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And now you're a host. Chris Joyner and Chris King.
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Good morning, Welcome Classic Guards Lanscot Show, w r C.
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I'm Chris King, I'm Chris Joiner.
Speaker 6 (00:49):
I hope everybody's doing fine on this hot weekend. Tis
July Tis July. Man, I'm gonna tell you it's like that.
I think you know, usually we talk about the dog
days of summer because it's just super hot and super dry.
It's the dog days of summer, but we're still getting
a little bit of rain.
Speaker 4 (01:06):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (01:07):
This just man, this has been a week we're talking
about before the radio show, we're talking about food and grimlins.
Speaker 5 (01:13):
Yeah, I had a grimblin in my stove about two
months ago.
Speaker 4 (01:16):
Man, I tell you so, I don't. I guess it's
probably we've just kind of been working around it, you
know what I mean, because like this, I this guy's
got one speed and it's wide open. We're talking about
the eyes of the eyes of the stove. And uh
so Teresa's trying to cook something. This has been about
a month ago, and she's trying to you know, just
you know, she got it up about halfway and uh
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go back in there and that things gleaming red and
whatever she's trying to cook. She is super cooking and
uh so, now all of a sudden, and so that
was the one eye. You know, we're like, well crap,
you know, this thing's tapping out. So we're we're procrastinating
about going and getting another one over number one. We're
just busy as all get out, so it couldn't make
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it happen. So, uh we're like, well we still got
three good ones. You know, it's a weekend. Now that
it's like the grim ones moving from the eye to eye.
So I'm like, all right, we gotta bite the bullet. Yep.
But we did get a lot cooked for the fourth
it wasn't on the stove.
Speaker 5 (02:14):
I hope everybody had a good Fourth of July.
Speaker 4 (02:16):
Man, it was nice.
Speaker 6 (02:17):
I decided to paint my to redo my laundry room
on a holiday weekend because I had four days, right yeah,
and so I had everything was planned out in my head, right,
you knew how that goes.
Speaker 5 (02:27):
So I get home Thursday, so we had we were
closed Thursday Friday.
Speaker 6 (02:31):
I get home Wednesday night, I'm gonna unload everything, and
then I'm gonna go ahead and rip up the old floor.
And then Thursday morning, I'm gonna wake up and I'm gonna.
Speaker 5 (02:41):
Lay the lay the back or board down.
Speaker 6 (02:43):
I'm gonna put the rent of the porcelain towel down,
and I get that done, and then the next day
I'm gonna do the grout the next day. So I
had it all planned out, but you know, you don't
take into consideration like going to the pool and swimming
and cooking and eating and not getting home till nine o'clock.
So here we are on weekend too. Hopefully all finish
it this weekend, because when you have three kids, you
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know that are all active it all, do you know
anything and everything imaginable outside.
Speaker 5 (03:09):
When your laundry room goes down, it's not cool.
Speaker 4 (03:12):
It's crisis.
Speaker 5 (03:14):
It's a crisis situation.
Speaker 6 (03:15):
So we were we were taking our haul in our
clothes last weekend to you know, the in law's house
and the sister in law's house.
Speaker 5 (03:22):
Mother in law and sister.
Speaker 4 (03:25):
Right there in town.
Speaker 6 (03:27):
I can't complain. So we start a load of clothes
and we go swim. And then we switched the clothes
and we go swim. So I mean, we you know,
it's all right, that's not a bad that's not a
bad way to do it. Well, So your stove went out.
My stove went out like two months ago. There was
some little control panel that turns on it that turns
on everything.
Speaker 7 (03:44):
Like.
Speaker 5 (03:44):
It's not the buttons that you push. It's at the
back of the stove.
Speaker 6 (03:48):
And it it had a little terminal on it that
burn up. And I ordered a new one and put
that on and about that worked for about I don't know,
five six months something like that. Going to cook something
and I think it may have been it was it
was the weekend before Memorial Day. I was going to
cook something and Claire comes in there and she's like, Dad,
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you smell that? And I said, yeah, she said, that
smells like burning plastic. And so I pulled the stove
out and I look down at that little control panel
that I replaced, and there's smoke coming out of it.
I'm like, oh, gosh, man, we got family, and we
got family coming in for a Memorial Day, right, And
I'm known for like my big breakfast in the morning
when the when the cousins come in, and long story short,
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the stove that Sarah wan and I told Sarah, I
was like, I really could care less what stove.
Speaker 4 (04:35):
You know, what stove you get.
Speaker 6 (04:36):
You pick out the one you want, because it'll probably
be hopefully knock.
Speaker 5 (04:40):
On wood, it'll be the last one we get.
Speaker 6 (04:42):
For a minute, I said, you pick out the one
you want, and so we go get it. Luckily, it
was Memorial Day, so everybody's got them on sell. Well
it's back ordered, so it takes like three and a
half weeks to get there. So for three and a
half weeks, we're air frying and we're grilling, and we're microwaving,
and I've got my burners set up on the back deck,
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you know, boiling.
Speaker 4 (05:03):
Water and stuff like that. I see like mine. Mine
is like if I did, I feel like if I
didn't go get a new stove for like the next
six months, like I can make it happen. Yeah, like
it'd still be all right, But I'm just like died.
I'm done with it. Yeah, like mine's turn. Yeah mine,
Like it hadn't started smoking or anything. Yeah, like yeah, yeah.
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If it ever started smoking and the smoke's not coming
from the inside of it, we got a problem, right,
you know. Yeah. So the fourth I just smoked a
bunch of ribs for everybody. So, like like norm White,
I smoked seven slabs of ribs and I am and
you know, it's it's pretty cool because I just got
in the last of them corns. So while I was
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while I was cooking ribs, I literally picked don't know
a couple of five gallon buckets full of corn, and uh,
I gave two thirds of that away, and right, I
just grabbed like six ears of corn out of there
and hand it Teres and I said, take this up
there and throw it in there and bullet and so
we had, you know, fresh corn out of the garden
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and smoked ribs and squashed cast row and potato salad.
And it was it was too good.
Speaker 6 (06:21):
Yeah, my brother I didn't do any cooking because I
was busy and I normally smoked a couple of Boston
butts or ribs or chicken. But my brother in law
did and we had ribs and they were good. But
we picked some of that corn from from Chris Keith
Magical Guard.
Speaker 4 (06:34):
Oh yeah, we went like we went like a quarter
a row filled up.
Speaker 5 (06:38):
I got a big turkey frying pot.
Speaker 6 (06:40):
You know, ither thing probably stands, oh, I don't know,
three feet tall, and we uh.
Speaker 4 (06:45):
So, I gave Mike an in some he can and
I showed it up with corn so that the monster
Igloo cooler, you know, the big orange cooler. I stuffed
that thing. I put as many ears of corn as
you could stuff in that thing, and then filled that
thing up with ice. And I took it up there
in the office and saidar and Ann, there's your You
and Mike some corn. It was good boy of the house.
And Mike texting me in the next morning a like
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four caught five o'clock in the morning, he said, I
think that was the best corn I've ever heard.
Speaker 6 (07:13):
That's everybody, well, everybody at the at my at our
house said the same thing.
Speaker 5 (07:18):
My mother in law is eating.
Speaker 6 (07:19):
It and she's like, man, this corn is so sweet
and juicy and it just pulls right off the cob.
And uh I took credit for it because I cooked it.
And I was like, well, it's just the way I
cooked it. But now I just kid.
Speaker 5 (07:30):
I said, no, Chris Keith knows how to grow some corn.
Speaker 4 (07:32):
Man.
Speaker 6 (07:33):
Me and a couple of girls are out doing a
few odds and ends, and I said, let's swing by
Chris Keiths and pick some corn. And that was I
guess that was Thursday before it was July third, and
we came through and picked some because we wanted it fresh.
Speaker 4 (07:46):
Yeah, so I agree with I've grown bodacious corn for
the last three years and man, it's been killer every year.
And uh the seed is high. I think it's something
like twenty seven dollars a pound for the sea what
is normal? But I mean a you know, obviously a
pen I can grow. I grow twelve rose of corn
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out of a PM. But uh, you know, I grew
up eating silver queen corn. That's what we always grew.
But this bodacious corn is, man, it's something else, and uh,
it producer real good, did real good. But yeah, now
I'm picking peas. I put up about five quarts of peas.
I've got probably five quarts to put up right now.
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I need to pull and uh picking tomatoes and okra,
a lot crazy squash is starting to kind of fade out.
I may even stick in a few more squashed seed
just where I can give some squash. Get Yeah, I
constantly I give away about as much as I eat.
But uh my, I bought me another freezer, so I
got I got plenty of room.
Speaker 5 (08:51):
You got like a vegetable freezer and a meat freezer right.
Speaker 4 (08:54):
Well, at home, you know, I've got one down in
my barn so that I can put like a you know,
it's got my deer meat and all that stuff in there.
And then uh you know my, uh now, i've got
room in there. I can stock some stuff up. But
at home, you know, I have to keep some of
everything up there. So I've got I've got uh squash
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up there and okrah and peas.
Speaker 6 (09:16):
And when you go grocery shopping, you go to the
barn to that freezer.
Speaker 5 (09:20):
Yeah, that's what I do.
Speaker 4 (09:21):
I've got I can get lower in the house. I
come back. Yeah, I just kind of re replenish what's
from the barn, what's up there?
Speaker 5 (09:28):
So that's not I do that downstairs. I got downstairs freezer.
Speaker 6 (09:31):
And so we'll as we usually get one or two
hogs here and I'll get them cut how I want them.
And then you want to talk about the best breakfast sausage.
Speaker 4 (09:40):
And I'm just close to being able to raise hall.
Speaker 6 (09:43):
I know where I'm gonna come get mine. Yeah, I'm
out to we do that, about to do that every
I got. I got a I know a guy that
gives me a couple of bags of crappie here and there.
Speaker 5 (09:52):
Yeah, I got a.
Speaker 4 (09:53):
Freezer full of that too. I don't have to do
much in the grocery shopping. Go there and get some
meal and some flour, that's right, you know. And it's like, uh, well,
you know, we we'll go grab some porches, you know,
me and Teresa's being empty nesters now, you know, it's like,
what do you want for supper? Uh, let's do some
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port shops. Okay, I'll stop on the way of the house. Yeah,
and you just get a bill up grocers you know
or whatever for two people. So, uh that's pretty cool.
But uh yeah, Chris, well, we're probably not ready for
a break. Let's go ahead and do that. When we
come back, we'll actually talk some garden and we've been
talking food. Uh well, technically we've been talking gardening.
Speaker 5 (10:34):
Let's let's j garden about my card legit gardening.
Speaker 4 (10:37):
But uh yeah, we'll take a break. We'll take your
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Is brown and my shrup. They were back of the
Flass and Gardens and Landscape showing our number if you
want to calls, it's two O five four three nine
nine three seven two and uh, Chris, we've been doing
a lot of landscaping. You know. We had a short
week because of the fourth of July, and we were
busting it trying to get miss Carter's uh done over
in in Moody. That was a whoop funky patio. It
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had a little bit of everything going on with it.
So we laid flagstone. The flagstone dropped into a step treads.
The step treads dropped into a patio, and the patio
had a seat wall, and the patio had a fire
pit in it, and it had like some we reused
some twelve to twelve pavers that they already had and
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kind of relocated a pathway going and kind of veered
it off to where he's supposed to be putting in
a building down there or having a building build. I
don't know that you can get in and put a
building down in there.
Speaker 6 (16:25):
And isn't an amazing there's a house that we treat
I forget where it is.
Speaker 5 (16:31):
It's Uh.
Speaker 6 (16:33):
But it's like, how did they used to look at
that building? You're like, how did they get that thing
back here? And I know it's up in Gardendale area,
and I know the homeowners. I'm like, they didn't build
that themselves. And I guess the I guess the shed
company brought a prefab shed in and uh and built
it right there on site because you look at it,
because you know, most of time you'll see him thyough
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just delivering with a little you know, with their with
their dolly or whatever, and I'm looking at that thing,
I'm looking at the fence and happen. So they had
to build it on site. Oh man, anyway, sorry.
Speaker 4 (17:06):
That's good. So yes, we did that. They also we
put in like a dry creek bed that ain't dry
going down there to pipe the down spoutside on the
side of the house. We did had a lot going
on over there, and uh, with the rain and everything,
it rained every day on us over there. I mean
it was just literally slop every day. And uh man,
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we had a time with that one and then uh
left and there. So the first of this week we
started at Miss Mayor's and uh, very rare that I
do it. And nine times out of ten. Uh, you know,
Mike says, hey, we're going to add his own irrigation here,
you know, above this wall or something like that. Then
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I can jump in there do it. And I think
twice in the last fifteen years I had to tell
the customer I can't, I can't add irrigation there, and
it'd be something like the water is landlocked. So I've
got to like cut the driveway, you know, something, something
you know, like extreme. Yeah, yeah, it's got to be
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something major, because I mean, we bored under driveways all
the time, and we bore under sidewalks all the time,
like ninety nine point nine percent of the time, we
can make it happen. But this one I would have
had to cut the driveway or cut the because of
the way the driveway sits like it's like down, you know,
so you can't really you can't get an angle to bore. Yeah,
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otherwise when it came out on the other side of
it be ten feet deep and uh, you know, so
you'd have to cut concrete or do something you know major.
It's going to be a huge expense for the homeowner.
I tell them, I said, I just can't make that happen,
and that's twice and I think everyteen years.
Speaker 6 (18:53):
Yeah, like ever, the other time was probably you know,
they wanted irrigation, you know, three hundred feet up on
the top of the mounta on side or something, whether there.
Speaker 4 (19:01):
Was one one one time too, it was it wasn't practical,
like the lady already had irrigation in the backyard. She
already had you know, like MP sprinkler heads already up
on the top side, and he had in there that
we were gonna put drip back there. And I was
just like, it's only fifteen shrubs, so she's already got
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irrigation back here. You know. I'm it's gonna cost her
a thousand bucks to put irrigation, you know, drip, and
you know, it's just like she's already got a irrigation.
So we just kind of retro fit hers and maybe
maybe added a head or something like that and saved
her a thousand bucks kind of thing, you know. So
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that was the other time. We could have done it,
no problem. On that one. It was just looking kind
of looking out looking at fors like she's already got irrigation,
It'll be all right. Yeah, So we'd rather have drip
on it. You know, if we're installing you a irrigation
system and you got shrubs, well you know we're we're
gonna put drip on them. But in the in this case,
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she already had irrigation, so it was all right. But yeah,
we uh we So we were at Ms. Mayer's. We
uh what we do We we uh fit patch some
sawt over there at her house. It was bad and
uh we piped some down spouts to the back of
the yard and and uh they were already a drained
in the backs. We just piped those down spouts out
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to it. And then we did a big bed. We
don't do maintenance, but while we're doing something like that,
it's like if if we're out there doing some work
and you they had a little bed or whatever. We
went in there and weeded the bed for and sprayed
and put putting new bark out on the bed and
uh all that stuff. So that was a small job
we did Monday, and then uh we were at Paula Davis.
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Let's see Paula Thomas's. I was sick Tuesday. I don't know,
I got some kind of I don't know what boubonic plague.
For one day, and I was down and out and
came back Wednesday, and then we were at Paula Thomas's
when Wednesday and Thursday over there it rained on us
five times.
Speaker 5 (21:12):
Yeah, that was I came back in that day.
Speaker 6 (21:15):
I was working south of town measuring yards, giving quotes,
doing service calls and looking at yards. And I was
a Hoover Mountain Brook Vista Aviary and I got back
to the garden center and y'all are like drowned cats. Man,
all came in soaked, and I'm like, man, has it
been raining over here? And uh, you know, like yeah,
And I looked at the radar. About that point there
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was one little blip that had just moved out of Trustville,
little solid red and I was like, man, it's been
sunny all day.
Speaker 5 (21:41):
Down down and Hoover.
Speaker 4 (21:42):
Got it came a hurricane on us and it just
came a flood. So we got everything we needed to
do done over there. All we could do done over
there that day. Uh the next day, so I went
and got the sod that evening. We Paula had some
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some twelve by twelve pavers and she had some crate
myrtles taken out and those crpe myrtles, the roots of
them had the whoever did the took the crate myrtles
out didn't do a good job of getting all the
roots out and all that stuff. So she had crape
martles coming up all over the place. And we went
in there with the excavator and dug all the roots
out of there, took those pavers up. They had those
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pavers bucked and they were just they were just screwed up,
all of them. So we took all of her pavers up.
We took them, put them on the on the on
the concrete, and we pressure washed all of them because
they had a moss and just funk all over them.
And uh took those pavers and relaid them back perfect
and then uh you put bark on either side or
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bark on the right side of that around the air
scare conditioning unit sided where the old crpe myrtle used
to be. There was a crpe myrtle on the other
side of the driveway. We went in there and resided
that area and dug out all the roots and all
that stuff on to and clean that up. New shrubs
around the front of the house. She had a brick
soldier course on one side, they had screwed it up
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and they took out a tree on the right hand
side of the house. I'm not sure what kind of
tree it was, but somebody had removed a tree there
and they screwed the soldier course up. So we fixed
her soldier course of brick on that side and we
were able to get all her stuff done in a
couple of days, and then we finished up the week
at Kathy Anthony's. She's been a customer of ours for
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god who knows how many years. She's over iron in
Cambridge and on the right down there, and we put
in an irrigation system and resided her yard and then
did work in the backyard. That was like three different jobs.
And then her and her neighbor she had a neighbor
on the left hand side of her Chris Like, she
went to work one day and when she came back
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to the house, the neighbor had put fifty seven gravel
between her house and his house. Like the whole thing wow,
But I mean like she comes home and her Yeah,
she went from having a grass to have and gravel and.
Speaker 5 (24:07):
She obviously she was not very happy I met.
Speaker 4 (24:10):
Yeah, she went off like a bomb. And so anyway, Yeah,
well the thing about it is too she owns three
quarters of that side. Yeah, and she has great grass,
her grasses, Yeah, I mean it is thick and it's
virtually flawless. So when we did the work in the backyard,
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she was furious about that happening. So, uh, but we
had to cap some heads going down that side because
they were the left side ran with the right side
of the driveway. But with the two together, she had
like fifteen heads on one's own, so she was starving
the right hand side with the six heads that were
on the left hand side. So we capped all that off.
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And uh, now the new neighbor that's on the left
of her is a very nice guy, and uh he
is in total agreement with her. He wants grass over there,
so he's gonna pay for the grass and she's gonna
water the grass. All right, So we got it. So
we went back through there and added the news on
irrigation now on the left hand side of the house
yesterday and uh she had a down spout added on
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that side of the house because she had two down
spots and it's like a seventy foot run and uh,
so she had another one in the middle and it
wasn't piped in with the other two, so we piped
that in there. Uh she had another spot in there
was damaged on that, so we fixed that for So
we knocked that out yesterday. So yeah, I've been busy.
Speaker 6 (25:38):
I'm surprised I didn't see you down there because I
was in Bainbridge looking at a couple of yards.
Speaker 4 (25:42):
We weren't there long.
Speaker 6 (25:43):
I mean I was there that yesterday afternoon. I guess
it was one or two o'clock.
Speaker 4 (25:47):
Now by the time we got we honestly were done
over there by eleven. I mean the ground's good on
that side of the house and we were able to
just going there in hand trench that thing right against
the house and we sucked it up. When you go
into that neighborhood, there's that yard on the left that
was solid pine straw.
Speaker 5 (26:03):
Right.
Speaker 6 (26:04):
I don't know if they pay attention, chinch bugs got
that thing last year, smoked the whole thing.
Speaker 4 (26:09):
Going in on the left right there. The house burnt down, Yeah,
and uh yeah, it was yeah, but I remember that
one that it looked like it was it looked like
they sprayed around.
Speaker 5 (26:21):
Uh yeah, they did because chinchbug killed ninety percent of it.
Speaker 4 (26:24):
Yeah, there was.
Speaker 6 (26:24):
And I was looking at Miss I was at Miss
Crane yesterday because she had a couple patches of chinchbugs
pop up in her yard. We were there treating it,
I don't know, two or three weeks ago, and uh
Logan was a technician out there and he said, hey,
I you know, found a couple spots of chinchbugs. And
her she's actually the sister for mister Phillips that lives
on the corner. That that's real, that's that nice nicely
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fifty two yard up on the corner, yep, and had
a couple of spots of chinch bugs. We treated it
while we was there, and I was just following up
on it, making sure that everything got put in checked
because those chinch bugs are all over the place right now.
If you've got dead spots in your yard that like
continue to spread.
Speaker 4 (27:03):
You know at eight drought, you know it's not drought.
Speaker 5 (27:05):
You know for in fact that it's not drought.
Speaker 6 (27:07):
And when I say dead, it's like down to the dirt,
there's like nothing there, and then there'll be like a
yellow kind of fringe around the outside edges of it.
Speaker 5 (27:16):
That's chinchbugs are.
Speaker 6 (27:17):
Crazy, crazy all particularly that area we see them Jefferson
and surrounding counties. But I don't know, about three four
years ago, all up and down Claremont Avenue they started
hitting there, and then they started moving over all around
like Mountain Brook High School, Irondale area, and so that
was kind of like ground zero for where we started
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seeing a bunch of those, and now they're pretty much
seeing them all over the place.
Speaker 4 (27:41):
Yeah, I'm sure when that first started taking place or whatever,
somebody probably had, you know, a yard siding, you know,
and that that stuff comes out of South Alabama, and
next thing you know, you know, it starts and this
is ground zero and it just kind of works out
from there.
Speaker 5 (27:59):
And the hotter and dryer it gets more they like it.
Speaker 6 (28:02):
So that's one of the things that kind of one
of the common things of yards that I find chinch
bugs on. It's like unrrigated zoisy yards in the middle
of summer when there's absolutely no rain and the adults
over winter. And so if you have them one year
and you don't get them taken care of, they don't
just go away, as adults will bury down into the
basically into the crevices of the grass and in the thatch,
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they'll overwinter and then when the weather becomes you know,
basically gets hot the nighttime temperatures are consistently fifteen sixty degrees,
they'll come back out. They'll start to repopulate and produce
more generations. And when they start doing their the significant
damage is when it's hot and dry. So most people
are mistaken thinking that, you know, okay, well it's just
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you know, drought damage or you know, the yards just
getting dry, and they'll they'll start watering, right, and those
spots keep getting bigger and bigger, and it's like, man,
I know I'm watering, but these spots keep getting bigger,
so they water more, right, and the spots get bigger
and water more, and the next thing you know, it's fall,
and you know, it's kind of like out of sight,
out of mind because by the time you get into
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October November and yeah, I don't care about you can't
tell I don't care about what went on, and then uh.
Speaker 5 (29:12):
It's just a sick cycle.
Speaker 6 (29:13):
And then the next the next year, they pop back up,
and so you got to get got to get them
checked out, and you got to get those things taken
care of, because they will destroy here or one destroy it,
no coming back.
Speaker 4 (29:24):
Yeah, and we've we've been lucky this year, you know,
because of all the moisture and everything that. You know,
it kind of masked that a little bit. Yeah, but
you know this time of year when you gets bomby
at seventy two or three degrees at night and it's
like ninety seven or eight degrees, they just thrive on
that stuff, and uh, you'll see more damage. You know
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if we hit like a five day dry spell. You know,
we we got a little sneaky dry. We did.
Speaker 5 (29:51):
We did a good sneak We call.
Speaker 4 (29:52):
It sneaky dry. You know, you get that five day
spell or whatever where you don't get in any rain.
It's kind of like okay, about to have to turn
on the irrigation and then go I said, no, I
don't worry about it.
Speaker 6 (30:01):
I got this and it's still sneaky dry. We'll talk
more about that when we come this year.
Speaker 5 (30:05):
They're still speaking riots.
Speaker 4 (30:07):
Oh yeah, Chris, Well yeah, let's go ahead and take
it break. We'll be right back on Classic Gardens Landscape Show.
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just troubleshooting, you know, plants and grass right now, that's
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one of the biggest things, like lawn care wise. We
were talking about chinch bugs before we went to break
but you know, fungus has been rampant in yards.
Speaker 5 (33:06):
I mean it's hot, it's humid, We're getting tons of rains.
Speaker 6 (33:09):
So, yeah, brown patches everywhere, dollar spots everywhere. You know,
we've been seeing a lot of chinch bugs. Uh, there's
a little type of bug called a broad headed bug
where the soison just starts to fade because they basically
just sucked life out of the out of zoyser grass.
And they're very very hard to find. I mean you'll
see me down on a yard like hands and knees
(33:30):
with my butt sticking up in there, like digging through
the yard looking for some of these things. And then
we talked about it's a lot of insects, a lot
of fungus. We were just talking about sneaky dry, right, Yeah,
and uh I had I was ariating yards this past
week and one day I did Gardendale, Mount of Olive, Kimberly,
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and I have a basically it's called it's called time pressure.
So I've got a machine that I stand on and
you're right around on. It punches holes in the ground
for the areation. And obviously the higher that time pressure is,
the more pressure there is, like pushing down on the
on the ground. Right, So when the yard's really wet,
I can basically take that time pressure and reduce it
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because it doesn't take as much force to punch the times.
Speaker 5 (34:18):
Down into the ground.
Speaker 6 (34:20):
The drier it gets or the harder the soil is,
I'll increase that pressure so that I'm able to pull
bigger plugs. Well, I was in I was in Mount Olive, Gardendale, Kimberly,
and I basically had that time pressures as low as
it would go because those yards are I mean, it
had rained every other day up there, you know, the
ground was wet and I was pulling like, you know,
one to three inch plugs down there.
Speaker 5 (34:41):
The next day.
Speaker 6 (34:42):
I was down in Hoover and that's when it rained
on you on trust fill, and I had that time
pressure set as high as it would go because those
yards were getting dry down there, and I was taking
pictures of hotspots popping up in people's yards because they
hadn't gotten as much rain in those neighborhoods that I
was in, know, compared to you know, Trustville spring.
Speaker 4 (35:02):
You never tell, I mean this year, like here, every
time there's been a rain anywhere, we got some of it.
Speaker 5 (35:09):
Oh it pours, yeah, I.
Speaker 4 (35:10):
May when we get it, we get it. Yeah, And uh,
there's still those spots, you know that. And we've been
around there on the on the opposite end of that
spectrum before. H you know, it seemed like, uh, it
rain everywhere but at the house. So you can't ever tell,
you know, this time of year when they say it's
a fifty to fifty chance or rain, uh, and that's
(35:30):
just about every day, then you're gonna have, you know,
those those particular spots that just it misses them. Yeah,
and uh, and you get you're to be the one
that has the water.
Speaker 6 (35:40):
You get in the upper eighties and lower nineties and
stuff dries out fast. I got sneaky dry on me
my flower pots. I came home yesterday my son. Patients
were telling on me because they were all they were
all wilton. And even though we'd gotten rain a couple
of days this past week, at what you know, with
it with it being that hot and the hanging basket
because I had I had lantana in my hang in
(36:01):
some hanging baskets that was drooping.
Speaker 5 (36:03):
You know, that's dry.
Speaker 6 (36:04):
Yeah, And luckily I got home last night, watered them
and they parked right back up. But that's one of
the things, is you just this time of year, you gotta,
you know, just basically stay pay attention to what's.
Speaker 5 (36:16):
Going on in your yard, water and wise because you.
Speaker 6 (36:18):
Know, we had tons of rain in May, had tons
of rain and jue that doesn't matter, that doesn't matter anymore.
All that rain was great. And then you know, then
but we get hot and dry. You give it three
four or five days of no rain in ninety degree
temperatures and stuff.
Speaker 5 (36:33):
Just dries out super fast.
Speaker 4 (36:34):
Yeah, I mean two inches of rain hits. And you know,
I could just say the other day at the garden
center it rained two inches that evening. After we left
from there and got to the house and came back
the next morning, there's two inches of rain in the
rain gauge and you're like, uh, you you give it
four days and you can't even tell you it did anything.
(36:57):
So it just it gets hot dries out fast, so
you just have to pay attention. Uh. I've been dealing
with a little bit of Japanese beetles of the house, Chris,
actually with my uh my okra. Yeah I didn't. I
hadn't sprayed it because it's kind of funny. They are.
All they're eating is leaves, So I'm like, I'm pruning
leaves off of it anyway, So what I care?
Speaker 5 (37:17):
Right, they're helping you out, all right, Yeah.
Speaker 4 (37:19):
I mean they're really not doing They haven't really, they
haven't messed with my tomatoes or anything. But I guess
Okre is their candy. You know a lot of times
if you got there's just certain plants, you know, a
rose bush man, they'll jump on that thing and tear
it up. Or you'll have like a cherry tree or
something like that. That's like they're candy, you know. I
(37:39):
guess okres they're candy because they they flocked to the
ochre and hadn't touched anything else.
Speaker 5 (37:44):
Well, luckily ochres is pretty strong growing playing oh yeah,
I don't worry about that.
Speaker 4 (37:48):
I ain't now. I ain't even thought about spraying that stuff.
I'm picking, okre so fast right now. I could give
everybody in springle.
Speaker 5 (37:55):
So I got so you brought me some of today, Yeah,
And I mean that was like.
Speaker 4 (37:59):
What I picked yesterday, right, I mean I'm cutting. I'll
cut that much again every day until I just get
tired of it and mow it down. Yeah. I mean
it's going nut.
Speaker 6 (38:08):
So this time of year, it's just not it's really
just not letting stuff sneak up on you.
Speaker 5 (38:12):
You know, you got dryness in the yard.
Speaker 6 (38:15):
Gosh, I think after I think before and after the
fourth of July, I saw so many Bermuda yards especially,
they got way out of balance, and people came back
and just gave them a crew cut basically because.
Speaker 4 (38:27):
They got Then you get this one right there and
it looks like they bush.
Speaker 6 (38:33):
Off, and you know, you're just like, yep, they were
at the beach for a week and they missed their mowing.
So you got to stay on top of mowing flower
bed weed control too. That's something that you just you
gotta stay after it. This time of year, with the
amount of rain that we've had. You're you can't let
you just gotta stay after it. You got to be
in their spray, and you got to be in there
pulling weeds.
Speaker 5 (38:52):
You know, you can put.
Speaker 6 (38:53):
Pre merging down in flower beds and that will help
to reduce the amount of weeds that you get. But
I spent an entire day last week going through just
doing some light pruning, pulling old polk.
Speaker 5 (39:03):
Salad that got ahead of me that was knee high.
Speaker 6 (39:06):
You know, you know, vines and like that morning watch
that stuff grow. Man, it's like all your beds look
good one week and then the next week you look
out there and you're like, what in the world just happened?
Speaker 5 (39:19):
Yeah, but it's really been three weeks since.
Speaker 4 (39:21):
You got You go like a month and you're like, man,
my place looking like a third world country.
Speaker 6 (39:26):
Right, And it's about it, really this time of year.
It's about determination. Because I was out this I was
outside this morning at six point thirty just wandering around
my yard and I had freaking gnats flying around in
my face and it's already hot. You know, you just
you gotta persevere if you want your yard to look good.
We got the rest of July and we got August
(39:47):
right except and by the end of August into September,
you know, things start to kind of lose their luster,
they start to slow down, and you know we're basically
in the fall. But the next six weeks you gotta
you got to persevere. You got to stay focused and
stay on it if you want your yard to continue
to look good.
Speaker 4 (40:04):
Yeah. Well, and if you've been gun ho on your
pre emergent, like and you you're not the person that
does the bag of gold, this this is actually a
pre emergent month. So you know, if if you didn't
put out the bag of gold back in the fall,
I mean back in the spring, then it's time to
do a pre emergent right now. And you stay on
(40:24):
top of those pre emergency if you're on that schedule,
you've got to do it every other month. And this
is a pre emergent month. And actually the pre emergent
we sell in the garden center this time of year
has a good shot a fertilizer in it, so it
just kind of revamps and kind of gets that grass
perk back up again. So if you have an issue
like a chinch bug issue or like you've had fungus
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or something like that kind of help push that damage
back out. So it works really well. But this is
a pre emergent month. If you need pre emergent and
go by the garden center, you know, Wednesday through Friday
and get that stuff. And we got David on the
Good Morning David. How you doing, buddy, Hey guys.
Speaker 9 (41:01):
Yeah, So my wife owns a child care facility and
we have like three big playgrounds. Now underneath the playsets
have big awnings and then we have AstroTurf, you know,
artificial turf, but we still have big areas of grass.
And so my problem is I've got spots of bad
spots of crab grass and a little bit of Dallas grass.
But you know, unfortunately, I've got to have like four
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solid days of no kids before i can put chemical
applications out right, so, you know, and unfortunately a lot
of times I'm having to put out you know, applications
when it's convenient for the school and the calendar versus
when it's convenient for when you're supposed to put it
out right. So sometimes pre merging I'm a little bit late,
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you know, because of that, I could have them close
the playground out for a couple of days when those
kids are, you know, locked up for a class as
a school classroom for eight nine hours. They don't want
to do that. So anything that's non toxicure like is
that Harris, was it vinegar or something? Will that do
the trick.
Speaker 6 (42:05):
I've never really I mean, I know there's a lot
of there's a lot of home stuff and natural stuff
and that might you could test it out. I mean,
you see a lot of different vinegar weed killers on
the market.
Speaker 5 (42:16):
I've never really tried them.
Speaker 4 (42:18):
Uh. Crab grass, crabgrass, even with grass is one hundred
percent controllable with pre emergent. It's just you got to
mess with a kid. So if you can get that
pre emerging out, you know early enough in the spring,
you know, you just get that what we call the
bag of gold. You put that stuff out in March,
and you put it out in the fall, uh, you know,
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in September, and that'll take care of crabgrass issues and
really for the most part the rest of your problems. Uh.
But Dallas grass is the uncontrollable weed. The only way
you're gonna get rid of it is dig it up. Anyways,
So if you got plumps of Dallas grass out there.
You'll have to wind up just digging those out and
you just fell it tough up with a little sand
or what and you know, just dig those things out
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of there. It kind of stinks, depending on how much
you got.
Speaker 9 (43:05):
You know, Yeah, I put some stuff, put stuff out,
like you know, come a good Friday. I put it
out Thursday night, you know, Thursday afternoons. I've got Friday, Saturday,
and Sunday. So you know that kind of works. But
it's just I gotta find holidays and work around it.
But what's the latest and what's the earliest on putting
out pre emerging in the fall.
Speaker 6 (43:23):
You know, A lot of that's just weather dependent. But
September is is really that key month, you know, September
October timeframe ideal if you can give it out September
so you got you know, labor once, you got Labor
Day weekend in September. So if you can try to
if you can try to manage it around then around there, uh,
you know, it'd be fantastic.
Speaker 5 (43:42):
I feel you, David on that.
Speaker 6 (43:44):
I mean, trying to schedule around that type stuff can
be can be very challenging.
Speaker 9 (43:49):
Yeah, well, you know I cut my yard with a
real more work.
Speaker 7 (43:52):
You know.
Speaker 9 (43:52):
It's like you can cut on my lawn and everybody's like,
why can't we have school graph Like I said, well,
I'm trying, but you know, it's just you know, understand it.
You know, my neighbors come out and say, why are
you putting fertilizer and stuff out, water and the heck
out of your yard in the middle of July. I
might well because I put a put a stomach fungus
side on it when I put it down, so I'll
get a fungus and everybody as got dollar spot and
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all kind of stuff all over the yard. But it's expensive,
but it works.
Speaker 6 (44:18):
So David, you're you're the You're the hard You're the
hardcore Di I wire that.
Speaker 4 (44:22):
You're the one in about You're the one in three thousand.
Speaker 6 (44:24):
You you control the universe to a certain extent when
it comes to your yard.
Speaker 4 (44:29):
And I love it.
Speaker 9 (44:31):
Yeah, yeah, I cut it with a real more or
twice a week, you know, cut it cross angle and
all that kind of stuff, And like, I just can't
have to do that, And so I go out with
the screwdriver, keep mirror gags, just bump all right, And
I use a screwdriver effect. And then you know, in
the morning, I have a cup of coffee, I'll turn
it on. But you know my neighbor, you know, we
had four inches of rain three days and he's got
that thing on automatic. It goes off three days. We're
(44:51):
gonna what you do? You know over water and over
water is worse than no what you know? All right, guys, Hey,
I enjoy your show, all right.
Speaker 4 (45:03):
Buddy David, and we're late for break. Let's goad and
do that. We'll be right back on Classic Guardens the
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I tell you, are shrubs in the garden Center. You
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Center and ours look like it's been on steroids. I mean,
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But those are tough plants, man, And your vitexts and
your butterfly bushes, you know, those are ones that they
could survive in the desert. Yeah, and uh, just absolutely
beautiful plants.
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Make the mistake they go in there, they buy one
of these tropical hibiscus and they use that thing and
it craps out for them in the summer, or you
know when the winter time comes out and it's it's
no good. It's an annual high biscus. The ones Ann's
got in the garden center are perennials, so you can
take those things and play them out in the yard
and man, you'll have a big, old pretty bush with
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blooms all over every year.
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My mother in law's got a perennial high biscus and
a big flower pot and it's been there since we
landscape their yard twenty years ago.
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I'm Chris King, I'm Chris Joiner.
Speaker 6 (00:49):
I hope everybody's doing fine on this hot weekend. Tis
July Tis July. Man, I'm gonna tell you it's like that.
I think you know, usually we talk about the dog
days of summer because it's just super hot and super dry.
It's the dog days of summer, but we're still getting
a little bit of rain.
Speaker 4 (01:06):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (01:07):
This just man, this has been a week we're talking
about before the radio show, we're talking about food and grimlins.
Speaker 5 (01:13):
Yeah, I had a grimblin in my stove about two
months ago.
Speaker 4 (01:16):
Man, I tell you so, I don't. I guess it's
probably we've just kind of been working around it, you
know what I mean, because like this, I this guy's
got one speed and it's wide open. We're talking about
the eyes of the eyes of the stove. And uh
so Teresa's trying to cook something. This has been about
a month ago, and she's trying to you know, just
you know, she got it up about halfway and uh
(01:39):
go back in there and that things gleaming red and
whatever she's trying to cook. She is super cooking and
uh so, now all of a sudden, and so that
was the one eye. You know, we're like, well crap,
you know, this thing's tapping out. So we're we're procrastinating
about going and getting another one over number one. We're
just busy as all get out, so it couldn't make
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it happen. So, uh we're like, well we still got
three good ones. You know, it's a weekend. Now that
it's like the grim ones moving from the eye to eye.
So I'm like, all right, we gotta bite the bullet. Yep.
But we did get a lot cooked for the fourth
it wasn't on the stove.
Speaker 5 (02:14):
I hope everybody had a good Fourth of July.
Speaker 4 (02:16):
Man, it was nice.
Speaker 6 (02:17):
I decided to paint my to redo my laundry room
on a holiday weekend because I had four days, right yeah,
and so I had everything was planned out in my head, right,
you knew how that goes.
Speaker 5 (02:27):
So I get home Thursday, so we had we were
closed Thursday Friday.
Speaker 6 (02:31):
I get home Wednesday night, I'm gonna unload everything, and
then I'm gonna go ahead and rip up the old floor.
And then Thursday morning, I'm gonna wake up and I'm gonna.
Speaker 5 (02:41):
Lay the lay the back or board down.
Speaker 6 (02:43):
I'm gonna put the rent of the porcelain towel down,
and I get that done, and then the next day
I'm gonna do the grout the next day. So I
had it all planned out, but you know, you don't
take into consideration like going to the pool and swimming
and cooking and eating and not getting home till nine o'clock.
So here we are on weekend too. Hopefully all finish
it this weekend, because when you have three kids, you
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know that are all active it all, do you know
anything and everything imaginable outside.
Speaker 5 (03:09):
When your laundry room goes down, it's not cool.
Speaker 4 (03:12):
It's crisis.
Speaker 5 (03:14):
It's a crisis situation.
Speaker 6 (03:15):
So we were we were taking our haul in our
clothes last weekend to you know, the in law's house
and the sister in law's house.
Speaker 5 (03:22):
Mother in law and sister.
Speaker 4 (03:25):
Right there in town.
Speaker 6 (03:27):
I can't complain. So we start a load of clothes
and we go swim. And then we switched the clothes
and we go swim. So I mean, we you know,
it's all right, that's not a bad that's not a
bad way to do it. Well, So your stove went out.
My stove went out like two months ago. There was
some little control panel that turns on it that turns
on everything.
Speaker 7 (03:44):
Like.
Speaker 5 (03:44):
It's not the buttons that you push. It's at the
back of the stove.
Speaker 6 (03:48):
And it it had a little terminal on it that
burn up. And I ordered a new one and put
that on and about that worked for about I don't know,
five six months something like that. Going to cook something
and I think it may have been it was it
was the weekend before Memorial Day. I was going to
cook something and Claire comes in there and she's like, Dad,
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you smell that? And I said, yeah, she said, that
smells like burning plastic. And so I pulled the stove
out and I look down at that little control panel
that I replaced, and there's smoke coming out of it.
I'm like, oh, gosh, man, we got family, and we
got family coming in for a Memorial Day, right, And
I'm known for like my big breakfast in the morning
when the when the cousins come in, and long story short,
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the stove that Sarah wan and I told Sarah, I
was like, I really could care less what stove.
Speaker 4 (04:35):
You know, what stove you get.
Speaker 6 (04:36):
You pick out the one you want, because it'll probably
be hopefully knock.
Speaker 5 (04:40):
On wood, it'll be the last one we get.
Speaker 6 (04:42):
For a minute, I said, you pick out the one
you want, and so we go get it. Luckily, it
was Memorial Day, so everybody's got them on sell. Well
it's back ordered, so it takes like three and a
half weeks to get there. So for three and a
half weeks, we're air frying and we're grilling, and we're microwaving,
and I've got my burners set up on the back deck,
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you know, boiling.
Speaker 4 (05:03):
Water and stuff like that. I see like mine. Mine
is like if I did, I feel like if I
didn't go get a new stove for like the next
six months, like I can make it happen. Yeah, like
it'd still be all right, But I'm just like died.
I'm done with it. Yeah, like mine's turn. Yeah mine,
Like it hadn't started smoking or anything. Yeah, like yeah, yeah.
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If it ever started smoking and the smoke's not coming
from the inside of it, we got a problem, right,
you know. Yeah. So the fourth I just smoked a
bunch of ribs for everybody. So, like like norm White,
I smoked seven slabs of ribs and I am and
you know, it's it's pretty cool because I just got
in the last of them corns. So while I was
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while I was cooking ribs, I literally picked don't know
a couple of five gallon buckets full of corn, and uh,
I gave two thirds of that away, and right, I
just grabbed like six ears of corn out of there
and hand it Teres and I said, take this up
there and throw it in there and bullet and so
we had, you know, fresh corn out of the garden
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and smoked ribs and squashed cast row and potato salad.
And it was it was too good.
Speaker 6 (06:21):
Yeah, my brother I didn't do any cooking because I
was busy and I normally smoked a couple of Boston
butts or ribs or chicken. But my brother in law
did and we had ribs and they were good. But
we picked some of that corn from from Chris Keith
Magical Guard.
Speaker 4 (06:34):
Oh yeah, we went like we went like a quarter
a row filled up.
Speaker 5 (06:38):
I got a big turkey frying pot.
Speaker 6 (06:40):
You know, ither thing probably stands, oh, I don't know,
three feet tall, and we uh.
Speaker 4 (06:45):
So, I gave Mike an in some he can and
I showed it up with corn so that the monster
Igloo cooler, you know, the big orange cooler. I stuffed
that thing. I put as many ears of corn as
you could stuff in that thing, and then filled that
thing up with ice. And I took it up there
in the office and saidar and Ann, there's your You
and Mike some corn. It was good boy of the house.
And Mike texting me in the next morning a like
(07:08):
four caught five o'clock in the morning, he said, I
think that was the best corn I've ever heard.
Speaker 6 (07:13):
That's everybody, well, everybody at the at my at our
house said the same thing.
Speaker 5 (07:18):
My mother in law is eating.
Speaker 6 (07:19):
It and she's like, man, this corn is so sweet
and juicy and it just pulls right off the cob.
And uh I took credit for it because I cooked it.
And I was like, well, it's just the way I
cooked it. But now I just kid.
Speaker 5 (07:30):
I said, no, Chris Keith knows how to grow some corn.
Speaker 4 (07:32):
Man.
Speaker 6 (07:33):
Me and a couple of girls are out doing a
few odds and ends, and I said, let's swing by
Chris Keiths and pick some corn. And that was I
guess that was Thursday before it was July third, and
we came through and picked some because we wanted it fresh.
Speaker 4 (07:46):
Yeah, so I agree with I've grown bodacious corn for
the last three years and man, it's been killer every year.
And uh the seed is high. I think it's something
like twenty seven dollars a pound for the sea what
is normal? But I mean a you know, obviously a
pen I can grow. I grow twelve rose of corn
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out of a PM. But uh, you know, I grew
up eating silver queen corn. That's what we always grew.
But this bodacious corn is, man, it's something else, and uh,
it producer real good, did real good. But yeah, now
I'm picking peas. I put up about five quarts of peas.
I've got probably five quarts to put up right now.
(08:30):
I need to pull and uh picking tomatoes and okra,
a lot crazy squash is starting to kind of fade out.
I may even stick in a few more squashed seed
just where I can give some squash. Get Yeah, I
constantly I give away about as much as I eat.
But uh my, I bought me another freezer, so I
got I got plenty of room.
Speaker 5 (08:51):
You got like a vegetable freezer and a meat freezer right.
Speaker 4 (08:54):
Well, at home, you know, I've got one down in
my barn so that I can put like a you know,
it's got my deer meat and all that stuff in there.
And then uh you know my, uh now, i've got
room in there. I can stock some stuff up. But
at home, you know, I have to keep some of
everything up there. So I've got I've got uh squash
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up there and okrah and peas.
Speaker 6 (09:16):
And when you go grocery shopping, you go to the
barn to that freezer.
Speaker 5 (09:20):
Yeah, that's what I do.
Speaker 4 (09:21):
I've got I can get lower in the house. I
come back. Yeah, I just kind of re replenish what's
from the barn, what's up there?
Speaker 5 (09:28):
So that's not I do that downstairs. I got downstairs freezer.
Speaker 6 (09:31):
And so we'll as we usually get one or two
hogs here and I'll get them cut how I want them.
And then you want to talk about the best breakfast sausage.
Speaker 4 (09:40):
And I'm just close to being able to raise hall.
Speaker 6 (09:43):
I know where I'm gonna come get mine. Yeah, I'm
out to we do that, about to do that every
I got. I got a I know a guy that
gives me a couple of bags of crappie here and there.
Speaker 5 (09:52):
Yeah, I got a.
Speaker 4 (09:53):
Freezer full of that too. I don't have to do
much in the grocery shopping. Go there and get some
meal and some flour, that's right, you know. And it's like, uh, well,
you know, we we'll go grab some porches, you know,
me and Teresa's being empty nesters now, you know, it's like,
what do you want for supper? Uh, let's do some
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port shops. Okay, I'll stop on the way of the house. Yeah,
and you just get a bill up grocers you know
or whatever for two people. So, uh that's pretty cool.
But uh yeah, Chris, well, we're probably not ready for
a break. Let's go ahead and do that. When we
come back, we'll actually talk some garden and we've been
talking food. Uh well, technically we've been talking gardening.
Speaker 5 (10:34):
Let's let's j garden about my card legit gardening.
Speaker 4 (10:37):
But uh yeah, we'll take a break. We'll take your
calls two A five four three nine nine three seven two.
We'll be right back on the Classic Gardens of the
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Is brown and my shrup. They were back of the
Flass and Gardens and Landscape showing our number if you
want to calls, it's two O five four three nine
nine three seven two and uh, Chris, we've been doing
a lot of landscaping. You know. We had a short
week because of the fourth of July, and we were
busting it trying to get miss Carter's uh done over
in in Moody. That was a whoop funky patio. It
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had a little bit of everything going on with it.
So we laid flagstone. The flagstone dropped into a step treads.
The step treads dropped into a patio, and the patio
had a seat wall, and the patio had a fire
pit in it, and it had like some we reused
some twelve to twelve pavers that they already had and
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kind of relocated a pathway going and kind of veered
it off to where he's supposed to be putting in
a building down there or having a building build. I
don't know that you can get in and put a
building down in there.
Speaker 6 (16:25):
And isn't an amazing there's a house that we treat
I forget where it is.
Speaker 5 (16:31):
It's Uh.
Speaker 6 (16:33):
But it's like, how did they used to look at
that building? You're like, how did they get that thing
back here? And I know it's up in Gardendale area,
and I know the homeowners. I'm like, they didn't build
that themselves. And I guess the I guess the shed
company brought a prefab shed in and uh and built
it right there on site because you look at it,
because you know, most of time you'll see him thyough
(16:53):
just delivering with a little you know, with their with
their dolly or whatever, and I'm looking at that thing,
I'm looking at the fence and happen. So they had
to build it on site. Oh man, anyway, sorry.
Speaker 4 (17:06):
That's good. So yes, we did that. They also we
put in like a dry creek bed that ain't dry
going down there to pipe the down spoutside on the
side of the house. We did had a lot going
on over there, and uh, with the rain and everything,
it rained every day on us over there. I mean
it was just literally slop every day. And uh man,
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we had a time with that one and then uh
left and there. So the first of this week we
started at Miss Mayor's and uh, very rare that I
do it. And nine times out of ten. Uh, you know,
Mike says, hey, we're going to add his own irrigation here,
you know, above this wall or something like that. Then
(17:49):
I can jump in there do it. And I think
twice in the last fifteen years I had to tell
the customer I can't, I can't add irrigation there, and
it'd be something like the water is landlocked. So I've
got to like cut the driveway, you know, something, something
you know, like extreme. Yeah, yeah, it's got to be
(18:11):
something major, because I mean, we bored under driveways all
the time, and we bore under sidewalks all the time,
like ninety nine point nine percent of the time, we
can make it happen. But this one I would have
had to cut the driveway or cut the because of
the way the driveway sits like it's like down, you know,
so you can't really you can't get an angle to bore. Yeah,
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otherwise when it came out on the other side of
it be ten feet deep and uh, you know, so
you'd have to cut concrete or do something you know major.
It's going to be a huge expense for the homeowner.
I tell them, I said, I just can't make that happen,
and that's twice and I think everyteen years.
Speaker 6 (18:53):
Yeah, like ever, the other time was probably you know,
they wanted irrigation, you know, three hundred feet up on
the top of the mounta on side or something, whether there.
Speaker 4 (19:01):
Was one one one time too, it was it wasn't practical,
like the lady already had irrigation in the backyard. She
already had you know, like MP sprinkler heads already up
on the top side, and he had in there that
we were gonna put drip back there. And I was
just like, it's only fifteen shrubs, so she's already got
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irrigation back here. You know. I'm it's gonna cost her
a thousand bucks to put irrigation, you know, drip, and
you know, it's just like she's already got a irrigation.
So we just kind of retro fit hers and maybe
maybe added a head or something like that and saved
her a thousand bucks kind of thing, you know. So
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that was the other time. We could have done it,
no problem. On that one. It was just looking kind
of looking out looking at fors like she's already got irrigation,
It'll be all right. Yeah, So we'd rather have drip
on it. You know, if we're installing you a irrigation
system and you got shrubs, well you know we're we're
gonna put drip on them. But in the in this case,
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she already had irrigation, so it was all right. But yeah,
we uh we So we were at Ms. Mayer's. We
uh what we do We we uh fit patch some
sawt over there at her house. It was bad and
uh we piped some down spouts to the back of
the yard and and uh they were already a drained
in the backs. We just piped those down spouts out
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to it. And then we did a big bed. We
don't do maintenance, but while we're doing something like that,
it's like if if we're out there doing some work
and you they had a little bed or whatever. We
went in there and weeded the bed for and sprayed
and put putting new bark out on the bed and
uh all that stuff. So that was a small job
we did Monday, and then uh we were at Paula Davis.
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Let's see Paula Thomas's. I was sick Tuesday. I don't know,
I got some kind of I don't know what boubonic plague.
For one day, and I was down and out and
came back Wednesday, and then we were at Paula Thomas's
when Wednesday and Thursday over there it rained on us
five times.
Speaker 5 (21:12):
Yeah, that was I came back in that day.
Speaker 6 (21:15):
I was working south of town measuring yards, giving quotes,
doing service calls and looking at yards. And I was
a Hoover Mountain Brook Vista Aviary and I got back
to the garden center and y'all are like drowned cats. Man,
all came in soaked, and I'm like, man, has it
been raining over here? And uh, you know, like yeah,
And I looked at the radar. About that point there
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was one little blip that had just moved out of Trustville,
little solid red and I was like, man, it's been
sunny all day.
Speaker 5 (21:41):
Down down and Hoover.
Speaker 4 (21:42):
Got it came a hurricane on us and it just
came a flood. So we got everything we needed to
do done over there. All we could do done over
there that day. Uh the next day, so I went
and got the sod that evening. We Paula had some
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some twelve by twelve pavers and she had some crate
myrtles taken out and those crpe myrtles, the roots of
them had the whoever did the took the crate myrtles
out didn't do a good job of getting all the
roots out and all that stuff. So she had crape
martles coming up all over the place. And we went
in there with the excavator and dug all the roots
out of there, took those pavers up. They had those
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pavers bucked and they were just they were just screwed up,
all of them. So we took all of her pavers up.
We took them, put them on the on the on
the concrete, and we pressure washed all of them because
they had a moss and just funk all over them.
And uh took those pavers and relaid them back perfect
and then uh you put bark on either side or
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bark on the right side of that around the air
scare conditioning unit sided where the old crpe myrtle used
to be. There was a crpe myrtle on the other
side of the driveway. We went in there and resided
that area and dug out all the roots and all
that stuff on to and clean that up. New shrubs
around the front of the house. She had a brick
soldier course on one side, they had screwed it up
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and they took out a tree on the right hand
side of the house. I'm not sure what kind of
tree it was, but somebody had removed a tree there
and they screwed the soldier course up. So we fixed
her soldier course of brick on that side and we
were able to get all her stuff done in a
couple of days, and then we finished up the week
at Kathy Anthony's. She's been a customer of ours for
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god who knows how many years. She's over iron in
Cambridge and on the right down there, and we put
in an irrigation system and resided her yard and then
did work in the backyard. That was like three different jobs.
And then her and her neighbor she had a neighbor
on the left hand side of her Chris Like, she
went to work one day and when she came back
(23:51):
to the house, the neighbor had put fifty seven gravel
between her house and his house. Like the whole thing wow,
But I mean like she comes home and her Yeah,
she went from having a grass to have and gravel and.
Speaker 5 (24:07):
She obviously she was not very happy I met.
Speaker 4 (24:10):
Yeah, she went off like a bomb. And so anyway, Yeah,
well the thing about it is too she owns three
quarters of that side. Yeah, and she has great grass,
her grasses, Yeah, I mean it is thick and it's
virtually flawless. So when we did the work in the backyard,
(24:30):
she was furious about that happening. So, uh, but we
had to cap some heads going down that side because
they were the left side ran with the right side
of the driveway. But with the two together, she had
like fifteen heads on one's own, so she was starving
the right hand side with the six heads that were
on the left hand side. So we capped all that off.
(24:53):
And uh, now the new neighbor that's on the left
of her is a very nice guy, and uh he
is in total agreement with her. He wants grass over there,
so he's gonna pay for the grass and she's gonna
water the grass. All right, So we got it. So
we went back through there and added the news on
irrigation now on the left hand side of the house
yesterday and uh she had a down spout added on
(25:17):
that side of the house because she had two down
spots and it's like a seventy foot run and uh,
so she had another one in the middle and it
wasn't piped in with the other two, so we piped
that in there. Uh she had another spot in there
was damaged on that, so we fixed that for So
we knocked that out yesterday. So yeah, I've been busy.
Speaker 6 (25:38):
I'm surprised I didn't see you down there because I
was in Bainbridge looking at a couple of yards.
Speaker 4 (25:42):
We weren't there long.
Speaker 6 (25:43):
I mean I was there that yesterday afternoon. I guess
it was one or two o'clock.
Speaker 4 (25:47):
Now by the time we got we honestly were done
over there by eleven. I mean the ground's good on
that side of the house and we were able to
just going there in hand trench that thing right against
the house and we sucked it up. When you go
into that neighborhood, there's that yard on the left that
was solid pine straw.
Speaker 5 (26:03):
Right.
Speaker 6 (26:04):
I don't know if they pay attention, chinch bugs got
that thing last year, smoked the whole thing.
Speaker 4 (26:09):
Going in on the left right there. The house burnt down, Yeah,
and uh yeah, it was yeah, but I remember that
one that it looked like it was it looked like
they sprayed around.
Speaker 5 (26:21):
Uh yeah, they did because chinchbug killed ninety percent of it.
Speaker 4 (26:24):
Yeah, there was.
Speaker 6 (26:24):
And I was looking at Miss I was at Miss
Crane yesterday because she had a couple patches of chinchbugs
pop up in her yard. We were there treating it,
I don't know, two or three weeks ago, and uh
Logan was a technician out there and he said, hey,
I you know, found a couple spots of chinchbugs. And
her she's actually the sister for mister Phillips that lives
on the corner. That that's real, that's that nice nicely
(26:46):
fifty two yard up on the corner, yep, and had
a couple of spots of chinch bugs. We treated it
while we was there, and I was just following up
on it, making sure that everything got put in checked
because those chinch bugs are all over the place right now.
If you've got dead spots in your yard that like
continue to spread.
Speaker 4 (27:03):
You know at eight drought, you know it's not drought.
Speaker 5 (27:05):
You know for in fact that it's not drought.
Speaker 6 (27:07):
And when I say dead, it's like down to the dirt,
there's like nothing there, and then there'll be like a
yellow kind of fringe around the outside edges of it.
Speaker 5 (27:16):
That's chinchbugs are.
Speaker 6 (27:17):
Crazy, crazy all particularly that area we see them Jefferson
and surrounding counties. But I don't know, about three four
years ago, all up and down Claremont Avenue they started
hitting there, and then they started moving over all around
like Mountain Brook High School, Irondale area, and so that
was kind of like ground zero for where we started
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seeing a bunch of those, and now they're pretty much
seeing them all over the place.
Speaker 4 (27:41):
Yeah, I'm sure when that first started taking place or whatever,
somebody probably had, you know, a yard siding, you know,
and that that stuff comes out of South Alabama, and
next thing you know, you know, it starts and this
is ground zero and it just kind of works out
from there.
Speaker 5 (27:59):
And the hotter and dryer it gets more they like it.
Speaker 6 (28:02):
So that's one of the things that kind of one
of the common things of yards that I find chinch
bugs on. It's like unrrigated zoisy yards in the middle
of summer when there's absolutely no rain and the adults
over winter. And so if you have them one year
and you don't get them taken care of, they don't
just go away, as adults will bury down into the
basically into the crevices of the grass and in the thatch,
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they'll overwinter and then when the weather becomes you know,
basically gets hot the nighttime temperatures are consistently fifteen sixty degrees,
they'll come back out. They'll start to repopulate and produce
more generations. And when they start doing their the significant
damage is when it's hot and dry. So most people
are mistaken thinking that, you know, okay, well it's just
(28:45):
you know, drought damage or you know, the yards just
getting dry, and they'll they'll start watering, right, and those
spots keep getting bigger and bigger, and it's like, man,
I know I'm watering, but these spots keep getting bigger,
so they water more, right, and the spots get bigger
and water more, and the next thing you know, it's fall,
and you know, it's kind of like out of sight,
out of mind because by the time you get into
(29:06):
October November and yeah, I don't care about you can't
tell I don't care about what went on, and then uh.
Speaker 5 (29:12):
It's just a sick cycle.
Speaker 6 (29:13):
And then the next the next year, they pop back up,
and so you got to get got to get them
checked out, and you got to get those things taken
care of, because they will destroy here or one destroy it,
no coming back.
Speaker 4 (29:24):
Yeah, and we've we've been lucky this year, you know,
because of all the moisture and everything that. You know,
it kind of masked that a little bit. Yeah, but
you know this time of year when you gets bomby
at seventy two or three degrees at night and it's
like ninety seven or eight degrees, they just thrive on
that stuff, and uh, you'll see more damage. You know
(29:45):
if we hit like a five day dry spell. You know,
we we got a little sneaky dry. We did.
Speaker 5 (29:51):
We did a good sneak We call.
Speaker 4 (29:52):
It sneaky dry. You know, you get that five day
spell or whatever where you don't get in any rain.
It's kind of like okay, about to have to turn
on the irrigation and then go I said, no, I
don't worry about it.
Speaker 6 (30:01):
I got this and it's still sneaky dry. We'll talk
more about that when we come this year.
Speaker 5 (30:05):
They're still speaking riots.
Speaker 4 (30:07):
Oh yeah, Chris, Well yeah, let's go ahead and take
it break. We'll be right back on Classic Gardens Landscape Show.
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one of the biggest things, like lawn care wise. We
were talking about chinch bugs before we went to break
but you know, fungus has been rampant in yards.
Speaker 5 (33:06):
I mean it's hot, it's humid, We're getting tons of rains.
Speaker 6 (33:09):
So, yeah, brown patches everywhere, dollar spots everywhere. You know,
we've been seeing a lot of chinch bugs. Uh, there's
a little type of bug called a broad headed bug
where the soison just starts to fade because they basically
just sucked life out of the out of zoyser grass.
And they're very very hard to find. I mean you'll
see me down on a yard like hands and knees
(33:30):
with my butt sticking up in there, like digging through
the yard looking for some of these things. And then
we talked about it's a lot of insects, a lot
of fungus. We were just talking about sneaky dry, right, Yeah,
and uh I had I was ariating yards this past
week and one day I did Gardendale, Mount of Olive, Kimberly,
(33:52):
and I have a basically it's called it's called time pressure.
So I've got a machine that I stand on and
you're right around on. It punches holes in the ground
for the areation. And obviously the higher that time pressure is,
the more pressure there is, like pushing down on the
on the ground. Right, So when the yard's really wet,
I can basically take that time pressure and reduce it
(34:14):
because it doesn't take as much force to punch the times.
Speaker 5 (34:18):
Down into the ground.
Speaker 6 (34:20):
The drier it gets or the harder the soil is,
I'll increase that pressure so that I'm able to pull
bigger plugs. Well, I was in I was in Mount Olive, Gardendale, Kimberly,
and I basically had that time pressures as low as
it would go because those yards are I mean, it
had rained every other day up there, you know, the
ground was wet and I was pulling like, you know,
one to three inch plugs down there.
Speaker 5 (34:41):
The next day.
Speaker 6 (34:42):
I was down in Hoover and that's when it rained
on you on trust fill, and I had that time
pressure set as high as it would go because those
yards were getting dry down there, and I was taking
pictures of hotspots popping up in people's yards because they
hadn't gotten as much rain in those neighborhoods that I
was in, know, compared to you know, Trustville spring.
Speaker 4 (35:02):
You never tell, I mean this year, like here, every
time there's been a rain anywhere, we got some of it.
Speaker 5 (35:09):
Oh it pours, yeah, I.
Speaker 4 (35:10):
May when we get it, we get it. Yeah, And uh,
there's still those spots, you know that. And we've been
around there on the on the opposite end of that
spectrum before. H you know, it seemed like, uh, it
rain everywhere but at the house. So you can't ever tell,
you know, this time of year when they say it's
a fifty to fifty chance or rain, uh, and that's
(35:30):
just about every day, then you're gonna have, you know,
those those particular spots that just it misses them. Yeah,
and uh, and you get you're to be the one
that has the water.
Speaker 6 (35:40):
You get in the upper eighties and lower nineties and
stuff dries out fast. I got sneaky dry on me
my flower pots. I came home yesterday my son. Patients
were telling on me because they were all they were
all wilton. And even though we'd gotten rain a couple
of days this past week, at what you know, with
it with it being that hot and the hanging basket
because I had I had lantana in my hang in
(36:01):
some hanging baskets that was drooping.
Speaker 5 (36:03):
You know, that's dry.
Speaker 6 (36:04):
Yeah, And luckily I got home last night, watered them
and they parked right back up. But that's one of
the things, is you just this time of year, you gotta,
you know, just basically stay pay attention to what's.
Speaker 5 (36:16):
Going on in your yard, water and wise because you.
Speaker 6 (36:18):
Know, we had tons of rain in May, had tons
of rain and jue that doesn't matter, that doesn't matter anymore.
All that rain was great. And then you know, then
but we get hot and dry. You give it three
four or five days of no rain in ninety degree
temperatures and stuff.
Speaker 5 (36:33):
Just dries out super fast.
Speaker 4 (36:34):
Yeah, I mean two inches of rain hits. And you know,
I could just say the other day at the garden
center it rained two inches that evening. After we left
from there and got to the house and came back
the next morning, there's two inches of rain in the
rain gauge and you're like, uh, you you give it
four days and you can't even tell you it did anything.
(36:57):
So it just it gets hot dries out fast, so
you just have to pay attention. Uh. I've been dealing
with a little bit of Japanese beetles of the house, Chris,
actually with my uh my okra. Yeah I didn't. I
hadn't sprayed it because it's kind of funny. They are.
All they're eating is leaves, So I'm like, I'm pruning
leaves off of it anyway, So what I care?
Speaker 5 (37:17):
Right, they're helping you out, all right, Yeah.
Speaker 4 (37:19):
I mean they're really not doing They haven't really, they
haven't messed with my tomatoes or anything. But I guess
Okre is their candy. You know a lot of times
if you got there's just certain plants, you know, a
rose bush man, they'll jump on that thing and tear
it up. Or you'll have like a cherry tree or
something like that. That's like they're candy, you know. I
(37:39):
guess okres they're candy because they they flocked to the
ochre and hadn't touched anything else.
Speaker 5 (37:44):
Well, luckily ochres is pretty strong growing playing oh yeah,
I don't worry about that.
Speaker 4 (37:48):
I ain't now. I ain't even thought about spraying that stuff.
I'm picking, okre so fast right now. I could give
everybody in springle.
Speaker 5 (37:55):
So I got so you brought me some of today, Yeah,
And I mean that was like.
Speaker 4 (37:59):
What I picked yesterday, right, I mean I'm cutting. I'll
cut that much again every day until I just get
tired of it and mow it down. Yeah. I mean
it's going nut.
Speaker 6 (38:08):
So this time of year, it's just not it's really
just not letting stuff sneak up on you.
Speaker 5 (38:12):
You know, you got dryness in the yard.
Speaker 6 (38:15):
Gosh, I think after I think before and after the
fourth of July, I saw so many Bermuda yards especially,
they got way out of balance, and people came back
and just gave them a crew cut basically because.
Speaker 4 (38:27):
They got Then you get this one right there and
it looks like they bush.
Speaker 6 (38:33):
Off, and you know, you're just like, yep, they were
at the beach for a week and they missed their mowing.
So you got to stay on top of mowing flower
bed weed control too. That's something that you just you
gotta stay after it. This time of year, with the
amount of rain that we've had. You're you can't let
you just gotta stay after it. You got to be
in their spray, and you got to be in there
pulling weeds.
Speaker 5 (38:52):
You know, you can put.
Speaker 6 (38:53):
Pre merging down in flower beds and that will help
to reduce the amount of weeds that you get. But
I spent an entire day last week going through just
doing some light pruning, pulling old polk.
Speaker 5 (39:03):
Salad that got ahead of me that was knee high.
Speaker 6 (39:06):
You know, you know, vines and like that morning watch
that stuff grow. Man, it's like all your beds look
good one week and then the next week you look
out there and you're like, what in the world just happened?
Speaker 5 (39:19):
Yeah, but it's really been three weeks since.
Speaker 4 (39:21):
You got You go like a month and you're like, man,
my place looking like a third world country.
Speaker 6 (39:26):
Right, And it's about it, really this time of year.
It's about determination. Because I was out this I was
outside this morning at six point thirty just wandering around
my yard and I had freaking gnats flying around in
my face and it's already hot. You know, you just
you gotta persevere if you want your yard to look good.
We got the rest of July and we got August
(39:47):
right except and by the end of August into September,
you know, things start to kind of lose their luster,
they start to slow down, and you know we're basically
in the fall. But the next six weeks you gotta
you got to persevere. You got to stay focused and
stay on it if you want your yard to continue
to look good.
Speaker 4 (40:04):
Yeah. Well, and if you've been gun ho on your
pre emergent, like and you you're not the person that
does the bag of gold, this this is actually a
pre emergent month. So you know, if if you didn't
put out the bag of gold back in the fall,
I mean back in the spring, then it's time to
do a pre emergent right now. And you stay on
(40:24):
top of those pre emergency if you're on that schedule,
you've got to do it every other month. And this
is a pre emergent month. And actually the pre emergent
we sell in the garden center this time of year
has a good shot a fertilizer in it, so it
just kind of revamps and kind of gets that grass
perk back up again. So if you have an issue
like a chinch bug issue or like you've had fungus
(40:45):
or something like that kind of help push that damage
back out. So it works really well. But this is
a pre emergent month. If you need pre emergent and
go by the garden center, you know, Wednesday through Friday
and get that stuff. And we got David on the
Good Morning David. How you doing, buddy, Hey guys.
Speaker 9 (41:01):
Yeah, So my wife owns a child care facility and
we have like three big playgrounds. Now underneath the playsets
have big awnings and then we have AstroTurf, you know,
artificial turf, but we still have big areas of grass.
And so my problem is I've got spots of bad
spots of crab grass and a little bit of Dallas grass.
But you know, unfortunately, I've got to have like four
(41:25):
solid days of no kids before i can put chemical
applications out right, so, you know, and unfortunately a lot
of times I'm having to put out you know, applications
when it's convenient for the school and the calendar versus
when it's convenient for when you're supposed to put it
out right. So sometimes pre merging I'm a little bit late,
(41:47):
you know, because of that, I could have them close
the playground out for a couple of days when those
kids are, you know, locked up for a class as
a school classroom for eight nine hours. They don't want
to do that. So anything that's non toxicure like is
that Harris, was it vinegar or something? Will that do
the trick.
Speaker 6 (42:05):
I've never really I mean, I know there's a lot
of there's a lot of home stuff and natural stuff
and that might you could test it out. I mean,
you see a lot of different vinegar weed killers on
the market.
Speaker 5 (42:16):
I've never really tried them.
Speaker 4 (42:18):
Uh. Crab grass, crabgrass, even with grass is one hundred
percent controllable with pre emergent. It's just you got to
mess with a kid. So if you can get that
pre emerging out, you know early enough in the spring,
you know, you just get that what we call the
bag of gold. You put that stuff out in March,
and you put it out in the fall, uh, you know,
(42:40):
in September, and that'll take care of crabgrass issues and
really for the most part the rest of your problems. Uh.
But Dallas grass is the uncontrollable weed. The only way
you're gonna get rid of it is dig it up. Anyways,
So if you got plumps of Dallas grass out there.
You'll have to wind up just digging those out and
you just fell it tough up with a little sand
or what and you know, just dig those things out
(43:02):
of there. It kind of stinks, depending on how much
you got.
Speaker 9 (43:05):
You know, Yeah, I put some stuff, put stuff out,
like you know, come a good Friday. I put it
out Thursday night, you know, Thursday afternoons. I've got Friday, Saturday,
and Sunday. So you know that kind of works. But
it's just I gotta find holidays and work around it.
But what's the latest and what's the earliest on putting
out pre emerging in the fall.
Speaker 6 (43:23):
You know, A lot of that's just weather dependent. But
September is is really that key month, you know, September
October timeframe ideal if you can give it out September
so you got you know, labor once, you got Labor
Day weekend in September. So if you can try to
if you can try to manage it around then around there, uh,
you know, it'd be fantastic.
Speaker 5 (43:42):
I feel you, David on that.
Speaker 6 (43:44):
I mean, trying to schedule around that type stuff can
be can be very challenging.
Speaker 9 (43:49):
Yeah, well, you know I cut my yard with a
real more work.
Speaker 7 (43:52):
You know.
Speaker 9 (43:52):
It's like you can cut on my lawn and everybody's like,
why can't we have school graph Like I said, well,
I'm trying, but you know, it's just you know, understand it.
You know, my neighbors come out and say, why are
you putting fertilizer and stuff out, water and the heck
out of your yard in the middle of July. I
might well because I put a put a stomach fungus
side on it when I put it down, so I'll
get a fungus and everybody as got dollar spot and
(44:14):
all kind of stuff all over the yard. But it's expensive,
but it works.
Speaker 6 (44:18):
So David, you're you're the You're the hard You're the
hardcore Di I wire that.
Speaker 4 (44:22):
You're the one in about You're the one in three thousand.
Speaker 6 (44:24):
You you control the universe to a certain extent when
it comes to your yard.
Speaker 4 (44:29):
And I love it.
Speaker 9 (44:31):
Yeah, yeah, I cut it with a real more or
twice a week, you know, cut it cross angle and
all that kind of stuff, And like, I just can't
have to do that, And so I go out with
the screwdriver, keep mirror gags, just bump all right, And
I use a screwdriver effect. And then you know, in
the morning, I have a cup of coffee, I'll turn
it on. But you know my neighbor, you know, we
had four inches of rain three days and he's got
that thing on automatic. It goes off three days. We're
(44:51):
gonna what you do? You know over water and over
water is worse than no what you know? All right, guys, Hey,
I enjoy your show, all right.
Speaker 4 (45:03):
Buddy David, and we're late for break. Let's goad and
do that. We'll be right back on Classic Guardens the
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How you need some, Yes, you need some fertolone.
Speaker 4 (48:10):
Vert alone h for a pre emergent. You need fertil
on pre emergent, that's right, and we sell that the
garden Center. Come see this Wednesday, Thursday or Friday eight
to four and we'll be glad to help you with that.
Speaker 6 (48:23):
Stuff and get you some limelight hydrangees. Right now, man,
aren't they pretty?
Speaker 4 (48:27):
I tell you, are shrubs in the garden Center. You
go in the big box store and there's look like
a wimpy little thing, and you come in the garden
Center and ours look like it's been on steroids. I mean,
are our encore ze is. Some of the larger varieties
are like over waist high. I mean they are killing
it right now. High drange is bleoming like crazy. I
(48:48):
mean it is nuts. And Ann's got Ann's got a
dozen or like a probably three different varieties of perennial
high biscuits that the Garden Center that have like dinner
plate size blooms on them right now. I'm talking about
all over them. I mean they are beautiful. Humming Birds
love those, man. If you want to hunt a shrub
(49:09):
for humming birds and butterflies, get your tropical hibiscus butterfly
bushes too. Obviously, butterflies love those.
Speaker 6 (49:16):
But those are tough plants, man, And your vitexts and
your butterfly bushes, you know, those are ones that they
could survive in the desert. Yeah, and uh, just absolutely
beautiful plants.
Speaker 4 (49:27):
Make the mistake they go in there, they buy one
of these tropical hibiscus and they use that thing and
it craps out for them in the summer, or you
know when the winter time comes out and it's it's
no good. It's an annual high biscus. The ones Ann's
got in the garden center are perennials, so you can
take those things and play them out in the yard
and man, you'll have a big, old pretty bush with
(49:47):
blooms all over every year.
Speaker 6 (49:49):
My mother in law's got a perennial high biscus and
a big flower pot and it's been there since we
landscape their yard twenty years ago.
Speaker 4 (49:56):
I put one on a big pot on a pool
for this people the first year, and the man, it
looks outstanding right now, Yes, sir, well churs. That means
it means we're out of time. Y'all call us eight
five four four thousand and five. If you need landscaping
irrigation not lighting. If you need a patio or a
taina wall, forest mulching, land clearing, you call us eight
(50:17):
five four four thousand and five. We'll see next week
on the Classic Gardens of Landscape shows
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