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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Good morning, everybody. Welcome. I'm Ron Wilson, and you are
in the garden here on news radio six ' ten
WTVN eight two to one WTVN eight hundred and six
y ten WTVN jump on board talking about yarding and
it's an exciting show this morning. I couldn't wait to
get here this morning. It smells so good inside. It
smells like spring. It looks like spring. I've got to
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be inside, right because I think it's a little bit
ice coming down and snow coming down and the ring
coming down outside. So where am I right now? I'm
at the Central Ohio Home and Gardens show kicking off
the spring season, and it smells like it looks like
springing here. You gotta check it out. Starts today, as
a matter of fact, to tell you more about it.
Who knows everything about it? Because he's the man that
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makes everything happen, at least he says he is. Anyway,
Steve Buzzer, Good morning, sir.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
Good morning, Ron. So happy to have you here.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
Hey, good to have you on. I appreciate you having
us here. First of all, of course, we're in the
Columbus Trees Booth. It's twenty six nineteen. Gotta be here
till noon, so stop buy and say hello. We're on
the south side of the gardens. I think this besides
being in the gardens, one of the great times that
I can sit here and look right into all of
the gardens, so the nice spot.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
Yes, indeed we have nine gardens this.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
Year, nine gardens, and the themes are all individual.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
Yes, garden friends. So each landscaper symbolizes a garden front
in their boots, such as snails, turtles, frogs. We ask
central how to come down and figure out which garden
front is which landscaper?
Speaker 1 (01:25):
So how did they do that? They spend like a
little spind the bottle or.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
Yeah, it's draw who draws the shortest stride?
Speaker 1 (01:31):
Guess was that what it was? Drew Straws not spending
things yet? No, no, Well, as usual, they've done an
excellent job. A lot of plants in color this year.
I see a lot of things in bloom, so they've
taken the extra time to get those forced out into
leaf and in flower. But it's absolutely gorgeous. And of
course to our right we have the stage, the garden stage.
And I looked at the programming, lots of great classes.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
Oh my gosh. We've partnered with the Ohio State University
Master of Gardeners for a number of years. They actually
program that stage with their people in their organization and
since COVID where a lot of people went to gardening
and planning at home, and stage is taken off, just
taken off.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
Yeah, And I've been on there a few times from
way back when. We've always had a lot of fun.
They always have great, great folks, very casual, lots of questions,
lots of good answers indeed, and again a great lineup.
As a matter of fact, good friend of mine, Gary Go,
I think is there a couple of times today and
that Gary's talk about fruits and berries.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
Yeah, yeah, love to have them. They cover everything from
growing the perfect tomato plant to even the soil in
your yards. It's really educational, is the best way to
put it.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
Now. Besides this stage, you also have the stage over
the home improvement.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
Area, the home Improvement stage, the home stage.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
And home stage.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
That's where our celebrity talent will be focused today as
we go to the rescue bringing him in, happy to
have him here. We also have a lot of cooking
and chef demonstrations where free samples are passed out.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
Just left. He heard the free samples being passed out,
so he out of here. Yes, uh so, So we
kick off at what time? Today?
Speaker 2 (03:04):
We kick off at eleven o'clock seven, eleven to seven,
Tomorrow eleven to six, eleven to six.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
And then next week you are closed.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
We're closed on Tuesday. On Tuesday Monday as President's Date.
And so the really neat thing we do ron is
we let teachers in for free. It's kind of our
give back to the community. We have a lot of
kid programming on Monday. You might see Bluiam Bengo, you
Doctor and Sector will be here longtime Central Ohio Icon
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with this tarantulas and scorpions and really entertaining for kids.
And then Wednesday is Senior Day and we do other
specials throughout the week. But I'd like to get through
today and tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
Get through the first two days and to get into
next week. Ticket pricing take.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
A pricing understand question. If you go online, we offer
a nice discount. Dispatch that website Dispatch Home Garden Show
dot com.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
What does that again, Oh.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
Dispatch homgarden Show dot com.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
There you go.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
Ten dollars online. If you come to the door, which
is fine, we're gonna charge you fifteen bucks, okay, and
obviously kids seventeen and undercoming for free. And if you
say you're here for the Home and Garden show, it's
standard parking. When you park, it's seven dollars. So all told,
you know, you can get in for twenty seven bucks,
which isn't a bad day.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
No, it's spring. Thank you give me a break. You know,
you can either send it home look out the window. Yes,
go outside and put on a rain coat, col a
winter jacket, gloves the whole nine yards and try to
bear that. Or you could come here and take off
the jacket, wear your shorts and a T shirt, walk
around a pretended spring.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
Yeah, you know you said it. You can smell it.
I've been here all week. And what I love about
this is it's really ideas and inspirations, and for it's
a sixty ninth year. When guests come down, gardens are
still the number one thing because the trees and the
flowers are blooming, and people are like, I can't believe it.
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Yesterday last night I caught I didn't catch. I saw
vendors walking around the gardens taking pictures because they're no
different than me, and they're like, oh my gosh, it's spring.
Oh yeah, it's fantastic.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
I used to always say, bring your camera. Well nobody
brings a camera. Now you bring your cell phone. But
you can you can walk away with so many great
ideas in here. And same way on the home improvement
side as well. Yes, but so many great ideas. I
was already over there. I've probably taken about a dozen
pictures for myself, but just and then, of course, I
think the other thing is good about these gardens is
that you know, if you're looking to have design work
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or installation done at your home, you're going to meet
those folks here at the show and you could talk
to them one on one, get to know them, see
what kind of work they do.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
Yeah, that's take it from there.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
Run.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
That's why that's why a show like this is still
powerful because I always say, you know you're gonna let
people in your house redo your bathroom, you can come
down here and look them in the eyes exactly right.
If you don't, this is something that the internet doesn't
give right, right, This is live and in person. Just
like you said, if you're going to have reach and
off landscape company dig up your backyard. It'd be nice
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to come down talk to the owner, right yeah, And
she's here. She's here, And I think that that's a
very powerful message for guests. The other piece to that
that I'm very happy about is we have this central
high Better Business Bureau here. Check with them. You have
to check the accredited businesses with the BBB before you
let somebody in your house or dig up your backyard.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
Right absolutely, yeah, And so again this is all available
for you. The price is right, come down. I just
plan to spend four or five hours at the minimum. Okay, okay,
you know, I'm just saying at the minimum, you know,
at least a half a day, because by the time
you get into the gardens, that's at least a couple
hours if you take your time, look at what's on there,
take pictures, take you know, notes and all of that.
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Just to walk this side over here is at least
a couple two or three hours. And then you go
over to the other one and it's three times bigger. Yes,
so you know, you do you have a half a
day plus and you have food, yes, and drink in
the whole yards.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
Yeah, they build a swimming pool in the other building,
so there's a full flip swim so we could swim
a little cold, but yeah, you could.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
Well. Grant's into the Key's like he's into that Polar
Bear stuff.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
He's getting the snacks over there.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
Free samples, free snacks, and a cold swim Grants in.
It's got it made so well. We appreciate you having
us down here.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
Ron Ron. One last thing on closing. I'm sorry, as
I really appreciate you being here. We mark a great
following on TVN. I'm very honored to have you here
for pleasure in central Ohio. And the people here at
Columbus Trees are fantastic. I'm glad you're in there booth.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
Yeah, Columbus Trees and we'll talk more about that. You're
looking for trees. They got the trees, there's no doubt
about it. And of course the six ten is going
to be here. We've got Lizzie here giving away all
kinds of great six to ten things, so be sure
and check that out as well. So, hey, free samples,
a cold swim wear, are your shorts and a tank top,
flip flops. It's springtime here at the home and Guard Show.
The Central Ohio Home and Guard Show Stop down opens
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up at eleven o'clock. Steve Buzzer, thank you so much,
your special I appreciate it all right, appreciate being here.
And it does it's you walk in, you just smell it.
It smells spring, and that's what you're going to find.
Speaker 3 (08:07):
All right.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
We'll take a quick break, we come back. We'll talk
with the folks from Columbus Trees, find out what they're
all about and what they've got available for you. And
we've got some other guests, and we're taking your calls
a two to one WTVN eight hundred and sixty ten
wtv in here on news radio six y ten WTVN.
It's spring where we are. How's the weather where you are? Well,
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if it's not so good, hop in the car. Come
to the fairgrounds because we're at the twenty twenty five
Central Ohio Home and Garden Show presented by Ohio Mulch.
We are at the Columbus Tree Booth. It's twenty six nineteen.
We're on the south side of the gardens and now
this opens up at eleven o'clock, so you know, if
you're on your way, get you stelf Goog parking spot
and whatever, get ready to come on in. I'll tell
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you what the gardens look absolutely gorgeous. They have an
individual theme for each one, so you're you will love them.
I spend about a half an hour taking some pictures
and they get the thumbs up so far. So it's beautiful,
smells like spring. Looks like spring. By the way, at
the end of every show that I do, what do
I say? First thing? I say, you know, if there's
one thing you can do out there to help the environment,
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to help the world, and that's plant a tree or
two or three. I'm a big advocate on planting trees.
I think of anything out there and there's lots of
things we can do to help other The biggest impact
that we can all do is plant a tree or
two or three every year. And I'll tell you I've
got the specialists with us today. If you're not familiar
with them, you should be. And you knows a good
couple of ways to find out more about than one
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having them on the show today. Come and see him
here at the Home of Garden Show, and we're also
going to be out at their place on our particular
kick arbor Day weekend. Yeah, so we'll do that again again.
It's called Columbus Trees. And joining us this morning is
Andrew Miller. Good morning, Good morning, Ron, thanks for coming out.
Is this what I'm looking at behind me? Is this
typical what you guys have?
Speaker 3 (09:51):
Yeah, so that's pretty much what we be size wise. Yeah,
so we specialize in the mature trees. So we're trying
to bring larger tree trees. We live in an age
where people want instant gratification, and no we offer that
through our trees. Trees grow very slowly, as you know.
So we bring these big trees and we pop them
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in your yard in a couple hours and it looks
like the tree has been there for twenty years.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
So yeah, that's kind of where we are. That's that's
instant tree right there.
Speaker 3 (10:20):
That is instant tree.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
Yeah. Now behind us, as a matter of fact, you know,
one of the biggest trends now that you guys know this,
but is screening planting natural screens rather than using fencing
and looking at some of these you know, plants that
are going to get twenty five thirty feet tall upright,
not taking up a lot of space. Because I have
a smaller yard, but I want a natural screen. This
horn beam is an excellent choice.
Speaker 3 (10:43):
Yes, we plant a lot of horn beams for people
who want the privacy screens, but mainly people want to
lign their driveways with them.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
Well they don't.
Speaker 3 (10:52):
They don't go away over the driveway and drip all
the leaves in the fall and they have to clean
them up off the driveway. But yeah, it looks awesome
when you have them lined anywhere or along the side of.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
The it's a tech of a show.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
Oh yes.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
And then behind me is upon cypress, which you don't
see very often, right, and when so folks see it,
it's like, looks like a cypress, But what is that? Right?
Solis doesn't look great?
Speaker 3 (11:15):
Absolutely, so it is a it's definitely a unique tree,
and we brought it here just to show people kind
of what we specialize in. It's not we do plant
a ton of maples and oaks and the typical sure trees,
but we have over a ninety species of trees on
our property a thousand trees total typically when we're all
full and ready for the spring season. But we do
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have all sorts of trees, and if we don't even
have it on our farm. We have such good relationships
with growers all around that we can find whatever you're
looking for as long as it grows here.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
Well, I was going to say, you know, you can't
grow everything, right, but I understanding if I come there
and I'm looking for a particular type of tree and
you don't have it available, you do have access to
other nurseries or other areas so that you can go
find these.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
Yes.
Speaker 3 (11:58):
So we've been in business for fifteen years in Indiana.
We have two locations in Indiana, Fort Wayne and Indianapolis.
Been in business over there. My brother started the tree
farm in Fort Wayne, Indiana about fifteen years ago. We
opened one up in Indianapolis shortly after, and we just
opened up Columbus Trees in April. So we've not even
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been in business a year yet, and we've been making
a lot of progress. Excited to be out here and
more people and trum what we do because there's not
a lot of people who do exactly what we do.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
Now you are located a little bit of a drive,
but it's well worth it.
Speaker 3 (12:36):
Yeah. Well, Mike was telling me everything's within about twenty
minutes around Columbus. That's the good old saying around here.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
Yep.
Speaker 3 (12:43):
So we're a little bit further than twenty minutes, but
downtown Columbus Center probably take about forty minutes to get
to some berry where we're at.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
And that's not bad. And again it's worth a drive. Yeah. Absolutely,
You folks are open to the public. So it's not
just a nursery or you're you know, growing trees and
all you're it's a retail operation.
Speaker 3 (13:04):
We are retail operation. We're staffed with salespeople that can
show you around wherever you need to look for. If
you come tell us, hey, I want a five inch
autumn blazed maple, we have a salesperson can take you
out on our golf cart right to the tree. We
got about ten acres out there. It's really cool. We
get to see all the different rows of trees we have.
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Most of the time somebody will come out looking for
a maple and we'll start driving out there and another
tree will catch your rye and you're like, actually that
one looks cool.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
What is that?
Speaker 3 (13:32):
And then it's a tree they've heard of, and day
buy that one instead.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
And if i'm you know, if i'm a new homeowner,
you know, and I've got this new property or whatever
it may be, and I want to place two or
three strategic trees for shading, screening, whatever it may be.
I had known nothing about trees. Obviously, I can go
to your website and learn a little bit more about trees.
But if I come out there, then if I bring,
like what, a plot of my property and some pictures,
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you're tree experts can then look at that and say, well,
here's what I would probably where I would place them,
and here are your choices.
Speaker 3 (14:05):
Absolutely, you can bring nothing. You can bring a plot.
We're good at bringing up Google Maps and getting a
satellite view of your property and we can kind of
do measurements from that and see what the spacing would
be for the different arbor vity. Maybe you're looking for
a screen, like you said, natural screen instead of a fence.
A lot of hoas don't allow fences anymore. So yeah, right,
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people will throw up a bunch of arberviti in the
line kind of like we see it in front of
us here. Yeah, and those will grow in nicely together
and have a really nice, tall looking fence for you.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
And so, as a matter of fact, if you're looking
for ideas for screening about every garden in here I
think has a narrow screen all the way around in
a plant form of some type, so you can see
that and then see what it is. Then come back
over to Columbus trees and see if they're available. Now,
all the plants that are on your property are dug
and ready to go. Yep.
Speaker 3 (14:57):
So if you come through our booth today, you'll see
the trees behind us or burlap burlap bulls balls, they're
already dug up. And so you essentially come out to
the farm, We walk you around, You tell us what
you're looking for. We help you find some trees that
match what you are looking for, and we put your
name on the trees you like who We take you
back to the office schedule of time to have those
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trees planted, and then we show up a couple weeks
later and get them in the yard. And that's about
as simple as it can get.
Speaker 1 (15:23):
Well, I was going to say it basically, so you're available.
This is something I don't have to wait for you
to dig the tree or whatever it may be. It's
ready to go. We pick it out, depending on how
busy you are. And obviously I was saying something this morning, folks,
you know, you got to get your name in the
pod right now, and in three weeks now, when it
starts to warm up a little bit, folks are gonna
be saying and guess what. The list is already starting
to build. Absolutely, so you want to get on this
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as soon as you can. But the interesting thing is
that you have these bigger trees or all your trees
that are pre dug, burlapped and ready to go, so
we can tag them, put our name on them, do
the deal, and you set us up and haven't planted.
Do you offer when we'd look at these trees? Is
it you install only? Or can I buy the trees
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and actually plant them myself?
Speaker 3 (16:07):
So we do offer discounts for people who can plant
them themselves. Okay, so that is available. But with that
being said, not a lot of people have the equipment
to do something this big. But we do sell smaller trees.
Typically we start around two inch trunk diameter.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
Well that was my next question, So what's the smallest
thing that you have there.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
Well, we typically will start with inch yeah, or a
six foot evergreen. Okay, so those are more manageable, but
probably won't fit in the back your suv. Necessarily, but yeah,
most people want us to do it. Our prices are
very reasonable for what we do, and our crews are
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all in house and they come in every day, load
up the trailer head out to people's yards and plant
trees and put smiles on their faces.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
Are those all just curious? The larger balls hand dug
when they come to plant those, or use the tree spade.
Speaker 3 (17:01):
We have or a combo so we take an a
on a machine so it kind of drills out a
hole and then we have some forks and dropping into
the hole. S excellent, very very quick and efficient process.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
What's the largest tree I can get?
Speaker 3 (17:14):
Well, we can go up to seven inches, but we
typically like to stick around six.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
Five five to six inch larger size. And in my
past experience is planting a five or six inch tree
a lot of times the first year they just kind
of sit there.
Speaker 3 (17:31):
Yep.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
And I'm sure you explain that to folks that don't
expect too much the first year, So it's got to
get settled back in and then the root system starts
to kick in and you're good to go.
Speaker 3 (17:41):
We talk about the instant gratification, but a tree is
still a tree at the end. Of the day, and
it's going to go through its phases. So yeah, that
first year, you're not going to see a lot it
will it will leaf out and it will stay about
the same, right, and then that second year you'll get
a little bit more growth, and that third year is
one will really take off. So if you buy a
two inch tree, then it's going to explode after that
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third year and start growing super fast if it's a
fast growing tree.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
Right, which a lot of ours are. Yeah, so you've
got to be patient and and you let folks know
that up front, because a lot of folks don't realize.
You know, it's going to take you a y or
two for that thing to settle it.
Speaker 3 (18:14):
But you're buying a third thirty thirty foot tree exactly.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
I mean, it's already got.
Speaker 3 (18:20):
You go buy a small tree at the store and
plant it yourself, and you're waiting for twenty years to
get to where our start.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
So well, yeah, it's yeah, no doubt, guarantee.
Speaker 3 (18:30):
Guarantee, We get a your warranty for every tree that
we plant, and then we have a we have a
lot of clay around here, as you really, so we offer.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
You can't just shove your hand right down into the
soil around your house.
Speaker 3 (18:44):
I wish I'd make our job lot easier, but we
do offer a soil conditioning package that we just add
onto every tree and extends the more teeth of three years. Okay,
so what it is is an organic fertilizer. It's warm castings.
We have a guy and ol being Indiana, who we've befriended,
who makes this stuff for us every year.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
And well who doesn't, Oh, I hope not.
Speaker 3 (19:09):
But we put that in the in the hole with
when we plant the tree and it breaks down the soil.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
Yes, grant, that's worm poop tame things castings. Well he
didn't professional, wasn't sure with the cast poop. Well, good
talking with Andrew Miller. We're at the Cincinnati or Columbus
Tree Cincinnati Columbus Trees Booth. It's twenty six nineteen. We're
on the south side of the gardens. Stop out and
say loo. The home Guard show opens up at eleven o'clock.
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Come by, check out the two trees that are behind me.
Your phenomenal. The representatives are here. They can talk to
you about it. If you can't make it out, go
to their website which.
Speaker 3 (19:44):
Is Columbustrees dot Com.
Speaker 1 (19:46):
Pretty simple, Andrew, thank you. We'll talk to you a
little bit later on the show.
Speaker 3 (19:49):
Absolutely quick break.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
We come back taking your calls at eight two to
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We're at the Columbus Trees booth. The numbers twenty six nineteenth,
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So stop by, say hello. And by the way, I
want to mention to you that if you stop by
the booth and talk with the folks here, and if
you decide on a tree that you are interested in
or trees, they're offering a ten percent show discount, so
they'll tell you more about that as well, so you
get a little discount on top of that if you
will stop in during the Home Guarden Show or today,
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come and see us today. What are you else you
gonna do today? Snow and sleeting raining out there, ice
over the stuff, you know, put on your shorts and
a T shirt and your flip flops and come on
out because it's springing here. It's spring, so you want
to act like a summer spring, you know whatever, dressed
like that as well, and you're gonna, actually, you're gonna
really enjoy it. To the gardening phone on as we
shall go at a two to one wtvn K.
Speaker 4 (20:58):
Good morning, Hi, Ron, I have a never ending crabgrass
problem and the lawn service can't get rid of it.
I think it comes from a flower bed right outside
my back door. So my question is if I dug
up absolutely everything that was there and poured something on
it to kill the crab grass, would that area be
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okay by the spring so I could plant new stuff.
Speaker 1 (21:22):
No, and let's back up for a second. Are you
sure what you're dealing with?
Speaker 2 (21:25):
Is crabgrass definitely all right?
Speaker 1 (21:28):
And it dies out over the winter.
Speaker 4 (21:32):
I don't know. Okay, it's twelve feet long and coming
up along the lawn all over the place.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
It just all right.
Speaker 4 (21:39):
That's things to be centered there.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
Yeah, well see, and that's why I want to make
sure we know what we're dealing with. And I don't
think you're looking at crabgrass. If you're talking about a
grass that has rhizomes that run across the top of
the ground and creep out into the yawn yard.
Speaker 4 (21:54):
Well they're just under the soil line.
Speaker 1 (21:56):
Yeah, you can see them.
Speaker 4 (21:56):
And when you start to pull them, you're pulling and pulling,
you find many, many, many stuff.
Speaker 1 (22:01):
Yeah, you can be now looking at Bermuda or Saint Augustine,
and that stuff is really hard to get rid of.
And it's the rhizomes, and it's a warm season grass,
so it dies out, kind of browns out in the winter,
green's right back up again. And here's the kicker. Unless
you get rid of all of that, it just keeps
coming back up. So you know, if they come out
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and they treat it and they get rid of the
foliage on the top and it burns it off or whatever,
if they don't get the rhizomes out of there as well,
then you know, it just comes right back up again.
And that stuff can last, you know, two or three
months under the ground without any foliage and still sprout
back up again. So you know, you've got to attack
it a little bit differently. So you've got to wait
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till the green's up. Otherwise it's not going to do
you any good. Wait, you gotta wait till the green's up,
and then you go after it with an I think
Bear actually has one that you can use with regular
cool season turf. But in most cases we just look
take the area where that's growing and mark it off,
and you kill everything, like you were saying, but you
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would use like round up kills all something like that,
and you would kill everything, and you would kill it
all out, and then you give it plenty of time
to green back up and try it and make sure
you get it again. And I even suggest this, kay
to be honest with you, I'll tell folks that after
you've done then you've got that area marked off, go
in there like you like you got a sod cutter,
and actually cut that and remove that top inch and
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a half or so. When you do that, now you're
removing all those rhizomes. Roll it up, take it away,
bring in new top soil, and then start all over again.
And if you don't get it all out of there,
it can be really tough. You know, it just pops
right back up again. So I think you're dealing with
probably one of those rather than crab grass and that's
what makes it so hard for you to get rid
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of is because of the rhizomes that are sitting there
all the time. So you know, I would check with
your lawn care company and tell them, you know, I think,
you know it's not crabgrass, it's something different. And where
they look at it, you know, like I say, the
bermuda grass or whatever. And I'd have to see it
to see as far as the rhizomings, but probably that's
what it is.
Speaker 4 (24:09):
And then refuse to spray. They'll spray the grass that
they refuse to touch a flower bed. They will not
do it well. Why I thought, maybe take care of
it well. And that's just everything kill out everything over
the winter, and you can't.
Speaker 1 (24:24):
Here's the problem. It's not green right now. So putting
some kind of an herbicide or a wee killer on
that bed won't do you any good. And that's why
I say, you've got to wait. It's a warm season
grass and you've got to wait for that to green
back up. Then you go after it. And if you
go in there and you start digging everything up, if
you if somebody went in there started just kind of
digging it up, and you don't get all those rhizomes
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out of there. It just pops right back up again,
and you just actually redistribute it in the bed.
Speaker 4 (24:51):
So we've got to weight all the things that are
growing in the bed do I have? They're all going
to get killed, then, won't they.
Speaker 1 (24:58):
In some cases where it's a really bad infestation, you've
got to actually go in and sometimes we've done this,
take everything out to be able to get rid of
all what's in that bed, and then put it back
in the bed. Yeah, so you actually dig it all out,
clean it up, make sure you got rid of it,
and then go from there. I think that the good
thing what else is growing in the bed.
Speaker 4 (25:20):
I have some loose stripes, and I have these little
ornamental small grasses that have little purple flowers, and I
have I put zinnias and other things in.
Speaker 1 (25:29):
Okay, all right, the thing that's in an open landscape
bed makes it easier to get rid of that because
you know, then you can spray around the existing landscape
plants and just keep it on what you're trying to kill.
It doesn't spread and get into the other plant's root system.
So that makes it easier for you to do that.
But it's Usually the easiest way you've got a really
major infestation is to just get everything out of the bed.
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And when you do that, you've even inspected roof all
of that plant to make sure none of those rhizomes
are in that, to make sure that.
Speaker 4 (25:58):
You're not planted some of those little tiny grass things
and I yank them out.
Speaker 1 (26:03):
Yeah, yep, so you've got to be cautious. But again,
it's the rhizomes you got to get rid of. It's
dormant right now. Spraying right now will do you no
good whatsoever. You got to wait till it starts growing
and go after In that case, or you dig everything out,
take the top two inches of soil up which has
all the rhizomes, pitch that away, bring in new soil,
replant and go from there. But again, make sure you
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don't leave anything in there still growing or it'll come
right back up on you again.
Speaker 4 (26:28):
Okay, that's tough. Also, in my front driveway, I have
a long driveway on both sides, those things are always
growing too, and even though they spray, it still comes back.
Speaker 1 (26:38):
Yeah. Well yeah, that's it's like I say, it's a
tough one. Did they did did they identify it? For you.
Speaker 4 (26:44):
No, I just told them it's crab grass.
Speaker 1 (26:47):
Yeah, Well when they're out there the next time, show what,
show them specifically what you're trying to get rid of.
Speaker 4 (26:54):
And they thought it was crabgrass, saying, and it just
doesn't do any good. It keeps coming back.
Speaker 1 (26:58):
See the crabgrass if it if it was crabgrass, comes
back from seed. It's an annual so it dies in
the fall and it comes back from seed. So using
a pre emergent herbicide in those areas would typically stop
the crabgrass because it only comes up from seed.
Speaker 4 (27:12):
But this is what do that Every year they say
were putting in pre emergence. I mean they start in
March or something and they start putting stuff down.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
But what that tells you is then and it's not crabgrass,
because pre emergent would stop that from coming up. And
that's that's my point. It is something else. And if
they can't identify it, do me a favor, k either
take some samples to a local garden center, let somebody
take a look at it, or give me some pictures
of it really you know, up close, email them to
me and I'll help you out, like an identify it
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and we'll take it from there. That's the key to
this whole thing is figuring out exactly what that is
that you're dealing with, and they take it from them.
It's Ron Wilson at iHeartMedia dot.
Speaker 4 (27:51):
Com, iHeartMedia dot com.
Speaker 1 (27:56):
Okay, you very much, you're welcome, Good luck with it,
and I'll look for the pictures. But again, the kicker
is identifying these things you're trying to get rid of
before and understanding how they grow before. You know, if
you can't get rid of it, let's figure out exactly
what it is and then attack it in the proper way.
Quick break, we come back. We'll talk with the folks
from're reaping hoff Landscape here on news radio six to
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ten WTVN. We are having a blast because we're indoors
and it's spring where we are. I don't know what
it's like where you are. But at eleven o'clock the date,
the gates are going to open, the doors are going
to open, and you could be enjoying this as well
because we're broadcasting live from the Home and Garden Show.
And again it kicks off at eleven o'clock. You walk
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in the door, you smell the malt. You smell the tulips,
you smell the hyacinths, you smell the fresh plants. It
smells spring in here, and there's nothing better than get
that fresh smell spring on a day like today. Grant's
got he's here with his shorts on, his tank top,
his flip flops. He's gonna do a little water diving
into the swimming pool, cross the way and things like that.
(29:01):
So he really gets into this. By the way, are
you excited because Goony's two is coming out very very excited. Yeah,
I knew you were an old Coonies fan. I'm excited
to jump in that pool too. I I can't wait
to see you do it, especially with what you got on. Anyway,
talking about the gardens today, there's nine gardens here, and
explain a little bit more about how these gardens come
about and how the themes come around and what we
(29:23):
can expect when we're around here is Nick Besser and
Minikas from Reepenhoff Landscape. Good morning, Good to have you here.
Kiss that microphone because it's uncomfortable, okay, but you got
to you gotta get up close, right right up close.
So we've been doing this for a long time.
Speaker 5 (29:37):
We have been. Yes, and I personally this is about
my twentieth Home and Garden.
Speaker 1 (29:42):
Twentieth Home and Garden show. Do you get involved with
the design?
Speaker 5 (29:45):
I do. Actually, I am the landscape architect for Reepenhoff Landscape.
Speaker 1 (29:49):
Okay, so you've been doing the design of the garden
for twenty years. Correct, excellent.
Speaker 5 (29:53):
Now it's always a team effort, so it's not sent me.
I do the good part and everybody else does the rest.
Speaker 1 (29:58):
So you draw it up, everybody else takes care of
the rest, right, and then the golden finger comes out?
Do that? Thrilled that?
Speaker 5 (30:05):
Actually I was down there helping build the whole thing too.
Speaker 1 (30:08):
I know you do so, yeah, but yeah, you know,
and I have gotten to do that. That's a lot
of work. That takes a lot of time to design
one of these gardens and then to bring it all together.
Speaker 5 (30:17):
It is we start with the design actually in August,
when we are presented with the overall theme of the garden.
This year, the gardens were all supposed to choose a
garden friend, and in our case, we chose my favorite
garden friend and that was my dog. So we have
partnered with Franklin County dog shelter, and we'll have dogs
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here from the shelter, hopefully finding their permanent homes. They're
forever homes. Great, so we'll have dogs here throughout the show. Now,
other gardens have chosen butterflies and bees and bats. Truthfully,
I have not had the opportunity to see you walk
through all the gardens, but from what I've seen, there's
some outstanding guards again this year. Lots of flowers, lots
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of smells, and lots of spring.
Speaker 1 (31:04):
It's always outstanding, you know what. I feel funny because
every year that we were here, I always just say
the gardens keep getting better and better all the time.
And I think they do. I mean every year they're
just something different, something new, and it's just they get
better every year.
Speaker 5 (31:17):
I would agree. One of the things that fascinates me,
you know, as a landscape architect, I you know, I
think of myself as being pretty creative, and then I walked
through some of these other gardens and say, wow, where
did they come up with that? Exactly exactly?
Speaker 1 (31:31):
I do the same thing. Well, and then you're looking
at books or whatever cattle you know, and you why
didn't I think of that? And you're doing this for
all my life? Why did they come up with something
like that?
Speaker 5 (31:40):
See that's a beautiful thing about coming down here is
you get to see a lot of different thoughts, a
lot of different mindsets.
Speaker 1 (31:47):
Really. Oh yeah, back in the old days used to
say bring your camera and take pictures out, just get your.
Speaker 5 (31:51):
Cell phone out and that right exactly.
Speaker 1 (31:53):
When I saw this logo of garden friends, I looked
at that and I said, now, I wonder if they
sat down and Kate just kind of like spun and
air around and whatever the arrow landed on is the
friend that you had in your garden. But you actually
got to pick.
Speaker 5 (32:06):
Well, they give a suggested list, all right, you're not
required to choose from that list, but it's a suggestions
and frankly we went off the list with our choice.
But some of those are represented here in the garden.
Speaker 1 (32:20):
Now you chose a docson for your ascot. There is
that for a reason.
Speaker 5 (32:26):
Well, actually, one of the artists from I believe it
was Fort Hayes created you know, they said, you know,
let's make a dog for the dog garden. And frankly,
the first time I saw the docson was yesterday. But
it's outstanding bit of artwork.
Speaker 1 (32:41):
Yeah, well we have a miniature docs and so we'd that.
I'm kind of partial to the rieben Haf.
Speaker 5 (32:45):
It's a little bit smaller than my German Shepherd, but
look very nice.
Speaker 1 (32:48):
A little bit a little bit talking with Nick Besser,
he is from a Reepenhoff landscape and the landscape architect
for twenty over twenty years.
Speaker 5 (32:58):
I've been doing the gardens for over two over the garden,
it's been a landscape architect for about forty five.
Speaker 1 (33:03):
You not old forty five, which is certain you were.
Speaker 5 (33:05):
Ten exactly exactly.
Speaker 1 (33:06):
Wow. All right, so folks are going to join again.
We've got nine gardens, all different themes. If you stop
by reeben Hoff, of course you get to talk with Nick.
Speaker 5 (33:14):
I'll be here pretty much the entire show.
Speaker 1 (33:16):
All Right, we're gonna take a quick break. We come back.
More coming from the Home and Garden Show here on
news radio six to ten WTVN.
Good morning, everybody. Welcome. I'm Ron Wilson, and you are
in the garden here on news radio six ' ten
WTVN eight two to one WTVN eight hundred and six
y ten WTVN jump on board talking about yarding and
it's an exciting show this morning. I couldn't wait to
get here this morning. It smells so good inside. It
smells like spring. It looks like spring. I've got to
(00:21):
be inside, right because I think it's a little bit
ice coming down and snow coming down and the ring
coming down outside. So where am I right now? I'm
at the Central Ohio Home and Gardens show kicking off
the spring season, and it smells like it looks like
springing here. You gotta check it out. Starts today, as
a matter of fact, to tell you more about it.
Who knows everything about it? Because he's the man that
(00:41):
makes everything happen, at least he says he is. Anyway,
Steve Buzzer, Good morning, sir.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
Good morning, Ron. So happy to have you here.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
Hey, good to have you on. I appreciate you having
us here. First of all, of course, we're in the
Columbus Trees Booth. It's twenty six nineteen. Gotta be here
till noon, so stop buy and say hello. We're on
the south side of the gardens. I think this besides
being in the gardens, one of the great times that
I can sit here and look right into all of
the gardens, so the nice spot.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
Yes, indeed we have nine gardens this.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
Year, nine gardens, and the themes are all individual.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
Yes, garden friends. So each landscaper symbolizes a garden front
in their boots, such as snails, turtles, frogs. We ask
central how to come down and figure out which garden
front is which landscaper?
Speaker 1 (01:25):
So how did they do that? They spend like a
little spind the bottle or.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
Yeah, it's draw who draws the shortest stride?
Speaker 1 (01:31):
Guess was that what it was? Drew Straws not spending
things yet? No, no, Well, as usual, they've done an
excellent job. A lot of plants in color this year.
I see a lot of things in bloom, so they've
taken the extra time to get those forced out into
leaf and in flower. But it's absolutely gorgeous. And of
course to our right we have the stage, the garden stage.
And I looked at the programming, lots of great classes.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
Oh my gosh. We've partnered with the Ohio State University
Master of Gardeners for a number of years. They actually
program that stage with their people in their organization and
since COVID where a lot of people went to gardening
and planning at home, and stage is taken off, just
taken off.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
Yeah, And I've been on there a few times from
way back when. We've always had a lot of fun.
They always have great, great folks, very casual, lots of questions,
lots of good answers indeed, and again a great lineup.
As a matter of fact, good friend of mine, Gary Go,
I think is there a couple of times today and
that Gary's talk about fruits and berries.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
Yeah, yeah, love to have them. They cover everything from
growing the perfect tomato plant to even the soil in
your yards. It's really educational, is the best way to
put it.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
Now. Besides this stage, you also have the stage over
the home improvement.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
Area, the home Improvement stage, the home stage.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
And home stage.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
That's where our celebrity talent will be focused today as
we go to the rescue bringing him in, happy to
have him here. We also have a lot of cooking
and chef demonstrations where free samples are passed out.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
Just left. He heard the free samples being passed out,
so he out of here. Yes, uh so, So we
kick off at what time? Today?
Speaker 2 (03:04):
We kick off at eleven o'clock seven, eleven to seven,
Tomorrow eleven to six, eleven to six.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
And then next week you are closed.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
We're closed on Tuesday. On Tuesday Monday as President's Date.
And so the really neat thing we do ron is
we let teachers in for free. It's kind of our
give back to the community. We have a lot of
kid programming on Monday. You might see Bluiam Bengo, you
Doctor and Sector will be here longtime Central Ohio Icon
(03:34):
with this tarantulas and scorpions and really entertaining for kids.
And then Wednesday is Senior Day and we do other
specials throughout the week. But I'd like to get through
today and tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
Get through the first two days and to get into
next week. Ticket pricing take.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
A pricing understand question. If you go online, we offer
a nice discount. Dispatch that website Dispatch Home Garden Show
dot com.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
What does that again, Oh.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
Dispatch homgarden Show dot com.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
There you go.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
Ten dollars online. If you come to the door, which
is fine, we're gonna charge you fifteen bucks, okay, and
obviously kids seventeen and undercoming for free. And if you
say you're here for the Home and Garden show, it's
standard parking. When you park, it's seven dollars. So all told,
you know, you can get in for twenty seven bucks,
which isn't a bad day.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
No, it's spring. Thank you give me a break. You know,
you can either send it home look out the window. Yes,
go outside and put on a rain coat, col a
winter jacket, gloves the whole nine yards and try to
bear that. Or you could come here and take off
the jacket, wear your shorts and a T shirt, walk
around a pretended spring.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
Yeah, you know you said it. You can smell it.
I've been here all week. And what I love about
this is it's really ideas and inspirations, and for it's
a sixty ninth year. When guests come down, gardens are
still the number one thing because the trees and the
flowers are blooming, and people are like, I can't believe it.
(05:00):
Yesterday last night I caught I didn't catch. I saw
vendors walking around the gardens taking pictures because they're no
different than me, and they're like, oh my gosh, it's spring.
Oh yeah, it's fantastic.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
I used to always say, bring your camera. Well nobody
brings a camera. Now you bring your cell phone. But
you can you can walk away with so many great
ideas in here. And same way on the home improvement
side as well. Yes, but so many great ideas. I
was already over there. I've probably taken about a dozen
pictures for myself, but just and then, of course, I
think the other thing is good about these gardens is
that you know, if you're looking to have design work
(05:31):
or installation done at your home, you're going to meet
those folks here at the show and you could talk
to them one on one, get to know them, see
what kind of work they do.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
Yeah, that's take it from there.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
Run.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
That's why that's why a show like this is still
powerful because I always say, you know you're gonna let
people in your house redo your bathroom, you can come
down here and look them in the eyes exactly right.
If you don't, this is something that the internet doesn't
give right, right, This is live and in person. Just
like you said, if you're going to have reach and
off landscape company dig up your backyard. It'd be nice
(06:03):
to come down talk to the owner, right yeah, And
she's here. She's here, And I think that that's a
very powerful message for guests. The other piece to that
that I'm very happy about is we have this central
high Better Business Bureau here. Check with them. You have
to check the accredited businesses with the BBB before you
let somebody in your house or dig up your backyard.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
Right absolutely, yeah, And so again this is all available
for you. The price is right, come down. I just
plan to spend four or five hours at the minimum. Okay, okay,
you know, I'm just saying at the minimum, you know,
at least a half a day, because by the time
you get into the gardens, that's at least a couple
hours if you take your time, look at what's on there,
take pictures, take you know, notes and all of that.
(06:47):
Just to walk this side over here is at least
a couple two or three hours. And then you go
over to the other one and it's three times bigger. Yes,
so you know, you do you have a half a
day plus and you have food, yes, and drink in
the whole yards.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
Yeah, they build a swimming pool in the other building,
so there's a full flip swim so we could swim
a little cold, but yeah, you could.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
Well. Grant's into the Key's like he's into that Polar
Bear stuff.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
He's getting the snacks over there.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
Free samples, free snacks, and a cold swim Grants in.
It's got it made so well. We appreciate you having
us down here.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
Ron Ron. One last thing on closing. I'm sorry, as
I really appreciate you being here. We mark a great
following on TVN. I'm very honored to have you here
for pleasure in central Ohio. And the people here at
Columbus Trees are fantastic. I'm glad you're in there booth.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
Yeah, Columbus Trees and we'll talk more about that. You're
looking for trees. They got the trees, there's no doubt
about it. And of course the six ten is going
to be here. We've got Lizzie here giving away all
kinds of great six to ten things, so be sure
and check that out as well. So, hey, free samples,
a cold swim wear, are your shorts and a tank top,
flip flops. It's springtime here at the home and Guard Show.
The Central Ohio Home and Guard Show Stop down opens
(07:54):
up at eleven o'clock. Steve Buzzer, thank you so much,
your special I appreciate it all right, appreciate being here.
And it does it's you walk in, you just smell it.
It smells spring, and that's what you're going to find.
Speaker 3 (08:07):
All right.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
We'll take a quick break, we come back. We'll talk
with the folks from Columbus Trees, find out what they're
all about and what they've got available for you. And
we've got some other guests, and we're taking your calls
a two to one WTVN eight hundred and sixty ten
wtv in here on news radio six y ten WTVN.
It's spring where we are. How's the weather where you are? Well,
(08:27):
if it's not so good, hop in the car. Come
to the fairgrounds because we're at the twenty twenty five
Central Ohio Home and Garden Show presented by Ohio Mulch.
We are at the Columbus Tree Booth. It's twenty six nineteen.
We're on the south side of the gardens and now
this opens up at eleven o'clock, so you know, if
you're on your way, get you stelf Goog parking spot
and whatever, get ready to come on in. I'll tell
(08:48):
you what the gardens look absolutely gorgeous. They have an
individual theme for each one, so you're you will love them.
I spend about a half an hour taking some pictures
and they get the thumbs up so far. So it's beautiful,
smells like spring. Looks like spring. By the way, at
the end of every show that I do, what do
I say? First thing? I say, you know, if there's
one thing you can do out there to help the environment,
(09:09):
to help the world, and that's plant a tree or
two or three. I'm a big advocate on planting trees.
I think of anything out there and there's lots of
things we can do to help other The biggest impact
that we can all do is plant a tree or
two or three every year. And I'll tell you I've
got the specialists with us today. If you're not familiar
with them, you should be. And you knows a good
couple of ways to find out more about than one
(09:31):
having them on the show today. Come and see him
here at the Home of Garden Show, and we're also
going to be out at their place on our particular
kick arbor Day weekend. Yeah, so we'll do that again again.
It's called Columbus Trees. And joining us this morning is
Andrew Miller. Good morning, Good morning, Ron, thanks for coming out.
Is this what I'm looking at behind me? Is this
typical what you guys have?
Speaker 3 (09:51):
Yeah, so that's pretty much what we be size wise. Yeah,
so we specialize in the mature trees. So we're trying
to bring larger tree trees. We live in an age
where people want instant gratification, and no we offer that
through our trees. Trees grow very slowly, as you know.
So we bring these big trees and we pop them
(10:12):
in your yard in a couple hours and it looks
like the tree has been there for twenty years.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
So yeah, that's kind of where we are. That's that's
instant tree right there.
Speaker 3 (10:20):
That is instant tree.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
Yeah. Now behind us, as a matter of fact, you know,
one of the biggest trends now that you guys know this,
but is screening planting natural screens rather than using fencing
and looking at some of these you know, plants that
are going to get twenty five thirty feet tall upright,
not taking up a lot of space. Because I have
a smaller yard, but I want a natural screen. This
horn beam is an excellent choice.
Speaker 3 (10:43):
Yes, we plant a lot of horn beams for people
who want the privacy screens, but mainly people want to
lign their driveways with them.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
Well they don't.
Speaker 3 (10:52):
They don't go away over the driveway and drip all
the leaves in the fall and they have to clean
them up off the driveway. But yeah, it looks awesome
when you have them lined anywhere or along the side of.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
The it's a tech of a show.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
Oh yes.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
And then behind me is upon cypress, which you don't
see very often, right, and when so folks see it,
it's like, looks like a cypress, But what is that? Right?
Solis doesn't look great?
Speaker 3 (11:15):
Absolutely, so it is a it's definitely a unique tree,
and we brought it here just to show people kind
of what we specialize in. It's not we do plant
a ton of maples and oaks and the typical sure trees,
but we have over a ninety species of trees on
our property a thousand trees total typically when we're all
full and ready for the spring season. But we do
(11:37):
have all sorts of trees, and if we don't even
have it on our farm. We have such good relationships
with growers all around that we can find whatever you're
looking for as long as it grows here.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
Well, I was going to say, you know, you can't
grow everything, right, but I understanding if I come there
and I'm looking for a particular type of tree and
you don't have it available, you do have access to
other nurseries or other areas so that you can go
find these.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
Yes.
Speaker 3 (11:58):
So we've been in business for fifteen years in Indiana.
We have two locations in Indiana, Fort Wayne and Indianapolis.
Been in business over there. My brother started the tree
farm in Fort Wayne, Indiana about fifteen years ago. We
opened one up in Indianapolis shortly after, and we just
opened up Columbus Trees in April. So we've not even
(12:20):
been in business a year yet, and we've been making
a lot of progress. Excited to be out here and
more people and trum what we do because there's not
a lot of people who do exactly what we do.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
Now you are located a little bit of a drive,
but it's well worth it.
Speaker 3 (12:36):
Yeah. Well, Mike was telling me everything's within about twenty
minutes around Columbus. That's the good old saying around here.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
Yep.
Speaker 3 (12:43):
So we're a little bit further than twenty minutes, but
downtown Columbus Center probably take about forty minutes to get
to some berry where we're at.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
And that's not bad. And again it's worth a drive. Yeah. Absolutely,
You folks are open to the public. So it's not
just a nursery or you're you know, growing trees and
all you're it's a retail operation.
Speaker 3 (13:04):
We are retail operation. We're staffed with salespeople that can
show you around wherever you need to look for. If
you come tell us, hey, I want a five inch
autumn blazed maple, we have a salesperson can take you
out on our golf cart right to the tree. We
got about ten acres out there. It's really cool. We
get to see all the different rows of trees we have.
(13:25):
Most of the time somebody will come out looking for
a maple and we'll start driving out there and another
tree will catch your rye and you're like, actually that
one looks cool.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
What is that?
Speaker 3 (13:32):
And then it's a tree they've heard of, and day
buy that one instead.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
And if i'm you know, if i'm a new homeowner,
you know, and I've got this new property or whatever
it may be, and I want to place two or
three strategic trees for shading, screening, whatever it may be.
I had known nothing about trees. Obviously, I can go
to your website and learn a little bit more about trees.
But if I come out there, then if I bring,
like what, a plot of my property and some pictures,
(13:59):
you're tree experts can then look at that and say, well,
here's what I would probably where I would place them,
and here are your choices.
Speaker 3 (14:05):
Absolutely, you can bring nothing. You can bring a plot.
We're good at bringing up Google Maps and getting a
satellite view of your property and we can kind of
do measurements from that and see what the spacing would
be for the different arbor vity. Maybe you're looking for
a screen, like you said, natural screen instead of a fence.
A lot of hoas don't allow fences anymore. So yeah, right,
(14:27):
people will throw up a bunch of arberviti in the
line kind of like we see it in front of
us here. Yeah, and those will grow in nicely together
and have a really nice, tall looking fence for you.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
And so, as a matter of fact, if you're looking
for ideas for screening about every garden in here I
think has a narrow screen all the way around in
a plant form of some type, so you can see
that and then see what it is. Then come back
over to Columbus trees and see if they're available. Now,
all the plants that are on your property are dug
and ready to go. Yep.
Speaker 3 (14:57):
So if you come through our booth today, you'll see
the trees behind us or burlap burlap bulls balls, they're
already dug up. And so you essentially come out to
the farm, We walk you around, You tell us what
you're looking for. We help you find some trees that
match what you are looking for, and we put your
name on the trees you like who We take you
back to the office schedule of time to have those
(15:18):
trees planted, and then we show up a couple weeks
later and get them in the yard. And that's about
as simple as it can get.
Speaker 1 (15:23):
Well, I was going to say it basically, so you're available.
This is something I don't have to wait for you
to dig the tree or whatever it may be. It's
ready to go. We pick it out, depending on how
busy you are. And obviously I was saying something this morning, folks,
you know, you got to get your name in the
pod right now, and in three weeks now, when it
starts to warm up a little bit, folks are gonna
be saying and guess what. The list is already starting
to build. Absolutely, so you want to get on this
(15:45):
as soon as you can. But the interesting thing is
that you have these bigger trees or all your trees
that are pre dug, burlapped and ready to go, so
we can tag them, put our name on them, do
the deal, and you set us up and haven't planted.
Do you offer when we'd look at these trees? Is
it you install only? Or can I buy the trees
(16:05):
and actually plant them myself?
Speaker 3 (16:07):
So we do offer discounts for people who can plant
them themselves. Okay, so that is available. But with that
being said, not a lot of people have the equipment
to do something this big. But we do sell smaller trees.
Typically we start around two inch trunk diameter.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
Well that was my next question, So what's the smallest
thing that you have there.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
Well, we typically will start with inch yeah, or a
six foot evergreen. Okay, so those are more manageable, but
probably won't fit in the back your suv. Necessarily, but yeah,
most people want us to do it. Our prices are
very reasonable for what we do, and our crews are
(16:47):
all in house and they come in every day, load
up the trailer head out to people's yards and plant
trees and put smiles on their faces.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
Are those all just curious? The larger balls hand dug
when they come to plant those, or use the tree spade.
Speaker 3 (17:01):
We have or a combo so we take an a
on a machine so it kind of drills out a
hole and then we have some forks and dropping into
the hole. S excellent, very very quick and efficient process.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
What's the largest tree I can get?
Speaker 3 (17:14):
Well, we can go up to seven inches, but we
typically like to stick around six.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
Five five to six inch larger size. And in my
past experience is planting a five or six inch tree
a lot of times the first year they just kind
of sit there.
Speaker 3 (17:31):
Yep.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
And I'm sure you explain that to folks that don't
expect too much the first year, So it's got to
get settled back in and then the root system starts
to kick in and you're good to go.
Speaker 3 (17:41):
We talk about the instant gratification, but a tree is
still a tree at the end. Of the day, and
it's going to go through its phases. So yeah, that
first year, you're not going to see a lot it
will it will leaf out and it will stay about
the same, right, and then that second year you'll get
a little bit more growth, and that third year is
one will really take off. So if you buy a
two inch tree, then it's going to explode after that
(18:02):
third year and start growing super fast if it's a
fast growing tree.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
Right, which a lot of ours are. Yeah, so you've
got to be patient and and you let folks know
that up front, because a lot of folks don't realize.
You know, it's going to take you a y or
two for that thing to settle it.
Speaker 3 (18:14):
But you're buying a third thirty thirty foot tree exactly.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
I mean, it's already got.
Speaker 3 (18:20):
You go buy a small tree at the store and
plant it yourself, and you're waiting for twenty years to
get to where our start.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
So well, yeah, it's yeah, no doubt, guarantee.
Speaker 3 (18:30):
Guarantee, We get a your warranty for every tree that
we plant, and then we have a we have a
lot of clay around here, as you really, so we offer.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
You can't just shove your hand right down into the
soil around your house.
Speaker 3 (18:44):
I wish I'd make our job lot easier, but we
do offer a soil conditioning package that we just add
onto every tree and extends the more teeth of three years. Okay,
so what it is is an organic fertilizer. It's warm castings.
We have a guy and ol being Indiana, who we've befriended,
who makes this stuff for us every year.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
And well who doesn't, Oh, I hope not.
Speaker 3 (19:09):
But we put that in the in the hole with
when we plant the tree and it breaks down the soil.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
Yes, grant, that's worm poop tame things castings. Well he
didn't professional, wasn't sure with the cast poop. Well, good
talking with Andrew Miller. We're at the Cincinnati or Columbus
Tree Cincinnati Columbus Trees Booth. It's twenty six nineteen. We're
on the south side of the gardens. Stop out and
say loo. The home Guard show opens up at eleven o'clock.
(19:36):
Come by, check out the two trees that are behind me.
Your phenomenal. The representatives are here. They can talk to
you about it. If you can't make it out, go
to their website which.
Speaker 3 (19:44):
Is Columbustrees dot Com.
Speaker 1 (19:46):
Pretty simple, Andrew, thank you. We'll talk to you a
little bit later on the show.
Speaker 3 (19:49):
Absolutely quick break.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
We come back taking your calls at eight two to
one WTVN, eight hundred and six to ten wtv IN
here on news radio six y ten WTVN, talking your
yarding here on news radio s WTVN A two to
one wtv IN, eight hundred and six to ten wtv
and those are our numbers. Jump on board. We're broadcasting
live today from the Central Ohio Home and Garden Show.
We're at the Columbus Trees booth. The numbers twenty six nineteenth,
(20:14):
So stop by, say hello. And by the way, I
want to mention to you that if you stop by
the booth and talk with the folks here, and if
you decide on a tree that you are interested in
or trees, they're offering a ten percent show discount, so
they'll tell you more about that as well, so you
get a little discount on top of that if you
will stop in during the Home Guarden Show or today,
(20:36):
come and see us today. What are you else you
gonna do today? Snow and sleeting raining out there, ice
over the stuff, you know, put on your shorts and
a T shirt and your flip flops and come on
out because it's springing here. It's spring, so you want
to act like a summer spring, you know whatever, dressed
like that as well, and you're gonna, actually, you're gonna
really enjoy it. To the gardening phone on as we
shall go at a two to one wtvn K.
Speaker 4 (20:58):
Good morning, Hi, Ron, I have a never ending crabgrass
problem and the lawn service can't get rid of it.
I think it comes from a flower bed right outside
my back door. So my question is if I dug
up absolutely everything that was there and poured something on
it to kill the crab grass, would that area be
(21:19):
okay by the spring so I could plant new stuff.
Speaker 1 (21:22):
No, and let's back up for a second. Are you
sure what you're dealing with?
Speaker 2 (21:25):
Is crabgrass definitely all right?
Speaker 1 (21:28):
And it dies out over the winter.
Speaker 4 (21:32):
I don't know. Okay, it's twelve feet long and coming
up along the lawn all over the place.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
It just all right.
Speaker 4 (21:39):
That's things to be centered there.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
Yeah, well see, and that's why I want to make
sure we know what we're dealing with. And I don't
think you're looking at crabgrass. If you're talking about a
grass that has rhizomes that run across the top of
the ground and creep out into the yawn yard.
Speaker 4 (21:54):
Well they're just under the soil line.
Speaker 1 (21:56):
Yeah, you can see them.
Speaker 4 (21:56):
And when you start to pull them, you're pulling and pulling,
you find many, many, many stuff.
Speaker 1 (22:01):
Yeah, you can be now looking at Bermuda or Saint Augustine,
and that stuff is really hard to get rid of.
And it's the rhizomes, and it's a warm season grass,
so it dies out, kind of browns out in the winter,
green's right back up again. And here's the kicker. Unless
you get rid of all of that, it just keeps
coming back up. So you know, if they come out
(22:22):
and they treat it and they get rid of the
foliage on the top and it burns it off or whatever,
if they don't get the rhizomes out of there as well,
then you know, it just comes right back up again.
And that stuff can last, you know, two or three
months under the ground without any foliage and still sprout
back up again. So you know, you've got to attack
it a little bit differently. So you've got to wait
(22:43):
till the green's up. Otherwise it's not going to do
you any good. Wait, you gotta wait till the green's up,
and then you go after it with an I think
Bear actually has one that you can use with regular
cool season turf. But in most cases we just look
take the area where that's growing and mark it off,
and you kill everything, like you were saying, but you
(23:05):
would use like round up kills all something like that,
and you would kill everything, and you would kill it
all out, and then you give it plenty of time
to green back up and try it and make sure
you get it again. And I even suggest this, kay
to be honest with you, I'll tell folks that after
you've done then you've got that area marked off, go
in there like you like you got a sod cutter,
and actually cut that and remove that top inch and
(23:26):
a half or so. When you do that, now you're
removing all those rhizomes. Roll it up, take it away,
bring in new top soil, and then start all over again.
And if you don't get it all out of there,
it can be really tough. You know, it just pops
right back up again. So I think you're dealing with
probably one of those rather than crab grass and that's
what makes it so hard for you to get rid
(23:47):
of is because of the rhizomes that are sitting there
all the time. So you know, I would check with
your lawn care company and tell them, you know, I think,
you know it's not crabgrass, it's something different. And where
they look at it, you know, like I say, the
bermuda grass or whatever. And I'd have to see it
to see as far as the rhizomings, but probably that's
what it is.
Speaker 4 (24:09):
And then refuse to spray. They'll spray the grass that
they refuse to touch a flower bed. They will not
do it well. Why I thought, maybe take care of
it well. And that's just everything kill out everything over
the winter, and you can't.
Speaker 1 (24:24):
Here's the problem. It's not green right now. So putting
some kind of an herbicide or a wee killer on
that bed won't do you any good. And that's why
I say, you've got to wait. It's a warm season
grass and you've got to wait for that to green
back up. Then you go after it. And if you
go in there and you start digging everything up, if
you if somebody went in there started just kind of
digging it up, and you don't get all those rhizomes
(24:45):
out of there. It just pops right back up again,
and you just actually redistribute it in the bed.
Speaker 4 (24:51):
So we've got to weight all the things that are
growing in the bed do I have? They're all going
to get killed, then, won't they.
Speaker 1 (24:58):
In some cases where it's a really bad infestation, you've
got to actually go in and sometimes we've done this,
take everything out to be able to get rid of
all what's in that bed, and then put it back
in the bed. Yeah, so you actually dig it all out,
clean it up, make sure you got rid of it,
and then go from there. I think that the good
thing what else is growing in the bed.
Speaker 4 (25:20):
I have some loose stripes, and I have these little
ornamental small grasses that have little purple flowers, and I
have I put zinnias and other things in.
Speaker 1 (25:29):
Okay, all right, the thing that's in an open landscape
bed makes it easier to get rid of that because
you know, then you can spray around the existing landscape
plants and just keep it on what you're trying to kill.
It doesn't spread and get into the other plant's root system.
So that makes it easier for you to do that.
But it's Usually the easiest way you've got a really
major infestation is to just get everything out of the bed.
(25:51):
And when you do that, you've even inspected roof all
of that plant to make sure none of those rhizomes
are in that, to make sure that.
Speaker 4 (25:58):
You're not planted some of those little tiny grass things
and I yank them out.
Speaker 1 (26:03):
Yeah, yep, so you've got to be cautious. But again,
it's the rhizomes you got to get rid of. It's
dormant right now. Spraying right now will do you no
good whatsoever. You got to wait till it starts growing
and go after In that case, or you dig everything out,
take the top two inches of soil up which has
all the rhizomes, pitch that away, bring in new soil,
replant and go from there. But again, make sure you
(26:24):
don't leave anything in there still growing or it'll come
right back up on you again.
Speaker 4 (26:28):
Okay, that's tough. Also, in my front driveway, I have
a long driveway on both sides, those things are always
growing too, and even though they spray, it still comes back.
Speaker 1 (26:38):
Yeah. Well yeah, that's it's like I say, it's a
tough one. Did they did did they identify it? For you.
Speaker 4 (26:44):
No, I just told them it's crab grass.
Speaker 1 (26:47):
Yeah, Well when they're out there the next time, show what,
show them specifically what you're trying to get rid of.
Speaker 4 (26:54):
And they thought it was crabgrass, saying, and it just
doesn't do any good. It keeps coming back.
Speaker 1 (26:58):
See the crabgrass if it if it was crabgrass, comes
back from seed. It's an annual so it dies in
the fall and it comes back from seed. So using
a pre emergent herbicide in those areas would typically stop
the crabgrass because it only comes up from seed.
Speaker 4 (27:12):
But this is what do that Every year they say
were putting in pre emergence. I mean they start in
March or something and they start putting stuff down.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
But what that tells you is then and it's not crabgrass,
because pre emergent would stop that from coming up. And
that's that's my point. It is something else. And if
they can't identify it, do me a favor, k either
take some samples to a local garden center, let somebody
take a look at it, or give me some pictures
of it really you know, up close, email them to
me and I'll help you out, like an identify it
(27:41):
and we'll take it from there. That's the key to
this whole thing is figuring out exactly what that is
that you're dealing with, and they take it from them.
It's Ron Wilson at iHeartMedia dot.
Speaker 4 (27:51):
Com, iHeartMedia dot com.
Speaker 1 (27:56):
Okay, you very much, you're welcome, Good luck with it,
and I'll look for the pictures. But again, the kicker
is identifying these things you're trying to get rid of
before and understanding how they grow before. You know, if
you can't get rid of it, let's figure out exactly
what it is and then attack it in the proper way.
Quick break, we come back. We'll talk with the folks
from're reaping hoff Landscape here on news radio six to
(28:17):
ten WTVN. We are having a blast because we're indoors
and it's spring where we are. I don't know what
it's like where you are. But at eleven o'clock the date,
the gates are going to open, the doors are going
to open, and you could be enjoying this as well
because we're broadcasting live from the Home and Garden Show.
And again it kicks off at eleven o'clock. You walk
(28:39):
in the door, you smell the malt. You smell the tulips,
you smell the hyacinths, you smell the fresh plants. It
smells spring in here, and there's nothing better than get
that fresh smell spring on a day like today. Grant's
got he's here with his shorts on, his tank top,
his flip flops. He's gonna do a little water diving
into the swimming pool, cross the way and things like that.
(29:01):
So he really gets into this. By the way, are
you excited because Goony's two is coming out very very excited. Yeah,
I knew you were an old Coonies fan. I'm excited
to jump in that pool too. I I can't wait
to see you do it, especially with what you got on. Anyway,
talking about the gardens today, there's nine gardens here, and
explain a little bit more about how these gardens come
about and how the themes come around and what we
(29:23):
can expect when we're around here is Nick Besser and
Minikas from Reepenhoff Landscape. Good morning, Good to have you here.
Kiss that microphone because it's uncomfortable, okay, but you got
to you gotta get up close, right right up close.
So we've been doing this for a long time.
Speaker 5 (29:37):
We have been. Yes, and I personally this is about
my twentieth Home and Garden.
Speaker 1 (29:42):
Twentieth Home and Garden show. Do you get involved with
the design?
Speaker 5 (29:45):
I do. Actually, I am the landscape architect for Reepenhoff Landscape.
Speaker 1 (29:49):
Okay, so you've been doing the design of the garden
for twenty years. Correct, excellent.
Speaker 5 (29:53):
Now it's always a team effort, so it's not sent me.
I do the good part and everybody else does the rest.
Speaker 1 (29:58):
So you draw it up, everybody else takes care of
the rest, right, and then the golden finger comes out?
Do that? Thrilled that?
Speaker 5 (30:05):
Actually I was down there helping build the whole thing too.
Speaker 1 (30:08):
I know you do so, yeah, but yeah, you know,
and I have gotten to do that. That's a lot
of work. That takes a lot of time to design
one of these gardens and then to bring it all together.
Speaker 5 (30:17):
It is we start with the design actually in August,
when we are presented with the overall theme of the garden.
This year, the gardens were all supposed to choose a
garden friend, and in our case, we chose my favorite
garden friend and that was my dog. So we have
partnered with Franklin County dog shelter, and we'll have dogs
(30:39):
here from the shelter, hopefully finding their permanent homes. They're
forever homes. Great, so we'll have dogs here throughout the show. Now,
other gardens have chosen butterflies and bees and bats. Truthfully,
I have not had the opportunity to see you walk
through all the gardens, but from what I've seen, there's
some outstanding guards again this year. Lots of flowers, lots
(31:02):
of smells, and lots of spring.
Speaker 1 (31:04):
It's always outstanding, you know what. I feel funny because
every year that we were here, I always just say
the gardens keep getting better and better all the time.
And I think they do. I mean every year they're
just something different, something new, and it's just they get
better every year.
Speaker 5 (31:17):
I would agree. One of the things that fascinates me,
you know, as a landscape architect, I you know, I
think of myself as being pretty creative, and then I walked
through some of these other gardens and say, wow, where
did they come up with that? Exactly exactly?
Speaker 1 (31:31):
I do the same thing. Well, and then you're looking
at books or whatever cattle you know, and you why
didn't I think of that? And you're doing this for
all my life? Why did they come up with something
like that?
Speaker 5 (31:40):
See that's a beautiful thing about coming down here is
you get to see a lot of different thoughts, a
lot of different mindsets.
Speaker 1 (31:47):
Really. Oh yeah, back in the old days used to
say bring your camera and take pictures out, just get your.
Speaker 5 (31:51):
Cell phone out and that right exactly.
Speaker 1 (31:53):
When I saw this logo of garden friends, I looked
at that and I said, now, I wonder if they
sat down and Kate just kind of like spun and
air around and whatever the arrow landed on is the
friend that you had in your garden. But you actually
got to pick.
Speaker 5 (32:06):
Well, they give a suggested list, all right, you're not
required to choose from that list, but it's a suggestions
and frankly we went off the list with our choice.
But some of those are represented here in the garden.
Speaker 1 (32:20):
Now you chose a docson for your ascot. There is
that for a reason.
Speaker 5 (32:26):
Well, actually, one of the artists from I believe it
was Fort Hayes created you know, they said, you know,
let's make a dog for the dog garden. And frankly,
the first time I saw the docson was yesterday. But
it's outstanding bit of artwork.
Speaker 1 (32:41):
Yeah, well we have a miniature docs and so we'd that.
I'm kind of partial to the rieben Haf.
Speaker 5 (32:45):
It's a little bit smaller than my German Shepherd, but
look very nice.
Speaker 1 (32:48):
A little bit a little bit talking with Nick Besser,
he is from a Reepenhoff landscape and the landscape architect
for twenty over twenty years.
Speaker 5 (32:58):
I've been doing the gardens for over two over the garden,
it's been a landscape architect for about forty five.
Speaker 1 (33:03):
You not old forty five, which is certain you were.
Speaker 5 (33:05):
Ten exactly exactly.
Speaker 1 (33:06):
Wow. All right, so folks are going to join again.
We've got nine gardens, all different themes. If you stop
by reeben Hoff, of course you get to talk with Nick.
Speaker 5 (33:14):
I'll be here pretty much the entire show.
Speaker 1 (33:16):
All Right, we're gonna take a quick break. We come back.
More coming from the Home and Garden Show here on
news radio six to ten WTVN.
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