February 8, 2025 • 45 mins
This week on the WJBO Lawn & Garden Show, Butch & Chris from Clegg's Nursery talk about how plants are confused with this warm weather - they think it's spring already! So there's lots of tips about how to approach fertilizing right now. There's also plenty of questions about the fate of citrus trees after the cold snap - they'll share what could be signs of life, but the best advice for now is to wait.
Also advice on treating brown patch, along with your questions on roses, rooting cuttings and more!
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Also advice on treating brown patch, along with your questions on roses, rooting cuttings and more!
If you'd like to be part of the WJBO Lawn & Garden Show, give us a call at (225) 499-9526 Saturday mornings between 8 and 9am! You can also leave us a message anytime on our free iHeartRadio app using the Talkback Mic when listening to the show live on WJBO or catching up with the podcast! Just tap that red microphone button!
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Good Saturday morning, and welcome to the WGBO lun and
Garden Show, brought to.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
You by Cleg's Nursery. If you have a question about
seasonal planting, lon and garden concerns or questions.
Speaker 3 (00:14):
About landscaping, call four nine nine WGBO.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
That's four nine nine six.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
Good morning, Baton Rouge, and welcome to news radio eleven
fifty wjbo's Lawn and Garden Show. I'm gonna have to
apologize I'm a bit foggy this morning.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Good morning, Chris, Good morning, butch how are you excellent?
Speaker 4 (00:35):
Very very good? Actually it is very foggy. Yeah, I
believe I text you that I thought I was going.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
To be late. Yeah, I did get that text just now.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
But anyway, we will be here, hopefully for the next hour,
unless they finally get smart and take us off the air,
which I'm shocked they haven't done up.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
To this point. Where's that button? Oh there is one,
isn't there?
Speaker 5 (00:56):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (00:57):
Give us call four nine that's nine nine w JBO.
A lot of us are as confused as about which
is a record sending hot temperatures in less than two weeks,
So I'm sure grab your favorite morning beverage. Walk around
(01:18):
the yard, bring your cell phone with you. Give a
call again. That's for nine nine w JBO.
Speaker 4 (01:25):
What was it like a week and a half ago?
I was in a parka and now I'm in shorts?
Is it a parka in Florida? What a PoCA?
Speaker 2 (01:36):
That's it? Out of Parker? Okay? Sorry? An animal? There
is that? An animal? That's wrong. That's a different radio station,
different show. Okay.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
I was speaking of Florida, speaking of Florida. Just returned
from Florida trip. You and Zane had a good binding experience.
Got to do a lot to improve Segan Laney brainstorming.
Speaker 4 (02:01):
I think that's called have already received a truck, received
one yesterday. Should have a good selection of beautiful Boston
sword ferns, hibiscus, the dipladinia and mandevilla which a little
too small, but beautiful hibiscus coming in. Hopefully they got
it around yesterday. If not, we'll get it around today.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
They got some around yesterday. I got a couple of
phone calls with some of what I'm doing. Did y'all
get any of the I don't know if I think
on the sheet it was called fourteen inch, but I
still call them seven gallon hibiscus.
Speaker 4 (02:33):
If it was fourteen inch, Yes, okay, they were a
little small, but they were pretty.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
I remember them from last year.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
Those were just fabulous to some of the seven gallons
y'all got in. So anything new maybe not necessarily on that.
Now on this load.
Speaker 4 (02:46):
There's a few different colors of Dipladinia coming out, but
that'll be later this spring. Wasn't there one that was
kind of a lavender. I think they call it a blue,
but I agree with you, it's more like a purplish
purplish blue.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
Yeah. Yeah, Now our color division grew that last year.
Speaker 4 (03:02):
Yeah, so we had them last year, but most of
the growers in Florida are just now getting them. Okay,
So hopefully again later this spring we should have those.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
That was a very interesting color. I'm not a huge
Diplodenia fan. They have some issues that I'm not fond of,
but that particular one tempted me.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
So yes, no, it was nice. Okay.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
So nothing else really new and exciting in the future
out of Florida.
Speaker 4 (03:27):
Not at this time. It's more the more the same.
We did get some Japanese us. It's kind of funny
when I go there. They you know, they refer to
them as potocarpus, which that's their botanical name. And I'm
looking all over it's like, I don't want Japanese you,
but we have a good selection of Japanese you coming
in a bunch of good stuff at the nursery today.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
Have you seen that's a plant that can suffer some
cold damage? Are you noticing any of that around town?
I have seen some damage.
Speaker 4 (03:57):
Most of the damage that I see is actually caused
by what I would say over pruning. I mean, if
you prune it late in the summer in the fall,
you're going to get some new growth, especially with the
warm weather we had, and that new growth is what
I saw got damaged. Did you see anything else That's
pretty much what I'm seeing too. I've seen a lot
of material that has been a lot of bamboo that's
(04:20):
browned out, but that's going to come back. A lot
of one of the things that beautiful.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
Right down by where I live in Prairieville, I have
a little gas station that did just a beautiful patio
tree Japanese blueberries.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
It got it got them bad.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
I hope they come back for the poor people, because
they were just gorgeous.
Speaker 4 (04:42):
Yeah, what everyone needs to realize, you know, because we
sell a lot of frost cover winter cloth, which.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
Actually the snow helped, yes, very much so.
Speaker 4 (04:51):
But it doesn't matter how Sometimes it doesn't matter how
much you try and protect a plant. If it gets
that cold, it's going to damage our plants.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
Right. The winter cloth can only do so much.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
But you know, actually, as you were saying, the snow
actually served as an insulation on top of that.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
So anyway, let's go to Dale.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
Good morning, Dale, Welcome to news radio eleven to fifty
WJB is on and Garden Show.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
What can we do for you? Dale?
Speaker 1 (05:14):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Good morning guys. How y'all going fantastic now that you've called.
Speaker 6 (05:20):
I'm actually fixing go up to Cleggs and I'm gonna
buy some raised bead blend. And I was wondering what
would y'all recommend, like as far as fertilizer or amendments.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
What do you add to it? Are you doing a
vegetable gardener? What are you doing vegetables?
Speaker 3 (05:36):
I personally love two products that we sell, and the
fertilizer i'd recommend is Gardener Special. That's a good complete
eleven fifteen eleven. You want to get those second two
numbers worked into the soil because they don't move through
the soil very well. But the two products I love
the most are chicken nour and now falfa humate. Those
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are my to go to adis anytime I'm dealing with
especially if you're going to raise the beds at all.
They just a chicken manure is an excellent organic nitrogen source.
The alfalfa humate. The alfalfa is an excellent fertilizer, and
the hummate is actually humatic acid, which gets your microorganism's
all excited to break down your soil and to release
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the nutrientsitor there. But I think you have a different favorite.
If I'm not mistaken, well I would.
Speaker 4 (06:26):
If he's getting raised bed blend, I'd highly recommend mixing some.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
Peat moss in there. Good. Yes, raise raised bed blends
an excellent mix.
Speaker 4 (06:33):
And it's just what it's forward, so it's raised bed
or planters, so it allows good drainage, but it almost
raine drains too much, So I highly recommend put in
peat moss. I like black cow calmineur. It's an excellent
chicken maneuver is good. You have to be careful with
chicken manure because it can be hot. But I really
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like the black cow.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
I actually did that on purpose because I knew you
were going to do that, because I agree completely with Chris.
The peat moss is very important, and also the black COUTU.
There's a my wife follows are on Facebook or whatever.
That's a big, huge component of Blackout. It is an
excellent product too, So any of those are all of
those mixed together would be great for you.
Speaker 6 (07:17):
Dale, all right, sounds good. I appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
I tell you what when you I don't know which
story you're going to. When you get there, mentions Chris's
name and they'll charge you double.
Speaker 6 (07:31):
I live closest to the Green Spring store. All right,
I'll probably see Scott in a little bit.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
Sounds great, Thanks Dale, all right, thank you? All all right?
Speaker 3 (07:39):
And that does open up phone lines right now? Four
two six, that's four nine nine WJBO.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
We'll get you.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
Put Smack Dab on top of our list right behind Claude.
Good morning, Claude, Welcome to news radio eleven fifty wjbo's
Lawn of Garden Show. What can we do for you?
Speaker 5 (07:54):
Well, I'll tell you, well, my citrus killing during the
during the freeze, after the snow. And I know you
guys asked, probably I answer this question before, But how long?
And the leaves are all brown on my sister's trees
I've had, I have a really nice I had a
really nice satsuma tree, and my kumquat trees were really
(08:15):
pretty until the freeze.
Speaker 7 (08:17):
How long should I.
Speaker 5 (08:18):
Wait until I give up on them the Should I
wait to let the leaves fall the way off and
see if they spring back out? Or how long should
I wait before I just pull them up and start
all over again? Or should I wait for a couple
of months?
Speaker 3 (08:33):
Oh, I definitely We're going to wait, and do not
do any pruning, Do not do any fertilization, do not
do anything to try to stimulate the plant. In fact,
it's one of the notes I very seldom do I
actually bring notes to the show, but it's one of
the ones that I felt important about. A couple things
with citrus that are kind of unique to citrus. Most
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of the time, we can tell relatively quickly when a
plant has suffered cold damage, because all we got to
do is go scratch the stem, and if it's green,
we're good.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
If it's brown, we're dead.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
Well, citrus will hold that green color when you scratch
it for a long time even though the plants are dead.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
So that really doesn't work for us.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
What we what I'm looking for on my citrus at
home right now is what I call a shriveling, where
you actually start to notice the limbs get a very
a rougher texture to them, actually appear to be shriveling up.
That is a very bad sign. That is something we
do not want to see. And one of the things
that I wanted to discuss and actually is going to
(09:39):
bring up on the show is if your tree is
holding the brown leaves, that is very bad. If it
is starting to drop the leaves, you've got hope. Actually,
it's an interesting thing. One of my satsumas has started
(10:00):
to drop this week. My other plants are not dropping yet.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
I'm not.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
Overly concerned at this point that they're not dropping, but
i'd like to see them, especially with the warmer temperatures
we're starting to get into, I'd like to see them
start to drop their leaves here.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
In the next week.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
A plant actually has to have energy to release those
dead leaves. If your plant does not have enough energy
in it to drop the dead leaves, it's dead. If
it has enough energy to drop those leaves, it hopefully
will still have enough energy to regenerate those new leaves.
(10:43):
So that's kind of what we're looking at right now.
What would you say, Chris?
Speaker 4 (10:49):
Actually, I was just discussing with Holly yesterday because our
satsuma is dropping its leaves.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
I said, that's a good sign. That said very good sign.
Speaker 4 (10:56):
Doesn't mean it survived, It just means there's hope, right,
But again, we're just gonna wait and see if it
starts pushing out foliage, if it starts pushing out the
good they.
Speaker 5 (11:06):
Look terrible right now. You know, I've kind of I've
kind of got a bad feeling about them, but they've
several years old and they've made great through the last
several years, and you know.
Speaker 6 (11:20):
I hate see them go.
Speaker 5 (11:21):
But if they go, you know, and that's just Louise
in the weather for you know, what can I say?
Speaker 2 (11:26):
I've kind of circled.
Speaker 3 (11:30):
I've actually got a Florida trip with Clegg's at the
middle to end of March, and that's kind of my
circle date. I think when I get back from that trip,
I will make a.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
Decision what I'm going to do.
Speaker 3 (11:44):
Uh again, I have one satsuma that has very definitely
started to do a very nice leaf drop. My other one,
of course, it's the one that was my dad's, is
I'm having the most trouble with, and which really upsets me.
I have a hamling sweet orange planet. Separately. It's gone.
(12:05):
I can already tell you that it's gone. But again,
March fifteenth, even April first, we'll be able to give
you a much.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
More definite answer.
Speaker 3 (12:17):
I'll wait to live, Okay, no pruning, no fertilization until
even once you see little sprouts of green coming out.
Let's wait till we actually get some leaves on those
trees before we actually start doing either of those.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
Got your buddy, all right, good luck, Claude.
Speaker 3 (12:32):
We're all in the same boat and it's sinking. Yes,
we just need to be patient.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
I think you're right.
Speaker 5 (12:39):
Okay, I have a good day.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
You too. Bye bye.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
My name is Butch Drew's with me is Chris Herman
from Klegg's Nursery.
Speaker 4 (12:44):
Seeking Lane location. Good morning, head and shoulders the best location.
Thanks appreciate that just because of you. That's pretty much sane.
I knew it was one of y'all. Braiden has nothing
to do with it.
Speaker 3 (12:55):
No anyway, good conversation during the first break. There are
some cold issues on some citrus, which we are anybody
that has citrus plant is dealing with meant to tell Claude.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
I think it was uh.
Speaker 3 (13:12):
I think the kumquat's going I have a neighbor that
has a kum quiet It is right up next to
her house.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
I think they're gonna be.
Speaker 3 (13:18):
Okay, this cold snapp may have gotten sat soon as
though I'm just really good.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
I didn't realize.
Speaker 4 (13:26):
I don't know if most people know out there in
radio land that I actually lived down in New Orleans,
outside of New Orleans, so.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
We didn't get as cold as Baton Rouge.
Speaker 4 (13:33):
But Tom kept saying that we got down to seven,
which we broke a record, which when we get down
to seven, there's not much that's going to survive. So again,
I had said it earlier. I thought New Orleans got eight.
I'll have to check again, but I thought I got
twenty one, where I was, oh wow, we got down eight.
Speaker 3 (13:53):
Okay, maybe maybe it was snow. Maybe you got eight. Sorry,
I'm old and seen now, but I do it well.
But we didn't get asked cold. In fact, I heard
that the New Iberia area, New Iberia and Appollusis got
two degrees, which is unbelievable. I mean I looked at
my thermometer when I got up that morning and I
had a tent on it, so I know we got
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to ten. So yeah, that's that's cold, ladies and gentlemen,
because no, it had been colder then. Oh, I thought,
because of how cold she is.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
Oh, I'm in trouble.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
Anybody you do realize we're on the air right now.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
Anybody got spare room?
Speaker 8 (14:34):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (14:35):
A couple other things that are going to pop up
because of this cold snap that I've actually had.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
An email about already is.
Speaker 3 (14:46):
Especially with the warmer temperatures we're getting, we're gonna have
brown patch running rampant in our lawns.
Speaker 2 (14:51):
I saw something the other day.
Speaker 3 (14:53):
And the worst part about it is the cold and
the snow put our lawns and for the most part
in the dormancy. I'm still surprised. I still actually have
some green Saint Augustine, which shocks me. But it's going
to be difficult to tell that you have brown patch
until your lawn does start to green up, and it
doesn't green up. So my recommendation, and you can disagree
(15:17):
with me if you'd like to, but you'd be wrong,
is if you've had a history of brown patch in
your lawn, run by Clegs as soon as possible, pick
up one. There's three products that they sell. Two of them,
I think you sell on liquid and granule. One only
(15:38):
in a granular form.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
F stop the liquid systemic funge aside.
Speaker 3 (15:42):
Right, and then you have infuse infuse in a granule
and don't you what's the disease act. I would recommend
a granule because we are trying to prevent it, and
I think the granule gives you a longer control than
a liquid. Typically I recommend a liquid when they come
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in with active brown patch.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
Correct.
Speaker 3 (16:08):
But yeah, if you've had any history with brown patch
in your lawn, let's do a preventative control asap. You know,
what was the old was it minor key? The transmission
people pay me now or pay me later type thing?
Speaker 2 (16:22):
Something like that.
Speaker 3 (16:24):
You know, just a little bit of maintenance goes a
long way and will not cautioneer as much as it
will if you start to get active brown patch. Another
thing in lawns. Your lawn has been weakened, not only
by the cold, but by all the moisture is not
good for lawns. And you know what happens when your
lawn's weak.
Speaker 4 (16:44):
Goes dormant weeds?
Speaker 2 (16:48):
That too, Yeah, we have weeds all the time here.
Well that's true.
Speaker 4 (16:51):
Well maybe we have weak lawns all thisay o, Yeah,
we do have weeds popping up, especially broad leaf weeds,
so we highly reckomon mean, when.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
You say broad leaf weed, it's got a broad.
Speaker 3 (17:01):
Leaf assed as opposed to to a long thin blade.
So one would be like a like a flower weed,
like a leaf like a flower, and the other one
would be like a grass blade. Sure you're not, you're
not helping me broad broadly. The weed pertains to the
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way the venation in the leaf is the veins and
a leaf go out from a central point where a
grass is going to have parallel venation in it where
and because of that you need to use different weed controls.
Some weed controls are meant for vein patterns that spread,
and some we controls are meant for parallel the nation.
So look at you dropping science again. I know I'm sorry,
(17:50):
I actually paid attention in body. She was really cute.
Speaker 4 (17:55):
But but yeah, we do have what we call our
weed cocktail, which is a mixture of atrozine, weed free
zone and spreadersticker. It does an excellent job of preventing
as well as killing existing weeds. Atressine does an excellent
job on clover. I remember Scott used to tell me
just hold the bottle up.
Speaker 3 (18:15):
Yeah, that was our old say when we did the
radio more often together. And the neat thing about atrozine
and we do need to be very careful with using
atresine underneath trees. It is one of the chemicals that
we still sell that does have some soil activity to it,
and the benefit of that is it is an excellent
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pre emergent for grassy weeds, meaning it kills grass seeds,
which brings me to another point. If you think you're
going to be receding your lawn for any reason this spring,
you do not want to use the atrosine in the
weed cocktail. But one of the biggest weed issues we
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have down here is what we call blue annual bluegrass
or poets them, and atrazine will knock those seeds out
and you will not have any issue whatsoever. So again,
going back, like we talked with the brown patch, a
little bit of prevention can prevent a lot of weeds.
The other thing I noticed the other day we actually
went to Burden. We had our daughters dealing with four children,
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and after the snow, she was about to go crazy.
So we took three of the four to Burden. They
have a really nice little children's walk. You can it's
actually they have little story books and you can the
kids can read the little story as they walk the trail.
It was really really nice. Anyway, I digress as normal
what I was there? They had stickers. Oh really yeah,
(19:44):
the stickers were starting to come up. So again the
weed cocktail excellent product to knock the stickers out before
the sticker, which is the seed is developed.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
So what you're.
Speaker 3 (19:55):
Looking for in your lawn I always call it easter grass.
It's a real light, little fuzzy grass. Yes, bright green,
bright green. So yeah, that's something that you can control
right now. Very definitely is stickers. Again, what were the
three products and why are the three products?
Speaker 4 (20:12):
Atrazine is going to be a pre emergent. It does
have some post emergent qualities and when I say pre emergent,
that's going to prevent weeds from German aiding. So that's
not going to kill if it says pre emergent is
not going to kill the existing weeds. But it does
have some post emergion qualities, which post immersion is it
kills the weed that's already up, that emerged emerged, So
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that's that's high yield atrazine. Then we have the fertile
o and weed free zone which is contains trimec and
that's going to be a post emergent. And then spreader stickers.
Some people may say, oh, you're just trying to upsell
me on something, but it actually performs a very very good, yeah,
very important job in that it makes those products, the
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atrozine and the weed free zone work better.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
It makes it stick to the leaf well. And I
always if it's just interesting.
Speaker 3 (21:04):
I just got a text from Benny's car wash, which
I use all the time.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
When I go through Benny's.
Speaker 3 (21:11):
The only thing I don't like is I do the
thing where they do the whole spray wax thing. Is
I have to get out and wipe my windshield because
the water will beat up on the wind shield and
run off. Well, if a lot of your weeds, especially
dollar weed is a good example, have that waxy I
think it's called cuticle layer right on the surface. Well,
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that's what happens when you spread it with a weed
killer with because you're spraying water to get the weed
killer out there, it just rolls off right where spreadersticker
adheres it to it. It's like a as the water
droplet on the leaf and it'll just roll off. Whereas
that's surfactant, the spreader sticker will make it spread, it'll break.
Speaker 4 (21:50):
That one will spread it and stick it. No, it
just sticks it and spreads it.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
You're learning way too well.
Speaker 3 (21:57):
I don't know if I like you that way anyway,
give us a call four nine five two six. That's
four nine nine WJBO get you put smack dab on
top of our list. Anything else we talked about Florida.
You got a couple of new Diplodini's coming in? Any
new products?
Speaker 4 (22:15):
New products you threw me there. I'm sorry, I haven't
been in the store for like a week. I haven't
really seen any new products. No, but we were talking
about grass. I'm gona change the sub chef and weeds,
you know, there are people that start coming in, especially
in February, mid to late February, asking for a fertilizer.
Speaker 2 (22:33):
Really not the best time to fertilize.
Speaker 4 (22:35):
You know, the grass is browned for a reason because
we got down to seven degrees, so it's dormant. You
want it to come out of dormancy. You don't want
to force it out of dormancy.
Speaker 3 (22:44):
And I mean to interrupt you, because your point is
very good. But the way I always say it is
nobody eats when they sleep except for my son.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
Yes, I have heard that.
Speaker 4 (22:54):
Thing before, So I just want to make sure people
know by all means come by, you know, buy your fertilize,
but don't put it out right now.
Speaker 2 (23:01):
I mean it might be mid to late March before
we need to be fertilized. In even April. I mean,
what is green in your lawn right now?
Speaker 3 (23:07):
The weeds, right So if you put out a fertilizer
right now, you're fertilizing your weeds and they're going to
be sitting there.
Speaker 2 (23:12):
Going yay, let's grow faster.
Speaker 4 (23:15):
And now people are out there saying, how come he
has weeds in his lawn when he sells the product,
just like a carpenter house has never done. And the
gardener's a nursery manager's yard is full of weeds.
Speaker 3 (23:26):
Right or what is something about a cobbler son has
no shoes? Yeah, so but yeah, we control uh and
it's actually on my list about fertilization is we just
don't want to do. And the same thing with Shrewberry.
We had a great first half of the show. Let's
make it an excellent second half the show by giving
us a call six it's four nine nine WJBO.
Speaker 4 (23:48):
What's on your list over there? Pretty much done and
there goes the show. Yeah, well, we never had much
of one anyway, so it can't go much further down.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
I guess it could maybe, But.
Speaker 3 (24:01):
We had just briefly touched on fertilization of shrubbery. Two
things I really want to cover here is one fertilization.
I think it's too early. Definitely, we don't want to
spur new growth catch another mid march cold snap that
burns all that off. We definitely don't want to fertilize
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as alias because it'll put out growth that's going to
hide the blooms.
Speaker 4 (24:25):
What do you think about pruning? I would hold off?
Agreed again as we told Claude you want to be patient.
I mean, you may be cutting off something you think
is dead and it's not dead, but it's also going
to spur new growth. And if, like you said, if
we have a late frost or freeze, it's going to
damage that growth.
Speaker 3 (24:43):
So let's wait, right, I think that's the most important part.
Is pruning and fertilization both spur new growth, and we
just don't want that right now. Right, Let's check go
check on Wallace, and I think he has a question
about what we're just talking about. Good morning, Wallace, Welcome
to News Radio eleven to fifty jbo's Lawn and Garden Show.
Speaker 2 (25:01):
What can we help you with?
Speaker 3 (25:03):
Thank you?
Speaker 7 (25:04):
Answer just then a lot of it, but it comes
down to some of it looks so sad. These are
fairly recently planted, like small azaleas, Amelia's ripped roses. Is
there something we can put on on that isn't high
and night for tim.
Speaker 2 (25:22):
Such as there's no need. There's really no need.
Speaker 3 (25:26):
Well, I know you're wanting to do something as a
feel good, but the plants, the plants are fine there,
especially the roses. You know, roses for the most part
should defoliate they are, but with our temperatures here they
typically don't. In fact, that's why a lot of times
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will prune roses here harder than we do in other
parts of the country because we want to actually force
a little bit of rest on them. So the roses,
I'm not concerned about all. What you're seeing on azalea's
and even some of the sussanquis can is you're just
seeing some burn on the outermost foliage. It's kind of
like you know that first bright spring day when we
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rip our shirt off and run out, and then we
go the next day we realize we have a sunburn. Well,
the same thing, except it's cold on your shrubbery. As
Chris was just saying, very very correctly, we don't that's
still serving as an insulation or a protection for that plant.
So we really don't want to cut it off just
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yet for two reasons. One is it's serving it's serving
a purpose as a protection. Then also, once we start
that pruning process, it's going to spur on more growth,
so that growth is going to be extremely tender, and
very likely we're going to have another hard frost. I
can I don't bet, I don't bet. But if I
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was a betting man, I'd probably put my house on that.
So we don't want that frost or hard coal snap
to then kill off all that new growth because that's
a lot of energy that PA put out, and if
we do that enough times, that plant may not be
able to recover.
Speaker 2 (27:06):
So I know it's difficult to do.
Speaker 3 (27:09):
One of the things I tell people is don't prune
anything back. And I understand why she did it. My
wife went out and there was a couple of little
areas just right at the front of the house that
plants that, you know, some of her perennial plants, and
she went in and pruned them down, which you know,
she mulched over the top of them with some pine strass.
Speaker 2 (27:26):
So it's not horrible. But now, if at all possible.
Speaker 3 (27:29):
You know, when you drive in the driveway, look the
other way, so you don't see them for another month
or so. But yeah, let's wait till i'd say, middle
of March, Chris, get the end of March, yes, okay,
so yeah, just just be patient.
Speaker 2 (27:41):
Wallace.
Speaker 7 (27:43):
Well, I can remember in the past, late February early
March we get a freeze and they talk about the
peach farmers up in the police pianos, you know, killing
off the buds for peachers, you know.
Speaker 2 (27:56):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, same thing.
Speaker 3 (27:59):
So, yeah, fertilization, you know, mid March, end of March
this year, and it is going to be very important
because the plants were damaged that I don't think the
plants that you mentioned are in any real danger of dying.
But yes, they they you know, they they caught a virus.
Speaker 2 (28:19):
Let's put it that way.
Speaker 3 (28:21):
We're gonna need to give them something to recover from
that virus, which would be the fertilization. But let's do
that again mid to end of March and at that
and you can prune and fertilize at the same time.
Speaker 7 (28:31):
Then sound good.
Speaker 2 (28:34):
Thank you.
Speaker 3 (28:34):
I would suggest pruning with your right hand and fertilizing
with your left hand at the same time.
Speaker 7 (28:40):
I wish I were that.
Speaker 2 (28:42):
Yeah, I didn't forget me doing that.
Speaker 3 (28:44):
Anyway, Thanks for the call, and that does open up
phone lines right now four nine five two six, that's
for nine nine WJBO.
Speaker 4 (28:51):
One of the things that he mentioned was the the peaches,
which the last two years actually we've had customers come
in asking why their citrus has bloomed well, that's the
exact reason. Because you know, we may be warm for
five or six days, and when I say warm, we're
what eighty something today. The plant thinks, Oh it's it's spring.
I'm gonna leaf out and I'm gonna bloom.
Speaker 2 (29:12):
Have you seen all the Taiwan cherries starting around town?
Speaker 5 (29:14):
No?
Speaker 2 (29:15):
I have not.
Speaker 4 (29:15):
Yeah, Well, so if we have a frost or freeze,
it's gonna damage. That doesn't mean it's gonna kill your plant.
You're just not gonna have flowers, which in turn they
turn into the fruit.
Speaker 3 (29:25):
And the other thing, especially with citrus, is that bud
and even on all of your trees, that bud starts
out as an embryo. And that's not an embryo, but
I'm gonna use that word in the stem. And if
it gets cold enough, it's killed in the stem before
it even comes out. It doesn't have to actually be
out and blooming to get killed. And that's what happens,
and that's what has happened. Even if your citrus tree
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makes it this year, you're not gonna have citrus. You're
not gonna have fruit. Correct, You're not gonna have citrus.
So we got another collar about citrus.
Speaker 2 (29:53):
I believe. Let's go to Lee.
Speaker 3 (29:54):
Good morning, Lee, Welcome to news Radio eleven fifty wjbo's
Launa Garden Show.
Speaker 2 (29:58):
What can we do for you today?
Speaker 6 (30:01):
He's just tuned in. I got a two year old,
and some of that pretty much looks like could be dead.
I'm just wondering, do I let it go.
Speaker 2 (30:10):
A little while?
Speaker 3 (30:11):
Yes, two year old Satsuma, I'm going to be totally
honest with you. I don't think you're gonna have much
of a hope with it, but I'm going to tell
you i'd recommend don't do anything at least to the
end of this month. Chris is and I agree. I
don't disagree with him. I think he's correct. He's saying
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mid March, even end of March. But yeah, two year
old Satsuma, I don't know where you where You're located
in a batner, Jerry. I'm in Prairieville. I got ten degrees.
They're just not gonna make that.
Speaker 6 (30:47):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (30:48):
Well, but but if you want.
Speaker 3 (30:50):
We recommend let's just hold off end of this month.
Is the tree holding its leaves or is it dropping
them right now?
Speaker 2 (30:58):
They hold him.
Speaker 3 (31:00):
That's not a good sign. That's that's not good at all.
We as as we talked about a little bit earlier.
I know you just checked in, so we'll give you
an update.
Speaker 2 (31:08):
But it takes energy for a tree to drop leaves.
Speaker 3 (31:12):
If your tree does not have enough energy to drop
those leaves, it's probably does not have enough energy to regenerate.
So yeah, if you don't start seeing leaf drop in
the next week, that's even even a worse sign. But yeah,
I wouldn't do anything till the first of March. Chris
is recommending even a couple weeks later than that.
Speaker 6 (31:32):
So if I would have covered it.
Speaker 3 (31:36):
I saved that. I saved, Yes, very definitely. I saved
a lemon tree. My wife has a small lemon tree
out in the yard, and we got out there with
freeze cloth purchased at Clegg's Nursery, got it draped all
the way down to the ground. I have an old
fashioned trouble light with an incandescent bulb.
Speaker 2 (31:54):
We stuck it in there.
Speaker 3 (31:55):
That thing ran for a week and we took the
cover off. I guess last week in that tree is
just as nice as when we covered it up.
Speaker 2 (32:02):
So yeah, covering just lee.
Speaker 3 (32:06):
I'm gonna take a couple of minutes of your time here,
and I appreciate your call very much, and I'm not harping.
But so often people think, oh, let me just put
a cover over the plant, like they're putting on a jacket. Well,
you and I and Chris, we put on jackets because
we're trapping our body heat.
Speaker 2 (32:24):
We're mammals. We create our own heat.
Speaker 3 (32:27):
I mean, our body temperatures are ninety eight point whatever
degrees unless we have a fever. Well, we generate that heat.
So when we cover up with when you get in
bed and the sheets are nice and cold, and then
ten minutes later they're warm, they just didn't warm up
all on their own. Your body warmed those up, unless,
of course, you have an electric blanket.
Speaker 2 (32:48):
Plants can't do that. They don't create their own heat.
Speaker 3 (32:52):
So when we cover them, unless we put either trap
the Earth's heat by securing it tightly to the ground
or put an incandescent light bulb or some other type
of heat source in there, the temperature inside that cover
is exactly the same as outside that cover. Now, we
did get a little benefit this year from the snow.
The snow actually served as an insulation and actually kept
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the temperatures not as cold inside but again, covering with
a heat source would have protected that tree.
Speaker 6 (33:22):
Yes, all right, well I appreciate.
Speaker 2 (33:26):
All right, thank you Lee.
Speaker 3 (33:28):
And that does open up phone lines right now FOI
for nine nine WJBO.
Speaker 4 (33:34):
Another thing, the gentleman that called earlier was mentioning his roses,
his drift roses. But they're losing their leaves. They don't
look very good. There's not a rose in town, not
even at Legs. But if you wait till the middle
of the week. Yes, I was told we're getting a
new shipment of drift roses that actually have foliage and
blooms on them.
Speaker 2 (33:53):
But they were beautiful.
Speaker 3 (33:55):
But they're also coming out of what mid southern Florida, correct,
so hopefully we won't have that they crossed to freeze,
you know, And I'm going to We try our best.
I mean, this show is based on Cleg's nursery. All
of the hosts for the most part, sometimes Bill comes
in ground Tree, but are associated with Clegs nursery. And
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we try our best not to make this a commercial
for Clex. We want this to be an informative hour
every morning. Yes, we do rerect, we do inroduce ourselves
from cleg nursery. But one of the things that I
was very impressed after this freeze, the effort that all
of them, well I've only been to Segen Lane, but
I'm going to say the effort of Segan Lane and
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I'm sure the other nurseries to get everything covered. And
I had somebody say when I was there, because they
were pulling the covers.
Speaker 2 (34:46):
Off, well why did they cover? You?
Speaker 3 (34:47):
Said, all these plants would be just fine. So well,
two reasons they covered. One is these plants at the
nursery are in containers where their root system is above ground.
If that container were to freeze, there's no moisture because
it's frozen, those plants can actually die of dehydration.
Speaker 2 (35:07):
Said.
Speaker 3 (35:07):
The other thing is when this is all over, you
don't want to come in here and buy a brown plant.
Right And by y'all covering iman, y'all did an excellent
job putting the covers over, I think with sand bags
or send them a lot of sand bags y'all put
around to get the ground control. But the benefit this time,
and I think Tom and I talked about it a
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little down our clegs talking about was the snow served
when they pulled those tarps off, those plants look just
as good as when they put it on.
Speaker 4 (35:35):
And again, like you said earlier, it worked as an
insulator and held in that heat.
Speaker 2 (35:40):
Yep.
Speaker 3 (35:41):
Let's go to line one and John, Good morning, John,
Welcome to news radio eleven fifty wjbo's Lone Garden Show.
Speaker 2 (35:47):
What can we do for you today?
Speaker 8 (35:49):
Yes, I was listening to the radio just recently and
you talk about pruning, and somebody had told me a
long time ago that your prune knockout roses, Balente Day
week or what in that.
Speaker 6 (36:02):
Area time wise.
Speaker 3 (36:03):
That's that's Sebruary fourteenth is is that that's correct? And
I tell people I'm old and seen now, but I
do it extremely well.
Speaker 2 (36:11):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (36:12):
I use holidays as reminders of when to do things
in my yard. In Valentine's Day roses, that's when I
normally prune my roses.
Speaker 1 (36:19):
So yes, okay, you cut them back pretty good.
Speaker 3 (36:23):
Or depending on what type on your drift or knockout roses,
you typically want to cut them. The drift rose is
what would say twelve inches really depends on how tall
you want them to get. I mean, if you want
to cut them back hard and keep them twelve to eighteen,
but they're going to get what eighteen to twenty four, right,
so probably in half. But exactly what I was about say,
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typically on drifts, you want to go about in half.
On knockouts, I'd probably bring the plant down to about
twelve to eighteen inches, but yeah, drifts go about half.
Speaker 2 (36:54):
Good. Thank you very much, apreciate I appreciate your call
very much.
Speaker 3 (36:59):
John Patrick, Good morning, Welcome to news radio eleven to
fifty wjbo's Lawn and Garden Show.
Speaker 2 (37:04):
What can we do for you today?
Speaker 1 (37:06):
Question about potted roses, I believe in a knockout, it's
been so long. But anyway, the best time to plant
them in the ground.
Speaker 3 (37:16):
You can well, I think you're soil moisture right now
would be fine. So right now is actually an excellent
time to plant any type of trees and shrubs. We're
summertime for us is our stress time where we have
to get out there in water. So the further away
from that stress that you plant, the more time that
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plant has to get root system out so it can
get established so it can make it through those stress
times with less help from you.
Speaker 2 (37:44):
But no, I think I would agree with you. I
would plant right.
Speaker 3 (37:48):
Now yeah, y'all got all your hybrid t roses and
all in at Clegg's.
Speaker 2 (37:53):
I believe it's about a week and a half ago. Pot.
Speaker 3 (37:55):
Okay, so they have a great selection. Like you said,
they have some roses coming in from Florida that are
in foliage and bloom. You do have drift and knockouts
in stock. They may hybrid teas. Yeah, so yeah, it's
a great time to plant right now.
Speaker 5 (38:12):
Okay, Well, thanks very much.
Speaker 2 (38:14):
All right, And you know.
Speaker 3 (38:16):
It's kind of funny we get not a lot, but
every Valentine's Day we get people come, you know, gentlemen
coming in the store going, I want some roses. Well,
we don't sell those type, you know, especially when we
bring them out and show all these prune back bushes,
like that's not what I want.
Speaker 2 (38:34):
But you know, I am a rose that keeps on blooming,
that keeps on the rose that keeps on blooming.
Speaker 5 (38:40):
You know.
Speaker 3 (38:41):
You know, people some people give knockouts a bad name
because they're not the lollipop rose.
Speaker 2 (38:47):
You know, they're not that big hybrid tea on the thing.
Speaker 3 (38:50):
You could put a knockout rose as long as you
have a sunny area, put it in a fourteen inch pot,
Keep it water, keep it fertilized. It'll give you the
double red knockout is a pretty bloom. It's not real large,
but it's still a nice bloom. And you can cut
those and put them in vases.
Speaker 4 (39:05):
And I hate to say they bloom all the time,
but they bloom all the time.
Speaker 2 (39:09):
Time.
Speaker 4 (39:11):
You'll have your peaks and valleys, but they're constantly blooming.
Speaker 2 (39:14):
Very yeah, they cycle through bloom.
Speaker 3 (39:16):
And you know, one of the things that keep them
going is you know, again they seem to have blooms
on them all the time. But when you get out
of that peak bloom and you got a bunch of
the old blooms on there, give them a little light
haircut at that point definitely helps them. Throw a little
fertilizer on there. Do you have a specific recommendation for
roses as far as fertilization.
Speaker 4 (39:37):
We actually have that rose food, that fertile and rose food,
which is excellent, or really anything with a high high
first number is going to give your green growth and
then that middle numbers for your flowers.
Speaker 2 (39:47):
But that rose food is an excellent one.
Speaker 4 (39:49):
We even have the one that has systemic insecticide in it,
which will help with with your bugs, your thrips and
aphids cool.
Speaker 3 (39:57):
Especially aphids to sit the bag out there and they die.
Uh two six that's four nine nine and w J
b O. We do have a few minutes left in
the show. If you have any questions. Dimension I know
I have it, but it's dementia.
Speaker 4 (40:18):
Oh I told you, Uh, you're right, surely needs to
test you. I'd fail always dimension. Dimension is a pre
emergent herbicide for your lawn? What about our beds? You
just cannot use it in your vegetable guard do we
have do y'all have something as a pre emergent for vegetables.
(40:39):
We carry the Prene product which contains tref land, which
we also have the high Eel tref Land that you
can use in your vegetables.
Speaker 3 (40:46):
Again, it's the difference. What's the difference in what between
the high Field and the Prene I think it's just
a name, isn't it?
Speaker 2 (40:55):
Correct?
Speaker 4 (40:57):
They didn't catch Yeah, Highland is going to be a
cheaper product.
Speaker 2 (41:03):
It's exactly the same product. It's the same product, but
it's less expensive.
Speaker 3 (41:07):
But it's not in you know, it doesn't have full
page advertising in Southern Living, correct, So Yeah, what is.
Speaker 2 (41:14):
It called tref land?
Speaker 4 (41:15):
Now you think it's herbicide granules.
Speaker 3 (41:18):
Yes, that's what it is. That is an excellent product
for vegetable gardens. It's got a pretty extensive label, so strong.
We always recommend reading labels, but especially on that one
because some of your crops you need to apply before
planting and some crops you do apply after. But it
is an excellent product, especially if you have issues with
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any of the grassy weeds.
Speaker 2 (41:42):
In your vegetable guarden. It is just fabulous.
Speaker 3 (41:45):
Johnny Naylor, the vegetable expert in Baton Rouge, who thankfully
is on Clegg's staff at Seagan Lane, highly recommends that product,
very very highly recommends it. Hey, well we have another
quick caller. Let's make sure he has time, so let's
go to Sedrick and Baton Ridge. What can we do
for you today, Cedric?
Speaker 6 (42:03):
Hey, how's it going?
Speaker 1 (42:05):
I got a young, big tree, it's maybe been planted
a couple of years in my backyard and when I
prune it, can I.
Speaker 2 (42:15):
Root the cutting very easily? Yes?
Speaker 6 (42:19):
How would I do that?
Speaker 2 (42:20):
Are you?
Speaker 3 (42:21):
Basically when you make that cut, make sure that cutting
is what we call healed over or calloused over, so
it's not moist you want to take it.
Speaker 2 (42:29):
And I know this may sound.
Speaker 3 (42:30):
Stupid, but if you cut several sections out, make sure
that you put the part of the stick that was
closest to the ground in the ground buried about If
you have a six inch stick buried about two inches,
it's going to root for you and you're gonna have
more fig trees than you ever know what to do with.
Speaker 1 (42:48):
Okay, so don't put them in the dirt till after
it seals over.
Speaker 6 (42:52):
How long that takes?
Speaker 2 (42:53):
Oh no, typically two or three days at the most.
Speaker 1 (42:56):
Okay, So all right, well that sounds like I got
some big trees coming. All right, the tree, I mean,
she's talking about wanting to cut it to the nub onmost.
Speaker 3 (43:07):
No, No, you don't want to cut it down that much.
I typically wouldn't cut more than half off.
Speaker 1 (43:14):
Half of everything.
Speaker 5 (43:16):
All right, Well, I'll throw that out.
Speaker 2 (43:18):
There too, so she goes for She's not. Don't worry,
it'll grow back anyway.
Speaker 6 (43:22):
I know that they're pretty proficient.
Speaker 2 (43:24):
That it will.
Speaker 3 (43:25):
All right, great phone call, and we're up against the
end of the show. Anything you want to comment on
criticize me about that would take up at least to me,
we could do a whole nother show. Valentine's Days coming up.
Excellent selection of house plants. I noticed the other day
when I was in the store.
Speaker 4 (43:46):
I've been getting more in again on this these Florida trucks,
so it should be in some more.
Speaker 3 (43:52):
I kind of enjoy coming in as a customer. You do, yes,
if I can fire you, I think you did. But
but we have plenty of roses, beautiful roses. Again, why
by just a bouquet when you give them a rose,
that will give them plenty.
Speaker 2 (44:06):
And hanging baskets. Hanging baskets, that's an excellent little gift.
Speaker 3 (44:10):
Yes, especially if somebody's like got a in an apartment
or a condo, you know, tell us, okay, I have
I face West. Okay, well here's some sun baskets for you.
And Color Divisions got some of their mixed baskets, and
I'm sure, yes, okay, excellent, you know, lots of little.
Speaker 2 (44:27):
Color to them.
Speaker 4 (44:28):
The thing with with hanging baskets, it's kind of silly.
Most people don't realize this. But if you want something
to put in a pot that's already mature, no, Chris,
just take the hangar off. It's called a hanging basket. Yeah,
it doesn't have to hang. Why don't we have to
put things in a box. It's easier to carry that way.
Speaker 2 (44:48):
Is that music I hear?
Speaker 3 (44:49):
Yes, ah, we do appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (44:53):
We are Cleg's Nursing Baton Ridge.
Speaker 3 (44:55):
We have four locations in the greater Baton Rouge area,
Seagan Lane, the Best Store of Don Moore in mid city,
Greenwald Springs near Sherwood Forest Boulevard, and our Denim store
close to Magnoy Bridge Road on Highway sixteen. We're here
every Saturday morning from eight to nine to hopefully entertain
you and teach you a thing or two, because y'all
teach us a lot more than that. So again, my
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name is Butch. I'm with Chris Herman from Clegg's Nursery.
We are the independent Garden Center in Baton Ridge. We
are Clegg's Nursery. We will see you next Saturday morning
at eight o'clock.
Speaker 2 (45:26):
Have a great week.
Speaker 3 (45:28):
Happy Valentine's Day to everyone,
Good Saturday morning, and welcome to the WGBO lun and
Garden Show, brought to.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
You by Cleg's Nursery. If you have a question about
seasonal planting, lon and garden concerns or questions.
Speaker 3 (00:14):
About landscaping, call four nine nine WGBO.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
That's four nine nine six.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
Good morning, Baton Rouge, and welcome to news radio eleven
fifty wjbo's Lawn and Garden Show. I'm gonna have to
apologize I'm a bit foggy this morning.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Good morning, Chris, Good morning, butch how are you excellent?
Speaker 4 (00:35):
Very very good? Actually it is very foggy. Yeah, I
believe I text you that I thought I was going.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
To be late. Yeah, I did get that text just now.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
But anyway, we will be here, hopefully for the next hour,
unless they finally get smart and take us off the air,
which I'm shocked they haven't done up.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
To this point. Where's that button? Oh there is one,
isn't there?
Speaker 5 (00:56):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (00:57):
Give us call four nine that's nine nine w JBO.
A lot of us are as confused as about which
is a record sending hot temperatures in less than two weeks,
So I'm sure grab your favorite morning beverage. Walk around
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the yard, bring your cell phone with you. Give a
call again. That's for nine nine w JBO.
Speaker 4 (01:25):
What was it like a week and a half ago?
I was in a parka and now I'm in shorts?
Is it a parka in Florida? What a PoCA?
Speaker 2 (01:36):
That's it? Out of Parker? Okay? Sorry? An animal? There
is that? An animal? That's wrong. That's a different radio station,
different show. Okay.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
I was speaking of Florida, speaking of Florida. Just returned
from Florida trip. You and Zane had a good binding experience.
Got to do a lot to improve Segan Laney brainstorming.
Speaker 4 (02:01):
I think that's called have already received a truck, received
one yesterday. Should have a good selection of beautiful Boston
sword ferns, hibiscus, the dipladinia and mandevilla which a little
too small, but beautiful hibiscus coming in. Hopefully they got
it around yesterday. If not, we'll get it around today.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
They got some around yesterday. I got a couple of
phone calls with some of what I'm doing. Did y'all
get any of the I don't know if I think
on the sheet it was called fourteen inch, but I
still call them seven gallon hibiscus.
Speaker 4 (02:33):
If it was fourteen inch, Yes, okay, they were a
little small, but they were pretty.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
I remember them from last year.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
Those were just fabulous to some of the seven gallons
y'all got in. So anything new maybe not necessarily on that.
Now on this load.
Speaker 4 (02:46):
There's a few different colors of Dipladinia coming out, but
that'll be later this spring. Wasn't there one that was
kind of a lavender. I think they call it a blue,
but I agree with you, it's more like a purplish
purplish blue.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
Yeah. Yeah, Now our color division grew that last year.
Speaker 4 (03:02):
Yeah, so we had them last year, but most of
the growers in Florida are just now getting them. Okay,
So hopefully again later this spring we should have those.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
That was a very interesting color. I'm not a huge
Diplodenia fan. They have some issues that I'm not fond of,
but that particular one tempted me.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
So yes, no, it was nice. Okay.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
So nothing else really new and exciting in the future
out of Florida.
Speaker 4 (03:27):
Not at this time. It's more the more the same.
We did get some Japanese us. It's kind of funny
when I go there. They you know, they refer to
them as potocarpus, which that's their botanical name. And I'm
looking all over it's like, I don't want Japanese you,
but we have a good selection of Japanese you coming
in a bunch of good stuff at the nursery today.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
Have you seen that's a plant that can suffer some
cold damage? Are you noticing any of that around town?
I have seen some damage.
Speaker 4 (03:57):
Most of the damage that I see is actually caused
by what I would say over pruning. I mean, if
you prune it late in the summer in the fall,
you're going to get some new growth, especially with the
warm weather we had, and that new growth is what
I saw got damaged. Did you see anything else That's
pretty much what I'm seeing too. I've seen a lot
of material that has been a lot of bamboo that's
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browned out, but that's going to come back. A lot
of one of the things that beautiful.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
Right down by where I live in Prairieville, I have
a little gas station that did just a beautiful patio
tree Japanese blueberries.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
It got it got them bad.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
I hope they come back for the poor people, because
they were just gorgeous.
Speaker 4 (04:42):
Yeah, what everyone needs to realize, you know, because we
sell a lot of frost cover winter cloth, which.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
Actually the snow helped, yes, very much so.
Speaker 4 (04:51):
But it doesn't matter how Sometimes it doesn't matter how
much you try and protect a plant. If it gets
that cold, it's going to damage our plants.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
Right. The winter cloth can only do so much.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
But you know, actually, as you were saying, the snow
actually served as an insulation on top of that.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
So anyway, let's go to Dale.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
Good morning, Dale, Welcome to news radio eleven to fifty
WJB is on and Garden Show.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
What can we do for you? Dale?
Speaker 1 (05:14):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Good morning guys. How y'all going fantastic now that you've called.
Speaker 6 (05:20):
I'm actually fixing go up to Cleggs and I'm gonna
buy some raised bead blend. And I was wondering what
would y'all recommend, like as far as fertilizer or amendments.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
What do you add to it? Are you doing a
vegetable gardener? What are you doing vegetables?
Speaker 3 (05:36):
I personally love two products that we sell, and the
fertilizer i'd recommend is Gardener Special. That's a good complete
eleven fifteen eleven. You want to get those second two
numbers worked into the soil because they don't move through
the soil very well. But the two products I love
the most are chicken nour and now falfa humate. Those
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are my to go to adis anytime I'm dealing with
especially if you're going to raise the beds at all.
They just a chicken manure is an excellent organic nitrogen source.
The alfalfa humate. The alfalfa is an excellent fertilizer, and
the hummate is actually humatic acid, which gets your microorganism's
all excited to break down your soil and to release
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the nutrientsitor there. But I think you have a different favorite.
If I'm not mistaken, well I would.
Speaker 4 (06:26):
If he's getting raised bed blend, I'd highly recommend mixing some.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
Peat moss in there. Good. Yes, raise raised bed blends
an excellent mix.
Speaker 4 (06:33):
And it's just what it's forward, so it's raised bed
or planters, so it allows good drainage, but it almost
raine drains too much, So I highly recommend put in
peat moss. I like black cow calmineur. It's an excellent
chicken maneuver is good. You have to be careful with
chicken manure because it can be hot. But I really
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like the black cow.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
I actually did that on purpose because I knew you
were going to do that, because I agree completely with Chris.
The peat moss is very important, and also the black COUTU.
There's a my wife follows are on Facebook or whatever.
That's a big, huge component of Blackout. It is an
excellent product too, So any of those are all of
those mixed together would be great for you.
Speaker 6 (07:17):
Dale, all right, sounds good. I appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
I tell you what when you I don't know which
story you're going to. When you get there, mentions Chris's
name and they'll charge you double.
Speaker 6 (07:31):
I live closest to the Green Spring store. All right,
I'll probably see Scott in a little bit.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
Sounds great, Thanks Dale, all right, thank you? All all right?
Speaker 3 (07:39):
And that does open up phone lines right now? Four
two six, that's four nine nine WJBO.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
We'll get you.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
Put Smack Dab on top of our list right behind Claude.
Good morning, Claude, Welcome to news radio eleven fifty wjbo's
Lawn of Garden Show. What can we do for you?
Speaker 5 (07:54):
Well, I'll tell you, well, my citrus killing during the
during the freeze, after the snow. And I know you
guys asked, probably I answer this question before, But how long?
And the leaves are all brown on my sister's trees
I've had, I have a really nice I had a
really nice satsuma tree, and my kumquat trees were really
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pretty until the freeze.
Speaker 7 (08:17):
How long should I.
Speaker 5 (08:18):
Wait until I give up on them the Should I
wait to let the leaves fall the way off and
see if they spring back out? Or how long should
I wait before I just pull them up and start
all over again? Or should I wait for a couple
of months?
Speaker 3 (08:33):
Oh, I definitely We're going to wait, and do not
do any pruning, Do not do any fertilization, do not
do anything to try to stimulate the plant. In fact,
it's one of the notes I very seldom do I
actually bring notes to the show, but it's one of
the ones that I felt important about. A couple things
with citrus that are kind of unique to citrus. Most
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of the time, we can tell relatively quickly when a
plant has suffered cold damage, because all we got to
do is go scratch the stem, and if it's green,
we're good.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
If it's brown, we're dead.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
Well, citrus will hold that green color when you scratch
it for a long time even though the plants are dead.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
So that really doesn't work for us.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
What we what I'm looking for on my citrus at
home right now is what I call a shriveling, where
you actually start to notice the limbs get a very
a rougher texture to them, actually appear to be shriveling up.
That is a very bad sign. That is something we
do not want to see. And one of the things
that I wanted to discuss and actually is going to
(09:39):
bring up on the show is if your tree is
holding the brown leaves, that is very bad. If it
is starting to drop the leaves, you've got hope. Actually,
it's an interesting thing. One of my satsumas has started
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to drop this week. My other plants are not dropping yet.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
I'm not.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
Overly concerned at this point that they're not dropping, but
i'd like to see them, especially with the warmer temperatures
we're starting to get into, I'd like to see them
start to drop their leaves here.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
In the next week.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
A plant actually has to have energy to release those
dead leaves. If your plant does not have enough energy
in it to drop the dead leaves, it's dead. If
it has enough energy to drop those leaves, it hopefully
will still have enough energy to regenerate those new leaves.
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So that's kind of what we're looking at right now.
What would you say, Chris?
Speaker 4 (10:49):
Actually, I was just discussing with Holly yesterday because our
satsuma is dropping its leaves.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
I said, that's a good sign. That said very good sign.
Speaker 4 (10:56):
Doesn't mean it survived, It just means there's hope, right,
But again, we're just gonna wait and see if it
starts pushing out foliage, if it starts pushing out the
good they.
Speaker 5 (11:06):
Look terrible right now. You know, I've kind of I've
kind of got a bad feeling about them, but they've
several years old and they've made great through the last
several years, and you know.
Speaker 6 (11:20):
I hate see them go.
Speaker 5 (11:21):
But if they go, you know, and that's just Louise
in the weather for you know, what can I say?
Speaker 2 (11:26):
I've kind of circled.
Speaker 3 (11:30):
I've actually got a Florida trip with Clegg's at the
middle to end of March, and that's kind of my
circle date. I think when I get back from that trip,
I will make a.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
Decision what I'm going to do.
Speaker 3 (11:44):
Uh again, I have one satsuma that has very definitely
started to do a very nice leaf drop. My other one,
of course, it's the one that was my dad's, is
I'm having the most trouble with, and which really upsets me.
I have a hamling sweet orange planet. Separately. It's gone.
(12:05):
I can already tell you that it's gone. But again,
March fifteenth, even April first, we'll be able to give
you a much.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
More definite answer.
Speaker 3 (12:17):
I'll wait to live, Okay, no pruning, no fertilization until
even once you see little sprouts of green coming out.
Let's wait till we actually get some leaves on those
trees before we actually start doing either of those.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
Got your buddy, all right, good luck, Claude.
Speaker 3 (12:32):
We're all in the same boat and it's sinking. Yes,
we just need to be patient.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
I think you're right.
Speaker 5 (12:39):
Okay, I have a good day.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
You too. Bye bye.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
My name is Butch Drew's with me is Chris Herman
from Klegg's Nursery.
Speaker 4 (12:44):
Seeking Lane location. Good morning, head and shoulders the best location.
Thanks appreciate that just because of you. That's pretty much sane.
I knew it was one of y'all. Braiden has nothing
to do with it.
Speaker 3 (12:55):
No anyway, good conversation during the first break. There are
some cold issues on some citrus, which we are anybody
that has citrus plant is dealing with meant to tell Claude.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
I think it was uh.
Speaker 3 (13:12):
I think the kumquat's going I have a neighbor that
has a kum quiet It is right up next to
her house.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
I think they're gonna be.
Speaker 3 (13:18):
Okay, this cold snapp may have gotten sat soon as
though I'm just really good.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
I didn't realize.
Speaker 4 (13:26):
I don't know if most people know out there in
radio land that I actually lived down in New Orleans,
outside of New Orleans, so.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
We didn't get as cold as Baton Rouge.
Speaker 4 (13:33):
But Tom kept saying that we got down to seven,
which we broke a record, which when we get down
to seven, there's not much that's going to survive. So again,
I had said it earlier. I thought New Orleans got eight.
I'll have to check again, but I thought I got
twenty one, where I was, oh wow, we got down eight.
Speaker 3 (13:53):
Okay, maybe maybe it was snow. Maybe you got eight. Sorry,
I'm old and seen now, but I do it well.
But we didn't get asked cold. In fact, I heard
that the New Iberia area, New Iberia and Appollusis got
two degrees, which is unbelievable. I mean I looked at
my thermometer when I got up that morning and I
had a tent on it, so I know we got
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to ten. So yeah, that's that's cold, ladies and gentlemen,
because no, it had been colder then. Oh, I thought,
because of how cold she is.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
Oh, I'm in trouble.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
Anybody you do realize we're on the air right now.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
Anybody got spare room?
Speaker 8 (14:34):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (14:35):
A couple other things that are going to pop up
because of this cold snap that I've actually had.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
An email about already is.
Speaker 3 (14:46):
Especially with the warmer temperatures we're getting, we're gonna have
brown patch running rampant in our lawns.
Speaker 2 (14:51):
I saw something the other day.
Speaker 3 (14:53):
And the worst part about it is the cold and
the snow put our lawns and for the most part
in the dormancy. I'm still surprised. I still actually have
some green Saint Augustine, which shocks me. But it's going
to be difficult to tell that you have brown patch
until your lawn does start to green up, and it
doesn't green up. So my recommendation, and you can disagree
(15:17):
with me if you'd like to, but you'd be wrong,
is if you've had a history of brown patch in
your lawn, run by Clegs as soon as possible, pick
up one. There's three products that they sell. Two of them,
I think you sell on liquid and granule. One only
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in a granular form.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
F stop the liquid systemic funge aside.
Speaker 3 (15:42):
Right, and then you have infuse infuse in a granule
and don't you what's the disease act. I would recommend
a granule because we are trying to prevent it, and
I think the granule gives you a longer control than
a liquid. Typically I recommend a liquid when they come
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in with active brown patch.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
Correct.
Speaker 3 (16:08):
But yeah, if you've had any history with brown patch
in your lawn, let's do a preventative control asap. You know,
what was the old was it minor key? The transmission
people pay me now or pay me later type thing?
Speaker 2 (16:22):
Something like that.
Speaker 3 (16:24):
You know, just a little bit of maintenance goes a
long way and will not cautioneer as much as it
will if you start to get active brown patch. Another
thing in lawns. Your lawn has been weakened, not only
by the cold, but by all the moisture is not
good for lawns. And you know what happens when your
lawn's weak.
Speaker 4 (16:44):
Goes dormant weeds?
Speaker 2 (16:48):
That too, Yeah, we have weeds all the time here.
Well that's true.
Speaker 4 (16:51):
Well maybe we have weak lawns all thisay o, Yeah,
we do have weeds popping up, especially broad leaf weeds,
so we highly reckomon mean, when.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
You say broad leaf weed, it's got a broad.
Speaker 3 (17:01):
Leaf assed as opposed to to a long thin blade.
So one would be like a like a flower weed,
like a leaf like a flower, and the other one
would be like a grass blade. Sure you're not, you're
not helping me broad broadly. The weed pertains to the
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way the venation in the leaf is the veins and
a leaf go out from a central point where a
grass is going to have parallel venation in it where
and because of that you need to use different weed controls.
Some weed controls are meant for vein patterns that spread,
and some we controls are meant for parallel the nation.
So look at you dropping science again. I know I'm sorry,
(17:50):
I actually paid attention in body. She was really cute.
Speaker 4 (17:55):
But but yeah, we do have what we call our
weed cocktail, which is a mixture of atrozine, weed free
zone and spreadersticker. It does an excellent job of preventing
as well as killing existing weeds. Atressine does an excellent
job on clover. I remember Scott used to tell me
just hold the bottle up.
Speaker 3 (18:15):
Yeah, that was our old say when we did the
radio more often together. And the neat thing about atrozine
and we do need to be very careful with using
atresine underneath trees. It is one of the chemicals that
we still sell that does have some soil activity to it,
and the benefit of that is it is an excellent
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pre emergent for grassy weeds, meaning it kills grass seeds,
which brings me to another point. If you think you're
going to be receding your lawn for any reason this spring,
you do not want to use the atrosine in the
weed cocktail. But one of the biggest weed issues we
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have down here is what we call blue annual bluegrass
or poets them, and atrazine will knock those seeds out
and you will not have any issue whatsoever. So again,
going back, like we talked with the brown patch, a
little bit of prevention can prevent a lot of weeds.
The other thing I noticed the other day we actually
went to Burden. We had our daughters dealing with four children,
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and after the snow, she was about to go crazy.
So we took three of the four to Burden. They
have a really nice little children's walk. You can it's
actually they have little story books and you can the
kids can read the little story as they walk the trail.
It was really really nice. Anyway, I digress as normal
what I was there? They had stickers. Oh really yeah,
(19:44):
the stickers were starting to come up. So again the
weed cocktail excellent product to knock the stickers out before
the sticker, which is the seed is developed.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
So what you're.
Speaker 3 (19:55):
Looking for in your lawn I always call it easter grass.
It's a real light, little fuzzy grass. Yes, bright green,
bright green. So yeah, that's something that you can control
right now. Very definitely is stickers. Again, what were the
three products and why are the three products?
Speaker 4 (20:12):
Atrazine is going to be a pre emergent. It does
have some post emergent qualities and when I say pre emergent,
that's going to prevent weeds from German aiding. So that's
not going to kill if it says pre emergent is
not going to kill the existing weeds. But it does
have some post emergion qualities, which post immersion is it
kills the weed that's already up, that emerged emerged, So
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that's that's high yield atrazine. Then we have the fertile
o and weed free zone which is contains trimec and
that's going to be a post emergent. And then spreader stickers.
Some people may say, oh, you're just trying to upsell
me on something, but it actually performs a very very good, yeah,
very important job in that it makes those products, the
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atrozine and the weed free zone work better.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
It makes it stick to the leaf well. And I
always if it's just interesting.
Speaker 3 (21:04):
I just got a text from Benny's car wash, which
I use all the time.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
When I go through Benny's.
Speaker 3 (21:11):
The only thing I don't like is I do the
thing where they do the whole spray wax thing. Is
I have to get out and wipe my windshield because
the water will beat up on the wind shield and
run off. Well, if a lot of your weeds, especially
dollar weed is a good example, have that waxy I
think it's called cuticle layer right on the surface. Well,
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that's what happens when you spread it with a weed
killer with because you're spraying water to get the weed
killer out there, it just rolls off right where spreadersticker
adheres it to it. It's like a as the water
droplet on the leaf and it'll just roll off. Whereas
that's surfactant, the spreader sticker will make it spread, it'll break.
Speaker 4 (21:50):
That one will spread it and stick it. No, it
just sticks it and spreads it.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
You're learning way too well.
Speaker 3 (21:57):
I don't know if I like you that way anyway,
give us a call four nine five two six. That's
four nine nine WJBO get you put smack dab on
top of our list. Anything else we talked about Florida.
You got a couple of new Diplodini's coming in? Any
new products?
Speaker 4 (22:15):
New products you threw me there. I'm sorry, I haven't
been in the store for like a week. I haven't
really seen any new products. No, but we were talking
about grass. I'm gona change the sub chef and weeds,
you know, there are people that start coming in, especially
in February, mid to late February, asking for a fertilizer.
Speaker 2 (22:33):
Really not the best time to fertilize.
Speaker 4 (22:35):
You know, the grass is browned for a reason because
we got down to seven degrees, so it's dormant. You
want it to come out of dormancy. You don't want
to force it out of dormancy.
Speaker 3 (22:44):
And I mean to interrupt you, because your point is
very good. But the way I always say it is
nobody eats when they sleep except for my son.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
Yes, I have heard that.
Speaker 4 (22:54):
Thing before, So I just want to make sure people
know by all means come by, you know, buy your fertilize,
but don't put it out right now.
Speaker 2 (23:01):
I mean it might be mid to late March before
we need to be fertilized. In even April. I mean,
what is green in your lawn right now?
Speaker 3 (23:07):
The weeds, right So if you put out a fertilizer
right now, you're fertilizing your weeds and they're going to
be sitting there.
Speaker 2 (23:12):
Going yay, let's grow faster.
Speaker 4 (23:15):
And now people are out there saying, how come he
has weeds in his lawn when he sells the product,
just like a carpenter house has never done. And the
gardener's a nursery manager's yard is full of weeds.
Speaker 3 (23:26):
Right or what is something about a cobbler son has
no shoes? Yeah, so but yeah, we control uh and
it's actually on my list about fertilization is we just
don't want to do. And the same thing with Shrewberry.
We had a great first half of the show. Let's
make it an excellent second half the show by giving
us a call six it's four nine nine WJBO.
Speaker 4 (23:48):
What's on your list over there? Pretty much done and
there goes the show. Yeah, well, we never had much
of one anyway, so it can't go much further down.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
I guess it could maybe, But.
Speaker 3 (24:01):
We had just briefly touched on fertilization of shrubbery. Two
things I really want to cover here is one fertilization.
I think it's too early. Definitely, we don't want to
spur new growth catch another mid march cold snap that
burns all that off. We definitely don't want to fertilize
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as alias because it'll put out growth that's going to
hide the blooms.
Speaker 4 (24:25):
What do you think about pruning? I would hold off?
Agreed again as we told Claude you want to be patient.
I mean, you may be cutting off something you think
is dead and it's not dead, but it's also going
to spur new growth. And if, like you said, if
we have a late frost or freeze, it's going to
damage that growth.
Speaker 3 (24:43):
So let's wait, right, I think that's the most important part.
Is pruning and fertilization both spur new growth, and we
just don't want that right now. Right, Let's check go
check on Wallace, and I think he has a question
about what we're just talking about. Good morning, Wallace, Welcome
to News Radio eleven to fifty jbo's Lawn and Garden Show.
Speaker 2 (25:01):
What can we help you with?
Speaker 3 (25:03):
Thank you?
Speaker 7 (25:04):
Answer just then a lot of it, but it comes
down to some of it looks so sad. These are
fairly recently planted, like small azaleas, Amelia's ripped roses. Is
there something we can put on on that isn't high
and night for tim.
Speaker 2 (25:22):
Such as there's no need. There's really no need.
Speaker 3 (25:26):
Well, I know you're wanting to do something as a
feel good, but the plants, the plants are fine there,
especially the roses. You know, roses for the most part
should defoliate they are, but with our temperatures here they
typically don't. In fact, that's why a lot of times
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will prune roses here harder than we do in other
parts of the country because we want to actually force
a little bit of rest on them. So the roses,
I'm not concerned about all. What you're seeing on azalea's
and even some of the sussanquis can is you're just
seeing some burn on the outermost foliage. It's kind of
like you know that first bright spring day when we
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rip our shirt off and run out, and then we
go the next day we realize we have a sunburn. Well,
the same thing, except it's cold on your shrubbery. As
Chris was just saying, very very correctly, we don't that's
still serving as an insulation or a protection for that plant.
So we really don't want to cut it off just
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yet for two reasons. One is it's serving it's serving
a purpose as a protection. Then also, once we start
that pruning process, it's going to spur on more growth,
so that growth is going to be extremely tender, and
very likely we're going to have another hard frost. I
can I don't bet, I don't bet. But if I
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was a betting man, I'd probably put my house on that.
So we don't want that frost or hard coal snap
to then kill off all that new growth because that's
a lot of energy that PA put out, and if
we do that enough times, that plant may not be
able to recover.
Speaker 2 (27:06):
So I know it's difficult to do.
Speaker 3 (27:09):
One of the things I tell people is don't prune
anything back. And I understand why she did it. My
wife went out and there was a couple of little
areas just right at the front of the house that
plants that, you know, some of her perennial plants, and
she went in and pruned them down, which you know,
she mulched over the top of them with some pine strass.
Speaker 2 (27:26):
So it's not horrible. But now, if at all possible.
Speaker 3 (27:29):
You know, when you drive in the driveway, look the
other way, so you don't see them for another month
or so. But yeah, let's wait till i'd say, middle
of March, Chris, get the end of March, yes, okay,
so yeah, just just be patient.
Speaker 2 (27:41):
Wallace.
Speaker 7 (27:43):
Well, I can remember in the past, late February early
March we get a freeze and they talk about the
peach farmers up in the police pianos, you know, killing
off the buds for peachers, you know.
Speaker 2 (27:56):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, same thing.
Speaker 3 (27:59):
So, yeah, fertilization, you know, mid March, end of March
this year, and it is going to be very important
because the plants were damaged that I don't think the
plants that you mentioned are in any real danger of dying.
But yes, they they you know, they they caught a virus.
Speaker 2 (28:19):
Let's put it that way.
Speaker 3 (28:21):
We're gonna need to give them something to recover from
that virus, which would be the fertilization. But let's do
that again mid to end of March and at that
and you can prune and fertilize at the same time.
Speaker 7 (28:31):
Then sound good.
Speaker 2 (28:34):
Thank you.
Speaker 3 (28:34):
I would suggest pruning with your right hand and fertilizing
with your left hand at the same time.
Speaker 7 (28:40):
I wish I were that.
Speaker 2 (28:42):
Yeah, I didn't forget me doing that.
Speaker 3 (28:44):
Anyway, Thanks for the call, and that does open up
phone lines right now four nine five two six, that's
for nine nine WJBO.
Speaker 4 (28:51):
One of the things that he mentioned was the the peaches,
which the last two years actually we've had customers come
in asking why their citrus has bloomed well, that's the
exact reason. Because you know, we may be warm for
five or six days, and when I say warm, we're
what eighty something today. The plant thinks, Oh it's it's spring.
I'm gonna leaf out and I'm gonna bloom.
Speaker 2 (29:12):
Have you seen all the Taiwan cherries starting around town?
Speaker 5 (29:14):
No?
Speaker 2 (29:15):
I have not.
Speaker 4 (29:15):
Yeah, Well, so if we have a frost or freeze,
it's gonna damage. That doesn't mean it's gonna kill your plant.
You're just not gonna have flowers, which in turn they
turn into the fruit.
Speaker 3 (29:25):
And the other thing, especially with citrus, is that bud
and even on all of your trees, that bud starts
out as an embryo. And that's not an embryo, but
I'm gonna use that word in the stem. And if
it gets cold enough, it's killed in the stem before
it even comes out. It doesn't have to actually be
out and blooming to get killed. And that's what happens,
and that's what has happened. Even if your citrus tree
(29:46):
makes it this year, you're not gonna have citrus. You're
not gonna have fruit. Correct, You're not gonna have citrus.
So we got another collar about citrus.
Speaker 2 (29:53):
I believe. Let's go to Lee.
Speaker 3 (29:54):
Good morning, Lee, Welcome to news Radio eleven fifty wjbo's
Launa Garden Show.
Speaker 2 (29:58):
What can we do for you today?
Speaker 6 (30:01):
He's just tuned in. I got a two year old,
and some of that pretty much looks like could be dead.
I'm just wondering, do I let it go.
Speaker 2 (30:10):
A little while?
Speaker 3 (30:11):
Yes, two year old Satsuma, I'm going to be totally
honest with you. I don't think you're gonna have much
of a hope with it, but I'm going to tell
you i'd recommend don't do anything at least to the
end of this month. Chris is and I agree. I
don't disagree with him. I think he's correct. He's saying
(30:33):
mid March, even end of March. But yeah, two year
old Satsuma, I don't know where you where You're located
in a batner, Jerry. I'm in Prairieville. I got ten degrees.
They're just not gonna make that.
Speaker 6 (30:47):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (30:48):
Well, but but if you want.
Speaker 3 (30:50):
We recommend let's just hold off end of this month.
Is the tree holding its leaves or is it dropping
them right now?
Speaker 2 (30:58):
They hold him.
Speaker 3 (31:00):
That's not a good sign. That's that's not good at all.
We as as we talked about a little bit earlier.
I know you just checked in, so we'll give you
an update.
Speaker 2 (31:08):
But it takes energy for a tree to drop leaves.
Speaker 3 (31:12):
If your tree does not have enough energy to drop
those leaves, it's probably does not have enough energy to regenerate.
So yeah, if you don't start seeing leaf drop in
the next week, that's even even a worse sign. But yeah,
I wouldn't do anything till the first of March. Chris
is recommending even a couple weeks later than that.
Speaker 6 (31:32):
So if I would have covered it.
Speaker 3 (31:36):
I saved that. I saved, Yes, very definitely. I saved
a lemon tree. My wife has a small lemon tree
out in the yard, and we got out there with
freeze cloth purchased at Clegg's Nursery, got it draped all
the way down to the ground. I have an old
fashioned trouble light with an incandescent bulb.
Speaker 2 (31:54):
We stuck it in there.
Speaker 3 (31:55):
That thing ran for a week and we took the
cover off. I guess last week in that tree is
just as nice as when we covered it up.
Speaker 2 (32:02):
So yeah, covering just lee.
Speaker 3 (32:06):
I'm gonna take a couple of minutes of your time here,
and I appreciate your call very much, and I'm not harping.
But so often people think, oh, let me just put
a cover over the plant, like they're putting on a jacket. Well,
you and I and Chris, we put on jackets because
we're trapping our body heat.
Speaker 2 (32:24):
We're mammals. We create our own heat.
Speaker 3 (32:27):
I mean, our body temperatures are ninety eight point whatever
degrees unless we have a fever. Well, we generate that heat.
So when we cover up with when you get in
bed and the sheets are nice and cold, and then
ten minutes later they're warm, they just didn't warm up
all on their own. Your body warmed those up, unless,
of course, you have an electric blanket.
Speaker 2 (32:48):
Plants can't do that. They don't create their own heat.
Speaker 3 (32:52):
So when we cover them, unless we put either trap
the Earth's heat by securing it tightly to the ground
or put an incandescent light bulb or some other type
of heat source in there, the temperature inside that cover
is exactly the same as outside that cover. Now, we
did get a little benefit this year from the snow.
The snow actually served as an insulation and actually kept
(33:15):
the temperatures not as cold inside but again, covering with
a heat source would have protected that tree.
Speaker 6 (33:22):
Yes, all right, well I appreciate.
Speaker 2 (33:26):
All right, thank you Lee.
Speaker 3 (33:28):
And that does open up phone lines right now FOI
for nine nine WJBO.
Speaker 4 (33:34):
Another thing, the gentleman that called earlier was mentioning his roses,
his drift roses. But they're losing their leaves. They don't
look very good. There's not a rose in town, not
even at Legs. But if you wait till the middle
of the week. Yes, I was told we're getting a
new shipment of drift roses that actually have foliage and
blooms on them.
Speaker 2 (33:53):
But they were beautiful.
Speaker 3 (33:55):
But they're also coming out of what mid southern Florida, correct,
so hopefully we won't have that they crossed to freeze,
you know, And I'm going to We try our best.
I mean, this show is based on Cleg's nursery. All
of the hosts for the most part, sometimes Bill comes
in ground Tree, but are associated with Clegs nursery. And
(34:17):
we try our best not to make this a commercial
for Clex. We want this to be an informative hour
every morning. Yes, we do rerect, we do inroduce ourselves
from cleg nursery. But one of the things that I
was very impressed after this freeze, the effort that all
of them, well I've only been to Segen Lane, but
I'm going to say the effort of Segan Lane and
(34:39):
I'm sure the other nurseries to get everything covered. And
I had somebody say when I was there, because they
were pulling the covers.
Speaker 2 (34:46):
Off, well why did they cover? You?
Speaker 3 (34:47):
Said, all these plants would be just fine. So well,
two reasons they covered. One is these plants at the
nursery are in containers where their root system is above ground.
If that container were to freeze, there's no moisture because
it's frozen, those plants can actually die of dehydration.
Speaker 2 (35:07):
Said.
Speaker 3 (35:07):
The other thing is when this is all over, you
don't want to come in here and buy a brown plant.
Right And by y'all covering iman, y'all did an excellent
job putting the covers over, I think with sand bags
or send them a lot of sand bags y'all put
around to get the ground control. But the benefit this time,
and I think Tom and I talked about it a
(35:28):
little down our clegs talking about was the snow served
when they pulled those tarps off, those plants look just
as good as when they put it on.
Speaker 4 (35:35):
And again, like you said earlier, it worked as an
insulator and held in that heat.
Speaker 2 (35:40):
Yep.
Speaker 3 (35:41):
Let's go to line one and John, Good morning, John,
Welcome to news radio eleven fifty wjbo's Lone Garden Show.
Speaker 2 (35:47):
What can we do for you today?
Speaker 8 (35:49):
Yes, I was listening to the radio just recently and
you talk about pruning, and somebody had told me a
long time ago that your prune knockout roses, Balente Day
week or what in that.
Speaker 6 (36:02):
Area time wise.
Speaker 3 (36:03):
That's that's Sebruary fourteenth is is that that's correct? And
I tell people I'm old and seen now, but I
do it extremely well.
Speaker 2 (36:11):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (36:12):
I use holidays as reminders of when to do things
in my yard. In Valentine's Day roses, that's when I
normally prune my roses.
Speaker 1 (36:19):
So yes, okay, you cut them back pretty good.
Speaker 3 (36:23):
Or depending on what type on your drift or knockout roses,
you typically want to cut them. The drift rose is
what would say twelve inches really depends on how tall
you want them to get. I mean, if you want
to cut them back hard and keep them twelve to eighteen,
but they're going to get what eighteen to twenty four, right,
so probably in half. But exactly what I was about say,
(36:45):
typically on drifts, you want to go about in half.
On knockouts, I'd probably bring the plant down to about
twelve to eighteen inches, but yeah, drifts go about half.
Speaker 2 (36:54):
Good. Thank you very much, apreciate I appreciate your call
very much.
Speaker 3 (36:59):
John Patrick, Good morning, Welcome to news radio eleven to
fifty wjbo's Lawn and Garden Show.
Speaker 2 (37:04):
What can we do for you today?
Speaker 1 (37:06):
Question about potted roses, I believe in a knockout, it's
been so long. But anyway, the best time to plant
them in the ground.
Speaker 3 (37:16):
You can well, I think you're soil moisture right now
would be fine. So right now is actually an excellent
time to plant any type of trees and shrubs. We're
summertime for us is our stress time where we have
to get out there in water. So the further away
from that stress that you plant, the more time that
(37:37):
plant has to get root system out so it can
get established so it can make it through those stress
times with less help from you.
Speaker 2 (37:44):
But no, I think I would agree with you. I
would plant right.
Speaker 3 (37:48):
Now yeah, y'all got all your hybrid t roses and
all in at Clegg's.
Speaker 2 (37:53):
I believe it's about a week and a half ago. Pot.
Speaker 3 (37:55):
Okay, so they have a great selection. Like you said,
they have some roses coming in from Florida that are
in foliage and bloom. You do have drift and knockouts
in stock. They may hybrid teas. Yeah, so yeah, it's
a great time to plant right now.
Speaker 5 (38:12):
Okay, Well, thanks very much.
Speaker 2 (38:14):
All right, And you know.
Speaker 3 (38:16):
It's kind of funny we get not a lot, but
every Valentine's Day we get people come, you know, gentlemen
coming in the store going, I want some roses. Well,
we don't sell those type, you know, especially when we
bring them out and show all these prune back bushes,
like that's not what I want.
Speaker 2 (38:34):
But you know, I am a rose that keeps on blooming,
that keeps on the rose that keeps on blooming.
Speaker 5 (38:40):
You know.
Speaker 3 (38:41):
You know, people some people give knockouts a bad name
because they're not the lollipop rose.
Speaker 2 (38:47):
You know, they're not that big hybrid tea on the thing.
Speaker 3 (38:50):
You could put a knockout rose as long as you
have a sunny area, put it in a fourteen inch pot,
Keep it water, keep it fertilized. It'll give you the
double red knockout is a pretty bloom. It's not real large,
but it's still a nice bloom. And you can cut
those and put them in vases.
Speaker 4 (39:05):
And I hate to say they bloom all the time,
but they bloom all the time.
Speaker 2 (39:09):
Time.
Speaker 4 (39:11):
You'll have your peaks and valleys, but they're constantly blooming.
Speaker 2 (39:14):
Very yeah, they cycle through bloom.
Speaker 3 (39:16):
And you know, one of the things that keep them
going is you know, again they seem to have blooms
on them all the time. But when you get out
of that peak bloom and you got a bunch of
the old blooms on there, give them a little light
haircut at that point definitely helps them. Throw a little
fertilizer on there. Do you have a specific recommendation for
roses as far as fertilization.
Speaker 4 (39:37):
We actually have that rose food, that fertile and rose food,
which is excellent, or really anything with a high high
first number is going to give your green growth and
then that middle numbers for your flowers.
Speaker 2 (39:47):
But that rose food is an excellent one.
Speaker 4 (39:49):
We even have the one that has systemic insecticide in it,
which will help with with your bugs, your thrips and
aphids cool.
Speaker 3 (39:57):
Especially aphids to sit the bag out there and they die.
Uh two six that's four nine nine and w J
b O. We do have a few minutes left in
the show. If you have any questions. Dimension I know
I have it, but it's dementia.
Speaker 4 (40:18):
Oh I told you, Uh, you're right, surely needs to
test you. I'd fail always dimension. Dimension is a pre
emergent herbicide for your lawn? What about our beds? You
just cannot use it in your vegetable guard do we
have do y'all have something as a pre emergent for vegetables.
(40:39):
We carry the Prene product which contains tref land, which
we also have the high Eel tref Land that you
can use in your vegetables.
Speaker 3 (40:46):
Again, it's the difference. What's the difference in what between
the high Field and the Prene I think it's just
a name, isn't it?
Speaker 2 (40:55):
Correct?
Speaker 4 (40:57):
They didn't catch Yeah, Highland is going to be a
cheaper product.
Speaker 2 (41:03):
It's exactly the same product. It's the same product, but
it's less expensive.
Speaker 3 (41:07):
But it's not in you know, it doesn't have full
page advertising in Southern Living, correct, So Yeah, what is.
Speaker 2 (41:14):
It called tref land?
Speaker 4 (41:15):
Now you think it's herbicide granules.
Speaker 3 (41:18):
Yes, that's what it is. That is an excellent product
for vegetable gardens. It's got a pretty extensive label, so strong.
We always recommend reading labels, but especially on that one
because some of your crops you need to apply before
planting and some crops you do apply after. But it
is an excellent product, especially if you have issues with
(41:40):
any of the grassy weeds.
Speaker 2 (41:42):
In your vegetable guarden. It is just fabulous.
Speaker 3 (41:45):
Johnny Naylor, the vegetable expert in Baton Rouge, who thankfully
is on Clegg's staff at Seagan Lane, highly recommends that product,
very very highly recommends it. Hey, well we have another
quick caller. Let's make sure he has time, so let's
go to Sedrick and Baton Ridge. What can we do
for you today, Cedric?
Speaker 6 (42:03):
Hey, how's it going?
Speaker 1 (42:05):
I got a young, big tree, it's maybe been planted
a couple of years in my backyard and when I
prune it, can I.
Speaker 2 (42:15):
Root the cutting very easily? Yes?
Speaker 6 (42:19):
How would I do that?
Speaker 2 (42:20):
Are you?
Speaker 3 (42:21):
Basically when you make that cut, make sure that cutting
is what we call healed over or calloused over, so
it's not moist you want to take it.
Speaker 2 (42:29):
And I know this may sound.
Speaker 3 (42:30):
Stupid, but if you cut several sections out, make sure
that you put the part of the stick that was
closest to the ground in the ground buried about If
you have a six inch stick buried about two inches,
it's going to root for you and you're gonna have
more fig trees than you ever know what to do with.
Speaker 1 (42:48):
Okay, so don't put them in the dirt till after
it seals over.
Speaker 6 (42:52):
How long that takes?
Speaker 2 (42:53):
Oh no, typically two or three days at the most.
Speaker 1 (42:56):
Okay, So all right, well that sounds like I got
some big trees coming. All right, the tree, I mean,
she's talking about wanting to cut it to the nub onmost.
Speaker 3 (43:07):
No, No, you don't want to cut it down that much.
I typically wouldn't cut more than half off.
Speaker 1 (43:14):
Half of everything.
Speaker 5 (43:16):
All right, Well, I'll throw that out.
Speaker 2 (43:18):
There too, so she goes for She's not. Don't worry,
it'll grow back anyway.
Speaker 6 (43:22):
I know that they're pretty proficient.
Speaker 2 (43:24):
That it will.
Speaker 3 (43:25):
All right, great phone call, and we're up against the
end of the show. Anything you want to comment on
criticize me about that would take up at least to me,
we could do a whole nother show. Valentine's Days coming up.
Excellent selection of house plants. I noticed the other day
when I was in the store.
Speaker 4 (43:46):
I've been getting more in again on this these Florida trucks,
so it should be in some more.
Speaker 3 (43:52):
I kind of enjoy coming in as a customer. You do, yes,
if I can fire you, I think you did. But
but we have plenty of roses, beautiful roses. Again, why
by just a bouquet when you give them a rose,
that will give them plenty.
Speaker 2 (44:06):
And hanging baskets. Hanging baskets, that's an excellent little gift.
Speaker 3 (44:10):
Yes, especially if somebody's like got a in an apartment
or a condo, you know, tell us, okay, I have
I face West. Okay, well here's some sun baskets for you.
And Color Divisions got some of their mixed baskets, and
I'm sure, yes, okay, excellent, you know, lots of little.
Speaker 2 (44:27):
Color to them.
Speaker 4 (44:28):
The thing with with hanging baskets, it's kind of silly.
Most people don't realize this. But if you want something
to put in a pot that's already mature, no, Chris,
just take the hangar off. It's called a hanging basket. Yeah,
it doesn't have to hang. Why don't we have to
put things in a box. It's easier to carry that way.
Speaker 2 (44:48):
Is that music I hear?
Speaker 3 (44:49):
Yes, ah, we do appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (44:53):
We are Cleg's Nursing Baton Ridge.
Speaker 3 (44:55):
We have four locations in the greater Baton Rouge area,
Seagan Lane, the Best Store of Don Moore in mid city,
Greenwald Springs near Sherwood Forest Boulevard, and our Denim store
close to Magnoy Bridge Road on Highway sixteen. We're here
every Saturday morning from eight to nine to hopefully entertain
you and teach you a thing or two, because y'all
teach us a lot more than that. So again, my
(45:17):
name is Butch. I'm with Chris Herman from Clegg's Nursery.
We are the independent Garden Center in Baton Ridge. We
are Clegg's Nursery. We will see you next Saturday morning
at eight o'clock.
Speaker 2 (45:26):
Have a great week.
Speaker 3 (45:28):
Happy Valentine's Day to everyone,
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