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Speaker 1 (00:34):
Eight hundred eight two three eight two five five. Good morning.
I am Ron Wilson, your personal yard boy, talking about
yarning on this Saturday before Christmas. Let's kick it off
with a cup of Joe he is in. It's in
the house today, Believe it or not, Joe Strucker, our
executive producer. Find out what's going on on our website
at Ron Wilson online dot com Facebook page. In the
Garden with Ron Wilson. Good morning, sir.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
What do you mean believe it or not?
Speaker 1 (00:56):
How do you always take some time off this You're
late using up the VAKA. I get it. It's okay.
I was surprised you're here.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
I was surprised I'm here too. So anyway, Merry Christmas.
I applaud you for taking the time off. Merry Christmas.
Big game today? Really, what do you think? I'm nervous?
Speaker 1 (01:18):
Are you? Are you betting on this one? No?
Speaker 2 (01:21):
Did you quit doing that? No? No, I don't bet
on the teams that I like. Yah, don't bet your
heart because you don't bet your heart.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
No.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
Yeah, so no, I am not betting on this game.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
I haven't even seen the line. I don't even know
what the seven Ohio state's favored.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
Yeah, seven some places, seven and a half. I don't know. Well,
if they get off to a slow start, which are
there any games, I mean they GoF to a slow
start against like like Marshall, didn't they? I mean it's
just did you see they had to cancel their ball game? Yeah,
(01:57):
that's disappointing. That's sad. Well, that means bad. I mean
I understand why they had to cancel it.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
Well, sure, but that's sad for the reason.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
And the reason. But I was listening to another a
sports talk show and the and he made a great point.
He said, if you guys don't want this to happen,
then the colleges need to get together and have a
one uniform schedule. So the reason that the portal is
opened that early is because some colleges have they have
(02:30):
staggered semester schedules. So if they want someone to come
in to you know, say Syracuse right there, there's some
their fall semester starts before Christmas, not after Christmas like
a lot of the winter, so they got to get
in there.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
So if they if you want to stop this, then
you need to make okay, all the all the fall
semesters or whatever. The next semesters start on January fifteenth
or whatever. Just make it uniform, right, We're all then,
and then you don't have to worry about the kid
leaving the going going early. But because he wants to
get in that semester or else, he's not eligible.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
Right, So sad.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
It is sad because Bill said, and then you know,
you know the kid at Penn State and Marshall can't
do the bowl game. And then there was another team
that they're they're they're going to end up doing it,
but they were threatening they're not go to their bowl
game either. M So, yeah, it's it's a mess. They
need to fix that.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
I saw an interview with Nick Saban the other day.
If you saw that on YouTube, I forget who was
talking to. But his point was they used to host
all of these I know this has nothing to do
with guarding, but they used to host all of the
new recruits at their house for breakfast Sunday morning with
their parents and talk about what they're going to do
and how they're gonna help the boys, you know, yea
(03:54):
in college and all that kind of stuff. And he
said the would he retire last year? Yeah, year before
he retired, his wife actually said, why are we still
doing this? It was like, what are you talking about?
She said, why why are we still doing this? Because
those boys don't care what we're going to do for them.
They just went on much they're going to get paid. Yeah,
(04:14):
and he said, you know, it really hit me hard
when she realized that that's where we were at this stage,
you know, And that was part of his decision to retire.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
Oh look at what I mean. The big news this
week was Bill Belichick and during his news conference he
said that they hired a new general manager. No colleges,
it's called athletic director.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
It's not college general manager.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
And the general manager that they hired is his old
general manager with the Patriots.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
Oh was it so.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
It's a business yeah, Oh yeah, that's that's where it's gone.
Speaking about business, Yes, I gardening business was the guarding
business this year?
Speaker 1 (04:59):
Good it was. It was a good year. I you
know what's funny is everybody the drought all across the
United States. Everybody that we that I know that I've
seen the numbers and garden centers for the most part
had a downfall because people just weren't gonna plan. It
was hot, it was dry. Uh, they held off to
the very end. Everybody had a nice little rush at
(05:21):
the very end for the last couple of weeks of October,
first of November, and that's it. And you know as
well as I do, and you and I have talk
about when the holidays come up, it's all over but
the shouting. But there were some people that jumped on
the last couple of weeks, but for the most part,
it's a it was a slow fall for folks.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
Put my hose away September first.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
Yeah, I mean a lot of people just said, I'm
not gonna I'm We're going to do it in the spring.
So you know that, I guess that's a good sign
for you know, we'll look for the spring and folks
would jump back at it and maybe we'll have a
you know, super spring again. But up until that point,
it was a great, great season for most all the
garden centers around. So, you know, it's it's very encouraging.
There's the looking at the trends and the researchers out there,
(06:00):
folks are continuing on. There was always that question after COVID,
with a big increase in gardening, were people going to
stick with it, and they are and as a lot
of them have increased, I mean some have dropped out
and said, you know, I got other things to do,
but have increased in what they were doing. So still
very encouraging in the green industries. Absolutely good. This was
a crazy year for Christmas trees with a short period
(06:21):
like that. You know, they said, you know, there was
a quick end, quick out. I've read across again, look
at some of the markets in our area. I thought
everybody sold out quickly. Other markets said that they didn't
sell out quite as fast because it was such a
quick short period. When you have that short season, people
have a tendency to go for the artificial tree rather
than the live tree.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
And then there's the people in the third category that
just said forget it and we'll I ton't put anything up.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
Then you know, you start looking and actually they at
first said the costs weren't going to go up. Well,
cost the retailers did go up on pricing, and you're right.
Then they lot of folks looked at it and said,
I'm not spending that for three weeks, you know. So
it was a financial decision, is what it is. So yeah,
so that was kind of interesting.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
Well, well they save that money and they'll spend it there
in springtime.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
Well yeah, then I hope they come back in the
spring and add more flowers, perennials and things like that. Right, Yeah,
it'll be good. That's the that's the goal. So, uh,
you know last week we posted that thing about the
monarch butterfly. Yeah extension, you put that on our website. Yeah,
talked about last week. There has that has been the
I feel like we were breaking news. That has been
(07:29):
like the story in the green industry. It was on
CBS and a couple other uh stories as well. Uh
talking about the extension. You know that they're looking to
put them on the yeah endangered species list and uh
that's what that really rocked around this week with the news.
So we kind of a little breaking first last week.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
And uh we also have we'll kind of go out
of order here. Also on the website, there's an article
about that. Remember how the huge hornet, the big giant hornet,
everyone was gonna everyone was gonna die because this huge
hornet was gonna sting everybody. Well it's eradicated.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
Yeah, that's that's great news that you talk about happy
campy campers, beekeepers across the United States have got to
be you know, we'll talk. As a matter of fact,
I haven't talked to bar but I'm sure she's very
excited about that. But they have actually declared it eradicated
in Washington State. So that's a that's a great thing
that they changed the name. What was it, murder murder hornet?
(08:33):
Was the murder now giant Asian hornet hornet. Yeah, but
just wiping out bee hives big time. But yeah, they
eradicated it totally, so good for them. A lot of work,
took us several years, but they got it. So who's
on the show today? Two guests? The thing you got
right in front of you right there? This is the
Christmas Show. Technically, wouldn't it be okay? I know, yeah,
(08:54):
it would be Rita Heigenfeld. Always have Rita on. We'll
talk about the Christmas recipes, Frankenson Smith and or breaking
sits in merr remember when she brought those in a
couple of years ago, which we had the end studio
and talked about it was anyway, it's pretty cool. I
will talk about that. And then that thing you have
in your hand there, Yeah, I thought I thought it
was plastic, but these aren' plastic. Those are hand had made.
(09:16):
These are really nice. They're called bee cups, and they're
really cool. They look like little flowers and you put
them in your pots or in your landscape.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
I like these be cups.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
You fill them up with a little bit of water
and the bees go to those and drink from the
bee cup. And I saw I saw an article about
this in a gardening magazine. And then I'm doing my
uncommonly good catalog, which is a really cool caladalog, and
it was in there, and I was surprised the heck
out of me. So general's the handmake all of those
is going to join us this morning, tell us a
(09:45):
story about that, how she came up with it. It's
a really cool be cups Yeah, b cups bdash cups
dot com if you.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
Want to check the website out awesome. In addition to
the website, we have our own yes we do Ron
Wilson Online dot com. And on the website we have
the story about the hornet. But it's it's that time
of year for Rita's roast beast.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
So rita picture makes your mouth water is yeah, yeah,
it's it's I've had that several times.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
I've actually made that recipe because we've been doing that
recipe for years and it is melting your mouth butter. Oh, unbelievable.
It's a good one and it's easy. Yeah, if you
did it, I do it. You know, it's make it
and it's awesome. Then you know that anybody else can do.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
Yeah. She's done that several times and I just poo
love it. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
And it's that time of year, you know, and the
Grinch car of the roast Beast and you don't have
to be a grinch roast beast. So and the plane
of the week is the Christmas Rose Christmas rose or
the Hella Boris Niger Niger as in Jacob Well you
know I I they tried to and they still have
it out there. But doctor Armonis and I were talking
(10:55):
about this last week as a they're trying to promote
it more and more for a holiday play. But it's uh,
it's an early blooming hellibores, which flowers are for us
right around Christmas. So not only do you have the
flowers in your garden, but they're also selling it as
a potted plant that you can use indoors and then
plant your garden as well. So we talked about last week,
but I thought I would use that as our feature
(11:17):
plant for this week. So very cool plant. Well this
is the last cell. This is the last one for
twenty twenty four because I'm off next next week'll be
off next vacation. That's my last of the party. And
hardy before the end of the years. Oh yeah, I
mean I gotta I gotta check out doctor Slivovitz. So there,
doctor Shlivovitz. That's gonna happen. Trust me, I'm a doctor. Yes,
(11:39):
So this is the last one. So Merry Christmas, Ry
Christmas to you. It's been.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
Happy new year.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
Let's see, this would be our twenty second year, ago
twenty two years.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
Long time.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
Yeah, seen a lot, gone through a lot, seen a lot,
done a lot, a lot of changes, a lot of changes.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
But here we are.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
We're like, we're like a fart a new car. You
just can't care rid of us.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
Okay, well you could use odor exit. Yeah, I guess
that kind of threw me off. Say, we're like a
bottle of old a couple of bottles of wine. You're
you're just keep getting, we keep aging, keep getting.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
Order, getting better with age. I'm just smelly.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
Great, No you're not.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
But anyway, Yeah, it's been it's been awesome.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
Yeah, it's been fun.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
It's been a fun. Twenty two. I'm gonna keep going.
We'll keep on going, you know it, one more year
at least.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
You never know what happens.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
Okay, Arizona here, I come.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
I want to take this ill to take us one
more snow. I could just say I didn't want to
bring that up, could just say forget it from yesterday.
Well it wasn't that bad, No, but it was there,
so it was still there. But I don't want to
bring it up. Okay, all right, Well, happy new Year everybody,
and we'll see you in twenty twenty five.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
Joe Shrek our executive produce you if you like what
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Strecker had everything to do with it. Something on there
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Speaker 2 (13:12):
I shoft? What do you think of that with his
blonde hair, very interesting, very interesting, curly blonde hair, early
blonde hair. I didn't know if he looked like doctor Einstein.
I don't know what he was trying.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
Who'd you say?
Speaker 2 (13:26):
I probably looked like a village of Armstrong from from
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Speaker 1 (13:51):
Maybe after Christmas.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
You never know. I'm gonna bring it up anymore. Na,
not worth it. It's gonna happen. Is gonna happen?
Speaker 1 (13:58):
Yep?
Speaker 2 (13:58):
Sure, TikTok doctor z Okay. He wants to be alone.
He's n She's still there. Well, that's what I'm saying.
Maybe it was her. It's her decision. I'm just gonna
leave it, leave it, lie, lock me in, leave it
it lie all right, Happy New Year, Merry Christmas. Christmas.
See you in twenty twenty five, See you in twenty
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Speaker 1 (17:35):
Good morning, Welcome back here in the garden with Ron
Wilson again that toll free number eight hundred eight two
three eight two five five talking about yarding on this
h Saturday before Christmas. Are you all set? We're not
not even closed. I think we're gonna be wrapping presents
for the next two days.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
We'll get it together. Always do, Always seems to come together.
To Cincinnati we go. Deanna, good morning.
Speaker 4 (17:58):
Hello.
Speaker 3 (17:59):
I've got to that I didn't I have trees I
didn't get in the ground this fall and they're in
pots outside.
Speaker 5 (18:06):
Okay, what do I need to know to get them
through the winter.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
Well, the thing that you want to do is try
to protect the roots as much as you can. I mean,
you know you still have time to plan. I guess
you're just not going to do it.
Speaker 5 (18:17):
At this point, right, Yeah, because a lot of times
the ground's been frozen and then it's too wet.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
Yeah, And that's yeah, that's I understand.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
The thing to do is try to you know, if
you've got several of them, what I would do is
try to clump them all together so that they're pot
to pot and then leaf around them, like pile up
leaves around the outside. Maybe get the four bales of
straw put around the outside of those, and then create
some kind of a mulched in area so you can
insulate those pots. And I think the other thing to
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remember too is that as we go through the winter,
if we don't get any snowfall or rainfall to put
moisture back in those pots. You may have to water
once or twice during January in February just to make
sure we have a little bit of moisture in there.
But the whole thing is to try to keep those
roots from getting too awfully cold, especially when you know,
if it drops drips down into the twenties and teens,
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that's not a good thing. So you know, put them
all together that's at the nursery. We would bunch them
all together. Then we're gonna come back and we're gonna
put leaves and straw and things like that around them
to help protect them over the winter, and then the
springtime pull those off and get them planted as soon
as we can.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
Okay, great, thank.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
You, Okay, Dan a good talking to you. To have
a very merry Christmas. And again, if you've got containers
that are above ground with plants in them that are
you gonna be growing again next year and you weren't
able to plant, try to heal them into the ground.
If you can still get them, plant and get them planted.
And you know, you'll see landscape crews out there still
planting right up to the holidays and sometimes even after that,
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depending on the weather conditions and soil conditions and size
of the plants, but they'll be out there still planting.
But you know, try to get them in the ground
if you can. Otherwise, sometimes you can heal them, you know,
kind of trench out a little bit, stick them down
in the ground, maybe halfway into the ground, bunch them
all together, and then of course put the leaves or
some kind of insulation around the outside. If you can
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get a hold of four bales of straw and make
a just a box around them, is absolutely outstanding, and
then fill that up with leaves. That works nicely. But
again remember if you don't get any rainfall with these plants,
that are you know that you're overwintering. Whether it be
in an unheated garage, unheated shed, down on the window
well protected with multonary like that. Make sure you do
give them a little bit of moisture because they're counting
(20:31):
on you through the winter and you don't want them
to freeze dry, so keep a little bit of moisture
in there as well. Quick break, we come back. Phone
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Talking to your ardening at eight hundred eight two three
eight two five five. Welcome in love to hear from
you again. It's eight hundred eight two three eight two
five five don't forget our website. Ron Wilson online dot
com Reada's recipe that Joe called it the roast Beast,
but it's absolutely outstanding. I've had it many times and
Joe's done it many times and it's great. So be
(23:17):
sure and check that out. And we've got some other
great things posted on there for you as well as
as well as our planet of the week, which is
the Helliboris Nyger or Christmas Rose. We talked about that
last week a doctor Armitage and several people email this
week asking about it and caring for it indoors, and
a couple of folks said that they had gotten them
two or three years ago. That you know, they are
(23:40):
trying to push it a little bit more as an
indoor holiday plant. And I think the thing you have
to remember about that is that you know it does
work indoors, but you want cooler temperatures, as bright a
light as you can get it. Even though it's a
shade loving plant outdoors, it needs to be really bright indoors,
cool temperatures, and I would limit the amount of time
that you have them inside. The couple times that I
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did them many years ago when they first started introducing
it as a holiday plant. The first time I had
it in way too long, it started to turn yellow.
It recovered what I did. And the other thing was
I took it outside and I just put it in
the ground. It mushed out, but it did come back up,
so I did get it to recover. But I think
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the best thing to do if you're in an area
that's pretty cold, maybe the ground's already frozen, whatever may be,
is that when you're done with those in the house
over the two to three week period, if you could
put them somewhere that they would stay cold but not
freeze like when we overwinter things that are in containers
and not non heated garage or shed. But here's the kicker.
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That plant is an evergreen. It's got leaves on there
that want to stay going. So you need the light,
as we were talking about earlier, a bright area indoors,
so you've got to put it by a window. If
you're going to do that, window wells where it's open
so they get the light. The limited sunlight through the
window well is a great place to overwinteror something like that.
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Potted helibores. If you can't get it in the ground
after the holiday season. But again, like I say, I
got a couple of emails and folks that they tried it.
It did not come back from planning it. So acclimate it,
you know, go to the garage for a week, acclimate
it for going back outside and if the weather's okay,
get it planted, get it watered in, moult it a
little bit, maybe around the outside, and hopefully you'll be okay.
(25:26):
If not, try the window well. I think that may
be a good place to put it. And by the way,
if you have helibores, great pretty much carefree free uh
evergreen groundcover, loves of shade or partial shade. Deer, this
is one plant. This is one plant that I can
honestly say, and you know me, it's it's low brows right.
I have yet to find anybody that has had helobories
(25:49):
eaten by deer, not even browsed. So that's one and
I could put on the list. You're pretty much assured
thing that the deer going to keep that. Leave that
one alone. But the great, great, great plant, and again
the Nyser's flower in the in around Christmas time. The
other selections usually flower as in Linton Rose in the
late winters and early springs. So many great colors available today.
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It's it's becoming more and more popular all the time
in our in our gardens, especially in the shade gardens.
To West Virginia. We go Jim, good morning, Good.
Speaker 6 (26:21):
Morning, Ron.
Speaker 5 (26:23):
Just hear from you. I have a question about my
brother who gave you the video. Yes, he has a
ala verra plant that he gave me in back then.
It was about six inches high a year ago and
now it's almost a foot and a half high. I
want to repot it. It's in like a six inch pot.
Is that a pretty Does it have a pretty large
(26:45):
root structure?
Speaker 1 (26:47):
They can over time? I think the thing to remember
about alo and a lot of the succulents, they like
a really tight root system. All right, So I would
I would you know, have you been able to slide
it out of the pot and take a look.
Speaker 5 (27:00):
Yes, I have, And it actually has a second plant
that was growing that developed out of the pot, and
it has I was trying to think, so I cut
that separate that second plant, which is about eight inches high.
So it would it be smart just to take like
(27:22):
a knife and cut the separate those two plants. And
put the big one back in the bigger pot.
Speaker 1 (27:27):
Well, you know when you slide, when you slid that out,
and you looked at the root system, is it really tight?
I mean there is there a lot of roots there
that you just basically can't see any soil.
Speaker 5 (27:36):
Not really. The other thing is is that it was
the main plant was getting so big it was knocking
the pot over.
Speaker 1 (27:44):
Yeah, and I understand that. But the kicker is if
you upgrade it in too large of a pot and
it doesn't have much of a root system, the next thing,
you know, it actually starts to You gotta be careful
because it starts to Actually it's hard to keep it water,
so do you know, keep it wet. I let it
dry out totally. And sometimes we get into some root
rot problems when we go into a too large of
(28:05):
a container. So I would be cautious if you upgrade it,
go no more than about a two inch pot. Okay,
all right, and use a squat pot, you know, use
a pot that's wider but not as deep, like an
azalea pot, that type of pot, and I think you'll
find that works nice nicely. They won't fall over tip
over quite as much. And when you do repot. That
(28:27):
is a good time to separate that pup away from
the mother plant and repot that on its own and
start to do it. And again use a small pot
for doing that. I mean, if you think about it,
when they're propagating those, they'll put that in a They'll
put that thing into like a two or three inch
pot until it fills that up with roots, and then
it'll go into a four inch and then eventually into
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a six inch and eventually into an eight inch and
then go up from there. So it's a two inch
jump each time you do it. But I just caution
if it's not really route bound in that smaller pot,
I get it because it's falling over.
Speaker 3 (29:03):
You know.
Speaker 1 (29:03):
You just have to be careful because they like to
have a real tight root system. Best time to do it,
you can do it now. I don't do any major
repotting at this point because plants are pretty well kind
of slowed down and gone dormant. I'll hold off and
start doing that usually early March, as the days are
really starting to come on, you know, starting to get
(29:23):
much brighter. The plants are going to start growing in
a couple of weeks.
Speaker 2 (29:27):
Et cetera, et cetera. That's when I really look to
do a lot of repotting at that point. So if
I were you, my advice, and I know you do
a lot of gardening and all, but I would probably
hold off and do that later late winter early spring.
Speaker 5 (29:42):
Okay. The other question or a comment I wanted to
make is my brother grows raises the lenar moss and
a sacropia moth and the monarch. And he was saying
to me the other day when I was talking with
him that one of the reasons that is reducing its
population is that, you know, with building more construction with
(30:06):
homes and out in Mexico. He said that they were
cutting down some of the trees that the monarchs have
been nesting on while they're in Mexico. So he has
that in his video that I sent you, and he
even has some really nice close up videos on that
video disc of the of the larva of the monarch
(30:30):
eating the different parts of the milk weed plant. So
maybe someday you'll get to see it again and see
what you think on that.
Speaker 1 (30:38):
Well, I don't know if you heard me talking a
couple of weeks ago, after I got that, I said.
You know what's funny is now I got to find
a CD player to put this in to play it.
Speaker 5 (30:45):
Well, actually you can if you some of the laptop computers,
the older ones used to have a side where you
could put the disc in and play movies on it,
and you could play it on that if you had
the computer like that.
Speaker 1 (30:57):
We're trying to dig one at work, I asked. I asked, yes,
couple weeks ago. Does anybody have anything I can play
this thing? Because I used to have the same thing
and the little sleeve would come out and put it
in there and play it.
Speaker 6 (31:06):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (31:06):
But I'll figure it out. We'll get it, We'll get
it played. I'm looking forward to it. I appreciate the
pictures and I picturate you sending that that as well.
I can't wait to see it. Good talking with you
before we take a break. Dick from Dadan, Good.
Speaker 6 (31:18):
Morning, Merry Christmas, Happy New Year.
Speaker 1 (31:21):
Are you all set for Christmas?
Speaker 3 (31:24):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (31:25):
I actually am. I have done a little bit of
bulligain shopping at the test store here at Woodman and
they've got all kinds of oh, you know, NFL stuff.
I found a couple of Bengals, I found some reds
and Bug Brown's Bengles a high estate. They're like sweatshirts
and jackets, and they reduced the price. I think I
(31:48):
went three stuffed the bag and only paid maybe for
four items five about four or five dollars.
Speaker 1 (31:55):
Well, good for you, that was good. That's a good shopper.
Speaker 6 (31:59):
Yeah, yeah, they it's it's really Oh. I'm taking Ohio
State today. I hope so well. But you know what,
I'm going to change this time. I really want the
Bengals to win I do really do well. Joe Burrow
has been playing.
Speaker 1 (32:19):
He was a little upset last week. Did you see that. Yeah,
at the end of the game, he didn't want to celebrate.
It was an ugly game. There's no guy.
Speaker 6 (32:26):
He seemed upset.
Speaker 1 (32:27):
Yeah, he was like that much terrible. I'm not celebrating
this game, although they won, but it was it wasn't
pretty on the game.
Speaker 6 (32:34):
Yeah, it just but it's been nice. I went to
a little oh, a couple of people know me and
uh uh. It was a they have a church dinner
every every Thursday, and I talked to pastor Riot. They
had people.
Speaker 5 (32:50):
This was beat.
Speaker 6 (32:51):
This guy played guitar. I mean we we just sang
and then at the end it was pretty silent night.
Speaker 1 (32:57):
You know that song.
Speaker 6 (33:00):
I like that, you know, you know, I was just
thinking about my cousin. Calab called me. She says, Dick,
it has been so cold, but she's been buying. She
bought a Christmas tree at Lows and she said, Dick,
I must have waited an hour up in Cleveland. They
put it, you know, in the in the truck, but
(33:20):
she said they have no help, but none of the stores.
Speaker 1 (33:23):
Wow.
Speaker 6 (33:24):
Four years since I've been retired, and.
Speaker 1 (33:26):
You're enjoying every every minute of it, aren't you enjoy.
Speaker 6 (33:29):
Every minute of it? But I think I should go
back because a couple of people called me from home office.
That was nice. Merry Christmas.
Speaker 1 (33:37):
That was nice. Well, you know you could always go
back on a part time basis. Yeah, yeah, just work
a few hours.
Speaker 6 (33:45):
Merry Christmas, all.
Speaker 1 (33:46):
Right, Dick. Merry Christmas to you, and I'm sure we'll
talk to you next weekend. We can stay. Happy New Year,
Happy New Year, all right. Take care. Merry Christmas. Dick
from Dayton. Always a pleasure, quick break, we come back coming,
don't forget coming up the top of the hour. Rita hikingfeld.
Are you urbally experienced. We're going to talk about Biblical herbs,
which is an interesting story. She talks about all the
herbs that were used and mentioned in the Bible and
(34:09):
the Biblical and I think it tied very timely, of course,
for the Christmas holiday. And at the bottom of the hour,
I found reading an article and I saw an ad
and then all of a sudden, uncommon uncommon goods. I
love that catalog a really cool thing called bee cups.
And there are these little handmade cups that look like
little flowers, look like a golf tea on steroids, but
(34:31):
look like little flowers that put you put in the
ground or in your pots, put water in them, and
the bees come and drink water out of them. You know,
we don't talk much about supplying water for our pollinators
and our bees, but this is a really cool way
to do it. And they're called bee cups. And we're
gonna talk to Jen Rose, who is the originator, the
founder of bee cups, and she will tell the story
(34:52):
about how they make them and they're all handmade, and
how you can get bee cups for your garden for
next year. Coming up in our next hour here in
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Speaker 1 (37:07):
Welcome back here in the Garden with Ron Wilson again
that tot free number eight hundred eight two three eight
two five five, talking about yarning on this Saturday before Christmas.
All right, cut Christmas tree, are you checking the water
every day? Don't forget to do that drives out one
time one day where it stays dry, the bottom starts
to steal over and the amount of moisture that it
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takes up is pretty much nil after that point. So
make sure you keep fresh water in there. If you
use the cut tree preservative in the water, that's fine.
You know, if you have a home remedy, that's fine.
The whole key is water every day. Don't ever let
it dry out, all right, So keep it going right
to the very end, and then you know, then you
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should should stay fairly fresh for you. I think folks
are always amazed how much water a cut Christmas tree
can take up the first week or so. It's crazy,
especially the first few days. Man, you put that fresh
cut on there in the stand get it up, get
the water in there, and it sucks it up pretty quickly.
And so you want to make sure you keep checking
that every day to make sure that it does not
(38:13):
dry out. Very very important to keep that going. And
of course check the freshness of it. I mean, let's
face the facts. Over time, they eventually dry out depending
on where you have it placed. Is it in a
you know, if it's in a window where it gets
full sun, it's going to dry out a lot quicker.
If it dried out in the stand, is going to
dry out a lot quicker. The length of time, how
hot you keep it in the house, lots of factors involved.
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But keep checking it because you know there would be
a point somewhere down the road that it's a possibility
that you don't want that thing in the house. All right,
So you know, keep checking it as we go along.
But I'm telling you, if you do everything right, you
pick out the fresh tree, you give it the fresh cut,
you don't ever let it dry out, You keep it
a little bit cooler and out of the direct sunlight.
(38:56):
Those trees can last an awfully long time. If you remember,
we had a caller, Oh, I don't know, four or
five weeks ago that was talking about she had a
fur in the house that she kept up for quite
some time, and all of a sudden it started to
actually regrow. And uh, it made her feel really bad
because the plant was trying to regrow, and she hated
to throw it out, et cetera, et cetera. And you know,
(39:19):
I just said, you did everything right. Uh, And you
know it was in the house a long time, and
it was fresh, and I thought it was still on
the ground. Technically, when they're cut off and there's no
roots at the bottom of the tree is technically dead,
not going anymore. But what's interesting about and I always
use as an example ours are I keep ours as
fresh as we can. I take it outside when we're done.
(39:39):
I put it on the deck or patio, and I
anchor it down in the stand, and I leave it
out there over the wintertime. If it's a it's a
If it's a thicker fur way, use frasier fur. I'll
take a couple of branches out to open it up
a bit. But they usually we like the more layered ones.
And the birds will fly in and out of that
thing all winter long, and we'll see you see going
in and out, using it as a little bed and
(39:59):
breakfast and enjoying it over the winter. A couple of
times we even left the small white lights on it
and I plugged it in and we would snow or
whatever at night. It was fun to turn that thing on,
but you know, basically leaving it out there. But you
know what's funny is when you do that and I
don't water it anymore. It's mother nature if it snows
or rains, gets in the stand and takes care of that.
(40:19):
But I just leave it outside. That thing will stay
green until the weather starts to warm up and things
start to pop again. When you know, the soil temperature
start to get up in those forty five and fifty
degree range and the days start to get fifty five
and sixty degrees. That thing will stay green up until
that point, and then all of a sudden it starts
to turn brown. And obviously, you know it's at that
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point where you know it's used everything up, it's starting
to warm up, there's nothing left, and it's done. And
it kind of gives you an idea. You know what
happens with regular evergreens that are planted in the ground
but don't get enough moisture going through a dry fall,
going through a dry winter, and just dry out stay
green over the wintertime. But as soon as it gets
(41:02):
to the springtime where it's time to start to you know,
green back up again and start to put out a
new growth. The plant has died over the wintertime, but
it's able to hang on to everything and stay green
until it starts to warm up. I used to always
take a sample from the garden Talks that I would
give in the springtime, early spring, from my cut tree
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that started to turn brown. And I would take a
sample to garden Talks and say, you know, diagnostics of
trying to figure out what's going on with the plants
and all can be very trying. And I said, here's
a fraser fur, you know, that's starting to turn brown
on the ends and it's yelling back the whole plants
starting to do this. Any guesses on what's going on here,
and folks will go around and guess, and of course
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my point is, you know it's a fraser fur. First
of all, they don't really grow in our area, so
you know they're not you don't see very many of them,
excuse me, very many of them growing so that's kind
of an indicator right there. But I say it's because
it was a tree, and I said, this is what happens,
and this is what happens to your trees, your evergreens
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when they haven't been properly watered this season before and
they come out of the winter, and this is what happens.
As ron rothis the arbor doc puts it ghosts of
droughts passed, because that's exactly what happens. So again it's
a you know, the point being is, you know, I
hope that you were way able to water evergreens until
we finally got back into some rainfall, and hopefully your
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area is not in a drought situation. If it is,
and you've got newly planted evergreens, and I know a
lot of folks are still planting evergreens, it's late in
the season, make sure you're watering them in really well.
And I would not hesitate to fill up a five
gallon bucket about every three weeks if we don't get
good rainfall in January and February, and take that out
there and water that plan in those evergreens in just
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to make sure they've got good moisture. In net root
ball as you go through the winter season, so please
keep that in mind. And again there's a folks are
still planting. If you've got a few things left that
you didn't get in the ground, try to get it
in the ground. If you can't get it in the ground,
if it's small enough. If something it goes totally dormant,
use your unheated garage or unheated shed to over winter it.
Water it over the wintertime. Window wells work great. Straw
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bales are great insulation around the outside. Or group them
all together and pile leaves all around them, water them
in well water. The leaves in well works as a
great insulator as well, Mother Nature's natural insulator in those
leaves that are falling. All right, quick break, we come
back Rita Hikenfeld, are you urbly experienced. At the bottom
of the hour, Jen Rose, we're going to talk about
(43:31):
her b cups. Their website is bee dashcups dot com
if you want to check it out. See what we're
gonna be talking about. It's coming up in our next hour,
So stay tuned, stay with us here in the garden
with Ron Wilson, Green.
Speaker 5 (44:04):
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Speaker 4 (44:05):
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This is in the garden with Ron Wilson
Eight hundred eight two three eight two five five. Good morning.
I am Ron Wilson, your personal yard boy, talking about
yarning on this Saturday before Christmas. Let's kick it off
with a cup of Joe he is in. It's in
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Garden with Ron Wilson. Good morning, sir.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
What do you mean believe it or not?
Speaker 1 (00:56):
How do you always take some time off this You're
late using up the VAKA. I get it. It's okay.
I was surprised you're here.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
I was surprised I'm here too. So anyway, Merry Christmas.
I applaud you for taking the time off. Merry Christmas.
Big game today? Really, what do you think? I'm nervous?
Speaker 1 (01:18):
Are you? Are you betting on this one? No?
Speaker 2 (01:21):
Did you quit doing that? No? No, I don't bet
on the teams that I like. Yah, don't bet your
heart because you don't bet your heart.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
No.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
Yeah, so no, I am not betting on this game.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
I haven't even seen the line. I don't even know
what the seven Ohio state's favored.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
Yeah, seven some places, seven and a half. I don't know. Well,
if they get off to a slow start, which are
there any games, I mean they GoF to a slow
start against like like Marshall, didn't they? I mean it's
just did you see they had to cancel their ball game? Yeah,
(01:57):
that's disappointing. That's sad. Well, that means bad. I mean
I understand why they had to cancel it.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
Well, sure, but that's sad for the reason.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
And the reason. But I was listening to another a
sports talk show and the and he made a great point.
He said, if you guys don't want this to happen,
then the colleges need to get together and have a
one uniform schedule. So the reason that the portal is
opened that early is because some colleges have they have
(02:30):
staggered semester schedules. So if they want someone to come
in to you know, say Syracuse right there, there's some
their fall semester starts before Christmas, not after Christmas like
a lot of the winter, so they got to get
in there.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
So if they if you want to stop this, then
you need to make okay, all the all the fall
semesters or whatever. The next semesters start on January fifteenth
or whatever. Just make it uniform, right, We're all then,
and then you don't have to worry about the kid
leaving the going going early. But because he wants to
get in that semester or else, he's not eligible.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
Right, So sad.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
It is sad because Bill said, and then you know,
you know the kid at Penn State and Marshall can't
do the bowl game. And then there was another team
that they're they're they're going to end up doing it,
but they were threatening they're not go to their bowl
game either. M So, yeah, it's it's a mess. They
need to fix that.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
I saw an interview with Nick Saban the other day.
If you saw that on YouTube, I forget who was
talking to. But his point was they used to host
all of these I know this has nothing to do
with guarding, but they used to host all of the
new recruits at their house for breakfast Sunday morning with
their parents and talk about what they're going to do
and how they're gonna help the boys, you know, yea
(03:54):
in college and all that kind of stuff. And he
said the would he retire last year? Yeah, year before
he retired, his wife actually said, why are we still
doing this? It was like, what are you talking about?
She said, why why are we still doing this? Because
those boys don't care what we're going to do for them.
They just went on much they're going to get paid. Yeah,
(04:14):
and he said, you know, it really hit me hard
when she realized that that's where we were at this stage,
you know, And that was part of his decision to retire.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
Oh look at what I mean. The big news this
week was Bill Belichick and during his news conference he
said that they hired a new general manager. No colleges,
it's called athletic director.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
It's not college general manager.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
And the general manager that they hired is his old
general manager with the Patriots.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
Oh was it so.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
It's a business yeah, Oh yeah, that's that's where it's gone.
Speaking about business, Yes, I gardening business was the guarding
business this year?
Speaker 1 (04:59):
Good it was. It was a good year. I you
know what's funny is everybody the drought all across the
United States. Everybody that we that I know that I've
seen the numbers and garden centers for the most part
had a downfall because people just weren't gonna plan. It
was hot, it was dry. Uh, they held off to
the very end. Everybody had a nice little rush at
(05:21):
the very end for the last couple of weeks of October,
first of November, and that's it. And you know as
well as I do, and you and I have talk
about when the holidays come up, it's all over but
the shouting. But there were some people that jumped on
the last couple of weeks, but for the most part,
it's a it was a slow fall for folks.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
Put my hose away September first.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
Yeah, I mean a lot of people just said, I'm
not gonna I'm We're going to do it in the spring.
So you know that, I guess that's a good sign
for you know, we'll look for the spring and folks
would jump back at it and maybe we'll have a
you know, super spring again. But up until that point,
it was a great, great season for most all the
garden centers around. So, you know, it's it's very encouraging.
There's the looking at the trends and the researchers out there,
(06:00):
folks are continuing on. There was always that question after COVID,
with a big increase in gardening, were people going to
stick with it, and they are and as a lot
of them have increased, I mean some have dropped out
and said, you know, I got other things to do,
but have increased in what they were doing. So still
very encouraging in the green industries. Absolutely good. This was
a crazy year for Christmas trees with a short period
(06:21):
like that. You know, they said, you know, there was
a quick end, quick out. I've read across again, look
at some of the markets in our area. I thought
everybody sold out quickly. Other markets said that they didn't
sell out quite as fast because it was such a
quick short period. When you have that short season, people
have a tendency to go for the artificial tree rather
than the live tree.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
And then there's the people in the third category that
just said forget it and we'll I ton't put anything up.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
Then you know, you start looking and actually they at
first said the costs weren't going to go up. Well,
cost the retailers did go up on pricing, and you're right.
Then they lot of folks looked at it and said,
I'm not spending that for three weeks, you know. So
it was a financial decision, is what it is. So yeah,
so that was kind of interesting.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
Well, well they save that money and they'll spend it there
in springtime.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
Well yeah, then I hope they come back in the
spring and add more flowers, perennials and things like that. Right, Yeah,
it'll be good. That's the that's the goal. So, uh,
you know last week we posted that thing about the
monarch butterfly. Yeah extension, you put that on our website. Yeah,
talked about last week. There has that has been the
I feel like we were breaking news. That has been
(07:29):
like the story in the green industry. It was on
CBS and a couple other uh stories as well. Uh
talking about the extension. You know that they're looking to
put them on the yeah endangered species list and uh
that's what that really rocked around this week with the news.
So we kind of a little breaking first last week.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
And uh we also have we'll kind of go out
of order here. Also on the website, there's an article
about that. Remember how the huge hornet, the big giant hornet,
everyone was gonna everyone was gonna die because this huge
hornet was gonna sting everybody. Well it's eradicated.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
Yeah, that's that's great news that you talk about happy
campy campers, beekeepers across the United States have got to
be you know, we'll talk. As a matter of fact,
I haven't talked to bar but I'm sure she's very
excited about that. But they have actually declared it eradicated
in Washington State. So that's a that's a great thing
that they changed the name. What was it, murder murder hornet?
(08:33):
Was the murder now giant Asian hornet hornet. Yeah, but
just wiping out bee hives big time. But yeah, they
eradicated it totally, so good for them. A lot of work,
took us several years, but they got it. So who's
on the show today? Two guests? The thing you got
right in front of you right there? This is the
Christmas Show. Technically, wouldn't it be okay? I know, yeah,
(08:54):
it would be Rita Heigenfeld. Always have Rita on. We'll
talk about the Christmas recipes, Frankenson Smith and or breaking
sits in merr remember when she brought those in a
couple of years ago, which we had the end studio
and talked about it was anyway, it's pretty cool. I
will talk about that. And then that thing you have
in your hand there, Yeah, I thought I thought it
was plastic, but these aren' plastic. Those are hand had made.
(09:16):
These are really nice. They're called bee cups, and they're
really cool. They look like little flowers and you put
them in your pots or in your landscape.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
I like these be cups.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
You fill them up with a little bit of water
and the bees go to those and drink from the
bee cup. And I saw I saw an article about
this in a gardening magazine. And then I'm doing my
uncommonly good catalog, which is a really cool caladalog, and
it was in there, and I was surprised the heck
out of me. So general's the handmake all of those
is going to join us this morning, tell us a
(09:45):
story about that, how she came up with it. It's
a really cool be cups Yeah, b cups bdash cups
dot com if you.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
Want to check the website out awesome. In addition to
the website, we have our own yes we do Ron
Wilson Online dot com. And on the website we have
the story about the hornet. But it's it's that time
of year for Rita's roast beast.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
So rita picture makes your mouth water is yeah, yeah,
it's it's I've had that several times.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
I've actually made that recipe because we've been doing that
recipe for years and it is melting your mouth butter. Oh, unbelievable.
It's a good one and it's easy. Yeah, if you
did it, I do it. You know, it's make it
and it's awesome. Then you know that anybody else can do.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
Yeah. She's done that several times and I just poo
love it. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
And it's that time of year, you know, and the
Grinch car of the roast Beast and you don't have
to be a grinch roast beast. So and the plane
of the week is the Christmas Rose Christmas rose or
the Hella Boris Niger Niger as in Jacob Well you
know I I they tried to and they still have
it out there. But doctor Armonis and I were talking
(10:55):
about this last week as a they're trying to promote
it more and more for a holiday play. But it's uh,
it's an early blooming hellibores, which flowers are for us
right around Christmas. So not only do you have the
flowers in your garden, but they're also selling it as
a potted plant that you can use indoors and then
plant your garden as well. So we talked about last week,
but I thought I would use that as our feature
(11:17):
plant for this week. So very cool plant. Well this
is the last cell. This is the last one for
twenty twenty four because I'm off next next week'll be
off next vacation. That's my last of the party. And
hardy before the end of the years. Oh yeah, I
mean I gotta I gotta check out doctor Slivovitz. So there,
doctor Shlivovitz. That's gonna happen. Trust me, I'm a doctor. Yes,
(11:39):
So this is the last one. So Merry Christmas, Ry
Christmas to you. It's been.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
Happy new year.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
Let's see, this would be our twenty second year, ago
twenty two years.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
Long time.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
Yeah, seen a lot, gone through a lot, seen a lot,
done a lot, a lot of changes, a lot of changes.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
But here we are.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
We're like, we're like a fart a new car. You
just can't care rid of us.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
Okay, well you could use odor exit. Yeah, I guess
that kind of threw me off. Say, we're like a
bottle of old a couple of bottles of wine. You're
you're just keep getting, we keep aging, keep getting.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
Order, getting better with age. I'm just smelly.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
Great, No you're not.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
But anyway, Yeah, it's been it's been awesome.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
Yeah, it's been fun.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
It's been a fun. Twenty two. I'm gonna keep going.
We'll keep on going, you know it, one more year
at least.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
You never know what happens.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
Okay, Arizona here, I come.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
I want to take this ill to take us one
more snow. I could just say I didn't want to
bring that up, could just say forget it from yesterday.
Well it wasn't that bad, No, but it was there,
so it was still there. But I don't want to
bring it up. Okay, all right, Well, happy new Year everybody,
and we'll see you in twenty twenty five.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
Joe Shrek our executive produce you if you like what
you see on our website at right Wilson online dot
com Facebook page. In the Guarden with Ron Wilson. Joe
Strecker had everything to do with it. Something on there
you don't like, you don't understand. I think we should
take it off. Don't blame Joe, doctor Z. Let's blame
doctor Z. Did you see the picture?
Speaker 2 (13:12):
I shoft? What do you think of that with his
blonde hair, very interesting, very interesting, curly blonde hair, early
blonde hair. I didn't know if he looked like doctor Einstein.
I don't know what he was trying.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
Who'd you say?
Speaker 2 (13:26):
I probably looked like a village of Armstrong from from
the Green Day. We singer a Green Day and he
did it, went through his blonde phase like in the
early nineties. Yeah, well, Bowser still looks the same. Oh
oh yeah, all Bowser's Bowsers look horrible. Good looking dog. Yep,
he's a good pub because he's on the back of
that vesta. That's right, riding around Washington, d C. Back
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on the vespa, down the back of that vespa, a
bow bow no sidecar.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
Maybe after Christmas.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
You never know. I'm gonna bring it up anymore. Na,
not worth it. It's gonna happen. Is gonna happen?
Speaker 1 (13:58):
Yep?
Speaker 2 (13:58):
Sure, TikTok doctor z Okay. He wants to be alone.
He's n She's still there. Well, that's what I'm saying.
Maybe it was her. It's her decision. I'm just gonna
leave it, leave it, lie, lock me in, leave it
it lie all right, Happy New Year, Merry Christmas. Christmas.
See you in twenty twenty five, See you in twenty
(14:19):
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Speaker 1 (17:35):
Good morning, Welcome back here in the garden with Ron
Wilson again that toll free number eight hundred eight two
three eight two five five talking about yarding on this
h Saturday before Christmas. Are you all set? We're not
not even closed. I think we're gonna be wrapping presents
for the next two days.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
We'll get it together. Always do, Always seems to come together.
To Cincinnati we go. Deanna, good morning.
Speaker 4 (17:58):
Hello.
Speaker 3 (17:59):
I've got to that I didn't I have trees I
didn't get in the ground this fall and they're in
pots outside.
Speaker 5 (18:06):
Okay, what do I need to know to get them
through the winter.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
Well, the thing that you want to do is try
to protect the roots as much as you can. I mean,
you know you still have time to plan. I guess
you're just not going to do it.
Speaker 5 (18:17):
At this point, right, Yeah, because a lot of times
the ground's been frozen and then it's too wet.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
Yeah, And that's yeah, that's I understand.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
The thing to do is try to you know, if
you've got several of them, what I would do is
try to clump them all together so that they're pot
to pot and then leaf around them, like pile up
leaves around the outside. Maybe get the four bales of
straw put around the outside of those, and then create
some kind of a mulched in area so you can
insulate those pots. And I think the other thing to
(18:50):
remember too is that as we go through the winter,
if we don't get any snowfall or rainfall to put
moisture back in those pots. You may have to water
once or twice during January in February just to make
sure we have a little bit of moisture in there.
But the whole thing is to try to keep those
roots from getting too awfully cold, especially when you know,
if it drops drips down into the twenties and teens,
(19:11):
that's not a good thing. So you know, put them
all together that's at the nursery. We would bunch them
all together. Then we're gonna come back and we're gonna
put leaves and straw and things like that around them
to help protect them over the winter, and then the
springtime pull those off and get them planted as soon
as we can.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
Okay, great, thank.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
You, Okay, Dan a good talking to you. To have
a very merry Christmas. And again, if you've got containers
that are above ground with plants in them that are
you gonna be growing again next year and you weren't
able to plant, try to heal them into the ground.
If you can still get them, plant and get them planted.
And you know, you'll see landscape crews out there still
planting right up to the holidays and sometimes even after that,
(19:49):
depending on the weather conditions and soil conditions and size
of the plants, but they'll be out there still planting.
But you know, try to get them in the ground
if you can. Otherwise, sometimes you can heal them, you know,
kind of trench out a little bit, stick them down
in the ground, maybe halfway into the ground, bunch them
all together, and then of course put the leaves or
some kind of insulation around the outside. If you can
(20:10):
get a hold of four bales of straw and make
a just a box around them, is absolutely outstanding, and
then fill that up with leaves. That works nicely. But
again remember if you don't get any rainfall with these plants,
that are you know that you're overwintering. Whether it be
in an unheated garage, unheated shed, down on the window
well protected with multonary like that. Make sure you do
give them a little bit of moisture because they're counting
(20:31):
on you through the winter and you don't want them
to freeze dry, so keep a little bit of moisture
in there as well. Quick break, we come back. Phone
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com Reada's recipe that Joe called it the roast Beast,
but it's absolutely outstanding. I've had it many times and
Joe's done it many times and it's great. So be
(23:17):
sure and check that out. And we've got some other
great things posted on there for you as well as
as well as our planet of the week, which is
the Helliboris Nyger or Christmas Rose. We talked about that
last week a doctor Armitage and several people email this
week asking about it and caring for it indoors, and
a couple of folks said that they had gotten them
two or three years ago. That you know, they are
(23:40):
trying to push it a little bit more as an
indoor holiday plant. And I think the thing you have
to remember about that is that you know it does
work indoors, but you want cooler temperatures, as bright a
light as you can get it. Even though it's a
shade loving plant outdoors, it needs to be really bright indoors,
cool temperatures, and I would limit the amount of time
that you have them inside. The couple times that I
(24:02):
did them many years ago when they first started introducing
it as a holiday plant. The first time I had
it in way too long, it started to turn yellow.
It recovered what I did. And the other thing was
I took it outside and I just put it in
the ground. It mushed out, but it did come back up,
so I did get it to recover. But I think
(24:22):
the best thing to do if you're in an area
that's pretty cold, maybe the ground's already frozen, whatever may be,
is that when you're done with those in the house
over the two to three week period, if you could
put them somewhere that they would stay cold but not
freeze like when we overwinter things that are in containers
and not non heated garage or shed. But here's the kicker.
(24:43):
That plant is an evergreen. It's got leaves on there
that want to stay going. So you need the light,
as we were talking about earlier, a bright area indoors,
so you've got to put it by a window. If
you're going to do that, window wells where it's open
so they get the light. The limited sunlight through the
window well is a great place to overwinteror something like that.
(25:05):
Potted helibores. If you can't get it in the ground
after the holiday season. But again, like I say, I
got a couple of emails and folks that they tried it.
It did not come back from planning it. So acclimate it,
you know, go to the garage for a week, acclimate
it for going back outside and if the weather's okay,
get it planted, get it watered in, moult it a
little bit, maybe around the outside, and hopefully you'll be okay.
(25:26):
If not, try the window well. I think that may
be a good place to put it. And by the way,
if you have helibores, great pretty much carefree free uh
evergreen groundcover, loves of shade or partial shade. Deer, this
is one plant. This is one plant that I can
honestly say, and you know me, it's it's low brows right.
I have yet to find anybody that has had helobories
(25:49):
eaten by deer, not even browsed. So that's one and
I could put on the list. You're pretty much assured
thing that the deer going to keep that. Leave that
one alone. But the great, great, great plant, and again
the Nyser's flower in the in around Christmas time. The
other selections usually flower as in Linton Rose in the
late winters and early springs. So many great colors available today.
(26:11):
It's it's becoming more and more popular all the time
in our in our gardens, especially in the shade gardens.
To West Virginia. We go Jim, good morning, Good.
Speaker 6 (26:21):
Morning, Ron.
Speaker 5 (26:23):
Just hear from you. I have a question about my
brother who gave you the video. Yes, he has a
ala verra plant that he gave me in back then.
It was about six inches high a year ago and
now it's almost a foot and a half high. I
want to repot it. It's in like a six inch pot.
Is that a pretty Does it have a pretty large
(26:45):
root structure?
Speaker 1 (26:47):
They can over time? I think the thing to remember
about alo and a lot of the succulents, they like
a really tight root system. All right, So I would
I would you know, have you been able to slide
it out of the pot and take a look.
Speaker 5 (27:00):
Yes, I have, And it actually has a second plant
that was growing that developed out of the pot, and
it has I was trying to think, so I cut
that separate that second plant, which is about eight inches high.
So it would it be smart just to take like
(27:22):
a knife and cut the separate those two plants. And
put the big one back in the bigger pot.
Speaker 1 (27:27):
Well, you know when you slide, when you slid that out,
and you looked at the root system, is it really tight?
I mean there is there a lot of roots there
that you just basically can't see any soil.
Speaker 5 (27:36):
Not really. The other thing is is that it was
the main plant was getting so big it was knocking
the pot over.
Speaker 1 (27:44):
Yeah, and I understand that. But the kicker is if
you upgrade it in too large of a pot and
it doesn't have much of a root system, the next thing,
you know, it actually starts to You gotta be careful
because it starts to Actually it's hard to keep it water,
so do you know, keep it wet. I let it
dry out totally. And sometimes we get into some root
rot problems when we go into a too large of
(28:05):
a container. So I would be cautious if you upgrade it,
go no more than about a two inch pot. Okay,
all right, and use a squat pot, you know, use
a pot that's wider but not as deep, like an
azalea pot, that type of pot, and I think you'll
find that works nice nicely. They won't fall over tip
over quite as much. And when you do repot. That
(28:27):
is a good time to separate that pup away from
the mother plant and repot that on its own and
start to do it. And again use a small pot
for doing that. I mean, if you think about it,
when they're propagating those, they'll put that in a They'll
put that thing into like a two or three inch
pot until it fills that up with roots, and then
it'll go into a four inch and then eventually into
(28:50):
a six inch and eventually into an eight inch and
then go up from there. So it's a two inch
jump each time you do it. But I just caution
if it's not really route bound in that smaller pot,
I get it because it's falling over.
Speaker 3 (29:03):
You know.
Speaker 1 (29:03):
You just have to be careful because they like to
have a real tight root system. Best time to do it,
you can do it now. I don't do any major
repotting at this point because plants are pretty well kind
of slowed down and gone dormant. I'll hold off and
start doing that usually early March, as the days are
really starting to come on, you know, starting to get
(29:23):
much brighter. The plants are going to start growing in
a couple of weeks.
Speaker 2 (29:27):
Et cetera, et cetera. That's when I really look to
do a lot of repotting at that point. So if
I were you, my advice, and I know you do
a lot of gardening and all, but I would probably
hold off and do that later late winter early spring.
Speaker 5 (29:42):
Okay. The other question or a comment I wanted to
make is my brother grows raises the lenar moss and
a sacropia moth and the monarch. And he was saying
to me the other day when I was talking with
him that one of the reasons that is reducing its
population is that, you know, with building more construction with
(30:06):
homes and out in Mexico. He said that they were
cutting down some of the trees that the monarchs have
been nesting on while they're in Mexico. So he has
that in his video that I sent you, and he
even has some really nice close up videos on that
video disc of the of the larva of the monarch
(30:30):
eating the different parts of the milk weed plant. So
maybe someday you'll get to see it again and see
what you think on that.
Speaker 1 (30:38):
Well, I don't know if you heard me talking a
couple of weeks ago, after I got that, I said.
You know what's funny is now I got to find
a CD player to put this in to play it.
Speaker 5 (30:45):
Well, actually you can if you some of the laptop computers,
the older ones used to have a side where you
could put the disc in and play movies on it,
and you could play it on that if you had
the computer like that.
Speaker 1 (30:57):
We're trying to dig one at work, I asked. I asked, yes,
couple weeks ago. Does anybody have anything I can play
this thing? Because I used to have the same thing
and the little sleeve would come out and put it
in there and play it.
Speaker 6 (31:06):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (31:06):
But I'll figure it out. We'll get it, We'll get
it played. I'm looking forward to it. I appreciate the
pictures and I picturate you sending that that as well.
I can't wait to see it. Good talking with you
before we take a break. Dick from Dadan, Good.
Speaker 6 (31:18):
Morning, Merry Christmas, Happy New Year.
Speaker 1 (31:21):
Are you all set for Christmas?
Speaker 3 (31:24):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (31:25):
I actually am. I have done a little bit of
bulligain shopping at the test store here at Woodman and
they've got all kinds of oh, you know, NFL stuff.
I found a couple of Bengals, I found some reds
and Bug Brown's Bengles a high estate. They're like sweatshirts
and jackets, and they reduced the price. I think I
(31:48):
went three stuffed the bag and only paid maybe for
four items five about four or five dollars.
Speaker 1 (31:55):
Well, good for you, that was good. That's a good shopper.
Speaker 6 (31:59):
Yeah, yeah, they it's it's really Oh. I'm taking Ohio
State today. I hope so well. But you know what,
I'm going to change this time. I really want the
Bengals to win I do really do well. Joe Burrow
has been playing.
Speaker 1 (32:19):
He was a little upset last week. Did you see that. Yeah,
at the end of the game, he didn't want to celebrate.
It was an ugly game. There's no guy.
Speaker 6 (32:26):
He seemed upset.
Speaker 1 (32:27):
Yeah, he was like that much terrible. I'm not celebrating
this game, although they won, but it was it wasn't
pretty on the game.
Speaker 6 (32:34):
Yeah, it just but it's been nice. I went to
a little oh, a couple of people know me and
uh uh. It was a they have a church dinner
every every Thursday, and I talked to pastor Riot. They
had people.
Speaker 5 (32:50):
This was beat.
Speaker 6 (32:51):
This guy played guitar. I mean we we just sang
and then at the end it was pretty silent night.
Speaker 1 (32:57):
You know that song.
Speaker 6 (33:00):
I like that, you know, you know, I was just
thinking about my cousin. Calab called me. She says, Dick,
it has been so cold, but she's been buying. She
bought a Christmas tree at Lows and she said, Dick,
I must have waited an hour up in Cleveland. They
put it, you know, in the in the truck, but
(33:20):
she said they have no help, but none of the stores.
Speaker 1 (33:23):
Wow.
Speaker 6 (33:24):
Four years since I've been retired, and.
Speaker 1 (33:26):
You're enjoying every every minute of it, aren't you enjoy.
Speaker 6 (33:29):
Every minute of it? But I think I should go
back because a couple of people called me from home office.
That was nice. Merry Christmas.
Speaker 1 (33:37):
That was nice. Well, you know you could always go
back on a part time basis. Yeah, yeah, just work
a few hours.
Speaker 6 (33:45):
Merry Christmas, all.
Speaker 1 (33:46):
Right, Dick. Merry Christmas to you, and I'm sure we'll
talk to you next weekend. We can stay. Happy New Year,
Happy New Year, all right. Take care. Merry Christmas. Dick
from Dayton. Always a pleasure, quick break, we come back coming,
don't forget coming up the top of the hour. Rita hikingfeld.
Are you urbally experienced. We're going to talk about Biblical herbs,
which is an interesting story. She talks about all the
herbs that were used and mentioned in the Bible and
(34:09):
the Biblical and I think it tied very timely, of course,
for the Christmas holiday. And at the bottom of the hour,
I found reading an article and I saw an ad
and then all of a sudden, uncommon uncommon goods. I
love that catalog a really cool thing called bee cups.
And there are these little handmade cups that look like
little flowers, look like a golf tea on steroids, but
(34:31):
look like little flowers that put you put in the
ground or in your pots, put water in them, and
the bees come and drink water out of them. You know,
we don't talk much about supplying water for our pollinators
and our bees, but this is a really cool way
to do it. And they're called bee cups. And we're
gonna talk to Jen Rose, who is the originator, the
founder of bee cups, and she will tell the story
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about how they make them and they're all handmade, and
how you can get bee cups for your garden for
next year. Coming up in our next hour here in
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Welcome back here in the Garden with Ron Wilson again
that tot free number eight hundred eight two three eight
two five five, talking about yarning on this Saturday before Christmas.
All right, cut Christmas tree, are you checking the water
every day? Don't forget to do that drives out one
time one day where it stays dry, the bottom starts
to steal over and the amount of moisture that it
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takes up is pretty much nil after that point. So
make sure you keep fresh water in there. If you
use the cut tree preservative in the water, that's fine.
You know, if you have a home remedy, that's fine.
The whole key is water every day. Don't ever let
it dry out, all right, So keep it going right
to the very end, and then you know, then you
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should should stay fairly fresh for you. I think folks
are always amazed how much water a cut Christmas tree
can take up the first week or so. It's crazy,
especially the first few days. Man, you put that fresh
cut on there in the stand get it up, get
the water in there, and it sucks it up pretty quickly.
And so you want to make sure you keep checking
that every day to make sure that it does not
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dry out. Very very important to keep that going. And
of course check the freshness of it. I mean, let's
face the facts. Over time, they eventually dry out depending
on where you have it placed. Is it in a
you know, if it's in a window where it gets
full sun, it's going to dry out a lot quicker.
If it dried out in the stand, is going to
dry out a lot quicker. The length of time, how
hot you keep it in the house, lots of factors involved.
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But keep checking it because you know there would be
a point somewhere down the road that it's a possibility
that you don't want that thing in the house. All right,
So you know, keep checking it as we go along.
But I'm telling you, if you do everything right, you
pick out the fresh tree, you give it the fresh cut,
you don't ever let it dry out, You keep it
a little bit cooler and out of the direct sunlight.
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Those trees can last an awfully long time. If you remember,
we had a caller, Oh, I don't know, four or
five weeks ago that was talking about she had a
fur in the house that she kept up for quite
some time, and all of a sudden it started to
actually regrow. And uh, it made her feel really bad
because the plant was trying to regrow, and she hated
to throw it out, et cetera, et cetera. And you know,
(39:19):
I just said, you did everything right. Uh, And you
know it was in the house a long time, and
it was fresh, and I thought it was still on
the ground. Technically, when they're cut off and there's no
roots at the bottom of the tree is technically dead,
not going anymore. But what's interesting about and I always
use as an example ours are I keep ours as
fresh as we can. I take it outside when we're done.
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I put it on the deck or patio, and I
anchor it down in the stand, and I leave it
out there over the wintertime. If it's a it's a
If it's a thicker fur way, use frasier fur. I'll
take a couple of branches out to open it up
a bit. But they usually we like the more layered ones.
And the birds will fly in and out of that
thing all winter long, and we'll see you see going
in and out, using it as a little bed and
(39:59):
breakfast and enjoying it over the winter. A couple of
times we even left the small white lights on it
and I plugged it in and we would snow or
whatever at night. It was fun to turn that thing on,
but you know, basically leaving it out there. But you
know what's funny is when you do that and I
don't water it anymore. It's mother nature if it snows
or rains, gets in the stand and takes care of that.
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But I just leave it outside. That thing will stay
green until the weather starts to warm up and things
start to pop again. When you know, the soil temperature
start to get up in those forty five and fifty
degree range and the days start to get fifty five
and sixty degrees. That thing will stay green up until
that point, and then all of a sudden it starts
to turn brown. And obviously, you know it's at that
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point where you know it's used everything up, it's starting
to warm up, there's nothing left, and it's done. And
it kind of gives you an idea. You know what
happens with regular evergreens that are planted in the ground
but don't get enough moisture going through a dry fall,
going through a dry winter, and just dry out stay
green over the wintertime. But as soon as it gets
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to the springtime where it's time to start to you know,
green back up again and start to put out a
new growth. The plant has died over the wintertime, but
it's able to hang on to everything and stay green
until it starts to warm up. I used to always
take a sample from the garden Talks that I would
give in the springtime, early spring, from my cut tree
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that started to turn brown. And I would take a
sample to garden Talks and say, you know, diagnostics of
trying to figure out what's going on with the plants
and all can be very trying. And I said, here's
a fraser fur, you know, that's starting to turn brown
on the ends and it's yelling back the whole plants
starting to do this. Any guesses on what's going on here,
and folks will go around and guess, and of course
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my point is, you know it's a fraser fur. First
of all, they don't really grow in our area, so
you know they're not you don't see very many of them,
excuse me, very many of them growing so that's kind
of an indicator right there. But I say it's because
it was a tree, and I said, this is what happens,
and this is what happens to your trees, your evergreens
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when they haven't been properly watered this season before and
they come out of the winter, and this is what happens.
As ron rothis the arbor doc puts it ghosts of
droughts passed, because that's exactly what happens. So again it's
a you know, the point being is, you know, I
hope that you were way able to water evergreens until
we finally got back into some rainfall, and hopefully your
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area is not in a drought situation. If it is,
and you've got newly planted evergreens, and I know a
lot of folks are still planting evergreens, it's late in
the season, make sure you're watering them in really well.
And I would not hesitate to fill up a five
gallon bucket about every three weeks if we don't get
good rainfall in January and February, and take that out
there and water that plan in those evergreens in just
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to make sure they've got good moisture. In net root
ball as you go through the winter season, so please
keep that in mind. And again there's a folks are
still planting. If you've got a few things left that
you didn't get in the ground, try to get it
in the ground. If you can't get it in the ground,
if it's small enough. If something it goes totally dormant,
use your unheated garage or unheated shed to over winter it.
Water it over the wintertime. Window wells work great. Straw
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bales are great insulation around the outside. Or group them
all together and pile leaves all around them, water them
in well water. The leaves in well works as a
great insulator as well, Mother Nature's natural insulator in those
leaves that are falling. All right, quick break, we come
back Rita Hikenfeld, are you urbly experienced. At the bottom
of the hour, Jen Rose, we're going to talk about
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her b cups. Their website is bee dashcups dot com
if you want to check it out. See what we're
gonna be talking about. It's coming up in our next hour,
So stay tuned, stay with us here in the garden
with Ron Wilson, Green.
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