Make more house plants for free!

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Good morning, everybody. Welcome back. I'm Ron Wilson, and you
are in the garden. You're on news radio six' TEN
wtv and talking about. Yardening, hey you have a lot of.
HOUSEPLANTS i, mean houseplants are hot right, now right everybody's got.
HOUSEPLANTS i MEAN i think back WHEN i went to
college back in the, seventies you, know sixties, seventies that's,
right you, know if you HAD i had house. PLANTS

(00:22):
i THINK i had forty six or something like, that
forty some houseplants At Ohio state in my Apartment bill
AND i loved it AND i was into it back.
Then then it kind of went away after a, while
and then guess, what it came back and now it's seriously,
back houseplants are. Hot and rightfully, so they had just
offered so much as far as indoor, gardening indoor, decorations

(00:42):
making you feel better the air of the whole nine.
Yards but now let's take it a step. Further so
you got a whole bunch of houseplants that you've been
taking care, of and you're the plant. Parent you've been
enjoying all of, these but have you ever thought about
propagating your own, houseplants taking those children that you're raising right,
now and propagating and making more houseplants that maybe you

(01:05):
can give away or put in other, areas or maybe
donate to the school so kids can get. Involved, yeah
well do you think about? That, well if you've been,
wondering you, say, WELL i don't know how to do.
That how do you houseplant? Propagation are you kidding?

Speaker 2 (01:18):
Me?

Speaker 1 (01:18):
Well guess WHAT i found about a book that is
a step to step guide and absolutely does a great
job both written and. Pictorially it is called the to
show you how to do this is Called The Ultimate
Guide The Houseplant Propagation step By Step techniques For Making
More houseplants for. Free it's written By Lindsay. Sisty and

(01:38):
guess What lindsay is with us this? Morning good?

Speaker 2 (01:41):
Morning thank?

Speaker 1 (01:43):
You all, Right so you got to tell me how
did you get started with wanting to do this plant
proper houseplant?

Speaker 2 (01:51):
Propagation, Okay, well for, me it came very naturally to
want to start propagating my, plants because WHEN i started
to grow my, PLANTS i killed every single one of,
them AND i was naturally at a very brown. THUMB

(02:12):
i just could not keep one of them. Alive and
SO i just kept trying and trying and. Trying this was, maybe,
well this was WHEN i was a. Kid, actually so
REALLY i was really really bad at, it AND i
kept trying and, trying and so through my teen YEARS
i kept buying more, plants and through my adult you,
know AS i became in my twenties and, thirties AND

(02:34):
i finally got the hang of. It and ONCE i
got the hang of, IT i kept purchasing. Plants but
they kept, growing and they kept growing larger and, larger
to the point THAT i had a. Jungle and when
you have a jungle of plants that you literally cannot

(02:56):
you do not. Kill you have to keep them to
a certain size so that you have room to, live
and you have to cut them back to. Size AND
i cannot bear my heart breaks to throw even a
little piece of a plant, Away and especially as someone
who used to formally kill everything and used to have

(03:17):
to throw every plant she owned, AWAY i cannot bear
to throw anything away on any piece of plant to
do away BECAUSE i am a former plant, killer AND
i can't go back to the dark. Time it's just
too traumatizing for. Me it's like the PERSON i once,
was and so it's a it's a lot OF, ptsd

(03:38):
SO I i, mean not, really but, yeah it's you,
KNOW i was once a plant, killer and so NOW
i am no longer that. Person and so WHEN i
take a cutting of a plant to trim it, BACK
i always see that it can become another plant. Again
and so you, know why throw it in the compost
when you can throw it in a jar of, water

(03:58):
jar of moss and grow it into an entirely new plant.
Again and you, know like you alluded to give it
to a, school or give it to a friend or your,
neighbor or in my, CASE i started a whole store
AND i have an online. Shop so that's WHY i
became pretty obsessed with. Propagation, well you, KNOW i.

Speaker 1 (04:20):
Was gonna love this book WHEN i started out reading,
it AND i read it from front to, back AND
i love it when you started out by saying and
loving memory of all the HOUSEPLANTS i unintentionally killed when
first starting, out AND i hope this book's about creating
more plants made up for. IT i thought that was.
Great and by the, way you have little little short
things of humor all through this BOOK i thought that was.

(04:42):
GREAT i, SAID i like this. LADY i like the
way these little things and all a sudden that well
you're reading along and all of a sudden you say
something you gotta. Go YEAH i get, that, yeah yeah.

Speaker 2 (04:53):
Whatever Very they made me take out some of some
of the. Jokes they made me take out because they, said,
oh you're Going i'm From New, jersey So i've Got
i've got a lot of inappropriate humor. Too they, said oh,
gosh they, said you know you got to take some
of those. Jokes guys that, okay you're right.

Speaker 1 (05:09):
Here, no you should have left them.

Speaker 2 (05:10):
IN i, know that's. It that's what my friend. Said they, said,
COME i leave those. Jokes, okay they, said came it.
Down you, know you could have had.

Speaker 1 (05:19):
Two versions, here two, editions you, know, yeah the dirty
version and the clean.

Speaker 2 (05:25):
VERSION i, KNOW i Almost, well that's that's what My
instagram account is, for for all the jokes THAT i
really want to.

Speaker 3 (05:32):
Make AND i love.

Speaker 1 (05:33):
It the name of the book is Called The Ultimate
guide The Houseplant propagation written By Lindsay. Sisty great book
and it really does walk you through the whole. Thing
so let's you, know you talk about all the plants
that you used to. Kill BUT i think a lot
of folks when they start thinking about propagating some of
the houseplants that they, have there is a risk that you.
Take you can't tell with you everything that you've cut

(05:54):
and you've tried to propagate has been, successful but.

Speaker 4 (05:56):
There is a risk, there, right, yes of, Course so
you so go, Ahead, OH i was going to, SAY i,
mean you, know anytime you cut a, plant you know
you don't know if it's going to.

Speaker 2 (06:10):
TAKE i, mean there are methods that you can use
to kind of mitigate that risk when you're, Propagating and
SO i kind of go through in the book some
of the methods that you can kind of like a
try it before you buy it technique is one of
the methods that you can propagate plants, with and a
lot of outdoor gardeners will be familiar. With it is air,

(06:31):
layering for, Instance so instead of taking the cutting, first
so for instance a rubber, plant a rubber, tree you
can put sphagnum moth on a node and damp spagnum,
moth cover it in plastic wrap and then you're not
taking a. Cutting you're wrapping a node in damp substrate

(06:53):
and waiting for roots to grow on the plant before
you take the. Cutting and then if roots don't, grow
then it wasn't successful and you can take everything off
and try again. Later but then if roots do, grow
then you take the cutting and there's no harm to
the plant either. Way so there's techniques that you can
do to kind, of you, know see if the plant

(07:16):
wants to root for you before you take the. Cutting but,
OTHERWISE i, mean you, know a lot of propagation is
just about you, know seeing seeing what, works, experimenting taking multiple,
cuttings trying multiple substrates and hopefully you, know people you
can't get too attached also and trying and trying.

Speaker 1 (07:39):
Again talking With Lindsay, sisty the name of the book
is The Ultimate guide To Houseplant. Propagation, now just and
if you don't know what a note, is if you
read your, book you'll you'll you explain all of, that
all the different parts of the. Plant OR i started
saying parts of the, body parts of the plant that
we need to know. About, yeah the plant body that

(08:00):
we need to know. About, now another little thing here
of her sense of humor talking about why you should
do this number five is says sell them to pay
the bills for money to buy more. Plants she crossed
out to pay the, bills and it just says sell
them for money to buy more.

Speaker 2 (08:14):
Plants, yes, YES i, MEAN i mean, ultimately you, know
let's be. Serious if you're a plant, person you, KNOW i, mean,
yeah you should probably sell your, plant you, know sell
your cuttings and pay off your credit. Card but chances
are you're going to see another plant that you want
and it's going to go towards that, plant and, yeah

(08:36):
it's probably best that you keep that from your significant.
Other but, yeah don't don't quote me on.

Speaker 1 (08:42):
That WELL i think you mentioned, that and hear something
about that in a few places. Too so talk With
Lindsay systy and again if you want to go to her,
website it's all the Plant babies dot, Com all the
Plant babies Dot com and learn more about. It and
she's got her online store there and all kinds of.
Thing it's. Great let's take a quick. Break and you know,
what by the, Way, LINDSAY i picture you WHEN i
was reading this thing in a lab coat with the rubber,

(09:04):
gloves you, know in the lab the mad Plant propaator.

Speaker 4 (09:10):
No, really not.

Speaker 2 (09:11):
Definitely not that's like that, mean like what people imagine you,
like but what you're actually. Like BUT i sort, OF
i mean that's WHAT i dream of myself to be,
like but it's more like, me you, know in my
in my, sweatpants in my. House but, essentially essentially that
is WHAT i imagine myself to. Be and definitely lots and

(09:31):
lots of trades of seedlings all over all over my.

Speaker 1 (09:35):
Head yeah, yeah plants reaching out after you and you
cause and call. Them, YEAH i SOMEHOW i picture. THAT
i also have a suggestion for you for a reality.
Show we'll take a. Break we'll talk more about that
in this great book Called The Ultimate guide The Houseplant
propagation By Lindsay sisty here on News radio six to N.
Wtvn have you ever thought about propagating the houseplants that

(09:56):
you have right now in addition to all the other gardening.
Things it can be a lot of. Fun it can be.
Done it's not all that. Hard as a matter of,
fact if you've got this, guide you got a. Mate
it's Called The Ultimate guide The Houseplant. Propagation Lindsey sisty
is with us this. Morning her website is allthplant babies dot.
Com she also has an online plant store, there so
be sure and check that out as. Well so the book,

(10:18):
here you, know you've got pictures of a wall that
has a wooden shelves and then the test tubes in
it and all that with the water where you're propagating.
PLANTS i, think And i'm assuming that's at your, home
But i've always thought that look is absolutely. Outstanding oh thank.
YOU i mean to actually do. THAT i mean to

(10:38):
do it purposely because it looks really. Cool you got,
this you, know the, shelving and then you got the,
tubes and then you got these plants that are rooting
into the. WATER i think it's a really cool.

Speaker 2 (10:48):
Look thank, you thank. You, YEAH i. LOVE i also
love the aesthetic of a propagation. Wall and it's really
simple to make or have someone make it for. YOU
i actually had uh a carpenter On. Etsy there was
there's actually a carpenter On nan but they made it

(11:09):
for me a long time. Ago and it's very. Simple
but if you're, handy you can easily make a wooden
shelf and drill some holes and get some glass test
tubes and slip them in. There and easily hang it
on your wall and put some plants in. There and
there's a lot of different companies that also sell propagation

(11:30):
wall uh hangers now and since like you like you mentioned,
earlier houseplants are such a craze, now so there's been
a lot of different uh you, know artisans and crafts
people who have created uh propagation wallhangers now and it's
some of them are really.

Speaker 3 (11:46):
Beautiful you, know a lot.

Speaker 1 (11:48):
Of TIMES i get calls from folks that, have uh
they inherited something from their mother in law or somebody
that that's this plant's been in the family for, whatever
and they're starting to struggle and may have gotten into
some route to cline and rewrote or. Whatever and the
first THING i always say, is you, know first ALL
i try to propagate some take some cuttings from it
so that you at least get some new, plants some

(12:08):
babies that you can continue. On and they're always on
a panic, like, OH i can't you, KNOW i, CAN'T
i can't imagine doing something like. That i'm afraid to do.
It now That i've got your ultimate guide that we
can refer people, TO i think it's going to be
a lot easier for folks to do. That but when
you've got plants sometimes that are struggling like, that sometimes
this is the best.

Speaker 2 (12:26):
Way to go, Right, yes, Exactly AND i write about
that in the last section of my Book propagation As,
rehabilitation because a lot of times people are thinking propagation
is really a means of you, know just when you're
proactively making more plant, babies like, OH i just want
to make more copies of my. Plant but, no a

(12:47):
lot of times you're using propagation to save your. Plant
a plant that's like going downhill and it's your last
cry for, help and you, know instead of letting the
entire ship go, down you, know it's it's like you,
know hopping on a. Lifeboat just take take some cutting
and PLoP them in a glass of water and be surprised.

(13:08):
Off especially with a trailing plant like a philodendron or,
ahoya take cuttings of the stems and you don't have
to even be you, know that educated on houseplant. Care
and you, know like you, said if you inherited it
from someone, else you, know LIKE i don't know what to,
do just, try just go for. It take cuttings of the,
stem put it in. Water see what. Happens you, know

(13:31):
you might surprise yourself that roots will start. Growing and you,
know if you want to go as far as getting
my book or getting someone else's book or looking it,
up then find out what you can do with those.
Cuttings pop them up and you'll have whole new plants.
Growing you'll you'll shock yourself at how easy it could.

Speaker 1 (13:49):
Be, well they don't want another book or to look it.
Up they got this book, yours that's all they.

Speaker 2 (13:54):
Need, Yes i've got to get better at self promotion for,
sure but definitely my book will help for.

Speaker 1 (14:02):
Sure now how about, this how about this reality show
where you're like the midwife seeing so, everybody everybody calls
you to come And, mike you, Know i've Got i'm
trying to you, know propagate this baby and you've got
to come and save it or. Whatever and then you
could go and you, know show up and then you
go through the whole process and show them how to you,
know take care of this and propagate the baby correctly

(14:23):
and all of, that and you could be like THE
i don't know, doctor, yeah the little plant, doctor, midwife
whatever it may. Be and then and explain to everybody
by the, way you dedicate a whole chapter, here AND
i think it's just absolutely wonderful about sexual. Propagation, YES i,
mean that's kind of risky to do, that BUT i
think you've done a nice job with.

Speaker 2 (14:43):
It thank, You thank. YOU i, mean because that's such
a big part of WHAT i, do is pollinating and. Theorims,
yeah new new species of, plants, allocations and and, suriums
which are those a lot of times when you walk
in plant, shops those very, sparkly velvety looking plants that

(15:07):
you'll see that are pretty difficult to take care, of
and they're often found In south And Central america, natively
BUT i like to grow, them and they are actually
pretty simple to pollinate as far as houseplants, go AND
i wanted to share my passion for pollinating, them and
for anyone out there that wants to try to experiment

(15:30):
with taking pollen from one flower and rubbing it on
the flower of another to create berries and then seeds
of your, own you can check it out in my.

Speaker 3 (15:42):
BOOK i.

Speaker 1 (15:43):
See you even have lists of CDs for background music
and different types of wine to drink while you're, sorry all, right,
anyway but you. Did you have eight of your own
unique anthereums that you've come up with your. Hybrids you
have actually have a patent to a hybrid species Of
alocacia green. Unicorn that's pretty.

Speaker 2 (16:04):
Cool, yes YES i, Do and, Yeah i've a lot
actually a lot, more a lot more than, that BUT
i have not gotten patents on them. Yet but, Work
i'm working on a. Bunch like you, Said i'm like
a scientist in a lab, here except without a lab.
Coat i've got you, know sweatpants on in my in my,

(16:25):
office And i'm just constantly creating new species and working
on them and contracting with then tissue culture labs to
mass produce these. Plants and now green unicorn can be
found at places like home depot and lows and so
that's my goal to get these other new species out
into the plant. Stores so it's a little bit of

(16:48):
an unusual thing THAT i do creating these new plant
varieties from within my, home because typically they're created by
like these major horde cultural. Companies there there's someone like
me who works for, them And i'm kind of doing
it out of my, home which is a little, bizarre but,

(17:08):
hey you, know why?

Speaker 3 (17:09):
Not why?

Speaker 2 (17:10):
Not live your dream if you. Can so that's kind
of What i'm.

Speaker 1 (17:12):
Doing, See and it took all those houseplants you unintentionally
killed to get to figure it all, out and now
you look what you're doing and you can do the same.
Thing it's called The Ultimate guide The Houseplant. Propagation Lindsey
sisty is the. Author go to our website as. Well
it's Allthplant babies dot. Com one last thing before me
AND i. Do, really the book is. Outstanding you did

(17:35):
a great job. Here it's it's a good. Read it's
an easy. Read you've got a lot of humor in.
Here great, PICTURES i, mean you're the illustrations there are.
Wonderful Uh so it really is a great reference. Book
we get to a you, know there's a lot of
times WHERE i get this all the. TIME i took
a cutting of pothos or whatever AND i was stuck in,
water and now it's rooted. Out how DO i transition

(17:56):
that from the water to potting it up in the
potting soil or CAN i just growing in the water? Forever?

Speaker 2 (18:02):
Oh, yes it is a good question and the answer is.
YES i, mean technically you could keep it in the.
WATER i mean people do. It people do grow houseplants
in water. Forever, however the water will get filled with
algae and it will get slimy in, there so you
do have to continue to change the water out and

(18:23):
the roots will continue to grow and fill, up so
we'll get a little gnarly in, there and you'll have
to add some drops of fertilizer to the, water et,
cetera et. Cetera, so in an ideal, world to keep
things clean and you, know easier for the plant to
continue to, grow you would transfer to. Soil and the
reason why it's easier for the plant to continue to

(18:47):
grow is because soil itself provides nutrients and aeration for the.
Roots and you, know in aeration oxygen and oxygen allows
the roots To it's a process called respiration and it
aids with root. Growth so you want that you, know

(19:08):
chunky soil to aid in that process and when you transfer.
It when to transfer it would be when the roots
are ideally like one and a half to two inches,
long so that's a great time to move the plant
over from water to. Soil, however if you've been a

(19:30):
little neglectful or, lazy which is those are negative words
But i'm saying it like from one plant parent to,
Another Like i've left stuff for like a year in
water and just Because i'm like it's doing, Fine like
why change? It so it's not a bad. Thing if
you've been a little neglectful with your plant or purposely,
NEGLECTFUL i should. Say so if it's been a, year that's.

(19:53):
Okay you can still transfer. It so if those roots are,
like you, know five inches long at this, point you
can still transfer, it especially with the postos or a.
Philodendron those are such hardy, plants they'll be totally okay
if we transfer it to. Soil at that, Point DO.

Speaker 1 (20:07):
I need to cut those roots back and prove them
back at all or just take everything as is and
pot it.

Speaker 2 (20:12):
UP i would just take it as is and pot it.
UP i, mean water roots are. Different in soil roots
they're they're you, know structurally.

Speaker 3 (20:20):
They're a little.

Speaker 2 (20:21):
Different but for a trailing plant like a philodendron op, posters,
again they're so, hardy those roots are going to adjust pretty.
Quickly great.

Speaker 1 (20:30):
Answer she Is Lindsay, sisty the name of her, Book
The Ultimate guide The Houseplant. Propagation it's a great. Book
she takes science and humor puts it all. Together AND
i tell you, what it works out quite. Nicely and
if you do the reality, show let us know because
we'll all tune.

Speaker 2 (20:45):
In i'll have to give you.

Speaker 1 (20:46):
Credit, no, no, no we'll but we'll all tune.

Speaker 4 (20:49):
In we'll.

Speaker 1 (20:49):
Watch, hey, hey, Seriously, lindsay thanks for spending time with
us this. MORNING i really love the book AND i
think this is A this is good because there's so
many folks now into this houseplant. Thing it's. Crazy so
take it the next next step and start propagating and
become your own plant, lab just Like lindsay has done.
Herself thank you so much for spending time with us this.

Speaker 2 (21:08):
Morning oh thank you for having. ME i really appreciate.

Speaker 1 (21:11):
It all, right take, Care lindsay says he and again
It's sisti the name of the, book the Ultimate guy
to Houseplant. Propagation and she has a great sense of
humor in there as. Well so good good book to.
Read all, right quick, break we come. Back phone lines
are open for you at eight two to ONE, wtvn
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(21:31):
wtvn talking to your ardy here on news radio six
to TEN, wtvn our number eight two to ONE wtvn
or eight hundred and sixty TEN. Wtvn and this was
a fun, Book it really. Was AND i, again you know,
ME i only talk about the books on here THAT
i really really enjoy and think you would enjoy and
get good information as. Well and she has a great

(21:54):
sense of humor you read through. HERE i wish you
would have loft some of the other stuff in, there
but a great sense of humor that she just kind
of plugs in every now and, then tremendous. Pictures she
walks you through everything. Here if you've ever been nervous
about trying to cut back that plant that's getting that
gersina's too, tall doing the air, layering or you know
your pothos that are long or, whatever and you'd like
to propagate those this. BOOK i feel confident that when

(22:17):
you read this book and look at the, illustrations the
pictures and how she does it walks it through, it
you'll be very confident and do a nice job propagating
your own. Houseplants and it is a little, risky there's
no doubt about it when you do things like. That
BUT i think she's just done an excellent job here
explaining that and how.

Speaker 3 (22:37):
To do it.

Speaker 1 (22:38):
Again check out our website all The Plant Babies All
theplantbabies dot, com and you'll learn more about it and
see the book and all of, that AND i think
it's one OF i, would obviously if you like to
expand that, MORE i would look into. It And i'll
tell you what that WALL i was talking. About i've
seen that in other books and other types of, them

(23:00):
where you're just taking test tubes and taking, cuttings let
them root in, there but you've got them hanging on
these wooden shelves kind of, erradically, yeah you know WHAT i.
Mean randomly put them on the wall and then have
these plants hanging and growing and you can see the.
ROOTS i think it's very esthetically is very, ATTRACTIVE i,
think and you can just keep it filled all the.
Time that would be your goal is keeping that, filled

(23:22):
and then pot it those up and start new ones
in there, again and they keep your propagation wall. Looking
really it's really. Cool it'd be kind of fun to
sit there and have cup coffee and just look at
your plants root themselves in that. Water, again it's called
the ultimate guide the house plant. Propagation LINDSEY sisti SIT's
the be sure and check it. Out one last. Mention
The Greater Columbus Value society having their general meeting Tomorrow

(23:45):
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It it's tomorrow from two until four at The Enniswood
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back To. Bill good, Morning good, Morning, yes.

Speaker 3 (24:07):
Sir salting asparagus.

Speaker 1 (24:12):
Personally don't recommend. It and you know what you want
to know why is because obviously you could over salt.
IT i don't like putting salt back into the, soil
and you, know and it's been done for. YEARS i
think the thing about asparagus is that obviously the plant
can tolerate more. Salt your conditions in the, soil and

(24:33):
the salt was used as a natural way to keep
the weeds. Down it's really not recommended as much anymore
because of the fact of just putting salt back into the.
Soil you can go through and clean out your asparag
asparagus beds right, now any weeds that are growing. There you,
know you could spot treat with both organic or all

(24:54):
natural vegetation killers to take care of anything that may
be starting to pop up here and there. Whatever and
then of course pre emergent, herbicides whether it's corn gluten
meal or or prene or something like that can also
be used around. Asparagus so we don't That you don't
see that salting of the soil recommended like it used.

Speaker 3 (25:15):
To, Be, okay BECAUSE i just wanted to have something
to keep the weeds out of.

Speaker 1 (25:20):
It, YEAH i the problem, AGAIN i go back to.
It you know it did. Work now if you over,
salted you could you could hurt your. Asparagus and that
was the old time. Method is that knowing that asparagus
could take a salty. Soil but again you're added soil
salt back to the, soil which gets into the ground
water blah blah. Blah once it's in, there it never goes.

(25:41):
Away and that's why everybody's backed off on recommending the salt.

Speaker 2 (25:45):
Anymore, Okay well that's kind of one to.

Speaker 1 (25:50):
Lapse go get.

Speaker 2 (25:51):
Them it's just something put in from the.

Speaker 1 (25:55):
Store you can use, It LIKE i, say you can
use pre emergent herbicides for the, seeds, corn gluten, meal
is it all natural pre emersion to. Use you can
use it all. Natural once once the spears start and
start to pop, up and you start to see the asparagus,
grow you stop. Everything you don't want to do anymore
treating or anything besides hand. Weeding that's all you want to.

(26:17):
Do but up until that, point you know you can
spot treat weeds and do whatever you need to do
at that. Point plus the pre emergent nerviicide and and it's.
It it would be much safer for the soil rather
than using the.

Speaker 3 (26:28):
Salt, okay, well thanks very.

Speaker 1 (26:31):
MUCH i appreciate you call and appreciate you listening to the.
Show AND i know it's, disappointing but that's one of
those old And i'm sure there's a lot of people
still do, that sprinkle salt around it to keep the
weeds from coming. Up i'm sure there still. Happens that's
what happens when you put rock salt on the street
or the sidewalk and you don't have any grass growing
on the sides of the sidewalk until the middle of

(26:52):
the summer or maybe never because that's what. Happens but you,
know getting the salt into the, soil and you've Heard
corey Said mac from A Franklin county sold and water
about how much we try to stop that from happening
and then getting into our waterways is the is a
real major. Issue so putting all that, together have really
backed off on. That all, right we'll take a quick,

(27:12):
break we come, back we'll finish Up jim And. Rich
you're coming up next eight to two to ONE wtvn
here on news radio six y TEN wtvn talking to
your hardening here on news radio six y ten WTV.
In back to the guarden phone. Lines we shall. Go,
jim good, Morning good, Morning.

Speaker 3 (27:27):
Ron appreciate your. Program thank. You quick, Questions, uh IF
i wanted to get soil samples tested from my, lawn
who WOULD i send them to or how DO i do?
That and the second question is IF i want to
amend my lawn by adding top soil quality top, soil

(27:52):
when would be the best time a year to do.

Speaker 1 (27:54):
It let's go with the top soil. First when you
you say a. Men you just want to kind of
level it back, out.

Speaker 3 (28:03):
Well make it. Heavier it was sawed over, rock, okay
and it's real, thin and you gotta water it a
lot when it's the, drought you, know because it just burns.

Speaker 1 (28:17):
Up so so what's your what's your? Thoughts you want
to come back in on top of the existing sod
and put more top soil, down and you're going to
resad again or.

Speaker 3 (28:28):
Recede WELL i could. RECEDE i don't want to, Resaw.

Speaker 1 (28:33):
Okay if you're going to go, yeah if you're going
to go through that, PROCESS i would wait until we
until we get Into, august Late, august do all. That
so you do your seating In. September and you know
WHAT i would look at, too is Is. Jim when
you do, that you've got your creating different. Layers. There
you've got what was below the. Saw then you have

(28:54):
the sod with the inch and a half or so
of soil that it had underneath, it and now you
get soil on top top of. That it's going to
be a little bit. Different SO i would probably be
looking BEFORE i would even put the top soil new soil,
down As i'd probably go through and try to core
air rate open that bottom layer up of the sod
and then come back in with your soil over top of,

(29:16):
that regrade, it and then you, know reseat it and
then fertilize it and get started all over, again which
would be LIKE i, say you could do all that
work in mid to Late august and then be ready
to see when you get Into. September BUT i try
to break that barrier up by core air rating or,
something just to break that that little bit of a
barrier and then put that new, yeah and then put

(29:39):
that soil on, top and then go from. There BUT i, soil,
well you, know the thing of it is that if
you're going to do, it you might as well just do.
It i'd go in, there and you, know if you're
gonna you, know if you put a half an inch
on top of, that you're gonna lose some of the
grass the way it. Is so if you want to

(30:01):
come back in there and actually top dress and just
kind of cover over most of the, grass that's the
Way i'd be looking to do it and then. Recede,
now if you're just looking to kind of lightly cover,
over you could do that as. Well but Now you're
only talking quarter of an inch half an, inch so
it's not very, much.

Speaker 3 (30:22):
Okay and again fall would be the best.

Speaker 1 (30:26):
Time, Yeah september is going to Be september Early october
is your best time for doing that type of, Project.

Speaker 3 (30:32):
Okay and to send my soil, samples.

Speaker 1 (30:37):
Yep you know you can go THROUGH osu extension If
i'm not. Mistaken, still they still have a bulletin on
that and MOST i think most of their soil standles
go To purdue Or Penn. State there are several labs
In ohio that still test soil AND i have a
print out on. That can you email me sure AND

(31:00):
i will send you back any copy of the where
all the labs are and how to do. It it's
It's Ron. Wilton, yeah It's Ron wilson at iHeartMedia dot.
Com Ron wilson at iHeartMedia dot. Com and if you email,
Me i'll send you back the sheet on how to
do it and the listing of all the labs and
you can make a decision where you want to send.

Speaker 3 (31:20):
It you're my. Man, thanks all, Right, joy.

Speaker 1 (31:23):
All, right all, right good talking with. You appreciate. It
And rich good, morning.

Speaker 5 (31:30):
Good, Morning rony, SIR i have a lovely issue of
a green. Lawn but the problem is the green is
because of. Moss M i live out What i'll call
in in the hill country Of Licking, County. OKAY i

(31:52):
live on a on a hilltop and it's surrounded by.
Trees it's a wooded lot and the top of the
hill has basically been cleared for buildings and the grass
is What mother nature has. PROVIDED i have not seated
anything or sodded it's it's it's kind of like a

(32:14):
wilderness setting. Right, oh the soil is very. Minimal the
hill itself is.

Speaker 1 (32:29):
What what's that?

Speaker 5 (32:31):
Shale it's shale rock and it's probably has a depth
of somewhere between one inch to maybe three or four
inches of top soil spread all Over. Okay so the
growing environments for grass or for a for a for
a lawn are are probably not very well and very very.
Good but it just seems that this moss is getting

(32:56):
worse and worse and worse every. Year and it's in
areas that are exposed to sunlight and in areas that
are covered by the canopy of the. Trees when when
the foliage comes. Out SO i just didn't know if
if there was anything to do to control that or

(33:19):
to eliminate that other than you, know taking us some
type of a shovel and scrapes at. All but it's
it's it's an awful.

Speaker 1 (33:27):
Lot there are commercial moss and algaecides that can be
applied to the lawn that helps to take that, out
but it's a temporary. FIX i can even go up
there with a tank of baking, soda a small box
two gallons of warm, water spray it on, there would
burn it off and be gone for about two, months
and then it would start to grow back. Again so

(33:49):
you're never going to get that to go away unless
the environment. Changes so you have to start looking at
what you. Know, obviously it's not conducive for grass to grow,
there and that's why the moss that. Can conditions are
right for the, Moss so we look at all the
other things that. Could you, know there's so many factors
and usually low nutrition values in the soil where the

(34:09):
grass doesn't, grow but moss loves a situation like. That
you come in and put down a high nitrogen, fertilizer
all purpose, Fertilizer you put it down all of a
sudden you notice the algae or the moss kind of
starts to go away a little. Bit it doesn't like
that situation compacted. Soils you, know if it's only one
or two inches deep and it's on, top a lot
of times it gets hard as a. Rock it loves

(34:31):
situations like. That it'll take sun or, shade but shade
sometimes can be an. Issue pH in the soil can,
be but not so. Much we find it growing in
both achalan and anesitic. Soils so until you change the
actual environment and try to make it more conducive to
where grass or other plants would like to, grow moss

(34:52):
becomes your you, know the go To and sometimes you
have to look at a situation like, that especially you
know it's an all natch. Site the moss is telling you,
that you, Know Mother nature is providing the. Moss sometimes
that you have to go with the moss because that's
probably about the only thing you're going to get to
grow there based on the conditions that are. There, so you,

(35:13):
KNOW i think somebody would actually have to go on,
site take a look at it and see if there
is a possibility of doing something to change the. Conditions
and we got to go RICK I Aprey, RICH i
appreciate the. Call if you want to email, ME i
can try to answer a little bit more questions for,
you but we got to take a, break so but
you appreciate the call of good luck with. It but
point being, is sometimes moss is the only answer because

(35:36):
that's the way the conditions, are and nothing else likes
to grow in that particular. Situation so you might want
to that may be your. Answer thanks all of our,
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