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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Our toll free number eight hundred eight two three eight
two five five. Good morning. I am Ron Wilson, your
personal yard boy, talking about yarding. Is we move our
way through this month of December, got a week under
our belt already looking down the road. Man, we're only
talking to and if we till Christmas? Can you believe that?
Right around the corner and uh timing wise, boy, I'll
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tell you what if we you know, if you were
kind of at the end there trying to get things
finished up out in the yard in our area at
least right now, in many other areas around our state,
well we've been kind of put on hold. Uh, cold
weather moved in, snow, moved in a little bit of
icing as well. But it's been, it's snowed, we've got jeez.
I think we were in our area recorded at about
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just under five inches of snow, and so we'll take it.
It's all right. And I think the thing you have
to remember about the snow. And I know a lot
of folks panic it. I get emails about the snow's coming.
What do I do to protect my plants? Blah blah blah.
The only things that you would do to protect against
snow cover and snow coming down would be evergreens that
it may build up on, like you get up in
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northern states where they really get hammered with a lot
of snow. They'll take a lot of evergreens that are
very flexible, very you know, the branches are thin, and
they may weigh them down and actually snap the branches.
We'll take those and tie them up, actually take some twine,
go around them, tie them up like kind of like
what you see with your Christmas tree when you buy
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a cut Christmas tree and they put it through that
baler and tie it up. They'll do that sometimes even
put burlap around the outside of it to keep the
snow from wading down the branches and causing damages from that.
Now we don't have to do that, but there are
times where we'll get a heavy snow like that that
five inches, and if it's a wet snow, was a
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this was a dryer snow. It was easily broomed off
your sidewalks and all easily shoveled off. But in that case,
temperatures right around freezing, it's easy to go out there
with a soft broom, a wheat broom or corn broom
or whatever soft room and in an upward sweeping motion,
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not you know, and be gentle, but in an upward
sweeping motion just kind of sweep those branches and dislodge
that light snow off and lighting them back up again.
And it's pretty easy to do. And I got a
couple in our backyard. There's a wooded area our yard,
the turfed area, and then there's a wooded area. And
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right in front of the wooded area, thirty years ago,
I planted four or five Japanese use And I did
that because and there's a farm fence behind it. I
did that because I wanted one an evergreen screen. It's
right where you look out our back door, right there
in front of the of the woods. I wanted that.
I wanted the evergreen for the birds and the wildlife
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to use as it grew. So they were plants that
I never really sheared or trimmed much except during the
holiday season. And I love using Japanese you or taxis
branches for your evergreens for the holidays, for the porch pots,
for making swags, for even using indoors. Those needles hold
up great. They probably hold up I think the longest
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of all the evergreens that you can get out there,
but I grew them for that purpose, so it was
a multipurpose reason and always and I don't do a
lot of pruning accepted holiday season, so the branches kind
of come out there longer, and you will catch a
lot of that snow. So I watched that one, and
I will go out and kind of broom it a
little bit just to knock some of that off. Have
a weeping hemlock and by the deck, and a specimen
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weeping hemlock that can be a little bit touchy and
can catch the snow. So I'll kind of broom that
lightly just to dislodge the snow. But otherwise that's about
all I do, unless it's a really serious situation. But
that's all we do, so you know, otherwise you're pretty
much good to go. So you know, for us, I think,
you know, my point being was when you get snow
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like that, you know, do you have to do anything?
Speaker 2 (03:58):
No.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
As a matter of fact, think about snow is a
great insulator because snow is what around thirty to thirty
two degrees, So if the temperatures get colder than that
and get down below that, well, well you've got this
blanket on top of the ground that's actually keeping everything
below it fairly warm compared to what the air temperatures
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are above that. So snow cover is a great insulator
for all your plants now, and again as it melts,
it obviously waters the plants as well. But you know
that's a I look at snow as besides possibly weighting
things down, and I watched that as being a great
insulator and a great way to water our plants somewhere
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down the road when it starts to melt. And so
you get the insulation. I like the looks, and you
get the watering later on. Now, some folks will say, well,
you know, I up around my house foundation, I don't
get much snow there because a little bit overhanging all.
Can I take the snow off the sidewalk and throw
it back onto the plants. No, don't do that, especially
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if you put some kind of a de icing product down.
Obviously you don't want to throw that back around your plants.
But what I will do, like around our decked area,
is I will when as I'm shoveling to clear that off.
And we have a miniature docs and so she has
to have the area cleared off so she can get
outside out to the yard. But I will put some
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of that snow around the base of plants. I won't
put it on the plant, but around the base. I
will do that sometimes, but I'll be cautious about doing
that as well. But again, it's a great insulator, so
welcome it. Besides the fact you have to drive in
it or shovel or do whatever, but it actually is
a good thing for Mother Nature to help protect your
plants over the winter. So now you have still some
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container plants out there, and we talked about this last week,
container plants sitting out there that you were hoping to
get planted before the end of the year. Remember what
I said about the snow insulating the ground below, Well,
there's a real good chance that ground below may not
be frozen yet, and so a lot of times landscape
crews will continue planting in situations like we have right
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now up until the holidays, up until Christmas or even later.
If the ground's not frozen, even if it's just lightly
frozen at the very top, you still dig in plant,
so you know, scraping the snow back a little bit,
you might find the ground still pliable, still easy to work,
still can dig it, and you can still plant. So yes,
you can still do that and get them into the ground,
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get them planted in, and guess what, you still want
to water them in when you're done, Hook up that
garden hose because I know you don't have it hooked
up to the foster right now, right you don't have
it hooked up, But hook it back up, give them
a good water and get soaking in and you could
be good, good to go for the rest of the
winter season. So it still can be planted. You still
can get things planning. You find that surprise bag of
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tulip and daffodil balls that you butt at the garden
center and you forgot to plan them. Oh man, are
you in trouble? Right? Bought those maybe, or or your
spouse bought those, wanted you to plant them, and you
forgot all about it. We just still can. As a
matter of fact, that that was one of the big questions,
was I must have gotten ten or twelve emails this
week saying, hey, Ron bought some bulbs back in the fall,
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earlier in the fall to plan outside, and I just
realized that they're still in our garage and I haven't
done anything with it. What should I do with the stage?
Should I storm them away or whatever? No, don't storm away.
That's not going to do you any good. Those bulbs
have to be planted in some form or fashion. What
is that form or fashion? Well, if you can get
outside and still plant, and if you had one of
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those power planners with the augur makes it a piece
of cake for you. You know, you can just pull
that snowback and just go right in there and start
drilling and get those planet and again water them in
a little bit of ball food around them, but get
them planted outside. Get it done before the end of
the year. If there's some reason you cannot still get
those bulbs planted in the ground before the end of
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the year, you have another option. What is that option? Well,
i'll tell you after the break, and we'll tell you
about our website at Ron Wilson online dot com, and
we'll be talking to Stephen Missouri eight hundred eight two
three eight two five five here in the garden with
Ron Wilson in the garden with Ron Wilson again that
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toll free number eight hundred eight two three eight two
five five. Before we talk about those bulbs to Missouri
we go, Steve, Good morning.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
Hello Ron, I'm rolling through a Roara, Nebraska. Forty five degrees, cloudy.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
Skies, any snow.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
No snow, Thank goodness. I left that back in Wyoming.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
Good. Good for you. Oh my, Well, be safe out there.
What can we do for you this morning?
Speaker 4 (08:48):
Well?
Speaker 3 (08:48):
I just picked up a little of potatoes up there
in Idaho, and I got a little titbit of information
for one of the fellows there at the dock and
about potatoes, And he said, did you know why potatoes
never get lost?
Speaker 1 (09:02):
I do not know why they get lost or don't
get lost.
Speaker 3 (09:06):
Because because they always take the same root home.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
Thanks for the nice little warm up there, Dan, would
you like that one? Yeah, it was good. That wasn't bad.
I have my hand on the dump button. I don't
know about you, me too. I didn't know where that
one was gonna go. Uh, but that was good, Steve.
I appreciate that. Be safe out there while you're driving
with that load of potatoes. Boy, with the weather, where
the weather's been, that's we're talking about the weather all around.
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It's been kind of nasty. I wouldn't want to be
out there with the semis. I don't know those guys
do that with a semis. Tough enough with the regular car,
but with semis kind of crazy. But talking about the
weather as that has moved in, uh before the end
of the season, trying to get things done, get things planted.
We can still plant as long as you could work
into the soil. But what about those spring flowering bulbs.
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If you cannot get them planted, And again it's all
you do is pull snowback, get your power planner out,
attach you to your drill drill holes, get them in
the ground. A little bit of baldfood. I love Aspomus
bulb tone. It's probably one of the best ones out
there for you. It's got a little bit of bone
meal in it like the old timers like. But it's
just a good old natural bulb food for you. But
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they get those planning to get them watered in. But
if you cannot do that, don't think you can store
them and do something with them next year. Doesn't work
that way. You've got to do something with them now.
So either get them planted in the ground, or you
find some empty containers and you can go to your
local nursery. If you don't have any. Maybe get some
of their used smaller pots, eight inch pots, ten inch,
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twelve inch pots, fill those up with potting mix and
plan them in those pots, and plan them basically like
you would plant it outside, but plant them a little
bit tighter. And you know what's interesting is when you
see spring flowering bulbs in the springtime, plant it in
containers that you can buy, and then when they're done flower,
you can actually plant them back in the ground. They're
never planning it as deep as they would be normally,
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all right, and they're usually a little bit closer to
each other because we're looking for a nice little mass planting.
So you can do it however you want to, but
I use itly, plant them a little bit closer, not
quite as deep. Again, use the bull tone in that soil.
Get them planted, water them in well, and then just
put those in an unheated garage or an unheated shed,
or down in a window well or in a cold
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frame where they can experience the cold weather, not the
extremes because of the fact that they're above ground, but
experience that cold weather because they have to have the
cold weather to flower next spring. Okay, that's why you
plant them in the fall, so put them in the end.
The containers expose them to the cold temperatures over the wintertime.
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The unheated garage is great. Unheeded sheds a great. Like
I said, window wells, cold frames. You can even dig
trenches in your landscape beds, sticking pot and all down
in the beds. Mault around the top of them and
just kind of flag it so you know where they
are and leave those in there. Now, if you've got
tulips that critters like to eat and they're in containers,
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put chicken wire, poultry fencing, something over the top so
that they can't get in there, and pull those out,
because that'd be a piece of cake to dig those
out of those containers. Daffodils, a lot of the minor
bulbs you don't have to worry about, but the tulip bulbs.
You would protect all of those, and then in the
springtime they'll start to pop up as the weather starts
to warm, just like they would if they were in
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the ground. You take those container and all clean off
the container and you can use them on the patio,
on a table and the house for table. You can
give them away for gifts, you can do whatever, but
grow them in the container, water them as needed, let
them grow, let them flour, all right, Let them flour
when they're done flowering, deadhead, and let them continue to
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grow in that container until the foliage starts to turn yellow.
And then once that foliage starts to turn yellow, you
pull those out of the pot, separate them out, and
then plant them in the garden as you would have
done in the fall. But now we're talking later in
the spring season because we've let them grow six weeks
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or so after they finish flowering in the containers, out
bear rudom, cut off the folds in the top, plant
them like you normally would. Again, i'd put a little
ballfood around the watermen. Well, they'll sit there all summer,
all fall, all winter, and then come up for you
the following spring and start the regular cycle of growing.
So you know, if you find those mystery buls in
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that mystery bag and it's late and you don't know
what to do with them and you can't get them
in the ground, you actually, and I'm kind of doing
this for the guys. If this happened to you and
you were supposed to plant them and you didn't you
actually could become a hero one or two ways, sneaking
outside and getting the planet anyway, and just don't say
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anything about it because you can still plant them or
planting them up in those containers and doing that and
then next spring is kind of like what did you
do with my babs? Just wait and see. You'll just
wait and see. I got a little surprise for you.
And then when they start to grow in the springtime,
you bring all those out. You got all these great
bulbs of spring flowering bulbs that you can put anywhere.
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And you had now become a hero because we were
able to We were able to enjoy those anywhere in
the house, around whatever it may be, and then get
planted and enjoy them in the garden the following spring.
You have now become the hero rather than mister forgetful
for forgetting to put those in the ground. So a
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couple options there for you, But do keep that in mind.
It does work. But again, excuse me again, you can't
store those over the wintertime. They must be planted. And
one last thing I was talking about being cool. If
if they were in the garage all this time, that's
great because they've been exposed to the cooler. Ten pictures
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up until this point. That's a great thing. If they
were in the basement or whatever, not such a good thing.
But get them out, get them into the cold air,
and then you're good to go. So keep that with
in mind. Please again, remember if you can't get things planted,
same thing. Excuse me, get them in the garage, unheated garage,
unheated shed window, will cold frame, heal them in, water
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them well. Put the plants away for the winter, mulch
over the top and kind of right, excuse me, right
out the winter and then next spring, pull those pots
out of the ground and I'm gonna make it and
uh and get those in the ground. Uh, and start
your planning process in the spring. It's pretty easy. But
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that's what happens when the weather changes this time of
the year and you kind of get caught. I'm shorthanded
with you know, with a few things out and you
didn't get done yet. So there are ways to take
care of it. Don't panic. Uh, we'll take care of it.
And again, if you have questions about what to do
with plants that you still haven't gotten planted, give us
a call. Eight hundred eight two three eight two five
five email me. I can also help you out that
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way as far as what to do there, so keep
that in mind. Our website is Ron Wilson online dot com,
The Joe Strucker. Of course, we have a couple of
Joe this morning. Joe again taking that three day weekend
which he tries to use up all that vacation at
the end of the year. And good for him. I'm
here say for Danny Gleason, so good for you guys.
Don't let it go by, make sure you use it up. Uh.
So it's me talking about the website, and when we
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take a break here we come back, I'll explain to
you what our plan of the week is. Read his recipe.
Some of the things didn't get updated this week, you know,
we had have some website problems or whatever. But we'll
walk you through it. Dick from Dayton to hang on.
We're gonna be to you after the break again. Eight
hundred a two three eight two five five Here in
the garden with Ron Wilson. He at eight hundred eight
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two three eight two five five. Good morning. I am
Ron Wilson, your personal yard boy.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
Moving our way through this twenty twenty five just a
few weeks left, can you believe that? Already looking forward
to twenty twenty six, starting to see some a lot
of reports over the last two or three weeks of
new plants that are coming along that we're taking a
look at for growing. And you know, again some of
these new plants that you may read about over the wintertime.
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You know, I think sometimes they promote these too quickly.
They put the promotion out about them, but then you
come to find out, you know, folks like us that
are growers, nurseries that want to grow them for our
garden centers, for retail and wholesale whatever, come to find
out there's only a limited amount available for you. So
it takes a couple three years to get that build
up high enough that everybody can start to grow them
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and make them available for everybody out there. But I
think one of the treasure you're going to see for
twenty twenty six, obviously because of the big celebration for
the United States of America, will be improved varieties of reds, whites,
and blues in the annuals and perennials, but mostly in
the annuals for planting colorful uh, you know, red, white,
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and blue planters and one of the two of the
reds that are coming up and I think are really outstanding.
And we again the numbers are limited, but we were
able we and I know other nurses were able to
as well, get a few of these to try to grow. Anyway,
are you familiar with the seedum angelina? Angelina has the
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evergreen type needle type foliage and it's a golden yellow, tough,
durable perennial comes back every year gray using it in containers,
using in the ground a nice bright yellow. Well, they've
now taken that and had some sports off of that
and they now have an Angelina I think a sun
sparkler is the series of different colors. I think they
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even have some pinks and uh blues and whatever. But
they have developed a red Angelita sedum and uh and
and this thing. And I had again, there's starting to
promote it a little bit, leak it out on some
of the gardening magazine, some of the emails. So I
had some folks asking about it this week. Are you
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guys going to grow this? We are. We have a
limited amount, but we're gonna work. We will know they'll pop,
you know, it'll again over time we'll get more and
more of them. But it's a really nice kind of
a purply red, but it's a really nice color. But
it's red Angelina sedum angelina and it's absolutely gorgeous. That's
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one that you're going to see out there. That's brand new.
In the other one which we talked about last year,
and again the numbers are light yet, but it will
be available. And that's the Hydrangea and the other hydrangea
that is the macrophila, which means it flowers on old
and new growth. All right, this one, this particular one
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does it's called Centennial Ruby or the Centennial and it's
a again combination of reds and maroons and it's a
pretty nice show. So you get that behind those the
dark green leaves and it's a really nice show. But
it's called Centennial Ruby, big leaf Hydrianda hydrandri Macrofila Centennial Ruby.
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So again, if you want to check with your local
independent garden center, local nurseries to see if they're gonna
have that in twenty twenty six, I would check. And
the other one is the red Angelina seed them and
I think that's the sun Sparkler series. If I'm not mistaken,
but again, and I'm already starting to see some nurseres
starting to put together their lists of annuals for their
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customers in the reds and the whites and the blues,
not just for the fourth of July, but for all year.
Next year of course that we celebrate our birthday, so
that'll be pretty cool. So be sure and watch for
those as they come along. And again just remember a
lot of these things. Numbers may not be as big
the first year or two, but it does come on
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for you. Eight hundred eight two three eight two five five.
Talking about yardening, and speaking of which were these new plants.
I got a text from my brother in law yesterday
out in Kansas, Kansas City area, and they were looking
at on some of the catalogs online and they sent
me a picture of and I've talked about that. I
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talked about this in the last this past spring of hostas,
with all these multiple colors like pinks and yellows and
purples and blues and even the same colors on the
same you know, multiple colors on the same planet. I'm
talking fluorescent colors of these of these hostas. And if
you you know, the question is this for real. Are
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you again? Are you growing these? Uh? Are are they?
When it? Can they get available? Is it mail order only? Well,
here's the kicker when you see something like that. First
of all, they stand out like a sore thumb. I mean,
these plants and I'm looking at a picture of the
one he sent me right now. The blues and the purples,
and the the oranges and yellows and all are vibrant colors.
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I'm talking like spray painted colors. That just doesn't happen
in many plants, all right. Secondly, it's kind of hard
to I don't know I've ever seen a plant they
have all these different colors on the same plant. Each
leaf has a different color. Just doesn't happen that way.
And thirdly, when you find see these things on the
internet and they're out there all over with these multicolored hostas,
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it's always by seed, not by the plant. So for
twenty bucks or whatever, you get two hundred hosta seeds
for you to grow and take it from there and
even show the succession coming out green and growing all
year and then finally turning these colors. Well, two things
One is I don't as far as I know, as
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far as anybody I know in this industry, as far
as professionals in the industry, these are not available. These
don't grow like that. These colors are not out there.
And most folks don't grow hosta from seed. They're all
by division. They go in there and they take the clump,
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separate it out, and that's how hostas are propagated. And
that's how you get the same hosta, the same looking
leaf with all of the crop is by by root division. Okay,
so that's how they do that, not from seed. From seed,
you can get all kinds of different things. So and
it's hard to grow from seed. Hostas are really tough
one to grow from seed, all right, So keep that
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in mind. But these things are I guess I look
at it, and you know the old saying about you know,
if it's too good to be true, it's too good
to be true. They're not. It's not true. That's what
these are. It's an AI generated plant. Nice job, really colorful.
And how they get by with this and and and
the websites are legit in the whole nine yards. I
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have no idea, but he said, is this for real?
Or is this bs? And my wife even picked up
on it, and they're fired right back and said it's bs.
I said, whoa, how do you know that? But anyway,
it's uh, it is, it's it's uh, it's not for real.
It's a who axe, it's a hoax, and uh, don't
be taken in by that. And again my comment back
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to them was if those were available, don't you think
every garden center would be growing those and that would
be all you would grow because everybody like that, they
think those are the greatest thing in the world. So again,
when you're online and you're looking, consider the source, consider
what you're looking at, and if you're not for sure
if it's something that's for real or not, email me
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or go to your local independent garden center and talk
to the professionals and show them the picture and say
is list legit or not? And take it from there.
And I think, you know, with AI and I use
you know, now, I work with AI researching things to
get sources and other information, but I always check it,
check the sources where it came from. You know, it
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can be helpful, but in situations like that, it can
create things that it's just unbelievable. And that's one of them.
And you know, there's somebody out there that's going to
take your money for it, and and it's a scam.
So be cautious as we go through the through the
gardening season, especially with all the gardening things that are
gonna be out there over the winter time, trying to
get them to get you to buy their plants or
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seeds or whatever. If you're not sure if it's legit,
check with me, check with the local independent garden center,
and let's put our heads together and figure out whether
it is or whether it isn't before we take a break.
Dick from Dayton, good morning, Good morning.
Speaker 4 (25:28):
How are you?
Speaker 1 (25:29):
I am great? How about yourself?
Speaker 4 (25:31):
All pretty good? Today is a big day.
Speaker 1 (25:35):
It's a really big day. All kinds of old rivalries
going at each other in college football. You got Ohio State,
Ohio State in Indiana, both undefeated. What's gonna happen there?
I don't know. It could be up in the air.
Obviously I'm rooting for Ohio State. But the Indiana's playing pretty.
Speaker 4 (25:53):
Tough, pretty tough, pretty tough.
Speaker 1 (25:56):
So we'll see.
Speaker 4 (25:58):
Play to borrow. I think they got a chance tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (26:02):
I think they got a chance. Got you got your
you got your quarterback, back. So there you go. The
defense can do what they need to do. Maybe we
do have a chance.
Speaker 4 (26:11):
Maybe we do. But this is the one I've been
so yeah, I didn't. I think I was ry. Just
this morning. I've been playing a little bit with Debbie
Scroop the Star City Dulsworth. We had a nice party
and then we had a big crowd at the bluegrass thing.
There was probably we had eighteen people playing the other day. Wow,
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yesterday it was good.
Speaker 1 (26:35):
Now when we get when we get into the holidays, Dick,
do you do a little bit of holiday music?
Speaker 4 (26:41):
A lot of holiday music?
Speaker 5 (26:42):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (26:42):
Good lot?
Speaker 1 (26:43):
Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4 (26:45):
Debbie has a special Christmas show. Now we spend half
an hour playing about ten Christmas song They're pretty I
like them on the string instanment.
Speaker 1 (26:53):
You know, you don't you don't get to sing.
Speaker 4 (26:56):
A little bit, a little bit, you know a little bit.
Speaker 1 (26:59):
Now, what is your favorite Christmas song to play on
your mandolin or your ukulele or whatever you happen to be.
Speaker 4 (27:06):
Playing walking around the Christmas tree, rocking.
Speaker 1 (27:09):
Around the Christmas tree? Oh pretty good, that's a good song.
I like that one. Yeah, that's you get the crowd
up and dancing.
Speaker 4 (27:18):
Yeah, yeah, it's been pretty nice. And I wish my
cousin Cleveland, she had a birthday and she wants to
maybe come down this year and see me. Bring the boys,
because you know, they're a part of the family I
was in. But yeah, I've been doing pretty good.
Speaker 1 (27:36):
You know good. We'll keep it up and I look
forward to talking to you next Saturday.
Speaker 4 (27:40):
Okay, all right, take care, Bye.
Speaker 1 (27:42):
Bye Dick from Dayton. Right there, ladies and gentlemen. By
the way, we take a break, we come back top
of the hour. Got our guests coming up. First of all,
we're going to talk to Laura Cuncle. Laura is the
executive director of America in Bloom. Yeah, they're going to
be celebrating their twenty fifth anniversary and the twenty twenty
sixth of growing Vibrant Communities. And we've had them on
(28:02):
our show before, and I'll tell you what their programs
are outstanding. If you want to get your community involved
in making it more colorful. Uh well, let her explain
everything that they do. They have the programs for you,
plus they judge all of these and they have contests
and you can win things and old nine yards. But
it's American Bloom. You can check your website America in
bloom dot org. We'll talk to her at the top
(28:23):
of the hour. Bottom of the hour, our wild Winged
Wonder will be with us Monica Brubaker from Wildbirds Unlimited,
talking about what we should be doing for our birdies,
wild birdies as we go into the winter season. Eight
hundred eight two three eight two five five. That's our
number here in the garden with Ron Wilson, Coome Yardening
(28:44):
at eight hundred eight two three eight two five five.
Good morning. I am Ron Wilson, your personal yard boy.
Don't forget. Our website is Ron Wilson online dot com.
Our plan of the week this week is Christmas cactus.
Christmas cactus. I love Christmas cactus. You know, besides the
punts the Christmas cactus is the punt Setia, which was
our plan of the week last week, probably the second
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most recognizable holiday plant that's out there. Obviously the cut
Christmas tree, the live Christmas tree would be the first,
and I put pon Setia next, and I put the
Christmas cactus as third, although Amarillis is coming in right
there with it as well as it continues to grow
in popularity too. But I'll tell you, Christmas cactus so
easy to grow. And yes, there are Thanksgiving cactus that
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typically flower earlier, three or four weeks earlier around Thanksgiving.
There's the Christmas cactus, and there's the Easter cactus that
flowers later in the late winter early spring, and usually
it typically right around Easter. They all three look a
little different if you look at the foliage, and they
all three are actually different species. Two of them the
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same genus, and all three of them are different in
some aspect, but pretty interesting plant. But my point being is,
you know, once theeds are done flowering for the holiday season,
they're so easy to grow. I mean, these are really
easy houseplants to grow, all three of them. And then
of course you get the bonus of the flowering around
the holiday season or depending on what it is. And
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by the way, if you still can't tell the difference
between yours and looking at the foliage, and it usually
is pretty pretty evident. Thanksgiving cactus if the flowers has
yellow pollen. Christmas cactus when it flowers, has pink pollen,
and then the Easter cactus has more of a purple
pink pollen, so the pollen is actually different. So you
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can take a look at the flower and know it's
a little bit difference. But biggest thing is right now
is if you buy a Christmas cactus at a place
that sells holiday plants, the transition going from where it
was to your house can sometimes cause some of those
buds to start to drop. Flower buds start to drop
a little bit. Don't panic, don't over water, Soca dry,
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soca dry, that type of watering. Remember they're not a cactus,
so you do what you do. Water these water, let
it dry out, water, let it dry out, but just
keep it a medium light, bright light, but medium light,
nothing direct away from the doors and away from the
heat bench, just like the pont setia. And they actually
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do better in cooler temperatures. As a matter of fact,
if you've had a hard time getting any of these
to flower, remember they are short day plants, so as
the days get shorter, that helps to trigger them to flower,
just like the pont setia. All right, letting them go
a little bit more on the drier side through the
fall before they flower sometimes will help them set up
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the flower buds a little bit. And third, and I
think this is their key. They love cooler temperatures late summer,
early fall. So if you can expose them to fifteen
to fifty five degree nighttime temperatures for a couple of weeks,
that really helps to set up those flower buds. So
keep that in mind as you're growing these cactus. A
lot of folks that have them, that you know, and
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they don't like warm temperatures and when they're inside that
I actually flower better and do better at less than
seventy degrees, So keep that in mind. But I'll tell
you this is another one of those plants. Like I
talk about amberillis after the holidays, going out and scarfing
those up and growing those over the wintertime for wintercolor.
Christmas cactus are the same way, easy plant to grow,
great house plant, great in a hanging basket, great in
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a container. Scarf those things up, they're done flowering, that's okay,
growing for next year. And the thing about Christmas cactus also,
it's amazing how many folks will take some of those pieces.
They'll like pads, take them in and root them. They're
very easy to root and share those with a family member.
So the family members all have Christmas cactus from the
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same plant. Kint them an airloom plant and the pass
it along pass it a long plant that you can
share with other people as well. But anyway, tips about
that is on our website at Ron Wilson online dot com.
Same thing with the ponsetia, same thing with your cut
Christmas tree. And Riada's recipe for some reason, did not
make it up there this week. It's her famous peppermint
(33:04):
bark and it's really easy for you to make. It's
expensive to buy. We'll make sure Joe gets that up
there next week, and if you want it this weekend,
just send me an email and I will get that
back to you on Monday. Don and Columbus, good morning, Hey,
I'm good you.
Speaker 2 (33:23):
Oh fine, So I hate to see I hate to
see you going to the dark side using AI.
Speaker 1 (33:28):
Well, you know, the think of it is, I haven't
set up so that if I ask a question and
it gives me a summary. Also to the right hand side,
it gives me the four to five sources that it
pulled it from, and many times it's the issue extension,
Cornell or whatever, so I can actually look at that
and compare the notes. I don't always use it, but
there are times where it can save you a little
(33:48):
bit of time, but you gotta check it to make
sure the facts are right.
Speaker 5 (33:53):
I'm just opposed to AI because I used to before.
But it's apparently, you know, the CEOs of the companies
privately say like, yeah, those are twenty percent chance that
lifestyle humanity that's not wants going to do that.
Speaker 1 (34:08):
Yeah, no, I get it, I get it, but.
Speaker 2 (34:12):
No, I we have a little I have a little tip.
We got a new kitten this year, and you know,
like all the new kids, he loves to climb on
trees and plants, and the monster was basically his cat towel,
and so he hates bananas. Apparently this is common for cats.
Speaker 5 (34:28):
They some of them hate bananas and citrus and other flavors. Well,
get those little air fashioners you hang on your car
wheel view mirror. Just get those and we them all
on the monster, and you know he's just like, oh,
I don't like that smell and stays off of it.
It looks a little tacky, honestly, but it's Christmas time,
so it kind of h you know, wokes. I guess, Yeah, it.
Speaker 1 (34:49):
Looks got the ornaments on there and you're ready to go. Yeah,
I think the citrus you're right. Even outside, if you
could take lemon peels and scatter them in the landscape
bed sometimes that helps to keep cats out of the beds,
So you're right. That's a great tip. Citrus. I've never
heard of the bananas, but it's worth a try. But
those two particular smells a lot of times cats do
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not like and we'll stay away from them. And that's
a good tip for this time of the years we
go into the winter with all the houseplants out there.
If you are a cat owner, all right, quick breaking,
come back. Coming up the top of the hour, we're
gonna talk about America in Bloom. Laura Kunkle, the executive director,
is going to join us at the bottom of the hour,
our wild winged Wonder Monica Brubaker talking about those wild
birds and what you should be doing this time of
(35:32):
the year as we get into the winter season. Don't
forget our website Run Wilson Online dot com Facebook page
in the Garden with Ron Wilson check that out as well.
After the break, we're gonna have lots of funds with
our interviews here in the Garden, Run Wilson
Our toll free number eight hundred eight two three eight
two five five. Good morning. I am Ron Wilson, your
personal yard boy, talking about yarding. Is we move our
way through this month of December, got a week under
our belt already looking down the road. Man, we're only
talking to and if we till Christmas? Can you believe that?
Right around the corner and uh timing wise, boy, I'll
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tell you what if we you know, if you were
kind of at the end there trying to get things
finished up out in the yard in our area at
least right now, in many other areas around our state,
well we've been kind of put on hold. Uh, cold
weather moved in, snow, moved in a little bit of
icing as well. But it's been, it's snowed, we've got jeez.
I think we were in our area recorded at about
(00:44):
just under five inches of snow, and so we'll take it.
It's all right. And I think the thing you have
to remember about the snow. And I know a lot
of folks panic it. I get emails about the snow's coming.
What do I do to protect my plants? Blah blah blah.
The only things that you would do to protect against
snow cover and snow coming down would be evergreens that
it may build up on, like you get up in
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northern states where they really get hammered with a lot
of snow. They'll take a lot of evergreens that are
very flexible, very you know, the branches are thin, and
they may weigh them down and actually snap the branches.
We'll take those and tie them up, actually take some twine,
go around them, tie them up like kind of like
what you see with your Christmas tree when you buy
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a cut Christmas tree and they put it through that
baler and tie it up. They'll do that sometimes even
put burlap around the outside of it to keep the
snow from wading down the branches and causing damages from that.
Now we don't have to do that, but there are
times where we'll get a heavy snow like that that
five inches, and if it's a wet snow, was a
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this was a dryer snow. It was easily broomed off
your sidewalks and all easily shoveled off. But in that case,
temperatures right around freezing, it's easy to go out there
with a soft broom, a wheat broom or corn broom
or whatever soft room and in an upward sweeping motion,
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not you know, and be gentle, but in an upward
sweeping motion just kind of sweep those branches and dislodge
that light snow off and lighting them back up again.
And it's pretty easy to do. And I got a
couple in our backyard. There's a wooded area our yard,
the turfed area, and then there's a wooded area. And
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right in front of the wooded area, thirty years ago,
I planted four or five Japanese use And I did
that because and there's a farm fence behind it. I
did that because I wanted one an evergreen screen. It's
right where you look out our back door, right there
in front of the of the woods. I wanted that.
I wanted the evergreen for the birds and the wildlife
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to use as it grew. So they were plants that
I never really sheared or trimmed much except during the
holiday season. And I love using Japanese you or taxis
branches for your evergreens for the holidays, for the porch pots,
for making swags, for even using indoors. Those needles hold
up great. They probably hold up I think the longest
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of all the evergreens that you can get out there,
but I grew them for that purpose, so it was
a multipurpose reason and always and I don't do a
lot of pruning accepted holiday season, so the branches kind
of come out there longer, and you will catch a
lot of that snow. So I watched that one, and
I will go out and kind of broom it a
little bit just to knock some of that off. Have
a weeping hemlock and by the deck, and a specimen
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weeping hemlock that can be a little bit touchy and
can catch the snow. So I'll kind of broom that
lightly just to dislodge the snow. But otherwise that's about
all I do, unless it's a really serious situation. But
that's all we do, so you know, otherwise you're pretty
much good to go. So you know, for us, I think,
you know, my point being was when you get snow
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like that, you know, do you have to do anything?
Speaker 2 (03:58):
No.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
As a matter of fact, think about snow is a
great insulator because snow is what around thirty to thirty
two degrees, So if the temperatures get colder than that
and get down below that, well, well you've got this
blanket on top of the ground that's actually keeping everything
below it fairly warm compared to what the air temperatures
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are above that. So snow cover is a great insulator
for all your plants now, and again as it melts,
it obviously waters the plants as well. But you know
that's a I look at snow as besides possibly weighting
things down, and I watched that as being a great
insulator and a great way to water our plants somewhere
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down the road when it starts to melt. And so
you get the insulation. I like the looks, and you
get the watering later on. Now, some folks will say, well,
you know, I up around my house foundation, I don't
get much snow there because a little bit overhanging all.
Can I take the snow off the sidewalk and throw
it back onto the plants. No, don't do that, especially
(05:02):
if you put some kind of a de icing product down.
Obviously you don't want to throw that back around your plants.
But what I will do, like around our decked area,
is I will when as I'm shoveling to clear that off.
And we have a miniature docs and so she has
to have the area cleared off so she can get
outside out to the yard. But I will put some
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of that snow around the base of plants. I won't
put it on the plant, but around the base. I
will do that sometimes, but I'll be cautious about doing
that as well. But again, it's a great insulator, so
welcome it. Besides the fact you have to drive in
it or shovel or do whatever, but it actually is
a good thing for Mother Nature to help protect your
plants over the winter. So now you have still some
(05:44):
container plants out there, and we talked about this last week,
container plants sitting out there that you were hoping to
get planted before the end of the year. Remember what
I said about the snow insulating the ground below, Well,
there's a real good chance that ground below may not
be frozen yet, and so a lot of times landscape
crews will continue planting in situations like we have right
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now up until the holidays, up until Christmas or even later.
If the ground's not frozen, even if it's just lightly
frozen at the very top, you still dig in plant,
so you know, scraping the snow back a little bit,
you might find the ground still pliable, still easy to work,
still can dig it, and you can still plant. So yes,
you can still do that and get them into the ground,
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get them planted in, and guess what, you still want
to water them in when you're done, Hook up that
garden hose because I know you don't have it hooked
up to the foster right now, right you don't have
it hooked up, But hook it back up, give them
a good water and get soaking in and you could
be good, good to go for the rest of the
winter season. So it still can be planted. You still
can get things planning. You find that surprise bag of
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tulip and daffodil balls that you butt at the garden
center and you forgot to plan them. Oh man, are
you in trouble? Right? Bought those maybe, or or your
spouse bought those, wanted you to plant them, and you
forgot all about it. We just still can. As a
matter of fact, that that was one of the big questions,
was I must have gotten ten or twelve emails this
week saying, hey, Ron bought some bulbs back in the fall,
(07:16):
earlier in the fall to plan outside, and I just
realized that they're still in our garage and I haven't
done anything with it. What should I do with the stage?
Should I storm them away or whatever? No, don't storm away.
That's not going to do you any good. Those bulbs
have to be planted in some form or fashion. What
is that form or fashion? Well, if you can get
outside and still plant, and if you had one of
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those power planners with the augur makes it a piece
of cake for you. You know, you can just pull
that snowback and just go right in there and start
drilling and get those planet and again water them in
a little bit of ball food around them, but get
them planted outside. Get it done before the end of
the year. If there's some reason you cannot still get
those bulbs planted in the ground before the end of
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the year, you have another option. What is that option? Well,
i'll tell you after the break, and we'll tell you
about our website at Ron Wilson online dot com, and
we'll be talking to Stephen Missouri eight hundred eight two
three eight two five five here in the garden with
Ron Wilson in the garden with Ron Wilson again that
(08:21):
toll free number eight hundred eight two three eight two
five five. Before we talk about those bulbs to Missouri
we go, Steve, Good morning.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
Hello Ron, I'm rolling through a Roara, Nebraska. Forty five degrees, cloudy.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
Skies, any snow.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
No snow, Thank goodness. I left that back in Wyoming.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
Good. Good for you. Oh my, Well, be safe out there.
What can we do for you this morning?
Speaker 4 (08:48):
Well?
Speaker 3 (08:48):
I just picked up a little of potatoes up there
in Idaho, and I got a little titbit of information
for one of the fellows there at the dock and
about potatoes, And he said, did you know why potatoes
never get lost?
Speaker 1 (09:02):
I do not know why they get lost or don't
get lost.
Speaker 3 (09:06):
Because because they always take the same root home.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
Thanks for the nice little warm up there, Dan, would
you like that one? Yeah, it was good. That wasn't bad.
I have my hand on the dump button. I don't
know about you, me too. I didn't know where that
one was gonna go. Uh, but that was good, Steve.
I appreciate that. Be safe out there while you're driving
with that load of potatoes. Boy, with the weather, where
the weather's been, that's we're talking about the weather all around.
(09:36):
It's been kind of nasty. I wouldn't want to be
out there with the semis. I don't know those guys
do that with a semis. Tough enough with the regular car,
but with semis kind of crazy. But talking about the
weather as that has moved in, uh before the end
of the season, trying to get things done, get things planted.
We can still plant as long as you could work
into the soil. But what about those spring flowering bulbs.
(09:57):
If you cannot get them planted, And again it's all
you do is pull snowback, get your power planner out,
attach you to your drill drill holes, get them in
the ground. A little bit of baldfood. I love Aspomus
bulb tone. It's probably one of the best ones out
there for you. It's got a little bit of bone
meal in it like the old timers like. But it's
just a good old natural bulb food for you. But
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they get those planning to get them watered in. But
if you cannot do that, don't think you can store
them and do something with them next year. Doesn't work
that way. You've got to do something with them now.
So either get them planted in the ground, or you
find some empty containers and you can go to your
local nursery. If you don't have any. Maybe get some
of their used smaller pots, eight inch pots, ten inch,
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twelve inch pots, fill those up with potting mix and
plan them in those pots, and plan them basically like
you would plant it outside, but plant them a little
bit tighter. And you know what's interesting is when you
see spring flowering bulbs in the springtime, plant it in
containers that you can buy, and then when they're done flower,
you can actually plant them back in the ground. They're
never planning it as deep as they would be normally,
(11:02):
all right, and they're usually a little bit closer to
each other because we're looking for a nice little mass planting.
So you can do it however you want to, but
I use itly, plant them a little bit closer, not
quite as deep. Again, use the bull tone in that soil.
Get them planted, water them in well, and then just
put those in an unheated garage or an unheated shed,
or down in a window well or in a cold
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frame where they can experience the cold weather, not the
extremes because of the fact that they're above ground, but
experience that cold weather because they have to have the
cold weather to flower next spring. Okay, that's why you
plant them in the fall, so put them in the end.
The containers expose them to the cold temperatures over the wintertime.
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The unheated garage is great. Unheeded sheds a great. Like
I said, window wells, cold frames. You can even dig
trenches in your landscape beds, sticking pot and all down
in the beds. Mault around the top of them and
just kind of flag it so you know where they
are and leave those in there. Now, if you've got
tulips that critters like to eat and they're in containers,
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put chicken wire, poultry fencing, something over the top so
that they can't get in there, and pull those out,
because that'd be a piece of cake to dig those
out of those containers. Daffodils, a lot of the minor
bulbs you don't have to worry about, but the tulip bulbs.
You would protect all of those, and then in the
springtime they'll start to pop up as the weather starts
to warm, just like they would if they were in
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the ground. You take those container and all clean off
the container and you can use them on the patio,
on a table and the house for table. You can
give them away for gifts, you can do whatever, but
grow them in the container, water them as needed, let
them grow, let them flour, all right, Let them flour
when they're done flowering, deadhead, and let them continue to
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grow in that container until the foliage starts to turn yellow.
And then once that foliage starts to turn yellow, you
pull those out of the pot, separate them out, and
then plant them in the garden as you would have
done in the fall. But now we're talking later in
the spring season because we've let them grow six weeks
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or so after they finish flowering in the containers, out
bear rudom, cut off the folds in the top, plant
them like you normally would. Again, i'd put a little
ballfood around the watermen. Well, they'll sit there all summer,
all fall, all winter, and then come up for you
the following spring and start the regular cycle of growing.
So you know, if you find those mystery buls in
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that mystery bag and it's late and you don't know
what to do with them and you can't get them
in the ground, you actually, and I'm kind of doing
this for the guys. If this happened to you and
you were supposed to plant them and you didn't you
actually could become a hero one or two ways, sneaking
outside and getting the planet anyway, and just don't say
(13:53):
anything about it because you can still plant them or
planting them up in those containers and doing that and
then next spring is kind of like what did you
do with my babs? Just wait and see. You'll just
wait and see. I got a little surprise for you.
And then when they start to grow in the springtime,
you bring all those out. You got all these great
bulbs of spring flowering bulbs that you can put anywhere.
(14:17):
And you had now become a hero because we were
able to We were able to enjoy those anywhere in
the house, around whatever it may be, and then get
planted and enjoy them in the garden the following spring.
You have now become the hero rather than mister forgetful
for forgetting to put those in the ground. So a
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couple options there for you, But do keep that in mind.
It does work. But again, excuse me again, you can't
store those over the wintertime. They must be planted. And
one last thing I was talking about being cool. If
if they were in the garage all this time, that's
great because they've been exposed to the cooler. Ten pictures
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up until this point. That's a great thing. If they
were in the basement or whatever, not such a good thing.
But get them out, get them into the cold air,
and then you're good to go. So keep that with
in mind. Please again, remember if you can't get things planted,
same thing. Excuse me, get them in the garage, unheated garage,
unheated shed window, will cold frame, heal them in, water
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them well. Put the plants away for the winter, mulch
over the top and kind of right, excuse me, right
out the winter and then next spring, pull those pots
out of the ground and I'm gonna make it and
uh and get those in the ground. Uh, and start
your planning process in the spring. It's pretty easy. But
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that's what happens when the weather changes this time of
the year and you kind of get caught. I'm shorthanded
with you know, with a few things out and you
didn't get done yet. So there are ways to take
care of it. Don't panic. Uh, we'll take care of it.
And again, if you have questions about what to do
with plants that you still haven't gotten planted, give us
a call. Eight hundred eight two three eight two five
five email me. I can also help you out that
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way as far as what to do there, so keep
that in mind. Our website is Ron Wilson online dot com,
The Joe Strucker. Of course, we have a couple of
Joe this morning. Joe again taking that three day weekend
which he tries to use up all that vacation at
the end of the year. And good for him. I'm
here say for Danny Gleason, so good for you guys.
Don't let it go by, make sure you use it up. Uh.
So it's me talking about the website, and when we
(16:26):
take a break here we come back, I'll explain to
you what our plan of the week is. Read his recipe.
Some of the things didn't get updated this week, you know,
we had have some website problems or whatever. But we'll
walk you through it. Dick from Dayton to hang on.
We're gonna be to you after the break again. Eight
hundred a two three eight two five five Here in
the garden with Ron Wilson. He at eight hundred eight
(16:50):
two three eight two five five. Good morning. I am
Ron Wilson, your personal yard boy.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
Moving our way through this twenty twenty five just a
few weeks left, can you believe that? Already looking forward
to twenty twenty six, starting to see some a lot
of reports over the last two or three weeks of
new plants that are coming along that we're taking a
look at for growing. And you know, again some of
these new plants that you may read about over the wintertime.
(17:16):
You know, I think sometimes they promote these too quickly.
They put the promotion out about them, but then you
come to find out, you know, folks like us that
are growers, nurseries that want to grow them for our
garden centers, for retail and wholesale whatever, come to find
out there's only a limited amount available for you. So
it takes a couple three years to get that build
up high enough that everybody can start to grow them
(17:38):
and make them available for everybody out there. But I
think one of the treasure you're going to see for
twenty twenty six, obviously because of the big celebration for
the United States of America, will be improved varieties of reds, whites,
and blues in the annuals and perennials, but mostly in
the annuals for planting colorful uh, you know, red, white,
(18:01):
and blue planters and one of the two of the
reds that are coming up and I think are really outstanding.
And we again the numbers are limited, but we were
able we and I know other nurses were able to
as well, get a few of these to try to grow. Anyway,
are you familiar with the seedum angelina? Angelina has the
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evergreen type needle type foliage and it's a golden yellow, tough,
durable perennial comes back every year gray using it in containers,
using in the ground a nice bright yellow. Well, they've
now taken that and had some sports off of that
and they now have an Angelina I think a sun
sparkler is the series of different colors. I think they
(18:45):
even have some pinks and uh blues and whatever. But
they have developed a red Angelita sedum and uh and
and this thing. And I had again, there's starting to
promote it a little bit, leak it out on some
of the gardening magazine, some of the emails. So I
had some folks asking about it this week. Are you
(19:07):
guys going to grow this? We are. We have a
limited amount, but we're gonna work. We will know they'll pop,
you know, it'll again over time we'll get more and
more of them. But it's a really nice kind of
a purply red, but it's a really nice color. But
it's red Angelina sedum angelina and it's absolutely gorgeous. That's
(19:29):
one that you're going to see out there. That's brand new.
In the other one which we talked about last year,
and again the numbers are light yet, but it will
be available. And that's the Hydrangea and the other hydrangea
that is the macrophila, which means it flowers on old
and new growth. All right, this one, this particular one
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does it's called Centennial Ruby or the Centennial and it's
a again combination of reds and maroons and it's a
pretty nice show. So you get that behind those the
dark green leaves and it's a really nice show. But
it's called Centennial Ruby, big leaf Hydrianda hydrandri Macrofila Centennial Ruby.
(20:14):
So again, if you want to check with your local
independent garden center, local nurseries to see if they're gonna
have that in twenty twenty six, I would check. And
the other one is the red Angelina seed them and
I think that's the sun Sparkler series. If I'm not mistaken,
but again, and I'm already starting to see some nurseres
starting to put together their lists of annuals for their
(20:37):
customers in the reds and the whites and the blues,
not just for the fourth of July, but for all year.
Next year of course that we celebrate our birthday, so
that'll be pretty cool. So be sure and watch for
those as they come along. And again just remember a
lot of these things. Numbers may not be as big
the first year or two, but it does come on
(20:59):
for you. Eight hundred eight two three eight two five five.
Talking about yardening, and speaking of which were these new plants.
I got a text from my brother in law yesterday
out in Kansas, Kansas City area, and they were looking
at on some of the catalogs online and they sent
me a picture of and I've talked about that. I
(21:19):
talked about this in the last this past spring of hostas,
with all these multiple colors like pinks and yellows and
purples and blues and even the same colors on the
same you know, multiple colors on the same planet. I'm
talking fluorescent colors of these of these hostas. And if
you you know, the question is this for real. Are
(21:42):
you again? Are you growing these? Uh? Are are they?
When it? Can they get available? Is it mail order only? Well,
here's the kicker when you see something like that. First
of all, they stand out like a sore thumb. I mean,
these plants and I'm looking at a picture of the
one he sent me right now. The blues and the purples,
and the the oranges and yellows and all are vibrant colors.
(22:04):
I'm talking like spray painted colors. That just doesn't happen
in many plants, all right. Secondly, it's kind of hard
to I don't know I've ever seen a plant they
have all these different colors on the same plant. Each
leaf has a different color. Just doesn't happen that way.
And thirdly, when you find see these things on the
internet and they're out there all over with these multicolored hostas,
(22:28):
it's always by seed, not by the plant. So for
twenty bucks or whatever, you get two hundred hosta seeds
for you to grow and take it from there and
even show the succession coming out green and growing all
year and then finally turning these colors. Well, two things
One is I don't as far as I know, as
(22:50):
far as anybody I know in this industry, as far
as professionals in the industry, these are not available. These
don't grow like that. These colors are not out there.
And most folks don't grow hosta from seed. They're all
by division. They go in there and they take the clump,
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separate it out, and that's how hostas are propagated. And
that's how you get the same hosta, the same looking
leaf with all of the crop is by by root division. Okay,
so that's how they do that, not from seed. From seed,
you can get all kinds of different things. So and
it's hard to grow from seed. Hostas are really tough
one to grow from seed, all right, So keep that
(23:32):
in mind. But these things are I guess I look
at it, and you know the old saying about you know,
if it's too good to be true, it's too good
to be true. They're not. It's not true. That's what
these are. It's an AI generated plant. Nice job, really colorful.
And how they get by with this and and and
the websites are legit in the whole nine yards. I
(23:52):
have no idea, but he said, is this for real?
Or is this bs? And my wife even picked up
on it, and they're fired right back and said it's bs.
I said, whoa, how do you know that? But anyway,
it's uh, it is, it's it's uh, it's not for real.
It's a who axe, it's a hoax, and uh, don't
be taken in by that. And again my comment back
(24:14):
to them was if those were available, don't you think
every garden center would be growing those and that would
be all you would grow because everybody like that, they
think those are the greatest thing in the world. So again,
when you're online and you're looking, consider the source, consider
what you're looking at, and if you're not for sure
if it's something that's for real or not, email me
(24:35):
or go to your local independent garden center and talk
to the professionals and show them the picture and say
is list legit or not? And take it from there.
And I think, you know, with AI and I use
you know, now, I work with AI researching things to
get sources and other information, but I always check it,
check the sources where it came from. You know, it
(24:55):
can be helpful, but in situations like that, it can
create things that it's just unbelievable. And that's one of them.
And you know, there's somebody out there that's going to
take your money for it, and and it's a scam.
So be cautious as we go through the through the
gardening season, especially with all the gardening things that are
gonna be out there over the winter time, trying to
get them to get you to buy their plants or
(25:16):
seeds or whatever. If you're not sure if it's legit,
check with me, check with the local independent garden center,
and let's put our heads together and figure out whether
it is or whether it isn't before we take a break.
Dick from Dayton, good morning, Good morning.
Speaker 4 (25:28):
How are you?
Speaker 1 (25:29):
I am great? How about yourself?
Speaker 4 (25:31):
All pretty good? Today is a big day.
Speaker 1 (25:35):
It's a really big day. All kinds of old rivalries
going at each other in college football. You got Ohio State,
Ohio State in Indiana, both undefeated. What's gonna happen there?
I don't know. It could be up in the air.
Obviously I'm rooting for Ohio State. But the Indiana's playing pretty.
Speaker 4 (25:53):
Tough, pretty tough, pretty tough.
Speaker 1 (25:56):
So we'll see.
Speaker 4 (25:58):
Play to borrow. I think they got a chance tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (26:02):
I think they got a chance. Got you got your
you got your quarterback, back. So there you go. The
defense can do what they need to do. Maybe we
do have a chance.
Speaker 4 (26:11):
Maybe we do. But this is the one I've been
so yeah, I didn't. I think I was ry. Just
this morning. I've been playing a little bit with Debbie
Scroop the Star City Dulsworth. We had a nice party
and then we had a big crowd at the bluegrass thing.
There was probably we had eighteen people playing the other day. Wow,
(26:34):
yesterday it was good.
Speaker 1 (26:35):
Now when we get when we get into the holidays, Dick,
do you do a little bit of holiday music?
Speaker 4 (26:41):
A lot of holiday music?
Speaker 5 (26:42):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (26:42):
Good lot?
Speaker 1 (26:43):
Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4 (26:45):
Debbie has a special Christmas show. Now we spend half
an hour playing about ten Christmas song They're pretty I
like them on the string instanment.
Speaker 1 (26:53):
You know, you don't you don't get to sing.
Speaker 4 (26:56):
A little bit, a little bit, you know a little bit.
Speaker 1 (26:59):
Now, what is your favorite Christmas song to play on
your mandolin or your ukulele or whatever you happen to be.
Speaker 4 (27:06):
Playing walking around the Christmas tree, rocking.
Speaker 1 (27:09):
Around the Christmas tree? Oh pretty good, that's a good song.
I like that one. Yeah, that's you get the crowd
up and dancing.
Speaker 4 (27:18):
Yeah, yeah, it's been pretty nice. And I wish my
cousin Cleveland, she had a birthday and she wants to
maybe come down this year and see me. Bring the boys,
because you know, they're a part of the family I
was in. But yeah, I've been doing pretty good.
Speaker 1 (27:36):
You know good. We'll keep it up and I look
forward to talking to you next Saturday.
Speaker 4 (27:40):
Okay, all right, take care, Bye.
Speaker 1 (27:42):
Bye Dick from Dayton. Right there, ladies and gentlemen. By
the way, we take a break, we come back top
of the hour. Got our guests coming up. First of all,
we're going to talk to Laura Cuncle. Laura is the
executive director of America in Bloom. Yeah, they're going to
be celebrating their twenty fifth anniversary and the twenty twenty
sixth of growing Vibrant Communities. And we've had them on
(28:02):
our show before, and I'll tell you what their programs
are outstanding. If you want to get your community involved
in making it more colorful. Uh well, let her explain
everything that they do. They have the programs for you,
plus they judge all of these and they have contests
and you can win things and old nine yards. But
it's American Bloom. You can check your website America in
bloom dot org. We'll talk to her at the top
(28:23):
of the hour. Bottom of the hour, our wild Winged
Wonder will be with us Monica Brubaker from Wildbirds Unlimited,
talking about what we should be doing for our birdies,
wild birdies as we go into the winter season. Eight
hundred eight two three eight two five five. That's our
number here in the garden with Ron Wilson, Coome Yardening
(28:44):
at eight hundred eight two three eight two five five.
Good morning. I am Ron Wilson, your personal yard boy.
Don't forget. Our website is Ron Wilson online dot com.
Our plan of the week this week is Christmas cactus.
Christmas cactus. I love Christmas cactus. You know, besides the
punts the Christmas cactus is the punt Setia, which was
our plan of the week last week, probably the second
(29:06):
most recognizable holiday plant that's out there. Obviously the cut
Christmas tree, the live Christmas tree would be the first,
and I put pon Setia next, and I put the
Christmas cactus as third, although Amarillis is coming in right
there with it as well as it continues to grow
in popularity too. But I'll tell you, Christmas cactus so
easy to grow. And yes, there are Thanksgiving cactus that
(29:28):
typically flower earlier, three or four weeks earlier around Thanksgiving.
There's the Christmas cactus, and there's the Easter cactus that
flowers later in the late winter early spring, and usually
it typically right around Easter. They all three look a
little different if you look at the foliage, and they
all three are actually different species. Two of them the
(29:49):
same genus, and all three of them are different in
some aspect, but pretty interesting plant. But my point being is,
you know, once theeds are done flowering for the holiday season,
they're so easy to grow. I mean, these are really
easy houseplants to grow, all three of them. And then
of course you get the bonus of the flowering around
the holiday season or depending on what it is. And
(30:11):
by the way, if you still can't tell the difference
between yours and looking at the foliage, and it usually
is pretty pretty evident. Thanksgiving cactus if the flowers has
yellow pollen. Christmas cactus when it flowers, has pink pollen,
and then the Easter cactus has more of a purple
pink pollen, so the pollen is actually different. So you
(30:34):
can take a look at the flower and know it's
a little bit difference. But biggest thing is right now
is if you buy a Christmas cactus at a place
that sells holiday plants, the transition going from where it
was to your house can sometimes cause some of those
buds to start to drop. Flower buds start to drop
a little bit. Don't panic, don't over water, Soca dry,
(30:56):
soca dry, that type of watering. Remember they're not a cactus,
so you do what you do. Water these water, let
it dry out, water, let it dry out, but just
keep it a medium light, bright light, but medium light,
nothing direct away from the doors and away from the
heat bench, just like the pont setia. And they actually
(31:17):
do better in cooler temperatures. As a matter of fact,
if you've had a hard time getting any of these
to flower, remember they are short day plants, so as
the days get shorter, that helps to trigger them to flower,
just like the pont setia. All right, letting them go
a little bit more on the drier side through the
fall before they flower sometimes will help them set up
(31:38):
the flower buds a little bit. And third, and I
think this is their key. They love cooler temperatures late summer,
early fall. So if you can expose them to fifteen
to fifty five degree nighttime temperatures for a couple of weeks,
that really helps to set up those flower buds. So
keep that in mind as you're growing these cactus. A
lot of folks that have them, that you know, and
(31:59):
they don't like warm temperatures and when they're inside that
I actually flower better and do better at less than
seventy degrees, So keep that in mind. But I'll tell
you this is another one of those plants. Like I
talk about amberillis after the holidays, going out and scarfing
those up and growing those over the wintertime for wintercolor.
Christmas cactus are the same way, easy plant to grow,
great house plant, great in a hanging basket, great in
(32:21):
a container. Scarf those things up, they're done flowering, that's okay,
growing for next year. And the thing about Christmas cactus also,
it's amazing how many folks will take some of those pieces.
They'll like pads, take them in and root them. They're
very easy to root and share those with a family member.
So the family members all have Christmas cactus from the
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same plant. Kint them an airloom plant and the pass
it along pass it a long plant that you can
share with other people as well. But anyway, tips about
that is on our website at Ron Wilson online dot com.
Same thing with the ponsetia, same thing with your cut
Christmas tree. And Riada's recipe for some reason, did not
make it up there this week. It's her famous peppermint
(33:04):
bark and it's really easy for you to make. It's
expensive to buy. We'll make sure Joe gets that up
there next week, and if you want it this weekend,
just send me an email and I will get that
back to you on Monday. Don and Columbus, good morning, Hey,
I'm good you.
Speaker 2 (33:23):
Oh fine, So I hate to see I hate to
see you going to the dark side using AI.
Speaker 1 (33:28):
Well, you know, the think of it is, I haven't
set up so that if I ask a question and
it gives me a summary. Also to the right hand side,
it gives me the four to five sources that it
pulled it from, and many times it's the issue extension,
Cornell or whatever, so I can actually look at that
and compare the notes. I don't always use it, but
there are times where it can save you a little
(33:48):
bit of time, but you gotta check it to make
sure the facts are right.
Speaker 5 (33:53):
I'm just opposed to AI because I used to before.
But it's apparently, you know, the CEOs of the companies
privately say like, yeah, those are twenty percent chance that
lifestyle humanity that's not wants going to do that.
Speaker 1 (34:08):
Yeah, no, I get it, I get it, but.
Speaker 2 (34:12):
No, I we have a little I have a little tip.
We got a new kitten this year, and you know,
like all the new kids, he loves to climb on
trees and plants, and the monster was basically his cat towel,
and so he hates bananas. Apparently this is common for cats.
Speaker 5 (34:28):
They some of them hate bananas and citrus and other flavors. Well,
get those little air fashioners you hang on your car
wheel view mirror. Just get those and we them all
on the monster, and you know he's just like, oh,
I don't like that smell and stays off of it.
It looks a little tacky, honestly, but it's Christmas time,
so it kind of h you know, wokes. I guess, Yeah, it.
Speaker 1 (34:49):
Looks got the ornaments on there and you're ready to go. Yeah,
I think the citrus you're right. Even outside, if you
could take lemon peels and scatter them in the landscape
bed sometimes that helps to keep cats out of the beds,
So you're right. That's a great tip. Citrus. I've never
heard of the bananas, but it's worth a try. But
those two particular smells a lot of times cats do
(35:10):
not like and we'll stay away from them. And that's
a good tip for this time of the years we
go into the winter with all the houseplants out there.
If you are a cat owner, all right, quick breaking,
come back. Coming up the top of the hour, we're
gonna talk about America in Bloom. Laura Kunkle, the executive director,
is going to join us at the bottom of the hour,
our wild winged Wonder Monica Brubaker talking about those wild
birds and what you should be doing this time of
(35:32):
the year as we get into the winter season. Don't
forget our website Run Wilson Online dot com Facebook page
in the Garden with Ron Wilson check that out as well.
After the break, we're gonna have lots of funds with
our interviews here in the Garden, Run Wilson
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