The SPUDtacular Potato Challenge 2025 at Wilson's Garden Center

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Good morning, everybody. Welcome. I'm Ron Wilson, and you are
in the garden here on news radio six to ten
WTVN eight two to one WTVN eight hundred and six
to ten wtv and talking about yard. Dang, spring is sprung.
I'm telling you it's uh. Temperatures are starting to warm up.
Looking at soil temperatures, they're starting to warm up. And uh,
I think it's all head on forward at this point

(00:22):
into April. But again we're gonna ask them ups and downs,
and we'll talk more about that a little bit later
on the show. I want to start out this morning.
You know about I don't know, about three weeks ago
or so, someone had ask about growing potatoes and I
had talked about the growing potatoes and containers, and of course,
I wait, I started doing them growing him in bushel baskets,

(00:44):
and I always called it taters in a basket. And
it was always kind of cool because we had these
potatoes growing in a basket, you know, bushel basket, and
it looked neat, and you know, it was a very
I was just very gardeny to have on your patty
or whatever. And at the end of the season, you
cut the foliage off and dump it out and you
had a whole basket full of potatoes. Pretty easy to do.

(01:05):
It a great way to get kids involved with guarding
and things like that. Well, if you've never tried this before,
or you have done it and you're pretty darn good
at it, I have something that made interest and joining
us this morning from Wilson's Garden Center to tell us
more about it is their event coordinator, Ruth Moran. Ruth,

(01:25):
good morning, good morning. Hey, good to have you on
the show with it. So before we get started talking
about this spectacular that you all have going on at
Wilson's Garden Center, I got a quick question. Somebody asked
me this morning said that they have read on social
media and all that trending coming back is the concrete goose.

(01:46):
Have you guys noticed anybody asking for the concrete goose?

Speaker 2 (01:49):
We definitely hop it is coming back. No way, Yes, Well.

Speaker 1 (01:57):
I knew you guys are always on the cutting edge,
so I knew you. So do we have a selection
of concrete geese on hand?

Speaker 2 (02:03):
We sure do.

Speaker 1 (02:05):
Well, there you go, and I'm assuming you have a
little costumes for him too.

Speaker 2 (02:10):
Actually, we don't carry the costumes okay, just the goose.

Speaker 1 (02:15):
Just the goose. So you have the concrete geese. So
if anybody's interested, it is trending. It is coming back.
When I was told that this morning, I just kind
of went, you got to be kidding me. But they're back,
and we knew you'd be right on top of it,
so thank you very much. All right, So talking about
growing a container gardening, obviously it's hot out there right now.
Everybody's growing things, edibles and everything in containers, and rightfully so,

(02:39):
because it's an easy way to grow a lot of
different things. Potatoes obviously one of the I think one
of the easiest things to grow in containers. And you
got taking this to the next step and to help
encourage folks to grow potatoes in containers, you've come up
with the spectacular Wilson's Potato Challenge. And this is the
twenty twenty five, the third for this, that is correct,

(03:03):
all right, So the third year, so kind of give
us a rundown here. The first two years you had
three winners each, and as I'm looking, I went on
your website and as I looked at the weights the
first year versus last year, boy, folks really started to
increase in the amount of potatoes they were growing. Are

(03:25):
they all getting the hang of it or are what
I mean it's coming on strong?

Speaker 2 (03:30):
Yes, absolutely so. In twenty twenty three we started this,
we had one hundred participants. Potatoes were all over the
board when we did the way in, but most of
them were in the oh, you know, five pound area.
Our top winter two winners were seven pounds, but the

(03:53):
rest of the potatoes, a lot of them were in
the five four three area. Then we announced we were
doing it for twenty twenty four. People found it so
much fun that we we did it again. We had
a two hundred and twenty two participants, and people then

(04:17):
were doing it like a family project or you know,
maybe families were girls against boys or you know, moms
against dads or whatever. Our top winners actually had nine
pounds of potatoes.

Speaker 1 (04:37):
A lot of potatoes does a lot.

Speaker 2 (04:39):
Of potatoes, and we weigh and count them, so you know,
it all depends. Like the first place winner, you know,
although she had nine pounds six ounces of potatoes, she
had fifty one potatoes. The six pound winner had fifty potatoes,
but they were only six pounds because they were smaller.

(05:01):
But it was a lot of fun. People are having
a blast with it, and so this year my goal
is six hundred participants. So come out to Wilson get
a potato pot.

Speaker 1 (05:14):
I love it. Of course you can learn more about
this if you go to your website, which is Gardencenter
Ohio dot com. We're talking to Ruth Moran from Wilson's
Garden Center out in NewYork. They have their Spectacular Potato
Challenge And is that kicking off this weekend or have
you already started the process?

Speaker 2 (05:31):
Wait, we've already started it, and we're gonna have potato
pots basically either until we run out or you know,
we maybe like the end of the month because it
gets too late after so long a time.

Speaker 1 (05:47):
Sure, and of course if you want to be competitive,
you need to get on it right away. So you've
got plenty of growing time to get as many potatoes
in there as you can.

Speaker 2 (05:55):
Correct.

Speaker 1 (05:56):
Yeah, so get out there and check it out, all right.
So if this there's a fee for this, obviously, then
you get all your potato kits. And of course you
can go there and pick it up, or you and
buy it, or you can also buy it online and
then pick it up right that is correct.

Speaker 2 (06:13):
It's twenty dollars for the kit. You get the pot
it needs to grow in, you get soil, you get
the potatoes, and you get a growing sheet about growing
them in a pot. So we don't leave you hanging
out there. And then we throughout the season send various
emails to our participants to kind of say, here's kind

(06:36):
of where you should be, here's what might be happening
with your potato pot. And then in August this year,
it's going to be on August twenty third, we have
what we call our way in.

Speaker 1 (06:49):
And so at August twenty third, everybody brings there. Do
they dump them out or they bring the pot back
to you?

Speaker 2 (06:56):
No, you must bring the pot intact. No peaking out
potatoes ahead of time. I mean bring the pot. We
do it over the weekend August twenty third and twenty fourth.
We dump the pot We count the potatoes, We keep
a list and see who comes out on top.

Speaker 1 (07:15):
And do I get that back? Do I get my
potatoes back? Or do you guys keep those need them?

Speaker 3 (07:19):
No?

Speaker 2 (07:20):
You know, we give them back to you so you
can take them home and enjoy them.

Speaker 1 (07:25):
Excellent. So again and talking to with Ruth Morantius from
Wilson's Garden Center out in Newark. You can go to
the website Gardencenter Ohio dot com and find out more
about the big Potato challenge they've got going on. If
you're interested in doing this, I would suggest you get
out there this weekend or next week. The sooner you
get them started, the better chance you've got to growing
a lot of potatoes and win in that contest. And

(07:48):
there's nothing we can do. We have to I can't
draw holes in my pot or anything like that. I
have to take it as is and grow as is correct.

Speaker 2 (07:56):
That is correct. But you can't change the pot. You
can't make it bigger. You can't you know, put fencing
or something up to make it higher. You can't do
any of those. You just have to grow it in
the pot that is in the kit and then see
what happens. And then we have first, second, and third
place winners for that. And if you just participate in

(08:19):
the whole challenge and you bring your pot back to
be wighed, you still get a five dollars gift card
for just participation.

Speaker 1 (08:28):
After it's Pleasure Pleasure Potatoes back Pleasure Potatoes, So you
do get them back and by the way, first place
one hundred dollars a gift card from wilson second fifty
dollars gift card from Wilson's, third place of twenty five
dollars gift card from Wilson's, plus the bragging rights.

Speaker 2 (08:46):
Exactly exactly does my picture go up on a wall somewhere,
the tater wall. We had not done that up to now,
but good suggestion might be a thing might be the.

Speaker 1 (08:59):
Tater and people can come in and see these folks
with their stacks of potatoes that they grew in their container. Exactly,
and what kind of potatoes do we get?

Speaker 2 (09:09):
They are red pontiact red.

Speaker 1 (09:12):
Ponting, which is a good potato to eat. All right,
So there you got it. Ruth Morans she is the
event coordinator for Wilson's Garden Center. They're having their spectacular
Wilson's Potato Challenge twenty twenty five. If you want to
learn more about it, just go out to Wilson's Garden
Center or go on their website Gardencenter Ohio dot com.
Learn more about it, but get on it right away
if you're going to be competitive, so you can get

(09:33):
those taters started early and maybe get your name up
on that tat wall. Ruth, appreciate you spending time with
us this morning, and good luck with everything. And when
this is all said and done, you'll have to come
back and give us an update on our three winners
and what they wait out for for this year.

Speaker 2 (09:48):
I'd love to do that. And yeah, absolutely, how people
come out, don't forget my goal is six hundred participants
this year. I would be so on it if that
would happen, that'd be pretty cool.

Speaker 1 (10:01):
And while you're there, you can buy your concrete goose.
You can there have it. Ruth, always a pleasure, take
care and then keep us posted how this thing turns out.

Speaker 2 (10:11):
I will thanks so much for having me today.

Speaker 1 (10:14):
Uh my pleasure. Ruth Moran from Wilson's Garden Center Gardencenter
Ohio dot com. Jump on it, spectacular Wilson's Potato Challenge.
It's easy to do and you'll enjoy it, and you
get the potatoes back as well, and you may get
your name on the tat wall. Who knows? All right?
Quick break, we come back. Phone lines are open for
you at eight two to one WTVN, eight hundred and

(10:36):
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Speaker 4 (10:40):
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(11:03):
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Speaker 5 (11:09):
Yep, we have Andrew on Andrew, Good morning morning Ron. Yes, sir,
my calling in didn't cause the glitch.

Speaker 4 (11:19):
It's all your fault.

Speaker 5 (11:21):
Okay, it's not, it's not.

Speaker 4 (11:26):
How can we help you?

Speaker 5 (11:29):
Long care season? Coming yards getting a little sparse? I
have a bag of grass seed? Do I do fertilizer
first and then wait a week and then grass seed
or grass seed then fertilizer.

Speaker 4 (11:45):
Seed first, feed later and you got plenty of time
to feed, so you know, no hurry on that. So
what I would be doing, and remember that you want
good seed soil contact, so you know we're extend at it.
If there's any way you can rake to make sure
there's no debris laying on top of the ground would
be great. And I'll tell you another option that you have,

(12:06):
and we kind of forget about this in the springtime.
We talk a lot about it in the fall, but
as using a slice or slid seater and slicing right
through your existing turf and putting those seeds right down
into the ground. And it works quite nicely this time
of the year because there's a good moisture in the ground.
And again, you know, if you've got a lawn, it's
you know, seventy five percent or so or sixty seventy

(12:28):
five percent. But you want to do a little overseating
and make sure you get good seats soil contact. Slice
seating or slid seating is a great way to go.
But if you don't want to do that, the best
thing is to get out there and kind of rake
a little bit to make sure you get the debris
up and then go ahead and do it a broadcast
spreading over the top. And when you when you pick
a seating rate, I would look at what the seating

(12:49):
rate would be. Let's just stay, for instance, date to
ten pounds per thousand square feet over an existing lawn.
Then you will go at least half or a little
bit less than that full rate, and they'll get it down.
Give it about a ten days or so, and then
you can come back with a regular lawn food, or
if you want it, you could actually come back with

(13:09):
a starter fertilizer, which would feed the lawn at the
same time and maybe be a little bit more beneficial
for that new seed as it starts to come up.
But don't hurry on the feeding. So if you want
to wait two weeks or so down the road, you
can do that as well, but seed first, feed later.

Speaker 5 (13:27):
Okay, Yeah, I can't really do the slice in the
lawn because I got cables running under jeans. Oh yeah,
so I have to be going all that.

Speaker 4 (13:36):
Yeah, don't want to do that. Yeah yeah, just if
you if you don't, you know, if you don't do
any raking and you just go out and you broadcast it,
I mean, you know, that's we used to do that.
I mean it was kind of the standard practice. You
do lose some of the grass seed, So then make
sure you do go at that half rate, because not
all of us going to have a good seed soil contact.

(13:58):
But do that and then you it'd be good to
go give it, give it a couple of weeks and
then get out to fertilize and give it the feeding
and everything should be good from there.

Speaker 5 (14:06):
Thank you, Sarah.

Speaker 4 (14:07):
All right, good talking to you. Appreciate the call. Talking
to your ending at eight hundred six to ten WTVNA two
one WTVN. Speaking of the lawn, by the way, you know,
we do forget about that sometimes, and you know in
the springtime we talked about sliced or slit seating in
the fall, especially like if you've got a turf type
tall rescue lawn. You know, we're finding out now that

(14:28):
down the road it is good to go and overseed
maybe every three or four years, maybe five years, to
help ticking it back up again. Remember from every grass
seat of that you get one plant, and over time
you lose a few of those. It just happens. It's natural.
And many of those varieties aren't necessarily riizoming selections, and
none of them riise theme like bluegrass, but not riizoming selections,

(14:51):
so it can tend out just to tad. So overseating
every three, four or five years is a good thing
to do. And again, if you just broadcast overseed lot
of times, you could lose some of that by the
seed getting hung up in the grass blades, you know,
if there's age debree down below. But if we come
back and use a slice or slit seed, and the
way that would work is you would actually mow it

(15:12):
down a little lower than you normally would mow. So
if I'm mowing on a three inch height, I would
take it down to maybe two inches and then I
would come back with a slice heater to make it
easy for it to slice right down through the existing vegetation.
We slice right down. It drops the seeds into those
little grooves that you cut out with a slice seed
or slit seed, drops the seed right into that you know,

(15:35):
starter fertilizer, you know, down the road. Again we would
feed a little bit later on, but that gets it
right into the soil. And we talk about that on
the fall, we forget about that. We can also do
that in the spring if necessary, So do keep that
in mind. Either way works nicely, but that if you've
got existing lawn or you've killing everything out and you're
starting all over, that is one of the best ways

(15:56):
to go to make sure you get good seed soil context.
So you know, do keep that in mind also talking
about feeding. Can I feed right now? Absolutely? I think
we've gotten to the point right now looking at soil temperatures.
You know, we've been trying to hold off here for
a while and do that as far as the seating

(16:17):
and then premerged IRVSID I'm sorry I got distracted there.
Pre emergent the nervis side. Well, we're at a point
now where solt temperatures are finally reaching in the mid
to upper fifties. I think we're at a point where
this weekend, and watch the showers as they're moving through,
but to get down your pre emergent and irbyside, either
this weekend or next weekend or next week, I would

(16:39):
go ahead and get those in place, as we are
really going to see the soils really start to warm
up more and more and more as we go through
the week. Let's take a quick break, we come back.
I think we've got things fixed. We'll get you back
on our regular airways here after the break. I are
on news radio six to ten WTVN.

Speaker 1 (16:57):
Maybe I'll start using that wt.

Speaker 4 (17:00):
In.

Speaker 1 (17:01):
I like that. I think we got everything fixed back
under controlled again, so we'll we'll give it another shot.
You're in the garden here on news radio six en
WTVN A two to one, WTVN eight hundred and sixty
ten WTVN to back to the gardening phone lines, we
shall go, Kathy, good morning, Good morning.

Speaker 6 (17:20):
Ron, thank you for taking my call, uh pleasure. I
am outside and I'm looking at my clematis and it
looks very woody, but there's green coming off of it.
Should I just leave it alone? Or should I cut
it all the way back to the ground.

Speaker 1 (17:40):
I would toothfold. I would leave it alone, first of all. Secondly,
you know what type you have? Which one it is?

Speaker 6 (17:48):
What's funny that you would ask me? This is a
clematis that I've had for probably twenty years. It's a
clematis my mother my mother had, and I dug it
up from her house and my condo and it blooms
every year. But I never noticed. I guess I didn't
pay attention that. I just thought it came out of

(18:08):
the ground and started growing. But I was looking at
it and it's the green. The buds are on the
woody stem right, and it's very tangled and I'm going
to have to untangle it. So I didn't know if
I should just leave it alone, or if I should
just go ahead and cut it back.

Speaker 1 (18:27):
How about this question? When does it flower?

Speaker 6 (18:32):
You know, I think it flowers like I'm trying to
think from last year. Maybe it's after I'm going to
say maybe late spring or early summer.

Speaker 1 (18:45):
Okay, I mean it's one of.

Speaker 6 (18:46):
The old it's one of the old, old old climatises.
Is that purple color, which is what they only thing
they had years ago?

Speaker 1 (18:54):
Yeah, like the old jack and I here's the thing
sometimes that that one will flower in the spring and
then there's a hesitation and then flowers again.

Speaker 6 (19:04):
Yeah, it did that last year. It came back a
little bit.

Speaker 1 (19:07):
So what happens is that what that tells you is
it's going to flower off the growth that's.

Speaker 6 (19:11):
There right now, off the wood part.

Speaker 1 (19:15):
Yes, so that when you'll get folded, it'll come out
and it'll start to vine off of that woody stuff.
It'll start to it'll flower on that. That'll be the
spring flower, and then when that's done, it'll kind of
regroup regrow again, and then it'll flower more for you
later on in the summer. And so that particular type
of clematis, you get two options. You can cut it

(19:36):
back if you need to, but otherwise you leave it alone,
let it grow in the spring and flower as soon
as it's done flowering in the spring. If you need
to clean it up or do whatever, then do it
after it's done flowering.

Speaker 6 (19:50):
Okay.

Speaker 1 (19:51):
Then the new growth comes out from that and gives
you a second shot. If it flowered in earth, yeah,
so if it flowers in the spring, you leave it
alone and clean it up after flowering. Flowers in the summer. Yeah,
So if it's flowers summer and fall, you cut it
back in the spring because it flowers on new growth.
So it depends on when it flowers. But that sounds
like the old JACKM and I and that's a very

(20:12):
consistent bloomer hangs in there.

Speaker 5 (20:14):
Tough, durable, It's hardy, that's for sure.

Speaker 1 (20:17):
Yeah. Yeah, that's a tough one.

Speaker 6 (20:19):
And then I have one other quick question. I have
a hydraanja and the hydrianja. It's one of those that
it's either ever summer or all summer hydrantia. It blooms
all summer and last year did okay, but this year
is not showing any new growth. When should it start
to show new growth?

Speaker 1 (20:40):
The buds that you see on the stems should be
starting to show some kinds of swelling or a little
bit of green. Feel free if you haven't done it,
feel free. Twofold want is take your thumbnail, scratch some
of the stems and see if they're green under the bark.

Speaker 6 (20:55):
All right, yeah, that's not chilling right now. I don't
see any.

Speaker 1 (20:58):
Green, okay. And then the buds are ibby brown. To
take one and just pinch it off. Pinch it off, yeah,
just like the buds that are on the side of
the branch. Uh huh, just take one and pinch it off.
Is it brown or grow?

Speaker 6 (21:12):
Yeah, it looks like it looks like it's dead. I'm like, yeah,
bending the brown and there's no green inside of it.
It looks like it might might be dead this year.
So okay, well it's not dead.

Speaker 1 (21:27):
No, no, no, no, it's not dead.

Speaker 4 (21:29):
It's just that.

Speaker 1 (21:30):
No, just those variety. Is it pink or blue flower?

Speaker 6 (21:36):
Well, it's pink, but you can make it blue I
think by putting what is it, aluminium salfate or something
on it.

Speaker 1 (21:44):
Yeah. The reason I asked that the flowering again is
the fact that that shows us that the species is
called Macrophyla and the particular species. Yeah, and that particular
species flowers on old wood, so the existing wood is
there right now, and they are are subject to dying
back over the winter, so if they die back, you

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wind up cutting them back close to the ground. The
next thing you know, they're leafing back out from down
below and start to regrow, and you get a whole
new plant. You may not get much as far as color,
but you get a whole new plant. Now. Some of
them flower on new growth later in the season, so
you may get flowers later, but don't do anything to
it yet. Let's give it about two more weeks, seymore

(22:27):
starting to come out, and I think you'll see it.
In a couple more weeks, it'll start to leaf out
down below, and then you go back through and clean
out the dead wood because there's nothing you can do
about that it's already die back over the winter, and
then just to watch it to come back up and
give you a whole new plant.

Speaker 6 (22:42):
Okay, awesome, So leave the climatis alone, let it bloom,
and then once it blooms one time, then cut.

Speaker 1 (22:48):
It back if necessary and clean it up. Otherwise you
don't have to do anything to it.

Speaker 6 (22:53):
Okay, I understand they used to in all times, they
used to use clematis as groundcover. I was reading that place.

Speaker 1 (23:00):
You can, Yeah, you can actually let it grow on
the ground. You can let it grow through other plants.
You can even take clematis if you wanted to, and
cut the top out and let it get real woody
and actually kind of have a shrubby kind of a
look to it as well, so that there were multiple
ways that they used to you. Now with all the
plant reading, there are some clematis that actually grow as
a shrub type look rather than the viny plant that

(23:23):
like the jackman I is.

Speaker 6 (23:25):
Okay, well, I've got just some growing on a split
real sence, so I'm gonna I'm gonna let it vine
up the fence like it always has. So let my
mom there you go. Okay, sonks what Ron? I appreciated
a great rest of your duck.

Speaker 1 (23:39):
Hey you too, good talking with you. And our next
color would be we have Lynette on the line. Lynette,
good morning.

Speaker 3 (23:48):
Hi Ron, Hi, how can we help you? Can you
hear me?

Speaker 1 (23:54):
Yes?

Speaker 3 (23:55):
Okay. My question is can you give me a schedule
for when we should put the the pre emergent, you know,
for the crab grass down and then a spring weed
and feed and maybe a fall wheaeden feed.

Speaker 1 (24:09):
As far as the pre emergent, you are good to go.
At this stage. We've been watching the soil temperatures to
get closer to fifty five degrees consistently. We are approaching that.
So I would suggest getting your pre emergent over size
in place this weekend or sometime next week so you
are right there for that now. I'm I personally am
not a weed and feed person. I would rather feed

(24:32):
the lawn when it needs to be fed and spot
treat the weeds with a weed killer as needed rather
than putting down a weed and feed. Now you can
do a whedon feed, but if you do a weed
and feed, you want to wait until the weeds are
actively growing. And that's gonna it's gonna be a while,
probably gonna be you know, three or four weeks down
the road before you would be ready for that. In

(24:52):
some cases, they used to look at those step one, two, three,
and four and look at that second step, which was
the weed and feed, somewhere around the week before or
of Memorial weekend, so it was you know, it's done
about mid to late May everything was actively growing at
that point and did a nice job for you. But
like I say, if you can get by without doing
the weed and feed, I'd suggest spot treating the weeds

(25:15):
with like weed free zone or we'd beat your altar
or something like that, where you just go through and
spot treat as needed and then just feed the lawn
as needed as well. And you know you could do that.
You could feed the lawn now if you wanted to, uh,
and then just spot treat the weeds a little bit
later on, feed it twice in the fall, spot treat
the weeds in October, and get by without doing the

(25:37):
weed and feed. And that's the way. That's the way
I look at it. That's the way I approach my
lawn as well.

Speaker 3 (25:43):
Okay, thanks a lot.

Speaker 1 (25:45):
Hey, you're welcome, good talking with you. And again it's
the timing wise, Remember we were waiting on a fifty
five degrees consistently. Looking this morning, we were at fifty
four degrees. We have been at fifty five degrees for
the last twenty four hour over the twenty four hour
period and the average for the week was around forty
eight degrees for soil temperatures. So that says we're there.

(26:09):
I wouldn't hold off any longer if you pre emerging herbside.
Time to get it down in place in your lawn
and move forward. And again you can do a pre
emergent plus fertilizer if your lawn needs to be fed,
you can do those combo together. You can do just
a pre emergent herbicide. You don't have to put a
fertilizer down right now if you don't feel like you
need to. If you did, if you did the two

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fall feedings and the lawn looks pretty darn good and
it's starting to grow pretty well, I just want to
make sure I prevent those crabgrass and another annual summer
weeds from coming up. Then just use a pre emergent
and you've always got the opportunity to come back in
mid to spring, you know, any way through Memorial weekend
and feed if necessary. If you feel like, well maybe

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I should give it a little boost, you can still
do that at that time. She had that option, but
definitely get the pre emergent orbsides in place. At this stage.
That's where we are, and as far as looking at
those soil temperatures, also the other milestone or the mark
or benchmark we look at is fifty five forty five
degrees for cool season crops. All right, well we're past

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that now, so cool season crops you're a full go.
And that would be potatoes, cabbage, kale, broccoli, onions. Probably
I would work spinach and maybe some lettuce in there
at this stage as well. But all those cool season
crops that love that cooler weather, you're good to go
as far as getting those in place as well, because

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we've passed that forty five degree marker. That's why we
watch the soil temperatures in the springtime just for a
couple things there and again, once we get to that point,
then we can start to move forward. And that's what
we've been doing, and now you've been released to do that.
And as far as planting, a lot of questions this
week about when can I start planting trees and shrubs
and evergreens and namental grasses and perennials. You are free

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to plant. Let it have at it. Any of the
landscape plants, the woody plants, the grasses, like I say,
the perennials, even roses if they're available for you out there,
potted roses or bear root roses, you'll find. Now's a
great time to get them in the ground. Go ahead,
and plants so good to go when it goes there,
ready to go. And in the tender annuals, we still

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have a ways to go, we don't, you know, let's
hold back on those rains. Don't want to get those
planted too early, and it's too early at this stage.
One last day before we take a break, pre Mo,
did you premode the grass? I? Hope so, because if
you haven't, next week's probably gonna be into the regular mowing.
So keep that in mind as well. After the break,
we're going to come back to the book this week,

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