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January 4, 2025 • 37 mins
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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 '
ten wtvn A two to one w TV and is
our number jump on board talking about yardning. Love to
talk with you as well, you know, when when the
weather is in question. I have a really good friend
that says a hobby meteorologist. You've met him before, We've
had him on our show many times. That just does

(00:22):
an outstanding job. I always turn to him to find
out to get the real scoop, and while we're doing that,
it's always good to turn to him also to get
the real scoop about tree care, what's going on with
trees out there, because he is a registered at Consulting Arborus.
He's also an ISA board Certified Master Arborus and of
course he is our hobby meteorologist. His website arbordoctor dot com.

(00:47):
That's Arbordoctor dot com and that would be Ron rothis
Good morning, sir.

Speaker 2 (00:53):
Good morning, and go bucks. I'm also in Ohio State
grant and very much enjoying this playoffs run.

Speaker 1 (01:00):
I was getting ready to say, are you reeling in
that late the latest Buck guye victory.

Speaker 2 (01:05):
Absolutely, that was amazing, thirty four to nothing. At one
point that was I was impressed.

Speaker 1 (01:11):
What were you expecting that, Ron.

Speaker 2 (01:14):
Absolutely not. I tend to be. I tend to go
into things like that. It's kind of a little bit
of a pessimist in that way. If things go really well,
I'm that much more surprised and overjoyed.

Speaker 1 (01:29):
I get it.

Speaker 2 (01:31):
I guess I expected that the defense did not play
all that well in the first Oregon game, and I
thought that they'd be much better in this game, which
was which they were. I was surprised that the offense
came out well after the Tennessee game. I guess it
wasn't totally surprised, but I was still somewhat surprised that

(01:54):
they came out and laid thirty four on them before
they were able to do anything. But it was impressive.

Speaker 1 (02:01):
It was fun to watch, There's no doubt about it.
And hopefully they'll continue to carry that on for two
more games here. I hope, so we'll see what happens.
Talking with Ron Roths, the.

Speaker 2 (02:10):
Other thing was the you know, I'm a huge fan
of the Ohio State University Marching band. My father was
a professional jazz musician, and so I have a great
appreciation for that. And to me, the greatest showcase for
that band is the Rose Bowl and the Rose Parade
and be able to see them watch down March down
the Street in Pasadena. So that was amazing. I was

(02:33):
definitely in front of my TV watching that, watching the
halftime show, and just that showcase for the band was
just amazing. So best damn band.

Speaker 1 (02:43):
In the land, you got it, no doubt about it.
Talking with Ron rothis he is a arborist and of
course our hobby meteorologists website arbordoctor dot com. Let's talk
about trees first. We'll get into the weather second. You know,
I again, you know, as it might stand here, I've
trying to push plant trees more and more and more.
And of course it's not just planting trees, but growing trees.

(03:05):
You know, we can all go out and plant a
whole bunch of trees, but unless we stick with them
and take care of them, doesn't do us a whole
lot of good. And now you had thrown some stats
at me one time about you know, how many plants
trees are actually lost when we do these mass plantings
because of lack of follow up. And I think the
other thing is I was reading some gardening trends, and
of course, you know, helping the environment in all planting

(03:28):
trees part of that trend, but also recognizing more and
more how important it is to take care of our
older trees that are already there, which we have a
tendency to say, Hey, it's big, it's old, it's there,
it can take care of itself. Nah. Maybe Nah, they
need to have themselves taken They need to be taken
care of and watched over as well.

Speaker 3 (03:50):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (03:50):
I mean, the US Farce Service has chronicled increased tree
mortality for ten years after a drought, and and so.
And you know, our trees that are in our yards
and are in an alien environment, they're not in a forest.
They have lawns around them, they are not lawns in

(04:12):
the forest where these trees are used to growing. There's pavement,
there's utilities. Very often we do construction near trees, and
there's all sorts of these things that impact the health
of the tree, that damage the tree. We run our
lawnmowers into the trunks. We we cut up root systems
with our lawnmowers, so that all these things that happened

(04:34):
to trees. You know, they have the Chinese torture method
death by a thousand cuts. Well, a lot of the
things that we do to trees and your root environment
is indeed death by a thousand cuts. And we need
to we need to have that mulch properly applied around
trees to protect the trunk. We need to prim them correctly,

(04:56):
we need to look after them. We need to water
them during these droughted periods to avoid that increased immortality
from droughts. So yeah, there are all sorts of things
that we need to do. I mean, just the simple
act of mulching your leaves back into the lawn rather
than rather than you know, raking them all up or

(05:21):
blowing them all up out of the yard and getting
rid of them, I mean, the leaves naturally fall in
the forest, mulch the forest floor eventually decay back into
the soil in it organic matter to the soil. Same
thing happens to your lawn. Obviously, if you leave whole
leaves all over your lawn, you're going to smell the lawn.

(05:41):
But leaving the leaves and maulching them up, Michigan State
University has actually shown that that's beneficial to your lawn
as well as beneficial to the trees, and it's less
work for you. So you know, all these things are
really helpful in helping your trees do well. And having

(06:04):
trees that are healthy and are doing well is exceptionally important.
There are you know, numerous studies that have shown the
benefits of trees to both human physical health and mental health.
You know, if your heart attacks, faster recovery from strokes,

(06:26):
you know, lower crime rates, and neighborhoods that have greenery
and trees better mental health. I mean, just this whole
range of benefits the trees provide, you know, less storm
water runoff, just just just so many good things, even
habitat for.

Speaker 1 (06:46):
Animals and birds, pollinators, wildlife.

Speaker 2 (06:51):
Yeah, all that. So you know, trees are just have
this wide range of benefits. And you know, I drive
through a lot of neighborhoods for some reason as an arborist,
I have to make house calls. I don't understand that.

Speaker 1 (07:06):
But.

Speaker 2 (07:08):
I drive to some of these neighborhoods and it's like
house after house with no trees, and it just looks
so dark. And then I get in other neighborhoods where
they are mature trees and shrubs, and it's just it's
just a totally different feel in those neighborhoods. There's so
much more inviting, so much more beautiful. You can have

(07:31):
two houses, two streets right next to each other. And
I've actually seen this in one neighborhood in my community,
where one street his trees and the adjoining street does
not have trees. It looks like two totally different neighborhoods.
I mean, the one street with trees looks like it's,

(07:53):
you know, socioeconomically higher end, whereas the other house looks
like it's maybe a little bit lower end. And when
you really step back and look at it, the houses
are basically the same. I mean, the same builder, the
same types of houses. The difference is trees versus no trees.
And like I say, it looks like they're two completely

(08:15):
different neighborhoods. So the benefits of trees are huge. You know,
I just cringe so much want to hear people, well,
I don't want trees because there's so much work. You
have to break leaves, you have to do this, and
I'm thinking, why are you doing all that? Because you
know it's so easy you're mowing your lawn anyway, just

(08:35):
most things back into the grass, and you know, take
care of the trees a little bit as you go along.
You know, make sure they print properly when they're young,
and you're not going to have all these problems that
people associate with trees, because so often the downsides that
people associate with trees are because of improper things that

(08:57):
we're doing to trees as we care for them, and
it's causing these problems that then we blame the tree.
We know, the number one test of trees is people.
So if we really correct the things that we as
people are doing that are improper to trees, and we

(09:18):
start caring for them correctly, they're going to be a
much much more valuable asset to our lawns, to our neighborhoods,
to our communities.

Speaker 1 (09:28):
And you know, property value, you know that has proven
fact as well. You go to a house that has
some really nice trees properly planted, properly spaced, and all
properly maintain, and of course the value of that home
goes up as well. So you know, your property investment,
your investment in that tree just continues to grow as
a tree as well. We got about a minute ago
before we take a break. Don't you find it that

(09:49):
you know, obviously, it's like a regular doctor. You get
the call when the tree is starting to fall apart,
and you go out and try to do everything you
can to stop that. On the same token, folks that
have larger trees in their yards that have never had
an arborist come out. Isn't it a good idea to,
you know, get in touch with a certified arbors and
have them come out and just look at the trees

(10:10):
and you know you're not going to do anything to
them if they don't need to have anything done. But
at least you know, they become your patient and patients
and you can check out them on a regular basis
and make sure they stay healthy so you don't get
called out there because they're starting to fall apart.

Speaker 2 (10:27):
Absolutely. I mean, I as much as I know about trees,
I'm pretty awful when it comes to cars and mechanics
and things like that. So I take my vehicles to
my mechanic and it's like, you know, check it out.
You know, check the check the belts, check the you know,
check the fluids, check everything and make sure everything is

(10:48):
where it's supposed to be. You don't just you know,
buy a car and drive it and never have it checked.
And the same thing with the tree. The same thing
with your human health. You know, you never never have
anything checked with your health, and you just assume everything's okay,
and all of a sudden you have a heart attack
one day. Well, you know, the best time to address

(11:10):
that would have been ten years ago, you know, changing
your diet or exercise or whatever. So yeah, I mean
the trees, like I said, they're living in an alien
environment in our in our neighborhoods, in our yards, and
caring for them, you know, doing those checkups, you know,
identifying broken branches, dead branches, maybe things that need to

(11:32):
be corrected, just little tweaks, and doing that when the
tree is still healthy, so you can make small corrections
as opposed to waiting until it's unhealthy and then you
need to do some major work on the tree. If
if you can save it at all.

Speaker 1 (11:50):
I was going to say, if you can save it
at all, talk with Ron rothis. His website is arbordoctor
dot com. Quick break, we come back. We'll take a
look at the weather coming up. Looks like it's pretty nasty.
It looks like it's pretty cold. We'll find out what's
going on here on news radio six to ten WTVN.
This could be Buggy Joe Bog's theme song, start me Up,
They'll never stop talking you yard here on news radio

(12:14):
six to ten WTVN. Ron rothis with us this morning.
He is the Arbordoctor arbordoctor dot com And of course
he's a great hobby meteorologist as well. And I thought
we'd just touched basically with him real quick. Got this
big front coming in uh tomorrow evening and uh boy,
I don't know, is it gonna split up in Ohio.
Looks like southern Ohio could get just nailed. I don't

(12:36):
know in central Ohio maybe, I mean, what's what's what
are you seeing there?

Speaker 2 (12:41):
Yeah, there's still some uncertainty with this storm. It's it's
still out west and it hasn't totally come together yet.
So and obviously, you know, if you're firing at a
target and you're a long distance away, just a little
change in the trajectory can angel a lot of things.
So there are winter storm warnings in effect for southern Ohio,

(13:06):
south central Ohio. Columbus is the first tier of counties
right now that's still in a winter storm watch. And
the reason Columbus is only a winter storm watch is
because there's some uncertainty as to exactly how far north
the storm the snow is going to get, and it's

(13:28):
very unlikely that Columbus is going to be left high
and dry, although we can't rule that out. A lot
of the precipitation forecasts that I'm seeing right now look
like for Columbus it would be four or five six
inches something like that, But there could be a rather
steep gradient across the city, and you know, the city

(13:52):
could end up with you know, quite a bit less
than that. There could be you know, five six inches
just south of Columbus and very little north of Columbus.
Or this storm system could move just a little bit
further north and all of a sudden, Columbus is into
the area that's getting six eight ten inches of snow.
So there's you know, we're more than twenty four hours

(14:16):
from when the storm is supposed to get here. The
storm is still a long way away. There's still a
lot of uncertainty as to exactly how it's going to
come together. But if I you know, I would advise
that people be prepared for a significant winter storm. Can't
guarantee that's going to happen right now, but there's certainly

(14:37):
a good.

Speaker 1 (14:37):
Chance of it. And of course, as we look to
next week and the following week, from what you and
I were talking earlier this week, it doesn't look very warm.

Speaker 2 (14:50):
Well, that's one way to put it. It looks bitter cold.
I saw one National Weather Service office or all i'll
just add down in I think Birmingham, Alabama, that was
actually comparing the weather pattern for January this year to
the weather pattern of January nineteen seventy seven, which was

(15:11):
the coldest winter that Ohio has ever had. And I'm
not saying that we're going to get that cold, but
this is a very cold pattern, and it's an extended
cold pattern. This is not one of those patterns where
we get a little bit of snow and a few
days later it's up to fifty degrees. It looks like,
especially areas that get substantial snow, are going to drop

(15:34):
to zero or below this week and could be repeated
next week. Highs could be in the teens or even
you know, low teens. A couple of days this week
with areas that get a lot of snow cover. It
looks like next week's going to remain cold and there
probably are going to be some more snow chances in there.

(15:57):
It does look like about the third week of the
months it could warm up some We're not sure exactly
how much. But then after that, the very end of January,
end of February, it looks like we're going to get
into another cold pattern with more snow chances, and I
mean a very cold pattern. So this is real winter.

(16:19):
This is something we haven't seen in a few years,
and even you know, a couple of years ago when
we had that cold shot around Christmas that only lasted
for a few days, and this is going to go
on for quite a while weeks with some interruption in there.
But but but but certainly a longer term cold spell

(16:39):
and some really serious cold weather and for some some
really serious snow cover. Now, the good thing about the
snowcover is that snow is a great insulator. So for
areas that get good snow cover, that's actually going to
be good for our plants. And you know, snow melts,
it seeps into the ground and gives good soil moisture

(17:00):
and you know, a lot of parts of Ohio are
still on drought, especially in southeast Ohio, so that'll be
you know, you know, the soil moisture and the moisture
and the snow will be really helpful to those areas.
So there's a lot of good things about snow. I know,
we don't like to drive in it, but it really
protects our plants, It really protects our root systems. It

(17:20):
provides good soil moisture. So and it's beautiful. I love snow,
oh I too. Sorry for those who don't like it,
but I am an absolute snow fanatic. Always have been,
probably always will be.

Speaker 1 (17:32):
I always look at it. It's like, you know, I
think it's interesting seeing this two weeks of really cool
weather coming up. Mother nature just happens to put a
little blanket on everything as we go through that real
cold snap, and I think it's kind of interesting how
she does that. But I agree with you, I love them.
When the snow comes on, it's like it covers everything
up and mull goes away and we start all over again.

Speaker 2 (17:52):
Yeah, it drives me nuts because you know, I love
to go out and hike in the snow and things
like that. And it's just so beautiful. And then I'll
turn on the evening news and the meter all the
weather man will be saying, Oh, we're finally gonna get
rid of the snow. It's gonna mount. And I'm like,
and we're gonna have gray and bear again. It's like,
why are you excited about this? I would rather have

(18:13):
the beautiful white snow cover.

Speaker 1 (18:15):
You know, it's the same as the rain. Unfortunately, we're
going to have rain tomorrow, so you're gonna get rained out.
Well we need the rain. Well, unfortunately, we're gonna have
rain tomorrow, and you know, we'll take.

Speaker 2 (18:25):
Two months you're out and you finally get a rainy weekend.
They say it always rains in the week is I.

Speaker 1 (18:30):
Know it doesn't. No, No, it doesn't. Ron Roth, It's
always a pleasure. Great information. Again. The website is arbordoctor
dot com. I appreciate you spending time with us this morning,
and I will get together before obviously Groundhog Day because
we always like to pit you against Buckeye Chuck and
Pucksatawny Phil and get all three of your predictions. So

(18:51):
we'll we'll be in touch before then.

Speaker 2 (18:54):
And in the meantime, we'll be watching the Buck guys
on the road to the national Championship.

Speaker 1 (18:58):
Go back, I got it. I'm with you, go Bucks. Thanks,
take care all right, bye bye, all right, quick break,
we come back, jump back into the gardening phone lines
at eight two to one WTVN, eight hundred and six
y ten WTVN. You know where we are right here
on news radio six to ten WTVN eight two to
one WTVN eight hundred and six to ten wtv IN

(19:19):
talking about yardening. By the way, if you still have
your cut Christmas tree up, good for you. We still
have ours up. We always go through the sixth of
January and then we look to take it down eventually
still fresh as a daisy, a little fraser fur, and
of course we will put that out on our patio.
Anchor it down, and I usually take a few branches out,
kind of open it up a little bit and let

(19:39):
the birds use it as a little in and out,
little bed and breakfast kind of a situation. You can
hang you know, a few little bird sooitcakes or whatever
on that tree, or just leave it sit. I like
just leaving the sit and look at it, looking at
it on the patio, but make sure you keep water
neck cut tree until you're ready to take it back outside.
Don't just stop and say I'm all said and done

(20:00):
deep water and okay.

Speaker 4 (20:01):
So once you take it outside, how long do you
leave it out there.

Speaker 1 (20:04):
For the birds all winter?

Speaker 4 (20:07):
So then how do you dispose of it? When you're
ready to get.

Speaker 1 (20:10):
Rid of it? Then I cut it up when I'm
done with it, and I compost it. Okay, how about that?

Speaker 4 (20:18):
Okay? I just I had a tree in my backyard
for like six months.

Speaker 1 (20:23):
Oh yeah, then.

Speaker 4 (20:24):
It was too late to do anything with it. Nobody
will pick it up, you know, past February.

Speaker 1 (20:28):
So well, then you cut up, cut off all the branches,
bundle it all up and they'll take that. Cut up
the log.

Speaker 4 (20:38):
You assume I have like a shed full of saws
or something.

Speaker 1 (20:41):
I'm sure your neighbor might have one that you could borrow. Nah, well, okay,
or you get you know, when you do that, you
can cut all those off and then you could put
that in the ground and you could grow grow some
beans around it. Be like a bean arch.

Speaker 4 (20:54):
A bean arch, yeah, five the year the bean arch?

Speaker 1 (20:58):
Yeah? And so you have it, have it grown out
of your Ristmas tree?

Speaker 4 (21:00):
I was just asking for us normal people, not normal
but normal Freudians lip us, typical people who just you know,
put it out on the curb. Yeah, if you miss
pick up for that, what would you do?

Speaker 1 (21:12):
So? Yeah, and you know there are Ron Wilson saw
you got it. Well, there are places that where you
can take them and drop them off that they use
them like a lot of the parks will use those.
Some of the municipalities will chip them up and use them.
Some of them will throw them into their lakes and
they use those for the minnows and the baby fish
to live in. They'll take a thirty or forty of those.
So there are other ways to get rid of that

(21:34):
thing as well. But I do. I leave it set
up over the winter. And what's interesting, it's a great
example of whatever greens will do if they are suffering
from a drought situation in the fall and probably not
doing so well right now, but they stay green. And
as soon as you get into the springtime and things
start to warm up, they turn brown because there's you know,
they were already actually dead in the fall. Same way

(21:55):
with a cut Christmas tree, that thing will stay green
as can be, fresh as can be, right, up until
we get into March late you know, mid to late March,
early April, where it starts to warm up. And as
soon as it starts to warm up, it starts to
turn brown because it's you know, it was done back
in the fall. And again, like I say, you know,
if you if you've got a wooded there, we have
woods behind ours. I cut it all up and I

(22:16):
can either compost it, chip it up, throw it out
and just scattered out in the woods. I do that.
I mean, there's many things you can use in the
within the garden, and there are a lot of people
that have larger vegetable gardens that will actually use those
tree trunks. Ask supports for bean poles or whatever it
may be, so you can actually do that in there too.
So keep all that in mind. But I like doing

(22:37):
it right now with the bird bed and breakfast for
the winter time. And it looks good on the patio too.
All right, to the gardening phone lines, we shall.

Speaker 3 (22:45):
Go Bob, good morning, Good morning, long time listener, ron
and have a healthy, safe new year. Okay, yes, sir, listen.
I wanted to just make a comment in here, not
so much a question, and last last year I planted
three pineapple tops and pots. Yes, have you ever done

(23:09):
that before?

Speaker 1 (23:10):
Yes? I have.

Speaker 3 (23:12):
So what you get? These things have taken off. They're
about two and a half feet tall two and a
half feet wide, green aish grass. I mean really, And
they say it takes a couple of years to get
a pineapple. But anyway, I just wanted to pass that
on to anybody. It's a kind of tropical and tropical

(23:32):
looking plant. Maybe nobody's ever done it before. Maybe, But
a few years ago I planted one down in Florida,
they campground. One year we went back and they told me.
The neighbors said, well, you had a pineapple on it,
but the raccoon got it.

Speaker 1 (23:47):
Oh you know, I'll tell you what. There's a little
trick to make those do that make them flour and
set fruit. If you can put that in a clear
plastic bag, all right, and take an over ripe apple
and cut it into pieces and put it in the
in the bag with the pineapple plant and and pull

(24:10):
pull a plastic around it and tighten it up so
that it gives off that gas. And it asked me,
a really ripe apple that can actually trigger your pineapple
to flour leave it in there for about two or
three weeks, and then take take it out and see
if that helps it all. Because I've done that before
and it actually triggers it to flour and set up

(24:31):
pineapple for you. So try that, see what happens.

Speaker 3 (24:35):
So I take it out, what do I do?

Speaker 1 (24:37):
Take? No, leave it right in the pot, and then
just take a plastic exactly, set it down in the bag.
Put one or two really yeah, and take one or
two really ripe apples, cut them in half and just
lay those at the at the base of the pot.
And then just pull that bag because all you're doing
is just ceiling it inside that that that plastic bag.

Speaker 3 (25:00):
Yeah exactly, Yeah, so it will did you ever get
a pineapple on them?

Speaker 1 (25:05):
Yeah? And then all of a sudden you'll get this
thing that'll come up and it'll it'll be the flower
and then that turns into the pineapple. And they're very small,
they won't be very big. And you can tell, and
you can tell when it's ripe because it starts to
smell like a pineapple and when it when it does,
cut it off and enjoy the five or six bites
you get out of it. And you can applaud yourself

(25:26):
for getting it to flour.

Speaker 3 (25:30):
Well, I'll tell you, I've never had one gross so
fast like this. It's just amazing. But yeah, I I well,
I'll try.

Speaker 1 (25:39):
That then, yeah, give it a shot. See what happens.

Speaker 3 (25:42):
Just I hate, I hate to throw away two apples.
I love my apples.

Speaker 1 (25:46):
Yeah, but sacrifice the apples. Well, when they're all said
and done, if I.

Speaker 3 (25:52):
Just put it in a bag, right, it'll probably just
rod eventually, right.

Speaker 1 (25:55):
It'll start to it'll start to Yeah, it'll start to
break down anyway, and give off the gas with the
right for the apple the better. And then when you're
done with it, Bob, toss it out back and let
the squirrels and birds have at it.

Speaker 3 (26:06):
Well sure, yeah, yeah, yeah, and yeah I put them
out and I put them out in the yard, you know,
and sure in the summer, and then brought them into
shots exposure, and they are really taking off. I never
had one grow that big. How long does that usually
take about a year? And then to produce? I thought
I heard where it took a year or two to

(26:28):
produce a pineapple.

Speaker 1 (26:29):
Yeah, once, yeah, it does take a while. So you
watch it come up, you'll see the flower come up.
You'll see it all of a sudden it'll start to
form that pineapple and you just keep waiting and waiting
and waiting, and like I say, just keep kind of
smelling it the way I looked at it. And when
it really started to be fragrant like a pineapple, that's
when I cut it off of there. And it was
it was interesting. It was real small. But you know,
you can, honest you could say you did it.

Speaker 3 (26:50):
How big was it?

Speaker 1 (26:51):
Just the size of a softball?

Speaker 5 (26:54):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (26:54):
Is that right?

Speaker 1 (26:55):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (26:56):
Yeah, yeah, Well I'm glad Hawaii Knews how to Grow
and yeah really yeah.

Speaker 1 (27:04):
Thanks Bob, You're welcome. Good talking with you is all right,
take care, all right? And you know what's interesting, uh,
And we've talked about this on the show before. You know,
you talk about indoor winter gardening, things that you can do.
You know, the pineapple is always one to see. You know,
you find a nice pineapple, make sure the top is

(27:25):
you know, an all beat up and scarred up, making
it looks nice. Just cut that off right at the
top of the pineapple, and you peel off about the
bottom one inch layer of leaves, so you've got a
bare trunk and then the rest of the pineapple foliage
on the top, and you can you can start out
with like a four inch five inch pot of potting soil.
You can also stick that in water if you wanted to,

(27:47):
but I just do on potting soil and just set
that right on the top so the foliage holds it
in place. As that little trunk area, that ench inch
and a half bear area goes down inside the soil,
that starts to root out, and we'll root in and
then all of a sudden you notice the plant's starting
to get a little bit bigger and starting to grow,
and it just continues on and again. Tricking it with

(28:09):
the ethylene gas is what that is, I believe, as
it comes off of a like an apple. That's why
you don't store your vegetables and your apples together. But
it gives off that gas and it tricks the plant
into flowering and then setting a fruit. And it is
easy to do pineapples, carrot tops of course, green onions.

(28:30):
You use up the green onions and you've got a
little bit of a white left on the bottom of
some roots. You can stick that in a pot and
potting soil. Those things will regrow again. So there's things
like that that you don't waste. You know, you use
the scraps and have fun regrowing them in the house.
Great project for the kids, grandkids, or yourself, whichever way
you'd like to look at it. All right, quick break,
we come back, K. You're coming up next eight to two

(28:52):
to one WTV in is our number here on news
radio six y ten WTVN talking about growing plants from
foods and anything else it has to do with the yardening.
Welcome back. You're in the garden with Ron Wilson here
on news radio six ten WTV and eight hundred and
sixt en WTV and is our number back to the
guarden phone lines. We shall go K. Good morning, Happy

(29:14):
New year, run, Happy new year to you.

Speaker 5 (29:16):
Thank you. With all this cold weather and snow coming
and we don't know how long it'll be here? Should
I cover or leave my brand new rose bush alone?
And the same goes for a baby mimosa I planted
out front. Should I cover either of those?

Speaker 1 (29:31):
I wouldn't cover them. What type of rose do you have?

Speaker 5 (29:37):
Oh? I don't remember the name, but it's very fragrant,
it's pink, it's beautiful, it's very uh prolific. I can't
recall the name, okay.

Speaker 1 (29:45):
And the reason I ask is that if it's a
grafted rose, not just growing on its own rootstock.

Speaker 5 (29:51):
Right, I got it at Oakland, Okay.

Speaker 1 (29:54):
If it's a grafted rose, we try to must those
over for the winter or to protect that graft, and
those canes about six or eight inches from the ground
up and then leave the rest of it exposed. So
you know, depending on what type of rose it is,
they do like that to be protected, you know they do.
You can also find a rose cones, which are a
styrofoam cone that you can put over the top. I'm

(30:15):
not a big styrofoam cone person because they warm up
too quickly and sometimes we leave them on and then
the rose leaves out and then it's done. So I'd
rather justmult it in at the center. You can easily
do that by getting out to the garden center, or
maybe you have some on hand, getting a bag of
the really fine pine bark or any kind of mault

(30:36):
really and just dumping half of that bag right in
the center of the rose, just to mound it up,
and that protects the bottom of those canes and protects
the plant, right at the ground level and then you're
good to go. And again if we get snow covers,
that's another good insulation for that particular area as well.
The mimosa tree. How big is this thing?

Speaker 5 (30:57):
Oh, it's maybe five and a half seats. I just
planted fly one and it was doing really well.

Speaker 1 (31:04):
Yeah. All you can do is for protecting that is
to protect the root system and as long as you've
got good moult aro on the top of that, that's
all you can do. And there's a good chance with
the mimosa that when we get a dip like that,
they may die back at the top. But the good
thing about mimosas is the fact that the root system
is usually pretty tough, pretty hardy if it's been moult
and they come back up again, which is why when

(31:26):
you look around and you do see mimosa here or there,
they're typically multi stemmed, and that's the reason why they
wind up dying back and then you get two or
three stems to come up and you leave them grow
more like a bush rather than a tree. So nothing
you can do really to help protect that top part.
It would be the root system and the lower part
that i'd be like the rose that i'd be looking

(31:47):
to protect.

Speaker 5 (31:48):
Okay, I also have I called you once before about
my yukka this year they had all those teeny tiny
bugs and you said they were sucking the life out
of it.

Speaker 1 (31:56):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (31:56):
Well, the tips of them about two inches are sort
of brown and dried out, but the green part looks
good and they're growing like mad. They're still growing like crazy,
and they're out there in the elements. So should I
do anything with them?

Speaker 1 (32:08):
Nope, Nope. They're hardy, they're tough, they'll they'll be fine.
Leave those alone, you know. And again I look at
my landscape right now. There's nothing really that I will do.
I hope the mother nature gives us enough snow to
help protect some of the more tender things that are
down close to the ground. But I like the yucca
and that. But they're tough. Yucca is tough and durable,
you know. And again, if you get a little bit

(32:29):
of browning on the tips, you know, you can go
through in the springtime kind of clean that thing up,
and then of course new foliage comes out, covers that
back over and you're good to go again. So no
nothing to do for the yucca. Did you were you
able to get the yucca plant bug under control.

Speaker 5 (32:43):
Mostly there were a few that kept coming back. I
couldn't quite catch them because when I'd spray them with
the oil, they they'd run down to the bottom.

Speaker 1 (32:50):
Yep, it's amazing. They're good sprinters. Well, yeah, unfortunately they
do overwinter around the base of that plant in that debris,
so they'll be but you know, don't forget. You can
also use the systemic, a combination of the two to
go after that, the oil for contact spray and of
course the systemic going from the inside out. If they
continue to be an issue.

Speaker 5 (33:11):
Okay, Can I ask one more quick question?

Speaker 1 (33:13):
Absolutely?

Speaker 5 (33:14):
Okay. I never know when to cut back my raspberry
bushes or my rose bushes. I left them alone now
because my neighbor says, don't do it till the spring.
And also the forcythia. So when do I cut those back?

Speaker 1 (33:28):
All right? Remember forcythia bloom in the spring. So as
a general rule of thumb, if a plant flowers in
the springtime, you prune it after it's finished flowering. Because
right now, all those yeah, so all those buds are
there now. If you're not worried about the flowers, and
you don't really care. You can cut it back and
you lose the flowers, but you might as well enjoy
the flowers in the springtime and then cut it back.

(33:49):
So spring flowering for the Forscythia flour cut it back
and then go from there. As far as roses, it's huge.

Speaker 5 (33:55):
It's like, you know, the branches go up to about
twelve feet already. I want to cut them way back.
I'm wondering how far down can I cut them and
sort of start from scratch six.

Speaker 1 (34:05):
To eight inches above the ground.

Speaker 5 (34:06):
That little okay, yep, that's yeah.

Speaker 1 (34:09):
But again and again if you're gonna do a really
heavy rejuvenation pruning, and you'll find that they don't put
out new growth until after they're done flowering, so they
you know, all you're gonna see is a yellow and
then the new growth starts to come after that. So
that's why we say enjoy the flower and then cut
them back hard and go from there. You know, if
you if you're scared to do that, go eighteen inches
above the ground.

Speaker 5 (34:29):
And the roses and the other one, what's the other one?

Speaker 1 (34:34):
The yep, the rose. I don't usually clean up until
again late winter early spring, sometime mid to late March,
take a look at them. At that point we're past
usually most of the cold weather. See what I need
to do. But that's when I do the heavy pruning
on roses because they flower on new growth, so we
prune them in the spring to force out the new growth.
The raspberry. Any idea, what type you have?

Speaker 5 (34:57):
They're delicious, are they read? No, they've been there for
They've been there for like twenty years. I have no idea.

Speaker 1 (35:05):
If you know what you do with those. If they're
the ever bearing, which is the heritage, you just cut
those off in the springtime at the ground. The new
ones come up and they flower and fruit late summer
and fall. If they're ever bearing, which heritage is, you
can also go through and just leave them alone. They'll
flower in the spring again, you know, do a little
fruiting there. Then you get rid of those and the

(35:26):
newer ones that come up flower and do it in
the fall. But most people with that particular one will
just cut it off at the ground and let it
come back up again. Otherwise it's a matter of getting
rid of the canes that fruited last year and only
leaving the canes that did not fruit, because they'll fruit
for you this year. But again, if it's a heritage
and it's an ever bearing man, you just cut that

(35:48):
thing off of the ground, let it come back up
in the springtime, and then do a one time harvest.

Speaker 5 (35:53):
Okay. Because these the stems grow so long, they have
to be falling over on the ground and you can't
cut the ground, and I'm always pushing them up and
tying them together. They just grow very long.

Speaker 1 (36:04):
Feel free to top those out, you know, in the springtime.
Feel free to top those out at about three or
three and a half four feet and to get more
lateral growth off of those, Feel free to do that.

Speaker 5 (36:15):
Okay. What does spring mean? When is that.

Speaker 1 (36:16):
March apri would be aprilish.

Speaker 5 (36:19):
Aprilish for everybody?

Speaker 1 (36:21):
Yep, okay, depending on the weather. Yeah, yeah, And again
it's depending on the weather. You know, if it comes
in comes in early, then you jump on a little
bit earlier. If it's if we stay longer into the season,
then you know, you wait a little bit longer and
then kind of play it by year.

Speaker 5 (36:36):
Okay, thank you so much.

Speaker 1 (36:38):
Hey, good talking with you. That's it for today. Thanks
all of our callers, Thanks to our sponsors, Thanks of
course to l our producer, because without La, none of
this stuff would happen. So Ella, thank you so much
for all that you do. Now do yourself a favor.
Twenty twenty five. Think about where you're gonna plant those
trees and those native plants. How are you gonna pamper
your worms this we're How are you gonna get the
kids and dogs involved with gardening? Are going to keep
planning and taking care of those pollinators? I hope so,

(37:00):
but by all means, this is going to be a
kind of a fun weekend with all the snow coming in.
Make it the best weekend of your life. See you
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