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March 1, 2025 • 12 mins
Ron chats with Gary
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome back. You're in the Garden with Ron Wilson. Don't
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check both of those out. You can listen to our
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us all the time. And I know a lot of

(00:21):
folks that say, you know, I listened to you your show.
I download them listen to him later as I'm mowing
the grass or as I'm working out in the garden,
or whatever it may be. So that's a pretty cool
technology today. Huh. All right, speaking of pretty cool technology
and out of this world, it's time for the man,
the myth, the legend. He is the most listened to
home improvement show host in the entire Solar system. His website,

(00:46):
Garysullivan online dot com. Sometimes he calls it his blog.
Sometimes we call it his website, Garysullivan online dot com.
Ladies and gentlemen, the one, the only, the creator of
the Sully Gary Sellimer, A happy first day of spring.

(01:06):
Are you excited of course, I am why.

Speaker 2 (01:10):
Because it's like spring, even though it's really not, but
it's like spring.

Speaker 1 (01:13):
Do you predict that we'll have any more snow after
this point? Yes, accumulating? No okay, well it depends over
an inch no okay, but typically right about the end
of February, first of March, right about this exact time.
You and I have been at the Cincinnati Home and

(01:35):
Garden Show, yes we have, which they have not done.
You can't do because they're redoing the Convention Center, right
and at that particular one. For many years, you and
I have had a bet on when the grass officially turns.

Speaker 2 (01:49):
Green because it's noticeable, right, because there is all kind
of starts like how can you just wake up one
morning and you go like, whoa, what happened to the
grass last?

Speaker 1 (01:58):
There is just one day in the springtime where all
of a sudden you realize it is green. Yeah, not
just patches, not just the ditch, but everything green. Yep.
It's today, yep. And we both have always agreed that
you're right it is today or it could have been yesterday.

Speaker 2 (02:14):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean it is. We'll trade you
know a little message that says I think it's today.

Speaker 1 (02:20):
I think it's today.

Speaker 2 (02:21):
There was one year in there we couldn't tell remember
that it was like through March, and it was because
it was in the April. And it's like, did it
change already, because usually it's you know, it's like a
pile of the face, you know, it's like.

Speaker 1 (02:34):
Whoa, yeah, yeah, yeah. We've had a couple of it
was kind of I can't tell. Yeah, and we've had
a couple that was extremely green coming out of the winter.

Speaker 2 (02:42):
Oh yeah, yeah. So what's your date?

Speaker 1 (02:46):
I just happened to think of it. I didn't. I
don't have a date. I have to go out there
and kind of take a look, you know, but I
just thought I would before Well, I got to put
a few pants together. I see how those worms are doing?
See where the grubs are moving in the star?

Speaker 2 (03:00):
Answer?

Speaker 1 (03:00):
Doing in the trees? Yeah? The carboner answer, doing in
the trees?

Speaker 2 (03:03):
Everybody does think those ants kill trees?

Speaker 1 (03:06):
Well, and I get it, because all of a sudden
there's this hollowed out area and saw dust coming flying
out of there, right, and they're just chewing it.

Speaker 2 (03:14):
But I'm hearing it now a storm, a branch breaks
off and then the water gets in there and rots
the wood.

Speaker 1 (03:19):
It continues to ride.

Speaker 2 (03:20):
It could be got a new nursery, Hilda, We got
a new nursery.

Speaker 1 (03:24):
Could find bees in there.

Speaker 2 (03:26):
You can fuck anything in there.

Speaker 1 (03:27):
You can find anything in there in there, Houdao. So yeah,
but it's you know again, it's knowing. It's just like
with you. I'm improving products knowing what it is. I
learn more about it, and you understand how to use it.
Twenty fifth, you're going for the twenty fifth and nine.

Speaker 2 (03:45):
Months before Christmas, perfectly right, that's what it's going to
turn green.

Speaker 1 (03:52):
Run March twenty fifth, the man says.

Speaker 2 (03:54):
And nine months later we're gonna have a white Christmas. Oh,
so you're going out on the one up baby, I'm
doubling up up.

Speaker 1 (04:00):
Wow, a little vacation, a couple.

Speaker 2 (04:04):
We'll have a couple of sullies out on the porch. Eh.

Speaker 1 (04:07):
Did you bring us back any boiled peanuts? No?

Speaker 2 (04:09):
I didn't.

Speaker 1 (04:10):
Do you eat boiled peanuts?

Speaker 2 (04:12):
You know I don't.

Speaker 1 (04:13):
I love those?

Speaker 2 (04:15):
I told me.

Speaker 1 (04:16):
Four Well I've been telling you as a hint.

Speaker 2 (04:19):
Yeah, I guess I'll make a note. I like the
shell pans still.

Speaker 1 (04:25):
Yeah, you eat the shell No, if they're salted.

Speaker 2 (04:29):
Back in the day. I did, way back in the day.
I think I was just too lazy to take the
shell off.

Speaker 1 (04:36):
Really, that's some heavy duty fiber right there.

Speaker 2 (04:38):
There you go. It's like eating a two by four.

Speaker 1 (04:41):
Yeah, mister Sullivan. With the weather changing, this being the
first day of spring, yes, sir. Both in the landscape
and in things that you take care of, like the
deck and things like that, there's going to be deck expansions,
new decks being built, yes, sir, new mail boxes being
put in, new trees being planted.

Speaker 2 (05:00):
Yep.

Speaker 1 (05:00):
Before anybody gets out there, whether it's home improvement or
garden yard, landscape improvement, and they're going to dig a
hole in the ground, you should call somebody. Who should
they call?

Speaker 2 (05:12):
You should call somebody who.

Speaker 1 (05:14):
Should they call? Before they dig down?

Speaker 2 (05:16):
I think it's oup.

Speaker 1 (05:18):
S oops. Oops as an eight to one one.

Speaker 2 (05:23):
Yeah, that's it.

Speaker 1 (05:24):
I'll be done.

Speaker 2 (05:25):
Oops. Dot com you can even schedule it yourself.

Speaker 1 (05:28):
You go right online, because.

Speaker 2 (05:29):
The one thing you don't want to do is jab
that shovel right in the ground and go oops.

Speaker 1 (05:36):
Is that gas? I smell? Ooops?

Speaker 2 (05:38):
Why why is my shovel glowing?

Speaker 1 (05:41):
Is that electricity coming up through the antles of my shovel.
Did I just cut out everybody's uh cable service?

Speaker 2 (05:49):
How to make friends?

Speaker 1 (05:50):
And it's the big games on today? Oh yeah, that
doesn't go over well.

Speaker 2 (05:55):
You never want to say oops during March madness.

Speaker 1 (05:58):
No, no, So as you and I both try to
remind folks as we go into the spring season where
it's gonna be a lot of digging, don't forget to
call eight one to one.

Speaker 2 (06:08):
Yes, it's the law, doesn't cost your sen it's.

Speaker 1 (06:10):
In all the states. Click eight one one dot now
dot com and you can go online as well, and
you can just do it all yourself. But give them
I think, you know, the the more advanced notice you
can give them, the better off you are. But I
think they're looking for forty eight hours or more.

Speaker 2 (06:26):
Yeah, I'll try to get them a week.

Speaker 1 (06:28):
Try to give them a week if you can. That way,
they've got plenty. They send the local utility companies out,
they'll mark the site. Then you would don't dig on
the site, the colors of the lines and you're good
to go. You are, so a call before you dig.
It's free out.

Speaker 2 (06:41):
There are some horse stories, aren't there.

Speaker 1 (06:44):
George Gillespie, who was one of the main reps in
for Ohio. Had shown me some pictures of some serious
like where they hit the line and blew up the house. Yeah,
the gas line. Yeah, I mean some serious stuff.

Speaker 2 (06:57):
It's not like we're protecting low wattage landscape. No.

Speaker 1 (07:00):
And if you cut some of those electric lines cables
that are under the ground, you.

Speaker 2 (07:04):
Don't want to pay for that.

Speaker 1 (07:05):
It could be like hundreds of thousands of dollars to
get it repaired, and your insurance typically won't cover that.

Speaker 2 (07:11):
No, because they put full.

Speaker 1 (07:15):
Yes.

Speaker 2 (07:16):
That goes on the line of comments.

Speaker 1 (07:20):
Oh yeah, whoops. So whether it's home improvement or landscaping
or whatever you're doing out there, don't just guess that
you know where all the utilities are. And I think
the other thing folks have to remember. Of course, we
planned a lot of trees, and we have to you know,
we do all that marking the utilities before we plant trees.
But also we try to remember where you may have

(07:43):
run some electric cords underground or a little water pipe
or had somebody do it for you, because otherwise the
utility companies have no idea about those. So you've got
to remember that. So if you have that done. Be
sure and mark it on a map.

Speaker 2 (07:59):
So you can ski in your yard, can't they?

Speaker 1 (08:02):
I guess they can. Yeah, still but still for that yeah,
but still you know know where those are as well?

Speaker 2 (08:09):
For sure. It's that time of year though, There'll be
a lot of activity in the next thirty days.

Speaker 1 (08:15):
Yep. And you know what is greening up?

Speaker 2 (08:18):
What's that?

Speaker 1 (08:18):
My deck.

Speaker 2 (08:21):
Thing's been green for ten years?

Speaker 1 (08:23):
Yeah, but this time of the year, it really starts
to green.

Speaker 2 (08:25):
It does, it does moss.

Speaker 1 (08:26):
You know how that is? It really starts to grow.
With the next month, a month and a.

Speaker 2 (08:29):
Half, I'll tell you, red buds were starting to butt
out in Atlanta.

Speaker 1 (08:34):
Ooh, in Atlanta, and.

Speaker 2 (08:37):
Then I don't know if it was a pair or
what type of tree, but there was several of them
with white flowers on already. I got very excited. It
was South Atlanta. But nonetheless, it's coming our way.

Speaker 1 (08:51):
It's coming, it's coming our way. Yep.

Speaker 2 (08:54):
Exciting. So you just see that sun move across the horizon.

Speaker 1 (08:59):
I said that my wife last night. I said, you
know how quickly the days are getting longer?

Speaker 2 (09:03):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (09:03):
Yeah, I mean it's noticeable.

Speaker 2 (09:05):
In thirty days we watched the sun. I don't know
how many miles or anything like that, but it was
like if we were sitting out we would look at
the sun and it would be about ten o'clock and
now it's about one o'clock. Pretty cool, that is so,
And it's head and north, yeah, hey.

Speaker 1 (09:25):
Yes it is. And along with that will come the hummingbirds.

Speaker 2 (09:29):
Yeah, and butterflies.

Speaker 1 (09:30):
Butterflies.

Speaker 2 (09:33):
The whole story on monarch butterflies the other day.

Speaker 1 (09:36):
That's a whole series that's gonna that they're doing with
Tom Hanks.

Speaker 2 (09:39):
Yeah. Yeah, it was interesting. I knew some of it.
But actually a friend of mine they go out to
Dana Point in the wintertime for a couple of months
and there is a beach called Monarch Beach. There's a
Monarch golf club there, and we would walk the golf
course early in the morning exercise and stuff. And probably

(10:03):
ten or twelve years ago, there was all kinds of
monarch butterflies on that course. And it's been a few
years since we've been out there and it had the
population had diminished greatly. So yeah, they're struggling a little bit.

Speaker 1 (10:19):
Yeah, and the western monarchs are doing it, starving worse
than the Eastern monarchs. But they but they both are
at a decline.

Speaker 2 (10:26):
So yeah, yeah, hawks to me to go to the extension.

Speaker 1 (10:30):
Yeah and as Yeah, like I said, I think there's
a thirteen weeks or twelve weeks of that.

Speaker 2 (10:34):
I didn't know there was that much information on monarch.

Speaker 1 (10:36):
Well, it's not just no, they do something different every
every week.

Speaker 2 (10:39):
They pick your species.

Speaker 1 (10:40):
Yeah there. The first one was that.

Speaker 2 (10:44):
No, they could they could have you out in the
garden pampering your worms and the necessity to pamper your.

Speaker 1 (10:50):
Talking to my worms and doing all that. You gotta
talk about home improvement today we are what what.

Speaker 2 (10:54):
Are you gonna talk abok at that list? Ronnie boy? Wow,
it's all spring projects the heck with this winner stuff.

Speaker 1 (11:00):
Wow?

Speaker 2 (11:01):
Yeah baby.

Speaker 1 (11:02):
And if you can, if you get callers, you ain't
gonna talk about any of it.

Speaker 2 (11:06):
Callers we'll surely get you. Always do about the decks
they want to know about, That's what I'm saying. The
brick wall, and what's that missing mortar? And how about
that garage door seal? We'll cover it all today.

Speaker 1 (11:16):
You can throw your list away because everybody's going to
have that on their calls.

Speaker 2 (11:20):
I'm looking forward to it.

Speaker 1 (11:21):
Gary Sullivans website, Garysullivan online dot com. Have a great show,
thanks to all of our callers, thanks to our sponsors,
Thanks of course to Danny Gleeson, our producer, because without
Danny Gleeson, the Durango Kid, none of this stuff would happens.
So Danny, thank you so much for all that you do.
Now it's here, spring is sprung. Where you're gonna plant
Those trees are two or three native plants, Navy selections.
Pay for your worms, get the kids and dogs, and

(11:43):
ball with guarding. Make it the best weekend of your life.
See you.

Speaker 2 (11:51):
Landscaping lad easier with your personal yard boy. He's hitting
the garden and he's Ron Wilson that they had

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