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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Eight oh eight thirteen ten wib and every Day Outdoor
Living brought to you by the Bruce Company. Online Bruce
Company dot com. That's Bruce Company dot com. Great day
to get on into the Middleton Guards under the Bruce
Company twenty eight thirty Parminter Street. That's twenty eight thirty
Parmitt Street. Learn more online Bruce Company dot com, Facebook
and social media the Bruce Company. And if you've got
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a question, we've got a phone line open just for
you at six o' eight three two one thirteen ten.
That's six oh eight three two one thirteen ten. You
know who's here with us this morning, Lisa Briggs.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Hello, you been good you.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
It's been so long.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
Well we've been spending you know, we maybe once or
twice three times a year we get we get a
little time off.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
But it's my other one of our other Bruce Company peeps, Covin, who.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
Are always fantastic and we love them very much. But
it is it's it's to me.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
It's a strange thing, because again I see you each
one dime a week. We should sit down and chat.
I didn't even get into the Bruce Company last week
to make up for for missing you were you?
Speaker 3 (01:01):
Were you off? Were you doing something fun? Were you No?
Speaker 4 (01:04):
No, they just came to me and said, we want
to talk about we want Jeff to come on and
talk about career opportunities at the Bruce Company.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
So real quick, how did you start at the Bruce Company?
For people that don't know, let's talk.
Speaker 4 (01:17):
Way back in the day, I was doing master Gardener
course nice and some John Sower, who was the nursery
manager and Lori Sund.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
Sent out letters to everybody who was in the program
and said, hey, you want to you.
Speaker 4 (01:37):
Know, part time job. You're clearly a gardener. And so
I went in and applied and the rest is history.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
Well, that is very very cool. A long long time ago,
you are a master gardener.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
I am a master gardener.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
Wow, well you've got to have your PhD on this stuff.
I have a friend of mine who's a master gardener,
and I I.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
It's a very cool program. I learned a lot.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
He loves it too, and I had asked him about
it and he said, well, when I was.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
Single, it really came you're looking for something for your profile.
Apparently if you put master gardner on there.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
It is well who knew?
Speaker 3 (02:15):
Not you not me, but others do know that stuff.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
Well, it's awesome to have you back in studio, and
that means, of course the folks got questions, they can
always call in six eight three two one thirteen ten.
That's six' eight three two one thirteen ten. I don't
see it on our forecast today. Maybe I overlooked it,
but I thought we might have had a frost advisory.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
They had a frost warning. I heard. You know, I
have the alerts on my fhe but I do. It
was not fast worthy yet in the.
Speaker 4 (02:41):
Forties overnight tonight forty two, but some places are saying
some it. You always know when they're not sure because
the range on the weather is like five degrees. So
I've seen as low as like thirty seven or forty
six and as high as forty four.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
It just depends. But a little like we're flirting at
the end of the week.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
That I know you've you've discussed all.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
Have your houseplants inside?
Speaker 3 (03:07):
I know that you do, yes, and the cats are
loving them, and the cats.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
Are loving them. It's yeah, is there anything.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
For folks, because this is the surreal world problem here.
How do you keep the cats away from the plants? Like,
are there sprays for like that won't bother humans or
ultimately it depends on.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
What they're doing.
Speaker 4 (03:27):
If they're going in there and digging stuff out, you
could put some decorative rocks on the top of the
houseplant soil to keep them from digging. If it's a
short term prot problem and you just want to like
change their habits, could make a cardboard round and just.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
Keep them from there. If they're eating it, which is unlikely.
Speaker 4 (03:51):
I mean, there is that bitter apple spray, but that
they have to like get that in.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
Their mouths, and I don't think most of them are
eating the soil. There's probably digging around it.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
It's had a dog that drank a bottle of that
stuff did not clearly didn't work.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
He hit the top off and it was great.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
Ar cat does this thing where she like goes up
to like the kind of those spikys what do they
call spidery plants, doesn't eat them, but she does this
thing where she like opens her mouth and goes ah
and like runs and person she does so, and she
also doesn't like one of one of the the pointed
hat critters that live in Christina's garden. We won't mention
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what they're called. It'll pick it up and throw it
on the floor and it's like metal, it's like pewter
and just interesting and just chuck anyway. So just just
build a build a gate around.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
So yeah, so if I, like I said, if they're
digging around there, just put some put some stones or
something in there to keep them.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
Keep them away.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
We've got a lot to talk about, pages and pages
of notes.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
Yes, yes it is, Yes it is.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
Uh so many levels.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
Coming up the And we talked about this a couple
of weeks ago.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
And this is something you guys have been doing at
the Bruce Company for I think it's like five I.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
Think it's the fifth year. We started in.
Speaker 4 (05:06):
Twenty twenty because of COVID, and we started off with
just doing like a little fair in the greenhouse, really
distanced from everybody for some of the local vendors that
would be at Expo, but we're not able to so
some of the plant societies and that kind of thing,
just as for our customers. And then the next that
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fall we decided to do it again. Things were a
little more relaxed, and then it's just grown into this
fall thing. There are probably I think close to fifty artisans.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
Oh wow, a and.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
Runs the gamut from food basings like.
Speaker 4 (05:54):
Mickey's Bakes out of Milton are the delicious er yes,
with their handcrafted spices.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
There are jewelers Bonnie Dilly.
Speaker 4 (06:05):
I think it is from not nuclerous, but what's the
mineral point. Yeah, we've got photographers, we've got painters. There's
really cool accessories makers. They make handbags or mittens or
all that.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
Kind of stuff.
Speaker 4 (06:28):
Oh shoot, I didn't write it down. The feed bakery
is going to be there too, which is really nice.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
Can you get pancake mix?
Speaker 1 (06:35):
I feel like it's a popular pancake mix that folks
that talked about maybe a year or two ago.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
Maybe I'm off I can windsor candles is there?
Speaker 4 (06:45):
They do beautiful like soy based candles, and they're really
cool because they put them in like these dobles which
are sort of wooden, like shallow wooden bowls.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
So, I mean there's a lot of stuff there.
Speaker 4 (06:58):
So it's a great place to maybe do a little
bit of early Christmas shopping.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
Just have to remember where you hide the things. That's
my problem when I try to do early Christmas shopping.
Pick up some things for yourself. It's just really fun.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
Didn't you tell a story once speaking of folks and
the importance of remembering where you hide things. Don't you
have a story of something hidden that was uncovered during
a move or something that I remember that right?
Speaker 2 (07:24):
Well, it doesn't ring a bell, but I would not
be surprised. Don't everybody do that? You hide something and
you can never find it.
Speaker 4 (07:32):
I'm still looking for a particular page from my mom
from a diary that my sisters and I were writing
my mom, and I cannot find it. Every once in
a while I get out on a tear and.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
Start going around, going around through all.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
The bags and things. And yeah, of.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
Course the Autumn Artisan Fair coming up on the twenty fifth,
that's this Saturday, Saturday, eleven to four, eleven to four,
So great thing. And yeah, and I'm gonna I'm gonna
say this. I'm gonna call out the guys on this one.
Is you talk about gifts and you want something special,
you want something nice, Now is the time to.
Speaker 4 (08:06):
Get a crafters, artisans, bakers, makers, candlestick makers. Yes, who
are who are local? I mean they're they're your neighbors.
And not only can you come in and maybe buy
something really cool and interesting, but you can also talk
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to them. I mean, how often do you get to
talk to the people who make the things that you love.
And it's just a continuation of what we do at
the store, which is we want to have things, you know,
that you can't get any place else, that we choose
with care, that we curate and so this is the
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same sort of thing.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
It's just an extension of that, but sort.
Speaker 4 (08:51):
Of making an event for the community, not only for
the artisans, but also for our customers and guests.
Speaker 3 (08:57):
What a fantastic thing.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
That's gonna be a great weekend to get into the
Middleton Garden centered the Bruce Company.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
Of course, great day always get on in.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
Yeah, but the weather looks like it's going to be
a glorious It should be perfect and high sixty. You've
got a question, We've got a line open for you
right now at six po't eight three two one thirteen ten.
That's six eight three two one thirteen ten. Before we
start talking about snow and other things, I want to
look back to a.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
Couple of weeks ago.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
You guys had the of course, the big the big
family event and the pumpkin I did see you post
it up on Facebook.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
I did being wheeled away.
Speaker 4 (09:29):
Yeah, the part of the rent of the reasons that
it's that we got it so early was it stopped growing.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
There was some sort of virus in the vine, and so.
Speaker 4 (09:38):
They knew it wasn't going to get to size, and
they were hoping to arrest it by you know, severing
the connection. But with the heat and everything in it
being out there sort of front and center and the
parking lot, it was starting to decompose. And so we
really were hoping that it would last until Fall Fest,
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and it did, and then we had to get it.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
Out of there before it started to smell.
Speaker 4 (10:04):
But we did have two winners for anybody who was wondering.
It was eleven and twenty.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
Five pounds, and that's not a full size, that's the size.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
The winner one they just they announced a couple of
weeks ago.
Speaker 4 (10:17):
It was like twenty five hundred pounds. WHOA so not
even half of what it could be. And so we
had a guess, a Facebook guess of eleven hundred and
twenty three, and we had an in store guess.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
Of one thousand.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
Oh fantastic, I would have There.
Speaker 4 (10:34):
Are lots of guesses of like two hundred pounds, and
so when we do this next year, folks, yeah, two
hundred pounds is not a good guess.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
They're big reason.
Speaker 4 (10:44):
You could carry a two hundred pound pumpkin with a
beach towel.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
A couple of people in a beach towl it's doable.
Speaker 3 (10:51):
If they're using a forkliff. There's a reason.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
Yes, So congratulations to both winners, and of course it
does it remind us too. It's a great day to
get into the Bruce Company decor and other things for
the for the season.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
There's a lot of stuff on sale right now.
Speaker 4 (11:07):
We're getting really close to of course, the store has
been turning over a little bit more every week, but
outside we're finishing up that season and sort of starting
to plan for the inevitable influx of greens and all
that kind of thing. So all of nursery stocks, so
that means tree, shrubs and evergreens are all seventy five
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percent off. Perennials are fifty percent off. All of the
outdoor fall decre so pumpkins, cornstocks, moms, that's all fifty
percent off.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
Inside a lot.
Speaker 4 (11:44):
Of the fall indoor decor.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
It's also fifty percent off. There's some things that are
that are less, but most of it is fifty Oh
what a great time. Yeah, it's so if.
Speaker 4 (11:54):
You are feeling the need to do a little extra
decorating for the upcoming Halloween holiday and then a lot
of it going forward into Thanksgiving, now is the time
to come in. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
As we talked tobot with Lisa Breaks from Verus Company,
if you got a question, love to have a joints
this more on six eight three two one thirteen ten.
That's six oh eight three two one thirteen ten. We
were talking about growing pumpkins for size, and I know
that's a very specialized and a very great skilled. Do
you guys have pumpkin seeds that produce pumpkins that have
more pumpkin seeds? As somebody who one of my favorite
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treats and I have the greatest rest.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
There is a variety is there that?
Speaker 4 (12:30):
Yeah, and off the top of my head, I don't
remember what it is, but there are a couple varieties
that that not only do they grow seeds, but they're
less stringy inside so it's easier to get them out.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
Ooh, So I'll get I'll get the names of the varieties.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
I'm going to put a note in my calendar for
spring to ask you that very question, because I would.
I just love roasting pumpkin seeds even more than roasting them.
Speaker 3 (12:57):
I love eating them.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
And there's something about the flavor of ones that you
make get home for nothing against the one in the store.
They're perfectly fine, And well that's not for me to judge.
I will pick up a bag on a road trip
or something, but man, the ones you make at home,
there's just and they'd like a little extra crispy, a
little extra.
Speaker 3 (13:12):
Oh so delicious, so delicious.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
Always a great day to get on into the Middleton
Gardens of the Bruce Company. Twenty eight thirty Partment Street.
That's twenty at thirty Partment Street. Online Bruce Company dot com,
Facebook and social media, The Bruce Company, Well Cider, your
conversation with Lisa, talk about some other events and the
cool things going on to the Bruce Company, and of
course take your call next as every Day Outdoor Living
with the Bruce Company continues right here on thirteen ten.
Speaker 3 (13:32):
Double uiba A.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
Twenty four to thirteen ten Do wuib A and every
Day Outdoor Living brought to you by the Bruce Company online,
Bruce Company dot com. That's Bruce Company dot com, Facebook
and social media, the Bruce Company. What a great day
to get on into the Bruce Companies Middleton Garden Center
right at twenty eight thirty parm Inter Street. That's twenty
eight thirty Partment Street. Don't forget to market calendars for
this weekend Saturday. Got the artists and fair going on.
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A lot of details up online at Bruce Company dot com.
Also on their social media platforms. Speaking of social media,
there's a very funny video up on YouTube. We're going
to talk about what that's all about. Thank you, Tom, Yes,
really nice to take up.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
Sorry, Tom Raves.
Speaker 3 (14:10):
Oh, it's really really good. We'll talk about that video
in just a moment.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
And if you've got a question, we've got a line
for you right now at six eight three two one
thirteen ten. That's six eight three two one thirteen ten,
and Mike checks in. Mike, welcome to the program. You're
on the ear at Lisa Briggs from the Bruce Company.
Speaker 5 (14:26):
Good morning, thanks for taking my call. I uh, I've
got some moms that have been proving to be winter hardy.
They come back every year. They are in the ground
in our garden, and they're starting to fait a bit,
and I want one check and see if it would
be okay to split them and move them now or
better to wait till spring.
Speaker 2 (14:48):
Moms are not great at splitting, so.
Speaker 4 (14:54):
They tend to come from a single stem that you
know that bushes out as a posed to like a
daily or a hosta, where the clump grows bigger and
you can get separate pieces of.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
Plants off of it.
Speaker 5 (15:09):
Sure in this in this case, I actually do have
multiple stems from the same plant. So maybe I could
just pull one and just keep do an experiment and
see what happened.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (15:16):
Yes, but and so that being said, if you want
to try that, best time to do it is in
the spring.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
It won't have time to.
Speaker 4 (15:25):
Recover at this point from being severed from the mother plant,
and also there's probably not enough time for it to
establish roots. So when you start to see the buds
come up in the spring, that's when you can go
ahead and sort of try taking a little.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
Bit off of it.
Speaker 5 (15:44):
Okay, sounds great. I really appreciate your help there. Welcome much.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
Great call Mike, and you could be like Mike, got
a couple of lines six eight three two one thirteen ten.
That's six eight three two one thirteen ten, speak of
moving things?
Speaker 3 (15:55):
Is now the time? I think I asked you.
Speaker 1 (15:57):
In springtime about moving my raspberry and you said water,
wait till later?
Speaker 3 (16:02):
Is now that? Are we at that later point? Yet?
I canna get their dormant period. We still got to
wait a little bit of time for those bushes.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
Are you mowing them down or you want to move
them around?
Speaker 3 (16:10):
I want to dig them out of my garden beds
and move them into my woods. What do you think?
What do you think?
Speaker 1 (16:16):
Wait till spring, Wait till spring time to do it. Yeah,
they're not causing any problem where they are somewhere else. Okay,
that's that's that's what I needed. Let's talk about this video.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
Okay.
Speaker 4 (16:28):
So there's this sort of there's this documentary series about
storm chasers and not the guys, not like the weather
guys that are doing that kind of thing, but the
guys who are there for cleaning up. So there they
do one about snow like guys who do snow removal.
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And so this year the series is based on the
mid and so they have submitted they have inquired about
for people companies to submit audition tapes, and we did
and it's you should watch it.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
It's it's very charming and funny and very Sean's gonna
laugh when he watched it.
Speaker 3 (17:16):
I finish it.
Speaker 4 (17:18):
But you can also vote then us, So when you
watch the video, and then you can go to the
website of this documentary series and there's I don't know,
twenty years thirty twenty twenty five different companies from all
over the Midwest who have submitted audition tapes and you
can vote, and so the voting is good until the
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end of the month October thirty.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
First you can only vote one time and you can'tet
you like every.
Speaker 4 (17:48):
Day, right, and so go ahead and vote for us
because it would be really fun and then we would
be on the documentary.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
That would be awesome. I voted right there. It's easy
to do. Just yell from.
Speaker 4 (18:00):
The bottle the link and then go down and then
just click click the Bruce Company and boom and boom,
and so I think that it's so as you know,
and then and then hope for snow, yeah, because like
this would not have worked last year.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
No, very very good point of course, if you follow
the Bruce Company and you should be following the Bruce
Company on Facebook.
Speaker 3 (18:26):
You can see the video.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
Yes, yes, yeah, Linda directed it.
Speaker 3 (18:31):
Yes, Yes, it's fun.
Speaker 4 (18:35):
It's very informative and very lots lots of snowman jokes.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
Yes, it's certainly thing we could be doing, speaking of
kind of seasonally things we've been doing right now to
get ready for winter.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
Other things around the house and around the yard specifical.
Speaker 4 (18:48):
Certainly, you know, rake leaves from your lawn, you can
break them into your garden beds. There have been a
lot of studies that show that there's a lot of
beneficial insects that over winter in leaves and debris, so
you know, leave that stuff in your garden. Certainly, if
you have any garden plants that had any kind of disease,
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you're going to want to cut those back and get
that out of there so that doesn't serve as a
source of binoculate for next year. You know, just just
generally clean things up a little bit. We always get
caught by the first icy weather if you don't have
any salt, so get there.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
There are two kinds of salt. We'll probably have somebody
come in and talk about salt this year for.
Speaker 6 (19:41):
Sure, there's the stuff that's good for that's less harmful
to plants and animals, and then the regular stuff, so
you know, use use it appropriately around edges of your garden,
like along your driveway edges.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
You'll want to use the stuff that's better for plants.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
What a thing too, I will advise folks if you
if you're thinking about you know, you got these long
winter months.
Speaker 3 (20:05):
What can what can brighten my day?
Speaker 1 (20:07):
Take some pictures around your house, like each side of
your house, just to have them so during the winter
months you can kind of envision what you might want
to put in certain places and what you might want
to change. Because you get into like like December and January,
especially after the holidays, and what I'm going to do?
You pull out those pictures, you look at the yard
and lawn and you go, you know what, I'd love that.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
That's when all the seed catalogs.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
Yeah, well see you've got pictures now of what.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
Your garden journaling?
Speaker 3 (20:34):
Yeah? Always good? Is that what that's called?
Speaker 4 (20:36):
Yeah, so you keep track of you saw this really
cool thing in your neighbor's yard, or you like a
certain color combination that was maybe an accident, just a
couple annuals that you put together in a pot and
maybe you want to recreate that in a perennial bed.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
So all that kind of stuff. Plus it reminds you
of what diseases you had.
Speaker 4 (20:58):
If you've got, say a problem like magnolia scale that
you're trying to fight every year, it's a good way
to make a note that this was the day.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
That you applied.
Speaker 4 (21:10):
And also you can just do observations I saw humpingbird
this day, or that this is the day the fireflies
came out. So all that stuff is just sort of
creates a narrative about your piece of property.
Speaker 3 (21:23):
Nice records of everything, and oh that's a good.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
That's a good, and it's again it's also fun when
you get into those those months where you're like and
go back and look and ow great that stuff.
Speaker 3 (21:32):
I was gonna ask you, what ask there? Something popped
in my head.
Speaker 1 (21:34):
So and you and I were conversing there, Oh, I
will say too, as you were talking about, you know,
putting together a journal of things. And my son's been
doing cross country and a lot of those take place
in like Rock and Dane County Parks and they do
such great jobs, like as far as restoration of like.
I've been taken a lot of pictures of some of
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the things I like, which means also this this winter months,
I'm coming into the Bruce Company with with a bunch
of pictures that I've taken of things that I like.
To find ways to not only acquire these things but
also care for them as well.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
Cool.
Speaker 3 (22:07):
It's you know, to get your back fun. Little I
know you do, Lisa, I know.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
So it's a great day to get out into the
Bruce Company. Don't forget to head on over to their
Facebook page. Vote vote Vote, Get everybody in the office
to vote.
Speaker 3 (22:19):
Vote one.
Speaker 2 (22:19):
Don't vote vote vote It won't let you but vote
once and.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
Vote for us, Yes, exactly. Get the whole office to
vote for the Bruce Company. Watch the video.
Speaker 3 (22:27):
Share the video.
Speaker 1 (22:28):
I started watching the first half and then work got
in the way and I had to pause it. And
I'm looking forward to seeing the rest of it. So again,
that's Bruce Company. Link to that right on their Facebook page.
You can find more information on the Bruce Company online
Bruce Company dot com. That's Bruce Company dot com. Even better,
what a perfect day to get on into the Middleton Gardens.
Enter the Bruce Company, right at twenty eight thirty Partment Street.
That's twenty eight thirty partment of Street, Lisa. It's always
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a question, we've got a phone line open just for
you at six o' eight three two one thirteen ten.
That's six oh eight three two one thirteen ten. You
know who's here with us this morning, Lisa Briggs.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Hello, you been good you.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
It's been so long.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
Well we've been spending you know, we maybe once or
twice three times a year we get we get a
little time off.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
But it's my other one of our other Bruce Company peeps, Covin, who.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
Are always fantastic and we love them very much. But
it is it's it's to me.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
It's a strange thing, because again I see you each
one dime a week. We should sit down and chat.
I didn't even get into the Bruce Company last week
to make up for for missing you were you?
Speaker 3 (01:01):
Were you off? Were you doing something fun? Were you No?
Speaker 4 (01:04):
No, they just came to me and said, we want
to talk about we want Jeff to come on and
talk about career opportunities at the Bruce Company.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
So real quick, how did you start at the Bruce Company?
For people that don't know, let's talk.
Speaker 4 (01:17):
Way back in the day, I was doing master Gardener
course nice and some John Sower, who was the nursery
manager and Lori Sund.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
Sent out letters to everybody who was in the program
and said, hey, you want to you.
Speaker 4 (01:37):
Know, part time job. You're clearly a gardener. And so
I went in and applied and the rest is history.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
Well, that is very very cool. A long long time ago,
you are a master gardener.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
I am a master gardener.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
Wow, well you've got to have your PhD on this stuff.
I have a friend of mine who's a master gardener,
and I I.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
It's a very cool program. I learned a lot.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
He loves it too, and I had asked him about
it and he said, well, when I was.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
Single, it really came you're looking for something for your profile.
Apparently if you put master gardner on there.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
It is well who knew?
Speaker 3 (02:15):
Not you not me, but others do know that stuff.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
Well, it's awesome to have you back in studio, and
that means, of course the folks got questions, they can
always call in six eight three two one thirteen ten.
That's six' eight three two one thirteen ten. I don't
see it on our forecast today. Maybe I overlooked it,
but I thought we might have had a frost advisory.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
They had a frost warning. I heard. You know, I
have the alerts on my fhe but I do. It
was not fast worthy yet in the.
Speaker 4 (02:41):
Forties overnight tonight forty two, but some places are saying
some it. You always know when they're not sure because
the range on the weather is like five degrees. So
I've seen as low as like thirty seven or forty
six and as high as forty four.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
It just depends. But a little like we're flirting at
the end of the week.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
That I know you've you've discussed all.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
Have your houseplants inside?
Speaker 3 (03:07):
I know that you do, yes, and the cats are
loving them, and the cats.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
Are loving them. It's yeah, is there anything.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
For folks, because this is the surreal world problem here.
How do you keep the cats away from the plants? Like,
are there sprays for like that won't bother humans or
ultimately it depends on.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
What they're doing.
Speaker 4 (03:27):
If they're going in there and digging stuff out, you
could put some decorative rocks on the top of the
houseplant soil to keep them from digging. If it's a
short term prot problem and you just want to like
change their habits, could make a cardboard round and just.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
Keep them from there. If they're eating it, which is unlikely.
Speaker 4 (03:51):
I mean, there is that bitter apple spray, but that
they have to like get that in.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
Their mouths, and I don't think most of them are
eating the soil. There's probably digging around it.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
It's had a dog that drank a bottle of that
stuff did not clearly didn't work.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
He hit the top off and it was great.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
Ar cat does this thing where she like goes up
to like the kind of those spikys what do they
call spidery plants, doesn't eat them, but she does this
thing where she like opens her mouth and goes ah
and like runs and person she does so, and she
also doesn't like one of one of the the pointed
hat critters that live in Christina's garden. We won't mention
(04:27):
what they're called. It'll pick it up and throw it
on the floor and it's like metal, it's like pewter
and just interesting and just chuck anyway. So just just
build a build a gate around.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
So yeah, so if I, like I said, if they're
digging around there, just put some put some stones or
something in there to keep them.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
Keep them away.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
We've got a lot to talk about, pages and pages
of notes.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
Yes, yes it is, Yes it is.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
Uh so many levels.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
Coming up the And we talked about this a couple
of weeks ago.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
And this is something you guys have been doing at
the Bruce Company for I think it's like five I.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
Think it's the fifth year. We started in.
Speaker 4 (05:06):
Twenty twenty because of COVID, and we started off with
just doing like a little fair in the greenhouse, really
distanced from everybody for some of the local vendors that
would be at Expo, but we're not able to so
some of the plant societies and that kind of thing,
just as for our customers. And then the next that
(05:31):
fall we decided to do it again. Things were a
little more relaxed, and then it's just grown into this
fall thing. There are probably I think close to fifty artisans.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
Oh wow, a and.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
Runs the gamut from food basings like.
Speaker 4 (05:54):
Mickey's Bakes out of Milton are the delicious er yes,
with their handcrafted spices.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
There are jewelers Bonnie Dilly.
Speaker 4 (06:05):
I think it is from not nuclerous, but what's the
mineral point. Yeah, we've got photographers, we've got painters. There's
really cool accessories makers. They make handbags or mittens or
all that.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
Kind of stuff.
Speaker 4 (06:28):
Oh shoot, I didn't write it down. The feed bakery
is going to be there too, which is really nice.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
Can you get pancake mix?
Speaker 1 (06:35):
I feel like it's a popular pancake mix that folks
that talked about maybe a year or two ago.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
Maybe I'm off I can windsor candles is there?
Speaker 4 (06:45):
They do beautiful like soy based candles, and they're really
cool because they put them in like these dobles which
are sort of wooden, like shallow wooden bowls.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
So, I mean there's a lot of stuff there.
Speaker 4 (06:58):
So it's a great place to maybe do a little
bit of early Christmas shopping.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
Just have to remember where you hide the things. That's
my problem when I try to do early Christmas shopping.
Pick up some things for yourself. It's just really fun.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
Didn't you tell a story once speaking of folks and
the importance of remembering where you hide things. Don't you
have a story of something hidden that was uncovered during
a move or something that I remember that right?
Speaker 2 (07:24):
Well, it doesn't ring a bell, but I would not
be surprised. Don't everybody do that? You hide something and
you can never find it.
Speaker 4 (07:32):
I'm still looking for a particular page from my mom
from a diary that my sisters and I were writing
my mom, and I cannot find it. Every once in
a while I get out on a tear and.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
Start going around, going around through all.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
The bags and things. And yeah, of.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
Course the Autumn Artisan Fair coming up on the twenty fifth,
that's this Saturday, Saturday, eleven to four, eleven to four,
So great thing. And yeah, and I'm gonna I'm gonna
say this. I'm gonna call out the guys on this one.
Is you talk about gifts and you want something special,
you want something nice, Now is the time to.
Speaker 4 (08:06):
Get a crafters, artisans, bakers, makers, candlestick makers. Yes, who
are who are local? I mean they're they're your neighbors.
And not only can you come in and maybe buy
something really cool and interesting, but you can also talk
(08:27):
to them. I mean, how often do you get to
talk to the people who make the things that you love.
And it's just a continuation of what we do at
the store, which is we want to have things, you know,
that you can't get any place else, that we choose
with care, that we curate and so this is the
(08:47):
same sort of thing.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
It's just an extension of that, but sort.
Speaker 4 (08:51):
Of making an event for the community, not only for
the artisans, but also for our customers and guests.
Speaker 3 (08:57):
What a fantastic thing.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
That's gonna be a great weekend to get into the
Middleton Garden centered the Bruce Company.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
Of course, great day always get on in.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
Yeah, but the weather looks like it's going to be
a glorious It should be perfect and high sixty. You've
got a question, We've got a line open for you
right now at six po't eight three two one thirteen ten.
That's six eight three two one thirteen ten. Before we
start talking about snow and other things, I want to
look back to a.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
Couple of weeks ago.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
You guys had the of course, the big the big
family event and the pumpkin I did see you post
it up on Facebook.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
I did being wheeled away.
Speaker 4 (09:29):
Yeah, the part of the rent of the reasons that
it's that we got it so early was it stopped growing.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
There was some sort of virus in the vine, and so.
Speaker 4 (09:38):
They knew it wasn't going to get to size, and
they were hoping to arrest it by you know, severing
the connection. But with the heat and everything in it
being out there sort of front and center and the
parking lot, it was starting to decompose. And so we
really were hoping that it would last until Fall Fest,
(09:59):
and it did, and then we had to get it.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
Out of there before it started to smell.
Speaker 4 (10:04):
But we did have two winners for anybody who was wondering.
It was eleven and twenty.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
Five pounds, and that's not a full size, that's the size.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
The winner one they just they announced a couple of
weeks ago.
Speaker 4 (10:17):
It was like twenty five hundred pounds. WHOA so not
even half of what it could be. And so we
had a guess, a Facebook guess of eleven hundred and
twenty three, and we had an in store guess.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
Of one thousand.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
Oh fantastic, I would have There.
Speaker 4 (10:34):
Are lots of guesses of like two hundred pounds, and
so when we do this next year, folks, yeah, two
hundred pounds is not a good guess.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
They're big reason.
Speaker 4 (10:44):
You could carry a two hundred pound pumpkin with a
beach towel.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
A couple of people in a beach towl it's doable.
Speaker 3 (10:51):
If they're using a forkliff. There's a reason.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
Yes, So congratulations to both winners, and of course it
does it remind us too. It's a great day to
get into the Bruce Company decor and other things for
the for the season.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
There's a lot of stuff on sale right now.
Speaker 4 (11:07):
We're getting really close to of course, the store has
been turning over a little bit more every week, but
outside we're finishing up that season and sort of starting
to plan for the inevitable influx of greens and all
that kind of thing. So all of nursery stocks, so
that means tree, shrubs and evergreens are all seventy five
(11:31):
percent off. Perennials are fifty percent off. All of the
outdoor fall decre so pumpkins, cornstocks, moms, that's all fifty
percent off.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
Inside a lot.
Speaker 4 (11:44):
Of the fall indoor decor.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
It's also fifty percent off. There's some things that are
that are less, but most of it is fifty Oh
what a great time. Yeah, it's so if.
Speaker 4 (11:54):
You are feeling the need to do a little extra
decorating for the upcoming Halloween holiday and then a lot
of it going forward into Thanksgiving, now is the time
to come in. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
As we talked tobot with Lisa Breaks from Verus Company,
if you got a question, love to have a joints
this more on six eight three two one thirteen ten.
That's six oh eight three two one thirteen ten. We
were talking about growing pumpkins for size, and I know
that's a very specialized and a very great skilled. Do
you guys have pumpkin seeds that produce pumpkins that have
more pumpkin seeds? As somebody who one of my favorite
(12:26):
treats and I have the greatest rest.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
There is a variety is there that?
Speaker 4 (12:30):
Yeah, and off the top of my head, I don't
remember what it is, but there are a couple varieties
that that not only do they grow seeds, but they're
less stringy inside so it's easier to get them out.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
Ooh, So I'll get I'll get the names of the varieties.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
I'm going to put a note in my calendar for
spring to ask you that very question, because I would.
I just love roasting pumpkin seeds even more than roasting them.
Speaker 3 (12:57):
I love eating them.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
And there's something about the flavor of ones that you
make get home for nothing against the one in the store.
They're perfectly fine, And well that's not for me to judge.
I will pick up a bag on a road trip
or something, but man, the ones you make at home,
there's just and they'd like a little extra crispy, a
little extra.
Speaker 3 (13:12):
Oh so delicious, so delicious.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
Always a great day to get on into the Middleton
Gardens of the Bruce Company. Twenty eight thirty Partment Street.
That's twenty at thirty Partment Street. Online Bruce Company dot com,
Facebook and social media, The Bruce Company, Well Cider, your
conversation with Lisa, talk about some other events and the
cool things going on to the Bruce Company, and of
course take your call next as every Day Outdoor Living
with the Bruce Company continues right here on thirteen ten.
Speaker 3 (13:32):
Double uiba A.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
Twenty four to thirteen ten Do wuib A and every
Day Outdoor Living brought to you by the Bruce Company online,
Bruce Company dot com. That's Bruce Company dot com, Facebook
and social media, the Bruce Company. What a great day
to get on into the Bruce Companies Middleton Garden Center
right at twenty eight thirty parm Inter Street. That's twenty
eight thirty Partment Street. Don't forget to market calendars for
this weekend Saturday. Got the artists and fair going on.
(13:55):
A lot of details up online at Bruce Company dot com.
Also on their social media platforms. Speaking of social media,
there's a very funny video up on YouTube. We're going
to talk about what that's all about. Thank you, Tom, Yes,
really nice to take up.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
Sorry, Tom Raves.
Speaker 3 (14:10):
Oh, it's really really good. We'll talk about that video
in just a moment.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
And if you've got a question, we've got a line
for you right now at six eight three two one
thirteen ten. That's six eight three two one thirteen ten,
and Mike checks in. Mike, welcome to the program. You're
on the ear at Lisa Briggs from the Bruce Company.
Speaker 5 (14:26):
Good morning, thanks for taking my call. I uh, I've
got some moms that have been proving to be winter hardy.
They come back every year. They are in the ground
in our garden, and they're starting to fait a bit,
and I want one check and see if it would
be okay to split them and move them now or
better to wait till spring.
Speaker 2 (14:48):
Moms are not great at splitting, so.
Speaker 4 (14:54):
They tend to come from a single stem that you
know that bushes out as a posed to like a
daily or a hosta, where the clump grows bigger and
you can get separate pieces of.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
Plants off of it.
Speaker 5 (15:09):
Sure in this in this case, I actually do have
multiple stems from the same plant. So maybe I could
just pull one and just keep do an experiment and
see what happened.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (15:16):
Yes, but and so that being said, if you want
to try that, best time to do it is in
the spring.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
It won't have time to.
Speaker 4 (15:25):
Recover at this point from being severed from the mother plant,
and also there's probably not enough time for it to
establish roots. So when you start to see the buds
come up in the spring, that's when you can go
ahead and sort of try taking a little.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
Bit off of it.
Speaker 5 (15:44):
Okay, sounds great. I really appreciate your help there. Welcome much.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
Great call Mike, and you could be like Mike, got
a couple of lines six eight three two one thirteen ten.
That's six eight three two one thirteen ten, speak of
moving things?
Speaker 3 (15:55):
Is now the time? I think I asked you.
Speaker 1 (15:57):
In springtime about moving my raspberry and you said water,
wait till later?
Speaker 3 (16:02):
Is now that? Are we at that later point? Yet?
I canna get their dormant period. We still got to
wait a little bit of time for those bushes.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
Are you mowing them down or you want to move
them around?
Speaker 3 (16:10):
I want to dig them out of my garden beds
and move them into my woods. What do you think?
What do you think?
Speaker 1 (16:16):
Wait till spring, Wait till spring time to do it. Yeah,
they're not causing any problem where they are somewhere else. Okay,
that's that's that's what I needed. Let's talk about this video.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
Okay.
Speaker 4 (16:28):
So there's this sort of there's this documentary series about
storm chasers and not the guys, not like the weather
guys that are doing that kind of thing, but the
guys who are there for cleaning up. So there they
do one about snow like guys who do snow removal.
(16:51):
And so this year the series is based on the
mid and so they have submitted they have inquired about
for people companies to submit audition tapes, and we did
and it's you should watch it.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
It's it's very charming and funny and very Sean's gonna
laugh when he watched it.
Speaker 3 (17:16):
I finish it.
Speaker 4 (17:18):
But you can also vote then us, So when you
watch the video, and then you can go to the
website of this documentary series and there's I don't know,
twenty years thirty twenty twenty five different companies from all
over the Midwest who have submitted audition tapes and you
can vote, and so the voting is good until the
(17:42):
end of the month October thirty.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
First you can only vote one time and you can'tet
you like every.
Speaker 4 (17:48):
Day, right, and so go ahead and vote for us
because it would be really fun and then we would
be on the documentary.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
That would be awesome. I voted right there. It's easy
to do. Just yell from.
Speaker 4 (18:00):
The bottle the link and then go down and then
just click click the Bruce Company and boom and boom,
and so I think that it's so as you know,
and then and then hope for snow, yeah, because like
this would not have worked last year.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
No, very very good point of course, if you follow
the Bruce Company and you should be following the Bruce
Company on Facebook.
Speaker 3 (18:26):
You can see the video.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
Yes, yes, yeah, Linda directed it.
Speaker 3 (18:31):
Yes, Yes, it's fun.
Speaker 4 (18:35):
It's very informative and very lots lots of snowman jokes.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
Yes, it's certainly thing we could be doing, speaking of
kind of seasonally things we've been doing right now to
get ready for winter.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
Other things around the house and around the yard specifical.
Speaker 4 (18:48):
Certainly, you know, rake leaves from your lawn, you can
break them into your garden beds. There have been a
lot of studies that show that there's a lot of
beneficial insects that over winter in leaves and debris, so
you know, leave that stuff in your garden. Certainly, if
you have any garden plants that had any kind of disease,
(19:12):
you're going to want to cut those back and get
that out of there so that doesn't serve as a
source of binoculate for next year. You know, just just
generally clean things up a little bit. We always get
caught by the first icy weather if you don't have
any salt, so get there.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
There are two kinds of salt. We'll probably have somebody
come in and talk about salt this year for.
Speaker 6 (19:41):
Sure, there's the stuff that's good for that's less harmful
to plants and animals, and then the regular stuff, so
you know, use use it appropriately around edges of your garden,
like along your driveway edges.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
You'll want to use the stuff that's better for plants.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
What a thing too, I will advise folks if you
if you're thinking about you know, you got these long
winter months.
Speaker 3 (20:05):
What can what can brighten my day?
Speaker 1 (20:07):
Take some pictures around your house, like each side of
your house, just to have them so during the winter
months you can kind of envision what you might want
to put in certain places and what you might want
to change. Because you get into like like December and January,
especially after the holidays, and what I'm going to do?
You pull out those pictures, you look at the yard
and lawn and you go, you know what, I'd love that.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
That's when all the seed catalogs.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
Yeah, well see you've got pictures now of what.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
Your garden journaling?
Speaker 3 (20:34):
Yeah? Always good? Is that what that's called?
Speaker 4 (20:36):
Yeah, so you keep track of you saw this really
cool thing in your neighbor's yard, or you like a
certain color combination that was maybe an accident, just a
couple annuals that you put together in a pot and
maybe you want to recreate that in a perennial bed.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
So all that kind of stuff. Plus it reminds you
of what diseases you had.
Speaker 4 (20:58):
If you've got, say a problem like magnolia scale that
you're trying to fight every year, it's a good way
to make a note that this was the day.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
That you applied.
Speaker 4 (21:10):
And also you can just do observations I saw humpingbird
this day, or that this is the day the fireflies
came out. So all that stuff is just sort of
creates a narrative about your piece of property.
Speaker 3 (21:23):
Nice records of everything, and oh that's a good.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
That's a good, and it's again it's also fun when
you get into those those months where you're like and
go back and look and ow great that stuff.
Speaker 3 (21:32):
I was gonna ask you, what ask there? Something popped
in my head.
Speaker 1 (21:34):
So and you and I were conversing there, Oh, I
will say too, as you were talking about, you know,
putting together a journal of things. And my son's been
doing cross country and a lot of those take place
in like Rock and Dane County Parks and they do
such great jobs, like as far as restoration of like.
I've been taken a lot of pictures of some of
(21:55):
the things I like, which means also this this winter months,
I'm coming into the Bruce Company with with a bunch
of pictures that I've taken of things that I like.
To find ways to not only acquire these things but
also care for them as well.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
Cool.
Speaker 3 (22:07):
It's you know, to get your back fun. Little I
know you do, Lisa, I know.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
So it's a great day to get out into the
Bruce Company. Don't forget to head on over to their
Facebook page. Vote vote Vote, Get everybody in the office
to vote.
Speaker 3 (22:19):
Vote one.
Speaker 2 (22:19):
Don't vote vote vote It won't let you but vote
once and.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
Vote for us, Yes, exactly. Get the whole office to
vote for the Bruce Company. Watch the video.
Speaker 3 (22:27):
Share the video.
Speaker 1 (22:28):
I started watching the first half and then work got
in the way and I had to pause it. And
I'm looking forward to seeing the rest of it. So again,
that's Bruce Company. Link to that right on their Facebook page.
You can find more information on the Bruce Company online
Bruce Company dot com. That's Bruce Company dot com. Even better,
what a perfect day to get on into the Middleton Gardens.
Enter the Bruce Company, right at twenty eight thirty Partment Street.
That's twenty eight thirty partment of Street, Lisa. It's always
(22:49):
great hanging out. You enjoy this great day you as well.
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