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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's the Classic Gardens and Landscape Show on the hand,
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Speaker 2 (00:08):
Show up Plants and Grass to Grow. Two and dousent Chris,
Chris and Chris. No, Chris knows it, Chris knows it.
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knows it. Chris knows it.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
See Chris knows it.
Speaker 4 (00:28):
And now you're host Chris Joyner and Chris Keith.
Speaker 5 (00:34):
Good morning and.
Speaker 6 (00:35):
Weapons the Classic Guard and Linz Body Show.
Speaker 7 (00:38):
W E r C.
Speaker 8 (00:39):
I am Chris Keith and I am Chris Joyner. Hope
everybody's doing fine this morning. Yeah, had some rain pushed through,
but it's all good now, you.
Speaker 7 (00:48):
Know it's it's good when it pushes through at four
or five o'clock in the morning and it just like
it's going by daylight.
Speaker 6 (00:54):
Yeah, I like it.
Speaker 7 (00:55):
It's pretty, say daylight, daylight. It's about five point thirty nowadays.
Speaker 8 (00:58):
Yeah, and it stays daylight till eight o'clock. We were
on our way home. We wrapped up our soccer season
and we were on our way home. I guess it
was about eight o'clock and say, man, the sky is
still kind of like dusky. You know, it still had
some light in it. Man, I love it. I get
home after work and cut grass and string trim and
peddle around in my yard while it's not blazing hot,
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you know what I mean.
Speaker 5 (01:21):
Man, We were killing it.
Speaker 7 (01:22):
So yesterday we laid twenty pallets aside and got done
with that. It was out there and Lincoln we already
laid ten or fifteen pallets, I guess up there, and
as money comes available, we'll be laying another another twenty
(01:42):
one pallet something like that.
Speaker 8 (01:44):
We got several customers that do that, you know, like
Jack Housing on your eye has done the same thing.
Speaker 5 (01:50):
I did his through like four pallets at a time.
Speaker 6 (01:52):
Yeah, that's right, you know.
Speaker 7 (01:53):
But this customer on the back side of Logan Martin
on the river, you know, we he said, all right,
now I can afford to do about fifteen poulets.
Speaker 5 (02:04):
And so we did that, and we pretty.
Speaker 7 (02:07):
Much prepped the whole thing last fall, and oversea the
rye grass.
Speaker 5 (02:13):
Man, the geese like unbelieved.
Speaker 7 (02:18):
I'm talking about like no spreag or rye you can't
even find one. They annihilated really the rye grass. Wow,
they tried to annihilate my corn at the house.
Speaker 6 (02:31):
That's not good. You messing with the wrong man.
Speaker 7 (02:35):
Right, So uh yeah, so geese man, I'm telling you
they're tough. So anyways, we laid fifteen poults aside about
a month ago or whatever, and that's looking real pretty.
And he said, Okay, I can afford to do another
tractor trailer load. So we brought another tractor trailer up
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up there and did it again. So when you know,
money comes available and all that stuff and we actually
have time to get up there and get another load out,
we'll do it.
Speaker 5 (03:06):
So appreciate that.
Speaker 8 (03:07):
Customers later, maybe we'll be done right.
Speaker 5 (03:11):
Right.
Speaker 8 (03:12):
So you know, well, rain did come through this morning,
and you're talking about like my power flicker this morning,
and it's it's funny.
Speaker 6 (03:20):
What if it's funny? What wakes you up?
Speaker 8 (03:22):
And Chris Keith, I can guarantee you you're gonna agree
with me. I can have a tornado roll through my
backyard and sleep right through it and not even like
not even like shake or anything. That power goes off
and that ceiling fan stop spinning. Oh man, I'm up.
So that's what woke me up all of a sudden.
(03:42):
It's like it's like, oh I got hot in here.
That air air stagnant.
Speaker 9 (03:47):
Right.
Speaker 8 (03:48):
We have ceiling fans in our house, but we've been
here six years and I don't think most of them
have ever been turned off. The only time they get
turned off is when the power goes all down a
little bit.
Speaker 6 (03:59):
And then I've got one of the those.
Speaker 8 (04:00):
Tower fans by my bed, you know, one of those
lot tall, you know, cylindrical type fans, right right next
to the bed.
Speaker 6 (04:08):
I like it. I mean I could.
Speaker 8 (04:09):
I could go to Antarctica and sleep like a sleep
like a baby. I like it cold, you know when
I sleep. I do not like to sweating in my
sleep for sure.
Speaker 5 (04:19):
That.
Speaker 7 (04:19):
Uh yeah, I just need something moving, I need I
need a little sound, you know, ye, just the little
bit of sound from the fan and all that stuff.
Speaker 5 (04:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (04:31):
Between that and Sadie woke up, we had some rumbles
of something thunder. I want to say, ah, happy birthday
to my little baby Sadie. She turned six today, man,
so we're doing a little birthday lunch for her with
all the nieces and nephew coming over.
Speaker 6 (04:47):
I got, I was up, so I was up this morning.
Speaker 8 (04:50):
Kindergarten now's yeah, she's got kindergarten graduation next week.
Speaker 6 (04:55):
Uh so she's she's growing up.
Speaker 8 (04:57):
I was up after the when the power you know,
it's like five o'clock when the power went out. You know,
wake up at five o'clock. You might as well throw
in the towel and get up, you know what I mean.
And so I got up and started prepping and started
cooking because they got everybody coming over new ribs and wings,
and brought worst and hot dogs and hamburgers. They're gonna
have a kind of just a meat sch mortgage board
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with my special baked beans and deal potato salad, all right,
and do all that. With all that, I was, and
I was, I'm glad the rain pushed through, because you know,
we've got I don't know eleven ten or eleven kids
coming over, and I just want to be able to
open the door and say don't come back in. I'll
probably set up a set up picnic tator, you know,
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set up some tables outside, just eat outside and have
everybody out there.
Speaker 6 (05:46):
So it should be.
Speaker 7 (05:46):
Pretty several hours that So this this past week every
year for me is the busiest week of the year.
And because you know, you got Mother's Day and then Uh,
Teresa's birthday is the fourteenth, and our anniversary is the fifteenth.
Speaker 5 (06:06):
Then all in between all that, I worked about.
Speaker 7 (06:08):
Sixty five hours this week and managed to get the
so we we got the sawt out yesterday on that
big job over there in Lincoln, and then uh came
in and I brought that little tiller to the house
and I spent another two hours when I got home,
uh tilling my corn.
Speaker 5 (06:27):
My corner is about knee high now.
Speaker 7 (06:29):
And uh man, I wanted to do it last weekend.
And as everybody knows, I mean, this has probably been
like a record breaking year for rain in May. It
feels like, you know, you say, April showers bring May
flowers were right, it was right the opposite. This year
it was like April's flowers and man, we got some
showers May.
Speaker 5 (06:52):
It's been wet. It has been a wet in May.
Speaker 7 (06:54):
And uh, you know, I don't know how much rain
we got last night or you know, early this morning
or whatever, but it's just adding to abundance of rain.
I mean, you look at the hay fields down the
street right here. It should have been cut, you know,
two three weeks.
Speaker 6 (07:09):
All they're laid flat over right now aren't they.
Speaker 7 (07:11):
The wind and rain has literally just beat them all
the way down. So but they just hadn't had that,
they hadn't had the chance to have had a break
in the weather. My goodness and cool. You know, the
last couple of weeks, it would have been tough to
get hay dry.
Speaker 8 (07:25):
Yeah it uh, you know last weekend, you know, it
was almost like October weather.
Speaker 6 (07:29):
It was in the sixties.
Speaker 8 (07:31):
And then, uh, I don't think, I know we're gonna
get up, you know, a little warm at the beginning
of the week, but I think towards the end of
end of this end of this coming week, approaching Memorial Day,
I think it's gonna go kind of cool again.
Speaker 5 (07:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (07:44):
Uh.
Speaker 8 (07:45):
It's been kind of a freaky spring, and grass has
just kind of like stalled for the most part. You know,
it was it was kicking off, it was going good,
it was growing, and then we hit this little cool spell.
And especially like Emerald Zoysa, Emerald Zoysa can be pretty
stubborn greening up and bring especially when you have temperatures
like this. And it's not every Emerald's always yard, you know,
(08:06):
it's just it's inconsistent across the board.
Speaker 6 (08:08):
Neighborhood to neighborhood.
Speaker 8 (08:09):
So you get into some you know, where the homeowners
scalped in late February and they've been on top of
mowing and they're just as green as can be. And
then you get some folks that really haven't listened to
us when it comes to mowing, and their yards are
still just eh. You've still got a lot of brown
and a lot of dormant turfs. But the cool weather
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has certainly has certainly not helped.
Speaker 7 (08:31):
You know, I'm still sitting yards in some neighborhoods, Chris,
and that. You know, if I lived in their neighborhood,
i'd probably kick them out. I've probably mowed more grass
at my house. You know, I'm mowing. Lord, I don't
even know how much I'm mowing. I'm mowing a ton
of grass at home. The plan was is I was
trying to get. You know, mowing is probably as good
(08:55):
a weak control as you can do. Right, if you
consistently mow your and of mow a lot of wheaze,
death wouldn't like. Sucular weeds don't like to be mowed.
And I had a lot of old broad leaf stuff
out in my my hayfield.
Speaker 5 (09:09):
So this year.
Speaker 7 (09:11):
And obviously the horses don't like to fescue and stuff
like that that comes up early in the spring as
much as they like you know, the bermuda and the
behaey in the Dallas grass and all that stuff that
comes up later in the season. So I sacrificed of
cutting the hay and I've been cutting my hayfield about every.
Speaker 5 (09:31):
Every week.
Speaker 7 (09:34):
It's so big I literally have to fut like I'm
cutting it with my z turn, So I'd cut like
an acre every day, and uh, by the by the
time i get to a day four, I'm I'm due
to be back on So yeah, so I'm but I'm
seeing a lot of improvement with you know, the broad
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leaf weeds and stuff like that that would typically come
out there, old yellow flowery stuff that comes in there
and all that stuff.
Speaker 5 (10:01):
I've just about killed all that.
Speaker 7 (10:03):
And I'm thinking too, hey, it's not getting big enough
to go to seed and stuff like that, so that
should improve the field you know, next year even and
all that stuff. So I'm just thinking long term down
the road, you know, just improving that field a great
deal just by mowing it. And uh man, you go
in some of these neighborhoods. I'm sitting here cutting six
acres of grass. You go in some of these neighborhoods
(10:25):
and people hadn't even mow their grass the first time,
I know, and I'm like, this is crazy.
Speaker 5 (10:29):
I was on it.
Speaker 8 (10:29):
I was on a couple of within this past week
and a half and I was going.
Speaker 6 (10:34):
To fertilize the yard and uh, I mean it.
Speaker 8 (10:36):
Was four inches tall, five inches tall, laid over, still
all that brown.
Speaker 6 (10:41):
Dormant turf.
Speaker 8 (10:41):
And I backed off and I called him, and I
ain't gonna call I'm not gonna call their names out,
but I was like, hey, Chris Keith, I'm not treating
your yard until you get it cut.
Speaker 6 (10:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (10:51):
Period, And that's few and far between. But you know,
even just even just you know, people that let their
grass get three inches tall over the winter months that
are still keeping it cut at three inches, there's still
a ton of dormant turf in there that doesn't just disappear.
You know, the grass comes back up from the root,
and so people need to get their grass if they
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haven't got on a good mowing schedule, you know, once
a week, you know, cutting two inches is kind of
that sweet spot, you know, when you get into the
growing season. But if you haven't scalped your yard yet, uh,
you're way behind the eight ball. And I'm not saying
you busk. You know, cut it down, give it a
crew cut, but you need to start backing that height
down and getting into a good mowing pattern, because man,
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this mowing will make or break a yard. I will
tell you that right now. You know, you can do
all the fertilizer in the world, but if you don't
cut properly, that does a metal maker yard look horrible?
Speaker 7 (11:41):
Oh yeah, for sure. And you've got to cut. You
can't not cut.
Speaker 6 (11:45):
You know.
Speaker 7 (11:46):
It's some of them. They just drive me nuts. I
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all the work we've been doing, and I hadn't talked
about JR. Neighbors talking about Mount Brushmore a customers He
chiseled Mount Rushmore for us.
Speaker 8 (16:46):
He's that kind of customer, our neighbors coming through our doors,
like he was the first customer in our door.
Speaker 5 (16:54):
I believe I went to see j R. About a
month and a half ago.
Speaker 7 (16:59):
Ruby wasn't they And uh, we walked the whole yard
and uh, he had a Japanese maple in the front yard, Chris,
And I'm not exaggerating. You couldn't put it in this room.
And it was right against the front of the house.
All of his shrubs were way overgrown, and just his
landscape has changed ten thousand times. I remember one time
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I sold JR. A one hundred knockout roads at one time.
Speaker 5 (17:25):
Wow.
Speaker 7 (17:25):
And uh, but I can't tell you how many thousands
of dollars worth of shrubs and Japanese maples and you
name it.
Speaker 5 (17:33):
I sold them. Not to mention fertilizer.
Speaker 9 (17:35):
You know.
Speaker 5 (17:36):
Jr's one of those guys.
Speaker 7 (17:37):
He probably had sixty thousand square foot of grass and
he'd buy two hundred thousand square foot worth a fertilizer
and uh, you know, just loaded up like man, I'm
gonna make it grow. You know it didn't look good,
farmer syze. You replaced it, Yes, I mean anything out.
It looked ugly. I'm snatching that out and I'm getting
(17:58):
my guys put me in something else. Well, we went
up back up there in landscape for JR. Most everything
over the last twenty years or whatever. He said, He's
got a group of guys that work on his place.
Literally once a week they come over and they they
cut the grass, and they cut the shrubs and they
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you name it, they do it. And uh this time
he's like, no, I'm gonna be hands off of this one.
Speaker 5 (18:24):
I'm gonna let y'all do it.
Speaker 7 (18:26):
We went in there with a Mini X and dug
all of his shrubs out and went back in the
next day and put everything back in it. So did
a nice low maintenance landscape for JR. And uh so,
if you need a if you need any decent mechanic work,
or you need a radiator or whatever, go see JR. Neighbors, neighbors, radiators,
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and uh JR ain't gonna be there.
Speaker 5 (18:49):
He's gonna be at the house nowadays because.
Speaker 7 (18:52):
Uh JR is a he and a young buck no more.
But he's passed it down to his his daughter and
family members and all that stuff.
Speaker 5 (19:01):
So go see j R. And them. But man, we
cover it up.
Speaker 7 (19:04):
I man, I just I in my truck, see what
I do like every morning, and gives me like a
work order more or less. And it's just got all
the notes for every job you know that we do,
like down to like Mike's notes and and what has
actually been approved and what is not approved and whatever.
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So we were out at Mike Adams the other day
and just looking back through it. Mike his his yard was,
his job was simple. He had three arbividers. Now, an
emerald arbavida has its spot right like, it's a pretty
good foundation shrub. But you got to know, within about
(19:48):
ten years it's probably gonna be too big. So about
every ten big if you like the look, about every
ten years, you're probably gonna have to dig the big
one up and put in another. Either that or you
gotta swa plants completely because it just there's not a
good way to print it. And it you know it
the emerald bravida, they say, Okay, it's gonna get three
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foot wide and it's gonna get fifteen feet tall. Well,
in ten years, it's gonna be five feet wide and
it's gonna be twenty five or thirty feet tall. So
it's a good foundation shrub for its place. But I
don't like using them because it actually grows too big,
and it's.
Speaker 5 (20:31):
It's unprunable.
Speaker 7 (20:33):
You know, you can't go in there and just whack
it back like you do a holly or something like that.
So he had three great big ones and we went
in there and cut them down and like excavated the
stumps out of there and put new ones in and
rebarked his yards. This is a pretty simple job that day.
Then you leave from there and uh, just you know,
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looking through all my my worker orders stuff. Susan Markowitz,
she's over and I actually measured her yard to do
law care service for. She's in that part of Crew
twenty nine, no, Crew twenty eight, that's like Crestwood area
and where all the all the yards are bulletproof, like
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it don't matter if like it doesn't rain for six months,
and the bermudy, i mean, the oise of grass just
like dies to like a burnt torch, dirt nothing, and
it manages to like rain, you know, five times or whatever,
and then all of a sudden it just magically comes back.
She lives in that part of Crestwood over there. We
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did a job for her back. It ain't been that long,
probably three or four months ago. She had somebody coming there.
I think she just moved in this house. She moved
down here from North Carolina, and she had somebody coming
there just to clean up crew more or less, and
just her back was probably just an overgrown nightmare, and
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she had somebody come in there and just cut everything
down and just reclaimed the whole backyard. And then we
came in. They did a pretty good job, but they
didn't do a spit shine good job. And we came
in and like did even better job and put in
put in some hydrangeas and stuff against her back fence,
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and new foundation shrubs across the front of her house.
We came back the other day and we put in
night lighting, or we did night lighting. Then we came
back in the other day and added some more shrubs
and you know, did some more stuff for us. So
that's the second time we worked for Susan, So we've
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kind of been all over the place that was from
the first one was in trust Well, the second one
was in Crestwood, and then we went all the way
down to Donovant Valley and worked for a couple down
there and I'm losing their name. They're up in that
neighborhood up and so when you get like behind the
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Pigly Wiggly down there in the Shoal Creek area, Chris,
there's a subdivision that goes up the hill up there,
and we went in, trimmed all their shrubs, added night
lighting there, and we don't do pruning, so don't call
us for pruning. But it was like, okay, this, we're
adding twenty five or thirty shrubs. We're doing you know,
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night lighting while we are there. We added the pruning
part in. But as a general rule, we don't do pruning,
so don't call us for mowing or pruning anything because
we don't do that stuff. But if like we go
out there on a landscaping job and we're doing it
and they said, well, can you prune the shrubs while
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we're here? Whatever, we might get a you might get
a thumbs up, or you might get the thumbs down,
but as general we don't do that. But for these
folks we did and got them cleaned up. I think
that was a miss missus Birch Leslie Burch and uh
got their place cleaned up for him.
Speaker 5 (24:08):
He'd had back problems.
Speaker 7 (24:09):
He he's a do it yourself for mister Burch and Uh,
he's had some back issues and everything's not really got
out of hand. Uh, but it was due to have
maintenance work done on it, and he just wasn't physically
able to do it, so we did all that stuff
for him and got n lighting in and all that
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good stuff. So that was one of them we did.
And then uh, I mean from there we were at
Marie Hayes. Then Marie's over in Irondale, and uh she
had like she had Mark Whitfield come in and grind
a buch of stuff. The insurance company literally told Marie, hey,
you got to get rid of these pine trees in
your your So they had seven pine trees taken out
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back there, and uh, Mark Whitfield from a Cobber River
tree came out and did a unk grinding and all
that stuff for him. We worked with Mark a lot
on jobs because he is just so flexible and does
such a great job. The price is fantastic. And he
came in and helped Marie out and ground those stumps
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for and then we literally went in there. She had
never had a backyard, you know, don't mount to anything.
So we went in and grated the whole backyard put
out seed. It's real shady put out seed and uh
not a shady as it used to be with seven
but uh graded that all for She had one grove
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of trees still like seven eight trees still back there,
and we put like a group and the hydranges in
there and under the trees and pine straw all that
area and just made like a big backyard for we
Actually we put out a little bit of millet. See
this time of year, you know, obviously we've had rain
what seems like every day for the last month. But
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we put a little bit of millet in there with it.
And with the millet d you literally, like the humidity
in the air are like a good dew will make
millet germinate. So we put a little millet in with
it to just make it come up and you know,
hold the ground and keep it from washing away the
way the weather's been, and it'll be it's probably already green.
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Be honestly, that was three days ago, and it's probably
already green, and the rest of that seed will come
up and you know, in amongst that and be nice.
They'll probably have to cut it within the next two days.
They're having a party or something the first second week
at June, so they needed it to be up and
purity by then, and it will be I mean, they'll
have to cut it a time or two before then,
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So that's kind of what we've been doing.
Speaker 6 (26:40):
Yeah, creating spaces for folks.
Speaker 5 (26:42):
That's it. We have been wide open, Old Chris.
Speaker 6 (26:45):
We're about up for a second break.
Speaker 8 (26:48):
I want to say that our garden center is gonna
be closed on Memorial Day, so don't come in on
Memorial Day Monday because we won't be there.
Speaker 6 (26:55):
We still got a great.
Speaker 8 (26:56):
Selection of hanging baskets, spedding plants, vegetables too, if you
need vegetables. I know a lot of people have kind
of you know, it's been rainy, it's been cool, so
a lot of people have kind of put off planting
some of their vegetable gardens. But we still got a
great selection of tomatoes and peppers. We've got herbs, betting plants.
So if you need to get any pots or anything
like that ready, you know, for a Memorial Day weekend,
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come in and see us Monday through Friday eight to
five and we will be there to help you out
get the pool and get the patios pretty for Memorial Day. Well,
Chris will go ahead and take that break. This is
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Speaker 7 (31:13):
Four three nine nine three seven two. Man, there's a
lot of gardening going on.
Speaker 5 (31:17):
Chris.
Speaker 7 (31:17):
My peas are about My pea's about six inches tall.
My ochre's about four inches tall. My tomatoes, man, they're
blowing up there. They're only about a foot and half tall,
but they're about two feet wise. I like I should
have staked them like yesterday. I'm behind the eight ball
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with that. I gotta get some steaks in the otherwise
they're gonna be laying down. But got zucchini planted, got
squash planted. It's all you know. Yellows, crook, next squash,
You got it planned and all that stuff, and everything's
coming up. I wanted to till two weeks ago or
a week and a half ago, really, and with all
the mowing and all the other stuff, and with all
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the rain and all that, it just didn't happen. So
I let crabgrass jump up in the corn about two
inches tall. And uh so I went in yesterday with
a tailer and tiled everything up and put a shot
of that good mojo fertilizer you mix up for me
on that stuff.
Speaker 5 (32:17):
And it should tear out.
Speaker 7 (32:18):
And that corn is about knee high right now, so
it waist hing about a week.
Speaker 8 (32:23):
That's some good fertilizer. That's Chris. That's Chris's special blend
that he uses on his long hair customers and a man.
It's so there's there's several things that we get custom
blended so that I can, like with our fertilization, we
control program where we come and we treat your yard.
I can tweak our recipe a little bit or our
vendors are really good about doing custom stuff and depending
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on the weather and you know how the yards are looking.
You know, all tailor at tailor or program and that's
really what makes classic gardens and landscapes special. When we
treat your yard. It's like you know, people ask me
when I go out and measure yards and Chris Keith lawnforation.
We control. It's in full swing right now. Baby, I'm
talking about. That's ninety nine percent of my time is
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meeting with people measuring yards, you know, especially if they
got bad spots. Last fall was bad. I mean we
were super dry, you know, July, August, September, October, especially,
I think in August, and I've got I actually got
this in my truck because I refer to refer to
it when I'm talking to people. But like last August
we only had like an inch and a half of rain,
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and then September we had almost six inches of rain,
but half of that came in like one shower. It
was like one of those three inch downpours, and the
rest of September it was like a tenth of an
inch here, tenth of an inch there. And then October
we only had like a quarter inch of rain and
that affected yards to where you still see the damage. Now,
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in addition to that we had last few years, we've
had chinchbugs come through. And chinch bugs are not a
new insect, but they're they're kind of relatively new to
our area. You know, you'll you'll do a lot of those,
Like when you get south of Montgomery, you get in
a lot of Saint Augustine and centipede that's like chinchbugs candy.
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But the last few years emeralds oision Z fifty two
zoisa have been getting hammered by it. And you can
go through specific neighborhoods and it's just it's hit and miss.
But chinch bugs, man, that's a nasty bug. I do
not like finding those or suspecting those on a yard
because what they do is they they basically they pierce
the grass blade and they feed off of the sap
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and the sugars in the grass blade. But when they
when they pierce the grass blade, they injected toxin into
the actual grass and that kind of like kind of
like a bore cuts off the cambium tissue, so that
so that a tree can't you know, take up water
and take up you know, nutrients that it needs. Chinch
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Bugs will do the same thing, so they actually kill
the grass by inject in a toxin so that the
grass can't basically like can't circulate food and water you know,
through the through the system of the roots and the
leaf blades. A real nasty bug. And the bad thing
about them is the hotter and drier it gets, the
more they like it. So you take one of those
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yards you know, you'd mentioned one of our one of
our landscape customers that we did down in the Crestwold
Boulevard area, So that's one of the areas once you
get once you get behind that filling station restaurant, you
got like seventh Avenue, seventh Cort, sixth Avenue, sixth, sixth Court.
None of those people down there, for the most part,
or water their grass. They don't have irrigation systems. The
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grass is a virtually bulletproof well. That was kind of
one of the first neighborhoods where I started finding those
and those yards when you get in a drought in
the summer months, they those things are like a desert
and that's when chinch bugs attack, and that's the type
of grass that they like. So you know, a homeowner
may think that their yards turning brown and their yards
dying because we haven't had rain, and you know, it's
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just drought damage. But at the same time, they've got
chinch bugs in there. And you can drive through some
neighborhoods right now and yards are just you'll see them
just devastated, like completely dead, and that's you know, it's
part of the reason is chinchbugs. But uh long cair
is in full swing right now, Chris Keith and and
so we as as classic gardens. When we treat your yard,
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we use these custom products that that I blend specifically
for our area and specifically for our weather conditions. And
then I train on my guys. So like when we
started seeing chinchbugs about three years ago, I literally I
piled on my guys up in my truck and we
drove around yards where I'd found them, and we're all
down there, like hands and.
Speaker 6 (36:43):
Knees finding them.
Speaker 8 (36:44):
So, you know, you get professionals out there that diagnose
the yards if they don't, so like my technicians keep
me busy because if they're this time of year, could
it be probably one of the trickiest times to diagnose
the yard because you got you got the drought that
we had last year. We have chinch bugs that we
had last year. Then you got you know, then you
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got fungus that's popping up in yards all over the
place with the rain and humidity. You got cool temperatures
which kind of slows the grass down. You got you know,
mowing issues. You know, there's a lot of different things.
And so even my guys, if they're not sure what's
going on with their yard. You know, they'll pop me
pictures and you know, I'll walk them through it, or
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I'll say, hey, you know, i'm gonna come out there tomorrow.
Speaker 6 (37:28):
Why don't you meet me?
Speaker 8 (37:29):
Or when I get out there, I'll tell you what's
going on, so that you know for future. So you know,
when you get a classic Garden's employee on your yard,
you can be guaranteed that they're putting forth maximum effort
to figure out what's going on. And if they don't know,
they're gonna ask me, and I'm gonna be out there
and then I'm gonna tell them. You know, it's all
continual training, you know, from forever. I mean I still
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I've been doing this my entire life, and I still
learn things, you know, every single every single year, things
things evolve.
Speaker 5 (37:57):
Yes, I mean it's not.
Speaker 7 (37:59):
I mean, obviously, our our weather in Birmingham, Alabama area
is so wishy washy that it's you can't just you know,
make a cookie cutter style of long care program and
say all right, we're just gonna do this from now on.
Speaker 6 (38:15):
Yeah, So that's where I was going.
Speaker 8 (38:17):
So when I give somebody a long cair quote, I
send them an email with the program it's that we offer,
and I always tell them up front them like, hey,
you know, like this program kind of has like all
of our applications lined up, you know, approximately when we
do them during the year. But I always say, it's
this is kind of like written in pencil, you know,
because every yard's different. So like the way I treat
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my yard may not be the same way that I
treat your yard because it may be new said, or
it may have more shade, or it may have insect
issues or disease issues. So it's, uh, it truly is
kind of a tailored program, even though when I give
you a quote, it's just kind of a general blueprint
roughly of what we do and when we do it.
Because my guys typically have three, four or five different
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products on their truck, so they're essentially ready for anything. Yeah,
and they make they make us, they make that they
make that call kind of on the spot, you know,
what what the yard needs at that, you know, during
that application time.
Speaker 7 (39:13):
For sure, Chris, I think we got a call. Let's
get Steven. Good morning, Stephen, how you doing, buddy?
Speaker 16 (39:19):
Doing pretty good? Doing pretty good? Had a couple of
quick questions if you get a second, Yeah, go ahead,
I treat I treat my own yard with the fertilong stuff.
In a half of the past couple of years, in the
fall of spring, I've been putting out the for all seasons.
I guess that's the pre emergent stuff.
Speaker 6 (39:38):
Yep.
Speaker 16 (39:39):
And uh and did the winterriser this winter? Well, this
spring I accidentally put the wet out plus long fertilizer
instead of the for all seasons. And I didn't know
if that stuff, Uh is that much different? If that's
gonna mess up my routine or or what.
Speaker 5 (39:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (39:59):
Uh, that product, we don't really we don't sell it
in the garden center.
Speaker 5 (40:05):
It's it's more like a weed and feed.
Speaker 7 (40:07):
So that's basically what you did, is you put a
weed and feed out instead of your pre merging, which
probably didn't hurt you are you probably didn't have many
broad leaves anyway, because if you put the pre emerging
out last fall, it should have headed off most of
that stuff. The that pre emerging is not real good
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for poeanna as much as it used to be. It'll
help some, but most of the poana has built a
tolerance to it.
Speaker 5 (40:36):
So we we've.
Speaker 7 (40:37):
Been pushing the bag of gold as we call it
for the last several years because it does a better
job with poanna. But that pre merger used is really
good for broad leaves, so it should have done the job,
and you shouldn't had much broad leaf stuff to put
the weed out. So basically, I think you just more
or less wasting an application. You didn't get any pre
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merging out, So the best thing you could do at
this point would be to get some pre emerging on
the lawn because you did a post emergent, not a
pre emergent.
Speaker 16 (41:09):
Too bad of shape, because I've been keeping up with it,
and I mean, my neighbors don't treat the yards, so
that's kind of always a sight that on that side
of the house, you know, and from their stuff blowing over.
But I appreciate that. One other question. About ten years ago,
I bought two shrubs called a scarlet peak Hollie ye. Also,
I don't know if you're familiar with that, that plant
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that you sold, and put them in the house, and
now they got about twenty feet tall, and I was
wondering if it's a bad thing to trembles back too
far because they're really taller and I want them.
Speaker 7 (41:45):
Most hollies are you can be pretty dang aggressive pruning.
Speaker 5 (41:51):
I don't think you.
Speaker 7 (41:52):
I don't think you would heard it at all by
doing a severe pruen In on it.
Speaker 16 (41:57):
Yeah, because they've got really about or if I foot taller
that I really want them and I didn't want to
mess them up or something, so I cut them back
too far.
Speaker 5 (42:07):
Yeah. Some of the time.
Speaker 7 (42:10):
Most of the time, with those bigger varieties of hollies
like that, you can give them a massive haircut and
they'll flush right back out.
Speaker 16 (42:18):
Yeah. Well, I appreciate it. And a little shout out
to my Christmas light buddies Ksey and Lisa, and I
appreciate y'all taking my car.
Speaker 5 (42:27):
Hi buddy, have a good one, thank you. Yeah.
Speaker 7 (42:32):
That most of the time, you can be pretty aggressive,
particularly this time of year, on hollies like that.
Speaker 6 (42:38):
I mean come down to the ground.
Speaker 7 (42:41):
There was a lady one time down there, not far
from the garden center, and a little old lady lived
in a little little garden home and she had about
ten year o pine hollies maybe and uh at the most.
And it was one of this thing is too small
for the garden. It's too small a job for us
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to go do as long character how whereas a landscape coming,
I can't send five guys out there to dig up
ten hollies and replace them. And she really when I
showed up myself and said, hey, look, you know it's
going to cost you this to you know, replace these hollies,
she's like, I really can't afford that. I said, well,
let's do this. Then I said two hundred bucks. I'll
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cut them to the dirt. And she's like, what I said, man,
within six or eight months, you want to mean that
little yopon holly. I took a weed ear with skills
all blade. I just cut them to the dirt and
I gave him a little shot of fertilizer, and you
know they went from waist high, you know, and and
too big for her house to you know, within six
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months they were a little one football and they were
back to like you know, you just planning the things.
You don't do that stuff often it looks terrible for
you know, six months or a year, but they flushed
back out and they time, they'll be all right.
Speaker 8 (44:01):
If you're patient and you're willing to sacrifice something like that,
you know you can do it.
Speaker 5 (44:05):
Yeah, something.
Speaker 6 (44:06):
Most of time it's just better to rip it out
and redo it.
Speaker 7 (44:08):
Yeah, I'd rather just dig them up and replace them.
But you know it priced why, it really ain't that
much difference. But some of the time, you know, money
will only let you go so far. That's right, Well, Chris,
it's time for another break.
Speaker 5 (44:22):
I'm sure.
Speaker 7 (44:22):
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Arlok in the Indian Springs. Good morning, all I have you.
Speaker 17 (48:30):
I'm fine, and how are you this morning?
Speaker 5 (48:33):
We're good?
Speaker 17 (48:34):
Okay, Well, I have a problem with I had a
gardener come out and puts he puts some mondo grass
in along my sidewalk to keep the bark in. And
the next morning I got up and all of it
had been pulled out and laid on the concrete by
the deer.
Speaker 6 (48:55):
Oh yeah, Indian springs deer.
Speaker 17 (48:57):
Yeah. And I have yeah, I have like seven or
eight that come through every day, and I so what
I did is I put put it all back in,
and then I went and got my mothballs and put
mothballs all through them. Well that's been Okay, now for
about eight days and now this morning I get up
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and they've pulled out several of them. Again, do you
have any suggestions.
Speaker 7 (49:28):
I mean, that's a tough one. I mean we've once
you may you may almost have to there. There's a
lot of things that work really good, like repellent. Wise,
there's a yeah, it's probably called liquid fence.
Speaker 5 (49:41):
Uh up, it's called liquid liquid fence. Uh.
Speaker 7 (49:46):
Basically, it's like every putrid, funky thing that you could
think of, all mixed in one and you take it
and mix it up in a sprayer and you just
spray it. It's like futud eggs and like mintalle and
this ol and that whatever. But you take all this
stuff and put it together and it just it stinks.
It puts a bad taste in their mouth or whatever,
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and they'll leave that stuff along. The thing is you're
gonna have to do it probably once a week. Just
go out there and spray some on there. Once it
gets rooted in, they're not gonna hurt the stuff.
Speaker 2 (50:17):
You know.
Speaker 8 (50:17):
I wonder if you could just take and put some
netting around it, maybe take some little some type of
little spikes, you know, like little wooden wooden spikes.
Speaker 6 (50:25):
Yeah, put netting over.
Speaker 17 (50:27):
It, just until a good distance. It's a good it's
a good distance. It's a pretty long stretch. And so
when I went out and put it all back back,
and I'm eighty five years old, so getting down on
my hands and knees and putting all that back in
it was kind of and I thought, okay, so that's
when I got the off balls out. Well, now I
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guess we've had enough rain. That's just that is not bothering.
So they but they don't like the taste of it,
I guess, but they have eaten everything else in the yard.
I cannot Axailia. They eat all the new and the
girls and everything. They just eat up everything. You cannot
keep them out. And so I thought, well, maybe you
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would give me some idea just to spram or something
to keep them until they get in the ground, because
right now they just lift them out.
Speaker 5 (51:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (51:18):
See, once they get rooted in, I don't think you'll
have any issues with it.
Speaker 5 (51:21):
But I would. I would use a liquid fence.
Speaker 17 (51:25):
Just called liquid fence, okay, yep.
Speaker 7 (51:28):
And it's you mix so many ounces per gallon of
water and you just go out there and spray them spram.
Speaker 5 (51:33):
Okay, now you can.
Speaker 7 (51:34):
You can mix it up in a little just a
little squirt bottle and just go down through there and
spray them, and they probably gonna be aggressive with it.
Speaker 5 (51:43):
I would I would say do it twice a week.
You're not going to hurt the plants at all.
Speaker 7 (51:46):
It just uh okay, it just puts a funky taste,
a funky smell and all that on them, and they
the deer, don't mess with them.
Speaker 17 (51:54):
Okay, all right. I thought you might be able to
give me some idea because I listen to you every
Saturday one night.
Speaker 5 (52:02):
Remember sounds good.
Speaker 17 (52:05):
Well, thank you, Arla, Thank you so much, Chris, Yes, ma'am, have.
Speaker 5 (52:09):
A good weekend.
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Speaker 6 (00:35):
Weapons the Classic Guard and Linz Body Show.
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W E r C.
Speaker 8 (00:39):
I am Chris Keith and I am Chris Joyner. Hope
everybody's doing fine this morning. Yeah, had some rain pushed through,
but it's all good now, you.
Speaker 7 (00:48):
Know it's it's good when it pushes through at four
or five o'clock in the morning and it just like
it's going by daylight.
Speaker 6 (00:54):
Yeah, I like it.
Speaker 7 (00:55):
It's pretty, say daylight, daylight. It's about five point thirty nowadays.
Speaker 8 (00:58):
Yeah, and it stays daylight till eight o'clock. We were
on our way home. We wrapped up our soccer season
and we were on our way home. I guess it
was about eight o'clock and say, man, the sky is
still kind of like dusky. You know, it still had
some light in it. Man, I love it. I get
home after work and cut grass and string trim and
peddle around in my yard while it's not blazing hot,
(01:20):
you know what I mean.
Speaker 5 (01:21):
Man, We were killing it.
Speaker 7 (01:22):
So yesterday we laid twenty pallets aside and got done
with that. It was out there and Lincoln we already
laid ten or fifteen pallets, I guess up there, and
as money comes available, we'll be laying another another twenty
(01:42):
one pallet something like that.
Speaker 8 (01:44):
We got several customers that do that, you know, like
Jack Housing on your eye has done the same thing.
Speaker 5 (01:50):
I did his through like four pallets at a time.
Speaker 6 (01:52):
Yeah, that's right, you know.
Speaker 7 (01:53):
But this customer on the back side of Logan Martin
on the river, you know, we he said, all right,
now I can afford to do about fifteen poulets.
Speaker 5 (02:04):
And so we did that, and we pretty.
Speaker 7 (02:07):
Much prepped the whole thing last fall, and oversea the
rye grass.
Speaker 5 (02:13):
Man, the geese like unbelieved.
Speaker 7 (02:18):
I'm talking about like no spreag or rye you can't
even find one. They annihilated really the rye grass. Wow,
they tried to annihilate my corn at the house.
Speaker 6 (02:31):
That's not good. You messing with the wrong man.
Speaker 7 (02:35):
Right, So uh yeah, so geese man, I'm telling you
they're tough. So anyways, we laid fifteen poults aside about
a month ago or whatever, and that's looking real pretty.
And he said, Okay, I can afford to do another
tractor trailer load. So we brought another tractor trailer up
(02:56):
up there and did it again. So when you know,
money comes available and all that stuff and we actually
have time to get up there and get another load out,
we'll do it.
Speaker 5 (03:06):
So appreciate that.
Speaker 8 (03:07):
Customers later, maybe we'll be done right.
Speaker 5 (03:11):
Right.
Speaker 8 (03:12):
So you know, well, rain did come through this morning,
and you're talking about like my power flicker this morning,
and it's it's funny.
Speaker 6 (03:20):
What if it's funny? What wakes you up?
Speaker 8 (03:22):
And Chris Keith, I can guarantee you you're gonna agree
with me. I can have a tornado roll through my
backyard and sleep right through it and not even like
not even like shake or anything. That power goes off
and that ceiling fan stop spinning. Oh man, I'm up.
So that's what woke me up all of a sudden.
(03:42):
It's like it's like, oh I got hot in here.
That air air stagnant.
Speaker 9 (03:47):
Right.
Speaker 8 (03:48):
We have ceiling fans in our house, but we've been
here six years and I don't think most of them
have ever been turned off. The only time they get
turned off is when the power goes all down a
little bit.
Speaker 6 (03:59):
And then I've got one of the those.
Speaker 8 (04:00):
Tower fans by my bed, you know, one of those
lot tall, you know, cylindrical type fans, right right next
to the bed.
Speaker 6 (04:08):
I like it. I mean I could.
Speaker 8 (04:09):
I could go to Antarctica and sleep like a sleep
like a baby. I like it cold, you know when
I sleep. I do not like to sweating in my
sleep for sure.
Speaker 5 (04:19):
That.
Speaker 7 (04:19):
Uh yeah, I just need something moving, I need I
need a little sound, you know, ye, just the little
bit of sound from the fan and all that stuff.
Speaker 5 (04:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (04:31):
Between that and Sadie woke up, we had some rumbles
of something thunder. I want to say, ah, happy birthday
to my little baby Sadie. She turned six today, man,
so we're doing a little birthday lunch for her with
all the nieces and nephew coming over.
Speaker 6 (04:47):
I got, I was up, so I was up this morning.
Speaker 8 (04:50):
Kindergarten now's yeah, she's got kindergarten graduation next week.
Speaker 6 (04:55):
Uh so she's she's growing up.
Speaker 8 (04:57):
I was up after the when the power you know,
it's like five o'clock when the power went out. You know,
wake up at five o'clock. You might as well throw
in the towel and get up, you know what I mean.
And so I got up and started prepping and started
cooking because they got everybody coming over new ribs and wings,
and brought worst and hot dogs and hamburgers. They're gonna
have a kind of just a meat sch mortgage board
(05:19):
with my special baked beans and deal potato salad, all right,
and do all that. With all that, I was, and
I was, I'm glad the rain pushed through, because you know,
we've got I don't know eleven ten or eleven kids
coming over, and I just want to be able to
open the door and say don't come back in. I'll
probably set up a set up picnic tator, you know,
(05:42):
set up some tables outside, just eat outside and have
everybody out there.
Speaker 6 (05:46):
So it should be.
Speaker 7 (05:46):
Pretty several hours that So this this past week every
year for me is the busiest week of the year.
And because you know, you got Mother's Day and then Uh,
Teresa's birthday is the fourteenth, and our anniversary is the fifteenth.
Speaker 5 (06:06):
Then all in between all that, I worked about.
Speaker 7 (06:08):
Sixty five hours this week and managed to get the
so we we got the sawt out yesterday on that
big job over there in Lincoln, and then uh came
in and I brought that little tiller to the house
and I spent another two hours when I got home,
uh tilling my corn.
Speaker 5 (06:27):
My corner is about knee high now.
Speaker 7 (06:29):
And uh man, I wanted to do it last weekend.
And as everybody knows, I mean, this has probably been
like a record breaking year for rain in May. It
feels like, you know, you say, April showers bring May
flowers were right, it was right the opposite. This year
it was like April's flowers and man, we got some
showers May.
Speaker 5 (06:52):
It's been wet. It has been a wet in May.
Speaker 7 (06:54):
And uh, you know, I don't know how much rain
we got last night or you know, early this morning
or whatever, but it's just adding to abundance of rain.
I mean, you look at the hay fields down the
street right here. It should have been cut, you know,
two three weeks.
Speaker 6 (07:09):
All they're laid flat over right now aren't they.
Speaker 7 (07:11):
The wind and rain has literally just beat them all
the way down. So but they just hadn't had that,
they hadn't had the chance to have had a break
in the weather. My goodness and cool. You know, the
last couple of weeks, it would have been tough to
get hay dry.
Speaker 8 (07:25):
Yeah it uh, you know last weekend, you know, it
was almost like October weather.
Speaker 6 (07:29):
It was in the sixties.
Speaker 8 (07:31):
And then, uh, I don't think, I know we're gonna
get up, you know, a little warm at the beginning
of the week, but I think towards the end of
end of this end of this coming week, approaching Memorial Day,
I think it's gonna go kind of cool again.
Speaker 5 (07:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (07:44):
Uh.
Speaker 8 (07:45):
It's been kind of a freaky spring, and grass has
just kind of like stalled for the most part. You know,
it was it was kicking off, it was going good,
it was growing, and then we hit this little cool spell.
And especially like Emerald Zoysa, Emerald Zoysa can be pretty
stubborn greening up and bring especially when you have temperatures
like this. And it's not every Emerald's always yard, you know,
(08:06):
it's just it's inconsistent across the board.
Speaker 6 (08:08):
Neighborhood to neighborhood.
Speaker 8 (08:09):
So you get into some you know, where the homeowners
scalped in late February and they've been on top of
mowing and they're just as green as can be. And
then you get some folks that really haven't listened to
us when it comes to mowing, and their yards are
still just eh. You've still got a lot of brown
and a lot of dormant turfs. But the cool weather
(08:29):
has certainly has certainly not helped.
Speaker 7 (08:31):
You know, I'm still sitting yards in some neighborhoods, Chris,
and that. You know, if I lived in their neighborhood,
i'd probably kick them out. I've probably mowed more grass
at my house. You know, I'm mowing. Lord, I don't
even know how much I'm mowing. I'm mowing a ton
of grass at home. The plan was is I was
trying to get. You know, mowing is probably as good
(08:55):
a weak control as you can do. Right, if you
consistently mow your and of mow a lot of wheaze,
death wouldn't like. Sucular weeds don't like to be mowed.
And I had a lot of old broad leaf stuff
out in my my hayfield.
Speaker 5 (09:09):
So this year.
Speaker 7 (09:11):
And obviously the horses don't like to fescue and stuff
like that that comes up early in the spring as
much as they like you know, the bermuda and the
behaey in the Dallas grass and all that stuff that
comes up later in the season. So I sacrificed of
cutting the hay and I've been cutting my hayfield about every.
Speaker 5 (09:31):
Every week.
Speaker 7 (09:34):
It's so big I literally have to fut like I'm
cutting it with my z turn, So I'd cut like
an acre every day, and uh, by the by the
time i get to a day four, I'm I'm due
to be back on So yeah, so I'm but I'm
seeing a lot of improvement with you know, the broad
(09:55):
leaf weeds and stuff like that that would typically come
out there, old yellow flowery stuff that comes in there
and all that stuff.
Speaker 5 (10:01):
I've just about killed all that.
Speaker 7 (10:03):
And I'm thinking too, hey, it's not getting big enough
to go to seed and stuff like that, so that
should improve the field you know, next year even and
all that stuff. So I'm just thinking long term down
the road, you know, just improving that field a great
deal just by mowing it. And uh man, you go
in some of these neighborhoods. I'm sitting here cutting six
acres of grass. You go in some of these neighborhoods
(10:25):
and people hadn't even mow their grass the first time,
I know, and I'm like, this is crazy.
Speaker 5 (10:29):
I was on it.
Speaker 8 (10:29):
I was on a couple of within this past week
and a half and I was going.
Speaker 6 (10:34):
To fertilize the yard and uh, I mean it.
Speaker 8 (10:36):
Was four inches tall, five inches tall, laid over, still
all that brown.
Speaker 6 (10:41):
Dormant turf.
Speaker 8 (10:41):
And I backed off and I called him, and I
ain't gonna call I'm not gonna call their names out,
but I was like, hey, Chris Keith, I'm not treating
your yard until you get it cut.
Speaker 6 (10:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (10:51):
Period, And that's few and far between. But you know,
even just even just you know, people that let their
grass get three inches tall over the winter months that
are still keeping it cut at three inches, there's still
a ton of dormant turf in there that doesn't just disappear.
You know, the grass comes back up from the root,
and so people need to get their grass if they
(11:11):
haven't got on a good mowing schedule, you know, once
a week, you know, cutting two inches is kind of
that sweet spot, you know, when you get into the
growing season. But if you haven't scalped your yard yet, uh,
you're way behind the eight ball. And I'm not saying
you busk. You know, cut it down, give it a
crew cut, but you need to start backing that height
down and getting into a good mowing pattern, because man,
(11:31):
this mowing will make or break a yard. I will
tell you that right now. You know, you can do
all the fertilizer in the world, but if you don't
cut properly, that does a metal maker yard look horrible?
Speaker 7 (11:41):
Oh yeah, for sure. And you've got to cut. You
can't not cut.
Speaker 6 (11:45):
You know.
Speaker 7 (11:46):
It's some of them. They just drive me nuts. I
go and they got burn weed out there at six
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Yeah, we're man. We can read boot in a second.
Yeah you don't even know now. So anyway, so we
went to break. We were talking about we're talking about
all the work we've been doing, and I hadn't talked
about JR. Neighbors talking about Mount Brushmore a customers He
chiseled Mount Rushmore for us.
Speaker 8 (16:46):
He's that kind of customer, our neighbors coming through our doors,
like he was the first customer in our door.
Speaker 5 (16:54):
I believe I went to see j R. About a
month and a half ago.
Speaker 7 (16:59):
Ruby wasn't they And uh, we walked the whole yard
and uh, he had a Japanese maple in the front yard, Chris,
And I'm not exaggerating. You couldn't put it in this room.
And it was right against the front of the house.
All of his shrubs were way overgrown, and just his
landscape has changed ten thousand times. I remember one time
(17:22):
I sold JR. A one hundred knockout roads at one time.
Speaker 5 (17:25):
Wow.
Speaker 7 (17:25):
And uh, but I can't tell you how many thousands
of dollars worth of shrubs and Japanese maples and you
name it.
Speaker 5 (17:33):
I sold them. Not to mention fertilizer.
Speaker 9 (17:35):
You know.
Speaker 5 (17:36):
Jr's one of those guys.
Speaker 7 (17:37):
He probably had sixty thousand square foot of grass and
he'd buy two hundred thousand square foot worth a fertilizer
and uh, you know, just loaded up like man, I'm
gonna make it grow. You know it didn't look good,
farmer syze. You replaced it, Yes, I mean anything out.
It looked ugly. I'm snatching that out and I'm getting
(17:58):
my guys put me in something else. Well, we went
up back up there in landscape for JR. Most everything
over the last twenty years or whatever. He said, He's
got a group of guys that work on his place.
Literally once a week they come over and they they
cut the grass, and they cut the shrubs and they
(18:18):
you name it, they do it. And uh this time
he's like, no, I'm gonna be hands off of this one.
Speaker 5 (18:24):
I'm gonna let y'all do it.
Speaker 7 (18:26):
We went in there with a Mini X and dug
all of his shrubs out and went back in the
next day and put everything back in it. So did
a nice low maintenance landscape for JR. And uh so,
if you need a if you need any decent mechanic work,
or you need a radiator or whatever, go see JR. Neighbors, neighbors, radiators,
(18:47):
and uh JR ain't gonna be there.
Speaker 5 (18:49):
He's gonna be at the house nowadays because.
Speaker 7 (18:52):
Uh JR is a he and a young buck no more.
But he's passed it down to his his daughter and
family members and all that stuff.
Speaker 5 (19:01):
So go see j R. And them. But man, we
cover it up.
Speaker 7 (19:04):
I man, I just I in my truck, see what
I do like every morning, and gives me like a
work order more or less. And it's just got all
the notes for every job you know that we do,
like down to like Mike's notes and and what has
actually been approved and what is not approved and whatever.
(19:28):
So we were out at Mike Adams the other day
and just looking back through it. Mike his his yard was,
his job was simple. He had three arbividers. Now, an
emerald arbavida has its spot right like, it's a pretty
good foundation shrub. But you got to know, within about
(19:48):
ten years it's probably gonna be too big. So about
every ten big if you like the look, about every
ten years, you're probably gonna have to dig the big
one up and put in another. Either that or you
gotta swa plants completely because it just there's not a
good way to print it. And it you know it
the emerald bravida, they say, Okay, it's gonna get three
(20:10):
foot wide and it's gonna get fifteen feet tall. Well,
in ten years, it's gonna be five feet wide and
it's gonna be twenty five or thirty feet tall. So
it's a good foundation shrub for its place. But I
don't like using them because it actually grows too big,
and it's.
Speaker 5 (20:31):
It's unprunable.
Speaker 7 (20:33):
You know, you can't go in there and just whack
it back like you do a holly or something like that.
So he had three great big ones and we went
in there and cut them down and like excavated the
stumps out of there and put new ones in and
rebarked his yards. This is a pretty simple job that day.
Then you leave from there and uh, just you know,
(20:53):
looking through all my my worker orders stuff. Susan Markowitz,
she's over and I actually measured her yard to do
law care service for. She's in that part of Crew
twenty nine, no, Crew twenty eight, that's like Crestwood area
and where all the all the yards are bulletproof, like
(21:18):
it don't matter if like it doesn't rain for six months,
and the bermudy, i mean, the oise of grass just
like dies to like a burnt torch, dirt nothing, and
it manages to like rain, you know, five times or whatever,
and then all of a sudden it just magically comes back.
She lives in that part of Crestwood over there. We
(21:39):
did a job for her back. It ain't been that long,
probably three or four months ago. She had somebody coming there.
I think she just moved in this house. She moved
down here from North Carolina, and she had somebody coming
there just to clean up crew more or less, and
just her back was probably just an overgrown nightmare, and
(22:03):
she had somebody come in there and just cut everything
down and just reclaimed the whole backyard. And then we
came in. They did a pretty good job, but they
didn't do a spit shine good job. And we came
in and like did even better job and put in
put in some hydrangeas and stuff against her back fence,
(22:24):
and new foundation shrubs across the front of her house.
We came back the other day and we put in
night lighting, or we did night lighting. Then we came
back in the other day and added some more shrubs
and you know, did some more stuff for us. So
that's the second time we worked for Susan, So we've
(22:46):
kind of been all over the place that was from
the first one was in trust Well, the second one
was in Crestwood, and then we went all the way
down to Donovant Valley and worked for a couple down
there and I'm losing their name. They're up in that
neighborhood up and so when you get like behind the
(23:07):
Pigly Wiggly down there in the Shoal Creek area, Chris,
there's a subdivision that goes up the hill up there,
and we went in, trimmed all their shrubs, added night
lighting there, and we don't do pruning, so don't call
us for pruning. But it was like, okay, this, we're
adding twenty five or thirty shrubs. We're doing you know,
(23:30):
night lighting while we are there. We added the pruning
part in. But as a general rule, we don't do pruning,
so don't call us for mowing or pruning anything because
we don't do that stuff. But if like we go
out there on a landscaping job and we're doing it
and they said, well, can you prune the shrubs while
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we're here? Whatever, we might get a you might get
a thumbs up, or you might get the thumbs down,
but as general we don't do that. But for these
folks we did and got them cleaned up. I think
that was a miss missus Birch Leslie Burch and uh
got their place cleaned up for him.
Speaker 5 (24:08):
He'd had back problems.
Speaker 7 (24:09):
He he's a do it yourself for mister Burch and Uh,
he's had some back issues and everything's not really got
out of hand. Uh, but it was due to have
maintenance work done on it, and he just wasn't physically
able to do it, so we did all that stuff
for him and got n lighting in and all that
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good stuff. So that was one of them we did.
And then uh, I mean from there we were at
Marie Hayes. Then Marie's over in Irondale, and uh she
had like she had Mark Whitfield come in and grind
a buch of stuff. The insurance company literally told Marie, hey,
you got to get rid of these pine trees in
your your So they had seven pine trees taken out
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back there, and uh, Mark Whitfield from a Cobber River
tree came out and did a unk grinding and all
that stuff for him. We worked with Mark a lot
on jobs because he is just so flexible and does
such a great job. The price is fantastic. And he
came in and helped Marie out and ground those stumps
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for and then we literally went in there. She had
never had a backyard, you know, don't mount to anything.
So we went in and grated the whole backyard put
out seed. It's real shady put out seed and uh
not a shady as it used to be with seven
but uh graded that all for She had one grove
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of trees still like seven eight trees still back there,
and we put like a group and the hydranges in
there and under the trees and pine straw all that
area and just made like a big backyard for we
Actually we put out a little bit of millet. See
this time of year, you know, obviously we've had rain
what seems like every day for the last month. But
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we put a little bit of millet in there with it.
And with the millet d you literally, like the humidity
in the air are like a good dew will make
millet germinate. So we put a little millet in with
it to just make it come up and you know,
hold the ground and keep it from washing away the
way the weather's been, and it'll be it's probably already green.
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Be honestly, that was three days ago, and it's probably
already green, and the rest of that seed will come
up and you know, in amongst that and be nice.
They'll probably have to cut it within the next two days.
They're having a party or something the first second week
at June, so they needed it to be up and
purity by then, and it will be I mean, they'll
have to cut it a time or two before then,
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So that's kind of what we've been doing.
Speaker 6 (26:40):
Yeah, creating spaces for folks.
Speaker 5 (26:42):
That's it. We have been wide open, Old Chris.
Speaker 6 (26:45):
We're about up for a second break.
Speaker 8 (26:48):
I want to say that our garden center is gonna
be closed on Memorial Day, so don't come in on
Memorial Day Monday because we won't be there.
Speaker 6 (26:55):
We still got a great.
Speaker 8 (26:56):
Selection of hanging baskets, spedding plants, vegetables too, if you
need vegetables. I know a lot of people have kind
of you know, it's been rainy, it's been cool, so
a lot of people have kind of put off planting
some of their vegetable gardens. But we still got a
great selection of tomatoes and peppers. We've got herbs, betting plants.
So if you need to get any pots or anything
like that ready, you know, for a Memorial Day weekend,
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come in and see us Monday through Friday eight to
five and we will be there to help you out
get the pool and get the patios pretty for Memorial Day. Well,
Chris will go ahead and take that break. This is
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Speaker 7 (31:13):
Four three nine nine three seven two. Man, there's a
lot of gardening going on.
Speaker 5 (31:17):
Chris.
Speaker 7 (31:17):
My peas are about My pea's about six inches tall.
My ochre's about four inches tall. My tomatoes, man, they're
blowing up there. They're only about a foot and half tall,
but they're about two feet wise. I like I should
have staked them like yesterday. I'm behind the eight ball
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with that. I gotta get some steaks in the otherwise
they're gonna be laying down. But got zucchini planted, got
squash planted. It's all you know. Yellows, crook, next squash,
You got it planned and all that stuff, and everything's
coming up. I wanted to till two weeks ago or
a week and a half ago, really, and with all
the mowing and all the other stuff, and with all
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the rain and all that, it just didn't happen. So
I let crabgrass jump up in the corn about two
inches tall. And uh so I went in yesterday with
a tailer and tiled everything up and put a shot
of that good mojo fertilizer you mix up for me
on that stuff.
Speaker 5 (32:17):
And it should tear out.
Speaker 7 (32:18):
And that corn is about knee high right now, so
it waist hing about a week.
Speaker 8 (32:23):
That's some good fertilizer. That's Chris. That's Chris's special blend
that he uses on his long hair customers and a man.
It's so there's there's several things that we get custom
blended so that I can, like with our fertilization, we
control program where we come and we treat your yard.
I can tweak our recipe a little bit or our
vendors are really good about doing custom stuff and depending
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on the weather and you know how the yards are looking.
You know, all tailor at tailor or program and that's
really what makes classic gardens and landscapes special. When we
treat your yard. It's like you know, people ask me
when I go out and measure yards and Chris Keith lawnforation.
We control. It's in full swing right now. Baby, I'm
talking about. That's ninety nine percent of my time is
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meeting with people measuring yards, you know, especially if they
got bad spots. Last fall was bad. I mean we
were super dry, you know, July, August, September, October, especially,
I think in August, and I've got I actually got
this in my truck because I refer to refer to
it when I'm talking to people. But like last August
we only had like an inch and a half of rain,
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and then September we had almost six inches of rain,
but half of that came in like one shower. It
was like one of those three inch downpours, and the
rest of September it was like a tenth of an
inch here, tenth of an inch there. And then October
we only had like a quarter inch of rain and
that affected yards to where you still see the damage. Now,
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in addition to that we had last few years, we've
had chinchbugs come through. And chinch bugs are not a
new insect, but they're they're kind of relatively new to
our area. You know, you'll you'll do a lot of those,
Like when you get south of Montgomery, you get in
a lot of Saint Augustine and centipede that's like chinchbugs candy.
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But the last few years emeralds oision Z fifty two
zoisa have been getting hammered by it. And you can
go through specific neighborhoods and it's just it's hit and miss.
But chinch bugs, man, that's a nasty bug. I do
not like finding those or suspecting those on a yard
because what they do is they they basically they pierce
the grass blade and they feed off of the sap
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and the sugars in the grass blade. But when they
when they pierce the grass blade, they injected toxin into
the actual grass and that kind of like kind of
like a bore cuts off the cambium tissue, so that
so that a tree can't you know, take up water
and take up you know, nutrients that it needs. Chinch
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Bugs will do the same thing, so they actually kill
the grass by inject in a toxin so that the
grass can't basically like can't circulate food and water you know,
through the through the system of the roots and the
leaf blades. A real nasty bug. And the bad thing
about them is the hotter and drier it gets, the
more they like it. So you take one of those
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yards you know, you'd mentioned one of our one of
our landscape customers that we did down in the Crestwold
Boulevard area, So that's one of the areas once you
get once you get behind that filling station restaurant, you
got like seventh Avenue, seventh Cort, sixth Avenue, sixth, sixth Court.
None of those people down there, for the most part,
or water their grass. They don't have irrigation systems. The
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grass is a virtually bulletproof well. That was kind of
one of the first neighborhoods where I started finding those
and those yards when you get in a drought in
the summer months, they those things are like a desert
and that's when chinch bugs attack, and that's the type
of grass that they like. So you know, a homeowner
may think that their yards turning brown and their yards
dying because we haven't had rain, and you know, it's
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just drought damage. But at the same time, they've got
chinch bugs in there. And you can drive through some
neighborhoods right now and yards are just you'll see them
just devastated, like completely dead, and that's you know, it's
part of the reason is chinchbugs. But uh long cair
is in full swing right now, Chris Keith and and
so we as as classic gardens. When we treat your yard,
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we use these custom products that that I blend specifically
for our area and specifically for our weather conditions. And
then I train on my guys. So like when we
started seeing chinchbugs about three years ago, I literally I
piled on my guys up in my truck and we
drove around yards where I'd found them, and we're all
down there, like hands and.
Speaker 6 (36:43):
Knees finding them.
Speaker 8 (36:44):
So, you know, you get professionals out there that diagnose
the yards if they don't, so like my technicians keep
me busy because if they're this time of year, could
it be probably one of the trickiest times to diagnose
the yard because you got you got the drought that
we had last year. We have chinch bugs that we
had last year. Then you got you know, then you
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got fungus that's popping up in yards all over the
place with the rain and humidity. You got cool temperatures
which kind of slows the grass down. You got you know,
mowing issues. You know, there's a lot of different things.
And so even my guys, if they're not sure what's
going on with their yard. You know, they'll pop me
pictures and you know, I'll walk them through it, or
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I'll say, hey, you know, i'm gonna come out there tomorrow.
Speaker 6 (37:28):
Why don't you meet me?
Speaker 8 (37:29):
Or when I get out there, I'll tell you what's
going on, so that you know for future. So you know,
when you get a classic Garden's employee on your yard,
you can be guaranteed that they're putting forth maximum effort
to figure out what's going on. And if they don't know,
they're gonna ask me, and I'm gonna be out there
and then I'm gonna tell them. You know, it's all
continual training, you know, from forever. I mean I still
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I've been doing this my entire life, and I still
learn things, you know, every single every single year, things
things evolve.
Speaker 5 (37:57):
Yes, I mean it's not.
Speaker 7 (37:59):
I mean, obviously, our our weather in Birmingham, Alabama area
is so wishy washy that it's you can't just you know,
make a cookie cutter style of long care program and
say all right, we're just gonna do this from now on.
Speaker 6 (38:15):
Yeah, So that's where I was going.
Speaker 8 (38:17):
So when I give somebody a long cair quote, I
send them an email with the program it's that we offer,
and I always tell them up front them like, hey,
you know, like this program kind of has like all
of our applications lined up, you know, approximately when we
do them during the year. But I always say, it's
this is kind of like written in pencil, you know,
because every yard's different. So like the way I treat
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my yard may not be the same way that I
treat your yard because it may be new said, or
it may have more shade, or it may have insect
issues or disease issues. So it's, uh, it truly is
kind of a tailored program, even though when I give
you a quote, it's just kind of a general blueprint
roughly of what we do and when we do it.
Because my guys typically have three, four or five different
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products on their truck, so they're essentially ready for anything. Yeah,
and they make they make us, they make that they
make that call kind of on the spot, you know,
what what the yard needs at that, you know, during
that application time.
Speaker 7 (39:13):
For sure, Chris, I think we got a call. Let's
get Steven. Good morning, Stephen, how you doing, buddy?
Speaker 16 (39:19):
Doing pretty good? Doing pretty good? Had a couple of
quick questions if you get a second, Yeah, go ahead,
I treat I treat my own yard with the fertilong stuff.
In a half of the past couple of years, in the
fall of spring, I've been putting out the for all seasons.
I guess that's the pre emergent stuff.
Speaker 6 (39:38):
Yep.
Speaker 16 (39:39):
And uh and did the winterriser this winter? Well, this
spring I accidentally put the wet out plus long fertilizer
instead of the for all seasons. And I didn't know
if that stuff, Uh is that much different? If that's
gonna mess up my routine or or what.
Speaker 5 (39:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (39:59):
Uh, that product, we don't really we don't sell it
in the garden center.
Speaker 5 (40:05):
It's it's more like a weed and feed.
Speaker 7 (40:07):
So that's basically what you did, is you put a
weed and feed out instead of your pre merging, which
probably didn't hurt you are you probably didn't have many
broad leaves anyway, because if you put the pre emerging
out last fall, it should have headed off most of
that stuff. The that pre emerging is not real good
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for poeanna as much as it used to be. It'll
help some, but most of the poana has built a
tolerance to it.
Speaker 5 (40:36):
So we we've.
Speaker 7 (40:37):
Been pushing the bag of gold as we call it
for the last several years because it does a better
job with poanna. But that pre merger used is really
good for broad leaves, so it should have done the job,
and you shouldn't had much broad leaf stuff to put
the weed out. So basically, I think you just more
or less wasting an application. You didn't get any pre
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merging out, So the best thing you could do at
this point would be to get some pre emerging on
the lawn because you did a post emergent, not a
pre emergent.
Speaker 16 (41:09):
Too bad of shape, because I've been keeping up with it,
and I mean, my neighbors don't treat the yards, so
that's kind of always a sight that on that side
of the house, you know, and from their stuff blowing over.
But I appreciate that. One other question. About ten years ago,
I bought two shrubs called a scarlet peak Hollie ye. Also,
I don't know if you're familiar with that, that plant
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that you sold, and put them in the house, and
now they got about twenty feet tall, and I was
wondering if it's a bad thing to trembles back too
far because they're really taller and I want them.
Speaker 7 (41:45):
Most hollies are you can be pretty dang aggressive pruning.
Speaker 5 (41:51):
I don't think you.
Speaker 7 (41:52):
I don't think you would heard it at all by
doing a severe pruen In on it.
Speaker 16 (41:57):
Yeah, because they've got really about or if I foot taller
that I really want them and I didn't want to
mess them up or something, so I cut them back
too far.
Speaker 5 (42:07):
Yeah. Some of the time.
Speaker 7 (42:10):
Most of the time, with those bigger varieties of hollies
like that, you can give them a massive haircut and
they'll flush right back out.
Speaker 16 (42:18):
Yeah. Well, I appreciate it. And a little shout out
to my Christmas light buddies Ksey and Lisa, and I
appreciate y'all taking my car.
Speaker 5 (42:27):
Hi buddy, have a good one, thank you. Yeah.
Speaker 7 (42:32):
That most of the time, you can be pretty aggressive,
particularly this time of year, on hollies like that.
Speaker 6 (42:38):
I mean come down to the ground.
Speaker 7 (42:41):
There was a lady one time down there, not far
from the garden center, and a little old lady lived
in a little little garden home and she had about
ten year o pine hollies maybe and uh at the most.
And it was one of this thing is too small
for the garden. It's too small a job for us
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to go do as long character how whereas a landscape coming,
I can't send five guys out there to dig up
ten hollies and replace them. And she really when I
showed up myself and said, hey, look, you know it's
going to cost you this to you know, replace these hollies,
she's like, I really can't afford that. I said, well,
let's do this. Then I said two hundred bucks. I'll
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cut them to the dirt. And she's like, what I said, man,
within six or eight months, you want to mean that
little yopon holly. I took a weed ear with skills
all blade. I just cut them to the dirt and
I gave him a little shot of fertilizer, and you
know they went from waist high, you know, and and
too big for her house to you know, within six
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months they were a little one football and they were
back to like you know, you just planning the things.
You don't do that stuff often it looks terrible for
you know, six months or a year, but they flushed
back out and they time, they'll be all right.
Speaker 8 (44:01):
If you're patient and you're willing to sacrifice something like that,
you know you can do it.
Speaker 5 (44:05):
Yeah, something.
Speaker 6 (44:06):
Most of time it's just better to rip it out
and redo it.
Speaker 7 (44:08):
Yeah, I'd rather just dig them up and replace them.
But you know it priced why, it really ain't that
much difference. But some of the time, you know, money
will only let you go so far. That's right, Well, Chris,
it's time for another break.
Speaker 5 (44:22):
I'm sure.
Speaker 7 (44:22):
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Arlok in the Indian Springs. Good morning, all I have you.
Speaker 17 (48:30):
I'm fine, and how are you this morning?
Speaker 5 (48:33):
We're good?
Speaker 17 (48:34):
Okay, Well, I have a problem with I had a
gardener come out and puts he puts some mondo grass
in along my sidewalk to keep the bark in. And
the next morning I got up and all of it
had been pulled out and laid on the concrete by
the deer.
Speaker 6 (48:55):
Oh yeah, Indian springs deer.
Speaker 17 (48:57):
Yeah. And I have yeah, I have like seven or
eight that come through every day, and I so what
I did is I put put it all back in,
and then I went and got my mothballs and put
mothballs all through them. Well that's been Okay, now for
about eight days and now this morning I get up
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and they've pulled out several of them. Again, do you
have any suggestions.
Speaker 7 (49:28):
I mean, that's a tough one. I mean we've once
you may you may almost have to there. There's a
lot of things that work really good, like repellent. Wise,
there's a yeah, it's probably called liquid fence.
Speaker 5 (49:41):
Uh up, it's called liquid liquid fence. Uh.
Speaker 7 (49:46):
Basically, it's like every putrid, funky thing that you could
think of, all mixed in one and you take it
and mix it up in a sprayer and you just
spray it. It's like futud eggs and like mintalle and
this ol and that whatever. But you take all this
stuff and put it together and it just it stinks.
It puts a bad taste in their mouth or whatever,
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and they'll leave that stuff along. The thing is you're
gonna have to do it probably once a week. Just
go out there and spray some on there. Once it
gets rooted in, they're not gonna hurt the stuff.
Speaker 2 (50:17):
You know.
Speaker 8 (50:17):
I wonder if you could just take and put some
netting around it, maybe take some little some type of
little spikes, you know, like little wooden wooden spikes.
Speaker 6 (50:25):
Yeah, put netting over.
Speaker 17 (50:27):
It, just until a good distance. It's a good it's
a good distance. It's a pretty long stretch. And so
when I went out and put it all back back,
and I'm eighty five years old, so getting down on
my hands and knees and putting all that back in
it was kind of and I thought, okay, so that's
when I got the off balls out. Well, now I
(50:49):
guess we've had enough rain. That's just that is not bothering.
So they but they don't like the taste of it,
I guess, but they have eaten everything else in the yard.
I cannot Axailia. They eat all the new and the
girls and everything. They just eat up everything. You cannot
keep them out. And so I thought, well, maybe you
(51:10):
would give me some idea just to spram or something
to keep them until they get in the ground, because
right now they just lift them out.
Speaker 5 (51:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (51:18):
See, once they get rooted in, I don't think you'll
have any issues with it.
Speaker 5 (51:21):
But I would. I would use a liquid fence.
Speaker 17 (51:25):
Just called liquid fence, okay, yep.
Speaker 7 (51:28):
And it's you mix so many ounces per gallon of
water and you just go out there and spray them spram.
Speaker 5 (51:33):
Okay, now you can.
Speaker 7 (51:34):
You can mix it up in a little just a
little squirt bottle and just go down through there and
spray them, and they probably gonna be aggressive with it.
Speaker 5 (51:43):
I would I would say do it twice a week.
You're not going to hurt the plants at all.
Speaker 7 (51:46):
It just uh okay, it just puts a funky taste,
a funky smell and all that on them, and they
the deer, don't mess with them.
Speaker 17 (51:54):
Okay, all right. I thought you might be able to
give me some idea because I listen to you every
Saturday one night.
Speaker 5 (52:02):
Remember sounds good.
Speaker 17 (52:05):
Well, thank you, Arla, Thank you so much, Chris, Yes, ma'am, have.
Speaker 5 (52:09):
A good weekend.
Speaker 7 (52:11):
Deer in Indian springs are a different things, that's right.
I mean they are different. They are goods now, Chris.
That music means we're out of time, y'all. Come see
us at eighteen fifty five Carson Road in the Center Point,
or call us if you want long care, if you
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forest mulching, land clearing, any of that stuff. You call
(52:32):
us eight five four four thousand and five. And we'll
get you set up for an appointment. We'll come out
there and take a look at it for you, and
we'll get your yard fixed up and beautiful again. And
we'll see you next week on the class reguards the
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