August 16, 2025 • 43 mins
If you're uncertain about watering, you should listen to this edition of the WJBO Lawn & Garden Show with Butch, Dr. Allen and the Intern from Clegg's Nursery!
They're talking about our on-and-off rain, explain why you don't need a "kit" for micro-irrigation and a planting timeline for vegetables!
Plus caller questions on when to trim roses, azalea care, why jalapeno plants aren't making peppers, and help with peggy martin roses, cabbages and brussel sprouts and figs!
If you'd like to be part of the WJBO Lawn & Garden Show, give us a call Saturday mornings between 8 and 9 am by calling (225) 499-9526 - that's 499-WJBO! If you're listening on our free iHeartRadio app, you can also leave us a message by tapping the red Talkback Mic button!
Don't forget to make sure you've updated to the latest version of the iHeartRadio app so you can make WJBO Newsradio 1150 AM & 98.7 FM your #1 preset, just like in your car! You can also make the WJBO Lawn & Garden Show podcast a preset too! And now, presets work on Apple CarPlay and Android Auto too!
They're talking about our on-and-off rain, explain why you don't need a "kit" for micro-irrigation and a planting timeline for vegetables!
Plus caller questions on when to trim roses, azalea care, why jalapeno plants aren't making peppers, and help with peggy martin roses, cabbages and brussel sprouts and figs!
If you'd like to be part of the WJBO Lawn & Garden Show, give us a call Saturday mornings between 8 and 9 am by calling (225) 499-9526 - that's 499-WJBO! If you're listening on our free iHeartRadio app, you can also leave us a message by tapping the red Talkback Mic button!
Don't forget to make sure you've updated to the latest version of the iHeartRadio app so you can make WJBO Newsradio 1150 AM & 98.7 FM your #1 preset, just like in your car! You can also make the WJBO Lawn & Garden Show podcast a preset too! And now, presets work on Apple CarPlay and Android Auto too!
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Good Saturday morning, and welcome to the Wgboln and Garden Show,
brought to you by Glegg's Nursery. If you have a
question about seasonal plan tank lone and garden concerns or
questions about landscaping, called four nine nine WGBO. That's four
nine nine two six.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Good morning, and welcome back to wjbo's London Garden Check today.
I'm here with doctor Allen Owens and Bushtrews from Clegg's Nursery.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
Good morning, good morning.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
If you have any questions clause at four nine six,
that's four nine WJBO.
Speaker 4 (00:36):
Well, I got to hand it to you. You beat
Scott and Zane by thirty five minutes? What you beat
Scott and Zane by thirty five minutes. I was listening
to the show last week and gotten Zane, do not
give out the phone number for thirty five minutes. I
can't hear from out of my headphones. I don't know
(00:56):
what's going on here. Okay, so are you there? But
I'm here, but I can't hear anything, so I don't
know if I'm live or memorys.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
Got something in my ear. No, your Mac is a
little weird though, Thank you.
Speaker 5 (01:13):
Headphones been misbehaving lately. I think I'm plugged in anyway,
but your make does sound weird. And that's the last
one I got, so oh well, sorry.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
No problem.
Speaker 6 (01:27):
We know there's people out there that have lawn and
garden questions. And uh, looks like another nice, warm day,
little chance of showers again this afternoon. We had a
good rain in Hammond. Uh, yesterday midday, did y'all have it?
Did y'all have rain yesterday?
Speaker 3 (01:43):
Yes? We did.
Speaker 7 (01:43):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (01:44):
We had a little over a quarter inch at the house,
but had a little bit more in Baton.
Speaker 6 (01:48):
It looked a little wetter this morning in Baton Rouge
than it wasn't Hammond.
Speaker 4 (01:53):
So yeah, fortunately we have been a little bit dry.
I'm sorry you hit something.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
How much rain a week is enough to keep the
plants watered?
Speaker 4 (02:03):
That's a very good question, and it's going to be
extremely difficult to answer. The first thing is is it
a new planting or is it an established planting? Traditionally,
and please correct me, because i know I'm gonna be
wrong on this, Traditionally we tell people if it's almost
(02:24):
air quote normal conditions, a flower bed that's been established
for a while, you know, a decent amount of organic
material not you know, not the new planting raised up
twelve inches plant plant in nothing but potting soil. But
I was always told us about two inches of rain
a week.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
Is that about right?
Speaker 6 (02:42):
I'm always longed. I'm will waste thought one inch or
rain a week.
Speaker 8 (02:45):
But okay, I mean we're we're in the ballplant right,
and you know, and that's going to depend like Butch says,
you know, the what plants are planted, how well drained
the bed is?
Speaker 6 (02:56):
Is it in sun, is it in shade? Is it
a vinca bed with angelonia? Or is it in a
colius bed that has big plants in it that's gonna
suck up more water from the ground. So but normally
for ornamental landscape beds on a lawn, one inch to
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a little bit over an inch of irrigation a week
is needed, and it could be a little bit more
than that during the summer months.
Speaker 4 (03:26):
And one of the things, probably more important than the
actual number of inches of rain, is how the rain
occurs exactly. I mean I was driving in baton Rey jesture,
and I mean that faucet was turned on and just example,
I was going down Perkins road and you could not
drive in the right lane because of the overflow going
(03:48):
out in the gutters. Well that may have been I'm
making numbers up now, but that could have been a
two inch rain, but it probably didn't even equate to
a quarter of an inch rain because it.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
All flowed off exactly exactly when you're talking to one
inch two inch rain.
Speaker 4 (04:03):
We want that to be a slow rain so it
can be absorbed, not these gully washing.
Speaker 6 (04:09):
And that's just like how your irrigation system would work.
You want a lower volume for a longer period of
time in most situations.
Speaker 4 (04:17):
So that means when I drive by these commercial sites
and all the water's flowing in the ditch and irrigations going,
that's nice.
Speaker 6 (04:23):
And you want to make sure your irrigation water is
targeted to the right location. Yes, and there's ways to
do a ninety degree, one eighty degree, three sixty degree
and oh.
Speaker 4 (04:35):
So yeah, actually, you know, I constantly try to get
people to consider the micro irrigation system that is sold
to Kleg's Nursery and just a little plug here. We
have a kit. Now it's more for like gardening, but
we don't everybody comes in. I want to get that
(04:56):
micro when I was there, I want to get that
kit for micro irrigation. You don't want a kit because
anytime you buy a kit, you need a lot more
of something you don't even have in it, and you
throw away half the stuff that you don't need. So
what we want people to do and where I'm going
to get to is on our back patio at home.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
Surely has all of her pot.
Speaker 4 (05:19):
Plants and not those type of the container grown plant.
And over the years we just set when we were gone,
we would just set a regular sprinkler in the middle
of it and water well. About one thousand dollars worth
of rotten wood later, and a lot of unpleasant words,
(05:42):
I realized this is stupid, so I went. In fact,
I left. We were leaving the next day and I
had left, and I've told this story.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
I left the house.
Speaker 4 (05:51):
At four thirty to get to Klegs on Seagan by five,
and I don't I hated it when I worked there.
I understand why I did. I just picked up what
I thought I might need in a few extra brought
them home. I had a micro irrigation system on my
back patio for her container plants. Done leaving the house
(06:12):
at four point thirty. I was done at six point thirty.
And the water is not hitting the wooden areas anymore.
It is watering what needs to be watered. And you
can do the same thing as you were saying in
your flower bed, right right, Why are you watering your sidewalk? Yes,
but that's a great question, and like I said, sorry,
(06:33):
we didn't give you a great answer, but it does.
There's a lot of variables there, and that's one of
the things that come into Clegg's Nursery. Talk to the
I would say professionals, but the people there, and they
can kind.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
Of help you with that.
Speaker 4 (06:46):
And with a micro irrigation system, typically you're putting out
what would be equivalent to one inch of rain in
about an hour typically, so you know you can split
that up. I, like I said, I always do try
to do two inches. I guess I'm overwatering, but I've
run it a couple times a week I'm established. But
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now the annual where Charlie has her annuals, we run
that a little bit more often, right right.
Speaker 6 (07:13):
And I had somebody ask me this week. I planted
this row of Eagleston Holly's in July and I've been
watering every day, and they had a picture of what
kind of look like some.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
I don't know if it looked like drought.
Speaker 6 (07:29):
Damaged foliage or it looked a little like sunskald. But
you don't see sunskald on Holly. So I really couldn't
help her very much without more information, because how much
water are they putting out? Is it at the edge
of the planning hole? Is it right by the mainshrunk?
So there's so many questions that need to.
Speaker 4 (07:49):
Be does she have her finger on the end of
the hose answered answered in regard to how you're putting
out irrigation water, and that's that is that And camellias
to me Holly's and camellias unfortunately because of their Wilton coefficient.
Once once you see drought damage on that plant, it's pretty.
Speaker 3 (08:10):
Much toast it is it is. It's gonna be almost
impossible to recover that plant.
Speaker 4 (08:16):
And that's you know, if you put a sprinkler out there,
that's great, you know, run it. You're going to get
some runoff. But if that's the only way you can
do it, do it that way. But and you and
I both have discussed this before. You drive down the
street and you see the guy with I call it
a car wash noles outreat. That is doing In fact,
(08:37):
that's doing damage. Yes, because all you're doing is very
shallow watering, and the roots are gonna come up to that,
causing a more drought intolerant plants. Best advice, And again, Alan,
I appreciate you correcting me every time I'm wrong, which
is most of the time. But if you're uncertain if
(08:58):
you're watering good enough water, then take your little hand trial,
go out there and dig.
Speaker 6 (09:03):
Yes, yes, if you you know, if it's easy to
tell how far that irrigation water is matriculated, and.
Speaker 4 (09:11):
Write that word down.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
We'll discuss that word later.
Speaker 4 (09:17):
That's right, But no, you know, and a lot of
times you'll realize, wow, I didn't even get the water
through the mulch.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
Right right.
Speaker 6 (09:23):
So, and that's a common problem with maybe establishing your
warm season annuals. People over water at the beginning, and
then the roots don't get down to their adequate depth,
and then when we have the first one or two dry,
hot weeks of summer, they get those the wilting uh issues.
So we've rambled about irrigation a pretty good while here
(09:44):
we have it. I think it's do we have any
collars yet? No, I don't know if they do.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
We want to give them the number one more time.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
Probably Okay, if you have any questions, please close that for.
Speaker 9 (09:56):
Six nine w g b O.
Speaker 4 (09:58):
We were having a very that summer and hopefully this
last week or two of I don't want to say drought,
but hopefully this doesn't become the trend.
Speaker 6 (10:07):
Right it's some fall is typically the file forecast is
saying slightly drier than normal and maybe one degree warmer
than normal.
Speaker 4 (10:20):
Not a good combination. Yes, so I would go get
to a better, more fun question.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
Yes, when can you start putting out full of vegetables.
Speaker 6 (10:32):
And are you talking about the last of your warm
season vegetables or are you talking about your cool seasoned
vegetables like your coal crops and.
Speaker 3 (10:44):
Leafy greens.
Speaker 4 (10:46):
I'm gonna take the spring vegetable revisits, okay, And you
can have the coal crops okay.
Speaker 3 (10:51):
If you're rewanting.
Speaker 4 (10:54):
If you're wanting to replant some of what you did
in the spring tomato is you probably need them.
Speaker 3 (11:01):
In the ground or going in the ground very.
Speaker 4 (11:03):
Very quickly, because more so for us anyway, day length
as it shortens is going to create more issues with
tomatoes than cold weather. A lot of people say, well,
you got to get in before the first freeze. The
problem I find more with fall tomatoes is as the
day length gets shorter.
Speaker 3 (11:21):
Your tomato is not going to ripen.
Speaker 4 (11:22):
So you got to pick it off the bevine, put
it in a brown paper bag, put it on the windowsill,
and forget it and then it rots, and then you
got to replace the window sill.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
Maybe that's a little overly done.
Speaker 4 (11:31):
Peppers, you can plant peppers right now. That's an excellent
fall crop. Typically get a better crop in the fall,
more true ripened peppers than you do in the spring.
Peppers are kind of neat is. Once it forms a pepper,
it's edible, but the longer you leave it on there
a the bigger it gets.
Speaker 3 (11:52):
But then they turn colors.
Speaker 4 (11:54):
Almost all peppers start out green and turn to a
ripened color, even though.
Speaker 3 (11:58):
You can use them green beans.
Speaker 4 (12:02):
You can definitely plant your green beans again right now.
That's a great Especially bush beans are about a forty
five day crop, so you can turn that and then
be ready for Allen's coal crops a little bit later.
So yeah, a lot of your spring replantings. It's time
to be doing that right now. But I think we
have a collar on the line. Okay, so you can't
(12:24):
talk about col crop right now. I think maybe we're
having an issue with the collar.
Speaker 6 (12:31):
But is it still and we should be able to
do another crop of cucumbers.
Speaker 3 (12:36):
Yeah, maybe, so definitely glad. Thank you for bringing those up. Yeah, definitely,
that's that's a maybe.
Speaker 6 (12:42):
If we get a tomato plant this week, maybe get
a four inch tomato instead of three or.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
Four Definitely, definitely.
Speaker 4 (12:50):
Like I said, we're typically you want your fall, which
is a misnumber, because that's when they ripe. And I
would call them summer tomatoes because that's when you want
to plant them so that you can get ripe fruits
into September early October, because as at day length, like
I said, shortens, it becomes harder and harder for it
to truly ripe.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
And sure, And I.
Speaker 4 (13:12):
Don't know the lady's name, and I don't I don't
if early he's listening. She sometimes doesn't want feels comfortable
text me, but she follows a local gardener and I
think she's actually from the Thibodeaux area.
Speaker 3 (13:23):
Don't quite. I know who that is.
Speaker 4 (13:25):
Oh okay, never mind, then you can tell us.
Speaker 3 (13:27):
But she's planting her carrots.
Speaker 6 (13:29):
Yes, yes, so I never I've only grown carrots a
couple of times.
Speaker 3 (13:35):
I never had great success with carrots. Our soils heavy.
Speaker 4 (13:38):
Yes, that's the biggest issue we have with carrots here
is at heaviness.
Speaker 3 (13:42):
I've grown them.
Speaker 4 (13:43):
Some of what I do is I literally take my
shovel and I really break that area up and add
a lot of very loose compost, and I've grown it
for She probably doesn't remember, but when she was young,
you know, it's kind of fun for kids to go
out there, especially Johnny says what he calls a rainbow blind.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
Yes, all these all these neatly colored.
Speaker 4 (14:02):
Yeah, so it's kind of like Easter or Easter Carrie
when they go out and pull it up. I have
I do apologize to everybody out there, and to both
of y'all. I am struggling with these headphones today. So
if I sound stupid or normal, that's why.
Speaker 3 (14:17):
If it makes you feel better on my end, you
sound exactly the same.
Speaker 4 (14:22):
I would say thank you, but I don't think that
was a compliment.
Speaker 3 (14:25):
I am strictly speaking on your auditory.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
Experience right now, all right, if you have any questions,
called six that is born nine nine w JBO.
Speaker 6 (14:40):
We were okay, continuing the vegetable discussion, correct, So Butch
was mentioning our next planning of warm season vegetables. And
you know, we are approaching September, and that's the time
to think about our cool season vegetables. And we normally
think about cauliflower and rockley and Brussels sprouts and some
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of the leaf lettuces and cabbage.
Speaker 3 (15:06):
And those kind of plants. This time of year.
Speaker 6 (15:10):
You can do those from seed, or you can do
those by getting some plants from Cleggs and Oursery or
another garden center or feed store in the cell packs.
And what we're thinking, and what Butcher and I have
talked about in the past, is it seems like the.
Speaker 3 (15:28):
Fall weather is a little bit warmer than it used
to be.
Speaker 6 (15:32):
So even though we are approaching September and some of
the recommended planting dates for some of those crops, we
do need to watch the weather. We do need to
think about, you know, how hot is it going to
be the week or two after we plant these plants.
But anytime, you know, September October. If you have a
good vegetable bed, you can start considering some of the
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cool season of vegetables. But just wash temperature and make
sure your irrigation is adequate the first few weeks and.
Speaker 4 (16:05):
Some of the fall crops. And I'm I'm thinking more
lettuce right.
Speaker 3 (16:09):
Now than any of the other wayes.
Speaker 4 (16:10):
But if we're too hot, the term is bolt, it'll
go to flowers exactly, and once it starts that elongation process,
you don't.
Speaker 6 (16:21):
And that's actually happened several times regularly the last few
years with some of them. And there's late this summer
early fall planted cool seasoned vegetables.
Speaker 4 (16:31):
So what do you I need to make sure I
get this question correct. What do you think about, you know,
the cell packs typically for your especially for your fall vegetables,
that's pretty much your availability is going to be sell
packed right at this time. Would you consider, you know,
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getting a cell pack of say broccoli or something and
transplanting that into a larger pot and holding it that way.
Speaker 3 (16:56):
I think it could definitely be doing.
Speaker 6 (16:58):
Maybe put it in a five inch pots, six inch pot,
or even a gallon pot, or maybe a gallon be
too big. That depends on what quality of plants you're
getting from the cell.
Speaker 4 (17:09):
Pack, right, Yeah, And that's that's actually a very important
point with any type of plant that you're shifting up.
Speaker 3 (17:15):
You don't want to go too big all at once, right,
because you want to stare step it up? Can you
stare step it up? Stair step it up?
Speaker 6 (17:24):
Because that's gonna you know, put in too small of
a plant and too big of a pot your water
relations and your.
Speaker 4 (17:31):
Your your dirty side of the iris we were just
talking about, you're going to have too much water in
there based on the container looking in relation to the
plant size.
Speaker 10 (17:44):
So and.
Speaker 4 (17:47):
What is a difference you found between and what plants?
Would you what I'm gonna use the word direct seed
into your garden or would you prefer to see those
seeds planets in a seed tray?
Speaker 6 (18:05):
I just think these days with most home gardeners, it's
better to go with transplants.
Speaker 3 (18:11):
Oh yeah, no, I definitely agree.
Speaker 4 (18:13):
But if somebody wants to know when you're talking about.
Speaker 6 (18:16):
The like, like we were mentioning carrots, I find carrots
do better direct sewing well a.
Speaker 3 (18:23):
Lot of your root crops.
Speaker 4 (18:25):
I may be wrong on this, but I believe Johnny
Nayey always told me, if you try to transplant a
root cross, you're very likely not to get it to Yes,
the carrot or.
Speaker 6 (18:35):
The beat beats and the beats, and some of these
seeds are so small we tend to plant them too deep.
Carrots are surface applied, so exactly surface applied, and missed
them in I'm sorry I missed that, missed them.
Speaker 3 (18:56):
I didn't get a drum roll.
Speaker 6 (18:57):
But but I do find a lot of people asking
about sowing seed. You've got to have the right environment
to do that, whether it be some grow lights or
protected outdoor area or a greenhouse or.
Speaker 3 (19:13):
And that's not too hot.
Speaker 6 (19:15):
And these these seedling trays that you can get at
clags and those humidity domes you can put over your
seed trays. That's really what you need for us successful
sea germination.
Speaker 4 (19:27):
And I think you missed one of the most important
things when I miss a sterile seed mix.
Speaker 3 (19:32):
Yes, yes, because so often, you.
Speaker 4 (19:36):
Know, and I've over my many years in the business,
people will try to seed and they'll put it out,
and they'll get the seeds and they come up, they
get about an inch tall, and all of a sudden
they fall over.
Speaker 3 (19:47):
The pathogen in the soil.
Speaker 4 (19:50):
And what you want to do is if you're reusing
containers Diplomenta ten percent bleach solutions, right sterilizing them and
you know you're bag of seed starter six bucks. Maybe
you know, and oh I just went and dug some
soil out of my garden. Tell them what you got
(20:10):
in that soil in your garden. But no, a sterile
seed mix is extremely important. And if you want to
start some broccoli, cabbage, cauliflower from seed, I think right
now is the time to do it.
Speaker 3 (20:22):
In particular, August is the time to get it started.
Speaker 6 (20:25):
Mid late August, absolutely, And when you come to clegs,
all the seed all the peak pots, all the seedling trays,
all the media's right there in one or two rows,
all concentrated in one area, you can get everything in need.
And also the lsu Accenter Vegetable Production Book, if you
may want to them, that is a very good book,
(20:46):
if you want to try to get a copy of that,
which is more of a bigger publication than just a
little free leaflet. But all both of those have very
very good information in them.
Speaker 4 (20:57):
And this is not a knock on universities, because I
mean they're they're doing their research, mostly for farming and
all that, but that particular book is geared much more
to the homeowners. Yes, a lot of the publications available
at Pleg's Nursery.
Speaker 3 (21:11):
It's a very popular publication. Yes, only can I say that?
Speaker 4 (21:17):
I think I just did, even it's not true, Yes.
Speaker 3 (21:22):
Anna Claire?
Speaker 2 (21:24):
What plants can be incorporated into pumpkin displays?
Speaker 9 (21:27):
For fall?
Speaker 6 (21:28):
Ooh, plants and a pumpkin display? When are the pumpkins
going to come in? I think they're going to be
a first week or so September. I would assume the
end of Labor Day week or somewhere around about that.
Speaker 3 (21:38):
Time, sometime in that range.
Speaker 4 (21:42):
I will see where you go with this, and then
I'm going to tell that.
Speaker 6 (21:45):
Why don't I say a plant and then you say
it okay? And I say a plant and you say
a plant? Okay, okay. So your pumpkin display does it
have to be a plant?
Speaker 3 (21:53):
An A Claire? Or can it be accessories excess?
Speaker 9 (21:58):
You can do whatever?
Speaker 6 (21:59):
Okay, So I'm gonna go with the obvious crotons.
Speaker 3 (22:05):
Yeah, I agree completely. I mean we're done.
Speaker 7 (22:09):
Now.
Speaker 3 (22:09):
That's only the most popular, right.
Speaker 4 (22:11):
And of course people always want to look at the moms,
you know, and that.
Speaker 6 (22:15):
Fall mom rysanthem on my mama, mam moms. Those should
be ready pretty soon.
Speaker 4 (22:21):
They're not gonna be bloom until well, once the pumpkins
are here, you'll start to watch some of the early varieties.
But they are so quick. I love the crotons. I
love America.
Speaker 6 (22:31):
You know, if you can get a nice just the brilliant,
brilliant foliage of crotons just does something.
Speaker 3 (22:37):
It does that.
Speaker 9 (22:38):
Who is that, doctor Alan Owens?
Speaker 3 (22:41):
Who is this?
Speaker 9 (22:42):
I don't know?
Speaker 3 (22:46):
Great answer, well, who is that?
Speaker 9 (22:49):
A caller?
Speaker 3 (22:50):
New Michael, Let's go to them.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
Good morning, Michael, Welcome to wjb's Lawn and Garden Show.
Speaker 9 (22:56):
How may we help you today?
Speaker 10 (22:58):
Good morning? Now I'm having a great You're doing a
heck of a job, young lady. O it take?
Speaker 3 (23:03):
Hey, thank you for having me on.
Speaker 10 (23:04):
A couple questions, a couple of questions for you, and
then you may have talked about it. I just turned
the ready to go on. When's a good time to
trim your roses back for the fall?
Speaker 3 (23:14):
Wow?
Speaker 4 (23:16):
That that great feed in Michael. Right now you really
need to be trimming your roses because and you want
to cut them.
Speaker 3 (23:24):
Maybe a third to a half.
Speaker 6 (23:26):
I usually tell people a third in mid late August,
definitely my labor day.
Speaker 4 (23:31):
Yeah, And the reason for that is that's gonna get
a lot of and fertilized when you're doing this. It's
one of the things that we do want to fertilize
when we're perning. That's gonna give you a lot of
nice new growth and you're gonna get that nice big
blossom again or bloom again this fall. So yeah, right
now is an excellent time. And even your shrub roses,
you can go out, you know, if you got a
little hedge clipper or something, and trim them back again,
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fertilize afterwards, and they will they will reward you greatly
with a fall bloom.
Speaker 10 (24:00):
Excellent that I thought I was close. I wasn't quite
exactly sure, So that's good news. I'm on time. Second question,
I've got a three acre a lot, and I must
have about seventy five older azalias prior to mobiles for solomons,
the old foremos varieties and so forth. And back in
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July I cut about thirty clippings and tried to root them,
but didn't make it.
Speaker 3 (24:29):
Nope.
Speaker 10 (24:29):
So I'm hoping to find is it the better time
to do that in the fall when it's not so hot?
Speaker 3 (24:35):
Late fall?
Speaker 6 (24:36):
Right, Azalia cuttings in May and then mid till late September,
mid October.
Speaker 10 (24:42):
Right, Okay, good, I'm gonna give it a try.
Speaker 3 (24:46):
Yeah, you try.
Speaker 4 (24:48):
Just I curious how many cuttings are you trying to do?
A lot or just a few?
Speaker 11 (24:54):
Uh?
Speaker 10 (24:55):
You know, I don't need but a couple, but I figured,
well I was trying to. I said, about thirty. I
got a pretty big washed up to put them in,
and I was gonna saving for like the church and
sale next year or whatever something like that.
Speaker 4 (25:09):
But you know, there's a couple other ways of doing it.
You know, if you were just looking for a few,
that might be easier. You can do air layering, which
is where you scrape the stem a little bit, put
some spagging the moss around. It's some cell afhane, not
cell phane, saran wrap type stuff, and it usually what
would you say, six to eight weeks you'll get right. Yeah,
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that's an easy way, and you can do that pretty
much anytime. Another thing is if you got some real
low hanging branches, put a brick on one of the branches
and it'll root into the ground. Then you can cut
that off, dig it up and move them that way.
Speaker 3 (25:47):
A lot of times. That's those two ways.
Speaker 4 (25:49):
Are a little bit easier again if you don't need
a lot of cuttings and trying to actually cut dip
the cutting in a rooting hormone, putting it in the
sterile soil and all that. And the biggest thing with
any type of cuttings once you do that, even if
you do it in May and September, like Alan said,
you still want you you're not absorbing much if any
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moisture through the soil through the stem. You really need
to keep the foliage misted.
Speaker 10 (26:16):
Gotcha? All right? So this time of year you're talking about,
you know, mid.
Speaker 4 (26:22):
To late September, right, Yes, if if you want to
do a true cutting, mid to late September would be best, excellent.
Speaker 10 (26:29):
Well give it a shot, gentlemen.
Speaker 2 (26:30):
Thanks, thank you, And that does open up phone lines
at four six is four nine w JBO we have
another color.
Speaker 3 (26:40):
Let's go.
Speaker 2 (26:42):
Good morning, Melissa, welcome to wjbos on and garden jail.
Speaker 9 (26:45):
How may we help you today?
Speaker 12 (26:47):
Well, business, Melissa and I have two beautiful large jalapeno plants,
and ponts. They're gorgeous, but they will not bloom. Have
not made one pepper?
Speaker 6 (27:01):
When did you plan a melissa? And have you fertilized
any Oh?
Speaker 11 (27:06):
While I'm planting them at least two.
Speaker 10 (27:08):
Or three months ago, that huge.
Speaker 12 (27:11):
Well, I fertilized them with this miracle grow fertilizer. I
used the regular kind and then I put the flower
food on there.
Speaker 11 (27:20):
They just won't go.
Speaker 3 (27:22):
Are they in sun.
Speaker 12 (27:24):
Well one, they get about four or five hours.
Speaker 11 (27:29):
Of sun a day.
Speaker 3 (27:30):
Need more sunlight. You need a minimum and a bare
minimum of six hours direct sunlight.
Speaker 4 (27:36):
Oh okay, I think move them out into some more sunlight,
and I think you'll start peppering real soon.
Speaker 11 (27:41):
Okay, Well, see one.
Speaker 12 (27:43):
I put it in the ground thinking that it would help,
but it did not, so I'll have to pull it
up and put it in a pot.
Speaker 4 (27:49):
Suppose peppers in particular don't mind being in a pot.
The only concern about being in a pot is you
want to make sure you have a consistent moisture in there.
You don't do the dry wet, dry wet thing because
that can't affect blooming. But yeah, it can stay in
the container. Just again, make sure you can you keep
up an even moisture.
Speaker 11 (28:11):
They beautiful, like wow, that's.
Speaker 4 (28:14):
Why That's what put me into the because they're reaching
for sunlight.
Speaker 12 (28:17):
Yeah, okay, well I'll take it out to them. I
live in the townhouse over here off f and Lanchel
I'll just take it back in the back by the garage.
Speaker 3 (28:27):
There you go.
Speaker 11 (28:28):
Okay, well, thanks for your hell.
Speaker 3 (28:30):
All right, thank you Melissa for the call. What does
that do?
Speaker 2 (28:35):
That opens up fun lines at four nine six? That's
four nine nine w GBO.
Speaker 3 (28:42):
What do you have a question you normally do?
Speaker 10 (28:44):
Yep?
Speaker 9 (28:45):
When should I replace dead citrus?
Speaker 3 (28:49):
When should you?
Speaker 4 (28:53):
Which do you want to take the faller of the spring?
Speaker 6 (28:57):
I'm going to say that we're going to have a
warm winter. Okay, how about that? So you're going to plant,
So I'm going to encourage September October planting. But then
if you are a gun shot gun shy about cold winter.
Speaker 3 (29:13):
February yeah.
Speaker 6 (29:15):
So, but you know, for so many years we did
not have any significant cold damage on Sister Streets and
Baton Rouge at all.
Speaker 3 (29:24):
I agree with you.
Speaker 6 (29:25):
In the last three years we have cold damage. So
sooner or later we've got to get back to this
We're not going to have a brutal temperature week every winter.
Speaker 3 (29:36):
Do you agree or do I do? I agree?
Speaker 4 (29:38):
And that's exactly the point I was going to bring
up is you know, in fact, I thought it was
five years in a row we've had cold. But and
the issue with planting a new plant is that it's
a baby. I mean, it is much more cold intolerant
than a plant that's been in the ground for three
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four years. So planting in the fall, which is typically
when we would have suggested, especially come quot satsumas, even
maybe grapefruits, but now I'm trying more and more to
the spring, right just I know time's not gonna like that,
but you know it's just because of because of the
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trends we've had. I would replant in the spring, and
I've got to go cut down a couple three dead
trees that I have yet to cut down.
Speaker 6 (30:29):
But people love their citrus and try not to give
up on citrus. There it's worth brown winning.
Speaker 4 (30:36):
I mean, I have I have lemonon limes in pots
in my back patio, and yes, I know they're too
close together and they produce sprite.
Speaker 3 (30:44):
My friend in coastal Mississippi.
Speaker 6 (30:46):
We probably we probably ought to go like thirty different
citrus varieties in in like fifteen gallon containers, you know,
so it just like that.
Speaker 3 (30:57):
Definitely.
Speaker 9 (30:58):
Yes, we have a caller, let's go.
Speaker 2 (31:03):
Good morning, Thomas. Welcome to wgbo's wand and Garden Show.
How may we help you today?
Speaker 7 (31:08):
Hey, thank you for taking the call. I'm planning at
Peggy Martin in my backyard with the idea that it
would grow up a post to like a pergola. You know,
I would like for it to grow up, but it's
really kind of growing out, and I was going to
see if there was a good way effective way to
train it to go upward instead of outward.
Speaker 4 (31:30):
You just have to as those stems grow out, you
have to tie them up to your pergola. The rose
in the wild is going to be just a large bush,
so we actually have to train them to grow up. Yeah,
it's just a matter of as these shoots grow get
like some twine or well. Actually, one of the things
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I love is there's a new velcrow thing. Okay, it
works extremely well. You just belcrow it to it and
as a row twines it's way through your pergula.
Speaker 3 (32:01):
I even take those velcrow off and move them up. Yes, yes, yes.
Speaker 4 (32:05):
But yeah, it's not going to grow up completely by itself.
You are going to have to make that suggestion to it.
Speaker 7 (32:15):
Okay, okay, great, And do I wrap it around the
post that it is going or just kind of like
let take a natural course.
Speaker 3 (32:21):
You can wrap it, you know, the wrap.
Speaker 4 (32:25):
In fact, we've got a Peggy Martin at home and
my wife and I yesterday I said, oh, I've let
this go a little bit too long, so I'm gonna
be doing that myself, and I do. I'm actually running
it along an old ship rope about ten feet up
in the air, and I do as I'm doing, I
wrap it around that rope.
Speaker 3 (32:41):
So yeah, you can do that. It doesn't really matter.
Speaker 4 (32:43):
All right, Well, thank you very much, right, Thomas, great, Carl.
Speaker 3 (32:46):
Thank you.
Speaker 9 (32:47):
And that does open up phone lines at fort six.
That's four nine nine W.
Speaker 4 (32:52):
G W And that's one of the We'll get to
Kenny in just a second here.
Speaker 3 (32:56):
But I do want to throw this out.
Speaker 4 (32:57):
It's one of the things that I Peggy Martin is
a beautiful rose. Don't get me wrong. As I said,
I have one in my backyard. We're running it up
four by four to old. You know the docking ship
ropes that someone gave me.
Speaker 3 (33:14):
It's great. It only blooms once a year, right, right,
Please be aware of.
Speaker 4 (33:18):
That if you're wanting to buy Peggy Martin Rose, if
you have that type of an area.
Speaker 3 (33:22):
So anyway, go.
Speaker 2 (33:27):
Goo wait hold up, Good morning, Kenny. Welcome to w
JB as Lon and Garden Show. How may we help
you today?
Speaker 3 (33:32):
Good morning, good morning.
Speaker 13 (33:34):
My second call.
Speaker 14 (33:36):
The first call was about my elm, my tinnyes elm tree.
The proc hidden. I thought it had noted and you know, advise, no,
keep watering it.
Speaker 13 (33:45):
It's gonna be okay.
Speaker 14 (33:46):
Well, about a month or so ago we had these
torrential rains and after the range of the leaves fell
off my creek. And now I've gone and I've been
to some of the limbs back and it feels like.
Speaker 13 (33:59):
It's dry and crack my tree instead.
Speaker 4 (34:02):
Yep, unfortunately, probably so once it dries out like that.
It sounds to me like you have a couple of
things that could be happening to your tree, and you
can figure out real quick which one it is. If
it's either those, I want you to look. Is a
tree in a bed or is it out in your yard.
Speaker 13 (34:25):
It's in the middle of my back yard. It's a
small yard and it gets full sun.
Speaker 4 (34:29):
Okay, go look right around the base of the tree,
right near the ground level and see if it's.
Speaker 3 (34:34):
All nicked up or cut up. The other thing that
you may want to.
Speaker 4 (34:38):
Look for on the stem usually about what we in
the forestry industry called dba, but about the middle of
your chest high look for small pinholes.
Speaker 3 (34:50):
I have a feeling your tree.
Speaker 4 (34:51):
Either got hit by bores or what we like to
call weed eater canker.
Speaker 13 (34:56):
Okay, well it's in. It can't be the weed eater
because we have.
Speaker 14 (35:00):
A lot of malts around it now and maybe too
much molts for that kill it.
Speaker 4 (35:06):
That could over time, over a long period, just depends
on how.
Speaker 3 (35:10):
How deep your lower trunk is.
Speaker 14 (35:14):
It's a new tree that we planned in the last October,
and I had it professionally planning and a new subdivision.
Speaker 6 (35:22):
Also check your trunk like Butcher's saying, Kenny, and also
look for splitting and and bark sloughing off costs. A
newly planetree could have been cold damaged in January.
Speaker 13 (35:36):
Okay, all right, then, sir, thank you, for your help.
Speaker 3 (35:39):
I really learned a lot problem. Thank you, Thank you.
Speaker 2 (35:42):
Good morning, Dale, Welcome to wjbos On and Garden Show.
How may we help you today?
Speaker 3 (35:47):
Good morning, how y'all great?
Speaker 15 (35:51):
Uh My question is I have some Brussels sprouts and
cabbage starts that I started, but there's a few of
them that are still doing okay, but my work doesn't
really allow me the time to properly harden them all like.
Speaker 16 (36:08):
They should be.
Speaker 15 (36:10):
Do y'all? Uh, I was gonna put them in my
raised bed this weekend. Do y'all have h any brussell
sprout saying cabbages at Craigs right now?
Speaker 4 (36:23):
I just got a text a few minutes ago they
have broccoli, colarflower, cabbage and.
Speaker 3 (36:29):
A few mustard at the store right now. Okay, all right,
all right, thanks for the call down.
Speaker 2 (36:37):
Thank you, And we do have another caller. Good morning, George.
Welcome to w jbos On a Garden Show. How may
we help you today?
Speaker 16 (36:47):
I have two questions. I have a one is about
a fig tree that is a lot of the limbs
die to cut them all out, it's all come back,
and the figs with green they never they never matured.
And then I had. I have an encore assay that's
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pushed out and I don't know if I should trim
it now.
Speaker 10 (37:14):
Or not.
Speaker 4 (37:14):
Okay, on the encore azilia, you want to trim. Even
though they're considered ever blooming, they typically bloom cycle. You
want to trim at the end of one of those cycles.
So go ahead and let it do. It's next blooming
and trim right after that. You want to take the fig.
Speaker 6 (37:30):
And on the fig trees, yeah, you did the right
thing cutting out the dead wood.
Speaker 3 (37:35):
You need to try to train that new growth.
Speaker 6 (37:38):
And what I'm contributing the fruit being there but not maturing,
I'm just contributing that to the stress of the fig
trees trying to recover and not having enough energy to
to finish the crop. Or you could be in a
dry weather, dry soil situation.
Speaker 4 (37:58):
And actually in a situation like that A lot of times,
and I always recommend this with young citrus, if you're
getting a plant that's recovering, a lot of energy goes
into fruit production. A lot of times, I like for
people to pick those first ones off, allow that tree
to recover fully, and I think you'd be more than rewarded.
So yeah, if those green green figs are still on there.
I would strongly urge you remove them and allow that
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energy to go into the plant regenerating itself.
Speaker 16 (38:27):
Thank you very much.
Speaker 3 (38:28):
All right, Okay, great question. That's the hardest thing for people.
Speaker 4 (38:32):
I mean, when I was in the store selling and
I would tell people pick the blooms off the citrus
and the blueberries.
Speaker 3 (38:38):
Oh, they would look at me like I.
Speaker 4 (38:40):
Was stupid, and you know, but it does. You know,
so much energy goes into fruit production, and you want
that energy for the first year at least, to go
into root production and you know, growth and vigor of
the plant. You know you're going to get what, you know,
maybe two oranges or you know, maybe if you're lucky,
seven or eight bluberries. It's not worth the you know,
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allow that energy to go into developing the plant, not
the first actually try ideally two years, but that's.
Speaker 3 (39:09):
Really pushing it.
Speaker 6 (39:11):
I was talking to one somebody in Mississippi the other day,
and they planted five peach trees in February, and you know,
nice quality and five gallon pots, and they planned them
and actually a couple of the peach trees wound up
having ten or fifteen fruit on them this year, But
the trees have not grown hard at all.
Speaker 4 (39:32):
Because all the effort is gone into you know where
if they.
Speaker 6 (39:35):
You want that first couple of years to get that
branching system developed and to increase your plant height.
Speaker 4 (39:41):
And if they'd have picked those blims off next year,
they'd have probably had thirty or forty, you know. But
next year now they're going to have ten or twelve
at right. So but yeah, other things going on right now,
you know, people starting to get ready two weeks to football.
I think it is two weeks two weeks, you know
a little early for blooming moms. But there's definitely plants
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out out there that can be planted for your school's
favorite colors. Yes, plantana is excellent. Actually, we have purple
and gold for that yellowish.
Speaker 6 (40:15):
I like the purple polish. Ornamental peppers. We have some peppers,
nice eight inch decorative pots. I told you ornamental peppers
are a waste of a good pot. That is a
personal opinion. I do know people, but they do have
some good coloration. One of the most.
Speaker 4 (40:31):
Unused blue blooming plant it's plumbago.
Speaker 3 (40:37):
I love plumbago.
Speaker 6 (40:38):
You do not see plumbago being planted it's an old
much anymore, at least I don't, but maybe it is.
Speaker 3 (40:46):
But I agree with you, I don't.
Speaker 6 (40:48):
I think thirty years ago we planted way more plumbago
we do.
Speaker 3 (40:51):
That blue is such a hard color for perennial plant.
Speaker 6 (40:55):
There's that new variety called Imperial blue that's bluer than
the regular blue.
Speaker 3 (41:01):
That just gives me the blues.
Speaker 4 (41:02):
Oh oh, come on, that's pretty decent. But no, it's
it is. We've got to plant.
Speaker 12 (41:10):
You know.
Speaker 3 (41:10):
We have a little parking pad off our driveway.
Speaker 4 (41:13):
And it's right on the corner, and I mean it's
as big and full and beautiful as it's ever been
after this freeze we had. But yeah, definitely time to
get out.
Speaker 3 (41:23):
Mulching. Mulch is very important.
Speaker 4 (41:25):
Get out there, pull your gripe weed and mulch over
the area.
Speaker 3 (41:29):
Real important to do.
Speaker 4 (41:30):
Right now, going into the fall, Susankas will be starting
to crank up.
Speaker 6 (41:35):
You're seeing a lot of buds on camellia since sasank
was in the last couple of weeks, have really becoming noticeable.
Speaker 10 (41:41):
Is that.
Speaker 4 (41:43):
Do we have a heavier blooming after a cold snap
like we had. I know we had some damage on today, saying.
Speaker 6 (41:50):
You usually sometimes that can trigger a heavier flower. And
I noticed this spring, after our cold weather in January,
that'll lot of the ozel yes that I thought would
not really bloom that well, bloomed just as good or
maybe even a little bit better. And uh, and we
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didn't have it. We didn't have We didn't have as
much coal damage on our shrubs and Baton Rouge as
they did and laugh at Yeah.
Speaker 3 (42:16):
Of course if you have coal damage, you don't expect
a lot, right. Wow.
Speaker 4 (42:20):
You know, Alan, I do appreciate when you're here with me,
because it's.
Speaker 3 (42:24):
Really I appreciate you being here with me, even though
I kind of messed up the schedule this week.
Speaker 4 (42:29):
But I'm getting old and see now, which I do
extremely well.
Speaker 3 (42:32):
Anyway. We are Cleg's Nursery.
Speaker 4 (42:34):
We have four locations in the greater Baton Rouge area.
We have the Segen Lane store, which is by far
the best, don More and mid city Greenwald Springs at
the Industry with Forrest Road and Denham on Range Road
near may new Bridge Road. We are Cleg's Nursery. We
are the independent garden centers of in Baton Rouge. You've
been listening to WJBO news Radio eleven fifty am.
Speaker 3 (42:55):
We'll see you next Saturday morning. There oft Abo.
Speaker 10 (43:02):
They
Good Saturday morning, and welcome to the Wgboln and Garden Show,
brought to you by Glegg's Nursery. If you have a
question about seasonal plan tank lone and garden concerns or
questions about landscaping, called four nine nine WGBO. That's four
nine nine two six.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Good morning, and welcome back to wjbo's London Garden Check today.
I'm here with doctor Allen Owens and Bushtrews from Clegg's Nursery.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
Good morning, good morning.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
If you have any questions clause at four nine six,
that's four nine WJBO.
Speaker 4 (00:36):
Well, I got to hand it to you. You beat
Scott and Zane by thirty five minutes? What you beat
Scott and Zane by thirty five minutes. I was listening
to the show last week and gotten Zane, do not
give out the phone number for thirty five minutes. I
can't hear from out of my headphones. I don't know
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what's going on here. Okay, so are you there? But
I'm here, but I can't hear anything, so I don't
know if I'm live or memorys.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
Got something in my ear. No, your Mac is a
little weird though, Thank you.
Speaker 5 (01:13):
Headphones been misbehaving lately. I think I'm plugged in anyway,
but your make does sound weird. And that's the last
one I got, so oh well, sorry.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
No problem.
Speaker 6 (01:27):
We know there's people out there that have lawn and
garden questions. And uh, looks like another nice, warm day,
little chance of showers again this afternoon. We had a
good rain in Hammond. Uh, yesterday midday, did y'all have it?
Did y'all have rain yesterday?
Speaker 3 (01:43):
Yes? We did.
Speaker 7 (01:43):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (01:44):
We had a little over a quarter inch at the house,
but had a little bit more in Baton.
Speaker 6 (01:48):
It looked a little wetter this morning in Baton Rouge
than it wasn't Hammond.
Speaker 4 (01:53):
So yeah, fortunately we have been a little bit dry.
I'm sorry you hit something.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
How much rain a week is enough to keep the
plants watered?
Speaker 4 (02:03):
That's a very good question, and it's going to be
extremely difficult to answer. The first thing is is it
a new planting or is it an established planting? Traditionally,
and please correct me, because i know I'm gonna be
wrong on this, Traditionally we tell people if it's almost
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air quote normal conditions, a flower bed that's been established
for a while, you know, a decent amount of organic
material not you know, not the new planting raised up
twelve inches plant plant in nothing but potting soil. But
I was always told us about two inches of rain
a week.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
Is that about right?
Speaker 6 (02:42):
I'm always longed. I'm will waste thought one inch or
rain a week.
Speaker 8 (02:45):
But okay, I mean we're we're in the ballplant right,
and you know, and that's going to depend like Butch says,
you know, the what plants are planted, how well drained
the bed is?
Speaker 6 (02:56):
Is it in sun, is it in shade? Is it
a vinca bed with angelonia? Or is it in a
colius bed that has big plants in it that's gonna
suck up more water from the ground. So but normally
for ornamental landscape beds on a lawn, one inch to
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a little bit over an inch of irrigation a week
is needed, and it could be a little bit more
than that during the summer months.
Speaker 4 (03:26):
And one of the things, probably more important than the
actual number of inches of rain, is how the rain
occurs exactly. I mean I was driving in baton Rey jesture,
and I mean that faucet was turned on and just example,
I was going down Perkins road and you could not
drive in the right lane because of the overflow going
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out in the gutters. Well that may have been I'm
making numbers up now, but that could have been a
two inch rain, but it probably didn't even equate to
a quarter of an inch rain because it.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
All flowed off exactly exactly when you're talking to one
inch two inch rain.
Speaker 4 (04:03):
We want that to be a slow rain so it
can be absorbed, not these gully washing.
Speaker 6 (04:09):
And that's just like how your irrigation system would work.
You want a lower volume for a longer period of
time in most situations.
Speaker 4 (04:17):
So that means when I drive by these commercial sites
and all the water's flowing in the ditch and irrigations going,
that's nice.
Speaker 6 (04:23):
And you want to make sure your irrigation water is
targeted to the right location. Yes, and there's ways to
do a ninety degree, one eighty degree, three sixty degree
and oh.
Speaker 4 (04:35):
So yeah, actually, you know, I constantly try to get
people to consider the micro irrigation system that is sold
to Kleg's Nursery and just a little plug here. We
have a kit. Now it's more for like gardening, but
we don't everybody comes in. I want to get that
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micro when I was there, I want to get that
kit for micro irrigation. You don't want a kit because
anytime you buy a kit, you need a lot more
of something you don't even have in it, and you
throw away half the stuff that you don't need. So
what we want people to do and where I'm going
to get to is on our back patio at home.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
Surely has all of her pot.
Speaker 4 (05:19):
Plants and not those type of the container grown plant.
And over the years we just set when we were gone,
we would just set a regular sprinkler in the middle
of it and water well. About one thousand dollars worth
of rotten wood later, and a lot of unpleasant words,
(05:42):
I realized this is stupid, so I went. In fact,
I left. We were leaving the next day and I
had left, and I've told this story.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
I left the house.
Speaker 4 (05:51):
At four thirty to get to Klegs on Seagan by five,
and I don't I hated it when I worked there.
I understand why I did. I just picked up what
I thought I might need in a few extra brought
them home. I had a micro irrigation system on my
back patio for her container plants. Done leaving the house
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at four point thirty. I was done at six point thirty.
And the water is not hitting the wooden areas anymore.
It is watering what needs to be watered. And you
can do the same thing as you were saying in
your flower bed, right right, Why are you watering your sidewalk? Yes,
but that's a great question, and like I said, sorry,
(06:33):
we didn't give you a great answer, but it does.
There's a lot of variables there, and that's one of
the things that come into Clegg's Nursery. Talk to the
I would say professionals, but the people there, and they
can kind.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
Of help you with that.
Speaker 4 (06:46):
And with a micro irrigation system, typically you're putting out
what would be equivalent to one inch of rain in
about an hour typically, so you know you can split
that up. I, like I said, I always do try
to do two inches. I guess I'm overwatering, but I've
run it a couple times a week I'm established. But
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now the annual where Charlie has her annuals, we run
that a little bit more often, right right.
Speaker 6 (07:13):
And I had somebody ask me this week. I planted
this row of Eagleston Holly's in July and I've been
watering every day, and they had a picture of what
kind of look like some.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
I don't know if it looked like drought.
Speaker 6 (07:29):
Damaged foliage or it looked a little like sunskald. But
you don't see sunskald on Holly. So I really couldn't
help her very much without more information, because how much
water are they putting out? Is it at the edge
of the planning hole? Is it right by the mainshrunk?
So there's so many questions that need to.
Speaker 4 (07:49):
Be does she have her finger on the end of
the hose answered answered in regard to how you're putting
out irrigation water, and that's that is that And camellias
to me Holly's and camellias unfortunately because of their Wilton coefficient.
Once once you see drought damage on that plant, it's pretty.
Speaker 3 (08:10):
Much toast it is it is. It's gonna be almost
impossible to recover that plant.
Speaker 4 (08:16):
And that's you know, if you put a sprinkler out there,
that's great, you know, run it. You're going to get
some runoff. But if that's the only way you can
do it, do it that way. But and you and
I both have discussed this before. You drive down the
street and you see the guy with I call it
a car wash noles outreat. That is doing In fact,
(08:37):
that's doing damage. Yes, because all you're doing is very
shallow watering, and the roots are gonna come up to that,
causing a more drought intolerant plants. Best advice, And again, Alan,
I appreciate you correcting me every time I'm wrong, which
is most of the time. But if you're uncertain if
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you're watering good enough water, then take your little hand trial,
go out there and dig.
Speaker 6 (09:03):
Yes, yes, if you you know, if it's easy to
tell how far that irrigation water is matriculated, and.
Speaker 4 (09:11):
Write that word down.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
We'll discuss that word later.
Speaker 4 (09:17):
That's right, But no, you know, and a lot of
times you'll realize, wow, I didn't even get the water
through the mulch.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
Right right.
Speaker 6 (09:23):
So, and that's a common problem with maybe establishing your
warm season annuals. People over water at the beginning, and
then the roots don't get down to their adequate depth,
and then when we have the first one or two dry,
hot weeks of summer, they get those the wilting uh issues.
So we've rambled about irrigation a pretty good while here
(09:44):
we have it. I think it's do we have any
collars yet? No, I don't know if they do.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
We want to give them the number one more time.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
Probably Okay, if you have any questions, please close that for.
Speaker 9 (09:56):
Six nine w g b O.
Speaker 4 (09:58):
We were having a very that summer and hopefully this
last week or two of I don't want to say drought,
but hopefully this doesn't become the trend.
Speaker 6 (10:07):
Right it's some fall is typically the file forecast is
saying slightly drier than normal and maybe one degree warmer
than normal.
Speaker 4 (10:20):
Not a good combination. Yes, so I would go get
to a better, more fun question.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
Yes, when can you start putting out full of vegetables.
Speaker 6 (10:32):
And are you talking about the last of your warm
season vegetables or are you talking about your cool seasoned
vegetables like your coal crops and.
Speaker 3 (10:44):
Leafy greens.
Speaker 4 (10:46):
I'm gonna take the spring vegetable revisits, okay, And you
can have the coal crops okay.
Speaker 3 (10:51):
If you're rewanting.
Speaker 4 (10:54):
If you're wanting to replant some of what you did
in the spring tomato is you probably need them.
Speaker 3 (11:01):
In the ground or going in the ground very.
Speaker 4 (11:03):
Very quickly, because more so for us anyway, day length
as it shortens is going to create more issues with
tomatoes than cold weather. A lot of people say, well,
you got to get in before the first freeze. The
problem I find more with fall tomatoes is as the
day length gets shorter.
Speaker 3 (11:21):
Your tomato is not going to ripen.
Speaker 4 (11:22):
So you got to pick it off the bevine, put
it in a brown paper bag, put it on the windowsill,
and forget it and then it rots, and then you
got to replace the window sill.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
Maybe that's a little overly done.
Speaker 4 (11:31):
Peppers, you can plant peppers right now. That's an excellent
fall crop. Typically get a better crop in the fall,
more true ripened peppers than you do in the spring.
Peppers are kind of neat is. Once it forms a pepper,
it's edible, but the longer you leave it on there
a the bigger it gets.
Speaker 3 (11:52):
But then they turn colors.
Speaker 4 (11:54):
Almost all peppers start out green and turn to a
ripened color, even though.
Speaker 3 (11:58):
You can use them green beans.
Speaker 4 (12:02):
You can definitely plant your green beans again right now.
That's a great Especially bush beans are about a forty
five day crop, so you can turn that and then
be ready for Allen's coal crops a little bit later.
So yeah, a lot of your spring replantings. It's time
to be doing that right now. But I think we
have a collar on the line. Okay, so you can't
(12:24):
talk about col crop right now. I think maybe we're
having an issue with the collar.
Speaker 6 (12:31):
But is it still and we should be able to
do another crop of cucumbers.
Speaker 3 (12:36):
Yeah, maybe, so definitely glad. Thank you for bringing those up. Yeah, definitely,
that's that's a maybe.
Speaker 6 (12:42):
If we get a tomato plant this week, maybe get
a four inch tomato instead of three or.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
Four Definitely, definitely.
Speaker 4 (12:50):
Like I said, we're typically you want your fall, which
is a misnumber, because that's when they ripe. And I
would call them summer tomatoes because that's when you want
to plant them so that you can get ripe fruits
into September early October, because as at day length, like
I said, shortens, it becomes harder and harder for it
to truly ripe.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
And sure, And I.
Speaker 4 (13:12):
Don't know the lady's name, and I don't I don't
if early he's listening. She sometimes doesn't want feels comfortable
text me, but she follows a local gardener and I
think she's actually from the Thibodeaux area.
Speaker 3 (13:23):
Don't quite. I know who that is.
Speaker 4 (13:25):
Oh okay, never mind, then you can tell us.
Speaker 3 (13:27):
But she's planting her carrots.
Speaker 6 (13:29):
Yes, yes, so I never I've only grown carrots a
couple of times.
Speaker 3 (13:35):
I never had great success with carrots. Our soils heavy.
Speaker 4 (13:38):
Yes, that's the biggest issue we have with carrots here
is at heaviness.
Speaker 3 (13:42):
I've grown them.
Speaker 4 (13:43):
Some of what I do is I literally take my
shovel and I really break that area up and add
a lot of very loose compost, and I've grown it
for She probably doesn't remember, but when she was young,
you know, it's kind of fun for kids to go
out there, especially Johnny says what he calls a rainbow blind.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
Yes, all these all these neatly colored.
Speaker 4 (14:02):
Yeah, so it's kind of like Easter or Easter Carrie
when they go out and pull it up. I have
I do apologize to everybody out there, and to both
of y'all. I am struggling with these headphones today. So
if I sound stupid or normal, that's why.
Speaker 3 (14:17):
If it makes you feel better on my end, you
sound exactly the same.
Speaker 4 (14:22):
I would say thank you, but I don't think that
was a compliment.
Speaker 3 (14:25):
I am strictly speaking on your auditory.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
Experience right now, all right, if you have any questions,
called six that is born nine nine w JBO.
Speaker 6 (14:40):
We were okay, continuing the vegetable discussion, correct, So Butch
was mentioning our next planning of warm season vegetables. And
you know, we are approaching September, and that's the time
to think about our cool season vegetables. And we normally
think about cauliflower and rockley and Brussels sprouts and some
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of the leaf lettuces and cabbage.
Speaker 3 (15:06):
And those kind of plants. This time of year.
Speaker 6 (15:10):
You can do those from seed, or you can do
those by getting some plants from Cleggs and Oursery or
another garden center or feed store in the cell packs.
And what we're thinking, and what Butcher and I have
talked about in the past, is it seems like the.
Speaker 3 (15:28):
Fall weather is a little bit warmer than it used
to be.
Speaker 6 (15:32):
So even though we are approaching September and some of
the recommended planting dates for some of those crops, we
do need to watch the weather. We do need to
think about, you know, how hot is it going to
be the week or two after we plant these plants.
But anytime, you know, September October. If you have a
good vegetable bed, you can start considering some of the
(15:56):
cool season of vegetables. But just wash temperature and make
sure your irrigation is adequate the first few weeks and.
Speaker 4 (16:05):
Some of the fall crops. And I'm I'm thinking more
lettuce right.
Speaker 3 (16:09):
Now than any of the other wayes.
Speaker 4 (16:10):
But if we're too hot, the term is bolt, it'll
go to flowers exactly, and once it starts that elongation process,
you don't.
Speaker 6 (16:21):
And that's actually happened several times regularly the last few
years with some of them. And there's late this summer
early fall planted cool seasoned vegetables.
Speaker 4 (16:31):
So what do you I need to make sure I
get this question correct. What do you think about, you know,
the cell packs typically for your especially for your fall vegetables,
that's pretty much your availability is going to be sell
packed right at this time. Would you consider, you know,
(16:51):
getting a cell pack of say broccoli or something and
transplanting that into a larger pot and holding it that way.
Speaker 3 (16:56):
I think it could definitely be doing.
Speaker 6 (16:58):
Maybe put it in a five inch pots, six inch pot,
or even a gallon pot, or maybe a gallon be
too big. That depends on what quality of plants you're
getting from the cell.
Speaker 4 (17:09):
Pack, right, Yeah, And that's that's actually a very important
point with any type of plant that you're shifting up.
Speaker 3 (17:15):
You don't want to go too big all at once, right,
because you want to stare step it up? Can you
stare step it up? Stair step it up?
Speaker 6 (17:24):
Because that's gonna you know, put in too small of
a plant and too big of a pot your water
relations and your.
Speaker 4 (17:31):
Your your dirty side of the iris we were just
talking about, you're going to have too much water in
there based on the container looking in relation to the
plant size.
Speaker 10 (17:44):
So and.
Speaker 4 (17:47):
What is a difference you found between and what plants?
Would you what I'm gonna use the word direct seed
into your garden or would you prefer to see those
seeds planets in a seed tray?
Speaker 6 (18:05):
I just think these days with most home gardeners, it's
better to go with transplants.
Speaker 3 (18:11):
Oh yeah, no, I definitely agree.
Speaker 4 (18:13):
But if somebody wants to know when you're talking about.
Speaker 6 (18:16):
The like, like we were mentioning carrots, I find carrots
do better direct sewing well a.
Speaker 3 (18:23):
Lot of your root crops.
Speaker 4 (18:25):
I may be wrong on this, but I believe Johnny
Nayey always told me, if you try to transplant a
root cross, you're very likely not to get it to Yes,
the carrot or.
Speaker 6 (18:35):
The beat beats and the beats, and some of these
seeds are so small we tend to plant them too deep.
Carrots are surface applied, so exactly surface applied, and missed
them in I'm sorry I missed that, missed them.
Speaker 3 (18:56):
I didn't get a drum roll.
Speaker 6 (18:57):
But but I do find a lot of people asking
about sowing seed. You've got to have the right environment
to do that, whether it be some grow lights or
protected outdoor area or a greenhouse or.
Speaker 3 (19:13):
And that's not too hot.
Speaker 6 (19:15):
And these these seedling trays that you can get at
clags and those humidity domes you can put over your
seed trays. That's really what you need for us successful
sea germination.
Speaker 4 (19:27):
And I think you missed one of the most important
things when I miss a sterile seed mix.
Speaker 3 (19:32):
Yes, yes, because so often, you.
Speaker 4 (19:36):
Know, and I've over my many years in the business,
people will try to seed and they'll put it out,
and they'll get the seeds and they come up, they
get about an inch tall, and all of a sudden
they fall over.
Speaker 3 (19:47):
The pathogen in the soil.
Speaker 4 (19:50):
And what you want to do is if you're reusing
containers Diplomenta ten percent bleach solutions, right sterilizing them and
you know you're bag of seed starter six bucks. Maybe
you know, and oh I just went and dug some
soil out of my garden. Tell them what you got
(20:10):
in that soil in your garden. But no, a sterile
seed mix is extremely important. And if you want to
start some broccoli, cabbage, cauliflower from seed, I think right
now is the time to do it.
Speaker 3 (20:22):
In particular, August is the time to get it started.
Speaker 6 (20:25):
Mid late August, absolutely, And when you come to clegs,
all the seed all the peak pots, all the seedling trays,
all the media's right there in one or two rows,
all concentrated in one area, you can get everything in need.
And also the lsu Accenter Vegetable Production Book, if you
may want to them, that is a very good book,
(20:46):
if you want to try to get a copy of that,
which is more of a bigger publication than just a
little free leaflet. But all both of those have very
very good information in them.
Speaker 4 (20:57):
And this is not a knock on universities, because I
mean they're they're doing their research, mostly for farming and
all that, but that particular book is geared much more
to the homeowners. Yes, a lot of the publications available
at Pleg's Nursery.
Speaker 3 (21:11):
It's a very popular publication. Yes, only can I say that?
Speaker 4 (21:17):
I think I just did, even it's not true, Yes.
Speaker 3 (21:22):
Anna Claire?
Speaker 2 (21:24):
What plants can be incorporated into pumpkin displays?
Speaker 9 (21:27):
For fall?
Speaker 6 (21:28):
Ooh, plants and a pumpkin display? When are the pumpkins
going to come in? I think they're going to be
a first week or so September. I would assume the
end of Labor Day week or somewhere around about that.
Speaker 3 (21:38):
Time, sometime in that range.
Speaker 4 (21:42):
I will see where you go with this, and then
I'm going to tell that.
Speaker 6 (21:45):
Why don't I say a plant and then you say
it okay? And I say a plant and you say
a plant? Okay, okay. So your pumpkin display does it
have to be a plant?
Speaker 3 (21:53):
An A Claire? Or can it be accessories excess?
Speaker 9 (21:58):
You can do whatever?
Speaker 6 (21:59):
Okay, So I'm gonna go with the obvious crotons.
Speaker 3 (22:05):
Yeah, I agree completely. I mean we're done.
Speaker 7 (22:09):
Now.
Speaker 3 (22:09):
That's only the most popular, right.
Speaker 4 (22:11):
And of course people always want to look at the moms,
you know, and that.
Speaker 6 (22:15):
Fall mom rysanthem on my mama, mam moms. Those should
be ready pretty soon.
Speaker 4 (22:21):
They're not gonna be bloom until well, once the pumpkins
are here, you'll start to watch some of the early varieties.
But they are so quick. I love the crotons. I
love America.
Speaker 6 (22:31):
You know, if you can get a nice just the brilliant,
brilliant foliage of crotons just does something.
Speaker 3 (22:37):
It does that.
Speaker 9 (22:38):
Who is that, doctor Alan Owens?
Speaker 3 (22:41):
Who is this?
Speaker 9 (22:42):
I don't know?
Speaker 3 (22:46):
Great answer, well, who is that?
Speaker 9 (22:49):
A caller?
Speaker 3 (22:50):
New Michael, Let's go to them.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
Good morning, Michael, Welcome to wjb's Lawn and Garden Show.
Speaker 9 (22:56):
How may we help you today?
Speaker 10 (22:58):
Good morning? Now I'm having a great You're doing a
heck of a job, young lady. O it take?
Speaker 3 (23:03):
Hey, thank you for having me on.
Speaker 10 (23:04):
A couple questions, a couple of questions for you, and
then you may have talked about it. I just turned
the ready to go on. When's a good time to
trim your roses back for the fall?
Speaker 3 (23:14):
Wow?
Speaker 4 (23:16):
That that great feed in Michael. Right now you really
need to be trimming your roses because and you want
to cut them.
Speaker 3 (23:24):
Maybe a third to a half.
Speaker 6 (23:26):
I usually tell people a third in mid late August,
definitely my labor day.
Speaker 4 (23:31):
Yeah, And the reason for that is that's gonna get
a lot of and fertilized when you're doing this. It's
one of the things that we do want to fertilize
when we're perning. That's gonna give you a lot of
nice new growth and you're gonna get that nice big
blossom again or bloom again this fall. So yeah, right
now is an excellent time. And even your shrub roses,
you can go out, you know, if you got a
little hedge clipper or something, and trim them back again,
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fertilize afterwards, and they will they will reward you greatly
with a fall bloom.
Speaker 10 (24:00):
Excellent that I thought I was close. I wasn't quite
exactly sure, So that's good news. I'm on time. Second question,
I've got a three acre a lot, and I must
have about seventy five older azalias prior to mobiles for solomons,
the old foremos varieties and so forth. And back in
(24:22):
July I cut about thirty clippings and tried to root them,
but didn't make it.
Speaker 3 (24:29):
Nope.
Speaker 10 (24:29):
So I'm hoping to find is it the better time
to do that in the fall when it's not so hot?
Speaker 3 (24:35):
Late fall?
Speaker 6 (24:36):
Right, Azalia cuttings in May and then mid till late September,
mid October.
Speaker 10 (24:42):
Right, Okay, good, I'm gonna give it a try.
Speaker 3 (24:46):
Yeah, you try.
Speaker 4 (24:48):
Just I curious how many cuttings are you trying to do?
A lot or just a few?
Speaker 11 (24:54):
Uh?
Speaker 10 (24:55):
You know, I don't need but a couple, but I figured,
well I was trying to. I said, about thirty. I
got a pretty big washed up to put them in,
and I was gonna saving for like the church and
sale next year or whatever something like that.
Speaker 4 (25:09):
But you know, there's a couple other ways of doing it.
You know, if you were just looking for a few,
that might be easier. You can do air layering, which
is where you scrape the stem a little bit, put
some spagging the moss around. It's some cell afhane, not
cell phane, saran wrap type stuff, and it usually what
would you say, six to eight weeks you'll get right. Yeah,
(25:34):
that's an easy way, and you can do that pretty
much anytime. Another thing is if you got some real
low hanging branches, put a brick on one of the branches
and it'll root into the ground. Then you can cut
that off, dig it up and move them that way.
Speaker 3 (25:47):
A lot of times. That's those two ways.
Speaker 4 (25:49):
Are a little bit easier again if you don't need
a lot of cuttings and trying to actually cut dip
the cutting in a rooting hormone, putting it in the
sterile soil and all that. And the biggest thing with
any type of cuttings once you do that, even if
you do it in May and September, like Alan said,
you still want you you're not absorbing much if any
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moisture through the soil through the stem. You really need
to keep the foliage misted.
Speaker 10 (26:16):
Gotcha? All right? So this time of year you're talking about,
you know, mid.
Speaker 4 (26:22):
To late September, right, Yes, if if you want to
do a true cutting, mid to late September would be best, excellent.
Speaker 10 (26:29):
Well give it a shot, gentlemen.
Speaker 2 (26:30):
Thanks, thank you, And that does open up phone lines
at four six is four nine w JBO we have
another color.
Speaker 3 (26:40):
Let's go.
Speaker 2 (26:42):
Good morning, Melissa, welcome to wjbos on and garden jail.
Speaker 9 (26:45):
How may we help you today?
Speaker 12 (26:47):
Well, business, Melissa and I have two beautiful large jalapeno plants,
and ponts. They're gorgeous, but they will not bloom. Have
not made one pepper?
Speaker 6 (27:01):
When did you plan a melissa? And have you fertilized
any Oh?
Speaker 11 (27:06):
While I'm planting them at least two.
Speaker 10 (27:08):
Or three months ago, that huge.
Speaker 12 (27:11):
Well, I fertilized them with this miracle grow fertilizer. I
used the regular kind and then I put the flower
food on there.
Speaker 11 (27:20):
They just won't go.
Speaker 3 (27:22):
Are they in sun.
Speaker 12 (27:24):
Well one, they get about four or five hours.
Speaker 11 (27:29):
Of sun a day.
Speaker 3 (27:30):
Need more sunlight. You need a minimum and a bare
minimum of six hours direct sunlight.
Speaker 4 (27:36):
Oh okay, I think move them out into some more sunlight,
and I think you'll start peppering real soon.
Speaker 11 (27:41):
Okay, Well, see one.
Speaker 12 (27:43):
I put it in the ground thinking that it would help,
but it did not, so I'll have to pull it
up and put it in a pot.
Speaker 4 (27:49):
Suppose peppers in particular don't mind being in a pot.
The only concern about being in a pot is you
want to make sure you have a consistent moisture in there.
You don't do the dry wet, dry wet thing because
that can't affect blooming. But yeah, it can stay in
the container. Just again, make sure you can you keep
up an even moisture.
Speaker 11 (28:11):
They beautiful, like wow, that's.
Speaker 4 (28:14):
Why That's what put me into the because they're reaching
for sunlight.
Speaker 12 (28:17):
Yeah, okay, well I'll take it out to them. I
live in the townhouse over here off f and Lanchel
I'll just take it back in the back by the garage.
Speaker 3 (28:27):
There you go.
Speaker 11 (28:28):
Okay, well, thanks for your hell.
Speaker 3 (28:30):
All right, thank you Melissa for the call. What does
that do?
Speaker 2 (28:35):
That opens up fun lines at four nine six? That's
four nine nine w GBO.
Speaker 3 (28:42):
What do you have a question you normally do?
Speaker 10 (28:44):
Yep?
Speaker 9 (28:45):
When should I replace dead citrus?
Speaker 3 (28:49):
When should you?
Speaker 4 (28:53):
Which do you want to take the faller of the spring?
Speaker 6 (28:57):
I'm going to say that we're going to have a
warm winter. Okay, how about that? So you're going to plant,
So I'm going to encourage September October planting. But then
if you are a gun shot gun shy about cold winter.
Speaker 3 (29:13):
February yeah.
Speaker 6 (29:15):
So, but you know, for so many years we did
not have any significant cold damage on Sister Streets and
Baton Rouge at all.
Speaker 3 (29:24):
I agree with you.
Speaker 6 (29:25):
In the last three years we have cold damage. So
sooner or later we've got to get back to this
We're not going to have a brutal temperature week every winter.
Speaker 3 (29:36):
Do you agree or do I do? I agree?
Speaker 4 (29:38):
And that's exactly the point I was going to bring
up is you know, in fact, I thought it was
five years in a row we've had cold. But and
the issue with planting a new plant is that it's
a baby. I mean, it is much more cold intolerant
than a plant that's been in the ground for three
(29:58):
four years. So planting in the fall, which is typically
when we would have suggested, especially come quot satsumas, even
maybe grapefruits, but now I'm trying more and more to
the spring, right just I know time's not gonna like that,
but you know it's just because of because of the
(30:19):
trends we've had. I would replant in the spring, and
I've got to go cut down a couple three dead
trees that I have yet to cut down.
Speaker 6 (30:29):
But people love their citrus and try not to give
up on citrus. There it's worth brown winning.
Speaker 4 (30:36):
I mean, I have I have lemonon limes in pots
in my back patio, and yes, I know they're too
close together and they produce sprite.
Speaker 3 (30:44):
My friend in coastal Mississippi.
Speaker 6 (30:46):
We probably we probably ought to go like thirty different
citrus varieties in in like fifteen gallon containers, you know,
so it just like that.
Speaker 3 (30:57):
Definitely.
Speaker 9 (30:58):
Yes, we have a caller, let's go.
Speaker 2 (31:03):
Good morning, Thomas. Welcome to wgbo's wand and Garden Show.
How may we help you today?
Speaker 7 (31:08):
Hey, thank you for taking the call. I'm planning at
Peggy Martin in my backyard with the idea that it
would grow up a post to like a pergola. You know,
I would like for it to grow up, but it's
really kind of growing out, and I was going to
see if there was a good way effective way to
train it to go upward instead of outward.
Speaker 4 (31:30):
You just have to as those stems grow out, you
have to tie them up to your pergola. The rose
in the wild is going to be just a large bush,
so we actually have to train them to grow up. Yeah,
it's just a matter of as these shoots grow get
like some twine or well. Actually, one of the things
(31:52):
I love is there's a new velcrow thing. Okay, it
works extremely well. You just belcrow it to it and
as a row twines it's way through your pergula.
Speaker 3 (32:01):
I even take those velcrow off and move them up. Yes, yes, yes.
Speaker 4 (32:05):
But yeah, it's not going to grow up completely by itself.
You are going to have to make that suggestion to it.
Speaker 7 (32:15):
Okay, okay, great, And do I wrap it around the
post that it is going or just kind of like
let take a natural course.
Speaker 3 (32:21):
You can wrap it, you know, the wrap.
Speaker 4 (32:25):
In fact, we've got a Peggy Martin at home and
my wife and I yesterday I said, oh, I've let
this go a little bit too long, so I'm gonna
be doing that myself, and I do. I'm actually running
it along an old ship rope about ten feet up
in the air, and I do as I'm doing, I
wrap it around that rope.
Speaker 3 (32:41):
So yeah, you can do that. It doesn't really matter.
Speaker 4 (32:43):
All right, Well, thank you very much, right, Thomas, great, Carl.
Speaker 3 (32:46):
Thank you.
Speaker 9 (32:47):
And that does open up phone lines at fort six.
That's four nine nine W.
Speaker 4 (32:52):
G W And that's one of the We'll get to
Kenny in just a second here.
Speaker 3 (32:56):
But I do want to throw this out.
Speaker 4 (32:57):
It's one of the things that I Peggy Martin is
a beautiful rose. Don't get me wrong. As I said,
I have one in my backyard. We're running it up
four by four to old. You know the docking ship
ropes that someone gave me.
Speaker 3 (33:14):
It's great. It only blooms once a year, right, right,
Please be aware of.
Speaker 4 (33:18):
That if you're wanting to buy Peggy Martin Rose, if
you have that type of an area.
Speaker 3 (33:22):
So anyway, go.
Speaker 2 (33:27):
Goo wait hold up, Good morning, Kenny. Welcome to w
JB as Lon and Garden Show. How may we help
you today?
Speaker 3 (33:32):
Good morning, good morning.
Speaker 13 (33:34):
My second call.
Speaker 14 (33:36):
The first call was about my elm, my tinnyes elm tree.
The proc hidden. I thought it had noted and you know, advise, no,
keep watering it.
Speaker 13 (33:45):
It's gonna be okay.
Speaker 14 (33:46):
Well, about a month or so ago we had these
torrential rains and after the range of the leaves fell
off my creek. And now I've gone and I've been
to some of the limbs back and it feels like.
Speaker 13 (33:59):
It's dry and crack my tree instead.
Speaker 4 (34:02):
Yep, unfortunately, probably so once it dries out like that.
It sounds to me like you have a couple of
things that could be happening to your tree, and you
can figure out real quick which one it is. If
it's either those, I want you to look. Is a
tree in a bed or is it out in your yard.
Speaker 13 (34:25):
It's in the middle of my back yard. It's a
small yard and it gets full sun.
Speaker 4 (34:29):
Okay, go look right around the base of the tree,
right near the ground level and see if it's.
Speaker 3 (34:34):
All nicked up or cut up. The other thing that
you may want to.
Speaker 4 (34:38):
Look for on the stem usually about what we in
the forestry industry called dba, but about the middle of
your chest high look for small pinholes.
Speaker 3 (34:50):
I have a feeling your tree.
Speaker 4 (34:51):
Either got hit by bores or what we like to
call weed eater canker.
Speaker 13 (34:56):
Okay, well it's in. It can't be the weed eater
because we have.
Speaker 14 (35:00):
A lot of malts around it now and maybe too
much molts for that kill it.
Speaker 4 (35:06):
That could over time, over a long period, just depends
on how.
Speaker 3 (35:10):
How deep your lower trunk is.
Speaker 14 (35:14):
It's a new tree that we planned in the last October,
and I had it professionally planning and a new subdivision.
Speaker 6 (35:22):
Also check your trunk like Butcher's saying, Kenny, and also
look for splitting and and bark sloughing off costs. A
newly planetree could have been cold damaged in January.
Speaker 13 (35:36):
Okay, all right, then, sir, thank you, for your help.
Speaker 3 (35:39):
I really learned a lot problem. Thank you, Thank you.
Speaker 2 (35:42):
Good morning, Dale, Welcome to wjbos On and Garden Show.
How may we help you today?
Speaker 3 (35:47):
Good morning, how y'all great?
Speaker 15 (35:51):
Uh My question is I have some Brussels sprouts and
cabbage starts that I started, but there's a few of
them that are still doing okay, but my work doesn't
really allow me the time to properly harden them all like.
Speaker 16 (36:08):
They should be.
Speaker 15 (36:10):
Do y'all? Uh, I was gonna put them in my
raised bed this weekend. Do y'all have h any brussell
sprout saying cabbages at Craigs right now?
Speaker 4 (36:23):
I just got a text a few minutes ago they
have broccoli, colarflower, cabbage and.
Speaker 3 (36:29):
A few mustard at the store right now. Okay, all right,
all right, thanks for the call down.
Speaker 2 (36:37):
Thank you, And we do have another caller. Good morning, George.
Welcome to w jbos On a Garden Show. How may
we help you today?
Speaker 16 (36:47):
I have two questions. I have a one is about
a fig tree that is a lot of the limbs
die to cut them all out, it's all come back,
and the figs with green they never they never matured.
And then I had. I have an encore assay that's
(37:09):
pushed out and I don't know if I should trim
it now.
Speaker 10 (37:14):
Or not.
Speaker 4 (37:14):
Okay, on the encore azilia, you want to trim. Even
though they're considered ever blooming, they typically bloom cycle. You
want to trim at the end of one of those cycles.
So go ahead and let it do. It's next blooming
and trim right after that. You want to take the fig.
Speaker 6 (37:30):
And on the fig trees, yeah, you did the right
thing cutting out the dead wood.
Speaker 3 (37:35):
You need to try to train that new growth.
Speaker 6 (37:38):
And what I'm contributing the fruit being there but not maturing,
I'm just contributing that to the stress of the fig
trees trying to recover and not having enough energy to
to finish the crop. Or you could be in a
dry weather, dry soil situation.
Speaker 4 (37:58):
And actually in a situation like that A lot of times,
and I always recommend this with young citrus, if you're
getting a plant that's recovering, a lot of energy goes
into fruit production. A lot of times, I like for
people to pick those first ones off, allow that tree
to recover fully, and I think you'd be more than rewarded.
So yeah, if those green green figs are still on there.
I would strongly urge you remove them and allow that
(38:21):
energy to go into the plant regenerating itself.
Speaker 16 (38:27):
Thank you very much.
Speaker 3 (38:28):
All right, Okay, great question. That's the hardest thing for people.
Speaker 4 (38:32):
I mean, when I was in the store selling and
I would tell people pick the blooms off the citrus
and the blueberries.
Speaker 3 (38:38):
Oh, they would look at me like I.
Speaker 4 (38:40):
Was stupid, and you know, but it does. You know,
so much energy goes into fruit production, and you want
that energy for the first year at least, to go
into root production and you know, growth and vigor of
the plant. You know you're going to get what, you know,
maybe two oranges or you know, maybe if you're lucky,
seven or eight bluberries. It's not worth the you know,
(39:01):
allow that energy to go into developing the plant, not
the first actually try ideally two years, but that's.
Speaker 3 (39:09):
Really pushing it.
Speaker 6 (39:11):
I was talking to one somebody in Mississippi the other day,
and they planted five peach trees in February, and you know,
nice quality and five gallon pots, and they planned them
and actually a couple of the peach trees wound up
having ten or fifteen fruit on them this year, But
the trees have not grown hard at all.
Speaker 4 (39:32):
Because all the effort is gone into you know where
if they.
Speaker 6 (39:35):
You want that first couple of years to get that
branching system developed and to increase your plant height.
Speaker 4 (39:41):
And if they'd have picked those blims off next year,
they'd have probably had thirty or forty, you know. But
next year now they're going to have ten or twelve
at right. So but yeah, other things going on right now,
you know, people starting to get ready two weeks to football.
I think it is two weeks two weeks, you know
a little early for blooming moms. But there's definitely plants
(40:03):
out out there that can be planted for your school's
favorite colors. Yes, plantana is excellent. Actually, we have purple
and gold for that yellowish.
Speaker 6 (40:15):
I like the purple polish. Ornamental peppers. We have some peppers,
nice eight inch decorative pots. I told you ornamental peppers
are a waste of a good pot. That is a
personal opinion. I do know people, but they do have
some good coloration. One of the most.
Speaker 4 (40:31):
Unused blue blooming plant it's plumbago.
Speaker 3 (40:37):
I love plumbago.
Speaker 6 (40:38):
You do not see plumbago being planted it's an old
much anymore, at least I don't, but maybe it is.
Speaker 3 (40:46):
But I agree with you, I don't.
Speaker 6 (40:48):
I think thirty years ago we planted way more plumbago
we do.
Speaker 3 (40:51):
That blue is such a hard color for perennial plant.
Speaker 6 (40:55):
There's that new variety called Imperial blue that's bluer than
the regular blue.
Speaker 3 (41:01):
That just gives me the blues.
Speaker 4 (41:02):
Oh oh, come on, that's pretty decent. But no, it's
it is. We've got to plant.
Speaker 12 (41:10):
You know.
Speaker 3 (41:10):
We have a little parking pad off our driveway.
Speaker 4 (41:13):
And it's right on the corner, and I mean it's
as big and full and beautiful as it's ever been
after this freeze we had. But yeah, definitely time to
get out.
Speaker 3 (41:23):
Mulching. Mulch is very important.
Speaker 4 (41:25):
Get out there, pull your gripe weed and mulch over
the area.
Speaker 3 (41:29):
Real important to do.
Speaker 4 (41:30):
Right now, going into the fall, Susankas will be starting
to crank up.
Speaker 6 (41:35):
You're seeing a lot of buds on camellia since sasank
was in the last couple of weeks, have really becoming noticeable.
Speaker 10 (41:41):
Is that.
Speaker 4 (41:43):
Do we have a heavier blooming after a cold snap
like we had. I know we had some damage on today, saying.
Speaker 6 (41:50):
You usually sometimes that can trigger a heavier flower. And
I noticed this spring, after our cold weather in January,
that'll lot of the ozel yes that I thought would
not really bloom that well, bloomed just as good or
maybe even a little bit better. And uh, and we
(42:10):
didn't have it. We didn't have We didn't have as
much coal damage on our shrubs and Baton Rouge as
they did and laugh at Yeah.
Speaker 3 (42:16):
Of course if you have coal damage, you don't expect
a lot, right. Wow.
Speaker 4 (42:20):
You know, Alan, I do appreciate when you're here with me,
because it's.
Speaker 3 (42:24):
Really I appreciate you being here with me, even though
I kind of messed up the schedule this week.
Speaker 4 (42:29):
But I'm getting old and see now, which I do
extremely well.
Speaker 3 (42:32):
Anyway. We are Cleg's Nursery.
Speaker 4 (42:34):
We have four locations in the greater Baton Rouge area.
We have the Segen Lane store, which is by far
the best, don More and mid city Greenwald Springs at
the Industry with Forrest Road and Denham on Range Road
near may new Bridge Road. We are Cleg's Nursery. We
are the independent garden centers of in Baton Rouge. You've
been listening to WJBO news Radio eleven fifty am.
Speaker 3 (42:55):
We'll see you next Saturday morning. There oft Abo.
Speaker 10 (43:02):
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