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Speaker 1 (00:35):
Our toll free number on this Easter weekend. Eight hundred
eight two three eight two five five. Good morning. I
am Ron Wilson, your personal boy, talking about yarding. Were
you off yesterday Good Friday? A lot of folks were.
I know a lot of folks were working. But you know,
I think and I think probably if you've listened to
our show over the years, I always I have fond
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memories of Good Friday at for what it is for
obviously and all of that, and going to church and all,
but also as I got into the garden center business
and high school as a teenager. You know, way back
then in the old days, Good Friday. If Good Friday
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was late in the in April, if it was early
in late March, you know, it wasn't quite as important
of a day as far as gardening. But if it
got into April, Good Friday was kind of like the
kickoff for spring gardening literally, And so that Friday the
garden centers always were, you know, you were ready to go. Friday, Saturday,
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Sundays no, because it was Easter. But on Friday and Saturday,
especially Good Friday, a lot of folks were off. You
took off, took the day off started work started working
in the yard, getting things cleaned up, getting the garden prepped,
starting to plant those cool season crops on good Friday,
east weekend. Maybe get a little color out there, but
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not much. Back then, we didn't have a lot of pants.
The pantries were out there, but not a lot like
they are today for a cool season, so early color,
not too much, but you know, just a clean up
vegetable garden, planting fruit trees. And I look back and
I look at the fruits and the berries that we
sold back down. Very limited, I mean very limited selection,
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not even close to what's compared to today. And they
were all bear root. And you know, I kind of
grew up in the garden center retail industry, going out
of the bare root generation into the container grown and
potted generation, whereas today you rarely ever see things sold
bare root anymore. But asparagus you'll find that in the springtime,
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horse radish you'll find that in the springtime. Sometimes you'll
find rhubarb sold in the bags, you know, a little
bit of sawdust and there you'll find those sold like that.
But otherwise you don't see them sold too much anymore.
Bare root. It's usually getting the pot and growing. And
that's just the way things have changed. But we used
to have just a selection of bag, a plastic bag
with a little sawdust in there, sometimes some straw, you know,
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the fruit trees, and you try to make sure you
got you only brought in what you could sell before
they really started to leaf out, because once they started
to leaf out, then they needed to be watered and
blah blah blah, and you wound up either putting them
on sail and getting rid of them, or or potting
them up or put them in a lot of times,
what would happen is we have a peat bed, and
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you could heal them into that peat bed and keep
the peat moist as and you know in my body
if you take them out, wrapped as up real quick
with some wet newspaper whatever, send them on back home
with it and get it planted. But it was the
bare root generation back then. Privet heads, you know, privet
was the hedge that everybody used to screen in in
your front yard, backyard whatever to create that green hedge.
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Because privet hedge, you know, quick growers, my gosh, you
could take you could do the first pruiting in the springtime.
With that, take those cuttings and stick them in the ground.
They would root and start to grow. So everybody had
privet hedges inexpensive, fast growing. Shear them twice a year,
maybe three times a year, keep them looking like a
nice you know, you know, formal hedge screening things off.
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But they came in bundles in bear root. So you
bought like ten in a bag. There's nobody bought planet one.
So you bought like ten in a bag for three
ninety nine or something like that. You took them home
and you cut them in a half and you planted
these Dorman bear root plants, and you know, they grew
like a weed. And then the next thing, you know,
two or three years later, you got a four foot hedge,
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nice and thick, and you know, the whole nine yards.
But I think it's it's fun looking back to that,
and I just remember onion sets and potatoes and the
seed packs. All you had to have all that ready
for a good Friday because it was the kick off
for getting out and getting the vegetable, getting the edibles
going in your yard and garden. And then we went
along as we went through the rest of April and
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into May and again annuals like geraniums and petunias and
things like that. Nobody thought about bringing those in until
you got closer to Mother's Day weekend, so we didn't
have anything. You just didn't. And I still remember there
was a time when the garden centers that I work with,
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you know, we used to not put anything out until
the last week of April, and then we would put
signs everywhere saying, you know, you know, we get to
be careful. May fifteenth frost free date, which meant it
was your chances were fifty percent or less that you're
going to get a frost and it could. We saw
frost up until Memorrow weekend back then, but you know,
we didn't put anything out. Of course, today, going to
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garden centers today, including us and the herbs and the
vegetables and the tomatoes and peppers and even the cucumbers,
which back then you never you would have never sold
cucumbers and melons and squawk and beans and corn in
packs already growing. Everybody bought that from seed and you
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direct so into the garden today, you know, I just
use yeah, it's okay. It's the way things have changed.
And that's the way gardening has changed over the years.
But that's all available. You go to your local garden
center this weekend, and you should because they're loaded, they're
ready to go, and you look at all that stuff
that's in there for a vegetable gardens, it's crazy. Keep
in mind, please, when is that frost free date? And
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remember when your frost free date is whatever is predicted
for your particular area where you live. It used to
be fifty percent or less of your chances having a
frost after that date. We always did today in most cases,
I think if you check compared to forty or fifty
years ago, it's changed drastically for our area in southern
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Ohio through central Ohio. And it used to be around
May fifteenth. It's now the last week of April, the thirtieth,
the thirtieth of April, and you know, boy, I scratched
my head. But you know, if you think back over
the last two or three or four years, we really
once we got into May really didn't experience freezing or
frosting temperatures, so you know, in our area anyway, but
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that's changed a lot. But anyway, point being is that
this was the weekend especially good Friday, where everybody kicked
in and got this started cleaning up, edging the beds,
you know, thinking about planting of trees, a couple of shrubs,
whatever you're going to add to. For Scythia, we used
to sell like crazy because it was in flower right then,
and everybody used for Ccythia for good yellow spring colors.
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And you know, the other plant that started to come
on as I just had gotten into this business in
high school and college was Viburnum car lesi Korean spice viburnum,
and they're still out there today, still going strong. All
the viburnums are great workhorse of flowering shrubs for just
about any location in your yard and garden, but the
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Viburnum car and then they came out with a new
selection called Jedi, which was a little bit more compact,
but the buds are pink, open, white, tremendous fragrance. So
everybody planted one by the front door, or one by
the back door, or one by the patio, so you
could smell that for about two weeks. It was absolutely gorgeous.
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In the rest of the year, just a good flower,
you know, a leafy shrub, but that was really big
at the you know, way back then, and again they're
still out there today and they still put out the
great fragrance. I think the semi evergreen one that's out
there now is Birkwood eye, which gives you the same fragrance,
a little smaller flower but semi evergreen. But that was
very popular. But for Scythia flowering almond, and you don't
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see that very much anymore, but flowering almond was kind
of on a heartyness borderline for our area with that
pink flower in the springtime in a shrub, absolutely gorgeous quints.
Flowering quints that was back then, you know, kind of
a weedy shrub. Now that the new varieties today more compact,
they're double flowers. But again for an early flowering quince
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was out there as well. But man, we used to
sell for ccynthia like crazy. But it was just it's
interesting how things have changed. But it seems like when
I get to Good Friday, it really triggers a lot
of old memories for me and maybe for you as well,
if you're in this industry, or if you've been gardening
for a long time, or work with your parents or
your grandparents or whatever. Going into Easter weekend. It's just
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a lot of memories, and of course that you think
back then too. And I was raised my childhood in Greensburg, Indiana,
home in the tree growing out of the roof of
the courthouse. And back then, of course, they still sold
the colored chicks, pinks and blues and reds and yellow
chicks that you could buy and kids would get one
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or two of them and raise them till they got
too big, and then they'd give away to a farmer
and let the farmer continue to raise them. Ducks were
always sold back then. That was kind of crazy. But
I think the one thing I always and I still
have a sign that kept that I found in a
file cabinet one time. Back then, on Good Friday, a
lot of businesses closed, or at least closed at noon,
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and they would close at noon so everybody could have
the rest of day off and you could go to
church because a lot of churches had noon or one
o'clock services on Good Friday. And I still have a
sign left over. It was a screen printed if you
remember what that was. Screen printed sign had blanks and
said we will be closed on Good Friday from and
then you filled it in and we were closed from
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twelve till two, and underneath it said so our employees
can go to worship at their church and you can't
do or something like that. And I still have that.
I still think that unbelievable. And if you didn't go
to church and didn't do anything, and you worked at
the garden center, you could just stay there and water
and do things whatever while the store closed. The other
employees went to church, then came back. Then you reopened
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again at two o'clock. Great memories, great memories. And I
hope you know when you think back to Good Friday,
Easter Weekend and all times like this, that you have
some great room memories. But it is Easter weekend, and
then this is Easter Saturday. We're talking yourr ning. Weather
is really starting to change for US, warmer weather. Yesterday
almost eighty degrees, crazy stuff, almost eighty degrees, So the
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sal temperature's really coming up now. Lots going on, lots
you can plant, lots of tips to share with you today.
Our special guests today coming up at the top of
the next hour, We've got Rita Hikenfeld. We're going to
talk about her recipe and herb of the week by
the way. Her recipe is mint julips. She's a little
bit early on the mint julius for the running of
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the roses, but there you go. So now you can
maybe share your men julyups this weekend as well. And
she also has her hot crossbun recipe still posted on
them there for Easter as well, if you want to
try to make those today, and we'll talk to Rita
more about that. And she has her herb of the Week,
which I've got a funny feeling being that mint julips
are the is the recipe mint may be the herb
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of the week as well. Then coming up to the
bottom of that hour, Ron Roth is our hobby meteorologist
and a certified arborist, talk about tree and tree care
right now, we're also talking about the weather and how
it's changing, and so what are we going to see
over the next couple of weeks as we try to
transition into the springtime annual vegetable planting time. What's he
gonna see out there? What do we think we're going
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to see? And then of course we've got Gary Sullivan,
Buggy Joe Boggs and Danny Gleason and myself in between
I'm here in the garden with Ron Wilson.
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Walk come back. You're in the garden with Ron Wilson again,
that toll free number eight hundred eight two three eight
two five five talking about yardening and then talking about
everybody jumping in, you know, good Friday, getting those vegetable
gardens up and running, and don't forget. You know, once
the soil temperatures reach about forty five degrees, that's the
benchmark for going ahead and planting the cool season crops,
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the crops that really enjoy the cooler weather, and there
are a ton of them. Again, go to your local
independent garden center and check it out. Kale, cabbage, collars,
peas obviously, onions, potato patoes can be started now, Spinach, lettuces,
the radish's carrots, you know those are all can be
planted right now. Rhubarb, horse radish can all be planted
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right now. Not sweet potatoes. If you're looking at doing
sweet potatoes, they want warmer temperatures. A little bit different
story there, So planting sweet potatoes and those slips gonna
wait a little bit longer for the temps to warm
up in the soil, but you know to hold off
on those. But those are all available for you to
plant now, whether it's from seed or from the plants themselves.
Most of the garden centers today have the cabbages and
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kales and collars and the peas, although you can plant
those some seed, spinach and lettuce in that they've got,
you know again, plants, or you can do it by seed.
It's up to you. And when you're doing the ratish,
just do a couple three different varieties so you can experiment.
I always like to do that, to experiment a little
bit here and there, just to see some different tastes.
But you know what still my absolute favorite, absolute favorite.
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It's called brea French breakfast cake. Cook and her daughter,
many many years ago, was on our show. I think
at the time, her daughter was probably second grade or
something like that. Big Gardener has been working with her
mom gardening, basketball gardening for years, and she got on
the microphone not afraid to talk, and was telling me
about the radish that she grows. That's her favorite, blah
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blah blah. It was French breakfast ratish. And of course
after she said that, I went and tried bottom and
the seeds and planted them. Absolutely phenomenal. And Nikita French
breakfast radishes. When you grow them is to harvest them
before they're fully mature, so you and again she's the
one that explained this to me, and I learned from
her and it just shows, you know, getting kids involved
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with gardening, what a great thing to do. But she said,
you know, you grow them and let them get about
the size of your little finger. There they're a longer radish.
They're not the round one. They're they're they're the longer one.
But if you harvest them when they're about the size
of your little finger in diameter, you can eat the
foliage and the radish at the same time. And the
radish at that point has almost a buttery flavor. And
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I know radish has a little bit of bite to it,
that a little bit of a kick, it has that,
but not you know, reddishes sometimes it can be pretty
a bite to them. If you pick up at that point,
it's very I can't eat, I can't describe it. It's
it's just very buttery. That's the way I look at it.
I'm super flavored. Just pull them out of the ground,
rinse them, off, pop them in your mouth, folod you
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in all absolutely wonderful. But they're called French breakfast radishes,
and you will find French breakfast radishes today in most
seapack racks unless somebody's already bought them out because they
seem to go very quickly because they are such a
great ratish. But there are several out there, and you know, again,
it's always fun to experiment, So try that. And if
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you're into the greens and all, and you start looking
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it has a horse radish the Jean mustard type of
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a flavor to it does a mustard flavor literally, but
it's a little bit. He's got a nice kick to it.
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if your garden center doesn't grow arugula wasabi. You can
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grow a arugula wasabi from seed. Now you may have
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of sabi around here is made out of horse radish,
but it has a great kick. And if you ever
come to the garden center everywhere I'm working and I'm
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standing around by the the arugula withabi, You'll know I
was there because I picked those small leaves off and
eth those in there. Absolutely wonderful. So try that as well.
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and grow four new selections everywhere every year, just to
try something different. I think you'll enjoy doing that. Quick break,
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Good morning, welcome back. You're in the garden with Ron
Wilson again that total free number eight hundred eight two
three eight two five five. Talking about yarding on this
Saturday before Easter. Got big plans tomorrow. Easter Buddy comes tonight,
going to check in the morning probably and maybe getting
together with the family in the little Easter brunch or
Easter dinner afternoon, ham lamb whatever it may be. Looking
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forward to Easter. I'm actually going to be off tomorrow.
I have worked Easter Sundays for my entire life being
in the retail business, and finally get tomorrow and take
the day off. What do you think of that?
Speaker 6 (23:22):
All?
Speaker 1 (23:22):
Right? Stuff like that, Yeah, talking your ding, talking about
things that are going on right now. And of course
you know you look at the as I look around
right now, the things that are flower it's a it's great.
We went from the magnolias and Forcythia and the and
the witch Hazel's earlier on and now we've gotten into
the early or the kind of the midspring bloomers. So
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now we're looking at red buds have been put just
putting on a heck of a show. The last ten
days to two weeks. Red buds just glowing everywhere. And
I'm telling you you look at your local independent garden
centers and nurseries today, the number of varieties of red
buds that are available on the market for you is phenomenal.
All different sizes, weepers, upright, compact ones, shrubby, you're looking variety,
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some with yellow leaves, some with yellow orange, some with
bronze leaves, maroon leaves, you know, pink, white, maroon, more
of a reddish color. It's it's crazy. It's almost like hydranges.
There's so many out there today, but it's really nice.
And that's a great tree. I mean, that's a tough,
durable tree. I've seen them get cankers, lose a branch
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here and there, and just keep right on ticketing may
look kind of funny, but they keep right on going.
And of course the flowers. Rita Hikenfeld coming up the
top of the hour. Rida actually kept picks those off
in some of hers and makes jams out of them,
and jelly's out of things like that. So putting on
a tremendous show. One of My favorite red buds in
the weeping form is Ruby Falls. Ruby Falls. If you've
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got a patio area that you want a little a
nice specimen focal plant, you know, and at least a
half half a day's sun, and they actually they you know,
red budds were originally kind of an understory tree grow
along the edge of the woods. That's where you see
them mostly. But you know, you get them out of
there and get them into full sun, they kind of change.
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They actually become a more round and not quite so open,
but they'll take those conditions and do it very well
for you. But one of those plants of the selections
that I have absolutely loved and is truly I'd have
to put her in probably my top ten list of
all favorite plants is Ruby Falls maroon leaves, and they
hold that she does a pretty good job holding that
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maroon color all summer long. You can take the top
out of it and it only gets eight ten feet
tall naturally and weeps over and back down again. You
get the pink flower in the springtime. You get the
maroon leaves during the growing season, which is outstanding, and
they hold that for you and then it kind of
brightens up a little bit of fall color and then
they're done. But that show during the season, and of
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course in the wintertime it being a weeper gives you
that weeping effects a good winter effect as well. But
Ruby Falls is outstanding. And by mistake, one time in
our nursery, somebody accidentally broke the top out of one
and broke it off about a foot off the ground.
Clip that off, and the branches that were still below
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that just continue to grow and it stayed like that
and grew out as a groundcover, so it kind of
had a mound in the middle, and it was the
coolest thing ever. So you know, you can pick a
height with that thing, take the top out of it,
and keep it at that for the rest of the
year of the plant's life, if that's what you want
to do. But I love Ruby Falls. But red Buzz
absolutely putting on a tremendous show right now. And as
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the red buds start to fade, the dog woods come
in right behind him. And as I'm looking around right now,
seeing a lot of white dog woods. You don't see
pinks and reds too much anymore, but you're seeing a
lot of white dog woods now putting on their show.
I'll tell you one. I really like a spring grove.
There's again, so many different selections of dogwood's out there,
it's crazy, But that spring grove is absolutely the flower
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the buck the bank for your buck on that white
flower is phenomenal if you can find that when it's
not that readily available. But oh my gosh, what a
great show that thing has, So you know, again check
that out. It's a nice one. And again we have
slipped some of the dogwoods would prefer that morning sun
afternoon shade. Most of them do, except for the the
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Chinese dog woods, which you can slip out there obviously
into the full sun. As a matter of fact, they
like more sun than they do the shade. But your
Cornice Florida's, you know, some of those hybrids would prefer
heat protection from the heat of the afternoon sun. But
absolutely gorgeous. But again you look around and all the
things redbood fading out. Dog was starting to come on.
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Quince I had mentioned Quin's earlier. I'm getting a lot
of emails right now saying, what is this shrub with
this orangey red flower down inside the plant? It's flowering
quints And yeah, they can produce the little quince fruits
that you know, you let it get frosted or frozen
a couple of times because they're so tark before you
try to eat them. But as Kevin O'Dell are, one
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of our local plantsmen is used to always talk about
quints being if you like azaleas, which I have a
hard time growing azaleas and you've got a spot that
has a little bit more sun and the azaleas don't
do very well. There do the quints. And there are
more compact varieties of quints. Now. I think double Take
is a series if I'm not mistaken, where it's a
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double flower, several different shades of colors, absolutely gorgeous. But
the quints will flower started flowering actually about ten days
two weeks ago, and still in full color. They last
quite quite some time. But take a look at those,
give you that azalea kind of a look. What's interesting
about quints and what's interesting about red bud is that
both of them flower on old growth. So when you
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look at a quints or you look at a red bud.
And I had again for folks who have never grown
a red bud before that had planted red buds last
year and they're butting out and flowering except for the
tips of the red bud, like the last six inches
or so, nothing there, you know, as my red bud dying.
They flower on old wood, so the growth from last
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year typically has no flower, and quints is the same way,
so you'll see the growth on the top, but you'll
see all of the color down inside the plant on
the older wood. That's the way they are red budget
that way in general as well. But I get a
lot of questions right now about the quins or I
have been absolutely gorgeous, I mean, and they're tough, durable,
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rest of the season, glossy green leaf, nice shrub. Some
of them have short spurs in them, as Quint's would have,
but again doesn't require a lot of pruning. Let them grow,
let them do their thing. Tremendous show for you. The
other one coming in right now that we're starting to
see everywhere are flowering crab apples, And you know, I
think flowering crab apples a long time ago. And the
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cherries are starting to fade a little bit as well.
I forgot to mention all the different ornamental cherries, but
crab apples now starting to come into their own. I
think crab as have started in some areas flying under
the radar anymore, because it's like if you had some
of the older varieties of crab apples and they get
apple scab on those leaves, it causes them to defoliate early.
They look they're kind of messy. I get that you
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can protect those and reduce the amount of scab that
they get by spraying with the funge inside early in
the season, starting about right now, and protecting him over
the next month and a half two months, and then
they don't look so bad in the summertime, but they
they've gotten a bad rap for that. The crab apple
itself really is not messy. The new varieties of crab
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apples stay on the plant, and you know when they
do start to drop, it's usually winter or late winter.
The birds eat them up usually not much of an issue.
I wouldn't put one by a sidewalk, but not much
of an issue as far as that either. So I
think crab apples, if you've kind of written them off,
should get a second look. And some of the newer
varieties that are out there right now are disease resistant,
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so they don't get the apple scab that some of
the other ones would have gotten and had that leaf drop.
So when you're looking at crab apples at your local
garden center, ask them are these disease resistant varieties? But
I'll tell you the whites and the pinks, and the
lavenders and the reds crab apples will offer quite an
assortment of great spring color. We'll last fairly long for you.
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And again, not all of them produce the fruit many
of them do. But it's a good pollinator plant, and
it's also a good wildlife plant. Because of the crab apples,
wildlife will enjoy those as well. But I'll tell you what.
You look around right now, there's a lot of stuff
and flour right now, and it's very enjoyable to experience
those sights and smells of spring color, no doubt about it.
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Before we take a break, Dick from Dayton, good morning,
Good morning, I'm great, Dick. We want to know we
got the big question here this morning for Dick from Dayton.
What is your favorite Easter candy?
Speaker 7 (31:57):
Let's see, I think.
Speaker 1 (32:01):
If the Easter Buddy only brought you one thing, what
would you want him to bring you?
Speaker 7 (32:05):
Well, I always like Reese's cups.
Speaker 1 (32:09):
Cups absolutely, Now do you like Reese's cups or do
you like the recy eggs that they do special too?
I like the eggs a little different.
Speaker 7 (32:17):
But you know another thing my friend sometimes gives me
is I like him and m's you like him?
Speaker 5 (32:22):
And oh?
Speaker 1 (32:23):
Absolutely? Yeah? And you know they got almond and peanut
and peanut butter.
Speaker 7 (32:28):
Hey day from Dayton. I got to fight a nicely.
I heeart radio. It's beautiful, Ron I did, and I
played a little music. I met Willie Austin. Let's ulse
Brian Combs. Oh it was just oh, it was nice rock.
Dave just was.
Speaker 1 (32:50):
Here's my question, how come you come down here when
Dan and I aren't here? And Gary Jeff.
Speaker 7 (32:54):
Well, I was hoping you guys were there, and you
gotta let us know. Yeah, I got okay, I told
Dave I wanted to see Ron and Danny glease.
Speaker 1 (33:07):
Okay, you gotta let us know. If you let us
know when you're gonna be here, we'll hang around. Okay,
all right, Hey, we gotta go. I have you guys said.
We gotta go. Have a happy Easter. Dick, Thank you
all right, good talking to you. Dick from Dayton receis
eggs or receives. Which do you like better, recy peanut
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Good morning. I am run Wilson, your personal yard boy
on this Saturday before Easter, which you got planning for tomorrow.
What's your favorite Easter candy? What's your favorite Easter candy? Dan?
You just asked me that I know, but we weren't
on the air. Oh yeah, we were, were we?
Speaker 4 (36:06):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (36:06):
We were?
Speaker 6 (36:07):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (36:07):
Got ity cups and anything anything receas. How about Reese's pieces?
You know that's one of my favorites.
Speaker 4 (36:13):
Yes, I love that when I was a kid.
Speaker 1 (36:14):
And right now, yeah, all right, why are you eating some?
Speaker 7 (36:17):
I wish I was.
Speaker 1 (36:18):
So I do too. I should have gotten something brought
him in my bad anyway, talking about yarding, and of
course the weather really changing now Wow, looking great. Uh,
and you know we're going to see it continue on
next week. And I think and now they'll see the
soil temperatures coming up, air temperatures coming up, and the
two of those combined like that. Uh it's Katie bar
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the door. Uh, full full steam forward, by the way.
Easter weekend, all right, and you're out at your local
independent garden centers, maybe yesterday or on Good Friday, maybe today,
maybe tomorrow, uh, this week, and you look and of
course loaded with all kinds of Easter plants for you know,
flowering plants for Easter color. And if you look around
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Wilder's lot available for you today, and if you look
at most of what is out there for the selections,
a lot of that most of it can be recycled
back into your garden. So you know, I think a
lot of these are grown and used as throwaways, and
then you know, folks use them, let them flower over
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the weekend, enjoy them next week a little bit, and
then when they're done flowering, you just kind of pitch
them out. But so many of those Easter flowers that
are available for you out there this weekend are easily
repurposed back into your garden spring bulbs, tulips, daffodils, hyacinths,
all of those. You know, just when they're done in
the pot, just deadhead them, feed them, keep them water
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as needed, keep them growing, put them outside. Let them
just continue to grow in those containers, probably for about
you know, four to six weeks, as long as you
can get them to grow in there, and they'll start
to eventually start to yellow a little bit. And when
they do that, take them out of the pot, cut
that foliage off about an inch or two of above
the bulb, you know, take it from that point, take
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them where you want to plant them in the ground,
and plant them as you normally would. And I say
that because in those containers they're usually planted very shallow.
They're two inches deep if at the most. And of
course if there's tulips and dafts and hyacins, you're putting
those in the ground six inches maybe eight inches, depending
on your soil. So replant them at the normal depth
that they would be planted. Throw in a little bit
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of a spoma's bulb tone water men well, and let
them go and they'll sit there the rest of the year,
go through the winter and come up for you next spring,
So yes, you can recycle those. How about the azaleas
and the hydrangees that you see sold out there for
Easter weekend flowers, Well, remember those are floral force, as
all of these are. They don't naturally well that the
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tulips could be a little bit different, but in the
flowering balls, but these are all floral force. So many
times the azaleas are not hardy selections for our particular zone.
If it's got a name on it, which is great,
you can look it up and see what how hardy
it is. If it's not hardy for the zone, what
you can do, and this does work, is grow it
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as a container plant, keep it outside during the growing season,
bring it back inside over the winter, and grow it
as a houseplant. Very sunny area. I remember my daughter
did this in college. I forget where she got the azalea,
but that thing flower. You'd have a butt open up
here and there over the wintertime, so I had a
little color every now and then. It worked great as
a houseplant. So you can bring those in. Hydrangees kind
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of the same way they usually use the macrophylotypes. The
pinks are blues and a lot of times. It may
not be a hearty selection. They're a selection grown more
for their ease to force into flour in the greenhouse,
so again you've got to be cautious there. If they
have the name of the hydrange, you're on their outstanding
look it up, see if it's hardy for our area.
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If not, again, you can grow them in a container
over winterm in an unheated garage or shed, bring them
back out in this spring time. If you plant them
in the ground, you will definitely have to winterize them.
In other words, the chicken wire caves around the outside
filled with leaves and straw to protect them over the
winter because they're not hardy for this particular area. But
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again you might as well try. And of course many
other things as well, the miniature roses and all that.
But the easter lily, which is the most common easter
flower that's sold out there this weekend, is very much
repurpose back into your garden, your perennial garden, because that's
a summer blooming garden lily. And again they just do
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the timing so that they are floral forced to bloom
this time of the year. So enjoy the flowers and
what I do is I pinch the If you still
has the stamens and the pistols on there, pistols out
of there. Just take a pair of tweezers and pull
those out of there, so you just have the white
flower and let it flour enjoyed in the house. When
you buy one, get one that's partially open closed, so
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you had different stages of the bud, so you get
a more end a period of flower. Let them flower inside.
Remember they've been grown in a greenhouse, so they're not hardy.
Foliage isn't hardy for being outside and taken on cold weather,
so you know, again take the foliage off or the
flower off well susan weather breaks, get them outside, plant
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them in the garden. They'll probably brown back to the ground.
That's okay. If they don't, you cut them back and
then they sometimes will regrow yet this year, or they
just sit there and come back for you again next year.
And its flower in the summer, not in the springtime,
so you can repurpose so many of those back out
into the garden. If you're not sure, check with where
you're buying them, or check with you're looking into pind
the Garden Center or email me and I'll help you
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out in answering that question to Kentucky, we go, Linda,
good morning, Good morning, Hi.
Speaker 8 (41:46):
I have a question about transplanting a hydrangea. It's probably
about it's probably about five years old. But I want
to move it. I want to dig it out and
then transplant it someplace out. So I wanted to know
how big, how far out do I need to start digging?
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And can I I don't know what the.
Speaker 1 (42:12):
Roots are like, any idea, any idea? What kind it is?
Speaker 5 (42:20):
Oh?
Speaker 8 (42:21):
Goodness?
Speaker 1 (42:21):
Is it a white flower?
Speaker 8 (42:23):
A white flower? Huge white flower?
Speaker 1 (42:26):
Okay? Around or pointed?
Speaker 8 (42:29):
Pointed?
Speaker 1 (42:30):
Okay? So it's probably in the panicle family, a peniculata.
That's fine. How tall is it now?
Speaker 8 (42:36):
Well it gets to be probably about four feet okay.
Speaker 1 (42:43):
So but you've cut it back to going into the
spring season.
Speaker 8 (42:46):
I cut it back.
Speaker 1 (42:47):
Actually perfect, everything's everything's perfect, all right. So that looking
and thinking about that at benning in the ground for
five years, I would take a sharp square space and
go out about twelve to eighteen inches away from the
of the plant and grow straight down in a circle
all the way around. See what you cut as far
as roots from there? You may be able to back
in just a little bit. From that, you'll find most
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of the roots are going to be in the top
twelve inches, so it's going to be kind of a
pancake sort of of a ball when you do it.
But again, go out about at least twelve inches away
from the center of the plant, as much as eighteen
and then work your way back in and you'll probably
find about twelve inches will work, So that would be
about twenty four inches total diameter, twelve inches deep. I'd
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probably do it this weekend because we want to get
it before it really starts to leap out too much.
Get it replanted, do like you would normally, water it
in well and hydra just transplant pretty well. So you
shouldn't have any problem at all. Any other questions, Linda
email me. I'll help you out as much as I can,
kind of take a break. Coming up next, Rita Hikenfeld
Here in the Garden with Ron.
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Wilson, not gardening questions.
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Ron has the answers at one eight hundred and eighty
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Our toll free number on this Easter weekend. Eight hundred
eight two three eight two five five. Good morning. I
am Ron Wilson, your personal boy, talking about yarding. Were
you off yesterday Good Friday? A lot of folks were.
I know a lot of folks were working. But you know,
I think and I think probably if you've listened to
our show over the years, I always I have fond
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memories of Good Friday at for what it is for
obviously and all of that, and going to church and all,
but also as I got into the garden center business
and high school as a teenager. You know, way back
then in the old days, Good Friday. If Good Friday
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was late in the in April, if it was early
in late March, you know, it wasn't quite as important
of a day as far as gardening. But if it
got into April, Good Friday was kind of like the
kickoff for spring gardening literally, And so that Friday the
garden centers always were, you know, you were ready to go. Friday, Saturday,
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Sundays no, because it was Easter. But on Friday and Saturday,
especially Good Friday, a lot of folks were off. You
took off, took the day off started work started working
in the yard, getting things cleaned up, getting the garden prepped,
starting to plant those cool season crops on good Friday,
east weekend. Maybe get a little color out there, but
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not much. Back then, we didn't have a lot of pants.
The pantries were out there, but not a lot like
they are today for a cool season, so early color,
not too much, but you know, just a clean up
vegetable garden, planting fruit trees. And I look back and
I look at the fruits and the berries that we
sold back down. Very limited, I mean very limited selection,
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not even close to what's compared to today. And they
were all bear root. And you know, I kind of
grew up in the garden center retail industry, going out
of the bare root generation into the container grown and
potted generation, whereas today you rarely ever see things sold
bare root anymore. But asparagus you'll find that in the springtime,
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horse radish you'll find that in the springtime. Sometimes you'll
find rhubarb sold in the bags, you know, a little
bit of sawdust and there you'll find those sold like that.
But otherwise you don't see them sold too much anymore.
Bare root. It's usually getting the pot and growing. And
that's just the way things have changed. But we used
to have just a selection of bag, a plastic bag
with a little sawdust in there, sometimes some straw, you know,
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the fruit trees, and you try to make sure you
got you only brought in what you could sell before
they really started to leaf out, because once they started
to leaf out, then they needed to be watered and
blah blah blah, and you wound up either putting them
on sail and getting rid of them, or or potting
them up or put them in a lot of times,
what would happen is we have a peat bed, and
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you could heal them into that peat bed and keep
the peat moist as and you know in my body
if you take them out, wrapped as up real quick
with some wet newspaper whatever, send them on back home
with it and get it planted. But it was the
bare root generation back then. Privet heads, you know, privet
was the hedge that everybody used to screen in in
your front yard, backyard whatever to create that green hedge.
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Because privet hedge, you know, quick growers, my gosh, you
could take you could do the first pruiting in the springtime.
With that, take those cuttings and stick them in the ground.
They would root and start to grow. So everybody had
privet hedges inexpensive, fast growing. Shear them twice a year,
maybe three times a year, keep them looking like a
nice you know, you know, formal hedge screening things off.
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But they came in bundles in bear root. So you
bought like ten in a bag. There's nobody bought planet one.
So you bought like ten in a bag for three
ninety nine or something like that. You took them home
and you cut them in a half and you planted
these Dorman bear root plants, and you know, they grew
like a weed. And then the next thing, you know,
two or three years later, you got a four foot hedge,
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nice and thick, and you know, the whole nine yards.
But I think it's it's fun looking back to that,
and I just remember onion sets and potatoes and the
seed packs. All you had to have all that ready
for a good Friday because it was the kick off
for getting out and getting the vegetable, getting the edibles
going in your yard and garden. And then we went
along as we went through the rest of April and
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into May and again annuals like geraniums and petunias and
things like that. Nobody thought about bringing those in until
you got closer to Mother's Day weekend, so we didn't
have anything. You just didn't. And I still remember there
was a time when the garden centers that I work with,
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you know, we used to not put anything out until
the last week of April, and then we would put
signs everywhere saying, you know, you know, we get to
be careful. May fifteenth frost free date, which meant it
was your chances were fifty percent or less that you're
going to get a frost and it could. We saw
frost up until Memorrow weekend back then, but you know,
we didn't put anything out. Of course, today, going to
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garden centers today, including us and the herbs and the
vegetables and the tomatoes and peppers and even the cucumbers,
which back then you never you would have never sold
cucumbers and melons and squawk and beans and corn in
packs already growing. Everybody bought that from seed and you
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direct so into the garden today, you know, I just
use yeah, it's okay. It's the way things have changed.
And that's the way gardening has changed over the years.
But that's all available. You go to your local garden
center this weekend, and you should because they're loaded, they're
ready to go, and you look at all that stuff
that's in there for a vegetable gardens, it's crazy. Keep
in mind, please, when is that frost free date? And
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remember when your frost free date is whatever is predicted
for your particular area where you live. It used to
be fifty percent or less of your chances having a
frost after that date. We always did today in most cases,
I think if you check compared to forty or fifty
years ago, it's changed drastically for our area in southern
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Ohio through central Ohio. And it used to be around
May fifteenth. It's now the last week of April, the thirtieth,
the thirtieth of April, and you know, boy, I scratched
my head. But you know, if you think back over
the last two or three or four years, we really
once we got into May really didn't experience freezing or
frosting temperatures, so you know, in our area anyway, but
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that's changed a lot. But anyway, point being is that
this was the weekend especially good Friday, where everybody kicked
in and got this started cleaning up, edging the beds,
you know, thinking about planting of trees, a couple of shrubs,
whatever you're going to add to. For Scythia, we used
to sell like crazy because it was in flower right then,
and everybody used for Ccythia for good yellow spring colors.
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And you know, the other plant that started to come
on as I just had gotten into this business in
high school and college was Viburnum car lesi Korean spice viburnum,
and they're still out there today, still going strong. All
the viburnums are great workhorse of flowering shrubs for just
about any location in your yard and garden, but the
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Viburnum car and then they came out with a new
selection called Jedi, which was a little bit more compact,
but the buds are pink, open, white, tremendous fragrance. So
everybody planted one by the front door, or one by
the back door, or one by the patio, so you
could smell that for about two weeks. It was absolutely gorgeous.
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In the rest of the year, just a good flower,
you know, a leafy shrub, but that was really big
at the you know, way back then, and again they're
still out there today and they still put out the
great fragrance. I think the semi evergreen one that's out
there now is Birkwood eye, which gives you the same fragrance,
a little smaller flower but semi evergreen. But that was
very popular. But for Scythia flowering almond, and you don't
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see that very much anymore, but flowering almond was kind
of on a heartyness borderline for our area with that
pink flower in the springtime in a shrub, absolutely gorgeous quints.
Flowering quints that was back then, you know, kind of
a weedy shrub. Now that the new varieties today more compact,
they're double flowers. But again for an early flowering quince
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was out there as well. But man, we used to
sell for ccynthia like crazy. But it was just it's
interesting how things have changed. But it seems like when
I get to Good Friday, it really triggers a lot
of old memories for me and maybe for you as well,
if you're in this industry, or if you've been gardening
for a long time, or work with your parents or
your grandparents or whatever. Going into Easter weekend. It's just
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a lot of memories, and of course that you think
back then too. And I was raised my childhood in Greensburg, Indiana,
home in the tree growing out of the roof of
the courthouse. And back then, of course, they still sold
the colored chicks, pinks and blues and reds and yellow
chicks that you could buy and kids would get one
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or two of them and raise them till they got
too big, and then they'd give away to a farmer
and let the farmer continue to raise them. Ducks were
always sold back then. That was kind of crazy. But
I think the one thing I always and I still
have a sign that kept that I found in a
file cabinet one time. Back then, on Good Friday, a
lot of businesses closed, or at least closed at noon,
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and they would close at noon so everybody could have
the rest of day off and you could go to
church because a lot of churches had noon or one
o'clock services on Good Friday. And I still have a
sign left over. It was a screen printed if you
remember what that was. Screen printed sign had blanks and
said we will be closed on Good Friday from and
then you filled it in and we were closed from
(10:30):
twelve till two, and underneath it said so our employees
can go to worship at their church and you can't
do or something like that. And I still have that.
I still think that unbelievable. And if you didn't go
to church and didn't do anything, and you worked at
the garden center, you could just stay there and water
and do things whatever while the store closed. The other
employees went to church, then came back. Then you reopened
(10:50):
again at two o'clock. Great memories, great memories. And I
hope you know when you think back to Good Friday,
Easter Weekend and all times like this, that you have
some great room memories. But it is Easter weekend, and
then this is Easter Saturday. We're talking yourr ning. Weather
is really starting to change for US, warmer weather. Yesterday
almost eighty degrees, crazy stuff, almost eighty degrees, So the
(11:13):
sal temperature's really coming up now. Lots going on, lots
you can plant, lots of tips to share with you today.
Our special guests today coming up at the top of
the next hour, We've got Rita Hikenfeld. We're going to
talk about her recipe and herb of the week by
the way. Her recipe is mint julips. She's a little
bit early on the mint julius for the running of
(11:34):
the roses, but there you go. So now you can
maybe share your men julyups this weekend as well. And
she also has her hot crossbun recipe still posted on
them there for Easter as well, if you want to
try to make those today, and we'll talk to Rita
more about that. And she has her herb of the Week,
which I've got a funny feeling being that mint julips
are the is the recipe mint may be the herb
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of the week as well. Then coming up to the
bottom of that hour, Ron Roth is our hobby meteorologist
and a certified arborist, talk about tree and tree care
right now, we're also talking about the weather and how
it's changing, and so what are we going to see
over the next couple of weeks as we try to
transition into the springtime annual vegetable planting time. What's he
gonna see out there? What do we think we're going
(12:16):
to see? And then of course we've got Gary Sullivan,
Buggy Joe Boggs and Danny Gleason and myself in between
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Walk come back. You're in the garden with Ron Wilson again,
that toll free number eight hundred eight two three eight
two five five talking about yardening and then talking about
everybody jumping in, you know, good Friday, getting those vegetable
gardens up and running, and don't forget. You know, once
the soil temperatures reach about forty five degrees, that's the
benchmark for going ahead and planting the cool season crops,
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the crops that really enjoy the cooler weather, and there
are a ton of them. Again, go to your local
independent garden center and check it out. Kale, cabbage, collars,
peas obviously, onions, potato patoes can be started now, Spinach, lettuces,
the radish's carrots, you know those are all can be
planted right now. Rhubarb, horse radish can all be planted
(16:10):
right now. Not sweet potatoes. If you're looking at doing
sweet potatoes, they want warmer temperatures. A little bit different
story there, So planting sweet potatoes and those slips gonna
wait a little bit longer for the temps to warm
up in the soil, but you know to hold off
on those. But those are all available for you to
plant now, whether it's from seed or from the plants themselves.
Most of the garden centers today have the cabbages and
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kales and collars and the peas, although you can plant
those some seed, spinach and lettuce in that they've got,
you know again, plants, or you can do it by seed.
It's up to you. And when you're doing the ratish,
just do a couple three different varieties so you can experiment.
I always like to do that, to experiment a little
bit here and there, just to see some different tastes.
But you know what still my absolute favorite, absolute favorite.
(16:56):
It's called brea French breakfast cake. Cook and her daughter,
many many years ago, was on our show. I think
at the time, her daughter was probably second grade or
something like that. Big Gardener has been working with her
mom gardening, basketball gardening for years, and she got on
the microphone not afraid to talk, and was telling me
about the radish that she grows. That's her favorite, blah
(17:19):
blah blah. It was French breakfast ratish. And of course
after she said that, I went and tried bottom and
the seeds and planted them. Absolutely phenomenal. And Nikita French
breakfast radishes. When you grow them is to harvest them
before they're fully mature, so you and again she's the
one that explained this to me, and I learned from
her and it just shows, you know, getting kids involved
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with gardening, what a great thing to do. But she said,
you know, you grow them and let them get about
the size of your little finger. There they're a longer radish.
They're not the round one. They're they're they're the longer one.
But if you harvest them when they're about the size
of your little finger in diameter, you can eat the
foliage and the radish at the same time. And the
radish at that point has almost a buttery flavor. And
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I know radish has a little bit of bite to it,
that a little bit of a kick, it has that,
but not you know, reddishes sometimes it can be pretty
a bite to them. If you pick up at that point,
it's very I can't eat, I can't describe it. It's
it's just very buttery. That's the way I look at it.
I'm super flavored. Just pull them out of the ground,
rinse them, off, pop them in your mouth, folod you
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in all absolutely wonderful. But they're called French breakfast radishes,
and you will find French breakfast radishes today in most
seapack racks unless somebody's already bought them out because they
seem to go very quickly because they are such a
great ratish. But there are several out there, and you know, again,
it's always fun to experiment, So try that. And if
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you're into the greens and all, and you start looking
at herbs and things like that, I got one I
want you too. I'm gonna want you to try in
the mustard greens and you can plant those right now
as well. Big Red is is it turns red in
the fall, which is why they call it that. But
it has a horse radish the Jean mustard type of
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a flavor to it does a mustard flavor literally, but
it's a little bit. He's got a nice kick to it.
And the other one if you like arugula, and who
doesn't like arugula in their salad? Even Danny Gleeson puts
arugul in his salad is the arugula was sabi. And
if your garden center doesn't grow arugula wasabi. You can
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grow a arugula wasabi from seed. Now you may have
to go online and find it, but the the wasabi
tells you what it does. It's got the greater arugula flavor,
but it's got a kick like was sabi. And most
of sabi around here is made out of horse radish,
but it has a great kick. And if you ever
come to the garden center everywhere I'm working and I'm
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standing around by the the arugula withabi, You'll know I
was there because I picked those small leaves off and
eth those in there. Absolutely wonderful. So try that as well.
But always, dude, you'll give yourself a little room when
you're putting a vegetable garden together to try something different
in what you'd normally grow, like tomatoes. You know, if
you grow a dozen tomatoes, grow eight that you normally grow,
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and grow four new selections everywhere every year, just to
try something different. I think you'll enjoy doing that. Quick break,
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Good morning, welcome back. You're in the garden with Ron
Wilson again that total free number eight hundred eight two
three eight two five five. Talking about yarding on this
Saturday before Easter. Got big plans tomorrow. Easter Buddy comes tonight,
going to check in the morning probably and maybe getting
together with the family in the little Easter brunch or
Easter dinner afternoon, ham lamb whatever it may be. Looking
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forward to Easter. I'm actually going to be off tomorrow.
I have worked Easter Sundays for my entire life being
in the retail business, and finally get tomorrow and take
the day off. What do you think of that?
Speaker 6 (23:22):
All?
Speaker 1 (23:22):
Right? Stuff like that, Yeah, talking your ding, talking about
things that are going on right now. And of course
you know you look at the as I look around
right now, the things that are flower it's a it's great.
We went from the magnolias and Forcythia and the and
the witch Hazel's earlier on and now we've gotten into
the early or the kind of the midspring bloomers. So
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now we're looking at red buds have been put just
putting on a heck of a show. The last ten
days to two weeks. Red buds just glowing everywhere. And
I'm telling you you look at your local independent garden
centers and nurseries today, the number of varieties of red
buds that are available on the market for you is phenomenal.
All different sizes, weepers, upright, compact ones, shrubby, you're looking variety,
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some with yellow leaves, some with yellow orange, some with
bronze leaves, maroon leaves, you know, pink, white, maroon, more
of a reddish color. It's it's crazy. It's almost like hydranges.
There's so many out there today, but it's really nice.
And that's a great tree. I mean, that's a tough,
durable tree. I've seen them get cankers, lose a branch
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here and there, and just keep right on ticketing may
look kind of funny, but they keep right on going.
And of course the flowers. Rita Hikenfeld coming up the
top of the hour. Rida actually kept picks those off
in some of hers and makes jams out of them,
and jelly's out of things like that. So putting on
a tremendous show. One of My favorite red buds in
the weeping form is Ruby Falls. Ruby Falls. If you've
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got a patio area that you want a little a
nice specimen focal plant, you know, and at least a
half half a day's sun, and they actually they you know,
red budds were originally kind of an understory tree grow
along the edge of the woods. That's where you see
them mostly. But you know, you get them out of
there and get them into full sun, they kind of change.
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They actually become a more round and not quite so open,
but they'll take those conditions and do it very well
for you. But one of those plants of the selections
that I have absolutely loved and is truly I'd have
to put her in probably my top ten list of
all favorite plants is Ruby Falls maroon leaves, and they
hold that she does a pretty good job holding that
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maroon color all summer long. You can take the top
out of it and it only gets eight ten feet
tall naturally and weeps over and back down again. You
get the pink flower in the springtime. You get the
maroon leaves during the growing season, which is outstanding, and
they hold that for you and then it kind of
brightens up a little bit of fall color and then
they're done. But that show during the season, and of
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course in the wintertime it being a weeper gives you
that weeping effects a good winter effect as well. But
Ruby Falls is outstanding. And by mistake, one time in
our nursery, somebody accidentally broke the top out of one
and broke it off about a foot off the ground.
Clip that off, and the branches that were still below
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that just continue to grow and it stayed like that
and grew out as a groundcover, so it kind of
had a mound in the middle, and it was the
coolest thing ever. So you know, you can pick a
height with that thing, take the top out of it,
and keep it at that for the rest of the
year of the plant's life, if that's what you want
to do. But I love Ruby Falls. But red Buzz
absolutely putting on a tremendous show right now. And as
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the red buds start to fade, the dog woods come
in right behind him. And as I'm looking around right now,
seeing a lot of white dog woods. You don't see
pinks and reds too much anymore, but you're seeing a
lot of white dog woods now putting on their show.
I'll tell you one. I really like a spring grove.
There's again, so many different selections of dogwood's out there,
it's crazy, But that spring grove is absolutely the flower
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the buck the bank for your buck on that white
flower is phenomenal if you can find that when it's
not that readily available. But oh my gosh, what a
great show that thing has, So you know, again check
that out. It's a nice one. And again we have
slipped some of the dogwoods would prefer that morning sun
afternoon shade. Most of them do, except for the the
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Chinese dog woods, which you can slip out there obviously
into the full sun. As a matter of fact, they
like more sun than they do the shade. But your
Cornice Florida's, you know, some of those hybrids would prefer
heat protection from the heat of the afternoon sun. But
absolutely gorgeous. But again you look around and all the
things redbood fading out. Dog was starting to come on.
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Quince I had mentioned Quin's earlier. I'm getting a lot
of emails right now saying, what is this shrub with
this orangey red flower down inside the plant? It's flowering
quints And yeah, they can produce the little quince fruits
that you know, you let it get frosted or frozen
a couple of times because they're so tark before you
try to eat them. But as Kevin O'Dell are, one
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of our local plantsmen is used to always talk about
quints being if you like azaleas, which I have a
hard time growing azaleas and you've got a spot that
has a little bit more sun and the azaleas don't
do very well. There do the quints. And there are
more compact varieties of quints. Now. I think double Take
is a series if I'm not mistaken, where it's a
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double flower, several different shades of colors, absolutely gorgeous. But
the quints will flower started flowering actually about ten days
two weeks ago, and still in full color. They last
quite quite some time. But take a look at those,
give you that azalea kind of a look. What's interesting
about quints and what's interesting about red bud is that
both of them flower on old growth. So when you
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look at a quints or you look at a red bud.
And I had again for folks who have never grown
a red bud before that had planted red buds last
year and they're butting out and flowering except for the
tips of the red bud, like the last six inches
or so, nothing there, you know, as my red bud dying.
They flower on old wood, so the growth from last
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year typically has no flower, and quints is the same way,
so you'll see the growth on the top, but you'll
see all of the color down inside the plant on
the older wood. That's the way they are red budget
that way in general as well. But I get a
lot of questions right now about the quins or I
have been absolutely gorgeous, I mean, and they're tough, durable,
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rest of the season, glossy green leaf, nice shrub. Some
of them have short spurs in them, as Quint's would have,
but again doesn't require a lot of pruning. Let them grow,
let them do their thing. Tremendous show for you. The
other one coming in right now that we're starting to
see everywhere are flowering crab apples, And you know, I
think flowering crab apples a long time ago. And the
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cherries are starting to fade a little bit as well.
I forgot to mention all the different ornamental cherries, but
crab apples now starting to come into their own. I
think crab as have started in some areas flying under
the radar anymore, because it's like if you had some
of the older varieties of crab apples and they get
apple scab on those leaves, it causes them to defoliate early.
They look they're kind of messy. I get that you
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can protect those and reduce the amount of scab that
they get by spraying with the funge inside early in
the season, starting about right now, and protecting him over
the next month and a half two months, and then
they don't look so bad in the summertime, but they
they've gotten a bad rap for that. The crab apple
itself really is not messy. The new varieties of crab
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apples stay on the plant, and you know when they
do start to drop, it's usually winter or late winter.
The birds eat them up usually not much of an issue.
I wouldn't put one by a sidewalk, but not much
of an issue as far as that either. So I
think crab apples, if you've kind of written them off,
should get a second look. And some of the newer
varieties that are out there right now are disease resistant,
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so they don't get the apple scab that some of
the other ones would have gotten and had that leaf drop.
So when you're looking at crab apples at your local
garden center, ask them are these disease resistant varieties? But
I'll tell you the whites and the pinks, and the
lavenders and the reds crab apples will offer quite an
assortment of great spring color. We'll last fairly long for you.
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And again, not all of them produce the fruit many
of them do. But it's a good pollinator plant, and
it's also a good wildlife plant. Because of the crab apples,
wildlife will enjoy those as well. But I'll tell you what.
You look around right now, there's a lot of stuff
and flour right now, and it's very enjoyable to experience
those sights and smells of spring color, no doubt about it.
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Before we take a break, Dick from Dayton, good morning,
Good morning, I'm great, Dick. We want to know we
got the big question here this morning for Dick from Dayton.
What is your favorite Easter candy?
Speaker 7 (31:57):
Let's see, I think.
Speaker 1 (32:01):
If the Easter Buddy only brought you one thing, what
would you want him to bring you?
Speaker 7 (32:05):
Well, I always like Reese's cups.
Speaker 1 (32:09):
Cups absolutely, Now do you like Reese's cups or do
you like the recy eggs that they do special too?
I like the eggs a little different.
Speaker 7 (32:17):
But you know another thing my friend sometimes gives me
is I like him and m's you like him?
Speaker 5 (32:22):
And oh?
Speaker 1 (32:23):
Absolutely? Yeah? And you know they got almond and peanut
and peanut butter.
Speaker 7 (32:28):
Hey day from Dayton. I got to fight a nicely.
I heeart radio. It's beautiful, Ron I did, and I
played a little music. I met Willie Austin. Let's ulse
Brian Combs. Oh it was just oh, it was nice rock.
Dave just was.
Speaker 1 (32:50):
Here's my question, how come you come down here when
Dan and I aren't here? And Gary Jeff.
Speaker 7 (32:54):
Well, I was hoping you guys were there, and you
gotta let us know. Yeah, I got okay, I told
Dave I wanted to see Ron and Danny glease.
Speaker 1 (33:07):
Okay, you gotta let us know. If you let us
know when you're gonna be here, we'll hang around. Okay,
all right, Hey, we gotta go. I have you guys said.
We gotta go. Have a happy Easter. Dick, Thank you
all right, good talking to you. Dick from Dayton receis
eggs or receives. Which do you like better, recy peanut
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butter cups or the rece eggs both? Great answer? Eight hundred,
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at eight hundred eight two three eight two five five.
Good morning. I am run Wilson, your personal yard boy
on this Saturday before Easter, which you got planning for tomorrow.
What's your favorite Easter candy? What's your favorite Easter candy? Dan?
You just asked me that I know, but we weren't
on the air. Oh yeah, we were, were we?
Speaker 4 (36:06):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (36:06):
We were?
Speaker 6 (36:07):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (36:07):
Got ity cups and anything anything receas. How about Reese's pieces?
You know that's one of my favorites.
Speaker 4 (36:13):
Yes, I love that when I was a kid.
Speaker 1 (36:14):
And right now, yeah, all right, why are you eating some?
Speaker 7 (36:17):
I wish I was.
Speaker 1 (36:18):
So I do too. I should have gotten something brought
him in my bad anyway, talking about yarding, and of
course the weather really changing now Wow, looking great. Uh,
and you know we're going to see it continue on
next week. And I think and now they'll see the
soil temperatures coming up, air temperatures coming up, and the
two of those combined like that. Uh it's Katie bar
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the door. Uh, full full steam forward, by the way.
Easter weekend, all right, and you're out at your local
independent garden centers, maybe yesterday or on Good Friday, maybe today,
maybe tomorrow, uh, this week, and you look and of
course loaded with all kinds of Easter plants for you know,
flowering plants for Easter color. And if you look around
(36:59):
Wilder's lot available for you today, and if you look
at most of what is out there for the selections,
a lot of that most of it can be recycled
back into your garden. So you know, I think a
lot of these are grown and used as throwaways, and
then you know, folks use them, let them flower over
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the weekend, enjoy them next week a little bit, and
then when they're done flowering, you just kind of pitch
them out. But so many of those Easter flowers that
are available for you out there this weekend are easily
repurposed back into your garden spring bulbs, tulips, daffodils, hyacinths,
all of those. You know, just when they're done in
the pot, just deadhead them, feed them, keep them water
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as needed, keep them growing, put them outside. Let them
just continue to grow in those containers, probably for about
you know, four to six weeks, as long as you
can get them to grow in there, and they'll start
to eventually start to yellow a little bit. And when
they do that, take them out of the pot, cut
that foliage off about an inch or two of above
the bulb, you know, take it from that point, take
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them where you want to plant them in the ground,
and plant them as you normally would. And I say
that because in those containers they're usually planted very shallow.
They're two inches deep if at the most. And of
course if there's tulips and dafts and hyacins, you're putting
those in the ground six inches maybe eight inches, depending
on your soil. So replant them at the normal depth
that they would be planted. Throw in a little bit
(38:25):
of a spoma's bulb tone water men well, and let
them go and they'll sit there the rest of the year,
go through the winter and come up for you next spring,
So yes, you can recycle those. How about the azaleas
and the hydrangees that you see sold out there for
Easter weekend flowers, Well, remember those are floral force, as
all of these are. They don't naturally well that the
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tulips could be a little bit different, but in the
flowering balls, but these are all floral force. So many
times the azaleas are not hardy selections for our particular zone.
If it's got a name on it, which is great,
you can look it up and see what how hardy
it is. If it's not hardy for the zone, what
you can do, and this does work, is grow it
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as a container plant, keep it outside during the growing season,
bring it back inside over the winter, and grow it
as a houseplant. Very sunny area. I remember my daughter
did this in college. I forget where she got the azalea,
but that thing flower. You'd have a butt open up
here and there over the wintertime, so I had a
little color every now and then. It worked great as
a houseplant. So you can bring those in. Hydrangees kind
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of the same way they usually use the macrophylotypes. The
pinks are blues and a lot of times. It may
not be a hearty selection. They're a selection grown more
for their ease to force into flour in the greenhouse,
so again you've got to be cautious there. If they
have the name of the hydrange, you're on their outstanding
look it up, see if it's hardy for our area.
(39:52):
If not, again, you can grow them in a container
over winterm in an unheated garage or shed, bring them
back out in this spring time. If you plant them
in the ground, you will definitely have to winterize them.
In other words, the chicken wire caves around the outside
filled with leaves and straw to protect them over the
winter because they're not hardy for this particular area. But
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again you might as well try. And of course many
other things as well, the miniature roses and all that.
But the easter lily, which is the most common easter
flower that's sold out there this weekend, is very much
repurpose back into your garden, your perennial garden, because that's
a summer blooming garden lily. And again they just do
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the timing so that they are floral forced to bloom
this time of the year. So enjoy the flowers and
what I do is I pinch the If you still
has the stamens and the pistols on there, pistols out
of there. Just take a pair of tweezers and pull
those out of there, so you just have the white
flower and let it flour enjoyed in the house. When
you buy one, get one that's partially open closed, so
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you had different stages of the bud, so you get
a more end a period of flower. Let them flower inside.
Remember they've been grown in a greenhouse, so they're not hardy.
Foliage isn't hardy for being outside and taken on cold weather,
so you know, again take the foliage off or the
flower off well susan weather breaks, get them outside, plant
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them in the garden. They'll probably brown back to the ground.
That's okay. If they don't, you cut them back and
then they sometimes will regrow yet this year, or they
just sit there and come back for you again next year.
And its flower in the summer, not in the springtime,
so you can repurpose so many of those back out
into the garden. If you're not sure, check with where
you're buying them, or check with you're looking into pind
the Garden Center or email me and I'll help you
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out in answering that question to Kentucky, we go, Linda,
good morning, Good morning, Hi.
Speaker 8 (41:46):
I have a question about transplanting a hydrangea. It's probably
about it's probably about five years old. But I want
to move it. I want to dig it out and
then transplant it someplace out. So I wanted to know
how big, how far out do I need to start digging?
(42:10):
And can I I don't know what the.
Speaker 1 (42:12):
Roots are like, any idea, any idea? What kind it is?
Speaker 5 (42:20):
Oh?
Speaker 8 (42:21):
Goodness?
Speaker 1 (42:21):
Is it a white flower?
Speaker 8 (42:23):
A white flower? Huge white flower?
Speaker 1 (42:26):
Okay? Around or pointed?
Speaker 8 (42:29):
Pointed?
Speaker 1 (42:30):
Okay? So it's probably in the panicle family, a peniculata.
That's fine. How tall is it now?
Speaker 8 (42:36):
Well it gets to be probably about four feet okay.
Speaker 1 (42:43):
So but you've cut it back to going into the
spring season.
Speaker 8 (42:46):
I cut it back.
Speaker 1 (42:47):
Actually perfect, everything's everything's perfect, all right. So that looking
and thinking about that at benning in the ground for
five years, I would take a sharp square space and
go out about twelve to eighteen inches away from the
of the plant and grow straight down in a circle
all the way around. See what you cut as far
as roots from there? You may be able to back
in just a little bit. From that, you'll find most
(43:09):
of the roots are going to be in the top
twelve inches, so it's going to be kind of a
pancake sort of of a ball when you do it.
But again, go out about at least twelve inches away
from the center of the plant, as much as eighteen
and then work your way back in and you'll probably
find about twelve inches will work, So that would be
about twenty four inches total diameter, twelve inches deep. I'd
(43:31):
probably do it this weekend because we want to get
it before it really starts to leap out too much.
Get it replanted, do like you would normally, water it
in well and hydra just transplant pretty well. So you
shouldn't have any problem at all. Any other questions, Linda
email me. I'll help you out as much as I can,
kind of take a break. Coming up next, Rita Hikenfeld
Here in the Garden with Ron.
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