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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Eight o seven thirteen ten wi BA and every Day
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the One and only Lisa Breaks to Bruce Company, Like, so,
how you doing this morning?
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Fine?
Speaker 1 (00:26):
How are you great?
Speaker 2 (00:27):
This computer things?
Speaker 1 (00:28):
You know what they do? They do stuff? Right? Remember
back when a computer was like a novel thing, like
you had, Like.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
We got our first one when the kids were little,
and it was it was a Mac and it was
like this giant like it, I don't know, it was
like two feet by it was huge.
Speaker 4 (00:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
They were like they were like part of the house,
like like the family shared the computer and all.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
They could do was like type stuff.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
Yeah, we had a Commodore and then we had an Amiga.
I still have my Amiga bramigas at all these.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
I don't I do remember the ones? What were the
ones that came in the cow.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
Oh, Gateway two thousand. Yeah, oh, Lisa, we're dating ourselves. Nice. Yes, well,
it's great to see you have a good weekend.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
It was a busy weekend.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
It was beautiful.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
We have beautiful weather.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
Yeah it's perfect and looking at the forecast now.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
But you know, you know how I feel about things
that are, you know, above eighty.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
Yeah, but it's.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
Only one day. Yeah, yeah, I'll get over it.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
Low temperatures are all very nice, and the.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
Old temperatures are all great.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
So you know, I would say, now that we're in June,
go ahead and plant everything, go for but already, because
I know you all have.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
Robin was pondering last week. I think it was Friday,
she year Thursday. She was saying, are we pretty safe
to leave things out? She goes like, wish, Lisa, we're
here right now, And I said, you know, we should
have Lisa call in each morning, just very briefly, no.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
Cover things, Yes, exactly give it.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
If we did see a lot last week of things
that people had planted that and then we had that
really cold you know that those really cold, rainy days
that they had planted, and then yeah there was some
cold damage.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
Oh that's good. That's that's part of the fun though.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
Work. If it's just just colored foliage and the plant
is still still producing new growth, they'll grow out of it, okay.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
Yeah. And speaking of by the way, if you're wondering
about the questions, could be like Robin Robin had that
question last week, just just call now, gets you right
on the here.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
You couldn't call me anytime.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
Any time you called, have my number. Yes, get you
on the air right now with these some breaks fround
the Bruce Company six eight three two one thirteen ten.
That's six o eight three two one thirteen ten. Great
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eight thirty Partment Street. Speaking of questions, plant desk at
Bruce Company dot com is there for you also.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
That one's great because you can send photos, you can
I do well, we do it. It's you know, all
the time we get calls at the plant desk and
they're describing and it's really difficult, yeah, to especially if
it's a diagnosis thing like sometimes sometimes they say, oh,
that bread bug is on my lilies.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
Well, I right away, I know what that is.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
Right, but other things are not as easy to.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
Discern over the phone.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
Trying to explain to somebody how to prune something over
the phone is almost impossible.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
Said photos.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
By the way, speaking of Christina, the wife was out
yesterday cutting on the line. Is there something going on
with lilacs that why was she cutting it? Any idea
why she would be doing that?
Speaker 3 (03:41):
Like, well, if it's already flowered, now is the time
to prune it? If she wanted to trim.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
It back or whatever. So she's right on the money.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
I didn't doubt her at all, but again I probably
should have had her call you.
Speaker 5 (03:55):
No, she.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
Seems to know what she's doing. Again, I do, but
I was just wondering.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
What they Yeah, anything that's already bloomed, red buds, crab apples, magnolias, lilacs,
those spring blooming plants set their flower buds the year before, okay,
and they usually begin to develop those soon after they're
done flowering.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
So if you want flower.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
Buds for next year, you want to prune those right
away after you've enjoyed this year's flowers, then go ahead
and do any trimming or anything like that that you're
going to do, so that you can get flowers next year.
If you wait too long, I would say end of
June into July, then you're running the risk that you're
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cutting off.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
Next year's flowers. Okay, okay, And sometimes you have to
do that.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
Sometimes the branch breaks or you know, something happens, and
so sometimes so it doesn't hurt the plant that it
doesn't flower.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
But a lot of us plant those things for that specific.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
Reason because they look beautiful and they smell great. Oh
I love that lilac bush so much. The way she's
got it planted right in this little corner where, yeah,
we open up the windows in the back room, that
breeze comes through and it smells like lilacs, Like, oh
my god, it's a perfect Anyway, So I talked this
morning with Lisa Braks. If you've got a question, love
to have you join a sport six eight three two
one thirteen ten. That's six so eight three two one
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thirteen ten. I ween talk in the past few weeks
about kind of be what to be looking for, and
we get some get some ideas and some thoughts with
some folks at the at the Middleton Garden Center of
the Bruce Company. What are we looking for this week.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
Lisa, I think everybody's concentrating on their vegetable gardens. Oh yeah,
and they're concentrating on their containers, so you know, decorative
containers or containers with vegetables. We've been having a lot
of people coming in asking for vegetable varieties that are
suitable to growing containers. So I think that the vegetable
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gardening trend is still creeping up, which is great. It's
you and I have talked all the time about the
benefits of growing your own vegetables. Yes, from you know,
from the things like just having that food and it
doesn't you're not paying at the grocery store, to it,
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to being able to control how it's grown, and just
the sheer satisfaction of your kiddos being involved in knowing
where food comes from.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
So there's lots and lots of really great reasons.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
To do that.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
And you can you don't have to have a big
vegetable garden.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
Yeah, you could have a couple of pots on your patio.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
It seems like the vegetables you grow at home taste better.
Like there just seems to be like a I don't
know how to describe, like a more they're more flavorful.
If does that make like I think like tomatoes, and
again it's depends a lot on what type of tomato
it is. I get that, but like the grocery store
has got great tomatoes, don't get me wrong, But like
the ones you grow or like somebody else grows and
brings to you, they're just there's just something about what
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I think that a.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
Lot of the tomatoes that we buy in the grocery
store have to be suitable for shipping, sure, right, and
so sometimes maybe they're harvested and they're not quite right,
or they're varieties that have been developed so that they
are stable for shipping, that they last longer, they're firmer,
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you know whatever.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
To avoid damage.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
And so you grow a tomato in your yard, it's
sunwarmed when you pick it. I think that intensifies the flavor.
And there's just something in the back of your head
that makes it really satisfying that you grow it at yourself.
So maybe there's some extra taste, Bud, for you're always
the stuff that you grew yourself, and that only kicks in.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
At that time.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
That's my theory I'm sticking to.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
Lisa breaks from the frust company. Of course, it is
a great time to be thinking about that garden and
of course growing, growing vegetables and fruit and of course
beautiful things as well. If you've got a question for
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and this is again the brilliance I guess of my wife.
I had never heard of this stuff. Bacteria. She said,
you need to buy some bacteria for your pond. And
I said, you mean bacteria for my pond.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
So there are beneficial they're beneficial bacterias, just like they
are beneficial insects.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
He and they the bacteria sort of consume the debris
in your pond or they help keep the algae down
in your booeah, So that's what.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
They're for, okay, because yeah, my pond's kind of looking
a little mucky and litle burky. Yeah. Yeah. She said
you need to pick up some bacteria.
Speaker 3 (08:49):
And there's certain there's certain treatments that you put at
certain times.
Speaker 5 (08:53):
Of the year.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
So some things work better when the water is cold,
some work better when the water is warm. So come
on in and talk to Sarah or Brenda or Georgiatt.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
And they will talk you through the process and hook
you up with what what you need.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
Thank you, thank you, welcome. This is the best I
get a little me time. It's a great thing too, great,
a little great time for you as well. I've got
a question release love, David. You want us six eight
three two one thirteen ten. That's six oh eight three
two one thirteen ten. Let's talk sales too at the
Bruce Company. You've got some great stuff going on.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
Yeah, there's some.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
There's some good sales on a couple of nursery stock items.
So pgam rhododendrons, which looked beautiful this year, so that
sort of lilacky purple flower and all the evergreen rhododendrons
are probably the most adaptable and the heartiest. Still, it's
better to have them in a sheltered spot. But I've
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seen them kind of all over and if you take
care of them properly, they are really long lived. You
can save twenty five percent on all of those. And
then if you're looking to plant a living fen or
extend your privacy, Hedge, We've got some beautiful ten gallon
emerald arborvity between five and six feet high now, and
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if you buy five ormor you'll save twenty percent.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
Oh really yeah, well a couple of reasons arborvity make
guess you mentioned great great bear.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
We do because you've got height, yeah, but not a
ton of.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
Floor space in their kind of uniform going north north
the south. And from what I understand, arborvide like friends like.
It's like if you adopt a cat, you should always
adopt two cats. If you get an arbor vity, you
should get a few because they just do better in groups.
They are happier. Okay, scientifically all right, as far as.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
I know, send me the link to that study.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
It's on the radio, so it must be true. Phone
lines are open right now. Six eight three two one
thirteen ten. That's six eight three two one thirteen ten.
I go up to the forest and George joins us. George,
welcome to the programming around the at Lease. It breaks
from the Bruce Company.
Speaker 6 (11:00):
Good morning. I always enjoy your program. I've heard down
through the years, and I just got to know whether
I'm hearing myths or fact or plant when you're planting tomatoes.
Are there certain vegetables that should not be close to
tomatoes or does it not really make a difference. Are
there some vegetables that are actually helpful? I don't know.
(11:22):
I hear these different stories and I just don't know.
Speaker 3 (11:25):
There are some it's called companion planting. I don't necessarily
know that there are rules for things that shouldn't be
planted together, but there are some sort of old timy
things about plants that grow well together. If you think
about the Native Americans would plant the three sisters, so
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they plant corn and beans and squash together. The beans
would clamber up the corn and use the corn as
a support and also add nitrogen to the soil that
the that the corn took out. And then all of
those things also shaded a little bit the squashes. So
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there turned out to be real reasons, you know, sort
of proven by science kind of reasons as to why
that those things did well together. But certainly that was
not the Native Americans. That was an intuitive thing. So
there are there are sort of I don't I hate
saying old let's say wise women's tales instead of old
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wives tales that that things can go together and do
do well together. I will say though, that when you're
planting a vegetable garden, the more important thing is to
rotate your crops. So there are groups of things like tomatoes, potatoes, peppers,
eggplant are all in the same family. They are susceptible
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to the same kinds of funguses, they react with the
soil the same way. And there are other groupings to like,
you know, all the bean crops, all the squash crops,
all the cool weathers.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
Cabbagey kind of crops.
Speaker 3 (13:07):
And what a really good idea to do if you've
got in vegetable garden is to rotate those crops. And
a three year rotation is really good. So if you've
got tomatoes in this third of your garden one year,
then the next year you want to move it to
the other third and then the other third and not
bring it back to its original home for three years.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
And that sort of helps with things.
Speaker 3 (13:26):
You know, some plants add to the soil, some plants
take things away from the soil, and then that sort
of you can sort of spread that wealth so it.
Speaker 1 (13:34):
Alls well with like illnesses for those particular like keeping
them they're not in the same soil like Yeah.
Speaker 3 (13:41):
Because like tomatoes, for instance, are prone to a fair
number of fungal diseases.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
Some of that stuff.
Speaker 3 (13:48):
If there's leaf litter or old bits of the last
year's plants that are in the soil, you don't want
to put the tomatoes right back there. You just move
them over to the side and you put something else
there that's not society to those funguses.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
Why that stuff decomposes?
Speaker 1 (14:03):
Fantastic, George, really good question this morning.
Speaker 6 (14:05):
We have been doing that. And there's one other thought
we did find out two By planting marigolds close to
natis that seems to keep bugs away.
Speaker 3 (14:17):
Yeah, and they would also say too that it keeps
it can keep rabbits away. You know, if you plant
a barrier of something that rabbits don't like, then they're
not inclined to go past that for the things that
are maybe more tasty beyond the marigolds wall. Yes, yeah,
so so companion planting is a really interesting.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
It's not a theory necessarily.
Speaker 3 (14:42):
But an interesting exercise and there are lots there's lots
of research and stories about companion planting.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
It's a very interesting exercise.
Speaker 6 (14:52):
Okay, thank you very much. Really appreciate it. I always
appreciate the program, as I said.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
Before, so well, thank you for colling.
Speaker 4 (14:58):
Thank you the good work.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
Thank you George. Great style, great question and had great
great handsome. I like the marigolds thing too. If nothing else,
it looks beautiful.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
Right exactly. Yeah, yeah, and it's not hurting anything.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
So yeah, oh fantastic is that. Let's go to Son
Prairie and Steve joins us. Steve welcome programming here on
the air at Lisa Breaks from the Bruce Company.
Speaker 4 (15:17):
Thanks very much. I have a question about lilacs. Okay,
my lilacs don't smell good this year. What they have?
No odor?
Speaker 1 (15:26):
Oh that's weird, I think so.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
And they usually are fragrant varieties.
Speaker 4 (15:32):
Yeah, oh yeah. I'm driving the lawn tractor. I have
to stop for several minutes and just to smell the lilacs.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
Huh.
Speaker 3 (15:41):
I wonder if because the weather has been a little cooler,
if maybe the fragrance is just not as intense as
it is when the tempts are a little more saltry.
I don't think that there's any kind of problem with this, Like,
there's nothing. I don't think there's anything internal that's causing
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it that you need to worry about. But I just
wonder if maybe the cold weather, because like right now,
driving down University Avenue, all of the black locusts are
blooming and you can smell that like nobody's business. So
I wonder if it's just if the temperature has something
to do with it.
Speaker 4 (16:23):
Well, I hope that's it. I'll wait until the nexte
yeah out one more question. When can I trim my lilacs?
And how do I do it?
Speaker 3 (16:33):
So you can trim your lilacs as soon as they're
done blooming. It takes about it takes about four weeks
and then they're going to start producing flower buds for
next year, so you want to get it in that window.
As far as how to do it, you can just
clip the flower heads off. If you're satisfied with the
size of your plant as it is right now, you
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can go ahead and just sort of give it a
depending on the kind of lilac you have, if it's
like one of the smaller miss kims, or you can
just sort of shear those flowers off. If it's a
bigger one, like an old French variety, then you could
do what we call renewal pruning and just take out
a couple of the older branches. That will sort of
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encourage somehow some new growth to come from the roots
and you'll have that for flowering in the next few years.
Speaker 4 (17:26):
Okay, how about the fact that they're way too.
Speaker 3 (17:29):
Tall, Yeah, that would be a thing for I Honestly,
lilacs can be cut way back. You wouldn't I know,
you wouldn't want to go depending are your lilacs green
all the way to the bottom or they really leggy?
Speaker 4 (17:47):
They're leggy?
Speaker 2 (17:49):
Okay, you know what, Send a photo to the plant desk.
Speaker 3 (17:52):
This is one of those things that's really hard to
describe how to do over the phone without me seeing
what you've actually got. So just stamp a photo with
your phone, send it to the plant desk. That's plant
dusk at Bruce Company dot com, and Scott or Brittany
or somebody will take a look at it and then
we can advise you properly while we're seeing the same
thing that you're seeing.
Speaker 4 (18:14):
Okay, okay, and that address.
Speaker 3 (18:16):
Again is plant Desk at Bruce Company dot com.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
Gotcha all one word? All, Thank you very much, thank you,
thank you Steve, great question, great call this morning, Still
got time. If you've got a question for Lisa, love
to have you join us. Six oh eight three two
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our conversation with Lise. We're going to talk about furniture
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love to see at the Middleton Garden Center of the
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Bruce Company. Twenty eight thirty parm Registreet. That's twenty thirty
park Registreet hanging out with Lisa Briggs from the Bruce Company.
If you've got a question for Lisa, love to have
you join us. Six eight three two one thirteen ten.
That's six eight three two one thirteen ten. Heading over
to Middleton and Cindy joins us. Cindy, welcome to the program.
You're on the air with Lisa Briggs from the Bruce Company.
Speaker 3 (19:22):
Good morning, Lise. I bought up.
Speaker 5 (19:25):
I dreamed a treat from you.
Speaker 3 (19:26):
Last week, okay, and we we planted this and we've
made sure.
Speaker 5 (19:31):
It's gotten water with us too much, but it's totally wilted.
And I figure out what's going on.
Speaker 3 (19:36):
Okay, So I will say, how are you watering at Cindy, Like,
what what's your routine?
Speaker 5 (19:43):
I just water the bottom, you know, we're at the base?
Speaker 2 (19:48):
How how often? And for how long? Not real long.
Speaker 5 (19:55):
I don't know what to say in that.
Speaker 2 (19:56):
I just give it a good watering and I water
it almost everything.
Speaker 3 (20:01):
Yeah, okay, So when you're establishing trees and shrubs, you
want to water for a longer amount of time less often.
So this time of year when it's not that hot,
really a good soak once a week is more than adequate.
And so sometimes overwatering can cause wilting as well, because
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basically the plant is kind of drowning and it can't
take up water because there's too much water there. So
let it dry out a little bit, check the soil.
When the top couple of inches are dry, then give
it a soak. And those those hydranges are all in
like ten galloni ish pots, maybe a little bit bigger, maybe.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
Between seven and ten.
Speaker 3 (20:46):
So I would say that you're going to want to
put a hose at a sort of pencil size or
your baby finger sized trickle at the base of the plant,
and you're going to want to let it just soak
in slowly and gently for about half an hour or
forty minutes, but once a week, not every day, and
then so let it dry out.
Speaker 2 (21:07):
You know, don't always.
Speaker 3 (21:08):
Assume that wilting leaves mean that it needs water, especially
as we get farther into We'll talk about this in
like August and July, when it's ninety and plants are
looking really tired, and sometimes it's just because it's hot
and not necessarily that they're drying out. Okay, Okay, So
I'll get that, let it dry out a.
Speaker 2 (21:30):
Little bit, and then give it a good long soak.
Speaker 6 (21:34):
Stimulate it.
Speaker 3 (21:36):
Stimulator roots stimulator is always a good idea. It's a
really gentle product. It does help plants establish. We've got
one at the store called root Stimulator, So pick that up.
You can get a little bottle and then you would
do that like every other watering. So every other week
you would apply it and you just mix it with
some water and pour.
Speaker 2 (21:57):
It on the roots.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
Good, great question. City do we deal with that too?
I feel like, you know, we always think like food
is love, and I feel like also sometimes you feel
like water is love and maybe go a little.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
Well it's just like overeating. Yeah, you know, chocolate is great.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
But yeah, that's that is a great question. Thank you
for calling, said I was Cindy. Thank you for the
great question. Truany joints us now Trudy out in Mount Horror,
Welcome to the program. I don't know this is this
is a new question. Welcome to the show.
Speaker 5 (22:26):
Well, thank you. I have a pine tree. I believe
it's probably a white pine that has pine blight. I
need to know it's about twenty feet high and I
need to spray it with a spunge aside as I understand, okay,
and I need to know sprayer. How do I get
a sprayer that will reach up to the top so.
Speaker 2 (22:46):
I would there are.
Speaker 3 (22:49):
There are sprayers that you hook up to your hose,
and what you do is you put the funge aside
or whatever the treatment is.
Speaker 2 (22:57):
Thereby Ortho, it's called like.
Speaker 3 (22:59):
A dial in spray, and so you read the package
instructions and it'll tell you how many ounces to the
gallon you're supposed to use.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
You put the the the.
Speaker 3 (23:12):
Treatment into the dialond spray and then there's a little
dial on there and you just match that up. So
if it's two ounces to the gallon, then you put
two ounces in there and you then you just dial
to two ounces the force of your water from your hose.
You can get pretty good coverage. Now, could you treat
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like a forty foot shade tree, Probably not, but a
twenty foot pine tree you'd probably get pretty good coverage.
Speaker 5 (23:39):
Well, I think I've tried that in my dial of
sprayer doesn't go high enough.
Speaker 1 (23:44):
Okay, looking for more power.
Speaker 5 (23:47):
That's a thing I used to have, and or so
tree sprayer Okay, because not finding it one anymore? Does
your store carrier.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
No, we don't. We have the dialand sprays.
Speaker 3 (23:58):
We don't have those the big ones I would check
like a good hardware store, I have okay, Nola, Nola, Well,
then I think that it's time to go to the interwebs.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
Yes, any any neighborhood kids with drones that you pull it.
Speaker 5 (24:19):
Up there, I would work what was the name of
the fungicide is it that you have?
Speaker 3 (24:30):
Well, I before I would tell you a specific product,
I would want to see pictures of the plant. So,
like we told the gentleman who we were talking about
pruning his lilacs, his older lilacs, I would say, sense
email the plant desk with some with some pictures and
maybe describe what the what the problem is that you're
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seeing so that we can give you the proper fungicides.
Some fungicides will treat some funguses but not others.
Speaker 2 (24:59):
So before I say, oh, yes, use.
Speaker 3 (25:01):
This one, I want to know that what I'm prescribing
to you will help your problem.
Speaker 1 (25:07):
Okay, okay, great call, Thank you for calling this morning.
And got a lot of stuff Like obviously this time
you hear a lot of stuff going on in the yard.
It's a great time to be looking over your yard,
maybe thinking, you know, I could use a nice, nice
new chair and patio set.
Speaker 2 (25:23):
Well, if you've spent all this time on your yard.
Speaker 3 (25:25):
You want to spend time in it, right, Yes, So
we do have a few furniture specials going up Nice.
Speaker 2 (25:31):
So one of them is Nardi.
Speaker 3 (25:34):
Now, Nardi is sort of a very well priced, very
stylish line of plastic furniture from Italy. So if you
think about that's, you know, those plastic anerontic chairs, this
is like way nicer and cooler. There are lounge chairs,
there's little love seat kinds of benches there. It's great
(25:57):
for dining, super colorful. You can say twenty percent off
a safe on all of our in stock Nardi Nice
and then Castel, which is one of our best lines,
truly furniture that's going to be around for generations. And
Castel is twenty percent no, I'm sorry, twenty five percent
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off on all special.
Speaker 1 (26:20):
Orders, all new orders.
Speaker 3 (26:21):
Yes. And so you can come in and see what
we've got on the floor, sit in it, ask some
questions and then you can put in a special order.
And then there's also a special on some select fire
tables that with the purchase of a fire table you
get a wind guard, a glass wind guard and a cover.
Speaker 1 (26:39):
Those are so nice to have. As we were, I
know we talked to about smokeless fire pits on things.
But those those fire tables and anything that you can
extend now this week looking at the point.
Speaker 2 (26:50):
Yeah, these are gas fired yeah, gas fire table.
Speaker 1 (26:52):
Yeah, so you can sit out, you know, later in
the season and.
Speaker 3 (26:55):
They're nice to the The fire part is in the
center and there's you know, kind of space around it,
so you could set your drink on there, put your.
Speaker 1 (27:04):
Feet, people beverages around these these fire pits.
Speaker 2 (27:09):
I know, right, shocking behavior you think we lived in Wisconsin.
Speaker 1 (27:15):
Yeah, that is for sure some great stuff. It's a
great day as always to get on into the Middleton
Garden Center of the Bruce Company. Great specials going on.
If you ever have questions, don't for you can email
plant desk at Bruce Company dot com. You can better.
What a great day to get on in Middleton gard Center,
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the One and only Lisa Breaks to Bruce Company, Like, so,
how you doing this morning?
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Fine?
Speaker 1 (00:26):
How are you great?
Speaker 2 (00:27):
This computer things?
Speaker 1 (00:28):
You know what they do? They do stuff? Right? Remember
back when a computer was like a novel thing, like
you had, Like.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
We got our first one when the kids were little,
and it was it was a Mac and it was
like this giant like it, I don't know, it was
like two feet by it was huge.
Speaker 4 (00:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
They were like they were like part of the house,
like like the family shared the computer and all.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
They could do was like type stuff.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
Yeah, we had a Commodore and then we had an Amiga.
I still have my Amiga bramigas at all these.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
I don't I do remember the ones? What were the
ones that came in the cow.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
Oh, Gateway two thousand. Yeah, oh, Lisa, we're dating ourselves. Nice. Yes, well,
it's great to see you have a good weekend.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
It was a busy weekend.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
It was beautiful.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
We have beautiful weather.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
Yeah it's perfect and looking at the forecast now.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
But you know, you know how I feel about things
that are, you know, above eighty.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
Yeah, but it's.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
Only one day. Yeah, yeah, I'll get over it.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
Low temperatures are all very nice, and the.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
Old temperatures are all great.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
So you know, I would say, now that we're in June,
go ahead and plant everything, go for but already, because
I know you all have.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
Robin was pondering last week. I think it was Friday,
she year Thursday. She was saying, are we pretty safe
to leave things out? She goes like, wish, Lisa, we're
here right now, And I said, you know, we should
have Lisa call in each morning, just very briefly, no.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
Cover things, Yes, exactly give it.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
If we did see a lot last week of things
that people had planted that and then we had that
really cold you know that those really cold, rainy days
that they had planted, and then yeah there was some
cold damage.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
Oh that's good. That's that's part of the fun though.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
Work. If it's just just colored foliage and the plant
is still still producing new growth, they'll grow out of it, okay.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
Yeah. And speaking of by the way, if you're wondering
about the questions, could be like Robin Robin had that
question last week, just just call now, gets you right
on the here.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
You couldn't call me anytime.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
Any time you called, have my number. Yes, get you
on the air right now with these some breaks fround
the Bruce Company six eight three two one thirteen ten.
That's six o eight three two one thirteen ten. Great
day to get on into the Middleton Garden Center the
Bruce Company as well. Twenty thirty Parment Street. That's twenty
eight thirty Partment Street. Speaking of questions, plant desk at
Bruce Company dot com is there for you also.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
That one's great because you can send photos, you can
I do well, we do it. It's you know, all
the time we get calls at the plant desk and
they're describing and it's really difficult, yeah, to especially if
it's a diagnosis thing like sometimes sometimes they say, oh,
that bread bug is on my lilies.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
Well, I right away, I know what that is.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
Right, but other things are not as easy to.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
Discern over the phone.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
Trying to explain to somebody how to prune something over
the phone is almost impossible.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
Said photos.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
By the way, speaking of Christina, the wife was out
yesterday cutting on the line. Is there something going on
with lilacs that why was she cutting it? Any idea
why she would be doing that?
Speaker 3 (03:41):
Like, well, if it's already flowered, now is the time
to prune it? If she wanted to trim.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
It back or whatever. So she's right on the money.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
I didn't doubt her at all, but again I probably
should have had her call you.
Speaker 5 (03:55):
No, she.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
Seems to know what she's doing. Again, I do, but
I was just wondering.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
What they Yeah, anything that's already bloomed, red buds, crab apples, magnolias, lilacs,
those spring blooming plants set their flower buds the year before, okay,
and they usually begin to develop those soon after they're
done flowering.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
So if you want flower.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
Buds for next year, you want to prune those right
away after you've enjoyed this year's flowers, then go ahead
and do any trimming or anything like that that you're
going to do, so that you can get flowers next year.
If you wait too long, I would say end of
June into July, then you're running the risk that you're
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cutting off.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
Next year's flowers. Okay, okay, And sometimes you have to
do that.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
Sometimes the branch breaks or you know, something happens, and
so sometimes so it doesn't hurt the plant that it
doesn't flower.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
But a lot of us plant those things for that specific.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
Reason because they look beautiful and they smell great. Oh
I love that lilac bush so much. The way she's
got it planted right in this little corner where, yeah,
we open up the windows in the back room, that
breeze comes through and it smells like lilacs, Like, oh
my god, it's a perfect Anyway, So I talked this
morning with Lisa Braks. If you've got a question, love
to have you join a sport six eight three two
one thirteen ten. That's six so eight three two one
(05:18):
thirteen ten. I ween talk in the past few weeks
about kind of be what to be looking for, and
we get some get some ideas and some thoughts with
some folks at the at the Middleton Garden Center of
the Bruce Company. What are we looking for this week.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
Lisa, I think everybody's concentrating on their vegetable gardens. Oh yeah,
and they're concentrating on their containers, so you know, decorative
containers or containers with vegetables. We've been having a lot
of people coming in asking for vegetable varieties that are
suitable to growing containers. So I think that the vegetable
(05:54):
gardening trend is still creeping up, which is great. It's
you and I have talked all the time about the
benefits of growing your own vegetables. Yes, from you know,
from the things like just having that food and it
doesn't you're not paying at the grocery store, to it,
(06:15):
to being able to control how it's grown, and just
the sheer satisfaction of your kiddos being involved in knowing
where food comes from.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
So there's lots and lots of really great reasons.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
To do that.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
And you can you don't have to have a big
vegetable garden.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
Yeah, you could have a couple of pots on your patio.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
It seems like the vegetables you grow at home taste better.
Like there just seems to be like a I don't
know how to describe, like a more they're more flavorful.
If does that make like I think like tomatoes, and
again it's depends a lot on what type of tomato
it is. I get that, but like the grocery store
has got great tomatoes, don't get me wrong, But like
the ones you grow or like somebody else grows and
brings to you, they're just there's just something about what
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I think that a.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
Lot of the tomatoes that we buy in the grocery
store have to be suitable for shipping, sure, right, and
so sometimes maybe they're harvested and they're not quite right,
or they're varieties that have been developed so that they
are stable for shipping, that they last longer, they're firmer,
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you know whatever.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
To avoid damage.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
And so you grow a tomato in your yard, it's
sunwarmed when you pick it. I think that intensifies the flavor.
And there's just something in the back of your head
that makes it really satisfying that you grow it at yourself.
So maybe there's some extra taste, Bud, for you're always
the stuff that you grew yourself, and that only kicks in.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
At that time.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
That's my theory I'm sticking to.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
Lisa breaks from the frust company. Of course, it is
a great time to be thinking about that garden and
of course growing, growing vegetables and fruit and of course
beautiful things as well. If you've got a question for
Lisa love to have one six eight three two want
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and this is again the brilliance I guess of my wife.
I had never heard of this stuff. Bacteria. She said,
you need to buy some bacteria for your pond. And
I said, you mean bacteria for my pond.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
So there are beneficial they're beneficial bacterias, just like they
are beneficial insects.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
He and they the bacteria sort of consume the debris
in your pond or they help keep the algae down
in your booeah, So that's what.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
They're for, okay, because yeah, my pond's kind of looking
a little mucky and litle burky. Yeah. Yeah. She said
you need to pick up some bacteria.
Speaker 3 (08:49):
And there's certain there's certain treatments that you put at
certain times.
Speaker 5 (08:53):
Of the year.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
So some things work better when the water is cold,
some work better when the water is warm. So come
on in and talk to Sarah or Brenda or Georgiatt.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
And they will talk you through the process and hook
you up with what what you need.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
Thank you, thank you, welcome. This is the best I
get a little me time. It's a great thing too, great,
a little great time for you as well. I've got
a question release love, David. You want us six eight
three two one thirteen ten. That's six oh eight three
two one thirteen ten. Let's talk sales too at the
Bruce Company. You've got some great stuff going on.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
Yeah, there's some.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
There's some good sales on a couple of nursery stock items.
So pgam rhododendrons, which looked beautiful this year, so that
sort of lilacky purple flower and all the evergreen rhododendrons
are probably the most adaptable and the heartiest. Still, it's
better to have them in a sheltered spot. But I've
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seen them kind of all over and if you take
care of them properly, they are really long lived. You
can save twenty five percent on all of those. And
then if you're looking to plant a living fen or
extend your privacy, Hedge, We've got some beautiful ten gallon
emerald arborvity between five and six feet high now, and
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if you buy five ormor you'll save twenty percent.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
Oh really yeah, well a couple of reasons arborvity make
guess you mentioned great great bear.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
We do because you've got height, yeah, but not a
ton of.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
Floor space in their kind of uniform going north north
the south. And from what I understand, arborvide like friends like.
It's like if you adopt a cat, you should always
adopt two cats. If you get an arbor vity, you
should get a few because they just do better in groups.
They are happier. Okay, scientifically all right, as far as.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
I know, send me the link to that study.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
It's on the radio, so it must be true. Phone
lines are open right now. Six eight three two one
thirteen ten. That's six eight three two one thirteen ten.
I go up to the forest and George joins us. George,
welcome to the programming around the at Lease. It breaks
from the Bruce Company.
Speaker 6 (11:00):
Good morning. I always enjoy your program. I've heard down
through the years, and I just got to know whether
I'm hearing myths or fact or plant when you're planting tomatoes.
Are there certain vegetables that should not be close to
tomatoes or does it not really make a difference. Are
there some vegetables that are actually helpful? I don't know.
(11:22):
I hear these different stories and I just don't know.
Speaker 3 (11:25):
There are some it's called companion planting. I don't necessarily
know that there are rules for things that shouldn't be
planted together, but there are some sort of old timy
things about plants that grow well together. If you think
about the Native Americans would plant the three sisters, so
(11:45):
they plant corn and beans and squash together. The beans
would clamber up the corn and use the corn as
a support and also add nitrogen to the soil that
the that the corn took out. And then all of
those things also shaded a little bit the squashes. So
(12:07):
there turned out to be real reasons, you know, sort
of proven by science kind of reasons as to why
that those things did well together. But certainly that was
not the Native Americans. That was an intuitive thing. So
there are there are sort of I don't I hate
saying old let's say wise women's tales instead of old
(12:29):
wives tales that that things can go together and do
do well together. I will say though, that when you're
planting a vegetable garden, the more important thing is to
rotate your crops. So there are groups of things like tomatoes, potatoes, peppers,
eggplant are all in the same family. They are susceptible
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to the same kinds of funguses, they react with the
soil the same way. And there are other groupings to like,
you know, all the bean crops, all the squash crops,
all the cool weathers.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
Cabbagey kind of crops.
Speaker 3 (13:07):
And what a really good idea to do if you've
got in vegetable garden is to rotate those crops. And
a three year rotation is really good. So if you've
got tomatoes in this third of your garden one year,
then the next year you want to move it to
the other third and then the other third and not
bring it back to its original home for three years.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
And that sort of helps with things.
Speaker 3 (13:26):
You know, some plants add to the soil, some plants
take things away from the soil, and then that sort
of you can sort of spread that wealth so it.
Speaker 1 (13:34):
Alls well with like illnesses for those particular like keeping
them they're not in the same soil like Yeah.
Speaker 3 (13:41):
Because like tomatoes, for instance, are prone to a fair
number of fungal diseases.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
Some of that stuff.
Speaker 3 (13:48):
If there's leaf litter or old bits of the last
year's plants that are in the soil, you don't want
to put the tomatoes right back there. You just move
them over to the side and you put something else
there that's not society to those funguses.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
Why that stuff decomposes?
Speaker 1 (14:03):
Fantastic, George, really good question this morning.
Speaker 6 (14:05):
We have been doing that. And there's one other thought
we did find out two By planting marigolds close to
natis that seems to keep bugs away.
Speaker 3 (14:17):
Yeah, and they would also say too that it keeps
it can keep rabbits away. You know, if you plant
a barrier of something that rabbits don't like, then they're
not inclined to go past that for the things that
are maybe more tasty beyond the marigolds wall. Yes, yeah,
so so companion planting is a really interesting.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
It's not a theory necessarily.
Speaker 3 (14:42):
But an interesting exercise and there are lots there's lots
of research and stories about companion planting.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
It's a very interesting exercise.
Speaker 6 (14:52):
Okay, thank you very much. Really appreciate it. I always
appreciate the program, as I said.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
Before, so well, thank you for colling.
Speaker 4 (14:58):
Thank you the good work.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
Thank you George. Great style, great question and had great
great handsome. I like the marigolds thing too. If nothing else,
it looks beautiful.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
Right exactly. Yeah, yeah, and it's not hurting anything.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
So yeah, oh fantastic is that. Let's go to Son
Prairie and Steve joins us. Steve welcome programming here on
the air at Lisa Breaks from the Bruce Company.
Speaker 4 (15:17):
Thanks very much. I have a question about lilacs. Okay,
my lilacs don't smell good this year. What they have?
No odor?
Speaker 1 (15:26):
Oh that's weird, I think so.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
And they usually are fragrant varieties.
Speaker 4 (15:32):
Yeah, oh yeah. I'm driving the lawn tractor. I have
to stop for several minutes and just to smell the lilacs.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
Huh.
Speaker 3 (15:41):
I wonder if because the weather has been a little cooler,
if maybe the fragrance is just not as intense as
it is when the tempts are a little more saltry.
I don't think that there's any kind of problem with this, Like,
there's nothing. I don't think there's anything internal that's causing
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it that you need to worry about. But I just
wonder if maybe the cold weather, because like right now,
driving down University Avenue, all of the black locusts are
blooming and you can smell that like nobody's business. So
I wonder if it's just if the temperature has something
to do with it.
Speaker 4 (16:23):
Well, I hope that's it. I'll wait until the nexte
yeah out one more question. When can I trim my lilacs?
And how do I do it?
Speaker 3 (16:33):
So you can trim your lilacs as soon as they're
done blooming. It takes about it takes about four weeks
and then they're going to start producing flower buds for
next year, so you want to get it in that window.
As far as how to do it, you can just
clip the flower heads off. If you're satisfied with the
size of your plant as it is right now, you
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can go ahead and just sort of give it a
depending on the kind of lilac you have, if it's
like one of the smaller miss kims, or you can
just sort of shear those flowers off. If it's a
bigger one, like an old French variety, then you could
do what we call renewal pruning and just take out
a couple of the older branches. That will sort of
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encourage somehow some new growth to come from the roots
and you'll have that for flowering in the next few years.
Speaker 4 (17:26):
Okay, how about the fact that they're way too.
Speaker 3 (17:29):
Tall, Yeah, that would be a thing for I Honestly,
lilacs can be cut way back. You wouldn't I know,
you wouldn't want to go depending are your lilacs green
all the way to the bottom or they really leggy?
Speaker 4 (17:47):
They're leggy?
Speaker 2 (17:49):
Okay, you know what, Send a photo to the plant desk.
Speaker 3 (17:52):
This is one of those things that's really hard to
describe how to do over the phone without me seeing
what you've actually got. So just stamp a photo with
your phone, send it to the plant desk. That's plant
dusk at Bruce Company dot com, and Scott or Brittany
or somebody will take a look at it and then
we can advise you properly while we're seeing the same
thing that you're seeing.
Speaker 4 (18:14):
Okay, okay, and that address.
Speaker 3 (18:16):
Again is plant Desk at Bruce Company dot com.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
Gotcha all one word? All, Thank you very much, thank you,
thank you Steve, great question, great call this morning, Still
got time. If you've got a question for Lisa, love
to have you join us. Six oh eight three two
one thirteen ten. That's six eight three two one thirteen ten.
Always a great day to get on into the Middleton
Garden Center the Bruce Company. Right at twenty eight thirty
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Company dot Com. That's Bruce Company dot com. You do
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our conversation with Lise. We're going to talk about furniture
and some other great stuff and take your call next
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love to see at the Middleton Garden Center of the
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Bruce Company. Twenty eight thirty parm Registreet. That's twenty thirty
park Registreet hanging out with Lisa Briggs from the Bruce Company.
If you've got a question for Lisa, love to have
you join us. Six eight three two one thirteen ten.
That's six eight three two one thirteen ten. Heading over
to Middleton and Cindy joins us. Cindy, welcome to the program.
You're on the air with Lisa Briggs from the Bruce Company.
Speaker 3 (19:22):
Good morning, Lise. I bought up.
Speaker 5 (19:25):
I dreamed a treat from you.
Speaker 3 (19:26):
Last week, okay, and we we planted this and we've
made sure.
Speaker 5 (19:31):
It's gotten water with us too much, but it's totally wilted.
And I figure out what's going on.
Speaker 3 (19:36):
Okay, So I will say, how are you watering at Cindy, Like,
what what's your routine?
Speaker 5 (19:43):
I just water the bottom, you know, we're at the base?
Speaker 2 (19:48):
How how often? And for how long? Not real long.
Speaker 5 (19:55):
I don't know what to say in that.
Speaker 2 (19:56):
I just give it a good watering and I water
it almost everything.
Speaker 3 (20:01):
Yeah, okay, So when you're establishing trees and shrubs, you
want to water for a longer amount of time less often.
So this time of year when it's not that hot,
really a good soak once a week is more than adequate.
And so sometimes overwatering can cause wilting as well, because
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basically the plant is kind of drowning and it can't
take up water because there's too much water there. So
let it dry out a little bit, check the soil.
When the top couple of inches are dry, then give
it a soak. And those those hydranges are all in
like ten galloni ish pots, maybe a little bit bigger, maybe.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
Between seven and ten.
Speaker 3 (20:46):
So I would say that you're going to want to
put a hose at a sort of pencil size or
your baby finger sized trickle at the base of the plant,
and you're going to want to let it just soak
in slowly and gently for about half an hour or
forty minutes, but once a week, not every day, and
then so let it dry out.
Speaker 2 (21:07):
You know, don't always.
Speaker 3 (21:08):
Assume that wilting leaves mean that it needs water, especially
as we get farther into We'll talk about this in
like August and July, when it's ninety and plants are
looking really tired, and sometimes it's just because it's hot
and not necessarily that they're drying out. Okay, Okay, So
I'll get that, let it dry out a.
Speaker 2 (21:30):
Little bit, and then give it a good long soak.
Speaker 6 (21:34):
Stimulate it.
Speaker 3 (21:36):
Stimulator roots stimulator is always a good idea. It's a
really gentle product. It does help plants establish. We've got
one at the store called root Stimulator, So pick that up.
You can get a little bottle and then you would
do that like every other watering. So every other week
you would apply it and you just mix it with
some water and pour.
Speaker 2 (21:57):
It on the roots.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
Good, great question. City do we deal with that too?
I feel like, you know, we always think like food
is love, and I feel like also sometimes you feel
like water is love and maybe go a little.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
Well it's just like overeating. Yeah, you know, chocolate is great.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
But yeah, that's that is a great question. Thank you
for calling, said I was Cindy. Thank you for the
great question. Truany joints us now Trudy out in Mount Horror,
Welcome to the program. I don't know this is this
is a new question. Welcome to the show.
Speaker 5 (22:26):
Well, thank you. I have a pine tree. I believe
it's probably a white pine that has pine blight. I
need to know it's about twenty feet high and I
need to spray it with a spunge aside as I understand, okay,
and I need to know sprayer. How do I get
a sprayer that will reach up to the top so.
Speaker 2 (22:46):
I would there are.
Speaker 3 (22:49):
There are sprayers that you hook up to your hose,
and what you do is you put the funge aside
or whatever the treatment is.
Speaker 2 (22:57):
Thereby Ortho, it's called like.
Speaker 3 (22:59):
A dial in spray, and so you read the package
instructions and it'll tell you how many ounces to the
gallon you're supposed to use.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
You put the the the.
Speaker 3 (23:12):
Treatment into the dialond spray and then there's a little
dial on there and you just match that up. So
if it's two ounces to the gallon, then you put
two ounces in there and you then you just dial
to two ounces the force of your water from your hose.
You can get pretty good coverage. Now, could you treat
(23:32):
like a forty foot shade tree, Probably not, but a
twenty foot pine tree you'd probably get pretty good coverage.
Speaker 5 (23:39):
Well, I think I've tried that in my dial of
sprayer doesn't go high enough.
Speaker 1 (23:44):
Okay, looking for more power.
Speaker 5 (23:47):
That's a thing I used to have, and or so
tree sprayer Okay, because not finding it one anymore? Does
your store carrier.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
No, we don't. We have the dialand sprays.
Speaker 3 (23:58):
We don't have those the big ones I would check
like a good hardware store, I have okay, Nola, Nola, Well,
then I think that it's time to go to the interwebs.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
Yes, any any neighborhood kids with drones that you pull it.
Speaker 5 (24:19):
Up there, I would work what was the name of
the fungicide is it that you have?
Speaker 3 (24:30):
Well, I before I would tell you a specific product,
I would want to see pictures of the plant. So,
like we told the gentleman who we were talking about
pruning his lilacs, his older lilacs, I would say, sense
email the plant desk with some with some pictures and
maybe describe what the what the problem is that you're
(24:51):
seeing so that we can give you the proper fungicides.
Some fungicides will treat some funguses but not others.
Speaker 2 (24:59):
So before I say, oh, yes, use.
Speaker 3 (25:01):
This one, I want to know that what I'm prescribing
to you will help your problem.
Speaker 1 (25:07):
Okay, okay, great call, Thank you for calling this morning.
And got a lot of stuff Like obviously this time
you hear a lot of stuff going on in the yard.
It's a great time to be looking over your yard,
maybe thinking, you know, I could use a nice, nice
new chair and patio set.
Speaker 2 (25:23):
Well, if you've spent all this time on your yard.
Speaker 3 (25:25):
You want to spend time in it, right, Yes, So
we do have a few furniture specials going up Nice.
Speaker 2 (25:31):
So one of them is Nardi.
Speaker 3 (25:34):
Now, Nardi is sort of a very well priced, very
stylish line of plastic furniture from Italy. So if you
think about that's, you know, those plastic anerontic chairs, this
is like way nicer and cooler. There are lounge chairs,
there's little love seat kinds of benches there. It's great
(25:57):
for dining, super colorful. You can say twenty percent off
a safe on all of our in stock Nardi Nice
and then Castel, which is one of our best lines,
truly furniture that's going to be around for generations. And
Castel is twenty percent no, I'm sorry, twenty five percent
(26:19):
off on all special.
Speaker 1 (26:20):
Orders, all new orders.
Speaker 3 (26:21):
Yes. And so you can come in and see what
we've got on the floor, sit in it, ask some
questions and then you can put in a special order.
And then there's also a special on some select fire
tables that with the purchase of a fire table you
get a wind guard, a glass wind guard and a cover.
Speaker 1 (26:39):
Those are so nice to have. As we were, I
know we talked to about smokeless fire pits on things.
But those those fire tables and anything that you can
extend now this week looking at the point.
Speaker 2 (26:50):
Yeah, these are gas fired yeah, gas fire table.
Speaker 1 (26:52):
Yeah, so you can sit out, you know, later in
the season and.
Speaker 3 (26:55):
They're nice to the The fire part is in the
center and there's you know, kind of space around it,
so you could set your drink on there, put your.
Speaker 1 (27:04):
Feet, people beverages around these these fire pits.
Speaker 2 (27:09):
I know, right, shocking behavior you think we lived in Wisconsin.
Speaker 1 (27:15):
Yeah, that is for sure some great stuff. It's a
great day as always to get on into the Middleton
Garden Center of the Bruce Company. Great specials going on.
If you ever have questions, don't for you can email
plant desk at Bruce Company dot com. You can better.
What a great day to get on in Middleton gard Center,
twenty eight thirty part in Street. That's twenty eight thirty
Partment Street mentioned the website Bruce Company dot com. And
of course they bring you every day outdoor living. Right
(27:36):
now you're on thirteen ten Wiba Lisa. You have a
great day you as well. Shine here comes your way
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