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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Good Saturday morning, and welcome to the WGBO Lawn and
Garden Show, brought to you by Cleg’s Nursery. If you
have a question about seasonal planting lon and garden concerns
are questions about landscaping, called four nine nine WGBO.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
That’s four nine six.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
Good morning, Baton Rouge, and welcome to news radio eleven
fifty wjbo’s l Lawn and Garden Show.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
My name is Butch Jrews and I’m with Brighton. Yeah,
good morning, I’m here. We’re both lucky to be here.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
I normally always a bright and sunshiny, but today I
strongly urge anyone to stay home and call us at
four nine nine six. That’s four nine nine WJBO. It’s
nasty out there. I’m sorry. Actually, there was a tree
down on Jefferson Highway that I had to dodge around
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on my.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
Way into the studio today.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
So definitely, if you do need to get out on
the roads this morning, be very very careful, slow down
and turn your headlights on, wipers on full blast, and
pay attention to what you’re doing. There was also a
car spun out on the interstate, so it is kind
of dangerous out there. But again great morning to get
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on the phone give us a call. Like I said
at four six, it’s four nine nine w JBO. What’s
new and exciting in Clegg’s Land? Do you have any
new rides? Roller coasters?
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Clegg’s Land every day is a roller coaster. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
So what I got a question for you, as everybody
probably is very aware to tomorrow. Tomorrow Tomorrow is Mother’s
Day and typically a lot of families especially it’s exciting
with a lot of the gardening that a lot of
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the young your families are starting to get involved in.
What would you suggest that if someone’s listening and has
a wife that maybe’s into gardening or maybe beginning to
get in. What would one item from Clegg’s nursery that
you could recommend that they come in as soon as
the rain lets up and get.
Speaker 4 (02:20):
So if we’re if we’re talking about like just something
that’s gonna flower and give you some color or like
not a vegetable garden, I would say hydrange it because
that’s the Mother’s Day flower.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
That’s a very nice thought And one of the things
I noticed in I actually was in the store the
other day and I actually agree that is one of
my favorite flowers for this time of year, and it
is a great Mother’s Day gift. And I noticed that
Clegg’s has branched out. I’ll say it that way. You’re
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actually inside the store. You have I think they’re six
inch Hydrangeay. Yeah, those are almost what I would call
a floral hydrangea.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
And I what I’m.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
About to say, please do not take it as a negative,
because it’s not meant to be that way. But and
I think that would be more exciting to give to
a wife or a mother if you’re not wanting to
actually plant it.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
Instead of going and.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
Getting a bouquet of flowers that have already been cut
off and are going to die in two or three days,
give her this nice pot at six inch hydrangea that
will continue to bloom as long as it’s watered, you know,
for a couple more weeks, and then you can.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
Try to put it in the ground.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
But it’s probably you’ve got a better shot with that
than the cut flowers.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
But the nice thing about Clegg’s Nursery and this branching
out that they’ve done is if you’re looking for again,
I’m gonna use air quotes a floral type thing to
give to her had they have those inside now. They’re beautiful,
by the way, But also don’t stop there. If you’re
into gardening and looking for something to plant. You’ve got
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some gorgeous hydranges outside that can be planted in the
ground and can be Mother’s Day flowers for several years
in the future. So kind of a neat new thing
for Clegg’s nurseries. You kind of going both ways.
Speaker 4 (04:25):
Now, yeah, we definitely started getting in some of those,
uh more like gift exactly, like the little miniature roses and.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
Is it tuberius ordonia?
Speaker 3 (04:42):
Yeah, yeah, and yeah they’ve got the and I can’t
remember that it’s not Colancho, it’s clem Land.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
It’s like a double clan.
Speaker 4 (04:49):
It looks like a colancho, but it’s not a clan
outside it starts with that.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
Told me wrong, It does hits something like that. Anyway,
come on by, I’ll tell you what the name is
at the store. We’ll look it up later.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
But no, but that is neat and you know again,
I don’t I know price this time of year, but
you know, the little floral hydrangel which is gorgeous and
it serves its purpose.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
You can go out out back.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
Not this morning, but at some point, and they’ve got
beautiful three gallon hydrangeers that can definitely be are meant
for this area. Yeah, that are in bloom that are
about the same price, So you can go either way.
Speaker 4 (05:27):
A good one would be the endless summer hydranges.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
That we get.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
But don’t be fooled into thinking they take full sun. No,
they even though like in North Carolina they are they’re
planted out in full sun and are gorgeous. But here
morning sun afternoon shade on them, you know, or full shade.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
Is going to be much better for them.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
But that the nice thing about that is they’re not
your old mob heads. They are hydrangs that bloom off
of new growth and can give you some continual bloom.
They’re not going to be full bloom like they are
right now all summer long, but they can give you
some bloom throughout the summer.
Speaker 4 (06:09):
How do you prune hydranges that bloom off the new growth.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
You just go ahead prune them like you would any
other flower. Go ahead and just prune them because you’re
wanting to stimulate new growth, So you prune them as
the flowers fade, just prune that off right above a
leaf node to get new growth.
Speaker 4 (06:25):
I’m sorry, it’s the ones that bloom off the old
growth you want, don’t you have to be more?
Speaker 2 (06:32):
Oh yeah, oh, very great point, Braden.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
You definitely, on your what we call mob heads or
your older hydrangers, you want to prune them immediately after
blooming so that they can grow out. Because you’re right,
they only bloom off of old growth. So if your
plant has been pruned off in all new growth, you’re
just not going to get any bloom right here. So, yeah,
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there are two different types out there now.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
Well I guess there’s always been.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
But yeah, the new, newer ones you do want to
you can prune more often to create more growth, but
you’re old like the Nico Blue, the merit Islet supreme,
those you really only Sister Teresa is another one. You
really just want to prune them immediately after bloom.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
Okay, makes sense. Well, I mean you could probably wait
an hour, but anyway.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
But no, no longer, no longer. No, definitely not No.
That was actually kind of blew.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
There because that was gonna be mine to go on
with the hydrangers.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
But no, there’s a lot of other plant material out there,
and one of the things, again i’m i’m I hate
doing this because it is a radio show trying to
give out information. It’s not necessarily a commercial for Clegg’s nursery. However,
we are the independent garden center in Baton Rouge, and
thank you very much for voting us the best nursery
in Baton Rouge.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
Yeah, that’s pretty This is too strict.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
Two years in a row, yes, two years so and
and there hasn’t been any voting before that. Yeah, but no,
there’s a lot of other neat things that you can do.
One of the things for Mother’s Day that I was
going to bring up is and we’re a little late
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for some of it, but come in talk to one
of the associates there and say, look, we’re just getting
into gardening. We’ve got two younger kids, my wife and
I are trying to get encourage them. You know, you
can buy a seedling tray, you know with the humidity
Domino for ten bucks. Highly recommend a bag of seed
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starter mix because that has been a sterilized soil, so
you don’t have any pathogens in it that can create issues.
That’s let’s just say ten bucks. It’s not I think
it’s like eight seven or eight bucks. Now, I might
suggest a couple packets of flower seeds.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
Some of the.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
Vegetable plants that you plant from seed you’re a little
late on. But there’s a lot of flowering plants. And
we have what we call our Livingston Seed Rack, which
you go into garden centers and the big box stores
and you’ll see seed racks. Johnny Naylor, who is Baton
Rouge’s number one seed expert, has gone through oh definitely.
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I mean, I’m not exaggerating fifteen to twenty seed companies,
and he has selected Livingston Seed as having the best selection,
the best seed in a pre packed package. Now, we
do have Johnny Naylor seeds for vegetables, which he packs himself,
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but the Livingston Seed has a great variety and he
is selected from their selection what’s best for us here.
And we’ve got several great flower racks, flowering seed racks.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
Pick up a couple packs of sunflower seeds. Yeah, you
know we have some. You know those are fun for kids.
Speaker 3 (10:07):
You can you know, it’s a family Mother’s day project.
You can plant this tray of seeds and you know
that kids can help mom keep it watered. Then as
they start to grow, you can actually go plant them
out in the yard. And it’s especially the sunflower seeds
because they just really you know, they’ll bloom the rest
of the summer. You can use them as a cut
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flower if you want to bring them in. You know,
Johnny does something wrong, breaks Mom’s favorite whatever, he can
run out in the garden clip two or three and
bring them in.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
Oh, look, I bought you some flowers.
Speaker 3 (10:39):
So it’s you know, that’s a great idea. And it’s
you know, okay, if the kids want to contribute a
dollar or so, you know, it’s not real expensive.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
It’s not like some other things you could.
Speaker 3 (10:49):
You know, you can probably come in and walk out
for thirty bucks at the most and have a nice
little something for the kids and mom to do on
Mom’s Day. So just another idea, something a little different tracked.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
That’s a very good idea. Well, thank you.
Speaker 3 (11:06):
I think can we mark today or do some sort
of thing, because I think that’s the first good idea
I think I’ve ever had.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
To stop it right here? Yeah, pretty much.
Speaker 3 (11:15):
Yeah, just keep recycling that little segment right there. But
now we do have all the traditional gifts that Klegg’s nursery,
the wind chimes, hummingbird feeders, Uh, you know, house plants,
great selection getting into some of the but what do
you I think we’re now being overrid anyway. It sounds like, but.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
Do we keep going? Yes?
Speaker 3 (11:40):
You can keep going? Oh okay, okay, I have no
idea what’s going on? But some of the newer I’m
going to use the air quotes, rareer house plants coming in,
some of the newer varieties.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
What is it?
Speaker 3 (11:53):
There’s a new poth that’s just came in. I’m putting
you on the spot. I’m sorry about that.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
Hate when you do that.
Speaker 3 (11:59):
I know, apologize, I should preempt you or something. But
but no, there was a new pothist that just a
very variegated pothos that came out that Jessica brought in.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
So I’m gonna have to ask her about that when
I go in. Why don’t you ask her about that?
You can text her. She probably won’t answer.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
Oh okay, I wouldn’t anyway. What else is exciting at
the nursery?
Speaker 4 (12:26):
I we definitely this This spring has been pretty pretty busy.
So we’ve been getting in uh, new shipments of color
almost seems like daily.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
So if not daily, that’s your fault. Yeah, definitely is.
But no, the.
Speaker 3 (12:44):
Nursery looks great if you do again, wait a little bit.
But the other nice thing, I can’t I’m frustrating myself
with this constant commercial. But the nursery is a great
place to stop by today, even though it’s raining.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
You can sprint to the front door. You got.
Speaker 3 (13:05):
We have ten thousand square feet inside. Yeah, we have
at least that much now with the new expanded greenhouse,
it’s all covered.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
You can come walk around. There may be a drip
or two hitting.
Speaker 4 (13:16):
You, but yeah, definitely when you walk out into the greenhouse.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
But but no, it’s still it’s all covered. I wouldn’t
suggest walking out into the shrub yard unless there’s just
definitely something you have to have, which I just really
can’t see how that could be.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
But you can’t dig that hole today. You can’t.
Speaker 3 (13:33):
You’re not gonna be able to dig a hole for
a couple for a while you work at Segan Lane,
don’t you, I think? So, Okay, just want to make
sure because people are going to be like, oh wow,
I got to go meet this guy, so we want
to send him to the right place.
Speaker 5 (13:49):
Never mind, I’m not going to sing, we don’t want
to send people to meet you.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
No to his house. That’s what I mean. He’s retired now,
so can I give out his address again.
Speaker 3 (14:05):
I’m sorry about that last segment we got with the
warning flash flood warning going out. I got a little confused.
So it was probably not the greatest segment. Well, never mind,
there never had. The greatest segment.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
Was like, the last segment was one of the greatest.
You’ve ford that. It was a high note. Oh cool,
that’s disturbing, fantastic.
Speaker 5 (14:24):
Do you do you do you remember that happening? No, okay,
try for it again. But you know, obviously we’ve been
in a drought.
Speaker 4 (14:36):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (14:37):
In fact, we were discussing that in our hours of
preparation this morning when we got here at five. Typically,
when we’ve been in a drought situation like we were
we have been in and we start getting into a
rain pattern, that rain pattern tends to continue. We are
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going to it’s going to be difficult to plant anything
in the very near future. Scott Ricka, who used to
do the show, who has retired from Clegg’s. I always
just say, if you go to dig a hole and
you can’t break the soil up or the soil kind
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of pops out of the soil, right, mud, don’t plant
you when you dig a hole. You want the soil
that you’re taking out to kind of crumble as you
do it. And that’s a great way to put it. However,
I’m going to simplify that even more. Okay, if you
dig a hole and it fills with water, don’t plant.
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And that’s going to probably be what it’s going to
be for a while. I think this is continued. Is
it continuing through tomorrow? Jeremy, I think not as bad, but.
Speaker 5 (15:52):
It’s yes, the kind of heavier rain possibilities do linger
into tomorrow. After that, it looks like it gets into
more that seasonal pattern of where you know, afternoon storms
where we have rain but nothing of this nature, which
you know, I’m sure some people are probably frustrated thinking,
but it’s easier to dig when the.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
Goes right in.
Speaker 3 (16:13):
Yeah, but yeah exactly, but no, it’s you can just
kind of throw it down real hard and right.
Speaker 4 (16:20):
Kind of be like planting something in a pot without
drainage holes.
Speaker 3 (16:26):
Exactly. Very good analogy, very good analogy. And also I
should have told braydon this yesterday. If you do have
irrigation systems, turn them off. No problem under the bus
on that one, didn’t I But yeah, there’s funny you
know as I as I head home today, I go
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buy a bank and it’s always so funny that bank
sprinkler is always going in the middle of the rain.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
Micro irrigation a little bit helps though.
Speaker 3 (16:57):
Yeah exactly, Yeah, you’re you’re putting more into the flash
flood warding.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
But no, it’s it’s going to be difficult.
Speaker 3 (17:03):
Another thing, it’s going to be very difficult on vegetable plants,
especially if you do raise bed gardening. It’s not going
to be as problematic as what we would call an
end ground. We can actually create and we’ll have what
we call oxygen debt in our soils because of all
this rain.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
And what’s going to happen.
Speaker 3 (17:25):
What the symptoms of that is the plant will start
to droop. And the reason for that is there has
to be air pockets in the soil for the plant
to be able to take up soil moisture. If there’s
no air pockets in the soil, the plant is basically
going to drown, so it can’t breathe exactly so, and
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that’s going to happen to some of your vegetable plants.
So the main thing you want to do is you
don’t want to, oh my goodness, my plant is drooping.
And this can happen, especially if it continues through tomorrow.
Like Jeremy so professionally said, it’s going to be several
days that this may occur, especially if we go from
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this into bright sunny days, because then the les want
to get the moisture and they’re gonna try and suck
it up from the ground and it’s not gonna be there.
So you may see drooping in not only no, not
only your vegetable plants, but especially any newly planted plants.
You may see a little bit of drooping. Don’t go,
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oh my goodness, it’s dry already. What happened. No, it’s
not dry. It’s actually drowning. So don’t make that worse
by adding more water to it. There’s really nothing you
can do to help with that situation. Just ride it
out as basically all you can do. If it just really,
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really really looks bad, take a little missing bottle and
go miss the foliage. That actually helps a lot on
vegetable plants. Most of your shrubbery, it’s not an issue
with but tomato plant something like that. You may want
to do a very light missing on the leaves. But
again this the issue should go away. In a couple
of days. The ground will start to get oxygen back
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into it so that it won’t be But again something
to be on the lookout for, don’t you know. Oh
my goodness, Monday morning you got there, and you know
Monday afternoon it’s been bright and sunny, and things are droopy.
They’re not dry by any stretch of the imagination. So
speaking of vegetable gardney, what can we plant right now?
Speaker 2 (19:34):
You can still do Okra peppers.
Speaker 3 (19:38):
That great selection of peppers, by the way, Yeah, it’s
a lot more.
Speaker 4 (19:43):
It seems like it’s been available to pull in this year.
Speaker 2 (19:48):
Anything new.
Speaker 4 (19:51):
There’s definitely been a few varieties that I haven’t seen
out on the table before. But I don’t know if
that necessarily means it.
Speaker 2 (19:59):
It’s what are those varieties.
Speaker 4 (20:01):
The new ace? I think it’s the type of bell pepper. Okay,
I think it’s a red bell pepper. And then there’s
been like Italian sweets.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
Yeah, that was that’s a new one for me. Too.
I’ve planted a few.
Speaker 3 (20:15):
Of those those ace red bell peppers, so they come
on the plant red.
Speaker 4 (20:21):
I think they well, they probably don’t start out red,
but they don’t. They turn red after like when they’re
ready to be picked.
Speaker 3 (20:29):
Yeah, I’m sorry, I just I’ve been doing a great job.
You’re gonna need to go to the hospital. I’ve thrown
you under the bus so much here today. Very love
to do that.
Speaker 2 (20:39):
But I know it’s a time on a tradition. Very
few bell peppers.
Speaker 3 (20:46):
The purple is the only one I can think of,
May and chocolate bell peppers, all bell peppers except for
those two varieties, and most of you, most all of
your peppers come on green. And people don’t understand it.
Peppers are one of the few things that you can
pick at any stage and they’re edible, unlike a tomato. Well, yeah,
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you can pick it and make fried green tomatoes, or
if you for some reason like the taste of a
green tomato, which I don’t understand, you can pick them.
But a pepper matures to a color, and typically on
a bell pepper. That’s why we call them sweet peppers.
Because once they’ve got the red, the yellow, the orange,
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whatever color they mature to they do tend to get sweeter,
but you can pick and most of your most of
your bell peppers, even what you see in the store,
are green. They’re just they’re edible, they’re good, they’re what
we want to stuff or whatever, but they’re not actually
truly mature, which is kind of most people don’t understand.
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They come in and go, why I planted a red
bell pepper and it’s green.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
Well, yeah, it will be.
Speaker 3 (21:57):
And the unfortunate thing for us here in Baton Ridge
is if you, especially in the spring and summer, if
you allow that bell pepper to if you try to
let that bell pepper mature on the plant to a color,
there’s all sorts of little nasty things that tend to
get that pepper beforehand, so typically the pepper will deteriorate
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before it actually matures.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
If you can.
Speaker 3 (22:22):
Bring your pepper plant through to the fall, when our
temperatures get a little bit milder, that’s when you can
let the pepper truly mature on the plant and turn
the color that you’re looking.
Speaker 2 (22:33):
For, whether red, yellow, whatever.
Speaker 3 (22:35):
But yeah, most of most peppers that we pick here
we pick green.
Speaker 5 (22:41):
Okay, so you mentioned chocolate bell peppers. Is that the
ones they make the spicy chocolate bars out of.
Speaker 3 (22:48):
No, they make the Easter rabbits out of them, specifically
the chocolate Easter bunnies out of chocolate bell peppers.
Speaker 2 (22:59):
I’m waiting for the rest of this punchline. Keep waiting.
Speaker 3 (23:03):
Yeah, did you know that the world’s largest Easter chocolate
rabbit was fourteen foot tall?
Speaker 2 (23:10):
No, that’s insane. Look at I who ate all that.
Speaker 3 (23:15):
They broke it up and gave it to charity.
Speaker 2 (23:17):
Okay, I’m gonna I’m gonna hold this up now. I’m
genuinely curious. Now I have something to do during the
break after everyone gives us a call it four.
Speaker 3 (23:27):
Oh, thank you for that. We’re also very likely to
see blossom end rot on tomatoes starting to occur because
of this huge moisture fluctuation we’ve just had.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
Again.
Speaker 3 (23:43):
All this moisture in the soil is going to tie
up calcium. You know something we’ve discussed many times here
is typically in your vegetable garden you have enough calcium
in the soil, especially if you follow the calcium nitrate regime,
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I mean, with with your fertilization. What happens is if
we have excessive moisture or excessive moisture fluctuations. The tomato
can’t grab that calcium off of the off of the soil.
So what we have is a product at Clegg’s commercial.
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It’s a liquid called stop Rot.
Speaker 2 (24:29):
Thought it was.
Speaker 3 (24:32):
Yield booster, thank you, thank you. Yes, that is it
actually calcium chloride. You actually do spray that on the foliage.
You know, if you start to see a tomato or
two where the where the blossom attached to the tomato
start to rot, come by the store, grab a bottle
of this spread on. It’s almost it’s not going to
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correct the tomato that the rot has started on, but
it’s almost an instant fixed for you will not have
any more issue with that. But that is something to
pay attention to and also in your garden right now
is to watch out for blossom and rot on tomatoes.
Speaker 2 (25:10):
That’s French.
Speaker 4 (25:12):
We had a customer bringing you just stopped me in
my tray.
Speaker 2 (25:20):
So no more French, no more, Okay, got it.
Speaker 3 (25:24):
Uh. We’ve had some good discussions. We’re going over some
vegetable garden issues that are likely to pop up due
to the weather we’re having today, yesterday, today, and tomorrow
that’s a plant, isn’t it?
Speaker 2 (25:37):
It sure is? Why do they call it that?
Speaker 4 (25:40):
You explain this one time and I’m probably gonna get
the color pattern wrong, but yesterday they were purple.
Speaker 2 (25:49):
Today there blue? Right, I guess white or bengo. You
pay attention.
Speaker 4 (25:58):
Yes, I said that one time over the walkie at
Klegg’s and for whatever reason, that’s that’s stuck with me.
Speaker 3 (26:06):
Finally something. But no brune Fels here yesterday, today and tomorrow.
Plants are very I need to get one I’ve had.
I don’t know what happened. Ours lost it several years ago.
But it’s kind of a neat little plant for a
morning sun situation. Even will take almost full shade. But
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your description was perfect. It’s starts out a purple or
dark blue flower the first day, a light blue flower
the second day, and almost white the third, so you
have all those colors on the shrub at the same time.
Speaker 2 (26:39):
So beautiful little.
Speaker 3 (26:40):
Shrub, if you have a little typically gets about three
to four foot tall two two and a half feet wide,
So it’s a nice little plant to tuck into a
little shade garden or morning sun area.
Speaker 4 (26:52):
But you know, but if you lost George, you should
come buy Cleggs on Seeking Lane because we have some
very nice ones right now.
Speaker 2 (27:01):
Cool, that’s good.
Speaker 3 (27:03):
Since I promoted it, I should have probably asked that first.
But a neat little plant something a great mother’s day gift?
Speaker 2 (27:11):
Yeah? You know what else would be a great Mother’s
Day gift? What’s that? If you can’t just can’t decide
what to get her? A gift card?
Speaker 3 (27:17):
Bingo’s not a Bingo card a gift card?
Speaker 2 (27:21):
Yeah, I mean card.
Speaker 4 (27:24):
I would maybe recommend the scratch off one goes a
little quicker.
Speaker 2 (27:29):
Did you know they had those?
Speaker 4 (27:31):
No, yeah, scratch off lottery ticket. Oh, I know, lottery tickets,
but they have like a Bingo one. Oh wow, you
know that? That just I’ve learned something today, so I
have to quit. Okay, maybe maybe Gary can teach us something.
Speaker 3 (27:48):
Gary, Good morning, Welcome the news radio eleven fifty wjbo’s
Lawn and Garden Show.
Speaker 2 (27:52):
What can we do for you? Oh, good morning, good morning.
Speaker 6 (27:56):
For the last three years, I would come in or
wait winter early spring and buy a pack of celebrity
tomato plants that you pull to a pack. Yes, first
two years combined, I might have seven tomatoes okay total
in those two years. This year I got the same
four pen did everything exactly the same. This year I
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got sixty tomatoes on it. What do you think called
is that? And everything I did was exactly the same
year to year to year.
Speaker 3 (28:30):
Yes, there’s there’s so many very variables that can go
into growing vegetable plants, and you know there’s good years
and bad years typically, And I did the same thing
this year. I got my four pack of celebrity tomatoes
in January, planted them in one gallon containers and they are.
Speaker 2 (28:53):
Just have exploded.
Speaker 3 (28:55):
The main thing whenever you start that early, and it’s
it’s much more problematic with peppers than tomatoes, but if
you get if they get too cold, the plant will
actually stunt. It doesn’t die, it just never really performs
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as well as it should.
Speaker 2 (29:18):
So and we’ve had some.
Speaker 3 (29:21):
Weather issues for the last couple of years with late
January early February hard freezes, and so if we don’t
get those plants protected real well, again it’s much more
problematic in peppers than tomatoes, but you could have actually
just gotten some stunting due to cold.
Speaker 2 (29:41):
Weather on those.
Speaker 3 (29:43):
I was real this year, really diligent on anytime it
got below thirty five degrees. My four little celebrity plants
and gallon containers visited me inside for the evening. So
that’s one of the things to just be careful for
anytime you have any type of except for your coal
crops of course, any of your vegetable plants and containers.
Speaker 2 (30:06):
And Gary, I agree with you completely.
Speaker 3 (30:10):
There’s nothing better than having, you know, four celebrity plants
or big beef plants. Get them in January, put them
in gallons, you know, babym for you know, a month
or so. I think I planted mine in the ground
right first week or so of March, so I had them,
you know, I cared for him for about six weeks
in containers and it has it is about to explode,
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and I’m gonna be given away tomatoes here shortly. But yeah,
I have a sneaky suspicion there was some what we
call stunting on those plants.
Speaker 2 (30:41):
But other na go ahead.
Speaker 6 (30:45):
I’ve got strawberries, I’ve got tomatoes, I’ve got qcumbus and
I haven’t yet put the first herbicide on it. And
it’s no insect damage to any of those crops.
Speaker 3 (30:56):
Well, don’t put a herbicide. Put an insect aside.
Speaker 2 (30:59):
But yeah, check out, yeah, but no.
Speaker 3 (31:03):
And knock on wood, cross your fingers, jump up and
down and turn around, do something. But so far this year,
I hate even saying this, but the pest problems have
not occurred.
Speaker 2 (31:16):
We yeah, exactly.
Speaker 3 (31:20):
One of the things that we’re really excited about at
Clegg’s this year. In one of the big issues we
have is with squash vine bores, and typically they are.
Speaker 2 (31:31):
Really kicked up by this time in the year.
Speaker 3 (31:33):
And Clegg’s now has a squash vine boar trap that
is extremely effective the moss. It’s a pheromone. The moss
are attracted to it. They get stuck to it so
they can’t lay the eggs. It causes a whole issue.
I’ve had to trap out for two to three weeks
now and John I was talking to Johnny the other
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day he said the same thing.
Speaker 2 (31:55):
We don’t have them. It’s like they’re not occurring this year.
Speaker 3 (31:59):
So again, whatever you do to keep the luck going,
if it’s knock on wood, jump up and down and
turn around or stand on your head, keep doing it. Gary,
because we have have not had a pest issue so
far this year.
Speaker 6 (32:13):
Can I make one quick suggestion if it’s possible, sure,
can I don’t know who you need to speak to,
maybe yourself, but anyhow, can now kind of stop putting
some Honeybee supplies in the store?
Speaker 3 (32:29):
You have supplies now, well we have honey know that
he’s talking about the supplies to.
Speaker 2 (32:39):
Gary. We have.
Speaker 3 (32:41):
We have discussed that and looked at it a couple
of times that I hate to use the word issue.
The problem with it is the amount of space that
it would require to do it properly. Only two stores
that would have that amount of room a Denim and Seegan,
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and they’re both pretty well maxed out on the interiers.
And the other thing that concerns us is if we
bring something like that in, we really want to have
someone very knowledgeable to help customers. And that’s something that
you know, I’m gonna be totally honest, we really don’t.
Speaker 2 (33:22):
Have at the store. So until we figure that out.
Speaker 3 (33:26):
It’s a great idea and something that has been discussed,
but I don’t think it’s going to happen in the
near future.
Speaker 2 (33:31):
Gary. Is Gary available for us?
Speaker 6 (33:33):
Yeah, you want a job, I’ve been getting online. I
got my garage is full of boxes, you know, But
I guess that it’s probably pretty competitive. It’s probably not
a big profit into that stuff maybe too, you know
it because it’s so competitive online, you.
Speaker 3 (33:50):
Know, you know, and so much of you know, so
much of that online stuff if you really look at it,
you know a lot of the stuff that we do.
I’m gonna use the word compete online. We’re very competitive
on but again it’s more of a you know, a
turns I hate to use a technical term, but it’s
a turns per square foot and that’s something that concerns us.
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So again, great idea and that it has been discussed,
but I don’t think it’s going.
Speaker 2 (34:15):
To happen herey, but I appreciate.
Speaker 3 (34:17):
It, hey, and that does open up phone lines right now?
Four five two six, that’s four nine nine w JBO
WJBO rating from Clegg’s Nursery.
Speaker 2 (34:30):
Good morning once again, Good morning?
Speaker 4 (34:31):
Was that a young Well why did you say it
like that?
Speaker 2 (34:34):
Creepy? Thank you?
Speaker 3 (34:36):
Was?
Speaker 5 (34:37):
Did you forget the stand in the last break? And
that’s why it came out like that. You’re exhausted because
you’re watching and told you to stand up. Yet that’s
a good point.
Speaker 2 (34:43):
Ah, I see, there you go.
Speaker 3 (34:44):
I had a question off the air. I thought it
was a very good question. They were asking about all
of these blue flowers that they’re seeing around town. They
kind of look like a ball or a lollipop on
the end of a stick.
Speaker 2 (34:59):
Do you have any idea what those might be?
Speaker 3 (35:01):
Braiden huh aga panthers? Anyway, Yes, there’s just a flower.
It’s a blue flower. Shit, it can be dark blue
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that are looked like a ball on the end of
a stick that possibly you could say it was a lollipop.
Speaker 4 (35:32):
I think I might just quit. Is this really how
somebody worded this? Or where are you coming? Where did
this come from?
Speaker 3 (35:47):
I was trying to do something timely. Someone maybe driving
around town would see these blue flowers that looked like
a ball on top of a stick that possibly could
resemble a lollipop or a blow pop, just to give
out some good information.
Speaker 2 (36:05):
I didn’t know you were going to sit over there, and.
Speaker 5 (36:12):
Probably one of the best examples of timing I’ve seen
in a long time.
Speaker 2 (36:20):
I mean, it’s all over, I’m gonna walk away. Somebody’s
gonna talk to the next eight minutes.
Speaker 3 (36:27):
Or anyway, if you have seen those plants around town,
and they’re very pretty plants, come by Clegg’s Nursery and
ask for Brighton and he’ll go, what, Well, now he
knows he’s expecting it.
Speaker 4 (36:42):
Don’t give me a description like that. Just tell me
you want agapanthas. I’ll bring you straight to them. There
you go, There you go. But what if they don’t
know it’s an Agapanthus?
Speaker 2 (36:50):
How old I was? Like lollipa?
Speaker 4 (36:54):
You know how I would come in with a picture
of it, or I would look it up first.
Speaker 2 (37:00):
I would not come in and describe it like that.
But if they look it up first, they won’t need
your help. Is that why you’re telling me? They need
they need my help to find it. Ah, that’s true.
They won’t know where it is in the store.
Speaker 5 (37:15):
You can hear this bit all over again when you
go listen to the podcast on our free iHeartRadio app.
Just search w jb O Lawn and Garden Show. You’ll
find this episode in previous week’s episodes as well. You
said you were stopping talking, so I’m just taking over.
There you go, and uh, don’t forget. You can h
what’s the word follow? You can set there the podcast
as a preset. Say that three times fast, and also
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leave us a talkback mic if you’re listening. We haven’t
mentioned that today, but if you are listening on the app,
you can leave us a message anytime by tapping the
red microphone button. Just don’t just don’t type what is
the lollipop? No, we can’t help you there. Straight we’re
gonna take you straight to brain that.
Speaker 2 (37:53):
Cloth think that is a perfect description. Okay.
Speaker 3 (38:01):
Other plants that you can plant now would be venka, penta,
blue days, and angelonia.
Speaker 2 (38:09):
Great options for color. Would those be full sun or
would those be shade? Plants? Would all be full sign
how lollipop esk are these? So we just know, like
on a level of charms, this is a zero?
Speaker 3 (38:22):
Yeah, these are more what’s the little bits that you
put on like ice cream?
Speaker 2 (38:28):
Sprinkle sprinkles? Yeah, these are Is this our new thing?
Speaker 5 (38:31):
We’re gonna equate everything to their candy like equivalent.
Speaker 3 (38:35):
I’m not sure there’s gonna be a show after this one.
Speaker 2 (38:40):
Oh what about for shade?
Speaker 3 (38:42):
Would you might be suggest hostas kalladiums or impatience?
Speaker 2 (38:46):
What about pagonias? Ponias are good too. Why weren’t they
on your list? I don’t know because I didn’t write them.
Speaker 4 (38:52):
But uh, but no, that is a great option, although
I would say there some agonias that takes shade and
son that takes son.
Speaker 2 (39:02):
What con would take son? The bronze leaf would take son.
Speaker 3 (39:07):
But I would suggest afternoon shade even on those. Yeah, okay,
fair enough. Can you use pagonias and hanging baskets?
Speaker 2 (39:15):
You most certainly can. Was there a particular type you
would want to use?
Speaker 3 (39:20):
Would there be a lollipop type?
Speaker 2 (39:26):
I don’t think Jeremy’s gonna make it to the end.
Speaker 5 (39:31):
Welcome to the WJBO Long Garden and Candy Store.
Speaker 4 (39:35):
I’ve heard there’s a one called a dragon wing. Yeah,
those are really nice, that baby wings. Could you use
those in hanging baskets?
Speaker 2 (39:44):
Yeah? Do you have them already in hanging baskets? I
have some? Yeah? Would any of these make a nice
Mother’s Day gift? They would make great Mother’s Day gifts.
Are there any other hanging baskets?
Speaker 4 (39:53):
I feel like this in interview or some if you
were to buy something for your mother.
Speaker 3 (40:00):
We went through that already, I said, Hi, Trangea, No, Actually,
hanging baskets have always been a very and we just
lost totally gone off tracks on this show, and I
do apologize for that. But this is probably the one
show Tom’s going to listen to. But hanging baskets are
always a traditional mother’s they have always been for years
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and great selection.
Speaker 2 (40:22):
Do you still have the bogan Villa baskets? Definitely have
Bogaan Villa.
Speaker 3 (40:26):
I mean y’all have done a thing with the little
I’m gonna use the word serpentine hanging thing out front
of the store, and I every time I walk in,
and I’m not a huge Bogain Villa fan, but there’s
been tempted a couple of times to pick one up.
Speaker 2 (40:37):
Oh, yes, they are gorgeous.
Speaker 4 (40:39):
No, it’s been a really big cellar this year. The
Bogaan Villa trees.
Speaker 3 (40:44):
Yes, I’ve seen several places, several of them, like in
containers in front of houses.
Speaker 2 (40:51):
Real quick.
Speaker 3 (40:51):
I know we’re kind of running up against the end
of the show. But one of the plants that I
really strongly urge people to start using more of is
some of the new Land Hannah’s what is it bandida?
Speaker 2 (41:02):
Yeah, this series.
Speaker 3 (41:05):
We planted some in our yard earlier in probably mid March,
and they are just phenomenal right now. Butterflies all over them,
excellent bee plants, great, just put they’re not very tall,
probably maybe six to eight inches tall. Yeah, spreading out,
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They’re just phenomenal. But anyway, Wow, the music has turned on.
Most people are now thankful that this show is over with.
Speaker 2 (41:34):
We are Cleggs Nursery.
Speaker 3 (41:35):
We have four locations in the greater Baton Ridge area
Seegan Lane, the best Store Denim Springs on Range Road,
Greenwald Springs near Sherwood, and the mid City store on
Don Moore.
Speaker 2 (41:45):
Comebine and visit us.
Speaker 3 (41:48):
Not a great day to do it today, but we
do have gift certificates all Mother’s Day gifts available. The
new Floral issue if you want to go with something
like that, is now available at most of the legs.
Also again, we are Clegg’s Nursery. We are the independent
garden center in Baton Rouge. You’ve been listening to news
radio eleven fifty wjbo’s lawna Garden Show.
Speaker 2 (42:08):
We’ll see you next Saturday morning.
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