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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Good morning, everybody. Welcome back. I'm Ron Wilson, and you
are in the garden here on news radio six to
ten WTVN eight two to one WTV and eight hundred
and six to ten WTV and broadcasting live today from
the Central Ohio Home and Gardens Show. We're at the
Columbus Tree Booth. It's twenty six nineteen. Stop buying, say hello.
As a matter of fact, if you talk with the
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folks here today and if you actually would buy trees
from the booth, you can't buy the booth, but they'll
show you the trees, and if you buy them, they've
given a ten percent Home and Garden Show discounts. So
stop by, say hello. Check out the two trees that
are behind us. They've got video running on all the
trees that they have available. We'll talk with them a
little bit more before the end of the show. But
pretty cool. You're looking for bigger trees. They got you covered.
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You know. We can't come to the Home and Garden
Show without talking with our good friends. And I discovered
these folks. I didn't discover them, but I found them
one time and had a great conversation, probably ten years ago.
It's circa Plants talking with Brandon, and we had to
drag him over to the booth to talk to us
on the raid, you about what we do. And now
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he just you know, he waits to get on here
because he's he's such he just loves being on the
radio anymore. He's such an outgoing person. Good morning, sir.
Do you remember that we had to drag you over there?
You were like, I don't know what to do that
and your wife finally said, yes, get over there and
do that. So anyway, from circa Plants, their specialty, of
course is the heirloom seed seeds. You've got to go
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through the booth and every every every year we talk
about it whether we're here or not, and send folks
to circa Plants. You walk through and you look at
all the different heirloom seed packs that they have there.
I guarantee you you'll spend a half an hour in
that booth looking at all the seed packs.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
I mean you do, yeah, yeah, I mean people spend
a lot of time.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
You have to go through and look at everything and
see what's on there. So Brandon Burns and of course
the website is circuplants dot com. Right, Yes, it is
there you go, so you can go on there and
you can actually order the seeds from there. You raising
heirloom plants, obviously you do the producing all is well
and producing the seeds for quite a few years. And
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was it your grandmother the guy you started doing this?
Speaker 2 (02:10):
Well, my grandparents, your grandparents, Okay, yeah, my grandfather and
my grandmother and a lot of people in are a family, yes.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
Except for the two kids. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
The two kids have helped out a lot.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
They did.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
They've done plenty of work.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
I couldn't tell you how time flies. I remember them
in the booth here at least the daughter, I believe.
And now they're all in college. Yep, unbelievable. Time does fly.
So when so folks that maybe aren't familiar when we're
talking about plants for the vegetable garden, sometimes you see
the word heirloom. Sometimes you see the word hybrid. What's
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the difference between the two.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
Well, an heirloom is not a hybrid, that is, or
it's stabilized. A lot of heirlooms were originally accidental hybrids,
where people had varieties that would cross in their garden
and unknowingly they would produce new varieties and those would
adapt usually to their area, and they would often be
selected for flavor, not for shipping, not for holding on
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a shelf. And that's but over time they stabilize, and
that means they come true from seeds. So a lot
of hybrids, even if they're fertile, are the first year
they're all uniform, but after that they're unstable and they
throw out a lot of different varieties.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
Yeah. So if I buy a hybrid tomato, which a
lot of people do, and rightfully so, I always do
a combo of the two looms and hybrids. But it's
two parents basically, and the chances are if you save
the seeds, you're going to get one or the other parent.
Very rarely do you get that same tomato. Again.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
Yeah, it can take a lot of work, many generations
before we can stabilize that. And some things don't stabilize it.
You'll see that in corn a lot of times.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
But with airloom seeds, then they that's what you get. Yeah,
when you buy it, that's what you get. And so
those are the seeds that are passed down from generation
to generation and usually have a pretty good history to it.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
Yeah, they do.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
And of course, how to get their name heirloom being
passed down through families or within towns, right usually through
friends and all that. You know, it's something I grew
up doing without really realizing how unique it was because
we did canning, and it's something I remember from the
earliest time on our farm and it's so much more
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important now than ever. And the nice thing about doing
your own seeds, or even saving your own seeds is
when you find something you really like, you will always
have that.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
You know.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
Sometimes I'll go, I'll buy things at the store and
you'll have it one year and next year maybe it's
not there, maybe it's sold out, or they just don't
have it, and that's disappointing. But I always know, especially
with seeds, I've always got them. You know, I've got
some backup, usually for a few years or more, and
I always know I can expect that it's going to
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I'm going to have that next year, right, you know.
And that's what I like, is that control to especially
when you eat things, you get a memory for that
and it intensifies over time and it's just a really
good I get satisfaction and comfort for knowing that I'm
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always going to have that as long as I want to.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
Sure. Yeah, talking with with Brandon Burns, and he and
his wife have circa plants and their heirloom seeds are phenomenal.
You go to their website and shop if you aren't
at the Home and Garden show, but if you are checking,
they're right behind us here. Check out their booth. You're
gonna absolutely love it. But you know, let me ask you.
You know, and I know you grow produce as well
from those seeds that you sell on the produce market
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at all. No, no, no, I don't know. You keep
them for yourself.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
I used to should do that, Yeah, yeah, I used to.
Early on, we would sell at farmers' markets. Okay, but
I just realized that seeds were what I was into.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
You know.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
I even like seeing the variation within heirlooms. You know,
sometimes I'll see things segregate out that are unique, right,
and but seeds are my passion. I like walking the rose,
like pulling the bad plants, keeping the best, and looking
for any changes that might be positive.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
So I guess I'm gonna put you on the spot.
Do you throw any hybrids in there? Occasionally? No, there's
an all heirloom.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
I mean, the only thing right now I still like
to grow is the Silver Queen corn, which is a
hybrid from the fifties.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
I believe it was the fifties sixties.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
Yeah, and it's getting hard to find. Everything's gone to
the sugar, the candies, the super sweets. But it was
one of the first great heirloom we'll call it airloom. Now,
even though it's technically still a hybrid, it's still being
produced as a hybrid, but it has an old flavor
and production that you just I don't see in new
varieties myself. Right, But it has to be used fresh.
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It doesn't hold very long. It will lose it sweetness.
That's part of the reason super sweets are so popular,
because they'll keep that sweetness from maybe the week or
more you're picked.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
So you now you're just growing for seed only. Yeah,
And I'm gonna bring this up, and I know you
don't have the seeds available, but I think it's a
great story and about what you do. And that's the
Picklsheimer watermelon. And unfortunately, and then folks who have listened
to our show, they know we've talked about this for
years because the story was so great, because it was
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a family watermelon that they thought the seeds were all gone,
didn't have anymore, and you happen to have some, yeah,
that you were able to give back to the family.
So you kept that heirloom variety going, and of course
you sell them as well. But unfortunately this year, you
don't have any seeds available thanks to that wonderful drought
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we had last summer and fall.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
Yeah, we had a rough year last year. We ran
out of water about midsummer, so we let most of
our pumpkins and our melons go, right. They just we
knew you couldn't provide that much water and put anything else,
you know, get it to go. So those things just
withered out in the field. But we're gonna give it
another go this year, and I have a feeling it's going.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
To be a better year. But obviously you keep you
keep extra seeds, so you still have it. We still
have the sea, yeah, so you'll be growing it again.
But unfortunately, if you and it's everybody, I know that
I've gotten those seeds to have loved that water, but
unfortunately that's not going to be available this show. No,
I will say it on the up front. You're not
going to be able to get the pickle Seimer's now
we're hoping by fall, but the seeds will be back. Yeah,
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they'll be back. You'll have them back. So anything new,
I mean, how do you how do you determine? I mean,
you know your your list has expanded over the years,
and I was over there looking this morning. Course you've
gotten a little bit more into the tobaccos, which I
think is pretty cool. Uh. And my grandfather would just
my grandfather was a tobacco farmer in Kentucky and now
seeing them it's growing them as an ornamental plant or
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whatever in a garden, he probably would think we're nuts.
But you've got a lot of those different things, all
of the old flowers and things like that. Again, go
to their website and check it out or stop by
their booth. But I saw a dwarf heirloom indetermined tomato.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
Yeah it's kind of yeah, Yeah, it's something I just
trialed last year. I didn't even put it in tomato
cages or trellisit or anything, just threw it out to
see what it would do. And surprisingly, with not a
lot of water, but we still watered it. It grew great,
produced giant, really giant tomatoes. On a dwarfish plant, but
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it's not really a dwarf. It's still an indeterminant, which
you know, usually they get tall. And it stood up
on its own, very healthy, vigorous growth, great tomato. I
was just surprised by it. You know, a lot of
stuff I trial it doesn't make it right, and I
didn't really think much about it was kind of a
last minute thing. I threw out the fields and it
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was one of the better tomatoes last year.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
And it's called we just have it as o. What
is it? I think it's just big.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
They called it new big dwarf tomato, New big dwarf.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
Yeah, there you go.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
I got it from a little independent seed company that
probably nobody would ever find. But we just did a dwarf,
new big dwarf. Very impressive. In fact, I'm going to
grow it again next year just to eat it that
we have enough seed.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
Now anything new folks want to take a look at.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
Well, we've got pumpkin on a stick.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
Oh yeah, I saw that.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
Yeah, that did really well. It's kind of egg plant,
but it's an ornamental egg plant. I don't know that
you would eat it, and it did really well. That
was one of the new things we have. We do
have the Indian limit. People have been asking for lemon
grass for a long time, so we do have that.
Now that's another new thing. I can't think of any
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too many other things that we could just do.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
You have to go look, yeah, it's stop by the booth.
I'm telling you, Allison was finishing up this morning. I
swear we're here. You got more packs in that that's
going to take me two hours to go through it
this time. But you got to check it out. Circa
Plants go to their website circaplants dot com. You can
order online, which I have done many times, or stop
by here at the home of Guarden Show and check
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them out. And Allison and al Alyssa, why don't I say,
Allison Alyssa and Brandon Burns will take care of you
and you'll love what you're gonna see there. All right,
you guys do a great job. Always a pleasure. I
couldn't do this with having you on the show. You know. Well,
thank you, Ron, you've become a regular.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
Oh well, I really enjoy it.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
All right, we'll take a quick break. We come back.
Phone lines are open for you a two to one
WTVN here on news Radio six to ten WTVN. Great music.
Thank you, Llo, you always do a great job with
the bumper music and great surroundings. Where we are Lizzie
and Grant and myself. We're right in the middle of
the twenty twenty five Central Ohio Home and Garden Show
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presented by Ohia Mulch. We are at the Columbus Trees
booth is twenty six nineteen. We're at the south side
of the gardens, so stop out, say hello. We have
the Lizzie has their table set up here with all
kinds of six to ten stuff giveaways. So just you know,
everybody's walking by, it's this is stuff we're giving away.
Lizzie doesn't want to carry this back to her car,
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all right, so you know, take everything here so that
she doesn't have to cart it back Otherwise Grant has
to help her, and Grant it's not very good at
doing that, so you know, Lizzie gets stuck doing it all.
So anyway, stop buying. See this Columbus Trees. That's where
we are, twenty six nineteen. We're gonna get them back
on the show here a little bit later on, and
we've talked more about the bigger trees. But I'm telling you,
if you're looking for big trees two two and a
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half inch and larger five and i'm talking trunk diameter
five inch seven inch, you know, chunk diameter where it's
an instant tree. These are the folks that have them,
and they've got a tremendous selection. They have experts that
can help you pick out the trees. We'll learn more
about that in our next next half hour of the show.
But stop buy and say hello and see what they've
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got here. These two trees behind us are very impressive,
and so's the video to my right, so be sure
and check it out. But we're talking about yardening at
the Home and Garden Show. It kicks off today. The
gates opened up at eleven and we're already having lots
of folks milling around. Grant, our engineer, is running around
with a short cent tank top and flip flip flops,
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acting like it's spring season. So it gets kind of crazy,
you know, after being pent up all winter long, but
he enjoys. It's always fun having him here. Good. Having
branded on from Circumplants, be sure to stop by their booth.
You're going to love it. And of course the gardens.
Nine different gardens, nine different themes. Folks from reebing Hoff
here talking about all the different gardens and they help
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to oversee kind of shair this whole thing and put
these gardens together. And of course, you know, if you've
come to this show over all these years, the great
job of the gardens at the Central Ohio Home and
Garden Show, it's always they're always spectacular. There's lots to see,
lots to learn, lots of new ideas. And again, if
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you're looking to have professional landscape design, professional landscape installation,
all right, here's where you come. You got nine of
the best firms here at the Home and Garden Show.
You can see the kind of work that they do,
you can see the designs that they do, you can
see the plants that they use, and of course and
you can talk to them one on one, so you
get to meet all the folks. I mean, that's one
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of the cool things about the Home and Garden shows
is the fact that you know, it's perfect timing. It's
toward the end of the winter. We're all ready we're
itching to get out and start doing home improvement, start
doing taking care of that yard and garden getting things,
you know, replanted or whatever it may be. And it's
a nice kick off for the spring season. But you
get to meet the folks that actually have the companies,
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just like here Columbus Trees. You get to meet the
folks that you would actually meet at the Columbus Trees.
They're here, you get to know them. If you like
them or not, you know, and and take it from there,
so it's well worth coming out. Of course, it kicks
off the day. I think next Sunday will be the
final day, and I think they're closed on Tuesday if
I'm not mistaken. But again, you can go to their
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website and learn more about it, and I think there's
a even a discount pricing for tickets on there as well,
so be sure and check that out. And remember they
also have the garden stage and at noon they kick
off a series of gardening classes about every hour. And
my good buddy from OSU Extension, Gary Goal. Gary Gal
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is one of the funniest guys you'll ever meet, besides
Buddy Buggy Joe Bogs, but the Gary Gal is funny man.
He's gonna be talking about fruits and berries and grapes
and things like that, if you've thought about maybe you know,
you've been growing that vegetable garden. Now you're thinking about
doing more the fruits, more of the berries. As I've
always said, you know, that's great, but I always encourage
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you to do your homework about the maintenance and the
care that it may take to grow those fruits and berries.
Sometimes a little bit different than growing those vegetables in
that garden.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
A little more homework, a little more.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
Work, maybe some sprays you have to actually do a
little bit different pruning, things like that. Gary's got the
answers for you. As a matter of fact, you hear
me talking about the fruit guide that they OSU Extension
put out. It's bullet in ninety Midwest. It's Backyard Fruit
Grows Bulletin number nine forty. It's about two hundred and
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fifty pages. It's everything you could ever imagine that you
need to know about growing fruits and berries in your backyard.
It's one of the best reference books I have ever seen,
and it is two hundred and fifty pages. Gary Goal
was the main driving force behind that bulletin. I think
you can buy it through an issue extension for about
thirty dollars thirty five bucks. Trust me, it's well worth it.
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I have multiple copies, and if I have friends that
you know that are getting into it, I always give
them that as a book to kind of do their homework.
Read through, see if that's what you want to do,
and then use it as a reference for doing whatever
needs to be done to take care of those fruits
and berries. But again, he's going to be on the
stage this afternoon, so if you go, make sure you
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give him a lot of grief, all right, And I
guarantee you while you're there, you will be laughing through
his entire presentation because he talks about things that have
nothing to do with the presentation, laughing the whole time
and finally gets involved with what he was pa to
talk about. But you will absolutely enjoy it. But all
of the talks will be great, great information, great gardens,
and of course all the booths. And of course while
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you're here, you got to stop by Columbus Trees is
booth twenty six nineteen. You want a big tree, I
know where you can find them, and it's right here.
And remember, remember one of the biggest impacts you can
have on Mother Earth on if you believe in climate change,
the weather change or things that's going on out there,
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to improve the environment, to help the wildlife, to help
the pollinators. One of the best things you can do
with the most impact is to plant a tree or
two or three. And I'll tell you what. And if
you're looking and you don't want to mess around, you
don't want to wait, Columbus Trees has the trees for you,
both trees and evergreen as well, so stop by their
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booth and check it out. As a matter of fact,
we're going to be there in April for ourbur Day weekend,
so we'll be there as well, so you can come
out there too. All right, quick break, we come back.
We'll continue talking about things at the Home and Garden Show,
and we're taking your calls at eight two to one
WTVN eight hundred and six to ten WTVN broadcasting live
from the Central iiO Home and Garden Show and the
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Columbus Trees Booth here on news radio six to ten
wtvnh We are having a great time because we're broadcasting
live from the Central Ohio Home and Garden Show, brought
to you by Ohio Mulch. We are in the Columbus
Trees booth and their website is columbustrees dot com if
you want to check it out. It's twenty six nineteen.
We're on the south side of the gardens. There are
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nine gardens and they all have it a little different theme.
They picked a garden like the ones hass praying Mannas,
one features gardens for dogs, one features turtles, and also
you can check those out. And then of course Lizzie
from Promotions right across from us has a six to
ten table. She's given away all kinds of great things,
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including T shirts and whatever. She does not want to
carry those back to her car, so please help her
out and grab yourself a six to ten T shirt, decal,
some sleeves, whatever it may be, and help yourself. And
then the guy behind me with the shorts on and
the tank top and the flip flops, that's Grant. You
all know. Grant, a great engineer, and he's enjoying it's
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acting like a springtime seeing a little Jemmy Buffett in
the whole nine yards. By the way, you know, yesterday
and I'm sure you were aware of this was Valentine's Day, right,
you know? I talk about at Christmas time when they
have the Amarillis bulb kits and the paper white kits
and things like that on sale Christmas cactus right at
Christmas time, right or right afterwards, because they want to
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get rid of those, right, So you go scarf those
up for a really good price and then selfishly do
that and then grow them over the winter for great
color or whatever at a very discounted price. I'm all
into that. Why not, right, Well, the same thing can
happen with Valentine's Day plants. You know, if you know
a place that really had a lot of Valentine's Day plants,
especially living plants, go check them out this weekend because
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you might find miniature roses. You might find orchids. You
might find African violets, you might find anthereums. You might
think find things like that that they're saying, now you
know it's a Valentine's weekend, we want to move these on.
You might get a really good deal and you've got
some really great plants that you grow indoors that you
can enjoy over the next several weeks, some of which
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can actually go back outside, including miniature roses. And I
think so many times we buy these miniature roses, you
know in the winter time to you know, have a
little color, something gift to keep keeps on giving. And
when they're done flowering, you know, if you're not dead
heading and feeding or whatever and a really good sunny
location in the house, then they're done. They just kind
of sit there. Well if you keep them going through
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the winter and you can get them outside in the spring.
Most of those varieties are hardy for our area, so
you can actually plant them in containers or plant them
in the ground once we get into the where the
weather breaks. And the reason you have to wait is
because they've been greenhouse forced, so they're out in leaf
at a time where they wouldn't want to be. But
you could do that and then they come back every year,
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or do them in a container whatever. But miniature roses
this time of the year, if you can find them,
you'll find them on sale a great buy. And what
I like to do is just keep deadheading them as
the flowers have done, sunny window and about every two
weeks put them under the kitchen sink and rinse them off.
They can get mites fairly easily for some reason in
the house, but rent them off a little bit and
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just keep at it and again limp them through. If
they lose a few leaves, don't worry about it, but
get them to the spring season and plant them outside.
But you know, kind of scarf that up and take
advantage of that, and you can find some really cool
Valentine Day plant cycloman's things like that that will give
you a great color in the house. Yet the rest
of this winter, as we work our way toward the
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spring season, and I don't know if I mentioned this
earlier in the show, and probably not, but you know,
there's so many things that be going on right now
in your yard and garden, so many projects. And I know,
talking with Mike Elliott yes day on his show about
what will you do this time of the year, there's
a lot of things you need to be doing, one
of which is getting that lawnmower service. And it's amazing.
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After I said that yesterday, I had so many people
emails said, well, it's a great reminder. I appreciate that
because I haven't had that mower service yet. You wait
until mid to late March when you start thinking about
that lawn and you take that more to get a service.
Guess what you're going to be on a list that's
going to take four or five weeks to get your
mower back, and during that time, your lawn's going to
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start growing and you're not going to be able to
start mowing. So now's a great time to get the
mower to the service era wherever you take it to
get a serviced, have that mower blade sharpen and have
them get you a second set of blades if you
don't have them, and have those nice and sharps so
that when you get done with the spring mowing and
you're starting to go into the summer mowing, you can
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take those blade old blades off, put the new sharp
blades on for the summer, take those old blades, have
those resharpen, and when we get to the first to September,
take the summer blades off, put the fall blades on,
and you've got sharp blades through the fall. If you
will put sharpened blades on your mower for spring, again
for the summer, and again for the fall, I give
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you a double thumbs up for doing that, and your
lawn well thank you as well. All right, so don't
forget about that same way with your tools. Get them
all prep take a look at it things are broken,
you might need to add to the toolbox of your
gardening tools. Now's a great time to do that and
get out and visit your local independent garden centers. Looking
around right now, they're really getting stocked up. A lot
of the summer balls are starting to come in. Seed
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packs are available at this stage in the game, so
you can start to look at those and look at
you know, get their lists of vegetables, fruits and berries
that they're going to have in the spring. Again, to
start putting your plans together so that once this weather
starts to break, and it will, you're gonna have you
know exactly what you need to get done. And if
you're out there looking at the lawn right now, and
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you've got all these trees out there all right, and
they have growing up to the base of the tree,
promise me this that this spring you will go out
and you will remove the grass from around the base
of all of your trees that are growing in your yard,
all right, no grass growing against the trunk of the trees.
Promise me you'll do that. Whatever it takes to get
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that ring around it with a little bit of mulch
or groundcover, whatever may be. Please do that. And when
you're putting the mulch around those use a nice course mulch,
all right, a nice course mult of the boot that
will let the soil breed, let the water get through,
still keep the weeds down for you. But do that
as well, and you'll find those trees will grow so
much nicer than when you've got that grass growing right
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up to the trunk of the tree. And it's much
easier for you to mow around as well. No lawnmower disease,
No string trimmor disease, because you're whipping the grass blades
all the time around the base. That does take its
toll on those trees. No hitting the flare roots, the
root flare at the top with the lawnmower. All right,
So promise me this year, if you're looking out there
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and you have grass around your trees, you will remove
that and you will have a mulch bed by the
time we go into the summer, and your trees are
going to thank you for that. All right, we'll take
one more break, we come back, we'll continue to talk
with the folks from Columbus Trees. We are at the
Central Ohio Homan Gardens Show It just kicked off today
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about at eleven o'clock as a matter of fact, starting
to fill up with a lot of folks that are
tired of the weather. They're out here and enjoying the
spring smells, the spring sites. It's just absolutely wonderful. And
of course all the great things are going on as well.
And don't forget to stop and pick up your six
to ten stuff. Lizzie's still getting nervous because she doesn't
want to carry this stuff out to her car, so
clean us off on the top of the table. Please
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coming back, We'll talk with the folks from Columbus Trees
our website Columbus Trees dot com. Be sure and check
that out. It's all happening to here on news radio
six to ten WTVN. What do you think, Mike.
Speaker 3 (25:56):
Siebert, outstanding show so far?
Speaker 1 (25:59):
R the garden Show. Yes, yes, as lots of folks
already just open up at eleven o'clock and look, the
house are full already. Yep.
Speaker 3 (26:07):
Everyone wants out of that slush and muck outside.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
I actually was a little disappointed this morning. I thought
I thought it was going to have more of a
snow and things like that. When I got up and
there was nothing, but then it turned into a little
bit of ice.
Speaker 3 (26:21):
If you don't like the weather and Columbus, stick around
to them and it still change.
Speaker 1 (26:24):
Yeah, just give it tomorrow and you'll be all different
again for you. Absolutely broadcasting line today from the Central
Ohio Home and Garden Show kicks off today, runs through
next Sunday nine. Absolutely gorgeous gardens, all smell and look
absolutely spring as spring could be. You'll love them. And
we are in the Columbus Tree Booth, which is right
south of the gardens. We look right into the gardens
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where we are here. And if you're not familiar with
Columbus trees, if you're looking for well just about any
kind of tree, but larger trees especially, that's there specialty
are larger trees.
Speaker 3 (27:00):
Absolutely. As Andrews said in your earlier second, Who's Andrew Andrews,
our general manager and one of the family owners lives
on site at the farm. It's just a great experience
to come up with the family. As as he said earlier,
the variety is up there. You're going to find trees
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that you can't find anywhere else. And it's instant gratification.
Speaker 1 (27:24):
Now, these are combination the trees that you guys have available,
or combination of trees that you grow and trees that
you also contract grow with other nurseries.
Speaker 3 (27:32):
Yeah, the majority of what we have is baldenbur lap.
We do get a significant portion of our inventory from
central Ohio growers around this area northern Kentucky. So of
course everything that we sell is going to grow in
this zone. We're we're not going to get something that
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people can't grow here right now.
Speaker 1 (27:56):
If folks are interested in they're listening, they say, okay,
we are interested. We we put up with a heat
and the sun and all of that the last couple
of years. We need to add a few more trees
and a lot of folks, don't you know. You can
smart start with those smaller anchinche and a half even
two inch caliber trees, but it realistically a two inch
tree takes five seven years before you would start to
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get anything appreciable out of that, and that's assuming it's
like an autumn blaze maple or something that would grow
fairly rapidly. That's where you come to step up and
you come into the scene here because you don't have
to start out small, you actually have a great selection
of trees up to like five six seven inches from
the diameter. And now we're talking what twenty five foot trees.
Speaker 3 (28:40):
I was just going to say, your twenty twenty five
feet is not uncommon for our trees.
Speaker 1 (28:47):
You know.
Speaker 3 (28:47):
These are trees that your neighbors may go for a
walk on Wednesday and then go for another walk on
Friday and say, where'd that tree come from? They've never
had trees in their front yard. These are impactful and immediate.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
And if and again if are these trees probably not
trees that folks that want to plant themselves.
Speaker 3 (29:08):
No, you can, obviously, if you come in and get
a two inch caliper tree, you could plant that yourself.
But these are trees that even some landscapers aren't going
to have the equipment to plant. I mean we're talking
root balls. It could be forty inches wide across at
the top, thirty inches wide at the bottom. I mean
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that's a big hole.
Speaker 1 (29:29):
Yeah, no doubt about it. And if you get into
a seven inch chunk diameter even bigger than that as
far as the root ball. When you're looking at trees
that are of that size, and you're transplanting trees that
have been growing for quite some time. There's a bit
of a risk. They're more involved with these bigger trees
when you're transplanting those, so there is that involved. So
I'm assuming you would have a pretty good guarantee here.
Speaker 3 (29:53):
We do. We offer one year guarantee guarantee on everything
we sell and plant. Most importantly, we we do offer
a soil conditioning amendment, and that is an all organic matter.
It's earthworm castings, which was mentioned earlier.
Speaker 1 (30:13):
You got it out right, grant it pop.
Speaker 3 (30:16):
Yeah, earthworm castings. We like to keep it family clean,
but no, we put that in as we as we
plant the root ball, and it helps break down this
great central Ohio clay. I am a huge fan of
organic matter. I'm a lawn geek myself, been the show
listener of yours for many many years. If you use
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the soil amendment, you add that to your to your
tree purchase at seventy five dollars. It extends your warranty
from the one year. It extends it to three years.
Speaker 1 (30:46):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (30:47):
And then for my own geekdom, I guess is the
organic value the value of that organic matter in creating
that that micro organism bio coolure for seventy five dollars.
I mean, that's that's just an outstanding.
Speaker 1 (31:04):
Advantage once you get the three year guaranteed and then it.
Speaker 3 (31:07):
Takes you guarantee you three years.
Speaker 2 (31:08):
You know.
Speaker 1 (31:08):
Where I have sometimes a problem, especially with smaller tree
smaller plants, is trying to develop a schedule for folks
that are not used to planting and watering. How to
properly water these newly planted trees and shrubs. How long
you have to keep watering. I mean, you know, and
you know last fall, I'm sure you were probably sit
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on emails or whatever. It's a dry fall. Make sure
you keep watering, especially for the evergreens, which, by the way,
we didn't mention you do have evergreens. We'll talk about
that a second. But how what's your message to folks
that are planting these larger trees. I mean, that's a
lot different watering than it is a five or ten
gallon tree.
Speaker 3 (31:47):
Yeah, absolutely, and a very very good point that tree
needs a good inch of water a week through its
first year of being planted. You know, there's a couple
of different you know, wives tales and old urban legends
that we share with people as to what is an
inch of water.
Speaker 1 (32:07):
Yeah, that's it's easy to say. Yeah, you know it's yeah,
you need an inch of rainfall. If your grand mother does,
nature doesn't give it to you. You got a supplement.
Oh great, well what's an inso rainfall?
Speaker 3 (32:16):
And we recommend if you get yourself a little spot
sprinkler that goes on the end of your garden hose,
and you you dial down your faucet spickett to the
point where the little mushroom fountain out of that spot
sprinklers cover an edge to edge the mult circle that
we've put around the tree, and then slip a tuna can.
Speaker 1 (32:32):
And I you put a mulch ring around the tree. Absolutely,
Do any of the trees in your yard have grass
growing up to the trunk of the trees?
Speaker 3 (32:40):
They do not. There is a mult and then that
mult is pulled away from that root crown a little
bit to let it let.
Speaker 1 (32:47):
Excellent tip yea in that great don't put that mult
up against the trunk of.
Speaker 3 (32:50):
Those I wonder where I heard that you knew that.
Speaker 1 (32:53):
I know that that's good for you.
Speaker 3 (32:55):
Yeah, but then we you know, you can take an
empty tuna can slip it in that general circle that
that spot sprinkler is is watering, and when that tunicn's full,
your tree has gotten its inch of water. And there's
other ways to do it, but again the old screwdriver trick.
Stick your biggest, longest screwdriver into the top of that
root ball and if it comes out dry, you need
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to water.
Speaker 1 (33:17):
You need it.
Speaker 3 (33:17):
If it comes out smeared, you're okay for now.
Speaker 1 (33:20):
Soak it, close to dry, soak it. That's always been
my theory.
Speaker 3 (33:23):
Slow and soak. Let that tree take every bit of
that water as it's passing those feeder roots.
Speaker 1 (33:29):
We're talking with Mike Siebert from Columbus Trees and you
can check out their website columbustrees dot com. Also come
to their booth here at the Homa Garden Show where
if you buy trees here at the Homa Guarden Show,
they'll give.
Speaker 3 (33:41):
You what a ten percent discount for show pers.
Speaker 1 (33:44):
Great deal if if folks don't know exactly what they're
looking for a lot of times you don't, you know,
there's so many trees that are available out there. Do
you offer that service? I know you do at your location,
which we will be there on ourbor Day week Saturday,
But do you also offer where someone can come out
to my house.
Speaker 3 (34:03):
We do. We do. We try and accommodate that when
we can. Andrew mentioned in the earlier segment we have
over ninety species on property. I think last year we
opened with thirteen varieties of maples. I've already seen the
advanced shipping on truckloads that we've got coming in this spring,
and we've got five or six more maples that we
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didn't have last year, So that'll push our maple variety
upwards of eighteen a maple for every size, every spot
in your yard you can imagine. But then yeah, we
have the unique things that people can walk and say, oh,
that's a neat tree, what's that? How big does that
end up getting? What color does that flower? So it
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is it's a really fun experience. And if you can't
make it up to the farm, we can come out
and you take a look and give our advice and
opinions on what you've got for your options.
Speaker 1 (34:59):
And the farm is open to the public. That's not
a clothes that's over to the public.
Speaker 3 (35:02):
The farm is open to the public. We obviously have
some landscape clients that come purchase their trees and go
do the planting on their own, but I would say
buying large a larger percentages retail homeowners coming in and
picking the trees for their yard.
Speaker 1 (35:17):
Cool.
Speaker 3 (35:18):
And we have chickens on site. Family lives on the property.
Speaker 1 (35:23):
See with the price of eggs.
Speaker 3 (35:25):
Yeah, right, while we're there. We've got thirteen chickens. The
kids can feed the chickens through some grass, through the coop.
We got a pond that's fully stocked with fish. I mean,
it's it's a good experience.
Speaker 1 (35:39):
So it's fun.
Speaker 3 (35:40):
It's fun.
Speaker 1 (35:41):
Bring the kids, absolutely the kids and the experience absolute trees.
Speaker 3 (35:46):
And pick your tree, put your name on it, and
give or take two to four weeks, depending on our
planting schedule. Our crew will be out with that tree
and we plant everything ourselves. We don't sub that out.
Speaker 1 (36:00):
Are you planting now? We're probably at sites of it.
Speaker 3 (36:03):
Yeah, we're probably about ten days away from really getting
full speed into our planting.
Speaker 1 (36:08):
Ten days, two weeks, gotta go. Always a pleasure like
good talking with you. Thank you so much in columbustrees
dot Com Broadcasting Live today, Central Ohio Home and Garden Show.
Thank you all for stopping by. Thank you Lizzie, thank
you Grant for all that you do, and thank you
Alla back at the studios for all that you do
as well. Now do yourself a favor. Get out this
weekend and come to the Home and Garden Show and
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make it the best weekend of your life. See you
Good morning, everybody. Welcome back. I'm Ron Wilson, and you
are in the garden here on news radio six to
ten WTVN eight two to one WTV and eight hundred
and six to ten WTV and broadcasting live today from
the Central Ohio Home and Gardens Show. We're at the
Columbus Tree Booth. It's twenty six nineteen. Stop buying, say hello.
As a matter of fact, if you talk with the
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folks here today and if you actually would buy trees
from the booth, you can't buy the booth, but they'll
show you the trees, and if you buy them, they've
given a ten percent Home and Garden Show discounts. So
stop by, say hello. Check out the two trees that
are behind us. They've got video running on all the
trees that they have available. We'll talk with them a
little bit more before the end of the show. But
pretty cool. You're looking for bigger trees. They got you covered.
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You know. We can't come to the Home and Garden
Show without talking with our good friends. And I discovered
these folks. I didn't discover them, but I found them
one time and had a great conversation, probably ten years ago.
It's circa Plants talking with Brandon, and we had to
drag him over to the booth to talk to us
on the raid, you about what we do. And now
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he just you know, he waits to get on here
because he's he's such he just loves being on the
radio anymore. He's such an outgoing person. Good morning, sir.
Do you remember that we had to drag you over there?
You were like, I don't know what to do that
and your wife finally said, yes, get over there and
do that. So anyway, from circa Plants, their specialty, of
course is the heirloom seed seeds. You've got to go
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through the booth and every every every year we talk
about it whether we're here or not, and send folks
to circa Plants. You walk through and you look at
all the different heirloom seed packs that they have there.
I guarantee you you'll spend a half an hour in
that booth looking at all the seed packs.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
I mean you do, yeah, yeah, I mean people spend
a lot of time.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
You have to go through and look at everything and
see what's on there. So Brandon Burns and of course
the website is circuplants dot com. Right, Yes, it is
there you go, so you can go on there and
you can actually order the seeds from there. You raising
heirloom plants, obviously you do the producing all is well
and producing the seeds for quite a few years. And
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was it your grandmother the guy you started doing this?
Speaker 2 (02:10):
Well, my grandparents, your grandparents, Okay, yeah, my grandfather and
my grandmother and a lot of people in are a family, yes.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
Except for the two kids. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
The two kids have helped out a lot.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
They did.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
They've done plenty of work.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
I couldn't tell you how time flies. I remember them
in the booth here at least the daughter, I believe.
And now they're all in college. Yep, unbelievable. Time does fly.
So when so folks that maybe aren't familiar when we're
talking about plants for the vegetable garden, sometimes you see
the word heirloom. Sometimes you see the word hybrid. What's
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the difference between the two.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
Well, an heirloom is not a hybrid, that is, or
it's stabilized. A lot of heirlooms were originally accidental hybrids,
where people had varieties that would cross in their garden
and unknowingly they would produce new varieties and those would
adapt usually to their area, and they would often be
selected for flavor, not for shipping, not for holding on
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a shelf. And that's but over time they stabilize, and
that means they come true from seeds. So a lot
of hybrids, even if they're fertile, are the first year
they're all uniform, but after that they're unstable and they
throw out a lot of different varieties.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
Yeah. So if I buy a hybrid tomato, which a
lot of people do, and rightfully so, I always do
a combo of the two looms and hybrids. But it's
two parents basically, and the chances are if you save
the seeds, you're going to get one or the other parent.
Very rarely do you get that same tomato. Again.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
Yeah, it can take a lot of work, many generations
before we can stabilize that. And some things don't stabilize it.
You'll see that in corn a lot of times.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
But with airloom seeds, then they that's what you get. Yeah,
when you buy it, that's what you get. And so
those are the seeds that are passed down from generation
to generation and usually have a pretty good history to it.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
Yeah, they do.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
And of course, how to get their name heirloom being
passed down through families or within towns, right usually through
friends and all that. You know, it's something I grew
up doing without really realizing how unique it was because
we did canning, and it's something I remember from the
earliest time on our farm and it's so much more
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important now than ever. And the nice thing about doing
your own seeds, or even saving your own seeds is
when you find something you really like, you will always
have that.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
You know.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
Sometimes I'll go, I'll buy things at the store and
you'll have it one year and next year maybe it's
not there, maybe it's sold out, or they just don't
have it, and that's disappointing. But I always know, especially
with seeds, I've always got them. You know, I've got
some backup, usually for a few years or more, and
I always know I can expect that it's going to
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I'm going to have that next year, right, you know.
And that's what I like, is that control to especially
when you eat things, you get a memory for that
and it intensifies over time and it's just a really
good I get satisfaction and comfort for knowing that I'm
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always going to have that as long as I want to.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
Sure. Yeah, talking with with Brandon Burns, and he and
his wife have circa plants and their heirloom seeds are phenomenal.
You go to their website and shop if you aren't
at the Home and Garden show, but if you are checking,
they're right behind us here. Check out their booth. You're
gonna absolutely love it. But you know, let me ask you.
You know, and I know you grow produce as well
from those seeds that you sell on the produce market
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at all. No, no, no, I don't know. You keep
them for yourself.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
I used to should do that, Yeah, yeah, I used to.
Early on, we would sell at farmers' markets. Okay, but
I just realized that seeds were what I was into.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
You know.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
I even like seeing the variation within heirlooms. You know,
sometimes I'll see things segregate out that are unique, right,
and but seeds are my passion. I like walking the rose,
like pulling the bad plants, keeping the best, and looking
for any changes that might be positive.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
So I guess I'm gonna put you on the spot.
Do you throw any hybrids in there? Occasionally? No, there's
an all heirloom.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
I mean, the only thing right now I still like
to grow is the Silver Queen corn, which is a
hybrid from the fifties.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
I believe it was the fifties sixties.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
Yeah, and it's getting hard to find. Everything's gone to
the sugar, the candies, the super sweets. But it was
one of the first great heirloom we'll call it airloom. Now,
even though it's technically still a hybrid, it's still being
produced as a hybrid, but it has an old flavor
and production that you just I don't see in new
varieties myself. Right, But it has to be used fresh.
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It doesn't hold very long. It will lose it sweetness.
That's part of the reason super sweets are so popular,
because they'll keep that sweetness from maybe the week or
more you're picked.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
So you now you're just growing for seed only. Yeah,
And I'm gonna bring this up, and I know you
don't have the seeds available, but I think it's a
great story and about what you do. And that's the
Picklsheimer watermelon. And unfortunately, and then folks who have listened
to our show, they know we've talked about this for
years because the story was so great, because it was
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a family watermelon that they thought the seeds were all gone,
didn't have anymore, and you happen to have some, yeah,
that you were able to give back to the family.
So you kept that heirloom variety going, and of course
you sell them as well. But unfortunately this year, you
don't have any seeds available thanks to that wonderful drought
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we had last summer and fall.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
Yeah, we had a rough year last year. We ran
out of water about midsummer, so we let most of
our pumpkins and our melons go, right. They just we
knew you couldn't provide that much water and put anything else,
you know, get it to go. So those things just
withered out in the field. But we're gonna give it
another go this year, and I have a feeling it's going.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
To be a better year. But obviously you keep you
keep extra seeds, so you still have it. We still
have the sea, yeah, so you'll be growing it again.
But unfortunately, if you and it's everybody, I know that
I've gotten those seeds to have loved that water, but
unfortunately that's not going to be available this show. No,
I will say it on the up front. You're not
going to be able to get the pickle Seimer's now
we're hoping by fall, but the seeds will be back. Yeah,
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they'll be back. You'll have them back. So anything new,
I mean, how do you how do you determine? I mean,
you know your your list has expanded over the years,
and I was over there looking this morning. Course you've
gotten a little bit more into the tobaccos, which I
think is pretty cool. Uh. And my grandfather would just
my grandfather was a tobacco farmer in Kentucky and now
seeing them it's growing them as an ornamental plant or
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whatever in a garden, he probably would think we're nuts.
But you've got a lot of those different things, all
of the old flowers and things like that. Again, go
to their website and check it out or stop by
their booth. But I saw a dwarf heirloom indetermined tomato.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
Yeah it's kind of yeah, Yeah, it's something I just
trialed last year. I didn't even put it in tomato
cages or trellisit or anything, just threw it out to
see what it would do. And surprisingly, with not a
lot of water, but we still watered it. It grew great,
produced giant, really giant tomatoes. On a dwarfish plant, but
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it's not really a dwarf. It's still an indeterminant, which
you know, usually they get tall. And it stood up
on its own, very healthy, vigorous growth, great tomato. I
was just surprised by it. You know, a lot of
stuff I trial it doesn't make it right, and I
didn't really think much about it was kind of a
last minute thing. I threw out the fields and it
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was one of the better tomatoes last year.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
And it's called we just have it as o. What
is it? I think it's just big.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
They called it new big dwarf tomato, New big dwarf.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
Yeah, there you go.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
I got it from a little independent seed company that
probably nobody would ever find. But we just did a dwarf,
new big dwarf. Very impressive. In fact, I'm going to
grow it again next year just to eat it that
we have enough seed.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
Now anything new folks want to take a look at.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
Well, we've got pumpkin on a stick.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
Oh yeah, I saw that.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
Yeah, that did really well. It's kind of egg plant,
but it's an ornamental egg plant. I don't know that
you would eat it, and it did really well. That
was one of the new things we have. We do
have the Indian limit. People have been asking for lemon
grass for a long time, so we do have that.
Now that's another new thing. I can't think of any
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too many other things that we could just do.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
You have to go look, yeah, it's stop by the booth.
I'm telling you, Allison was finishing up this morning. I
swear we're here. You got more packs in that that's
going to take me two hours to go through it
this time. But you got to check it out. Circa
Plants go to their website circaplants dot com. You can
order online, which I have done many times, or stop
by here at the home of Guarden Show and check
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them out. And Allison and al Alyssa, why don't I say,
Allison Alyssa and Brandon Burns will take care of you
and you'll love what you're gonna see there. All right,
you guys do a great job. Always a pleasure. I
couldn't do this with having you on the show. You know. Well,
thank you, Ron, you've become a regular.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
Oh well, I really enjoy it.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
All right, we'll take a quick break. We come back.
Phone lines are open for you a two to one
WTVN here on news Radio six to ten WTVN. Great music.
Thank you, Llo, you always do a great job with
the bumper music and great surroundings. Where we are Lizzie
and Grant and myself. We're right in the middle of
the twenty twenty five Central Ohio Home and Garden Show
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presented by Ohia Mulch. We are at the Columbus Trees
booth is twenty six nineteen. We're at the south side
of the gardens, so stop out, say hello. We have
the Lizzie has their table set up here with all
kinds of six to ten stuff giveaways. So just you know,
everybody's walking by, it's this is stuff we're giving away.
Lizzie doesn't want to carry this back to her car,
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all right, so you know, take everything here so that
she doesn't have to cart it back Otherwise Grant has
to help her, and Grant it's not very good at
doing that, so you know, Lizzie gets stuck doing it all.
So anyway, stop buying. See this Columbus Trees. That's where
we are, twenty six nineteen. We're gonna get them back
on the show here a little bit later on, and
we've talked more about the bigger trees. But I'm telling you,
if you're looking for big trees two two and a
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half inch and larger five and i'm talking trunk diameter
five inch seven inch, you know, chunk diameter where it's
an instant tree. These are the folks that have them,
and they've got a tremendous selection. They have experts that
can help you pick out the trees. We'll learn more
about that in our next next half hour of the show.
But stop buy and say hello and see what they've
(12:41):
got here. These two trees behind us are very impressive,
and so's the video to my right, so be sure
and check it out. But we're talking about yardening at
the Home and Garden Show. It kicks off today. The
gates opened up at eleven and we're already having lots
of folks milling around. Grant, our engineer, is running around
with a short cent tank top and flip flip flops,
(13:01):
acting like it's spring season. So it gets kind of crazy,
you know, after being pent up all winter long, but
he enjoys. It's always fun having him here. Good. Having
branded on from Circumplants, be sure to stop by their booth.
You're going to love it. And of course the gardens.
Nine different gardens, nine different themes. Folks from reebing Hoff
here talking about all the different gardens and they help
(13:21):
to oversee kind of shair this whole thing and put
these gardens together. And of course, you know, if you've
come to this show over all these years, the great
job of the gardens at the Central Ohio Home and
Garden Show, it's always they're always spectacular. There's lots to see,
lots to learn, lots of new ideas. And again, if
(13:41):
you're looking to have professional landscape design, professional landscape installation,
all right, here's where you come. You got nine of
the best firms here at the Home and Garden Show.
You can see the kind of work that they do,
you can see the designs that they do, you can
see the plants that they use, and of course and
you can talk to them one on one, so you
get to meet all the folks. I mean, that's one
(14:03):
of the cool things about the Home and Garden shows
is the fact that you know, it's perfect timing. It's
toward the end of the winter. We're all ready we're
itching to get out and start doing home improvement, start
doing taking care of that yard and garden getting things,
you know, replanted or whatever it may be. And it's
a nice kick off for the spring season. But you
get to meet the folks that actually have the companies,
(14:24):
just like here Columbus Trees. You get to meet the
folks that you would actually meet at the Columbus Trees.
They're here, you get to know them. If you like
them or not, you know, and and take it from there,
so it's well worth coming out. Of course, it kicks
off the day. I think next Sunday will be the
final day, and I think they're closed on Tuesday if
I'm not mistaken. But again, you can go to their
(14:45):
website and learn more about it, and I think there's
a even a discount pricing for tickets on there as well,
so be sure and check that out. And remember they
also have the garden stage and at noon they kick
off a series of gardening classes about every hour. And
my good buddy from OSU Extension, Gary Goal. Gary Gal
(15:07):
is one of the funniest guys you'll ever meet, besides
Buddy Buggy Joe Bogs, but the Gary Gal is funny man.
He's gonna be talking about fruits and berries and grapes
and things like that, if you've thought about maybe you know,
you've been growing that vegetable garden. Now you're thinking about
doing more the fruits, more of the berries. As I've
always said, you know, that's great, but I always encourage
(15:29):
you to do your homework about the maintenance and the
care that it may take to grow those fruits and berries.
Sometimes a little bit different than growing those vegetables in
that garden.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
A little more homework, a little more.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
Work, maybe some sprays you have to actually do a
little bit different pruning, things like that. Gary's got the
answers for you. As a matter of fact, you hear
me talking about the fruit guide that they OSU Extension
put out. It's bullet in ninety Midwest. It's Backyard Fruit
Grows Bulletin number nine forty. It's about two hundred and
(16:03):
fifty pages. It's everything you could ever imagine that you
need to know about growing fruits and berries in your backyard.
It's one of the best reference books I have ever seen,
and it is two hundred and fifty pages. Gary Goal
was the main driving force behind that bulletin. I think
you can buy it through an issue extension for about
thirty dollars thirty five bucks. Trust me, it's well worth it.
(16:26):
I have multiple copies, and if I have friends that
you know that are getting into it, I always give
them that as a book to kind of do their homework.
Read through, see if that's what you want to do,
and then use it as a reference for doing whatever
needs to be done to take care of those fruits
and berries. But again, he's going to be on the
stage this afternoon, so if you go, make sure you
(16:47):
give him a lot of grief, all right, And I
guarantee you while you're there, you will be laughing through
his entire presentation because he talks about things that have
nothing to do with the presentation, laughing the whole time
and finally gets involved with what he was pa to
talk about. But you will absolutely enjoy it. But all
of the talks will be great, great information, great gardens,
and of course all the booths. And of course while
(17:08):
you're here, you got to stop by Columbus Trees is
booth twenty six nineteen. You want a big tree, I
know where you can find them, and it's right here.
And remember, remember one of the biggest impacts you can
have on Mother Earth on if you believe in climate change,
the weather change or things that's going on out there,
(17:30):
to improve the environment, to help the wildlife, to help
the pollinators. One of the best things you can do
with the most impact is to plant a tree or
two or three. And I'll tell you what. And if
you're looking and you don't want to mess around, you
don't want to wait, Columbus Trees has the trees for you,
both trees and evergreen as well, so stop by their
(17:51):
booth and check it out. As a matter of fact,
we're going to be there in April for ourbur Day weekend,
so we'll be there as well, so you can come
out there too. All right, quick break, we come back.
We'll continue talking about things at the Home and Garden Show,
and we're taking your calls at eight two to one
WTVN eight hundred and six to ten WTVN broadcasting live
from the Central iiO Home and Garden Show and the
(18:11):
Columbus Trees Booth here on news radio six to ten
wtvnh We are having a great time because we're broadcasting
live from the Central Ohio Home and Garden Show, brought
to you by Ohio Mulch. We are in the Columbus
Trees booth and their website is columbustrees dot com if
you want to check it out. It's twenty six nineteen.
We're on the south side of the gardens. There are
(18:33):
nine gardens and they all have it a little different theme.
They picked a garden like the ones hass praying Mannas,
one features gardens for dogs, one features turtles, and also
you can check those out. And then of course Lizzie
from Promotions right across from us has a six to
ten table. She's given away all kinds of great things,
(18:54):
including T shirts and whatever. She does not want to
carry those back to her car, so please help her
out and grab yourself a six to ten T shirt, decal,
some sleeves, whatever it may be, and help yourself. And
then the guy behind me with the shorts on and
the tank top and the flip flops, that's Grant. You
all know. Grant, a great engineer, and he's enjoying it's
(19:16):
acting like a springtime seeing a little Jemmy Buffett in
the whole nine yards. By the way, you know, yesterday
and I'm sure you were aware of this was Valentine's Day, right,
you know? I talk about at Christmas time when they
have the Amarillis bulb kits and the paper white kits
and things like that on sale Christmas cactus right at
Christmas time, right or right afterwards, because they want to
(19:38):
get rid of those, right, So you go scarf those
up for a really good price and then selfishly do
that and then grow them over the winter for great
color or whatever at a very discounted price. I'm all
into that. Why not, right, Well, the same thing can
happen with Valentine's Day plants. You know, if you know
a place that really had a lot of Valentine's Day plants,
especially living plants, go check them out this weekend because
(20:02):
you might find miniature roses. You might find orchids. You
might find African violets, you might find anthereums. You might
think find things like that that they're saying, now you
know it's a Valentine's weekend, we want to move these on.
You might get a really good deal and you've got
some really great plants that you grow indoors that you
can enjoy over the next several weeks, some of which
(20:24):
can actually go back outside, including miniature roses. And I
think so many times we buy these miniature roses, you
know in the winter time to you know, have a
little color, something gift to keep keeps on giving. And
when they're done flowering, you know, if you're not dead
heading and feeding or whatever and a really good sunny
location in the house, then they're done. They just kind
of sit there. Well if you keep them going through
(20:46):
the winter and you can get them outside in the spring.
Most of those varieties are hardy for our area, so
you can actually plant them in containers or plant them
in the ground once we get into the where the
weather breaks. And the reason you have to wait is
because they've been greenhouse forced, so they're out in leaf
at a time where they wouldn't want to be. But
you could do that and then they come back every year,
(21:07):
or do them in a container whatever. But miniature roses
this time of the year, if you can find them,
you'll find them on sale a great buy. And what
I like to do is just keep deadheading them as
the flowers have done, sunny window and about every two
weeks put them under the kitchen sink and rinse them off.
They can get mites fairly easily for some reason in
the house, but rent them off a little bit and
(21:27):
just keep at it and again limp them through. If
they lose a few leaves, don't worry about it, but
get them to the spring season and plant them outside.
But you know, kind of scarf that up and take
advantage of that, and you can find some really cool
Valentine Day plant cycloman's things like that that will give
you a great color in the house. Yet the rest
of this winter, as we work our way toward the
(21:49):
spring season, and I don't know if I mentioned this
earlier in the show, and probably not, but you know,
there's so many things that be going on right now
in your yard and garden, so many projects. And I know,
talking with Mike Elliott yes day on his show about
what will you do this time of the year, there's
a lot of things you need to be doing, one
of which is getting that lawnmower service. And it's amazing.
(22:10):
After I said that yesterday, I had so many people
emails said, well, it's a great reminder. I appreciate that
because I haven't had that mower service yet. You wait
until mid to late March when you start thinking about
that lawn and you take that more to get a service.
Guess what you're going to be on a list that's
going to take four or five weeks to get your
mower back, and during that time, your lawn's going to
(22:30):
start growing and you're not going to be able to
start mowing. So now's a great time to get the
mower to the service era wherever you take it to
get a serviced, have that mower blade sharpen and have
them get you a second set of blades if you
don't have them, and have those nice and sharps so
that when you get done with the spring mowing and
you're starting to go into the summer mowing, you can
(22:51):
take those blade old blades off, put the new sharp
blades on for the summer, take those old blades, have
those resharpen, and when we get to the first to September,
take the summer blades off, put the fall blades on,
and you've got sharp blades through the fall. If you
will put sharpened blades on your mower for spring, again
for the summer, and again for the fall, I give
(23:14):
you a double thumbs up for doing that, and your
lawn well thank you as well. All right, so don't
forget about that same way with your tools. Get them
all prep take a look at it things are broken,
you might need to add to the toolbox of your
gardening tools. Now's a great time to do that and
get out and visit your local independent garden centers. Looking
around right now, they're really getting stocked up. A lot
of the summer balls are starting to come in. Seed
(23:36):
packs are available at this stage in the game, so
you can start to look at those and look at
you know, get their lists of vegetables, fruits and berries
that they're going to have in the spring. Again, to
start putting your plans together so that once this weather
starts to break, and it will, you're gonna have you
know exactly what you need to get done. And if
you're out there looking at the lawn right now, and
(23:57):
you've got all these trees out there all right, and
they have growing up to the base of the tree,
promise me this that this spring you will go out
and you will remove the grass from around the base
of all of your trees that are growing in your yard,
all right, no grass growing against the trunk of the trees.
Promise me you'll do that. Whatever it takes to get
(24:19):
that ring around it with a little bit of mulch
or groundcover, whatever may be. Please do that. And when
you're putting the mulch around those use a nice course mulch,
all right, a nice course mult of the boot that
will let the soil breed, let the water get through,
still keep the weeds down for you. But do that
as well, and you'll find those trees will grow so
much nicer than when you've got that grass growing right
(24:41):
up to the trunk of the tree. And it's much
easier for you to mow around as well. No lawnmower disease,
No string trimmor disease, because you're whipping the grass blades
all the time around the base. That does take its
toll on those trees. No hitting the flare roots, the
root flare at the top with the lawnmower. All right,
So promise me this year, if you're looking out there
(25:02):
and you have grass around your trees, you will remove
that and you will have a mulch bed by the
time we go into the summer, and your trees are
going to thank you for that. All right, we'll take
one more break, we come back, we'll continue to talk
with the folks from Columbus Trees. We are at the
Central Ohio Homan Gardens Show It just kicked off today
(25:23):
about at eleven o'clock as a matter of fact, starting
to fill up with a lot of folks that are
tired of the weather. They're out here and enjoying the
spring smells, the spring sites. It's just absolutely wonderful. And
of course all the great things are going on as well.
And don't forget to stop and pick up your six
to ten stuff. Lizzie's still getting nervous because she doesn't
want to carry this stuff out to her car, so
clean us off on the top of the table. Please
(25:45):
coming back, We'll talk with the folks from Columbus Trees
our website Columbus Trees dot com. Be sure and check
that out. It's all happening to here on news radio
six to ten WTVN. What do you think, Mike.
Speaker 3 (25:56):
Siebert, outstanding show so far?
Speaker 1 (25:59):
R the garden Show. Yes, yes, as lots of folks
already just open up at eleven o'clock and look, the
house are full already. Yep.
Speaker 3 (26:07):
Everyone wants out of that slush and muck outside.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
I actually was a little disappointed this morning. I thought
I thought it was going to have more of a
snow and things like that. When I got up and
there was nothing, but then it turned into a little
bit of ice.
Speaker 3 (26:21):
If you don't like the weather and Columbus, stick around
to them and it still change.
Speaker 1 (26:24):
Yeah, just give it tomorrow and you'll be all different
again for you. Absolutely broadcasting line today from the Central
Ohio Home and Garden Show kicks off today, runs through
next Sunday nine. Absolutely gorgeous gardens, all smell and look
absolutely spring as spring could be. You'll love them. And
we are in the Columbus Tree Booth, which is right
south of the gardens. We look right into the gardens
(26:47):
where we are here. And if you're not familiar with
Columbus trees, if you're looking for well just about any
kind of tree, but larger trees especially, that's there specialty
are larger trees.
Speaker 3 (27:00):
Absolutely. As Andrews said in your earlier second, Who's Andrew Andrews,
our general manager and one of the family owners lives
on site at the farm. It's just a great experience
to come up with the family. As as he said earlier,
the variety is up there. You're going to find trees
(27:20):
that you can't find anywhere else. And it's instant gratification.
Speaker 1 (27:24):
Now, these are combination the trees that you guys have available,
or combination of trees that you grow and trees that
you also contract grow with other nurseries.
Speaker 3 (27:32):
Yeah, the majority of what we have is baldenbur lap.
We do get a significant portion of our inventory from
central Ohio growers around this area northern Kentucky. So of
course everything that we sell is going to grow in
this zone. We're we're not going to get something that
(27:53):
people can't grow here right now.
Speaker 1 (27:56):
If folks are interested in they're listening, they say, okay,
we are interested. We we put up with a heat
and the sun and all of that the last couple
of years. We need to add a few more trees
and a lot of folks, don't you know. You can
smart start with those smaller anchinche and a half even
two inch caliber trees, but it realistically a two inch
tree takes five seven years before you would start to
(28:18):
get anything appreciable out of that, and that's assuming it's
like an autumn blaze maple or something that would grow
fairly rapidly. That's where you come to step up and
you come into the scene here because you don't have
to start out small, you actually have a great selection
of trees up to like five six seven inches from
the diameter. And now we're talking what twenty five foot trees.
Speaker 3 (28:40):
I was just going to say, your twenty twenty five
feet is not uncommon for our trees.
Speaker 1 (28:47):
You know.
Speaker 3 (28:47):
These are trees that your neighbors may go for a
walk on Wednesday and then go for another walk on
Friday and say, where'd that tree come from? They've never
had trees in their front yard. These are impactful and immediate.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
And if and again if are these trees probably not
trees that folks that want to plant themselves.
Speaker 3 (29:08):
No, you can, obviously, if you come in and get
a two inch caliper tree, you could plant that yourself.
But these are trees that even some landscapers aren't going
to have the equipment to plant. I mean we're talking
root balls. It could be forty inches wide across at
the top, thirty inches wide at the bottom. I mean
(29:29):
that's a big hole.
Speaker 1 (29:29):
Yeah, no doubt about it. And if you get into
a seven inch chunk diameter even bigger than that as
far as the root ball. When you're looking at trees
that are of that size, and you're transplanting trees that
have been growing for quite some time. There's a bit
of a risk. They're more involved with these bigger trees
when you're transplanting those, so there is that involved. So
I'm assuming you would have a pretty good guarantee here.
Speaker 3 (29:53):
We do. We offer one year guarantee guarantee on everything
we sell and plant. Most importantly, we we do offer
a soil conditioning amendment, and that is an all organic matter.
It's earthworm castings, which was mentioned earlier.
Speaker 1 (30:13):
You got it out right, grant it pop.
Speaker 3 (30:16):
Yeah, earthworm castings. We like to keep it family clean,
but no, we put that in as we as we
plant the root ball, and it helps break down this
great central Ohio clay. I am a huge fan of
organic matter. I'm a lawn geek myself, been the show
listener of yours for many many years. If you use
(30:36):
the soil amendment, you add that to your to your
tree purchase at seventy five dollars. It extends your warranty
from the one year. It extends it to three years.
Speaker 1 (30:46):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (30:47):
And then for my own geekdom, I guess is the
organic value the value of that organic matter in creating
that that micro organism bio coolure for seventy five dollars.
I mean, that's that's just an outstanding.
Speaker 1 (31:04):
Advantage once you get the three year guaranteed and then it.
Speaker 3 (31:07):
Takes you guarantee you three years.
Speaker 2 (31:08):
You know.
Speaker 1 (31:08):
Where I have sometimes a problem, especially with smaller tree
smaller plants, is trying to develop a schedule for folks
that are not used to planting and watering. How to
properly water these newly planted trees and shrubs. How long
you have to keep watering. I mean, you know, and
you know last fall, I'm sure you were probably sit
(31:29):
on emails or whatever. It's a dry fall. Make sure
you keep watering, especially for the evergreens, which, by the way,
we didn't mention you do have evergreens. We'll talk about
that a second. But how what's your message to folks
that are planting these larger trees. I mean, that's a
lot different watering than it is a five or ten
gallon tree.
Speaker 3 (31:47):
Yeah, absolutely, and a very very good point that tree
needs a good inch of water a week through its
first year of being planted. You know, there's a couple
of different you know, wives tales and old urban legends
that we share with people as to what is an
inch of water.
Speaker 1 (32:07):
Yeah, that's it's easy to say. Yeah, you know it's yeah,
you need an inch of rainfall. If your grand mother does,
nature doesn't give it to you. You got a supplement.
Oh great, well what's an inso rainfall?
Speaker 3 (32:16):
And we recommend if you get yourself a little spot
sprinkler that goes on the end of your garden hose,
and you you dial down your faucet spickett to the
point where the little mushroom fountain out of that spot
sprinklers cover an edge to edge the mult circle that
we've put around the tree, and then slip a tuna can.
Speaker 1 (32:32):
And I you put a mulch ring around the tree. Absolutely,
Do any of the trees in your yard have grass
growing up to the trunk of the trees?
Speaker 3 (32:40):
They do not. There is a mult and then that
mult is pulled away from that root crown a little
bit to let it let.
Speaker 1 (32:47):
Excellent tip yea in that great don't put that mult
up against the trunk of.
Speaker 3 (32:50):
Those I wonder where I heard that you knew that.
Speaker 1 (32:53):
I know that that's good for you.
Speaker 3 (32:55):
Yeah, but then we you know, you can take an
empty tuna can slip it in that general circle that
that spot sprinkler is is watering, and when that tunicn's full,
your tree has gotten its inch of water. And there's
other ways to do it, but again the old screwdriver trick.
Stick your biggest, longest screwdriver into the top of that
root ball and if it comes out dry, you need
(33:16):
to water.
Speaker 1 (33:17):
You need it.
Speaker 3 (33:17):
If it comes out smeared, you're okay for now.
Speaker 1 (33:20):
Soak it, close to dry, soak it. That's always been
my theory.
Speaker 3 (33:23):
Slow and soak. Let that tree take every bit of
that water as it's passing those feeder roots.
Speaker 1 (33:29):
We're talking with Mike Siebert from Columbus Trees and you
can check out their website columbustrees dot com. Also come
to their booth here at the Homa Garden Show where
if you buy trees here at the Homa Guarden Show,
they'll give.
Speaker 3 (33:41):
You what a ten percent discount for show pers.
Speaker 1 (33:44):
Great deal if if folks don't know exactly what they're
looking for a lot of times you don't, you know,
there's so many trees that are available out there. Do
you offer that service? I know you do at your location,
which we will be there on ourbor Day week Saturday,
But do you also offer where someone can come out
to my house.
Speaker 3 (34:03):
We do. We do. We try and accommodate that when
we can. Andrew mentioned in the earlier segment we have
over ninety species on property. I think last year we
opened with thirteen varieties of maples. I've already seen the
advanced shipping on truckloads that we've got coming in this spring,
and we've got five or six more maples that we
(34:26):
didn't have last year, So that'll push our maple variety
upwards of eighteen a maple for every size, every spot
in your yard you can imagine. But then yeah, we
have the unique things that people can walk and say, oh,
that's a neat tree, what's that? How big does that
end up getting? What color does that flower? So it
(34:47):
is it's a really fun experience. And if you can't
make it up to the farm, we can come out
and you take a look and give our advice and
opinions on what you've got for your options.
Speaker 1 (34:59):
And the farm is open to the public. That's not
a clothes that's over to the public.
Speaker 3 (35:02):
The farm is open to the public. We obviously have
some landscape clients that come purchase their trees and go
do the planting on their own, but I would say
buying large a larger percentages retail homeowners coming in and
picking the trees for their yard.
Speaker 1 (35:17):
Cool.
Speaker 3 (35:18):
And we have chickens on site. Family lives on the property.
Speaker 1 (35:23):
See with the price of eggs.
Speaker 3 (35:25):
Yeah, right, while we're there. We've got thirteen chickens. The
kids can feed the chickens through some grass, through the coop.
We got a pond that's fully stocked with fish. I mean,
it's it's a good experience.
Speaker 1 (35:39):
So it's fun.
Speaker 3 (35:40):
It's fun.
Speaker 1 (35:41):
Bring the kids, absolutely the kids and the experience absolute trees.
Speaker 3 (35:46):
And pick your tree, put your name on it, and
give or take two to four weeks, depending on our
planting schedule. Our crew will be out with that tree
and we plant everything ourselves. We don't sub that out.
Speaker 1 (36:00):
Are you planting now? We're probably at sites of it.
Speaker 3 (36:03):
Yeah, we're probably about ten days away from really getting
full speed into our planting.
Speaker 1 (36:08):
Ten days, two weeks, gotta go. Always a pleasure like
good talking with you. Thank you so much in columbustrees
dot Com Broadcasting Live today, Central Ohio Home and Garden Show.
Thank you all for stopping by. Thank you Lizzie, thank
you Grant for all that you do, and thank you
Alla back at the studios for all that you do
as well. Now do yourself a favor. Get out this
weekend and come to the Home and Garden Show and
(36:29):
make it the best weekend of your life. See you
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