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Speaker 1 (00:03):
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number and I think it's you know, eight three six
seventy forty one. For the plant tests. Even easier though,
just to email Plant Desk at Bruce Company dot com. Lisa,
how you doing this week? By the I'm good, How
are you doing? Fantastic? You and I always get caught
up talking about this and that before the show, and
it's always good. See by the way, uh real quick,
and I know we're gonna uh, we're gonna be talking
about some preventative stuff with Gail's tip this week. Got
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some other really cool things to touch on. Rabbits. Most
people don't like rabbits because rabbits eat their things and
caused struct We have had a rabbit that is in
our in our backyard and this thing is like completely
unbothered by me. Not bothered. Oh yeah, like like well literally,
like I'm pretty sure if I reached down to touch it,
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it would let me pet it. Like I'm not going to.
But it's like there.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
I saw somebody walking down the sidewalk with their dog
a couple of weeks ago, and not, you know, eight
feet away from them, there was a rabbit sitting in
the lawn and it just sat there.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
What you got for me?
Speaker 3 (01:26):
It like had zero care about it one way or another.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
I guess when there's so many of them, you can
live a little dangerously. I guess you'll lose one.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
We've got a nest in the terrace tree next door,
and there's a broad wing hawk nest and there are
three fledglings in there. Oh so we have seen the
mom like taking chipmunks and rabbits and things up there.
So we're pretty jazzed about it.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
I used to have a woodchuck problem until the foxes
showed up in surprise, surprise, no more woodchuck, is yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
I call that survival of the fittest.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
Yes, yes, awesome. We've got a lot to get to
this morning. If you've got a question things going on
in the garden. Maybe you're wondering about something going on
in the yard, or some plans for summer into fall,
And of course we've still got plenty of summer. I
don't even want to look forward to fall, but there's
plenty of time be doing some things. If you've got
some questions, love to have you joined us this morning.
Six oh eight three two one thirteen ten. That's six
oh eight three two one thirteen ten. You can learn
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That's six o'aight three two one thirteen ten. Great day
to get on into the Middleton Garden Center for the
Bruce Company. Right at twenty eight thirty Parmenter Street. That's
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twenty thirty Partment Street. Real quick too, Lisa, How is
your fourth weekend? How'd everything go?
Speaker 2 (02:48):
Think?
Speaker 1 (02:48):
Going on?
Speaker 2 (02:49):
Good? The store was closed on Friday, so our staff
got a day off much needed and yeah, and then
we got some rating this weekend.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
So yeah, and looking at the forecast, it looks like
looks like for this time of year, looks like a
good one.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
I know, I stepped out the door this morning and it.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
Was not already almost eighty degrees. It was kind of
dare I say not chili, but like, yeah, it wasn't oppressive.
You didn't feel like like you were walking into Asaana.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
Yes, And our plants do as much as we kind
of go. Our plants do like a little bit of
overnight moisture and heat right as some do.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
Well yeah, I mean it depends on it's when it
gets oppressive, it's difficult for everybody.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
Yeah, and everything, people, animals.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
Birds, plants, I mean, yeah, yeah, I know there are
people who love that kind of weather.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
I don't understand thems.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
I don't understand them. But we've got stuff going on
to speaking of, you know, just taking care of things,
and of course the weather and where we are, there's
always great stuff going on at the Bruce Company. Always
a great day to escape some of that and get
into the into the garden center. Of course you can
always go out into the greenhouse as well, but inside
as well, cool stuff going on. And I know we've
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been talking the past few weeks about about about things
to be picking up and and prevention has been kind
of a big running uh message for for what we've
talked about.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
Yes, yeah, you know, how to stop that powdery mildew
from getting a foothold, how to you know, prevent peace
leaf curl. But now we're in the place where things
are happening. Yeah, so now we have to react to them.
And so for this month's tip scale, and I put
together a series of things that even though it's July
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and you think your gardening is done, it is not.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
No, by the way, speaking of this this this humid
days we've had, you mentioned there are there are not
only do certain plants like it, certain bad things like
it as well, really enjoy Yeah.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
Yeah, this this hot, humid weather is much loved by
many many fungal diseases. And so we've been seeing a
lot of that samples and questions into the plant desk
about mostly a little mostly rust and also pottery mildew.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
And so those are things that you could have.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
Done some preventative work, yes, but now that it's here,
and I did check the nine bark on either side
of the doorway company to the building, and you do
have pottery mildew on that nightwork. So what you want
to do now is treat with a punch a side
because you can't make it go away, but you can
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sort of arrest the development, which is helpful. Most of
these funguses are not leaf spots and that kind of
thing are not going to kill plants.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
Okay, but it is unsightly.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
It can stress a plant out certainly, so then you know,
it starts a cascade a plant is we to buy
one thing, and then another thing piles on and another
thing and it becomes a spiral. And then we get
you know, a drought or we get a very cold winter,
and those things just sort of pile on and make
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it harder for plants to cope with the things that
they have to cope with.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
So it's best to sort of like arrest those things.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
So there are some really good fungicide options, some that
are more on the organic side, some that are less organic,
but you'll want to treat.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
You'll want to treat them some things.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
You know, if you've got some tar spot on a
big maple tree, a big there's nothing you can do
about that. We'll talk later about the things that you
can do culturally, but in the right now, if there's
any leaf litter that's dropping or fruit that is dropping
that has fungal bodies on it, you want to get
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that out of the way. Don't compost it because it
just is more heat.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
But you know, get that, throw that away and sort
of clean up as you go.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
And that's also a good watchword for for in the
fall when you're doing cleanup. Also if you've got a
fungal issue. I know it's hard because it's raining, but
if you're using your sprinkler, keep the water low at
the root level, try to keep the foliage as dry
as possible. A lot of funguses that's how the spores
move through water.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
What have you mentioned composting. I know you've given advice
in the past about about certain fungal issues and trying
to keep that stuff. You just don't want those those
spores and stuff to get in.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
Yeah, sometimes they have pretty sophisticated sort of structures to
like withstand heat and cold, and so best not.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
To give them a foothold. So just just throw this
stuff away.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
Really good advice. It's working from Lisa Briggs. If you've
got a question for Lisa, she is here to answer
your question. Love to have you join us this morning
six so eight three two thirteen and that's so eight
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as well. Great day to get on into the Middleton
Garden Center of the Rust Company. Twenty eight thirty PARAM
inter Street. That's twenty eight thirty PARAM inter Street. I
talk this week too about all about July and the
growing season, and for folks now that we're into the
end of.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
The s and if you're if you're trepidacious about planting,
you think, oh, you can't plan to the summer now
that June is over, it's.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
You can't plant. That's not true.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
So when you plant early in the season, we sort
of can count on regular rainfall from other nature, so
it sort of takes that part off your plate. It's
really important that plants are irrigated so that they can
establish when you plant now especially with summer thunderstorms, you
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know their spotty. It will pour in one place and
not rain at all five miles away, So you really
need to step up your game on making sure that
you're doing whatever you can to get plants to establish.
So watering is the big issue when you're planting at
this time of year. Also, heat can cause some you know,
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you'll see a lot of birches will start to yell,
the leesel yellow and drop out of the center as
in response to the heat. But they they'll butt out
pretty quickly, so you can go ahead and plant. And
it's good because right now we've got some sales running
in the nursery department, so you can save on all
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of our shade trees are twenty five percent off. And
then there are also some early spring blooming shrubs like
Forsythia and flowering quints some other things that you can
save twenty five percent off as well.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
Oh that's fantastic, And let's talk about getting into the
Bruce Company Milton Garden Center. Great opportunities there. They're at
a twent at thirty parm Industry. That's twenty at thirty
Partment Street. Again, that's where you'll find the Middleton Garden
Center of the Roost Company. Some great specials going on
when it comes to those shades, shade trees and other things.
And this time of year too, and we think about
the growing season. Is I feel like, we think like
and we're seeing a lot of the fruits of our labor,
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both literally and figuratively. That doesn't mean we should be
thinking about the next step too to keep that Like,
for example, if you love some vibrant colors and some
other things, there are things you're gonna be doing now
to kind of extend that season and maybe fill in
some areas.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
Absolutely, and think about those things when you're making choices.
So think about foliage color. You know, when plants aren't
necessarily flowering, what are they offering.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
To your landscape?
Speaker 2 (10:40):
Texture, color form.
Speaker 3 (10:43):
You can also think about fall color. It's a good
thing to think about.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
You can think about does this plant contribute anything to
the larger ecosystem, like does it have seeds or fruit,
or does it provide shelter for birds or small all animals.
The native trend rightfully is still going strong, so think
about that too. About native plants. They're a little more
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better adapted, of course, because they grew up here. This
is their home, and so think about maybe expanding your
palette a little bit.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
What did that you mentioned, the kind of using that
native palette. That is something that that is you know,
has become very very popular. I'm telling these things.
Speaker 3 (11:28):
Yes, yeah, it is.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
When did that start? When did that trend start to
kind of going start to peak?
Speaker 2 (11:33):
I would say really in the last few years. I mean,
it's always been for as long as I can remember,
it's been sort of on the fringe, but it has
becomes as people are concerned about about wildlife and about
you know, climate and how do you keep things watered?
Speaker 3 (11:55):
How do you know, are you.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
How are you using the resources that we have? Yeah,
and so native plants are better able to cope with
what is normal and standard for our ecosystem, I guess
I want to say.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
And so yeah, wait, we forget Wisconsin. It's extremes. Is
is we have obviously very cold winters, but our summers
get very very hot, very very humid. And finally sort
of things I remember and what I've loved about this
this this very popular trend too, is I remember as
a kid and nothing all of this, and I still
see guards like this that were like very orderly and
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very like like everything was very bordered, like this type
of flower was in this roll on.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
The everything was edged right And now did your dad
have an edger?
Speaker 3 (12:45):
My dad did, like along the sidewalk.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
Like it's got to have that crisp blow.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
Yeah. They talk a lot now about how to have
like a little messy area in your yard. And that's
that started years ago. There's a gardener her name is
Sarah Steine, and she wrote a book about something about
Noah's Garden, and it was about having a corridor of
connected sort of wild spaces even in suburban yards. It gives,
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you know, like a pathway for wildlife to move from
one place to another.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
And that design and designing and setting that's a real
art too, because I think sometimes we and we.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
Talked and yeah, MESSI doesn't need to be messy, doesn't
you know.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
It doesn't mean it's disorganized.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
Or even unattractive or sort of unkempt looking. It just
is that you let the plants be plants and be
less concerned about manicuring them and having them look very tidy.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
And it's a very beautiful look as well. And it does,
it does, and it's such a and that's a great
thing too. As we talk about kind of extending the seasons.
You think about growing season, I thing think about things
that do really well. Obviously, native plants are gonna gonna
last the longest, really hold up well. By the way,
why an't we gonna start getting the ice cream buckets
of tomatoes from co workers? And oh, well, are we
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getting close? And we've got to be pretty close to know,
am I we didn't grow I'm gonna tell you. I'm
going to a little disclosure, Lisa. We didn't get a
chance to do a garden this year, but you did it.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
We were just so busy with the kiddo, had a
bunch of things on the schedule. Like we're gonna hold off,
so we just put some color.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
You know, all of our veg starts are fifty yeah,
fifty percent off. So we should bring Madson in. He
could pick up some things and maybe do some containers.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
Oh that's great, Lisa. I feel my heart hurts.
Speaker 3 (14:41):
I think about Madson not having his garden.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
And he was telling him and I were on a
road trip the other week and that was something he
brought up. Is like he's like Dad, I wish I'd
done a garden this year. Yeah, unfortunately, but.
Speaker 3 (14:53):
Yeah, did you just do a little one?
Speaker 2 (14:54):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (14:55):
Do some pots?
Speaker 1 (14:56):
Oh perfect. I love that. That's just like me. You've
got a reason to get on into the way.
Speaker 3 (15:00):
I do all my.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
Bed gardening in pots because I have a small yard.
It's very shady. So my tomatoes are all in pots
all right.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
And as folks are getting tomatoes popping, yeah, I always
drop them off. I know you got a question for Lisa.
Great day to give us a call of to have
you join us. Six soh eight three two one thirteen ten.
That's six oh eight three two one thirteen ten. Speaking
of great days, it's a great day to get on
in to the Middleton Garden Center of the Bruce Company
right at twenty eight thirty parm Inter Street. That's twenty
at thirty Partment Street. Again, ful lines are open. Six
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soh eight three two one thirteen ten. That's six soh
eight three two one thirteen ten. Learn more online Bruce
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right here on thirteen ten double uiby eight eight twenty
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two thirteen ten do Wiba and every day outdoor Living
brought you by the Bruce Company. Hanging out with Lisa Brigg.
If you've got a question for Lisa, love to have
you join us this morning. Phone lines open at six
eight three two one thirteen ten. That's six oh eight
three two one thirteen ten. Great day to get on
into the Middleton Garden center of the Bruce Company right
at twenty eight thirty Parmenter Street. That's twenty eight thirty
Parman Street. You can also find the Bruce Company online
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Bruce Company dot com, Facebook and social media the Bruce Company.
And speaking of Facebook and social media, guys, got a
uh a Facebook contest going on? Am I right on?
Speaker 3 (16:24):
Oh we do?
Speaker 2 (16:25):
Yeah, it's you know, I like to sort of on
Facebook bring everybody's awareness to some of the sort of
calendar dates or holidays. But July, yeah, is not only
National Grilling Month, it's also wild about Wildlife Month.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
Oh beautiful.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
So we are asking folks to give us a little
rundown on what kind of wildlife they're seeing in their
yards and kudos and bonus points if you can catch
a snapshot and post a photo as well, and then
and we'll give away some gift cards at the end.
Speaker 3 (17:01):
Of the month.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
Awesome. I saw a fantastic picture of a of a
little fawn that was post.
Speaker 3 (17:06):
Get somebody out of fawn. There were some I thought
there was a turkey. I haven't. I haven't checked what
came in overnight. O man, I am I posted one.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
I'm not eligible, of course, I'm running the contest, so
I can't win the contest.
Speaker 3 (17:23):
But of a photo of the you know, one.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
Of the broad winged hawk chicks nice than us. You
can kind of see him his fuzzy head, but they're
sort of hilarious.
Speaker 1 (17:37):
It's great And again you can do that right at
Bruce Company's Facebook page, The Bruce Company. I also love
with Trent. What are you calling? Has he got a
clever name for.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
Trent's Oh, I can't remember. Trent and Sasha and Linda
came up with it. So yeah, it's nice that I
am now not the only person on video on the
tell that's Crow and Tell that's right, which is also.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
A lot of fun. And speaking of the Bruce company
and social media folks should follow because I know that
there's you know, there's always fun stuff and contests and
other things. But it's a really nice way to you know,
I know a lot of us are are. Part of
our routine is to scroll through Facebook, and it's kind
of a way to kind of check in and see
some of the cool stuff going on it.
Speaker 2 (18:20):
Yeah, yeah, there's you can see what events are happening
when we're doing stuff on sale. You'll the aforementioned days. Yes,
there are some really weird days.
Speaker 3 (18:34):
I have to say.
Speaker 1 (18:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
Yeah, like every imaginable food thing, no matter how obscure, this.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
Has a day. Well, I know today is like national
dive bar.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
I'm sure it's national something. How do you get how
do you get a national day? Who proclaims this sort
of stuff?
Speaker 1 (18:55):
I don't know. There's got to be some kind of
some kind of documents, and I don't know, because.
Speaker 2 (18:59):
Every day has at least six and then there are
the weeks, and then of course the whole month sell
month stuff.
Speaker 1 (19:06):
So and speaking up that you said you said National
grilling month.
Speaker 3 (19:10):
It is National grilling Month.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
Yeah, and it's never a bad time for a new
grilly side.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
It isn't and we still have some of those griddles
with that griddle deal on hands.
Speaker 3 (19:20):
Yeah, so if you want to try that.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
The uh I think the griddle itself is five forty nine,
but you get one hundred and fifty dollars gift card back,
which brings it down to four hundred dollars.
Speaker 3 (19:34):
So it's I mean, not.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
The grill, but you can buy yeah, you can buy
other things with it.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
So with that too, as we talk about, you know,
what's things going on with the Brust Company. I know
there's always great events and other things. You've had the
Weber of folks in a couple of times a little.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
Bit of a lull for us for events in the
month of July. We've got some things coming up. In August.
Of course, we have the you know fetches bringing puppies
on the twentieth. That happens every month. But we'll start
We've got some things scheduled that we're trying to put
together for August, and then we'll in September, October and
November and December. It'll be back to workshops and you know,
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lots of things happening.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
And you mentioned fetch too. You guys do our posting
speaking of following you on social media, you guys post
adoptable pet of the week. Let's talk about real quick too,
about what's going on with the Bruce Company and Fetch.
And I know, for folks that listen to show regularly, now,
the Bruce Companies very involved and charitable.
Speaker 3 (20:29):
Yeah, we really want to give back to the community.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
And so every year our marketing team chooses a local
it needs to be local nonprofit and so we've worked
with Guilda's Club, We've worked with the Humane Society, We've
worked with Geo's Garden, so a lot of we've been
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doing this for about ten or eleven years, so we're
sort of stacking up a little, you know, a list
of people that we worked with.
Speaker 3 (21:01):
But this year we're working with Fetch.
Speaker 2 (21:03):
And so usually the nonprofits are there's some kind of
family sort of.
Speaker 3 (21:10):
Component to it, and so Fetch is a.
Speaker 2 (21:15):
Rehab rescue out of I believe Verona, and they don't
have a shelter, so not like the Humane Society where
they have a shelter, but all of their dogs are
fostered out. So either people surrender pets or they rescue
pets and then they all go out to foster and
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so we have fosters come in every month or litters
of puppies, and so you can it's become a way
for the fosters to come and get the puppies. Yes, right,
So last month we had a litter of ten, you know,
and it was the day that a lot of them
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were leaving their mom and then going to the next
stage in the process, and they all go and they
were going out in pairs, so that was nice.
Speaker 3 (22:07):
They weren't going to be totally lonely, but it was
sort of bittersweet.
Speaker 2 (22:11):
But you can't when you come, you can't adopt a
dog at that time, but you can certainly get the
ball rolling and learn about fetch and meet some of
the the foster dogs that are available. And so they
not only do puppies, but they also do older dogs.
So they're a great organization. And since they don't have
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a facility or people with salaries that they're supporting, all
the proceeds go to caring for the dogs.
Speaker 1 (22:43):
And it's a win win too because the pups.
Speaker 3 (22:46):
Yeah, and the puppies are fun, yes, yes, very very cool.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
Definitely follow along the Bruce Company on Facebook and social media.
The website Bruce Company dot com. That's Bruce Company dot com.
Before we wrap this week, Lisa, I just real quick
talk a little bit of course, as we're thinking about
you know, things are past the fourth of July holiday,
it's a great time to be We had some gatherings
over the weekend. Summer is going to be here for
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a long time. It's a good time to make sure
that that outdoor space is comfortable. And guys got furniture.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
We do have furniture. We're starting to mark down some
floor models, so really so there are opportunities to buy
something and take it home. We also have several vendors
that have a pretty quick turnaround as far as special orders.
Speaker 3 (23:35):
So yeah, so.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
There's still time to get something and be able to
enjoy it right away or within a few weeks.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
Excellent in the summer again, it's we've got a lot
of summer time, a lot of great stuff. It's a
great day to get on into the Middleton Guards Center
of the Ruce Company. It's always fun right a twenty
eight thirty Parment Street. That's twenty eight thirty Parment Street.
That's where you find the Middleton Garden Center of the
Bruce Company. Mention their social media of course, find them there,
Facebook and Instagram and Pinterest. The website Bruce Company dot com.
That's Bruce Company dot com. Lisa, It's always great seeing
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you enjoy.
Speaker 3 (24:04):
This fantastic day you as well, shine.
Speaker 1 (24:06):
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number and I think it's you know, eight three six
seventy forty one. For the plant tests. Even easier though,
just to email Plant Desk at Bruce Company dot com. Lisa,
how you doing this week? By the I'm good, How
are you doing? Fantastic? You and I always get caught
up talking about this and that before the show, and
it's always good. See by the way, uh real quick,
and I know we're gonna uh, we're gonna be talking
about some preventative stuff with Gail's tip this week. Got
(00:47):
some other really cool things to touch on. Rabbits. Most
people don't like rabbits because rabbits eat their things and
caused struct We have had a rabbit that is in
our in our backyard and this thing is like completely
unbothered by me. Not bothered. Oh yeah, like like well literally,
like I'm pretty sure if I reached down to touch it,
(01:08):
it would let me pet it. Like I'm not going to.
But it's like there.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
I saw somebody walking down the sidewalk with their dog
a couple of weeks ago, and not, you know, eight
feet away from them, there was a rabbit sitting in
the lawn and it just sat there.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
What you got for me?
Speaker 3 (01:26):
It like had zero care about it one way or another.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
I guess when there's so many of them, you can
live a little dangerously. I guess you'll lose one.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
We've got a nest in the terrace tree next door,
and there's a broad wing hawk nest and there are
three fledglings in there. Oh so we have seen the
mom like taking chipmunks and rabbits and things up there.
So we're pretty jazzed about it.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
I used to have a woodchuck problem until the foxes
showed up in surprise, surprise, no more woodchuck, is yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
I call that survival of the fittest.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
Yes, yes, awesome. We've got a lot to get to
this morning. If you've got a question things going on
in the garden. Maybe you're wondering about something going on
in the yard, or some plans for summer into fall,
And of course we've still got plenty of summer. I
don't even want to look forward to fall, but there's
plenty of time be doing some things. If you've got
some questions, love to have you joined us this morning.
Six oh eight three two one thirteen ten. That's six
oh eight three two one thirteen ten. You can learn
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Bruce coompany dot com. That's Brucecompany dot com. Facebook, and
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can find the Bruce Company there and again phone lines
are open six oh eight three two one thirteen ten.
That's six o'aight three two one thirteen ten. Great day
to get on into the Middleton Garden Center for the
Bruce Company. Right at twenty eight thirty Parmenter Street. That's
(02:44):
twenty thirty Partment Street. Real quick too, Lisa, How is
your fourth weekend? How'd everything go?
Speaker 2 (02:48):
Think?
Speaker 1 (02:48):
Going on?
Speaker 2 (02:49):
Good? The store was closed on Friday, so our staff
got a day off much needed and yeah, and then
we got some rating this weekend.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
So yeah, and looking at the forecast, it looks like
looks like for this time of year, looks like a
good one.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
I know, I stepped out the door this morning and it.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
Was not already almost eighty degrees. It was kind of
dare I say not chili, but like, yeah, it wasn't oppressive.
You didn't feel like like you were walking into Asaana.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
Yes, And our plants do as much as we kind
of go. Our plants do like a little bit of
overnight moisture and heat right as some do.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
Well yeah, I mean it depends on it's when it
gets oppressive, it's difficult for everybody.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
Yeah, and everything, people, animals.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
Birds, plants, I mean, yeah, yeah, I know there are
people who love that kind of weather.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
I don't understand thems.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
I don't understand them. But we've got stuff going on
to speaking of, you know, just taking care of things,
and of course the weather and where we are, there's
always great stuff going on at the Bruce Company. Always
a great day to escape some of that and get
into the into the garden center. Of course you can
always go out into the greenhouse as well, but inside
as well, cool stuff going on. And I know we've
(04:07):
been talking the past few weeks about about about things
to be picking up and and prevention has been kind
of a big running uh message for for what we've
talked about.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
Yes, yeah, you know, how to stop that powdery mildew
from getting a foothold, how to you know, prevent peace
leaf curl. But now we're in the place where things
are happening. Yeah, so now we have to react to them.
And so for this month's tip scale, and I put
together a series of things that even though it's July
(04:39):
and you think your gardening is done, it is not.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
No, by the way, speaking of this this this humid
days we've had, you mentioned there are there are not
only do certain plants like it, certain bad things like
it as well, really enjoy Yeah.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
Yeah, this this hot, humid weather is much loved by
many many fungal diseases. And so we've been seeing a
lot of that samples and questions into the plant desk
about mostly a little mostly rust and also pottery mildew.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
And so those are things that you could have.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
Done some preventative work, yes, but now that it's here,
and I did check the nine bark on either side
of the doorway company to the building, and you do
have pottery mildew on that nightwork. So what you want
to do now is treat with a punch a side
because you can't make it go away, but you can
(05:40):
sort of arrest the development, which is helpful. Most of
these funguses are not leaf spots and that kind of
thing are not going to kill plants.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
Okay, but it is unsightly.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
It can stress a plant out certainly, so then you know,
it starts a cascade a plant is we to buy
one thing, and then another thing piles on and another
thing and it becomes a spiral. And then we get
you know, a drought or we get a very cold winter,
and those things just sort of pile on and make
(06:13):
it harder for plants to cope with the things that
they have to cope with.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
So it's best to sort of like arrest those things.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
So there are some really good fungicide options, some that
are more on the organic side, some that are less organic,
but you'll want to treat.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
You'll want to treat them some things.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
You know, if you've got some tar spot on a
big maple tree, a big there's nothing you can do
about that. We'll talk later about the things that you
can do culturally, but in the right now, if there's
any leaf litter that's dropping or fruit that is dropping
that has fungal bodies on it, you want to get
(07:00):
that out of the way. Don't compost it because it
just is more heat.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
But you know, get that, throw that away and sort
of clean up as you go.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
And that's also a good watchword for for in the
fall when you're doing cleanup. Also if you've got a
fungal issue. I know it's hard because it's raining, but
if you're using your sprinkler, keep the water low at
the root level, try to keep the foliage as dry
as possible. A lot of funguses that's how the spores
move through water.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
What have you mentioned composting. I know you've given advice
in the past about about certain fungal issues and trying
to keep that stuff. You just don't want those those
spores and stuff to get in.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
Yeah, sometimes they have pretty sophisticated sort of structures to
like withstand heat and cold, and so best not.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
To give them a foothold. So just just throw this
stuff away.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
Really good advice. It's working from Lisa Briggs. If you've
got a question for Lisa, she is here to answer
your question. Love to have you join us this morning
six so eight three two thirteen and that's so eight
three two one thirteen ten gets you on. They are
at lease breaks from the Bruce Company. Of course, you
can learn more about the Bruce Company on their website.
I want to guess what it is. It's Bruce Company
dot com. You're Facebook and social media the Rust Company
(08:12):
as well. Great day to get on into the Middleton
Garden Center of the Rust Company. Twenty eight thirty PARAM
inter Street. That's twenty eight thirty PARAM inter Street. I
talk this week too about all about July and the
growing season, and for folks now that we're into the
end of.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
The s and if you're if you're trepidacious about planting,
you think, oh, you can't plan to the summer now
that June is over, it's.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
You can't plant. That's not true.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
So when you plant early in the season, we sort
of can count on regular rainfall from other nature, so
it sort of takes that part off your plate. It's
really important that plants are irrigated so that they can
establish when you plant now especially with summer thunderstorms, you
(08:58):
know their spotty. It will pour in one place and
not rain at all five miles away, So you really
need to step up your game on making sure that
you're doing whatever you can to get plants to establish.
So watering is the big issue when you're planting at
this time of year. Also, heat can cause some you know,
(09:20):
you'll see a lot of birches will start to yell,
the leesel yellow and drop out of the center as
in response to the heat. But they they'll butt out
pretty quickly, so you can go ahead and plant. And
it's good because right now we've got some sales running
in the nursery department, so you can save on all
(09:41):
of our shade trees are twenty five percent off. And
then there are also some early spring blooming shrubs like
Forsythia and flowering quints some other things that you can
save twenty five percent off as well.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
Oh that's fantastic, And let's talk about getting into the
Bruce Company Milton Garden Center. Great opportunities there. They're at
a twent at thirty parm Industry. That's twenty at thirty
Partment Street. Again, that's where you'll find the Middleton Garden
Center of the Roost Company. Some great specials going on
when it comes to those shades, shade trees and other things.
And this time of year too, and we think about
the growing season. Is I feel like, we think like
and we're seeing a lot of the fruits of our labor,
(10:15):
both literally and figuratively. That doesn't mean we should be
thinking about the next step too to keep that Like,
for example, if you love some vibrant colors and some
other things, there are things you're gonna be doing now
to kind of extend that season and maybe fill in
some areas.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
Absolutely, and think about those things when you're making choices.
So think about foliage color. You know, when plants aren't
necessarily flowering, what are they offering.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
To your landscape?
Speaker 2 (10:40):
Texture, color form.
Speaker 3 (10:43):
You can also think about fall color. It's a good
thing to think about.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
You can think about does this plant contribute anything to
the larger ecosystem, like does it have seeds or fruit,
or does it provide shelter for birds or small all animals.
The native trend rightfully is still going strong, so think
about that too. About native plants. They're a little more
(11:11):
better adapted, of course, because they grew up here. This
is their home, and so think about maybe expanding your
palette a little bit.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
What did that you mentioned, the kind of using that
native palette. That is something that that is you know,
has become very very popular. I'm telling these things.
Speaker 3 (11:28):
Yes, yeah, it is.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
When did that start? When did that trend start to
kind of going start to peak?
Speaker 2 (11:33):
I would say really in the last few years. I mean,
it's always been for as long as I can remember,
it's been sort of on the fringe, but it has
becomes as people are concerned about about wildlife and about
you know, climate and how do you keep things watered?
Speaker 3 (11:55):
How do you know, are you.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
How are you using the resources that we have? Yeah,
and so native plants are better able to cope with
what is normal and standard for our ecosystem, I guess
I want to say.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
And so yeah, wait, we forget Wisconsin. It's extremes. Is
is we have obviously very cold winters, but our summers
get very very hot, very very humid. And finally sort
of things I remember and what I've loved about this
this this very popular trend too, is I remember as
a kid and nothing all of this, and I still
see guards like this that were like very orderly and
(12:34):
very like like everything was very bordered, like this type
of flower was in this roll on.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
The everything was edged right And now did your dad
have an edger?
Speaker 3 (12:45):
My dad did, like along the sidewalk.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
Like it's got to have that crisp blow.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
Yeah. They talk a lot now about how to have
like a little messy area in your yard. And that's
that started years ago. There's a gardener her name is
Sarah Steine, and she wrote a book about something about
Noah's Garden, and it was about having a corridor of
connected sort of wild spaces even in suburban yards. It gives,
(13:17):
you know, like a pathway for wildlife to move from
one place to another.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
And that design and designing and setting that's a real
art too, because I think sometimes we and we.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
Talked and yeah, MESSI doesn't need to be messy, doesn't
you know.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
It doesn't mean it's disorganized.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
Or even unattractive or sort of unkempt looking. It just
is that you let the plants be plants and be
less concerned about manicuring them and having them look very tidy.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
And it's a very beautiful look as well. And it does,
it does, and it's such a and that's a great
thing too. As we talk about kind of extending the seasons.
You think about growing season, I thing think about things
that do really well. Obviously, native plants are gonna gonna
last the longest, really hold up well. By the way,
why an't we gonna start getting the ice cream buckets
of tomatoes from co workers? And oh, well, are we
(14:12):
getting close? And we've got to be pretty close to know,
am I we didn't grow I'm gonna tell you. I'm
going to a little disclosure, Lisa. We didn't get a
chance to do a garden this year, but you did it.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
We were just so busy with the kiddo, had a
bunch of things on the schedule. Like we're gonna hold off,
so we just put some color.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
You know, all of our veg starts are fifty yeah,
fifty percent off. So we should bring Madson in. He
could pick up some things and maybe do some containers.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
Oh that's great, Lisa. I feel my heart hurts.
Speaker 3 (14:41):
I think about Madson not having his garden.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
And he was telling him and I were on a
road trip the other week and that was something he
brought up. Is like he's like Dad, I wish I'd
done a garden this year. Yeah, unfortunately, but.
Speaker 3 (14:53):
Yeah, did you just do a little one?
Speaker 2 (14:54):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (14:55):
Do some pots?
Speaker 1 (14:56):
Oh perfect. I love that. That's just like me. You've
got a reason to get on into the way.
Speaker 3 (15:00):
I do all my.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
Bed gardening in pots because I have a small yard.
It's very shady. So my tomatoes are all in pots
all right.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
And as folks are getting tomatoes popping, yeah, I always
drop them off. I know you got a question for Lisa.
Great day to give us a call of to have
you join us. Six soh eight three two one thirteen ten.
That's six oh eight three two one thirteen ten. Speaking
of great days, it's a great day to get on
in to the Middleton Garden Center of the Bruce Company
right at twenty eight thirty parm Inter Street. That's twenty
at thirty Partment Street. Again, ful lines are open. Six
(15:28):
soh eight three two one thirteen ten. That's six soh
eight three two one thirteen ten. Learn more online Bruce
Company dot com. That's Bruce Company dot com, Facebook and
social media the Bruce Company. And we'll continue our conversation
with Lisa and take your call next as every day
outdoor Living brought to you by the Bruce Company, continues
right here on thirteen ten double uiby eight eight twenty
(15:54):
two thirteen ten do Wiba and every day outdoor Living
brought you by the Bruce Company. Hanging out with Lisa Brigg.
If you've got a question for Lisa, love to have
you join us this morning. Phone lines open at six
eight three two one thirteen ten. That's six oh eight
three two one thirteen ten. Great day to get on
into the Middleton Garden center of the Bruce Company right
at twenty eight thirty Parmenter Street. That's twenty eight thirty
Parman Street. You can also find the Bruce Company online
(16:15):
Bruce Company dot com, Facebook and social media the Bruce Company.
And speaking of Facebook and social media, guys, got a
uh a Facebook contest going on? Am I right on?
Speaker 3 (16:24):
Oh we do?
Speaker 2 (16:25):
Yeah, it's you know, I like to sort of on
Facebook bring everybody's awareness to some of the sort of
calendar dates or holidays. But July, yeah, is not only
National Grilling Month, it's also wild about Wildlife Month.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
Oh beautiful.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
So we are asking folks to give us a little
rundown on what kind of wildlife they're seeing in their
yards and kudos and bonus points if you can catch
a snapshot and post a photo as well, and then
and we'll give away some gift cards at the end.
Speaker 3 (17:01):
Of the month.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
Awesome. I saw a fantastic picture of a of a
little fawn that was post.
Speaker 3 (17:06):
Get somebody out of fawn. There were some I thought
there was a turkey. I haven't. I haven't checked what
came in overnight. O man, I am I posted one.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
I'm not eligible, of course, I'm running the contest, so
I can't win the contest.
Speaker 3 (17:23):
But of a photo of the you know, one.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
Of the broad winged hawk chicks nice than us. You
can kind of see him his fuzzy head, but they're
sort of hilarious.
Speaker 1 (17:37):
It's great And again you can do that right at
Bruce Company's Facebook page, The Bruce Company. I also love
with Trent. What are you calling? Has he got a
clever name for.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
Trent's Oh, I can't remember. Trent and Sasha and Linda
came up with it. So yeah, it's nice that I
am now not the only person on video on the
tell that's Crow and Tell that's right, which is also.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
A lot of fun. And speaking of the Bruce company
and social media folks should follow because I know that
there's you know, there's always fun stuff and contests and
other things. But it's a really nice way to you know,
I know a lot of us are are. Part of
our routine is to scroll through Facebook, and it's kind
of a way to kind of check in and see
some of the cool stuff going on it.
Speaker 2 (18:20):
Yeah, yeah, there's you can see what events are happening
when we're doing stuff on sale. You'll the aforementioned days. Yes,
there are some really weird days.
Speaker 3 (18:34):
I have to say.
Speaker 1 (18:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
Yeah, like every imaginable food thing, no matter how obscure, this.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
Has a day. Well, I know today is like national
dive bar.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
I'm sure it's national something. How do you get how
do you get a national day? Who proclaims this sort
of stuff?
Speaker 1 (18:55):
I don't know. There's got to be some kind of
some kind of documents, and I don't know, because.
Speaker 2 (18:59):
Every day has at least six and then there are
the weeks, and then of course the whole month sell
month stuff.
Speaker 1 (19:06):
So and speaking up that you said you said National
grilling month.
Speaker 3 (19:10):
It is National grilling Month.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
Yeah, and it's never a bad time for a new
grilly side.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
It isn't and we still have some of those griddles
with that griddle deal on hands.
Speaker 3 (19:20):
Yeah, so if you want to try that.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
The uh I think the griddle itself is five forty nine,
but you get one hundred and fifty dollars gift card back,
which brings it down to four hundred dollars.
Speaker 3 (19:34):
So it's I mean, not.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
The grill, but you can buy yeah, you can buy
other things with it.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
So with that too, as we talk about, you know,
what's things going on with the Brust Company. I know
there's always great events and other things. You've had the
Weber of folks in a couple of times a little.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
Bit of a lull for us for events in the
month of July. We've got some things coming up. In August.
Of course, we have the you know fetches bringing puppies
on the twentieth. That happens every month. But we'll start
We've got some things scheduled that we're trying to put
together for August, and then we'll in September, October and
November and December. It'll be back to workshops and you know,
(20:12):
lots of things happening.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
And you mentioned fetch too. You guys do our posting
speaking of following you on social media, you guys post
adoptable pet of the week. Let's talk about real quick too,
about what's going on with the Bruce Company and Fetch.
And I know, for folks that listen to show regularly, now,
the Bruce Companies very involved and charitable.
Speaker 3 (20:29):
Yeah, we really want to give back to the community.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
And so every year our marketing team chooses a local
it needs to be local nonprofit and so we've worked
with Guilda's Club, We've worked with the Humane Society, We've
worked with Geo's Garden, so a lot of we've been
(20:52):
doing this for about ten or eleven years, so we're
sort of stacking up a little, you know, a list
of people that we worked with.
Speaker 3 (21:01):
But this year we're working with Fetch.
Speaker 2 (21:03):
And so usually the nonprofits are there's some kind of
family sort of.
Speaker 3 (21:10):
Component to it, and so Fetch is a.
Speaker 2 (21:15):
Rehab rescue out of I believe Verona, and they don't
have a shelter, so not like the Humane Society where
they have a shelter, but all of their dogs are
fostered out. So either people surrender pets or they rescue
pets and then they all go out to foster and
(21:35):
so we have fosters come in every month or litters
of puppies, and so you can it's become a way
for the fosters to come and get the puppies. Yes, right,
So last month we had a litter of ten, you know,
and it was the day that a lot of them
(21:57):
were leaving their mom and then going to the next
stage in the process, and they all go and they
were going out in pairs, so that was nice.
Speaker 3 (22:07):
They weren't going to be totally lonely, but it was
sort of bittersweet.
Speaker 2 (22:11):
But you can't when you come, you can't adopt a
dog at that time, but you can certainly get the
ball rolling and learn about fetch and meet some of
the the foster dogs that are available. And so they
not only do puppies, but they also do older dogs.
So they're a great organization. And since they don't have
(22:33):
a facility or people with salaries that they're supporting, all
the proceeds go to caring for the dogs.
Speaker 1 (22:43):
And it's a win win too because the pups.
Speaker 3 (22:46):
Yeah, and the puppies are fun, yes, yes, very very cool.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
Definitely follow along the Bruce Company on Facebook and social media.
The website Bruce Company dot com. That's Bruce Company dot com.
Before we wrap this week, Lisa, I just real quick
talk a little bit of course, as we're thinking about
you know, things are past the fourth of July holiday,
it's a great time to be We had some gatherings
over the weekend. Summer is going to be here for
(23:10):
a long time. It's a good time to make sure
that that outdoor space is comfortable. And guys got furniture.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
We do have furniture. We're starting to mark down some
floor models, so really so there are opportunities to buy
something and take it home. We also have several vendors
that have a pretty quick turnaround as far as special orders.
Speaker 3 (23:35):
So yeah, so.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
There's still time to get something and be able to
enjoy it right away or within a few weeks.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
Excellent in the summer again, it's we've got a lot
of summer time, a lot of great stuff. It's a
great day to get on into the Middleton Guards Center
of the Ruce Company. It's always fun right a twenty
eight thirty Parment Street. That's twenty eight thirty Parment Street.
That's where you find the Middleton Garden Center of the
Bruce Company. Mention their social media of course, find them there,
Facebook and Instagram and Pinterest. The website Bruce Company dot com.
That's Bruce Company dot com. Lisa, It's always great seeing
(24:04):
you enjoy.
Speaker 3 (24:04):
This fantastic day you as well, shine.
Speaker 1 (24:06):
We got news coming your way next right here on
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