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April 5, 2025 • 38 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Good morning everybody. Welcome back. I'm Ron Wilson and you
are in the garden here on news Radio six' TEN,
wtvn broadcasting live today From Oakland. Nursery we're out In
delaware AND i call it The Jurassic park because there
are dinosaurs all around the. Place it's really. Cool if
you haven't been out here, before it's worth the. Drive
first of, all the garden centers. Outstanding it's. Huge they're fully.

(00:22):
Stocked you look outside in the nursery, Area, wow they've
got plants just packed in there ready to. Go and of,
course with the way the rain's been right, now the
soils are wet out. There there's no doubt about. It
but this would be an excellent. Day As i'm looking
around and there's quite a few people shopping in. Here
but you, know this is kind of a day that
you really it's good to get out to visit the

(00:43):
garden centers because not quite as busy as they will
be like Next, saturday if the sun comes out and
it's like fifty or sixty seventy, degrees they'll be. Swamped
so if you come out on a day like, today
all their experts can help you out you bring a
picture of an area maybe that you want to, redo,
REDESIGN i need some sketch ideas or. Whatever you, know
need help with your house plants or. Whatever, well this

(01:04):
is the kind of a day you want to. Do
and if you look out right, now you see all
the covered. Areas they continue to, add As paul was,
saying we, know we keep adding more, arbors more covered,
areas more covered shopping so that you can get outside
of walk even if it is. Rainy so you come
out and you see what's. Available you see what's out.
Here and if you see like the nursery plants and all,
that you, know you see something you. Like you see

(01:24):
some trees or. Whatever this is WHAT i was looking.
For you, know go ahead and buy. It get it.
Today they'll slap a soul tag on that hold on
to it for. You you can come back sometime next
week or the following week pick it up or have
it delivered or, whatever and then be ready to. Go
as the weather continues to break as we get into
the spring. Season so it really is you, know you
look out and, say, ah that's kind of, overcast a

(01:45):
little rain. Misty Maybe i'll just stay in and not go.
Out this really would be a great day for you
to get out and visit the garden centers and check it.
Out and while they're not so, busy BECAUSE i guarantee
you after this, week it was the closer we get
to the end Of, april the busier they're going to.
Get and they take advantage of, it and you get
a lot of good. HELP i, mean they want to

(02:07):
help you all the time and give me the best
service they. Can but you when you have a ton
of people in, here it's hard to do. That and
now you can get their undivided, attention and of course
to share with all The oakland specialists and all the
plant people they. Have And i'm telling, you if you're
looking for indoor, PLANTS i know they all do a
nice job and they all have a great. Inventory this,

(02:27):
ONE i tell, you this is a really cool. Greenhouse
they BUILT i don't, know they've built this about three
or four years, ago and it's really. TALL i mean
it's like they're really high. Ceilings and then they put
a big rock found in the. Center and then they
came in a couple of years ago brought these dinosaurs.
In so it's just a natural fit with all the
foliage and the selection that's in here is. Crazy all

(02:51):
the different things that you Can you can just walk
and look and walk and, look and it's. Phenomenal and
they have the folks that can tell you all about
them how to take care of. Them so use a
day like today and maybe tomorrow if you can't get
out today to visit the local garden centers come up
here and in course all Of oakland nurseries do a great,
job but you, know come up to the one In
delaware and check out this greenhouse because it is really

(03:13):
cool with all the dinosaurs and the. GOAT i don't.
KNOW i guess that is the sacrificial lamb or the
sacrificial goat to attract all these dinosaurs in. HERE i
thought it was Honoring Paul, reiner who was the goat
of the, industry you, know greatest of all. Time so,
anyway talking about your arding phone, lines you're open for
you at eight two to ONE wtvn eight hundred and
sixty TEN wtv and taking your calls any questions you

(03:35):
might have or tips you'd like to. Share would really
like to hear from. You it's especially the tips always
like hearing from, folks things that have been successful for.
YOU i know this week with the with all of
the rain we had out there a couple questions That
i've gotten already talking. About, hey you know about ten
days AGO i put down my pre emergent herbicide in

(03:57):
the lawn plus the, food OR i just put down
the pre. Emergent AM i good to? Go after all this?
Rainfall and you know you start getting talking, now five
six seven inches of, rainfall is that still going to be? Effective,
well it's a good chance, that you, know it may
not be quite as effective with all this rainfall because

(04:18):
it does dilute it. Down if you look at things
that break down pre emerging, herbicides it's a combination of excessive.
Moisture so if you're in an irrigated, area sometimes they
don't last quite as. Long, sunlight, sunlight hot, days we'll
start to break it down as. Well and of, course
if you got it down just before the rains moved

(04:39):
in and it just continued to rain and continue to
rain and you get a lot of water runof, yeah
some of it could have washed. Away so that is a.
Possibility so you know, that yes it, Is and of
course time will TELL i can't tell you for, sure
but time will tell as we watch and see what
weeds start to pop up in the. Lawn but, yes

(05:00):
it could affect. It there's no doubt about. It and
if you haven't done it, yet THEN i had the same. Question,
OKAY i bought, it BUT i didn't put it down
BECAUSE i was you, KNOW i could see these showers
are going to come. Through now what DO i? Do
AM i too? Late, no you're not too. Late let's
get through the next couple of, days get the showers through,
here get it kind of straighten, out and then get
next week to look in there and get that pre

(05:21):
emergent down as quick as you. Can we are soil temperature,
wise we are at somewhat optimum conditions right now for
getting that pre emergent in, place so you get on
it as soon as you. Can SO i would, say you, Know, Tuesday,
wednesday let's get out there and take care of. That
and the other thing that came up WAS i haven't
mowed the grass, Yet and we talk about our primo

(05:43):
where we go out, there we mow before it really
needs to be. Mowed, WELL i guarantee, you after all
this rainfall moves, through it's going to be ready to.
Mow so, yeah you're going to want to get out
there and get on that and carry it on through
as needed through the rest of the spring. Season but you,
know this, rainfall it's hard to, say but it's a
good chance that depending on when you put that, in

(06:03):
put that down and put it into, place whether or
not washes any. AWAY i think you have to remember,
too like when you're doing container. Gardening you, know when
you're watering on a more regular, basis you, water you,
water you water that concentrated, area the nutrients will flow
through that a little bit faster and you can use those.
Up and that's why sometimes in containers we may have
to feed a little bit more, often depending on the

(06:25):
plant or using the slow release fertilizers Like osma code
things like that that you, know release slowly over time
and moisture added to. Them you know that that's that's
natural because of all the. Water so, yeah extra rainfall
we may have to that we've, had you may have
to come back and feed the lawn. Again it's hard to,

(06:45):
tell but you can watch it and make a decision
as we get you, know as we get into the spring,
season but definitely as soon as you can get out next.
Week and if you haven't done the pre, emergent let's
get it put. Down if you're looking to, feed you
get it put. Down or, remember you can do a
pre emergent without the fertilizer if you don't think you
need to, feed and it's looking pretty good right, now

(07:08):
you could do that and then come back and feed
a little bit later on the spring. Season so you
got a couple options. There grass seeding the same, way
you should start to see here, again soil temperatures have
been staying right in that low fifty range to fifty five,
degrees we should start to see some grass seeds starting
to germinate and grow as, Well so start watching for

(07:30):
that starting to pop up here and. There that should
be giving a better good feel for what's going to
be coming. Up whether you need to do any more
seating or whatever it may, be but that should be
starting to show as. Well and one last thing about
as we get out of the winter going into the spring,
season things starting to warm. UP i get a lot
of pictures this time of the year Saying i've planted
these last year or two years, ago And i've lost.

(07:53):
Them they're, dead they're not gonna they're not coming. Back
and then AS i look close to and at some
of the buds on, plants especially hibiscus rows of. Sharon
if you've tried drawing some of the, dwarf, right he's
a crate, myrtle things like. That some of the, HYDRANGEES
i think they're. Dead, well if you look, closely scratch the,

(08:13):
stems there could be some good green in. There the
butt's still coming. Along give them, time my point being
is give them time to. Recover all. Right we've got
plenty of time for replanting if. Necessary but right now
the temperatures have been so over the board and up and,
down and the rainfall and all of. That as a
matter of, fact, gentlemen show me a picture of some

(08:34):
three identical plants planted in a. Row two of what's
coming along faster are the one coming along a little,
slower it, Happens so give them plenty of time to
show you what they're going to. Do and, again another
couple of weeks can make all the difference in the
world how that plant. Responds lavender got in a lot
of pictures right now of lavender that looks. Horrible but,

(08:56):
again scratch some of those, stems see if they're still,
green if they are looked, downloads you see any, buds go,
back cut it back and next thing you, know you've
got a nice foot plant that's flush back up. Again
but give them plenty of. Time if you have evergreens
out there right now that you're looking at arbor, vidy,
junipers whatever it may, be boxwood that may have some brown,
tips brown branches from the, winter you, know feel free

(09:19):
to go ahead and clip that out of. There get
the brown out so that as the new growth comes
out he starts, to you, know fill back it over
the top of. That but again get that all prune
out of the way as. Well but let's give these
plants plenty of time to show you whether or not
they're going to come out before you make a decision
of pulling them out and replacing. Them BECAUSE i think
we still got a ways to go here, yet and
you've got plenty of time as far as. Planting all,

(09:42):
right we'll take it as quick. Break we come. Back
we'll jump into the gardening phone lines eight two to
ONE wtv and is our. Number broadcasting live today From.
Oakland The delaware, Location Oakland, nursery AND i call it
The jurassic part because we're surrounded by dinosaurs here on
news radio six TEN. Wtvn, well here we are a
grant eating our white castles at The Delaware Oakland. Nursery

(10:04):
you can always count on them for those white, castles
cheese and regular and the. Doughnuts and we can't think
of them. Enough this is the breakfast of champions when
you come out here and we're out in the greenhouse
the tropical, Area so come and see us with all
the dinosaurs all. Around, hey you can't miss it because
they got two of them out by the front street here,
too and they're putting a new entrance in so just

(10:25):
kind of. Look you'll see where you can pull in.
Here but a little bit of curb cuts and things
going on out, there but it's worth. It stop out
and see all the folks out here, there and they're
ready to. Go they're fully stocked and it's spring At Oakland,
Nursery so come out and say, hi we're going to
be here till. Noon to the guarding phone, lines we
shall go gurn good, Morning, hey.

Speaker 2 (10:44):
Good, Morning, ron thanks for taking my. Call you, KNOW
i was going to ask about what you talked about
when you open this, segment AND i worry about too
much of your. Feed i'd put seed down and fertilizer.
DOWN i live on a twenty five degree twenty five
degrees slope AND i overseated. There So i'm just gonna

(11:06):
write that off and nothing's gonna come. Up But i've
got about a five degree stick with a lot of
bare ground THAT i had de thatched and, uh and
THEN i put straw on the top of, it and
it's all bunched up where it washed. Down And i'm
just worried about putting too much seat. Down is there
a danger of putting too much sea?

Speaker 1 (11:25):
Down there is Gerd and that's the problem you get.
Into that's WHY i say right, now you're gonna have
to just kind of wait and watch and see what.
Happens unless you know for sure that it washed, away
you know you can you can take were you able
to the seed disappear over? TIME i, mean so you
did not see it on the soil. Surface, OH i.

Speaker 2 (11:43):
Seated about five days ago right, before so, YEAH i.

Speaker 1 (11:48):
Would say you probably had some of that wash. Away.
Yeah so, yeah so if you came back and you
overseed it again at normal. Rate the problem is then
if it didn't wash, away it probably, did or a
lot of it. Did, yeah it comes in so thick
that then it just chokes itself. Out and so you,
know you you waste it all that time and. Effort
so you, know we are at a point the end,

(12:11):
money and so we're at a point right now where
it should start to. GERMINATE i would, think start to
see this stuff coming next week. Now if it's only
been down five, days it usually takes about two weeks
to see. Things so you're gonna you still got another
week ahead of you before you would see. Anything if
you if you wanted to make the shot and go
ahead and, say, Okay i'm gonna do it, again do
it at half the rate that you did it. Originally,

(12:34):
Okay so if you did it at five pounds per,
thousand do it at two pounds per. Thousand got, it
and then you can see where you. ARE i, mean
you could still come back four weeks from now and
put it. Down it's just that we want to get
this up, growing rooted in before we get into the.
SUMMER i, mean that's the whole idea of this.

Speaker 2 (12:51):
Thing so, yeah they. AREA i gotta get, IT i
gotta get it up and going Before.

Speaker 1 (12:56):
Yeah oh, yeah so you want to go as quick
as you can sol you. Know, again so i'd look at,
it maybe scratch the soil a little, bit see if
you see any, seed and if you, do go back,
in just go half the what you did the original
rate and see what. Happens.

Speaker 2 (13:10):
Smart that's, smart that's a good. Plant CAN i ask
one more question about? Boxwoods?

Speaker 1 (13:14):
Yeah, Sure.

Speaker 2 (13:15):
YEAH i moved some real mature boxwoods away from my
house towards the street to provide. Cover and they were
really close together when they were next to my, house
and SO i moved them out AND i spread them.
Out but now they're kind of. Sparse they're at the lower.
Branches the first couple of, seed the first two to
half feed. Up and is there any way to make
the thicken that up by pruning or? Anything any any?

Speaker 1 (13:38):
Suggestions, yeah the only, way the only way you're gonna
encourage that to come back out the bottom is cutting
the tops. Back, Okay so, yeah so you actually shorten
the size of the, plant the height of the, plant
and try to, encourage you, Know so you take the
top off and you open them up a little, bit
so now sunlight can go all the way through down
to the. Bottom and hopefully by doing, that AND i,

(13:58):
say hopefully you can get the you, know lower branches
to start to grow back out. Again it's harder to
get those to come out than it is to try
to get side branches to come on when they were
growing real close together and you kind of have the bare. Sides, Eventually,
yeah that's easier to get that done than it is
to get those bottom branches to come. Out but again

(14:19):
that your only hope would be to cut them, back
open them up and hope that you encourage there's buds
still down there that have never opened, before and try
to encourage those to come back. Out but it's a you,
know now you've got a couple of year, process but
it could be, possible.

Speaker 2 (14:35):
AND i could maybe help by spinning them out instead
of cutting them.

Speaker 1 (14:38):
Back, Maybe, well what you do and when you do,
that when you hand prove them and you open them,
up and what that does is allow sun to go
inside and cutting them just a little bit back because
a terminal buddet's on the end of those stems sometimes
prohibits some of the buds from down inside the plant
from opening. Up and it's like when you. Azaleas i'll
get calls about azaleas that are long and lanky and

(14:59):
everything's out on the edge of. Them and AS i always,
say when you're done, flowering cut them in, half cut
them back to eighteen inches above the, ground and there's nothing.
Left but what you did is when you remove those terminal,
buds the buds that are down on those lower stems
that have been there, forever all of a sudden start
to pop open and you start to get all this
new growth down. Below so that's kind of the. Idea

(15:19):
and then of course the sun getting inside the plants
not shaded, out buds start to open, up and then
you go from there and work work it back to
where you want. It but, yeah it typically requires a
little bit of cutting back on the tops and opening
up at the same.

Speaker 2 (15:32):
Time got a good, Plan thanks so. Much precid it.

Speaker 1 (15:35):
All, Right. Gern good talking to you as. Usual, Pat,
pat good, morning.

Speaker 3 (15:40):
Good, morning run love your.

Speaker 1 (15:43):
Show thank.

Speaker 3 (15:44):
YOU i have a couple questions about blue. Sescue, YES
i planted a number of them quite a few years,
ago And i've always just raked them ount in the
spring trying to clean them. UP a friend tomy THAT
i can cut them? Back CAN i do? That and if,

(16:05):
so is it too late to do?

Speaker 1 (16:07):
It is it too late? Now and you don't have
any new growth coming up? Yet? Right not new?

Speaker 3 (16:16):
Growth it looks like they've stayed green through most.

Speaker 1 (16:21):
Of the, winter, Right. Yeah can you cut them? Back?
Absolutely you. Can you try to get by with just
cleaning them up rather than cutting them back. Hard so
you go through in the springtime and kind of clean
up what may have died or fallen over over the
wintertime and leave as much as you can. There but,
yeah you can cut. Them you can cut them. Back
it takes a while for them to, recover but they'll

(16:42):
come right back. UP i mean there's always a new
growth coming up for the base of the. Plant but,
okay that's an unusual one because of the fact that
it usually hangs in, there like kind of like the
riope over the wintertime or some of the sedges in the.
Wintertime you, know they're they're. Evergreen sometimes they take more
of a hit than other winter sometimes they fall. Down
you got to clean them. Up i've taken theriope and

(17:04):
everybody usually cuts the loriope off at the top of
the ground in the springtime and let all the new
stuff come. Up i've taken theriope that doesn't look bad
at all and just kind of clean it up a little.
Bit leave that, there and it's amazing how it kind
of hangs in, there and then the new growth comes
up out of the middle of all of. That so
you know it it Post you know, again are you're

(17:24):
cutting them back because they just look bad or they look.

Speaker 3 (17:29):
Bad there's a lot of brown in, them And i've
tried breaking some of it, out.

Speaker 1 (17:34):
But just too much of it.

Speaker 4 (17:35):
People.

Speaker 1 (17:37):
Yep then in that case like that where it's just
too hard to do, that if they were, MINE i
would go ahead and cut them.

Speaker 3 (17:43):
Back, okay another. Question WHEN i planted, THEM i needed.
TWELVE i found six at one garden center and six
at another garden. Center the first six mail. Beautifully the
other six. Uh the first six do not.

Speaker 2 (18:05):
Plume.

Speaker 3 (18:07):
Uh the other six plume every year go to seed.
SPREAD i lost the, tag so there must have been
two different. Kinds do you know which one's?

Speaker 1 (18:20):
Mound Does elijah blue ring a? Bell i'm trying to
think of another. SELECTION i CAN'T i can't think of
one right off the top of my head, here but
do me a favor if you email, Me It's Ron

(18:40):
wilson at iHeartMedia dot. Com i'll send you back two
or three two or three selections that you'll find on
the market and you can take a look and see
if they seem like they match what you what you were.

Speaker 3 (18:50):
Growing, okay, Great, Okay, kate thank you so.

Speaker 1 (18:55):
Much, hey you're more than. Welcome good luck with. Everything,
okay talking about yard. Name we're broadcasting live today from
The Oakland nursery In, delaware and it's a LIKE i,
say it's an overcast right, now it's not really. Raining
if you you, know get, out check it. OUT i
mean a lot of covered, area a lot of covered shopping.
Area and it's a great day for you because they're

(19:16):
not extremely busy for you to come. Out if you've
got questions and maybe you've got an area that you'd
like to redo around the patio or create that screen
planting or whatever it may. Be or you need a
couple of trees and you need some advice on what to.
Do maybe you're look into plant some new fruit trees
but need a little. Advice this is the kind of
day you visit the garden centers because they're not they're,

(19:36):
busy but they're not all that busy and can spend
a little more time with, you helping you explain everything
what they have and spend a little bit more time with.
You if you don't want to take it home and
planet because it's too, wet AND i get, that Have
mark put a soul tag on it for you and come,
back you, know maybe later on next week and take
it home and get it. Planted but these these days
like this in the springtime are the perfect days to

(19:59):
get out and check got the garden. Centers and if
you're out and, about come to the one The Oakland
nursery out here at In, delaware and we're gonna be
here till noon and you will absolutely love what you.
See all, right quick, break we come, back See jim hang,
on you're coming up. Next phone lines you're open for,
you taking them to the top of the hour at
a two to ONE. Wtvn here on news radio six
to TEN, wtvn we are talking yarding here on news

(20:22):
radio six to ten WTV, in broadcasting live today from
The Oakland nursery And delaware stop, out say. Hello we
like seeing all our fans and the listeners and all the.
Gardeners stop out and then introduce. YOURSELF i love meeting.
Everybody and of course we'll be here till noon and
we'll kind of mess around for a while and shop
and do things like. That so stop and say. Hi lizzie's,

(20:42):
Here grant's, here and all of course all the great
staff From oakland's here as. Well and joining me for
the last half. Hour, jason he's the man that makes
it all. Happen everything here that you, See jason's responsible.

Speaker 2 (20:54):
For.

Speaker 1 (20:55):
Yep so there you. Go so let's, Go, jason stick with.
Me we're gonna go back to the guarding phone. Line
jason's gonna help answer some questions here for. Us, jim
thanks for holding. On you're in the garden With Ron.
Wilson it's good.

Speaker 5 (21:07):
Morning my question is last, fall the city Of columbus
took out some trees and took out some sidewalk and
had to take out some of my. Yard so they
threw down raft seats and they put straw over. It
not the not the straw, blank BUT i guess the free.
Straw and my question is DO i just leave that

(21:31):
on there to and it'll eventually just disentegrade or DO
i remove that. Straw it's been on There.

Speaker 1 (21:38):
November, okay it's it's and then there's no grass. Yet,
right there's a little bit of grass coming.

Speaker 5 (21:44):
UP i can see, it not enough to to mow
or anything on those.

Speaker 1 (21:50):
Lines what's what you're going to want to. Do it's
gonna be like a two phaser. Here we're gonna keep
that on there for a little bit. Longer we're gonna
get the majority of that grass seat germinated and starting
to and once it starts to really come up through
the straw where you can start to see it pretty
full all the way, through get a leaf rake out
and just lightly rake out some of the straw to

(22:11):
get the bulk of it out of. There, now if
grass starts to pull up with the, raking leave it,
alone give it a little bit more time to get rooted,
in but just lightly pull that out of. There so
maybe you take half of it off all, Right so
now that that opens it up for more sun for
more of the grasses start to fill. In it starts
to fill, in you may want to rake one more

(22:32):
time another week ten days, now the grass is looking
pretty good, now starting to reach the height of. Mowing
so when you come back in and do the first
mowing on, it you'll pick up that straw and just
kind OF i just blow it back into the turf
and you'll just grind it up with your mower what's,
left and it shouldn't be very much because you've taken
it out twice to get that out of, there and

(22:52):
then whatever's, left just to melt it, up put it
right back into the, turf and then you should be
good to. Go and have you done any feeding or
anything to that.

Speaker 2 (23:02):
A little?

Speaker 5 (23:02):
Bit AND i was Just, okay my next, question DID
i do more?

Speaker 6 (23:07):
More?

Speaker 1 (23:07):
Well have you fed the lawn?

Speaker 4 (23:09):
Itself i'm not, sure but BECAUSE i did have a
company come up and do my, lawns AND i wasn't
here when they did, it AND i don't know if
they if they did anything in that area.

Speaker 1 (23:22):
That i'm talking. About, okay BECAUSE i was going to,
say you, know, eventually when you come back to feed,
it whether it be the second time or whatever you
decide to, do just do the whole thing at the same.
Time you use the same fertilizer in both. Places if
they've already fed the lawn and you don't need to feed.
IT i would come. Back you can buy a starter
fertilizer and a smaller bag and put that starter fertilizer
in that area and kind of blend it out into

(23:44):
the existing grass as. Well but, yeah it would be
important to give that a little bit of a shot
as it continues to come up and grow and have
some nutrition. There but chances are they probably already fed
the lawn, itself may have hopefully stayed away from the
straw if they put a pre emergent. Down SO i
WOULD i come back with a starter fertilizer and just,
likely you, know just spread that in, there phase it

(24:06):
out into your existing lawn and then you should be
good to.

Speaker 2 (24:08):
Go.

Speaker 1 (24:10):
OKAY i appreciate, him all, right appreciate you. Calling take
care the sun of, Right. Jason? Yep did that?

Speaker 5 (24:16):
Work?

Speaker 1 (24:17):
Yep two Phaser.

Speaker 6 (24:18):
YEP i think that's the.

Speaker 1 (24:20):
Rest of it back in.

Speaker 5 (24:21):
There.

Speaker 1 (24:22):
Ye starter fertilizer down and you're good to.

Speaker 6 (24:24):
Go listen To.

Speaker 1 (24:26):
Jeff thanks for holding. On you're in the. Garden, Yeah Ron,
budd you. Go thank.

Speaker 5 (24:30):
You we had a question about COMPOS i got last
year pretty much leave and the year, before but it
didn't really get it heard about.

Speaker 2 (24:39):
Bucks BUT i didn't tell him it in it looks.
Good uh CAN i use that with a raise? Bed?

Speaker 1 (24:45):
Where and how much can you use compost in a raised? Bed?
YEAH i got.

Speaker 3 (24:51):
COMPOST i just did know IF i was just giving
it too.

Speaker 2 (24:53):
EARLY i got it mixed. Up but it's.

Speaker 4 (24:55):
Not it's pretty pretty, five but it's not what i'd.

Speaker 1 (24:58):
Like To so it isn't broken down as much as
you would like to have it broken.

Speaker 2 (25:03):
Down, Yeah i've broke down your, water but it's not
find all.

Speaker 1 (25:09):
Right the thing of it, is if it's you, know
it's always going to continue to break. Down and adding
that are againing organic matter back to the soil is
a great thing to do as a matter of, fact every.
FALL i like doing it in the fall the, best
but you can do it fall or spring is to
go back in and top dress those phrase beds with
anything compost the, manures uh you, know organic soil amendments

(25:30):
and until those in and let it just kind of
sit there and combine together over the winter or early,
spring when right now it's a good time to do.
That and compost is great now if it's got a
lot of wood in there that hasn't broken down. Yet
the problem you get into is that as that continues
to break, down it pulls nutrients out of the soil to.

(25:50):
Decompose so you, know we can take fresh chips where
they ground up a stump or or cut down a,
tree and we can use that as a top, dressing
but you can't use it as a soil. Amendment so you,
know so you, know it just depends on and it
may be broken down enough that you're not even going
to notice, it or when you put it in, there
add a little fertilizer with it to help compensate for,

(26:12):
that you. Know but if, again if it's if it's
very fresh at, all or regular pieces of wood it
you know it will take nutrients out of the soil
to finish breaking, down so make sure you add fertilizer with.

Speaker 2 (26:25):
It COULD i use that for as a base from
a race bed and it's like you got back on my.

Speaker 1 (26:31):
Add soil to add to the race. BEDS i. LIKE
i like doing that every year because you, know every
year WHEN i look at raised, BEDS i look at
sixty seventy percent of natural shredded top. Soils WHAT i
always tell. Folks and then the thirty to forty percent
would be organic matter whatever it happened to, be and
you put that all, together but that you've got that
native soil in there as your. Base and then as

(26:54):
that compost breaks, down it's going to. Settle there's no
doubt it's going to. Settle and so every, here LIKE i,
say in the fall or early, spring you come in
with mo organic, matter not more, soil but just organic,
matter and add that back, in bring the soil level back,
up till it all together and then let us sit
there and just kind of jive and work itself together
so that when you rate a, plant it's kind of

(27:17):
all come together and working together as a as a
community inside that raised bed for. You so that's a
great way to go from here on. Out, okay BUT
i appreciate your. Help thank. You, right good talking to,
you talking To we're broadcasting live today from The Oakland, Nursery,
delaware WHERE i call It Jurassic. Park did you add more? Dinosaurs?

Speaker 6 (27:36):
Yeah did you see the ones out?

Speaker 1 (27:37):
FRONT i saw the two out of. Front. Yeah.

Speaker 6 (27:39):
Yeah we got several new ones actually that's right. Here, Yeah,
yeah there's quite a few and THEN i got several
new ones in the other. Store of the part of.

Speaker 1 (27:48):
The sort was The hall Of shame in there with
all those. HEADS i was looking for some people that work,
HERE i employees or. Something what is ACTUALLY i think
we sold one of the off that wall. Tome, yeah
we had quite a few of, them like to deer
mount dinosaur heads in, there, yea and.

Speaker 6 (28:05):
It's.

Speaker 1 (28:05):
Hot kids love. Them Even paul was rattling off some
of the names of those that were kind of. Surprised
grandsons back here AND i pointed one and he tells
me what it. Is my grandkids are the same.

Speaker 6 (28:16):
Way, YEAH i got a niece that does, that five year.

Speaker 1 (28:19):
Old he, Said, grandpa that's a blah blah blah blah
blah blah. Blah. Syeah, okay, YEAH i don't. Know but
the real question, is what is with the? Goat is That?
Paul i'm not saying. That we'll see no, no, WAIT
i said it was not as a sacrificial, thing BUT
i said it, Was, paul because it's the goat greatest
of all.

Speaker 6 (28:37):
Time, oh, okay, yeah that's.

Speaker 1 (28:41):
RIGHT i know you don't have to. Answer so AS
i look around right, now, anything uh you know every,
year which you always try to change it up and
then bring new new plants and new selections and things
in anything, Exciting uh that you added issues you can think.

Speaker 6 (28:57):
Of, actually no necessarily.

Speaker 1 (29:02):
New i've got a lot of nice. Stuff you guys are.
Packed we are, packed.

Speaker 6 (29:06):
And i've still got stuff.

Speaker 1 (29:07):
Coming. Unbelievable, yeah it's ready to. Go, yep everything's ready to,
go everything's ready to. Plant, WELL i was saying. Earlier
you know it's, raining you, know and it's wet out.
THERE i get. It but if you come out today
you get great service because you're not real. Busy you're,
busy but you've got time to spend with. Folks. Yep
you can help advise a little bit. More and if
you find the plants that you, want put a sole
tag on. Them you hang them in and put them

(29:28):
in the sold bin, yep and we can come back
and get them later or have them delivered. Later. Yep
they'll get it taken care of. Now and you guys
are here to, help.

Speaker 6 (29:35):
Yep, definitely we're we're all out here ready to.

Speaker 1 (29:38):
Go so there you, go and lots of great specials as,
well and we'll take a. Break we come back we'll
keep tight. Again you're talking With jason from The Oakland
nursery And. Delaware find out what the specials are out
there right, now including you know they've got that mult special.
Going we'll tell you about that after the break here
on news radio six to TEN. Wtvn that Gets grant.

(29:59):
Going look at, them he's on the. Tables do a
little spin. Around percent of these my favorite little, mix
one of. Them here we. Are we're at The Oakland
nursery In, Delaware gonna be here till. Noon i'm going
to stick around for a. While we're always fun walking
around seeing everything and doing a little shopping and a
little buying as. Well and we just had one of
our listeners came up and it grows serious tomatoes and

(30:21):
a what do you? Say eighteen by thirty, greenhouse and
this particular variety is For Tony. TONTY i think For.
Tonti it's a pretty solid. Tomato these are. GORGEOUS i,
mean look at the color on. THAT i like the
veining in there. Too nice solid tomato grows them over the.
Winter does this in a smaller tomato that they've collected

(30:42):
and kept the seeds. In cucumbers and that is. Phenomenal
those are pretty pretty. Tomatoes, no you can't have, them all,
right you can have. One i'll share it with. You
nothing better than taking that right there and slicing that
little upper on. It, Yep american. Cheese i've always been
to my get that for my, dad slice tomatoes And.

Speaker 6 (31:02):
AMERICANS i just like the black pepper on.

Speaker 1 (31:04):
It oh, yeah the peppers. Absolutee so thank you for bringing.
Those but that's and, that and and again you know
the you're the. Pollinator he's got the hand vibrary you
put on the, vine shake the pollen and look what
he's got.

Speaker 5 (31:17):
There they're.

Speaker 1 (31:17):
Beautiful and the cucumbers as, well send in and he
stops growing during the summertime and brings it back in
again and they fall and in the winter those are.
Beautiful nice talking With. Jason he's the one that makes
everything happen that you see happen. Here let don't Let
paul or anybody fool. You it's All. Jason it takes
care of, it including pumping out the water we try

(31:38):
and floods and oil in the parking. Lot lots of water. Today,
yeah has the. Stop so let's talk about as we
get into the spring. Seas you guys always run a
lot of great. Specials oh, Yeah AND i was looking
at this one earlier with the three gallon, plants, yep
and some of them are like twenty. Bucks you saved
about twenty.

Speaker 6 (31:56):
Dollars, yeah the. LILACS i got a lot of good
lilacs on sale of dollars and they're nice size to,
start good starter.

Speaker 1 (32:02):
PLANTS i love the summer snowflake Vib. BURNHAM i mean
that is abute and this is a great plant for
if you're doing a, shade a screen, planting or you
need a specimal. Plant give its room to grow and
it's it'll take full sun or partial. Sun and The,
viburnhams of course they're workhorse flowering shrubs about. It but

(32:22):
that summer snowflake is absolutely. Gorgeous that's a that's a
tom and tossum, right deplicate them come to. You, yep
absolutely gorgeous again night twenty bucks three gallon, barberry three
gallon twenty bucks raspberry, lemonade nine, bark nine, bark just
coming up and keep coming up with more different lots
of different varieties a nine bar so it's like you

(32:44):
never you know nine barks disappeared and now all of a,
sudden nine barks are back. Again they're very popular with
the darker foliage and all ornamental grasses of all different.
Types do you have the blue fescue by? What do
you remember what selections you? HAD i had a lady
called it. EARLIER i. DON'T i usually Carry. ELIJAH'S i
don't Think i've got that. One which? One that's only

(33:04):
when it could come to my, mind was it Was? Elijah?
Yeah uh so They but, again but you do you
have more than one selection right? NOW i think we
didn't get too. Many putting on the. Spot, well it's,
early it's a little early for. Us Spy. REA i
love that the willows Yep iceberg. Willow that's a Wonderful
and the Double file Double file By, brother which is

(33:25):
in the same as The Summer. FLAKE i think Double
file has always Been it's always been one of my.
Favorites when that, thing when that thing's in, FLOWER a
lot of folks don't realize what that is because the
flowers are laying on like you put your arms out
and they're laying on top of your arms flat and they're,
flat and they're absolutely. Gorgeous but uh, great and you've

(33:46):
got of course you're. That you, guys do you do
as many roses out? Here is as The oakland? STORM
i mean they always they have more than, okay but
you always have the same.

Speaker 6 (33:55):
Selection, yeah we do get the same. Selection it's just
they get instead of five or ten like we, get
they get fifteen or.

Speaker 1 (34:02):
Twenty got? It and fruits and berries continue to get
hotter and hotter all the. Time and, you, guys as
selections you, have are you noticing that getting they're?

Speaker 6 (34:15):
Hard, yeah they're hard to keep. In it's one of
those that's very popular with the fruit trees the same.

Speaker 1 (34:19):
Way do you try to keep fruits and berries in
all the time or do you just go through the
spring season and be done with it for the rest
of the. Year, uh we get them in the.

Speaker 6 (34:28):
Spring we'll try to keep some of them going through the,
summer depending on what varieties we can get at that,
point and then usually in the fall will kind of
get a few more, in but the biggest selections probably
in the.

Speaker 5 (34:39):
Spring.

Speaker 1 (34:40):
Okay do you do the colonnades the Narrow? Yeah, uprights.

Speaker 6 (34:44):
Yep i've got several apples out, THERE i believe right.

Speaker 1 (34:48):
Now, okay colin, aides BECAUSE i think that's when you
know it came. OUT i, MEAN i Think Stark brothers
came out with the colonades thirty years ago and then
it kind of faded. Away. Yep and of course not
the way ardening is with the smaller gardens and folks
want to grow fruits and, berries but it's a very
limited space or even in large. Containers those colonnades are
perfect for. THAT i grew the first year that came,

(35:11):
OUT i put a couple of whiskey the half whiskey
barrels for my. Parents was, heavy what's going to fall?
Over they grew those in that for five. Years they
had fruit production the first year and it was nice sized,
apples and the production on the fruit tree itself was
probably higher percentage wise than on a regular fruit trolley
on the rope. Yep and it didn't take up any

(35:31):
space three or four feet in diameter eight feet. Tall
but they're back.

Speaker 6 (35:36):
Good for the smaller subdivision housing in town and.

Speaker 1 (35:40):
You get involved with the bushland berry at, all the
dwarf varieties of blueberries and.

Speaker 6 (35:45):
Raspberries, YEAH i get a lot of blueberries and we
get a lot of.

Speaker 1 (35:49):
Blueberries, yeah and the smaller ones growing in. Containers again
an easy way to bring that pH down a lot. Easier,
yeah they're trying to do trying to do it into the.
Ground we're talking With. Jason he's the guy that makes
his whole place. Work he is the key factor for
The Delaware Garden center At Oakland. Nursery and, uh it's
always fun having having him been chatting with the things

(36:11):
that are going on because you put all this hard
work into it over the last three months and now
we're ready.

Speaker 6 (36:15):
To, open and we got rain and.

Speaker 1 (36:18):
Then he got. Rain but remember that. Memory it always.
Happens it seems like we do this remote it's either, cold, rainy,
overcast and after we do, this when the week after
this it all breaks into it always has forever done.
That you, know we've never had a nice day when
we were, here not, really we. Haven't that last year

(36:38):
Wasn't it wasn't too.

Speaker 6 (36:39):
Bad it wasn't as bad as.

Speaker 1 (36:41):
It but it's not as bad as you because usually
things are covered up and frogs and freeze and we're
bringing everything in the whole all. Right, so last but not, Least,
jason my, favorite you still got the black balls, Sale.

Speaker 6 (36:55):
Yes, sir and we're going through it and it's it's
a really good. Deal the four for ten bags of
The Forever. Black of, course they limited of fifty.

Speaker 1 (37:05):
Two fifty two bags. Only Now paul's not here And
mark's not. Here so if somebody comes in and, says you, Know,
JASON i need fifty four, bags they're not. Here they're not.
Listening you, know they're not listening to the. SHOW i
still have and they're not. Here CAN i just get

(37:25):
fifty four? Bags i'm a yes guy to, say you
got to take care of the. CUSTOMER i. Do i'm,
HERE i, do And paul And mark's not.

Speaker 6 (37:35):
Here, YEAH i take care of my.

Speaker 1 (37:41):
Owners it's a limit of fifty two. Bags it's four
bags for ten. Bucks you can't beat. It and it's
not a cheap. Mulch this is a top grade.

Speaker 6 (37:48):
Moment it's really good mult triple.

Speaker 1 (37:50):
Shredded, yeah and they do this every spring and sometimes
in the, fall maybe, occasionally but it's a great way to.
Go so you, know, again check that one. Out and
of course you have your loyalty program and a whole nine,
yards so get signed up for. This, Well, jason thank
you so. Much for having us out. Here we really appreciate.
It thank you for, Coming thanks for the white castles
and the. Donuts you're. Welcome all, right that's it for.
Today thanks to all of our, callers thanks to our,
Sponsors thanks of course To Oakland nursing for having us.

(38:12):
Out we really appreciate. That In, delaware stop out and say.
Hello thanks To lizzie here for the, promotions and thanks
for what's your name, Again grant for the, engineering and
of Course ella back at the studios without all know
this stuffoul. Happened now do yourself a, favor come on,
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