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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's the Classic Gardens and Landscape Show on the.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Half Ready and go with your want.
Speaker 1 (00:08):
Show up playing some Grass to Grow two and I
sent Chris, Chris and Chris.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
No, Chris knows it. Chris knows it. Chris knows it.
Chris knows it. Chris knows it. Chris knows it. Sure,
Chris knows it. See Chris knows it.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
And now you're a host. Chris Joyner and Chris King.
Speaker 4 (00:34):
Good morning and welcome to the new year on the
Classic Guardens of the Landscape Show.
Speaker 5 (00:37):
I'm Chris Key, I'm Chris Joiner. Happy New Year, and
everybody right twenty twenty five. Did you make it till midnight?
Speaker 6 (00:42):
Chris Key?
Speaker 7 (00:43):
You know I did.
Speaker 6 (00:44):
I did too, kind of man, so my alarm clock.
Speaker 7 (00:50):
It's kind of it's kind of funny.
Speaker 4 (00:51):
We were we were watching football games at the barn,
and I had the fire going, you know, and had
a couple buddies there and and Teresa was there, and
you know, we threw some fire, you know, threw some
wood on the fire. And it's kind of funny because
you know, I'm having to pick up every stick like
with both hands. Yeah, because it's like, you know, and
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for everybody that I had carpal tunnel surgery back a
month ago.
Speaker 7 (01:18):
So you know, they're still saying, you know, just take it,
take it easy.
Speaker 6 (01:23):
Yeah, you know, you're you're you're you're ninety.
Speaker 7 (01:26):
Yeah, I look pretty good.
Speaker 6 (01:27):
Look at that, I'd say, you look fine.
Speaker 7 (01:28):
But but yeah.
Speaker 4 (01:30):
So we're hanging out and all of a sudden, my
daughter and her fiance shows up, and uh, and it's
like eleven o'clock. So by then, you know, it go bigger,
go home, right, that's right. Uh, we just hung in
there and the next day we slept about ten o'clock.
Speaker 6 (01:50):
We didn't you know, we had a we had a
great Christmas. Uh.
Speaker 5 (01:53):
You know, Chris, you've been off for a month and
Sery h Yeah, Garden the Garden Center we closed for
two weeks and take that time off and we will
be opening back up this Monday the six If you
need any pre merging or weed free zone, or if
you've just kind of been holding off on, you know,
getting the lawn fertilization, weed control or landscaping or anything.
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We'll be back be open on January sixth, so you
can get on the books for that. We'll be booking
in the spring before you know it, probably already are
probably once we get into once we get into the
the new year. But we you know, we're usually we
usually take that two weeks and we leave our house
and we come back for Christmas, and then we leave
again and then we come back for New Year's camping
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and whatnot. But this year we didn't do anything. We
had the they call it the staycation, right, That's what
my brother in law said.
Speaker 4 (02:43):
And I passed you at the roadhouse the other day.
I said, Man, Chris is in here working out up
there at ye up there, up the steakhouse up there.
Speaker 6 (02:51):
Yep. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (02:52):
We went hiking at Canoe Creek Nature Preserve. I wanted
the girls wanted to get out of the house, and
I wanted to get hiking. It was a great day.
It was like fifty degree eas and Sonny, you know,
it's just perfect weather for getting out in the woods.
And so we went hiking up there. That's a that's
a really cool place, is it. Yeah, it's it hikes
along Big Canoe Creek and then there's another slab creek
that you.
Speaker 7 (03:12):
Hike along to write and be at my house in a.
Speaker 6 (03:14):
Bat oh yeah, right through the woods.
Speaker 7 (03:17):
Yep.
Speaker 5 (03:17):
So we uh, I think we ended up hiking like
five close to five miles and it's pretty steep parts
to it. And I hadn't had anything to eat that day,
and it was about one o'clock when we got done,
and I was like, I want, I want something to eat,
So let's go up to local Springvale restaurant and we.
Speaker 6 (03:32):
Got some food there.
Speaker 5 (03:33):
But this vacation, we didn't go anywhere. But I'm gonna
tell you what, Chris Keith. If I had a project
here at the house, if I had a screw that
was loose in my house or something that needed touched up,
or something that needed repaired, by God, I did it.
Speaker 6 (03:47):
In the last two weeks.
Speaker 7 (03:48):
Man I I was.
Speaker 6 (03:49):
I was up at five.
Speaker 5 (03:50):
Thirty five to five thirty every single day, and uh,
and and doing stuff.
Speaker 7 (03:55):
I was right backwards, you know.
Speaker 4 (03:57):
I spent nine months just you know, with braces on
my hands and all this stuff, you know, and.
Speaker 7 (04:04):
And couldn't sleep good.
Speaker 4 (04:06):
And you never know how how much sleep deprived you
are until they fix you.
Speaker 6 (04:12):
Yep.
Speaker 7 (04:12):
And that was like nine thirty every day.
Speaker 4 (04:16):
Man, I was in a con talking about and well,
I couldn't do anything anyways, you know, they're they're like,
don't do it, and you know, don't do this, don't
don't be picking up stuff, you just kid.
Speaker 7 (04:26):
I'm looking around.
Speaker 4 (04:26):
I'm like, oh man, I need to be fixing this fence,
you know, I need to be busting wood. I'm gonna
do all this stuff. And they're like, no, you can't
do it. And I'm just sitting there like, oh god.
So now I'm they about to cut me loose and
I'm gonna I'm tear it up.
Speaker 6 (04:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (04:44):
But we usually for New Year's we usually don't do anything.
I mean, we hadn't done anything for New Years since
we were you know, first married and didn't have it,
you know. But uh, this year, Sarah got a shit.
I think she went to one of the you know,
one of those dollar places and got some you know
when some of those party blowers and some hats and
some little plastic you know, champagne glasses.
Speaker 6 (05:06):
Ma'am. Oh she speaks, it's the New Year. Say he's
talking on the radio.
Speaker 7 (05:13):
They say, you know, you should be driving a car.
Speaker 5 (05:15):
And we had the family over and I had I
smoked a pork loin and some ribs, and I made
it till about ten thirty and then man, my head
started pounding, like right behind my right eye. And the
only thing I can figure my I want to say
congratulations to uh. To Anne and tim Anna is my
sister in law, and they had their baby, Evelyn a
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few days before Christmas. I think it was that Sunday
before some Monday before Christmas, they had Evelyn. And I finished.
I finished the crib. So basically like I, me and
my father in law have built cribs for like all
of the all of the women of the family.
Speaker 6 (05:57):
And I took so Sarah's fault.
Speaker 5 (06:01):
Sarah's dad died several years ago and for Elizabeth and
and I basically went went like diving in the basement
and built their two cribs out of dad Dad's would,
so like all the wood that was in his basement,
and you know, I just I gathered all the wood
that I could, you know, that was all oak. And
there may be a piece of my hog and he
blended in or maybe a piece of maple or something
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like that. But the last two cribs have been built,
you know, out of Dad Dad's would. When I finished it,
knew would. I didn't finish it New Year's Eve, but
I started the polyr thing, and I was using an
old based poly ear thing, and that stuff is tryd
and I want I had to I keep I kept
my garage doors closed because it was a little cool
and if if you doesn't cure down and then that
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stuff gets thick as molasses. Since I wanted to try
to keep the temperature up as much as I can.
So I figured me sitting there huffing that old bas
poly ear thing all day probably made my head hurt,
but so I went. I ended up laying down about
ten thirty, but I set my alarm o'clock for eleven
fifty five so that I could uh, so I could
wake up. And we had orange juice in the in
the champagne glasses and you know, hats on and everything.
Speaker 6 (07:09):
It's a lot of fun we had. We had a
lot of fun. Well, Sadi Boo did not make it though,
you went to sleep, that's okay.
Speaker 4 (07:15):
There crashed so that me and Teresa dipped out and
went to Panama City for a couple of days. And
usually we'll do something spontaneous like that after Christmas. Every year,
you know, sometime around the twenty six or twenty seventh,
we'll dip out and we'll go to you know, two
or three days or whatever, we'll just blast off the mobile,
or we'll blast off somewhere. And uh, this time we
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blast off the Panama City and we tell you it
was seventy five and beautiful. Well, we got down there
and it just it there was a rain off shore
and it was like seventy degrees. And we left Panama
City and went into Panama City Beach and there was
a fog there. It looked like you went on top
of Channel Mountain. Oh cool, I made. It was so
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foggy you couldn't see anything. And we went in a dive.
We liked to eat in over there and ate and
went back to went back to Panama City and uh,
it was you know, sunny and seventy five over there,
and we were able to.
Speaker 7 (08:14):
You know, walk around.
Speaker 4 (08:15):
There's a kind of an entertainment district not far from
where we were staying. So we hung out down there
and did some stuff and just ate some more good
food and did all that.
Speaker 7 (08:25):
And uh, the.
Speaker 4 (08:26):
Next day Seth and Ashley came down and we had
a heated pool and you know, all the indoor pool
and all that stuff down there too. So we gave
that a go and and that was a good deal
and went out and I ate dinner with them that
next day. Well, the next day, we ate lunch before
we left, and uh, our checkout was eleven, and we
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left them there, went straight to a you know, a
place we usually go down there and ate and we
left and Seth and Ashley stayed and uh they went
walking the beach to shells and all that stuff. We'll
hit amongst all that, the beautiful weather and the seashells
and all the all the you know, just the beauty
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of it all.
Speaker 7 (09:10):
He proposed to her.
Speaker 6 (09:11):
How about that?
Speaker 7 (09:12):
So now I'm gonna have two boys in the family.
Speaker 5 (09:15):
So well, I guess you hadn't kicked him out yet,
so then now there or something right?
Speaker 4 (09:19):
Yeah, well, say it's been hanging around my house for
about six years now. Yeah, so I figure, uh he's
probably earned his earned his spot.
Speaker 6 (09:26):
Yeah, I'd say so.
Speaker 4 (09:28):
But uh, yeah, it was a big, big weekend. So yeah,
a lot going on that was that was cool.
Speaker 5 (09:35):
Well, Chris, and uh, this is a gardening show. If
you want to give us a call and kind of keep.
Speaker 6 (09:40):
Us on track.
Speaker 5 (09:41):
Four three nine nine three seven two. We got all
of our Christmas stuff down.
Speaker 6 (09:47):
Yesterday. I was up at seven.
Speaker 7 (09:48):
I started to come by here and pester you about
two days ago.
Speaker 5 (09:52):
It was it was seven thirty in the morning and
I was out there wrapping up lights. And I think
we got done probably about seven thirty last night. I
mean I and I. When I get my mind set
on something, I hammer down.
Speaker 6 (10:02):
Let's go bigger, go home.
Speaker 5 (10:04):
But the thing that I'm looking forward to the most
is I'm gonna go through after the radio show. I'm
gonna blow out all the leaves out of.
Speaker 6 (10:10):
My flower beds. I'm gonna pick up sticks.
Speaker 5 (10:12):
Sadie, You're gonna be on picking up sticks all take
the wheelbarrow around you can pick up sticks. Is that
okay with you? Yep, that's okay, all right, good. And
then I'm gonna take my mower. I'm gonna run the
mower over everything, just to clean everything up. So just
because the grass and growing, you know, and it's everything's
dormant right now, it just it still makes makes a
person feel better when they come home and their grass
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is just like a starch pair of khaki pants. You know,
it's just slicking flat.
Speaker 7 (10:38):
Well, you know, it took forever for all the leaves
to fall.
Speaker 6 (10:41):
This I did.
Speaker 4 (10:42):
I mean, there's a couple of old ladies that live
up there by the garden center.
Speaker 7 (10:47):
I blew their leaves from them.
Speaker 4 (10:48):
I usually I usually blow their leaves for them, like
right before Christmas, and then I'll blow their leaves for them.
And I blow their leaves right at Thanksgiving when we're
all that, you know, because usually we're off that Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday,
and I'll go up there, you know, after Thanksgiving that
Friday or whatever, and I blow one of them leaves
and if it takes me longer than you know, half
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a day, I'll go back the next day and blow
the other ones. I've been doing it for years at
both widows, and I just do it to help them out. Well,
I did it that Thanksgiving this year. Well, obviously after
the third I couldn't do anything. So I told them,
I said, look, you'll have to get somebody else to
do it this round or you know, and there said no,
I'll just wait till after the first years. So as
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soon as they say give me the go ahead, you
know for sure with everything, then I'm gonna go blow
riabing betties leaves, yep, so, but they weren't when I
blew them the first time. Is barely anything on the ground,
I know, I said, Man, when I go back, and
you know in January, they're gonna be leaves everywhere.
Speaker 6 (11:50):
We had one colt up in one cold spill so far.
Speaker 4 (11:53):
That's that's pretty much I mean. And we're getting what
a couple of nights right now. Looks like next week's
gonna be a cod I'll get out.
Speaker 6 (12:01):
It's gonna be a little chilly, that's what they say.
Speaker 7 (12:03):
Well, let's take that break. Chris her number.
Speaker 4 (12:05):
If you'll want to call us, it's four three nine
nine three seven to two. If you want to call
the garden center Monday through Friday and get on the
books for long caer landscaping. If you need irrigation, if
you need a patio or retaining wall built. You know,
this time of year is a good year, a good
time of year to do irrigation, because heck, you don't
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want to wait until May and call us when we
get our first hot dry spell, because we're gonna say
we'll see you about August, so you know, go ahead
and get on the books to do any of that
kind of stuff and we'll be right back from the
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Speaker 2 (15:37):
You ertolon pertolone.
Speaker 9 (15:41):
How you need some, Yes, you need some pert alone
fort alone.
Speaker 4 (15:45):
Yes, sir, you need some fertiloon. And I tell you
if you're not on there's no wrong time of year
to do the bag of gold. In my opinion, Chris,
normally we say do it in March and do it
in September, But if you will get on a six
month program when you're doing the back gold and you
want to do it in January and July, that's all right.
And if you just the biggest thing is you got
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to start somewhere. So, uh, if you're not on the
six month program, so the two two pre emergent application program,
it's time to do a pre emergent right now. Also,
so if you do your pre emergence and do six
of the year and do one every other month, then
now's a pre emergent month. And uh, you know, everybody
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gets so busy this time of year, you know, with
Christmas and just every the holidays and everything going on,
Thanksgiving and all that stuff. Most people we sell more
lime in February March than we do in November, December,
January because everybody just gets behind. And we have so
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many people come in in March with big sax weeds
and they say, what do I need to do for
the weeds? Well, you need to do this for your weeds,
but you also did you do your lime? And nine
times ten they said no, I hadn't done anything and
dot to die months you know, I mean, it's just
it's normal. And uh so we get them back on
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track or try to, and then they fall off the
bandwagon again around the November of the next year. So we
just try to get you, uh caught up. And the
cool thing about this time of year, though, is you
can go in there. You can do your lime, you
can do your pre emergent. You know, you can do
your your gypsum, where your soil activator. You can do
all that stuff at the same time. And uh you
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won't even have to get back out there until March,
That's right.
Speaker 5 (17:32):
So it's with with with long care. It's like you're
you're you've always if you haven't done anything, you've always
missed something. But you're ahead of the next step, you know.
So there's nothing like you said, there's no bad time
to uh sit back and well we to get started
on that program.
Speaker 4 (17:47):
Weeds are the dominant thing. I mean a prime example.
You can go down to Heatherwood golf Course. It's been
shut down for a year, year and a half, a
couple of years. They you go out there, thing now
it looks like a pasture.
Speaker 9 (18:03):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (18:04):
You know, weeds are the dominant thing. So if you
let it go for just a few months, uh, you're
gonna start seeing that thing flip in their own direction.
And if you go a full year or year and
a half and you don't do anything in your lawn, man,
it's gonna be a turnip green patch for sure.
Speaker 5 (18:21):
I mean a lot of people listening have probably had
a house that they just I mean they put forth
maximum effort, blood, sweat and tears into you know, getting
the yard into good shape, getting the flower beds into
good shape. And then they sold that house and moved
somewhere else, and they drive back, drive back by months
after they've sold it, just to see how.
Speaker 7 (18:39):
The buddy, say, see.
Speaker 5 (18:42):
How the new homeowners taking care of it. And it's
just disheartening to see that my old house is the
same way I had that thing. I think when I
bought that there was probably about four sprigs of bermuda
in and amongst bahea and fescue and clover and Dallas grass.
And you know, years later of just meticulous care I
had that, I had that joker like a golf course.
Speaker 4 (19:03):
And uh, that's back to the same.
Speaker 7 (19:07):
Wow, you know.
Speaker 5 (19:08):
So it's for lawn fertilization, and we control have maintaining
a good yard. You have to stay on it.
Speaker 6 (19:15):
Forever.
Speaker 5 (19:16):
Like as long as you have that grass, if you
want it to look good, you constantly have to maintain
control of it. It's just you know, we always make
the reference to like weight loss, right, you know, if
you spend if you spend all year just I mean
hammer in the gym and and following your diet and
sculping your body and whatnot, and then you just all
of a sudden quit. I mean, I bet you it'll
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be three weeks four weeks before that that six pack
gets lost.
Speaker 7 (19:41):
Right.
Speaker 6 (19:41):
But it's just like it's just like health of just
like diety.
Speaker 5 (19:44):
You know, you have to stick to a consistent routine,
and lawn care.
Speaker 6 (19:47):
Is the same way.
Speaker 5 (19:48):
You just it's not it's and really it's there's it's
not difficult. You know, what we do is not is
not necessarily rocket science. Now there is a lot of
there is a lot of like research that we put
into it as far as what products to put down
and when to put down. But you know, the actually
applicating and putting the putting the stuff.
Speaker 6 (20:09):
Down is not difficult.
Speaker 5 (20:10):
But I'm gonna go ahead and tell you right now,
it's very easy to forget doing that. I mean, you
know because we do get busy. Sarah was telling me yesterday.
Our soccer season starts January sixteenth.
Speaker 7 (20:20):
It hardly ends, right.
Speaker 5 (20:23):
So, and when you look at the cost of like
having us do it versus you doing it yourself, it's like, man,
just take classic take the wheel, right, Well, you've done,
come in there and we can do it. We're not
gonna forget and and here. And one of the harder
things too, is like this past summer we got I
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forget what it was, maybe June, July, August, September.
Speaker 6 (20:47):
I mean it was super hot and super dry.
Speaker 5 (20:49):
Right, Well, the fertilizers that you put down during a
very very hot and dry spell may not necessarily be
the same thing as you put down during a you
know summer where we're getting plenty of rainfall. And so like,
we have the ability and we have the knowledge when
we treat your yard to kind of tweak things as
we go. And that's what I'll tell homeowners is like,
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you know, we have a we have a program set
in place, you know, written down on basically or in
our computer now, but written down that we have done
for years and years and years. But when mother nature
throws us a curveball, you know, we have to change
our swing up a little bit and we have to
put something down a little bit different to account for,
you know, whatever environmental factors that we're we're experiencing. Not
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only that, but when it comes to diagnosis, man Chris Keith,
let me tell you right now, when we get into
a hot and dry spill and yards start to turn brown,
every single person in the United States will call saying
that they got a fungus in their yard and they're
mower so that they got a fungus. Well, you can
go out there and you can see the brown spot,
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and you can dig around in the dirt, and that
dirt is like the desert, and then you go into
the green grass, and the green grass that soil is
just as as moist as it can be. Well, it's
not a fungus. It's that probably your irrigation system isn't
running correctly, or you know, maybe there's a rock up
underneath the ground.
Speaker 6 (22:15):
That's Hey.
Speaker 4 (22:15):
Sometimes all that moisture sometimes in those super hot and
dry spells, I don't give a crap how good your
irrigation system is. You're gonna have that hard spot out
there in the yard that just you can one run
it for three hours and it's never gonna penetrate.
Speaker 6 (22:29):
It dry out.
Speaker 5 (22:30):
But the knowledge and the education that like our guys
at Classic Gardens can provide you, that's what really, that's what, that's.
Speaker 6 (22:39):
The icing on the cake.
Speaker 5 (22:40):
Right, So when something goes wrong, you know, we're able
to come in and make the right diagnosis, put down
the right product and basically get that problem.
Speaker 4 (22:49):
Well here lately we hit one of those hot dry
spells and it's like you go out there and they're saying,
you know what, well, I think my lungs just dry
or whatever, and it's eat up with chinche bud, right,
and you just you know, those those bugs like that
have got more prolific. Last year we had a dose
army worms, you know, and we may not get another
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round army worms for six or seven years. I mean,
you just can't ever tell. They're more. They cycle more.
Speaker 5 (23:17):
I guess it seems like about every six or seven
years we'll have we'll have big outbreaks of them.
Speaker 4 (23:22):
Man, I could not keep them out of my garden.
I bet I treated my garden eight or ten times
for army worms. They were all in that pasture.
Speaker 6 (23:31):
You know.
Speaker 7 (23:31):
It's crazy.
Speaker 4 (23:32):
So you just you never know what you're going to
run into. Chris, we're almost up for a break again.
Let me mention that the garden centers open Monday through
Friday eight to four. We'll start that again come Monday.
So if y'all need to get in and get your
pre mergent, you can go ahead and do that. If
you need to set appointment for landscaping, man, I cannot
tell you how good a time of year this is
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the landscape.
Speaker 7 (23:56):
You know.
Speaker 4 (23:56):
People think, oh, it's cold, man, and you put it
in plants. Now, oh, it's gonna burn them up if
you go to the nurseries. Right now, when you look around,
all those plants are acclimated to the cold. They're they're
sitting out there on top of the you know, cold
mats out there in those in those nurseries, and they're
they're well acclimated to it.
Speaker 7 (24:17):
Now.
Speaker 4 (24:17):
If we get super cold, you know, you might ride
by one of them and you'll see, you know, like
a white cloth over the top of them or whatever.
That's to keep the you know, extreme cold from just
burning the tops on them. But outside of that, we
haven't got cold enough to do any harm to any plants.
And in a long time, so don't worry about it.
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If you want landscaping done, you call us eight five
four four thousand and five. You know, most of the time,
you know, believe it or not, it seems like every year,
Chris in November, they say, well, so and so predicted
it's gonna be a warm and wet winter.
Speaker 7 (24:56):
Well, this year it's been a warm one, but it
hasn't been wet.
Speaker 6 (24:58):
No, we haven't had that much.
Speaker 7 (25:00):
No, we haven't. So, you know, this is a good
time of year.
Speaker 4 (25:04):
But usually this time of year is when we start
getting just inundated with calls about drainage and the reason
why they've always had a drainage problem, but it rears
its head more when it rains every other day and.
Speaker 7 (25:17):
They've got a swamp in the yard.
Speaker 4 (25:19):
So, uh, if you need drainage work done, you can
call us eight five four four thousand and five. Really anything,
if you need forest multing, land clearing, any of that stuff,
we do that stuff three hundred and sixty five days
a year. So y'all call us at eight five four
four thousand and five and we'll be glad to take
care of it for you.
Speaker 1 (25:38):
It's the classic gardens and landscape shovel on the half
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to grouw too. I cent Chris, Chris and Chris No.
Speaker 2 (25:52):
And now you're a host Chris Joiner and Chris Keith.
Speaker 4 (25:57):
And we're back for the second half of the Class
of Gardens landscap Show and our number.
Speaker 7 (26:01):
If you want to call some ask a gardening question,
you can.
Speaker 4 (26:04):
It's two O five four three nine nine three seven
to two and Chris a lot to do over the
next couple of months. People don't realize it, but man,
this is a great time of year. If you've got
a bush in the yard, regardless of where it is,
and you want to move it, this is the perfect
time to dig it up and transplant it. Old hydranger
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in azalea or rose bush, any of that stuff. You know,
if you flagged something out in the woods, an old
wild oak leaf or something, or a small dogwood or whatever,
and you want to move it, now is the time
to do it. It's a great time of year.
Speaker 7 (26:40):
Right now.
Speaker 4 (26:41):
They're digging trees like crazy, and so if you want
to plant some big trees, we got the capability of
planting like big, big trees. So if you want something
and you don't want to have to wait for them,
or maybe you've lost a tree due to boors or
something like that, now's a fantastic time plant trees.
Speaker 6 (27:00):
Like, Yeah, plants don't use a lot of energy.
Speaker 5 (27:03):
You know, obviously they you know, they're not growing right
now and they store everything in the root system this
time of year. So it's yeah, perfect time to do that.
And you can get root development from now until you
until you get into spring, and once that soil temperature
starts to increase, uh, that that root growth is going
to do the same thing.
Speaker 6 (27:21):
It's going to continue to increase.
Speaker 5 (27:23):
It's a lot of people want to come in like
in the summer months and transplant stuff, and man, that's
a tough time to do it.
Speaker 7 (27:28):
Yeah, you know, when it's.
Speaker 5 (27:29):
Hot and dry, that plant is like just it's trying
to get every ounce of moisture it can to survive.
And you go and you transplant it and you sever
off you know, half its roots. It just is not
that's not a great time. Now is Now is a
perfect time. And you come in with a fertiloan root stimulator.
You do that once a week for three weeks. Three
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four weeks and and uh, you know that basically kind
of seals the deal on the survival of the plant.
Speaker 4 (27:56):
For the most part, some plants just transplant better than others.
And uh, you know, I've dug up high draines just
about any time of year and made it. But man,
if you do it now versus doing it you know
later in the spring, even it's uh, you know, you
got twenty thirty percent better chance right now than two
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months from now, and probably another twenty percent more likely
to do it, uh now than do it in you know,
June July or something like that.
Speaker 5 (28:26):
If you got trees that need prune now we're not
talking about crape murder, but if you've got you know,
trees in the yard that have kind of gotten out
of bounds, or maybe you've got some limbs that smack
you when you're trying to mow the grass, now it's
the perfect time to come in and selectively prune out
tree branches. You know, they're completely dormant right now. I've
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got to oak in my front yard that I'm having
a duck and dodge and weave when I'm cutting grass,
and some limbs, some limbs coming off it this time
of year. Now, we are not talking about crape murder.
You'll see tons of people over the next two months
coming in and taking the tops out of their crape myrtles.
That's not what we're talking about, and that's improper pruning
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with crape myrtles. You come in and you selectively prune out,
you know, branches that are maybe overhanging onto a driveway,
or maybe branches that are kind of rubbing on each
other or criss crossing, and to keep the airy form.
Speaker 6 (29:21):
I'm talking about coming in and.
Speaker 5 (29:23):
Just taking off limbs that are that are out of
place and in the way basically, but there's the SAPs
completely down in the roots right now trees, so you
don't have to worry about it bleeding out. So great
time to prune, and you ain't got to worry about leaves,
I don't you know. The perfect time to prune trees
is in the very middle of winter, when it's when
it's completely dormant, or the middle of summer, when every
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single leaf is on there, and that's a nightmare dealing
with the leaves like that.
Speaker 4 (29:49):
You know, I told somebody that one time, because I'll
go every now and then in prune Japanese. I like
doing that, you know, it's just for fun to me.
And people are so crazy about their Japanese maples, you know,
they're like, this is my prize possession, and if you.
Speaker 6 (30:06):
Clip one brand, the whole thing is gonna die.
Speaker 4 (30:08):
Right hey, listen there, We've got a had a customer
over there in Ennsbrook over there in pens And I
would go in there about every three or four years
and I'd thin their Japanese maple for them and just
you know, raise the canopy and raise the canopy to
the point where it was slap up over the house.
Speaker 7 (30:28):
It was beautiful.
Speaker 4 (30:29):
But every year when I every time i'd go over
there and prune it, his wife would leave, like she
would just get in the car and leave. She scared
to death that I was gonna like do something to
kill that tree. But I just I just tell people
that your best rule of thumb, uh, you know, on
printing the Japanese maples, and really for that matter, it
goes for every tree. As you prune it in the
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Jay's you proved it in January, pruning it in JUNI
or July.
Speaker 7 (30:55):
If you do that, you got.
Speaker 5 (30:56):
It pretty pretty good. Little rule to go by. Right,
it's like eating oysters. They say the months with with
R because those are the cold months, you know, December, January, February.
Speaker 7 (31:07):
That if they're fried, does that qualify?
Speaker 1 (31:10):
Is it?
Speaker 4 (31:10):
Like?
Speaker 5 (31:11):
I don't know, that's what So my my most of
my wife's.
Speaker 6 (31:17):
They have R in it.
Speaker 5 (31:18):
Yeah, okay, got October, October, October is usually still is
usually still warm. But October, November, December, January, February, March,
and I guess April, right, But I don't know what
it is because the oysters are the filter of the sea, right,
And I guess if you're if you're getting them, you know,
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raw from the oyster banks. You know, they might have
some type of bacteria year or something like that in them.
But you know, I've eaten some of your raw oysters
in my day and I'm still here, and I've eaten
them all times, all times a year. But I just
know that That's what my Sarah's aunt or Sarah's aunt
and uncles and granddad used to always talk about, is
you know you only eat oysters in the months with
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R in it.
Speaker 4 (32:00):
Man, the kids got some other day when we were down.
I'm not a big oyster friend. I'll eat them fried.
But the kids got some down there at the beach
the other day and they were they looked like I mean,
by the time you got through the cheese and the
everything that they had them stuffed with or whatever, Man,
there wasn't even moist. They won't know the oyster left,
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you know. I was like, this is I don't know,
it's like almost sacrilegious to the oyster.
Speaker 7 (32:26):
Yeah, there was so much stuff on it.
Speaker 5 (32:28):
So we used to just throw them steam and we'd
go out to the oyster banks and get them. And
then we had a piece of sheet metal and we
build a fire cinder blocks on each corner of the
sheet metal and then throw the oysters on top of
the piece of sheet metal and take wet burn lap
sacks and throw wetburn lap sacks under them, kind of
keep them wet with a hose and that that created
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steam and you just steam the oysters so they just
barely open up and uh and then you.
Speaker 6 (32:55):
Just sit there.
Speaker 7 (32:56):
I cut them down.
Speaker 6 (32:57):
I could eat my weight and I could eat my
weighting oysters.
Speaker 4 (33:00):
My buddy Jimmy that passed away before Thanksgiving. I bet
you that joker could eat five dozen of them. He
wasn't big as a minute, but man, he could throw
down some oystures. Yes, sir, they go buy a bush
between that butch, they go buy a bushel of oysters
and they'd sit there and eat them till they were gone.
I'm talking about raw out the out the day sack.
Speaker 5 (33:21):
I'd pop a roll one every now and then, but
I wasn't a huge fan of that. Now, even when
with steam, they were not far off from raw. Yeah,
you know what I mean, they were just they were warm,
but they were still just a gooey.
Speaker 6 (33:33):
Yeah, that's the only way to explain it.
Speaker 4 (33:36):
Right, Yeah, you gotta have goods that steal that.
Speaker 7 (33:40):
That was that.
Speaker 5 (33:41):
That was a big, big wintertime thing. You know that
most people would do is they would do oyster oyster
roast and Charleston and I know they do it a
lot of other places. Oh yeah, when we go up there,
it was like every family had an oyster roast in
the winter months, especially you know during the holiday season.
You know, they'd be oysters and shrimp and you know,
people probably be smoking meat and everything, but oysters was huge.
Speaker 6 (34:04):
Man.
Speaker 4 (34:04):
I threw down on some shrimp the other day down there,
and down there in PC. Yes, sir, they had some
like roasted on skewers, like like you know, long scoer. Yeah, man,
I dusted them.
Speaker 5 (34:20):
We've been doing we've been doing so we didn't go
anywhere for Christmas or New Years, but we've been doing
breakfast virtually every morning. That's one of my favorite things
to do with the family because during the you know,
during the school year and work week and everything, it's
it's hard to sit down and eat breakfast when you
got to be at work at seven o'clock right usually
there about six forty five. So on the weekends and
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especially during Christmas or Christmas two weeks off, man, I
cook breakfast every morning. We sit down at the table
as a family and eat Chris and eat breakfast every morning. Bacon, biscuits, sausage, eggs, corn, beef, hash.
You know what I'm saying. I'll have well have fruit
cut up thing. I probably put on about ten pounds
over the last two weeks because I've been eating three
square meals a day, baby, but I mean col meals.
Speaker 4 (35:07):
I really haven't showed out, thank goodness as much as
I've been sitting around and all that. I just I
had it in my head man. If I sit around
and tank up, I'm not gonna be able to wear
my pants by the.
Speaker 7 (35:17):
Time I get to the end of the month.
Speaker 5 (35:19):
My sister in law's husband cook two big prime rib
ROAs for New Year's Day. Lord, oh man. We had
all the fixtions to go with it, you know, the
corn bread and the hopping john and the collar greens
and you name it. We had it, green beans, everything.
Speaker 6 (35:35):
Man, I had.
Speaker 4 (35:37):
A dug was down the other day, he said, Man,
I picked me some of the collar greens. I said,
get all you want. I got cleaning.
Speaker 6 (35:42):
You got enough for the state.
Speaker 4 (35:44):
I've still got enough broccoli. I've probably got another twenty
five heads of broccoli now that have come on and
they're ready to a're ready to pick. Still got a
pretty good stand of turnip greens. I'm gonna go and
see if I can get some onion sets at one
of these co ops or something the next week or two,
and I'm on playing a row of onions.
Speaker 6 (36:05):
See how they do. Yeah, that'd be good.
Speaker 4 (36:07):
I'm on playing. You know, you go in there and
get some green onions at the at the grocery store,
and they're just, you know, as big as a quarter yep,
but man and things they eat good with some corn
bread and beans.
Speaker 6 (36:17):
There's Dad used to dig.
Speaker 5 (36:19):
Up wild onions out of the yard and he had
like our tomato program with a twenty five gallon pots.
Speaker 6 (36:24):
I think he had like three.
Speaker 5 (36:25):
Of those things with wild onions, and you know, you'd
be surprised how big those bulls will get. But he
would take those and chop those up and put on
on salads and sometimes he just like saltam and butter,
you know, and have him as a side.
Speaker 6 (36:38):
But just a wild onions he dug up out of
the yard. He had buckets of those things looking around.
Speaker 4 (36:43):
I know Dad grew with you know, he had some
of those what those big leaft old garlics you.
Speaker 6 (36:49):
Know, yeah, like elephant garlic.
Speaker 4 (36:51):
Yeah, thing grows like crazy and Dad would go out
there and cut them things up.
Speaker 5 (36:55):
My granddad used to grow elephant garlic and that was
one of my favorite things to do with him. When
it came time to harvest, you know, you you'd pull,
you pull, or you dig up the bulb and you'd
have a piece of elephant garlic that was about the
size of a baseball. But on the side of it
you have a bunch of little uh like like a
bunch of little garlic bulbs like that were size of
like a dime or whatever. And we would take all
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we would take all, peel all those little bulbs off
and replant those on the garden. And man, he had
just a rotating crop of garlic. He'd have five gallon
buckets full of that stuff and he'd keep it in
his in his basement was underground basement because it was
cool under there, and he just kind of distribute that stuff,
you know, the family members and friends and stuff, because
he had enough garlic to ever what no vampire coming
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within a million.
Speaker 6 (37:41):
Miles of his house. There was so much garlic in there.
Speaker 7 (37:44):
Stuff is good, though, some old fryptatus. Uh huh. Yep.
Speaker 4 (37:50):
Well, Chris, let's take another break. This is the Classic
Gardens and Eaton Show. If you want to call us, uh,
you can. It's two o five four three nine nine
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Speaker 4 (40:09):
Gardens and we're back on the Classic Gardens Landscape Show
and Chris. It just caught my eye. The other day,
I had to go down to UH two eighty for something.
On my way back, I stopped in a bass Pro
shops to get a few cropping jigs and mod and
then stuff and uh the median between the new Uh
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the New Try Try Green right there and bass Pro
Shops full of yellow danning line and I'm just thinking myself, boy,
if they're popping up there, you know this is this
is a time of year where we can get a
good snapshot. Like we go up in the neighborhood, like
say up above the Garden Center, and you'll go to
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a yard that we treat and the neighbor next door
doesn't do a darm thing to his yard, and his
will be just loaded with every kind of daffodils and
poeana and god knows what all broad leaves in the yard.
And like you can see right where the property line is.
Speaker 6 (41:13):
It's amazing.
Speaker 5 (41:14):
I love it this time of year seeing that when
you when you do when you go to treaty yard,
and it's like it's almost like we put a no
weed trespassing sign like in our yards and facing facing
the neighbor who doesn't do anything, and it's like those
weeds stop.
Speaker 4 (41:28):
It's right fine line I'm talking about, like you know
how like you put like the the invisible fence up.
Speaker 6 (41:35):
For your dog, and the dog stops right there.
Speaker 7 (41:37):
That's where the weeds do. I love it.
Speaker 5 (41:42):
I love that, And I love when you take over
a yard this time of year that's completely filled with weeds.
Like I just I just measured yards right before we
went out for Christmas break uh miss Mary down in
Russet Woods, and she hadn't done anything for years and
years and years. We treat the yard across the street,
and Ron's yard is just as slick as glass, you
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know what I mean. It's just it's just your your
yard should be kind of like a khaki color right now.
It should be just tan or light brown, just solid.
And you look at his and this that way, and
she has she has a bunch of clover, a bunch
of cud weed, a bunch of bitter crests and things
like that, and.
Speaker 7 (42:21):
All the stuff that's plenty of easy to control.
Speaker 5 (42:24):
And when I when I went out there to to
do the first application, and when I when I met
with her to measure it, I told her, I was like,
you know, listen, I see all these weeds, and I
kind of like, like clover. I love clover because clover
is very easy to kill. That's one of those weeds
you can spray it with like weed free zone, and
within a couple of days, you know, really by the
end of the day you can see it start to wilt.
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But within a couple of days that stuff is just
crispy and black, you know what I mean. But I
told her, I was like, listen, I'm not worried about
all these weeds that I'm seeing right now in the yard.
I can get rid of these. You know, a lot
of broad leaves easy to kill. And she was definitely
can I mean, she's really concerned about them. I was like,
don't worry about that. But it's something that's gonna you
gotta be a little patient, you know what I mean.
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It's like I'm gonna kill all I'm gonna kill all
these weeds and then your grass it's gonna be kind
of thin. But once that grass starts to green up
in the spring, we're able to get some fertilizer down.
It was Bermuda. That Bermuda is just it's gonna fill in,
like I mean, really fast with the fertilizers that.
Speaker 6 (43:23):
We put down.
Speaker 5 (43:24):
And because she started in December, by the time we
get into midsummer, oh man, it's gonna be.
Speaker 6 (43:29):
Night and day different.
Speaker 5 (43:30):
So you take a yard this time of year that's
been neglected, that's covered up in weeds. You know, we
come in, you know, we kill off the weeds that
are there. We're putting pre mergent down to prevent future
weeds from coming up. We're fertilizing in the spring to
get the grass, you know, thicker and healthier. The homeowners
doing their part, you know, making sure that they keep
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the grass cut and when we get into dry spells,
they keep it watered and may you give it six
months and you see just a huge different it's an
a yard. And then you fast forward, like you know,
to the next year, twelve months from now, and everything
is like I mean, just tip top where it needs
to be. And that's the thing with with lawn fertilization.
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We control and Chris Keith you know just as well
as I do. In the spring, we get just panic
phone calls about people who think that their yard is
gonna die and they're gonna have to resite it, you know,
and they want you out there tomorrow, you know, the
next day to you know, to fix it and we
can get out there the next day to give you
a quote and to start on treatment. But that's something
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that takes time. You know, it's not an overnight process.
It didn't and it didn't get that way overnight and
exactly and it's gonna take usually we say it takes
approximately you know, twelve months. You kind of got to
go through all the seasons before you're able to get
the yard to where we consider it, you know, in control,
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in check, whatever you want to say, and at its prime.
So it's just you know, something that takes patience and
it takes time. Now you'll see progress along the way,
but it's not an overnight thing. He's got to practice
some patience with it.
Speaker 7 (45:08):
Yeah for sure.
Speaker 4 (45:09):
I mean when we say we didn't get it, it
didn't get that way overnight. If you neglect it for
a year and a half, you can't expect us to
fix it in two applications.
Speaker 6 (45:19):
That just don't way it works.
Speaker 4 (45:22):
You know, if if somebody goes down and buys Heatherwood
golf course, it's gonna take them a while to get
that thing up and up and back in check. I mean,
it just I always use that for an example because
I ride by that thing and I said, man, this
thing had so much potential and it just it's closed. Yep,
what a bummer, I know, right. And I'm not even
a golfer. You know, I love you appreciate it going.
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I love the look of a good golf course.
Speaker 1 (45:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (45:48):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (45:48):
You know, my father in law he plays golf three
or four times a week. And uh, he's a member
at Grayson Valley and he's a member at Trustful. It's
kind of a packaged deal. Now the same people own, yeah,
both golf course. So it's like you can go off
this one. You can go off that one kind of thing,
and uh, you know, he's constantly talking about the greens
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and what they could do to make them better and
all that stuff.
Speaker 5 (46:12):
And I'm like, yeah, we went to one upscale, fancy
golf course one time, and I was I was amazed
at like how everything looked. But I didn't ever go
back because, like, I was no good at golf, and
people that were playing down there because it was it
was a pricier golf course. People that were playing were
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really good. And so here I am like zigzagging down
the fairway.
Speaker 6 (46:37):
You know what I'm saying. I'm in the woods half
the time. And then you look back and.
Speaker 5 (46:41):
And you know, you get this, you get every now
and then you get this jerk or whatever.
Speaker 6 (46:44):
They're back there yelling at you, you know, move over
so we can go. And I never went back after that.
Speaker 5 (46:51):
Yeah, it wasn't fun because everybody was pressuring us to
keep moving, which I understand why, but man, I'm telling
you that you get to a nice golf course like that,
and every it's flawless, you know, the fair ways of
greens or roughs.
Speaker 6 (47:03):
You name it.
Speaker 4 (47:04):
I'm that dude that goes to like mobile over or
goes to you know, go down to Folio and go
to bell and grass gardens. So I would love to
go to like Augusta, yes, you know and see the.
Speaker 6 (47:15):
Masters walk it.
Speaker 7 (47:19):
You know. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. I mean, it
just be phenomenal to go do that.
Speaker 5 (47:23):
So we went to Cincinnati Zoo earlier or last year,
and Cincinnati Zoo and the Botanical Gardens are one and
the same. And I don't think I saw half the animals.
Speaker 6 (47:34):
Chris Keith. If they made a perennial.
Speaker 5 (47:37):
That zoo had it, it was so awesome going you
would have you would have loved it. I mean just
the different types of plants that they had at that
place that were in and amongst all the you know,
the zoos, like every path. I mean it was manicured.
That's a that's a great place to go. If you ever, yeah,
you ever get.
Speaker 7 (47:53):
The opportunity of Cincinnati Zoo.
Speaker 5 (47:55):
Yeah it's Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Gardens. Yeah amazing.
Speaker 4 (47:58):
If you looks like I'm about to be a mean Teresa,
are gonna be empty nesters, so we might do a
little more.
Speaker 5 (48:03):
Than have plenty of time to go. We go during
the summer, when when the printyhills are blooming.
Speaker 4 (48:07):
I said, well, Chris, that music means we're out of time. Y'all,
come see us at the Garden Center Monday through Friday,
eight to four, where it eighteen fifty five Carson Road. Y'all,
come see us there. If you need landscaping, irrigation, night lighting,
if you need a patio or attaining wall, forest, multing,
land clearing, we do all that stuff. You can call
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us at eight five four, four thousand and five. We'll
be glad to get you on the books, and we'll
see you next week on the Classic Garden's Landscape Show.
It's the Classic Gardens and Landscape Show on the.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Half Ready and go with your want.
Speaker 1 (00:08):
Show up playing some Grass to Grow two and I
sent Chris, Chris and Chris.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
No, Chris knows it. Chris knows it. Chris knows it.
Chris knows it. Chris knows it. Chris knows it. Sure,
Chris knows it. See Chris knows it.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
And now you're a host. Chris Joyner and Chris King.
Speaker 4 (00:34):
Good morning and welcome to the new year on the
Classic Guardens of the Landscape Show.
Speaker 5 (00:37):
I'm Chris Key, I'm Chris Joiner. Happy New Year, and
everybody right twenty twenty five. Did you make it till midnight?
Speaker 6 (00:42):
Chris Key?
Speaker 7 (00:43):
You know I did.
Speaker 6 (00:44):
I did too, kind of man, so my alarm clock.
Speaker 7 (00:50):
It's kind of it's kind of funny.
Speaker 4 (00:51):
We were we were watching football games at the barn,
and I had the fire going, you know, and had
a couple buddies there and and Teresa was there, and
you know, we threw some fire, you know, threw some
wood on the fire. And it's kind of funny because
you know, I'm having to pick up every stick like
with both hands. Yeah, because it's like, you know, and
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for everybody that I had carpal tunnel surgery back a
month ago.
Speaker 7 (01:18):
So you know, they're still saying, you know, just take it,
take it easy.
Speaker 6 (01:23):
Yeah, you know, you're you're you're you're ninety.
Speaker 7 (01:26):
Yeah, I look pretty good.
Speaker 6 (01:27):
Look at that, I'd say, you look fine.
Speaker 7 (01:28):
But but yeah.
Speaker 4 (01:30):
So we're hanging out and all of a sudden, my
daughter and her fiance shows up, and uh, and it's
like eleven o'clock. So by then, you know, it go bigger,
go home, right, that's right. Uh, we just hung in
there and the next day we slept about ten o'clock.
Speaker 6 (01:50):
We didn't you know, we had a we had a
great Christmas. Uh.
Speaker 5 (01:53):
You know, Chris, you've been off for a month and
Sery h Yeah, Garden the Garden Center we closed for
two weeks and take that time off and we will
be opening back up this Monday the six If you
need any pre merging or weed free zone, or if
you've just kind of been holding off on, you know,
getting the lawn fertilization, weed control or landscaping or anything.
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We'll be back be open on January sixth, so you
can get on the books for that. We'll be booking
in the spring before you know it, probably already are
probably once we get into once we get into the
the new year. But we you know, we're usually we
usually take that two weeks and we leave our house
and we come back for Christmas, and then we leave
again and then we come back for New Year's camping
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and whatnot. But this year we didn't do anything. We
had the they call it the staycation, right, That's what
my brother in law said.
Speaker 4 (02:43):
And I passed you at the roadhouse the other day.
I said, Man, Chris is in here working out up
there at ye up there, up the steakhouse up there.
Speaker 6 (02:51):
Yep. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (02:52):
We went hiking at Canoe Creek Nature Preserve. I wanted
the girls wanted to get out of the house, and
I wanted to get hiking. It was a great day.
It was like fifty degree eas and Sonny, you know,
it's just perfect weather for getting out in the woods.
And so we went hiking up there. That's a that's
a really cool place, is it. Yeah, it's it hikes
along Big Canoe Creek and then there's another slab creek
that you.
Speaker 7 (03:12):
Hike along to write and be at my house in a.
Speaker 6 (03:14):
Bat oh yeah, right through the woods.
Speaker 7 (03:17):
Yep.
Speaker 5 (03:17):
So we uh, I think we ended up hiking like
five close to five miles and it's pretty steep parts
to it. And I hadn't had anything to eat that day,
and it was about one o'clock when we got done,
and I was like, I want, I want something to eat,
So let's go up to local Springvale restaurant and we.
Speaker 6 (03:32):
Got some food there.
Speaker 5 (03:33):
But this vacation, we didn't go anywhere. But I'm gonna
tell you what, Chris Keith. If I had a project
here at the house, if I had a screw that
was loose in my house or something that needed touched up,
or something that needed repaired, by God, I did it.
Speaker 6 (03:47):
In the last two weeks.
Speaker 7 (03:48):
Man I I was.
Speaker 6 (03:49):
I was up at five.
Speaker 5 (03:50):
Thirty five to five thirty every single day, and uh,
and and doing stuff.
Speaker 7 (03:55):
I was right backwards, you know.
Speaker 4 (03:57):
I spent nine months just you know, with braces on
my hands and all this stuff, you know, and.
Speaker 7 (04:04):
And couldn't sleep good.
Speaker 4 (04:06):
And you never know how how much sleep deprived you
are until they fix you.
Speaker 6 (04:12):
Yep.
Speaker 7 (04:12):
And that was like nine thirty every day.
Speaker 4 (04:16):
Man, I was in a con talking about and well,
I couldn't do anything anyways, you know, they're they're like,
don't do it, and you know, don't do this, don't
don't be picking up stuff, you just kid.
Speaker 7 (04:26):
I'm looking around.
Speaker 4 (04:26):
I'm like, oh man, I need to be fixing this fence,
you know, I need to be busting wood. I'm gonna
do all this stuff. And they're like, no, you can't
do it. And I'm just sitting there like, oh god.
So now I'm they about to cut me loose and
I'm gonna I'm tear it up.
Speaker 6 (04:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (04:44):
But we usually for New Year's we usually don't do anything.
I mean, we hadn't done anything for New Years since
we were you know, first married and didn't have it,
you know. But uh, this year, Sarah got a shit.
I think she went to one of the you know,
one of those dollar places and got some you know
when some of those party blowers and some hats and
some little plastic you know, champagne glasses.
Speaker 6 (05:06):
Ma'am. Oh she speaks, it's the New Year. Say he's
talking on the radio.
Speaker 7 (05:13):
They say, you know, you should be driving a car.
Speaker 5 (05:15):
And we had the family over and I had I
smoked a pork loin and some ribs, and I made
it till about ten thirty and then man, my head
started pounding, like right behind my right eye. And the
only thing I can figure my I want to say
congratulations to uh. To Anne and tim Anna is my
sister in law, and they had their baby, Evelyn a
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few days before Christmas. I think it was that Sunday
before some Monday before Christmas, they had Evelyn. And I finished.
I finished the crib. So basically like I, me and
my father in law have built cribs for like all
of the all of the women of the family.
Speaker 6 (05:57):
And I took so Sarah's fault.
Speaker 5 (06:01):
Sarah's dad died several years ago and for Elizabeth and
and I basically went went like diving in the basement
and built their two cribs out of dad Dad's would,
so like all the wood that was in his basement,
and you know, I just I gathered all the wood
that I could, you know, that was all oak. And
there may be a piece of my hog and he
blended in or maybe a piece of maple or something
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like that. But the last two cribs have been built,
you know, out of Dad Dad's would. When I finished it,
knew would. I didn't finish it New Year's Eve, but
I started the polyr thing, and I was using an
old based poly ear thing, and that stuff is tryd
and I want I had to I keep I kept
my garage doors closed because it was a little cool
and if if you doesn't cure down and then that
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stuff gets thick as molasses. Since I wanted to try
to keep the temperature up as much as I can.
So I figured me sitting there huffing that old bas
poly ear thing all day probably made my head hurt,
but so I went. I ended up laying down about
ten thirty, but I set my alarm o'clock for eleven
fifty five so that I could uh, so I could
wake up. And we had orange juice in the in
the champagne glasses and you know, hats on and everything.
Speaker 6 (07:09):
It's a lot of fun we had. We had a
lot of fun. Well, Sadi Boo did not make it though,
you went to sleep, that's okay.
Speaker 4 (07:15):
There crashed so that me and Teresa dipped out and
went to Panama City for a couple of days. And
usually we'll do something spontaneous like that after Christmas. Every year,
you know, sometime around the twenty six or twenty seventh,
we'll dip out and we'll go to you know, two
or three days or whatever, we'll just blast off the mobile,
or we'll blast off somewhere. And uh, this time we
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blast off the Panama City and we tell you it
was seventy five and beautiful. Well, we got down there
and it just it there was a rain off shore
and it was like seventy degrees. And we left Panama
City and went into Panama City Beach and there was
a fog there. It looked like you went on top
of Channel Mountain. Oh cool, I made. It was so
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foggy you couldn't see anything. And we went in a dive.
We liked to eat in over there and ate and
went back to went back to Panama City and uh,
it was you know, sunny and seventy five over there,
and we were able to.
Speaker 7 (08:14):
You know, walk around.
Speaker 4 (08:15):
There's a kind of an entertainment district not far from
where we were staying. So we hung out down there
and did some stuff and just ate some more good
food and did all that.
Speaker 7 (08:25):
And uh, the.
Speaker 4 (08:26):
Next day Seth and Ashley came down and we had
a heated pool and you know, all the indoor pool
and all that stuff down there too. So we gave
that a go and and that was a good deal
and went out and I ate dinner with them that
next day. Well, the next day, we ate lunch before
we left, and uh, our checkout was eleven, and we
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left them there, went straight to a you know, a
place we usually go down there and ate and we
left and Seth and Ashley stayed and uh they went
walking the beach to shells and all that stuff. We'll
hit amongst all that, the beautiful weather and the seashells
and all the all the you know, just the beauty
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of it all.
Speaker 7 (09:10):
He proposed to her.
Speaker 6 (09:11):
How about that?
Speaker 7 (09:12):
So now I'm gonna have two boys in the family.
Speaker 5 (09:15):
So well, I guess you hadn't kicked him out yet,
so then now there or something right?
Speaker 4 (09:19):
Yeah, well, say it's been hanging around my house for
about six years now. Yeah, so I figure, uh he's
probably earned his earned his spot.
Speaker 6 (09:26):
Yeah, I'd say so.
Speaker 4 (09:28):
But uh, yeah, it was a big, big weekend. So yeah,
a lot going on that was that was cool.
Speaker 5 (09:35):
Well, Chris, and uh, this is a gardening show. If
you want to give us a call and kind of keep.
Speaker 6 (09:40):
Us on track.
Speaker 5 (09:41):
Four three nine nine three seven two. We got all
of our Christmas stuff down.
Speaker 6 (09:47):
Yesterday. I was up at seven.
Speaker 7 (09:48):
I started to come by here and pester you about
two days ago.
Speaker 5 (09:52):
It was it was seven thirty in the morning and
I was out there wrapping up lights. And I think
we got done probably about seven thirty last night. I
mean I and I. When I get my mind set
on something, I hammer down.
Speaker 6 (10:02):
Let's go bigger, go home.
Speaker 5 (10:04):
But the thing that I'm looking forward to the most
is I'm gonna go through after the radio show. I'm
gonna blow out all the leaves out of.
Speaker 6 (10:10):
My flower beds. I'm gonna pick up sticks.
Speaker 5 (10:12):
Sadie, You're gonna be on picking up sticks all take
the wheelbarrow around you can pick up sticks. Is that
okay with you? Yep, that's okay, all right, good. And
then I'm gonna take my mower. I'm gonna run the
mower over everything, just to clean everything up. So just
because the grass and growing, you know, and it's everything's
dormant right now, it just it still makes makes a
person feel better when they come home and their grass
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is just like a starch pair of khaki pants. You know,
it's just slicking flat.
Speaker 7 (10:38):
Well, you know, it took forever for all the leaves
to fall.
Speaker 6 (10:41):
This I did.
Speaker 4 (10:42):
I mean, there's a couple of old ladies that live
up there by the garden center.
Speaker 7 (10:47):
I blew their leaves from them.
Speaker 4 (10:48):
I usually I usually blow their leaves for them, like
right before Christmas, and then I'll blow their leaves for them.
And I blow their leaves right at Thanksgiving when we're
all that, you know, because usually we're off that Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday,
and I'll go up there, you know, after Thanksgiving that
Friday or whatever, and I blow one of them leaves
and if it takes me longer than you know, half
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a day, I'll go back the next day and blow
the other ones. I've been doing it for years at
both widows, and I just do it to help them out. Well,
I did it that Thanksgiving this year. Well, obviously after
the third I couldn't do anything. So I told them,
I said, look, you'll have to get somebody else to
do it this round or you know, and there said no,
I'll just wait till after the first years. So as
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soon as they say give me the go ahead, you
know for sure with everything, then I'm gonna go blow
riabing betties leaves, yep, so, but they weren't when I
blew them the first time. Is barely anything on the ground,
I know, I said, Man, when I go back, and
you know in January, they're gonna be leaves everywhere.
Speaker 6 (11:50):
We had one colt up in one cold spill so far.
Speaker 4 (11:53):
That's that's pretty much I mean. And we're getting what
a couple of nights right now. Looks like next week's
gonna be a cod I'll get out.
Speaker 6 (12:01):
It's gonna be a little chilly, that's what they say.
Speaker 7 (12:03):
Well, let's take that break. Chris her number.
Speaker 4 (12:05):
If you'll want to call us, it's four three nine
nine three seven to two. If you want to call
the garden center Monday through Friday and get on the
books for long caer landscaping. If you need irrigation, if
you need a patio or retaining wall built. You know,
this time of year is a good year, a good
time of year to do irrigation, because heck, you don't
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want to wait until May and call us when we
get our first hot dry spell, because we're gonna say
we'll see you about August, so you know, go ahead
and get on the books to do any of that
kind of stuff and we'll be right back from the
Classic Gardens of Landscape Show.
Speaker 8 (12:40):
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Another key component is where you buy your Koboda. Blunt
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Speaker 2 (15:37):
You ertolon pertolone.
Speaker 9 (15:41):
How you need some, Yes, you need some pert alone
fort alone.
Speaker 4 (15:45):
Yes, sir, you need some fertiloon. And I tell you
if you're not on there's no wrong time of year
to do the bag of gold. In my opinion, Chris,
normally we say do it in March and do it
in September, But if you will get on a six
month program when you're doing the back gold and you
want to do it in January and July, that's all right.
And if you just the biggest thing is you got
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to start somewhere. So, uh, if you're not on the
six month program, so the two two pre emergent application program,
it's time to do a pre emergent right now. Also,
so if you do your pre emergence and do six
of the year and do one every other month, then
now's a pre emergent month. And uh, you know, everybody
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gets so busy this time of year, you know, with
Christmas and just every the holidays and everything going on,
Thanksgiving and all that stuff. Most people we sell more
lime in February March than we do in November, December,
January because everybody just gets behind. And we have so
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many people come in in March with big sax weeds
and they say, what do I need to do for
the weeds? Well, you need to do this for your weeds,
but you also did you do your lime? And nine
times ten they said no, I hadn't done anything and
dot to die months you know, I mean, it's just
it's normal. And uh so we get them back on
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track or try to, and then they fall off the
bandwagon again around the November of the next year. So we
just try to get you, uh caught up. And the
cool thing about this time of year, though, is you
can go in there. You can do your lime, you
can do your pre emergent. You know, you can do
your your gypsum, where your soil activator. You can do
all that stuff at the same time. And uh you
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won't even have to get back out there until March,
That's right.
Speaker 5 (17:32):
So it's with with with long care. It's like you're
you're you've always if you haven't done anything, you've always
missed something. But you're ahead of the next step, you know.
So there's nothing like you said, there's no bad time
to uh sit back and well we to get started
on that program.
Speaker 4 (17:47):
Weeds are the dominant thing. I mean a prime example.
You can go down to Heatherwood golf Course. It's been
shut down for a year, year and a half, a
couple of years. They you go out there, thing now
it looks like a pasture.
Speaker 9 (18:03):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (18:04):
You know, weeds are the dominant thing. So if you
let it go for just a few months, uh, you're
gonna start seeing that thing flip in their own direction.
And if you go a full year or year and
a half and you don't do anything in your lawn, man,
it's gonna be a turnip green patch for sure.
Speaker 5 (18:21):
I mean a lot of people listening have probably had
a house that they just I mean they put forth
maximum effort, blood, sweat and tears into you know, getting
the yard into good shape, getting the flower beds into
good shape. And then they sold that house and moved
somewhere else, and they drive back, drive back by months
after they've sold it, just to see how.
Speaker 7 (18:39):
The buddy, say, see.
Speaker 5 (18:42):
How the new homeowners taking care of it. And it's
just disheartening to see that my old house is the
same way I had that thing. I think when I
bought that there was probably about four sprigs of bermuda
in and amongst bahea and fescue and clover and Dallas grass.
And you know, years later of just meticulous care I
had that, I had that joker like a golf course.
Speaker 4 (19:03):
And uh, that's back to the same.
Speaker 7 (19:07):
Wow, you know.
Speaker 5 (19:08):
So it's for lawn fertilization, and we control have maintaining
a good yard. You have to stay on it.
Speaker 6 (19:15):
Forever.
Speaker 5 (19:16):
Like as long as you have that grass, if you
want it to look good, you constantly have to maintain
control of it. It's just you know, we always make
the reference to like weight loss, right, you know, if
you spend if you spend all year just I mean
hammer in the gym and and following your diet and
sculping your body and whatnot, and then you just all
of a sudden quit. I mean, I bet you it'll
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be three weeks four weeks before that that six pack
gets lost.
Speaker 7 (19:41):
Right.
Speaker 6 (19:41):
But it's just like it's just like health of just
like diety.
Speaker 5 (19:44):
You know, you have to stick to a consistent routine,
and lawn care.
Speaker 6 (19:47):
Is the same way.
Speaker 5 (19:48):
You just it's not it's and really it's there's it's
not difficult. You know, what we do is not is
not necessarily rocket science. Now there is a lot of
there is a lot of like research that we put
into it as far as what products to put down
and when to put down. But you know, the actually
applicating and putting the putting the stuff.
Speaker 6 (20:09):
Down is not difficult.
Speaker 5 (20:10):
But I'm gonna go ahead and tell you right now,
it's very easy to forget doing that. I mean, you
know because we do get busy. Sarah was telling me yesterday.
Our soccer season starts January sixteenth.
Speaker 7 (20:20):
It hardly ends, right.
Speaker 5 (20:23):
So, and when you look at the cost of like
having us do it versus you doing it yourself, it's like, man,
just take classic take the wheel, right, Well, you've done,
come in there and we can do it. We're not
gonna forget and and here. And one of the harder
things too, is like this past summer we got I
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forget what it was, maybe June, July, August, September.
Speaker 6 (20:47):
I mean it was super hot and super dry.
Speaker 5 (20:49):
Right, Well, the fertilizers that you put down during a
very very hot and dry spell may not necessarily be
the same thing as you put down during a you
know summer where we're getting plenty of rainfall. And so like,
we have the ability and we have the knowledge when
we treat your yard to kind of tweak things as
we go. And that's what I'll tell homeowners is like,
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you know, we have a we have a program set
in place, you know, written down on basically or in
our computer now, but written down that we have done
for years and years and years. But when mother nature
throws us a curveball, you know, we have to change
our swing up a little bit and we have to
put something down a little bit different to account for,
you know, whatever environmental factors that we're we're experiencing. Not
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only that, but when it comes to diagnosis, man Chris Keith,
let me tell you right now, when we get into
a hot and dry spill and yards start to turn brown,
every single person in the United States will call saying
that they got a fungus in their yard and they're
mower so that they got a fungus. Well, you can
go out there and you can see the brown spot,
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and you can dig around in the dirt, and that
dirt is like the desert, and then you go into
the green grass, and the green grass that soil is
just as as moist as it can be. Well, it's
not a fungus. It's that probably your irrigation system isn't
running correctly, or you know, maybe there's a rock up
underneath the ground.
Speaker 6 (22:15):
That's Hey.
Speaker 4 (22:15):
Sometimes all that moisture sometimes in those super hot and
dry spells, I don't give a crap how good your
irrigation system is. You're gonna have that hard spot out
there in the yard that just you can one run
it for three hours and it's never gonna penetrate.
Speaker 6 (22:29):
It dry out.
Speaker 5 (22:30):
But the knowledge and the education that like our guys
at Classic Gardens can provide you, that's what really, that's what, that's.
Speaker 6 (22:39):
The icing on the cake.
Speaker 5 (22:40):
Right, So when something goes wrong, you know, we're able
to come in and make the right diagnosis, put down
the right product and basically get that problem.
Speaker 4 (22:49):
Well here lately we hit one of those hot dry
spells and it's like you go out there and they're saying,
you know what, well, I think my lungs just dry
or whatever, and it's eat up with chinche bud, right,
and you just you know, those those bugs like that
have got more prolific. Last year we had a dose
army worms, you know, and we may not get another
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round army worms for six or seven years. I mean,
you just can't ever tell. They're more. They cycle more.
Speaker 5 (23:17):
I guess it seems like about every six or seven
years we'll have we'll have big outbreaks of them.
Speaker 4 (23:22):
Man, I could not keep them out of my garden.
I bet I treated my garden eight or ten times
for army worms. They were all in that pasture.
Speaker 6 (23:31):
You know.
Speaker 7 (23:31):
It's crazy.
Speaker 4 (23:32):
So you just you never know what you're going to
run into. Chris, we're almost up for a break again.
Let me mention that the garden centers open Monday through
Friday eight to four. We'll start that again come Monday.
So if y'all need to get in and get your
pre mergent, you can go ahead and do that. If
you need to set appointment for landscaping, man, I cannot
tell you how good a time of year this is
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the landscape.
Speaker 7 (23:56):
You know.
Speaker 4 (23:56):
People think, oh, it's cold, man, and you put it
in plants. Now, oh, it's gonna burn them up if
you go to the nurseries. Right now, when you look around,
all those plants are acclimated to the cold. They're they're
sitting out there on top of the you know, cold
mats out there in those in those nurseries, and they're
they're well acclimated to it.
Speaker 7 (24:17):
Now.
Speaker 4 (24:17):
If we get super cold, you know, you might ride
by one of them and you'll see, you know, like
a white cloth over the top of them or whatever.
That's to keep the you know, extreme cold from just
burning the tops on them. But outside of that, we
haven't got cold enough to do any harm to any plants.
And in a long time, so don't worry about it.
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If you want landscaping done, you call us eight five
four four thousand and five. You know, most of the time,
you know, believe it or not, it seems like every year,
Chris in November, they say, well, so and so predicted
it's gonna be a warm and wet winter.
Speaker 7 (24:56):
Well, this year it's been a warm one, but it
hasn't been wet.
Speaker 6 (24:58):
No, we haven't had that much.
Speaker 7 (25:00):
No, we haven't. So, you know, this is a good
time of year.
Speaker 4 (25:04):
But usually this time of year is when we start
getting just inundated with calls about drainage and the reason
why they've always had a drainage problem, but it rears
its head more when it rains every other day and.
Speaker 7 (25:17):
They've got a swamp in the yard.
Speaker 4 (25:19):
So, uh, if you need drainage work done, you can
call us eight five four four thousand and five. Really anything,
if you need forest multing, land clearing, any of that stuff,
we do that stuff three hundred and sixty five days
a year. So y'all call us at eight five four
four thousand and five and we'll be glad to take
care of it for you.
Speaker 1 (25:38):
It's the classic gardens and landscape shovel on the half
ready to come when you'll want shuup lands and grass
to grouw too. I cent Chris, Chris and Chris No.
Speaker 2 (25:52):
And now you're a host Chris Joiner and Chris Keith.
Speaker 4 (25:57):
And we're back for the second half of the Class
of Gardens landscap Show and our number.
Speaker 7 (26:01):
If you want to call some ask a gardening question,
you can.
Speaker 4 (26:04):
It's two O five four three nine nine three seven
to two and Chris a lot to do over the
next couple of months. People don't realize it, but man,
this is a great time of year. If you've got
a bush in the yard, regardless of where it is,
and you want to move it, this is the perfect
time to dig it up and transplant it. Old hydranger
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in azalea or rose bush, any of that stuff. You know,
if you flagged something out in the woods, an old
wild oak leaf or something, or a small dogwood or whatever,
and you want to move it, now is the time
to do it. It's a great time of year.
Speaker 7 (26:40):
Right now.
Speaker 4 (26:41):
They're digging trees like crazy, and so if you want
to plant some big trees, we got the capability of
planting like big, big trees. So if you want something
and you don't want to have to wait for them,
or maybe you've lost a tree due to boors or
something like that, now's a fantastic time plant trees.
Speaker 6 (27:00):
Like, Yeah, plants don't use a lot of energy.
Speaker 5 (27:03):
You know, obviously they you know, they're not growing right
now and they store everything in the root system this
time of year. So it's yeah, perfect time to do that.
And you can get root development from now until you
until you get into spring, and once that soil temperature
starts to increase, uh, that that root growth is going
to do the same thing.
Speaker 6 (27:21):
It's going to continue to increase.
Speaker 5 (27:23):
It's a lot of people want to come in like
in the summer months and transplant stuff, and man, that's
a tough time to do it.
Speaker 7 (27:28):
Yeah, you know, when it's.
Speaker 5 (27:29):
Hot and dry, that plant is like just it's trying
to get every ounce of moisture it can to survive.
And you go and you transplant it and you sever
off you know, half its roots. It just is not
that's not a great time. Now is Now is a
perfect time. And you come in with a fertiloan root stimulator.
You do that once a week for three weeks. Three
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four weeks and and uh, you know that basically kind
of seals the deal on the survival of the plant.
Speaker 4 (27:56):
For the most part, some plants just transplant better than others.
And uh, you know, I've dug up high draines just
about any time of year and made it. But man,
if you do it now versus doing it you know
later in the spring, even it's uh, you know, you
got twenty thirty percent better chance right now than two
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months from now, and probably another twenty percent more likely
to do it, uh now than do it in you know,
June July or something like that.
Speaker 5 (28:26):
If you got trees that need prune now we're not
talking about crape murder, but if you've got you know,
trees in the yard that have kind of gotten out
of bounds, or maybe you've got some limbs that smack
you when you're trying to mow the grass, now it's
the perfect time to come in and selectively prune out
tree branches. You know, they're completely dormant right now. I've
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got to oak in my front yard that I'm having
a duck and dodge and weave when I'm cutting grass,
and some limbs, some limbs coming off it this time
of year. Now, we are not talking about crape murder.
You'll see tons of people over the next two months
coming in and taking the tops out of their crape myrtles.
That's not what we're talking about, and that's improper pruning
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with crape myrtles. You come in and you selectively prune out,
you know, branches that are maybe overhanging onto a driveway,
or maybe branches that are kind of rubbing on each
other or criss crossing, and to keep the airy form.
Speaker 6 (29:21):
I'm talking about coming in and.
Speaker 5 (29:23):
Just taking off limbs that are that are out of
place and in the way basically, but there's the SAPs
completely down in the roots right now trees, so you
don't have to worry about it bleeding out. So great
time to prune, and you ain't got to worry about leaves,
I don't you know. The perfect time to prune trees
is in the very middle of winter, when it's when
it's completely dormant, or the middle of summer, when every
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single leaf is on there, and that's a nightmare dealing
with the leaves like that.
Speaker 4 (29:49):
You know, I told somebody that one time, because I'll
go every now and then in prune Japanese. I like
doing that, you know, it's just for fun to me.
And people are so crazy about their Japanese maples, you know,
they're like, this is my prize possession, and if you.
Speaker 6 (30:06):
Clip one brand, the whole thing is gonna die.
Speaker 4 (30:08):
Right hey, listen there, We've got a had a customer
over there in Ennsbrook over there in pens And I
would go in there about every three or four years
and I'd thin their Japanese maple for them and just
you know, raise the canopy and raise the canopy to
the point where it was slap up over the house.
Speaker 7 (30:28):
It was beautiful.
Speaker 4 (30:29):
But every year when I every time i'd go over
there and prune it, his wife would leave, like she
would just get in the car and leave. She scared
to death that I was gonna like do something to
kill that tree. But I just I just tell people
that your best rule of thumb, uh, you know, on
printing the Japanese maples, and really for that matter, it
goes for every tree. As you prune it in the
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Jay's you proved it in January, pruning it in JUNI
or July.
Speaker 7 (30:55):
If you do that, you got.
Speaker 5 (30:56):
It pretty pretty good. Little rule to go by. Right,
it's like eating oysters. They say the months with with
R because those are the cold months, you know, December, January, February.
Speaker 7 (31:07):
That if they're fried, does that qualify?
Speaker 1 (31:10):
Is it?
Speaker 4 (31:10):
Like?
Speaker 5 (31:11):
I don't know, that's what So my my most of
my wife's.
Speaker 6 (31:17):
They have R in it.
Speaker 5 (31:18):
Yeah, okay, got October, October, October is usually still is
usually still warm. But October, November, December, January, February, March,
and I guess April, right, But I don't know what
it is because the oysters are the filter of the sea, right,
And I guess if you're if you're getting them, you know,
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raw from the oyster banks. You know, they might have
some type of bacteria year or something like that in them.
But you know, I've eaten some of your raw oysters
in my day and I'm still here, and I've eaten
them all times, all times a year. But I just
know that That's what my Sarah's aunt or Sarah's aunt
and uncles and granddad used to always talk about, is
you know you only eat oysters in the months with
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R in it.
Speaker 4 (32:00):
Man, the kids got some other day when we were down.
I'm not a big oyster friend. I'll eat them fried.
But the kids got some down there at the beach
the other day and they were they looked like I mean,
by the time you got through the cheese and the
everything that they had them stuffed with or whatever, Man,
there wasn't even moist. They won't know the oyster left,
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you know. I was like, this is I don't know,
it's like almost sacrilegious to the oyster.
Speaker 7 (32:26):
Yeah, there was so much stuff on it.
Speaker 5 (32:28):
So we used to just throw them steam and we'd
go out to the oyster banks and get them. And
then we had a piece of sheet metal and we
build a fire cinder blocks on each corner of the
sheet metal and then throw the oysters on top of
the piece of sheet metal and take wet burn lap
sacks and throw wetburn lap sacks under them, kind of
keep them wet with a hose and that that created
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steam and you just steam the oysters so they just
barely open up and uh and then you.
Speaker 6 (32:55):
Just sit there.
Speaker 7 (32:56):
I cut them down.
Speaker 6 (32:57):
I could eat my weight and I could eat my
weighting oysters.
Speaker 4 (33:00):
My buddy Jimmy that passed away before Thanksgiving. I bet
you that joker could eat five dozen of them. He
wasn't big as a minute, but man, he could throw
down some oystures. Yes, sir, they go buy a bush
between that butch, they go buy a bushel of oysters
and they'd sit there and eat them till they were gone.
I'm talking about raw out the out the day sack.
Speaker 5 (33:21):
I'd pop a roll one every now and then, but
I wasn't a huge fan of that. Now, even when
with steam, they were not far off from raw. Yeah,
you know what I mean, they were just they were warm,
but they were still just a gooey.
Speaker 6 (33:33):
Yeah, that's the only way to explain it.
Speaker 4 (33:36):
Right, Yeah, you gotta have goods that steal that.
Speaker 7 (33:40):
That was that.
Speaker 5 (33:41):
That was a big, big wintertime thing. You know that
most people would do is they would do oyster oyster
roast and Charleston and I know they do it a
lot of other places. Oh yeah, when we go up there,
it was like every family had an oyster roast in
the winter months, especially you know during the holiday season.
You know, they'd be oysters and shrimp and you know,
people probably be smoking meat and everything, but oysters was huge.
Speaker 6 (34:04):
Man.
Speaker 4 (34:04):
I threw down on some shrimp the other day down there,
and down there in PC. Yes, sir, they had some
like roasted on skewers, like like you know, long scoer. Yeah, man,
I dusted them.
Speaker 5 (34:20):
We've been doing we've been doing so we didn't go
anywhere for Christmas or New Years, but we've been doing
breakfast virtually every morning. That's one of my favorite things
to do with the family because during the you know,
during the school year and work week and everything, it's
it's hard to sit down and eat breakfast when you
got to be at work at seven o'clock right usually
there about six forty five. So on the weekends and
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especially during Christmas or Christmas two weeks off, man, I
cook breakfast every morning. We sit down at the table
as a family and eat Chris and eat breakfast every morning. Bacon, biscuits, sausage, eggs, corn, beef, hash.
You know what I'm saying. I'll have well have fruit
cut up thing. I probably put on about ten pounds
over the last two weeks because I've been eating three
square meals a day, baby, but I mean col meals.
Speaker 4 (35:07):
I really haven't showed out, thank goodness as much as
I've been sitting around and all that. I just I
had it in my head man. If I sit around
and tank up, I'm not gonna be able to wear
my pants by the.
Speaker 7 (35:17):
Time I get to the end of the month.
Speaker 5 (35:19):
My sister in law's husband cook two big prime rib
ROAs for New Year's Day. Lord, oh man. We had
all the fixtions to go with it, you know, the
corn bread and the hopping john and the collar greens
and you name it. We had it, green beans, everything.
Speaker 6 (35:35):
Man, I had.
Speaker 4 (35:37):
A dug was down the other day, he said, Man,
I picked me some of the collar greens. I said,
get all you want. I got cleaning.
Speaker 6 (35:42):
You got enough for the state.
Speaker 4 (35:44):
I've still got enough broccoli. I've probably got another twenty
five heads of broccoli now that have come on and
they're ready to a're ready to pick. Still got a
pretty good stand of turnip greens. I'm gonna go and
see if I can get some onion sets at one
of these co ops or something the next week or two,
and I'm on playing a row of onions.
Speaker 6 (36:05):
See how they do. Yeah, that'd be good.
Speaker 4 (36:07):
I'm on playing. You know, you go in there and
get some green onions at the at the grocery store,
and they're just, you know, as big as a quarter yep,
but man and things they eat good with some corn
bread and beans.
Speaker 6 (36:17):
There's Dad used to dig.
Speaker 5 (36:19):
Up wild onions out of the yard and he had
like our tomato program with a twenty five gallon pots.
Speaker 6 (36:24):
I think he had like three.
Speaker 5 (36:25):
Of those things with wild onions, and you know, you'd
be surprised how big those bulls will get. But he
would take those and chop those up and put on
on salads and sometimes he just like saltam and butter,
you know, and have him as a side.
Speaker 6 (36:38):
But just a wild onions he dug up out of
the yard. He had buckets of those things looking around.
Speaker 4 (36:43):
I know Dad grew with you know, he had some
of those what those big leaft old garlics you.
Speaker 6 (36:49):
Know, yeah, like elephant garlic.
Speaker 4 (36:51):
Yeah, thing grows like crazy and Dad would go out
there and cut them things up.
Speaker 5 (36:55):
My granddad used to grow elephant garlic and that was
one of my favorite things to do with him. When
it came time to harvest, you know, you you'd pull,
you pull, or you dig up the bulb and you'd
have a piece of elephant garlic that was about the
size of a baseball. But on the side of it
you have a bunch of little uh like like a
bunch of little garlic bulbs like that were size of
like a dime or whatever. And we would take all
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we would take all, peel all those little bulbs off
and replant those on the garden. And man, he had
just a rotating crop of garlic. He'd have five gallon
buckets full of that stuff and he'd keep it in
his in his basement was underground basement because it was
cool under there, and he just kind of distribute that stuff,
you know, the family members and friends and stuff, because
he had enough garlic to ever what no vampire coming
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within a million.
Speaker 6 (37:41):
Miles of his house. There was so much garlic in there.
Speaker 7 (37:44):
Stuff is good, though, some old fryptatus. Uh huh. Yep.
Speaker 4 (37:50):
Well, Chris, let's take another break. This is the Classic
Gardens and Eaton Show. If you want to call us, uh,
you can. It's two o five four three nine nine
three seven too, and we'll be right back.
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Speaker 4 (40:09):
Gardens and we're back on the Classic Gardens Landscape Show
and Chris. It just caught my eye. The other day,
I had to go down to UH two eighty for something.
On my way back, I stopped in a bass Pro
shops to get a few cropping jigs and mod and
then stuff and uh the median between the new Uh
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the New Try Try Green right there and bass Pro
Shops full of yellow danning line and I'm just thinking myself, boy,
if they're popping up there, you know this is this
is a time of year where we can get a
good snapshot. Like we go up in the neighborhood, like
say up above the Garden Center, and you'll go to
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a yard that we treat and the neighbor next door
doesn't do a darm thing to his yard, and his
will be just loaded with every kind of daffodils and
poeana and god knows what all broad leaves in the yard.
And like you can see right where the property line is.
Speaker 6 (41:13):
It's amazing.
Speaker 5 (41:14):
I love it this time of year seeing that when
you when you do when you go to treaty yard,
and it's like it's almost like we put a no
weed trespassing sign like in our yards and facing facing
the neighbor who doesn't do anything, and it's like those
weeds stop.
Speaker 4 (41:28):
It's right fine line I'm talking about, like you know
how like you put like the the invisible fence up.
Speaker 6 (41:35):
For your dog, and the dog stops right there.
Speaker 7 (41:37):
That's where the weeds do. I love it.
Speaker 5 (41:42):
I love that, And I love when you take over
a yard this time of year that's completely filled with weeds.
Like I just I just measured yards right before we
went out for Christmas break uh miss Mary down in
Russet Woods, and she hadn't done anything for years and
years and years. We treat the yard across the street,
and Ron's yard is just as slick as glass, you
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know what I mean. It's just it's just your your
yard should be kind of like a khaki color right now.
It should be just tan or light brown, just solid.
And you look at his and this that way, and
she has she has a bunch of clover, a bunch
of cud weed, a bunch of bitter crests and things
like that, and.
Speaker 7 (42:21):
All the stuff that's plenty of easy to control.
Speaker 5 (42:24):
And when I when I went out there to to
do the first application, and when I when I met
with her to measure it, I told her, I was like,
you know, listen, I see all these weeds, and I
kind of like, like clover. I love clover because clover
is very easy to kill. That's one of those weeds
you can spray it with like weed free zone, and
within a couple of days, you know, really by the
end of the day you can see it start to wilt.
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But within a couple of days that stuff is just
crispy and black, you know what I mean. But I
told her, I was like, listen, I'm not worried about
all these weeds that I'm seeing right now in the yard.
I can get rid of these. You know, a lot
of broad leaves easy to kill. And she was definitely
can I mean, she's really concerned about them. I was like,
don't worry about that. But it's something that's gonna you
gotta be a little patient, you know what I mean.
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It's like I'm gonna kill all I'm gonna kill all
these weeds and then your grass it's gonna be kind
of thin. But once that grass starts to green up
in the spring, we're able to get some fertilizer down.
It was Bermuda. That Bermuda is just it's gonna fill in,
like I mean, really fast with the fertilizers that.
Speaker 6 (43:23):
We put down.
Speaker 5 (43:24):
And because she started in December, by the time we
get into midsummer, oh man, it's gonna be.
Speaker 6 (43:29):
Night and day different.
Speaker 5 (43:30):
So you take a yard this time of year that's
been neglected, that's covered up in weeds. You know, we
come in, you know, we kill off the weeds that
are there. We're putting pre mergent down to prevent future
weeds from coming up. We're fertilizing in the spring to
get the grass, you know, thicker and healthier. The homeowners
doing their part, you know, making sure that they keep
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the grass cut and when we get into dry spells,
they keep it watered and may you give it six
months and you see just a huge different it's an
a yard. And then you fast forward, like you know,
to the next year, twelve months from now, and everything
is like I mean, just tip top where it needs
to be. And that's the thing with with lawn fertilization.
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We control and Chris Keith you know just as well
as I do. In the spring, we get just panic
phone calls about people who think that their yard is
gonna die and they're gonna have to resite it, you know,
and they want you out there tomorrow, you know, the
next day to you know, to fix it and we
can get out there the next day to give you
a quote and to start on treatment. But that's something
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that takes time. You know, it's not an overnight process.
It didn't and it didn't get that way overnight and
exactly and it's gonna take usually we say it takes
approximately you know, twelve months. You kind of got to
go through all the seasons before you're able to get
the yard to where we consider it, you know, in control,
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in check, whatever you want to say, and at its prime.
So it's just you know, something that takes patience and
it takes time. Now you'll see progress along the way,
but it's not an overnight thing. He's got to practice
some patience with it.
Speaker 7 (45:08):
Yeah for sure.
Speaker 4 (45:09):
I mean when we say we didn't get it, it
didn't get that way overnight. If you neglect it for
a year and a half, you can't expect us to
fix it in two applications.
Speaker 6 (45:19):
That just don't way it works.
Speaker 4 (45:22):
You know, if if somebody goes down and buys Heatherwood
golf course, it's gonna take them a while to get
that thing up and up and back in check. I mean,
it just I always use that for an example because
I ride by that thing and I said, man, this
thing had so much potential and it just it's closed. Yep,
what a bummer, I know, right. And I'm not even
a golfer. You know, I love you appreciate it going.
(45:45):
I love the look of a good golf course.
Speaker 1 (45:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (45:48):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (45:48):
You know, my father in law he plays golf three
or four times a week. And uh, he's a member
at Grayson Valley and he's a member at Trustful. It's
kind of a packaged deal. Now the same people own, yeah,
both golf course. So it's like you can go off
this one. You can go off that one kind of thing,
and uh, you know, he's constantly talking about the greens
(46:09):
and what they could do to make them better and
all that stuff.
Speaker 5 (46:12):
And I'm like, yeah, we went to one upscale, fancy
golf course one time, and I was I was amazed
at like how everything looked. But I didn't ever go
back because, like, I was no good at golf, and
people that were playing down there because it was it
was a pricier golf course. People that were playing were
(46:33):
really good. And so here I am like zigzagging down
the fairway.
Speaker 6 (46:37):
You know what I'm saying. I'm in the woods half
the time. And then you look back and.
Speaker 5 (46:41):
And you know, you get this, you get every now
and then you get this jerk or whatever.
Speaker 6 (46:44):
They're back there yelling at you, you know, move over
so we can go. And I never went back after that.
Speaker 5 (46:51):
Yeah, it wasn't fun because everybody was pressuring us to
keep moving, which I understand why, but man, I'm telling
you that you get to a nice golf course like that,
and every it's flawless, you know, the fair ways of
greens or roughs.
Speaker 6 (47:03):
You name it.
Speaker 4 (47:04):
I'm that dude that goes to like mobile over or
goes to you know, go down to Folio and go
to bell and grass gardens. So I would love to
go to like Augusta, yes, you know and see the.
Speaker 6 (47:15):
Masters walk it.
Speaker 7 (47:19):
You know. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. I mean, it
just be phenomenal to go do that.
Speaker 5 (47:23):
So we went to Cincinnati Zoo earlier or last year,
and Cincinnati Zoo and the Botanical Gardens are one and
the same. And I don't think I saw half the animals.
Speaker 6 (47:34):
Chris Keith. If they made a perennial.
Speaker 5 (47:37):
That zoo had it, it was so awesome going you
would have you would have loved it. I mean just
the different types of plants that they had at that
place that were in and amongst all the you know,
the zoos, like every path. I mean it was manicured.
That's a that's a great place to go. If you ever, yeah,
you ever get.
Speaker 7 (47:53):
The opportunity of Cincinnati Zoo.
Speaker 5 (47:55):
Yeah it's Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Gardens. Yeah amazing.
Speaker 4 (47:58):
If you looks like I'm about to be a mean Teresa,
are gonna be empty nesters, so we might do a
little more.
Speaker 5 (48:03):
Than have plenty of time to go. We go during
the summer, when when the printyhills are blooming.
Speaker 4 (48:07):
I said, well, Chris, that music means we're out of time. Y'all,
come see us at the Garden Center Monday through Friday,
eight to four, where it eighteen fifty five Carson Road. Y'all,
come see us there. If you need landscaping, irrigation, night lighting,
if you need a patio or attaining wall, forest, multing,
land clearing, we do all that stuff. You can call
(48:29):
us at eight five four, four thousand and five. We'll
be glad to get you on the books, and we'll
see you next week on the Classic Garden's Landscape Show.
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