Why fall is such a great time for planting

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Our toll free number eight hundred eight two three eight
two five five. Good morning. I am Ron Wilson, your
personal yard boy, talking about yardening as we move our way.
Can you believe this through the month of September? Unreal?
It's this is it last weekend in September. October moves
into town next week, and of course when you get

(00:22):
to October and Joe and I usually talk about this,
we'll probably talk about it next week. Uh. And by
the way, I'm not talking to Joe today. I'm just
not talking to Joe today. No cup of Joe. That's it.
Put my foot down. No cup of Joe today. He's
on vacation, so I hope he had it is having
a good.

Speaker 2 (00:40):
Time down in Florida, sitting on the beach.

Speaker 1 (00:42):
I actually texted him Dan, just to teat, just to
see if I could get him to respond to me.
Uh huh, nada. He shut it now.

Speaker 2 (00:51):
He did respond to another host in this building.

Speaker 1 (00:53):
Oh no, yeah, now I'm hurt.

Speaker 2 (00:57):
Basically said it's not my problem this week. Talk to Danny.

Speaker 1 (01:01):
Oh well, I was kidding with him, so I guess
that you know that was business. Mine was just a joke,
all right, But anyway, he was able to refrain from conversing.
So yeah, he was. He was all set, man, he
was headed to Florida and he was doing na nothing,
zero zip. And I said, good for you, buddy. Yeah,

(01:22):
I hope you have a good time. I think he
comes back either today or tomorrow. But anyway, he'll be
back with us next Saturday. So no cup of Joe today.
You're stuck with Dan and me, and uh, you know,
what can I say? But anyway, talking about Dick.

Speaker 2 (01:34):
And Dayton and a few other callers too.

Speaker 1 (01:35):
Yeah, there you go. But but Stanny and me in
between every Saturday morning and it's always a lot of fun.
But anyway, I got your uts of lots of talk
about today, lots of tips, but talking about October being
right around the corner. It is, and it goes quickly.
And once we get into October, man, it seems to
really fly because at the end of October, what do
we got? We got a Halloween, and then after Halloween

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we jump right into Thanksgiving, jup right into Christmas and
the first of the year, and the next thing you know,
it's twenty twenty six. So things that are starting to
wind down, hopefully in your yard and garden things are
winding up because fall is such a great time for planting.
It is an excellent time. And you know all the reasons.
We've been talking about the reasons why fall is such

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a great planting season for years and years and years,
and I could go on and on and on tell
you all the great reasons. One of the best is
the fact that the plants are shutting down this time
of the year. But it's fool you because even though
the tops are shutting down, their bottoms are firing up

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those roots. There are more roots developed in the fall September, October, November,
and sometimes even into December than any other time the
rest of the year. So they're getting set up for
next year with that root system in the fall. So
when you transplant, move plants, plant new plants, whatever may be.

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In the fall, they're rooting back in, getting started to
root back in before they get into the spring season.
And once the spring season hits, their goal is to
do what push out that new growth, push out those
flowers and do their thing up top. So you'll hope
that they've got it and they'll develop some roots to
the growing season. I mean, let's face the facts, they do,
but not like they do in September, October, November, December.

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So that's probably at the top of the list as
why fall is such a great time for planting. It's
also a great time because it's a longer planting season.
I mean, you think about it, You get September, October, November,
most of the time December, the weather's halfway decent. You
can plant right on through four months, four months of
pretty consistent weather that you can get out there and

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plant and typically cooler. Now, I have some notes here
that I got a report this week and I knew
this was I knew this was coming. Gut feeling, and
I think Ron Rothis has talked about this a little
bit as well, a little bit of gut feeling yet
looking back at some of the past records. But I
saw a report this week that said, according to this

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new report, first fall frosts. I'm not talking about heavy freezes.
I'm talking about a good, good frost, the first fall frost,
And like for our area, it's generally around October the fifteenth,
middle of October, so we see a good frost at
that point. You can have a light one before them,
but at that point, but if you look anymore, that

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just continues to back off and back off. As a
matter of fact, it's just like the first spring of
frost in the springtime seems to pack. It gets further,
you know, back into the spring era, into the early
spring season rather than later. You know, it used to
be in our area. You could ask anybody when is
a frost free date, and there's no such thing. I
don't take until we get into the probably first of June.

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But frost free date based on percentages of getting a frost,
and that used to be around May fifteenth, fifty percent
or less, that's your chances you're gonna that's gonna happen.
Now that's that fifty percent or less is back into April.
So that continues to back up and in the fall,
looking at fall, that first good frost or light freeze

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has actually been pushed back. Now it keeps pushing back,
pushing back, and over the last several decades, it says
that the date of the first freeze now comes on
an average of eleven to twelve days later in eighty
five percent of the two hundred major cities surveyed since
nineteen seventy, with the biggest changes going on. Guess where

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the Midwest and the northeast, And they said the first
freeze heavy frost, light freeze has been pushed back by
at least two weeks, two weeks in five dozen major
northern cities, including Detroit, Philadelphia, in Minneapolis, Saint Paul. So

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it just continues to back up. So, you know, Reno
out of Reno, Nevada, their first frost date has been
packed pushed back the most since nineteen seventy forty one days. Now.
There are some places and that there's a really cool
map and it shows you all across the country which

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are going, you know, shifting forward, shifting later, earlier, and
how much. And there aren't many arrows that point to
the earlier, but there are a ton of laders. And
there are a few areas that they have gotten a
little bit earlier here in there, not very many, but
there are a few. But the majority, eighty five percent
are experiencing longer falls, warmer falls before that first heavy

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frost early freeze hits their area. So what does that
mean to us, Well, that means obviously a longer planting season,
you know, a longer time to plant those spring bulbs.
And we try to get those used to say, you know,
you try to get those planet in early to mid October.
Then it was late October, early November. Then it was
any time before maybe the first of December. Hey didn't

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get it done. I'm gonna go to the fifteenth of December.
You still got plenty of time. They'll get it, they'll
be able to root in. And I've planted them even
in the February if you had to. But I mean,
that's how things have changed. And of course you look
now and fall colors. I still I still remember when
we used to have ash trees in our areas before
the Emerald ashboar wiped most of the mouth, having a

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tree sail at our our nursery in the middle of September,
and that particular ten day period watching the ash trees
one of the first ones to turn. Colors changed, starting
to change their colors middle of September. I mean, look
out there right now, we've got yellows and browns only
because of the trout we've been going through. But colors
haven't really started to show up. Acceptance stressed trees, trees

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that have been for whatever reason stress during the season.
And again heat drought, poorly rooted in whatever it may be.
But those have started to show early fall color. But
for the most part it has the and started yet
so it continues to back off. And you know with that,
we've talked with Barbie Bletcher our Queen bee, and you
know that also throws implications. Like with the bees, it

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stays warmer longer, they continue to stay active longer. But
guess what's not flowering longer. Yeah, these these late blooming
plants are usually you know, pretty much used up by
the first week of October, and that's typical, you know,
middle of October at the latest, and then bees usually
starts to really cool down and they start to settle
down and you go into the winter season. So it

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affects that and you know, it also affects winter hardiness
of plants if they're still actively growing, if they're still
active late in the season and all of sudden the
temperatures just change, well you know what happens there, then
of course they're not ready for the winter to get
winter die back. It also affects the chill winter chill period.
You know, there's that We've had times in Georgia, some
of the southern states have produced peaches in that that

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you know, they need a certain amount of cold period
to set their flower and and have fruit. And there
have been years when they were had less peaches because
it wasn't cold enough in the fall in the winter.
So you know, it all starts to add up. And
and then and oh one last thing that they didn't
mention in here, of course it you know, it may

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cut back on the amount of snowfall that you get
because we don't get it until later. And of course
snowfall was part of the insulation when it when you know,
when it gets does eventually gets cold, and of course
then it just get it to as rain instead of snow,
so you get longer falls, you got more rain, you
got less cold, may even had a few more insects.
Lots of things changing there. So it is there's it's official,

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and you kind of had of got feeling that that
was happening. But the falls continue to get longer and longer.
But it does give you an opportunity to plant longer.
And I think there's one thing that comes into the
play here right now in our area most of the Midwest,
especially as I look at the US Drought Monitor map
that Ron roths now has got me looking every week

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is that in many many areas it is dry and
that's not a good thing. But we got to work
with it because fall is such a great time to plan.
We'll talk more about that taking your calls at eight
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(10:23):
Welcome back talking the yarding at eight hundred eight two
three eight two five five. I like that song that
reminds me, takes me back to my college days. Dan
my woman from Tokyo. Thank you sir, yes, sir, deep purple,
How was that I do? Okay, yes, thank you so much.
Welcome talking to you yardning and why fall such a

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great time for planting, But of course we are now
kind of you know, okay, it's a great time for planting,
but as we've also experienced over the last two or
three falls, hey, somewhat dry fall. Finally getting into some
rainfall late in this in the fall season, but a
dry fall. So what do you do well. You know,
water's the key in most of the things that we're
doing as far as planting new grass. I mean, September's

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is long cam month. Feeding your lawn September and to
get in November to the most important feedings of the
entire season, seeding. This is the best time of the
year to do it. The best time is in September,
usually middle August through September, maybe even the first week
or so of October. But again, the way the falls

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have been staying warmer longer, folks that have kind of
put it off and finally got in and seated in
our first second week of October, we're still able to
get the turf type, tall fescues, the rise, you know
that type of grass. Now bluegrass, No, once you get
to this point, I'd hold off. I wouldn't put bluegrass
down this time of the year. It takes too long
for it to germinate and started to come up, we'll

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be hardened off. So I'd hold off on that one.
But the fescues and the other cool season grasses absolutely.
But folks that got into October last year, it stayed
warm long enough to push the water to it. They
got it up and growing did a nice job. But
again water's the key, and whether it's planting or the
seeds or transplanting or whatever, you got a water But

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I think it's worth I feel personally it's worth the
effort of the extra watering that you may have to
do if we don't get natural rainfall. Now, this week
we were blessed with a couple of three really good
showers that came through and in some areas got you know,
inch and a half two inches here and there. It's
really dry. And so when you get those bonus showers

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like that, even though it may be two inches, you know,
you rarely get half of that or a third of
that that actually get makes it into the soil. Nevertheless,
we'll take it. The turf highly benefits from it, especially
if you've been core aerating over these seasons. Your landscape
beds will benefit from it, especially if you've added organic
matter so that it acts like a sponge and soaks

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that right in, which is a little that's a gardening
tip right there to make sure you're adding organic matter
and when you corerate the on to add organic matter
back to the lawn to make it more like a sponge.
When it does rain. But as I've always said, you
look at rainfall unless it's an all day soaker. A
half day soaker may count, but an all day soaker,
this nice, slow, steady rain as a bonus. But I

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think that, and then build your watering around it. But
I think that what extra water you may have to
do this fall, whether you sprinklers or tree tree huggers
that wrap around the tree and water for you. There's
some many great ways to water, but you may have
to do a little bit extra watering. But it's worth
it to do that. It is worth it to do that.

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And the thing of it is, remember the sun is
at a lower level now, the days are getting shorter,
the temperatures aren't as warm as they were have been.
Although last Sunday, standing out in the middle of a
soccer field watching the grandkids play soccer, I was pretty
darn hot. But it is cooling down. Let's face the facts,
and the days are shorter so it doesn't dry out
quite as quickly. So I feel like even though fall,

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you know, we talk about this, but yet it's it
is dry in the out there. There's no doubt. I'm
the first one to admit it. I think it's worth
it for the benefits of planting. To add the extra
time it's going to take to water these plants as
you're doing your planting, I think it's worth it. And
this may be a situation if this continues on and

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it looks like it is. I mean, look at the
facts over the last several years about the longer dry
you know falls, and they have been drier. There's no
doubt about it that you may consider having an irrigation
installed in the turf. And of course you could do
some type of landscape irrigation, yet be cautious with those
because plants in the landscape may require different types of

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watering levels and things like that, so you have to
be a little bit cautious. But in the turf especially
that you may want to do it and manually use
that irrigation system as needed, not on a timer, not
every day, not every you know all that, do it
as needed. Gary Salvan, a humb improvement expert, same he's
put he put an irrigation system in his house the

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first year that they moved into it and has had
it ever since. But it's on manual and only time
he turns that on is when he you know, we're
really getting into a dry spell and it's time to
water the lawn. He likes to keep it from going dormant,
so he'll water the lawn. He'll do it only as
needed and less a're out of town, and then I'll
put it on manual and do it, you know, a
good thorough soaking once a week. So, you know, I

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think that's something you might want to consider. If we
are seeing things change as far as are have linked
of the fall season, staying a little bit warmer, a
little bit drier later in the season, and being such
a good time for planning, I think it's worth the
taking a look at that and seeing, you know, is
that And again I mentioned earlier organic manner. We've talked
about that forever, how important that is to help them

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in especially if you've got clay soils like we do. Everybody.
I always love them, folks, I got this, you know,
I got I'm dealing with clay soil in my yard. Well,
we all, we all are in our area dealing with
clay soil. It grows things. There's there's a lot of
benefits to clay soil. Look at the nurseries around you.
They're growing stuff all the time, but it's nice to
amend it with organic matter. Compost the cow, the bad

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caalbinure is absolutely outstanding, the cow, sweet peat, pine soil conditioner.
Anything you can add like that, organic matter to the
soil helps to make it more open for accepting rainfall
and accepting water when you do water. And of course
the plant's root in better, root in deeper, so they're
more tolerant for drought situations as well. So as you

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continue to plant, all right, make sure you're always adding
organic matter back as a soil amendment to the original soil.
Always use the original soil as you continue to plant.
All right, quick break, we come back. I'll talk about
our guests and the website. Eight hundred eight two three
eight two fivey five Here in the garden with Ron
Wilson talking yardening at eight hundred eight two three eight

(16:54):
two five five. Good morning. I am Ron Wilson, your
personal yard boy. No cup of Joe today, so I
go when you know what's funny? I told Joe and
he's not on with a cup of Joe. The show
goes another direction because I start talking about all kinds
of stuff and not talking about the website and guests
and all of that, and I forget I get onto
other things. But our website is Ron Wilson online dot com.

Speaker 2 (17:15):
And what's on the website run.

Speaker 1 (17:16):
And on the website today is of course planned the week,
which is uh, I think it's way under used. Plant
goes along with last week's tree. Last week happened to
be bolt Cypers. This week is Don redwood, a deciduous evergreen. Yes,
Don Redwood. You know you've always woned one of those
redwoods growing in your own yard and garden. Well, Redwood's

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are available. They do a great job in our in
the Midwest, they can do a great job about anywhere.
And so many new, great varieties that are out there
for you. As a matter of fact, the picture I
have of one on our website is a more narrow
growing wins so it doesn't get quite as large, but
it's the same old, same, Oh it's a Don Redwood.
And if you'd like those, you know, check it out

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and your local garden centers have them. There's even a
couple of varieties that have a nice golden foliage which
really stands out gold Rush Ogan or Ogan. There's two
or three of them out there for you. But it's
a deciduous evergreen, so they do lose those needles. Now,
the needles are a great orangey, bronzy red in the fall,
really spectacular, and then drop down. And of course you

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can mow those right back into the turf, or just
create a mulch bed underneath the tree and let them
lay there over the wintertime. But that's our plant pick
of the week, don Redwood, and you can find it
at run Wilson online dot com. Rita's recipe this week
sophisticated sophisticated grilled Cheese. Now at the top of this recipe,
Rita says the bread must be high quality bread, sturdy bread.

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Careful not to get a bread that's too holy, but
it has big red holes in it, the feeling will
ooze out. Use real butter, high quality cheese, and that's
why it's called the sophisticated grilled cheese. If this thing
ain't cheesy enough for you, I don't know. You just
don't need a grilled cheese sandwich. It even includes a
little bit of mayo, lots of cheese, a little bit

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of de jon or yellow mustard, maybe even a chopped
green onion. If you want a little bit on there
as well. Arugula leaves on the top goes well, be
right before you grill it. But it's called a sophisticated
grilled cheese and that would be Rita's recipe at Ron
Wilson Online.

Speaker 2 (19:26):
I'm ready to it now and it sounds very delicious.

Speaker 1 (19:29):
I can smell it grilling right now. We also have
some tips on there on deerproofing your lawn, getting grubs
out of the grass, et cetera, et cetera. Keep scrolling
down you'll see last week's posts as well, but it's
all Ron Wilson online dot com Facebook page going this
morning in the Garden with Ron Wilson, So if you
want to go on the Facebook pages, usually a little
chatting going on there as well, so be sure and
check that out too. Special guests today coming up the

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top of the hour, we're going to talk to our
queen bee breeder. Nina Bagley's going to join us this morning.
Nina is out of Columbus, Ohio. She is a queen
bee breeder. We've had Nina on before. It's always interesting
that there's someone out there that can actually develops queen
bees for all of anybody that wants ay, you know,
needs to start a beehive and they need that queen

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and a few workers to go with it. That's what
she does. Plus she's a huge beekeeper. So we're gonna
talk about that. We're gonna tell about how the falls
affected her bees. She showed me some pictures last week
about her getting stung. I'm gonna let her fill you
in on that. And also she sent me a picture
this week of someone very unusual looking honey. And of

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course the flowers kind of you know, whatever's in flower
at that time can dictate how the honey tastes. Obviously,
the sweetness and the color. Well, this is a very
unusual I had no idea where it came from. And
well we're going to tell you and it's a very
unusual source of nectar for honey bees late in the season,

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but it works. And you will be surprised when we
talked to Nina about where that came from. So that'll
be interesting. And of course doctor Allan Armidy's with us
this morning, Doctor Triple A. He just got back from
a big trip over to Europe. We'll find out what
he found out over there. You didn't know he was
going to make it back in time because they were
talking about some strike or something over there and maybe

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not getting out in time anyway, So he is back
and we're going to talk about some plants that he
really liked in his garden this year. We'll talk about
his trip and guess what, I guess he's going to
say something about it today. He's got another book coming out.
I think it's coming out this month, and well, maybe
you'll bring it up, maybe you won't, I don't know.
But we got doctor Allan Armity's coming up. So both

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Nina Bagley and Alan Arbage in the next hour, and
of course after that Gary Salvian, Bugget, Joe Boggs and
of course Danny and me and you in between. At
eight hundred eight two three eight two five five. Be
sure check out our website, Ron Wilson online dot com. Also,
I got into an email a little or a text
message a little bit earlier from our giant pumpkin grower,

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Jerry Rose. He has headed to his first pumpkin way
off today. He didn't tell me what he thought that
big pumpkin was going away. I have to check in
with him a little bit later on, but he has
had it out, So pumpkin way offs have begun checking
your area to see if there's one maybe that you
could go to check out some of these giant pumpkins
all around the country. I'll be in Columbus, Ohio on

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the twelfth of October at the Oakland Nursery in Dublin, Ohio.
It's out right outside of Columbus, and Jerry will be
there and all lots of folks the big pumpkins. And
they've had some record breakers at that one. So you
might want to if you've got gonna be in the
Columbus area, check that one out. It's on October the twelfth.
But he sent me a picture of a and this

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is typical Jerry Rose. Send me a picture of a
cauliflower head that he grew. And I can't tell exactly
looking at the picture, but it looks like about the
size of a large soccer ball, and that is typical
Jerry Rose. Oh, by the way, he did respond, he said,

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this is a throwaway pumpkin. This would be one of
his smallest at around eleven hundred to twelve hundred pounds.

Speaker 2 (23:13):
Only eleven hundred.

Speaker 1 (23:14):
Pounds, that's it, and that's considered one of his throwaways,
ladies and gentlemen to twelve hundred pounds. But you can
stay in touch with all the way offs going to
Big Pumpkins dot com at is big Pumpkins dot com
and learn more. And by the way, you know, there's
all kinds of records for vegetables, roots and vegetables out there,
and Jerry gets into two or three or four of them.
But there is also one for the longest gord and

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that's pretty interesting. I mean, these things are huge. They
have to tie him onto two by fours to keep
them breaking. Well, there's also records for the world's tallest
sunflower blooms and the largest sunflower boom blooms. Well, the
record this year was officially posted the earlier this month
in Fort Wayne, Indiana, for the world's tallest sunflower. All right, uh,

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and the gentleman that grew it. He grew it as
a tribute to the folks in Ukraine. He is a
Ukrainian immigrant, been been here for a long time. But
and that's their their country flower of course is the
is the sunflower. But he nicknamed this sunflower clover and
they get us WORLDBUK records came and they measured it

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and he's got to attached to a pole and holdline yards.
You want to guess how big this thing is? Thirty
five feet tall? Thirty five feet tall with a flower
on the top. That's one big sunflower, almost thirty six
feet But yeah, is that unbelievable or what? Congratulations to

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Alec bobbik Uh in Fort Wayne, Indiana. And he's got
this thing tied on like a looks like almost like
a windmill. Trellis thirty five almost thirty six feet into
the air. What a record. But anyway, you know, you
want to learn more about all those big pumpkins dot
com and you can keep up with all the ways
and all the records and all that kind of stuff.
Before we take a break. Tick from Dayton, good.

Speaker 3 (25:09):
Morning, Good morning. How are you Ron?

Speaker 1 (25:13):
I am greating, Danny's doing great. I'm doing great. How
are you doing well.

Speaker 3 (25:17):
I've been listening about your guests. That's kind of interesting,
you know, it's kind of cool.

Speaker 1 (25:22):
Well, thank you, Well, you know it's always cool that
you're on here.

Speaker 3 (25:26):
Oh yeah, yeah, I just wanted to say it's been
a sort of a short week, but please pray for
our Bengals.

Speaker 1 (25:34):
Oh man, they need to win they got Ah, I
tell you, I'll tell you.

Speaker 3 (25:41):
I was. It was the first game. Then I switched
over to Fox. Yeah, and I had just come home
from people at church, had a little party and stuff,
and it was five minutes to go, and I couldn't
believe they won that game with two seconds to go
with that kicker.

Speaker 1 (25:58):
Oh yeah, that was. That was an exciting game.

Speaker 3 (26:01):
That was. And the Buck guys played the day too,
And then uh, I went to a little place down
in uh Moraine as you go towards you know, uh Cincinnati,
and they had a little session down there, and uh boy,
it was good. They had all kind of or duras
and pizza and I met some people from Nashville down there,

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and I got to sing a couple of songs and
the guy told me to come back next week. He'd played.
He had a man to lend him banjo. How about that?

Speaker 1 (26:30):
All right? And that's right up your alley.

Speaker 3 (26:33):
Oh yeah, And they had good food and ordures and
everything was great.

Speaker 1 (26:37):
And that's right up my alley. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (26:40):
Yeah, I told you about that little picture, didn't I?

Speaker 1 (26:45):
No?

Speaker 3 (26:47):
Oh at Stony Bridge me playing Yeah the Talent Show. Yes,
Oh did you like it?

Speaker 1 (26:53):
Oh, I didn't get one.

Speaker 3 (26:55):
You have to go on Facebook to see it. I
got Tony Rich.

Speaker 1 (27:01):
Go to Stony Ridge on Facebook.

Speaker 3 (27:03):
Yeah, Stony Ridge is sit to Living and you'll say, Dick,
it's a talent show. You'll see me there.

Speaker 1 (27:09):
Okay, I don't have Facebook, but I'll have somebody look
it up for us. Danny'll look it up too. I
think he's on Facebook, so we'll check it out. All right,
We gotta take a break. Always fun talking to you, Dick.
Take care, Yeah, all right, take care, buddy, Bye bye.
All right, quick break, we come back. Phone lines you're
open for you. Eight hundred eight two three eight two
five five. Here in the garden with Ron Wilson Landscape

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eight hundred a two three eight two five five. Good morning.
I am Ron Wilson, your personal yardboard. We are talking
yardening in fall season. This is it. This is the
best time of the year to do all kinds of planting.
May I have to do a little watering, little extra
watering because Mother Nature's kind of been stingy uh with
that water. But I'm telling you what, this is the
time to plant. It's a good it's a good trade off.

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It's uh. I'm guaranteeing you that that's gonna work for you. You
gotta stick with watering. That's the key, no matter what
you're doing, but you stick with it. Really, the benefits
from planning and to fall are phenomenal, so please please
do stay with with it and again our website run
Wilson online dot com, Facebook page in the garden with
Ron Wilson by the way, Danny Gleason during the break,
we have to the Facebook page at Stony Ridge and

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if you want to see Dick from Dayton, he's on there,
so you can go.

Speaker 2 (28:19):
To their face smile and every picture.

Speaker 1 (28:21):
Smile as always in every picture. So you want to
see what Dick from Dayton because everybody knows Dick from
Dayton looks like there you can find out at Danny
says like you said, smiling and all of the pictures.
You know, we have a lot of trade shows this
time of the year where the locally owned garden centers
get to go and see the new products that are
coming along and of course by their products for next year,

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and you know, the standbys and the regulars as well
as finding out what's new and exciting out there. A
couple of things we saw last week up in Cleveland,
Ohio at the BFG Show. It's huge and it takes
a while walk through and see all these greats that
are up there. But a couple of things I thought
was kind of interesting. Radius tools and Radius tools have

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been around for a while. They started out with their
radius shovel and then came up with a radius hand
digger of trowel, and then has expanded from there and
quite a collection of radius tools. Where they bought out
a small company. It has like a scuffle hoe with
a point on the front of it, sharpened point, and

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I've always thought it was kind of cool. It was
a very small company. Well they took they bought that
company and have now added that to their Radius tool inventory,
and it's a great It's like a scuffle ho if
you're familiar with that. You put it under the weeds
and you go back and forth and it cuts them
off just below the ground level. Well, this has a
point on it, and there's a couple of different sizes

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a point on it, and it's sharp so that you know,
if you're doing weeding in between cracks and crevices, you
just turn that thing on the side and walk right
down that cracker crevice and that takes those weeds right
out of there for you as well as the shuffle
ho as well as you can turn it over when
you're planting the vegetable garden and dig out your planting
row as well. But it's from Radius Tools. You might

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want to check that out. It's a yellow handle and
unlike their red handles and all the Radius tools. I
like it and I think I think it's well worth
taking a look at if you use a hoe a
lot in your garden. Also, Panacea products they've been around forever,
have a new option for all you hummingbird feeder fans.
All right. You know, if it stays hot outside that hummingbird,

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that nectar, whether you make your own or you buy
the bottled nectar, can get bad pretty quickly, especially in
the heat. They now have a thirty ounce insulated reservoir
in their new feeder called a nectar cooler feeder, and
it has an insulator reservoir that keeps that nectar, that

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liquid nectar in there, lasting twice as long during the
heat of the summer as it normally would. And it
actually has a cutout gates to show you where the
nectar levels are but it screws right onto the bottom,
but it's insulated and it keeps it cooler so it
doesn't turn bad as quickly. I thought that was a
pretty good idea. That's from a panacea p A n

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A cea. But it's called the nectar cooler feeder for hummingbirds.
And I think that's if you're really into it and
you're always switching that out because it goes bad. There
you go. That's going to help you out and save
you a little bit of time in the in the
garden when it comes to feeding those hummingbirds. And of
course keep planting so you have all the different plants
for them as well. But they still enjoy that hummingbird

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feeder you and I know that as well. One last
thing I saw, I saw a bunch of stuff, but
one I thing I wanted to bring to your attention
tank sprayers. You know, there are so many different types
of tank sprayers that we can buy on the market,
and the quality of the tank sprayers and the pressure
and the whole you know, the whole nine yards just
all over the board, I mean a very simi and

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they're not cheap and if you buy a cheap one,
it usually doesn't last you very long, and tank sprayers again,
you know, for using a concentrate of insecticidal soap or
horticulture oil or whatever you need to do to spray with.
Right now, in our area, we're dealing with the box
tree moth, which is a serious situation, dealing with the
box tree moth and the devouring boxwood and it's spreading

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like crazy. Folks, if you have and I've brought this
up and trying to do it in all the shows,
but if you have boxwood in your landscape and you
live east of the Mississippi River, I want you to
look up box tree moth. It was discovered in our
area southern Ohio, southwestern Ohio about this is our second

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full season and it is spreading a lot faster than
we thought it was going to be able to spread.
And it's a serious situation. You got to know what
to look for and it's easy to control. Once you
find the caterpillar, they're easy to spray, knock them down
and easy. But the point being is you need to
do a power spray to get all that down inside
your box would so tank sprayers could become a very

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important part. You can buy the hoseen attachments as well,
and you can buy the pre the furtile, the insecticide
that is already ready mixed and ready to go that
attaches to the end of your host. So those are available.
But if you need a tank sprayer, getting a high
quality one and then of course the pressure you to
pump them up, or you know, the battery operated to
pump them up or whatever. Somebody in Australia was a

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firefighter invented this pump. It's called the Aussy Easy Spray
Easy Wide Ausse Easy Spray. It's being sold by a
TDI Brands and it's a pump sprayer that's high quality,
really well built, and it's going to cost you probably
one hundred bucks. But it doesn't require gas, a charge

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or a battery all right, because the pump uses water pressure,
air and water pressure as you're filling it up to
create the pressure inside the tank and the spray heads
or misshower cone and jet. But it's called the Aussy
Easy y Easy Spray from TDI Brands. Check that out.

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It's a little bit more expensive, but it is a
high quality tank sprayer that automatically puts pressure in there
for you when you fill it. Up with the hose
and it's highly recommended if you use a tank sprayer
in your lawn. And before we take a break here,
we're going to talk to Nina Bagley, our Queen bee breeder,
in the next hour, and of course Alan Armity is
at the bottom of the hour. I want to just

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bring this up real quick again. The box tree moth.
You know, we got two insects in our area right
now that's continuing to spread. One is more than the
box tree moth is the spotted lantern fly and it's
like an aphan on steroids and it really doesn't kill
the host. Tree is tree of Heaven's stinctree. They love
that that's their host, and it's against a non native,
very invasive, but it looks it's a probably the most

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beautiful insect I've ever seen, but it's like a huge
aphen and they're a sucking insect and they really like
grapes and they typically don't kill the plants that they're on,
but can they get really weaken them. That's one we're
sitting spreading across in the Midwest big time. But this
box tree moth now and I think six different states
and continuing to move and it's devastating to Boxwood. So

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I want you to go and learn more about it.
Joe and I have talked about it on the show.
You can go to bygl dot OSU dot eedu. You
can go to our website at Ron Wilson online dot com,
scroll down and find it, but learn more about box
tree moth. If you live anywhere on the east side
of the Mississippi River, learn more about it, what to
look for, because one day it's there and the next

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day your box would aren't. Check it out box tree bomb. Right,
quick break, we come back. Nina Bagley, our Queen Bee
breeder here in the garden run will soon