August 2, 2025 • 45 mins
Welcome to the dog days of Summer this week on the WJBO Lawn & Garden Show with Braden and Dr. Allen from Clegg's Nursery!
If you're dealing with insects, our local pros have some great tips to best the pests! They're also looking forward to the fall vegetables coming and discuss our plant of the week: pawpaws!
There's also plenty of your questions, including help with okra, impatiens, bougainvillea, fighting weeds and new sod!
If you'd like to be part of the WJBO Lawn & Garden Show, give us a call Saturday mornings between 8 and 9 am by calling (225) 499-9526 - that's 499-WJBO! If you're listening on our free iHeartRadio app, you can also leave us a message by tapping the red Talkback Mic button!
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If you're dealing with insects, our local pros have some great tips to best the pests! They're also looking forward to the fall vegetables coming and discuss our plant of the week: pawpaws!
There's also plenty of your questions, including help with okra, impatiens, bougainvillea, fighting weeds and new sod!
If you'd like to be part of the WJBO Lawn & Garden Show, give us a call Saturday mornings between 8 and 9 am by calling (225) 499-9526 - that's 499-WJBO! If you're listening on our free iHeartRadio app, you can also leave us a message by tapping the red Talkback Mic button!
Don't forget to make sure you've updated to the latest version of the iHeartRadio app so you can make WJBO Newsradio 1150 AM & 98.7 FM your #1 preset, just like in your car! You can also make the WJBO Lawn & Garden Show podcast a preset too! And now, presets work on Apple CarPlay and Android Auto too!
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Good Saturday morning, and welcome to the WGBO Lone and
Garden Show, brought to you by Cleg's Nursery. If you
have a question about seasonal planting, lon and garden concerns
or questions about landscaping, called four ninety nine WGBO. That's
four nine nine six.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Good morning, Baton Rouge. Welcome to the WJBO Lawn and
Garden Show on our regular Saturday morning. I'm Alan Owens
and I'm here with Braiden Bodadera. Thank you Braiden for
being here. Good morning. We have a little bit of
an overcast looking morning, and I think we're supposed to
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get some rain this afternoon. And yeah, we're still suffering
with our our real field temperatures in our ninety three
to ninety four every afternoon, plants are suffering a little bit.
But yeah, we're into August now and the dog day
of summer. But there are some horticultural things that we
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can be doing in the garden in the landscape this month.
We want to let y'all know that we're on eleven
fifty AM in Baton Rouge and also ninety eight point
seven FM and Baton Rouge. You can also listen to
us on the iHeartRadio. If you have any questions you
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want to call in and ask us about this morning,
give us a call at four nine nine w JBO
four nine five two six and that's area code two
two five. So what would you want to start talking
about first this morning, Braden.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
I say, we just dive right into it and okay
and start well, this is something that we we commonly
experience this time of year, but insect issues are are
very prominent lately. We've been seeing a lot of spider
mice and really bugs. Right, and depending on what your
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spring would determine what kind of products you need to use,
Like if your spring, your edible, anything that's edible, your
vegetable gardens and stuff, you'd want to make sure that
that is something you can use for vegetables exactly want
to use any kind of harmful chemicals on stuff like that.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
Yeah, I've had a few calls about scales and mealy
bugs lately, and I have some spider mice. But you
were saying that you're seeing a good many spider mice
out there on some plants.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
Yeah, uh, there there are definitely things that they seem
to go for. Uh, that like they have favorite plants
that they go for first, and it usually tends to
be uh seems to me like more house plants.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
Well, yes, that's true. And then of course it's time
of year two is when your spider miight population can
get kind of elevated with the with the warmer temperatures.
So yeah, very important to identify those problems early and
try to get them under control.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
And especially spider mites, because it can be a little harder.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
To they can you don't really realize what's going on,
and then when you start seeing the webbing, you really
know you have a big population. So yeah, so you
all be on the lookout for the spider mites and
the mealy bugs. And I'm still seeing a lot of
azalea lacebugs on azaleas and lace bugs on lantanas.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
Oh yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
So you know a little bit of pruning on your
lantanas and fertilization and sometimes you don't even need to
spray spinosa or neem oil or horticultural oil. They will
come back pretty good if you just kind of give
your plants a good haircut. Yeah, and when you cut
off some of the plant, you're cutting off maybe some
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of the insects to the sou're reducing the population that way,
So let's be thinking about that. Walk through your landscape,
of course. Braden and I are with Cleggs Nursery here
in Baton Rouge, and come by and see us. If
you have a sample of an insect problem or a
wee problem or a disease problem and you're not sure
what's going on, can give us a visit and we
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can probably recommend a product for you that will do
a good job and help you identify what you have
going on.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
Yeah, yeah, definitely, if you have any kind of insect issues,
bring us, bring us some kind of sample when you
come in, and most times we can determine what's going
on right.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
Right, And then our great producer Jeremy and they're running
the show. He was asking about, you know, is there
more problems out there in the landscape right now this
year than the normally is? And I don't really think so.
I just think most of our plants are showing the
typical August kind of look to them.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
Yeah, maybe a little tired for exactly.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
You know, vencas look really nice as always, and your
lantanas that don't have lacebugs on them look really good,
and and uh, of course colias, and uh I needn
the pentas.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
The pentas right now really.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
Absolutely really are a great plant for this time of year.
And they don't like to be planting the first thing
of the spring. Plant them in May and June, and
you can even plant some right now and they'll go
for you until first killing frost. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
So h and it's an excellent pollinator plant too, exactly really.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
Likely, so we'll be uh, the uh, the pollinators. Yeah,
so you want to be planting for the pollinator, so
keep that in mind. I was going to say the
pollinator population is down pretty good this year. We really
don't know what the reason is for that, but uh,
the humming birds will be returning back through on migration soon.
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And yeah, the butterfly population ought to be increasing a
little bit as we go into the late summer, early
five months. So yeah, so do what you can to
take care of the pollinators. So what about the vegetables.
What vegetables do we have on the bench right now?
Speaker 3 (06:12):
So we are starting to see quite a bit of
like fall tomatoes come in. We still we're getting a
good bit of cucumbers and tomatoes. We've actually started receiving
some different varieties of peppers, so things are starting to
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come in.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
And yeah, so there, you know, even though we're in August,
there are you know, those vegetables that we can plant
in August, and it is time to start putting your
tomatoes in the ground for your fall harvest, and you
can do another crop of cucumber and squash, and there's
still time to get some peppers and egg plants going.
But you really need to be thinking about that pretty soon. Yes,
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So our good horticulture friend Dan gil he was saying
the other day that you know, if you have to
mate the plants so and they're not producing, but they
still look good if you continue to take care of them.
As soon as it cools off a little bit at night,
we'll start getting maybe another to maate, a crop coming on.
So it just depends on the health of those plants
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that you planted first thing or mid spring. You know,
do they still look good, are they still healthy or
are they still growing? Have you fertilized them a little
bit to keep them going so and then of course
the varieties that are indeterminate that kind of keep on
producing tomatoes are going to go longer in your garden
for you than the determinant braks are. So you've got
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to be thinking about that also.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
But if you're planting like you're into, you said, it's
an indeterminate determinant, right, Uh, if you were planting those
now while it's hot, you could you could still plant them.
They just wouldn't start to produce tomatoes till it cools.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
Off, exactly exactly. But they're going to need to grow
for four or six weeks first thing anyway, So you know,
and just because we're planning this time of year, you
still need to be thinking about, you know, some tomato
fertilizer or some fertilum gardener special or something similar to
put down on you on your late summer early file
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planted vegetables just like you do in the springtime.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
Yeah, And even though I still feel like it's it's
maybe it's too hot, we are starting to see a
few fall vegetables right right become available, right you know.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
The demand for file vegetables is always pretty good, yeah,
in the Bad Rouge area. And people want their broccolian,
their cabbage and their lettuce. Everybody wants the kale and lettuce.
Maybe our kale and lettuce. Well, I know, kale is
maybe a little bit more heat tolerant than broccolian and
cabbage is, and maybe collars are a little bit more
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heat tolerant than broccoli and cabbage are. So yeah, but
it is time to think about starting those from seed,
if you if you.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
Do, yeah, I was gonna see. And I want to
say that's the reason why a lot of people are
coming in looking for fall vegetables right now, because if
you look at the fault the seed planting guys, yeah,
says to start putting seed down right right.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
So so if you're good at german et and seeds,
you may want to try to come in and get
you some some vegetable seed. You may want to have
an indoor area where you can do your seed, or
do them under the car port and put.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
Them in a little seed to get them started.
Speaker 4 (09:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
They need to be protected from these afternoon thunderstorms. We've
been gaining also, so and we have all the peat
pots and plantings, soil mixed for seed, and oh yeah,
trays and and all those supplies to take care of
your BA vegetable seed sewing efforts.
Speaker 3 (10:04):
And we carry Johnny Naylor seeds.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
So exactly. Everybody says, you know, Clegg's Narcially has really
the best sea supply of vegetables in Louisiana. That's that's true.
It is. And Johnny's on top of what vegetables are
new to the market, and Westbyan discontinued and a few
new heat set tomato varieties in this year. They're supposed
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to be really good. So we want to encourage you
to look at those and get a few of those planted.
Speaker 3 (10:34):
Oh yeah, since we're on the topic of fall vegetables,
we didn't really mention what kind of heat set varieties
we've been getting in lately, but we've gotten quite a
few new ones them. Now I'm drawing a blank thunderbird. Thunderbird, okay,
(10:56):
that was one the red Bounty.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
Red Bounty, right. I saw some of those agreeable springs
the other day.
Speaker 3 (11:02):
I don't know if I have any left at Seagan,
but for a while there we were getting one called
fourth of July.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
Okay, yeah, I didn't know fourth of July. I've got
to look that one up.
Speaker 3 (11:12):
Yeah, so I wanted to see Johnny had told me
that was.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
A new variety this year, okay.
Speaker 3 (11:18):
And then one that we always get is Phoenix.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
Right, got by some of those and the fl Florida varieties. Yeah,
those are always good heat set performers.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
Yeah, I want to say we had one Florida seventy
five fourteen. It may not be a new one, but
this is the first time I remember seeing.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
It this yeay, okay, okay. Braden and Allen from Clegg's Nursery,
you're great independent retail garden center here in the Baton
Rouge area. We have three locations in Baton Rouge and
one and then them Springs and we're open seven days
a week all year long, all year all year.
Speaker 3 (11:57):
We close I think seven days out the year.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
Ye Braiden hopes he gets the days off every once
in a while, you know, but give us a call
two two five, four nine nine w JBO. You can
also listen on the iHeart app, so if you want
to peru some of the past episodes where you remember
us talking about something, and you can go back and listen.
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And sometimes I'll go back and listen to see what
some of the folks say when I'm not here and
and give me a few ideas maybe to put on
the Clex Nursery Facebook page. So we want to encourage
everybody to follow us on Facebook and we also have
an Instagram page for Clex Nursery, So if you're into
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the social media thing, think about that. Yeah, So, Braiden,
what is our Clegs Nursery plant of the week put
up on Pop Pause A pop palk tree.
Speaker 3 (12:56):
Yeah. I've personally never had the chance to experience a
papaul fruit, but from what I understand, they are very good.
They have like a custardy kind of texture, right. Native
to North America, right and as of now you can
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find them at lakes.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
We just got some really nice plants in and uh
papa is a native fruit similar Triloba is the main
genus species of papaul trees, and the fruit's maturing this
time of year. August. I've tasted papause. You know, they're
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they're okay. Are they fabulous? I'm not sure, but uh,
you know, kind of a custody apple e mango, a
little bit of mealy or grittiness to the to the flesh.
Doctor Charlie Johnson at LSU planted a lot of pop
all trees and had about fifteen varieties about uh wow.
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That was in the mid late nineteen nineties. Most of
the trees have died now from some issues, but he
had a very productive papa orchard for about fifteen years.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
Awesome. So is that something do you have to peel
a papaul or you eat the flesh too.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
I don't eat the flesh. I just eat the inside
of it. But the flesh could be eaten. Yes, yes,
the wildlife do like papa. So sometimes you got to
fight the coons and the possums for the pop off
fruit really, and the fruit, you know, it seems to
spoil pretty fast, so if you don't get it, you
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know early, you're it's going to kind of waste away
on you. So that's why you don't see figs and
pop off fruit at farmer's markets because they just don't.
They don't hold up harvests and store and ship and transport. Well,
they don't last very long after they've been taken off
the tree. So we have some real nice five gallon popaws.
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They're about four to five feet tall, I guess, and
I think they're for thirty four to ninety nine.
Speaker 3 (15:10):
Yeah, I think that's right.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
So is that.
Speaker 3 (15:14):
Is that like one that you would need to cross
the pollin eate? Do you need to buy two of them, or.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
You really need to plant two popak trees at least two,
okay for cross pollination. And they in native areas they're
found in an understory setting with some shade. But in
a commercial orchard of course, they're planted in full sun.
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So if you plant some of your house, I would
say morning sun afternoon shade, they're going to have a
harder time establishing in full sun. But once they get established,
they perform very well. Okay, So so so papaws are
the plant of the week this year, this whole week.
Native fruitmure yours this time of year, Zebra swallowtail butterflies.
Speaker 3 (16:06):
Papas are deciduous too.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
They are, and so they lose their foliage in the
wintertime and they have a reddish purple flower in the spring.
So a nice native plant to cazenter. So yeah, all
the locations of Clegg's Nursery have papaws in stock right now.
So yeah, come on by this weekend or next week
and get you some.
Speaker 3 (16:29):
And if I remember correctly from past years, usually when
we get papa's they do not last very long.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
People people want popas, so you know, beat the stampede.
And we'll talk about planting in just a minute. But
we do have a call. We have Dale in Central Dale.
Do you have an okrah question this morning? Welcome to
the w j b O Lawn and Garden Show.
Speaker 5 (16:53):
Oh yes, sir, I do. Thank y'all.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
How y'all going doing good? Dale? Thank you?
Speaker 3 (16:58):
I'm good.
Speaker 5 (17:00):
A good bit of okrah growing in my raised bed
here and they're doing amazing. They're about three foot tall,
bushed out, but they're not producing I'm not really producing
any flowers.
Speaker 3 (17:13):
M hmm.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
When did you plan them? Dale?
Speaker 5 (17:18):
I actually boughked the flats from Quiggs.
Speaker 6 (17:22):
It was.
Speaker 5 (17:25):
Honestly, uh, two months ago.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
But if they're three feet tall, they ought to be
producing some blooms by now. Did you fertilize them?
Speaker 7 (17:37):
Uh?
Speaker 5 (17:37):
I uh, supplement with calcium nitrate every two weeks?
Speaker 2 (17:41):
Oh well that that ought to be good. But if
they're only been there two months, three feet tall, you
you ought to be getting blooms in the next week
or two. If you don't have any bloom shot, I.
Speaker 5 (17:54):
Mean, I've like I said, I've I've got I've got
about fifteen or so plants here and I probably only
got about two ocre pods. Out of all fifteen so far.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
Okay, Okay, well usually August, September, October, it's really the
most productive time for Okrah. So you're doing everything right
as long as the plants are in full sun. Yeah, so,
so I really think Dale, it's just a matter of
maybe a couple of more weeks and Braiden and I
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can't think of anything else right now that would be
I mean, Oprah performs well and hot, well hot, the
hotter the better. Yeah, So, and you're fertilizing so yeah.
Speaker 5 (18:47):
Also another question, because they actually they're actually producing a
lot of suckers, would that if I picked those with
that maybe helper.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
I would keep I would I would keep the I
would keep the suckers cut off. If you have some
suckers or branches right now near the soil line, I
would keep those cut off.
Speaker 4 (19:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (19:09):
They pretty much just like tomato plants are coming up
in between the stems.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
Okay, well, in that situation, I don't think it's necessary.
If they're you have that kind of growth in the canopy,
I don't think you need to take that off, right. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (19:27):
I've actually got them from about eight ten inches up
off the soul, and that's that's good.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
That's good. So so why don't I know you're you're
probably uh running short on patients on your OKRA, but
you know, seriously, they'll give it two more weeks and
to give them a good talking to, and I think
you're going to start getting some flowers and some more
pod production.
Speaker 5 (19:55):
All right, definitely sit back and wait, I'm donet put
in too much.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
Absolutely, and yeah, you have plenty of time left.
Speaker 5 (20:04):
So all right, well, I appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
Okay, have a good day, Dale.
Speaker 3 (20:11):
Good first call.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
Yes, good first call there. So uh yeah, so you know,
we were talking about papaws, so we have poppak trees
in August. Can you plant trees and shrubs in the summer.
This is a question we get all the time at
Clegg's and what I usually tell everybody is, uh, it's
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the summertime is really not the best time in Louisiana
to plant trees and shrubs. You can plant this time
of year, but you have to make sure you were
routinely watering exactly exactly. So you've got to you know,
you've got to have the right culture. I mean, landscapers
plant you're well and their plants are successful. When I
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was at LSU. I planted plants every week of the
year back in the good old days. And you know,
so it's all about the planting hole, taking care of
the plant. Get your wide planting hole. Same soil that
was in the planting hole goes back into the planting hole.
Speaker 3 (21:20):
That's a very important point.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
You want you want to plant maybe an inch or
so high. Now, these pump unk trees that we just
got is a new crop and they're not fully rooted
in the pot. So you want to be careful taking
that plant out of the container and gently send it
into the planting hole. And then you back fill your
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soil one third of the way and water in, back
fill one third of the way, water in, and then
finish backfilling. You know, kind of do a two three
step process there, putting soil in the hole and irrigating.
And you want your moisture in your container to match
the moisture of the soil that you're planning get into
and that really helps plants get established also, So so
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y'all be thinking about those those planting processes and you know,
maybe put a little bit of root stimulator in the
planting hole. Also.
Speaker 3 (22:19):
Yeah, that's never a bad idea.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
Right, so so, but of course you could get some
pawpulk trees and hold them till October November and plant then.
But keep in mind also you're going to have to
take care of that plant in the container, and if
you forget to water for two or three days and
you let the plant wilt, it's going to take a
while for it to recover and come back, so.
Speaker 3 (22:42):
Especially if it's something like citrus that doesn't like to
dry out.
Speaker 2 (22:46):
Exact period exactly exactly, So we have some more collars.
Michael in Baton Rouge. Michael has a question about impatience.
Good morning, Michael, can we help you this morning?
Speaker 7 (23:00):
Yes, sir, Good morning guys. I really appreciate your shame.
So yeah, so I'm like the woman with eight caps.
I've got one hundred and thirty five potted flowers and
a lot of them are impatience.
Speaker 2 (23:10):
Okay, and I learned years ago.
Speaker 7 (23:13):
As I get to August, I need to cut them back.
But like I've made some mistakes, how far back do
I cut them that I know they're going to come back?
Speaker 2 (23:23):
And I assume, Michael, these are what we call regular
impatients and not what I'll call sun patients, right, yes, sir, okay, right,
and I usually cut them about about one third.
Speaker 3 (23:36):
Yeah, that's usually what I tell people is about a
third of the plant, right, and then I give them
a little bit more fertilizer, whether it be Miracle Grow,
a liquid plant food, or maybe a smidgeon of Furdlan
Betting plant food or even Fertilom Gardener special and that
will carry you at first frost yep.
Speaker 7 (23:55):
Perfect, all right, thank you so much.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
Okay, absolutely, Michael, Yes, sir, thank you for calling. Yeah,
so he has one hundred and thirty five. It's very
important to have your plant inventory down. Okay, okay, we
have another collar. We have Linda in Baton Rouge and
Linda has been holding and she has a bogainvillia question.
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Good morning, Linda, how can we help you with your
bogunvillia this morning?
Speaker 8 (24:25):
Yeah, good morning. Every year I buy a couple of
hanging baskets thinking that I can keep them alive, and
every year it's just not quite I'm not successful. Is
it too hot? Or in fact I try to move
him under my eaves to keep them out of the
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rain because I know they don't like too much water.
Is that correct?
Speaker 3 (24:49):
Yeah, that they don't like to stay well. What we
usually tell people at the nursery is you kind of
have to stress a bogan villa to keep it to
bloom regularly. So you let them dry out in between waterings,
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and you put them in as much sun as you
possibly can, and that's how you get on to rebloom.
Speaker 2 (25:17):
I think I think most of the time when people
have bokenvillia problems, that's they're staying too wet. Yeah. Yeah,
So I'm not sure exactly what kind of symptoms that
you're seeing, Linda, but you know, try not to irrigate
too much. If they're outside with the amount of rain
we've been having this year, that's probably too wet. But
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then they do like to be in sun. But a
patio that gets adequate reflected heat is probably okay.
Speaker 3 (25:48):
Yeah. Also, I find that it's beneficial to come back
from time to time if they start to get too
longer speakily, right, right, right right.
Speaker 8 (25:58):
I was thinking of that they getting kind of lake
when it rained. I kind of move, like I said,
I move them back under just so that they don't
get you know, over watered. But I'll try to trip.
Speaker 2 (26:11):
Thank you, Yeah, okay, thank you Linda. We appreciate your calling,
thank you. Uh so yeah, on the bogainvillias. Uh and
also they need to go through that stress, yeah, dormant
period before they'll go bloom again.
Speaker 6 (26:30):
For you.
Speaker 2 (26:31):
A lot of people are not satisfied because their bogunvilias
don't bloom long enough and that, but they bloom in cycles. Yeah,
so so keep that in mind on your bogunvilias. Okay,
we have another call, Lee in Baton Rouge. He has
a Saint Augustine grass side question. Good morning, Lee, This
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is Braydon and Allen on the w j b O
Lawn and Garden Show. How can we help you with
your lawn problem this morning?
Speaker 6 (26:58):
Well, we resided my backyard went from Centipede to Saint
Augustin after a pool project.
Speaker 2 (27:06):
That too much gout.
Speaker 6 (27:08):
I'm cutting it really long. I'm trying to cut it
a little shorter. Now, what do y'all recommend with Saint
Augustin on heights? And can I start fertilizing?
Speaker 3 (27:22):
So I'm gonna let Alan answer the height part of that.
I know you don't want to cut too short, but
as far as fertilizing, usually would recommend using malorganite right now, right,
it doesn't have as much nitrogen and you don't want
to burn your grass right right.
Speaker 2 (27:41):
And I have been telling people to be thinking about
fertilizing their lawn, but we need to wait another couple
of weeks. Feel it's a little bit cooler, hopefully, and
and we get some better weather conditions. But the mowing
height on your Saint Augine two and a half to
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three inches is what you ought to be shooting for.
If your lawn is looking healthy, that would be a
good height that it still trying to get established. Keep
it at three inches. If it's established pretty well, you
can go down to two and a half inches. Most
people mow their saying in Augustine grass too short, and
that's the worst thing to do on Saint Augustine grass.
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And the mill Organite fertilizer is a very safe product
that you can broadcast over the top and give you
just just enough nutrient out there to keep your lawn
growing good, nice and green, right right, give you a
really good green up. Does that help you some?
Speaker 4 (28:40):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (28:40):
It helps a lot.
Speaker 5 (28:41):
I appreciate you, thank.
Speaker 2 (28:42):
You, yes, sir, thank you Lee. Some good calls this morning, so, uh,
turf questions and Boganvillia questions and Okrah questions, so we
always appreciate good diverse collection there. We'll actually been having
a good number of calls most days that Yeah, we've
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been on on Saturday. So let's see what else do
we need to talk about this morning. I know we're
going to go to a break again in a few minutes,
but we needed to remind everybody that the Botanic Garden
Foundation that's having a plant sell next Saturday. That's an
Independence Park Botanic Gardens and that's going to be eight
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am till twelve noon.
Speaker 3 (29:28):
Awesome.
Speaker 2 (29:28):
So they have a cell every year in August usually
the second Saturday, and that's over there by the new
Library on Goodwood. Yeah, and they have a iris garden
over there, a day lily garden, a rose garden, herb garden,
they have a crape myrtle planning that the Baton Rouge
Landscape Association did in nineteen ninety three.
Speaker 3 (29:52):
Is that I love walking through that little area.
Speaker 2 (29:54):
So anyway, next Saturday at the Independence Park Botanic a
garden plants sell. The different uh horticultural societies around Baton
Rouge will be there, the Succulent Folks, the the Bagonia folks,
the daylily folks, the Louisiana iris folks, the uh they
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have a pollinator garden there that the Baton Rouge Garden
Club takes care of that. I like to check out
every once in a while and go get some butterfly
and b pictures. So, uh, that's next Saturday. Uh, so
y'all check that out. But you want to come to
Klegg's nursery next Saturday and every Saturday too, so you
got to make sure you have the opportunity to make
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all your horticulture visits on end on that particular day.
So and also, uh, you know, we were talking about vegetables,
but you know we I was thinking about some bedding
plants like zenias and sunflowers and marigolds. It's a good
time of year to plant another batch of zenias or sunflowers.
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And we have some marigols and sell packs at the
garden center. So marigoals are easy to do from seed too.
Speaker 3 (31:07):
Yeah, so.
Speaker 2 (31:11):
We have the seed ricks and we have probably ten
or fifteen different varieties of sunflower seed. Now, the availability
may vary depending on which location of cleag should come
to right now, but try to get you a few
sunflower seed and get them planting and they'll give you
a very nice flower show all the way through October.
Speaker 3 (31:31):
And also if you're doing your fall garden, your fall
vegetable garden, a lot of people like to get marigolds
to plant around their fall vegetables exactly exactly to help
the turpats right right, keep in mind.
Speaker 2 (31:44):
And sometimes some marigoals will help you get some of
the harmful nematodes out of the soil.
Speaker 3 (31:48):
Awesome.
Speaker 2 (31:49):
And you can plant some zenias in your garden to
help bring in the pollinators. Yep. So so Xenia's marigols
and sunflowers for the late summer early fall are always
good options. A lot of people plant their sunflowers in
the spring and then they you know, May June they
have some nice blooms and then they don't think about
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planting them again this time of year. Yeah, So we
usually don't get a killing frosh and baton rouge till
sometime in November. So you plant some seed now and
you know they'll be blooming by late September easily, and
you'll will get four, six, eight weeks of nice sunflowers
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for October. Yeah, and it kind of fits the fall
theme of hay bales and crotons and pumpkins and ornamental peppers.
We have some ornamental peppers at the garden Center right now,
and those are always a good August, September, October, November,
a plant with a lot of color.
Speaker 3 (32:49):
Yeah, I ornamental peppers are one of the plants that
I really enjoy because they just have so many different
varieties and they come in so many different colors.
Speaker 2 (33:00):
I like the purple foliage ones, yeah.
Speaker 3 (33:02):
I like that, purple flies, calico.
Speaker 2 (33:05):
Yeah yeah, and then some have variegated foliage and they
do produce berries like a regular edible pepper, and they
are edible if you just want to if you want
to eat them.
Speaker 3 (33:17):
They're just very spicy.
Speaker 2 (33:18):
Fairy spider. There's one variety called chili Chili that's a
very mild ornamental pepper. Okay, you know they're not bread
for eating, their bread for ornamental esthetics, so so very nice,
so keep that in mind. But we have a really
nice selection of ornamental peppers at the garden Center right now,
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and they'll be of course more coming and we're going
to have some of the decorative containers, so yeah, you know,
good to place on your.
Speaker 3 (33:46):
Pol to see when the ornamental peppers come in, because
that's when you know fall is just right around the corner.
Soon we'll have haybells and pumpkins.
Speaker 2 (33:59):
That's right. And actually last year, I think last year
this week I saw on Facebook that we had a
nice selection of crotons in already. Now we do have
some crotons in the Folish house, but we haven't had Yeah,
we haven't a big shipment of crotons come in yet,
not yet.
Speaker 3 (34:15):
Yeah, And but crotons will go as long as it's
not cold. Outsize act do well out to do well here.
So we have been trying. We've been keeping some varieties
in stock, mainly like the Petra that's the more common
known one. Uh, but yeah, we've been keeping them in
stock too.
Speaker 2 (34:36):
And uh, you know, you can grow crotons as a
patio plant. You just want to protect it from freezing weather, right,
But you can keep your crotons growing many many years,
just like you do your typical folighe plants. And they
like to be in a little bit of sun, not
full sun all day, but you know, if they got
a little bit of sun on them, they get more
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colorful folish After in shade all day. So okay, so
your crotons and your ornamental peppers, senia, sunflowers, marigolds, keep
in mind all those, all those plants, and then on
your warm season bedding plants. I was noticing, like a people,
salvias are kind of fading on the regard to the
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flower size and the colors. So prune those back a
little bit, and.
Speaker 3 (35:26):
Which right now would be a good time to prune
salvia too, because that is one thing that mealy bugs,
yes really really late.
Speaker 2 (35:33):
Yes, yes, so mealy bugs can get started on your salvia.
So give your salvia is a little bit of a haircut,
throw a little bit more fertilizer on them, and they'll
come back and be blooming great again in two or
three weeks, and they'll go all the way to your
first killing frost. Also, yeah, so we hadn't really gorgeous
misstic spires salvia. Yes, seeking Lane, that's that nice, big
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blue growing salvi and that's gonna be perennial in Baton rouge.
Speaker 3 (35:59):
Yeah. So I was very happy this year to see
that we've been able to get the mystic spires and
like this late in the year because it's one of
the salvia is that everybody looks for it. It is,
it is, It's very very nice.
Speaker 2 (36:13):
So many salvia is on the market now, so oh yeah,
I like to plant three or four different types and
give you a nice color range out there. Yeah. We
do have one more caller that we need to talk
to this morning, and then we'll wrap up with some
clothes and comments. We have Richard and Baton Rouge. Good morning, Richard,
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how can we help you this morning? Good morning, good morning,
good morning.
Speaker 4 (36:40):
Yeah. My question is is I have a lot of
monkey grass in my yard, but it has a good
bit of clover in it, and now it also the
clover's pretty much died out, but it's.
Speaker 5 (36:53):
Had some other weeds in it.
Speaker 4 (36:55):
I'm not sure what kind of weeds they are, but
it's anything I could spray on monkey grass that would
kill weeds, uh, not kill the monkey grass.
Speaker 2 (37:06):
Well, really, the only option that you have there would
be some of the grass killing herbicides like over the top.
But but you have the clover, which is a broad leaf,
and there's really nothing that you can spray over a
groundcover like monkey grass or ariop that's going to kill
the weeds without damaging the groundcover. So you have you
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have a difficult situation there.
Speaker 5 (37:34):
Okay, over the top might kill the weeds.
Speaker 2 (37:37):
Over at the top, we'll kill, we'll kill, right, We'll
kill a grassy weed right right.
Speaker 5 (37:43):
Right, but not but don't use it for the for
the clover.
Speaker 2 (37:47):
It's not going to have any activity on the clover.
So come by and get some over the top and
try that according to label directions. And then you may
you may want to put uh pre emerge out and
try to hold back the germination of your clover. You
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know that will be germinating this fall. So so yeah, see,
come see us about that, Richard, and we'll be glad.
Speaker 8 (38:14):
I got you.
Speaker 4 (38:16):
Appreciate your help.
Speaker 2 (38:17):
Yes, sir, have a good morning.
Speaker 3 (38:21):
Clover is a pesky little weed.
Speaker 2 (38:23):
Yes, yes, the weed things in the groundcovers can be
hard to manage in especially when you get the clover
and the ox alis and the things like that in there.
You know, sometimes if you get permuta grass or even
some of the siedges, you may be able to do something,
but the broad leaves are hard to manage. So let's see,
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so we're in August. You know, we had a little
less flower show on the vitext trees this year. You
know y'all know v text trees. They bloom and mage
and the nice bluish purple flowers.
Speaker 3 (39:04):
Oh yeah, yeah, it did seem like maybe last year
put on a little more of a show.
Speaker 2 (39:10):
I think the rain kind of held some of the
longevity of the bloom time back some Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (39:17):
So, but good thing is is you can tip prune
those this time of year, those an creete myrtles kind
of bring on another bloom cycle.
Speaker 2 (39:25):
Yeah. So b texts or chase tree shoal Creek is
a popular variety. We have a new one called rock Steady.
We sell Abbyville Blue. So there's a number of bitexts.
Speaker 3 (39:36):
Some of that are or different color than that blue
or purple exactly.
Speaker 2 (39:42):
There's some pink flowering by texts. I like the pinks.
Speaker 3 (39:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (39:45):
So if you go in there and just kind of
cut back those old faded blooms and cut back those
seed pods that are starting to develop, you'll get a
secondary bloom in August and September. And sometimes even if
you don't do that, you'll get your secondary blue. But
but it is a good idea this time of year
to go in and tip back your I tech trees,
and then if your great myrtles are small enough, you
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can go in there and do a little bit of
dead head. You're crepe myrtles. And there's so many of
these dwarf varieties being planted now, or there's so many
of these dwarf varieties crepe myrtles available now. Now I
don't see a whole lot of people buying them. But
but you know, you can put crpe myrtles and containers
if you wanted to, and they they're more of a
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six eight foot growing It's easier to dead head a
six to eight foot crepe myrtle than is.
Speaker 3 (40:37):
A yeah, definitely a thirtyes. But we usually have that
proven winter variety the center.
Speaker 2 (40:48):
Stage, right center stage.
Speaker 3 (40:50):
And that's one of the darkly folliest y Yes, but
they don't get quite as big there.
Speaker 2 (40:56):
Right, Yeah, they're more like an eight foot or at
maturity A believe right. I like some of the Burga
down the black foliage crape myrtles.
Speaker 4 (41:03):
I do.
Speaker 2 (41:04):
I do find they need more fertilizer. Oh yeah, so
y'all keep that in mind. Also, and I've been noticing
some crp myrtles bloom beautifully this year and some may
be not so much. Yeah, so your summer bloom on
your crate myrtles is all dependent on how much spring
foliage growth you get on your crate myrtles. You know,
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you get a lot of foliage growth in the spring,
you have a lot of blooms. You don't get much
foligh growth in the spring, you get less blooms. So
you want to fertilize your crpe myrtles every year March,
and that fertilizer will help that plant produce some more
spring foliage. And the more spring folige you have, what
would you suggest summer blooms you're going to have, what would.
Speaker 3 (41:48):
You suggest fertilizing them with?
Speaker 2 (41:51):
On these big roll in crpe myrtles. You know, even
eight eight eight or triple thirteen is fine. The fertilng
tree and struck fertilong tree and shrub food is good too,
But you know eight a to eight triple thirteen on
crape myrtles is perfectly okay. And you want to put
that out at the at the drip line or where
the end of the branches are right. You don't want
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to put that right up by the trunk because you're
really not benefiting the tree very much. There all your
feeder roots are out there at the end of where
your branches are. So so we have a couple of
minutes left. You know, we are in August, and I
have seen a few landscapers pruning roses already. Normally we
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say later in August for rose pruning. Is that what
you think of raiding? Yeah? Yeah, so, and you're and
your late summer roaset pruning is not as severe as
your late winter roast pruning.
Speaker 3 (42:48):
Right, don't. Don't you have to be a little more
careful pruning roses when it's warmer, exactly.
Speaker 2 (42:54):
You don't want more susceptible right right, you You don't
get us good of regrowth when it's really hot like
it is right now. So I like to do about
a one third heighth production when we prune in late August,
and definitely get it done by Labor day, and then
about forty days after your prone you get your your
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peak flower show again. But I have noticed some knockout
roses and some drift roses not looking too good when
I'm driving around Baton Rouge right now. But you know
that's just maybe the heat of summer or you know
the rainfall roses like it a little bit more on
the dry side. And I am seeing chili thrips on roses,
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and chili thrips are folish feeding thrips, and they have
that deformed growth of the terminal looks kind of distorted
and twisted and cupped up. Yeah, that's chili thrip match.
So spinosad would be good to control that. But also
if you prune later this month, you're going to be
removing a lot of the chili thriap population. So you
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see it more. You see it more on knockout roses
than you do on drift roses. And then of course
coming up this fall be a code time to plant
more roses. We keep drift roses and knockout roses and
the stock year round and in addition to you know,
all the week's roses and other varieties of roses that
we have in the in the spring, right and we
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have some really nice Peggy Martin's in right now. Oh yeah,
uh huh so at least so we've had a lot
of a good discussion this morning. I appreciate Braid and
being here with me, and you've been listening to the
w JBO Lawn and Garden Show. We hope everybody has
a good weekend. We appreciate all of you all, and
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we ask that you come and see us at Clegg's
nursery here in By and Rouge. We'll see you all
next Saturday. Thank you for listening.
Speaker 7 (45:00):
You know
Good Saturday morning, and welcome to the WGBO Lone and
Garden Show, brought to you by Cleg's Nursery. If you
have a question about seasonal planting, lon and garden concerns
or questions about landscaping, called four ninety nine WGBO. That's
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Speaker 2 (00:22):
Good morning, Baton Rouge. Welcome to the WJBO Lawn and
Garden Show on our regular Saturday morning. I'm Alan Owens
and I'm here with Braiden Bodadera. Thank you Braiden for
being here. Good morning. We have a little bit of
an overcast looking morning, and I think we're supposed to
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get some rain this afternoon. And yeah, we're still suffering
with our our real field temperatures in our ninety three
to ninety four every afternoon, plants are suffering a little bit.
But yeah, we're into August now and the dog day
of summer. But there are some horticultural things that we
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can be doing in the garden in the landscape this month.
We want to let y'all know that we're on eleven
fifty AM in Baton Rouge and also ninety eight point
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want to call in and ask us about this morning,
give us a call at four nine nine w JBO
four nine five two six and that's area code two
two five. So what would you want to start talking
about first this morning, Braden.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
I say, we just dive right into it and okay
and start well, this is something that we we commonly
experience this time of year, but insect issues are are
very prominent lately. We've been seeing a lot of spider
mice and really bugs. Right, and depending on what your
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spring would determine what kind of products you need to use,
Like if your spring, your edible, anything that's edible, your
vegetable gardens and stuff, you'd want to make sure that
that is something you can use for vegetables exactly want
to use any kind of harmful chemicals on stuff like that.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
Yeah, I've had a few calls about scales and mealy
bugs lately, and I have some spider mice. But you
were saying that you're seeing a good many spider mice
out there on some plants.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
Yeah, uh, there there are definitely things that they seem
to go for. Uh, that like they have favorite plants
that they go for first, and it usually tends to
be uh seems to me like more house plants.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
Well, yes, that's true. And then of course it's time
of year two is when your spider miight population can
get kind of elevated with the with the warmer temperatures.
So yeah, very important to identify those problems early and
try to get them under control.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
And especially spider mites, because it can be a little harder.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
To they can you don't really realize what's going on,
and then when you start seeing the webbing, you really
know you have a big population. So yeah, so you
all be on the lookout for the spider mites and
the mealy bugs. And I'm still seeing a lot of
azalea lacebugs on azaleas and lace bugs on lantanas.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
Oh yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
So you know a little bit of pruning on your
lantanas and fertilization and sometimes you don't even need to
spray spinosa or neem oil or horticultural oil. They will
come back pretty good if you just kind of give
your plants a good haircut. Yeah, and when you cut
off some of the plant, you're cutting off maybe some
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of the insects to the sou're reducing the population that way,
So let's be thinking about that. Walk through your landscape,
of course. Braden and I are with Cleggs Nursery here
in Baton Rouge, and come by and see us. If
you have a sample of an insect problem or a
wee problem or a disease problem and you're not sure
what's going on, can give us a visit and we
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can probably recommend a product for you that will do
a good job and help you identify what you have
going on.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
Yeah, yeah, definitely, if you have any kind of insect issues,
bring us, bring us some kind of sample when you
come in, and most times we can determine what's going
on right.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
Right, And then our great producer Jeremy and they're running
the show. He was asking about, you know, is there
more problems out there in the landscape right now this
year than the normally is? And I don't really think so.
I just think most of our plants are showing the
typical August kind of look to them.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
Yeah, maybe a little tired for exactly.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
You know, vencas look really nice as always, and your
lantanas that don't have lacebugs on them look really good,
and and uh, of course colias, and uh I needn
the pentas.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
The pentas right now really.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
Absolutely really are a great plant for this time of year.
And they don't like to be planting the first thing
of the spring. Plant them in May and June, and
you can even plant some right now and they'll go
for you until first killing frost. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
So h and it's an excellent pollinator plant too, exactly really.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
Likely, so we'll be uh, the uh, the pollinators. Yeah,
so you want to be planting for the pollinator, so
keep that in mind. I was going to say the
pollinator population is down pretty good this year. We really
don't know what the reason is for that, but uh,
the humming birds will be returning back through on migration soon.
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And yeah, the butterfly population ought to be increasing a
little bit as we go into the late summer, early
five months. So yeah, so do what you can to
take care of the pollinators. So what about the vegetables.
What vegetables do we have on the bench right now?
Speaker 3 (06:12):
So we are starting to see quite a bit of
like fall tomatoes come in. We still we're getting a
good bit of cucumbers and tomatoes. We've actually started receiving
some different varieties of peppers, so things are starting to
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come in.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
And yeah, so there, you know, even though we're in August,
there are you know, those vegetables that we can plant
in August, and it is time to start putting your
tomatoes in the ground for your fall harvest, and you
can do another crop of cucumber and squash, and there's
still time to get some peppers and egg plants going.
But you really need to be thinking about that pretty soon. Yes,
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So our good horticulture friend Dan gil he was saying
the other day that you know, if you have to
mate the plants so and they're not producing, but they
still look good if you continue to take care of them.
As soon as it cools off a little bit at night,
we'll start getting maybe another to maate, a crop coming on.
So it just depends on the health of those plants
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that you planted first thing or mid spring. You know,
do they still look good, are they still healthy or
are they still growing? Have you fertilized them a little
bit to keep them going so and then of course
the varieties that are indeterminate that kind of keep on
producing tomatoes are going to go longer in your garden
for you than the determinant braks are. So you've got
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to be thinking about that also.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
But if you're planting like you're into, you said, it's
an indeterminate determinant, right, Uh, if you were planting those
now while it's hot, you could you could still plant them.
They just wouldn't start to produce tomatoes till it cools.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
Off, exactly exactly. But they're going to need to grow
for four or six weeks first thing anyway, So you know,
and just because we're planning this time of year, you
still need to be thinking about, you know, some tomato
fertilizer or some fertilum gardener special or something similar to
put down on you on your late summer early file
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planted vegetables just like you do in the springtime.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
Yeah, And even though I still feel like it's it's
maybe it's too hot, we are starting to see a
few fall vegetables right right become available, right you know.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
The demand for file vegetables is always pretty good, yeah,
in the Bad Rouge area. And people want their broccolian,
their cabbage and their lettuce. Everybody wants the kale and lettuce.
Maybe our kale and lettuce. Well, I know, kale is
maybe a little bit more heat tolerant than broccolian and
cabbage is, and maybe collars are a little bit more
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heat tolerant than broccoli and cabbage are. So yeah, but
it is time to think about starting those from seed,
if you if you.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
Do, yeah, I was gonna see. And I want to
say that's the reason why a lot of people are
coming in looking for fall vegetables right now, because if
you look at the fault the seed planting guys, yeah,
says to start putting seed down right right.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
So so if you're good at german et and seeds,
you may want to try to come in and get
you some some vegetable seed. You may want to have
an indoor area where you can do your seed, or
do them under the car port and put.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
Them in a little seed to get them started.
Speaker 4 (09:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
They need to be protected from these afternoon thunderstorms. We've
been gaining also, so and we have all the peat
pots and plantings, soil mixed for seed, and oh yeah,
trays and and all those supplies to take care of
your BA vegetable seed sewing efforts.
Speaker 3 (10:04):
And we carry Johnny Naylor seeds.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
So exactly. Everybody says, you know, Clegg's Narcially has really
the best sea supply of vegetables in Louisiana. That's that's true.
It is. And Johnny's on top of what vegetables are
new to the market, and Westbyan discontinued and a few
new heat set tomato varieties in this year. They're supposed
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to be really good. So we want to encourage you
to look at those and get a few of those planted.
Speaker 3 (10:34):
Oh yeah, since we're on the topic of fall vegetables,
we didn't really mention what kind of heat set varieties
we've been getting in lately, but we've gotten quite a
few new ones them. Now I'm drawing a blank thunderbird. Thunderbird, okay,
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that was one the red Bounty.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
Red Bounty, right. I saw some of those agreeable springs
the other day.
Speaker 3 (11:02):
I don't know if I have any left at Seagan,
but for a while there we were getting one called
fourth of July.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
Okay, yeah, I didn't know fourth of July. I've got
to look that one up.
Speaker 3 (11:12):
Yeah, so I wanted to see Johnny had told me
that was.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
A new variety this year, okay.
Speaker 3 (11:18):
And then one that we always get is Phoenix.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
Right, got by some of those and the fl Florida varieties. Yeah,
those are always good heat set performers.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
Yeah, I want to say we had one Florida seventy
five fourteen. It may not be a new one, but
this is the first time I remember seeing.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
It this yeay, okay, okay. Braden and Allen from Clegg's Nursery,
you're great independent retail garden center here in the Baton
Rouge area. We have three locations in Baton Rouge and
one and then them Springs and we're open seven days
a week all year long, all year all year.
Speaker 3 (11:57):
We close I think seven days out the year.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
Ye Braiden hopes he gets the days off every once
in a while, you know, but give us a call
two two five, four nine nine w JBO. You can
also listen on the iHeart app, so if you want
to peru some of the past episodes where you remember
us talking about something, and you can go back and listen.
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And sometimes I'll go back and listen to see what
some of the folks say when I'm not here and
and give me a few ideas maybe to put on
the Clex Nursery Facebook page. So we want to encourage
everybody to follow us on Facebook and we also have
an Instagram page for Clex Nursery, So if you're into
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the social media thing, think about that. Yeah, So, Braiden,
what is our Clegs Nursery plant of the week put
up on Pop Pause A pop palk tree.
Speaker 3 (12:56):
Yeah. I've personally never had the chance to experience a
papaul fruit, but from what I understand, they are very good.
They have like a custardy kind of texture, right. Native
to North America, right and as of now you can
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find them at lakes.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
We just got some really nice plants in and uh
papa is a native fruit similar Triloba is the main
genus species of papaul trees, and the fruit's maturing this
time of year. August. I've tasted papause. You know, they're
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they're okay. Are they fabulous? I'm not sure, but uh,
you know, kind of a custody apple e mango, a
little bit of mealy or grittiness to the to the flesh.
Doctor Charlie Johnson at LSU planted a lot of pop
all trees and had about fifteen varieties about uh wow.
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That was in the mid late nineteen nineties. Most of
the trees have died now from some issues, but he
had a very productive papa orchard for about fifteen years.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
Awesome. So is that something do you have to peel
a papaul or you eat the flesh too.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
I don't eat the flesh. I just eat the inside
of it. But the flesh could be eaten. Yes, yes,
the wildlife do like papa. So sometimes you got to
fight the coons and the possums for the pop off
fruit really, and the fruit, you know, it seems to
spoil pretty fast, so if you don't get it, you
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know early, you're it's going to kind of waste away
on you. So that's why you don't see figs and
pop off fruit at farmer's markets because they just don't.
They don't hold up harvests and store and ship and transport. Well,
they don't last very long after they've been taken off
the tree. So we have some real nice five gallon popaws.
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They're about four to five feet tall, I guess, and
I think they're for thirty four to ninety nine.
Speaker 3 (15:10):
Yeah, I think that's right.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
So is that.
Speaker 3 (15:14):
Is that like one that you would need to cross
the pollin eate? Do you need to buy two of them, or.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
You really need to plant two popak trees at least two,
okay for cross pollination. And they in native areas they're
found in an understory setting with some shade. But in
a commercial orchard of course, they're planted in full sun.
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So if you plant some of your house, I would
say morning sun afternoon shade, they're going to have a
harder time establishing in full sun. But once they get established,
they perform very well. Okay, So so so papaws are
the plant of the week this year, this whole week.
Native fruitmure yours this time of year, Zebra swallowtail butterflies.
Speaker 3 (16:06):
Papas are deciduous too.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
They are, and so they lose their foliage in the
wintertime and they have a reddish purple flower in the spring.
So a nice native plant to cazenter. So yeah, all
the locations of Clegg's Nursery have papaws in stock right now.
So yeah, come on by this weekend or next week
and get you some.
Speaker 3 (16:29):
And if I remember correctly from past years, usually when
we get papa's they do not last very long.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
People people want popas, so you know, beat the stampede.
And we'll talk about planting in just a minute. But
we do have a call. We have Dale in Central Dale.
Do you have an okrah question this morning? Welcome to
the w j b O Lawn and Garden Show.
Speaker 5 (16:53):
Oh yes, sir, I do. Thank y'all.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
How y'all going doing good? Dale? Thank you?
Speaker 3 (16:58):
I'm good.
Speaker 5 (17:00):
A good bit of okrah growing in my raised bed
here and they're doing amazing. They're about three foot tall,
bushed out, but they're not producing I'm not really producing
any flowers.
Speaker 3 (17:13):
M hmm.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
When did you plan them? Dale?
Speaker 5 (17:18):
I actually boughked the flats from Quiggs.
Speaker 6 (17:22):
It was.
Speaker 5 (17:25):
Honestly, uh, two months ago.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
But if they're three feet tall, they ought to be
producing some blooms by now. Did you fertilize them?
Speaker 7 (17:37):
Uh?
Speaker 5 (17:37):
I uh, supplement with calcium nitrate every two weeks?
Speaker 2 (17:41):
Oh well that that ought to be good. But if
they're only been there two months, three feet tall, you
you ought to be getting blooms in the next week
or two. If you don't have any bloom shot, I.
Speaker 5 (17:54):
Mean, I've like I said, I've I've got I've got
about fifteen or so plants here and I probably only
got about two ocre pods. Out of all fifteen so far.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
Okay, Okay, well usually August, September, October, it's really the
most productive time for Okrah. So you're doing everything right
as long as the plants are in full sun. Yeah, so,
so I really think Dale, it's just a matter of
maybe a couple of more weeks and Braiden and I
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can't think of anything else right now that would be
I mean, Oprah performs well and hot, well hot, the
hotter the better. Yeah, So, and you're fertilizing so yeah.
Speaker 5 (18:47):
Also another question, because they actually they're actually producing a
lot of suckers, would that if I picked those with
that maybe helper.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
I would keep I would I would keep the I
would keep the suckers cut off. If you have some
suckers or branches right now near the soil line, I
would keep those cut off.
Speaker 4 (19:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (19:09):
They pretty much just like tomato plants are coming up
in between the stems.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
Okay, well, in that situation, I don't think it's necessary.
If they're you have that kind of growth in the canopy,
I don't think you need to take that off, right. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (19:27):
I've actually got them from about eight ten inches up
off the soul, and that's that's good.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
That's good. So so why don't I know you're you're
probably uh running short on patients on your OKRA, but
you know, seriously, they'll give it two more weeks and
to give them a good talking to, and I think
you're going to start getting some flowers and some more
pod production.
Speaker 5 (19:55):
All right, definitely sit back and wait, I'm donet put
in too much.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
Absolutely, and yeah, you have plenty of time left.
Speaker 5 (20:04):
So all right, well, I appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
Okay, have a good day, Dale.
Speaker 3 (20:11):
Good first call.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
Yes, good first call there. So uh yeah, so you know,
we were talking about papaws, so we have poppak trees
in August. Can you plant trees and shrubs in the summer.
This is a question we get all the time at
Clegg's and what I usually tell everybody is, uh, it's
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the summertime is really not the best time in Louisiana
to plant trees and shrubs. You can plant this time
of year, but you have to make sure you were
routinely watering exactly exactly. So you've got to you know,
you've got to have the right culture. I mean, landscapers
plant you're well and their plants are successful. When I
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was at LSU. I planted plants every week of the
year back in the good old days. And you know,
so it's all about the planting hole, taking care of
the plant. Get your wide planting hole. Same soil that
was in the planting hole goes back into the planting hole.
Speaker 3 (21:20):
That's a very important point.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
You want you want to plant maybe an inch or
so high. Now, these pump unk trees that we just
got is a new crop and they're not fully rooted
in the pot. So you want to be careful taking
that plant out of the container and gently send it
into the planting hole. And then you back fill your
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soil one third of the way and water in, back
fill one third of the way, water in, and then
finish backfilling. You know, kind of do a two three
step process there, putting soil in the hole and irrigating.
And you want your moisture in your container to match
the moisture of the soil that you're planning get into
and that really helps plants get established also, So so
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y'all be thinking about those those planting processes and you know,
maybe put a little bit of root stimulator in the
planting hole. Also.
Speaker 3 (22:19):
Yeah, that's never a bad idea.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
Right, so so, but of course you could get some
pawpulk trees and hold them till October November and plant then.
But keep in mind also you're going to have to
take care of that plant in the container, and if
you forget to water for two or three days and
you let the plant wilt, it's going to take a
while for it to recover and come back, so.
Speaker 3 (22:42):
Especially if it's something like citrus that doesn't like to
dry out.
Speaker 2 (22:46):
Exact period exactly exactly, So we have some more collars.
Michael in Baton Rouge. Michael has a question about impatience.
Good morning, Michael, can we help you this morning?
Speaker 7 (23:00):
Yes, sir, Good morning guys. I really appreciate your shame.
So yeah, so I'm like the woman with eight caps.
I've got one hundred and thirty five potted flowers and
a lot of them are impatience.
Speaker 2 (23:10):
Okay, and I learned years ago.
Speaker 7 (23:13):
As I get to August, I need to cut them back.
But like I've made some mistakes, how far back do
I cut them that I know they're going to come back?
Speaker 2 (23:23):
And I assume, Michael, these are what we call regular
impatients and not what I'll call sun patients, right, yes, sir, okay, right,
and I usually cut them about about one third.
Speaker 3 (23:36):
Yeah, that's usually what I tell people is about a
third of the plant, right, and then I give them
a little bit more fertilizer, whether it be Miracle Grow,
a liquid plant food, or maybe a smidgeon of Furdlan
Betting plant food or even Fertilom Gardener special and that
will carry you at first frost yep.
Speaker 7 (23:55):
Perfect, all right, thank you so much.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
Okay, absolutely, Michael, Yes, sir, thank you for calling. Yeah,
so he has one hundred and thirty five. It's very
important to have your plant inventory down. Okay, okay, we
have another collar. We have Linda in Baton Rouge and
Linda has been holding and she has a bogainvillia question.
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Good morning, Linda, how can we help you with your
bogunvillia this morning?
Speaker 8 (24:25):
Yeah, good morning. Every year I buy a couple of
hanging baskets thinking that I can keep them alive, and
every year it's just not quite I'm not successful. Is
it too hot? Or in fact I try to move
him under my eaves to keep them out of the
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rain because I know they don't like too much water.
Is that correct?
Speaker 3 (24:49):
Yeah, that they don't like to stay well. What we
usually tell people at the nursery is you kind of
have to stress a bogan villa to keep it to
bloom regularly. So you let them dry out in between waterings,
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and you put them in as much sun as you
possibly can, and that's how you get on to rebloom.
Speaker 2 (25:17):
I think I think most of the time when people
have bokenvillia problems, that's they're staying too wet. Yeah. Yeah,
So I'm not sure exactly what kind of symptoms that
you're seeing, Linda, but you know, try not to irrigate
too much. If they're outside with the amount of rain
we've been having this year, that's probably too wet. But
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then they do like to be in sun. But a
patio that gets adequate reflected heat is probably okay.
Speaker 3 (25:48):
Yeah. Also, I find that it's beneficial to come back
from time to time if they start to get too
longer speakily, right, right, right right.
Speaker 8 (25:58):
I was thinking of that they getting kind of lake
when it rained. I kind of move, like I said,
I move them back under just so that they don't
get you know, over watered. But I'll try to trip.
Speaker 2 (26:11):
Thank you, Yeah, okay, thank you Linda. We appreciate your calling,
thank you. Uh so yeah, on the bogainvillias. Uh and
also they need to go through that stress, yeah, dormant
period before they'll go bloom again.
Speaker 6 (26:30):
For you.
Speaker 2 (26:31):
A lot of people are not satisfied because their bogunvilias
don't bloom long enough and that, but they bloom in cycles. Yeah,
so so keep that in mind on your bogunvilias. Okay,
we have another call, Lee in Baton Rouge. He has
a Saint Augustine grass side question. Good morning, Lee, This
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is Braydon and Allen on the w j b O
Lawn and Garden Show. How can we help you with
your lawn problem this morning?
Speaker 6 (26:58):
Well, we resided my backyard went from Centipede to Saint
Augustin after a pool project.
Speaker 2 (27:06):
That too much gout.
Speaker 6 (27:08):
I'm cutting it really long. I'm trying to cut it
a little shorter. Now, what do y'all recommend with Saint
Augustin on heights? And can I start fertilizing?
Speaker 3 (27:22):
So I'm gonna let Alan answer the height part of that.
I know you don't want to cut too short, but
as far as fertilizing, usually would recommend using malorganite right now, right,
it doesn't have as much nitrogen and you don't want
to burn your grass right right.
Speaker 2 (27:41):
And I have been telling people to be thinking about
fertilizing their lawn, but we need to wait another couple
of weeks. Feel it's a little bit cooler, hopefully, and
and we get some better weather conditions. But the mowing
height on your Saint Augine two and a half to
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three inches is what you ought to be shooting for.
If your lawn is looking healthy, that would be a
good height that it still trying to get established. Keep
it at three inches. If it's established pretty well, you
can go down to two and a half inches. Most
people mow their saying in Augustine grass too short, and
that's the worst thing to do on Saint Augustine grass.
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And the mill Organite fertilizer is a very safe product
that you can broadcast over the top and give you
just just enough nutrient out there to keep your lawn
growing good, nice and green, right right, give you a
really good green up. Does that help you some?
Speaker 4 (28:40):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (28:40):
It helps a lot.
Speaker 5 (28:41):
I appreciate you, thank.
Speaker 2 (28:42):
You, yes, sir, thank you Lee. Some good calls this morning, so, uh,
turf questions and Boganvillia questions and Okrah questions, so we
always appreciate good diverse collection there. We'll actually been having
a good number of calls most days that Yeah, we've
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been on on Saturday. So let's see what else do
we need to talk about this morning. I know we're
going to go to a break again in a few minutes,
but we needed to remind everybody that the Botanic Garden
Foundation that's having a plant sell next Saturday. That's an
Independence Park Botanic Gardens and that's going to be eight
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am till twelve noon.
Speaker 3 (29:28):
Awesome.
Speaker 2 (29:28):
So they have a cell every year in August usually
the second Saturday, and that's over there by the new
Library on Goodwood. Yeah, and they have a iris garden
over there, a day lily garden, a rose garden, herb garden,
they have a crape myrtle planning that the Baton Rouge
Landscape Association did in nineteen ninety three.
Speaker 3 (29:52):
Is that I love walking through that little area.
Speaker 2 (29:54):
So anyway, next Saturday at the Independence Park Botanic a
garden plants sell. The different uh horticultural societies around Baton
Rouge will be there, the Succulent Folks, the the Bagonia folks,
the daylily folks, the Louisiana iris folks, the uh they
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have a pollinator garden there that the Baton Rouge Garden
Club takes care of that. I like to check out
every once in a while and go get some butterfly
and b pictures. So, uh, that's next Saturday. Uh, so
y'all check that out. But you want to come to
Klegg's nursery next Saturday and every Saturday too, so you
got to make sure you have the opportunity to make
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all your horticulture visits on end on that particular day.
So and also, uh, you know, we were talking about vegetables,
but you know we I was thinking about some bedding
plants like zenias and sunflowers and marigolds. It's a good
time of year to plant another batch of zenias or sunflowers.
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And we have some marigols and sell packs at the
garden center. So marigoals are easy to do from seed too.
Speaker 3 (31:07):
Yeah, so.
Speaker 2 (31:11):
We have the seed ricks and we have probably ten
or fifteen different varieties of sunflower seed. Now, the availability
may vary depending on which location of cleag should come
to right now, but try to get you a few
sunflower seed and get them planting and they'll give you
a very nice flower show all the way through October.
Speaker 3 (31:31):
And also if you're doing your fall garden, your fall
vegetable garden, a lot of people like to get marigolds
to plant around their fall vegetables exactly exactly to help
the turpats right right, keep in mind.
Speaker 2 (31:44):
And sometimes some marigoals will help you get some of
the harmful nematodes out of the soil.
Speaker 3 (31:48):
Awesome.
Speaker 2 (31:49):
And you can plant some zenias in your garden to
help bring in the pollinators. Yep. So so Xenia's marigols
and sunflowers for the late summer early fall are always
good options. A lot of people plant their sunflowers in
the spring and then they you know, May June they
have some nice blooms and then they don't think about
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planting them again this time of year. Yeah, So we
usually don't get a killing frosh and baton rouge till
sometime in November. So you plant some seed now and
you know they'll be blooming by late September easily, and
you'll will get four, six, eight weeks of nice sunflowers
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for October. Yeah, and it kind of fits the fall
theme of hay bales and crotons and pumpkins and ornamental peppers.
We have some ornamental peppers at the garden Center right now,
and those are always a good August, September, October, November,
a plant with a lot of color.
Speaker 3 (32:49):
Yeah, I ornamental peppers are one of the plants that
I really enjoy because they just have so many different
varieties and they come in so many different colors.
Speaker 2 (33:00):
I like the purple foliage ones, yeah.
Speaker 3 (33:02):
I like that, purple flies, calico.
Speaker 2 (33:05):
Yeah yeah, and then some have variegated foliage and they
do produce berries like a regular edible pepper, and they
are edible if you just want to if you want
to eat them.
Speaker 3 (33:17):
They're just very spicy.
Speaker 2 (33:18):
Fairy spider. There's one variety called chili Chili that's a
very mild ornamental pepper. Okay, you know they're not bread
for eating, their bread for ornamental esthetics, so so very nice,
so keep that in mind. But we have a really
nice selection of ornamental peppers at the garden Center right now,
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and they'll be of course more coming and we're going
to have some of the decorative containers, so yeah, you know,
good to place on your.
Speaker 3 (33:46):
Pol to see when the ornamental peppers come in, because
that's when you know fall is just right around the corner.
Soon we'll have haybells and pumpkins.
Speaker 2 (33:59):
That's right. And actually last year, I think last year
this week I saw on Facebook that we had a
nice selection of crotons in already. Now we do have
some crotons in the Folish house, but we haven't had Yeah,
we haven't a big shipment of crotons come in yet,
not yet.
Speaker 3 (34:15):
Yeah, And but crotons will go as long as it's
not cold. Outsize act do well out to do well here.
So we have been trying. We've been keeping some varieties
in stock, mainly like the Petra that's the more common
known one. Uh, but yeah, we've been keeping them in
stock too.
Speaker 2 (34:36):
And uh, you know, you can grow crotons as a
patio plant. You just want to protect it from freezing weather, right,
But you can keep your crotons growing many many years,
just like you do your typical folighe plants. And they
like to be in a little bit of sun, not
full sun all day, but you know, if they got
a little bit of sun on them, they get more
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colorful folish After in shade all day. So okay, so
your crotons and your ornamental peppers, senia, sunflowers, marigolds, keep
in mind all those, all those plants, and then on
your warm season bedding plants. I was noticing, like a people,
salvias are kind of fading on the regard to the
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flower size and the colors. So prune those back a
little bit, and.
Speaker 3 (35:26):
Which right now would be a good time to prune
salvia too, because that is one thing that mealy bugs,
yes really really late.
Speaker 2 (35:33):
Yes, yes, so mealy bugs can get started on your salvia.
So give your salvia is a little bit of a haircut,
throw a little bit more fertilizer on them, and they'll
come back and be blooming great again in two or
three weeks, and they'll go all the way to your
first killing frost. Also, yeah, so we hadn't really gorgeous
misstic spires salvia. Yes, seeking Lane, that's that nice, big
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blue growing salvi and that's gonna be perennial in Baton rouge.
Speaker 3 (35:59):
Yeah. So I was very happy this year to see
that we've been able to get the mystic spires and
like this late in the year because it's one of
the salvia is that everybody looks for it. It is,
it is, It's very very nice.
Speaker 2 (36:13):
So many salvia is on the market now, so oh yeah,
I like to plant three or four different types and
give you a nice color range out there. Yeah. We
do have one more caller that we need to talk
to this morning, and then we'll wrap up with some
clothes and comments. We have Richard and Baton Rouge. Good morning, Richard,
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how can we help you this morning? Good morning, good morning,
good morning.
Speaker 4 (36:40):
Yeah. My question is is I have a lot of
monkey grass in my yard, but it has a good
bit of clover in it, and now it also the
clover's pretty much died out, but it's.
Speaker 5 (36:53):
Had some other weeds in it.
Speaker 4 (36:55):
I'm not sure what kind of weeds they are, but
it's anything I could spray on monkey grass that would
kill weeds, uh, not kill the monkey grass.
Speaker 2 (37:06):
Well, really, the only option that you have there would
be some of the grass killing herbicides like over the top.
But but you have the clover, which is a broad leaf,
and there's really nothing that you can spray over a
groundcover like monkey grass or ariop that's going to kill
the weeds without damaging the groundcover. So you have you
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have a difficult situation there.
Speaker 5 (37:34):
Okay, over the top might kill the weeds.
Speaker 2 (37:37):
Over at the top, we'll kill, we'll kill, right, We'll
kill a grassy weed right right.
Speaker 5 (37:43):
Right, but not but don't use it for the for
the clover.
Speaker 2 (37:47):
It's not going to have any activity on the clover.
So come by and get some over the top and
try that according to label directions. And then you may
you may want to put uh pre emerge out and
try to hold back the germination of your clover. You
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know that will be germinating this fall. So so yeah, see,
come see us about that, Richard, and we'll be glad.
Speaker 8 (38:14):
I got you.
Speaker 4 (38:16):
Appreciate your help.
Speaker 2 (38:17):
Yes, sir, have a good morning.
Speaker 3 (38:21):
Clover is a pesky little weed.
Speaker 2 (38:23):
Yes, yes, the weed things in the groundcovers can be
hard to manage in especially when you get the clover
and the ox alis and the things like that in there.
You know, sometimes if you get permuta grass or even
some of the siedges, you may be able to do something,
but the broad leaves are hard to manage. So let's see,
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so we're in August. You know, we had a little
less flower show on the vitext trees this year. You
know y'all know v text trees. They bloom and mage
and the nice bluish purple flowers.
Speaker 3 (39:04):
Oh yeah, yeah, it did seem like maybe last year
put on a little more of a show.
Speaker 2 (39:10):
I think the rain kind of held some of the
longevity of the bloom time back some Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (39:17):
So, but good thing is is you can tip prune
those this time of year, those an creete myrtles kind
of bring on another bloom cycle.
Speaker 2 (39:25):
Yeah. So b texts or chase tree shoal Creek is
a popular variety. We have a new one called rock Steady.
We sell Abbyville Blue. So there's a number of bitexts.
Speaker 3 (39:36):
Some of that are or different color than that blue
or purple exactly.
Speaker 2 (39:42):
There's some pink flowering by texts. I like the pinks.
Speaker 3 (39:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (39:45):
So if you go in there and just kind of
cut back those old faded blooms and cut back those
seed pods that are starting to develop, you'll get a
secondary bloom in August and September. And sometimes even if
you don't do that, you'll get your secondary blue. But
but it is a good idea this time of year
to go in and tip back your I tech trees,
and then if your great myrtles are small enough, you
(40:10):
can go in there and do a little bit of
dead head. You're crepe myrtles. And there's so many of
these dwarf varieties being planted now, or there's so many
of these dwarf varieties crepe myrtles available now. Now I
don't see a whole lot of people buying them. But
but you know, you can put crpe myrtles and containers
if you wanted to, and they they're more of a
(40:31):
six eight foot growing It's easier to dead head a
six to eight foot crepe myrtle than is.
Speaker 3 (40:37):
A yeah, definitely a thirtyes. But we usually have that
proven winter variety the center.
Speaker 2 (40:48):
Stage, right center stage.
Speaker 3 (40:50):
And that's one of the darkly folliest y Yes, but
they don't get quite as big there.
Speaker 2 (40:56):
Right, Yeah, they're more like an eight foot or at
maturity A believe right. I like some of the Burga
down the black foliage crape myrtles.
Speaker 4 (41:03):
I do.
Speaker 2 (41:04):
I do find they need more fertilizer. Oh yeah, so
y'all keep that in mind. Also, and I've been noticing
some crp myrtles bloom beautifully this year and some may
be not so much. Yeah, so your summer bloom on
your crate myrtles is all dependent on how much spring
foliage growth you get on your crate myrtles. You know,
(41:26):
you get a lot of foliage growth in the spring,
you have a lot of blooms. You don't get much
foligh growth in the spring, you get less blooms. So
you want to fertilize your crpe myrtles every year March,
and that fertilizer will help that plant produce some more
spring foliage. And the more spring folige you have, what
would you suggest summer blooms you're going to have, what would.
Speaker 3 (41:48):
You suggest fertilizing them with?
Speaker 2 (41:51):
On these big roll in crpe myrtles. You know, even
eight eight eight or triple thirteen is fine. The fertilng
tree and struck fertilong tree and shrub food is good too,
But you know eight a to eight triple thirteen on
crape myrtles is perfectly okay. And you want to put
that out at the at the drip line or where
the end of the branches are right. You don't want
(42:11):
to put that right up by the trunk because you're
really not benefiting the tree very much. There all your
feeder roots are out there at the end of where
your branches are. So so we have a couple of
minutes left. You know, we are in August, and I
have seen a few landscapers pruning roses already. Normally we
(42:34):
say later in August for rose pruning. Is that what
you think of raiding? Yeah? Yeah, so, and you're and
your late summer roaset pruning is not as severe as
your late winter roast pruning.
Speaker 3 (42:48):
Right, don't. Don't you have to be a little more
careful pruning roses when it's warmer, exactly.
Speaker 2 (42:54):
You don't want more susceptible right right, you You don't
get us good of regrowth when it's really hot like
it is right now. So I like to do about
a one third heighth production when we prune in late August,
and definitely get it done by Labor day, and then
about forty days after your prone you get your your
(43:19):
peak flower show again. But I have noticed some knockout
roses and some drift roses not looking too good when
I'm driving around Baton Rouge right now. But you know
that's just maybe the heat of summer or you know
the rainfall roses like it a little bit more on
the dry side. And I am seeing chili thrips on roses,
(43:44):
and chili thrips are folish feeding thrips, and they have
that deformed growth of the terminal looks kind of distorted
and twisted and cupped up. Yeah, that's chili thrip match.
So spinosad would be good to control that. But also
if you prune later this month, you're going to be
removing a lot of the chili thriap population. So you
(44:06):
see it more. You see it more on knockout roses
than you do on drift roses. And then of course
coming up this fall be a code time to plant
more roses. We keep drift roses and knockout roses and
the stock year round and in addition to you know,
all the week's roses and other varieties of roses that
we have in the in the spring, right and we
(44:26):
have some really nice Peggy Martin's in right now. Oh yeah,
uh huh so at least so we've had a lot
of a good discussion this morning. I appreciate Braid and
being here with me, and you've been listening to the
w JBO Lawn and Garden Show. We hope everybody has
a good weekend. We appreciate all of you all, and
(44:47):
we ask that you come and see us at Clegg's
nursery here in By and Rouge. We'll see you all
next Saturday. Thank you for listening.
Speaker 7 (45:00):
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