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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's the Classic Gardens and Landscape Show on the head
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Chris knows it. And now you're a host. Chris Joyner
and Chris Keith.
Speaker 4 (00:33):
Good morning, Welcome to the Classic Gardens and Landscape Show
on the w r C.
Speaker 5 (00:37):
I'm Chris Keith, now Chris Joiner. I hope everybody had
a fantastic Thanksgiving.
Speaker 6 (00:42):
It was great.
Speaker 5 (00:42):
Oh, it was fantastic.
Speaker 6 (00:44):
Man.
Speaker 5 (00:45):
Uh, we had a we had a great time. We
had a great time and hope everybody else did.
Speaker 6 (00:50):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (00:50):
This is the Classic Gardens and Landscape Show. There's a
there's there's a lot of landscaping going on, but lawn
care too. We're putting out lime y'are fit. Yeah, we're
working on finishing up. So typically, like typically and stay
up to date and give us a call on our
garden center hours because I know those are going to
be a little different this year now, like our our
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fertilization and weed control division, and then our landscape division
will be working for the next couple of weeks. But
I think Anne and Jenny are going to be, you know,
working maybe some half days next week and then maybe
closing down for three weeks. But like we'll still we'll
still be working out fertilizing and landscaping. But you know
those girls in the office, you know, they work so
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hard and oh yeah, I mean, you know, eight, ten,
twelve hours a day sometimes it seems. And and then
this this time of year, like this past week in
the garden center, I'm not gonna lie, and virtually every
garden center in the world right now is pretty slow.
Speaker 4 (01:47):
Yeah, you know, unless you're a you know, some some
garden centers you know just stock up with you know,
wreaths and point setts and Christmas trees and all that stuff.
And man, I ever, you know, Mike telling horror stories
about you know, selling trees, and you when you sell trees,
you got to be there at you know, the crack
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of dawn in the morning, and you got to stay
there till midnight at night because you know, everybody works
and all that stuff. And He's like, man, you know,
we had we just had this one year, you know,
the last year we sold trees where you know, the
weather sucked and you know, it just didn't work out,
and man, we wound up throwing you know, seventy trees
and the dumpster and it was just like, man, I'd
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well and it was just you know, if you got
to do all that stuff and then you know, you
lose money on it, and then you've obviously you got
a family too, so you know you had to spend
all this time, you know, selling trees and being away
from your family, and it right here at Christmas and
all and he just said the heck with it and
just got away from all that years ago, and we've
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just i mean always focused on just doing family stuff
and all that. Where a lot of the other garden
centers go into the whole tree and point set of that.
But most of the time tree, I mean most of
the time of Ann'll get like twenty point set and she
winds up giving them away just you know to customer.
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You know, she'll give one to me to give my
mom or you know something like that. So it's you know,
it's a it's just more about family really.
Speaker 5 (03:24):
Yeah, And you know, once we get into god, I
mean we're already booking for landscaping into January and once
you know, January is usually pretty cold. Most of February
is the same way. But you start getting a little
bit of you know, a little bit of signs of
spring once we get late February, uh, you know, with
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some forcithias and daffodils and things and people. So you
get a little bit of a warm day, you know,
fifty to sixty degree day and people start getting geared up,
and come March, it's a burning rubber.
Speaker 7 (03:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (03:56):
I mean, you know, it's one of those things where
you get to the first take it week in February
and those harbingers of spring will start kind of peeking
out and stuff like that. And then next depending on
the way the weather trends, there's like a there's like
a three week period there where it goes from it
goes from cold and wet and nasty and all that
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stuff to you know, springs just started boom. And it's
just like, man, when it booms, it's it's like a
cannon went off. And we look forward to it every year,
you know, it's it's always a crap shoot for us.
Doing work in December and January, it gets cold, it
gets wet. The biggest thing is wet. You know, we'll
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we'll be working two days and then it rained three days.
You know. Looking at the forecast next week, I mean
it's Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, it looks like it's you know,
up in the air. You know, it looks like we
might get three inches of rain, you know, with late
Sunday and then the Monday, which we need.
Speaker 6 (04:54):
I know, hop was down.
Speaker 4 (04:58):
Me and the guys went and did some repairers other
day before I got out, and uh, we crossed Lake
Purdy and we were going over to site. We wanted
to get a couple of parts for irrigation, and it
wasn't so party man, you could even find Lake Purdy
and uh, I mean.
Speaker 6 (05:14):
It was just you look way out there, you can
see a little water. You know. I was like, we
need some rain, you know.
Speaker 5 (05:19):
You know it's crazy talk about flip flopping weather. We
just it seems like we just did that, you know.
Before Thanksgiving, we went down to Foley, had a great
time with family, had five campers, five camp all in
a row. I bet you I rode three thousand miles
on my bike around that campground.
Speaker 6 (05:36):
We probably did more cat fishing, man, I'll.
Speaker 5 (05:38):
Let me tell you. So they had a little pond
there and we were just down there fishing with hot
dogs in a bobber catching brim and I told my girls.
I was like, all right, I'm gonna take this bober off.
I'm gonna see what this pond's got. And uh I
slung that hot dog out there, and about five minutes later,
there goes my line. I rolled in about three four
pound catfish, and uh on. Once my girl saw that,
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they said, the heck with the bobber, dad, let's go
cap fishing. And so, uh, I think Clears my Clear's
like my top. So I got three girls. Clear's my tomboy.
You know, anything athletic, fishing, hunting, hiking, anything like that.
You know, she likes to So everybody, a lot of
my friends are like, hey, are you ever like sad
that you know you didn't have a boy because we're
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done having kids. And I said, you know what, I think,
I think deep down like every man wants a boy,
but like I got the best of both worlds. Yeah,
Clear's my tomboy.
Speaker 6 (06:31):
Everybody's got that kid I got.
Speaker 5 (06:33):
I got my middle child, Caroline. She's she's my princess.
She likes to make up, you know, she likes to dresses,
and she's the sweetest, sweet skid as she can be.
And then Sadi's sitting right there looking at me with
that evil grin. I think she's, uh, she's up in there.
I'm thinking maybe like UFC fighter, uh, boxer something. She
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just kind of rolls with the flow. But anyway, so
I think Claire woke up every single morning and grabbed
her fishing rod. He went down there. She was catching
catfish NonStop.
Speaker 6 (07:05):
Hey, y'all had great weather for it.
Speaker 5 (07:06):
Yeah, And so it was you know, Lee, I got
into the story because it was like, you know, before
Thanksgiving we were wearing shorts and tank tops around the campsite.
And then it took like a complete turn. You know,
we get back up, we get back up here this
week and it's like twenty degrees at night when I
let when I got back, my son, patients were still
and I mean I'm talking about.
Speaker 6 (07:27):
In full bloom that was there just now, and.
Speaker 5 (07:31):
I wish I was thinking about. When I got back,
I was like, you know, I need to just go
ahead and pull these things up because they're done anyway.
But I was like, they're so pretty, and now after
this week's freezes, those things are just flat as can
be and they're just a soggy mess.
Speaker 6 (07:44):
You know.
Speaker 4 (07:44):
I went out in the garden and I picked about
fifty to may I sent you a pick.
Speaker 5 (07:50):
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4 (07:51):
I picked about fifty to mates. Some of them ripe,
most of them were green or somewhere in between. And
I said, man, I'm gonna pull these guys. I mean
they were for you know, twenty four to twenty five degrees.
I said, man, you know they're gonna be smoked. So
I went out there and picked the ball, and uh, man,
I'm glad. I did you ought to see those tamato
plant Oh?
Speaker 5 (08:09):
I bet they look bad.
Speaker 6 (08:10):
They are charred. But we needed it.
Speaker 5 (08:12):
We needed a good freeze, yeah, to just set everything back.
Speaker 4 (08:16):
You know, my my greens and all they they kind
of just a little like they're wilted and all that stuff.
And I'm like, man, you know, as soon as we
get back up in the fifties and sixties or whatever,
they'll purk back up and do fine.
Speaker 6 (08:29):
I picked.
Speaker 4 (08:32):
Who I picked. I think, uh like twenty eight heads
of broccoli. I'm talking like big as a soccer ball. Yes,
And I put that up. I've got about eight more
to put up. And then I've got some more coming
on that are about as big as a softball right now.
So they'll come on and they'll be big, pretty ones
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in a couple of weeks and I'll snag them bad
boys off of there and eat them up. But man,
your garden has done great mine.
Speaker 5 (09:00):
I did kill and I did collars, and they got
demolished by dang squirrels. Well I thought that, you know,
I thought that I thought deer were eating them.
Speaker 4 (09:10):
At first, I thought I'd have more trouble with squirrels
with my tomatoes. I was like, man, you know, it's
the crap. I see the squirrels running around down there.
But they never got into the tomatoes until like by
the time, yeah, by the time it was over with,
and I was like, well, I'm not gonna sweat it
because I mean I'd pulled so many tomatoes and all that.
Speaker 6 (09:29):
I was like, you know, they have their stock them up. Boys.
You know it'd be all right.
Speaker 5 (09:33):
If I need collars, I know where to come to.
I got Chris Keith Farm.
Speaker 4 (09:37):
I've got about ten collar plants and they're better than
knee high and yeah three feet.
Speaker 5 (09:41):
Well, we were watching us.
Speaker 6 (09:43):
There's this.
Speaker 5 (09:44):
We got two tropical hibiscuits on our back porch, and
we saw the squirrels come over there and start chewing
on the leaves and those are like my wife's favorite plants.
And then uh, I ended up seeing them over there
in my garden and by the time you know it,
they had just basically eaten every single one of them,
right down right down to.
Speaker 4 (10:01):
The amazing what they'll mess with in some spots and
and not mess with in others. Yep, I guess it's
just what's readily available for them, you know.
Speaker 5 (10:09):
Uh huhh. And you know it's uh Christmas right around
the corner, man, Oh, yeah, it's coming. So we just
got through the Thanksgiving heading onto Christmas. Saint Nicholas came
to our house last night. Really, I don't know if
you know that tradition, you put your the kids on
the eve of Saint Nicholas Day. They put their shoes
a shoe by the front door, and Saint Nicholas comes
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around and fills their shoes with goodies like candies and
chocolate stuff like that. So so they put their kids,
they put their shoes by the front door. Saint Nicholas
rolled on by with his donkey wow and put chocolate up.
Speaker 6 (10:45):
Shoot, I need to meet this guy.
Speaker 5 (10:47):
I don't know. That's that's one of those things I
think that. You know, there's a lot of people out
there that probably know what I'm talking about. But it's
just one of those old school traditions. Yeah, the dates
back to like the Roman times, you know what I mean.
Speaker 6 (10:58):
Well, it's a lot of people do the lf on
the shoe or whatever.
Speaker 5 (11:00):
You know, that's a lot of work, man, you know,
I'm sure it's a lot of fun. But the shielf, yeah.
Speaker 6 (11:08):
I don't know anything about it.
Speaker 5 (11:09):
I just know the naughty little elf that goes around
and makes messes and stuff like that. So the you know,
the elf will take em and m's and throw them
all over the floor, or take paper and cut it
up and spread it all over the house, and like,
who's got to clean the elf? And cleaning that up?
Mom and dad, Lely, we don't do that one good deal.
I've seen a lot of different little things that people
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will do with that that's you know, neat and cute
for the kids. I'm sure it's a lot of fun.
But yes, we don't. We don't do that. We've got
we've got the Grinch right. So it's a little small
grinch stuffed you know stuff, I say, stuffed animal grinch
it and the animal Grinch is a grinch, right, And uh,
he said that my wife's granddad made these little wooden
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chairs for baby dolls. You know, they're probably like a
foot and a half tall. In the grip the Grinch,
I forget what, I forget what. The first day of December,
the Grinch comes down, sets his chair up and sits
his chair, sits in his chair by our Christmas tree.
And if the girls come in and they touch the Grinch,
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he takes one of their presents away. And it's crazy
because the Grinch, like every day or so, he'll like
he'll move his chair or he'll move positions. You know,
he might be sitting with his legs straight, and then
the next day he's sitting with his legs crossed, and
the girls will come in and tell us where they moved.
But you can't touch that Grinch because he will snatch
one of your old presents away. And you can't touch
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your presence because if you touch one of your presents,
that Grinch will take that present away. So he's he
hangs around and then one and then come Christmas morning,
he packs his chair up, tears out, goes back home,
goes back to Mount Crumpet, and then you can get
and then you can get your presence. Every year, it
never fails shows up. I don't know I know where
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he comes, how he gets in the house, but he's
showing enough does.
Speaker 6 (13:03):
Wow, that's too good. That's see. I'm late for the
I'm late for this.
Speaker 5 (13:10):
I don't know. I don't know where that true is.
Speaker 4 (13:12):
It's not even any present that's under my tree. Yeah,
matter of fact, right now you've got a tree.
Speaker 6 (13:17):
It's terrible. Crew.
Speaker 5 (13:19):
We just put ours up. So we were late to
the show, getting Archerie because yeah, but you got you lights.
We do have the lights up. That gets harder and
harder every year. I know you're going on because we
stay busier and busy, going all k C on us
and not quite Bama lights. So Casey he's one of
our landscape I mean, a long care technician, and he
does uh. He puts on a big Christmas light spectacular
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over in Pens and you can go on to his
Facebook page Bama Lights and check it out. And then
he takes donations for I think it's called Magic Moments,
and they do a lot for special needs kids, and
so he takes big donations up for that and then
donates all that money to Magic Moments. So it's really
it's for good cause and it's a fantastic show.
Speaker 6 (14:04):
Oh it's all.
Speaker 5 (14:05):
I mean four hundred I think it got close to
half a million lights. It's like over four hundred thousand
something that's sick and sink to.
Speaker 6 (14:13):
See it where it is.
Speaker 4 (14:15):
And they're standing out there with you know, hot chocolate
and candy canes and all that. I mean, they're so festive,
you know people. I mean it's like as soon as
the lights come on at night.
Speaker 6 (14:28):
Man, it's on.
Speaker 4 (14:29):
You know, they're they're out there meeting and greeting and
hugging people, and I mean it's just cool. But yeah,
go see them. Bama Lights are out in pens and
and uh, Chris, is time for break. Let's go ahead
and do that. If y'all want to call us and
ask us a gardening question, you know, this time of year,
we don't talk a lot about garden and we talk
more about hot chocolate and Christmas and Santa Claus and
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any of that stuff. This time of year we get
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Good morning, Mike, good morning.
Speaker 10 (18:54):
I've heard you guys talk about murdering crape myrtles before
saw Yeah, I just heard bits and pieces over the years.
But what should I do with my crape myrtle now,
the scraggly limbs. Should I just leave it be?
Speaker 3 (19:08):
Or what?
Speaker 6 (19:09):
Yes, sir, you leave them a long.
Speaker 4 (19:12):
You see a lot of people go in there and
they will just I mean just whack the topside of
their crape myrtles.
Speaker 6 (19:19):
And what happens is it just makes more or.
Speaker 4 (19:22):
Less of bird's nest up there, and uh, you know,
a crpe myrtles unlike I mean, just like every any
other tree. You don't go out there and cut the
top out of your oak tree or you maple tree
or your dogwood tree or any other tree. You let
them grow. And typically what we'd recommend is going up
in the tree and thinning it out. So, uh, you know,
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if you if you've got a lot of crossing limbs
or the first thing you do is take out any
dead material, So any anything that's uh you know, dead
and decay, and you cut that out. And then you'd
go in there any crossing limbs, anything like that and
just kind of thin the whole canopy out and uh
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you know, and just and just clean the tree up
more or less. But you don't try to reduce the
size by taking the top out of them.
Speaker 11 (20:15):
So these scraggly limbs at the bottom, should trim them.
Speaker 6 (20:19):
Up, yere? Any of them?
Speaker 4 (20:22):
Yeah, any of the limbs that come up around the bottom,
they're just sucker limbs. And you go in there and
just remove them, you know, flush with the trunk. So
do you just take them off clean?
Speaker 10 (20:32):
Okay, So I should use some discretion. Huh.
Speaker 5 (20:36):
Yeah, yeah, you should selectively cut off limbs that are
not wanted.
Speaker 4 (20:41):
Yeah, more more or less thin the tree, you know,
so you get better air flow and and all that.
But you don't want to try to reduce the size
by by cutting the top out of it, because it
just makes the top more dense and thick, and you've
really made the problem worse instead of instead of fixing anything.
Speaker 10 (21:03):
Yes, Okay, Well, I appreciate your guy. It's love your
show too.
Speaker 4 (21:07):
All right, Mike, Thanks buddy, And I think we got
another Mike, Mike and Hoover. Good morning, Mike. How you doing, Yeah,
good morning.
Speaker 6 (21:16):
How can we help you this morning?
Speaker 11 (21:18):
Yeah, I got another tree question for you. I've got
a Japanese maple that's generally a healthy tree, but some
of the limbs have.
Speaker 4 (21:25):
Died out of it.
Speaker 11 (21:25):
And I just wonder if the trees dying or if
it's just part of the life cycle to lose limbs
over for the time.
Speaker 4 (21:32):
Yeah, some of the time. Uh, some of the time,
you'll get some die back in those trees. Particularly, we
had a rough year this year as far as rain goes,
I mean, this fall has been extremely dry. So if
you've got any limbs like that in there, You can
go in there and remove those. You just go in
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and just take them off, flush with wherever they come
off of the limb, the bigger limb that they're they're
growing off of. And the only time a lot of
times we see bores get in those trees. And this
time of year, it's a good time of year to
use the fertilong systemic insect drench. Like we were talking
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the other mic crape myrtles are real bad about getting
black sooty mold, but it's caused by aphids and bark scale,
and so this time of year is a great time
of year to drench your trees. And it's just a
it's called fertilong systemic insect drench, but you take it
and mix it, mix it up in a five gallon
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bucket and you pour it around your Japanese maple and
it basically kills the bugs from the inside out. But
while you're cutting those limbs out of there, look at
that thing, Mike, and see if you don't have just
little tiny It looked like you took the tiniest drill
bit that you can buy and just drill a little
tiny hole in those twigs and those and those branches
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like that, and uh, a lot of times what it'll
do is you see where the board went in, and
as the boar goes in, he's a little bit of beetle,
and as he goes in, he pushes out sawdust. So
you've seen like some somebody that smokes, you let their
ashes get too long and they're sticking out there and
they're hanging off. That's kind of what that saw dust
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will just wick out there like that. And if that's
the case, and you may have a little bit of
twig borers getting those things, and you want to, uh,
you want to make sure you use that systemic insect drench.
Now is a great time to do it. You only
got to do it once a year. But if I
had a really nice Japanese maple or maybe a big
white oak or something like that, some of the time,
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you know, you lose a big tree like that, it
destroys the whole, you know, landscape. So once a year
you drink your trees, and now it's time to do it.
Speaker 11 (23:48):
Yeah, and you just pour it around the base of
the tree.
Speaker 6 (23:51):
Yeah, you just mix it up and pour it right
around the base.
Speaker 5 (23:54):
Super simple, okay.
Speaker 11 (23:56):
And I got another quick question for you. Well, hickory
nuts kill us grass.
Speaker 6 (24:01):
They sure will. Don't kill any kind of grass.
Speaker 5 (24:03):
Yep, any need to breathe like that. Hickory nuts, acorns, heck,
even sticks and stuff like that. When those fall into
when those fall into the grass, you need to remove
them because they secrete a toxin called juggling in the
in the ground. Now, I mean it takes a tremendous amount,
But I tell you I had a homeowner early this spring.
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I mean it was probably February or March that the
mowing company was just grinding all that stuff up. So
she had hickory nuts, acorns, leaves, twigs, and there was
just this thick layer of basically just ground up nuts
and debris. And it was starting to kill off her grass.
Number one because of you know, the toxins that they secrete,
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but also it was just it was suffocating any new
growth that was starting to come up. In March, and
I met with I met with Martha out on her
yard and I said, listen, I said, your mower needs
to come over here and he needs to spend a
couple of hours just blowing and raking all the stuff
out and once they got all that debris out, I'm
talking about her yard pop back like I mean former glory,
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and it looks fantastic today. But yes, all those all
those nuts need to be removed from the yard.
Speaker 11 (25:14):
Okay, Well that's good to know, because I just recited
some Center feed and I think that may be why
I died in the first place, because.
Speaker 5 (25:19):
Last yeah, last year, my house had a bumper crop
of acorns, and I think we spent we spent me
and my girls spent hours out in our backyard raking
up wheelbarrow loads of acorns, right and uh, because I
didn't want it to affect my grass.
Speaker 11 (25:36):
Yeah, okay, well I appreciate the help.
Speaker 4 (25:39):
Yes, yes, there no problem, Chris. Is time for another break.
Let's gollead and do that. If y'all want to give
us a call, ask us a gardener question and we
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Plants and grass to grow two and percent Chris, Chris and.
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Chris No, and now you're a host, Chris Joiner and
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Andy.
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We're back for the second half of the class of
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three seven two and uh, we're.
Speaker 5 (26:32):
Talking about battle scars over here. Then I was, I
was doing a landscape a long care bid earlier this year.
And I forget the gentleman's name. I'm just gonna call
him Joe, mister Joe.
Speaker 6 (26:43):
I was.
Speaker 5 (26:44):
I met mister Joe. We walked around the yard. We
looked at things. Had Zoi's yard had another company that
was treating it, and they were just doing a halfway job,
like a lot of like a lot of other ones
I see. But I walked around, looked at things, got
my measurements, got the I got, I got the quote
worked up for him, and I went to shut my
door and I had to I had to grip on
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like the frame of the door and I shut it
and I shut that dang thing on my finger and
it hurts so bad. It was one of those like us.
Slammed my finger in the door, and I just wanted
to puke right there and I just leaned on my sea.
Speaker 6 (27:19):
Luko just hurt.
Speaker 5 (27:20):
I gotta go meet mister Joe. Quinn hurt and Quinn,
it hurt so bad. And so I sat there for
like five minutes, just like almost crying. And uh I
walked up there and I couldn't even hardly, like I
couldn't hold a pen, you know, because it hurts so bad. Uh,
I don't know where how it got. We were talking
on the brake. You smashed your hand with a finger
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with a oh yeah, blow hands. So we were we
were building a small wall. Sergia was out and it
was just me and Nicko there working on the wall
that time. It was probably about three or four years ago.
And we've got these big, this big orange dead blow
hammer and now I mean it's a it's a hoss.
It's a hoss, and I mean it's probably a four,
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you know, eight pound hammer. It was a dead blow though,
and I came over the top with that thing. I mean,
I'm sending it up on the block, trying to knock
that block level, and came over the top and hit
the tip of my index finger on my right hand,
and I mean I blew it out, and you know,
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and I went to the I went to the truck.
I just got up and I went to the truck
and I told Nick, I said, I just destroyed my hand.
And you know, Nick, he had that voice or whatever
he says, Oh my god, Chris, what are we going
to do now? And I said, We're gonna build a
freaking wall because that's me.
Speaker 4 (28:49):
So I go out there and I get like some
tape or something out of the truck and I taped
one to the other, you know, you know, ye the
bird finger with the to the index finger, you know,
and back to work.
Speaker 6 (29:06):
We went back to work.
Speaker 4 (29:08):
And uh man, it was rough, but yeah, it's well
what's kind of got us going on that? As I've
been out this last week, I had bilateral carpor tunnel surgery,
so that's both hands, and I was in yesterday with
a therapist.
Speaker 6 (29:23):
I don't have to do well.
Speaker 4 (29:25):
I have to do like exercises at home, basically stretch
my fingers and and all that stuff and make sure
they don't see it up right, everything's working like it's
supposed to. And I get over it. Let me tell you,
it's a slow process.
Speaker 6 (29:39):
It is.
Speaker 4 (29:40):
When they say you don't need to lift anything over
to five pounds. It's because you can't. And uh, man,
it's rough, but going through that stuff. And and but
I was with a therapist yesterday and she said, I've
never seen she's, you know, a sixty five year old
you know therapists. And she said, I've never seen anybody
a bilateral crmple tunnel at the same you know, it's
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both to the hands at the same time. I said, well,
you're looking at him here, I am.
Speaker 6 (30:07):
That's it. You know, it's one of those things.
Speaker 4 (30:10):
I didn't want to say out another two weeks, you know,
because they want you to do one and then wait
two weeks and do the other one. I was like, man,
I can't sit at home for six weeks, you know.
I mean, obviously you're gonna start to death if you
do that. So we know we got to get get
this going. So I just opted to do both of
them at the same time. We're usually out for half
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month of December anyways, and obviously this time of year,
it gets it gets wet and gets cold and all
that stuff, so we wind up missing a couple of
days a week, you know, I mean, look at the
forecast next week, it's you know, it's it's up in
the air. So I figure, Okay, this is the perfect
time of year to do it, and I've put it
off for the last probably four or five months, just
(30:56):
trying to get into December. I sound like a good
merle hagger soon, you know. But uh we made it
to December, and uh so here I am. I'm five
days in now and I've made a little gradual progress.
But man, it's slow.
Speaker 5 (31:10):
I bet those first few days just look bleak. You're like,
what did I do.
Speaker 10 (31:15):
Better?
Speaker 4 (31:15):
I mean, stuff that you wouldn't think so hard, like
turning the door knob, or like taking the top off
a doctor prepper bottle or something like that is just
who I mean opening the door, I got that down
pat now and like open my peel bottles, you know,
to take my medicine in the morning. And then yeah,
(31:36):
the childproof, well that's not just childproof, that's chrisproof.
Speaker 6 (31:40):
It's it's been tough. I'm I'm there, I'm you know
I can do that now. But three days ago, forget it.
Speaker 8 (31:46):
No.
Speaker 4 (31:46):
I I had Teresa doing everything for me, and she's
been off lest th four days. So it's it's been
a blessing having ear I'm because there's been stuff that
just normally I would do and I'm just like, get
that for me.
Speaker 5 (32:01):
Yeah, picking up the remote control and pressing the button.
I bet for the first day or two.
Speaker 4 (32:06):
Well, you know, it's like I get my phone and
I'll press the button on it, but I have to
get it just right. You know, it's not like it's
just a center of your hand.
Speaker 5 (32:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (32:17):
You don't know how much you use the dead center
of your palm of your hand until it's screwed up. Yeah, right,
and you know you don't have the other to fall
back on because it's screwed up too. So anyways, we're
getting through that.
Speaker 6 (32:31):
You know. The guys first of this week they we had.
Speaker 4 (32:35):
A humongous so so what happens every now and then, Well,
we'll get into a top soil stash basically, and somebody
will be building a subdivision or something like that, and
they'll say, hey, look, you know we got this big
mountain on top. So we even come get it and
it'll have roots and sticks and rocks and everything else
in it. We'll bring in this big sifter and this
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thing you have to pull up eighteen wheel and they
bring it out there on site and you take a
loader and you fill the thing up, and.
Speaker 6 (33:07):
It's it's bad to the ball.
Speaker 4 (33:09):
I mean, it's got everything from magnets on it to
keep metal and stuff out of the dirt, to like
sifting the smallest of little roots and sticks and rocks
and everything out of there. And when it's done, you
got this beautiful black topsole.
Speaker 5 (33:25):
It's just a series of conveyor belts that's just spitting
out all kinds of stuff all on each side. And
then at the very end, Yeah.
Speaker 4 (33:32):
Sou there dirt, but if there's clay mixed into it
and stuff like that, it cools the clay and like
the old chirt and all that stuff that's in there,
and it just gives you the big beautiful pile of
topsole on the right and the pile of basically fill
dirt on the left.
Speaker 6 (33:49):
Kind of thing.
Speaker 4 (33:49):
Well, we had a pile of field dirt from one
of those big piles of topsoile on the back lot,
just kind of waiting for the perfect job to use
that stuff up, and just so happened. We had a
customer around a corner from the garden center had an
old pool and uh, the thing they hadn't had water
in that well probably had water in it, but it
was growing more mold and toads and.
Speaker 6 (34:11):
Yeah, stuff like that.
Speaker 4 (34:13):
And told you, yeah, this thing probably had about a
foot of leaf debris in it from the last you know,
ten years that hadn't been used. Well, they went in
there with the excavator and busted the sides of that
thing and went in there and filled in that, filled
in that big hole where that pool was, and uh,
graded it out.
Speaker 5 (34:31):
Just that international dump truck wide open for like two days.
Speaker 4 (34:36):
I don't know how to. I mean, it must have been.
It must have been twenty tracks loads of dirt.
Speaker 5 (34:41):
And so then we had to dump the dirt and
then use the skit steer to move the dirt into
the pool because it's not like you could just back
up to it and dump it straight into the pool.
Speaker 6 (34:48):
So that's is a job.
Speaker 5 (34:50):
It sure was.
Speaker 6 (34:51):
You were waiting for me.
Speaker 5 (34:52):
You were sitting at home wanting to be on that job.
Speaker 6 (34:55):
Man, I won't be anywhere.
Speaker 5 (34:56):
So then they and then they'd run the machine over
it and pack it down. And I don't I don't
know what we did on top of it, just dirt.
Speaker 6 (35:02):
Or they probably just see distraught yep. I didn't see
that part.
Speaker 5 (35:05):
But now there is no more hole in the ground there.
Speaker 6 (35:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (35:08):
Now they've got this a usable area where if you've
got a big hole from a pool, you just man,
you can't do anything there, No.
Speaker 5 (35:15):
You really can't. Well, we've just been putting lime out
on yards. Chris Keith's that's application.
Speaker 6 (35:21):
We finished up shrub care last month.
Speaker 5 (35:24):
No, I'm doing I'm doing dormant ol I was gonna do.
I was planning on doing that this week, but with
the temperatures, I held off on doing that because it's
twenty degrees in the morning. Yeah, and my spray tank
will probably freeze up on the way to my first yard.
But we're doing lime on lawns right now. All your grass,
except for centipede needs it needs lime. Soil in the
(35:46):
Southeast is naturally acidic, and what you do is you
come in once a year and you do lime application
and that helps to balance out the acidity of the
soil over time, Like as we get rainfall and organic
matter and everything breaks down, that basically raises the acidity
level of the soil. So it's basically kind of like
a maintenance application every year and you keep that pH
(36:09):
balanced and that basically keeps the I mean, it really
just keeps the soil healthy and working like it should.
And so then the grass can actually absorb and take
up the nutrients from all the fertilizers that we put
down during the year and then anything naturally you know,
natural fertilizers, you know, if you get you know, grass
clippings that decompose, you get you know, just organic matter
(36:30):
that decomposes, any fertilizers and nutrients from that the grass
can use. So you do line once a year on that,
and then we're fixing it. I'm fixing and start doing
our dormant oil spray on shrubs. And that's kind of
one of those things that gets overlooked a lot in
shrub care. But like this year, for example, lace bugs
seem to be everywhere on azaleas, and like lace bugs
(36:53):
and white flies, they will lay eggs on the underside
of leaves and those eggs will overwinter and so then
once we get into spring, the temperatures warm up, those
eggs hatch back out, and boom the next basically the
next life cycle begins. So you spray this dormanole on
the shrubs and on the underside of them and it
coats the whole thing and basically like a basically like
(37:15):
a petroleum or mineral oil, and it suffocates those eggs
and kills those eggs and prevents them from coming coming
on the shrubs next year. And scale is another one,
Chris Keith, I know there's a there's bark scale that
you get on azalias and camellias will get scale on
the underside of the leaves and uh, you know leaf miners,
(37:36):
spider mites, things like that on on evergreens. This is
a fantastic product for it.
Speaker 4 (37:41):
Yeah, spider Mike's usually hitting the hot summer when it's
it's too hot.
Speaker 5 (37:45):
To spray for them, and not everything kills spider mic.
Speaker 4 (37:49):
And it's very selective of what killed spider mites. Matter
of fact, the systemic insegdurance doesn't do anything for spider mites.
You have to do a spray for that stuff. And uh,
it's a good time you're to do that. Because it's
an oil based product. It's got to be cold for
you know, for you to spray it. But it's a
good clean up spray. And the cool thing about it
(38:09):
is too when you go out there and spray your
hollies and your commune is and all that with it,
and it looks like, uh, you know, you're in a
florist and you put that leaf leaf shine on there
and it makes all your plants, you know, your hollies
and all that. The berries will shine and the leaves
will shine up and be real pretty.
Speaker 5 (38:26):
So I'll spray the one typically once they get all
the customers done with whatever I have left over, and
I'll mix up more. I'll do our whole garden center
with it before we close down or after we close
down for Christmas. And you just go through. You look
through the garden center and everything is just so it's
like a freshly waxed car. It's just so shiny. It
looks so good.
Speaker 4 (38:47):
Yeah, all your glossy leaf stuff, like even the nandina
and stuff like that. Man, they just it brings the
color out and the leaves and all that stuff, and
it just makes everything pretty in the garden center. Well, Chris,
it's time for another break. Let's go ahead and take
that last break of the show. If you want to
get a last minute call, you can. It's two five
four three nine nine three seven two and we'll be
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right back.
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We got Tla on the line. Good morning, you got
a problem with aunts? Good morning, Taylor? How are you?
Speaker 12 (41:34):
Thanks? Good morning, I'm off the charge of God's economy.
Thanks A First, I want to say something about the
carporal funnel I had bilateral in January of ninety four,
a long time ago. And it sounds like it was
much rougher for Chris there because mine went really, really well.
It was a very, I guess, a very different procedure.
(41:55):
I had a guy that was the poormost authority on
that at the time that he just happened to be
in burnieh him. So anyway, but hopefully it'll get better
and heal.
Speaker 10 (42:03):
Up quicker for you.
Speaker 4 (42:04):
I'm so I think more Chris Chris Keiths is more
mental than it is.
Speaker 5 (42:10):
This is because Chris Keith is like a energizer bunny
when it comes to work.
Speaker 6 (42:16):
You know.
Speaker 4 (42:17):
He told me I could drive the next day. Four
days later, I was like, man, do I want to
do this? I mean, maybe I'm thinking.
Speaker 6 (42:25):
I don't know.
Speaker 12 (42:27):
I hate to tell you, but I went back to
work almost immediately. I've had a day off and I
was ready to go. I was ready to go back.
And yeah, it was really crazy. I mean it was
not super comfortable, but I could do it. I just
had somebody wash my hair the next the day and
after that I was okay.
Speaker 6 (42:45):
And I've never I guess I just waited too long.
I guess I just waited too long.
Speaker 12 (42:52):
Yeah, I couldn't even sleep mine was supposed to be.
I couldn't sleep anymore. I had to get it done.
I had gotten it from working at a ham store
at Christmas and Thanksgiving and that's brutal work. So anyway,
all that the same.
Speaker 10 (43:03):
I hope he gets better.
Speaker 12 (43:05):
But my question is about ants because I put out
I called you guys earlier in the year. I put
out a bunch of ants stuff for somebody that they
had already bought, and I mean I put it on
every ant mail they had in the whole yard, and
they were gone and then they came back.
Speaker 5 (43:21):
Yep, I've seen I've seen so many ant beds over
the past three weeks or so. I mean, we just
stayed so warm into into the fall months and so
biggest thing is dry. Yeah, and then ants, you know,
you can kill, you can kill ants that are there,
but then they'll repopular. Answer like nats. You know, it's
like they're hard to get away from. And so you know,
(43:44):
it's just one of those things you have to come in.
Speaker 11 (43:47):
You know.
Speaker 5 (43:47):
We sell a couple of products. One's called extinguished, one's
called come and get it with your aunt. Baits. They
don't have they don't have like a an extremely long residual.
So if you kill if you kill ants in August
with these baits, you know, you can have different you know,
colonies and populations pop up in your yard, you know,
(44:07):
within the next month, give or take. There's one product
that we sell at the garden Center that that does.
It's a granule that you put out and it does
provide you know, a longer residual on ants, maybe six
months or up to I think some of them even
say up to a year. But when somebody says up
to you, that's just all weather dependent. They probably test
(44:28):
these under certain certain conditions and certain environments. So some
basically what basically what I'm saying is some ant killers
are very short term as far as working, and some
have a long residual. So depending on which one of
you use, that might be why you have ants. If
you just use just a straight up fire ant killer.
Speaker 12 (44:47):
Yeah, And which is the name of the one that
you guys had, these guys have that you're recommending.
Speaker 5 (44:51):
So there's a there's an extinguished and come and get it.
Which are the baits which work, which work? Which worked fantastic?
And then there's a lawn insect fire ant control. I
believe is what the name is, and it has a
it has a longer residual. Now with your baits, you
have to I think one of the things that they'll
tell you on the label with most fire ant baits
is like they're not really effective when the temperatures are
(45:13):
super cold, like the actual ants have to be out forging.
So they'll say that you take a potato chip, and
some of the labels even say this, You take a
potato chip and you put it near the ant mound
and you kind of monitor it and wait to see
if you see ants on the potato chip. And if
you see ants on the potato chip, you know they're
out forging. Because the way baits work is they actually
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get that bait and they take it back into the colony.
And because the ants are social feeders and so they
basically they all feed on that bait, including the queen,
and that then that whole ant colony is killed. And
so that's how that basically that's how baits work.
Speaker 4 (45:54):
Well the baits too, you have to be careful. Yeah,
most of the time. Most of the time baits regardless
of what it is. That a lot of times with
fire ant baits, they're on like a soybean based product,
so you have to be careful too with baits as
far as storing it. You don't want to store them
in the barn where it's a hundred degrees because if
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it gets hot in there and then the soybean based
will go rantsi and then the ants won't eat it.
So you have to store it like under the kitchen counter,
which most of them are completely harmless to them to humans,
but they're you know, terribly deadly to fire ants. So
you don't really have to worry about it contaminating anything
you've got. You just you got to keep it at
(46:39):
room temperature basically. Okay, it's good to know rightwise quick
otherwise what otherwise the it'd go rancid, like like like
oils and things like that will go rants The same
thing is if it goes rantsid, the ants won't eat it.
Speaker 12 (47:01):
Okay, very good to know, and then real quick. I
just wanted to support what y'all said and encourage people
to get that Fertilan systemic insect drench because I did
that when y'all told me that earlier this year. Oh
my gosh, I called back and told y'all that was
like some miraculous something product. I put it on everything
and every bush, tree, shrub, everything just got gorgeous. So yeah,
(47:23):
that was a great product.
Speaker 5 (47:26):
Yeah, it's the miracle pill of.
Speaker 12 (47:29):
Yeah it is.
Speaker 10 (47:31):
It's like it's unbelievable.
Speaker 12 (47:32):
But okay, I'll hang up with somebody else call in.
Speaker 6 (47:34):
Thanks for y'allself, all right, sweetie, have a good Christmas.
Speaker 5 (47:39):
Yeah, yeah, that insect drench Man. That's fantastic for troublesome stuff.
You know you've got you know, you've got guardenias that
get like white flies on them real bad. You got
you know, camellias get scale on them real bad. That's
it's fantastic for that, but particularly for trees, for bores.
Crape myrtles have been huge about getting scale and that
black city mold on them, or aphids, and so if
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you've got crape myrtles, that's just a that's a game changer. Yeah,
if you get scale on those, that's been a few
justus the last few years.
Speaker 6 (48:10):
Yeah for sure.
Speaker 4 (48:11):
Well, Chris, that means that means we're out of time.
We'll see you next time in the Classic Gardens and
Landscape Show. If you need landscaping long care, if you
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you need forest mulching, land clearing, we do all that stuff.
You call us at the Garden Center eight five four
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Speaker 5 (00:37):
I'm Chris Keith, now Chris Joiner. I hope everybody had
a fantastic Thanksgiving.
Speaker 6 (00:42):
It was great.
Speaker 5 (00:42):
Oh, it was fantastic.
Speaker 6 (00:44):
Man.
Speaker 5 (00:45):
Uh, we had a we had a great time. We
had a great time and hope everybody else did.
Speaker 6 (00:50):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (00:50):
This is the Classic Gardens and Landscape Show. There's a
there's there's a lot of landscaping going on, but lawn
care too. We're putting out lime y'are fit. Yeah, we're
working on finishing up. So typically, like typically and stay
up to date and give us a call on our
garden center hours because I know those are going to
be a little different this year now, like our our
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fertilization and weed control division, and then our landscape division
will be working for the next couple of weeks. But
I think Anne and Jenny are going to be, you know,
working maybe some half days next week and then maybe
closing down for three weeks. But like we'll still we'll
still be working out fertilizing and landscaping. But you know
those girls in the office, you know, they work so
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hard and oh yeah, I mean, you know, eight, ten,
twelve hours a day sometimes it seems. And and then
this this time of year, like this past week in
the garden center, I'm not gonna lie, and virtually every
garden center in the world right now is pretty slow.
Speaker 4 (01:47):
Yeah, you know, unless you're a you know, some some
garden centers you know just stock up with you know,
wreaths and point setts and Christmas trees and all that stuff.
And man, I ever, you know, Mike telling horror stories
about you know, selling trees, and you when you sell trees,
you got to be there at you know, the crack
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of dawn in the morning, and you got to stay
there till midnight at night because you know, everybody works
and all that stuff. And He's like, man, you know,
we had we just had this one year, you know,
the last year we sold trees where you know, the
weather sucked and you know, it just didn't work out,
and man, we wound up throwing you know, seventy trees
and the dumpster and it was just like, man, I'd
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well and it was just you know, if you got
to do all that stuff and then you know, you
lose money on it, and then you've obviously you got
a family too, so you know you had to spend
all this time, you know, selling trees and being away
from your family, and it right here at Christmas and
all and he just said the heck with it and
just got away from all that years ago, and we've
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just i mean always focused on just doing family stuff
and all that. Where a lot of the other garden
centers go into the whole tree and point set of that.
But most of the time tree, I mean most of
the time of Ann'll get like twenty point set and she
winds up giving them away just you know to customer.
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You know, she'll give one to me to give my
mom or you know something like that. So it's you know,
it's a it's just more about family really.
Speaker 5 (03:24):
Yeah, And you know, once we get into god, I
mean we're already booking for landscaping into January and once
you know, January is usually pretty cold. Most of February
is the same way. But you start getting a little
bit of you know, a little bit of signs of
spring once we get late February, uh, you know, with
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some forcithias and daffodils and things and people. So you
get a little bit of a warm day, you know,
fifty to sixty degree day and people start getting geared up,
and come March, it's a burning rubber.
Speaker 7 (03:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (03:56):
I mean, you know, it's one of those things where
you get to the first take it week in February
and those harbingers of spring will start kind of peeking
out and stuff like that. And then next depending on
the way the weather trends, there's like a there's like
a three week period there where it goes from it
goes from cold and wet and nasty and all that
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stuff to you know, springs just started boom. And it's
just like, man, when it booms, it's it's like a
cannon went off. And we look forward to it every year,
you know, it's it's always a crap shoot for us.
Doing work in December and January, it gets cold, it
gets wet. The biggest thing is wet. You know, we'll
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we'll be working two days and then it rained three days.
You know. Looking at the forecast next week, I mean
it's Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, it looks like it's you know,
up in the air. You know, it looks like we
might get three inches of rain, you know, with late
Sunday and then the Monday, which we need.
Speaker 6 (04:54):
I know, hop was down.
Speaker 4 (04:58):
Me and the guys went and did some repairers other
day before I got out, and uh, we crossed Lake
Purdy and we were going over to site. We wanted
to get a couple of parts for irrigation, and it
wasn't so party man, you could even find Lake Purdy
and uh, I mean.
Speaker 6 (05:14):
It was just you look way out there, you can
see a little water. You know. I was like, we
need some rain, you know.
Speaker 5 (05:19):
You know it's crazy talk about flip flopping weather. We
just it seems like we just did that, you know.
Before Thanksgiving, we went down to Foley, had a great
time with family, had five campers, five camp all in
a row. I bet you I rode three thousand miles
on my bike around that campground.
Speaker 6 (05:36):
We probably did more cat fishing, man, I'll.
Speaker 5 (05:38):
Let me tell you. So they had a little pond
there and we were just down there fishing with hot
dogs in a bobber catching brim and I told my girls.
I was like, all right, I'm gonna take this bober off.
I'm gonna see what this pond's got. And uh I
slung that hot dog out there, and about five minutes later,
there goes my line. I rolled in about three four
pound catfish, and uh on. Once my girl saw that,
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they said, the heck with the bobber, dad, let's go
cap fishing. And so, uh, I think Clears my Clear's
like my top. So I got three girls. Clear's my tomboy.
You know, anything athletic, fishing, hunting, hiking, anything like that.
You know, she likes to So everybody, a lot of
my friends are like, hey, are you ever like sad
that you know you didn't have a boy because we're
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done having kids. And I said, you know what, I think,
I think deep down like every man wants a boy,
but like I got the best of both worlds. Yeah,
Clear's my tomboy.
Speaker 6 (06:31):
Everybody's got that kid I got.
Speaker 5 (06:33):
I got my middle child, Caroline. She's she's my princess.
She likes to make up, you know, she likes to dresses,
and she's the sweetest, sweet skid as she can be.
And then Sadi's sitting right there looking at me with
that evil grin. I think she's, uh, she's up in there.
I'm thinking maybe like UFC fighter, uh, boxer something. She
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just kind of rolls with the flow. But anyway, so
I think Claire woke up every single morning and grabbed
her fishing rod. He went down there. She was catching
catfish NonStop.
Speaker 6 (07:05):
Hey, y'all had great weather for it.
Speaker 5 (07:06):
Yeah, And so it was you know, Lee, I got
into the story because it was like, you know, before
Thanksgiving we were wearing shorts and tank tops around the campsite.
And then it took like a complete turn. You know,
we get back up, we get back up here this
week and it's like twenty degrees at night when I
let when I got back, my son, patients were still
and I mean I'm talking about.
Speaker 6 (07:27):
In full bloom that was there just now, and.
Speaker 5 (07:31):
I wish I was thinking about. When I got back,
I was like, you know, I need to just go
ahead and pull these things up because they're done anyway.
But I was like, they're so pretty, and now after
this week's freezes, those things are just flat as can
be and they're just a soggy mess.
Speaker 6 (07:44):
You know.
Speaker 4 (07:44):
I went out in the garden and I picked about
fifty to may I sent you a pick.
Speaker 5 (07:50):
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4 (07:51):
I picked about fifty to mates. Some of them ripe,
most of them were green or somewhere in between. And
I said, man, I'm gonna pull these guys. I mean
they were for you know, twenty four to twenty five degrees.
I said, man, you know they're gonna be smoked. So
I went out there and picked the ball, and uh, man,
I'm glad. I did you ought to see those tamato
plant Oh?
Speaker 5 (08:09):
I bet they look bad.
Speaker 6 (08:10):
They are charred. But we needed it.
Speaker 5 (08:12):
We needed a good freeze, yeah, to just set everything back.
Speaker 4 (08:16):
You know, my my greens and all they they kind
of just a little like they're wilted and all that stuff.
And I'm like, man, you know, as soon as we
get back up in the fifties and sixties or whatever,
they'll purk back up and do fine.
Speaker 6 (08:29):
I picked.
Speaker 4 (08:32):
Who I picked. I think, uh like twenty eight heads
of broccoli. I'm talking like big as a soccer ball. Yes,
And I put that up. I've got about eight more
to put up. And then I've got some more coming
on that are about as big as a softball right now.
So they'll come on and they'll be big, pretty ones
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in a couple of weeks and I'll snag them bad
boys off of there and eat them up. But man,
your garden has done great mine.
Speaker 5 (09:00):
I did kill and I did collars, and they got
demolished by dang squirrels. Well I thought that, you know,
I thought that I thought deer were eating them.
Speaker 4 (09:10):
At first, I thought I'd have more trouble with squirrels
with my tomatoes. I was like, man, you know, it's
the crap. I see the squirrels running around down there.
But they never got into the tomatoes until like by
the time, yeah, by the time it was over with,
and I was like, well, I'm not gonna sweat it
because I mean I'd pulled so many tomatoes and all that.
Speaker 6 (09:29):
I was like, you know, they have their stock them up. Boys.
You know it'd be all right.
Speaker 5 (09:33):
If I need collars, I know where to come to.
I got Chris Keith Farm.
Speaker 4 (09:37):
I've got about ten collar plants and they're better than
knee high and yeah three feet.
Speaker 5 (09:41):
Well, we were watching us.
Speaker 6 (09:43):
There's this.
Speaker 5 (09:44):
We got two tropical hibiscuits on our back porch, and
we saw the squirrels come over there and start chewing
on the leaves and those are like my wife's favorite plants.
And then uh, I ended up seeing them over there
in my garden and by the time you know it,
they had just basically eaten every single one of them,
right down right down to.
Speaker 4 (10:01):
The amazing what they'll mess with in some spots and
and not mess with in others. Yep, I guess it's
just what's readily available for them, you know.
Speaker 5 (10:09):
Uh huhh. And you know it's uh Christmas right around
the corner, man, Oh, yeah, it's coming. So we just
got through the Thanksgiving heading onto Christmas. Saint Nicholas came
to our house last night. Really, I don't know if
you know that tradition, you put your the kids on
the eve of Saint Nicholas Day. They put their shoes
a shoe by the front door, and Saint Nicholas comes
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around and fills their shoes with goodies like candies and
chocolate stuff like that. So so they put their kids,
they put their shoes by the front door. Saint Nicholas
rolled on by with his donkey wow and put chocolate up.
Speaker 6 (10:45):
Shoot, I need to meet this guy.
Speaker 5 (10:47):
I don't know. That's that's one of those things I
think that. You know, there's a lot of people out
there that probably know what I'm talking about. But it's
just one of those old school traditions. Yeah, the dates
back to like the Roman times, you know what I mean.
Speaker 6 (10:58):
Well, it's a lot of people do the lf on
the shoe or whatever.
Speaker 5 (11:00):
You know, that's a lot of work, man, you know,
I'm sure it's a lot of fun. But the shielf, yeah.
Speaker 6 (11:08):
I don't know anything about it.
Speaker 5 (11:09):
I just know the naughty little elf that goes around
and makes messes and stuff like that. So the you know,
the elf will take em and m's and throw them
all over the floor, or take paper and cut it
up and spread it all over the house, and like,
who's got to clean the elf? And cleaning that up?
Mom and dad, Lely, we don't do that one good deal.
I've seen a lot of different little things that people
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will do with that that's you know, neat and cute
for the kids. I'm sure it's a lot of fun.
But yes, we don't. We don't do that. We've got
we've got the Grinch right. So it's a little small
grinch stuffed you know stuff, I say, stuffed animal grinch
it and the animal Grinch is a grinch, right, And uh,
he said that my wife's granddad made these little wooden
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chairs for baby dolls. You know, they're probably like a
foot and a half tall. In the grip the Grinch,
I forget what, I forget what. The first day of December,
the Grinch comes down, sets his chair up and sits
his chair, sits in his chair by our Christmas tree.
And if the girls come in and they touch the Grinch,
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he takes one of their presents away. And it's crazy
because the Grinch, like every day or so, he'll like
he'll move his chair or he'll move positions. You know,
he might be sitting with his legs straight, and then
the next day he's sitting with his legs crossed, and
the girls will come in and tell us where they moved.
But you can't touch that Grinch because he will snatch
one of your old presents away. And you can't touch
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your presence because if you touch one of your presents,
that Grinch will take that present away. So he's he
hangs around and then one and then come Christmas morning,
he packs his chair up, tears out, goes back home,
goes back to Mount Crumpet, and then you can get
and then you can get your presence. Every year, it
never fails shows up. I don't know I know where
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he comes, how he gets in the house, but he's
showing enough does.
Speaker 6 (13:03):
Wow, that's too good. That's see. I'm late for the
I'm late for this.
Speaker 5 (13:10):
I don't know. I don't know where that true is.
Speaker 4 (13:12):
It's not even any present that's under my tree. Yeah,
matter of fact, right now you've got a tree.
Speaker 6 (13:17):
It's terrible. Crew.
Speaker 5 (13:19):
We just put ours up. So we were late to
the show, getting Archerie because yeah, but you got you lights.
We do have the lights up. That gets harder and
harder every year. I know you're going on because we
stay busier and busy, going all k C on us
and not quite Bama lights. So Casey he's one of
our landscape I mean, a long care technician, and he
does uh. He puts on a big Christmas light spectacular
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over in Pens and you can go on to his
Facebook page Bama Lights and check it out. And then
he takes donations for I think it's called Magic Moments,
and they do a lot for special needs kids, and
so he takes big donations up for that and then
donates all that money to Magic Moments. So it's really
it's for good cause and it's a fantastic show.
Speaker 6 (14:04):
Oh it's all.
Speaker 5 (14:05):
I mean four hundred I think it got close to
half a million lights. It's like over four hundred thousand
something that's sick and sink to.
Speaker 6 (14:13):
See it where it is.
Speaker 4 (14:15):
And they're standing out there with you know, hot chocolate
and candy canes and all that. I mean, they're so festive,
you know people. I mean it's like as soon as
the lights come on at night.
Speaker 6 (14:28):
Man, it's on.
Speaker 4 (14:29):
You know, they're they're out there meeting and greeting and
hugging people, and I mean it's just cool. But yeah,
go see them. Bama Lights are out in pens and
and uh, Chris, is time for break. Let's go ahead
and do that. If y'all want to call us and
ask us a gardening question, you know, this time of year,
we don't talk a lot about garden and we talk
more about hot chocolate and Christmas and Santa Claus and
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stuff like that. But if you want to call us,
you can't. It's two o five four three nine nine
three seven two. If you need to call in the
garden center and set up employment for landscape or long care,
if you need a patio, retaining, all force, molting, land clearing,
any of that stuff. This time of year we get
a little slower. We'll suffer around the holidays, but we'd
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love to get you on the books for after the
first year, and we'll be right back on the Classic
Gardens the Landscape Show.
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Speaker 6 (18:51):
Good morning, Mike, good morning.
Speaker 10 (18:54):
I've heard you guys talk about murdering crape myrtles before
saw Yeah, I just heard bits and pieces over the years.
But what should I do with my crape myrtle now,
the scraggly limbs. Should I just leave it be?
Speaker 3 (19:08):
Or what?
Speaker 6 (19:09):
Yes, sir, you leave them a long.
Speaker 4 (19:12):
You see a lot of people go in there and
they will just I mean just whack the topside of
their crape myrtles.
Speaker 6 (19:19):
And what happens is it just makes more or.
Speaker 4 (19:22):
Less of bird's nest up there, and uh, you know,
a crpe myrtles unlike I mean, just like every any
other tree. You don't go out there and cut the
top out of your oak tree or you maple tree
or your dogwood tree or any other tree. You let
them grow. And typically what we'd recommend is going up
in the tree and thinning it out. So, uh, you know,
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if you if you've got a lot of crossing limbs
or the first thing you do is take out any
dead material, So any anything that's uh you know, dead
and decay, and you cut that out. And then you'd
go in there any crossing limbs, anything like that and
just kind of thin the whole canopy out and uh
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you know, and just and just clean the tree up
more or less. But you don't try to reduce the
size by taking the top out of them.
Speaker 11 (20:15):
So these scraggly limbs at the bottom, should trim them.
Speaker 6 (20:19):
Up, yere? Any of them?
Speaker 4 (20:22):
Yeah, any of the limbs that come up around the bottom,
they're just sucker limbs. And you go in there and
just remove them, you know, flush with the trunk. So
do you just take them off clean?
Speaker 10 (20:32):
Okay, So I should use some discretion. Huh.
Speaker 5 (20:36):
Yeah, yeah, you should selectively cut off limbs that are
not wanted.
Speaker 4 (20:41):
Yeah, more more or less thin the tree, you know,
so you get better air flow and and all that.
But you don't want to try to reduce the size
by by cutting the top out of it, because it
just makes the top more dense and thick, and you've
really made the problem worse instead of instead of fixing anything.
Speaker 10 (21:03):
Yes, Okay, Well, I appreciate your guy. It's love your
show too.
Speaker 4 (21:07):
All right, Mike, Thanks buddy, And I think we got
another Mike, Mike and Hoover. Good morning, Mike. How you doing, Yeah,
good morning.
Speaker 6 (21:16):
How can we help you this morning?
Speaker 11 (21:18):
Yeah, I got another tree question for you. I've got
a Japanese maple that's generally a healthy tree, but some
of the limbs have.
Speaker 4 (21:25):
Died out of it.
Speaker 11 (21:25):
And I just wonder if the trees dying or if
it's just part of the life cycle to lose limbs
over for the time.
Speaker 4 (21:32):
Yeah, some of the time. Uh, some of the time,
you'll get some die back in those trees. Particularly, we
had a rough year this year as far as rain goes,
I mean, this fall has been extremely dry. So if
you've got any limbs like that in there, You can
go in there and remove those. You just go in
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and just take them off, flush with wherever they come
off of the limb, the bigger limb that they're they're
growing off of. And the only time a lot of
times we see bores get in those trees. And this
time of year, it's a good time of year to
use the fertilong systemic insect drench. Like we were talking
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the other mic crape myrtles are real bad about getting
black sooty mold, but it's caused by aphids and bark scale,
and so this time of year is a great time
of year to drench your trees. And it's just a
it's called fertilong systemic insect drench, but you take it
and mix it, mix it up in a five gallon
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bucket and you pour it around your Japanese maple and
it basically kills the bugs from the inside out. But
while you're cutting those limbs out of there, look at
that thing, Mike, and see if you don't have just
little tiny It looked like you took the tiniest drill
bit that you can buy and just drill a little
tiny hole in those twigs and those and those branches
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like that, and uh, a lot of times what it'll
do is you see where the board went in, and
as the boar goes in, he's a little bit of beetle,
and as he goes in, he pushes out sawdust. So
you've seen like some somebody that smokes, you let their
ashes get too long and they're sticking out there and
they're hanging off. That's kind of what that saw dust
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will just wick out there like that. And if that's
the case, and you may have a little bit of
twig borers getting those things, and you want to, uh,
you want to make sure you use that systemic insect drench.
Now is a great time to do it. You only
got to do it once a year. But if I
had a really nice Japanese maple or maybe a big
white oak or something like that, some of the time,
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you know, you lose a big tree like that, it
destroys the whole, you know, landscape. So once a year
you drink your trees, and now it's time to do it.
Speaker 11 (23:48):
Yeah, and you just pour it around the base of
the tree.
Speaker 6 (23:51):
Yeah, you just mix it up and pour it right
around the base.
Speaker 5 (23:54):
Super simple, okay.
Speaker 11 (23:56):
And I got another quick question for you. Well, hickory
nuts kill us grass.
Speaker 6 (24:01):
They sure will. Don't kill any kind of grass.
Speaker 5 (24:03):
Yep, any need to breathe like that. Hickory nuts, acorns, heck,
even sticks and stuff like that. When those fall into
when those fall into the grass, you need to remove
them because they secrete a toxin called juggling in the
in the ground. Now, I mean it takes a tremendous amount,
But I tell you I had a homeowner early this spring.
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I mean it was probably February or March that the
mowing company was just grinding all that stuff up. So
she had hickory nuts, acorns, leaves, twigs, and there was
just this thick layer of basically just ground up nuts
and debris. And it was starting to kill off her grass.
Number one because of you know, the toxins that they secrete,
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but also it was just it was suffocating any new
growth that was starting to come up. In March, and
I met with I met with Martha out on her
yard and I said, listen, I said, your mower needs
to come over here and he needs to spend a
couple of hours just blowing and raking all the stuff
out and once they got all that debris out, I'm
talking about her yard pop back like I mean former glory,
(25:07):
and it looks fantastic today. But yes, all those all
those nuts need to be removed from the yard.
Speaker 11 (25:14):
Okay, Well that's good to know, because I just recited
some Center feed and I think that may be why
I died in the first place, because.
Speaker 5 (25:19):
Last yeah, last year, my house had a bumper crop
of acorns, and I think we spent we spent me
and my girls spent hours out in our backyard raking
up wheelbarrow loads of acorns, right and uh, because I
didn't want it to affect my grass.
Speaker 11 (25:36):
Yeah, okay, well I appreciate the help.
Speaker 4 (25:39):
Yes, yes, there no problem, Chris. Is time for another break.
Let's gollead and do that. If y'all want to give
us a call, ask us a gardener question and we
can do that. It's two O five four to three
none nine three seven two. Again, that's two ol five
four three nine nine three seven two.
Speaker 6 (25:53):
We'll be right back.
Speaker 1 (26:04):
It's the classic gardens and Landscape show on the head
Ready and come when you watch up.
Speaker 2 (26:12):
Plants and grass to grow two and percent Chris, Chris and.
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Chris No, and now you're a host, Chris Joiner and
Chris Keith.
Speaker 6 (26:23):
Andy.
Speaker 4 (26:23):
We're back for the second half of the class of
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call us. It's two O five four three nine nine
three seven two and uh, we're.
Speaker 5 (26:32):
Talking about battle scars over here. Then I was, I
was doing a landscape a long care bid earlier this year.
And I forget the gentleman's name. I'm just gonna call
him Joe, mister Joe.
Speaker 6 (26:43):
I was.
Speaker 5 (26:44):
I met mister Joe. We walked around the yard. We
looked at things. Had Zoi's yard had another company that
was treating it, and they were just doing a halfway job,
like a lot of like a lot of other ones
I see. But I walked around, looked at things, got
my measurements, got the I got, I got the quote
worked up for him, and I went to shut my
door and I had to I had to grip on
(27:06):
like the frame of the door and I shut it
and I shut that dang thing on my finger and
it hurts so bad. It was one of those like us.
Slammed my finger in the door, and I just wanted
to puke right there and I just leaned on my sea.
Speaker 6 (27:19):
Luko just hurt.
Speaker 5 (27:20):
I gotta go meet mister Joe. Quinn hurt and Quinn,
it hurt so bad. And so I sat there for
like five minutes, just like almost crying. And uh I
walked up there and I couldn't even hardly, like I
couldn't hold a pen, you know, because it hurts so bad. Uh,
I don't know where how it got. We were talking
on the brake. You smashed your hand with a finger
(27:42):
with a oh yeah, blow hands. So we were we
were building a small wall. Sergia was out and it
was just me and Nicko there working on the wall
that time. It was probably about three or four years ago.
And we've got these big, this big orange dead blow
hammer and now I mean it's a it's a hoss.
It's a hoss, and I mean it's probably a four,
(28:03):
you know, eight pound hammer. It was a dead blow though,
and I came over the top with that thing. I mean,
I'm sending it up on the block, trying to knock
that block level, and came over the top and hit
the tip of my index finger on my right hand,
and I mean I blew it out, and you know,
(28:26):
and I went to the I went to the truck.
I just got up and I went to the truck
and I told Nick, I said, I just destroyed my hand.
And you know, Nick, he had that voice or whatever
he says, Oh my god, Chris, what are we going
to do now? And I said, We're gonna build a
freaking wall because that's me.
Speaker 4 (28:49):
So I go out there and I get like some
tape or something out of the truck and I taped
one to the other, you know, you know, ye the
bird finger with the to the index finger, you know,
and back to work.
Speaker 6 (29:06):
We went back to work.
Speaker 4 (29:08):
And uh man, it was rough, but yeah, it's well
what's kind of got us going on that? As I've
been out this last week, I had bilateral carpor tunnel surgery,
so that's both hands, and I was in yesterday with
a therapist.
Speaker 6 (29:23):
I don't have to do well.
Speaker 4 (29:25):
I have to do like exercises at home, basically stretch
my fingers and and all that stuff and make sure
they don't see it up right, everything's working like it's
supposed to. And I get over it. Let me tell you,
it's a slow process.
Speaker 6 (29:39):
It is.
Speaker 4 (29:40):
When they say you don't need to lift anything over
to five pounds. It's because you can't. And uh, man,
it's rough, but going through that stuff. And and but
I was with a therapist yesterday and she said, I've
never seen she's, you know, a sixty five year old
you know therapists. And she said, I've never seen anybody
a bilateral crmple tunnel at the same you know, it's
(30:03):
both to the hands at the same time. I said, well,
you're looking at him here, I am.
Speaker 6 (30:07):
That's it. You know, it's one of those things.
Speaker 4 (30:10):
I didn't want to say out another two weeks, you know,
because they want you to do one and then wait
two weeks and do the other one. I was like, man,
I can't sit at home for six weeks, you know.
I mean, obviously you're gonna start to death if you
do that. So we know we got to get get
this going. So I just opted to do both of
them at the same time. We're usually out for half
(30:32):
month of December anyways, and obviously this time of year,
it gets it gets wet and gets cold and all
that stuff, so we wind up missing a couple of
days a week, you know, I mean, look at the
forecast next week, it's you know, it's it's up in
the air. So I figure, Okay, this is the perfect
time of year to do it, and I've put it
off for the last probably four or five months, just
(30:56):
trying to get into December. I sound like a good
merle hagger soon, you know. But uh we made it
to December, and uh so here I am. I'm five
days in now and I've made a little gradual progress.
But man, it's slow.
Speaker 5 (31:10):
I bet those first few days just look bleak. You're like,
what did I do.
Speaker 10 (31:15):
Better?
Speaker 4 (31:15):
I mean, stuff that you wouldn't think so hard, like
turning the door knob, or like taking the top off
a doctor prepper bottle or something like that is just
who I mean opening the door, I got that down
pat now and like open my peel bottles, you know,
to take my medicine in the morning. And then yeah,
(31:36):
the childproof, well that's not just childproof, that's chrisproof.
Speaker 6 (31:40):
It's it's been tough. I'm I'm there, I'm you know
I can do that now. But three days ago, forget it.
Speaker 8 (31:46):
No.
Speaker 4 (31:46):
I I had Teresa doing everything for me, and she's
been off lest th four days. So it's it's been
a blessing having ear I'm because there's been stuff that
just normally I would do and I'm just like, get
that for me.
Speaker 5 (32:01):
Yeah, picking up the remote control and pressing the button.
I bet for the first day or two.
Speaker 4 (32:06):
Well, you know, it's like I get my phone and
I'll press the button on it, but I have to
get it just right. You know, it's not like it's
just a center of your hand.
Speaker 5 (32:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (32:17):
You don't know how much you use the dead center
of your palm of your hand until it's screwed up. Yeah, right,
and you know you don't have the other to fall
back on because it's screwed up too. So anyways, we're
getting through that.
Speaker 6 (32:31):
You know. The guys first of this week they we had.
Speaker 4 (32:35):
A humongous so so what happens every now and then, Well,
we'll get into a top soil stash basically, and somebody
will be building a subdivision or something like that, and
they'll say, hey, look, you know we got this big
mountain on top. So we even come get it and
it'll have roots and sticks and rocks and everything else
in it. We'll bring in this big sifter and this
(32:57):
thing you have to pull up eighteen wheel and they
bring it out there on site and you take a
loader and you fill the thing up, and.
Speaker 6 (33:07):
It's it's bad to the ball.
Speaker 4 (33:09):
I mean, it's got everything from magnets on it to
keep metal and stuff out of the dirt, to like
sifting the smallest of little roots and sticks and rocks
and everything out of there. And when it's done, you
got this beautiful black topsole.
Speaker 5 (33:25):
It's just a series of conveyor belts that's just spitting
out all kinds of stuff all on each side. And
then at the very end, Yeah.
Speaker 4 (33:32):
Sou there dirt, but if there's clay mixed into it
and stuff like that, it cools the clay and like
the old chirt and all that stuff that's in there,
and it just gives you the big beautiful pile of
topsole on the right and the pile of basically fill
dirt on the left.
Speaker 6 (33:49):
Kind of thing.
Speaker 4 (33:49):
Well, we had a pile of field dirt from one
of those big piles of topsoile on the back lot,
just kind of waiting for the perfect job to use
that stuff up, and just so happened. We had a
customer around a corner from the garden center had an
old pool and uh, the thing they hadn't had water
in that well probably had water in it, but it
was growing more mold and toads and.
Speaker 6 (34:11):
Yeah, stuff like that.
Speaker 4 (34:13):
And told you, yeah, this thing probably had about a
foot of leaf debris in it from the last you know,
ten years that hadn't been used. Well, they went in
there with the excavator and busted the sides of that
thing and went in there and filled in that, filled
in that big hole where that pool was, and uh,
graded it out.
Speaker 5 (34:31):
Just that international dump truck wide open for like two days.
Speaker 4 (34:36):
I don't know how to. I mean, it must have been.
It must have been twenty tracks loads of dirt.
Speaker 5 (34:41):
And so then we had to dump the dirt and
then use the skit steer to move the dirt into
the pool because it's not like you could just back
up to it and dump it straight into the pool.
Speaker 6 (34:48):
So that's is a job.
Speaker 5 (34:50):
It sure was.
Speaker 6 (34:51):
You were waiting for me.
Speaker 5 (34:52):
You were sitting at home wanting to be on that job.
Speaker 6 (34:55):
Man, I won't be anywhere.
Speaker 5 (34:56):
So then they and then they'd run the machine over
it and pack it down. And I don't I don't
know what we did on top of it, just dirt.
Speaker 6 (35:02):
Or they probably just see distraught yep. I didn't see
that part.
Speaker 5 (35:05):
But now there is no more hole in the ground there.
Speaker 6 (35:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (35:08):
Now they've got this a usable area where if you've
got a big hole from a pool, you just man,
you can't do anything there, No.
Speaker 5 (35:15):
You really can't. Well, we've just been putting lime out
on yards. Chris Keith's that's application.
Speaker 6 (35:21):
We finished up shrub care last month.
Speaker 5 (35:24):
No, I'm doing I'm doing dormant ol I was gonna do.
I was planning on doing that this week, but with
the temperatures, I held off on doing that because it's
twenty degrees in the morning. Yeah, and my spray tank
will probably freeze up on the way to my first yard.
But we're doing lime on lawns right now. All your grass,
except for centipede needs it needs lime. Soil in the
(35:46):
Southeast is naturally acidic, and what you do is you
come in once a year and you do lime application
and that helps to balance out the acidity of the
soil over time, Like as we get rainfall and organic
matter and everything breaks down, that basically raises the acidity
level of the soil. So it's basically kind of like
a maintenance application every year and you keep that pH
(36:09):
balanced and that basically keeps the I mean, it really
just keeps the soil healthy and working like it should.
And so then the grass can actually absorb and take
up the nutrients from all the fertilizers that we put
down during the year and then anything naturally you know,
natural fertilizers, you know, if you get you know, grass
clippings that decompose, you get you know, just organic matter
(36:30):
that decomposes, any fertilizers and nutrients from that the grass
can use. So you do line once a year on that,
and then we're fixing it. I'm fixing and start doing
our dormant oil spray on shrubs. And that's kind of
one of those things that gets overlooked a lot in
shrub care. But like this year, for example, lace bugs
seem to be everywhere on azaleas, and like lace bugs
(36:53):
and white flies, they will lay eggs on the underside
of leaves and those eggs will overwinter and so then
once we get into spring, the temperatures warm up, those
eggs hatch back out, and boom the next basically the
next life cycle begins. So you spray this dormanole on
the shrubs and on the underside of them and it
coats the whole thing and basically like a basically like
(37:15):
a petroleum or mineral oil, and it suffocates those eggs
and kills those eggs and prevents them from coming coming
on the shrubs next year. And scale is another one,
Chris Keith, I know there's a there's bark scale that
you get on azalias and camellias will get scale on
the underside of the leaves and uh, you know leaf miners,
(37:36):
spider mites, things like that on on evergreens. This is
a fantastic product for it.
Speaker 4 (37:41):
Yeah, spider Mike's usually hitting the hot summer when it's
it's too hot.
Speaker 5 (37:45):
To spray for them, and not everything kills spider mic.
Speaker 4 (37:49):
And it's very selective of what killed spider mites. Matter
of fact, the systemic insegdurance doesn't do anything for spider mites.
You have to do a spray for that stuff. And uh,
it's a good time you're to do that. Because it's
an oil based product. It's got to be cold for
you know, for you to spray it. But it's a
good clean up spray. And the cool thing about it
(38:09):
is too when you go out there and spray your
hollies and your commune is and all that with it,
and it looks like, uh, you know, you're in a
florist and you put that leaf leaf shine on there
and it makes all your plants, you know, your hollies
and all that. The berries will shine and the leaves
will shine up and be real pretty.
Speaker 5 (38:26):
So I'll spray the one typically once they get all
the customers done with whatever I have left over, and
I'll mix up more. I'll do our whole garden center
with it before we close down or after we close
down for Christmas. And you just go through. You look
through the garden center and everything is just so it's
like a freshly waxed car. It's just so shiny. It
looks so good.
Speaker 4 (38:47):
Yeah, all your glossy leaf stuff, like even the nandina
and stuff like that. Man, they just it brings the
color out and the leaves and all that stuff, and
it just makes everything pretty in the garden center. Well, Chris,
it's time for another break. Let's go ahead and take
that last break of the show. If you want to
get a last minute call, you can. It's two five
four three nine nine three seven two and we'll be
(39:08):
right back.
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These guys know they're dirt. It's the classic Gardens in
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(40:01):
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called green Houge, laid on a saddery prepared to leave
a message on the phone. Russ answered. I said, Russ,
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(40:22):
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Speaker 6 (41:29):
We got Tla on the line. Good morning, you got
a problem with aunts? Good morning, Taylor? How are you?
Speaker 12 (41:34):
Thanks? Good morning, I'm off the charge of God's economy.
Thanks A First, I want to say something about the
carporal funnel I had bilateral in January of ninety four,
a long time ago. And it sounds like it was
much rougher for Chris there because mine went really, really well.
It was a very, I guess, a very different procedure.
(41:55):
I had a guy that was the poormost authority on
that at the time that he just happened to be
in burnieh him. So anyway, but hopefully it'll get better
and heal.
Speaker 10 (42:03):
Up quicker for you.
Speaker 4 (42:04):
I'm so I think more Chris Chris Keiths is more
mental than it is.
Speaker 5 (42:10):
This is because Chris Keith is like a energizer bunny
when it comes to work.
Speaker 6 (42:16):
You know.
Speaker 4 (42:17):
He told me I could drive the next day. Four
days later, I was like, man, do I want to
do this? I mean, maybe I'm thinking.
Speaker 6 (42:25):
I don't know.
Speaker 12 (42:27):
I hate to tell you, but I went back to
work almost immediately. I've had a day off and I
was ready to go. I was ready to go back.
And yeah, it was really crazy. I mean it was
not super comfortable, but I could do it. I just
had somebody wash my hair the next the day and
after that I was okay.
Speaker 6 (42:45):
And I've never I guess I just waited too long.
I guess I just waited too long.
Speaker 12 (42:52):
Yeah, I couldn't even sleep mine was supposed to be.
I couldn't sleep anymore. I had to get it done.
I had gotten it from working at a ham store
at Christmas and Thanksgiving and that's brutal work. So anyway,
all that the same.
Speaker 10 (43:03):
I hope he gets better.
Speaker 12 (43:05):
But my question is about ants because I put out
I called you guys earlier in the year. I put
out a bunch of ants stuff for somebody that they
had already bought, and I mean I put it on
every ant mail they had in the whole yard, and
they were gone and then they came back.
Speaker 5 (43:21):
Yep, I've seen I've seen so many ant beds over
the past three weeks or so. I mean, we just
stayed so warm into into the fall months and so
biggest thing is dry. Yeah, and then ants, you know,
you can kill, you can kill ants that are there,
but then they'll repopular. Answer like nats. You know, it's
like they're hard to get away from. And so you know,
(43:44):
it's just one of those things you have to come in.
Speaker 11 (43:47):
You know.
Speaker 5 (43:47):
We sell a couple of products. One's called extinguished, one's
called come and get it with your aunt. Baits. They
don't have they don't have like a an extremely long residual.
So if you kill if you kill ants in August
with these baits, you know, you can have different you know,
colonies and populations pop up in your yard, you know,
(44:07):
within the next month, give or take. There's one product
that we sell at the garden Center that that does.
It's a granule that you put out and it does
provide you know, a longer residual on ants, maybe six
months or up to I think some of them even
say up to a year. But when somebody says up
to you, that's just all weather dependent. They probably test
(44:28):
these under certain certain conditions and certain environments. So some
basically what basically what I'm saying is some ant killers
are very short term as far as working, and some
have a long residual. So depending on which one of
you use, that might be why you have ants. If
you just use just a straight up fire ant killer.
Speaker 12 (44:47):
Yeah, And which is the name of the one that
you guys had, these guys have that you're recommending.
Speaker 5 (44:51):
So there's a there's an extinguished and come and get it.
Which are the baits which work, which work? Which worked fantastic?
And then there's a lawn insect fire ant control. I
believe is what the name is, and it has a
it has a longer residual. Now with your baits, you
have to I think one of the things that they'll
tell you on the label with most fire ant baits
is like they're not really effective when the temperatures are
(45:13):
super cold, like the actual ants have to be out forging.
So they'll say that you take a potato chip, and
some of the labels even say this, You take a
potato chip and you put it near the ant mound
and you kind of monitor it and wait to see
if you see ants on the potato chip. And if
you see ants on the potato chip, you know they're
out forging. Because the way baits work is they actually
(45:37):
get that bait and they take it back into the colony.
And because the ants are social feeders and so they
basically they all feed on that bait, including the queen,
and that then that whole ant colony is killed. And
so that's how that basically that's how baits work.
Speaker 4 (45:54):
Well the baits too, you have to be careful. Yeah,
most of the time. Most of the time baits regardless
of what it is. That a lot of times with
fire ant baits, they're on like a soybean based product,
so you have to be careful too with baits as
far as storing it. You don't want to store them
in the barn where it's a hundred degrees because if
(46:18):
it gets hot in there and then the soybean based
will go rantsi and then the ants won't eat it.
So you have to store it like under the kitchen counter,
which most of them are completely harmless to them to humans,
but they're you know, terribly deadly to fire ants. So
you don't really have to worry about it contaminating anything
you've got. You just you got to keep it at
(46:39):
room temperature basically. Okay, it's good to know rightwise quick
otherwise what otherwise the it'd go rancid, like like like
oils and things like that will go rants The same
thing is if it goes rantsid, the ants won't eat it.
Speaker 12 (47:01):
Okay, very good to know, and then real quick. I
just wanted to support what y'all said and encourage people
to get that Fertilan systemic insect drench because I did
that when y'all told me that earlier this year. Oh
my gosh, I called back and told y'all that was
like some miraculous something product. I put it on everything
and every bush, tree, shrub, everything just got gorgeous. So yeah,
(47:23):
that was a great product.
Speaker 5 (47:26):
Yeah, it's the miracle pill of.
Speaker 12 (47:29):
Yeah it is.
Speaker 10 (47:31):
It's like it's unbelievable.
Speaker 12 (47:32):
But okay, I'll hang up with somebody else call in.
Speaker 6 (47:34):
Thanks for y'allself, all right, sweetie, have a good Christmas.
Speaker 5 (47:39):
Yeah, yeah, that insect drench Man. That's fantastic for troublesome stuff.
You know you've got you know, you've got guardenias that
get like white flies on them real bad. You got
you know, camellias get scale on them real bad. That's
it's fantastic for that, but particularly for trees, for bores.
Crape myrtles have been huge about getting scale and that
black city mold on them, or aphids, and so if
(48:02):
you've got crape myrtles, that's just a that's a game changer. Yeah,
if you get scale on those, that's been a few
justus the last few years.
Speaker 6 (48:10):
Yeah for sure.
Speaker 4 (48:11):
Well, Chris, that means that means we're out of time.
We'll see you next time in the Classic Gardens and
Landscape Show. If you need landscaping long care, if you
need irrigation, not lighting a patio, a retaining wall. If
you need forest mulching, land clearing, we do all that stuff.
You call us at the Garden Center eight five four
four thousand and five. We'll be glad to get you
on the books to do it. We'll be back next
(48:32):
week on the Classic Gardens and Landscape Show, and we'll
see you then.
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