Ron Wilson 11/18/2023 Hour 3

Ron takes your calls questions and tips. He also wraps up the show chatting with Gary Sullivan.

Episode Transcript

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Good morning everybody. Welcome back.I'm Ron Wilson. You're in the garden.
If you'd like to join us throughthe phone, we'd love to have
you. Here's our number seven fournine fifty five hundred. You can also
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calls, get you lined up.Then we'll do our best help to help

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answer those guarding questions. And ofcourse, if you've got a tip you'd
like to share, talk about aspecific plant you grew, or whatever we
want to hear from you. Sevennine fifty five hundred Here at fifty five
KRCD talk station, our toll freenumber eight hundred eight two three eight two
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can put on the refrigerator. Whythe refrigerator, because a lot of people
are listening to us laying in bed. You know that, Dan, I
get that all the time. Ohyeah, we lay in bed and listen
to your show. They wake uplistening to you. They wake up listening
to me, and I say,do I put you back to sleep?
And they said yeah, sometimes nice? So well, thank you so much.
At least you're honest. I said, oh, no, your voice.
It's actually one lady told me onetime. She literally will listen,

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download and listen to one of ourpodcasts because if I'm talking about something that
she likes my voice and it putsher back to sleep, mellows her out
so great. Well, it's goodto know that. So anyway, we'd
love to hear from you. Ateight hundred and eight two three eight two
five website is Ron Wilson online dotcom. Read his corn bread pudding recipe

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just in time for the holidays,for the Thanksgiving especially, you know,
you show up with a big panof that. You're a you're a hero.
Uh so you've got that there foryou. It was good, by
the way, did you enjoy itvery much? So that figures well,
let me, yeah, what canI say? Sorry? Right, Dan?
She just brings enough for Dan andhe doesn't share so anyway, but

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it's very very good according to Dan, and you can always kind of read
his recipes. Our plan of theweek is Amarillis and I'm telling you right
now. You go out buy kitsof Amarillis in the bot wrap them up.
If you're going to a holiday party, if you're going to visit a
friend, if you're going to afamily's for just a day or so during
the holiday season, or you needChristmas presents. This is just one of
the best. I'm not kidding you. Amarillists are so easy to grow.

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You buy the kids, got thepotting soil, the pot, the Amarillis
bulb. You give those away,they say thank you very much. It's
about like that, oh thank you. But then when they finally pot that
thing up and then flowers, youget the phone call, you get the
text, you get the email.It says thank you and capital letters,
bold letters with a couple of explamationpoints at the end of it. Because

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it's such a great gift and suchgreat wonderful colors throughout the the winter season.
If you want them for the holidays, you better get on it,
because it takes about six weeks orso to get them to flower, so
you need to jump on it rightaway. But otherwise, so keep that
one in mind. Buy yourself afew, plan them up on about a
three week interval or so. Becausethey'll last about flowering about three weeks or

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so, so you've got colors comingon all winter long. Pretty cool,
huh. And you know you havefour or five of those potted up.
You got color from the holidays rightup until the spring season, so keep
that in mind. You'll find paperwhite kits as well. I like the
paper white. Some folks don't likethe smell. I do. I like
the smell of paper whites, butit can be pretty. It can be

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overpowering sometimes in some homes. Butthey're very quick. Boy, two to
three weeks, you got those upand they're flowering. But they're kind of
cool too. Those kids are availablealso. I'm kind of partial to the
amaryllis. And remember when you're buyingamaryllis, the bigger the ball, the
more flowers you get, more flowerstems that you'll get out of those bulbs.
And always look inside the box whenyou're buying a kit before you buy

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it, pop the lid and takea quick look inside there if you can,
if you see that the amaryllis hasalready started to grow, and kind
of wrap it inside the box dependingon what stage's in. When they're on
sale after the holiday season. I'lltake a chance on a few of those,
but otherwise you'd like to have thatbulb where the it's still nice and
tight, no new growth unless it'sjust barely popping at the top of the
bulb. And then if you're notgoing to get them away for a while,

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keep them stored in a cooler area, dark and cool obviously in their
box. The box will keep themdark. And then you know somewhere where
it's fifty sixty degrees where it's coolor not warmer, the cooler the better,
not freezing. But again that's ourplan of the week. Be sure
and check it out. And thereare so many great amarillis. There's something
you can pay big bucks for.I got a Brex catalog Brex bulbs,

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and uh man, it's the wholecatalog. This time is dedicated to to
amarillas and they're really cool. Andby the way, you'll also see amarilla
sold out there now dipped in wax, so you'll they'll take the bulb,
they dip it in wax and theysit it on the where they're making these,
put a flat bottom on it.The reason they do that. You

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don't need a pot or anything.You just set that thing out on the
counter. It's ready to go.You don't water, you don't do anything
to it. It just grows,uses up all of them. You're inside
that bald flowers for you sitting rightthere in front of your face, no
pot. Uh. And yes,you can try to regrow those. They
use up a lot of energy andshrivel up a bit. But I've had

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some folks that they've had pretty goodsuccess getting them to recover from that,
So you can do that. They'rethose are basically grown as a throwaway,
but you can try. And thenthey take that same one and they've got
hangers. You hang them upside downso when it starts to grow, this
thing goes down on chandeliers and turnsback up again. Uh. So you've
got the emeralds ball that's growing upsidedown with then the turns up and then

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the flower sticks out. That's prettyawesome also. So again, lots of
great things you can do with amuryllis. But a great holiday gift for
the host, for you, forthe family, for the kids, whatever
may be. They will love youfor it. You find it all at
our website at Ron Wilson online dotcom. To the guarding phone lines we
shall go and we're gonna talk touh, we go to Tom and New

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Richmond first or Bob, Bob,I'm sorry, Bob, good morning,
good morning. How are you.I'm great in yourself, great as well.
Good. I do have two questions. Oh my fruit tree, my
apples trees as much as anything canI Why do you have to wait till
February to prune them back? Youdon't as a matter of fact, some

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folks will get into it late latefall. But sometimes when you prune apple
trees or any of the fruit treeslate in the season and we go right
into the cold weather, a lotof times that cold weather inhibits those wounds
from starting to seal over, andsometimes that can leave it exposed and sometimes
you get some winter damage out ofthat pruning. Plus, if we prune

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them too early in the you know, early fall, sometimes they'll start to
regrow. It'll actually force them toThey'll it'll kind of trigger them to start
to regrow again. So they'll typicallyhold off until at least they are really
shut down dormant, and then gofrom there. But typically the biggest reason
for waiting until late winter is lookingat the at the you know that open

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wound and having a seal over orcause other problems because the stays too cold.
That's that's the big reason for doingit. Good, good, thank
you. That makes a lot ofsense. The second thing is I had
I have a pond near the house, and I had some oak trees that

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are about thirty feet tall and abouttwelve inches in diameter. And the beaver
may a nest a dead anyway,they have chewed the the bark off of
the base of the larger trees.Yes, they will do that, so

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they're they're working on dropping those biggertrees as well. Well. I did
able to discourage them and got ridof them. Will those trees continue to
grow halfway decent? Did they?Did they do that all the way around
the tree or just on one side? No? No, just one side.
You know, when whenever you getscarring like that, whether it's the

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beaver a buck, rub, youhit it with a lawnmower, obviously it's
not a good thing. But ifit's less than fifty percent around the trunk
of that tree, all right,chances are the tree will recover. It
may slow it down a little bitfor a while, but it will seal
that eventually. You should start tosee around the edges of where they chewed.
That looks like a big callous andit starts to form as the sun

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and air hits it, and itseventually seals that back over. It never
really heals over, but it sealsback over. So they will do that
over. Yeah, so over timethey will do that. But if it's
if it's less than fifty percent aroundthe trunk of the tree, there's a
real good chance you're good, you'llbe good to go. Don't do any
tar paint, don't do any treepaint anything like that to help it steal

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over. Let it do it onits own. Just leave it alone.
But you did the right thing asfar as trying to protect them as well,
so they don't do more damage.But fifty percent or less, there's
a real good chance you're going tobe in good shape. Well, thank
you. I'm glad to hear that, because those trees are like fourteen years
old and they just are so beautiful. Oh absolutely, yeah, and it's

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amazing, you know that. Andbeaver will do that. All of a
sudden, they show up, youknow, they'll follow a creek or whatever.
Next thing, you know, yougot a beaver or two and you're
pond. We do that at ournursery. All of a sudden they'll show
up. And you can always tellbecause like some of the willows, the
native willows or growing around the edges, you'll see them start to chew on
those and start to drop some ofthe smaller trees. And of course then
we have to get out there andhave someone trap them and move them somewhere

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else. But yeah, they can. They could cause a lot of damage
in a short period of time.Yeah, the smaller trees, I guess
I got about a dozen of themthat have been dropped. As you would
say, Yeah, I'll get onthose first. Good indicator that they're out
there, and they're fun to watch, and they're bigger than you you can
imagine. But again, you knowthere are they and they can trap those

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and move those for you. Andthat's that's what we have to do every
now, and it does. Theydo show up. But Bob, appreciate
the call and have a great thanksgivingthank you, quick break all right,
quick great come back phone nines areopen for you, Jerry and Tom.
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the gardening phone as we shall go. Tim and New Richmond, Tom in
New Richmond, Good morning, Yeah, good morning. I have two questions.
We have about fifty trees in ouryard. Some are very very large,
others are medium, others are youknow, maybe six inches in diameter.
And so we weed eat around thetrees, you know, during the

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summertime to you know, keep thegrass down. So we have tons and
tons of leaves. So we werewondering if we were to shred the leaves
and you know, put those aroundthe base of the tree as mulch.
Is there any time of the yearthat's good or bad for doing that?
Can you mulch year round? Shouldwe not do it in the wintertime?

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We don't know when we should doit. I guess this is our question.
Well, first of all, doingthat is a great thing to do,
and I applaud you for doing that. I mean, one of our
things here on the show is toget remove any grass around the base of
trees. I don't care however manytrees you have to get it away from
the bottom. And the reason beingone is the string trimming. Of course,
it eliminates you having to do that, and over time, string trimming

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can start to wear down the barkof a tree and actually cause problems down
the road. As it wears downthe bark actually cause it starting to girdle
the tree, and we've seen ithappen after year after year. We see
it all the time. But anyway, so and getting the grass away from
the base also helps prevent lawnmower diseasehitting with them more string trimmer disease,
which we just talked about, wecall string trimmer disease, and it takes

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the competition away from the tree andthe turf surprisingly enough, So anytime that
you are ready to do that,the trees are ready for you to do
that as well. So whether youstart doing it now, you could do
it during the winter time. Imean it's a little tougher time because of
the weather and the conditions that you'regonna be dealing with. But anytime you're
ready to start removing that turf aroundthe outside and replacing it with leaves,

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mulch, whatever happens to be,they're ready for you to do it.
And so anytime you're ready, they'reready. So grass clippings in the summertime
too, because we can bag ourgrass. Yep, put it to grass
clippings fine too. Yeah, thoseare all natural ways to do it.
I like throwing the grass clippings andI like throwing the chopped leaves back into
the turf. I mean, you'rerefeeding the turf as well when you do

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that. But if you have alot of it and bagging some of that
up and using it as a topdressing or in the landscape, as long
as you don't use weed killers onthe lawn, you're good to go.
And so whether you use it inthe landscape, you know, or vegetable
garden or whatever, absolutely well.You know you said that about the string
trimmers, because that was another thingI've always worried about, is you know,

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are we hurting the trees by weedingand around it? And so you
just answered that question. Yeah,most definitely, okay, And then one
other questions. We like to walkthrough the woods, and so I try
to. I just have a handsawof any limb that's you know, maybe
eight feet you know, above theground, and most of them are about
two inches in diameter, maybe three. Is there any harm in sawing those

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off now? Or do I haveto wait till spring? Is there a
good time or a bad time fordoing it since we're getting into winter.
Yeah. No. As a matterof fact, you know, if you're
out there right now and you wantto go through, do whole branch removal,
you can technically you can do thatthree hundred and sixty five days of
the year. Some plants, likewe were talking about the fruit trees,
sometimes if you do it during theright before winter, as we were into

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the winter season, if the weather'sreally cold, sometimes it can actually slow
down that start of that ceiling processand cause other issues. But for the
most part, for the trees you'retalking about out there wouldn't be an issue.
So that's something that any time you'reout there and you want to remove
those lower limbs, feel free todo it. The thing I would just
make sure that you're always leaving what'scalled that branch collar. That's where that

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branch goes into the trunk of thetree. And if you look at that,
there's a raised area right around theoutside of that branch. That raised
area that you see there is whatseals that back over, and if you
cut that off real smooth to thetrunk of the tree, it may never
seal over or take forever to sealover. So you'll always want to leave

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that branch collar, so you'll havethis little not as the branch isn't the
stub, but the branch collar maybe just up tatyo a quarter of an
inch or so of a little bitof a raised area still on the trunk
of the tree. So try toalways leave that there when you're cutting those
off. But otherwise, anytime I'dbe walking out there and I need to
take a branch off, I takeit off. Okay, great, you

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have time for one more question.Sure. My wife has a huge garden.
Okay, in the yard, andyou know, we try not to
use you know, bug chiller orany of that kind of thing. So
this year we had on our housea hornet's nest about the size of two

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basketball so it's huge, and itwas way up on the ease. We
couldn't remove it. But what mywife noticed was there were almost no bugs
in the garden at all this year. A lot of times they'll go out
and just pick off the bugs byhand, which is a tedious job.
But this year there were no bugs. And we were wondering whether there's a
connection between having all those hornets andno bugs in the garden. Yeah,

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you'll find it. Hornets, waspsyellowjackets are great meat eaters and they love
caterpillars and other insects. So alot of times when you see them flying
around. If you look close,a lot of them are carrying an insect
of some type through the season thatthey will then chew up and then process
take it back to the nest andfeed the eggs or the pupy or the

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young. But they'll take that backto the nest and use that. So
they are great and eat it themselves, great meat eaters, and then late
in the season those tastes start tochange to sugars. That's when they start
coming into your adult beverage and yourcoke and all that kind of stuff,
you know, in September October,because they want sugar at that point.
But yeah, they're great meat eaters, so they can be as long as
they're not a nuisance to you.Can be a great addition as far as

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helping reduce some of the insects thatyou'd rather not have in the garden.
And of course, as you domore gardening and not using the pesticides,
and you know, if you're doingmore flowering plants and things like that,
you invite more of the beneficial insectsin We have seen over time that doing
that you actually will see a changein the insect population and you start seeing

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more beneficials and fewer of the insectsthat you don't want. Now, occasionally
you still get a flare up ofaphids or something. Every now and then,
may happen, it does happen.But yeah, you can see a
drastic change between the two by allowingand your cultural practices and allowing things like
the wasps and the hornets and theyellow jackets do their thing during the summertime

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as well. So absolutely that couldbe a part of what you're seeing out
there. Good for you. I'mglad you brought that up. Quick break,
we come back Jerry, and forThomas, You're coming up next.
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Quick reminder here Katie Crop, Katie'sCrops Katie Stagliano looking for a grower

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in each state or more kids togrow a Katie's garden in their backyard or
wherever it may be. You haveto be between seven and seventeen and then
they give you a gift card togo and get all the supplies and grow
your own garden. Great way tolearn. They need a supervisor, so
mom, dad, grandma, grandpa, and uncle, teacher, whatever may

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be, need a supervisor to helpoversee it. But the kids need between
need to be between seven and seventeenyears old to apply. Katie will tell
you what she is. Learn moreabout it at her website katieescrops dot com.
That's with ks katieescrops dot com.Learn more about that. I think
you got till January the fifteenth tosend in your registration to apply for this.

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She's doing video now, by theway, which I think is absolutely
wonderful. Early applications. Usually shelikes those get them in early. I'm
not saying one way or the other, but get it in early. I
think you got a better chance.I'm getting one of those gardens to grow.
And I'll tell you what. Thekids that do this. Seven year
old Lily Heartline from South Carolina said, I grow my garden because I want

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to help the world. I lovesharing with my community and I want them
to know that I care. Andthat's why she connected up with Katie's Crops
and that's what she's doing. Ofcourse, Katie started doing this when she
was nine years old. Twenty five. Now, this is unbelievable. Good
Just if you're even not interested indoing this, just go to her website
and just check it out. Youwill, You'll just be totally amazed.

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And she was just stamed by SouthernLiving magazine twenty twenty three Southerner of the
Year. There's six recipients, butshe's one of the six. Unbelievable.
We've been talking to Katie since shewas nine years old, and the reason
we started talking to Katie is thatshe was part of the memory. You
know, we talked about the BonniePlants Cabbage program where they give free cabbage

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plants to the third graders and youcan learn more about that at Bonnie Bonniecabbage
program dot com. They give awaylike a million cabbage plants every year.
It's crazy and it's a great wayto get kids involved with gardening. Well
that's where Katie got her cabbage plantfrom Bonnie Plants at third grade, took
it home, grew it, parentshelped to grow it, grew a forty
pound cabbage, took it. Theydidn't, you know, they weren't gonna

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eat it, so they took itto a soup kitchen. They made cabbage
stew and served two hundred and seventyfive people with this forty pound head of
cabbage, plus to all the othergoodies. And when she left from that,
this literally happened. I I knowher mom, I've talked to him.
She said, this is what Iwant to do. I want to
feed the hungry. And from thatpoint forward, her parents supported her,

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got her involved with a website.Katie's Crops took it from there and she
has done so many great things,still going to still school, still graduating
from college. She was a swimmer, competitive athletic things. You know,
just unbelievable story. And we getto talk to her once or twice a
year on the show and we stayin touch also, but just phenomenal.

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But again, check out our website. It's katiescrops dot com. And again,
if you don't have any kids involvedor whatever you want to donate,
that's a great way to donate thatyou know what your money's going to do
when you send it to her.And again, if you have a third
grader, or you know a thirdgrader, or a third grade teacher or
somebody in school that has third graders, you can apply for the Bonnie Plants
Cabbage program. Get on it rightaway because they'll give you, send your

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kids in your class free cabbage plantto take, plant grow. They're the
Mammy Mammoth Cabbage and then they writea little story about it, take a
picture of it when they harvest it, and they can win a scholar I
think it's one thousand dollars scholarship fromthis as well. All great programs that
get kids involved with gardening. ButI always say, look, we're that
that one little three leaf cabbage planttook Katie Stagliano got her involved and look

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at where she went. You know, yep, getting kids involved with gardening,
and gardening got her involved with that, but it took it a whole
new step, helping the community,helping to feed the hungry. Just unbelievable
what that three leaved little plant didto get her involved with that. Great
story. Katiescrops dot Com, Jerryand Ford Thomas, thanks for holding on
You're in the garden with Ron Wilson. Hey, good morning, Ron.

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Let's I have a simple question andmaybe one you've already answered this morning that
I just turned to show on.That's okay, I've got two plants that
have out and grown with their planet, and I want to move them.
When's the right time to do that? What are they? One is a
hot biscus and the other is acrape myrtle. Okay, you can still

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do that now, we're still planting. Now, we're still transplanting. Now,
Uh, when they are Dorman's thebest time to do it? So
that would give you spring or falland spring meaning late winter early spring before
they the butt start to swell.And of course the crape myrtle is one
of the latest things to leaf outin your yard, so you got a
little bit more time on that one. In the spring, the hydrangeas can

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be very early and you don't knowwhat the weather's going to be like.
But you know, anytime late winteruntil they start those butts start to swell,
and the spring works anytime fall actuallythrough up until the holidays, you
know, so we're getting there.The crape myrtle, you know, that's
a little bit more in a heartinessborderline. I would probably if it were

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in my yard, i'd move it. But in your case, what you
might want to do is move thehydrange you get it resettled back in whatever,
Hang on that myrtle until the spring. Let it go through the winter,
just settled in if you can whereit is, and in the springtime
then because you're gonna cut it backa little bit and clean up some of
the dead wood and move it atthat point before it starts to leaf out.

(28:12):
I think that'd be a good thing. That way, there's no shock
to that plant over the winter time. It's still rooted in. Well,
you know, it'll over winter alot. You just a little bit better
doing that. In my art,I probably would go ahead and move it
anyway, but you know, don'tI'm telling you I'd probably just if you
want to do it, but otherwise, if you can hang on, save

(28:33):
that one til sometime in the spring, again while it's still dormant. So
when you say spring, are youthinking like late March. Yeah, we're
talking mid to late March, assoon as the weather starts to break enough
that we can get out there andstart to work. But they're not leafing
out yet. And the thing aboutthe hydrange is they'll start to leaf out
late March, so you'd have tojump on that one right away. I
mean, really watch those buds,the crepe myrtle, it'll be the last

(28:59):
thing to leaf out that may.It happened till late April or early May,
depending on the weather and the situationwhere it's planted, so you have
a little bit more time on thatone. But it's just the bottom line,
as Jerry, they need to bein a dormant state when you move
them, whether that be fall orwhether that be late winter early spring.
Yeah, so the leaves are offnow and the dorm it. But you

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know, I just couldn't know ifI should do it now or wait till
spring. Yeah. The how youmentioned cutting back, how far back should
I cut it well, the hydrangeis I wouldn't do anything. You'll leave
those alone. I don't know whatkind of hydrange it is, but you
know, again, if it's themacropylotype, the buds are all set for
next year for flowers, you'd leavethat thing alone. The other varieties flower

(29:41):
on new wood, so if youcut it back now, it's okay because
they flower on new growth. ButI just leave everything alone if you can,
and just tie it up and moveit as is and transplant it.
The crape myrtle becomes a situation whereyou cut it back depending on how much
winter damage you on it. Sometimesyou get a lot, sometimes you don't

(30:02):
get any. So you kind ofclean them up in the springtime and cut
them back for a cleanup, uh, and then take it from there.
Okay, I'll probably wait till spring. That's and again the only the only
thing about and that's fine and that'llwork nicely for you, is we never
know what the spring weather is goingto be, and so you know,
sometimes it's rains, it rains,it rains, it's nasty, you can't

(30:22):
get out there. Next thing youknow, there arguers start to butt and
leaf out. It's like Oh,then you're kind of on that borderline.
Do I move it or do Inot? Whereas in the fall, you
know they're gonna stay dormant. Thecrepe myrtle, I'd say hold on to
it till till spring. The hydrangeataway either way, Very good, all
right, Jerry, for our pleasure, have a good have a good weekend,

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and enjoy the holidays. Hey,you too. I appreciate the comments
there and then, and we willenjoy the holiday as a matter of fact,
looking forward to Thanksgiving coming up,because that's one of my favorite holidays.
You know, you kind of canrelax and just watch football and the
Thanksgiving Day parading, eat food,not a lot of pressure on Thanksgiving Day.
I like that one. And that'scoming up next Thursday. Can you

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or he says the blog, andI say website. I'm just old
school Gary Sullivan online dot com.The one, the only mister Gary.
Some of them, yep, babyman, they look about forty five people.
Oh picked you out. They're they'reall still hanging around from Ron Rockets

(33:44):
being here earlier. All of hisfans there you go. They have all
their tree harnesses on. They're hangingfrom the open ceilings. Here the beams
up top. Oh yeah, likethey're hanging from trees. Them and the
bears. Huh them and the bears. Bears are hanging out in trees right
now too, are they? Oh? Yeah, I come, I don't
know. I just saw pictures's downin the Smokies all these bears climbing up

(34:07):
this tree and just kind of hangingout in the trees, and I went,
I never seen that before. AndI don't think i've seen that either.
Maybe it's a photoshop. I don'tknow. Can you believe it or
can you not believe it? Well, they do climb. They do climb
trees. I mean, climbing upa tree doesn't save you from a bear.
No. And they're fast going upa tree, and they're pretty quick,
yep, And they think for me. I can assure you that if

(34:29):
it's a smaller tree, they canshake you out of there too. That's
not good, that's bad. Yeah, I don't, mister bear. Well,
one thing for sure, if I'mout there in the woods, and
I hope i'm with you, whyyou know, because I'm fast, bigger,
faster than you. You're faster,and I'm a bigger meal. Two

(34:52):
friends speaking like friends, Uh,you know i'd be right there for you.
Yeah, I wouldn't run a hey, mister bearer, can I hope
you shake that tree? Nah?Uh? In those trees, they don't
have any leaves on them. Whathappened? Finally, well, you know
what, there's still I still lookaround. There are still trees with leaves

(35:13):
on them. Yeah, they're evasivespecies tree. The pairs obviously, and
the honeysuckle still has the leaves,but it's evasive species. Run. Yeah,
that's it's It just shows you.It just shows you what they can
do. First one out, last, one to go away. I still
see a few maples with some leaveson. I still see a few ginkos
here, and there still some colorstill some oaks. Yeah, and oaks

(35:34):
always hang on to them late.So they've got a few leaves up in
some of the oak trees, andyeah, very few in mine. My
pinoak, it just had about twentypercent of the leaves left. I gosh,
really mowed a lot. I thinkmaybe one more cutting. I'm done.
I'm done. Woke up the nextmorning there's twenty percent of the leaves.
They all fell there you go.It's like, well, they're on
the ground. Now Gar, Yes, I got to get motivated to do

(35:55):
it again. But maybe maybe Sunday. It's supposed to be warm and it's
a it's not a heavy covering,No, but twenty percent on the tree
looks like not much and on thegrounds looks like a lot. Yeah,
I get that must have been thebears shaking the tree. That's what it
was. I thought I heard somerumblings outside. That's well, that was

(36:16):
the bears and other things too,I'm sure for sure. Yeah, So
what's going on around your house ifyou start thinking about Christmas? Shit?
No, okay, now we haveyou're a late decorator, and you keep
it up till like what March.No, No, I'm I'm the two
weeks before Christmas and two weeks afterChristmas January sixth or whatever that is.

(36:39):
It hasn't started either. I'm justcurious about you. I follow what you
teach me. There are you know, my wife loves decorating for Christmas inside
or she likes outside, but that'susual left up to me. But inside
and we've already, yes, wealready have things on shelves, a few
towels hanging up, and a fewthings here and there that are holiday related?

(37:00):
Yes, you festive little guy.So, and we have that little
flag you know, the little flagsyou put in your landscape out from that's
getting transferred into the little flags youput out a little flag holder and it
says welcome. Oh yeah, sowe we're now moving over to the holiday
nomes. And and then so,yes, likely redeer is that in your
front yard? We don't do thatstuff. You don't do How about big

(37:22):
inflatables? About story is high?How about the skeleton that's eighteen feet high?
You put crystal lights on them?Because no, yeah, so you
leave it. You know, it'stoo hard to move, So you decorated
for all the holiday seasons. Well, I'm kind of thinking times Christmas lights,
don't you know. I'm thinking aboutknocking on the door and just asking

(37:43):
why. Yeah, I kind ofdon't get that. I mean, this
skeleton was like, it's got tobe between twelve and eighteen feet high.
It's rather wide, and the objecttoo. Yeah. Well I didn't get
close to us scared. But thenlast Sunday I was in Charlotte, did

(38:04):
the show from Charlotte last week,kind of walk in and this guy was
on this ladder and he was puttingall his Christmas lights on the skeleton.
I don't get that. And Ididn't get that. I didn't ask I
might. I minded my own business. There's something about Christmas and doing stuff
like that. It's just it's likecrossing the line from me. It's like,

(38:27):
no, thank you, not goingto do that. That's not what
Christmas is. Skeletic, What skeletonsdoesn't doesn't bring out. That's where I'm
coming from. Okay, So,and I think you are too, mm
hmm. I'm right there with you. Yeah. I don't say, honey,
let's get that skeleton out and uh, well, have a big Halloween,
the well decorated. You want togo red and green lights or you

(38:49):
want to go all red on thatskeleton. Now, we're multi colored lights.
We aren't one color. Oh.I went with a red and green
pearlized light about three years ago.They're round. They're about the size of
a walnut and they're totally round.They're very attractive. It's a ceramic pearlized

(39:10):
coating. It's an LED light.They weren't cheap, and apparently they were
closing them out when I bought them, because I can't find anymore. Wow.
Yeah, but they're kind of neat. Put them on that spruce right
by the front door. Oh yeah, that's nice. So it's not on
the house. It's on the spruce, right, that's cool. Well,

(39:30):
would require a ladder. If itwas on the house, then that'd be
a problem. Rung. Yeah,I can't do that. I don't think
we had. That was our safetytopic this week at work. Oh,
climate, misuse of ladders. Ugh, how many points of contact on the
ladder? Run two, three,four? You don't want too that's one

(39:50):
foot, one arm, and therest of your hanging over to the gutter.
That's bad, bad, Well,the thing above the wall has to
be three should be three feet pastthe should be three feet past the wall
or something like that. Yeah,when you're leaning, I mean all that
kind of stuff. Said. Hey, you know, if you have to
get involved with a ladder like that, you call somebody there you go.
Well, at certain points you do. But you know there was a day

(40:13):
ron where you said to yourself whenyou were on the ladder, twenty four
feet up in the air, Ican reach that. Yeah, I got
it, hold it. I gotone foot on the ladder, one foot,
one hand on the gutter. Itold you I could reach it.
That's not good. Well, myparents happily turned over putting on the Christmas
lights. Putting up the Christmas lightsto me because they went up along the

(40:35):
whole house. Oh boy, walkedthe roof and everything. My parents still
have that that wooden two stage ladderand you spread out that weigh up three.
I was just going to say thattook at least two guys to carry.
It's dry rotted. But you knownow people hang those up and hang
baskets from them and all kinds ofstuff. But they still have that in
the barn and it's a well,that doesn't make it right, ron because

(40:58):
they hang skeletons, They hang lightson skeletons for Christmas. Well, I'm
saying this is like a decoration thing. Remember we went to remember that that
place we went to uh in Montgomeryfor the get together. You and I
couldn't find Yeah Remington, the Remington. Remember they had one across the middle
of the Yeah, and they hadlights hanging from that. Yeah. Yeah,
and that does look good. Yeah, that's kind of cool. What's

(41:19):
with the buzzard? It looks Ithought it was good. You got the
picture of that show in that yeahI should. Yeah, yeah, well
that didn't deserve a buzzer. No, it was a pretty neat, very
beautiful anyway, They still have thatone, and I went to pick that
up individually to move that Oh ohmy gosh, I forgot how heavy that
thing was. But I was veryfar. I was the one that actually
did the peaks of the of thehouse and all that stuff. Coca Cola

(41:46):
on the bottom of your shoes foryou didn't sleep slip, I don't think
so. You didn't know. Youwent across that peak like a deer.
You know it. I can seeyou. Oh yeah, I couldn't wait
to get up there. You knowthat. One time my parents weren't home
and I was just starting to driveand I pulled in my driveway and my
eleven year old brother was just walkingacross the peak of the roof. Said

(42:08):
why would you do in that?Because he wanted to and he was eleven.
Okay, okay, I said,what are you doing? He goes,
I'm walking across the peak of theroof? Did he say peak?
Well, I don't know. Foreleven year old, that's you know.
Yeah, So we don't do thatanymore. No, No, we don't.

(42:29):
Holiday safety. Will chat about thatis that today today, very very
timely, sir, it was holidaysafety and thanks for all your health.
Oh absolutely my pleasure. Gary Solomoncheck out is a bog. Gary Sullimon
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