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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It is a landscape shovel on the ready and with
your want show up plants and grass to rub two
and docent because Chris and Chris.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
No, Chris knows it, Chris knows it. Chris knows it.
Chris knows it. Chris knows it. Chris knows it. Sure,
Chris knows it.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
Chris knows. And now you're a host. Chris Joyner and
Chris Ki, good morning, and welcome a classic Gardens and
Landscape Show Thanksgiving Edition.
Speaker 4 (00:35):
I think we look forward to this edition every year.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
Right, we get Christmas is cool, you know what I'm saying,
just because of what it means. But man, Thanksgiving is cool. Yes,
I'm I'm the Clark Griswall of Thanksgiving.
Speaker 4 (00:54):
Yes you are. I mean, when it comes to cooking
on Thanksgiving, you just you just there's a picture of
Chrispace on Google. When you think about Thanksgiving cooking, I
start the dates.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
Halla, Dean whatever. Now, I thoroughly enjoy Thanksgiving. It's just
about you know, being family and and cooking and eating
and you know, just just chilling and you know everything
about it. You know, it's just like that's my time
of year. And so I'm you know, Teresa put in
(01:30):
a big put in a big Walmart pickup order the
other day for like four hundred dollars with you know,
chicken broth and and all the all the celery and
the onions and the all the good stuff. You know,
you gotta because you gotta make the giblip gravy. You know,
you gotta have more eggs, you know, and all that
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good stuff.
Speaker 4 (01:52):
You know, seventy two eggs in that cart. Problem.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
Yeah, I mean you gotta have. I gotta eat at
least a dozen deviled eggs.
Speaker 4 (01:58):
I'm gonna double up on my collect straw medication over
the next two months.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
Probably should put that in the in the notes. Uh
but yeah, just uh man, you're the eighteen pound I mean, yeah,
y'all stuff and blunch. You're a dressing bunch.
Speaker 4 (02:15):
We do both because we've got a lot, you know,
we go both ways. Basically. We know, I make the
I'm addressing I'm a dressing folk.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
Yeah, I make the eighteen pound dress. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (02:26):
So my chicken dress, yeah that yeah, I mean you
cut off a little brick of it, you know, that's
like four inches by four inches and it weighs like
three pounds.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (02:35):
Yeah, And then a lot of others, just like the
old stuff, bread crumb, stove top stuff, you know. Yeah,
I like, I like the real deal with everything in it.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
Yeah yeah, yeah, mine's the onions and the cellary and
you know it's got a whole chicken in the pan.
Speaker 4 (02:49):
Yep, it's it's dense.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
Oh yeah, like like you gotta double them up. Yeah.
When you get done, you know, you just throw the
pan away. Uh huh, that's right. Yeah, nothing goes to waste.
So right now, I know I'm doing I know, I'm
doing a couple of hoole hams, probably a half or two.
(03:11):
I've got a large turkey, and then I've got a
turkey breast and I'll probably have another turkey, and then, uh,
I've got to do a couple of chickens because I
gotta have one for my dress. And then I just
do another.
Speaker 4 (03:22):
One because you got you got the space for it. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
I mean when I like the smoker, it's like it
don't stop for ten hours. Yeah, you know, and it
only takes like a couple of hours to do a turkey.
Speaker 4 (03:34):
Neighbors come down and say, hey, can you mind throw.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
I just you know, shoot a text all my buddies
and say, Okay, the smoker's open. You know, if you
want to throw something on.
Speaker 4 (03:45):
There, come on, bring it.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
And you know, I've I got plenty of pets. You know,
I got plenty of pineapple juice to shoot up the hams,
and plenty of plenty of tonies to creole butter to
butter the turkeys, chicks and all that stuff.
Speaker 4 (04:02):
Yeah, you're ready. Just a couple more days.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
Avengers great season to put all.
Speaker 4 (04:07):
Over them and stuff. I need to get some of that. Yess,
I know there's stuff I'm forgetting. We do Thanksgiving at
the trailer park. We've done that for the past few years.
So there's five of us, like me, one sister in law,
another sister in law, another sister in law, and another
sister in law. Yeah, all sister in laws.
Speaker 5 (04:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (04:28):
Well yeah, we all rent camp sites and the last
couple of years we've gone to uh like Middle Tennessee,
North Carolina, North Georgia. But some of my family doesn't
like cold weather. Yeah, and so they they've been begging
us with they've they've been begging us for like two years,
like hey, let's go south, let's go south, let's go south.
So we're going down to Foley Cool this this week.
(04:50):
We're tearing up.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
Well, looks like Thursdays you may be eighty degrees DoD.
Speaker 4 (04:53):
Oh, it's gonna be. It's gonna be like middle seventies
pretty much the whole time. And then Friday Saturday, I
think it's down into like the sixties. So it's great weather.
It's gonna be. It's gonna be nice during the day,
you know, for shorts and t shirts. The place we're
going like a lot of campsites. You know, they got
a basketball court. You know, they ride bikes. I think
this one's got a little pickleball court and you know, playground,
(05:15):
so we'll just be hanging out. We're gonna have I
think eleven kids down there. So it's it's a good
it's a good time.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
I do it.
Speaker 4 (05:24):
I do I. I used to fry a turkey every year,
but man, that's when you fry a turkey, that's expensive.
That's like a job, you know what I'm saying. And uh,
and it's it's fantastic, but you know, to go on camping,
it's not all that easy to like, Okay, you once
the oil is done, then you got then you got
to deal with their all the oil and everything and
washing the pan and or the pot and all that.
(05:45):
So a couple of years ago, I got one of
those airless turkey fryers, and I'm gonna go ahead and
tell you right now that that thing, that thing cooks
a turkey just as well as frying it, and you
don't have to deal with the mess. So I do uh,
fifteen pounds as about about as big as you can
get in there, you know, to keep it from like
touching the sides and letting all the airflow through there.
(06:06):
So I do a fifteen pound turkey, and then my
brother in law usually does a turkey breast. We've got
a Dutch oven, cast iron Dutch oven, so he'll get
a campfire going and you know, he stuffs that whole
thing with you know, the whole nine yards and he
does that in the Dutch oven over the campfire. And
then we still have I mean, like every camper is
(06:28):
like the ovens are full blast pretty much the entire day,
you know, cooking all everything because we don't. The first
year we went, everybody was like, well, you know, let's
just kind of scale back since we won't have like
all the amenities of home, you know, as far as
the oven space and everything. I was like, I was like, girls,
this is Thanksgiving. I ain't no holding back on Thanksgiving.
I was like, I expect every single dish on that table,
(06:51):
like honestly, like we would have.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
I don't care if I have to strap a note
of stove on the back of the truck.
Speaker 4 (06:59):
Yeah, we're oh man, but we uh, we'll have a
good time. I don't. I don't. We get down there
and we don't really make very many plans. I mean,
I'm the explorer, so all usually.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
Just if I'm at Foley, I might wind up in blood.
Speaker 4 (07:13):
Yeah, you know, I'll get on Google Maps. I'll start
zooming around if I see, you know, if I see
some something listed on there that looks interesting, I'll go.
I know we're gonna go to the beach and we
get some seafood. One day. We're gonna do low Country boil.
One day. You know, I'm doing vegetable I'm a vegetable
beef soup guy. And so that's uh Sunday, I'm gonna
(07:34):
wake up and I'm gonna start cooking everything, and I'm
gonna have that. I might have that pot steaming all
day long with some vegetable with some vegetable bee soup.
Speaker 3 (07:41):
Shooe chill.
Speaker 4 (07:42):
We got to where everybody, like everybody picks a night
for dinner and it just kind of, you know, when
it comes to breakfast and lunch, it's kind of like
every trailer for themselves. But uh, everybody picks a night
for dinner and just makes a big kind of it's
almost like a big pot luck. You know, you just
make it. You make a bunch of soup, some cast
roles and stuff like that, and hamburgers and hot dogs
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for the kids.
Speaker 3 (08:05):
So, you know, that's what we do for Christmas. Like
everybody makes a different soup, you know, so we'll have
like ten different soups and so soup, chili, you know,
this one will make a beef stew, you know whatever,
and uh, that's what we did, and we'll have you know,
somebody will make corn muffins, and then somebody will do
(08:25):
you know, some type of bread or whatever, and we
just yeah, pig out.
Speaker 4 (08:29):
I got some eggplant I'm taking down there, fry.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
I didn't give you a little bit, you gave me
a lot.
Speaker 4 (08:36):
I'm I might have a sign in that five gallon
bucket saying free eggplant by before it goes right head listen.
So there's usually all, there's usually all all. There's usually
always that older couple that lives in the lives at
the campsite, you know what I mean. Yeah, they're like
the campsite host, you know, or or they just live
there full time. And if I see people like that,
(08:56):
I'll probably say, he you didn't need some make plant.
You gave me a monch, you know what?
Speaker 3 (09:01):
That thing? I guess I've give you that much eggplant
about what five times? Is?
Speaker 4 (09:05):
Yeah, I think so that's why.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
I've got one eggplant plant and I planted. I like eggplant,
and Teresa don't like egg plant, so guess what. Teresa
don't cook eggplant. So and you know, me being a cook,
I should just say, well, heck, I'm gonna make it myself,
but I just like, by god, I'm not making it.
So I lost that war and I didn't need any eggplant.
(09:30):
Well I did. I ate it, probably as many times
as you did, but it made like it made like
three hundred you know. So I've give them to Chris
and I've ate them and then I've given them to somebody,
you know, give them two or three other people, and
you know, I'm still making tomatoes. So here we are,
you know, the nearly we're bumping the first of December here,
(09:51):
and I went, I picked the best, you know, the
green tomatoes and the ripe tomatoes and everything that were
left on the vines. Picked all that the other day
before we had these last two or three freezes because
I'm like, you know, it's gonna kill everything down. So
I've probably got enough green tomatoes and all to last
me up into like January. And uh, I've just got them,
(10:14):
you know, in the dark spot and they're you know,
they're good and green, so they're not like gonna turn
in the next week kind of thing. So I've probably
got enough to last me a while. I've got a
harvest all my broccoli. I've got about forty or fifty
heads of broccoli out there, and uh, I've just about
picked all my cabbage. I've got you know, some eight
pound heads of cabbage out there that I've picked. Now,
(10:38):
they hadn't full with it yet, and I told them
go down there and get a couple of them, and uh,
Jennifer can grab a head. And today she makes the
broccoli cast role for Thanksgiving, So she's going down there
to get that. I got plenty of collared greens, so
you know, Dad is gonna go and I'll pick a
mess for Dad, let him them. So we'll have collared greens,
(11:01):
we'll have a broccoli cast roll and all that and
everything is coming out of the garden. So that's pretty
cool and using it up. And you can't even you
can't even knock a dent in my turnip greens, you know,
you can't. It's sick. You get down there and pick
like a pick like a thirty gallon trash bag full,
and you look down you had to.
Speaker 4 (11:22):
Yeah, it's like, oh they look just better.
Speaker 3 (11:25):
Yeah. My Dad's like, man, I got to pick those
greens and like canem or something before they go to
waste iming, Like Dad, I mean, I put like three
dollars worth of seed out there, and you know, like
every sea germinated and like jumped and knee high.
Speaker 4 (11:40):
It was crazy. I just had you had. It was
a perfect storm. I had the right weather, well, the
right irrigation cheat did I have the right fertilizer?
Speaker 3 (11:49):
Yeah, we know a couple of guys that sell that stuff, right,
that's right. Well, Chri's is time for break. Let's go
ahead and do that. Our number, if you want to
call usnask is a gardening question. This is the class
the Gardens and Landscape showing. Normally we talk more about
eating and stuff like that for the Thanksgiving show, but
if y'all want to call and ask us gardening question,
(12:09):
you can do that. A lot of things need to
be done right now. You know, you need to get
your lime on your yard. That's really important. You know,
just get all your odd and end stuff done before
you know. Right now, you know, your grass is starting
to go dorm and now we've finally got a few
frosts on it. Uh, we actually got some pretty good
frosts the last two or three days, and uh so
(12:30):
everything's kind of going to sleep, and uh that's what
it needs to be doing right now. So uh you know, yeah,
just you know, get your winter eyeser out, get you
lime out. That's the important stuff to do right now.
Speaker 4 (12:41):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
You know, really as far as prune and shrubs and
all that stuff, now you kind of back off on that.
I'm gonna do a little light pruning today for a lady.
Uh herb Azelia's just got some little spriggy ends on them.
Holly's you know, just need a little shaping up. And
if you need to do a little minor stuff like that,
you can. It's not gonna like encourage new growth or anything,
(13:02):
because it's cold enough now where it won't make that
much difference. But uh, usually we kind of back off
of that and just let everything rest this time of
year with the holidays coming in and all that.
Speaker 4 (13:13):
Just take a break back and relax.
Speaker 3 (13:15):
Hey and listen now, if you know, as we talked
a couple of weeks ago about the trend changing, well,
the trend has changed. It's cooler, it's wetter. Cut your
irrigation system off. Yep. You good to go now, you know,
unless you you know, need a water in product or
something like that. Cut it off. We'll talk more about
(13:36):
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Speaker 7 (16:48):
I wasn't made for waiting on tables. I'm not made
for cleaning up stevens. I ain't cut up to climb.
I lie polls. But I'm pretty good at digging holes.
(17:09):
I'm not the time to see women's shoes. I'm no
good at serving up booze.
Speaker 4 (17:18):
Don't having that. I don't know, you know, math class,
But pretty good at digging hole.
Speaker 3 (17:23):
Pretty good at digging up man.
Speaker 4 (17:26):
I'm pretty good at making grass green? Yeah, oh man, Christy.
The garden centers closed the week of Thanksgiving, y'all, so
just stuff? Why I show up? We ain't gonna be there,
you know.
Speaker 3 (17:38):
And now I hadn't looked at the calendar, christ Man, y'all,
say a prayer for me because next week I'm having
carporal tunnel surgery on both hands. So I'm gonna be
out of commission for like a month.
Speaker 4 (17:51):
Yeah, I mean, what are you gonna do. You can't
even be able to do it. You can't even change
you can't even hold the remote, right.
Speaker 3 (17:59):
It's gonna tough. So uh now, I imagine the first
two or three days is gonna be pretty rough, and
then after that, I'll I'll you know, I'm pretty tough.
Oh yeah, and you know, I'll get where I can
do something. But yeah, they're they're real strict about what
to let you do. Yeah. Yeah, I mean, I work
with my hands. I better not jack this up, right,
(18:21):
So but yeah, So I hadn't looked at the calendar,
but usually somewhere around the middle of December, we shut
the garden Center down and we don't open back up
until after the first year. So this time of year,
so like, I'm having my surgery on the third, that's
the first Tuesday that doctor Maddox does any does the
(18:43):
surgery surgeries. So uh, I'm doing that then and then
I'll be down and out until Usually so by the
time we come back in January. I should be you
should be. I mean, I'll be hung you won't.
Speaker 4 (18:58):
Be slinging that like RM.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
I probably put it, pick it up and put it
down pretty good.
Speaker 4 (19:02):
I'd say so. I'd say so, well, Chris, I'm glad that,
uh we did get those those few frosts because that
has set the grass back quite, you know, quite a bit,
just making it quick growing. Man, I'm so tired of
cutting grass, and uh, you know, now's a now's a
great time. And we did it last weekend. If if
your grass got out of balance and it got too high,
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it's a great time just to you know, get that
back down. And we typically recommend somewhere in that two
inch range, you know, keeping it cut at that height
through the winter months. That there's some some p it used.
Some people used to say, you scalp your yard in
the winter before it goes dormant, and you scalp it
in the spring. But you really just need to scalp
it in the spring months. You leave it about two
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inches during the winter, and that you'd be surprised how
much that helps, just with weed control, you know, on
top of your pre emergent. You know, you'll still get
a little breakthrough on some hand bid or some poanna
stuff like that. But keeping that grass cut at about
two inches gives it, you know, gives it some a
little bit of insulative layer that helps choke out those weeds.
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And at that height also is good so that the
grass doesn't lay over. You know, you start getting into
that three four five inch range, and you know, as
people are going through with their leaf blowers and you
know we're getting rain once or twice a week, that
tall grass has a tendency to lay over and then
in the spring that will basically suffocate any new growth
from coming up. And he ended up with a mangy
(20:30):
looking yard in the spring. I got a new guy,
Chris that started this past week in our fertilization division
and fantastic man. He's sharp as attack and I was
showing him as a guy that mister Cleveland I believe
up in Gardendale area. He's looks like he's been cutting
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his grass in the same direction with a big like
lawn tractor every single time.
Speaker 3 (20:56):
And you could see the ruts kids that.
Speaker 4 (20:58):
Were start that we're starting to form in the yard.
So you know, alternating your mowing pattern, you know, if
you're still cutting your grass this time of year and
really all year, regardless of when it is. So like
if you cut you know, north to south one time,
come back the next time and cut east to west,
and then the next time cut southeast to northwest, so
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you're alternating that mowing pattern and that helps keep that
grass upright, and then it also prevents those ruts from
forming in the yard where your lawnmower wheels continually go
on the same spot. And I know it's listen, I
know it's hard. You know, you got round flower beds
and human nature, you want to do something the easiest
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and quickest way every single time, right, Well, you know
if you do again, if you do that, it's just
going to form those ruts on the yard and push
that grass over. So just something to think about as
we go through the winter months, especially blowing like you know,
blowing leaves that will push grass over worse than anything
in the world, and then water run off. Yeah, so
just kind of keeping and keeping things nice and tidy
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and cut it about two inches really makes a big difference.
Wouldn't we start greening up in the spring.
Speaker 3 (22:06):
Months, Yeah, and making sure there's no nuts all over
the yard too. I mean, if you can get them
acorns up, get the you know, hickory nuts, whatever it is. Man.
I tell you, my my uncle Arnold owns my grandmother's
old house at the bottom of the hill down there,
and you've never seen the like of a bump or
crop of wallets. And you know those big green wallets. Man,
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I bet you there's ten thousand of in that yard.
I mean you just about five tractor buckets and there
playing in that yard is pretty small. But she's got
two or my grandmother had two big walnut trees in
the yard. I don't know why they killed on to them,
because they've always been a mess. And she's never had
a good yard of grass because you know the old
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juggling or whatever that toxin is that kills the grass
that's in those nuts. You know that an old whole
walnant probably has got more in it than anything on
the planet, you know, that old black crap when they
I mean, it's just the messiest beautiful wood. Yeah. I mean,
if you want to build some furniture, that's fun. But
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they're paying they are a mess.
Speaker 4 (23:15):
And you know it's crazy because like you know, you say,
there's a bumper crop of the walnuts this year. Last year,
my white oaks at my house. You couldn't even it
was like walking on a million marbles in my backyard
and this year not. This year not so much. So
you know, it's funny how how trees will go through that,
you know, different cycles where they have this bumper cross.
Speaker 3 (23:34):
We did a job on a We did a job
down in Criswood area by Irondale area over back. I
guess that was about four years ago, and this guy
had a bumper crop of hickory nuts in the backyard
and I came around the corner of his house. You know,
usually when I get there to do a landscaping job
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for people, i'd ring the doorbell and say, hey, I'm
Chris Keith. You know when I'm here to do your work.
Let's kind of go over things that way. We're on
the same page because one time, Chris, this is totally
changing the subject a little bit. One time I pulled
up at these people's house and I go out there
and you know, the first thing that's on my notes is,
(24:15):
you know, this dogwood tree's got to go. And it's
just those scrubby little dogwood tree in the front yard
and i'mber placing it with another tree. I think it's
been several years ago, and we're supposed to rip all
the shrubs out in front of the house and everything else.
I came, I pulled up at the house, and then
nine times out of tend the home or halftime, the
homeowner's not there. You know, they got up and went
(24:38):
to work, you know. So I pulled up and started
doing my thing, and I assumed that they were not
at home, and we cut that dogwood tree down. He
comes out the front door and he's like, oh my god,
what'd you do to my tree? And he like and
I'm looking at like, oh my god, what have I done?
You know? Did somebody change something and not put it
(24:59):
on my to the right house. Yeah, up at the
rung and yeah, that's I've always been my fear, you know.
I pull up the like spray a yard to kill
it the hount aver and I'm like, one house office,
I'm really conscious about. Okay, I'm looking at this mailbox
and uh he was playing a joke on me. Man
that about I almost had a heart attack in his
front yard. So that got me every time. That was
(25:22):
several years ago, So that got me every time. Now
I'm just like I ring the doorbell, I introduced myself,
I go, do you know what I need to do
or whatever? But this time, so in Irondale, I walk
around the corner of the guy's house with the fella,
and uh. When I went walked around that corner, I
skated on some hickory nuts. I mean they were like
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marbles out there, and they were like they knee deep
around the corner. And man, when I did that, I
I cracked a knee, and I mean it. I had
to go through physical therapy for like eight weeks on
account of skating on some hickory nuts.
Speaker 4 (26:00):
I'll do the same thing doing long hair quotes. You know,
ninety nine percent of the time, you know, I'm on
the phone with the homeowner as I go there, or
call him and say, hey, I'll be there at ten o'clock.
And I always make it a point like if I
tell some I don't I think in my entire twenty
four years working here, I think I want. I can
only remember one time that like I was late to
an appointment or that I forgot one, and I remember
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it vividly, Like I got back to the garden Center
and as soon as I walked in the office, I
thought to myself, oh my gosh, I forgot to go
by Joe's house. And I immediately picked up the phone
and called Joe and I was I was begging for forgiveness,
and he was fine. He was fine with it. But
I've always made it a point to where like when
I not if I say I'm gonna be there at
nine o'clock, like I knock on the door and on
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a homeowner opens it, opens it up. You can hear
the old grandfather clock chiming ten times. You know what
I'm saying. Yeah, but I'll do the same thing. I'll
knock on the door. I tell people, I just want
to announce myself so there's not some strange guy wandering around.
I've all you know that. It's just, you know, you
don't want to get the cops caught on you. You know,
you know, you know, ladies home and you don't you know,
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you never know who's going to be in the yard,
and well you go walk in the backyard or whatever,
there's a rot wilder. See it's funny, fear, because it's funny.
How as you get older, you know, you just you
I don't want to say, you get lazier, you just
become a little bit more timid. I don't know. Back
in the day, when I was younger, I used to
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I was fearless when it came to dogs, you know
what I'm saying. Like I would try to pet and
I would. It just didn't bother me. It was kind
of a game. I'm gonna get in that backyard, I'm
gonna obtain this dog and and uh, it's not gonna
bother me. Now if I see a dog in his
bark and I'll go knock on the door I got.
I've gotten bit of a kind of time or two,
so I'm much more cautious now. I guess you would
say when it comes to dog, kind of like a kid.
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When we were a kid, if if we were on
a rooftop, we wouldn't climb back down. We jump right,
you just hit the ground, roll get back up. Now
I've done that way too many. We don't bounce like
we used to, right, So I'm more cautious when it
comes to dogs. And yeah, I don't want a dog
getting let out on me. And well I don't. I
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had I tell you I was I was working down
the road from the garden center. It's probably been three
or four weeks ago, and I was in the ladies
front yard looking at some spots and there was an
American bulldog that had gotten out of the fence in
the backyard of the neighbor's house. And I heard something barking.
I'm down on my hands and knees. Is when we
were real dry, so I didn't know if it was
drought or chinch bugs. So I'm on my hands and
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knees looking.
Speaker 3 (28:33):
I hear.
Speaker 4 (28:35):
And I look and I can't see anything because I'm
kind of crouched down. And I stand up and at
the top of the driveway is this American bulldog, and
that joker looks like he's fixing and RiPP me apart,
and he starts he starts running after me, and I
immediately I knew I was probably like twenty feet from
my truck, and so I ran as fast as I could,
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and I dove into the back of my truck. As
I'm diving into As I'm diving into the truck, there's
a box of of a yard signs that we put out,
and it's and the steaks are like sticking straight up,
and I'm just looking at it in that split second like,
oh my gosh, I'm fixing land on these steaks and
I'm gonna mpel my whole body with classic garden signs.
And about that time the homeowner came out and there
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was like they had the gate blocked off, and the
gate it just came open and the dog came after me.
You know, no harm, no foul, but who man, close call,
close call?
Speaker 3 (29:29):
Help. We know my own I don't know if I
ever told you this, but my own dog attacked me
when I was a kid. I ate me up now.
I mean, like just the point where I was Stitch
is just so I have just I'm not scared of dogs,
you know, because I've had dogs. But no, I'm if
a dog is aggressive, I'm like, hell no, you haven't
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had I don't even not a no, but a hell no,
I'm not killing nowhere near it. You got a healthy respect, right, Yeah,
it don't matter if it's chewah or ornard. I don't care.
I'm just not that guy. Uh uh, well, Chris, it's
time for a break. Let's quit and do that. Our number.
If y'all want to set up an appointment for long care,
if you need landscaping, if you need night lighting, if
you need an irrigation or patio or taina wall built. Uh,
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we've been doing a lot of seeding up in.
Speaker 4 (30:19):
The Dora area.
Speaker 3 (30:20):
Lady bought a big property up there and uh they
had ten acres cleared, and uh they did a pretty
good job clearing it, but it wasn't as smooth as
she wanted it. So we went in and Hearty wrecked
the whole thing and got it good and smooth. Now
you can mot with a with a thing z turn
and Uh. So she got ten acres that somebody's gonna
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have to mow, but it's gonna be right now. It's
seedy with rye and uh everything's cleaned off. And then
in the spring or you know, late late spring, we're
going there and probably Hearty wreck it one more time,
make it even smoother than this right now, because we
just got that two and a half inches of rain
the other day and it kind of washed uh two
or three little ruts in it or whatever. We'll go
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back in there and and spit shine that thing with
the Hearty wreck again. Put out some bermu to seed
four so you'll have a nice humonga sharks. Yeah, and
uh so yeah, if you needy of that kind of
stuff done, you call us eight five four, four thousand
and five. We're at the Garden Center month through Friday,
eight to four. We won't be there next week for Thanksgiving,
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so don't come see us next week, but come see
us after that and we'll be right back.
Speaker 1 (31:36):
It's the classic Gardens the Landscape Show on.
Speaker 4 (31:41):
The hand ready come when you'll.
Speaker 1 (31:44):
Want hump lance and grass to grub Twocent Chris, Chris
and Chris No.
Speaker 6 (31:51):
And now you're a host Chris Joiner and Chris Keith.
Speaker 3 (31:56):
And we're back for the second half of the class
of Gardens of Landscape showing. We do need to mention
garden so they're gonna be closed for the week of Thanksgiving,
so y'all don't come see us that week, But the
next week, y'all come see us, Yes, sir, And uh,
you won't see me because I will be down and out.
But uh, we got David on logmore David how you hey?
Speaker 8 (32:15):
Fine? Thanks? Hey, you all were talking about grass and
I was wondering we had, I know, unusual weather, a
long drought. Uh, and I did not cut my grass
for weeks for several weeks because I just thought, you know,
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cutting it off, it's like cutting the heads off of everything,
and it just dries out. And it seemed to do fine.
But is there a problem with that? It didn't really grow,
you know, because there was no rain and you know,
I guess it barely grew, but I didn't even see it.
Is there a problem?
Speaker 4 (32:56):
I mean, not necessarily. I mean with cutting grass when
it's dry. You know, that's not gonna you know, if
you cut that, If you cut the grass, it's not
going to like kind of like you know, cut a
finger off then you bleed out, you know type thing.
That's the easy way to put it. It's not like
it's not going to do that now, you know. The
grass obviously, when you when you're in an extended dry spell,
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obviously the grass, if you're not irrigating, it is under stress.
And so you don't want to do anything drastic, you know,
like cutting, you know more than you never really want
to cut more than a third of the grass blade
off at any given time, but you don't want to
do any serious type mowing when it's under stress like that.
And then you know, if you're not irrigating, obviously the
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grass isn't going to grow as fast, so you know,
the growth rate of that, you're not gonna have to
cut as often. You know, during the dry spells. Sometimes
you'll you'll see, uh, you know, you'll see when you
when you cut the the the lawnmower blade will get
broke by the by the lawn and every now and
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then you might see a few little tire tracks from that.
But I mean, I cut my grass when I need
to cut my grass. You know, hotter dry or you
know hotter cold, you know, wetter dry.
Speaker 3 (34:12):
Yeah, if you hadn't cut it in the last several
weeks or whatever, it's a good idea to go out there.
We were talking earlier about layover and stuff like that.
Make a couple of passes over that thing, and you know,
make a pass, you know, cut it one direction. You
might drop you more one notch and cut it another one,
you know, and just kind of shake things up as
we're going on in the winter, just to keep it
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from getting in layover or whatever. But as far as
you know, I was in a neighborhood yesterday in like
off a Caldwell Mill Road, and the lady that we
were working for, they just moved in this house, and
we did a complete gut job on their shrubs and
redid all their shrubs. Their flower beds look like they
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hadn't had any attention in years. And they're about to
get kicked out of the neighbor hood and they just
moved in. But uh there was a yard across the
street from them that looked like the grass hadn't been
It's Bermuda yard, and it wasn't like when we we
try not to say the grass went dormant, because the grass,
you know, isn't dormant. It's dying. It literally is when
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we get in one of these dry spells like that,
so you have to do some water. But their Bermuda
grass was about ten inches tall, so I know they
hadn't mowed in at least two months. And uh yeah,
these people about kid across the road should have been
kicked out of the neighborhood. But anyways, I was looking
at that one and not you know, even a Bermuda lawn.
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You know, that's you know, it's tipped in Bermuda. It's
not gonna try to get two feet tall. That's not
the way it's bread. It's you know, if you see
one that hasn't been cutting four or five months it
you know, it probably ain't gonna be more than about
ten inches tall. It's just not made to grow like
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the bermuda grass that's in a pasture, so would take
that down.
Speaker 8 (36:09):
Mine is zoysia. So yeah, I mean by the way
there there is something that and mower wouldn't get down
to this. There's something that grows out in these uh
it grows out in long lines. It's got all these
little light green leaves on it. They have little rounded
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lobes on them. They're about the size of a penny
or a dime. It just grows out so low. What
is that? And how do I get rid of it?
Speaker 4 (36:46):
It never gets taller than the grass.
Speaker 8 (36:49):
Right, it never gets taller than the grass. Is there
always growing down you know the way.
Speaker 4 (36:57):
There's a couple types of penny warp that that uh
that that grow like that and you just have to
spray those out. It's a it's a tough way to control. Marsh.
Penny wart is one that that we battle with a
lot in lawns.
Speaker 8 (37:11):
It's just pretty in long straight lines just spread.
Speaker 4 (37:16):
It's like a like a almost like a like a vine.
It'll spread like a viney.
Speaker 3 (37:20):
Not like ground ivy, but it's real tiny leaves and
it's mad. It is tight to the grill.
Speaker 8 (37:24):
Yeah, for it to find something.
Speaker 4 (37:29):
Yeah, that's it's a it's a type of penny It's
probably a type of penny wart. There's there's a couple
of different types of penny wart. Uh this and there's
some people call it ponies foot. Some people call it
ground ivy. It's not actual ground ivy, but you know,
that's they're all kind of I want to say cousins,
because they grow in the same fashion and and there
they can be. They can be tricky to kill. You
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just have to you have to continue to spray.
Speaker 8 (37:55):
Yeah. I had I have this rate that has kind
of sharp times on it, and I tried raking through it.
But I wondered if I was just cutting it off,
you know, and turning it into a hundred little.
Speaker 4 (38:09):
Probably, so oh okay.
Speaker 3 (38:11):
Yeah, some of the time, you feel like you cultivate
it when you do that.
Speaker 8 (38:16):
And I know you guys refer to it as crape.
Speaker 3 (38:20):
Murder, but that's right.
Speaker 8 (38:22):
Is there a time of year for someone who is
a crape murderer to you know, commit crape.
Speaker 4 (38:31):
To commit the crime. Yes, yes, Chris Keith, and I
plead the fifth on that.
Speaker 3 (38:37):
Man. Oh, okay, all right, David, Oh there's there's not
a good time to murder your crank myrtles because you
shouldn't do it, okay, craik myrtle. To answer your question,
you could cut a crank myrtle to the dirt and
it would come right back. Whether it's January January July,
it doesn't make a lick of difference. You could cut
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the tops of it, you could cut it halfway down,
you cut it all the way to dirt, and you
can do anything you want to and it'd come back.
A great myrtle is a bulletproof plant. Obviously, it's got
to be pretty bulletproof because you see people go out
there every year and whack the top out of them,
and they come right back. The problem is when you
cut the top out of it. Every time you cut it,
you make it put back on five limbs, so you're
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you're defeating the purpose of what you're trying to do.
You're just making the thing bigger and badder. Basically, to
answer your question, you're not gonna kill it, but you
destroy the natural shape of the tree and if you've
got to murder it like that, then it's probably in
the wrong place and it should just be removed completely.
Speaker 8 (39:46):
Okay, okay. Oh and one last thing I was going
to say is I I bought some just a few, well,
I mean like a dozen, oh little squares or rectangles
of zoysia some years ago and planted them in an
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area where they weren't growing up by where the grass
wasn't growing up by the house. And it turns out
it wasn't growing there because there wasn't enough light, I guess.
But interestingly they spread out to the sunny parts of
the lawn and they took over what was there, and
they seemed to follow the little rivulets, the little trickles
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from rain and dew. I just thought it was interesting
it grew downhill and out into the light and took
them over.
Speaker 3 (40:40):
Which Zoeysa is not a fast spreader, but it does
spread pretty good. And my dad is working on the
spot in his yard. I've give him like ten pieces
at a time for like ten years, and he's got
fifteen hundred square foot of zoisa now in the yard
and he panmthers it, you know, but you know it'll
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grow like that.
Speaker 8 (41:03):
I was just going to say, start, start at the
high point and it seems to you know, follow fall,
water and light spread like runners down. I'd say, you know,
I was just going to say, people, it was my experience.
It went downhill. So I mean, if you just have
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a little start at the top in the sunlight and.
Speaker 3 (41:28):
Yeah, the more sun the water, yeah yeah, yeah, the
more sun and water, it'll it'll do its thing.
Speaker 8 (41:37):
Okay, Well, thank you both very much.
Speaker 3 (41:40):
Have a good thing. Thanksgiving, all right, buddy, and uh
let's go ahead and take that break, Chris for a
little long on it. Our number. If y'all want to
call us for landscape and irrigation, not lighting patios or
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at of that stuff, you call us eight five four
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It's shuttle Bug, Japanese beetle, the crane fly, crab grass
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had the dreaded Kutzoo.
Speaker 6 (44:22):
It's one show with a two hour time limit.
Speaker 3 (44:27):
Now let's get up, get it old.
Speaker 4 (44:35):
It's a fidgety thing. Claire soccer coach has.
Speaker 3 (44:39):
Picked it up and it fell apart, like, oh my god,
I broke it.
Speaker 4 (44:41):
Claire soccer coach has one of those I don't know
what it is. It's a computer and a machine and
it cuts through. It's like a three D printer slash cutter.
And this is what I don't know how to describe
this thing, but it would be something like a little
fidget thing that you would see sitting at a gas
station at the counter, you know what I'm saying, And
you can cut all he will. He can make little
crock charms and name tags and all that kind of
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stuff with it. Wow, that's what that was. You can't
people on the radio to have no clue what I'm
talking about. It's one of those it's one of those
things that you can't put it. Yeah, you'll sit there
and just mess with it for hours and oh man, well,
Chris Keith, Uh, I hope everybody has a great Thanksgiving. Yeah,
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I'm looking forward to it.
Speaker 3 (45:26):
There's as good as mine.
Speaker 4 (45:27):
Hey listening, that's just you know, we and I think
part of the reason we like this time of year
is because we get to take a little time off.
You know, basically spring through summer. It's like running a
marathon sun up to sundown, and so, uh, you know,
we get we get to take some time off, spend
time with family and hang out and relax, let our
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feet rest for.
Speaker 3 (45:51):
A minute, let hands and joints.
Speaker 4 (45:55):
But we're still I mean we're we're we're still booked
up for landscaping, hard escaping, irrigation, night lighting, I mean
We're still staying wide open doing that long hair. I'm
still getting out, you know, getting people signed up for
premergent program. You know, what you do now in your
yard ultimately affects how it looks in the spring. So
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you know, everything looks pretty nice and tight right now.
But if you if you slack off and you think
to yourself, well, my yard looks good. I don't have
to do anything for the next three four or five months.
Three four or five months from now, you're going to
be like, oh gosh, man, this went to heck in
a handbasket. So don't let it get it. Don't let
it get ahead of you. It's just I mean, it's
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no different than working out. You know, you work out,
work out, you know you're in great, great shape, and
then you slack off for a couple of months and
then you go try to you know, hit the treadmill
and your sucking wind as you got out of shape.
Speaker 3 (46:49):
See that, you go to put your prints all your like.
Speaker 4 (46:52):
Yeah, you got to get the leather punch and put
another put another hole in the belt, right yeah. So
what you do long cair wise now is important. You know,
your winterizer application, your line application, if you don't do
the every the twice a year pre mergent. You know,
you still have some pre emerging applications you do in
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November and then again in January. Spots braying weeds right
now you can get come in and get your weed
free zone, and if you've got any wild onions or
any any of your broadly set weed free zone will
actually actually it will smoke all the weeds in the yards.
It's a great time to come in and clean that up. Yeah,
you always see some bitter crests and things like that
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popping up along shady spots in the path, along a
patio or the air conditioning union or just you know,
right on the edges of flower beds. Yeah, come in
and spots bray.
Speaker 3 (47:41):
Everybody's got that little problem. Mary, you know where you
get a little more wash and you know it's the
pre emergent leaches out a little faster, you know, and
you wind up a little bitter kriss or a little
bit of poet or whatever right there. I mean, that's
pretty much. That's that's so normal.
Speaker 4 (47:57):
You know, you got thousands, you got thousands and thousands
of weed seeds that get deposited into the yard some way.
Somehow you're not gonna prevent a hundred percent. You're not
gonna prevent a hundred percent of them. You know, you're
gonna have a few pop up here and there, so yeah,
I come in and pull them or spray them.
Speaker 3 (48:12):
Well, all right, that music means we're out of time.
Y'all have a great Thanksgiving. Hope everybody just takes time
to chill and eat and do all that good stuff.
And uh, hey, we'll see you after the holiday. And uh,
if y'all need landscape and irrigation, night lighting, patios, retaining walls,
you need forest, multus your land clearing, you call us
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It is a landscape shovel on the ready and with
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Speaker 2 (00:11):
No, Chris knows it, Chris knows it. Chris knows it.
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Chris knows. And now you're a host. Chris Joyner and
Chris Ki, good morning, and welcome a classic Gardens and
Landscape Show Thanksgiving Edition.
Speaker 4 (00:35):
I think we look forward to this edition every year.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
Right, we get Christmas is cool, you know what I'm saying,
just because of what it means. But man, Thanksgiving is cool. Yes,
I'm I'm the Clark Griswall of Thanksgiving.
Speaker 4 (00:54):
Yes you are. I mean, when it comes to cooking
on Thanksgiving, you just you just there's a picture of
Chrispace on Google. When you think about Thanksgiving cooking, I
start the dates.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
Halla, Dean whatever. Now, I thoroughly enjoy Thanksgiving. It's just
about you know, being family and and cooking and eating
and you know, just just chilling and you know everything
about it. You know, it's just like that's my time
of year. And so I'm you know, Teresa put in
(01:30):
a big put in a big Walmart pickup order the
other day for like four hundred dollars with you know,
chicken broth and and all the all the celery and
the onions and the all the good stuff. You know,
you gotta because you gotta make the giblip gravy. You know,
you gotta have more eggs, you know, and all that
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good stuff.
Speaker 4 (01:52):
You know, seventy two eggs in that cart. Problem.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
Yeah, I mean you gotta have. I gotta eat at
least a dozen deviled eggs.
Speaker 4 (01:58):
I'm gonna double up on my collect straw medication over
the next two months.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
Probably should put that in the in the notes. Uh
but yeah, just uh man, you're the eighteen pound I mean, yeah,
y'all stuff and blunch. You're a dressing bunch.
Speaker 4 (02:15):
We do both because we've got a lot, you know,
we go both ways. Basically. We know, I make the
I'm addressing I'm a dressing folk.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
Yeah, I make the eighteen pound dress. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (02:26):
So my chicken dress, yeah that yeah, I mean you
cut off a little brick of it, you know, that's
like four inches by four inches and it weighs like
three pounds.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (02:35):
Yeah, And then a lot of others, just like the
old stuff, bread crumb, stove top stuff, you know. Yeah,
I like, I like the real deal with everything in it.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
Yeah yeah, yeah, mine's the onions and the cellary and
you know it's got a whole chicken in the pan.
Speaker 4 (02:49):
Yep, it's it's dense.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
Oh yeah, like like you gotta double them up. Yeah.
When you get done, you know, you just throw the
pan away. Uh huh, that's right. Yeah, nothing goes to waste.
So right now, I know I'm doing I know, I'm
doing a couple of hoole hams, probably a half or two.
(03:11):
I've got a large turkey, and then I've got a
turkey breast and I'll probably have another turkey, and then, uh,
I've got to do a couple of chickens because I
gotta have one for my dress. And then I just
do another.
Speaker 4 (03:22):
One because you got you got the space for it. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
I mean when I like the smoker, it's like it
don't stop for ten hours. Yeah, you know, and it
only takes like a couple of hours to do a turkey.
Speaker 4 (03:34):
Neighbors come down and say, hey, can you mind throw.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
I just you know, shoot a text all my buddies
and say, Okay, the smoker's open. You know, if you
want to throw something on.
Speaker 4 (03:45):
There, come on, bring it.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
And you know, I've I got plenty of pets. You know,
I got plenty of pineapple juice to shoot up the hams,
and plenty of plenty of tonies to creole butter to
butter the turkeys, chicks and all that stuff.
Speaker 4 (04:02):
Yeah, you're ready. Just a couple more days.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
Avengers great season to put all.
Speaker 4 (04:07):
Over them and stuff. I need to get some of that. Yess,
I know there's stuff I'm forgetting. We do Thanksgiving at
the trailer park. We've done that for the past few years.
So there's five of us, like me, one sister in law,
another sister in law, another sister in law, and another
sister in law. Yeah, all sister in laws.
Speaker 5 (04:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (04:28):
Well yeah, we all rent camp sites and the last
couple of years we've gone to uh like Middle Tennessee,
North Carolina, North Georgia. But some of my family doesn't
like cold weather. Yeah, and so they they've been begging
us with they've they've been begging us for like two years,
like hey, let's go south, let's go south, let's go south.
So we're going down to Foley Cool this this week.
(04:50):
We're tearing up.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
Well, looks like Thursdays you may be eighty degrees DoD.
Speaker 4 (04:53):
Oh, it's gonna be. It's gonna be like middle seventies
pretty much the whole time. And then Friday Saturday, I
think it's down into like the sixties. So it's great weather.
It's gonna be. It's gonna be nice during the day,
you know, for shorts and t shirts. The place we're
going like a lot of campsites. You know, they got
a basketball court. You know, they ride bikes. I think
this one's got a little pickleball court and you know, playground,
(05:15):
so we'll just be hanging out. We're gonna have I
think eleven kids down there. So it's it's a good
it's a good time.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
I do it.
Speaker 4 (05:24):
I do I. I used to fry a turkey every year,
but man, that's when you fry a turkey, that's expensive.
That's like a job, you know what I'm saying. And uh,
and it's it's fantastic, but you know, to go on camping,
it's not all that easy to like, Okay, you once
the oil is done, then you got then you got
to deal with their all the oil and everything and
washing the pan and or the pot and all that.
(05:45):
So a couple of years ago, I got one of
those airless turkey fryers, and I'm gonna go ahead and
tell you right now that that thing, that thing cooks
a turkey just as well as frying it, and you
don't have to deal with the mess. So I do uh,
fifteen pounds as about about as big as you can
get in there, you know, to keep it from like
touching the sides and letting all the airflow through there.
(06:06):
So I do a fifteen pound turkey, and then my
brother in law usually does a turkey breast. We've got
a Dutch oven, cast iron Dutch oven, so he'll get
a campfire going and you know, he stuffs that whole
thing with you know, the whole nine yards and he
does that in the Dutch oven over the campfire. And
then we still have I mean, like every camper is
(06:28):
like the ovens are full blast pretty much the entire day,
you know, cooking all everything because we don't. The first
year we went, everybody was like, well, you know, let's
just kind of scale back since we won't have like
all the amenities of home, you know, as far as
the oven space and everything. I was like, I was like, girls,
this is Thanksgiving. I ain't no holding back on Thanksgiving.
I was like, I expect every single dish on that table,
(06:51):
like honestly, like we would have.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
I don't care if I have to strap a note
of stove on the back of the truck.
Speaker 4 (06:59):
Yeah, we're oh man, but we uh, we'll have a
good time. I don't. I don't. We get down there
and we don't really make very many plans. I mean,
I'm the explorer, so all usually.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
Just if I'm at Foley, I might wind up in blood.
Speaker 4 (07:13):
Yeah, you know, I'll get on Google Maps. I'll start
zooming around if I see, you know, if I see
some something listed on there that looks interesting, I'll go.
I know we're gonna go to the beach and we
get some seafood. One day. We're gonna do low Country boil.
One day. You know, I'm doing vegetable I'm a vegetable
beef soup guy. And so that's uh Sunday, I'm gonna
(07:34):
wake up and I'm gonna start cooking everything, and I'm
gonna have that. I might have that pot steaming all
day long with some vegetable with some vegetable bee soup.
Speaker 3 (07:41):
Shooe chill.
Speaker 4 (07:42):
We got to where everybody, like everybody picks a night
for dinner and it just kind of, you know, when
it comes to breakfast and lunch, it's kind of like
every trailer for themselves. But uh, everybody picks a night
for dinner and just makes a big kind of it's
almost like a big pot luck. You know, you just
make it. You make a bunch of soup, some cast
roles and stuff like that, and hamburgers and hot dogs
(08:03):
for the kids.
Speaker 3 (08:05):
So, you know, that's what we do for Christmas. Like
everybody makes a different soup, you know, so we'll have
like ten different soups and so soup, chili, you know,
this one will make a beef stew, you know whatever,
and uh, that's what we did, and we'll have you know,
somebody will make corn muffins, and then somebody will do
(08:25):
you know, some type of bread or whatever, and we
just yeah, pig out.
Speaker 4 (08:29):
I got some eggplant I'm taking down there, fry.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
I didn't give you a little bit, you gave me
a lot.
Speaker 4 (08:36):
I'm I might have a sign in that five gallon
bucket saying free eggplant by before it goes right head listen.
So there's usually all, there's usually all all. There's usually
always that older couple that lives in the lives at
the campsite, you know what I mean. Yeah, they're like
the campsite host, you know, or or they just live
there full time. And if I see people like that,
(08:56):
I'll probably say, he you didn't need some make plant.
You gave me a monch, you know what?
Speaker 3 (09:01):
That thing? I guess I've give you that much eggplant
about what five times? Is?
Speaker 4 (09:05):
Yeah, I think so that's why.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
I've got one eggplant plant and I planted. I like eggplant,
and Teresa don't like egg plant, so guess what. Teresa
don't cook eggplant. So and you know, me being a cook,
I should just say, well, heck, I'm gonna make it myself,
but I just like, by god, I'm not making it.
So I lost that war and I didn't need any eggplant.
(09:30):
Well I did. I ate it, probably as many times
as you did, but it made like it made like
three hundred you know. So I've give them to Chris
and I've ate them and then I've given them to somebody,
you know, give them two or three other people, and
you know, I'm still making tomatoes. So here we are,
you know, the nearly we're bumping the first of December here,
(09:51):
and I went, I picked the best, you know, the
green tomatoes and the ripe tomatoes and everything that were
left on the vines. Picked all that the other day
before we had these last two or three freezes because
I'm like, you know, it's gonna kill everything down. So
I've probably got enough green tomatoes and all to last
me up into like January. And uh, I've just got them,
(10:14):
you know, in the dark spot and they're you know,
they're good and green, so they're not like gonna turn
in the next week kind of thing. So I've probably
got enough to last me a while. I've got a
harvest all my broccoli. I've got about forty or fifty
heads of broccoli out there, and uh, I've just about
picked all my cabbage. I've got you know, some eight
pound heads of cabbage out there that I've picked. Now,
(10:38):
they hadn't full with it yet, and I told them
go down there and get a couple of them, and uh,
Jennifer can grab a head. And today she makes the
broccoli cast role for Thanksgiving, So she's going down there
to get that. I got plenty of collared greens, so
you know, Dad is gonna go and I'll pick a
mess for Dad, let him them. So we'll have collared greens,
(11:01):
we'll have a broccoli cast roll and all that and
everything is coming out of the garden. So that's pretty
cool and using it up. And you can't even you
can't even knock a dent in my turnip greens, you know,
you can't. It's sick. You get down there and pick
like a pick like a thirty gallon trash bag full,
and you look down you had to.
Speaker 4 (11:22):
Yeah, it's like, oh they look just better.
Speaker 3 (11:25):
Yeah. My Dad's like, man, I got to pick those
greens and like canem or something before they go to
waste iming, Like Dad, I mean, I put like three
dollars worth of seed out there, and you know, like
every sea germinated and like jumped and knee high.
Speaker 4 (11:40):
It was crazy. I just had you had. It was
a perfect storm. I had the right weather, well, the
right irrigation cheat did I have the right fertilizer?
Speaker 3 (11:49):
Yeah, we know a couple of guys that sell that stuff, right,
that's right. Well, Chri's is time for break. Let's go
ahead and do that. Our number, if you want to
call usnask is a gardening question. This is the class
the Gardens and Landscape showing. Normally we talk more about
eating and stuff like that for the Thanksgiving show, but
if y'all want to call and ask us gardening question,
(12:09):
you can do that. A lot of things need to
be done right now. You know, you need to get
your lime on your yard. That's really important. You know,
just get all your odd and end stuff done before
you know. Right now, you know, your grass is starting
to go dorm and now we've finally got a few
frosts on it. Uh, we actually got some pretty good
frosts the last two or three days, and uh so
(12:30):
everything's kind of going to sleep, and uh that's what
it needs to be doing right now. So uh you know, yeah,
just you know, get your winter eyeser out, get you
lime out. That's the important stuff to do right now.
Speaker 4 (12:41):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
You know, really as far as prune and shrubs and
all that stuff, now you kind of back off on that.
I'm gonna do a little light pruning today for a lady.
Uh herb Azelia's just got some little spriggy ends on them.
Holly's you know, just need a little shaping up. And
if you need to do a little minor stuff like that,
you can. It's not gonna like encourage new growth or anything,
(13:02):
because it's cold enough now where it won't make that
much difference. But uh, usually we kind of back off
of that and just let everything rest this time of
year with the holidays coming in and all that.
Speaker 4 (13:13):
Just take a break back and relax.
Speaker 3 (13:15):
Hey and listen now, if you know, as we talked
a couple of weeks ago about the trend changing, well,
the trend has changed. It's cooler, it's wetter. Cut your
irrigation system off. Yep. You good to go now, you know,
unless you you know, need a water in product or
something like that. Cut it off. We'll talk more about
(13:36):
it when we come back. Our numbers two five, four,
three nine nine three seven two, and we'll be right
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Speaker 7 (16:48):
I wasn't made for waiting on tables. I'm not made
for cleaning up stevens. I ain't cut up to climb.
I lie polls. But I'm pretty good at digging holes.
(17:09):
I'm not the time to see women's shoes. I'm no
good at serving up booze.
Speaker 4 (17:18):
Don't having that. I don't know, you know, math class,
But pretty good at digging hole.
Speaker 3 (17:23):
Pretty good at digging up man.
Speaker 4 (17:26):
I'm pretty good at making grass green? Yeah, oh man, Christy.
The garden centers closed the week of Thanksgiving, y'all, so
just stuff? Why I show up? We ain't gonna be there,
you know.
Speaker 3 (17:38):
And now I hadn't looked at the calendar, christ Man, y'all,
say a prayer for me because next week I'm having
carporal tunnel surgery on both hands. So I'm gonna be
out of commission for like a month.
Speaker 4 (17:51):
Yeah, I mean, what are you gonna do. You can't
even be able to do it. You can't even change
you can't even hold the remote, right.
Speaker 3 (17:59):
It's gonna tough. So uh now, I imagine the first
two or three days is gonna be pretty rough, and
then after that, I'll I'll you know, I'm pretty tough.
Oh yeah, and you know, I'll get where I can
do something. But yeah, they're they're real strict about what
to let you do. Yeah. Yeah, I mean, I work
with my hands. I better not jack this up, right,
(18:21):
So but yeah, So I hadn't looked at the calendar,
but usually somewhere around the middle of December, we shut
the garden Center down and we don't open back up
until after the first year. So this time of year,
so like, I'm having my surgery on the third, that's
the first Tuesday that doctor Maddox does any does the
(18:43):
surgery surgeries. So uh, I'm doing that then and then
I'll be down and out until Usually so by the
time we come back in January. I should be you
should be. I mean, I'll be hung you won't.
Speaker 4 (18:58):
Be slinging that like RM.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
I probably put it, pick it up and put it
down pretty good.
Speaker 4 (19:02):
I'd say so. I'd say so, well, Chris, I'm glad that,
uh we did get those those few frosts because that
has set the grass back quite, you know, quite a bit,
just making it quick growing. Man, I'm so tired of
cutting grass, and uh, you know, now's a now's a
great time. And we did it last weekend. If if
your grass got out of balance and it got too high,
(19:25):
it's a great time just to you know, get that
back down. And we typically recommend somewhere in that two
inch range, you know, keeping it cut at that height
through the winter months. That there's some some p it used.
Some people used to say, you scalp your yard in
the winter before it goes dormant, and you scalp it
in the spring. But you really just need to scalp
it in the spring months. You leave it about two
(19:46):
inches during the winter, and that you'd be surprised how
much that helps, just with weed control, you know, on
top of your pre emergent. You know, you'll still get
a little breakthrough on some hand bid or some poanna
stuff like that. But keeping that grass cut at about
two inches gives it, you know, gives it some a
little bit of insulative layer that helps choke out those weeds.
(20:09):
And at that height also is good so that the
grass doesn't lay over. You know, you start getting into
that three four five inch range, and you know, as
people are going through with their leaf blowers and you
know we're getting rain once or twice a week, that
tall grass has a tendency to lay over and then
in the spring that will basically suffocate any new growth
from coming up. And he ended up with a mangy
(20:30):
looking yard in the spring. I got a new guy,
Chris that started this past week in our fertilization division
and fantastic man. He's sharp as attack and I was
showing him as a guy that mister Cleveland I believe
up in Gardendale area. He's looks like he's been cutting
(20:51):
his grass in the same direction with a big like
lawn tractor every single time.
Speaker 3 (20:56):
And you could see the ruts kids that.
Speaker 4 (20:58):
Were start that we're starting to form in the yard.
So you know, alternating your mowing pattern, you know, if
you're still cutting your grass this time of year and
really all year, regardless of when it is. So like
if you cut you know, north to south one time,
come back the next time and cut east to west,
and then the next time cut southeast to northwest, so
(21:19):
you're alternating that mowing pattern and that helps keep that
grass upright, and then it also prevents those ruts from
forming in the yard where your lawnmower wheels continually go
on the same spot. And I know it's listen, I
know it's hard. You know, you got round flower beds
and human nature, you want to do something the easiest
(21:40):
and quickest way every single time, right, Well, you know
if you do again, if you do that, it's just
going to form those ruts on the yard and push
that grass over. So just something to think about as
we go through the winter months, especially blowing like you know,
blowing leaves that will push grass over worse than anything
in the world, and then water run off. Yeah, so
just kind of keeping and keeping things nice and tidy
(22:01):
and cut it about two inches really makes a big difference.
Wouldn't we start greening up in the spring.
Speaker 3 (22:06):
Months, Yeah, and making sure there's no nuts all over
the yard too. I mean, if you can get them
acorns up, get the you know, hickory nuts, whatever it is. Man.
I tell you, my my uncle Arnold owns my grandmother's
old house at the bottom of the hill down there,
and you've never seen the like of a bump or
crop of wallets. And you know those big green wallets. Man,
(22:30):
I bet you there's ten thousand of in that yard.
I mean you just about five tractor buckets and there
playing in that yard is pretty small. But she's got
two or my grandmother had two big walnut trees in
the yard. I don't know why they killed on to them,
because they've always been a mess. And she's never had
a good yard of grass because you know the old
(22:52):
juggling or whatever that toxin is that kills the grass
that's in those nuts. You know that an old whole
walnant probably has got more in it than anything on
the planet, you know, that old black crap when they
I mean, it's just the messiest beautiful wood. Yeah. I mean,
if you want to build some furniture, that's fun. But
(23:13):
they're paying they are a mess.
Speaker 4 (23:15):
And you know it's crazy because like you know, you say,
there's a bumper crop of the walnuts this year. Last year,
my white oaks at my house. You couldn't even it
was like walking on a million marbles in my backyard
and this year not. This year not so much. So
you know, it's funny how how trees will go through that,
you know, different cycles where they have this bumper cross.
Speaker 3 (23:34):
We did a job on a We did a job
down in Criswood area by Irondale area over back. I
guess that was about four years ago, and this guy
had a bumper crop of hickory nuts in the backyard
and I came around the corner of his house. You know,
usually when I get there to do a landscaping job
(23:55):
for people, i'd ring the doorbell and say, hey, I'm
Chris Keith. You know when I'm here to do your work.
Let's kind of go over things that way. We're on
the same page because one time, Chris, this is totally
changing the subject a little bit. One time I pulled
up at these people's house and I go out there
and you know, the first thing that's on my notes is,
(24:15):
you know, this dogwood tree's got to go. And it's
just those scrubby little dogwood tree in the front yard
and i'mber placing it with another tree. I think it's
been several years ago, and we're supposed to rip all
the shrubs out in front of the house and everything else.
I came, I pulled up at the house, and then
nine times out of tend the home or halftime, the
homeowner's not there. You know, they got up and went
(24:38):
to work, you know. So I pulled up and started
doing my thing, and I assumed that they were not
at home, and we cut that dogwood tree down. He
comes out the front door and he's like, oh my god,
what'd you do to my tree? And he like and
I'm looking at like, oh my god, what have I done?
You know? Did somebody change something and not put it
(24:59):
on my to the right house. Yeah, up at the
rung and yeah, that's I've always been my fear, you know.
I pull up the like spray a yard to kill
it the hount aver and I'm like, one house office,
I'm really conscious about. Okay, I'm looking at this mailbox
and uh he was playing a joke on me. Man
that about I almost had a heart attack in his
front yard. So that got me every time. That was
(25:22):
several years ago, So that got me every time. Now
I'm just like I ring the doorbell, I introduced myself,
I go, do you know what I need to do
or whatever? But this time, so in Irondale, I walk
around the corner of the guy's house with the fella,
and uh. When I went walked around that corner, I
skated on some hickory nuts. I mean they were like
(25:43):
marbles out there, and they were like they knee deep
around the corner. And man, when I did that, I
I cracked a knee, and I mean it. I had
to go through physical therapy for like eight weeks on
account of skating on some hickory nuts.
Speaker 4 (26:00):
I'll do the same thing doing long hair quotes. You know,
ninety nine percent of the time, you know, I'm on
the phone with the homeowner as I go there, or
call him and say, hey, I'll be there at ten o'clock.
And I always make it a point like if I
tell some I don't I think in my entire twenty
four years working here, I think I want. I can
only remember one time that like I was late to
an appointment or that I forgot one, and I remember
(26:23):
it vividly, Like I got back to the garden Center
and as soon as I walked in the office, I
thought to myself, oh my gosh, I forgot to go
by Joe's house. And I immediately picked up the phone
and called Joe and I was I was begging for forgiveness,
and he was fine. He was fine with it. But
I've always made it a point to where like when
I not if I say I'm gonna be there at
nine o'clock, like I knock on the door and on
(26:45):
a homeowner opens it, opens it up. You can hear
the old grandfather clock chiming ten times. You know what
I'm saying. Yeah, but I'll do the same thing. I'll
knock on the door. I tell people, I just want
to announce myself so there's not some strange guy wandering around.
I've all you know that. It's just, you know, you
don't want to get the cops caught on you. You know,
you know, you know, ladies home and you don't you know,
(27:07):
you never know who's going to be in the yard,
and well you go walk in the backyard or whatever,
there's a rot wilder. See it's funny, fear, because it's funny.
How as you get older, you know, you just you
I don't want to say, you get lazier, you just
become a little bit more timid. I don't know. Back
in the day, when I was younger, I used to
(27:27):
I was fearless when it came to dogs, you know
what I'm saying. Like I would try to pet and
I would. It just didn't bother me. It was kind
of a game. I'm gonna get in that backyard, I'm
gonna obtain this dog and and uh, it's not gonna
bother me. Now if I see a dog in his
bark and I'll go knock on the door I got.
I've gotten bit of a kind of time or two,
so I'm much more cautious now. I guess you would
say when it comes to dog, kind of like a kid.
(27:48):
When we were a kid, if if we were on
a rooftop, we wouldn't climb back down. We jump right,
you just hit the ground, roll get back up. Now
I've done that way too many. We don't bounce like
we used to, right, So I'm more cautious when it
comes to dogs. And yeah, I don't want a dog
getting let out on me. And well I don't. I
(28:08):
had I tell you I was I was working down
the road from the garden center. It's probably been three
or four weeks ago, and I was in the ladies
front yard looking at some spots and there was an
American bulldog that had gotten out of the fence in
the backyard of the neighbor's house. And I heard something barking.
I'm down on my hands and knees. Is when we
were real dry, so I didn't know if it was
drought or chinch bugs. So I'm on my hands and
(28:31):
knees looking.
Speaker 3 (28:33):
I hear.
Speaker 4 (28:35):
And I look and I can't see anything because I'm
kind of crouched down. And I stand up and at
the top of the driveway is this American bulldog, and
that joker looks like he's fixing and RiPP me apart,
and he starts he starts running after me, and I
immediately I knew I was probably like twenty feet from
my truck, and so I ran as fast as I could,
(28:56):
and I dove into the back of my truck. As
I'm diving into As I'm diving into the truck, there's
a box of of a yard signs that we put out,
and it's and the steaks are like sticking straight up,
and I'm just looking at it in that split second like,
oh my gosh, I'm fixing land on these steaks and
I'm gonna mpel my whole body with classic garden signs.
And about that time the homeowner came out and there
(29:18):
was like they had the gate blocked off, and the
gate it just came open and the dog came after me.
You know, no harm, no foul, but who man, close call,
close call?
Speaker 3 (29:29):
Help. We know my own I don't know if I
ever told you this, but my own dog attacked me
when I was a kid. I ate me up now.
I mean, like just the point where I was Stitch
is just so I have just I'm not scared of dogs,
you know, because I've had dogs. But no, I'm if
a dog is aggressive, I'm like, hell no, you haven't
(29:52):
had I don't even not a no, but a hell no,
I'm not killing nowhere near it. You got a healthy respect, right, Yeah,
it don't matter if it's chewah or ornard. I don't care.
I'm just not that guy. Uh uh, well, Chris, it's
time for a break. Let's quit and do that. Our number.
If y'all want to set up an appointment for long care,
if you need landscaping, if you need night lighting, if
you need an irrigation or patio or taina wall built. Uh,
(30:15):
we've been doing a lot of seeding up in.
Speaker 4 (30:19):
The Dora area.
Speaker 3 (30:20):
Lady bought a big property up there and uh they
had ten acres cleared, and uh they did a pretty
good job clearing it, but it wasn't as smooth as
she wanted it. So we went in and Hearty wrecked
the whole thing and got it good and smooth. Now
you can mot with a with a thing z turn
and Uh. So she got ten acres that somebody's gonna
(30:41):
have to mow, but it's gonna be right now. It's
seedy with rye and uh everything's cleaned off. And then
in the spring or you know, late late spring, we're
going there and probably Hearty wreck it one more time,
make it even smoother than this right now, because we
just got that two and a half inches of rain
the other day and it kind of washed uh two
or three little ruts in it or whatever. We'll go
(31:03):
back in there and and spit shine that thing with
the Hearty wreck again. Put out some bermu to seed
four so you'll have a nice humonga sharks. Yeah, and
uh so yeah, if you needy of that kind of
stuff done, you call us eight five four, four thousand
and five. We're at the Garden Center month through Friday,
eight to four. We won't be there next week for Thanksgiving,
(31:23):
so don't come see us next week, but come see
us after that and we'll be right back.
Speaker 1 (31:36):
It's the classic Gardens the Landscape Show on.
Speaker 4 (31:41):
The hand ready come when you'll.
Speaker 1 (31:44):
Want hump lance and grass to grub Twocent Chris, Chris
and Chris No.
Speaker 6 (31:51):
And now you're a host Chris Joiner and Chris Keith.
Speaker 3 (31:56):
And we're back for the second half of the class
of Gardens of Landscape showing. We do need to mention
garden so they're gonna be closed for the week of Thanksgiving,
so y'all don't come see us that week, But the
next week, y'all come see us, Yes, sir, And uh,
you won't see me because I will be down and out.
But uh, we got David on logmore David how you hey?
Speaker 8 (32:15):
Fine? Thanks? Hey, you all were talking about grass and
I was wondering we had, I know, unusual weather, a
long drought. Uh, and I did not cut my grass
for weeks for several weeks because I just thought, you know,
(32:36):
cutting it off, it's like cutting the heads off of everything,
and it just dries out. And it seemed to do fine.
But is there a problem with that? It didn't really grow,
you know, because there was no rain and you know,
I guess it barely grew, but I didn't even see it.
Is there a problem?
Speaker 4 (32:56):
I mean, not necessarily. I mean with cutting grass when
it's dry. You know, that's not gonna you know, if
you cut that, If you cut the grass, it's not
going to like kind of like you know, cut a
finger off then you bleed out, you know type thing.
That's the easy way to put it. It's not like
it's not going to do that now, you know. The
grass obviously, when you when you're in an extended dry spell,
(33:18):
obviously the grass, if you're not irrigating, it is under stress.
And so you don't want to do anything drastic, you know,
like cutting, you know more than you never really want
to cut more than a third of the grass blade
off at any given time, but you don't want to
do any serious type mowing when it's under stress like that.
And then you know, if you're not irrigating, obviously the
(33:39):
grass isn't going to grow as fast, so you know,
the growth rate of that, you're not gonna have to
cut as often. You know, during the dry spells. Sometimes
you'll you'll see, uh, you know, you'll see when you
when you cut the the the lawnmower blade will get
broke by the by the lawn and every now and
(34:01):
then you might see a few little tire tracks from that.
But I mean, I cut my grass when I need
to cut my grass. You know, hotter dry or you
know hotter cold, you know, wetter dry.
Speaker 3 (34:12):
Yeah, if you hadn't cut it in the last several
weeks or whatever, it's a good idea to go out there.
We were talking earlier about layover and stuff like that.
Make a couple of passes over that thing, and you know,
make a pass, you know, cut it one direction. You
might drop you more one notch and cut it another one,
you know, and just kind of shake things up as
we're going on in the winter, just to keep it
(34:33):
from getting in layover or whatever. But as far as
you know, I was in a neighborhood yesterday in like
off a Caldwell Mill Road, and the lady that we
were working for, they just moved in this house, and
we did a complete gut job on their shrubs and
redid all their shrubs. Their flower beds look like they
(34:54):
hadn't had any attention in years. And they're about to
get kicked out of the neighbor hood and they just
moved in. But uh there was a yard across the
street from them that looked like the grass hadn't been
It's Bermuda yard, and it wasn't like when we we
try not to say the grass went dormant, because the grass,
you know, isn't dormant. It's dying. It literally is when
(35:19):
we get in one of these dry spells like that,
so you have to do some water. But their Bermuda
grass was about ten inches tall, so I know they
hadn't mowed in at least two months. And uh yeah,
these people about kid across the road should have been
kicked out of the neighborhood. But anyways, I was looking
at that one and not you know, even a Bermuda lawn.
(35:42):
You know, that's you know, it's tipped in Bermuda. It's
not gonna try to get two feet tall. That's not
the way it's bread. It's you know, if you see
one that hasn't been cutting four or five months it
you know, it probably ain't gonna be more than about
ten inches tall. It's just not made to grow like
(36:02):
the bermuda grass that's in a pasture, so would take
that down.
Speaker 8 (36:09):
Mine is zoysia. So yeah, I mean by the way
there there is something that and mower wouldn't get down
to this. There's something that grows out in these uh
it grows out in long lines. It's got all these
little light green leaves on it. They have little rounded
(36:35):
lobes on them. They're about the size of a penny
or a dime. It just grows out so low. What
is that? And how do I get rid of it?
Speaker 4 (36:46):
It never gets taller than the grass.
Speaker 8 (36:49):
Right, it never gets taller than the grass. Is there
always growing down you know the way.
Speaker 4 (36:57):
There's a couple types of penny warp that that uh
that that grow like that and you just have to
spray those out. It's a it's a tough way to control. Marsh.
Penny wart is one that that we battle with a
lot in lawns.
Speaker 8 (37:11):
It's just pretty in long straight lines just spread.
Speaker 4 (37:16):
It's like a like a almost like a like a vine.
It'll spread like a viney.
Speaker 3 (37:20):
Not like ground ivy, but it's real tiny leaves and
it's mad. It is tight to the grill.
Speaker 8 (37:24):
Yeah, for it to find something.
Speaker 4 (37:29):
Yeah, that's it's a it's a type of penny It's
probably a type of penny wart. There's there's a couple
of different types of penny wart. Uh this and there's
some people call it ponies foot. Some people call it
ground ivy. It's not actual ground ivy, but you know,
that's they're all kind of I want to say cousins,
because they grow in the same fashion and and there
they can be. They can be tricky to kill. You
(37:51):
just have to you have to continue to spray.
Speaker 8 (37:55):
Yeah. I had I have this rate that has kind
of sharp times on it, and I tried raking through it.
But I wondered if I was just cutting it off,
you know, and turning it into a hundred little.
Speaker 4 (38:09):
Probably, so oh okay.
Speaker 3 (38:11):
Yeah, some of the time, you feel like you cultivate
it when you do that.
Speaker 8 (38:16):
And I know you guys refer to it as crape.
Speaker 3 (38:20):
Murder, but that's right.
Speaker 8 (38:22):
Is there a time of year for someone who is
a crape murderer to you know, commit crape.
Speaker 4 (38:31):
To commit the crime. Yes, yes, Chris Keith, and I
plead the fifth on that.
Speaker 3 (38:37):
Man. Oh, okay, all right, David, Oh there's there's not
a good time to murder your crank myrtles because you
shouldn't do it, okay, craik myrtle. To answer your question,
you could cut a crank myrtle to the dirt and
it would come right back. Whether it's January January July,
it doesn't make a lick of difference. You could cut
(38:59):
the tops of it, you could cut it halfway down,
you cut it all the way to dirt, and you
can do anything you want to and it'd come back.
A great myrtle is a bulletproof plant. Obviously, it's got
to be pretty bulletproof because you see people go out
there every year and whack the top out of them,
and they come right back. The problem is when you
cut the top out of it. Every time you cut it,
you make it put back on five limbs, so you're
(39:23):
you're defeating the purpose of what you're trying to do.
You're just making the thing bigger and badder. Basically, to
answer your question, you're not gonna kill it, but you
destroy the natural shape of the tree and if you've
got to murder it like that, then it's probably in
the wrong place and it should just be removed completely.
Speaker 8 (39:46):
Okay, okay. Oh and one last thing I was going
to say is I I bought some just a few, well,
I mean like a dozen, oh little squares or rectangles
of zoysia some years ago and planted them in an
(40:09):
area where they weren't growing up by where the grass
wasn't growing up by the house. And it turns out
it wasn't growing there because there wasn't enough light, I guess.
But interestingly they spread out to the sunny parts of
the lawn and they took over what was there, and
they seemed to follow the little rivulets, the little trickles
(40:31):
from rain and dew. I just thought it was interesting
it grew downhill and out into the light and took
them over.
Speaker 3 (40:40):
Which Zoeysa is not a fast spreader, but it does
spread pretty good. And my dad is working on the
spot in his yard. I've give him like ten pieces
at a time for like ten years, and he's got
fifteen hundred square foot of zoisa now in the yard
and he panmthers it, you know, but you know it'll
(41:01):
grow like that.
Speaker 8 (41:03):
I was just going to say, start, start at the
high point and it seems to you know, follow fall,
water and light spread like runners down. I'd say, you know,
I was just going to say, people, it was my experience.
It went downhill. So I mean, if you just have
(41:24):
a little start at the top in the sunlight and.
Speaker 3 (41:28):
Yeah, the more sun the water, yeah yeah, yeah, the
more sun and water, it'll it'll do its thing.
Speaker 8 (41:37):
Okay, Well, thank you both very much.
Speaker 3 (41:40):
Have a good thing. Thanksgiving, all right, buddy, and uh
let's go ahead and take that break, Chris for a
little long on it. Our number. If y'all want to
call us for landscape and irrigation, not lighting patios or
retaining walls. If you need a forest, mulching, land clearing
at of that stuff, you call us eight five four
four thousand and five. We'll be right back.
Speaker 6 (42:01):
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that way, it was so easy to work with them
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when my house in Birmingham had tornado damage. I called
green Houge late on a Saturdy, prepared to leave a
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It's shuttle Bug, Japanese beetle, the crane fly, crab grass
(44:18):
had the dreaded Kutzoo.
Speaker 6 (44:22):
It's one show with a two hour time limit.
Speaker 3 (44:27):
Now let's get up, get it old.
Speaker 4 (44:35):
It's a fidgety thing. Claire soccer coach has.
Speaker 3 (44:39):
Picked it up and it fell apart, like, oh my god,
I broke it.
Speaker 4 (44:41):
Claire soccer coach has one of those I don't know
what it is. It's a computer and a machine and
it cuts through. It's like a three D printer slash cutter.
And this is what I don't know how to describe
this thing, but it would be something like a little
fidget thing that you would see sitting at a gas
station at the counter, you know what I'm saying, And
you can cut all he will. He can make little
crock charms and name tags and all that kind of
(45:04):
stuff with it. Wow, that's what that was. You can't
people on the radio to have no clue what I'm
talking about. It's one of those it's one of those
things that you can't put it. Yeah, you'll sit there
and just mess with it for hours and oh man, well,
Chris Keith, Uh, I hope everybody has a great Thanksgiving. Yeah,
(45:24):
I'm looking forward to it.
Speaker 3 (45:26):
There's as good as mine.
Speaker 4 (45:27):
Hey listening, that's just you know, we and I think
part of the reason we like this time of year
is because we get to take a little time off.
You know, basically spring through summer. It's like running a
marathon sun up to sundown, and so, uh, you know,
we get we get to take some time off, spend
time with family and hang out and relax, let our
(45:49):
feet rest for.
Speaker 3 (45:51):
A minute, let hands and joints.
Speaker 4 (45:55):
But we're still I mean we're we're we're still booked
up for landscaping, hard escaping, irrigation, night lighting, I mean
We're still staying wide open doing that long hair. I'm
still getting out, you know, getting people signed up for
premergent program. You know, what you do now in your
yard ultimately affects how it looks in the spring. So
(46:16):
you know, everything looks pretty nice and tight right now.
But if you if you slack off and you think
to yourself, well, my yard looks good. I don't have
to do anything for the next three four or five months.
Three four or five months from now, you're going to
be like, oh gosh, man, this went to heck in
a handbasket. So don't let it get it. Don't let
it get ahead of you. It's just I mean, it's
(46:37):
no different than working out. You know, you work out,
work out, you know you're in great, great shape, and
then you slack off for a couple of months and
then you go try to you know, hit the treadmill
and your sucking wind as you got out of shape.
Speaker 3 (46:49):
See that, you go to put your prints all your like.
Speaker 4 (46:52):
Yeah, you got to get the leather punch and put
another put another hole in the belt, right yeah. So
what you do long cair wise now is important. You know,
your winterizer application, your line application, if you don't do
the every the twice a year pre mergent. You know,
you still have some pre emerging applications you do in
(47:12):
November and then again in January. Spots braying weeds right
now you can get come in and get your weed
free zone, and if you've got any wild onions or
any any of your broadly set weed free zone will
actually actually it will smoke all the weeds in the yards.
It's a great time to come in and clean that up. Yeah,
you always see some bitter crests and things like that
(47:33):
popping up along shady spots in the path, along a
patio or the air conditioning union or just you know,
right on the edges of flower beds. Yeah, come in
and spots bray.
Speaker 3 (47:41):
Everybody's got that little problem. Mary, you know where you
get a little more wash and you know it's the
pre emergent leaches out a little faster, you know, and
you wind up a little bitter kriss or a little
bit of poet or whatever right there. I mean, that's
pretty much. That's that's so normal.
Speaker 4 (47:57):
You know, you got thousands, you got thousands and thousands
of weed seeds that get deposited into the yard some way.
Somehow you're not gonna prevent a hundred percent. You're not
gonna prevent a hundred percent of them. You know, you're
gonna have a few pop up here and there, so yeah,
I come in and pull them or spray them.
Speaker 3 (48:12):
Well, all right, that music means we're out of time.
Y'all have a great Thanksgiving. Hope everybody just takes time
to chill and eat and do all that good stuff.
And uh, hey, we'll see you after the holiday. And uh,
if y'all need landscape and irrigation, night lighting, patios, retaining walls,
you need forest, multus your land clearing, you call us
(48:34):
eight five four four thousand and five and we'll see
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