February 22, 2025 • 39 mins
This week on the WJBO Lawn & Garden Show, Butch and Braden from Clegg's Nursery talk about what was lost to the cold weather, lawn fertilization, caladiums, houseplants and more!
Plus your questions - including citrus trees, supertunias and pruning roses!
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Plus your questions - including citrus trees, supertunias and pruning roses!
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Good Saturday morning, and welcome to the WGBO Lawn 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, call four nine nine WGBO. That's
four nine nine two six.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Good morning, Baton Rouge, and welcome to news radio eleven
to fifty wjbo's Lawn and Garden Show. My name is
but Strews. I'm with Brayden from Clegg's Nursery. Good morning,
good morning. You notice I don't even try the last
name anymore. Yeah, it's probably for the best. It is,
really it is. You know, I'm slow, but I eventually
get there.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
Anyway.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
I'm sure you out there in radio land have plenty
of questions because we've had a couple interesting weather events.
If you do, please give us call four nine nine
nine five two six. That's four nine nine WJBO. Anything
in particular is far as the cold snaps that you
have been made aware of, as far as particular plants
(01:05):
that were damaged, or particular plants surprisingly weren't damaged.
Speaker 4 (01:12):
I mean, I've had some people come in as far
as like citrus goo. Some people have come in and
said their citrus did great through the weather, and then
other people have come in and said that not so much.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
I lost six out of seven.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
Goodness, I have one satsuma that looks like it's gonna
make it. I mean, actually it's a brown select. I
had three, two of which really weren't cared for. But
my warri is dead, my grape preache dead, and all
three of my orange trees are dead.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
Dang. Yeah, and these were trees.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
That have been according to Johnny Naylor, they're not but
because of the snow. But yeah, and actually the snow
did create some insulation on them.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
But yeah, I will be replanting.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
Yeah, so that's going to be in the near future.
I'm gonna give them a little bit longer. In fact,
I noticed, in fact, I noticed this morning that all
of them have started dropping leaves, which is actually a
positive sign. We've talked about that on the radio here.
(02:24):
A plant that has the ability to drop the leaves
has enough energy to hopefully be able to regenerate those leaves.
If the plant holds leaves, that means it does not
have enough energy or the ability to release them. So However,
I think these releases might be due to wind the
possible and not the plant actually discarding them. There's actually
(02:47):
a word for that, and I can't remember what it is,
but it's not important anyway, sounds scientific, it is it
really is. It's like a big, old long word. It
has like seven or eight letters in it.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
No.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
Foliate is the dropping of the leaves, but there is
a the plant actually has to release the leaf for
it to xfoliate or defoliate or as I.
Speaker 5 (03:11):
Like, it's uh leaf relysium.
Speaker 4 (03:16):
That that that that sounds pretty good.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
I mean if that that was made up on the spot, Yeah,
I know that was that was I was pretty impressed
with that part of it. But come on, you can
do better now. But there is a there is a
word for that actual releasing. And I've actually asked somebody
that before and I still forget it every time.
Speaker 4 (03:35):
I think you were headed towards how you say defoliate, defilate, defilate.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
Yeah, anyway, give us call four six, it's four nine
nine w JBO get you put smack dab pretty close
to the top of our list.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
But I think there's someone already there.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
Ain't a good morning, how are you welcome to news
radio eleven to fifty wjbo's Line and Garden Show.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
What's up?
Speaker 6 (04:00):
Well, I wanted to ask you. I know you're talking
about citrus, so I wanted a question. If the rootstock
is putting out, does that mean your tree might make it?
Speaker 5 (04:08):
No?
Speaker 2 (04:09):
Rootstock has unfortunately nothing to do with the viable part
of a citrus tree. The rootstock is probably trifoliate or
possibly flying dragon, depending on when exactly you bought the citrus,
but that the rootstock itself will not produce an edible fruit.
(04:30):
So no, in fact, that's a discouraging sign. If it's
starting to send up root suckers or suckers from below
the grafty.
Speaker 6 (04:41):
How can the tree not live with the roots still
being able to put nutrient incident?
Speaker 2 (04:45):
Question the tree? Okay, let me step back. The rootstock
will produce a tree. The problem is that tree is not.
Citrus are grafted. All your citrus are grafted onto a rootstock.
So what has happened is the part of the tree,
(05:07):
the graft of the tree that you want that's going
to produce your lemon, your grapefruits, your orange, or sense
whatever it is, that part of the tree is actually dead.
The rootstock itself is alive and will grow a tree,
but it will grow a tree that will not produce
an edible fruit. If that makes sense. Yes, And to
(05:30):
two things about those trees. If you and if you
have a neighbor that you really don't like, you might
want to let that tree grow. However, it does have
extremely large thorns, and if it does thorny, if it
does produce a fruit, pick those fruit, put them in
a really nice basket and bring it to that neighbor
(05:53):
you really don't like, and say, here's a peace offering.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
They are the.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
Most awful things you will ever or eat in your life.
I mean, they are totally completely unedible. But yeah, it's unfortunately.
You know, keep cutting those off. But if you're not
seeing any live growth from above the graft, which even
in mature trees, you can find the graft because it's
(06:17):
going to be a not usually within a foot of
the soil level. So if they're coming out below, that
not a good sign.
Speaker 6 (06:25):
Okay, So next question, have y'all.
Speaker 4 (06:27):
Gotten a new crop in We did receive a smaller
shipment of citrus, so we do have some some fresher stuff,
but we have a very nice selection of citrus right now.
Speaker 6 (06:42):
Okay, good all right, well, sorry, thank.
Speaker 7 (06:46):
You very much.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
All right, good luck, and that does open up phone
lines right now for nine nine six for nine nine WWO.
You know, I was had a two things happened to
me on way in this morning, and one of them was,
it's the first time I've gone through the new interchange
at ten twelve. I got really confused because all emerging
(07:09):
traffic was coming from my left instead of my right.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
Yeah, if you haven't been, I haven't done it. You
need to.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
Everyone needs to, you know, get out on the road
right now and drive through the interchange there where they
call that the overpass, the cloverland, the clover leaf, clover leaf.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
No, that's Airline in Florida.
Speaker 5 (07:29):
I just have concerns considering that people couldn't handle the
old one for a few hours. We really want to
send it out there at once.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
But it brings up and this is a question I've
asked many people in life, and it's interesting all the
different answers you get to this. As I was driving
in this morning, I noticed on the side of the
interstate a couch cushion. So, okay, there's a couch cushion.
(07:59):
That means that there was a couch now missing a cushion.
Do you think that person that was driving whenever he
gets where he is, is his wife.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
Going to kill him? Oh? Yeah, okay, I just want
to make sure.
Speaker 8 (08:09):
Well.
Speaker 4 (08:09):
I guess it depends on whether the couch was going
to the house or leaving the house.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
Got you. That's actually a very good point.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
The other one is which is worth a couch cushion
on the side of the road or a dining room chair.
I think I'd rather the couch, Christian. You can always
maybe find another chair that might match or get close.
I think I would just hate to be the person behind.
It's called the flyover. The flyover. Yeah, thank you miss
(08:42):
Renee for texting me that. And she's one of the
ones we discussed the couch.
Speaker 5 (08:47):
You know a lot of traffic people, Yes, I do, okay,
which is very well connected. Did you ever get to
go up in the traffic offter and do a rop
port on that cheery thought?
Speaker 2 (09:02):
We're going to go to Deborah in Saint George. Good morning, Deborah,
Welcome to news radio eleven fifty wjbo's Lona Garden Show.
What can we do for you.
Speaker 7 (09:11):
Well, good morning. The absolutely stunning supertunias that I planted
ten days ago and covered with blankets and the freeze
don't look like they made it.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
Is there?
Speaker 7 (09:22):
Can they be like cut back and will they grow back?
Speaker 9 (09:25):
Or did I just.
Speaker 7 (09:25):
Lose three hundred dollars for the supertunias.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
Actually, I'm really surprised that they got burnt for first off,
especially with a cover.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
That may be what did you cover with?
Speaker 1 (09:41):
Uh?
Speaker 7 (09:41):
Well, I have these metal like things that pulled up signs,
and so I put those so it doesn't actually hit
the plant, and then I used blankets.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
Okay, I'm surprised there's damage. It may just be how
tender they were. If there's still some If it's just
kind of of a surface burn, you can prune that
off and they will come back. If it's brown all
the way to the ground, that's not a good sign.
But I am surprised that you had difficulty with those,
(10:13):
especially with some covering over them.
Speaker 7 (10:16):
Yeah, yeah, there's still there's still greens. It looks like
they've kind of collapsed.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
Yeah, I would give them. Yeah, they should be fine.
Some of that could actually be and you may want
to go out and check your soil.
Speaker 3 (10:33):
Make sure that.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
Especially I don't know if you, I guess if it
was a super tuna, it was probably a four inch
plant or whatever. Make sure that that square around root
ball has not gotten a little bit dry, so you
may want to put a little moisture on there. A
lot of times when we have a weather event like
we did, sometimes it's difficult for the plant to pull up.
Speaker 3 (10:59):
Moisture sure that is in the soil, because if we.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
Didn't have any ground freezing with this last one, but
it may be just a little bit of moisture. But yeah,
if they're just kind of a little wilty, uh, let's
get the cover off of them and check to make
sure they're not the actual rootball, not the soil around it,
but the rootball itself hasn't dried out a little bit.
Speaker 3 (11:20):
And I think you're gonna be okay.
Speaker 7 (11:22):
Oh super that makes me very happy because they were gorgeous.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
Yeah, and I think I think they'll come back. But
do like I said, don't just go stick, you know,
your finger down in the soil, but go right to
that root ball. Make sure they aren't a little bit dry,
and if they if they feel moist or if they
feel wet. That could also be a slight issue which
will correct itself, but let's check that. But yeah, I
think it may just be a little They were probably
(11:46):
a little bit tender coming out of the nursery and
just got a little topical burn.
Speaker 7 (11:52):
Super thank you so much, all right.
Speaker 3 (11:55):
And that does open up phone lines right now.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
Four nine nine nine five two six that's for nine nine.
Speaker 3 (12:02):
I just totally lost my train of thought.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
I mean, it just left one of the things that
it is important to make sure anytime we go into
a cold snap.
Speaker 3 (12:13):
Like this, and.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
Usually in the winter it's not an issue, but we
don't want to go into the cold snap dry. We
want to have the plants good, good and hydrated because
if we do get some ground freezing, which is pretty
atypical around here, obviously, if the ground's frozen, it can't
pull the moisture up. So but yeah, I think that's
gonna be fine. It's just like anything else. If it's tender,
(12:37):
it's gonna be a little bit more susceptible.
Speaker 4 (12:38):
But also won't watering kind of help insulate the roots
a little well?
Speaker 2 (12:48):
Yes, yes, because water freezes at thirty two degrees, so
it's kind of like the snow the last snow event
we had here. The snow actually was an insulation. Yeah,
it kind of helped. You saw that at the nursery.
Everybody commented after we after y'all pull the freeze cloth
off the plants, how great everything? Well, excuse me, the
(13:10):
cloth had something to do with that, but more importantly,
the snow is the insulation. If you have questions, give
us call for nine six. That's four nine nine w JBO.
We'll put you up first on our list right after Dale.
Good morning, Dale, Welcome to News Radio eleven fifty wjbo's
Lawn and Garden Show.
Speaker 9 (13:27):
What's up, morning guys, Morning morning, How y'all doing good?
Speaker 2 (13:31):
How are you.
Speaker 8 (13:33):
Doing all right?
Speaker 9 (13:34):
I've got two little sat summer trees I just bought
from y'all this previous year. Got them through both of
the freezes, got them through the summer. They're butting up nicely,
And I guess my question is, I know, is can
I go ahead and fertilize the.
Speaker 8 (13:54):
March.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
Yes, we're at the very beginning of that. Don't you
need to run out as soon as you hang up
and fertilize them. But yeah, we're getting to the point
where I'm very comfortable doing a fertilization one of the things.
And this is one of the few times I will
ever make this recommendation your first fertilization because they're young trees.
(14:19):
Let me let me preface this by saying, because you
have young trees, I would urge you to use Aspoma's
citrus food as your fertilization right now. It is an
organic fertilizer, but it is very well formulated with a
nice calcium amount in it that will help your citrus
(14:43):
absorb the fertilizer that I'm gonna recommend you use in May,
which is actually the Fertilum Fruit citrus and pecan food,
that is a stronger fertilizer that's really going to to
help your tree grow and all. But and again it's
one of the few times that I'll ever recommend two
(15:07):
different types of fertilizer for someone. But using the Spoma
first really right now, especially, we'll get into the plant
and help the plant to take up the second fertilization
that you put out, so you're gonna see a lot
better results that way on a young tree. I know
some people like to come in August early September and
(15:30):
do the pecan and fruit tree food. Again, the way
our winters have been going, I'm a little bit hesitant
about suggesting that because we don't want to get a
lot of really right growth coming out that is going
to be tender and may get killed off. If you say,
I really want to get the growth, and actually you
(15:51):
have been covering your trees. If you want to do
that third fertilization late August early September, I wouldn't tell
you not to, but again, you will need to make
sure if we have any type of weather events like
we've had these two that we've had this year, you
would want to cover. But yes, Dale, I strongly recommend
the aspoma citrus food now or anytime during March, and
(16:15):
then the fertilom fruit of fruits, citrus and pecan or
however it is. It's a blue bag. Do that in May,
I think, and you'll have great results.
Speaker 9 (16:25):
Okay, And the apoma is still about like pound pounds
to a half ur inch of.
Speaker 3 (16:29):
Trunk diambers somewhere at that Please check the label on that.
You know.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
I've been away from the store now for are getting
close to a year. I can't believe it, but it's
really almost been that long. But yeah, check the label
because I'm old and see now I don't remember that.
Speaker 3 (16:44):
Well, all right, I'll do that, all right, Thanks Dale.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
Great phone call, by the way, very timely phone call,
and that does open up phone lines right now for
five two six, it's for nine nine.
Speaker 3 (16:54):
WJBO.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
A lot of other things going on with has several
citrus questions, which is what I was expecting. Lawn weeds.
I had someone tell me the other day. I actually do.
Been going to a health club and there's several of
my friends throughout the years that I've helped go there,
and several of them have commented how how much the
snow improved their weed population. And there are lots. If
(17:20):
you have questions on that, give us a call. However,
Peter has a question I believe on Roses. Good morning, Peter,
Welcome to news radio eleven to fifty wjbo's Lawn and
Garden Show.
Speaker 9 (17:29):
What's up, Good morning, guys. No, we don't have snow,
but we still have winter, Yes we do.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
Yeah, I'm listening.
Speaker 8 (17:36):
To you all a couple of weeks ago, y'all. We're
talking about February Valentine's baby. In the right time, to
prune roses, cut them back no more than like half
or something. But I did not trim my rose bush
which is old, probably almost head high the how from
last year, last two years, and it's greened up very
nicely since the breeze isn't too late for me to.
Speaker 3 (18:03):
No, you go right ahead and do that.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
When you get done with that pruning, I would suggest fertilization,
but uh, what type of rose is it? Peter, excellent,
call and thank you for it, and stay with me,
because I'm going to get my soapbox.
Speaker 3 (18:24):
Knockout.
Speaker 2 (18:25):
Roses have to be pruned otherwise they will actually age out.
So you want to cut that bush down at least
in half, if not a little bit more than that,
so it will constantly regenerate that new growth. I've noticed
it in several instances that were people that don't prune
(18:47):
them regularly. They eventually, after two or three years, will
just go away. Because you want to stimulate that new growth. So, yes,
you're you have plenty of time to do that. Cut
it at least in half. If it's five have to
six foot tall, cut it down to about two foot
You're going to probably cut all the foliage off just
put a little rose food around it, and it'll be
(19:08):
back in a couple of weeks.
Speaker 3 (19:09):
So yes, definitely go ahead and prune.
Speaker 8 (19:11):
It's just the time to also put rosemood down on.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
Yes, yes, pretty much a good rule of thumb. And
if you disagree, braidon please. I understand any time you
prune is usually a good time to fertilize it.
Speaker 3 (19:25):
That's for any type of plant. Yeah, I would agree
with that, howl.
Speaker 8 (19:29):
How should I clean my pruning chairs?
Speaker 2 (19:32):
I only this rosebush?
Speaker 3 (19:37):
Any type of good.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
You know, the products that were sold for COVID, the
wipes and sanitary wipes and all those are excellent. You
can use alcohol, I know some people use like a
listerine an antiseptic mouth wash works pretty well, any of
those products. But yeah, that was one of the things
that you know, nothing good came out of COVID, but
(19:59):
one of those wipes that everybody was using then those
were actually very good antibacterial, anti fungal.
Speaker 3 (20:06):
Right, so those work very well.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
Talking about like the hands had say, yeah, exactly, all right,
thank you got all right, thank you great, great timely
phone call.
Speaker 3 (20:18):
That was perfect.
Speaker 5 (20:19):
Did you not like your soapbox noise? I finally got you.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
Oh that was I thought it was something on his end.
Thank you so much for the soapbox noise. Go ahead
and request it. Uh, someone grabbed me my soapbox. Oh perfect, Yeah,
I just it's first time you did it, and I
thought it was something with his phone or my phone.
Speaker 5 (20:39):
All these years, I figured we finally should put a
mic on it.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
Yeah, and I do appreciate that very much. Open phone
lines for two six that's four nine nine w JBO.
I was in the store yesterday, my wife where I
saw you. I saw you too, And if i'd have
seen you a few minutes earlier, I would have ducked.
But but it was very excited to see what looks
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like a very nice selection of kalladium bulbs.
Speaker 4 (21:07):
Yeah, we have a like you said, a very nice
selection of kladium bolbs, so different the different size balls
we have the jumbos and the number ones and number twos,
but there's a nice selection of each.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
And just to make sure a jumbo bulb is going
to produce a larger leaf than a number two, right, No,
it's they and am I saying no you're not. I
think I'm saying this right.
Speaker 4 (21:34):
I think that will just means that it will produce
more correct off that one ball.
Speaker 3 (21:40):
Right.
Speaker 2 (21:41):
That's and that's a huge misunderstanding with a lot of customers.
Speaker 4 (21:45):
I've done it before. Yeah, I'm pretty sure this a
lot of this was brought up.
Speaker 2 (21:50):
No, it wasn't, I just because I wanted to bring
up a jumbo kaladium bulb refers only to the size
of the ball you have it. We have number two's,
number one ones and jumbos. The size of the leaf
does not vary between the different sized bulbs. They all
are going to maturity produce the same size leaf. That
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exactly what you just said the jumbo bulb is going
to have. And I'm making numbers up here, please the
eight blooms where a number one might have four blooms
and the number two might have two blooms or not
blooms leaves. So, yeah, a big misnumber in that the
size of the leaf does not correspond to the size
(22:32):
of the bulb. Now, certain varieties free to temple is
a larger leaf than say icicle, which is a strap leaf,
which would be smaller.
Speaker 3 (22:42):
So but yeah, it's if it's going to be.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
A large leaf colladium, you're going to get a large
leaf off of a number two, number one, or a jumbo.
Speaker 3 (22:50):
It's all going to be the same size. I was
trying to do it.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
My watch was telling me to do and you got
me all confused and flustered.
Speaker 5 (22:57):
What I thought your watch told you to be confused
and flustered.
Speaker 3 (23:00):
No, it told me to stand up.
Speaker 2 (23:02):
Well that's the same thing, right, Yeah, that's true, because
if I stand up, all the blood rushes from what
little brain I have left.
Speaker 5 (23:09):
The reason why I'm talking is not just a takeover.
We had an off air question about the person at
high magnesium levels in their lawn and they're trying to
get their pH right and they're looking for calcidic lime
and was wondering where they can find that.
Speaker 2 (23:30):
Okay, you can find it at Clegg's and it's.
Speaker 3 (23:37):
Run by one of the stores.
Speaker 2 (23:38):
I cannot remember which one it is, one of ours
is I think it's the powdered line is calcidic, but
run by one of the stores.
Speaker 3 (23:48):
We do they do have it?
Speaker 5 (23:52):
Where are those locations again? Butch in Baton Rooge?
Speaker 2 (23:56):
Wow? Not all?
Speaker 5 (23:58):
Can we have four locations? Right on that one? The
Baton Rouge areas. We meant to say that Ruge area.
Speaker 2 (24:04):
We have four locations in the Greater Baton Rouge area
that we have the store on Seagan Lane, we have
the store mid city on don More.
Speaker 3 (24:13):
We have the Greenwold.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
Springs location which is pretty much at the end of
Sherwood Forest Boulevard.
Speaker 3 (24:19):
And the Denham Springs location.
Speaker 2 (24:20):
Is on Range Road, very near Magnolia Bridge Road, exactly
five miles from I twelve. Nice, ye, sure, but yeah
there is It might be again, I apologize, there is
a form of lime at Seagan.
Speaker 3 (24:38):
It might be the hydrated line, but anyone that is.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
All limes are calcium magnesium ratios, and it varies as
to which type you're getting as to which is the
higher the ones in there and again I forget, sorry,
but yes you can pick it up. Also, most of
your feed stores if you are north of town Triperius,
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those places should have it for you too. But speaking
of lawns, as we were going to break, I don't
know if we were still on air if it was afterwards,
because we do have very intelligent discussions during break, so
we can come back with intelligent discussions on the air.
We have a lot of people have commented how the
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snow really helped the weed population. How nice the weeds
look right now? And I've noticed it in my yard.
It is a lot of the broad leaf weeds in particular.
Clegg's has been known for selling a weed cocktail for
several years now, which is weed free zone atrazine and
(25:47):
a surfactant or spread er sticker. And are you ready, Jeremy,
I'm gonna get my soapbox again, thank you. And oh,
I have ivory liquid or I have this or that
as a surfactant. Those don't work near as well as
(26:08):
the true surfactant. And an eight ounce bottle of it
and you don't use very much of it is six
or seven bucks.
Speaker 4 (26:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (26:14):
So the problem is whenever you like pump up, you know,
and you have soap SuDS in there that degrades the chemical.
Speaker 3 (26:22):
So you really want to use a true surfactant.
Speaker 2 (26:25):
And what a surfactant is used for is to stick
the weed killers to the weed.
Speaker 3 (26:32):
Think about when you go through a car wash. Do
you go through a car wash?
Speaker 2 (26:35):
I did a couple of weeks ago, okay, And when
you got done and all the right before you went
through the blowers, all the water was all.
Speaker 3 (26:42):
Beat it up on your car. Well, that's what happens.
Speaker 2 (26:45):
Whenever you spray a weed like dollar weed. Go feel
a dollar weed. It actually feels a little waxy. Well,
what happens when that water hits that which the water
is containing the chemical, It just rolls off, so it
doesn't do any good. The surfactant sticks to the weeds,
so the weed can absorb the weed killer. Right now,
like I said, so many of our weeds are broad
(27:07):
leaf weeds. That weed free zone is the important broad
leaf weed killer portion of it. But the atrazine has
been proven to actually the combination of those two chemicals
right now actually improves the function or ability or.
Speaker 10 (27:28):
I don't even know the word I'm looking for it.
You've been no help here, Mary, I don't know what's
going on in your usability. It just it makes it
more effective. There, that's affectability. Affectability Is that like the exfolability?
Speaker 3 (27:43):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (27:45):
But so yeah, I strongly recommend the use of all
three chemicals because there are certain weeds the atrazine are
going to be pre emergent. For I've been surprised. I
haven't seen a whole lot of poema yet or I
have in my yar.
Speaker 3 (28:00):
Do you okay?
Speaker 2 (28:00):
Maybe I actually was able to get rid of it
with my dimension that I put out last year. Well,
good job, thank you. But yeah, if you have poana,
which is they struggled last week, troll grass, it looks
like it's a very straight grass and usually has a
little seed pod right on the end of it. Some
people call it annual bluegrass. Atressine will take care of it.
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You could spray now. If it hasn't germinated, the atressine
will prevent that germination.
Speaker 3 (28:26):
If it's come up, the atressine will kill it off.
Speaker 2 (28:29):
If you traditionally have polana in your yard, braiden when
this spring or actually this fall, grab one of those
busted bags of dimension and go spread it out and
you won't have poana anymore.
Speaker 3 (28:42):
Okay, sir.
Speaker 2 (28:43):
And you can do that, and you can even do
that in your flower beds really, but not your vegetable guard.
Speaker 4 (28:49):
Use Yeah, but you don't have a vegetable guard. Sometimes
we do, aren't they in pots? Sometimes we have we
have raised bed planters.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
Wow, I did not know that, because I'd never get
an invite to come over. Well, this is your official
invitation anyway. Lawn Weed control very important right now, I
think it's too early to fertilize. Yeah, I would agree. Okay,
(29:20):
let's see you're up to fifteen words.
Speaker 3 (29:22):
Break now bore.
Speaker 2 (29:23):
Uh, we really want our grass, which I am very surprised.
I have a combination of Saint Augustine's centipede and weeds.
Is my basically my lawn my Saint Augustine issue In
the first four words, Oh good, and this just came
to mind. Isn't the the rule.
Speaker 4 (29:42):
When it comes to fertilizing your lawne you want to
make sure that it's out of dormancy.
Speaker 2 (29:48):
Usually you would want.
Speaker 3 (29:49):
To cut your grass for the second time.
Speaker 2 (29:51):
First two times? Very good?
Speaker 3 (29:54):
You do listen.
Speaker 2 (29:56):
Yes, My my rule of thumb on that is the
second time I'm ow my lawn is when I will
put out my lawn fertilizer. The first time I mowed
my lawn is because Shirley doesn't like the way the
weeds look and the pickups leaves and that kind of stuff,
which I really could care less. I mean, I'm so
glad to do that for her. The second time I
(30:16):
mow my grass, it's growing, it has to be cut,
and that's what you want the plant to be actively growing,
so it can take up the fertilizer.
Speaker 3 (30:24):
So yes, that is important.
Speaker 2 (30:27):
I am not a huge fan of weed and feeds.
I think I've said that many times here on the show,
So I don't think it's a huge surprise to the
one or two people that listen more than one.
Speaker 4 (30:41):
Is that because of our where like because of our
heat in the summertime, or the fact that we don't
get true seasons.
Speaker 2 (30:50):
I guess it's because you're putting out two products together,
which is the benefit or the plus of weed and
feeds as you're only doing something one time, but you're
doing two different things that should be done at different times.
Speaker 3 (31:08):
Right weed killing right now is.
Speaker 2 (31:10):
Very important, whether you're going to do it with a spray,
which spraying active weeds is the most effective way to go.
We do have some granular weed killers if look, I
just don't like to spray, I want to put out
a granule. There are granual weed Beater is one. I
think it's weed Out as another brand name. But you
(31:32):
can do that, and you need to be doing that now.
But you really don't need to be fertilizing right now,
you know, Like I was about to say, my Saint
Augustine is green so I could conceivably and it actually
does need to be cut hopefully Shirley's not listening. But
you typically would fertilize later than you're going to do
your weed control, So by putting the two products together,
(31:55):
you're either doing one of the two things too early
or one of the things too late. So why do
they have whedon feed there? It's a convenience product, Bob,
was that my soapbox? Again, it's a convenience product that
has been sold, you know, because people have very active lives.
(32:16):
They don't want a while. Let's see, I need to
do this in February. I need to do this in March.
They do want to do and it's not going to
harm anything. And yes, if you put a weed, if
you put your weedon feed out too late air quotes,
it's still going to kill the weeds that are there
up and growing. If you put your fertilizer in the
(32:37):
weeden feed out a little bit too early. Most of
your weeding feeds have what we call a conditioned or
slow release fertilizer, so once the grass is growing, there
will still be some nutrients there. So you know, I'm
not going to tell anybody that walks in, don't buy
a weed and feed. I mean it's a product that
is very good. It's just if you're having troubles. If
(33:01):
your lawn looks good for the most part, use a
weed and feed. You know, it's a good vitamin or
whatever you want to call it, that's going to help
maintain that. If your lawn is struggling, let's be more
proactive and attack it as need be. Let's get the
weeds right now. We talk to the guy that had
(33:23):
the magnesium issues in his soils. Let's get a pH test.
Let's find out if we need to raise or lower
the pH depending on the type grass. Let's put a
fertilizer out when it's going to be more beneficial. So
typically when I yes, if you have a lawn, you've
taken care of you lawn. You know you come in
and want a weed and feed, I'm going to encourage
you to get it and go because it's a good
(33:45):
helps maintain that lawn. Where if we have a problem lawn,
something that has weeds, something that has issues with it,
let's let's hit those more directly. And good point is
not all weak killers are created equal. We have some
we weed free zone. It's a broad leaf weed control.
(34:06):
If you have grassy weeds, they're going to laugh at it,
where your atrozine is more of a grassy weed control.
Speaker 3 (34:14):
So we want to be especially if.
Speaker 2 (34:17):
Can it also be a pre emerging It is, Yes,
it is, and that's one of the reasons why we
don't we caution people about using any type of an
atrezine product.
Speaker 3 (34:28):
And I believe.
Speaker 2 (34:31):
Our one weed and feed still has some atrozine in
it around trees because there is some soil activity with atrozine,
So we do want to be careful around trees and shrubs.
That's why you'd never want to use a weed and
feed in a flower bed in particular. Okay, so I
say that, but like preen is not is a weed
and feed, but it is a pre emergent. So did
(34:53):
you know that we have a podcast? I did.
Speaker 5 (34:56):
I actually listened to it. Really yeah.
Speaker 3 (34:59):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (35:00):
Does it sound as bad in a podcast as it
does a live.
Speaker 4 (35:03):
I'll say that I don't like hearing my voice like
through the radio or it sounds weird.
Speaker 3 (35:11):
It does.
Speaker 2 (35:12):
It sounds different to me. At least your voice over
the radio is very soothing. It's you're you're a natural
at this don't futter.
Speaker 4 (35:23):
There's a reason why you're in that seat and I'm
in this one.
Speaker 3 (35:27):
I thought it was because I'm good looking. Oh that's right.
Speaker 2 (35:31):
That matters in radio.
Speaker 3 (35:32):
Oh that's right. I have the face for radio.
Speaker 2 (35:35):
Would you mind, since you do it so much better
than us, explain how they can get to the podcast.
Speaker 5 (35:41):
Sure, just open up your free and new and improved
iHeartRadio app. Uh, and you can search for the wjb
O Lawn and Garden Show. If you still like to
use your computer, you can go to iHeart dot com
and search for that there as well. You can listen
to this and gee, how many I've done for two years?
Speaker 3 (35:57):
Three years, two years?
Speaker 5 (35:58):
You can go back and as much like to say,
see how wrong they were for many times. And while
you're there, you can also use our talkback mic feature
on the iHeart app. It's that red microphone looking button there.
You can just leave a voicemail basically and we can
get it over here in the studio whenever. So if
you're listening to a podcast, say tomorrow or Tuesday, you
can leave us a message and we can We'll check
(36:21):
it and if we can maybe answer it on the
next show. Also, yeah, Also, we've just got I don't
know if you guys have opened up the app lately
or updated it, but we now have presets, so you
can actually save the podcast as a preset and it'll
be like just like in your car. And you can
save WJBO the station too as a preset. So if
(36:41):
you want to, next time you open up the app,
you can just tap the little icon and go straight
to the podcast.
Speaker 2 (36:47):
On that talk back feature, Yes, is it going to
hit me if I use it?
Speaker 3 (36:54):
Like if I talk back to Shirley, she hits me.
Speaker 5 (36:57):
I no, okay, but we will put that in with
development and see what we can do for Okay, we
can like you know, it's.
Speaker 3 (37:04):
Not hit me.
Speaker 5 (37:04):
Oh okay, so take that take out of a Yeah,
after forty far along softer.
Speaker 3 (37:13):
Forty something years of marriage, I know not to talk back.
Speaker 5 (37:16):
Well, then you can do it years.
Speaker 3 (37:18):
Yeah, I know it did. Uh. One of the things
real quick. We don't have very long left in the show,
but house plants. I am just.
Speaker 2 (37:29):
So excited about the extension they did at seeing all
the stores have good houseplants selection.
Speaker 3 (37:33):
But you got in something a crocodile.
Speaker 5 (37:37):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (37:37):
I think that is a type of Aglanima or maybe
diffen Bakia. Always I always get that too confused, But yeah,
I noticed.
Speaker 2 (37:47):
And that's from the manager of Pleg's Nursery.
Speaker 3 (37:49):
He's always confused about one.
Speaker 4 (37:52):
Well, if you saw Diffenbakia and Aglanima together, they can
depending on the types, they can be very similar. But yes,
that crocodile one is very neat looking. Anything else new
and neat that came in. We did get this really big,
impressive bogan villa that came from our color division that.
Speaker 3 (38:16):
I was asking about house plants.
Speaker 2 (38:17):
Oh okay, well you know my area's betting house, but
which is where the house plants are?
Speaker 4 (38:25):
I mean, we just we got a lot of really
nice stuff in Okay, there's nothing that really stands out
my head, but we get get a lot of really new,
nice stuff.
Speaker 2 (38:38):
I don't know if I can finish up the show now. Anyway,
you've been listening to news radio eleven fifty ww's Lawn
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(39:01):
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Speaker 2 (00:21):
Good morning, Baton Rouge, and welcome to news radio eleven
to fifty wjbo's Lawn and Garden Show. My name is
but Strews. I'm with Brayden from Clegg's Nursery. Good morning,
good morning. You notice I don't even try the last
name anymore. Yeah, it's probably for the best. It is,
really it is. You know, I'm slow, but I eventually
get there.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
Anyway.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
I'm sure you out there in radio land have plenty
of questions because we've had a couple interesting weather events.
If you do, please give us call four nine nine
nine five two six. That's four nine nine WJBO. Anything
in particular is far as the cold snaps that you
have been made aware of, as far as particular plants
(01:05):
that were damaged, or particular plants surprisingly weren't damaged.
Speaker 4 (01:12):
I mean, I've had some people come in as far
as like citrus goo. Some people have come in and
said their citrus did great through the weather, and then
other people have come in and said that not so much.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
I lost six out of seven.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
Goodness, I have one satsuma that looks like it's gonna
make it. I mean, actually it's a brown select. I
had three, two of which really weren't cared for. But
my warri is dead, my grape preache dead, and all
three of my orange trees are dead.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
Dang. Yeah, and these were trees.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
That have been according to Johnny Naylor, they're not but
because of the snow. But yeah, and actually the snow
did create some insulation on them.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
But yeah, I will be replanting.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
Yeah, so that's going to be in the near future.
I'm gonna give them a little bit longer. In fact,
I noticed, in fact, I noticed this morning that all
of them have started dropping leaves, which is actually a
positive sign. We've talked about that on the radio here.
(02:24):
A plant that has the ability to drop the leaves
has enough energy to hopefully be able to regenerate those leaves.
If the plant holds leaves, that means it does not
have enough energy or the ability to release them. So However,
I think these releases might be due to wind the
possible and not the plant actually discarding them. There's actually
(02:47):
a word for that, and I can't remember what it is,
but it's not important anyway, sounds scientific, it is it
really is. It's like a big, old long word. It
has like seven or eight letters in it.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
No.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
Foliate is the dropping of the leaves, but there is
a the plant actually has to release the leaf for
it to xfoliate or defoliate or as I.
Speaker 5 (03:11):
Like, it's uh leaf relysium.
Speaker 4 (03:16):
That that that that sounds pretty good.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
I mean if that that was made up on the spot, Yeah,
I know that was that was I was pretty impressed
with that part of it. But come on, you can
do better now. But there is a there is a
word for that actual releasing. And I've actually asked somebody
that before and I still forget it every time.
Speaker 4 (03:35):
I think you were headed towards how you say defoliate, defilate, defilate.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
Yeah, anyway, give us call four six, it's four nine
nine w JBO get you put smack dab pretty close
to the top of our list.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
But I think there's someone already there.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
Ain't a good morning, how are you welcome to news
radio eleven to fifty wjbo's Line and Garden Show.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
What's up?
Speaker 6 (04:00):
Well, I wanted to ask you. I know you're talking
about citrus, so I wanted a question. If the rootstock
is putting out, does that mean your tree might make it?
Speaker 5 (04:08):
No?
Speaker 2 (04:09):
Rootstock has unfortunately nothing to do with the viable part
of a citrus tree. The rootstock is probably trifoliate or
possibly flying dragon, depending on when exactly you bought the citrus,
but that the rootstock itself will not produce an edible fruit.
(04:30):
So no, in fact, that's a discouraging sign. If it's
starting to send up root suckers or suckers from below
the grafty.
Speaker 6 (04:41):
How can the tree not live with the roots still
being able to put nutrient incident?
Speaker 2 (04:45):
Question the tree? Okay, let me step back. The rootstock
will produce a tree. The problem is that tree is not.
Citrus are grafted. All your citrus are grafted onto a rootstock.
So what has happened is the part of the tree,
(05:07):
the graft of the tree that you want that's going
to produce your lemon, your grapefruits, your orange, or sense
whatever it is, that part of the tree is actually dead.
The rootstock itself is alive and will grow a tree,
but it will grow a tree that will not produce
an edible fruit. If that makes sense. Yes, And to
(05:30):
two things about those trees. If you and if you
have a neighbor that you really don't like, you might
want to let that tree grow. However, it does have
extremely large thorns, and if it does thorny, if it
does produce a fruit, pick those fruit, put them in
a really nice basket and bring it to that neighbor
(05:53):
you really don't like, and say, here's a peace offering.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
They are the.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
Most awful things you will ever or eat in your life.
I mean, they are totally completely unedible. But yeah, it's unfortunately.
You know, keep cutting those off. But if you're not
seeing any live growth from above the graft, which even
in mature trees, you can find the graft because it's
(06:17):
going to be a not usually within a foot of
the soil level. So if they're coming out below, that
not a good sign.
Speaker 6 (06:25):
Okay, So next question, have y'all.
Speaker 4 (06:27):
Gotten a new crop in We did receive a smaller
shipment of citrus, so we do have some some fresher stuff,
but we have a very nice selection of citrus right now.
Speaker 6 (06:42):
Okay, good all right, well, sorry, thank.
Speaker 7 (06:46):
You very much.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
All right, good luck, and that does open up phone
lines right now for nine nine six for nine nine WWO.
You know, I was had a two things happened to
me on way in this morning, and one of them was,
it's the first time I've gone through the new interchange
at ten twelve. I got really confused because all emerging
(07:09):
traffic was coming from my left instead of my right.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
Yeah, if you haven't been, I haven't done it. You
need to.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
Everyone needs to, you know, get out on the road
right now and drive through the interchange there where they
call that the overpass, the cloverland, the clover leaf, clover leaf.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
No, that's Airline in Florida.
Speaker 5 (07:29):
I just have concerns considering that people couldn't handle the
old one for a few hours. We really want to
send it out there at once.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
But it brings up and this is a question I've
asked many people in life, and it's interesting all the
different answers you get to this. As I was driving
in this morning, I noticed on the side of the
interstate a couch cushion. So, okay, there's a couch cushion.
(07:59):
That means that there was a couch now missing a cushion.
Do you think that person that was driving whenever he
gets where he is, is his wife.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
Going to kill him? Oh? Yeah, okay, I just want
to make sure.
Speaker 8 (08:09):
Well.
Speaker 4 (08:09):
I guess it depends on whether the couch was going
to the house or leaving the house.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
Got you. That's actually a very good point.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
The other one is which is worth a couch cushion
on the side of the road or a dining room chair.
I think I'd rather the couch, Christian. You can always
maybe find another chair that might match or get close.
I think I would just hate to be the person behind.
It's called the flyover. The flyover. Yeah, thank you miss
(08:42):
Renee for texting me that. And she's one of the
ones we discussed the couch.
Speaker 5 (08:47):
You know a lot of traffic people, Yes, I do, okay,
which is very well connected. Did you ever get to
go up in the traffic offter and do a rop
port on that cheery thought?
Speaker 2 (09:02):
We're going to go to Deborah in Saint George. Good morning, Deborah,
Welcome to news radio eleven fifty wjbo's Lona Garden Show.
What can we do for you.
Speaker 7 (09:11):
Well, good morning. The absolutely stunning supertunias that I planted
ten days ago and covered with blankets and the freeze
don't look like they made it.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
Is there?
Speaker 7 (09:22):
Can they be like cut back and will they grow back?
Speaker 9 (09:25):
Or did I just.
Speaker 7 (09:25):
Lose three hundred dollars for the supertunias.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
Actually, I'm really surprised that they got burnt for first off,
especially with a cover.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
That may be what did you cover with?
Speaker 1 (09:41):
Uh?
Speaker 7 (09:41):
Well, I have these metal like things that pulled up signs,
and so I put those so it doesn't actually hit
the plant, and then I used blankets.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
Okay, I'm surprised there's damage. It may just be how
tender they were. If there's still some If it's just
kind of of a surface burn, you can prune that
off and they will come back. If it's brown all
the way to the ground, that's not a good sign.
But I am surprised that you had difficulty with those,
(10:13):
especially with some covering over them.
Speaker 7 (10:16):
Yeah, yeah, there's still there's still greens. It looks like
they've kind of collapsed.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
Yeah, I would give them. Yeah, they should be fine.
Some of that could actually be and you may want
to go out and check your soil.
Speaker 3 (10:33):
Make sure that.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
Especially I don't know if you, I guess if it
was a super tuna, it was probably a four inch
plant or whatever. Make sure that that square around root
ball has not gotten a little bit dry, so you
may want to put a little moisture on there. A
lot of times when we have a weather event like
we did, sometimes it's difficult for the plant to pull up.
Speaker 3 (10:59):
Moisture sure that is in the soil, because if we.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
Didn't have any ground freezing with this last one, but
it may be just a little bit of moisture. But yeah,
if they're just kind of a little wilty, uh, let's
get the cover off of them and check to make
sure they're not the actual rootball, not the soil around it,
but the rootball itself hasn't dried out a little bit.
Speaker 3 (11:20):
And I think you're gonna be okay.
Speaker 7 (11:22):
Oh super that makes me very happy because they were gorgeous.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
Yeah, and I think I think they'll come back. But
do like I said, don't just go stick, you know,
your finger down in the soil, but go right to
that root ball. Make sure they aren't a little bit dry,
and if they if they feel moist or if they
feel wet. That could also be a slight issue which
will correct itself, but let's check that. But yeah, I
think it may just be a little They were probably
(11:46):
a little bit tender coming out of the nursery and
just got a little topical burn.
Speaker 7 (11:52):
Super thank you so much, all right.
Speaker 3 (11:55):
And that does open up phone lines right now.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
Four nine nine nine five two six that's for nine nine.
Speaker 3 (12:02):
I just totally lost my train of thought.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
I mean, it just left one of the things that
it is important to make sure anytime we go into
a cold snap.
Speaker 3 (12:13):
Like this, and.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
Usually in the winter it's not an issue, but we
don't want to go into the cold snap dry. We
want to have the plants good, good and hydrated because
if we do get some ground freezing, which is pretty
atypical around here, obviously, if the ground's frozen, it can't
pull the moisture up. So but yeah, I think that's
gonna be fine. It's just like anything else. If it's tender,
(12:37):
it's gonna be a little bit more susceptible.
Speaker 4 (12:38):
But also won't watering kind of help insulate the roots
a little well?
Speaker 2 (12:48):
Yes, yes, because water freezes at thirty two degrees, so
it's kind of like the snow the last snow event
we had here. The snow actually was an insulation. Yeah,
it kind of helped. You saw that at the nursery.
Everybody commented after we after y'all pull the freeze cloth
off the plants, how great everything? Well, excuse me, the
(13:10):
cloth had something to do with that, but more importantly,
the snow is the insulation. If you have questions, give
us call for nine six. That's four nine nine w JBO.
We'll put you up first on our list right after Dale.
Good morning, Dale, Welcome to News Radio eleven fifty wjbo's
Lawn and Garden Show.
Speaker 9 (13:27):
What's up, morning guys, Morning morning, How y'all doing good?
Speaker 2 (13:31):
How are you.
Speaker 8 (13:33):
Doing all right?
Speaker 9 (13:34):
I've got two little sat summer trees I just bought
from y'all this previous year. Got them through both of
the freezes, got them through the summer. They're butting up nicely,
And I guess my question is, I know, is can
I go ahead and fertilize the.
Speaker 8 (13:54):
March.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
Yes, we're at the very beginning of that. Don't you
need to run out as soon as you hang up
and fertilize them. But yeah, we're getting to the point
where I'm very comfortable doing a fertilization one of the things.
And this is one of the few times I will
ever make this recommendation your first fertilization because they're young trees.
(14:19):
Let me let me preface this by saying, because you
have young trees, I would urge you to use Aspoma's
citrus food as your fertilization right now. It is an
organic fertilizer, but it is very well formulated with a
nice calcium amount in it that will help your citrus
(14:43):
absorb the fertilizer that I'm gonna recommend you use in May,
which is actually the Fertilum Fruit citrus and pecan food,
that is a stronger fertilizer that's really going to to
help your tree grow and all. But and again it's
one of the few times that I'll ever recommend two
(15:07):
different types of fertilizer for someone. But using the Spoma
first really right now, especially, we'll get into the plant
and help the plant to take up the second fertilization
that you put out, so you're gonna see a lot
better results that way on a young tree. I know
some people like to come in August early September and
(15:30):
do the pecan and fruit tree food. Again, the way
our winters have been going, I'm a little bit hesitant
about suggesting that because we don't want to get a
lot of really right growth coming out that is going
to be tender and may get killed off. If you say,
I really want to get the growth, and actually you
(15:51):
have been covering your trees. If you want to do
that third fertilization late August early September, I wouldn't tell
you not to, but again, you will need to make
sure if we have any type of weather events like
we've had these two that we've had this year, you
would want to cover. But yes, Dale, I strongly recommend
the aspoma citrus food now or anytime during March, and
(16:15):
then the fertilom fruit of fruits, citrus and pecan or
however it is. It's a blue bag. Do that in May,
I think, and you'll have great results.
Speaker 9 (16:25):
Okay, And the apoma is still about like pound pounds
to a half ur inch of.
Speaker 3 (16:29):
Trunk diambers somewhere at that Please check the label on that.
You know.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
I've been away from the store now for are getting
close to a year. I can't believe it, but it's
really almost been that long. But yeah, check the label
because I'm old and see now I don't remember that.
Speaker 3 (16:44):
Well, all right, I'll do that, all right, Thanks Dale.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
Great phone call, by the way, very timely phone call,
and that does open up phone lines right now for
five two six, it's for nine nine.
Speaker 3 (16:54):
WJBO.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
A lot of other things going on with has several
citrus questions, which is what I was expecting. Lawn weeds.
I had someone tell me the other day. I actually do.
Been going to a health club and there's several of
my friends throughout the years that I've helped go there,
and several of them have commented how how much the
snow improved their weed population. And there are lots. If
(17:20):
you have questions on that, give us a call. However,
Peter has a question I believe on Roses. Good morning, Peter,
Welcome to news radio eleven to fifty wjbo's Lawn and
Garden Show.
Speaker 9 (17:29):
What's up, Good morning, guys. No, we don't have snow,
but we still have winter, Yes we do.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
Yeah, I'm listening.
Speaker 8 (17:36):
To you all a couple of weeks ago, y'all. We're
talking about February Valentine's baby. In the right time, to
prune roses, cut them back no more than like half
or something. But I did not trim my rose bush
which is old, probably almost head high the how from
last year, last two years, and it's greened up very
nicely since the breeze isn't too late for me to.
Speaker 3 (18:03):
No, you go right ahead and do that.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
When you get done with that pruning, I would suggest fertilization,
but uh, what type of rose is it? Peter, excellent,
call and thank you for it, and stay with me,
because I'm going to get my soapbox.
Speaker 3 (18:24):
Knockout.
Speaker 2 (18:25):
Roses have to be pruned otherwise they will actually age out.
So you want to cut that bush down at least
in half, if not a little bit more than that,
so it will constantly regenerate that new growth. I've noticed
it in several instances that were people that don't prune
(18:47):
them regularly. They eventually, after two or three years, will
just go away. Because you want to stimulate that new growth. So, yes,
you're you have plenty of time to do that. Cut
it at least in half. If it's five have to
six foot tall, cut it down to about two foot
You're going to probably cut all the foliage off just
put a little rose food around it, and it'll be
(19:08):
back in a couple of weeks.
Speaker 3 (19:09):
So yes, definitely go ahead and prune.
Speaker 8 (19:11):
It's just the time to also put rosemood down on.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
Yes, yes, pretty much a good rule of thumb. And
if you disagree, braidon please. I understand any time you
prune is usually a good time to fertilize it.
Speaker 3 (19:25):
That's for any type of plant. Yeah, I would agree
with that, howl.
Speaker 8 (19:29):
How should I clean my pruning chairs?
Speaker 2 (19:32):
I only this rosebush?
Speaker 3 (19:37):
Any type of good.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
You know, the products that were sold for COVID, the
wipes and sanitary wipes and all those are excellent. You
can use alcohol, I know some people use like a
listerine an antiseptic mouth wash works pretty well, any of
those products. But yeah, that was one of the things
that you know, nothing good came out of COVID, but
(19:59):
one of those wipes that everybody was using then those
were actually very good antibacterial, anti fungal.
Speaker 3 (20:06):
Right, so those work very well.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
Talking about like the hands had say, yeah, exactly, all right,
thank you got all right, thank you great, great timely
phone call.
Speaker 3 (20:18):
That was perfect.
Speaker 5 (20:19):
Did you not like your soapbox noise? I finally got you.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
Oh that was I thought it was something on his end.
Thank you so much for the soapbox noise. Go ahead
and request it. Uh, someone grabbed me my soapbox. Oh perfect, Yeah,
I just it's first time you did it, and I
thought it was something with his phone or my phone.
Speaker 5 (20:39):
All these years, I figured we finally should put a
mic on it.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
Yeah, and I do appreciate that very much. Open phone
lines for two six that's four nine nine w JBO.
I was in the store yesterday, my wife where I
saw you. I saw you too, And if i'd have
seen you a few minutes earlier, I would have ducked.
But but it was very excited to see what looks
(21:04):
like a very nice selection of kalladium bulbs.
Speaker 4 (21:07):
Yeah, we have a like you said, a very nice
selection of kladium bolbs, so different the different size balls
we have the jumbos and the number ones and number twos,
but there's a nice selection of each.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
And just to make sure a jumbo bulb is going
to produce a larger leaf than a number two, right, No,
it's they and am I saying no you're not. I
think I'm saying this right.
Speaker 4 (21:34):
I think that will just means that it will produce
more correct off that one ball.
Speaker 3 (21:40):
Right.
Speaker 2 (21:41):
That's and that's a huge misunderstanding with a lot of customers.
Speaker 4 (21:45):
I've done it before. Yeah, I'm pretty sure this a
lot of this was brought up.
Speaker 2 (21:50):
No, it wasn't, I just because I wanted to bring
up a jumbo kaladium bulb refers only to the size
of the ball you have it. We have number two's,
number one ones and jumbos. The size of the leaf
does not vary between the different sized bulbs. They all
are going to maturity produce the same size leaf. That
(22:12):
exactly what you just said the jumbo bulb is going
to have. And I'm making numbers up here, please the
eight blooms where a number one might have four blooms
and the number two might have two blooms or not
blooms leaves. So, yeah, a big misnumber in that the
size of the leaf does not correspond to the size
(22:32):
of the bulb. Now, certain varieties free to temple is
a larger leaf than say icicle, which is a strap leaf,
which would be smaller.
Speaker 3 (22:42):
So but yeah, it's if it's going to be.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
A large leaf colladium, you're going to get a large
leaf off of a number two, number one, or a jumbo.
Speaker 3 (22:50):
It's all going to be the same size. I was
trying to do it.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
My watch was telling me to do and you got
me all confused and flustered.
Speaker 5 (22:57):
What I thought your watch told you to be confused
and flustered.
Speaker 3 (23:00):
No, it told me to stand up.
Speaker 2 (23:02):
Well that's the same thing, right, Yeah, that's true, because
if I stand up, all the blood rushes from what
little brain I have left.
Speaker 5 (23:09):
The reason why I'm talking is not just a takeover.
We had an off air question about the person at
high magnesium levels in their lawn and they're trying to
get their pH right and they're looking for calcidic lime
and was wondering where they can find that.
Speaker 2 (23:30):
Okay, you can find it at Clegg's and it's.
Speaker 3 (23:37):
Run by one of the stores.
Speaker 2 (23:38):
I cannot remember which one it is, one of ours
is I think it's the powdered line is calcidic, but
run by one of the stores.
Speaker 3 (23:48):
We do they do have it?
Speaker 5 (23:52):
Where are those locations again? Butch in Baton Rooge?
Speaker 2 (23:56):
Wow? Not all?
Speaker 5 (23:58):
Can we have four locations? Right on that one? The
Baton Rouge areas. We meant to say that Ruge area.
Speaker 2 (24:04):
We have four locations in the Greater Baton Rouge area
that we have the store on Seagan Lane, we have
the store mid city on don More.
Speaker 3 (24:13):
We have the Greenwold.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
Springs location which is pretty much at the end of
Sherwood Forest Boulevard.
Speaker 3 (24:19):
And the Denham Springs location.
Speaker 2 (24:20):
Is on Range Road, very near Magnolia Bridge Road, exactly
five miles from I twelve. Nice, ye, sure, but yeah
there is It might be again, I apologize, there is
a form of lime at Seagan.
Speaker 3 (24:38):
It might be the hydrated line, but anyone that is.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
All limes are calcium magnesium ratios, and it varies as
to which type you're getting as to which is the
higher the ones in there and again I forget, sorry,
but yes you can pick it up. Also, most of
your feed stores if you are north of town Triperius,
(25:03):
those places should have it for you too. But speaking
of lawns, as we were going to break, I don't
know if we were still on air if it was afterwards,
because we do have very intelligent discussions during break, so
we can come back with intelligent discussions on the air.
We have a lot of people have commented how the
(25:26):
snow really helped the weed population. How nice the weeds
look right now? And I've noticed it in my yard.
It is a lot of the broad leaf weeds in particular.
Clegg's has been known for selling a weed cocktail for
several years now, which is weed free zone atrazine and
(25:47):
a surfactant or spread er sticker. And are you ready, Jeremy,
I'm gonna get my soapbox again, thank you. And oh,
I have ivory liquid or I have this or that
as a surfactant. Those don't work near as well as
(26:08):
the true surfactant. And an eight ounce bottle of it
and you don't use very much of it is six
or seven bucks.
Speaker 4 (26:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (26:14):
So the problem is whenever you like pump up, you know,
and you have soap SuDS in there that degrades the chemical.
Speaker 3 (26:22):
So you really want to use a true surfactant.
Speaker 2 (26:25):
And what a surfactant is used for is to stick
the weed killers to the weed.
Speaker 3 (26:32):
Think about when you go through a car wash. Do
you go through a car wash?
Speaker 2 (26:35):
I did a couple of weeks ago, okay, And when
you got done and all the right before you went
through the blowers, all the water was all.
Speaker 3 (26:42):
Beat it up on your car. Well, that's what happens.
Speaker 2 (26:45):
Whenever you spray a weed like dollar weed. Go feel
a dollar weed. It actually feels a little waxy. Well,
what happens when that water hits that which the water
is containing the chemical, It just rolls off, so it
doesn't do any good. The surfactant sticks to the weeds,
so the weed can absorb the weed killer. Right now,
like I said, so many of our weeds are broad
(27:07):
leaf weeds. That weed free zone is the important broad
leaf weed killer portion of it. But the atrazine has
been proven to actually the combination of those two chemicals
right now actually improves the function or ability or.
Speaker 10 (27:28):
I don't even know the word I'm looking for it.
You've been no help here, Mary, I don't know what's
going on in your usability. It just it makes it
more effective. There, that's affectability. Affectability Is that like the exfolability?
Speaker 3 (27:43):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (27:45):
But so yeah, I strongly recommend the use of all
three chemicals because there are certain weeds the atrazine are
going to be pre emergent. For I've been surprised. I
haven't seen a whole lot of poema yet or I
have in my yar.
Speaker 3 (28:00):
Do you okay?
Speaker 2 (28:00):
Maybe I actually was able to get rid of it
with my dimension that I put out last year. Well,
good job, thank you. But yeah, if you have poana,
which is they struggled last week, troll grass, it looks
like it's a very straight grass and usually has a
little seed pod right on the end of it. Some
people call it annual bluegrass. Atressine will take care of it.
(28:22):
You could spray now. If it hasn't germinated, the atressine
will prevent that germination.
Speaker 3 (28:26):
If it's come up, the atressine will kill it off.
Speaker 2 (28:29):
If you traditionally have polana in your yard, braiden when
this spring or actually this fall, grab one of those
busted bags of dimension and go spread it out and
you won't have poana anymore.
Speaker 3 (28:42):
Okay, sir.
Speaker 2 (28:43):
And you can do that, and you can even do
that in your flower beds really, but not your vegetable guard.
Speaker 4 (28:49):
Use Yeah, but you don't have a vegetable guard. Sometimes
we do, aren't they in pots? Sometimes we have we
have raised bed planters.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
Wow, I did not know that, because I'd never get
an invite to come over. Well, this is your official
invitation anyway. Lawn Weed control very important right now, I
think it's too early to fertilize. Yeah, I would agree. Okay,
(29:20):
let's see you're up to fifteen words.
Speaker 3 (29:22):
Break now bore.
Speaker 2 (29:23):
Uh, we really want our grass, which I am very surprised.
I have a combination of Saint Augustine's centipede and weeds.
Is my basically my lawn my Saint Augustine issue In
the first four words, Oh good, and this just came
to mind. Isn't the the rule.
Speaker 4 (29:42):
When it comes to fertilizing your lawne you want to
make sure that it's out of dormancy.
Speaker 2 (29:48):
Usually you would want.
Speaker 3 (29:49):
To cut your grass for the second time.
Speaker 2 (29:51):
First two times? Very good?
Speaker 3 (29:54):
You do listen.
Speaker 2 (29:56):
Yes, My my rule of thumb on that is the
second time I'm ow my lawn is when I will
put out my lawn fertilizer. The first time I mowed
my lawn is because Shirley doesn't like the way the
weeds look and the pickups leaves and that kind of stuff,
which I really could care less. I mean, I'm so
glad to do that for her. The second time I
(30:16):
mow my grass, it's growing, it has to be cut,
and that's what you want the plant to be actively growing,
so it can take up the fertilizer.
Speaker 3 (30:24):
So yes, that is important.
Speaker 2 (30:27):
I am not a huge fan of weed and feeds.
I think I've said that many times here on the show,
So I don't think it's a huge surprise to the
one or two people that listen more than one.
Speaker 4 (30:41):
Is that because of our where like because of our
heat in the summertime, or the fact that we don't
get true seasons.
Speaker 2 (30:50):
I guess it's because you're putting out two products together,
which is the benefit or the plus of weed and
feeds as you're only doing something one time, but you're
doing two different things that should be done at different times.
Speaker 3 (31:08):
Right weed killing right now is.
Speaker 2 (31:10):
Very important, whether you're going to do it with a spray,
which spraying active weeds is the most effective way to go.
We do have some granular weed killers if look, I
just don't like to spray, I want to put out
a granule. There are granual weed Beater is one. I
think it's weed Out as another brand name. But you
(31:32):
can do that, and you need to be doing that now.
But you really don't need to be fertilizing right now,
you know, Like I was about to say, my Saint
Augustine is green so I could conceivably and it actually
does need to be cut hopefully Shirley's not listening. But
you typically would fertilize later than you're going to do
your weed control, So by putting the two products together,
(31:55):
you're either doing one of the two things too early
or one of the things too late. So why do
they have whedon feed there? It's a convenience product, Bob,
was that my soapbox? Again, it's a convenience product that
has been sold, you know, because people have very active lives.
(32:16):
They don't want a while. Let's see, I need to
do this in February. I need to do this in March.
They do want to do and it's not going to
harm anything. And yes, if you put a weed, if
you put your weedon feed out too late air quotes,
it's still going to kill the weeds that are there
up and growing. If you put your fertilizer in the
(32:37):
weeden feed out a little bit too early. Most of
your weeding feeds have what we call a conditioned or
slow release fertilizer, so once the grass is growing, there
will still be some nutrients there. So you know, I'm
not going to tell anybody that walks in, don't buy
a weed and feed. I mean it's a product that
is very good. It's just if you're having troubles. If
(33:01):
your lawn looks good for the most part, use a
weed and feed. You know, it's a good vitamin or
whatever you want to call it, that's going to help
maintain that. If your lawn is struggling, let's be more
proactive and attack it as need be. Let's get the
weeds right now. We talk to the guy that had
(33:23):
the magnesium issues in his soils. Let's get a pH test.
Let's find out if we need to raise or lower
the pH depending on the type grass. Let's put a
fertilizer out when it's going to be more beneficial. So
typically when I yes, if you have a lawn, you've
taken care of you lawn. You know you come in
and want a weed and feed, I'm going to encourage
you to get it and go because it's a good
(33:45):
helps maintain that lawn. Where if we have a problem lawn,
something that has weeds, something that has issues with it,
let's let's hit those more directly. And good point is
not all weak killers are created equal. We have some
we weed free zone. It's a broad leaf weed control.
(34:06):
If you have grassy weeds, they're going to laugh at it,
where your atrozine is more of a grassy weed control.
Speaker 3 (34:14):
So we want to be especially if.
Speaker 2 (34:17):
Can it also be a pre emerging It is, Yes,
it is, and that's one of the reasons why we
don't we caution people about using any type of an
atrezine product.
Speaker 3 (34:28):
And I believe.
Speaker 2 (34:31):
Our one weed and feed still has some atrozine in
it around trees because there is some soil activity with atrozine,
So we do want to be careful around trees and shrubs.
That's why you'd never want to use a weed and
feed in a flower bed in particular. Okay, so I
say that, but like preen is not is a weed
and feed, but it is a pre emergent. So did
(34:53):
you know that we have a podcast? I did.
Speaker 5 (34:56):
I actually listened to it. Really yeah.
Speaker 3 (34:59):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (35:00):
Does it sound as bad in a podcast as it
does a live.
Speaker 4 (35:03):
I'll say that I don't like hearing my voice like
through the radio or it sounds weird.
Speaker 3 (35:11):
It does.
Speaker 2 (35:12):
It sounds different to me. At least your voice over
the radio is very soothing. It's you're you're a natural
at this don't futter.
Speaker 4 (35:23):
There's a reason why you're in that seat and I'm
in this one.
Speaker 3 (35:27):
I thought it was because I'm good looking. Oh that's right.
Speaker 2 (35:31):
That matters in radio.
Speaker 3 (35:32):
Oh that's right. I have the face for radio.
Speaker 2 (35:35):
Would you mind, since you do it so much better
than us, explain how they can get to the podcast.
Speaker 5 (35:41):
Sure, just open up your free and new and improved
iHeartRadio app. Uh, and you can search for the wjb
O Lawn and Garden Show. If you still like to
use your computer, you can go to iHeart dot com
and search for that there as well. You can listen
to this and gee, how many I've done for two years?
Speaker 3 (35:57):
Three years, two years?
Speaker 5 (35:58):
You can go back and as much like to say,
see how wrong they were for many times. And while
you're there, you can also use our talkback mic feature
on the iHeart app. It's that red microphone looking button there.
You can just leave a voicemail basically and we can
get it over here in the studio whenever. So if
you're listening to a podcast, say tomorrow or Tuesday, you
can leave us a message and we can We'll check
(36:21):
it and if we can maybe answer it on the
next show. Also, yeah, Also, we've just got I don't
know if you guys have opened up the app lately
or updated it, but we now have presets, so you
can actually save the podcast as a preset and it'll
be like just like in your car. And you can
save WJBO the station too as a preset. So if
(36:41):
you want to, next time you open up the app,
you can just tap the little icon and go straight
to the podcast.
Speaker 2 (36:47):
On that talk back feature, Yes, is it going to
hit me if I use it?
Speaker 3 (36:54):
Like if I talk back to Shirley, she hits me.
Speaker 5 (36:57):
I no, okay, but we will put that in with
development and see what we can do for Okay, we
can like you know, it's.
Speaker 3 (37:04):
Not hit me.
Speaker 5 (37:04):
Oh okay, so take that take out of a Yeah,
after forty far along softer.
Speaker 3 (37:13):
Forty something years of marriage, I know not to talk back.
Speaker 5 (37:16):
Well, then you can do it years.
Speaker 3 (37:18):
Yeah, I know it did. Uh. One of the things
real quick. We don't have very long left in the show,
but house plants. I am just.
Speaker 2 (37:29):
So excited about the extension they did at seeing all
the stores have good houseplants selection.
Speaker 3 (37:33):
But you got in something a crocodile.
Speaker 5 (37:37):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (37:37):
I think that is a type of Aglanima or maybe
diffen Bakia. Always I always get that too confused, But yeah,
I noticed.
Speaker 2 (37:47):
And that's from the manager of Pleg's Nursery.
Speaker 3 (37:49):
He's always confused about one.
Speaker 4 (37:52):
Well, if you saw Diffenbakia and Aglanima together, they can
depending on the types, they can be very similar. But yes,
that crocodile one is very neat looking. Anything else new
and neat that came in. We did get this really big,
impressive bogan villa that came from our color division that.
Speaker 3 (38:16):
I was asking about house plants.
Speaker 2 (38:17):
Oh okay, well you know my area's betting house, but
which is where the house plants are?
Speaker 4 (38:25):
I mean, we just we got a lot of really
nice stuff in Okay, there's nothing that really stands out
my head, but we get get a lot of really new,
nice stuff.
Speaker 2 (38:38):
I don't know if I can finish up the show now. Anyway,
you've been listening to news radio eleven fifty ww's Lawn
and Garden Show. We are Cleg's Nursery. We have four
locations in the greater Baton Rouge area to service you
and help you out. Even Brayden can do that. Anyway,
We will be here next Saturday morning from eight to
nine o'clock to I have no idea what we're gonna do,
(39:01):
but again, we were in NewsRadio eleven fifty wjbo's Lawn
and Garden Show. Y'all have a great weekend. Go Tigers,
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