November 22, 2025 • 43 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:37):
Eight hundred eight two three eight two five five. Good morning.
I am Ron Wilson, your personal yard boy, talking about
yarning on this Saturday beat four Thanksgiving, Joe Jacker. Can
you believe it that we are there? This thing on? Hi?
How are you you believe it that we're there? A
couple of weeks? Can you believe it that we are there?
Speaker 2 (00:53):
We are there? I told you I'd say it every year,
and everyone just doubts me every year.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
It's the same old, same old. So it's kick it
off with the cup of Joe mister Joe Strucker, executive producer.
Find out what's going on our website, Ryn Wilson online
dot com. Fix with page in the garden with Run Wilson.
You have your Christmas tree up yet?
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Yes? I do?
Speaker 1 (01:09):
Actually do you?
Speaker 2 (01:10):
Yep?
Speaker 1 (01:12):
No?
Speaker 2 (01:12):
Yeah, let me let me hang on. I will go ahead,
and Hill.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
Can you just put that in the closet? You actually
put it back in a box? Oh it's it's it's up.
You roll it out, roll it back in. It it's up.
Have you had it lit up yet?
Speaker 3 (01:30):
No?
Speaker 2 (01:30):
I haven't had the lights on it yet. I put
up the tree yesterday. Oh yeah, it's nice.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
Is that nice. What is that a royal pine? Yep? Interesting?
Speaker 2 (01:40):
Spells nice?
Speaker 1 (01:43):
Do you have a little things tide on it? The
fragrance smell nice.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
It's a little piece of plastic that every ten days
kind of you kind of pull it down a little bit.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
That's a little set cones things.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
It's got a lot of It's got a lot of
room for presence underneath it.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
That's what you need, lots of room for presents anyway.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
So, yeah, I haven't seen you in a while. I
already been. Where have you been?
Speaker 1 (02:09):
No, I've been here. Where have you been?
Speaker 2 (02:10):
Where have I been?
Speaker 1 (02:11):
I've been here? You been off?
Speaker 2 (02:13):
I've been off. Yeah, us her to lose it if
I don't take the vacation day, they get eaten.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
So I don't do it. I'm with you one hundred percent.
I'm glad you are cool. So just that everybody listening
has to put up with me for the cup of
Joe instead of you. You know, people I don't do
the cup of Joe. Always wind up doing something different
and I wind up not. It takes me three segments
to finally go back and talk about the website. Wow,
(02:40):
so totally discombobulated.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
Discombobulated yep, yep, So thanks what happens when you're out
here Thanksgiving next week?
Speaker 1 (02:48):
Yes? Can you believe that?
Speaker 2 (02:49):
Alrighty, alrighty, And here we I mean, and it's a
late Thanksgiving, so we only got like what three and
a half more weeks until Christmas.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
Well, I started thinking about because now of a sudden,
you're seeing Christmas tree lots with trees in them, and
you start thinking, oh wait a second, So weekend before Thanksgiving,
but with Thanksgiving being at the end of November, very
short period of time, shorter time to buy the trees,
might not be a bad idea to get out this
weekend and buy then get that tree Christmas tree. Yep,
(03:19):
they go in a hurry. It seems like all of
a sudden, boy, that market has changed so much, because
I mean it used to the week you know, the
week of Thanksgiving you got the trees in and then
you were kind of set up for the weekend after,
and then it kicked into gear the following week. Yeah,
not anymore before buying their Christmas trees in August. It's yeah,
well it seems like it seems like it. But the
(03:39):
weekend before weekend after those are big weekends.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
I mean, heck you say it every spring. You know,
Mother's Day used to be to kick off. Now Mother's
Day's the.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
End back in March, as soon as it gets seventy
to three weather, so you get that first. Everybody's in
and out. It's quick early, so but I'm seeing them.
I'm seeing them already. So people just go in and out,
in and out. M So are you all set for Thanksgiving?
Speaker 2 (04:04):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (04:05):
Do you actually take something? Do your family get together
on Thanksgiving Day?
Speaker 2 (04:09):
Well? I just walk up the steps, but I usually
bring the.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
Wine pair something. You bring the wine.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
Usually bring the wine.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
Like reasling red wine, white wine, and the assortment.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
Well my my, my dad likes red wine, so I
usually get red wine.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
Just a table wine.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
I usually I spend a little money on it.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
Okay, I'm just curious. I'm not a wine kind of sewerside.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
Not either. I just I just I default to the experts,
you know, I'm not. I mean, I'm that's my little contribution,
right along with my personality and my life.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
Sure, you light up the room when you walk in. Oh,
I know, I just like the just like the fourth
of July, Well, the rest of the family be there.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
Yeah, just my brother and brother and the girls and
mom and Dad's that's fun other than his family about
ten ten to twelve, okay, and then mom pretty much
takes care of Yeah, and you're not allowed to. I mean,
I've I made the mistake in the past of volunteering,
like my oven or to make something so she doesn't
(05:13):
have to make it. And yeah, that's it's very important
to her. Good And you know, she's eighty six, so
she can do that. Sure, good for her, And it's
she likes doing it. She likes providing for you know,
making food dinner for the family. So I'm not going
to deprive her of that.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
Good. Now, when you walk to the Thanksgiving table, yeah,
and you look at that table, what is the most
important thing to you on that table?
Speaker 2 (05:39):
The first thing? Okay, let's just go with the first
thing on the plate. What's the first thing that you
put on your plate?
Speaker 1 (05:44):
Turkey? Okay? I put mashed potatoes first. Well, then the
mashed potatoes would be next.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
And the reason I put mashed potatoes is because that's
a good bass. It's kind of like when you're making
a soft taco. You put the beans on first to
create a good based You last so you put the
mashed potatoes first and the turkey in the middle.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
You put a hole in the mashed potatoes to put
the gravy in you. No, it's it's it's it's more
like I just covered the bowl like a lake. No,
it's like you put it down and you just kind
of make it flat, and you put your turkey on it,
and then you put all your fixings around it so
that every time you scoop, you get a little bit
of potato everything, potato gravy. Yeah, got it. That's the
(06:26):
way I do it. Okay, that's that's all right. Is
there one thing you have to have for Thanksgiving that's
really important to I mean turkey and mashed potatoes dressing.
That's the two.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
The two big things are my mom's my my grandma's stuffing,
grandma's recipe, and the second thing is my mom's cranberry sauce.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
So she makes a fresh cranberry sauce. She makes a.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
Fresh cranberry sauce, and guess who she got the recipe
from a former radio host that used to be on.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
This station, Miss Marilyn Harris.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
She's been using that it's got to be for thirty years.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
Cool, same recipe. Cool. My mom still has one of
her aprons, I think in her cookbooks.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
And my mom still reads her cookbooks.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
Yep, yep. Yeah. My dad even listen. She had a
lot of mail listeners. Hey, Dad used to listen to her. Hey.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
I remember sitting at the back in the back in
the day when when they were on during the week
days and sitting at the kitchen table doing my homework
and listening to them because Mom had it on. And
then I started. Then I worked with them.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
Yeah, and all of a sudden, I'm working with her.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
And Sully and they over back and all those guys.
So anyway, we're getting off the rails. Definitely off the
rails here. Yeah, so so yeah, so what what are
you doing with ferry sauce and stuffing?
Speaker 1 (07:54):
And those are the two best things? So green onions,
what about you? I gotta have green onions. People think
I'm nuts. I love green onions. I like all the
other stuffs. Yeah, Booker T and the MGS the best,
the onions. It's kind of yeah. Yeah, he was practicing
(08:23):
one day. Booker T was this rep and this musician,
this teacher had to practice this rep every day. That's
that rep and he was using it for warm up
and somebody said, you gotta use that for a song.
A song. The more started from there you go, the
more I know. So who did? What guests do you
have on today? Two guests. We're going to talk two
(08:44):
books today. We had a book last week about canning
and it was a really cool book. Well, we're kind
of follow that up with the books called Vibrant Harvest
by Sandra Male and she's out on the West coast,
so we're gonna wake her up early to get her
on the show. She's in our list hour. What are
books called Vibrant Harvest and she focuses on growing things
that are really colorful in the vegetable garden. So she
(09:07):
looks at color and of course all of those are
supposed to be extra good for you as well. Cool
book about grow and it's growing news and she also
takes it through as far as canning them and all,
but it's for all the colorful things that you grow
in your garden. So I look forward to that one.
And then we've got doctor triple A back with us
again and his new book is now being a special
(09:27):
release just some time for the holidays, just in time
for the holidays called Common Sense Garden.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
And if you buy it off his website you get they're.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
Printing a thousand total that they're going to have for
holiday sales. And then the regular book comes out after
the first of.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
The year and he's going to sign him and.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
Those will be signed. So yeah, so we'll talk about
that too. So two books today, of course, Gary Sullivan,
you Danny and no Buggy Joe. No Buggy Joe. He's
taking it easy, so uh getting read what football game?
Speaker 2 (10:01):
I'm sure.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
Their website is Ron Wilson online dot com and the
Facebook page in the Garden with Ron Wilson. By the way, doctors.
He texted me last week from Argentina, Argentina. His brother,
I guess lives in Argentina and got married name No
all went down there and for his wedding.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
Very cool.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
That's not doctor Laura money.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
He can afford. You can afford plane tickets Argentina. Man, Well,
he went to Iceland a couple of years ago. I
know he's been all the men of the world. Do
it now before he has kids? Yep, and poor Bowsers
in the Bowser old kennel. Bowsers in the kennel going
oh bo bow bow bow bow. So uh check out
(10:41):
this week's graphic. Yes, it's probably Thanksgiving related.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
What even these graphics? You're killing me? Man, Hey, I
got you gotta have funnier than Hey, you got you
gotta you know, lighten it up?
Speaker 2 (10:54):
You are?
Speaker 1 (10:55):
You are? You think of it? Look like boom how
or the other guy on the King of the Hill
and the beer.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
Yeah, I can't either. Yeah, gosh, I forget what his
name is. But anyway, so we uh, the the chat
rooms are up and running, and again comments on the
graphic are welcome and uh. This week on the website,
we have, in addition to oli Rito's other Thanksgiving recipes,
(11:23):
She's got a Thanksgiving appetizer, like a cheeseball kind of thing.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
Yeah, it looked pretty good, so.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
I with see. I'm not a big spicy guy, so
I wouldn't I would take off the hallowpenios.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
I'm not a big hallopenion. But you could put none hot.
You can just forget the peppers you have to put
them in. Just have a cheeseballo, he says, A pepper
pizza going right now. But I couldn't eat that too many.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
You know. Thirty years ago I could probably eat the
heck out of that, but not anymore. That is long.
It has long.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
It's got green and red peppers and yellow pepper and
then they said it just a slight mix of some time.
I got warmer peppers in there.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
I went. I went to a sports bar the other
day and I had it was like an Italian like
a flatbread, Italian flat bread. It had it didn't say
it on the menu, but it had spicy Italian sausage on.
I didn't think I could. I got like through two pieces.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
Really yeah, I did in huh.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
Yeah, and it did me in later too.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
And And speaking of that, in addition to Rita's recipe,
we got Ron Wilson's White Castle hamburger stuffing.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
Just a big demand for that. Every year. People look
at that and go, oh, you gotta be kidding me. Yep,
But then they may if they make it and make
it and it's like a pretty darn good good Yeah,
So there you go. I get requests to bring it
all the time. And in the graphic for it's pretty funny.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
Hey, Like I said, you got a a little striker
and the the plan of the week. Yes, we were
just talking about it. Christ's Trees fresh cut Christmas Tree.
We'll talk about that more as we get into the show,
but man if I can influence you, and they look
good this year. Wow, everything I've seen so far this
week looking pretty nice. And they're gonna go quick. So
if you've decided to go with that live cut for
(13:10):
Christmas Tree, probably thinking about ye got me all choked up,
all choked up about it.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
Wow, go out this weekend and then get that taken
care of her next week for sure. So we'll talk
more about that we get that done. And I'm never
any if you noticed, for all the folks who have
listened over the years, I don't get on Joe anymore
about not using the cut for at Christmas Tree. I
gave up gonna go. I did get the Dog's gonna
go anywhere. It was never gonna get the dog. Yeah,
(13:37):
and I got four's got four? But the cut Christmas
Tree is just never gonna happen. Yeah, So I gave up.
But the first year I get one, I'll get four.
I didn't give up. I just quit bugging.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
You should. Yeah, it's not trust me, it's not.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
I know, it's nuts. Why I said I don't I
don't say anymore.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
That is, there's there's a couple of absolutes, death taxes,
and me not getting a cut Christmas.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
I I two or three years ago, was going to
go to Gracie and say, look, Grace, do me a favor.
I bring this over with a stand which you put
it up somewhere with lights on it so that I
can say that, you know, you guys have a And
I just didn't do it because I was afraid to
make you mad.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
Because she knows the exact same she she.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
Knows, she knows. That's that's why I didn't do it.
There you go, all right, that's it. Yep. Are you
sure I'm gonna go home and watch the game two? Yeah,
me too, yep, get ready for it?
Speaker 2 (14:34):
Cool?
Speaker 1 (14:34):
All right? Joe Streckerd, executive Rutgers. It's not even it's
not you can't even.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
You can't even.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
Say that in an knock of Ohio State today. So hey,
don't even say that. I know you. It's no, I know,
but it's not even on the betting apps. That's how
bad they're supposed to get cream to day, you can't
even I mean, you can't even wager on it. Then
next week mm hmm. Another game, yep, another game. I
(15:05):
like the way Ryan days approaching it. This year, there's
no focus on that game. That's always, I think been
an issue. You have told you that forever. They let
that get in their head, and this year has been
gained by game no mention yep of that final game yep.
And I'm glad Funny get that out of there. There
you go, all right, Joe Streigert's my soapbox. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
Well, and and you know, I honestly think we should.
We should also hope that Oregon keeps winning because Ohio
State's got to play that eight to nine game and
Oregon has been stuck in the eight nine game for
two weeks. And Oregon scares me.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
Looking pretty good.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
They are good. Yeah, Oregon scares me. I'd rather have
them play one of the other teams.
Speaker 4 (15:46):
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Speaker 1 (15:47):
I actually texted Harold last week. Harold from Alabama gold Tide. Yeah,
I said, Okay, take a deep breath, War.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
Eagle, all right, all right, all right, we gotta go.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
All right. Joe Strecker, Executive Producer. If you'd like, we
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Joe did not have anything to do with Don't blame him.
Not my fault, not his fault. Blame.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
Can't blame Doctor Z's in Argentina.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
I don't know if he's back here or not, but
let's pretend he's still there, so he can't blame him either.
But send him an email anyway, let him know about it.
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that tot free number eight hundred eight two three eight
two five five talking about yarding on this weekend before Thanksgiving?
Can you believe that? And of course Thanksgiving being later
this year, four Thursday obviously of every Thanksgiving every November,
but the late one this year. So as Joe and
I were talking earlier, you look around right now, don't say, well,
(19:48):
all the Christmas trees are in cot trees already. This
is too early. No, Actually, it's timing wise is right on.
And I'm telling you you might if you're thinking Christmas tree,
we're gonna talk about it that to the break. You
might want to consider getting out this weekend or early
next week to get that tree. As they seed be
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Speaker 1 (22:08):
We're talking yardening at eight hundred eight two three eight
two five five. Good morning. I am run Wilson, your
personal yard boy. Don't forget our website. It's run Wilson
online dot com. Our plan of the week this week,
of course, has to be the cut Christmas tree, and
I'll throw in with the cut Christmas tree a live
balden burl abb tree as well. EATA one works for me.
(22:30):
I'm not a big artificial tree fan. I get it.
Sometimes it's just the only way to go. I understand.
I'm not gonna argue that fact. There's a lot of
pros and calls to it, but I just you know,
it was nice in the when COVID hit that, all
of a sudden the interest in live cut trees came back.
It seemed like it really rejuvenated it. A lot of
(22:51):
folks going back to the tradition and it is a
true family tradition of that cut Christmas tree, and a
lot of folks went back to it and kind of
staying with it. And I think it's great. But what's
interesting about the change and cut Christmas trees is that,
I mean, you know, twenty five thirty years ago, and
I've been in this business for a long time. You know,
(23:13):
you used to set up, as I was telling Joe earlier,
you would get the trees in the week before Thanksgiving
or of Thanksgiving, depending on when it fell. And then
that weekend you had everything set up basically but not
too busy. And then the following week after that you
would start to get busy, and then that weekend first
week in December really started to kick in. Today you hesitate,
(23:34):
the trees are gone. Everybody's out early. You get out,
you get the tree early, and wow, they are gone
in a flash. So if you are looking at getting
a cut Christmas tree, and there's plenty out there, let
me let me back up a second. I don't see anything.
I haven't read anything about shortages, you know, anything like that,
any major price increases. I haven't read anything about that.
(23:57):
So we're looking good there, and so there's plenty of
trees available. It's just that, you know, each lot has
a certain amount of trees that they get in and
then they're done. And sometimes they can reorder and get
a few in late. Sometimes they can't. So you know, again,
if you're looking at a cut Christmas tree, I might suggest,
if you're not traveling this weekend, you might want to
(24:18):
take a look this weekend or the next week before
Thanksgiving and get that tree now. If you do that,
all right, If you do that, and we may do
that ourselves, because I know a couple of years ago
I waited until the week after Thanksgiving and there wasn't
anything left. Hardly. I still got the tree. Is still
look great the whole nine yards, but selection had really
gone quickly. If you do that, though, they'll sleeve that
(24:42):
up for you when you're at the Christmas tree lot,
and then let them do that. And don't let them
put a fresh cut on the butt of the tree
unless you're going to immediately take it home and put
it in water, whether it be in the tree stand
itself or in a bucket of water. Now, some folks
will buy their tree, take it home, maybe not put
it up for a week or so, but they'll stand
it up immediately in a bucket of water. And if
(25:04):
you do that, haven't put a fresh cut on the
butt and then put it in the water and do that,
which is great. I don't go to that extreme. So
I will get it. I'll get it sleeved, and then
I'll put it in a cool, dark area. Sometimes I'll
even put it in you know where it's really shaded,
and I'll even hose it a little bit or throw
(25:26):
water on it to keep cut some moisture around it
and shade it. And that does a pretty good job.
And then eventually I'll take it out, get the fresh cut,
put it in the stand. If the weather's nice, I
like hosing it off. I'll actually get the hose out,
hose the thing off get all the needles out and
then set it up. And of course once you make
that fresh cut, remember that thing can seal over literally
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within about a two hour period. So once you get
the fresh cut on there, it's important to get that
in the water right away. It's just like a I
always say, we'll get it as treating it like a
vase of fresh flowers, fresh cut flowers. Treat it exactly
the same way. But again, if you buy it early,
keep it sleeved up, put it in the shade, out
of the sun, keep some moisture to it. If you
(26:08):
can stand it up in a shady area like in
the corner of the house or something that'll support that,
and stick it into a bucket, that's great and that'll
help to start taking moisture up right away. Keep the
bucket full of water. Make sure you monitor that until
you're ready to put that cut tree up. But they
look good so far. Frazer Fur And it's amazing how
that market has changed as well. It's started to really
(26:30):
dominate the market as far as the cut Christmas trees.
Way back when it used to be Scotch pine and
Scotch pine plants. One that is an evergreen that the
Christmas tree growers could cut in October and ship those
in November and December and they would last forever Scotch
(26:51):
Pine as long as you got some water to them.
That thing held up for that was you know, that
was the Christmas tree, and we sold more of those
than anything else. Douglas fir was like a premiere. Occasionally
get some con color furs in and a few Fraser
furs are balsam. And of course now Fraser fur pretty
much taken over the market and it's always been my favorite.
(27:13):
My dad used to kid me about it all the time,
having that Fraser fur more layered. They like the Douglas
fir was real thick and you know, really nice. We
always liked the layered Fraser look. But it is the
dominant tree today, so you know it's it's a beaute,
there's no doubt about it. And good fragrance as well.
But again, if you buy it early, and I suggest
that you do, keep it sleeved up, put it in
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the shade, maybe pour some water on it, hose it down,
or if you can stick it in the bucket of water,
that's even better. Until you're ready to go to put
it up fresh cut again in the stand and don't
ever let that thing dry out. As a matter of fact,
let's go to Delaware and talk to Pat Pat. Good morning, Hey,
good morning Ron. Yes, sir, I love I love the talk.
Speaker 3 (27:53):
Mout Christmas trees. In the early nineties, I was a
member of the All to This Club and we would
run a Christmas tree lot, and so I would encourage
people to find the charity of related people that sell them.
But there were people from the club that would go
(28:16):
up to the I was in South Carolina. They would
go up to North Carolina and hand tag the trees
we were going to sell them.
Speaker 1 (28:27):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (28:27):
And I would work a lot, a few nights during
the week and then weekends. And when I found most
warning is people may come in grumpy that one they
take a tree out.
Speaker 1 (28:46):
They're happy. Everybody's happy. You're right, you know, I tell you,
you're right back. Great memories, I tell you. All through
my life, I always look forward to Christmas because it
was so much fun. Families coming in picking out that tree.
You're right coming in, you know, and not everybody wanted
to go, But once you got in there and you
started looking at the trees and going through the trees,
(29:07):
got the firebarrow going, you got a little bit of
that smell in the air, and it just was a
good time. And you're right, by the time folks left,
they were having fun. And those were the memories for
me anyway. And I've always enjoyed selling cut Christmas trees.
It was just a lot of fun.
Speaker 3 (29:25):
Which when one of the benny says, I could get
a tree at cost. Yeah, and these were really good trees.
We didn't. We didn't just take the hear it give
us fifty trees. They were all hands thick, so we
had really good, full trees. So they were big and beautiful.
Speaker 1 (29:49):
I'll tell you what great memories with a cut tree,
There's no doubt about it. You still use a cut
tree today.
Speaker 3 (29:55):
And no, no, unfortunately, were with the plast.
Speaker 1 (30:01):
Well you know, yeah, well, you know, as we as it,
folks get older and the things downsize and all. I
get it. It does happen sometimes. But I'm gonna tell
you what. We're still with a live tree at our
house and I hope to keep it going as long
as I can.
Speaker 3 (30:15):
Yeah. Well, how one year we have a live ball tree,
not planted it out in the front yard and it died,
so the after it dropped, all its needles follow when
you're up, like red Christmas falls on it. It was
like the neighborhood Charlie Brown Christmas.
Speaker 1 (30:39):
There you go. I love it. Hey, Pat, I appreciate
the call, great memories, good talking with you. Appreciate you
listening to our show. And before we take a break,
Dick from Dayton, good morning.
Speaker 6 (30:51):
Hey, how are you a great show you've had? You
know what what my career at Lows The day after Thanksgiving?
Speaker 1 (31:01):
Yep.
Speaker 6 (31:02):
I remember they brought those trees in with the truck
and they had the Christmas trees out and they would
put them in a machine. And I was helping that
year and we just they just would you know, the ship.
But people would line up that day, like on Black Friday,
and just during that holiday for ten days there they
(31:24):
would go and buy those trees.
Speaker 3 (31:26):
You know.
Speaker 1 (31:27):
Yep.
Speaker 6 (31:27):
It was so neat.
Speaker 1 (31:28):
It was fun to watch people come in. It's you know,
and you go home, you got needles in your pockets
and you take your clothes off and your needles everywhere
and take a shower and they're in the shower. But
it was just the smells and the memories and the
excitement and all that was is always great.
Speaker 6 (31:45):
It is, it is. I remember it just like it's
a tradition, yea, because you'd walk in there. I always
liked to see the lights and then they had the plants,
but the trees, I mean, people would line up that
early in the morning. You know, I worked there by
the Fairfield Mall. But I can remember putting them on
(32:06):
the truck. Those things are pretty heavy, you know.
Speaker 1 (32:08):
Oh yeah, it was. You know, it was a lot
of work and you had to you know, unload them
and unsleeve them and stand them up, then help people
buy them and then sleave them back up and put
them back in the car. But it was fun. It
was a lot of fun. And like you said, lots
and lots of great memories.
Speaker 6 (32:24):
I heard from my Aarond. She's been there a long time,
but she wished me and she said, Dick, you know
it's been a little while. But the store there in
Beaver Creek, I don't think a lot of my my
friends tell me or call me. It's never been. Everybody was,
(32:44):
you know, left or retired. But it was a great time.
But she said, with all that crew that you were in, Dick,
the people miss everybody.
Speaker 1 (32:53):
There, and you were a legend the people there. Well,
Dick from Dayton was a legend, true legend. Hey, I
got one question for you, and we got to de
ted take a break here. Thanksgiving coming up Thursday. What's
your favorite thing for Thanksgiving? Besides turkey and mashed potatoes?
Speaker 6 (33:11):
I like the hashbrown casserole.
Speaker 1 (33:14):
Ooh, hash brown casseroles. That sounds great.
Speaker 6 (33:19):
Oh yeah, and then there is another one. I like
sweet potato pie.
Speaker 1 (33:24):
Oh yeah, gotta have sweet potato pie.
Speaker 3 (33:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (33:28):
Well, Dick, you have a great Thanksgiving and we'll talk
to you next Saturday. Have a great day, all right,
Take care Dick from Dayton. Ladies and gentlemen, quick break,
we come back. Phone lines will be open for you
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Speaker 1 (35:23):
Talking Yarding at eight hundred eight two three eight two
five five. Good morning, I am Ron Wilson, your personal
yardboy on this weekend before Thanksgiving. Are you on the
road traveling this weekend? I be careful, please, I couldn't
believe the number record of people that are going to
be traveling for Thanksgiving, uh, the Thanksgiving week and head
it out this weekend and all next week. Crazy stuff,
(35:45):
So be careful. Not that the roads aren't there already
too busy, but wow, eighty three million or something like that,
that's unbelievable. Danny, You're not going anywhere, are you? Right here?
Right to the studios and back to.
Speaker 2 (35:59):
The studios in and maybe to the kitchen and back,
I mean the dining room and back.
Speaker 1 (36:03):
Yeah, you're right to the kitchen and back. Yes, yeah,
you got it. Uh, talking to your arding at eight
hundred eight two three eight two five five. Good question
of this week is still folks asking can I continue
to plant? Are we still good to go? You know,
we've had some great rainfall through here this week. It's amazing.
In some areas I went out, I always take my
I always do my spade test. After a good shower,
(36:25):
I take my sharp square spade, throw it into the ground.
See how far it goes down before it stops. And uh,
good moisture in the top couple inches of the soil.
But it again down deeper. It still gives a little
bit more. But this is a good thing, and this
is going to really help us out for especially the
evergreens as we go into the late fall and into
the winter season, making sure we've got good moisture. But
(36:47):
question being is twofold, how long can I keep planting?
Speaker 3 (36:50):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (36:50):
You know we say falls it is excellent time for planting,
all right, so that means fall is over like this
technically December like twenty first, so right up until Christmas.
Landscape crews will continue to plant as long as the
weather is conducive for planting up until the holidays with
no problem, and depending on the site, can do larger
plant planting like tree shade trees and things like that
(37:12):
through the winter, but definitely up until right before the
Christmas season, so you've still got you know, easily four
to five weeks of planting time, depending on the weather.
The second question comes up as Okay, you've been talking
about watering, especially the evergreens for newly planted and newly
planted within the last couple of years and existing too.
(37:33):
If it's been you know, really dry in your area,
how long do I need to keep watering? And as
you know, that's that's a great question at least until
Thanksgiving if you can keep it good moisture until Thanksgiving.
Typically after that, temperatures cooled down enough that we're in
pretty good shape after that. Now, if it stays still
dry after that, I am not hesitant at all to
(37:57):
hook that hose back up and get out there and
give those a good soaking again right up until the
holiday season and then you can back off. And I
also look out there January February, if we don't get snowfall,
we don't get some moisture in the ground and stays
a little bit warmer, dumping a dumping a five gallon
(38:17):
bucket of water on that immediate rootball in January and February,
just to make sure we've got good moisture in there.
So at least through Thanksgiving, I think is going to
be important. And maybe once maybe twice between the Thanksgiving
and Christmas and you should be good to go, all right,
So you know, keep the hose available just in case.
(38:38):
And again the rain showers we've had has been very nice,
very helpful, but again physically check make sure you check
underneath it. Sometimes when you get rain come through. Remember
you know, sometimes those evergreens and trees can be an
umbrella and kind of push that water to the outside.
Sometimes they collect it and drip it down onto the rootball,
but it just depends, so you've got to so again,
(39:00):
as I've always said, count on those rain showers that
come through unless are in an all day soaker as
a bonus to what you're doing as far as watering.
But again, usually through Thanksgiving, and then take a look
at it, maybe once or twice after Thanksgiving up until Christmas,
and again you can continue to plant larger plants. When
you get into smaller plants that are in like a
(39:21):
less than a one gallon sized pot, I start to
get hesitant about that reason being in our area, not
enough time to get rooted in to hold them into
the ground. So hopefully when the ground freezes you mulch
them they stay like that. But if it freezes and
thaws a lot over the winter can shove those bucks
back up out of the ground, so keep your eyes
on those. So I usually kind of start to back off.
(39:42):
And if you have some of that smaller stuff that
you weren't able to get planted, just overwintered in your
unheated garage or an unheated shed, keep it outside till
right until the holidays, and then put it away for
the winter, but you can overwinter like that, bring it
back out in the springtime and go ahead and replant.
At that point are going to go with a live
Christmas tree with the rootball on the bottom that you'll
(40:06):
plant afterwards. And some folks are still doing that or
doing a combination of planting a live tree and the
cut tree as well. Remember, keep it as cool as
you can in the house, keep it limited in the
house maybe seven to ten days, and back outside two
to three days in the garage. Two to three days
in the garage to go back outside and plant it.
Don't hesitate. And I have never pre dug a hole
(40:30):
for planting an evergreen. I never have. I've always done
it after Christmas. What you can do to protect the
area where you're going to plant it is take a
couple bags of pine fines or mulch and lay them
where you're going to plant this tree. That'll help to
insulate the ground so that it stays. If a case
(40:50):
we would get a sudden hard freeze, that'll keep it
from freezing. Pull the bags away, dig plant, use the
pine fines for the soil amendment and the top dressing.
Water it in well and again, this is going to
be key if you're doing these live trees, keeping good
even moisture while it's in the house, and then when
you plant it, watering it in really well. And that's
(41:13):
one and I probably would go back because now it's
not going to get rooted in or started to root
in like we would have gotten if we had planted
in the fall. To go back with a five gallon
bucket of water in January and again in February and
dump a bucket there just to keep good moisture in
net root ball, watered in well, malch it well, and
you're good to go for the winter. But the key
to the success of those live trees is two to
(41:35):
three days acclimating it in the garage, seven to ten
days in the house max keep it cool, keep moisture
to it back outside two to three days and plant it,
don't hesitate, and get it watered in, and you should
be good to go if you do that. If you
keep it longer in the house, you start to increase
your chances of it not making it by planting it outside.
(41:58):
So keep that in mind. Please, one last thing will
stop or will proof both basically the same product. Excellent product.
For helping to preserve the greens fresh greens that you
use in the house, the cut tree and the live tree.
By spraying it before you take it inside, letting it
dry on there helps to seal the moisture in the
needles and really does help to keep them fresher longer
(42:21):
in the home. It's an added little cost to your
fresh greens, but it's well worth it now using an
outside When do you apply that good question. We'll address
that after the break, taking your calls at eight hundred
eight two three, eight two five five. Don't forget our website,
Ron Wilson online dot com. Coming up to the bottom
of the hour, doctor triple a Alan Armitage and at
(42:42):
the top of our next hour, our book is called
Vibrant Harvest with sandom Mouse. She'll be with us as well.
It's all happening here in the garden with Ron Wilson.
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Help with yourself gardener at one eight hundred eight two
three talk You're in the garden with Ron Wilson.
Eight hundred eight two three eight two five five. Good morning.
I am Ron Wilson, your personal yard boy, talking about
yarning on this Saturday beat four Thanksgiving, Joe Jacker. Can
you believe it that we are there? This thing on? Hi?
How are you you believe it that we're there? A
couple of weeks? Can you believe it that we are there?
Speaker 2 (00:53):
We are there? I told you I'd say it every year,
and everyone just doubts me every year.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
It's the same old, same old. So it's kick it
off with the cup of Joe mister Joe Strucker, executive producer.
Find out what's going on our website, Ryn Wilson online
dot com. Fix with page in the garden with Run Wilson.
You have your Christmas tree up yet?
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Yes? I do?
Speaker 1 (01:09):
Actually do you?
Speaker 2 (01:10):
Yep?
Speaker 1 (01:12):
No?
Speaker 2 (01:12):
Yeah, let me let me hang on. I will go ahead,
and Hill.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
Can you just put that in the closet? You actually
put it back in a box? Oh it's it's it's up.
You roll it out, roll it back in. It it's up.
Have you had it lit up yet?
Speaker 3 (01:30):
No?
Speaker 2 (01:30):
I haven't had the lights on it yet. I put
up the tree yesterday. Oh yeah, it's nice.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
Is that nice. What is that a royal pine? Yep? Interesting?
Speaker 2 (01:40):
Spells nice?
Speaker 1 (01:43):
Do you have a little things tide on it? The
fragrance smell nice.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
It's a little piece of plastic that every ten days
kind of you kind of pull it down a little bit.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
That's a little set cones things.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
It's got a lot of It's got a lot of
room for presence underneath it.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
That's what you need, lots of room for presents anyway.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
So, yeah, I haven't seen you in a while. I
already been. Where have you been?
Speaker 1 (02:09):
No, I've been here. Where have you been?
Speaker 2 (02:10):
Where have I been?
Speaker 1 (02:11):
I've been here? You been off?
Speaker 2 (02:13):
I've been off. Yeah, us her to lose it if
I don't take the vacation day, they get eaten.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
So I don't do it. I'm with you one hundred percent.
I'm glad you are cool. So just that everybody listening
has to put up with me for the cup of
Joe instead of you. You know, people I don't do
the cup of Joe. Always wind up doing something different
and I wind up not. It takes me three segments
to finally go back and talk about the website. Wow,
(02:40):
so totally discombobulated.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
Discombobulated yep, yep, So thanks what happens when you're out
here Thanksgiving next week?
Speaker 1 (02:48):
Yes? Can you believe that?
Speaker 2 (02:49):
Alrighty, alrighty, And here we I mean, and it's a
late Thanksgiving, so we only got like what three and
a half more weeks until Christmas.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
Well, I started thinking about because now of a sudden,
you're seeing Christmas tree lots with trees in them, and
you start thinking, oh wait a second, So weekend before Thanksgiving,
but with Thanksgiving being at the end of November, very
short period of time, shorter time to buy the trees,
might not be a bad idea to get out this
weekend and buy then get that tree Christmas tree. Yep,
(03:19):
they go in a hurry. It seems like all of
a sudden, boy, that market has changed so much, because
I mean it used to the week you know, the
week of Thanksgiving you got the trees in and then
you were kind of set up for the weekend after,
and then it kicked into gear the following week. Yeah,
not anymore before buying their Christmas trees in August. It's yeah,
well it seems like it seems like it. But the
(03:39):
weekend before weekend after those are big weekends.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
I mean, heck you say it every spring. You know,
Mother's Day used to be to kick off. Now Mother's
Day's the.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
End back in March, as soon as it gets seventy
to three weather, so you get that first. Everybody's in
and out. It's quick early, so but I'm seeing them.
I'm seeing them already. So people just go in and out,
in and out. M So are you all set for Thanksgiving?
Speaker 2 (04:04):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (04:05):
Do you actually take something? Do your family get together
on Thanksgiving Day?
Speaker 2 (04:09):
Well? I just walk up the steps, but I usually
bring the.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
Wine pair something. You bring the wine.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
Usually bring the wine.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
Like reasling red wine, white wine, and the assortment.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
Well my my, my dad likes red wine, so I
usually get red wine.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
Just a table wine.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
I usually I spend a little money on it.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
Okay, I'm just curious. I'm not a wine kind of sewerside.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
Not either. I just I just I default to the experts,
you know, I'm not. I mean, I'm that's my little contribution,
right along with my personality and my life.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
Sure, you light up the room when you walk in. Oh,
I know, I just like the just like the fourth
of July, Well, the rest of the family be there.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
Yeah, just my brother and brother and the girls and
mom and Dad's that's fun other than his family about
ten ten to twelve, okay, and then mom pretty much
takes care of Yeah, and you're not allowed to. I mean,
I've I made the mistake in the past of volunteering,
like my oven or to make something so she doesn't
(05:13):
have to make it. And yeah, that's it's very important
to her. Good And you know, she's eighty six, so
she can do that. Sure, good for her, And it's
she likes doing it. She likes providing for you know,
making food dinner for the family. So I'm not going
to deprive her of that.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
Good. Now, when you walk to the Thanksgiving table, yeah,
and you look at that table, what is the most
important thing to you on that table?
Speaker 2 (05:39):
The first thing? Okay, let's just go with the first
thing on the plate. What's the first thing that you
put on your plate?
Speaker 1 (05:44):
Turkey? Okay? I put mashed potatoes first. Well, then the
mashed potatoes would be next.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
And the reason I put mashed potatoes is because that's
a good bass. It's kind of like when you're making
a soft taco. You put the beans on first to
create a good based You last so you put the
mashed potatoes first and the turkey in the middle.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
You put a hole in the mashed potatoes to put
the gravy in you. No, it's it's it's it's more
like I just covered the bowl like a lake. No,
it's like you put it down and you just kind
of make it flat, and you put your turkey on it,
and then you put all your fixings around it so
that every time you scoop, you get a little bit
of potato everything, potato gravy. Yeah, got it. That's the
(06:26):
way I do it. Okay, that's that's all right. Is
there one thing you have to have for Thanksgiving that's
really important to I mean turkey and mashed potatoes dressing.
That's the two.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
The two big things are my mom's my my grandma's stuffing,
grandma's recipe, and the second thing is my mom's cranberry sauce.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
So she makes a fresh cranberry sauce. She makes a.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
Fresh cranberry sauce, and guess who she got the recipe
from a former radio host that used to be on.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
This station, Miss Marilyn Harris.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
She's been using that it's got to be for thirty years.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
Cool, same recipe. Cool. My mom still has one of
her aprons, I think in her cookbooks.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
And my mom still reads her cookbooks.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
Yep, yep. Yeah. My dad even listen. She had a
lot of mail listeners. Hey, Dad used to listen to her. Hey.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
I remember sitting at the back in the back in
the day when when they were on during the week
days and sitting at the kitchen table doing my homework
and listening to them because Mom had it on. And
then I started. Then I worked with them.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
Yeah, and all of a sudden, I'm working with her.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
And Sully and they over back and all those guys.
So anyway, we're getting off the rails. Definitely off the
rails here. Yeah, so so yeah, so what what are
you doing with ferry sauce and stuffing?
Speaker 1 (07:54):
And those are the two best things? So green onions,
what about you? I gotta have green onions. People think
I'm nuts. I love green onions. I like all the
other stuffs. Yeah, Booker T and the MGS the best,
the onions. It's kind of yeah. Yeah, he was practicing
(08:23):
one day. Booker T was this rep and this musician,
this teacher had to practice this rep every day. That's
that rep and he was using it for warm up
and somebody said, you gotta use that for a song.
A song. The more started from there you go, the
more I know. So who did? What guests do you
have on today? Two guests. We're going to talk two
(08:44):
books today. We had a book last week about canning
and it was a really cool book. Well, we're kind
of follow that up with the books called Vibrant Harvest
by Sandra Male and she's out on the West coast,
so we're gonna wake her up early to get her
on the show. She's in our list hour. What are
books called Vibrant Harvest and she focuses on growing things
that are really colorful in the vegetable garden. So she
(09:07):
looks at color and of course all of those are
supposed to be extra good for you as well. Cool
book about grow and it's growing news and she also
takes it through as far as canning them and all,
but it's for all the colorful things that you grow
in your garden. So I look forward to that one.
And then we've got doctor triple A back with us
again and his new book is now being a special
(09:27):
release just some time for the holidays, just in time
for the holidays called Common Sense Garden.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
And if you buy it off his website you get they're.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
Printing a thousand total that they're going to have for
holiday sales. And then the regular book comes out after
the first of.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
The year and he's going to sign him and.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
Those will be signed. So yeah, so we'll talk about
that too. So two books today, of course, Gary Sullivan,
you Danny and no Buggy Joe. No Buggy Joe. He's
taking it easy, so uh getting read what football game?
Speaker 2 (10:01):
I'm sure.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
Their website is Ron Wilson online dot com and the
Facebook page in the Garden with Ron Wilson. By the way, doctors.
He texted me last week from Argentina, Argentina. His brother,
I guess lives in Argentina and got married name No
all went down there and for his wedding.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
Very cool.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
That's not doctor Laura money.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
He can afford. You can afford plane tickets Argentina. Man, Well,
he went to Iceland a couple of years ago. I
know he's been all the men of the world. Do
it now before he has kids? Yep, and poor Bowsers
in the Bowser old kennel. Bowsers in the kennel going
oh bo bow bow bow bow. So uh check out
(10:41):
this week's graphic. Yes, it's probably Thanksgiving related.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
What even these graphics? You're killing me? Man, Hey, I
got you gotta have funnier than Hey, you got you
gotta you know, lighten it up?
Speaker 2 (10:54):
You are?
Speaker 1 (10:55):
You are? You think of it? Look like boom how
or the other guy on the King of the Hill
and the beer.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
Yeah, I can't either. Yeah, gosh, I forget what his
name is. But anyway, so we uh, the the chat
rooms are up and running, and again comments on the
graphic are welcome and uh. This week on the website,
we have, in addition to oli Rito's other Thanksgiving recipes,
(11:23):
She's got a Thanksgiving appetizer, like a cheeseball kind of thing.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
Yeah, it looked pretty good, so.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
I with see. I'm not a big spicy guy, so
I wouldn't I would take off the hallowpenios.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
I'm not a big hallopenion. But you could put none hot.
You can just forget the peppers you have to put
them in. Just have a cheeseballo, he says, A pepper
pizza going right now. But I couldn't eat that too many.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
You know. Thirty years ago I could probably eat the
heck out of that, but not anymore. That is long.
It has long.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
It's got green and red peppers and yellow pepper and
then they said it just a slight mix of some time.
I got warmer peppers in there.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
I went. I went to a sports bar the other
day and I had it was like an Italian like
a flatbread, Italian flat bread. It had it didn't say
it on the menu, but it had spicy Italian sausage on.
I didn't think I could. I got like through two pieces.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
Really yeah, I did in huh.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
Yeah, and it did me in later too.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
And And speaking of that, in addition to Rita's recipe,
we got Ron Wilson's White Castle hamburger stuffing.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
Just a big demand for that. Every year. People look
at that and go, oh, you gotta be kidding me. Yep,
But then they may if they make it and make
it and it's like a pretty darn good good Yeah,
So there you go. I get requests to bring it
all the time. And in the graphic for it's pretty funny.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
Hey, Like I said, you got a a little striker
and the the plan of the week. Yes, we were
just talking about it. Christ's Trees fresh cut Christmas Tree.
We'll talk about that more as we get into the show,
but man if I can influence you, and they look
good this year. Wow, everything I've seen so far this
week looking pretty nice. And they're gonna go quick. So
if you've decided to go with that live cut for
(13:10):
Christmas Tree, probably thinking about ye got me all choked up,
all choked up about it.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
Wow, go out this weekend and then get that taken
care of her next week for sure. So we'll talk
more about that we get that done. And I'm never
any if you noticed, for all the folks who have
listened over the years, I don't get on Joe anymore
about not using the cut for at Christmas Tree. I
gave up gonna go. I did get the Dog's gonna
go anywhere. It was never gonna get the dog. Yeah,
(13:37):
and I got four's got four? But the cut Christmas
Tree is just never gonna happen. Yeah, So I gave up.
But the first year I get one, I'll get four.
I didn't give up. I just quit bugging.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
You should. Yeah, it's not trust me, it's not.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
I know, it's nuts. Why I said I don't I
don't say anymore.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
That is, there's there's a couple of absolutes, death taxes,
and me not getting a cut Christmas.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
I I two or three years ago, was going to
go to Gracie and say, look, Grace, do me a favor.
I bring this over with a stand which you put
it up somewhere with lights on it so that I
can say that, you know, you guys have a And
I just didn't do it because I was afraid to
make you mad.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
Because she knows the exact same she she.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
Knows, she knows. That's that's why I didn't do it.
There you go, all right, that's it. Yep. Are you
sure I'm gonna go home and watch the game two? Yeah,
me too, yep, get ready for it?
Speaker 2 (14:34):
Cool?
Speaker 1 (14:34):
All right? Joe Streckerd, executive Rutgers. It's not even it's
not you can't even.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
You can't even.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
Say that in an knock of Ohio State today. So hey,
don't even say that. I know you. It's no, I know,
but it's not even on the betting apps. That's how
bad they're supposed to get cream to day, you can't
even I mean, you can't even wager on it. Then
next week mm hmm. Another game, yep, another game. I
(15:05):
like the way Ryan days approaching it. This year, there's
no focus on that game. That's always, I think been
an issue. You have told you that forever. They let
that get in their head, and this year has been
gained by game no mention yep of that final game yep.
And I'm glad Funny get that out of there. There
you go, all right, Joe Streigert's my soapbox. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
Well, and and you know, I honestly think we should.
We should also hope that Oregon keeps winning because Ohio
State's got to play that eight to nine game and
Oregon has been stuck in the eight nine game for
two weeks. And Oregon scares me.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
Looking pretty good.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
They are good. Yeah, Oregon scares me. I'd rather have
them play one of the other teams.
Speaker 4 (15:46):
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Speaker 1 (15:47):
I actually texted Harold last week. Harold from Alabama gold Tide. Yeah,
I said, Okay, take a deep breath, War.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
Eagle, all right, all right, all right, we gotta go.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
All right. Joe Strecker, Executive Producer. If you'd like, we
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Speaker 2 (16:13):
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Speaker 1 (16:15):
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let's pretend he's still there, so he can't blame him either.
But send him an email anyway, let him know about it.
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might want to consider getting out this weekend or early
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Speaker 1 (22:08):
We're talking yardening at eight hundred eight two three eight
two five five. Good morning. I am run Wilson, your
personal yard boy. Don't forget our website. It's run Wilson
online dot com. Our plan of the week this week,
of course, has to be the cut Christmas tree, and
I'll throw in with the cut Christmas tree a live
balden burl abb tree as well. EATA one works for me.
(22:30):
I'm not a big artificial tree fan. I get it.
Sometimes it's just the only way to go. I understand.
I'm not gonna argue that fact. There's a lot of
pros and calls to it, but I just you know,
it was nice in the when COVID hit that, all
of a sudden the interest in live cut trees came back.
It seemed like it really rejuvenated it. A lot of
(22:51):
folks going back to the tradition and it is a
true family tradition of that cut Christmas tree, and a
lot of folks went back to it and kind of
staying with it. And I think it's great. But what's
interesting about the change and cut Christmas trees is that,
I mean, you know, twenty five thirty years ago, and
I've been in this business for a long time. You know,
(23:13):
you used to set up, as I was telling Joe earlier,
you would get the trees in the week before Thanksgiving
or of Thanksgiving, depending on when it fell. And then
that weekend you had everything set up basically but not
too busy. And then the following week after that you
would start to get busy, and then that weekend first
week in December really started to kick in. Today you hesitate,
(23:34):
the trees are gone. Everybody's out early. You get out,
you get the tree early, and wow, they are gone
in a flash. So if you are looking at getting
a cut Christmas tree, and there's plenty out there, let
me let me back up a second. I don't see anything.
I haven't read anything about shortages, you know, anything like that,
any major price increases. I haven't read anything about that.
(23:57):
So we're looking good there, and so there's plenty of
trees available. It's just that, you know, each lot has
a certain amount of trees that they get in and
then they're done. And sometimes they can reorder and get
a few in late. Sometimes they can't. So you know, again,
if you're looking at a cut Christmas tree, I might suggest,
if you're not traveling this weekend, you might want to
(24:18):
take a look this weekend or the next week before
Thanksgiving and get that tree now. If you do that,
all right, If you do that, and we may do
that ourselves, because I know a couple of years ago
I waited until the week after Thanksgiving and there wasn't
anything left. Hardly. I still got the tree. Is still
look great the whole nine yards, but selection had really
gone quickly. If you do that, though, they'll sleeve that
(24:42):
up for you when you're at the Christmas tree lot,
and then let them do that. And don't let them
put a fresh cut on the butt of the tree
unless you're going to immediately take it home and put
it in water, whether it be in the tree stand
itself or in a bucket of water. Now, some folks
will buy their tree, take it home, maybe not put
it up for a week or so, but they'll stand
it up immediately in a bucket of water. And if
(25:04):
you do that, haven't put a fresh cut on the
butt and then put it in the water and do that,
which is great. I don't go to that extreme. So
I will get it. I'll get it sleeved, and then
I'll put it in a cool, dark area. Sometimes I'll
even put it in you know where it's really shaded,
and I'll even hose it a little bit or throw
(25:26):
water on it to keep cut some moisture around it
and shade it. And that does a pretty good job.
And then eventually I'll take it out, get the fresh cut,
put it in the stand. If the weather's nice, I
like hosing it off. I'll actually get the hose out,
hose the thing off get all the needles out and
then set it up. And of course once you make
that fresh cut, remember that thing can seal over literally
(25:46):
within about a two hour period. So once you get
the fresh cut on there, it's important to get that
in the water right away. It's just like a I
always say, we'll get it as treating it like a
vase of fresh flowers, fresh cut flowers. Treat it exactly
the same way. But again, if you buy it early,
keep it sleeved up, put it in the shade, out
of the sun, keep some moisture to it. If you
(26:08):
can stand it up in a shady area like in
the corner of the house or something that'll support that,
and stick it into a bucket, that's great and that'll
help to start taking moisture up right away. Keep the
bucket full of water. Make sure you monitor that until
you're ready to put that cut tree up. But they
look good so far. Frazer Fur And it's amazing how
that market has changed as well. It's started to really
(26:30):
dominate the market as far as the cut Christmas trees.
Way back when it used to be Scotch pine and
Scotch pine plants. One that is an evergreen that the
Christmas tree growers could cut in October and ship those
in November and December and they would last forever Scotch
(26:51):
Pine as long as you got some water to them.
That thing held up for that was you know, that
was the Christmas tree, and we sold more of those
than anything else. Douglas fir was like a premiere. Occasionally
get some con color furs in and a few Fraser
furs are balsam. And of course now Fraser fur pretty
much taken over the market and it's always been my favorite.
(27:13):
My dad used to kid me about it all the time,
having that Fraser fur more layered. They like the Douglas
fir was real thick and you know, really nice. We
always liked the layered Fraser look. But it is the
dominant tree today, so you know it's it's a beaute,
there's no doubt about it. And good fragrance as well.
But again, if you buy it early, and I suggest
that you do, keep it sleeved up, put it in
(27:33):
the shade, maybe pour some water on it, hose it down,
or if you can stick it in the bucket of water,
that's even better. Until you're ready to go to put
it up fresh cut again in the stand and don't
ever let that thing dry out. As a matter of fact,
let's go to Delaware and talk to Pat Pat. Good morning, Hey,
good morning Ron. Yes, sir, I love I love the talk.
Speaker 3 (27:53):
Mout Christmas trees. In the early nineties, I was a
member of the All to This Club and we would
run a Christmas tree lot, and so I would encourage
people to find the charity of related people that sell them.
But there were people from the club that would go
(28:16):
up to the I was in South Carolina. They would
go up to North Carolina and hand tag the trees
we were going to sell them.
Speaker 1 (28:27):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (28:27):
And I would work a lot, a few nights during
the week and then weekends. And when I found most
warning is people may come in grumpy that one they
take a tree out.
Speaker 1 (28:46):
They're happy. Everybody's happy. You're right, you know, I tell you,
you're right back. Great memories, I tell you. All through
my life, I always look forward to Christmas because it
was so much fun. Families coming in picking out that tree.
You're right coming in, you know, and not everybody wanted
to go, But once you got in there and you
started looking at the trees and going through the trees,
(29:07):
got the firebarrow going, you got a little bit of
that smell in the air, and it just was a
good time. And you're right, by the time folks left,
they were having fun. And those were the memories for
me anyway. And I've always enjoyed selling cut Christmas trees.
It was just a lot of fun.
Speaker 3 (29:25):
Which when one of the benny says, I could get
a tree at cost. Yeah, and these were really good trees.
We didn't. We didn't just take the hear it give
us fifty trees. They were all hands thick, so we
had really good, full trees. So they were big and beautiful.
Speaker 1 (29:49):
I'll tell you what great memories with a cut tree,
There's no doubt about it. You still use a cut
tree today.
Speaker 3 (29:55):
And no, no, unfortunately, were with the plast.
Speaker 1 (30:01):
Well you know, yeah, well, you know, as we as it,
folks get older and the things downsize and all. I
get it. It does happen sometimes. But I'm gonna tell
you what. We're still with a live tree at our
house and I hope to keep it going as long
as I can.
Speaker 3 (30:15):
Yeah. Well, how one year we have a live ball tree,
not planted it out in the front yard and it died,
so the after it dropped, all its needles follow when
you're up, like red Christmas falls on it. It was
like the neighborhood Charlie Brown Christmas.
Speaker 1 (30:39):
There you go. I love it. Hey, Pat, I appreciate
the call, great memories, good talking with you. Appreciate you
listening to our show. And before we take a break,
Dick from Dayton, good morning.
Speaker 6 (30:51):
Hey, how are you a great show you've had? You
know what what my career at Lows The day after Thanksgiving?
Speaker 1 (31:01):
Yep.
Speaker 6 (31:02):
I remember they brought those trees in with the truck
and they had the Christmas trees out and they would
put them in a machine. And I was helping that
year and we just they just would you know, the ship.
But people would line up that day, like on Black Friday,
and just during that holiday for ten days there they
(31:24):
would go and buy those trees.
Speaker 3 (31:26):
You know.
Speaker 1 (31:27):
Yep.
Speaker 6 (31:27):
It was so neat.
Speaker 1 (31:28):
It was fun to watch people come in. It's you know,
and you go home, you got needles in your pockets
and you take your clothes off and your needles everywhere
and take a shower and they're in the shower. But
it was just the smells and the memories and the
excitement and all that was is always great.
Speaker 6 (31:45):
It is, it is. I remember it just like it's
a tradition, yea, because you'd walk in there. I always
liked to see the lights and then they had the plants,
but the trees, I mean, people would line up that
early in the morning. You know, I worked there by
the Fairfield Mall. But I can remember putting them on
(32:06):
the truck. Those things are pretty heavy, you know.
Speaker 1 (32:08):
Oh yeah, it was. You know, it was a lot
of work and you had to you know, unload them
and unsleeve them and stand them up, then help people
buy them and then sleave them back up and put
them back in the car. But it was fun. It
was a lot of fun. And like you said, lots
and lots of great memories.
Speaker 6 (32:24):
I heard from my Aarond. She's been there a long time,
but she wished me and she said, Dick, you know
it's been a little while. But the store there in
Beaver Creek, I don't think a lot of my my
friends tell me or call me. It's never been. Everybody was,
(32:44):
you know, left or retired. But it was a great time.
But she said, with all that crew that you were in, Dick,
the people miss everybody.
Speaker 1 (32:53):
There, and you were a legend the people there. Well,
Dick from Dayton was a legend, true legend. Hey, I
got one question for you, and we got to de
ted take a break here. Thanksgiving coming up Thursday. What's
your favorite thing for Thanksgiving? Besides turkey and mashed potatoes?
Speaker 6 (33:11):
I like the hashbrown casserole.
Speaker 1 (33:14):
Ooh, hash brown casseroles. That sounds great.
Speaker 6 (33:19):
Oh yeah, and then there is another one. I like
sweet potato pie.
Speaker 1 (33:24):
Oh yeah, gotta have sweet potato pie.
Speaker 3 (33:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (33:28):
Well, Dick, you have a great Thanksgiving and we'll talk
to you next Saturday. Have a great day, all right,
Take care Dick from Dayton. Ladies and gentlemen, quick break,
we come back. Phone lines will be open for you
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Speaker 1 (35:23):
Talking Yarding at eight hundred eight two three eight two
five five. Good morning, I am Ron Wilson, your personal
yardboy on this weekend before Thanksgiving. Are you on the
road traveling this weekend? I be careful, please, I couldn't
believe the number record of people that are going to
be traveling for Thanksgiving, uh, the Thanksgiving week and head
it out this weekend and all next week. Crazy stuff,
(35:45):
So be careful. Not that the roads aren't there already
too busy, but wow, eighty three million or something like that,
that's unbelievable. Danny, You're not going anywhere, are you? Right here?
Right to the studios and back to.
Speaker 2 (35:59):
The studios in and maybe to the kitchen and back,
I mean the dining room and back.
Speaker 1 (36:03):
Yeah, you're right to the kitchen and back. Yes, yeah,
you got it. Uh, talking to your arding at eight
hundred eight two three eight two five five. Good question
of this week is still folks asking can I continue
to plant? Are we still good to go? You know,
we've had some great rainfall through here this week. It's amazing.
In some areas I went out, I always take my
I always do my spade test. After a good shower,
(36:25):
I take my sharp square spade, throw it into the ground.
See how far it goes down before it stops. And uh,
good moisture in the top couple inches of the soil.
But it again down deeper. It still gives a little
bit more. But this is a good thing, and this
is going to really help us out for especially the
evergreens as we go into the late fall and into
the winter season, making sure we've got good moisture. But
(36:47):
question being is twofold, how long can I keep planting?
Speaker 3 (36:50):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (36:50):
You know we say falls it is excellent time for planting,
all right, so that means fall is over like this
technically December like twenty first, so right up until Christmas.
Landscape crews will continue to plant as long as the
weather is conducive for planting up until the holidays with
no problem, and depending on the site, can do larger
plant planting like tree shade trees and things like that
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through the winter, but definitely up until right before the
Christmas season, so you've still got you know, easily four
to five weeks of planting time, depending on the weather.
The second question comes up as Okay, you've been talking
about watering, especially the evergreens for newly planted and newly
planted within the last couple of years and existing too.
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If it's been you know, really dry in your area,
how long do I need to keep watering? And as
you know, that's that's a great question at least until
Thanksgiving if you can keep it good moisture until Thanksgiving.
Typically after that, temperatures cooled down enough that we're in
pretty good shape after that. Now, if it stays still
dry after that, I am not hesitant at all to
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hook that hose back up and get out there and
give those a good soaking again right up until the
holiday season and then you can back off. And I
also look out there January February, if we don't get snowfall,
we don't get some moisture in the ground and stays
a little bit warmer, dumping a dumping a five gallon
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bucket of water on that immediate rootball in January and February,
just to make sure we've got good moisture in there.
So at least through Thanksgiving, I think is going to
be important. And maybe once maybe twice between the Thanksgiving
and Christmas and you should be good to go, all right,
So you know, keep the hose available just in case.
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And again the rain showers we've had has been very nice,
very helpful, but again physically check make sure you check
underneath it. Sometimes when you get rain come through. Remember
you know, sometimes those evergreens and trees can be an
umbrella and kind of push that water to the outside.
Sometimes they collect it and drip it down onto the rootball,
but it just depends, so you've got to so again,
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as I've always said, count on those rain showers that
come through unless are in an all day soaker as
a bonus to what you're doing as far as watering.
But again, usually through Thanksgiving, and then take a look
at it, maybe once or twice after Thanksgiving up until Christmas,
and again you can continue to plant larger plants. When
you get into smaller plants that are in like a
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less than a one gallon sized pot, I start to
get hesitant about that reason being in our area, not
enough time to get rooted in to hold them into
the ground. So hopefully when the ground freezes you mulch
them they stay like that. But if it freezes and
thaws a lot over the winter can shove those bucks
back up out of the ground, so keep your eyes
on those. So I usually kind of start to back off.
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And if you have some of that smaller stuff that
you weren't able to get planted, just overwintered in your
unheated garage or an unheated shed, keep it outside till
right until the holidays, and then put it away for
the winter, but you can overwinter like that, bring it
back out in the springtime and go ahead and replant.
At that point are going to go with a live
Christmas tree with the rootball on the bottom that you'll
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plant afterwards. And some folks are still doing that or
doing a combination of planting a live tree and the
cut tree as well. Remember, keep it as cool as
you can in the house, keep it limited in the
house maybe seven to ten days, and back outside two
to three days in the garage. Two to three days
in the garage to go back outside and plant it.
Don't hesitate. And I have never pre dug a hole
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for planting an evergreen. I never have. I've always done
it after Christmas. What you can do to protect the
area where you're going to plant it is take a
couple bags of pine fines or mulch and lay them
where you're going to plant this tree. That'll help to
insulate the ground so that it stays. If a case
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we would get a sudden hard freeze, that'll keep it
from freezing. Pull the bags away, dig plant, use the
pine fines for the soil amendment and the top dressing.
Water it in well and again, this is going to
be key if you're doing these live trees, keeping good
even moisture while it's in the house, and then when
you plant it, watering it in really well. And that's
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one and I probably would go back because now it's
not going to get rooted in or started to root
in like we would have gotten if we had planted
in the fall. To go back with a five gallon
bucket of water in January and again in February and
dump a bucket there just to keep good moisture in
net root ball, watered in well, malch it well, and
you're good to go for the winter. But the key
to the success of those live trees is two to
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three days acclimating it in the garage, seven to ten
days in the house max keep it cool, keep moisture
to it back outside two to three days and plant it,
don't hesitate, and get it watered in, and you should
be good to go if you do that. If you
keep it longer in the house, you start to increase
your chances of it not making it by planting it outside.
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So keep that in mind. Please, one last thing will
stop or will proof both basically the same product. Excellent product.
For helping to preserve the greens fresh greens that you
use in the house, the cut tree and the live tree.
By spraying it before you take it inside, letting it
dry on there helps to seal the moisture in the
needles and really does help to keep them fresher longer
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in the home. It's an added little cost to your
fresh greens, but it's well worth it now using an
outside When do you apply that good question. We'll address
that after the break, taking your calls at eight hundred
eight two three, eight two five five. Don't forget our website,
Ron Wilson online dot com. Coming up to the bottom
of the hour, doctor triple a Alan Armitage and at
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the top of our next hour, our book is called
Vibrant Harvest with sandom Mouse. She'll be with us as well.
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