September 28, 2024 • 44 mins
A cup of Joe to kick things off. Also your calls and tips.
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Speaker 1 (00:34):
Eight hundred and eight two three eight two five five.
Good morning. I am Ron Wilson, your personal yardboard. We're
talking about yard and let's kick off our show, not
with Helena or Helen or whatever her name was, but
with Joe Strucker, our executive producer. Find out what's going
on Islau and landscape. Nothing yet, because he's going to
blame the rains from yesterday. I the high winds from yesterday.
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Our website, Ron Wilson online dot com and Facebook page.
In the garden with Ron Wilson, Good morning, sir.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Get any rain?
Speaker 1 (01:01):
Did you get any rain yesterday? A little bit? Did
you get any of the day before that or the
day before that, the day before that?
Speaker 2 (01:06):
I did get some Yeah, yeah, I did get I
did get a little bit of rain over the week.
Did you get some wins yesterday?
Speaker 1 (01:12):
Wins? Yes.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
So my question for you to start off is no, now,
now what.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
Now?
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Now that the hurricane has come through, is the drought
over and we could just put our hoses away?
Speaker 1 (01:28):
Come on, you kind of said the same thing last week,
and you know somebody's going to just hear that part
and say, well, Joe said the drought's over, Well.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
They should know that you're you're the garden expert and
I'm the the No it's not, and it's actually put
a put a comedic relief.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
You are standing little stand up comedy and get us
started in the morning, But uh no, it's not. You know,
it put a dent in some areas. I think south
west Ohio got more than Southeast Ohio that got more,
that got less than Central Ohio. They didn't get as much.
And you get up to northern Ohio, I think yesterday
they got like a little bit like an inch or so,
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so not much, but it was something, and you know,
obviously to build on the temperatures are I think ron
Roth has said that temperatures are going to stay a
little bit above average over the next couple of weeks.
But I still looking at the tempts at seventies and
low eighties. I think the eighties are very unusual for October.
And I don't see rainfall in the next seven or
ten days, so I don't know, we'll see what happens.
But for our area, so I was got two two
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and a half inches the regions of rain, so it
didn't cure anything, but it was certainly nice.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
I think what it was, I mean, just for property issues.
This was one of these storms. When it came through,
it just came through. It's not like one of those
hurricanes that kind of come through and then they sit.
You know how Wish would have really bad ones that
just just sit and yeah, oh yeah, keep on turning. Yeah, fact,
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what every ones came through and then next thing you
knew it was in North Carolina.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
Yeah, I'm you're listening to the news. You know, on
Friday morning, you get up and it's already moved through
and gone up in Atlanta and you know whatever, it's
already hitting us in so yeah, so it's fast.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
But we got some well needed rain, we did, fact.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
And you gotta admit, I don't know if you if
you'd pitch as much attention as I do. You have
to admit, Joe, don't. Yeah, you have to admit that.
Can you look out there at the lawns. It's amazing.
Make me admit. You have to admit Joe that it's
amazing how much the lawns did green up just from
the smaller amount of rain. It's just overnight, literally overnight,
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with that amount of rain, you could have sat in
your front porch and watched it. I think you could have.
I got. I have some Grolo sumacs that put out
two inches of growth, seriously in the last three days,
just from that small amount of rainfall we had. It's
the craziest thing. So some other amazing what mother nature
can do, which is a small amount. But we are
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by no means out of the dry situation. We're still there.
You still got to keep watering, don't put the hoses away,
don't turn off the irgecious system. We got a long
way to go.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
So the next question is, so the hurricane came through
and knocked down a tree, what do you do do
you stand under the tree and go wow, I got
a tree knocked over.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
My almost a few branches that are oak trees, which
are normally they do that lot. So I got to
get all that certified arborst get them to come out.
Don't don't do the guy with the pickup truck. I'm
telling you, they're headed your way there, and they do.
They follow storms like that. They you know, might even
not even live here, just live in some other state
and follow those storms right behind them. And you know
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it's cash only. And I can do that for two
hundred and fifty bucks and don't fall for it. And
a lot of people have it done and sometimes it works,
and sometimes every now and then somebody gets burnt. So
you know, you just can't check the credentials, you know,
go to the is A site and find out, you know,
whether they're certified arbors or not. But check their credentials.
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Make sure everything's cool before you have anybody do any
kind of thing like that on your property. Absolutely. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
So yeah, so that's our that's their hurricane coverage.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
Yep, yep. But it's amazing how much water that she dumped,
especially when you hit Florida. The storm surge was crazy.
There were some spots they had record storm surge. I
still think of you because you and I have the
same opinion. When the weather people are standing there and
in the water, yeah, with a ten foot surge hitting
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the along side of them doing a story, it's like,
why are you doing that? Right? Just show us a
picture of the surge and you can stand thirty yards
away from it, don't You don't have to do that.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
Yeah, you're not winning any awards around here.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
They standing with the river floods and they stand in
the six inches of flood water. It's like, you don't
have to do that, just show me the flood Yeah, exactly. Yeah,
So anyway, anyway, that's all we would do if we
were weather forecasters. But we did get a little bit
of a break, a little bit of a relief, so
you know, you can build on it now, keep your
sprinklers going, and that really does help if you're trying
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to make a decision. We're going to talk about this
during the show. If you're going to try to make
that decision what to do with the lawn. You know,
you can keep building on this because we are running
out of time for seeding. So you've got to make
a decision here in the next couple of weeks what
you want to do. And you know, again watering is key,
which you know, and you're going to have to commit
to it whatever mother nature decides to bring us over
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the next month. So got to make a decision there.
But you know, falls here and it is planting time
and it is awesome mom season. It's moms season, and
a lot of people have held off getting the mums.
I think it seems like the search for buying mums
has been late this year. Most of the garden centers.
I've talked to. Everybody's a little bit behind. Like, I
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can't blame folks. It's been hot, it's been dry. You
don't want to go out in water. You're tearing your
annuals out because you're tired of watering them. So but
this week we certainly saw some upticks, so I think
people are going to be out right get some things done.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
And the pumpkins have been smaller than usual too.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
It depends, you know. We I think the the good
thing is that we get pumpkins from other states as well,
and so they're able to go out and find a
little bit larger pumpkins. Now. I talked to Jerry Rose,
is gonna be with us this morning, by the way,
the giant pumpkin grower, and tell us how that drought
has affected everybody around that he's seen so far. And
of course they do drip irrigation and all that stuff.
(07:25):
But yeah, we'll talk to them and see what his
general consensus is. But the pumpkins we've gotten in for
sale have still been the same size as usual, so
you know, I think, but there are some some farms
definitely were smaller pumpkins this year, so.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
In addition to the Great Pumpkin, who else that he
got on the show today?
Speaker 1 (07:44):
Who else we have? We're gonna talk with the folks
with flawns. We've talked to them before. It's it's it's
turning your lawn into a flowering lawn. So it's you
can still have the turf type tall rescues, but still
have clover with it. So it helps to feed the
turf type tall rescue. It does blow them occasionally, so
you can help the pollinators at the same time, so
they do work together. And we'll talk with them about
how they do that.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
Now, are you gonna have the guy on that that's
gonna pave your lawn so you don't have to mow
it anymore and just painted cream?
Speaker 1 (08:10):
You see, they're getting rid of that, you know, like
artificial turf. Now they're telling them howing people take that
up like out in California and stuff in Arizona to
get rid of it. That's it's even worse than just
doing like gravel or sand or whatever or painting that.
So yeah, so not okay. So and then you got
Sully and no Buggy Joe. As a matter of fact,
(08:33):
that Gary thought he was gonna be on vacation this week,
but the helln kind of canceled that. Yeah, so he
is with back Live, so we'll have Gary on and
didn't Bugget Joe after that, we were gonna have a
three segment Buggy Joe he was all fired up.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
Well, well he must be because he didn't send anything
this week to put on a website.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
Well, you know, things are starting to taper off now,
not a lot to take pictures of. So yeah, especially
let's move over to the website. Okay, run Wilson online
dot com, and we have just a couple of things
this week because Buggy Joe was slacking. Yep, Buggy Joe's
and is getting ready to make his chrysalis and gobernate
(09:10):
and turn into a beautiful butterfly. The first one is
what okay moth what, Well, he's from that part of
the part of the country. Ye man propably, that's one
of his favorites.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
First one is Rita's recipe of the week, and she
has a yummy money Cristo's sandwich.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
Would you eat that? Eat that?
Speaker 2 (09:35):
Mm hmm, definitely would you make if she would if
she'd made it? Yeah, I'm making I'm eating that. Yeah,
would I make that?
Speaker 1 (09:44):
Maybe?
Speaker 2 (09:46):
That's a big maybe.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
But don't they have to press that down?
Speaker 2 (09:48):
Yeah? Yeah, you know you have to press it. And
I'm not sure about the mustard. Yeah, but you know
it'd be worth a try. Hey, if Rita brought one
in here right now, I wouldn't refuse.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
You know it, and any any of her recipes are
good anyway. You know it's gonna taste it right.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
Planning of the week service berry, service berry. Yes, Okay,
that's it right, So I guess I'm done. I gotta leave.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
Well, if you're planning you need a small ornamental tree
that or large shrub, consider service berry. It's pretty cool.
It's probably one of the most it is one of
the most common trees grown today in the nurseries. Everybody's
enjoying it. Great white flowers in the springtime, the edible
berries that come on right after that, good fall colors,
and like I say, a good small to medium ornamental
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tree or large shrub. And I think autumn brilliance, I
think is the one we talked about on the lech
here grand of Flora Flora. Yeah, all kinds of real
really cool common names for that too cool and there's
an old history behind why they call it that and
all that stuff, shad blow and all that, and that's
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all on the website and you'll find out a run
Wilson online dot com.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
Cool all right, facebook page is rocking and I'm rolling
out out all right?
Speaker 1 (11:06):
Sounds good? You sure? Yep? Okay, what are you going
to do today? I am going to.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
I'm going to because I had a long day yesterday
because of because of the rain, and I do high
school football, and high school football was you know, it
was everything kind of got just tiring for you. We
just got pushed. So it was a late night, got it?
So all right, we'll go home and take a nap
(11:32):
or two or three. Can I just take one here?
If you can make it home without fall asleep, I
just take one here. You ever fight that? I have
fought it in the morning, yeah, getting up, but not
on the way home. Okay, Oh, coming in coming in. Oh,
I'm always fired up, coming in, so I'll awake. Well
then you're done. When you're done, and yeah I'm done,
(11:52):
I'm like, oh, okay, well I'm more woo you're fired
up the other way? Yeah, there you go, Yeah, got it?
And you lap the head, put my head on. Do
you need a can I stay here? Uh?
Speaker 3 (12:05):
Sure?
Speaker 1 (12:07):
Dan said, come on over, Okay, I'm out of here.
How could you sit in one of these tall chairs
and put your heads It's We're done. Eight hundred eight
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Speaker 1 (15:41):
Welcome back here in the Garden with Ron Wilson again
that total free number eighth.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
Ron Joe's already over here sleeping.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
Done to wake up, go home. And then that's pretty fast.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
I mean he is very tired.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
Hang on, give me, give me a little kick.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
I will, but I have to turn my golf in
case he says something. You should.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
Love it anyway, talking about yarding, and during the break,
I got both the weather forecast for today because it's
actually still raining. Was raining on the way in this morning,
and it looks like the way this Helena is a
kind of focus just continues to circle in our area,
and we may wind up having showers through Monday, which
is absolutely outstanding. We will take that. And of course
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Ron rothis always giving us an update during the breaks,
giving it a little text here in his area, excuse me,
in south western Ohio four point thirty nine inches of rainfall,
and he had talked last week about probably not seeing
so much in the southeastern part, and come to find
out in Portsmouth, Ohio, they've gotten up to eight inches
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in some areas. That's hard to predict. How do you
predict that right when a hurricane comes through. That's a
tough one. But looks like she's going to just kind
of circle around for a while and finally kind of
move out of here on late Monday. So we've still
got a chance of a scattered shower, so we will
take that. We'll take the rainfall. I tell you, we
had cracks in front of our house and our and
our landscape where I didn't need to water, and the
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cracks are easily an inch wide. It didn't go very deep,
but they certainly cracked at the top. Uh, it's it's
been dry, but I no standing water. Dam was saying
the same thing. No standing water in my yard.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
None, and yeah, no, usually there is when it rains
that much. But yeah, when I looked out yesterday afternoon, nothing.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
Yeah, so it's uh, you know, Fortunately we're soaking some
of it in and I hope this keeps up so
we get some light showers over the next two or
three days. It just builds on top of it. It's
like if you were running your sprinklers after a good rainfall.
It just builds on top and builds on top and
continues to take it into the ground. Lakes right now.
The lakes at our nursery were really low. I mean
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they were to the bottom, totally recharged. Uh looking at
him last night at about five o'clock. We've had so much,
had so much rain yesterday, but it looks like a
bomb went off out there. It's crazy with all the debris.
The plant debris is everywhere because of the winds. And
that's why I cannot imagine being there when it's one
hundred and forty degree mile in hour wins and we
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were experiencing thirty five and forty mile hour wins. I
can't even imagine. Matt and Dayton, Ohio, Matt good morning, Hey.
Speaker 8 (18:16):
Good morning for your show.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
I always enjoy it. My pleasure.
Speaker 8 (18:21):
Guys are making me laugh anyway. I wanted to share
with you kind of a little joke that I played
on some conservation of friends of mine. The tree or
bush and maybe a bush, I don't know, bottom olive.
Speaker 3 (18:32):
Were you familiar with that?
Speaker 1 (18:33):
I sure am.
Speaker 8 (18:35):
Okay, Well, it's considered an invasive species from what I understand,
I believe been in the seventies, OD.
Speaker 3 (18:43):
And R and some other stayings.
Speaker 8 (18:44):
He's actually proliferated and playing it as a nitrogen picture.
Speaker 3 (18:50):
And now I guess it's no good.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
Nobody once it anymore.
Speaker 3 (18:53):
So everybody's trying to.
Speaker 8 (18:54):
Get rid of it, right right, not a battlet. The
tree I kind of silver leave. Its kind of pretty,
and it has these little red berries. The joke I
played was this year I figured out that the berries
are high in lycopene and antioxidant, and I made some
jelly and I passed it out.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
To them and did they like it?
Speaker 3 (19:13):
Oh, yeah, it's good.
Speaker 8 (19:14):
We mixed it up a little bit of honey from
beehives and uh yeah.
Speaker 3 (19:17):
It's not bad.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
You know. Our herbal specialists Rita Hikingfel Will do that,
and I kind of kid it with her last year
because I said, you know, you're actually helping us out
because it's a plant that's one of those good plants
gone bad, because it was even sold in the garden
centers using the landscapes, and you know, we thought this
was a great ornamental tree. Come to find out, the
seeds are very prolific and they come up everywhere. It
became invasive. So I said, you know, picking the berries
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and making jellies and jams and whatever out of them.
I said, you're actually doing a great thing because that
way they don't come back up. So good for you.
Didn't that you tell them what it was.
Speaker 8 (19:50):
Yeah, well that was a big joke, you know, because
when they found out it's, uh, okay.
Speaker 3 (19:54):
Well there's something useful you can do with it.
Speaker 8 (19:56):
So I kind of keep a few of them as pets.
Speaker 3 (19:59):
So yeah, most of it.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
Yeah, Well, you know, if we can get everybody to
go out there and collect up the seeds and make
jellies and jams, we might be getting this thing back
under control. Hey Matt, good, good tip. I appreciate it.
All right, good talking to you. That's autumn, all of
it again.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
One of those.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
It just like the pears, good plant gone bad. Who knew,
you know, but it was a great ornamental plant. But
next thing you know, it's seating everywhere. You know, it's
popping up everywhere as well. Crazy stuff. All right, quick break,
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Speaker 1 (22:47):
Welcome back. You're in the garden with Ron Wilson again
at toll free number eight hundred and eight two three
eight two five five. I'll get through it here this morning, uh,
talking about yardening and of course what a difference, say
a week makes on Monday, driving around looking at some
landscapes and all, and I wrote myself a note as
I was driving. It was kind of the shame on
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you kind of a note because as I was driving around,
I could still see the professional and I put that
in quotation marks professional lawn care companies mowing what appeared
to be dead grass, what appeared to be dormant lawns,
what appeared to be dirt and dust because there wasn't
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anything green there, but they were still mowing with their crews,
and I where they were mowing. We're all businesses or hoa,
you know, where the homeown associations hired somebody to come
in and do mowing on a regular basis and they're
on a schedule and all of that. And I'll tell
you what, sometimes I see that and it's just like,
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wait a minute, you gotta be kidding me, you know,
And again, yeah, they're on a schedule, so they go
and do that. And I mean there were three different
instances where I saw folks mowing and they were either
on the big you know, like the zero turns or
the ride behinds, and all they were doing were kicking
up dust and causing more problems. And that shouldn't be
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so if you have it, you are part of a
homeowner association and you have contracts like that, somebody needs
to keep an eye out because unfortunately, you know, that's
our contract, We're supposed to do it every ten days,
blah blah blah. Doesn't always work. And again that's my
soapbox for today. But I just it's a shame on
you to take advantage of people, because all three of
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those were professional a you know, some a company with
a name on it and mowing nothing but dust, dirt,
dormant grass or just totally dead grass at that point. Now,
isn't amazing what a week changes things? Because now I
go back look at some of those areas, including mine,
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and it's amazing how it just greened up within a
day the first shower we got that came through. Uh. Actually,
you can start to see things change. Amazing how mother
nature does that. We can water and water and water,
which is good, and you've got to do that to
keep these things alive. But then mother nature comes to
and puts one shower in there, just one. Now she's
had several sins then, uh, and you can see an
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immediate difference in everything. So pretty cool. But anyway, that's
my soapbox. Shame on you, and if you're out there,
just you know, at this point, they're starting to green
back up again, so hopefully you didn't cause a whole
lot of damage out there. But that's I saw that,
and it's like, you've got to be kidding me. Shame
on you.
Speaker 9 (25:44):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (25:44):
Eight hundred eight two three eight two five five rush
to in Ohio, Good morning.
Speaker 3 (25:50):
Morning, sir, appreciate your shit.
Speaker 9 (25:53):
I was, yeah, uh, I wanted to know the proper
way of h I'm gonna say, harvest, but keep them.
My canna bulbs had a great crop this year. Had
to keep water them a lot. But and don't know
if I should cut him down now or just let
him die from the frost and then you know, dig
the bulbs up.
Speaker 1 (26:11):
Yeah, let them go as long as you can. As
a matter of fact, that let mother nature take them
out for you. You know, we get we get good
freezes in frost without the ground freezing. Matter of fact,
I don't think the ground even attempted to freeze until
after the holidays last year. So let the frost and
freezes take out the top, kill everything off, and at
that point then pull them out of the ground once
you know they're totally done on the top, clean all
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that off. And the thing about cannons, they're pretty darn residual.
You can just kind of clean them off a little bit.
I've taken them and thrown them in a five gallon bucket,
you know, get all the soil off, store them away
in a you know, an area that stays about fifty
degrees and it's dark, and they do quite nicely doing that,
so they don't require a whole lot as far as
getting them cleaned up. But let mother nature take them
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out for you first and then go from there. So
we we have a long way to go yet before
you'll really start to see those die out of tall you.
I have a total new respect for cannas. About three
years ago started planting them in containers and it's amazing
the amount of not watering that they will take and
still provide a lot of color, and of course it's
a great the foliage as well. But yeah, let mother
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nature do it for you.
Speaker 9 (27:16):
Exactly. Yeah, that's exactly how I have them in big containers.
I have a big butchering kettle. It's like three foot across.
That's several different color canes and and stadium's grown out
the draping off side. And also uh, the ornamental sup potatoes. Now,
can they be harvested as well? And or are they
or do you have to just you know, purchase them
(27:37):
every year?
Speaker 1 (27:39):
You know, some folks will take cuttings and and grow them.
You can grow them from that tuber. The kicker is
they're so they're so thin skinned. If you bruise those
at all and try to store those away. They will
start to decompose and rock. Okay, so but you can
give it a try. And some folks have done that
and got them to grow. And sometimes they come true
(27:59):
and grow the you know, yellow or maroon or whatever,
and sometimes they don't. But it's worth trying to, you know,
try to over winter something. If you don't, if you
bruise them or whatever, just eat.
Speaker 9 (28:08):
Them, okay, okay, And one last question.
Speaker 3 (28:12):
I bought some uh uh.
Speaker 9 (28:14):
I've got different containers around the deck with with different
kind of seed and just squill a seconds. I got
hand and chicks and your regular yellow seed. But and
I bought them personally this year and it's flowering. It'll
it'll go in at night. But in the daytime it's
beautiful flowers. And I had someone in a hanging basket
(28:35):
and they fell in the in the rocks and the
rugguard and they come up because I didn't plant these. Now,
will they are they perennial like your like your person
laying weeds or will they it's an a Are they animal?
Speaker 1 (28:48):
It's an annual but it comes back from seed, so
you'll see this, you know, So the seeds will drop
and that's why you see them like you get them
in a hanging basket and then they show up down below.
The seeds drop into the soil and sometimes they will
pop right up again. But it's an annual that comes
back from the seed for you.
Speaker 3 (29:04):
Gotcha.
Speaker 9 (29:05):
Okay, very good. Well I've learned a lot today.
Speaker 1 (29:07):
All right, Rusty, Hey, good, good talking to you. Appreciate
the call. And again can is a whole new respect,
especially in containers. And think about cannas have been around forever.
Grandma and great Grandma used to grow cannas because you
could dig them up and put them back out in
the springtime and they always came back and great colors
and great foliage in the whole nine yards. But today
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there are so many great different varieties, and so many
great different colors, and so many great foliage colors. In
some cases you almost don't want them to flow because
the foliage is so unique and spectacular. But in containers,
it's amazing the amount of dryness that they will take.
Now this year, Just like Rusty was saying, I agree,
you had to you had to water. There was a
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point there where all of a sudden I could tell
that the flowers just weren't hanging in there. Those big
tubers can hold a lot of moisture, but there is
a point where they eventually will dry out. So I
watered those more this year than I ever have. But
for the most part, I'll tell you cannas are tough, durable,
they take up, they're big, they're massive, and you get
different sizes. I mean you get somebody get six feet tall.
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There's so many dwarf varieties that are eighteen to twenty
four inches tall. And of course the flowers on top
just an added bonus to it as well. Hummingbirds, a
lot of the podlands they all love the flowers, so
it's a great plant. So, like I said two or
three years ago, I think I started mentioning cannons more
and more, especially for containers, because they do such a
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great job under really adverse conditions where it's hot, dry, whatever,
and gives you such a great look cannas. And again
it's if you're zone seven, you can probably overwhinder those
in the ground with a little bit of mulching as
long as it drains well. You get into eight or
six where we are. If it's along the foundation of
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the south side of the house, and it's good drainage.
We have had cannas over winter and come back up
in the springtime. I personally don't take the chance if
it drops down then you could lose them because they
cannot freeze. But some of those areas where you know
we Zone six, where it stays a little bit warmer,
we have had a few actually over winter in the ground.
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You know, you might want to experiment see how maybe
one or two years would do if leaving it in
the ground versus bringing it back inside. All right, quick
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Speaker 1 (33:41):
Talking to your eardening at eight hundred and eight two three,
eight two five five the last Saturday in September. Can
you believe that talking to your arning? I am Ron Wilson.
Don't forget our website. Ron Wilson online dot Com. You know,
I just want I would bring this up real quick
and we'll go back to the gardening phone lines. But
you know, I'm a big container gardener. Love growing things
that contain and it's amazing what you can grow. And
(34:01):
over all these years, you know, we've tried to experiment
with just about anything and everything, and there are some
things that don't do quite so well in containers, and
you know, if you don't take care of them, they're
not sometimes don't do as well as they would in
the ground because they are dependent upon you for feeding
and for watering and for care because they're up above
the grounds. It's only natural. But you know, it's become
(34:25):
more and more popular, which has been kind of exciting
to watch over all the years, seeing more and more
people get into not just having planters by the front
door with some flowers in it, but planters in the
landscape and around the patio and in the vegetable garden,
and then growing not only flowers annuals, you know, in
tropical plants and these containers, but also growing fruits and
(34:47):
vegetables and things like that. There's so many things that,
like I said, if it grows in the ground, chances
are even growing a container, and in many cases even
better than it is in the soil because you've got
in the ground, because you've got such great soil in containers.
And that's why I'm always a big advocate as far
as raised beds. If you're going to get into vegetable gardening,
even fruits and berries, raised beds are the way to
(35:09):
go because you create the perfect soil conditions for whatever
you're trying to grow. But going into this fall season
at our retail location, went and we got some twelve
inch squat pots, and so they're about six inches deep,
twelve inches in diameter, good potting soil, a little bit
(35:30):
of like the granular organic fertilizer in there, and then
we sowed seeds of radishes in one. We sowed seeds
of beets in one. We sowed seeds of mustard greens
in one. We did spinach in one, we did lettuce
in one, we did bakchoi in one. We did a
whole assortment of all of these fall vegetable crops that
(35:51):
you can grow because they love the cooler temperatures, and
did them in a twelve inch pot six inches deep.
Doesn't take very much soil at all, all right, and
very little seed. And you know, it's amazing what we
have produced in that twelve inch pot. And of course
we had them for sale and blah blah blah. But
but pointing is, you know, folks couldn't see what was
(36:12):
going on inside there with all the great foliage on
the top. Oh I forgot to mention fingerling carrots as well,
and I couldn't see. So a couple days ago I
went and just took some amount and I just hosed
off all of the soil around the base of all
of these plants, so you could see exactly what you
were getting out of this twelve inch pot. And I
think everybody was just blown away with what was produced
(36:34):
in just that thing alone, especially with the beets, especially
with the radishes, and of course the greens you know obvious,
and then the carrots were a little bit small. They're
still coming along and they've got plenty of time to grow.
But again, to see what you could do in such
a small area to grow things that you would use
mostly in your solids, and it's amazing. So as you're
(36:58):
clearing out, you know, your patty area, and you're getting
rid of some summer annuals or whatever, and you've got
some empty containers. Those are perfect in the fall for
growing these fall crops. And again it doesn't you know,
I think most of these, like the radishes, have been
about a thirty five day period. The beats are about
thirty five days. Everything else maybe even less than that.
The backchoy, if you like that in cooking them with
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your with your greens and all unbelievable. And I'll tell
you two things I'm gonna throw at you that if
you probably can't find them anymore this year, but next year,
put them on your list. If you like greens with
a little bit of a kick, you bite into it,
nice flavor, and all of a sudden, a little bit
of a horse radish spicy, and the flavor is horse
(37:41):
radish comes to you and you go, ooh, that's a
nice little kick. If you like that. Two things you
need to grow in the greens for next spring and
again next fall. A arugula. Now everybody likes arugula for
the most part, that peppery flavor, great to cut up
in your salad, do whatever, but get the one called
what's sabbi a arugola? What sabi? It you bite into
(38:05):
that a greater arugula flavor, and all of a sudden
it comes to you with a great horse rattish flavor
and a slight kick with it. And you can eat
that fresh, you can eat it cooked, eat away. It
works to cut that up in small pieces and scattered
in your salad. What a great little addition to really
spice up your salad. And it's not you know, you
don't you're not gonna have to drink milk, and it's
(38:27):
not like that. It's got a nice little kick to it,
and it does taste like horse radish, great flavor. The
other one that I really like is a mustard green.
It's a Japanese mustard green called giant red or sometimes red.
Giant will go either way. Well, what's interesting about this,
this Japanese mustard green is the fact that as it
gets cooler in the fall, it actually changes color and
(38:50):
turns red. So you can grow it as an ornamental
green so that you've got dinner in a show. So
as you're growing it in the fall and harvesting leave,
you leave the leaves there and it's a cut coming game.
You cut that world, come back up and let it
continue to turn colors. But again the flavor, really good
mustard green flavor. And then all of a sudden that
(39:11):
kick of the horse radige comes in and it's absolutely outstanding.
I can stand in our retail and just take take
a leaf off and sit there and eat those all
day long. Unbelievable. So put that on your calendar. Mustard
green giant red grown from seed, easy to do. Arugula
grown from seed easy to do as well, or you
can buy the plants, was sabby, and those you will
(39:35):
thank me for that, for adding a little bit of
extra kick to your stir fries, to the greens that
you're cooking, or added fresh to something like a salad
or something like that. Arugula was soabby. Japanese mustard green
giant red absolutely wonderful. But again point being is, look
at these things that you can grow in containers. Didn't
take anything at all, all grown from seed. Get them
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in there, they start to grow. All you gotta do
is water, let them grow, harvest, and you're in and
everybody yesterday looking and walking through, they're looking at they
go to, my gosh, I can't believe you grew that
many in that small container. It works, trust me, it works,
so keep that in mind. Spring, summer, fall, especially in
the fall, grow because these are crops that love the
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cooler weather. To the gardening phone ies, we shall go Kentucky, Steve.
Speaker 3 (40:21):
Good morning, Hey, good morning, Ron.
Speaker 1 (40:24):
How are you, sir?
Speaker 3 (40:26):
I'm doing great?
Speaker 1 (40:26):
How you I am great? Thank you?
Speaker 3 (40:29):
Hey. These cannons I've been growing for about fifteen sixteen years.
Started out with two plants. Last year I dug up
twenty five Kroger bags full of those things. I put
them in a corner in the dark car in the basement.
I give them away every spring, a few that I forgot.
They do freeze and rot. But to show you how
(40:52):
hardy these things are, I didn't get them all planted.
I had a bag laying out in the side of
my yard. And now the plant is not in dirt
three foot high. I don't know where a flower. But
they're just great. I've got like a three foot white
garden between my sidewalk and the street.
Speaker 1 (41:09):
Oh yeah, I'm.
Speaker 3 (41:10):
About seventy five feet long. And I plan them interspersed
with black eyed Susan so some becky thatcher daisies that
bloom for a long time. But I love those things.
I've given away to all the people church. I'm sure
they're all over Boone County and Campbell County, but I
love them. Mine are mostly all red with the green leaves.
(41:33):
I've seen some of the others that I dig them
up every year and they work. They're great.
Speaker 1 (41:37):
Have you ever have you had any come up from seed?
Speaker 3 (41:41):
No? I haven't, and I've had some people take seeds
off of them.
Speaker 1 (41:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (41:44):
I just dig up the tuber and you break them apart,
let them when they're too big, and you can't kill them.
Speaker 1 (41:52):
No, you can't. They're tough.
Speaker 10 (41:53):
Now.
Speaker 1 (41:53):
Let me ask you this where people get confused is
how to take care of those flowers up top? When
do you deadhead those? You know when when the flower spend,
because it continues the flower all summer long. So it's like,
how do I know what to do with that flower
up top?
Speaker 3 (42:09):
Well, that's a good question. I don't do anything with
you just let them go. Yeah, yeah, that's what I do. Yeah,
and then they turn into the big seedheads or seed
heads show up yep.
Speaker 1 (42:19):
So you don't do anything to them. You just let
them grow and let them do their thing. Yeah, that works,
that works for me.
Speaker 3 (42:25):
They put up new shoots and there comes more, and yep,
I've got some in corner neighborhood pots and yeah, they're
like like you said, some of them go four or
five feet high, and they're just beautiful when they do that.
Speaker 1 (42:38):
And again, I think the great example how tough they
are is like you said, there was in a paper
bag off to the side, not even planted, coming right
out of that and growing like a weed. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (42:49):
And if I leave them too long in the basement,
probably about march starts sprouting in the dark thing. I mean,
how do they know that?
Speaker 1 (42:56):
How do they know that? I don't know. Mother nature
just when it You talk about things like that, and
we talk with the Barbie Bletcher about the bees, and
you talk with Bugget Joe Boggs about a lot of
the insects and the things that they do, and you're
just like, you know, if you sit back and really
think about this, it is just so amazing because there's
nobody there to teach them or train them or tell them.
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They just it's in their genes. They just know. And
that just totally is mind bogging to me. When you
sit back and really think about the things that Mother
Nature does and just does it, because that's all part
of mother nature. It's crazy. All right. We're gonna take
a quick break. We come back. We're gonna talk with
our giant pumpkin grower, Jerry Rose. We're gonna find out
(43:38):
where are we with giant pumpkins right now and the
pumpkin selections overall, were they smaller this year or not.
At the bottom of the hour, we're gonna talk about
flowering lawns here in the garden with Ron.
Speaker 10 (43:48):
Wilson help so the do it yourself gardener at one
eight hundred and eighty two three talk You're in the
garden with Ron Wilson.
Speaker 8 (44:20):
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Eight hundred and eight two three eight two five five.
Good morning. I am Ron Wilson, your personal yardboard. We're
talking about yard and let's kick off our show, not
with Helena or Helen or whatever her name was, but
with Joe Strucker, our executive producer. Find out what's going
on Islau and landscape. Nothing yet, because he's going to
blame the rains from yesterday. I the high winds from yesterday.
(00:55):
Our website, Ron Wilson online dot com and Facebook page.
In the garden with Ron Wilson, Good morning, sir.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Get any rain?
Speaker 1 (01:01):
Did you get any rain yesterday? A little bit? Did
you get any of the day before that or the
day before that, the day before that?
Speaker 2 (01:06):
I did get some Yeah, yeah, I did get I
did get a little bit of rain over the week.
Did you get some wins yesterday?
Speaker 1 (01:12):
Wins? Yes.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
So my question for you to start off is no, now,
now what.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
Now?
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Now that the hurricane has come through, is the drought
over and we could just put our hoses away?
Speaker 1 (01:28):
Come on, you kind of said the same thing last week,
and you know somebody's going to just hear that part
and say, well, Joe said the drought's over, Well.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
They should know that you're you're the garden expert and
I'm the the No it's not, and it's actually put
a put a comedic relief.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
You are standing little stand up comedy and get us
started in the morning, But uh no, it's not. You know,
it put a dent in some areas. I think south
west Ohio got more than Southeast Ohio that got more,
that got less than Central Ohio. They didn't get as much.
And you get up to northern Ohio, I think yesterday
they got like a little bit like an inch or so,
(02:05):
so not much, but it was something, and you know,
obviously to build on the temperatures are I think ron
Roth has said that temperatures are going to stay a
little bit above average over the next couple of weeks.
But I still looking at the tempts at seventies and
low eighties. I think the eighties are very unusual for October.
And I don't see rainfall in the next seven or
ten days, so I don't know, we'll see what happens.
But for our area, so I was got two two
(02:29):
and a half inches the regions of rain, so it
didn't cure anything, but it was certainly nice.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
I think what it was, I mean, just for property issues.
This was one of these storms. When it came through,
it just came through. It's not like one of those
hurricanes that kind of come through and then they sit.
You know how Wish would have really bad ones that
just just sit and yeah, oh yeah, keep on turning. Yeah, fact,
(02:55):
what every ones came through and then next thing you
knew it was in North Carolina.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
Yeah, I'm you're listening to the news. You know, on
Friday morning, you get up and it's already moved through
and gone up in Atlanta and you know whatever, it's
already hitting us in so yeah, so it's fast.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
But we got some well needed rain, we did, fact.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
And you gotta admit, I don't know if you if
you'd pitch as much attention as I do. You have
to admit, Joe, don't. Yeah, you have to admit that.
Can you look out there at the lawns. It's amazing.
Make me admit. You have to admit Joe that it's
amazing how much the lawns did green up just from
the smaller amount of rain. It's just overnight, literally overnight,
(03:36):
with that amount of rain, you could have sat in
your front porch and watched it. I think you could have.
I got. I have some Grolo sumacs that put out
two inches of growth, seriously in the last three days,
just from that small amount of rainfall we had. It's
the craziest thing. So some other amazing what mother nature
can do, which is a small amount. But we are
(03:57):
by no means out of the dry situation. We're still there.
You still got to keep watering, don't put the hoses away,
don't turn off the irgecious system. We got a long
way to go.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
So the next question is, so the hurricane came through
and knocked down a tree, what do you do do
you stand under the tree and go wow, I got
a tree knocked over.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
My almost a few branches that are oak trees, which
are normally they do that lot. So I got to
get all that certified arborst get them to come out.
Don't don't do the guy with the pickup truck. I'm
telling you, they're headed your way there, and they do.
They follow storms like that. They you know, might even
not even live here, just live in some other state
and follow those storms right behind them. And you know
(04:39):
it's cash only. And I can do that for two
hundred and fifty bucks and don't fall for it. And
a lot of people have it done and sometimes it works,
and sometimes every now and then somebody gets burnt. So
you know, you just can't check the credentials, you know,
go to the is A site and find out, you know,
whether they're certified arbors or not. But check their credentials.
(05:02):
Make sure everything's cool before you have anybody do any
kind of thing like that on your property. Absolutely. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
So yeah, so that's our that's their hurricane coverage.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
Yep, yep. But it's amazing how much water that she dumped,
especially when you hit Florida. The storm surge was crazy.
There were some spots they had record storm surge. I
still think of you because you and I have the
same opinion. When the weather people are standing there and
in the water, yeah, with a ten foot surge hitting
(05:35):
the along side of them doing a story, it's like,
why are you doing that? Right? Just show us a
picture of the surge and you can stand thirty yards
away from it, don't You don't have to do that.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
Yeah, you're not winning any awards around here.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
They standing with the river floods and they stand in
the six inches of flood water. It's like, you don't
have to do that, just show me the flood Yeah, exactly. Yeah,
So anyway, anyway, that's all we would do if we
were weather forecasters. But we did get a little bit
of a break, a little bit of a relief, so
you know, you can build on it now, keep your
sprinklers going, and that really does help if you're trying
(06:07):
to make a decision. We're going to talk about this
during the show. If you're going to try to make
that decision what to do with the lawn. You know,
you can keep building on this because we are running
out of time for seeding. So you've got to make
a decision here in the next couple of weeks what
you want to do. And you know, again watering is key,
which you know, and you're going to have to commit
to it whatever mother nature decides to bring us over
(06:27):
the next month. So got to make a decision there.
But you know, falls here and it is planting time
and it is awesome mom season. It's moms season, and
a lot of people have held off getting the mums.
I think it seems like the search for buying mums
has been late this year. Most of the garden centers.
I've talked to. Everybody's a little bit behind. Like, I
(06:47):
can't blame folks. It's been hot, it's been dry. You
don't want to go out in water. You're tearing your
annuals out because you're tired of watering them. So but
this week we certainly saw some upticks, so I think
people are going to be out right get some things done.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
And the pumpkins have been smaller than usual too.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
It depends, you know. We I think the the good
thing is that we get pumpkins from other states as well,
and so they're able to go out and find a
little bit larger pumpkins. Now. I talked to Jerry Rose,
is gonna be with us this morning, by the way,
the giant pumpkin grower, and tell us how that drought
has affected everybody around that he's seen so far. And
of course they do drip irrigation and all that stuff.
(07:25):
But yeah, we'll talk to them and see what his
general consensus is. But the pumpkins we've gotten in for
sale have still been the same size as usual, so
you know, I think, but there are some some farms
definitely were smaller pumpkins this year, so.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
In addition to the Great Pumpkin, who else that he
got on the show today?
Speaker 1 (07:44):
Who else we have? We're gonna talk with the folks
with flawns. We've talked to them before. It's it's it's
turning your lawn into a flowering lawn. So it's you
can still have the turf type tall rescues, but still
have clover with it. So it helps to feed the
turf type tall rescue. It does blow them occasionally, so
you can help the pollinators at the same time, so
they do work together. And we'll talk with them about
how they do that.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
Now, are you gonna have the guy on that that's
gonna pave your lawn so you don't have to mow
it anymore and just painted cream?
Speaker 1 (08:10):
You see, they're getting rid of that, you know, like
artificial turf. Now they're telling them howing people take that
up like out in California and stuff in Arizona to
get rid of it. That's it's even worse than just
doing like gravel or sand or whatever or painting that.
So yeah, so not okay. So and then you got
Sully and no Buggy Joe. As a matter of fact,
(08:33):
that Gary thought he was gonna be on vacation this week,
but the helln kind of canceled that. Yeah, so he
is with back Live, so we'll have Gary on and
didn't Bugget Joe after that, we were gonna have a
three segment Buggy Joe he was all fired up.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
Well, well he must be because he didn't send anything
this week to put on a website.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
Well, you know, things are starting to taper off now,
not a lot to take pictures of. So yeah, especially
let's move over to the website. Okay, run Wilson online
dot com, and we have just a couple of things
this week because Buggy Joe was slacking. Yep, Buggy Joe's
and is getting ready to make his chrysalis and gobernate
(09:10):
and turn into a beautiful butterfly. The first one is
what okay moth what, Well, he's from that part of
the part of the country. Ye man propably, that's one
of his favorites.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
First one is Rita's recipe of the week, and she
has a yummy money Cristo's sandwich.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
Would you eat that? Eat that?
Speaker 2 (09:35):
Mm hmm, definitely would you make if she would if
she'd made it? Yeah, I'm making I'm eating that. Yeah,
would I make that?
Speaker 1 (09:44):
Maybe?
Speaker 2 (09:46):
That's a big maybe.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
But don't they have to press that down?
Speaker 2 (09:48):
Yeah? Yeah, you know you have to press it. And
I'm not sure about the mustard. Yeah, but you know
it'd be worth a try. Hey, if Rita brought one
in here right now, I wouldn't refuse.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
You know it, and any any of her recipes are
good anyway. You know it's gonna taste it right.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
Planning of the week service berry, service berry. Yes, Okay,
that's it right, So I guess I'm done. I gotta leave.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
Well, if you're planning you need a small ornamental tree
that or large shrub, consider service berry. It's pretty cool.
It's probably one of the most it is one of
the most common trees grown today in the nurseries. Everybody's
enjoying it. Great white flowers in the springtime, the edible
berries that come on right after that, good fall colors,
and like I say, a good small to medium ornamental
(10:37):
tree or large shrub. And I think autumn brilliance, I
think is the one we talked about on the lech
here grand of Flora Flora. Yeah, all kinds of real
really cool common names for that too cool and there's
an old history behind why they call it that and
all that stuff, shad blow and all that, and that's
(10:59):
all on the website and you'll find out a run
Wilson online dot com.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
Cool all right, facebook page is rocking and I'm rolling
out out all right?
Speaker 1 (11:06):
Sounds good? You sure? Yep? Okay, what are you going
to do today? I am going to.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
I'm going to because I had a long day yesterday
because of because of the rain, and I do high
school football, and high school football was you know, it
was everything kind of got just tiring for you. We
just got pushed. So it was a late night, got it?
So all right, we'll go home and take a nap
(11:32):
or two or three. Can I just take one here?
If you can make it home without fall asleep, I
just take one here. You ever fight that? I have
fought it in the morning, yeah, getting up, but not
on the way home. Okay, Oh, coming in coming in. Oh,
I'm always fired up, coming in, so I'll awake. Well
then you're done. When you're done, and yeah I'm done,
(11:52):
I'm like, oh, okay, well I'm more woo you're fired
up the other way? Yeah, there you go, Yeah, got it?
And you lap the head, put my head on. Do
you need a can I stay here? Uh?
Speaker 3 (12:05):
Sure?
Speaker 1 (12:07):
Dan said, come on over, Okay, I'm out of here.
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Speaker 1 (15:41):
Welcome back here in the Garden with Ron Wilson again
that total free number eighth.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
Ron Joe's already over here sleeping.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
Done to wake up, go home. And then that's pretty fast.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
I mean he is very tired.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
Hang on, give me, give me a little kick.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
I will, but I have to turn my golf in
case he says something. You should.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
Love it anyway, talking about yarding, and during the break,
I got both the weather forecast for today because it's
actually still raining. Was raining on the way in this morning,
and it looks like the way this Helena is a
kind of focus just continues to circle in our area,
and we may wind up having showers through Monday, which
is absolutely outstanding. We will take that. And of course
(16:25):
Ron rothis always giving us an update during the breaks,
giving it a little text here in his area, excuse me,
in south western Ohio four point thirty nine inches of rainfall,
and he had talked last week about probably not seeing
so much in the southeastern part, and come to find
out in Portsmouth, Ohio, they've gotten up to eight inches
(16:45):
in some areas. That's hard to predict. How do you
predict that right when a hurricane comes through. That's a
tough one. But looks like she's going to just kind
of circle around for a while and finally kind of
move out of here on late Monday. So we've still
got a chance of a scattered shower, so we will
take that. We'll take the rainfall. I tell you, we
had cracks in front of our house and our and
our landscape where I didn't need to water, and the
(17:09):
cracks are easily an inch wide. It didn't go very deep,
but they certainly cracked at the top. Uh, it's it's
been dry, but I no standing water. Dam was saying
the same thing. No standing water in my yard.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
None, and yeah, no, usually there is when it rains
that much. But yeah, when I looked out yesterday afternoon, nothing.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
Yeah, so it's uh, you know, Fortunately we're soaking some
of it in and I hope this keeps up so
we get some light showers over the next two or
three days. It just builds on top of it. It's
like if you were running your sprinklers after a good rainfall.
It just builds on top and builds on top and
continues to take it into the ground. Lakes right now.
The lakes at our nursery were really low. I mean
(17:47):
they were to the bottom, totally recharged. Uh looking at
him last night at about five o'clock. We've had so much,
had so much rain yesterday, but it looks like a
bomb went off out there. It's crazy with all the debris.
The plant debris is everywhere because of the winds. And
that's why I cannot imagine being there when it's one
hundred and forty degree mile in hour wins and we
(18:08):
were experiencing thirty five and forty mile hour wins. I
can't even imagine. Matt and Dayton, Ohio, Matt good morning, Hey.
Speaker 8 (18:16):
Good morning for your show.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
I always enjoy it. My pleasure.
Speaker 8 (18:21):
Guys are making me laugh anyway. I wanted to share
with you kind of a little joke that I played
on some conservation of friends of mine. The tree or
bush and maybe a bush, I don't know, bottom olive.
Speaker 3 (18:32):
Were you familiar with that?
Speaker 1 (18:33):
I sure am.
Speaker 8 (18:35):
Okay, Well, it's considered an invasive species from what I understand,
I believe been in the seventies, OD.
Speaker 3 (18:43):
And R and some other stayings.
Speaker 8 (18:44):
He's actually proliferated and playing it as a nitrogen picture.
Speaker 3 (18:50):
And now I guess it's no good.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
Nobody once it anymore.
Speaker 3 (18:53):
So everybody's trying to.
Speaker 8 (18:54):
Get rid of it, right right, not a battlet. The
tree I kind of silver leave. Its kind of pretty,
and it has these little red berries. The joke I
played was this year I figured out that the berries
are high in lycopene and antioxidant, and I made some
jelly and I passed it out.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
To them and did they like it?
Speaker 3 (19:13):
Oh, yeah, it's good.
Speaker 8 (19:14):
We mixed it up a little bit of honey from
beehives and uh yeah.
Speaker 3 (19:17):
It's not bad.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
You know. Our herbal specialists Rita Hikingfel Will do that,
and I kind of kid it with her last year
because I said, you know, you're actually helping us out
because it's a plant that's one of those good plants
gone bad, because it was even sold in the garden
centers using the landscapes, and you know, we thought this
was a great ornamental tree. Come to find out, the
seeds are very prolific and they come up everywhere. It
became invasive. So I said, you know, picking the berries
(19:41):
and making jellies and jams and whatever out of them.
I said, you're actually doing a great thing because that
way they don't come back up. So good for you.
Didn't that you tell them what it was.
Speaker 8 (19:50):
Yeah, well that was a big joke, you know, because
when they found out it's, uh, okay.
Speaker 3 (19:54):
Well there's something useful you can do with it.
Speaker 8 (19:56):
So I kind of keep a few of them as pets.
Speaker 3 (19:59):
So yeah, most of it.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
Yeah, Well, you know, if we can get everybody to
go out there and collect up the seeds and make
jellies and jams, we might be getting this thing back
under control. Hey Matt, good, good tip. I appreciate it.
All right, good talking to you. That's autumn, all of
it again.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
One of those.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
It just like the pears, good plant gone bad. Who knew,
you know, but it was a great ornamental plant. But
next thing you know, it's seating everywhere. You know, it's
popping up everywhere as well. Crazy stuff. All right, quick break,
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Speaker 1 (22:47):
Welcome back. You're in the garden with Ron Wilson again
at toll free number eight hundred and eight two three
eight two five five. I'll get through it here this morning, uh,
talking about yardening and of course what a difference, say
a week makes on Monday, driving around looking at some
landscapes and all, and I wrote myself a note as
I was driving. It was kind of the shame on
(23:09):
you kind of a note because as I was driving around,
I could still see the professional and I put that
in quotation marks professional lawn care companies mowing what appeared
to be dead grass, what appeared to be dormant lawns,
what appeared to be dirt and dust because there wasn't
(23:33):
anything green there, but they were still mowing with their crews,
and I where they were mowing. We're all businesses or hoa,
you know, where the homeown associations hired somebody to come
in and do mowing on a regular basis and they're
on a schedule and all of that. And I'll tell
you what, sometimes I see that and it's just like,
(23:55):
wait a minute, you gotta be kidding me, you know,
And again, yeah, they're on a schedule, so they go
and do that. And I mean there were three different
instances where I saw folks mowing and they were either
on the big you know, like the zero turns or
the ride behinds, and all they were doing were kicking
up dust and causing more problems. And that shouldn't be
(24:18):
so if you have it, you are part of a
homeowner association and you have contracts like that, somebody needs
to keep an eye out because unfortunately, you know, that's
our contract, We're supposed to do it every ten days,
blah blah blah. Doesn't always work. And again that's my
soapbox for today. But I just it's a shame on
you to take advantage of people, because all three of
(24:40):
those were professional a you know, some a company with
a name on it and mowing nothing but dust, dirt,
dormant grass or just totally dead grass at that point. Now,
isn't amazing what a week changes things? Because now I
go back look at some of those areas, including mine,
(25:02):
and it's amazing how it just greened up within a
day the first shower we got that came through. Uh. Actually,
you can start to see things change. Amazing how mother
nature does that. We can water and water and water,
which is good, and you've got to do that to
keep these things alive. But then mother nature comes to
and puts one shower in there, just one. Now she's
had several sins then, uh, and you can see an
(25:24):
immediate difference in everything. So pretty cool. But anyway, that's
my soapbox. Shame on you, and if you're out there,
just you know, at this point, they're starting to green
back up again, so hopefully you didn't cause a whole
lot of damage out there. But that's I saw that,
and it's like, you've got to be kidding me. Shame
on you.
Speaker 9 (25:44):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (25:44):
Eight hundred eight two three eight two five five rush
to in Ohio, Good morning.
Speaker 3 (25:50):
Morning, sir, appreciate your shit.
Speaker 9 (25:53):
I was, yeah, uh, I wanted to know the proper
way of h I'm gonna say, harvest, but keep them.
My canna bulbs had a great crop this year. Had
to keep water them a lot. But and don't know
if I should cut him down now or just let
him die from the frost and then you know, dig
the bulbs up.
Speaker 1 (26:11):
Yeah, let them go as long as you can. As
a matter of fact, that let mother nature take them
out for you. You know, we get we get good
freezes in frost without the ground freezing. Matter of fact,
I don't think the ground even attempted to freeze until
after the holidays last year. So let the frost and
freezes take out the top, kill everything off, and at
that point then pull them out of the ground once
you know they're totally done on the top, clean all
(26:33):
that off. And the thing about cannons, they're pretty darn residual.
You can just kind of clean them off a little bit.
I've taken them and thrown them in a five gallon bucket,
you know, get all the soil off, store them away
in a you know, an area that stays about fifty
degrees and it's dark, and they do quite nicely doing that,
so they don't require a whole lot as far as
getting them cleaned up. But let mother nature take them
(26:54):
out for you first and then go from there. So
we we have a long way to go yet before
you'll really start to see those die out of tall you.
I have a total new respect for cannas. About three
years ago started planting them in containers and it's amazing
the amount of not watering that they will take and
still provide a lot of color, and of course it's
a great the foliage as well. But yeah, let mother
(27:15):
nature do it for you.
Speaker 9 (27:16):
Exactly. Yeah, that's exactly how I have them in big containers.
I have a big butchering kettle. It's like three foot across.
That's several different color canes and and stadium's grown out
the draping off side. And also uh, the ornamental sup potatoes. Now,
can they be harvested as well? And or are they
or do you have to just you know, purchase them
(27:37):
every year?
Speaker 1 (27:39):
You know, some folks will take cuttings and and grow them.
You can grow them from that tuber. The kicker is
they're so they're so thin skinned. If you bruise those
at all and try to store those away. They will
start to decompose and rock. Okay, so but you can
give it a try. And some folks have done that
and got them to grow. And sometimes they come true
(27:59):
and grow the you know, yellow or maroon or whatever,
and sometimes they don't. But it's worth trying to, you know,
try to over winter something. If you don't, if you
bruise them or whatever, just eat.
Speaker 9 (28:08):
Them, okay, okay, And one last question.
Speaker 3 (28:12):
I bought some uh uh.
Speaker 9 (28:14):
I've got different containers around the deck with with different
kind of seed and just squill a seconds. I got
hand and chicks and your regular yellow seed. But and
I bought them personally this year and it's flowering. It'll
it'll go in at night. But in the daytime it's
beautiful flowers. And I had someone in a hanging basket
(28:35):
and they fell in the in the rocks and the
rugguard and they come up because I didn't plant these. Now,
will they are they perennial like your like your person
laying weeds or will they it's an a Are they animal?
Speaker 1 (28:48):
It's an annual but it comes back from seed, so
you'll see this, you know, So the seeds will drop
and that's why you see them like you get them
in a hanging basket and then they show up down below.
The seeds drop into the soil and sometimes they will
pop right up again. But it's an annual that comes
back from the seed for you.
Speaker 3 (29:04):
Gotcha.
Speaker 9 (29:05):
Okay, very good. Well I've learned a lot today.
Speaker 1 (29:07):
All right, Rusty, Hey, good, good talking to you. Appreciate
the call. And again can is a whole new respect,
especially in containers. And think about cannas have been around forever.
Grandma and great Grandma used to grow cannas because you
could dig them up and put them back out in
the springtime and they always came back and great colors
and great foliage in the whole nine yards. But today
(29:28):
there are so many great different varieties, and so many
great different colors, and so many great foliage colors. In
some cases you almost don't want them to flow because
the foliage is so unique and spectacular. But in containers,
it's amazing the amount of dryness that they will take.
Now this year, Just like Rusty was saying, I agree,
you had to you had to water. There was a
(29:49):
point there where all of a sudden I could tell
that the flowers just weren't hanging in there. Those big
tubers can hold a lot of moisture, but there is
a point where they eventually will dry out. So I
watered those more this year than I ever have. But
for the most part, I'll tell you cannas are tough, durable,
they take up, they're big, they're massive, and you get
different sizes. I mean you get somebody get six feet tall.
(30:11):
There's so many dwarf varieties that are eighteen to twenty
four inches tall. And of course the flowers on top
just an added bonus to it as well. Hummingbirds, a
lot of the podlands they all love the flowers, so
it's a great plant. So, like I said two or
three years ago, I think I started mentioning cannons more
and more, especially for containers, because they do such a
(30:32):
great job under really adverse conditions where it's hot, dry, whatever,
and gives you such a great look cannas. And again
it's if you're zone seven, you can probably overwhinder those
in the ground with a little bit of mulching as
long as it drains well. You get into eight or
six where we are. If it's along the foundation of
(30:53):
the south side of the house, and it's good drainage.
We have had cannas over winter and come back up
in the springtime. I personally don't take the chance if
it drops down then you could lose them because they
cannot freeze. But some of those areas where you know
we Zone six, where it stays a little bit warmer,
we have had a few actually over winter in the ground.
(31:16):
You know, you might want to experiment see how maybe
one or two years would do if leaving it in
the ground versus bringing it back inside. All right, quick
break we come back. Phone lines are open for you
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Talking to your eardening at eight hundred and eight two three,
eight two five five the last Saturday in September. Can
you believe that talking to your arning? I am Ron Wilson.
Don't forget our website. Ron Wilson online dot Com. You know,
I just want I would bring this up real quick
and we'll go back to the gardening phone lines. But
you know, I'm a big container gardener. Love growing things
that contain and it's amazing what you can grow. And
(34:01):
over all these years, you know, we've tried to experiment
with just about anything and everything, and there are some
things that don't do quite so well in containers, and
you know, if you don't take care of them, they're
not sometimes don't do as well as they would in
the ground because they are dependent upon you for feeding
and for watering and for care because they're up above
the grounds. It's only natural. But you know, it's become
(34:25):
more and more popular, which has been kind of exciting
to watch over all the years, seeing more and more
people get into not just having planters by the front
door with some flowers in it, but planters in the
landscape and around the patio and in the vegetable garden,
and then growing not only flowers annuals, you know, in
tropical plants and these containers, but also growing fruits and
(34:47):
vegetables and things like that. There's so many things that,
like I said, if it grows in the ground, chances
are even growing a container, and in many cases even
better than it is in the soil because you've got
in the ground, because you've got such great soil in containers.
And that's why I'm always a big advocate as far
as raised beds. If you're going to get into vegetable gardening,
even fruits and berries, raised beds are the way to
(35:09):
go because you create the perfect soil conditions for whatever
you're trying to grow. But going into this fall season
at our retail location, went and we got some twelve
inch squat pots, and so they're about six inches deep,
twelve inches in diameter, good potting soil, a little bit
(35:30):
of like the granular organic fertilizer in there, and then
we sowed seeds of radishes in one. We sowed seeds
of beets in one. We sowed seeds of mustard greens
in one. We did spinach in one, we did lettuce
in one, we did bakchoi in one. We did a
whole assortment of all of these fall vegetable crops that
(35:51):
you can grow because they love the cooler temperatures, and
did them in a twelve inch pot six inches deep.
Doesn't take very much soil at all, all right, and
very little seed. And you know, it's amazing what we
have produced in that twelve inch pot. And of course
we had them for sale and blah blah blah. But
but pointing is, you know, folks couldn't see what was
(36:12):
going on inside there with all the great foliage on
the top. Oh I forgot to mention fingerling carrots as well,
and I couldn't see. So a couple days ago I
went and just took some amount and I just hosed
off all of the soil around the base of all
of these plants, so you could see exactly what you
were getting out of this twelve inch pot. And I
think everybody was just blown away with what was produced
(36:34):
in just that thing alone, especially with the beets, especially
with the radishes, and of course the greens you know obvious,
and then the carrots were a little bit small. They're
still coming along and they've got plenty of time to grow.
But again, to see what you could do in such
a small area to grow things that you would use
mostly in your solids, and it's amazing. So as you're
(36:58):
clearing out, you know, your patty area, and you're getting
rid of some summer annuals or whatever, and you've got
some empty containers. Those are perfect in the fall for
growing these fall crops. And again it doesn't you know,
I think most of these, like the radishes, have been
about a thirty five day period. The beats are about
thirty five days. Everything else maybe even less than that.
The backchoy, if you like that in cooking them with
(37:20):
your with your greens and all unbelievable. And I'll tell
you two things I'm gonna throw at you that if
you probably can't find them anymore this year, but next year,
put them on your list. If you like greens with
a little bit of a kick, you bite into it,
nice flavor, and all of a sudden, a little bit
of a horse radish spicy, and the flavor is horse
(37:41):
radish comes to you and you go, ooh, that's a
nice little kick. If you like that. Two things you
need to grow in the greens for next spring and
again next fall. A arugula. Now everybody likes arugula for
the most part, that peppery flavor, great to cut up
in your salad, do whatever, but get the one called
what's sabbi a arugola? What sabi? It you bite into
(38:05):
that a greater arugula flavor, and all of a sudden
it comes to you with a great horse rattish flavor
and a slight kick with it. And you can eat
that fresh, you can eat it cooked, eat away. It
works to cut that up in small pieces and scattered
in your salad. What a great little addition to really
spice up your salad. And it's not you know, you
don't you're not gonna have to drink milk, and it's
(38:27):
not like that. It's got a nice little kick to it,
and it does taste like horse radish, great flavor. The
other one that I really like is a mustard green.
It's a Japanese mustard green called giant red or sometimes red.
Giant will go either way. Well, what's interesting about this,
this Japanese mustard green is the fact that as it
gets cooler in the fall, it actually changes color and
(38:50):
turns red. So you can grow it as an ornamental
green so that you've got dinner in a show. So
as you're growing it in the fall and harvesting leave,
you leave the leaves there and it's a cut coming game.
You cut that world, come back up and let it
continue to turn colors. But again the flavor, really good
mustard green flavor. And then all of a sudden that
(39:11):
kick of the horse radige comes in and it's absolutely outstanding.
I can stand in our retail and just take take
a leaf off and sit there and eat those all
day long. Unbelievable. So put that on your calendar. Mustard
green giant red grown from seed, easy to do. Arugula
grown from seed easy to do as well, or you
can buy the plants, was sabby, and those you will
(39:35):
thank me for that, for adding a little bit of
extra kick to your stir fries, to the greens that
you're cooking, or added fresh to something like a salad
or something like that. Arugula was soabby. Japanese mustard green
giant red absolutely wonderful. But again point being is, look
at these things that you can grow in containers. Didn't
take anything at all, all grown from seed. Get them
(39:56):
in there, they start to grow. All you gotta do
is water, let them grow, harvest, and you're in and
everybody yesterday looking and walking through, they're looking at they
go to, my gosh, I can't believe you grew that
many in that small container. It works, trust me, it works,
so keep that in mind. Spring, summer, fall, especially in
the fall, grow because these are crops that love the
(40:17):
cooler weather. To the gardening phone ies, we shall go Kentucky, Steve.
Speaker 3 (40:21):
Good morning, Hey, good morning, Ron.
Speaker 1 (40:24):
How are you, sir?
Speaker 3 (40:26):
I'm doing great?
Speaker 1 (40:26):
How you I am great? Thank you?
Speaker 3 (40:29):
Hey. These cannons I've been growing for about fifteen sixteen years.
Started out with two plants. Last year I dug up
twenty five Kroger bags full of those things. I put
them in a corner in the dark car in the basement.
I give them away every spring, a few that I forgot.
They do freeze and rot. But to show you how
(40:52):
hardy these things are, I didn't get them all planted.
I had a bag laying out in the side of
my yard. And now the plant is not in dirt
three foot high. I don't know where a flower. But
they're just great. I've got like a three foot white
garden between my sidewalk and the street.
Speaker 1 (41:09):
Oh yeah, I'm.
Speaker 3 (41:10):
About seventy five feet long. And I plan them interspersed
with black eyed Susan so some becky thatcher daisies that
bloom for a long time. But I love those things.
I've given away to all the people church. I'm sure
they're all over Boone County and Campbell County, but I
love them. Mine are mostly all red with the green leaves.
(41:33):
I've seen some of the others that I dig them
up every year and they work. They're great.
Speaker 1 (41:37):
Have you ever have you had any come up from seed?
Speaker 3 (41:41):
No? I haven't, and I've had some people take seeds
off of them.
Speaker 1 (41:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (41:44):
I just dig up the tuber and you break them apart,
let them when they're too big, and you can't kill them.
Speaker 1 (41:52):
No, you can't. They're tough.
Speaker 10 (41:53):
Now.
Speaker 1 (41:53):
Let me ask you this where people get confused is
how to take care of those flowers up top? When
do you deadhead those? You know when when the flower spend,
because it continues the flower all summer long. So it's like,
how do I know what to do with that flower
up top?
Speaker 3 (42:09):
Well, that's a good question. I don't do anything with
you just let them go. Yeah, yeah, that's what I do. Yeah,
and then they turn into the big seedheads or seed
heads show up yep.
Speaker 1 (42:19):
So you don't do anything to them. You just let
them grow and let them do their thing. Yeah, that works,
that works for me.
Speaker 3 (42:25):
They put up new shoots and there comes more, and yep,
I've got some in corner neighborhood pots and yeah, they're
like like you said, some of them go four or
five feet high, and they're just beautiful when they do that.
Speaker 1 (42:38):
And again, I think the great example how tough they
are is like you said, there was in a paper
bag off to the side, not even planted, coming right
out of that and growing like a weed. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (42:49):
And if I leave them too long in the basement,
probably about march starts sprouting in the dark thing. I mean,
how do they know that?
Speaker 1 (42:56):
How do they know that? I don't know. Mother nature
just when it You talk about things like that, and
we talk with the Barbie Bletcher about the bees, and
you talk with Bugget Joe Boggs about a lot of
the insects and the things that they do, and you're
just like, you know, if you sit back and really
think about this, it is just so amazing because there's
nobody there to teach them or train them or tell them.
(43:17):
They just it's in their genes. They just know. And
that just totally is mind bogging to me. When you
sit back and really think about the things that Mother
Nature does and just does it, because that's all part
of mother nature. It's crazy. All right. We're gonna take
a quick break. We come back. We're gonna talk with
our giant pumpkin grower, Jerry Rose. We're gonna find out
(43:38):
where are we with giant pumpkins right now and the
pumpkin selections overall, were they smaller this year or not.
At the bottom of the hour, we're gonna talk about
flowering lawns here in the garden with Ron.
Speaker 10 (43:48):
Wilson help so the do it yourself gardener at one
eight hundred and eighty two three talk You're in the
garden with Ron Wilson.
Speaker 8 (44:20):
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