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Speaker 1 (00:35):
Our toll free number eight hundred eighty two three eight
two five five. Good morning. I am Ron Wilson, your
personal yard boy, talking about yard ning. I tell you
I got a We're gonna talk this morning about a
product that can really help you out in the garden
and your landscape and lawn even uh. And this is
is not nothing new well, and they just get better
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all the time. But we've had them on our show before.
I remember the first time time I saw this product,
first time I used this product was outstanding. And they
just keep getting bigger and having more products all the time.
And you know the old saying, work smarter, not harder.
And of course with Gary Salvyn, our own improvement guy,
it's all about easy. And I'm telling you what if
you've got plantings to do in your landscape, annuals, perennials, trees, shrubs,
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how about stinton planting? Are you going to do a
lot of spring flowering bulbs this fall? Forget about those
hand planters all right, the things just sticking the ground.
Try to turn and d all it. And that's not
the answer. If you want to do it right, you
want to make it easier on yourself. Think power Planter.
Go to the website is powerplanter dot com. And to
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tell us more about power Planner is of course, our
good friend from power Planner, Gregnewold.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
Good morning, Hey, good morning, Ron. How are you.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
Appreciate you getting up so early Greg to talk to
us this morning? Are you an Illinois this morning?
Speaker 2 (01:57):
I am sitting here in central Illinois and you're you're correct,
it's a little early, Sun's not up, but I'm okay
getting up early today because I think fall may actually
arrive in Illinois to day with our first rain in
about six or seven weeks.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
Oh good, Yeah, we're getting one tonight, so I guess
we're getting it after you guys get it. That's gonna
show up here later on. And you're were the same way.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
Man.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
We need it big time. So yes, it's kind of
tough digging unless you've got a power Planner.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
That is true. I mean, honestly, that was the most
well said snippet ever. So kudo's on that one. And
I mean that's what we do. We've been doing this
since my grandfather started it in nineteen eighty eight, and
I mean it fits in anybody's cordless drill. I think
the key to it though, is the cordless drill part
of it just for safety because it's got a clutch,
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so if you hit something underground, it's gonna stop spinning.
But other than that, your efficiency is gonna go through
the roof compared to any of those little hand contraptions.
And I always like to say we slice the ground
rather than shopping at it. So the easy comparison is
is we like to sliced cheese or would like to
slice the potato. We don't sit there and you know,
just stab it to death. And in augur is the
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same thing. Whereas a shovel you're literally just jabbing as
hard as you can into the ground and hoping for
great results, which is just painful and takes forever.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
Oh yeah, so real quick. So folks understand, of course
us made third generation. Why was Grandpa making these augurs.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
Well it's a kind of a long story, but I'll
give you a short version. So Grandpa was making august
since nineteen sixty for farmers to actually move material like
corn and fertilizer and things like that. And a gentleman
at the local university, the University of Illinois, approached him
because he had just a boatload of tulips to put
in the ground around campus and said, Wayne, everybody says
that you're the local auger guy, why can't we do something,
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you know, to make my life easier and move some
soil up and out of the ground. And so Grandpa
went to work and voila power planner was born, and
Grandpa ran it kind of word of mouth. I came
back and took over in twenty thirteen, and since then
we've we've added different models we've made. We've got our
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standard stuff. We've also made heavy duty models now for
landscapers or the homeowner that has incredibly tough soil or
clay or rocky stuff to be able to handle that
abrasion and abuse. And so to your point, we just
kind of keep creating and everything's based on a solution
for whatever somebody's need is. Really as of late, we
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got as of late, we got into some landscapers and
homeowners might like this too. We got into some anchor
systems as well. So we all love. In the fall,
we go to you know, put some leaves on the tarp,
and the tart blows away. When we get it half full,
you know, we get to start all over again. So
we've got some anchoring systems that are basically augurs that
screw right into the ground and they're reusable. We're using
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for trees to stake trees all the time now and
things like that as well. So we kind of keep
evolving and coming up with new stuff wherever the need.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
Or yeah, I can't. You know, when you and I
first talked to me, have been twenty thirteen or so, uh,
talking about power planners when they really were starting to
come onto the market. You know, you had a nice
selection of power planners, but of course today it's just
grown unbelievable how many different sizes and types that you have.
And I think the thing. You know, a lot of
folks go into local independent garden centers and they've always
had garden augers in there. You know, they've always been around,
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no big you know, it's always been there, but uh,
never held up. You know, you buy one of those
things and it just thought you well, you'd bend it
easily if you hit a route or something, you know,
it would bend it easily. And this power, these power augers,
and it come in all different sizes. We'll talk about that,
but I think that's the unique thing about this is
that they're eight you were able to still put them
on your hand drill heavy duty drill, and you guys
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get into that as well. But when you hit something,
that thing hangs in there with you. You're not gonna
You're not gonna ruin your power planner.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
Yeah, yeah, I mean we make the augers and kudos
to Granpa for this one. We make them to be
a generational tool. It's great for the owner of our
power planners. It's not so good for business other than
I can honestly say that, hey, it's gonna last a lifetime,
but it's not a loaf of bread that you're going
to go through two or three or four like some
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of those other ones that you know you might see
it somewhere else. And so that combined with the drill
and safety, and you really do have kind of a
tool of the old school yesteryear mentality, which is pretty
unheard of. It's really unheard of. You can still say
it's made in the United States, and it's fun for
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my staff and myself. We absolutely love when people call
in with questions because I'll be honest. You can get
on our website and it's a fantastic website outstanding, but
we have just so many options. You know, whether you
want a two inch hole, an eight inch hole, a
nine inch hole, or you want seven inches of length
or fifty four inches of length plus extensions available. So
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we love to talk to people and help and so,
I mean our phone this time of year is rather busy,
but we actually love it. You don't have to call
and hit one or two or five or anything else.
It's just it rings in the human answers. So we
really do run pretty old school. We always have we
probably always will to be.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
Honest, and you'll again you'll find them in many locations,
but you'll find a lot of your locally owned independent
garden centers as well. You can go to the websites
outstanding website. You guys, just keep updating this thing all
the time powerplanter dot com and learn more about it.
You'll see all the different sizes, and again it can
be a little confusing if you see their displays in
the garden centers or wherever you may see the power Planter.
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I'm usually as in a nice assortment, but there are
so many different sizes. Besides what's available in those display units,
you need to check it out, and of course, as
Greg said, they're there to help you out as far
as choosing which one that you want to or need
to use for whatever the project may be. So you know,
over the years, so the first time we talked, you know,
the number of sizes and types of augers that you
(08:04):
have has quadrupled. I would say, in selection, how do
you choose? What makes you determine that you need this
style or this new type of aug or different size
or whatever. What's helped to determine which direction you've gone
with these?
Speaker 2 (08:22):
You know, it really is need in a solution for
the end user. I think the perfect example or examples
is the heavy duty variations of some of the larger styles,
like the four inch through nine inch diameters. We started
having some customers on the East Coast and the Carolina
is that their red clay has literally made, you know,
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and it makes bricks, and you know, some of those
comments came back that hey, we're having some issues and
things like that. So we went to work and figured
out some solutions and sent some samples out and they're like,
holy smokes, this is a ticket. So it was all
out of need. The two inch by fifty four inch
came out of need from a company that does soil
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moisture probes in the agriculture world. They needed a way
to put these moisture probes into farmers fields. But then
at the same time, I happen to have one at
a show and a landscaper looked at and he goes,
you know, he goes, I don't know what you're supposed
to use that for. He says, I could really use
that to bore for irrigation and lighting underneath my customer sidewalks.
(09:25):
And I was like, yeah, you could absolutely lay that
thing on its side and instead of pounding a steel
rod underneath the sidewalk or whatever you're normally doing, now, yeah,
you could absolutely just drill a hole and then run
your line or your PBC. So, I mean that's kind
of the evolution of how things come about is generally
a phone call or two, or an inquiry or two,
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and then just to look like does this actually meet
you know, more than one person's need, And oftentimes it does,
and it just takes somebody, you know, to pick up
the phone and call or send an email and say, hey,
I think this would be really cool or this really
helps me out. Then from there the rest is kind
of history.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
Yeah, unbelievable. It's again great product. Go to their webs
So we're gonna take a break. Uh, we're gonna find
out what can you put these on your regular home drills? Absolutely,
but we're gonna learn more from Greg on how to
do that, what to use. Their website is Powerplanter dot com.
Be sure and check it out. And again, like I said,
you'll find these a lot of your locally owned independent
garden centers, hardware stores, et cetera, et cetera. Absolutely outstanding.
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Maybe a little bit more expensive, but they are worth it.
And like you said, it's a one time that you
want you to buy them. It's gonna last your lifetime quick Greick.
We come back more with Greg Kneewold power Planter. Here
in the Garden with Ron Wilson.
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Speaker 1 (13:16):
Welcome back here in the garden with Ron Wilson. We're
trying to get you to work smarter, not harder. It's
all about easy and if you want to make it
easier on yourself when it comes to planting, whether it's bulbs, annuals, perennials,
tree shrubs, whatever it may be. Have you considered using
a power planter. These are steel drill augers that do
an outstanding job. Can be attached to your drill or
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more heavy duty drills if needed. As a matter of fact,
Greg Niewald from power Planter, you have some of these
that actually you don't have to bend over. They're standing
shafts and kind of stand up and drill at the
same time. So when you're doing a lot of ball
planting doesn't hurt you back.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
Yeah. Absolutely, we I mean, if you're gonna go out
and do a bunch of bulbs. I'm six foot two,
so I really like the one that's thirty six inches long.
I think the easiest rule of thumb when you're figuring
out height, because we offer when you get to that
conversation of I don't want to crawl around, we have
a seven inch of twelve inch, and then we jump
to twenty four, then thirty, then thirty six, and then
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forty eight. So here the easy rule of thumb is
for folks is if you're at seven inches or twelve,
you're gonna crawl around. However, the standard kitchen table is
thirty inches tall. So if you stand at your kitchen
table and you put your hand about I don't know,
three four inches above it, that would be your starting
height at say the thirty inch ogger. If you go
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below it, then you're at say the twenty four. So
people always we get lots of calls about that exact topic.
How long should I get? And the simple rule of
thumb is just go stand next to your kitchen table
and if that is a comfortable standing height to go
to start at for drilling holes, then get a thirty inch.
If you want a little bit higher, then do like
a thirty six. I tell tons of people don't do
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forty eight inches long. I mean I'm six foot two
and thirty six is perfect for me. You know, forty
eight inches is going to be the middle of my
chest or close to it, right, So yeah, I mean
any size you know really help people. My own mother
has had seven or eight back surgeries and neck surgeries
at this point, and her passion on five acres is gardening.
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The only way she can garden now is with one
of our augers. She cannot. She am down on a
shovel and then you know, get up and down like
a twenty year old anymore. So the only way she
can do it is to stand up, go drill tons
and tons of holes, and in some cases my own
kids go help her plant stuff. So you know, it
really is a solution for healthy folks as well as
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people with ailments that just want to get back out
in the garden and do stuff well.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
Absolutly agree to one hundred percent. Again, it's called power planters.
Go to website powerplanter dot com. Now I'm assuming folks
are listening to. Okay, so I've got a my dwault
drill or whatever out in the garage. Will that work
on my cordless dualult drill?
Speaker 2 (16:13):
So the short answer is yes, our augers work with
any I don't care what color or flavor of drill
it is, as long as it's just a standard cordless drill.
It does not need to be a hammer drill. It
will not work on an impact like you would put
screws in your deck that makes that big loud ratcheting sound,
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right type of thing. Just any eighteen or twenty volt
cordless drill for typical homeowner gardening, and you're off to
the races.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
Now you have taken that step. You have tied in
with Deault and you have bundles that people can buy.
If you don't have the drill, you can supply them
with that as well.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
Yeah, that's correct. That is we We do sell two
different Walt drills and we do bundle them up with
our Augers kind of by use or purpose. And the
drills that we sell are pretty much the nicest models
they have one because that kind of fits with our mantra.
We have the nicest Augurs bar none in the market.
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And so the drills that we have they have the
side handle, which is extra nice, just for a little
bit extra stability. They have very large capacity batteries, so
by the time that battery runs out, you've got gobs
and gobs and gobs and holes that you can go
back and back fill while that battery charges, or you
can just go in the house and relax for an
hour if you want. White charges. But it's about longevity.
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So those batteries we do have the big capacity batteries
and the drills are the highest quality that they have.
And again we sell thet The Walt you know, wanted
to work with us. We wanted to work with them
as who they are. But if somebody's got a different
brand or flavor, as I like to say.
Speaker 4 (17:57):
Go for it.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
Oh absolutely, But I guess you know again, I think
it's interesting you tied in with them and make it
really easy. It's a one time, one stop shop if
you're interested in doing this. Again, it's powerplanter dot com.
Is a website and this is for down the road.
Another topic. We'll talk about this may as we get
close to the spring. But I noticed you had on
your website you are now you know, the plant supports
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and all that doing the spirals and the twisters. I
saw those at the trade show. I thought those were
absolutely out outstanding. And I see you've got those on
your website, so folks want to check that out as well.
But again it's powerplanter dot com. Powerplanter dot com. Greg
Kneewald always a pleasure man. You guys have just exploded
and you made our gardening a lot easier.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
Yeah, thank you, Ron, I really appreciate it. Thanks to
you and all your listeners. You guys have a great
fall and a great winner, and any question draning, just
reach out to us. Happy to help and be safe
and happy gardening.
Speaker 1 (18:53):
There you go, Greg, I appreciate it. Greg Kneewald. Again,
it's a powerplanter, and they, like I said, there may
be a little bit more, but they are worth the price.
Once you buy them, you got them. They're not gonna
you're not gonna mess these things up. There there to
work for you, and you work smarter, not harder, uh,
with these power augers. And if again, if you power planners,
if you get confused about it, just give them a call.
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They'll help walk you through. And of course you'll see
a lot of these also at your locally owned independent
garden centers, some of the hardwares and all, and they'll
tell you about that on their website as well. But
if you want to work smarter in your garden, like
you said with his moms, you can go through with
these augers and just joe holes for anything small annuals, perennials.
You got a two gallon nursery plant, you're gonna plant,
Take that auger and just drill about seven times in
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that hole. Take it all loose and you got to
you got yourself a nice hole. The soil is already
kind of fine for you. It's outstanding. But again, check
it out powerplanter dot com. Is powerplanner dot com Coming
up next, we're gonna talk about garlic. Now's the time
to plant garlic. Which ones do you plant? How do
you plan it? How do you harvest it? Why is
there such a big thing about garlic? Is it really
(19:58):
that good for you? We're gonna find out. Neil Bevilaqua
is going to join us. He knows more about garlic
than garlic knows about garlic. Here in the Garden with
Ron Wilson.
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Speaker 1 (22:02):
Welcome back here in the garden with Ron Wilson. A
couple of years ago. And in course, you know, we
talk about trying to make gardening easier, right, Uh, you know,
work smarter, not harder when we're out in the gardens
and uh and and we try to find tools and
things that make it easier for all of us. And
a couple of years ago at the SINS show up
in the or the Cultivate show up in Columbus, Ohio,
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I saw a tool there with a young man and
was demonstrating the tool. I thought was outstanding and it
was called the Earthlifter Tool. And so after I saw
that and kind of you know, saw the demonstration, got
one used it, loved it, and got hold this young
man to be on our show and talk to us
about how he developed the Earthlifter Tool. And our website
(22:44):
is earthlifter dot com. And everybody I know that has
bought an Earthlifter Tool has absolutely loved it and thanked
me for pointing him in that direction. But since then,
I've gotten to know this gentleman a little bit better.
And this guy knows more about garlic and the benefits
of garlic and staying healthy then garlic knows about garlic.
(23:09):
So I want to make sure I mentioned the Earthlifter
Tool because it's that's what got us started. And trust me,
if you're looking for something to make it easier for
you in the garden, check it out. It's earthlifter dot com.
But today we're going to talk about one of the
things he loves. He and his wife love to grow.
As a matter of fact, he says, garlic may be
the most magnificent gift you can give yourself when you
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can consider choosing one plant embodying the essence of what
a gift truly is who is that gentleman? Is mister
Neil Bevla Aqua. I've been trying to practice that all week.
You know, last time I just called you mister Bevl
because it's a lot easier. But bevlo Aqua and Neil.
Great to have you on the show this morning.
Speaker 2 (23:52):
Good morning, Ryan, thank you.
Speaker 5 (23:54):
Please call MEO. All Okay, So you mentioned a couple
of things that are really interesting and my my main
let's say, uh uh desire in life is for health.
And so when I tried to understand many years ago,
(24:17):
let's let's let's go back. I'm a little older than
you think I am. So I've been studying basically psychology
for I go before they years.
Speaker 2 (24:29):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (24:30):
And one of the things that I've done is I've
been a research scientist for eleven years and I've been
studying actually neuro transmitted brain psychology, you know, bring chemical psychology.
And so that that led me to understand, uh, you know, depression.
(24:52):
I studied depression actually, and when I studied depression, you know,
the main drug or chemical that people us to study
it is serotonin. So when I looked at the serotonin,
I find out that it is made in the gut biomes.
So then I studied about the gut biome and that
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it just opened up the whole world. It's basically everything,
everything that goes on in your body, every chemical, the hormone,
every transmitter, everything comes out of your gut biome. So
then I said to myself, well, wow, this is this
is the center. They call it the second brain in
psychology because it tells the brain, or tells the body
(25:39):
what it needs and then it produces it. So think
about the biome, the gut biome as parallel to your soil,
to your to your you know, to the you know,
the the medium that you grow things in. Okay, So
the idea that everything that goes on in your bio
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he kind of comes out of your gut biome. So
you have twenty seven hundred and three thousand different little
microbes it's called micro biota growing there and they control
you know, your your your your sugar levels, your heart rate, everything.
So I wanted to find out, well, if this is
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the garden that's in our body, what is the best
fertilizer for that garden let's call the garden. And so
then I looked into all the different you know inputs.
Speaker 2 (26:36):
You know.
Speaker 5 (26:36):
You know, you can eat kail, you can eat you know, crimini, mushrooms,
you can you know, all these different things. Then then
I say, well, what is the absolute best, most important.
It's called the pre biotic. Okay. A pre biotic is
think about it as a fertilizer for the probiotics you
always hear about, you know, yogurts and probiotics, but a
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prebiotic is considered think of it as a fertilizer. So
there I went on a great search for many years
to figure out how do you make the best gallic
in the world, which is you know, obviously kind of
a fool as Ian, but I do think I make things.
(27:19):
I try things, so so basically that's that's kind of
the beginning point here. Okay. So so I don't want
to like, we have only a certain period of time
and this is your show. I want you to ask me,
interrupt me, whatever you want to call it, you know,
whenever you want anything.
Speaker 1 (27:37):
I have to tell you. Last week we were at
my daughters and they ordered up a couple of pizzas
from a local pizza place and they're they're known for
the great pizzas. But anyway, one of their ingredients that
they add to pizza is a thin sliced garlic clothes.
So they took their they took their garlic clothes and
actually slice them so they were about eighth of an
inch thick, and then put those as a opping on
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the pizza. It was outstanding and I felt better, I
think after I ate that thing. But I thought I
thought of you the whole time, because I mean this garlic, saying, oh, mister,
mister Bevilaca would love this pizza because all the garlic
one there. But you know, it was a great flavor.
And of course garlic is you know, coming on so
strong now and we're all realizing it. And of course
(28:21):
learning more from you about the importance of garlic in
our in our health and what it can do. But
I think the thing and and and and again. Folks
can learn more about all of this on his website
at earthlifter dot com. Not only you've learned about the tool,
but go to his blog and all this is He's
written all this out for you. It's amazing to read
(28:41):
all of what what mister Neil has done here. Uh
as far as the research, but I kind of wanted
to get you on today also not only to promote
this the benefits, but also you're such an experienced garlic
grower and right now is a great time for planting garlic.
Garlic one of the best times to kind of pick
your brain as far as and I think think you
told me you and your wife have grown over forty
(29:02):
cultivars of garlic out there, which I had no idea
there were so many out there. But kind of give
us some pointers, because you're very successful at growing garlic.
Kind of give us some pointers on which ones you
like the best. I think you're mostly a hard neck, uh,
a guardic girl. So I'd like to if we could
share some of some of your tips on how to
(29:25):
grow garlic uh successfully.
Speaker 5 (29:28):
Okay, Okay, so we'll we'll do that and if we
can in a let's let's call it in a sequence,
because what what you have to first understand is that
garlic is extremely unique plant. Let's call it the plants.
It's it's actually a plant. Uh So in the world
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of glics is what's called soft neck and hot neck.
All right. Soft neck is the stuff you get into
soup in supermarkets and like about seventy five percent or
so it's actually grown in China, and it's it's kind
of grown under dubious conditions. We you know, they use
fertilizers that we wouldn't use the United States, right, And
(30:13):
but what it is is it's it's a lot of
tiny clothes. So a head of soft gallogs will have
a fifteen twenty little little clothes. And the taste is
not very good to me or to many people. I
have a very very high level gourmands and chefs and
(30:37):
you know, very and you know, my my, I don't
be bragging or anything, but the stuff that I grow
is much more nutritious and delicious for various reasons. Kind
of let me start off. You asked about how it grows.
So one of the things that people don't understand or
(30:59):
you know, people know some devices is that galic has
very very short roots, and gallic evolved to be seven
biotic with something called my celium or micorizial soil. So
basically they have a partnership. And what that means is
(31:20):
that when you establish a bed, it has all these
filaments they're called hyphene that extend like you know, tens
of twenty feet away from the actual plant and they
have this relationship that the gallic gets photosynthesis, makes a sugar,
(31:42):
puts it, brings it down to its roots, and then
the mycilium brings minerals and water and nutrients to the
roots and they exchange it. So some plants, other plants
do that, but not like galic. Galic is it has
like sixteen twelve roots and so, but it has a
(32:03):
very feet of let's say friends that that supply it
with with minerals and nutrients. So that's that's one thing
why golic has. It has one hundred and thirty salt
of compounds. It has numerous minerals and many nutrients within it,
(32:24):
and it's evolved to be a a sink for all
the nutrients around it. So the garlic itself is uh
is full of nutrients. Now one of the things that
when you said you had on pizza, sliced on pizza.
(32:44):
One of the other unique aspects about gog. If you
take a clove of gallic and you smell it, just
just just take it off and smell it. You will
smell anything if you eat it. If you eat it,
just throw down your throat. You won't get any nutrients
or anything out of it. The unique part about gold
(33:07):
is that it evolved or somehow the chemical say expression
is this thing called alison. Alison is called that is
the healthy is everything basically and how it's made. Think
of epoxy. If you have two components of epoxy and
(33:30):
you haven't sitting next to each other, they won't do anything.
It's it's not blue. But if you mix them together
then and then you wait. So glic has two sizes
of cell that when crushed, sliced or somehow mashed together
and you have to wait. You have to wait ten
(33:52):
to fifteen minutes. Then the it's called the epoxy becomes
or the you know, the chemical becomes allison. That is
the healthy, nutritious. That that's everything about glic. So people
should know that, I mean your your your your kids,
your guests should know that when you make when you
(34:14):
have glic, you should always crush it or slice it
up somehow and then wait. You have to wait, and
then then you have real glic. That's the real that's
the real trick.
Speaker 1 (34:28):
All right, we got to take a quick break. We're
going to come back. We'll learn more about growing garlic.
Well when we come back, I want to know what
you use in your soil mix. What kind of a
base do you use for growing your garlic. We'll take
a quick break. We'll come back more with mister Neil
talking about garlic and the website is earthlifter dot com.
Be sure and check it out. You'll learn more about
the tool and garlic as well. Here in the garden
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Speaker 1 (36:29):
Welcome back. You're in the garden with Ron Wilson. Special
guest this morning is mister Garlic Neil Bevilaqua, and of
course he is the inventor of the earthlifter tool check
it out earthlifter dot com. But you'll also learn an
awful lot about the benefits of growing garlic, and now's
the time to plant garlic. This is a great October,
is a great month for planning in your gardens, raised beds, containers,
(36:51):
whatever it may be. So we're talking to them. One
is about the many benefits, which we kind of know,
but this guy really knows the benefits of garlic. And
then what are the secrets because he grows so many
different types and is so successful. What some of the tips,
mister Neil for your success in growing garlic?
Speaker 5 (37:11):
All right, so just to just to kind of just
not to correct you, but I actually grow grew fifty
seven fifty seven different varieties. There you go over the
over thirty five years. Now, I have tried many, many
different ways and different types. Now there's eleven main main
types of hard neck. I grow hard neck because they're
(37:31):
more delicious and they are one. They're they're, they're, they're wonderful.
But of the eleven types, I only grow four, uh,
and actually five because of my climate. Now, everyone, your audience,
I'm not sure how how how far south and how
far north right? But I'm in a rough area. I'm
(37:53):
in upstate New York mountains. You know, a couple of
thousand feet up in the air. So my climate, uh uh,
certain ones, certain types, certain families that are actually called
uh you know, purple stripe, you know, porcelain, rock and boli.
Certain families grow best in my climates. So let's start
(38:16):
from the beginning. If you asked about how if you
have a perfect world, I see, I try to think
of extremes. So in a perfect world, if you were to,
let's say, uh, inoculate the bed with my celium. Now
my celium is uh, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's basically
(38:36):
what the uh the substrate is for mushrooms. It's basically
it's the stuff that lives in the earth, and it's
just like in our gut biome, we have all these microbes.
So your soil has all kinds of microbes also. So
you're talking about doing it the easy way. I'm trying to,
(38:59):
uh do everything the easy way, because if you do
it not easy, you do it the way that it's
not onerous or not difficult. This is why, this is
why I invented that tool, because I couldn't uh you know,
Uh it's for people who have you know, uh, strength problems,
or age problems, or or just any kind of problems.
(39:19):
It makes it easier. So in terms of the soil,
I'm we've been trying to figure a way of you
know you've heard about regenitive agriculture. Well, this is kind
of regenerative fertilizing. So if the if the if the
high fee, the microsio of the my celium soil is
(39:40):
going out and grabbing the nutrients for you for the
plants and they're bringing them in. Now, what what does
the plants feed on? They need they need certain nutrients
to feed on, and so we use uh you know
once again, the the my cilium base. It is a
(40:02):
I don't want to say products with you because I'm
not sure.
Speaker 2 (40:04):
What you know.
Speaker 5 (40:05):
But okay, well you know there's a product called you know,
pro mix b X which has a my cilium base
to it, which is we use it, okay, But I
also I also I have a very big background in
another area, which is carbon graphite, and I know about
carbon pretty well. And there's a there's a a anaerobic
(40:31):
way of heating up wood or organic materials that make
something called biochart now bio biochart.
Speaker 1 (40:39):
And and just so you know, we've got about two
minutes to go, so we're gonna okay.
Speaker 5 (40:44):
So I try to leave a storage. Uh I try
to uh put in the earth something that is regenerative.
So biochart, if it's charged, will keep your regenerate the
nutrients in your garden for one hundred years. Basically, we
also use something you know, we use our salth our
(41:06):
salfa like but you organic alfalfa pellets, but you feed
horses basically because of nitrogen in there. And we use
wood ash for a kind of a stimulant and also
you know for other reasons, and we for some reason,
the all like seafood. So you know, it's funny, it's
(41:29):
a you know, so that there are mixes with seafood, seaweed, shells, kelp.
And then okay, so we use that when we first
plant like next, like I'm planting tomorrow actually and I
planted a couple of days ago because I'm planting two
thousand heads. All right, so it's so, you know, fish
(41:49):
e motion when the when the plants emerge, fishing motion
is a very good thing to add to it.
Speaker 1 (41:55):
All right, we're and we're running out of time, and
I tell you what I wanted to hell, everybody, go
to the website earthlifter dot com. You'll learn about the tool.
You'll learn all about this because he's written all of
this out for you to follow along as far as
all the great things that he does. And if you've
got questions, you can email them, do whatever. He'll help
you out as much as possible. Neil, Mister Neil, thank
(42:16):
you so much for spending time with us. You you
are mister garlic. Can we really appreciate it?
Speaker 5 (42:21):
Well? Well, you being you being in the garden, you're
doing a great service. Also, people should be outside.
Speaker 1 (42:27):
All right, there you go, Neil beblolacua and then check
it out again. It's Earthlifter dot com Quick break. We
come back taking your calls at eight hundred eight two
three eight two five five Here in the garden with
Ron Wilson, Green.
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Speaker 2 (01:47):
Good morning, Hey, good morning, Ron. How are you.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
Appreciate you getting up so early Greg to talk to
us this morning? Are you an Illinois this morning?
Speaker 2 (01:57):
I am sitting here in central Illinois and you're you're correct,
it's a little early, Sun's not up, but I'm okay
getting up early today because I think fall may actually
arrive in Illinois to day with our first rain in
about six or seven weeks.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
Oh good, Yeah, we're getting one tonight, so I guess
we're getting it after you guys get it. That's gonna
show up here later on. And you're were the same way.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
Man.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
We need it big time. So yes, it's kind of
tough digging unless you've got a power Planner.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
That is true. I mean, honestly, that was the most
well said snippet ever. So kudo's on that one. And
I mean that's what we do. We've been doing this
since my grandfather started it in nineteen eighty eight, and
I mean it fits in anybody's cordless drill. I think
the key to it though, is the cordless drill part
of it just for safety because it's got a clutch,
(02:44):
so if you hit something underground, it's gonna stop spinning.
But other than that, your efficiency is gonna go through
the roof compared to any of those little hand contraptions.
And I always like to say we slice the ground
rather than shopping at it. So the easy comparison is
is we like to sliced cheese or would like to
slice the potato. We don't sit there and you know,
just stab it to death. And in augur is the
(03:07):
same thing. Whereas a shovel you're literally just jabbing as
hard as you can into the ground and hoping for
great results, which is just painful and takes forever.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
Oh yeah, so real quick. So folks understand, of course
us made third generation. Why was Grandpa making these augurs.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
Well it's a kind of a long story, but I'll
give you a short version. So Grandpa was making august
since nineteen sixty for farmers to actually move material like
corn and fertilizer and things like that. And a gentleman
at the local university, the University of Illinois, approached him
because he had just a boatload of tulips to put
in the ground around campus and said, Wayne, everybody says
that you're the local auger guy, why can't we do something,
(03:47):
you know, to make my life easier and move some
soil up and out of the ground. And so Grandpa
went to work and voila power planner was born, and
Grandpa ran it kind of word of mouth. I came
back and took over in twenty thirteen, and since then
we've we've added different models we've made. We've got our
(04:08):
standard stuff. We've also made heavy duty models now for
landscapers or the homeowner that has incredibly tough soil or
clay or rocky stuff to be able to handle that
abrasion and abuse. And so to your point, we just
kind of keep creating and everything's based on a solution
for whatever somebody's need is. Really as of late, we
(04:29):
got as of late, we got into some landscapers and
homeowners might like this too. We got into some anchor
systems as well. So we all love. In the fall,
we go to you know, put some leaves on the tarp,
and the tart blows away. When we get it half full,
you know, we get to start all over again. So
we've got some anchoring systems that are basically augurs that
screw right into the ground and they're reusable. We're using
(04:51):
for trees to stake trees all the time now and
things like that as well. So we kind of keep
evolving and coming up with new stuff wherever the need.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
Or yeah, I can't. You know, when you and I
first talked to me, have been twenty thirteen or so, uh,
talking about power planners when they really were starting to
come onto the market. You know, you had a nice
selection of power planners, but of course today it's just
grown unbelievable how many different sizes and types that you have.
And I think the thing. You know, a lot of
folks go into local independent garden centers and they've always
had garden augers in there. You know, they've always been around,
(05:22):
no big you know, it's always been there, but uh,
never held up. You know, you buy one of those
things and it just thought you well, you'd bend it
easily if you hit a route or something, you know,
it would bend it easily. And this power, these power augers,
and it come in all different sizes. We'll talk about that,
but I think that's the unique thing about this is
that they're eight you were able to still put them
on your hand drill heavy duty drill, and you guys
(05:45):
get into that as well. But when you hit something,
that thing hangs in there with you. You're not gonna
You're not gonna ruin your power planner.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
Yeah, yeah, I mean we make the augers and kudos
to Granpa for this one. We make them to be
a generational tool. It's great for the owner of our
power planners. It's not so good for business other than
I can honestly say that, hey, it's gonna last a lifetime,
but it's not a loaf of bread that you're going
to go through two or three or four like some
(06:15):
of those other ones that you know you might see
it somewhere else. And so that combined with the drill
and safety, and you really do have kind of a
tool of the old school yesteryear mentality, which is pretty
unheard of. It's really unheard of. You can still say
it's made in the United States, and it's fun for
(06:38):
my staff and myself. We absolutely love when people call
in with questions because I'll be honest. You can get
on our website and it's a fantastic website outstanding, but
we have just so many options. You know, whether you
want a two inch hole, an eight inch hole, a
nine inch hole, or you want seven inches of length
or fifty four inches of length plus extensions available. So
(07:00):
we love to talk to people and help and so,
I mean our phone this time of year is rather busy,
but we actually love it. You don't have to call
and hit one or two or five or anything else.
It's just it rings in the human answers. So we
really do run pretty old school. We always have we
probably always will to be.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
Honest, and you'll again you'll find them in many locations,
but you'll find a lot of your locally owned independent
garden centers as well. You can go to the websites
outstanding website. You guys, just keep updating this thing all
the time powerplanter dot com and learn more about it.
You'll see all the different sizes, and again it can
be a little confusing if you see their displays in
the garden centers or wherever you may see the power Planter.
(07:42):
I'm usually as in a nice assortment, but there are
so many different sizes. Besides what's available in those display units,
you need to check it out, and of course, as
Greg said, they're there to help you out as far
as choosing which one that you want to or need
to use for whatever the project may be. So you know,
over the years, so the first time we talked, you know,
the number of sizes and types of augers that you
(08:04):
have has quadrupled. I would say, in selection, how do
you choose? What makes you determine that you need this
style or this new type of aug or different size
or whatever. What's helped to determine which direction you've gone
with these?
Speaker 2 (08:22):
You know, it really is need in a solution for
the end user. I think the perfect example or examples
is the heavy duty variations of some of the larger styles,
like the four inch through nine inch diameters. We started
having some customers on the East Coast and the Carolina
is that their red clay has literally made, you know,
(08:42):
and it makes bricks, and you know, some of those
comments came back that hey, we're having some issues and
things like that. So we went to work and figured
out some solutions and sent some samples out and they're like,
holy smokes, this is a ticket. So it was all
out of need. The two inch by fifty four inch
came out of need from a company that does soil
(09:04):
moisture probes in the agriculture world. They needed a way
to put these moisture probes into farmers fields. But then
at the same time, I happen to have one at
a show and a landscaper looked at and he goes,
you know, he goes, I don't know what you're supposed
to use that for. He says, I could really use
that to bore for irrigation and lighting underneath my customer sidewalks.
(09:25):
And I was like, yeah, you could absolutely lay that
thing on its side and instead of pounding a steel
rod underneath the sidewalk or whatever you're normally doing, now, yeah,
you could absolutely just drill a hole and then run
your line or your PBC. So, I mean that's kind
of the evolution of how things come about is generally
a phone call or two, or an inquiry or two,
(09:47):
and then just to look like does this actually meet
you know, more than one person's need, And oftentimes it does,
and it just takes somebody, you know, to pick up
the phone and call or send an email and say, hey,
I think this would be really cool or this really
helps me out. Then from there the rest is kind
of history.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
Yeah, unbelievable. It's again great product. Go to their webs
So we're gonna take a break. Uh, we're gonna find
out what can you put these on your regular home drills? Absolutely,
but we're gonna learn more from Greg on how to
do that, what to use. Their website is Powerplanter dot com.
Be sure and check it out. And again, like I said,
you'll find these a lot of your locally owned independent
garden centers, hardware stores, et cetera, et cetera. Absolutely outstanding.
(10:28):
Maybe a little bit more expensive, but they are worth it.
And like you said, it's a one time that you
want you to buy them. It's gonna last your lifetime quick Greick.
We come back more with Greg Kneewold power Planter. Here
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Speaker 1 (13:16):
Welcome back here in the garden with Ron Wilson. We're
trying to get you to work smarter, not harder. It's
all about easy and if you want to make it
easier on yourself when it comes to planting, whether it's bulbs, annuals, perennials,
tree shrubs, whatever it may be. Have you considered using
a power planter. These are steel drill augers that do
an outstanding job. Can be attached to your drill or
(13:39):
more heavy duty drills if needed. As a matter of fact,
Greg Niewald from power Planter, you have some of these
that actually you don't have to bend over. They're standing
shafts and kind of stand up and drill at the
same time. So when you're doing a lot of ball
planting doesn't hurt you back.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
Yeah. Absolutely, we I mean, if you're gonna go out
and do a bunch of bulbs. I'm six foot two,
so I really like the one that's thirty six inches long.
I think the easiest rule of thumb when you're figuring
out height, because we offer when you get to that
conversation of I don't want to crawl around, we have
a seven inch of twelve inch, and then we jump
to twenty four, then thirty, then thirty six, and then
(14:20):
forty eight. So here the easy rule of thumb is
for folks is if you're at seven inches or twelve,
you're gonna crawl around. However, the standard kitchen table is
thirty inches tall. So if you stand at your kitchen
table and you put your hand about I don't know,
three four inches above it, that would be your starting
height at say the thirty inch ogger. If you go
(14:42):
below it, then you're at say the twenty four. So
people always we get lots of calls about that exact topic.
How long should I get? And the simple rule of
thumb is just go stand next to your kitchen table
and if that is a comfortable standing height to go
to start at for drilling holes, then get a thirty inch.
If you want a little bit higher, then do like
a thirty six. I tell tons of people don't do
(15:06):
forty eight inches long. I mean I'm six foot two
and thirty six is perfect for me. You know, forty
eight inches is going to be the middle of my
chest or close to it, right, So yeah, I mean
any size you know really help people. My own mother
has had seven or eight back surgeries and neck surgeries
at this point, and her passion on five acres is gardening.
(15:30):
The only way she can garden now is with one
of our augers. She cannot. She am down on a
shovel and then you know, get up and down like
a twenty year old anymore. So the only way she
can do it is to stand up, go drill tons
and tons of holes, and in some cases my own
kids go help her plant stuff. So you know, it
really is a solution for healthy folks as well as
(15:52):
people with ailments that just want to get back out
in the garden and do stuff well.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
Absolutly agree to one hundred percent. Again, it's called power planters.
Go to website powerplanter dot com. Now I'm assuming folks
are listening to. Okay, so I've got a my dwault
drill or whatever out in the garage. Will that work
on my cordless dualult drill?
Speaker 2 (16:13):
So the short answer is yes, our augers work with
any I don't care what color or flavor of drill
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Oh absolutely, But I guess you know again, I think
it's interesting you tied in with them and make it
really easy. It's a one time, one stop shop if
you're interested in doing this. Again, it's powerplanter dot com.
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Another topic. We'll talk about this may as we get
close to the spring. But I noticed you had on
your website you are now you know, the plant supports
(18:20):
and all that doing the spirals and the twisters. I
saw those at the trade show. I thought those were
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your website, so folks want to check that out as well.
But again it's powerplanter dot com. Powerplanter dot com. Greg
Kneewald always a pleasure man. You guys have just exploded
and you made our gardening a lot easier.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
Yeah, thank you, Ron, I really appreciate it. Thanks to
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it's a powerplanter, and they, like I said, there may
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Once you buy them, you got them. They're not gonna
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if you get confused about it, just give them a call.
(19:16):
They'll help walk you through. And of course you'll see
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garden centers, some of the hardwares and all, and they'll
tell you about that on their website as well. But
if you want to work smarter in your garden, like
you said with his moms, you can go through with
these augers and just joe holes for anything small annuals, perennials.
You got a two gallon nursery plant, you're gonna plant,
Take that auger and just drill about seven times in
(19:38):
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it out powerplanter dot com. Is powerplanner dot com Coming
up next, we're gonna talk about garlic. Now's the time
to plant garlic. Which ones do you plant? How do
you plan it? How do you harvest it? Why is
there such a big thing about garlic? Is it really
(19:58):
that good for you? We're gonna find out. Neil Bevilaqua
is going to join us. He knows more about garlic
than garlic knows about garlic. Here in the Garden with
Ron Wilson.
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Speaker 1 (22:02):
Welcome back here in the garden with Ron Wilson. A
couple of years ago. And in course, you know, we
talk about trying to make gardening easier, right, Uh, you know,
work smarter, not harder when we're out in the gardens
and uh and and we try to find tools and
things that make it easier for all of us. And
a couple of years ago at the SINS show up
in the or the Cultivate show up in Columbus, Ohio,
(22:23):
I saw a tool there with a young man and
was demonstrating the tool. I thought was outstanding and it
was called the Earthlifter Tool. And so after I saw
that and kind of you know, saw the demonstration, got
one used it, loved it, and got hold this young
man to be on our show and talk to us
about how he developed the Earthlifter Tool. And our website
(22:44):
is earthlifter dot com. And everybody I know that has
bought an Earthlifter Tool has absolutely loved it and thanked
me for pointing him in that direction. But since then,
I've gotten to know this gentleman a little bit better.
And this guy knows more about garlic and the benefits
of garlic and staying healthy then garlic knows about garlic.
(23:09):
So I want to make sure I mentioned the Earthlifter
Tool because it's that's what got us started. And trust me,
if you're looking for something to make it easier for
you in the garden, check it out. It's earthlifter dot com.
But today we're going to talk about one of the
things he loves. He and his wife love to grow.
As a matter of fact, he says, garlic may be
the most magnificent gift you can give yourself when you
(23:31):
can consider choosing one plant embodying the essence of what
a gift truly is who is that gentleman? Is mister
Neil Bevla Aqua. I've been trying to practice that all week.
You know, last time I just called you mister Bevl
because it's a lot easier. But bevlo Aqua and Neil.
Great to have you on the show this morning.
Speaker 2 (23:52):
Good morning, Ryan, thank you.
Speaker 5 (23:54):
Please call MEO. All Okay, So you mentioned a couple
of things that are really interesting and my my main
let's say, uh uh desire in life is for health.
And so when I tried to understand many years ago,
(24:17):
let's let's let's go back. I'm a little older than
you think I am. So I've been studying basically psychology
for I go before they years.
Speaker 2 (24:29):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (24:30):
And one of the things that I've done is I've
been a research scientist for eleven years and I've been
studying actually neuro transmitted brain psychology, you know, bring chemical psychology.
And so that that led me to understand, uh, you know, depression.
(24:52):
I studied depression actually, and when I studied depression, you know,
the main drug or chemical that people us to study
it is serotonin. So when I looked at the serotonin,
I find out that it is made in the gut biomes.
So then I studied about the gut biome and that
(25:15):
it just opened up the whole world. It's basically everything,
everything that goes on in your body, every chemical, the hormone,
every transmitter, everything comes out of your gut biome. So
then I said to myself, well, wow, this is this
is the center. They call it the second brain in
psychology because it tells the brain, or tells the body
(25:39):
what it needs and then it produces it. So think
about the biome, the gut biome as parallel to your soil,
to your to your you know, to the you know,
the the medium that you grow things in. Okay, So
the idea that everything that goes on in your bio
(26:00):
he kind of comes out of your gut biome. So
you have twenty seven hundred and three thousand different little
microbes it's called micro biota growing there and they control
you know, your your your your sugar levels, your heart rate, everything.
So I wanted to find out, well, if this is
(26:23):
the garden that's in our body, what is the best
fertilizer for that garden let's call the garden. And so
then I looked into all the different you know inputs.
Speaker 2 (26:36):
You know.
Speaker 5 (26:36):
You know, you can eat kail, you can eat you know, crimini, mushrooms,
you can you know, all these different things. Then then
I say, well, what is the absolute best, most important.
It's called the pre biotic. Okay. A pre biotic is
think about it as a fertilizer for the probiotics you
always hear about, you know, yogurts and probiotics, but a
(26:58):
prebiotic is considered think of it as a fertilizer. So
there I went on a great search for many years
to figure out how do you make the best gallic
in the world, which is you know, obviously kind of
a fool as Ian, but I do think I make things.
(27:19):
I try things, so so basically that's that's kind of
the beginning point here. Okay. So so I don't want
to like, we have only a certain period of time
and this is your show. I want you to ask me,
interrupt me, whatever you want to call it, you know,
whenever you want anything.
Speaker 1 (27:37):
I have to tell you. Last week we were at
my daughters and they ordered up a couple of pizzas
from a local pizza place and they're they're known for
the great pizzas. But anyway, one of their ingredients that
they add to pizza is a thin sliced garlic clothes.
So they took their they took their garlic clothes and
actually slice them so they were about eighth of an
inch thick, and then put those as a opping on
(28:00):
the pizza. It was outstanding and I felt better, I
think after I ate that thing. But I thought I
thought of you the whole time, because I mean this garlic, saying, oh, mister,
mister Bevilaca would love this pizza because all the garlic
one there. But you know, it was a great flavor.
And of course garlic is you know, coming on so
strong now and we're all realizing it. And of course
(28:21):
learning more from you about the importance of garlic in
our in our health and what it can do. But
I think the thing and and and and again. Folks
can learn more about all of this on his website
at earthlifter dot com. Not only you've learned about the tool,
but go to his blog and all this is He's
written all this out for you. It's amazing to read
(28:41):
all of what what mister Neil has done here. Uh
as far as the research, but I kind of wanted
to get you on today also not only to promote
this the benefits, but also you're such an experienced garlic
grower and right now is a great time for planting garlic.
Garlic one of the best times to kind of pick
your brain as far as and I think think you
told me you and your wife have grown over forty
(29:02):
cultivars of garlic out there, which I had no idea
there were so many out there. But kind of give
us some pointers, because you're very successful at growing garlic.
Kind of give us some pointers on which ones you
like the best. I think you're mostly a hard neck, uh,
a guardic girl. So I'd like to if we could
share some of some of your tips on how to
(29:25):
grow garlic uh successfully.
Speaker 5 (29:28):
Okay, Okay, so we'll we'll do that and if we
can in a let's let's call it in a sequence,
because what what you have to first understand is that
garlic is extremely unique plant. Let's call it the plants.
It's it's actually a plant. Uh So in the world
(29:50):
of glics is what's called soft neck and hot neck.
All right. Soft neck is the stuff you get into
soup in supermarkets and like about seventy five percent or
so it's actually grown in China, and it's it's kind
of grown under dubious conditions. We you know, they use
fertilizers that we wouldn't use the United States, right, And
(30:13):
but what it is is it's it's a lot of
tiny clothes. So a head of soft gallogs will have
a fifteen twenty little little clothes. And the taste is
not very good to me or to many people. I
have a very very high level gourmands and chefs and
(30:37):
you know, very and you know, my my, I don't
be bragging or anything, but the stuff that I grow
is much more nutritious and delicious for various reasons. Kind
of let me start off. You asked about how it grows.
So one of the things that people don't understand or
(30:59):
you know, people know some devices is that galic has
very very short roots, and gallic evolved to be seven
biotic with something called my celium or micorizial soil. So
basically they have a partnership. And what that means is
(31:20):
that when you establish a bed, it has all these
filaments they're called hyphene that extend like you know, tens
of twenty feet away from the actual plant and they
have this relationship that the gallic gets photosynthesis, makes a sugar,
(31:42):
puts it, brings it down to its roots, and then
the mycilium brings minerals and water and nutrients to the
roots and they exchange it. So some plants, other plants
do that, but not like galic. Galic is it has
like sixteen twelve roots and so, but it has a
(32:03):
very feet of let's say friends that that supply it
with with minerals and nutrients. So that's that's one thing
why golic has. It has one hundred and thirty salt
of compounds. It has numerous minerals and many nutrients within it,
(32:24):
and it's evolved to be a a sink for all
the nutrients around it. So the garlic itself is uh
is full of nutrients. Now one of the things that
when you said you had on pizza, sliced on pizza.
(32:44):
One of the other unique aspects about gog. If you
take a clove of gallic and you smell it, just
just just take it off and smell it. You will
smell anything if you eat it. If you eat it,
just throw down your throat. You won't get any nutrients
or anything out of it. The unique part about gold
(33:07):
is that it evolved or somehow the chemical say expression
is this thing called alison. Alison is called that is
the healthy is everything basically and how it's made. Think
of epoxy. If you have two components of epoxy and
(33:30):
you haven't sitting next to each other, they won't do anything.
It's it's not blue. But if you mix them together
then and then you wait. So glic has two sizes
of cell that when crushed, sliced or somehow mashed together
and you have to wait. You have to wait ten
(33:52):
to fifteen minutes. Then the it's called the epoxy becomes
or the you know, the chemical becomes allison. That is
the healthy, nutritious. That that's everything about glic. So people
should know that, I mean your your your your kids,
your guests should know that when you make when you
(34:14):
have glic, you should always crush it or slice it
up somehow and then wait. You have to wait, and
then then you have real glic. That's the real that's
the real trick.
Speaker 1 (34:28):
All right, we got to take a quick break. We're
going to come back. We'll learn more about growing garlic.
Well when we come back, I want to know what
you use in your soil mix. What kind of a
base do you use for growing your garlic. We'll take
a quick break. We'll come back more with mister Neil
talking about garlic and the website is earthlifter dot com.
Be sure and check it out. You'll learn more about
the tool and garlic as well. Here in the garden
(34:49):
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Speaker 1 (36:29):
Welcome back. You're in the garden with Ron Wilson. Special
guest this morning is mister Garlic Neil Bevilaqua, and of
course he is the inventor of the earthlifter tool check
it out earthlifter dot com. But you'll also learn an
awful lot about the benefits of growing garlic, and now's
the time to plant garlic. This is a great October,
is a great month for planning in your gardens, raised beds, containers,
(36:51):
whatever it may be. So we're talking to them. One
is about the many benefits, which we kind of know,
but this guy really knows the benefits of garlic. And
then what are the secrets because he grows so many
different types and is so successful. What some of the tips,
mister Neil for your success in growing garlic?
Speaker 5 (37:11):
All right, so just to just to kind of just
not to correct you, but I actually grow grew fifty
seven fifty seven different varieties. There you go over the
over thirty five years. Now, I have tried many, many
different ways and different types. Now there's eleven main main
types of hard neck. I grow hard neck because they're
(37:31):
more delicious and they are one. They're they're, they're, they're wonderful.
But of the eleven types, I only grow four, uh,
and actually five because of my climate. Now, everyone, your audience,
I'm not sure how how how far south and how
far north right? But I'm in a rough area. I'm
(37:53):
in upstate New York mountains. You know, a couple of
thousand feet up in the air. So my climate, uh uh,
certain ones, certain types, certain families that are actually called
uh you know, purple stripe, you know, porcelain, rock and boli.
Certain families grow best in my climates. So let's start
(38:16):
from the beginning. If you asked about how if you
have a perfect world, I see, I try to think
of extremes. So in a perfect world, if you were to,
let's say, uh, inoculate the bed with my celium. Now
my celium is uh, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's basically
(38:36):
what the uh the substrate is for mushrooms. It's basically
it's the stuff that lives in the earth, and it's
just like in our gut biome, we have all these microbes.
So your soil has all kinds of microbes also. So
you're talking about doing it the easy way. I'm trying to,
(38:59):
uh do everything the easy way, because if you do
it not easy, you do it the way that it's
not onerous or not difficult. This is why, this is
why I invented that tool, because I couldn't uh you know,
Uh it's for people who have you know, uh, strength problems,
or age problems, or or just any kind of problems.
(39:19):
It makes it easier. So in terms of the soil,
I'm we've been trying to figure a way of you
know you've heard about regenitive agriculture. Well, this is kind
of regenerative fertilizing. So if the if the if the
high fee, the microsio of the my celium soil is
(39:40):
going out and grabbing the nutrients for you for the
plants and they're bringing them in. Now, what what does
the plants feed on? They need they need certain nutrients
to feed on, and so we use uh you know
once again, the the my cilium base. It is a
(40:02):
I don't want to say products with you because I'm
not sure.
Speaker 2 (40:04):
What you know.
Speaker 5 (40:05):
But okay, well you know there's a product called you know,
pro mix b X which has a my cilium base
to it, which is we use it, okay, But I
also I also I have a very big background in
another area, which is carbon graphite, and I know about
carbon pretty well. And there's a there's a a anaerobic
(40:31):
way of heating up wood or organic materials that make
something called biochart now bio biochart.
Speaker 1 (40:39):
And and just so you know, we've got about two
minutes to go, so we're gonna okay.
Speaker 5 (40:44):
So I try to leave a storage. Uh I try
to uh put in the earth something that is regenerative.
So biochart, if it's charged, will keep your regenerate the
nutrients in your garden for one hundred years. Basically, we
also use something you know, we use our salth our
(41:06):
salfa like but you organic alfalfa pellets, but you feed
horses basically because of nitrogen in there. And we use
wood ash for a kind of a stimulant and also
you know for other reasons, and we for some reason,
the all like seafood. So you know, it's funny, it's
(41:29):
a you know, so that there are mixes with seafood, seaweed, shells, kelp.
And then okay, so we use that when we first
plant like next, like I'm planting tomorrow actually and I
planted a couple of days ago because I'm planting two
thousand heads. All right, so it's so, you know, fish
(41:49):
e motion when the when the plants emerge, fishing motion
is a very good thing to add to it.
Speaker 1 (41:55):
All right, we're and we're running out of time, and
I tell you what I wanted to hell, everybody, go
to the website earthlifter dot com. You'll learn about the tool.
You'll learn all about this because he's written all of
this out for you to follow along as far as
all the great things that he does. And if you've
got questions, you can email them, do whatever. He'll help
you out as much as possible. Neil, Mister Neil, thank
(42:16):
you so much for spending time with us. You you
are mister garlic. Can we really appreciate it?
Speaker 5 (42:21):
Well? Well, you being you being in the garden, you're
doing a great service. Also, people should be outside.
Speaker 1 (42:27):
All right, there you go, Neil beblolacua and then check
it out again. It's Earthlifter dot com Quick break. We
come back taking your calls at eight hundred eight two
three eight two five five Here in the garden with
Ron Wilson, Green.
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