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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Good Saturday morning, and welcome to the WGBO Lawn and
Garden Show, brought to you by Clegg’s Nursery. If you
have a question about seasonal planting, lon and garden concerns,
are questions about landscaping called four nine nine WGBO. That’s
four nine nine two six.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Good morning, Baton rouge and welcome to news radio eleven
fifty wjbo’s Lawn and Garden Show.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
My name is Butcher Drews.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
I’m with Chris Herman from Clegg’s Nursery and in turn,
Carolina’s with us today.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
Good morning, good morning, good morning, and happy wear and
O the Green Day and that what they call that parade? Yes, yeah, yes,
I thought, yes, you are correct. I know it’s not
Saint Patrick’s Day, but today’s the parade. I thought it
was rolling with the green. It’s wearing of the green?
Oh is it okay? No? Wonder you never show up
to the parade on time? You can’t find it.
Speaker 4 (00:55):
No, I’m told to go to a parade. We already
had discussion about that. All there your distance of walking abilities,
I’m hurt.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
I can walk five six feet easily, and that’s why
you can walk your body appare.
Speaker 5 (01:13):
Have you picked a tomato yet?
Speaker 3 (01:16):
No, but I have three on my bush. They haven’t
I picked them yet. They’re still green and small, and
I’m worried about Sunday night and Monday morning. We’ll see
if we can get through it. I can cover them.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
I often talked about but this year, I actually I
think it was first part of February when you were
first getting the tomatoes in at Clegg’s. I bought a
four pack of celebrity tomatoes and I shifted them up
into gallons, and I’ve got ballooms on mine.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
Well, I actually bought a gallon celebrity. We had them early.
We had them in January, Okay, I was actually shocked
we had them in December. And you can plant them early,
but you’re taking a chance if you have a frost
or freeze, and of course, hopefully the listening audience from
me that I live down in New Orleans, so it’s
a little bit warmer down there, but we still get
cold and still have to protect them. But if you
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plant early and you make it through the cold weather,
you’ll be on the first on the block with tomatoes.
Speaker 4 (02:13):
I have a follow up question is are you worried
about the overnight temperatures when it comes to tomatoes, just.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
Cold in general.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
You’re with tomatoes, it’s it’s actual temperature that you’re concerned about.
Speaker 4 (02:26):
So even though it’s not going to get below freezing,
it’s just the fact that it’s going to get colder.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
Well, frost can be an issue with it. That’s what
we’re probably most concerned about. This cold snapcoming. What is it,
Sunday night, Monday night. I think front.
Speaker 4 (02:41):
Moves through overnight Sunday, then we have cold temperatures for
the start.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
Of the week.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
Yeah, the frost is going to be the biggest issue
on tomatoes because obviously frost is ice and it sits
on the leaf and it can damage the leaves. I
don’t think should I do like some sort of political
disclaimer here, but I don’t think it’s going to get
cold enough to kill tomatoes. You probably if you don’t
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protect you’re going to have some setback. I don’t think
you’re going to have mortality from it, and I think
I think other plants are going to be much more susceptible.
The biggest thing that we’ve found in gardening is your peppers.
I have anybody that has already planted their peppers really
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needs to concentrate on protecting them. The issue with peppers
is typically anytime you have temperatures below I wist say forty,
but it’s in the low forties, it can actually stunt
the pepper. It doesn’t really die, but it just never
produces as well as ones that have not been subjected
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to that temperature. Cucumbers are going if you have cucumbers
up and growing and planted, are going to suffer from that.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
They and even tomatoes, like you said, it kind of
stunts them, right, And I’ve planted early before and it
didn’t really do any good because they were just sitting
there because the ground was cold. But you’ll see they’ll
be kind of wilted and like, hey, I don’t like
this because they don’t have You can’t tomatoes don’t have
a little jacket you can put on them. I wonder
if I could knit one real quick sun making opportunity.
(04:24):
Is that money making opportunity there? Making little tomatoes sweaters?
We might be write that down, Caroline. It won’t kill
it won’t kill your vegetables. So it’s going to set
them back.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
If she’s definitely going to set them back but there
are certain things egg plant, cucumbers, squash are all could
at these temperatures be severely set back. We will put
it that way to the point where you may be
looking at some replanting, any type of new crop that
you might have coming up. If you’ve just planted like
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beans and they’re coming up, those leaves much more tender,
so it might not hurt to throw a sheet or
freeze cloth or something over the top of those for
those couple evenings. Again, the temperature is important, but also
the fact that at those temperatures, if everything’s right, we
can get a frost on it, which would be much
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more detrimental. Actually, I would didn’t want it. I wasn’t
intending to get into it this deep. But a lot
of it on plant A lot of cold on plant material.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
Is duration of the cold correct, not so much? Oh wow.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
You know Scott Rica, who used to be on the show,
used to always say, you take a glass of water,
put it in the freezer for twenty minutes, you have
cold water. You take a glass of water, put it
in the freezer for three hours, you have ice. Well
that’s kind of the way it is with plant material.
If if it touches thirty two degrees at five point
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thirty in the morning and jumps right back up, that’s
not that detrimental. But if it touches thirty two degrees
at eleven PM and doesn’t give it above thirty two
till seven am, that’s much more detrimental. And that’s going
to be true on your vegetables this weekend. But again,
I don’t think we’re going to get into I think
it’s upper thirties here in Baton Rouge. What’s that equate to,
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like the mid seventies in New Orleans.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
I think we’re getting into the forties.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
Okay, But anyway, any questions you might have on that,
give us a call. Four five two six, that’s four
nine nine WJBO. I know we’ve had some recorded shows.
This is a live show, so please feel free to
call in. Caroline, Do you have a question?
Speaker 3 (06:40):
Er three?
Speaker 5 (06:41):
When should I proplants damaged by freeze?
Speaker 2 (06:45):
Very good segue into cold damage. I would hope you’ve
already done that because most of most of the plant
material that had freeze damage has probably started to.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
Leaf. Thank you. I was trying to figure out how
to say.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
That, But you now the advantage of doing it now
is the fact that you know where your plant is
going to leaf out from, so you want to prune
back to that.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
But yes, I would.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
I would take care of any freeze damage that you
have on plant material as ap.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
Do you know what that means, Caroline? What does it mean? Very? Good? Excellent?
Speaker 2 (07:30):
She gets a star, She is a star anyway, good question.
There are certain plants that have not started to come
back yet, so don’t get real concerned about those.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
My wife has a lot.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
Of porter weed, a lot of the perennial plants that
have not really you know, you might be seen just
a little bit, but don’t be concerned about those. But
you can take the dead material above ground, go ahead
and print it off, just to make your landscape look
nicer and not have that dead stuff out there. But yeah,
there’s several perennials because our soil. We had a warm week,
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but really our soil temperatures didn’t come up that much
with that, and this cool snap is going to keep
them down, so a lot of stuff might still be sleeping.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
Yeah. I actually did what I don’t tell people. I
pruned early because I had my mother in law coming
in town from ARTI grass Oh no, So I wanted
to clean up the yard, so I cut everything back
and everything’s actually starting to sprout. So hopefully this cold
weather won’t bother it. But it shouldn’t.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
How far that’s an interesting question. How far ahead are
y’ all in New Orleans?
Speaker 3 (08:38):
I think it’s only like a week or two week
or two okay, I mean my crate myrtles are starting
to leaf out, but I haven’t seen any other yet.
They’re not here. It’s probably a week or two. Okay.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
Interesting but good question. Good follow up with the cold
you’re learning this, It’s about time I’m learning it.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
Huh. Oh it was talking to her. Okay.
Speaker 5 (08:59):
What is a nice flowering tree my dad can plant? Beside?
A crepe myrtle.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
Chinese fringe tree that has become one of my favorite trees.
I mean when it’s when it blooms, it looks like
a big snowball covered in white flowering crab, apple, flowering cherry.
I’m not really a big fan of those. They’re beautiful,
but they just don’t do well in our summer heat.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
They don’t do well in our summer heat, and they’re
we’re the fringe tree. It’s a pretty tree, yes, you know,
it has nice thick foliage. It stands out in the landscape.
It takes that with ball shape for lack of a
better description, And I agree with you. The Taiwan cherries,
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the I’m gonna even throw Japanese may.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
Know yous in there.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
You know, they they’re beautiful when they bloom, but the
rest of the year, there’s nothing spectacular about it. It’s
it’s what I call a backdrop tree, something that when
it blooms, it pops out for you, but when it’s
not blooming, it kind of hides in your landscape. But yeah,
it’s not really a tree. I would call it more
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of a large shrub.
Speaker 3 (10:15):
But the vitex, yes, I like that, similar to the
great myrtle, is gonna bloom in the summer right stays
what twelve to fifteen feet tall.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
But the fringe tree is definitely becoming and it shows
in the nursery.
Speaker 3 (10:29):
When they go into bloom, you can’t keep them in snock.
They fly out of there.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
So but yeah, that and it’s going to prefer to
have full sun. Maybe a little high shade or morning
shade might be okay, but you want that tree to
be pretty much out in full sun if possible, Why
are you looking at me like that?
Speaker 5 (10:55):
Next question, Well, vegetables can and now in a pot.
Speaker 3 (11:02):
In a pot we have some container in a container
of so tomatoes, probably best to plant a bush tomato
rather than a indeterminate peppers, bush cucumber. Can I say
peppers eggplant should be able to put an egg plant.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
I’m missing anything. I think you’re pretty much covered it.
Better bush is one of the better determinate tomatoes. Celebrity
is actually what they call a semi determinant and will
do very well in containers. Also, it’s celebrity plus now,
oh that’s right, I can’t remember spotted wilt. Is that
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the plus? I think it’s several different things, but I
don’t know. Okay, Yeah, specifically, that’s a great, great point
for those that are listening that wonder when you come
into Clegs, you will now see celebrity plus better Boy
plus Big Beef plus the it’s not your If we
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didn’t if Clegg’s didn’t label them that way, you would
not know the difference from the regular celebrities the regular
But and that’s one of the things that I’ve always
been very pleased work when I worked with with Chris
and Tom at Clegg’s and Johnny Naylor’s real stickler for
this when you buy something there you know the actual name.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
You’re not buying, you know, you’re not.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
Oh, it’s this, this, this this, Well, no it’s not
it’s this, and they don’t want to sell it as
a celebrity when it’s a celebrity. Plus, actually, your your
advantage is some more disease resistance in those plants. Yes,
but the fruit, this shape, the growth rate, all that
will be exactly the same on all those.
Speaker 3 (12:53):
Yeah, I planned it the last two years and I
did not know a difference at all.
Speaker 4 (12:57):
No.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
One of the things about plants in containers is make
sure you keep up your fertilization. Whenever you water in
a container, it is going to leach some of the
fertilizer out, specifically the nitrogen. So you are going to
want to fertilize more often. If you’re using the liquid fertilizer,
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probably once a week, once every other week at the
moat at the least. If you’re using a granular fertilizer,
depending on which one you’re using, probably every three to
four weeks.
Speaker 3 (13:33):
So also make sure your container is large enough. You
don’t want to put a tomato in like a two
gallon pot and put in a large container that’s going
to hold moisture not dry out too quickly.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
Absolute minimum And if you disagree with me, Chris, I would,
I don’t mind a bit. But absolute minimum for a
tomato to me is a twelve inch pot, yes, which
would be quate too if you’re doing and gallons about
a five gallon pot, but yeah, if you go any
smaller than that, you’re going to be watering three times
a day.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
And make sure you have some good organic matter in there,
especially pete moss to help holds on that moisture. If
you have something that’s heavy in pine bark mults, that
water is just going to go right through it and
it’s going to dry out and quit you.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
So we actually have a phone call. Let’s see what’s
going on with Peter. Good morning, Peter, Welcome to news
radio eleven to fifty WJBOS, the Lawn and Garden Show.
Speaker 3 (14:25):
What we do for you today.
Speaker 6 (14:28):
Good morning y’all.
Speaker 7 (14:29):
I got crazy busy to last several months, and I
did not put out wheat killer or a pre emergent herbicide.
I must say an augustine lawn. So the dollar weed
and a bunch of other weeds are just having a
field day along with the anfile in my yard.
Speaker 6 (14:47):
Is it is it appropriate for me at this point
to put out a spray with adrozine or put out
wheat and feed or is it too late to put out.
Speaker 7 (14:57):
Dimension as as a pre emergent herbside? What can I
do to kill all the weeds and everything?
Speaker 2 (15:04):
Lng I walked, I walked my yard. No, you can
use a weed and feed right now. But you’re it
sounds to me like you have more of a weed
issue than a feed issue. Uh, you may at this
point be wanting to look at a post emergent you’re
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I think anyway, And Chris again, please if you feel different,
let me know.
Speaker 3 (15:30):
I think you’re too late on dimension. Well, not necessarily
too late. It’s still going to prevent weeds from coming up.
But I would highly recommend using our weed cocktail. Yes,
I agree with that completely, which that’s going to take
care of your your weeds that have already merged, especially
your dollar weed. But the atrazine weed free zone and
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spreadersticker combination and with dollar weed, highly recommend using that
spreader sticker so that’ll spread and stick to that dollar weed.
But I used it about three weeks ago, and finally
the dollar weat is starting to go. So the dollar
weat is one of the last ones that it’ll because
it takes a while to kill it. But yeah, I agree.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
I would recommend the week cocktail right now and then
in two to three weeks come back with a straight
fertilizer would be the way I would treat my lawn.
Speaker 7 (16:22):
Thank you so much.
Speaker 6 (16:23):
I’ve used the wheat.
Speaker 7 (16:24):
Cocktail in the bast matter of fact, I’ll have to
stop and pick.
Speaker 3 (16:28):
Up your today.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
Thank you Clegg’s Nursery. It’s going to be on an
end cap. Yes, all right, thank you. Chris Herman is
with Clegg’s Nursery. You work at the Seagan store right
correct the best as you normally say, exactly there. I
didn’t even know there were no There are three other
locations on don More in mid city Greenoald Springs Road
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at the end of shrowd Forest Boulevard and the Denim
store on Range Road kind of close to MAINI You
Bridge Road. We actually had a call or a test
was a text on the WJDO text line or Star
eleven fifty as you like to say.
Speaker 3 (17:08):
You know, they don’t have that anymore. No, that’s star
levenathy does not exist. Was that the disclaimer? Thank you?
That was a disclaimer. Florida that betany. Some people call
it kiss me by the gate.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
It’s a can grow up actually kind of has a
pretty blossom on it when it does get going really well.
And it is the my I’ve always told people when
they come in with that particular.
Speaker 3 (17:33):
Weed to move.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
It’s just there’s really no other way to get rid
of it. In fact, if you move, it will probably
move with you. But it typically is in flower beds,
so we have to be very careful with the control
of it. And the control is very difficult because of
the root system. If you dig it up, it actually looks,
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for lack of a better description of peanut.
Speaker 3 (18:00):
Or a moan. It also called rattlesnake weed, yes, because
it looks like the end of a rattlesnake. And typically
when you are using herbicides on Florida Bentany, it will
kill a couple rattles and then wherever whatever rattle is
next in line re sprouts. So it is numerous applications.
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As you see it as quickly as you can when
you see it start to come back up. Because it
is typically.
Speaker 2 (18:33):
Found in flower beds or cultivated areas, lysophate or round
up is your best control application with a sponge, paintbrush
something like that. Is, if it is in a flower
bed near other shrubs, is your best control for it.
It is very difficult to eradicate out of grass areas
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again because of the I like what you said, the
rattlesnake effect of it, and most of the herbicides that
we use here there’s limited amount you can use them. Actressing,
I think is what two applications a year. Three correct
two applications. So you know, okay, you sprayed it, You’ve
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killed back two of the rattles, you know, and you’ve
got eight more to go. Well, you know you can’t
spray again. And that’s because of the tolerance levels we
selective herbicides. What we can spray on our lawn can
be done because the broad leaf weeds that are on
the label that it says it kills are more susceptible
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to the herbicide than your grass is. There are actually
weeds that aren’t on the label because they’re more resistant
to the weed killer in there than the grass so
and Florida Betty is one of those that is very
you know, tolerant of weak killers. So it’s you’re not
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going to find it on any grass herbicide that you
can use, So it’s going to be very difficult to
eradicate out of your lawn. Glycifate, to me, is the
only option to eradicate it out of the flower beds.
Digging it out is nearly impossible because as you’re digging it,
you break the rattles and you don’t know where they are.
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You don’t know where they are exactly. So it’s one
of those things, uh know. The real estate market right now,
I’m baton rouge isn’t great, but you may want to
think about putting my house up for sale. But any
other suggestions you might have for them, Chris.
Speaker 3 (20:41):
No, And I know you said the bad word round up,
but that’s what I use. Actually I use high yield
kills all, which is glacysate. Round up is no longer
to life of sate. They changed the formula, which concerns me,
but that’s a whole different story. But glyfasate does not
move through the soil, so a lot of people come
in thinking we’re going to have a product that we
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can spray over all of our azaleas and committee is,
but only kill the weeds. There’s no such thing.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
Well, you know, because the venation of the plant, oh
azalea is actually a weed that we really like, exactly.
Speaker 3 (21:16):
A weed is a plant out of place. That’s correct, exactly.
But I spray how it kills all glyfa sate in
my flower bed. I hate getting on my hands and knees,
knees and elbows whatever to pull weeds, so I just
spray kills all. I just spray life a sate. So
as long as you don’t get it on the foliage
of your desired plant, desired plants, it’s not going to
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affect it and does not stay in the soil. In fact,
you can replant what is it seven days after you
spray y.
Speaker 2 (21:45):
Yes, only one exception to that, and I agree one
with what Chris just said.
Speaker 3 (21:51):
The concerns about glass fade. Again.
Speaker 2 (21:53):
I’m not going to get in it here, but my
wife uses it, and that’s right. There’s a shocking yeah, exactly.
Do not spray glycipate round up in your vegetable gardens.
That’s one big no, no, because actually tomatoes can remove
the glycopate off.
Speaker 3 (22:09):
The soil particle. And be careful around roses too, Yes,
that’s right, and don’t spray on a windy day. Correct,
because drift can cause not roses, but drift can can
be absorbed through some plant material and it’s strong enough
to terminate them or severely damaged or severely damage. How
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are you doing today?
Speaker 5 (22:34):
Good?
Speaker 2 (22:35):
You’re coughing a lot, though. Are your friends passing that
around at school?
Speaker 1 (22:42):
Now?
Speaker 3 (22:43):
It’s either that or I got a pollen out break
in there. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
You know, I’m going to go off topic a little
bit here, which I never ever do on this show.
Speaker 4 (22:53):
We strictly lawn a garden soap box to make sure
that everything else is working, okay, because this never happens.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
No, it’s not a soapbox thing. It’s just kind of
a Have you ever watched Lottery Dream Home?
Speaker 3 (23:08):
Yes?
Speaker 8 (23:08):
Yes, Well I will guarantee you I will never be
on that show, because do you, Chris I, Jeremy, do
you ever walk into.
Speaker 2 (23:22):
A convenience store look at the lottery tickets and go, Wow,
there’s one for fifty dollars.
Speaker 3 (23:27):
Let me just buy that. No, I’m cheap. I’ll buy
the one dollar right. I don’t even buy those. I am.
I don’t know what lottery dream home is. So it’s
it’s keeper that win the lottery and then go buy
their dream home. Oh, spend all their lottery winnings on
a house.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
And when he only won a lot with the price
sees days when he talks to him, it’s like, well,
tell me how you got this. Well, I just was
in this convenience store and I was buying a pack
of cigarettes, and I saw this twenty dollars lottery ticket.
Speaker 3 (24:00):
I says, I want to buy that too, or some
of them.
Speaker 2 (24:04):
Well, I was down to my last twenty dollars and
I saw a lottery ticket. But I’m just anyway, I
didn’t just a can I apologize for going off topic, but.
Speaker 4 (24:11):
I hold on, I’m dragging out my soapbox. Where do
you get these ideas in this the Lawn and Garden show?
Speaker 3 (24:21):
Yes, give me that is.
Speaker 4 (24:23):
An l there in lottery and lawns in green. You’re
thinking green like lawn too if you win the laundry.
Speaker 2 (24:29):
Well, there was a commercial about, you know, addiction to
gambling in the Louisiana.
Speaker 9 (24:34):
Lottery, and I mean that’s it. Everybody would make that
jump for nine JBO for your lawn and garden questions.
Next question, please use a talkback mike too if you’re
listening on the app.
Speaker 5 (24:50):
We have stickers in a yard. What can be done
to kill them?
Speaker 3 (24:54):
Weed free zone which is part of the weed gotail,
so we can still use the weak cocktail. Another thing
I wanted to bring up with the weak cocktail. Excellent combination,
excellent recipe. But when we start getting hot, usually we
say June, but unfortunately it’s been getting hot like in May.
We want to about a week ago, right, we couldn’t
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use it, but we do not want to spray it
when we get above eighty five into the nineties.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
Yeah, definitely, but no, right now, stickers in your lawn
is going to look like little Easter grass. It’s kind
of a little fuzzy green thing looks really cute in there.
The sticker is actually the seed. So once the sticker
has formed, we’re kind of prolonging the misery for at
least one more year. There is a herbicide that can
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be used in the fall that will kill the seeds.
Speaker 3 (25:44):
Your dimension will not.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
But yeah, stickers right now are relatively easy to kill
with actually just the weed free zone from the weed cocktail,
but there’s so many other things out there.
Speaker 3 (25:58):
Besides stickers.
Speaker 2 (25:59):
I agree with you, Chris, I do recommend the entire
cocktail right now because it’s going to help with some
of the other things.
Speaker 3 (26:07):
That the two work.
Speaker 2 (26:08):
Really well together because they really attack different things, and
it’s been shown that there’s a synergy between the two
chemicals that actually makes both of them more effective on what.
Speaker 3 (26:19):
They do kill.
Speaker 2 (26:20):
So atresine, weed free zone and the surfactant spreadersticker. Do
not use ivory liquid. It does not work as well
as spreadersticker. I like the soap, Yeah, don is it
can actually affect the chemical.
Speaker 3 (26:38):
It can it can degrade the chemical in there too
because of the foomine.
Speaker 4 (26:42):
But yeah, but it makes my weeds not just white,
but really white, really white clean.
Speaker 3 (26:48):
I also like to mention we are talking We mentioned
we wheden feed earlier. If you get us Saint Augustine
wheat and feed the product in there that’s the weed killer,
is atrosine. If you get the centipede what and feed
the product in that is trimech which is submergent, which
is a post emergent, which that is in we feed
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in of the weaed free zone, that’s trimech. It’s the
three chemicals that are in there, but actually weed free
zone has a fourth.
Speaker 2 (27:15):
It’s just weed and feeds to me, are a convenience product.
Everybody has very busy lives these days. Poppy uber is
extremely busy, so you know, there’s a lot a lot
of time to go out, So a lot of people
don’t want Okay, I’m gonna spray my lawn this weekend.
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Two weekends from now, I’m gonna put out fertilizer. Isn’t
there something I can do all? You know, I’ve got
two hours this weekend and that’s gonna be it for
the next month and a half. Okay, use use your
weed and feed. But what you’re doing with the weed
and feed is you’re doing one of the two things
at the wrong time. You’re either using your wee killer
too late or you’re using your fertilizer to early. So typically,
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if at all possible, I suggest that people split those
two items up. But again, it is a convenience product.
It does work, it’s just one of the two parts
of the weed feed isn’t going to be as effective.
Speaker 3 (28:17):
As you really would hope it would be agree or
disagreements directors now, heerman. I mean it does work, but
it’s not as effective as spraying the weed cocktail, preferably
January February early March, which you can still use it
in time. You’re still fine right now. And then I
normally tell people they want to know a time when
when when to put out the fertile the fertilize just
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about nine thirty. Now there’s really no time quote unquote.
You need to let the grass or the bushes tell
you when they start greening up. And I actually I’ve
heard somebody say, wait till you cut it once or
cut it twice. Yeah, cut it twice before you fertilize.
So that I mean that’s usually mid April.
Speaker 2 (28:56):
Right, And I tell mine has always been I put
my grass fertilizer out the second time I mo. The
first time I MO, it’s because Shirley tells me I
have to cut the weeds, clean up the leaves all that.
That’s basically my first mowing. The second mowing is when
the grass is actually growing, so that’s when you when
you put That’s just my easy way to figure it
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out shrubbery. Do not fertilize azilias right now while they’re blooming.
You want to wait till after they get done blooming.
That’s also when you want to trim them as soon
as you can after bloom because typically by the fourth
of July, azilias have set their buds for next year,
so you don’t want to prune late on those fertilization
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again after they bloom. Most of your other shrubs we’re
growing right now, so please feel free to fertilize your
shrubbery new plantings. And by new plantings, I’m saying anything
done within the last two years. It is important to
get to stay on a good fertilization program with them
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once you get over two years. Typically once a year
application of fertilizer is enough on most shrubs.
Speaker 3 (30:13):
I would agree. I would agree. I’m trying to think
of it. If you want to push them, which that’s
what the growers do to get us because they’re trying
to sell the product. To get a sellable product, is
they fertilize the papers out. But you don’t really have
to do that in the landscape unless you buy a
one gallon of a and you want it to be
four foot tall. You want to push it, you want
to fertilize it. But once it’s established, you know, yeah,
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once a year should be fine. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (30:37):
And I mean I’ve discussed my live oaks at my
house many times on the radio. I planted live oaks
that were about about eight foot tall, maybe an inch diameter.
Speaker 3 (30:48):
They’re now over fifty or sixty feet tall.
Speaker 2 (30:50):
And that’s been probably thirty years plus or minus a
couple and the first I would say probably five years.
I fertilized about every six weeks during the growing season
to get them to push. Those poor trees hadn’t seen
fertilizers in years. So and they’re fine, you know that.
You know, sometimes I look at them and go, you know,
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I really should fertilize you.
Speaker 3 (31:13):
I’m busy now. But they do fine, and they do
just fine.
Speaker 2 (31:17):
You know, I don’t, I, like you said, for some reason,
I just had a she sheet, which is my kind
of foundation planning, right in front of my house.
Speaker 3 (31:27):
I had one die, just up and died.
Speaker 2 (31:29):
So I replanted with a beautiful three gallon plan I
got from Cleg’s nursery. And now I’m fertilizing it because
I wanted to catch up up to the other one stuff.
But no, it’s kind of like you know Caroline here,
we need to keep her fed because she’s grown. I’m
growing the wrong direction, so I don’t need as much.
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So but anyway, good good fertilization. You know, we might
want to give out the phone number, give us a.
Speaker 5 (31:57):
Call it four nine five six. That’s I still.
Speaker 2 (32:02):
Miss Star eleven fifty If anybody sees, can we put it?
Speaker 3 (32:06):
Put it like on a milk carton. It’s missing. We
need to find it. What would the picture be an asterisk?
Or I guess it’s not an asterisk. It’s a star now,
isn’t it’s a star? I grew up it’s an asterisk.
Oh yeah, that’s I think it’s both.
Speaker 4 (32:23):
Still, yes, I think the real thing, the real thing
that will decide your age is whether you call it
a pound key or.
Speaker 3 (32:28):
A hashtag, pound pound or tic tac toe. Got you, tom?
Speaker 2 (32:38):
No, I just want everyone That was a dramatic moment
pause because what comes up next is going to blow
your mind.
Speaker 3 (32:48):
Okay. Hashtag originated in August of two thousand and seven
on Twitter. It was proposed by Chrismasina to whatever. But
do you know what the actual name of the pound
sign or the hashtag is no, what is it? I
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don’t know either. Well, Octa Thorpe, Octathorpe, I’m bless you.
I’m going to remember that in scrabble. Yeah, actually that.
Speaker 2 (33:21):
I know.
Speaker 3 (33:21):
Do you have enough tiles at any given times? All that? Anyway?
Speaker 2 (33:26):
Got a Actually, it’s been very interesting. I have a
daily text group that we do what we call fun
facts back and forth, and that was I remember that.
Speaker 3 (33:37):
One from.
Speaker 2 (33:39):
Several months ago, and I wanted to make sure I
remembered it correctly. But yeah, it’s been kind of fun
the different things that go back and forth on that
text group, so very interesting.
Speaker 3 (33:51):
Welcome back to the Thorpe Show.
Speaker 2 (33:56):
Do you know what the term for being scared of Friday?
The third teat this that probably long it is. I
don’t think I could, Tris trist could at the kaphobia.
Speaker 8 (34:13):
Out of that.
Speaker 3 (34:15):
That’s pretty good.
Speaker 2 (34:16):
Yeah, but anyway, Welcome back to the news radio eleven
fifty WJVS.
Speaker 4 (34:21):
Hold on, we’re gonna make We’re gonna figure this one out.
Give me one sec I’ve got a fire, I gotta
we have six minutes and fifteen seconds left now, no, no,
I stopped counting the seconds a while ago.
Speaker 3 (34:33):
All Right, here we go, let’s see if this works.
Almost one more time. Tris kida kaphobia. There is a phobia.
I was pretty close actually.
Speaker 2 (34:42):
Anyway, do you have one last question for us?
Speaker 3 (34:44):
Hopefully?
Speaker 5 (34:46):
When can I plant kaleden.
Speaker 3 (34:48):
Palladiums play ladiums. Well, we have a good selection of
palladiums right now, so please come in and purchase them
before your selection goes down. But I would hold off
until April, and till mid to end of April you want.
Butch alluded to earlier. The soil temperature is still not
warm enough and they need that soil temps would be
warm to pop up. So if you plant them now,
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I know we’ve been dry, but if by chance they
stay wet, they will ride, but they will not come
up until that soil temperature.
Speaker 4 (35:17):
So I have a done question. If you get them now,
what do you do until say, next month, you leave
the pot or container.
Speaker 3 (35:24):
Leaving in the bag?
Speaker 2 (35:26):
Okay, every morning, say good morning to them, every night,
say good night to them.
Speaker 3 (35:29):
But other than that, they’re fine.
Speaker 4 (35:32):
They really need that much attention before you really that’s
that’s what happens if you don’t say good morning, or
good evening to them.
Speaker 3 (35:37):
See, you’re not old. You’re not old enough to remember.
Speaker 2 (35:40):
Back in the day, early eighties, there was a lounge
thing about talking to plants and it would make them
grow better and all this. It was a huge thing
for several years and that was one of the major
houseplant booms was during this time time period. And everybody
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nobody could figure out it was when you talk to them,
you were giving them more carbon dioxide. So that’s why
they looked and grew better when you talk.
Speaker 4 (36:09):
To them about I figured, I just put my pet
rock next to them and just explode.
Speaker 3 (36:13):
You knew what a pet rock was. I’m not I
am that old. People don’t think that you do. You
not see the gray in this beard. Most of it
came from you. But technically, I mean, you can plant them,
but it’s best to wait. I mean, if nothing’s really
going to happen to them, unless the soil stays wet
and they rot.
Speaker 2 (36:32):
And that’s the main reason why if you really are
into kalladiums, you want to dig them up every fall
because we typically have cooler, wet soils during the winter
and they can definitely rot on you. So but I’m
you know, Caroline has some koladiums that come up in
their front bed that have been there for several years.
Speaker 3 (36:51):
I have some as well, but you’re you’re running a
risk there like that, and we do not have the
plants yet because again it’s not warm enough and most
of the growers that grow, remember they actually put heat
underneath them and that costs money. So usually that’s later
on as well. Anything new and exciting at the stores.
Got a lot of tropicals. Well, I’ll tell you what
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I am.
Speaker 2 (37:13):
I will admit right now, I am not a bogain
villa fan. But those purple bogainvilla y’all have, oh my goodness,
it was very, very tempting.
Speaker 3 (37:22):
Beautiful boogainvilla is some beautiful uh fern hanging baskets and
hibiscus mane ofelle, ellywood hibiscus another they just the bloom
color on those is so vibrant. I just whatever color
you’re looking for.
Speaker 2 (37:40):
I can’t think of all the names now that I’m
putting myself on the spot, but the Hollywood hibiscus this
year have just been fantastic. Y’all got a little bit
larger size this year, too, didn’t you The normal we.
Speaker 3 (37:51):
Have some seven gallons. Yeah, seven gallons. So if you’re
looking for that bizazz.
Speaker 2 (37:55):
Pool plant, ooh, that excellent choice.
Speaker 3 (38:00):
The high biscus out there, they bloom all year long.
Speaker 2 (38:05):
And I’m sorry, soapbox time, but you can buy a
seven gallon high biscus I’m talking a beautiful specimen plant
full of blooms right now for thirty five dollars.
Speaker 3 (38:17):
I think they are at thirty six bucks somewhere in
that range. I’m not sure they’re thirty four nine nine,
but right around right right.
Speaker 2 (38:23):
That’s just and that’s like the cost of three Starbucks coffees,
you know, and you have this thing all I’m picking
on Starbucks way too much.
Speaker 3 (38:31):
But it’ll bloom all summer longs all summer long. But
if you you know, but I have to replace it.
Speaker 2 (38:39):
But again in the winter, you know, it’s okay, it’s
probably seven Starbucks coffees. But you know, and the one
you saved all winter long, it’s got killed back, it’s
going to grow back, and you’re it’s not gonna bloom
until June or July. I mean, you’re missing two or
three months, two months of swimming out there at the
swimming pool or cook You’re missing all spring. If you
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have an outdoor kitchen that you cook in all you
know because you don’t do it in the summer because
it’s too hot out there. But no, Hibiscus is one
of the plants that you know. It’s a plant. It
doesn’t care if it’s thrown away. You need help getting
off of that soap oxa.
Speaker 3 (39:18):
No, you’re up here with Do you tell a good
night as you throw it away? Or good morning?
Speaker 7 (39:24):
No?
Speaker 3 (39:25):
Don’t it be nice good night?
Speaker 5 (39:30):
No?
Speaker 3 (39:32):
You know it’s dead.
Speaker 4 (39:33):
Do you have any more questions? Actually we’ve only got
a minute less Sobry to stop here. Well, wow, we’re ahead.
Speaker 2 (39:39):
Ah for those of you that might actually still be listening.
Speaker 3 (39:43):
Those two people, I have no idea. I mean, there’s
four of us here. That’s not bad. Good night, Crazie.
Speaker 2 (39:51):
You’ve been listening to news radio eleven fifty wjbo’s Lawn
and Garden. So we are Clegg’s Nursery. We are Baton
Rouge’s independent Garden Center. We have four locations in the
greater Bouton Rouge area. Seegin Lane near Airline Highway, Don
Moore in mid city, Green Springs location right at the
end of Sherwood Forest Boulevard and the Denim Store, which
is on Range Road, five miles north of I twelve.
Speaker 3 (40:15):
Almost exactly again.
Speaker 2 (40:16):
You’ve been listening to news radio eleven fifty wjbo’s Lawn
and Garden Show. We’re here every Saturday morning from eight
to nine to listen to your questions and learn a
lot more from you than you’ll ever learn from us.
Speaker 3 (40:28):
I think that’s how that goes anyway.
Speaker 2 (40:29):
Have a great weekend, enjoy the parade today.
Speaker 3 (40:32):
Be safe, Go Tigers.
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