Keith Ramsey:   How are we doing? We're here today to talk about what's going on in the fall. I'm Keith Ramsey with garden supply company. Fall's a great time of year to, be in the garden. It's the season that really never ends.  Once it's temperature starts cooling off, you can  start planting [00:01:23] and you can plant all the way into the wintertime.  It's a nice time of year to work on a landscape project because you're not pressured. You can do one section at a time and you can work all the way through the winter. Plants establish really well during the winter months.   They're going to grow roots every day through the wintertime.[00:01:39] So it's a time of the year that you can work outside and it's not too hot for plants. Aren't going to need a lot of water. This time of year, we're starting to get pansies and mums, that kind of seasonal color, and pansies are an amazing plant. They'll hold up to the cold weather.[00:01:54]They're out there underneath the snow, as the snow melts, they come back to life and then they're usually flowering heavier than they were before snowfall.  Pansies are something that is easy to put in and just give you huge rewards. [00:02:06]Joe Woolworth: When's the ideal time to put in your pansies?[00:02:09] .[00:02:09]Keith Ramsey: month of October really is probably the ideal time. We start bringing pansies at the end of September.  But all throughout the month of October, and then we bring in larger flowers in November so that people can continue to plant them. [00:02:22] Joe Woolworth: What does the process looks like if I want to put in some pansies, I head on down to garden supply, and then what?[00:02:26] Keith Ramsey: . We can walk you through that. I think the key to an annual bed is really just building a great bed. It's building up the soil, putting in soil conditioner, putting in potting soil. And when you see commercial beds around town, that's the way it's done. , it makes  planting an[00:02:40] an annual bed, just super easy. You can pull a flat of pansies and plant them in less than an hour. And that's, having the bed prepped and then the right soil is also what gives you the professional results too? That's, what's going to give you flowers all winter long getting the fertility, applying something, that's got a high phosphate fertilizer that, you can pick up at any local garden center, like garden supply company. [00:03:01]Joe Woolworth: So that's not like a complicated to get my soil tested kind of stuff. I'm just buying some products from the garden supply. [00:03:07] Keith Ramsey: That's it's really just a simple recipe.[00:03:09] I'll put down a bag of soil conditioner on the bottom and then I'll top dress it with a bag of potting soil and then use half a bag of soil conditioner mixed into the potting soil and I'll dig that into the clay. So you're opening up the clay and you're giving it a deeper root base place for the plant roots to root down into the existing soil.[00:03:29] But then you can plant directly in that mix. And then I use the other half of the bag of soil conditioner just to mulch the top of the bed.  You don't want to mulch with heavy bark soil because it just,  takes all the nitrogen out of the soil. And then we'll use an annual perennial fertilizer and it's a granular product.[00:03:46] You can just, you broadcasted across the bed and water a man, and it's really. Pretty simple process. [00:03:52] Joe Woolworth: If there were a formula for it and to make it easy, let's say you buy a hundred dollars worth of plants. How much are you planning on investing in the soil so that you really make sure you get the most out [00:04:03] Keith Ramsey: of it?[00:04:03] An average annual bed would be a flat of annuals. And so garden centers really have the best pricing on annual flats. None of the box stores anymore carry flats of annuals. They carry different types of packs or bigger pots. But we carry a 36 pack flat.[00:04:20] That's $25.  It's less than a dollar, a