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Speaker 1 (00:36):
Eight hundred eight two three eight two five five. Good morning.
I am Ron Wilson, your personal yard boy talking about yarding.
Can you believe this? It's November. Let's kick it off
our November series of shows with Joe Stricker, our executive producer.
Find out what's going on his law of the landscape. Nothing,
I'll tell you right now. I'm gonna quit saying that
because nothing that's going to happen the rest of the
(00:57):
year there, next year or next year either, so I
will stop that. We'll talk about his neighbor's long and landscape.
How about that our website, Ryan Wilson Online dot com
Facebook page In the Guarden with Ron Wilson. Are you
ready to fall backwards? Unbelievable? Yeah, of course tonight to
fall backwards to sleep. If they change that so it's
(01:17):
permanently daylight saving time, I will have a fit because
I like the regular old time that we go to tonight. Okay,
that's me. That's what it was supposed to have been.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
All right, I'll tell them when I went when when
I'm in next time in the meeting for there, whatever
they do that still keeps coming up.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
That was yours. You put that on yeah, so yes,
it is. It is daylight saving time. I don't like
daylight saving time. I want to go back to just
stay with the regular time.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
Pick one, pick a lane, don't care, honestly, honestly, I
don't care which one.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
Just pick one. They always have the stats like that
when this happens, I think it's this one. How many
heart attacks people have and they get screwed up and
things happened to them and mental problems, And I'll just
leave it at one one thing and just stay there.
And I say it's the old fashioned time, whatever, whatever, whatever,
Just pick one. I don't care. We should just do it.
(02:26):
I do care. Well, I turned a gap right there.
There's no age gap. It's a pretty okay age chasm.
Really get a lot of trigger treats on. Actually, and
I didn't have my light on, so I was, oh, well, no,
wonder you didn't get any trigger treats, didn't get any
Triger treaders.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
But I had to pull the car in, and I
looked up and down the street and I was in
an army of one on that Almost my entire street
was dark.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
Really, you know what we've I kind of noticed that too.
We went to my daughters to see before they went
out trigger treat to see all the grandsons. And as
we drove away when they went left, I didn't see
a lot of front porch lights on either. No.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
I looked up down my street and maybe ten hand
full twenty percent that I could see, that's what we saw. Yeah,
but like all my neighbors, their lights were off, and yeah, wow, yeah,
didn't see many kids either. We didn't either, So I
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don't know. Maybe we'd maybe we'd just do virtual candy
this year or something.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
I don't know. Maybe maybe because of the weather, they
were afraid to go out. It was kind of missing
when they left, but it was It wasn't bad. It
was like in the fifties, little snowing. Last year, if
you remember, was snowing. And I remember the one what
was that word? You just even said it, and you'd
even talk to me about don't say that, don't cuss.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
Oh yeah, yes word. I remember the year it was.
It it was thirteen years ago, because I remember I
remember that that year distinctively. We had the hurricane. Remember
we had a hurricane come through on Halloween. Well it
was the remnants of a hurricane, and I remember it was.
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It was like really really rainy and really really windy
because I brought it because the girls were still little enough,
and we we ended up just going like what one
street and down to the other because it was so bad.
But I was going up the street. My umbrella was
pulling you along my umbrella. It did the old flip
where it flipped upside down and ripped off of the
(04:37):
actual So I said, it was holding like this wire,
you know, the wire from the from the break in
the cartoons. Probably wasn't flying down the street. I don't
remember that. It was thirty, like thirteen years ago. Yeah,
two thousand and uh twenty and eleven.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
Cool. Yeah, anyway, So yeah, I was my grandson Kellen.
Kellen who's now looking at me in the eye, and
he's in the eighth grade, taken after his father was
a shadow. Oh neat total black like the Blue Men,
but in black, and he's really skinny. It was the
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creepiest thing I've ever seen it. So he followed his
dad around, who was some serial killer and he was
his shadow. Yeah, it was like whoa. Of course, everybody
they always get into it though. The family does all
kinds of really cool costumes. But Yeah, he was just
a shadow. That was pretty deep. Cool. Yeah, Well, Bethany
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had to work, she closed, and Grace was over at
her friend's house. Is it hard to say that, Well,
Bethany was working, she closed, and uh.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
And I stayed at home by myself with the four
dogs and with the lights off watched Is that been
barking anyway?
Speaker 1 (06:00):
Security movie? Yeah? Well yeah, I had him, trust me.
I had him in the back. Yeah, I had him.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
I had him with me because they would have totally
barked at everything that worked.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
And then when when when.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
Eight o'clock hit in was over, somebody down the street
was shooting off fireworks for an hour.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
Okay, So and I thought of you yesterday because somebody
brought this up. And I don't know what. There's some
kind of a light celebration last night too, It must
have been. There was there's another kind of thing that
went on, supposed to go on last night. It was
because they were talking about fireworks and probably weren't going
to set it off because of the rain. Yes, we
actually got some rain drops yesterday. So are we still
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the dry stalk Thursday?
Speaker 3 (06:37):
What?
Speaker 1 (06:37):
We're still the driest October on record? I don't know,
I didn't see what happened. I didn't see where we
know we weren't. As a matter of fact, that got
ruined last week when that little shower came through.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
Yeah, yeah, we have we have a lot of a
large immigrant I forgot to check yesterday. I need to
check that we have a large immigrant population on our street.
So it might have been there.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
So celebration, Yeah, some kind of a some kind of
a light thing and so are people were talking about
And I said, it's Halloween night, it's Thursday. What are
you talking about, Like it's a light celebration. Because we
saw a few go off also, and there were a
lot of Yeah, we saw people on the street. They
had like sparklers. Yeah we're doing that. And I didn't
catch I didn't really I didn't really pay attention. I
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just remember it was like it was after everything was done.
And then about an hour there was a it was
about some fireworks and I was like, oh, wow, Halloween
fireworks your favorite? Well, well in our in our area
a fireworks store upened up there you go. Yeah, I
think it's a Hispanic or something. I don't know. That's
what I kind of caused. I have to look that
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up too, So I don't know, I mean yesterday, last
day of October, and so I don't know what the
records were. Maybe Ronald text me this morning let me know.
But all right, it's one of the driest October's overhead.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
Well, well it's well that just happens to be one
of the articles that's on your website, which.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
Is ron Wilson online dot com.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
So if you want to even if it is, even
if it doesn't really matter, we were dry and you
need the water.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
Gotta keep water. Except for me, what happened last night Friday,
Thursday night today, except for me where I stopped watering
way back in March. That's yeah, well can I say exactly?
So what else? What other things on the website is? Uh?
Is you know, Rita is uh making I guess some
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apple butter this weekend. That's yes, it's called Ron's apple
butter because my mom made apple butter. That's one of
my favorite add ons to a toaster. Yeah, apple butter
is awesome. Apple butter, oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah,
apple butter is the best. Oh yeah, So.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
You had a little cinnamon if you want a little
bit of bite to it. So we got we got
apple butter. Rita's or Ron's Apple butter is the recipe
of the week this week.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
And she text she texted me, by the way friday morning,
she did yesterday morning, said that you was very confused
because it was so wendy. She was having a hard
time steering the room. She lost her hat.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
I would think that she since it's twenty twenty four,
she would have one of those electrics.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
She doesn't like it. She does almost like a tesla,
like a doesn't like it where where drives you? So
she can't figure out how to set it up to
do that for he Well, that has nothing to do
with so she's still winging it. That has nothing to
do with whether or not it's a good broom. And no,
she just said she can't. She doesn't like it. Figure
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it out. I can't figure it out. In technology, Yeah,
when we gave a lot of talks together, and when
we would give talks together, I would ramble on too
long and take some of her time. I don't like that.
So yeah, yeah, so she would she went and got
a timer. Yeah, but she couldn't figure out how to
set the timer. Oh gosh, I loved it. I couldn't. Well,
(09:53):
why don't you just do an old coak. So the
next time we gave a talk, I brought her one
that you just turned to twenty minutes. I want to
think that she would have justos she said, tell you,
by the way, we had a little get together that
she came and talked to our employees about eating healthy
this past week. And she said, make sure you tell
(10:15):
Joe and Danny. I said, look, make sure their lemon
cello and the cherry bounces is steep. And I said,
we got to get you down here, goin to the studio.
So yeah, anyway, she said, tell both of you Hello, Hello, Rita.
Don't don't put a spell on me please. Well, maybe
it all depends on the spell. Yeah. Really the plant
of the weeks, the plane of the week this week?
(10:37):
What's that? The plan of the week this week is
Amarilla's bulk. Yeah, why would you do? It's that time
of the first of November, right even close to Christmas yet,
But don't you eight weeks away? Don't she one of
them bloomen by the time. It's a good point. So
you gotta get them started in color. You gotta get
them started.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
Yeah, Okay, don't everyone where you put them in sprite,
because that's something different in sprite. Yeah, that makes them
grow or is that something different.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
The paper whites where you put the gin in there
already clear of alcohol or something. Yeah, it keeps him
from getting real tall. Oh and sober and yeah, and
you had a little bit yourself. Oh yeah, as long
as it's clear, you can use anything. One for the
paper white, yeah, two for you, one for the one
for the paper white, three for me, one for the
paper white. Exactly. You don't start paper whites now because
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it only takes two or three weeks to flower, gotcha.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
Just one of the bulbs that when you mixed it
with you had to do something with.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
That, so you had to keep it short. Yeah, otherwise
you get real tall. Fall over there you go. So
uh yeah, that's it for that's it. Any postings. Did
you post anything special on our website for this week?
Just read or anything? Just no, just the dryest YouTube
videos that you were sending me this week. Some interesting things, no, okay, that.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
Was a private between me and Ron. Yes, we do have.
We do have our own little correspondence every now and then.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
It was interesting stuff, yes, very interesting, very interesting you
always find these interesting articles.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's just uh, you know, I felt
that it was more of like a consult do.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
You think you should post this? Mm hmmm, And we
just kind of decided, oh maybe next week, maybe next
time it let's save it for the winner. There you go.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
So that it so we got the dryest October on
the dry one over and one of article. We have
the apple butter and ameralis bobs and it's time for
me to go. It's my phone's beeping. I had to
turn off the ringer.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
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Speaker 1 (17:00):
Honey, welcome back. You're in the garden with Ron Wilson
again that toll free number eight hundred eight two three
eight two five five talking about yardening. We are into November.
Can't believe that? And that puts us what about Thanksgivings
the twenty eighth? Uh, so we are twenty six days
away from Thanksgiving and a great time. I love Thanksgiving
(17:20):
Weekend's probably one of my favorite holidays of all the holidays.
I mean, I enjoy Christmas and all the rest, but
I just Thanksgiving is just I don't know, it's through
that that weekend. It's just a great uh you know,
Thursday through Sunday, just a great to get together, eat
and relax, enjoy Thanksgiving, get ready for the holidays. Although
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this year Thanksgiving is a late one, so it's at
the very end of November. So you know, I kind
of I hate you know, I know, you know, we
get into November and we start thinking about the holidays
and we stop thinking about what we can be doing
in the yard and garden. Uh. And you know, you
don't want to hear me say it. I get it,
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but November is still a great month. To get out
and plant. You know, it falls a great time for planting,
and the way the weather's been running right now, besides
the fact that it's still very dry and you're gonna
have to do watering, which you would have been doing
anyway as these plants shut down and get ready to
go into the winter season. You'd have been watering anyway.
So you know that that shouldn't be a deterrent as
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far as getting out and planting. But you still have
plenty of time to do that. Weather still looks good
right down the road here, several till the next ten
days to two weeks, so again take advantage of this.
Thanksgiving got an extra week there before that happens, so
you know you can get out at least over the
next couple weeks and maybe try to get your plans
(18:44):
together and get things taken care of over the next
couple weeks, and that gives you a week and a
half or so before Thanksgiving pops up, and then of
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impressed with our through our nursery this week and looking
at talking to other garden centers as well. Folks are
planting lots of trees going in over the last ten
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October will go down as one of the driest in
(19:28):
our area as well. Temperatures have cooled a bit, still
staying warm, but see folks getting out there and doing
their and doing picking up trees and and doing some
planting or having them planted for them, And so I
give you a double thumbs up for getting out there
and getting that taken care of. Evergreen screen. Is still
time to do that, I mean, you can still plant
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just about anything and everything. I think this late in
the game. Uh. The only thing I start to hesitate
on a little bit, especially if you live in an
area that gets a lot of freezing and thawing over
the winter time, would be plants that are in four
inch pots ground cover that you would be planting, like
plugs that are right at the top of the ground.
Sometimes they don't this late in the season, don't have
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the time to get rooted end before we get into
the winter. And if you have a lot of freezing
and thawing a lot of times, that can push them
out of the ground over the winter, or if it
got extremely cold in the top, you know, four or
five inches would freeze hard. Sometimes that can be pretty
tough on newly planted, smaller plants. I mean that that actually,
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you know, we don't think about that, but sometimes can
also take a toll on even established plants when that
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a couple of things we wanted to move, didn't do
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You have this fall? Absolutely. I think the thing of
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or four days in advance to have good moisture, not
only in the soil, but in the plant as well
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Speaker 1 (23:15):
Welcome back here in the garden with Ron Wilson again
that toll free number eight hundred eight two three eight
two five five talking about the weather being dry and
all and really dry in our area, and I knew
we were going to be close to having one of
the driest and recorded history. Well, to find out for sure,
let's what do you say? We go to our hobby
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(23:36):
Good morning, sir, Good morning are you I am great?
Speaker 3 (23:41):
So?
Speaker 1 (23:41):
Uh? What did you find out for us for the
month of October? For uh, for us here in Ohio
and looking around the uh, just looking around the area
as a as a whole. I mean, did everybody experience
the type of October we had?
Speaker 3 (23:54):
It was very much area wide very much dry October
for everyone. Unfortunately, there were historically had been a lot
of dry out Tobers and the High Valley, and so
I think the all time record, I don't have it
right in front of me, was something like zero point
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one two, and we had zero point three seven at
the airport.
Speaker 1 (24:20):
Oh, we blew it out of the water.
Speaker 3 (24:24):
Yeah, it was more like a photo finish and a
horse race where the you know, every every horse is
having a slow time, so they're all like within a
nose of each other, but there's five horses ahead of you.
So yeah, it was not the driest, but it may
as well have been.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
Wow, point zero three seven, zero point three seven, zero
point three seven, That's that's unbelievable.
Speaker 3 (24:53):
Yeah, yeah, so thirty in my location, I had a
half in point five zero, so I was actually had
a tropical rainforest month. Yeah really, And actually a good
part of that fell in the first when I had
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a rogue shower along a front that was just at
the tail end of all that rain that we had
from Hurricane Helene, and we had like a I don't know,
a fifteen minute shower or something that that boosted my
total for the month. Otherwise, I would have probably been
in the point thirty seven range. But either way, I mean,
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that's a minuscule amount of rain and the temperatures averaging
several degrees above normal. It just left our soil was
really dry. And that Halloween rain was just a teaser
for most of us. I mean I had zero point
one pint one So.
Speaker 1 (25:56):
For so much would you dress up as this year?
Speaker 3 (26:01):
You don't want to know?
Speaker 1 (26:02):
Okay, okay, well okay, but you still went out right.
Speaker 3 (26:07):
I just say it was slightly political, so I won't
bring in to your show.
Speaker 1 (26:12):
So you wrapped yourself in political signs and then that
was then went out as a political sign. We're not
going to do that, all right, got it? Talking with
Ron Roethlis, of course, he is our amateur mediorologist, does
a tarn good job at protecting, predicting the weather and
taking a look at the future as well. I just
know what's what the update is in the Midwest and
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all around the country actually, and of course for us
here in the southwestern Ohio. You know, as we look
back Ron and you and you look at the trends
over the last several years, we've had what now, three
pretty dry falls in a row.
Speaker 3 (26:51):
This is the third autumn in a row with that
we've had at least some drought conditions. Crazily, uh, the
Palmer Drought Index does not have uh, southern Ohio or
the entire state of Kentucky in drought right now. We've
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never really gone back into drought after the you know,
w user reign we had from Hurricane Helen. So the
entire state of Kentucky and southern Ohio, this part of it,
the bar of southwest Ohio we're in, is listed as
being official normally dry right now, even though I'd say
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that we're getting pretty close to the m back to
moderate drought. The area in southeast Ohio that's been you know,
exceptionally dry this year, that area is still in the
extreme to exceptional drought. And that includes the Columbus, Ohio area,
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which is still in at least it's like the eastern
part of Franklin County is still in the extreme drought range.
So so some of those areas, you know, a really
good part of Ohio at this point, it's really kind
of strange, you know, Southeast Ohio is extreme to exceptional,
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Columbus is in the western part of the county moderate drought.
Eastern part of the county goes to extreme drought, and
then there's an area of severe drought that goes all
the way up into Toledo and in the northern Indiana
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northern Illinois. It's like ninety some one percent of the
Midwest is at least abnormally dry right now. In a
large area of the Midwest, I want to say in Midwest,
I mean Minnesota, the Great Lakes down in the Missouri,
A large part of that are especially north of the
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Ohio River, is either from moderate drought to severe drought,
and with patches of exceptional to extreme or extreme to
exceptional drought, namely in southeast Ohio. It's tiny a little
bit of northwest Ohio and then the south west quadrant
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of Missouri, but just a huge area, very little of
that in the Midwest that lacks any type of normally
dry conditions. And really it's kind of nationwide with very
widespread drought. I mean it's easier to say the areas
that don't have dry conditions. I think it's like eighty
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two percent of the country right now for a number correctly,
I can't look this stuff up as fast. Large part
of the country is dry right now.
Speaker 1 (29:56):
So if you had one word that you could advise
all of the folks listening to the show as far
as what they should be doing right now, what would
that one word be.
Speaker 3 (30:07):
I'm vacillating between the words water and prey.
Speaker 1 (30:11):
You can put them both together, not.
Speaker 3 (30:15):
If you stick to me in one.
Speaker 1 (30:17):
Word, I know, but you can put them both together,
you know. And you're right, you know. You gotta water,
and it's going to be really important as we go
through the fall season, the rest of the fall here,
going into the holiday seasons. It looks like you may
be watering right up until Christmas. Do you see any
break whatsoever coming up? I see there's a slight chance
of rain here tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (30:36):
Actually this yeah, this week, we do have a pretty
good shot at some measurable and even beneficial rain. It
looks like midweek sometime, and that could be a half
inch of rain or more. So it's not going to
be a drought buster, but it would definitely be if
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it's not that much beneficial. Actually, there has been a
change in the weather pattern and there's a big high
pressure system in the southeast which is kind of keeping
a lot of the precipitation at Bay, but moisture feed
has developed in the center of the country. And for example,
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over the next seven days, they're expecting huge amounts of
rain in an area from Texas up through Oklahoma, western Missouri,
which is part of the area that's in the really
bad rout conditions, and then up into the Great Lakes.
And Cincinnati ends up being kind of on the eastern
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edge of that. That's where we get that half inch
or so of rain. But everywhere west of Cincinnati, up
into the Great Lakes and down into Texas is going
to get looks like some pretty beneficial rains this week,
and some areas down in Oklahoma could get seven or
eight inches. They could be talking about flooding down there. Unfortunately,
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you know, east of Cincinnati, get into that southeast Ohio area,
they're looking at a five day rainfall total maybe of
a half inch or less. In the mid Atlantic states
up to southern New England could get nothing this week,
So that East coast high pressure bridge is really hanging on.
But there is, you know, a definitely change in the
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weather pattern bringing rainfall to the center of the country,
and that is we go further. You mentioned Christmas looks
like it's going to kind of continue, and it looks
like the drought conditions are going to ease as we
go through the fall in the Ohio Valley. I'm not
saying they're going to end everywhere, but it does look
like they're going to ease. It looks like the drought's
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going to kind of reposition itself to the south and
to the west, so the southern United States and in
the Western United States looks like they're going to turn
dryer and we to be looking at better conditions in
our area.
Speaker 1 (33:10):
So in other words, keep praying and keep watering. Exactly,
got it, ron Rothis always a pleasure, great information. Appreciate
the updates. I know I kind of sprung that on
you real quick, but appreciate that. And you always do
such a great jobs website again arbordoctor dot com. Have
a great weekend, sir, same to you, and go Bucks,
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Go Bucks. All right, take care, ron Rothis again Arbordoctor
dot com. Quick break, We come back, Dick from Daton.
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Welcome back here in the garden with Ron Wilson talking
yard dig at eight hundred eight two three eight two
five five. Don't forget our website. It's Ron Wilson online
dot com. Calm and again special thanks for Ron rothis
joining us here quickly. I had sent him a text
and said, hey, man, you want to give us a
quick update, let us know what's going on. He's always there,
right there to help us all out. And again check
out his website. Great the information not only about trees
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that's his thing. Uh yeah, thank you so much, but
also the weather as well. You learn an awful lot
on his website. He spends a lot of time on
keeping that thing update. It does a wonderful job. Before
we start talking more about yarding to date and we
go Dick, good morning.
Speaker 6 (36:31):
Hey, I like your guest.
Speaker 1 (36:32):
He was He does. He does a good job, doesn't he?
Speaker 4 (36:35):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (36:36):
About trees. My cousin and Homestead Falls. She's a big
tree planner.
Speaker 1 (36:42):
Big tree And you know what, I'm going to Olmsted Falls,
uh in three weekends. Got a friend z Yeah, we're
going to be up there. So I'll have to look
up your cousin.
Speaker 6 (36:52):
Yeah, Carli ck Garlak. She lives on It's probably a
suburb suburb of Cleveland. Yep, Lynn Bird Drive somewhere in
that area. She's close to the Low's up there. She's
about twenty four minutes to the one Lows. So hey, hey,
you know what what, I can't wait till Tuesday. I'm
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ready to go.
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Are you ready to vote?
Speaker 6 (37:17):
Yeah?
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Yeah, you don't do the absentee ballot or early voting.
Speaker 6 (37:23):
I got a lot of ads in them, you know,
the and the mail.
Speaker 1 (37:28):
That's what Dann and I were just talking about. Yeah,
we got a lot of that stuff this year.
Speaker 6 (37:31):
Telling you, I'm telling you, I just I wonder sometimes
I'm worried a little bit, but I want I want
the mare to come back to what it was, you
know what I mean?
Speaker 1 (37:42):
Yep? Yeah, Well you'll see what. You know, whatever's gonna
happen is gonna happen on Tuesday, and we just move
forward after that and deal with it.
Speaker 6 (37:49):
Yeah, yeah, that goes what I mean. Come on, come
on the defense, Come on defense.
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Yep. I don't know, I don't know what to tell you.
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Well, anyway, Toddler email the Browns one. I couldn't believe that.
Speaker 1 (38:07):
I couldn't either, But that's good. They got it back
on track again.
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I'm playing a little of music.
Speaker 1 (38:13):
Oka, Good for you, Good for you. Keep it up. Yeah,
I appreciate it. Now, are you gonna do any holiday
you guys do holiday events?
Speaker 6 (38:24):
Holiday things coming on. I'll let you guys know about them.
Speaker 1 (38:27):
Do that. And and anytime, you know, when you're waiting
to come on, if you've got that ukulele or the
mandolin there, you're always welcome to play a little tune
for us. Yeah, get okay, Yeah, just play it while
we're while we got you on the phone. Okay, all right,
all right, Dick, good talking with you. All right, take care. Hey.
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You know I keep seeing and rightfully so, and I
just want to make sure we're all on the same
plane here. I keep seeing a lot of uh notes
about leave the leaves. I saw one the other day.
I said, don't rake the yard. And I understand this
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push and we've talked about this in the past. I
understand where they're coming from here. You know, a lot
of our gardening practices have changed over the years, and
you know, it used to be a go out there
in the perennial garden and the vegetable garden, and still
still pretty much in the vegetable garden. Total clean up,
get everything out of there, you know, clean it up,
get all the rid of all the debris, all the
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fold especially if you had the disease plants and the
vegetable garden, clean out all the old things that fell down,
the fruits and all, get them out of there. Prep
the soil, get ready for next year. And I still
with that, because you want to start off to it
with a cleaner start for the following season. But as
we look at our perennial gardens, looking at the landscape
and all, and you know, we used to go through
it and of course clean all the perennials back and
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caught all those back. And then it started, you know,
we started looking at you know that there's a lot
of these perennials that have nice fly hours that eventually
turn into seed heads. And if they have nice seed heads,
why not leave those on so that the wildlife, the
birds can enjoy those. And so we you know, that
practice started to change a little bit and we started
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leaving a little bit more in the garden because it
used to be cleaning all up, have it looking nice
and tidy and neat going through the wintertime, you know,
and to start out with a clean start in the spring,
but over the years, looking at the pollinators and looking
at the wildlife, and looking how they benefit from a
lot of the foliage that's left over, the stems that
are left over, a lot of a lot of those
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overwinter and hollow stems, things like that. How important that
can become to the wildlife for overwintering and giving them
someplace to hang out over the winter basically to live
in until we get into the next spring, and then
you can clean it up. And so the changes have
come where a lot of folks are doing that now
where we just kind of tidy up the perennial garden
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a little bit, but for the most part, leave things there,
let the wildlife enjoy it. And then in the springtime
before everything starts to regrow, get out there and clean
it all up at that point and get yourself ready
to go for the spring season. I'm with you. I'm
with you one hundred percent. As a matter of fact,
leaving it all over the winter time gives you a
little winter character out there, you know, something to look
at over the winter. But leaves come into that category
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as well. So you know, the thing was, well, what
about the leaves. You know, we're always big about raking
all the leaves up and getting them off, you know,
doing them in the lawn, and and of course me
and the lawn that's maulting them back into the turf,
mow them up, melt them back into the turf. If
you aren't doing that, you're missing out big time. But
you know, getting and you see a lot of folks
that rake them out of the beds and all of
that and get rid of them. I say, use all
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of those leaves within your yard. You should not be
putting any leaves out to the curb to send the
landfills or whatever it may be. So the thing is
now is the big push about leave the leaves. So
leave the leaves where they fall in your yard, because
you know there's a lot of wildlife that utilizes those
leaves over the wintertime as well. I'm with you. I'm
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with you one hundred percent. The only place I'm not
with you, And sometimes they one sentence or so may
may mention this is, don't leave the leaves on the lawn.
You can leave the leaves everywhere else, but let's not
leave the leaves on the lawn. If you leave the
leaves on the lawn, you're not gonna have much of
a lawn next spring, because it will you know, obviously
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it lays at mats if some others out the turf.
But if you grind up those leaves and put them
back into the to the turf, those are still down
there breaking down over the wintertime. For some of the
smaller critters can still get down a nut leaf debris.
Or take the rest of the leaves and use them
around the base of your trees. Take the rest of
those leaves and use them in your perennial garden. Take
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the rest of those leaves and you know, use them
in the landscape, but don't get rid of them. Still
use them there. But the point being is because I
even saw one that says, don't rake the yard, and
I think sometimes folks look at that and go, well,
that means that you know the grass included. No, it
doesn't mean leave them on the lawn. Get those off there.
But again multing them back in talking with somebody yesterday saying,
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you know you're asking how long do I need to
keep mowing my lawn. Talking about cool season grasses, and
I said, you know, the old theory is as long
as it's growing, you keep mowing. And you want to
do that until it literally stops growing, where you go
out there and you mow it and you just can't
tell that you mowed it anymore because it's pretty much
stopped growing for the season. Well, you know, so as
long as it's doing that, you want to keep mowing.
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If it has slowed down already, and in our area
the leaves are late coming down, we still got leave.
We have oak trees that don't even turn colors yet dropping.
And you don't need to mow. Set the mower up
as high as you can, and just mow those leaves
back into your mature lawn. You're not mowing the grass,
but you're chopping them back up. And then again, use
the rest of the leaves that you can't use in
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the yard in the lawn. See that interchanging their lawn
in the rest of the landscape in the yard with
the perennial beds and all this. So leave the leaves,
but don't leave the leaves on the turf, leave them
everywhere else, please, all right, quick break, we come back.
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