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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Eight oh seven thirty ten tole UIV eight. All right
for your role this week, because we got to very
quickly let everybody in on the literally as we're going
to on the air, Lisa says, Oh, I.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Got a note from my vet saying it was Moby's birthday,
and I said, my cat, Yeah, I thought it was
the seventeenth.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
Maybe thet knows than I do.
Speaker 4 (00:24):
It like they keep track of those things.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
I thought I did too.
Speaker 4 (00:29):
Yeah, apparently not. How you doing this morning? Are you?
I can't complain it all. Of course.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
Lisa comes to us from the Bruce Company online Bruce
Company dot com. That's Bruce Company dot com. It's it's
always great. You got a question, love to get you
on the air six eight three two one thirteen dead.
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Bruce Company even better. Great day to get on in
say hello, they'd love to see at the Middleton Garden
Center of the Bruce Company. Twenty eight to thirty par
Mentor Street. That's twenty eight to thirty par Mentor Street.
And I know we're what a few weeks, a couple
of weeks still from the first day of spring.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
Seventeen days, I think is at it? I think it
is seventeen days.
Speaker 4 (01:15):
Daylight Savings comes up next, this coming Sunday.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
Yeah, don't forget. Does it seem early?
Speaker 4 (01:22):
Everything seems early, like.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Around the end of March early April.
Speaker 4 (01:25):
Maybe it is. It's a good question.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
We were giving this up too.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
I thought Congress did something apparently not not not surprising,
Holy political commandome.
Speaker 4 (01:36):
That is what you think they can all just kind
of kind of get.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
I'm still convey Have I told you my theory of
my thirty minutes theory?
Speaker 3 (01:43):
Can you get it down to thirty seconds?
Speaker 4 (01:44):
I can.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
So we've clearly made a mistake on setting our clocks.
Initially we were off by thirty minutes, and rather than
admitting that we're off by thirty minutes, we keep jumping
back and forth our hour. If we would just either
spring ahead or fall behind thirty minutes, it'd be right
in the middle of get result in the exact same time.
While problem solved, we can stop this debate. We can't
admit we were wrong when we set that first clock.
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There you go, that's it.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
That was very succinct.
Speaker 4 (02:11):
Or les, how have you been?
Speaker 1 (02:13):
And I know this time of year for the Bruce
Company is this is where the you think it like
the snowball, this is where it starts.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
Rolling balance and pallets and palletts.
Speaker 4 (02:23):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
Yeah, every day, so lots of really cool new garden steaks, Yeah,
kinetic garden art seeds. Plants are coming in. We got
hellebores in last week. I don't know how many are
left after the weekend. We're expecting pansies sometime this week.
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Don't run over today, give the plant an a call
and ask them when they expect them. But the delivery
of that and some bald pans are expected this week.
So that is a very springy thing. And as long
as the temps are going to be oh, I would
say above thirty five at night, the low temps, you
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could certainly leave those out over the night during the night,
but if if it's going to get colder than that,
you'll have to play the game of bringing them back
and forth.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
But they're awfully cheerful.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
Yeah, yeah, they look so did you get chance? I know,
you've got a million apps on your phone. You see
our little forecast to be.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
Writing the weather things on the back. So I didn't
look at it, but I did listen to it. Yeah
on the drive when I was coming in.
Speaker 4 (03:31):
So a storm, yeah, chance for a storm with the Maraine.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
Some thunder, maybe some thunder snow, which doesn't happen very often,
but is.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
A weird rare.
Speaker 4 (03:44):
It's exciting your thing.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
I saw somebody on my Facebook post photos of tomatoes
and pepper plants that were getting Are they gonna get leggy?
Are we gonna have problems with leggy?
Speaker 2 (03:57):
Well, you shouldn't have started them yet, but if you did, yes,
if you did, you need some supplemental light. Okay, So
if they're getting leggy, then that means they need more light.
So get stop in the garden center and pick up.
We've got some different kinds of light systems, you know,
things that you know sort of you hang, but also
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just single fixtures along with the appropriate bulbs that mimic
the color of daylight, okay, which is different than the
color of light that you have from other fixtures in
your house.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
So that's important. And then you're also going to want to.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
Pick up some maybe three or four inch utility pots,
because if you put them in and they're up already,
you're gonna need to uppot them before they can go outside.
Speaker 4 (04:45):
Buckets are good too for that. Well, buckets are.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
Too big for seed leaks.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
Yeah, you're gonna want them before you plant them in,
you know, the bigger size pots that they're going to
live in from the summer.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
If you're going to contain or grow them.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
You want them to be of a little bit sturdier size,
so you don't want to, you know, drown them in
a big giant.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
Pot right now.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
When I first moved to Madison, like many folks when
you're young, you move into some questionable living arrangement apartment.
Speaker 4 (05:13):
Complex, okay.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
And I had a neighbor who used to have a
billion just a random whether they're ice cream pails or
every little plastic and he would grow tomatoes like crazy
on his little slab like that, And I thought, that
is that is somebody that is committed to the gotta
love a tomato. And I, as much as as I thought,
oh it's a little different, I certainly took every tomato
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he ever offered.
Speaker 4 (05:38):
Yes, oh my goodness.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
Yeah, And that's the beauty of growing them yourselves, because
you not only control you know what, how you treat them,
what what pesticides you're going to use or not use,
as far as disease control and insect control, also what
you're going to use to form. But you just get
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so many more variety, so much more variety in the
types of tomatoes or any vegs that you're going to grow.
Speaker 4 (06:11):
Seeds. Do we got veg seeds in?
Speaker 2 (06:13):
We do? We got we got more Baker creeklet in
last week. So we started starting to recover from Expo,
which does do a major dent in our seed supply,
but several have come in over the last couple of
weeks since Expo, So yes, we're we're getting back close
to that fifteen hundred variety.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
That that whole big area of nothing but seeds seed.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
Yeah, and we've moved it so it is in a
new space, a bigger space, so it's a little more
space room to get around and also to showcase things.
It's also brighter in this new space, so it's a
little easier to read those tiny letters on the seed packets.
As an almost sixty four year old, I really appreciate
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it's it's hard enough to read tiny type, but when
it's sort of in a dimmer location, you're like squinting
at it.
Speaker 4 (07:08):
Do you have any magnifying glasses on strings?
Speaker 3 (07:11):
I do not have magnific but there's one on your phone.
Speaker 4 (07:14):
Oh that's true, that's true.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
You take a little I have a magnifying app on
my phone.
Speaker 4 (07:18):
What do you say?
Speaker 1 (07:19):
I like, I'll like a lot of times, like I'm
like the back of your computer or something, they'll be
like small type and like you want to find.
Speaker 4 (07:26):
I'll take a picture and I'll like enlarge it on
my pho.
Speaker 5 (07:28):
Just I do that with the Christmas orders, because the
Christmas orders come into their teeny tiny photos of like
you know, an ornament or whatever Christmas whatnot I bought,
and like, you know, like weeks weeks after.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
I get back, I'm like what is that? Yeah, so
I bring it up on the computer and like blow
it up.
Speaker 4 (07:45):
Blow it up.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
Well, you got a lot of help with the with
the seeds, with the extra light there, and speaking of
kind of moving things around and putting things in new locations.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
It freed up space for house plants.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
Oh so there's so many more houseplants we've got big
things that we now have room for.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
Tons of bloom.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
The beautiful orchids are in from both the Faialianopsis of
the moth orchids, which are really popular, but then also
some different varieties from turtle creek so on, cidiums and
symbidiums and what else. When I was there on Saturday,
we had still a good selection of shamrocks as the
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you know, Saint Patrick's States coming up, which is when
I thought Moby's birthday was to check the pirontificate when
I got so yeah, both the standard green and the
purple ones.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
And then we also had some iron.
Speaker 4 (08:40):
Cross shamrock in a clover. Is there a difference?
Speaker 2 (08:45):
Uh, true clover is a different plant than the shamrock,
which is an oxillis okay, so yeah, but true clover
do not make good house plants.
Speaker 4 (08:56):
Shamrocks, on the.
Speaker 3 (08:57):
Other made a good house big a good house play.
Speaker 5 (09:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
It all started with that whole sort of looking for
the four leaf clover thing. When we've had this discussion before,
isn't it wasn't it Fitchburg that has a library of
like different is different number leafed clovers, Like one of
the biggest collections in the country in the library of
the Fitchburg Library. I think we must there must have
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been a clover hunter Fitchburg who donated the collection.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
So that with shamrocks too, is can you keep those
going a year round for sure?
Speaker 4 (09:34):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (09:34):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I think we have one, my sisters do.
I don't, but my sisters have one that they've divided
up that was my that belonged to my grandparents.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
Oh, can you do shamrocks in the art or is
that just strictly clover even.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
Put them outside? But I don't know.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
I think they're not particularly hardy over our winters, but
they do have a little dormancy period, so you'll often notice,
like when it at certain times of the year they
start to look a little MINGI that's just what they do.
They're just going through a little a little they needed
a little.
Speaker 4 (10:07):
Nap, a little rest.
Speaker 3 (10:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (10:09):
Dox Marny Lisa breaks with the Bruce Company.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
If you've got a question for Lisa, love to have
you join us this morning, telf I'm going to get
on the air six so eight three two one thirteen ten.
That's six oh eight to three two one thirteen ten.
You can learn more about the Bruce Company their website
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seem Midicton Garden Center right at twenty eight thirty parm Interstreet.
(10:32):
That's twenty eight thirty Parmed Street. And speaking of kind
of clovers and other things, I know a lot of
folks are looking for grass alternatives for their lawns, and
I know greens and certain clovers on other things. Is
are we starting to see that stuff come in yet
or are we still a little while?
Speaker 3 (10:48):
Yeah, it's fun.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
We do have We do have the Flawn product, which
is a Wisconsin company Flawn for flowering lawn, and they
have some different clovers including some micro clover which is
the really short, really short stuff.
Speaker 3 (11:02):
And then we also have.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
From another Wisconsin company and I forget what it's called,
but it's a series of different flowering lawn mixes. So
and the price is really great. You could for you know,
you can sew it in more like for a b
lawn because it's gonna a lot of them are going
to get up taller.
Speaker 4 (11:26):
B e We're not talking like your back up, your
A lawn and your B lawn. This is your this
is a this is a B lawn B for the
bumble guys.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
Yes, which is a trend which is sort of replacing
the whole no mo mae. And we actually last week
had a we do this series of zoom meetings with
u W Extension and they're called short courses and then
different u W professors with with specialties way in on
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some topics, okay, And one of them on Wednesday was
about no mo May and they actually did a really
interesting study.
Speaker 3 (12:10):
I'm going to share it with everybody.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
Yes, So if you are a person who has a
really beautiful lawn and you do fertilize, you're on a
fertilizing sort of pesticide herbicide kind of schedule. That means
that you're that the that the range of species in
your lawn is pretty minimal. And if you let your
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lawn not be moded all through May and it gets
above six inches I and then June one you cut
it back to three, it's going to take an entire
month for your lawn to recover from removing that much
leaf blade in one swoop. No so it's a little
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different if you have a lawn that's got other things
in it, like wood, violets and that sort of thing,
and clovers. But for people who have, you know, sort
of a mono culture lawn, no mo may is not
only not helping the pollinators because you've got nothing in
there that's helping the pollinators and it's actually hurting your lawn.
Speaker 4 (13:13):
So nomo is no bueno for certain pefle yes, no good.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
But if you want to do something to help the pollinators,
and that is a latable goal that I'm one hundred
percent behind. Plant a B lawn in a six section
of your yard where you can have a little meadow
kind of thing that you never mow. Yeah that's not
really intensely grass species, but other things. Or just plant
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some really good pollinator plants, some native plants in your
flower beds. Also a really good thing that will help
the pollinators.
Speaker 4 (13:47):
They could definitely use it.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
And I was going to ask you two about I
don't know, maybe it was even you that I was
talking to asking about this this new trend I've noticed
of people starting to bring gardens in the front.
Speaker 4 (13:59):
Was that you did you and I talk about this
or was this somebody else.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
I think we did mention because I think that my
neighbor my street, okay, has a lot of gardens in
the front as opposed to lawn.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
I've noticed a lot of people doing that now. I
mean it must have been you that was kind of
the that got my eyes looking, because like, as I'm
driving around here in Fitchburg and when I'm driving down
in town and Edgerton, I'm starting to see a lot
of people that.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
Are taking out their grass and putting in other things.
I mean, if you have I've seen people who have
their vegetable gardens and you know, a bunch of raised
beds in their front yard. If that's the only sunny
spot you have in your yard and you want vegetables,
a really tidy, beautiful, beautifully organized vegetable garden.
Speaker 3 (14:44):
In your front yard is a cool thing.
Speaker 4 (14:46):
Yeah, looks great, looks great.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
You're more inclined to keep it, you know, to spend
time in it because it's in your front yard. Not
that anybody's judging, but people are judging.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
Yes, yes, it's going to keep it the little thing,
keep it tidy, and yeah, and keep the deer away.
And another that that'd be in the backyard as well.
Speaker 3 (15:08):
Yeah, well it depends on where you live.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
I know you're sort of more out in the country,
so you have, but in the city not so much.
Speaker 4 (15:15):
I have like gangs of deer, they snap when they walk.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
I had herodic herds.
Speaker 4 (15:22):
Yeah, they're fear.
Speaker 3 (15:23):
It was like West Side Story. Yes, I get totally
get it. Chase from in my car we had like
a bloopy like a like a you driveway like they
thought it was. It was hilarious.
Speaker 4 (15:36):
Oh it is fit.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
I want to ask you about attracting maybe not deer,
although some folks may want dear, but other animals. I
know there's obviously our feathered friends we'd love to see around,
and I know there's some people that get a lot
of entertainment from from squirrels and other type of critters
like that. Some of them despise someone to ask you
a little bit about that. Of course, we'll take phone
calls if you've got questions. We'd love to have joys
this morning six eight three two thirteen ten. That's six
(15:59):
eight three two one thirteen ten. Love to get you
on the air. Lisa Breaks from the Bruce Company. Learn
more online their website Brucecompany dot Com. That's Bruce Company
dot com, Facebook and social media that includes Pinterest and Instagram.
Speaker 4 (16:10):
You can find them.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
They are the Bruce Company and the phone lines they
are open for you right now at six oh eight
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Everyday Outdoor Living continues here on thirteen ten WIBA eight
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to you by the Bruce Company Online, Brucecompany dot com.
That's Bruce Company dot com, Facebook and social media the
Bruce Company. What a day, great day to get on
in say hello, they'd love to see you. Milton Garden Center,
twenty eight thirty param Interstreet. That's twenty eight thirty part
met Street. We're gonna talk about a big event coming up.
It's a couple of weeks of the Bruce Company to
do that in just a moment, But first, got Jim
take the time to call in this morning. Jim, welcome
(16:52):
to the program. You're on the air with Lisa Breaks
from the Bruce Company.
Speaker 6 (16:56):
Hi, Yeah, I got a question. I've got some uh, doctor,
I have from the Sonoran Desert. Uh huh, and recently,
just recently, I have a couple. I have a type
of hedgehog and a type of pricking up pretty fair
but call the rainbow cactus. And I know it's somebody
that the hedgehog is developing like a white buzz and
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on the crowns of the cactus. I'm going I keep
them out in the summertime, but I bring them in
for winter.
Speaker 3 (17:25):
They're usually fairly past resistant. And I know that some.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
Cactus develop some hairs. I'm not familiar exactly with those types.
But take a photo and email it to the plant
desk so you can take a look at it.
Speaker 6 (17:46):
Okay. And the second question is that's because I've got
a few cactus I picked up you know, you know
at some of the shops and they always say, oh,
here we use this potting the soil. It's second body soil,
which is not really that good as it's just better.
You guys have no better.
Speaker 3 (18:03):
Succulents, do do use? It is good to use cactus soil.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
There's some some types that are better than other types,
but there is not a lot of fertility to cactus
oil because what what those what those mixes do is
they encourage super sharp drainage. They don't hold water. That's
not their function. That's not what cactus and other succulents want.
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So yes, using those kinds of products. If you're repotting
or you're getting little baby ones and you're potting, you're
doing some up potting. That is important. Even though it
doesn't look like it's going to hold much moisture, there's
not much fertility to it, but that's on purpose.
Speaker 6 (18:47):
Okay, brought plants back and we've brought that some of
the native soil with it.
Speaker 3 (18:51):
And that's a good idea, great.
Speaker 6 (18:53):
And the problem is stuff they got to the stores.
That's you know, I called garish soil that so I
was wondering if you had some or we do have a.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
We do have a couple different types of cactus oil.
One that we use when we're repotting for people. We
do have a really like good, like small batch kind
of thing that tends to be pricier. I forget what
the name of it is, but come into the store,
bring them in. It's a nice day if you want
to bring them in. And then Scott or Brittany can
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take a look at them at the plant desk and
then talk to you about the different options for repotting.
Speaker 4 (19:28):
Great call, Jim, and and cactuses like to get out.
They like a little and.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
They've been putting them out in the summertime outside.
Speaker 3 (19:35):
Is a great idea.
Speaker 4 (19:37):
Thank you so much.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
Yeah, Jim, take care. Great to hear from you this morning, Lisa,
before before we head out this this fine, fine day,
you've got the big event coming up.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
Yeah, we do have our Furniture Extravaganza. We didn't know
what else to call it because that's what it is.
So we we've been talking over the winter about how
we're sort of lifting some things on, you know, departments
in the store, and we are also updating and relaunching
our furniture department. So that that was that's been part
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of this whole process.
Speaker 3 (20:13):
So we have some.
Speaker 2 (20:17):
More design, more color for sure. A few new companies
that we're launching, including some of them where they're there
are pieces that are small, you know, for smaller spaces
or for new homeowners that aren't looking, you know, to
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spend the money that an investment piece sure takes, like
Nardi is plastic furniture, but it's designed in Italy, made
in Italy, really cool colors, super affordable ways to sort
of start with something small and then sort of add
to your collection.
Speaker 3 (20:59):
So stop in. But we do have this event.
Speaker 2 (21:02):
On the fifteenth Saturday from eleven to two, So not
only can you come in and see all the new things,
we've got some vendors that'll be there to answer questions.
There will be some specials on some of the special orders,
and also if you go to our website, we also
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on that same day have a free garden consult situation
with our designers, so you can sign up for a
fifteen minute consult and you do that by signing up
for that event on our website Brucecompany dot com, slash.
Speaker 4 (21:38):
Events Brucecompany dot com and we.
Speaker 2 (21:41):
Have like just under twenty appointments available in that three
hour time, so you'll want to sign up for that
and then the plant desk will contact you and set
up a time.
Speaker 3 (21:53):
That works for you.
Speaker 4 (21:54):
Let's know what, bring some pictures or some other thing.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
Yeah, bring some pictures, bring some measurements, Uh, bring your
likes and dislikes and we will sort of.
Speaker 3 (22:04):
Help you.
Speaker 4 (22:07):
Put it all together.
Speaker 3 (22:07):
Put it all.
Speaker 2 (22:08):
Together and maybe come up with some things that you
hadn't thought of.
Speaker 3 (22:11):
And there's no charge for this.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
Oh yeah, super cool, great day to get on and
it's always a great day to get on into the
Middleton Guards. Cider the Bruce Company, of course, you can
find them right at twenty eight thirty parm Innistreet. That's
twenty eight thirty Parmenter Street. Of course, the outdoor Furniture
Extravaganza taking place Saturday, March fifteenth. Mark that on your calendar.
Will of course talk about it next week as well.
Give you a little reminder. Wraffle refreshment, some demos and
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some other cool things.
Speaker 3 (22:36):
Some great snacks, real sneaky snacks.
Speaker 4 (22:39):
Ooh, I like snacks, you know me, Lisa Big, don't forget.
Speaker 1 (22:44):
It's always a great day to get on into the
Middleton Guards under the Bruce Company twenty eight thirty parm
Entis Street, twenty thirty Partment Street online Bruce Company dot com.
That's Bruce Company dot com. Lisa, that's always great to
see you. Enjoy this beautiful day you too. Shine news
comes your way next yere at thirteen ten del Will
you IV
Eight oh seven thirty ten tole UIV eight. All right
for your role this week, because we got to very
quickly let everybody in on the literally as we're going
to on the air, Lisa says, Oh, I.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Got a note from my vet saying it was Moby's birthday,
and I said, my cat, Yeah, I thought it was
the seventeenth.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
Maybe thet knows than I do.
Speaker 4 (00:24):
It like they keep track of those things.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
I thought I did too.
Speaker 4 (00:29):
Yeah, apparently not. How you doing this morning? Are you?
I can't complain it all. Of course.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
Lisa comes to us from the Bruce Company online Bruce
Company dot com. That's Bruce Company dot com. It's it's
always great. You got a question, love to get you
on the air six eight three two one thirteen dead.
That's six eight three two one thirteen ten. Always great
hanging out with Lisa breaks from the Bruce Company. Of course,
you can learn more online their website Brucecompany dot com.
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(00:57):
Bruce Company even better. Great day to get on in
say hello, they'd love to see at the Middleton Garden
Center of the Bruce Company. Twenty eight to thirty par
Mentor Street. That's twenty eight to thirty par Mentor Street.
And I know we're what a few weeks, a couple
of weeks still from the first day of spring.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
Seventeen days, I think is at it? I think it
is seventeen days.
Speaker 4 (01:15):
Daylight Savings comes up next, this coming Sunday.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
Yeah, don't forget. Does it seem early?
Speaker 4 (01:22):
Everything seems early, like.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Around the end of March early April.
Speaker 4 (01:25):
Maybe it is. It's a good question.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
We were giving this up too.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
I thought Congress did something apparently not not not surprising,
Holy political commandome.
Speaker 4 (01:36):
That is what you think they can all just kind
of kind of get.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
I'm still convey Have I told you my theory of
my thirty minutes theory?
Speaker 3 (01:43):
Can you get it down to thirty seconds?
Speaker 4 (01:44):
I can.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
So we've clearly made a mistake on setting our clocks.
Initially we were off by thirty minutes, and rather than
admitting that we're off by thirty minutes, we keep jumping
back and forth our hour. If we would just either
spring ahead or fall behind thirty minutes, it'd be right
in the middle of get result in the exact same time.
While problem solved, we can stop this debate. We can't
admit we were wrong when we set that first clock.
(02:07):
There you go, that's it.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
That was very succinct.
Speaker 4 (02:11):
Or les, how have you been?
Speaker 1 (02:13):
And I know this time of year for the Bruce
Company is this is where the you think it like
the snowball, this is where it starts.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
Rolling balance and pallets and palletts.
Speaker 4 (02:23):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
Yeah, every day, so lots of really cool new garden steaks, Yeah,
kinetic garden art seeds. Plants are coming in. We got
hellebores in last week. I don't know how many are
left after the weekend. We're expecting pansies sometime this week.
(02:44):
Don't run over today, give the plant an a call
and ask them when they expect them. But the delivery
of that and some bald pans are expected this week.
So that is a very springy thing. And as long
as the temps are going to be oh, I would
say above thirty five at night, the low temps, you
(03:06):
could certainly leave those out over the night during the night,
but if if it's going to get colder than that,
you'll have to play the game of bringing them back
and forth.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
But they're awfully cheerful.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
Yeah, yeah, they look so did you get chance? I know,
you've got a million apps on your phone. You see
our little forecast to be.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
Writing the weather things on the back. So I didn't
look at it, but I did listen to it. Yeah
on the drive when I was coming in.
Speaker 4 (03:31):
So a storm, yeah, chance for a storm with the Maraine.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
Some thunder, maybe some thunder snow, which doesn't happen very often,
but is.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
A weird rare.
Speaker 4 (03:44):
It's exciting your thing.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
I saw somebody on my Facebook post photos of tomatoes
and pepper plants that were getting Are they gonna get leggy?
Are we gonna have problems with leggy?
Speaker 2 (03:57):
Well, you shouldn't have started them yet, but if you did, yes,
if you did, you need some supplemental light. Okay, So
if they're getting leggy, then that means they need more light.
So get stop in the garden center and pick up.
We've got some different kinds of light systems, you know,
things that you know sort of you hang, but also
(04:18):
just single fixtures along with the appropriate bulbs that mimic
the color of daylight, okay, which is different than the
color of light that you have from other fixtures in
your house.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
So that's important. And then you're also going to want to.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
Pick up some maybe three or four inch utility pots,
because if you put them in and they're up already,
you're gonna need to uppot them before they can go outside.
Speaker 4 (04:45):
Buckets are good too for that. Well, buckets are.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
Too big for seed leaks.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
Yeah, you're gonna want them before you plant them in,
you know, the bigger size pots that they're going to
live in from the summer.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
If you're going to contain or grow them.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
You want them to be of a little bit sturdier size,
so you don't want to, you know, drown them in
a big giant.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
Pot right now.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
When I first moved to Madison, like many folks when
you're young, you move into some questionable living arrangement apartment.
Speaker 4 (05:13):
Complex, okay.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
And I had a neighbor who used to have a
billion just a random whether they're ice cream pails or
every little plastic and he would grow tomatoes like crazy
on his little slab like that, And I thought, that
is that is somebody that is committed to the gotta
love a tomato. And I, as much as as I thought,
oh it's a little different, I certainly took every tomato
(05:37):
he ever offered.
Speaker 4 (05:38):
Yes, oh my goodness.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
Yeah, And that's the beauty of growing them yourselves, because
you not only control you know what, how you treat them,
what what pesticides you're going to use or not use,
as far as disease control and insect control, also what
you're going to use to form. But you just get
(06:01):
so many more variety, so much more variety in the
types of tomatoes or any vegs that you're going to grow.
Speaker 4 (06:11):
Seeds. Do we got veg seeds in?
Speaker 2 (06:13):
We do? We got we got more Baker creeklet in
last week. So we started starting to recover from Expo,
which does do a major dent in our seed supply,
but several have come in over the last couple of
weeks since Expo, So yes, we're we're getting back close
to that fifteen hundred variety.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
That that whole big area of nothing but seeds seed.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
Yeah, and we've moved it so it is in a
new space, a bigger space, so it's a little more
space room to get around and also to showcase things.
It's also brighter in this new space, so it's a
little easier to read those tiny letters on the seed packets.
As an almost sixty four year old, I really appreciate
(07:00):
it's it's hard enough to read tiny type, but when
it's sort of in a dimmer location, you're like squinting
at it.
Speaker 4 (07:08):
Do you have any magnifying glasses on strings?
Speaker 3 (07:11):
I do not have magnific but there's one on your phone.
Speaker 4 (07:14):
Oh that's true, that's true.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
You take a little I have a magnifying app on
my phone.
Speaker 4 (07:18):
What do you say?
Speaker 1 (07:19):
I like, I'll like a lot of times, like I'm
like the back of your computer or something, they'll be
like small type and like you want to find.
Speaker 4 (07:26):
I'll take a picture and I'll like enlarge it on
my pho.
Speaker 5 (07:28):
Just I do that with the Christmas orders, because the
Christmas orders come into their teeny tiny photos of like
you know, an ornament or whatever Christmas whatnot I bought,
and like, you know, like weeks weeks after.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
I get back, I'm like what is that? Yeah, so
I bring it up on the computer and like blow
it up.
Speaker 4 (07:45):
Blow it up.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
Well, you got a lot of help with the with
the seeds, with the extra light there, and speaking of
kind of moving things around and putting things in new locations.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
It freed up space for house plants.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
Oh so there's so many more houseplants we've got big
things that we now have room for.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
Tons of bloom.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
The beautiful orchids are in from both the Faialianopsis of
the moth orchids, which are really popular, but then also
some different varieties from turtle creek so on, cidiums and
symbidiums and what else. When I was there on Saturday,
we had still a good selection of shamrocks as the
(08:29):
you know, Saint Patrick's States coming up, which is when
I thought Moby's birthday was to check the pirontificate when
I got so yeah, both the standard green and the
purple ones.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
And then we also had some iron.
Speaker 4 (08:40):
Cross shamrock in a clover. Is there a difference?
Speaker 2 (08:45):
Uh, true clover is a different plant than the shamrock,
which is an oxillis okay, so yeah, but true clover
do not make good house plants.
Speaker 4 (08:56):
Shamrocks, on the.
Speaker 3 (08:57):
Other made a good house big a good house play.
Speaker 5 (09:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
It all started with that whole sort of looking for
the four leaf clover thing. When we've had this discussion before,
isn't it wasn't it Fitchburg that has a library of
like different is different number leafed clovers, Like one of
the biggest collections in the country in the library of
the Fitchburg Library. I think we must there must have
(09:23):
been a clover hunter Fitchburg who donated the collection.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
So that with shamrocks too, is can you keep those
going a year round for sure?
Speaker 4 (09:34):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (09:34):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I think we have one, my sisters do.
I don't, but my sisters have one that they've divided
up that was my that belonged to my grandparents.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
Oh, can you do shamrocks in the art or is
that just strictly clover even.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
Put them outside? But I don't know.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
I think they're not particularly hardy over our winters, but
they do have a little dormancy period, so you'll often notice,
like when it at certain times of the year they
start to look a little MINGI that's just what they do.
They're just going through a little a little they needed
a little.
Speaker 4 (10:07):
Nap, a little rest.
Speaker 3 (10:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (10:09):
Dox Marny Lisa breaks with the Bruce Company.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
If you've got a question for Lisa, love to have
you join us this morning, telf I'm going to get
on the air six so eight three two one thirteen ten.
That's six oh eight to three two one thirteen ten.
You can learn more about the Bruce Company their website
Brucecompany dot com. That's Bruce Company dot com, Facebook and
social media the Bruce Company. It is always a great
day to get on in say hello, they'd love to
seem Midicton Garden Center right at twenty eight thirty parm Interstreet.
(10:32):
That's twenty eight thirty Parmed Street. And speaking of kind
of clovers and other things, I know a lot of
folks are looking for grass alternatives for their lawns, and
I know greens and certain clovers on other things. Is
are we starting to see that stuff come in yet
or are we still a little while?
Speaker 3 (10:48):
Yeah, it's fun.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
We do have We do have the Flawn product, which
is a Wisconsin company Flawn for flowering lawn, and they
have some different clovers including some micro clover which is
the really short, really short stuff.
Speaker 3 (11:02):
And then we also have.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
From another Wisconsin company and I forget what it's called,
but it's a series of different flowering lawn mixes. So
and the price is really great. You could for you know,
you can sew it in more like for a b
lawn because it's gonna a lot of them are going
to get up taller.
Speaker 4 (11:26):
B e We're not talking like your back up, your
A lawn and your B lawn. This is your this
is a this is a B lawn B for the
bumble guys.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
Yes, which is a trend which is sort of replacing
the whole no mo mae. And we actually last week
had a we do this series of zoom meetings with
u W Extension and they're called short courses and then
different u W professors with with specialties way in on
(12:00):
some topics, okay, And one of them on Wednesday was
about no mo May and they actually did a really
interesting study.
Speaker 3 (12:10):
I'm going to share it with everybody.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
Yes, So if you are a person who has a
really beautiful lawn and you do fertilize, you're on a
fertilizing sort of pesticide herbicide kind of schedule. That means
that you're that the that the range of species in
your lawn is pretty minimal. And if you let your
(12:31):
lawn not be moded all through May and it gets
above six inches I and then June one you cut
it back to three, it's going to take an entire
month for your lawn to recover from removing that much
leaf blade in one swoop. No so it's a little
(12:52):
different if you have a lawn that's got other things
in it, like wood, violets and that sort of thing,
and clovers. But for people who have, you know, sort
of a mono culture lawn, no mo may is not
only not helping the pollinators because you've got nothing in
there that's helping the pollinators and it's actually hurting your lawn.
Speaker 4 (13:13):
So nomo is no bueno for certain pefle yes, no good.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
But if you want to do something to help the pollinators,
and that is a latable goal that I'm one hundred
percent behind. Plant a B lawn in a six section
of your yard where you can have a little meadow
kind of thing that you never mow. Yeah that's not
really intensely grass species, but other things. Or just plant
(13:40):
some really good pollinator plants, some native plants in your
flower beds. Also a really good thing that will help
the pollinators.
Speaker 4 (13:47):
They could definitely use it.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
And I was going to ask you two about I
don't know, maybe it was even you that I was
talking to asking about this this new trend I've noticed
of people starting to bring gardens in the front.
Speaker 4 (13:59):
Was that you did you and I talk about this
or was this somebody else.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
I think we did mention because I think that my
neighbor my street, okay, has a lot of gardens in
the front as opposed to lawn.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
I've noticed a lot of people doing that now. I
mean it must have been you that was kind of
the that got my eyes looking, because like, as I'm
driving around here in Fitchburg and when I'm driving down
in town and Edgerton, I'm starting to see a lot
of people that.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
Are taking out their grass and putting in other things.
I mean, if you have I've seen people who have
their vegetable gardens and you know, a bunch of raised
beds in their front yard. If that's the only sunny
spot you have in your yard and you want vegetables,
a really tidy, beautiful, beautifully organized vegetable garden.
Speaker 3 (14:44):
In your front yard is a cool thing.
Speaker 4 (14:46):
Yeah, looks great, looks great.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
You're more inclined to keep it, you know, to spend
time in it because it's in your front yard. Not
that anybody's judging, but people are judging.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
Yes, yes, it's going to keep it the little thing,
keep it tidy, and yeah, and keep the deer away.
And another that that'd be in the backyard as well.
Speaker 3 (15:08):
Yeah, well it depends on where you live.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
I know you're sort of more out in the country,
so you have, but in the city not so much.
Speaker 4 (15:15):
I have like gangs of deer, they snap when they walk.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
I had herodic herds.
Speaker 4 (15:22):
Yeah, they're fear.
Speaker 3 (15:23):
It was like West Side Story. Yes, I get totally
get it. Chase from in my car we had like
a bloopy like a like a you driveway like they
thought it was. It was hilarious.
Speaker 4 (15:36):
Oh it is fit.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
I want to ask you about attracting maybe not deer,
although some folks may want dear, but other animals. I
know there's obviously our feathered friends we'd love to see around,
and I know there's some people that get a lot
of entertainment from from squirrels and other type of critters
like that. Some of them despise someone to ask you
a little bit about that. Of course, we'll take phone
calls if you've got questions. We'd love to have joys
this morning six eight three two thirteen ten. That's six
(15:59):
eight three two one thirteen ten. Love to get you
on the air. Lisa Breaks from the Bruce Company. Learn
more online their website Brucecompany dot Com. That's Bruce Company
dot com, Facebook and social media that includes Pinterest and Instagram.
Speaker 4 (16:10):
You can find them.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
They are the Bruce Company and the phone lines they
are open for you right now at six oh eight
three two one thirteen ten. That's six oh eight three
two one thirteen ten. Will take your call and continue
our conversation with Lisa from the Bruce Company next as
Everyday Outdoor Living continues here on thirteen ten WIBA eight
twenty eight thirteen ten WIB and Everyday Outdoor Living brought
(16:31):
to you by the Bruce Company Online, Brucecompany dot com.
That's Bruce Company dot com, Facebook and social media the
Bruce Company. What a day, great day to get on
in say hello, they'd love to see you. Milton Garden Center,
twenty eight thirty param Interstreet. That's twenty eight thirty part
met Street. We're gonna talk about a big event coming up.
It's a couple of weeks of the Bruce Company to
do that in just a moment, But first, got Jim
take the time to call in this morning. Jim, welcome
(16:52):
to the program. You're on the air with Lisa Breaks
from the Bruce Company.
Speaker 6 (16:56):
Hi, Yeah, I got a question. I've got some uh, doctor,
I have from the Sonoran Desert. Uh huh, and recently,
just recently, I have a couple. I have a type
of hedgehog and a type of pricking up pretty fair
but call the rainbow cactus. And I know it's somebody
that the hedgehog is developing like a white buzz and
(17:18):
on the crowns of the cactus. I'm going I keep
them out in the summertime, but I bring them in
for winter.
Speaker 3 (17:25):
They're usually fairly past resistant. And I know that some.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
Cactus develop some hairs. I'm not familiar exactly with those types.
But take a photo and email it to the plant
desk so you can take a look at it.
Speaker 6 (17:46):
Okay. And the second question is that's because I've got
a few cactus I picked up you know, you know
at some of the shops and they always say, oh,
here we use this potting the soil. It's second body soil,
which is not really that good as it's just better.
You guys have no better.
Speaker 3 (18:03):
Succulents, do do use? It is good to use cactus soil.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
There's some some types that are better than other types,
but there is not a lot of fertility to cactus
oil because what what those what those mixes do is
they encourage super sharp drainage. They don't hold water. That's
not their function. That's not what cactus and other succulents want.
(18:29):
So yes, using those kinds of products. If you're repotting
or you're getting little baby ones and you're potting, you're
doing some up potting. That is important. Even though it
doesn't look like it's going to hold much moisture, there's
not much fertility to it, but that's on purpose.
Speaker 6 (18:47):
Okay, brought plants back and we've brought that some of
the native soil with it.
Speaker 3 (18:51):
And that's a good idea, great.
Speaker 6 (18:53):
And the problem is stuff they got to the stores.
That's you know, I called garish soil that so I
was wondering if you had some or we do have a.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
We do have a couple different types of cactus oil.
One that we use when we're repotting for people. We
do have a really like good, like small batch kind
of thing that tends to be pricier. I forget what
the name of it is, but come into the store,
bring them in. It's a nice day if you want
to bring them in. And then Scott or Brittany can
(19:22):
take a look at them at the plant desk and
then talk to you about the different options for repotting.
Speaker 4 (19:28):
Great call, Jim, and and cactuses like to get out.
They like a little and.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
They've been putting them out in the summertime outside.
Speaker 3 (19:35):
Is a great idea.
Speaker 4 (19:37):
Thank you so much.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
Yeah, Jim, take care. Great to hear from you this morning, Lisa,
before before we head out this this fine, fine day,
you've got the big event coming up.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
Yeah, we do have our Furniture Extravaganza. We didn't know
what else to call it because that's what it is.
So we we've been talking over the winter about how
we're sort of lifting some things on, you know, departments
in the store, and we are also updating and relaunching
our furniture department. So that that was that's been part
(20:11):
of this whole process.
Speaker 3 (20:13):
So we have some.
Speaker 2 (20:17):
More design, more color for sure. A few new companies
that we're launching, including some of them where they're there
are pieces that are small, you know, for smaller spaces
or for new homeowners that aren't looking, you know, to
(20:38):
spend the money that an investment piece sure takes, like
Nardi is plastic furniture, but it's designed in Italy, made
in Italy, really cool colors, super affordable ways to sort
of start with something small and then sort of add
to your collection.
Speaker 3 (20:59):
So stop in. But we do have this event.
Speaker 2 (21:02):
On the fifteenth Saturday from eleven to two, So not
only can you come in and see all the new things,
we've got some vendors that'll be there to answer questions.
There will be some specials on some of the special orders,
and also if you go to our website, we also
(21:23):
on that same day have a free garden consult situation
with our designers, so you can sign up for a
fifteen minute consult and you do that by signing up
for that event on our website Brucecompany dot com, slash.
Speaker 4 (21:38):
Events Brucecompany dot com and we.
Speaker 2 (21:41):
Have like just under twenty appointments available in that three
hour time, so you'll want to sign up for that
and then the plant desk will contact you and set
up a time.
Speaker 3 (21:53):
That works for you.
Speaker 4 (21:54):
Let's know what, bring some pictures or some other thing.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
Yeah, bring some pictures, bring some measurements, Uh, bring your
likes and dislikes and we will sort of.
Speaker 3 (22:04):
Help you.
Speaker 4 (22:07):
Put it all together.
Speaker 3 (22:07):
Put it all.
Speaker 2 (22:08):
Together and maybe come up with some things that you
hadn't thought of.
Speaker 3 (22:11):
And there's no charge for this.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
Oh yeah, super cool, great day to get on and
it's always a great day to get on into the
Middleton Guards. Cider the Bruce Company, of course, you can
find them right at twenty eight thirty parm Innistreet. That's
twenty eight thirty Parmenter Street. Of course, the outdoor Furniture
Extravaganza taking place Saturday, March fifteenth. Mark that on your calendar.
Will of course talk about it next week as well.
Give you a little reminder. Wraffle refreshment, some demos and
(22:35):
some other cool things.
Speaker 3 (22:36):
Some great snacks, real sneaky snacks.
Speaker 4 (22:39):
Ooh, I like snacks, you know me, Lisa Big, don't forget.
Speaker 1 (22:44):
It's always a great day to get on into the
Middleton Guards under the Bruce Company twenty eight thirty parm
Entis Street, twenty thirty Partment Street online Bruce Company dot com.
That's Bruce Company dot com. Lisa, that's always great to
see you. Enjoy this beautiful day you too. Shine news
comes your way next yere at thirteen ten del Will
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