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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Tis the season for spring gardening, as we’re welcoming in
the month of May. But obviously we’ve been seeing a
lot of challenges as of late, our unseasonably warm winter,
the drought concerns, the watering restrictions, you name it. It
really feels like it’s going to be a very difficult
time for your spring gardening. So to join us with
a little bit of some tips and tricks so what
we can kind of do this year is Audrey Sharp.
(00:20):
She’s the operations manager of the Plumb Creek Garden Market.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Audrey, thank you so much for your time this morning.
Hopefully we have Audrey there. Audrey, you there, there, you are? Hello?
Talk again?
Speaker 3 (00:37):
Can you hear me?
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (00:39):
Perfect, Audrey, appreciate you joining us this morning. I’m curious
of what we see this year. I think people might
be a little pessimistic about their gardens and what they
can do. Is gardening still realistic of what you can
see this year compared to what you’ve done in years past,
or do you have to do a little bit of adapting,
a little bit of changing of what you’re going to
(01:00):
be planting this year compared to past years?
Speaker 4 (01:03):
Conversation, this year definitely out but I don’t think that
the new time to follow out a gardeners for smart people.
I think we’ve been adapting our gardeners a little bit
here now while we can’t. But this year, absolutely, I
think people are more focused on some xerox.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
They’re going further.
Speaker 4 (01:21):
They want to go further with their money without using
so much water. And that’s something that we actually excel
in when we order. We are focused on Colorado natives
a lot of xerox. But the one thing to keep
in mind, though, is a garden uses it about fifty
percent less water than a lawn. So if you can
add your lawn out a little bit of the time
each year, you’re going to save yourself money in the
(01:44):
long run throughout or no doubt.
Speaker 5 (01:47):
Can I can? I just ask Audrey if you could
maybe get closer to your microphone or do something. The
audio is not as good as it could be. Hopefully
better now, Yeah, that’s better. That’s better. Thank you, Thank
you for that.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
One quick follow up for on genus question.
Speaker 5 (02:04):
My my wife is an avid gardener and we just
recently moved into a new place, right, so we got
a lot of stuff to do. We had put down
hydro seed like a way to grow low water native grasses,
but still they need water to begin with, and we’re
just kind of, you know, struggling with how to balance,
you know, needing water to get stuff established versus understanding
(02:28):
the water situation.
Speaker 6 (02:29):
Right now, I think that’s such a good point that
you mean grass, you know, even zerox their first year
or two, you are needing to water them to establish
their root system so they grow stronger for you and
start to sustain without so much water. You know.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
The one thing I can recommend though, as a fertilizer,
we sell pro Rich. Actually in our market. We are
you know, we’re a betting greenhouse, but I do love
this stuff so much. We’ve got a couple pairings of
Revive and pro Rich that you can use to help
your lawn go further, especially before this moisture. If you
can get that fertilizer down on your lawns, take advantage
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of that moisture coming in, you’ll be surprised how green
your grass gets in just a couple of days. And
this is a Colorado fertilizer, guys, that we sell in
our market for grass.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
Do you have a sweet spot, Audrey, of when it
is acceptable to plant because I know a lot of
people say after Mother’s Days. Some people say beginning of May.
Now it sounds like we’re going to get that rain
wintry mix in the next couple of days and temperature
is going to be in the upper thirties, so maybe
you don’t want all those springtime flowers. I mean, I
just can’t figure out when is the best time to
make sure that you can plant those springtime flowers.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
You know, just start small, go ahead and get your
hands dirty while you can, cause you know, earlier last
month there was like a three or four week stretch
where we kept all of our annuals outside, so we.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
Weren’t even thinking about loaves.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
But just to keep in mind, the lows that you’re
looking for when you’re dealing with annuals is forty.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
If it dips below forty.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
You want to bring everything in or covered up. So
plant pots that are on wheels or that you can
hand carry into your house and plant your bigger containers.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
When we’re well out of the low zone.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
Yeah, I mean usually it’s around Mother’s Day, but you
definitely can plant something now to take advantage of the beauty.
Put it outside during the day and just tuck it
in at night. Forty is the low for annuals and
for vegetables. You know, people forget peppers are actually tropicals,
so the low is fifty. So it is still too
low to be putting your veggie gardens outside. You can
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go ahead and get your starters started. You can keep
them water, put them outside to get sun, but they
still need to be brought in every night.
Speaker 5 (04:38):
I’m curious about Obviously, we can’t control the weather. We’ve
got some trees in our backyard. I think my wife
said they’re locust trees. Maybe that had some leaves and
then in the last cold snap lost the leaves and
it seems like they’re coming back.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
But kind of how do you know whether stuff is really.
Speaker 5 (04:57):
Damaged versus just like, all right, we’re going to lose
the leaves, but then we’re going to eventually be fine.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
I mean, it sounds like some.
Speaker 5 (05:02):
Of the stuff you’re talking about would not eventually be
fine if you planted it too early.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
Yeah, Like annuals, those aren’t things that will typically come
back for you. But trees, you know, those are gangster plants.
You give them a couple months, they’re not gonna die
on you. You know, and the birds will kind of
fly around under there, and the shriveled leaves will eventually
drop and the new flourish leaves will come back. I’m
looking at my Rosa Sharon outside. I got hit by
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that frostbit last week after it was starting to green
out look beautiful. It’s shriveled up, turned black.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
It’s there.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
They’re slowly starting to fall off. But this planel will
cover just like trees. I mean, I wouldn’t make any
assumptions until, like, honestly August.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
What do you think is.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
The biggest question that you have right now of people
coming into Plumb Creek Garden Market. Do you feel like
some people are looking at this season differently from years
in the past, and you’re getting some new questions, new
concerns about our drought and watering restrictions.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
I do some people hear water restrictions and they might
not necessarily do the research. I think we all need
to do the due diligence and as a community maybe
lay off turf watering, anything with an irrigation system. But
there are zero restrictions on you using your hand hose,
use a water wind with the shut off valve too,
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so you’re not wasting water. You can shut your hose
off while you’re walking to your next pot, but you
can handwater. You can handwater with your hose for sure.
And even if you want to water your grass. I mean,
it’s just I think it’s you can’t water before eight
or after eight and before six maybe, but there’s no
restrictions on handwatering. And honestly, the bigger you fill your pot,
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the more reserve your potholds in water, so it goes further.
So you’re gonna do pots, you know, just do the
big bomber one so they hold water well for you.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
Operations manager of the Plum Creek Garden Market. It’s Audrey Sharp. Audrey,
appreciate your time this morning. I also love the free
gangster plants.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
I think I’m ASTs. I’ll take it. Thank you so much,
appreciate your time.
Speaker 5 (07:06):
Thank you,
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