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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Good Saturday morning, and welcome to the WGBO lun and
Garden Show, brought to you by cle’x Nursery.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
If you have a question.
Speaker 1 (00:10):
About seasonal planting, lon and garden concerns or questions about landscaping,
called four nine nine WGBO.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
That’s four nine nine two six.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
Good Saturday morning, and welcome to the WJBO Wanna Garden Show.
My name saying Mercer, joined here with Jessica Poisy.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Hey, good morning man.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
It is the wonderful day to day. It is very nice,
definitely worth me getting rained on all day. Yesterday, No,
it was just I swear it just sometimes it works
out to where I can avoid the rain when it
starts pouring at the store. Yesterday was now one of
those days. It was like eighteen wheeler box truck, finished
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unloading the eighteen wheeler, another box truck and it is
and then a customer that I deal with pretty regularly
shows up for a bunch of big trees. So it
was like, you know, it’s like flooding in the back, right,
So but hey, I can’t complain it was. It was.
It’s a good day. I’ve got a lot of stuff accomplished,
even though it was raining so and now it’s supposed
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to be sunny apparently, I know, I know. Real moment
of truth is to know if my son jumps in
the Pikinti pol today, because he probably will. He doesn’t
care about the cold. So, but you know, we’re here
to talk about plants, lawns, gardens, those kinds of things,
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and you can reach us at four nine six if
you wanted to pick up the phone and call had
a question. We also have if you want to listen
to a previous podcast, probably with Butcher, not with me,
you could tune into the iHeart radio station and they’ve
got a little podcast set up where you type in
the WJBO Lawn and Garden Show and it pulls it
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up all up, and Jeremy’s usually pretty good. He puts
little notes and stuff, you know, so like I take notes.
I’ll pay attention, you know. And I got a good
chuckle because I forget who it was. My parents. Maybe
they pulled up the podcast and they looked at the
notes for the when we talked about fish emulsion, and
(02:20):
they were like, I kind of like this. I think
you said something about there’s something fishy going on, you know,
and I thought, I thought it was cute. You do
a great job, Jeremy.
Speaker 4 (02:29):
Can I say I’m very ass even though I have
no children, I am a king of dad jokes exactly.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
So. But we got a lot of things to talk about,
you know, that’s going on in the nursery, and we
got Mother’s Day coming up that’s exciting, so we’ll talk
about that. I want to talk about some house plants, butterflies.
Uh really need to talk about fertilization, and we control too,
So we’re gonna go ahead and jump into the pretty
things and we’ll talk about the other stuff, the fertilization,
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fertilization and stuff later. So you know, we sell a
lot of perennials and a lot we sell annuals too,
a ton of annuals. But my favorite stuff for the perennials,
stuff that kind of you know, gives you joy the
next year and the next year and hopefully the year
after that. Yeah, you know, And I still have some
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annuals that I’ll plant. But like you know, we grow
a lot of salvia’s asters, lantana, those kinds of things.
We got in some giant cigar bush, which, if you’re
not familiar, it is a cigar plant like the vermilionaire kufia,
but it’s a big flower, kind of cream to orange flower,
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get about four foot tall. Don’t get them too often.
I don’t know if they’re at every location, but I
have them at the Greenwald Spring Storre, so come visit me.
But it’s a neat little perennial that the hummumbirds go
crazy for. And that’s really what I like. I like
having butterflies and humbo birds at the house because it
just kind of makes my makes you feel good. You know,
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you’re cooking dinner and you’ll look out the window and
then you see two or three humb birds fighting over
a plant. This is pretty nice. And I still put
out humbing bird feeders and stuff, but it’s cool, Like
I’m run and go get the kids. I’m like, look,
look there, Look that male humm and birds fighting off
everybody else off of that one plant. So it’s it’s
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kind of cute to see. So well, we got those,
We’ve got butly in that are just throw in full color.
If you’ve never grown one of those, that’s a perennial
little bush, it’ll kind of burn its leaves in the wintertime,
but they leave back out, but they put on these
huge bloom stalks. All right. It’s like these big spikes
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that’ll kind of stick out off the side of the plant.
Very very pretty. Plant blooms almost also pretty much all summer.
Like when a bud starts to burn out, you go,
you’re dead headed, and you probably have ten more flowers
already forming. So but the butterflies will go crazy for that.
Also do a bunch of milk weed as well, a
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bunch of milk weed. Yeah, so just go, I’m gonna
let you kind of run the list of all the
different kinds of milk weed we carry, because there’s so many.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
We’ve got so many this year. We’ve got the giant milkweed,
We’ve got the balloon milk weed, we’ve got the pink
and the white swamp milk weed. And we’ve also got
your normal tropical milk weeds plenty to go around.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
And that’s the if you’re not familiar, that’s the monarch
host plant. So if you want there’s big gorgeous monarch
butterflies that I mean, just plant one or two with
those and that’s really all you need. So and I
mean I like milkweed, I really do. All right, it
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needs to stay in its home though. That’s my one
complaint with like the tropical, say the tropical, all right,
especially as I forget to let it, not let it
go to seed, and then then then it spreads everywhere,
you know. So then I’ve gotta all right, I’ve got
to pull all the seedlings that are coming up in
extra in all the other spots other than this one isolated. Yeah,
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and they’ll eat They eat pretty much any of the
milk weed. There’s been some conversation about, you know, it
needs to be just strictly native, you know, And I
find it really doesn’t matter too much as long as
you make sure to cut them back in the fall,
you know. Or if we go through a if all
of a sudden we go through this excessive an excessive
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hot period, all right, it can build up a and
I’m probably butchering it. But there’s like a essentially a
phytotoxin that builds up in the plant as a defense
mechanism to keep the caterpillar from overeating it. And so
by cutting it back, it knocks back that fidotoxin. So
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and you want to cut back your milk weed in September,
just roll with them anyway, because you don’t want your
monarchs to stay longer than they need to, because they’ve
got to they make a big trip all the way
down to Mexico, and so usually around September you want
to cut them back anyway, and I usually I’ll cut
them straight to the ground. And unfortunately it’s whether or not,
whether or not there’s caterpillars. It’s like I cut them
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to the ground because it’s like, you know, because I
don’t want them to lay more eggs. And then all
of a sudden, it’s November and I’ve got yeah, I’ve
still got caterpillars, and it’s like, well, now they can’t
make their trip.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
So yeah, and I find that everyone kind of later
in the season is coming in, you know, frantic because
they don’t have enough milk weed because the caterpillars have
eaten everything. So you need to get it planted now
so it can you know, be growing and pushing out
and so they’ll have food.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
Oh yeah, oh yeah, and they’re cool like that. I mean,
we’ve gotten some gallons in out of Florida of the
tropical and I was cracking up because it was every
single pot I was loading, like putting on a box
strick to ship out was either had a crystalist or
had like two or three caterpillars on it. Like you know,
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I was like, oh, look, there’s short you know, because
they because they trimmed them. And I was like, then
I look, and I’m like, the grower did not trim them.
The caterpillars did so, but that’s always good to see.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
Yeah, And we’ve actually made like a little butterfly bed
like out in the front of the store at Seagan,
So we have a bunch of milkweed in there and
a bunch of pollinator plants all around it.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
Yeah, and it’s really neat like so, you know, we
talked about, you know, we always want butterflies in the garden,
and we always want like hummingbirds in the garden, and
you know, and bees. And there’s different plants for each one,
all right, Like a salvia be a bee will hit
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a salvia, all right, but a salvia probably the humming
birds like the most because just the shape of the flower.
And that’s a big thing with any of any of
our pollinator plants, is the shape of the flower is
going to attract a different kind of pollinator, all right.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
I found the Mexican heather.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
The bees one, yeah, because it’s got that small that
small flower. Like bees just in general are gonna kind
of gravitate towards a smaller flower, you know, and preferably
something with a ton of flowers, because they’ll just kind
of bounce in between each flower. But it’s so cute
seeing like a big old fat bumble bee go climb
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into a salvia flower, you know, and it’s like, okay,
don’t get stuck in there, man, you know, look like
you barely fit. So but you know, we and they
come in all ranges of colors too, so there’s really
you know, oh I want white. All about white flowers
in the garden. It’s like, well we got white salvia
for you, you know, or white lantana for you and
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so and like I said, the pollinators, I mean they’re
very very important, you know. I mean they like my
parents do beehives. Yeah, so they’re anything they’re planting they’re
looking for, you know. I mean they’ll and they’ll plant
a few things that say the bees wouldn’t feed on,
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but I mean almost everything that’s flowering in their yard
is a pollinator plant. Whether it’s Mexican sage, you know
any well really any kind of salvia, you know, verbena,
you know, anything with a good flower that’s a good
nectar source. So all right, but you know got that
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going on. H mentioned about Mother’s Day, all right, you
can you can’t buy perennials from mothers. I’ve done it.
It worked, It worked out every time. So but uh,
you know, we’ve got roses that are just showing full color. Uh,
the selection is gonna kind of differ in between each
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store a little bit because we had a little blooming
issue with a couple a couple of stores locations. But
like the Greenwold Spring stores, flowers and the rose selection
is all pretty pretty tight to your right now, Uh,
house plants or shoe in you know the I wanted
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to talk about the althea or rose of sharing. It’s
in the hibiscus family. Uh that’s I mean, that’s just
like an old school, cool little shrub I’ve done. I’ve
done that twice now for my mom where I got
her in althea. Yeah, not to go on a segue,
but this one time I was doing landscaping work and
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a customer I bought a customer a altha. And if
you’re not familiar, it’s I mean, it’s a perennial shrub.
It looks like sticks in the winter, all right, but
it puts on these gorgeous high biscus flowers in the summer,
so it’s kind of late to leaf out, and then
when it starts, it’ll leaf out. But it’s just an
old school Southern plant. Then you’ll typically you’ll see like
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I used to see them in tree lines where customers
are playing them like years ago. You know, it’s this
giant mass. So but we’ve got them in several different
colors and it’s usually used to be we would we
had a huge range about the throughout the year, like
during the growing season, and then some of the growers
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had kind of cut them out. So but we managed
to secure a couple different old school varieties like a
double purple, double white that we don’t get too often.
So yeah, and if you wanted to call, you could
by picking up the phone and dialing four nine nine
nine five two six. That’s four nine nine nine five
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two six. You know, I’m getting good at it. You know,
you just got to drop it in there so Jeremy
doesn’t get mad at me. So you know, we’re talking
about pollinators and butterflies and hummingbirds, you know, all this
stuff that makes you feel good during the spring summertime.
And we’ve talked about like what was it. We were
talking about milkweed a few other things. But you know,
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Jessica brought up a good point off air. We didn’t
mention passion vine. Yeah, it’s honestly, it’s probably my favorite
butterfly is Yeah, the little ferutil aarium. Yeah, they’re just
cute little orange butterflies and they love passion vine except
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for the red.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
Really.
Speaker 3 (13:41):
Yeah, it’s like the crimson red, I want to say,
and I think it’s the leaf. Yeah. I talked to
Gary Ross, who’s like, he’s a retired entomology professor, and
there’s some about that one. They they eat every other one,
but you’re lucky if you ever see a caterpillar on
that one. So, but we carry it a couple of
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different kinds, like the Lady Marguerite. The was a lady lavender.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
We had gotten some one gallons in of the purple posump.
Speaker 3 (14:14):
That’s always a shoe one, and then we got a
few out of Florida. There was a celarian or Celaria blue.
So I may have kept all those who knows, you know,
so no, but I had, uh, we’d pulled those in,
but they just they go crazy over them. It’s a vine.
It’s a it is a vine. It does climb. I
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typically recommend if you plant it planet it in a pot,
because I’ve planted it in the ground before and I
thought I was gonna get evicted from my parents’ house
as a child. They just they I put it in
a vegetable garden bed for like for a trailist to
go over, and it did great, and the butterflies went
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crazy the first year. But then and it shot some
runners up in the lawn, so my mom wasn’t too
happy about that. So I usually recommend you keep it
in a pot. That way, it just you don’t, yeah,
you don’t have babies pop up five feet away where
you don’t want them. So but they put on the
coolest little flowers. It’s like very frilly, kind of looks alien, yeah,
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you know, and it’s just like a neat little plant.
And the caterpillars it’s cool. They’ll come like especially the
lady lavender that one and the marguerite. I’ve seen them
just like almost eat it to the ground. It’s a
very fast growing vine, but I’ve seen them almost eat
it to the ground and it’s like three hundred caterpillars
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on it. Like when I did the trellis, it was
I mean, it was just like it was more orange
than green, just from the caterpillars. And they’re cool looking.
They’re like little spikes on them kind of look, you know,
kind of look like they’ll stick you. They won’t, they won’t.
But it’s like just a cool, little, cool little insect,
you know, and you never really see him turn into
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a chrysalis because it blends in with the vine.
Speaker 5 (16:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
We saw them at the nursery the other day and
it looks like a shriveled up like dead leaf.
Speaker 3 (16:16):
Yeah yeah, so it just blends completely into it as
a defense mechanism. And then when they pop out, it’s
just these little, tiny, little orange butterflies. So it’s just
I mean, it’s cool little plants. And you know, if
you got kids like I do, I really like taking
them out to see that kind of stuff because it’s
just like, you know, it’s what’s that saying stuff and
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smell the flowers. It’s roses. Oh okay, well, speaking of roses,
you know, we were talking about roses too, so you know,
we’re talking about just Mother’s Day gifts, you know. So
we talked about roses, all these wonderful blooming butterfly tract
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in plants. But I wanted to spend probably the rest
of the segment talking about house plants, you know, because
I love tropical plants. I’m gonna be honest, though, I
hate the term houseplant. Yeah, I prefer like foliage. Yeah
all right, only because it gives the impression that I
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have to grow this.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
In the house, that they can only be grown in yah.
Speaker 3 (17:23):
You know. And I like to keep my air quote
and you can’t see my quotation marks right now, but
I like to keep my houseplants outside my house.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
Yeah, so I call them pat Yeah.
Speaker 3 (17:37):
Yeah, it’s just like patio plants, and that I mean,
that’s like your I mean, your cordeline, your pathos, philodendrons
and theeums. Although really like what I like is the
cool unique stuff. Yeah so, because they just they throw
a bunch of color, all right. They are not cold
hearty whatsoever. But gratefully we of ten months of eighties
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you know, it’s usually eighties eighties degrees or right, you know,
shoot them probably one hundred degrees like a month and
a half. But I like to do that outside. So
and I want to kind of talk about, like, you know,
we’ve got for Mother’s Day, we do a big push,
we’ll get a lot of stuff in, you know. Then
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we’ve got pots and all that stuff to go with it.
But you know, if say you’re a new a new gardener,
all right, or new houseplant terror, whatever you want to
call it, all right, your fight astree for instance, Hey,
I want to fight a stree in this corner in
my room, all right, and you can keep it inside.
You can keep them inside. I find it stunts them,
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all right, you know. But if you’re like me, I
invite everybody over for the winter months for the holidays, right,
I keep them outside so that they get big, yeah,
and then I bring them in and then then it’s
a conversation starter where they’re like, how in the world
did you do that? And then I’m like, I keep
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them outside on a mister. And this year is the
first year I’ve actually been doing a liquid injection as
far as fertilizer goes into them. So but it’s it’s
been going fabulous. Everything’s looking great. I keep on getting
new leaves on my philodendrons. My anthereums are all sprouting out,
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so we carry, we sell a lot of Talansia bermeliads.
Those are neat. I actually I will I will attach
those to driftwood and driftwood sometimes I use like spag
in the moss and chicken wire even all right, and
then I hang them up in my trees for the
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grown months, you know, and it just it adds another
layer of tropical vibe that you don’t normally see, you know,
I mean, driving around south in baton roots, You’re not
gonna You’re not gonna just see bromeliads hanging up in
the trees typically, you know, or like orchids attached to
the side of trees, stuff like that. That’s something you go
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down to Key West and every single tree has that.
So and then you know, when we start getting cold,
remove everything. I throw them in a bucket, put them
in my ship, and then I put them back out
in the spring when it starts to warm up again,
you know. So it’s just another neat little plant to
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add to your landscape. That just adds another twist. So uh,
and you know, there’s I don’t know, if you go
online there’ll be fifty different ways too, the pot these
things up, you know. Yeah, customer, like you know, I
have customer come in well online it says to use
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I don’t know Leka, yeah right, if you’re not familiar
with Lecca, it’s more along the lines just clay pellets,
you know, or you’ve got to use a high concentration
of vermiculite an orchid bark, right. And I usually I mix.
I mix my own stuff at home, you know, but
and we sell we sell bags designed for certain things too,
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So like say you’re growing an orchid, we’ll carry we
carry a couple different kinds of orchid media just for that,
you know. And I and I personally, I blend because
like my philodendrons require good drainage, all right, so I’m
gonna mix that with like, say what the orchid bark
stuff like that. So uh, And fertilization with all that
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stuff is really honestly, it’s pretty easy. I just put
ozma coat and then I just fertilize with fish. So
I keep my stuff outside. I would not recommend using
fish and moulsion inside. Uh. I have fertilized with that
on a weekly basis.
Speaker 2 (21:59):
I have been in the foliage pro.
Speaker 3 (22:02):
Is that the by Medina I think, so, yeah, I
believe y’all carry Yeah, y’all carry it at the Seacan location.
It’s got a very good rating. Probably start carrying it
at Greenwall. So, but we’ve just been, you know, I
just kind of rip and run, and I’ve been cracking
up them and using a blend like a fish blend
and seaweed blend inside the Foliage House at the greenwell
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Spring store because unfortunately, like at Seagan and Denim, the
fertilizer injectors tie in to y’all’s foliage sections. Mine does not.
Mine is just plain old regular city water, you know.
So I use that just to kind of give them
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that boost, you know. And we also have we sell
carnivorous plants.
Speaker 2 (22:51):
Yeah, I was gonna say, we just got dozen.
Speaker 3 (22:53):
So if you’ve never done a venus fly trap, you
could talk to my wife. She’s in love with hers. Yeah,
I think it’ll be the death of me actually, because
a trip over it. She puts it out on the lawn,
all right. So I’m like out weeding and I stepped
back and then I step on the saucer and fall over.
Speaker 4 (23:12):
And Yeryl was thinking I was trying to bite you
or something.
Speaker 3 (23:14):
Yeah, dude, you know I thought about it, you know, so,
but no, it’s just she likes to put it out
on the lawn so that it gets a full like
all day hours of sunlight. And I don’t notice that
you put it out in the lawn. So I’m just
that weeding or spraying herbicide and then a trip over
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it because I didn’t see it, because you know, my
grass was a little tall there.
Speaker 2 (23:39):
So I’ve always wanted to start like a little like
bog garden.
Speaker 3 (23:42):
Yeah, and that’s the cool thing and a lot of
I mean, you know you think about it. I mean
I can say for sure, like the first time I
saw a venus fly trap, like you say, at the store,
all right, I had not been out to a balk
to see what they’re like just out in the wild,
and it’s it’s it is impressive, you know, because you
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just go out there and then it’s like, oh, there’s
just random plants that eat bugs. Oh cool, you know,
Like I mean there’s like butterwort, you know, or the nepenthes.
So like we’re talking about media all right, and fertilization
of house plants, you know, so you can have some
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information when you come to buy one for Mother’s Day,
because everybody’s mother needs a houseplant, right. So but I
want to talk about insect control because bugs are fun
on tropicals, yeah, all right, because like for instance, just
to name a few, we get white flies, thrieps, mealy bugs,
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spider mites. Yeah, we get all those things on houseplants
because they like big leafy tropicals, all right. And so
there’s a few ways we can kind of be premeditated
with our care by using like a systemic, all right,
and some things like spider mans for instance, the systemic
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doesn’t touch all right, But since I put my stuff
on misters, I don’t get spider mites because the leaves
are actively washed. So the spidermights can’t ever really make
a good colony. Yeah all right.
Speaker 2 (25:23):
Yeah, they like very like hot and dry, yees stagnant.
Speaker 3 (25:27):
Yeah, they want it hot, dry, stagnant, no water to
wash away the nest, that kind of thing. And so
I try to mitigate that by no it gets missed
every every other day a little shower, yeah, And so
like inside you would just take them into the bathroom. Sure,
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I like to just run in the shower yeah, yeah,
I’ll just turn the shower on for like thirty minutes,
you know, let them get a good hot humid shower,
you know, and that’ll keep the spider marights on off,
you know. And you’re melee bugs. Those are probably my
least favorite insect.
Speaker 2 (26:06):
I love them. I don’t like this.
Speaker 3 (26:09):
Ee like mealy bugs. I’m like, I’ll straight cut back.
Speaker 2 (26:13):
Something what not deal with them.
Speaker 3 (26:15):
Yeah. Well, like so if I have a colony started,
and it depends how far along it is, uh, I’ll
just cut out, like to say, like my philodendron one
time had some on the top growth, all right, I
just literally did a top cut, you know, and then
I soaked that in a mix and then let it
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dry and I actually rooted that section.
Speaker 2 (26:39):
So but it depends on what they’re on. To the melliebugs,
sometimes you just can’t get in there yet and get
rid of them, like on the the hoyas, you know,
or like kaleithias that have like the little sheets that
they get.
Speaker 3 (26:53):
Underneath because they look they look for just a little
dry cravice, like whether it’s a little bit of damage,
like say a stem got damage and there’s a little
there’s like a little break, they will go in there
and make a nest, and so you’ll spray everything and
you think you got them all and they come right back.
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So and it’s the same with white flies where it’s
just like kind of pesky, you know, because like white
flies and I forget the actual like life cycle time
frame on them. But it’s like if they lay eggs
and the eggs look like little fish scales almost on
the leaf, right, every like five days eggs hatch. I
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think I want to say it’s five days on white flies,
but it’s like every five days they’ll hatch. So like
you spray, you think you got them all, right, and
then more come through eggs.
Speaker 2 (27:47):
Yeah, that’s another one is scale that we didn’t mention.
Speaker 3 (27:50):
It scales another one. And so like I usually just
use horticulture oil or anything with name is good. You know,
we carry a triple action. I’ll use that often and
that’s primeter and neme just to kind of hit it twofold.
Speaker 2 (28:07):
So and then so it’s better to be proactive on
all the insects instead of letting it get Yeah.
Speaker 3 (28:15):
And I’m not saying you need to go take a
magnifying glass to to your plants, but like a periodic checkup,
you know.
Speaker 2 (28:22):
And I do like use like the nemoral spray them
and make some shinier, you know, to clean them every
once in a while.
Speaker 3 (28:28):
Andy, But like the for instance, uh, and I do
this with all my stuff, you know, I’ll just kind
of you know, I do an inspection. You know. It’s
like my camellias. I’ll check the I’m not going to
check every leaf underneath for scale, but I mean going
into the growing season and then once or twice during
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the growing season, I’ll just go, I’ll check check underneath leaves,
look for that white tea scale that they’ll get because
once once you have a colony of one of these
insects bruing, it’s hard to get rid of. But then
also they’ll put stress on the leaf. So like a
camellia for instance, I mean they’ll start to turn kind
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of spot like the leaf will turn a little off
color and then it’ll get kind of spots to it.
You know. It’s same with like if there’s spidermn damage,
the chlorophyll kind of seems dammer and there’s like a
little bit of like peppering almost. Yeah, And so just
you know, periodic check up on all your plants is good,
(29:31):
and it’s just good anyway, you know, because it’s like
I invested money in these, you know, I want to
go ahead and make sure they stay healthy and or growing.
And if I need to trim anything, go ahead and
take care of it.
Speaker 2 (29:43):
A lot of times you won’t really notice until it’s
too late, because they do hide underneath the leaves a
lot of times. So if you’re not, yeah, just periodically
checking on it, it can get away from me.
Speaker 3 (29:54):
Yeah. And I don’t, like I said, I do not
check every single leaf, you know, but you know I’m
gonna one or two on each of my plants just
to inspect just as I’m walking through. And you know,
it helps when I have my youngest son to follow
me around with the water and can yeah. No, he hey,
I’m very proud of him. He’s been he’s decided he
(30:16):
wants to help. So anytime I go outside, whether or
not I’m going outside and take the trash out, he’s like,
I’ve gotta come help. And then he goes and grabs
the water and camp and he’s like, okay, so what
are we water? You know, And so it’s it’s super
endearing because I’m getting him to come out, and he’s
getting interested. So as long as I can keep him interested,
it’s the plan. So but again, if y’all wanted to call,
(30:37):
you could reach us at four nine nine nine five
two six. That’s four nine nine nine five two six,
please call. I think everybody’s still sleeping because it’s a
little chilly, and you know, comforters are warm, right, Look,
Jeremy nodded, he knows.
Speaker 4 (30:53):
So I would be curled up underneath the covers and
join the conversation as well, to be honest with you,
That’s what I’m.
Speaker 3 (30:59):
Saying, you know. So, but we got you know, we
also have some other gifts, wind chimes, humming bird feeders,
all that fun stuff. Gift cards, Yeah, her a gift card.
And then then you can’t be wrong, right, can’t be wrong. So,
but you know, I wanted to talk about weed control
(31:19):
and stuff for this next segment. I think because we’re
getting to the point where are weeds that are growing
in our flower beds and in our lawn are it’s
going to start really pushing growth, and as stuff matures,
some of our herbicides that are available aren’t as effective. Right, So,
(31:42):
like it’s getting hot enough now just about hot enough,
we wouldn’t be using atrozine all right, and then once
it hits ninety we won’t even use our weed free
zone for the lawns and we would switch to like
an MSM turf Celsius. There’s a few few other products
that we carry, but the h you want to really
(32:05):
hit your lawn weed control if you care about it,
uh early, you know, because once your Virginia button weed
starts actively growing where your sticker weed or crab grass
any of that stuff, as it gets older, everything’s stuped,
kind of loses its effectiveness, you know. And yeah, and
(32:28):
then it’s just gonna choke. It’ll choke out stuff, you know.
I mean, Virginia button weed seems like it’ll grow six
inches a day. You know. Well, no, like I’ve got
I mean, I swear I’ve gone out there and sprayed,
all right, and everything that spray turns purple and dies
out right, and then it comes back. So it’s like
(32:49):
if we’re if we just if we hit stuff early
when it’s not so hot. Also, yeah, it’s not so
scorching hot for us to go out and treat, all right,
we can go and keep it under control. And I
also recommend if you hadn’t put fertilizer on your lawn,
to go ahead and get that out down too, because
with this good little bit of rain we had, things
(33:11):
are about to start growing. Yeah. So but like like
I said, like you want to use your msm ter
for your Virginia button weed, and it hits a number
of other products in weeds that we’ll get popping up
this time of year. You know, doesn’t hit like your
sedges things like that. But we want to go ahead
and get that under control. I know for sure. I’ve
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been so I’ve been fighting like crabgrass and Dallas grass.
So I mean, I gotta spray. I’ll spray tuesday. So
but the Tuesday will be my third application just because
I’m just trying to get everything hammered down before we fertilize. So,
but it looks like we’ve got our first caller of
the day. Name is Joyce out of Preyville and she’s
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won an award for first Collar of the day. Yes,
good morning, Joyce. How are you?
Speaker 5 (34:04):
I am doing well? Thank you. I have a dipladinia
of the three gallon bush that I bought and I
was under the impressions that it would climb a trellis,
but I don’t see any signs of it wanting to
climb my pretty trailers put up for it.
Speaker 3 (34:22):
Is there a.
Speaker 5 (34:23):
Recommendation or is that just a plane that will not climb?
Speaker 3 (34:26):
So, yes and no. Like it used to be, if
you bought a Dipladinia, all right, they would not climb
a trellis. They put on these like little fake fake
ning little tendrils. All right, yeah, all right there now
that said, nowadays there are a couple varieties of Dipladinia
(34:50):
that do climb, but if you buy them from the nursery,
they will always have a trellis on them. If something, yeah,
they want like, we’re not going going to stock one
of the climbing like one of the varieties that would
climb and not have a trellis on it. Oh so
that’s kind of the yeah, yeah, so yours is going
to be more of like a dwarf mounting.
Speaker 5 (35:13):
I guess this is it’s called US or Bastevo or
something like that.
Speaker 3 (35:18):
Is that Yeah, that will tell you an yeah, that
one’s not going to climb for you. Yeah, so I’m sorry,
it makes it pretty, It makes a pretty pretty little bush,
but yeah, and then and they’ll put on little like
it looks like it wants to climb, but they won’t
actually attach and continue growing up.
Speaker 5 (35:40):
Well, I’m pretty upset about it.
Speaker 3 (35:43):
I apologize, okay.
Speaker 5 (35:45):
And also I have a suggestion for people if they want,
I mean, if they buy one of these pink diplodes
that do climb. I put it in a big pot,
like a battle pot, and there was a lot of
room all around the plant. Of course, it’s starting to
grow now, but I planted some blue nile around, want
(36:08):
you know, the base of it, and it’s so pretty.
The color is a beautiful so you know, anybody’s interested
in that.
Speaker 3 (36:14):
Yeah, that’s the aga panthers.
Speaker 1 (36:19):
Panthers.
Speaker 5 (36:19):
Yeah, No, it’s a blue nile. It’s a blue tiny
flower like maybe a half inch well, maybe like three
quarters of an inch.
Speaker 3 (36:26):
Okay, I know which one you’re talking about.
Speaker 5 (36:29):
Yeah, I think that’s what it’s called. But it’s a
really pretty plant. So we just wanted to, you know,
recommend that to anybody there.
Speaker 2 (36:38):
Okay.
Speaker 5 (36:39):
Well, I appreciate your help.
Speaker 2 (36:41):
And you’re very welcome, Joyce pointed.
Speaker 5 (36:43):
But the plant is pretty, so I guess I’ll keep it.
Speaker 3 (36:46):
Yeah, all right, Well, have a great one. Take care.
This is the last segment, so get your calls in now.
It’s gonna be four. I know everybody’s just been saving
up the questions for the last segment every time. Look, Jeremy,
you chuck, you chuckle, all right, but every time that’s
how it happens because everybody wakes up, had their coffee,
(37:09):
you know, maybe had some doughnuts. So but you know,
we talked about weed control. Kind of been a little
bit everywhere today, all right, Uh, I want to go
ahead and talk about vegetable planting for the six and
a half quarter minutes we have left, right so we
still have plenty of vegetables. If if you got a
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little bit of room for something, yeah, just go in
and get it in now. Like your peppers, get them
in now before it gets hot because they love the heat.
So then we’ll start really pumping out some growth. But uh,
you know, one to talk about. We’ve got calcium nitrate,
which I don’t know if y’all are familiar, but it
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is a staple with vegetable gardening. We need to be
putting that out, especially on our tomatoes. I use them
on pretty much everything except the beans. Don’t really put
it on. If you put it on beans, they typically
won’t set beans because you’re just feeding them with nitrogen.
So the bean is like, hey, I need to just grow.
(38:13):
I don’t know. Yeah, yeah, I don’t need to put
on beans. I’ll just keep on making leaves and vines. So,
but we’ve got peppers, eggplant, cucumbers. Oak has been hit
or miss, whether or not we have some still. You know,
got watermelons, watermelons. Yeah, I was cracking up. I walked
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by the vegetable table at Greenwool yesterday and our entire
squash selection is all full of flowers. Yeah, but we
got that. We’ve got peanuts and stuff. So if you’ve
never done peanuts, that is a cool little crap for
like the kids, the grandkids, a quarter pound, I want
to say, of peanuts that would be shelled peanuts, just
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that exterior shell, not the little interior paper shell covers
about one hundred square feet roll or a row or
a hundred foot row. So but it’s pretty neat, Like
if you’ve never done peanuts, it’s just a cool little
little project, you know, And when you buy them, it
looks like a peanut, you know, and you just take
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you crack that exterior shell, right, don’t effect, don’t mess
with the little paper shell that’s on the seed, and
you’ll plant them. And rule of thumb with most seeds
is going to be about the depth you plant. The
depth about the width of the seed. It is the
typical rule of thumb. So and I believe I remember
(39:44):
who it was a kiky fun now maybe it’s somebody
with LSU just was supposed to be releasing an article
about it, you know, just to get people, you know,
a little bit more interested in peanut growing, because it’s
not something that you know, I mean, I know, growing
up with our vegetable gardens at that parents house, I
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never thought about that. You know. It’s like we just
never did peanut. I mean, did corn, potatoes, all kinds
of other stuff, leaks, I mean, just everything else, but
we never did peanuts. So it’s just a cool little project.
And it’s neat because like as the peanut when it’s
time to harvest, you grab it by the the bunch,
we’ll call it, and you pull it out. You pull
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it out, you know, and then you have all the
peanuts attached to the root zone. So it’s like a
neat little I mean, it’s just a cool little thing.
Speaker 2 (40:35):
So can you do them in pots?
Speaker 3 (40:37):
I would think, So you can do them in pots? Yeah,
just a big pot, you know, and you get the
same thing. It’s just a smaller area, you know. So,
like I said, we got peanuts, got plenty of vegetables.
Speaker 2 (40:52):
Still got a lot of vegetable seeds too.
Speaker 3 (40:55):
Yeah. Never we never run out of vegetable seeds. And
then if when you come in to buy seed or
just any vegetable plants, swing on through by the seed
section at each location, because we should have a planting guide.
Oh yeah, and that is I mean, it’s just very
helpful for me because I mean I’ve got so many
dates and things just with work, not even with my
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own personal life for me to remember that if you know,
and I’m not going to log in my phone, Hey
it’s February first, I need to start potatoes. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (41:30):
You know, a lot of people just don’t even know
where to start, you know, So it yeah, really gives
you a guideline one.
Speaker 3 (41:37):
Oh yeah. I mean the other day I had a
lady she was like, I’m gonna do vegetables in the backyard,
and so she’s buying all these seeds and I was like, okay, well,
let me get this paper because half your seeds are
winter crop. Yeah it’s and it’s okay to get the
seed now, you know, just so you have it ready.
But you know you want to go buy those planting guides.
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And mister Johnny believes in the moon cycle, so he
posts it on the back. Yeah you know. I’m over
here like, well, I can’t ever see the moon because
it’s cloudy at night usually so, but he does a
really good job. He updates it every year, all right,
and he pulls information from like the Farmer’s Almanax, you know.
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He compiles all that onto one sheet of paper just
to make it eat easy, all right. And so I
usually every time anybody comes in, I was like, I
go get that piece of paper. I’m like, all right,
put that in the hand, all right, take it with
you because you’ll thank me later. And we do like
the peanuts, like we have peanut guides, you know, straw
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when we carry strawberries, we’ll do a strawberry guide as well,
just to give some information out. So well, Jessica, as always,
it has been a pleasure doing the radio show with you.
Not too many callers, but I know everybody was just
snuggled up underneath the comforter.
Speaker 2 (42:57):
Yeah, don’t forget it’s Mother’s Day.
Speaker 3 (42:59):
Yeah, yeah, Mother’s Day is gonna be here soon. You
don’t want to not get a gift for mother. So,
as always, if y’all have any questions, you can come
find me at the Green Old Springs location.
Speaker 2 (43:10):
Now, I’ll be gad to see you, see.
Speaker 3 (43:12):
Yep, And we’ll see at the nursery. Take care,
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