Classic Gardens from June 14th, 2025

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:10):
It's the Classic Gardens and Landscape Show all the ready
and if you want.

Speaker 3 (00:18):
Show up plants and grass to grow.

Speaker 4 (00:21):
Two docent Chris, Chris and Chris. Chris knows it, Chris
knows it. Chris knows it. Chris knows it. Chris knows it.
Chris knows it. Chris knows it. Chris knows it.

Speaker 3 (00:38):
And now you're a host. Chris Joiner and Chris Keith.
Good morning, welcome Classic Gardens a Landscape Show on the
w r C.

Speaker 5 (00:47):
I'm Chris Keen, I'm Chris Joyner. I hope everybody's doing
fine this morning. I'm telling you what, Chris Keys, Everything
is growing, ain't it. You couldn't ask for a better
like a better growing environment for everything. Lesure a hay farm. Oh,
it's growing, you know what I mean?

Speaker 3 (01:04):
Yeah, I tell you that. I guess all these guys
managed that, the ones that didn't just pun on it
or whatever, got up what they were gonna get up.

Speaker 6 (01:12):
You know, you know I wonder because you know they
had to.

Speaker 5 (01:15):
You know, the rain has been phenomenal this spring so far,
you know, knock on wood. I mean, we're gonna go hot,
We're gonna go drive eventually, but so far, Chris Keith,
rain has been spectacular and the temperatures are finally like
where they need to be for like everything to just explode.
Like I was walking around my yard this morning, and uh,

(01:37):
I'm looking at all my hydranges, all my ferns, all
my grass, all my every bush, every weed in my
natural areas. Everything is growing right now. It's hot and
it's human. And so when you walk outside, Chris Keith,
when you walk outside, Chris Keith, it uh, there is
no there is no crispness in the air. And your

(02:00):
predictions were right.

Speaker 3 (02:01):
I'm pretty I thought I was pretty on there.

Speaker 6 (02:04):
You're pretty on there. So when was this that we
talked about?

Speaker 2 (02:07):
It?

Speaker 6 (02:07):
Man, this must have been.

Speaker 3 (02:08):
That was back like April aprilright, No, No, No, it
was probably May because you know the grass is already was,
you know, in May. You know, that was probably around
the first of May. So when we were middle of
May and I was like, now, look, you know, once
we get to you know, the first of July. You know,

(02:28):
that's when the ground temperature. We were looking then at
the ground temperatures, and it was something like what was it?
Probably got it, you got it wrote down, but it
was still in the fifties. And that was several weeks ago. Anyway,
I said, all right, mark it down once we get

(02:48):
to the first week of June.

Speaker 5 (02:51):
So that was when we talked about this. The that says,
that says sixty two degrees.

Speaker 3 (02:58):
That was the ground temperature.

Speaker 5 (02:59):
That was a ground temperature, and that was that was it.
You had made the prediction before that. That was the
last show where we had where we had Brandon on,
and I want to tell you Brandon says it from
South Carolina. If he's listening on this podcast or you know, live,
I want to tell him hey, because he really enjoyed
doing a radio show.

Speaker 6 (03:17):
Yeah, but that was that was two weeks ago.

Speaker 5 (03:19):
But you'd made the prediction a few weeks before that,
and it was still in the fifties, and you said,
you said, by the second week of June, we're going
to be ground temperature is going to be probably somewhere
around seventy seven degrees, maybe maybe a little bit higher,
Chris Keith, and I sent you a screenshot yesterday because
you said, hey, remind us, remind me to talk about
that in the morning. And when I sent you that

(03:41):
screenshot from the same Syngenta has a website that you
can basically type in your location and they have soil observing,
you know, observations all over the US. But we were
the five day average was eighty two point six degrees
for the soil temperature. Yeah, and that is righteous for grass.

Speaker 3 (03:59):
That means it loves it. That means your grass is
gonna be humping it. It is. You can't keep if
you got a bermuda yard, you can't keep.

Speaker 5 (04:08):
Up there ain't there ain't no cutting every two weeks
or they're just getting too tall now and it's looking
like garbage after you cut it.

Speaker 6 (04:15):
Yeah, you know what I mean.

Speaker 5 (04:16):
So soil temperature is great, rain is great, you know,
and so that's the that's the that's the great thing
about it. But there's always some there's always a little
bit of frustration with that because like fungus is everywhere,
oh yeah, you know what I mean, Like dollar spot
is popping up all over bermuda yards. Rust fungus and

(04:36):
brown patchings oisia. Uh and that's just something that you
gotta spray. So I went, it's better than the alternative.

Speaker 6 (04:42):
I'm gonna go.

Speaker 5 (04:42):
Ahead and tell you right now, it's better than having
to run your irrigation, you know, three days a week
and get a couple hundred dollars water bill.

Speaker 3 (04:50):
You know, I've had it. I put irrigation on my garden,
you know, back when I first did my garden, and
I ran it last year. I'm talking about from the
time I landed the first seed until I picked the
last ear of corn. I'm talking about the whole duration
and the water bill through the roof. And this year,

(05:12):
I think I might have watered like when I dropped
my seed.

Speaker 6 (05:16):
Right you know what I mean.

Speaker 3 (05:17):
I think I just ran it enough to like get
it with and uh man, after that, that was it,
you know. And I've been meaning to put drip on
my squash and my tomatoes and I hadn't run it,
you know, I mean, you hell bear then able to
get out there in it, you know. I mean, I've
been picking squash and just tronking through the mud.

Speaker 5 (05:38):
We went, you know, squash is one of those vegetables,
and we got Mike and we'll go go ahead and
get Mike.

Speaker 6 (05:43):
Let's go ahead get back. How are you doing this morning, Mike.

Speaker 7 (05:46):
Hey, good morning, guys.

Speaker 3 (05:47):
I'm great.

Speaker 8 (05:47):
How about y'all.

Speaker 6 (05:49):
I was fixing to tell a story.

Speaker 5 (05:51):
So sometimes, you know, when squash gets you know, sixteen
eighteen inches long and as big a round as a
baseball bat, it's not worth any thing other than just
throwing in the yard.

Speaker 3 (06:01):
Right.

Speaker 5 (06:03):
Well, every every year, as I'm wandering around my flower
beds this time of year, or you know, a little
bit earlier, I'll see some like volunteer squash popping up,
you know, from where I threw squash out the year before,
where the seeds have been there over were Yeah, and
so and so when I do that, I don't I
don't kill it. I get my girls and we go
out there and and we dig it up. And I've

(06:24):
got kind of on my back forty I've got a
little spot where we just plant all that random stuff.
It's just fun for it's fun to get the girls
out in the garden. I know that we did that
growing up with you, Mike, especially with blueberries. But we
usually this wild squash, yes, but we are harvesting it
and it actually turned into yellows like it wasn't a gourd, Chris, really,

(06:48):
but uh, you know, squash is one of those things
if you let it go for too long, it grows exponentially.

Speaker 6 (06:55):
And we didn't pick it up.

Speaker 5 (06:56):
We didn't We didn't pick it for like two days,
and we blinked in it.

Speaker 6 (06:59):
We had like squashed boats all over the place.

Speaker 7 (07:02):
So that's just apparently where I picked up in the conversation.
As you've been talking about, I haven't been talking about
all the rain. And to follow your conversation, I have
not yet turned on my irrigation system in my lawn
this year. Haven't needed it now, you know.

Speaker 3 (07:19):
I was by Ladies house yesterday, Mike, and she was
complaining about the condition of her plants that we planted
for about two months ago. And I was just out
there a couple I was just out there a couple
of weeks ago and replaced a couple of shrubs, no charge.
That was the fourth time I've been out there. And

(07:39):
we give her a call and I lift one of
the plants out of the ground and the hole standing
full of water, and we give her a call and
she's got her irrigation system running Monday, Wednesday and Friday.
And I'm just like grand clues exactly. I'm like, get
a clue. We can't.

Speaker 7 (08:02):
No, they what's that comedian say? You can't fix stupid.
He says, you know, if you need new boobs, you
can get a boob job, you can get a facial,
you can get you know, all this stuff done, he said,
But you can't fix stupid. But people with irrigation systems,

(08:25):
I mean, you know, I've got one. A lot of
people do, but so many people do not pay attention
to them. Well, particularly commercial businesses. You go through and
it's raining and the irrigation systems running. But yeah, you've
got to pay attention to those things. And you've got
to pay attention to how much is it raining, and
if it's you know, if the sun's out, how long,

(08:45):
how many days in a row, is it windy?

Speaker 3 (08:48):
Is it hot?

Speaker 7 (08:48):
All those things make a difference on how often you
water or shouldn't water.

Speaker 8 (08:53):
But I was.

Speaker 7 (08:54):
Calling specifically today to talk about Dixie Sod Form, Dixie
Sod Farms coming up on their fiftieth year in business.
Classic Gardens lays a lot of sod and we depend
on Dixie Sod Farm They're the premier supplier of Zorija
and Bermuda in the South for most of our sod
A family run business. I was just visiting this past

(09:16):
week with Matt Smith, the owner and his wife Whitney.
Last week Matt was telling me about working on the
sod farm when he was a kid and how things
have changed.

Speaker 9 (09:25):
Citizen.

Speaker 7 (09:26):
His wife, Whitney runs the office. He's very efficient and
I see Heath their manager at most functions when I
go to Briarwood Christian like baseball games, football games. So
you see, not only do you get top quality sod
at Dixie Sod Farm, you're dealing with top quality people.
Their number two zero five three three eight three five
eight one. They're in pel City. They deliver anywhere. You

(09:48):
can hear my voice Dixie Sod Farm two zero five
three three eight three five eight one. Call Matt and
Whitney and tell them that Mike sent you and guys,
we do lot of sod.

Speaker 3 (10:01):
Yeah, man, I tell you we've been laying it like crazy,
you know, believe it or not. Mike I used to
sell his dad, Richard fertilizer back thirty years ago. Yeah,
before we passed the Yeah, yeah, that's crazy.

Speaker 7 (10:18):
They've been growing sod forever. They know how to do it. Chris,
you know, back to what we were doing when we
were starting out landscaping. You know, we had a saying
on the radio when you and I were doing the program,
but let's get rid of those old overgrown pruning nightmares
and put you in a nice new load maintenance landscape.

(10:40):
Those shrubs across your front, you know that all the
robbers and thieves can hide behind, you know those I
can't see the house. We come in. We pulled those
things out. It's usually just a day job. We come
in and get rid of those old, big, old preening
nightmares and put in a nice new load maintenance landscape,
something your neighborhood can be proud of. You won't get

(11:01):
kicked out of the neighborhood. And when we're done, it
looks beautiful. We got a lot herb appill.

Speaker 6 (11:06):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (11:07):
And I tell you, I mean literally, we can come
in depending on the machine, you know, the equipment that's necessary.
You know, I've done a lot of them this year.
Just uh, you know, we did one coming in the
backside eagle point there. I mean, the guy's house looked
like the Adams family lived there, and we went in
with a We went in with the excavator and excavated

(11:30):
all these shrubs out. We're doing one for Steven Day
over in Winwood Cove next week. He's got some huge
ileiagnis and we've worked for him.

Speaker 8 (11:39):
Yep.

Speaker 3 (11:40):
Yes, did a big job for him this time last year.
And going back in there with an excavator this time though,
because he's got so many humongous eli agnes coming in
his driveway. We're going to excavate all those hours see
the trash out, yep, exactly. And it looks like there's
you know, it looks like there's twenty five shrubs there.
There's only about six. They're so massive.

Speaker 7 (12:02):
Us a huge, yes, and just taking over in the mobile.
I'm sorry, I'm sitting down here in the mobile area.
And came down yesterday left Birmingham and did y'all get
rained yesterday? By the way afternoon?

Speaker 3 (12:19):
You know, it's it's kind of funny. I don't know
how much Chris got, but I know, like so when
I got home, I literally I hooked my trailer and
was going to load up a couple of things, and
the bottom fell out on me and it rained for
about twenty minutes. I'm talking about, just just a torrential flood.
And Teresa drove home an it, Yeah, and she didn't

(12:43):
get anything on her coming in, So it was It's
kind of hit and miss. But some places getting in
some places are.

Speaker 9 (12:52):
Well.

Speaker 7 (12:52):
We drove down a mobile area yesterday and to see
my grandson's playing the All Star Games. And we Birmingham
and got south of Chelsea, south of Clear and the
bottom fell out and we drove through a torrential downpour
for probably two hours. I mean it was just red,

(13:13):
you know on the radar, red and lightning flashing. There
was hell mixed in with the rain. You could hear,
you know, rain drops, and you could hear like rocks
bouncing off your car and h it was. It was something.
And I've got a you know, a big truck, sits
up high, brand new tires on it, and I can
still do seventy miles an hour and that stuff. And

(13:34):
you pull up on people on the interstate doing twenty
with their flawer. I said, look, and only can do twenty.
Just you know, go park somewhere, but get out of
my way. Yeah, And we drove straight to the ballgame
and walked in the ballpark and sat down and we
just got here in the nick of time. And now
we're waiting for game number two to start. Today we're
going to go to another game. But anyway, we're down

(13:56):
here enjoying it. I'm sitting in my daughter's backyard watching
the bluebird fly around and pick up insects and go
feed their babies.

Speaker 3 (14:04):
I hate we don't come back without eating some good seafood.

Speaker 7 (14:08):
I'm afraid we're probably gonna rush back tonight and eat
nothing but Jack's.

Speaker 3 (14:13):
On the road.

Speaker 6 (14:15):
That sounds about right.

Speaker 7 (14:16):
I hate. Yeah, we're gonna come back anyway. I hate
coming down here and not eating some good seafood. But
I don't think it's going to happen this time. But yeah, anyway,
I interrupted, as always do that about shrubs and how
many shrub jobs we do and pull out and you know,
we do bigger all kinds of work. I know y'all

(14:36):
talk about it all the time, but you know, our
basic bread and butter is just replacing these twenty year
old shrubs across the front of a house.

Speaker 3 (14:44):
Yeah, And I mean the thing about it is too,
there's not a bad time the landscape in Birmingham. I mean,
you think about it right now. You know it's been
raining like crazy, so they really the people we've landscape
for the last you know, six or eight months, have
had pretty much just to kick back in the relax
and uh, you know, let the let mother nature take
care of it. And uh it's been good and it

(15:07):
you know, so far, so good. You know, knock on wood.
We haven't got dry.

Speaker 9 (15:12):
No.

Speaker 7 (15:12):
We landscape three hundred and sixty five days a year
here in the South, So whenever you want it done,
we can do it. Guys, you're probably up against a
break or something. I'll let you go.

Speaker 3 (15:21):
All right, sounds good, Mike. We'll talk to you Monday.

Speaker 8 (15:23):
All right, calculator, all right?

Speaker 3 (15:25):
Bad, Yeah, and it is time to take that break.
Let's go ahead and do that. Our number if y'all
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Speaker 14 (20:39):
Boo, now, let's get it.

Speaker 3 (20:47):
Let's get it over.

Speaker 6 (20:49):
Music get you pumped up, doesn't it?

Speaker 3 (20:51):
Christy?

Speaker 6 (20:52):
I got you know, before the.

Speaker 3 (20:53):
Radio show, I was going to dig some homes.

Speaker 6 (20:55):
Man.

Speaker 5 (20:56):
I was in my garage and I got my fish
and motion fertilizer out. I got my sluw go out.
I got my kills all out, and I got my fung.

Speaker 3 (21:04):
Of side out.

Speaker 6 (21:04):
That music makes me want to go to war.

Speaker 3 (21:06):
Baby tell you that, man you talk about. I got
my fungicide bottle out, started to get a little I'm
starting to get a little bit of spots on my
tomato plants going around the bottom. You know, gotta start
treating that stuff.

Speaker 6 (21:21):
Get on it early.

Speaker 3 (21:22):
Let's get Bob invest David Good more to Bob. How
you doing?

Speaker 15 (21:26):
I'm great, Chris. How are y'all doing?

Speaker 7 (21:28):
Day?

Speaker 3 (21:28):
Man? I'm doing good.

Speaker 7 (21:29):
You know.

Speaker 3 (21:29):
I just did a job right around the corner from
you a couple of days ago.

Speaker 15 (21:35):
Well you should have come back because I got a
major problem going on in my front yard and you've
been pretty good thirty years. I've got an infestation of
spurs and we've done it last year and he told
me that you do an extra spring, but it's grown
like a weed all over the place. Is there anything
I can do in between your treatments?

Speaker 6 (21:57):
I think I can come out there and handle that
for you.

Speaker 15 (22:01):
Well, like I said, it's it's been it's been getting
worse and worse and worse, and I just stuff is ugly.

Speaker 5 (22:09):
Yeah, you know, that's one of those tough, tough weeds
to control, even even with a perfect pre emergent program.
You know, Claire and I were sitting out on our
front porch last summer and it's it's solid brick, and
we were sitting up at the top of the front
porch and there was a small little pinhole down in
the mortar of the brick and we had a we

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had a sprig of spurge that was growing in that
pinhole because there was just a little teeny tiny bit
of sediment I guess over the years that had gotten
in there. So that thing was growing and probably about
a millimeter of dirt in solid concrete.

Speaker 6 (22:45):
If that tells you how how tough that weed is. Uh.

Speaker 15 (22:49):
But now that's growing in a brick wall around my
swimming pool in the mortar.

Speaker 6 (22:53):
Yeah, yep, that's it.

Speaker 5 (22:55):
That's it's just one of those tough weeds that, uh,
it sometimes slips through. They're even with pre emergent. It's
pre emerging is not perfect. And we've talked about that
a lot for years that you know, if if you
can control ninety nine percent of the weeds that get
in your yard and you only have to spray out
one percent of them. That's pretty good. That's a pretty good,

(23:16):
uh track record. But we'll get out there and spray
that for you.

Speaker 3 (23:19):
Yeah some of the time too, Bob. So like uh,
like we go from we go from May to June,
and like spurge with them the big issue a month ago,
and then all of a sudden, it's like it's like boom,
it jumps up. And if you're you know, you're the
treatment kind of right around the end of a month
or whatever the case may be, then you know they

(23:41):
haven't made it to you this next month to spray.
But when they do get to you this time, they
just smoke it and it's over.

Speaker 5 (23:48):
With and then you throw in and then you throw
in you know, over twelve inches of rain in the
last month, and that's certainly done help out.

Speaker 3 (23:56):
That's the thing too, you know, do we get in
these rainy spells where you know, you get five inches
more than normal rain or whatever, and uh, you know,
leech is pre emerging out faster.

Speaker 5 (24:06):
So spurge has been one that we've seen more of
this year. And nutgrass. Nutgrass has exploded with all the
with all the rains.

Speaker 3 (24:14):
Wet weather man, it makes that nutgrass.

Speaker 5 (24:16):
That's why we incorporate there the post emergent sprays into
into our program to help eliminate that.

Speaker 6 (24:22):
But we'll get out we'll get out there and take
care of that for you.

Speaker 3 (24:26):
Y'all have a great week, all right, Bob, Happy birthday.

Speaker 15 (24:31):
Don't get getting from me extra birthdays. I'm too damn old.

Speaker 3 (24:33):
As it is. I love it.

Speaker 6 (24:40):
We appreciate it, Bob, Yes, sir, yeah, man.

Speaker 3 (24:46):
We were working around the corner at Scott Humors. Now,
y'all were talking about Scott, and I've done work for
him five times. Yeah, we saw I saw in this yard.
I landscaped his yard. I put irrigation in his yell.
I put a patio in his yard. And if y'all
have said, okay, Chris, the one that oh you know

(25:07):
the one, it's the one that you built the patio
over the top of the spring that I was said,
oh yeah, that's the one. Because literally back about I
guess it was five or six years ago, we went
to dig a footer in Scott's backyard and he is
right off of thirty one, like a block off of
thirty one, and he has a creek for the most

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part running right through his backyard, and I guess there's
a spring or whatever that runs under his foundation and
out towards that creek, and you know, it just tunneled
through there and you never knew it was there. Well,
we go to dig a footer for a patio, come
back the next morning and he's got a pond, and
we're like, oh my god, what are we going to do.

(25:51):
So we went in and literally dug all that out
to make virtually a pond, and then we put in
a drain, sit them inside that thing, and backfilled that
was shot rock you know, as big as your fist,
and then went back over the top of that with
with with basically a geo textile uh fabric over the

(26:14):
top of vent, put out our note, our crushing run
like normal, and then went back with our saying and
we literally laid the patio on top of a creek.

Speaker 5 (26:22):
Yep, that's Scott's backyard for it like a chimp it does.
That's a fantastic yard. That grass was so thick back there.

Speaker 3 (26:29):
So we went in there and we added more shrubs
against the creek back there. When we first did that,
job he had. He had like a pea gravel playground.
I think it was there probably before they ever bought
the house, and uh so he had all his pea
gravel and they took it. We we didn't haul it off.
We because getting in and out of his backyard is

(26:50):
a challenge because he's got a little short wall at
the bottom of his driveway. And uh so we took
that stuff and we just made kind of like a
wind row pretty much down by the creek, or like
a like a berm of pea gravel down the side
of the creek down there, and uh wound up planting
big magnoia is in front of it. Well, he wanted

(27:12):
more shrubs behind those for that privacy screen to come
in quicker. So we went in, dipped all that pea
gravel out of there and hauled it off and planted
another row of Holly's behind there. So that was what
we were doing in Scott's this time. But we've done
work for Scott God probably six times and I appreciate

(27:34):
them out there. But yeah, we were right around the
corner from Bob. Uh I know we're out of time, Chris,
Let's go ahead and do that. Our number if you'll
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Speaker 2 (27:46):
It's the classic God that's the Landscape show. All the
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Speaker 3 (27:54):
Plant some grass to grub two to doercent because Chris.

Speaker 1 (27:58):
And Chris no, and now you're a host Chris Joiner
and Chris Keith.

Speaker 3 (28:05):
After the second half of the class of gardens of
landscape showing our number if you want to costs two
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Speaker 5 (28:13):
Oh boy, Chris Keith and gave me a whole list
of stuff to talk about garden center wise. She's got
some she's got some stuff and some updates going on.

Speaker 6 (28:20):
So let's see.

Speaker 5 (28:21):
First off on radio through June twenty seventh. She has
Vermikey Light on sales eight courts regular. It's twelve dollars.
It's half off for six bucks of Vermikey Life. You
need Vermicy Light to mix in with anything that you're planning.
There you go, we got that makes you so more pores.
There you go, knockout. So the Vermikey lights, little white

(28:42):
the little white crusty stuff. You say, that's part of
light's the goldie looking there, golden looking stuff.

Speaker 3 (28:47):
I got the same thing.

Speaker 5 (28:50):
Knockouts and drift roses. Those are thirty percent off. They're
regular thirty four ninety eight. Now we've got a mark
down to twenty four forty nine. So that's uh, that's
through June twenty seventh, th your ver Mickey light knockout
and drift roses that's on sale. And then she's got
a bunch of decorative plastic house plant pots like in

(29:11):
our garden center. She's got those on seal and she's
mentioning that the perennial high biscus. Boy, those things are
about to pan there they show out and summerrific guardenas.
They're in bloom right now. Hydrangas are in bloom right now.
I was looking at my limelights and they're fixing the
bust at and are beautiful, yes, sir. And then there's

(29:32):
there's going to be an update on our our summer
hours and we'll send out like to all our garden
center customers. We'll send out emails about this, we'll put
it on our Facebook page, we'll update on our website.
But the week of the fourth of July, we're going
to be closed our land, so this is just a
garden center, landscape department, fertilization department. We're still running basically

(29:54):
daylight to dark. Yeah, they're in this, but for the
garden center. The week of July, we're going to be
closed when we come back from that fourth of July
week off, our garden center hours are gonna change and
basically we're only going to be open Wednesday through Friday
eight to four. So Saturday and Sunday we're closed, Monday
and Tuesday we're closed. Will be open Wednesday through Friday

(30:17):
eight to four starting when we come back from the
fourth of July on vacation. And main reason being and
Mike kind of hitting and nailed it on the head
when he caught in earlier, is you know, Anne's wanting
to make sure that she gets plenty of time in
with her grandkids, goes to the ballgames, goes to the lake,
and spend time with them while they're young, because she's like,

(30:38):
when they get old, they're not gonna want nothing to
do with us. They're gonna be out with their friends.

Speaker 6 (30:42):
Here.

Speaker 5 (30:42):
They're gonna be out, you know, partying and going to
you know, driving and doing all that kind of stuff.
So she's wanting to take the summer and spend some
time with her grandkids while they're still while they're still young.

Speaker 6 (30:53):
That's the that's the main reason for it. And plus
it's one hundred and.

Speaker 5 (30:56):
Twenty degrees outside, But may main reason being she just
wants to spend time with their grandkids.

Speaker 3 (31:01):
When it gets in the dog days of summer in
the garden Center. It honestly, I mean I worked at
fifteen years and you know, when you get into July, August, September,
it's one hundred and fifteen degrees in there, and if
you sit there in at ten hours a day, it
will melt you.

Speaker 6 (31:20):
You know all too.

Speaker 3 (31:21):
I would say, hey, I was thirty pounds later the
whole time I was in there.

Speaker 5 (31:24):
So we'll cup you updated on those hours. But that's
just our that's just our summertime hours. We'll probably maybe
open back up in the fall and we get more
you know, more betting plants in uh, but again landscaping
and lawn fertilization. We're still running five days a week,
sun up to sundown.

Speaker 3 (31:41):
We'd love to do landscape before I tell you call
us here at the Garden Center eight five four, four
thousand and five. Uh, you know, Mike was just talking
about the general old old fashioned just rip your shrubs
out and put new shrubs in kind of thing. Some
of those, you know, can be as easy as us
going out there and just you know, taking them, taking
shovels and just manhandling the stuff out of there. And

(32:03):
then other times we have to go as extreme as
bringing an excavator out there. Heck, I've taken out foundation
shrubs that were so large we had to cut them down,
grind the stumps and plant new shrubs back in there.
I mean, it's that bad. So it just depends on
the situation. Uh. You know, our landscaping ranges from a
couple thousand bucks minimum up to you know, we do well,

(32:27):
We've done jobs forty fifty thousand dollars, you know, rip
out and replace. It just depends on the situation and small,
big making difference. And the same guys that you know
do you know that work with me day in and
day out. We've been working together for forever. Men surge
of them working together twenty years and uh, you know

(32:49):
got Heraldo with us. We've been working with us about
five years and uh, you know, got a new addition.
Rowman's been with us for a couple of months and
uh man, we get out there and you know, guys,
we get out there and we bust it and we can.
The same guys that do the landscaping are gonna be
the same guys that do the irrigation. They're gonna be
the same guys that come out and build your patio

(33:10):
or your retaining wall. We got a four man crew
and we do it all yep.

Speaker 5 (33:13):
And you know, y'all, you and Mike have talked about
there's no bad time to plant plants, but this time
of year, and we've talked about it before, like when
you do landscaping, you know, some people kind of get worried, like, oh,
you know, it's hot and it's dry, and I'm gonna
have to water. But the upside of that is like
when you plant plants this time of year, you know
that it's hot and you know that it's gonna get dry,

(33:34):
so you know, you're like it's like a new puppy dog.
You're taking care of those things like crazy, so you
know you're gonna pay attention to them and you're gonna
be out there watering them, you know.

Speaker 3 (33:44):
And then that's you know, we give you a water
and God, we could talk all day on this program
about water and we wouldn't get accomplished anything. Ninety nine
percent of it is common sense. You know, you go
out there and you want you water your plants, but
if it's pouring down rain, back off on it. If
you you know, if you've got plants out there and

(34:05):
it's one hundred degrees, you're gonna have to water them
a little more than you know, if you plant them
and it's forty five or fifty degrees, you're gonna let
lay off of them. So, you know, just just kind
of being at one with you know, thinking about it
and doing what you're supposed to do as far as
that goes, makes a big difference. All right, Uh, Chris,

(34:25):
we got Mark or we got Mike campell them. Good morning, Mike.
How you doing.

Speaker 8 (34:31):
I'm good, are you gentlemen?

Speaker 3 (34:32):
Okay, yeah, we're doing good man.

Speaker 8 (34:35):
Listen, I'm out. And what we call the lily pad,
there's no water. It's just an area that we have
some day lilies. There are yellow day lilies, and the
funds at the base wilt and so I have to
take those out, Like every every week. Am I doing
something wrong or is that just a part of the

(34:56):
maintenance for these.

Speaker 3 (34:59):
Yeah, I'm not sure when you say they're Wilton, I'm
not sure exactly.

Speaker 8 (35:03):
What that that. They're dead. They turn they turn brown,
and they're dead around the base.

Speaker 5 (35:13):
Dailyli is correct, Yes, yes, sir, Yeah, I'm not so sure.

Speaker 3 (35:18):
You don't have something like girdling that thing. So like
a like you've got like you've got snails or slugs
or something to eating around the base of them or
whatever and causing those things to kind of fall out.

Speaker 8 (35:31):
Mm hmm.

Speaker 6 (35:34):
Start kind of go out there and.

Speaker 3 (35:36):
Kind of check around that thing too, and see if
you got voles, then.

Speaker 5 (35:39):
Check her check around the base for snails or slugs,
because Mike, I've got slug o that I'm fixing the
put out after this radio show. Because I've got a
lot of succulent type stuff You've got. I've got dailies,
I've got geraniums, I've got sun patience and purple heart
things like that. And when I pull when I start
inspecting around the base, I mean, I'm in like the

(36:00):
snail capital of the United States, and I'll see snails
all around there. Even in all my flower pots, and
I have to go out there with that slugo every
few weeks. It's a bait for snails and slugs, and
that will eliminate those.

Speaker 6 (36:13):
So you know, if you've.

Speaker 5 (36:14):
Got pine strawl or leaves or molt or something like
that around there, just kind of start pulling that back
and digging around and look for it. See if you
see any snails, you know, floating around there.

Speaker 8 (36:26):
So I would just scattered this around the base. Is
it is it a powder or.

Speaker 3 (36:30):
It's a it's a pillet, yes, granulated?

Speaker 8 (36:34):
Okay, well I'll go inspect right now. Then.

Speaker 3 (36:38):
Yeah, check that out, man. With all the moisture we've
had between that and just uh, you know, fungus hitting
everything right now. He could be you know, it could
be a mild or it could be a like a
like a rot of some kind. You know a lot
of times bulbs and of different things of different plants
will just literally rot in the ground. And I've seen

(37:00):
elephant ears, you know that. You know, you see elephant
ears growing wild in the edge of of lakes at
some point. But some of these elephantear bulbs, it seems
like those things are just sit there in the ground
and rod over the winter. You know, it's crazy how
that happens.

Speaker 8 (37:17):
Yes, sir, okay, thank you so much.

Speaker 3 (37:20):
Yes, they're no problem. Yeah that uh yeah, who knows,
Chris that daily is you're usually put a pretty bulletproof
but I mean nothing is nothing's from with stand of
snail eating it up.

Speaker 5 (37:33):
No, No, those are those are bad batt on hostas
and you know, you know, sometimes they just get you know,
like elephant ears, they'll get they'll just have you know,
they'll have a little small pieces that die off and
you just cut them back. So it could just be
that he's getting a sprig or two that that's you know,
maybe getting a little fungus or just dying back and
just cutting them off. But I'll be willing to bet
there's something kind of digging around or eating at the

(37:55):
base of those things.

Speaker 3 (37:55):
Yeah. Typically daylilies are are bulletproof.

Speaker 7 (37:58):
Man.

Speaker 5 (37:58):
I've got some out on the out on the side
of my house that I've dug up from about four
different spots moving around, and uh, I don't ever do
anything to him. I don't even water them whenever we
get hot and dry, and those things just you know,
they don't have any problems with them.

Speaker 3 (38:14):
Yeah, that's crazy how that works. Chris, Let's take another
break or anomber. If y'all want to get in a
last minute call, you can. It's two five four three
nine nine three seven two. We'll be right back.

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A lot going on long care wise, I mean I'm
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like I'll get an email. Uh and so I'm able
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(42:50):
Chris Keith, and I'm doing bids and then like old school,
you know, I would get back to the garden center
and somebody may have caught in like an hour later,
and it's like right back your neighborhood.

Speaker 6 (43:00):
Well, now I get those emails like instantly.

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So if I'm working at if I'm working at your
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You know, I'll be there, you know once I get
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Speaker 6 (43:26):
But you know, I got one last night.

Speaker 5 (43:27):
We treat a yard over in down off of one
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a customer referral and it said y'all treat my neighbor's
yard and it is absolutely beautiful and I'm.

Speaker 6 (43:39):
Just like, yeah, I love it. And so I.

Speaker 5 (43:43):
Want to thank all of our customers because we give
a referral credit and that's where the vast majority of
our business comes from in our fertilization we control program
is through customer referrals.

Speaker 6 (43:56):
And so we're very thankful for that. You know, we
don't we don't.

Speaker 5 (43:59):
We're not those people that are out there beating on doors,
you know, throwing some sales pitch and spending a whole
bunch of money on you know, direct flyers and all
this kind of stuff.

Speaker 6 (44:09):
We just we do a good job.

Speaker 5 (44:10):
We make your yard look good, and so our customers
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how we've grown our business over the years. And again,
just thank you know, just very very thankful for that.
And I take care business.

Speaker 3 (44:24):
I was on one, Chris, that was yesterday. I was
all over the place yesterday, you know, just looking at
odd and end stuff. You know, we doesn't work for
Linda Baker over in Trustful Now twice we just laid
a new side. For thank goodness, we're going to ask you,
he did you see your new yard.

Speaker 6 (44:42):
I hadn't seen the new yard yet.

Speaker 3 (44:44):
I know it's good. So we laid emeralds ois over
that radio. We we sprayed out all the bermuda that
was there and killed all that stuff. And then we
went in hearty racked and added topsoil because they're just
what none and uh, you know, Hearty racked all the
rocks out of it and got all that stuff and
hauled it off and put her in a new lawn.
But she's wanting more rock edging put in around there.

(45:07):
And it's like one hundred and seventy five foot of it,
so you know it'll be jumping on that.

Speaker 5 (45:10):
It's very rare that when we lay said you have
to add topsoil.

Speaker 6 (45:13):
That's a question I get all the time.

Speaker 5 (45:15):
We never do that, never, Like withn Linda Baker, it's
one of the new home developments where they basically strip
all the topsoil off so that they can pour the
concrete slab and they don't bring nothing back in.

Speaker 6 (45:30):
And hers was solid rock.

Speaker 3 (45:32):
Well, they probably hauled chirt out of her at her
neighborhood for about ten years before they put a neighborhood.

Speaker 6 (45:38):
Yeah, it was bad.

Speaker 5 (45:40):
Yeah, And so that's probably one in a million that
we actually have to come in and.

Speaker 6 (45:45):
Add tops oil before we lay side.

Speaker 5 (45:48):
And that's something that like we'll I'll have homeowners that
will get you know, they'll do landscaping themselves, or maybe
they'll get another quote and they're talking about that landscaper
bringing in tops oil and you know you take a
trax a load of top soil, top soil, and you
spread it over you know, five six seven thousand square feet.
You're only talking about like a quarter to half of

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an inch of top soil.

Speaker 6 (46:13):
And that's not gonna do.

Speaker 5 (46:13):
I mean, that really serves no purpose other than just
to kind of level everything out. It doesn't serve any benefit. Yeah,
you know, you'd have to bring in mounds and mounts.

Speaker 3 (46:22):
And different if we're going in there, like if say
Mark comes in and takes a tree out or something
and they grind the stump and you know, I had
to haul off a little debris and you know, come
back in and put some it in this place where
he ground of stump. That's different. But you know, I
think we got a collar over in Pencon.

Speaker 6 (46:41):
Yeah, good morning.

Speaker 3 (46:43):
How how are you?

Speaker 9 (46:45):
I'm doing okay, but you guys at.

Speaker 3 (46:48):
All right, we're doing good.

Speaker 6 (46:50):
I love you too.

Speaker 9 (46:53):
Okay. It's about Lily's. Hey, I've got a little bed.
Maybe it's an end ground not above ground bed. And
they're just not they're not blooming anymore. I've been in
this house thirty years.

Speaker 6 (47:12):
When we first moved in.

Speaker 9 (47:14):
The boomed, they bloomed. They bloomed and then at some
point I can't remember when they stopped blooming.

Speaker 6 (47:20):
Yeah, but they come up.

Speaker 9 (47:22):
They're nice, green, pretty. I mean the green leaves beautiful,
but they don't bloom.

Speaker 6 (47:31):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (47:32):
Some of the time you have to go in there,
like they just get too crowded. A lot of times
you go in there and you thin out. So you
take like a third of them out, and then uh
you can you can start pushing them with some blooming
or I tell you the fertile bedding plant food.

Speaker 9 (47:50):
I wondered if they've got enough you were just talking
about topsail. I mean I can almost see the bulls.

Speaker 3 (47:59):
Yeah. I think what's happening is they've just got two dents,
and uh, they're not doing that well because of that.
So if you go in there and just then like
a third of them out, I think that the ones
that you leave will kind of respond and take off again.
They've just got so overcrowded with them, you know, in
that confined area. It's hard for them to.

Speaker 9 (48:19):
Do all area and there's a lot there, are you right,
So let me ask you that if I take those
out their bulls, can I put them somewhere else?

Speaker 8 (48:32):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (48:32):
Them anywhere else. You can take those a lot of times,
like iris or stuff like that. It's like a potato almost,
and you take those things and you can put them
somewhere else.

Speaker 9 (48:42):
Okay, Okay, that's cool. Okay. One last question. We I've
got his areas out front that just went out of control.
I mean there were some foot tall okay, so after
they bloomed and everything, we cut them down about three

(49:07):
foot okay now, and we missed some of them. Is
it too late to cut them?

Speaker 3 (49:15):
Now? Now you can go ahead and cut them and
it probably won't affect their blooming next year. Now you'll
have to you want to do that before the July,
so you're right around the end of it, which it's
not gonna affect it as far as as far as
you know, the production of the plant or anything. It's
gonna still come back and do fine, not gonna hurt anything.

(49:37):
You might just cut off a few blooms because you're
flirting with the first of July.

Speaker 9 (49:42):
No, all the blooms are gone.

Speaker 8 (49:45):
Yea.

Speaker 3 (49:46):
Well, what I'm saying is you're gonna be cutting off
next year's blooms.

Speaker 7 (49:51):
Oh okay, okay, yeah.

Speaker 9 (49:54):
Okay, all right, thanks guys, all right.

Speaker 3 (49:57):
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