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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's the classic Gardens and Landscape Show on the half
Ready and with your wan show up Plants and Grass
rub two and docent Chris, Chris and Chris No, Chris.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Knows it, Chris knows it. Chris knows it. Chris knows it.
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Speaker 3 (00:28):
And now you're a host Chris Joiner and Chris.
Speaker 4 (00:31):
Keith the Landscape Show on w e r C.
Speaker 5 (00:37):
I'm Chris Ki, I'm Chris Joiner. I hope everybody's doing
fine this morning. I tell you, Chris Keith, this is
a dandy time of year, isn't it. I love spring
with the time change that gets me in trouble though for.
Speaker 4 (00:49):
About three days.
Speaker 6 (00:51):
No, no, what I'm talking about.
Speaker 5 (00:52):
It's like I get home from work and usually Saya
and the kids are out playing and we stay outside
and the next thing you know, it's it's.
Speaker 6 (01:00):
Like, oh gosh, it's eight o'clock.
Speaker 5 (01:01):
We still got to take showers, we still got to
cook dinner, we still got to go home work and
get to bed.
Speaker 4 (01:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (01:06):
But it's man, I love it. I love it this
time of year.
Speaker 7 (01:08):
Yeah, and you know the nighttime temperatures. First of last,
you know, this past week, we're still pretty cool. You know,
but you get in and you know, by by ten
o'clock you're coming out of a layer of clothes, you
know kind of thing. And you know, we've still got
some cool nights on the way. And I mean it's
just that time of year. But overall, I mean, yes,
(01:31):
spring's here, you know.
Speaker 5 (01:33):
Yeah, you get one or two nights cold out of seven,
it ain't too bad.
Speaker 6 (01:36):
I'm alright with that.
Speaker 4 (01:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (01:38):
Well, and you know, we really haven't had any to
amount too much any frosty weather for the last week
or so, so that's been pretty good. And uh, you know,
we've just been out knocking out work.
Speaker 6 (01:48):
You know, I'm telling you everything's going.
Speaker 5 (01:50):
I want to say to hey, to all our fans
out there, everybody listening to the radio this time of year,
and when I'm getting out, you know, I'm measuring yards
and treating yards. It just I mean, really it's nice
to you know, say, hey, I love listening to you
guys on the radio show. Some corner you old guys
on the radio show. Yeah, right, I enjoy listening.
Speaker 6 (02:11):
So I hate all the listeners, all the fans out there.
Speaker 7 (02:13):
What super cracks me up is when you when you're
talking to somebody and they listened to the radio shows,
Oh you're a Dane celebrity.
Speaker 4 (02:19):
I'm like, yeah, that's right.
Speaker 6 (02:22):
Yeah, I'm know.
Speaker 4 (02:25):
I'm known for a pick and a shove.
Speaker 6 (02:27):
You're pretty good at digging holes, yes.
Speaker 7 (02:29):
Sir, But yeah, I mean we have really knocked out
some pretty work in the last week or so. We
got done with Miss Bakers. Uh, yesterday I had to
pull off her for a little bit and go. We
had a deadline we had to meet in another job.
So we went over to Ruds and knocked that out.
Speaker 6 (02:48):
Now, Miss Bakers, that's one of the new developments. Yeah,
it's in a long meadow.
Speaker 8 (02:53):
And man, it's shirt rock, slate, boulders, gravel, was she harder,
chunks of bricks, smodello, bottles, you name it.
Speaker 6 (03:04):
It's under that ground, right yep.
Speaker 7 (03:06):
Well, I don't think that they could plow the ground
deep enough to put that stuff in there.
Speaker 4 (03:11):
It was that hard.
Speaker 7 (03:12):
And uh, there was an irrigation contractor came in there
before us and he started and just quit and ripped
her off for a couple thousand bucks. Yeah, so we
came in behind her or behind him, and he couldn't
he couldn't dig it or trench it or anything because
(03:34):
he said it was too hard.
Speaker 4 (03:35):
Well, dag gumut. We went in there and.
Speaker 7 (03:36):
Trenched it, and we put her in an irrigation system,
and uh, added shrubs all the way around the house,
put in a retainer wall over there, just small, you know,
small retaining wall down the side of the house, and
got her fixed, new bark all the way around, and
just got her fixed up and finished her up yesterday.
Speaker 4 (03:57):
And then when.
Speaker 7 (03:58):
We were at Rudd's h we did a big project
for him. You can't miss him right there on Crestwood Boulevard,
you know when you're going down there, because we put
in huge Arbravidas and huge Hollis around the block from
fifty seven to Crestwood, and uh, he came in there
behind it and put this.
Speaker 4 (04:18):
Uh it's called sheek fence. It looks like it's called
chic chic. It's chic.
Speaker 6 (04:24):
Yeah, it's chiky.
Speaker 4 (04:25):
It's pretty chic too.
Speaker 7 (04:27):
And uh it's about six feet tall and it's not
it's like a privacy fence, but it's it's made out
of metal and it's like aluminum stuff, but it goes
when it goes in there, the each panel of it
has a panel that's missing in between as it goes up,
and then some panels are solid. So like in the
corners that had solid panels where you wanted a complete privacy,
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it was solid and then uh, and then in between
it had skips in the in the thing, so you
had a panel, then it skipped the panels, panels skipped
the panel kind of thing. Six with that, it's pretty fence.
I think he's got a fortune in it. But it's
got big roll up door rolled side by side doors,
you know, like a barn door times ten kind of thing.
(05:11):
You know, it's like twelve feet long and you take
the thing and roll it open.
Speaker 4 (05:14):
You know.
Speaker 7 (05:15):
Pretty nice stuff. But anyways, so at Rudds we went in.
We put in irrigation on drip, irrigation on those big
hollies and those big trees back when we did his
job the first time. But that set him up for
irrigation for the lawn. So we went in there and
(05:37):
added you know, three more zones of irrigation to the
front yard, another z on a drip for some shrubs.
We planted him some blueberries and added us on a
drip for that, and z on a drip for the
front foundation shrubs, and then we saw it at the
whole front yard, and then a couple more odds and
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the end she's got a flower bed there we tilled
up for and uh, this, that and the other for
Rudd's wife. So we did a bunch of work over there,
and we were over there for three days and knocked
that out. And before that we were up there in Lincoln.
So we've been on really three big jobs back to
back to back. We laid twenty five pouts of sad
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on the river in Lincoln. I'm sure we'll be back
out there that as the money conrolls in. This fellow
says he'll he'll add another twenty or twenty five pallets
a saw it. He probably had lacks about twenty five
or thirty more pallets, having enough to do pretty much everything.
Speaker 4 (06:39):
So then we'll have a whole nice sawded soois along
on the river up there. So that's pretty cool.
Speaker 5 (06:45):
I don't know if that's we treat yards in pel City,
but I don't know if that's within this one go.
You know, when you when you look at Pel City,
what do you say. It depends on how you how
you can get there, by the way the crow flies
or the boat drives, or by the way you drive
your car.
Speaker 7 (06:59):
Yeah, what I mean, Well, this one, you get off
at the Emory exit, so you're in technically you're in Lincoln,
but you take a right and you go back down
like you're going back down towards the shack. You know
where the intersection where the shack is right there, and
uh he's about halfway between the interstate exit and the
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you turn to go to the shack and uh so
that's about where you're at then, right on the river
right there. So yeah, we'll probably take that one.
Speaker 5 (07:28):
In probably so Baby, So you talk about rut at
blueberries and that just kind of sparked me on. On man,
the things that Anne has coming into the garden center.
I walked in yesterday and so I you know, Chris Keith,
you and me and and Justin we just kind of
you see justin mor thing I do. But we kind
of just see each other in passing in the morning
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and then in the afternoon because everything is just the
wheels have gained traction. Oh yeah, well, I mean, uh,
you know, long hair is running wide open. You all
are doing landscaping at the garden center. When I walked
in yesterday and Anne was helping customers, and I walked
in just you know, talking with her, and I just
you could smell the fragrance of all the flowers that
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had come in. And we got a bunch of more
blueberries in because I think Rudd got most.
Speaker 6 (08:13):
Of the most of ours.
Speaker 7 (08:14):
But there's some blueberries in there now that literally are
covered with bloom. So if you buy them now, you're
gonna have a You're gonna have a bumper crop of blueberries.
Speaker 4 (08:24):
This berry same year blueberries.
Speaker 5 (08:26):
I know that, you know, like so we mean, you've
done this radio for a long time. You've done it
longer than I have. And back when Mike Ustitute all
the time, I remember him talking about how how blueberries
were such a cool plant, particularly particularly if you got kids.
You know, my my girls love going out and I don't.
I don't get to eat the first blueberry because they
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stand out there at the blueberry bushes when they got
fruit on them, and they just sit there and pick
them right off the bush and and eat them. But
they're really cool plant, particularly if you got children and
you want to kind of get them out in the
yard and get them involved. Super easy to grow, I
mean you can't hardly you can't hardly kill a blueberry bush, now, you.
Speaker 4 (09:04):
Mean that thing established just there.
Speaker 6 (09:06):
They're super easy to take care of.
Speaker 5 (09:08):
They they grow, don't require a lot of pruning, don't
really require a lot of fertilization. But that's just a
really cool plant to plant for kids, because I know
mine love them. And we've actually if you look out
my go off the end of my driveway, you'll see
a big ring of rocks, right, and uh, we were
clearing out some stuff last year and I looked down, Uh, huh,
(09:29):
what is that That looks like a tiny little blueberry bush?
And uh, I've got a big patch of like wild
blueberries back there.
Speaker 6 (09:36):
And those jokers only get, you know, a foot tall.
Speaker 5 (09:39):
But I put a ring around them so that I
didn't like spray them or string trim them down. So
we found a bunch of little wild scrubby blueberries out there. Yeah,
that's our wild garden out there, our native garden, I
guess you could say.
Speaker 4 (09:51):
Yeah, the native the ones don't put on that much.
Speaker 5 (09:53):
They don't about out of about fifty little sprigs. I
think we'll get about three blueberries.
Speaker 4 (09:59):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (09:59):
But uh in the garden center and got all our
vegetables in. I mean, so if you need tomatoes, we
got them. If you need peppers, you need got we
got them.
Speaker 6 (10:07):
I know, we got collars, we got broccoli, we got
Brussels sprouts.
Speaker 4 (10:11):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (10:12):
She got a shipment of betting plants in. She's got
ferns in. And that's just this past week. So we'll
be bringing in every single week. You know, more than
likely we'll be bringing in.
Speaker 6 (10:21):
More and more and more.
Speaker 7 (10:21):
I didn't plan any last year, but I'm going now.
I think I did, Chris, and I I the plant.
Something happened to it. It got a virus on it
or something, and it just never made out anything. But
this year, I want to plant some Peblano peppers because
Teresa takes those things and stuff them and that is
like delicious I'm talking about.
Speaker 4 (10:43):
But uh yeah, so I'm gonna.
Speaker 7 (10:45):
Plant a bunch of peblanos and bell peppers and stuff.
I didn't do as many peppers that I had one
cayenne pepper plant that was about chest high and it
had about a.
Speaker 4 (10:55):
Thousand on it.
Speaker 7 (10:56):
When I want it just fell over, and I mean
I picked like a couple of gallon bags or whatever
off of it the peppers, and then you know, I'd
a couple of my buddies grabbed some off of it,
but I mean it made like a jillion.
Speaker 5 (11:10):
Surgery over wintered his peppers at the garden centermore.
Speaker 7 (11:14):
Yeah, he's got but he's got five halopenion peppers that
he moved in the garden center last winter. They're in
like fifteen gallon potts and each one of them had
like seventy peppers on it like constantly all year last year.
Speaker 4 (11:28):
And uh, he wintered those things over. So he's now.
Speaker 7 (11:30):
He's he's already picking peppers and going again. It's pretty neat. Well, Chris,
I bet we're up against the break. Let's go ahead
and did our number. If y'all want to call us
and ask us a gardener question, you can do that.
It's up four three nine nine three seven two. That's
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Y'all come see us at the Garden Center where at
eighteen fifty five Carson Road. We're doing our spring hours now,
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come see us. We'll do that until probably Mother's Day
or so like that, and then we'll quit. But for
now we're going eight to five. Y'all come see us,
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And we call it the bag of Gold and the
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Burd loan option you've got to do every other month,
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March, that's right.
Speaker 5 (17:00):
So the years and years ago, basically we had to
bring in the bag of Gold and I had to
start using it in our fertilization division because there are
certain weeds that will build a resistance or an immunity
so to speak, to to certain pre emergents.
Speaker 6 (17:19):
And poana is one of us.
Speaker 5 (17:22):
And that's something that you know that when we go
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pesticide safety and new chemicals and new techniques and pest
integrated management and all that kind of stuff. Poana resistance
is usually one of the topics that they talk about.
So it's just kind of like me and you, Chris Keith,
if we continue to take like the exact same medicine
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over and over and over again, our body, will, you know,
building immunity up to it. Well, poana does that to
the old school type pre emergent. So it got to
the point where some of our customers that had been
with us for a long time, we started seeing more
poana outbreaks in those and all you stand. Pashenko is
an example, Chris Keith, cause that's.
Speaker 4 (18:04):
Why I talk about one of the best ones.
Speaker 5 (18:07):
So we had to I don't know, it probably been
seven eight years ago. The bag of gold is a
pre mergent that works differently. It's a completely different class
of pre mergent, and so to break that resistance, you
have to change products basically, or change the type of
premergent that you're putting out. And Stan Pashenko Chris Keith,
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his yard's over in a over in the Irondell area,
and his front yard is basically a glorified drainage ditch.
And I remember you were treating the yard one time
and you thought to yourself, man, this guy is covered
up with poanna, and uh, that was the same year
that we ended up like switching over the year.
Speaker 7 (18:48):
I honestly looked like to Bermuda was green, Like the
Bermuda was green in the winter time.
Speaker 5 (18:53):
And so we ended up like that next spring, we
ended up switching kind of retro fitting our vehicles and
and using.
Speaker 6 (19:00):
The new the new pre mergent.
Speaker 5 (19:03):
And you went back a year later and you said, God, Christ,
you want to there's not a sprig of Poanna in
that thing. And I and that's when I explained, you know, hey,
we just switched up what we were using. And that
same year I told Anne, I was like, listen, I
was like, you have to start selling this in the
garden center.
Speaker 6 (19:19):
It's worth it's waiting gold, right, the bag of gold.
And it's expensive upfront.
Speaker 5 (19:24):
You know, when you when you look at the cost,
you know of what you have to what you have
to pay, you know, in one visit.
Speaker 6 (19:30):
But the thing is.
Speaker 5 (19:32):
Is like when you do an annual cost of you know,
doing your pre mergent twice a year versus doing your
pre mergent six times a year, it's pretty much the same.
Sometimes it can be a little bit more, sometimes it
can be a little bit less, but from an annual cost,
it's uh, it's it's roughly the same.
Speaker 7 (19:50):
And well, if you only got to do it twice
here though, you're a whole lot less likely to screw
up and not get to pre emergen.
Speaker 5 (19:56):
That's right, And there's no if you have if you
have Poanna in the yard, there's no other way to
eliminate that from a prevention standpoint other than switching over
to that. So people will still come in and say,
I put down the pre mergent. You know, I'm still
getting poe An in my yard. And you know, we'll
look back through the computer system and we'll explain to
him the whole resistance thing that you know, they've been
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doing the same thing, you know, year after year after year,
and uh, you know, we'll have to end up selling
them on the bag of golden. And you know, we
will have customers that call in, especially Harold from Homewood,
and he's a huge he's a huge supporter of it
because he's seen the difference that it makes. Oh yeah,
it's night and day without a doubt for sure.
Speaker 7 (20:38):
Well, Chris, when we went to break, we had a
caller call in. They want to come on the radio,
and they were asking about Z fifty two and why
we didn't like Z fifty two And I don't know
where he got where we don't like it. Uh, we
we do like Z fifty two. Zoysia. We prefer emerald
over Z fifty two, just because me personally, I feel
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like if you get something n Z fifty two, like
say you get grubs or bill bug larvae or something
like that, ground patch fun anything like that makes that
grass so weak and it takes it so much longer
to recover, Whereas if you got emeralds oyja, it bounces
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back from from something like that a whole lot faster.
You don't have to worry about the roots. Clubbing is
bad and and all that kind of issues that we
deal with was zoysia, where if you if you put
an emerald, it seems to be more shade tolerant. You know,
green ups good on it the whole nine yards. It's
just a it just does better at bouncing back when
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it's under pressure and you need to get one that's
real hot and you know, get one of these real
hot dry spells, and it just seems to you know,
bounce back from it. You know, we've got yards up
and out on crestwood that just it torch fried and it,
I mean, it's like they're they're laid on iron and uh,
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I mean, and and those yards just as soon as
it starts raining again, they bounce back, and you know
it takes six or eight months or whatever to get
them back, but they just recover from it.
Speaker 5 (22:20):
The Emerald is just our grass of choice. Yeah, we had,
I mean in my backyard's prime example. I mean, I
started with a clean slate. I couldn't laid any grass
I wanted to, and I chose Emerald's sois just because
I think consistently it performs better uh than C fifty two.
Speaker 7 (22:37):
Yeah, there's a lot of yards, and I mean, obviously
we treat a lot of bermuda, we treat a lot
of Z fifty two, We treat a lot of noison.
We don't recommend centipede or Saint Augustine at all.
Speaker 4 (22:47):
Uh.
Speaker 7 (22:47):
That needs to be grown on the coast, you know,
and you'll see a nice centipede yard here and there,
you know, but for the most part, you're better off,
you know, just going with something that you know it's
pretty bulletproof. And we feel like Emerald zoyja uh bermuda
is pretty bulletproof, I mean in the same sense. But
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you know, bermuda grows real fast. You know, you just
about got to be moaning it every four to five
days to keep from scalping it in the summer, and
who wants to cut grass every five days? So you know,
most of the time people cut the grass once a week,
and every time you cut your grass, you're gonna turn
in a little bit brown.
Speaker 5 (23:25):
If you get remuta, it usually seems sometime around mid July.
That's that's kind of when that starts happening. And it's
kind of a trade off. Like bermuda a lot of
times will green up a little bit faster in the spring,
but it goes it loses its luster and kind of
goes dormant quicker than it's oysia. Where it's oisea tends
to sometimes green up a little bit slower than bermuda,
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but it lasts a lot longer into the end of
the fall. But I guess there's pros and cons to
any to any grass. Yeah, And you know they've come
you know, people have come out with with a lot
of different varieties over the years, particularly with zoysia. You know,
each one's supposed to be more shade tolerant, more disease resistant,
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more insect resistant, and drought resistant. And we've tried a
lot of those varieties as just kind of test trials, right,
But you know, we typically always go back to like
the tried and true where we just we stick with
Emerald and Z fifty two in cases, but uh yeah
that's our story.
Speaker 4 (24:23):
Yeah. A lot of times it just depends too.
Speaker 7 (24:26):
Like if we're say you've already got Z fifty two,
obviously will lay the same thing. But you know, if
we're going with a whole new front yard, then we'll
lay Emerald. It's just you know, unless you request Bermuda
or whatever. We've got to do a job for Gosh
Holt over here, Josh Holt over there in sweet Water.
(24:48):
It's another one of those neighborhoods that's got some good
old funky hard ground and uh he's got a spot.
A lot of those houses in there. For whatever reason,
the contractors only laid saw it.
Speaker 6 (25:00):
To like I said about off the back of the house.
Speaker 7 (25:03):
All they needed was about another three pounds a sad
and they could have just done the whole yard. But instead,
you know, once they get you know, thirty forty feet
off the house, they quit and you know who knows,
But anyways, he he needs a he we're basically gonna
split it, so half of it we're gonna bark and
he's gonna put like an H and H building and
like a swing set or like a play area for
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his kids. And then the other half of it he's
gonna put in We're gonna put in Bermuda sad and uh,
just so half and half and uh, that'll be.
Speaker 4 (25:33):
A pretty easy job for us.
Speaker 7 (25:35):
But uh, we're doing Bermuda there because that's what the
contractor put end, so that's what we're doing. But yeah,
typically it just depends on what we're doing. But for
the most part, we we just soon use the emerald. Well,
Chris's time for a break. Let's go ahead and do that.
Our number, if you'll want a cost, is two O
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(25:57):
Landscape Show.
Speaker 1 (26:28):
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Speaker 2 (26:36):
Up plants and grass to grow two percent because Chris
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Speaker 3 (26:42):
No, and now you're your host Chris Joiner and Chris Keith.
Speaker 7 (26:48):
And we're back for the second half of the Classic
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Speaker 5 (27:21):
Yes, sir, you know this is a time of year
for preparation. I mean we've been preaching pre emergent basically
three hundred and sixty five days a year for thirty years.
But now is the time to get pre merging down.
So that's gonna help head off crabgrass, all your chamber
bitter which people call gripe, little mimosa trees that grow
in your yard, spurge which is some people call it
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milkweed because when you pull it, the stems bleed this
white sat But now's the time to do pre merging
on the yard. If you hadn't done it already. General preparation,
if you hadn't gotten your lawnmower out and scalpt your
yard yet. You need to get that lawnmower out. You
need to crank it. You need to crank a string
trimmer up, you need to crank a blower up. Make
sure all that stuff's working, and if it does need
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service work, you need to go ahead and get it
in the shop like now, because you know small engine
repair services, they're gonna get slammed and it's going to
be a month before you can get your mower back
because they're going to have basically everybody in the state
you know, is gonna take their mower in all at
the same time.
Speaker 7 (28:23):
So I want to be prepared to say, yeah, you'll
get it back in a month.
Speaker 5 (28:27):
Yeah, And we and we got Mike on the line.
Good morning, Mike.
Speaker 10 (28:31):
How are you morning, guys?
Speaker 3 (28:34):
How about y'all.
Speaker 4 (28:34):
I'm doing great, man, We're doing good. Just you know,
enjoying the spring like weather.
Speaker 10 (28:41):
Yeah. Yeah, I hold on to your hats this afternoon, certainly.
Speaker 5 (28:45):
So you know, I was I was thinking I was
thinking about you last night Mike, because I follow I
still follow CrossFit trustful, and I was thinking, I said,
I bet Mike's in there crushing it again this year.
How you've been doing it at the CrossFit Game.
Speaker 10 (29:01):
I'll tell you what. I think. I'm going to retire
from competing. It's the too nerve wracking for me. I
just put so much pressure on myself for no reason.
It's just the open, right, I mean, like five hundred
thousand people across the world are doing the open right now.
In my age group, I write number ten in the world.
(29:21):
But you know, I just go to cross it to
have fun. Then you hang out with my buddies. I
put in a good workout and then and it keeps
me very healthy, keeps me very active. But then you
go and you start doing these competitions and I start
I don't know. I mean, it takes a day or
two out of my life every time I compete, just
(29:43):
because I sit there and I worry about Okay, first
I got to do wallwalks. Then I'm going to go
do deadlifts, and on these dead lists, I'm going to
do this many And then I got to go do wallwalks,
and I got to go row fifty meters and I've
got twenty minutes, and I got to go do wallwalks,
and I got to do power cleans, and I got
to go do wawalks I gotta do and I got,
you know, and I go through the whole routine and
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it never stops and and uh and by the time
I walk in there, I'm just drained. And then I
get on there and I do everything, and everything goes
great and I have fun. I enjoy it. But leading
up to the competitions, just I don't know, I don't
like it. And life's too short to do things you
don't like. So I said, I'm not competing anymore. And
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that's probably a lie. I probably it's a lie.
Speaker 5 (30:31):
Well, but you know, in the in the grander scheme
of things, Mike, I mean, congratulations on being number number
ten in the world. I know last year you did
really really well and made it to the CrossFit Games.
And that's that's a testament that like it doesn't matter
what your fitness level is and what age you are.
H I mean, what's what's I'm sure somewhere down the
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line at CrossFit Trust for y'all talk about just keep moving,
just get up and do it.
Speaker 4 (30:55):
Well, you know, it doesn't matter.
Speaker 6 (30:57):
Just don't sit on the couch.
Speaker 10 (30:58):
The reason I the reason I are it. Thirteen years ago,
as I went from my annual checkup and my doctor said, look, man,
you're fat, you're lazy, you're overweight if you can believe it,
and you got high cholesterol, and I'm going to put
you on medicine and you got to stand in this
stuff the rest of your life. And I'm walk out
of it. I'm thinking, I'm just fifty eight years old.
I don't want to do meds the rest of my life.
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I said, I'm thinking to myself, I wonder if I
exercise and diet. And so I walked in the cross
it at Trustville and the rest as they say, it's history,
and I started exercising and dieting. And next time I
went back to the doctor, he said, man, your cholesterol
is great. That med's doing good for it. I never
took anything, buddy. And you hear so many stories like
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that in the gym where they were diabetic but they
lost weight and exercise and they don't have to, you know,
do that diabetic stuff anymore. And it's just it's wonderful
and it keeps me healthy. And yeah, so the open
is just the first step, and I know I'll qualify
for the next round. I mean it's kind of a
given because they take the top thirty per I'm in
the top two percent, but the next round gets a
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little bit harder, and then they only take the top
ten in the world to go to the Games, which
last year I was tent and went to the Games
and finished seventh in the world. But this year, I mean,
I'm a year older, and then they got these people
who are sixty nine last year that are now seventy,
and some of those people are just I mean, awesome athletes.
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I just don't think it leaves room for me, as
a seventy two year old to get in there, and
at my age, every year really makes a big difference.
But you know what, talking about landscaping instead, I'm really
busy out there given estimates and where you know, through
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the winner Chris Keith can attest it. You know, well,
we stayed busy, but it was like, Okay, what are
we going to do next week? And then oh yeah,
sure we got these two jobs, and you know, but
right now it's we been in this business thirty four
thirty five years. It's the same old thing. Every spring.
I go from being a Maytag repair man in the
winter to being the most popular guy in Birmingham this
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time of year, and I'm doing three to four estimates
a day. I'm landing so many of them that Chris,
I don't know how far behind we are now twelve
fourteen weeks, but we went behind.
Speaker 4 (33:21):
We just got plenty to do.
Speaker 10 (33:24):
We need to do. You got that right, So get
your you know you're already late. Call us next week,
set a time for a landscape appointment. I'll come out
and see you. We'll get her done. As Chris likes
to say, that's.
Speaker 4 (33:37):
Right, man, I'm gonna jump on it all right.
Speaker 10 (33:41):
And Chris Joinner, I know you're ninety to nothing too.
Speaker 6 (33:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (33:45):
It's the same way I go out with. I go
out with four or five things to do and they
just keep coming in and next thing you know, it's
four thirty or five o'clock before I'm wrapping up getting
ready for.
Speaker 6 (33:55):
The next day. And you know it's hey, people that
I gave quotes.
Speaker 5 (33:59):
To back in the back at the very beginning of
the year, that maybe we're kind of sitting on the
fence because they you know, they just didn't think that
they needed to do anything. Now they're calling me like,
when are you going to get out there. There's weeds
all over my yard. So yeah, and like y'all, we jump,
we jump on it really really fast.
Speaker 7 (34:16):
Well, you know they don't they don't ever call you
when the when the lawn is pretty. They call you
when it's a disaster.
Speaker 10 (34:23):
Well you know that's funny, Chris, But you're right. Uh,
I get drawn out, taken out to so many landscape
estimates and people apologize, I'm sorry my landscape looks like this.
I said, well, buddy, I wouldn't be here if it
look good. I'm here for a reason. And uh, you
don't mind me. Telligence looks ugly because you already know that.
(34:45):
And Van we come in and we went all the
neighborhood landscaping awards. It looks great when we're done load
maintenance too. You never have to do a thing to it.
Speaker 7 (34:56):
Yeah, that's what we like is, you know, get it
where it's so easy to maintain. Man, they just don't
have to do hardly anything.
Speaker 4 (35:03):
Right.
Speaker 10 (35:04):
Yeah, we can stall nothing but plastic shrubs.
Speaker 6 (35:06):
You'll love them, all right, plastic flowers.
Speaker 10 (35:11):
More and more.
Speaker 5 (35:13):
I'll pick up your silk flowers on the after the
radio show, Mike.
Speaker 10 (35:17):
Yeah, Okay, top Joe. Later, guys have a right man.
Speaker 6 (35:22):
No, but that that is the case.
Speaker 10 (35:24):
Uh.
Speaker 6 (35:24):
You know, life happens.
Speaker 5 (35:26):
Landscapes get overgrown, you know, yards get up, yards get untamed,
and all you got to do is just call us
eight five four, four thousand and five, Monday through Friday,
eight to five and we'll take care of it. We're
Johnny on the spot when it comes to taking care
of yards and creating landscapes.
Speaker 4 (35:42):
Yeah, nobody calls us if they ain't got a problem.
Speaker 7 (35:45):
I mean, that's just fact, whether it's drainage work or
you know, a lot of the way homes are built nowadays. Man,
you know, they go down there and they you know,
they scrape the ground down to hard pan. They tried
to get it as flat as they can get it,
which is a super no no. And then the water
just doesn't have anywhere to go. So, you know, then
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they a couple moves in the house thinking, oh man,
you know, I got this new, beautiful home, and the
first good storm that comes, they feel like they need
a sunk pump out in the middle of the hour
to pump all the water out of it because the
water just can't go anywhere.
Speaker 4 (36:23):
You get one dip out there. Yeah, and you got
a pond.
Speaker 5 (36:26):
And it's amazing if you haven't ever paid attention how
much water comes off of a rooftop. Yeah, and then
you you double that right because in a lot of
your subdivisions, where the houses are built right on top
of each other, you'll have two or three downspouts coming
off of yours into like a side yard, and then
you'll have two or three from your neighbors coming off
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into your sideyard. Next thing, you know, you got a
moat around your house, and uh, there's not a lot
you can do about it. Water's got to go somewhere,
and if there's not slope, it doesn't slope off, or
if they're not piped out, you know to you know,
to the woods or to the street, it's gonna stand.
Speaker 7 (37:03):
A lot of times we have, you know, either one
neighbor or the two neighbors combined go in together and
they'll say, hey, look, you know, we want to combine
pay for this or whatever, and you know, put all
these down spouts together, and a lot of times we
have to go you know, once you get a couple
down spouts in there, when you go to the third
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down spouts. You got to jump up to you know,
six inch pipe to cover the water, and then you
pipe two more down spouts in it, you know, and
go on with it in a six inch pipe. So
you just got to know how much volume too. You
can't just take one four inch pipe and hook you
know eight eight uh guns down spouts to it because
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it's not gonna square.
Speaker 6 (37:45):
Peg ground hole. That's the concept right.
Speaker 7 (37:47):
Now, and we run into it so many times. They'll
they'll go in there and they'll put that stuff in.
They put it in with slotted pipe, and it's just like,
what the heck were they thinking?
Speaker 4 (37:56):
It's crazy?
Speaker 7 (37:57):
But uh yeah, if you need drainage work called us
eight five four four thousand and five. You know that
that kind of stuff is fresh on the brain when
you have one of these delusions like we're leable to
get the night where it just uh, you know, water,
Nobody realizes it until you know it's they've got a swamp,
and then they're like, oh, come help me, come help me.
Speaker 4 (38:18):
You know.
Speaker 7 (38:18):
So a lot of times we get more calls for
drainings work in the winter time because it's raining. Seems
like every other day. We we've actually had a pretty
mild rain season for for a winter this year than
we typically have usually. You know, it sets in and
we just just inside. Yeah, they call us for drainage
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work and we're so okay. Whenever it gets dry, we
do something.
Speaker 5 (38:42):
And we don't have we don't have a john boat
with a trencher on the front of it.
Speaker 4 (38:46):
It doesn't hurt like that. Well, Chris's time for the
last break show. Let's go ahead and do that.
Speaker 7 (38:50):
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Speaker 4 (42:58):
Force moultzing or tainer walls, done land.
Speaker 5 (43:01):
Clear if you want some pretty flowers for your flower, pots,
yeah if you want some vegetables for your vegetable, garden.
Speaker 7 (43:07):
You got to go down there and get that. Right
eighteen fifty Five Carson roads where we're.
Speaker 5 (43:11):
At but AND's bringing the flowers. In, man she got
plants she had trucks in last, week she had trucks
coming in this.
Speaker 6 (43:19):
Week truck, truck, trucks truck.
Speaker 7 (43:20):
Truck, yeah it was kind of trickling in two weeks,
ago a little bit of this and a little bit of,
that and now it's, like, man ten racks of shrubs
coming off this. Truck and you, know we, rolled you,
know ten racks of shrubs off the truck in the front.
Back and THEN i go down there AND i unhooked
Or i'm loading up something in the bottom and WHEN
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i look up, there uh there's another flower truck in the.
Front and uh, yeah so spring's virtually. HERE i, mean
you got she'll got a few iffy. Nights i'm sure
over the next few.
Speaker 5 (43:53):
Weeks, YEAH i, know the seven day temperatures has some
thirties in. It SO i ain't saying go go wild
and playing.
Speaker 6 (43:59):
At thirty flat.
Speaker 5 (44:01):
That but if you you, know if you want to come, in,
uh you, know we've got some one Inch i'm not
one inch one gallon. Flowers we, got you, know a
bunch of. Flats so if you got some flower pots
that are just easy to kind of cover up or
move under some, shelter you, know we've we've got it
ready to go BECAUSE i mean it's. Spring everybody's wanting
to do. It you get some nice seventy eighty degree
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days and fires people.
Speaker 7 (44:23):
Up man this time of year, TOO i mean everything
is you walk down The azalea aisle and. Everything you
see the new fold of just starting to pop out
on all this. Stuff and like the lower pedalums you've
seen how they flushed over the last oh, yeah and
you had like the endless summer highdranges and the bloomstruck
hydrangs and all. That you see the buds coming out
(44:46):
on them and all that, stuff and you know that
everything's about to come back to. Life, yeah you know
WHAT i. Mean and that's just my time of, year you.
See you know some of the things that just sneak
out there a little too early every, year like the
weep and wheelow. Trees you, know they've already got leaves
starting to pop out on them and. Stuff they're allowed
to get a little bit of burn on. Them now
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they recover fast from.
Speaker 4 (45:08):
It.
Speaker 7 (45:08):
Though this has actually been a pretty good year for
the saucer magnolia is you, know you, Too magnolias that
are out there and blaming in people's. Yards they've been
blaming pretty hot and heavy for about a week or
so and you, know ten. Days so, well it's actually
been a pretty decent season for.
Speaker 5 (45:24):
Them usually they come out early and then they get
hit by frost.
Speaker 7 (45:27):
Yep this, year they we've had good enough weather over
the last few days that they've done really. GOOD i
was out intrustful yesterday when we Finished Miss baker's. Yard
we went up back over and did a couple of
things At Becky robertson's. House and on the way through
there was a big Saucer magnolia and the down there
On Chopholm Mountain road that was, about you, know thirty
(45:50):
feet tass so you, know it had been there for
a long. Time and, man that thing you couldn't even
see through. It it was so full of, blooms you.
Know and heap these old stinking brad for, PAIRS i
hate to, say had a decent.
Speaker 6 (46:04):
Year cut those all, down grind them up and get
rid of.
Speaker 7 (46:07):
Them i've got one and down by my barn that's
out in the. Pasture my dad had. One he planted.
It he planted this pair is a fruiting, pair and
uh it jumped up there and got big and never
did fruit at. All and then of course WHEN i got,
OLDER i really you, know and got into you doing
WHAT i, do and, realize, man this thing's a Brad ford.
(46:27):
Pair by then it was forty or fifty feet tall
of me cut the thing. Down but, uh they're still
like one or two down there in the pastures that
just have come up random from the seeds of.
Speaker 6 (46:39):
Those uh, yeah and those are like a those are
like a mutant. Offspring and they get thorns on.
Speaker 4 (46:44):
Them.
Speaker 6 (46:45):
YEP i like the if you look like the crown of.
THORNS i, mean they're they're.
Speaker 5 (46:49):
GNARLY i had one on the side of my first
house AND i threatened to cut it, down BUT i
KNEW i wasn't going to live there, forever SO i
just left it because it gave me. Privacy but but,
yes they. Stink, yeah even my kids know. That my
kids when they when they start blooming and they're, like,
oh there, goes there's those stinky. Trees they're, pretty but they.
Speaker 4 (47:09):
Stink there's a zero advantage to, IT.
Speaker 6 (47:12):
I, mean good.
Speaker 7 (47:13):
NOTHING i think the only advantage to that brad for
pray that was in Dad. YARD i think we cut
it up and burn it for. Firewood, yeah that. Is
they had a million limbs in, it.
Speaker 5 (47:22):
And even and even then it's not great. Firewood, hey
it burn pretty. Good and they get. Brittle they grow
really fast because and then they they come up from
one central trunk and then they split off into you,
know thirty different, branches and so everywhere where it splits
off is a weak. Point so you get high winds
and or even just a little breeze and the things
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just crack and fall apart because they're. Brittle trees just
not not.
Speaker 7 (47:48):
Good, yeah stay away from a bread for. PRAYER i
don't even know where you can buy one. Anymore probably
the big But Meglo martyr or. Whatever they don't probably
go in there and get. One they don't know any better.
Though they ship stuff from all over the place on
what you're going to get in, there.
Speaker 5 (48:01):
RIGHT i, Said, Hey so we were talking about irrigation
at the break and irrigation, controllers AND i was talking
about preparation, earlier about crank and. Mowers go ahead and
run your irrigation system. Through you, know there's a lot
of moving. Parts there's not a lot of moving, parts
but there's enough moving parts on an irrigation system to
where one little thing goes wrong and then it doesn't.
(48:22):
Work you, know head could get thrown, off a valve
could go, bad, heckle you, know a wire could. Break
so you, know now it's a good time to go
through and run the irrigation, through just to make sure
everything's working properly before you need.
Speaker 4 (48:34):
It, YEAH i mean that's the.
Speaker 7 (48:35):
Thing you're probably not even gonna need the thing till About,
may but you've got time between now And may that
if you need a, repair you can get somebody out
there and do. It and, hey we hate doing, repairs
but we'll come out there and repair it for.
Speaker 4 (48:49):
You. Chris that music means we're out of, time. Y'all
call us eight five four four thousand and.
Speaker 7 (48:54):
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Keith the Landscape Show on w e r C.
Speaker 5 (00:37):
I'm Chris Ki, I'm Chris Joiner. I hope everybody's doing
fine this morning. I tell you, Chris Keith, this is
a dandy time of year, isn't it. I love spring
with the time change that gets me in trouble though for.
Speaker 4 (00:49):
About three days.
Speaker 6 (00:51):
No, no, what I'm talking about.
Speaker 5 (00:52):
It's like I get home from work and usually Saya
and the kids are out playing and we stay outside
and the next thing you know, it's it's.
Speaker 6 (01:00):
Like, oh gosh, it's eight o'clock.
Speaker 5 (01:01):
We still got to take showers, we still got to
cook dinner, we still got to go home work and
get to bed.
Speaker 4 (01:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (01:06):
But it's man, I love it. I love it this
time of year.
Speaker 7 (01:08):
Yeah, and you know the nighttime temperatures. First of last,
you know, this past week, we're still pretty cool. You know,
but you get in and you know, by by ten
o'clock you're coming out of a layer of clothes, you
know kind of thing. And you know, we've still got
some cool nights on the way. And I mean it's
just that time of year. But overall, I mean, yes,
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spring's here, you know.
Speaker 5 (01:33):
Yeah, you get one or two nights cold out of seven,
it ain't too bad.
Speaker 6 (01:36):
I'm alright with that.
Speaker 4 (01:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (01:38):
Well, and you know, we really haven't had any to
amount too much any frosty weather for the last week
or so, so that's been pretty good. And uh, you know,
we've just been out knocking out work.
Speaker 6 (01:48):
You know, I'm telling you everything's going.
Speaker 5 (01:50):
I want to say to hey, to all our fans
out there, everybody listening to the radio this time of year,
and when I'm getting out, you know, I'm measuring yards
and treating yards. It just I mean, really it's nice
to you know, say, hey, I love listening to you
guys on the radio show. Some corner you old guys
on the radio show. Yeah, right, I enjoy listening.
Speaker 6 (02:11):
So I hate all the listeners, all the fans out there.
Speaker 7 (02:13):
What super cracks me up is when you when you're
talking to somebody and they listened to the radio shows,
Oh you're a Dane celebrity.
Speaker 4 (02:19):
I'm like, yeah, that's right.
Speaker 6 (02:22):
Yeah, I'm know.
Speaker 4 (02:25):
I'm known for a pick and a shove.
Speaker 6 (02:27):
You're pretty good at digging holes, yes.
Speaker 7 (02:29):
Sir, But yeah, I mean we have really knocked out
some pretty work in the last week or so. We
got done with Miss Bakers. Uh, yesterday I had to
pull off her for a little bit and go. We
had a deadline we had to meet in another job.
So we went over to Ruds and knocked that out.
Speaker 6 (02:48):
Now, Miss Bakers, that's one of the new developments. Yeah,
it's in a long meadow.
Speaker 8 (02:53):
And man, it's shirt rock, slate, boulders, gravel, was she harder,
chunks of bricks, smodello, bottles, you name it.
Speaker 6 (03:04):
It's under that ground, right yep.
Speaker 7 (03:06):
Well, I don't think that they could plow the ground
deep enough to put that stuff in there.
Speaker 4 (03:11):
It was that hard.
Speaker 7 (03:12):
And uh, there was an irrigation contractor came in there
before us and he started and just quit and ripped
her off for a couple thousand bucks. Yeah, so we
came in behind her or behind him, and he couldn't
he couldn't dig it or trench it or anything because
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he said it was too hard.
Speaker 4 (03:35):
Well, dag gumut. We went in there and.
Speaker 7 (03:36):
Trenched it, and we put her in an irrigation system,
and uh, added shrubs all the way around the house,
put in a retainer wall over there, just small, you know,
small retaining wall down the side of the house, and
got her fixed, new bark all the way around, and
just got her fixed up and finished her up yesterday.
Speaker 4 (03:57):
And then when.
Speaker 7 (03:58):
We were at Rudd's h we did a big project
for him. You can't miss him right there on Crestwood Boulevard,
you know when you're going down there, because we put
in huge Arbravidas and huge Hollis around the block from
fifty seven to Crestwood, and uh, he came in there
behind it and put this.
Speaker 4 (04:18):
Uh it's called sheek fence. It looks like it's called
chic chic. It's chic.
Speaker 6 (04:24):
Yeah, it's chiky.
Speaker 4 (04:25):
It's pretty chic too.
Speaker 7 (04:27):
And uh it's about six feet tall and it's not
it's like a privacy fence, but it's it's made out
of metal and it's like aluminum stuff, but it goes
when it goes in there, the each panel of it
has a panel that's missing in between as it goes up,
and then some panels are solid. So like in the
corners that had solid panels where you wanted a complete privacy,
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it was solid and then uh, and then in between
it had skips in the in the thing, so you
had a panel, then it skipped the panels, panels skipped
the panel kind of thing. Six with that, it's pretty fence.
I think he's got a fortune in it. But it's
got big roll up door rolled side by side doors,
you know, like a barn door times ten kind of thing.
(05:11):
You know, it's like twelve feet long and you take
the thing and roll it open.
Speaker 4 (05:14):
You know.
Speaker 7 (05:15):
Pretty nice stuff. But anyways, so at Rudds we went in.
We put in irrigation on drip, irrigation on those big
hollies and those big trees back when we did his
job the first time. But that set him up for
irrigation for the lawn. So we went in there and
(05:37):
added you know, three more zones of irrigation to the
front yard, another z on a drip for some shrubs.
We planted him some blueberries and added us on a
drip for that, and z on a drip for the
front foundation shrubs, and then we saw it at the
whole front yard, and then a couple more odds and
(05:57):
the end she's got a flower bed there we tilled
up for and uh, this, that and the other for
Rudd's wife. So we did a bunch of work over there,
and we were over there for three days and knocked
that out. And before that we were up there in Lincoln.
So we've been on really three big jobs back to
back to back. We laid twenty five pouts of sad
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on the river in Lincoln. I'm sure we'll be back
out there that as the money conrolls in. This fellow
says he'll he'll add another twenty or twenty five pallets
a saw it. He probably had lacks about twenty five
or thirty more pallets, having enough to do pretty much everything.
Speaker 4 (06:39):
So then we'll have a whole nice sawded soois along
on the river up there. So that's pretty cool.
Speaker 5 (06:45):
I don't know if that's we treat yards in pel City,
but I don't know if that's within this one go.
You know, when you when you look at Pel City,
what do you say. It depends on how you how
you can get there, by the way the crow flies
or the boat drives, or by the way you drive
your car.
Speaker 7 (06:59):
Yeah, what I mean, Well, this one, you get off
at the Emory exit, so you're in technically you're in Lincoln,
but you take a right and you go back down
like you're going back down towards the shack. You know
where the intersection where the shack is right there, and
uh he's about halfway between the interstate exit and the
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you turn to go to the shack and uh so
that's about where you're at then, right on the river
right there. So yeah, we'll probably take that one.
Speaker 5 (07:28):
In probably so Baby, So you talk about rut at
blueberries and that just kind of sparked me on. On man,
the things that Anne has coming into the garden center.
I walked in yesterday and so I you know, Chris Keith,
you and me and and Justin we just kind of
you see justin mor thing I do. But we kind
of just see each other in passing in the morning
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and then in the afternoon because everything is just the
wheels have gained traction. Oh yeah, well, I mean, uh,
you know, long hair is running wide open. You all
are doing landscaping at the garden center. When I walked
in yesterday and Anne was helping customers, and I walked
in just you know, talking with her, and I just
you could smell the fragrance of all the flowers that
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had come in. And we got a bunch of more
blueberries in because I think Rudd got most.
Speaker 6 (08:13):
Of the most of ours.
Speaker 7 (08:14):
But there's some blueberries in there now that literally are
covered with bloom. So if you buy them now, you're
gonna have a You're gonna have a bumper crop of blueberries.
Speaker 4 (08:24):
This berry same year blueberries.
Speaker 5 (08:26):
I know that, you know, like so we mean, you've
done this radio for a long time. You've done it
longer than I have. And back when Mike Ustitute all
the time, I remember him talking about how how blueberries
were such a cool plant, particularly particularly if you got kids.
You know, my my girls love going out and I don't.
I don't get to eat the first blueberry because they
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stand out there at the blueberry bushes when they got
fruit on them, and they just sit there and pick
them right off the bush and and eat them. But
they're really cool plant, particularly if you got children and
you want to kind of get them out in the
yard and get them involved. Super easy to grow, I
mean you can't hardly you can't hardly kill a blueberry bush, now, you.
Speaker 4 (09:04):
Mean that thing established just there.
Speaker 6 (09:06):
They're super easy to take care of.
Speaker 5 (09:08):
They they grow, don't require a lot of pruning, don't
really require a lot of fertilization. But that's just a
really cool plant to plant for kids, because I know
mine love them. And we've actually if you look out
my go off the end of my driveway, you'll see
a big ring of rocks, right, and uh, we were
clearing out some stuff last year and I looked down, Uh, huh,
(09:29):
what is that That looks like a tiny little blueberry bush?
And uh, I've got a big patch of like wild
blueberries back there.
Speaker 6 (09:36):
And those jokers only get, you know, a foot tall.
Speaker 5 (09:39):
But I put a ring around them so that I
didn't like spray them or string trim them down. So
we found a bunch of little wild scrubby blueberries out there. Yeah,
that's our wild garden out there, our native garden, I
guess you could say.
Speaker 4 (09:51):
Yeah, the native the ones don't put on that much.
Speaker 5 (09:53):
They don't about out of about fifty little sprigs. I
think we'll get about three blueberries.
Speaker 4 (09:59):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (09:59):
But uh in the garden center and got all our
vegetables in. I mean, so if you need tomatoes, we
got them. If you need peppers, you need got we
got them.
Speaker 6 (10:07):
I know, we got collars, we got broccoli, we got
Brussels sprouts.
Speaker 4 (10:11):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (10:12):
She got a shipment of betting plants in. She's got
ferns in. And that's just this past week. So we'll
be bringing in every single week. You know, more than
likely we'll be bringing in.
Speaker 6 (10:21):
More and more and more.
Speaker 7 (10:21):
I didn't plan any last year, but I'm going now.
I think I did, Chris, and I I the plant.
Something happened to it. It got a virus on it
or something, and it just never made out anything. But
this year, I want to plant some Peblano peppers because
Teresa takes those things and stuff them and that is
like delicious I'm talking about.
Speaker 4 (10:43):
But uh yeah, so I'm gonna.
Speaker 7 (10:45):
Plant a bunch of peblanos and bell peppers and stuff.
I didn't do as many peppers that I had one
cayenne pepper plant that was about chest high and it
had about a.
Speaker 4 (10:55):
Thousand on it.
Speaker 7 (10:56):
When I want it just fell over, and I mean
I picked like a couple of gallon bags or whatever
off of it the peppers, and then you know, I'd
a couple of my buddies grabbed some off of it,
but I mean it made like a jillion.
Speaker 5 (11:10):
Surgery over wintered his peppers at the garden centermore.
Speaker 7 (11:14):
Yeah, he's got but he's got five halopenion peppers that
he moved in the garden center last winter. They're in
like fifteen gallon potts and each one of them had
like seventy peppers on it like constantly all year last year.
Speaker 4 (11:28):
And uh, he wintered those things over. So he's now.
Speaker 7 (11:30):
He's he's already picking peppers and going again. It's pretty neat. Well, Chris,
I bet we're up against the break. Let's go ahead
and did our number. If y'all want to call us
and ask us a gardener question, you can do that.
It's up four three nine nine three seven two. That's
two O five four three nine nine three seven two.
Y'all come see us at the Garden Center where at
eighteen fifty five Carson Road. We're doing our spring hours now,
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so we're Monday through Friday eight to five. Uh, y'all
come see us. We'll do that until probably Mother's Day
or so like that, and then we'll quit. But for
now we're going eight to five. Y'all come see us,
and we'll be right back on the Classic Guard in
the landscape shoe.
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And you got an option.
Speaker 7 (16:42):
You can go with a fertilan which is a good option,
or you go with a better option.
Speaker 4 (16:47):
And we call it the bag of Gold and the
bag old man. You put it out twice a year.
Speaker 7 (16:52):
Burd loan option you've got to do every other month,
so you do it six times a year, but it's
mandatory you do it in.
Speaker 6 (16:58):
March, that's right.
Speaker 5 (17:00):
So the years and years ago, basically we had to
bring in the bag of Gold and I had to
start using it in our fertilization division because there are
certain weeds that will build a resistance or an immunity
so to speak, to to certain pre emergents.
Speaker 6 (17:19):
And poana is one of us.
Speaker 5 (17:22):
And that's something that you know that when we go
do our continual education classes, you know, just talking about
pesticide safety and new chemicals and new techniques and pest
integrated management and all that kind of stuff. Poana resistance
is usually one of the topics that they talk about.
So it's just kind of like me and you, Chris Keith,
if we continue to take like the exact same medicine
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over and over and over again, our body, will, you know,
building immunity up to it. Well, poana does that to
the old school type pre emergent. So it got to
the point where some of our customers that had been
with us for a long time, we started seeing more
poana outbreaks in those and all you stand. Pashenko is
an example, Chris Keith, cause that's.
Speaker 4 (18:04):
Why I talk about one of the best ones.
Speaker 5 (18:07):
So we had to I don't know, it probably been
seven eight years ago. The bag of gold is a
pre mergent that works differently. It's a completely different class
of pre mergent, and so to break that resistance, you
have to change products basically, or change the type of
premergent that you're putting out. And Stan Pashenko Chris Keith,
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his yard's over in a over in the Irondell area,
and his front yard is basically a glorified drainage ditch.
And I remember you were treating the yard one time
and you thought to yourself, man, this guy is covered
up with poanna, and uh, that was the same year
that we ended up like switching over the year.
Speaker 7 (18:48):
I honestly looked like to Bermuda was green, Like the
Bermuda was green in the winter time.
Speaker 5 (18:53):
And so we ended up like that next spring, we
ended up switching kind of retro fitting our vehicles and
and using.
Speaker 6 (19:00):
The new the new pre mergent.
Speaker 5 (19:03):
And you went back a year later and you said, God, Christ,
you want to there's not a sprig of Poanna in
that thing. And I and that's when I explained, you know, hey,
we just switched up what we were using. And that
same year I told Anne, I was like, listen, I
was like, you have to start selling this in the
garden center.
Speaker 6 (19:19):
It's worth it's waiting gold, right, the bag of gold.
And it's expensive upfront.
Speaker 5 (19:24):
You know, when you when you look at the cost,
you know of what you have to what you have
to pay, you know, in one visit.
Speaker 6 (19:30):
But the thing is.
Speaker 5 (19:32):
Is like when you do an annual cost of you know,
doing your pre mergent twice a year versus doing your
pre mergent six times a year, it's pretty much the same.
Sometimes it can be a little bit more, sometimes it
can be a little bit less, but from an annual cost,
it's uh, it's it's roughly the same.
Speaker 7 (19:50):
And well, if you only got to do it twice
here though, you're a whole lot less likely to screw
up and not get to pre emergen.
Speaker 5 (19:56):
That's right, And there's no if you have if you
have Poanna in the yard, there's no other way to
eliminate that from a prevention standpoint other than switching over
to that. So people will still come in and say,
I put down the pre mergent. You know, I'm still
getting poe An in my yard. And you know, we'll
look back through the computer system and we'll explain to
him the whole resistance thing that you know, they've been
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doing the same thing, you know, year after year after year,
and uh, you know, we'll have to end up selling
them on the bag of golden. And you know, we
will have customers that call in, especially Harold from Homewood,
and he's a huge he's a huge supporter of it
because he's seen the difference that it makes. Oh yeah,
it's night and day without a doubt for sure.
Speaker 7 (20:38):
Well, Chris, when we went to break, we had a
caller call in. They want to come on the radio,
and they were asking about Z fifty two and why
we didn't like Z fifty two And I don't know
where he got where we don't like it. Uh, we
we do like Z fifty two. Zoysia. We prefer emerald
over Z fifty two, just because me personally, I feel
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like if you get something n Z fifty two, like
say you get grubs or bill bug larvae or something
like that, ground patch fun anything like that makes that
grass so weak and it takes it so much longer
to recover, Whereas if you got emeralds oyja, it bounces
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back from from something like that a whole lot faster.
You don't have to worry about the roots. Clubbing is
bad and and all that kind of issues that we
deal with was zoysia, where if you if you put
an emerald, it seems to be more shade tolerant. You know,
green ups good on it the whole nine yards. It's
just a it just does better at bouncing back when
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it's under pressure and you need to get one that's
real hot and you know, get one of these real
hot dry spells, and it just seems to you know,
bounce back from it. You know, we've got yards up
and out on crestwood that just it torch fried and it,
I mean, it's like they're they're laid on iron and uh,
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I mean, and and those yards just as soon as
it starts raining again, they bounce back, and you know
it takes six or eight months or whatever to get
them back, but they just recover from it.
Speaker 5 (22:20):
The Emerald is just our grass of choice. Yeah, we had,
I mean in my backyard's prime example. I mean, I
started with a clean slate. I couldn't laid any grass
I wanted to, and I chose Emerald's sois just because
I think consistently it performs better uh than C fifty two.
Speaker 7 (22:37):
Yeah, there's a lot of yards, and I mean, obviously
we treat a lot of bermuda, we treat a lot
of Z fifty two, We treat a lot of noison.
We don't recommend centipede or Saint Augustine at all.
Speaker 4 (22:47):
Uh.
Speaker 7 (22:47):
That needs to be grown on the coast, you know,
and you'll see a nice centipede yard here and there,
you know, but for the most part, you're better off,
you know, just going with something that you know it's
pretty bulletproof. And we feel like Emerald zoyja uh bermuda
is pretty bulletproof, I mean in the same sense. But
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you know, bermuda grows real fast. You know, you just
about got to be moaning it every four to five
days to keep from scalping it in the summer, and
who wants to cut grass every five days? So you know,
most of the time people cut the grass once a week,
and every time you cut your grass, you're gonna turn
in a little bit brown.
Speaker 5 (23:25):
If you get remuta, it usually seems sometime around mid July.
That's that's kind of when that starts happening. And it's
kind of a trade off. Like bermuda a lot of
times will green up a little bit faster in the spring,
but it goes it loses its luster and kind of
goes dormant quicker than it's oysia. Where it's oisea tends
to sometimes green up a little bit slower than bermuda,
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but it lasts a lot longer into the end of
the fall. But I guess there's pros and cons to
any to any grass. Yeah, And you know they've come
you know, people have come out with with a lot
of different varieties over the years, particularly with zoysia. You know,
each one's supposed to be more shade tolerant, more disease resistant,
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more insect resistant, and drought resistant. And we've tried a
lot of those varieties as just kind of test trials, right,
But you know, we typically always go back to like
the tried and true where we just we stick with
Emerald and Z fifty two in cases, but uh yeah
that's our story.
Speaker 4 (24:23):
Yeah. A lot of times it just depends too.
Speaker 7 (24:26):
Like if we're say you've already got Z fifty two,
obviously will lay the same thing. But you know, if
we're going with a whole new front yard, then we'll
lay Emerald. It's just you know, unless you request Bermuda
or whatever. We've got to do a job for Gosh
Holt over here, Josh Holt over there in sweet Water.
(24:48):
It's another one of those neighborhoods that's got some good
old funky hard ground and uh he's got a spot.
A lot of those houses in there. For whatever reason,
the contractors only laid saw it.
Speaker 6 (25:00):
To like I said about off the back of the house.
Speaker 7 (25:03):
All they needed was about another three pounds a sad
and they could have just done the whole yard. But instead,
you know, once they get you know, thirty forty feet
off the house, they quit and you know who knows,
But anyways, he he needs a he we're basically gonna
split it, so half of it we're gonna bark and
he's gonna put like an H and H building and
like a swing set or like a play area for
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his kids. And then the other half of it he's
gonna put in We're gonna put in Bermuda sad and uh,
just so half and half and uh, that'll be.
Speaker 4 (25:33):
A pretty easy job for us.
Speaker 7 (25:35):
But uh, we're doing Bermuda there because that's what the
contractor put end, so that's what we're doing. But yeah,
typically it just depends on what we're doing. But for
the most part, we we just soon use the emerald. Well,
Chris's time for a break. Let's go ahead and do that.
Our number, if you'll want a cost, is two O
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(25:57):
Landscape Show.
Speaker 1 (26:28):
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Speaker 2 (26:36):
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Speaker 3 (26:42):
No, and now you're your host Chris Joiner and Chris Keith.
Speaker 7 (26:48):
And we're back for the second half of the Classic
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Speaker 5 (27:21):
Yes, sir, you know this is a time of year
for preparation. I mean we've been preaching pre emergent basically
three hundred and sixty five days a year for thirty years.
But now is the time to get pre merging down.
So that's gonna help head off crabgrass, all your chamber
bitter which people call gripe, little mimosa trees that grow
in your yard, spurge which is some people call it
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milkweed because when you pull it, the stems bleed this
white sat But now's the time to do pre merging
on the yard. If you hadn't done it already. General preparation,
if you hadn't gotten your lawnmower out and scalpt your
yard yet. You need to get that lawnmower out. You
need to crank it. You need to crank a string
trimmer up, you need to crank a blower up. Make
sure all that stuff's working, and if it does need
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service work, you need to go ahead and get it
in the shop like now, because you know small engine
repair services, they're gonna get slammed and it's going to
be a month before you can get your mower back
because they're going to have basically everybody in the state
you know, is gonna take their mower in all at
the same time.
Speaker 7 (28:23):
So I want to be prepared to say, yeah, you'll
get it back in a month.
Speaker 5 (28:27):
Yeah, And we and we got Mike on the line.
Good morning, Mike.
Speaker 10 (28:31):
How are you morning, guys?
Speaker 3 (28:34):
How about y'all.
Speaker 4 (28:34):
I'm doing great, man, We're doing good. Just you know,
enjoying the spring like weather.
Speaker 10 (28:41):
Yeah. Yeah, I hold on to your hats this afternoon, certainly.
Speaker 5 (28:45):
So you know, I was I was thinking I was
thinking about you last night Mike, because I follow I
still follow CrossFit trustful, and I was thinking, I said,
I bet Mike's in there crushing it again this year.
How you've been doing it at the CrossFit Game.
Speaker 10 (29:01):
I'll tell you what. I think. I'm going to retire
from competing. It's the too nerve wracking for me. I
just put so much pressure on myself for no reason.
It's just the open, right, I mean, like five hundred
thousand people across the world are doing the open right now.
In my age group, I write number ten in the world.
(29:21):
But you know, I just go to cross it to
have fun. Then you hang out with my buddies. I
put in a good workout and then and it keeps
me very healthy, keeps me very active. But then you
go and you start doing these competitions and I start
I don't know. I mean, it takes a day or
two out of my life every time I compete, just
(29:43):
because I sit there and I worry about Okay, first
I got to do wallwalks. Then I'm going to go
do deadlifts, and on these dead lists, I'm going to
do this many And then I got to go do wallwalks,
and I got to go row fifty meters and I've
got twenty minutes, and I got to go do wallwalks,
and I got to do power cleans, and I got
to go do wawalks I gotta do and I got,
you know, and I go through the whole routine and
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it never stops and and uh and by the time
I walk in there, I'm just drained. And then I
get on there and I do everything, and everything goes
great and I have fun. I enjoy it. But leading
up to the competitions, just I don't know, I don't
like it. And life's too short to do things you
don't like. So I said, I'm not competing anymore. And
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that's probably a lie. I probably it's a lie.
Speaker 5 (30:31):
Well, but you know, in the in the grander scheme
of things, Mike, I mean, congratulations on being number number
ten in the world. I know last year you did
really really well and made it to the CrossFit Games.
And that's that's a testament that like it doesn't matter
what your fitness level is and what age you are.
H I mean, what's what's I'm sure somewhere down the
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line at CrossFit Trust for y'all talk about just keep moving,
just get up and do it.
Speaker 4 (30:55):
Well, you know, it doesn't matter.
Speaker 6 (30:57):
Just don't sit on the couch.
Speaker 10 (30:58):
The reason I the reason I are it. Thirteen years ago,
as I went from my annual checkup and my doctor said, look, man,
you're fat, you're lazy, you're overweight if you can believe it,
and you got high cholesterol, and I'm going to put
you on medicine and you got to stand in this
stuff the rest of your life. And I'm walk out
of it. I'm thinking, I'm just fifty eight years old.
I don't want to do meds the rest of my life.
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I said, I'm thinking to myself, I wonder if I
exercise and diet. And so I walked in the cross
it at Trustville and the rest as they say, it's history,
and I started exercising and dieting. And next time I
went back to the doctor, he said, man, your cholesterol
is great. That med's doing good for it. I never
took anything, buddy. And you hear so many stories like
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that in the gym where they were diabetic but they
lost weight and exercise and they don't have to, you know,
do that diabetic stuff anymore. And it's just it's wonderful
and it keeps me healthy. And yeah, so the open
is just the first step, and I know I'll qualify
for the next round. I mean it's kind of a
given because they take the top thirty per I'm in
the top two percent, but the next round gets a
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little bit harder, and then they only take the top
ten in the world to go to the Games, which
last year I was tent and went to the Games
and finished seventh in the world. But this year, I mean,
I'm a year older, and then they got these people
who are sixty nine last year that are now seventy,
and some of those people are just I mean, awesome athletes.
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I just don't think it leaves room for me, as
a seventy two year old to get in there, and
at my age, every year really makes a big difference.
But you know what, talking about landscaping instead, I'm really
busy out there given estimates and where you know, through
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the winner Chris Keith can attest it. You know, well,
we stayed busy, but it was like, Okay, what are
we going to do next week? And then oh yeah,
sure we got these two jobs, and you know, but
right now it's we been in this business thirty four
thirty five years. It's the same old thing. Every spring.
I go from being a Maytag repair man in the
winter to being the most popular guy in Birmingham this
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time of year, and I'm doing three to four estimates
a day. I'm landing so many of them that Chris,
I don't know how far behind we are now twelve
fourteen weeks, but we went behind.
Speaker 4 (33:21):
We just got plenty to do.
Speaker 10 (33:24):
We need to do. You got that right, So get
your you know you're already late. Call us next week,
set a time for a landscape appointment. I'll come out
and see you. We'll get her done. As Chris likes
to say, that's.
Speaker 4 (33:37):
Right, man, I'm gonna jump on it all right.
Speaker 10 (33:41):
And Chris Joinner, I know you're ninety to nothing too.
Speaker 6 (33:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (33:45):
It's the same way I go out with. I go
out with four or five things to do and they
just keep coming in and next thing you know, it's
four thirty or five o'clock before I'm wrapping up getting
ready for.
Speaker 6 (33:55):
The next day. And you know it's hey, people that
I gave quotes.
Speaker 5 (33:59):
To back in the back at the very beginning of
the year, that maybe we're kind of sitting on the
fence because they you know, they just didn't think that
they needed to do anything. Now they're calling me like,
when are you going to get out there. There's weeds
all over my yard. So yeah, and like y'all, we jump,
we jump on it really really fast.
Speaker 7 (34:16):
Well, you know they don't they don't ever call you
when the when the lawn is pretty. They call you
when it's a disaster.
Speaker 10 (34:23):
Well you know that's funny, Chris, But you're right. Uh,
I get drawn out, taken out to so many landscape
estimates and people apologize, I'm sorry my landscape looks like this.
I said, well, buddy, I wouldn't be here if it
look good. I'm here for a reason. And uh, you
don't mind me. Telligence looks ugly because you already know that.
(34:45):
And Van we come in and we went all the
neighborhood landscaping awards. It looks great when we're done load
maintenance too. You never have to do a thing to it.
Speaker 7 (34:56):
Yeah, that's what we like is, you know, get it
where it's so easy to maintain. Man, they just don't
have to do hardly anything.
Speaker 4 (35:03):
Right.
Speaker 10 (35:04):
Yeah, we can stall nothing but plastic shrubs.
Speaker 6 (35:06):
You'll love them, all right, plastic flowers.
Speaker 10 (35:11):
More and more.
Speaker 5 (35:13):
I'll pick up your silk flowers on the after the
radio show, Mike.
Speaker 10 (35:17):
Yeah, Okay, top Joe. Later, guys have a right man.
Speaker 6 (35:22):
No, but that that is the case.
Speaker 10 (35:24):
Uh.
Speaker 6 (35:24):
You know, life happens.
Speaker 5 (35:26):
Landscapes get overgrown, you know, yards get up, yards get untamed,
and all you got to do is just call us
eight five four, four thousand and five, Monday through Friday,
eight to five and we'll take care of it. We're
Johnny on the spot when it comes to taking care
of yards and creating landscapes.
Speaker 4 (35:42):
Yeah, nobody calls us if they ain't got a problem.
Speaker 7 (35:45):
I mean, that's just fact, whether it's drainage work or
you know, a lot of the way homes are built nowadays. Man,
you know, they go down there and they you know,
they scrape the ground down to hard pan. They tried
to get it as flat as they can get it,
which is a super no no. And then the water
just doesn't have anywhere to go. So, you know, then
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they a couple moves in the house thinking, oh man,
you know, I got this new, beautiful home, and the
first good storm that comes, they feel like they need
a sunk pump out in the middle of the hour
to pump all the water out of it because the
water just can't go anywhere.
Speaker 4 (36:23):
You get one dip out there. Yeah, and you got
a pond.
Speaker 5 (36:26):
And it's amazing if you haven't ever paid attention how
much water comes off of a rooftop. Yeah, and then
you you double that right because in a lot of
your subdivisions, where the houses are built right on top
of each other, you'll have two or three downspouts coming
off of yours into like a side yard, and then
you'll have two or three from your neighbors coming off
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into your sideyard. Next thing, you know, you got a
moat around your house, and uh, there's not a lot
you can do about it. Water's got to go somewhere,
and if there's not slope, it doesn't slope off, or
if they're not piped out, you know to you know,
to the woods or to the street, it's gonna stand.
Speaker 7 (37:03):
A lot of times we have, you know, either one
neighbor or the two neighbors combined go in together and
they'll say, hey, look, you know, we want to combine
pay for this or whatever, and you know, put all
these down spouts together, and a lot of times we
have to go you know, once you get a couple
down spouts in there, when you go to the third
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down spouts. You got to jump up to you know,
six inch pipe to cover the water, and then you
pipe two more down spouts in it, you know, and
go on with it in a six inch pipe. So
you just got to know how much volume too. You
can't just take one four inch pipe and hook you
know eight eight uh guns down spouts to it because
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it's not gonna square.
Speaker 6 (37:45):
Peg ground hole. That's the concept right.
Speaker 7 (37:47):
Now, and we run into it so many times. They'll
they'll go in there and they'll put that stuff in.
They put it in with slotted pipe, and it's just like,
what the heck were they thinking?
Speaker 4 (37:56):
It's crazy?
Speaker 7 (37:57):
But uh yeah, if you need drainage work called us
eight five four four thousand and five. You know that
that kind of stuff is fresh on the brain when
you have one of these delusions like we're leable to
get the night where it just uh, you know, water,
Nobody realizes it until you know it's they've got a swamp,
and then they're like, oh, come help me, come help me.
Speaker 4 (38:18):
You know.
Speaker 7 (38:18):
So a lot of times we get more calls for
drainings work in the winter time because it's raining. Seems
like every other day. We we've actually had a pretty
mild rain season for for a winter this year than
we typically have usually. You know, it sets in and
we just just inside. Yeah, they call us for drainage
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work and we're so okay. Whenever it gets dry, we
do something.
Speaker 5 (38:42):
And we don't have we don't have a john boat
with a trencher on the front of it.
Speaker 4 (38:46):
It doesn't hurt like that. Well, Chris's time for the
last break show. Let's go ahead and do that.
Speaker 7 (38:50):
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Speaker 4 (42:58):
Force moultzing or tainer walls, done land.
Speaker 5 (43:01):
Clear if you want some pretty flowers for your flower, pots,
yeah if you want some vegetables for your vegetable, garden.
Speaker 7 (43:07):
You got to go down there and get that. Right
eighteen fifty Five Carson roads where we're.
Speaker 5 (43:11):
At but AND's bringing the flowers. In, man she got
plants she had trucks in last, week she had trucks
coming in this.
Speaker 6 (43:19):
Week truck, truck, trucks truck.
Speaker 7 (43:20):
Truck, yeah it was kind of trickling in two weeks,
ago a little bit of this and a little bit of,
that and now it's, like, man ten racks of shrubs
coming off this. Truck and you, know we, rolled you,
know ten racks of shrubs off the truck in the front.
Back and THEN i go down there AND i unhooked
Or i'm loading up something in the bottom and WHEN
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i look up, there uh there's another flower truck in the.
Front and uh, yeah so spring's virtually. HERE i, mean
you got she'll got a few iffy. Nights i'm sure
over the next few.
Speaker 5 (43:53):
Weeks, YEAH i, know the seven day temperatures has some
thirties in. It SO i ain't saying go go wild
and playing.
Speaker 6 (43:59):
At thirty flat.
Speaker 5 (44:01):
That but if you you, know if you want to come, in,
uh you, know we've got some one Inch i'm not
one inch one gallon. Flowers we, got you, know a
bunch of. Flats so if you got some flower pots
that are just easy to kind of cover up or
move under some, shelter you, know we've we've got it
ready to go BECAUSE i mean it's. Spring everybody's wanting
to do. It you get some nice seventy eighty degree
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days and fires people.
Speaker 7 (44:23):
Up man this time of year, TOO i mean everything
is you walk down The azalea aisle and. Everything you
see the new fold of just starting to pop out
on all this. Stuff and like the lower pedalums you've
seen how they flushed over the last oh, yeah and
you had like the endless summer highdranges and the bloomstruck
hydrangs and all. That you see the buds coming out
(44:46):
on them and all that, stuff and you know that
everything's about to come back to. Life, yeah you know
WHAT i. Mean and that's just my time of, year you.
See you know some of the things that just sneak
out there a little too early every, year like the
weep and wheelow. Trees you, know they've already got leaves
starting to pop out on them and. Stuff they're allowed
to get a little bit of burn on. Them now
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they recover fast from.
Speaker 4 (45:08):
It.
Speaker 7 (45:08):
Though this has actually been a pretty good year for
the saucer magnolia is you, know you, Too magnolias that
are out there and blaming in people's. Yards they've been
blaming pretty hot and heavy for about a week or
so and you, know ten. Days so, well it's actually
been a pretty decent season for.
Speaker 5 (45:24):
Them usually they come out early and then they get
hit by frost.
Speaker 7 (45:27):
Yep this, year they we've had good enough weather over
the last few days that they've done really. GOOD i
was out intrustful yesterday when we Finished Miss baker's. Yard
we went up back over and did a couple of
things At Becky robertson's. House and on the way through
there was a big Saucer magnolia and the down there
On Chopholm Mountain road that was, about you, know thirty
(45:50):
feet tass so you, know it had been there for
a long. Time and, man that thing you couldn't even
see through. It it was so full of, blooms you.
Know and heap these old stinking brad for, PAIRS i
hate to, say had a decent.
Speaker 6 (46:04):
Year cut those all, down grind them up and get
rid of.
Speaker 7 (46:07):
Them i've got one and down by my barn that's
out in the. Pasture my dad had. One he planted.
It he planted this pair is a fruiting, pair and
uh it jumped up there and got big and never
did fruit at. All and then of course WHEN i got,
OLDER i really you, know and got into you doing
WHAT i, do and, realize, man this thing's a Brad ford.
(46:27):
Pair by then it was forty or fifty feet tall
of me cut the thing. Down but, uh they're still
like one or two down there in the pastures that
just have come up random from the seeds of.
Speaker 6 (46:39):
Those uh, yeah and those are like a those are
like a mutant. Offspring and they get thorns on.
Speaker 4 (46:44):
Them.
Speaker 6 (46:45):
YEP i like the if you look like the crown of.
THORNS i, mean they're they're.
Speaker 5 (46:49):
GNARLY i had one on the side of my first
house AND i threatened to cut it, down BUT i
KNEW i wasn't going to live there, forever SO i
just left it because it gave me. Privacy but but,
yes they. Stink, yeah even my kids know. That my
kids when they when they start blooming and they're, like,
oh there, goes there's those stinky. Trees they're, pretty but they.
Speaker 4 (47:09):
Stink there's a zero advantage to, IT.
Speaker 6 (47:12):
I, mean good.
Speaker 7 (47:13):
NOTHING i think the only advantage to that brad for
pray that was in Dad. YARD i think we cut
it up and burn it for. Firewood, yeah that. Is
they had a million limbs in, it.
Speaker 5 (47:22):
And even and even then it's not great. Firewood, hey
it burn pretty. Good and they get. Brittle they grow
really fast because and then they they come up from
one central trunk and then they split off into you,
know thirty different, branches and so everywhere where it splits
off is a weak. Point so you get high winds
and or even just a little breeze and the things
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just crack and fall apart because they're. Brittle trees just
not not.
Speaker 7 (47:48):
Good, yeah stay away from a bread for. PRAYER i
don't even know where you can buy one. Anymore probably
the big But Meglo martyr or. Whatever they don't probably
go in there and get. One they don't know any better.
Though they ship stuff from all over the place on
what you're going to get in, there.
Speaker 5 (48:01):
RIGHT i, Said, Hey so we were talking about irrigation
at the break and irrigation, controllers AND i was talking
about preparation, earlier about crank and. Mowers go ahead and
run your irrigation system. Through you, know there's a lot
of moving. Parts there's not a lot of moving, parts
but there's enough moving parts on an irrigation system to
where one little thing goes wrong and then it doesn't.
(48:22):
Work you, know head could get thrown, off a valve
could go, bad, heckle you, know a wire could. Break
so you, know now it's a good time to go
through and run the irrigation, through just to make sure
everything's working properly before you need.
Speaker 4 (48:34):
It, YEAH i mean that's the.
Speaker 7 (48:35):
Thing you're probably not even gonna need the thing till About,
may but you've got time between now And may that
if you need a, repair you can get somebody out
there and do. It and, hey we hate doing, repairs
but we'll come out there and repair it for.
Speaker 4 (48:49):
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