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Speaker 1 (00:00):
One hundred eight two three eight two five five. Good morning.
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I am Ron Wilson, your personal yard boy, talking about
yardening on this brand new year of twenty twenty six.
Can you believe that? And what a better way to
kick it off twenty twenty six? And that is with
the cup of Joe. Mister Joe Strekker, our executive producer.
You let us know what's going on in our uh
not a start on our you know what's going on
in our landscape. What's going on? I don't know what's
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Ron Wilson. Good morning, sir, Happy new year, Happy new
year to twenty five through another one twenty five of
these happy new years we've said to each other, isn't it? Yeah?
Amazing crazy stuff. Do you remember your first I do too.
I was not awake. You weren't you weren't You're Oh?
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I was awake. You're much happier twenty five.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
I'm celebrating the national championship so much for that this year. Wow.
And won't we won't go there. We're college footballs. That's
where it's going to be man the end of the year.
You have no idea who's going to be the champ,
but it.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
But at least they put on a decent showing, like
unlike Alabama, who got smoked? Who's Georgia the fell who's
our friend in Alabama?
Speaker 1 (01:17):
Yeah? He yeah, Harold, Harold, Wow he did. He said.
He texted me right toward the end of game and said,
we got our kicked. Yes, yes, yes.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
You did, even when the announcers in the middle of
a quarter are talking about a different game. You know,
you know, you know you kicked.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
Now.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
Did you watch the ball game? I had TCU in it?
Speaker 3 (01:44):
You mean Texas Texas Tech? No, t CU CU Corn Yeah,
they played usc didn't Yeah, and he came back came
it was tied when in overtime. I didn't really watch
that much. Last play was unbelievable. They threw out this
This guy looks like a spider book. He was just
real skinny receiver. Took the ball, took off, broke two tackles,
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got up. The guy hit him and he was leaning
out of bounds. He was his upper body was out
of bounds. He's looking down at the sidelines. He's he's
right on the side of it, and there's like this
huge lineman right with him, and the lineman's like he
wasn't sure if he should grab him and pull him
back in or let him go, and I think he
kind of nudged him to bring him back in just
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a tad and then he scored a touchdown and I
in the game. Yeah, I guess to look at the
it was pretty cool, but didn't nobody's say thing about it.
I thought it was a great player. And then at
the end of everybody start rushing the field and the
announcers going.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
Game's not over, Games not over, Game's not over, Games
not over. He must have said that ten times, people
still rushing the field. He went game over because they
had to review it real quick to make sure he
didn't step on the HU was interesting. I did not
see that. There's been some good games, I guess, But
guess what it is. It's not who we wanted to be.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
So what's the big thing going on for twenty twenty
six this year?
Speaker 1 (03:05):
You know what's I As a matter of fact, we're
going to talk about some of the trends that are
coming on. Mike Scott Berline was with us last week
we talked about some of the landscape trends that they're predicting,
and it's always fun to see all the different collect
them all up and see what's what's what's going to happen,
and what's not. But you know, I look at a
lot of stuff that's still trending today that Gary Salvy
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and I talked about fifteen years ago at Home of
Garden shows. We go to Home of Garden shows, what's
what's trending, what's changing in the outdoor rooms and the
outdoor kitchens and taking the inside outside the outside inside
and creating rooms, and it continues to be hot, and
it just gets more and more all the time. But
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it's it's interesting. But one of the things that and
I think you we feature that today and we'll let
you talk about that a little bit is, of course,
house plants continue to get stronger and stronger all the time.
And new it's not a new it's what's old is
new right. The process is probably two thousand years old,
but making a strong comeback and really cool. And I
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know we're going to talk about that for a Plan
of the week. So I collected a whole bunch of
guesses for the trends for twenty twenty six, and we'll
kind of take a little look at some of those
that are out there today as well. So it's interesting,
you know, if people pick, but it's also interesting what
was strong fifteen years ago. It's just continuing to get
stronger and stronger all the time. So what's old is
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new and what's news old as old as you got it.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
It's just amazing. Anything specific, like a specific plan is like, well,
plants of the year.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
You know, we have the plant that you know, the
National Garden Bureau has, they have their plan year of
we'll take a look at those, and they have the
national house plans. By the way, today's National house Plant
Day or no, it's actually this week. Yeah, but you
have the National house Plan and then you have Plants
of the year, you have the Perennial of the year.
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We'll go over all that stuff. Cool, yeah, very cool,
but it's been unfortunately a lot of that stuff gets
watered down, like Color of the Year. I mean one time,
Pantone was the only one that did Color of the Year.
Then everybody that makes paint, oh of course came up
with their color of the year. They got to get
on top of it. Well, now all these brandings, companies
that brand nurseries, that brand their particular plants, proven winners know,
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and they have their Plants of the Year right and
their Perennial of the Year in the Perennial Plant Association
originally had their pre of the you know. So it
goes on, but it's it's still fun to look at
all the different trends and see what's going on. Verty cool, Yeah,
very cool. So we'll talk a little bit about you,
Barbie Bletcher, Queen Bee. We're gonna look back at twenty
twenty five and the past of where we have come
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since the colony collapse disorder. Yeah, for the most part,
they were, I think until this year. Remember we had
the big, huge million b loss.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
Wasn't that because of that huge Asian murder horn?
Speaker 1 (06:00):
No, No, it's because of the it's the mites. It
winds up what the my thing is what it winds
still winds up being. But where we've come over it
since Barbara and I first started talking about this, it's.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
Kind of like War of the World. It's not the
big thing that kills everything. It's a cocktail. That's the
little things you know, and they're the you know, of
course the B diarrhea, which is your best I guarantee
you Barbill bring it up just for you. But where
they show where we have come from since the colony
collapses sort of first happened and we were in the panic.
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And what it's done for pollinators in general today is
so much money put into research out there today, which
is fantastic. Uh So we'll take a look at that.
And it's interesting she's got some status and she threw
us way back.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
When, and I asked her to do it again today.
From how many hives were registered back in the during
the World War Two compared to today, you'll be amazed
how many hives folks had during World Ward two. Probably,
it's it's pretty crazy. And she always I think we'll
also talk a little bit about honey. When you buy honey,
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why we always talk about, but support your local beekeepers.
What's really not honey in your grocery store. That's pretty
much everything is not honey sweet syrup rather than honey.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
Look at the back, but look at the label. I
mean all it's it's all fake.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
Coming from other countries, not from the United States. So
we'll mention that a little bit too.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
That's why I started getting honey instead of from you know,
the supermarket. I get honey.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
You know.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
Every year we'll go to like not a farmer's market,
but like a festival or something, and we'll stock up
on the honey.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
There, sure, or farmers market, I mean usually have a
bee keepers and some of those two locals.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
The last couple of years, we went to the pumpkin
festival out and locally here and we stock up on
get a couple couple four or five jars of honey,
and we get the different flavors mm hm. You know,
we get the the buck wheat one, we get the
the regular honey.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
Getting on what's in flour at the time.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
Yeah, right, there's like a lilac one that's not lilac,
but gosh, I'm losing I'm losing what it was.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
I still think the orange blossom from Florida, if you
ever down there's still one of the best. It's so different,
such a different flavor favorite, and the buckwheat one kind
of is more like glasses. Yeah. So I stay in
touch with the Three Stingers all year long. They keep
me posted every day.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
So support your local, yeah, your local honey beat.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
Well absolutely not, only because you're supporting them and it's
takes a lot for them to do what they're doing.
But uh yeah, you know you're getting real honey right.
Chat rooms up and running, so check out. The chat
room is usually there.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
It's a special New Year's uh graphic and the website.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
Is ron Wilson online dot com.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
And Rita's first dish of the New Year is pasta
penny pasta with sausage, broccoli, and recutta cheese. Mmm, I
could eat that looks pretty darn good. Yeah, I would
lighten up on the broccoli.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
It's pretty darn good. Make a little bit on the sausage.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
I was gonna, I was gonna say, I would probably
would have swapped broccoli for the broccolina.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
Oh you know how I like broccolina. Try this sometime,
spray with olive oil, grill it and yeah, grill it
or put it underneath the broiler. Oh man, I was
guarantee you set off your smoke alarms. Oh my oh
when it gets a little crispy on there. I love that.
Speaker 3 (09:53):
Because I mean, I love broccoli. Brocoli is like one
of my favorites. But every now and then though, and
you get this big chunks and it's like eating a tree.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
Radio. So I would go brock Alina, Yeah, listen to you. Yeah,
mis cuisine well well side and sidebar for I know
you have a sidebar the smoker.
Speaker 3 (10:20):
Last year, yes, a couple of years ago. The year
before then, I got the the outdoor Ninja grow, and
the year before that I got the Blackstone. So this
year I got the Ninja indoor grow. No, which replace
which will replace the Blackstone because it's pretty much a
blackstone for indoors. For indoors. The only thing is, uh,
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we'll probably still take the Blackstone for camping because I mean,
the ninja is electric, but it will total bacon. Oh
you can cook bacon on it.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
I know. But the smell my wife likes when I
do it outside wash well, I like it in the house.
It doesn't matter.
Speaker 3 (11:02):
It doesn't matter in my house because because I'm the
one that determines. So so yeah, so that's that's this year.
That's what that was. This year is a big Christmas
present for me.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
Good for you. So I'm happy for it. I'm happy
for it. And I'm happy for it too.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
And uh and also check check I mean check out
the rita is Actually there's that natural picture of Rita
cooking the dish, which is something we usually don't get.
I've seen like that before the cooks. In addition to
going to getting the recipe. Check out rita in action yes?
Or in action or is it? Two words? Are one word?
(11:42):
In action in action or in action in action. If
it's Rita, it's two words. If it's Sullivan, it's one word,
one word.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (11:51):
The plan of the week is the art of cokadama
and it's Japanese. Didn't really each or any plants, right,
it's it's a Japanese plants, Japanese house plants with.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
Or any plant really with moss and string. Yeah, instead
of being in the pot covering the root bar, you
actually make it. You make a creative thing with moss
around the outside and string it up and then you
can sit it on pots or whatever. My wife started
doing it this year. They have classes everywhere. That's gonna
be a trend for twenty twenty six. You're gonna see
coki dama out there everywhere, and the plants that it's
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really cool the way they are. You can hang them up,
put them, set them down whatever you want to do,
but really cool process. Kind of like bonees eyeing in
a way. Yeah, but you can do it with just
about any plant. Been around forever. Japanese have been doing
it forever. But that is one of the trends for
twenty twenty six that we'll see increases Cookie Dama And
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it's easy for you to do. Not easy, but it's
fun where you learn to get to hang it. All right,
I'm gonna go and truck something on the grill. By
the way, doctor Z called the show must have been
when I was left after you left at the toward
the end of the show, actually called the show. I
wanted to say a happy New Year to you and
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everybody and to make an announcement that they're not getting
married now he know he has that one year left
on his million dollar contract. Yeah, and they are probably
going to move back back where this Cincinnati.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
Oh wow, huh well pretty cool.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
Yeah, so he's got, you know, one one more million
dollar year contract and.
Speaker 3 (13:32):
Then pretty cool, he can uh take me to Rubies.
Yeah there you go. Well, not me, take us to Rubies.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
All of us. Yeah. So, and he said I believe
it or not when that bowser does help to counterbalance
the best on the side. Yeah, but what she puts
her hand out to signal with that heavy rock, it
does lean that way. Well that and it probably blinds everybody.
Well yeah, it probably covers over the band aid or something,
so it doesn't have to. So yeah, but that's he said.
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That's all true. Actually, very cool. And he's one war
year contract with Garden number eighty three. Very cool. So
he's gonna do that too. We said to tell you
Mary Christmas, I got some of my message. Yeah, so cool.
All right, I'm out of here, all right. Joe Strucker,
executive producer. If you like it, we see on our website,
Ron Wilson online dot com Facebook page In the Garden
with Ron Wilson. Joe Strecker had everything to do with it.
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Something on there you don't like. You wish it wasn't
on there. You're not sure about it. Don't blame Joe,
Blame doctor Z for one more year, one more year,
Washington d c thriding on that Vespa Vespa Bowser in
the sidecar, Sweetheart on the back, blinding you with blinding
you with the rock and tipping it to the left.
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Powowbow eight hundred eight two three eight two five five.
That is our number here in the garden with Ron
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Wilson again. That toll free number eight hundred and eight
two three eight two five five only got about a
couple of minutes ago. So let's go to date and
talk to our good friend Dick. Come on a happy
New Year, New Year. How are you, sir?
Speaker 4 (15:13):
Okay? How are you?
Speaker 1 (15:14):
I am good at your ring in the New Year,
playing your ukulele ban Joe fidd All violin. What did
you play?
Speaker 4 (15:21):
You know, Danny or probably Joe. But my friend Bob
hadn't seen me, you know, he was playing some music
down at Clifton and I was up here with Bob.
Come and he oh, she said, he Dick, here's your buddy.
And Bob said, I want to see Dick. Okay, he said,
well she what's he gonna do? Well, Bob said, we're
(15:44):
gonna We had a few people there, you know what
I mean, playing right, but not this big crowd. But
it was good. It was good.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
Good for you.
Speaker 4 (15:53):
Oh, it was just good.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
Now we had were you disappointed in some of the
football games over the New Year's here.
Speaker 4 (15:59):
Yeah, yes, yeah, maybe me so mad I kept I said,
let it go, let it go. I don't know what
happened to him.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
I don't know either, but you know what, nothing you
and I can do about it besides watch the TV
and get frustrated.
Speaker 4 (16:18):
Well, Ryan day to me is a good coach.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
Don't Oh, absolutely absolutely, But that's you know what. That's tough.
That's tough to be the head coach and watch them
oversee that whole game and call his plays at the
same time. I don't think that's the right thing. But anyway, Hey,
we gotta go. I just want to say Happy New Year.
We'll talk to you next Saturday.
Speaker 4 (16:39):
Okay, all right, take.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
Care of Dick Dick from Dayton, right there, Ladies and gentlemen,
all right, we'll take a break to come back taking
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two five five, Barbie Bill let you our queen Bee
will be with us in the next hour. But in
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Wilson and Dover Della where we're gonna go Mike, good morning.
Speaker 2 (17:13):
Hey, good morning Ron.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
How are you, sir?
Speaker 2 (17:15):
Longtime listener, first time caller, Buddy, good to have good
to have you on board. Yeah, I am happy. Twenty
twenty six. Yes, same toy, Yeah, thank you, thank you.
I had a question about crape myrtle bark scale. Yes,
if that's okay. So I've had these crape myrtles of
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about twenty years at the house. I'm about in the
central part of Delawares. You can get if you bounce
it on a on a plate, I'd be right there.
So we're in zone seventy B, and I guess I
hadn't noticed it in the last couple of years, and
all of a sudden this year I noticed just that
even grayness all up and down the entire the entire
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the bark of the entire tree. It's about an eighteen
foot crate myrtle, and it's about eight feet from my
house facing south, so it gets a very good amount
of sunlight. The others seem to be unaffected by it
right now? Is it? I guess? Is it normal for
bark skill to suddenly just affect one tree? And then
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I do have blackberries on property on site about three
hundred feet from this crape myrtle through the house, you know,
on the other side. I didn't know I read that
that could be a contributing factor. But I'd love your
opinion on treatment and what.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
To do well and answer to your question, can't it
get on one and not effect the others? Yeah? I
have seen that happen with all kinds of scale and
other insects as well. All of a sudden, you just
got this one plant that just loaded with it, and
the other ones may have it, just not at a
population level that you can actually notice it. So they
may be on there that one just happens to have
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had it longer, or conditions are just right that they're
able to continue to produce quickly, and they do produce quickly,
and it's a tougher one to get under control. Have
you done? And as far as the BlackBerrys, I am not.
I can't answer that question. I don't know, you know how,
I don't know the connection there between that and the scale.
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If that's part of a try host situation. I'm not
sure about that, but I know with the crate myrtle scale,
it's a tough one to get under control. And I've
looked at smaller crate myrtles that have had that and
when it was on there so bad, Mike that you know,
just like I saw that more than anything else. Usually
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one of the best things to do is to get
rid of the plant. And I'm just being upfront and
honest with you, but getting rid of the yeah, and
starting all over again, and then protecting the other ones, monitoring,
maybe using your dormant oils, systemic insecticides, et cetera, et cetera,
just and monitor and wants the other ones that you
don't get it. Sometimes scale can take, especially when they
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reproduce quickly, they can take a long time to get
under control. And in the meantime you still you know
they're active, they're on there, blah blah blah, you've got
other crepe myrtles. It's something to take a look at
and maybe consider, because, like I say, if it's really bad,
that's sometimes the best action is to just get rid
of the plant totally off the property, so you don't
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have as much of it there as far as worried
about spreading to the others. But in the meantime, have
you done anything yet as far as action to start
to control it.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
No. I was just made aware of it just a
few in fact, a few weeks ago. The number of
scale white pockets that I see don't seem that many. Okay,
it's just what caught my attention was to complete weak
grayness of all of the mold.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
Yeah, well, what happens is mold. Yeah, what happens is
that's their excrement obviously, and it's and and and sometimes
that's your first thing, you know. Magnoia scale is a
great example of that. Sometimes you don't even notice the
magnolia scale kind of blends in with the with the bark,
but all of a sudden, the leaves and the stems
start to get a darker color and you start to
notice that, honey doing n If it starts to mold,
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it turns black, and then it really starts to stand out.
So sometimes it's a great indicator. But in this case,
if you're not noticing that much, you may be okay, uh,
and then you know, basically you're you're going to start
a regiment of dormant sprays are are great, uh while
the plants dormant obviously, and you can do that late
winter early spring. Obviously in the fall you get a
day even right now that it's above you know, forty
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five to fifty degrees and it's going to be like
that all day long. You can do that and let
to make sure it dries on during the day. You
can do that as well. Systemic wise, you know, you
can do a bow spring and fall. Either way, I
would wait until spring, you know, late going again once
the plan is starting to fire back up again. And
then of course contact contact insecticides are major. When those
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crawlers are out and moving, that's when you really want
to go after those. So it's a combination of all
of the three. Remembering that scale weather's off, it doesn't
just die and fall off, so you may see that
there for a while. You just kind of have to
stand back and kind of observe and make sure the
populations are getting higher. And then of course also in
the meantime checking out those other crape myrtles to make
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sure it's not showing up there. You may do a
dormant spray on those also just to be sure not
going to hurt anything, Just to make sure we try
to keep things in check. I was trying to get
this other one out of control. But again, as a
matter if you want to, Mike, if you take some
pictures of the stems where some of that scale's on there,
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email them to I mean, let me take a look
at it. I can tell you you know how heavy
I think the populations are. Weren't happy to do that
for you, Uh, but that's you know, then jump on
it with your control methods. And again, dormant spraying is
going to be your your first thing, and you can
do that yet and then we take it from there
and you just it becomes monitoring and monitoring the other
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crape myrtles as well.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
How still, even an idea is it to to physically
scrub with a semi rough sponge very warm days?
Speaker 1 (23:31):
Very effective? Okay, very effective? I don't yeah, very effective.
As a matter of fact, you know, if you've listened
to our show talking with Buggy Joe Boggs, there's many
types of scale. If you've got just a small infestation
and you're able to get on there with a with
a sponge that you do the dishes with or whatever
that's just got enough roughness to knock those off and
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then just kind of hose it off. You can even
spray with a secticidal soap after you're done, if there's
any crawlers moving. Uh, And that can be very very effective.
Now with great myrtles, you've got some exfoliating bark there
that make may make it a little tougher.
Speaker 5 (24:06):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (24:06):
Smooth bark not an issue. But yeah, absolutely you go.
You got the time to do that. Physical removal is
a great way to go.
Speaker 2 (24:16):
Okay, that's the way to go. Then, all right, thank
you so very much. Ronie.
Speaker 1 (24:20):
Hey there, Thanks Mike, appreciate you listening to the show
and keep us posting on how those turn out for you.
All right. Matt in Ohio, Matt, good morning.
Speaker 5 (24:28):
Good morning, thanks for taking my call. I love the show, sir. Yeah. So,
I I have a brother in law and I have
a buddy and myself who have been trying to grow
papaw trees. Now I have I planted for one, didn't
make it, so I got three in there from different species, okay,
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and but my brother in law planted a bunch and
they all died on him. Is there a trick. Now,
my bud he planted like thirty of them this last fall.
And is there a trick or is there something that
is specific?
Speaker 1 (25:11):
Are you no, No, I think papas are typically fairly
easy to grow. Are you transplanting these out of the woods?
Are you buying these from somebody that's already rooted in
a container?
Speaker 4 (25:24):
Mine?
Speaker 5 (25:25):
Mine was transplanted, okay, And my buddies his was bought,
and he's got a bunch in his woods. I think
that's where he got him. But arbor Day, that's what
I was trying to think of. Yeah, I got a
couple of mine from arbor Day.
Speaker 1 (25:45):
You know what I would do? And those were the bear.
Speaker 5 (25:47):
Rue ones, right, probably?
Speaker 1 (25:50):
Yeah, what I would do with those is I would
What I like to do anyway, is I will take
those even if you transplant them out of the woods
and go in and take a few up. Is I
like to grow those in a container, a one or
two gallon pot for a year or two. And the
reason being is you control everything at that point. You
can set them on the edge of the woods so
they're shaded in the heat of the afternoon. You know,
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you know, you're kind of doing the understory type tree
like they like. But you're controlling everything and you're letting
them you know, you don't let them dry it. You know,
you're keeping them water during the drought. They're getting themselves
rooted in that pot. And then after a year or
two you've got a nice little roots system there. Now
your chances of those things making it are much greater
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than going out and just trying to dig, because when
you dig them out of the woods, you probably noticed
there's not too many roots on the bottom of those things.
You know, one or two shooting out here and there
not a whole lot as far as at that initial stage.
Some folks will actually flag the ceilings in the woods.
And I've done this before, take a spade and go
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straight down around all the way around the outside of
it and leave us sit there. And what you did
is you root pruned it. And then when you root
prone it, it'll create more roots closer to the you know,
the trunk of the of the plant, so that the
next year when you go to dig that up, you
have a better root system. So it's it's one or
the other. So it's growing in a container, growing in
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in the ground and doing some root pruning and you know,
doing a year in advance to establish a better root system,
and that may help you out a little bit. Anybody
that gets plants from the arbor day or from you know,
when they're giving three free trees away or whatever, you
can plan them like that, there's no doubt. But you know,
you typically have better luck by planning them first in
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a container, growing them on, establishing a root system, and
planning them another year or two down the road.
Speaker 5 (27:43):
That's a great idea. I hadn't even thought about that.
Speaker 1 (27:47):
I think I think you'll find a success rate. It
will be a lot better for you that way.
Speaker 5 (27:51):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, okay, okay, that was great.
All right, Matt, I'll give it a try.
Speaker 1 (27:58):
Thank you, keep me posted. Good talking with you. Happy
New Year and again, I you know, as we come
up with the if you go out and see where
parks in that will you know, like plant one hundred
of little seedlings, little saplings, just stick them in the ground,
let them go. Not all of them grow. They'd like
for them all too, but you know, you plan one hundred,
you know, assuming you're going to get a hopefully a
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fifty percent take or a seventy five percent take of
those they don't all grow. And so if you ad
you know, doing them in a container, get a better
root system, your chances of them rooting in. It's a
little more work obviously because you dig a nice hole,
but chances are they'll do a much better job for
you transplanting out of the woods like that. If you
dig a tree up, there's like two or three roots
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in their finger size coming off that plan. That's about it.
That's all they have at that stage. Root pruning them,
and they'll do that in the nursery with your trees
that they're growing out there. Root pruning them to make
them create a more of a solid root ball makes
it easier during the transplant period to be more successful.
Eight hundred and eight two three eight two five five.
That's our number here in the Garden with Ron will
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Since Garden with Ron Wilson again that total free number
eight hundred eight two three eight two five five. Talking
about yardening, Happy New Year twenty twenty six. Got some
New Year's resolutions for gardening this year? Uh, you know,
Danny and I've talked over all these years. Neither one
of us write any resolutions down. We know in our
(29:20):
heads kind of what we want to do. Yes, stay
very casual about it. I think one thing that folks do, though,
you know, you look at your at gardening and landscaping
and what you're going to do outside, and you know
a lot of times, you know resolutions and whether they're
gardening or life resolutions. Sometimes you know, we just don't.
We fail to do all of what we want to do.
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And so I would suggest that as you look at
twenty twenty six in your gardening, yardening, landscaping, indoor, house, plant,
whatever it may be, endeavors and resolutions of what you're
going to do, be realistic. Okay, be realistic. Think about
I when folks just start, you know, you maybe you're
(30:05):
a young couple or just getting started a younger age
that just starting to do some type of plant care,
house plants, growing fruits and vegetables, maybe a first house
or whatever you finally start. You know, when you start
doing things, you realize it does take time. And I
think as simple as watering newly planted landscapes. It's amazing
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when you get someone who hasn't really gotten too involved
with landscaping in the lawn and you do design for draw,
design for them or whatever, and they go out and
they plant these new evergreen screens like and living living fences.
Of course, hot, hot, hot, instead of putting up a
physical fence, putting up living fences for screening and creating
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those outdoor spaces, and that is a hot one to do.
But what you don't think about is when you're planting
those newly planted trees and shrubs and perennials and whatever
it may be, that they must be watered on a
regular basis to make sure that's it. And that's a
major key, right plant, right place. Obviously, great soil, all
major factors, but watering is a major key for the
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success of these plants that you've invested in. And when
you're watering, if you're doing it, you know where you're
moving the host from plant to plant to plant, you
know how are you may be doing it. It takes time,
and it's amazing how many times I'll get a little
bit of feedback saying we love it, we love the
new landscaping. You know is great, but we didn't realize
(31:36):
how much time it takes to water, just to water.
So you know, you've got a factor in all of
those things. So again, you've got kids, if you've got
soccer going on, if you're gonna travel, you're gonna do
whatever factor all of those away times in your schedule.
And to be realistic, how much time do you have
to spend to garden? Obviously I'd love to see you
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do all kinds of great things out there, but we
also want you to be successful and so to be
successful in your guardening endeavors. And I think I think
the other thing to remember when I talk about being successful,
we're here to help make you as successful as we
can and to encourage you to get out there and
do work with container gardening and your pollinator gardens and
your raise beds, and you know you're maybe doing the
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micro clover in with your lawn or making a flowering lawn,
or reducing your lawn down and more pollinator plants or
native grasses and things like that. Totally encouraging you to
get out and do that. But I also want to
remind you if you've never done it before and you're
just getting into it, you're going to have some failures
out there. It happens. Even if you did all your
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homework and you got the right plant in the right spot,
you did everything right. Sometimes you still lose the plants.
Sometimes the plants just don't do very well. You know.
I planted and I you know, you hear me talk
about planning that new exclamation sycamore in front of our house.
I planted a tulip tree there, or a a tupelo
(33:02):
tree there about three and a half years ago, small
one and was in a seven gallon pots, the size
we upgraded into our nursery into larger pots. Continued to
growing into twenty twenty five gallon pots. When he mighty
took one of the smaller ones home. He's always one
on one in our yard, and I planted it. It's
a really nice soil what a tree used to be,
but it hadn't been there for several years. Everything had
been ground out. It's a really nice area. Soil is
(33:23):
really nice. Planted that bad boy, and it literally never grew.
See and here I am the yard boy planting this
tree and it never grew. And that they sat there
for three years. I did everything. I went back with
a spade, tried to chop the roots a little bit
to loosen them up, watering as needed, you know, as
fat as needed. The soil was absolutely outstanding U and
(33:44):
it just never grew. So I pulled it out this
summer and I said, okay, I'm done. I'm not gonna
I'm gonna go do something else here, and it does happen.
I didn't think our neighbors even looked at me, going, well,
didn't you plant that? So yes, I did, but it
does happen. Expect some failures here, you know, but we're
all very optimistic. So you try it again, try to
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figure out what may have gone wrong, and you continue
to trice. But expected things to sometimes not always work
all right because you're working with perishable things here, and
you have no control over the weather or the winds
and the rain or whatever it may be. So anyway,
I pulled this thing out and it had rooted in,
which is really weird. It had started to root in.
I actually had fairly nice little root system. I just
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never grew on the top. And I have no idea
why that happened, but it did. And you know my
old theory. If you've listened to our show over the years,
I give plants two or three years. If you don't
make it, I give you a final warning you're out
of here. Because I don't have time to mess around.
I need you to grow. If you're not going to
do your job, get out. But anyway replaces. So my
point being is there are some failures. God knows how
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many plants I've killed over the years purposely and not
on purpose. But it happens, all right, So expect that.
But my point being is, as you're putting your resolutions
together and looking at twenty twenty six and beyond, and
I say beyond because typically your lawn, your perennial gardens,
your vegetable gardens are works in progress. As you continue
to plant and do things, you know you've got to
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sit back and let these things grow and plant ahead,
planning and planting ahead, planning it forward of how these
things are going to work down the road. So again,
look at the time that you have, how much actual
time do you have to be involved in your in
your new endeavors, and then set up your new gardening
resolutions that way. In some cases it may be looking
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at everything that's as simple as can be, to keep
it as simple ast be, so you have very simple
but very effective gardening in twenty twenty six,
One hundred eight two three eight two five five. Good morning.
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I am Ron Wilson, your personal yard boy, talking about
yardening on this brand new year of twenty twenty six.
Can you believe that? And what a better way to
kick it off twenty twenty six? And that is with
the cup of Joe. Mister Joe Strekker, our executive producer.
You let us know what's going on in our uh
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Ron Wilson. Good morning, sir, Happy new year, Happy new
year to twenty five through another one twenty five of
these happy new years we've said to each other, isn't it? Yeah?
Amazing crazy stuff. Do you remember your first I do too.
I was not awake. You weren't you weren't You're Oh?
(00:49):
I was awake. You're much happier twenty five.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
I'm celebrating the national championship so much for that this year. Wow.
And won't we won't go there. We're college footballs. That's
where it's going to be man the end of the year.
You have no idea who's going to be the champ,
but it.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
But at least they put on a decent showing, like
unlike Alabama, who got smoked? Who's Georgia the fell who's
our friend in Alabama?
Speaker 1 (01:17):
Yeah? He yeah, Harold, Harold, Wow he did. He said.
He texted me right toward the end of game and said,
we got our kicked. Yes, yes, yes.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
You did, even when the announcers in the middle of
a quarter are talking about a different game. You know,
you know, you know you kicked.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
Now.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
Did you watch the ball game? I had TCU in it?
Speaker 3 (01:44):
You mean Texas Texas Tech? No, t CU CU Corn Yeah,
they played usc didn't Yeah, and he came back came
it was tied when in overtime. I didn't really watch
that much. Last play was unbelievable. They threw out this
This guy looks like a spider book. He was just
real skinny receiver. Took the ball, took off, broke two tackles,
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got up. The guy hit him and he was leaning
out of bounds. He was his upper body was out
of bounds. He's looking down at the sidelines. He's he's
right on the side of it, and there's like this
huge lineman right with him, and the lineman's like he
wasn't sure if he should grab him and pull him
back in or let him go, and I think he
kind of nudged him to bring him back in just
(02:27):
a tad and then he scored a touchdown and I
in the game. Yeah, I guess to look at the
it was pretty cool, but didn't nobody's say thing about it.
I thought it was a great player. And then at
the end of everybody start rushing the field and the
announcers going.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
Game's not over, Games not over, Game's not over, Games
not over. He must have said that ten times, people
still rushing the field. He went game over because they
had to review it real quick to make sure he
didn't step on the HU was interesting. I did not
see that. There's been some good games, I guess, But
guess what it is. It's not who we wanted to be.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
So what's the big thing going on for twenty twenty
six this year?
Speaker 1 (03:05):
You know what's I As a matter of fact, we're
going to talk about some of the trends that are
coming on. Mike Scott Berline was with us last week
we talked about some of the landscape trends that they're predicting,
and it's always fun to see all the different collect
them all up and see what's what's what's going to happen,
and what's not. But you know, I look at a
lot of stuff that's still trending today that Gary Salvy
(03:28):
and I talked about fifteen years ago at Home of
Garden shows. We go to Home of Garden shows, what's
what's trending, what's changing in the outdoor rooms and the
outdoor kitchens and taking the inside outside the outside inside
and creating rooms, and it continues to be hot, and
it just gets more and more all the time. But
(03:48):
it's it's interesting. But one of the things that and
I think you we feature that today and we'll let
you talk about that a little bit is, of course,
house plants continue to get stronger and stronger all the time.
And new it's not a new it's what's old is
new right. The process is probably two thousand years old,
but making a strong comeback and really cool. And I
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know we're going to talk about that for a Plan
of the week. So I collected a whole bunch of
guesses for the trends for twenty twenty six, and we'll
kind of take a little look at some of those
that are out there today as well. So it's interesting,
you know, if people pick, but it's also interesting what
was strong fifteen years ago. It's just continuing to get
stronger and stronger all the time. So what's old is
(04:30):
new and what's news old as old as you got it.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
It's just amazing. Anything specific, like a specific plan is like, well,
plants of the year.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
You know, we have the plant that you know, the
National Garden Bureau has, they have their plan year of
we'll take a look at those, and they have the
national house plans. By the way, today's National house Plant
Day or no, it's actually this week. Yeah, but you
have the National house Plan and then you have Plants
of the year, you have the Perennial of the year.
(05:02):
We'll go over all that stuff. Cool, yeah, very cool,
but it's been unfortunately a lot of that stuff gets
watered down, like Color of the Year. I mean one time,
Pantone was the only one that did Color of the Year.
Then everybody that makes paint, oh of course came up
with their color of the year. They got to get
on top of it. Well, now all these brandings, companies
that brand nurseries, that brand their particular plants, proven winners know,
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and they have their Plants of the Year right and
their Perennial of the Year in the Perennial Plant Association
originally had their pre of the you know. So it
goes on, but it's it's still fun to look at
all the different trends and see what's going on. Verty cool, Yeah,
very cool. So we'll talk a little bit about you,
Barbie Bletcher, Queen Bee. We're gonna look back at twenty
twenty five and the past of where we have come
(05:44):
since the colony collapse disorder. Yeah, for the most part,
they were, I think until this year. Remember we had
the big, huge million b loss.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
Wasn't that because of that huge Asian murder horn?
Speaker 1 (06:00):
No, No, it's because of the it's the mites. It
winds up what the my thing is what it winds
still winds up being. But where we've come over it
since Barbara and I first started talking about this, it's.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
Kind of like War of the World. It's not the
big thing that kills everything. It's a cocktail. That's the
little things you know, and they're the you know, of
course the B diarrhea, which is your best I guarantee
you Barbill bring it up just for you. But where
they show where we have come from since the colony
collapses sort of first happened and we were in the panic.
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And what it's done for pollinators in general today is
so much money put into research out there today, which
is fantastic. Uh So we'll take a look at that.
And it's interesting she's got some status and she threw
us way back.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
When, and I asked her to do it again today.
From how many hives were registered back in the during
the World War Two compared to today, you'll be amazed
how many hives folks had during World Ward two. Probably,
it's it's pretty crazy. And she always I think we'll
also talk a little bit about honey. When you buy honey,
(07:08):
why we always talk about, but support your local beekeepers.
What's really not honey in your grocery store. That's pretty
much everything is not honey sweet syrup rather than honey.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
Look at the back, but look at the label. I
mean all it's it's all fake.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
Coming from other countries, not from the United States. So
we'll mention that a little bit too.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
That's why I started getting honey instead of from you know,
the supermarket. I get honey.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
You know.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
Every year we'll go to like not a farmer's market,
but like a festival or something, and we'll stock up
on the honey.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
There, sure, or farmers market, I mean usually have a
bee keepers and some of those two locals.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
The last couple of years, we went to the pumpkin
festival out and locally here and we stock up on
get a couple couple four or five jars of honey,
and we get the different flavors mm hm. You know,
we get the the buck wheat one, we get the
the regular honey.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
Getting on what's in flour at the time.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
Yeah, right, there's like a lilac one that's not lilac,
but gosh, I'm losing I'm losing what it was.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
I still think the orange blossom from Florida, if you
ever down there's still one of the best. It's so different,
such a different flavor favorite, and the buckwheat one kind
of is more like glasses. Yeah. So I stay in
touch with the Three Stingers all year long. They keep
me posted every day.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
So support your local, yeah, your local honey beat.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
Well absolutely not, only because you're supporting them and it's
takes a lot for them to do what they're doing.
But uh yeah, you know you're getting real honey right.
Chat rooms up and running, so check out. The chat
room is usually there.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
It's a special New Year's uh graphic and the website.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
Is ron Wilson online dot com.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
And Rita's first dish of the New Year is pasta
penny pasta with sausage, broccoli, and recutta cheese. Mmm, I
could eat that looks pretty darn good. Yeah, I would
lighten up on the broccoli.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
It's pretty darn good. Make a little bit on the sausage.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
I was gonna, I was gonna say, I would probably
would have swapped broccoli for the broccolina.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
Oh you know how I like broccolina. Try this sometime,
spray with olive oil, grill it and yeah, grill it
or put it underneath the broiler. Oh man, I was
guarantee you set off your smoke alarms. Oh my oh
when it gets a little crispy on there. I love that.
Speaker 3 (09:53):
Because I mean, I love broccoli. Brocoli is like one
of my favorites. But every now and then though, and
you get this big chunks and it's like eating a tree.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
Radio. So I would go brock Alina, Yeah, listen to you. Yeah,
mis cuisine well well side and sidebar for I know
you have a sidebar the smoker.
Speaker 3 (10:20):
Last year, yes, a couple of years ago. The year
before then, I got the the outdoor Ninja grow, and
the year before that I got the Blackstone. So this
year I got the Ninja indoor grow. No, which replace
which will replace the Blackstone because it's pretty much a
blackstone for indoors. For indoors. The only thing is, uh,
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we'll probably still take the Blackstone for camping because I mean,
the ninja is electric, but it will total bacon. Oh
you can cook bacon on it.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
I know. But the smell my wife likes when I
do it outside wash well, I like it in the house.
It doesn't matter.
Speaker 3 (11:02):
It doesn't matter in my house because because I'm the
one that determines. So so yeah, so that's that's this year.
That's what that was. This year is a big Christmas
present for me.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
Good for you. So I'm happy for it. I'm happy
for it. And I'm happy for it too.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
And uh and also check check I mean check out
the rita is Actually there's that natural picture of Rita
cooking the dish, which is something we usually don't get.
I've seen like that before the cooks. In addition to
going to getting the recipe. Check out rita in action yes?
Or in action or is it? Two words? Are one word?
(11:42):
In action in action or in action in action. If
it's Rita, it's two words. If it's Sullivan, it's one word,
one word.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (11:51):
The plan of the week is the art of cokadama
and it's Japanese. Didn't really each or any plants, right,
it's it's a Japanese plants, Japanese house plants with.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
Or any plant really with moss and string. Yeah, instead
of being in the pot covering the root bar, you
actually make it. You make a creative thing with moss
around the outside and string it up and then you
can sit it on pots or whatever. My wife started
doing it this year. They have classes everywhere. That's gonna
be a trend for twenty twenty six. You're gonna see
coki dama out there everywhere, and the plants that it's
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really cool the way they are. You can hang them up,
put them, set them down whatever you want to do,
but really cool process. Kind of like bonees eyeing in
a way. Yeah, but you can do it with just
about any plant. Been around forever. Japanese have been doing
it forever. But that is one of the trends for
twenty twenty six that we'll see increases Cookie Dama And
(12:48):
it's easy for you to do. Not easy, but it's
fun where you learn to get to hang it. All right,
I'm gonna go and truck something on the grill. By
the way, doctor Z called the show must have been
when I was left after you left at the toward
the end of the show, actually called the show. I
wanted to say a happy New Year to you and
(13:08):
everybody and to make an announcement that they're not getting
married now he know he has that one year left
on his million dollar contract. Yeah, and they are probably
going to move back back where this Cincinnati.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
Oh wow, huh well pretty cool.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
Yeah, so he's got, you know, one one more million
dollar year contract and.
Speaker 3 (13:32):
Then pretty cool, he can uh take me to Rubies.
Yeah there you go. Well, not me, take us to Rubies.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
All of us. Yeah. So, and he said I believe
it or not when that bowser does help to counterbalance
the best on the side. Yeah, but what she puts
her hand out to signal with that heavy rock, it
does lean that way. Well that and it probably blinds everybody.
Well yeah, it probably covers over the band aid or something,
so it doesn't have to. So yeah, but that's he said.
(14:04):
That's all true. Actually, very cool. And he's one war
year contract with Garden number eighty three. Very cool. So
he's gonna do that too. We said to tell you
Mary Christmas, I got some of my message. Yeah, so cool.
All right, I'm out of here, all right. Joe Strucker,
executive producer. If you like it, we see on our website,
Ron Wilson online dot com Facebook page In the Garden
with Ron Wilson. Joe Strecker had everything to do with it.
(14:26):
Something on there you don't like. You wish it wasn't
on there. You're not sure about it. Don't blame Joe,
Blame doctor Z for one more year, one more year,
Washington d c thriding on that Vespa Vespa Bowser in
the sidecar, Sweetheart on the back, blinding you with blinding
you with the rock and tipping it to the left.
(14:50):
Powowbow eight hundred eight two three eight two five five.
That is our number here in the garden with Ron
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Wilson again. That toll free number eight hundred and eight
two three eight two five five only got about a
couple of minutes ago. So let's go to date and
talk to our good friend Dick. Come on a happy
New Year, New Year. How are you, sir?
Speaker 4 (15:13):
Okay? How are you?
Speaker 1 (15:14):
I am good at your ring in the New Year,
playing your ukulele ban Joe fidd All violin. What did
you play?
Speaker 4 (15:21):
You know, Danny or probably Joe. But my friend Bob
hadn't seen me, you know, he was playing some music
down at Clifton and I was up here with Bob.
Come and he oh, she said, he Dick, here's your buddy.
And Bob said, I want to see Dick. Okay, he said,
well she what's he gonna do? Well, Bob said, we're
(15:44):
gonna We had a few people there, you know what
I mean, playing right, but not this big crowd. But
it was good. It was good.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
Good for you.
Speaker 4 (15:53):
Oh, it was just good.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
Now we had were you disappointed in some of the
football games over the New Year's here.
Speaker 4 (15:59):
Yeah, yes, yeah, maybe me so mad I kept I said,
let it go, let it go. I don't know what
happened to him.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
I don't know either, but you know what, nothing you
and I can do about it besides watch the TV
and get frustrated.
Speaker 4 (16:18):
Well, Ryan day to me is a good coach.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
Don't Oh, absolutely absolutely, But that's you know what. That's tough.
That's tough to be the head coach and watch them
oversee that whole game and call his plays at the
same time. I don't think that's the right thing. But anyway, Hey,
we gotta go. I just want to say Happy New Year.
We'll talk to you next Saturday.
Speaker 4 (16:39):
Okay, all right, take.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
Care of Dick Dick from Dayton, right there, Ladies and gentlemen,
all right, we'll take a break to come back taking
your calls at eight hundred and eight two three eight
two five five, Barbie Bill let you our queen Bee
will be with us in the next hour. But in
the meantime, you and me talking yardening here in the
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Wilson and Dover Della where we're gonna go Mike, good morning.
Speaker 2 (17:13):
Hey, good morning Ron.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
How are you, sir?
Speaker 2 (17:15):
Longtime listener, first time caller, Buddy, good to have good
to have you on board. Yeah, I am happy. Twenty
twenty six. Yes, same toy, Yeah, thank you, thank you.
I had a question about crape myrtle bark scale. Yes,
if that's okay. So I've had these crape myrtles of
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about twenty years at the house. I'm about in the
central part of Delawares. You can get if you bounce
it on a on a plate, I'd be right there.
So we're in zone seventy B, and I guess I
hadn't noticed it in the last couple of years, and
all of a sudden this year I noticed just that
even grayness all up and down the entire the entire
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the bark of the entire tree. It's about an eighteen
foot crate myrtle, and it's about eight feet from my
house facing south, so it gets a very good amount
of sunlight. The others seem to be unaffected by it
right now? Is it? I guess? Is it normal for
bark skill to suddenly just affect one tree? And then
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I do have blackberries on property on site about three
hundred feet from this crape myrtle through the house, you know,
on the other side. I didn't know I read that
that could be a contributing factor. But I'd love your
opinion on treatment and what.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
To do well and answer to your question, can't it
get on one and not effect the others? Yeah? I
have seen that happen with all kinds of scale and
other insects as well. All of a sudden, you just
got this one plant that just loaded with it, and
the other ones may have it, just not at a
population level that you can actually notice it. So they
may be on there that one just happens to have
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had it longer, or conditions are just right that they're
able to continue to produce quickly, and they do produce quickly,
and it's a tougher one to get under control. Have
you done? And as far as the BlackBerrys, I am not.
I can't answer that question. I don't know, you know how,
I don't know the connection there between that and the scale.
(19:30):
If that's part of a try host situation. I'm not
sure about that, but I know with the crate myrtle scale,
it's a tough one to get under control. And I've
looked at smaller crate myrtles that have had that and
when it was on there so bad, Mike that you know,
just like I saw that more than anything else. Usually
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one of the best things to do is to get
rid of the plant. And I'm just being upfront and
honest with you, but getting rid of the yeah, and
starting all over again, and then protecting the other ones, monitoring,
maybe using your dormant oils, systemic insecticides, et cetera, et cetera,
just and monitor and wants the other ones that you
don't get it. Sometimes scale can take, especially when they
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reproduce quickly, they can take a long time to get
under control. And in the meantime you still you know
they're active, they're on there, blah blah blah, you've got
other crepe myrtles. It's something to take a look at
and maybe consider, because, like I say, if it's really bad,
that's sometimes the best action is to just get rid
of the plant totally off the property, so you don't
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have as much of it there as far as worried
about spreading to the others. But in the meantime, have
you done anything yet as far as action to start
to control it.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
No. I was just made aware of it just a
few in fact, a few weeks ago. The number of
scale white pockets that I see don't seem that many. Okay,
it's just what caught my attention was to complete weak
grayness of all of the mold.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
Yeah, well, what happens is mold. Yeah, what happens is
that's their excrement obviously, and it's and and and sometimes
that's your first thing, you know. Magnoia scale is a
great example of that. Sometimes you don't even notice the
magnolia scale kind of blends in with the with the bark,
but all of a sudden, the leaves and the stems
start to get a darker color and you start to
notice that, honey doing n If it starts to mold,
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it turns black, and then it really starts to stand out.
So sometimes it's a great indicator. But in this case,
if you're not noticing that much, you may be okay, uh,
and then you know, basically you're you're going to start
a regiment of dormant sprays are are great, uh while
the plants dormant obviously, and you can do that late
winter early spring. Obviously in the fall you get a
day even right now that it's above you know, forty
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five to fifty degrees and it's going to be like
that all day long. You can do that and let
to make sure it dries on during the day. You
can do that as well. Systemic wise, you know, you
can do a bow spring and fall. Either way, I
would wait until spring, you know, late going again once
the plan is starting to fire back up again. And
then of course contact contact insecticides are major. When those
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crawlers are out and moving, that's when you really want
to go after those. So it's a combination of all
of the three. Remembering that scale weather's off, it doesn't
just die and fall off, so you may see that
there for a while. You just kind of have to
stand back and kind of observe and make sure the
populations are getting higher. And then of course also in
the meantime checking out those other crape myrtles to make
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sure it's not showing up there. You may do a
dormant spray on those also just to be sure not
going to hurt anything, Just to make sure we try
to keep things in check. I was trying to get
this other one out of control. But again, as a
matter if you want to, Mike, if you take some
pictures of the stems where some of that scale's on there,
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email them to I mean, let me take a look
at it. I can tell you you know how heavy
I think the populations are. Weren't happy to do that
for you, Uh, but that's you know, then jump on
it with your control methods. And again, dormant spraying is
going to be your your first thing, and you can
do that yet and then we take it from there
and you just it becomes monitoring and monitoring the other
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crape myrtles as well.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
How still, even an idea is it to to physically
scrub with a semi rough sponge very warm days?
Speaker 1 (23:31):
Very effective? Okay, very effective? I don't yeah, very effective.
As a matter of fact, you know, if you've listened
to our show talking with Buggy Joe Boggs, there's many
types of scale. If you've got just a small infestation
and you're able to get on there with a with
a sponge that you do the dishes with or whatever
that's just got enough roughness to knock those off and
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then just kind of hose it off. You can even
spray with a secticidal soap after you're done, if there's
any crawlers moving. Uh, And that can be very very effective.
Now with great myrtles, you've got some exfoliating bark there
that make may make it a little tougher.
Speaker 5 (24:06):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (24:06):
Smooth bark not an issue. But yeah, absolutely you go.
You got the time to do that. Physical removal is
a great way to go.
Speaker 2 (24:16):
Okay, that's the way to go. Then, all right, thank
you so very much. Ronie.
Speaker 1 (24:20):
Hey there, Thanks Mike, appreciate you listening to the show
and keep us posting on how those turn out for you.
All right. Matt in Ohio, Matt, good morning.
Speaker 5 (24:28):
Good morning, thanks for taking my call. I love the show, sir. Yeah. So,
I I have a brother in law and I have
a buddy and myself who have been trying to grow
papaw trees. Now I have I planted for one, didn't
make it, so I got three in there from different species, okay,
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and but my brother in law planted a bunch and
they all died on him. Is there a trick. Now,
my bud he planted like thirty of them this last fall.
And is there a trick or is there something that
is specific?
Speaker 1 (25:11):
Are you no, No, I think papas are typically fairly
easy to grow. Are you transplanting these out of the woods?
Are you buying these from somebody that's already rooted in
a container?
Speaker 4 (25:24):
Mine?
Speaker 5 (25:25):
Mine was transplanted, okay, And my buddies his was bought,
and he's got a bunch in his woods. I think
that's where he got him. But arbor Day, that's what
I was trying to think of. Yeah, I got a
couple of mine from arbor Day.
Speaker 1 (25:45):
You know what I would do? And those were the bear.
Speaker 5 (25:47):
Rue ones, right, probably?
Speaker 1 (25:50):
Yeah, what I would do with those is I would
What I like to do anyway, is I will take
those even if you transplant them out of the woods
and go in and take a few up. Is I
like to grow those in a container, a one or
two gallon pot for a year or two. And the
reason being is you control everything at that point. You
can set them on the edge of the woods so
they're shaded in the heat of the afternoon. You know,
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you know, you're kind of doing the understory type tree
like they like. But you're controlling everything and you're letting
them you know, you don't let them dry it. You know,
you're keeping them water during the drought. They're getting themselves
rooted in that pot. And then after a year or
two you've got a nice little roots system there. Now
your chances of those things making it are much greater
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than going out and just trying to dig, because when
you dig them out of the woods, you probably noticed
there's not too many roots on the bottom of those things.
You know, one or two shooting out here and there
not a whole lot as far as at that initial stage.
Some folks will actually flag the ceilings in the woods.
And I've done this before, take a spade and go
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straight down around all the way around the outside of
it and leave us sit there. And what you did
is you root pruned it. And then when you root
prone it, it'll create more roots closer to the you know,
the trunk of the of the plant, so that the
next year when you go to dig that up, you
have a better root system. So it's it's one or
the other. So it's growing in a container, growing in
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in the ground and doing some root pruning and you know,
doing a year in advance to establish a better root system,
and that may help you out a little bit. Anybody
that gets plants from the arbor day or from you know,
when they're giving three free trees away or whatever, you
can plan them like that, there's no doubt. But you know,
you typically have better luck by planning them first in
(27:36):
a container, growing them on, establishing a root system, and
planning them another year or two down the road.
Speaker 5 (27:43):
That's a great idea. I hadn't even thought about that.
Speaker 1 (27:47):
I think I think you'll find a success rate. It
will be a lot better for you that way.
Speaker 5 (27:51):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, okay, okay, that was great.
All right, Matt, I'll give it a try.
Speaker 1 (27:58):
Thank you, keep me posted. Good talking with you. Happy
New Year and again, I you know, as we come
up with the if you go out and see where
parks in that will you know, like plant one hundred
of little seedlings, little saplings, just stick them in the ground,
let them go. Not all of them grow. They'd like
for them all too, but you know, you plan one hundred,
you know, assuming you're going to get a hopefully a
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fifty percent take or a seventy five percent take of
those they don't all grow. And so if you ad
you know, doing them in a container, get a better
root system, your chances of them rooting in. It's a
little more work obviously because you dig a nice hole,
but chances are they'll do a much better job for
you transplanting out of the woods like that. If you
dig a tree up, there's like two or three roots
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in their finger size coming off that plan. That's about it.
That's all they have at that stage. Root pruning them,
and they'll do that in the nursery with your trees
that they're growing out there. Root pruning them to make
them create a more of a solid root ball makes
it easier during the transplant period to be more successful.
Eight hundred and eight two three eight two five five.
That's our number here in the Garden with Ron will
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Since Garden with Ron Wilson again that total free number
eight hundred eight two three eight two five five. Talking
about yardening, Happy New Year twenty twenty six. Got some
New Year's resolutions for gardening this year? Uh, you know,
Danny and I've talked over all these years. Neither one
of us write any resolutions down. We know in our
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heads kind of what we want to do. Yes, stay
very casual about it. I think one thing that folks do, though,
you know, you look at your at gardening and landscaping
and what you're going to do outside, and you know
a lot of times, you know resolutions and whether they're
gardening or life resolutions. Sometimes you know, we just don't.
We fail to do all of what we want to do.
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And so I would suggest that as you look at
twenty twenty six in your gardening, yardening, landscaping, indoor, house, plant,
whatever it may be, endeavors and resolutions of what you're
going to do, be realistic. Okay, be realistic. Think about
I when folks just start, you know, you maybe you're
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a young couple or just getting started a younger age
that just starting to do some type of plant care,
house plants, growing fruits and vegetables, maybe a first house
or whatever you finally start. You know, when you start
doing things, you realize it does take time. And I
think as simple as watering newly planted landscapes. It's amazing
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when you get someone who hasn't really gotten too involved
with landscaping in the lawn and you do design for draw,
design for them or whatever, and they go out and
they plant these new evergreen screens like and living living fences.
Of course, hot, hot, hot, instead of putting up a
physical fence, putting up living fences for screening and creating
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those outdoor spaces, and that is a hot one to do.
But what you don't think about is when you're planting
those newly planted trees and shrubs and perennials and whatever
it may be, that they must be watered on a
regular basis to make sure that's it. And that's a
major key, right plant, right place. Obviously, great soil, all
major factors, but watering is a major key for the
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success of these plants that you've invested in. And when
you're watering, if you're doing it, you know where you're
moving the host from plant to plant to plant, you
know how are you may be doing it. It takes time,
and it's amazing how many times I'll get a little
bit of feedback saying we love it, we love the
new landscaping. You know is great, but we didn't realize
(31:36):
how much time it takes to water, just to water.
So you know, you've got a factor in all of
those things. So again, you've got kids, if you've got
soccer going on, if you're gonna travel, you're gonna do
whatever factor all of those away times in your schedule.
And to be realistic, how much time do you have
to spend to garden? Obviously I'd love to see you
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do all kinds of great things out there, but we
also want you to be successful and so to be
successful in your guardening endeavors. And I think I think
the other thing to remember when I talk about being successful,
we're here to help make you as successful as we
can and to encourage you to get out there and
do work with container gardening and your pollinator gardens and
your raise beds, and you know you're maybe doing the
(32:20):
micro clover in with your lawn or making a flowering lawn,
or reducing your lawn down and more pollinator plants or
native grasses and things like that. Totally encouraging you to
get out and do that. But I also want to
remind you if you've never done it before and you're
just getting into it, you're going to have some failures
out there. It happens. Even if you did all your
(32:42):
homework and you got the right plant in the right spot,
you did everything right. Sometimes you still lose the plants.
Sometimes the plants just don't do very well. You know.
I planted and I you know, you hear me talk
about planning that new exclamation sycamore in front of our house.
I planted a tulip tree there, or a a tupelo
(33:02):
tree there about three and a half years ago, small
one and was in a seven gallon pots, the size
we upgraded into our nursery into larger pots. Continued to
growing into twenty twenty five gallon pots. When he mighty
took one of the smaller ones home. He's always one
on one in our yard, and I planted it. It's
a really nice soil what a tree used to be,
but it hadn't been there for several years. Everything had
been ground out. It's a really nice area. Soil is
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really nice. Planted that bad boy, and it literally never grew.
See and here I am the yard boy planting this
tree and it never grew. And that they sat there
for three years. I did everything. I went back with
a spade, tried to chop the roots a little bit
to loosen them up, watering as needed, you know, as
fat as needed. The soil was absolutely outstanding U and
(33:44):
it just never grew. So I pulled it out this
summer and I said, okay, I'm done. I'm not gonna
I'm gonna go do something else here, and it does happen.
I didn't think our neighbors even looked at me, going, well,
didn't you plant that? So yes, I did, but it
does happen. Expect some failures here, you know, but we're
all very optimistic. So you try it again, try to
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figure out what may have gone wrong, and you continue
to trice. But expected things to sometimes not always work
all right because you're working with perishable things here, and
you have no control over the weather or the winds
and the rain or whatever it may be. So anyway,
I pulled this thing out and it had rooted in,
which is really weird. It had started to root in.
I actually had fairly nice little root system. I just
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never grew on the top. And I have no idea
why that happened, but it did. And you know my
old theory. If you've listened to our show over the years,
I give plants two or three years. If you don't
make it, I give you a final warning you're out
of here. Because I don't have time to mess around.
I need you to grow. If you're not going to
do your job, get out. But anyway replaces. So my
point being is there are some failures. God knows how
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many plants I've killed over the years purposely and not
on purpose. But it happens, all right, So expect that.
But my point being is, as you're putting your resolutions
together and looking at twenty twenty six and beyond, and
I say beyond because typically your lawn, your perennial gardens,
your vegetable gardens are works in progress. As you continue
to plant and do things, you know you've got to
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sit back and let these things grow and plant ahead,
planning and planting ahead, planning it forward of how these
things are going to work down the road. So again,
look at the time that you have, how much actual
time do you have to be involved in your in
your new endeavors, and then set up your new gardening
resolutions that way. In some cases it may be looking
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at everything that's as simple as can be, to keep
it as simple ast be, so you have very simple
but very effective gardening in twenty twenty six,
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