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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Eight o seven thirteen ten WIBA and every Day Outdoor Living,
brought to you by the Bruce Company online Bruce Company
dot com. That's all one word. That's a standard spelling
as well of Bruce and Company, Bruce Company dot Com,
Facebook and social media the Bruce Company.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Of course.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
Great day to get on and say Lo Middleton Gardens
under the Bruce Company twenty eight thirty Parmenter Street. That's
twenty eight thirty Parma Street. Joined in studio this morning
by Lisa Briggs from the Bruce Company.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Lisa, how you doing?
Speaker 3 (00:26):
I'm good?
Speaker 1 (00:26):
How are you shying to point out standard spelling? I
was thinking earlier this morning.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
Uh, thinking about spelling.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
We talked about the Spelling Bee briefly, but that was
not related to why I was thinking about spelling. I
had was looking at my Facebook and somebody with the
last name Lloyd with two l's had commented on one
of my Facebook posts, and I thought, if I had
the power, I would love to have prebel spelled with
two p's, just to throw people off.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
Okay, I'll do it from now on. So we've got
to change in my address book like a year.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
It'll be like, what's that all? Scribed thank you a
Bruce Company br u.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
Ce Bruce Company dot com, standard spelling it Facebook. We
mentioned Facebook, social media, Instagram, Pinterest, all that great stuff,
really really cool stuff online. Great calendar on the website also,
I guess post updates for different events going on to
Bruce Company as well on social media.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
Added a bunch so business not last last week or
the week before anyway, all the May.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
That's a busy calendar. It is a busy calendar, which
is good.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
But I have some help, so I am really trying.
Who's going to be with us for next week? And
then also Scott who's at the plant desk, have started
to do some of the workshops and things.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
I think I've met Scott before, but I think probably
a nice guy.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
Although this is here's the funny thing I say that
about when I visit anyone at the Bruce Company.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
Everybody's very nice and pleasant. We do try well.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
You do a very good job at it, and some
of it is one finding good people. Also, hard to
have a bad day when you're when you're working around Guardian,
that's what you would.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
Say, until you're till so you're working on a forty
degree rainy day, unloading six hundred bald and burlap Emerald
arbor fidy. And then you say to yourself, if I
was the kind of person who would quit, I would quit.
And actually somebody did once.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
Oh it was a first day. I felt so bad.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
Her first nation came back at lunch, she said, this
is not what I thought it was going to be.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
It's true. Every job has some of those things. You're like,
oh yeah, so well, you know what. It's good a
good learning experience for everybody in that in that scenario.
Speaking of the weather, we're gonna want to get to
that and just oh yeah, just a moment. One thing, though,
I do want to mention we're in that time of
year where I know questions start to pop up about
gardening and everything outdoors. And of course Lisa is here
and she's a fantastic resource. You got a question for
(02:47):
Lisa'll love to have you join us this morning six
eight three two one thirteen ten. That's six oh eight
three two one thirteen ten. Of course you can learn
more about the Bruce Company online. Even better, stop on
end great day to get on in the Middleton Garden
Center of the Bruce Company twenty eight thirty Parmits. That's
twenty at thirty Parment Street weather.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
But I just say that I was looking at what
March first was doing and it was a coldish day
but really not much going on. So was March first
a liony lamb and this is the little Lambye lion
or is it the other way around, because they're both
kind of bloods.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
Yeah, I'm not going to complain. We're not.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
I mean, it's not Lamb weather, but it's not really
Lyon weather.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
No, and neither.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
Was the first.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
It's weather.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
I think you're right out with it. Yeah, there was
nothing eventful on either, which.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
Is again I won't take it.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
Yes, although I did have snow on my car this
morning when I went out to I.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
Saw somebody driving They had stone. I had like I
just had a little bit of like ice.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
Droplets, little fairy dust, little pixie dust, a little magic, a.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
Little little chunkier than that. But yeah, but I did
see a car that was covered with snow, and I
wondered where they were coming from.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
Rock County.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
Yeah, we got we got some good, good good snow
on that cover, but a pretty good clumping overnight out
So maybe.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
It is a lion day. If there was some.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
Yeah, it depends on where I'm looking at the forecast.
I don't see that s word at all, the snow
word anywhere unless I missed it.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
I do see a lot of rain, yeah, which we need?
Oh do we Okay?
Speaker 3 (04:15):
Which we need? The rain we had, you know, the
last spring was fairly wet, but the later summer and
fall were dry. And we didn't get very much snowcover
this year for winter, so we could use the rain.
I think that I see a lot of the states
in a moderate drought.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
Okay, so we could use we could use this moist.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
Yeah. And as as it's been as the ground has
sort of slowly been thawing, it's not the season of
mud yet, but there's a place for the water to go. Yeah,
as the ground thaws, it'll sink in. So that's good.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
And the forecast the temperatures don't look terrible after sixty
years a week now, they don't know. That's good stuff.
Good time to get in and get some work done.
Let's talk about things we can be starting indoors and
what are going to be some of the indications of
stuff that we've started indoors can start to start to
stretch their legs a bit and move to the out
of doors.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
Well, almost anything that if you've started things indoors, except
the really really tender stuff like eggplant and peppers, you
can move outside on a nice day, okay, and just
bring it in at night as we get a little
bit where you know, I don't know when it was,
what was it Friday, like seventy eight or something. Even then,
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if you had had tomatoes or something, you could have
moved them out just I always like to put seedlings
in a sheltered spot where they don't where it's not
too windy, and they don't the sun isn't pounding on
them because they're just not used to that much light.
But you could certainly you can start peppers now, you
can start eggplants, anything like cool weather, Like if you
(05:56):
started some some cabbage crops, those could go outside on
days okay. I also think that if you have a
floating row cover on hand, and you have like a
raised bed or an area on a south side where
it has not only thowed, but a lot of the
moisture that you know that was pent up has gone through,
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you could do cool weather crops like radishes, baby carrots,
dare I say peas. I know you're not supposed to
start peas till good Friday, but if the weather's good, lettuces, spinach,
all that kind of stuff. So just have a floating
row cover on hand so that if it's gonna get
much below thirty five, then you can cover it. Like tonight,
(06:41):
it's supposed to be quite chilly.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
So you mentioned radishes, and we were talking about hot
peppers the other week, and we'll probably touch on them again.
I don't know that the radish gets enough respect for
its heat that it can bring like a good radish,
like a nice, little tiny one. They can pack a
little bit of a punch. They're perfect to put. Like
you got like a little salad going and you watch
just not like anything that's gonna linger or sting too bad,
(07:04):
but something's gonna you.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
Know, it's peppery.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
Yeah, it's a nice I think it's a to me,
that's like especially the the like hotter ones, if you
want to use that term, that's like the perfect like
I don't know, just like because the heat doesn't linger,
it gives you a little it says, hey, get up,
you're eaten, let's do it, and then it goes right away,
which is just a nice thing. So you can get
started on this. You guys got varieties of radishes.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
Do you got multiple like seeds?
Speaker 3 (07:30):
Yes, yeah, definitely. We don't have any veg plants in yet. Okay,
it's a little early for that. We have lots of
pansies we had we got in a few rinunculous as.
It's it's the flower that the Three Stooges love. It's
(07:51):
it looks kind of like a small cabbage e rose.
Are you looking it up?
Speaker 2 (07:55):
I am? I'd mostly because oh wow, I like those.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
I know you see them a lot in Floris. It's
a it's a nice Floras flower. But it does like
cool weather. We should be getting stamp dragons and stock soon.
We've got some bald pansyahus.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
And unculous nunk.
Speaker 3 (08:18):
That's that's the Three Stooges part right.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
I don't I'm alright.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
I won't do that too early in the morning for
that kind of thing.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
Too witty for this.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
Also, you could be starting uh bulbs, summer blooming bulbs,
you know, like pogonias and cannas and dahlias, that sort
of thing. You could start inside for sure, maybe like
the end of the week or next week, you can
go ahead and start your tomatoes.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
Okay, yes, everybody wants.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
To have well everybody wants to like brag on that
first tomato. That's the only way you get that is
if you start them indoors.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
It's yes, so we're not there, but soon enough. What
about peppers, How are we doing on the on the
pepper peppers?
Speaker 3 (09:13):
You could have those, you can sew all those, just.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
Get even the hot ones, the hot ones.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
Yeah, if it were if I were the kind of
person that did things from seed and I was the
kind of person that really loved really hot peppers, I
would have started them about two or three weeks ago.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
When you said a couple of weeks ago, you should
start those.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
Yeah, when I said that, should have heated Lisa's Yeah.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
Sometimes not the first and that I recognize in myself
that I do not have the time to babysit seeds No,
the baby sit seedling. So I just don't.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
Watched the show. Be sad the show, the hot Ones.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
It's the guy that he'll have famous people in and
they'll eat ten wings and they're of increased famous people.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
Uh, you know people that you know and love. He's
got them all.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
On his show, and no, I've never seen this.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
It'd be a fun thing to do with peppers, do
a hot ones where you do like ten different levels of.
Speaker 3 (10:01):
Seed Savers, which is one of our major seed thunders.
They're in Iowa and Decora and they have a farm
because it's a they're they're they're an dot org, so
they're there. They have a vault for seed saving, is
what I'm trying to say. So they grow a lot
of what we would call heirloom varieties, and they do
(10:23):
have I know that in the past they have had
a tomato tasting. I wouldn't be surprised if they have
other tastings for some of the other crops that they.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
Grow as well.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
That would be very cool. Decora, by the way, sounds
far too elegant for its location.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
This is a thing on my bucket list is to
go to Seed Savers and check it out. Yeah, it's
it's a super cool. It's a vast property they have
and they also do some heirloom variety animal varieties. I
know they do some trees, some like fruiting trees. So
it's super cool.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
Talking this morning with Lisa breaks for the Bruce Company
of course online Bruce coompany dot com. That's Brucecompany dot com,
Facebook and social media.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
The Bruce Company.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
Great to get day to get on in left to
see a Middleton gardens at the Bruce Company. Right at
twenty eight thirty Parma Industry. That's twenty eight thirty Parma Street.
If you've got a question, you could join us now.
I'd love to get you on the air. Six O
eight three two one thirteen ten. That's six eight three
two one thirteen ten. And I don't know if you've
checked the birding app recently as far as migration, do
you know where we stand as far as uh bird birds?
And well, are those kind of like the the.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
Those are the ones everybody watches for the hummingbirds and orioles.
We probably won't see those for a couple few weeks.
The last time I checked the calendar, the tracking calendar,
they were maybe up to southern Illinois. Oh okay, maybe
that far north.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
What do oriols like? Do other birds like jellies or
is it just orioles? Why do I feel like am
I right on that like oriels?
Speaker 3 (11:55):
I think other birds would There are other birds that
would probably go after it. It's just that orioles are
so flashy, looky, that's why we want them.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
Yes, how do we attract all these birds to our yard? Lisa,
Let's say we wanted some birds.
Speaker 3 (12:09):
Well, you'd come in for sure, and we can talk
about what you want to attract and the best kinds
of seeds and feeding and that that would attract those
birds that you want. But then also just provide some
general habitat stuff. Get a bird bath because birds really
like water. Make sure you clean it out every couple
(12:31):
of days. Or do you know a little solar fountain
in there so the water agitates you. Put your feeders up,
put them adjacent to a place that has cover, because
as the birds fly back and forth to the feeder,
they like to go into a shrub or an evergreen
so that they can eat in peace and be safe
(12:53):
from predators.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
There's predators out there, aren't And.
Speaker 3 (12:57):
You should also plant some things that birds like, so
you're also providing natural food, so berries and seed bearing
flowers and that kind of thing.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
Your way to keep the blue jays away. I don't think.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
There's any way to discriminate.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
Other than just saying, yeah, see them out there.
Speaker 3 (13:15):
I don't think. I don't think that there's a way
to discourage one bird species over another. Unfortunately, what about squirrels, Well,
squirrels are another thing. I would get some now they
all call them squirrel proof feeders. They're more squirrel resistance.
But some of them are pretty clever. So they'll have
you know, there'll be like a spring, so when a
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bird lands on it, a bird is so light, this
thing doesn't move. The bird has access to the ports
where the seed comes out. But if a squirrel or
a chipment gets on there, it pulls it shut and
so then the screen comes over the ports and then
they can't get it the seed.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
Oh that's very clever.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
So that's that's it's pretty low tech.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
I know you guys have high tech ones.
Speaker 3 (13:57):
Well yeah, and then there's the Yankee flipper that just
sort of spins around and flings the squirrels. And I
don't think squirrels were harmed are harmed in any way
because if you watch squirrels, I don't know they should
be They should be divers, right, they should be Olympic divers.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
There is a fan I think I've brought this up
with you in the past on the show. There is
a great PBS Nature special on squirrels. They are they
put cats to shame, like your cat seems clumsy comparatively
to a You suddenly see a squirrel and it's like
they do like super slow mo of like how agile
and like the amazing things a squirrel can do, which
explains why they are you know, you mentioned squirrel proof
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is really more of a they're more squirrels resistant because
they are very, very very as far as just animals,
they are amazing, amazingly skilled creatures. So also, if you
get a chance to check out the Mark Rober video
on YouTube, he did a whole obstacle.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
Course I've seen that.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
I have seen that, So you know what, if you're
gonna have squirrel, squirrels are cool. I mean there was
a time where people used to gather around in public
parks and look at the squirrels for entertainment.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
That's how far we've come societally. But they are cool creatures.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
And if you've got them in the yard, why not
get something entertaining like a Yankee flipper to really you know,
sit out back on the patio and watch the squirrels.
Speaker 3 (15:20):
Yeah, or give them something to eat. This away from
your feet.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
To do that too.
Speaker 1 (15:23):
You can be good options at LIASA. You're always thinking
of this stuff. It's morning with Lisa Briggs from the
Bruce Company. Great opportunity. You've got a question, love to
have you joined us the moor on six oh eight
three two one thirteen ten. That's six oh eight three
two one thirteen ten. Talk a little more about all
the great stuff going on at the Bruce Company. Else,
take your call. If you haven't been to the website yet,
head on over there Bruce Company dot com. That's Bruce
Company dot com. Bunch of events coming up. We'll talk
(15:43):
Lisa about that forget. Also, you can find them on
Facebook and social media. The Bruce Company and more of
every day Outdoor Living with the Bruce Company comes your
way next right here thirteen ten. Dou wuib A eight
twenty seven thirteen ten. Wuiba and every Day Outdoor Living
brought to you by the Bruce Company. Chatting with Lisa
break from the Bruce Company. Still got time If you've
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thirteen ten. Learn more about the Bruce Company on the website,
Brucecompany dot com. That's Bruce Company dot com, Facebook and
social media the Bruce Company. And we talked earlier on
the segment about about different events and how the calendar
is pretty full at the Bruce Company. A big event
coming up is the annual Kabloom.
Speaker 3 (16:24):
Yeah. So Kabloom is our sort of spring kickoff, Yeah
kind of event. We've got some outside vendors are coming
some of our uh, some of our vendor reps are
coming in to do demos, and it's just sort of
a fun, educational kind of event.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
Who still came up with kabloom? But is that you?
That seems like a Lisa, But it.
Speaker 3 (16:46):
Might have been It might have been me. It might
have been Linda. Okay, it might have been a collab
between the two of us. Had sometimes our brain sort
of meld. Yeah, there's a little bit of transference or something.
So I don't remember, okay, honestly, but Kabloom is great
events April. I got to look at the YEP twenty six.
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I was right in my head from eleven to two.
So it's it's a free event. Like I said, it's educational.
There'd be eight or ten kind of tables or booths
will set up, but we do since having the design
team there for our furniture event earlier in the month,
we are going to do that again.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
Oh great.
Speaker 3 (17:29):
So there are eighteen slots. So what you want to
do is go to the website Brucecompany dot com slash events,
and right under Kabloom it says garden free Garden consult
And so if you sign up for that, we'll get
your sign up and then we'll send it to the
plant desk and then they will call you and set
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up the appointment.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
Fantastic and that's all part of the Kabloom event eleven
to two on the twenty sixth.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
Yes April.
Speaker 3 (17:56):
So now it's gonna be fine.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
That's gonna be and it's gonna be here. And no,
that's the other thing too, is like that's the only
couple of weeks.
Speaker 3 (18:00):
Out, I know, and I'm just trying to think about
what more will be in the garden center by that,
you know, because now things are we're starting to schedule
deliveries for you know, for trucks from the West coast.
When are we going to start getting our annual trucks in.
It's kind of an exciting time and every day, you
(18:21):
come in and there's something new. So if you don't
follow us on Facebook, check that out, because every day
we're trying to do like a quick little gallery of
some things that are new that are in. And we
did get a really cool bunch of cactus in on
Saturday from Florida, so I think I was sometime today.
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I'm going to get some pictures and get those up
either today or tomorrow. But that's how you can follow
about what's coming in.
Speaker 2 (18:49):
Right on the Facebook page.
Speaker 3 (18:50):
Right on the Facebook page.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
As well. Speaking of folks on their mic is on there.
He's on the phone mic from Middle Tip. Thanks for
all in this morning. You're on the air atleast the
breaks from the Bruce Company.
Speaker 4 (19:03):
Good morning, thanks for taking my call. A couple questions
for you. First off, I'd like to start a patch
of black eyed Susan from seed okay, and wondering wondering
when the best time would be to start scattering that out.
Speaker 3 (19:18):
I don't I don't know that black eyed Susan seed
needs a cold period, but I would guess that you
could probably if you have your patch sort of ready,
I would think you could scatter that seed anytime now.
Because in nature. It would come from the flowers and
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it would be fallow all winter anyway, So you'd just
be mimicking that sort of thing.
Speaker 4 (19:44):
Sure, sure, perfect, perfect Second question I'm going to I
need to feed my blueberries with high nitrogen. Is there
a specific time I should be thinking about adding that
to the soil to amend the soils? It should be
when it starts to what you want.
Speaker 3 (20:03):
To do for blueberries. Instead of something that's high nitrogen,
you want something that's high in iron. Okay, so our
soil is pretty alkaline here. Blueberries like a more acidic soil.
There is iron in the in the soil, but you
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but our our higher pH makes it difficult for the
plant to get so. There are a number of things
that you can apply organic wise. You could use garden
sulfur that's a slower release thing. You could use Aspoma's.
Speaker 2 (20:39):
Holy Tone Holy Tone.
Speaker 3 (20:44):
There are some other things that are more fast acting,
but they also don't last as long and if you
overuse them, you can do some damage to the plants.
But you can, like something like garden sulfur, you can
apply to three times a season.
Speaker 4 (21:02):
Yeah, the UW actually I did a soil test. They
suggested tomonium sulfate.
Speaker 3 (21:06):
Yeah, and that's one of the ammonium sulfate and aluminum sulfate.
They're faster acting. But make sure you follow the package
instructions because in the case of this particularly, too much
is not a good thing.
Speaker 4 (21:20):
Sure, okay, sure, sure, and I start timing on that.
Speaker 3 (21:24):
You could go ahead and do that as soon as
you're as the ground is loose enough that you can
sort of scrape it in without damaging the roots of
the plants.
Speaker 4 (21:32):
That sounds great. I really appreciate your help.
Speaker 3 (21:34):
You're welcome so much.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
Great call.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
Great you too, Mike, great question, Thank you for calling.
And of course don't forget we do this each end
every Monday.
Speaker 2 (21:41):
Morning at eight. Also, of course, the Bruce Company is
always there for you.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
We can call the Plant Desk eight three six seventy
forty one Plant Desk at Brucet Company dot com at
Bruce Company dot com.
Speaker 2 (21:50):
So well, it's easy, that's an easy way to do it.
Speaker 3 (21:53):
Even better, Yes, send photos if you've got things that
you're worried about, that you're wondering what's going on.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
Remember when you acend the photos of the plant desk,
get photos developed and things.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
Remember back in the stay.
Speaker 3 (22:02):
I was thinking about that the other day. I don't
know what the context was.
Speaker 1 (22:06):
Yeah, it was such it was such a simpler time,
and I never knew how it was all going to
turn out.
Speaker 3 (22:11):
I was taking photos of my grandson on last week
and it occurred. I just took like a bazillion. Yeah,
and you didn't do that when you had film. You
had to like wait for the shot. Now you just
like put your finger down and if you take one
hundred shots, found some good ones in there.
Speaker 1 (22:27):
It's amazing times we live in. And that's of course.
The Bruce Company makes it convenient for you, of course,
using the phone number, the website or even better the
old traditional way.
Speaker 2 (22:37):
Stop on it.
Speaker 3 (22:38):
It'd love to see you guys.
Speaker 1 (22:39):
Beautiful day for a stroll around the Middleton Gardens under
the Bruce Company twenty eight thirty parm registreet. That's twenty
eight thirty partment street market calendar for Kabloom will remind
you again as well. That's going to be coming up
in April April twenty sixth from eleven until two. Details
up at Bruce Company dot com as well as their
Facebook page. Lisa, It's always great seeing you have a
fantastic day you two shot news comes away next here
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Speaker 2 (00:16):
Of course.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
Great day to get on and say Lo Middleton Gardens
under the Bruce Company twenty eight thirty Parmenter Street. That's
twenty eight thirty Parma Street. Joined in studio this morning
by Lisa Briggs from the Bruce Company.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Lisa, how you doing?
Speaker 3 (00:26):
I'm good?
Speaker 1 (00:26):
How are you shying to point out standard spelling? I
was thinking earlier this morning.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
Uh, thinking about spelling.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
We talked about the Spelling Bee briefly, but that was
not related to why I was thinking about spelling. I
had was looking at my Facebook and somebody with the
last name Lloyd with two l's had commented on one
of my Facebook posts, and I thought, if I had
the power, I would love to have prebel spelled with
two p's, just to throw people off.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
Okay, I'll do it from now on. So we've got
to change in my address book like a year.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
It'll be like, what's that all? Scribed thank you a
Bruce Company br u.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
Ce Bruce Company dot com, standard spelling it Facebook. We
mentioned Facebook, social media, Instagram, Pinterest, all that great stuff,
really really cool stuff online. Great calendar on the website also,
I guess post updates for different events going on to
Bruce Company as well on social media.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
Added a bunch so business not last last week or
the week before anyway, all the May.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
That's a busy calendar. It is a busy calendar, which
is good.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
But I have some help, so I am really trying.
Who's going to be with us for next week? And
then also Scott who's at the plant desk, have started
to do some of the workshops and things.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
I think I've met Scott before, but I think probably
a nice guy.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
Although this is here's the funny thing I say that
about when I visit anyone at the Bruce Company.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
Everybody's very nice and pleasant. We do try well.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
You do a very good job at it, and some
of it is one finding good people. Also, hard to
have a bad day when you're when you're working around Guardian,
that's what you would.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
Say, until you're till so you're working on a forty
degree rainy day, unloading six hundred bald and burlap Emerald
arbor fidy. And then you say to yourself, if I
was the kind of person who would quit, I would quit.
And actually somebody did once.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
Oh it was a first day. I felt so bad.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
Her first nation came back at lunch, she said, this
is not what I thought it was going to be.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
It's true. Every job has some of those things. You're like,
oh yeah, so well, you know what. It's good a
good learning experience for everybody in that in that scenario.
Speaking of the weather, we're gonna want to get to
that and just oh yeah, just a moment. One thing, though,
I do want to mention we're in that time of
year where I know questions start to pop up about
gardening and everything outdoors. And of course Lisa is here
and she's a fantastic resource. You got a question for
(02:47):
Lisa'll love to have you join us this morning six
eight three two one thirteen ten. That's six oh eight
three two one thirteen ten. Of course you can learn
more about the Bruce Company online. Even better, stop on
end great day to get on in the Middleton Garden
Center of the Bruce Company twenty eight thirty Parmits. That's
twenty at thirty Parment Street weather.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
But I just say that I was looking at what
March first was doing and it was a coldish day
but really not much going on. So was March first
a liony lamb and this is the little Lambye lion
or is it the other way around, because they're both
kind of bloods.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
Yeah, I'm not going to complain. We're not.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
I mean, it's not Lamb weather, but it's not really
Lyon weather.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
No, and neither.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
Was the first.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
It's weather.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
I think you're right out with it. Yeah, there was
nothing eventful on either, which.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
Is again I won't take it.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
Yes, although I did have snow on my car this
morning when I went out to I.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
Saw somebody driving They had stone. I had like I
just had a little bit of like ice.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
Droplets, little fairy dust, little pixie dust, a little magic, a.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
Little little chunkier than that. But yeah, but I did
see a car that was covered with snow, and I
wondered where they were coming from.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
Rock County.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
Yeah, we got we got some good, good good snow
on that cover, but a pretty good clumping overnight out
So maybe.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
It is a lion day. If there was some.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
Yeah, it depends on where I'm looking at the forecast.
I don't see that s word at all, the snow
word anywhere unless I missed it.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
I do see a lot of rain, yeah, which we need?
Oh do we Okay?
Speaker 3 (04:15):
Which we need? The rain we had, you know, the
last spring was fairly wet, but the later summer and
fall were dry. And we didn't get very much snowcover
this year for winter, so we could use the rain.
I think that I see a lot of the states
in a moderate drought.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
Okay, so we could use we could use this moist.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
Yeah. And as as it's been as the ground has
sort of slowly been thawing, it's not the season of
mud yet, but there's a place for the water to go. Yeah,
as the ground thaws, it'll sink in. So that's good.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
And the forecast the temperatures don't look terrible after sixty
years a week now, they don't know. That's good stuff.
Good time to get in and get some work done.
Let's talk about things we can be starting indoors and
what are going to be some of the indications of
stuff that we've started indoors can start to start to
stretch their legs a bit and move to the out
of doors.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
Well, almost anything that if you've started things indoors, except
the really really tender stuff like eggplant and peppers, you
can move outside on a nice day, okay, and just
bring it in at night as we get a little
bit where you know, I don't know when it was,
what was it Friday, like seventy eight or something. Even then,
(05:33):
if you had had tomatoes or something, you could have
moved them out just I always like to put seedlings
in a sheltered spot where they don't where it's not
too windy, and they don't the sun isn't pounding on
them because they're just not used to that much light.
But you could certainly you can start peppers now, you
can start eggplants, anything like cool weather, Like if you
(05:56):
started some some cabbage crops, those could go outside on
days okay. I also think that if you have a
floating row cover on hand, and you have like a
raised bed or an area on a south side where
it has not only thowed, but a lot of the
moisture that you know that was pent up has gone through,
(06:18):
you could do cool weather crops like radishes, baby carrots,
dare I say peas. I know you're not supposed to
start peas till good Friday, but if the weather's good, lettuces, spinach,
all that kind of stuff. So just have a floating
row cover on hand so that if it's gonna get
much below thirty five, then you can cover it. Like tonight,
(06:41):
it's supposed to be quite chilly.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
So you mentioned radishes, and we were talking about hot
peppers the other week, and we'll probably touch on them again.
I don't know that the radish gets enough respect for
its heat that it can bring like a good radish,
like a nice, little tiny one. They can pack a
little bit of a punch. They're perfect to put. Like
you got like a little salad going and you watch
just not like anything that's gonna linger or sting too bad,
(07:04):
but something's gonna you.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
Know, it's peppery.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
Yeah, it's a nice I think it's a to me,
that's like especially the the like hotter ones, if you
want to use that term, that's like the perfect like
I don't know, just like because the heat doesn't linger,
it gives you a little it says, hey, get up,
you're eaten, let's do it, and then it goes right away,
which is just a nice thing. So you can get
started on this. You guys got varieties of radishes.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
Do you got multiple like seeds?
Speaker 3 (07:30):
Yes, yeah, definitely. We don't have any veg plants in yet. Okay,
it's a little early for that. We have lots of
pansies we had we got in a few rinunculous as.
It's it's the flower that the Three Stooges love. It's
(07:51):
it looks kind of like a small cabbage e rose.
Are you looking it up?
Speaker 2 (07:55):
I am? I'd mostly because oh wow, I like those.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
I know you see them a lot in Floris. It's
a it's a nice Floras flower. But it does like
cool weather. We should be getting stamp dragons and stock soon.
We've got some bald pansyahus.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
And unculous nunk.
Speaker 3 (08:18):
That's that's the Three Stooges part right.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
I don't I'm alright.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
I won't do that too early in the morning for
that kind of thing.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
Too witty for this.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
Also, you could be starting uh bulbs, summer blooming bulbs,
you know, like pogonias and cannas and dahlias, that sort
of thing. You could start inside for sure, maybe like
the end of the week or next week, you can
go ahead and start your tomatoes.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
Okay, yes, everybody wants.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
To have well everybody wants to like brag on that
first tomato. That's the only way you get that is
if you start them indoors.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
It's yes, so we're not there, but soon enough. What
about peppers, How are we doing on the on the
pepper peppers?
Speaker 3 (09:13):
You could have those, you can sew all those, just.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
Get even the hot ones, the hot ones.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
Yeah, if it were if I were the kind of
person that did things from seed and I was the
kind of person that really loved really hot peppers, I
would have started them about two or three weeks ago.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
When you said a couple of weeks ago, you should
start those.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
Yeah, when I said that, should have heated Lisa's Yeah.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
Sometimes not the first and that I recognize in myself
that I do not have the time to babysit seeds No,
the baby sit seedling. So I just don't.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
Watched the show. Be sad the show, the hot Ones.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
It's the guy that he'll have famous people in and
they'll eat ten wings and they're of increased famous people.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
Uh, you know people that you know and love. He's
got them all.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
On his show, and no, I've never seen this.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
It'd be a fun thing to do with peppers, do
a hot ones where you do like ten different levels of.
Speaker 3 (10:01):
Seed Savers, which is one of our major seed thunders.
They're in Iowa and Decora and they have a farm
because it's a they're they're they're an dot org, so
they're there. They have a vault for seed saving, is
what I'm trying to say. So they grow a lot
of what we would call heirloom varieties, and they do
(10:23):
have I know that in the past they have had
a tomato tasting. I wouldn't be surprised if they have
other tastings for some of the other crops that they.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
Grow as well.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
That would be very cool. Decora, by the way, sounds
far too elegant for its location.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
This is a thing on my bucket list is to
go to Seed Savers and check it out. Yeah, it's
it's a super cool. It's a vast property they have
and they also do some heirloom variety animal varieties. I
know they do some trees, some like fruiting trees. So
it's super cool.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
Talking this morning with Lisa breaks for the Bruce Company
of course online Bruce coompany dot com. That's Brucecompany dot com,
Facebook and social media.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
The Bruce Company.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
Great to get day to get on in left to
see a Middleton gardens at the Bruce Company. Right at
twenty eight thirty Parma Industry. That's twenty eight thirty Parma Street.
If you've got a question, you could join us now.
I'd love to get you on the air. Six O
eight three two one thirteen ten. That's six eight three
two one thirteen ten. And I don't know if you've
checked the birding app recently as far as migration, do
you know where we stand as far as uh bird birds?
And well, are those kind of like the the.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
Those are the ones everybody watches for the hummingbirds and orioles.
We probably won't see those for a couple few weeks.
The last time I checked the calendar, the tracking calendar,
they were maybe up to southern Illinois. Oh okay, maybe
that far north.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
What do oriols like? Do other birds like jellies or
is it just orioles? Why do I feel like am
I right on that like oriels?
Speaker 3 (11:55):
I think other birds would There are other birds that
would probably go after it. It's just that orioles are
so flashy, looky, that's why we want them.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
Yes, how do we attract all these birds to our yard? Lisa,
Let's say we wanted some birds.
Speaker 3 (12:09):
Well, you'd come in for sure, and we can talk
about what you want to attract and the best kinds
of seeds and feeding and that that would attract those
birds that you want. But then also just provide some
general habitat stuff. Get a bird bath because birds really
like water. Make sure you clean it out every couple
(12:31):
of days. Or do you know a little solar fountain
in there so the water agitates you. Put your feeders up,
put them adjacent to a place that has cover, because
as the birds fly back and forth to the feeder,
they like to go into a shrub or an evergreen
so that they can eat in peace and be safe
(12:53):
from predators.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
There's predators out there, aren't And.
Speaker 3 (12:57):
You should also plant some things that birds like, so
you're also providing natural food, so berries and seed bearing
flowers and that kind of thing.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
Your way to keep the blue jays away. I don't think.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
There's any way to discriminate.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
Other than just saying, yeah, see them out there.
Speaker 3 (13:15):
I don't think. I don't think that there's a way
to discourage one bird species over another. Unfortunately, what about squirrels, Well,
squirrels are another thing. I would get some now they
all call them squirrel proof feeders. They're more squirrel resistance.
But some of them are pretty clever. So they'll have
you know, there'll be like a spring, so when a
(13:36):
bird lands on it, a bird is so light, this
thing doesn't move. The bird has access to the ports
where the seed comes out. But if a squirrel or
a chipment gets on there, it pulls it shut and
so then the screen comes over the ports and then
they can't get it the seed.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
Oh that's very clever.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
So that's that's it's pretty low tech.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
I know you guys have high tech ones.
Speaker 3 (13:57):
Well yeah, and then there's the Yankee flipper that just
sort of spins around and flings the squirrels. And I
don't think squirrels were harmed are harmed in any way
because if you watch squirrels, I don't know they should
be They should be divers, right, they should be Olympic divers.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
There is a fan I think I've brought this up
with you in the past on the show. There is
a great PBS Nature special on squirrels. They are they
put cats to shame, like your cat seems clumsy comparatively
to a You suddenly see a squirrel and it's like
they do like super slow mo of like how agile
and like the amazing things a squirrel can do, which
explains why they are you know, you mentioned squirrel proof
(14:38):
is really more of a they're more squirrels resistant because
they are very, very very as far as just animals,
they are amazing, amazingly skilled creatures. So also, if you
get a chance to check out the Mark Rober video
on YouTube, he did a whole obstacle.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
Course I've seen that.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
I have seen that, So you know what, if you're
gonna have squirrel, squirrels are cool. I mean there was
a time where people used to gather around in public
parks and look at the squirrels for entertainment.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
That's how far we've come societally. But they are cool creatures.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
And if you've got them in the yard, why not
get something entertaining like a Yankee flipper to really you know,
sit out back on the patio and watch the squirrels.
Speaker 3 (15:20):
Yeah, or give them something to eat. This away from
your feet.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
To do that too.
Speaker 1 (15:23):
You can be good options at LIASA. You're always thinking
of this stuff. It's morning with Lisa Briggs from the
Bruce Company. Great opportunity. You've got a question, love to
have you joined us the moor on six oh eight
three two one thirteen ten. That's six oh eight three
two one thirteen ten. Talk a little more about all
the great stuff going on at the Bruce Company. Else,
take your call. If you haven't been to the website yet,
head on over there Bruce Company dot com. That's Bruce
Company dot com. Bunch of events coming up. We'll talk
(15:43):
Lisa about that forget. Also, you can find them on
Facebook and social media. The Bruce Company and more of
every day Outdoor Living with the Bruce Company comes your
way next right here thirteen ten. Dou wuib A eight
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(16:06):
thirteen ten. Learn more about the Bruce Company on the website,
Brucecompany dot com. That's Bruce Company dot com, Facebook and
social media the Bruce Company. And we talked earlier on
the segment about about different events and how the calendar
is pretty full at the Bruce Company. A big event
coming up is the annual Kabloom.
Speaker 3 (16:24):
Yeah. So Kabloom is our sort of spring kickoff, Yeah
kind of event. We've got some outside vendors are coming
some of our uh, some of our vendor reps are
coming in to do demos, and it's just sort of
a fun, educational kind of event.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
Who still came up with kabloom? But is that you?
That seems like a Lisa, But it.
Speaker 3 (16:46):
Might have been It might have been me. It might
have been Linda. Okay, it might have been a collab
between the two of us. Had sometimes our brain sort
of meld. Yeah, there's a little bit of transference or something.
So I don't remember, okay, honestly, but Kabloom is great
events April. I got to look at the YEP twenty six.
(17:07):
I was right in my head from eleven to two.
So it's it's a free event. Like I said, it's educational.
There'd be eight or ten kind of tables or booths
will set up, but we do since having the design
team there for our furniture event earlier in the month,
we are going to do that again.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
Oh great.
Speaker 3 (17:29):
So there are eighteen slots. So what you want to
do is go to the website Brucecompany dot com slash events,
and right under Kabloom it says garden free Garden consult
And so if you sign up for that, we'll get
your sign up and then we'll send it to the
plant desk and then they will call you and set
(17:50):
up the appointment.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
Fantastic and that's all part of the Kabloom event eleven
to two on the twenty sixth.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
Yes April.
Speaker 3 (17:56):
So now it's gonna be fine.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
That's gonna be and it's gonna be here. And no,
that's the other thing too, is like that's the only
couple of weeks.
Speaker 3 (18:00):
Out, I know, and I'm just trying to think about
what more will be in the garden center by that,
you know, because now things are we're starting to schedule
deliveries for you know, for trucks from the West coast.
When are we going to start getting our annual trucks in.
It's kind of an exciting time and every day, you
(18:21):
come in and there's something new. So if you don't
follow us on Facebook, check that out, because every day
we're trying to do like a quick little gallery of
some things that are new that are in. And we
did get a really cool bunch of cactus in on
Saturday from Florida, so I think I was sometime today.
(18:43):
I'm going to get some pictures and get those up
either today or tomorrow. But that's how you can follow
about what's coming in.
Speaker 2 (18:49):
Right on the Facebook page.
Speaker 3 (18:50):
Right on the Facebook page.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
As well. Speaking of folks on their mic is on there.
He's on the phone mic from Middle Tip. Thanks for
all in this morning. You're on the air atleast the
breaks from the Bruce Company.
Speaker 4 (19:03):
Good morning, thanks for taking my call. A couple questions
for you. First off, I'd like to start a patch
of black eyed Susan from seed okay, and wondering wondering
when the best time would be to start scattering that out.
Speaker 3 (19:18):
I don't I don't know that black eyed Susan seed
needs a cold period, but I would guess that you
could probably if you have your patch sort of ready,
I would think you could scatter that seed anytime now.
Because in nature. It would come from the flowers and
(19:38):
it would be fallow all winter anyway, So you'd just
be mimicking that sort of thing.
Speaker 4 (19:44):
Sure, sure, perfect, perfect Second question I'm going to I
need to feed my blueberries with high nitrogen. Is there
a specific time I should be thinking about adding that
to the soil to amend the soils? It should be
when it starts to what you want.
Speaker 3 (20:03):
To do for blueberries. Instead of something that's high nitrogen,
you want something that's high in iron. Okay, so our
soil is pretty alkaline here. Blueberries like a more acidic soil.
There is iron in the in the soil, but you
(20:24):
but our our higher pH makes it difficult for the
plant to get so. There are a number of things
that you can apply organic wise. You could use garden
sulfur that's a slower release thing. You could use Aspoma's.
Speaker 2 (20:39):
Holy Tone Holy Tone.
Speaker 3 (20:44):
There are some other things that are more fast acting,
but they also don't last as long and if you
overuse them, you can do some damage to the plants.
But you can, like something like garden sulfur, you can
apply to three times a season.
Speaker 4 (21:02):
Yeah, the UW actually I did a soil test. They
suggested tomonium sulfate.
Speaker 3 (21:06):
Yeah, and that's one of the ammonium sulfate and aluminum sulfate.
They're faster acting. But make sure you follow the package
instructions because in the case of this particularly, too much
is not a good thing.
Speaker 4 (21:20):
Sure, okay, sure, sure, and I start timing on that.
Speaker 3 (21:24):
You could go ahead and do that as soon as
you're as the ground is loose enough that you can
sort of scrape it in without damaging the roots of
the plants.
Speaker 4 (21:32):
That sounds great. I really appreciate your help.
Speaker 3 (21:34):
You're welcome so much.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
Great call.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
Great you too, Mike, great question, Thank you for calling.
And of course don't forget we do this each end
every Monday.
Speaker 2 (21:41):
Morning at eight. Also, of course, the Bruce Company is
always there for you.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
We can call the Plant Desk eight three six seventy
forty one Plant Desk at Brucet Company dot com at
Bruce Company dot com.
Speaker 2 (21:50):
So well, it's easy, that's an easy way to do it.
Speaker 3 (21:53):
Even better, Yes, send photos if you've got things that
you're worried about, that you're wondering what's going on.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
Remember when you acend the photos of the plant desk,
get photos developed and things.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
Remember back in the stay.
Speaker 3 (22:02):
I was thinking about that the other day. I don't
know what the context was.
Speaker 1 (22:06):
Yeah, it was such it was such a simpler time,
and I never knew how it was all going to
turn out.
Speaker 3 (22:11):
I was taking photos of my grandson on last week
and it occurred. I just took like a bazillion. Yeah,
and you didn't do that when you had film. You
had to like wait for the shot. Now you just
like put your finger down and if you take one
hundred shots, found some good ones in there.
Speaker 1 (22:27):
It's amazing times we live in. And that's of course.
The Bruce Company makes it convenient for you, of course,
using the phone number, the website or even better the
old traditional way.
Speaker 2 (22:37):
Stop on it.
Speaker 3 (22:38):
It'd love to see you guys.
Speaker 1 (22:39):
Beautiful day for a stroll around the Middleton Gardens under
the Bruce Company twenty eight thirty parm registreet. That's twenty
eight thirty partment street market calendar for Kabloom will remind
you again as well. That's going to be coming up
in April April twenty sixth from eleven until two. Details
up at Bruce Company dot com as well as their
Facebook page. Lisa, It's always great seeing you have a
fantastic day you two shot news comes away next here
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