Ron Wilson 11/11/2023 Hour 3

Ron takes your calls and questions. We also wrap up the show getting home improvement advice from Gary Sullivan

Episode Transcript

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Good morning everybody. Welcome back.I'm Ron Wilson. You're in the garden
and if you'd like to join us, love to have you. Here is
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five five. Good morning. Iam Ron Wilson. I am your personal
yard boy. We are talking aboutyardening, moving our way on through this

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month of November. Can you believeit? Twelve days till Thanksgiving? Yikes?
And then uh and I love it. Thanksgiving my probably my favorite holiday
of all the holidays, because youjust you know what, you get everything
put together. You just chill out, eat and relax, right I can't
ask for more than that. Andthen, of course, forty four days
until Christmas. Point being is thisstill plenty of time to get out there

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and plant, Still time to getout there, work in the yard and
garden, still time to get thingsdone. As we get into the holidays
makes it a lot tougher. Solet's concentrate on getting things done this week.
Hey, the weather's going to begreat in our area this week.
I don't know about yours, butlooks warm and sunny. I don't see
much as far as rainfall in thatforecast. And if you're not getting it

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and you've got a dry fall goingon right now in your area, folks,
let me tell you you've got towater. You have got to water,
all right. That's the bottom line, and especially those evergreens. And
I put that like I said earlierin capital letters. You got to do
it. So keep that in mind. Check your watering. You know how
much you've gotten, how much youhaven't gotten, et cetera, et cetera,

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and then take it from there asfar as watering. But I'm telling
you, chances are your plants aredry, and if they're newly planted,
whether they are established plants, whateverit may be, they need to be
watered. That's a bottom line.And we learned our less than last fall.
We've learned our lesson in the past. But when we got hit with
that long dry fall, plus thatcold blast that came through, our plants,

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especially the evergreens that were stressed becauseof the drought, took a major
hit. We know it. Wesaw areas that were well irrigated did not
take the hit like they did inother areas where it was very dry.
It's a proven fact. Again,you need to keep watering if you're not
getting good rainfall in your area.And I think the thing to remember about

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this is this, if you soakedeverything this weekend, really really soaked it
well. With the cooler temperatures andthe cooler nighttime temperatures, it doesn't dry
out as quickly. Plus the plantsare shutting down, they don't take up
quite as much moisture, so they'retaking it up, especially the evergreens,

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but not quite as much. Soit stays a little bit more moist in
the soil a little bit longer.You might be able to pull off three
more good soakings before the holidays,maybe four, but at least three that's
not that much. That's all we'reasking. That's all your plants are asking,
very very important. As a matterof fact, I've i will suggest
on newly newly newly planted evergreens thatyou get into January and February. If

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it's a dry January February, I'llgo out with a five gallon bucket of
water. Highly suggest that fill thatthing up on a day above freezing and
pour that right down the middle ofthat plant so it goes into the root
ball. So they've got good moisturegoing through the January and February as well.
So again keep it in mind.Please, it is dry out there.
Your plants are thirsty. You needto join them for a drink.
The other thing I want to mentionis looking at lawns right now, you've

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got to keep mowing. With thiswarmer daytime temperatures. The grass is still
growing, it's amazing. Keep mowing, and as the leaves continue to fall,
keep mowing those back into the turf. You may be mowing twice a
week, once for the turf andonce or twice for the leaves to get
them ground up and put back intothe turf as well. But keep going
once you're finished, once you've gottento a point where the grass just isn't

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growing anymore, and you can tell, and the temperatures are cool down enough
the grass has really stopped, andthen you can stop your mowing and don't
worry about going down to half anotch or something and that last bowing to
compensate. Just keep bowing until itstops growing, and then you're good to
go and for cool season turf.As far as that final feeding, you're

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there, I mean, anytime overthe next couple weeks would be would be
fine to give it that last finalfeeding. As the lawn is really slowing
down, not growing a whole lot, that's when we try to hit it
with that. But the temperatures arestill good, the soil temperature is still
forty ish, and they are inour area. Be sure and check that
out also, because I think thatkind of fools people sometimes. I think

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I looked at it this morning andwe were running about forty two degrees forty
four, but it's been in themid fifties. Obviously, the frost overnight
brought it back down a little bit, running in the mid fifties. So
again, feeding if you haven't fedthat lawn that second time. We're getting
to that point now, cool seasonlawns. To get that fertilizer down.

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If you're up in zones northern,Zone five northern and then in the zone
four, you want to get itdown soon as you can. But otherwise
we're right at that point. Yougot a couple of weeks here to work
with it. Eight hundred eight twothree eight two five five. Don't forget
our blog. It's Ron Wilson onlinedot com Facebook page. In the garden
with Ron Wilson to Glenn. Yeah, Glendale would go David, good morning,

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Hey Ron, how you Yeah,I'm great in yourself, all right.
I just learned more about onions thanI ever knew. I learned from
that man every time we talk tohim. I learn more from Bruce Frasier
than ever he knows. Obviously heknows his onions. Yeah. Well,
I'm a simpulton, Okay. Igo down to the produce store and buy

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the balls and they're yellow, redand white, yep, And I put
them in the but they never getany bigger than the size of a golf
ball. Is there any way Ican get bigger onions in this part of
the country. Well, you knowthat's where we sometimes sometimes you find them

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and they aren't sold by variety,so we're not sure if they're a long
day, short day or a midday you know, mid length day length
onion set. And so that's whysometimes if you can't find out exactly what
the variety is, so you canlook to see, like Bruce was talking
about earlier, you maybe and Iget I say, support your local independent

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garden centers and produce and all,I'm with it one hundred percent, but
you know, you do want tomake sure and if you're serious about growing
a larger slicing onion, then takea look at go seriously get their catalog.
You can download it and print itout or just read it on the
on the website. Look at thevarieties that they grow and see if you
can find those exact varieties in thearea or what you were buying is labeled

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as you know, mid mid daymid length growing onions, so that you
know they're good for our area,so that you know that they will size
up for you. And then,like he was saying, you know there's
other things involved too. Obviously youwant you know, good tilled soil,
good and loose soil. The feedingearly on with that higher phosphorus and potash
fertilizer important than that one shot ofnitrogen. And then once the you know,

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you get to that longest day,you don't fertilize anymore. It's all
moisture levels from that point out,keeping good even moisture levels to create that
larger bulb. And Dave, Idon't know if you caught what he said
there, but an ideal slicing onionbulb, and that's a pretty good sized
bulb is thirteen leaves, and it'salmost he even admitted it's almost impossible to

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do. But if you can dothat, you hit the ultimate. Every
leaf correlates with another layer of theonion down below, So if you can
get to thirteen, that's the ultimate. But bottom line to your question is
so many times they're just sold asa generic onion, right, you don't
know? And so I think mostpeople buy those, grow them on as

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a green onion, harvest them asa green onion. If they keep them
in the ground, they may getsomething that's the size of a golf ball
or a small apple. And that'sabout it. But if you really get
into it, you need to lookat specific varieties and make sure they're for
our area. Yeah. I kindof took away from it that they do
like a lot of sunshine. Yeah, you know, rude crops can tolerate

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a little bit more or less sunlightthan vegetables that produce something above ground or
fruit or whatever. But they butagain, the more sun that warmer soil,
the better off you're going to be. All right, man, thanks
for taking my call, David,my pleasure. Good talking with you and
Paul and Wadsworth. I just wantto tell you something. I went past
your exit last week. I knowyou did. I was, so you

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should have heard me. It's agood thing you couldn't hear me when you're
telling me. Yeah, we were. We went to Layman's that No,
you went somewhere else real close.So you want to stand you at Hall
you were like ten minutes from myhouse. Well, oh my gosh,
you had you had lots of snowon the ground. I do remember seeing
that I was dying. I waslike, I can't believe he was up
here and didn't come by and sayhi, that's all right. I remember

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the same thing happened when I wentdown to Cincinnati and you were out there,
we go. Now we're now we'reeven uh oh my gosh, now
we're even. I'm out with McKennathis morning, right, McKenna, she's
putting the tiller in the garden here. We're getting ready to fill up the
garden. And we finally pulled allthe couple of plants out, and the
pumpkins are not even looking like pumpkinsanymore. Right, McKenna's is horrible.

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Yea. Anyway, Hey, whatdo you think? What are you and
Ron Roths think of this weather?Dude, I'm this is kind of crazy.
I mean, all my trips tallFisk, you came up at the
model up around the corner, andguys are building houses up appere like crazy,
and everybody's still working in planting andplantscapes. Yeah, there's no doubt
people are taking advantage of it.I don't have any problem with it.

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I wish it was cooler consistently.H You know, I I was surprised
when I was up there how manytrees were still green, you know,
that hadn't even started to turn fallcolor. The only thing that really concerns
me and I, you know,again, we don't we can't do anything
about it. But if by chance, the same thing happens like it did
last year, where it stays itstays warm late and it stays dry late,

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and if all of a sudden thebottom falls out, you know,
it's uh plants. Its plants canbe subject to some damages again, so
we can't do anything about it besideswatering. So you just stick with it
and go. But I do,I do want to tell you. We
had a we had a good timeand it was uh we were actually Geneva
on the lake. Yeah. No, we just went up to hang out

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and it was utiful. It's beautifulup here. We like your Cincinnati down
there too, And I'm going tovisit your zoo and I'll do that and
I'll come bring the girls buy andwe'll see you at a torps or something.
But uh, we'll figure out.I forgot a way to get together.
Fine, Well, sounds sounds good. And I love having getting those
kids involved with gardening. You're doinga good job. Oh she's out here
now, she's helping me up atthe nurse shoe. We're trying. I'm

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running that same problem, like Isaid, with a darn deer that I
looked and they're all their tracks arearound my green giant arbor bidies. And
I said to myself, I can'tput these young emeralds up there. They're
gonna chew the heck out of thesethings. Yeah, they gotta get a
friends. The green giants. Wedon't seem to for some reason, don't
seem to have as much problem withthose, but they do on the other
one. So be cautious. Hey, we got to go. Appreciate the

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call. All right, I appreciateit. We'll take a quick break.
Betty, you're coming up next.Phone lines are over for you at eight
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eight hundred eight two three eight twofive five to date in Ohio, we
go. Betty, good morning,Good morning. I have a couple questions
about dahlias and cannas, just Nick. I have sum planet in hot and
I wonder am I better off tobring the pots in and put them in

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the garage or should I dig thebulbs out and let them dry and save
them. I would for the forthe daalia is, I would dig them
out, and I would clean themoff and then store them away in the
garage. Unless it's a heated garage, really doesn't work because they would freeze
out there, if you know,if it gets below freezing in your garage,

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So you'd be looking for a spotwhere it would be you know,
forty five degrees or so, fiftydegrees or so, cool and dark.
That's what you're looking for now.If you don't have a place like that,
you know, we used to havethe old basements and stuff. We
could use those. If you don't, what you might want to invest in
is one of those really inexpensive styrofoamcoolers, and you could put that in

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your garage and then you know,put shred of newspaper stuff around those dallas.
Hopefully that would keep them warm enoughto keep from freezing over the winter
time. But those I would Iwould spend more time with the cannas.
You know, you can basically pullcannons out of the ground, just kind
of dust them off a little bit, throw them in a bucket, and
I've done this before, put themin the basement again, cool and dark,
that's where they need to be,and just leave them sit in the

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bucket and pretty much come back withno problem the next year. They're pretty
darn tough, but you know,and I have I have seen folks leave
them in the container and put themagain in a in a cool area that
stays forty five fifty degrees so thatthey don't regrow. That's the important thing.
You don't want them growing inside.You want them to stay dormant,

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and you know, bring them backout in the springtime and fire them back
up again. I think the thingwhen you clean them off, you can
and storm away. That way youcan inspect them a little bit better.
If one starts to rot or whatever, you can pull it out and get
rid of it, Whereas if youjust have them in the pot and the
soil, you don't know what's goingon down there until you get to it
next spring. So either way wouldwork on the cannons, but I would

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I'd still pull them out of thepot and kind of clean them off and
storm them away with thread of newspaper, sawdust or something like that. Do
I need to let them dry anda little before I wrap them in paper?
Yeah, anything like that. Youwant to let them dry, no
other words, you want to givethem three or four or five days to
make sure they dried and kind ofcure it. On the outside a week

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is great. If you do gladiolas, you probably do them a couple of
weeks to make sure they're good anddry before you hang them up. But
yeah, I give them at leastfour or five seven days and make sure
to let them dry for sure,and then start them away with the Like
you said, wrapping them up innewspaper is great. And separate them out,
put them in a container and keepthem protected from freezing. But keep

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them cold enough that they don't tryto regrow. That's the important thing.
How much of the old stems shouldI leave on none? Take it right
off to the to the top ofthe dahl, the tuber or the cannon
tubers. Either way, you justtake them right off at the top of
that. Okay, alrighty, thanksso much. You're welcome. Good talking

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to you. As a matter offact, what's interesting, as I was
cleaning out, we're talking about theleather and the soil temperatures being so warm.
I was cleaning out cannons that Iuse them basically as a throwaway,
plant them in these raised planters.There's sewer pipes, is what they are,
old clay sewer pipes that I puton end at different levels, and
I use those as planters and theykind of need to get the color up
out of the off off the groundand up into your eye sight. But

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anyway, and they are real darkclay color, that glazed clay. And
I've done cannons in there for thelast three or four years, and I
just do them as a throwaway soI can use different varieties every year,
et cetera, et cetera. Iwas in there, They've all been frosted
and they were all brown on thetop and starting. You know, it
looked pretty bad. So I gotmy soil knife out last Sunday. If

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you don't have a soil knife,by yourself one for Christmas. But I
got out my soil knife and Iwas cutting around and getting them out of
the out of the and I realizedthat they were all starting to regrow.
We have had such warm temperatures thateven though the tops were dead and I
had cut the tops off, theywere starting to sprout back up. And
they literally these cannas had eight,ten, twelve shoots coming back up the

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sides of the pots where had warmedup. Because it's up out of the
ground absorbs that sun during the daytime, they had actually started to regrow and
sprout back up again, I'm thinking, and I went and tore them all
out, and after I got done, I should have just left one in
there just to see what would happen. But they were starting to come up
out of the soil in the container. And that gives you a good indication

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where we are as far as beingso warm so late into the season,
which is kind of crazy. Butagain, again, you never know about
plants, and that's one of thefun things about it. You learn something
new every day. Just like talkingwith Bruce Frasier from Dixondale Farms. Go
to their website Dixondale Farms dot comabout growing onions. I learned something from
that guy every time we talk withhim. All Right, we're going to

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take a quick break. We comeback. Carl, hang on, you're
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as we say thank you to allthe veterans for all of your service.
Today Sunny fifty three, Sunday Sundayfifty seven, Monday Sunday sixty two,
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Ron Wilson again that toll free numbereight hundred eight two three eight two five
five talking about yardening, and theyalways have fun talking about yarning. Back
to Ohio we go, car allgood morning. Hi. Got two quick
questions. One's on esclapia and theothers on hibiscus. On the esclapia.
We've we've really got a lot plannedto try to help them monarchs. But

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the problem I'm having with dysclapia isthese bright orange looking bugs, they just
they just get all over them inmass, on the stems and everything.
And then that kind of just justsends the plant south and it just wants
to wither up and turn brown.And then on my hibiscus, I'm getting
these really bright little lime green wormsand they really go to town on eating

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the plant. The funny thing ismy neighbor, just like maybe fifty yards
away, he doesn't even have thatproblem. I don't know if it's a
different hibiscus on that deal or whatthe problem is. I'm wondering what I
might be able to do to treatthese without, you know, using something
that's going to be detrimental to theto the plant and to the insects.
Sure. On the milk weed,the thing that's interesting about milkweed, all

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of the varieties the sweepies, isthat is that they are host to a
variety of insects, including butterflies andother pollinators, and one of which has
that orange coloring. There's two ofthem. There's a milkweed bug, and
there's a milkweed seed beetle. Itgoes after the seed pods. Now you'll
see them all up and down thestems, but they actually go after the

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seed pods themselves. And it reallydoesn't cause a lot of harm to the
to the butterfly weed or milk weed, but it does go after the seeds
and can if you're trying to getthem to reseed, can hurt that.
So and again you're right, youcan't spray for that without being cautious about
to take you spraying for the monarchsas well. So all you can do

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is either go through with your handsand swipe them off, you know,
and it does work swiping them off, or taking a garden hose and hosing
and knocking them off. And mostof the time when you do that,
they rarely find their way back ontothe plant again. So and I would
say, like a bunch of guysthat don't ask for directions and they're lost.
So doing both of those are naturalways to reduce them. But it's

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a pretty common thing. Insecticidal soapis probably one of the safest things you
could use on those plants. Shouldyou really need to spray and the thing
to do would be to spray thatlate in the evening so you know everything's
nothing's out, you know, hangingout on the plants, make sure there
aren't any larvae or anything on theplants. You could spray that with insecticidal

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soap in the evening. It'll bedry by in the morning and you're good
to go. But again, you'realways taking that risk, so it's blowing
them off with a garden hose orswiping them off with your hand. But
they are very very common. Asa matter of fact. Sometime Carl google
other plants on butterflyweed or milkweed andthey'll show you all the different things that

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love it. And if it's allkinds of things that totally enjoy being on
milkweed. And the question is whatdo you do? And again, physical
removal, swiping or hand hosing themoff about the only two answers without getting
involved with something like insecticidal soap,which we try not to do. Yeah,
we just want to make sure there'senough leaves for the monarchs to enjoy.

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Yeah, I'm really surprised that,you know, I don't know if
anybody else has noticed this. Say, we used to have like two hundred
floating around the yard. I'm likethree this year. You know what it
depends. It was in pockets.I saw some folks were saying, I
haven't seen hardly any monarchs where wenormally see a ton of them. Other
folks that, boy, we hadmonarchs like crazy in our nursery where we

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have a lot of butterfly weed,milk weed and other things growing there that
they love. We saw a fairamount. It's amazing how many came in
actually inside the greenhouses. I can'tsay that the populations were up and down,
but I thought we saw a fairamount. But I think you also
have to remember is that their avenueof travel can change, just with a
construction where you know, they getrid of a you know, a large

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area of property where they go northor south or east or west of that
property because it's not they don't havetheir native native plants there anymore, So
they change their avenue of travel.Sometimes that can affect them for a while
and actually change where they you know, where they're going up and down and
migrating from. So that can happen. But otherwise, population wise, I

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don't I haven't read anything yet thisyear as far as predictions if they thought
it was up or down. Itseemed to be kind of level over the
last couple of years. Be honestwith you, they thought they were seeing
quite a few in the United States. So you know, again, don't
give up on it. Keep doingwhat you're doing, and hopefully you'll see
them. Those avenues change to comeright right back around to you again.
And then on the hibiscus run,could those possibly be what they call cabbage

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worms? And what could I doabout that? Was there just really pretty
bright lime green little worms? Andboy, they just really devastate the leaves
on our hibiscus. Is this whichhibiscus is? Is the tropical, the
perennial or the rosa Sharon, Oh, I'm sorry, Yeah, it's a
perennial. Yeah, yeah, they'llget on Oh yeah, most definitely get
inch worms on there. You canget the cabbage loopers on there. I'm

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sure they would go after too latein the season. No, it's it's
kind of about after they've leased out, about three weeks after they leafed out,
that's when I start seeing them,okay, and they're on the underside.
Yeah, the thing you remember aboutthose leaf eaters, And again it
could be just. There are manydifferent types of benchworms and leaf eating caterpillars,

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but one of the safest and secticideswho uses BT capital B little TA
And it's all natural, all organic, and it's a it's a great thing
to use. And again the thingyou have to remember is spray the underside
of the leaf that way you andagain knocking them off physical removal still one
of the best ways to do it. Knocking them off with the garden hose

(28:33):
the same way. Once hit theground and their toast, they rarely make
it back to the plant. Butbe T is still one of your best
shots for any of those small leafeating caterpillars. It does a number on
them. Well, thank you foryour help. We really appreciate it.
All right, Carl, good talkingto you. And before we go to
the break, let's go to Alabama. Harold, Good morning. I got
a question. Did anybody take anyof the tomatoes at all? One little

(28:59):
girl in a couple of moms.I was going to say the parents would
probably take the cherry tomatoes. Yeah, yeah, they did. Well.
We talked about you last week offeringboth the I thought it was very nice
cherry tomatoes a candy. I thoughtIt was a great combination. I actually
had to call Gary a gas hima question about something and we talked about
that a little bit. But rolltied to you this morning. There you

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go? Yeah, really do youlet me? Do you think Jim Harball
is going to work in the yardtoday because he has nothing to do?
I don't know. Did? I'lltell you what the best? This whole
thing has been crazy. But didyou see the Purdue mascot with the Ohio
state zip up on? Yes?I did, Yes, I did.

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Taking the pictures. I thought thatwhoever that was has a great sense of
humor. They sure did. Thatwas funnier than heck, good, good,
Well, listen, you boys areplaying some good ball up there,
not bad hang hanging around in thathanging around in that top. I'm not
sure you're you know? Are they? Are? They a number one team?

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I don't know? But playing prettygood so far. We're gonna find
out, aren't we. You know? Think about here here in Alabama.
Your Harball wants to steal signal?Tell Alabama, we tell you what we're
gonna do. When you just runover, just do it anyway, can't
stop it? Hey, garden question, that's the proper pH pH level for

(30:23):
my blueberries. If you can getit anywhere close into the fives, you're
in good shape. Okay, andthat's tough. That's tough to do sometimes,
but yeah, if you get itdown in the fives, that's good.
Well. I've got a pH meetingand I just I planned it three
couple of weeks ago and just wantedto that came across my mind. This
Jim Harball and my blueberries. Theykind of go hand in hand. I

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guess. Huh. All right,man, listen, enjoy your Saturday and
in the roll time that can tellYeah, you could run down because Lexington
today, I could, I couldgo to I know you guys got wildcast
today. You better be careful.You never know. Eleven mins rockets and
then kite eleven o'clock. It's okay, buddy, all right, good talking
to you, right, take careKane. All right, got a quick

(31:10):
break. We come back. Sorryto all of our callers, I couldn't
get to you. If you've gota guardening question, email me all right,
and we always have that last minuterush. We try to get to
as many as we can. Emailme. Ron Wilson at aiheardmedia dot com
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Here on fifty five KRC, here'sour lineup. Nine o'clock Gary Sullivan for
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the Myth, the legend, themost listened to home improven show hosts in
the entire world, in the entireSolar system. His blog, Gary Sullivan
here, proud of me Danny hisblog. I am thanks Gary Sullivan online
dot com. Ladies and gentlemen,the one, the only, mister Gary
Sullivan. Good morning, mister Wilson. Mister Sullivan, my question to you

(33:47):
run off the bat. Yes,good morning. By the way, the
time change last Saturday night falling backwards. I have heard from several folks that
are older than me, said,you know is you'll you get the heart
of that is to make those adjustments. What are you? What have you
found? What have you found sofar? I I found that this time

(34:09):
change was the easiest time change I'veever went through. I did there was
no interruption in my fragile little life. Run how about you? You know
I naturally wake up at four,So now I'm naturally waking up at three.
Really yeah, and it's uh.I got to get and I'm hoping

(34:31):
I eventually get out of that.It's taking me a little bit long.
I use you a couple of days. I'm in because I like this.
This is where it should be allthe time in my in my opinion opinion,
I had like zero problem. Iusually get up at six. Last
Sunday, I got up at six. Huh and now the last few days

(34:51):
i've been getting up, there's stillabout six I have pretty much on par
It was didn't affect me. Well, it's good and not that it ever
affects me very bad. What doesn'tmean. But I've noticed this week it
just has taken me a little longerto get from that three to four o'clock
thing. But I'm glad you referencedthat I was older than you. I
didn't say that. You didn't haveto say that. I just said older

(35:15):
folks have told me that, andI was asking you how you were responding.
I didn't say you were older.You implied it. Okay, but
I guess I am not by muchthere. Right, let's see here.
Secondly, have the Sullivan's decided yet? Is it artificial or live? This

(35:40):
year? It's artificial. Ron Igot bad news for you, buddy.
I even gave my live Christmas treestand away. Oh, so we're done.
I think we're done. It's notevery other Well, the only thing
we might do is put a smalla real big tree. Yes, just

(36:02):
maybe over, maybe over. It'ssad, by the way, we're talking
about live versus artificial Christmas trees,right, And I do I do like
the cut Christmas. I know you, I know, and you've gone back
and forth and alternated every year andhad one of each some of the years,
and we still may have one ofeach, but it'll be the cut

(36:23):
one will be a much smaller one. How about that. That's that's well,
that's what we've done. Is thatright? Oh? Yeah? Ours
are four foot now? Speaking ofChristmas trees, yes, the show today
will be coming to Live from Charlotte, North Carolina. And on the way
down, guess what I saw Christmastrees. I saw cut Christmas trees in

(36:47):
the back of trucks being loaded andready to go. They were on the
expressway ron yep. And where Iwas they were coming, I guess from
the North Carolina Mountains and they wereheading out and Suka's there's trees and reefs
like there's no refs on their honey, they are all trees and they were

(37:08):
they were reptight as can be andthat cut was just as fresh looking as
you can imagine. Yeah, youknow, it is interesting today and you
know I both both have been inthe cut Christmas tree business over many many
years, through hardware and through gardencenters. But you know, back way
back, when how early they hadto start cutting some of the trees that
today, how much closer they canbe to heart, you know, to

(37:30):
shipping time for harvesting those trees rightand keeping them as fresh as they can.
Yeah, it was kind of alittle startling, really because I saw
this truck and I could tell itwas kind of, you know, kind
of a flatbed with a steak truck, you know, with them, and
so I don't know how many werein there, but there's a bunch.
And I saw that and I went, those are trees. Those are Christmas

(37:52):
trees. And I said to thoseare Christmas trees and she was kind of
like really, and I'm going likeabsolutely. And then I start thinking,
it's like, well, it isthe middle of November. Heck, yeah,
twelve twelve days of Thanksgiving and youhave to have them set up by
Thanksgiving weekend. Yeah, exactly.And for Thanksgiving. Yeah, that's probably

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the biggest Christmas tree selling day isthat weekend after Thanksgiving. And that used
to hardly even be the start ofit. You couldn't you would get the
only people that came in on Saturdayand Sunday after Thanksgiving or Friday, Saturday,
Sunday we're looking for the twelve foottrees, you know, the big
one. Something special. Family wasin town for the weekend. Otherwise you

(38:34):
spent the whole weekend getting everything setup, and then you kicked in the
gear the following week Not anymore,You're right that Thanksgiving weekend, man,
everybody's out. You go the followingweekend. That's the second busiest by that.
Those two weekends are done. Wow, I remember it was always like
the eighth of December used to belike the peak time. Eighth yeah,
oh yeah, yeah, not anymore, no, Carrie. Yeah, but

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when I saw that, I instantlythought of your tips, and that is
putting in a new cut at thebottom. Here they are on the expressway,
you know, winds blowing and everything. Those things, I mean,
they stay green for a long time. But that little cut that they just
made probably three days ago, willbe sealed over big time. Or further,

(39:21):
I mean, you know Scotch pinein it. They can cut two
or three weeks ago, and they'llusually do those first and then all the
rest of them will be the youknow at the very end. Of course,
North Carolina, one of the majorsuppliers, have cut Christmas trees,
especially Fraser furs, and that's whatthese were. Yeah, that's exactly what
these were, the little one inchneedles and kind of flat needles compared to

(39:43):
the prickly needles. And isn't itamazing how that has changed over the years.
Now Scotch Pine's still out there,is still a huge cellar and probably
lasts the longest of all of thetrees that you can use for a cut
tree. But that will still begreen in a year. Oh yeah.
But back in the day, youknow, you had to find somebody special
to find Fraser furs. And nowDouglas fir was the Cadillac back then,

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and now it's Fraser fur. Andthen of course everybody's got Fraser fur.
Yeah. So what part of NorthCarolina are they grown in? Uh?
There, you know, they're moretowards if I'm not mistaken, most of
those farms are in the northern partof Carolinas Anti. Yeah, and typically
Christmas trees are grown more on slopesin that places where you normally wouldn't grow

(40:31):
other crops. So they use thatthat property. Uh you know that that
the better because they couldn't use itfor anything else, so helps with erosion
to they do all kinds of stuff. You renewable crop, right, I
mean the environment at all. Ilove getting into that argument with folks every
not argument discussion every year about youknow how you hate I don't want to

(40:53):
cut down these trees and it's ashame that we cut down all these Christmas
trees or whatever. And you know, get into the fact that grown as
a crop, yeah, and tobe harvested, and every time they cut
one down, those growers plant twomore. Happens every year, and of
course what they're doing during the timethat they're growing, and you know,

(41:15):
it's it's always an interesting discussion.But I did write myself a note as
we're two weeks away from Thanksgiving tofind out whether these Sullivans had gone artificial
or live. Sorry sorry to reportthat. But another thing, if you
could just disclaim the you know,it seems like we got a scare tactic
for everything in the world now,including Christmas trees. Well, if you

(41:36):
get a live cut Christmas tree,the praying mantis will be flying through your
living room. Oh yeah, yeah. And you know what's interesting, they
actually have people to go through andclip those out. Now. Obviously some
get through inspection, but Christmas treegrowers purposely go through and inspect as many
as they can to make sure thatthose aren't on there, and if they

(41:58):
do come out, it just addsto another Christmas story. It's a flying
ornament, you know. Yeah,it's you know you guys, Yeah,
that's it, pregnantis. I'll I'lltell you when I heard that last year,
and you know it's been like thatfor one hundred years probably oh yeah,
and maybe in one hundred years youmight have one. But you know,

(42:19):
when I heard it last year waslike this big warning. It's like
it was like it was an epidemicor something like it. Yeah, big
deal. Digging for news. Sowhat are you gonna talk about today?
We're going to talk about painting,cleaning and keeping the gutters going. Because
the leaves are about done where I'mat. I can listen to the last
one, but not the first two. Okay, we'll do it anyway,

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Okay, I will thank you,Gary Sullivan, all right, take care,
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or two or three. Keep plantingthose native plant selections. Beat pollinator friendly
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