April 25, 2025 • 10 mins
Ron Wilson has the latest lawn and garden tips including how to deal with Carpenter Bees
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This former car dealer who was busted rolling back the
mileage on the odometer, which is a federal crime. By
the way he was busted, it reminds me of my
buddy used to do. We used to do this in
the eighties. So my buddy would be he was fifteen,
not legally allowed to drive. He would push his dad's
(00:20):
nineteen eighty one Caprice Classic out of the driveway and
at midnight, everyone else is sleeping. He'd go, he'd pick
me up, he'd pick his girlfriend up, whatever, come back,
push it back in the driveway at four in the morning.
You know, Dad kind of had a suspicion of what
was going on, so we busted him. He checked the
mileage and you would see, oh, there's twenty five more
(00:40):
miles than where I parked it last night. Well, the kid,
who was pretty handy, learned how to disconnect the odometer.
Oh man, So he would go out at midnight again
fifteen years old. Well, huh, disconnect the odometer, go do
his thing, pick up his girlfriend whatever, and then come
back in reattach the odometer and think he'd gotten away
(01:00):
with murder. Well Dad was a step ahead and goes, okay,
I know what's going on here? Yeah, so Dad goes
low tech. He put pennies on the tires. No way,
So the kid thinks he's hot stuff, goes out there,
disconnects the odometer, so Dad's a dummy to take the
car out, comes back in at four in the morning,
(01:21):
sneaks back in the house, and Dad goes down the
next morning and sees pennies in the driveway. The kids busted,
Oh my god, Dad, that's great. Dad goes low tech.
Kid goes high tech and rolling back the odometer. Dad
goes low tech and puts pennies on the tire in
a in a nineteen eighty one Caprice Classic. Ron Wilson,
(01:42):
that's about that's your era, isn't it.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
A little bit before that? But that was I was
back at the time when you just ran it and reversed.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
Right, Ron Wilson, did Ron Wilson.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
Yeah, tur host of in the.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
Garden with Ron tomorrow morning, and you're gonna be at
Columbus Trees tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
Broadcast is live.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
We'll talk about that in a minute on the Legacy
Retirement Group dot com phone line. All right, Ron, I've
got a lot of dandelions in the lawns. I mean
I don't. I mean, you know me better.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
Than that, but I know you know you don't.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
I don't have a lot of dandelions, but my neighbors do.
And it makes me a little concerned that a lot
of these are dandelions. Skeletons too. They're about ready to
seed everywhere else. But so is it too late for
the weed and feed for dandelions now or what's the story?
Speaker 2 (02:30):
Uh? I, as you know, I'm not a weed and
feed fan. I always say feed when the law needs
to be fed, spot treat the weeds when they need
to be spot treated. And the thing about dandelions, you
need to remember this, they're actually more susceptible to weed
killers after they're done flowering. Now, a lot of folks
to a waste second, that doesn't make sense. You know,
they're in the puffball stage now, they're gonna blow those
seeds everywhere. Don't worry about that. If your lawn's good
(02:52):
and thick like Mike Elliot's lawn, those seeds can blow
in there and they don't have room to germinate or
it don't have places to grow, so you don't have
to worry about it. So actually, the best time to
spot treat those dandelions would be once they're in that
puffball stage or after that or actually, mike, the absolute
best time to treat them as in October, that's when
they're most acceptable to weed killers. So again, feet when
(03:14):
you need to feed, spot treet when you need to
spot treat. But as you know where I'm going with
this thing with the dandallions. Remember this thing. There was
a time in the United States of America when we
did not have dandelions. Those were brought here for a purpose,
many purposes, one of which was brewing the roots dandelion tea,
or for medicinal purposes eating the greens, which are absolutely
(03:35):
wonderful pressure cooked. And I think you need to try
this seriously. Go to your neighbor's yard in the morning,
pick some dandelion flowers that have just opened up, rent
them off, dry and batter them like you would fish,
and deep fry them and try them. They taste like
deep frived mushrooms. You'll be the head of the neighborhood
(03:56):
at your neighborhood party.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
So you're suggesting a deep dandelion. I've heard you talk
about the dandelion tea. Now you want me to batter
and fry them.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
Yeah, the flower, the fresh flowers as they open in
the morning. Now you know, you leave a few for
the pollinators because the native bees absolutely love those this
time of the year. So do the honey bees as well,
so it's a great source of nectar and pollen for
them as well. But yeah, it's a great flavor. And
I'm not kidding on this one. You got to try it,
six or eight of them and just batter them, deep
fri them a little bit of oil, olive oil, whatever
(04:28):
it may be, and then try those. You will absolutely
love them.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
I'm going to take your word for it.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
Ron and I have come on.
Speaker 3 (04:36):
I appreciate that your solution to darn near everything is
just to eat it, and I can't beat it.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
Eat it.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
Hey, my buddy Mike Reddin and Lewis Senton wants to
know if he can put Lily of the Valley in
a container.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
Sure. The thing about Lily the Valley is, again, it's
kind of a groundcover and so it likes to spread out,
so over time it's going to fill up that container
and you'll probably have to take it out. It's kind
of separated over time. Maybe two or three years down
the road. But otherwise to grow Lily of the Valley.
I've never done that, but that's as you said that
I'm writing myself and know here, and I think that'd
be pretty interesting. I love the foliage. I love the flowers.
(05:14):
They kind of mush out in the summertime when it
gets hot and the kind of getting nasty, get a
little bit of brownie. So maybe doing them in a
container where you can keep them a little bit cooler,
a little bit shadier, they might even do better. So absolutely,
just about anything that grows in the ground can grow
in a container, and in many cases even better. There's
a few exceptions to the rule. But Lily the Valley,
that's a new one for me, and I would love
to give that a try.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
Wow, we're breaking new ground here. I can't believe I
gave the garden guy a tip here this morning. That's
it's pretty impressive. I know I've asked you before about
hend it. It's a weed. It's a it's a lawn weed.
I battle this and I you know, I'll go in,
I'll spot treat it. It goes away. It's it's a
low it's a low weed. It's got a purple flower
(05:57):
to it, but it comes back every I can get
rid of it for good.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
Ron it's a pain in the butt.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
Here's the deal. Ten bits started growing last September and October.
So what you have to remember is those seeds, those
are annuals. By the way they they grow, they flower,
they seed, they die. So if you never sprayed it, it
would die about three weeks four weeks from now. They
start to mush out when they're all finny. So remember
that they germinate in the fall. So if you put
(06:24):
a pre emergent herbyside down where those typically come up,
that'll stop those seeds from germinating in September, October, November, December,
you'll see a lot fewer of them in the springtime.
And then if you do see them pop up, rake
them out. They have a very shallow root system. Don't
let them flower, don't let them go to seed. A
couple of years in a row like that, and you
got it made. But all those winter annuals are tough.
(06:45):
But we have to remember they start to come up
in September, October, November, December, pre emerging in the fall,
not in the springtime.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
So I'm already too late. Then, on the hand, I
need to do that in the fall.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
Okay, you need to do it in the September.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
Got it.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
And what's what's the flowering shrub? It's the flowers like
a white puffball. I don't think it's a hydrangea, but
it smells so good it's it's like almost intoxicating.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
It's by Burnham and by Burnhams. There's a whole bunch
of Vi Burnhams, and they're absolutely great landscape plants. But
the one you're smelling right now is either Carlesi, which
is Korean spice, really spicy fragrance. Everybody's got them by
the front door, by the patio open, pink opens, white, great,
great plant, just a good looking shrub the rest of
the year. The other one was called Jedi jau d
(07:33):
d I, and there's also one that semi evergreen called Birkwood.
But all three of those have a tremendous just a
tremendous that sweet spicy fragrance. It's absolutely outstairs.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
There's almost that in lilac.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
To me the best, it smells like spring and it's
just you walk outside and it's an absolutely beautiful smell.
Ron Wilson host of in the garden with Ron. Tomorrow
morning at ten got some neighbors saw them getting ready
to plant some new shrubs ron, and they brought in
a whole load of shredded top soil for backfill for
the holes for the new plants. But what about the
(08:06):
soil that they just dug out? What is she reuse that?
Or is it good to have some fresh soil in there?
Speaker 2 (08:12):
Now? You know that's that that happens a lot of times,
and you think you're doing a good thing for the plants,
but on this you're not. Really. You want to use
the same soil you took out of the hole to
put back in the hole. Now, if they want to
use a little bit of that shreded top soil and
mix it together with that original soil, that's great. Soil
amendments like pine fines or composts works great, like a
twenty to thirty percent, But always use the same soil
(08:34):
you took out of the hole to put back in
the hole. It's very important that you do that. But again,
if they want to mix a little bit of that
with the original soil, that's fine, But otherwise don't just
use that as your straight backfill. A lot of times,
it's just, you know, you just created a whole new
mix around that planet, and it just doesn't work. Continue
to use the same soil you take out of the hole.
(08:55):
There's a couple of exceptions to the rule, but not very many,
is one.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
What about?
Speaker 1 (08:59):
What about the soil from a container from last year?
If I've got that old soil in a pot, can
I reuse that or do I need to refresh the
potting soil for a container?
Speaker 2 (09:08):
Good to go? Just chop it up, fresh it up
a little bit, You're good to go. You can keep
using that stuff. I bet Mike, I've got potting soil.
It's twenty five thirty years old, and I just keep
reusing every year, and it just it's all I do
is freshing it up every spring with a little bit
of a natural fertilizer, maybe some new potting soil, a
little compost, chop it all together, and I'm ready to go.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
Got an email from Steve and Grove City. He's got
ants on his rubarb. I couldn't think of anything anything
more tragic than ants on your rhubarb.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
Ron.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
How do we get rid of the ants on the rubarb?
Speaker 2 (09:38):
I love it. You know, don't panty first of all,
and I think secondly, remember ants don't eat the plants
answer there for another reason. Like you see him on peenises,
you see him on rubarb. They're there because there's other
there's insects on there that they're going after. So the
ants won't bother your rhubarb, but just will's weird because
they're crawling all over. But if you look under the
(09:58):
leaves on rhubarb right now, a lot of plants aphis
are just getting ready to explode there everywhere, and ants
milk aphis just like a cow, and they'll go up
there and eat that honeydew off the back end. So
you see a lot of ant activity. There's usually another
insect there or something that they're eating or benefiting from.
So you get rid of the other insect and the
(10:19):
ants will typically go away.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
Well, you got the rhubarb and then your dandelion tea,
and it's a whole meal in the backyard.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
You never mentioned the danda lion wine because that was
the last thing that they used to for was making
dandaelion wine out of the flowers. So there you go.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
How long does that have to ferment.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
A long time.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
Yeah, it really does.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
It takes a while.
This former car dealer who was busted rolling back the
mileage on the odometer, which is a federal crime. By
the way he was busted, it reminds me of my
buddy used to do. We used to do this in
the eighties. So my buddy would be he was fifteen,
not legally allowed to drive. He would push his dad's
(00:20):
nineteen eighty one Caprice Classic out of the driveway and
at midnight, everyone else is sleeping. He'd go, he'd pick
me up, he'd pick his girlfriend up, whatever, come back,
push it back in the driveway at four in the morning.
You know, Dad kind of had a suspicion of what
was going on, so we busted him. He checked the
mileage and you would see, oh, there's twenty five more
(00:40):
miles than where I parked it last night. Well, the kid,
who was pretty handy, learned how to disconnect the odometer.
Oh man, So he would go out at midnight again
fifteen years old. Well, huh, disconnect the odometer, go do
his thing, pick up his girlfriend whatever, and then come
back in reattach the odometer and think he'd gotten away
(01:00):
with murder. Well Dad was a step ahead and goes, okay,
I know what's going on here? Yeah, so Dad goes
low tech. He put pennies on the tires. No way,
So the kid thinks he's hot stuff, goes out there,
disconnects the odometer, so Dad's a dummy to take the
car out, comes back in at four in the morning,
(01:21):
sneaks back in the house, and Dad goes down the
next morning and sees pennies in the driveway. The kids busted,
Oh my god, Dad, that's great. Dad goes low tech.
Kid goes high tech and rolling back the odometer. Dad
goes low tech and puts pennies on the tire in
a in a nineteen eighty one Caprice Classic. Ron Wilson,
(01:42):
that's about that's your era, isn't it.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
A little bit before that? But that was I was
back at the time when you just ran it and reversed.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
Right, Ron Wilson, did Ron Wilson.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
Yeah, tur host of in the.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
Garden with Ron tomorrow morning, and you're gonna be at
Columbus Trees tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
Broadcast is live.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
We'll talk about that in a minute on the Legacy
Retirement Group dot com phone line. All right, Ron, I've
got a lot of dandelions in the lawns. I mean
I don't. I mean, you know me better.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
Than that, but I know you know you don't.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
I don't have a lot of dandelions, but my neighbors do.
And it makes me a little concerned that a lot
of these are dandelions. Skeletons too. They're about ready to
seed everywhere else. But so is it too late for
the weed and feed for dandelions now or what's the story?
Speaker 2 (02:30):
Uh? I, as you know, I'm not a weed and
feed fan. I always say feed when the law needs
to be fed, spot treat the weeds when they need
to be spot treated. And the thing about dandelions, you
need to remember this, they're actually more susceptible to weed
killers after they're done flowering. Now, a lot of folks
to a waste second, that doesn't make sense. You know,
they're in the puffball stage now, they're gonna blow those
seeds everywhere. Don't worry about that. If your lawn's good
(02:52):
and thick like Mike Elliot's lawn, those seeds can blow
in there and they don't have room to germinate or
it don't have places to grow, so you don't have
to worry about it. So actually, the best time to
spot treat those dandelions would be once they're in that
puffball stage or after that or actually, mike, the absolute
best time to treat them as in October, that's when
they're most acceptable to weed killers. So again, feet when
(03:14):
you need to feed, spot treet when you need to
spot treat. But as you know where I'm going with
this thing with the dandallions. Remember this thing. There was
a time in the United States of America when we
did not have dandelions. Those were brought here for a purpose,
many purposes, one of which was brewing the roots dandelion tea,
or for medicinal purposes eating the greens, which are absolutely
(03:35):
wonderful pressure cooked. And I think you need to try
this seriously. Go to your neighbor's yard in the morning,
pick some dandelion flowers that have just opened up, rent
them off, dry and batter them like you would fish,
and deep fry them and try them. They taste like
deep frived mushrooms. You'll be the head of the neighborhood
(03:56):
at your neighborhood party.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
So you're suggesting a deep dandelion. I've heard you talk
about the dandelion tea. Now you want me to batter
and fry them.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
Yeah, the flower, the fresh flowers as they open in
the morning. Now you know, you leave a few for
the pollinators because the native bees absolutely love those this
time of the year. So do the honey bees as well,
so it's a great source of nectar and pollen for
them as well. But yeah, it's a great flavor. And
I'm not kidding on this one. You got to try it,
six or eight of them and just batter them, deep
fri them a little bit of oil, olive oil, whatever
(04:28):
it may be, and then try those. You will absolutely
love them.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
I'm going to take your word for it.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
Ron and I have come on.
Speaker 3 (04:36):
I appreciate that your solution to darn near everything is
just to eat it, and I can't beat it.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
Eat it.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
Hey, my buddy Mike Reddin and Lewis Senton wants to
know if he can put Lily of the Valley in
a container.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
Sure. The thing about Lily the Valley is, again, it's
kind of a groundcover and so it likes to spread out,
so over time it's going to fill up that container
and you'll probably have to take it out. It's kind
of separated over time. Maybe two or three years down
the road. But otherwise to grow Lily of the Valley.
I've never done that, but that's as you said that
I'm writing myself and know here, and I think that'd
be pretty interesting. I love the foliage. I love the flowers.
(05:14):
They kind of mush out in the summertime when it
gets hot and the kind of getting nasty, get a
little bit of brownie. So maybe doing them in a
container where you can keep them a little bit cooler,
a little bit shadier, they might even do better. So absolutely,
just about anything that grows in the ground can grow
in a container, and in many cases even better. There's
a few exceptions to the rule. But Lily the Valley,
that's a new one for me, and I would love
to give that a try.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
Wow, we're breaking new ground here. I can't believe I
gave the garden guy a tip here this morning. That's
it's pretty impressive. I know I've asked you before about
hend it. It's a weed. It's a it's a lawn weed.
I battle this and I you know, I'll go in,
I'll spot treat it. It goes away. It's it's a
low it's a low weed. It's got a purple flower
(05:57):
to it, but it comes back every I can get
rid of it for good.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
Ron it's a pain in the butt.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
Here's the deal. Ten bits started growing last September and October.
So what you have to remember is those seeds, those
are annuals. By the way they they grow, they flower,
they seed, they die. So if you never sprayed it, it
would die about three weeks four weeks from now. They
start to mush out when they're all finny. So remember
that they germinate in the fall. So if you put
(06:24):
a pre emergent herbyside down where those typically come up,
that'll stop those seeds from germinating in September, October, November, December,
you'll see a lot fewer of them in the springtime.
And then if you do see them pop up, rake
them out. They have a very shallow root system. Don't
let them flower, don't let them go to seed. A
couple of years in a row like that, and you
got it made. But all those winter annuals are tough.
(06:45):
But we have to remember they start to come up
in September, October, November, December, pre emerging in the fall,
not in the springtime.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
So I'm already too late. Then, on the hand, I
need to do that in the fall.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
Okay, you need to do it in the September.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
Got it.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
And what's what's the flowering shrub? It's the flowers like
a white puffball. I don't think it's a hydrangea, but
it smells so good it's it's like almost intoxicating.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
It's by Burnham and by Burnhams. There's a whole bunch
of Vi Burnhams, and they're absolutely great landscape plants. But
the one you're smelling right now is either Carlesi, which
is Korean spice, really spicy fragrance. Everybody's got them by
the front door, by the patio open, pink opens, white, great,
great plant, just a good looking shrub the rest of
the year. The other one was called Jedi jau d
(07:33):
d I, and there's also one that semi evergreen called Birkwood.
But all three of those have a tremendous just a
tremendous that sweet spicy fragrance. It's absolutely outstairs.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
There's almost that in lilac.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
To me the best, it smells like spring and it's
just you walk outside and it's an absolutely beautiful smell.
Ron Wilson host of in the garden with Ron. Tomorrow
morning at ten got some neighbors saw them getting ready
to plant some new shrubs ron, and they brought in
a whole load of shredded top soil for backfill for
the holes for the new plants. But what about the
(08:06):
soil that they just dug out? What is she reuse that?
Or is it good to have some fresh soil in there?
Speaker 2 (08:12):
Now? You know that's that that happens a lot of times,
and you think you're doing a good thing for the plants,
but on this you're not. Really. You want to use
the same soil you took out of the hole to
put back in the hole. Now, if they want to
use a little bit of that shreded top soil and
mix it together with that original soil, that's great. Soil
amendments like pine fines or composts works great, like a
twenty to thirty percent, But always use the same soil
(08:34):
you took out of the hole to put back in
the hole. It's very important that you do that. But again,
if they want to mix a little bit of that
with the original soil, that's fine, But otherwise don't just
use that as your straight backfill. A lot of times,
it's just, you know, you just created a whole new
mix around that planet, and it just doesn't work. Continue
to use the same soil you take out of the hole.
(08:55):
There's a couple of exceptions to the rule, but not very many,
is one.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
What about?
Speaker 1 (08:59):
What about the soil from a container from last year?
If I've got that old soil in a pot, can
I reuse that or do I need to refresh the
potting soil for a container?
Speaker 2 (09:08):
Good to go? Just chop it up, fresh it up
a little bit, You're good to go. You can keep
using that stuff. I bet Mike, I've got potting soil.
It's twenty five thirty years old, and I just keep
reusing every year, and it just it's all I do
is freshing it up every spring with a little bit
of a natural fertilizer, maybe some new potting soil, a
little compost, chop it all together, and I'm ready to go.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
Got an email from Steve and Grove City. He's got
ants on his rubarb. I couldn't think of anything anything
more tragic than ants on your rhubarb.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
Ron.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
How do we get rid of the ants on the rubarb?
Speaker 2 (09:38):
I love it. You know, don't panty first of all,
and I think secondly, remember ants don't eat the plants
answer there for another reason. Like you see him on peenises,
you see him on rubarb. They're there because there's other
there's insects on there that they're going after. So the
ants won't bother your rhubarb, but just will's weird because
they're crawling all over. But if you look under the
(09:58):
leaves on rhubarb right now, a lot of plants aphis
are just getting ready to explode there everywhere, and ants
milk aphis just like a cow, and they'll go up
there and eat that honeydew off the back end. So
you see a lot of ant activity. There's usually another
insect there or something that they're eating or benefiting from.
So you get rid of the other insect and the
(10:19):
ants will typically go away.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
Well, you got the rhubarb and then your dandelion tea,
and it's a whole meal in the backyard.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
You never mentioned the danda lion wine because that was
the last thing that they used to for was making
dandaelion wine out of the flowers. So there you go.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
How long does that have to ferment.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
A long time.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
Yeah, it really does.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
It takes a while.
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