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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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at twenty at thirty Partment Registrate. That's twenty at thirty
Partment Registry. Also a great day to get on in
and see everybody at the Bruce Company. Or if you've
got a question, get you on the air this morning.
That's six so eight three two one thirteen ten. That's
six so eight three two one thirteen ten. And when
you call in, not only be talking with me. I'm
just here to say hi.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
The person that knows at all, the one and only
Lisa Breaks from the Bruce Company. Lisa, how you doing
this morning?
Speaker 3 (00:47):
Good?
Speaker 4 (00:47):
I don't know everything. We have a team most between
the team. We know everything.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
You know where to go to get the right.
Speaker 4 (00:53):
Answer stuff if and that is just as valuable.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
And one thing I know that you do know is
that you cannot stand your Microsoft task.
Speaker 4 (01:03):
The track pad is terrible.
Speaker 5 (01:05):
It does.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
How's things been going? But you guys have been busy,
haven't yet?
Speaker 2 (01:09):
The per We have been busy, and I was just
checking rainfalls.
Speaker 4 (01:14):
We are like almost to the monthly average.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
Oh and it's like midway through the month, and it's
not counting what happened whatever we got last night?
Speaker 1 (01:23):
Oh no, oh, so we don't need more, No, we don't.
Speaker 4 (01:26):
But it's it has alleviated.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
All those questions about you know, should I what should
I do.
Speaker 4 (01:33):
About my lawn? Do I really have to water my
new trees and shrubs?
Speaker 1 (01:39):
Now? On the upside, looks like after today, it looks
like we're we're pretty decent shape. Just I don't see
any pre sip at all through Sunday, and obviously things
can change.
Speaker 4 (01:50):
Things can change. And I will say that.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
Thursday, the store is closing at five oh because we
are having we have a a company picnic. Oh really,
and so the store is closing at five o'clock on Thursday.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
Okay, nice, keep that and keep that in mind.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
So if you're planning on coming out on Thursday, we
will not be open until our regular six o'clock, but
we will the rest of the week and then of
course on Friday.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
Oh, that should be a lot of fun. We'll have
to enjoy the picnic and enjoy a little bit of
time stepping away. I know you guys are this time
of year, very very busy, well deserved little time to
get together and do something non work.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
Really kind of nice too, because we get everybody together.
So you know, there's the retail store, there's landscape cruise there.
We have some interaction, but not a lot, so it's
kind of fun to meet the rest of the teams
and their families will be there, so that's fun too.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
That'll be really exciting. Speaking of fun stuff too, and
we've been talking about it the past couple of weeks
and we are just days away. August twenty fourth is
almost here, and I look at your calendar at Bruce
Coompany dot com that day has several that's a Sunday,
several events taking place. There are actually.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
Four things happening on Sunday. So first of all, that
is going to be there. Yes, I haven't heard yet
exactly you know how many dogs they're bringing, if they're
going to be you know, older fosters or puppies. Last month,
I think that they didn't have a litter of puppies
to send.
Speaker 4 (03:22):
So they will be.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
There from noon until two. All the other people will
be there starting at eleven, so one of our landscape
designers will be on hand to give you a console
fifteen minute consult for free. So go to our website
and sign up and then we'll give you a call
and organize the you know, give.
Speaker 4 (03:45):
You an appointment slot. He's going to be sort of
he has.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
He's going to be bringing an interest in planting natives,
but you can ask him many questions. You want, bring photos,
bring dimensions, make sure that you know how much sun
or shade the area in question will have so that
he can give you the best, you know, the best
help and make good use of your fifteen minutes. We
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also have a representative from the Arthritis Foundation coming nice
and she will be talking about how to garden if
you have body issues, carpal tunnel, back stuffnee stuff, that
kind of thing, how you can adapt how you garden.
Speaker 4 (04:38):
So that you can keep on gardening.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
Yeah, that's great.
Speaker 4 (04:41):
And Michelle from the Delicious Or will be there.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
You've got everybody stuck.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
Yeah, and she will be giving you some tips for
how to sort of spice up and pun intended all
the produce that you've been growing in your garden.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
Oh, very cool. It's all taking place on Sunday. Yes.
All the details at Bruce Company dot com.
Speaker 4 (05:04):
Yes, and we the garden console.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
Of course, we need you to register, so we have
a have a space out aside for you and the
other things if you want.
Speaker 4 (05:15):
It helps us get a head count if you register.
But it's not it's not required, Okay, it's good.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
And again all the information great on the website Bruce
company dot com of course always updating as well as
social media. But for registration, things on Bruce company dot
com and.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
You can if you if you're going through social media.
On the description there is a link that you can
then go to the to the appropriate website page.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
You make it too easy, Lisa, I'm trying. You're doing
great as always. If you've got a question for Lisa,
love to have you joined us this morning, tellful number.
The phone lines are open six oh eight three two
one thirteen ten. That's six oh eight three two one
thirteen ten. Maybe you've got something popping in the garden,
you're going, what's going on with this? Or maybe you've
got something not popping on the garden, you're going, what's
going on with that? At least it's here to answer
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those question. Is phrase six eight three two one thirteen ten.
That's six eight three two one thirteen ten. Great to
get into the Midleton currents sided Bruce Company right at
twenty eight thirty Partment Street. That's twenty eight thirty apartment street. Sales,
sales and sales, that's big words, sales and you got
you guys got them at the Bruce Company, don't we do?
Speaker 2 (06:17):
This is the season for for summer savings for sure,
as we start to transition from one season to the next.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
What's the next season?
Speaker 4 (06:29):
Fall? Fall, and followed by the word we shall have it.
I know they started pricing last week. Oh that's glitter everywhere.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
That's awesome, that's great. And of course to make room
for fall, you guys make floor space by giving a
little discounts here now.
Speaker 4 (06:46):
True, so you can save.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
On outdoor ceramic containers, you can save on Trellis's and
arbors that kind of sort of more decorative plant supports.
Speaker 4 (06:59):
There's summer decorps.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
In the store on sale, a couple of things going
on in the boutique, and of course outside, trees and
shrubs are twenty five percent off. Except for hydranges, they
are not on sale. It's the only exception. Some selected
perennials are on sale at various discounts. Annuals there are
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few annuals left. Mostly were transitioning now to the bigger
sizes in the fall things. A few mums came in.
We had some really beautiful xenia containers. Mixed containers should
be in soon. We should probably in the next couple
of weeks see the start of spring blooming bulbs. Usually
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iris are the first to come in, and then followed
by autumn crocus and alium, and then by the late
September we will have of tulips and daffodils and that
kind of thing, Crocus, regular crocus, that kind of thing.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
It's exciting getting already ready for next spring.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
And yeah, indeed, indeed we are like looking to see
where we need to make space.
Speaker 4 (08:14):
And so shifting things around. So tis the season great.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
Day to get on it. I want to ask you
to a little bit about as we uh, not only
shift gears and get ready for fall at the garden center,
of course, getting ready for late summer into fall with
your garden as Well'll talk a little bit about that
with Lisa in just a moment. First off, you got
a question love to have you joined us this morning?
Six so eight three two one thirteen ten. That's six
oh eight three two one thirteen ten. Gets you right
on the air, Lisa Briggs from the Bruce Company. We'll
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head on up north a bit to Merrimack and Jim
joins us. Jim, welcome to the program. You're on the air,
Lisa Briggs from the Bruce Company.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
Yeah, good morning. Say Lisa, what is the best way
to get rid of a coon problem? In my Sweet
Cord And I tried trapping. They won't go into trap.
I put a radio out to so obnoxious music and
that'll bother.
Speaker 4 (09:00):
I have heard of people trying that, you know.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
I we had one in the store early this spring
and he would come out every night and get into
the bird seed and very nicely knock all kinds of
stuff onto the ground, onto.
Speaker 4 (09:16):
The floor and break it, we got him. We try
all kinds of things.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
Peanut butter was the was what got him into the
trap finally, cheap it was cheap peanut butter. I did
not break off the organic stuff, but that's what that's
how we got him into the trap finally. But and
we we set several traps in the places that he
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had been hanging out, and so one of there were
like three or four different ones that were set in
different places. But I think getting him, you know, it's
like it's like when you have bunnies in the vegetable garden,
why would they go into a trap?
Speaker 4 (10:02):
So I think it might be the same for the raccoon's.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
It's an awfully attractive place from dang out.
Speaker 3 (10:08):
Yeah, they wiped out Darner all my sweet cord.
Speaker 4 (10:11):
Oh, I'm so sorry. Sounds like maybe more than one.
Speaker 3 (10:15):
I'm sure there was a whole hurdle. Y No, I
know they usually can't resist tune of water on bread,
you know.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
Okay, Well, we did try some like beef sticks that
he was not interested.
Speaker 4 (10:31):
In the end, it was the peanut butter.
Speaker 6 (10:33):
I did it.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
Thank you, You're welcome, thank you, good luck. And I
would think they would have sir, I thought they'd have
been all over the beef sticks. I mean I thought
so too.
Speaker 4 (10:45):
The other thing, we had a cashier who liked sun chips, Yeah,
and so.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
We would get them from the vending machine and there
were the crumbs and he would throw them into So
that was the first place the raccoon went was over
to the cashier, where he knocked out all of the
trash cans, looking for the bags with the little son
chip crumbs, and then he headed straight for the birds in. Ah.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
So adorable and so destructive. Those guys.
Speaker 4 (11:08):
He was pretty tame. Whuld we trap? Yeah you didn't
even you know, usually Dela hiss and get all.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
Yeah, he was not.
Speaker 4 (11:14):
He was He knew he was busted.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
Did you think about handing one application? Did you put
him to work? That's three two one thirteen ten. Let's
head to arena where Dorothy checks in. Dorothy, thank you
so much for joining us this morning. You're on the air.
LIASA Breaks from the Bruce Company.
Speaker 6 (11:31):
Good morning, Lisa, Good morning. I was wondering if you
have some kind of a spray for spiders. I have
spiders in my basement and I'd like to get rid
of them.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
Well, I would think that, and don't quote me on this,
because this is not a question we often get in
the garden center. I would think that most broad spectrum
insecticides would work, but you're gonna want to use one
meant for households, So not something that we would spray outside,
because because you don't, there are you know, things that
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are made for indoor insects. Are the chemicals they use
are different, so they're not harmful to the humans and
other pets and things that are living in your house.
So stop into the garden center and somebody will go
over the options with you.
Speaker 4 (12:24):
It is a big spider year.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
This year, though, is it?
Speaker 2 (12:27):
It is?
Speaker 1 (12:28):
I love spiders, Dorothy, if you can trap them with
a little peanut butter. No, Yeah, spiders don't go hunting.
Speaker 4 (12:44):
They wait for the food to go to them.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
That's their whole stick, right. What the spiders and I
have in common we like being brought to it.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
Yeah, and I'm wondering you you know, when you check
like a like a household fogger would probably work, uh huh,
and then you wouldn't have to go around and spray,
you know, looking for them. But whatever you do, make
sure that you read the package instructions to make sure
because some insecticides kill some insects, but not not all.
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But I would look at a fogger because that would
be the easiest. You could just set it and then
close the door and walk away, and then you wait
a few hours and go down there and then clean up.
Speaker 6 (13:25):
Okay, okay, thank you.
Speaker 4 (13:27):
But I don't have a direct product recommendation for you.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
D are they Thank you, Thank you for the call,
great question this morning. You if you've got a question,
let David join us as well. We'll get you on
the air this morning. Six SO eight three two one
thirteen ten. That's six SO eight three two one thirteen ten.
A crab tea tree question from Sherry. Sherry, Welcome to
Programming're on the early of breaks from the Bruce Company.
Speaker 3 (13:50):
Hi.
Speaker 5 (13:50):
Hi, I'm calling from Storlton.
Speaker 3 (13:53):
We have.
Speaker 5 (13:56):
A fign crab tree in our front yard that we've
had for several years. In the spring it's beautiful and
then as like mid August, it's like dying, and I'm
wondering if it's something that there's a blank in it
and that we just need to just say go by
to it.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
Kind of town or what I would guess that it
is an older variety, even though it's new to you.
Some of the older crab apple varieties, like Prairie Fire
is a real popular one.
Speaker 4 (14:26):
They're very prone to a fungal disease called apple scab
and apple scab.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
What it does is it you first you'll see some
spots on the leaves, and then the leaves start to
turn yellow, and then by August, you know, late July August,
they're falling on the ground. And then the tree is
fine the next year until it all happens again. So
there are a couple of things that you can do preventatively.
The first thing is try your best not to get
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water on the foliage. So if you're watering with a
sprinkler in that area, try to keep the spring or low,
or maybe use a soaker hose in that area.
Speaker 4 (15:04):
Something like that. Fungus likes heat and moisture. Now, of course, we've.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
Had really high humidity all summer, so I'm not surprised. Secondly,
you're going to want to remove any of that leaf litter,
do a good breakup.
Speaker 4 (15:18):
I know there's a lot of interest in keeping.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
Leaves out for pollinating insects, but in this case, they're
also an inoculant for next year for the fungus. The
other thing you can do is this winter, take a
look at the structure of the tree. If you maybe
if it's kind of dense, maybe you need to thin
it out a little bit.
Speaker 4 (15:39):
To improve the airflow through it.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
And then the fourth thing is next year, after the
petals fall, so when the flowering is finished, you're going
to apply a fungicide as a preventative measure.
Speaker 4 (15:52):
There are a number of things on the market that
you can use.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
They run the gamut to things that are like purely
chemical to things that are more on there and a
line of the end of the spectrum. But if you'll
spray that and then every ten days to two weeks
until the humidity breaks. Usually in our area humidity breaks
around mid July.
Speaker 4 (16:15):
This year, that is not the case, right, But the
tree there.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
There's like on Midvale Boulevard in Madison, there's a whole
line on the on the the thing in the center
between the lanes, and it's full of old old crab
apple varieties. And the same thing happens there too, So
it's not it will it can weaken the tree for sure,
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but it's apple scab is not going to kill your tree.
Speaker 5 (16:47):
Okay, okay, well that's very very helpful because it's certainly
not a new tree. We've had it a long time.
But it's but it you know, you think, oh, maybe
it's gonna be okay this year, and.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
Then yeah, well it is, and then and then it
just gets hit by the apple scab again. If you
go to UW Extension Publications and you google that, then
the UW has a whole range of really well researched
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what they call fact sheets, and so just type in
apple scab and see if that's what you have, if
that resembles what's going on with your tree, and then
there are lots of instructions sort of reiterating the things
I just told you.
Speaker 5 (17:32):
Awesome, thank you, thank you. I sure appreciate it.
Speaker 4 (17:35):
Not a problem. You have a great day.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
Thank you, sharing great question. Great calls this morning, if
you got a question, you let me get you on.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
The early are good calls, they are, right, not that
they're not always good calls with these are especially.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
These are unique.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
I don't think we've ever had a raccoon call or
that is no, I think that is the first record,
great chance to get on the air if you've got
a question for Lisa six eight through two one thirteen ten.
That's six eight three two thirteen ten. Of course, as
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Parmenter Street. That's twenty eight thirty Partment Street. Real quick
question about applescap Does that get on the leaves or
the fruit or.
Speaker 4 (18:13):
Gets on the leaves?
Speaker 1 (18:14):
Okay?
Speaker 2 (18:14):
So the other fungal disease for for crab apples and
apples in general is cedar apple rust.
Speaker 4 (18:21):
Now rust though doesn't cause.
Speaker 2 (18:22):
Her leaves to fall off, okay, So that's why I'm
leaning toward applescam rust will also affect the fruit.
Speaker 4 (18:30):
So if you ever see.
Speaker 2 (18:33):
Crab apples and there they have like little they look
kind of shaggy.
Speaker 1 (18:36):
Yeah, yeah, that's rust. Okay. Is there a scale in
here somewhere at all?
Speaker 4 (18:40):
Is there a scale issue with the for apples? Not
so much, okay, not so much for other things, yes,
but not for apples.
Speaker 1 (18:46):
Okay, Yeah, that's a really great questions, really good calls,
really good answers. Has always love to get you to
join us this morning. You've got a question for Lisa's
phone line open for you right now. It's six' eight
three two one thirteen ten. That's six eight three two
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to make sure you get get all the details on.
That'd be a great, great data way to spend a Sunday.
Of course, you always get on into the Middleton Gardens
of the Bruce Company twenty eight thirty Partment Street. That's
twenty eight thirty Parmenter Street. Speaking of cool things going
at the Bruce Company, I know, as folks are starting
to harvest their bounty and some of some of these
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gardens are quite bountiful this year.
Speaker 4 (19:50):
Yeah they are, aren't they.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
I saw you guys are posting. Folks are bringing in
bringing in garden extras to.
Speaker 4 (19:56):
Yeah for giving gardners.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
So we yeah, so we collect your extra produce and
we take it over to way Forward Resources and they
will they have a shopper store where people families in
need can come in And what a nice thing to
share your extra produce with people who don't have the
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opportunity to garden, or for whatever reasons, their current circumstances
make it difficult for them to get a lot of
fresh food, so we can share.
Speaker 1 (20:30):
Well, that's it's such a cool way to hand because
you know, it's it's people that really can appreciate that stuff.
What else, I know, people love growing And one of
the things I've loved seeing is a lot of communities
and neighborhoods. I'm seeing or doing different types of community
gardens for folks that may not have you know, whether
you live in a condo or an apartment, or may
just maybe just don't have the space to garden yourself,
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grow your own fruits and vegs. I see, like down
in Janesville, we've got a huge one of like just
for people to come and garden.
Speaker 4 (20:59):
Yeah, it's called the Edible Forests.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
Cool.
Speaker 4 (21:01):
Yeah, it is cool. I don't know that we have
one in Madison.
Speaker 2 (21:04):
But basically they not just it's not as much gardening
like we think about vegetable gardening, but they have fruit
and nut bearing plants, food crops that you can just
stop in and pick some apples or whatever.
Speaker 1 (21:20):
Next time you're sitting in the drive through, think that
there is food that just grows and you don't have
to worry about any of that stuff. It's natural, it's beautiful.
Speaker 4 (21:28):
Well, you do have to worry.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
That's that's why we're so concerned about the pollinators. Like
I think it's like seventy percent of our food. Somehow
pollinators are mixed up in the production of that food.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
They are busy bees they are, and.
Speaker 2 (21:47):
And birds and other insects and like beetles and small creatures, chipmunks,
all those all those little critters act as pollinates.
Speaker 1 (21:57):
They have a little role.
Speaker 4 (21:59):
They play a part.
Speaker 1 (22:00):
That's awesome. He's talks morning with Lisa Briggs from the
Brisk Company. If you've got a question for Lisa, we've
got a line open for a six eight three two
one thirteen ten. That's six oh eight three two one
thirteen ten. Chris, welcome to the program. Are you a
mind reader at all?
Speaker 7 (22:14):
No, not a mind reader, But I am a procrastinator.
And I got my garden boxes construction project finished late
in the year, and so what could I reasonably expect
to plant and harvest yet this year? I probably will
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be able to hoop house them.
Speaker 2 (22:37):
Okay, well, hoop housing helps, so any of the greens,
of course, let us has spinish that kind of thing,
especially as the temperatures are now kind of moderating a
little bit. And then what you're going to want to
look for is things that have a short from germination
to harvest, like not much more than say sixty five
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or seventy days. Okay, so like mini carrots, at lots
of the smaller like baby root crops, you can do
probably peas, anything that really needs heat to develop fruit
like like beans and tomatoes and peppers, even if those
are a short window, or you know, a shorter window,
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they're not going to work because you want things that
are going to thrive as a temperature cools.
Speaker 4 (23:27):
Some of the smaller.
Speaker 2 (23:30):
Cold weather crops like you know, maybe you can't do
head broccoli, but you could do broccoli rob that kind
of thing.
Speaker 7 (23:39):
Oh, I think you'll yes more than you And.
Speaker 4 (23:42):
You should do garlic because you can plant that.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
After the frost and then next summer you'll have really good,
beautiful garlic. And we just got garlic in the store,
our seed garlic in last week, so that's a really
fun crop to do.
Speaker 3 (23:58):
Well.
Speaker 1 (23:59):
Thank you, You're very welcome. Great call, great question. But
you mentioned the hoop house. Do you guys sell the
stuff to make those for folks that want to put
that stuff to get the Bruce company, we.
Speaker 2 (24:08):
Have floating row cover, which is another thing you can
that they're very good for.
Speaker 4 (24:12):
And then just some you just do wires.
Speaker 2 (24:14):
We do have like hoops that make plant supports that
I suppose you could use, but it's probably more cost
effective for the number that you need, and maybe if
depending on what you're growing, you might need them to
be kind of tall.
Speaker 4 (24:29):
Sure to just get some good wire.
Speaker 1 (24:31):
Is that one of those questions we talk I always
think about like the help plant desk and thinking about
specific plants. Is that something folks could they've got a
question about maybe putting something like that together, that that
somebody at the Bruce Company can maybe help them guide them,
show them what they might need or whatever. Absolutely, so
many great answers to all the great questions at the
Bruce It's a fantastic day. And so as we talked
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to real quick with Chris and why I thought it
was a mind reader as I've written down fall fall flowers,
that's a twister and other kind of things you could
be putting in your garden right now just to kind
of continue the season a little bit longer.
Speaker 2 (25:06):
Yeah, and whether whether it's just that you had something
that didn't work out, and so you have a space
in your garden, whether it's where you had planted lettuce
and that kind of thing in the spring.
Speaker 4 (25:18):
It's difficult to get that stuff through this to keep it.
Speaker 2 (25:23):
Healthy through the summer heat. So now you can do
a reso on that stuff.
Speaker 1 (25:27):
Oh fantastic. Yeah, So it's a good day to start
that conversation or even better, get on into the Middleton
Garden Center of the Bruce Company right at twenty eight
thirty Partment Street, twenty thirty Partment Street. All sorts of
great stuff going on, of course, make sure you're following
them on Bruce company dot com. That's Bruce Company dot com.
A bunch of workshops and other things posted up there.
If some of them require registration all the.
Speaker 2 (25:47):
Yeah, we did just add a couple of succulent workshops
in September.
Speaker 4 (25:52):
I think the twentieth and twenty.
Speaker 1 (25:53):
Third succulents are very cool. Do we have We've got
the one cactus you told me about here in Wisconsin.
Do we have any other sects that are that are native?
Speaker 2 (26:02):
Not any that are native, but there are some that
are hardy. If you think about like hens and chicks.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
I don't know what that is.
Speaker 4 (26:07):
It's that little.
Speaker 2 (26:12):
Computer hens and chicks, yeahs and chicks supervirons. They're they
are a oh yeah, hearty, and they come in several
different types of like more red and some that are grayer.
Speaker 1 (26:25):
But they look like they look like when you were
in middle school, if you were to draw a rose.
It kind of looked like if you were to.
Speaker 4 (26:33):
A little rose that shape.
Speaker 1 (26:34):
Yeah, very very neat stuff.
Speaker 4 (26:36):
They spread a lot they're good for rock gardens will.
Speaker 1 (26:38):
Be included as part of the uh the workshop.
Speaker 4 (26:41):
Hens and Chicks.
Speaker 2 (26:41):
I don't think so, but we have a lot of
other things that would do better indoors, because as we're
you know, doing a workshop in September, we're not doing
something that you're going to keep outside for a long
period of time.
Speaker 4 (26:54):
It's more something too, you.
Speaker 2 (26:56):
Know, as the tempts are cooling down and as your
gardening is winding down outside, you want to bring a
little bit of that back into the house.
Speaker 4 (27:04):
This is a perfect way to do that.
Speaker 1 (27:05):
What a great way to do that. And again, of
course all the details up at Bruce Company dot com.
That's Bruce Company dot com. Also while you're there, check
out of course the big events coming up this Sunday,
the twenty fourth, all sorts of things going on at
the Bruce Company and the website Bruce Company dot com,
Facebook and social media the Bruce Company even better. What
a great day to get into Middleton Gardens under the
Bruce Company twenty eight thirty Partment Street. That's twenty eight
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Partment Registry. Also a great day to get on in
and see everybody at the Bruce Company. Or if you've
got a question, get you on the air this morning.
That's six so eight three two one thirteen ten. That's
six so eight three two one thirteen ten. And when
you call in, not only be talking with me. I'm
just here to say hi.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
The person that knows at all, the one and only
Lisa Breaks from the Bruce Company. Lisa, how you doing
this morning?
Speaker 3 (00:47):
Good?
Speaker 4 (00:47):
I don't know everything. We have a team most between
the team. We know everything.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
You know where to go to get the right.
Speaker 4 (00:53):
Answer stuff if and that is just as valuable.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
And one thing I know that you do know is
that you cannot stand your Microsoft task.
Speaker 4 (01:03):
The track pad is terrible.
Speaker 5 (01:05):
It does.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
How's things been going? But you guys have been busy,
haven't yet?
Speaker 2 (01:09):
The per We have been busy, and I was just
checking rainfalls.
Speaker 4 (01:14):
We are like almost to the monthly average.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
Oh and it's like midway through the month, and it's
not counting what happened whatever we got last night?
Speaker 1 (01:23):
Oh no, oh, so we don't need more, No, we don't.
Speaker 4 (01:26):
But it's it has alleviated.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
All those questions about you know, should I what should
I do.
Speaker 4 (01:33):
About my lawn? Do I really have to water my
new trees and shrubs?
Speaker 1 (01:39):
Now? On the upside, looks like after today, it looks
like we're we're pretty decent shape. Just I don't see
any pre sip at all through Sunday, and obviously things
can change.
Speaker 4 (01:50):
Things can change. And I will say that.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
Thursday, the store is closing at five oh because we
are having we have a a company picnic. Oh really,
and so the store is closing at five o'clock on Thursday.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
Okay, nice, keep that and keep that in mind.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
So if you're planning on coming out on Thursday, we
will not be open until our regular six o'clock, but
we will the rest of the week and then of
course on Friday.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
Oh, that should be a lot of fun. We'll have
to enjoy the picnic and enjoy a little bit of
time stepping away. I know you guys are this time
of year, very very busy, well deserved little time to
get together and do something non work.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
Really kind of nice too, because we get everybody together.
So you know, there's the retail store, there's landscape cruise there.
We have some interaction, but not a lot, so it's
kind of fun to meet the rest of the teams
and their families will be there, so that's fun too.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
That'll be really exciting. Speaking of fun stuff too, and
we've been talking about it the past couple of weeks
and we are just days away. August twenty fourth is
almost here, and I look at your calendar at Bruce
Coompany dot com that day has several that's a Sunday,
several events taking place. There are actually.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
Four things happening on Sunday. So first of all, that
is going to be there. Yes, I haven't heard yet
exactly you know how many dogs they're bringing, if they're
going to be you know, older fosters or puppies. Last month,
I think that they didn't have a litter of puppies
to send.
Speaker 4 (03:22):
So they will be.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
There from noon until two. All the other people will
be there starting at eleven, so one of our landscape
designers will be on hand to give you a console
fifteen minute consult for free. So go to our website
and sign up and then we'll give you a call
and organize the you know, give.
Speaker 4 (03:45):
You an appointment slot. He's going to be sort of
he has.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
He's going to be bringing an interest in planting natives,
but you can ask him many questions. You want, bring photos,
bring dimensions, make sure that you know how much sun
or shade the area in question will have so that
he can give you the best, you know, the best
help and make good use of your fifteen minutes. We
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also have a representative from the Arthritis Foundation coming nice
and she will be talking about how to garden if
you have body issues, carpal tunnel, back stuffnee stuff, that
kind of thing, how you can adapt how you garden.
Speaker 4 (04:38):
So that you can keep on gardening.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
Yeah, that's great.
Speaker 4 (04:41):
And Michelle from the Delicious Or will be there.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
You've got everybody stuck.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
Yeah, and she will be giving you some tips for
how to sort of spice up and pun intended all
the produce that you've been growing in your garden.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
Oh, very cool. It's all taking place on Sunday. Yes.
All the details at Bruce Company dot com.
Speaker 4 (05:04):
Yes, and we the garden console.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
Of course, we need you to register, so we have
a have a space out aside for you and the
other things if you want.
Speaker 4 (05:15):
It helps us get a head count if you register.
But it's not it's not required, Okay, it's good.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
And again all the information great on the website Bruce
company dot com of course always updating as well as
social media. But for registration, things on Bruce company dot
com and.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
You can if you if you're going through social media.
On the description there is a link that you can
then go to the to the appropriate website page.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
You make it too easy, Lisa, I'm trying. You're doing
great as always. If you've got a question for Lisa,
love to have you joined us this morning, tellful number.
The phone lines are open six oh eight three two
one thirteen ten. That's six oh eight three two one
thirteen ten. Maybe you've got something popping in the garden,
you're going, what's going on with this? Or maybe you've
got something not popping on the garden, you're going, what's
going on with that? At least it's here to answer
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those question. Is phrase six eight three two one thirteen ten.
That's six eight three two one thirteen ten. Great to
get into the Midleton currents sided Bruce Company right at
twenty eight thirty Partment Street. That's twenty eight thirty apartment street. Sales,
sales and sales, that's big words, sales and you got
you guys got them at the Bruce Company, don't we do?
Speaker 2 (06:17):
This is the season for for summer savings for sure,
as we start to transition from one season to the next.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
What's the next season?
Speaker 4 (06:29):
Fall? Fall, and followed by the word we shall have it.
I know they started pricing last week. Oh that's glitter everywhere.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
That's awesome, that's great. And of course to make room
for fall, you guys make floor space by giving a
little discounts here now.
Speaker 4 (06:46):
True, so you can save.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
On outdoor ceramic containers, you can save on Trellis's and
arbors that kind of sort of more decorative plant supports.
Speaker 4 (06:59):
There's summer decorps.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
In the store on sale, a couple of things going
on in the boutique, and of course outside, trees and
shrubs are twenty five percent off. Except for hydranges, they
are not on sale. It's the only exception. Some selected
perennials are on sale at various discounts. Annuals there are
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few annuals left. Mostly were transitioning now to the bigger
sizes in the fall things. A few mums came in.
We had some really beautiful xenia containers. Mixed containers should
be in soon. We should probably in the next couple
of weeks see the start of spring blooming bulbs. Usually
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iris are the first to come in, and then followed
by autumn crocus and alium, and then by the late
September we will have of tulips and daffodils and that
kind of thing, Crocus, regular crocus, that kind of thing.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
It's exciting getting already ready for next spring.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
And yeah, indeed, indeed we are like looking to see
where we need to make space.
Speaker 4 (08:14):
And so shifting things around. So tis the season great.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
Day to get on it. I want to ask you
to a little bit about as we uh, not only
shift gears and get ready for fall at the garden center,
of course, getting ready for late summer into fall with
your garden as Well'll talk a little bit about that
with Lisa in just a moment. First off, you got
a question love to have you joined us this morning?
Six so eight three two one thirteen ten. That's six
oh eight three two one thirteen ten. Gets you right
on the air, Lisa Briggs from the Bruce Company. We'll
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head on up north a bit to Merrimack and Jim
joins us. Jim, welcome to the program. You're on the air,
Lisa Briggs from the Bruce Company.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
Yeah, good morning. Say Lisa, what is the best way
to get rid of a coon problem? In my Sweet
Cord And I tried trapping. They won't go into trap.
I put a radio out to so obnoxious music and
that'll bother.
Speaker 4 (09:00):
I have heard of people trying that, you know.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
I we had one in the store early this spring
and he would come out every night and get into
the bird seed and very nicely knock all kinds of
stuff onto the ground, onto.
Speaker 4 (09:16):
The floor and break it, we got him. We try
all kinds of things.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
Peanut butter was the was what got him into the
trap finally, cheap it was cheap peanut butter. I did
not break off the organic stuff, but that's what that's
how we got him into the trap finally. But and
we we set several traps in the places that he
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had been hanging out, and so one of there were
like three or four different ones that were set in
different places. But I think getting him, you know, it's
like it's like when you have bunnies in the vegetable garden,
why would they go into a trap?
Speaker 4 (10:02):
So I think it might be the same for the raccoon's.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
It's an awfully attractive place from dang out.
Speaker 3 (10:08):
Yeah, they wiped out Darner all my sweet cord.
Speaker 4 (10:11):
Oh, I'm so sorry. Sounds like maybe more than one.
Speaker 3 (10:15):
I'm sure there was a whole hurdle. Y No, I
know they usually can't resist tune of water on bread,
you know.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
Okay, Well, we did try some like beef sticks that
he was not interested.
Speaker 4 (10:31):
In the end, it was the peanut butter.
Speaker 6 (10:33):
I did it.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
Thank you, You're welcome, thank you, good luck. And I
would think they would have sir, I thought they'd have
been all over the beef sticks. I mean I thought
so too.
Speaker 4 (10:45):
The other thing, we had a cashier who liked sun chips, Yeah,
and so.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
We would get them from the vending machine and there
were the crumbs and he would throw them into So
that was the first place the raccoon went was over
to the cashier, where he knocked out all of the
trash cans, looking for the bags with the little son
chip crumbs, and then he headed straight for the birds in. Ah.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
So adorable and so destructive. Those guys.
Speaker 4 (11:08):
He was pretty tame. Whuld we trap? Yeah you didn't
even you know, usually Dela hiss and get all.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
Yeah, he was not.
Speaker 4 (11:14):
He was He knew he was busted.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
Did you think about handing one application? Did you put
him to work? That's three two one thirteen ten. Let's
head to arena where Dorothy checks in. Dorothy, thank you
so much for joining us this morning. You're on the air.
LIASA Breaks from the Bruce Company.
Speaker 6 (11:31):
Good morning, Lisa, Good morning. I was wondering if you
have some kind of a spray for spiders. I have
spiders in my basement and I'd like to get rid
of them.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
Well, I would think that, and don't quote me on this,
because this is not a question we often get in
the garden center. I would think that most broad spectrum
insecticides would work, but you're gonna want to use one
meant for households, So not something that we would spray outside,
because because you don't, there are you know, things that
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are made for indoor insects. Are the chemicals they use
are different, so they're not harmful to the humans and
other pets and things that are living in your house.
So stop into the garden center and somebody will go
over the options with you.
Speaker 4 (12:24):
It is a big spider year.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
This year, though, is it?
Speaker 2 (12:27):
It is?
Speaker 1 (12:28):
I love spiders, Dorothy, if you can trap them with
a little peanut butter. No, Yeah, spiders don't go hunting.
Speaker 4 (12:44):
They wait for the food to go to them.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
That's their whole stick, right. What the spiders and I
have in common we like being brought to it.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
Yeah, and I'm wondering you you know, when you check
like a like a household fogger would probably work, uh huh,
and then you wouldn't have to go around and spray,
you know, looking for them. But whatever you do, make
sure that you read the package instructions to make sure
because some insecticides kill some insects, but not not all.
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But I would look at a fogger because that would
be the easiest. You could just set it and then
close the door and walk away, and then you wait
a few hours and go down there and then clean up.
Speaker 6 (13:25):
Okay, okay, thank you.
Speaker 4 (13:27):
But I don't have a direct product recommendation for you.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
D are they Thank you, Thank you for the call,
great question this morning. You if you've got a question,
let David join us as well. We'll get you on
the air this morning. Six SO eight three two one
thirteen ten. That's six SO eight three two one thirteen ten.
A crab tea tree question from Sherry. Sherry, Welcome to
Programming're on the early of breaks from the Bruce Company.
Speaker 3 (13:50):
Hi.
Speaker 5 (13:50):
Hi, I'm calling from Storlton.
Speaker 3 (13:53):
We have.
Speaker 5 (13:56):
A fign crab tree in our front yard that we've
had for several years. In the spring it's beautiful and
then as like mid August, it's like dying, and I'm
wondering if it's something that there's a blank in it
and that we just need to just say go by
to it.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
Kind of town or what I would guess that it
is an older variety, even though it's new to you.
Some of the older crab apple varieties, like Prairie Fire
is a real popular one.
Speaker 4 (14:26):
They're very prone to a fungal disease called apple scab
and apple scab.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
What it does is it you first you'll see some
spots on the leaves, and then the leaves start to
turn yellow, and then by August, you know, late July August,
they're falling on the ground. And then the tree is
fine the next year until it all happens again. So
there are a couple of things that you can do preventatively.
The first thing is try your best not to get
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water on the foliage. So if you're watering with a
sprinkler in that area, try to keep the spring or low,
or maybe use a soaker hose in that area.
Speaker 4 (15:04):
Something like that. Fungus likes heat and moisture. Now, of course, we've.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
Had really high humidity all summer, so I'm not surprised. Secondly,
you're going to want to remove any of that leaf litter,
do a good breakup.
Speaker 4 (15:18):
I know there's a lot of interest in keeping.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
Leaves out for pollinating insects, but in this case, they're
also an inoculant for next year for the fungus. The
other thing you can do is this winter, take a
look at the structure of the tree. If you maybe
if it's kind of dense, maybe you need to thin
it out a little bit.
Speaker 4 (15:39):
To improve the airflow through it.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
And then the fourth thing is next year, after the
petals fall, so when the flowering is finished, you're going
to apply a fungicide as a preventative measure.
Speaker 4 (15:52):
There are a number of things on the market that
you can use.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
They run the gamut to things that are like purely
chemical to things that are more on there and a
line of the end of the spectrum. But if you'll
spray that and then every ten days to two weeks
until the humidity breaks. Usually in our area humidity breaks
around mid July.
Speaker 4 (16:15):
This year, that is not the case, right, But the
tree there.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
There's like on Midvale Boulevard in Madison, there's a whole
line on the on the the thing in the center
between the lanes, and it's full of old old crab
apple varieties. And the same thing happens there too, So
it's not it will it can weaken the tree for sure,
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but it's apple scab is not going to kill your tree.
Speaker 5 (16:47):
Okay, okay, well that's very very helpful because it's certainly
not a new tree. We've had it a long time.
But it's but it you know, you think, oh, maybe
it's gonna be okay this year, and.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
Then yeah, well it is, and then and then it
just gets hit by the apple scab again. If you
go to UW Extension Publications and you google that, then
the UW has a whole range of really well researched
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what they call fact sheets, and so just type in
apple scab and see if that's what you have, if
that resembles what's going on with your tree, and then
there are lots of instructions sort of reiterating the things
I just told you.
Speaker 5 (17:32):
Awesome, thank you, thank you. I sure appreciate it.
Speaker 4 (17:35):
Not a problem. You have a great day.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
Thank you, sharing great question. Great calls this morning, if
you got a question, you let me get you on.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
The early are good calls, they are, right, not that
they're not always good calls with these are especially.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
These are unique.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
I don't think we've ever had a raccoon call or
that is no, I think that is the first record,
great chance to get on the air if you've got
a question for Lisa six eight through two one thirteen ten.
That's six eight three two thirteen ten. Of course, as
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into the Middleton gardens. So Bruce Company, twenty eight thirty
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Parmenter Street. That's twenty eight thirty Partment Street. Real quick
question about applescap Does that get on the leaves or
the fruit or.
Speaker 4 (18:13):
Gets on the leaves?
Speaker 1 (18:14):
Okay?
Speaker 2 (18:14):
So the other fungal disease for for crab apples and
apples in general is cedar apple rust.
Speaker 4 (18:21):
Now rust though doesn't cause.
Speaker 2 (18:22):
Her leaves to fall off, okay, So that's why I'm
leaning toward applescam rust will also affect the fruit.
Speaker 4 (18:30):
So if you ever see.
Speaker 2 (18:33):
Crab apples and there they have like little they look
kind of shaggy.
Speaker 1 (18:36):
Yeah, yeah, that's rust. Okay. Is there a scale in
here somewhere at all?
Speaker 4 (18:40):
Is there a scale issue with the for apples? Not
so much, okay, not so much for other things, yes,
but not for apples.
Speaker 1 (18:46):
Okay, Yeah, that's a really great questions, really good calls,
really good answers. Has always love to get you to
join us this morning. You've got a question for Lisa's
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to make sure you get get all the details on.
That'd be a great, great data way to spend a Sunday.
Of course, you always get on into the Middleton Gardens
of the Bruce Company twenty eight thirty Partment Street. That's
twenty eight thirty Parmenter Street. Speaking of cool things going
at the Bruce Company, I know, as folks are starting
to harvest their bounty and some of some of these
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gardens are quite bountiful this year.
Speaker 4 (19:50):
Yeah they are, aren't they.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
I saw you guys are posting. Folks are bringing in
bringing in garden extras to.
Speaker 4 (19:56):
Yeah for giving gardners.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
So we yeah, so we collect your extra produce and
we take it over to way Forward Resources and they
will they have a shopper store where people families in
need can come in And what a nice thing to
share your extra produce with people who don't have the
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opportunity to garden, or for whatever reasons, their current circumstances
make it difficult for them to get a lot of
fresh food, so we can share.
Speaker 1 (20:30):
Well, that's it's such a cool way to hand because
you know, it's it's people that really can appreciate that stuff.
What else, I know, people love growing And one of
the things I've loved seeing is a lot of communities
and neighborhoods. I'm seeing or doing different types of community
gardens for folks that may not have you know, whether
you live in a condo or an apartment, or may
just maybe just don't have the space to garden yourself,
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grow your own fruits and vegs. I see, like down
in Janesville, we've got a huge one of like just
for people to come and garden.
Speaker 4 (20:59):
Yeah, it's called the Edible Forests.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
Cool.
Speaker 4 (21:01):
Yeah, it is cool. I don't know that we have
one in Madison.
Speaker 2 (21:04):
But basically they not just it's not as much gardening
like we think about vegetable gardening, but they have fruit
and nut bearing plants, food crops that you can just
stop in and pick some apples or whatever.
Speaker 1 (21:20):
Next time you're sitting in the drive through, think that
there is food that just grows and you don't have
to worry about any of that stuff. It's natural, it's beautiful.
Speaker 4 (21:28):
Well, you do have to worry.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
That's that's why we're so concerned about the pollinators. Like
I think it's like seventy percent of our food. Somehow
pollinators are mixed up in the production of that food.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
They are busy bees they are, and.
Speaker 2 (21:47):
And birds and other insects and like beetles and small creatures, chipmunks,
all those all those little critters act as pollinates.
Speaker 1 (21:57):
They have a little role.
Speaker 4 (21:59):
They play a part.
Speaker 1 (22:00):
That's awesome. He's talks morning with Lisa Briggs from the
Brisk Company. If you've got a question for Lisa, we've
got a line open for a six eight three two
one thirteen ten. That's six oh eight three two one
thirteen ten. Chris, welcome to the program. Are you a
mind reader at all?
Speaker 7 (22:14):
No, not a mind reader, But I am a procrastinator.
And I got my garden boxes construction project finished late
in the year, and so what could I reasonably expect
to plant and harvest yet this year? I probably will
(22:34):
be able to hoop house them.
Speaker 2 (22:37):
Okay, well, hoop housing helps, so any of the greens,
of course, let us has spinish that kind of thing,
especially as the temperatures are now kind of moderating a
little bit. And then what you're going to want to
look for is things that have a short from germination
to harvest, like not much more than say sixty five
(23:02):
or seventy days. Okay, so like mini carrots, at lots
of the smaller like baby root crops, you can do
probably peas, anything that really needs heat to develop fruit
like like beans and tomatoes and peppers, even if those
are a short window, or you know, a shorter window,
(23:23):
they're not going to work because you want things that
are going to thrive as a temperature cools.
Speaker 4 (23:27):
Some of the smaller.
Speaker 2 (23:30):
Cold weather crops like you know, maybe you can't do
head broccoli, but you could do broccoli rob that kind
of thing.
Speaker 7 (23:39):
Oh, I think you'll yes more than you And.
Speaker 4 (23:42):
You should do garlic because you can plant that.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
After the frost and then next summer you'll have really good,
beautiful garlic. And we just got garlic in the store,
our seed garlic in last week, so that's a really
fun crop to do.
Speaker 3 (23:58):
Well.
Speaker 1 (23:59):
Thank you, You're very welcome. Great call, great question. But
you mentioned the hoop house. Do you guys sell the
stuff to make those for folks that want to put
that stuff to get the Bruce company, we.
Speaker 2 (24:08):
Have floating row cover, which is another thing you can
that they're very good for.
Speaker 4 (24:12):
And then just some you just do wires.
Speaker 2 (24:14):
We do have like hoops that make plant supports that
I suppose you could use, but it's probably more cost
effective for the number that you need, and maybe if
depending on what you're growing, you might need them to
be kind of tall.
Speaker 4 (24:29):
Sure to just get some good wire.
Speaker 1 (24:31):
Is that one of those questions we talk I always
think about like the help plant desk and thinking about
specific plants. Is that something folks could they've got a
question about maybe putting something like that together, that that
somebody at the Bruce Company can maybe help them guide them,
show them what they might need or whatever. Absolutely, so
many great answers to all the great questions at the
Bruce It's a fantastic day. And so as we talked
(24:53):
to real quick with Chris and why I thought it
was a mind reader as I've written down fall fall flowers,
that's a twister and other kind of things you could
be putting in your garden right now just to kind
of continue the season a little bit longer.
Speaker 2 (25:06):
Yeah, and whether whether it's just that you had something
that didn't work out, and so you have a space
in your garden, whether it's where you had planted lettuce
and that kind of thing in the spring.
Speaker 4 (25:18):
It's difficult to get that stuff through this to keep it.
Speaker 2 (25:23):
Healthy through the summer heat. So now you can do
a reso on that stuff.
Speaker 1 (25:27):
Oh fantastic. Yeah, So it's a good day to start
that conversation or even better, get on into the Middleton
Garden Center of the Bruce Company right at twenty eight
thirty Partment Street, twenty thirty Partment Street. All sorts of
great stuff going on, of course, make sure you're following
them on Bruce company dot com. That's Bruce Company dot com.
A bunch of workshops and other things posted up there.
If some of them require registration all the.
Speaker 2 (25:47):
Yeah, we did just add a couple of succulent workshops
in September.
Speaker 4 (25:52):
I think the twentieth and twenty.
Speaker 1 (25:53):
Third succulents are very cool. Do we have We've got
the one cactus you told me about here in Wisconsin.
Do we have any other sects that are that are native?
Speaker 2 (26:02):
Not any that are native, but there are some that
are hardy. If you think about like hens and chicks.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
I don't know what that is.
Speaker 4 (26:07):
It's that little.
Speaker 2 (26:12):
Computer hens and chicks, yeahs and chicks supervirons. They're they
are a oh yeah, hearty, and they come in several
different types of like more red and some that are grayer.
Speaker 1 (26:25):
But they look like they look like when you were
in middle school, if you were to draw a rose.
It kind of looked like if you were to.
Speaker 4 (26:33):
A little rose that shape.
Speaker 1 (26:34):
Yeah, very very neat stuff.
Speaker 4 (26:36):
They spread a lot they're good for rock gardens will.
Speaker 1 (26:38):
Be included as part of the uh the workshop.
Speaker 4 (26:41):
Hens and Chicks.
Speaker 2 (26:41):
I don't think so, but we have a lot of
other things that would do better indoors, because as we're
you know, doing a workshop in September, we're not doing
something that you're going to keep outside for a long
period of time.
Speaker 4 (26:54):
It's more something too, you.
Speaker 2 (26:56):
Know, as the tempts are cooling down and as your
gardening is winding down outside, you want to bring a
little bit of that back into the house.
Speaker 4 (27:04):
This is a perfect way to do that.
Speaker 1 (27:05):
What a great way to do that. And again, of
course all the details up at Bruce Company dot com.
That's Bruce Company dot com. Also while you're there, check
out of course the big events coming up this Sunday,
the twenty fourth, all sorts of things going on at
the Bruce Company and the website Bruce Company dot com,
Facebook and social media the Bruce Company even better. What
a great day to get into Middleton Gardens under the
Bruce Company twenty eight thirty Partment Street. That's twenty eight
(27:25):
thirty Partment Street. Lisa, that's always great chatting you have
a fantastic day of you as well. Sean On News
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