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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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And now you're a host. Chris Joyner and Chris Keth,
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Speaker 4 (00:37):
I'm Chris Kean, I'm Chris Joyner. I hope everybody's doing fantastic.
Say you're over there making a pretty Christmas drawing yarns. Yep,
she's a she's she's silent when it comes to talking
on the radio, but boy, that little chick won't won't
be quiet ever. Chatty, there's Chatty right there daring a
little Christmas. She had me cut out a star earlier
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and I just cut it out with out drawing it
and it's it's a little work. Yeah, that's right. Well,
this is a gardening show, Classic Gardens and Landscape Garden
Show that is four three nine nine three seven to two.
If you want to give us a call, and chat
with us a little bit. Uh, Chris Keith, meaning you
were talking before the radio show. I'm going to help
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my brother move out of his apartment because the house
is about ready. House burnt down back in January, and uh, he's,
you know, rebuilding it and we're just about there.
Speaker 5 (01:30):
You know, we're just basically.
Speaker 4 (01:31):
Waiting on the a few little odds and ends and
the finalists.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
We've had him on the schedule to do his landscaping
for ten months.
Speaker 5 (01:37):
Yep, pretty much.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
Yeah, it's like, okay, when the house gets done, you know,
we're going to come in and landscape. So I think
you're did I tell you I thought you're a Your
driveway was probably a cleaner than it has been sit
it's a great depression.
Speaker 5 (01:52):
Yeah, yep, you got that right.
Speaker 4 (01:54):
I don't know, man, I kept that thing pretty clean
when I was when I lived there, I was I
was always that that kid that was working in the yard,
and well you didn't have much of the yard work
in he believe it or not, like it was more
flower beds than it was anything. Sad in the front
yard and in the backyard, and it went all the
way back. There's a big flagstone patio down at the
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very bottom of that backyard. It's overgrown now, but when
I when I was, when I lived there, man, I
was all constantly out there keeping everything up. But I
was lucky because, like I was gonna, I was gonna move.
We were gonna move yesterday, but they forecast the rain,
because they forecast the rain for today, and then it
switched to raining on Sunday instead of Saturday. So I said, well,
(02:37):
I'll just move you on Saturday. And it seemed like
every day I would check it. For every hour, I
would check it, you know, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, the rain
chances and when it was gonna rain changed.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
So when you're moving appliances too, it's not like you're moving.
Speaker 4 (02:50):
Yeah, I'm trying to I'm trying to schedule it when
I'm when there's as little rain as possible, you know.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (02:55):
And uh so the guy that.
Speaker 4 (02:57):
Was gonna help me, we originally planned on Sunday, but
I'm doing it today, so it's just I'm just by myself.
But you said, you know, luckily it's just one guy
living there, and we started talking about, you know, if
it were just me living in a house, i'd have
a recliner and a TV and the end table and
the end table. Maybe a little mini fridge sitting next
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to my recliner may serve two purposes. And that just
reminded me. When Sarah and I bought our first house,
we uh we completely gutted and remodeled the kitchen and
it was perfect bachelor life because we had the refrigerator
in the living room, we had the uh well what
all was in the living room or the refrigerator, the table.
I mean, it was basically like a kitchen in the
living room all in once. I could just stay there,
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go straight to the fridge and uh you know, grab
me a nice cold beverage and sit there and watch TV.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
Yeah, don't move much. Uh uh no not you know
in my house, Like the kitchen is right there. So
you know, from from the living room to the living
room to the refrigerator is only about fifteen feet not far.
Speaker 5 (03:59):
It ain't far at all.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
Yeah, but yeah, that uh so.
Speaker 4 (04:02):
That's on my list to do today. I'm really not
looking forward to it.
Speaker 3 (04:05):
That yard, and that yard shaped up and graded out good.
It looks it looks good. And uh you know, we
went simple with shrubs. Again, this is a bachelor so
you know, he's he's living by hisself. He don't have
but nine shrubs in the front yard. And uh so
as long as he cuts the grass and like trims
of shrubs once a year, he'll be good. You know.
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He's got a nice oisy yard, does.
Speaker 5 (04:27):
Sure, he sure does. Yeah, that is very nice.
Speaker 4 (04:30):
We were going to put a black gum in the
front yard, and I think we cheap and didn't put
it on the drawing, you know, because this is just
my brother, So we're just kind of winging stuff, you
know what I mean.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
Well, you can put that black gum right where you
pull up that six or six where that service is.
Speaker 4 (04:43):
But you know, there is that massive oak tree in
the yard. I mean that oak tree.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
There's still some remnants of that.
Speaker 4 (04:49):
So I'm at that thing man, me and you and
another full grown man, maybe another one. Four full grown
men would take us that. That's how many people would
take to wrap your arms around that tree. And uh
it was one of those where if it fell, it
would split the house in half without it, you know,
without a doubt. And that thing, that tree was already
leaning towards the old house. And uh it had some
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it had some like bulges and stuff down at the
down at the trunk base of the trunk cant that,
but you could see like over time how those things
had moved and twisted and warped. So you know that
that tree was starting to move, and you could see
where roots that were starting to were shifting the ground.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
It was probably doded out in the middle two and
half three feet wide.
Speaker 4 (05:32):
And so it just it was it was one storm
away basically from from crushing the new house and the
neighbor's house. So when they when they came in and
did all the excavation and you know, cleared the house away,
we ended up taking that oak tree down because it
was again it was just a matter of time before it.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
Wasn't got to hurt the house. I mean, the house
was already the house was already in shambles.
Speaker 4 (05:55):
But what I'm thinking is when that probably wherever we
laid saw it over the top of all that, And
I'm thinking because it's it's difficult to get grass to
grow like where an old rotten tree stump is because
there's just a lot of organic matter, you know, it decomposes,
that ground settles, and then when we get into really
bad dry spills because there's no soil there. It gets
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really really bad dry and it ends up dying off anyway.
So I'm thinking about just kind of holding off for
about a year or two just to see where exactly
that tree was and where that grass is is likely
going to die, and then just come in amends oil
and put that and put that black gum kind of
right back in that place where that oak tree.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
Go in there and grind you a big hole, you
know with the stump ground.
Speaker 4 (06:40):
Yeah, because when they ground, when they grinded, that's when
they ground that stump up.
Speaker 5 (06:44):
Chris Keith, I bet you there was a pile out.
It was a mountain. And he the guy that told me,
uh as.
Speaker 4 (06:49):
A Cobber River Tree Service and who does a lot
of work force. Great great group of guys. But he's like, man,
I he said, I grind it on that stump for hours.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
It seemed like, you know, old green, old green oak
stump man as hard as yeah brick, you know.
Speaker 5 (07:08):
Yeah, and uh.
Speaker 4 (07:10):
And I mean that thing had roots above the ground
as big as a man's thigh. Yeah, this thing was.
This thing was ancient. I hated to see it go,
but it's just one of those things I had to
they as old as the neighbor there's a house down
there's a house down at the end of the street
years and years ago that had one of the same
oaks cut their house in half just after, you know,
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after a real bad storm.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
And we know two houses up there's a pie up
there that's been struck by light. Yeah. I mean, it's
probably ninety feet tall, and it's it's the same that
straight pine. This thing is probably three foot across.
Speaker 4 (07:43):
It doesn't have a limb for sixty seventy feet, no,
and it's dead as a door nill.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
You can see the street from the top of the bottom.
Speaker 5 (07:50):
It's crazy. It's crazy. How that? How that?
Speaker 3 (07:53):
Well, it's probably the tree, but you know it's the
tallest tree in the neighborhood. Yep. And the boy, yeah,
it's so we got that project done that next week
we're gonna play ketch up on repairs for a little bit. Yesterday,
Chris so I was going we did a job out
and did a job out in Argo off black Jack Road,
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and the guy built a barn dominium. And before he
built a barn minium, we went in there and I mean,
I think Justin might have spent might have spent a
month over there, you know, just digging and grading and
building the guy a lot more or less. And uh,
we went in and graded the whole yard after he
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got his house built down and there and it's solid rock.
I mean, like we will, you know, we'd try to
gray get the grade right, and we get into rock
and we jackhammer and then we get down here. And
then to pass inspection on the house, we had to
change the grade a little bit because they wanted so
much fall away from the house. Well to do that,
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we had to dig deeper. We dig deep where we
got into rocks, I do more grinding and or do
more jackhammering and all that stuff. And it was just
a pain getting this thing. You know, you just trying
to buy four inches. You're not trying to buy two feet,
but four inches there with a rockout cropping, you know,
twelve feet long. It was. Yeah, it was rough. So
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we were in there and knocking that stuff out and
doing all that, and you finally got that thing where
we pretty much had a little a little swell going
all the way around the house to the rights. You know,
it would pass the inspectors. You know, we get the
inspector to give it a thumbs up, and so it
was missing mission accomplished with that, but yes, we finally
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got that one done. But I was going to get
the excavator yesterday. We finished up at your brother's house.
After we got done with that, we went over to
get the excavator. And I'm going up fifty nine and
I mean, everything's good, and I'm headed up the mountain,
you know, like the little hill right there before you
get the deer Foot, and my truck just falls on
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its face.
Speaker 5 (10:10):
It's like no power.
Speaker 3 (10:11):
No, I mean it just like you couldn't it wouldn't
fall out of a tree. I mean, I managed to
top the hill at Deerfoot, and by the time I
realized that I was losing power, I was past the
Deerfoot exit. So I was like, oh, crap, you know
I have this thing, don't just for real die. And
I managed to limp it to Argo and uh check
engine light wasn't even on, and uh I limp it
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to Argo. I get off the exit and I'm like,
I gotta make it to Argo Power Equipment because if
I make it, you know, we do a lot of
business with the Argo Power equipment. I said, man, if
I can make it there, then I can get my
act together, you know, come up with a game play. Yeah,
So I get the argo power equipment telling what's going
on because I'm dragging a twenty foot trailer, you know,
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to get my excavator, and my truck won't even hardly
pull my trailer. So I unhooked you. I've got by.
Then I'm calling just and I'm like, man, my truck
just just crapped out. So I've got my truck there.
We call Shane. Shane's on the way, you know with
the rollback to get my truck, and uh man, it's
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just like what a bummer. We just get away. We
just got the irrigation truck has been in enough shop
for about a month. This is the second time the
turbos went out. Now we're not talking about junk. We're
talking about a thirty five hundred Dodge Ram with a
you know, a comings diesel. And I'm I'm two turbos in.
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You know what I mean with seventy thousand miles. You know,
I'm not bumping four hundred thousand.
Speaker 4 (11:43):
Yeah, and we maintain Yeah, I mean talk about people
that do maintenance and prevented.
Speaker 3 (11:49):
We'll probably overkilled.
Speaker 5 (11:50):
Yeah, probably overkill.
Speaker 3 (11:51):
I mean we change filters like clockwork, We changed the
oil like clockwork. Everything you know that needs done to
the trucks. It's it's like we get the rain day.
Yeah we're at We're not at ten thousand miles on
the wool, change on the diesel, we're at seven thousand.
We let's go ahead and change it, you know. So
we're ahead of schedule and all that stuff, and it's like, man,
we just can't catch a break. And so hopefully something
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you know, electrical or something that you know, a sensor
or something like that. This went bad. It just made
that thing go to be missing, because man, it was
just it was missing. It wouldn't fall out of a tree.
Speaker 5 (12:28):
That's usually how it is. Something real small like that.
Speaker 3 (12:30):
That just I hope it is. Well, I'm sitting I'm
going down the road and I'm like, okay, it's one
hundred and ninety degreese. I know I'm not running hot.
I didn't see it like go to blowing black smoke
or anything, so I know, you know, it didn't like
drop a drop a cylinder or something like that. So
I'm I'm thinking, hey, look it's just gotta be some
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kind of something, you know, a sense or making it
something simple, go in a limp mode or something like that,
because it was just horrible. It never went into limp motor.
He never told me, hey, looking one hundred or one
hundred miles, that's kind of quit. But it was like
it was good about to quit. So anyways, back at
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the shop, we'll get to to why to do repairs
for two or three days, so we figure out what
we're gonna do with our you know, our dump truck,
and uh man, it's always something and.
Speaker 4 (13:22):
It's crazy because we kind of need to do those
because I was you know, we laid all that saw
at my brother's house. I'm probably gonna put sprinklers out
when I get over there. Oh yeah, this after this afternoon.
Speaker 3 (13:32):
We got that one swath. You know, we used about
a pal and a half of saw it that had
been at the garden center for about three months and
we had to you know, it had grown together and
we were pulling it up. It was such a pain
to work with, but right up the center of it,
that's good wet sloppy saw it so it don't need water.
Speaker 4 (13:49):
But everything else and then we put fescue in the
back because it gets real shady back there.
Speaker 3 (13:54):
I put enough fescu seat on that to like seed
half the seat half the yards of the neighborhood. Good.
Speaker 4 (14:00):
That's gonna be gorgeous. Yeah, beautiful. But yeah, I gotta get.
Speaker 3 (14:03):
Some water on it, because I don't know that it
will not come up without water.
Speaker 5 (14:08):
Pretty important, isn't it.
Speaker 3 (14:09):
Yep? Well, Chris, as I know it's time for a break.
Let's go ahead and do that. Our number. If you
want to call us ask us a gardening question, you
can do it. It's two O five four three nine
nine three seven two. If you need to call the
garden center, set up an appointment for landscaping, irrigation, night lighting,
if you need a patio or attaining wall done. Hey,
it's time to get on lawn care. I mean you think, hey, look,
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the grass is going dorm it. You don't need anything.
I'm telling you we're lining yards right now. Uh if
you haven't. If we picked up your yard right now,
I guarantee you the first thing we do would probably
put a pre merging on it, sir, because you got
to get that is essential. You got to get it done,
regardless of when you know, you start a long cair program,
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the backbone is pre emergent. You gotta start there and
that's uh, that's where we'd pick you up right there
and we'd get the line on yard and all that
stuff and get you ready for you know, the spring
that's going to be coming up. Yeah, we blink will
be there and we're just trying to head off those
weeds before you get there.
Speaker 4 (15:09):
I mean a couple of weeks from Thanksgiving, you know
what I mean, it's right around the corner.
Speaker 3 (15:13):
You gotta get it done, so we'll be right back
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Yes you do need some fur along right now. You
need lime and that's the most important thing. Uh, we
got plenty of at the garden center. What lime does?
It sweetens the soil so here in the Birmingham area,
and you know southeast east of the Mississippi, the soil
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you know, you come in there in lime it most
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of the acre or whatever. We don't want it to
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annually line it. You don't have to put near that
much out but you know it is a common practice
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to just once a year go out there and line
of yard.
Speaker 5 (19:10):
Yep, just on the on the grass r bermuda.
Speaker 3 (19:12):
You' don't put it on your shrub beds or any
of that stuff.
Speaker 4 (19:17):
Like centipede likes naturally acidic soil. So if youve got centipede,
this one that you don't have to line.
Speaker 3 (19:22):
But yeah, I remember back in the day, Mike used
to tell a story, you know, on here. He'd say, Man,
you know, I was in I was in horticulture school,
and they were talking about the importance of lime and
all that stuff. And that was a Friday, you know,
and he said, all right, Monday, we'll come back to
uh talking about lime and all that stuff. And he
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line in my yard. And he got him a bunch
of lime. He went out there and lined his centipede yard,
and he came back Monday, and the infrastructure said, on
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liny centipede. There's there's just about two or three plants
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that like the soil are like a little bit of
lime on them, Like if you had a lilac, or
if you had like some box woods varieties like it. Uh,
you know, just a handful of things like that. But
for the most part, your shrubs like the soil acidic.
So just don't line you shrubs yep. And Chris Keith,
we got we got Cindy. Let's get Cindy. Good morning, Cindy.
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How are you?
Speaker 7 (20:27):
Good morning? Thank you guys. I listened to you all
the time. I have an h o A and we
have gardeners supplied, unfortunately, and they came along two weeks
ago and trim my guardenia bush.
Speaker 4 (20:43):
Oh and I'm.
Speaker 7 (20:44):
Just sick because it probably won't bloom now.
Speaker 8 (20:48):
Uh.
Speaker 7 (20:49):
And now it has a black mold on the leaves. Yeah,
I sprayed it good with copper funds inside.
Speaker 9 (20:56):
What do I do?
Speaker 3 (20:58):
All right? So the black stuff that's on the leaves
the first off them pruning it is not gonna keep
it from blooming next year. They did plum prune it
late though, so yeah, they probably pruned it late enough
now though where it won't flush new growth, which is okay,
because see what happens is if you if you, if
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you prune your guardiens after say the first of September,
then what it does is it caused them to flush
new growth. Well, that new growth doesn't have time to
harden off of what we call harden off it just
the it does. It's still real tender, so like if
you got a frost in late October November, that tender
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growth will get burned off. Well, they've pruned it so
late in the season this year till we're probably not
gonna have enough warm weather for it to flush new growth,
and more than likely you won't get any burn on
there now. To answer your question, as far as the
black stuff goes, the guardieners are bad about getting white flies.
And white flies and there's a half a dozen other
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bugs secrete a honey resin it's like syrup, and that
syrupy resin gets on the leaves of them. You'll see
crape myrtles do the same thing, that black sooty mold
all over them. But basically it's you get the fungus.
The sooty mold sticks to the honey resin that they secrete,
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so uh, the fungicide is gonna help some.
Speaker 1 (22:28):
You do.
Speaker 3 (22:28):
Almost have to do it like you're pressure washing it
more or less, you know, with high pressure, and basically
blow the black off of them. But the underlying problem
is you've got white flies, and the white flies this
time of year. If you can catch like we shouldn't
be eighty five degrees right now, but next week, next
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week it should it should be back down in the seventies.
What I would recommend is getting some dorminole. And what
the dorminole is gonna do is it's gonna you spray it,
and you gotta those white flies, uh typically or just
all over that plant. But they're there, eggs and everything
are under the leaves, so you want to spray. Make
sure you spray up into the plant and just uh
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spray them down with the dorminole, and the dorminoles want to.
It'll kill the white flies, but it also kills the
wintering over insects or the wintering over eggs, and then uh,
it wouldn't be a bad idea. Furtilong carries a product
it's called Furtilong Systemic insect drench, and this time of
year you use it on all your trees, like your
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trees that you don't want, you know, like if you
got Japanese maples and just priceless, you got a big
majestic oak in your your that you don't want to lose.
You use it around those, but you can also use
it around problem plants like I don't I don't consider
a guardena a problem plant, but they've always got white flies.
So if you want to take that and mix it
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up and pour it around the bottom of them, you
ain't got to do it once a year, but it
keeps the white flies off. And if you can keep
the white flies off, then you keep you get rid
of the black sooty mold from now on.
Speaker 7 (24:03):
Okay, well the mold kill the plant.
Speaker 3 (24:06):
Mold won't kill the plant, It just makes it look.
Speaker 7 (24:08):
Horrible, yeah, said I don't know if they transferred it
from another plant, because we've got some other plants and
some of the guardenas.
Speaker 3 (24:18):
Have that and white flies are there. I don't think so,
probably just you know, we're getting late in the season
now and the white flies have been there so long,
and that did just you know, it's it's just a
build up of everything. It's that them cutting them is
just a timing thing. They didn't cause it to get
black sooty mold. As a matter of fact, you go
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in there, you can go in there in the spring.
See guardanians bloom on new growth. So every year you
wrought to cut your guardena's back by about a third,
you know, just keep them going.
Speaker 5 (24:54):
Trade some way back.
Speaker 3 (24:56):
Yeah, so you don't have to worry when you cut
them back in the spring. You know, go ahead and
cut them like you've been cutting them, and they when
they flush that new growth, you're gonna be cutting off
most of that black, sooty mold.
Speaker 7 (25:09):
Okay, but that wheel bloom even with the mold.
Speaker 3 (25:13):
Oh yeah, yeah. If you use that systemic insect drench. Now,
by the time you get the spring, all the new
growth flushes out, you'll lose most of that sooty mold leaves.
You know, they'll just drop off as the as the
new growth flushes out. And plus you're gonna cut most
of that off anyways, so you know it's gonna take
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care of itself.
Speaker 9 (25:35):
Okay.
Speaker 7 (25:36):
Another thing is I've got big chunks of mold in
my yard. It's it's it looks like a big mushroom,
but it's hard.
Speaker 9 (25:44):
I had to dig it up.
Speaker 7 (25:46):
What's causing that?
Speaker 4 (25:48):
I mean, that sounds like it's just you'll get those.
I mean, I know what you're talking about. It's it's
a type of it's a type of mushroom. I mean,
you google mushrooms and you can probably you know, find
them a million different varieties around the world. But you know,
typically if you have just old tree stumps, old tree roots,
or just really any anything dead and organic like under
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the soil, you will get these talking about.
Speaker 5 (26:13):
Rock hard you just mushroom patties.
Speaker 4 (26:18):
Yeah, that's that's that's just growing on the old dead
tree up underneath the ground.
Speaker 9 (26:25):
I appreciate your health.
Speaker 4 (26:27):
We see a lot of mushrooms throughout the throughout the year,
particularly in the spring and in the fall, and uh,
you know, the only time you really have to be
concerned is if you see it growing in like a
specific arch, like a ring. It'll form a circle and
that's the type of soil disease called faery ring. But uh,
just mushrooms in general, if you see them randomly throughout
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the yard, people a lot of times want to, you know,
figure out what kind of the spray on these to
kill them, or to prevent them, or to get rid
of them. And that's really there's nothing you can do
in it. That's actually a good sign. It's it's kind
of nature sign that your soil is doing what it's
supposed to be doing. Everything's decomposing and everything's breaking down
in there, and that your soil is healthy because mushrooms
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grow on just you know, decomposing organic material, and that's
Nature's nature's way of dealing dealing with things, you know.
Speaker 5 (27:21):
So your soil's doing what it's supposed to do. Yeah, whatever,
kick them over.
Speaker 3 (27:25):
Whatever spores are present that are growing that type of mushroom,
that's just what that typical variety of mushroom grows on.
So like you know, a decaying chunk of oak in
the water, like an old root or something like that
that's died on a tree. You know, some of the time,
you know, just like you lose a limb in the tree,
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you lose a root in the ground. And then when
you lose a root in the ground, you know, it
might shoot out there fifteen feet away from the tree
and you'll have, you know, just mushrooms grow up that
that route that's decaying. But it's a good sign. It's
it's nothing wrong. Yep. Well, Chris, let's take a break
right quick. Our number, if y'all want to call us,
it's two O five four three nine nine three seven two.
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We'll be right back on the Classic Gardens of Landscape Show.
Speaker 2 (28:21):
It's the Classic Gardens and Landscape Show.
Speaker 10 (28:24):
All the hand ready.
Speaker 3 (28:27):
To come when you'll want show up land some grass
to grow. Two doercent Chris, Chris and Chris No.
Speaker 1 (28:35):
And now you're a host Chris Joiner and Chris Keith.
Speaker 3 (28:40):
And we're back for the second half the classic gardens
of Landscape showing our number. If you want to go
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can do that. It's two o five four three nine
nine three seven two nine. If you need to set
up a point for the landscape, let me tell you
how good a time of year it is the landscape
right now. Yes, we've been dry is all get out
for the last two months. But let me tell you
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the trend is about to change. You can bank on it,
take take it to the bank. The trend's about to change.
And uh, you can look at daving. You know the
forecast for this weekend. You have forty percent chance of
rain today, forty percent chance of rain tomorrow. They're not
hollering for a lot of rain. But the point is
the trend has changed.
Speaker 5 (29:19):
That's right.
Speaker 4 (29:19):
And you called it last last time we talked on
this radio show, you said the trend is going to change.
Speaker 5 (29:24):
I was talking on the homeowner the other day.
Speaker 4 (29:26):
He's like, you know, we get a we get a
tenth of an inch of rain a couple of days
a week and ten days. Man, it makes it all
amount to something.
Speaker 5 (29:34):
But no, it's it is. You know, we're gonna be
starting starting it.
Speaker 4 (29:37):
And the good thing is like, Okay, we're not getting
a tremendous amount of rain, but the temperatures are starting
to back off, so.
Speaker 5 (29:43):
A little bit goes a long way.
Speaker 3 (29:45):
Yeah, basically, Well, the thing about it is too the
plants are going dormant. The grass is going dormant. It's
not gonna need as much water. A matter of fact,
I mean you could take this time of year. You
can take like limelight high dranges or really anything for
that matter, any deciduous shrubs they're just gonna lay dormant
for the next you know, six months, so you know,
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or you know, the next four or five months. So
you know, now is a great time if you want
to go in there and plant those shrubs. They're gonna
they're gonna get a lot of root growth over the winter,
and uh, the cold doesn't hurt them at all. You know,
if you think about it, it takes about two years
for the grower to grow a plant from a sprig
(30:28):
to a sellable plant. So in that time, it's got
to go through every it's got to go through every
season twice basically. So it's hot, it's dry, it's cold,
it's wet, it's it's every situation it is and they
have to survive in a black pot through every bit
of it. So surely God, that thing is better off
(30:50):
in the ground at your house than it was in
those two years. You take this little baby and you
take it and put it into you know, grow it
into a three gallon shrub. So it's just common sense
that it's a whole lot easier to grow those things
in the ground though here and they've got to go
you know, when they're being grown, they go through every
weather extreme you know you might and you know some
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of the time as growers, they literally have to you
see them, you know, doing crazy things like you know,
going in and water and you know to keep basically
the ice on the on the foliage will like put
a kind of like it's cover. Yeah, I mean, the
ice on there will keep it at freezing. When you're
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going down in you know the twenties and the teens
or like in the springtime where you see you know
the peach farmers, they're flying helicopters over the over the
peaches to you know, keep them a frost from farming
on the peaches and stuff like that. So we have
to take some weird measures sometimes to grow plants and
stuff like that. But I guarantee you when you take
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them to stick them in the ground, they're a whole
lot better off at your head.
Speaker 5 (32:00):
Oh yeah, for sure, for sure.
Speaker 3 (32:02):
And we plant it doesn't matter. You think about a house,
and it's the same thing with the grass. There's houses
built every day, you know. And uh, just like your
brother's house, Chris. And if it was January and it
was getting finished at what will be done? We done plants, yeah,
the last couple three days. So you know, don't think
(32:22):
for one minute that just because it's you know, it's
hot and there it's been hot and it's been dry,
that it's gonna bother a plant, because let me tell you, you
can put plants out whatever you want to.
Speaker 4 (32:33):
We landscaped three hundred and sixty five days out of there.
I actually pushed my brother's landscaping off. We could have
landscaped at probably a month month and a half ago. Uh,
but I told Anna, I was like, well, listen, nobody's
living there. Let's wait, you know, until we get into
a little bit cooler, wetter period. Plus those plants, you know,
we're really not gonna have to water in very much
(32:54):
until next May, right, and by then, for the most part,
there'll be somewhat established. Plants are typically under homeowners care
for a couple of years until they can just kind
of like forget about them because they do have to
establish a root system. But you plant plants now, and
they are in so much better shape by the time
we get into our first dry spills next May.
Speaker 3 (33:13):
Well, nursery plants literally are watered every day, sometimes twice
a day, you know, in the end the summertime, so
you know, once a temperature starts cooling down, you know,
in the garden center, we'll back off to every other day,
and then once it gets cold, we might run the garden,
we might run the irrigation once a week, you know,
depending on you know, what the weather's doing. So you know,
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it's just those those plants have been taking care of perfectly,
and when they come to your house, they expect you
to take care of them perfectly. For they'll tell on
you you know, and that's you know, it's one of
those things where you plant plants, you know, six months
later you forget it and it gets hot and dry.
You're gonna see that things start drooping and shed and
leaves and you're old. Man, I got to jump on that,
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you know. It's it's one of those things you just
got to pay attention, yeah, you know, and make sure
they're going out. But I love playing stuff. This time
of year. You go out there, you don't have to
worry about I mean, we were at somebody's house. Well,
we were headed somewhere the other day. I can't remember
where we were, and I was chucking the shrubs on
the back. I said, man, I ain't got to worry
about wind burn on these bad boys. I ain't gotta tarpet.
Speaker 4 (34:23):
N even even laying sawd This time of year, you
have a little bit more time, you know. When we
lay saw this, When we lay saw it in the summer.
Speaker 3 (34:30):
Months, I hate I know.
Speaker 5 (34:31):
I know you're trying to coordinate with Ann.
Speaker 4 (34:34):
Because as soon as that sid hits the job site,
you've got to start laying that stuff out because it
just sits there and bakes on the on that palette,
and as soon as y'all are laying it out, y'all
are running irrigation on the stuff I'm talking about yard.
Speaker 5 (34:47):
You're not done with the yard. You know.
Speaker 4 (34:48):
If you finish the left hand side of sod, you're
running the irrigation on the left hand side while y'are
laying side on the back. This time of year, you
don't have to you don't necessarily have to worry about that.
Sod can sit on the palette for a couple days
when it's cold.
Speaker 5 (35:02):
But uh, it's just.
Speaker 3 (35:03):
It's a lot. It's a lot.
Speaker 4 (35:04):
It's a little bit more forgiving this time of year.
Planting plants and laying side.
Speaker 3 (35:08):
Yeah, that's I love land saw this time of year,
just like I love planting plants because I'm not just rushed.
I hate it when it's one hundred degrees outside and
I mean we're just busting it trying to get one
prep because I know the side is going to be
there at lunch time.
Speaker 5 (35:25):
Yeah, the driver's called you and said we're loading on
the way, and you're like, oh my gosh.
Speaker 3 (35:29):
You're right, man. We haven't even got started, hearty wreaking
this thing yet. Man. Sergio is so good at it.
He can literally jump on that little machine and give
it ten minutes. He'll have that thing as slick as glass, Yes, sir,
you know, and as fast as that sawd gets there,
you know, the sad truck guy and I ride on
the check he unloads my side and before he gets
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to the second pallet, I'm laying the first one. You know.
That's just you gotta drop it. Man. In the summertime,
you have got to get it on the yah.
Speaker 5 (36:00):
I'm glad we pass that work and it's fall y'all.
Speaker 3 (36:03):
Man, I love it this time year. I ain't lying.
They they bring me some sod now and I can say,
all right, we'll get that on the ground tomorrow evening.
Speaker 5 (36:12):
Yeah, just sit it right there at our way.
Speaker 3 (36:14):
It's so mad, it's so much better.
Speaker 5 (36:16):
Uh huh.
Speaker 3 (36:17):
Well, Chris, let's go ahead and take that last break
of the show. Our number. If y'all want to call
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We weed keep them.
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Speaker 10 (38:41):
Every Saturday morning they make dusty all right, oh my yards.
Speaker 3 (38:49):
Like, Hey, we're black on the Classic Guardens the Landscape Show.
And we got Janis on the phone, Good morning, Janis,
how you doing?
Speaker 9 (39:00):
I'm doing fine, Okay. We have cut down all our
bushes out front. We're gonna come and get you know,
bushes from y'all. But we've had a little problem. I
cut down will my husband cut down one of the
crack myrtles that was on the side of the house.
And anyway, it just keeps coming up. So I sprayed
it was killed and it's dying. But do we need
to kill the stumps for the big what they call
(39:21):
it Azelia's because I just don't want to. They're coming back.
But do we just need to go ahead and spram yeah,
by the stuff to rot.
Speaker 3 (39:28):
Really, really, Janie, what you probably should have done is
hook to them with a chain and pulled them up
with your truck. What's gonna happen.
Speaker 9 (39:35):
My husband said, he already do that, and he's going
to try.
Speaker 3 (39:39):
If they're still tall enough. If they're still tall enough
where you can get a chain around them, that's what
I would do, is pull them up. Because what happens,
like you, first off, everywhere you cut it down, that
plant's going to try to come back. Not to mention, uh,
you've got that that old root ball is in the
way of the new shure rubes, so you know it's
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gonna be hard to it's gonna be virtually impossible to
plant a shrub most of the time. On the spacing
of your shrubs is space. There's spaced out where when
you go to put your shrubs back, it's gonna be
literally right in the same hole that the other plant
that's got to come out of.
Speaker 9 (40:18):
Okay, okay, all right, well nice guys, no problem yet
the show, but anyway, I appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (40:25):
Oh, no problem.
Speaker 5 (40:26):
Yeah, azelias will come back.
Speaker 4 (40:28):
And you know, Chris Keith, we both have seen customers
that have old fashioned azalias that are fifty years old.
And uh, mister Edwards is a prime example.
Speaker 3 (40:37):
Oh yeah, uh.
Speaker 5 (40:38):
He would every five years.
Speaker 4 (40:40):
Or so he would come in and he would take
his azelias from six feet tall down to like a
foot and those things would flush back out and they
would look like brand new plants.
Speaker 5 (40:50):
And they would just look fantastic.
Speaker 3 (40:51):
Guardinas are way too many in that bed.
Speaker 4 (40:54):
And then and then they got chipmunks burrowing all all
around there.
Speaker 5 (40:59):
And then miss and then Miss Blaylock across the street
had a Holly die big like Nelly R.
Speaker 4 (41:04):
Stevens, and we treat her shrubs and she said, this
thing just went downhill quick and I start pulling all
the pine stroll back, and you just you can see
the chipmunk tunnels all around the base of that tree.
So they're basically just sitting there, burrowing around there and
gnawing all the roots and killing the plant. But chipmunks
got in mister Edwards. Ellie's over there, and that bed's
just going downhill.
Speaker 3 (41:23):
Wow, over the years truck and chaining, you'd almost had
to go in there with a Mini X, yeah, you know,
with a few sheets of ply wood and just kind
of plucked all those things out of there to really
get that back and check. And then I hate that
for him. I think we got Carroll on the line.
Is that correct? Good morning, Carol, Good morning.
Speaker 8 (41:44):
Yes, I have a question about blueberry bushes. I put
cotton seed meal around my blueberry bushes, around the base
of the bush, and now I have a fuzzy looking
mold on top of the cotton seed meal. Yeah, be
worried about that.
Speaker 3 (42:01):
I wouldn't worry about it at all. It's just it's
a lot like the mushrooms growing on something that's decaying. Uh,
certain times of mold and things like that will we'll
we'll grow on stuff that's that's decaying, you know, like that,
it's just going through it's basically going through a decaying process,
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and a lot of times molds and things like that
will grow on top of it. I don't think it's
anything to worry about it at all.
Speaker 8 (42:31):
Okay, Okay, okay, because my blueberry but she's okay, Should
I cut them back or should I just leave them?
Because when I cut him back the next year, they
don't blow, They don't produce anything, that's right.
Speaker 3 (42:42):
So what what what we usually tell people to do
is like if you've got say you got five blueberry
bushes going there and are yeah, so you take in
like every year, you cut you know, a third of
them back, or you cut like if you got twenty,
just you cut five of them this year, you cut
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five of them. Next year, you cut five that year,
and you cut five and by the time you get
around you know to that third or fourth year or whatever,
cut half of them one year and cut half the next.
You don't want to lose all your produce. So if
you if you cut two of them this year, don't
expect them the bloom next year kind of thing. But
you can keep them in.
Speaker 8 (43:21):
Check like that, Okay, Okay, thank you so much.
Speaker 9 (43:26):
I appreciate it, yes, ma'am.
Speaker 3 (43:29):
Yeah, you don't want to lose all your blueberries and
then things pretty good.
Speaker 5 (43:32):
I loveberries. Blueberries is a great plant, you know, that's uh.
Speaker 3 (43:35):
I know, it grows like a shrub here.
Speaker 5 (43:38):
And then easy. You don't really have to do much
to them now.
Speaker 3 (43:42):
I mean you don't have to. I mean unless you
just had some. You know. I always think about the
old blueberry from the Smith's out there and uh, out
there on Bear Mountain Road. You know, they they went
in there about three years ago and did a heavy
prune on every one of them, so they lost all
their produce for a full season. But man, they flushed
out and they are pretty now. But they all theres
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were eight or ten feet tall. You know, it's hard
to pick. They have people coming there and it's like
you pick it blueberries. Well, if the blueberries are eight
feet high on the plant, it's hard for you to
pick them. So they went in there and massacred them
back to about a foot and a half. And then
the very next year, you know, they're you know three
and a half four feet tall and they were making
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like crazy, so you know, they lost production for one year,
but man, they're killing it now.
Speaker 4 (44:30):
Yeah, and you can't hardly kill those things. I mean,
I've got some up above my raised gordon. I think
I've transplanted about eight different times and they produce every year.
Speaker 3 (44:41):
Yeah, they're super tough plants. And you know there's some stuff.
You know, people will call us and they're like, man,
I just can't get my peaches or I can't get
my plums or whatever. To do what they're spulling apples?
You know, you always you're getting fire blight on you
apples or you constantly peaches have to be like every
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ten to fourteen days, like religiously, or if you want
to make peaches, and then you you know, you grow
them and it's like you have too many peaches on
the tree, so they grow small. And it's like, man,
go to Chilton County and get a peach.
Speaker 5 (45:13):
Go to the farmers markets.
Speaker 3 (45:16):
Go in there and get them. Whether they're pretty.
Speaker 5 (45:18):
Fruit trees are so much of a hassle that we
don't even sell them anymore.
Speaker 7 (45:22):
No.
Speaker 4 (45:22):
I mean we used to sell peaches, We used to
sell plums. We had pecan trees, but it's just I
mean pecans. That was something that I saw this wee,
I don't know, I see. I feel like I see
more bad pecans on the ground than I do good ones. Yeah,
this time of year, you know what I'm saying. So
it's in theory and in thought, it'd be fantastic to
have like an orchard with all kinds of trees. And
I know somebody listening is probably saying, oh, Chris, you
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don't know what you're talking about. I got every fruit
tree imaginable, and they produce like there's a dude up there.
Speaker 5 (45:49):
They produce fantastic.
Speaker 4 (45:50):
Well, the sun and the moon and the stars and
the soil, we're all in alignment whenever he planted his.
But you see a lot more failures on fruit trees
than you.
Speaker 3 (45:58):
Do some of the time. The stars are line right,
and it's just one of them years. And this year
was one for apples. We did a job for a
wall job for mister uh gosh, Chris up in Warrior.
We treated yard miss short and uh coming out of
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his neighborhood straight across the road is a guy that's
got like, I'm not sure what variety of apple it was,
but man, those things were as big as a soft
woow and there was somewhere in that oh, mister Earle Riley. Right,
So when we were doing his work for him before
he passed away, this was he passed away, what about
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a month and a half ago. We did work for
him back four or five months ago, just cleaned up
his yard and uh and hated to lose him, buddy,
that was a great customer. But to the right of him,
that the the lot to sign. They've got about half
a dozen fruit trees. They got peaches, they got plums,
they got apples, everything. And this was just a good
(47:01):
year for them too, you know, as far as apples go,
because the apples were just pretty as they could be.
But now the peaches and the plums were just eate
up with worms, you know, and it's just like gosh
ah pears.
Speaker 4 (47:13):
Every now and then you'll see a pear tree he's
sloaded so much to every branches, yeahs in the ground pairs.
Speaker 3 (47:18):
Now, that's one you just about can't screw it. You know.
They'll get so heavy with pears till it's just busting them.
You know, it's already a brittle plant, you know, and
they get all that heaviness in them and all that
you know, my neighbor on that when you turn on
my road, there used to be one on the left
hand side, like nearly in the road, and it would
shed pears and you could literally go out there in
(47:41):
the road and pick up just five gallon buckets full
of pairs. That thing would make like crazy every year.
And I think he finally took it down this last
year or whatever, the new people that moved in there. No,
it's no more, you know that. I tell you what's good.
It's hard to beat my mama's uh pair of preserves.
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Let me tell you. That's Candy're ruight there?
Speaker 5 (48:05):
Really?
Speaker 3 (48:06):
Oh my god, it's so good.
Speaker 5 (48:07):
I like you.
Speaker 4 (48:08):
You put them on a biscuit, Oh lord, hot biscuit
with a little butter and pair of preserves.
Speaker 3 (48:13):
Oh my goodness.
Speaker 4 (48:13):
Mister Barnes, old time customer that passed away. So he
used to give me plumb preserves and pick preserves all
the time.
Speaker 3 (48:19):
From histories. That was.
Speaker 5 (48:21):
That was a fine man too.
Speaker 3 (48:22):
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Speaker 4 (00:37):
I'm Chris Kean, I'm Chris Joyner. I hope everybody's doing fantastic.
Say you're over there making a pretty Christmas drawing yarns. Yep,
she's a she's she's silent when it comes to talking
on the radio, but boy, that little chick won't won't
be quiet ever. Chatty, there's Chatty right there daring a
little Christmas. She had me cut out a star earlier
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and I just cut it out with out drawing it
and it's it's a little work. Yeah, that's right. Well,
this is a gardening show, Classic Gardens and Landscape Garden
Show that is four three nine nine three seven to two.
If you want to give us a call, and chat
with us a little bit. Uh, Chris Keith, meaning you
were talking before the radio show. I'm going to help
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my brother move out of his apartment because the house
is about ready. House burnt down back in January, and uh, he's,
you know, rebuilding it and we're just about there.
Speaker 5 (01:30):
You know, we're just basically.
Speaker 4 (01:31):
Waiting on the a few little odds and ends and
the finalists.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
We've had him on the schedule to do his landscaping
for ten months.
Speaker 5 (01:37):
Yep, pretty much.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
Yeah, it's like, okay, when the house gets done, you know,
we're going to come in and landscape. So I think
you're did I tell you I thought you're a Your
driveway was probably a cleaner than it has been sit
it's a great depression.
Speaker 5 (01:52):
Yeah, yep, you got that right.
Speaker 4 (01:54):
I don't know, man, I kept that thing pretty clean
when I was when I lived there, I was I
was always that that kid that was working in the yard,
and well you didn't have much of the yard work
in he believe it or not, like it was more
flower beds than it was anything. Sad in the front
yard and in the backyard, and it went all the
way back. There's a big flagstone patio down at the
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very bottom of that backyard. It's overgrown now, but when
I when I was, when I lived there, man, I
was all constantly out there keeping everything up. But I
was lucky because, like I was gonna, I was gonna move.
We were gonna move yesterday, but they forecast the rain,
because they forecast the rain for today, and then it
switched to raining on Sunday instead of Saturday. So I said, well,
(02:37):
I'll just move you on Saturday. And it seemed like
every day I would check it. For every hour, I
would check it, you know, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, the rain
chances and when it was gonna rain changed.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
So when you're moving appliances too, it's not like you're moving.
Speaker 4 (02:50):
Yeah, I'm trying to I'm trying to schedule it when
I'm when there's as little rain as possible, you know.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (02:55):
And uh so the guy that.
Speaker 4 (02:57):
Was gonna help me, we originally planned on Sunday, but
I'm doing it today, so it's just I'm just by myself.
But you said, you know, luckily it's just one guy
living there, and we started talking about, you know, if
it were just me living in a house, i'd have
a recliner and a TV and the end table and
the end table. Maybe a little mini fridge sitting next
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to my recliner may serve two purposes. And that just
reminded me. When Sarah and I bought our first house,
we uh we completely gutted and remodeled the kitchen and
it was perfect bachelor life because we had the refrigerator
in the living room, we had the uh well what
all was in the living room or the refrigerator, the table.
I mean, it was basically like a kitchen in the
living room all in once. I could just stay there,
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go straight to the fridge and uh you know, grab
me a nice cold beverage and sit there and watch TV.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
Yeah, don't move much. Uh uh no not you know
in my house, Like the kitchen is right there. So
you know, from from the living room to the living
room to the refrigerator is only about fifteen feet not far.
Speaker 5 (03:59):
It ain't far at all.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
Yeah, but yeah, that uh so.
Speaker 4 (04:02):
That's on my list to do today. I'm really not
looking forward to it.
Speaker 3 (04:05):
That yard, and that yard shaped up and graded out good.
It looks it looks good. And uh you know, we
went simple with shrubs. Again, this is a bachelor so
you know, he's he's living by hisself. He don't have
but nine shrubs in the front yard. And uh so
as long as he cuts the grass and like trims
of shrubs once a year, he'll be good. You know.
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He's got a nice oisy yard, does.
Speaker 5 (04:27):
Sure, he sure does. Yeah, that is very nice.
Speaker 4 (04:30):
We were going to put a black gum in the
front yard, and I think we cheap and didn't put
it on the drawing, you know, because this is just
my brother, So we're just kind of winging stuff, you
know what I mean.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
Well, you can put that black gum right where you
pull up that six or six where that service is.
Speaker 4 (04:43):
But you know, there is that massive oak tree in
the yard. I mean that oak tree.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
There's still some remnants of that.
Speaker 4 (04:49):
So I'm at that thing man, me and you and
another full grown man, maybe another one. Four full grown
men would take us that. That's how many people would
take to wrap your arms around that tree. And uh
it was one of those where if it fell, it
would split the house in half without it, you know,
without a doubt. And that thing, that tree was already
leaning towards the old house. And uh it had some
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it had some like bulges and stuff down at the
down at the trunk base of the trunk cant that,
but you could see like over time how those things
had moved and twisted and warped. So you know that
that tree was starting to move, and you could see
where roots that were starting to were shifting the ground.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
It was probably doded out in the middle two and
half three feet wide.
Speaker 4 (05:32):
And so it just it was it was one storm
away basically from from crushing the new house and the
neighbor's house. So when they when they came in and
did all the excavation and you know, cleared the house away,
we ended up taking that oak tree down because it
was again it was just a matter of time before it.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
Wasn't got to hurt the house. I mean, the house
was already the house was already in shambles.
Speaker 4 (05:55):
But what I'm thinking is when that probably wherever we
laid saw it over the top of all that, And
I'm thinking because it's it's difficult to get grass to
grow like where an old rotten tree stump is because
there's just a lot of organic matter, you know, it decomposes,
that ground settles, and then when we get into really
bad dry spills because there's no soil there. It gets
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really really bad dry and it ends up dying off anyway.
So I'm thinking about just kind of holding off for
about a year or two just to see where exactly
that tree was and where that grass is is likely
going to die, and then just come in amends oil
and put that and put that black gum kind of
right back in that place where that oak tree.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
Go in there and grind you a big hole, you
know with the stump ground.
Speaker 4 (06:40):
Yeah, because when they ground, when they grinded, that's when
they ground that stump up.
Speaker 5 (06:44):
Chris Keith, I bet you there was a pile out.
It was a mountain. And he the guy that told me,
uh as.
Speaker 4 (06:49):
A Cobber River Tree Service and who does a lot
of work force. Great great group of guys. But he's like, man,
I he said, I grind it on that stump for hours.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
It seemed like, you know, old green, old green oak
stump man as hard as yeah brick, you know.
Speaker 5 (07:08):
Yeah, and uh.
Speaker 4 (07:10):
And I mean that thing had roots above the ground
as big as a man's thigh. Yeah, this thing was.
This thing was ancient. I hated to see it go,
but it's just one of those things I had to
they as old as the neighbor there's a house down
there's a house down at the end of the street
years and years ago that had one of the same
oaks cut their house in half just after, you know,
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after a real bad storm.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
And we know two houses up there's a pie up
there that's been struck by light. Yeah. I mean, it's
probably ninety feet tall, and it's it's the same that
straight pine. This thing is probably three foot across.
Speaker 4 (07:43):
It doesn't have a limb for sixty seventy feet, no,
and it's dead as a door nill.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
You can see the street from the top of the bottom.
Speaker 5 (07:50):
It's crazy. It's crazy. How that? How that?
Speaker 3 (07:53):
Well, it's probably the tree, but you know it's the
tallest tree in the neighborhood. Yep. And the boy, yeah,
it's so we got that project done that next week
we're gonna play ketch up on repairs for a little bit. Yesterday,
Chris so I was going we did a job out
and did a job out in Argo off black Jack Road,
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and the guy built a barn dominium. And before he
built a barn minium, we went in there and I mean,
I think Justin might have spent might have spent a
month over there, you know, just digging and grading and
building the guy a lot more or less. And uh,
we went in and graded the whole yard after he
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got his house built down and there and it's solid rock.
I mean, like we will, you know, we'd try to
gray get the grade right, and we get into rock
and we jackhammer and then we get down here. And
then to pass inspection on the house, we had to
change the grade a little bit because they wanted so
much fall away from the house. Well to do that,
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we had to dig deeper. We dig deep where we
got into rocks, I do more grinding and or do
more jackhammering and all that stuff. And it was just
a pain getting this thing. You know, you just trying
to buy four inches. You're not trying to buy two feet,
but four inches there with a rockout cropping, you know,
twelve feet long. It was. Yeah, it was rough. So
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we were in there and knocking that stuff out and
doing all that, and you finally got that thing where
we pretty much had a little a little swell going
all the way around the house to the rights. You know,
it would pass the inspectors. You know, we get the
inspector to give it a thumbs up, and so it
was missing mission accomplished with that, but yes, we finally
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got that one done. But I was going to get
the excavator yesterday. We finished up at your brother's house.
After we got done with that, we went over to
get the excavator. And I'm going up fifty nine and
I mean, everything's good, and I'm headed up the mountain,
you know, like the little hill right there before you
get the deer Foot, and my truck just falls on
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its face.
Speaker 5 (10:10):
It's like no power.
Speaker 3 (10:11):
No, I mean it just like you couldn't it wouldn't
fall out of a tree. I mean, I managed to
top the hill at Deerfoot, and by the time I
realized that I was losing power, I was past the
Deerfoot exit. So I was like, oh, crap, you know
I have this thing, don't just for real die. And
I managed to limp it to Argo and uh check
engine light wasn't even on, and uh I limp it
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to Argo. I get off the exit and I'm like,
I gotta make it to Argo Power Equipment because if
I make it, you know, we do a lot of
business with the Argo Power equipment. I said, man, if
I can make it there, then I can get my
act together, you know, come up with a game play. Yeah,
So I get the argo power equipment telling what's going
on because I'm dragging a twenty foot trailer, you know,
(10:55):
to get my excavator, and my truck won't even hardly
pull my trailer. So I unhooked you. I've got by.
Then I'm calling just and I'm like, man, my truck
just just crapped out. So I've got my truck there.
We call Shane. Shane's on the way, you know with
the rollback to get my truck, and uh man, it's
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just like what a bummer. We just get away. We
just got the irrigation truck has been in enough shop
for about a month. This is the second time the
turbos went out. Now we're not talking about junk. We're
talking about a thirty five hundred Dodge Ram with a
you know, a comings diesel. And I'm I'm two turbos in.
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You know what I mean with seventy thousand miles. You know,
I'm not bumping four hundred thousand.
Speaker 4 (11:43):
Yeah, and we maintain Yeah, I mean talk about people
that do maintenance and prevented.
Speaker 3 (11:49):
We'll probably overkilled.
Speaker 5 (11:50):
Yeah, probably overkill.
Speaker 3 (11:51):
I mean we change filters like clockwork, We changed the
oil like clockwork. Everything you know that needs done to
the trucks. It's it's like we get the rain day.
Yeah we're at We're not at ten thousand miles on
the wool, change on the diesel, we're at seven thousand.
We let's go ahead and change it, you know. So
we're ahead of schedule and all that stuff, and it's like, man,
we just can't catch a break. And so hopefully something
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you know, electrical or something that you know, a sensor
or something like that. This went bad. It just made
that thing go to be missing, because man, it was
just it was missing. It wouldn't fall out of a tree.
Speaker 5 (12:28):
That's usually how it is. Something real small like that.
Speaker 3 (12:30):
That just I hope it is. Well, I'm sitting I'm
going down the road and I'm like, okay, it's one
hundred and ninety degreese. I know I'm not running hot.
I didn't see it like go to blowing black smoke
or anything, so I know, you know, it didn't like
drop a drop a cylinder or something like that. So
I'm I'm thinking, hey, look it's just gotta be some
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kind of something, you know, a sense or making it
something simple, go in a limp mode or something like that,
because it was just horrible. It never went into limp motor.
He never told me, hey, looking one hundred or one
hundred miles, that's kind of quit. But it was like
it was good about to quit. So anyways, back at
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the shop, we'll get to to why to do repairs
for two or three days, so we figure out what
we're gonna do with our you know, our dump truck,
and uh man, it's always something and.
Speaker 4 (13:22):
It's crazy because we kind of need to do those
because I was you know, we laid all that saw
at my brother's house. I'm probably gonna put sprinklers out
when I get over there. Oh yeah, this after this afternoon.
Speaker 3 (13:32):
We got that one swath. You know, we used about
a pal and a half of saw it that had
been at the garden center for about three months and
we had to you know, it had grown together and
we were pulling it up. It was such a pain
to work with, but right up the center of it,
that's good wet sloppy saw it so it don't need water.
Speaker 4 (13:49):
But everything else and then we put fescue in the
back because it gets real shady back there.
Speaker 3 (13:54):
I put enough fescu seat on that to like seed
half the seat half the yards of the neighborhood. Good.
Speaker 4 (14:00):
That's gonna be gorgeous. Yeah, beautiful. But yeah, I gotta get.
Speaker 3 (14:03):
Some water on it, because I don't know that it
will not come up without water.
Speaker 5 (14:08):
Pretty important, isn't it.
Speaker 3 (14:09):
Yep? Well, Chris, as I know it's time for a break.
Let's go ahead and do that. Our number. If you
want to call us ask us a gardening question, you
can do it. It's two O five four three nine
nine three seven two. If you need to call the
garden center, set up an appointment for landscaping, irrigation, night lighting,
if you need a patio or attaining wall done. Hey,
it's time to get on lawn care. I mean you think, hey, look,
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the grass is going dorm it. You don't need anything.
I'm telling you we're lining yards right now. Uh if
you haven't. If we picked up your yard right now,
I guarantee you the first thing we do would probably
put a pre merging on it, sir, because you got
to get that is essential. You got to get it done,
regardless of when you know, you start a long cair program,
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the backbone is pre emergent. You gotta start there and
that's uh, that's where we'd pick you up right there
and we'd get the line on yard and all that
stuff and get you ready for you know, the spring
that's going to be coming up. Yeah, we blink will
be there and we're just trying to head off those
weeds before you get there.
Speaker 4 (15:09):
I mean a couple of weeks from Thanksgiving, you know
what I mean, it's right around the corner.
Speaker 3 (15:13):
You gotta get it done, so we'll be right back
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Speaker 3 (18:23):
Yes you do need some fur along right now. You
need lime and that's the most important thing. Uh, we
got plenty of at the garden center. What lime does?
It sweetens the soil so here in the Birmingham area,
and you know southeast east of the Mississippi, the soil
is naturally acidic for the most part. So once a year,
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you know, you come in there in lime it most
of the time, like if you're on a farm, you
know you put the farmer will go in there in
about every third year he'll put, you know, two tons
of the acre or whatever. We don't want it to
fluctuate that much out there, so once a year we
annually line it. You don't have to put near that
much out but you know it is a common practice
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to just once a year go out there and line
of yard.
Speaker 5 (19:10):
Yep, just on the on the grass r bermuda.
Speaker 3 (19:12):
You' don't put it on your shrub beds or any
of that stuff.
Speaker 4 (19:17):
Like centipede likes naturally acidic soil. So if youve got centipede,
this one that you don't have to line.
Speaker 3 (19:22):
But yeah, I remember back in the day, Mike used
to tell a story, you know, on here. He'd say, Man,
you know, I was in I was in horticulture school,
and they were talking about the importance of lime and
all that stuff. And that was a Friday, you know,
and he said, all right, Monday, we'll come back to
uh talking about lime and all that stuff. And he
went home. He said, Man, I lied, I got a
(19:43):
line in my yard. And he got him a bunch
of lime. He went out there and lined his centipede yard,
and he came back Monday, and the infrastructure said, on
all loans, but centipede of lime. Short, Yeah, so don't
liny centipede. There's there's just about two or three plants
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that like the soil are like a little bit of
lime on them, Like if you had a lilac, or
if you had like some box woods varieties like it. Uh,
you know, just a handful of things like that. But
for the most part, your shrubs like the soil acidic.
So just don't line you shrubs yep. And Chris Keith,
we got we got Cindy. Let's get Cindy. Good morning, Cindy.
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How are you?
Speaker 7 (20:27):
Good morning? Thank you guys. I listened to you all
the time. I have an h o A and we
have gardeners supplied, unfortunately, and they came along two weeks
ago and trim my guardenia bush.
Speaker 4 (20:43):
Oh and I'm.
Speaker 7 (20:44):
Just sick because it probably won't bloom now.
Speaker 8 (20:48):
Uh.
Speaker 7 (20:49):
And now it has a black mold on the leaves. Yeah,
I sprayed it good with copper funds inside.
Speaker 9 (20:56):
What do I do?
Speaker 3 (20:58):
All right? So the black stuff that's on the leaves
the first off them pruning it is not gonna keep
it from blooming next year. They did plum prune it
late though, so yeah, they probably pruned it late enough
now though where it won't flush new growth, which is okay,
because see what happens is if you if you, if
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you prune your guardiens after say the first of September,
then what it does is it caused them to flush
new growth. Well, that new growth doesn't have time to
harden off of what we call harden off it just
the it does. It's still real tender, so like if
you got a frost in late October November, that tender
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growth will get burned off. Well, they've pruned it so
late in the season this year till we're probably not
gonna have enough warm weather for it to flush new growth,
and more than likely you won't get any burn on
there now. To answer your question, as far as the
black stuff goes, the guardieners are bad about getting white flies.
And white flies and there's a half a dozen other
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bugs secrete a honey resin it's like syrup, and that
syrupy resin gets on the leaves of them. You'll see
crape myrtles do the same thing, that black sooty mold
all over them. But basically it's you get the fungus.
The sooty mold sticks to the honey resin that they secrete,
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so uh, the fungicide is gonna help some.
Speaker 1 (22:28):
You do.
Speaker 3 (22:28):
Almost have to do it like you're pressure washing it
more or less, you know, with high pressure, and basically
blow the black off of them. But the underlying problem
is you've got white flies, and the white flies this
time of year. If you can catch like we shouldn't
be eighty five degrees right now, but next week, next
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week it should it should be back down in the seventies.
What I would recommend is getting some dorminole. And what
the dorminole is gonna do is it's gonna you spray it,
and you gotta those white flies, uh typically or just
all over that plant. But they're there, eggs and everything
are under the leaves, so you want to spray. Make
sure you spray up into the plant and just uh
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spray them down with the dorminole, and the dorminoles want to.
It'll kill the white flies, but it also kills the
wintering over insects or the wintering over eggs, and then uh,
it wouldn't be a bad idea. Furtilong carries a product
it's called Furtilong Systemic insect drench, and this time of
year you use it on all your trees, like your
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trees that you don't want, you know, like if you
got Japanese maples and just priceless, you got a big
majestic oak in your your that you don't want to lose.
You use it around those, but you can also use
it around problem plants like I don't I don't consider
a guardena a problem plant, but they've always got white flies.
So if you want to take that and mix it
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up and pour it around the bottom of them, you
ain't got to do it once a year, but it
keeps the white flies off. And if you can keep
the white flies off, then you keep you get rid
of the black sooty mold from now on.
Speaker 7 (24:03):
Okay, well the mold kill the plant.
Speaker 3 (24:06):
Mold won't kill the plant, It just makes it look.
Speaker 7 (24:08):
Horrible, yeah, said I don't know if they transferred it
from another plant, because we've got some other plants and
some of the guardenas.
Speaker 3 (24:18):
Have that and white flies are there. I don't think so,
probably just you know, we're getting late in the season
now and the white flies have been there so long,
and that did just you know, it's it's just a
build up of everything. It's that them cutting them is
just a timing thing. They didn't cause it to get
black sooty mold. As a matter of fact, you go
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in there, you can go in there in the spring.
See guardanians bloom on new growth. So every year you
wrought to cut your guardena's back by about a third,
you know, just keep them going.
Speaker 5 (24:54):
Trade some way back.
Speaker 3 (24:56):
Yeah, so you don't have to worry when you cut
them back in the spring. You know, go ahead and
cut them like you've been cutting them, and they when
they flush that new growth, you're gonna be cutting off
most of that black, sooty mold.
Speaker 7 (25:09):
Okay, but that wheel bloom even with the mold.
Speaker 3 (25:13):
Oh yeah, yeah. If you use that systemic insect drench. Now,
by the time you get the spring, all the new
growth flushes out, you'll lose most of that sooty mold leaves.
You know, they'll just drop off as the as the
new growth flushes out. And plus you're gonna cut most
of that off anyways, so you know it's gonna take
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care of itself.
Speaker 9 (25:35):
Okay.
Speaker 7 (25:36):
Another thing is I've got big chunks of mold in
my yard. It's it's it looks like a big mushroom,
but it's hard.
Speaker 9 (25:44):
I had to dig it up.
Speaker 7 (25:46):
What's causing that?
Speaker 4 (25:48):
I mean, that sounds like it's just you'll get those.
I mean, I know what you're talking about. It's it's
a type of it's a type of mushroom. I mean,
you google mushrooms and you can probably you know, find
them a million different varieties around the world. But you know,
typically if you have just old tree stumps, old tree roots,
or just really any anything dead and organic like under
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the soil, you will get these talking about.
Speaker 5 (26:13):
Rock hard you just mushroom patties.
Speaker 4 (26:18):
Yeah, that's that's that's just growing on the old dead
tree up underneath the ground.
Speaker 9 (26:25):
I appreciate your health.
Speaker 4 (26:27):
We see a lot of mushrooms throughout the throughout the year,
particularly in the spring and in the fall, and uh,
you know, the only time you really have to be
concerned is if you see it growing in like a
specific arch, like a ring. It'll form a circle and
that's the type of soil disease called faery ring. But uh,
just mushrooms in general, if you see them randomly throughout
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the yard, people a lot of times want to, you know,
figure out what kind of the spray on these to
kill them, or to prevent them, or to get rid
of them. And that's really there's nothing you can do
in it. That's actually a good sign. It's it's kind
of nature sign that your soil is doing what it's
supposed to be doing. Everything's decomposing and everything's breaking down
in there, and that your soil is healthy because mushrooms
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grow on just you know, decomposing organic material, and that's
Nature's nature's way of dealing dealing with things, you know.
Speaker 5 (27:21):
So your soil's doing what it's supposed to do. Yeah, whatever,
kick them over.
Speaker 3 (27:25):
Whatever spores are present that are growing that type of mushroom,
that's just what that typical variety of mushroom grows on.
So like you know, a decaying chunk of oak in
the water, like an old root or something like that
that's died on a tree. You know, some of the time,
you know, just like you lose a limb in the tree,
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you lose a root in the ground. And then when
you lose a root in the ground, you know, it
might shoot out there fifteen feet away from the tree
and you'll have, you know, just mushrooms grow up that
that route that's decaying. But it's a good sign. It's
it's nothing wrong. Yep. Well, Chris, let's take a break
right quick. Our number, if y'all want to call us,
it's two O five four three nine nine three seven two.
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We'll be right back on the Classic Gardens of Landscape Show.
Speaker 2 (28:21):
It's the Classic Gardens and Landscape Show.
Speaker 10 (28:24):
All the hand ready.
Speaker 3 (28:27):
To come when you'll want show up land some grass
to grow. Two doercent Chris, Chris and Chris No.
Speaker 1 (28:35):
And now you're a host Chris Joiner and Chris Keith.
Speaker 3 (28:40):
And we're back for the second half the classic gardens
of Landscape showing our number. If you want to go
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can do that. It's two o five four three nine
nine three seven two nine. If you need to set
up a point for the landscape, let me tell you
how good a time of year it is the landscape
right now. Yes, we've been dry is all get out
for the last two months. But let me tell you
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the trend is about to change. You can bank on it,
take take it to the bank. The trend's about to change.
And uh, you can look at daving. You know the
forecast for this weekend. You have forty percent chance of
rain today, forty percent chance of rain tomorrow. They're not
hollering for a lot of rain. But the point is
the trend has changed.
Speaker 5 (29:19):
That's right.
Speaker 4 (29:19):
And you called it last last time we talked on
this radio show, you said the trend is going to change.
Speaker 5 (29:24):
I was talking on the homeowner the other day.
Speaker 4 (29:26):
He's like, you know, we get a we get a
tenth of an inch of rain a couple of days
a week and ten days. Man, it makes it all
amount to something.
Speaker 5 (29:34):
But no, it's it is. You know, we're gonna be
starting starting it.
Speaker 4 (29:37):
And the good thing is like, Okay, we're not getting
a tremendous amount of rain, but the temperatures are starting
to back off, so.
Speaker 5 (29:43):
A little bit goes a long way.
Speaker 3 (29:45):
Yeah, basically, Well, the thing about it is too the
plants are going dormant. The grass is going dormant. It's
not gonna need as much water. A matter of fact,
I mean you could take this time of year. You
can take like limelight high dranges or really anything for
that matter, any deciduous shrubs they're just gonna lay dormant
for the next you know, six months, so you know,
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or you know, the next four or five months. So
you know, now is a great time if you want
to go in there and plant those shrubs. They're gonna
they're gonna get a lot of root growth over the winter,
and uh, the cold doesn't hurt them at all. You know,
if you think about it, it takes about two years
for the grower to grow a plant from a sprig
(30:28):
to a sellable plant. So in that time, it's got
to go through every it's got to go through every
season twice basically. So it's hot, it's dry, it's cold,
it's wet, it's it's every situation it is and they
have to survive in a black pot through every bit
of it. So surely God, that thing is better off
(30:50):
in the ground at your house than it was in
those two years. You take this little baby and you
take it and put it into you know, grow it
into a three gallon shrub. So it's just common sense
that it's a whole lot easier to grow those things
in the ground though here and they've got to go
you know, when they're being grown, they go through every
weather extreme you know you might and you know some
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of the time as growers, they literally have to you
see them, you know, doing crazy things like you know,
going in and water and you know to keep basically
the ice on the on the foliage will like put
a kind of like it's cover. Yeah, I mean, the
ice on there will keep it at freezing. When you're
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going down in you know the twenties and the teens
or like in the springtime where you see you know
the peach farmers, they're flying helicopters over the over the
peaches to you know, keep them a frost from farming
on the peaches and stuff like that. So we have
to take some weird measures sometimes to grow plants and
stuff like that. But I guarantee you when you take
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them to stick them in the ground, they're a whole
lot better off at your head.
Speaker 5 (32:00):
Oh yeah, for sure, for sure.
Speaker 3 (32:02):
And we plant it doesn't matter. You think about a house,
and it's the same thing with the grass. There's houses
built every day, you know. And uh, just like your
brother's house, Chris. And if it was January and it
was getting finished at what will be done? We done plants, yeah,
the last couple three days. So you know, don't think
(32:22):
for one minute that just because it's you know, it's
hot and there it's been hot and it's been dry,
that it's gonna bother a plant, because let me tell you, you
can put plants out whatever you want to.
Speaker 4 (32:33):
We landscaped three hundred and sixty five days out of there.
I actually pushed my brother's landscaping off. We could have
landscaped at probably a month month and a half ago. Uh,
but I told Anna, I was like, well, listen, nobody's
living there. Let's wait, you know, until we get into
a little bit cooler, wetter period. Plus those plants, you know,
we're really not gonna have to water in very much
(32:54):
until next May, right, and by then, for the most part,
there'll be somewhat established. Plants are typically under homeowners care
for a couple of years until they can just kind
of like forget about them because they do have to
establish a root system. But you plant plants now, and
they are in so much better shape by the time
we get into our first dry spills next May.
Speaker 3 (33:13):
Well, nursery plants literally are watered every day, sometimes twice
a day, you know, in the end the summertime, so
you know, once a temperature starts cooling down, you know,
in the garden center, we'll back off to every other day,
and then once it gets cold, we might run the garden,
we might run the irrigation once a week, you know,
depending on you know, what the weather's doing. So you know,
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it's just those those plants have been taking care of perfectly,
and when they come to your house, they expect you
to take care of them perfectly. For they'll tell on
you you know, and that's you know, it's one of
those things where you plant plants, you know, six months
later you forget it and it gets hot and dry.
You're gonna see that things start drooping and shed and
leaves and you're old. Man, I got to jump on that,
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you know. It's it's one of those things you just
got to pay attention, yeah, you know, and make sure
they're going out. But I love playing stuff. This time
of year. You go out there, you don't have to
worry about I mean, we were at somebody's house. Well,
we were headed somewhere the other day. I can't remember
where we were, and I was chucking the shrubs on
the back. I said, man, I ain't got to worry
about wind burn on these bad boys. I ain't gotta tarpet.
Speaker 4 (34:23):
N even even laying sawd This time of year, you
have a little bit more time, you know. When we
lay saw this, When we lay saw it in the summer.
Speaker 3 (34:30):
Months, I hate I know.
Speaker 5 (34:31):
I know you're trying to coordinate with Ann.
Speaker 4 (34:34):
Because as soon as that sid hits the job site,
you've got to start laying that stuff out because it
just sits there and bakes on the on that palette,
and as soon as y'all are laying it out, y'all
are running irrigation on the stuff I'm talking about yard.
Speaker 5 (34:47):
You're not done with the yard. You know.
Speaker 4 (34:48):
If you finish the left hand side of sod, you're
running the irrigation on the left hand side while y'are
laying side on the back. This time of year, you
don't have to you don't necessarily have to worry about that.
Sod can sit on the palette for a couple days
when it's cold.
Speaker 5 (35:02):
But uh, it's just.
Speaker 3 (35:03):
It's a lot. It's a lot.
Speaker 4 (35:04):
It's a little bit more forgiving this time of year.
Planting plants and laying side.
Speaker 3 (35:08):
Yeah, that's I love land saw this time of year,
just like I love planting plants because I'm not just rushed.
I hate it when it's one hundred degrees outside and
I mean we're just busting it trying to get one
prep because I know the side is going to be
there at lunch time.
Speaker 5 (35:25):
Yeah, the driver's called you and said we're loading on
the way, and you're like, oh my gosh.
Speaker 3 (35:29):
You're right, man. We haven't even got started, hearty wreaking
this thing yet. Man. Sergio is so good at it.
He can literally jump on that little machine and give
it ten minutes. He'll have that thing as slick as glass, Yes, sir,
you know, and as fast as that sawd gets there,
you know, the sad truck guy and I ride on
the check he unloads my side and before he gets
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to the second pallet, I'm laying the first one. You know.
That's just you gotta drop it. Man. In the summertime,
you have got to get it on the yah.
Speaker 5 (36:00):
I'm glad we pass that work and it's fall y'all.
Speaker 3 (36:03):
Man, I love it this time year. I ain't lying.
They they bring me some sod now and I can say,
all right, we'll get that on the ground tomorrow evening.
Speaker 5 (36:12):
Yeah, just sit it right there at our way.
Speaker 3 (36:14):
It's so mad, it's so much better.
Speaker 5 (36:16):
Uh huh.
Speaker 3 (36:17):
Well, Chris, let's go ahead and take that last break
of the show. Our number. If y'all want to call
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Speaker 10 (38:41):
Every Saturday morning they make dusty all right, oh my yards.
Speaker 3 (38:49):
Like, Hey, we're black on the Classic Guardens the Landscape Show.
And we got Janis on the phone, Good morning, Janis,
how you doing?
Speaker 9 (39:00):
I'm doing fine, Okay. We have cut down all our
bushes out front. We're gonna come and get you know,
bushes from y'all. But we've had a little problem. I
cut down will my husband cut down one of the
crack myrtles that was on the side of the house.
And anyway, it just keeps coming up. So I sprayed
it was killed and it's dying. But do we need
to kill the stumps for the big what they call
(39:21):
it Azelia's because I just don't want to. They're coming back.
But do we just need to go ahead and spram yeah,
by the stuff to rot.
Speaker 3 (39:28):
Really, really, Janie, what you probably should have done is
hook to them with a chain and pulled them up
with your truck. What's gonna happen.
Speaker 9 (39:35):
My husband said, he already do that, and he's going
to try.
Speaker 3 (39:39):
If they're still tall enough. If they're still tall enough
where you can get a chain around them, that's what
I would do, is pull them up. Because what happens,
like you, first off, everywhere you cut it down, that
plant's going to try to come back. Not to mention, uh,
you've got that that old root ball is in the
way of the new shure rubes, so you know it's
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gonna be hard to it's gonna be virtually impossible to
plant a shrub most of the time. On the spacing
of your shrubs is space. There's spaced out where when
you go to put your shrubs back, it's gonna be
literally right in the same hole that the other plant
that's got to come out of.
Speaker 9 (40:18):
Okay, okay, all right, well nice guys, no problem yet
the show, but anyway, I appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (40:25):
Oh, no problem.
Speaker 5 (40:26):
Yeah, azelias will come back.
Speaker 4 (40:28):
And you know, Chris Keith, we both have seen customers
that have old fashioned azalias that are fifty years old.
And uh, mister Edwards is a prime example.
Speaker 3 (40:37):
Oh yeah, uh.
Speaker 5 (40:38):
He would every five years.
Speaker 4 (40:40):
Or so he would come in and he would take
his azelias from six feet tall down to like a
foot and those things would flush back out and they
would look like brand new plants.
Speaker 5 (40:50):
And they would just look fantastic.
Speaker 3 (40:51):
Guardinas are way too many in that bed.
Speaker 4 (40:54):
And then and then they got chipmunks burrowing all all
around there.
Speaker 5 (40:59):
And then miss and then Miss Blaylock across the street
had a Holly die big like Nelly R.
Speaker 4 (41:04):
Stevens, and we treat her shrubs and she said, this
thing just went downhill quick and I start pulling all
the pine stroll back, and you just you can see
the chipmunk tunnels all around the base of that tree.
So they're basically just sitting there, burrowing around there and
gnawing all the roots and killing the plant. But chipmunks
got in mister Edwards. Ellie's over there, and that bed's
just going downhill.
Speaker 3 (41:23):
Wow, over the years truck and chaining, you'd almost had
to go in there with a Mini X, yeah, you know,
with a few sheets of ply wood and just kind
of plucked all those things out of there to really
get that back and check. And then I hate that
for him. I think we got Carroll on the line.
Is that correct? Good morning, Carol, Good morning.
Speaker 8 (41:44):
Yes, I have a question about blueberry bushes. I put
cotton seed meal around my blueberry bushes, around the base
of the bush, and now I have a fuzzy looking
mold on top of the cotton seed meal. Yeah, be
worried about that.
Speaker 3 (42:01):
I wouldn't worry about it at all. It's just it's
a lot like the mushrooms growing on something that's decaying. Uh,
certain times of mold and things like that will we'll
we'll grow on stuff that's that's decaying, you know, like that,
it's just going through it's basically going through a decaying process,
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and a lot of times molds and things like that
will grow on top of it. I don't think it's
anything to worry about it at all.
Speaker 8 (42:31):
Okay, Okay, okay, because my blueberry but she's okay, Should
I cut them back or should I just leave them?
Because when I cut him back the next year, they
don't blow, They don't produce anything, that's right.
Speaker 3 (42:42):
So what what what we usually tell people to do
is like if you've got say you got five blueberry
bushes going there and are yeah, so you take in
like every year, you cut you know, a third of
them back, or you cut like if you got twenty,
just you cut five of them this year, you cut
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five of them. Next year, you cut five that year,
and you cut five and by the time you get
around you know to that third or fourth year or whatever,
cut half of them one year and cut half the next.
You don't want to lose all your produce. So if
you if you cut two of them this year, don't
expect them the bloom next year kind of thing. But
you can keep them in.
Speaker 8 (43:21):
Check like that, Okay, Okay, thank you so much.
Speaker 9 (43:26):
I appreciate it, yes, ma'am.
Speaker 3 (43:29):
Yeah, you don't want to lose all your blueberries and
then things pretty good.
Speaker 5 (43:32):
I loveberries. Blueberries is a great plant, you know, that's uh.
Speaker 3 (43:35):
I know, it grows like a shrub here.
Speaker 5 (43:38):
And then easy. You don't really have to do much
to them now.
Speaker 3 (43:42):
I mean you don't have to. I mean unless you
just had some. You know. I always think about the
old blueberry from the Smith's out there and uh, out
there on Bear Mountain Road. You know, they they went
in there about three years ago and did a heavy
prune on every one of them, so they lost all
their produce for a full season. But man, they flushed
out and they are pretty now. But they all theres
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were eight or ten feet tall. You know, it's hard
to pick. They have people coming there and it's like
you pick it blueberries. Well, if the blueberries are eight
feet high on the plant, it's hard for you to
pick them. So they went in there and massacred them
back to about a foot and a half. And then
the very next year, you know, they're you know three
and a half four feet tall and they were making
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like crazy, so you know, they lost production for one year,
but man, they're killing it now.
Speaker 4 (44:30):
Yeah, and you can't hardly kill those things. I mean,
I've got some up above my raised gordon. I think
I've transplanted about eight different times and they produce every year.
Speaker 3 (44:41):
Yeah, they're super tough plants. And you know there's some stuff.
You know, people will call us and they're like, man,
I just can't get my peaches or I can't get
my plums or whatever. To do what they're spulling apples?
You know, you always you're getting fire blight on you
apples or you constantly peaches have to be like every
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ten to fourteen days, like religiously, or if you want
to make peaches, and then you you know, you grow
them and it's like you have too many peaches on
the tree, so they grow small. And it's like, man,
go to Chilton County and get a peach.
Speaker 5 (45:13):
Go to the farmers markets.
Speaker 3 (45:16):
Go in there and get them. Whether they're pretty.
Speaker 5 (45:18):
Fruit trees are so much of a hassle that we
don't even sell them anymore.
Speaker 7 (45:22):
No.
Speaker 4 (45:22):
I mean we used to sell peaches, We used to
sell plums. We had pecan trees, but it's just I
mean pecans. That was something that I saw this wee,
I don't know, I see. I feel like I see
more bad pecans on the ground than I do good ones. Yeah,
this time of year, you know what I'm saying. So
it's in theory and in thought, it'd be fantastic to
have like an orchard with all kinds of trees. And
I know somebody listening is probably saying, oh, Chris, you
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don't know what you're talking about. I got every fruit
tree imaginable, and they produce like there's a dude up there.
Speaker 5 (45:49):
They produce fantastic.
Speaker 4 (45:50):
Well, the sun and the moon and the stars and
the soil, we're all in alignment whenever he planted his.
But you see a lot more failures on fruit trees
than you.
Speaker 3 (45:58):
Do some of the time. The stars are line right,
and it's just one of them years. And this year
was one for apples. We did a job for a
wall job for mister uh gosh, Chris up in Warrior.
We treated yard miss short and uh coming out of
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his neighborhood straight across the road is a guy that's
got like, I'm not sure what variety of apple it was,
but man, those things were as big as a soft
woow and there was somewhere in that oh, mister Earle Riley. Right,
So when we were doing his work for him before
he passed away, this was he passed away, what about
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a month and a half ago. We did work for
him back four or five months ago, just cleaned up
his yard and uh and hated to lose him, buddy,
that was a great customer. But to the right of him,
that the the lot to sign. They've got about half
a dozen fruit trees. They got peaches, they got plums,
they got apples, everything. And this was just a good
(47:01):
year for them too, you know, as far as apples go,
because the apples were just pretty as they could be.
But now the peaches and the plums were just eate
up with worms, you know, and it's just like gosh
ah pears.
Speaker 4 (47:13):
Every now and then you'll see a pear tree he's
sloaded so much to every branches, yeahs in the ground pairs.
Speaker 3 (47:18):
Now, that's one you just about can't screw it. You know.
They'll get so heavy with pears till it's just busting them.
You know, it's already a brittle plant, you know, and
they get all that heaviness in them and all that
you know, my neighbor on that when you turn on
my road, there used to be one on the left
hand side, like nearly in the road, and it would
shed pears and you could literally go out there in
(47:41):
the road and pick up just five gallon buckets full
of pairs. That thing would make like crazy every year.
And I think he finally took it down this last
year or whatever, the new people that moved in there. No,
it's no more, you know that. I tell you what's good.
It's hard to beat my mama's uh pair of preserves.
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Let me tell you. That's Candy're ruight there?
Speaker 5 (48:05):
Really?
Speaker 3 (48:06):
Oh my god, it's so good.
Speaker 5 (48:07):
I like you.
Speaker 4 (48:08):
You put them on a biscuit, Oh lord, hot biscuit
with a little butter and pair of preserves.
Speaker 3 (48:13):
Oh my goodness.
Speaker 4 (48:13):
Mister Barnes, old time customer that passed away. So he
used to give me plumb preserves and pick preserves all
the time.
Speaker 3 (48:19):
From histories. That was.
Speaker 5 (48:21):
That was a fine man too.
Speaker 3 (48:22):
Well, y'all. A music means we're out of time, y'all.
Come see us at the Garden Center where at eighteen
fifty five Carson Road, where they're Monday through Friday eight
to four. Call US eight five four four thousand and five.
If you need landscaping, long gar irrigation, not lighting. If
you need a patio or attaining wall, you know who
to call. You call us eight five four four thousand
and five and what did it before you No problem,
(48:43):
and we'll see you next week on a classic Garden
the Landscape show, Oh do you
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