December 20, 2025 • 43 mins
In this hour of The Garden with Ron Wilson, Ron chats with his guests about the holiday season. He shares a tip on how to save Christmas poinsettias with a creative hack using evergreen branches. Ron also discusses the importance of horticulture during the holiday season, mentioning the various plants and decorations that are popular this time of year. He also talks about the history of grave blankets and how they're not as commonly used as they once were. Additionally, The Arbor Doc shares his thoughts on the upcoming weather, predicting a warmer Christmas Day in the area.
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Speaker 1 (00:34):
Eight hundred eight two three eight two five five. Good morning.
I am Ron Wilson, your personal yard boy, talking about
yarding on this Saturday before Christmas. Can you believe that?
Speaker 2 (00:45):
What?
Speaker 3 (00:45):
But nothing? I'll just clear my throat.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
Okay, let me clear my throat. That's kick it off.
But can you tells feel a little like whipper snappy
this morning? Whipper snappy, little whipper snappy Joe Stracker. Second,
produce your find out what was going on on our
website at Roy Wilson online dot com Facebook page in
the garden with Ron Wilson, and I had a lot
of folks ask me, did Joe really use his dragon
(01:10):
weed flamer to clear off the driveway? I saw the
video and I said, yes, yes he did. Even mister
NATORP was listening to the show and said, oh I
heard you talking about that. Did he really do that?
I said, yes, yes he did. And then I sent
you a video of that guy. Where was that in Michigan?
Speaker 3 (01:29):
Yeah, that was a flamethrower that that was like, that
was a flamethrower. That was military grade flamethrower right there.
But it was a slope driveway and yeah, same situation.
Did you see there? Was also another video that I
saw where a guy before the snow came, put a
tarp that just happened to be the exact same size
(01:51):
of his driveway over his driveway.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
No, it makes sense. And then when the snow was done,
he just picked up one side of it, picked the tart, bump,
slide it away, dump it off.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
Yeah, he also had one over his truck.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
So I wonder, because your your driveway's pretty steep. Yeah,
it's about twenty degrees, so if you had that owner,
I wonderf it would start to slide down the tarp.
Guess it depends on how which way you'd pull it.
But I mean even while it's snowing, you know, it
starts to build up. But it also didn't start to
like it does on a roof, you know, a metal roof.
(02:28):
Maybe a slide. I don't know. Let's try it. Not
at my house because because I know what's what what
happened is then you walk down there's a big drift
right for the garage door.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
Yeah, six foot think in front of my driveway, in
front of my garage door. Then I can't get it
out of the torch, damn, right.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
I did. I had to people were saying, are you
guys kidding? Did he really do that? I said, no,
you really hit it. I saw it.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
Thirty bucks on Amazon.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
There you go. I I did order a snowblower. You did. Yeah,
I haven't got it yet, but it's it's on order.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
So well, mine's still mine. Mine's being repaired. Apparently the
issue was that one of the seals broke uh on
the inside. One of the seals went bad, and the
guy that was that's fixing it said, I was using
the wrong grade of gas.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
Huh, We'll get grade of gas do you need to use?
Speaker 3 (03:28):
He he recommended I use the good stuff, like the
high the super high octane, because he said there was
a lot of sediment in there. And he asked me,
do I drain the gas every every season? I would
drain the gas out, but still there was still sediment
in there.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
And they never even used the thing.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
For a couple of years. But it wasn't like I
use it every every day, only during the big snows.
We only had a couple of big snows since I've
had it.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
So well, Mine's battery operated well, really, sea batteries got
it our snow blowing time.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
It really sucked last year because that's what I figured
out that it wasn't working. That was when we had that.
When we had that one, it was like six to
eight inches. That was horrible. That was before I had
my blow torch. So you had a little handheld with
no Yeah, I think you had to do it by
the lake anything. Yeah, I think did nothing to it.
So I looked at those and said, now I'm not
(04:28):
gonna do that. But the the little old hand held,
I mean I have one of those.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
We whipped.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
Those are good for like they're called snow Joe's.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
Yeah, I know, snow Joe's a whole line of stuff.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
Yeah, but those are good for like a couple of Wait,
you get your T shirt? Huh, what do I get
my T shirt?
Speaker 1 (04:47):
I don't know. I have snow Snow.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
I'm still waiting for royalties from using my name for
snow Joe.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
They're all over at QVC.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
It's amazing. I mean, of those that are out there,
I didn't realize how many are made today, the especially
the electric or the battery operated. Yeah. Those are good
for a couple of inches. Yeah, well, this I the
one I got, good for a couple of for more
than that. He has a metal blade. Frony, fancy that
(05:18):
mine's plastic. Yeah, this is metal. So wow, we'll see
he's got the LED headlights on it. Wow, he's spent
a pretty paty. I did. I got it on sale,
but of course nobody had its getting chipped in from somewhere.
Nice nice, so over to get a yesterday, but I
haven't seen it yet, so maybe today. Well I am home.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
I am in the process, well not the process, but
I'm gonna be getting the new lawnmower next year. Already
made the decision. Yeah, so I'm looking for a new lawnmower. No,
not a battery. You're gonna go gas. I'm gonna go gas.
But I want one of those landscape ones that lands
(05:57):
zero turn, not that you're sitting in, but the bigger one.
You know what I'm talking about that they're still walk behind,
but they're bigger.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
Yeah, I was gonna say the forty inch or thirty
eighth six inch. Yeah, that's what I'm That's what I'm
when I get because I have I've had to.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
Take you about five pass passes, and well.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
The thing is is that, uh, I you know I
had back issues as you know. And I also had
an operation earlier this year. So I had my neighbor
down the street. He's fixing the snowblower. Uh, he came
up and cut my cut my lawn. He has one
of those and it took him five minutes to do
(06:47):
my backyard.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
So I said five passes.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
And I was just like, I was just like, wow, wow,
I mean I can't get I can't get like a
big one. I mean I'd love to get a zero
turn driving around thing, but I have a fence around
my yarn and won't get through the fence. Yeah, they
get the gate. So the thirty six incher or the
forty inch we'll get through. So that's that. That's what
(07:14):
I want to get next year.
Speaker 4 (07:15):
Cool.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
I know it's going to be a couple of grand
but yeah, I'm saving up for it. And that's next
that's next year's goal. Okay, I got a couple, I
got a couple of sources. You might your thoughts, your thoughts,
go for it. Where are you gonna park it?
Speaker 1 (07:30):
In my shed? Okay? In the shed? I'm back. Yeah okay, Yeah,
so I knew would fit the garage.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
Well, I gotta clean my garage there'sn't barely two cars
fits in there right now?
Speaker 1 (07:42):
Where does all that stuff come from?
Speaker 3 (07:45):
It's just be lazy not putting it away when I
take it out, But yeah, is what it is. So anyway,
enough about me. What's on the show? Who's any guess?
Speaker 1 (07:55):
Show? Any body a chance enjoy this snow this week?
You know the answer to that? Okay, just checking? How
about all the rain? The rain, you know what on Thursday?
On Thursday? Okay, so and then Friday, yesterday was stupid.
You get up, it's fifty five degrees and by ten
o'clock it's down to twenty four degrees.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (08:15):
Now, what's interesting about Thursday was I when I left
the radio station was it was drizzling, kind of drizzled
a little bit all afternoon. And then I had to
work Thursday night. So by the time I got to
where I had to go, it was no. It was
just drizzling. So I'm doing my I was, I was
(08:39):
working and then you could hear it hitting the roof,
and then when I left, when I was done, it
was just nothing. So I missed the entire storm.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
We were at the Candle Light Series concert at the
Rheingeist same way up in that upstairs thing. Yeah. Huge,
nice event center and the same way. Also, they had
just gotten started and I'll say to yours on the roof,
and you see why I look it up like, wow,
cool coming down. Yeah, but you're right about half an
hour and it was gone.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
Yeah I missed the whole thing.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
So but it was coming down. Yeah. We use it. Yeah,
we needed it. And they cover a lot of the snow, yeah,
except for the big piles. Still a few hanging around
here and there. So guests today, are you ready for this?
I'm ready. We got a lineup today. Here we go.
I'm talking lineup, here we go. I'm talking all star lineup.
(09:34):
I'm ready. You me, Danny Gleason of course, are out
the entire show right Ron rothis Wow rita wow m
Shipman from Kids Gardening, Katie Stagg Liano from Katie's Crops,
Gary Sullivan. Yeah, and then like I said, Danny Gleason
(09:55):
and me in between. Wow, that's a big Is that
a lineup or what? It's a pack show right there.
That's the Chris fun Christmas Show. So we're gonna talk
to him and Katie about you know, you get a
little extra money at the end of the year. You
want to get those kids involved gardening. There's a great
way to donate right there there.
Speaker 3 (10:12):
You go, sit back, get a cup of coffee or
tea to share some breakfast and listen to listen to
the show.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
Yep, so we got let's lets of people talk.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
To today and and you know, hi to my friends
in Columbus and uh.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
All my friends in Columbus.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
Yeah. So the website, you.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
Stay on top of all these coaches firing things all
of a sudden. Yeah. Always yeah.
Speaker 3 (10:39):
So the webb on the website is Joe.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
Ron Wilson online dot com. And the Facebook page in
the garden with Ron Wilson, and.
Speaker 3 (10:51):
The chat room is up and running. Uh so, and
I hope hopefully people are enjoying the festive graphics. Uh
not getting anything. I have been not getting any feedback,
so I don't know. So there's a couple of posts
Christmas through the Years that you sent me earlier this week,
(11:11):
some quotes about winter. It's great, Yes, what's your almost
didn't post it because you know how much I love winter.
Is Rita going to talk about her bursting cheese? She is?
Speaker 1 (11:23):
She is going to talk about that. We're gonna talk
about all kinds of stuff. We've got a lot of
things to cover. And a quick segment.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
Well, her website on the website at her bursting is
it bursting borson?
Speaker 1 (11:35):
Or borson or.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
Her bors and cheese dip is on there. So if
you want to.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
Look at that picture twice, why why wasn't sure what
was going on there? There's just like a bunch of
stuff laying on a plate with a couple of crackers
sticking up out of it. So you had to get
a little closer to said, oh, yeah, that is in there.
Here's some bursting cheese in there. So that stuff's good
on hamburger. That stuff's good on anything on your finger exactly, yeah,
(12:03):
someone else's finger. The plant of the week is Christmas rosemary. Heah,
let me stricker what rosemary it is?
Speaker 3 (12:15):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (12:15):
Rosemary?
Speaker 3 (12:18):
Why why rosemary?
Speaker 1 (12:20):
Well, because rosemary has been used an awful lot in
the last few years now for a holiday plant. Trimmed
in shaped like a Christmas tree. There you go, little
ornaments on there. Then you get your rosemary to enjoy
over the winter. It's a harder one to grow inside.
So I've got some tips for you as far as
what I think will help you out to get to
grow through. But the winter, it's a tough one. Riad
(12:43):
over winter's hers and an unheated garage, and it does
fairly well. They're very hearty, but they just don't take
really cold temperatures for a long period of time. But
got some instructures on there for you for the Rosemary
very cool and honestly in lavender like that to the
Rosemary picture that I have posted on the website. It's
it's your new one where you got all your boattoks
(13:03):
woo great yep, So you can check that out. Yeah,
check out me with lots of botox check out. Yeah, yep, great,
a lot of filler, great yep. And picture of rosemes.
Joey's having so much fun. I am with all those
creativity things that you were doing with me.
Speaker 3 (13:21):
Hey, hey, I gotta have fun, gotta have fun.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
And figure how to do this so I can do
that with back to you. That's by the way. I
like that T shirt, Yeah, Vender T shirt. Yep. You know.
Gary Sullivan was born in nineteen forty six. He was Yeah,
I can say that because I know he's not listening.
Speaker 3 (13:40):
He was nineteen forty six, I would have thought. I
would have thought earlier than that. Yeah, yeah, early forties. Okay,
we'll go with that. There you go, all right, I'm done.
That's it. That's it for me. Merry Christmas, everybody.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
That's right, have a very merry Christmas. That's next week,
isn't it.
Speaker 3 (13:58):
Yes, it is. And then now we're going to talk.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
After Christmas, maybe post Saturday, maybe post Christmas Saturday, maybe
pre New Year's Day Saturday. Possibly, Okay, I'll hold you
to that, all right, all right, Joe Strekker, Executive producer.
If you like what you see on our website, royan
Wilson online dot com Facebook page in the Garden with
Ron Wilson, Joe Strecker had everything to do with it.
Someone there you don't like, not sure about. I think
(14:20):
we should take it off.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
Not my fault.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
I think we should take it off. Can I say that?
You think Joe should take it off? Not my fault,
it's not his fault. Who we're gonna blame?
Speaker 3 (14:32):
Should we keep blaming? Doctor Z?
Speaker 1 (14:35):
Yeah? I think so?
Speaker 5 (14:36):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (14:37):
Yeah? Yeah, was every think? Yeah?
Speaker 6 (14:38):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (14:38):
We washaking our head? Yes, yeah, doctor Z. Washington three
Garden eighty three. What's he still writing on that.
Speaker 3 (14:45):
He's still writing.
Speaker 1 (14:48):
Sidecard car wither sweetheart on my sweet Tart on the back.
I wonder if you have to lean to the right
with bowser because of that big rock is on the
left hand side, Doctor Laura Money, if she put her
hand out to signal going left, they would tip over.
If the rock is so big, she would stick her
(15:10):
hand down to be like you'd blind you. She's probably
building up. I had to build up a little work.
I know.
Speaker 3 (15:14):
She probably looks like Popeye on her left.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
Yeah, carrying that finger, Doctor Laura Money, well done, Doctor
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Speaker 1 (18:10):
Welcome back. You're in the Garden with Ron Wilson again.
That toll free number would be eight hundred eight two
three eight two five five. Not only would it be,
but it is that number as well. Give us a buzz.
Don't forget our website as we were talking earlier, Ron
Wilson Online dot com Facebook page. In the Garden with
Ron Wilson up and running astrong this morning as well.
You know, I was in our studios here. They had
(18:33):
a holiday to get together, well Dan, about a week ago,
ten days ago, and they brought in some gorgeous quonsettius
and they're in an I think they're in an eight
or ten inche pot, So they're big. I mean they're
like twenty eighteen twenty four inches high and wide, great color,
great looking plants. And remember I just said they brought
him into the studio or the offices here for the
(18:55):
for the Christmas party. And whether anybody waters them or not,
I'm gonna say they probably don't, correct. And the reason
they don't I can say that at this stage is
because most of the green leaves are starting to fall
off of these gorgeous ponsettias. My point two fold is here.
One is the green leaves fall when and this is
(19:16):
all a part of not being watered. Bottom line, all right,
you let them dry out. It's an evergreen. Those leaves drop,
it's done, it's toast. The plant's not dead, but the
leaves are so they're done. They fall off. And so
obviously none of these have been watered that are around here,
it's a shame to see that. But anyway, it doesn't matter.
But what's really nice is that the red bracks, pinks,
(19:38):
and the whites all stay on there. They don't fall off.
They're really tough. They hang on. So if you come
back and water it, you'll keep those. You can keep
those on all along. But point being is this, don't
throw those away if they do that. Okay, I've got
an answer for you what you can do to make
them look really cool for the rest of the holiday
season and through the winter time as well. So if
(19:58):
you're losing leaves on your points set, don't throw it away.
I'll tell you what to do after the break. Here
in the garden, Ron.
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Speaker 1 (22:14):
Welcome back here in the garden with Ron Wilson. And
what is the answer to those leggy point setias where
the leaves all fall off the bottom. Go out in
your yard and cut off about you know, six or
eight ten short pieces tips of evergreens like juniper, taxis, boxwood, whatever,
and then arrange thows. Just stick them right in the
(22:34):
soil underneath the colorful bracts of the Ponsetia. Now in
that container, you look like you have a holiday planter
with the greens in the bottom the colorful bracts of
the pon setia at the top. They used to do
this way back in the old days when they normally
just fell off, and it looks like a holiday planner.
It's really cool. As a matter of fact, I wouldn't
(22:55):
be surprised if some of the growers started doing that
and selling them that way again. You know, it goes
around comes next next Christmas season, So anyway, don't throw
them out. Put some greens in the bottom. Of those greens
will stay green like that pretty much all winter because
there a lot of times can take up that moisture
that's in that soil. Now, as I promised our earlier
in the show, it is time for weather. It's the
(23:15):
weather and in the tree starring our true seer of sears.
Here's our registered consulting arborist boy goes on and on
Amateur Meteorologist I SA board Certified Master arbust the Whole
nine Yards website arbordoctor dot com. Ladies and gentlemen, the
arbor doc himself, Ron Roughie so wow, are you having fun?
Speaker 6 (23:43):
Yes, I'm having fun. Actually, I was just notified by
email last evening that I had passed the latest True
Risk Assessment Qualification Course three point zero. So I've re
upped on that for the next seven years. So good
keep that on the credential list, I guess.
Speaker 1 (24:02):
So you'll be still knowledgeable for seven more years.
Speaker 6 (24:06):
Probably, Yeah, we'll getting kind of older.
Speaker 1 (24:09):
See you never know, I know. Yeah, things start to
fade after a while. So anyway, we got a short
segment with you today because I wanted to get a
quick update. Obviously, tomorrow is the winter Solstice, longest day, Yeah,
the longest night of the year, and that would be
tomorrow night, right Sunday night. Yes, and then things start
(24:31):
getting better after that. But we got two more weeks
of December and we're going to go into January. So
two questions for you, how are we going to finish
out the year? Does it look like going into twenty
twenty six? And of course the ultimate question that we
ask you every Saturday before Christmas? Will we have a
white Christmas in south western Ohio? Have had it? Ron
(24:53):
rothis No, it's hard to snow at sixty one degrees.
Speaker 6 (24:59):
Huh, you're looking at a white painted wall or white sheets.
We did say, you know, quite a while ago that
we were going to have quite a bit of cold weather,
quite a bit of snow, and the chances for white
Christmas would be higher than in a normal year. And
as you know, we've had quite a bit of cold weather,
quite a bit of snow. As a matter of fact,
(25:20):
it's been one of the snowiest Decembers on record. But
it's just a timing thing this year. The snow all
fell earlier and it's all done now, and so we're
as we also predicted. I said we'd have ups and
downs this winter, and we're definitely going to have one
of the ups for Christmas Week. In fact, Christmas Day
we could be flirting with record highs in the Ohio
(25:42):
Valley and really in a decent part of the south
central part of the country, in southeast part of the country,
it could be very very warm this Christmas. Really, you
have to go out onto the West coast this yere
in Nevada's those areas Pacific Northwest, find a great deal
of snow. It's just going to be a very warm
(26:03):
Christmas this year in the United States, unfortunately.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
And it looks like in our area it looks like
there's even a chance of right now they're saying for
a thunderstorm, maybe some rain on Christmas Day as well,
But hey, it is what it is.
Speaker 6 (26:16):
Either at night or during the day, it's kind of
hard to tell. But going forward, you did ask about
going forward. It looks like the roller coaster to some
extent is going to continue, although this warm spell looks
like it's going to last for a little while. It
was looking like it was going to get cold again
right after Christmas, and that looks like it's going to
be at the very least delayed. So I'm going to
(26:37):
enjoy a little bit of warm weather for a decent bit.
But it does look like eventually the temperatures will go
back down and will continue on this kind of up
and down, And it does look like we're going to
get some more really cold and snowy periods over the
course of the January February even in the early March
(27:01):
time period.
Speaker 1 (27:02):
Hey, I went out and actually bought a snowblower because
now I'm taking care of my mom's driveway and doing
things like that, so I actually wouldn't got a.
Speaker 6 (27:09):
Snowball that until I had sixty degrees and that.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
And look what happened. I got it after the snow obviously,
because there weren't any available at that time. So now
now I get it and then old snow for another
three or four weeks. That's all right. I'll be waiting
for it.
Speaker 6 (27:23):
So so prepared, just like a boy scout.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
I am prepared, Yes, I am. So We're gonna finish
out the year and begin the twenty twenty sixth season
with the roller coaster there. And you're saying by the
time we get into January and looking at February, good
chance we get back into a little bit more cold
weather again.
Speaker 6 (27:40):
Yeah, possibly some significantly cold weather like we had. You
know over the past couple of weeks. I would not
be surprised to see it get back below zero again.
And I would not be surprised to see us get
a decent amount of more snow. But we are going
to have kind of ups and downs this winter, so
I would not be surprised to see another one spell too.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
Wow. Well, there you have it, and you know we've
had some good rainfall over the last couple of weeks
as well. How do you feel now, you know, you
and I are always out there preaching about make sure
you're water and going into the fall and into the
holiday season, especially those evergreens. How do you feel at
this stage?
Speaker 6 (28:17):
The ground is wet right now. We had a wet November.
December has actually been slightly below normal, but with the
cold weather and the lack of evaporation in the snow
cover that we had, the ground is just really really
wet right now. So the only place that I can
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imagine in anything that needs water right now in Cincinnati
in the Media Ohio Valley would be something that you
might be under an overhang or something like that. And
I'm being very careful with that because you go up
in the northeast Ohio, northern and central Indiana, they've been
in severe to extreme drought for weeks now and it's
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gotten a little bit better with recent precipitation, but it's
been much much drier in those areas. In a lot
of parts of the United States, up and down the
East coast, New England, the South, a lot of areas
of drought. So for those areas of watering is still
something you need to be thinking about with some of
these evergreens, especially.
Speaker 1 (29:20):
You know, I've been watching that. There are a lot
of that drought monitor. I just okay, I was watching
that drought monitor. Uh and obviously you said it too,
mey caju, I go and find it as well. But
I've been watching the Ohio and it's amazing how that
has kind of hung in there as far as being
fairly dry, even though they've had some snow up there,
still not where they normally should be.
Speaker 6 (29:41):
Yeah, and snow snow gives moisture, but remember it's a
one inch, you know, ten inches of snow to to
equal one inch of rain.
Speaker 1 (29:49):
That was my next question water.
Speaker 6 (29:51):
Yeah, so, and that that's an average, I mean, a
very very dry snow could be even less than that.
You can have twenty to one ratio. Sometimes they're very
powdery snow. So so it takes quite a lot of
snow to equal an inch of rain. And if if
you're several inches below where you should be, then you
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need quite a lot of snow to really really get
it backward where it needs to be. So some of
those areas you know, are are still really really dry.
And it's interesting how you don't have to go very far,
you know, southwest Ohio has been pretty wet, but northwest
Ohio been in severe to extreme drought. So it's just
interesting how you can have those, you know, those differences
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over fairly short periods of time or distance.
Speaker 1 (30:39):
No doubt about it. Hey, Ron, we got to go.
We appreciate the update, ron Rothis I certifying arborist of course,
and the hobby meteorologist is website arbordoctor dot com. I
know you're uh chaperoning at a gymnastics meet, and I
know you're competing as well, so good luck on those
parallel bars and the pommel horse. Those are your two
(30:59):
special It.
Speaker 6 (31:00):
Would be an ugly sight. But yes, the children who
are making noise in the background, even though I told
him to be quiet, they're doing it. Are going to
be competing today United States Trampling and Tumbling Association competition
in Ryo, Grand, Ohio. And yes they do pronounce it Ryan.
Speaker 1 (31:17):
Yeah, home of Bob Evans.
Speaker 6 (31:19):
Yes, we're probably going to eat in the original Bob
Evans today.
Speaker 1 (31:22):
At his original table.
Speaker 6 (31:25):
Maybe. I don't know who.
Speaker 1 (31:27):
Knows, Ron Roneth. It's always a pleasure. We want to
wish you and your family are very very merry Christmas.
Appreciate all that. Yeah, all you do for us during
the year and we will probably talk to you by
the end of the season. End of the year.
Speaker 6 (31:40):
Sounds great to me.
Speaker 1 (31:41):
All right, thanks Ron, take care of have a good
time at the gymnastics. All right, before we take a break,
let's go to Dayton, Ohio deck.
Speaker 8 (31:47):
Come morning, Good morning. I've liked your guests today. He
was good.
Speaker 1 (31:53):
N he's good at the he knows his trees, he
knows his weather.
Speaker 8 (31:57):
Oh, he was great, so great.
Speaker 1 (31:59):
So you all set up for Christmas?
Speaker 2 (32:01):
Yep?
Speaker 5 (32:02):
All set up, all.
Speaker 8 (32:05):
Ready to go. My friend over at uh Oak Creek
had a really nice party. It was We had olders
and they had a little country band in there. It
was good. Boy, it was rough. There's probably seventy f
eighty people that when I went there thirsday. It was nice.
Speaker 1 (32:22):
If you go somewhere and they have a band that's
playing and they find out that Dick from Dayton's in
the audience, did they have you come up on the
stage and play with him?
Speaker 8 (32:31):
Yeah? I actually uh, they had a little uh they
were passing out like jingle bells. I was playing the
tambourine a little bit. How about that.
Speaker 1 (32:41):
The tambourine. Yeah, it was really nice, the green tambourine.
Speaker 8 (32:45):
Man tambourine. It was Yeah. But I want to thank everybody.
There's a couple that knew me. It's a library, I
think it. Scott and Julie sent me a card and
they said they hear hear me on your show. So uh,
I always talk. It's nice. Nice, Scott always talks to me.
And yeah, but I'm thinking, I don't know. I'll take
(33:10):
the Bengals, but they better play better tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (33:13):
Come on, I hope they play better. So what's your prediction?
Speaker 8 (33:18):
Twenty three to twenty the Bengals, But I don't know.
Speaker 1 (33:20):
All right, well you might as well, but twenty three
twenty got it, Dan, twenty three twenty Bengals. All right, hey,
you have a very wait.
Speaker 8 (33:29):
Happy holidays, buddy. I'll talk to you again.
Speaker 1 (33:31):
They have a very merry Christmas, Dick, and we will
talk to you later.
Speaker 8 (33:34):
Okay, bye, by all right.
Speaker 1 (33:35):
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Speaker 1 (35:42):
Good morning. I am Ron Wilson, your personal yard boy.
Speaker 5 (35:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (35:45):
Unfortunately, we're not going to get any snow for Christmas Day.
It's going to be in the sixties, low sixties, maybe
some rain. It is what it is. Uh, it's you
know what it is. What's interesting about But if it's
really cold and snowing on Christmas Day sometimes that can
be kind of pooh pooish because you know, then it's
cold to get out and get to go to the
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maybe to another family's house or whatever. It could be
a little bit tougher. So if it's a little warmer,
it can be a little bit more easy on the family.
But we'll take it. Whatever it is is what we're
gonna get. But I know it's nice having a little
bit of that white on the ground on Christmas morning.
That's that's pretty cool because we reflect back obvioshly to
the Christmas Story and all the National Lampoon vacation and
(36:26):
the snow and all that stuff, with which I have
not dan seen one Christmas Special so far, and I'm
running out of time, you are, yes, because after Christmas
they're not as funny. I like watching them, but you know,
you gotta watch.
Speaker 3 (36:39):
Usually I've watched like Christmas Vacation like six times. Well, yeah,
yet I haven't even watched it yet either.
Speaker 1 (36:44):
I would see I usually watch Christmas Story at least once,
Christmas Vacation at least twice, you know, and then you
go on from there. I like the Santa Claus. I
think Christmas Special I got to do that once. Yeah,
but the Santa Claus I didn't. I haven't you know,
I haven't seen that at all. I like that that
that was a whole What was your three series of that?
I believe? So yeah, do you know here's a little
trivia for you? Ready for this? Yes, the scene where
(37:07):
Santa falls off the roof and dies. Did you know
that the original script called for him to shoot Santa
accidentally as an intruder and kill him.
Speaker 3 (37:20):
I did not know that.
Speaker 1 (37:21):
Yeahs Disney saw that and said Nah, I don't think
we're gonna be anybody's gonna be shooting Santa Claus. So
they changed the script and made it so he slipped
and fell off the roof like there you go and died.
So I thought that was kind of weird. Shoot him
all right? Uh eight hundred and eight two three eight
two five five. Hope you got my tip about the
pond setia. It really does work. Tried it out last
(37:42):
week because I never even thought of this. I read
an article where they said, you know, back in the
old days, many many years ago, you know with the
pon setia is growing. Uh, some of the older selections
they didn't hold up very well, and you'd lose those
green leaves on the bottom. And that's why these sometimes
they put the sleeves on the bottom because those foiled
sleep twofold. One is made it look more festive, and
(38:04):
two is it kind of covered up those bottom steps.
And I tell you what I love. Have you ever
seen pont set of trees where they actually limb them
up and grow them like trees. I think they're gorgeous.
I think the first time I ever saw that was
when we were watching this, especially on the Christmas at
the White House and they had the interior decorator for
the holidays had brought in Christmas pon setia trees as
(38:26):
well as the bush form and they were gorgeous. Now,
it takes a couple years to grow the tree form
so it looks like a tree, but they were really cool.
So that's nice. But you know, you got these at home,
like the ones here in our office and their leaves
are all falling off. Just stick those evergreen small branches
in the bottom and make it look like a holiday planner.
You can even put you know, some berries in it,
(38:48):
you know, or whatever at the bottom, some artificial berries
or whatever. And as you're watering the pon setia and
keeping it evenly moist through the winter, that also keeps
those evergreen branches evenly moist. And they usually hang right
in there right on through the holiday season as well
into the winter and on forward. So don't throw them out.
Use that. And isn't it an interesting looking at the
(39:09):
Christmas and the holiday season. How it's really focused around horticulture.
And you know, somebody brought this up the other day
and I said, you know, you think about it, and
every holiday has something like Valentine's Day with roses, you
know that type of thing. But look at the Christmas season,
and you got the Christmas tree, whether it's cut or
live or artificial. But you got the you know, the
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the Christmas tree, you got the pont setia, you got
the amarillis, you got the Christmas cactus. You have all
the Christmas flowers, the paper white kits that you can
get out there. I mean you look at it just
goes on and on and on, the wreaths and roping
the bowels, all of that. The grave blankets, which I
(39:53):
never I never came up with the history. There's so
many different stories about grave blankets. And in our area
grave blankets are not used. I mean you see one
every now and then, but not very often. And you
get further north, like when I was going to the
Ohio State University working at a garden center there, Solmon's
Garden Center, we made a ton of grave blankets, swags
(40:17):
no lightning, you know, four or five feet long with
ornaments on it that you lay on the grave, pin
it down and then let it lay there over the
you know, during the holiday seasons at all, and then
take that off at the seasons. Row a lot of
cemeteries don't like those, and a lot of them have
been banned from doing that because it can shade out
the grass and cause some issues there. So they really
(40:39):
a lot of them don't like to do that anymore.
But it boy at one time that was a major thing.
Were grave blankets, uh kind of and again looking up
the history, Uh, you know, there's a lot of stories
behind it as far as you know, keeping the grave
warm and things like that, or decorad it's a great
way to decorate because it's down on the ground. But
you know, most people today use the tripod and the
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wreath on top doesn't affect the grass. But man, we
used to make eight ton of those things. But you
look at the holiday season and it really is and
obviously we know what the true meaning of Christmas is
all about, but it is as far as the decorations
and all, a holiday that is really focused around the
horticulture industry with all the great plants that are out there,
so pretty interesting, uh looking at that. But again, Christmas cactus.
(41:25):
You know, if you like that plant, and I do,
it's an easy plant to grow indoors. It flowers fairly
consistently for us Uh, hanging basket or renting container. You
see those going on sale, it's scarf those things up
and h and use those Amarillis right now. As I've
been looking around this past week, plant especially places that
don't normally sell a lot of plants, but they bring
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Amarillis kids in paperweight kids in. Uh, they're now on sale.
I'm telling you right now, they got them on sale.
They want to get rid of those things. Uh, this
is great. We scarf them up now. If you here's
a little tip. If you're looking to buy Amarillis kits
in the boxes, open it up and look at the
ball before you buy the kit. Make sure the ball
is solid, and make sure it's not growing. Now. Sometimes
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they'll start to sprout out a little bit in that box.
I the answer too isn't too bad. But if it
starts to get more, we're starting to curl around the box.
I usually shy away from those. So kit when it's
still fairly dormant or just starting to show a little
growth on the top, solid should be good to go.
The bigger the ball, the more flowers you get. And
it takes about six to eight weeks from the time
you pot them up. So hot one up, maybe this weekend,
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six to eight weeks. That puts us into what into January?
You'll start to get some color. Two more weeks, pot
another one up, put you into February. Two more weeks.
Put another one up put you into the first of March.
Carries you right through the winter season at a really
good price. Amarrolls paperwhite Kitch. You can't go wrong. Quick break,
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Speaker 4 (42:58):
God guarding us.
Speaker 7 (43:00):
Ron has the answers at one eight hundred eighty 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
yarding on this Saturday before Christmas. Can you believe that?
Speaker 2 (00:45):
What?
Speaker 3 (00:45):
But nothing? I'll just clear my throat.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
Okay, let me clear my throat. That's kick it off.
But can you tells feel a little like whipper snappy
this morning? Whipper snappy, little whipper snappy Joe Stracker. Second,
produce your find out what was going on on our
website at Roy Wilson online dot com Facebook page in
the garden with Ron Wilson, and I had a lot
of folks ask me, did Joe really use his dragon
(01:10):
weed flamer to clear off the driveway? I saw the
video and I said, yes, yes he did. Even mister
NATORP was listening to the show and said, oh I
heard you talking about that. Did he really do that?
I said, yes, yes he did. And then I sent
you a video of that guy. Where was that in Michigan?
Speaker 3 (01:29):
Yeah, that was a flamethrower that that was like, that
was a flamethrower. That was military grade flamethrower right there.
But it was a slope driveway and yeah, same situation.
Did you see there? Was also another video that I
saw where a guy before the snow came, put a
tarp that just happened to be the exact same size
(01:51):
of his driveway over his driveway.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
No, it makes sense. And then when the snow was done,
he just picked up one side of it, picked the tart, bump,
slide it away, dump it off.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
Yeah, he also had one over his truck.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
So I wonder, because your your driveway's pretty steep. Yeah,
it's about twenty degrees, so if you had that owner,
I wonderf it would start to slide down the tarp.
Guess it depends on how which way you'd pull it.
But I mean even while it's snowing, you know, it
starts to build up. But it also didn't start to
like it does on a roof, you know, a metal roof.
(02:28):
Maybe a slide. I don't know. Let's try it. Not
at my house because because I know what's what what
happened is then you walk down there's a big drift
right for the garage door.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
Yeah, six foot think in front of my driveway, in
front of my garage door. Then I can't get it
out of the torch, damn, right.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
I did. I had to people were saying, are you
guys kidding? Did he really do that? I said, no,
you really hit it. I saw it.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
Thirty bucks on Amazon.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
There you go. I I did order a snowblower. You did. Yeah,
I haven't got it yet, but it's it's on order.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
So well, mine's still mine. Mine's being repaired. Apparently the
issue was that one of the seals broke uh on
the inside. One of the seals went bad, and the
guy that was that's fixing it said, I was using
the wrong grade of gas.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
Huh, We'll get grade of gas do you need to use?
Speaker 3 (03:28):
He he recommended I use the good stuff, like the
high the super high octane, because he said there was
a lot of sediment in there. And he asked me,
do I drain the gas every every season? I would
drain the gas out, but still there was still sediment
in there.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
And they never even used the thing.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
For a couple of years. But it wasn't like I
use it every every day, only during the big snows.
We only had a couple of big snows since I've
had it.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
So well, Mine's battery operated well, really, sea batteries got
it our snow blowing time.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
It really sucked last year because that's what I figured
out that it wasn't working. That was when we had that.
When we had that one, it was like six to
eight inches. That was horrible. That was before I had
my blow torch. So you had a little handheld with
no Yeah, I think you had to do it by
the lake anything. Yeah, I think did nothing to it.
So I looked at those and said, now I'm not
(04:28):
gonna do that. But the the little old hand held,
I mean I have one of those.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
We whipped.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
Those are good for like they're called snow Joe's.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
Yeah, I know, snow Joe's a whole line of stuff.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
Yeah, but those are good for like a couple of Wait,
you get your T shirt? Huh, what do I get
my T shirt?
Speaker 1 (04:47):
I don't know. I have snow Snow.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
I'm still waiting for royalties from using my name for
snow Joe.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
They're all over at QVC.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
It's amazing. I mean, of those that are out there,
I didn't realize how many are made today, the especially
the electric or the battery operated. Yeah. Those are good
for a couple of inches. Yeah, well, this I the
one I got, good for a couple of for more
than that. He has a metal blade. Frony, fancy that
(05:18):
mine's plastic. Yeah, this is metal. So wow, we'll see
he's got the LED headlights on it. Wow, he's spent
a pretty paty. I did. I got it on sale,
but of course nobody had its getting chipped in from somewhere.
Nice nice, so over to get a yesterday, but I
haven't seen it yet, so maybe today. Well I am home.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
I am in the process, well not the process, but
I'm gonna be getting the new lawnmower next year. Already
made the decision. Yeah, so I'm looking for a new lawnmower. No,
not a battery. You're gonna go gas. I'm gonna go gas.
But I want one of those landscape ones that lands
(05:57):
zero turn, not that you're sitting in, but the bigger one.
You know what I'm talking about that they're still walk behind,
but they're bigger.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
Yeah, I was gonna say the forty inch or thirty
eighth six inch. Yeah, that's what I'm That's what I'm
when I get because I have I've had to.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
Take you about five pass passes, and well.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
The thing is is that, uh, I you know I
had back issues as you know. And I also had
an operation earlier this year. So I had my neighbor
down the street. He's fixing the snowblower. Uh, he came
up and cut my cut my lawn. He has one
of those and it took him five minutes to do
(06:47):
my backyard.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
So I said five passes.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
And I was just like, I was just like, wow, wow,
I mean I can't get I can't get like a
big one. I mean I'd love to get a zero
turn driving around thing, but I have a fence around
my yarn and won't get through the fence. Yeah, they
get the gate. So the thirty six incher or the
forty inch we'll get through. So that's that. That's what
(07:14):
I want to get next year.
Speaker 4 (07:15):
Cool.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
I know it's going to be a couple of grand
but yeah, I'm saving up for it. And that's next
that's next year's goal. Okay, I got a couple, I
got a couple of sources. You might your thoughts, your thoughts,
go for it. Where are you gonna park it?
Speaker 1 (07:30):
In my shed? Okay? In the shed? I'm back. Yeah okay, Yeah,
so I knew would fit the garage.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
Well, I gotta clean my garage there'sn't barely two cars
fits in there right now?
Speaker 1 (07:42):
Where does all that stuff come from?
Speaker 3 (07:45):
It's just be lazy not putting it away when I
take it out, But yeah, is what it is. So anyway,
enough about me. What's on the show? Who's any guess?
Speaker 1 (07:55):
Show? Any body a chance enjoy this snow this week?
You know the answer to that? Okay, just checking? How
about all the rain? The rain, you know what on Thursday?
On Thursday? Okay, so and then Friday, yesterday was stupid.
You get up, it's fifty five degrees and by ten
o'clock it's down to twenty four degrees.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (08:15):
Now, what's interesting about Thursday was I when I left
the radio station was it was drizzling, kind of drizzled
a little bit all afternoon. And then I had to
work Thursday night. So by the time I got to
where I had to go, it was no. It was
just drizzling. So I'm doing my I was, I was
(08:39):
working and then you could hear it hitting the roof,
and then when I left, when I was done, it
was just nothing. So I missed the entire storm.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
We were at the Candle Light Series concert at the
Rheingeist same way up in that upstairs thing. Yeah. Huge,
nice event center and the same way. Also, they had
just gotten started and I'll say to yours on the roof,
and you see why I look it up like, wow,
cool coming down. Yeah, but you're right about half an
hour and it was gone.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
Yeah I missed the whole thing.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
So but it was coming down. Yeah. We use it. Yeah,
we needed it. And they cover a lot of the snow, yeah,
except for the big piles. Still a few hanging around
here and there. So guests today, are you ready for this?
I'm ready. We got a lineup today. Here we go.
I'm talking lineup, here we go. I'm talking all star lineup.
(09:34):
I'm ready. You me, Danny Gleason of course, are out
the entire show right Ron rothis Wow rita wow m
Shipman from Kids Gardening, Katie Stagg Liano from Katie's Crops,
Gary Sullivan. Yeah, and then like I said, Danny Gleason
(09:55):
and me in between. Wow, that's a big Is that
a lineup or what? It's a pack show right there.
That's the Chris fun Christmas Show. So we're gonna talk
to him and Katie about you know, you get a
little extra money at the end of the year. You
want to get those kids involved gardening. There's a great
way to donate right there there.
Speaker 3 (10:12):
You go, sit back, get a cup of coffee or
tea to share some breakfast and listen to listen to
the show.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
Yep, so we got let's lets of people talk.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
To today and and you know, hi to my friends
in Columbus and uh.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
All my friends in Columbus.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
Yeah. So the website, you.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
Stay on top of all these coaches firing things all
of a sudden. Yeah. Always yeah.
Speaker 3 (10:39):
So the webb on the website is Joe.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
Ron Wilson online dot com. And the Facebook page in
the garden with Ron Wilson, and.
Speaker 3 (10:51):
The chat room is up and running. Uh so, and
I hope hopefully people are enjoying the festive graphics. Uh
not getting anything. I have been not getting any feedback,
so I don't know. So there's a couple of posts
Christmas through the Years that you sent me earlier this week,
(11:11):
some quotes about winter. It's great, Yes, what's your almost
didn't post it because you know how much I love winter.
Is Rita going to talk about her bursting cheese? She is?
Speaker 1 (11:23):
She is going to talk about that. We're gonna talk
about all kinds of stuff. We've got a lot of
things to cover. And a quick segment.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
Well, her website on the website at her bursting is
it bursting borson?
Speaker 1 (11:35):
Or borson or.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
Her bors and cheese dip is on there. So if
you want to.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
Look at that picture twice, why why wasn't sure what
was going on there? There's just like a bunch of
stuff laying on a plate with a couple of crackers
sticking up out of it. So you had to get
a little closer to said, oh, yeah, that is in there.
Here's some bursting cheese in there. So that stuff's good
on hamburger. That stuff's good on anything on your finger exactly, yeah,
(12:03):
someone else's finger. The plant of the week is Christmas rosemary. Heah,
let me stricker what rosemary it is?
Speaker 3 (12:15):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (12:15):
Rosemary?
Speaker 3 (12:18):
Why why rosemary?
Speaker 1 (12:20):
Well, because rosemary has been used an awful lot in
the last few years now for a holiday plant. Trimmed
in shaped like a Christmas tree. There you go, little
ornaments on there. Then you get your rosemary to enjoy
over the winter. It's a harder one to grow inside.
So I've got some tips for you as far as
what I think will help you out to get to
grow through. But the winter, it's a tough one. Riad
(12:43):
over winter's hers and an unheated garage, and it does
fairly well. They're very hearty, but they just don't take
really cold temperatures for a long period of time. But
got some instructures on there for you for the Rosemary
very cool and honestly in lavender like that to the
Rosemary picture that I have posted on the website. It's
it's your new one where you got all your boattoks
(13:03):
woo great yep, So you can check that out. Yeah,
check out me with lots of botox check out. Yeah, yep, great,
a lot of filler, great yep. And picture of rosemes.
Joey's having so much fun. I am with all those
creativity things that you were doing with me.
Speaker 3 (13:21):
Hey, hey, I gotta have fun, gotta have fun.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
And figure how to do this so I can do
that with back to you. That's by the way. I
like that T shirt, Yeah, Vender T shirt. Yep. You know.
Gary Sullivan was born in nineteen forty six. He was Yeah,
I can say that because I know he's not listening.
Speaker 3 (13:40):
He was nineteen forty six, I would have thought. I
would have thought earlier than that. Yeah, yeah, early forties. Okay,
we'll go with that. There you go, all right, I'm done.
That's it. That's it for me. Merry Christmas, everybody.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
That's right, have a very merry Christmas. That's next week,
isn't it.
Speaker 3 (13:58):
Yes, it is. And then now we're going to talk.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
After Christmas, maybe post Saturday, maybe post Christmas Saturday, maybe
pre New Year's Day Saturday. Possibly, Okay, I'll hold you
to that, all right, all right, Joe Strekker, Executive producer.
If you like what you see on our website, royan
Wilson online dot com Facebook page in the Garden with
Ron Wilson, Joe Strecker had everything to do with it.
Someone there you don't like, not sure about. I think
(14:20):
we should take it off.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
Not my fault.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
I think we should take it off. Can I say that?
You think Joe should take it off? Not my fault,
it's not his fault. Who we're gonna blame?
Speaker 3 (14:32):
Should we keep blaming? Doctor Z?
Speaker 1 (14:35):
Yeah? I think so?
Speaker 5 (14:36):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (14:37):
Yeah? Yeah, was every think? Yeah?
Speaker 6 (14:38):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (14:38):
We washaking our head? Yes, yeah, doctor Z. Washington three
Garden eighty three. What's he still writing on that.
Speaker 3 (14:45):
He's still writing.
Speaker 1 (14:48):
Sidecard car wither sweetheart on my sweet Tart on the back.
I wonder if you have to lean to the right
with bowser because of that big rock is on the
left hand side, Doctor Laura Money, if she put her
hand out to signal going left, they would tip over.
If the rock is so big, she would stick her
(15:10):
hand down to be like you'd blind you. She's probably
building up. I had to build up a little work.
I know.
Speaker 3 (15:14):
She probably looks like Popeye on her left.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
Yeah, carrying that finger, Doctor Laura Money, well done, Doctor
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Speaker 1 (18:10):
Welcome back. You're in the Garden with Ron Wilson again.
That toll free number would be eight hundred eight two
three eight two five five. Not only would it be,
but it is that number as well. Give us a buzz.
Don't forget our website as we were talking earlier, Ron
Wilson Online dot com Facebook page. In the Garden with
Ron Wilson up and running astrong this morning as well.
You know, I was in our studios here. They had
(18:33):
a holiday to get together, well Dan, about a week ago,
ten days ago, and they brought in some gorgeous quonsettius
and they're in an I think they're in an eight
or ten inche pot, So they're big. I mean they're
like twenty eighteen twenty four inches high and wide, great color,
great looking plants. And remember I just said they brought
him into the studio or the offices here for the
(18:55):
for the Christmas party. And whether anybody waters them or not,
I'm gonna say they probably don't, correct. And the reason
they don't I can say that at this stage is
because most of the green leaves are starting to fall
off of these gorgeous ponsettias. My point two fold is here.
One is the green leaves fall when and this is
(19:16):
all a part of not being watered. Bottom line, all right,
you let them dry out. It's an evergreen. Those leaves drop,
it's done, it's toast. The plant's not dead, but the
leaves are so they're done. They fall off. And so
obviously none of these have been watered that are around here,
it's a shame to see that. But anyway, it doesn't matter.
But what's really nice is that the red bracks, pinks,
(19:38):
and the whites all stay on there. They don't fall off.
They're really tough. They hang on. So if you come
back and water it, you'll keep those. You can keep
those on all along. But point being is this, don't
throw those away if they do that. Okay, I've got
an answer for you what you can do to make
them look really cool for the rest of the holiday
season and through the winter time as well. So if
(19:58):
you're losing leaves on your points set, don't throw it away.
I'll tell you what to do after the break. Here
in the garden, Ron.
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Speaker 1 (22:14):
Welcome back here in the garden with Ron Wilson. And
what is the answer to those leggy point setias where
the leaves all fall off the bottom. Go out in
your yard and cut off about you know, six or
eight ten short pieces tips of evergreens like juniper, taxis, boxwood, whatever,
and then arrange thows. Just stick them right in the
(22:34):
soil underneath the colorful bracts of the Ponsetia. Now in
that container, you look like you have a holiday planter
with the greens in the bottom the colorful bracts of
the pon setia at the top. They used to do
this way back in the old days when they normally
just fell off, and it looks like a holiday planner.
It's really cool. As a matter of fact, I wouldn't
(22:55):
be surprised if some of the growers started doing that
and selling them that way again. You know, it goes
around comes next next Christmas season, So anyway, don't throw
them out. Put some greens in the bottom. Of those greens
will stay green like that pretty much all winter because
there a lot of times can take up that moisture
that's in that soil. Now, as I promised our earlier
in the show, it is time for weather. It's the
(23:15):
weather and in the tree starring our true seer of sears.
Here's our registered consulting arborist boy goes on and on
Amateur Meteorologist I SA board Certified Master arbust the Whole
nine Yards website arbordoctor dot com. Ladies and gentlemen, the
arbor doc himself, Ron Roughie so wow, are you having fun?
Speaker 6 (23:43):
Yes, I'm having fun. Actually, I was just notified by
email last evening that I had passed the latest True
Risk Assessment Qualification Course three point zero. So I've re
upped on that for the next seven years. So good
keep that on the credential list, I guess.
Speaker 1 (24:02):
So you'll be still knowledgeable for seven more years.
Speaker 6 (24:06):
Probably, Yeah, we'll getting kind of older.
Speaker 1 (24:09):
See you never know, I know. Yeah, things start to
fade after a while. So anyway, we got a short
segment with you today because I wanted to get a
quick update. Obviously, tomorrow is the winter Solstice, longest day, Yeah,
the longest night of the year, and that would be
tomorrow night, right Sunday night. Yes, and then things start
(24:31):
getting better after that. But we got two more weeks
of December and we're going to go into January. So
two questions for you, how are we going to finish
out the year? Does it look like going into twenty
twenty six? And of course the ultimate question that we
ask you every Saturday before Christmas? Will we have a
white Christmas in south western Ohio? Have had it? Ron
(24:53):
rothis No, it's hard to snow at sixty one degrees.
Speaker 6 (24:59):
Huh, you're looking at a white painted wall or white sheets.
We did say, you know, quite a while ago that
we were going to have quite a bit of cold weather,
quite a bit of snow, and the chances for white
Christmas would be higher than in a normal year. And
as you know, we've had quite a bit of cold weather,
quite a bit of snow. As a matter of fact,
(25:20):
it's been one of the snowiest Decembers on record. But
it's just a timing thing this year. The snow all
fell earlier and it's all done now, and so we're
as we also predicted. I said we'd have ups and
downs this winter, and we're definitely going to have one
of the ups for Christmas Week. In fact, Christmas Day
we could be flirting with record highs in the Ohio
(25:42):
Valley and really in a decent part of the south
central part of the country, in southeast part of the country,
it could be very very warm this Christmas. Really, you
have to go out onto the West coast this yere
in Nevada's those areas Pacific Northwest, find a great deal
of snow. It's just going to be a very warm
(26:03):
Christmas this year in the United States, unfortunately.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
And it looks like in our area it looks like
there's even a chance of right now they're saying for
a thunderstorm, maybe some rain on Christmas Day as well,
But hey, it is what it is.
Speaker 6 (26:16):
Either at night or during the day, it's kind of
hard to tell. But going forward, you did ask about
going forward. It looks like the roller coaster to some
extent is going to continue, although this warm spell looks
like it's going to last for a little while. It
was looking like it was going to get cold again
right after Christmas, and that looks like it's going to
be at the very least delayed. So I'm going to
(26:37):
enjoy a little bit of warm weather for a decent bit.
But it does look like eventually the temperatures will go
back down and will continue on this kind of up
and down, And it does look like we're going to
get some more really cold and snowy periods over the
course of the January February even in the early March
(27:01):
time period.
Speaker 1 (27:02):
Hey, I went out and actually bought a snowblower because
now I'm taking care of my mom's driveway and doing
things like that, so I actually wouldn't got a.
Speaker 6 (27:09):
Snowball that until I had sixty degrees and that.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
And look what happened. I got it after the snow obviously,
because there weren't any available at that time. So now
now I get it and then old snow for another
three or four weeks. That's all right. I'll be waiting
for it.
Speaker 6 (27:23):
So so prepared, just like a boy scout.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
I am prepared, Yes, I am. So We're gonna finish
out the year and begin the twenty twenty sixth season
with the roller coaster there. And you're saying by the
time we get into January and looking at February, good
chance we get back into a little bit more cold
weather again.
Speaker 6 (27:40):
Yeah, possibly some significantly cold weather like we had. You
know over the past couple of weeks. I would not
be surprised to see it get back below zero again.
And I would not be surprised to see us get
a decent amount of more snow. But we are going
to have kind of ups and downs this winter, so
I would not be surprised to see another one spell too.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
Wow. Well, there you have it, and you know we've
had some good rainfall over the last couple of weeks
as well. How do you feel now, you know, you
and I are always out there preaching about make sure
you're water and going into the fall and into the
holiday season, especially those evergreens. How do you feel at
this stage?
Speaker 6 (28:17):
The ground is wet right now. We had a wet November.
December has actually been slightly below normal, but with the
cold weather and the lack of evaporation in the snow
cover that we had, the ground is just really really
wet right now. So the only place that I can
(28:38):
imagine in anything that needs water right now in Cincinnati
in the Media Ohio Valley would be something that you
might be under an overhang or something like that. And
I'm being very careful with that because you go up
in the northeast Ohio, northern and central Indiana, they've been
in severe to extreme drought for weeks now and it's
(28:59):
gotten a little bit better with recent precipitation, but it's
been much much drier in those areas. In a lot
of parts of the United States, up and down the
East coast, New England, the South, a lot of areas
of drought. So for those areas of watering is still
something you need to be thinking about with some of
these evergreens, especially.
Speaker 1 (29:20):
You know, I've been watching that. There are a lot
of that drought monitor. I just okay, I was watching
that drought monitor. Uh and obviously you said it too,
mey caju, I go and find it as well. But
I've been watching the Ohio and it's amazing how that
has kind of hung in there as far as being
fairly dry, even though they've had some snow up there,
still not where they normally should be.
Speaker 6 (29:41):
Yeah, and snow snow gives moisture, but remember it's a
one inch, you know, ten inches of snow to to
equal one inch of rain.
Speaker 1 (29:49):
That was my next question water.
Speaker 6 (29:51):
Yeah, so, and that that's an average, I mean, a
very very dry snow could be even less than that.
You can have twenty to one ratio. Sometimes they're very
powdery snow. So so it takes quite a lot of
snow to equal an inch of rain. And if if
you're several inches below where you should be, then you
(30:12):
need quite a lot of snow to really really get
it backward where it needs to be. So some of
those areas you know, are are still really really dry.
And it's interesting how you don't have to go very far,
you know, southwest Ohio has been pretty wet, but northwest
Ohio been in severe to extreme drought. So it's just
interesting how you can have those, you know, those differences
(30:35):
over fairly short periods of time or distance.
Speaker 1 (30:39):
No doubt about it. Hey, Ron, we got to go.
We appreciate the update, ron Rothis I certifying arborist of course,
and the hobby meteorologist is website arbordoctor dot com. I
know you're uh chaperoning at a gymnastics meet, and I
know you're competing as well, so good luck on those
parallel bars and the pommel horse. Those are your two
(30:59):
special It.
Speaker 6 (31:00):
Would be an ugly sight. But yes, the children who
are making noise in the background, even though I told
him to be quiet, they're doing it. Are going to
be competing today United States Trampling and Tumbling Association competition
in Ryo, Grand, Ohio. And yes they do pronounce it Ryan.
Speaker 1 (31:17):
Yeah, home of Bob Evans.
Speaker 6 (31:19):
Yes, we're probably going to eat in the original Bob
Evans today.
Speaker 1 (31:22):
At his original table.
Speaker 6 (31:25):
Maybe. I don't know who.
Speaker 1 (31:27):
Knows, Ron Roneth. It's always a pleasure. We want to
wish you and your family are very very merry Christmas.
Appreciate all that. Yeah, all you do for us during
the year and we will probably talk to you by
the end of the season. End of the year.
Speaker 6 (31:40):
Sounds great to me.
Speaker 1 (31:41):
All right, thanks Ron, take care of have a good
time at the gymnastics. All right, before we take a break,
let's go to Dayton, Ohio deck.
Speaker 8 (31:47):
Come morning, Good morning. I've liked your guests today. He
was good.
Speaker 1 (31:53):
N he's good at the he knows his trees, he
knows his weather.
Speaker 8 (31:57):
Oh, he was great, so great.
Speaker 1 (31:59):
So you all set up for Christmas?
Speaker 2 (32:01):
Yep?
Speaker 5 (32:02):
All set up, all.
Speaker 8 (32:05):
Ready to go. My friend over at uh Oak Creek
had a really nice party. It was We had olders
and they had a little country band in there. It
was good. Boy, it was rough. There's probably seventy f
eighty people that when I went there thirsday. It was nice.
Speaker 1 (32:22):
If you go somewhere and they have a band that's
playing and they find out that Dick from Dayton's in
the audience, did they have you come up on the
stage and play with him?
Speaker 8 (32:31):
Yeah? I actually uh, they had a little uh they
were passing out like jingle bells. I was playing the
tambourine a little bit. How about that.
Speaker 1 (32:41):
The tambourine. Yeah, it was really nice, the green tambourine.
Speaker 8 (32:45):
Man tambourine. It was Yeah. But I want to thank everybody.
There's a couple that knew me. It's a library, I
think it. Scott and Julie sent me a card and
they said they hear hear me on your show. So uh,
I always talk. It's nice. Nice, Scott always talks to me.
And yeah, but I'm thinking, I don't know. I'll take
(33:10):
the Bengals, but they better play better tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (33:13):
Come on, I hope they play better. So what's your prediction?
Speaker 8 (33:18):
Twenty three to twenty the Bengals, But I don't know.
Speaker 1 (33:20):
All right, well you might as well, but twenty three
twenty got it, Dan, twenty three twenty Bengals. All right, hey,
you have a very wait.
Speaker 8 (33:29):
Happy holidays, buddy. I'll talk to you again.
Speaker 1 (33:31):
They have a very merry Christmas, Dick, and we will
talk to you later.
Speaker 8 (33:34):
Okay, bye, by all right.
Speaker 1 (33:35):
Take care, quick break, we come back. Phone lines are
open for you. Eight hundred eight two three eight two
five five coming up the top of the hour. Rita
hike and fel that's right, we're gonna be Are you
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the hour, m shipman, we're gonna talk to Katie Stagliano,
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Good morning. I am Ron Wilson, your personal yard boy.
Speaker 5 (35:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (35:45):
Unfortunately, we're not going to get any snow for Christmas Day.
It's going to be in the sixties, low sixties, maybe
some rain. It is what it is. Uh, it's you
know what it is. What's interesting about But if it's
really cold and snowing on Christmas Day sometimes that can
be kind of pooh pooish because you know, then it's
cold to get out and get to go to the
(36:06):
maybe to another family's house or whatever. It could be
a little bit tougher. So if it's a little warmer,
it can be a little bit more easy on the family.
But we'll take it. Whatever it is is what we're
gonna get. But I know it's nice having a little
bit of that white on the ground on Christmas morning.
That's that's pretty cool because we reflect back obvioshly to
the Christmas Story and all the National Lampoon vacation and
(36:26):
the snow and all that stuff, with which I have
not dan seen one Christmas Special so far, and I'm
running out of time, you are, yes, because after Christmas
they're not as funny. I like watching them, but you know,
you gotta watch.
Speaker 3 (36:39):
Usually I've watched like Christmas Vacation like six times. Well, yeah,
yet I haven't even watched it yet either.
Speaker 1 (36:44):
I would see I usually watch Christmas Story at least once,
Christmas Vacation at least twice, you know, and then you
go on from there. I like the Santa Claus. I
think Christmas Special I got to do that once. Yeah,
but the Santa Claus I didn't. I haven't you know,
I haven't seen that at all. I like that that
that was a whole What was your three series of that?
I believe? So yeah, do you know here's a little
trivia for you? Ready for this? Yes, the scene where
(37:07):
Santa falls off the roof and dies. Did you know
that the original script called for him to shoot Santa
accidentally as an intruder and kill him.
Speaker 3 (37:20):
I did not know that.
Speaker 1 (37:21):
Yeahs Disney saw that and said Nah, I don't think
we're gonna be anybody's gonna be shooting Santa Claus. So
they changed the script and made it so he slipped
and fell off the roof like there you go and died.
So I thought that was kind of weird. Shoot him
all right? Uh eight hundred and eight two three eight
two five five. Hope you got my tip about the
pond setia. It really does work. Tried it out last
(37:42):
week because I never even thought of this. I read
an article where they said, you know, back in the
old days, many many years ago, you know with the
pon setia is growing. Uh, some of the older selections
they didn't hold up very well, and you'd lose those
green leaves on the bottom. And that's why these sometimes
they put the sleeves on the bottom because those foiled
sleep twofold. One is made it look more festive, and
(38:04):
two is it kind of covered up those bottom steps.
And I tell you what I love. Have you ever
seen pont set of trees where they actually limb them
up and grow them like trees. I think they're gorgeous.
I think the first time I ever saw that was
when we were watching this, especially on the Christmas at
the White House and they had the interior decorator for
the holidays had brought in Christmas pon setia trees as
(38:26):
well as the bush form and they were gorgeous. Now,
it takes a couple years to grow the tree form
so it looks like a tree, but they were really cool.
So that's nice. But you know, you got these at home,
like the ones here in our office and their leaves
are all falling off. Just stick those evergreen small branches
in the bottom and make it look like a holiday planner.
You can even put you know, some berries in it,
(38:48):
you know, or whatever at the bottom, some artificial berries
or whatever. And as you're watering the pon setia and
keeping it evenly moist through the winter, that also keeps
those evergreen branches evenly moist. And they usually hang right
in there right on through the holiday season as well
into the winter and on forward. So don't throw them out.
Use that. And isn't it an interesting looking at the
(39:09):
Christmas and the holiday season. How it's really focused around horticulture.
And you know, somebody brought this up the other day
and I said, you know, you think about it, and
every holiday has something like Valentine's Day with roses, you
know that type of thing. But look at the Christmas season,
and you got the Christmas tree, whether it's cut or
live or artificial. But you got the you know, the
(39:32):
the Christmas tree, you got the pont setia, you got
the amarillis, you got the Christmas cactus. You have all
the Christmas flowers, the paper white kits that you can
get out there. I mean you look at it just
goes on and on and on, the wreaths and roping
the bowels, all of that. The grave blankets, which I
(39:53):
never I never came up with the history. There's so
many different stories about grave blankets. And in our area
grave blankets are not used. I mean you see one
every now and then, but not very often. And you
get further north, like when I was going to the
Ohio State University working at a garden center there, Solmon's
Garden Center, we made a ton of grave blankets, swags
(40:17):
no lightning, you know, four or five feet long with
ornaments on it that you lay on the grave, pin
it down and then let it lay there over the
you know, during the holiday seasons at all, and then
take that off at the seasons. Row a lot of
cemeteries don't like those, and a lot of them have
been banned from doing that because it can shade out
the grass and cause some issues there. So they really
(40:39):
a lot of them don't like to do that anymore.
But it boy at one time that was a major thing.
Were grave blankets, uh kind of and again looking up
the history, Uh, you know, there's a lot of stories
behind it as far as you know, keeping the grave
warm and things like that, or decorad it's a great
way to decorate because it's down on the ground. But
you know, most people today use the tripod and the
(41:00):
wreath on top doesn't affect the grass. But man, we
used to make eight ton of those things. But you
look at the holiday season and it really is and
obviously we know what the true meaning of Christmas is
all about, but it is as far as the decorations
and all, a holiday that is really focused around the
horticulture industry with all the great plants that are out there,
so pretty interesting, uh looking at that. But again, Christmas cactus.
(41:25):
You know, if you like that plant, and I do,
it's an easy plant to grow indoors. It flowers fairly
consistently for us Uh, hanging basket or renting container. You
see those going on sale, it's scarf those things up
and h and use those Amarillis right now. As I've
been looking around this past week, plant especially places that
don't normally sell a lot of plants, but they bring
(41:46):
Amarillis kids in paperweight kids in. Uh, they're now on sale.
I'm telling you right now, they got them on sale.
They want to get rid of those things. Uh, this
is great. We scarf them up now. If you here's
a little tip. If you're looking to buy Amarillis kits
in the boxes, open it up and look at the
ball before you buy the kit. Make sure the ball
is solid, and make sure it's not growing. Now. Sometimes
(42:06):
they'll start to sprout out a little bit in that box.
I the answer too isn't too bad. But if it
starts to get more, we're starting to curl around the box.
I usually shy away from those. So kit when it's
still fairly dormant or just starting to show a little
growth on the top, solid should be good to go.
The bigger the ball, the more flowers you get. And
it takes about six to eight weeks from the time
you pot them up. So hot one up, maybe this weekend,
(42:29):
six to eight weeks. That puts us into what into January?
You'll start to get some color. Two more weeks, pot
another one up, put you into February. Two more weeks.
Put another one up put you into the first of March.
Carries you right through the winter season at a really
good price. Amarrolls paperwhite Kitch. You can't go wrong. Quick break,
We come back. It's tifer. Are you urbally experienced with
Rita Hikenfeld? Here in the garden with Ron Wilson.
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