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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Good morning, everybody.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
Welcome.
Speaker 1 (00:02):
I'm Ron Wilson, and you are in the garden here
on news radio six ' ten WTVN eight two one,
WTVN eight hundred and six n WTVN, talking about yarding
Happy New Year twenty twenty five has arrived. Can you
believe that we got rid of twenty twenty four? Where
did that go? In a flash?
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Out of here?
Speaker 1 (00:21):
I'm kind of happy because I don't know. The last
four weeks. I think I've just lost. The last four weeks,
been fighting this respiratory thing, the cough, and I know
a lot of people doing the same thing, just trying
to get rid of it. Get it out of here,
go away and leave me alone. I tell you it
has been crazy, but hopefully had a great holiday season,
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great Christmas, great to New Year's and now we look
forward to twenty twenty five and I always get excited.
You know, I'm not big on New Year's resolutions.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
You know that.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
You know, I know things that I want to do
more of as the season goes along, I know things
that I want to do less of. So I know
things that I want to do, but I'm not a
big New Year's resolution person. Where I write them down
and then go after that. I've tried it a couple
of times and I'm just wind up disappointing myself. But
I know in my mind what I want to do
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better at and do more of and whatever it may be.
So looking forward to twenty twenty five. You know what's
crazy about this if you think about it, We're going
to get through this month very quickly. When we get
into February, we've got Groundhog Day and then you got
Valentine's Day, and once you get past that, you know
we're six weeks from spring. It just slam bam and
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it's the next thing you know, it's there. So between
now and then, we will try to help introduce you
to some new plants that are going to be available
this year, some new varieties. We'll take a look at
twenty twenty five gardening trends. I think it's I always
love looking at the Garden Media Group. We have had
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them on our show in the past, all the gardening
trends that day, and they do a lot of trying
to figure out what folks are headed toward the following year,
Colors of the year.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
Things like that.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
As a matter of fact, their color of the Year
for twenty twenty five isn't even close to Pantones twenty
twenty five Color of the Year if you haven't seen
it yet. Pantones twenty twenty five Color of the Year
is mocha moose So it's that creamy, chocolatey brown very
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and they describe it as a calming, soothing, comforting just
at just a smooth like I say, chocolate, Yeah, chocolate
moosey brown color. And what's interesting is the green industry
in our industry always trying to look at the Pantones
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Color of the Year and then what do we have
to go with that? And you would think that would
be one would be kind of tough to match, but boy,
they've already come out with it, and a lot of
plants that I never even thought of that have either
the flowers or a mocha color maroonish brown, foliage maroonish brown,
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a lot of sedges and things like that. So there
are actually a lot of plants that can give us
that type of a look to go along with Pantones
twenty twenty five color. But I liked the garden media
groups picked they were looking more towards teal, looking for
that color calming again, kind of calming, soothing, blue green,
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you know.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
That type of color. I like that. I like eat
one of them. I guess you could go with.
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But it's just fun looking at the trends and what
they think is going to happen, looking at the different generations,
and I guess we now have what generation beta is
that our next generation will start looking at. But baby
boomers and the millenniums and x's and y's and ease
and all of those. So it is interesting how gardening,
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even the word gardening, you know, it has a different
meeting today than it had many many years ago. So
it's said, we'll take a look at that in the
next couple of weeks and try to give you an
idea of what they're looking at. But for me, my
gardening trends, I'll be honest with you, and this year
I am going to be in a semi retirement mode
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from my full time job, actually going to cut back
a little bit and not be doing seventy hours a
week but more like thirty or forty. Wait a minute,
that's still full time right now, but going to be
cutting back. So I am going to have an opportunity
as we go through this transition period to do a
little bit more container gardening and raise bed guarding and
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things like that, and visit other gardens as well, but
still doing the shows and still working, so you're still
in touch with the industry. So looking forward to twenty
twenty five of some of the changes it had for
me as well. So looking forward to all that stuff. Now,
looking ahead tomorrow Monday, big storm moving in. You know,
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will we get the you know, the further north he
gets kind of in the Columbus area. I mean, they're
predicting snow, but boy, you look down south and it's
southern Ohio really getting hammon. And they're good. They're gonna
work roun on the cusp of the ice storms and
the sleet and the snow, and we're gonna just get
snow in a whole nine yards. And of course time
we'll tell. But I think the thing to remember about
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the good heavy snowfall, and I think it's interesting how
Mother nature does this. We're looking at if you look
to the future over the next couple of weeks, we're
looking at some pretty cold temperatures. As a matter of fact,
looking at the weather and what is blowing in tomorrow
and over the next couple of weeks, We're gonna have
my good friend Ron Rothis join us in the next
hour top of the next hour. He is a board
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certified consulting arborist, is a Masters certified arbors but he's
also a hobby meteorologists and I've had him on our
show many times, not only talking about tree care and
things about trees, which we will talk about also, but
looking at the weather. He does such a great job.
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It's just he's always spot on, and so I always
go to Ron for a weather prediction. So we'll talk
to Ron about that. As a matter of fact, if
you ever go to his website, it's arbordoctor dot com
arbordoctor dot com, you get tremendous information about trees, tree health,
things like that. But you also has a separate site
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that you are linked to go to which is all
his weather and it's crazy too. So I'm going to
have him on to talk about that. But I think
what's interesting is looking at the really cold temperatures, consistent
cold temperatures we have coming up over the next couple
of weeks, isn't it interesting that Mother Nature comes in
right before that happens, and lays down a layer of
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snow to help protect those roots and other things from
don lore from the colder temps, kind of giving us
that insulation blanket before we get into colder temperatures. I
you know, you kind of want to say thank you. Obviously.
I know a lot of folks don't like the snow.
You don't like to drive in it, don't want to
deal with it. I get it. But in the garden,
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in the landscape and for mother nature, you know, you
welcome the snow because it obviously is an insulator, helps
to protect plants, and of course as it melts, it
helps to add moisture back to the ground.
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So you know, I look forward to it. We have
to deal with it.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
You know, driving in it may not be as much fun,
but it's going to happen. But I think it's interesting
that she's going to lay down a little bit of
a blanket here over the next several days as we
go into this colder temperature situation.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
Over the next couple of weeks.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
But anyway, Ron will explain a little bit more of
what's going on when we talk to him in our
next hour. Speaking of which of trees I've got a
couple plant picks of the week. I obviously wasn't with
you last Saturday, but I want to talk about my
plant pick of the week last week because it's a
It's one of those holiday plants that a lot of
folks buy at Christmas time because it looks like a
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little miniature Christmas tree. We're talking about rosemary and how
to take care of it. I mean, I think most
people lose those rather than being successful through the season.
Through the winter time anyway, they're great outdoors, but through
the winter times kind of sometimes can be difficult to
grow indoors. And I also want to take a look
at the I do a plant of the Week and
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sometimes I remember to bring it up and sometimes I don't.
But on our website at Ron Wilson online dot com,
I always have a planet of the week, and I've
got to I'm gonna I'm want to really start to
focus a little bit more during the winter on some trees, because,
as you well know, I am a big advocate for
planting trees. I want to continue to push the fact
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of planting trees. You know, if there's anything all of
us can do that has the most overall impact of
what we do and recycling and composting and all of
that all adds up, but planting and growing trees has
the biggest impact on this earth. And not just planting trees,
but growing trees. And we're going to talk more about,
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you know, planting and how to be successful as you
do plant them and try to bring up some trees
you may not be familiar with, or if you're looking
to take down some trees, like I had somebody this
week sent me a picture of a Bradford pair that
they had planted many, many years ago. The thing is huge,
one of the biggest ones I've ever seen that hasn't
split apart, and they're going to take it out and
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looking to replace that tree. And one of the suggestions,
and I said, you know, I think you know we're
seeing those being taken out. Obviously ash trees are pretty
much dead or at this point taken out, but replacing
or putting in new trees. Let's look at what's available
out there. So we're going to focus a little bit
about new trees over the winter. We're gonna talk about
new plants that are available coming in twenty twenty five.
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And I'm telling you what the new plants on the
market this spring. Your head's gonna spe spinning when you
go into the local independent garden centers because the annuals
and perennials that they continue to come out with, especially
the annuals of tropical plants are phenomenal. Perennials phenomenal. And
some new shrubs and some you know, tree selections been around.
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I like to look at trees that have been at
least planning for several years and we can see what
they do. We'll talk about those for you as well,
talk about the trends of course, sharing gardening tips and
sharing your tips and your calls and your questions. Let's
take a quick break, all right, we come back. We'll
dive into it in twenty twenty five Yardening eight to two
to one WTVN here on news Radio six ' ten
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WTVN Heavy Gardening twenty twenty five. Incorporate music into your gardening.
As a matter of fact, one of the trends I
was reading about, and everybody's got their opinion, says that
you're gonna hear more and more. And you may not
like this because I don't know how close yard of
your neighbors, you know, music becoming more and more music
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bars where you can go in and actually take your
album and they play your album for you while you're
in there, and all that kind of stuff. And hearing
more music in the garden while you garden. Now I
do that, but respectfully with my neighbors, I keep it
down so it's just right within my working area. Of course,
you can have your little buds in or whatever listen
to music as well, but music in the patio and
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garden area. Also, outdoor sound systems are coming on strong
as well, so supposedly in our trends, so we'll see.
But yeah, you know, you just gotta be be you know,
aware of the neighbors. Hopefully they like the same kind
of music that you enjoy as well. Talking about yarding
twenty twenty five and last week my plant pick of
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the week and you know, I couldn't go over this
with it last week, but we're over today. A lot
of folks will grow during the season outside, growing in
a container and then try to overwintered inside. A lot
of folks will find these sold during the holiday season
at the garden centers or places where they sell plants
that look like a small Christmas tree. We're talking about rosemary,
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and it's becoming a really popular holiday plant, and of
course you can use it also for the culinary purposes.
And it smells, you know, I love the smell of rosemary. Unfortunately,
me personally, I don't like the flavor of rosemary. I
feel like I'm chewing on pine needles. But I think
over time, and I used to be really bad about it,
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but I think over time I've learned to like it
a little bit more in the right recipes, so I
tolerated a bit bit more.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
But the thing about.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
Rosemary, and it's used an awful lot obviously in cooking,
is that what's interesting about this particular herb is that
rosemary actually can tolerate pretty cold temperatures. I mean, they
can get down into the freezing area and they can
tolerate just a quick dip down and back up again.
So they can take the low thirties without any problem
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as long as it doesn't stay there. So they can
tolerate cooler temperatures, they actually, you know, enjoy those, and
so you know, you can leave me out fairly long
in the fall without having any damage. As a matter
of fact, I left one out. I always do that,
you know, as a sacrificial lamb, and I got one
to I think it. I think I went well past
Christmas and into January before it finally started to lose
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its color and the cold finally took it out. But
point being is this, so we bring him inside for
the winner. And Rosemary, although it's always listed as a
you know, a nerd for growing indoors, can be a
little bit more picky than other herbs growing inside. And
I look at Rosemary and I trust me my good
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friend Rito Hikenfeld, who is a an herbalist, as she
and I had a contest one time and I went
and bought two of those the Christmas tree Rosemary's, and
we tried to see who could do the best job
raising and indoors over the winter. She as a fairly good,
fairly well lit house, but they heat with wood. It's
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very dry in there, and it did not like that
at all our house we had. I had an eastern window,
so I got morning sun bright the rest of the
day average humidity as you would have you know most
homes over the wintertime. But she lost hers fairly quickly.
I did.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
Over time.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
It just started to kind of turn black on the
inside and I got powdery mildew, and next thing you know,
it was it was a done deal. So neither one
of us made it to the end of the winter
too with our rosemary. But if you try to do
this indoors and a lot of and there are folks
that are very successful with it, I think there's three
keys to getting that rosemary to come through. First of all,
full sun. You've got to give that thing as much
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bright light as you can six hours eight hours of
sun if you can. If you can't, you know, supplemental
lighting is good, you know, the grow lights floor USA
to lighting over top of her whatever. If it's in
a window, a sunny window, make sure you're rotated on
a weekly basis. But sunlight is really really important when
it comes to growing anything indoors obviously, but even more
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so with rosemary. It also doesn't like wet feet, so
and it doesn't like to stay totally dry for a
long period of time, so she can be a little
picky about the watering. So I look at watering kind
of like our old method. Give it a good soaking,
back off and really let it dry out, but not
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stay dried out very long. So you want to let
it dry, and as soon as you see that it's
dry all the way down, come back and give it
a good soaking as well, and do it that way
as a matter of fact. And when you do water,
and this applies to whether it's rosemary or any of
the herbs or houseplants that are indoors period, use lukewarm
to warm water, very very important. Don't use cold water.
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They respond better to lukewarm or warm water. So that
that's two things. Sunlight good drainage. You know, soak it well,
but drains through, drives out, come back you soak it again,
very very important. All right, think about it. It's a
Mediterranean plant, so they like the moisture, but they don't
like it to the wet feet, so you've got to
be careful about that. And third, I have found that
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if you have good air circulation in your home, where
you know the air's moving all the time, that really
does help cut down on powdery and mildew, which they
can get very easily when they're inside. And in some
cases you might have to set up a one of those
little desk fans or a fan eclipse on the side
of the table and just to move the air around it.
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As a matter of fact, when we're talking about starting
plants indoors from seed annuals from seed, I always bring
up the you know, as far as the things to
have is that small fan off to the side, just
to keep the air moving. As a matter of fact,
if you go to a greenhouse grower and look in
their greenhouses up in the the beams that go across
the top, you'll see these small fans, and they're not
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to cool things down, They're to just keep the air circulating.
So they have a whole line of them blowing the
air the same direction, moving it one way and then
the other one, the next house coming back to the
other direction, the next house going back to the next direction,
just to keep the air moving inside the greenhouse very
very important. Does like the humidity, but likes for that
to keep moving as well. So if you can do
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all of those three things, you can usually pull it
off with rosemary inside the house. And yes, you can
harvest from it. You would harvest the new growth that
pops out on the tips, that's what you want to use.
Leave the other stuff there, but harvest the new growth
that comes out. And do you know, through the rest
of the winter season, don't feed it. Watering is going
to be the key. And then we'll jump into feeding
and as we get into March in April and starts
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to fire back up again. But one last point before
we take a break. We'll also found that if you
have a garage and a lot of attached garages today
just don't get very cold. And so you know, we
talk about overwintering plants of state dormant, they just warm
up too much. That is a situation if you've got
a fairly sunny window that in an unheated garage that
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doesn't freeze, you can overwinner rosemary and probably do the
best job out there where it stays really cool. The
plant really shuts down but stays alive, but shuts down
just kind of sits there. You watered as needed, and
they do a pretty good job in a situation like that.
If you've never tried that before, you might want to
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give it a shot. I've found that that does a
really really nice job. All right, quick break, we come back.
We'll talk about our tree of the week this week,
which if you're looking to add some larger growing trees,
maybe you've got a smaller yard, you need a street tree.
I got a real good choice for you to take
a look at. A two to one wtv in is
our number. Here on news radio six y ten WTVN.
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Oh yeah, talking yard, and here on news radio six
ten WTVN, A two to one wtv in eight hundred
and six to ten WTVN. You know, before we went
into the break, there was talking about rosemary and she
can be pretty finicky trying to overwinter that in the
house and it can be tough. And then trying to
unheated garage might be the best shot for you to
go there and have good success, and you might want
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experiment with it sometime to see one other thing I
forgot to mention here. You know, we were talking about
great drainage, and she really likes great drainage. You know,
there's a lot of plants that you've got to be
very careful about as far as overwatering. This is one
of those plants, rosemary, that actually benefits from growing in
a clay pot versus growing in a plastic pot or
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even a porcelain pot which is sealed on the outside.
The thing about the clay pots, and you know, if
you're a I always say I'm a mature gardener, if
you're you know, been of guarding for quite some time.
You remember, you know, a long time ago, claypots were
the only things that were available at the garden centers,
you know, and then we finally started getting into decorative pots,
more ceramics. People started spend little bit more money for
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these decorative pots, and then we started using plastics that
started to look just like the ceramics or the clay,
that were a lot less expensive. And I use a
lot of plastic pots, black nursery pots. I use those
because I let the plants do the talking, you know.
I don't spend a lot of money on the pot.
And so they're all they all have their place. But
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if you're looking for a pot that really does breathe
the best and actually, you know, breathe a lot of
air and dries out and drains best, it would be
a clay pot. And so Rosemary you'll typically see, except
for these holiday plants a lot of times sold in
clay pots for two reasons. One is so that it
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drains better and breathes the soil breathes better. And secondly,
they can become very top heavy. If you've got the
ones that are like a Christmas tree, or the ones
that are like a shape, like a ball or parameter,
whatever it may be, have a tendency to fall over
in the plast smaller plastic pots. And when we have
these plants that are in small or plastic pots, amarillas
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comes to mind, you know, I talking about amaryllis kits
and scarfing those up, and they always coming in. It's
a small pot, you know, just the bulb fairly barely
fits in the pot. But you know, you've got to
be careful because once it gets that real tall foliage,
it can fall over very easily. And a lot of
times we'll take plants like that that do that and
wind up putting them in a pot that's way too big,
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and you wind up losing it because it doesn't like
being in an oversized pot. So clay pots give you
weight to keep it from tumbling over. I love and.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
You can google this sometime.
Speaker 1 (21:34):
I love using azalea clay pots, azalea pots, azalea pots,
or squatty pots, so you know, you can find them
that are ten twelve inches in diameter but only six
or eight inches deep, multiple holes in the bottom. And
I love guarding with some of those and rosemary does
great in this situation like that and that particular type
of pot. But anyway, keep the clay pots in mind
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as well when you need to upgrade that or put
into another. And it really helps to breathe as well.
And I think I'm seeing clay pots coming back onto
the market more and more. I think folks like that. Look,
I kept working with the clay and again the fact
that it does add a little bit of weight, you know,
especially if you're doing gardening on the patio or outside,
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that it doesn't tumble over. And remember and the claypots
typically come with one big hole in the bottom of them.
It's hard to drill holes in those without breaking them.
The azalea squat pots usually have multiple holes. But remember,
don't put gravel or broken up clay pots or whatever
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in the bottom of those pots to help drainage. Doesn't
work all right if you're afraid the potting soil is
going to come out the bottom of those holes, Lay
a coffee filter in there, Lay some landscape fabric in
the bottom, whatever it may be, to act as a
screen to keep that potting soil in there, and eventually
it stops coming out with the holes, but do not
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put the gravel what over in the bottom. It only
makes the pot heavier. It actually can slow down the
actual drainage. So keep that in mind as we start
to look at our container gardening in twenty twenty five,
which I'm excited because that's what I'm going to get,
bigger and better all the time. All right, quick break,
we come back. I'll talk about that tree, our pick
of the week that I think you may be interested
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in for a street tree.
Speaker 2 (23:21):
Planning smaller yard, but looking for a bigger tree.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
I got the answer for you coming up next here
on the news radio six ten WTVN. Now, if that
wouldn't get you hopping in the garden, I don't know
what would. Pulling those weeds, doing a little scratching in
the soil, you got it. My neighbors be going nuts.
I'd be dancing all over the place, all right, talking
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yardening twenty twenty five here on news radio six '
ten WTVNA two to one wtv in as our numbers.
If you'd like to jump on board here a gardening
tip or have a question, we're here for you.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
All right.
Speaker 1 (23:57):
So I was talking about my plant pick of the
week and We're gonna really look at a lot of trees.
We're gonna we just want to we need to get
out there and just keep planting those trees. As a
matter of fact, coming up in our next half hour,
we're gonna talk to Ron Rothis he's a master, certified,
Board certified arbors and registered consulting arbors. I mean, he's
got every credential in the world when it comes to
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being an arborus. And he's also a great hobby meteorolist.
We're going to talk about a little bit about the weather.
We're gonna talk about trees as well, and again planting trees,
but not only planting trees, growing trees, you know, practices
for growing and maintaining the older trees, which we I
think don't push enough. How important that is. But nevertheless,
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the tree I have chosen to pick to kick off
for a twenty twenty five I've been watching this tree
for the last I don't know. I think it's I
said five to seven years, probably longer than that fifteen years.
Came onto the market about fifteen years ago or so
that we could start planning and seeing it growing in
our area, and I I've just been totally happy with
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everything that I've seen so far. I like sycamore trees,
all right, You like sycamores. You look out there and
you see those big old sycamore trees with that white
gray bark, brown bark, peeling bark, those huge leaves all
along the creek beds and the river. I mean in big,
bold and masculine. I love those trees. I mean they
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are absolutely gorgeous, especially in the winter time when you
can see that winter character about sycamores. Well, you know,
we've come along with improved varieties London plane trees, not
the true sycamore, but you know it still the same
type of a look, and new varieties coming along all
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the time. And one came out several years ago that
I again, like I say, I've been totally blown away
with and totally impressed with as I watched this thing
continue to grow moderate to this amazing once to get established.
How quick they can come on, but I put it
as a moderate growth rate. Here's a tree that can
get it can get fifty feet tall, but not very wide,
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about thirty thirty five feet white. So if you've got
a street tree planting or a smaller yard that you're
looking to put these in. It's a good selection. They're
very urban tolerant, some sick you know, sycamores can be
subject to anthracnose where you see all of a sudden
those leaves just kind of shrivel up and kind of
dry up. They make it through it, but this is
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anthractnose resistant, moderately resistant to powdery mildew. Also, the old
sycamores have the sycamore balls that on there. Usually with
this one, not much flowering and not very much as
far as fruiting. Maybe a few here and there, but
that's not an issue.
Speaker 2 (26:50):
Fall color.
Speaker 1 (26:52):
It's okay, it's yellow, but not really spectacular, but it
does give you a little bit of yellow. Very adaptable tree.
So what am I talking about?
Speaker 2 (27:00):
It is called.
Speaker 1 (27:02):
Exclamation plane tree, and sometimes you'll see it sold as
Morton's circle, but I think and mostly in the trade,
it is a platinous exclamation with an exclamation point at
the end of that plane tree. And again it gets
that sycamore look. The leaf not quite as large as
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the old sycamore, a little bit more, a little bit
more serrated, but absolutely gorgeous tree, great shape, very paramidal,
very symmetrical as it's younger, and then it starts to
open up. As it gets more than that fifty foot
range will open up a little bit more. But I'm
telling you what for a street tree, planting around the sidewalk,
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planting smaller yards where you're looking upright, but not quite
so wide. This is a tree that's a very different look.
I love the look, I love the shape of the leaf,
and I love the course of the bark as well.
But it's an exclamation plain tree p L A N
E t R E E E platinus uh hybrid a
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cerfolio Morton circle was the original name, but now sold
at the nurseries as Exclamation And I'm telling you they
handle enviro environment really really great, whether the rural or urban. Uh,
and absolutely gorgeous as they come along. Uh. You know,
I love fall color on trees. This was not quite
as show. It's just a it's just a dull yellow.
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But it does give you some of that in the fall.
But again, take a look at this one, and if
you're looking for that type of a tree, I think
this might be intriguing to you. Again it's uh, it's
exclamation plane tree and you can find that if you
if you want to on our special website at Ron
Wilson online dot com. And as we go through the
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winter season here, I want to that's gonna be my
focus until we get the closure to spring. Looking at
some of these trees that that you may not have
heard about, that are doing an excellent job as far
as what I can see, and folks like Ron rothis
and other folks that are into the trees all the time.
I know he really likes this one as well. That
are performing excellently for other people and keep you up
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to date. But again, you know, it's so important to
get out and plant trees. And one of your goals,
hopefully if you do New Year's resolutions for twenty twenty five,
would be to get out and make sure that you
are planting a tree or two or three, and wherever
you're planting these, if they're not in your own yard
or garden, to make sure that they are successful and
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growing as well. We talked about two weeks ago, I
had the folks on from Bee Cups General's and we
were talking about bees. We had Barbie Bletcher on talking
about the bees. Don't forget you know, if you like
to learn more about bees and being a bee keeper
and I like taking these classes even though you're not
a beekeeper, just to go and learn more about them.
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Central Ohio Beekeepers Association they have their b school coming up.
Registrations are open for those right now. They're coming up.
They have two separate full day Saturday classes February twenty second,
March the eighth, all right, and then they have one
on February the fifteenth as well. And that would be
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the Central Ohio Beekeepers Association. And I'm looking real quick here. Yeah,
you can go to their west Central Ohio Beekeepers dot org.
That's Central Ohio Beekeepers dot org. And they also have
their Youth Beekeeper Scholarships that they're looking for someone a
nice I think the agency have to be you know,
probably eight or nine or ten or so, somewhere in
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that range up to about fifteen or sixteen. But they're
looking for some youth beekeepers that are interested in getting started.
They set you up and help you throughout that. But
it's Central Ohio Beekeepers dot org. Also, we've got the
Knox County Beekeepers that have their classes.
Speaker 2 (30:51):
That are going on. They have their.
Speaker 1 (30:53):
Advanced Beekeeping Keeping Class January twenty fifth. That's a four
to four hour session Vernon and then they also have
their beginner classes one and two that start February first
and February fifteenth. So you folks that are out toward
Knox County, if that's more appealing to you, it's Knoxbees
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dot org k and o X knoxbes dot org. And
for just general information, you can always go to Ohio
Statebeekeepers dot org. They probably list a lot of these
on there as well, Ohio State Beekeepers dot Org. And
again I remind you of this because it's a great
way to learn more about as again, trending in twenty
twenty five.
Speaker 2 (31:35):
Will be being b ee e.
Speaker 1 (31:37):
I'm friendly in your gardening endeavors, being pollinator polite in
your gardening endeavors, you know, working in those plants that
are good for all of the above, the butterflies, the bees,
all the pollinators that are out there, and learning more
about them and learning more about their lifestyle, their life cycles,
what they're looking for, you know, really can help you
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out in your gardening endeavors to help them out. So
taking these classes, even if you don't want to be
a beekeeper, can really be a real good plus for
you as far as learning more about them. As a
matter of fact, I had an email this week somebody
was talking about why am I seeing mole hills in
my yard this time of the year. Aren't you know,
aren't they you know? Why are they doing this? Don't
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they go dormant? Well again, learning more about moles and
learning more about voles, and you learn more about their
habits and their habitats and all helps you to understand
a little bit more about what they're doing in your
yard and garden. And right now, moles don't go dormant.
They don't shut down for the season. They don't hibernate.
They may hang out for a while on their nest
when it's really really cold, But right now they're digging
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those underground search those underground tunnels to connect from your
property to the neighbors or whatever. And that's where they're
excavating those tunnels down below the ground, their major highways,
you know, getting ready to connect for the spring season,
mating season coming up. It's right around the corner. So
that's why you're seeing mole activity in the yard this
time of the year. All right, take a quick break,
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we come back top of the hour. Ron rothis will
join us we're gonna talk about the trees, we're gonna
talk about the weather, and then after that'll be you
and me talking uh gardening here on news radio six
ten WTVN
Good morning, everybody.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
Welcome.
Speaker 1 (00:02):
I'm Ron Wilson, and you are in the garden here
on news radio six ' ten WTVN eight two one,
WTVN eight hundred and six n WTVN, talking about yarding
Happy New Year twenty twenty five has arrived. Can you
believe that we got rid of twenty twenty four? Where
did that go? In a flash?
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Out of here?
Speaker 1 (00:21):
I'm kind of happy because I don't know. The last
four weeks. I think I've just lost. The last four weeks,
been fighting this respiratory thing, the cough, and I know
a lot of people doing the same thing, just trying
to get rid of it. Get it out of here,
go away and leave me alone. I tell you it
has been crazy, but hopefully had a great holiday season,
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great Christmas, great to New Year's and now we look
forward to twenty twenty five and I always get excited.
You know, I'm not big on New Year's resolutions.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
You know that.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
You know, I know things that I want to do
more of as the season goes along, I know things
that I want to do less of. So I know
things that I want to do, but I'm not a
big New Year's resolution person. Where I write them down
and then go after that. I've tried it a couple
of times and I'm just wind up disappointing myself. But
I know in my mind what I want to do
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better at and do more of and whatever it may be.
So looking forward to twenty twenty five. You know what's
crazy about this if you think about it, We're going
to get through this month very quickly. When we get
into February, we've got Groundhog Day and then you got
Valentine's Day, and once you get past that, you know
we're six weeks from spring. It just slam bam and
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it's the next thing you know, it's there. So between
now and then, we will try to help introduce you
to some new plants that are going to be available
this year, some new varieties. We'll take a look at
twenty twenty five gardening trends. I think it's I always
love looking at the Garden Media Group. We have had
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them on our show in the past, all the gardening
trends that day, and they do a lot of trying
to figure out what folks are headed toward the following year,
Colors of the year.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
Things like that.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
As a matter of fact, their color of the Year
for twenty twenty five isn't even close to Pantones twenty
twenty five Color of the Year if you haven't seen
it yet. Pantones twenty twenty five Color of the Year
is mocha moose So it's that creamy, chocolatey brown very
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and they describe it as a calming, soothing, comforting just
at just a smooth like I say, chocolate, Yeah, chocolate
moosey brown color. And what's interesting is the green industry
in our industry always trying to look at the Pantones
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Color of the Year and then what do we have
to go with that? And you would think that would
be one would be kind of tough to match, but boy,
they've already come out with it, and a lot of
plants that I never even thought of that have either
the flowers or a mocha color maroonish brown, foliage maroonish brown,
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a lot of sedges and things like that. So there
are actually a lot of plants that can give us
that type of a look to go along with Pantones
twenty twenty five color. But I liked the garden media
groups picked they were looking more towards teal, looking for
that color calming again, kind of calming, soothing, blue green,
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you know.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
That type of color. I like that. I like eat
one of them. I guess you could go with.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
But it's just fun looking at the trends and what
they think is going to happen, looking at the different generations,
and I guess we now have what generation beta is
that our next generation will start looking at. But baby
boomers and the millenniums and x's and y's and ease
and all of those. So it is interesting how gardening,
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even the word gardening, you know, it has a different
meeting today than it had many many years ago. So
it's said, we'll take a look at that in the
next couple of weeks and try to give you an
idea of what they're looking at. But for me, my
gardening trends, I'll be honest with you, and this year
I am going to be in a semi retirement mode
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from my full time job, actually going to cut back
a little bit and not be doing seventy hours a
week but more like thirty or forty. Wait a minute,
that's still full time right now, but going to be
cutting back. So I am going to have an opportunity
as we go through this transition period to do a
little bit more container gardening and raise bed guarding and
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things like that, and visit other gardens as well, but
still doing the shows and still working, so you're still
in touch with the industry. So looking forward to twenty
twenty five of some of the changes it had for
me as well. So looking forward to all that stuff. Now,
looking ahead tomorrow Monday, big storm moving in. You know,
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will we get the you know, the further north he
gets kind of in the Columbus area. I mean, they're
predicting snow, but boy, you look down south and it's
southern Ohio really getting hammon. And they're good. They're gonna
work roun on the cusp of the ice storms and
the sleet and the snow, and we're gonna just get
snow in a whole nine yards. And of course time
we'll tell. But I think the thing to remember about
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the good heavy snowfall, and I think it's interesting how
Mother nature does this. We're looking at if you look
to the future over the next couple of weeks, we're
looking at some pretty cold temperatures. As a matter of fact,
looking at the weather and what is blowing in tomorrow
and over the next couple of weeks, We're gonna have
my good friend Ron Rothis join us in the next
hour top of the next hour. He is a board
(05:54):
certified consulting arborist, is a Masters certified arbors but he's
also a hobby meteorologists and I've had him on our
show many times, not only talking about tree care and
things about trees, which we will talk about also, but
looking at the weather. He does such a great job.
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It's just he's always spot on, and so I always
go to Ron for a weather prediction. So we'll talk
to Ron about that. As a matter of fact, if
you ever go to his website, it's arbordoctor dot com
arbordoctor dot com, you get tremendous information about trees, tree health,
things like that. But you also has a separate site
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that you are linked to go to which is all
his weather and it's crazy too. So I'm going to
have him on to talk about that. But I think
what's interesting is looking at the really cold temperatures, consistent
cold temperatures we have coming up over the next couple
of weeks, isn't it interesting that Mother Nature comes in
right before that happens, and lays down a layer of
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snow to help protect those roots and other things from
don lore from the colder temps, kind of giving us
that insulation blanket before we get into colder temperatures. I
you know, you kind of want to say thank you. Obviously.
I know a lot of folks don't like the snow.
You don't like to drive in it, don't want to
deal with it. I get it. But in the garden,
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in the landscape and for mother nature, you know, you
welcome the snow because it obviously is an insulator, helps
to protect plants, and of course as it melts, it
helps to add moisture back to the ground.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
So you know, I look forward to it. We have
to deal with it.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
You know, driving in it may not be as much fun,
but it's going to happen. But I think it's interesting
that she's going to lay down a little bit of
a blanket here over the next several days as we
go into this colder temperature situation.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
Over the next couple of weeks.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
But anyway, Ron will explain a little bit more of
what's going on when we talk to him in our
next hour. Speaking of which of trees I've got a
couple plant picks of the week. I obviously wasn't with
you last Saturday, but I want to talk about my
plant pick of the week last week because it's a
It's one of those holiday plants that a lot of
folks buy at Christmas time because it looks like a
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little miniature Christmas tree. We're talking about rosemary and how
to take care of it. I mean, I think most
people lose those rather than being successful through the season.
Through the winter time anyway, they're great outdoors, but through
the winter times kind of sometimes can be difficult to
grow indoors. And I also want to take a look
at the I do a plant of the Week and
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sometimes I remember to bring it up and sometimes I don't.
But on our website at Ron Wilson online dot com,
I always have a planet of the week, and I've
got to I'm gonna I'm want to really start to
focus a little bit more during the winter on some trees, because,
as you well know, I am a big advocate for
planting trees. I want to continue to push the fact
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of planting trees. You know, if there's anything all of
us can do that has the most overall impact of
what we do and recycling and composting and all of
that all adds up, but planting and growing trees has
the biggest impact on this earth. And not just planting trees,
but growing trees. And we're going to talk more about,
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you know, planting and how to be successful as you
do plant them and try to bring up some trees
you may not be familiar with, or if you're looking
to take down some trees, like I had somebody this
week sent me a picture of a Bradford pair that
they had planted many, many years ago. The thing is huge,
one of the biggest ones I've ever seen that hasn't
split apart, and they're going to take it out and
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looking to replace that tree. And one of the suggestions,
and I said, you know, I think you know we're
seeing those being taken out. Obviously ash trees are pretty
much dead or at this point taken out, but replacing
or putting in new trees. Let's look at what's available
out there. So we're going to focus a little bit
about new trees over the winter. We're gonna talk about
new plants that are available coming in twenty twenty five.
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And I'm telling you what the new plants on the
market this spring. Your head's gonna spe spinning when you
go into the local independent garden centers because the annuals
and perennials that they continue to come out with, especially
the annuals of tropical plants are phenomenal. Perennials phenomenal. And
some new shrubs and some you know, tree selections been around.
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I like to look at trees that have been at
least planning for several years and we can see what
they do. We'll talk about those for you as well,
talk about the trends of course, sharing gardening tips and
sharing your tips and your calls and your questions. Let's
take a quick break, all right, we come back. We'll
dive into it in twenty twenty five Yardening eight to two
to one WTVN here on news Radio six ' ten
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WTVN Heavy Gardening twenty twenty five. Incorporate music into your gardening.
As a matter of fact, one of the trends I
was reading about, and everybody's got their opinion, says that
you're gonna hear more and more. And you may not
like this because I don't know how close yard of
your neighbors, you know, music becoming more and more music
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bars where you can go in and actually take your
album and they play your album for you while you're
in there, and all that kind of stuff. And hearing
more music in the garden while you garden. Now I
do that, but respectfully with my neighbors, I keep it
down so it's just right within my working area. Of course,
you can have your little buds in or whatever listen
to music as well, but music in the patio and
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garden area. Also, outdoor sound systems are coming on strong
as well, so supposedly in our trends, so we'll see.
But yeah, you know, you just gotta be be you know,
aware of the neighbors. Hopefully they like the same kind
of music that you enjoy as well. Talking about yarding
twenty twenty five and last week my plant pick of
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the week and you know, I couldn't go over this
with it last week, but we're over today. A lot
of folks will grow during the season outside, growing in
a container and then try to overwintered inside. A lot
of folks will find these sold during the holiday season
at the garden centers or places where they sell plants
that look like a small Christmas tree. We're talking about rosemary,
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and it's becoming a really popular holiday plant, and of
course you can use it also for the culinary purposes.
And it smells, you know, I love the smell of rosemary. Unfortunately,
me personally, I don't like the flavor of rosemary. I
feel like I'm chewing on pine needles. But I think
over time, and I used to be really bad about it,
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but I think over time I've learned to like it
a little bit more in the right recipes, so I
tolerated a bit bit more.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
But the thing about.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
Rosemary, and it's used an awful lot obviously in cooking,
is that what's interesting about this particular herb is that
rosemary actually can tolerate pretty cold temperatures. I mean, they
can get down into the freezing area and they can
tolerate just a quick dip down and back up again.
So they can take the low thirties without any problem
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as long as it doesn't stay there. So they can
tolerate cooler temperatures, they actually, you know, enjoy those, and
so you know, you can leave me out fairly long
in the fall without having any damage. As a matter
of fact, I left one out. I always do that,
you know, as a sacrificial lamb, and I got one
to I think it. I think I went well past
Christmas and into January before it finally started to lose
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its color and the cold finally took it out. But
point being is this, so we bring him inside for
the winner. And Rosemary, although it's always listed as a
you know, a nerd for growing indoors, can be a
little bit more picky than other herbs growing inside. And
I look at Rosemary and I trust me my good
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friend Rito Hikenfeld, who is a an herbalist, as she
and I had a contest one time and I went
and bought two of those the Christmas tree Rosemary's, and
we tried to see who could do the best job
raising and indoors over the winter. She as a fairly good,
fairly well lit house, but they heat with wood. It's
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very dry in there, and it did not like that
at all our house we had. I had an eastern window,
so I got morning sun bright the rest of the
day average humidity as you would have you know most
homes over the wintertime. But she lost hers fairly quickly.
I did.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
Over time.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
It just started to kind of turn black on the
inside and I got powdery mildew, and next thing you know,
it was it was a done deal. So neither one
of us made it to the end of the winter
too with our rosemary. But if you try to do
this indoors and a lot of and there are folks
that are very successful with it, I think there's three
keys to getting that rosemary to come through. First of all,
full sun. You've got to give that thing as much
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bright light as you can six hours eight hours of
sun if you can. If you can't, you know, supplemental
lighting is good, you know, the grow lights floor USA
to lighting over top of her whatever. If it's in
a window, a sunny window, make sure you're rotated on
a weekly basis. But sunlight is really really important when
it comes to growing anything indoors obviously, but even more
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so with rosemary. It also doesn't like wet feet, so
and it doesn't like to stay totally dry for a
long period of time, so she can be a little
picky about the watering. So I look at watering kind
of like our old method. Give it a good soaking,
back off and really let it dry out, but not
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stay dried out very long. So you want to let
it dry, and as soon as you see that it's
dry all the way down, come back and give it
a good soaking as well, and do it that way
as a matter of fact. And when you do water,
and this applies to whether it's rosemary or any of
the herbs or houseplants that are indoors period, use lukewarm
to warm water, very very important. Don't use cold water.
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They respond better to lukewarm or warm water. So that
that's two things. Sunlight good drainage. You know, soak it well,
but drains through, drives out, come back you soak it again,
very very important. All right, think about it. It's a
Mediterranean plant, so they like the moisture, but they don't
like it to the wet feet, so you've got to
be careful about that. And third, I have found that
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if you have good air circulation in your home, where
you know the air's moving all the time, that really
does help cut down on powdery and mildew, which they
can get very easily when they're inside. And in some
cases you might have to set up a one of those
little desk fans or a fan eclipse on the side
of the table and just to move the air around it.
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As a matter of fact, when we're talking about starting
plants indoors from seed annuals from seed, I always bring
up the you know, as far as the things to
have is that small fan off to the side, just
to keep the air moving. As a matter of fact,
if you go to a greenhouse grower and look in
their greenhouses up in the the beams that go across
the top, you'll see these small fans, and they're not
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to cool things down, They're to just keep the air circulating.
So they have a whole line of them blowing the
air the same direction, moving it one way and then
the other one, the next house coming back to the
other direction, the next house going back to the next direction,
just to keep the air moving inside the greenhouse very
very important. Does like the humidity, but likes for that
to keep moving as well. So if you can do
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all of those three things, you can usually pull it
off with rosemary inside the house. And yes, you can
harvest from it. You would harvest the new growth that
pops out on the tips, that's what you want to use.
Leave the other stuff there, but harvest the new growth
that comes out. And do you know, through the rest
of the winter season, don't feed it. Watering is going
to be the key. And then we'll jump into feeding
and as we get into March in April and starts
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to fire back up again. But one last point before
we take a break. We'll also found that if you
have a garage and a lot of attached garages today
just don't get very cold. And so you know, we
talk about overwintering plants of state dormant, they just warm
up too much. That is a situation if you've got
a fairly sunny window that in an unheated garage that
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doesn't freeze, you can overwinner rosemary and probably do the
best job out there where it stays really cool. The
plant really shuts down but stays alive, but shuts down
just kind of sits there. You watered as needed, and
they do a pretty good job in a situation like that.
If you've never tried that before, you might want to
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give it a shot. I've found that that does a
really really nice job. All right, quick break, we come back.
We'll talk about our tree of the week this week,
which if you're looking to add some larger growing trees,
maybe you've got a smaller yard, you need a street tree.
I got a real good choice for you to take
a look at. A two to one wtv in is
our number. Here on news radio six y ten WTVN.
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Oh yeah, talking yard, and here on news radio six
ten WTVN, A two to one wtv in eight hundred
and six to ten WTVN. You know, before we went
into the break, there was talking about rosemary and she
can be pretty finicky trying to overwinter that in the
house and it can be tough. And then trying to
unheated garage might be the best shot for you to
go there and have good success, and you might want
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experiment with it sometime to see one other thing I
forgot to mention here. You know, we were talking about
great drainage, and she really likes great drainage. You know,
there's a lot of plants that you've got to be
very careful about as far as overwatering. This is one
of those plants, rosemary, that actually benefits from growing in
a clay pot versus growing in a plastic pot or
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even a porcelain pot which is sealed on the outside.
The thing about the clay pots, and you know, if
you're a I always say I'm a mature gardener, if
you're you know, been of guarding for quite some time.
You remember, you know, a long time ago, claypots were
the only things that were available at the garden centers,
you know, and then we finally started getting into decorative pots,
more ceramics. People started spend little bit more money for
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these decorative pots, and then we started using plastics that
started to look just like the ceramics or the clay,
that were a lot less expensive. And I use a
lot of plastic pots, black nursery pots. I use those
because I let the plants do the talking, you know.
I don't spend a lot of money on the pot.
And so they're all they all have their place. But
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if you're looking for a pot that really does breathe
the best and actually, you know, breathe a lot of
air and dries out and drains best, it would be
a clay pot. And so Rosemary you'll typically see, except
for these holiday plants a lot of times sold in
clay pots for two reasons. One is so that it
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drains better and breathes the soil breathes better. And secondly,
they can become very top heavy. If you've got the
ones that are like a Christmas tree, or the ones
that are like a shape, like a ball or parameter,
whatever it may be, have a tendency to fall over
in the plast smaller plastic pots. And when we have
these plants that are in small or plastic pots, amarillas
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comes to mind, you know, I talking about amaryllis kits
and scarfing those up, and they always coming in. It's
a small pot, you know, just the bulb fairly barely
fits in the pot. But you know, you've got to
be careful because once it gets that real tall foliage,
it can fall over very easily. And a lot of
times we'll take plants like that that do that and
wind up putting them in a pot that's way too big,
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and you wind up losing it because it doesn't like
being in an oversized pot. So clay pots give you
weight to keep it from tumbling over. I love and.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
You can google this sometime.
Speaker 1 (21:34):
I love using azalea clay pots, azalea pots, azalea pots,
or squatty pots, so you know, you can find them
that are ten twelve inches in diameter but only six
or eight inches deep, multiple holes in the bottom. And
I love guarding with some of those and rosemary does
great in this situation like that and that particular type
of pot. But anyway, keep the clay pots in mind
(21:57):
as well when you need to upgrade that or put
into another. And it really helps to breathe as well.
And I think I'm seeing clay pots coming back onto
the market more and more. I think folks like that. Look,
I kept working with the clay and again the fact
that it does add a little bit of weight, you know,
especially if you're doing gardening on the patio or outside,
(22:18):
that it doesn't tumble over. And remember and the claypots
typically come with one big hole in the bottom of them.
It's hard to drill holes in those without breaking them.
The azalea squat pots usually have multiple holes. But remember,
don't put gravel or broken up clay pots or whatever
(22:38):
in the bottom of those pots to help drainage. Doesn't
work all right if you're afraid the potting soil is
going to come out the bottom of those holes, Lay
a coffee filter in there, Lay some landscape fabric in
the bottom, whatever it may be, to act as a
screen to keep that potting soil in there, and eventually
it stops coming out with the holes, but do not
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put the gravel what over in the bottom. It only
makes the pot heavier. It actually can slow down the
actual drainage. So keep that in mind as we start
to look at our container gardening in twenty twenty five,
which I'm excited because that's what I'm going to get,
bigger and better all the time. All right, quick break,
we come back. I'll talk about that tree, our pick
of the week that I think you may be interested
(23:19):
in for a street tree.
Speaker 2 (23:21):
Planning smaller yard, but looking for a bigger tree.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
I got the answer for you coming up next here
on the news radio six ten WTVN. Now, if that
wouldn't get you hopping in the garden, I don't know
what would. Pulling those weeds, doing a little scratching in
the soil, you got it. My neighbors be going nuts.
I'd be dancing all over the place, all right, talking
(23:44):
yardening twenty twenty five here on news radio six '
ten WTVNA two to one wtv in as our numbers.
If you'd like to jump on board here a gardening
tip or have a question, we're here for you.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
All right.
Speaker 1 (23:57):
So I was talking about my plant pick of the
week and We're gonna really look at a lot of trees.
We're gonna we just want to we need to get
out there and just keep planting those trees. As a
matter of fact, coming up in our next half hour,
we're gonna talk to Ron Rothis he's a master, certified,
Board certified arbors and registered consulting arbors. I mean, he's
got every credential in the world when it comes to
(24:18):
being an arborus. And he's also a great hobby meteorolist.
We're going to talk about a little bit about the weather.
We're gonna talk about trees as well, and again planting trees,
but not only planting trees, growing trees, you know, practices
for growing and maintaining the older trees, which we I
think don't push enough. How important that is. But nevertheless,
(24:40):
the tree I have chosen to pick to kick off
for a twenty twenty five I've been watching this tree
for the last I don't know. I think it's I
said five to seven years, probably longer than that fifteen years.
Came onto the market about fifteen years ago or so
that we could start planning and seeing it growing in
our area, and I I've just been totally happy with
(25:03):
everything that I've seen so far. I like sycamore trees,
all right, You like sycamores. You look out there and
you see those big old sycamore trees with that white
gray bark, brown bark, peeling bark, those huge leaves all
along the creek beds and the river. I mean in big,
bold and masculine. I love those trees. I mean they
(25:25):
are absolutely gorgeous, especially in the winter time when you
can see that winter character about sycamores. Well, you know,
we've come along with improved varieties London plane trees, not
the true sycamore, but you know it still the same
type of a look, and new varieties coming along all
(25:46):
the time. And one came out several years ago that
I again, like I say, I've been totally blown away
with and totally impressed with as I watched this thing
continue to grow moderate to this amazing once to get established.
How quick they can come on, but I put it
as a moderate growth rate. Here's a tree that can
get it can get fifty feet tall, but not very wide,
(26:10):
about thirty thirty five feet white. So if you've got
a street tree planting or a smaller yard that you're
looking to put these in. It's a good selection. They're
very urban tolerant, some sick you know, sycamores can be
subject to anthracnose where you see all of a sudden
those leaves just kind of shrivel up and kind of
dry up. They make it through it, but this is
(26:33):
anthractnose resistant, moderately resistant to powdery mildew. Also, the old
sycamores have the sycamore balls that on there. Usually with
this one, not much flowering and not very much as
far as fruiting. Maybe a few here and there, but
that's not an issue.
Speaker 2 (26:50):
Fall color.
Speaker 1 (26:52):
It's okay, it's yellow, but not really spectacular, but it
does give you a little bit of yellow. Very adaptable tree.
So what am I talking about?
Speaker 2 (27:00):
It is called.
Speaker 1 (27:02):
Exclamation plane tree, and sometimes you'll see it sold as
Morton's circle, but I think and mostly in the trade,
it is a platinous exclamation with an exclamation point at
the end of that plane tree. And again it gets
that sycamore look. The leaf not quite as large as
(27:23):
the old sycamore, a little bit more, a little bit
more serrated, but absolutely gorgeous tree, great shape, very paramidal,
very symmetrical as it's younger, and then it starts to
open up. As it gets more than that fifty foot
range will open up a little bit more. But I'm
telling you what for a street tree, planting around the sidewalk,
(27:44):
planting smaller yards where you're looking upright, but not quite
so wide. This is a tree that's a very different look.
I love the look, I love the shape of the leaf,
and I love the course of the bark as well.
But it's an exclamation plain tree p L A N
E t R E E E platinus uh hybrid a
(28:05):
cerfolio Morton circle was the original name, but now sold
at the nurseries as Exclamation And I'm telling you they
handle enviro environment really really great, whether the rural or urban. Uh,
and absolutely gorgeous as they come along. Uh. You know,
I love fall color on trees. This was not quite
as show. It's just a it's just a dull yellow.
(28:27):
But it does give you some of that in the fall.
But again, take a look at this one, and if
you're looking for that type of a tree, I think
this might be intriguing to you. Again it's uh, it's
exclamation plane tree and you can find that if you
if you want to on our special website at Ron
Wilson online dot com. And as we go through the
(28:48):
winter season here, I want to that's gonna be my
focus until we get the closure to spring. Looking at
some of these trees that that you may not have
heard about, that are doing an excellent job as far
as what I can see, and folks like Ron rothis
and other folks that are into the trees all the time.
I know he really likes this one as well. That
are performing excellently for other people and keep you up
(29:10):
to date. But again, you know, it's so important to
get out and plant trees. And one of your goals,
hopefully if you do New Year's resolutions for twenty twenty five,
would be to get out and make sure that you
are planting a tree or two or three, and wherever
you're planting these, if they're not in your own yard
or garden, to make sure that they are successful and
(29:31):
growing as well. We talked about two weeks ago, I
had the folks on from Bee Cups General's and we
were talking about bees. We had Barbie Bletcher on talking
about the bees. Don't forget you know, if you like
to learn more about bees and being a bee keeper
and I like taking these classes even though you're not
a beekeeper, just to go and learn more about them.
(29:54):
Central Ohio Beekeepers Association they have their b school coming up.
Registrations are open for those right now. They're coming up.
They have two separate full day Saturday classes February twenty second,
March the eighth, all right, and then they have one
on February the fifteenth as well. And that would be
(30:14):
the Central Ohio Beekeepers Association. And I'm looking real quick here. Yeah,
you can go to their west Central Ohio Beekeepers dot org.
That's Central Ohio Beekeepers dot org. And they also have
their Youth Beekeeper Scholarships that they're looking for someone a
nice I think the agency have to be you know,
probably eight or nine or ten or so, somewhere in
(30:35):
that range up to about fifteen or sixteen. But they're
looking for some youth beekeepers that are interested in getting started.
They set you up and help you throughout that. But
it's Central Ohio Beekeepers dot org. Also, we've got the
Knox County Beekeepers that have their classes.
Speaker 2 (30:51):
That are going on. They have their.
Speaker 1 (30:53):
Advanced Beekeeping Keeping Class January twenty fifth. That's a four
to four hour session Vernon and then they also have
their beginner classes one and two that start February first
and February fifteenth. So you folks that are out toward
Knox County, if that's more appealing to you, it's Knoxbees
(31:14):
dot org k and o X knoxbes dot org. And
for just general information, you can always go to Ohio
Statebeekeepers dot org. They probably list a lot of these
on there as well, Ohio State Beekeepers dot Org. And
again I remind you of this because it's a great
way to learn more about as again, trending in twenty
twenty five.
Speaker 2 (31:35):
Will be being b ee e.
Speaker 1 (31:37):
I'm friendly in your gardening endeavors, being pollinator polite in
your gardening endeavors, you know, working in those plants that
are good for all of the above, the butterflies, the bees,
all the pollinators that are out there, and learning more
about them and learning more about their lifestyle, their life cycles,
what they're looking for, you know, really can help you
(32:01):
out in your gardening endeavors to help them out. So
taking these classes, even if you don't want to be
a beekeeper, can really be a real good plus for
you as far as learning more about them. As a
matter of fact, I had an email this week somebody
was talking about why am I seeing mole hills in
my yard this time of the year. Aren't you know,
aren't they you know? Why are they doing this? Don't
(32:23):
they go dormant? Well again, learning more about moles and
learning more about voles, and you learn more about their
habits and their habitats and all helps you to understand
a little bit more about what they're doing in your
yard and garden. And right now, moles don't go dormant.
They don't shut down for the season. They don't hibernate.
They may hang out for a while on their nest
when it's really really cold, But right now they're digging
(32:45):
those underground search those underground tunnels to connect from your
property to the neighbors or whatever. And that's where they're
excavating those tunnels down below the ground, their major highways,
you know, getting ready to connect for the spring season,
mating season coming up. It's right around the corner. So
that's why you're seeing mole activity in the yard this
time of the year. All right, take a quick break,
(33:06):
we come back top of the hour. Ron rothis will
join us we're gonna talk about the trees, we're gonna
talk about the weather, and then after that'll be you
and me talking uh gardening here on news radio six
ten WTVN
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