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Welcome back you in the Garden with Ron Wilson again
that total free number eight hundred eight two three eight
two five five. Don't forget our website at Ron Wilson
online dot com. Okay, I've been talking all morning, as
a matter of fact, a lot of folks this week
talking about who's gonna have on the show this week,
And I said, you know, we're gonna talk about, uh,
we're gonna talk with the Wooletts. We're gonna talk about
(00:49):
using wool in your gardener'. Like, what are you talking about?
And I said, it's exactly it. Something that has been
coming around for the last three or four or five
years I've seen it out there, but now it's starting
to really get ain't some ground and some getting some
traction here, and yep, we're talking about wool, using wool
in your yard and garden. And to tell us a
(01:09):
little bit about more about it, their website is Woolet's
dot net. That's w O l l e t s
dot net. Karen and Elaine, good morning, good morning. Appreciate
you getting up in this. Hey my pleasure. Good appreciate
you getting up and being on with us this morning.
All right, you got you got lots of people listening
this morning because we've been talking about using wool in
(01:31):
the garden and They're like, what are you talking about?
And I'm kind of excited about this as a matter
of fact. But before we talk about using it, tell
me how you too got started in the wool business.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
Well, actually, first let me clarify the spelling on our website. Okay,
it's two o's two.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
What I say w o Okay, Yeah, sometimes my tongue
gets in the way and sometimes it doesn't. Y w
L L e t s dot net. Perfect, There you go.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
So I'm a shepherd and have been for several years now,
and so I have a lot of wools, and i'd
actually been planning a wolf pellet startups for a couple
of years. And you know, ever since I first heard
about the wool pellet invention over in Germany, and when
I was ready to make the leap, I told Elane
about my plans, and.
Speaker 4 (02:25):
That's when I realized how beneficial this could be for
the environment as a sustainable option as a peat alternative
while also diverting a waste product from landfills.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
So you said, okay, so let's get Now how many
sheep do you raise?
Speaker 3 (02:44):
It varies, but at the moment I have about forty five.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
All right, Now, do you share those sheep every year?
And if you do, what were you doing with the
wool up until now?
Speaker 3 (02:54):
I have to share every year? Right for their halts
and comfort, we have to share them every year. And
I might have, you know, eighty bags or so of
wool up in my garage that I haven't figured out
what I'm doing with yet. I have a rarer brood
of sheep, and so I'm able to sell my wool,
but it takes a lot of work cleaning and all
that stuff first, and there's a lot of wool that
(03:15):
isn't worth the effort, because you know, sheep are sheep,
and they're outside and they're rolling and stuff and whatever.
So I realized that not only I have a pile
of wool everywhere, but all the other farmers have a
pile of wool everywhere, and there's no market for American
wool anymore. They we literally get one to two cents
a pound from wool buyers.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
So most of that wool ends up in the landfills,
in the trash, dumped or burned, none of which are
good for the environment.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
All right, So so now we've got this extra wool.
You read about them using this as a soil amendment,
And it all started in Germany.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
Well, Europe is always ahead of us on everything, absolutely,
and they have they have been for centuries throughout their
wool in the garden, using it as multa or whatever.
But a guy in Germany about ten years ago modified
a wood pellet mill to handle wool and started making
the wool pellets. And it's so much more convenient to
(04:15):
use and easy to store to have them in pellets
than in just raw pleases everywhere, So it's slowly catching
on over here, and now it's catching on like wildfire.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
Actually, well yeah, and I you know I had read
about this, you know, you always read about it some
of the guarding magazines or whatever that there was some
research going on about this, whether it was you know
you could use how you could use it, et et cetera.
But then all of a sudden, it seemed like, all
of a sudden, now I'm starting to see it a
lot more out there, And of course I've seen your
ads out there as well and reading more about it,
(04:47):
and I said, you know, this is really starting to
come on strong. So let me ask you this as
far as the process then, so you decided, okay, I'm
going to try doing this. So did you come up
with your own own way to pelletize this or your
own company to do that?
Speaker 3 (05:05):
We we actually bought our machine, okay, one from a
company in Indiana and then one from the Czech Republic,
and then kind of pulls it all together that way.
So we start with shredding the wool, and then we
put it through the pelatter after it cools, and then
that turns to the pelot And it's really a simple process,
a little labor intensive. When you're hauling around you know,
(05:26):
one hundred two hundred pounds of wool bags, but fairly
easy to figure out how to do, and just a
case of standing there and doing it.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
So it's may and this goes into a machine and
heats it up to a certain amount of degrees and
then it obviously it turns in you you make it
into pellets, which I have some of my uh in
the in the studios you're with you this morning. I've
had everybody smelling and say, yep, that smells like sheep,
but it's but so then it turns into the peloform,
which makes it very easy to use as far as
(05:59):
mixing in your potting soil or into the garden or
whatever it may be. And then you bag it and
take it from there. So let me ask you this.
So when you've got more interested and learning more about this,
has there been actual research out there done on the
benefits of using pelletized wool as a soil amendment.
Speaker 4 (06:18):
Yes, ron In fact, there's an Ohio state study that
says using traditional protocol fertilizers greenhouses could bring organic tomatoes
from seed to market ready in about seventy six days.
That's traditionally, but when you use wool pellets. They have
this huge nitrogen pop and you could bring tomatoes market
(06:40):
ready in as little as thirty eight days. And then
Vermont also had some interesting results. They used three different
farms to run trials on broccoli crops using traditional fertilizers
against wool and the first farm had identical yields. So
that's perfect, right.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
Yeah, Well, the.
Speaker 4 (07:01):
Second farm had ten pounds more broccoli using the wool
pellets and everything was ready three days earlier, and the
third farm ended up with forty two pounds more broccoli
using wool pellets than traditional protocol. So folks, pop some
wool pellets in with your seeds and get ready to
(07:23):
watch your garden grow.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
Yeah, that is amazing. We're talking with Karen and Elaine.
Their company is called Woolets and that's wo l l
e T s dot Net. I got it out that time.
Check out their website, great information. You'll learn a lot
more about it than the course. We'll find out where
you can get this as well, and you can get
it on their website too. So I'm just curious with
(07:45):
your with raising the sheep, do you also raise them
for the meat as well, or just like raising sheep, well,
I love sheep.
Speaker 3 (07:53):
Turns out that I don't like cowsel that much, but
I like sheep. We raise them for all things. We
have some that are fiber pets, some that are meat sheep,
some that do all three or they often can you
can off the milk sheep. I jon't, but you can.
Uh yeah, the sheep kind of there. They're a hobby.
(08:14):
They're my therapy there, their business all.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
All the same things and there, and you know what
lambs are. Lambs are like entertainment, you know, and a
little package there. We used to. I was raised out
in the country, a small farm and farms around us,
and we had sheep for a very short period of time.
I got more into the cattle in that. But it
was so much fun to watch those lambs because they
could just stand there and go about six feet in
(08:37):
the air just from standing there. And you're just crazy,
crazy things, jumping up on their moms and all over
the place, and great entertainment. But I have a quick
question for you them. We're going to take a break,
come back and learn more about the wool pellets. But
the tails. I don't think a lot of people realize this.
The tails have to removed back way back, back back
when you used to just put a rubber band on there.
(08:59):
Do they do they still do that or they clip
those off of there.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
Preferences, We do the band. Okay, tried the cutting and
the brigizo and the illustrator, but I just think the
bands are easier on everybody.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
Yep, all right, yeah, because I kept thinking back. I
remember what we used to do there to catch them
put the ban on there, and then of course they
go around for one, but it potentially would come off.
But I don't know if they had changed that practice
or not. But we had a lot of fun with them,
all right.
Speaker 3 (09:29):
I do have some sheep. There are some schepers that
don't do the doctails though, Oh okay, yeah, I have
several that have the long tails. The shearers hate them.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
They don't like them. Yeah, I get understand why. All right,
we'll take a quick break. We come back. We'll learn more.
We're talking with Karen and the Lane. The company is
wool Lets is w O L L E T s
dot net. Go to the website check out all the
great information. We'll find out more about the benefits of
using wool pellets as a soil amendment in your garden
(09:59):
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Garden with Ron Wilson and our special guest this morning,
Karen and Elaine. They are the owners of wool Ats
(11:59):
and go to their website wool Let's w O O
L l e t s dot net learn more about this,
and it's using wool pellets in your garden and your
farm and your containers whatever it may be. A couple
of questions real quick, Karen, you gotta have a lama
that have to be shere too. Can you throw that
in with the sheep wool?
Speaker 3 (12:20):
No?
Speaker 2 (12:21):
Okay, no you can't.
Speaker 3 (12:23):
Okay, So one thing we usually can't catch our lama,
but the thing that holds the pellets together is the
lanelin that is in the sheep.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
Will got it?
Speaker 3 (12:34):
And lamas and I'll pack a ciber does not have
that lanlin in there. So we tried pelleting some and
it just came out like saying, it really doesn't work.
It is the magic ingredient in there.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
We used to have a couple of lamas and they
were brothers. We call them Daryl and Daryl love it
Daryln his brother Darryl. So yeah, they were They.
Speaker 3 (12:52):
Were mellow mellow, but she's not mellow, got it?
Speaker 2 (12:56):
And Elaine, I gotta ask you dandelion root cough.
Speaker 4 (13:01):
Oh yeah, that's terrible, it's terrible. But oh yeah, my
parents had a trend all kinds of things. I probably
had fruit leathers before fruit leathers became before fruit roll
ups became a thing. But we were on the verge
of every natural on the cutting edge. The cutting edge
(13:22):
took anything natural in the garden.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
So I was going to say, we used to make
fruit roll ups before fruit roll ups were out there too,
So okay, yeah it was fun, it was something for
you to do anyway. But yeah, I saw the dandelion
root coffee. I said, I don't know if that sounds
good or not talking about wool pellets and using them
in your garden and your soil and your containers. And
when we're talking about these wool pellets, we're not talking
(13:46):
about just homeowners in their gardens or in their containers.
This is actually available in large quantities, and I'm assuming
small farms can are using this as well.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
We can process up to you know, a thousand pounds
at a time for people, so yes, week we can
do that, and we do have a couple of farms
that are getting started with the idea will is great
for all plants. So it's it's really amazing.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
Now, is this is this something that to be considered
organic or I mean, obviously it's natural, but can it
be considered organic as well.
Speaker 3 (14:19):
We are certified or not certified, but we are approved
by MOSA, which is one of the organic certification firms,
so it's approved for organic growers.
Speaker 4 (14:30):
It is.
Speaker 3 (14:30):
There's nothing in our pellets but wool, just woll, nothing else,
and so you can use that and still be still
keep your certification.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
Got it again? Go to their website it's wool Let's
w O O L L E T s dot net
to learn more about it. So, uh, the actual NPK
of wool, weoll of the wool is nine zero two
and of course you said it in there as well.
You have a lot of micro nutrients or macro and
micro nutrients.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
We do.
Speaker 4 (14:59):
We do.
Speaker 3 (14:59):
There's no phosphorus in the wool, which is great because
most of the soil, especially in the Midwest, has too
much phosphorus in it. So it has nine percent nitrogen,
which is three times the amount of nitrogen in most
chicken minerre. But it does not burn your plants ever.
There's no ammonia, there's no urea in it, so it's
fantastic for that. But there's also sulfur copper. Cut me
(15:23):
out alan what that's my the thing here. There's like
it's autometic.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
Yeah, go seriously, go to the website. You learn a
lot about it. And again, as this breaks down, it's
a slow breakdown, so obviously it's also helping the aeration
of the soil. And I thought it was interesting that
the water you water a less by using wool in
the soil because it holds thirty times its weight and moisture.
Speaker 4 (15:47):
Yes, one benefit is not only the water retention, but
also the fact that wool is able to pull the
water away from the roots at the same time, because
the characteristics of wool that seemed to be pull or opposite.
And it helps your plants retain the water. And then
it also helps when there's too much too much water
(16:10):
in your plant system.
Speaker 3 (16:12):
Yeah, it'll pull the water away from the roots if
you've overfilled your pots, or if you get one of
those torrential downpours like we were having earlier in the summer.
It holds the water away from the roots so they
still can get air and breeze and they're not drowning
your plants. And as the soil drives back out, then
the wool releases that water back as it's needed.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
I think that sounds great for using it. I'm a
big container gardener, and I think this is I can't
wait to try this in my container gardens. Now we are,
you're in Wisconsin, we're having it. We're in a serious
drought right now. I don't know where how you get.
Are you the same thing?
Speaker 3 (16:44):
We've been in a serious route for about three years.
Earlier this year we had laps of rain. It was lovely,
but then about the middle of July it dried up
and we really haven't had any sense until I think
we got about half an inch this week.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
Suddenly, oh yeah, we're scheduled maybe today and tomorrow to
get some as well. But same thing. The last three years,
going into the fall, late summer and fall, we've been
going through the exact same thing. So this is a
situation again where I keep telling folks we're talking about
suggesting adding organic matter to your soil, how much it
can help during times like this. And this is one
of those times where using wool ats, those wool pellets
(17:18):
as a soil amendment can really help you out when
you do get rainfall or when you do get out
there to do a little watering.
Speaker 3 (17:27):
Absolutely. In fact, I'm the world's laziest water. I say
it all the time. I have only watered my garden
three times this summer. Everything is planted with wool in there,
and it's mulched with wolf leaves, and I have drift tape,
but I've only used it three times all summer, and
i haven't watered it for at least a month and
(17:47):
everything is doing great.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
Wow, all right, so pot the pop.
Speaker 3 (17:51):
That forgot to water, they don't last that long. The
regular garden soil is very fantastic.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
Karen and Lane is with us this morning. Their company
is called wool Lets. Is w o O l l
e t s dot net. Go to the website check
it out to learn more about Woolets, and of course
you can order through there as well. We'll talk about
where you can find it. Also. Now usage, so folks
understand this. I mean this can be used in containers,
It can be used in your garden, It can be
used in your fields. What is the rate of using
(18:19):
the pellets, especially like in a container.
Speaker 3 (18:23):
Container less is more. You can actually put too much
in there, and then as the weoll expands, it can
lift your your dirt right out of your foot for
you for like a six and a half inch pot.
If you're if you're mixing up your potting soil, then
you want to add about a third to a half
a cup of wool pellets to a gallon of soil
(18:44):
for a six inch pot, I usually put about a
tablespoon of peloton as I'm mixing it in. So does
it take already have established plant right, you can just
push it down. Just take a pencil or a chapstick
and push the pellets down in about two inches so
they're down by the root zone.
Speaker 4 (18:57):
So you can you use fewer if you're not repotting,
if you're just sticking them in like I do because
I'm lazy about repotting my plants, I'll just put a
handsful or or less around the perimeter.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
Of the pot and then and can so you can
actually use that as a top dressing too, you can,
I think.
Speaker 3 (19:18):
It's best to get it. We do sell shredded wool
as well that you can sprinkle on top, which is
less compacted. Obviously, it's just the fluffy stuff and that
is good for like slugs and snail repellent because they
won't cross the wool. But if you are looking at
putting it out kind of broadcasting it in your garden
and mixing it in one town does thirty square feet?
Speaker 2 (19:41):
Wow? Covers a lot of areas. So and also did
you catch that slug repellent? That's interesting.
Speaker 3 (19:49):
They don't like the barge quality of the of the
fibers for the wool. It purs their soft little underbellies.
Speaker 2 (19:56):
That's too bad, right right my.
Speaker 3 (19:59):
Heart believe me too, so they won't cross it. It
also repels deer and rabbits. But really, I find that
it works better to use just row leaf like the
mulching police that we have for that, because the smell
is stronger. It's the lannel and smell that repels deer
and rabbits.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
Got it.
Speaker 3 (20:15):
I have seen that in my garden where I finally
got a potato harvest for the first time.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
There you go, all right, so learn more about it.
Go to the website. It's woolets dot net. That's w
O L w O O L L e t s
dot net. Karen and the lane cool stuff. I will
talk to you more. Let's like we get into the
spring season, we'll talk about this Morday so folks can
can be using it at that time as well. Great,
I'm glad you spend time with us this morning.
Speaker 3 (20:41):
Thank you so much, thanks for having us for the fun.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
All right, thank you again. It's woolets dot net. W
O O L L E T S. Dot net. Sounds
to me like I'm going to be using some woolets
in my containers in my gardening come spring twenty twenty. Well,
actually I can usually get this fall and I'm doing
a little planting as well, do a little experimenting. Well,
let's check it out. Well, let's dot net. I love
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Fifty five KRC is the talkstation. Here is your nineth
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five hundred here at fifty five KRC, the Talk station.
Welcome back you in the Garden with Ron Wilson again
that total free number eight hundred eight two three eight
two five five. Don't forget our website at Ron Wilson
online dot com. Okay, I've been talking all morning, as
a matter of fact, a lot of folks this week
talking about who's gonna have on the show this week,
And I said, you know, we're gonna talk about, uh,
we're gonna talk with the Wooletts. We're gonna talk about
(00:49):
using wool in your gardener'. Like, what are you talking about?
And I said, it's exactly it. Something that has been
coming around for the last three or four or five
years I've seen it out there, but now it's starting
to really get ain't some ground and some getting some
traction here, and yep, we're talking about wool, using wool
in your yard and garden. And to tell us a
(01:09):
little bit about more about it, their website is Woolet's
dot net. That's w O l l e t s
dot net. Karen and Elaine, good morning, good morning. Appreciate
you getting up in this. Hey my pleasure. Good appreciate
you getting up and being on with us this morning.
All right, you got you got lots of people listening
this morning because we've been talking about using wool in
(01:31):
the garden and They're like, what are you talking about?
And I'm kind of excited about this as a matter
of fact. But before we talk about using it, tell
me how you too got started in the wool business.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
Well, actually, first let me clarify the spelling on our website. Okay,
it's two o's two.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
What I say w o Okay, Yeah, sometimes my tongue
gets in the way and sometimes it doesn't. Y w
L L e t s dot net. Perfect, There you go.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
So I'm a shepherd and have been for several years now,
and so I have a lot of wools, and i'd
actually been planning a wolf pellet startups for a couple
of years. And you know, ever since I first heard
about the wool pellet invention over in Germany, and when
I was ready to make the leap, I told Elane
about my plans, and.
Speaker 4 (02:25):
That's when I realized how beneficial this could be for
the environment as a sustainable option as a peat alternative
while also diverting a waste product from landfills.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
So you said, okay, so let's get Now how many
sheep do you raise?
Speaker 3 (02:44):
It varies, but at the moment I have about forty five.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
All right, Now, do you share those sheep every year?
And if you do, what were you doing with the
wool up until now?
Speaker 3 (02:54):
I have to share every year? Right for their halts
and comfort, we have to share them every year. And
I might have, you know, eighty bags or so of
wool up in my garage that I haven't figured out
what I'm doing with yet. I have a rarer brood
of sheep, and so I'm able to sell my wool,
but it takes a lot of work cleaning and all
that stuff first, and there's a lot of wool that
(03:15):
isn't worth the effort, because you know, sheep are sheep,
and they're outside and they're rolling and stuff and whatever.
So I realized that not only I have a pile
of wool everywhere, but all the other farmers have a
pile of wool everywhere, and there's no market for American
wool anymore. They we literally get one to two cents
a pound from wool buyers.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
So most of that wool ends up in the landfills,
in the trash, dumped or burned, none of which are
good for the environment.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
All right, So so now we've got this extra wool.
You read about them using this as a soil amendment,
And it all started in Germany.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
Well, Europe is always ahead of us on everything, absolutely,
and they have they have been for centuries throughout their
wool in the garden, using it as multa or whatever.
But a guy in Germany about ten years ago modified
a wood pellet mill to handle wool and started making
the wool pellets. And it's so much more convenient to
(04:15):
use and easy to store to have them in pellets
than in just raw pleases everywhere, So it's slowly catching
on over here, and now it's catching on like wildfire.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
Actually, well yeah, and I you know I had read
about this, you know, you always read about it some
of the guarding magazines or whatever that there was some
research going on about this, whether it was you know
you could use how you could use it, et et cetera.
But then all of a sudden, it seemed like, all
of a sudden, now I'm starting to see it a
lot more out there, And of course I've seen your
ads out there as well and reading more about it,
(04:47):
and I said, you know, this is really starting to
come on strong. So let me ask you this as
far as the process then, so you decided, okay, I'm
going to try doing this. So did you come up
with your own own way to pelletize this or your
own company to do that?
Speaker 3 (05:05):
We we actually bought our machine, okay, one from a
company in Indiana and then one from the Czech Republic,
and then kind of pulls it all together that way.
So we start with shredding the wool, and then we
put it through the pelatter after it cools, and then
that turns to the pelot And it's really a simple process,
a little labor intensive. When you're hauling around you know,
(05:26):
one hundred two hundred pounds of wool bags, but fairly
easy to figure out how to do, and just a
case of standing there and doing it.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
So it's may and this goes into a machine and
heats it up to a certain amount of degrees and
then it obviously it turns in you you make it
into pellets, which I have some of my uh in
the in the studios you're with you this morning. I've
had everybody smelling and say, yep, that smells like sheep,
but it's but so then it turns into the peloform,
which makes it very easy to use as far as
(05:59):
mixing in your potting soil or into the garden or
whatever it may be. And then you bag it and
take it from there. So let me ask you this.
So when you've got more interested and learning more about this,
has there been actual research out there done on the
benefits of using pelletized wool as a soil amendment.
Speaker 4 (06:18):
Yes, ron In fact, there's an Ohio state study that
says using traditional protocol fertilizers greenhouses could bring organic tomatoes
from seed to market ready in about seventy six days.
That's traditionally, but when you use wool pellets. They have
this huge nitrogen pop and you could bring tomatoes market
(06:40):
ready in as little as thirty eight days. And then
Vermont also had some interesting results. They used three different
farms to run trials on broccoli crops using traditional fertilizers
against wool and the first farm had identical yields. So
that's perfect, right.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
Yeah, Well, the.
Speaker 4 (07:01):
Second farm had ten pounds more broccoli using the wool
pellets and everything was ready three days earlier, and the
third farm ended up with forty two pounds more broccoli
using wool pellets than traditional protocol. So folks, pop some
wool pellets in with your seeds and get ready to
(07:23):
watch your garden grow.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
Yeah, that is amazing. We're talking with Karen and Elaine.
Their company is called Woolets and that's wo l l
e T s dot Net. I got it out that time.
Check out their website, great information. You'll learn a lot
more about it than the course. We'll find out where
you can get this as well, and you can get
it on their website too. So I'm just curious with
(07:45):
your with raising the sheep, do you also raise them
for the meat as well, or just like raising sheep, well,
I love sheep.
Speaker 3 (07:53):
Turns out that I don't like cowsel that much, but
I like sheep. We raise them for all things. We
have some that are fiber pets, some that are meat sheep,
some that do all three or they often can you
can off the milk sheep. I jon't, but you can.
Uh yeah, the sheep kind of there. They're a hobby.
(08:14):
They're my therapy there, their business all.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
All the same things and there, and you know what
lambs are. Lambs are like entertainment, you know, and a
little package there. We used to. I was raised out
in the country, a small farm and farms around us,
and we had sheep for a very short period of time.
I got more into the cattle in that. But it
was so much fun to watch those lambs because they
could just stand there and go about six feet in
(08:37):
the air just from standing there. And you're just crazy,
crazy things, jumping up on their moms and all over
the place, and great entertainment. But I have a quick
question for you them. We're going to take a break,
come back and learn more about the wool pellets. But
the tails. I don't think a lot of people realize this.
The tails have to removed back way back, back back
when you used to just put a rubber band on there.
(08:59):
Do they do they still do that or they clip
those off of there.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
Preferences, We do the band. Okay, tried the cutting and
the brigizo and the illustrator, but I just think the
bands are easier on everybody.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
Yep, all right, yeah, because I kept thinking back. I
remember what we used to do there to catch them
put the ban on there, and then of course they
go around for one, but it potentially would come off.
But I don't know if they had changed that practice
or not. But we had a lot of fun with them,
all right.
Speaker 3 (09:29):
I do have some sheep. There are some schepers that
don't do the doctails though, Oh okay, yeah, I have
several that have the long tails. The shearers hate them.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
They don't like them. Yeah, I get understand why. All right,
we'll take a quick break. We come back. We'll learn more.
We're talking with Karen and the Lane. The company is
wool Lets is w O L L E T s
dot net. Go to the website check out all the
great information. We'll find out more about the benefits of
using wool pellets as a soil amendment in your garden
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Karen and Elaine. They are the owners of wool Ats
(11:59):
and go to their website wool Let's w O O
L l e t s dot net learn more about this,
and it's using wool pellets in your garden and your
farm and your containers whatever it may be. A couple
of questions real quick, Karen, you gotta have a lama
that have to be shere too. Can you throw that
in with the sheep wool?
Speaker 3 (12:20):
No?
Speaker 2 (12:21):
Okay, no you can't.
Speaker 3 (12:23):
Okay, So one thing we usually can't catch our lama,
but the thing that holds the pellets together is the
lanelin that is in the sheep.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
Will got it?
Speaker 3 (12:34):
And lamas and I'll pack a ciber does not have
that lanlin in there. So we tried pelleting some and
it just came out like saying, it really doesn't work.
It is the magic ingredient in there.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
We used to have a couple of lamas and they
were brothers. We call them Daryl and Daryl love it
Daryln his brother Darryl. So yeah, they were They.
Speaker 3 (12:52):
Were mellow mellow, but she's not mellow, got it?
Speaker 2 (12:56):
And Elaine, I gotta ask you dandelion root cough.
Speaker 4 (13:01):
Oh yeah, that's terrible, it's terrible. But oh yeah, my
parents had a trend all kinds of things. I probably
had fruit leathers before fruit leathers became before fruit roll
ups became a thing. But we were on the verge
of every natural on the cutting edge. The cutting edge
(13:22):
took anything natural in the garden.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
So I was going to say, we used to make
fruit roll ups before fruit roll ups were out there too,
So okay, yeah it was fun, it was something for
you to do anyway. But yeah, I saw the dandelion
root coffee. I said, I don't know if that sounds
good or not talking about wool pellets and using them
in your garden and your soil and your containers. And
when we're talking about these wool pellets, we're not talking
(13:46):
about just homeowners in their gardens or in their containers.
This is actually available in large quantities, and I'm assuming
small farms can are using this as well.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
We can process up to you know, a thousand pounds
at a time for people, so yes, week we can
do that, and we do have a couple of farms
that are getting started with the idea will is great
for all plants. So it's it's really amazing.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
Now, is this is this something that to be considered
organic or I mean, obviously it's natural, but can it
be considered organic as well.
Speaker 3 (14:19):
We are certified or not certified, but we are approved
by MOSA, which is one of the organic certification firms,
so it's approved for organic growers.
Speaker 4 (14:30):
It is.
Speaker 3 (14:30):
There's nothing in our pellets but wool, just woll, nothing else,
and so you can use that and still be still
keep your certification.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
Got it again? Go to their website it's wool Let's
w O O L L E T s dot net
to learn more about it. So, uh, the actual NPK
of wool, weoll of the wool is nine zero two
and of course you said it in there as well.
You have a lot of micro nutrients or macro and
micro nutrients.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
We do.
Speaker 4 (14:59):
We do.
Speaker 3 (14:59):
There's no phosphorus in the wool, which is great because
most of the soil, especially in the Midwest, has too
much phosphorus in it. So it has nine percent nitrogen,
which is three times the amount of nitrogen in most
chicken minerre. But it does not burn your plants ever.
There's no ammonia, there's no urea in it, so it's
fantastic for that. But there's also sulfur copper. Cut me
(15:23):
out alan what that's my the thing here. There's like
it's autometic.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
Yeah, go seriously, go to the website. You learn a
lot about it. And again, as this breaks down, it's
a slow breakdown, so obviously it's also helping the aeration
of the soil. And I thought it was interesting that
the water you water a less by using wool in
the soil because it holds thirty times its weight and moisture.
Speaker 4 (15:47):
Yes, one benefit is not only the water retention, but
also the fact that wool is able to pull the
water away from the roots at the same time, because
the characteristics of wool that seemed to be pull or opposite.
And it helps your plants retain the water. And then
it also helps when there's too much too much water
(16:10):
in your plant system.
Speaker 3 (16:12):
Yeah, it'll pull the water away from the roots if
you've overfilled your pots, or if you get one of
those torrential downpours like we were having earlier in the summer.
It holds the water away from the roots so they
still can get air and breeze and they're not drowning
your plants. And as the soil drives back out, then
the wool releases that water back as it's needed.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
I think that sounds great for using it. I'm a
big container gardener, and I think this is I can't
wait to try this in my container gardens. Now we are,
you're in Wisconsin, we're having it. We're in a serious
drought right now. I don't know where how you get.
Are you the same thing?
Speaker 3 (16:44):
We've been in a serious route for about three years.
Earlier this year we had laps of rain. It was lovely,
but then about the middle of July it dried up
and we really haven't had any sense until I think
we got about half an inch this week.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
Suddenly, oh yeah, we're scheduled maybe today and tomorrow to
get some as well. But same thing. The last three years,
going into the fall, late summer and fall, we've been
going through the exact same thing. So this is a
situation again where I keep telling folks we're talking about
suggesting adding organic matter to your soil, how much it
can help during times like this. And this is one
of those times where using wool ats, those wool pellets
(17:18):
as a soil amendment can really help you out when
you do get rainfall or when you do get out
there to do a little watering.
Speaker 3 (17:27):
Absolutely. In fact, I'm the world's laziest water. I say
it all the time. I have only watered my garden
three times this summer. Everything is planted with wool in there,
and it's mulched with wolf leaves, and I have drift tape,
but I've only used it three times all summer, and
i haven't watered it for at least a month and
(17:47):
everything is doing great.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
Wow, all right, so pot the pop.
Speaker 3 (17:51):
That forgot to water, they don't last that long. The
regular garden soil is very fantastic.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
Karen and Lane is with us this morning. Their company
is called wool Lets. Is w o O l l
e t s dot net. Go to the website check
it out to learn more about Woolets, and of course
you can order through there as well. We'll talk about
where you can find it. Also. Now usage, so folks
understand this. I mean this can be used in containers,
It can be used in your garden, It can be
used in your fields. What is the rate of using
(18:19):
the pellets, especially like in a container.
Speaker 3 (18:23):
Container less is more. You can actually put too much
in there, and then as the weoll expands, it can
lift your your dirt right out of your foot for
you for like a six and a half inch pot.
If you're if you're mixing up your potting soil, then
you want to add about a third to a half
a cup of wool pellets to a gallon of soil
(18:44):
for a six inch pot, I usually put about a
tablespoon of peloton as I'm mixing it in. So does
it take already have established plant right, you can just
push it down. Just take a pencil or a chapstick
and push the pellets down in about two inches so
they're down by the root zone.
Speaker 4 (18:57):
So you can you use fewer if you're not repotting,
if you're just sticking them in like I do because
I'm lazy about repotting my plants, I'll just put a
handsful or or less around the perimeter.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
Of the pot and then and can so you can
actually use that as a top dressing too, you can,
I think.
Speaker 3 (19:18):
It's best to get it. We do sell shredded wool
as well that you can sprinkle on top, which is
less compacted. Obviously, it's just the fluffy stuff and that
is good for like slugs and snail repellent because they
won't cross the wool. But if you are looking at
putting it out kind of broadcasting it in your garden
and mixing it in one town does thirty square feet?
Speaker 2 (19:41):
Wow? Covers a lot of areas. So and also did
you catch that slug repellent? That's interesting.
Speaker 3 (19:49):
They don't like the barge quality of the of the
fibers for the wool. It purs their soft little underbellies.
Speaker 2 (19:56):
That's too bad, right right my.
Speaker 3 (19:59):
Heart believe me too, so they won't cross it. It
also repels deer and rabbits. But really, I find that
it works better to use just row leaf like the
mulching police that we have for that, because the smell
is stronger. It's the lannel and smell that repels deer
and rabbits.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
Got it.
Speaker 3 (20:15):
I have seen that in my garden where I finally
got a potato harvest for the first time.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
There you go, all right, so learn more about it.
Go to the website. It's woolets dot net. That's w
O L w O O L L e t s
dot net. Karen and the lane cool stuff. I will
talk to you more. Let's like we get into the
spring season, we'll talk about this Morday so folks can
can be using it at that time as well. Great,
I'm glad you spend time with us this morning.
Speaker 3 (20:41):
Thank you so much, thanks for having us for the fun.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
All right, thank you again. It's woolets dot net. W
O O L L E T S. Dot net. Sounds
to me like I'm going to be using some woolets
in my containers in my gardening come spring twenty twenty. Well,
actually I can usually get this fall and I'm doing
a little planting as well, do a little experimenting. Well,
let's check it out. Well, let's dot net. I love
(21:07):
it all right, quick break, we come back. Phone lines
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