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Speaker 2: So how you doing?
Speaker 3: I'm good? How are you shying?
Speaker 1: I'm doing fantastic. And all the cool people hang out
Speaker 1: at the Bruce Company because you're there.
Speaker 3: Oh that's so nice.
Speaker 2: Sorry, we got a door open.
Speaker 3: Mostly people are surprised to see me. I don't know
Speaker 3: where they think I would be.
Speaker 1: You're here, I am, I'm I would be more surprised
Speaker 1: if I don't see you at hang out? Wait, what
Speaker 1: where's Lisa? Everything going all right? It's a busy weekend.
Speaker 1: I'm being a guest at the Bruce Company.
Speaker 3: With the other and so it's beautiful weather.
Speaker 2: It is.
Speaker 1: It's just a beautiful time of a year. Yesterday looked great.
Speaker 1: Today is going to be a great one. It's also
Speaker 1: a great day. If you've got a question, we've got
Speaker 1: a phone line for it. Six oh eight three two
Speaker 1: one thirteen ten. That's six soh eight three two one
Speaker 1: thirteen ten. Maybe you got out, got a chance to
Speaker 1: move a little soil and do some other fun stuff.
Speaker 1: Maybe you ran into something going What is going on here?
Speaker 1: Lisa is here to help. Six oh eight three two
Speaker 1: one thirteen ten. That's six soh eight three two one
Speaker 1: thirteen ten. And Lisa, as we look at the forecast, Wow,
Speaker 1: your day to day, especially.
Speaker 3: Today's gonna beautiful. It's I always call it's marchin early
Speaker 3: the first few weeks of April. It's like the dance
Speaker 3: of the temperatures. Yes, So, driving around this weekend, what
Speaker 3: did I see? I saw that red maples are blooming. Oh.
Speaker 3: I saw a forcythia just about ready to bloom on Saturday.
Speaker 3: I mean it was yellow, it wasn't all the way
Speaker 3: open yet. So this means that we have to play
Speaker 3: this game with the temperatures. Now that stuff is up,
Speaker 3: things are and although plants are acclimated to handle cold temperatures,
Speaker 3: sometimes there can be damage. Especially today it's supposed to
Speaker 3: be like seventy four, and in two days it's we're
Speaker 3: gonna have a high of well not two days, yeah,
Speaker 3: a couple days. Yeah, Wednesday is supposed to be forty three.
Speaker 3: Nights freezing are a little bit below. So this just
Speaker 3: means if you have things that are moving along, the
Speaker 3: farther they move along, the more chance there is that
Speaker 3: they'll be damaged by cold temperatures at night. So get
Speaker 3: your floating roll covers out going into your garden shed
Speaker 3: or where if you keep that kind of stuff, and
Speaker 3: get those out because you can always put those over
Speaker 3: if you've planted some bedding plants this weekend, like if
Speaker 3: you did pansies or some cool weather crops, if you've
Speaker 3: put in some cool weather veedge out into a raised bed,
Speaker 3: because we've talked about that last week, and you've got
Speaker 3: seed links coming up, there are super tender. Floating roll
Speaker 3: covers are great for temperatures that are just right around freezing.
Speaker 1: Okay, And I know one of the one of the
Speaker 1: uh and I can hear you saying this in my
Speaker 1: mind three words.
Speaker 2: Have a plan, have a plan that's this time of year, scout,
Speaker 2: Be prepared.
Speaker 1: Be prepared, have that plan ready, have the stuff ready
Speaker 1: to go? And uh boy, what a great, what a
Speaker 1: great opportunity it is to to get stuff going?
Speaker 2: And what quick?
Speaker 1: Is there anything we can be starting right now? I
Speaker 1: have more things that kind of added to the list.
Speaker 3: Can i'd wait another couple of weeks with tomatoes unless
Speaker 3: you have like a dedicated space that's really sunny and
Speaker 3: you have a plan for how you know to uppot them.
Speaker 3: Usually you know mid April is best if you can't wait,
Speaker 3: wait till the wait till the first of the of
Speaker 3: the month. Okay, so, but you can start peppers. There
Speaker 3: are a lot of other things that you can start now.
Speaker 3: Anything that's like slow growing. If you have raised beds
Speaker 3: or areas of the soil is thought and you want
Speaker 3: to start some cool weather stuff like peas or that
Speaker 3: sort of thing, you can go ahead and do that
Speaker 3: as well.
Speaker 1: Everything but califlower, not that you can't start cauliflowers just well, you.
Speaker 3: Can't start cauliflower. Can you have a thing against cauliflower.
Speaker 2: I don't know, I don't like them. I don't know.
Speaker 1: It just I'm thinking about like it's it's something and
Speaker 1: and uh, you know, we talked about this both on
Speaker 1: the show and off the show, but with kiddos. Is
Speaker 1: I've mentioned my son loves cauliflower and Broccolian things, and
Speaker 1: you pointed out one of the main reasons he probably
Speaker 1: does is one of their delicious but also because he
Speaker 1: grew that stuff when he was little and now he's
Speaker 1: got a connection. And with that too, is we talk
Speaker 1: about califlower, we talk about getting to me poorflower.
Speaker 2: What about tomatoes? Are things?
Speaker 1: It is a good time to get in and get
Speaker 1: into the Bruce company and get those seeds. So when
Speaker 1: when that when the flag goes up to start putting
Speaker 1: the tomatoes in the ground. You've got the best seeds
Speaker 1: that your favorite seeds, all the great variety, got a.
Speaker 3: Great selection of huge, huge selection of seeds over eighteen hundred.
Speaker 2: I know it's stay.
Speaker 1: Do you guys ever find like when you're so you're
Speaker 1: opening up the boxes that the caes are packets are shipping,
Speaker 1: you ever find like mystery seeds in the bottom of
Speaker 1: set box? And if so, have you ever just planted
Speaker 1: them to see what comes on.
Speaker 3: I have not found mystery seeds in the bottom of
Speaker 3: the box.
Speaker 2: Okay, that would be a.
Speaker 3: Fun but I suspect that in many cases, not all,
Speaker 3: but in some cases we could probably figure out that
Speaker 3: it was a bean or a mirror cold or something
Speaker 3: like that.
Speaker 1: I don't you guys are pretty smart over there. It
Speaker 1: probably wouldn't be much of a challenge all of them.
Speaker 3: Because like if they're little round black ones, it's kind
Speaker 3: of hard to.
Speaker 2: Tell which what they're going to go.
Speaker 3: In they're going to be.
Speaker 2: But yeah, that's exciting.
Speaker 1: I'm going to guess there are probably some folks that
Speaker 1: put some seeds away last year and maybe they poured
Speaker 1: them into a different container, and like what, well.
Speaker 3: I'm hoping if you were, if you were a person
Speaker 3: and who save seeds, that you would label what you
Speaker 3: were saving.
Speaker 2: That's the old best intentions.
Speaker 1: Yeah, great to begin and pick up some fresh seeds.
Speaker 1: And I mentioned the website earlier and Facebook and social
Speaker 1: media the Bruce Company. I noticed some pictures of pansies
Speaker 1: on your on your Facebook page. Can I read into
Speaker 1: that to say that there may be U pantsies in
Speaker 1: the area.
Speaker 3: We did get a bunch of bowls and baskets and things.
Speaker 3: Last week. It was a busy weekend. So if you're
Speaker 3: gonna you need to pick it up today, I'd call first,
Speaker 3: call the plant desk or email them plant desk at
Speaker 3: Bruce Company dot com. They usually come in on Tuesday. Okay,
Speaker 3: So if we're if it's if choices are slim, it
Speaker 3: won't be for long.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 1: And these are the bowl pansies. What about the planting
Speaker 1: pansies do we get?
Speaker 3: Yeah, we have four inch The only thing we don't have.
Speaker 3: We don't have flats yet, okay, with the little cells okay,
Speaker 3: And I don't know yet when I would it's almost April.
Speaker 3: It's hard to say. We've got not this week. But
Speaker 3: next week we have five trucks coming in for nursery.
Speaker 3: So fuck trucks of trees and shrugs. Yikes. Yeah, so
Speaker 3: stuff will start coming in for greenery two. You know,
Speaker 3: like betting it'll start with the cool weather stuff. They'll
Speaker 3: probably get some herbs in because we'll keep those in
Speaker 3: the greenhouse. The greenhouse will begin to fill up any
Speaker 3: day now.
Speaker 2: Yes, frightening trying to I don't know that we have our.
Speaker 3: First kickoff meeting to sit for staff meeting today. It's
Speaker 3: many things are happening.
Speaker 1: It is go time. It's a great time to get
Speaker 1: into the Middleton gardens of the Rust Company. Right at
Speaker 1: twenty eight thirty apartment or street. That's twenty thirty partment Street.
Speaker 1: If you've got a question for Lisa, love to have
Speaker 1: Jonas this morning. Six SOH eight three two one thirteen ten.
Speaker 1: That's six SOH eight three two one thirteen ten. And
Speaker 1: it seems to sneak up on us every year, and
Speaker 1: this year in particular, because of how early in April
Speaker 1: it is, uh and the fact that we are almost
Speaker 1: done with March, which means it's going to be here
Speaker 1: no time.
Speaker 2: East. Sunday is Sunday right, a few days away.
Speaker 3: Sunday, right, So it is very very early, not as
Speaker 3: early as it can be. It could be earlier, yes,
Speaker 3: because the rule for Easter is it is the first
Speaker 3: Sunday after the first full moon, which I believe is
Speaker 3: Thursday after the vernal equinox. So not only so that's
Speaker 3: like March twentieth. Okay, So if March twentieth is say
Speaker 3: a Friday, and the full moon is that Saturday, so
Speaker 3: it Easter could be as early as like March twenty second.
Speaker 2: This is Clindrical Science one oh one right here, So.
Speaker 3: It's not as early as it can be, but it's
Speaker 3: pretty early.
Speaker 1: It's it's pretty early, and especially when it and I
Speaker 1: don't know what it is, but like new months just
Speaker 1: kind of like hey, surprise, like you know they're coming,
Speaker 1: Like I know April is going to be here eventually,
Speaker 1: but it's like going to be here in no time.
Speaker 1: So with that, a couple of things to keep in mind.
Speaker 1: One great day to get into the Milton Gardens of
Speaker 1: the Bruce Company, because you've got a lot of great, great,
Speaker 1: nice looking things to decor and flowering and just beautiful things,
Speaker 1: got all kinds.
Speaker 3: Of Yeah, it's really fun in the store today.
Speaker 2: It is a great day for that. And hours start
Speaker 2: to change.
Speaker 3: Don't think so yeah, so hours this week are are
Speaker 3: still winter hours. Okay, so we're closed Easter Sunday, so
Speaker 3: don't come in because we won't be there. And then
Speaker 3: on the thirteenth, I'm looking at the calendar, Yes, on
Speaker 3: the thirteenth, okay, we go to spring hours. Okay, so
Speaker 3: we have a couple more weeks of our winter hours,
Speaker 3: ten to five Monday through Saturday, eleven to four on Sunday,
Speaker 3: and then on the thirteenth, then the hours change and
Speaker 3: we go back to opening at nine and staying open
Speaker 3: till six.
Speaker 2: Okay, so we'll announce yes, keep you posted on but
Speaker 2: yes with this too.
Speaker 1: As we talked with these springs the brist Company, did
Speaker 1: we mentioned red maples, We talked about pansies. Did you
Speaker 1: talked about the uh? Yeah, with this stuff this time?
Speaker 1: I know what you mentioned having a plan ready and
Speaker 1: those type of things. The other thing that's is speaking
Speaker 1: of having a plan good time to be planning gardens
Speaker 1: and that type of stuff as well, is like what
Speaker 1: do you want that outside and indoor as well, but
Speaker 1: especially outdoors to look like? Is we're kind of getting
Speaker 1: to that crunch time of like it's a good time
Speaker 1: to be thinking of plants.
Speaker 2: A great day.
Speaker 1: We talked about the weather going to be perfect to
Speaker 1: get into the Middleton Gardens and the Bruce Company and
Speaker 1: start putting that stuff together, isn't it.
Speaker 3: Yeah? And we do have if you go to our website,
Speaker 3: I think it's every the last Saturday of every month
Speaker 3: except in May because that's Memorial Day. We can we
Speaker 3: have an opportunity for you to meet with one of
Speaker 3: landscape designers. It's a free fifteen minute consult so you
Speaker 3: can bring your questions. The next one is April twenty fifth,
Speaker 3: although I believe that it is getting really close to
Speaker 3: being full. But the rest of May twenty third, June
Speaker 3: twenty seventh, July twenty fifth, August twenty ninth, and September
Speaker 3: twenty sixth, you can sign up for that. Oh yeah,
Speaker 3: So go to the website, pick the day, fill out
Speaker 3: the form, and then someone will contact you to off
Speaker 3: to tell you what slots are available. Okay, so it's
Speaker 3: from eleven and one, so it's yeah.
Speaker 2: It's a just head on over to Bruce Company dot com.
Speaker 1: Bruce Company dot com do that, by the way, And
Speaker 1: I had a question I'm going to ask you. I
Speaker 1: we'll take a break before we do it, but I
Speaker 1: didn't want to ask you though. One thing is speaking
Speaker 1: of Bruce Company dot com. We talked the other week
Speaker 1: about employment opportunities at the Bruce Company, and I know,
Speaker 1: obviously get into into spring and summer and really great
Speaker 1: opportunities for folks that may want to start a career
Speaker 1: or even folks that may be looking for some seasonal employment.
Speaker 1: You guys do have opportunities at the Bruce Company, don't
Speaker 1: we do.
Speaker 3: I had sixteen interviews.
Speaker 2: It's a popular place.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but I still have some I still have some
Speaker 3: openings available. I've got a full time in nursery. I've
Speaker 3: got a couple of part times in greenery. Their cashier
Speaker 3: positions available. Looking for somebody in furniture, and of course
Speaker 3: the company wide is also Yeah, looking for people for
Speaker 3: cruise and Yeah. So if you go to the website
Speaker 3: and click unemployment, it'll tell you all the things that
Speaker 3: are open. So put in some applications.
Speaker 2: You can't miss it. On the website Bruce Company dot com.
Speaker 1: They'd love to talk with you if you if you
Speaker 1: have an interest, maybe you've got some experience, or maybe
Speaker 1: I just like people in plants and want to work
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Speaker 2: And if you've got a question.
Speaker 1: For Lisa, still got some time six oh eight three
Speaker 1: two one thirteen ten. That's six soh eight three two
Speaker 1: one thirteen ten. Somebody had asked over the weekend about
Speaker 1: basically saving and then using their eggshells and putting them
Speaker 1: in their garden to I don't know, help help add
Speaker 1: some minerals and much need things. And I said, ah,
Speaker 1: I don't know the answer to that, and I said,
Speaker 1: I know somebody who will, and so Bellisa, I know
Speaker 1: there are folks that And it's always great to conserve
Speaker 1: and save as much of that stuff as you can.
Speaker 1: The more things you can reuse the better. Are eggs
Speaker 1: adding eggshells beneficial?
Speaker 2: Harmful?
Speaker 3: What's the egg shells are a really good source of
Speaker 3: calcium for plants. But but and putting just throwing your
Speaker 3: eggs out there will not hurt anything, okay, but it
Speaker 3: will take quite some time to break them down. So
Speaker 3: if you're going to put eggs shells in, throw them
Speaker 3: in a blender first and break them up, powder, pulverize them,
Speaker 3: get them really small and then or put them in
Speaker 3: a compost pile and let them break down in with
Speaker 3: your composts and then just add that as an overall
Speaker 3: top dress is.
Speaker 1: And when I was a kid, we always say we've
Speaker 1: got one down at the down at the estate and Ederton.
Speaker 1: We just literally have a compost pile where we just
Speaker 1: kind of put that stuff in. Every few weeks, I
Speaker 1: flip it around. Good stuff it turns out perfect. I
Speaker 1: have seen a lot of and I understand that there's
Speaker 1: kind of a place for everything. I've seen, like these
Speaker 1: things you can buy, like drums that you put then
Speaker 1: those work just as well.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah. Some people don't have an estate, have a
Speaker 3: small backyard and they don't want a big pile, okay,
Speaker 3: so they want it to be tidier. So yes, there
Speaker 3: are drums that you can turn. There are also those
Speaker 3: things that look like you know, inverted beehives, some black
Speaker 3: ones and then they have a little door in the bottom.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yes, I heard somebody talking about one and one
Speaker 2: of those one.
Speaker 3: I was, well, that's different. That's that's to keep your scraps, okay,
Speaker 3: So that you then I think there are ones that
Speaker 3: you can put under your sink.
Speaker 2: But yeah, yeah, there's a perfect place outside.
Speaker 3: But my son has there's a service in Madison where
Speaker 3: you can fill it and put it out on your
Speaker 3: driveway and they collect it and then you can get
Speaker 3: back compost.
Speaker 2: Yes somebody okay that my son does.
Speaker 1: That, okay, And yes, that's it's a cool program.
Speaker 2: It sounds like a.
Speaker 3: Great yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, And I don't know
Speaker 3: if you purchase it you know, I don't know the
Speaker 3: ins and outs of it, like what a share in
Speaker 3: it costs. But yeah, so that's what. So when you
Speaker 3: if you're going to do vegetables and scraps and that
Speaker 3: kind of stuff, my mother in law told me once that,
Speaker 3: you know, she would chop it up, and I think
Speaker 3: that's a good idea. It'll it'll break down faster if
Speaker 3: you give the whole process a little boost. So chop
Speaker 3: things up really fine. The the tough for they are,
Speaker 3: the more the smaller they.
Speaker 1: Should be, the more fibrous and those yes, yeah, fantatic,
Speaker 1: great great stuff.
Speaker 3: If you throw a carrot in there, it's gonna take
Speaker 3: some time. If you great said carrot, it's going going
Speaker 3: to be.
Speaker 1: Faster, kind of given mother nature a head start. Six
Speaker 1: eight three two one thirteen ten. That's six oh eight
Speaker 1: three two one thirteen ten. Harry from Fitchburg joins us. Harry,
Speaker 1: welcome to the program. You're on the air, Lisa Briggs
Speaker 1: from the Brust Company.
Speaker 3: Yes, my question is what is the best time to
Speaker 3: apply crabgrass Preventer. So we're getting really close. We do
Speaker 3: have the the four step program from Scott's out on
Speaker 3: the floor. Uh, we usually do a deal on it.
Speaker 3: We have the there's a Scott says, a rebate and
Speaker 3: all that kind of thing. Timing is you want the
Speaker 3: temps soil tempts to get about fifty between fifty fifty five.
Speaker 3: So that's when you know that that crabgrass prevent The
Speaker 3: pre emergent only lasts so long, and so if you
Speaker 3: put it down now and we have a later spring,
Speaker 3: then it's going to be not as effective when the
Speaker 3: seeds are actually germinating, because what it is is it's
Speaker 3: a a substance that stops the seeds from germinating. Should
Speaker 3: the lawn be wet when you apply it, I don't
Speaker 3: think it matters. I think that you know, if you
Speaker 3: do it early in the morning when there's dew on
Speaker 3: the ground, I think that you I don't think that matters.
Speaker 3: I think you know, you spread it and it goes
Speaker 3: to the soil. The grass is still short enough right
Speaker 3: now that it's going to make contact with the soil
Speaker 3: pretty quickly. It's not affecting the grass itself. Once the
Speaker 3: crab grass emerges, the pre emergent will not help, will
Speaker 3: not help. But that's why the timing is really tricky.
Speaker 3: So you know, if you have like a you can
Speaker 3: get a soil thermometer. Food thermometers are usually don't go
Speaker 3: down that low, but you could get a soil thermometer.
Speaker 3: Or if you're a brewer you've ever made beer. I
Speaker 3: think that the that the brewing thermometers go down that low.
Speaker 2: I think they do. I used to have one.
Speaker 1: I still have one somewhere, but.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a soil thing.
Speaker 1: Is there and thanks for the great question, and is
Speaker 1: there are there? I've got a guess too.
Speaker 3: Some of that ground usually around mid to early to
Speaker 3: mid April, Okay, you know when it's.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well we'll let you know too.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't. I don't. I had no, I have
Speaker 3: no lawn, so.
Speaker 2: You're all you're all garden.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm not necessarily taking my soil tab.
Speaker 1: That's one of those things. Your neighbors might be looking
Speaker 1: at you like what is she doing or they may
Speaker 1: be saying, oh, that's just Lisa, see you.
Speaker 2: Never you never know.
Speaker 1: But yeah, that and that is uh you think about
Speaker 1: pre emergence and getting that stuff on at the right time.
Speaker 3: Yeah great, I mean when you're putting down fertilizers and
Speaker 3: that kind of stuff, do you have a little more
Speaker 3: latitude of timing, but with a pre emergent, you know,
Speaker 3: you don't want it to go on so early that
Speaker 3: if the soil doesn't warm up quickly that you it
Speaker 3: lasts about four to six weeks. Okay, So yeah, you've
Speaker 3: got a window in there, but you want to time
Speaker 3: it pretty get it right.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Well that's and that's important stuff.
Speaker 3: No.
Speaker 1: As we talk of course each every week with Lisa,
Speaker 1: it's always a great day. If you ever have questions,
Speaker 1: I'd love to talk with you. Stop on in Milton
Speaker 1: Gardens at the Bruce Company. You can also email plant
Speaker 1: desk at Bruce Company dot com. That's Bruce Company dot com.
Speaker 2: Don't forget.
Speaker 1: We do this each end every Monday morning right at
Speaker 1: eight am. So if you've got a question then you
Speaker 1: can call in again. It's even better to get on
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