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Speaker 1 (00:00):
One hundred eight two three eight two five five. Good morning.
(00:02):
I am Ron Wilson, your personal yard boy, talking about yarding,
moving our way through this month of December. Guess who's
here this morning. He actually is here. He's not taking
the three day weekend for this vacation. Did you use
everything up yet? Joe Strecker, executive producer, Still got a
couple more? All right, Joe Strecker, executive producer. Find out
what's going on his I know, nothing in his lawn
(00:23):
because it's white. I shouldn't have said that. Huh, you're
not too happy about that. What snow and stuff? What's
the color of the year so we we can say
white off white? Yeah? Uh, find out what's going on
our website, Ron Wilson Online dot com, Facebook page. In
the Garden with Ron Wilson, Good morning. Sure, Yeah, it
is the color of snow, isn't it. Yeah? I Gary
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and I always talk about the color of the year,
and you know, it's always been the pantone thing. And
then four or five six years ago, everybody and his
brother started getting into the color of the year. So
it kind of just muddied everything out. I mean it
was like, okay, you know, there's no m a reason anymore.
And I think Pantone did an interesting thing. They used
to release their color of the year earlier, like in
(01:06):
September October. Now it's late late November, December. So they
let all the other people get all their things out
of the way, and then Pantone comes on.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
And their color of the year is the color that's
devoid of color.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
Well yeah, and so this year they come up with
this off white. What is a cloud dancer? I think
it is. And what's interesting is they are just getting nailed.
Oh yeah, of course they're for picking that color, not
just because of the color from politics for the I
mean the race cards are going out there and the
politics and non creativity and oh my gosh, just getting hammered.
(01:48):
It's crazy. Where is this world? I don't know.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
I'm not going to get into that. Let's move on
from that.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
Isn't that it? I mean, that's just nuts. So, I
mean here we've been talking about Pantones color of the
year forever and they finally pick a color that who
cares so off? Why everybody uses it anyway? And it
has the reasoning behind it. It's kind of interesting and
I agree with it. But then why is everybody have
to jump on it and just rip it the piece
every Oh my gosh. So although I saw you, no,
(02:15):
I'm just kidding. So I showed you a video.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
Of me shoveling my snow.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
Folks, I'm telling you what it's. We've had some snow
off and on. I went to get a h trying
to get it, just a handheld the cordless ones because
I got to do my mom's driveway and our siwa washed.
I figure, what what the heck? I can take one
back and forth and I and I went to get one,
and nobody's got them available. We've had a couple of
good snows here. So I remember Joe has a handheld one,
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and he also has one he got for Christmas.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
A couple of years ago.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
A few years ago. It's a gas powered one. Because
their driveways a little steep coming out of the garage.
You got to clear it off.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
We got a degree grade.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
And I knew Joe hadn't been using his, so I
asked him when he came in this morning, Hey, would
you be interested in maybe selling that or written me
your gas power warning? He said, no, I'm getting it fixed.
So I can use it, because I guess couldn't get
it started.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
But he said, it's a little side issue.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
Ye here's what I'm doing right now. And uh, yeah,
that's pretty interesting, Joe.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
It's a flamethrower.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
It's a flamethrower. I was able to look like Gary
Salivan with a powerwasher in his hands.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
Remember earlier this summer when we started talking about I
was going to get a weed throw.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
Yeah, there was a dragon killer.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
And I was kind of hesitant to use it. And
I'm like, you know what, I'm going to use it
when it snows. It's just to see what happens. And
sure enough, it snows, and if it's like eight inches
of snow, it's not going to do it right. But
it was. It was two inches of snow, and I
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was just like, you know, I'm going to try this
thing out. And I was able to clear my driveway,
which is a pretty decent sized driveway. I did the
whole thing in about an hour and every and it
was clear. It wasn't like you know, you know how
I when you.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
Drive the tires on top of the snow, you get
the ice right there with it, right, and you had
that I saw the pictures and you just worked right
on past those.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
But like everybody in on my street, you know, when
you know, when you shovel, you don't get all the
snow off, because you just get enough so that you can,
you know, drive over it. All the snow was gone.
My entire driveway was completely just back to concrete, and
they it was just it was just so satisfying to
watch the snow just melt away. It's you know, it's
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you know, it's pretty cool.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
Well I saw the video and I could hear the noise,
and he was, who.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
Well, I I had got one of my daughters took
the video and she was just she was enjoying watching me. Whoa,
because because when the snow happened, it happened overnight and
they said, Dad, should we got and shovel the snow snow?
And I said no. They said I got this way,
why not? I said, you'll see when I get home.
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So there you go, there you go.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
Now. Yeah, so I didn't get either one of Joe's snowblowers,
and we.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
Get a if we get a good six seven eight
inches of snow, then you need the other one. Yeah,
I'm gonna have to. But it's just fun and satisfying.
It's really satisfying that the thing so anyway, So it
was entertaining, it was it was very much. So who
(05:50):
do we have on the show Today?
Speaker 1 (05:51):
Show Today? Guess you? I feel like you're a guest
now because you're off for a while then you're back
on again. Yeah, for sure. Very special guest Joe Stricker,
Very sure. Anthony Knight. He's from Flaw and Seeds. We've
had him on before flowering lawns, but he's come up
with a new concept. They're also into the bird seed business.
(06:12):
And I'm not going to give away the secret, but
I'll let him explain to you what he's got. But
it's pretty interesting concept. So we're gonna talk to him
about that. Also have on Pete Richmond. Pete is a
co owner with his wife Emily of rich Life Farms
out in New Richmond, Ohio. I met them several weeks
(06:33):
ago at a produce farmers market and they specialize in
mushrooms and they grow all the different types of gourmet mushrooms.
Absolutely outstanding, plus a lot of other things too. So
a great story. So we're gonna have him on this
morning talking about how you could grow mushrooms at your
own home and what they do to grow them. But
do you like mushrooms? Oh yeah, Oh you got to
(06:53):
see these. I mean they just they do the whole
ninety yards, all different kinds. We bought some and they
were outstanding. So he's gonna come on talk about growing mushrooms.
That's kind of becoming. You know, you can find these
kits now. Used to find them a long time ago,
but now it's for real, lots of kids out there
that you can grow them right in your own Remember
the guy we used to have on in Central Ohio,
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the Magic the Mushroom Wizard or something like that. Yeah, yeah,
And I haven't heard from him for one I'm not
sure what happened there. Maybe eight I think, I don't know.
But anyway, we're gonna have Pete rich Richmond on from
a rich Life Farm, so the other two of them,
and as a matter of fact, we got him scheduled
for three segments. We're gonna talk about all kinds of there,
you know, and then of course you and of course
(07:34):
Gary Salivan at the end and Danny and me in between.
Very cool.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
So the website is Ron Wilson online dot com, Facebook page,
in the garden with Ron Wilson and the chat room
is up and running and speaking of seeds from the
earlier guest, Burpie Seed is doing something really cool for
next year.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
Interesting. I know you got that press release too. That
was kind of neat there with the big two hundred
and fiftieth anniversary. They went back and put these seed
collections together from George Washington's garden, from uh Thomas Jefferson's garden,
and I think it's Martha's seeds actually from George's. He's
got well, they have a four or five of these
seed collections of old heirloom seeds from way back and
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their gardens so you can replicate their gardens in your
garden this year. Yeah, twenty twenty six. So it's pretty cool.
And the link is on your YEAH page. Yeah, so
you go right to that Lincoln go check them out.
It's Burpie Seed. It's always fun with Burpie Yeah. Yeah,
you can't go wrong with purpley Burpy's and Johnny's, you know,
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got them right at the top.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
Rita is making brisket. Yes, she is specifically a Hanka brisket,
is what she says. That's what she what she said.
I know what she said, and then I kind of
looked at him, but yeah, it looks pretty good. I've
never had that one, but that looks pretty dark. It
does look OVA's some reason I believe as oras. Yeah, brisket,
(09:06):
and it could be done the crock. That's you, So
that's definitely something that I could do. That's Joe Strekker
right there. Yeah, put it in the crock, walk away
for eight hours, take a nap, yep, two naps.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
Start to smell it.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
I could probably take two naps.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
Take one quick look in there, just to stir it
a little bit if necessary.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
Done, absolutely done, done, done. And the plan of the
week is Christmas fern.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
Christmas fern. It's an evergreen fern, yep, and it's a
beautiful fern. Birds should be used a lot more in shadeguards.
And we just don't seem to think about ferns, but
obviously being Christmas time and you can see what they
look like, and it's called Christmas fern. Try to pick
use that for a pick of the year. But keep
ferns in mind for those shady areas. They actually are
not that hard to grow. And this one's a tough
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one and it is Evergreen, but check it out at
Ryn Wilson online.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
Come and speaking of Christmas, Ferns, Yes, have you watched
Charlie Brown Christmas this year?
Speaker 1 (10:06):
You did? Have you?
Speaker 2 (10:08):
No?
Speaker 1 (10:08):
I have not? The only Christmas special I've seen so
far because we just we haven't been We've been on
to go and not watching. Was the thing that Kevin
Cosner put together this week. I thought it was a
pretty interesting show. Oh yeah, I didn't see that one.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
It was.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
I heard about it, but I didn't see. Yeah, it was.
I thought it was pretty interesting Christmas. Yeah, and he
kind of they don't they They do it based on
the Bible writings and everything, all the scriptures, but he
presents it in a way that it more than likely
would have been like back then. Instead of just telling
the story, he actually shows like when they travel from
(10:45):
from uh from their home to Bethlehem. Uh, it just
wasn't Joseph and Mary on a donkey. More than likely
it was a group of people because nobody traveled by
themselves back then. You always had the traveling packs because
of the Romans in August. Anyway, it was it interesting concert.
I thought it was really Uh. I thought it was
very fascinating, very well done. So cool you get a
chance to watch it. Watch, But no, we haven't seen it.
(11:08):
I haven't seen any Hallmark movies. I've seen nothing so far.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
I watched Charlie brown Christmas this week. I know it's
one of your favorites, and it's the one the favorite
of mine. And the Christmas fern is looks just like
the tree Charlie Brown's Charlie Brown's tree.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
So don't those leaves have a little hook like stockings
stockings on there? If I'm not mistaken. Yeah, so there
you go, there you go.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
So all right, Well, I'll let you get on with
the show and I'll talk to you next week.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
And now on with the show. Exit stage lists next week, and.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
I think next week is the last one for the year,
because the next to the one, well least the ones
that I'm on, because we're off from the radio station here.
Maybe maybe not.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
No, get the twentieth and the twenty seventh, that's right,
so we got two more. That's right. You're right post
your Christmas and yeah, you're right, you're right. So you
know we got to.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
Before we say, uh pop up in the show.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
Happy New Year twenty twenty six look at each other,
go joke. Can you believe in other years going by?
Speaker 2 (12:24):
Yep, watch the Buckeyes win another title.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
Yes, indeed, there we go, there we go. That's it.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
So I'm going to say about that.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
All right, you like what if you like what you
see on our website, have fun tonight with the snow
coming down, by the.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
Way, supposed to be this afternoon, this afternoon, by the
time you get off two o'clock something like that, yeah,
two to six, okay, by the time you you see,
by the time you're done, I'm coming to your house.
By time you're done with the show, and you know,
you go get something to eat and then you.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
I'm coming to your house. Why I want to watch
you do the flame thrower. You probably have your whole name.
All your neighors will be right, you know, they'll be
around your driveway. Watched Joe work his way up out
of the start the slope the charge entertainment. Now you
have you have a little music and lack that thing
up and there you go, Joe the fantastic Gosh, Joe
(13:16):
the snow burner. That's me. If you like what's on
her website. A Royn Wilson online dot Com Facebook page
In the Garden with Ron Wilson, Joe Strecker, the flame
thrower of snow Burners, had everything to do with it.
If you don't like what you see on their maybe
it's something should be changed or different. Don't blame Joe,
not my fault. Let's blame doctor Z. Where's he at
(13:37):
Garden eighty three in Washington, DC? And he always rides around.
I want if he use with the snow on the
ground to a little vestma.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
Oh no, maybe his vestments got chains on it, or.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
Probably does Doctor Z sidecar owsers in there, so it's
going to wait it down. And he's got and he's
got sweetheart on the back. Be careful, doctor Z. Yeah,
don't want to lose control. That's snow nice alrighty. Then
eight hundred eight two three eight two five five. That's
our number here in the garden with Ron Wilson and
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the Durringo kid. Back here in the Garden with Ron
Wilson again, that toll free number, eight hundred eight two
three eight two five five talking about yardening. And yes,
I want to go back to what Joe and I
were talking about with the commemorative seed collection that the
American Horticultural Society teamed up with Burpie and yeah, Burpie,
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I mean you can't go you know, Burpie, it's been around.
What there are This is our one hundred and fiftieth,
one hundred and fiftieth anniversary crazy stuff there. But they
teamed up together to put these four historic seed collections
together and they also when they did that, they also
have their anniversary Historic Breakthroughs. It's a it's a book
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that they have. It'd be a great garden gift that
they have. It's thirty bucks and it talks about all
of their plants from the past that they have developed
over the years that you're probably still growing. Tell us
about those in the history of Burpie. Pretty cool book.
I will be ordering one for myself, no doubt about
its golden band of sweet corn, black beauty, eggplant, Ford Hook,
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Giant Swiss Chart. Remember we had Sarah on a couple
of weeks ago out in California. We had the pictures
of the giant Swiss chart. It was about four feet tall. Well,
that was the Ford Hook and that was developed in
nineteen twenty four. Nineteen twenty four. How about this one?
Do you remember there's one big Boy tomato. Of course
you do. Snowbird sugar snat piece. Fourth of July Tomato,
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one of my absolute favorites is one of the top
introductions for Burpie. And I still say Fourth of July
Tomato when I recommend that one. It's the first ever
medium slicer that it's ready by the fourth of July,
and they really are. There's very early tomato, and they
produce like crazy all summer long. But that's the fourth
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of July back in nineteen ninety eight. But I still
recommend that one. It's great. But anyway, what a great book,
and it's Burpee's historic breakthroughs one hundred and fifty years
of first from their Burbie seed collections and then the
the seed packs. There are four of them, Thomas Jefferson's
Revolutionary Garden, Martha Washington's Kitchen Garden, a Colonial Door herb Garden,
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and then the Declaration Bouquet with a combination of reds
and yellows and white flowers, all from Burpie. And again
the link for you to go check with this out
is on our website at Ron Wilson online dot com.
Check it out. I definitely aren't going to be ordering
the book and maybe a couple of these packs of
seeds as well. Eight hundred eight two three eight two
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fivey five. That is our number here in the garden.
Ron Wilson Gardening at eight hundred eight two three eight
two five five. Getting ready for the big storm coming through.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
We had one about what about a week and a
half ago down with five inch four to five inches
around the air are. Yeah, didn't really slow us down.
I think everybody was ready for that one and kind
of got the roads cleared quickly. Got a second one.
We got a little snow a couple nights ago. It
was nice little dusting.
Speaker 3 (17:10):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (17:10):
And then of course tonight coming through. Now they're talking
four to six inches in our area, you know, and
you have to say that the cold weather. They're talking
four tonight twelve on Sunday, very cold next week. Thank
you Mother Nature for bringing in the five inches of snow.
Speaker 2 (17:26):
And then it's supposed to be like in the fifties
at some point next week.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
So it's going to come back up again and then
all go away. But thank Mother Nature for the blanket
of snow coming in today as the temperatures continue to drop,
because you know, as well as I do. That is
a blanket of insulation for all those root systems, for
everything underneath that. It's blanket of snow. It's insulating. And
then we get back up to the fifties, it'll melt,
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go back into the ground water our plans for us.
That's exactly what we can use. So we'll take it.
But we'll take that snow cover as well. Thank you
Mother Nature for helping us out as we dip in it.
It's funny how she does that sometimes a lot of
times when we're going to dip into those colder temperatures.
Eight hundred and eight two three eight two five five.
Speaking of catalogs, if you haven't gotten your orders out
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there yet, if you're not a regular on their mailing list,
make sure you get out there and get some gardening catalogs.
Great inspiration for you to read through and see what's
coming on a lot of them. I think I have
really added to their their information in their catalogs. I'm
always a big one for Burpie. We talked about that
early and they do have great information in there. You
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can always count on Burpie, Johnny's Seeds. I actually I
keep Johnny Seeds catalog with me all the time, great
info there talking about planting and charts and all kinds
of stuff. They do a great job. Make sure you
get theirs. Baker Creek sometimes it's called Rare and Unusual
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Seeds or Baker Creek Seeds for heirloom unbelievable. What a
fantastic catalog, totally Tomato. I love that one. And then
Gardener's Supply, I love that one as well for gardening supplies.
And there are a lot of others to that I enjoy,
but those are some of the tops that I would
make sure you get your hands on. And speaking of Witch,
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this past week, I got an envelope in the mail
from our good friends Sandra and Tom zille I from Doylestown, Ohio,
and they've been listening to our show forever, they said,
and got involved with guardening in their community garden to
vegetable gardening there, and we're at an antique show, big
antique show in Columbus, Ohio. Said they were looking through
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and they found what they mailed to me is a
gardening catalog from nineteen thirty one. It's a Henry Fields
seed book and they were in Shenandoah, Iowa at the time.
Spring nineteen thirty one. This book is still an outstanding condition,
so I have gently read through it. It's a hoot
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to read through these old books, to look at the
garden collections, the writings that are in here. And of
course there's no pictures. It's all drawings and illustrations. This
has color in it, which is surprising. But what they
do here's their special Are you ready? They have garden
seed collections where they have a whole collection of seeds,
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packages of seeds to complete your entire vegetable garden. Beans, beats, cabbage, celery, carrots, cucumbers,
let us, onions, parsiley, I mean the whole nine yards,
all the way down to salsify, tomatoes, spinach, everything you
would need to grow in your vegetable gardens. You get
a pack of seeds for all these different there's twenty
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six packs in your garden seed collection. All right, guess
how much the garden seed collection was in nineteen thirty one.
Twenty six packs one dollar one dollar. And what's interesting
is you turn into the next page. Of course they
sell paint and they sell gardening coats and all horses
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harnesses for plowing in that. But it's a letter from
Henry Field and he's writing to you about their business
and all. He got a picture of the family in there,
and he says, yes, plant a good big garden. I
encourage you to plant a good big garden. Uh. That's
the way to beat the high cost of living. And
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it's the only way to have nice, fresh and tasty
things that we all like. That was written in nineteen
thirty one and nothing has changed since then. He's absolutely correct.
Great when he talks about also being a They were
on the radio at the time sharing gardening tips way
back in nineteen thirty one on a weekly, regular basis,
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and it was k F n F and in Nebraska
kgb Z, and they did it on a regular basis,
and I thought that was pretty interesting. But going through
the catalog, reading the descriptions, looking at the pricing and everything,
it was phenomenal. But I thought that was great. Be
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the high cost of living, grow your own fresh, taste good,
plant the big garden. They also talk about they have annuals,
they have perennials, and they have nursery stuck that they
sell all the way through and in their annuals and perennials,
he talks about everybody would love to have a circle
of flowers in their lawn. The circle of flowers, you know,
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is everybody's dream and everybody's goal to have one or
more circle of flowers in your garden. And I looked
at the drawing of the illustration, and you think back
to some of the pictures that I've seen of grandmas
and grandpa's way back when in their gardens having these
circles of flowers. He was right. But they have a
cannon is in it, and then all the annuals around
the outside and all pretty cool. I mean, it's just
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like wow, that still applies today. Sweet peppers California Wonder,
California Wonder, nineteen thirty one. And guess what they refer
to them in the description A great mango, A great
mango with sweet flavor mango. And my parents called the
green peppers mangoes back when I was growing up, so
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my grandparents, but it was referred to as a mango.
So they talked about California Wonder and they list a
whole bunch of sweet peppers, and the one hot pepper
that they have available shows you where hot peppers have
come today was red cayenne. And it even says in
the description, A really hot one. Red cayenne will spice
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up whatever you know you're gonna cook with. Red cayenne
pepper was the real hot one in nineteen thirty one,
and I was blown back. French breakfast radish. I knew
it was an oldie, but I didn't know when back
that far. French breakfast radish was available in nineteen thirty one.
And you know another one that was a big one.
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And I still know folks that grow this not as
much anymore because nobody cooks with it as much as
they used to. Is salsified. It's a root crop and
it was common name. Is like a poor man's oyster
or a vegetable oyster. When you cook with it, it
tastes like oysters. And it's called salsify and easy to grow.
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But you just every now and then you'll see it
in a produce market, but just not that often. I
rarely hear from folks that grow salsify in their garden.
But it tasted like oyster. So when you added a
little bit of milk to it when you're cooking it,
you could use it for soups and all kinds of
things that you needed at Oyster Flavoring. That's where that
came from. But it's just a great catalog. I want
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to thank them for sending it to me, they said,
I know, I appreciate some of the things from way
back in the old days, and I certainly do this
a great catalog. I will be tucking this one away
because it's in really good shape and I very gingerly
turned the pages, still has all the order forms in it,
and everything's crazy. By the way, Henry Fields no longer
in existence, but you may recognize that the company that
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took them over, it's called Gurnies Gurney Seeds, and that's
the one that's going on today. But no more Henry Field.
So thanks again to Sandra and Tom zelle I and Doylestown,
Ohio for the Henry Fields nineteen thirty one catalog. I
totally enjoyed reading through that page by page. Before we
take a break, let's go to Dayton. Dick from Dayton,
(25:18):
good morning, Good morning.
Speaker 3 (25:20):
How are you?
Speaker 1 (25:21):
I am absolutely outstanding? How's Dick from Dayton?
Speaker 3 (25:24):
Good good I've got a couple of cards from Laura
Listeners and Dy five. It was kind of nice they
hear me. I can't think of the name Scotton. I
think was Gotton Julie. It was pretty, very pretty.
Speaker 1 (25:38):
Card, very nice, pretty very nice.
Speaker 3 (25:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (25:41):
So are youre starting to get a few Christmas cards
here and there?
Speaker 3 (25:45):
Oh yeah, I've got about so far. Yeah, yeah, I
got about eight. So yeah.
Speaker 1 (25:50):
You notice every year we don't get quite as many
as we did the year before. Yeah, I think fewer
and fewer people are setting those Christmas. I still do
that a little bit with some of the family and yeah.
All but yeah, you don't get the amount that you
used to get, no doubt.
Speaker 3 (26:05):
No, no, are you ready for the the blizzard they
say coming or maybe the bringing on?
Speaker 1 (26:11):
That's why bringing on. We'll deal with it. Yeah, the
roads bad this morning when you came in all clear,
all clear, they're ready to go.
Speaker 3 (26:20):
So yeah, that's good.
Speaker 1 (26:22):
We'll get it and you can just hunker down and
play music and have fun indoors until they get the
roads cleared.
Speaker 3 (26:28):
Yeah. Yeah, it's Eddie came yesterday, my best friend. He
came because he had some things to do. We were
just looking about that storm, you know. But now product
the Bengals to win this week.
Speaker 1 (26:40):
You are my prediction. It's going to be pretty cold.
Twelve degrees for the game.
Speaker 3 (26:45):
Yeah twelve, yeah.
Speaker 1 (26:47):
Yeah, But so Bengals and Ravens. What's the score?
Speaker 3 (26:51):
I said, twenty seven to twenty.
Speaker 1 (26:54):
Twenty seven to twenty Bengals. You got it right there, folks,
have you betting on the Bengal. There's the score to
you mark the tape. Thank you, Daniel, You're welcome.
Speaker 3 (27:05):
Well, guys, have a good.
Speaker 1 (27:06):
Day, Dick from Dayton. Always a pleasure, have a great one.
Honk her down through the storm, play music, keep everybody
happy until they get the roads cleared and then we
all get back outside again. Okay, all right, you too
good talking to you, Dick from Dayton. Ladies and gentlemen
right there in the garden with Ron Wilson two five five,
Good morning. I am Ron Wilson, your personal yard boy.
We are talking yarding. Don't forget our websites, Ron Wilson
(27:29):
online dot com. Rita's recipe this week is a brisket,
absolutely outstanding. And last week we weren't able to post
her her recipe or the week uh didn't make it
on there, but it's on there now and it's there
her uh brittle, you know, the the peppermint brittle and
it's an outstanding one. She gets a lot of requests
(27:49):
for that one, and we, like I said, we weren't
able to put it up last week, but we got
it up for you. Peppermint Bark, I'm sorry, not brittle,
peppermint Bark, and it's up there for you as well.
Be sure and check it out. Uh, there's an interest
story up there about how colorful murals can be a
catalyst for climate and community action. Read that one. If
you get some empty walls in your community that could
(28:10):
actually stand a nice colorful mural. Some of the benefits
of doing that is on our website, and of course
at commemorative seed collection from Burpie. The link to do
that is on there as well, and our plan of
the week Christmas fern and yes, those little pennies, which
is the individual little leaf on the fern stem. It's evergreen,
(28:31):
so it's green year round, look like a little Christmas stocking,
has a little boot at the bottom and hold on yards,
So be sure and check that out. By the way,
we are at that time of the year where your
local independent garden center, your local nurseries, local greenhouses, local
growers are getting their plant lists together for twenty twenty six.
Now for nursery stock, they've been doing that two and
(28:52):
three years out and so a lot of times new
nursery plants, woody plants that are introduced in twenty twenty
five may not be a till twenty twenty seven, twenty eight,
depending on the production levels, one of which we talked
about this earlier this spring and it hasn't changed yet.
So the production the numbers are still very low, but
(29:12):
they're going to promote the heck out of it. It's
called Centennial ruby Hydrangea. It's four obviously the two hundred
and fiftieth anniversary. It's a macro fila. It's a red flowers,
very attractive. The stems are dark in colored, dark green leaves.
Is a macrophyla, but a flowers on old and new wood,
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about three to three feet tall and wide. Party to
the zone force, so it's a tougher party one, but
numbers will be very limited. As a matter of fact,
our nursery, which is a fairly large nursery, and we
go through a lot of plants, they will only been
able to commit a very small number at the beginning
of the season for twenty twenty six for us to sell.
(29:56):
So if you put it on your list, you might
want to check with your local nursery see if they're
going to get any end centennial ruby, and maybe put
your name on a waiting list or something, because numbers
is going to be low for a while. Then I
was told by July production numbers will pick up more
and more, and of course it'll become available. Then the
rooty cuttings we've become available in another year and we can
(30:16):
start growing on ourselves. Blah blah blah. But anyway, it's
a centennial ruby hydrangia, and you will see it being
promoted quite a bit coming through January and February as
we go into that two hundred and fifty celebration. But
at this time, what I was saying is they're ramping
up right now with their production of what they're going
to be growing annuals and perennials, which can be adjusted
(30:37):
on an annual basis. Perennials typically, yes, and some of
the newer ones might be difficult to get older rooted
cuttings or whatever, but they can change and update and
see and all that. So if there are annuals, especially
or if there are vegetables especially that you know do
(30:57):
a great job. But unfortunately your local independent garden center, nursery, greenhouse, whatever,
does not grow or sell them. You may want to
print out some information about it, go see them and say, hey,
I've grown this or we've grown this for several years
or whatever and have gotten fantastic results. The all American
(31:19):
selections that are out there every year, those are typically
already they're proven that they're going to do a nice
job for you in your area. So you know, again, Mike,
I want to take that list and show them what
if they don't have it already, what's out there. But
now's the time to put your request list together so
that they will grow or try to get the seeds
and grow some of these for you. So I'm asking
(31:41):
you as we're putting our list together and we're pretty
well there, but we always leave room to add to
it the tomatoes. What tomatoes have really done well for
you that you totally enjoy that. Maybe you don't see
too much out there available in local garden centers, greenhouses, nursery,
et ceter I'll give you, for instance, woodstock that's a
(32:03):
Johnny seed introduction, and we grew that for the first
time this year and had absolute great results with it.
But it's called woodstock. It's a green kind of an orange.
It's a green tomato, very sweet, very flavorful. I love
green tomatoes. I think we're gonna see more of these
bicolor green, red, green, orange, green, yellow tomatoes coming under
(32:24):
the market, more and more of it. It's called woodstock.
And someone had suggested that to us last year, and
we added to our list and everybody I know so far,
they grew it, did an outstanding job with it. The
AAS which I mentioned earlier, has a tomato that I
had a couple of people again ask about. And I
have not tried this one, but usually the all the
(32:47):
the things they go through and all the testing and
all these are usually pretty much total winners. As in
the AAS winner, the tomato is called butt a Bang,
other cherry tomato, but with butt a Bang it's a
larger cherry tomato. But what's so unique about this one.
(33:07):
It shows resistance against seceptoria leaf spot, which can be
a major issue. My mom got into that in early
blight this year and man, it just hurt tomato. Some
of her vines looked horrible. Still produced but looked horrible,
but sceptoria, leaf spot, early blight, and late bought blight.
It's resistant to all three of those all right, so
you'll stay a lot healthier, your plants will all season long.
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Better tomatoes, great flavor, juicy, and for a one and
a half inch bright red cherry fruit. It is crack resistant,
so if the rains come through and they hit your plants,
this one shows pretty good resistance to cracking. And so
you've got a nice solid tomato, good one and again
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we're growing. We added this to our list thanks to
the American Association all American Selections, and I had a
couple of people asking we were going told as well,
but it's called bada bing, so we added that to
our list. We'll have that out there. But my question
to you is are there other ones out there that
you have enjoyed, and if so, make sure you let
(34:11):
your local independent garden center know and let me know
and share with everybody else so that we can kind
of take a look at tomatoes or anything really in
the vegetable garden or annuals or perennials that you've had
tremendous success with and share that on our show. Because
it's fun hearing from folks that have experience with let me,
let's face the facts. When it comes to tomatoes and
(34:31):
peppers and all these, it can't grow them all. There's
no room. And so every year you try to grow
two or three new ones out there just to get
a better feel. But I love it when folks let
us know what they have grown and has been successful.
So let me know if you know of any tomatoes
you're going to add or that you really like, and
let you're a local garden center know as well, so
(34:52):
they can put it on their list. But share your
favors with us. Or tomatoes or that that didn't do well,
let's know about those as well. All right, we're gonna
take a break. When we come back. In the break,
we'll be taking your calls at eight hundred eight two
three eight two five five, and then halfway through the
next segment, our special guest Pete Richmond. Pete is the
(35:12):
owner with his wife Emily, a rich life farm and
fun guy. Their website is Richlifefarm dot com if you
want to check it out before we talk to Pete.
They specialize in growing gourmet mushrooms and we're gonna talk
about grown mushrooms here in the garden with Ron Wilson.
One hundred eight two three eight two five five. Good morning.
(00:02):
I am Ron Wilson, your personal yard boy, talking about yarding,
moving our way through this month of December. Guess who's
here this morning. He actually is here. He's not taking
the three day weekend for this vacation. Did you use
everything up yet? Joe Strecker, executive producer, Still got a
couple more? All right, Joe Strecker, executive producer. Find out
what's going on his I know, nothing in his lawn
(00:23):
because it's white. I shouldn't have said that. Huh, you're
not too happy about that. What snow and stuff? What's
the color of the year so we we can say
white off white? Yeah? Uh, find out what's going on
our website, Ron Wilson Online dot com, Facebook page. In
the Garden with Ron Wilson, Good morning. Sure, Yeah, it
is the color of snow, isn't it. Yeah? I Gary
(00:45):
and I always talk about the color of the year,
and you know, it's always been the pantone thing. And
then four or five six years ago, everybody and his
brother started getting into the color of the year. So
it kind of just muddied everything out. I mean it
was like, okay, you know, there's no m a reason anymore.
And I think Pantone did an interesting thing. They used
to release their color of the year earlier, like in
(01:06):
September October. Now it's late late November, December. So they
let all the other people get all their things out
of the way, and then Pantone comes on.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
And their color of the year is the color that's
devoid of color.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
Well yeah, and so this year they come up with
this off white. What is a cloud dancer? I think
it is. And what's interesting is they are just getting nailed.
Oh yeah, of course they're for picking that color, not
just because of the color from politics for the I
mean the race cards are going out there and the
politics and non creativity and oh my gosh, just getting hammered.
(01:48):
It's crazy. Where is this world? I don't know.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
I'm not going to get into that. Let's move on
from that.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
Isn't that it? I mean, that's just nuts. So, I
mean here we've been talking about Pantones color of the
year forever and they finally pick a color that who
cares so off? Why everybody uses it anyway? And it
has the reasoning behind it. It's kind of interesting and
I agree with it. But then why is everybody have
to jump on it and just rip it the piece
every Oh my gosh. So although I saw you, no,
(02:15):
I'm just kidding. So I showed you a video.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
Of me shoveling my snow.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
Folks, I'm telling you what it's. We've had some snow
off and on. I went to get a h trying
to get it, just a handheld the cordless ones because
I got to do my mom's driveway and our siwa washed.
I figure, what what the heck? I can take one
back and forth and I and I went to get one,
and nobody's got them available. We've had a couple of
good snows here. So I remember Joe has a handheld one,
(02:48):
and he also has one he got for Christmas.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
A couple of years ago.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
A few years ago. It's a gas powered one. Because
their driveways a little steep coming out of the garage.
You got to clear it off.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
We got a degree grade.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
And I knew Joe hadn't been using his, so I
asked him when he came in this morning, Hey, would
you be interested in maybe selling that or written me
your gas power warning? He said, no, I'm getting it fixed.
So I can use it, because I guess couldn't get
it started.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
But he said, it's a little side issue.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
Ye here's what I'm doing right now. And uh, yeah,
that's pretty interesting, Joe.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
It's a flamethrower.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
It's a flamethrower. I was able to look like Gary
Salivan with a powerwasher in his hands.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
Remember earlier this summer when we started talking about I
was going to get a weed throw.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
Yeah, there was a dragon killer.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
And I was kind of hesitant to use it. And
I'm like, you know what, I'm going to use it
when it snows. It's just to see what happens. And
sure enough, it snows, and if it's like eight inches
of snow, it's not going to do it right. But
it was. It was two inches of snow, and I
(04:07):
was just like, you know, I'm going to try this
thing out. And I was able to clear my driveway,
which is a pretty decent sized driveway. I did the
whole thing in about an hour and every and it
was clear. It wasn't like you know, you know how
I when you.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
Drive the tires on top of the snow, you get
the ice right there with it, right, and you had
that I saw the pictures and you just worked right
on past those.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
But like everybody in on my street, you know, when
you know, when you shovel, you don't get all the
snow off, because you just get enough so that you can,
you know, drive over it. All the snow was gone.
My entire driveway was completely just back to concrete, and
they it was just it was just so satisfying to
watch the snow just melt away. It's you know, it's
(04:51):
you know, it's pretty cool.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
Well I saw the video and I could hear the noise,
and he was, who.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
Well, I I had got one of my daughters took
the video and she was just she was enjoying watching me. Whoa,
because because when the snow happened, it happened overnight and
they said, Dad, should we got and shovel the snow snow?
And I said no. They said I got this way,
why not? I said, you'll see when I get home.
(05:22):
So there you go, there you go.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
Now. Yeah, so I didn't get either one of Joe's snowblowers,
and we.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
Get a if we get a good six seven eight
inches of snow, then you need the other one. Yeah,
I'm gonna have to. But it's just fun and satisfying.
It's really satisfying that the thing so anyway, So it
was entertaining, it was it was very much. So who
(05:50):
do we have on the show Today?
Speaker 1 (05:51):
Show Today? Guess you? I feel like you're a guest
now because you're off for a while then you're back
on again. Yeah, for sure. Very special guest Joe Stricker,
Very sure. Anthony Knight. He's from Flaw and Seeds. We've
had him on before flowering lawns, but he's come up
with a new concept. They're also into the bird seed business.
(06:12):
And I'm not going to give away the secret, but
I'll let him explain to you what he's got. But
it's pretty interesting concept. So we're gonna talk to him
about that. Also have on Pete Richmond. Pete is a
co owner with his wife Emily of rich Life Farms
out in New Richmond, Ohio. I met them several weeks
(06:33):
ago at a produce farmers market and they specialize in
mushrooms and they grow all the different types of gourmet mushrooms.
Absolutely outstanding, plus a lot of other things too. So
a great story. So we're gonna have him on this
morning talking about how you could grow mushrooms at your
own home and what they do to grow them. But
do you like mushrooms? Oh yeah, Oh you got to
(06:53):
see these. I mean they just they do the whole
ninety yards, all different kinds. We bought some and they
were outstanding. So he's gonna come on talk about growing mushrooms.
That's kind of becoming. You know, you can find these
kits now. Used to find them a long time ago,
but now it's for real, lots of kids out there
that you can grow them right in your own Remember
the guy we used to have on in Central Ohio,
(07:14):
the Magic the Mushroom Wizard or something like that. Yeah, yeah,
And I haven't heard from him for one I'm not
sure what happened there. Maybe eight I think, I don't know.
But anyway, we're gonna have Pete rich Richmond on from
a rich Life Farm, so the other two of them,
and as a matter of fact, we got him scheduled
for three segments. We're gonna talk about all kinds of there,
you know, and then of course you and of course
(07:34):
Gary Salivan at the end and Danny and me in between.
Very cool.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
So the website is Ron Wilson online dot com, Facebook page,
in the garden with Ron Wilson and the chat room
is up and running and speaking of seeds from the
earlier guest, Burpie Seed is doing something really cool for
next year.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
Interesting. I know you got that press release too. That
was kind of neat there with the big two hundred
and fiftieth anniversary. They went back and put these seed
collections together from George Washington's garden, from uh Thomas Jefferson's garden,
and I think it's Martha's seeds actually from George's. He's
got well, they have a four or five of these
seed collections of old heirloom seeds from way back and
(08:18):
their gardens so you can replicate their gardens in your
garden this year. Yeah, twenty twenty six. So it's pretty cool.
And the link is on your YEAH page. Yeah, so
you go right to that Lincoln go check them out.
It's Burpie Seed. It's always fun with Burpie Yeah. Yeah,
you can't go wrong with purpley Burpy's and Johnny's, you know,
(08:39):
got them right at the top.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
Rita is making brisket. Yes, she is specifically a Hanka brisket,
is what she says. That's what she what she said.
I know what she said, and then I kind of
looked at him, but yeah, it looks pretty good. I've
never had that one, but that looks pretty dark. It
does look OVA's some reason I believe as oras. Yeah, brisket,
(09:06):
and it could be done the crock. That's you, So
that's definitely something that I could do. That's Joe Strekker
right there. Yeah, put it in the crock, walk away
for eight hours, take a nap, yep, two naps.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
Start to smell it.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
I could probably take two naps.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
Take one quick look in there, just to stir it
a little bit if necessary.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
Done, absolutely done, done, done. And the plan of the
week is Christmas fern.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
Christmas fern. It's an evergreen fern, yep, and it's a
beautiful fern. Birds should be used a lot more in shadeguards.
And we just don't seem to think about ferns, but
obviously being Christmas time and you can see what they
look like, and it's called Christmas fern. Try to pick
use that for a pick of the year. But keep
ferns in mind for those shady areas. They actually are
not that hard to grow. And this one's a tough
(09:56):
one and it is Evergreen, but check it out at
Ryn Wilson online.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
Come and speaking of Christmas, Ferns, Yes, have you watched
Charlie Brown Christmas this year?
Speaker 1 (10:06):
You did? Have you?
Speaker 2 (10:08):
No?
Speaker 1 (10:08):
I have not? The only Christmas special I've seen so
far because we just we haven't been We've been on
to go and not watching. Was the thing that Kevin
Cosner put together this week. I thought it was a
pretty interesting show. Oh yeah, I didn't see that one.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
It was.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
I heard about it, but I didn't see. Yeah, it was.
I thought it was pretty interesting Christmas. Yeah, and he
kind of they don't they They do it based on
the Bible writings and everything, all the scriptures, but he
presents it in a way that it more than likely
would have been like back then. Instead of just telling
the story, he actually shows like when they travel from
(10:45):
from uh from their home to Bethlehem. Uh, it just
wasn't Joseph and Mary on a donkey. More than likely
it was a group of people because nobody traveled by
themselves back then. You always had the traveling packs because
of the Romans in August. Anyway, it was it interesting concert.
I thought it was really Uh. I thought it was
very fascinating, very well done. So cool you get a
chance to watch it. Watch, But no, we haven't seen it.
(11:08):
I haven't seen any Hallmark movies. I've seen nothing so far.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
I watched Charlie brown Christmas this week. I know it's
one of your favorites, and it's the one the favorite
of mine. And the Christmas fern is looks just like
the tree Charlie Brown's Charlie Brown's tree.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
So don't those leaves have a little hook like stockings
stockings on there? If I'm not mistaken. Yeah, so there
you go, there you go.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
So all right, Well, I'll let you get on with
the show and I'll talk to you next week.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
And now on with the show. Exit stage lists next week, and.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
I think next week is the last one for the year,
because the next to the one, well least the ones
that I'm on, because we're off from the radio station here.
Maybe maybe not.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
No, get the twentieth and the twenty seventh, that's right,
so we got two more. That's right. You're right post
your Christmas and yeah, you're right, you're right. So you
know we got to.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
Before we say, uh pop up in the show.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
Happy New Year twenty twenty six look at each other,
go joke. Can you believe in other years going by?
Speaker 2 (12:24):
Yep, watch the Buckeyes win another title.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
Yes, indeed, there we go, there we go. That's it.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
So I'm going to say about that.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
All right, you like what if you like what you
see on our website, have fun tonight with the snow
coming down, by the.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
Way, supposed to be this afternoon, this afternoon, by the
time you get off two o'clock something like that, yeah,
two to six, okay, by the time you you see,
by the time you're done, I'm coming to your house.
By time you're done with the show, and you know,
you go get something to eat and then you.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
I'm coming to your house. Why I want to watch
you do the flame thrower. You probably have your whole name.
All your neighors will be right, you know, they'll be
around your driveway. Watched Joe work his way up out
of the start the slope the charge entertainment. Now you
have you have a little music and lack that thing
up and there you go, Joe the fantastic Gosh, Joe
(13:16):
the snow burner. That's me. If you like what's on
her website. A Royn Wilson online dot Com Facebook page
In the Garden with Ron Wilson, Joe Strecker, the flame
thrower of snow Burners, had everything to do with it.
If you don't like what you see on their maybe
it's something should be changed or different. Don't blame Joe,
not my fault. Let's blame doctor Z. Where's he at
(13:37):
Garden eighty three in Washington, DC? And he always rides around.
I want if he use with the snow on the
ground to a little vestma.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
Oh no, maybe his vestments got chains on it, or.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
Probably does Doctor Z sidecar owsers in there, so it's
going to wait it down. And he's got and he's
got sweetheart on the back. Be careful, doctor Z. Yeah,
don't want to lose control. That's snow nice alrighty. Then
eight hundred eight two three eight two five five. That's
our number here in the garden with Ron Wilson and
(14:08):
the Durringo kid. Back here in the Garden with Ron
Wilson again, that toll free number, eight hundred eight two
three eight two five five talking about yardening. And yes,
I want to go back to what Joe and I
were talking about with the commemorative seed collection that the
American Horticultural Society teamed up with Burpie and yeah, Burpie,
(14:29):
I mean you can't go you know, Burpie, it's been around.
What there are This is our one hundred and fiftieth,
one hundred and fiftieth anniversary crazy stuff there. But they
teamed up together to put these four historic seed collections
together and they also when they did that, they also
have their anniversary Historic Breakthroughs. It's a it's a book
(14:52):
that they have. It'd be a great garden gift that
they have. It's thirty bucks and it talks about all
of their plants from the past that they have developed
over the years that you're probably still growing. Tell us
about those in the history of Burpie. Pretty cool book.
I will be ordering one for myself, no doubt about
its golden band of sweet corn, black beauty, eggplant, Ford Hook,
(15:13):
Giant Swiss Chart. Remember we had Sarah on a couple
of weeks ago out in California. We had the pictures
of the giant Swiss chart. It was about four feet tall. Well,
that was the Ford Hook and that was developed in
nineteen twenty four. Nineteen twenty four. How about this one?
Do you remember there's one big Boy tomato. Of course
you do. Snowbird sugar snat piece. Fourth of July Tomato,
(15:37):
one of my absolute favorites is one of the top
introductions for Burpie. And I still say Fourth of July
Tomato when I recommend that one. It's the first ever
medium slicer that it's ready by the fourth of July,
and they really are. There's very early tomato, and they
produce like crazy all summer long. But that's the fourth
(15:58):
of July back in nineteen ninety eight. But I still
recommend that one. It's great. But anyway, what a great book,
and it's Burpee's historic breakthroughs one hundred and fifty years
of first from their Burbie seed collections and then the
the seed packs. There are four of them, Thomas Jefferson's
Revolutionary Garden, Martha Washington's Kitchen Garden, a Colonial Door herb Garden,
(16:24):
and then the Declaration Bouquet with a combination of reds
and yellows and white flowers, all from Burpie. And again
the link for you to go check with this out
is on our website at Ron Wilson online dot com.
Check it out. I definitely aren't going to be ordering
the book and maybe a couple of these packs of
seeds as well. Eight hundred eight two three eight two
(16:44):
fivey five. That is our number here in the garden.
Ron Wilson Gardening at eight hundred eight two three eight
two five five. Getting ready for the big storm coming through.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
We had one about what about a week and a
half ago down with five inch four to five inches
around the air are. Yeah, didn't really slow us down.
I think everybody was ready for that one and kind
of got the roads cleared quickly. Got a second one.
We got a little snow a couple nights ago. It
was nice little dusting.
Speaker 3 (17:10):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (17:10):
And then of course tonight coming through. Now they're talking
four to six inches in our area, you know, and
you have to say that the cold weather. They're talking
four tonight twelve on Sunday, very cold next week. Thank
you Mother Nature for bringing in the five inches of snow.
Speaker 2 (17:26):
And then it's supposed to be like in the fifties
at some point next week.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
So it's going to come back up again and then
all go away. But thank Mother Nature for the blanket
of snow coming in today as the temperatures continue to drop,
because you know, as well as I do. That is
a blanket of insulation for all those root systems, for
everything underneath that. It's blanket of snow. It's insulating. And
then we get back up to the fifties, it'll melt,
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go back into the ground water our plans for us.
That's exactly what we can use. So we'll take it.
But we'll take that snow cover as well. Thank you
Mother Nature for helping us out as we dip in it.
It's funny how she does that sometimes a lot of
times when we're going to dip into those colder temperatures.
Eight hundred and eight two three eight two five five.
Speaking of catalogs, if you haven't gotten your orders out
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there yet, if you're not a regular on their mailing list,
make sure you get out there and get some gardening catalogs.
Great inspiration for you to read through and see what's
coming on a lot of them. I think I have
really added to their their information in their catalogs. I'm
always a big one for Burpie. We talked about that
early and they do have great information in there. You
(18:32):
can always count on Burpie, Johnny's Seeds. I actually I
keep Johnny Seeds catalog with me all the time, great
info there talking about planting and charts and all kinds
of stuff. They do a great job. Make sure you
get theirs. Baker Creek sometimes it's called Rare and Unusual
(18:52):
Seeds or Baker Creek Seeds for heirloom unbelievable. What a
fantastic catalog, totally Tomato. I love that one. And then
Gardener's Supply, I love that one as well for gardening supplies.
And there are a lot of others to that I enjoy,
but those are some of the tops that I would
make sure you get your hands on. And speaking of Witch,
(19:13):
this past week, I got an envelope in the mail
from our good friends Sandra and Tom zille I from Doylestown, Ohio,
and they've been listening to our show forever, they said,
and got involved with guardening in their community garden to
vegetable gardening there, and we're at an antique show, big
antique show in Columbus, Ohio. Said they were looking through
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and they found what they mailed to me is a
gardening catalog from nineteen thirty one. It's a Henry Fields
seed book and they were in Shenandoah, Iowa at the time.
Spring nineteen thirty one. This book is still an outstanding condition,
so I have gently read through it. It's a hoot
(19:57):
to read through these old books, to look at the
garden collections, the writings that are in here. And of
course there's no pictures. It's all drawings and illustrations. This
has color in it, which is surprising. But what they
do here's their special Are you ready? They have garden
seed collections where they have a whole collection of seeds,
(20:17):
packages of seeds to complete your entire vegetable garden. Beans, beats, cabbage, celery, carrots, cucumbers,
let us, onions, parsiley, I mean the whole nine yards,
all the way down to salsify, tomatoes, spinach, everything you
would need to grow in your vegetable gardens. You get
a pack of seeds for all these different there's twenty
(20:39):
six packs in your garden seed collection. All right, guess
how much the garden seed collection was in nineteen thirty one.
Twenty six packs one dollar one dollar. And what's interesting
is you turn into the next page. Of course they
sell paint and they sell gardening coats and all horses
(21:01):
harnesses for plowing in that. But it's a letter from
Henry Field and he's writing to you about their business
and all. He got a picture of the family in there,
and he says, yes, plant a good big garden. I
encourage you to plant a good big garden. Uh. That's
the way to beat the high cost of living. And
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it's the only way to have nice, fresh and tasty
things that we all like. That was written in nineteen
thirty one and nothing has changed since then. He's absolutely correct.
Great when he talks about also being a They were
on the radio at the time sharing gardening tips way
back in nineteen thirty one on a weekly, regular basis,
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and it was k F n F and in Nebraska
kgb Z, and they did it on a regular basis,
and I thought that was pretty interesting. But going through
the catalog, reading the descriptions, looking at the pricing and everything,
it was phenomenal. But I thought that was great. Be
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the high cost of living, grow your own fresh, taste good,
plant the big garden. They also talk about they have annuals,
they have perennials, and they have nursery stuck that they
sell all the way through and in their annuals and perennials,
he talks about everybody would love to have a circle
of flowers in their lawn. The circle of flowers, you know,
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is everybody's dream and everybody's goal to have one or
more circle of flowers in your garden. And I looked
at the drawing of the illustration, and you think back
to some of the pictures that I've seen of grandmas
and grandpa's way back when in their gardens having these
circles of flowers. He was right. But they have a
cannon is in it, and then all the annuals around
the outside and all pretty cool. I mean, it's just
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like wow, that still applies today. Sweet peppers California Wonder,
California Wonder, nineteen thirty one. And guess what they refer
to them in the description A great mango, A great
mango with sweet flavor mango. And my parents called the
green peppers mangoes back when I was growing up, so
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my grandparents, but it was referred to as a mango.
So they talked about California Wonder and they list a
whole bunch of sweet peppers, and the one hot pepper
that they have available shows you where hot peppers have
come today was red cayenne. And it even says in
the description, A really hot one. Red cayenne will spice
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up whatever you know you're gonna cook with. Red cayenne
pepper was the real hot one in nineteen thirty one,
and I was blown back. French breakfast radish. I knew
it was an oldie, but I didn't know when back
that far. French breakfast radish was available in nineteen thirty one.
And you know another one that was a big one.
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And I still know folks that grow this not as
much anymore because nobody cooks with it as much as
they used to. Is salsified. It's a root crop and
it was common name. Is like a poor man's oyster
or a vegetable oyster. When you cook with it, it
tastes like oysters. And it's called salsify and easy to grow.
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But you just every now and then you'll see it
in a produce market, but just not that often. I
rarely hear from folks that grow salsify in their garden.
But it tasted like oyster. So when you added a
little bit of milk to it when you're cooking it,
you could use it for soups and all kinds of
things that you needed at Oyster Flavoring. That's where that
came from. But it's just a great catalog. I want
(24:35):
to thank them for sending it to me, they said,
I know, I appreciate some of the things from way
back in the old days, and I certainly do this
a great catalog. I will be tucking this one away
because it's in really good shape and I very gingerly
turned the pages, still has all the order forms in it,
and everything's crazy. By the way, Henry Fields no longer
in existence, but you may recognize that the company that
(24:58):
took them over, it's called Gurnies Gurney Seeds, and that's
the one that's going on today. But no more Henry Field.
So thanks again to Sandra and Tom zelle I and Doylestown,
Ohio for the Henry Fields nineteen thirty one catalog. I
totally enjoyed reading through that page by page. Before we
take a break, let's go to Dayton. Dick from Dayton,
(25:18):
good morning, Good morning.
Speaker 3 (25:20):
How are you?
Speaker 1 (25:21):
I am absolutely outstanding? How's Dick from Dayton?
Speaker 3 (25:24):
Good good I've got a couple of cards from Laura
Listeners and Dy five. It was kind of nice they
hear me. I can't think of the name Scotton. I
think was Gotton Julie. It was pretty, very pretty.
Speaker 1 (25:38):
Card, very nice, pretty very nice.
Speaker 3 (25:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (25:41):
So are youre starting to get a few Christmas cards
here and there?
Speaker 3 (25:45):
Oh yeah, I've got about so far. Yeah, yeah, I
got about eight. So yeah.
Speaker 1 (25:50):
You notice every year we don't get quite as many
as we did the year before. Yeah, I think fewer
and fewer people are setting those Christmas. I still do
that a little bit with some of the family and yeah.
All but yeah, you don't get the amount that you
used to get, no doubt.
Speaker 3 (26:05):
No, no, are you ready for the the blizzard they
say coming or maybe the bringing on?
Speaker 1 (26:11):
That's why bringing on. We'll deal with it. Yeah, the
roads bad this morning when you came in all clear,
all clear, they're ready to go.
Speaker 3 (26:20):
So yeah, that's good.
Speaker 1 (26:22):
We'll get it and you can just hunker down and
play music and have fun indoors until they get the
roads cleared.
Speaker 3 (26:28):
Yeah. Yeah, it's Eddie came yesterday, my best friend. He
came because he had some things to do. We were
just looking about that storm, you know. But now product
the Bengals to win this week.
Speaker 1 (26:40):
You are my prediction. It's going to be pretty cold.
Twelve degrees for the game.
Speaker 3 (26:45):
Yeah twelve, yeah.
Speaker 1 (26:47):
Yeah, But so Bengals and Ravens. What's the score?
Speaker 3 (26:51):
I said, twenty seven to twenty.
Speaker 1 (26:54):
Twenty seven to twenty Bengals. You got it right there, folks,
have you betting on the Bengal. There's the score to
you mark the tape. Thank you, Daniel, You're welcome.
Speaker 3 (27:05):
Well, guys, have a good.
Speaker 1 (27:06):
Day, Dick from Dayton. Always a pleasure, have a great one.
Honk her down through the storm, play music, keep everybody
happy until they get the roads cleared and then we
all get back outside again. Okay, all right, you too
good talking to you, Dick from Dayton. Ladies and gentlemen
right there in the garden with Ron Wilson two five five,
Good morning. I am Ron Wilson, your personal yard boy.
We are talking yarding. Don't forget our websites, Ron Wilson
(27:29):
online dot com. Rita's recipe this week is a brisket,
absolutely outstanding. And last week we weren't able to post
her her recipe or the week uh didn't make it
on there, but it's on there now and it's there
her uh brittle, you know, the the peppermint brittle and
it's an outstanding one. She gets a lot of requests
(27:49):
for that one, and we, like I said, we weren't
able to put it up last week, but we got
it up for you. Peppermint Bark, I'm sorry, not brittle,
peppermint Bark, and it's up there for you as well.
Be sure and check it out. Uh, there's an interest
story up there about how colorful murals can be a
catalyst for climate and community action. Read that one. If
you get some empty walls in your community that could
(28:10):
actually stand a nice colorful mural. Some of the benefits
of doing that is on our website, and of course
at commemorative seed collection from Burpie. The link to do
that is on there as well, and our plan of
the week Christmas fern and yes, those little pennies, which
is the individual little leaf on the fern stem. It's evergreen,
(28:31):
so it's green year round, look like a little Christmas stocking,
has a little boot at the bottom and hold on yards,
So be sure and check that out. By the way,
we are at that time of the year where your
local independent garden center, your local nurseries, local greenhouses, local
growers are getting their plant lists together for twenty twenty six.
Now for nursery stock, they've been doing that two and
(28:52):
three years out and so a lot of times new
nursery plants, woody plants that are introduced in twenty twenty
five may not be a till twenty twenty seven, twenty eight,
depending on the production levels, one of which we talked
about this earlier this spring and it hasn't changed yet.
So the production the numbers are still very low, but
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they're going to promote the heck out of it. It's
called Centennial ruby Hydrangea. It's four obviously the two hundred
and fiftieth anniversary. It's a macro fila. It's a red flowers,
very attractive. The stems are dark in colored, dark green leaves.
Is a macrophyla, but a flowers on old and new wood,
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about three to three feet tall and wide. Party to
the zone force, so it's a tougher party one, but
numbers will be very limited. As a matter of fact,
our nursery, which is a fairly large nursery, and we
go through a lot of plants, they will only been
able to commit a very small number at the beginning
of the season for twenty twenty six for us to sell.
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So if you put it on your list, you might
want to check with your local nursery see if they're
going to get any end centennial ruby, and maybe put
your name on a waiting list or something, because numbers
is going to be low for a while. Then I
was told by July production numbers will pick up more
and more, and of course it'll become available. Then the
rooty cuttings we've become available in another year and we can
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start growing on ourselves. Blah blah blah. But anyway, it's
a centennial ruby hydrangia, and you will see it being
promoted quite a bit coming through January and February as
we go into that two hundred and fifty celebration. But
at this time, what I was saying is they're ramping
up right now with their production of what they're going
to be growing annuals and perennials, which can be adjusted
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on an annual basis. Perennials typically, yes, and some of
the newer ones might be difficult to get older rooted
cuttings or whatever, but they can change and update and
see and all that. So if there are annuals, especially
or if there are vegetables especially that you know do
(30:57):
a great job. But unfortunately your local independent garden center, nursery, greenhouse, whatever,
does not grow or sell them. You may want to
print out some information about it, go see them and say, hey,
I've grown this or we've grown this for several years
or whatever and have gotten fantastic results. The all American
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selections that are out there every year, those are typically
already they're proven that they're going to do a nice
job for you in your area. So you know, again, Mike,
I want to take that list and show them what
if they don't have it already, what's out there. But
now's the time to put your request list together so
that they will grow or try to get the seeds
and grow some of these for you. So I'm asking
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you as we're putting our list together and we're pretty
well there, but we always leave room to add to
it the tomatoes. What tomatoes have really done well for
you that you totally enjoy that. Maybe you don't see
too much out there available in local garden centers, greenhouses, nursery,
et ceter I'll give you, for instance, woodstock that's a
(32:03):
Johnny seed introduction, and we grew that for the first
time this year and had absolute great results with it.
But it's called woodstock. It's a green kind of an orange.
It's a green tomato, very sweet, very flavorful. I love
green tomatoes. I think we're gonna see more of these
bicolor green, red, green, orange, green, yellow tomatoes coming under
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the market, more and more of it. It's called woodstock.
And someone had suggested that to us last year, and
we added to our list and everybody I know so far,
they grew it, did an outstanding job with it. The
AAS which I mentioned earlier, has a tomato that I
had a couple of people again ask about. And I
have not tried this one, but usually the all the
(32:47):
the things they go through and all the testing and
all these are usually pretty much total winners. As in
the AAS winner, the tomato is called butt a Bang,
other cherry tomato, but with butt a Bang it's a
larger cherry tomato. But what's so unique about this one.
(33:07):
It shows resistance against seceptoria leaf spot, which can be
a major issue. My mom got into that in early
blight this year and man, it just hurt tomato. Some
of her vines looked horrible. Still produced but looked horrible,
but sceptoria, leaf spot, early blight, and late bought blight.
It's resistant to all three of those all right, so
you'll stay a lot healthier, your plants will all season long.
(33:29):
Better tomatoes, great flavor, juicy, and for a one and
a half inch bright red cherry fruit. It is crack resistant,
so if the rains come through and they hit your plants,
this one shows pretty good resistance to cracking. And so
you've got a nice solid tomato, good one and again
(33:51):
we're growing. We added this to our list thanks to
the American Association all American Selections, and I had a
couple of people asking we were going told as well,
but it's called bada bing, so we added that to
our list. We'll have that out there. But my question
to you is are there other ones out there that
you have enjoyed, and if so, make sure you let
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your local independent garden center know and let me know
and share with everybody else so that we can kind
of take a look at tomatoes or anything really in
the vegetable garden or annuals or perennials that you've had
tremendous success with and share that on our show. Because
it's fun hearing from folks that have experience with let me,
let's face the facts. When it comes to tomatoes and
(34:31):
peppers and all these, it can't grow them all. There's
no room. And so every year you try to grow
two or three new ones out there just to get
a better feel. But I love it when folks let
us know what they have grown and has been successful.
So let me know if you know of any tomatoes
you're going to add or that you really like, and
let you're a local garden center know as well, so
(34:52):
they can put it on their list. But share your
favors with us. Or tomatoes or that that didn't do well,
let's know about those as well. All right, we're gonna
take a break. When we come back. In the break,
we'll be taking your calls at eight hundred eight two
three eight two five five, and then halfway through the
next segment, our special guest Pete Richmond. Pete is the
(35:12):
owner with his wife Emily, a rich life farm and
fun guy. Their website is Richlifefarm dot com if you
want to check it out before we talk to Pete.
They specialize in growing gourmet mushrooms and we're gonna talk
about grown mushrooms here in the garden with Ron Wilson.
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