Geriatric Gardener Duane Pancoast 7/13/2024

Ron talks to Duane!

Episode Transcript

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It's Glenn Beck weekday mornings at nineoh six on fifty five KRC the talk
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watering. That's all I can sayis stay cool. Hundred here at fifty
five KRC DE Talk Station. Welcomeback here in the garden with Ron Wilson
again that toll free number eight hundredand eight two three eight two five five.
Well, we'd asked him to comeback again. We had him on
last year talking about well, we'reall getting older, right, and as

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we get older, we still wanta garden and it gets a little bit
tougher all the time. Well,there's a lot of tips out there for
us to share and new tools andthings like that that can make it easier
for all of us as we becomeolder. And I want to keep going
at it. And that's what misterPancoast is all about. His name is
Dwayne Pancoast. He is the GeriatricGardener and he's written an updated version from

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the Geriatric Gardener to the Geriatric Gardenertwo point oh more adaptive gardening advice for
seniors. He's with us this morning. Good morning sir, Good morning Ron.
Hey, good to have you onthe show. You know, you
made me look up the word octogenarian. I had no idea what that means.
I didn't get that, and thenI realized that every ten years there's

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a different word for that, andI am sorry, Now I'm a sex
genarian. Well, you're a kid, so I'm a kid. Then there
was sept to sept to a genericand it just goes on and on and
on. So pretty interesting anyway,Yeah, so that pretty cool. Anyway.
You've been in this business for sixtyyears plus. Yes, I spent

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my career as a public relations professional. Most of my clients were tree,
landscape and launch care clients, andthey're trade associations, suppliers, manufacturers,
and distributors of the tools and productsthat they use. So you've been doing

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it for quite some time and ofcourse been a personal gardener as well,
and so I'm assuming that as you'vegotten older, you said, hey,
I got to figure out new waysto do this, and why not share
those ideas? With other folks aswell, because there's a lot of us
getting older that still love the garden. That's right. And I didn't realize
it was a discipline to a title. For adaptive gardening is the title.

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And I didn't realize that until Iwas on a conference call with some other
bloggers and they asked everybody to givetheir name and what they have blocked about.
When I described to what I blockedabout, somebody said, oh,
adaptive gardening. So I thought itsounded pretty good. Maybe I'll use it.
I checked on Google and sure enough, adaptive gardening came up. Broom,

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that was it. Uh. Butas I was winding winding my career
down, I wanted to do somethingto help somebody. And I read an
article in one of the landscaping trademagazines in which the editor explained to her

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readers landscape contractors that they were leavingmoney on the table if they didn't learn
about the special needs of seniors whowanted to continue gardening. And I was
also reading a book at the time, Gardening for a Lifetime, by the

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late Sidney Edison, in which shetalks about describes her whole gardening journey from
when her and her husband first plantedtheir garden to when she needed help set
it dawn on me, that's themarket that needs developing. And so we

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sat down my son, it wasmy business court and I and what's the
best way to get into this quickly? And we decided on a blog.
So I started the blog. Butthen I as I got into it,
I realized a lot of senior citizensdon't use computers, right, So I

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wrote a book in twenty and inthe last few months, well, you
know, around Christmas time, myfamily members and friends and other garden writers
were asking me, is there goingto be a sequel to your book?

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And I said, I don't know. You know, I'm maybe five years
old. And they said, well, I would think a lot has happened
and developed in the four years sinceyou wrote the first book. And so
I sat back and thought about it, I wrote it, and there you

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go, and now I've got theupdate. So now it's the Geriatric Gardener
two point zero more adaptive gardening advicefor seniors. It just came out,
and of course you can learn moreabout it. And by the way,
if you want to go to hisblog, it's the Geriatric Gardner dot WordPress
dot com. And learn more aboutthat as well and get all of it.
Is a great information and it's ait's a great blog, by the
way, and you can you canfind the book there as well, right

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this book. You can find thefirst book there. Okay, but we're
waiting for a few uh things likecredit card process and to follow in the
place. We we'll have the newbook up next week. Excellent, So
you're in the you're in the firstso we'll hear about it. Your audience
is first to hear about it.Excellent, So I know they'll be waiting

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to see that. And again it'sthe Geriatricgardner dot WordPress dot com and the
original book is on there. Andthen of course the new one'll be coming
out here in another week or soand would be available for you, uh
to jump on board and find outmore those uh guarding advice tips. Now
let's talk about this a little bit. You know what one thing on our
secure website, there's a link toit at the end of every post.

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Okay, all right, so I'lltake you to that as well. So
so there you go. And ofcourse you've got an email address and you
welcome people to email you. Andalso he's he is here to help us
out as we continue to age uhand and uh and still want to continue
guarding. Again. It's Dwayne Pancoast, our special guest this morning. So
let's talk about you know, youput the original book together and you shared

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a lot of great tips with us, and of course the book has a
lot of great as well. ButI look at this new one, can
you I guess I look at itand say, okay, can you give
us like some just a little We'regonna take a break here, but just
maybe a quick sampling of some ofthe things you've added to this as far
as suggestions. Sure, all right, well let's take I'll tell you what.

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Let's take a break, we comeback. I want to ask you
about that some things that you've addedto it. I think one of the
things you bring up, and Ithought it was very interesting, is that
younger gardeners should start adapting while they'restill young. Why do you suggest that?
I think it's a great one.We'll take a look at too,
and of course time management and allbut lots of great infos. So stay
tuned. He's got lots of greattips for us. Dwayne Pancoast. He
is the geriatric Gardener. His newbook coming out next week, The Geriatric

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Welcome back here in the Garden withRon Wilson. Mister Dwayne Pancoast is with
us this morning. He is theGeriatric Gardener. Got a brand new book

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coming out next week. His firstone was outstanding, but he's got a
brand new one coming out next week. He's just add more to it's told
the Geriatric Gardener two point zero moreadaptive gardening advice for seniors. Absolutely wonderful
tips and things to share with you. I think it's interesting you you talk
about nobody has to be a retiredgardener. That's right. All they have

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to do is be an adaptive gardener, adapt the gardening, and you know,
change their gardening and habits and theirgarden so that they can do what
they will want to do. Andagain some of them. Yeah, And
I think the thing you said,adapted adaptive gardening is cool at any age,

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and it gives you joy for alifetime. That's right. These are
the three points in the introduction tothe book. I say, these are
the three takeaways I hope to takeyou take away from reading it. Gardening
is cool for any at any age. That simply means that if people start

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adapting when they're younger, they maybe ability to minimize or avoid some of
these problems that we older people arerunning into. You know, stuff like
skin problems, visual problems, jointproblems. They don't happen when we cross

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a threshold like sixty degree, sixtyeight years, seventy years, or eighty
years. They started when we're invincibleteenagers. Sun the sun is a good
example. The UV raised the sun. You know, kids who are invincibles

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laying on the beach getting burned.That's when skin cancer starts, but it
starts showing up when they get older. And the same with these I was
one of these kids that liked toplay with carris and trucks, and we

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didn't have the controls back then,so you were down on the floor at
your knees making the move. Andso now I'm using a walker because they
got to add knee. And thesame with your back. You know,

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if you start lifting when you're younger, if you start lifting correctly with your
legs rather than your back, youmay be able to ward off some of
those back problems. And if you'reany age homeowner and you're going to renovate
your garden, why not putting youryour walkways and your your patio smooth rather

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than stones or even pavers that haveareas between the pavers that a cane or
walker could get caught in. Constructioncosts aren't going down, so as long
as you're doing it anyway, youmight as well make the walkways four feet

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wide to get a wheelchair and aand a walker in now, rather than
waiting until you need them and thenhave to opinion the cost whatever it is
at that time. And if you'relike me, you're probably gonna I'm not
gonna have those problems you do.And there's a real good chance you probably

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are as you get older, isno doubt talking about Dwayne Pancoast. And
you know what I'm looking as you'resaying this, and as I had read
through some of the notes, andof course looking back at the book,
the original book, which is outstanding, you know, you can almost put
and I know if a young adultthat's getting into gardening would look at this
and say, the geriatric gardener,I'm not going to read that advice for
seniors probably in parenthees, you gotto say, and young gardener should read

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this before you become a senior.Uh, you know, don't let the
don't let the book, the coverof the book fool you. You know,
this is a vice that you shouldbe taking at a younger age so
that you'll be able to garden longerinto your life. That's right. And
these three takeaways are actually the titlesof three blog posts I wrote for the

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National Garden Bureau over the last threeyears and they're up on their website MGB
dot org and there's a pulldown forinspirational blogs and you can find them there.
And that's how we first got intouch with you, by the way,
was through the MNGB and Diane Blazekand had suggested that we check you

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out, and we did, andof course loved everything you're coming up with
it because it all makes such greatsense. Again, Dwayne Pancoast and if
you want to go to his blog, is that the best way to is
the Geriatric Gardner dot WordPress dot com. Yes, it is, because our
secure website is one of those crazyu r ls with dashes and underscores and

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all that good stuff. So justgo to the end of any post and
click the blog kick click the link, and then I'll take you there to
whatever you need and of course you'llget the start learning more about adaptive gardening.
You know, you even address andI always I read through all these
tips that you have here. Youeven address of what you wear as far

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as shoes when you're Yeah, alot of people like to wear clogs,
these rubber cloths and you can stepout of them, So wear substantial shoes
sneakers are even better than clogs,or a lot of people will wear boots

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and if you're in the mud orsomething para Wellington, boots wouldn't be a
bad idea. But don't wear shoesthat you're going to walk out of because
when you walk out of them,you can lose your balance and you don't
want to happen in the gardeners foryou to fall down, right, And

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just in case you do that,I say, take either your phone out
or if you have one of thesemedical alerts, be sure and wear that,
or take both of them out,and be sure you have a friend
or family member that that you cancall to come help you out if you

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if you call the medical alert,chances that out of the call, they'll
call a ambulance and then you're goingto pay for that. Sure. Talking
with Dwayne Pancoast again, and he'sthe geriatric gardener Adaptive Gardening Advice for seniors,
and I put in parentheses there evenif you younger gardener should be reading

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this, uh, because I thinkit will help you out as well and
help you to garden longer into yourlife as well. You brought up something
in our last conversation which I thoughtwas absolutely outstanding. You talked about the
lighting in the garden and how towhy that is so important, Uh,
to have your garden lip properly asyou continue to get older. Yes,

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your ads, I recommend post lamps, you know the ones that go in
the ground. The state goes inthe ground and there's a lamp on the
top of it. You can youcan get inexpensive solar powered ones, but
then the sun has to be outthat day. If you want light on

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your pads that night, it's betterto give low voltage ones. And these
connect by a wire which ultimately goesto a outdoor plug and you can even
put a timer between the plug andthe outlet so that it doesn't it's not

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a dust at dawn, right,it's not all night. It can turn
off during the night. And also, if you have a ground level patio,
commend these same lights around the patiobecause if even though it's at the
ground level, it's it's a differentfeel. You're on a solid patio and

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if one foot would were to stepoff into the grass, it can throw
your balance off. And or ifyou if you've got a planting bed,
the soil is probably soft and ifyou hit that, you can go off
balance and fall. And if you'vegot a pond, you don't want to

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take any unexpected swims. So theselights around the pond is a good idea.
Those fish, those fish don't wantto be swimming with you in that
pond. No, you don't wantto be swimming with them either. He
is Dwayne Pine Pancoast. He isthe Geriatric Gardener. The newest book coming
out next week is the Geriatric Gardenertwo point zero More Adaptive Gardening Advice for

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Seniors. And I'm telling you thisbook is good for both seniors and upcoming
gardeners because the tips that he sharesin here uh probably make it gardening a
lot easier for you, no matterwhat age you are. Uh, So
be sure and check it out again. Is uh to go to his blog.
It's the Geriatric Gardener dot WordPress dotcom. Dwayne Pancoast always a pleasure.

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Keep up the great work, sir, all right, take care Dwayne
Pancoast the Geriatric Gardener again the Geriatricgardenerdot WordPress dot com. And he's right.
A lot of these, uh,a lot of these great tips that
he shares in here today and thenew ones plus the ones he had from
the older book. If you followthose, even at a younger gardener age

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right now, will probably help youto be a It makes it easier for
you to garden one, first ofall, and will probably help you to
last longer as a gardener as well. You don't have to be a retired
gardener, asked Dwayne Pancoast. Allright, there you go. A geriatric
gardener, always always a pleasure.All right, quick break, we come
back for minds. You're open foryou. Eight hundred eight two three eight

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