March 1, 2025 • 44 mins
Ron takes your calls and questions. Also passes a few tips along the way too! We wrap up the show hearing from Gary Sullivan.
Mark as Played
Transcript
Episode Transcript
Available transcripts are automatically generated. Complete accuracy is not guaranteed.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
Our toll free number eight hundred eight two three eight
two five five. Good morning. I am Ron Wilson, your
personal yard boy, talking about yarding on this first day
of the meteorological spring. Happy Spring twenty twenty five. Ron
Roeths is at his home right now shooting off fireworks
and the celebrating and you know, the whole nine yards
because it is the first day of the meteorological spring.
(00:59):
The astronomical spring starts like the twentieth or something like that,
but we'll take the meteorological I love it. And again,
as spring has sprung, things are going to start to
happen quickly over the next couple months as we work
our way into the spring season and planting season. Planting
season meaning trees and shrubs, well, we're already there. As
(01:20):
long as the soil is workable, as long as the
soil is not too damp, you can start planting trees
and shrubs and evergreens and perennials. Have at it all right,
you're good to go. As a matter of fact, if
you look around right now, our landscape cruise included, we're
out this week starting to do some small plantings here
(01:42):
and there that they could get out onto the site
that it was workable, that moisture levels were okay for
us to be there and start the plant. So you know,
you can start at this stage all weather pending, all
moisture in the soil pending planting all those woody plants,
those hardy plants, as far as the tender plants, they broccolis,
(02:02):
and the cabbages and the kales and the onions and
all of those. Remember, let's watch the soil temperatures for
even the cool season crops that like the cooler temperatures.
I use forty five degrees soil temperature, forty five degrees
soil temperatures. Air temperatures obviously a little bit we're going
(02:23):
to be higher. We'll worry about air temperatures dropping as
far as frosts or covering them over. But it's the
soil temperatures that are really important when it comes to
vegetable planting and annual planting, and so you've got to
watch those. So again, I'm going to bring this up
every weekend for the next several weeks as we go
through the spring season because it is important to watch
(02:45):
and it's very easy free to do. Soil thermometer, buy
them for ten bucks, or just go online green cast
online dot com. Put your town in there. It comes
right up for you. It tells you exactly what your
soil temperatures are right then, what has been over the
last twenty four hours and the last week. For instance,
in our area this morning, we're at forty one degrees.
(03:07):
Over the last twenty four hours, we've averaged forty seven degrees,
and over the past week forty three degrees. So we're
getting there. It's a little early, but we're getting there.
As far as those cool season crops in the vegetable
garden containers or raised beds. The other thing we're looking
at when it comes to soil temperatures is pre emergent
(03:27):
application pre emergent herbicides being those products that stop weed
seeds from growing all right, and it's very timely to
get those down before though weed seeds think about growing
as a general rule of thumb for most weed seeds
in our area for cool season turf or well, it
(03:47):
would be anywhere really, but is about for them to
start to think about germinating is when you get air
and soil temperatures at about fifty five degrees consistently, so
when it starts getting fifty to fifty five degrees consistently.
You want to make sure your pre emersion herbicides are
in place as those weed seeds start to think about Germany.
(04:10):
They don't do it all at one time, They'll do
it over the next three months or so. Which is
why sometimes you see crabgrass showing up in your yard
in the summer because the pre emergent you put down
in the springtime may have been put down too early,
or it may have been a product that didn't last
very long. It wore out, and guess what, they continue
to germinate and grow as we get into the summer.
(04:33):
If you do like the fertilom pre emergent, then you
know we've got the all seasons, which is the lawn
food plus the pre emergent that's per diamine, and that
per diamine will last for easily four months for you,
if not longer in your soul, depending on the weather.
So the goal when you're looking at these pre emerged
herbicides in the lawn, especially this way I look at
(04:54):
it to make it last longer. One is you get
a product that lasts longer. Initially in that fertilom all
see and has the per diamine, which is a longer
lasting pre emergent. If you could watch the soil temperatures
and not put it down until just as just before
it's needed, and you may, but last year we were
able to creep this out until the first of April
(05:16):
before we started putting down pre emergency. If you watch
the soil temps and then if you did that, then
you had April, May, June, and July and maybe even
into August as that pre emergent continue to work keeping
the crab grass from germanating and other weed seeds as
well throughout the entire summer, so we can if we
can stretch it out and then time it just right,
(05:36):
that works perfectly. So again, watching the temperatures. The soil
temperatures key, all right, So it's key for that. It's
key for planting your annuals, your vegetables and things like that,
so it's important to watch it. We'll do the same
thing in the fall as well. And once we start
seeing soil temperatures at fifty five to sixty degrees air
and soil temperatures together matching that up, everything bust loose.
(05:57):
That's what you can count on airly's starting to flower,
everything coming out to leave and going like crazy. So
just watch the soil temps combined with the air TIMPs
and that'll give you a real good read. And again
it's green cast online dot com and you can find
that out and go there every day and find out
where your soil temps are and chart it and they'll
chart it for you for the last week. As a
(06:17):
matter of fact, they have a chart on there, I
think from the whole year last year to show you
your ups and downs in your soil temps. It's pretty interesting,
pretty interesting website. It's what the professionals use if they're
coming out to plan on what crews, what they're gonna
put down today, et cetera, et cetera. So again, soil
temperature is very very important as we go through the
(06:38):
spring season for many applications. But otherwise at this point forward,
as far as woody plants, you know, if the soil
moisture is okay that you can get out and walk
on it, planned in it, you're good to go. Also
a reminder, don't try to till if you're a tiller,
don't try to till that vegetable garden too. Early with
too much moisture in the ground. You do that and
(06:58):
you cause those big clumps saying go away until next year,
So make sure you don't till too early as well.
Our website is Ron Wilson online dot com. I want
you to go there and check it out. Two things.
One is Rita's recipe this week, just in time for
Marty Grawl is the easy Kingcake for Marty Graul. It's
an easy cinnamon s world cake that you can make.
(07:19):
Even shows you how to put the baby inside and
the sprinkles on the top as well, so you're right
there with the festive Marti Gral you know, festivities and all,
but it's easy. It's an easy King cake for Marty Graul.
Be sure and check that out. And then our plant
picks of the week also go along somewhat with the
soil temperatures and some of the weeds that were already seen,
(07:43):
because they can be very confusing. The as the snow
has melted off now when it's all gone in our area,
and I start to look in the grass in the
bare areas, the thinned areas, and in some landscape beds
as well, and it's green. Guess what I'm seeing, or
guess what you're seeing if you're looking down. Those are
the winter annuals that started to germinate last fall. They germinate,
(08:08):
they lay low, They just hang in there over the wintertime.
As soon as the snow and everything melts off and
the soil temperatures and air temperatures start to creep up
into the forties and fifties, they grow like a weed.
They flour quickly, they throw seeds quickly, and they mush out,
(08:29):
they die. They're annuals, all right, And it can be
very confusing because if you go out there and you
see those right now. Some folks sometimes we'll look and
see that and say, I'm too late for my pre
emergent herbicide. The weeds have already started to grow. Well,
those already started last year. The summer annuals, the annuals
that we're talking about, the craggrass, and all of those
(08:50):
haven't started to germinate yet. Again, watch the soil temperatures.
So I'm talking about chickweed, purple dead nettle, hen bit,
harry bittercress, bedstraw, horseweed, annual, bluegrass. Starting to see that already,
wild parsnips, even the rose that's a poison. Hemlocks starting
to show up here in their person lane. So again,
(09:11):
recognize what these are and what you're seeing, and then
you know how to take care of them. So on
our website at Ron Wilson online dot com, I have
pictures of chickweed, handbit, purple dead netle, and harry benacrest,
which are probably the most foremost common ones that you
see out there. And of course remember they are annuals.
(09:31):
So the goal is to get rid of these before
they flower. Do not let these go to flour and seed.
Then now you get the seeds everywhere and you got
to deal with that again next year. So and we
will deal with that in the fall with the pre
emerging nerboside, But in the fall, did you catch that
in the fall. But know what they look like and
don't let them go to seed. As a matter of fact,
(09:52):
if you take a leaf break or a heart rake
and just rake them out, they have very shallow root systems,
all of them are. That way, you can rake them
out them away. They're done. They're the annual, they're done,
they're dead gone. So it's an easy way to get
rid of them, just physically remove them. You can spot
treat them with a broad leaf weed killer in the
lawn use Bonneyes weed Beater Ultra Furtiloms weed free Zone,
(10:18):
both of which have those listed and both of which
will work in forty five degree temperatures, one of the
only two on the market that will work in as
cooler temps as a weed killer. But again, you can
physically remove them. There's no sense that you don't need
to spray, just physically rake them out and get rid
of them, and again recognize what they look like. Wild
onions are the same thing. I added that to this list,
(10:39):
and I've got some ways for you to get the
wild onions under control as well. That's a tough one,
you don't want to hear it, but physical removal is
actually the best way to get rid of wild onions
and wild garlic clumps growing in your yard and in
your landscape, physically digging them out and getting rid of them.
But by the way, before we take a break here,
all of these that I mentioned are edible, so you
(11:01):
know the old saying, if they get away from you
and you can't beat them, all you have to do
is harvest them and eat them. Chickweed way more nutritious
than kale. Yes. Indeed, eight hundred eight two three eight
two five five that's our number. Here in the garden
with Ron Wilson, How is your garden growing?
Speaker 2 (11:21):
Call Ron now at one eight hundred eighty two three
talk you are listening to in the Garden with Ron Wilson.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
When you're planning your new plants this spring, Remember it's
all about the roots. Hi, Ron Wilson.
Speaker 3 (11:49):
Here.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
When you're planning those new plants this spring, here's what
you need to use. Use fertilm Roots Stimulator and Plant
Starter solution for everything you plant trees, shrubs, ornamentals and flowers.
This mild starter fertilizer has an actual rooting hormone to
help stimulate new growth. Now you make three applications ten
to fourteen days apart and get up to thirty three
(12:09):
percent more roots. More roots means summer heartiness, increased drought tolerance,
and less insect and fungal issues. Fertil On Roots Stimulator
and Plant Starter Solution also helps to reduce transplant shock
and promotes greener, more vigorous plants. Get your plants started
out the right way so you can enjoy its beauty sooner.
And longer. Ask for furtlo and roots stimulant and plant
(12:31):
starter solution at your favorite local independent nursery, garden center,
or hardware store, or find a dealer near you at
fertilome dot com. That's furd loom, roots stimulator and plant
starter solution.
Speaker 4 (12:42):
When it comes to your plumbing and drain systems, maintenance
is the key if you want to keep it working right.
Hey Gary Salvin here from my friends at rotor Router
Plumbing and.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
Water clean Up.
Speaker 4 (12:51):
If you like to do your own maintenance, check out
rotorrooter dot com for helpful videos, blogs, and seasonal information
that'll allow you to keep your plumbing in top form.
And if you get over your head or you don't
have the time to diy, rotro ruters expert plumbers are
always ready to help.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
Twenty four to seven.
Speaker 4 (13:09):
Visit rotrouter dot com reor call one eight hundred get
rodo well.
Speaker 3 (13:13):
The holidays are over, but germs and viruses they're still
hanging around. Protect your family. The jaws disinfecting cleaner jaws
kills ninety nine point nine percent of the viruses and bacteria,
including the COVID virus. Powerful cleaning and disinfecting all on
one step plus Jaws reusable spray balls, are concentrated refill
pods and protects the environment. Make your home healthier today
(13:35):
or Jaws Disinfecting Cleaner. That's Jaws cleans dot Com. Jawscleans
dot com because a clean home is a safe home.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
Eight hundred eight two three eight two five five. That
is our number. Good morning, I am Ron Wilson, excuse me,
your personal yard boy talking about yarding. All excited because yes,
it is the first day of the meteorological spring, happy
Spring of twenty twenty five. Lots are gonna have what's
gonna happen on the next several months, and we're here
to help walk you through as we go through to
(15:01):
try to help make you more successful in your yarning endeavors,
indoors and out, whatever it may be. We are here
to help, and of course you can email us and
of course call us on our show at eight hundred
and eight three eight two five five. Talking about the
soil tempts, making sure you're checking those. How about your
soil itself? Have you had your soil tested lately? Come
(15:22):
on now, be honest with me, you know and you
don't have to do it in the law, and if
you don't want to do that other the landscape beds
unless you're having some issues. But what about the vegetable garden,
what about the perennial garden? You know, what about those?
Have you had those tests in the past? You know,
I get folks sometimes to talk about you know, I've
been planting the same garden for years and years and years. Boy,
the last year or two, I just haven't had any success.
(15:44):
I've been feeding it the same way and it's just
not overall not doing well. And if the garden overall
is not doing well, probably something wrong disaffecting everything right.
And you know, the question comes up, have you had
your soil testing? No, I still feed it and I
do you know, I had a little bit of compost
and that's all good, But tab your soil tested to
(16:07):
see what it may be lacking or what it may
have too much of. When that soil test, you'll also
find out what your organic matter percentage is, and that's important.
You want that around four percent or so. But I
think one of the most important things you get out
of that is the pH level because most of those
vegetables that you're growing in there and it depends on
(16:27):
what you're growing, but for the most part, want to
be in that range of about six five six eight.
Some things want to be a little bit more cidic,
some may be a little more alkaline, but for the
most part in that mid six range. And it's amazing
how many folks will have their soil test. It comes
back and it's a seven to five seven eight, and
it's very alkaline, and it's changed or somehow it's gotten
(16:48):
very acidic. And when that happens, a lot of these
plants cannot take up some of the nutrients that are
in the soil aren't available, or they can't take it
up to use them, and so that starts to decline
with all of the plants in the planting area. So
have your soil tested. You can do it for your lawn,
if you want your landscape. You can do it for
your fruit crops, especially if you guys, if you're doing
(17:09):
like blueberries and that with like a really low pH.
Find out where your level is and then you know,
work on trying to bring that back down, and of
course your vegetable garden as well. Check with your local extension.
I always get folks and say, well, where do I
go to have it tested, I don't know what to do.
Check with your local extension, like OSU Extension. They have
a bulletin on how to do that. You go there.
(17:30):
It also has tells you how to do it and
the labs that you can send your soil to. Check
with your local independent garden center sometimes they offer that service,
or they'll take it and send it away for you
and bring it back and have they're taken care of.
Or just google soil testing in whatever state you live in,
soil testing in Ohio, whatever it may be. I did
that the other day and I got both the bulletin
(17:53):
that the OSU put out, plus I got an entire
listing of labs in Ohio and surrounding areas that wels
test your soil. So you know, you got some great
resources out there for that as well. So again, if
you've not had your soils tested, this is a great
time to do that because some of the soil amendments
that you would want to do, you want to have
(18:14):
in place several weeks before you would plant whatever it is,
sucially in the vegetable garden, whatever it is you want
to plant. You know, I had somebody call me the
other day asking or I don't know what they call
her email, but asking about putting lime down so that
I've done it every year and I didn't do it
this year, and is it too late to do it,
blah blah blah. Well, cost My first comment was, I
would never recommend liming soil unless you were instructed to
(18:37):
do that, because most of the soil in our area
is already in the alkaline range and that just makes
it worse. And so you don't want to put lime
down unless you know that you have to put lime down.
And the other thing is, depending on what you're planting,
you want to have that in the soil, worked into
the soil and in place, typically three to four five
weeks before you start the plant, so you know, again,
(19:00):
getting it soil tested now you find out all this
stuff and you can get it taken care of before
it's time to get out there and start planting. But
soil testing very easy to do cost wise, ten fifteen
twenty bucks soil and water your soiling water district, check
with their office. Many times they do it. I think
Hamilton County here, it's not very much. For folks in
(19:23):
Hamilton County. It's like ten or fifteen bucks, so very
inexpensive for what you get back. Very important, please have
it tested. One last thing before we take a break.
I was talking about our website, a run Wilson online
dot com. I forgot to mention this The Beagle bygl
dot Issu dot eedu. The Beagle posting this week is
on carpenter ants in trees. I get so many calls
(19:45):
during the season about found carpenter ants. They're killing my tree.
Found carpenter ants running out of my tree. I'm in
a panic.
Speaker 3 (19:52):
What do I do?
Speaker 1 (19:53):
There's a big hole in there. They're gonna they're ruining
my tree. And again it's the old learning more about bees, pollinators, birds, moles,
carpenter ants. Learning about them and what they do and
their life cycle and what they're actually doing inside that tree.
Learning more about them helps you to understand what to
(20:15):
do and what not to do if this comes up,
because so many times folks will blame the death of
their tree on carpenter ants and guess what it wasn't
the carpenter ants at all. I'll tell you what it
was after we take the break. Eight hundred eight two
three eight two five five. That's our number here in
the Garden with Ron Wilson. Bring Tom or.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
Not Ron can help at one eight hundred eighty two
three Talk this says in the Garden with Ron.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
Wilson, Erica.
Speaker 4 (21:15):
Families that suffer from allergies can an easy breathed ventilation
system help them?
Speaker 3 (21:19):
And how's that work?
Speaker 5 (21:21):
Yes, Gary, Easy breach can certainly help families that suffer
from asmin allergies by creating air exchanges, removing dirty damp
air from the home and replace it with cleaner, dryer air.
Customers sell us they have less coughing, less sneezing, less congestion.
Over all, they just feel better.
Speaker 6 (21:37):
Well, I'll tell you I have my easy breathe I
absolutely love it. It's easybreed dot com or eight six
six eight two two seventy three twenty eight. So if
you're tired of scrubbing your shower, you need wet and
forget weekly shower cleaner. Gary Sulvan here, Spray it on
today and rinse tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (21:53):
Once a week.
Speaker 4 (21:54):
Spray it on all your tub and shower surfaces, even
glass stores. The next day, simply rinse clean with wet
and forgets shower. You can breathe easy because there's no
harsh fumes and no scrubbing, make cleaning easy, pick up
wet and forget shower at home, depot Low's Menards, meer
Ace or visit Wedinforget dot com the finest store near you.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
Talking you're earning at eight hundred and eight two three
eight two five five. I am Ron Wilson, don't forget
our website, Ron Wilson online dot com talking about carpenter
bees or carpenter ants in the trees, and there's a
nice uh tip sheet on that on our website. And again,
I get so many calls about the carpenter ants killing
the trees and folks in a panic. And the thing
(23:15):
of it is learning more about the carpenter ants and
what they're doing in that tree, you know, it helps
you to understand that they typically don't kill the tree.
The tree is suffering from other issues, well, some type
of a rot disease, fungus. Dan said, somebody you know
hit the tree, you know, and that can happen. Scart,
(23:35):
you know, hit the tree cause the rotting area in
the tree, something like that, and the carpenter bees just
take advantage of that wet, moist wood. They don't eat
it like termite. They use it for nesting. So they're
in and out, in and out, and they'll they'll take
that and they'll discard it, throw it out the hole.
So you see the sawdust, but they're not eating it.
They're just getting that moist stuff out of there, and
(23:58):
they nest in those cavities. So the deal is finding
out what may have caused the cavity and then having
a certified arbist take a look at it and say,
you know, the tree is still healthy. I mean many
trees with these cavities inside continue to live for hundreds
of years and have no problems. But it is good
having a certified arbist look at it, make sure they're
still structurally sound. And if you want to get rid
(24:20):
of the carpenter bees our carpenter ants, there are many
ways to do that. They remember they have multiple nests
around the yard. It can be a little bit of
a process, but it can be done. But typically they're
not what kills the tree, other issues with the tree,
or what take the tree out eventually, But carpenter answer
just using it as a nesting area. And again they
(24:41):
don't feed on it like a termites would if they
had got inside the tree. But again a great great
information a tip sheet and it's at our website at
Ron Wilson online dot com. Just since downing we go. Catherine,
Good morning.
Speaker 7 (24:57):
Catherine, about peenies. I have a roll of ease. They've
done super well and I probably had them fifteen years
or so, and last summer or spring they did not bloom.
It was the first time ever. And I don't really
fertilize or anything with them. And I used to think
they liked meuracid or something like that, but my husband
(25:19):
tells me that's not true. And he keeps saying we
have to fertilize him and see if we can help
them along. They looked healthy. They were just all green
and no flowers.
Speaker 1 (25:28):
You know a couple things. One is do you melt
around them every year?
Speaker 7 (25:33):
We use pine straw.
Speaker 1 (25:35):
Okay, that's good because sometimes when folks throw a compost
or whatever around them, they wind up making them too deep,
that the eyes of that thing too deep. And when
they get too deep, what happens is they started to
send out green folies, but they never flower, so they
stopped doing it. So the pine straw is great, that's
perfect for doing that. And it doesn't make it too deep.
So that's a good good way to maltz them. Sometimes
(25:57):
if they are really crowded in and have gotten so
thick that that sometimes it requires going in and you
do this when in the late August or in September
and actually divide, you know, separating them out and opening
it up a little bit. If they seem to be
really thick. And you were talking about the feeding of
the peonies, that could be part of the problem because
(26:19):
if they get so thick, they do become competitive as
far as nutrients in the soil and moisture in the soil,
and so yeah, that could be an issue as well.
So that's that's going to be a judgment call you
have to make as far as you know, are they
really thick and you might want to try doing a
little bit of feeding. You could do the mere acid.
I'm not a mere acid fan, but you know, if
(26:41):
you want to do water soluble fertilizers, you know, miracle
grow mere acids.
Speaker 3 (26:46):
Fine, there are.
Speaker 7 (26:48):
Different kinds of miracle grow right well, you.
Speaker 1 (26:50):
Know there's there's miracle grow and no lists some for
bloomers that's higher and phosphorus. Yeah, there are two or
three different types to read the label see what it's for.
Just the general miracle grow is fine the thing and
the mirror ascid thing that What bothers me about that is,
I don't from what I recall, I don't think there's
(27:11):
anything in it that helps to change the acidity of
the soil.
Speaker 3 (27:14):
So it's kind of confused with the label.
Speaker 7 (27:17):
And I guess I'm wrong that they're not an acid
loving plant.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
Well, I think they like something in it again in
that sixth range, so it would be not alkaline, but
it would be in the top part of the acidic
part of the the pH six yeah, six five six
eight something like that. Uh, So that could be an issue.
Did you see any buds, any stems start to come
up at all?
Speaker 7 (27:38):
No?
Speaker 1 (27:40):
Yeah, And you don't get powdery mildew on them at
the end of the season.
Speaker 7 (27:44):
No. Sometimes some years we've wound up cutting them back
sooner than we would have once they finished blooming, and
maybe it gets to be August or September, which and
they get that sort of fungus on them that makes
police look ugly, they look horrible. Yes, so we just
cut them down then, and it's like when they do that,
I haven't done that every year, but since they first
(28:07):
got it, it does repeat itself pretty often. So we
just cut up and they never really looked unhealthy until
they hit that stage of of the ugly leaf.
Speaker 1 (28:17):
Yeah good, how about shade?
Speaker 7 (28:20):
No, they're in a nice sunny place. Yeah. As I said,
we've had them over fifteen years and they've just been beautiful.
I've had to give them back to my neighbors so
they didn't go to waste.
Speaker 2 (28:31):
Would it got a hot excellent?
Speaker 7 (28:33):
But yeah, okay, Well I'll give the and I'll take
a good look as they as they grow this year
to see if we need to send them out, give
them life if they did, because then we put them
somewhere ups but then they'd be a lot of work
to get those things apart.
Speaker 1 (28:48):
Yeah, but you know, sometimes that does have to happen.
I mean, I see daffodils. Sometimes you get into these
old mass plantings of them. Also, they just quit flowering.
You're not very much in there. They've just become so
competitive and so thick. You've got to go in and
thin them out, open them up, and then the next year,
next thing you know, you're back in and blizziness again.
As far as the flowers.
Speaker 7 (29:08):
Go, so as long as it blains my da fidils too,
because that's that's happened to me this past couple of.
Speaker 1 (29:14):
Years too, Okay, that that can be the issue. All right, well,
all right, Catherine, good talking with you. All right, take
care yep, and again you gotta make that it's kind
of got to make that call. But yeah, daffodils especially,
oh my gosh, I get to get an old clump
up and they get so thick. Uh, next thing you know,
you just can't get enough nutrients in there. Of course
moisture as well, and you get nice followers, but no
(29:36):
flour just can't do it. Not enough nutrients to set
that butt up. So you know it's a go in.
You thin them out, space them out, and next thing
you know, the next season you're right back in business again.
So there you go. All right, quick break, we come back.
Time for little home improvement from the man, the myth,
the legend, mister Gary Sullivan here in the garden with
Ron Wilson.
Speaker 2 (29:56):
Landscaping made easier with your personal yard boy. He's hit
in the garden and he's Ron Wilson.
Speaker 1 (30:19):
Hi, Ron Wilson. Here, let me ask you a question,
are you having problems with those hard to kill pesky weeds? Well,
I've got the answer for you. You ready get yourself some
high yield kills All super concentrate. You know, high yield
kills All works great on any kind of unwanted weed
and grass around your house. High Yield kills All is
a non selective weed and grass killer that contains a
double surfacted formula that drives on the weed fast. It
(30:42):
starts working quickly, which helps it to work better than
other weed and grass killers. High Yield kills All is
perfect for use around your fences, patios, sidewalks, driveways, and
a whole lot more. Use high Yield kills All to
kill weeds before you plant a vegetable garden, before you
plant your flowers, or before you plant that new lawn.
Check out the It covers up to twice the area
that the national brand covers and works even better kill
(31:05):
your weeds down to the route with kills All. And
if you can't find kills All with that mass merchant,
you want to know why. That's because kills All from
high Yield can only be found in your favorite local
independent garden centers or hardware stores. That's high yield kills.
All get some today. Welcome back here in the Garden
(32:08):
with Ron Wilson. Don't forget our website, it's Ron Wilson
online dot com Facebook page in the Garden with Ron Wilson.
Be sure and check both of those out. You can
listen to our shows obviously during the week as well.
You can go to our website and of course listen
to him on your iheartapp as well. So stay in
touch with us all the time. And I know a
lot of folks that say, you know, I listened to
(32:29):
you yours show. I download them, listen to him later
as I'm mowing the grass or as I'm working out
in the garden or whatever it may be. So that's
a pretty cool technology today, huh. All right, speaking of
pretty cool technology and out of this world, it's time
for the man, the myth, the legend. He is the
most listened to home improvement show host in the entire
(32:50):
Solar system. His website, Garysullivan online dot com. Sometimes he
calls it his blog. Sometimes we call it his website,
Garysullivan online dot com. Ladies and gentlemen, the one, the only,
the creator of the Sully Gary some after happy first
(33:12):
day of spring. Are you excited? Of course I am, Why.
Speaker 3 (33:16):
Because it's like spring, even though it's really not, but
it's like spring.
Speaker 1 (33:20):
Do you predict that we'll have any more snow after
this point?
Speaker 3 (33:23):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (33:25):
Accumulating?
Speaker 3 (33:26):
No? Okay, right, well it depends over an inch no.
Speaker 1 (33:31):
Okay, but typically right about the end of February, first
of March, right about this exact time. You and I
have been at the Cincinnati Home and Garden Show, Yes
we have, which they have not done. You can't do
because they're redoing the Convention Center, right and at that
particular one. For many years, you and I have had
(33:51):
a bet on when the grass officially turns.
Speaker 3 (33:56):
Green because it's noticeable, right, because it kind of started
as like, how can you just wake up one morning
and go like, whoa, what happened to the grass last?
Speaker 1 (34:05):
There is just one day in the springtime where all
of a sudden you realize it is green. Yeah, not
just tatches, not just the ditch, but everything green. Yep.
It's today, yep. And we both have always agreed that
you're right, it is today or it could have been yesterday.
Speaker 3 (34:21):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean it is. We'll trade you
know a little message that says, I think it's today.
Speaker 1 (34:26):
I think it's today.
Speaker 3 (34:27):
There was one year in there we couldn't tell remember
that it was like through March, and it was because
it was in the April. And it's like, did it
change already, because usually it's you know, it's like a
pile of the face. You know, it's like.
Speaker 1 (34:40):
Whoa, yeah man, yeah, yeah. We've had a couple of
it was kind of yah, I can't tell. Yeah, And
we've had a couple that was extremely green coming out
of the winter.
Speaker 3 (34:49):
Oh yeah, yeah. So what's your date?
Speaker 1 (34:53):
I just happened to think of it. I didn't. I
don't have a date. I have to go out there
and kind of take a look, you know, But I
just thought I would do well. I gotta put a
few together. I can see how those worms are doing.
See where the grubs are moving in the store, answer
doing in the trees, See how the carbonery answer doing.
Speaker 3 (35:09):
In the trees. Everybody does think those ants kill.
Speaker 1 (35:12):
Trees well, and I get it, because all of a sudden,
there's this hollowed out area and saw dust coming flying
out of there, right and they're just chewing it. But
I'm hearing it.
Speaker 3 (35:22):
Out a storm a branch breaks off, and then the
water gets in there and rots the wood.
Speaker 1 (35:26):
It continues to ride.
Speaker 3 (35:27):
It could be got a new nursery, Hilda, We got
a new nursery.
Speaker 1 (35:31):
Could find bees in there.
Speaker 3 (35:32):
You can find anything in there.
Speaker 1 (35:33):
You can find anything in theres in there, Houdao. So yeah,
but it's you know again, it's knowing. It's just like
with you. I've improving products. Knowing what it is. I
learn more about it, and you understand how to use it.
Twenty fifth, you're going for the twenty fifth and nine.
Speaker 3 (35:51):
Months before Christmas, perfectly right, that's what it's gonna turn green.
Speaker 1 (35:58):
Run March twenty fifth, the man says.
Speaker 3 (36:00):
And nine months later we're going to have a white Christmas.
Oh so you're going out and up, baby, I'm doubling up.
Speaker 1 (36:07):
Wow, a little vacation.
Speaker 3 (36:09):
You get a couple. We'll have a couple of sullies
out on the porch. Eh.
Speaker 1 (36:13):
Did you bring us back any boiled peanuts?
Speaker 3 (36:15):
No? I didn't see sign.
Speaker 1 (36:17):
Do you eat boiled peanuts?
Speaker 3 (36:19):
You know I don't.
Speaker 1 (36:20):
I love those early I told me four. Well I've
been telling you as a hint.
Speaker 3 (36:26):
Yeah, I guess I make a note. I like the
shell pans still.
Speaker 1 (36:32):
Yeah, you eat the shell no, if they're salted.
Speaker 3 (36:35):
You know, back in the day, I did, way back
in the day. I think I was just too lazy
to take the shell off.
Speaker 1 (36:42):
Really, that's some heavy duty fiber right there.
Speaker 3 (36:44):
There you go. It's like eating a two by four.
Speaker 1 (36:48):
Yeah, mister Sullivan. With the weather changing, this being the
first day of spring, yes, sir. Both in the landscape
and in things that you take care of, like the
deck and things like that, there's going to be deck expansions,
new decks being built, yes, sir, new mail boxes being
put in, new trees being planted.
Speaker 3 (37:06):
Yep.
Speaker 1 (37:07):
Before anybody gets out there, whether it's home improvement or
garden yard landscape improvement, and they're going to dig a
hole in the ground.
Speaker 3 (37:16):
You should call somebody.
Speaker 1 (37:18):
Who should they call? You should call somebody who should
they call? Before they dig that?
Speaker 3 (37:22):
I think it's oup.
Speaker 1 (37:25):
S Oops. Oops as an eight to one one.
Speaker 3 (37:29):
Yeah, that's it.
Speaker 1 (37:31):
I'll be done.
Speaker 3 (37:31):
Oops. Dot com you can even schedule it yourself.
Speaker 1 (37:34):
You go right online, because.
Speaker 3 (37:36):
The one thing you don't want to do is jab
that shovel right in the ground and go oops.
Speaker 1 (37:42):
Is that gas? I smell?
Speaker 3 (37:44):
Oops?
Speaker 1 (37:45):
Why?
Speaker 3 (37:46):
Why is my shovel glowing?
Speaker 1 (37:47):
Is that electricity coming up through the antles of my shovel?
Did I just cut out everybody's uh cable service?
Speaker 3 (37:56):
How to make friends?
Speaker 1 (37:57):
And it's the big games on today? Yeah, that doesn't
go over well.
Speaker 3 (38:01):
Oh you never want to say oops during March madness.
Speaker 1 (38:04):
No, no, So as you and I both try to
remind folks as we go into the spring season where
it's gonna be a lot of digging, don't forget to
call eight one one.
Speaker 3 (38:14):
Yes, it's the law. Doesn't cost yours in all the states.
Speaker 1 (38:19):
Click eight one one dot now dot com and then
you can go online as well, and you can just
do it all yourself. But give them I think, you know,
the more advanced notice you can give them, the better
off you are. But I think they're looking for forty
eight hours or more.
Speaker 3 (38:33):
Yeah, I'll try to get him a week.
Speaker 1 (38:34):
Try to give him a week if you can. That way,
They've got plenty. They send the local utility companies out,
they'll mark the site. Then you would, uh, don't dig
on the site of the colors of the lines, and
you're good to go. You are, so a call before
you dig, it's free. There are some stories, aren't there.
George Gillespie, who was one of the main reps in
for Ohio, had shown me some pictures of some serious
(38:58):
like where he hit the line and blew up the house. Yeah,
the gas line. Yeah, I mean some serious stuff.
Speaker 3 (39:03):
It's not like we're protecting low wattage landscape lighting. No.
Speaker 1 (39:07):
And if you cut some of those electric lines cables
that are under.
Speaker 3 (39:10):
The ground, you don't want to pay for that.
Speaker 1 (39:12):
It could be like hundreds of thousands of dollars to
get it repaired, and your insurance typically won't cover that.
Speaker 3 (39:17):
No, because they put full.
Speaker 1 (39:22):
Yes.
Speaker 3 (39:22):
That goes on the line of comments oh oh.
Speaker 1 (39:29):
Yeah, whoops. So, whether it's home improvement or landscaping or
whatever you're doing out there, don't just guess that you
know where all the utilities are. And I think the
other thing folks have to remember. Of course, we planned
a lot of trees, and we have to you know,
we do all that marking the utilities before we plant trees.
But also we try to remember where you may have
(39:50):
run some electric cords underground or a little water pipe,
or had somebody do it for you, because otherwise the
utility companies have no idea about those, they do not,
so you've got to remember that. So if you have
that done, be sure and mark it on a map so.
Speaker 3 (40:06):
You can scan your yard.
Speaker 1 (40:07):
No can't they I guess they can.
Speaker 3 (40:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (40:10):
Still but still for that yeah, but still you know
know where those are as well?
Speaker 3 (40:16):
For sure. It's that time of year though, There'll be
a lot of activity in the next thirty days.
Speaker 1 (40:21):
Yep. And you know what is greening up?
Speaker 3 (40:24):
What's that?
Speaker 1 (40:25):
My deck.
Speaker 3 (40:27):
Thing's been green for ten years.
Speaker 1 (40:29):
Yeah, but this time of the year, it really starts
to green.
Speaker 3 (40:32):
H it does? It does moss?
Speaker 1 (40:33):
You know how that is? It really starts to grow.
Over the next month, a month and.
Speaker 3 (40:36):
A half, I'll tell you, red buds were starting to
butt out in Atlanta.
Speaker 1 (40:41):
Oh, Atlanta.
Speaker 3 (40:43):
And then I don't know if it was a pair
or what type of tree, but there was several of
them with white flowers on already. I got very excited.
It was South Atlanta. But nonetheless, it's coming our way.
Speaker 1 (40:58):
It's coming, it's coming our way. Yep.
Speaker 3 (41:01):
Exciting. So you just see that sun move across the horizon.
Speaker 1 (41:05):
I said that. I told my wife last night, I said,
you know how quickly the days are getting longer?
Speaker 3 (41:09):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (41:10):
Yeah, I mean it's noticeable.
Speaker 3 (41:12):
In thirty days we watched the sun. I don't know
how many miles or anything like that, but it was
like if we were sitting out we would look at
the sun and it would be about ten o'clock and
now it's about one o'clock. Pretty cool, that is so,
and it's headed north.
Speaker 1 (41:31):
Yeah, hey, yes it is. And along with that will
come the hummingbirds.
Speaker 3 (41:35):
Yeah, and butterflies.
Speaker 1 (41:37):
Butterflies.
Speaker 3 (41:39):
Whole story on monarch butterflies the other day.
Speaker 1 (41:42):
That's a whole series that's gonna that they're doing with
Tom Hanks.
Speaker 3 (41:45):
Yeah. Yeah, it was interesting. I knew some of it.
But actually a friend of mine they go out to
Dana Point in the wintertime for a couple of months
and there is a beach called Monarch Beach. There's a
Monarch Golf Club there, and we would walk the golf
course early in the morning just to exercise and stuff.
(42:09):
And probably ten or twelve years ago, there was all
kinds of monarch butterflies on that course and it's been
a few years since we've been out there and it
had the population had diminished greatly, So yeah, they're struggling
a little bit.
Speaker 1 (42:26):
Yeah, and the Western monarchs are doing it, starving worse
than the Eastern monarchs. But they but they both are
at a decline.
Speaker 3 (42:33):
So yeah, yeah, hawks to go in the extension.
Speaker 1 (42:36):
Yeah and as yeah, like I said, I think there's
a thirteen weeks or twelve weeks of that.
Speaker 3 (42:40):
I didn't know there was that much information on monarch.
Speaker 1 (42:43):
Well, it's not just no, they do something different every
every week.
Speaker 3 (42:46):
They pick your species.
Speaker 1 (42:47):
Yeah, there you go. The first one was that.
Speaker 3 (42:50):
No, they could they could have you out in the
garden pampering your worms and the necessity to pamper your.
Speaker 1 (42:57):
And talking to my worms and doing all that. You
gotta talk about home improvement today we are what are
you gonna talk? Look at that list, Ronnie boy.
Speaker 3 (43:03):
Wow, it's all spring projects. The heck with this winter stuff.
Speaker 1 (43:07):
Wow? Yeah baby, And if you can, if you get callers,
you ain't gonna talk about any of it.
Speaker 3 (43:12):
We get callers, we'll surely get you. Always do about
the decks they want to know about.
Speaker 1 (43:16):
That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (43:17):
The brick wall, and what's that missing mortar? And how
about that garage door seal? We'll cover it all today.
Speaker 1 (43:23):
You can throw your list away because everybody's going to
have that on their calls.
Speaker 3 (43:27):
I'm looking forward to it.
Speaker 1 (43:28):
Gary Sullivan is website, Garysullivan online dot com. Have a
great show. Thanks to all of our callers, Thanks story sponsors,
Thanks of course to Danny Gleeson, our producer, because without
Danny Gleeson, the Durango Kid, none of this stuff would happens.
So Danny, thank you so much for all that you do.
Now it's here, spring is sprung. Where you're gonna plant
those trees are two or three native plants, Navy selections.
Pamper your worms, get the kids and dogs of ball
(43:50):
with guarding. Make it the best weekend of your life.
Speaker 3 (43:52):
See you.
Speaker 2 (43:57):
Landscaping made easier with your personal yard boy. He's in
the garden and he's Ron Wilson.
Our toll free number eight hundred eight two three eight
two five five. Good morning. I am Ron Wilson, your
personal yard boy, talking about yarding on this first day
of the meteorological spring. Happy Spring twenty twenty five. Ron
Roeths is at his home right now shooting off fireworks
and the celebrating and you know, the whole nine yards
because it is the first day of the meteorological spring.
(00:59):
The astronomical spring starts like the twentieth or something like that,
but we'll take the meteorological I love it. And again,
as spring has sprung, things are going to start to
happen quickly over the next couple months as we work
our way into the spring season and planting season. Planting
season meaning trees and shrubs, well, we're already there. As
(01:20):
long as the soil is workable, as long as the
soil is not too damp, you can start planting trees
and shrubs and evergreens and perennials. Have at it all right,
you're good to go. As a matter of fact, if
you look around right now, our landscape cruise included, we're
out this week starting to do some small plantings here
(01:42):
and there that they could get out onto the site
that it was workable, that moisture levels were okay for
us to be there and start the plant. So you know,
you can start at this stage all weather pending, all
moisture in the soil pending planting all those woody plants,
those hardy plants, as far as the tender plants, they broccolis,
(02:02):
and the cabbages and the kales and the onions and
all of those. Remember, let's watch the soil temperatures for
even the cool season crops that like the cooler temperatures.
I use forty five degrees soil temperature, forty five degrees
soil temperatures. Air temperatures obviously a little bit we're going
(02:23):
to be higher. We'll worry about air temperatures dropping as
far as frosts or covering them over. But it's the
soil temperatures that are really important when it comes to
vegetable planting and annual planting, and so you've got to
watch those. So again, I'm going to bring this up
every weekend for the next several weeks as we go
through the spring season because it is important to watch
(02:45):
and it's very easy free to do. Soil thermometer, buy
them for ten bucks, or just go online green cast
online dot com. Put your town in there. It comes
right up for you. It tells you exactly what your
soil temperatures are right then, what has been over the
last twenty four hours and the last week. For instance,
in our area this morning, we're at forty one degrees.
(03:07):
Over the last twenty four hours, we've averaged forty seven degrees,
and over the past week forty three degrees. So we're
getting there. It's a little early, but we're getting there.
As far as those cool season crops in the vegetable
garden containers or raised beds. The other thing we're looking
at when it comes to soil temperatures is pre emergent
(03:27):
application pre emergent herbicides being those products that stop weed
seeds from growing all right, and it's very timely to
get those down before though weed seeds think about growing
as a general rule of thumb for most weed seeds
in our area for cool season turf or well, it
(03:47):
would be anywhere really, but is about for them to
start to think about germinating is when you get air
and soil temperatures at about fifty five degrees consistently, so
when it starts getting fifty to fifty five degrees consistently.
You want to make sure your pre emersion herbicides are
in place as those weed seeds start to think about Germany.
(04:10):
They don't do it all at one time, They'll do
it over the next three months or so. Which is
why sometimes you see crabgrass showing up in your yard
in the summer because the pre emergent you put down
in the springtime may have been put down too early,
or it may have been a product that didn't last
very long. It wore out, and guess what, they continue
to germinate and grow as we get into the summer.
(04:33):
If you do like the fertilom pre emergent, then you
know we've got the all seasons, which is the lawn
food plus the pre emergent that's per diamine, and that
per diamine will last for easily four months for you,
if not longer in your soul, depending on the weather.
So the goal when you're looking at these pre emerged
herbicides in the lawn, especially this way I look at
(04:54):
it to make it last longer. One is you get
a product that lasts longer. Initially in that fertilom all
see and has the per diamine, which is a longer
lasting pre emergent. If you could watch the soil temperatures
and not put it down until just as just before
it's needed, and you may, but last year we were
able to creep this out until the first of April
(05:16):
before we started putting down pre emergency. If you watch
the soil temps and then if you did that, then
you had April, May, June, and July and maybe even
into August as that pre emergent continue to work keeping
the crab grass from germanating and other weed seeds as
well throughout the entire summer, so we can if we
can stretch it out and then time it just right,
(05:36):
that works perfectly. So again, watching the temperatures. The soil
temperatures key, all right, So it's key for that. It's
key for planting your annuals, your vegetables and things like that,
so it's important to watch it. We'll do the same
thing in the fall as well. And once we start
seeing soil temperatures at fifty five to sixty degrees air
and soil temperatures together matching that up, everything bust loose.
(05:57):
That's what you can count on airly's starting to flower,
everything coming out to leave and going like crazy. So
just watch the soil temps combined with the air TIMPs
and that'll give you a real good read. And again
it's green cast online dot com and you can find
that out and go there every day and find out
where your soil temps are and chart it and they'll
chart it for you for the last week. As a
(06:17):
matter of fact, they have a chart on there, I
think from the whole year last year to show you
your ups and downs in your soil temps. It's pretty interesting,
pretty interesting website. It's what the professionals use if they're
coming out to plan on what crews, what they're gonna
put down today, et cetera, et cetera. So again, soil
temperature is very very important as we go through the
(06:38):
spring season for many applications. But otherwise at this point forward,
as far as woody plants, you know, if the soil
moisture is okay that you can get out and walk
on it, planned in it, you're good to go. Also
a reminder, don't try to till if you're a tiller,
don't try to till that vegetable garden too. Early with
too much moisture in the ground. You do that and
(06:58):
you cause those big clumps saying go away until next year,
So make sure you don't till too early as well.
Our website is Ron Wilson online dot com. I want
you to go there and check it out. Two things.
One is Rita's recipe this week, just in time for
Marty Grawl is the easy Kingcake for Marty Graul. It's
an easy cinnamon s world cake that you can make.
(07:19):
Even shows you how to put the baby inside and
the sprinkles on the top as well, so you're right
there with the festive Marti Gral you know, festivities and all,
but it's easy. It's an easy King cake for Marty Graul.
Be sure and check that out. And then our plant
picks of the week also go along somewhat with the
soil temperatures and some of the weeds that were already seen,
(07:43):
because they can be very confusing. The as the snow
has melted off now when it's all gone in our area,
and I start to look in the grass in the
bare areas, the thinned areas, and in some landscape beds
as well, and it's green. Guess what I'm seeing, or
guess what you're seeing if you're looking down. Those are
the winter annuals that started to germinate last fall. They germinate,
(08:08):
they lay low, They just hang in there over the wintertime.
As soon as the snow and everything melts off and
the soil temperatures and air temperatures start to creep up
into the forties and fifties, they grow like a weed.
They flour quickly, they throw seeds quickly, and they mush out,
(08:29):
they die. They're annuals, all right, And it can be
very confusing because if you go out there and you
see those right now. Some folks sometimes we'll look and
see that and say, I'm too late for my pre
emergent herbicide. The weeds have already started to grow. Well,
those already started last year. The summer annuals, the annuals
that we're talking about, the craggrass, and all of those
(08:50):
haven't started to germinate yet. Again, watch the soil temperatures.
So I'm talking about chickweed, purple dead nettle, hen bit,
harry bittercress, bedstraw, horseweed, annual, bluegrass. Starting to see that already,
wild parsnips, even the rose that's a poison. Hemlocks starting
to show up here in their person lane. So again,
(09:11):
recognize what these are and what you're seeing, and then
you know how to take care of them. So on
our website at Ron Wilson online dot com, I have
pictures of chickweed, handbit, purple dead netle, and harry benacrest,
which are probably the most foremost common ones that you
see out there. And of course remember they are annuals.
(09:31):
So the goal is to get rid of these before
they flower. Do not let these go to flour and seed.
Then now you get the seeds everywhere and you got
to deal with that again next year. So and we
will deal with that in the fall with the pre
emerging nerboside, But in the fall, did you catch that
in the fall. But know what they look like and
don't let them go to seed. As a matter of fact,
(09:52):
if you take a leaf break or a heart rake
and just rake them out, they have very shallow root systems,
all of them are. That way, you can rake them
out them away. They're done. They're the annual, they're done,
they're dead gone. So it's an easy way to get
rid of them, just physically remove them. You can spot
treat them with a broad leaf weed killer in the
lawn use Bonneyes weed Beater Ultra Furtiloms weed free Zone,
(10:18):
both of which have those listed and both of which
will work in forty five degree temperatures, one of the
only two on the market that will work in as
cooler temps as a weed killer. But again, you can
physically remove them. There's no sense that you don't need
to spray, just physically rake them out and get rid
of them, and again recognize what they look like. Wild
onions are the same thing. I added that to this list,
(10:39):
and I've got some ways for you to get the
wild onions under control as well. That's a tough one,
you don't want to hear it, but physical removal is
actually the best way to get rid of wild onions
and wild garlic clumps growing in your yard and in
your landscape, physically digging them out and getting rid of them.
But by the way, before we take a break here,
all of these that I mentioned are edible, so you
(11:01):
know the old saying, if they get away from you
and you can't beat them, all you have to do
is harvest them and eat them. Chickweed way more nutritious
than kale. Yes. Indeed, eight hundred eight two three eight
two five five that's our number. Here in the garden
with Ron Wilson, How is your garden growing?
Speaker 2 (11:21):
Call Ron now at one eight hundred eighty two three
talk you are listening to in the Garden with Ron Wilson.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
When you're planning your new plants this spring, Remember it's
all about the roots. Hi, Ron Wilson.
Speaker 3 (11:49):
Here.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
When you're planning those new plants this spring, here's what
you need to use. Use fertilm Roots Stimulator and Plant
Starter solution for everything you plant trees, shrubs, ornamentals and flowers.
This mild starter fertilizer has an actual rooting hormone to
help stimulate new growth. Now you make three applications ten
to fourteen days apart and get up to thirty three
(12:09):
percent more roots. More roots means summer heartiness, increased drought tolerance,
and less insect and fungal issues. Fertil On Roots Stimulator
and Plant Starter Solution also helps to reduce transplant shock
and promotes greener, more vigorous plants. Get your plants started
out the right way so you can enjoy its beauty sooner.
And longer. Ask for furtlo and roots stimulant and plant
(12:31):
starter solution at your favorite local independent nursery, garden center,
or hardware store, or find a dealer near you at
fertilome dot com. That's furd loom, roots stimulator and plant
starter solution.
Speaker 4 (12:42):
When it comes to your plumbing and drain systems, maintenance
is the key if you want to keep it working right.
Hey Gary Salvin here from my friends at rotor Router
Plumbing and.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
Water clean Up.
Speaker 4 (12:51):
If you like to do your own maintenance, check out
rotorrooter dot com for helpful videos, blogs, and seasonal information
that'll allow you to keep your plumbing in top form.
And if you get over your head or you don't
have the time to diy, rotro ruters expert plumbers are
always ready to help.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
Twenty four to seven.
Speaker 4 (13:09):
Visit rotrouter dot com reor call one eight hundred get
rodo well.
Speaker 3 (13:13):
The holidays are over, but germs and viruses they're still
hanging around. Protect your family. The jaws disinfecting cleaner jaws
kills ninety nine point nine percent of the viruses and bacteria,
including the COVID virus. Powerful cleaning and disinfecting all on
one step plus Jaws reusable spray balls, are concentrated refill
pods and protects the environment. Make your home healthier today
(13:35):
or Jaws Disinfecting Cleaner. That's Jaws cleans dot Com. Jawscleans
dot com because a clean home is a safe home.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
Eight hundred eight two three eight two five five. That
is our number. Good morning, I am Ron Wilson, excuse me,
your personal yard boy talking about yarding. All excited because yes,
it is the first day of the meteorological spring, happy
Spring of twenty twenty five. Lots are gonna have what's
gonna happen on the next several months, and we're here
to help walk you through as we go through to
(15:01):
try to help make you more successful in your yarning endeavors,
indoors and out, whatever it may be. We are here
to help, and of course you can email us and
of course call us on our show at eight hundred
and eight three eight two five five. Talking about the
soil tempts, making sure you're checking those. How about your
soil itself? Have you had your soil tested lately? Come
(15:22):
on now, be honest with me, you know and you
don't have to do it in the law, and if
you don't want to do that other the landscape beds
unless you're having some issues. But what about the vegetable garden,
what about the perennial garden? You know, what about those?
Have you had those tests in the past? You know,
I get folks sometimes to talk about you know, I've
been planting the same garden for years and years and years. Boy,
the last year or two, I just haven't had any success.
(15:44):
I've been feeding it the same way and it's just
not overall not doing well. And if the garden overall
is not doing well, probably something wrong disaffecting everything right.
And you know, the question comes up, have you had
your soil testing? No, I still feed it and I
do you know, I had a little bit of compost
and that's all good, But tab your soil tested to
(16:07):
see what it may be lacking or what it may
have too much of. When that soil test, you'll also
find out what your organic matter percentage is, and that's important.
You want that around four percent or so. But I
think one of the most important things you get out
of that is the pH level because most of those
vegetables that you're growing in there and it depends on
(16:27):
what you're growing, but for the most part, want to
be in that range of about six five six eight.
Some things want to be a little bit more cidic,
some may be a little more alkaline, but for the
most part in that mid six range. And it's amazing
how many folks will have their soil test. It comes
back and it's a seven to five seven eight, and
it's very alkaline, and it's changed or somehow it's gotten
(16:48):
very acidic. And when that happens, a lot of these
plants cannot take up some of the nutrients that are
in the soil aren't available, or they can't take it
up to use them, and so that starts to decline
with all of the plants in the planting area. So
have your soil tested. You can do it for your lawn,
if you want your landscape. You can do it for
your fruit crops, especially if you guys, if you're doing
(17:09):
like blueberries and that with like a really low pH.
Find out where your level is and then you know,
work on trying to bring that back down, and of
course your vegetable garden as well. Check with your local extension.
I always get folks and say, well, where do I
go to have it tested, I don't know what to do.
Check with your local extension, like OSU Extension. They have
a bulletin on how to do that. You go there.
(17:30):
It also has tells you how to do it and
the labs that you can send your soil to. Check
with your local independent garden center sometimes they offer that service,
or they'll take it and send it away for you
and bring it back and have they're taken care of.
Or just google soil testing in whatever state you live in,
soil testing in Ohio, whatever it may be. I did
that the other day and I got both the bulletin
(17:53):
that the OSU put out, plus I got an entire
listing of labs in Ohio and surrounding areas that wels
test your soil. So you know, you got some great
resources out there for that as well. So again, if
you've not had your soils tested, this is a great
time to do that because some of the soil amendments
that you would want to do, you want to have
(18:14):
in place several weeks before you would plant whatever it is,
sucially in the vegetable garden, whatever it is you want
to plant. You know, I had somebody call me the
other day asking or I don't know what they call
her email, but asking about putting lime down so that
I've done it every year and I didn't do it
this year, and is it too late to do it,
blah blah blah. Well, cost My first comment was, I
would never recommend liming soil unless you were instructed to
(18:37):
do that, because most of the soil in our area
is already in the alkaline range and that just makes
it worse. And so you don't want to put lime
down unless you know that you have to put lime down.
And the other thing is, depending on what you're planting,
you want to have that in the soil, worked into
the soil and in place, typically three to four five
weeks before you start the plant, so you know, again,
(19:00):
getting it soil tested now you find out all this
stuff and you can get it taken care of before
it's time to get out there and start planting. But
soil testing very easy to do cost wise, ten fifteen
twenty bucks soil and water your soiling water district, check
with their office. Many times they do it. I think
Hamilton County here, it's not very much. For folks in
(19:23):
Hamilton County. It's like ten or fifteen bucks, so very
inexpensive for what you get back. Very important, please have
it tested. One last thing before we take a break.
I was talking about our website, a run Wilson online
dot com. I forgot to mention this The Beagle bygl
dot Issu dot eedu. The Beagle posting this week is
on carpenter ants in trees. I get so many calls
(19:45):
during the season about found carpenter ants. They're killing my tree.
Found carpenter ants running out of my tree. I'm in
a panic.
Speaker 3 (19:52):
What do I do?
Speaker 1 (19:53):
There's a big hole in there. They're gonna they're ruining
my tree. And again it's the old learning more about bees, pollinators, birds, moles,
carpenter ants. Learning about them and what they do and
their life cycle and what they're actually doing inside that tree.
Learning more about them helps you to understand what to
(20:15):
do and what not to do if this comes up,
because so many times folks will blame the death of
their tree on carpenter ants and guess what it wasn't
the carpenter ants at all. I'll tell you what it
was after we take the break. Eight hundred eight two
three eight two five five. That's our number here in
the Garden with Ron Wilson. Bring Tom or.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
Not Ron can help at one eight hundred eighty two
three Talk this says in the Garden with Ron.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
Wilson, Erica.
Speaker 4 (21:15):
Families that suffer from allergies can an easy breathed ventilation
system help them?
Speaker 3 (21:19):
And how's that work?
Speaker 5 (21:21):
Yes, Gary, Easy breach can certainly help families that suffer
from asmin allergies by creating air exchanges, removing dirty damp
air from the home and replace it with cleaner, dryer air.
Customers sell us they have less coughing, less sneezing, less congestion.
Over all, they just feel better.
Speaker 6 (21:37):
Well, I'll tell you I have my easy breathe I
absolutely love it. It's easybreed dot com or eight six
six eight two two seventy three twenty eight. So if
you're tired of scrubbing your shower, you need wet and
forget weekly shower cleaner. Gary Sulvan here, Spray it on
today and rinse tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (21:53):
Once a week.
Speaker 4 (21:54):
Spray it on all your tub and shower surfaces, even
glass stores. The next day, simply rinse clean with wet
and forgets shower. You can breathe easy because there's no
harsh fumes and no scrubbing, make cleaning easy, pick up
wet and forget shower at home, depot Low's Menards, meer
Ace or visit Wedinforget dot com the finest store near you.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
Talking you're earning at eight hundred and eight two three
eight two five five. I am Ron Wilson, don't forget
our website, Ron Wilson online dot com talking about carpenter
bees or carpenter ants in the trees, and there's a
nice uh tip sheet on that on our website. And again,
I get so many calls about the carpenter ants killing
the trees and folks in a panic. And the thing
(23:15):
of it is learning more about the carpenter ants and
what they're doing in that tree, you know, it helps
you to understand that they typically don't kill the tree.
The tree is suffering from other issues, well, some type
of a rot disease, fungus. Dan said, somebody you know
hit the tree, you know, and that can happen. Scart,
(23:35):
you know, hit the tree cause the rotting area in
the tree, something like that, and the carpenter bees just
take advantage of that wet, moist wood. They don't eat
it like termite. They use it for nesting. So they're
in and out, in and out, and they'll they'll take
that and they'll discard it, throw it out the hole.
So you see the sawdust, but they're not eating it.
They're just getting that moist stuff out of there, and
(23:58):
they nest in those cavities. So the deal is finding
out what may have caused the cavity and then having
a certified arbist take a look at it and say,
you know, the tree is still healthy. I mean many
trees with these cavities inside continue to live for hundreds
of years and have no problems. But it is good
having a certified arbist look at it, make sure they're
still structurally sound. And if you want to get rid
(24:20):
of the carpenter bees our carpenter ants, there are many
ways to do that. They remember they have multiple nests
around the yard. It can be a little bit of
a process, but it can be done. But typically they're
not what kills the tree, other issues with the tree,
or what take the tree out eventually, But carpenter answer
just using it as a nesting area. And again they
(24:41):
don't feed on it like a termites would if they
had got inside the tree. But again a great great
information a tip sheet and it's at our website at
Ron Wilson online dot com. Just since downing we go. Catherine,
Good morning.
Speaker 7 (24:57):
Catherine, about peenies. I have a roll of ease. They've
done super well and I probably had them fifteen years
or so, and last summer or spring they did not bloom.
It was the first time ever. And I don't really
fertilize or anything with them. And I used to think
they liked meuracid or something like that, but my husband
(25:19):
tells me that's not true. And he keeps saying we
have to fertilize him and see if we can help
them along. They looked healthy. They were just all green
and no flowers.
Speaker 1 (25:28):
You know a couple things. One is do you melt
around them every year?
Speaker 7 (25:33):
We use pine straw.
Speaker 1 (25:35):
Okay, that's good because sometimes when folks throw a compost
or whatever around them, they wind up making them too deep,
that the eyes of that thing too deep. And when
they get too deep, what happens is they started to
send out green folies, but they never flower, so they
stopped doing it. So the pine straw is great, that's
perfect for doing that. And it doesn't make it too deep.
So that's a good good way to maltz them. Sometimes
(25:57):
if they are really crowded in and have gotten so
thick that that sometimes it requires going in and you
do this when in the late August or in September
and actually divide, you know, separating them out and opening
it up a little bit. If they seem to be
really thick. And you were talking about the feeding of
the peonies, that could be part of the problem because
(26:19):
if they get so thick, they do become competitive as
far as nutrients in the soil and moisture in the soil,
and so yeah, that could be an issue as well.
So that's that's going to be a judgment call you
have to make as far as you know, are they
really thick and you might want to try doing a
little bit of feeding. You could do the mere acid.
I'm not a mere acid fan, but you know, if
(26:41):
you want to do water soluble fertilizers, you know, miracle
grow mere acids.
Speaker 3 (26:46):
Fine, there are.
Speaker 7 (26:48):
Different kinds of miracle grow right well, you.
Speaker 1 (26:50):
Know there's there's miracle grow and no lists some for
bloomers that's higher and phosphorus. Yeah, there are two or
three different types to read the label see what it's for.
Just the general miracle grow is fine the thing and
the mirror ascid thing that What bothers me about that is,
I don't from what I recall, I don't think there's
(27:11):
anything in it that helps to change the acidity of
the soil.
Speaker 3 (27:14):
So it's kind of confused with the label.
Speaker 7 (27:17):
And I guess I'm wrong that they're not an acid
loving plant.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
Well, I think they like something in it again in
that sixth range, so it would be not alkaline, but
it would be in the top part of the acidic
part of the the pH six yeah, six five six
eight something like that. Uh, So that could be an issue.
Did you see any buds, any stems start to come
up at all?
Speaker 7 (27:38):
No?
Speaker 1 (27:40):
Yeah, And you don't get powdery mildew on them at
the end of the season.
Speaker 7 (27:44):
No. Sometimes some years we've wound up cutting them back
sooner than we would have once they finished blooming, and
maybe it gets to be August or September, which and
they get that sort of fungus on them that makes
police look ugly, they look horrible. Yes, so we just
cut them down then, and it's like when they do that,
I haven't done that every year, but since they first
(28:07):
got it, it does repeat itself pretty often. So we
just cut up and they never really looked unhealthy until
they hit that stage of of the ugly leaf.
Speaker 1 (28:17):
Yeah good, how about shade?
Speaker 7 (28:20):
No, they're in a nice sunny place. Yeah. As I said,
we've had them over fifteen years and they've just been beautiful.
I've had to give them back to my neighbors so
they didn't go to waste.
Speaker 2 (28:31):
Would it got a hot excellent?
Speaker 7 (28:33):
But yeah, okay, Well I'll give the and I'll take
a good look as they as they grow this year
to see if we need to send them out, give
them life if they did, because then we put them
somewhere ups but then they'd be a lot of work
to get those things apart.
Speaker 1 (28:48):
Yeah, but you know, sometimes that does have to happen.
I mean, I see daffodils. Sometimes you get into these
old mass plantings of them. Also, they just quit flowering.
You're not very much in there. They've just become so
competitive and so thick. You've got to go in and
thin them out, open them up, and then the next year,
next thing you know, you're back in and blizziness again.
As far as the flowers.
Speaker 7 (29:08):
Go, so as long as it blains my da fidils too,
because that's that's happened to me this past couple of.
Speaker 1 (29:14):
Years too, Okay, that that can be the issue. All right, well,
all right, Catherine, good talking with you. All right, take
care yep, and again you gotta make that it's kind
of got to make that call. But yeah, daffodils especially,
oh my gosh, I get to get an old clump
up and they get so thick. Uh, next thing you know,
you just can't get enough nutrients in there. Of course
moisture as well, and you get nice followers, but no
(29:36):
flour just can't do it. Not enough nutrients to set
that butt up. So you know it's a go in.
You thin them out, space them out, and next thing
you know, the next season you're right back in business again.
So there you go. All right, quick break, we come back.
Time for little home improvement from the man, the myth,
the legend, mister Gary Sullivan here in the garden with
Ron Wilson.
Speaker 2 (29:56):
Landscaping made easier with your personal yard boy. He's hit
in the garden and he's Ron Wilson.
Speaker 1 (30:19):
Hi, Ron Wilson. Here, let me ask you a question,
are you having problems with those hard to kill pesky weeds? Well,
I've got the answer for you. You ready get yourself some
high yield kills All super concentrate. You know, high yield
kills All works great on any kind of unwanted weed
and grass around your house. High Yield kills All is
a non selective weed and grass killer that contains a
double surfacted formula that drives on the weed fast. It
(30:42):
starts working quickly, which helps it to work better than
other weed and grass killers. High Yield kills All is
perfect for use around your fences, patios, sidewalks, driveways, and
a whole lot more. Use high Yield kills All to
kill weeds before you plant a vegetable garden, before you
plant your flowers, or before you plant that new lawn.
Check out the It covers up to twice the area
that the national brand covers and works even better kill
(31:05):
your weeds down to the route with kills All. And
if you can't find kills All with that mass merchant,
you want to know why. That's because kills All from
high Yield can only be found in your favorite local
independent garden centers or hardware stores. That's high yield kills.
All get some today. Welcome back here in the Garden
(32:08):
with Ron Wilson. Don't forget our website, it's Ron Wilson
online dot com Facebook page in the Garden with Ron Wilson.
Be sure and check both of those out. You can
listen to our shows obviously during the week as well.
You can go to our website and of course listen
to him on your iheartapp as well. So stay in
touch with us all the time. And I know a
lot of folks that say, you know, I listened to
(32:29):
you yours show. I download them, listen to him later
as I'm mowing the grass or as I'm working out
in the garden or whatever it may be. So that's
a pretty cool technology today, huh. All right, speaking of
pretty cool technology and out of this world, it's time
for the man, the myth, the legend. He is the
most listened to home improvement show host in the entire
(32:50):
Solar system. His website, Garysullivan online dot com. Sometimes he
calls it his blog. Sometimes we call it his website,
Garysullivan online dot com. Ladies and gentlemen, the one, the only,
the creator of the Sully Gary some after happy first
(33:12):
day of spring. Are you excited? Of course I am, Why.
Speaker 3 (33:16):
Because it's like spring, even though it's really not, but
it's like spring.
Speaker 1 (33:20):
Do you predict that we'll have any more snow after
this point?
Speaker 3 (33:23):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (33:25):
Accumulating?
Speaker 3 (33:26):
No? Okay, right, well it depends over an inch no.
Speaker 1 (33:31):
Okay, but typically right about the end of February, first
of March, right about this exact time. You and I
have been at the Cincinnati Home and Garden Show, Yes
we have, which they have not done. You can't do
because they're redoing the Convention Center, right and at that
particular one. For many years, you and I have had
(33:51):
a bet on when the grass officially turns.
Speaker 3 (33:56):
Green because it's noticeable, right, because it kind of started
as like, how can you just wake up one morning
and go like, whoa, what happened to the grass last?
Speaker 1 (34:05):
There is just one day in the springtime where all
of a sudden you realize it is green. Yeah, not
just tatches, not just the ditch, but everything green. Yep.
It's today, yep. And we both have always agreed that
you're right, it is today or it could have been yesterday.
Speaker 3 (34:21):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean it is. We'll trade you
know a little message that says, I think it's today.
Speaker 1 (34:26):
I think it's today.
Speaker 3 (34:27):
There was one year in there we couldn't tell remember
that it was like through March, and it was because
it was in the April. And it's like, did it
change already, because usually it's you know, it's like a
pile of the face. You know, it's like.
Speaker 1 (34:40):
Whoa, yeah man, yeah, yeah. We've had a couple of
it was kind of yah, I can't tell. Yeah, And
we've had a couple that was extremely green coming out
of the winter.
Speaker 3 (34:49):
Oh yeah, yeah. So what's your date?
Speaker 1 (34:53):
I just happened to think of it. I didn't. I
don't have a date. I have to go out there
and kind of take a look, you know, But I
just thought I would do well. I gotta put a
few together. I can see how those worms are doing.
See where the grubs are moving in the store, answer
doing in the trees, See how the carbonery answer doing.
Speaker 3 (35:09):
In the trees. Everybody does think those ants kill.
Speaker 1 (35:12):
Trees well, and I get it, because all of a sudden,
there's this hollowed out area and saw dust coming flying
out of there, right and they're just chewing it. But
I'm hearing it.
Speaker 3 (35:22):
Out a storm a branch breaks off, and then the
water gets in there and rots the wood.
Speaker 1 (35:26):
It continues to ride.
Speaker 3 (35:27):
It could be got a new nursery, Hilda, We got
a new nursery.
Speaker 1 (35:31):
Could find bees in there.
Speaker 3 (35:32):
You can find anything in there.
Speaker 1 (35:33):
You can find anything in theres in there, Houdao. So yeah,
but it's you know again, it's knowing. It's just like
with you. I've improving products. Knowing what it is. I
learn more about it, and you understand how to use it.
Twenty fifth, you're going for the twenty fifth and nine.
Speaker 3 (35:51):
Months before Christmas, perfectly right, that's what it's gonna turn green.
Speaker 1 (35:58):
Run March twenty fifth, the man says.
Speaker 3 (36:00):
And nine months later we're going to have a white Christmas.
Oh so you're going out and up, baby, I'm doubling up.
Speaker 1 (36:07):
Wow, a little vacation.
Speaker 3 (36:09):
You get a couple. We'll have a couple of sullies
out on the porch. Eh.
Speaker 1 (36:13):
Did you bring us back any boiled peanuts?
Speaker 3 (36:15):
No? I didn't see sign.
Speaker 1 (36:17):
Do you eat boiled peanuts?
Speaker 3 (36:19):
You know I don't.
Speaker 1 (36:20):
I love those early I told me four. Well I've
been telling you as a hint.
Speaker 3 (36:26):
Yeah, I guess I make a note. I like the
shell pans still.
Speaker 1 (36:32):
Yeah, you eat the shell no, if they're salted.
Speaker 3 (36:35):
You know, back in the day, I did, way back
in the day. I think I was just too lazy
to take the shell off.
Speaker 1 (36:42):
Really, that's some heavy duty fiber right there.
Speaker 3 (36:44):
There you go. It's like eating a two by four.
Speaker 1 (36:48):
Yeah, mister Sullivan. With the weather changing, this being the
first day of spring, yes, sir. Both in the landscape
and in things that you take care of, like the
deck and things like that, there's going to be deck expansions,
new decks being built, yes, sir, new mail boxes being
put in, new trees being planted.
Speaker 3 (37:06):
Yep.
Speaker 1 (37:07):
Before anybody gets out there, whether it's home improvement or
garden yard landscape improvement, and they're going to dig a
hole in the ground.
Speaker 3 (37:16):
You should call somebody.
Speaker 1 (37:18):
Who should they call? You should call somebody who should
they call? Before they dig that?
Speaker 3 (37:22):
I think it's oup.
Speaker 1 (37:25):
S Oops. Oops as an eight to one one.
Speaker 3 (37:29):
Yeah, that's it.
Speaker 1 (37:31):
I'll be done.
Speaker 3 (37:31):
Oops. Dot com you can even schedule it yourself.
Speaker 1 (37:34):
You go right online, because.
Speaker 3 (37:36):
The one thing you don't want to do is jab
that shovel right in the ground and go oops.
Speaker 1 (37:42):
Is that gas? I smell?
Speaker 3 (37:44):
Oops?
Speaker 1 (37:45):
Why?
Speaker 3 (37:46):
Why is my shovel glowing?
Speaker 1 (37:47):
Is that electricity coming up through the antles of my shovel?
Did I just cut out everybody's uh cable service?
Speaker 3 (37:56):
How to make friends?
Speaker 1 (37:57):
And it's the big games on today? Yeah, that doesn't
go over well.
Speaker 3 (38:01):
Oh you never want to say oops during March madness.
Speaker 1 (38:04):
No, no, So as you and I both try to
remind folks as we go into the spring season where
it's gonna be a lot of digging, don't forget to
call eight one one.
Speaker 3 (38:14):
Yes, it's the law. Doesn't cost yours in all the states.
Speaker 1 (38:19):
Click eight one one dot now dot com and then
you can go online as well, and you can just
do it all yourself. But give them I think, you know,
the more advanced notice you can give them, the better
off you are. But I think they're looking for forty
eight hours or more.
Speaker 3 (38:33):
Yeah, I'll try to get him a week.
Speaker 1 (38:34):
Try to give him a week if you can. That way,
They've got plenty. They send the local utility companies out,
they'll mark the site. Then you would, uh, don't dig
on the site of the colors of the lines, and
you're good to go. You are, so a call before
you dig, it's free. There are some stories, aren't there.
George Gillespie, who was one of the main reps in
for Ohio, had shown me some pictures of some serious
(38:58):
like where he hit the line and blew up the house. Yeah,
the gas line. Yeah, I mean some serious stuff.
Speaker 3 (39:03):
It's not like we're protecting low wattage landscape lighting. No.
Speaker 1 (39:07):
And if you cut some of those electric lines cables
that are under.
Speaker 3 (39:10):
The ground, you don't want to pay for that.
Speaker 1 (39:12):
It could be like hundreds of thousands of dollars to
get it repaired, and your insurance typically won't cover that.
Speaker 3 (39:17):
No, because they put full.
Speaker 1 (39:22):
Yes.
Speaker 3 (39:22):
That goes on the line of comments oh oh.
Speaker 1 (39:29):
Yeah, whoops. So, whether it's home improvement or landscaping or
whatever you're doing out there, don't just guess that you
know where all the utilities are. And I think the
other thing folks have to remember. Of course, we planned
a lot of trees, and we have to you know,
we do all that marking the utilities before we plant trees.
But also we try to remember where you may have
(39:50):
run some electric cords underground or a little water pipe,
or had somebody do it for you, because otherwise the
utility companies have no idea about those, they do not,
so you've got to remember that. So if you have
that done, be sure and mark it on a map so.
Speaker 3 (40:06):
You can scan your yard.
Speaker 1 (40:07):
No can't they I guess they can.
Speaker 3 (40:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (40:10):
Still but still for that yeah, but still you know
know where those are as well?
Speaker 3 (40:16):
For sure. It's that time of year though, There'll be
a lot of activity in the next thirty days.
Speaker 1 (40:21):
Yep. And you know what is greening up?
Speaker 3 (40:24):
What's that?
Speaker 1 (40:25):
My deck.
Speaker 3 (40:27):
Thing's been green for ten years.
Speaker 1 (40:29):
Yeah, but this time of the year, it really starts
to green.
Speaker 3 (40:32):
H it does? It does moss?
Speaker 1 (40:33):
You know how that is? It really starts to grow.
Over the next month, a month and.
Speaker 3 (40:36):
A half, I'll tell you, red buds were starting to
butt out in Atlanta.
Speaker 1 (40:41):
Oh, Atlanta.
Speaker 3 (40:43):
And then I don't know if it was a pair
or what type of tree, but there was several of
them with white flowers on already. I got very excited.
It was South Atlanta. But nonetheless, it's coming our way.
Speaker 1 (40:58):
It's coming, it's coming our way. Yep.
Speaker 3 (41:01):
Exciting. So you just see that sun move across the horizon.
Speaker 1 (41:05):
I said that. I told my wife last night, I said,
you know how quickly the days are getting longer?
Speaker 3 (41:09):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (41:10):
Yeah, I mean it's noticeable.
Speaker 3 (41:12):
In thirty days we watched the sun. I don't know
how many miles or anything like that, but it was
like if we were sitting out we would look at
the sun and it would be about ten o'clock and
now it's about one o'clock. Pretty cool, that is so,
and it's headed north.
Speaker 1 (41:31):
Yeah, hey, yes it is. And along with that will
come the hummingbirds.
Speaker 3 (41:35):
Yeah, and butterflies.
Speaker 1 (41:37):
Butterflies.
Speaker 3 (41:39):
Whole story on monarch butterflies the other day.
Speaker 1 (41:42):
That's a whole series that's gonna that they're doing with
Tom Hanks.
Speaker 3 (41:45):
Yeah. Yeah, it was interesting. I knew some of it.
But actually a friend of mine they go out to
Dana Point in the wintertime for a couple of months
and there is a beach called Monarch Beach. There's a
Monarch Golf Club there, and we would walk the golf
course early in the morning just to exercise and stuff.
(42:09):
And probably ten or twelve years ago, there was all
kinds of monarch butterflies on that course and it's been
a few years since we've been out there and it
had the population had diminished greatly, So yeah, they're struggling
a little bit.
Speaker 1 (42:26):
Yeah, and the Western monarchs are doing it, starving worse
than the Eastern monarchs. But they but they both are
at a decline.
Speaker 3 (42:33):
So yeah, yeah, hawks to go in the extension.
Speaker 1 (42:36):
Yeah and as yeah, like I said, I think there's
a thirteen weeks or twelve weeks of that.
Speaker 3 (42:40):
I didn't know there was that much information on monarch.
Speaker 1 (42:43):
Well, it's not just no, they do something different every
every week.
Speaker 3 (42:46):
They pick your species.
Speaker 1 (42:47):
Yeah, there you go. The first one was that.
Speaker 3 (42:50):
No, they could they could have you out in the
garden pampering your worms and the necessity to pamper your.
Speaker 1 (42:57):
And talking to my worms and doing all that. You
gotta talk about home improvement today we are what are
you gonna talk? Look at that list, Ronnie boy.
Speaker 3 (43:03):
Wow, it's all spring projects. The heck with this winter stuff.
Speaker 1 (43:07):
Wow? Yeah baby, And if you can, if you get callers,
you ain't gonna talk about any of it.
Speaker 3 (43:12):
We get callers, we'll surely get you. Always do about
the decks they want to know about.
Speaker 1 (43:16):
That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (43:17):
The brick wall, and what's that missing mortar? And how
about that garage door seal? We'll cover it all today.
Speaker 1 (43:23):
You can throw your list away because everybody's going to
have that on their calls.
Speaker 3 (43:27):
I'm looking forward to it.
Speaker 1 (43:28):
Gary Sullivan is website, Garysullivan online dot com. Have a
great show. Thanks to all of our callers, Thanks story sponsors,
Thanks of course to Danny Gleeson, our producer, because without
Danny Gleeson, the Durango Kid, none of this stuff would happens.
So Danny, thank you so much for all that you do.
Now it's here, spring is sprung. Where you're gonna plant
those trees are two or three native plants, Navy selections.
Pamper your worms, get the kids and dogs of ball
(43:50):
with guarding. Make it the best weekend of your life.
Speaker 3 (43:52):
See you.
Speaker 2 (43:57):
Landscaping made easier with your personal yard boy. He's in
the garden and he's Ron Wilson.
In The Garden with Ron Wilson News
Popular Podcasts
40s and Free Agents: NFL Draft Season
Daniel Jeremiah of Move the Sticks and Gregg Rosenthal of NFL Daily join forces to break down every team's needs this offseason.
Dateline NBC
Current and classic episodes, featuring compelling true-crime mysteries, powerful documentaries and in-depth investigations. Follow now to get the latest episodes of Dateline NBC completely free, or subscribe to Dateline Premium for ad-free listening and exclusive bonus content: DatelinePremium.com
Las Culturistas with Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang
Ding dong! Join your culture consultants, Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang, on an unforgettable journey into the beating heart of CULTURE. Alongside sizzling special guests, they GET INTO the hottest pop-culture moments of the day and the formative cultural experiences that turned them into Culturistas. Produced by the Big Money Players Network and iHeartRadio.