Ron Wilson 11/18/2023 Hour 1

Ron is back with his tips and tricks. Also your calls and questions.

Episode Transcript

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Good morning everybody. Welcome. I'mRon Wilson. You're in the garden and
if you'd like to join us,love to have you. Here's a number
you ready, seven four nine fiftyfive hundred. You can also hit pound
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wind up right here in our studiosat Kenwood. The Durango kid is in
the house. That's Danny Gleeson.He'll take your calls. He'll get you
lined up. We'll do our besthelp answer those gardening questions for you.

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Kevin Tip you want to share,We always want to hear from you.
Seven four nine fifty five hundred.Here at fifty five krc DE talk station
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many times we have to tell yougood morning? I am Ron Wilson,
your personally yard boy talking about yarding. I'm a happy camper. It's a

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beautiful day in the neighborhood. IfI could sing, I would sing that
song for you this morning. Whyis it a beautiful day in my neighborhood
and around our area? Well,we had these things come down of the
sky yesyesterday. They look like clearlittle crystals, but they're wet. They
hit the ground and then they actuallyput moisture back in the ground. We

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had that happen yesterday in our area. It's been a long long time,
uh since we've seen that, andI see it again in the forecast.
Now. Obviously it rained here yesterday, and I think it kind of got
around. I mean the way thefront came across, it probably covered a
lot of different things areas, soa lot of folks I think got that.
We'll find out a little bit lateron because we have Ron rothis on

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with us in our next hour.But the kicker is it wasn't even close
to being what we need. I'mhappy that it prayed. It's a beautiful
day in this name. There wego. I can see Gary Sullivan singing
that, just walking down the street. Yeah. No, walking into the

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hardware store. Yeah, there yougo, going back to the office putting
this hardware. I've always wanted tohave shoes on, tool belt on.
Yeah, I can see it happened. I've always wanted to live. But
the point being is this, itdid rain yesterday, and I can't believe
how many people like I if Iwent to the store or whatever I was
doing running airs and stuff at work, Folks say, well, you know,

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sorry's raining today. Sorry it wasout after get on the rain.
It's like, are you kidding me? I'm a happy camper. Let it
rain on me all day long.And I would tell everybody, Elbert,
yeah, let it rain all dayto day. Let it rain all day
tomorrow, and they're like, whatI said, it's dry. Come on,
it's really dry out there. SoI'm a happy camper. But on

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the same token, as we havesaid all season long last year as well,
kind of pretend it never came through. Well, it's kind of making
me happy because it did come through, but you got to pretend that it
didn't. And you've got to keepwatering. Wish we aren't. We're not
watering. And as a matter offact, I talked to a gentleman yesterday
and then we were talking about heSAIDs them about the rain, and I

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kind of came back with it,man, are you kidding me? I'm
a happy camper, blah blah blah, And he said, yeah, you're
right, it is dry. Andhe he does gardening, any plants,
plants, and he had to planta lot of trees. I think this
year or whatever. He said.You know what, because we had set
out an email last week or twoweeks ago from our company telling all of
our customers, you know you needwater. We're in serious trouble your plants.

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You know the old Your plants arethirsty. You need to join them
for a drink. And we dothat for twofold. One is because if
you don't, we're going to havea lot of folks that are going to
be disappointed because their plants don't makeit, especially the evergreens through the winter.
We went through this, We've gonethrough this before, and you hear
me harp about it, but I'mgonna keep harping. I'm sorry. That's
my job when it comes to youbeing successful and your gardening endeavors and plants

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being successful, and garden centers andnurserries being successful. So we all work
together to make this thing work.But watering still comes down. You know,
right place, right plant, rightplant, right place, right place,
right plant is obviously the first mostimportant kie having the right plant in
the right spot, all right,but then key to getting that thing to
be successful. Right planting procedure obviously, but then following up with the right

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watering procedure to get that thing established, and it's just it's a hard one
to instruct folks on exactly how todo it or to just do it period.
And I don't, you know,you think all kinds of stuff like
I know, a lot of folksyesterday said, well we finally got some
rainfall. You know, we bailedus out. We're not as dry as

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we were. Again, I lookat yesterday was I was thankful for it.
It did make me happy because itactually did rain, but it wasn't
even close to what we need.And I guarantee you what we got yesterday
did not water in your newly plantedtrees and shrubs and did not really give
much of a drink to the onesthat are established now. It helped out

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the turf, and it helped outsome things that are rooted closer to the
ground, but that's about it.I checked last night in our in our
yard and it's still hard as abrick. So you know, we'll take
it. We'll take anything we canget. And I see rainfall coming up
in the next week as well,so that's great. I got thumbs up
there and it did make me veryhappy. But on the same token.

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You know, we're trying to keepthe word out there, going going,
going about you gotta water. Mypoint being is talking to this gentleman yesterday,
he said the same thing. Youknow, I really I had my
irrigation blown out four weeks ago.Yep. And unfortunately irrigation companies need to
do that to make sure you don't. You don't that's you know, you
do that so you don't, youknow, pop any lines, take any

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chances. I get it. Iunderstand that. As a matter of fact.
In our nursery, when we hadthat sudden dropping temperatures what three weeks
ago for a couple of days orwhatever went down below freezing. We blew
out a lot of lines too thatweren't protected, and then we had to
come back and turn them back onagain. And they've been back on,
and now the temperatures are gonna dropnext week and we're gonna go back and

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we're gonna have to blow them backout again. But we have to do
that back and forth and back andforth to protect the plants that are out
there because they need watering. Theseare plants that are growing in containers or
balden burl after whatever, or evengrowing in our fields. We've got to
continue to water. We know thatwe've got to keep doing it even the
You know, when we this timeof the year, nurseries and garden centers

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start to put nursery plants away forthe winter. If you're not going to
sell them, you got to putthem away and protect them for the winter.
Putting them away means healing them in. For the balden burl plant material
that you've been dug from the fields, that means healing them in, you
know, mulching around the outside overthe top of the balls, you know,
to keep them protected over the wintertime. Make sure those root balls

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have good moisture going into the winter. And that means all the container plants
that are out there that we're growingin containers at production right now for next
spring, or leftovers that we're goingto continue to cut back and grow for
next year, have to be somewhereto protect them. And so like when
we talk to you about what doI do with these containers that I've got

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some hardy perennials in or a hardyshrub or whatever to protected over the winter,
Well we take hours and put theminside hoop houses. You know,
it's a a greenhouse made out ofhoops. Basically, they can have heaters
in them, or a lot oftimes it's just a natural heat from the
sun that comes in the plastic usuallydouble layer around the outside to hold We

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don't want to keep it warm inthere. As a matter of fact,
we have to vent it to keepit cool when we have warm days.
But it's to protect them from extremecold temperatures. And of course in there
we've got the stays really warm anddry. We've got a water so you
know, that's what we're doing.So we're watering, so we blow out
the system, we turn them backon. But I get it at the
home owners can't do that. Youcount on the blowing out the system and

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you're done. But you've also gotthe faucets that are on the foundation of
the home, and that's where gardenhoses come in. And that's where you
know, oscillating sprinklers or whatever itmay be come in handy for you to
set those things up and start watering, to protect in hand watering the specific
trees and shrubs that you play,especially what the evergreens this time of the

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year. And he said, youknow, I'd be honest with you,
I planted a lot, and Ireally haven't. We had a system blown
out and I haven't done anything sincethen. And he said, I didn't
really even think about that, andI don't think about it in the fall
because things are shutting down, Idon't think about watering. And he said,
after I read your newsletter about evergreensand everything and the reason why we

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need to water, blah blah blah, he said, I realized that.
The next thing I know, Ihad to sprinkler set up and I was
out watering. So he thanked usfor setting out the email newsletter reminding everybody
how important it is to water thistime of the year. And again he
said, I had no idea thatwe would, you know, need to
water up until the holidays, upuntil Christmas in New Year's and if it's

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dry out there, that's what weneed to do. And looking right now
in our area may not be thisway in your area, but in our
area in southern Ohio, we arevery dry. And we are right now
almost looking at the same scenario thatwe went through last fall, where it
stayed warm really late until the weekbefore well actually warned right back up going

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into the holidays, but it stayedvery warm right up until the holidays,
and then we had that sudden coldblast that came in the week before Christmas
and dropped down into the minus eighthsminus nines in a matter of twelve hours,
sixty degrees to minus eight degrees,and we had the winds with it
and all of that, and thelast you know, we went through that

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for three days. So we hadevergreens going into the winter season, into
the late fall and early winter warmhad acclimated to get ready for the shutdown
for the winter, and they hadbasically no moisture in the ground for the
most part. And so what happenedwe had the tremendous amount of evergreen damages,
all right, and the folks thathad watered up until that point saw

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a lot less winter damage than thefolks that hadn't been walked. Well,
guess what, we're right at thatpoint again where it's been very warm right
into the late no water, rightlate end of the season. And Ron
rothis is going to talk to usat the top of the next hour.
But I think there's a couple ofchances of a cold front really dropping through
here next week or in a coupleof weeks, same scenario, same set

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up again. So I'm trying toscare you. I'm trying to, yes,
try to get you out there tokind of bring it to your attention
that we've got to continue to water, especially those evergreens, up until the
Christmas season. And like I toldthis gentleman yesterday, you know, and
I've told you too January February,if I had newly planted evergreens out there,
the newly planned within the last yearor so, you get a day

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above freezing, I'd go out therewith a five gallon bucket middle of January,
dump that right down the middle ofthat plant to make sure I've got
good moisture around the base of thatplant as we go through January and February
as well. So you know,again, I'm a happy camper. It's
a good day to you know,in my neighborhood. And I'm singing right
along because we did get some rainyesterday, but again on the same token,

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it wasn't even close to what weneed. I'll take it. I'll
take anything we can get. Butthen you got to build on that,
and then this weekend would be agreat weekend to build on top of that.
Rainfall. He got a water Yourplants are thirsty. Check out where
you are, see where the rainfallsare, and make sure you continue to
water up until the holiday season atleast, and then we'll take it from

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there. All right, quick break, We got again special guest this morning,
ron Rothis. And by the way, Joe Strecker no cup of Joe
this morning. Remember he's taking thoseFridays off, so he gets those three
day weekends using up his vacation time. Good for Joe. I think he
may be back next Saturday for theThanksgiving Saturday. Yeah, so we'll talk
to Joe next weekend. But inthe meantime, he's he's off today.

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So it's you, you, meand Danny and our special guest this morning.
At the top of the next hour, ron rothis will join us hobby
meteorologists and of course a certified mastergar Arbist are meteorologs. Isn't arbist you
know what he is anyway, arbordoctordot com. And then of course get
her on this time. Every yearhas been really nice the last couple of

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years. Katie Stagliano. You've heardme talk about Katie since she was nine.
She's now twenty five. We've hadher on our show every year.
It's always fun. Katie Staglioto,lat Katie, can I talk today?
What's Dania? Somebody pull my tongueon. Katie Stagliano will be with us
this morning talking about Katie's crops,all the great things that they do.

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And of course she's looking for someonein your state to do a Katie's Garden
and so we'll talk about that andhow you can sign up for I think
between seventeen and sixteen to do this. But we'll talk with Katie about that.
And last night her mom sent mea last minute news release about Katie
another great award. This young ladyhas gotten phenomenal. So those two are

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Ron Wilson again that toll free numbereight hundred eight two three eight two five
five, your plans for Thursday,joining for a drink. As a matter
of fact, during the break there, Ron rothis who will join us at
the top of the hour, sendingme the drought map. And you know,
it's amazing how much how many areasare in a moderately dry to drought
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looking pretty dry right now. Sowe'll see what happens. Well, if
we will get some more rainfall nextweek in a couple of weeks, but
if we don't, you've got towater to the gardening phone lines, Don
and Columbus, where you've been.Well, how are you doing long?
I'm gooding you. Oh? Fine, So we moved out to I think
I spoke to you about maybe ayear ago. Yep. We moved out

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to Poland came back here because mymother in law had a hippie placement,
but she passed away this past summerthOh, I'm sorry to hear that,
and thank you. But my wifewas an only child, so we inherited
the house. And so in thisproperty market, to give the free house,
you take it. So Poland isa little bit bad in hell.

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But anyway, so we moved backhere, a nice house in Clintonville.
And our neighbor across our new neighbor, I guess across the street. I
had a landscape company from a bignursery here in town, and they were
installing a sweet dumb tree. AndI kid you not that they dug the
hole about six inches deep and setthe whole root ball in that sixty six

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inch deep hole and then just molchedon top of it. I took some
pictures of it. I mean,this is like the most atrocious planning job
I've ever seen. And I startednoticing thinking about but I've done this job
horticulture in three different countries and nowtwo different states. And this is the
only place I've been to. Idon't know what it's like in Cincinnati,
but this is the only stay I'vebeen to a nation I've been to.

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I should say that they install treeswithout I mean, it's just it's mind
boggling. It's well the solution tonot plying too deepest to plant the tree
too shallow, but not actually tryto find the root flail. We just
stick the whole, you know,BnB tree right there and just post the
motche on top in thoughts some playoffs. So wow, And that's why I

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think I'm going to be starting myown landscape company this coming spring, because
I mean, this is this isa I mean, do they not train
people on this? I mean,you woke in this industry? I mean
do they not? Why does thishappen? I don't know? And you
know the thing it is Ron Rothlisand I and you hear we talk about
all the time on the show,but proper planting procedures. I think about
a month ago that was my themewas about a month ago. Ron had

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sent me some pictures and all thearmists they go out to the homes and
they, you know, take alook at trees that have been planted too
deep. That's been a major issue. And you know, don't can't find
the root flair and you dig down, it's four inches below the soil level.
And somebody whether it was planted toodeep in the container or at the
nursery or at the home, andyou know, accommodation of the two.

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And so the thing was, showme the flare. So my point was
for all of our listeners, isit every time you plant anything, show
yourself the flare, or if somebody'splanning it for you, show me the
flare. So I can see thatroot flare right at soil level or just
slightly above, just like mother naturedoes. And it's you know, it's
planning, you know. And soyou know, planning too deep is a

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major issue, but planning too highis a major not as much of an
issue, but it is to me, is almost even worse than not getting
it down in the ground. AndI don't know that I was the solution
to planning too deep is to planttoo shallow. But it doesn't matter if
the woot's barrel is still buried inthe actual in the actual soil ball.

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Yeah, I mean it's just yeah. So, yeah, it's crazy and
I'm frustrated. And like I said, this is the only place I've ever
been to and I don't know whythat is. I don't know if it's
just people in the I mean,look, I'll be honest with you,
and I love people in this industry, but some of them are not too
bright and some of them are justnot just kind of lazy. And I

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think that's my only guess why.It's not that he is a profession in
the country. Yeah, there's alot of good There's a lot of good
ones out there, there's no doubtabout it. But we need to continue
continue to train, better education andbetter training within the companies themselves, and
of course that all falls back onthe owner and the supervisors as well.
So hopefully we can continue to educateeverybody out there so we can all be

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page in the garden with Ron Wilsongoing on right now. Thanks a little
bit of chat, yeah, alittle bit of chanting or chanting chatting going
on there and could be chanting too. I don't know, thirty seven days
until Christmas Thanksgiving next week. Icannot believe that. And as I look
around right now, boy, peopleare set up and ready to go with

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cut Christmas trees. It just getsearlier and earlier every year. But to
demand, that's what the consumers havedone, that's what you all have done.
We've created this, you know,this this thing that we have to
go right before or after Thanksgiving toget that cut tree. There won't be
any left, and so now everybodyrushes out. And now the weekend after

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Thanksgiving has become one of the biggestweekends for cut Christmas trees. And it
used to be the first weekend inDecember. Second weekend would be a little
less and then it was pretty muchyou to kind of finish out the rest
of the following week and a halfor so. Not anymore. So you
know, again, I highly encourageyou. We'll talk more about it next
week because that it will be ourplant pick of the week, I trust

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me. But I do highly encourageyou to consider a live Christmas tree.
Versus are the official and there areso many great reasons why. You know,
it's just I could go on andon. As a matter of fact,
I always bring this little packet.I have it in my hand right
here of all the stats and statisticsand all the things about growing trees and
why they're environmentally friendly, because there'salways that argument about that in the whole

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nine yards. And you can readit yourself if you want to. Sometime
go to real Christmastrees dot org.They've been doing this for a long time
to give you all the stats.I saw that the pricing going to be
pretty much the same this year.They said in some areas they may go
up maybe four percent five percent,but otherwise most folks whore write at about
two percent or same as last year. So that's a good thing. But

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I do encourage you to go withthe live Christmas tree, whether it be
the cut live Christmas tree or thebald and burlab tree that are growing in
a container that you would plant afterthe holiday season. Now, if you
would decide that, hey, thatsounds pretty cool, because then we can
plant that in the yard and haveit grow for years after you year after
year. There are some limitations tousing physically live growing Christmas trees inside the

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house. The biggest limitation is theamount of time that you keep it in
the home. You really don't wantit in there more than about seven to
ten days. If I say sevento ten days, you'll keep it in
for two weeks. We used tosay two weeks, and they would keep
it in for three and that wasjust too long. Seven to ten days,
and it's kind of an acclamation thingof a couple days in the garage

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to acclimate, get ready to goin the house. Seven to ten days
in the house. Keep it ina really cool area if you can.
We don't want it to you know, And again we don't want to start
growing. But I've seen that havingeven on cut trees back in the garage
for a couple of days or anunheated shed, and then you plant it,
no matter what, you plant itall right, don't leave it in
there after the two days or threedays. Get it in the ground.

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And in most cases it's very rarelywe are read weather after Christmas that you
couldn't plant your Christmas tree into theground, all right. And I know
some folks say, well, we'llpredig the hole. I don't get that,
because you know, you predep thewhole. What are gonna do with
the soil you took out of thehole, unless you put it in an
unheated garage or shed and hopefully itdoesn't freeze it. It's gonna freeze sitting

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outside. And then how do youuse that? So I always suggest this,
if you're going to plant a treeafter Christmas, because you're gonna use
a live growing tree, take acouple bags of mulch, pine fines or
pine soil conditioner or what soil amendmentsor a bag of mulch and a bag
of soil amendments and lay those onthe ground where you're gonna plant the tree.

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Now, you could go ahead andcut the bed out, so cut
the ring out where you're gonna plantit, get the sawd out of there,
or loosen the sod and leave thesod there. It acts as an
insulator. Just have it ready togo so you can just pick it up
like a piece of carpet and takeit away. But lay the bags there.
And what those bags will do actuallyhas help to hold enough MOI or
heat underneath those to keep that fromfreezing. Should it get really cold.

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Now, I would take a lotof cold weather to freeze it deep enough
that you couldn't dig in it,but that will keep it protected for you.
If you're worried about rainfall or whatever. You can even put a little
tarp underneath there to get the waterto run away. In our area,
you don't have to worry about itbecause it's you know, we don't get
that much rain. But you know, but that's the way I look at

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doing that with a live Christmas tree. And the other restriction would be size.
You know, the bigger it gets, the bigger that root ball is,
the harder that is to handle toget inside and outside of the house.
But it's a great idea and there'sa lot of folks that still do
that, and I applaud you fordoing that. It's a lot of work,
but it's pretty cool and it's alimited amount of time, but it's

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a pretty cool thing. Then youcan get it planted, get it watered
in, you know, make sureyou do keep it water through the winter
season, and then you got yourselfa new evergreen growing there and you can
remember it because we planted it duringthe after the Christmas of twenty twenty three
or whatever it may be. Soyeah, that works. But again,
the cut trees, you know,make sure you go to a reputable source
somebody's been doing this for a whilethat knows their true suppliers. Check the

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trees to make sure they're good andfresh. If you're not going to put
this tree up, maybe you wantto you out this weekend. Maybe you
were rolling at really early birds andyou're already taking advantage of getting the cut
Christmas cheese early. Have them sleevethat thing up where they put it in
the nylon sleep so you can haulit home. Have them sleave that thing
up. And if you're not goingto put that up for a couple three

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weeks, which a lot of folksdon't, two things. If you're not,
if you can get home, cutthe piece off the bottom and stick
it in a bucket of water soit starts to get water right away,
would be great. If you don'twant to go through that hassle, lay
keep it sleeved. Lay it downin a cool, shady area where it

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stays shady, the sun doesn't hitit stays very cool that way, it
doesn't lose a lot of moisture.Maybe go out there and water down every
three or four days to keep moisturearound it, and do that until you're
ready to bring it, you know, get it put in the stand,
then give it another fresh cut inthe stand immediately in the house and then
go from there. Now, there'sone other product that you might want to

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take a look at that will reallyhelp to seal the moisture inside those needles
that we use outside as well,called wilt stop or wilt proof, and
there this is a product to It'san antidesica which you spray on plants to
help help them keep them from dryingout. Is what it was developed for.
You can also use it for saltprotection forevergreens. It puts a little

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it's actually just like a resin.It's all natural or organic a resin on
the outside of the needles. Ithelps to protect it from salt spray over
the wintertime. But this helps tohold moisture in, helps them a little
bit more for winter protection not fromthe temperatures, but from drying out from
the winds in the sun. Butyou can use that on your greens as

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well. And what you would dois then set the tree up in the
stand, get the water to it, spray it. You need to give
it. It has to be aboutforty five degrees or above freezing but forty
forty five degree. Spray it witha will stop or willproof, let it
dry, then take it in thehouse and it gives a little bit of
a gloss to the needles. Prettycool, and it really does help keep
it fresher longer. And then ofcourse the water is going to be the

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key, Isn't that amazing. It'sthe key for success when it comes to
your cut live Christmas tree, andit's the key to success if you're planting
an evergreen in the ground as well, or any plant out there. Water
is the key, all right,So make sure you get a good fresh
one, keep it protected until you'reready to put it up. If you
want to do the added protection,look at the will stop and the willproof,

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both of those same basically the sameproduct, and use those spray.
As a matter of fact, wecome back, we'll talk about how to
use that on the outside area,the will stops or the willproof to help
to protect your outside evergreens and otherplants as well. Don't forget our websites
run Wilson online dot com. We'llalso mention Rita's recipe when we come back

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That total free number eight hundred eighttwo three eight two five five Coming up
the top of the hour, RonRoethlis, We're gonna talk about a couple

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things. We're gonna talk about theweather. We'll talk about what to do
with your trees this time of theyear as well. But we're gonna talk
about the weather, the drought,things like that. I'm gonna bring up
something here and we've we're gonna getthis posted on our website next week.
It came out I think the announcementwas Thursday and scrambled and Joe was off
yesterday. Uh, and so hewasn't able to get a posted on our
website. But the USDA our plantHardiness Zone map, well they've just updated

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it. They've got the news versionout now, and it's based on our
average coldest average coldest temperatures over thewinter time. That's what is based on.
So if your plants are hardy tozone five, that means they'll make
the winners through zone five, etcetera, et cetera. It's just came
out yesterday. And guess what.The zones continue to change and the zones,

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the warmer zones continue to move north. And it's pretty interesting if you
look at the entire United States andthese zones, how they continue to creep
north, you know, all theway from the southern from stip of Florida.
Those zones just continue to come upand up and up. In our
state of Ohio, we had somefive in there. I think there's only

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a couple spots. Now it's allsix A, six B except for the
southeastern side of Ohio, southeastern LonaRiver. Guess what, Zone seven has
now stepped into the state of Ohio, Zone seven, so we're there,
you know. And remember we hadthe gentleman on I can't think of his

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name right now, from a DavyTree Dan hearms talking about the research they're
doing, you know, twenty fivethirty years from now that Ohio could be
as a Zone eight, same asGeorgia, which is their zones are changing
also. But he may be righton, but anyway that has changed.
We'll talk Ron with Ron a littlebit about that as well. Then at
the bottom of the hour, Idon't love having a young lady on our
show. Katie stag Leono talked aboutKatie since she was nine years old.

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She's twenty five now. The greatthings that she does. Go to her
website, Katie's Crops. Those arewith ks Katie's crops dot com and you'll
find out all the things she's beendoing. But she's looking for kids to
do their Katie's gardens in the individualstates, So we'll talk about that how
you can apply for that. Andshe was just named well, I'm gonna

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save it until we get Katie onbecause she was just named something very very
special. Her mom sent it tome last night. Wow, I can't
believe what the young lady's doing.In the meantime, still talking your arting,
don't forget our website, it's RonWilson online dot com. We've got
Rita's recipe which is corn pudding,which is announced. I'm not a big
corn fan, but I do likecorn pudding. She has a corn pudding

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recipe just in time for Thanksgiving,so be sure and check out Rita's recipe.
Spotted lantern Fly update for the forOhio continues to just cover the state
of Ohio. All of our pastPlans of the week are on there for
you as well, and our planof the week this week. One of
my favorites for the holiday season.For a giving gift, ammarillis to buy

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Amarillis kits or paper whites. They'llfall into that category, but I love
the Amarillis better than the paper whites, I admit. And there's so many
great colors. It's crazy. Butamarillis plant of the week. I tell
you what, if you want toget it ready for the holiday season,
it takes about six weeks or soto get them in flour, so you'd

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have to get on it right awayto maybe have it by the holiday.
Between Christmas, New Year's starting toshow some color, so you'd have to
get on it right away. Butotherwise you can get them started now.
And of course if you buy them, plant them about every three weeks four
weeks or so, so that you'vegot flowers that just continue right on through
the winter season. But so youbuy yourself first of all, some amarillis,

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but you know, get buy extrakits. You get them in boxes.
Comes with the pot, the soil, the amarillis bulb. Make sure
you take a peek inside the boxto make sure the amaryllis hasn't already started
growing. Like sometimes you'll see themcurl around inside the pot. Don't want
that, you want. I'm stillgood and tight. You might see a
little bit coming up out of themiddle, but that's good. But buy

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those for Christmas presents. They makethe best Christmas present. I've always said,
you get too thank yous from thatpresent you give it, and they
open it on Christmas Day or whenever, you know, if you have a
holiday party to go to bring oneof those. But they open it up
and they look at it and say, ooh at amarillis, thank you very
much. And then somewhere after theholidays they pot it up and then about

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six weeks later that thing starts toflower and it lasts for three weeks or
so or longer with absolute color that'sjust spectacular. And guess what, you
either get a note, a text, an email, or a phone call,
which is kind of rare anymore,saying again, thank you for that
amaryllis, because it's absolutely gorgeous andthe timing is perfect in the middle of

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the winter giving me some great color. And I'm telling you, I got
a Rex b r e Cks Rerexcatalog the other day and they specialize Brex
bulbs and they have Ambarillis. Thatcolors in there are just phenomenally. They
have one it's all white with ared on the edges of the each petal.
It looks fake. I mean,you talk about you know, it

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looks fake. But I've seen thisone before and it's expensive. And remember
the larger the amarillis ball you buy, the more flowers you get. So
if they're real small, you mayonly get one stock maybe two of flowers.
If they start getting about six inchesin diameter or bigger, you get
three, four, sometimes five stalksof flowers that come up. And it's

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absolutely again spectacular the colors that youget. And then of course you can
actually keep those, grow them likea house plant, take them outside in
the summer and start the process allover again and get them to flower for
you during the winter and holiday seasonsnext year. But I'm telling you,
Amarillis kits are probably one of thebest holiday or Christmas presents that you can

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give somebody because you're guaranteed too thankyous, one when you give it,
and one when it starts to flowerwhenever that's six weeks ma after the time
they start to pot it up,So be sure and check it out.
Now, before we went into thebreak, we're talking about using will stop
or willproof on your live greens,your your live trees, cut Christmas trees,
and the greens that you may usefresh greens indoors to keep them fresher

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longer. Will Stop was originally developedas an antidesica for transplanting plants out of
season or in I mean in seasonto keep them from drying out. Then
they found out that it was agood you know, to use it going
into the winter to help hold moisturein the plants. Found out it was
great for doing on greens, keepingthem fresh. You can even use will

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stop and willproof on deciduous plants likeroses and like Japanese maples that have a
tennessee to have some winter die backfrom winter from uh yeah, winter desiccation
where the water you know, comesout and they just seem to dry up
over the winter. This helps tohold moisture in the rose canes and in

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the branches of Japanese maples as well. So you can use it for a
lot of different things. Read thelabels on both of these all right,
so you can understand, and bothof them are kind of vague, but
read the label a couple of timesso you understand. But the confusing part
is and I'll just kind of quicklysummarize this for you. Get the rate
so you know, you mix itup right and there are ready to use

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as if you don't need very muchof it. It has to dry not
freeze on the plant. So youknow, we do this late fall,
right before we go into the winterseason, all right, but you do
it like when the temperatures are rightin that forty five degree rain, so
you want to give it plenty oftime to dry on the plant and not
freeze on the plant. Needs beapplied at least one or two hours before
rainfall. If it's rain coming in. It needs sunlight for that film to

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properly set, so we can getinto sunny location and be absolutely great.
And on both of the labels theytalk about restricted use on arborvide cedars,
cypress camas cippress, Juniper sequoia,dwarf conifers, or similar species without testing
it first. And the reason beingis you need to make sure those particular
plants have totally hardened off for thewinter. So the moisture really is,

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you know, we retreat it tothe root system. Otherwise you're sealing in
more moisture. Blah blah blah.It can cause them to freeze and turn
brown as well, So you waituntil really late fall before you apply it
to those particular plants, all right, So it gets a little confusing sometimes,
but again, application wouldn't be untilthe in our area right zone six

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wouldn't be until at least the firstof December. I look at it that
way, or even later watching theweather, and you want it to be
consistently starting to stay consistently cold outand do it around forty five degrees or
so. Let it dry on theplant, not freezing, and take it
from there. But make sure youread the label two or three times so
you totally understand how to use thisparticular product. Also, one little warning

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will stop and will prove it's whenyou spray it on there. It's like
a dormant oil. It can turnblue spruce and similar species of evergreens a
green color. It actually that's causedby an oil that's on top of the
needle that refracts light that you seeblue, all right, And you can
wipe that off and the needles turna quick green, But the natural coloring

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does return with next year's new growth. It's a fun trick to play on
your neighbors. Not don't do that. I was just kidding, But it
can't do that, So don't letus scare you to death if that,
by chance happens and you forget aboutthat where you didn't read that on the
label. All right, quick break, we come back. Ron rothis will
join us at the arbor Doc arbordoctordot com. Don't forget the go to
his website. Great information there aswell. Bottom of the hour Katie Stagleonano

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katiescrops dot com. Check it outKatie's crops dot com. You'll love it.
That's with two k's looking forward totalking with both of them in our
next hour. Here in the Gardenwith Ron Wilson. Hell for the do

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