown on
the end, and I've actually lost two plants. The third
looks like it's going downhill. There's kind of a cobwebby
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types on some of the branches, and I was wondering,
would would that be?
Speaker 4 (38:19):
Might It's conceivable it could be spider mites. Typically a
spider mite web is very close to the leaves and stem.
I mean it basically is like a second skin on there.
If it's if you can see it kind of like
grouping around leaves and all that tends to actually be
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spiders still, but yeah, spidermightes. So it's gonna be a
very fine film right up next to the tissue of
the plant. One of the things that concerns miteria is
something that Chris mentioned earlier in the show.
Speaker 3 (38:53):
I want you to go out and look at the stems.
Speaker 4 (38:56):
Of your plant and follow them down towards the ground
and see if you see any splitting where it actually
looks like they split apart.
Speaker 3 (39:03):
That could actually go back to cold damage.
Speaker 4 (39:06):
And as we were talking about that's we're starting to
see that at the nursery now where Azelia's from that
freeze we had earlier.
Speaker 3 (39:14):
What was that is.
Speaker 4 (39:15):
That in January January where it actually froze the cambium
layer and that is now split. Well, the plant was
able to survive when it wasn't stressed at all, but
now that we're starting to get hotter, we are seeing
some mortality or some die back implants. And that's almost
what it sounds like you have. But it's again. If
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you want to take a picture of it, bring it
by Clegg's Nursery. They can look and usually from a
fairly close up picture we can tell if it's spider
mites or not another thing. And I've done this before
and I don't have an issue with it. I still
have an active Clegg's email account. It's B drewis d
R E W E S at Cleggs Nursery dot com.
(39:59):
If you want to send me a picture on that,
I usually can get back to you within a day
or two on that.
Speaker 3 (40:04):
So either way you want to do.
Speaker 4 (40:05):
It, Uh, it's fine, but I'm afraid you may have
some cold damage.
Speaker 3 (40:14):
What was that Clegg's Nursery, Clegg's Nursery.
Speaker 10 (40:17):
Okay, thank you so much, all right.
Speaker 5 (40:20):
And unfortunately that's typically what happens is you don't see
any damage.
Speaker 3 (40:25):
It's a Christmas tree effect after two or three weeks.
Speaker 5 (40:28):
But once we start warming up and that plant starts
pulling up moisture and nutrients and it can't can't, it
can't because that therefore it will you know, you know,
we've been we've been in this business, and most people,
a lot of people, well probably most people know this
actually plant material, all of its translocation, all of its
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blood system is immediately underneath the bark.
Speaker 3 (40:52):
I mean somebody else showing off now, But that can
be very easily damage. We see that. You know a
lot of times.
Speaker 4 (41:02):
In crape myrtles, people will take weed eaters and keep
weed eating right up.
Speaker 3 (41:08):
Next to them.
Speaker 4 (41:08):
Well, it cuts all that cambium layer that's asylum in
the floam, and that plant can't translocate moisture up and
nutrients down, and it dies sore. And if it's split,
it's the same thing. Or if it's damaged by cold,
you know, if it's pipes burst, it can't do that.
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So and once we get stressed is when it can't
do it to the effectiveness that.
Speaker 3 (41:34):
It needs to.
Speaker 4 (41:35):
And the plant, you know, it stem dies or the
plant dies, so anything. And you've got I notice you've
got the new spruce product in at Clegg's, the new
non selective herbicide.
Speaker 3 (41:47):
Yes, Johnny has tried it out. I don't know his
I don't know if he tried it. I don't know.
I got to ask him when.
Speaker 4 (41:52):
Yeah, he's going to ask if anybody has actually tried it.
It's kind of neat the way I read up on it,
about the way it actually drops eyes the plan out
as opposed to some of the other things.
Speaker 3 (42:03):
So we'll see if that how that works.
Speaker 4 (42:05):
Another safe product, and if you're going for a safe product,
just a little soapbox thing here, use that instead of
the vinegar product. I know you all have the vinegar
product at the store, but I just vinegar does to
me nothing but burn and so often the root system's
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there and if you keep reapplying it, you can actually
create some soil pH issues.
Speaker 3 (42:31):
So I'm not a fan of that product. Sorry, but
I know it's advertising.
Speaker 4 (42:36):
I know, especially a lot of the organic people are
very excited about it.
Speaker 3 (42:40):
But wow, that's the end of the show.
Speaker 7 (42:42):
Music.
Speaker 3 (42:43):
You want me to take us out one? I'm happy
Easter Antaclaire reason for the season. People.
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Speaker 2 (00:22):
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Garden Show today. I am here with mister Butcher mister Chris,
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Speaker 4 (00:38):
I noticed on the intro there that seasonal plumt and
you like go to the grocery store and get the
little McCormick seasoning and plant those what.
Speaker 5 (00:49):
Not A good way to start off. That's not how
you make little peppers. That's what I thought, little tiny ers.
Speaker 4 (00:54):
Oh, before we get two started on questions and four
nine six here.
Speaker 3 (00:59):
You had a big day yesterday.
Speaker 4 (01:01):
I heard that you went shopping for hours and found
several on.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
Sale, several hours on sale.
Speaker 4 (01:10):
She was shopping for several hours and she found some
on sale.
Speaker 5 (01:16):
Okay, can I start the showing please, so actually I
want to say welcome back, and there our CEO.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
Is that what we're supposed to call her?
Speaker 2 (01:28):
Now?
Speaker 3 (01:29):
Is that in the contract? It's her highness? Her highness?
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Okay, I was not aware of this.
Speaker 4 (01:36):
We actually have someone calling in, probably tell us to
go off air. Anyway, you have been busy lately, a
big graduation coming up, so moving on moving away from us?
Speaker 3 (01:53):
Maybe not, but anyway, so we're just killing time here
till he puts.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
Out there's the name, good morning video, Welcome to w
jbo's London Garden Show. How may we help you today?
Speaker 6 (02:05):
Is it too late to plant tomatoes?
Speaker 3 (02:07):
No, not at all. I would be a little bit
more selective on what varieties I were to plant this late.
I would probably stay away from some of the heirloom varieties.
They have a tendency to be more disease prone.
Speaker 4 (02:28):
They're not going to set fruit at some of your
higher temperatures, so you're probably a little late, and those
would be more purple Cherokee, purple black crim Yeah, it's
those type. I think your celebrity, your big beef. I
don't know if y'all are getting in like your Florida
(02:48):
ninety ones yet, I.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
Don't think we've seen those yet. Those oh denitly well.
Speaker 4 (02:56):
If you go with what we call heat set varieties,
that would be Florida ninety one, and I'm drawing a
total blankness.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
Some of the other even still have heat wave solar set.
Speaker 4 (03:08):
I haven't seen those, and I know heat waves been
gone for a while. Amelia is a good one, Bela
Rosa is another one. If you're going with heat set varieties,
I would go ahead, and I wouldn't be opposed to
starting from seed. But if you're trying to do like
your celebrities, big beef h those type eye, you're a
little bit late to be putting those out from seed
(03:29):
or too early.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
Either way you want to look at it.
Speaker 6 (03:31):
Thank you very much.
Speaker 4 (03:32):
All right, good question, actually, very good question. Most at
least I feel, and Chris you can chime in, most
of your vegetables at this point should probably be planted
from plants. The exceptions I would say to that would
be if you want to still do beans. And sorry
(03:54):
you got the soapbox sounder up there, because I need
to drag it over here. When you come by Klegg's
Nursery or wherever you buy your plants.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
Don't buy a bean plant, plant a seed. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (04:09):
The problem with planting a bean plant is you're never
gonna have enough beans to do anything with them.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
I mean it's in a row. You have to plant
a row.
Speaker 4 (04:18):
You have to plant a bunch of beans, because unlike
a tomato, where you can pick a tomato or a pepper,
and one tomato a lot of times is all you
really need at one point. Well, how many people eat
one bean? Not many, not many? So, but anyway, beans,
your cucurbage, your squash, your cucumbers. I think you would
(04:40):
probably still be able to go from seed okra. Actually
that's I think you're still a little early on. Yeah,
the hotter it is, the happier there are. In fact,
we planted in our garden at home squash plants this
last week. And what we'll do is we'll wait till
the squash fine boor kill them, and that's when she'll
(05:02):
plant the okra in that bit.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
So, I mean we won't be planting opra till probably June.
I picked my first squash yesterday, Well, congratulations, hopefully I'll
get some more today.
Speaker 4 (05:11):
What squash come in, they are, it's like, oh, no
more squash.
Speaker 5 (05:17):
One of the things, back to the Gentleman's that the
callers question about tomatoes is the problem that I've noticed
the last several years is we're getting hotter earlier. I
mean years ago. I don't remember getting in the nineties
in June. I mean we were in the eighties. Now,
did we hit ninety yesterday?
Speaker 3 (05:35):
We were close. If we didn't hit it, I think
we're supposed to get close today.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
I think we were like upper eighties all day yesterday,
so it was close.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
It was close, I think.
Speaker 4 (05:42):
I think I looked at my truck thermometer one time
and it's a little always a little off. I think
it was just over ninety.
Speaker 5 (05:48):
Yeah, So it's not a question of you know, are
you too late. It really depends on our weather. I mean,
if we stayed cooler, especially the nighttime temperature.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
It is nighttime temperature.
Speaker 4 (05:55):
That is, I mean both both daytime and nighttime temperatures
affect tomato plants, and what the effects is if the
flower can become viable in set of fruit most of
your varieties that most people recognize that nighttime temperature is
in the low seventies.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
So you know we're starting to get.
Speaker 4 (06:14):
I mean this morning when I woke up and looked
at the thermometer. We were at seventy six when I
woke up this morning, So I mean, we're already getting
nighttime temperatures a little higher than we should. I think
we're supposed to have. Are we supposed to have like
a reinforcing cool front this weekend that maybe bring.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
The temperatures down Sunday night Monday mornings what I.
Speaker 4 (06:32):
Was thinking too, But no, there's plenty that we can
do in the vegetable garden. Fertilization is very important if
you have planted right now or have things planted in
your garden still recommending calcium nitrate, yes, yeah.
Speaker 5 (06:48):
And actually most of these fertilizers, I mean, they don't
last the entire season.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
Le's. Of course, you get the Cadillac, which is.
Speaker 5 (06:54):
Osma Cote, but most of them, like what we sells,
last about thirty to forty five days, so you really
do want to reapply about once a month.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
Good, just a good conversation. Points you brought up there?
What are you.
Speaker 4 (07:08):
And let me preface what I'm about to ask by saying,
I think Ozma code is an excellent fertilizer do you
think it's a good fertilizer to use with vegetables?
Speaker 3 (07:18):
Probably not, because you're not going to get enough nitrogen,
which is you're growing, you're green growing, you're green growth.
Speaker 5 (07:25):
I put it in there, but I also use the
gardener Special, the fertile on special, so I have a
long term release and then I have a quick release.
Speaker 3 (07:34):
I agree with you. I think I think the same
thing again, OZMA.
Speaker 4 (07:38):
Code for a shrubbed or for something that's established that
you're trying to keep fed over a long period of time.
Is But like you said, the Cadillac or the fertilizers.
But I think exactly what you said. I think for
vegetable gardens it's almost too slow.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
Right.
Speaker 4 (07:55):
You know those vegetable plants are teenage boys. They need
to be vestantly, Yes, ed heavily.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
So good point.
Speaker 4 (08:01):
But anyway, that was a great discussion. What if somebody
wanted to get involved in that great discussion.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
They could cause that four six and it's nine WJBO.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
I'm surprised you remembered the number. Did you have any questions?
Speaker 2 (08:17):
I do?
Speaker 3 (08:18):
All right?
Speaker 2 (08:18):
What is pete mass and is it important for the plants?
Speaker 3 (08:23):
Yes?
Speaker 5 (08:24):
And no, it's a soil amendment. I mean you probably
have more scientific drop your scientific knowledge about what it is.
It was out of Canada, correct for the most part,
for the most part, and it actually the easiest way
for me to It actually kind of works as a
sponge and holes moisture soils are different everywhere you go.
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Here in Louisiana and South Louisiana, it's clay. We have
so many people who come in and say, well, I
have clay in my yard. Unique, but we all have
a clay soil. So you want to break up that
by adding soil amendments. And pete moss is one of them.
Sand is another, which I agree with everything you just said.
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And peat moss is a sponge.
Speaker 4 (09:12):
And when I was talking to customers more.
Speaker 3 (09:17):
We recommend a product. I highly recommend a product at
Clegg's if people are doing what we call bulk where
you got to bring the pickup truck and we dump
it in the back of your pickup truck, we can
sell it a raised bed blend product. I'm getting your
tongue tied in a clare.
Speaker 4 (09:33):
That's where you need peat moss when you're doing a
raised vegetable garden or and I don't know how this
became popular, but some and it's totally okay. I mean
LSU has approved it. Were people come in and they
just dump eighteen inches of soil on top of the
clay and plant in it. If you're doing that, you
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need something in that soil that is going to help
you hold moisture. That's what peat moss does, where you
get your moisture retention for the most part the clay soils.
If you're dealing, if you're doing the way I grew up,
preparing a bed where you break up the clay and
you add the organic material like I normally don't like
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to put pete moss in there because the clay is
going to hold moisture for you already, correct, so, and
the peat moss is such a fine organic material that
it really doesn't help you with the breaking up of
the clay ions. So peat moss is important, especially in
raised beds. In fact, do we do you still have
the little our little raised bed soil mix that we
used to promote somewhere somewhere. Yeah, that was one of
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the important things that we put into there. I think
it was set up to be twenty seven cubic feet
and for cubic feet of what we were recommending was
peat moss.
Speaker 3 (10:48):
So it is important in raised beds in particular. And
I agree with you one hundred percent on the raised bed.
The raised bed is an excellent mix, but water goes
right through it, oh does it. But if we were
to add the peat moss, it would probably be two
hundred dollars a yard, So you know you do want to.
Speaker 4 (11:07):
It's I always say you can add stuff. It's hard
to take stuff out. So if a customer comes in
buys the raised bed blend and mixes it, say with
a compost pile they already have, well that compost may
work with some of that moisture retention. So you wouldn't
need as quite as much peat moss as if you
come in, dump the yard of raised bed and blend
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in there and then throw you a two point two
qub footed peat moss in.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
You know it's it's it varies.
Speaker 4 (11:35):
And that's the other thing with the raised bed blend
and what you say, we're saying about how much it drains.
I'd rather drain each than than moisture retention. So anyway,
good question, Thank you, you're welcome.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
We have an Easter egg hunt tomorrow and there are
like really big weeds in the yard. Is there anything
we can do to get rid of them?
Speaker 3 (11:56):
Mom? We eat them? There's that was easy.
Speaker 4 (12:00):
Next question, Yeah, weed killers. I know the commercials out
there right now with spruce and the weeds are gone
within ten minutes or whatever it is. But most especially
in your yards, you're not wanting to spray a non
selective herbicide, meaning it kills everything. And I don't think
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I with an easter egg hunt, I don't think i'd
do that anyway, because we don't want any type of
contaminants when they're picking up the eggs. But most of
your in fact, I think i'd.
Speaker 3 (12:34):
Be safe saying if you know something different obviously, Chris,
But your selective herbicides have to be absorbed either through
the root system or through the foliage to work, and
that absorption takes time. But attressing is twenty one days,
isn't that right? Of course? I'm not sure. Yeah, I'm
pretty sure.
Speaker 4 (12:53):
Know that attressinge is like it can sometimes it can
take up to twenty one days to actually be effective.
Weed pre zones about four to seven days, so it
is an absorption process to take care of weeds. So
if you were having an Easter egg hunt, you should
have planned a couple of weeks ago ahead, planned the heads,
and you were talking about the products that and their
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effectiveness and how long they take.
Speaker 3 (13:17):
But also weeds react differently.
Speaker 5 (13:20):
That's when I sprayed the cocktail, as we call it
the weed cocktail. I sprayed it in the morning and
that afternoon the clover it was wilting and turning brown.
But the dollar weed, it was seven to ten days
before it did anything, but now it's gone.
Speaker 3 (13:36):
Do you put the big ice balls in your weed cocktail? Yeah?
The square winds the cubes. It's got my initial one right.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
If you have any questions, are we Butcher Drews and
mister Kurt, mister Chris from Clegg's Nursery.
Speaker 3 (13:54):
Good morning, Good morning? What is this called?
Speaker 2 (13:57):
WJVU is one and garden show?
Speaker 3 (14:01):
Would people want to call it?
Speaker 2 (14:02):
I'm getting there.
Speaker 3 (14:03):
I don't know why.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
Please call us that.
Speaker 3 (14:09):
JBO And if they call what would they do? Ask
a question like you're about to yep?
Speaker 2 (14:17):
Is there any question? Are the cit trees dead? They're
sprowning low on the trunks.
Speaker 5 (14:25):
Short answer, yes, So we've seen a lot of pictures
come in the nursery and yeah, the tops are dead,
they're brown, they're not coming out, but there are is
some growth down at the bottom. Now, one thing you
have to pay attention to is there's a graft about
what four to six inches off the ground. Typically, if
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there's growth coming from below that, well you're it's not
a satsuma, it's not a lemon, it's the native orange.
If it's coming above that, then that should be your lemon,
or your setsuma or your orange and it will come back.
But do you want to take the time and you're
going to have a weird looking shape tree?
Speaker 3 (15:04):
What do you say? I agree?
Speaker 4 (15:06):
But one of the things to add to what you
were just saying, and I'm seeing it already in my citrus.
Your explanation, I mean, you obviously were looking at my
citrus except for.
Speaker 3 (15:19):
My brown select. I do want to point that out.
Speaker 4 (15:22):
I had both an awari actually unfortunately it was my
father's that I planted in our yard many years ago,
and obviously he since passed, and I had a brown select.
My brown select had damage, but it has it is
coming out like pretty much the same shape and same
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size as before.
Speaker 3 (15:44):
I had noticed several of the lower branches.
Speaker 4 (15:48):
Were actually killed out, and I truthfully believe that was
because obviously the snow was covering the upper branches and
not the lower ones.
Speaker 3 (15:55):
So that's why I'm losing those.
Speaker 4 (15:58):
The Awari is where I wanted to continue what you
were talking about. I was getting it to leaf out,
and I was all excited. I started to notice this
last week as the temperature started to go out, some
of those are starting to wilt. So what I'm afraid
of a lot of people are going to see where, Oh,
I've got growth coming out. Yes, I have dead limbs
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I need to cut off. But as we get into
more stressful period, I'm wondering if those main stems are
damage to the point.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
Where they're not going to be able to survive later on.
Speaker 5 (16:30):
Yeah, that's one of the things that most people don't realize,
and we can actually see it in azaleas. Even though
is aas are evergreen, they could have received some freeze damage.
But unfortunately we're not going to notice it. And still,
like you say, it starts warming up, it starts pulling
up moisture and nutrients, and then it wilts. And if
you go down and follow that stem you'll see a
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split on the bark.
Speaker 4 (16:53):
In the citrus, I'm not seeing the split, but I
am starting to see darkened areas where I can tell
the tissues died. In fact, I was talking to my
neighbors last night and I kind of gave last rice.
Speaker 3 (17:06):
To a couple of his trees. So it's a it's
still a weight and see situation. H But I.
Speaker 4 (17:14):
Am more and more and more concerned, especially if it
was a younger tree. I just don't think it's And
your point about what what is.
Speaker 3 (17:26):
A tree going to look like? And how long is
it going to take for that tree to recover and
be productive? Again?
Speaker 4 (17:33):
Is I have a red naval orange that I mean
it's sprouting out, but I mean it's sprouting out two
feet from above the graph.
Speaker 3 (17:42):
But I just don't think it's gonna be worth trying
to save it.
Speaker 5 (17:45):
Another thing I wanted to mention is we have a
lot of people coming in and say, hell, well I
covered it well.
Speaker 3 (17:50):
Covering it only does so much.
Speaker 5 (17:53):
What my wife and I did is we actually covered
it and put lights on it. But even that is
only going to go so raised the temperature so much.
I mean we got down a low ten degrees, didn't
we I've heard seven, I've heard ten.
Speaker 3 (18:07):
Tom said it was seven, so it's seven. But it's cold.
I mean, there's only so much you can do.
Speaker 4 (18:12):
And we'd have a smaller lemon tree that has planted,
and we wrapped it with the freeze cloth that we got.
We sell it clegs and I put a trouble light
in there with the hunter watt in you know, incandescent,
not led light, because I needed the heat. And it's fine.
I mean, it's as good today as it was the
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day we wrapped it. But all its little friends are
not feeling windows we got Ana Claire, get off your phone,
Anta Claire, I.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
Have another question.
Speaker 3 (18:47):
Good.
Speaker 4 (18:48):
Hopefully somebody else will and call us at four nine six.
Speaker 3 (18:52):
This is final Jeopardy.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
Dude. What herbs are available now? And what is so
amazing about a mizzle basil?
Speaker 3 (19:05):
Very amazal basil is amazing. I love it.
Speaker 5 (19:10):
But we have basil time, Oregano sage all of those.
But back to the amazel basil. One of the things
with just regular and it is a sweet basil. It's
got that large leaf. Great for a red gravy or marinera.
I'm from New Orleans we say red gravy one of
the things. With just a regular sweet basil, it tends
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to go to flower, and once it goes to flowers
pretty much finished. So if you're good at going out
there and clipping that seed head off or the flower off,
it'll continue to go. With the amazal basil, I found
that it doesn't go to flower until later, so we
get a nicer shrub. I mean it got about two
foot tall, two to three foot tall, but it did
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very well for us.
Speaker 3 (19:54):
The biggest thing with a masal basil is that it
is much more disease resistant.
Speaker 4 (20:01):
We get several bacterial issues with basil basically melts it,
and a masal basil is relatively resistant to that.
Speaker 3 (20:12):
I haven't really seen that much of an issue on it.
Speaker 4 (20:15):
Sometimes, unfortunately, I would see it at the nursery where
we'd be a little bit too close together and we
get some issues there. But typically in the in the
homeowner's garden, it's going to be very resistant to that.
So definitely it's a little bit more expensive, but definitely
worth the difference in price.
Speaker 3 (20:34):
Definitely, herb gardens are neat. Charlie has been.
Speaker 4 (20:40):
Doing one for many years and it's kind of neat
to go out there and just clip the irreguano to
put into your marinaro, no red sauce, red gravy.
Speaker 3 (20:52):
You know, it is kind of neat.
Speaker 4 (20:53):
To go out there the basil, you know, the time,
you know some of those like the time its great.
Right now, it's gonna get a little ratty when it
gets real hot, but it comes right back and she
does rosemary. So yeah, it's kind of fun to have
with herbs. You don't need a garden. You can plant,
put some in a pop. You can put three or
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four of them in a decent sized pot right outside
your kitchen. Yep, if you live in an apartment, if
you have a nice sunny area, if you have a
veranda that faces west, oh, you must be fancy. I
know I wrote that word down one day, but yeah,
herb pots are very popular and very easy to do.
Speaker 3 (21:34):
So a great little thing, a kind of neat thing.
Speaker 4 (21:37):
If somebody, you know, student out of LSU or something
out on, you know, wants to try gardening, you know,
don't worry about tomatoes and peppers and all that.
Speaker 3 (21:45):
Start out with herbs. They're a little bit easier.
Speaker 2 (21:51):
I have another question, good, are there any issues showing
up in the garden yet and what preventatives can be used.
Speaker 3 (22:00):
You kind of threw me under the bus on that one.
Speaker 4 (22:02):
No, I actually had one of my gardening buddies sent
me some pictures yesterday. Unfortunately, we're starting to get the
bacterial spot on peppers. Kind of surprised that it's this early.
But what happens is your pepper leaves will start to
get a modeled look to them. They may actually have
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some dark spots. Typically start from the bottom up. It's
very detrimental on peppers. Tends to be more active in
bell peppers than hot peppers. We have is a tradition
and ninja or two new pepper varieties that are very
resistant to that. The spray for it, and then actually
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it's better if you do a preventative spray use copper.
It is actually very effective, but again it's more of
a preventative than a cure.
Speaker 3 (22:56):
Tomatoes, probably with.
Speaker 4 (22:58):
The temperatures we're seeing, probably going to be starting to
see stink bugs pretty soon, if we haven't already. Eight
is still my recommendation for stink bugs. Stink bugs ideally
again if you catch them juvenile and a juvenile stink bug.
Speaker 3 (23:17):
Looks like a big red ant with black legs.
Speaker 2 (23:20):
We actually have a caller.
Speaker 3 (23:21):
Let's go.
Speaker 2 (23:24):
Good morning, Philip, Welcome to wjba's London Guarded Show. How
may we help you today?
Speaker 3 (23:28):
Good morning, guys, Good morning.
Speaker 7 (23:31):
Let's take here of some business first, your highness, I'm
listening to you grow up on the radio, and I'm
making the assumption that what you're going into high school?
Speaker 2 (23:44):
Now?
Speaker 7 (23:46):
Yes, yes, okay, Well, now that we got that out
of the way. I've been listening to y'all for a
long long time. We appreciate it, and I think I
kind of slept through the first segment on the tomatoes.
Speaker 3 (23:59):
We did too.
Speaker 7 (24:01):
Yeah, I have some salmon zana seeds.
Speaker 3 (24:05):
Is it too late? Yes?
Speaker 4 (24:07):
Yeah, Sam Marizano is a pacee type tomato. It's actually
one of the ones that should be planted early because
it has As we get hotter, it can develop. Being
a paste type tomato, it can develop more issues than
some of your more common tomatoes would be. So yeah,
just the nice thing about tomato seeds is hang on
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to them. They will be They will actually, if anything,
they'll be better next year. As far as germination goes,
it's kind of weird. With tomato seeds, I mean after
you know, if I have ten year old seeds, you
probably can get rid of them. But yeah, you can
save tamato seeds from year to year being some of
the other ones. You know, if you missplanting those, you
miles will put them in the trash, but tomatoes will
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be just fine.
Speaker 3 (24:51):
So just hang on to them.
Speaker 4 (24:52):
If you want to start seeing those, I'd start them
in January, no later than middle of February.
Speaker 3 (24:58):
But yeah, just hang on to them. You'll be sure.
Speaker 7 (25:00):
Okay, Well, look let me ask you what uh what
do y'all have out at the center that would be
a good sub for for that, you know, plants.
Speaker 4 (25:13):
If if there are some San Marzana's, I wouldn't be
opposed completely to planting some. We have the roma, which
is the original paste tomato. Should have some of those
sometimes now they're actually labeled lace roma.
Speaker 3 (25:28):
It's h laar Roma is the I don't want to
say better.
Speaker 4 (25:33):
But the more the more recent variety released, So that
would be your paste tomatoes that it would be available
at the nursery right now.
Speaker 6 (25:42):
Good to you. Well, I appreciate it.
Speaker 7 (25:44):
I love to cook fresh tomato sauce.
Speaker 3 (25:47):
There you go well, Thank you so much, Philip for
the call.
Speaker 4 (25:49):
You and we were discussing before we went to break
peppers and some of the issues we're having with peppers
and one of the things in vegetable gardening that.
Speaker 3 (26:04):
I really want.
Speaker 4 (26:05):
To figure out the best way to stress this is
a lot of the problems that we get on vegetable
plants is because of improper watering. Overhead watering on vegetables
is probably the worst thing that you can do for
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two reasons. One, now, if you do it early in
the morning, maybe it's not as bad. It definitely don't
want to do it in the evening or at night.
But you don't want water sitting on the foliage for
a long period of time because that brings funguses. The
other thing you're finding is that when you're doing overhead watering,
you're getting splashing of dirt up onto the plant and
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in some instances onto the fruit. You can get buckeye rot,
which is an issue a lot of times we get
in tomatoes.
Speaker 3 (26:55):
So you really want to do.
Speaker 4 (27:00):
Watering. How else to say that drip irrigation is where
I was going. You weren't getting there fast.
Speaker 3 (27:11):
I'm old, I get there eventually, Okay, the wheelchair only
goes so fast drip irrigation. Anybody that does raise gardening,
come in, talk to Chris, and only Chris.
Speaker 4 (27:24):
If Chris isn't there, leave, come back. Some other times
it's no problem. But no, any of the people there
can explain to you it is the easiest thing to
install you will ever do. I have, and I've told
people before I have. When I set up my garden,
it is basically five separate plots and it's they're bordered
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by cinder blocks. And I did that on purpose because
my wife told me to. And one of the one
of them is her herb garden and the other one
we do tomatoes, peppers, eggplant in one of the beds,
squashed another one. It took me less than two hours
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to get the entire system put into drip irrigation. And
that was actually doing what I call a retrofit. I
had to dig under the cinder blocks under the walkways
to put my main tube or my trunk tube down
if you're starting out a new garden. And it was,
like I said, I did the whole thing for less
than fifty bucks, you know.
Speaker 3 (28:28):
And I put it to the timer.
Speaker 4 (28:30):
That's not including the timer, because I think the timer
is about fifty bucks.
Speaker 3 (28:33):
But it's on timer. We don't have to worry about it.
We go very it's very economical. We go on vacation.
It's watered.
Speaker 5 (28:42):
Yes, it's watered, so you don't have to worry about
somebody the granddaughter coming over and forget forget.
Speaker 3 (28:48):
That to turn it off the neighbor.
Speaker 5 (28:51):
Now a drip irrigation, and we've said this before on
the show. When you water, it's best to water the
soil that's where the roots are exactly and soak it.
I mean give it a good thorough watering, but not
very often.
Speaker 4 (29:05):
I mean there we sell a six inch spacing, a
twelve inch spacing. You know, all the instructions are there
on the little rapper or you, like I said, you
can ask Chris.
Speaker 3 (29:17):
Come on in and ask me to be glad to
help you.
Speaker 2 (29:19):
We have a caller.
Speaker 3 (29:20):
Well, let's go.
Speaker 2 (29:23):
Good morning, John, Welcome to wjbs On and Garden Show.
How may we help you today?
Speaker 6 (29:28):
Good morning and Claire, Hey, John, Hey, but how are
you questions one fine? Thank you great?
Speaker 3 (29:38):
I miss.
Speaker 4 (29:39):
I was about to say, if you're one of the
people I miss not being there anymore.
Speaker 3 (29:42):
So it's good to hear your voice. John. One of
a few I did not say that. No, we do
miss you, but.
Speaker 6 (29:54):
Purchased, uh, some peppers, some clegs. I'm just sick red. Yeah,
it's like a ninja ten yep. A couple of them
went into containers. We're doing okay. Other two however, what
end of the container? And the next day they're wilky
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And it's not too much water? Is it the soil
and the container? I think I've had a problem there before.
Speaker 4 (30:23):
Well, obviously if you've had a problem before, I would
I would I would lean towards the soil one of
the things. And actually it's.
Speaker 3 (30:33):
Not a problem with the drip irrigation we were just
talking about. But we are some of our garden.
Speaker 4 (30:39):
We just planted our squash, like I said last week. Well,
when you plant it, you've got a little what do
I'm gonna say, two inch square? Maybe you know if
you bought a four inch plant three and a half
inch square, all of the root system is in that square.
So if your soil out in the pot is wet
and that little square dries out, your plant is going
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to droop.
Speaker 3 (31:01):
So that's one of the things.
Speaker 4 (31:03):
When we initially plant, we want to make sure that
we are getting that little, small square root ball watered.
The other thing with peppers is if they got and
I don't think you would do this, John, I know
how you've been gardening it, well, not quite as long
as I have.
Speaker 3 (31:20):
You're not near as old as I am. But it
don't plant them deep.
Speaker 4 (31:26):
You don't want unlike tomatoes where you could practically bury them.
You'd want the surface of that root ball when you
plant it to be at the surface of the soil.
You get to start getting soil up around the stem
of a pepper, and it'll go It'll go south real quick.
Speaker 6 (31:42):
Okay for the soil and that it was two containers
in questions, go ahead and replace it, Yes, and you
put that in the compost bin and oh yeah, you
get hot enough.
Speaker 4 (31:55):
Maybe any it's probably not that big of a deal.
I tell people. It's kind of like, Okay, I'm gonna
use antaclair in me. If Antaclaire is exposed to something,
because she's much smaller than I am, she may be affected.
Were the same exposure to me.
Speaker 3 (32:15):
I'm just not even I might get the sniffles from
it or whatever. Baby plants.
Speaker 4 (32:21):
You know, transplants are much more susceptible to issues in
the soil than.
Speaker 3 (32:27):
A mature plant would be.
Speaker 4 (32:28):
So or the other thing is, you've got this root
ball and I'm just going to say a ten inch pot.
Speaker 3 (32:34):
Well, it's concentrated there.
Speaker 4 (32:36):
Where you take that and you dump it in your
compost pile, it's spread out. So even if you do
get some things in there that maybe you don't really want,
they're either gonna be so spread out or you're gonna
be putting them around large enough plants that it's probably
not going to affect them. So no, I wouldn't have
any issue putting that soil in your compost palm.
Speaker 6 (32:55):
Well, how do you clean the container after you've done that?
Speaker 4 (32:59):
Ten percent bleach solution ten bleach to water if you
can put if you have a big enough bucket that
you can put the pot in there and let it
soak for several minutes is the best way to do it.
But yeah, ten percent bleach solution.
Speaker 6 (33:15):
Would soil sterilization work on the soil that within those containers.
Speaker 4 (33:22):
Yes, but again I'm not sure if you're dumping it
into the compost pile that's really worth it.
Speaker 3 (33:27):
I would I would get new soil to put in there.
I would not solarize or sanitize the soil and put
it back in that container.
Speaker 6 (33:34):
No trying to figure out where to put it other
than putting it out in the yard.
Speaker 3 (33:41):
That would work too.
Speaker 5 (33:42):
Yeah, your flower bad, put it in your flower bed
around the shrubs.
Speaker 6 (33:48):
Okay, then thank you very much. Guys see you get
the nursery all right?
Speaker 2 (33:51):
Thanks and that does open up phone lines at four GBO.
Speaker 3 (34:00):
Very nicely done. What's new at the nursery? Anything new
this year?
Speaker 5 (34:03):
We got enough we had it last year. But those
and now I can't think of the name of them.
Those Dipladinia's. Oh yeah, the purple is blue and orange. Yeah, yeah,
I'm trying to think of what else is new. We
have a lot of Zain's been bringing a lot of quarterline,
different color quarterline.
Speaker 3 (34:21):
There was cool looking. Those are flying out the door.
And we just got another truck from Florida. So your
tropicals Hibiscus, mandevilla, dipladinia, they're not new. I mean there's
some new colors. Well.
Speaker 4 (34:32):
One of the things that it was Shirley's week to
plant her bedding plants at our house, so I actually
sent a picture to a friend of mine that I
was just a joke with him how he needed to
teach lessons on how to push a cart behind his wife.
Speaker 3 (34:46):
So I sent a picture and asked, was I leaning
on the cart properly followed Charlie, I am just blown
away by the house plan area at Seagan Lane.
Speaker 4 (34:57):
I mean that is just I mean that, I that
is fantastic. I love the way it was. I don't
know if you designed the setup or whatever with the
bench actually had the greenhouse company designed it for.
Speaker 3 (35:09):
It's just it's so it feels so nice to just
walk through there, and it's actually.
Speaker 5 (35:14):
And Zane's doing a very good job of keeping it
stocked and plants that I have no idea what you are.
Speaker 8 (35:20):
I'm putting them in the computer and I have no
idea either, but anyway, so but yeah, if you haven't
seen the new house plan area at Segan it's it's
definitely walk around, you know, if you want to get
together a bus tour of those are welcome.
Speaker 3 (35:36):
We had one a couple of weeks ago.
Speaker 2 (35:38):
Said that good morning, Stanley, welcome to w jbos On
and Garden Show. How may we help you today?
Speaker 6 (35:45):
I'd like to know what this sistance to bat News
Day Little Society.
Speaker 3 (35:49):
It's still we do not know. To be honest, yeah,
we do not know.
Speaker 4 (35:54):
We were trying to look it up on our phones
before we took the call.
Speaker 3 (35:57):
But I don't know. I don't even know who to call.
You know what.
Speaker 4 (36:03):
You might want to call the East Betton Ridge Parish Library.
They do a lot with those type of groups. They
may be able to answer that question.
Speaker 6 (36:11):
Okay, I appreciate that.
Speaker 3 (36:13):
Okay, sorry about that.
Speaker 9 (36:14):
Thank you.
Speaker 6 (36:14):
That's okay, all right.
Speaker 2 (36:16):
Good morning, Mary, Welcome to WJB is On and Garden Show.
I man help you today.
Speaker 10 (36:21):
I was I have a question.
Speaker 9 (36:22):
I was digging in a raised bed garden that had
filled with soil last year, but I've actually ever planned
anything in it, so I was trying to turn over
to soil or I was going to amend it. And
when I turned it over, I discovered this long white string.
Speaker 6 (36:36):
You look or stuff.
Speaker 9 (36:36):
It almost looks like moss moss. I don't know what
it is.
Speaker 4 (36:40):
It is one of the fungus and it's not a
bad thing.
Speaker 3 (36:45):
I mean to preface that, it's a funcus.
Speaker 4 (36:47):
It actually helps with breaking down your organic material in
your soul. Actually it's I would say, a very positive sign.
It's not you can break it up real easily. Right,
It's not a root of any type. Okay, yeah, yeah,
it's not real. It's uh for it's not a mushroom,
but it would be similar to a mushroom. Again, it's
(37:07):
just helping with the decomposition process. Very good, very good
thing to have in there.
Speaker 9 (37:13):
Okay, so don't worry about Just turn it over.
Speaker 3 (37:15):
Just turn it over, Just turn it over.
Speaker 9 (37:17):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (37:18):
All right, thank you so great, Carl.
Speaker 2 (37:19):
Thank you, thank you, and we have one more color.
Speaker 3 (37:23):
Let's go.
Speaker 2 (37:24):
Good morning, Terry, Welcome to wjbo's London Gardens. You how
many we help you today?
Speaker 6 (37:28):
Huh hi, good morning, Good morning morning.
Speaker 10 (37:30):
I have a question about a zeal my azaleas. I've
got azaleos on the east side of my house, pretty sheltered,
kind of near the east and I guess this is
about the third growing season. Just planning them about two
years ago, and they seem to, you know, catch on
getting larger every year, that kind of thing. They were
(37:51):
kind of about a month ago when they start flushing out. Uh,
they were a little steadily, but they were they were
coming around. But all of a sudden, now this week,
I see the leaves are starting to turn brown on
the end, and I've actually lost two plants. The third
looks like it's going downhill. There's kind of a cobwebby
(38:14):
types on some of the branches, and I was wondering,
would would that be?
Speaker 4 (38:19):
Might It's conceivable it could be spider mites. Typically a
spider mite web is very close to the leaves and stem.
I mean it basically is like a second skin on there.
If it's if you can see it kind of like
grouping around leaves and all that tends to actually be
(38:39):
spiders still, but yeah, spidermightes. So it's gonna be a
very fine film right up next to the tissue of
the plant. One of the things that concerns miteria is
something that Chris mentioned earlier in the show.
Speaker 3 (38:53):
I want you to go out and look at the stems.
Speaker 4 (38:56):
Of your plant and follow them down towards the ground
and see if you see any splitting where it actually
looks like they split apart.
Speaker 3 (39:03):
That could actually go back to cold damage.
Speaker 4 (39:06):
And as we were talking about that's we're starting to
see that at the nursery now where Azelia's from that
freeze we had earlier.
Speaker 3 (39:14):
What was that is.
Speaker 4 (39:15):
That in January January where it actually froze the cambium
layer and that is now split. Well, the plant was
able to survive when it wasn't stressed at all, but
now that we're starting to get hotter, we are seeing
some mortality or some die back implants. And that's almost
what it sounds like you have. But it's again. If
(39:36):
you want to take a picture of it, bring it
by Clegg's Nursery. They can look and usually from a
fairly close up picture we can tell if it's spider
mites or not another thing. And I've done this before
and I don't have an issue with it. I still
have an active Clegg's email account. It's B drewis d
R E W E S at Cleggs Nursery dot com.
(39:59):
If you want to send me a picture on that,
I usually can get back to you within a day
or two on that.
Speaker 3 (40:04):
So either way you want to do.
Speaker 4 (40:05):
It, Uh, it's fine, but I'm afraid you may have
some cold damage.
Speaker 3 (40:14):
What was that Clegg's Nursery, Clegg's Nursery.
Speaker 10 (40:17):
Okay, thank you so much, all right.
Speaker 5 (40:20):
And unfortunately that's typically what happens is you don't see
any damage.
Speaker 3 (40:25):
It's a Christmas tree effect after two or three weeks.
Speaker 5 (40:28):
But once we start warming up and that plant starts
pulling up moisture and nutrients and it can't can't, it
can't because that therefore it will you know, you know,
we've been we've been in this business, and most people,
a lot of people, well probably most people know this
actually plant material, all of its translocation, all of its
(40:49):
blood system is immediately underneath the bark.
Speaker 3 (40:52):
I mean somebody else showing off now, But that can
be very easily damage. We see that. You know a
lot of times.
Speaker 4 (41:02):
In crape myrtles, people will take weed eaters and keep
weed eating right up.
Speaker 3 (41:08):
Next to them.
Speaker 4 (41:08):
Well, it cuts all that cambium layer that's asylum in
the floam, and that plant can't translocate moisture up and
nutrients down, and it dies sore. And if it's split,
it's the same thing. Or if it's damaged by cold,
you know, if it's pipes burst, it can't do that.
(41:29):
So and once we get stressed is when it can't
do it to the effectiveness that.
Speaker 3 (41:34):
It needs to.
Speaker 4 (41:35):
And the plant, you know, it stem dies or the
plant dies, so anything. And you've got I notice you've
got the new spruce product in at Clegg's, the new
non selective herbicide.
Speaker 3 (41:47):
Yes, Johnny has tried it out. I don't know his
I don't know if he tried it. I don't know.
I got to ask him when.
Speaker 4 (41:52):
Yeah, he's going to ask if anybody has actually tried it.
It's kind of neat the way I read up on it,
about the way it actually drops eyes the plan out
as opposed to some of the other things.
Speaker 3 (42:03):
So we'll see if that how that works.
Speaker 4 (42:05):
Another safe product, and if you're going for a safe product,
just a little soapbox thing here, use that instead of
the vinegar product. I know you all have the vinegar
product at the store, but I just vinegar does to
me nothing but burn and so often the root system's
(42:26):
there and if you keep reapplying it, you can actually
create some soil pH issues.
Speaker 3 (42:31):
So I'm not a fan of that product. Sorry, but
I know it's advertising.
Speaker 4 (42:36):
I know, especially a lot of the organic people are
very excited about it.
Speaker 3 (42:40):
But wow, that's the end of the show.
Speaker 7 (42:42):
Music.
Speaker 3 (42:43):
You want me to take us out one? I'm happy
Easter Antaclaire reason for the season. People.
Speaker 4 (42:51):
You're listening to news radio eleven fifty wjbo's Lawn and
Garden Show. We are with Cleggs Nursery four locations in
the greater Batmoruyge area to service your needs. Seegan Lane
the best store den i'm Renal Springs, mid City on
don morning, come by and see us. We are closed
tomorrow for Easter Sunday, so do your shopping today. We're
open to six, right, he'll six, he'll six today to help.
Speaker 3 (43:11):
You out again.
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