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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Good morning, everybody. Welcome. I'm Ron Wilson. Yes, we are
back and you're in the garden here on news Radio
six ' ten WTVN eight two to one WTVN eight
hundred and six to ten WTVN talking about yardening. Yeah,
it's been a few weeks, but we are back and
looking forward to finishing out the rest of the year
and of course working our way through the winter won't
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take very long. Next thing, you know, spring season will
be with us. We'll be talking home and garden show,
Valentine's Day, the old nine Yards, and then we're back
into it again. So looking forward to twenty twenty five.
I hope you are as well. To kick off our
show this morning, we have one of our longest standing guests.
I think we've had on our show since we first started.
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As a matter of fact, we had her on many
many years ago when she was only I think nine
years old, all right, And it all started with that
forty pound cabbage that she grew and wound up doing
something special with that forty pound cabbage. You know who
I'm talking about. Of course, where she is today is
absolutely phenomenal, uh and I love having her on our
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show and it's been fun talking to her watch all
this stuff happen. She is the founder and chief executive
gardener for Katie's Crops. Their website is katieescrops dot com.
That's with ks katieescrops dot com. Ladies and gentlemen, Katie Stagliano,
good morning.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Good morning, Thank you for having me.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
Hey, good to have you on always. You know, Katie,
it's always fun having you on. And you know, I
have to admit I think you sound the same and
this isn't this, isn't this, this is a compliment. You
almost sound the same as when I remember talking to
you when you were nine.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
Years old, just a little bit older now, just a
couple of things have happened, a couple.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
Of things have changed since then. But you knew, you
knew at that time what you were going to do.
For folks that aren't familiar with Katie Staggliano, just give
us a brief summary of how this all started.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
When I was in the third grade, I grew a
forty pound tabage and I decided to donate that cabbage
to a local soup kitchen, where it helped to feed
two hundred and seventy five people. And after seeing how
many people my one cabbage helped to feed, I thought,
imagine how many people an entire garden could feed. And
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that inspired me to start my nonprofit organization, Katie's Crops,
where you based nonprofit with a mission to empower yous
to start maintaining vegetable gardens, donate the produce to feed
those in need, and assistant inspire others to do the same.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
And you know what when you when we talked to
you the first time, and it was after you had
you know, you had Bondie plants, had you had got
us in touch with you, and we're talking about it
and you told us what you did with it and
all that kind of stuff. And then from that you
said at that point, you know, I was like, you know,
you're going to continue to gardener whatever. And you were
saying at that time, at nine years old, that you
this is what you wanted to do, and dog gone it.
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That's what you've done, and you've just taken it too all.
I mean, we knew talking with you that day that
you were going to do what you said you were
going to do, and it's just absolutely phenomenal. I mean,
you've gone through high school, through college now where you
are as a young adult, and well, it's phenomenal. If
you want to learn more about what she's doing, go
to her website. You will be totally amazed. It's Kadiescrops
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dot Com. And of course today you know that all
started back then. Today you have Katie's gardens all across
the country.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
Yes, we are so lucky to have just the most
amazing Katiescrops growers, and we have one hundred gardens across
the United States and they're all certain and run by
youth between the ages of seven and sixteen. And we
also have two gardens in South Africa. So it's just
absolutely amazing to see everything that's grown from one tiny
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cabbage seedling and the difference that our youth growers are
making in their communities across the country.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
You know, I go to on your website and I
always stay in touch with you and see what you
guys are doing. You know, obviously you're based out of
South Carolina, but you've taken this and made it nationwide,
which is absolutely outstanding, and that's what you wanted to
do it from the beginning, which is why we like
having you on the show. Because obviously you're involved in
the state of Ohio as well with Katie's crops. But
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you know, I look at that, you know, all the
things that you're doing, that the living classroom that you have,
that thing is unbelievable.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
Oh my goodness. Our Outgo classroom is one of my
favorite things. It is in our flagship garden and we
do educational programming just based in nature. It really started
during COVID when kids are doing online learning, and I thought,
we have this big, beautiful garden we can safely socially
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distance and really just learn from nature. And it's been
the most amazing thing to see these kids just embracing
learning from the garden, all the lessons that you can learn,
learning to be good stewards of the earth, and also
just finding their key interests. Our Youth actually learned that
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the monarch butterflies were endangered during a class in our
outer classroom, and they decided that they were going to
make it their mission to help safety endangered monarch butterflies.
And they have done exactly that. They created Team Monarchs,
They've built a butterfly, have created a safe haven with
pesticide free milkweed, educated others, and they have saved over
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three hundred moderarch butterflies that have been safely released and
have made their journeys and their migrations. And it's just
been the most amazing thing to see the power of
use and the power of their determination.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
Oh so I'm believed, totally unbelievable. Again. You can learn
more about this at Katiescrops dot com. Be sure and
check it out. Obviously, you don't do this by yourself.
You've got a huge staff of volunteers.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
Yes, we have just the most amazing volunteers. And I
actually got one of our incredible volunteers who moved to
South Carolina and reached out to us because they had
been listening to your show and her name is Nancy,
and she reached out and was like, you need to
come to the garden. And now she is truly just
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such an integral part of Katie's Crops and so amazing.
And it all started because she was like, I would
listen to you on the Ron Wilsam Show and I
was like, that is amazing. But we truly just have
the best volunteers, the best people that work so tirelessly
and a lot of our volunteers are core volunteers are
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between the ages of one and eleven, and just seeing
their passion, their dedication and the difference that they're able
to make from such a young age is so onspiring.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
Again, you can learn more about it at katiescrops dot com.
Be sure and check it out. We're gonna take a
quick break when we come back. Katie is looking for
new sources or new folks for her Katie's Gardens, and
she has two opportunities that you may be interested in,
and we'll talk more about that and how you can
get involved here in the garden with Ron Wilson on
news Radio six y ten WTVN. We're talking your ardening
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here on news radio six ' ten at WTVN. One
of our longest standing guests as a matter of fact,
for our show, and she started We started talking to
her and she was nine years old. She of course says,
was telling us back then what she wanted to do
in her future, and she has done that and a
whole lot more. She's a founder and chief executive gardener
for Katie's Crops. That's katieescrops dot com. Katie Stagleona. We're
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talking about all the great things that and their gardens
all across the country. You know, I was reading the statistics.
Katie and you guys have donated over all these years
over seven hundred thousand pounds of produce to communities across
the country. That's that's phenomenal.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
It is just so incredible to think about how much
Katie's crops has grown. And I'm just so proud of
our youth growers and how they have really just grown
the change in their communities and been such a vital
part of helping their neighbors and need get fresh produce.
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So it's incredible. I love watching that number continue to grow,
and I love when we're able to add new faces
to our growing family who are able to be the
impact and the change in their communities.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
Absolutely, And of course, as of right now, the year
grower search for twenty twenty five has begun, so you
are looking and this year you have two categories. You
have both a school garden application and the youth garden application.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
Yes, we are so so excited that our growers list
for twenty twenty five is open. It's open until January fifteenth,
and we have an application for use between the ages
of seven and sixteen to apply to start a garden
wherever they have access and permission to use the land,
whether that's their backyard, their church, to boys and Girls club,
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and they will donate the produce to those in need
in their community. And then we also have an opportunity
for schools to apply to receive a tower garden so
that they can both learn and feed their communities at
the same time. They'll be able to have this tower
garden in their classrooms year round, use it for educational purposes,
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and also use it to provide fresh produce for their
neighbors and needs. So there's two very exciting opportunities this year,
and we're excited to add both schools and some young
girlers into a growing family.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
Yeah, and this garden school application I think is outstanding
and it makes sense because you know, schools out obviously
during the summer trying to it's hard to keep the
garden going. But in this case, with this tower garden,
they can do that indoors and learn from it and
grow at the same time, and then of course donate
as well. Now, the youth garden application that's age is what.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
It's ages seven to sixteen.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
Seven to sixteen and you need some kind of a mentor,
a master gardener, somebody to help oversee correct, Yes, so.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
Whether that's a parent, a guardian, a master gardener, just
someone to help you along the way. But really this
is the youth garden, and so the youth get to
pick where they're going to donate their produce, the size
of their garden, what they're going to grow. We're always
there to offer support. We have our team of people
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ready to help out. We have an amazing master gardener
as well, and we can connect you with a master
gardener in your area, educational programming, access to our Grower website.
So we're always there to help and support you. But
it's really just the you of making a difference in
their community.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
So when it comes to making the application, and again
you'll learn more about this at kadiescrops dot com and
it's become a grower. You've changed this last year. Now
it's by video.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
Yes, we absolutely love having a video application. This will
be our second year and it really just gives us
an opportunity to get to learn more about those who
are applying to start a garden and really feel like
we are taking a tour of where their future garden
might be. Getting to just learn about their personalities about
why they want to do this in a more in
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depth way, and it's been just so fun. Last year,
I had the best time watching the videos and I
really felt like I was taking a tour through where
these incredible youth wanted to start their gardens. And so
I'm very excited this year for both the individual applications
and also to hear from schools about why they want
to join our growing family as well.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
Yeah, so if it's the school, we'd probably get the
whole class together, right and say, hey, you know here,
here's our deal. And of course it's the youth, and
you sit down and put your video together and try
to convince Katie that you're the one that needs to
have a Katie's Garden wherever you're going to do that.
And that's going to be a tough decision to make,
to make the choose these final growers for you, Oh
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my goodness.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
Absolutely, we always just get them most amazing applications. And
I wish more than anything that I could just welcome
every single person who applies into the Katie's Crubs Growing Family,
but we really do try to welcome as many as
we can, depending on the funding that we have and
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just oh my gosh, I can't even It's so hard
to pick, especially when we have these videos and you
see just the hard work that has gone into it
and the passion that they have. So I'm very excited
to see all of our applications this year, and I
know it's going to be an incredibly difficult decision, but
I'm so proud of everyone that applies.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
Again is katiescrops dot com. Use ks on both of
those katiescrops dot com. So you know, if folks are
listening right now and they don't have a youth garden
or you know, have someone that wants to apply or
the school guarden application but would like to help. I
mean obviously funding limits as far as how many gardens
you can have out there. If you want to help
Katie to continue to grow Katie's Crops all across the country,
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including the state of Ohio.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
You welcome donations, Yes, we always welcome donations. They are
so greatly appreciated. You can donate monetarily on our website.
You can also donate to our Amazon whistless and that's
a great way to donate directly. Also, if your organization
company has a giving program or a grant, or you
know something that we might be a good fit for
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that is wonderful as well. And finally, even if you
don't know a child who might be a good fit
to join our grown family or school. If you have
your own garden in your backyard and have some excess produce,
we would love for you to share it with your
neighbors and need and reach out to us as well
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if you need help funding the perfect home.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
For that, So you you'll help folks find out what
you know a kitchen, soup kitchen or something like place
like that that will accept the produce.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
Yes, okay, you will absolutely do our best to help
y'all find the perfect place to share your fresh produce.
It can make pus at impact. So many emergency food programs,
soup kitchen shelters places like that rarely received donations of
fresh produce, especially just homegrown from your backyard. So it
will be the biggest blessing to so many people and
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help them have fresh produce for what might be the
first time in a long time.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
Unbelievable. Katie stag Leano, I tell you what you know,
We've talked for all these years it's just amazing where
you have taken this thing. And of course you haven't
even stopped. I mean there's the sky's the limit here.
And of course everybody can help out. So you know,
if you've got a few bucks you'd like to donate
to help her out, to continue to grow Katie's Crops,
make it bigger and bigger, and get more kids involved
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with gardening and help those that maybe not don't know
what fresh produce is all about. Help her out. It's
katiescrops dot com. That's katiescrops dot com. Be sure and
check it out and go through and look at all
the stuff they're doing. The proof is in the pudding
when you go to the website. Katie, have a great holiday.
Merry Christmas to you and your family. Happy New Year,
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and you know, hopefully we'll get a bunch of kids
applying for your for Katie's Crops to be a grower.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
Thank you, Merry Christmas.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
We are so excited, all right, thank you, Katie Stagliano. Again,
the website is katiescrops dot com. That's with a K
on both of those. And what's interesting is again I
get goosebumps. I tell her that anytime I give garden talks,
cars always pushing to get kids involved with gardening, how
important that is. And of course we have kids Gardening
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dot org on our show, which is another national way
to get kids involved with gardening, which really supplies a
lot of info for you. Katie's doing the same thing
on their website and of course actually so putting the
garden in your your kid's hands seven to sixteen. That's
all the seage group. And I noticed that she has
a link at the back of this. If there's no
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one in there as far as the age group and
you want to start a garden, they have special links
on there to show you how to get started doing
gardening and how to donate your produce or party your produce,
whatever may be to a local soup kitchen, that type
of a thing to help out those in need that
don't have access to fresh produce. So what a great thing.
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Started doing it at nine years old. And remember that's
the Bonnie Cabbage Plant program that we have talked about
for years, and they're the ones that put me in
touch with k when she was nine years old because
what they do is they supply free cabbage plants to
third graders. All right, all you have to do is
register your class. It'll mail them to them. And they
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asked if they grow the cabbage plant, write a story
about growing their cabbines, take a picture of it, and
then send it back to them. At Bonnie Plants, they
actually choose someone from each state that could get a
scholarship to go to college, which is very cool. And
what they did way back then is they were giving
us some of the local winners. We had the winner
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from Ohio and we had They said, you might want
to talk to this young lady Katie from South Carolina
because she is something else. And boy were they right.
Unbelievable again, check out our website. It's katiescrops dot com.
Got a few extra bucks you want to donate at
the end of the year help out Katie. And then
they do such a great job. Quick break, we come back.
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Phone lines are open for you at eight two to
one WTVN eight hundred and six to ten WTV and
coming up to the top of the hour, doctor triple A,
doctor Alan Armidie will be with us talking about shutting
down his perennial garden, his books for Christmas, obviously, and
a whole lot more. But in between you and me
talking Yardening here on news radio six ten WTVN, Talking
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Yardning here on news radio six y ten WTVN, We're
back eight two to one WTVN eight hundred sixty ten
at WTVN. Jump on board, taking your calls obviously, and uh,
you know, it's been a while, so if things have
been happening, let me know, I'd love to And again,
lots of emails, and I appreciate that we've stayed in
touch that way as well. You know, Katie Stagliono talking
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about teaching the kids there about monarch butterflies, and that's
just you know, the monarch butterflies kind of become the
it's the it's the poster child for save the pollinators,
you know, and it really is. What's interesting is the
monarch butterfly isn't really a great pollinator per se. Butterflies
generally are not great pollinators, although they do, but everybody
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recognizes the monarch butterfly and rightfully so. And so that's
why it's kind of the poster child for that. But
what is interesting about the monarch is that it's becoming
a serious situation, even more so as we go along here.
The US Fish and Wildlife Service is now proposing that
the monarch butterfly be named as a protected species and
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is now looking for public input to that proposal. They
want to list the monarch butterfly as threatened and that
allows species specific protections and other considerations for conservation under
the Endangered Species Act. The listing will be on the
Federal Register and public comments will be accepted until March
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to twelfth, twenty twenty five, so you know, you can
comment about yes, you know, you definitely think this should
go on the endangered Species list so we can try
to do more to help protect this thing. Today. According
to the US Fish and Wildlife they said, the Eastern
migratory population is estimated to have declined to buy about
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eighty percent. The Western migratory population has declined more than
ninety five percent, and both of these are since the
nineteen eighties, and that really puts the western population at
a greater risk of exton extension in the future by
about ninety nine percent. That's not good. The probability extension
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for Eastern monarchs a little bit less, but very very high,
not good at all. So what we are looking for is,
you know, again your comments if you can, it's at
the Federal Register to claim them as an endangered species
as well as what doing everything we can do to
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help protect the not only the monarch butterfly, but all
of the pollinators out there, and of course they're all
they're asking everyone to be a part of the recovery
process here, and of course that's where we all can
help at some level, whether that means in a container,
in a window box, in your vegetable garden, perennial garden, landscape,
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whatever it may be, and that's what bringing back their
habitat for pollinators in general, for the bees, the flies,
the beatles, all of those, and butterflies as well. As
a matter of fact, you remember I mentioned that Joe
Boggs did a class one time called Butterfly gardens aren't
just for butterflies anymore, and they're not. They've become pollinator
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gardens that service both the butterflies and the pollinators as well.
And everything we can do to help bring those habitats
back is going to be really important over the next
many years, very very important. And we've talked about this,
and we've talked about this, and we've talked about it
and of course with a monarch butterfly, we're talking about
lots of nectar plants obviously, but what the milkweed. That's
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the bottom line. Planting milkweed. You gotta plant milkweed. And
of course when you plant milkweed, there's a lot of
other insects that love milkweed. It's a bed and breakfast
for a whole bunch of bugs that love the pollen
and the nectar on milkweed. But of course it's the
monarch butterfly that uses that milkweed for both feeding and
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laying the eggs, the larvae feeding on the foliage, et cetera,
et cetera. So very important. So as you are looking
twenty twenty five to do any replanting at all in
your gardens, your perennial gardens and your containers or whatever,
do everything you can to include all of those great
nectar plants for the pollinators, and make sure you work
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in milkweed as well, so that we can help out
those monarch butterflies as best we can. Quick break, we
come back, Joe Ann. You're coming up next. Phone lines
are open for you eight two to one WTVN here
on news radio six to ten WTVN thirty two degrees.
That's great planting weather. Yeah, it can be. As a
matter of fact, you get out to your local in
the garden centers and if they have to notice that
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they have some spring bulbs left over, tulips, daffodils, things
like that, now's a great time to still plant. As
a matter of fact, you probably find them on sale,
good pricing. A great way to light up your landscape
and your containers and all next spring by planting bulbs now.
And you can still do that. And I'm telling you,
if you want to make it easy on yourself, look
at those power planters, the power augers. You know with
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the electric drills today, and they're so powerful that you're
the battery operated drills. You don't have to worry about
the cord and all that stuff. And they've got these
power augers that have shafts on them. They're eighteen twenty
four inches long that you don't even have to bend over.
You can go out there and just drill Holes's talk
about easy drill holes. Drop the bulbs down and they're
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raked the soilback or over the tops. Pretty much that easy.
Maybe sprink a little bit of ballfood in there and
you're good to go. But if you're out to the
local garden centers and you have to notice some spring
flowering bulbs still remaining, i'd scarf from up and plant
them in the landscape. Plant them in containers, you know,
if you've got some extra containers, plant them in containers,
put them in the uneated garage or shed, bring them
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back out in the springtime and enjoy those growing in
containers as well. But still time to get those in
the ground if you can find them out there, and
it's probably at a pretty good price. To the gardening
phone lines, we shall go.
Speaker 4 (24:20):
Joe Anne, good morning, Hi there, thank you so much
for your wonderful programs.
Speaker 1 (24:28):
You're welcome.
Speaker 4 (24:29):
Yea, the Kadious Garden report was really good. I have
two phone calls I'm gonna make to spread that wood.
Speaker 1 (24:38):
I appreciate that.
Speaker 4 (24:41):
I had another lovely summer with my tutonia plants. The
only thing is I planted four of them and they
took over the whole gardens.
Speaker 1 (24:53):
They can get some pretty good size, can't they.
Speaker 4 (24:56):
Oh my, they were way over six foot oh their butt.
And I had the most fun of the hummer towards
the end of the season, I found that we had
a hummingbird coming frequently, and I could tell because it
sounded like a helicopter going overhead. But I sat on
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my red I sat on my Wheeley's feet and had
a red blog on and prayed that it would come
again because I had my camera ready, and I got
a great picture, and that hummer went over my head
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right in front of my face, kind of high and
looked at me and then flew off four days in
a row.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
Wow, good for you.
Speaker 4 (26:00):
That's so fun.
Speaker 1 (26:01):
That's amazing, isn't it To look at those up close?
That's just phenomenal. Well, good for you. And that, by
the way, that tithonia, so folks understand, it's a common
common name sometime as Mexican sunflower. But that thing that
you had, the orange one, right, yeah, yeah, just stands
out like a sore thumb. But they are big and
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you've got to give them plenty of room to grow.
But the pollinators, the butterflies, the hummingbirds, they love that plant.
Great show. The colors are fantastic. But you're right. I
our neighbors do the hummingbird feeders, and then we have
the tithonia and boy, they just go back and forth
and back and forth. And of course it's so much
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fun to watch them go. But when you get them
up close like that, good for you? And did you
get a picture of them?
Speaker 4 (26:49):
Yes? I did.
Speaker 1 (26:51):
Good, Good for you.
Speaker 4 (26:55):
And about the pollinators. About the monarchs, my neighbor in town,
they moved out of town. Now were some very but
we had a lot of trouble attracting our monops. We
saw every other butterfly, but not monarchs. And about the
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swamp weed, I can't I've forget what you said about
that particular thing, but it spreads. What can you do
to prevent that? Because it wants to take over the well?
Speaker 1 (27:36):
That and that, you know, one time in many in
many communities, they actually didn't want you to plan it
anymore because it does recede, there's no doubt. And if
you don't a lot of the newer selections that are
available for you today don't do quite as much receding.
And of course in the landscape where you're maintaining it
more uh, in the perenial gardens, that evotendency did not
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recede as heavily as well. But you can clip off
the seed heads before they drop to make sure that
you kind of reduce that the amount of new ones
coming up. But otherwise, I tell you what it's you
can't go wrong planning those, and hopefully we will get
enough people to bring those back and get more of
those in the containers, in the landscape and the premal garden,
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whatever it may be. But to continue to plant more
and more of the milkweed out there, most definitely Tu
Barossa especially, but any of the species of the milkweed
should be planted. So keep it up. And Joanne, I
appreciate the call, and thanks for the update, and have
a very merry Christmas. All right, and Debbie, good morning.
Speaker 3 (28:41):
I'm so glad to hear you back on the radio again.
Speaker 1 (28:44):
Good to be back.
Speaker 3 (28:46):
Yes, I'm going about the monarchs and the milkweeds. Yes,
this year I saw very very few monarchs up here
in Knox County, and when I did start to see them,
I got so exc because along the roadsides we had
just tons of milk weeds here and there and everywhere. Unfortunately,
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the state has a rule that the roadsides have to
be moved by a certain time, and just about the
time the monarchs came in, they moved off all the
milkweeds stoo and townships.
Speaker 1 (29:27):
Yes, that's unfortunate.
Speaker 3 (29:30):
What can we do to try to convince the state
to move the date or instruct their guys to leave
the patches of milk weed until later in the season,
after the monarchs have hatched and started head and south.
Speaker 1 (29:49):
Sure, go to the you know again, I would get
in touch with your county Soil and Water Conservation or
your county Extension and just kind of bring that up
and see who you can who would be a contact
to find out because there is now a program in
the state of Ohio obviously to collect up those seeds
and plant those So the goal is to plant more
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and more along the expressways and places like that. So
again it's just a matter of educating and letting them
know that, you know, we've got to keep these leave
these things alone until they have moved through. So I
would say, you know, and maybe I'll try to track
down someone we can talk to that maybe get on
our show. But get hold of your county Soil and
(30:30):
Water or the county Extension. They may be able to
put you in touch with someone. You could email or
send them a note and say, hey, you guys might
want to, you know, pay attention to where you see
that milk weed and make sure you don't mow it
down too early.
Speaker 3 (30:43):
But that's good point out here, there's just so many
farm fields and stuff. Sure, so to see the big
patches of the milk weed. Like I said, I was
just so excited to see so many of them this year,
and boom, they mowed them all.
Speaker 1 (31:04):
Yeah, unfortunate. But again we'll keep working at it. You
keep mentioning to them, we'll keep bringing it up on
our show, and hopefully we can convince more and more
people to leave alone and plant more to help out.
And again it's not just the monarch, it helps out
all the pollinators right to the end of the season.
Speaker 3 (31:21):
Yeah, because I thought about maybe this year going and
talking to the different landowners that I know and putting
up but do not most in several places along the
roadway to try to save the mill.
Speaker 1 (31:39):
Sure, I think that's a great idea, and I would
applaud you for doing that.
Speaker 3 (31:43):
We thank you very much. Ron.
Speaker 1 (31:45):
All right, Debbie, good talking with you. And again it's
you know, it gains a matter of getting the word
out and again touch base. You know that some people
will say, well, it just mowed out a small patch,
but all those small patches count, and that's what's happened.
And over the past, you know, it became a situation
where even farmers where you know, we're mowing and taking
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all of those down in some areas where it was
non maintained, the canned seed and become thicker. And of
course you know it's like it's very aggressive, and it
can be in some situations. But again, we have eliminated
so much of the habitat for not just the monarch
butterfly with the milkweed, and that is a serious situation,
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but for pollinators in general. And how important that is
to bring that back around. And it's great to see
more and more folks like with their vegetable garden, you know,
anticipating on both sides of the garden or whatever a
row of cutting flowers or a row of pollinator flowers,
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you know, to help attract the pollinators and the butterflies,
but not only for them and the hummingbirds, but it
also helps attract pollinators in which again helps to pollinate
the vegetables, the fruits and all that are in your garden.
So it's a two ways you know, it really helps out.
It's a two way street there and so it works
both ways and to help you out. So it's encouraging.
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We're seeing more and more of it, we're reading more
about it. There's a lot more out there. But again
we just have to be vigilant and suggest the folks
that you don't mow and maybe put some signs up
and say please leave us, leave us alone until a
certain amount of time and let you know we mow
it down or whatever. But most definitely and it takes
all of us to do that. Speaking of what you
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talk about Knox County, I got to notice this week
from the Knox County Beekeepers Association they're having their Advanced
Beekeeping class and I think that's coming up January twenty fifth,
from a thirty until twelve thirty at the campus of
Mount Vernon Nazarene University. And if you want to learn
more about that or to register, I think it's forty
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five bucks for non members, twenty five for current members.
It's Knox Bees dot com. That's Knox k and o
xbs dot com. Get yourself registered because those classes sell
out in a hurry and it's so much fun to
go and learn a little bit about those and even
if you're not a beekeeper, just to learn more about them.
And like I've always said, you learn more about them,
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and the more you know about them, the better you
are as far as a gardener, to help them out
as much as you can. Quick break, We come back,
Doctor Allan Armadach coming up next here on news Radio
six ten WTVN
Good morning, everybody. Welcome. I'm Ron Wilson. Yes, we are
back and you're in the garden here on news Radio
six ' ten WTVN eight two to one WTVN eight
hundred and six to ten WTVN talking about yardening. Yeah,
it's been a few weeks, but we are back and
looking forward to finishing out the rest of the year
and of course working our way through the winter won't
(00:21):
take very long. Next thing, you know, spring season will
be with us. We'll be talking home and garden show,
Valentine's Day, the old nine Yards, and then we're back
into it again. So looking forward to twenty twenty five.
I hope you are as well. To kick off our
show this morning, we have one of our longest standing guests.
I think we've had on our show since we first started.
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As a matter of fact, we had her on many
many years ago when she was only I think nine
years old, all right, And it all started with that
forty pound cabbage that she grew and wound up doing
something special with that forty pound cabbage. You know who
I'm talking about. Of course, where she is today is
absolutely phenomenal, uh and I love having her on our
(01:05):
show and it's been fun talking to her watch all
this stuff happen. She is the founder and chief executive
gardener for Katie's Crops. Their website is katieescrops dot com.
That's with ks katieescrops dot com. Ladies and gentlemen, Katie Stagliano,
good morning.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Good morning, Thank you for having me.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
Hey, good to have you on always. You know, Katie,
it's always fun having you on. And you know, I
have to admit I think you sound the same and
this isn't this, isn't this, this is a compliment. You
almost sound the same as when I remember talking to
you when you were nine.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
Years old, just a little bit older now, just a
couple of things have happened, a couple.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
Of things have changed since then. But you knew, you
knew at that time what you were going to do.
For folks that aren't familiar with Katie Staggliano, just give
us a brief summary of how this all started.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
When I was in the third grade, I grew a
forty pound tabage and I decided to donate that cabbage
to a local soup kitchen, where it helped to feed
two hundred and seventy five people. And after seeing how
many people my one cabbage helped to feed, I thought,
imagine how many people an entire garden could feed. And
(02:18):
that inspired me to start my nonprofit organization, Katie's Crops,
where you based nonprofit with a mission to empower yous
to start maintaining vegetable gardens, donate the produce to feed
those in need, and assistant inspire others to do the same.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
And you know what when you when we talked to
you the first time, and it was after you had
you know, you had Bondie plants, had you had got
us in touch with you, and we're talking about it
and you told us what you did with it and
all that kind of stuff. And then from that you
said at that point, you know, I was like, you know,
you're going to continue to gardener whatever. And you were
saying at that time, at nine years old, that you
this is what you wanted to do, and dog gone it.
(02:57):
That's what you've done, and you've just taken it too all.
I mean, we knew talking with you that day that
you were going to do what you said you were
going to do, and it's just absolutely phenomenal. I mean,
you've gone through high school, through college now where you
are as a young adult, and well, it's phenomenal. If
you want to learn more about what she's doing, go
to her website. You will be totally amazed. It's Kadiescrops
(03:19):
dot Com. And of course today you know that all
started back then. Today you have Katie's gardens all across
the country.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
Yes, we are so lucky to have just the most
amazing Katiescrops growers, and we have one hundred gardens across
the United States and they're all certain and run by
youth between the ages of seven and sixteen. And we
also have two gardens in South Africa. So it's just
absolutely amazing to see everything that's grown from one tiny
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cabbage seedling and the difference that our youth growers are
making in their communities across the country.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
You know, I go to on your website and I
always stay in touch with you and see what you
guys are doing. You know, obviously you're based out of
South Carolina, but you've taken this and made it nationwide,
which is absolutely outstanding, and that's what you wanted to
do it from the beginning, which is why we like
having you on the show. Because obviously you're involved in
the state of Ohio as well with Katie's crops. But
(04:20):
you know, I look at that, you know, all the
things that you're doing, that the living classroom that you have,
that thing is unbelievable.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
Oh my goodness. Our Outgo classroom is one of my
favorite things. It is in our flagship garden and we
do educational programming just based in nature. It really started
during COVID when kids are doing online learning, and I thought,
we have this big, beautiful garden we can safely socially
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distance and really just learn from nature. And it's been
the most amazing thing to see these kids just embracing
learning from the garden, all the lessons that you can learn,
learning to be good stewards of the earth, and also
just finding their key interests. Our Youth actually learned that
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the monarch butterflies were endangered during a class in our
outer classroom, and they decided that they were going to
make it their mission to help safety endangered monarch butterflies.
And they have done exactly that. They created Team Monarchs,
They've built a butterfly, have created a safe haven with
pesticide free milkweed, educated others, and they have saved over
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three hundred moderarch butterflies that have been safely released and
have made their journeys and their migrations. And it's just
been the most amazing thing to see the power of
use and the power of their determination.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
Oh so I'm believed, totally unbelievable. Again. You can learn
more about this at Katiescrops dot com. Be sure and
check it out. Obviously, you don't do this by yourself.
You've got a huge staff of volunteers.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
Yes, we have just the most amazing volunteers. And I
actually got one of our incredible volunteers who moved to
South Carolina and reached out to us because they had
been listening to your show and her name is Nancy,
and she reached out and was like, you need to
come to the garden. And now she is truly just
(06:27):
such an integral part of Katie's Crops and so amazing.
And it all started because she was like, I would
listen to you on the Ron Wilsam Show and I
was like, that is amazing. But we truly just have
the best volunteers, the best people that work so tirelessly
and a lot of our volunteers are core volunteers are
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between the ages of one and eleven, and just seeing
their passion, their dedication and the difference that they're able
to make from such a young age is so onspiring.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
Again, you can learn more about it at katiescrops dot com.
Be sure and check it out. We're gonna take a
quick break when we come back. Katie is looking for
new sources or new folks for her Katie's Gardens, and
she has two opportunities that you may be interested in,
and we'll talk more about that and how you can
get involved here in the garden with Ron Wilson on
news Radio six y ten WTVN. We're talking your ardening
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here on news radio six ' ten at WTVN. One
of our longest standing guests as a matter of fact,
for our show, and she started We started talking to
her and she was nine years old. She of course says,
was telling us back then what she wanted to do
in her future, and she has done that and a
whole lot more. She's a founder and chief executive gardener
for Katie's Crops. That's katieescrops dot com. Katie Stagleona. We're
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talking about all the great things that and their gardens
all across the country. You know, I was reading the statistics.
Katie and you guys have donated over all these years
over seven hundred thousand pounds of produce to communities across
the country. That's that's phenomenal.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
It is just so incredible to think about how much
Katie's crops has grown. And I'm just so proud of
our youth growers and how they have really just grown
the change in their communities and been such a vital
part of helping their neighbors and need get fresh produce.
(08:23):
So it's incredible. I love watching that number continue to grow,
and I love when we're able to add new faces
to our growing family who are able to be the
impact and the change in their communities.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
Absolutely, And of course, as of right now, the year
grower search for twenty twenty five has begun, so you
are looking and this year you have two categories. You
have both a school garden application and the youth garden application.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
Yes, we are so so excited that our growers list
for twenty twenty five is open. It's open until January fifteenth,
and we have an application for use between the ages
of seven and sixteen to apply to start a garden
wherever they have access and permission to use the land,
whether that's their backyard, their church, to boys and Girls club,
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and they will donate the produce to those in need
in their community. And then we also have an opportunity
for schools to apply to receive a tower garden so
that they can both learn and feed their communities at
the same time. They'll be able to have this tower
garden in their classrooms year round, use it for educational purposes,
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and also use it to provide fresh produce for their
neighbors and needs. So there's two very exciting opportunities this year,
and we're excited to add both schools and some young
girlers into a growing family.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
Yeah, and this garden school application I think is outstanding
and it makes sense because you know, schools out obviously
during the summer trying to it's hard to keep the
garden going. But in this case, with this tower garden,
they can do that indoors and learn from it and
grow at the same time, and then of course donate
as well. Now, the youth garden application that's age is what.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
It's ages seven to sixteen.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
Seven to sixteen and you need some kind of a mentor,
a master gardener, somebody to help oversee correct, Yes, so.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
Whether that's a parent, a guardian, a master gardener, just
someone to help you along the way. But really this
is the youth garden, and so the youth get to
pick where they're going to donate their produce, the size
of their garden, what they're going to grow. We're always
there to offer support. We have our team of people
(10:45):
ready to help out. We have an amazing master gardener
as well, and we can connect you with a master
gardener in your area, educational programming, access to our Grower website.
So we're always there to help and support you. But
it's really just the you of making a difference in
their community.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
So when it comes to making the application, and again
you'll learn more about this at kadiescrops dot com and
it's become a grower. You've changed this last year. Now
it's by video.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
Yes, we absolutely love having a video application. This will
be our second year and it really just gives us
an opportunity to get to learn more about those who
are applying to start a garden and really feel like
we are taking a tour of where their future garden
might be. Getting to just learn about their personalities about
why they want to do this in a more in
(11:37):
depth way, and it's been just so fun. Last year,
I had the best time watching the videos and I
really felt like I was taking a tour through where
these incredible youth wanted to start their gardens. And so
I'm very excited this year for both the individual applications
and also to hear from schools about why they want
to join our growing family as well.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
Yeah, so if it's the school, we'd probably get the
whole class together, right and say, hey, you know here,
here's our deal. And of course it's the youth, and
you sit down and put your video together and try
to convince Katie that you're the one that needs to
have a Katie's Garden wherever you're going to do that.
And that's going to be a tough decision to make,
to make the choose these final growers for you, Oh
(12:21):
my goodness.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
Absolutely, we always just get them most amazing applications. And
I wish more than anything that I could just welcome
every single person who applies into the Katie's Crubs Growing Family,
but we really do try to welcome as many as
we can, depending on the funding that we have and
(12:42):
just oh my gosh, I can't even It's so hard
to pick, especially when we have these videos and you
see just the hard work that has gone into it
and the passion that they have. So I'm very excited
to see all of our applications this year, and I
know it's going to be an incredibly difficult decision, but
I'm so proud of everyone that applies.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
Again is katiescrops dot com. Use ks on both of
those katiescrops dot com. So you know, if folks are
listening right now and they don't have a youth garden
or you know, have someone that wants to apply or
the school guarden application but would like to help. I
mean obviously funding limits as far as how many gardens
you can have out there. If you want to help
Katie to continue to grow Katie's Crops all across the country,
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including the state of Ohio.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
You welcome donations, Yes, we always welcome donations. They are
so greatly appreciated. You can donate monetarily on our website.
You can also donate to our Amazon whistless and that's
a great way to donate directly. Also, if your organization
company has a giving program or a grant, or you
know something that we might be a good fit for
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that is wonderful as well. And finally, even if you
don't know a child who might be a good fit
to join our grown family or school. If you have
your own garden in your backyard and have some excess produce,
we would love for you to share it with your
neighbors and need and reach out to us as well
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if you need help funding the perfect home.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
For that, So you you'll help folks find out what
you know a kitchen, soup kitchen or something like place
like that that will accept the produce.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
Yes, okay, you will absolutely do our best to help
y'all find the perfect place to share your fresh produce.
It can make pus at impact. So many emergency food programs,
soup kitchen shelters places like that rarely received donations of
fresh produce, especially just homegrown from your backyard. So it
will be the biggest blessing to so many people and
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help them have fresh produce for what might be the
first time in a long time.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
Unbelievable. Katie stag Leano, I tell you what you know,
We've talked for all these years it's just amazing where
you have taken this thing. And of course you haven't
even stopped. I mean there's the sky's the limit here.
And of course everybody can help out. So you know,
if you've got a few bucks you'd like to donate
to help her out, to continue to grow Katie's Crops,
make it bigger and bigger, and get more kids involved
(15:15):
with gardening and help those that maybe not don't know
what fresh produce is all about. Help her out. It's
katiescrops dot com. That's katiescrops dot com. Be sure and
check it out and go through and look at all
the stuff they're doing. The proof is in the pudding
when you go to the website. Katie, have a great holiday.
Merry Christmas to you and your family. Happy New Year,
(15:37):
and you know, hopefully we'll get a bunch of kids
applying for your for Katie's Crops to be a grower.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
Thank you, Merry Christmas.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
We are so excited, all right, thank you, Katie Stagliano. Again,
the website is katiescrops dot com. That's with a K
on both of those. And what's interesting is again I
get goosebumps. I tell her that anytime I give garden talks,
cars always pushing to get kids involved with gardening, how
important that is. And of course we have kids Gardening
(16:07):
dot org on our show, which is another national way
to get kids involved with gardening, which really supplies a
lot of info for you. Katie's doing the same thing
on their website and of course actually so putting the
garden in your your kid's hands seven to sixteen. That's
all the seage group. And I noticed that she has
a link at the back of this. If there's no
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one in there as far as the age group and
you want to start a garden, they have special links
on there to show you how to get started doing
gardening and how to donate your produce or party your produce,
whatever may be to a local soup kitchen, that type
of a thing to help out those in need that
don't have access to fresh produce. So what a great thing.
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Started doing it at nine years old. And remember that's
the Bonnie Cabbage Plant program that we have talked about
for years, and they're the ones that put me in
touch with k when she was nine years old because
what they do is they supply free cabbage plants to
third graders. All right, all you have to do is
register your class. It'll mail them to them. And they
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asked if they grow the cabbage plant, write a story
about growing their cabbines, take a picture of it, and
then send it back to them. At Bonnie Plants, they
actually choose someone from each state that could get a
scholarship to go to college, which is very cool. And
what they did way back then is they were giving
us some of the local winners. We had the winner
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from Ohio and we had They said, you might want
to talk to this young lady Katie from South Carolina
because she is something else. And boy were they right.
Unbelievable again, check out our website. It's katiescrops dot com.
Got a few extra bucks you want to donate at
the end of the year help out Katie. And then
they do such a great job. Quick break, we come back.
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Phone lines are open for you at eight two to
one WTVN eight hundred and six to ten WTV and
coming up to the top of the hour, doctor triple A,
doctor Alan Armidie will be with us talking about shutting
down his perennial garden, his books for Christmas, obviously, and
a whole lot more. But in between you and me
talking Yardening here on news radio six ten WTVN, Talking
(18:15):
Yardning here on news radio six y ten WTVN, We're
back eight two to one WTVN eight hundred sixty ten
at WTVN. Jump on board, taking your calls obviously, and uh,
you know, it's been a while, so if things have
been happening, let me know, I'd love to And again,
lots of emails, and I appreciate that we've stayed in
touch that way as well. You know, Katie Stagliono talking
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about teaching the kids there about monarch butterflies, and that's
just you know, the monarch butterflies kind of become the
it's the it's the poster child for save the pollinators,
you know, and it really is. What's interesting is the
monarch butterfly isn't really a great pollinator per se. Butterflies
generally are not great pollinators, although they do, but everybody
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recognizes the monarch butterfly and rightfully so. And so that's
why it's kind of the poster child for that. But
what is interesting about the monarch is that it's becoming
a serious situation, even more so as we go along here.
The US Fish and Wildlife Service is now proposing that
the monarch butterfly be named as a protected species and
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is now looking for public input to that proposal. They
want to list the monarch butterfly as threatened and that
allows species specific protections and other considerations for conservation under
the Endangered Species Act. The listing will be on the
Federal Register and public comments will be accepted until March
(19:45):
to twelfth, twenty twenty five, so you know, you can
comment about yes, you know, you definitely think this should
go on the endangered Species list so we can try
to do more to help protect this thing. Today. According
to the US Fish and Wildlife they said, the Eastern
migratory population is estimated to have declined to buy about
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eighty percent. The Western migratory population has declined more than
ninety five percent, and both of these are since the
nineteen eighties, and that really puts the western population at
a greater risk of exton extension in the future by
about ninety nine percent. That's not good. The probability extension
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for Eastern monarchs a little bit less, but very very high,
not good at all. So what we are looking for is,
you know, again your comments if you can, it's at
the Federal Register to claim them as an endangered species
as well as what doing everything we can do to
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help protect the not only the monarch butterfly, but all
of the pollinators out there, and of course they're all
they're asking everyone to be a part of the recovery
process here, and of course that's where we all can
help at some level, whether that means in a container,
in a window box, in your vegetable garden, perennial garden, landscape,
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whatever it may be, and that's what bringing back their
habitat for pollinators in general, for the bees, the flies,
the beatles, all of those, and butterflies as well. As
a matter of fact, you remember I mentioned that Joe
Boggs did a class one time called Butterfly gardens aren't
just for butterflies anymore, and they're not. They've become pollinator
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gardens that service both the butterflies and the pollinators as well.
And everything we can do to help bring those habitats
back is going to be really important over the next
many years, very very important. And we've talked about this,
and we've talked about this, and we've talked about it
and of course with a monarch butterfly, we're talking about
lots of nectar plants obviously, but what the milkweed. That's
(21:59):
the bottom line. Planting milkweed. You gotta plant milkweed. And
of course when you plant milkweed, there's a lot of
other insects that love milkweed. It's a bed and breakfast
for a whole bunch of bugs that love the pollen
and the nectar on milkweed. But of course it's the
monarch butterfly that uses that milkweed for both feeding and
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laying the eggs, the larvae feeding on the foliage, et cetera,
et cetera. So very important. So as you are looking
twenty twenty five to do any replanting at all in
your gardens, your perennial gardens and your containers or whatever,
do everything you can to include all of those great
nectar plants for the pollinators, and make sure you work
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in milkweed as well, so that we can help out
those monarch butterflies as best we can. Quick break, we
come back, Joe Ann. You're coming up next. Phone lines
are open for you eight two to one WTVN here
on news radio six to ten WTVN thirty two degrees.
That's great planting weather. Yeah, it can be. As a
matter of fact, you get out to your local in
the garden centers and if they have to notice that
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they have some spring bulbs left over, tulips, daffodils, things
like that, now's a great time to still plant. As
a matter of fact, you probably find them on sale,
good pricing. A great way to light up your landscape
and your containers and all next spring by planting bulbs now.
And you can still do that. And I'm telling you,
if you want to make it easy on yourself, look
at those power planters, the power augers. You know with
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the electric drills today, and they're so powerful that you're
the battery operated drills. You don't have to worry about
the cord and all that stuff. And they've got these
power augers that have shafts on them. They're eighteen twenty
four inches long that you don't even have to bend over.
You can go out there and just drill Holes's talk
about easy drill holes. Drop the bulbs down and they're
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raked the soilback or over the tops. Pretty much that easy.
Maybe sprink a little bit of ballfood in there and
you're good to go. But if you're out to the
local garden centers and you have to notice some spring
flowering bulbs still remaining, i'd scarf from up and plant
them in the landscape. Plant them in containers, you know,
if you've got some extra containers, plant them in containers,
put them in the uneated garage or shed, bring them
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back out in the springtime and enjoy those growing in
containers as well. But still time to get those in
the ground if you can find them out there, and
it's probably at a pretty good price. To the gardening
phone lines, we shall go.
Speaker 4 (24:20):
Joe Anne, good morning, Hi there, thank you so much
for your wonderful programs.
Speaker 1 (24:28):
You're welcome.
Speaker 4 (24:29):
Yea, the Kadious Garden report was really good. I have
two phone calls I'm gonna make to spread that wood.
Speaker 1 (24:38):
I appreciate that.
Speaker 4 (24:41):
I had another lovely summer with my tutonia plants. The
only thing is I planted four of them and they
took over the whole gardens.
Speaker 1 (24:53):
They can get some pretty good size, can't they.
Speaker 4 (24:56):
Oh my, they were way over six foot oh their butt.
And I had the most fun of the hummer towards
the end of the season, I found that we had
a hummingbird coming frequently, and I could tell because it
sounded like a helicopter going overhead. But I sat on
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my red I sat on my Wheeley's feet and had
a red blog on and prayed that it would come
again because I had my camera ready, and I got
a great picture, and that hummer went over my head
(25:48):
right in front of my face, kind of high and
looked at me and then flew off four days in
a row.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
Wow, good for you.
Speaker 4 (26:00):
That's so fun.
Speaker 1 (26:01):
That's amazing, isn't it To look at those up close?
That's just phenomenal. Well, good for you. And that, by
the way, that tithonia, so folks understand, it's a common
common name sometime as Mexican sunflower. But that thing that
you had, the orange one, right, yeah, yeah, just stands
out like a sore thumb. But they are big and
(26:23):
you've got to give them plenty of room to grow.
But the pollinators, the butterflies, the hummingbirds, they love that plant.
Great show. The colors are fantastic. But you're right. I
our neighbors do the hummingbird feeders, and then we have
the tithonia and boy, they just go back and forth
and back and forth. And of course it's so much
(26:44):
fun to watch them go. But when you get them
up close like that, good for you? And did you
get a picture of them?
Speaker 4 (26:49):
Yes? I did.
Speaker 1 (26:51):
Good, Good for you.
Speaker 4 (26:55):
And about the pollinators. About the monarchs, my neighbor in town,
they moved out of town. Now were some very but
we had a lot of trouble attracting our monops. We
saw every other butterfly, but not monarchs. And about the
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swamp weed, I can't I've forget what you said about
that particular thing, but it spreads. What can you do
to prevent that? Because it wants to take over the well?
Speaker 1 (27:36):
That and that, you know, one time in many in
many communities, they actually didn't want you to plan it
anymore because it does recede, there's no doubt. And if
you don't a lot of the newer selections that are
available for you today don't do quite as much receding.
And of course in the landscape where you're maintaining it
more uh, in the perenial gardens, that evotendency did not
(27:57):
recede as heavily as well. But you can clip off
the seed heads before they drop to make sure that
you kind of reduce that the amount of new ones
coming up. But otherwise, I tell you what it's you
can't go wrong planning those, and hopefully we will get
enough people to bring those back and get more of
those in the containers, in the landscape and the premal garden,
(28:21):
whatever it may be. But to continue to plant more
and more of the milkweed out there, most definitely Tu
Barossa especially, but any of the species of the milkweed
should be planted. So keep it up. And Joanne, I
appreciate the call, and thanks for the update, and have
a very merry Christmas. All right, and Debbie, good morning.
Speaker 3 (28:41):
I'm so glad to hear you back on the radio again.
Speaker 1 (28:44):
Good to be back.
Speaker 3 (28:46):
Yes, I'm going about the monarchs and the milkweeds. Yes,
this year I saw very very few monarchs up here
in Knox County, and when I did start to see them,
I got so exc because along the roadsides we had
just tons of milk weeds here and there and everywhere. Unfortunately,
(29:11):
the state has a rule that the roadsides have to
be moved by a certain time, and just about the
time the monarchs came in, they moved off all the
milkweeds stoo and townships.
Speaker 1 (29:27):
Yes, that's unfortunate.
Speaker 3 (29:30):
What can we do to try to convince the state
to move the date or instruct their guys to leave
the patches of milk weed until later in the season,
after the monarchs have hatched and started head and south.
Speaker 1 (29:49):
Sure, go to the you know again, I would get
in touch with your county Soil and Water Conservation or
your county Extension and just kind of bring that up
and see who you can who would be a contact
to find out because there is now a program in
the state of Ohio obviously to collect up those seeds
and plant those So the goal is to plant more
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and more along the expressways and places like that. So
again it's just a matter of educating and letting them
know that, you know, we've got to keep these leave
these things alone until they have moved through. So I
would say, you know, and maybe I'll try to track
down someone we can talk to that maybe get on
our show. But get hold of your county Soil and
(30:30):
Water or the county Extension. They may be able to
put you in touch with someone. You could email or
send them a note and say, hey, you guys might
want to, you know, pay attention to where you see
that milk weed and make sure you don't mow it
down too early.
Speaker 3 (30:43):
But that's good point out here, there's just so many
farm fields and stuff. Sure, so to see the big
patches of the milk weed. Like I said, I was
just so excited to see so many of them this year,
and boom, they mowed them all.
Speaker 1 (31:04):
Yeah, unfortunate. But again we'll keep working at it. You
keep mentioning to them, we'll keep bringing it up on
our show, and hopefully we can convince more and more
people to leave alone and plant more to help out.
And again it's not just the monarch, it helps out
all the pollinators right to the end of the season.
Speaker 3 (31:21):
Yeah, because I thought about maybe this year going and
talking to the different landowners that I know and putting
up but do not most in several places along the
roadway to try to save the mill.
Speaker 1 (31:39):
Sure, I think that's a great idea, and I would
applaud you for doing that.
Speaker 3 (31:43):
We thank you very much. Ron.
Speaker 1 (31:45):
All right, Debbie, good talking with you. And again it's
you know, it gains a matter of getting the word
out and again touch base. You know that some people
will say, well, it just mowed out a small patch,
but all those small patches count, and that's what's happened.
And over the past, you know, it became a situation
where even farmers where you know, we're mowing and taking
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all of those down in some areas where it was
non maintained, the canned seed and become thicker. And of
course you know it's like it's very aggressive, and it
can be in some situations. But again, we have eliminated
so much of the habitat for not just the monarch
butterfly with the milkweed, and that is a serious situation,
(32:26):
but for pollinators in general. And how important that is
to bring that back around. And it's great to see
more and more folks like with their vegetable garden, you know,
anticipating on both sides of the garden or whatever a
row of cutting flowers or a row of pollinator flowers,
(32:47):
you know, to help attract the pollinators and the butterflies,
but not only for them and the hummingbirds, but it
also helps attract pollinators in which again helps to pollinate
the vegetables, the fruits and all that are in your garden.
So it's a two ways you know, it really helps out.
It's a two way street there and so it works
both ways and to help you out. So it's encouraging.
(33:11):
We're seeing more and more of it, we're reading more
about it. There's a lot more out there. But again
we just have to be vigilant and suggest the folks
that you don't mow and maybe put some signs up
and say please leave us, leave us alone until a
certain amount of time and let you know we mow
it down or whatever. But most definitely and it takes
all of us to do that. Speaking of what you
(33:32):
talk about Knox County, I got to notice this week
from the Knox County Beekeepers Association they're having their Advanced
Beekeeping class and I think that's coming up January twenty fifth,
from a thirty until twelve thirty at the campus of
Mount Vernon Nazarene University. And if you want to learn
more about that or to register, I think it's forty
(33:55):
five bucks for non members, twenty five for current members.
It's Knox Bees dot com. That's Knox k and o
xbs dot com. Get yourself registered because those classes sell
out in a hurry and it's so much fun to
go and learn a little bit about those and even
if you're not a beekeeper, just to learn more about them.
And like I've always said, you learn more about them,
(34:16):
and the more you know about them, the better you
are as far as a gardener, to help them out
as much as you can. Quick break, We come back,
Doctor Allan Armadach coming up next here on news Radio
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