Classic Gardens from February 22nd, 2025

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's the Classic Gardens and Landscape Show. Am am ready
and with your want show up plants and grass.

Speaker 2 (00:09):
To grow up two and doercent Chris, Chris and Chris No.

Speaker 3 (00:15):
Chris knows in, Chris knows in, Chris knows in, Chris
knows in, Chris knows it, Chris knows in.

Speaker 4 (00:24):
Sure, Chris knows in.

Speaker 3 (00:26):
See Chris knows in.

Speaker 5 (00:28):
And now you're a host.

Speaker 4 (00:29):
Chris Joiner and Chris Keith, Good morning and welcome the
Classic Guardens of Landscape Show on w e r C.

Speaker 6 (00:37):
I'm Chris Keith, I'm Chris Joiner. I hope everybody's doing
fantastic today. I'm done with winter.

Speaker 4 (00:42):
Chris Keith, me too. You know the roller coaster that
is Alabama weather. You know, one, you know, you get
four or five days in a row where it's you know,
seventy degrees and nighttime temperatures is fifty, and then all
of a sudden you get another.

Speaker 6 (00:59):
Arctic blast in the high thirty two.

Speaker 4 (01:03):
Yeah, you don't even get out of the you barely
get the freezing. And it's just, you know, I am
spent with it. But yeah, you know, it looks like
we got good weather for today and good weather for
you know that then it just starts climbing. Yep, you
know after that, not say it winters over. I mean,
give me a break. But we're you know normally when
we get into that March timeframe, you know, it's crazy,

(01:25):
is is you know, here we are, you know, bumping
towards the end of February, and I swear you're gonna
have some bermuda grass that's gonna start getting green, you know,
the first second week of May. I mean you can
count on it.

Speaker 6 (01:40):
Mark, you know, I hope it's green March, Yeah, Mark,
green by May.

Speaker 4 (01:44):
We got problems, yeah, so March. But every year it
never fails. You know, that bermuda will We'll get a
good warm spell to jump up in the seventy or eighties,
you know, and we'll we'll you know, start getting that
that warm up and that bermuda will start coming alive.

Speaker 6 (02:01):
I've seen a couple that, you know, if the homeowners
has kind of bud gone ahead and buzzed their grass
galloped it down with which it is time to do. Yeah,
I've seen a couple where the bermuda like along the
edges of the concrete, uh, you know, sidewalks, or driveway
or road where you're starting to see some green come
up through there. You just from just from that one
little warm spell that we had, you know before this

(02:21):
past week. The heat from that concrete just warms the
soil temperature up and causes that grass to kind of
start coming out of dormancy. And that's one thing that
Chris Keith, I know that I will have this. I
will have that conversation with homeowners dozens and dozens and
dozens of times, because you know we'll get into you know,
the end of March, you know, through April, and you

(02:43):
know everything's in bloom at that point. You know, ozellias
will be popping and you know, did you name it
springs there east? You know, I don't I forget when
Easter is, but everybody will be wearing dresses, everybody will
be playing in their beach trip and dah dah, da
da dah. But the grass is still just kind of
like but it's just kind of hanging in there, you
know what I mean.

Speaker 4 (03:00):
Everybody wants when the grass starts turning green, everybody wants
it to be boomed. Yeah just screen overnight, yeah, like
but turn on like football field and it just don't happen.

Speaker 6 (03:10):
It's usually like gosh into June. You know, usually when
we do our March after we do our our May application.
You know that for the people that do like their
their six months, I mean that every other month premergent,
that pre mergent that we do in May, that has
a healthy shot of fertilizer in it. By the time

(03:32):
we get past May, that's usually when you go back
to yards and you're like, all right, we're there. The
soil temperature has consistently, you know, gotten good to where
the grass starts growing. We're way out from that, yeah,
but you know those nighttime temperatures, when they consistently hit
seventy degrees at night, that's when the grass starts doing good. Yeah,

(03:53):
I'm and I'm the same way I'm wishing, Like you know,
in spring, you know, March April, everything's butting out. Every
all the tree are putting on new leaves and everything
is just fresh, and I wish the grass greened up. Well,
we're no that same time.

Speaker 4 (04:06):
We're no different than anybody else that owns a lawn
care company. We want our lawn to be the first
one turn green, that's right, you know, we want that
thing to be. You know, you go through the you
go through a neighborhood library at Liberty Park or somewhere
like that, and you want, you know, our yard that
has got the that's got the signing, and to be

(04:28):
the first one that's green.

Speaker 6 (04:29):
You know.

Speaker 4 (04:30):
But mother nature, man, it can deal us and all
of us, you know, such a crazy hand when it
comes to that kind of stuff. You never know, you know,
we might have. I mean, just like we just had
you know, two or three days where it barely you know,
gets above freezing and it stunts everything back so bad,
and then we get right into the very next week

(04:53):
where it's seventy five eighty degrees and boom, you know,
next week, you know, the grass is greening up. So yeah,
time to scalp at your lawn. If you've got a
permuting lawn, scalp it now. And if you think you
got it low enough, scalp it some more, because it's
time to get those things down low. I mean, first
thing to do. It's gonna help you with weed control.

(05:14):
Even if you're not on long care program or you
haven't been on one the last six months or whatever.
Cut the weeds. Weeds cannot stand big leafy weeds cannot
stand to be cut. So if you go in there
and you keep all that stuff cut, then you're really
not gonna have to worry about it as much. You know,
when it gets into you're you're gonna do a lot

(05:35):
of your weak control yourself as far as just keeping
the grass, you know, keeping all the weeds cut. It
works really well. So just get out there and start
cutting you weeds. But then you've got to start with
a pretty mudge of program. We do that right now.
The bag of gold is time to put out the
bag of gold. You do that twice a year and
you're done.

Speaker 6 (05:53):
I was out delivering product this week for you to
do it yourselfers. I've really have kind of transition to
a lot of people that treat their yards themselves over
the past two months. I gu's really since since Christmas,
I've gone out and given quotes for people that want
us to do it for them and just makes it
a lot easier just to hand the ball off to

(06:14):
us and we'll take you know, we can take care
of it. But you know, this time of year too,
Chris Keith, we talk about you know, yards being green.
I love it. I absolutely love it. When I pull
up to a yard and our yard is just khaki
color brown, you know, it's just a nice consistent tan.
And then you look at the neighbors and it's like
a defined green line where the weeds stop. It's like

(06:39):
it's like we put our classic gardens in landscape flag
in a yard and it's like a no trespassing shine
or trespasses will be shot. Yeah, that's what we when
they see our yards, that's what they do.

Speaker 4 (06:50):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (06:50):
And you really see it this time of year because man,
if you if you haven't done anything to your yard, ah,
it's tailing on you. It is tailing on you for
sure because all that hen be it and bittercress and
chick weed and onions. I mean, they're all growing like
crazy right now. And I just I love when you
when we have one of our yards that butts up

(07:11):
to like an untreated yard, and it is like, Okay,
if you wanted proof that a pre emergent program worked,
this is it right here. Yeah, no doubt about it.

Speaker 4 (07:21):
Yeah. And say it's night and day. You got this
guy right here. Everybody wants to kick out of the neighborhood,
and you got the guy that's on the Class and
Gardens Law Care program, and it's like okay, you know,
and then you know, you go in that neighborhood and
there's there's two dozens of our signs in there, and
it's it's because they don't want to be that guy,
you know, so yeah, time to do long care. Uh.

(07:44):
We can't stress that enough. I know you're constantly getting
you know, you're running around doing long caer sales for people.
Genny's constantly sending you anothering because there's there's so many
weeds popping right now. It's like they don't think about us,
you know, in the summer or anything like that, when
everything's just green growing and all that stuff. But man,

(08:05):
when they start getting those all that hen bit and
all that crap in the yard in the spring.

Speaker 6 (08:10):
It reminds me.

Speaker 4 (08:10):
I mean, it's like they're your best friend.

Speaker 6 (08:13):
I was out this past Thursday, Chris Keith when it
was I mean when I first started, I think it
was like twenty one degrees in the morning. But I called,
you know, several people the night before and I said, hey, listen,
you know, I know tomorrow is going to be like frigid,
Like it ain't just cold.

Speaker 4 (08:27):
Yeah, it was worse than that.

Speaker 6 (08:28):
It's dang cold. And I said, I'm going to be
out there and you know, taking a look at your
yard because I want to make sure we get a
good jump start on it. If that's okay with you.
Otherwise we can reschedule it. But I'm not scared. Whether
it's twenty degrees or whether it's one hundred degrees or
rain or shine, it doesn't matter. And so I went
out and got some people signed up for long air.
Miss Robertson over and Trustville was one of them.

Speaker 4 (08:50):
Awesome.

Speaker 6 (08:51):
We just did a big We've done a couple of
different projects for her. Retaining wall and you know pavers, yeah,
stuff like that.

Speaker 4 (08:57):
Yeah, we did a job for her. Becky about it
about a year ago and just went back and built
a retaining wall for that. She had a story in
my life, Chris Oak retaining wall falling down in the backyard.
Probably should have done that project before we did the
last project.

Speaker 6 (09:14):
Yeah, well it's done.

Speaker 4 (09:16):
Hey, both of them got done. We're good to go.
And Becky got taken care of. So that was good, good,
and I'm glad we got her signed up for lawn care.
We actually added about four or five pallets. A said
below that wall good.

Speaker 6 (09:28):
I think I calculated it four and a half fish
based on my measurements.

Speaker 4 (09:33):
So well, I think it was five pallets, but one
Pallette went over into her daughter's yard on the right
hand side, for she was sweet enough to let us
go in through her gate. Perfect well, Chris had signed
for a break. Let's go ahead and do that. Our number.
If you want to call us and schedule a point
for lawn care, landscaping, irrigation. If you want night lighting

(09:53):
or lawn care, patio or retaining wall built, you call
us eight five four four thousand and five and we'll
be right back after this break.

Speaker 5 (10:03):
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(10:34):
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(11:16):
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Speaker 2 (12:55):
Bird alone, ferd alone, my love, my furd alone, ferd alone,
ford alone, on, my furd alone, my bird alone, burd alone,
my love, my furd alone, burd alone, love to use
my bird alone.

Speaker 8 (13:11):
Tell you why it makes my plants grow and it
makes weeds die. When Chris San Chris South talking plants,
my lone has died to fighting chance because.

Speaker 4 (13:22):
It's all that fertil on we put on them things. Eh, buddy,
that gives it more than to fight. I said that man.
That gives it like.

Speaker 5 (13:30):
Abs, like the like.

Speaker 6 (13:32):
The pop like spin like a pop hye spinach right right,
That's what I'm talking about. That fert alone.

Speaker 4 (13:37):
Well, it keeps all that spinach from growing out in
your garden.

Speaker 6 (13:42):
Chris Keitha is all subject, But I feel like my
face is sunburned and my fingers or frost bitting my toes.
Your wind apart, man. We went to this past weekend.
We had a soccer tournament in Atlanta, and it was
when that that's all that wind and rain came through,
you know, Birmingham and then I guess that was probably

(14:02):
about two o'clock. And then it hit Atlanta about four
and uh man, we were out on the soccer fields
and it was like forty five degrees and thirty mile
on hour winds. It was brutal. I don't mind cold weather.
I've never I don't I like cold weather, be honest
with you. I'd rather it be thirty degrees in one hundred,
So I don't. I don't mind the cold weather. But uh,
I'm gonna tell you what it was rough. Yeah, I

(14:26):
ain't gonna lie. That's why I'm done with the winter.

Speaker 4 (14:28):
After that weekend.

Speaker 6 (14:29):
Yeah, after that weekend, I'm fed up with it. I'm done.
We know.

Speaker 4 (14:33):
We've been working at we've been working in Hayden in
Mountain Woods on one hundred and fifty acre lake the
last three or four days. Let me let me give
everybody a word of advice. Put your irrigation system in
before you put your sod in.

Speaker 6 (14:50):
That makes a big deal. That helps everybody, Yes, sir.

Speaker 4 (14:53):
Because now the sod that they put out, it's kind
of a poor job. They really they put it out.
They put it out in the yard, you know, a
full yard piece, so it's like as big as three
and third pieces basically. So you know, we're having to
go in there, roll all that stuff out of the

(15:14):
way to keep from screwing the sawt up that was
just laid, you know, maybe a month ago, rolling it
up out of the way and going in there and
trenching a lot of this by hand because the terrain
is steep, and because they added soul and stuff like
you move soil around. Aaron didn't even have a backyard.

(15:35):
He had it was woods between him and the lake.
And uh, they went in there and had a bunch
of a bunch of trees cut down and uh, you know,
got the stumps out of there and did all that,
and I guess they added soul or whatever. A lot
of places in the backyard haven't even firmed up yet. Uh,
it's so new, so you're walking around in it, you know.

(15:56):
I mean this time of year, nothing dries out and
uh and you know, and it's like pudding under the
sawd and we're having to roll that stuff back and
you know, trench by hand in a lot of spots
and everything. It's just made it difficult. But we Baut
got his irrigation system in so he'll be able to
water like a boss come you know, when he needs it.

(16:17):
And I encourage anybody if you're going to do an
irrigation system. It's kind of tough for us to do
in some cases this time of year because we just
you know, it seems like it rains every other day
and it's still wet and everything. But hey, don't wait
till it's you know, one hundred degrees in the dryout.
So I can say, hey, I near you need a
irrigation system, because what happens is we get booked up

(16:39):
most of the time, and I knock on wood, I'm
probably telling a lie right now. Most of the time
we stay about four or six weeks backed up some
of the time. You know, everybody calls us this time
of year, and once you out there like yesterday, so
it goes from four weeks sometimes to ten weeks just
in a matter of a you know, snap. So if

(16:59):
you want to irrigation system, go ahead and get on
the books and get it, get it taken care of.

Speaker 6 (17:04):
I mean, any anybody that has it, that you know,
has a yard that wants to keep it nice, you're
gonna need the irrigation system at some point in time.
You know, uh, it may be you may only have
to run it, you know, a half a dozen times
a year or so if we're getting plenty of rain.
But man, there's that one year where we get into
the real bad dry spells and there is nothing worse
than dragging a hose around by hand or having big

(17:26):
old dead spots in the in their yard. This past
summer was a prime example. You know, we got into
you know, August and September and October and it was
super super dry. And people that had irrigation systems that
were fine tuned and they were working properly, you know,
they didn't have any didn't have very many issues at all.
But you know people that did not, Man, it took.

(17:48):
It took a beating. Yards did.

Speaker 4 (17:50):
Yeah, and with yards like he is, I mean it's
mountain woods. You think in mountain, mountain equals rocks, right,
you know kind of thing. And man, we're in there
and you know some of this we had literally dig
with a pick and stuff, and you know, we're digging
up flat rocks on the ground. You know three inches
that are you know, like a foot foot and half wide.

(18:11):
Well you I mean in the summertime. You know what's
gonna happen, Chris, There's gonna be hot spots all in
that area and all that stuff, and uh, with the
irrigation system, he's gonna do a lot better, you know,
with those conditions in place. So you know, it's a
good idea. If you want to get on the books
for you know, an irrigation system, you need to go
ahead and do it. This time of year, we have

(18:34):
a lot of people call us about drainage problems. And
the reason why is because obviously it's raining all the
time and they got soggy and nasty spots in the yard,
and uh it quite frankly, a lot of times it's
hard to do that stuff until we get into you know,
late marching into April when we started hitting you know,
a few dry spells just where it kind of dries

(18:54):
up enough where we can get our little machine in
there and do the trench. And that needs to be
done to you know, successfully do the job. So if
you want any of that stuff done, call us eight
five four four thousand and five would be glad to
do it for you now.

Speaker 6 (19:07):
Because it won't be long. I mean, even people will
Chris Keith that Mike and you and Justin have been
out giving bids too. Maybe in December and January, they're
just kind of kicking the can down the road, so
to speak, and they hadn't approved it yet. But once
we get that first little warm spell, you know, in
the beginning of March, man, it's going to light a
fire under people and they're really going to start getting

(19:28):
on top of their yards.

Speaker 4 (19:29):
A combination of that, you get a little bit of that,
and you get people, you know, they file their taxes
in January or whatever, and they're you know, boom, they
get that income tax check. Like, man, I got four
or five thousand bucks to spend, and you know, whatever
I can, I put it in my yard. You know,
invest in it.

Speaker 6 (19:45):
You know, lawnmowing companies, repair companies are going to be
the same way. You know, nobody's cranked their mower probably
since December, and they're gonna get out there in March
and go to crank their mower and it ain't gonna work.
And so like Small Engine Repair Server says, they're going
to get slammed in the next six weeks with with
you know, with business coming in. So all that to

(20:08):
be said, get on the books for landscaping, hard escaping, irrigation,
night lighting, all that good stuff. Long hair, and get
your equipment out and running. I don't care if it's
even edge tremmors. You might not even be using your
headge tremors for a minute, but go ahead and get
that out. Go ahead and get some fresh gas in it.
String trimmor the same way, blower. Get all that stuff
running so it's ready to roll.

Speaker 4 (20:28):
Yeah, that's what I had on my list. Chris, break
out the mower and number one, make sure it runs.

Speaker 6 (20:34):
Make sure it runs.

Speaker 4 (20:35):
I mean, that's an important thing because you don't want
to You don't want to be that guy that's around
the end of March and you go out there to
traink the thing. Nothing happens, and then you're trying to
haul it to the you know, spawl engine guy and
he's like, okay, I'll get to it when I get
past these others six hundred you know lawnmowers that are
packed up in the way, you know, So yeah, get

(20:57):
it out. Make sure you do that. And when you
get out and it runs, you like sweet, and go
out there and cut you weeds, you know, cut everything
that's in the yard. Go ahead and scalp that thing down.
Now's a good time to go in. When you're doing
all that, there's weeds popping up, just like they're popping
up in your grass, they're popping up in your beds.
Go in there and get a good spraying, because now

(21:17):
what you need to do. You're about like there's some
some plants that need pruning, you know right now, some
panicled high draines and things like that. Knockout roses, any
kind of roses. I don't care if you use a machete,
if you use a pair of loppers, if you use
a weed eater with a skill saw blade, it doesn't matter.

(21:38):
Your rose bushes need to be trimmed, and they need
to be trimmed every year, and they need to be
trimmed aggressively. So jump on those. A lot of your
woody plants, like I call them Grandma plants, yg things
like that. You can kind of shake the spyria your
summertime late. Now you got types of spy rea like
bridley spy rea and stuff like that that's going to

(22:00):
be blooming just in the next week or so. You
don't want to prune on those. You want to prune
them after they're done blooming. But as far as your
summer ones like the Anthony Water or Spyrie or some
of the Linemun Spyriy and things like that, this time
of year they kind of look shabby. You can take
those and knock them way back.

Speaker 6 (22:18):
What about a billio, you can give them a head creek.
I believe it's one that I'm thinking, this is my
year to prune. So I've got some Abelias and I'm
looking about cutting down in half.

Speaker 4 (22:28):
So Rose Creek, Abelia, Cannyon Creek, Abelia. You can go
in there and if they're waist high, you can take
them down to ten inches and just are you know,
take them down ten inches to a foot and just
let them regrow. I've got some that I've got to
do for Paul and Laurena mopping. You know, we planted,
we did their landscaping for them six years ago, and

(22:49):
I've been going in there and helping Paul and Laurna,
you know, do some trimming and stuff. So they got
one a Zelli in the back that died because of chipmunks.
Then they got another Zelia that uh or one more
bush in the back that died because of something else.
And then they've got two in the front that you
know they just didn't water enough, and some just mods

(23:11):
and in stuff. When you got you know, we got
two hundred and fifty shrubs in your yard. A you're
gonna lose one.

Speaker 6 (23:16):
Yeah, that's right, it happened, you know, So you know,
it's just kind of a circle of life, right, I mean,
you're gonna lose some plants here and there for no
rhyme or reasons. Sometimes heck, sometimes there's no unless you
dig that whole plant up and send it off to Auburn,
like the entire root ball. They might not you know,
you might not know why. Yeah I did that. But
I was at a lady's house you're talking about chipmunks.

(23:36):
It's miss Blaylock down a Mountain Brook area. She had
a big Nelly or Stephen on the corner of her house,
and she's like this thing just like I mean, it
just completely turned brown within like a month. And I
and there's two or three around it. And I went
out there. I'm looking. I don't see any like boreholes
or anything in there. I start pulling all the bark
back Chris Keith away from the trunk and there's nothing

(23:59):
but chipmunk tunnels all around that. The base of that plant.
It didn't have a shot, it didn't didn't have a shot.
And this across the street from mister Edwards that we've
treated for, you know, Nancy Allen's neighborhood down there, and
mister Edwards kind of had the same issue. He had
a he had a azalia bed that reminded you of

(24:20):
like mobile. I mean there was I mean there must
have been. There was too many, way too many, man,
but those things made just one huge mass of azilias.

Speaker 4 (24:30):
It was like George tabor Man. Oh yeah, they were
like when before, like he went in there and massacred
him a couple of years just to kind of kind
of get everything back and check because when like I
used to treat that, uh, that neighborhood back god ten
years ago and you know, those those tabor As eggs

(24:52):
were taller than your head. Yeah, and it was just
a mass of blooms when they blew, they were beautiful.

Speaker 6 (24:57):
He's lost about half of them, yeah, because it's that's
like chipmunk colony of Mountain Brook. I mean, every chipmunk
that is in Mountain Brook lives in that flower bed,
and it's a shame because they were man, they were beautiful.

Speaker 4 (25:08):
Man. That's sting, and.

Speaker 6 (25:09):
There's really not a great solution to those you know
what I mean. It's like we always joke around and say,
you get a female cat, you leave it outside and
you don't feed it, and that female cat will kill
anything that moves.

Speaker 4 (25:19):
But it's the dang true. It ain't necessarily a female
because my mom has got a cat named Loki, and Buddy,
he is a freaking hunter. I'm here to tell you.
Like up there around Mom and themselves, they've got chipmunks
left and right, they've got big beds of English ivy
and stuff that's just you know, groundcover more or less.

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And that joker is just waiting. He sees that that
English ivy move a little bit and.

Speaker 6 (25:46):
He's on it. That's funny, isn't it.

Speaker 4 (25:50):
Well, Chris, we got to be about ready for another break.
Let's go ahead and do that our number. If y'all
want to set up appointment for landscaping, long care, irrigation,
night lighting, if you need a patty or attaining wall built,
or if you need a forest mulching, land clearing, we
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Speaker 1 (26:19):
It's the Classic Gardens and Landscape Shovel on the half
ready with you want show up plants and grass to
grub two percent Chris, Chris and Chris No.

Speaker 5 (26:33):
And now you're a host Chris Joiner and Chris Keith.

Speaker 4 (26:38):
And we're back for the second half of the Classic
Garden's Landscape Show. And uh, Chris just kind of rehash
and pre emergent. Obviously we can't stress that enough.

Speaker 6 (26:46):
Man, we stress. I think we stress that twelve months
out of the year. Now you think you think you
think one hundred percent of the world would would recognize
as well.

Speaker 4 (26:54):
Now import now with the bag of gold pre emergent
that you only got to do a year, we really
got to stress. March is the time. Like, so March
is like in a day or two. So you got
to get your pre emergent, go ahead and put it
out and then you do it in September. Now, if

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you're on the old school pre emergent and you do
it every other month, you need to come see us
and get like four or five sacks. But you know,
if you're just doing the bag of gold. You do
it well, you can go ahead and get you two
or three bags of lawn food plus iron and you
just you know, when you get done doing your pre
emergent this time, you just shoot the juice to it.
Every month, Yeah, boy, make it come on like gang Busters.

(27:39):
The great thing about lawn food plus iron. I know
we're talking about that like two months ahead of time.
But let me tell you, you can take it long and
you can start shooting the lawn food plus iron to it.
And I don't care how stressed out it is. It
is gonna come on like gang Busters. I mean, it
is good stuff. So you get you lawn food plus iron.
You get you you get bag of gold and put

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that stuff out and it will be good to get.

Speaker 6 (28:04):
Boy, bag of golden orange bell. I want that orange bag.
That's what people will say.

Speaker 4 (28:10):
Yeah. Back when I ran to co op up there
in Nashville, we had an old fellow when I first
started working there. He retired right before I started working there.
He worked there, Chris for I think sixty years. Oh man,
he's a black fella and he couldn't he couldn't read,
so uh, they they would tell him. You know, Kevin

(28:31):
the manager there. He'd tells, we need a five yellow
bag and the five red bag, and and.

Speaker 6 (28:38):
He was on what sixty years? That sounds like that's
it they.

Speaker 4 (28:42):
Threw they Honestly, he was like, I think his mama
came to us. She was like a hundred and he
was like eighty, you know, and still slimming feed. And
they threw him a big uh, like a big retirement party,
you know, and his mama was up there and they
would just bug in and dancing and all that stuff.

Speaker 6 (29:04):
It sounds like a good old folks.

Speaker 1 (29:06):
You know.

Speaker 6 (29:07):
I was a kid enjoying life right exactly. Oh man,
that's work ethics right there.

Speaker 4 (29:12):
Sixty years man, Yeah, one of these days we'll quit,
you think so? But oh John.

Speaker 6 (29:21):
H So, Chris Keith, we talked a couple of times
about scalping. So so your Bermuda and your Zoijah. I've
been telling people, you know, when your yard dries out enough,
go ahead and get the lawnmower out. And I want,
and I'm talking about y'all need to buzz it down.
So I tell you I have a I have a
riding riding mower. And that riding mower goes down to

(29:43):
one inch but I'll come back, but I'll cut it
down to one inch and then I'll take my push
mower and i will take that push mower and i
will drop it down to the lowest setting and it's
like the it's like the deck is like dragging on
top of the ground. That's that scalp.

Speaker 8 (29:58):
You know.

Speaker 6 (29:58):
If you if you want to talk about like a
like a going into the army or marines or any
type of military and they come in there and they
buzz your hair off, That's what scalping is. And basically
that just you know, the grass does not the brown
grass that you see, it does not just magically green
back up. So you take all that brown dormant turf
and you remove it by scalping it, and then that

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allows the sunshine to get down to the soil and
that sunshine warms it up, and then you can get
airflow down into there, and that basically just allows for
an environment for the grass to come back up from
the roots. And the people that scalp their yard, they
will be a month ahead of everybody else when it
comes to like a good green up. It just it's
like it's like the miracle cure for spring green up.

Speaker 4 (30:45):
So it's ten times greener too, because obviously you've got
all that stem and all that mess out of it,
you know, so it just cleans up a lot better.
And uh, you know, back back in the sixties and seventies,
back in the day's people burn their yards off. You know,
obviously you get kicked out of the neighborhood. You do
that kind of stuff now, but uh, you know, not
to mention you tracking that stuff all over the place

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in your house and everything else. It was just just
the old antique practice back in the day. You know,
somebody that was burning their backyard and they ended up
catching the privacy fences on fire. Oh so what happened
was is, alright, so my brother in law, his his
neighbor right beside him had a weber grill, and he

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lit the weber grill in the backyard, you know, like
you always do, you know, throw the chargo to it,
you know, saturated with.

Speaker 6 (31:39):
The slight flood and you hang hang out way back
there and wait for it to go.

Speaker 4 (31:44):
Like that, you know, and he goes, yeah, well, you know,
so his they had the initial light up and then
he went in the house right quick to grab you know,
whatever's patch a little and whatever what was windy is
all get out that day and uh, the wind called
up and it it I don't know if it flipped

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his grill or what happened, but it went off the
side of the of the patio right there and I
don't know if it flipped over and it caught the
grass on fire. And the wind was blowing so hard,
but it burnt the side and off the side of it,
let vinyl side and off the back side of his hand.
It caught that at the end. I mean, it ran like,

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you know, a fire, and it's a hard desert, you
know what I'm saying. Oh yeah, and it just when
it hit that bermuda grass, it just and it ran
over and got into you know, Matt. There is privacy
fence between him and Matt and it got in that
fence and burnt the fence up and got over in

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his yard and all that stuff. I mean, it was
a mess, but it happened within you know, three or
four minutes.

Speaker 6 (32:52):
So so don't burn your grass.

Speaker 4 (32:53):
Don't burn your grass.

Speaker 6 (32:54):
You know there's there there's always that that one fella
in the in the neighborhood that does it. Don't do it.

Speaker 4 (32:59):
Yeah, I know a guy up here, god with legacy
springs up on the hill. Yeah, I got a buddy
that lives up there, and he's the old school and
he's that guy. You know. He's also the guy that
if you come in there and you go to rob somebody,
he'll be the one that shoots out right, So beware,

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don't go in Tim's neighbors.

Speaker 6 (33:25):
We all need that guy in the neighborhood though.

Speaker 4 (33:27):
Listen, he'll pounce on you.

Speaker 6 (33:28):
Yeah, he's that guy.

Speaker 4 (33:31):
But yeah, getting back, so, yeah, don't burn your grass.
You got to scalp yard that's in.

Speaker 6 (33:36):
Pot scalping yours. Hey, you were talking about panicle hydrangees
pruning those for those who don't know what a panicle
hydrange is, because you have.

Speaker 4 (33:43):
To be very that's you.

Speaker 6 (33:44):
You have to be very specific about what what hydrange
is you prune now versus what hydrange is you prune later.
They could probably they've probably got an encyclopedia of pruning hydrangees,
don't they.

Speaker 4 (33:54):
Well, it's the best way to the best way to
kind of keep keep the maid in your head. So
if they bloom after May, you can print them in
the spring. If they bloom before may. Then you don't
pun them until after they're done blooming. There you go,
piece of cakes. Not. I mean it gets complicated though

(34:16):
with high dranges, like you think about it every time
you turn around. You're doing it wrong if you don't
just leave them alone. But with these panicle hydrantas of
the lime lights, the old PG high drangs that we've
had for a million years that have the blooms that
are like a foot wide, any of those you take
this year and or this time of year and you
perform crape murder on them. I mean, you just we

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don't want you to do it to your crape myrtles.
But by god, you can get on your high drangers
and you can go nuts with it. Get you some loppers,
and I'm talking about eight feet tall, go down to
two foot, yes, sir, I mean you love you bushes
will act like you hate it.

Speaker 6 (34:55):
And the cruise right on over to the knockout roses
and do the same thing. I think people get scared
to prune knockout roses, Like knockout roses need to be pruned.
You know, you can take an eight foot knockout rows
and you can cut that joker down to twelve inches
and it'll love it. It'll come back with a big
smile on his face. It'll look like a brand new plant.

(35:16):
You know, by the time you get the Memorial Day,
that joker will already be three and a half four
feet tall. You know what I mean. I think people
just think when they take like a knockout rose, when
they take it from eight feet down to twelve inches,
they think that they're just gonna kill the thing. But
that couldn't be further from the truth. It'll make it
look like you just planted it like a brand new.

Speaker 4 (35:34):
Ro Yeah, ride by the garden center about another week
and a half and watch what ours look like. Because
we'll have one of these days where we get in
earlier or something like that and said, Hey, they'll be like, hey,
I need to I need to knockout roses at the
garden center. Prune man. I'll go out there with weed
ear the skill saw, blatant. I'll prune every one of
them in like two minutes.

Speaker 6 (35:52):
You know, what do you say a blind man can
prune a knockout rose.

Speaker 4 (35:55):
Exactly, It just doesn't take it that way down. I mean,
be a great don't even the little drift roses you
know that only get you know, a foot and a
half tall, go in there and cut those things down
to a little eight inch ball, yeah, you know, and
just let them flush out and be pretty. I mean,
you're gonna have to do it again. What happens with

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what happens with roses, especially those knockout rows and drift roses.
They come out and they bloom their heads off, you know,
for May in May for about three four weeks, you know,
and then they'll hit that lull where they're just covered
with old spent blooms and you can go in there
and take another foot off of them, and man, they
will go nuts.

Speaker 6 (36:35):
I guess it's usually when is Memorial Memorial Day is
the last that's a twenty six, because I always know
we'd have we have twenty six of May. We have
family come in from South Carolina during Memorial Day because
it's kind of when we open the pool up at
Mimi's house and they always come. And by the time

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Memorial Day comes, the knockout roses are on the downside,
you know what I'm saying. But I always remember that
because it's like, man, those things are just so pretty
Like a week ago, if you would have come a
week earlier, it would have just been like Pam, I mean,
all these all these roses blooming. But you you come
in and even after a Memorial Day, you just give
them a little light haircut. I sell you every green

(37:18):
food systemic insecticide, and by the fourth of July, man,
they'll be they'll be going again. Yep.

Speaker 4 (37:25):
Now we've been talking about pruning trees, and there there's
still a lot of trees that you can prune, Like
if you want to prune an oak tree or something
like limb up an oak, crap myrtle or anything like that.
We don't recommend you knocking on the tops off, but
if you want to limb them up, you can. Uh.
There's a few trees though you want to back off on.
Right now, Japanese maples are getting to the point now
where you know the SAP's right. Look at your map

(37:48):
maple trees in your yard. All they got bloods on
they got buds just loaded up on them. Uh. Some
plants don't bleed as bad as others. But me, you
go out there, yeah, I don't think you'd kill it,
but you you know you're gonna see a lot of
sap run because the sap and everything is rising like
crazy now. I mean, everything's got buds on it ready
to bust. So uh yeah, just kind of back off

(38:09):
on on pruning. Some of your trees that'll you know,
are real sappy, you know this time of year. And uh,
as far as transplant goes, you know, we've been pushing.
You know, January is perfect time to transplant. Where here
we are, you know, bumping on March. If you've got
you know, an azalea or something like that out and
you know it's something you know, shallow rooted and you

(38:30):
want to dig it up, a hydranggy anything like that,
and you still want to dig up and plant it,
you probably got a little time to do that.

Speaker 7 (38:36):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (38:36):
Obviously, the older the plant, uh, the worst you're going
to be successful. I mean, if you're moving something that's small,
it's gonna have a lot more chance or a better
chance of you know, moving than something that's you know,
twenty years old. If you're out there trying to dig
up a bush and move it, genses are it's not
gonna work. So uh, just take that advice, SI, you know,

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back off on the yep, Chris, it's time for that
last break. Let's go ahead and do that our number
if y'all to call us and set up an appointment
for long caear landscape and irrigation, not lighting patios or
taining walls in that stuff. Eight five four four thousand
and five, and we'll be right back.

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Speaker 4 (41:05):
Hold fertlong high hold ferd along. You're talking about a
bag of soil, Chris. Let me tell you if you
come in the garden center, chances are you know we're
gonna start talking about another three weeks or so. You know,
you know, it's funny we've been talking this whole this
whole show. It seems like Chris about man three months
from now, Man, three months. We're excited, man, We wanted

(41:28):
to be warm bad. We can't stand it. But uh, honestly,
you know we're gonna be pushing, you know, the tomato program,
and I'm man, I am so excited. You you may
not believe this, Chris, But like a week ago, I
hate my last tomatoes.

Speaker 6 (41:43):
That I picked. How about that?

Speaker 4 (41:44):
Well, I took a lot of three months from now,
took a lot of green tomatoes off of mine, my plants,
like right before the first buff you know, and I
stored them in the barn, you know, in this cool place.
And uh, I've been grabbing one here and there, grabbling.
But I had the two or three green ones you
know that are kind of turning a little bit, and

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no more.

Speaker 6 (42:08):
They are done. They're done now, right, yep, I'll tell
you it's it's you know, people be working gardens starting now,
you know what I mean, start mixing in their composts
and everything.

Speaker 4 (42:19):
You know, everybody procrastinates, you know. They we sell more
lime in March and April than we do when in November, December, January, February,
because everybody gets behind or everybody just you know, you
get Christmas going on and everything else, and everybody gets
just booked up. And uh, you know, you get around

(42:41):
the marching like dang, I ain't putting. I gotta have
put some pre emerging out. I gotta do this and
come in to the garden center. We've still got the
lime right there. We've still got the humick right there.
I put two bags of lime on mine. The other day.
I put me a bag of humid a tenth. I'm
the big bag on a humic. I put the whole
thing on there. And boy, I am ready, yeah, boy,

(43:02):
I gotta do. I gotta go in there. And I've
still got about ten big collar plants out there. I
might go out there and uh probably pick me maybe
two big vats up, you know, and cook them and
put them up, you know, in the freezer, and uh
then I'm gonna work. I'm gonna plow all them turnips

(43:23):
out of there. I got turnips in there, big as volleyballs,
and uh yeah, I'll turn all those out of there,
and uh and get all that stuff out of there
and get it ready to go so I can start
playing some corn and some stuff as fast as we
we get sure enough warm. But yeah, we're looking at
you know, six weeks from now, it's gonna be it's
gonna be killing.

Speaker 6 (43:43):
It is turnips as big as the volleyball. That's a
turn up. Something out of there, like that Chris Keith's garden,
something else. I'm gonna tell you I had.

Speaker 4 (43:52):
I had turnip graings list and there was nuts. I
put up about eight or ten bags, you know, just
eat over the wintertime. But I plan it enough for
like everybody, So like eighty people you know, could have
came over and got a mess some turn greens and
you barely see where they scratch the surface. I mean

(44:14):
they were, they were killing. And idea I always plant
way more like that because I always give it away.
But shoot, I got a spot that's that can handle it.

Speaker 6 (44:22):
Something. As soon as you don't plan enough, you know,
I ain't ever you won't you won't have enough. But
you don't have that problem.

Speaker 4 (44:28):
No, I ain't doing. But yeah, a lot going on
right now. Uh, landscape is going night and nothing. Get
on the books now. Don't wait until you know, we
get up further up in the march or whatever, and
then say, oh, I want to call Chris and get
some landscaping done, because what's going to happen is you
start calling me about the first April when I said, well,
i'll see you about July. I mean, that's just the

(44:51):
nature of the beast. You know, we're the loneliest guy
on the planet the first of December, you know, the
middle of December. But we're the most popular guy and
come this time of year, so you know, call us,
get on the books, and we'll be glad to come
out and do landscaping for you. We love going out there.
I mean, that's my wheelhouse is just going out and
ripping stuff out of your yard that's huge and overgrown

(45:14):
and putting back in a new, low maintenance landscape for you.
We can knock it out and this is a day.
You'd be surprised what we can go in and rip
out of your yard and put back in in just
a day.

Speaker 6 (45:27):
I mean, you and your crew have one hundred years
of experience between yallderth.

Speaker 4 (45:33):
Where the lawn.

Speaker 6 (45:34):
Wolves the lawn wolves sadly well, I mean, you know,
y'all work quick, y'all work efficient. You know, y'll keep
things nice, you'll keep things clean. That's one of the
things I know. Like you know, when I was fifteen
year old out there on a landscape job, I remember
Mike telling us. He's like, we need to leave this
place clean, even though we got to come back tomorrow.
We need to leave it to where it doesn't hinder

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the homeowner, you know what I mean.

Speaker 4 (45:57):
We know it's kind of one of those things, Chris.
I'm not going to say where the we're the cheapest
bunch out there, but we're probably not the most expensive.
But when you got people like Becky roberts that she
went and saw the other day and she said to
our back, Becky Robertson and she said, you know, Chris,
y'all were a little bit more expensive than the other
bid that I got to do this retaining wall. But

(46:18):
the reason why I hired y'all to come back out
here is because y'all did everything so clean the first time.
It literally was cleaner when you left than it was
when you got here. And I said, met, that's every job.
I'm not going to leave you a miss when I
come and do it. If if and our neighbors, our
neighbors or daughter. But she said the same thing, and

(46:41):
and I was just like, well, if we're going to
track your y'all your driveway up, we leave him here,
it's gonna be pressure wash and it's gonna look better
than it did when I got here. And sure enough,
and it's every job, it's not just them, it's that's
that's mandatory before we leave the place.

Speaker 6 (46:59):
You know, she's signed up for long care, and I
gave her a quote once before, but she was with
another company. I think there are a few bucks cheaper
than we were. But she ended up signing up with
us because she got tired of looking across the street
at Miss Mary's yard that we treat Miss mary Yard
always looks better than hers. And I mean we're only
talking about a couple bucks different. It's amazing, Like long
cair wise, you know what people will consider more expensive.

(47:21):
We might be, you know, fifty dollars around and another
company's like forty seven dollars around, and they'll complain about price.
I'm like, well, I'm here for a reason. Obviously you're
not satisfied, Yeah, for sure. But you know, with long
care as well, long care is you know, pretty usually
pretty usually pretty comparable as far as price is concerned. Landscaping,

(47:45):
there's so many there's so many moving parts and so
many wheels and so many aspects of like what y'all do.

Speaker 4 (47:51):
It's like building a wall.

Speaker 6 (47:52):
You gotta compare apples to apples. Yeah, you know what
I mean. You can't just say, oh, this guy's gonna
charge me five thousand to build a wall. Classic is
gonna be fifteen thousand to build a wall. I can
guarantee you that there's a huge difference in that five
thousand dollars square foot wall. We're probably gonna be out
there within a couple of years fixing that or tearing
it down and redoing it because they halfway did it well.

Speaker 4 (48:13):
A lot of times. That's what we're doing, is fixing
something everybody's you know, somebody's already screwed up.

Speaker 6 (48:18):
Pay pay, pay the proper way to do it, you know,
pay the people to do it right the first time,
and that's what you get with us.

Speaker 4 (48:24):
Yeah, it's gonna be overkill every time. With us, we're
gonna do it right or we ain't gonna show up
at all. Y'all call us eight five four four thousand
and five. If you need landscaping, if you need law
career patio or a taining wall. If you need a
land clear and forest multu, if you need just night
lighting done, call us eight five four four thousand and five.
We'd love to come out and work for you, and

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we'll see you next week on Classic guardis a landscape show.