June 30, 2025 • 29 mins
This week on Everyday Outdoor Living, Lisa dives into two timely topics for your lawn and garden. First, she explains why choosing the right fungicide is crucial for keeping your plants healthy and disease-free—especially during the warm, wet months when fungal issues thrive. Then, Lisa turns her attention to the skies, discussing how rising heat and humidity affect our beloved songbirds and what you can do to support them through the summer swelter.Whether you're a seasoned gardener or just love spending time outdoors, this episode is packed with practical advice and nature-friendly tips. Tune in and grow with us!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Eight oh seven thirteen ten, WIBA and every day Outdoor
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Taking your calls in question, the one and only Lisa Briggs. Lisa,
how are you doing today?
Speaker 2 (00:36):
I'm good?
Speaker 3 (00:36):
How are you doing good?
Speaker 1 (00:37):
Good to see you and h We are live in
studio this week. It's Monday, June thirtieth. We rarely, we
we almost every just about I think like maybe once
or twice a year. We pre record, yes, which was
a little different, but it's always ah and.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
Twice this summer though it is weird.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
It's a little different, a little different, but we are lives.
How how is your? How is how is everything been going?
I know the Bruce Company this time of year, it's
there's all sorts of fun and great stuff going on.
How the thing has been going for you, Lisa personally?
Speaker 3 (01:06):
Fine? The store fine?
Speaker 1 (01:07):
Yeah, Yeah, I've loved you. Announced a couple of weeks ago.
Of course, Seth now taking a more predominant role at
the first company.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
Yes, And there's a trivia thing happening on Facebook, so
there are weekly questions about Seth and his his history
with the business and so, and you can win gift
cards to the garden Center.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
So go ahead and make some guesses.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
Getting to know you what h Rogers and Hammage? What
is that? Is that the king? And I?
Speaker 3 (01:41):
Yeah, I think so is that?
Speaker 1 (01:42):
We're going to go with it.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
If if were you know what, you can sort the
googles off.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
I had my glasses on, I could ask them too,
they would tell me. So I think it's Rogers and
Hammage signed it.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
It is.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
It's got anyway. But you can get to know Seth
on the Facebook page as well, and you can sing
that song while.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
Yeah, he's been working a very long time.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
Yeah, So I think a lot of people probably already know.
Then this probably helps with the trivia then as well,
speaking of opportunities getting to know folks and getting questions answered,
and you know all those things. We've got phone lines
and they are open for you right now. If you've
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six oh eight three two one thirteen ten. That's six
o eight three two one thirteen ten. Talk about some
great stuff going on to the Bruce Company. And whilst
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Gail's tip this week first and foremost though, Lisa, looking
at the forecast, and that'll tie into I think probably to.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
Our conversation tip for sure.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
Uh, looking at the forecast, I see a lot of
showers and I see a lot of heat.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
Yes, and that means fungus, fungus among.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
Us, Yes, and it is. It is a fun thing
to talk fungus and fun guy. And yeah, let's talk
a little bit about about for folks that are starting
to experience some some issues or.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
Well, first just to a real quick sort of there
are all sorts of asides like pesticides, fungicides, herbicides, insecticides,
and so people will often say, hey, I have this,
can I spray it with that. And so sometimes you
know they have an insect problem and they have a
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fungicide on hand. So make sure that you get your
problems or your issues properly diagnosed before you start using
those products that you have on hand, okay, because sometimes
they're just not effective because they're the wrong aside, right, sure, yeah, so,
and also remember too that if you store those things
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in your garage and it's unheeded, then it can get
quite hot in there, and it can also get very
cold in the winter, so that will affect the efficacy
of the products. So if you're gonna buy things and
sort of hang onto them, then make sure that you
store them in an inside in a you know, in
a in a proper container or something like that to
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you know, to keep them safe and also keep them
clear of any kiddos or pets or anything like that,
because some of these things are chemicals and they have consequences,
and so be careful with them.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
And we talk about this.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
When we talk about using certain herbicides that you want
to use them thoughtfully and carefully. And it's the same
thing with any kind of product that's gonna in effect
kill something else. Right, the job exactly exactly. So there's
no point in spraying things that are not happy, that
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are not going to help. It's wasteful, it's dangerous. So anyway,
so you can always send photos to the plant desk
Plant desk at Brucecompany dot com. You can always bring
samples in. We have a great team on hand, hundreds
of years of experience in the garden industry, and so
we can almost always it's very rare that we're completely
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stumped and we can help you get the right solution
for whatever issue you're having. And then we have the
things on hand right there that you can use.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
With this kind of hot, humid weather that we've had.
I know, the plants, certain plants really dig this type
of like.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
Yeah, tomatoes and peppers, that kind of thing. Any if
you've got.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
Your tropical houseplants outside for the summer, they're going to
really enjoy this kind of weather. Other things you might find,
like if you had peas or you had your pansies,
are probably kind of piddling out in this kind of weather.
So certain perennials that like that are early spring and
like a cooler kind of weather are going to start
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going dormant. So watch for those things. If you see
plants yellowing in this heat. Birches are a prime example.
You will see them suddenly start to get yellow leaves
in the center and all the leaves fall off. That
is not a fungus or a disease, that is just
their response to the heat. So, like I said, it's
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a good idea to get things properly identified and diagnosed
before you go ahead and start spraying.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
What about it You mentioned too with the humidity. Fungus
love the humidity. They do a.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
Lot of that.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
There are there are early spring funguses that like cold,
damp weather. There are other funguses that like this kind
of weather, hot and humid. So they use the moisture
in the air to sort of spread.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
Fungus spreads by.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
Releasing spores, so that and then that's where how they
disperse themselves. And so when the weather is kind of humid,
it has some some moisture on the surface of the
leaves and so that makes it easy to move. And
also it kind of hangs in the air in a
certain sort of way. When you think about Fourth of
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July fireworks. Yeah, and when it's humid, they kind of
just they hang they you know, as they explode, it's
just a different kind of pattern then when it's dry.
So if you think about that, it just so things
that you can do to prevent fungal spread if you
have it on a regular basis, especially for woody plants.
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You want to make sure.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
That if it's a plant that wants a lot of sun,
that it gets more sun.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
So you also want to increase airflow. So if you're
you know a lot of times if a plant is
in a shady kind of corner, there's no place for
the air to move around, So you know, consider doing
maybe some thinning or that kind of thing in the wintertime.
Just sort of mark that on your calendar for the
end of October or mid to mid November that you
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want to do a little bit of pruning on this plant,
this particular plant, to thin it out.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
Does blight count as a is that a fungus.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
Or some blight is a word that doesn't really mean
anything in particular. Some things that are called blights could
be viruses. Some things that are called blights could be fungal,
could be a number of different Some blights are bacterial.
So it's a fungus is basically the spore lands on
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a post and it digs in there and then it
sort of releases more spores.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
What it's supposed to do.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
That's what it's supposed to do.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
There are fungus that like to two consume decaying matter.
Like if you see that dog vomit fungus on your
bark mulch or there's a there's one called bird's nest fungus.
It sort of releases the spores like a shotgun. I know,
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it gets on sticks, on your house or whatever. Those
are funguses that like decaying matter, so that for the
most part, for those guys, all you do is just
take a shovel and remove them. There are other fungus
that like they're hosts to be living. So these are
generally the things that are on foliage. There are proper
treatment times for some things, but most of the ones
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that are kind of happening now you can treat them
with a funch of side. And there are a number
of things on the market. The reason you want to
come into a garden center and talk to somebody is
that some fungicides, not all fungicides are raided for all fungus.
So like there are some like rusts that are pretty tricky.
You have to have a fungicide that's rated for rust
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that's appropriate. If you just spray one on it, that's
not it's not going to help you. So there are
things that are more on the organic spectrum, like copper
fungicides or sulfur fungicides, or things the biologics like Revitalize,
and then there are things that are more on the
chemical and like Dacanil, and there are a host of
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others other brand names that but read the package instructions.
There's always that little booklet on the back. I know
the print is tiny. It's it's not for people my
age because it's teeny tiny, but it's important that you
you read that because you want to know how often
you should spray it. You want to know if there's
a proper time to spray it. If you're spraying this
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on aedible crops, like maybe you have some some of
the tomato fundus, which some of them are called blights,
you want to make sure that you know the entry time.
So from the time you spray to the time you harvest.
You want to pay attention to that kind of thing.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
I know I've been getting older when I start using
my phone to read that stuff. I'll take a picture
and then i'll zoom in on up.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
I have a little plastic magnifying I.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
Don't know wallet. Yeah, that's helpful. Yeah, I'm talking this
morning what Lisa Breaks to the Bruce Company. If you've
got a question, if you've got some tips about reading
small prints, I'm here, I've here from you tho this morning,
no matter what, tell whatever. Six eight three two one
thirteen ten. That's six eight thirty two one thirteen ten.
We'll get you right on the air with Lisa Breaks
from the Bruce Company and speaking of things going on
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to the Bruce Company, summer sales. Summer sales, some are sEH,
we've got stuff going on, don't we.
Speaker 3 (11:01):
We do.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
Indeed, so now that it is summer, you know, we're
sort of thinking about you know, we've got some overstock.
So the nursery, so for trees and shrubs, we're doing
sort of a revolving two week sales. So what is
currently on sale now in the nursery are early spring
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blooming shrubs, so things like for Scythia flowering quints father Gia.
If you don't know, that's a great plant. It's also
called alder. It's very cool related to witch hazel. So
it has a really fun flowers, great fall color. So
even though we are past the flowering period, planting it
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now for fall color because it's really like purple and
orange and red. It's really magnificent. So come on in
and check that kind of thing out.
Speaker 3 (11:58):
We also have a boat go sale on our four
inch annuals.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
For kids that don't know what bogo is.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
By one get one in our case it's by two
get one. Nice yes, so on our fourgnch anuals. So
if you you know, if the heat is sort of
knocking out some of your some of your containers, like
if you set your containers up early in the spring
and you have say some pansies in there, or some
stock or some snap dragons, and they're looking a little bit,
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you know, languishy from the heat, you can go ahead
and swap that out for something that will perform better.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
Now, excellent talk this morning with Lisa Briggs from the
Bruce Company. Of course, if you've got a question, love
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That yeah, bi weekly every other week.
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The other other week is u Yeah, a little email
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If you're not, there's a hydrange of primmer and last week.
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Really all the differences between the different species of Hydrangea.
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High rangs are such a cool they are, and it's.
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Such a huge family.
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Yeah. See, I'm not gonna go back because I was
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I'm gonna have to do that now later today. So
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to Lisa. Holiday hours of course.
Speaker 3 (13:29):
The fourth j oh, that's right, that's that is this week?
Speaker 1 (13:31):
Is that crazy? I know it's nuts.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
Tomorrow is July first, the year is half over.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
That's so crazy to think about it.
Speaker 3 (13:38):
Close. Yes, so we are closed on the fourth of July.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
Okay there though on the third.
Speaker 3 (13:43):
Yes, open on the third.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
So Monday through Saturday nine to six, except for the
fourth and on Sunday eleven to four because summer hours
went into effect a week a couple of weeks ago,
right after Father's Day. So and the only thing that
changed was excellent.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
We'll talk about I know you guys have a round
the fourth, got a little sale on Hollywood. We'll talk
a little bit about. That's all the cool things. I
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the Bruce Company. Great day to get on into the
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Middleton Garden Center of the Bruce Company right at twenty
eight thirty parm Interustreet. It's twenty at thirty Partment Street.
Before we talk talk about some specials going on more
specials of the Bruce Company. Also get Gail's tip. In
just a moment, I'm going to ask you to Lisa.
We talk a lot about birds and birding, and we
talked about the heat, we talked about the humidity, and
I know on Facebook you recently put a posting out
just to let people know don't forget about our feathered friends.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
In this That is true. I mean, in my neighborhood
we have tons of songbirds, although right around my house
we have a broad winged hawk nest, and so I've
seen the babies.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
So I'm thinking that that the mom is having some
effect on other smaller creatures this summer. We don't mind
so much about the rabbits and chipmunks.
Speaker 2 (15:26):
The songbirds.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (15:27):
I think I wish she'd leave them alone.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
But yeah, So we did a series of tips last
week about things that you can do to this summer
to help birds out. And so they of course are
about food, about feeding birds, keeping your feeeders clean, making
sure that you're using you know, good quality seed into it,
but also about the other things you can do when
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when it's this hot, birds really need water. We see
a lot of times when there's a puddle, you'll see
some sparrows hanging around the puddles. So if you've got
a bird bath, you want to make sure that you
keep that clean and change the water out on a
regular basis.
Speaker 3 (16:08):
And there were just some products that we were featuring.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
There's this little solar thing called a water wiggler, and
it just sort of agitates the water a little bit
so that it keeps it moving. That would prevent mosquitoes,
which another scourge of hot humid weather, keeps them from
laying eggs on this in your bird baths. But Gaiale
discovered this really cool thing. It's actually made in the
United States, I forget what state, but it's a copper
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disc and you put it in your bird bath and
something about adding the copper to the water discourages bacterial growth.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
How cool is that?
Speaker 2 (16:47):
I know, right win win, right wind wind. You used
to probably just throw in pennies. But now I don't
know how much penny, how much copper pennies actually have,
so you might have if you have some very old.
Speaker 3 (16:57):
Pennies, you can use them too.
Speaker 2 (16:59):
But this thing is really cool and it's made, like
I said, it's made in the US, so it's sort
of fun. And then you also if you're thinking about
adding plants to your yard at this time of year,
and we can talk about the fact that this is
a great time to plant.
Speaker 3 (17:15):
Yeah, I know it's hot, and.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
I know that we are entering what is it traditionally
a drier period of the year. But as long as
you keep things watered, you know, so that they establish,
you can go ahead and plant. But you should maybe
think about maybe putting a couple evergreens near where your
feeders are, so you're providing some cover for the birds
from predators. Also, you want to think about maybe things
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that are seed bearing or fruit bearing, so that is
really helpful for the birds too, to have some natural
forms of food. So if you, you know, forget to
fill your feeders in the winter, they've got some other
stuff hanging around.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
What about we speaking of feeders as well, and we
were talking about the hot humid air. I know also
with rain and things, moisture sometimes can get into some
of those feeders. You want to make sure that you're
routinely keeping Yeah, at this.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
Time of year, especially in the wintertime, I think not
so much because it's pretty dry and the seed stays
dry in there, and the birds are emptying those things
out pretty quickly at that.
Speaker 3 (18:17):
Time of year.
Speaker 2 (18:18):
But this time of year, you know, some water gets
in there, the seed gets moldy, and yeah, you want
to make sure that on a regular basis that you,
especially if they look like it's getting clumpy in there,
clean them out, do like a gentle bleach solution, and
then rinse it out really well, let it dry thoroughly
before you refill it.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
Do some I'm guessing, like many things, not all feeders
are created equal as well. I've got to guess some
of them are a little bit better when it comes
to keeping moisture and things.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
Out, or I don't think necessarily that I think that one.
I mean, there are lots of things like baffles and
that kind of thing, although those aren't necessarily made to
keep weather out of them.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
They're made to protect your the seed. That's in there
from like squirrels, Yeah, basically right.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
Yeah, So there are all sorts of some of them
that have cages that when the weight of a very
large bird or a chipmunk or a squirrel gets on it,
it sort of closes the ports.
Speaker 3 (19:18):
Yeah, but birds are very.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
Very light, if you've ever held one in your hand,
they wait like nothing. So their weight of a small
songbird is not enough to trigger the cage coming down,
so they can feed quite comfortably and easily.
Speaker 3 (19:34):
But if you get something else on.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
There that's heavier it it just slides down and they
can't get into the ports.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
Talking this morning with Lisa Breaks from the Bruce Company
online Bruce Coompany dot com. That's Bruce Company dot com.
Great data. Get on into the Middleton Garden side with
the Bruce Company. As Lisa mentioned, it's a great time
and you're to be planting and doing other things updating
and keeping keeping your yard and keeping everything fresh out there.
It's a great day to get on into the Middleton
Garden Center, get some ideas. All you got to do
is stomp on in right at twenty parm Entus Street.
They'd love to see it right at twenty eight thirty
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Parment Street while you're there. Of course there are some
specials are things going on. We had mentioned, of course
the fourth of July holiday coming up this week, you
guys have a special going on through July eighth around Pollywood.
Speaker 3 (20:14):
Yeah, and we talked about Pollywood last week.
Speaker 2 (20:18):
Was that in the pre recorded thing because we talked
about one of the days recently we talked about you
know that it's summer and maybe you've got something happening,
or you just want to update your patio furniture, like
choices that you can make where it's more instant gratification.
Speaker 3 (20:32):
You don't have to worry about waiting for.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
You know, for delivery times or worrying about the whole
tariff situation.
Speaker 3 (20:43):
Pollywood is made in the US.
Speaker 2 (20:45):
It's made in the Midwest out of a lot of
it's out of recycled plastic milk bottles, like milk carton,
the kind of things. It's a solid material, so it's
very heavy and durable, has a great warranty, and they
also shit pretty quickly. Usually I think we say two
to three weeks, but I've seen stuff from Bollywood come
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in and you know, in a week, just depends on
what they have on stock. I imagine that if you're
choosing some of the more traditional colors, that's the kind
of thing that they would have on hand, where they
do have a large color range, so if you're looking
at some of the more the brights kind of thing,
that might take.
Speaker 3 (21:24):
A little bit longer.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
But it's super cool, very durable. It's got kind of
a Wisconsin vibe, sort of a lot of Adirondack chairs
and that kind of thing. But Pollywood also has some
deep seating, so that would be like cushioned, you know,
we call deep seating like a sofa. It's got a
cushion as opposed to a bench. They also have some
dining options, and they do have a sale. Now I
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can't tell you what it is because Hollywood is notorious
for their sales are dependent on the collection, so different
collections will have different prices, so you'll have to come
on in and and this is on new special orders,
so this isn't on anything that we.
Speaker 3 (22:04):
Have on hand.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
You mean I got to go in Awe shocks.
Speaker 3 (22:07):
Yeah, sorry, yeah, but we yeah.
Speaker 2 (22:11):
So it's it's it's well priced, made in the States,
super durable, it's a.
Speaker 1 (22:17):
Great product, and you got floor samples folks can.
Speaker 2 (22:19):
Yes, we've got all kinds of floor samples, and that
a lot of times. You know, like an Adirondack chair
is a very sort of thing that your body is
conscious about whether or not it's comfortable. So you want
to sit in the options because it depends on you know,
how high the back is or how it's curved, or
whether the back is straight or so you definitely for
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those kinds of things Pollywood, and also by the Yard,
which is similar, it's just a little bit more more
a sort of a woodsy like a cabin kind of
vibe Hollywood, some of the stylings a little more modern.
Speaker 3 (22:55):
You definitely want to sit in it.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
Though.
Speaker 1 (22:57):
Sometimes see how it feels in my wife's van and
I'll be like, who are you driving around? Because the
passenger seat will be her friends will get in there
and they'll change. That's it's very people are very particular
about angles and how they sit, and indeed.
Speaker 2 (23:10):
And at arondeck chairs, if you don't have the right
one can be super uncomfortable to sit in. And you
don't want to have seating in your you know, on
your patio or terrace.
Speaker 3 (23:22):
Yeah, that is not comfortable.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
What's the point exactly it was. You know what's fun too?
Speaker 3 (23:27):
You want to sit in it?
Speaker 1 (23:28):
Right when you go into the Rust Company, not only
gets sit and you get comfortable, you can get plenty
comfortable if you like. You say, okay, I like this.
It's like the Goldilocks and three bears. Just right, Yeah, exactly,
that one.
Speaker 3 (23:40):
So great analogy.
Speaker 1 (23:41):
What a data Get on into the Middleton Garden side
of the Rist Company right at twenty eight thirty part
Regis Street. That's twenty thirty Partment Street. I wanted to
ask you to Lisa real quick. I know we're going
to talk some of Gale's tips and some other things too.
But do earwigs cause any damage to other than looking
just damage to you? They can't.
Speaker 3 (23:56):
They can do. They do feed un foliage.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
So when we look at earwag when we look at especially,
they kind of like the same sorts of.
Speaker 3 (24:07):
Conditions that slugs like.
Speaker 2 (24:10):
So kind of moist, very shady.
Speaker 3 (24:14):
A lot of sort of cover.
Speaker 2 (24:16):
So you'll see, you know, somebody comes in and they
say they've got insects feeding on their hostas we always
just say, we'll get slugo plus because it's hard to
tell the difference unless you see the slimy trails that
the that the.
Speaker 3 (24:32):
That the slugs leave.
Speaker 2 (24:34):
So if you get slug o, slugo is just a
slug aside.
Speaker 1 (24:39):
Yes it's such.
Speaker 3 (24:42):
A word exists.
Speaker 2 (24:43):
But slugo plus will also take care of earwigs. I know,
they look prehistoric. They look like they would pinch you.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
They do. I just want to call them ewigs because
there's like.
Speaker 3 (24:51):
Yeah, I feel the same way about stink bugs.
Speaker 2 (24:53):
Oh really yeah, they kind of look like little walking tanks.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
I think any time it's like humid in like a
lift up. I've got like a little towed out back
that I lift.
Speaker 3 (25:05):
Up and all of a sudden, yeah, you pill bugs.
Speaker 2 (25:09):
Oh yeah, we used to play with those when we
were kids.
Speaker 1 (25:13):
Pretty cool stuff is a talk sport. Gail, have a
tip for us this week we call.
Speaker 2 (25:16):
We were just talking about fungus, So just be on
the lookout for fungus one that we'll start to see.
And I actually didn't look. You guys have nine bark
right by the entrance. I believe that you do, and
I that's I often that is often the first place
that I see powdery mildew is on your nine barks. Surprising,
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so Powdery mildew is something that we see a lot
in this kind of weather. Okay, it's gonna look like
either somebody brushed milk on your leaf, right, So it's
kind of gray, kind of a silvery gray coating. You
can't like take it off on other things. It gets
a little bit like on.
Speaker 3 (25:58):
The nine mark.
Speaker 2 (25:59):
It actually gets like it has some structure to it.
Speaker 3 (26:03):
Powdery mildew is a big family.
Speaker 2 (26:07):
All of the species of powdery mildew have a different
they have a different host plant. So it's a very
Even though you see powdery mildew on a ton of things,
each particular plant has its own powdery mildew. Oh, and
you can tell them apart. And you look at the
fungal spores. I took a class in this one. I
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put it under a big microscope. They have like different
structures and that's how you identify which one it is
or of course on whatever host it's on. Okay, So
like the ones that are on lilacs are not the
same ones on peenies, which are not the same ones
that are on flocks.
Speaker 3 (26:44):
So, but they all are dealt with the same way.
Speaker 2 (26:48):
Use a fungicide, I like revitalize I've had really good
luck with it. It's it's a biologic, so it's kind of
closer to the organic end of the spectrum, and it
has a little bit of staying power on it, so
you can use it a little preventatively, not one hundred percent,
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but it's helpful. So if you had plants last year
or in the last couple of years that have been
affected by powdery mildew, then go ahead and do a
little bit of pre treating because I think with this
weather we're going to start seeing it.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
One final thing on pre treating, is it too late
to pre treat for Japanese beetles? Are we kind of
just waiting?
Speaker 3 (27:29):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (27:30):
Merge, Yeah, I think that like a lot of those
products like grub asides and milky spore, you can put
down because they last for a long time, so you
can get rid of you can help control the population
of grubs. So when the beetles emerge and do all
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their damage above ground, then they go back into underground
to lay eggs, and those grubs hatch, they're going to
be doing some feeding lay okay the season, so if
you have put a grub aside down that will help
with that. But I don't think it will do much
for them now because they're pu paid. They're in a
pupa stage right now. Okay, so they sometimes if you
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dig and you find like a little brown, kind of shiny,
oblongy looking thing, it's a it's a grub pupa. So
they're they're metamorphosizing into a beetle.
Speaker 1 (28:24):
Gross.
Speaker 2 (28:25):
Yeah, so then they'll come out. So there's not a
whole lot you can do about that stage right right now.
But applying that product, like I said, is not a
bad idea. Most of them have a long staying product.
Our grub X is a year you know, like a
twelve month kind of thing. But just get ready and
be prepared for the adult stage, which I have not
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heard any reports of yet.
Speaker 1 (28:47):
I didn't see any. And we typically madsens or raspberries
get it right away and I haven't seen one yet.
Speaker 3 (28:52):
But get those floating rope covers yet you're ready.
Speaker 1 (28:55):
They are they are at the ready, standing in the shed,
just right there, ready to grab and yeah moments no
so And for folks who don't have any, of course,
you can pick up a floating roll cover and then.
Speaker 2 (29:04):
We also have the you know, the aside the stuff.
The insecticides that are that do really that are really
effective against Japanese beetles, including some that work on edibles.
Speaker 3 (29:15):
But again got to read those labels.
Speaker 1 (29:17):
The other thing you got to do is get into
the Bruce Company and you can ask.
Speaker 2 (29:20):
Absolutely great guys happy to help you, delighted to see you,
happy to help you.
Speaker 1 (29:23):
Great day to get on in right at the Middleton
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That's twenty thirty Parmi Street of course online Bruce Company
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how are you doing today?
Speaker 2 (00:36):
I'm good?
Speaker 3 (00:36):
How are you doing good?
Speaker 1 (00:37):
Good to see you and h We are live in
studio this week. It's Monday, June thirtieth. We rarely, we
we almost every just about I think like maybe once
or twice a year. We pre record, yes, which was
a little different, but it's always ah and.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
Twice this summer though it is weird.
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It's a little different, a little different, but we are lives.
How how is your? How is how is everything been going?
I know the Bruce Company this time of year, it's
there's all sorts of fun and great stuff going on.
How the thing has been going for you, Lisa personally?
Speaker 3 (01:06):
Fine? The store fine?
Speaker 1 (01:07):
Yeah, Yeah, I've loved you. Announced a couple of weeks ago.
Of course, Seth now taking a more predominant role at
the first company.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
Yes, And there's a trivia thing happening on Facebook, so
there are weekly questions about Seth and his his history
with the business and so, and you can win gift
cards to the garden Center.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
So go ahead and make some guesses.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
Getting to know you what h Rogers and Hammage? What
is that? Is that the king? And I?
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Yeah, I think so is that?
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We're going to go with it.
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If if were you know what, you can sort the
googles off.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
I had my glasses on, I could ask them too,
they would tell me. So I think it's Rogers and
Hammage signed it.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
It is.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
It's got anyway. But you can get to know Seth
on the Facebook page as well, and you can sing
that song while.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
Yeah, he's been working a very long time.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
Yeah, So I think a lot of people probably already know.
Then this probably helps with the trivia then as well,
speaking of opportunities getting to know folks and getting questions answered,
and you know all those things. We've got phone lines
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great stuff going on to the Bruce Company. And whilst
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Gail's tip this week first and foremost though, Lisa, looking
at the forecast, and that'll tie into I think probably to.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
Our conversation tip for sure.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
Uh, looking at the forecast, I see a lot of
showers and I see a lot of heat.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
Yes, and that means fungus, fungus among.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
Us, Yes, and it is. It is a fun thing
to talk fungus and fun guy. And yeah, let's talk
a little bit about about for folks that are starting
to experience some some issues or.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
Well, first just to a real quick sort of there
are all sorts of asides like pesticides, fungicides, herbicides, insecticides,
and so people will often say, hey, I have this,
can I spray it with that. And so sometimes you
know they have an insect problem and they have a
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fungicide on hand. So make sure that you get your
problems or your issues properly diagnosed before you start using
those products that you have on hand, okay, because sometimes
they're just not effective because they're the wrong aside, right, sure, yeah, so,
and also remember too that if you store those things
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in your garage and it's unheeded, then it can get
quite hot in there, and it can also get very
cold in the winter, so that will affect the efficacy
of the products. So if you're gonna buy things and
sort of hang onto them, then make sure that you
store them in an inside in a you know, in
a in a proper container or something like that to
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you know, to keep them safe and also keep them
clear of any kiddos or pets or anything like that,
because some of these things are chemicals and they have consequences,
and so be careful with them.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
And we talk about this.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
When we talk about using certain herbicides that you want
to use them thoughtfully and carefully. And it's the same
thing with any kind of product that's gonna in effect
kill something else. Right, the job exactly exactly. So there's
no point in spraying things that are not happy, that
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are not going to help. It's wasteful, it's dangerous. So anyway,
so you can always send photos to the plant desk
Plant desk at Brucecompany dot com. You can always bring
samples in. We have a great team on hand, hundreds
of years of experience in the garden industry, and so
we can almost always it's very rare that we're completely
(04:55):
stumped and we can help you get the right solution
for whatever issue you're having. And then we have the
things on hand right there that you can use.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
With this kind of hot, humid weather that we've had.
I know, the plants, certain plants really dig this type
of like.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
Yeah, tomatoes and peppers, that kind of thing. Any if
you've got.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
Your tropical houseplants outside for the summer, they're going to
really enjoy this kind of weather. Other things you might find,
like if you had peas or you had your pansies,
are probably kind of piddling out in this kind of weather.
So certain perennials that like that are early spring and
like a cooler kind of weather are going to start
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going dormant. So watch for those things. If you see
plants yellowing in this heat. Birches are a prime example.
You will see them suddenly start to get yellow leaves
in the center and all the leaves fall off. That
is not a fungus or a disease, that is just
their response to the heat. So, like I said, it's
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a good idea to get things properly identified and diagnosed
before you go ahead and start spraying.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
What about it You mentioned too with the humidity. Fungus
love the humidity. They do a.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
Lot of that.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
There are there are early spring funguses that like cold,
damp weather. There are other funguses that like this kind
of weather, hot and humid. So they use the moisture
in the air to sort of spread.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
Fungus spreads by.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
Releasing spores, so that and then that's where how they
disperse themselves. And so when the weather is kind of humid,
it has some some moisture on the surface of the
leaves and so that makes it easy to move. And
also it kind of hangs in the air in a
certain sort of way. When you think about Fourth of
(06:46):
July fireworks. Yeah, and when it's humid, they kind of
just they hang they you know, as they explode, it's
just a different kind of pattern then when it's dry.
So if you think about that, it just so things
that you can do to prevent fungal spread if you
have it on a regular basis, especially for woody plants.
(07:10):
You want to make sure.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
That if it's a plant that wants a lot of sun,
that it gets more sun.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
So you also want to increase airflow. So if you're
you know a lot of times if a plant is
in a shady kind of corner, there's no place for
the air to move around, So you know, consider doing
maybe some thinning or that kind of thing in the wintertime.
Just sort of mark that on your calendar for the
end of October or mid to mid November that you
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want to do a little bit of pruning on this plant,
this particular plant, to thin it out.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
Does blight count as a is that a fungus.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
Or some blight is a word that doesn't really mean
anything in particular. Some things that are called blights could
be viruses. Some things that are called blights could be fungal,
could be a number of different Some blights are bacterial.
So it's a fungus is basically the spore lands on
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a post and it digs in there and then it
sort of releases more spores.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
What it's supposed to do.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
That's what it's supposed to do.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
There are fungus that like to two consume decaying matter.
Like if you see that dog vomit fungus on your
bark mulch or there's a there's one called bird's nest fungus.
It sort of releases the spores like a shotgun. I know,
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it gets on sticks, on your house or whatever. Those
are funguses that like decaying matter, so that for the
most part, for those guys, all you do is just
take a shovel and remove them. There are other fungus
that like they're hosts to be living. So these are
generally the things that are on foliage. There are proper
treatment times for some things, but most of the ones
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that are kind of happening now you can treat them
with a funch of side. And there are a number
of things on the market. The reason you want to
come into a garden center and talk to somebody is
that some fungicides, not all fungicides are raided for all fungus.
So like there are some like rusts that are pretty tricky.
You have to have a fungicide that's rated for rust
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that's appropriate. If you just spray one on it, that's
not it's not going to help you. So there are
things that are more on the organic spectrum, like copper
fungicides or sulfur fungicides, or things the biologics like Revitalize,
and then there are things that are more on the
chemical and like Dacanil, and there are a host of
(09:45):
others other brand names that but read the package instructions.
There's always that little booklet on the back. I know
the print is tiny. It's it's not for people my
age because it's teeny tiny, but it's important that you
you read that because you want to know how often
you should spray it. You want to know if there's
a proper time to spray it. If you're spraying this
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on aedible crops, like maybe you have some some of
the tomato fundus, which some of them are called blights,
you want to make sure that you know the entry time.
So from the time you spray to the time you harvest.
You want to pay attention to that kind of thing.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
I know I've been getting older when I start using
my phone to read that stuff. I'll take a picture
and then i'll zoom in on up.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
I have a little plastic magnifying I.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
Don't know wallet. Yeah, that's helpful. Yeah, I'm talking this
morning what Lisa Breaks to the Bruce Company. If you've
got a question, if you've got some tips about reading
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from the Bruce Company and speaking of things going on
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to the Bruce Company, summer sales. Summer sales, some are sEH,
we've got stuff going on, don't we.
Speaker 3 (11:01):
We do.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
Indeed, so now that it is summer, you know, we're
sort of thinking about you know, we've got some overstock.
So the nursery, so for trees and shrubs, we're doing
sort of a revolving two week sales. So what is
currently on sale now in the nursery are early spring
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blooming shrubs, so things like for Scythia flowering quints father Gia.
If you don't know, that's a great plant. It's also
called alder. It's very cool related to witch hazel. So
it has a really fun flowers, great fall color. So
even though we are past the flowering period, planting it
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now for fall color because it's really like purple and
orange and red. It's really magnificent. So come on in
and check that kind of thing out.
Speaker 3 (11:58):
We also have a boat go sale on our four
inch annuals.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
For kids that don't know what bogo is.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
By one get one in our case it's by two
get one. Nice yes, so on our fourgnch anuals. So
if you you know, if the heat is sort of
knocking out some of your some of your containers, like
if you set your containers up early in the spring
and you have say some pansies in there, or some
stock or some snap dragons, and they're looking a little bit,
(12:26):
you know, languishy from the heat, you can go ahead
and swap that out for something that will perform better.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
Now, excellent talk this morning with Lisa Briggs from the
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That yeah, bi weekly every other week.
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The other other week is u Yeah, a little email
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If you're not, there's a hydrange of primmer and last week.
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Really all the differences between the different species of Hydrangea.
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High rangs are such a cool they are, and it's.
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Such a huge family.
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Yeah. See, I'm not gonna go back because I was
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I'm gonna have to do that now later today. So
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The fourth j oh, that's right, that's that is this week?
Speaker 1 (13:31):
Is that crazy? I know it's nuts.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
Tomorrow is July first, the year is half over.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
That's so crazy to think about it.
Speaker 3 (13:38):
Close. Yes, so we are closed on the fourth of July.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
Okay there though on the third.
Speaker 3 (13:43):
Yes, open on the third.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
So Monday through Saturday nine to six, except for the
fourth and on Sunday eleven to four because summer hours
went into effect a week a couple of weeks ago,
right after Father's Day. So and the only thing that
changed was excellent.
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Middleton Garden Center of the Bruce Company right at twenty
eight thirty parm Interustreet. It's twenty at thirty Partment Street.
Before we talk talk about some specials going on more
specials of the Bruce Company. Also get Gail's tip. In
just a moment, I'm going to ask you to Lisa.
We talk a lot about birds and birding, and we
talked about the heat, we talked about the humidity, and
I know on Facebook you recently put a posting out
just to let people know don't forget about our feathered friends.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
In this That is true. I mean, in my neighborhood
we have tons of songbirds, although right around my house
we have a broad winged hawk nest, and so I've
seen the babies.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
So I'm thinking that that the mom is having some
effect on other smaller creatures this summer. We don't mind
so much about the rabbits and chipmunks.
Speaker 2 (15:26):
The songbirds.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (15:27):
I think I wish she'd leave them alone.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
But yeah, So we did a series of tips last
week about things that you can do to this summer
to help birds out. And so they of course are
about food, about feeding birds, keeping your feeeders clean, making
sure that you're using you know, good quality seed into it,
but also about the other things you can do when
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when it's this hot, birds really need water. We see
a lot of times when there's a puddle, you'll see
some sparrows hanging around the puddles. So if you've got
a bird bath, you want to make sure that you
keep that clean and change the water out on a
regular basis.
Speaker 3 (16:08):
And there were just some products that we were featuring.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
There's this little solar thing called a water wiggler, and
it just sort of agitates the water a little bit
so that it keeps it moving. That would prevent mosquitoes,
which another scourge of hot humid weather, keeps them from
laying eggs on this in your bird baths. But Gaiale
discovered this really cool thing. It's actually made in the
United States, I forget what state, but it's a copper
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disc and you put it in your bird bath and
something about adding the copper to the water discourages bacterial growth.
Speaker 1 (16:46):
How cool is that?
Speaker 2 (16:47):
I know, right win win, right wind wind. You used
to probably just throw in pennies. But now I don't
know how much penny, how much copper pennies actually have,
so you might have if you have some very old.
Speaker 3 (16:57):
Pennies, you can use them too.
Speaker 2 (16:59):
But this thing is really cool and it's made, like
I said, it's made in the US, so it's sort
of fun. And then you also if you're thinking about
adding plants to your yard at this time of year,
and we can talk about the fact that this is
a great time to plant.
Speaker 3 (17:15):
Yeah, I know it's hot, and.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
I know that we are entering what is it traditionally
a drier period of the year. But as long as
you keep things watered, you know, so that they establish,
you can go ahead and plant. But you should maybe
think about maybe putting a couple evergreens near where your
feeders are, so you're providing some cover for the birds
from predators. Also, you want to think about maybe things
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that are seed bearing or fruit bearing, so that is
really helpful for the birds too, to have some natural
forms of food. So if you, you know, forget to
fill your feeders in the winter, they've got some other
stuff hanging around.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
What about we speaking of feeders as well, and we
were talking about the hot humid air. I know also
with rain and things, moisture sometimes can get into some
of those feeders. You want to make sure that you're
routinely keeping Yeah, at this.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
Time of year, especially in the wintertime, I think not
so much because it's pretty dry and the seed stays
dry in there, and the birds are emptying those things
out pretty quickly at that.
Speaker 3 (18:17):
Time of year.
Speaker 2 (18:18):
But this time of year, you know, some water gets
in there, the seed gets moldy, and yeah, you want
to make sure that on a regular basis that you,
especially if they look like it's getting clumpy in there,
clean them out, do like a gentle bleach solution, and
then rinse it out really well, let it dry thoroughly
before you refill it.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
Do some I'm guessing, like many things, not all feeders
are created equal as well. I've got to guess some
of them are a little bit better when it comes
to keeping moisture and things.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
Out, or I don't think necessarily that I think that one.
I mean, there are lots of things like baffles and
that kind of thing, although those aren't necessarily made to
keep weather out of them.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
They're made to protect your the seed. That's in there
from like squirrels, Yeah, basically right.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
Yeah, So there are all sorts of some of them
that have cages that when the weight of a very
large bird or a chipmunk or a squirrel gets on it,
it sort of closes the ports.
Speaker 3 (19:18):
Yeah, but birds are very.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
Very light, if you've ever held one in your hand,
they wait like nothing. So their weight of a small
songbird is not enough to trigger the cage coming down,
so they can feed quite comfortably and easily.
Speaker 3 (19:34):
But if you get something else on.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
There that's heavier it it just slides down and they
can't get into the ports.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
Talking this morning with Lisa Breaks from the Bruce Company
online Bruce Coompany dot com. That's Bruce Company dot com.
Great data. Get on into the Middleton Garden side with
the Bruce Company. As Lisa mentioned, it's a great time
and you're to be planting and doing other things updating
and keeping keeping your yard and keeping everything fresh out there.
It's a great day to get on into the Middleton
Garden Center, get some ideas. All you got to do
is stomp on in right at twenty parm Entus Street.
They'd love to see it right at twenty eight thirty
(20:02):
Parment Street while you're there. Of course there are some
specials are things going on. We had mentioned, of course
the fourth of July holiday coming up this week, you
guys have a special going on through July eighth around Pollywood.
Speaker 3 (20:14):
Yeah, and we talked about Pollywood last week.
Speaker 2 (20:18):
Was that in the pre recorded thing because we talked
about one of the days recently we talked about you
know that it's summer and maybe you've got something happening,
or you just want to update your patio furniture, like
choices that you can make where it's more instant gratification.
Speaker 3 (20:32):
You don't have to worry about waiting for.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
You know, for delivery times or worrying about the whole
tariff situation.
Speaker 3 (20:43):
Pollywood is made in the US.
Speaker 2 (20:45):
It's made in the Midwest out of a lot of
it's out of recycled plastic milk bottles, like milk carton,
the kind of things. It's a solid material, so it's
very heavy and durable, has a great warranty, and they
also shit pretty quickly. Usually I think we say two
to three weeks, but I've seen stuff from Bollywood come
(21:05):
in and you know, in a week, just depends on
what they have on stock. I imagine that if you're
choosing some of the more traditional colors, that's the kind
of thing that they would have on hand, where they
do have a large color range, so if you're looking
at some of the more the brights kind of thing,
that might take.
Speaker 3 (21:24):
A little bit longer.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
But it's super cool, very durable. It's got kind of
a Wisconsin vibe, sort of a lot of Adirondack chairs
and that kind of thing. But Pollywood also has some
deep seating, so that would be like cushioned, you know,
we call deep seating like a sofa. It's got a
cushion as opposed to a bench. They also have some
dining options, and they do have a sale. Now I
(21:48):
can't tell you what it is because Hollywood is notorious
for their sales are dependent on the collection, so different
collections will have different prices, so you'll have to come
on in and and this is on new special orders,
so this isn't on anything that we.
Speaker 3 (22:04):
Have on hand.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
You mean I got to go in Awe shocks.
Speaker 3 (22:07):
Yeah, sorry, yeah, but we yeah.
Speaker 2 (22:11):
So it's it's it's well priced, made in the States,
super durable, it's a.
Speaker 1 (22:17):
Great product, and you got floor samples folks can.
Speaker 2 (22:19):
Yes, we've got all kinds of floor samples, and that
a lot of times. You know, like an Adirondack chair
is a very sort of thing that your body is
conscious about whether or not it's comfortable. So you want
to sit in the options because it depends on you know,
how high the back is or how it's curved, or
whether the back is straight or so you definitely for
(22:41):
those kinds of things Pollywood, and also by the Yard,
which is similar, it's just a little bit more more
a sort of a woodsy like a cabin kind of
vibe Hollywood, some of the stylings a little more modern.
Speaker 3 (22:55):
You definitely want to sit in it.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
Though.
Speaker 1 (22:57):
Sometimes see how it feels in my wife's van and
I'll be like, who are you driving around? Because the
passenger seat will be her friends will get in there
and they'll change. That's it's very people are very particular
about angles and how they sit, and indeed.
Speaker 2 (23:10):
And at arondeck chairs, if you don't have the right
one can be super uncomfortable to sit in. And you
don't want to have seating in your you know, on
your patio or terrace.
Speaker 3 (23:22):
Yeah, that is not comfortable.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
What's the point exactly it was. You know what's fun too?
Speaker 3 (23:27):
You want to sit in it?
Speaker 1 (23:28):
Right when you go into the Rust Company, not only
gets sit and you get comfortable, you can get plenty
comfortable if you like. You say, okay, I like this.
It's like the Goldilocks and three bears. Just right, Yeah, exactly,
that one.
Speaker 3 (23:40):
So great analogy.
Speaker 1 (23:41):
What a data Get on into the Middleton Garden side
of the Rist Company right at twenty eight thirty part
Regis Street. That's twenty thirty Partment Street. I wanted to
ask you to Lisa real quick. I know we're going
to talk some of Gale's tips and some other things too.
But do earwigs cause any damage to other than looking
just damage to you? They can't.
Speaker 3 (23:56):
They can do. They do feed un foliage.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
So when we look at earwag when we look at especially,
they kind of like the same sorts of.
Speaker 3 (24:07):
Conditions that slugs like.
Speaker 2 (24:10):
So kind of moist, very shady.
Speaker 3 (24:14):
A lot of sort of cover.
Speaker 2 (24:16):
So you'll see, you know, somebody comes in and they
say they've got insects feeding on their hostas we always
just say, we'll get slugo plus because it's hard to
tell the difference unless you see the slimy trails that
the that the.
Speaker 3 (24:32):
That the slugs leave.
Speaker 2 (24:34):
So if you get slug o, slugo is just a
slug aside.
Speaker 1 (24:39):
Yes it's such.
Speaker 3 (24:42):
A word exists.
Speaker 2 (24:43):
But slugo plus will also take care of earwigs. I know,
they look prehistoric. They look like they would pinch you.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
They do. I just want to call them ewigs because
there's like.
Speaker 3 (24:51):
Yeah, I feel the same way about stink bugs.
Speaker 2 (24:53):
Oh really yeah, they kind of look like little walking tanks.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
I think any time it's like humid in like a
lift up. I've got like a little towed out back
that I lift.
Speaker 3 (25:05):
Up and all of a sudden, yeah, you pill bugs.
Speaker 2 (25:09):
Oh yeah, we used to play with those when we
were kids.
Speaker 1 (25:13):
Pretty cool stuff is a talk sport. Gail, have a
tip for us this week we call.
Speaker 2 (25:16):
We were just talking about fungus, So just be on
the lookout for fungus one that we'll start to see.
And I actually didn't look. You guys have nine bark
right by the entrance. I believe that you do, and
I that's I often that is often the first place
that I see powdery mildew is on your nine barks. Surprising,
(25:37):
so Powdery mildew is something that we see a lot
in this kind of weather. Okay, it's gonna look like
either somebody brushed milk on your leaf, right, So it's
kind of gray, kind of a silvery gray coating. You
can't like take it off on other things. It gets
a little bit like on.
Speaker 3 (25:58):
The nine mark.
Speaker 2 (25:59):
It actually gets like it has some structure to it.
Speaker 3 (26:03):
Powdery mildew is a big family.
Speaker 2 (26:07):
All of the species of powdery mildew have a different
they have a different host plant. So it's a very
Even though you see powdery mildew on a ton of things,
each particular plant has its own powdery mildew. Oh, and
you can tell them apart. And you look at the
fungal spores. I took a class in this one. I
(26:29):
put it under a big microscope. They have like different
structures and that's how you identify which one it is
or of course on whatever host it's on. Okay, So
like the ones that are on lilacs are not the
same ones on peenies, which are not the same ones
that are on flocks.
Speaker 3 (26:44):
So, but they all are dealt with the same way.
Speaker 2 (26:48):
Use a fungicide, I like revitalize I've had really good
luck with it. It's it's a biologic, so it's kind of
closer to the organic end of the spectrum, and it
has a little bit of staying power on it, so
you can use it a little preventatively, not one hundred percent,
(27:10):
but it's helpful. So if you had plants last year
or in the last couple of years that have been
affected by powdery mildew, then go ahead and do a
little bit of pre treating because I think with this
weather we're going to start seeing it.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
One final thing on pre treating, is it too late
to pre treat for Japanese beetles? Are we kind of
just waiting?
Speaker 3 (27:29):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (27:30):
Merge, Yeah, I think that like a lot of those
products like grub asides and milky spore, you can put
down because they last for a long time, so you
can get rid of you can help control the population
of grubs. So when the beetles emerge and do all
(27:50):
their damage above ground, then they go back into underground
to lay eggs, and those grubs hatch, they're going to
be doing some feeding lay okay the season, so if
you have put a grub aside down that will help
with that. But I don't think it will do much
for them now because they're pu paid. They're in a
pupa stage right now. Okay, so they sometimes if you
(28:12):
dig and you find like a little brown, kind of shiny,
oblongy looking thing, it's a it's a grub pupa. So
they're they're metamorphosizing into a beetle.
Speaker 1 (28:24):
Gross.
Speaker 2 (28:25):
Yeah, so then they'll come out. So there's not a
whole lot you can do about that stage right right now.
But applying that product, like I said, is not a
bad idea. Most of them have a long staying product.
Our grub X is a year you know, like a
twelve month kind of thing. But just get ready and
be prepared for the adult stage, which I have not
(28:45):
heard any reports of yet.
Speaker 1 (28:47):
I didn't see any. And we typically madsens or raspberries
get it right away and I haven't seen one yet.
Speaker 3 (28:52):
But get those floating rope covers yet you're ready.
Speaker 1 (28:55):
They are they are at the ready, standing in the shed,
just right there, ready to grab and yeah moments no
so And for folks who don't have any, of course,
you can pick up a floating roll cover and then.
Speaker 2 (29:04):
We also have the you know, the aside the stuff.
The insecticides that are that do really that are really
effective against Japanese beetles, including some that work on edibles.
Speaker 3 (29:15):
But again got to read those labels.
Speaker 1 (29:17):
The other thing you got to do is get into
the Bruce Company and you can ask.
Speaker 2 (29:20):
Absolutely great guys happy to help you, delighted to see you,
happy to help you.
Speaker 1 (29:23):
Great day to get on in right at the Middleton
Guard Center of the Bruce Company twenty eight thirty parm Interistry.
That's twenty thirty Parmi Street of course online Bruce Company
dot com. That's Bruce Company dot com. Again, Today's a
fantastic day to get on and do that. Visit Middleton
Garden Center the Bruce Company twenty thirty parm INTERISTRYT. Lisa,
It's always great singing you enjoy this beautiful day you
as well. Shine news comes your way next right here
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