April 12, 2025 • 44 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:37):
Our toll free number eight hundred a two three eight
two five five. Good morning. I am Ron Wilson, your
personal yard boy. We're talking about yardning. Uh boy, we're
into April big time now, weather all over the board typical.
By the way, no cup of Joe this morning. Joe
is off for a couple of weeks. Uh, so we'll
uh we'll be just your stuck with me for the
first fifteen minutes of the show and me and Danny,
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and Danny's always you know when I always tell Dan
whenever a Joe's not here for the cup of Joe.
Of course, Dan chimes in through the show anyway, but
he's always welcome to chime in as well and give
his opinion about politics or religion or No, he doesn't
usually do that, not on this show. No, not on
this show. That's right, because we're here to talk about
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gardening things that are fun and exciting and uh, you
know it's it's that's what we're here for. So anyway, Uh,
toll free number eight hundred eight two three eight two
five five website right off the bat Ron Wilson online
dot com. Don't forget our Facebook page. In the Garden
with Ron Wilson read his recipe this week just in
time for Easter hot Cross buns Hot Cross buns, and
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they are absolutely outstanding. I have had them myself. A
recipe he's easy for you to do as well, And
if you're looking to do your own rather than going
to the bakery and spending lots of money buying those
hot cross buns, make your own, use Rita's recipe when
you'll find out at Ron Wilson online dot com. Also,
we've got a couple of postings up there for you
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if you're a strawberry grower and you've gotten into some
strawberry diseases. We've got a couple brochures that you can
download thanks to the folks at the Ohio State University Extension,
so you can check that out as well. And of
course last week's I didn't put a plan of the
week this week up. There a lot of things in
flower right now I thought we kind of talk about
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as we go through the show today. But I still
want you to check out last week's trees because I
think they are noteworthy of planting in many yards in
different zones. Great spring color, great foliage. I love it,
and it's just nice I like the trees red buckeye
and ruby red horse chestnut, so check those out as well.
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You'll find out at Ron Wilson online dot com. Buggy
Joe bog started back last week, so we've got a
little repeat of Bugget Joe on there for you as
well to see if in case you want to find
out what he was talking about when he gets started.
And he is back, so he'll be with us today
as we as we get to the end of our show.
Save the best to the last, so I keep telling
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him anyway. Uh and yeah, so that should pretty well
cover all of that.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
How's the weather this week in your area? Been kind
of crazy up and down cold in the morning, warm
in the afternoon, cold in the afternoon, showers still moving through.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
Flooding has been phenomenal watching the news. I feel so
bad for the folks that have been involved with the
flooded areas in our area. We are our flagship station
here out of the southern Ohio right by the river,
and of course you see a lot of flooding there.
And finally the last yesterday, the Ohio River going down
out of the flood stage and now it's clean up
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time and I was watching the news last night, and
you know, the folks that live in those areas that
have gas stations and the businesses and all, uh, you know,
they don't want to see it happen, but it does.
And you know, for the most they've got a routine
and they know as soon as that water gets down,
they get in there and and the fire departments come
through and blow most of the really serious stuff out
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and then they have to get fine tuning it with
the power washers. And I'm surprised that Danny I was
watching the news, I didn't see Gary Sullivan up and
down the street with his power washer in his hand.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
I know, or directing people what to do.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
You know, oh yeah, pointing the finger. Well, I would
have been Steve folks too. But you know, once Gary
gets that power washer going, he can't stop.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
He doesn't stop. I mean, he could do the whole
one whole city around this area.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
Yeah, so I was surprised I didn't see him on
the news last night. But he'll probably be out there
today and this weekend helping folks out. But what a mess.
But again, you know, it's something you gotta the folks
deal with it, and you clean up and you move forward,
and I applaud them for doing that. I think the
other issue that the couple couple emails this week talking about,
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you know, my garden was flooded. You know, what do
I do? You know, if it's just flooded from standing
water and you yard, uh, typically not an issue. But
you know, if it's if it's flood waters that moving
through or it had God have had sewer water, whatever,
you gotta be a little cautious there. If you've got
things growing in the vegetable garden. Fortunately this early in
the season for us anyway, it would be green crops,
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cool crops, and basically when you have those leafy crops
like that, a lot of times not an issue. You
can wrench those off and move on. Uh. And it
wouldn't be bad that, you know, once the flood flood
waters get down and all, to have your soil tested
just to make sure nothing else was in that water
that may have come through your area. Uh, So you
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know it's not bad. It's as a matter of fact,
it was suggested that you do that just to just
to check it, just to make sure everything all the
levels are still good. So that's a that can be
a serious issue as well, so keep that in mind.
Of course, raised beds. If you have raised beds, what
of a weird benefit, right, But one of the benefits
is if you were in low lyne areas where you
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property may get some flooding waters have come up there occasionally.
The good thing about raised beds, of course, it keeps
everything up out of the flood waters. So you know,
keep that in mind as well. I'll tell you what
I was online this week looking at all the different
types of pre made manufactured raised beds that are available
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for everybody today. It's crazy. I used to go to
Gardener's supply catalog all the time and look at their
catalog and and you know, they used to have some
of the kids that were out there were pretty neat,
and of course you know building them yourself. And there's
all kinds of materials available. You know, we had a
gentleman on a couple of weeks ago talking about building
raised beds and all and all the materials that are available. Man,
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you go online today and all of their fiberglass line
there are that concrete like like dry wall type siding, wood,
the metal is. It's crazy and they're really cool. I
saw one yesterday that's actually in a circle, so it's
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kind of like keyhole guarding. But this thing is like
a huge circle, so you walk into the middle of
it and then walk around and service it four feet wide,
but I think this thing was about fourteen feet in
diameter or something like that. It was really neat, so
you could actually plant in the center of it if
you wanted to as well, and then the race bed
around the outside. But the ideas and what's available out there,
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and they're not cheap, but is just unbelievable. So you know,
raised beds isn't you know. You don't have to do
just the old planet, old four by eight wood and
raised beds anymore. They've got some pretty attractive materials and
looks and designs that would just do phenomenal. I look
phenomenal in your backyard. So when it's not like wintertime
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and you're not using it, maybe you don't have the
hoops on the top, and maybe not to try to
do any cool crops over the winter. It just looks okay,
it looks good when you look out there to look
at some of these designs and some of the materials
that are being used. So yeah, google that sometimes raised
beds are pre made or manufactured raised beds, and see
all the great things that are out there. It is
crazy now talking about crazy. This is that time of
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the year that our weather starts to go up and down,
up and down, up and down, very frustrating. Rains move
then then it dries out. Rains move in, then it
dries out. And you know, it's always my thing has
always been in the springtime, is to just pull back
on the rains. You've got to watch the weather, There's
no doubt about it. As a matter of fact, we've
been having freeze and frost warnings several of the mornings here.
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Even this morning there is a freeze warning here, and
of course freeze warnings was when it goes below thirty
two degrees sometimes into the twenties. Got to kind of
watch it. That doesn't last very long, which is good,
all right, and then it comes right back up again.
But you've got to stay, you know, on top of
that and watching the soil temperatures at the same time,
soil temperatures in our area. Have you been checking the
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ones in yours? We're running about I think this last
week running about fifty three degrees or so. So you know,
it had dropped a little bit because of the cooler weather,
but it'll come right back up. And now you start
looking at the nighttime temps as they start to warm up,
you'll see the soil temps start to warm up as well.
And you know if you watch that, and I have
said and reminded folks, it's not the air temperatures so
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much that's the issue, especially when you're planting vegetables, trying
to get the vegetable garden going things like that. It's
actually more of the soil temperatures early and then when
they come together, then you can watch the air temperatures
to make sure they don't get frosted. But it's getting
those warmer soil temperatures at the right level for planting,
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even the cool season crops. You know, I've used that
forty five degrees as a kind of a marker, a threshold.
No lower than that, although some of them can grow
in cooler temperatures, but you know, forty five degrees and
up for those those cool crops like the cooler temperatures,
and you want to get them in as soon as
you can so they can enjoy the cooler temperatures before
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we warm up, but there is a point where they
don't do so well either. And of course the more
tender annual vegetables and annuals tomatoes, peppers, petunias and all
of that obviously like much warmer soil temperatures, so you know,
we are really holding back before we get those put
in the ground. But if you have containers, that's an
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easy way to get an early start on some of
those tomatoes or peppers if you want, because you can
move them in and out. Sunlight heats them up quickly,
warms up that soil. Raised beds that have a hoop
over the top with a little bit of plastic, that's
another way to kind of beat the weather and they
warm up quickly and you're able to get a jump start.
But again that's why soil temperatures early on very very
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important to watch that. Like I say, we can cover
things up for the frost and light freezes, we can
do that, but you know you've got to watch that
soil temper and then you get too wet and too cold,
and that's not good combination between the two. So that's
why we've continued to stress watching your soil temperatures. Obviously,
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watched the air temperatures as well, and like it for
us this morning. Yeah, we've got a freeze warning. It
expires at nine o'clock this morning. But that's thirty two
degrees and you've got to make sure you get if
you're planting anything out there that is okay to take
that thirty two degrees. A matter of fact, we'll take
a break, we come back, I'll talk to you about
some of those plants that are able to take those
colder tempts. What should you cover? What should you not cover?
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In my landscape, I don't cover very much. I let
mother nature do her think, all right. Our number eight
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talking about yarding and before we go any further sad
week this week for mister Wilson you know what I'm
gonna say, right, Danny, I think so, Dennis the Menace
passed away. Oh yeah, Jane North seventy three years old.
I thought he was a lot older than that. Me too, Yeah,
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but he was only seventy three, unfortunately battling cancer. Oh,
mister Wilson, yep, yep, my next door neighbor. But I
from what I you know, he did he had one
of those uh after the after he got out of
the Dennis the Menace, I guess he could just kind
of just that role, couldn't get away from it. He
did all kinds of different things, finally started doing voiceovers.
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I did a lot of those in cartoons and things
like that. But they, from what I understand later in
his life, he was one of the nicest guys ever.
They said, if you ever talked to him, I got
around him or whatever. He was absolutely just a gym
and he said, just a really had a hard as
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so you know mean, I'm mean o, mister Wilson. So,
by the way, you watched Dennis and Minis right, which
which yeah, which, mister Wilson, did you like the Joseph
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I like the original Joseph Kernsey. He was more of
a mister Wilson than me. But nevertheless, uh you know,
sad day, Uh, sad week. This week Jaye north star
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I thought I cut it twenty was older. But there
you go, talking to you yardening at eight hundred eight
two three eight two five five. And of course the
right now it's the watch the weather. Uh you know
landscape plants. Yeah, we watched the weather because if it
gets really cold and things are out, uh, if they're
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in flower, I don't I just don't cover them up.
I let mother nature do the thing. The only thing
I ever look at is if we get down where
it's going to get below thirty two degrees, chance of
a freeze, not just a frost, but a freeze. You know.
I will look to cover Japanese maples because they just
that new growth that comes out just doesn't seem to
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recover very well if it gets frozen. It's it's tough
for those. And I will cover sometimes hostas suggest covering them,
and of course you can cover whatever you want, but
when you do cover plants, if you're doing protection, remember
the weight of what you put on top of them
can cause more damage than if you just left them
alone and don't cover them at all, and you know,
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and let mother nature, you know, do her thing, So
be cautious about you what you're using. Never use plastic.
Don't ever use plastic plastic. Plastic just conducts the cool
right through the plastic and it'll burn a plant underneath.
So don't use plastic. If you're serious about doing a
lot of covering and you do it every year. Look
at that. There are frost blankets, which is a woven
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material that's extreme sxremely light weight that you can lay
over the top of these plants. Kind of pin it
down on the edges to hold it down, and not
only will it protect them from frost, but will also
help to hold a little heat in there for freeze.
And remember, when you're doing protection, you're doing you've got
it which is it. Is it frost protection or is
it freeze protection? Frost protection, we're just covering it over
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to hold a little bit of heat around it, but
to keep the frost off of the top of these plants.
If it's a freeze where we're getting down below thirty
two degrees, and remember frost could happen at thirty six
degrees I think thirty six in the thirty two or
so thirty three, so you've got you know, it can
happen up there. But if you get it more into
a freeze, now we're actually trying to hold heat around
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the plant, and that's where you know, when you cover
it over, you would actually then make sure that it's
touching the ground holding the heat that's coming up out
of the ground. It's always good to make sure there's
moisture in the ground, the moisture around the plant. One
a plant that has good moisture in it is a
little bit sturdier and a little bit hardier when it
comes to that freezing, all right, and they and the
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moisture and the soil actually will release some heat up
around the plant as well, so you kind of capture that.
Cardboard boxes are great for that. Larger containers that you
can turn upside down over top of plants great for that.
And then when do you uncover, well, then the next
day you got to wait until the temperatures get up
into the upper thirties lower forties before you really want
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to uncover. So you know, again, freeze or frost depending
on that depends to say which one you have as
far as what type of plant protection you do and do.
We remember as we get into the spring season and
maybe you've got all those petunias and impatients and the
tomatoes and all planted, and you didn't realize it and
didn't watch the weather, but we got a light frost
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that morning all of a sudden, you know, you get
up and you realize there was a light frost. If
that happened, don't forget if you take the garden hose,
go out real quick before the sun comes up and
hits the plants and miss them off. Howes them off
hose that frost off the top that actually warms up
the plant, the surface of the of the plant and
will minimize and sometimes totally eliminate any frost damages. So
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you'll see sometimes a lot of nurseries will have garden
centers have their sprinklers that will turn on in the
morning when there's a light frost that will just kind
of get the frost off. And like I say, minimize
any of the damages. So that is something you could
do as a little bit of protection if absolutely needed.
Quick break. We come back talking more about you yarding,
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Speaker 1 (23:07):
Welcome back. You're in the garden with Ron Wilson again.
That toll free number would be eight hundred eight two
three eight two five five. Don't forget our website at
Ron Wilson Online dot com Facebook page. In the Garden
with Ron Wilson talking about the weather and the ups
and the downs, and of course planting, and of course
at this stage in the game, you're free to go
as far as the tree, shrubs, evergreens, perennials, roses, ornamental grasses,
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things like that have at it. You know, you're get
those planet as soon as you can. If you're buying plants,
let's say you're buying sometimes roses, sometimes perennials this time
of the year that may be coming out of covered
greenhouses where maybe the foliage is a little bit more
tender than it would normally be had it been growing
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outside the whole time, you know, exposed to Mother Nature's
ups and downs. If that foliage is a little tender,
it'll take it a few days when you plant it
in the ground to harden off, so to speak, to
become a little bit more hearty to the cooler temperatures.
Those you might want to consider moving in and out
maybe for a couple of days to acclimate them to
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be outside because the foliage is so tender, or anticipate
covering them over. If you're having a drop and it's
going to freeze, possibly do that, so kind of watch those,
but otherwise you are good to go. Tree shrubs, evergreens
a whole nine yards have at it. Cool season crops again,
remember soil temperatures at forty five degrees, and they'll take.
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The thing about these cool crops is the fact that
they'll take Some of these will take you know, mid
twenties overnight with no problem. They won't take it for
an extended period of time. They'll frost out but mush out,
but they'll take cooler temperatures overnight with with no problem.
As a matter of fact, if you planted ornamental cabbage
and kale in our area last fall and it was
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protected at all. I mean, it's just you know a
little bit of protection there from being wide open to
the weather and got a little snow cover on top
of it. Chances are they're still alive right now. That
shows you what kind of temperatures they can take. And
that's for an extended period of time. We have one
left out of our eight or nine that we had
planted in some raised beds and it's now regrowing, coming
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out and it's gonna flower. And those were originally called
ornamental flowering cabbage and kale. And the reason they were
called ornamental flowering cabbage and kales you plant them in
the fall. If they did come through the winter, which
a lot of pansies can do that too, they would
you put out new growth in the springtime and actually flower,
and the flowers are fairly attractive and come to find out,
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flowers from most all of those plants, cabbage and broccoli
and all of those. The pollinators absolutely love them. But
it's kind of unique to see them flower and have
that bright color. As a matter of fact, I took
some pictures of the purple, the maroon, lavender, pinky purple
ornamental cabbage and as the snow was melting off and
these things were sticking up through the snow. It was
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absolutely gorgeous. But we do have one. It still looks
really good. The other ones are looking kind of funky,
so I just tore them out, but I left the
one in there and it's big. But it is now
regrowing and reflowering. So that shows you what some of
these cool season crops can really tolerate. And when we're
talking cool season crops are talking, boy, it's a wide range.
And of course they'll all vary depending on how cold.
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But carrots and beets and radishes and turnips, parsnips, garlic, leeks, onions, yeah, potatoes,
early lettuce, spinach, swiss charred, all the greens pretty much, broccoli, cabbage,
col robbie, kale, collars, Brussels sprouts, peas, obviously asparagus. It
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could be planning it right now as well. And they'll
all tolerate those cooler temperatures. And we talked about warm season.
Now we're talking about the annuals such as tomatoes and
peppers and melons and beans and things like that, which
we need to wait until the temperatures start to get
up into the sixties and seventies before we really want
to start planting. No, so think about it. If you
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are out your local independent gardens into this weekend and
you know, you pick up a few tomatoes, because I
guarantee they're going to have them out. They're ready for
you to go, uh, because everybody wants to buy them early.
If you buy a chance put them in the ground
next week and the temperature, soil temperatures drop down low
down into the mid forties or into the forties and fifties,
which they are right now, and the air temperatures as well.
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If they make it through all of that, they're going
to be stunted and not do too well. So hold
off on putting those in the ground. Raised beds that
are covered and containers will work. So you know, again
those are the things you want to keep your keep
in mind as you're going through the spring season planting
and all these edibles which are which And the last
thing would be that frost the uh what is our
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frost free date? Do you know when your frost free
date is for your particular area? Do you know? Ron
I do, And most people will say in our area,
we'll say May fifteenth, Our Mother's Day weekend is usually
the frost free date. Frost free dates are based on
averages of when the last frost happened. And believe it
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or not, most of the frost free dates that used
to be posted out there were based on a fifty
percent average, so your chances of having a frost after
that date were fifty percent or less, and it got
less all the time. And for our area, it used
to be May fifteenth, and so over the years, obviously
we've gotten a little warmer, we've seen fewer frosts later
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in the season, and so that frost free date continues
to get closer and closer to the first of May.
I sometimes don't like to tell people that because they
kind of push it a little bit to get out
there and maybe plant too early. But believe it or not,
in our area, and you can go online. It's fun.
Go online and google frost free date and put your city,
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your town or whatever in their or state. Don't do
the state, do the city of your town, and they'll
tell you what your frost free date would be. And
of course, remember it's based on averages. But for us
where we are here, our frost free date is actually
backed up to the last week of April, and that's
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based on thirty percent chances of frost after that point,
So until April the thirtieth. You know, at April the thirtieth,
your chances are thirty percent or less that you will
have a frost after the thirtieth of April. I don't
like to tell people that, So don't tell anybody I
told you that, all right, because then we start planning
too early. But again, watch the soil temps, watch the
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air temps. If you do plan early, you know, watch
for the frost and freezers and things like that. But yeah,
check out when your frost free average last frost date
would be. And again that's based on percentages, and check
it out. But I think you will be amazed that
they have all moved and there are probably two weeks
from from early than what you can remember from in
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the past. Before we take a break, let's go to Dayton.
Talk to Dick Pick from Dayton.
Speaker 5 (30:06):
Good morning, Good morning, How are you?
Speaker 1 (30:09):
I am good in yourself?
Speaker 5 (30:11):
Well, you know what Monday is? What my birthday?
Speaker 1 (30:15):
Oh? I forgot it's the fourteenth, isn't it.
Speaker 6 (30:19):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (30:20):
You and Pete Rose and.
Speaker 5 (30:22):
Pete Rose me and Pete Rose. Yeah, yeah, it's it's yeah,
it's uh, it's kind of a yeah, it's kind of nice.
But uh, I've got my cousin Carla is always first
from from Homestead Falls. Yeah, and then my cousin Tony
always sends me stuff. He sent me a little CD
(30:42):
of he played he was from Malaria and he was
part of the family. But uh, yeah, and then I
got to go to McDonald's and the group down there
had a little cake for me this week, I guess.
But uh, everybody's calling me about Monday night. See, I'm
supposed to go to band, but see day from Dayton,
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it's supposed to take me down to Cincinnati Monday. How
about that?
Speaker 1 (31:07):
Are you so you're coming to Cincinnati on Monday for
your birthday?
Speaker 5 (31:10):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (31:11):
Why it's it's usually it's usually Saturday. It's early too,
and I'm up early though, I'm up early, but he's
going to be here about ten thirty, so I better
stay around the house.
Speaker 1 (31:23):
I guess. Yeah, I guess, so, well, I you know
what I should remember that. I don't know why I forgot,
but you're right, because I know you said. Just remember
Pete Rose's number and think of April, and that's when
this Dick from Dayton's birthday.
Speaker 6 (31:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (31:36):
And you know something too, what a couple of my
old managers called me. They remembered from what I worked
with you twenty five years that was so neat. And
they told me, Dick, the place there's nobody left. It's
just like a ghost down there.
Speaker 1 (31:53):
Wow.
Speaker 5 (31:54):
They well. And I missed the people so much because
I learned so much about you know, home and proof
movement and gardening, and I love to work, you know,
when they were seven Flowers and Kathy was there, I
learned a lot there. I have a lot of friends there,
you know.
Speaker 1 (32:10):
Sure. Well, you know, when you enjoy working in a
place and you've been there for a long time, you
make a lot of friends and you learn a lot
at the same time. Yeah, and that's that's what made
it so uh so special to you and everybody else.
Speaker 6 (32:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (32:21):
Yeah, we'll listen.
Speaker 1 (32:22):
Have a good day, well, Dick, have a happy, happy birthday.
Thank you, all right, take care of good talking with
your happy birthday. Dick from Dayton quick Break we come back.
Phone lines are open for you at eight hundred and
eight two three, eight, two five five coming at the
top of the hour. Uh doctor triple a Alan Apple Armonies.
Will be with us always, uh kind of fund when
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now we're getting into the spring season. See what's going
on in his his garden. What he's up to us.
I know we just got back in California, one of
you plant trials there. We'll find out what he saw
there at the bottom of the hour. Got a great book.
If you're in the house plants and who isn't anymore,
I got a guide for you if you're interested in
houseplant propagate, want to expand want to give some of
those away you want to create. You know, if you're
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a houseplant parent, that means you would be a houseplant
grandparent if you started propagating all your houseplants. Lindsey Sisty
her air. The book is called The Ultimate Guide a
Houseplant Propagation's absolutely outstanding. Will be with us at the
bottom of the hour. In the meantime, it's you and
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Talking yard ning at eight hundred eight two three eight
two five five. Good morning. I am Ron Wilson, your
personal yard boy. Excited that we are finally, you know,
starting to see a break in this weather. Uh, you know,
it's still staying cool, ups and downs and all that
this week, but slowly but surely we're gonna get into it.
And I think if you get out right now to
your local, locally owned independent garden centers, you're going to
(36:05):
find some great selections. I know a lot of them
are at this stage fully stocked, and for two reasons.
One is folks seem to want to get out earlier
every year and start buying in planting, which is absolutely outstanding. Secondly,
because if the weather the way it's been right now,
with the rain and all and a little bit cooler,
if they haven't been out planting, there's you know, they've
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got a pretty good inventory on hand right now. So
get out this Weeken's supposed to be nice in our
area today and tomorrow, So get out to your locally
owned independent garden center. Check it out. I think you're
going to find some great selections out there this year,
and you know, while you're there, you know, you can
find out what their tomato get. You know, they typically
have like tomato lists and pepper lists and herb lists
and things like that, so you know what they're going
to have, and then you can start to get your
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plans together as far as when it comes to planting
as the temperatures warm and we get to that point
as well. By the way, one last thing I was
talking about the frost free dates and all that and
watching your temperatures and soil temperatures and all the other
thing I always I just bring up every now and
then is you know, obviously if you're listening to our
(37:08):
show here, we're locally, we're a zone six. Our plants
are for a zone six. Our gardening zone is zone six.
And sometimes folks, you know that you use it as
a general term and it's like you said, you know
what that means, that's gardening zone six. Well, it means
that the plants like to grow in this area. Yeah,
that's what's what it means. It means that they're hardy
(37:30):
for this area during the winter time. So when you
look to buy plants like trees, and shrubs, evergreens, things
like that they don't have on the tag. You know
what hearty zone they're hardy to. One is our zones
that are way up north, very cold and in ten
eleven are all down south on the down from Florida
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and work their way up and so like in our
area for like the state of Ohio, for instance, we're
mostly zone six. And that's based on average coldest temperatures
in the winter, all right, so that we you know,
if our average coldest temperatures for our zone is zero
through minus ten, that means if the plants that are
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that are labeled hearty zone six are planted in zone
six and they're healthy and in the right location and
have been properly cared for, you know, and doing really
good going into the winter, when you get temperatures down
to that zero to ten degrees minus ten, they should
be good to go because they're hardy for that particular area.
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So that's what that is all about. Has nothing to
do with your frost free dates, has nothing to do
with the heat in the summertime. As a matter of fact,
they do have a heat zone out there as well.
We don't see that very often, but it is available,
but that's what it's forced for your winter heartiness and
of course annuals, tropical plants things like that would not
you know, they would be if they had a hardiness
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they's zone on there. It'd be like tens and elevens,
which would be obviously along the coast and down south.
So that's what that's all about. So know what zone
you're in. As a matter of fact, if you look
at the state of Ohio and you pull that up
and you can go to the it's the USDA map
Hardiness zone map, and look at your individual states, you'll
actually see like for the state of Ohio, we have
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zone six A and B they break it up into
two categories, and then we also have a little bit
of five B still in a couple of spots, and
we have some seven A which is showing its starting
to warm up along the Ohio River, and there's a
little patch up in Cleveland right by the lake. It
gets a lake effect that's actually a little bit warmer
during the winter time, which is kind of crazy. But again,
(39:39):
look at those, look at your zone maps for your state,
look at where you live, see what that zone is,
so that when you're buying hardy plants. You're matching that
zone number up to the right zone for which they
are hardy four, which is and if if you buy
something that's you know that's on the hardiness borderline, it's
maybe a six dash seven. Realize that once you get
(40:00):
into that zero temperature close to it, you know, you
could start to experience some some die back over the wintertime,
not that it would have die out totally, but some
die back in the wintertime. And again that all is
dependent on how healthy the tree is, tree or shrub
or whatever it may be, where it's planted, et cetera.
C going into the winter conditions, that's a major factor,
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even if it's hardy for your particular area. Also, get
a lot of questions this week, so they put my
hummingbird feeder up this in our area. Well, looking at
the hummingbird map, and if you want to check that
out yourself, it's hummingbirdcentral dot com. Hummingbirdcentral dot com. They'll
have a hummingbird map there. And basically the way this
works is that when folks see hummingbirds in their area,
(40:43):
they post it and so they you can tell as
they move up through the states where they are and
looking at the posting this week updated four ten, twenty
twenty five, it looks like for Ohio they have just
started to cross the Ohio River kind of come up
the east side of Ohio. They've come up a little
(41:04):
bit in the southwest corner as well and into Indiana.
So they have now are now entering the state of
Ohio working their way north. If you listen to us
in Indiana, they are now into Indiana, Kentucky, Tennessee. Everything
south pretty much covered at this stage. So, yes, have
your hummingbird feeders up, have them ready to go. There
are scouts that move through ahead of the pack, so
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they'll be coming through anytime, and then of course the
rest of them will all be showing up. But again, yes,
they are in the state of Ohio moving their way through,
and you can check that out at hummingbirdcentral dot com
and keep up with where they are. But yeah, at
this stage in the game, might say you are ready
to go, get the hummingbird feeders out and get them
taken care of. One last thame before we take a
break and we'll come back. We're gonna have doctor Allen
(41:49):
Armida's with us. Hydrange just get very confusing in the
springtime when to prune them. Don't forget that. I have
a tip sheet that will tell you when the particular
types of hydrangeas need to be prune. And this winter
I put together a tip sheet for successful tree hydrangeas.
You know, the tree form of hydrangeas was basically is
(42:12):
the hydrangia on a tree trunk, whether it's grafted or
trimmed up into a patio tree form trunk hydrangea on
the top. And they're becoming more and more popular all
the time. Again, can be very confusing when to prune
those things. And most of them are all prune in
the springtime, I'll tell you that right now, because most
of the ones that are in the tree form are
(42:34):
bloomers on new growth. But how to prune those, how
to keep those heads right? And I think the other
thing to be successful is how do you keep that
thing staked when it's in flower? Because I get so
many calls where it starts to go into flower the
trunk diameter is so small, it falls over, it comes
out of the ground or whatever. Well, I've got a
tip sheet that kind of walks you through what you
(42:55):
need to do for a successful tree hydrangea and how
to keep its stand. As a matter of fact, I
also found a great video on pruning hydrangeas the tree
hydrant just what you will help you out as well, but
how to prune them, how to cut them back, very
very important as far as keeping that head shape, allowing
the trunk to increase in diameter over the years. You
(43:17):
really need to keep these things staked for quite some time.
It may be three or four or five years before
you can finally take that steak or staking system off
of a tree hydraanja. But it's going to be very
very important. But if you'd like that tip sheet, email
me Ron Wilson at Diheartmedia dot com and I will
send you the tips for a successful tree hydraja or
(43:37):
how to prune hydrangeas. I'll get that out to you
next week. All right, quick break, we come back. Doctor
Allen Armidage will be with us at the bottom of
the hour. The book is called The Ultimate Guide the
Houseplant Propagation by Lindsey Sisty. It's a really cool book. Well,
both of those for you. The next hour here in
the Garden with Ron Wilson.
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Call Ron now at one eight hundred eighty two three
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Our toll free number eight hundred a two three eight
two five five. Good morning. I am Ron Wilson, your
personal yard boy. We're talking about yardning. Uh boy, we're
into April big time now, weather all over the board typical.
By the way, no cup of Joe this morning. Joe
is off for a couple of weeks. Uh, so we'll
uh we'll be just your stuck with me for the
first fifteen minutes of the show and me and Danny,
(00:59):
and Danny's always you know when I always tell Dan
whenever a Joe's not here for the cup of Joe.
Of course, Dan chimes in through the show anyway, but
he's always welcome to chime in as well and give
his opinion about politics or religion or No, he doesn't
usually do that, not on this show. No, not on
this show. That's right, because we're here to talk about
(01:20):
gardening things that are fun and exciting and uh, you
know it's it's that's what we're here for. So anyway, Uh,
toll free number eight hundred eight two three eight two
five five website right off the bat Ron Wilson online
dot com. Don't forget our Facebook page. In the Garden
with Ron Wilson read his recipe this week just in
time for Easter hot Cross buns Hot Cross buns, and
(01:43):
they are absolutely outstanding. I have had them myself. A
recipe he's easy for you to do as well, And
if you're looking to do your own rather than going
to the bakery and spending lots of money buying those
hot cross buns, make your own, use Rita's recipe when
you'll find out at Ron Wilson online dot com. Also,
we've got a couple of postings up there for you
(02:03):
if you're a strawberry grower and you've gotten into some
strawberry diseases. We've got a couple brochures that you can
download thanks to the folks at the Ohio State University Extension,
so you can check that out as well. And of
course last week's I didn't put a plan of the
week this week up. There a lot of things in
flower right now I thought we kind of talk about
(02:23):
as we go through the show today. But I still
want you to check out last week's trees because I
think they are noteworthy of planting in many yards in
different zones. Great spring color, great foliage. I love it,
and it's just nice I like the trees red buckeye
and ruby red horse chestnut, so check those out as well.
(02:45):
You'll find out at Ron Wilson online dot com. Buggy
Joe bog started back last week, so we've got a
little repeat of Bugget Joe on there for you as
well to see if in case you want to find
out what he was talking about when he gets started.
And he is back, so he'll be with us today
as we as we get to the end of our show.
Save the best to the last, so I keep telling
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him anyway. Uh and yeah, so that should pretty well
cover all of that.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
How's the weather this week in your area? Been kind
of crazy up and down cold in the morning, warm
in the afternoon, cold in the afternoon, showers still moving through.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
Flooding has been phenomenal watching the news. I feel so
bad for the folks that have been involved with the
flooded areas in our area. We are our flagship station
here out of the southern Ohio right by the river,
and of course you see a lot of flooding there.
And finally the last yesterday, the Ohio River going down
out of the flood stage and now it's clean up
(03:47):
time and I was watching the news last night, and
you know, the folks that live in those areas that
have gas stations and the businesses and all, uh, you know,
they don't want to see it happen, but it does.
And you know, for the most they've got a routine
and they know as soon as that water gets down,
they get in there and and the fire departments come
through and blow most of the really serious stuff out
(04:09):
and then they have to get fine tuning it with
the power washers. And I'm surprised that Danny I was
watching the news, I didn't see Gary Sullivan up and
down the street with his power washer in his hand.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
I know, or directing people what to do.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
You know, oh yeah, pointing the finger. Well, I would
have been Steve folks too. But you know, once Gary
gets that power washer going, he can't stop.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
He doesn't stop. I mean, he could do the whole
one whole city around this area.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
Yeah, so I was surprised I didn't see him on
the news last night. But he'll probably be out there
today and this weekend helping folks out. But what a mess.
But again, you know, it's something you gotta the folks
deal with it, and you clean up and you move forward,
and I applaud them for doing that. I think the
other issue that the couple couple emails this week talking about,
(04:54):
you know, my garden was flooded. You know, what do
I do? You know, if it's just flooded from standing
water and you yard, uh, typically not an issue. But
you know, if it's if it's flood waters that moving
through or it had God have had sewer water, whatever,
you gotta be a little cautious there. If you've got
things growing in the vegetable garden. Fortunately this early in
the season for us anyway, it would be green crops,
(05:17):
cool crops, and basically when you have those leafy crops
like that, a lot of times not an issue. You
can wrench those off and move on. Uh. And it
wouldn't be bad that, you know, once the flood flood
waters get down and all, to have your soil tested
just to make sure nothing else was in that water
that may have come through your area. Uh, So you
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know it's not bad. It's as a matter of fact,
it was suggested that you do that just to just
to check it, just to make sure everything all the
levels are still good. So that's a that can be
a serious issue as well, so keep that in mind.
Of course, raised beds. If you have raised beds, what
of a weird benefit, right, But one of the benefits
is if you were in low lyne areas where you
(06:02):
property may get some flooding waters have come up there occasionally.
The good thing about raised beds, of course, it keeps
everything up out of the flood waters. So you know,
keep that in mind as well. I'll tell you what
I was online this week looking at all the different
types of pre made manufactured raised beds that are available
(06:24):
for everybody today. It's crazy. I used to go to
Gardener's supply catalog all the time and look at their
catalog and and you know, they used to have some
of the kids that were out there were pretty neat,
and of course you know building them yourself. And there's
all kinds of materials available. You know, we had a
gentleman on a couple of weeks ago talking about building
raised beds and all and all the materials that are available. Man,
(06:45):
you go online today and all of their fiberglass line
there are that concrete like like dry wall type siding, wood,
the metal is. It's crazy and they're really cool. I
saw one yesterday that's actually in a circle, so it's
(07:06):
kind of like keyhole guarding. But this thing is like
a huge circle, so you walk into the middle of
it and then walk around and service it four feet wide,
but I think this thing was about fourteen feet in
diameter or something like that. It was really neat, so
you could actually plant in the center of it if
you wanted to as well, and then the race bed
around the outside. But the ideas and what's available out there,
(07:28):
and they're not cheap, but is just unbelievable. So you know,
raised beds isn't you know. You don't have to do
just the old planet, old four by eight wood and
raised beds anymore. They've got some pretty attractive materials and
looks and designs that would just do phenomenal. I look
phenomenal in your backyard. So when it's not like wintertime
(07:51):
and you're not using it, maybe you don't have the
hoops on the top, and maybe not to try to
do any cool crops over the winter. It just looks okay,
it looks good when you look out there to look
at some of these designs and some of the materials
that are being used. So yeah, google that sometimes raised
beds are pre made or manufactured raised beds, and see
all the great things that are out there. It is
crazy now talking about crazy. This is that time of
(08:14):
the year that our weather starts to go up and down,
up and down, up and down, very frustrating. Rains move
then then it dries out. Rains move in, then it
dries out. And you know, it's always my thing has
always been in the springtime, is to just pull back
on the rains. You've got to watch the weather, There's
no doubt about it. As a matter of fact, we've
been having freeze and frost warnings several of the mornings here.
(08:38):
Even this morning there is a freeze warning here, and
of course freeze warnings was when it goes below thirty
two degrees sometimes into the twenties. Got to kind of
watch it. That doesn't last very long, which is good,
all right, and then it comes right back up again.
But you've got to stay, you know, on top of
that and watching the soil temperatures at the same time,
soil temperatures in our area. Have you been checking the
(08:59):
ones in yours? We're running about I think this last
week running about fifty three degrees or so. So you know,
it had dropped a little bit because of the cooler weather,
but it'll come right back up. And now you start
looking at the nighttime temps as they start to warm up,
you'll see the soil temps start to warm up as well.
And you know if you watch that, and I have
said and reminded folks, it's not the air temperatures so
(09:22):
much that's the issue, especially when you're planting vegetables, trying
to get the vegetable garden going things like that. It's
actually more of the soil temperatures early and then when
they come together, then you can watch the air temperatures
to make sure they don't get frosted. But it's getting
those warmer soil temperatures at the right level for planting,
(09:44):
even the cool season crops. You know, I've used that
forty five degrees as a kind of a marker, a threshold.
No lower than that, although some of them can grow
in cooler temperatures, but you know, forty five degrees and
up for those those cool crops like the cooler temperatures,
and you want to get them in as soon as
you can so they can enjoy the cooler temperatures before
(10:06):
we warm up, but there is a point where they
don't do so well either. And of course the more
tender annual vegetables and annuals tomatoes, peppers, petunias and all
of that obviously like much warmer soil temperatures, so you know,
we are really holding back before we get those put
in the ground. But if you have containers, that's an
(10:28):
easy way to get an early start on some of
those tomatoes or peppers if you want, because you can
move them in and out. Sunlight heats them up quickly,
warms up that soil. Raised beds that have a hoop
over the top with a little bit of plastic, that's
another way to kind of beat the weather and they
warm up quickly and you're able to get a jump start.
But again that's why soil temperatures early on very very
(10:49):
important to watch that. Like I say, we can cover
things up for the frost and light freezes, we can
do that, but you know you've got to watch that
soil temper and then you get too wet and too cold,
and that's not good combination between the two. So that's
why we've continued to stress watching your soil temperatures. Obviously,
(11:10):
watched the air temperatures as well, and like it for
us this morning. Yeah, we've got a freeze warning. It
expires at nine o'clock this morning. But that's thirty two
degrees and you've got to make sure you get if
you're planting anything out there that is okay to take
that thirty two degrees. A matter of fact, we'll take
a break, we come back, I'll talk to you about
some of those plants that are able to take those
colder tempts. What should you cover? What should you not cover?
(11:32):
In my landscape, I don't cover very much. I let
mother nature do her think, all right. Our number eight
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in the garden with Ron Wilson again that total free
number eight hundred eight two three eight two five five
talking about yarding and before we go any further sad
week this week for mister Wilson you know what I'm
gonna say, right, Danny, I think so, Dennis the Menace
passed away. Oh yeah, Jane North seventy three years old.
I thought he was a lot older than that. Me too, Yeah,
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but he was only seventy three, unfortunately battling cancer. Oh,
mister Wilson, yep, yep, my next door neighbor. But I
from what I you know, he did he had one
of those uh after the after he got out of
the Dennis the Menace, I guess he could just kind
of just that role, couldn't get away from it. He
did all kinds of different things, finally started doing voiceovers.
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I did a lot of those in cartoons and things
like that. But they, from what I understand later in
his life, he was one of the nicest guys ever.
They said, if you ever talked to him, I got
around him or whatever. He was absolutely just a gym
and he said, just a really had a hard as
big as a mountain. Some of his friends said so like, yeah, right,
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so you know mean, I'm mean o, mister Wilson. So,
by the way, you watched Dennis and Minis right, which
which yeah, which, mister Wilson, did you like the Joseph
Kerns or Gail Gordon. Uh, Gail Gordon liked him better. Oh,
I like the original Joseph Kernsey. He was more of
a mister Wilson than me. But nevertheless, uh you know,
sad day, Uh, sad week. This week Jaye north star
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of Dennis, the minis has passed away. And again seventy three.
I thought I cut it twenty was older. But there
you go, talking to you yardening at eight hundred eight
two three eight two five five. And of course the
right now it's the watch the weather. Uh you know
landscape plants. Yeah, we watched the weather because if it
gets really cold and things are out, uh, if they're
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in flower, I don't I just don't cover them up.
I let mother nature do the thing. The only thing
I ever look at is if we get down where
it's going to get below thirty two degrees, chance of
a freeze, not just a frost, but a freeze. You know.
I will look to cover Japanese maples because they just
that new growth that comes out just doesn't seem to
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recover very well if it gets frozen. It's it's tough
for those. And I will cover sometimes hostas suggest covering them,
and of course you can cover whatever you want, but
when you do cover plants, if you're doing protection, remember
the weight of what you put on top of them
can cause more damage than if you just left them
alone and don't cover them at all, and you know,
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and let mother nature, you know, do her thing, So
be cautious about you what you're using. Never use plastic.
Don't ever use plastic plastic. Plastic just conducts the cool
right through the plastic and it'll burn a plant underneath.
So don't use plastic. If you're serious about doing a
lot of covering and you do it every year. Look
at that. There are frost blankets, which is a woven
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material that's extreme sxremely light weight that you can lay
over the top of these plants. Kind of pin it
down on the edges to hold it down, and not
only will it protect them from frost, but will also
help to hold a little heat in there for freeze.
And remember, when you're doing protection, you're doing you've got
it which is it. Is it frost protection or is
it freeze protection? Frost protection, we're just covering it over
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to hold a little bit of heat around it, but
to keep the frost off of the top of these plants.
If it's a freeze where we're getting down below thirty
two degrees, and remember frost could happen at thirty six
degrees I think thirty six in the thirty two or
so thirty three, so you've got you know, it can
happen up there. But if you get it more into
a freeze, now we're actually trying to hold heat around
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the plant, and that's where you know, when you cover
it over, you would actually then make sure that it's
touching the ground holding the heat that's coming up out
of the ground. It's always good to make sure there's
moisture in the ground, the moisture around the plant. One
a plant that has good moisture in it is a
little bit sturdier and a little bit hardier when it
comes to that freezing, all right, and they and the
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moisture and the soil actually will release some heat up
around the plant as well, so you kind of capture that.
Cardboard boxes are great for that. Larger containers that you
can turn upside down over top of plants great for that.
And then when do you uncover, well, then the next
day you got to wait until the temperatures get up
into the upper thirties lower forties before you really want
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to uncover. So you know, again, freeze or frost depending
on that depends to say which one you have as
far as what type of plant protection you do and do.
We remember as we get into the spring season and
maybe you've got all those petunias and impatients and the
tomatoes and all planted, and you didn't realize it and
didn't watch the weather, but we got a light frost
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that morning all of a sudden, you know, you get
up and you realize there was a light frost. If
that happened, don't forget if you take the garden hose,
go out real quick before the sun comes up and
hits the plants and miss them off. Howes them off
hose that frost off the top that actually warms up
the plant, the surface of the of the plant and
will minimize and sometimes totally eliminate any frost damages. So
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you'll see sometimes a lot of nurseries will have garden
centers have their sprinklers that will turn on in the
morning when there's a light frost that will just kind
of get the frost off. And like I say, minimize
any of the damages. So that is something you could
do as a little bit of protection if absolutely needed.
Quick break. We come back talking more about you yarding,
taking your calls at eight hundred eight two three eight
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Welcome back. You're in the garden with Ron Wilson again.
That toll free number would be eight hundred eight two
three eight two five five. Don't forget our website at
Ron Wilson Online dot com Facebook page. In the Garden
with Ron Wilson talking about the weather and the ups
and the downs, and of course planting, and of course
at this stage in the game, you're free to go
as far as the tree, shrubs, evergreens, perennials, roses, ornamental grasses,
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things like that have at it. You know, you're get
those planet as soon as you can. If you're buying plants,
let's say you're buying sometimes roses, sometimes perennials this time
of the year that may be coming out of covered
greenhouses where maybe the foliage is a little bit more
tender than it would normally be had it been growing
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outside the whole time, you know, exposed to Mother Nature's
ups and downs. If that foliage is a little tender,
it'll take it a few days when you plant it
in the ground to harden off, so to speak, to
become a little bit more hearty to the cooler temperatures.
Those you might want to consider moving in and out
maybe for a couple of days to acclimate them to
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be outside because the foliage is so tender, or anticipate
covering them over. If you're having a drop and it's
going to freeze, possibly do that, so kind of watch those,
but otherwise you are good to go. Tree shrubs, evergreens
a whole nine yards have at it. Cool season crops again,
remember soil temperatures at forty five degrees, and they'll take.
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The thing about these cool crops is the fact that
they'll take Some of these will take you know, mid
twenties overnight with no problem. They won't take it for
an extended period of time. They'll frost out but mush out,
but they'll take cooler temperatures overnight with with no problem.
As a matter of fact, if you planted ornamental cabbage
and kale in our area last fall and it was
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protected at all. I mean, it's just you know a
little bit of protection there from being wide open to
the weather and got a little snow cover on top
of it. Chances are they're still alive right now. That
shows you what kind of temperatures they can take. And
that's for an extended period of time. We have one
left out of our eight or nine that we had
planted in some raised beds and it's now regrowing, coming
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out and it's gonna flower. And those were originally called
ornamental flowering cabbage and kale. And the reason they were
called ornamental flowering cabbage and kales you plant them in
the fall. If they did come through the winter, which
a lot of pansies can do that too, they would
you put out new growth in the springtime and actually flower,
and the flowers are fairly attractive and come to find out,
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flowers from most all of those plants, cabbage and broccoli
and all of those. The pollinators absolutely love them. But
it's kind of unique to see them flower and have
that bright color. As a matter of fact, I took
some pictures of the purple, the maroon, lavender, pinky purple
ornamental cabbage and as the snow was melting off and
these things were sticking up through the snow. It was
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absolutely gorgeous. But we do have one. It still looks
really good. The other ones are looking kind of funky,
so I just tore them out, but I left the
one in there and it's big. But it is now
regrowing and reflowering. So that shows you what some of
these cool season crops can really tolerate. And when we're
talking cool season crops are talking, boy, it's a wide range.
And of course they'll all vary depending on how cold.
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But carrots and beets and radishes and turnips, parsnips, garlic, leeks, onions, yeah, potatoes,
early lettuce, spinach, swiss charred, all the greens pretty much, broccoli, cabbage,
col robbie, kale, collars, Brussels sprouts, peas, obviously asparagus. It
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could be planning it right now as well. And they'll
all tolerate those cooler temperatures. And we talked about warm season.
Now we're talking about the annuals such as tomatoes and
peppers and melons and beans and things like that, which
we need to wait until the temperatures start to get
up into the sixties and seventies before we really want
to start planting. No, so think about it. If you
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are out your local independent gardens into this weekend and
you know, you pick up a few tomatoes, because I
guarantee they're going to have them out. They're ready for
you to go, uh, because everybody wants to buy them early.
If you buy a chance put them in the ground
next week and the temperature, soil temperatures drop down low
down into the mid forties or into the forties and fifties,
which they are right now, and the air temperatures as well.
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If they make it through all of that, they're going
to be stunted and not do too well. So hold
off on putting those in the ground. Raised beds that
are covered and containers will work. So you know, again
those are the things you want to keep your keep
in mind as you're going through the spring season planting
and all these edibles which are which And the last
thing would be that frost the uh what is our
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frost free date? Do you know when your frost free
date is for your particular area? Do you know? Ron
I do, And most people will say in our area,
we'll say May fifteenth, Our Mother's Day weekend is usually
the frost free date. Frost free dates are based on
averages of when the last frost happened. And believe it
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or not, most of the frost free dates that used
to be posted out there were based on a fifty
percent average, so your chances of having a frost after
that date were fifty percent or less, and it got
less all the time. And for our area, it used
to be May fifteenth, and so over the years, obviously
we've gotten a little warmer, we've seen fewer frosts later
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in the season, and so that frost free date continues
to get closer and closer to the first of May.
I sometimes don't like to tell people that because they
kind of push it a little bit to get out
there and maybe plant too early. But believe it or not,
in our area, and you can go online. It's fun.
Go online and google frost free date and put your city,
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your town or whatever in their or state. Don't do
the state, do the city of your town, and they'll
tell you what your frost free date would be. And
of course, remember it's based on averages. But for us
where we are here, our frost free date is actually
backed up to the last week of April, and that's
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based on thirty percent chances of frost after that point,
So until April the thirtieth. You know, at April the thirtieth,
your chances are thirty percent or less that you will
have a frost after the thirtieth of April. I don't
like to tell people that, So don't tell anybody I
told you that, all right, because then we start planning
too early. But again, watch the soil temps, watch the
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air temps. If you do plan early, you know, watch
for the frost and freezers and things like that. But yeah,
check out when your frost free average last frost date
would be. And again that's based on percentages, and check
it out. But I think you will be amazed that
they have all moved and there are probably two weeks
from from early than what you can remember from in
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the past. Before we take a break, let's go to Dayton.
Talk to Dick Pick from Dayton.
Speaker 5 (30:06):
Good morning, Good morning, How are you?
Speaker 1 (30:09):
I am good in yourself?
Speaker 5 (30:11):
Well, you know what Monday is? What my birthday?
Speaker 1 (30:15):
Oh? I forgot it's the fourteenth, isn't it.
Speaker 6 (30:19):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (30:20):
You and Pete Rose and.
Speaker 5 (30:22):
Pete Rose me and Pete Rose. Yeah, yeah, it's it's yeah,
it's uh, it's kind of a yeah, it's kind of nice.
But uh, I've got my cousin Carla is always first
from from Homestead Falls. Yeah, and then my cousin Tony
always sends me stuff. He sent me a little CD
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of he played he was from Malaria and he was
part of the family. But uh, yeah, and then I
got to go to McDonald's and the group down there
had a little cake for me this week, I guess.
But uh, everybody's calling me about Monday night. See, I'm
supposed to go to band, but see day from Dayton,
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it's supposed to take me down to Cincinnati Monday. How
about that?
Speaker 1 (31:07):
Are you so you're coming to Cincinnati on Monday for
your birthday?
Speaker 5 (31:10):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (31:11):
Why it's it's usually it's usually Saturday. It's early too,
and I'm up early though, I'm up early, but he's
going to be here about ten thirty, so I better
stay around the house.
Speaker 1 (31:23):
I guess. Yeah, I guess, so, well, I you know
what I should remember that. I don't know why I forgot,
but you're right, because I know you said. Just remember
Pete Rose's number and think of April, and that's when
this Dick from Dayton's birthday.
Speaker 6 (31:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (31:36):
And you know something too, what a couple of my
old managers called me. They remembered from what I worked
with you twenty five years that was so neat. And
they told me, Dick, the place there's nobody left. It's
just like a ghost down there.
Speaker 1 (31:53):
Wow.
Speaker 5 (31:54):
They well. And I missed the people so much because
I learned so much about you know, home and proof
movement and gardening, and I love to work, you know,
when they were seven Flowers and Kathy was there, I
learned a lot there. I have a lot of friends there,
you know.
Speaker 1 (32:10):
Sure. Well, you know, when you enjoy working in a
place and you've been there for a long time, you
make a lot of friends and you learn a lot
at the same time. Yeah, and that's that's what made
it so uh so special to you and everybody else.
Speaker 6 (32:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (32:21):
Yeah, we'll listen.
Speaker 1 (32:22):
Have a good day, well, Dick, have a happy, happy birthday.
Thank you, all right, take care of good talking with
your happy birthday. Dick from Dayton quick Break we come back.
Phone lines are open for you at eight hundred and
eight two three, eight, two five five coming at the
top of the hour. Uh doctor triple a Alan Apple Armonies.
Will be with us always, uh kind of fund when
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now we're getting into the spring season. See what's going
on in his his garden. What he's up to us.
I know we just got back in California, one of
you plant trials there. We'll find out what he saw
there at the bottom of the hour. Got a great book.
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Talking yard ning at eight hundred eight two three eight
two five five. Good morning. I am Ron Wilson, your
personal yard boy. Excited that we are finally, you know,
starting to see a break in this weather. Uh, you know,
it's still staying cool, ups and downs and all that
this week, but slowly but surely we're gonna get into it.
And I think if you get out right now to
your local, locally owned independent garden centers, you're going to
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find some great selections. I know a lot of them
are at this stage fully stocked, and for two reasons.
One is folks seem to want to get out earlier
every year and start buying in planting, which is absolutely outstanding. Secondly,
because if the weather the way it's been right now,
with the rain and all and a little bit cooler,
if they haven't been out planting, there's you know, they've
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got a pretty good inventory on hand right now. So
get out this Weeken's supposed to be nice in our
area today and tomorrow, So get out to your locally
owned independent garden center. Check it out. I think you're
going to find some great selections out there this year,
and you know, while you're there, you know, you can
find out what their tomato get. You know, they typically
have like tomato lists and pepper lists and herb lists
and things like that, so you know what they're going
to have, and then you can start to get your
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plans together as far as when it comes to planting
as the temperatures warm and we get to that point
as well. By the way, one last thing I was
talking about the frost free dates and all that and
watching your temperatures and soil temperatures and all the other
thing I always I just bring up every now and
then is you know, obviously if you're listening to our
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show here, we're locally, we're a zone six. Our plants
are for a zone six. Our gardening zone is zone six.
And sometimes folks, you know that you use it as
a general term and it's like you said, you know
what that means, that's gardening zone six. Well, it means
that the plants like to grow in this area. Yeah,
that's what's what it means. It means that they're hardy
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for this area during the winter time. So when you
look to buy plants like trees, and shrubs, evergreens, things
like that they don't have on the tag. You know
what hearty zone they're hardy to. One is our zones
that are way up north, very cold and in ten
eleven are all down south on the down from Florida
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and work their way up and so like in our
area for like the state of Ohio, for instance, we're
mostly zone six. And that's based on average coldest temperatures
in the winter, all right, so that we you know,
if our average coldest temperatures for our zone is zero
through minus ten, that means if the plants that are
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that are labeled hearty zone six are planted in zone
six and they're healthy and in the right location and
have been properly cared for, you know, and doing really
good going into the winter, when you get temperatures down
to that zero to ten degrees minus ten, they should
be good to go because they're hardy for that particular area.
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So that's what that is all about. Has nothing to
do with your frost free dates, has nothing to do
with the heat in the summertime. As a matter of fact,
they do have a heat zone out there as well.
We don't see that very often, but it is available,
but that's what it's forced for your winter heartiness and
of course annuals, tropical plants things like that would not
you know, they would be if they had a hardiness
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they's zone on there. It'd be like tens and elevens,
which would be obviously along the coast and down south.
So that's what that's all about. So know what zone
you're in. As a matter of fact, if you look
at the state of Ohio and you pull that up
and you can go to the it's the USDA map
Hardiness zone map, and look at your individual states, you'll
actually see like for the state of Ohio, we have
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zone six A and B they break it up into
two categories, and then we also have a little bit
of five B still in a couple of spots, and
we have some seven A which is showing its starting
to warm up along the Ohio River, and there's a
little patch up in Cleveland right by the lake. It
gets a lake effect that's actually a little bit warmer
during the winter time, which is kind of crazy. But again,
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look at those, look at your zone maps for your state,
look at where you live, see what that zone is,
so that when you're buying hardy plants. You're matching that
zone number up to the right zone for which they
are hardy four, which is and if if you buy
something that's you know that's on the hardiness borderline, it's
maybe a six dash seven. Realize that once you get
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into that zero temperature close to it, you know, you
could start to experience some some die back over the wintertime,
not that it would have die out totally, but some
die back in the wintertime. And again that all is
dependent on how healthy the tree is, tree or shrub
or whatever it may be, where it's planted, et cetera.
C going into the winter conditions, that's a major factor,
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even if it's hardy for your particular area. Also, get
a lot of questions this week, so they put my
hummingbird feeder up this in our area. Well, looking at
the hummingbird map, and if you want to check that
out yourself, it's hummingbirdcentral dot com. Hummingbirdcentral dot com. They'll
have a hummingbird map there. And basically the way this
works is that when folks see hummingbirds in their area,
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they post it and so they you can tell as
they move up through the states where they are and
looking at the posting this week updated four ten, twenty
twenty five, it looks like for Ohio they have just
started to cross the Ohio River kind of come up
the east side of Ohio. They've come up a little
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bit in the southwest corner as well and into Indiana.
So they have now are now entering the state of
Ohio working their way north. If you listen to us
in Indiana, they are now into Indiana, Kentucky, Tennessee. Everything
south pretty much covered at this stage. So, yes, have
your hummingbird feeders up, have them ready to go. There
are scouts that move through ahead of the pack, so
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they'll be coming through anytime, and then of course the
rest of them will all be showing up. But again, yes,
they are in the state of Ohio moving their way through,
and you can check that out at hummingbirdcentral dot com
and keep up with where they are. But yeah, at
this stage in the game, might say you are ready
to go, get the hummingbird feeders out and get them
taken care of. One last thame before we take a
break and we'll come back. We're gonna have doctor Allen
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Armida's with us. Hydrange just get very confusing in the
springtime when to prune them. Don't forget that. I have
a tip sheet that will tell you when the particular
types of hydrangeas need to be prune. And this winter
I put together a tip sheet for successful tree hydrangeas.
You know, the tree form of hydrangeas was basically is
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the hydrangia on a tree trunk, whether it's grafted or
trimmed up into a patio tree form trunk hydrangea on
the top. And they're becoming more and more popular all
the time. Again, can be very confusing when to prune
those things. And most of them are all prune in
the springtime, I'll tell you that right now, because most
of the ones that are in the tree form are
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bloomers on new growth. But how to prune those, how
to keep those heads right? And I think the other
thing to be successful is how do you keep that
thing staked when it's in flower? Because I get so
many calls where it starts to go into flower the
trunk diameter is so small, it falls over, it comes
out of the ground or whatever. Well, I've got a
tip sheet that kind of walks you through what you
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need to do for a successful tree hydrangea and how
to keep its stand. As a matter of fact, I
also found a great video on pruning hydrangeas the tree
hydrant just what you will help you out as well, but
how to prune them, how to cut them back, very
very important as far as keeping that head shape, allowing
the trunk to increase in diameter over the years. You
(43:17):
really need to keep these things staked for quite some time.
It may be three or four or five years before
you can finally take that steak or staking system off
of a tree hydraanja. But it's going to be very
very important. But if you'd like that tip sheet, email
me Ron Wilson at Diheartmedia dot com and I will
send you the tips for a successful tree hydraja or
(43:37):
how to prune hydrangeas. I'll get that out to you
next week. All right, quick break, we come back. Doctor
Allen Armidage will be with us at the bottom of
the hour. The book is called The Ultimate Guide the
Houseplant Propagation by Lindsey Sisty. It's a really cool book. Well,
both of those for you. The next hour here in
the Garden with Ron Wilson.
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