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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Eight one hundred and eight two three, eight, two five five.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
Good morning.
Speaker 1 (00:02):
I am Ron Wilson, your personal yard boy. We are
talking about yard in this month of September. It has
been beautiful weather, it has been. I don't think you
could ask for anything better. As a matter of fact,
you know, I when it comes to executive producers, I
don't think you could ask for anyone better.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Oh, you're serious.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
When it comes to producers of the show talking about Danny,
can't ask for anybody better.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Yep.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
So there you go, There you go. So both of you.
I throw you both into that category, both under them.
I'm honored and privileged. How's it going. It's great.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
It was a great week weather, wasn't it.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
It's Cimer Joe Strecker or a cup of Joe our
executive producer. Find out what's going on in our website
of Ron Wilson on nine dot com facial page in
the garden with Ron Wilson'm not gonna ask you what's
going on your lawn of garden. You don't have to
because I don't have to. We know, you know, how
long have I.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
Been saying that we're getting into the bur months. It's
got to be since we've been doing this.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
Oh, without wearing shoes.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
Yeah, and it's like, you know, that threw me Offtmber November.
First time you told me, I was like, what I said?
You know, my mom used to always call it the
bur months, Right, you don't wear shoes. I I must
have seen at least four or five other people weather
people use that term this week. Hm. Where are they
(01:29):
getting this? You know where they go? Where they're getting it?
Right here? Yeah, they're stealing my stuff and not giving
any credit. There's no doubt. Well, I steal my mom's stuff.
I'm not giving her any.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
Couple of things we've said on this show over the years,
it made mainstream, but I just kind of sayings and
things like that.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
I just thought that was kind of interesting. I was like, Oh,
they're using the bur months. Yep, we're we just started
the Burmans anymore.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
That's that's everybody steals everything, but we are dealer and
claiming for thine own. Yep, we are on the burn months.
And uh it's beautiful.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
I mean as much as I love the hot weather,
I loved this weather probably second.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
Oh my gosh, it's been great. And you know what,
I purposely went outside the other day it was cool
in the morning without any shoes on. Yeah, don't tell
your mom please. Yeah, did you get sick? I didn't
get sick, But that cold grass felt so good walking
through that nice.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
It's a good feeling. There you go cool.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
Matter of fact, I read an article, so I don't
know if we brought this up two or three months
ago about it was called go stand in the grass.
How walking barefoot and grass can be so relaxing if
you just chills like forest bathing. But just go walk
in the grass and walk through the grass with your
with no shoes on, and just get that feeling.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
Well, I'm not going to do that in my yard
because I got four dogs.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
Uh yeah, your yard or cow field, horse field, now
you want to do that? Of course if you step
in a pile of horse mane or that's good luck
for horse people. Accidentally, no purpose, wives tale, that's I
guess if you want to call it that.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
Never heard of that, bere just an old myth. I've
never heard of that before. You stepping a horse, Yeah,
it's good luck, Okay, look for it. It has to
be accident. There's to be an accident. That can't be
you can't just see it over there and then step
on it. Okay, Yes, they have the burmus Greenville, Indian Greensburg,
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Greensburg sold me it's Greensburg. Let's uh yeah, from the
that's from the food house with the tree in it. Yes,
it is, I know, on the top of us, not
on top of it. Okay, sure, growing out the roof.
So yeah, w root beer it was up the street.
(03:53):
Still there, anything else still serving frosty root beers? Anybody else?
You want to your boys? Did they have a you
have a ponykeg there?
Speaker 1 (04:02):
I'm sure they have. I'm sure they do. So they
put the bypass in. That's just ruds every time. It's
a small town anyway. Yeah, it's a great weather, yes,
and you know it's going to be a beautiful, beautiful
we we had some rainfall this week. It was scattered. Yeah,
it was light in some areas a little bit a little.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
Bit last night and are not not really in my
area was more east of the city.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
But because he was cat this morning of having some
showers here and there clearing out. But we need the rainfall.
It is dry out there. We'll take more rain if
you can. Uh, But yeah, I think that helped out,
you know, get a little bit of moisture back in
the top of the ground. So but yeah, that's temperatures
are right. People are out planting, I'll tell you what.
Been checking around and the gardensaurs are selling.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
And it's every year we talk about things getting early
and earlier all the time. Yeah, before we bring in
orange we call them orange ores, not pumpkins, but before
we bring in pumpkins and go words and all that.
I always used to watch the other like Kroger and
produce places when they start bringing those in because you
don't want to get them in too early. You know,
they're they're really soft when they're early. Got to wait
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a little bit. So it's usually about the second or
third week of September we start bringing that in. Now
if you look around first weekend in September, there you go,
they're packed. Everybody's got them in early. And the produce
suppliers here, like Freeze Brothers said, they are just jammed
and they're never like that this this first ten days
or so. Every year, things get earlier and earlier all
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the time. His fall decorating thing is just crazy. That
is very true.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
And I'm seeing it.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
And again you and I get on this thing about
the inflatables and stuff. How many people in your neighborhood
are already decorating for Halloween.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
I haven't seen many Halloween things, but it's it's somewhere
in our in our area, the neighborhoods. We were out
last night and they are everywhere. Why would you be
setting this stuff up? I'm not going to runt two
months two months before, two months before Halloween. Well, I
haven't seen many in my in my area, but the
stores are selling it.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
Oh like crazy. Yeah, it's just it's second to Christmas
now when it comes to decoration.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
Yeah. Yeah. And and I'm I'm gonna I'm gonna admit.
I mean I I have been looking at Halloween decorations too.
I mean I haven't said anything. It's cool now, I
haven't set anything up yet, But.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
But when would you normally do that? A couple of
weeks before alloway? Maybe there was a guy last night
that was putting. Probably the week that Ohio State is
on a by You go twenty five tombstones in this
front yard already. Now the grass is still growing. You
got to keep mowing. Yeah, you're gonna be mowing for
two more months. Yeah, I forget that he's gonna weed
whipper around all that stuff.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
I mean, I don't.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
I don't get it. I mean, And there's those huge
skeletons that are seventy five feet tall you to buy
for three hundred dollars or whatever.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
Yeah, they're everywhere. Yeah there, Yeah, there's a Yeah, there's
one of the not in my neighborhood, but in the township.
It's over on one of those main drags. They got
three of them and they and they and they keep
them up all year.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
Well yeah, and that's that's the other thing. It's really stinks, but.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
They'll keep them up all year and they'll redecorate them
for every holiday.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
Chris, And it's like, why would you put a wreath
and stuff on this skeleton? For?
Speaker 2 (07:15):
To me, that's just well right now they're dressed like
Joe Burrow. So great. So but yeah, I'm with you there,
I don't get it. I'm with you there.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
These times they are change.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
These times they are becoming quite different. Man.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
So who are the guests today? Guess do you have
any guests? Yes, we do, we have Rita hiking felt.
You're gonna go out in the garden and talk with
Rita and her recipe today. What you're gonna tell everybody
what it is. We're going to talk about that and
the history behind that. And then after hers Peggy and Montgomery.
We love having Peggy because it's that time of the
year to start thinking about planting those fall bulbs. Are
(07:53):
they fall bulbs or spring bulbs? Well, we're gonna talk
up with Peggy in about that as well. You Yep,
Gary Sullivan, Buggy Joe Bob. By the way, it's Carrie's birthday, Gary,
happy birthday. That's right. He's the old man is eighty
five now now much older than gets. He just gets
much older than us all the time.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
And Danny Leeson, So there you go. Cool. Website is
Ron Wilson online dot com along with the Facebook page
why do you ask me? I do you forget in
the garden with Ron Wilson?
Speaker 2 (08:20):
And uh, you know, last week's graphic got so much
feedback that I put a new one up today, so
check that one out.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
How did he get brutus to be in the garden
because he knows you what happened? Because he knows you
that he knows you. The only way you're the one
that took care of it. It's the only way. It's
your influences. Well, that's it's the Joe Strecker influence. Well,
you know, I mean I did help Whens that you
bring on some of these shows that you produce. Hey,
(08:49):
I did help them win the Nactat you reach out,
you bring in the big ones.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
Helped the Ryan Day win the Natty. So he can
the only one.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
Oh, absolutely, absolutely, Tony Snow I still that's still that
was the.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
Best one guy. But what was I gonna say? Oh?
Uh uh you know, uh the play that that the
play that won the game for Ohio State when they
played Texas the first time in the in the tournament,
when Sawyer sacked yours and brought it back. It's my play.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
That's you call that basically, Yeah, you can.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
I've been calling plays for four years. There you are.
I've been We've been saying it for how many years?
I know, same as the Burns and uh let's see
so uh so the the chat room's rocket and rolling
as usual and the uh there's a couple of posts
(09:50):
from Buggy Joe this week. Uh kind of brought back
the bagworm one from last week. And kind of put
reput put that back up because that's kind of important.
There's a yellow jacket one and the yell. The yellow
jackets are pretty nasty. Yes See. A couple of weeks
ago when I went camping, there was bees and yellow
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jackets and all them nastiness all over the place. So yeah,
it's they're all over the place. They like those alcohol.
There's adult beverages you were drinking. Yeah, there's that was happening. Yeah,
but I think it was more along a lot of
the other stuff too. Okay, So uh, the Rita's recipe
of the week, Well, yeah, not Rita's recipe. It's the
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Nell's hot pickled pepper recipe.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
Yes, and it doesn't have to be hot pep pickles.
It's just pickle pep pickle pepper recipe. But yes, it's
my mom's yep. Nel Wilson, yep, yep. Do this every
year around this time, and like the cherry Bounce recipe,
we get a bazillion request for this recipe. It's so
simple and so easy even if you do it, Joe
Strecker could pickle peppers using my mom's recipe.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
Yep.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
It's that easy. And everybody that used it will come
back and say, gosh, gosh, that was so easy. It
was so easy, and they are fantastic.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
Yep.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
You can use it for green tomatoes, you can use
it for you can use it for all kinds of stuff.
But that's her pickle pickle pepper recipe.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
And there you go. There you go. It's Sommeyer and
print it off.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
She'll print it off and use it. Give it a try.
Just do a few pints or whatever you want to
do a few pints. Pints while you're doing the pints,
while you're doing the pile your cannon the pints, you
can do a few pints. Huh, Shashito peppers. We have
to do something. I can't believe other people grew shasheito
peppers this year. We've been talking about them. There was,
and they loved them.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
There was a I don't know if this was a sidebar.
I don't know if this was just baloney or if
this was true. Someone posted a What they did was
they grew a a one of those really hot peppers,
was a boot chacola or a scorpion reaper or whatever.
(12:02):
But instead of watering it with real water, they watered
it with colored water and it was a different color,
and they said it was because they used colored water. Now,
is that ballooney or is that.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
I mean you did that in science with the lettuce
and stuff like that. You could change the celery and
change the color by using colored water.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
So they had like one plant. I don't know about that.
They had one plant that was like purple. They had
another plant that was blue blue.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
Pepper was just the peppers changed colors.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
Yeah, you think that was AI photoshop? Maybe No, I
don't know about that one. Yeah. I was kind of skeptical. Yeah,
I was just kind of that doesn't make any sense.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
You can do that with like celery and stuff like that,
and they do it with some flowers like cornations. You
can get the change color. Yeah, but I don't know
about the pepper. I see the flower doing that. I
kind of thought it was a little baloney, But it
seems like the colorer would get leached out of there.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
But I don't know, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
I was just my first guest would be no, I
don't think that I'm going to default to the expert.
And when we contacted, yeah, yeah, find the expert where
we is out there somewhere, see.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
And the planet of the week this week is the
total lily.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
I love toad lilies.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
They're they're cool little lilies.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
They're cool plants, you know, and it looks like kind
of orchidy, kind of a I don't know. They're really cool.
There's flowers, but a little exotic too. Yeah, and you
just kind of quiet little plant perennial girt loves the shade,
kind of hangs in there. You want to plant it
close to the pathway or the edge of the bed
so you can see it when it does flower. But
it's a late summer, early fall boomer and just kind
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of an unrecognized perennial that's absolutely gorgeous. Those little flowers
are really cool. So check it out totally.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
All right. Well, that's it. That's it for me.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
You sure I'm out of here when you get home, Yes,
your mom's not looking. Yeah, take your shoes off. Walk
through the grass. Oh cool, grass feels pretty dark, all right.
Joe Strecker our executive producer. If you like what we
see on our website, Ron Wilson Online dot com, Facebook page.
In the Garden with Ron Wilson, Joe Strecker, you had
everything to do with it.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
I sure did.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
If there's something your question you don't like, don't think
it should be there, Joe Strecker, You had nothing.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
To do with that. Nothing.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
Who should we get in touch with doctor Z? Doctor Z? Now?
Where would he be in Washington, d C. Really doesn't
have a garden there, Number eighty three really and I've
seen him riding around Washington, DIZ. What he's got a vespa,
a vespa. Who's in the site.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
He's got a sidecar, a sidecar, and the side car
has got bowser.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
Bowser bow bow bows dog.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
Yeah. Who's on the back seat. It's sweetheart and soon
to be soon to be missus missus doctor is doctor Z.
Doctor is that?
Speaker 1 (14:50):
Doctor and missus is the way they introduce people, doctor
and missus, doctor and missus zuld be a production you
doctor and missus Z. Wow, love it? Thank you very much?
Speaker 2 (15:07):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
Eight week eight hundred eight two three eight two five
five Here in the Garden with Ron Wilson and the
Durango Kid. Welcome back here in the Garden with Ron
Wilson again that toll free number eight hundred eight two
three eight two five five. Joe and I kind of
rambled on there a little bit, so got about a
minute and a half to go before we go back
to the bottom of this break, I do want to
remind you our plant.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
Picture the week.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
Scroll back through and if you've not looked at them
in the you know, over time, scroll back through and
see some of the plants of the weeks from previous weeks.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
One of them that came up that somebody asked me about. Uh,
we had talked about a couple of weeks ago, and
I think it flies under the radar. And one of
the reasons being is when you see this plant in
your local nursery, your local independent garden center, you kind
of look at it and go it just kind of
looks like a wild honeysuckle kind of does kind of,
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but it has so many great aspects to it throughout
the season. It's great. It's called seven sunflower seven sun
so n flower. Seven sunflower hepticodium is the genus for this.
And then like I say, seven sunflower, it's a really
cool plant in the fact that it's a multi stemed
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it's a large shrub where you can live it up
into a smaller tree, multi stem tree exfoliating bark, which
is outstanding almost looks like a you know, it's it's
as much as like a river burst, but it's more flaky,
comes off in pieces. So you've got that for year
round characteristic.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
The leaf is.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
Okay, you know, no big deal in the fall all
of a sudden, And I'll tell you about this after
the break. It starts to go into flower late summer
and into the early fall, and it gets even better
after that. I'll tell you more about it because I
think it's one of those plants it just flies under
the radar, so I want to get more attention to it.
Eight hundred eight two three eight two five five. That's
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our number here in the with Ron Wilson.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
We're talking yardening.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
Eight hundred eight two three eight two five five. Good morning.
I am Ron Wilson, your personal yard boy. Before we
went into the break talking about our plant picks of
the week, and you know, we I always try to
find something a little bit unusual, something a little bit
different that you really enjoy in your yard. And sometimes
I have some of the basics, but the particular plan
I had a couple of weeks ago, we did buck
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eyes and you know, buck guys, there's some really nice
buckeyes on the on the market today. They don't get
the leaf scorch, don't get the leaf blotch that some
others do. And of course you get the buck eyes
at the end of the year, which are really cool.
Great for the as far as the native plant and all.
Speaker 3 (17:39):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
And we featured at last Saturday, well the Saturday before that,
I had picked up a plant. It's a woody plant
that's been around for a long time now. It's not
a native but and when you go to look at
it at the gardens there, like I was mentioning earlier,
you look at it and you kind of go, oh,
this is like an old honeysuckle and it is a
in the honeysuckle family, also related to viburnums and related
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to Forscythia. So it you know, the shrub during this
and I say shrub, it's a large growing shrub or
it can be limbed up into a small tree form
multi stemmed. But as as the plant's going through the
summer season, the growing season, you know, it comes out
in this kind of glossy, nice glossy leaves, fairly large.
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You know, it's okay, just a normal shrub, very you know, tough, durable,
woody plant that's you know, nice nice leaves on top.
But by late summer, and this started about from in
our area anyway, about ten days ago, it starts to flower,
and I'm talking a lot of flowers. I'm talking. I'm
talking all the ends of the branches flowers, and they
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are a white jasmine like flower, a little bit of fragrance.
You real sweet, get up and you listen to or
smell them. Listen to them here. You listen to them
if you want to, because if you got a real
close and listen to them, you gotta hear about every
pollinator that's all on the planet enjoying these white, beautiful flowers.
So during the growing season, just a good glossy green leaf.
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But once we get toward the late summer and that
starts the flower with those white flowers throughout the entire plant,
jasmine like slightly fragrant flowers. The pollinators, it's a magnet
and they love it, all of them, bees, butterflies, all
the pollinators they love this thing. A great source of nectar.
And what's interesting is the flowers last for several weeks,
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so this isn't something that just flowers for ten days.
And it's done. It flowers for two or three weeks easily,
maybe even a little bit longer depending on the weather.
And you know, you for a late season bloomer to
help out the pollinators. This plant is outstanding for a
woody plant, you know, for a woody shrub or small tree.
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But it's called hepticodium. You might not find it everywhere.
Seven sunflower is the common name, and that's s NS
an s O end flower. But it's out there, and
I think Monroe and a couple of the name brand
nurseries are growing some nice, little bit nicer selections than
just the straight species. But it's it's there. But again,
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don't let that fool you. When you see this thing
come into flower, it is outstanding. But here's the kicker,
but white. There's more after it's done with the white flowers.
All right, those white flowers, all of a sudden, everything
starts to turn red, and they have the bracts that
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were there forming those flowers now all turned from a
white all of a sudden into a good, solid, deep red.
And that lasts again. Once it does that, Once they
develop that, which is another great display, it lasts for
another two or three weeks, so you get like five
weeks of spectacular fall color flower color out of the
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hepticodium or seven sunflower. So it goes from this really
nice white all the pollinators to those clumps turning a
really nice, solid, deep red which really stands out.
Speaker 2 (21:14):
In the fall.
Speaker 1 (21:14):
There's really no fall color to the leaves, kind of
a yellow fade out to a brown, so not much
color there. But I'm telling you that's six five six
weeks of what it gives you in late summer and
early fall is absolutely gorgeous, and the pollinators will love
you for it, all right. And by the way, I
didn't mention I did earlier. I didn't mention this in
a segment, the fact that it has exfoliating bark, so
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as it gets older, that exfoliating bark is very nice
and you get the two tone color, so you get
good winter characteristics out of this plant as well. Again,
one of those plants that flies under the radar. It's
like I say, a couple of the name brand nurseries
that supply a lot of garden centers are now growing
a couple a cult of this which are outstanding. There.
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It' stay a little bit more compact, a little bit
nicer looking plant. But again it's worth it to do this,
and I would suggest you grow it as a multi stemmed,
limbed up small tree. They can get fifteen twenty feet
tall and fifteen feet wide with no problem, So use
it as a small tree. That's the way I would
look at It'll be a shrub when you first buy it.
Thing goes up. But again, it's one of those plants
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that flies on the radar. And as much as we're
trying to push late flowering plants for all those pollinators,
that is one you need to take a look at,
so keep that in mind.
Speaker 2 (22:33):
Please.
Speaker 1 (22:34):
It's called hepticodium or seven sunflower, and again you can
find all of those on our website at Ron Wilson
online dot com, So be sure and check that out.
And by the way, fall is here, there's no doubt
about it. We're having great weather so far. It looks
like good weather. Maybe a little bit warmer next week,
but still great weather. What we're not having right now
is a lot of rainfall. It's been very sporadic. A
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little bit here, a little bit there. You know, we
had a pretty good shower in our area a couple
day days ago, but not everywhere. So again, you've got
to be watching that rain.
Speaker 2 (23:04):
Gage.
Speaker 1 (23:05):
Fall is a great time for planting. I cannot stress
how much of a great time for planting fall can be,
but it can also be in some areas a little
bit drier. Used to seem like we got some fall rain,
you know, it seemed like we got timely rainfalls. But
as we cooled in the past, seems to be staying
a little bit drier. But it's worth the watering and
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planting in the fall for the benefits of planting in
the fall. All right, that's just the bottom line. And
I can't encourage you enough. And it's so encouraging right
now to see garden centers their busiest. Heck, early on,
folks are out planting tree shrubs, replacing boxwood. We'll talk
about that in a minute after the break, but out
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in planting and getting ready. And we're even seeing them
mumps and things like that starting to go out. So
folks are switching out those planters and now looking at
the mumps. And by the way, when you're buying mums,
garden mums, most of the time they're labeled garden mumps.
Now there are some selections out there, some species that
seem to be a little bit heartier than others, come
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back for you a lot of times. Some nurseries will
grow them just for the color, not for the heartiness.
Check with your nursery they'll tell you for sure. But
either way, they're typically sold as a garden mum, not
as a hardy mum. And if you want to get
them to come back, the earlier you plant them, the
better off you are. Some folks will take them up over,
win them in the garage, your shed. Plant them in
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the springtime. Now they've got time to root in all summer,
and typically they come back after that, assuming they're hardy
for your particular zone. But when you're buying mums, unless
you're having a party or something that weekend or the
following weekend, buy your mum so that the buds are tight,
so they're green, or just cracking some color if you
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want them to last well into and through October, all right,
so just cracking color or green that's what you're looking
for for later color. Decorate around them with other things
like pansies, cold hardy annuals that your garden center's gonna
have that type of thing. But ornamental grasses, you know,
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there's somebody, millet, all kinds of things that you can
put in there to help out until it starts to
give you good color. But again get them, get them
tight or just cracking color to make sure they'll last
for you right on through the month of October. So
make sure you do that. And also while you're buying those,
I'm telling you, I'm telling you the most underused fall
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annual and it's a biennial actually, and they can be cold,
harty depending on where you are. Sometimes they'll make it
through the winter and flour in the springtime they kind
of mush out. Or the ornamental cabbages and kales, I'm
telling you you're missing out on that one. And the
thing of it is, it's just like this hepticodium. You
go look at them right now, and not much color.
You're green. It look like something out of the vegetable garden.
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And I'll throw out there a big red or giant
red mustard green as well. They look like it just
came out of the vegetable garden because it's ornamental cabbage
and kale. But look at the center of those plants.
As it gets colder, they become more colorful. So when
everything's all done, so the end of October first and November,
when the moms are done and everything else is starting
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to kind of poop out at that point and weather
starting to cool down. Guess what's getting better. They get
ornamental cabbage and kale, and by Christmas they're outstanding. And
last year was just mild enough. Ours made it into there.
We had a good heavy snowfall covered them over and
as the snow started to melt, that bright pink and
lavender I don't know if it was one of the
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cabbages or kales stuck up through the snow. Was absolutely spectacular.
But they're way underused. I'm telling you. They give you
color right until the end of the season or the
end of the year, into the holiday season, and sometimes
even longer. Ornamental cabbage and kale. Check them out. You
will absolutely love them. Before we go to the break, Dick.
Speaker 2 (26:57):
From Dayton, good morning, Good morning, how are you.
Speaker 3 (27:01):
I'm beautiful week, wasn't it? Well?
Speaker 1 (27:03):
Another beautiful week? That's like three in a row.
Speaker 3 (27:06):
Three in a row.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
We'll take them. Yeah, I didn't see the score last night.
What'd your reds do?
Speaker 3 (27:13):
Oh? I heard this morning the bases were loaded up,
Leah said, and they they didn't score. They lost five
to four.
Speaker 1 (27:22):
Uh, oh, you don't.
Speaker 3 (27:26):
I don't know. I don't think this week will tell
the tale if they get the wild card.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
Oh yeah, yep, no doubt.
Speaker 3 (27:32):
This important week. It's it's disappointing, But tomorrow, I think
it's going to be a shootout. Tomorrow Joe Burrell's coming back,
you know, yep in that offense.
Speaker 1 (27:42):
Now, you and your with your family being from the
Cleveland area, you guys kind of have a little competition there.
Speaker 2 (27:48):
I know you lean toward the Bengals.
Speaker 3 (27:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (27:52):
So are they all Browns fans?
Speaker 3 (27:55):
Oh yeah, so.
Speaker 1 (27:56):
So you guys have a nice rivalry going on.
Speaker 3 (28:00):
Big. She always liked the Indians and Guardians.
Speaker 1 (28:02):
You know.
Speaker 3 (28:03):
Yeah, listen, I told you home fell Carla, right, Carla right, Yeah,
I hear from here quite a bit. She been playing
a lot of stuff, and boy, she said, the weather
is pretty and up by the lake there. You said
you took a trip.
Speaker 2 (28:17):
We did.
Speaker 3 (28:17):
It's beautiful up there, isn't it?
Speaker 2 (28:19):
Yes? It is.
Speaker 1 (28:19):
As a matter of fact, we wound up in Homestead
Falls quite have had her number, I would have called her.
Speaker 3 (28:26):
Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, but yeah, I'm uh, we have
a lot going on. There's a car show tomorrow and
then they're going to have people played music tomorrow, hopefully.
I usually go to Bible study, so I don't know.
I got to decide because Heather said she wanted me
to maybe go down there and play. They're going to
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have all the old fifty seven cars and stuff here
at my little apartment here.
Speaker 2 (28:52):
Good. Good for you.
Speaker 1 (28:53):
Will remind Heather that you want that community container garden
put in so you all can.
Speaker 2 (28:58):
Do some gardening.
Speaker 3 (29:00):
Oh yeah, yeah, all right.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
Dick, good talking to you as always. Yeah, all right,
all right, take care, bye bye, quick break, we come back.
Phone lines you're open for you. Eight hundred eight two
three eight two five five. Coming up top of the hour,
Rita Hike and fell we'll go with her out into
the garden. Bottom of the hour, Peggy and Montgomery. We're
gonna talk spring or are they fall bulbs? We'll find
out here in the garden with Ron Wilson. Eight hundred
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eight two three eight two five five.
Speaker 2 (29:27):
Good morning.
Speaker 1 (29:28):
I am Ron Wilson, your personal yard boy, talking about
yarding as we get into one of the best times
of the year when it comes to gardening, and it
really is. I mean just so cooler for you and
me for the plants. Uh, transplanting time, planting time. More
roots are developed in the fall than any other time
the rest of the year. Yes, there are a few
exceptions as far as planting in the fall, the later
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we get obviously, and then you know, once we start
getting out into October, I start backing off on plants,
any plants that are in really small containers because a
lot of time they don't have time to get rooted
in well to prevent them from heaving out of the
ground with freezing and thawing. So sometimes we'll back off
on that groundcover later in the fall. Sometimes we'll back
off on that, you know, so because it's just rooting
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at the surface and probably not a good thing going
into the winter. But for the most part, fall, you know,
you're you've got a lot, a lot of things to
be planted there. And I think one of the things
we do forget about is the fact that if we're
planting in the fall tree shrubs, evergreens, perennials, roses, grasses,
whatever it may be, that also for the most part
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means that can be a great time for transplanting as well.
And we have a tency to forget about that perennials.
That perennial garden is always on the move, right if
you know that clump that was only you thought was
going to stay twenty four inches in diameter now is
four feet in diameter taking over the whole garden. So
you have to dig that up and kind of, you know,
keep it controlled. So you've got these other perennials, which
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is a great thing to either add to the rest
of your landscape somewhere else in your landscape, or pot
them up and give them away to neighbors and friends,
donate them to gardens, whatever it may be. But perennials
are a great thing to share. And so this time
of the year September early October absolutely wonderful time for
doing any of the pretty much any of the perennials
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that are spring bloomers up to midsummer bloomers now late
summer and fall bloomers. Know you wouldn't dig and divide
those this time of the year, but all the rest spring,
early and midsummer bloomers for the most part, you can.
And I think the thing to look at too is
if it's dry in your area. You know, sometimes we
deal with that. In the fall water those plants, and
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this is true for the woody plants as well, the
trees and shrubs. In that water them about three or
four days in advance, so you get some good moisture,
not only in the soil. And we don't want the
muddy when we go to dig. We just want good
moisture in the soil. But most importantly we hydrate those plants,
so the roots and the plant foliage and the stems
all have good moisture in them when we go to
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dig and die and again, you know iris, I actually
could have done that back in August, even late July.
You can dig and divide iris. But you can still
do it now. I'd get on it as soon as possible. Again,
very close to the root, to the surface of the soil.
So you want to get those rooted in as quickly
as you can, so I'd get on those soon. But
this is a great time for digging and planting pa andies.
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You know, I've had those p andies, large clump that
maybe you're maybe your grandmother gave it to you're inherited
from somebody, and you want to share with the rest
of the family or put it somewhere else in the
you know, this is a great time to dig up
pa andies, bring up the whole clump and divide them
up and replant them.
Speaker 2 (32:39):
And if you're going to do that, especially with the.
Speaker 1 (32:40):
Perenni of the pae andies, go on the internet or
email me and I'll find you the good link that
that I know is reputable to show you how to
dig and divide those how many you know, looking for
the eyes that are in those, and then how to
how to replant, which is very very important because if
you wind up planning them deep, they don't flower. They'll
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grow for you, but they just don't flower. But again,
it's that time of the year to be doing that
type of thing. And if you have some perennials that
you know are looking really rough, daylo has always come
to my mind this time of the year. They can
be dug and divided, or if they're just looking rough,
but everything you want to keep it in the ground,
feel free to cut all that dead foliage off. They'll
flush up some new foliage. You know yet this fall
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and look kind of nice. Get about six inches tall,
give me some nice green. And then as we start
to get cold, and then towards the holiday season, then
they kind of die back a little bit and you're
good to go, and then they'll come right back up
for you in the springtime. But again, we talk about
fall being such a great time for planting, and it is,
but it's also a great time for transplanting. When you've
got those plants that are in the wrong spot, perennials,
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you need to divide, whatever it may be, this is
the time to do it. As a matter of fact,
if you're looking out there next to the sidewalk next
to the house, next to the driveway, and you've got
a shrub or a small tree that's been there and
it hangs over and you're always cutting it back and
it gets too big for the spot, Why why give
yourself all of that hassle and have to be doing
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this with this plant all the time. As far as
cutting it back, why don't you just dig it, move it,
put it somewhere else that it can grow and do
its thing naturally.
Speaker 2 (34:18):
You know.
Speaker 1 (34:18):
And if you have to do a little pruning, fine,
but move it, get it out of there, and come
back and replant. Great time to plant something that will
stay more contained and fit that particular situation. Again, a
great time for doing something like that as well. I
always get the calls about the other thing is just overgrown,
overhanging the sidewalk, We planted it too close, blah blah blah.
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If you can get in there and dig it and
take it out, why not just move it, put it
somewhere else in the landscape, Let it do its thing,
and put something else here. The stays is a little
bit smaller, so you know, keep that in mind as well.
But I'll tell you it is it's a great time
to plant. Get out there, take care of that. And
by the way, as we are planting, all right, especially
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tree these larger evergreens in that remember those are targets.
They are targets for a buck slash male deer. They
love to rub on those and mark their territory, all right.
So when you're done planting trees, especially that are four
inch caliper trunk diameter and smaller, don't take your hand
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off of those. If you have deer within fifty miles
of your house, until you put a tree trunk protector
around that. That has to be part of the planting process.
As you're planting trees, and by all means when you
stand back and you're all said and done and you're
looking at that tree trunk protector, make sure you can
show me.
Speaker 2 (35:38):
That root flare.
Speaker 1 (35:40):
Gotta have that root flare at the top of the ground,
very important for the success of that tree.
Speaker 2 (35:45):
Long term quick break, we come back, read a hike
and Feld. We'll join her in the garden find out
what's going on there.
Speaker 1 (35:51):
Plus we'll talk about our recipe of the week news
pickled peppers.
Speaker 2 (35:54):
That's my mom.
Speaker 1 (35:55):
And at the bottom of the ur Peggy Montgomery talking
about bulbs here in the garden with Ron Will
Eight one hundred and eight two three, eight, two five five.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
Good morning.
Speaker 1 (00:02):
I am Ron Wilson, your personal yard boy. We are
talking about yard in this month of September. It has
been beautiful weather, it has been. I don't think you
could ask for anything better. As a matter of fact,
you know, I when it comes to executive producers, I
don't think you could ask for anyone better.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Oh, you're serious.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
When it comes to producers of the show talking about Danny,
can't ask for anybody better.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Yep.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
So there you go, There you go. So both of you.
I throw you both into that category, both under them.
I'm honored and privileged. How's it going. It's great.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
It was a great week weather, wasn't it.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
It's Cimer Joe Strecker or a cup of Joe our
executive producer. Find out what's going on in our website
of Ron Wilson on nine dot com facial page in
the garden with Ron Wilson'm not gonna ask you what's
going on your lawn of garden. You don't have to
because I don't have to. We know, you know, how
long have I.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
Been saying that we're getting into the bur months. It's
got to be since we've been doing this.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
Oh, without wearing shoes.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
Yeah, and it's like, you know, that threw me Offtmber November.
First time you told me, I was like, what I said?
You know, my mom used to always call it the
bur months, Right, you don't wear shoes. I I must
have seen at least four or five other people weather
people use that term this week. Hm. Where are they
(01:29):
getting this? You know where they go? Where they're getting it?
Right here? Yeah, they're stealing my stuff and not giving
any credit. There's no doubt. Well, I steal my mom's stuff.
I'm not giving her any.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
Couple of things we've said on this show over the years,
it made mainstream, but I just kind of sayings and
things like that.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
I just thought that was kind of interesting. I was like, Oh,
they're using the bur months. Yep, we're we just started
the Burmans anymore.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
That's that's everybody steals everything, but we are dealer and
claiming for thine own. Yep, we are on the burn months.
And uh it's beautiful.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
I mean as much as I love the hot weather,
I loved this weather probably second.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
Oh my gosh, it's been great. And you know what,
I purposely went outside the other day it was cool
in the morning without any shoes on. Yeah, don't tell
your mom please. Yeah, did you get sick? I didn't
get sick, But that cold grass felt so good walking
through that nice.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
It's a good feeling. There you go cool.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
Matter of fact, I read an article, so I don't
know if we brought this up two or three months
ago about it was called go stand in the grass.
How walking barefoot and grass can be so relaxing if
you just chills like forest bathing. But just go walk
in the grass and walk through the grass with your
with no shoes on, and just get that feeling.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
Well, I'm not going to do that in my yard
because I got four dogs.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
Uh yeah, your yard or cow field, horse field, now
you want to do that? Of course if you step
in a pile of horse mane or that's good luck
for horse people. Accidentally, no purpose, wives tale, that's I
guess if you want to call it that.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
Never heard of that, bere just an old myth. I've
never heard of that before. You stepping a horse, Yeah,
it's good luck, Okay, look for it. It has to
be accident. There's to be an accident. That can't be
you can't just see it over there and then step
on it. Okay, Yes, they have the burmus Greenville, Indian Greensburg,
(03:32):
Greensburg sold me it's Greensburg. Let's uh yeah, from the
that's from the food house with the tree in it. Yes,
it is, I know, on the top of us, not
on top of it. Okay, sure, growing out the roof.
So yeah, w root beer it was up the street.
(03:53):
Still there, anything else still serving frosty root beers? Anybody else?
You want to your boys? Did they have a you
have a ponykeg there?
Speaker 1 (04:02):
I'm sure they have. I'm sure they do. So they
put the bypass in. That's just ruds every time. It's
a small town anyway. Yeah, it's a great weather, yes,
and you know it's going to be a beautiful, beautiful
we we had some rainfall this week. It was scattered. Yeah,
it was light in some areas a little bit a little.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
Bit last night and are not not really in my
area was more east of the city.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
But because he was cat this morning of having some
showers here and there clearing out. But we need the rainfall.
It is dry out there. We'll take more rain if
you can. Uh, But yeah, I think that helped out,
you know, get a little bit of moisture back in
the top of the ground. So but yeah, that's temperatures
are right. People are out planting, I'll tell you what.
Been checking around and the gardensaurs are selling.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
And it's every year we talk about things getting early
and earlier all the time. Yeah, before we bring in
orange we call them orange ores, not pumpkins, but before
we bring in pumpkins and go words and all that.
I always used to watch the other like Kroger and
produce places when they start bringing those in because you
don't want to get them in too early. You know,
they're they're really soft when they're early. Got to wait
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a little bit. So it's usually about the second or
third week of September we start bringing that in. Now
if you look around first weekend in September, there you go,
they're packed. Everybody's got them in early. And the produce
suppliers here, like Freeze Brothers said, they are just jammed
and they're never like that this this first ten days
or so. Every year, things get earlier and earlier all
(05:31):
the time. His fall decorating thing is just crazy. That
is very true.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
And I'm seeing it.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
And again you and I get on this thing about
the inflatables and stuff. How many people in your neighborhood
are already decorating for Halloween.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
I haven't seen many Halloween things, but it's it's somewhere
in our in our area, the neighborhoods. We were out
last night and they are everywhere. Why would you be
setting this stuff up? I'm not going to runt two
months two months before, two months before Halloween. Well, I
haven't seen many in my in my area, but the
stores are selling it.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
Oh like crazy. Yeah, it's just it's second to Christmas
now when it comes to decoration.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
Yeah. Yeah. And and I'm I'm gonna I'm gonna admit.
I mean I I have been looking at Halloween decorations too.
I mean I haven't said anything. It's cool now, I
haven't set anything up yet, But.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
But when would you normally do that? A couple of
weeks before alloway? Maybe there was a guy last night
that was putting. Probably the week that Ohio State is
on a by You go twenty five tombstones in this
front yard already. Now the grass is still growing. You
got to keep mowing. Yeah, you're gonna be mowing for
two more months. Yeah, I forget that he's gonna weed
whipper around all that stuff.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
I mean, I don't.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
I don't get it. I mean, And there's those huge
skeletons that are seventy five feet tall you to buy
for three hundred dollars or whatever.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
Yeah, they're everywhere. Yeah there, Yeah, there's a Yeah, there's
one of the not in my neighborhood, but in the township.
It's over on one of those main drags. They got
three of them and they and they and they keep
them up all year.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
Well yeah, and that's that's the other thing. It's really stinks, but.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
They'll keep them up all year and they'll redecorate them
for every holiday.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
Chris, And it's like, why would you put a wreath
and stuff on this skeleton? For?
Speaker 2 (07:15):
To me, that's just well right now they're dressed like
Joe Burrow. So great. So but yeah, I'm with you there,
I don't get it. I'm with you there.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
These times they are change.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
These times they are becoming quite different. Man.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
So who are the guests today? Guess do you have
any guests? Yes, we do, we have Rita hiking felt.
You're gonna go out in the garden and talk with
Rita and her recipe today. What you're gonna tell everybody
what it is. We're going to talk about that and
the history behind that. And then after hers Peggy and Montgomery.
We love having Peggy because it's that time of the
year to start thinking about planting those fall bulbs. Are
(07:53):
they fall bulbs or spring bulbs? Well, we're gonna talk
up with Peggy in about that as well. You Yep,
Gary Sullivan, Buggy Joe Bob. By the way, it's Carrie's birthday, Gary,
happy birthday. That's right. He's the old man is eighty
five now now much older than gets. He just gets
much older than us all the time.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
And Danny Leeson, So there you go. Cool. Website is
Ron Wilson online dot com along with the Facebook page
why do you ask me? I do you forget in
the garden with Ron Wilson?
Speaker 2 (08:20):
And uh, you know, last week's graphic got so much
feedback that I put a new one up today, so
check that one out.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
How did he get brutus to be in the garden
because he knows you what happened? Because he knows you
that he knows you. The only way you're the one
that took care of it. It's the only way. It's
your influences. Well, that's it's the Joe Strecker influence. Well,
you know, I mean I did help Whens that you
bring on some of these shows that you produce. Hey,
(08:49):
I did help them win the Nactat you reach out,
you bring in the big ones.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
Helped the Ryan Day win the Natty. So he can
the only one.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
Oh, absolutely, absolutely, Tony Snow I still that's still that
was the.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
Best one guy. But what was I gonna say? Oh?
Uh uh you know, uh the play that that the
play that won the game for Ohio State when they
played Texas the first time in the in the tournament,
when Sawyer sacked yours and brought it back. It's my play.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
That's you call that basically, Yeah, you can.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
I've been calling plays for four years. There you are.
I've been We've been saying it for how many years?
I know, same as the Burns and uh let's see
so uh so the the chat room's rocket and rolling
as usual and the uh there's a couple of posts
(09:50):
from Buggy Joe this week. Uh kind of brought back
the bagworm one from last week. And kind of put
reput put that back up because that's kind of important.
There's a yellow jacket one and the yell. The yellow
jackets are pretty nasty. Yes See. A couple of weeks
ago when I went camping, there was bees and yellow
(10:10):
jackets and all them nastiness all over the place. So yeah,
it's they're all over the place. They like those alcohol.
There's adult beverages you were drinking. Yeah, there's that was happening. Yeah,
but I think it was more along a lot of
the other stuff too. Okay, So uh, the Rita's recipe
of the week, Well, yeah, not Rita's recipe. It's the
(10:34):
Nell's hot pickled pepper recipe.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
Yes, and it doesn't have to be hot pep pickles.
It's just pickle pep pickle pepper recipe. But yes, it's
my mom's yep. Nel Wilson, yep, yep. Do this every
year around this time, and like the cherry Bounce recipe,
we get a bazillion request for this recipe. It's so
simple and so easy even if you do it, Joe
Strecker could pickle peppers using my mom's recipe.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
Yep.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
It's that easy. And everybody that used it will come
back and say, gosh, gosh, that was so easy. It
was so easy, and they are fantastic.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
Yep.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
You can use it for green tomatoes, you can use
it for you can use it for all kinds of stuff.
But that's her pickle pickle pepper recipe.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
And there you go. There you go. It's Sommeyer and
print it off.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
She'll print it off and use it. Give it a try.
Just do a few pints or whatever you want to
do a few pints. Pints while you're doing the pints,
while you're doing the pile your cannon the pints, you
can do a few pints. Huh, Shashito peppers. We have
to do something. I can't believe other people grew shasheito
peppers this year. We've been talking about them. There was,
and they loved them.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
There was a I don't know if this was a sidebar.
I don't know if this was just baloney or if
this was true. Someone posted a What they did was
they grew a a one of those really hot peppers,
was a boot chacola or a scorpion reaper or whatever.
(12:02):
But instead of watering it with real water, they watered
it with colored water and it was a different color,
and they said it was because they used colored water. Now,
is that ballooney or is that.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
I mean you did that in science with the lettuce
and stuff like that. You could change the celery and
change the color by using colored water.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
So they had like one plant. I don't know about that.
They had one plant that was like purple. They had
another plant that was blue blue.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
Pepper was just the peppers changed colors.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
Yeah, you think that was AI photoshop? Maybe No, I
don't know about that one. Yeah. I was kind of skeptical. Yeah,
I was just kind of that doesn't make any sense.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
You can do that with like celery and stuff like that,
and they do it with some flowers like cornations. You
can get the change color. Yeah, but I don't know
about the pepper. I see the flower doing that. I
kind of thought it was a little baloney, But it
seems like the colorer would get leached out of there.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
But I don't know, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
I was just my first guest would be no, I
don't think that I'm going to default to the expert.
And when we contacted, yeah, yeah, find the expert where
we is out there somewhere, see.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
And the planet of the week this week is the
total lily.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
I love toad lilies.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
They're they're cool little lilies.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
They're cool plants, you know, and it looks like kind
of orchidy, kind of a I don't know. They're really cool.
There's flowers, but a little exotic too. Yeah, and you
just kind of quiet little plant perennial girt loves the shade,
kind of hangs in there. You want to plant it
close to the pathway or the edge of the bed
so you can see it when it does flower. But
it's a late summer, early fall boomer and just kind
(13:45):
of an unrecognized perennial that's absolutely gorgeous. Those little flowers
are really cool. So check it out totally.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
All right. Well, that's it. That's it for me.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
You sure I'm out of here when you get home, Yes,
your mom's not looking. Yeah, take your shoes off. Walk
through the grass. Oh cool, grass feels pretty dark, all right.
Joe Strecker our executive producer. If you like what we
see on our website, Ron Wilson Online dot com, Facebook page.
In the Garden with Ron Wilson, Joe Strecker, you had
everything to do with it.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
I sure did.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
If there's something your question you don't like, don't think
it should be there, Joe Strecker, You had nothing.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
To do with that. Nothing.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
Who should we get in touch with doctor Z? Doctor Z? Now?
Where would he be in Washington, d C. Really doesn't
have a garden there, Number eighty three really and I've
seen him riding around Washington, DIZ. What he's got a vespa,
a vespa. Who's in the site.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
He's got a sidecar, a sidecar, and the side car
has got bowser.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
Bowser bow bow bows dog.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
Yeah. Who's on the back seat. It's sweetheart and soon
to be soon to be missus missus doctor is doctor Z.
Doctor is that?
Speaker 1 (14:50):
Doctor and missus is the way they introduce people, doctor
and missus, doctor and missus zuld be a production you
doctor and missus Z. Wow, love it? Thank you very much?
Speaker 2 (15:07):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
Eight week eight hundred eight two three eight two five
five Here in the Garden with Ron Wilson and the
Durango Kid. Welcome back here in the Garden with Ron
Wilson again that toll free number eight hundred eight two
three eight two five five. Joe and I kind of
rambled on there a little bit, so got about a
minute and a half to go before we go back
to the bottom of this break, I do want to
remind you our plant.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
Picture the week.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
Scroll back through and if you've not looked at them
in the you know, over time, scroll back through and
see some of the plants of the weeks from previous weeks.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
One of them that came up that somebody asked me about. Uh,
we had talked about a couple of weeks ago, and
I think it flies under the radar. And one of
the reasons being is when you see this plant in
your local nursery, your local independent garden center, you kind
of look at it and go it just kind of
looks like a wild honeysuckle kind of does kind of,
(16:00):
but it has so many great aspects to it throughout
the season. It's great. It's called seven sunflower seven sun
so n flower. Seven sunflower hepticodium is the genus for this.
And then like I say, seven sunflower, it's a really
cool plant in the fact that it's a multi stemed
(16:21):
it's a large shrub where you can live it up
into a smaller tree, multi stem tree exfoliating bark, which
is outstanding almost looks like a you know, it's it's
as much as like a river burst, but it's more flaky,
comes off in pieces. So you've got that for year
round characteristic.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
The leaf is.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
Okay, you know, no big deal in the fall all
of a sudden, And I'll tell you about this after
the break. It starts to go into flower late summer
and into the early fall, and it gets even better
after that. I'll tell you more about it because I
think it's one of those plants it just flies under
the radar, so I want to get more attention to it.
Eight hundred eight two three eight two five five. That's
(16:58):
our number here in the with Ron Wilson.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
We're talking yardening.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
Eight hundred eight two three eight two five five. Good morning.
I am Ron Wilson, your personal yard boy. Before we
went into the break talking about our plant picks of
the week, and you know, we I always try to
find something a little bit unusual, something a little bit
different that you really enjoy in your yard. And sometimes
I have some of the basics, but the particular plan
I had a couple of weeks ago, we did buck
(17:23):
eyes and you know, buck guys, there's some really nice
buckeyes on the on the market today. They don't get
the leaf scorch, don't get the leaf blotch that some
others do. And of course you get the buck eyes
at the end of the year, which are really cool.
Great for the as far as the native plant and all.
Speaker 3 (17:39):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
And we featured at last Saturday, well the Saturday before that,
I had picked up a plant. It's a woody plant
that's been around for a long time now. It's not
a native but and when you go to look at
it at the gardens there, like I was mentioning earlier,
you look at it and you kind of go, oh,
this is like an old honeysuckle and it is a
in the honeysuckle family, also related to viburnums and related
(18:02):
to Forscythia. So it you know, the shrub during this
and I say shrub, it's a large growing shrub or
it can be limbed up into a small tree form
multi stemmed. But as as the plant's going through the
summer season, the growing season, you know, it comes out
in this kind of glossy, nice glossy leaves, fairly large.
(18:23):
You know, it's okay, just a normal shrub, very you know, tough, durable,
woody plant that's you know, nice nice leaves on top.
But by late summer, and this started about from in
our area anyway, about ten days ago, it starts to flower,
and I'm talking a lot of flowers. I'm talking. I'm
talking all the ends of the branches flowers, and they
(18:44):
are a white jasmine like flower, a little bit of fragrance.
You real sweet, get up and you listen to or
smell them. Listen to them here. You listen to them
if you want to, because if you got a real
close and listen to them, you gotta hear about every
pollinator that's all on the planet enjoying these white, beautiful flowers.
So during the growing season, just a good glossy green leaf.
(19:08):
But once we get toward the late summer and that
starts the flower with those white flowers throughout the entire plant,
jasmine like slightly fragrant flowers. The pollinators, it's a magnet
and they love it, all of them, bees, butterflies, all
the pollinators they love this thing. A great source of nectar.
And what's interesting is the flowers last for several weeks,
(19:32):
so this isn't something that just flowers for ten days.
And it's done. It flowers for two or three weeks easily,
maybe even a little bit longer depending on the weather.
And you know, you for a late season bloomer to
help out the pollinators. This plant is outstanding for a
woody plant, you know, for a woody shrub or small tree.
(19:52):
But it's called hepticodium. You might not find it everywhere.
Seven sunflower is the common name, and that's s NS
an s O end flower. But it's out there, and
I think Monroe and a couple of the name brand
nurseries are growing some nice, little bit nicer selections than
just the straight species. But it's it's there. But again,
(20:15):
don't let that fool you. When you see this thing
come into flower, it is outstanding. But here's the kicker,
but white. There's more after it's done with the white flowers.
All right, those white flowers, all of a sudden, everything
starts to turn red, and they have the bracts that
(20:37):
were there forming those flowers now all turned from a
white all of a sudden into a good, solid, deep red.
And that lasts again. Once it does that, Once they
develop that, which is another great display, it lasts for
another two or three weeks, so you get like five
weeks of spectacular fall color flower color out of the
(21:02):
hepticodium or seven sunflower. So it goes from this really
nice white all the pollinators to those clumps turning a
really nice, solid, deep red which really stands out.
Speaker 2 (21:14):
In the fall.
Speaker 1 (21:14):
There's really no fall color to the leaves, kind of
a yellow fade out to a brown, so not much
color there. But I'm telling you that's six five six
weeks of what it gives you in late summer and
early fall is absolutely gorgeous, and the pollinators will love
you for it, all right. And by the way, I
didn't mention I did earlier. I didn't mention this in
a segment, the fact that it has exfoliating bark, so
(21:38):
as it gets older, that exfoliating bark is very nice
and you get the two tone color, so you get
good winter characteristics out of this plant as well. Again,
one of those plants that flies under the radar. It's
like I say, a couple of the name brand nurseries
that supply a lot of garden centers are now growing
a couple a cult of this which are outstanding. There.
(22:02):
It' stay a little bit more compact, a little bit
nicer looking plant. But again it's worth it to do this,
and I would suggest you grow it as a multi stemmed,
limbed up small tree. They can get fifteen twenty feet
tall and fifteen feet wide with no problem, So use
it as a small tree. That's the way I would
look at It'll be a shrub when you first buy it.
Thing goes up. But again, it's one of those plants
(22:23):
that flies on the radar. And as much as we're
trying to push late flowering plants for all those pollinators,
that is one you need to take a look at,
so keep that in mind.
Speaker 2 (22:33):
Please.
Speaker 1 (22:34):
It's called hepticodium or seven sunflower, and again you can
find all of those on our website at Ron Wilson
online dot com, So be sure and check that out.
And by the way, fall is here, there's no doubt
about it. We're having great weather so far. It looks
like good weather. Maybe a little bit warmer next week,
but still great weather. What we're not having right now
is a lot of rainfall. It's been very sporadic. A
(22:56):
little bit here, a little bit there. You know, we
had a pretty good shower in our area a couple
day days ago, but not everywhere. So again, you've got
to be watching that rain.
Speaker 2 (23:04):
Gage.
Speaker 1 (23:05):
Fall is a great time for planting. I cannot stress
how much of a great time for planting fall can be,
but it can also be in some areas a little
bit drier. Used to seem like we got some fall rain,
you know, it seemed like we got timely rainfalls. But
as we cooled in the past, seems to be staying
a little bit drier. But it's worth the watering and
(23:28):
planting in the fall for the benefits of planting in
the fall. All right, that's just the bottom line. And
I can't encourage you enough. And it's so encouraging right
now to see garden centers their busiest. Heck, early on,
folks are out planting tree shrubs, replacing boxwood. We'll talk
about that in a minute after the break, but out
(23:48):
in planting and getting ready. And we're even seeing them
mumps and things like that starting to go out. So
folks are switching out those planters and now looking at
the mumps. And by the way, when you're buying mums,
garden mums, most of the time they're labeled garden mumps.
Now there are some selections out there, some species that
seem to be a little bit heartier than others, come
(24:09):
back for you a lot of times. Some nurseries will
grow them just for the color, not for the heartiness.
Check with your nursery they'll tell you for sure. But
either way, they're typically sold as a garden mum, not
as a hardy mum. And if you want to get
them to come back, the earlier you plant them, the
better off you are. Some folks will take them up over,
win them in the garage, your shed. Plant them in
(24:29):
the springtime. Now they've got time to root in all summer,
and typically they come back after that, assuming they're hardy
for your particular zone. But when you're buying mums, unless
you're having a party or something that weekend or the
following weekend, buy your mum so that the buds are tight,
so they're green, or just cracking some color if you
(24:51):
want them to last well into and through October, all right,
so just cracking color or green that's what you're looking
for for later color. Decorate around them with other things
like pansies, cold hardy annuals that your garden center's gonna
have that type of thing. But ornamental grasses, you know,
(25:12):
there's somebody, millet, all kinds of things that you can
put in there to help out until it starts to
give you good color. But again get them, get them
tight or just cracking color to make sure they'll last
for you right on through the month of October. So
make sure you do that. And also while you're buying those,
I'm telling you, I'm telling you the most underused fall
(25:34):
annual and it's a biennial actually, and they can be cold,
harty depending on where you are. Sometimes they'll make it
through the winter and flour in the springtime they kind
of mush out. Or the ornamental cabbages and kales, I'm
telling you you're missing out on that one. And the
thing of it is, it's just like this hepticodium. You
go look at them right now, and not much color.
You're green. It look like something out of the vegetable garden.
(25:56):
And I'll throw out there a big red or giant
red mustard green as well. They look like it just
came out of the vegetable garden because it's ornamental cabbage
and kale. But look at the center of those plants.
As it gets colder, they become more colorful. So when
everything's all done, so the end of October first and November,
when the moms are done and everything else is starting
(26:16):
to kind of poop out at that point and weather
starting to cool down. Guess what's getting better. They get
ornamental cabbage and kale, and by Christmas they're outstanding. And
last year was just mild enough. Ours made it into there.
We had a good heavy snowfall covered them over and
as the snow started to melt, that bright pink and
lavender I don't know if it was one of the
(26:38):
cabbages or kales stuck up through the snow. Was absolutely spectacular.
But they're way underused. I'm telling you. They give you
color right until the end of the season or the
end of the year, into the holiday season, and sometimes
even longer. Ornamental cabbage and kale. Check them out. You
will absolutely love them. Before we go to the break, Dick.
Speaker 2 (26:57):
From Dayton, good morning, Good morning, how are you.
Speaker 3 (27:01):
I'm beautiful week, wasn't it? Well?
Speaker 1 (27:03):
Another beautiful week? That's like three in a row.
Speaker 3 (27:06):
Three in a row.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
We'll take them. Yeah, I didn't see the score last night.
What'd your reds do?
Speaker 3 (27:13):
Oh? I heard this morning the bases were loaded up,
Leah said, and they they didn't score. They lost five
to four.
Speaker 1 (27:22):
Uh, oh, you don't.
Speaker 3 (27:26):
I don't know. I don't think this week will tell
the tale if they get the wild card.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
Oh yeah, yep, no doubt.
Speaker 3 (27:32):
This important week. It's it's disappointing, But tomorrow, I think
it's going to be a shootout. Tomorrow Joe Burrell's coming back,
you know, yep in that offense.
Speaker 1 (27:42):
Now, you and your with your family being from the
Cleveland area, you guys kind of have a little competition there.
Speaker 2 (27:48):
I know you lean toward the Bengals.
Speaker 3 (27:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (27:52):
So are they all Browns fans?
Speaker 3 (27:55):
Oh yeah, so.
Speaker 1 (27:56):
So you guys have a nice rivalry going on.
Speaker 3 (28:00):
Big. She always liked the Indians and Guardians.
Speaker 1 (28:02):
You know.
Speaker 3 (28:03):
Yeah, listen, I told you home fell Carla, right, Carla right, Yeah,
I hear from here quite a bit. She been playing
a lot of stuff, and boy, she said, the weather
is pretty and up by the lake there. You said
you took a trip.
Speaker 2 (28:17):
We did.
Speaker 3 (28:17):
It's beautiful up there, isn't it?
Speaker 2 (28:19):
Yes? It is.
Speaker 1 (28:19):
As a matter of fact, we wound up in Homestead
Falls quite have had her number, I would have called her.
Speaker 3 (28:26):
Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, but yeah, I'm uh, we have
a lot going on. There's a car show tomorrow and
then they're going to have people played music tomorrow, hopefully.
I usually go to Bible study, so I don't know.
I got to decide because Heather said she wanted me
to maybe go down there and play. They're going to
(28:47):
have all the old fifty seven cars and stuff here
at my little apartment here.
Speaker 2 (28:52):
Good. Good for you.
Speaker 1 (28:53):
Will remind Heather that you want that community container garden
put in so you all can.
Speaker 2 (28:58):
Do some gardening.
Speaker 3 (29:00):
Oh yeah, yeah, all right.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
Dick, good talking to you as always. Yeah, all right,
all right, take care, bye bye, quick break, we come back.
Phone lines you're open for you. Eight hundred eight two
three eight two five five. Coming up top of the hour,
Rita Hike and fell we'll go with her out into
the garden. Bottom of the hour, Peggy and Montgomery. We're
gonna talk spring or are they fall bulbs? We'll find
out here in the garden with Ron Wilson. Eight hundred
(29:25):
eight two three eight two five five.
Speaker 2 (29:27):
Good morning.
Speaker 1 (29:28):
I am Ron Wilson, your personal yard boy, talking about
yarding as we get into one of the best times
of the year when it comes to gardening, and it
really is. I mean just so cooler for you and
me for the plants. Uh, transplanting time, planting time. More
roots are developed in the fall than any other time
the rest of the year. Yes, there are a few
exceptions as far as planting in the fall, the later
(29:50):
we get obviously, and then you know, once we start
getting out into October, I start backing off on plants,
any plants that are in really small containers because a
lot of time they don't have time to get rooted
in well to prevent them from heaving out of the
ground with freezing and thawing. So sometimes we'll back off
on that groundcover later in the fall. Sometimes we'll back
off on that, you know, so because it's just rooting
(30:13):
at the surface and probably not a good thing going
into the winter. But for the most part, fall, you know,
you're you've got a lot, a lot of things to
be planted there. And I think one of the things
we do forget about is the fact that if we're
planting in the fall tree shrubs, evergreens, perennials, roses, grasses,
whatever it may be, that also for the most part
(30:33):
means that can be a great time for transplanting as well.
And we have a tency to forget about that perennials.
That perennial garden is always on the move, right if
you know that clump that was only you thought was
going to stay twenty four inches in diameter now is
four feet in diameter taking over the whole garden. So
you have to dig that up and kind of, you know,
keep it controlled. So you've got these other perennials, which
(30:55):
is a great thing to either add to the rest
of your landscape somewhere else in your landscape, or pot
them up and give them away to neighbors and friends,
donate them to gardens, whatever it may be. But perennials
are a great thing to share. And so this time
of the year September early October absolutely wonderful time for
doing any of the pretty much any of the perennials
(31:16):
that are spring bloomers up to midsummer bloomers now late
summer and fall bloomers. Know you wouldn't dig and divide
those this time of the year, but all the rest spring,
early and midsummer bloomers for the most part, you can.
And I think the thing to look at too is
if it's dry in your area. You know, sometimes we
deal with that. In the fall water those plants, and
(31:37):
this is true for the woody plants as well, the
trees and shrubs. In that water them about three or
four days in advance, so you get some good moisture,
not only in the soil. And we don't want the
muddy when we go to dig. We just want good
moisture in the soil. But most importantly we hydrate those plants,
so the roots and the plant foliage and the stems
all have good moisture in them when we go to
(31:59):
dig and die and again, you know iris, I actually
could have done that back in August, even late July.
You can dig and divide iris. But you can still
do it now. I'd get on it as soon as possible. Again,
very close to the root, to the surface of the soil.
So you want to get those rooted in as quickly
as you can, so I'd get on those soon. But
this is a great time for digging and planting pa andies.
(32:23):
You know, I've had those p andies, large clump that
maybe you're maybe your grandmother gave it to you're inherited
from somebody, and you want to share with the rest
of the family or put it somewhere else in the
you know, this is a great time to dig up
pa andies, bring up the whole clump and divide them
up and replant them.
Speaker 2 (32:39):
And if you're going to do that, especially with the.
Speaker 1 (32:40):
Perenni of the pae andies, go on the internet or
email me and I'll find you the good link that
that I know is reputable to show you how to
dig and divide those how many you know, looking for
the eyes that are in those, and then how to
how to replant, which is very very important because if
you wind up planning them deep, they don't flower. They'll
(33:01):
grow for you, but they just don't flower. But again,
it's that time of the year to be doing that
type of thing. And if you have some perennials that
you know are looking really rough, daylo has always come
to my mind this time of the year. They can
be dug and divided, or if they're just looking rough,
but everything you want to keep it in the ground,
feel free to cut all that dead foliage off. They'll
flush up some new foliage. You know yet this fall
(33:23):
and look kind of nice. Get about six inches tall,
give me some nice green. And then as we start
to get cold, and then towards the holiday season, then
they kind of die back a little bit and you're
good to go, and then they'll come right back up
for you in the springtime. But again, we talk about
fall being such a great time for planting, and it is,
but it's also a great time for transplanting. When you've
got those plants that are in the wrong spot, perennials,
(33:46):
you need to divide, whatever it may be, this is
the time to do it. As a matter of fact,
if you're looking out there next to the sidewalk next
to the house, next to the driveway, and you've got
a shrub or a small tree that's been there and
it hangs over and you're always cutting it back and
it gets too big for the spot, Why why give
yourself all of that hassle and have to be doing
(34:08):
this with this plant all the time. As far as
cutting it back, why don't you just dig it, move it,
put it somewhere else that it can grow and do
its thing naturally.
Speaker 2 (34:18):
You know.
Speaker 1 (34:18):
And if you have to do a little pruning, fine,
but move it, get it out of there, and come
back and replant. Great time to plant something that will
stay more contained and fit that particular situation. Again, a
great time for doing something like that as well. I
always get the calls about the other thing is just overgrown,
overhanging the sidewalk, We planted it too close, blah blah blah.
(34:39):
If you can get in there and dig it and
take it out, why not just move it, put it
somewhere else in the landscape, Let it do its thing,
and put something else here. The stays is a little
bit smaller, so you know, keep that in mind as well.
But I'll tell you it is it's a great time
to plant. Get out there, take care of that. And
by the way, as we are planting, all right, especially
(34:59):
tree these larger evergreens in that remember those are targets.
They are targets for a buck slash male deer. They
love to rub on those and mark their territory, all right.
So when you're done planting trees, especially that are four
inch caliper trunk diameter and smaller, don't take your hand
(35:22):
off of those. If you have deer within fifty miles
of your house, until you put a tree trunk protector
around that. That has to be part of the planting process.
As you're planting trees, and by all means when you
stand back and you're all said and done and you're
looking at that tree trunk protector, make sure you can
show me.
Speaker 2 (35:38):
That root flare.
Speaker 1 (35:40):
Gotta have that root flare at the top of the ground,
very important for the success of that tree.
Speaker 2 (35:45):
Long term quick break, we come back, read a hike
and Feld. We'll join her in the garden find out
what's going on there.
Speaker 1 (35:51):
Plus we'll talk about our recipe of the week news
pickled peppers.
Speaker 2 (35:54):
That's my mom.
Speaker 1 (35:55):
And at the bottom of the ur Peggy Montgomery talking
about bulbs here in the garden with Ron Will
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